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Show Behind tho Day's Mow: A ways a allies SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1961 letVGet . istration waits for the report of a study group on the extent of the. "missile gap' the Russians in effect have filed a report of their own. how close they; will come y to completing' this remarkable effort. . And we may never know whether the Soviet vehicle actually makes contact with Venus. That planet, tens of millions of ' miles from the earth, is continuously covered by an opaque cloud , layer which hides its surface. Our only knowledge of it" comes ' from the astronomers'' deductions. Nevertheless, top space men in this country think it will be from 18 to 24 months before we can, make a comparable try .'Even then, we are unlikely to cast up any vehicle of such size as the Russians rockhave orbited. The piggy-bac- k veloose from cut basic et the hicle at high altitude was said to weigh 1,415 pounds. At. such times as this, there is small comfort for us in knowing ,we have ''fielded" far more space vehicles than the Russians, or that in general they have tended to be considerably more complex than . " It - is one junket. And what is wrong with ; that? The practice' of politics is part of the legitimate business and responsibility of a president and of his Cabinet officersv-Th- e pre si--, dent and Cabinet most proficient bi-parti- san ' Goldberg' visited the . r unem. . nedy administration was their friend. Goldberg seems to have ; If the news story had been If ? Lf 'P head- , Sign Soviet Union propels a vehicle toward Venus it makes much greater impact on the watching world than we do when we send up, for a complex camera satellite. Thus, while the Kennedy, admin of Our Times in operation in the cold continent by March, 1962. The Chopping Block The Smug and the Unfortunate : Back about twenty years ago our firm conviction that we were the smartest and best people the race had ever known,, and were heaven's little darlings besides, passed from hopefulness to certainty. Nobody could build or create things as fast as weJ couild. At last des- - jony tnaa proaucea a truiy practical, and practically perfect peo" "' ; I ple. Ever since then all anyone had to do to know the truth of our superiority was to read the papers, the magazines, listen to radio .and watch television, ! go to conventions or listen to private lec- - Mr. Robertson tares. We had harmony such as the greatest musician never dreamed of, and it mostly was fathered Aveby the advertising cult of Madison nue, and nobody ever raised a question as to this fantastic baby's legitimacy. All we had to do to .know how well off we are was watch the advertisements, and read the subsidized articles describing the glorious vacations practically everybody was taking. In addition to bewe ing the wealthiest people on earth the and most the "also were religious dared to most moral. If a in unclad bust public it bedisplay an at last Women scandal. came a national subwere and' parents, had equal rights, food more We had to children. servient than we could use, and the problem had become, not how to find the time to dp our" work, but how to spend our leisure. We bad reached a stage where we bad Wtfle more to do than pushia button to make everything we needed roll off the assembly lines. We could brand the intellecutal man as an egghead beneath our notice,- and know that our practical businessmen couild take care of everything. True, there was an ominous red cloud on the horizon but all we had to jdo was shout our patriotism loud enough and it would go away, or if it did not we could always press a button and destroy anything menacing that lay beyond the cloud. We were the perfected product of the long evolution of man. Our 'workingmen were far beyond the old cliche of an honest day's work for an honest wage. The sky was the ceiling, and high profits for oux.busipess people was practically insured by ' the government. The horn of plenty was bottom" , - . strip-teaser- . - ? fed boys like Senators Goldwater and Bridges assure us that these people will all be taken .care of by private charity if only the government will stop helping them, but those of us who remember The Great Depression can't help being skeptical. We remember the veterans, of World War I selling apples on the street, and we remember Herbert Hoover calling out the army to drive these men out of Washington. We created a "genii called Automation, which would practically abolish the necessity for human labor, and we laughed those skeptics out of court who contended that -- it was a demon which couild destroy us. The genii would do the work, and the workers could keep busy creating more genii. This last was a happy illusion, but unfortunately it affords scant comfort to those who shave been the victims of the monster. We have eliminated many unpleasant things from our society, but the effects of. hunger, cold and loss of pride are the same as they were in the beginning. Few of the unemployed look with .complacency on the prospect of they and their children having to live out their squalid lives on jublic dole or private charity. And there are few intelligent workmen today who do not realize that tomorrow automation may push them into the ranks of the unemployed. An. unemployed person is still a little more than , cipher in a column of statistics ; he is a 'person of flesh and blood with the normal desires of any human' being; She is capable of love, of feeling, and of desire for the respect of amd he can be desbis fellow man The smugness of frustration. troyed, by the successful and the prosperous can turn him into an enemy of society. We can look toward a hundred nations and .see what smugness and complacency bas done for them. a-- : . - So They Say , . changed my mind. Rat San, IB, who made a suicide building in Hong leap from a nrnthnfloor a but railing. Kong grabbed iLee 12-sto-ry " Our nation has been f aMing further and further short of its economic capa. The nation cannot bilities . and will noV be satisfied with economic decline and slack.' President Kennedy , .;';.,"'' Judgment of whether a movie is at odds with the, public welfare should be determined by due process of law before the courts, not by some petty politically- official. 'Eric Johnston, president of Motion Picture Association of America, saying he will carry on fight against movie censorship despite adverse Supreme Court ruling. -appointed " I think this country has people with marvelous skills in communication. It will be my task to mobilize .them. Edward R.. Murrow, new head of U.S. Information Agency. The opinions and pressed by Herald their own and do reflect the views ot ' statements i ii 1 i li collec--tivis- Gopg ressrCou Id Learn From Housewife WASHINGTON The man from Nebraska has come up with the soundest idea this season to balance our national budget. Do it, he says, like the housewife does. ' R e 1 a 1 1 v .e--' ly simple, too, if only the right people in Congress . go along with the proposal. May save the taxpayers $2 What if these measures are defeated? Then the money won't and we'll go into the be there red again. Cunningham's plan would have the Appropriations Committee give the money requests only preliminary approval contingent on a later when Congress knows what money is coming in. Largely because Congress expected more money that it was to get in the past, this country went into the red nine of the last average V billion. The idea man " Ed Koterba is Rep. Glenn Cunningham, Republican of Omaha. He put his plan before Rep. Clarence Cannon, the big gun from Missouri who holds the trigger over the House Appropriations Committee. The Nebraskan is awaiting word. The way Congress appropriates money now. is like the carefree bookkeeper who writes checks with abandon, not knowing whether his bank acount will be overdrawn or not! No ordinary citizen would dare habitually risking try that bouncing checks. He'd wind up, in jail. But not Uncle Sam. He just dips deeper into the taxpayers till and we go deeper in debt." Now, that debt is nearly $300 Congress on whethfer appropriated spending would throw our 'budget off kilter. Thus, they can't argue with true justification. But, in July when it would be known that we may overdraw our account of $2 billion (Kennedy's figure), this would give taxpayers cause to get hot under the collar. Congressmen would be more prone to listen to their complaints. Cunningham's scheme wouldn't actually reduce our national debt, but it's the first step in that direction. I'm with him all the way. (Copyright 1961, United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) . 14 years. At the present time the public is just as much in the dark as is Your Pocketbook f By FAYE HENLE You are important! The eyes of businessmen across the nation are focused on you, the consumer, for as you loosen your purse strings, the pace of the economy will quicken. of last - year's no,- 5uiu xu .,wiw'w'ysg 3 : . - billion.- - Here's how Congress goes about authorizing our money:' i Early in the session, the 16 dif-- , ferent federal departments begin ttonal Product demanding money ($80 billion- - ; (toe DOM!, of am f 3 goods produced, plus this time) for" the next fis-- v afltt services discal year. resultpensed) Their requests go to the aped from your 1 ...r. propriations subcommittees and How spending. are hashed over, some fat is cut did you allocate off, and then Congress votes, and your dollar? the bill is passed. The U. S. De-- p & j s , But this bill which is final of Faye Henle a'rtment takes place before anybody knows the tells Commerce story: whether there's enough money Some 27 cents out of every dolavailable.; lar spent went for food, beverages Now, what Rep. Cunningham and tobacco; 13 cents for housing, has in mind is: hold up final ap7 cents for furniture, furnishings when until say, proval and equipment. You spent 6 cents July ' will the know wether, out of every dollar to run your Congress . money is there to spend. household (heat, light, etc.) ; 5.5 And if it isn't, just do what cents on automobiles and parts ; the housewife does: start paring 3.5 cents to keep: these vehicles down until the expenditures balin gas and oil; 3 cents for other V ance the income. transportation. Your spending for As it is now, for instance. Conclothirig and shoes took 9 cents whethsure cannot know for out of the 'dollar. The remaining gress er higher- postal rates will be 26 cents went for medical and increased.' other personal care, recreation, voted, or gas taxes Yet, according to the;budget subeducation, travel and all other mitted last month, they must as--' , spending and savings. sume that they will be. Says the Commerce Depart-- : Three-quarte- rs " . vu-- i ex-- j columnists are not necessarily this newrpaper. j j & " f - ment: Q's and A's ' ' , Editor's Note: The following- leiter Is reprinted from the Washington Post. "Consumers have changed their ways of spending in the past 'dozen years although to a parti-culfamily, or from one year to the next the change may not be readily discernable. Within the broad totals of durables, and services, many Sroup'have chzsged cincs IS 13; ar Are members of the Electoral College legally obligated to vote for. the winning candidate in their state? Q , non--durab- les ' 1 Editor Post: The past two weeks have seen a number of newspaper stories concerning the apparent determination of the new Administration to control "or suppress n ws and I have been astounded at the failure of your usually alert cartoonist, Herblock, to comment on them.-...- Consider the following items , f. from just the first two weeks of the new administration: 1. The refusal to permit Ad- x ions on the Communist threat. The stringent new policy' on release of even routine news from Z - the Pentagon. r. - The refusal to permit press conference with the RB-4- 7 pilots until after weeks of "debriefv ing" and leave. 4. The refusal of the President to answer the question of whether the RB-4- 7 pilots were released as a result of a secret "deal" made with the Russians. 5. The President's decision against permitting interviews of congressional leaders following their, weekly conferences with him at the White House. During the Eisenhower Admin- istration, any one of these' items would have been occasion for a bitter blast from Mr. Block, supported perhaps' by an editorial on the people's right toe know and the right of the press to full information. One can't help wondering about the reason for Her--' block's silence is he not reading the papers these days, or is it just that Democratic administrations and Republican adminiitra tions are to be judged by diffsr ent standards? 3 I . m . WALLACE F. BENNETT, . United States Senator from Utah. Washington. . Additional letters to editor v on Pare 1ZA ; - ) ': '" "Work stimulates man's physiologic functions, keeps him said. bands." . o ' Delegates to the recent White House Conference on Aging heard this from Dr. George E. Burch, who thinks women are a lot luckier than men when it comes to the present customs on work. Dr. Burch, professor of medicine at Tulane University, pointed work out that the always-at-han- d in a home is of such a nature that the housewife can continue with, household duties until her health fails almost completely. "She can work leisurely and vary the physical load to meet her capabilities and state of health at the moment," Dr. Burch said. "However, the work is always there as a stimulus to keep her constantly active, even in her 'alive' and active and enables him to overcome better the iphysi- ologic forces bf aging and disease . old age." ' i Dr. Burch urged strongly that doctors, not employers, decide whether a man should stay on the . job. i "It is difficult, if not impossible to justify firing a normal, vigorously healthy man of 65 years because of a general rule of retirement," Dr. mandatory Burch said. The doctor believes the best tonic for mind and body is use- -, .ful, productive and appreciated work. He thinks the medical profession is well able to judge the work capacity and the work needs of man. ' "Work is prescribed for patients by the best physicians with the saxna thjsrapsuUs cattatian as which tend to produce atrophy and deterioration" Dr. Burch thinks should have free choice as to whether they are to stay on the at least on a year job" or retire basis. "The worker as weU as the employer may want to obtain an in-- " ventory of the employe's health to learn If work is advisable," Dr. ' Burch said, ' "If. there are no disturbances in his mental or physical health, the worker should be allowed and encouraged to go on working without penalty. "If he wants to retire, the per son should not only be allowed to do so, but should be helped and instructed in details as to how he may best use his time to achieve a long, healthy and happy life in his remaining years. "All too often, old men merely wait for death and even specuUto on the nature of its occurence." I am a widow, age 72. My Q husband worked for a company from 1916 to 1937. 'In 1945 he died of heart trouble. Please inform. me if I can qualify for social security under the new rules. ' . -t- o-year -- ( , increased somewhat. Higher costs for medical care and housing have played an important role in these shifts in our spending patterns. The altered make-u- p of our. population explains in part. the shift. Finally, a change ia our desires, in the way we want to spend, helps explain the shift. The question as yet unanswered is this: How wiU our spending pattern shift over the next decade? Right this minute, hundreds of thousands of dollars of market research money is being poured Into the search for an answer. Perhaps you already have plans to drastically change your pattern of spending. It's my hunch that this is so. Do tell me if I'm right and give me your reasons (All Eights EeserveaV NEA) for the most potent drugs given orally or by needle," DrrBurch By MARIE DAERR "Active housewives attend the funerals of their idle, retired hus- But we have been spending sharply more' for. medical care, personal business (which is what the Department of Commerce caJi 13e-- insurance) and interest on personal debts. We have spent more for Jmiscellaneouis services and considerably more for housing. We have also increased our spending to run our homes and cars and for such items as bicycles and tricycles, jewelry and books. In this period our spending for drugs and fuel has also v. Useful Work Best Tonic Aging Mind and Body others have become less popular' or necessary. IPiroporidonateily ' we have been spending considerably less for food and beverages, quite a bit less for dothing and shoes, furnishings and furniture and equipment. We have been sspenddng just a shade less on transportation, tobacco, recreation and personal services over the past 12 . - Happy Times v. 5 Xi i y- Bennett Lambasts New Administration's Handling of Newst -- Your Habits of Spending Set Pace of the Economy : I , i Editor Herald: Henry J. Nicholes' piece in Wednesday's Herald, s pleasingly at least to this reader refers ' to the narrowed space there re- - , mains for the man between the extremes of left and right, of the political arena; and asks if there is "no alternative," a rational middle , ground. The word "alternative' brings to mind that someone the Reverend Doctor E. Stanley Jones, wrote a book (published in 1935), "which he called: Christ's Alternative to Communism." In the introduction to his book, the reverend doctor quotes thus from John Maynard Keynes, ("a capitalistic economist" ) '.'Modern capitalism is absolutely without internal" union, without much public spirit, often, but not always, a mere congeries of possessors and pursuers." And the doctor goes on: "It is fundamentally incapable of responding to the world demand being laid on it, namely that "producing , and distributing enough for all and at the same time creating a world of brothers." "To distribute adequately and justly demands a motive which it simply hasn't got." "Again, the choice is not between an individualistic humanism and some form of collec-- " tivism, but between a that is purely mechanistic and one that is spiritual. In other words, the choice is between a materialistic communism, and the Kingdom of God on Earth." It seems opportune to the reader of the good doctor's book, to assert at this point, mention of. the other "materialism." For it cannot be denied that there is very little choice between the ruthlessness of competition, which is the life of capitalism as at present practiced and "Godless communism" as we are taughU to envision it. And further, the reflection presses upon us that because we know better (if we really do) a wider difference . must quickly be made between the way of the "Godless Commu- nist" aqd that of those not outside the pale of compassion for their fellows, and who thus can conceive of a veritable "Kingdom of God on Earth." Lenoard A. Willis. 4 - less. Anyone "wfao refused to be smug about our fortune was a Communist. Then a man named Kennedy shattered our placidity by telling us there were weak places ha ;the economy, and that something more than loud protestations of patriotism was necessary to make the ever nearing red cloud disappear. He went eo far as to mention the ugly word sacrifice. It was a word that had been forgotten, and few of us like it. . The man made us aware, however reluctantly, that we have more than five million people, more than 6 per cent of our working population, unemployed. Some of us may begin to .wonder about those unemployed people. Do they agree with us that this is the best of all possible worlds? Our cake begins to taste a little bitter in our mouths when we reflect that their children are lucky to harva a crust cf bre&d Scssg ct oisr well Koterba Ed . . l'l I iY''-i'- ; The first permanent structure erected in Antarctica will be significantly-enough, a nuclear power The is plant. expected to be plant in-itan- ce, I: l li ill Small Difference -- Furthermore, the missile-spac- e race is not merely a physical things It is also psychological. We have' to'.- face the fact that when, the i Godless Communism-- See it would have caused alarm. There were eight dead, 1,500 injured, nearly 250 arrested. Revolution? Palace coup? No, just Mardi Gras in Brazil, held every year in anticipation of a season of renewed religious - uiilli ll:tlli w xi Ruthless Competition, ed "Rioting in Rio," im-port- ant nt Drummer Some Things to Meditate The Russians still have an and spectacular edge in the power of their rocket thrust. And it is this which permits them ' to launch their often more dramatic, though less frequent, space shots. By FRANK C. ROBERTSON - i so-call- ed theirs. ', labor-manageme- ; ; -- On the contrary. President Ken- nedy bore down hard before the industrialists on price and wage stability. He said he would name a presidential advisory ocxmimiitte on policy. want to prothis committee' ,'T mote sound wage and price policies", productivity increases and a betterment of America's competitive position in world markets,' he said. There was more of the same, and it just doesn't add up with Goldberg's pledge in Chicago that wages will rise. Four days later, President Kennedy was addressing the National Industrial Conference Board in Washington. This was a fat cat assembly, no unemployed present. Did the President - tell these employers "that his administration was paxjmising unemployeds that wages wiI4 rise? He did not. -- ployed areas in part to learn about the situation and in part to convince the Jobless that the Ken- siness ''Goldberg, on the beginning of his tour, said today in Chicago, 'We're here to make our pledge come true that wages will rise, that benefits will increase, and the people will find more jobs'." .On the Other Hand " What the Republicans should have been alert to discover is an answer to this question: Does the administration tell the same story-tofoexample, the fat cats of industry as it does to the thin job- less cats? A . The answer to that is that the ( admiaistration does not tell the same story. Secretary Goldberg began his fivenstate tour Feb. 10 in Chicago, proceeding thereafter to Detroit. United Press foternational reported on that day: of politics is unclean. Did a Good Job areas of unemployment. It was, of course, a political that is almost sure to reading it deserves. For it leaves us no ground for complacency. In fact, even if the Russians don't in the end strike Venus, it might be a very good idea to adjourn all the discussion about the "missile gap;" and expend our time and energy on just seeing that we get the best and most powerful missiles and space ve?" hicles. The real .danger is not that any American politicians will "downgrade" their country. It is that Russia will do it. So why don't we stop the silly talk and set about seeing that .it doesn't happen? get the just that. launch an argument that the art . - done a pretty good job of doing in the practice of politics are likely to come up with the' most' successful administration. Politics is not a dirty business. Some politicians are dirty and they play dirty politcs, but that is not a good premise from which to WASHINGTON The (UPI) masternminds of i the Republican party did themselves no good and did the Democrats no harm when they accused Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg of making a political trip through five state Orbit In The Russian space shot toward Venus puts a new frame around the argument as to where America race stands in the missile-spac- e Of course we will not know until mid-Ma- By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Inteernational D Dirty . ' A. IK. A social . To make you eligible for security, your husband would have had to work lVt years after 1936. (Albrights reserved, News paper Enterprise Azzn.) |