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Show T New Peace Symbol? Replay of I960 Election? Can He Think? Unfortunately That's Not the Measure of Candidates; It's 'Can He Win The only daily newspaper "devoted to tne progress and advancement; of Central Utah and. its people : i TUESDAY; DECEMBER 29, 1959 lice Was Man For ' - ; -- seemed more urgent for; Th e Eloque nt the-fou- P ho to Maybe you saw the: picture of Cuba's "Fidel Castro, smiling broadly out of his beards and holda big, beribboned bundle. ' ing high ': The package represents funds supplied by the island's sugar -- ! workers, voluntarily it says here, to .help finance Castro's program of industrial development. .". The triumphant Castro smile, a . masterpiece of magic, suggested that the Cuban prime minister had : just passed a public-relatio- ns . miracle. He had tapped rich sources with the flick of a wand. i ..... In truth,' of course, his grand unnecessarily : siphons gesture mon ey from sugar workers' pockets; and reflects a incompetence; If Castro, were hot so busy pointlessly hating America he could develop capital in his country in a flash if he fostered favorable t ; ; ng ' ' ' By ED KOTERBA - WASHINGTON Arthur King doesn't know how old he is. He explained why: Some years ago, a tornado swept his family's place In Cochran, Ga. "It blew away our mule, the family Bible," he said, "and my birth certificate." His correct age doesn't really matter.; He says he's about 55. King is a character study. His whole body cries with timidity. He's so shy his chin drops to his chest and his head hangs the moment anybody looks at him. But King is a What's Your Question? , ... - the United Nations organization must continue to be supported by American taxpayers when UN schemes are. , obviously - directed against our free enterprise system. One glaring example is the United Nations' long established pressure upon our govern- ment to furnish financial aid to underdeveloped countries. Our people have been misled into believing that such aid is born of American good-- . will to the less fortunate of other lands. The fact is that rendition of actual and prolonged aid to backward countries is an. essential part of the Communist conspiracy to gather the peoples of the earth into the single economic system of universal socialism. What is your opinion?" (Donald Mackay, Dover, ;N.J.) - enthusiastic about President Eisen-- t hower's jaunt abroad and yet you now praise the results. Don't you see any mistakes in it?" ' , Del.) (Miss I.L.M., Warning-ton- . ;-- . I have little belief in - personal diemplomacy. But once the President x to felt judge obliged barked upon it,. I it fairly. As ,a good will tour it was undoubtedly a success: Two, mistakes make by the planners really one and " -- . were not giving the same mistake sufficient preference to allies over neutrals like Afghanistan, Tunisia and Morocco, and , spending only two days in - allied Pakistan but over, four in , nona-lignand often super critical; India. firm come In my book! members of the ' - ed ' ' first. . , .. . ... , . ' all the false political glitter. So, comes the holiday season an J these guys go soft and sentimental, they start tossing money to nearly every cause that comes their way. But . this emotional attitude was best expressed in the Senate press gallery a day or so before Christmas when they called Arthur King up there for his little present. Earlier, the bills were tossed into the hopper by the active members of the gailery, and now Jim Free, head of the gallery correspondents, made the presentation. The rest of the reporters stood there, touched by King's humble acceptance. When King left the room, I followed him and saw him open the envelope. His big white eyeballs rolled to the ceiling. "Oh, my," he said, as he sneaked a peek. "Oh, Lordy, I'm not worthy of it." In the past 15 years, King has catered to just about every famous name in Washington journalism. And they've all marveled at his method of change-makinFor instance, ' the check comes to $1.45. You give him $2, and he flops his hand into his. pocket and comes up with 85 cents change. Me knows better. He's a human a bacus. But be knows psychology, too. He reads newspaper people like a book. "King, you overpaid me," you'll . issue. It is true that the United Nations could work properly only if the Soviets 'I keep reading In press had it as planned by FDR accepted dispatches that the Tunisians 'threw all constructive of instead blocking of out the French. My impression j. moves in Council. It canthe Security Tunisia is that it is incapable of "be not Moscow welcomes denied that throwing out anybody, not even the each move successful toward ', independ-- v who Algerian rebel power-seekeence a Western colony. It is taken by are using it as a base to attack their also true that in furthering the develep-meown brothers 'across the i frontier. V of colonies into "independent" Please explain." states with .votes at the UN Assembly, N. H.) (M., Tamworth, ' and in encouraging their economic de- -. Reader M. is entirely correct. The velopment, Washington is gambling that the French out and Tunisians invited ' they can therby be prevented from em- after a token resistance . the French bracing or falling victim to communism. gave - up their-- protectorate arid left. Whether the campaign Important ; in the French' decision was accepted and promoted by the United Americ an support of the Tunisian r posiStates turns out to be succesfiil or tion. President Bourguiba of. Tunisia has remains to be seen. What is to .visitors that he frequently explained incomprehensible to me is that the West lacks the strength .to prevent Algerian has so far. refrained from an all-orebels from usmg Ms country: as a; base propaganda campaign in favor of liberagainst the French, and the , prorFrench own his ating Soviet colonies. and in that Moslems Algeria he if him not support peooie would Send your question on world, affairs, tried. He counts upon . the United States s signed with either your full name or to prevent the, French army from taking to reAnsel Edgar Mowrer, in care ony action against his country in this of internanewspaper. breachof his for . open prisal, '' ' (Copyright 1959, General Features Corp.) tional law. ': .. v- ' , "What sort of news would you have ' liked for, Christmas?" . t (G, Johnson, Gary, Ind.). ; Wars are caused by menrand men are Well,; first the - announcement that scientists had discovered "a i complete influenced by a fixation on, the past, the and defense against dead past with all its abuses of power thus rendering them obsolete. This would and misuses of responsibility, all its futile convictions that force pan solve any have ended the creeping paralysis on our ' side from fear of nuclear war. Next I problems in the name of humanity. would have welcomed the news that President Eisenhower. Russians . or Chinese had rebelled and : overthrowp their regimes.. . ' Last year this government spent two I should have shouted tor Thirdly, and a half million dollars shooting picjoy had President'. Eisenhower announced Millions tures of fish hatcheries. in Paris that he. wished to make NATO not and hatcheries for fish a for penny a permanent regional organisation within shouldn't be culture. culture as Why the United Nations, with power delegated as or commerce? agriculture important ,y the members to share all , weapons Film producer Jerry Wald, advocating : and know-how- ,' and take all: military, a "Secretary of Culture." economic, political and prbpagandisUc decisions anywhere "AS A UNIT.. Instead, the final communique from the Paris ; The presence of a beard upon the meeting glossed over deep outstanding visage is not a thing which affects the differences that threaten to fester, for or capacity. A beardi petitioner's conduct wh'ch the United States .and Britain both in history ' and in fact, is viewed r are as' much toblame as France and with respect and admiration. , v West Germany, Boston engineer David M. Ross, seekv ing court injunction to prevent city "Many patriotic. Americans includ-!n- g planning board from firing him be- cause he wears a beard. myself cannot understand why - . y . . rs nt . -- . . - - - anti-coloni- . al un-succes- ful ut , g.. . ; your-Kiinital- - ... - ; - . So They Say : ; . A-bo- v Barbs ' . , . We're smartest at 50, says a judge, but few women will ever admit reaching7 that age. ." - - ... 1 1 A. 2 A wealthy , westerner tried sui- cide because he lost a fortune and didn't nave any more than the rest of us. " ' H .:.'. .The dad who takes his young kids out on the ice pond for a great time is a pretty good skate. ..''' : , - The old e x pr e s s I on "like 'father, like on" reminds us that most .young ,men like daughters. -- . 1 '' J' politicians in 1920 that "just about anybody can be president." And a similar fallacy, I think, lies imbedded in the I960 assumptions. The emphasis in both parties is en choosing a candidate who "cm win." There is too little conce m to whether, having won, tie victorious candidate can rule or reign, command or govern, inspire or exhort, cogitate or emote, as the challenges of the time will certainly demand. Familiar Story ' On Broadway today there is a play called "The Gang's AU Here," starring Melvyn Doug'as ir the role of President Harding. The story is familiar. In 1920 the Republican convention deadlocked over Governor Lowden and Gen-- , eral Wood with some lesser and possibly 'petter men hovering on the edges! But with an eye to get ting, a winner, the GOP manag-rin the famous smoke-- f filed room1? chose. Senator Harding. jNobody could say of Harding, "He can't win."j The Ohio statesman wa? say, and he puts on such a dazzlutg show of embarrassment that you not only return the difference but tack on an extra tip to console his embarrassment. It happens every time. King comes from the old school He's a graduate of both the steam-chi- p and the railroad, dining car. He's had a long time to study the ways of the eater. The way he reads my mind is and complain your way out of a lot ot friendships. scowl (Copyright, 1959, by United Features Syndicate, Inc.) Your Pocketbook Need Is Great for People To Staff Three Vital Fields By FAYE HENLE Recently, I was privileged to listen in on one of those rare, dramatic discussions that one usually hears about second or third-hand- .; The subject, "Public Policies and Public Personnel," was one that involves a challenge to the future welfare o the nation, and the future size of your tax bill. The participants, Frank Bane, of the White House Conference on Children and Youth; Milton Katz of. Harvard University's Law School, and Columbia University's Wallace S. Sayre, didn't intend to offer final conclusions on the subject. This was an exploratory session. m But the argument I heard from ied men confirmed these a frightening theory I've long held: Today, it is "status that dictates the area in ' which most citizens choose to work. High pay and glamour rank first and service ranks second among the majority of Americans as they seek their life's work. In the fields of public service, scientific research and education, salaries and prestige are not high enough as measured by our current desires to attract sufficient numbers of talented and equipped V personnel. . w7ell-qual- if Men and women devoted to public service are called "politicians," a tag that to many people implies something a little unsavory. Basic science, research and teaching are considered by many as refuges for on's ability to work with Ruth MilleU , so much for a woman's morale as: Having her husband whistle when she gets all dressed, up for a party. does Shedding enough weight to move into a size smaller dress : than she has been wearing tor ' V years. the courage to Finally getting about her gray "do something" hair and suddenly emerging as a blonde, brunette or redhead. Splurging on an absolutely perfect dress, even though her uri--, dozs accustomed extravagance make her feel a bit guilty. Having her husband plan a gay surprise celebration to mark the birthday she has been dread: - , . ing. ' Receiving an extravagant but sincere compliment from a soj or daughter who has finally outgrown th "pb mother . . V -- itage. - , y. . . Bryan. Nixon, Kennedy,- Johnson aad Stevenson can't all be nominated. Iwo or more must be rejected by their parties. But if these or othr men are bypassed for such superficial and ; unworthy reasons as cited above, we are inviting a replay of a national calamity. It is ,less true in 1930 than, it was in 1920 but, "just about anybody" can be president. Let's not make that', - mistake again. . long-rang- i FUN TIME The Chuckle Box I Boy: et four eggs for breakfast. Teacher: You mean ate. - Boy: Maybe' It was eight I et. Mr. Smith: How's your insom' nia? Mr. Jones: Worse. I can't evea sleep when it's time to get up! '''' " I Waiter: How did you find your steak, sir? Joe: Easy- - I shifted a string bean, and there it was! , DID YOU KNOW? wu 1 x . ' k . , - I - : n. A cow that gives plenty of milk is highly prized. Did you know of all that the champion milk-give- r time "was an English cow that died in 1935 at the age of YIV years? She was a Eritish Friesan, and during her lifetime gave 326,433 pounds of milk or 163.27 tons! Win to "Tell Me Why!" Today'f winner is: Ronnie Klser, 12, CharLtston W. Va. O's and A's , . the Britannica Wort Atlas or Yearbook of Events. Send your riddles,, joket, tricks 4 wnai happened to O i-o- ra Kitchener, the distinguished tish soldier? Bri- A lie was drowned when his ship sank in 1916, while cnrou'te to Russia. . I ... - . . . d Could a woman serve as president ot the United States? The Constitution makes no A provision In regard to the sex of Q the president. - At tne time of the Revolutwhich was the largest inland city in the 13 colonies? A Lancaster, Pa. It waa th national capital for one day. Q ion,- ' 1 . , How Are False Teeth Made? j j , Tell Me Why Matrons Get Morale Boost middle-age- d Con- "ivory tower" types unable or un- -. gress and to face up to Russia comto of the face demands willing and Red China. But the chief Repetitive society. publican doubt about Nixon? It If , The discussion that set off my thinking was held in the sunroom at Arden House, that suburban New York mansion of bygone days . given to Columbia University by former Gov. Averell Harriman. Present were the members and guests of the National Manpower Council, which under a Ford Foundation grant studies thet deBy A. LEOKUM velopment and utilization of the Win the Britannica Junior nation's most precious resource for encyclopedia its people. school and home Send your For five days and nights, the questions, name age, address conference participants talked and to "Tell Me Why." care of this e eduplanned about the paper. Today winner is: cation and use of our manpower. Marcia Brooks. 13, A note of urgency about the need Fredericksburg, Va. for action and complaints of insufficient action now under way was Today, ifyou should be unlucky heard in prepared papers and to lose a tooth or two or enough briefing sessions. even allyour teeth dentists can From these long: hours, came the replace them' with; teeth that look clear call to you to apply pressure so natural almost no one can tell for better manpower in politics. ' they are false ! Only then, you were told, will our In dentistry there is a whole educational and scientific research' science devoted to artificial resystems be fortified as they must if we are to survive. placement of lost .natural teeth it is call "Prosthetics". An amazing Again and again, the conference thing about this science is that it's participants stressed that the time at least 3.000 years old! Back in ; has come when: times of the Etruscans, earlier 1. Leadership Ihe in government. 1,000 B.G.-- gold workers were than education and science must be making bridgewoik to replace lost made sufficiently worthwhile to at--"teeth. In bridgework, by the way, tract and hold men and women of the . new teeth are supported by high talent and integrity. teeth on either side of the gap. In 2. More and more Americans a denture, the load is on the gum. must answer the call to these Dentures can be either partial or services. complete. When some teeth are still left in the jaw, the denture is a partial one. When all the teeth are missing, the denture Is a complete one. Both types have been made since the late 17th century, so you see that false teeth are really, quite an old invention. One of the most important things in making bridges or dentures is to Having - her friends- approve obtain a good fit. Otherwise, yod her efforts at redoing her house. In can be quite uncomfortable. Getting rid of the big, old both that said George fact, it is house that seems so empty with suffered Martha Washington and all the children gone and moving from dentures that didn't fit well! into a house the right size for a Various development that enable couple to feel cozy-i' dentists to get better impressions Finding out that she can do of the mouth and to make models something she never . thought she ot the mouth led to better-fittin- g had the ability to do dentures. , Having all of her children false teeth 18th In the century, home for a holiday and obviously , and the x plate that held them were nappy to be together. ' made from bone, ivory hippotamus Suddenly realizing how many tusk, and gold. It was hard to good and loyal friends she has. make these fit well. "About 1790, Finding a community jab porcelain began to be used, and v.iiere she knows she is being usethen about 1860 vulcanized rubber ful and not just filling her time became popular. with busy work. About 1933, various kinds of synhusband her her give Having thetic resins were introduced. a gift of feminine frippery thai These were preferred because of says more plainly than anyvord? their color, rand weight, that to him she is still the girl teeth are false he married.' ... strength. Today, to so look fit well that and All those are wonderful boosts, made middle-ageto any it's almost no problem to wear woman'a them! morale. . .. It's very easy to . ' . party and country. The superficialities in 1920 have beenj modernized a bit by I960. But the riature of shallowness docs flat change. We are heading into 190 "with; a fiekj of candidates 'who ' have shown us their good look. their gushy manners, their phy!-- : cal stamina, their adroitness in press conferences, their adaptability to the grooming of Madison Avenue. Everywhere it Is asked, can ihe win? Almost never is it considered, can be think? At th year's end, there are symptoms Itch is startctnat the Forty-Yea- r ing to have its way: Richard Nixon: Experience isn't everything. William Howard Taft, like Nixon, vhad long administra- . tive training for the presidency But he was ditched after a single term. So were Van Burean nd John Quincy Adams who for years had understudied for the job. It is "perfectly logical to query Nix- , nc iiandsome, was- oratorical, came trom the right part of the country, electorally speaking, and had told hi backers that, there w?as nothing in his private life which miglu later' embarrass his service to frightening. One day I started to call, "King a bowl of potato soup," and he was already placing it before me. These "coincidences" went on right through dessert. How does he do it? "It's my hobby," he said. "I watch people's habits." They don't grow waiters like that any more. this: Does he appeal to the Independents? Can he win? John Kennedy: Fourteen years service in House and Senate, ai Kennedy wouid have if he become the next president, is a fine reo- ord for any man in his early W, In addition, the senator has a cum laude degree from Harvard, poit- graduated studies in London, a Navy commission, authorship of two books, numerous honorary decrees ,and prizes for brainwo.-k-. till,, nobody need feci ' compelled to support Kennedy for the presi--dencAnybody who Judges him to be seriously lacking in judgment and ability ought to 1oo elsewhere for, a candidate. Buv' what is dominant Democratic doubt about Kennedy? It is (even among several Catholic Governors): Will he be handicapped by his religion?0 Can he win? Lyndon Johnson: Nobody in ur times has' made a better name "o: leadership in Congres3 With an alleged lack of leadership at the White House, this is an important trait. The other sid of the coin is. that Johnson's strength makes him seem dicta- torial and power-happAnybody who believes this about Johnson hasv no business to boost him for the presidency. But this sort of criticism is not what will stop Johnson's nomination. No John-wm- 's Southern birth, like Kennedy's race and religion, is the Dig objection to his heading up a party that decries discrimination of this verysort. Can he carry the Eig Labor precincts? Can h win? Adlai Stevenson: - Brilliant in speech, polished by wide travelf and much . writing, humbled by previous disasters, this nersistent public figure may ie coming to his intellectual peak. On the other hand, it may be that Stevenson la an intellectual prig with no humanity" in him, and hence no good for the task of leading the Amer-- . ican millions nd their allies., If this' Is believable about Stevenson he should, be shunned. But the reason most often heard for not nominatoing him is his two beatings by the unbeatable Dwlght Eisenhower and the party's fear William of another Jennings y. ' - Xothing Skating romances may reverse the usual form of courtship this winter. Many gals will break the ice. H-bom-bs, , And r. we love it. This hard core of Senate 'reporters is probably the most cynical bunch of newsmen in tiie world. If they weren-'- t that way when they arrived on the beat, they soon got that way. I guess P's a protective covering against do not think free enterprise is the I mind-reade- he's probably the shrewdest table waiter in all the world. The reason he's the subject of my story today is that King proved hs something this Christmas-r-a- s has on other Christmases. And that is that Washington's newspaper correspondents are senti-mental old fools. King is the press table waiter in the Senate restaurant. He hovera over' us like a clucking mother hen around helpless chicks, and Mistakes By Planners Of lice Tour By EDGAR ANSEL,. MOWRER: ;" "Yon confuse us. You did not seem m 'I He's The Shrewdest Table Waiter In World And perhaps O wight D. Eisenhower was uniquely fitted by character and personality to convey to, them the spirit and warmth of this, bountiful country. conditions for it. " Assignment Washington will. ; ' s -- . t . self-defeati- ' longing for peace. The President touched countless millions by his appearance, by his famous smile, by the things he said, formally and informally. Many cautions have been voiced about this visit. We have been' reminded that no policies were changed or developed. I Mr. Eisenhower's e s, speech brimming with good will, professions of peaceful purpose, homages to freedom and justice, charted no new specifics. They honored the generalities." Yet these speeches, like his smiling, waving appearances on the streets of these distant cities, found a remarkably overwhelming , response. Just possibly, this is the important, the enduring accomplishment of the President's long journey. . He has made the American presence richly felt in places that plainly longed for it. He has given these millions recognition, on behalf of all Americans of good r - For there was a theory among spirit that told of their fervent - C. in I960. warm-hearte- - D.- - it the Forty-Yea- r Itch! It was 1 malaise which tormented the na tion in 1920 with the election of President Warren Gamaliel Harding. There "are signs Hhat the same dread disease may beset us India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Turkey, Tunisia, Morocco; the mere recital evokes stirring memories of magnificent throngs, cheering Mr. Eisenhower with d friendliness, with a ; : WASHLNGTON, great milestone. . ; he Job heads of state to face each other across a table. Yet, on balance, history may well decree that the President's ceremonial journey to far places, many never before visited by an American chief executive, was the President Eisenhower's 22,000-mil- e swing through Asia, Africa and Europe , was really two s journeys in one. v In good sense, one cannot minimize the significance of his attendance at the Paris' meeting with Macmillan, BeGaulle ' and Adenauer. - The constant renewal of close bonds with the leaders of our friends and allies is a necessity from which we are never, freed, Obviously the task of preserving the indispensable fundamentals' of s unity.-:- in the- Western group: more difficult now than it has been for some time. Never, .has .it - - I By HOLMES S ALEXAND E , ' A |