European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 26, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes tuesday september 26, 1967 Senate s waiving its rules by William Titei Washington up if you hear Bells on Capitol Hill they re probably coming from the Senate where a losing struggle is under Way to main Tain that ringing description the greatest deliberative body in the of the Bells Are Token signals for quorum Are not serious elec tronic declarations that the presence of 51 senators is required but Brief alerts often designed to let one absent senator know it s his turn atthe rhetorical plate. The on again off again two ring quorum Calls Are Only a symptom of parliamentary Rule abuses which Are giving the Senate a credibility Gap of its own. Pressures Are great on Law makers who think nothing of flying Cross country in a Clayto make a speech or trying to appear at three or four Senate hearings the Sam morning. But rather than change some parliamentary rules that get in their Way they have been violating in the same squeeze the leadership either looks theother Way or actively Coop of the most obvious abuses the leadership practice of permitting senators to walk bythe Reading clerk s desk and in order quietly record their vote during a Roll Call in violation of Senate Rule 12.this Rule states that when the yeas and nays reordered the names of Sena tors shall be called alphabetically and each senator shall without debate declare his assent or dissent to the ques Tion unless excused. The practice is a Plain convenience. It lets a senator far Down the alphabet get out of the chamber quicker to see constituent catch a plane or go to lunch. But the Viola Tion defeats the purpose of the Rule to conduct Public business in Public. Introducing Bills with out going through the formal Ity of addressing the chair being recognized and proceed ing under Rule 19 which covers debate. Instead Bills sometimes Are handed to the desk with printed remarks which appear in the congressional record the next Day As if it had ail happened live As they say in to. Ignoring t h e Senate a standing order that written material of a senator must be read orally by him on the floor to be printed in Large Type in the body of the rec Ord. The order stipulates that this requirement can t be sus Pender,1 even by unanimous consent the key that unlocks most legislative doors in the Senate. More and More How Ever senators have been get Ting statements printed in the body of the record which they did t even skip read big splashed a . Marine armore personnel Carrier splashes through the surf near the month of the Dong a rive during the amphibious assault phase of operation fortress sentry. Heavy rain hampered the push near the do. A invaded by Industry Yankee settlers what became of the Bible belt9? by Richard Glass Atlanta up the Bible Belt that gave birth to that old time religion has faded with the Dusty country roads on which the circuit riders once made their rounds. Stretching from the lower at lactic Seaboard Westward across the Plains of Kansas Texas and Oklahoma the Belt has been crisscrossed by interstate highways invaded by Industry and populated by former Yankees. The face of the Roma Catholic Church once a fright ening image to a Rural peo ple More Likely to be swayed by the Kun flux k1 a n than Europe born tradition has taken on a neighbourly look inthe eyes of millions of natives of the Region. The term Bible Belt was popularized about 1925 by ii. L. Mencken the author to describe that Section of the Southern United states which gave a literal interpretation to the hellfire and Brimstone passages of the Bible. I was the year of the Scopes Mon key trial and of revival tents. There Are still areas inthe Region where the approach to religion has remained about the same during the past 30 a 40 years but these Are More accurately described As pockets rather than a Belt. The trend toward liberalism or openness As Many clergymen prefer to Call it is widespread. Even the Dixie rooted Southern Baptist convention the largest protestant denomination in the country has begun to emphasize social Adieu As Well As its traditional concern for the Salva Tion of the individual men and women from the farms have gone to col lege and met members of other faiths had their Hori Zons enlarged by study taken jobs in the City and settled in suburbs connected to churches by pavement no Dusty roads. Scores of thousands of fam Ilies have moved South with Industry in skilled or Mana Gerial jobs bringing their own faiths and adopting but Chang ing the churches of their areas. Things Are looser said one Baptist Layman and More comfortable. Let s say we re no longer cinched in by the Belt but braced and sus Pended by Church life More proper to our or. Marshall Dendy of Richmond va., Moderator of the Southern Branch of the presbyterian Church believes there is an increasing aware Ness of the need to make the Church responsive to the needs of society. We Are More ecumenical than we have been. To put it bluntly i think denomination will be less important in the a methodist minister Gor Don goodgame of Knoxville tenn., takes the View that three s less interest in Sav ing the soul for some future Lime and More concern for the present time and the whole but fundamentalism still has Strong proponents. In every denomination Many individual believe in the Bible As the Only literal word of god an seek to follow its lessons and injunctions to the group however is hard put to hold its ground As was demonstrated in re cent months in Tennessee heart of the old Bible Belt where liquor and theories contrary to the literal word were totally taboo. The Tennessee legislature re pealed with Only minor difficulty the state Law against teaching Darwin s theory of evolution the Issue which caused the Scopes trial in 1925, and then followed up by giving communities the right to conduct local option vote son liquor sales. Behind the changes is the fact that Many of the new churchgoers and voters Are catholics jews and less rigid protestants who have been swept South with Industry attracted by ample labor forces water and land. Liberals push for Job program Ashington up Senate liberals bucking opposition from the White House will try to push through a $2.8 billion program of jobs for ghetto residents this week As a partial answer to Urban unrest. The measure was tacked onto the administration s anti poverty authorization Bill Over president Johnson s protests that it would drag existing poverty programs Down to defeat with it. The Bill sponsored by s. Clark d-pa., would set up emergency training an employment programs in a Marshall plan attack on slum unemployment r e g a r d e cd by Many As the leading cause of violence in the cities. Southern Democrat Sand Republican conservatives Are planning a series of Amend ments to Knock out the Job pro Gram and to make deep cuts inthe Basic $2.3 billion Antipoverty measure. The $5.1 billion pack age was brought to the floor on Friday a few minutes before the Senate recessed for the weekend. Johnson originally proposed a$2.06 billion authorization to run the office of economic Opportunity for the next two years. Besides adding the Clar proposal to the Bill the Liberal dominated Senate education and labor committee approved an extra $190 million for existing Antipoverty s poverty program also faces a crucial test Intlehouse where the education and labor committee will be meeting in closed session All week to rewrite the administration s measure. Republicans Are trying to abolish the of altogether and assign part of its work to other government agencies. The a and tripes european edition col. James w. Campbell Usa editor in chief it. Col. F. S. Michael jr., Usan Deputy editor in chief Arnold Burnett managing editor Elmer d. Frank production manager Henry s. Epstein circulation manager an unofficial newspaper of and for tha . Armed Force printed Dally at Darmstadt Germany under the auspices of the office of the chief of Public of fart he Usa eur. 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