Show www mm mm ryyri SThe Herald Journal 3 m m w THOUGHTS IAND THINGS fTT I jSp 1 SNEAKING OP THE Great Society is a minority in America for fiuch : K j&yjprmployment 'average 45 to 50 portent median 'family income in $1500 housing is 90 percent below acceptable standards average education at tffeVel is five years average age ” death is 43 VfThere is jM&has: V a minority ' : in America ' - ?'JAn infant mortality rate almost double that of the general population influenza and pneumonia death rate twice as high tuberculosis incidence rate fcypn times as great and TB death fvie times higher There is a minority in America where: i infant mortality from parasites and other causes rare In the general population are a commonplace diseases virtually unknown among other Americans trachoma auch as blindness-causin- g still persists There is a minority in this country whose members: Often haul drinking water from unsafe sources a mile or more live five to a room 'have an accident death rate hree times the national rate caused 5y : overcrowding the use of gasoline Jor kerosene lamps snake bites and Jother conditions typical of their primitive and isolated encironment That minority is the original awriianf the Indian who except ah a 'decoration in Western movies has all but vanished from the national consciousness Ugly Sound Of Silence AMONG THE MANY idiosyncrasies developed by Americans oyer the years yme of the strangest is our passion for sound and our evident dread of silence We live our lives amid the strident noises of workaday commerce: The clat-ttof the Jackhammer as it rips up the rpavement the whir of ceaseless traffic 'the wail of the police or fire sirens the roar of the Jets and the heavy trucks You might think that when we finally reach the sanctity of our homes in the evening we would revel in the quiet-tud- e i er of privacy Not so We hurry to the radio the television set or the stereo and turn it on full blast Many of us keep it on until we are ready for bed conversing over and through the lovely loudness of it Some of the younger even stuff a jtransistor radio beneath their pillow to lull them into dreamland and insure sleepundisturbed by quiet Oh the bliss of dosing our eyes to Uis soothing sound of the Beaties or the relaxing strains of a hot combo Straight from Dixieland! We awake to the sound of a clock-radAll day long we work to piped-i- n programs We drive with the car radio blaring away and we walk or ride the bus with a tiny radio glued to our ear looks as though we have just got silence licked It is now to live our entire lives—awake 'and asleep— without ever having to endure a single moment of serenity With all these conveniences how on earth can so many people get so and crack up from tension? io !It jit-Cte- ry 9 Spectacular Ys Practical IT IS A UTILE HARD on the ego 'for Americans to have to fed mi the i defensive about two magnificent space shots but the truth is that? the Rua-- J sians once more “stole our thunder1 when Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov floated free of his space ship for ten minutes If before somersaulting back inside Americans Grissom and Young J t turned in a flawless performance in the first Gemini flight on Tuesday Three ‘times during orbit Grissom with great 'precision operated the switching technique which allows an astronaut to change the direction of orbit a pro- cedure which is critical to one of the moat important operations in space — the linking up of two or more vessels in the sky 1 i The following day Wednesday Ranger IX the last of the aeries hit the moon with bullseye sendI ing back live television accuracy of the pictures surface of the moon Delighted scient-jriscall these the most detailed and dear pictures to be taken yet So how do we stack up with Russia jj -- ' ts spacewise We have the only astronaut—Gus j i Grissom — who has made two trips into space We lead in the development of f steering systems for switching from : one orbit to another around the earth I Russia has launched more earth 2 satellites but we have gathered more I scientific data Our interplanetary probes are far I ahead We have made seven successful shota Mariner IV is now on its way i to Mars for first television close-up- s Russia has made eight attempts all of which have failed Their Zond II is now I on !its way to Mara ' Our Rangers have hit the moon four times and sent back more than 11000 photos Russia got pictures of the moon fin 1959 with its Lunik but his dons nothing in this area since jL JVe are the only ones to go into the Young Folks And Parents field of weather watching with Tiros and Nimbus satellites to aid forecasters The field of navigation aids has not tempted Russia cither nor have we any competition in communication aids such as Echo Relay Telstar and Syncom While we are far ahead in the practical use of apace we are far behind in the spectacular Russia has the biggest rocket boosters capable of 800000 pounds of thrust or more Our biggest is the Titan-- 2 that lifted off the Gemini-- 3 with 530000 pounds of thrust Russian has perfected a apace suit and techniques which allow a man to float free in space and they can bring a space ship back to a landing on earth IN WARWICK Rhode Island there is a Parental Code Committee It is composed of parents and youngsters The young folks are between the ages of 13 and 18 Together they have come up with a code What the code amounts to is a protest against the to force “blackmailing” tactics used by some teen-agemom and dad into allowing them more liberties— such as Staying out a little later at night taking some beers and going steady when they're in the eighth and ninth grades According to Paul Martasian writing for Newspaper Enterprises Association it has evoked favorable reteen-ag- e action from parent and groups throughout the country rs Mrs J Arthur Dore president of one of Warwick's high school Parent-TeachAssociations and chairman of the code committee said the idea of e CMe evolved from her converse-- 7 Ita Nelua tions with other parents who felt that they wen being forced by their children to keep up with the Joneses morally speaking er End To Surplus? DR GUNNAR MYRDAL a noted social economist in Sweden foresees the end of crop controls and price support policies for the American fanner A student of population problems Dr Myrdal says that much more food will be urgently needed within a short time to avert world calamity “To provide a reasonable level of nutrition for all the world’s peoples” he says international studies estimate total food supplies must double by 1980 and triple by the year 2000 “In the world emergency which I foresee exploding upon us within ouly a relatively few years there will be a fundamental change in the way we will come to view the problem of agricultural overproduction' in the United States “To the United States fanners this will be a great opportunity It if Indeed foreseeable that this freedom from holding back their production may make it possible that they will be prosperous with less and in the end perhaps no policy efforts to keep up farm prices” So don’t give up the old homestead WARWICK A GROWING suburban community of nearly 80000 population now has a juvenile crime rate among the lowest on Rhode Island Several months ago the code committee sent out questionnaires to 5000 families having high school-age- d children asking opinions about dating drinking driving staying out late and other social privileges Nearly 2500 parent! answered and most of them were in favor of some sort of guidelines “Their answers proved to us” Mrs Dore says “that most parents are conservative interested in their children but a little confused as to how much freedom they should give their children” - yet Federal Power Expands RECENT EVENTS APPEAR to be hastening the day when the 50 sovereign states that make up the United States win find that they have become agencies to administer national policies and funds As of now there are about 125 separate programs of federal aid to states and localities Here are some of the biggest ones: highways relief and welfare education health programs flood control natural resources rebuilding of cities creating Jobs and riding business housing parks and recreation agriculture transportation emergency funds in case aster and defense programs Of these highways involves the largest amount of money 38 billion dollars thia year and relief and welfare la close behind with an outlay of 35 of-di- s- billion Since the federal government hat gone into communities where there has been racial discrimination at the polls -- critics of the government express fears that this power could be extended for other reasons Some of the federal rulings that cross all state lines are Civil Rights which involve businessmen operating hotels motels restaurants and linea of business serving the public regulation of crops fanners can plant reports businessmen must make to the govern- ment The Federal Bureau of Investigation follows criminals across state lines The Supreme Court’s decision on “one person one vote” increases the influence of cities Already the pressure is on states around large cities to organize in matters of mass transporta- tion More and more states and local communities are depending on money from the federal government Federal officials seldom lay out funds without insisting that certain standards be met and certain procedures be followed This move to a strong central government goes back to the days of the “Neal Deri” when the Supreme Court upheld the powers of the individual states and of private individuals and thought of the central government as having limited power Since 1937 when President Roosevelt tried to pack the Court with new members the attitude of the Supreme Court has changed until today the Court now rida the expanding power of the central government when Washington D C and any of the states are in conflict Ironic Centennial HISTORY MAY NOT always repeat itself but it does seem to move in remarkably similar cycles A century ago the small but important town of Selma Ala was the scene of violence and bloodshed on April 2 1865 a week before It was Appo- mattox that it was captured by Union forces The parallel is not complete however Selma 1865 earne st the end of a long struggle Selma 1965 comes perhaps midway in a related struggle that may he far from ore - A Code Made Up By V - s?5: r m Still a Long WayTrom Heaven Logaii Utah Suaday March 21 1965 TS? m m THE PUBLIC PULSE Limited War In Vietnam Enters New Phase THE WAR IN Viet Nam has entered a new and possibly climactic phase Its original dimensions as a guerrilla war waged by the Viet Cong and an anti guerrilla campaign fought by U S aided government forces are expanding almost geometrically American involvement now has gone far beyond this country’s original goal of simply arming and training South Vietnamese forces to put down Red insurgency North Viet Nam is charged in a U S white paper with aggression against the south “as real as that of an invading army” U S MARINE battalions have been landed in South Viet Nam U S Air Force and Navy planes have been wagbombing campaign against guering rilla fotaea In the south and selected targets in the north It is likely that more ground units will be sent to Viet Nam And U S navy patrols may be ordered into action infiltrations of men against and weapons from north to South Viet Nam There are now 27000 Americans involved in the war Well over half are U S army troops assigned to train South Vietnamese forces both in counter insurgency and more conventional tacwars tics involved in brush-fir- e sea-bor- ALL THIS IS a far cry from Oct 2 when the White House issued a statement saying that Defense Secretary Robert S McNamara end Gen Maxwell D Taylor then chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and now ambassador to Saigon believed “the major part of the United States military task in Viet Nam can be completed by the end of 1965” It said there might be e continuing need for U S training personnel but that this would be limited The reverse has happened There were 16000 Americans in Viet Nam at the time Now an additional 11000 have been sent in with the end not yet in 1963 sight The harsh truth is that the Communist Viet Cong guerrillas have continued to grow stronger and observers now believe resembling regular something frontal warfare could supplant guerrilla tactics in some areas that WHEN U S JETS were thrown into the fight Washington said the decision represented a change in tactics and equipment but not in policy But the fact remains that it has not been the original U S intention to commit organized military units to the struggle Plainly this now has beat dime using lethal aerial weapons whose effectiveness in this kind of war is still to bo fully measured Further the U S squadrons have been used both in the north and south which clearly alters the area of engagement The Marines too are present not as trainers without the structure of combat units but as a fully deployed expeditionmissiles ary brigade with tanks and artillery Presently they are there for only “guard duty” entt-alrcra- ft WITH AIL THIS way aren’t we winning? Some of the answers from various sources include: —There has not been' a strong stable benevolent government in South Viet Nam capable of commending popular support This is basic for countering insurgency Coups have been the order of the day since November 1963 —The army which is the same as the government to many in the countryside has hardly been uniformly successful in persuading the South Vietnamese people that it can protect them and that they will be better off supporting the govern- ment —The Viet Cong by infiltration from the north end recruiting in the south expands and prevents the government from bulding up a favorable ratio of forces There probably are about five government troops for each rebel whereas experience shows that a ratio of is about what is needed to bring insurgencies under control —By terror and also by willing support the Viet Cong controls much of the population end prevents the tide of necessary military intelligence from flowing toward government forces ten-to-o- ne NOTES ON SOME OF the questionnaires read like this: A mother: “I thought we'd brought our children up property until we moved to this community Some of the boys and girls here 'have their own cars and drive them to school My son has always been a good boy but lately he has been hinting almost nagging that he should have his own car too” A father: “I've got a daughter and she's been staying out later and later every night When I comI think plain about it my wife calli me a the code is reasonable and I hope I can convince my wife and daughter to stick to it” stick-in-the-m- Another mother: “I’ve got a son who wants to drive our car I don’t think he should because he’s too young and doesn't have a sense of responsibility My husband disagrees He says it’s about time the boy grew up After all he says the boy next door is 16 and has his own car” MOST OF THE HIGH SCHOOL students questioned about the code do not consider it too rigid The schools ( are not 'attempting to enforce it although most schools in Rhode Island have established rules relating to dress smoking on school property and dismissal times for social functions on school property “I don’t mind the code but I don’t think I'd like to have strangera force it on me” a high school junior said “My parents might be considered strict because I can’t stay out as lata as a lot of other kids but I think they’re doing what’s right for me” Mrs Dore commented: “We know that no code in the world can take the part of parental guidance We just hope that some confused parents will know that they are not alone in their worries about their children “It’s about time some of us learned to say ’no’ when our children put pressure on us to alter our own way of living to accommodate theirs” k THEN ARE SOME of the items in ’The Parental Code?” Dress— It is the responsibility of parents to take an active interest in their children’s dress since it affects behavior attitudes and grades Dancing and social activities — Social dancing is a wholesome activity for senior high school students when properly supervised Junior high school students should confine dancing to gym classes or dancing classes Young people should not entertain friends when adults are away Attendance of high school students at drive-itheatres night clubs movies billed as adult movies and public dance halls is not considered wholesome DRIVING—THE MAJORITY of those questions felt that 16 is too young for a person to get a driver's license unless circumstances necessitate it should not have an auto of their own use When using a family car some responsibility for care and costs should be assigned to them Driving privileges should be limited to special occasions or essential family errands WHAT War-wic- n Teen-age- WEEK IN REVIEW Astronauts Rights March In Week's News rs s All gatherings of should be chaperoned Parents should not allow their children to attend parties where alcoholic drinks are served teen-ager- AMERICANS HAD A ringside seat to space exploration on two different occasions during the week just past Tuesday astronauts Virgil L Grissom and John W Young whirled three times around the earth and splashed down on scedule in the Atlantic after performing truly historic spacecraft maneuvers in orbit The Gemini 3 space twins soared into space at 9:24 EST and ended flight about 2:20 p m Thursday the astronauts returned to the site of their spectacular vault into orbit to receive the accolades of a grateful nation On the following day Ranger 9 the U S pioneer photographic lunar probe transmitted live television pictures from the moon of areas never before seen by man to help pave the way for manned flight to earth's satellite THE LUSTRE OF the space feats were dimmed somewhat Thursday night Viola Gregg Luizzo when attractive mother of five was slain by highway sniper's rifle bullet while shuttling Negro participators back to Selma Alabama after a 50 mile “right to vote” march President Johnson Friday in imiftedi-'t-e response to FBI arrests of four Klansmen as alleged conspirators in the Alabama murder Of the Detroit woman urged federal legislation to control activities of the Ku Klux Klan lie called upon Congress to investigate ic the Klan with full cooperation of the Justice Department and the FBI It was disclosed Monday that South Vietnamese troops have used an American-made type of tear gas that produces nausea against Communist guerrillas in Viet Nam LOCALLY USU STUDENTS faculty and townspeople prepared to observe International Days during the week of 1 Today there will be March a display of items from foreign lands in the basement of the Utah State Union The International Queen contest is slated for 2:30 p m in the Union and an international movie will be shown at 8 p m in the Engineering auditorium EARLY IN THE WEEK Cache Coun- -' ty’s traffic fatality number increased to 7 for the year thus far when Walter John Isaacs 45 died of injuries received in a traffic accident at 4th East and 5th Northon March 14 A USU graduate stu' dent he was the father of five children and was a native of Pakistan ROSS PLANT MAYOR of Richmond was one of four Utah State Representatives appointed to the Utah Legislative Council to serve through 1967 Robert E Griffiths partner in the Smithfield Auction defeated Dwyth M Daines as new president of the Logan Rotary Club The local flood control committee me- tThursday afternoon and LaMar Jones ' (Continued on Page 3) t Dating— Junior high school pupils should be discouraged from dating but if it is allowed' they should be advised to date with those in their own age group For students in senior high school parents should not allow them to leave home without specifying where they are going and with whom checking the time they return and holding them to their word Parents should meet the boy or girls with whom their child is dating There you have the Warwick Rhode island parental code drawn up by a committee comprised of parents and youngsters HERE AND TIIERE-Th- ese lines by Constance Hills are entitled ‘Trillium:” Snow near gone let us ride into the country to the wood to see if wild flowers have pulled through year-fa- ll muck and moss and now in sun-la- g Adam stillness nod their heads on crests of spring: hepatica lady’s slipper lily— and the principal one the fiery trillium illuming uninhabitable spaces listen for the theme that praises earth iu triune petal syllables in the pit of the wood |