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Show y 5-4-5 rii-E;'-' ideai from other editor From the Tallassee Tribune, Tallassee. Alabama: "The State Department told us nobody would make a profit. I took the Job at an absolute minimum. It was worth it, because the trip fostered good relations. I was a patriot to do it." Those are the immortal words of , a character named John (Dizzy) -Gillespie, whom the United States government paid $100,839 to take his troupe of sixteen musicians on so-called good-will mission to Middle Eastern and Balkpn countries coun-tries last year. This self-styled "patriot" picked up $2,150 a week out of the deal, or $227 a week more than the ' President of the United States receives re-ceives for his services. It was later reported th.it the State Department gave this character a $40,000 sub-sidy sub-sidy to tour South America. 1 This newspaper enthusiastically , supported President Eisenhower in 1052. specifically because we were fed up with Roosevelt and Truman throwing money to the four winds. ,We voted for the President again in 1958, less enthusiastically to be . sure, but in the main because we . felt he had done a creditable Job . and . because we could not enter-. enter-. tain the thought of having a junior grade George Gobel In the White House. But If the President, with a straight face, can eloquently plead that the nation's schools are In peril unless a huge building program pro-gram is started and on the other hand sanction Secretary Dulles throwing our tax money down a rat hole like the Gillespie project, we have had It. . And if modern-day patriots come at $2,150 a week, we say the price Is too high. Let's give it back to the Indians. From the Granite State News, Wolfe voro, New Hampshire: It Is very fair to ask If the American buying public does not value power pow-er and style and color and speed more than safety. The merchandising of automobiles automo-biles is the greatest and hardest and most frightening Job in the business world when the final decisions deci-sions are made. An error In Judgment Judg-ment and a model does aot sell well and production lags .and millions mil-lions and millions are lost. ' The men behind automobile design de-sign research public opinion as much as is humanly possibla to find out just what the great American Amer-ican buying public, North and South, East and West, really wants to purchase J We assume that the men In the wrecking business know as much about crashes as any ont. That is their specialty. And they vote fur belts and paUJeU dashbo-uUi- |