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Show 1 What Ever Happened to the Bird This Thanksgiving?'1 The Allen-Sco- tt Report rieanng is uue In Eastland Committee Over Access to the Files WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 201963 Set bade for Romney In Michigan weeks ago, the joke was that somehow or other the! special, session of the state legislature-woul- end by Nov. 15, d when the hunting season began.' The legislators made the deadline. But not many Michigan observers were ready to predict they would achieve it at so great a cost to the dominant Republican Party as and Gov. George Romney seems to be the case. Poker Is Dying v Time was. when the phrase "He's a good poker player" was one of the highest compliments that could be paid a man by his friends or his enemies. It meant that the individual in question was shrewd, kept his own counsel, was a fair but tough bargainer. Now out of the wilderness of the modern word comes a vbice crying .that the great old American game of poker is dying. History Professor John Lukacs claims the game in its pure form is' seldom played nowadays and warns that its disappearance is being accompanied by the disap- pearance of certain qualities in the American characdash, and "that ter; worth-whil- e self-relianc- e, natural elegance of action characteristic of Americans." Writing in Horizon magazine, Lukacs blames poker's decline on three factors. These are (1) the rise to independence of women, who Lukacs claims are notoriously poor gamloose-limbe- d, easy-goin-g, blers ; (2) servicemen, who use the game merely as a relief from boredom and have replaced the art and skill of the game with chancy gimmicks; and (3) military strategist, who analyze the game to death, break it down o bits and thus eliminate the human factor and the game's subtlety and excitement. The professor is afraid that the deterioration of poker is a sign that Americans are losing their individuality in the face of the pressures of modern society. Could it be that some of the diplomatic reverses America has suffered at international "poker" tables have something to do with this? , The issue in this session was the governor's tax reform program. The outlook was always doubtful for him. He and everybody else knew he had a bitter battle on his hands. Many Republican conservatives had no taste for the 2 per cent personal income tax which was a key feature of the program. Yet it was inconceivable to veteran Michigan appraisers that GOP legislators would not give the governor something he could hang his hat on. The lawmakers confounded these veterans by giving Romney exactly nothing. There was, of course, no surDemoprise in the added fact that late-hocrats spurned Romney's bids for support, even though they for years have been trying to ram through similar tax proposals. and to The blow to Romney has to be Republicans generally On his fiscal severe. measured as program he staked his entire claim to leadership. He pointedly asked to be judged by his performance in this field. 1 Since his party holds a edge in the Michigan Senate and a 2 margin in the House, the governor felt he had a right to He may begin with Daddy, where does the sun go at night?' and then give me a barrage of 15 or 20 more, even while I am trying to reply to the first cne. T"You have urged us parents to answer the questions of our youngsters as a means of increasing their knowledge. VBut, Dr. Crane, if I finally do figure out the reply to his first query, he may be 20 questions down the line ahead of me sp I doubt if he pays much attention to the correct answer, even when I finally do give it to him. "So what can a jittery parent do in such a crisis?" Reversible Why In this type of situation, parents, salesmen, teachers and those who conduct open forums from the public platform, should use Christ's strategy. For Jesus was adept at reversing the questions shot at Him. Combine Christ's clever technique with my "Pause and Praise" strategy, fi you wish to exert maximum educational enfluence. For example, suppose Terry asks his daddy where the sun goes at night. Pause and praise! For example, his daddy can then ply: :.y re- "Terry, that's a splendid question school you've asked. In fact, even the teachers at the .time of Columbus, still f didn't know! the right answer. ' "Car tins you hava such a good V'XWF I hope for success. The defeat of his tax legislation could be a heavy burden upon him should he be a candidate for reelection next year. While many assume he will be, he has hinted more than once that failure of his key programs might lead him to refuse another race. Romney's modest victory margin in 1962 always has been a source of worry for 1964, when President Kennedy would be on the ticket aiding the Democratic choice. Michigan's Republican lawmakers now have given Democrats the best issue they could hope for. All the Democrats need say is: "Romney was elected on a promise of leadership. He didn't deliver." Obviously, too, Romney's place as a presidential dark horse for 1964 is seriously affected by this reverse. Presumably many of the GOP legislators are happy now hunting in Michigan's woods and fields. While they are out, perhaps they should look for votes. They may need them badly in 1964. question, I'll let you see if you can figure out where the sun goes at night. "What do you think becomes of the sun at night?" Notice what will then happen. Terry draws himself up proudly to his full height, for hasn't he asked a question that even the school teachers could not answer in years past? He thus feels more important. And this reaction makes him look with even greater delight upon his question. Meanwhile, too, his attention has been caught, so he isn't rushing down the line with 15 or 20 additional queries. No, he sticks to that FIRST question and tries to figure out a solution. "Daddy, I think the sun just goes to bed," he may reply. This device of asking the questioner to help solve his own problem, thus enlists his avid interest and makes him a "junior partner" In the quest for the right answer. It also gives you adults a chance to stall gracefully, in case you were wool gathering ' when the query first hit you. Then you can add your 25 per cent or 50 per cent or 95 per cent of facts to whatever the child (or customer) evolves, and thus you have clinched the answer to its proper question. Later, if Terry asked that same query in school, the correct answer will thus be linked to the right question! (Always write to Dr. Crane in care a long stamped, addressed envelope and 20c to cover typing and printing costs when you send for one of his booklets.) of this newspaper, enclosing So They Say The chance of a Negro being admitted to and aided by most of our educational institutions is much greater if he lives in Africa than in Alabama. Rexford G. Moon Jr., director of the College Scholarship Service. The offers have been accompanied by an atmosphere of undue haste. Jessica Mitford, author of a book criticizing undertakers, commenting on several offers of free burial. Hi-jin- ks at gay parties in Germany and Poland had a iot to do with those two State Department security officials being put on "administration leave." Also, Attorney General Robert J- I I TJj A-- T- X; f Til i It V. v X: M'H'V i Z&'&A' t"tj ' Jrxs "atheist." ; Kennedy had a direct hand in their abrupt suspension. The President's younger brother has long kept a close eye on the as he does State Department numerous other on government agencies and policies and ac- tivities. The announced reason for the suspension of John F. Reilly, Deputy Assistant Secretary of state for Security, and Elmer Dewey Hill, chief of the Division of Technical Services in Reilly 's office, was their adnission that the phone of Otto Otepka, veteran State Department security official, had been tapped. Last week he was dismissed on the ground of leaking classified information to the JSenate Internal Security Subcommittee. He is appealing this ouster. But the phone "bugging" is only part of this explosive story. The Senate committee, headed by Senator James Eastland, has even more sensational sworn testimony. That's why "Bobby" Kennedy when he got wind of it, "advised" the immediate crackdown on Reilly and Hill. Illustrative of what the Senate investigators have ascertained from witnesses under oath is the following: Reilly "stripped" Hill's security file of a memorandum, prepared by another security officer, recounting Hill's turbulent conduct at social affairs in Frankfort, Germany, and Warsaw, Poland. Reilly put this damaging memorandum in a sealed envelope in his desk. Civil Service authorities told the Senate probers they were not informed Hill's file had been "stripped" of this unfavorable information. MORE SHOCKING DETAILS The Internal Security Committee has a full account of the contents of the "missing" memorandum, and Reilly and Hill are slated to be closely grilled on it. According to this document, Hill astounded other State Department officials and their wives, at a party in Frankfort, by breaking glasses, taking off his shoes, socks, shirt and other attire, and being violent and abusive. At a Warsaw nightclub, he is credited with taking over the piano and hammering out "loud and tuneless music," and insisting on dancing with the women in the place. D-Mi- ss., 23-1- 58-5- At another party, according to sworn committee testimony, Hill compared himself to Iienin, pointing! to the late Communist leader's! bald head and beard, and proclaimed himself an By ROBERT S. ALLEN and PAUL SCOTT WASHINGTON ur Let Questioner Help Find His Answer R-40- 9: s' ' y -- The Worry Clinic By GEORGE W. CRANE, Ph.D., M.D.- CASE Terry L., aged 6, is a etnart youngster. "But, Dr. Crane," his daddy protested, "Terry drives me distracted with his incessant questions. "When I get home at night, tired and ready to slump down in an easy chair with my newspaper, Terry starts shooting queries at me. yy ; Holmes Alexander Editor's Horrible to Fight A War; Worse to Lose One D. C. My Gilman School in WASHINGTON, headmaster at Baltimore, and my lifetime au thority on war, was the heroic Capt a i n L. W a r d 1 a w Miles. He had lost a leg and won the o n a 1 Con-gres- si Medal Honor as infantry of an o Mai I bag Loose Manhole Cover who says in his introduction that "A warless world .. . can be achieved in this century if, instead of expending our energies on deterrent power, we make an understanding of the anatwhatomy of liberty . . ." ever such dreamy stuff means. Another' book, "A warless World," edited by the pious Arthur Larson, could be more honestly entitled, "A Weaponless World," for its authors bed would leave us fore the foe. bare-hande- cer Mr. Alexander in World War I. He was a lover of the English language, and adorned his conversation with naturally-flowin- g ' phrases from Beowulf," Shakespeare, Pope, Kipling and Alfred Noyes. Miles had volunteered for combat training when he was past the enlistment age, already held a medical degree and was a member of the Princeton faculty where he taught literature. In brief, he learned about war when he was already a mature, cultivated man. He was physically and intellectually qualified as an expert in that subject. I knew him in the 1920's and 30's when, as now, the press, the stage, the political forum were bilious with propaganda about the idiocy of war and the cloying virtues of everlasting peace. The gallant Old Captain would rumble against these preachments of pacifism. For all its horrors, he believed war to be a social good, an improver of the breed, an experience in reality which spoke grandly to the human spirit. His letter to me after he'd lost his son at Guadalcanal carried the Spartan line: "We must all try to be better and braver men because of him." Sometimes in wading through the brine and bilge of contemporary peace - mongering, I seem to hear the Old Captain's snort of contempt. A good deal of modern pacifist writing is like the old brimstone sermons of the revivalists who regularly scared the yokels out of their skins by predicting the end of the world. Some of the pacifism, aimed at bringing us under the yoke of a global government the only one in business today is World Communism amounts to consorting with our avowed enemy. Some of it is pure Simple Simon gibberish, as the forthcoming book, "The Anatomy of Liberty," by Justice Douglas, essay in this book, "Change in a Disarmed World," by Arnold Toynbee, is sapient to a degree that destroys the central argument for warless-nes- s. Some civilizations, he says One like the Roman and Chinese were "warless" in Empires that they kept peace with the sword. Well, a Communist Empire could do that, but we wouldn't like it. For a "warless" society to prosper, says Toynbee, it must act upon "the truth that continuous change is of the essence of human life." But when was there ever change without violence? And when was peacetime change a final substitute for war? Our own American reached its continental limits, and consolidated itself in the War of 1861-6and thereafter allowed the greatest play to internal changes. Following the Civil War, we won the Wild West, accepted waves of foreign immigrants, went through the successive disruptions of Labor strikes, economic depressions and readjustments did just about everything that should, by the Toynbee theory, distract our minds and energies from "empire" 5, war. But some necessity in the human spirit would never permit even as free, fortunate and an empire as ours to turn pacifist. When we had driven Spain from , the Hemisphere, we no longer had an self-contain- ed enemy in sight. Nevertheless, soon we acquired one in Japan by extending into the Pacific, and we allowed Presidents Wilson and Roosevelt to join wars in Europe. Such is the nature of man. It is not to be altered by any power less than our Maker. The danger is that pacifism could make us lose sight of a verity which isn't much cited in these days. It is this horrible though it be to fight a war, it's a whole lot worse to lose Causes Accident; Safety Hazard Cited Editor Herald: Are our city officials doing all they can for safety? Are they working to the best of their ability to protect the citizens? Let me cite one case and you, the readers, can form you own conclusions. Monday afternoon at about 3:15 a girl was office for her the day. leaving She started to cross a strip of land between the sidewalk and the curb to get to a waiting taxi; she stepped on an iron lid covering a 5 ft. deep man hole. The lid gave way and she fell in with the heavy iron lid hitting her leg. Two .men witnessed the accident and pulled her safely out. The police and ambulance were notified and she was rushed to Utah Valley Hospital. Luckily her injuries (as far as determined) were no more seri-ou- t. city-own- ed Maybe luck wasn't so much with Diana as with the city. Luck;- it wasn't an elderly person who could have been permanently crippled by the weight of an iron lid on his leg. Lucky it wasn't a small child who would have been in way over his head. Lucky the iron lid .hit a leg rather than the head or back. This may seem to be a minor incident, but it is not a unique one. Several other people have had similar experiences. However, it does merit serious con: sideration because, first of all this particular hazard has been called to the attention of the city twice. Secondly, it is located in an area where it is extremely dangerous to small children, across the street from a public playground, and a little over a block from an elementary school. It is not only a good suggestion that the city make sure this and all other holes on city property be sufficiently covered, but in my opinion it is a vital and necessary step. I hope it does not take a serious injury or even a death to acom-plis- h this end. Judy Burnham 613 N. University one. (Distributed by McNaught Syndicate, Inc.) Reillyi a close friend of "Bobby" Kennedy, will also be interrogated! on other sensational charges! in the Senate investigators' hands, as follows: His reputed presence at a meeting of security; officials in Europe where one of them, , from a post behind the Iron Curtain, was accompanied by a woman suspected of having ionimuaisirr: cuiuieuuuus. 4 security onicer, who reaigucv not long ago, brought the woman to the U. S. for the avowed purpose of marrying her. Reputedly all this was known to State Department authorities. . A State Department official who is being "blackmailed" by a Washington call girl. One security report on this astounding HiiHir KSLiuiaies uic uuicuu lias m paid the vgoman at least $2,500. An alleged "call girl ring"'; that operated on the eighth floor : of the State Department several , years ago. Two State Department employees caught en flagconference rante in a high-levthe with room are still Depart- ' 1 Z ,1 - el ment. committee has" assigned several investigators to learn whether tie committee had gotten wind of this cranrial Hill nlsn will hp flUPS- tioned about this matter. The explosive sworn testimony already obtained by the committee will be published. It is the intention of the Senate probers to make public 11 the evidence uncovered in the dynamite-loaded Otepka case, which has developed into a showdown issue between the executive and legislative branches over the divulging of confidential data. The executive holds such files can be withheld from Congress; the latter insists it has a right to mem. The Senate beioidffly long-suppress- ed PICKS INSPECTION TEAM me (Vfl) WASHlINLrTUIN y State Department Monday lected a nine -- man team, including biologists, nuclear experts and diplomats, to inspect Antarctica bases of Russia and other countries. Between now and March the se--" group will visit scientific installations to check for any violations of the treaty that reserves Antarctica for peaceful purposes. The treaty provides for such inspection. 12-nati- on The Doctor Says 3,000 Chemicals Foul The Air We Breathe found impression on the inhabitants of a city and usually result in some type of corrective action. But it is foolhardy to wait for tragedy to strike be--, fore applying preventive meas- By DR. W. G. BRANDSTADT Newspaper Enterprise Assn. Every 24 hours you breathe in about 15,000 quarts of air, weighing about 10 times as much as the food you put ures. According to Surgeon General Luther L. Terry of the U. S. Public Health Service, nearly , every community of 2,500 or more inhabitants has an air pollution problem. He was referring not to smog but to in- irito your stomach in a day. The quality of this air varies greatly with geographic location and visible pollution. The effects of long-terexposure to the pois-ons in the air are not easy to evaluate, but there is real evi dence that they constitute a real threat to health. What are these poisons? All of them have not been identified II 1.1 i yei, uui some ui uie most prevalent do not come from industry."' The action of sunlight on the weather m Pollution of Dr. Brandstadt this air is a complex problem that has been with us ever since people began burning fires. In the past 20 years many acute reactions have been caused by smog. The intensity of smog sickness depends on its concentration and duration. Perhaps the worst catastrophe due to smog occurred in London in 1952 when about 4,000 persons k died of it in a period. Such disasters make a pro-five-wee- Ruth Mi I left a exhaust gases from our auto- mobiles produce ozonev This and the carbon monoxide, which is also found in exhaust gas, are dangerous poisons. A farmer who lives near a toll road or expressway may be exposed to more air pollution than a person dwelling in a sub-- ; urb of a highly, industrial city. Even in cities where the industrial smog problem is great-- 1 est, the burning of leaves by home owners, outdoor trash incinerators, and improperly fired home furnaces account for much of the pollution. These include oxides of sulfur and of nitrogen. In all, about 3,000 differ-- i; ent chemicals have been found in, the air in various areas.: We don't know the specific ' effects of all of these substances on the human body. Many of .them may be harmless In the quantities found but there is plenty of evidence that many 1 of them are of causing capable , If Men Are So Much Smarter Than Women, Then How Come: If men are so much smarter than women why is it: That when a man misplaces something, either at home or at the office, he invariabl y f " i t I fI ' 1 calls 1 on a it for him? Ruth Millett That men are always asking women such questions as, "What kind of flower is mat?' and "What's the name of that couple over there? I never can seem to remember it"? That when a man has something important to remember, he always tells his wife or his secretary, "Be sure to remind me to do such and such"? That a man will drive miles out of his way when he is lost unless a woman insists, that he stop and ask directions? That a man will say, "I didn't notice anything was wrong," when a woman always catches the undercurrents when there is tension in the air? That a man can spend an eve- ning in someone's living room and not even notice what it looks; like while a woman can glance at a room and later describe it in detail? That a woman can. size up a person in one meeting better than a man can after a much longer acquaintance? That a man so often finds it necessary to tell his children; "Go ask your mother"?, That a man sometimes forgets important dates such as , 4 ! i. his wedding anniversary or his children's birthdays yet his wife s never forgets? That a woman finds it so easy to plant an idea in a man's mind in such a way that he honestly thinks he thought of it himself? "Happier Wives (Hints for Husbands)" has some thoughtful expression on the subject by Ruth. Millett. Send 25 cents to iRuthSMillett k Reader Service, co The Daily 'Herald; P.; O. Box 489, Dept. A, Radio City . ' 01.1!- .- "T aiauon, mw xors la, jn.. x. m j : . j mness. serious 'ill ; ' . |
