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Show I "Mind if Sit Here? I - Disgraceful Orgy 'I I! Petbate On Veterans' newspaper devoted to the progress and advancement ol Central Utah and its people The only-dail- y Shows Political , Clap-Tra- p y By HOLMES ALEXANDER . io WASHINGTON, D.C. care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan . LincohVs wonderful words' from his Second Inaugural Address stand embossed in silvery steel upon a background of Icy blue against the Vermont Avenue wall of the Veterans Administration building. 1 see them often as I e' walk to work In a. effort to save my figure. I am one who cannot read such masters as n c o 1 n, Shakespeare ""and Churchill without an involuntary lump in the throat. But the wonderful words and the beautiful thoughts behind, them hive been desecrated by tht racket known as Veterans Benefits. Lincoln was soon 'to die after entering his second term. Over hit grave would gallop, among others, the scrawny horseman of Political Greed. Politicians began to buy the veterans' votes, with tawdry gifts from the Federal till, and to practice ghoulish and fake patriotism for the sake of public plunder. The disgraceful orgy has. become a national habit. It was the other, day, I'm sorry to say,irby the 86th Senate in passing the Veterans Readjust? ment Assistance Act of v1959. No debate at this sessional think, showed a greater range of polition one side, common cal clap-tra- p on sense the other, and woolly confusion in between.; Clap-traSpeaking for himself of the bill" and 25 (S. 1138), Yarborough of , Texas explained that he was undertakn or ing to provide Cold War 'veterans ) with aids somewhat equivalent to those "who shall have borne the battle" in World War II and Korea. The heart of the measure was Federal grants (not loans) so that service persons could get free college education r vocational training. g debate,'; Throughout the was sustained Yarborough by eol- who gave incredibly torleagues tured reasons for daring to support this approximately $500 million a year monstrosity. t was set forth with a straight face that (a) there 's no difference between wartime and peacetime soldiering, (b) the way to enrich the nation is to purchase wholesale education in order to. create more taxable wealth (actually it will create, mainly, more bureaucrats to administer the law and to collect the .taxes) , (c) It is fitting for children and grandchildren, by assunpng" a greater National Debt, toHput paw and fnaw .through college,' (d) grants are better .than loans because everybody will take the first whether he's in need or not,' (e) . .. Beautifu I City, Bu-tProvo,Aeautiul W Ana cit, to 'tell likes; is 2. Parkways in homes, public property and busi-- , ness houses which are traps for weeds, trash, and 3.. Poorly-kep- t front, "side and rear yards which look more like every Joyal Provoan the world about it. But it isn't as beautiful as it could and should be not by a Ion? shot. There are too many eyesores . . . too many ugly spots which1 tear down the over-a- ll impression of the city, both to its residents and to tourists. You don't have to travel far to Chances are glimpse there is one 'or more on your own block. of them exist share 'The biggest only because the; property owners .or renters lack the personal and civic pride to 'spend a little effort on cleanup and, beautification. , Take a drive about the city 'and'' .you'll see what! we mean. You lwon't need a guide to lead you to such spots, as these : 1. Weed-grow- n vacant lots. -- i " , ? , - Unemployed vs. Unemployable ' y ' 1. - , J ' ; . ' , ' bulk The of the chronically un- employed are nonwhites. And. for the most part the individuals in this hard core are unskilled work-- . ers, traditionally the last to be hired, usually left by the wayside 'in all but .the great booms, Congress has not yet been able to manage effective aid to distress- ,ea regions. J3uc any program wouia seem! limited in promise which did , -- - . J . t . VTT not contain plans fort lifting these people out of their, unskilled status. In this increasingly mechanized age,, to be unskilled may mean not only being unemployed but being .. unemployable. Jy-ke- pt terially depreciate the actual value of an entire neighborhood. Thus, it becomes a matter of economics as well as civic pride to '' keep your property up. provo City has an ordinance with a provision whereby owners canbe required to clean up eyesore premises, if they refuse , the city can hire the job done and make the cost a lien on the property. Perhaps this should be resorted to in extreme cases. But wouldn't it " be a fine thing if everyone would proceed on his own, accepting theesponsibility of .good citizenship and taking personal pride in a job well done. It isn't too late to 'start, in these days, to launch a cleanup ;and beautification campaign in your own neighborhood. Let's all join the effort and REALLY have a beautiful Cty! r mid-summ- er ' . . -- . 'A Washington Lo Wd o w n Labor f Bill Would Aid Racketeering By PETER EDSON r NEA Washington Correspondent Most bitter WASHINGTON (NE A) : critic of the new labor bill just reported by committee to "the House of Rrepresen-tative- s is naturally Sen. Barry 'Gold-wate- r. I .:':' Republican I'k'. ' ,: ,, The Arizona has long been union leaders as antilabor, tagged by though he says he isn't. Labor, political action groups tried to . defeat him for last year! but didn't. He was, however, the! only Senator with nerve enough to vote against the Kennedy-Ervi- n labor bill which passed the Senate last April. 90 to 1. THE ORIGINAL DRAFT OF THAT BILL, says Senator Goldwater, wasn't so bad. If jt was labeled a "Labor union I : - re-electi- .Fund Reporting Bill'' it would quit Provisions for expulsion of union officials found 'guilty of misconduct or of violating union constitutions and bylaws are also knocked out. Union officials would be given unlimited power over union funds as long as they comply with union constitutions and bylaws on which there are ho restrictions. Senator McClfcllan's "bill of rights" to protect union members from exploitation even though it was watered down by - is almost Senator Kuchel completely eliminated by House revisions. Union members' rights to freedom of speech, to sue union officials without being" punished and to be' given duel process protection where subjected to union discipline would be restricted to provisions in union rules: Employers would be prohibited from helping an employe, financially or'other-wis-e, in a suit against a union or one of" its officials. Senate restrictions on economic strikers voting in JLRB supervised elections are removed in the House bill. Secondary boycotts in the building and construction industry some of which ar now Unlawful would ;be legalized, upsetting Supreme Court decisions. Senate bill provisions outlawing "hot cargo" contracts now imposed in some parts of the trucking industry would b watered down by House amendments. Thus, labor practices which Senator Goldwater says have been used extensively in racketeering would be encouraged by the House bill instead of . ; r (R-Cali- t the the people back home who thinkl that done about Mc- -' something oug'ht tofbe ' Clellan Committee disclosures on jrack--i eteeririg and corruption. But in passing the Kennedy-Ervi- n bill, 65 Senate' on amendments tacked jthe which weakenedtit. !Now the House'Labor ' Committee has comtj along with 104 more amendments. They further water down Seriate bill. the skim-mil- k To approve the House bill would be worse than passing no bill at all, says Gfoldwater. If it should pass, he' would ' recommend that! the President veto it. "Judging by President Eisenhower's last press conference .statement in favor of ; "a bill that would curb abuses brought, out! by the McClellan Committee," that is what will probably happen. "The House bill wouldn't prevent Jim-- , my Hoffa from doing a single thing he, has been doing,"" says Gfoldwater. "So it's up to Congress to invent: one he . j . . " . ' . can't violate." So They Say I think the school board recognized that the city would die without its school. Bates, president of the Arkansas chapter of NAACP, approving Little Rock's plans to reopen its L. have been thrown out by the House Labor Committee. Among the more important are: Sixty per cent of all U.S. unions principally the smaller "paper" locals-wo- uld . C. high schools. v be exempted from having to report their financial operations. The Secretary of Labor's power to investigate violations of the bill would b , greatly diminished, . Members' dues could be used to defend union officials charged with corruption, although union funds could not be used tr pay fines on conviction. The provision that rival candidates for, union office could have tellers' at ballot countings is knocked out. N EA Service, ?n. Assignment: Washington , ; We made a pact when we got married I was to make all the big decisions, and my wife to make all jthe little decisions. So far it has worked, out well. No big decisions have come up. Actor William Bendix's formula for a happy marriage. v Let me assure you that ' , I am not crying and Space Administration boss; pleads with Congress for restoration of budget cuts. By ED KOTERBA WASHINGTON Representative Fred Schwengel of Iowa, who moves like a man pulling a plow strapped to his big shoulders, only faster, returns on week ends to Capitol Hill to plow into places likely to conceal old history. Instead of golfing or partying, that's how the lawmaker spends his spare time 'digging around in the dark dungeons of the Capitol Library of Congress. And because of Schwengel's hunger for history, he has uncovered another link in my crusade to find the doggone missing cornerstone which George Washington laid in 1793. It was only a week ago that we made the . horrifying discovery that the wall in which the cornerstone was . originally placed had been missing, itself, for 175 years. The original wall, "historical documents disclosed last week, was replaced in 1794 by a frustrate ed architect whose own plans for the original Capitol had been rejected. So the question then came up: When the cornerstone wall wps ripped out, what happened to George's stoned Now, Schwengel has come up with the answer. It's a partial answer, but it's exciting enough to. lead me to think that this most historical momento of our country's heritage may, at last, be then still around. The article described the ceremony in full,, ex- .found. , The lawmaker found the clue in a clipping of the Washington Daily National Intelligencer of Wednes- day, August 26, 1818, headlined, the Corner Stone." "Relaying-o- f The article told how the stone was reset two days before, the day that work was started on the center section of the building which had been destroyed by the British four, years before. The story thus confirmed the fact that the famous stone was -- Herald Correspondents Her are Herald Itaff correspondent in the various communitie of Utah County. Contact them if you have newi. District circulation agenti are listed also- They stand ready to help problems concernini Sou with of the paper. Phone Name Community - ....... ......... .018B-- R Marlene Avery American Fork 100-W Dena Grant 199-- J Karma Criddle American Fork (Circ). IS Jennie Gilbert PI. Gr. SU Benjamin , Mrs. J. R. Peay ..... 0119-R- 3 Edgemont N. Bendlxsen PR Laura . Goshen. Elberta Marguerite Waterbury . m: Lake Shore Alba J. Anderson . . . 0410-J- 1 Lake View. , Vineyard AC Mrs. Kent A. Prue v Lehi 1W. Edna Loveridge , Lehi, (Circ.)WUli J.55-Paul Lindon Velma Walker Mapleton Mrs. Preston Hooper HXJ Nephi .471-Mrs. Grace Judd Mr. and Mrs. Lee Bailey ., 21 Orem Carma Andersen ... AC Orem. (Circ.) AC Karl Wood AC Orem Office Palmyra .0311-R- 3 Shirlene Otjesen Payson 223-- J Madollne Dixon ' 327 Amber Jackman Pleasant Grove y Marilynn Potter . . .SU 4382 Guy Hillman, sports Pleasant Grove (Circ.) Jennie Gilbert .... SU Pleasant View Yvonne Perry ..... . .FR Salem' Margrette Taylor .... .0107-R- 1 Santaquin . .". ... 9902 Estella Peterson Fork Spanish 988-, Frank G. King 297 Virginia Evans, society,.. Fork (Circ.) Spanish ' B. Davis Evan 297 Spring Lake' 0303-J- 2 . Tressa Lyman Springville ' HTJ .Josephine Zimmerman HTJ Evelyn Boyer, society West Mountain ..0100-J- 5 Hvera Bishop 5-- 32 4-0- 4-3- The digging Congressman says he earlier come across an old historical paper in the Library of Congress stating that a cornerstone was placed here, but at the time he didnt attach any significance to it. Now he's searching the ar- chives again for that- document. When he finds it, you can be sure this human bloodhound will be down there some week end probing under the spooky, empty tomb of "President Washington. One newspaper, Capitol Hill's weekly Roll Call, has offered a 4100 rewardf for information lead ing to that' missing, cornerstone. I'm puttiig my chips on that Congressional sleuth from Iowa," name of Schwengel. cept for one thing: The reporter to say where the stone was placed. But our historical investigator thinks he has pinpointed the , new location. The stone, Schwengel be--' lieves, is in dead,, center of the. Capitol in a most logical place: directly under the empty basement crypt of George and Martha Washington. The tomb has been reserved for the first President and his wife for nearly 150 years, yet it's one of the few places where George Washington hadn't slept. And few persons are aware that it's still who covered the event forgot an there. - i J o ; i Your Fomily Doctor Eating Too Much Is The Real Problem of Obesity By EDWIN P. JORDAN, M.D. Written for NEA Service boy asks for the to lose best way weight". "I have, tried diets," he says, "but cannot stay on them. Should I see a doctor and have him give me pills?" A , The Another of a chubbly daugh-- ; ter wants a discussion of;obesity in adolescence. "My daughter," she says, ''hates certain relatives who tell her how fat she is. I wish you would mention this 'so that these children won't be led to tears by their elders." These, and other letters like them raise the question of overweight in boys and girls in their teens. This common complaint cannot be solved with ease. In youngsters, as in grownups, almost all cases of carrying excess fat Is simply a sign of eating too much. Rarely is obesity th result of some glandular disorder or other physical disability. Al- most always t can be remedied only by reducing the quantity of foods in the diet. The real question 'in most instances is why the youngster eats too much. The emotions are usually involved. In some youngsters it may bm a symbol of independence or rebellion againstj authority. In some it may help the youngster to avoid physical competition with others either in the sport world or social fat-formi- ng . ly. It serves as a kind of excuse.' At a meeting of the American Medical Association, a Columbia J University professor of psychiatry reported studies over 20 years which show a high correlation between a congenial family environment and a favorable outcome of a child's obesity problem. The outlook was relatively unfavorable for conquering obesity problems when there was intense emotional involvement of the parents and constant preoccupation and discussion of the excess weight of the child. f Something should be said about the lack of importance of physical "exertion In, a reducing regime because many people seem to think that if they exercise enough they can eat as much as they please. This does not always follow. --Tck walk off an ice cream soda containing about 300 calories would require a jaunt, in five hours or shoveling nearly 8,000 pounds of sand into a wheelbarrow. Obviously it is a lot easier and more effective to cut out the Ice cream soda. . The problem of obesity In adolescence depends on finding the reasons ' which cause the . excessive food intake and developing sufficient motivation so that the youngster has the desir to cut J 10-mi- le down on food j and lose the excessive fat. But, the parents have to ' help. Ruth Millett 24 .......... W W ........ ...... ........ 13 - . 64 Being Happy at 75 Is No Problem To Some People "Write a column about how to bt happy at 75 with every friend gone and having io live on $100 a .month, social j security,' asks one of my readers. n It can be done. A number of women in my town are doing it. It takes good health, courage and a determined effort to be happy. With those, assets, a woman of 75 isn't really old. The women I'm talking about are widows, jSome are closer, to. 80 than 75. But they've found the "solution of how' to add to their g fixed incomes by in v baby-sittin- their, neighborhood. Baby-sittin- g not only gives them a chance to make money, but gets them acquainted with their young neighbors. Many of the neighbors become interesting and obliging friends. It alsd gives them a feeling of being useful, which women need at every age in life. Instead of sitting home alone, night after night, . these women are often booked weeks In advance by young parents who depend on them for a - little freedom and recreation. To the children, they are like adopted .grandmothers. The money they "earn J a real ' egouilder. So are such words from grateful! parents as, "I don't know what we would clo .without you" and V we never worry about the children when, you are with ; . , st non-intere- ... leges." Lausche of Ohio, backed by Bush of Connecticut, Goldwater of Arizona and McClellan of Arkansas scoffed at the level-dow- n arguments of the equalizers and at the pay-oimplications o those who said, that service peri sorinel are "entitled" to extra f benefits.' J "I served in WorloWar I . . . an honor and duty," said Lauscht. "There are no happier momentl or my life .H as judge ;. . . governor than tht mayor . -- recollection of the days I served in the military." Confusion: Jfeuberger of Oregon made the best speech for tht wrong reasons in trying ' to rationalize his support . the bili. H fumbled like a blindman's buff of player for the skeleton-closSince ,m any wartime old, wrongs. soldiers got GI benefits without going to battle, the error must bt compounded by giving similar benefits to peacetime soldiers! Since munitions industries (ht didn't mention munitions-makin- g Labor unions)) profiteered in war,-- , peacetime soldiers should b given these 'grants! How noa sequitur can statesmanship get? To me, Neuberger seemed to typify a generation of chain-habthinkers who vaguely know that something's wrong. They, art striking out at old scapegoats to vent a confused disapproval.' Here's Neuberger flogging tho Merchants of Death to justify his vote for "readjusting" warriors who, in the Lincolnian sense, have never borne the.battle. Fifty-seve- n Senators supported this bill. There is just about room t'the Lincoln Memorial for them to go there and hang their heads. " ff J 1 post-Korea- . j . et day-lon- - : it ( 33 W wolf T. Keith Glennan, National Aeronautics . . - p: Iowa Solon Digs Into Capitol Cornerstone Lore ce 10-ye- ar ors . . GOLD WATER CITES CHAPTER AND VERSE to show how the House "bill would not do that. On more than 25 major counts, reforms inlthe Senate bill J f.) 1 y consciences of Congressmen and satisfy M. weed-marre- d' ously. -- Real estate and planning experts will tell you that one or two poor- homes or lots can very ma- non-servi- re-enac- ted .. 4 ' Il - non-scen- ic With U.r S. employment cretting back to f he record highs it estab- lished before the recession, we find a sharper light focussing on the been out of work 15 weeks of more. " Some 900,000: fall into this category, and of 'them nearly 550,000 havebeen without jobsr more than :' half a year. v; ' The people in the hard core 'group are not faceless. Most live in areas that have become more or less permanent pockets of depression coal mining sectors in Kentucky, West Virginia, Pennsyl vania, once thriving textile pro-- ! duction communities in New England, and so on. too-lat- primitive desert than private premises. 4. Ancient, unused barns and other outbuildings as out-o- f place amid modern surroundings as fur ' coats in July, 5. Garbage cans, some of them especially unsightly, permitted to remain at the curb for .'one or two J days-- af ter the. waste removal department trucks called. Largely ihe negligence fs on th part of private citizens. But public agencies aren't without blame, More attention "needs to be devoted, in some' cases, to city and school property. It's a case of the total community needing to develop a greater feeliog for a clean and beautiful city.' As you walk or drive about the : city you can't help but admire the hundreds of beautiful homes, yards and lots, with lawns well manicur-- . ed, shrubs and. trees trimmed, and flower beds watered and weeded.' But when, in the midst of such places you see a shabbily - kept home or yard, or a vacant lot or parkway, the overall impression suffers tremend- the-eyesor- es. IV ' what-have-yo- u. 1 S front of private ' It Is a grand chance to practict level-dow- n politics by "equallx and poor, and (0 tht rieji ing" to with Russia la compete way education is to imif&te Russia is education. Common sense: Cooper of Kentucky, with Insufficient support, "offered a testing amendment. It challenged the idea that peacetime veterans needed grants. (ftOt loans) for their "adjustment" life. In providing easy, loans, the Federal Government would be winnowing the nondescript harvest of veterans. "A veteran," said Javits of New York, "should be eligible for assistance ONLY IF he is so anxious to obtain an education that he is willing to borrow money' Scott of Pennsylvania said that: "Without this amendment, the bill will be a big foot in the door to Federal ' control of education . . . n6t only what must be taught and. what-th- e students must say, but . . Federal Government interlocutors in all our schools and col- . THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1959 Bill Tell Me Why I - ii j ' What People Spoke Latin? a written Latin with regular' rules for spelling and grammar, and ' there were now records of both tht common and refined way of speaking: In other; words, the foundatio? was laid for later writers who made Latin a truly beautiful and expressive language. By A. LEOKUM the Britannica Junior encyclopedia for school and home. Send your questions, Win name, age, address to "Tell Me Why!" care of this paper. Today's winner isr Rita Newbold, 10, Cincinnati, O. While . the literary laaguagt of Latin" was developing, the trut speech of Rome was Vulgar Latin.-Th- is Latin was in existence for a period of about a thousand years. When you go to high school you may have to decide whether or not you. want to study Latin. Very few people who study Latin expect to speak it or even to read it, and it is used mostly by scholars. v We now consider Latin a "dead language" for this reason. But was Larhvl.ever a living language? Did people ever speak it? After Rome was founded in. 753 B.C., the small town began- to grow. Within a limited area around the town, Latin was a common language spoken by the people This language was named after the Latini, one of the tribes living in the Tiber Valley. This early Latin was a combination of the tongues spoken by all the people in the neighborhood of Rome. It was heavy land unwieldly, not a graceful language at all, and very few traces ' of this early Latin re- main. ,. At this time Latin had no literature, no poems or plays. By the year 240 "B.C., Rome had conquered. Greece and Greek literature provided an example to the Romans. A man called Llvius was ' the first person' to write poetry in Latin, and he also translated Greek poems into Latin, as well as Greek plays. Other writers followed him and begin to write original poems and epics in ' Latin! "Latin literature was the Not all poetry. The common people "who could neither read nor write were greatly interested in the theatre, so Latin writers created plays for the amusement of the people. By this time Latin had developed in many ways. First of all there was It was quite different from tht written language. Most of the . - peo- ple of Rome could not use tht polished written language. It wai used mostly by educated literary men. The Vulgar Latin of the people was ah ' everyday language, easily understood and not alway grammatically correct, just as our everyday speech today, is often' far from correct. . FUN TIME The Riddle Box 1. What ship never sails? 2. What three letters make , a ' woman out of a girl? 3. What question can never be answered by "Yes?" ' 'Answers 1. Scholarship. 2. Age. J. ; you asleep?" . .'.' "Art v DID YOU KNOW? . People who love opera-can'- t get; enough of it. For people who don't like it even a .little Is too much. Did you know that the longest opera of all is Parsifal" by. Richard Wagner? It takes 4 hours and. 40 minutes to, perform . . 1 j them." i t .. ; .1 ; V . So if you have the Health and as strength, look into baby-sittin- g a way of adding to your income and making yourself a contributing member of your community. As for friends, there is no age ' at which a person has to stop acquiring new ones. You must have stopped a long time ago if all your friends are gone. A wise man once told me, "for every friend I lose I make a new one." That is the best way of .making sure you don't outlive all of your friends. the Britannica World Atlas or Yearbook of Events. Send your riddles, jokes, tricks to "Tell Me Why I "Today's winner is: v MarUyn Kynock, 9, Halifax, . Win Nova Scotia. Archibald M. Willard,i famous painting, "The Spirit of "78," was titled "Yank.et Doodlt? xfM Urst exhibited. v- - |