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Show It By LYLE C. WILSON United Press International Wen- WASHINGTON (UPI) delt L. Willkie accepted a Republican nomination way back there before the atomic era and bawled in defiant challenge to FDR: "I. wanna meet the CHAMP." He met him. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1960 Airl ines Face Economic Puzzle The nation's airlines'today handle I I more intercity passenger traffic A fine idea in theory, in practice .it has given air travelers more, choices than they need, and the i than the railroads and buses com- -. challenger. It has beeli only eight years since U. S. voters last 'were of- fered a choice between major presidential candidates, party neither of whom was a president That was in seeking 1952. The last previous time ws in 1928 when President Cafvin run. Coolidge "did not choose-fIncumbent EnjoysAdvantage The " 1928 contestants were Re. ! That was in 1940 J For years be-- j airlines many, many empty seats. bined.iYet under present conditions to The high speed jets magnified they need still more business now matter by making far more the .realize-they profit. Right seats in! available. Their huge capaare trouble. Irf the firsMialf of I960, six of city plus their high daily, use the 12 big. domestic lines operated through quick trips and quick an turnaround has produced a veriAnd this red. the despite ,in over-a- ll table flood of passenger space. Seat 9 per cent increase in the occupancy, 64 per cent in profitable gross return enjoyed by all these 1955, has dropped to an unprofitlines. . able 60 per cent. Not smce 1955 have the airlines .earned the 10 per cent on investThe long range health of U.S. ment that the Civil Aeronautics airlines requires that a satisfacBoard considers reasonable. Even, tory answer be found soon. The with recent 5 per cent fare in- The. pending merger between ailis not.... ex-- the .11-!creases, industry ing Capital Airlines and United is .. . t u aim ui suun1' cu mug . ptxieu a serious danger sign. ' in'1960. Certainly no line can operate for The arrival of the jet age has long in the red. Nor do we want to vastly compounded the carriers', return to a wholesale policy of gradually "mounting difficulties. . subsidy But the problem actually began a What seems to be called for is" few years back. a host of individual airline deci-- The CAB, heavily pressed by sions, encouraged and supported manyj lines, especially by soma j)f by CAB, to reduce the' total of the lesser greats, sharply liberaland flight to proportions routes g ized its policy. The which match the real volume of result was to open up many more traffic and thus offer hope of American cities to multiline com- sensibly- - profitable operation; petition. The airlines, j like many busi: a . re-electi-on i j i . , -- 5 -- in So, it adds, up to this: Voters up to the age of 52 years will ballot this year for the first time uninfluenced by the need to choose between a challenger and a champ, and not subject to the - glamorous attraction of a! war hero seeking high political office. The last such choice was in 1928 ; and if today's voter missed that, election by reason of age, it can be assumed that he is up to 52 i . Eisenhower, a Republican, but also a national hero, East, West, North and South; and Democratic Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson of H-- . -- years ojd. There's a man In this office who is within that age group. He is convinced thaf, because of the foregoing, this election will be somehow and importantly different from those preceding. Itl I his belief that the candidates get away to a fairer start as is the case this year than when one of them campaigns from the White House or- - any such pinnacle of 1952. ' re-electi- ; more ' than compensated for the fact that he was not in office as president when he ran e et, , record "Hoover was an exception. After 1932, the president in of fice-tbchamp licked , the chal in each' succeeding eleclenger tion through 1948. The most recent presidential election 1952 when neither candidate was in the White House, was affected by very special circumstances. The candidates were Oen; Dwight D. fore and after in presidential cam-paigns, the nominee of the Outs! had to meet the nominee of the publican HejUert Hoover, then secretarv-o- i commerce in Ins who was, of coarse, the. Presand Alfred E. ident of the United States. As Smifh. the incumbent president seeking Democratic governor of the nominee of theiNew York. Hoover won that one Ins was, indeed,, the CHAMP un but lost four years later to an-t- il he got licked. More oftejKffian other Democratic governor of not the champ prevaUedover thei New York, FDR. Cool-idge'scabin- linois. Compared , to the glamorous World War II general, Stevenson was and remained rela' tively obscure. Eisenhower's war enpresident semiring over real a the joys advantage to who seek him $ put challenger ou&'Tioosevelt's 1932 triumph over o 1 i - Modern Americanpolitical history suggests that an incumbent " fame. Perhaps our man is right about that If so, it is bad news for the ; pollsters. This of presidential concept elections simply adds another imponderable with which to weight the polls. champ-and-chal-leng- er ; . The Entertainer . m :syms Red de;Poses Question: Is It Strength Or Weakhess to Change a Poor Law or Policy? i 1 1 . " j ; ? ; j !. nesses, prefer to think in expansionist terms. And they cherish g route the'prestige of the People, People, People far-flun- system. Butyou can't eat prestige, or pay off the bonds with it. Good sense has to prevail. If it doesn't, the taxpayer is the one World population increased by more (than 48 million persons last year, according to the recently published U.N. Demographic Yearbook. ' Communist China is the....countrv ... ?with the greatest population some 669 million inhabitants. In dia is second, with 403 million. 'Russia is in third place with 209 million, and the United States ranks fourth, populationwise, with' 178 million of us on deck. And 5,000 more persons are be-- s ing born throughout the world 5eyery hour. Those 'are hundreds of millions of vital, living reasons why. mankind must find solutions to its. manyi problems before too much longer: , ' ' " who will be hurt. ..-.. ? Warmer In Freezer . As Under la new, Antarctic research program the United States and Russia will swap scientific observer teams. on South Pole overland explorations. This East-Weexchange is to out the carry pekcef pledged by the treaty ratified recently. Would that a climate 6f might affect other .areas of international bad weather; four-million-dol- lar - ' . j t I don ' , successfully persuaded the United-Stateto join in condemning Trujillo, who is a brutal tyrant who never, did us any harm, yet went slow in condemning tyrant Castro, who masks his Communist ambition behind' social reforms that will, a in Russia, be perverted ' into slavery. s , , "I understand the German , "Since the United States expelled Peter Ezhon for haying photos made, of American cities, .why doesn't ' Eisenhower expel him- self since he wanted Russian planes to fly over and photograph our military establishments? As you know and Ike should know. Russia shoots down our planes." ' (Paul M. Clapendale J Wayneicoro Pa.) ' ' ' ' ' . . . ' their homes?" - So : ' ' i i cu seem to to NATO. . advocate at Won't that Increase t'i danger(Missof war?" M. A., . . ;..3 f . sum. CED recommends "the continua-- , tion of present programs with federal aid maintained at approximately present levels," until this whole question can be evaluated. i ;. - irIf the : this recommendation is an admission that private enterprise and local municipal governments can't cope with the problems of America's rapidly growing cities. In! . , Russians doubt our will to ' . . . ' resist aggression anywhere in the world i . . . they are in for a terrific surprise. 1 rmy Secretary Wilber M. Brucker. . The ooinions and pressed by Herald own and do reflect tbe views of statements ex- - columnists are not necessarily this newspaper, - : ' ch . Pittsburffh) tllng so;- others believe that if fairly small, countries each have a few nuclear, weapons nobody will dare; to nich them. But the question is ir--: - ; If he has a brain, ' there was no washi.1 ng." ; J West German reporter Igor Witsino's, on U-- 2 Pilot Francis Powers', spy trial, giving to France or T. ' ,nihe-monf- ST t j j j k! lan- to renew our cities cover a wide range from 120 million dollars up." .A more modest Hanrd-M.I.study estimates that 42 billion - dollars will be needed "to bring U. S. cities up to a modest standard of decency in 10 years." Notf even the Democrats have dared suggest figures that high, Nobody has yet added up how much federal money now goes to ' the cities.. But when 300 million dollars a year for urban renewal, 100 million a year for 10 years for highway approaches, public housing and all the public; work appropriations benefiting i cities are ' counted in, they'll make a tidy ' k ructear weapons ' ..- -- m .. The U. S. Conference of Mayors endorses this. It finds that "the job is so big it will 'require all available, combined private, federal, state and city efforts to make a dent in it ; . . The federal role is the crux of the matter." CED has had a research com- . is harder; ' areas. . Where a metropolitan area roughly corresponds to a county, as in Los Angeles and Miami, the problem is somewhat e a s ie r. Where it takes in half a dozen counties and even crosses state lines, as in New York, the problem these . State legislatures controlled by rural counties that have small sympathy; with city problems make solutions next to, impossiible-Where there are a number of political entities in one metropolitan area, they can't ; assess or lagree on uniform taxes of float bond issues to pay for their own salva- -' j ; (fD-iPa- .) j quired disease may have to e .protected 'aigadnst an attack of influenza, mumps or measles by inr, jections of appropriate biological products. And finally, cohsidera- tion must .be given BCG vaccina. - 192 . tion for' the child whose family background points to a. Special susceptibility to tuberculosis . , . The Doctor Says t sion. i : immundzation schedule, the school child requires only a single boostproduct every er of the four-wa- y Now that school is opening, it's , ' i J hppn imTniinized - Hyman against small-- . pox, diphtheria, tetanus, whooping, cough ( pertussis and infantile paralysis (poliomyelitis). : If so, he or she needed only a fresh vaccination against smallpox and a single boster dose of ,one of the. new, four-waproducts that protect, against diphtheria, tehanus, pertussis and poliomylitis. If the child had never before received preventive inoculations,! he required, besides the compulsory smallpox vaccination, three monthly injections of a four-waproduct, and an additional dose of polio vaccine at some convenient time in the late spring or early, summer. Follo wing completion of the basic y By IIAL COCHRAN a. golf tournament and entries Jikeiy were pretty good on ' tht ' slice. j . . . j New styles continually come Ja earrings and the women prick up their ears. A wife gets, things by crying and then has the ' laugh on her husband. " second hand cars art accepted with somebody's kind est depreciation. ' Some ' '1 . . Any time you lose your head over a drink, you'll likely get it back the next day. If you, keep smiling, you,' have a belter chance to wind up 'with. something to smile about, j Sometimes divorce is a fractwo divided by antional deal other one. " " '11 . 'J Sometimes the more you bava the less you appreciate it, i Ice cream cones always get a . licking for being good. . ' - Vi strep-tojoco- al invasion. The youngster whose resistance may have been lowered by a con- genital deformity & or some a - I - I Barbs T Memo to young husbands: r: it's going to cost you money when your wife begins a conversation ' with any of the following remarks: ' "When I was downtown shopping today I ran' into the most ; ' J wonderful bargain." a a store is having "Such and such big sale , t and I thought I might go and have a look." "Jane has' asked me to go shopping with her tomorrow to help her pick out some new clothes." "I've been thinking about how we could fix up the living room for practically nothing' "Everybody is getting a new dress for the club dance.' You should see the beautiful one Jane got yesterday and she was telling me about a green chiffon that sounds but of this world and marked down to half price." "There's a marvelous new hair stylist in town Ruth Millett that I wish I could go to and get the works." ... "We owe so many people, I've been thinking we ought to give t a big party." , "You've just got to drive by and look at the house I saw today. T tti.et airvnonoH tn hva,r t.Vial thm numore am loavind frvvirn anH arp cfnirttt to sell it at a real loss. I know we can't afford, it, but I want you to sea ' it, anyhow." ' V "Ann and Dave want us to come over and see their new patio, Dave says he can tell us how to have one built for practically nothing. "I've been thinking you really should go to that convention next month. And we could make it kind of a combined business trip and tih-- e . y three or four years, end a repeat of 'smallpox vaccination every fifth year, provided that no emergency sitfuation. arises. . In the event of an emergency, special precautions must be taken to meet the special emergency. A booster of tetanias toxid will be required df the child suffers a pene-. trating wound; of diphtheria toxof this iod if 8 single instance dread infection occurs in the ne&gh- ; borhood ; or pertussis vaccine if an ' epidemic of whooping cough breaks out in a nearby community; of polio vaccine of newspapers report a rising rate of infantile para-- " lysis anywhere in the nation.. Then there are fresh problems to be, met and solved. Typhoid imunizations will be needed for youngster who expects to go to camp the following summer or who may visit countries less for--i tunate.than our own. Th child who inherits' a familial susceptibility to theumatdc fever and especially vone who has suffered a single attack, however, mild, requires regular doses, under medical saipervision, of an anti-- . biotic' capable of eliminating s , - If She Says These Things, It's Going to Cost Money . Dr- A- Ruth Millett : a good idea to discuss children's immunity records. To begin with, consider the youngster who's just entering, at 'the preschool or school level. If .your doctor has been a practical advocate of preventive medicine, your young- a ster has prob-b 1 y already I , inva- If you're the kind ' of parent whose prime consideration is the health-of- i your children, please file this column where you can later check it over with your own doctor and the school physician. And please remember, that, in a field as complex as that of immunity, you're bound to run into differences of opinion and procedure. Parents: Clip and File This Summary of Inoculations Dr. HAROLD THOMAS HYMAN , u. . , By . - i Senator Joseph S. Clark has been backing legislation to cre-- 9 ate a jdepartment of urban affairs in the President's, cabinet to try to make some sense out of this confusion. But Congress isn't ready for this drastic step yet. Logically,: since there are more '. than 10 times as many Americans now living in cities j.a-- there are on farms, there is as much reason for having a secretary of urban affairs as there is for having a secretary of agriculture. y' , -- !' tion. So they rush to Washington. . - 1' - - - :xc,:tf-.r;A,.f.T- , of the capital requirements Chairman Earl W. Kintner of the Federal Trade Commission, on his crackdown on agency's , record makers.' - ' ' "re-posse- ss 'i V- -- ocratic platform proposes is "a program to restore our cities and pro-vd e for bal anced suburban d e v e lopment." Peter Edson The spe c if ic planks include elimination of slums, restoration of blighted areas, federal aid for metropolitan area planning, federal aid for metropolitan transportation , . federal aid for combating air and water , Payola has been pretty well stamped : -- 1 , pollution and, so on. Says CED in its report: , They Say out. " -- , i ' ' . . (Raymond J. Vince, ,. East Orange, Ind.) The! Americans I know who have lost their homes had either: a) not kept up their f mortgage payments, or b) fallen behind in their instalments. In other, wordi, they had not. finished paying for their dwellings. Cuban industry was vbuilt'lby American money. Surery, you sse a difference between Issmething that another eannot or ' ing" T. nc. pay for and simply confiscat-- r y rer's property. . . , v . fill people in the ' U. Si. today. The combined city population is 120 million, or tworthirds1 of the U. S. : total. ;' One of the principal difficulties in the metropolitan areas is that their governments are obsolete, like the cities themselves. There are 16,000 local governments in -i To the question : 'Will the coming series of TV debates between Nixon and Kennedy enable the people to vote more wisely or more superficially according the candidates' appearance?" the .. to best answer comes from Sergeant "X," Washington, D. C: "It all depends on how seriously the American voters take the Soviet threat. If they feel sure of themselves,, they are likely to vote for appearances. But if they feel like you that the. current situation is deadly seri-ous, 'they will pay little, attention to the candidates' glamor and judge by the , records even the women.". This week's question: Please ex- - , a press in not over five lines your im-- ! pression of the difference between the policies of Nixon and Kennedy toward the USSR. (Copyright I960, General Features Corp.) . . i mi ttee under Jervjs J. Babb of New York, former head of Lever Brothers, working &p this problem of metropolitan area development for three years- It has published two earlier reports on the central . city concept, It finds that there are 192 metropolitan areas of 50,000 or more 10-ye- ar 1 r "Why are the American people "so mad about Castro's seizing Amer- ican nwnpd industries when so many American people are still losing li- - What the Dem- I'.' appeared in newspapers, etc. Meanwhile our planes would see things in Russia otherwise unobservable. tThe 7 A 7 American U-- 2 program was Ike's answer to the Soviet refusal of the Open Skies Pro- - . Mr. Mowrer posal and. a very, effective one. The expulsion of the Soviet agent was made half in warning, half in reprisal. Tha too is necessary. i' . specific guage. idea, they have merely postponed a decision until after the American 'election. Chancellor Adenauer and "Charles de Gaulle of France are both playing for time and wish to postpone any . new Berlin crisis as long as possible. . - I West Berlin this September. Do you know why?" (H. Schmidt, Brooklyn) !The Germans have not renounced the . s , Gov- ernment has renounced its intention of having: its Parliament meet in Are you kidding? The Open Skies proposal would have permitted the Soviets to fly over the United States and verify things they already k n 6 w, -- i ness executives has .just published a new study on "Guiding Metropolitan Growth" which endorses some important campaign promises on this subject in the Democratic platform. . The CED people didn't plan it that way, obviously. But that's the7 way it comes out. There is no comparable section in the GOiP platform in such - r , x j By PETER EDSON Washington Corerspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. . WASHINGTON (NBA) Committee for Economic Development a research organization of pre- dominantly Republican big " United Staites will again join the USSR (as at Suez ) in preventing France from acquiring bamlbs. JThey simply do not know Charles de Gaulle nor, I of the the American 'hope, temper we have cooperated people.. Each time with the USSR ' since the defeat of Hitler, we have suffered and communism gained. (D. F., Miami., Fla.)" think so. The Latin Americans s. Letters from Herald readers are incited They should be brief (preferred limit. 200 words); typewritten if possible (double spaced); must carry writer's true name and address and be in good taste. , Pseudonyms may be permit-if ,ted, requested, if writer's name and address are signed to original letter, but letters signed t for publication ' with writer's full name will be given preference. The Herald assumes no responsibility for statements appearing in the Mailbag column. Writers are limited to o . letter 5n 10 days. Letters which exceed space limitation may be cut by the ' editor. The ; Herald reserves the right to reject letters which are not in good taste, or are potentially libelous. City Growth May Mqan New Gabihjet Post QAS Criticism Won't Change Castro situation?" . FORUM RULES Washington Lowdown ' , on relevant to the situaitdon: unless other countries give up nuclear weapons France' is determined to have them and will pass some on to West Germany. Those who dislike this imagine that the unrighteousness essentially put lack of wisdom? Oh, to be wise in all that is done! , Have wej in the past framed laws unwisely? Then let . us repent, and changa the laws r Have we in the ' past dealt unwisely with ' neighboring nation?, Then let us repent, con fess our lack ofj wisdom publical- ' ly , sit down at conference tables, and attempt to frame wise policies for the present and future. Is, it really I sign of weakness or rather is It not a sign of strength" to be able to admit that in this thing and in' that thingj w did4 indeed act foolishly? On the wholes would we hot be respected , by the majority of nations If- w rewrote tur history ; so that it Jold the wh6W truth? Isoui present capitalistic .system one hundred per cent perfect, or . only about 7& per cent? Is modem medical administration one hundred per cent perfect br ;only about 85 per cent? Is it really true that our foreign policy; is beyond criticism Are the goals of our labor uniops so wonderful that any methods used to attain them to be tolerated without oues-tion? Should any local law bt changed? xienry j. Nocnoie t ' Provo, Utah . r co-operati- on, . methods even to attain worthy goals. And what is of unrighteous , What's Your Question? By EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER "Will the indirect condemnation of Castro's Cuba by tbe Organization of American States change the more ruthless, the goals which were once hoped for becama more and more unattainable. Our founding fathers hoped that the Constitution of the United States of America would prevent any of us from the employment -- ukco-operati- I greatest mistake anybody ' .can make is to assume that the end justifies the means, because, inevitaibly the means will become the end. Marx, Engels, and Lenin were great idealists who intended to bring great , good to mankind by the. destruction . of certain evils of their day. They attracted other idealists to them, and dfelectic' materialism (or Soviet e communism) got under ' vay.: iAdolph Hitler also was a tremendously idealistic person, with great, wonderful goals in mind. So also was Napoleon I. So also were the leaders of great movements in the name of religion' such as the European ; crusades and the Moslem con-- i quests. In each instance so im-- ! portant in the minds of the lead-- : ers was attainment of the! goals that with-utteruthlessness they were willing to employ any means, fair or foul, to attain That was the fundamental defect in each case and the not were attained, because ' goals the means became1 the ends! As the . methods became mor and. the-goal- . st i ' ' The., . route-makin- ' Editor Herald: . . ' ... . vacation." ' Those are the signals and you might as well bt prepared to nize them for what they art. : : 4 recog- |