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Show But With Wheels Hed Be Terrific He's Good Opinions On Tariffs Change With the Times! FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1957 PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, Senator Expense Washingt on Notebook - Silly By PETER EDSON NEA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NEA) American public opinion has changed noticeably on the higli tariff vs. low tariff issue during the 23 years that the reciprocal trade agree ments program has been in effect. Formerly, New .England and the whole industrial northeast north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi were high tariff areas, seeking protection for their Situation the fact that as the law reads there is really no sensible way to return it. The law evidently makes it mandatory for the senator to receive the money whether he has need of it or not. Since this is an expense allowance, to make acceptance mandatory seems absurd. By their nature expense accounts are generally flexible, though there is sense in fixing a maximum limit. What puzzles the onlooker is why a man must be compelled to take the maximum. Tax experts say Williams can get the money back to the Treasury in one of two ways. First, he can write a check to the government for the full amount of his savings, and list it on his income tax return as a charitable contribution. Second, he could write the check as a regular gift, deducting in advance enough to pay any necessary gift tax on the sum. If none is due, he would still perhaps hold out enough to pay the normal income tax on the amount, for the allowance is taxable as income to the senator. Obviously, both of these schemes are foolish makeshifts which do not disguise the fact that Williams MUST take the The troubles of Delaware's Senator Williams in trying: to turn back $1,508.26 he saved from his stationery allowance seem to demonstrate how thoroughly cumbersome government can get. Treasury Secretary Humphrey's insistence that the government would indeed be glad to get the money doesn't obscure Foreign Aid Pays Its Way There isn't a shadow of a doubt that Congress means to hack off a sizable, chunk of President Eisenhower's foreign aid requests fo rthe coming year. And the voices raised in defense of the full sum do not appear too strong. Nevertheless, it shouldn't be imagined that because a tight program seems both inevitable and wise there is factual support for those who regard foreign assistance efforts as total loss or waste. All aside from the many tangible and intangible benefits aid program has produced in the shape of stouter, healthier friends abroad, the fact is that we get is money in return. Not perhaps all that we all nor that promised at certain stages, would like. But payment, nevertheless. In the calendar year 1956, according to the Commerce Department, various foreign governments paid the United States 700 million doyars toward the liquidation of their debts. This was th ethird successive year foreign countries had made reductions in-in their debts to us, and the record thus dicates substantial good faith in their fiscal relations with America. Prospects are that payments in 1957 may come to nearly one billion dollars. manufactures. It was the raw material producing South and West with surplus cotton and wheat to export that favored freer trade and lower tariffs. Now, with many textile mills migrating from New England to the South and with manufacturing industries spread all over the United States, this situation is beintf reversed. The South is under increasing pressure to protect its infant industries from foreign competition. And the industrial Northeast, led by auto and machinery manufacturers, looks more to the export market through freer trade and lower tariff on consumer imports. THIS WAS SHOWN dramatically in two key votes in the House of Representatives on renewal of the reciprocal trade agreements program. Seven Republicans voted for it in 1055. Sixty-fiv- e voted for it in 1956. But 36 Demo-craf- ts shifted from support of the program in 1955 to opT money in the first place. In any sensible world, he ought to be allowed to refuse the money in advance if he finds he doesn't need it. Or, if he's already received it but then discovers it's unneeded, he should be able to write a check returning the money as if he'd position in 1956. A recent New England Council survey showed 63 cent of its member companies, mostly manufacturers, per in favor Of freer trade and lower tariffs. Last year's U. S. Chamber of Commerce vote showed 64 per cent in favor of lower tariffs. A 67 per cent vote would have changed its traditional 4ft NEA high tariff policy. Srrc. foe. Copyright 1956 by Kendall Fofer Crossen. Distributed by NEA Service, tn. three principal lobbies operating in this field. Two oppose reciprocal trade agreements, one sup- mi HUT never had it at all. A government that professes to be eager to save money certainly can find better ways than we how seem to have to encourage those who want to do their share in saving. The Williams episode makes the government look more than a little childish. That change might come at this year's meeting. There are By M. E ports them. Committee for a National Trade Policy favors the trade agreements program. It is working now to secure congressional approval of U.S. membership in the proposed Organization for Trade Cooperation (OTC) in which trade agreements could be negotiated with 34 other principal trading nations of the free world. NTP's chairman it CHABER Sidney A. Swensrud of Gulf Oil Co., Pittsburgh. THE TWO ANTI-OTlobbies are American Tariff League, whose executive secretary is Richard H. Anthony of New York; and the Committee on Export-ImpoPolicy, whose Washington representative is O. R. Strackbein. v The Tariff League represents U. S. manufactured bucking competition from foreign imports. Committee on Export-Impoa front Policy for American worker whose jobs are saidpresents to be endangered by competition from foreign workers producing goods for U. S. import. One new strategy of the opposition lobby is now apparent; Instead of concentrating their fight against lowered tariffs, they are proposing that more quotas be set to limit imports of goods like plywood, steel screws and textiles competing with American products; Quovta limitations of course create administrative headaches for customs officials. many And in the long can have a more run, C It is not a usual situation. What I am doing in talking to you upholding a little of what I believe the police are and should be." "I understand," I told him. THE STORY: Mik March, is THAT SO! insurance investigator who is - in Rome looking- into a $20,000 double indemnity claim of Anna Maria Pericoloso, has managed to contact Piero Roecia, the Italian detective who handled the case which may have been murder. Stalk of Corn Lifts 500 Pounds of Water By EUGENE BURNS and even to the top of our highest redwood, 364 feet, seems nothing short of a miracle. Besides, the amount of sap raised each day is fantastic really. In just one dear hot day, in spring, an ordinary ekn will transpire through its leaves about 1,500 pounds that's three quarters of a 300 Ranger Naturalist WITH the warming weather, sap fe moving freely again, up and down the stem of the tree. But Just how a pi acid seeming tree, without hurry, fret or strain can lift great amounts of ap, year in and year -- out, to heights of 50 feet, 100, 200, RUTH MILLETT SAYS Don't Shout Teen-Ager- s' ton of sap a day. During its brief growing season, a single stock of corn will lift close to 500 pounds of water. A sizeable oak, "110 tons. Where does ail this power come from which can lift sap to the top of the highest living redwood, the Founder's tree of northern Cali fornia, with the same efficiency as a strawberry plant raising sap two inches above ground? I have put this difficult question to many naturalists but the most lucid answer came from Rutherford Piatt, who put together three books which I prize, This Green World, Our Flowering World, and most recently, the River of Life (Simon and Schuster, N. Y.). I recommend these without reservation. Piatt told me that this great force which lifts tons of sap hundreds of feet relies upon the "hanging-together-nespower Inherent within sap. "From roots to tiptops," he explained, "runs an unbroken 'rope' of water woven out of many threads. In fact, thousands upon was "I'm glad I reared my family before the word 'teen-a-ge- r' ver dreamed up," says a mother whose ohdfcLren are grown. Her grandchildren are no longer Just members of families bat have suddenly entered a world of their own the world of idea is that in lumping all adolescents toThis "teen-agerswe've encouraged them to live hi this gether as isolated world. Not only that, but we've buiit up unnecessary resentment among teen-ageagainst the adutt world by the loose way m which we use the erm. A gang of irresponsible, destructive hoodlums slash tires and break windshields or beat up some kid who doesn't belong to their gang and, because the members of the gang are under 20,s. we don't and hoodlums. We call them call them art--a leek gets behind the wheel of a car and endangers thousands of tiny ropes: every A am lives and, because he is 17 or 18 years old, we don't label him a single twig, bud, and leaf is connected with the roots by these reckless driver. Our disgust k summed up in the words, "teen-ag- e self-saropes. On the top of .driver." these threads, there is a great pull STOP GENERALIZING due to evaporation out of the Instead of wondering what's the matter Avitfa parents who let leaves which pulls up more water their adolescent children roam the streets most of the night and on these continuous tiny ropes." never bother to find out where they are, we wonder out loud what Certainly, not every tube is full "teen-agerare coming to. of water but enough are, he said, That's the kind of talk our adolescents hear day in and day out. to keep the lines unbroken. So is it surprising that they feel shut off in a world of their own When leaves fall in winter and and that adults have no part in it and no understanding of it? the pull at the top of the rope when we aren't stops, he explained, the fineness of Why don't we at least drop the word "teen-agein but hoodlums? about young young people general, the tubes tends to hold the water talking name Let's start calling our young their by any by capillary attraction. crimes warrant thieves, robbers, reckless drivers, or whatever, "What is the holding-togethwhen they defy law ness strength of sap?" I asked instead of referring to them as teen-ageand order. "How high can it pull up sap with It "might help a lot to erase the idea that we adults have a low out breaking?" in general. opinion of teen-ageHe replied that sap has the amazing cohesive SIDE GLANCES GALBRAITH strength of 2,250 pounds to the By square inch. Multiplied this means that the strength is sufficient to lift sap not only to the top of a tree which is 364 feet tall but to 4,950 feet. Just short of a mile! So far no tree has put Piatt to the full test. But even 364 of a mile isn't bad. 1957, (Copyright, by Eugene Burns). (Released by McOhire News paper Syndicate) teen-ager- s. grand-mother'- s ," s" rs teen-ager- law-breake- rs me s" r" law-break- ers er rs rs stick-togeth- er V ROCCIA stared at me search- ingly. "Sdgnor March, what is your interest in the- death of the - girl?" "She was insured by the com pany for which I work," I said. "If her death was accidental, they have to pay double." "That is your company," he said. "What about you?" "I work for them," I said. "I know very little about the case at this point. I started out with nothing to make me think that the death was not accidental ex cept vague rumors. I must confess that every minute I'm in Rome makes me more certain that there was nothing accidental in the girl's death." "May I ask why you think melted in the sand. I did not find a taxi driver who had been summoned. I was never able to find any of her clothes. Although it is not in the report, the doctor told me that she had been under the influence of drugs when she an are said. "You he died. There was no autopsy, but "AH," American and as such you have if there had been I think it few rights in my country in re- would have proved an overdose gard to the work you wish to do. of drugs. I can swear to you that II you persist, you may not only she had not been in the water be told by important Italians, that night and there was no wayou may even get orders from ter in her lungs when I saw her your own Embassy. You may body still on the beach where find yourself arrested and in jail. it was found." You may find someone trying to "What about the rumors?" kill you. All of these things may He shrugged. "I can tell you happen to you if you say out this. South of Ostia, about 20 loud that one unimportant girl miles, is Tor Vaianica. Just outdied because someone wished side of this village is the country estate of Baron Mario Gambero. her to die." I laughted. "Piero, I've been For 30 years Baron Gambero has around a long time. You can't been a tax dodger, an opportuwork in insurance cases with- nist, and the friend of the im- "Mostly the threats treatment by the police. I confess for this. There are things which that there are also two questions make men what they are. Many I'd like answered. One, how did Italians were opposed to the rule the girl get to the beach and what happened to her means of transportation? Two, what happened to her clothes if she just went in for an innocent swim?" He nodded thoughtfully and accepted one of my cigarets. "I investigated the death of Anna he said. MariathePericoloso," I was sure "From beginning With was murdered. that she each step I became more certain and when the case closed I was positive. This is why I am coming to you over my superiors' heads." "Why?" I asked. "I have been with the police since the end of the war, signore, and I am proud of it. I am aware of what this afternoon has made you think. I hope you will not judge the Italian police by this. Daily Herald Correspondents in the ranoui communities of Utah Her art Herald itaft correspondent! Contact them if you have County. news. District circulation agents are feet-1-1listed also They stand" ready to help prcblems concerning Sou with of the oaper Phone Name Community 0173-R- 1 Alpine. Lo.na Devey American Fork Dena Grant 100W Am. rk. Duane Durranf. (cir.) 508W 0119R3 Benjamin Mrs. J R. Petty Edgemont. Tana Richards lR Goshen Elberta Marguerite Water bury ) FREE: By arrangement Highland. 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We put our women on a pedestal, yet in the spring we see: nothing wrong in helping ourselves to a small pinch. Even politics do not change certain things. The little pinch, the bold, remark, under the right circumstances is the right thing. But were you to kiss a girl in public, the Good Custom Squad would arrest you and you would be fined 300 lire." "Forty-eigcents," I said. "Might be worth it." ht je 30-vo- 5-3- 92 J rt low-wa- ge HE sighed, heavily. we should get to work." "I suppose so," I admitted. "What can you tell me?" "Not much that you don't know or have not guessed," he said. "I do not know how Anna Maria Pericoloso reached Ostia. If she drove herself, then her car " BEST for LAWNS Went Bvrn rfte Compl Qs and As tucky Derby horse race held? A In 1875, at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky. Aristides was the winner. What kind of tree is the cabbage palm? A This is a common name for the palmetto palm of the Southeastern United States. 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The towel was mailed to manager Walter Hamby, with this note of apology: "I am ashamed that I took it, and hope you will forgive me Jar what I've done. I I I i a Tfce opinions exprecaed by Herald eoramnists and fonun writers are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of this newspaper. w Your Favorite AG STORI . You all know that I am not TRENTON, N.J. (UP) Thiokol looking forward to a stay as Chemical Co. said not I am forand today its net king looking ward to stay here (in Amman) income for, the first quarter of if either is against the good of 1957 amounted to $298,505 compared with a first quarter total the country. Venetian glassmakers. If in This kills my lifelong ambition blowing, the slightest flaw was detected, the bottle was turned to be a cop. I was taking a into a common flask called a course in police .science in fiasco. Brooklyn College. William Ravenel, 18, after be-- 1 Q What is the westernmost ing sentenced up to five years point of the United States? for mugging attack on BrookA Cape Alva, Wash. lyn, N. Y., woman. Saves Water Plant to in 1956. In this same period, the reciprocal trade agreements have been whittled down so that the percentage of dutiable imports has risen from 33 to 52 per cent. For the first time in 47 years, duties were collected on mope U. S. imports than were admitted free of Dutiable imports have risen in value from one to duty. six billion dollars 12 the in last years. of Q Does the Basenji dog Total U. S. imports have risen from five to 12 billion Africa make any sound? A B a s e n j i s cannot bark dollars while total U. S. exports have risen in value from though they can make a whining 10 to 19 billion dollars. So today, more U. S. jobs depend on sound. for than on American production of goodsproduction export which are in KenQ When was the first competition with imports from abroad. HOW TRUE! ROSE LAND, N. "Perhaps W us i they restrictive effect against' imthan ports any reciprocal trade agreements. SEVERAL IMPORTANT FACTS about the changing pattern of U. S. import and export statistics are generally overlooked in connection with this whole subject of foreign trade. Since the end of World War II, in spite of the recipwas an He out frequently ruffling important portant. important rocal betrade. agreements program. U. S. customs duties he the war, people. I've been ordered out of Fascist. During of Fasan collected on imports have more than doubled. They have enemy places. I've been arrested. I've friended many in men power risen from 354 million dollars in 1945 to 705 million dollar been shot at. It's a job and I'm cism. There are a stubborn man." today who owe their lives He smiled, his teeth flashing him." (To Be Continued) whitely in the dark face. "Milo, "We will he said. work amico," and the well together. I have a feeling this?" rt , f ,,"V Mi.. 135 E. 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