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Show THE PUBLIC PULSE So? Split On India Neutrality By ELMO ROPER AND ASSOCIATES PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, SUNDAY, AUGUST 18, 1957 In a violently partisan world India, a nation that, refuses to choose up sides, can’t help but puzzle people from Misunderstood, Disliked America It is not a new story that America is misunderstood and disliked in some parts of the globe. But it is always somewhat disheartening to learn to what limits these attitudes go in certain countries. Recently the National Broadcasting Companypresented a filmed television pro- ' gram called “As Others See Us,” drawing on interviews with ordinary citizens in many lands around the world. Opinions about America, often striking- ly negative, ranged all over the lot. Most astonishing were those in India. Though India is notorious for hostile attitudes toward America, few can fail to be reveal their difficulty in appraising Inida’s role by their answers to a recent survey question—a three-way split among praise, blame, and bewilderment: The country of India, under Prime Minister Nehru, shocked at the extremes of views revealed. According to NBC reporter Joe has not/formally joined up either with the Western nations is or with h the Communist blo¢. Do you think this “neutralist” policy has had a generally good effeet on world peace and understanding or would you sayits effect has Mi- ‘chaels, many Indians are firmly convinced that the widespread outbreaks of so-called Asiatic influenza are the result of Amer- been more bad than good? Has had a good effect on world peace ... -. 80% ican H-bomb experiments. Such a distortion obviously is the work of the Communist propagandists in Asia. Its effect has been more bad than good ....31 Is really pro-Communist (volunteered) .... 3 Is really pro-western (volunteered) ....... 1 To use it is utterly fantastic. But we cannot laugh off the fact that’ many people Don’t know ............. 0000. e eee eee 35 Clearly, the ways of Easterners are still mysterious to many Americans, and India, at once the oldest and newest of countries, is perhaps the greatest ‘enigma of all. In the old days we felt somewhatalien to the spirituality of the East, and with our sense of urgency for getting things done, we failed to understand the East’s disregard for time andits lack of interest in remaking the face of the earth. We were disturbed byits terrible poverty accept the story as true. Naturally such belief reflects ignorance —hboth of the scientific aspect of the Hbomb experiments and of American attitudes. But, unhappily, it also shows a far too great readiness on the part of the In- Good News A cheerful note ‘thoroughly committed nations like our own. Americans about the nation’s home-building output was sounded recently, by Roy M. Marr,president of the United States Savings and Loan League. He thinks the 18-month decline is nearly over. A good many public figures have blamed the whole drop-off in housing starts on “tight-money” in the mortgagefield and elsewhere. Marr believes that the sha slide in the formation of new families is mainly responsible. He notes that in 1947-50 the average annual gain in new U.S. households was more than 1,500,000. From 1950-53 this slipped to 900,000 annually. In the follow- ing three years it fell to an average of 840,000 a year. Census Bureau studies indicate, however, that this decline in family formations has now been reversed and that an upturn is in progress. If Marr’s theory is accurate, and the figures truly reflect a fresh trend, then one of the wobbly props of the American economy may soon be shored up. And that will be good newsforall of us. dians to believe the worst ‘of the United States. Wecan never be complacent about such and what seemed to us an indifference to the fate of “individual human beings. disfavor. It is well for us to be constantly re-examining not only our policies but our An Unclosed Gap official and general behavior ‘toward the countries we deal with. But in India’s case there is reason to believe that the official attitudes outspokenly expressed by Prime Minister Nehru, Khrishna Menon and other leaders have tended to foster intense dislike of us rather than to encourage real understanding of this country. For all its shortcomings America is not fhe evil place many Indians make it out to be. On the contrary,it is sti] the world’s greatest citadel of freedom, with vast ma- terial and spiritual accomplishment to show the world as the fruits of that lib- erty. It is not only our job but the task of responsible Indian leaders as well to see that the citizens of that populous country gain a true portrait of the nation which, Today all that is changing. Asians are abandoning their attitude of resignation and joining the Western clamor for the good things of life, or at least the things that keep men alive. In India a Western-educated leadership is undertaking an ambitious program of social reform which is penetrating the long-slumbering villages. Recent- NEAService, Joc, ‘THE CHOPPING BLOCK Profit System Is Still Profitable By FRANK G. ROBERTSON always interesting. column Even yet some brash souls still an issue to tell@g how the the Profit System or infamous, Green River doésn’t work. By contention is started over in Green Wyoming. According to that it has never | THE MATURE PARENT By MRS. MURIEL LAWRENCE before I can sit down. But some- How can we expect her to want to heaped beside her. With exasperation, we say, ‘‘Ali worn out, are you? How would you like to be -me? I’m so tired I could hardly crawl upstairs—and I’ve still got vacuuming to do-and lunch to get +7 be anything but a perpetual baby whom other people serve? The answer to the problem of a chore-resisting child is our accept- ance of part of his chore. Right beside our ‘comic-reading daughter we demonstrate our acceptance to responsibility. With- things as lead, Mr. Robertson We've told her we find our adult out any criticism for her at all, we zinc and copper, vital to this part work as_a homemaker intolerably gather up the soiled linen next to of the country. Even the stock unrewarding. her saying, ‘I’ll put these in the market of Wall Street dips lowHow, with this revelation of our hamper for you while you strip er and lower every day. But does that affect profits made by the big resentment of. responsibility, ¢an the other beds.” Today we hear a great deal of corporations? ~- Not on your tinwe expect Norma to want any? talk about making children ‘‘re- type! They have never been so good. Ail you’ve got to do to get sponsible.”” We forget that the root meaning in on them is accumulate a million of the word is ‘‘response.” <A or so dollars, and the profits will RUTH MILLETT SAYS Nice Mother-in-Law “The easiest way in the world for a mother-in-law to win the friendship of her daughter-in-law is to praise her in front of the son.’’ So says one of my women readers. Of course, she’s right. And the praise needn’t be blaring or seem forced. When she is invited to dinner, the mother-in-law can ask for a recipe. That’s just as easy as making a barbed remark like, ‘“‘These are wonderful steaks—but they must have cost an awful lot. When you've kept house as long as I have, you’ll learn ways of using cheaper cuts of meat.’’ When the mother-in-law is shown a new piece of. furniture she will admire it extravagantly, if she wants to be friends. Or she child’s sense of responsibility is his “response” to our attitude toward work. For some curious reason, parents often feel a deep resistance .to the idea of helping children with chores. Their training has somehow left them with the impression that such help is induigent and weak-minded. In this begrudgement of cooperation with Norma, we have the cause of her bad “‘response’’ to cooperation with us. To understand this is t@ be freed into action on these frustrating occasions. of us apparently see India as a moral leader whosepolitical detachment will enable her to play the role of mediator and peacemaker. Others may feel that whoeveris not FOR us is inevitably AGAINST us, and therefore distrust any refusal to decide between the two major power blocs in the world today. For them, India’s attitude is at best a refusal to come to grips with the real issues facing modern nations ing their door bells. no recollection of having written it, I’ve tried to sleep in that town, though it was based on a true and I think Dan left something story rescue of a snowbound man out. Maybe the railroad loco- whose feet had been frozen when motives aren’t as noisy as they he was caught out in a blizzard were when I used to lay over there and had taken refuge in a remote to feed and water the sheep in my deserted homesteader’s cabin. The eare, but I’ll wager they still make rescue was carried out by my doesn’t know what to think. This division is found in Americans of all types. The main difference between college and grammar school- devoted famous, law got River, Dan it began when the night workers in containing one of her husband’s and at worst a lingering sympathy for Communism. But that town couldn’t sleep on ac- stories. Not only did we not have the largest group of all (large even for a question on forcount of peddlers constantly ring- the story in our files, but I have eign affairs) just throws up its hands and admits that it If Mom Gripes, No Wonder Norma Does, Too Our 12-year-old Norma’s Satur- day, Miss Worn Out, you'll have day morning chore is collecting to take responsibility!’’ soiled linen for the laundry. Will Norma take is someday? I can’t imagine why she’d want She performs it slowly and reto. Nor will you if you'll listen luctantly. Often we come on her sprawled again to what we’ve told her. We've told her that grownup reon a stripped bed with a comic, soiled sheets and pillow slips sponsibility is crushing burden. between the Communist and non-Communist world. Some are. The other day I received a copy of an old short story of mine from Jill Haycoz, widow of the late, great Ernest Haycox, which she had run across in a magazine more than any other, demonstrates the contend that promise and the fulfillment of freedom. ly the Indian government sent out an impatient directive requiring holy men to be licensed in order to reduce the vast army of wandering beggars whose unproductivity helps keep India’s standard of living depressed. But receptive as Easterners are to much of the Western spirit, there remains an unclosed gap between our cultures. These figures point that up. We do not find it easy to evaluate India’s attempt to keep aloof from the quarrels educated people is that more college people have an opinion on the subject—81 per cent contrasted with 53 per cent of those who stopped at grade school. Both groups are fairly evenly split. One’s political affiliation has little ef- more noise than all the door bells brothers, Chauncey and Obe, and fect on opinions in this area. Thereis a slight tendency for a couple other men, and I shouldn’t distrust of India to concentrate in big cities, where 35 per in Green River ringing at once. It may not be true in Green have forgotten the story. The title cent think her actions have hindered rather than helped world peace and between 8 and 4 per cent say “neutralism” River, though I strongly suspect was, The Blizzard’s Test. it is, but is certainly true in most towns with Green River laws, that It was a darned good yarn at ing farmers bring their produce to town and selling directly to the consumer, thus cutting into their their profits. It used to be that the fruitgrowers of Utah County, for instance, could take all their cull fruit that the hogs wouldn’t eat over to Price and Helper, or characters say “yuh” and “‘tuh,” and “yore” or editors thought you didn’t know your stuff. Editors are just as foolish these days, but in a different way. One editor those days was dead against profanity in his pages. He always changed the words hell and The odd thing about it is that India’s attitude is so like our ownisolationist attitude of just twenty years ago. At that time, perhaps for somewhat different reasons, we to sell religious: propoganda that: about to. kill. world, buf only the violence of the storm awoke us. Only the future will tell whether India’s position is that, but oh, so crudely written. the realeréason fo. the ordinance Those were the days when a writis that the merchants resented hav- er of Westerns had to make his is just a cover fo ra pro-Communist policy. Shelter Against The Rain also wished to avoid a commitment to the outside world at almost any cost. Even when our sympathies Were arous- ed; when we saw the ruthless encroachments of Fascists and Nazi power, we said it was none of our business and roll in. turned our attention the other way. We clung to the idea Over in France they have de- down to Richfield and Salina and damn to a dash, which was still that Europe’s quarrels were not ours. We were deeply atpreferable to the others who valued the franc. People with peddle it for a good price. Now changed the words to heck and tracted to the dream of uninvolvement, a dream which dollars will get more francs, and this Green River business ‘has darn. Imagine Wyatt Earp or promised us shelter against the rain of destruction that people with francs will get fewer spoiled a good thing. They still haven’t been able to Wild Bill Hickok saying, ‘Darn ultimately came as World WarII. Our dream was wrenchdollars. The tourists will see more you to heck,” to a gunman he was ed from us, and today we are deeply involved all over the for less, and the wealthy French stop people punching door bells men will earn more profits, and the only losers will be “‘the poor people of Paree’’, and the peasants. Any time a nation’s currency is monkeyed with somebody makes understand. tracts, and the goes with it, I Personally, I could wish it was reversed. rid I can get of itinerant. salesmen in a Qs and As equally unrealistic or whether her flexibility will enable her to-be a positive force for peace. In the meantime, Americans of kinds, perhaps with some yet unresolved Eisenhower's hurry, but courtesy demands that Q—How many chemical ee? tight money policy is making it I listen to the misisonaries, and tougher for American families to the price of boredom is almost too buy homes, but the money lenders much to pay. I must admit there the 10th and newest are exceptions even to this. A ment of the atomic age—has been are reaping a golden harvest. can make the mistake so many mothers-inlaw make by saying: So, you*see, the Profit System couple of Jehovah's Witnesses were announced. The new element has “I’ve never cared for modern furniture myself—but I guess it is STOP THIEF! really works. Every time some- among the most interesting pgople what most young people like.” PROVINCETOWN, Mass. (UP) thing happens to make the poor I’ve met lately. We talked about EASY TO BE NICE It’s easy for the mother-in-law to repeat compliments she has‘ —Mrs. Julia McLean was walking poorer, the rich get richer, add most everything, except religion. ee # heard about her daughter-in-law. And if she is wise enough to along a street when a big Airedale everything is in perfect balance. ** Every now and then I am rerepeat them when her son is around, she is sure to leave her grabbed her handbag and ran Q—How close to the South Pole away. The bag was. found not far My friend, Dan Valentine, in his minded how thoughful some people did the explorer Sir Ernest daughter-in-law feeling appreciated. By WILLIAM BRADY, M.D. racketeers to It is just as easy to repeat a compliment as to relay a criticism. from the scene, but a wallet and a Shackleton get in 1909? A professional man (not a phy- sex ignorant. A mother-in-law can either give her daughter-in-law a build-up change purse containing a total of A—Within 97 miles. Storms and Middle-aged sician) gave my morale a boost or tear: her down. a food shortage forced the party $12 were missing. They were later money out of it. doubts about our own relations with the outside world, (Copyright, 1957, John F. Dille Gompany) DR. BRADY'S COLUMN So Steeped In Fishwife Lore- It may be only human for a mother-in-law to want to show her found in the yard of the dog’s ownson that Mama is still the smartest woman in his life . er, with contents intact. 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He may send in for a report Tak dressed Our fielders weren't fielding, our Q—“I have met a man who has hitters weren’t hitting and our pitchers weren't pitching. —Lou Boudreau, fired as manager of the Kansas City Athletics. ¢ and self-adask in enough to protect other children ees Highlights (of his tour of Europe in the neighborhood? (S:G.) and Africa)? Perhaps you’d like grown children. Ans.—Generally ‘not’ less than A—What of? Your children, your to see my forehead. four weeks isolation is required, That so many young women —Adiai Stevenson, to New York dread the menopause as a ‘“‘criti- Convalescents with such sequels Teporter’s query, s asrhinitis, sinusitis, cal period” and ‘call it ‘change of life” is I'm very grateful to be able to visit Russia at last. } fever —Eleanor Roosevelt, the quacks, nostrum mongers, and spread the disease months granted visa. =~ after the fever is over. ~_ trick specialists, and ‘“‘clinic” se 8 (Copyright 1957, John: F. again, but I am afraid.”—W.J.F. eyes of buzzards waiting for death “ 4 o ee ar re ea part aerate; stamped, envelope writing, signed, for pamphlet on Chronic Running Ear. Scarlet Fever Doctor told mother of two children with scarlet fever just to keep them away from other children. for two weeks. Is this ik up water holes with the covetous to us. 2 AR functional or laboratory your physician considers Ans.—Send So They Say *¢+¢8 to finally come 20 that they might aS west or not so efficient or not so cheerful as you should be, no Chronic Running Ear Please print again your formula for running ear. (C.J.A.) ans) hovers over Arizona’s dried “Goodness, you're not old—just mature!” or fear that you are not so well necessary. ‘ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS This group (southern Californi- U.S. Pat. © 1907 brtWth Serica toa. rather not say any more about these manifestations at present,except this: If or when you find ever. tests oil He the published by the U. S. Department of Commerce and other agencies. bend too far backward, but I'd matter whether you’re 35, 45 or For 48 years he ‘I wants to -vork for only one more listed also They stand ready to help large dreams,” he explains. rou wee ae concerning de- want to start a business of my company: he’li be the boss and very paper Community “Name Phone own, but have not yet decided] he’ll own the company. Or else he \ Fork Mac oeeeapts) 3563 what sort of business. My avail- won’t work at ali. generation, which manifests itself in various ways. Maybe I 55, don’t mess around, report to your physician for a health ex-amination—not a “check-up” but a physical examination and what- Mr. C. went to work when he Checklist, a weekly four-page leaf- was 17 yelrs old. let published by the U. S. Depart- he worked for a boss—in the ment of Commerce, Washington, fields im Texas and Louisiana. D.C. wants only one more boss for “This has led a little man into rest of his life, he says, and men and women alike are subject to physical de- as aot ng es ne ay SE . Dille Co.) : ¥ But if she is really smart, the mother-in-law will try to keep her son sold on the idea that he married the smartest, most charming worgan in the world. TIMES keep the credulous —Sen. Barry “M. Goldwater (R- Asiz.), im woter dispute, Average yield Angora more ounces a year. |