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Show Roy Cromloy Il Neglect of Hamlets I ; W .Ml weakens v.ieLW ar - THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1965 WASHINGTON (NEA) be well to look Today's Editorials South Vietnamese hamlet and see why we're not winning de spite excellent paper programs and millions in economic aid. Here are excerpts from a revealing confidential report made a short time back by a Viatnamese inspection team: Phou ThoL'hamlet (fictitious ' 35 name), 741 population, .radios, 156 school children, nine miles from Saigon, does not have a hamlet council or flimsy Base for Great Society Speaking of the Great' Society, there is a minority jn America l ' . for which: Unemployment averages 45 Jo 50 per cent; median family pcome is $1,500; housing is 90 per cent ation on American Indian affairs, a voluntary organization. President Johnson has recommended a budget of a little over $66 million for the Division of Indian Health for fiscal 1966, an increase of some $3.4 million over , i aver age educational level is five years; 9657TdW38()0trnndiaffs-a- ni native Alaskans in 24 states. In average age at death is 43. the past 10 years, the governWhich has: An infant mortality rate almost ment has made impressive gains in cutting the Indians' death double that of the general popu. ; ." rates. lation; influenza and pneumonia is But not the assoit enough, death rate twice as high ; tuber ciation maintains, pointing out seven-tim- es as "that salary increases will account great and TB death rate five for over' $900,000 of the Presitimes higher. dent's It recommends proposal. Where: .; . at least $5 million more a year, "Infant mortality from parasites plus something-lik- e $12.2 , million and other causes rare in the genfor the construction of sanitation eral population are a common- facilities and for medical services. r place; diseases virtually unknown A special campaign among other Americans, such as against trachoma, says Dr. Mus- blindness-causintrachoma, still chenheim, could wipe out that persist. ; ..disease for $1 million. Whose members i Often haul drinking water, from unsafe sources, a mile or more; Ironic live five to a room; have an acci- locatjgovenmientommitteer Security and defense are in the bands of a local militia. "No one (in the hamlet) knows the provincial chief's name nor. his face. As to the district chief, the people stated they have heard about him, but no one has' seen him nor do they know his name." A government representative lives in the hamlet at least his. family does. But he rarely comes to see the hamlet or his fahiily. So there is virtually' no local' government or ' se" " curity. . "Some three weeks ago at about 10 p.m: the Viet Cong came and knocked at doors and asked the people to show their family registers. Those who complied had their registers torn up by the VC. The VC remained in the hamlet until , ksis-inciden- ... ce , five-yea- g " . Centennial . dent death rate three times-t- he national rate, caused by overcrowding, the use of gasoline or kerosene lamps, snake bites, and other' conditions typical "of their primitive and isolated environ- ment. The minority is the original American, the Indian, who, except as a decoration in Western movies, has all but vanished from the national consciousness. The figures were cited before Senate subcommittee by Dr. Carl Musohenhehn of the Associ -- It was on Counter-Measure- April 2, 1865, By ROBERT S. ALLEN 'and PAUL SCOTT - WASHINGTON Strong bipartisan sentiment is rapidly crystalizing in Congress and forceful retaliation against President De Gaulle's increasingly anti-U.provocationsthe latest, granting millions in trade credits to North Viet Nam. Influential members of both the Senate and House are blunt, ly declaring the time has come comes perhaps midway in for-dir- a related struggle that may be far from over. S. Holmes Alexander' High Cost of Lost Sheep The parable Jersey thTgobd shepherdngbingbuf toTfind" a lost sheep applies to the Job Corps program, which has been launched under the War on Poverty, alias the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. Those who fought adoption of the billion-dolllaw last summer in Congress said k would be more economical to send the trainees to Harvard University. The critics turned out to be right Their jibe, regarded during debate as fhetorical hyperbole, is now recognized as solemn fact But then, K always costs more to hunt for me lost sheep than to maintain its weight in mutton at the fold. The Harv--, student Is statistically a' normal one. The Job Corpsman Is statistically a "problem" student On the average, although the generality does not hold with each individual, he is a and dropout, a runaway, a potentially a criminal in his adult years. At the Kilmer Job Corps center he is handled like a package of explosives. Is he aroused at 6 a.m. by a reveille ? No, he is encouraged to own an alarm ' clock and get njron his nwnv is he fed in a "mess hall"? No; that and all other militaristic terms are verboten on the site. Staff members are reprimanded for any such slip of the tongue. Newsmen are importuned not to fall into Army lingo, even to the innocent degree of calling Kilmer, through which more than four million GI's went to World War n, a "camp" Instead of a "center." This Is overprotection. It doesn't take place at Harvard. It is only Justifiable if we believe that these youths have EDISON, New ar tax-eat- ' " - S3 Tta Buna "baseban" wu csed to dasnato a popular la Easand at. tarTack ait!fefi3al of the 18tb cental. A. book" about chit exti rcrt ttar printed tlter, cS9 tow ,1-- ICS a 1 V 1 Cnyn Against ect Launch determined campaigns to "discourage" (1) American tourists from going to France, (2) imports of French luxury goods of all kinds. Such curtailments would deprive France of tens of millions of dollars and be a severe economic blow. Resort to other financial and economic retributory measures. For this purpose, Senator Douglas is having a study made by the staff of the Joint o stop beating around the bush .tain exactly what can be done. Force a showdown in the and vigorously crack down on the' .French United Nations on France's de-pay.long-ove- r i u . iten- - ruler. oeen socially injuredj anaJ aaowaiw due assessments. This has been this Intensifying significantly, rot-v- e derly redeemed at done with Russiarand the same to the public. adamant course is being urged Ders of the president s own De Gaulle. . Protection is expensive. It requires party, as follows: "We should do this not be-high-pric111., Senator Paul Douglas, public relationists to range cause we are through the countryside and to indoc- - Vice chairman of the Joint Eeo Committee and a rank-- dares Senator Douglas, "but trinate the inhabitants to the presence because it is in our own of the corpsmen. Churches are asked to ing member of the important and Banking commit- - defense. We want to preserve receive them for worship, and church goers are asked to take them home for tees; Senator Stuart Symington, our traditional friendship with France. But at the same time, STidaydinnerrParentsii8ve to be peiv Mo.T member of thequally in suaded to let their daughters come to portant Armed Services and with General De Gaulle seem-ForeiRelations committees; ingly bent on advancing French the center for dances. Community leaders must be assured that the corpsmen Representative Henry Reuss, interests regardless of adverse effects on us, it is only comWis., Joint Economic and Bank are not delinquents or dangerous charmon sense for us to take coun ing committees; Representative acters. ter measures. We are not withPaul Rogers, Fla., Interstate Protection requires a certain amount out strong weapons for our own and Foreign Commerce Commake-believThese corpsmen are of mittee. wards of the government but they CALLING THE TURN-Sena- -tor Foremost among the tough mustn't be treated as such. When one counter measures callare Symington and Representathey of them goes to a local bar and illegally tive Reuss lay particular stress ing for are: buys a drink, he is left to the judgment on the prompt need for . dras Demand immediate - reof his mates. In a recent instance, they sumption of payments on the tically slashing the hundreds of voted to restrict the culprit to quarters S6.34 billion France still owes fc millions of dollars the U. S, is over the following weekend. the U. S. in World I debts. This spending in France for military "live" oblization is The methodology of instruction is "perstill purposes. huge Both legislators are citing the missive," but the preferred description on the Treasury's books. It was ''' never cancelled; with Congress' ironic fact that while the U.S. The is instructional staff at Kilmer will eventu- - approval. President Hoover sus-- is making these heavy expendi-kllv offenrfi IS efifte menu of Sb 1TlDendeffWWfflentj'ta lB31,t the- -, turti fop the defense of France, An Instructor ' height of .the desperate Euro-- De Gaulle is steadily pulling courses. preparation out of NATO and using these would never assign a corpsman to any pean financial crisis. . dollars to raid this country's Withdraw between ,'40,000 line of studyTHe would never order a S. U. and declining gold re50,000 increasingly servicemen, backward pupil to lake remedial readserves. make-u- p The trick mathematics. or ing "Our balance - of -- payments is to lead the student to discover his NATO and other bases in still running around $3 cost some of at a France deficit, act talents and deficiencies and to billion a year, continues to $250 million a year. It is these .. . accordingly. weaken us," says Reuss. "An dollars that De Gaulle is using d The corpsman is here for the for his heavy raids on4 this important area of purpose of preparing for a job country's steadily diminishing leakage is the fact that he has already failed to find or to gold reserves. that we have been adding alkeep. Permissiveness works better at most a quarter of a billion dolHalt the payment of milKilmer than it did at the public schools lions in rent to French landlars a year to mis deficit by from which the corpsman was a dropfor airbases, depots, lords maintaining"a fine of communiout. . NATO and other headquarter! cations across France to supThe unvarying testimony in inter-- and military, installauo port our six. divisions In . West views with corpsmen is that the Kilmer BY JAMES O. BERRY center teachers "care," whereas the BERRY'S WORLD teachers elsewhere did not But It costs money to provide that extra ingredient of articulate 'and 'intelligent "caring." The waterproof shoulder win not suffice. The corpsmen are getting the professional services of psychologists, penologists and personnel managers who command good salaries and require the best .equipment ; We cant save these lost sheep at low cost We have already decided they are we must now watch -worth saving to see how well the system works. r" (Distributed by McNaught Syndicate, Inc.) Seen In Job Corps Program S s U ;DeGaulle Urged by Solons Mr. Scott a week before Appomattox, that it was captured by Union forces. The ' parallel is not . complete, however. Selma, 1865, came at the end of a long struggle. Selma, 1965, ... INSIDE WASHINGTON JIistorxJMyJRotalways- 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. -t- ultra-national- ist Jlant-refusaL- ti to. le ed anti-Franc- ic self-Finan- ce gn e. "group-directed.- . a single-minde- balance-of-paymen- So They Say I believe we can move on from this mountain and in doing so, we mint never stoop to violence. Love b the basis of survival of mankind, R b the highest good. We must love our neighbors as we do ourselves. Man has been In the mountain of hatred too long. Dr. Martin Luther King. ht at a "Call Sheriff Clark In Sema and find out when I ftf cat of that dtiknt 'NEVEZ buOonsT cm ts 11 Ml Mr. Allen 3 a.mand they-cut-thee- nce and pulled out pickets .before leaving. The VC did not make propaganda; they only told the people to inform the (govern ment) of. their deeds." U.S. officials make much of the agricultural and veterinary agents and the agricultural credit system aimed at helping the country people help themselves improve their living. They boast of the establishment of hamlet clinics and g the program. They talk a great deal about the corn -- and -- pig program under which farmers are loaned pigs oi money to get pigs, given instruction and aid to develop a pig population and add to their incomes. But the report "The hamlet has no health Representatives of s such services as agriculture,: veterinary and agricultural credit have never come." "Water is the most critical The must people problem. go to another hamlet to get , drinking water." "People have heard about station.. the . d) porgram for some time, but it has not yet been carried out" They "believe that only famjliesc having landed proper- They ask: "Is. government agricultural credit money only available to property owners? Is, there any way which would permit (ordinary farmers) to borrow money from . this, service?" Fertilizer, however, has been received by some families. The inspection team reports the most urgent requests of the people to their local government are v, . "Dig a well to provide drinking water." "Repair bridge in hamlet." "Build a health station." "Maintain security for the hamlet's- - people." ... Information cadres have nev-e-r. operated in the hamlet. (In is this vacuum the active t propagandists have made hay.) Below-i- s a partial list of Phu Thoi hamlet youths who have Mowed the VC. Nguyen Van Mam, born 1927, joined the VC in 1956; Nguyen Van Nghia and Tran Van Duc,v born 1942, dodged the draft in 1961 to follow the VC; Tran Van Ty and Tran Van Tay, born 1945, taken by the VC right in the hamlet in 1964. This hamlet is typical in one way of another of the majority of hamlets in South Viet Nam. If we are to win this war, it is clear that more effort must 'be put into getting out to the hamlets to insure that farm people learn how to help themselves. , Help yourself plans that lie in Saigon are no help in defeating the Viet Cong in Com-mun- ' Germany. . "West v Germany, Britain and offset our substantially Italy large expenditures for their defense by procurement of military hardware in , the United States. That is not true of France. Our efforts to secure offsetting expenditures have been almost totally unsuccessful. Thus, the (231 million deficit we run with France for the purpose of protecting her is about as debilitating a deficit the country. ontinues: recould possiblyJiave "That isvnyI say the time has come when we must ask whether the free world still Dr. needs these scores of thousands of U. S. servicemen in France, mh - wneuier - tne-- usnouia, st continue to increase its ments deficit for France's gain. Surely the answer to both these crucial quesnons is an empna-tic no.' " to become addicted to aspirin? When the thyroid and Senator Symington charges Q A friend of mine takes 12 or comflatly that both military and parathyroid glands are more a day for arthritis. Could what compremoved "seems De Gaulle economically pletely cause stomach ulcers or treatthis to be making a Jetisbof Lbeing ilations follow? What Tcidney trouble? ment is recommended? never A These glands are A Although "State - owned French radio many people take aspirin daily none are and television networks," says removed completely except for cancer. Removal of too much the Missourian, "now present truly addicted to it. H it were American policies in a distorted habiMorming it would not be thyroid tissue results in prelawful to sell it without a docand unfriendly way, and go to mature aging, apathy and slowgreat lengths to be friendly ing of mental and physical tor's prescription.' Large doses to those nations most opposed activities unless thyroid extract of aspirin may cause bleeding to us and .the West Surely we in carefully regulated doses is from the stomach or the kidney but in persons with some types have a right to ask of General given. of arthritis the tolerance for De Gaulle, 'What will it, gain Removal of too much paratinin this drug is greatly increased results you, or the French people, or tissue hyroid and creased muscular excitability any free people, if you succeed large doses spelled out in your continuing ' economic .with prolonged severe spasms over the day are recommended. What would cause a and political aggression' against of the hands and feet. H. any Q' woman's is left the United States?' " all at tissue periods to stop? I am parathyroid In De Gaulle's effort to create it will grow and the excitability 39 years old. I assumed that a "Europe dominated, by will gradually subside. MeanI was pregnant .but after five months I don't feel any life. France," Symington charges he while, a diet low in calcium A There is still a possibility withIs D vitamin. is deliberately undermining supplement t that you aTeegnantr llfris"-usuall- y iNAiu ana cues numerous in-- neipiui. felt between the 18th stances of that Q Is it possible for a person and 20th week but. this is an average and the first feeling of life may come later. You may also be having an early menopause. You should have your doctor examine you and dis cover the exact cause.- Q-effect would the pro longed use of Cytomel have on me? A The prolonged use of too large a dose of 'liothyronine (Cytomel) may cause headache, nervous excitement, rapid pulse Editor Herald: and excessive sweating. The holding in the ball games. The After watching on television full court press was more efdrug is used chiefly for a UCLA play 'through their last fective against Wichita man ficiency of the thyroid , gland four NCAA games and become but it may be given for other any of the teams playing UCLA conditions. . the second consecutive NCAA in the finals. basketball champions, I'm of 3. Develop precision shooting In water, sound travels at a the opinion that one of these such as Wayne Estes did by years BYU will be able to put practicing basket shooting two speed of about 4,900 feet a sec. on a polish mat will enable , hours per day all year round. ond. them to win some NCAA basket- 'Shorter players than. Estes ball titles! How can BYU attain should develop the push shot RULES , ; " ' , V while shooting from the ; top that polish? Mln-son of the jump in front of t h . 1. Develop some Roland Letters from readers are inand Gail Goodrich types of basket such as Kenny Washingvited. They should be as conton shot over the outstretched dribbling and scoring combinacise as possible, with a limit tions! Goodrich would do better arms of the tallest Wisconsin of 350 words. Letters longer to add the push shot from the defense or practice the Oscar than this must be cut Typetop of the high jump in front Robertson back hand jump shot write if possible, double spaced. of the basket as Minson used' used by Ellis of New Mexico. Letters must carry writer's These suggestions are not. true name to do. and address. Pseuto. be interpreted as derogatory - J. BYU should do some exare not permitted. The donyms in any way to one of the better perimenting in using and buildHerald assumes no responsiBYU basketball teams in the ing better defenses against the bility for statements in the school's history. full court press. BYU and WisMailbag column. The Herald -- Gerald Hemie consin were both playing better , reserves the right to reject oi basketball in the forepart of , 369 N. 1st W., Provo edit letters which are too long their games than was UCLA, not In good taste or potentially The epUoaj and statebut the minute two fresh and libelous. Letters which deal ments UCLA entered the expressed by Herald adept players with church doctrinal subjects columnists are their own lineup (Kenny Washington and or contain statements derogaand de not necessarily re Mike Lynn) and threw on the tory to any religion or creed , full court press, BYU and Wisfleet the views of fills will be rejected. consin lost the leads they were well-diggin- Brandstadt Removal of Key Tissues Causes Serious Trouble pay-Sgain- - - -- gasman w Bag Offers Suggestions To Make Cougars the NCAA Winner What ' , FORUM . v |
