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Show Behind tho Day's Nov ore Corses P SUNDAY, APRIL 9, 1961 With National Library Week what do we coming' up April celebrate? have to' The library specialists say some few things, such as the extension of library service to some rural., areas not heretofore covered. But fundamentally, they say, the nation suffers a tremendous "book gup." Nobody needs to be reminded of the connection between the reading of good books arid the necessary informing of a people in a democracy. ' Yet, despite the recent rural gains, it is estimated nearly 25 million .Americans in rural; zones have no library services at all. .Two-thirof all the : nation's elementary schools have no central library facilities, which means 10 million children are deprived of this vital mental nourishment in formative years. Most high schools are a good . deal better of f, but even 3 per cent of these have no central library. And half the four-yecolleges don't have the 50,000 volumes con- sidered minimum. Even the 400 public libraries serving 50,000 or more people are not uninformly adequate. Library . authorities say it would take another $100 million a year to bring them up to standard. - " for buildings, personnel and "V . . ! A ing materials. Who dares to say we cannot afford, those things" needed- to fuel the minds of free pitizens ? In a southern town only recently blessed with library service, an elderly man tried to tell a library teacher what it meant. He groped for the right words. As he talked, street lights came on. He looked up, and then .said : "ThatV how it is. Books are a light.- See how bright it is now?" It public library field and to extend service to uncovered rural and 1 . Bobertson ences way to have taken' a bribe, used it up, and still not know what it was offered for. In fact, the gentleman maintains that it was not a bribe at all but a gift in appreciation of my wife's cake and coffee. But the question that puz-il'me Is, if this was the real reason, why didn't he bring her a box of candy instead of me a box of cigars? Not that , tht cigars were unapprec- es clear elves me a sense of importance I sel-uuut Kc 9 vutct man A. smoking a way. cigar always looks 1m-"miiTl Mr. Robertson philosophical, and a man smoking a cigarette looks sort of trivial, not to say silly . of suspicious nature I keep Being thinking that, may be another way to inveigle me into taking sides in some of tht issues which keeps Provo rent' asunder, I don't know why, but people keep trying to get me to mix into some of those fights, which would be a gross impertinence for me since I don't live in the city. Of course I do drive over there and it angers me that I have to park parallel in my favorite stopping place on Univer-sit- v Avenue. But I find that I can't even blame the city manager of Provo , for that, since it appears that the; road com-- UM991UU u mc vvub. nave, faiauci parking as I hate parking meters, but the only way' I can protest against ciwct vuc via iuciu la uj aia; uui ui uic city, and this I do as much as possible. My protest loses its effectiveness because my absence is not even noted, and I have no evidence that Springville appreciates the added business I do there. Since cigarettes is about the only thing I ever buy I suppose it doesn't make much ' difference. At the same time I am interested in some of Provo's problems. My friend, Mark Anderson, sends me a newspaper advocating the repeal of the city charter, and I think he makes an excellent case, though of course I have always believed in publicly owned power as opposed to private power. I have never liked the idea of our natural .resources being turned over to ,any private interest, J am not unaware of the fact. that one of the strongest lobbies in the country is s, maintained by these private power and if it were not for the threat of public 'power we would be paying a lot more for electricity than we are. The argument, that these companies are in business just, to help the public, leaves me cold. Sure, they pay taxes, but the cost is passed along to consumers, and power companies are not hurt. Mr. Anderson Just gets me convinced when along comes another friend, Jacob Coleman, to tell me how wrong Mr. Anderson is. On general principles I must agree with Mr. Anderson, but since I know nothing of the way the government - -- com--panie- j mi j ! J long overdue. ; "9 of Provo is operated it is wisdom for me to refrain from taking sides. I fpund, myself an interested listener to a discussion of the issue over iri Sutton's cafe the other 'day, and I thought if these people who live here can't agree what right have I as an' outsider to put in my oar? My final conclusion is that what my friend really-mean- t was, "Take this box of cigars and keep your nose out of our city's business.' All right, Pnovo will just have to solve its own problems. I traveled up to Salt Lake with this gentleman to attend the annual Junior Chamber of Commerce Roast. I took a pocketful of those cigars, which he distributed to bis friends, but I am still his debtor. It. was worth many, cigars to see all those big politicos from Governor 'Clyde and Mayor Lee down being put on the 'griddle, and they were roasted to a turn. The only ones present who escaped the actual spotlight, though not the shafts of wit were Senator Bennett Congressman King, and President Wilkinson. I can't believe that the famous Gridiron Club of Washington, D. C. has much on those J. C. boys when it comes down to size. to whittling the I am still not sure who paid for our suspicion , tickets but I have a sneaking it was Dave Bigler, of U.S. Steel. Our highballs, I understand, were the courtesy of the United Press. I enjoyed mine, though it led to my embarrasment. I found a vacant chair and relaxed with the highball in one hand and a cigarette in the other when Congressman David King, also wanting to rest his feet, .sat down beside me and began to talk of big and'important world affairs. Now v the- Congressman, of course, neither, drinks or smokes, and I like him,- and honor him, especially when he mentioned the Chopping Block favorably, but I at my best had a feeling that I was not ' with the evidence of my vices in both hands. As I said before, a man smoking a cigarette looks silly, but Mr. 'King refrained from mentioning the fact though I was aware of what he was thinkings I advise all young men never to take up those habits, for surely, sooner or later, you will find, yourselves in a similarly embarrassing situation. Besides, they will do you no good. WASHINGTON Cuba is becoming an island of isolation as far as U. S. mail goes, but at the same time Castro's citadel in the Caribbean threatens to become a beehive in dispersing dope from - : official mail is routed" through the Swiss Embassy in Havana. However, mail addressed to the Cuban consulate in Miami has suffered a different iate. Piles of correspondence addressed to the consul had backed up at a Miami post office. Thousands of pieces of mail, sent from Cuba as well as from different parts of the United States, went ' Red China. These latest Commun i s t i c capers came to light at two different hearings within the week pn Capital Hill., The drama of Cuban drug Ed Koterba traffic was spelled out rather soberly by Henry Giordana, Deputy Commissioner of Narcotics for the United States Treasury. with Red Chinese The tie-i- n dope smugglers came in reply to a query by Rep. J. Vaughan Gary (D., Va.) at hearings before a Be careful. Don't equate communism or being communist with African nationalism. We are anticolonialists . . i I think anticoloniafism was invented. by the United States of America. President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana. . :'i:'" . : : , :";:'-'.- whenever our operation requires it. Cmdr. R. L. J. Long, due to take over command of atomic missile sub Patrick Henry. The opinions and statement ex- Herald columnists are pressed their own and do not necessarily reflect the views 'of this newspaper. by 4 . :j liiffliiiiiiBim 'Am m. Taxpayers Must Fight for Rights . j . Said the Congressman: cording to reports I have had, Communist Chinese are invading Cuba to a Very great extent now. Are narcotics from China coming into the 'United States through Cuba?" The Treasury man said, "It's become a very serious situation down there .""although, he added, no one knows for sure whether any dope has yet been moved through! the island, from Bed China to the United States. Right now, an undetermined amount of narcotics mostly is South American cocaine I finding its way to this country from Cuba through Mexico, ac- -i cording to what the man said. Mexico, said Giordana regretfully, has apparently done nothing so far, in cracking down on Castro's dope pushers. So while Fidel's flow of drugs steps up, his 'mail deliveries are shriveling, according to what iGreever Allan said. .Allan is director of Internation-ia- l Postal Service, and he told a postal subcommittee hearing that jhe's been receiving complaints ifrom people over here that their mail from Cuba has been with. ' And Castro's henchmen are taking plenty of time scrutinizing that mail. Allan says the pos1 marks indicate it often takes two weeks to get mail from Cuba : these days. The Cuban government gets it to Us mostly by slow boat, but that should take only a day or so. We use the: same "vehicle for disa car patching surface mail , ferry which, plies the waters between West Palm Beach, Fla., and Havana. Since this country broke diplo-mat, relations with Cuba, our "Ac- ; 1 ? Door-to-do- . tam-iper- rs full-tim- "in ' Winorfa, Minn. . . . A cash outlay of $6,000 to $8,000, . with three years to pay the bal- ance, is needed to put you into one of the newest of businesses, i ' ed Econ-O-Was- ' , ' ' A ; , Lack of technical skill such as not knowing how to purchase raw materials or to stock a retail establishment. ' Selection of a poor location for your plant or store. Insufficient capital or credit. Before you start on your own . experts advise that, you know what your exact costs' will be for one to two years. Frequently you will have to prepay rent, insurance or goods purchased for several months ahead. You should figure your credit costs and taxes, the wages you may be paying and promotional exepnses. One expert I interviewed warns that published figures on business failures don't show the true story because he says that often, an entrepreneur headed for failure will sell out, usually at a considerable loss, before he actually fails. So do careful research, with professional guidance, before launching any contemplated venture. . - h, ' v , All rights reserved, News- - ;.' PS?er Enterprise' Assa.) sad results. in- Y. M. Offret the Public Affairs Forum. But what does the Public Affairs Forum and its members get lout of this service? They only get to spend their time, money, iud efforts as a public servicle fret and get ridicule, insults, and condemnation by persons who make birth, wealth, or education the sole criterion of worth. The Public Affairs Forum of Utah County is worthy of your support and Utah Valley ought to havt several more public forums to discuss public issues. Gerald Henrie s, j ; Pennsylvania woman had her brought Neighbors of a before an alterman on charges of being a common scold v I'm not quite ;sure what a "common scold" is under Pennsylvanlt ' law. But I do know that an awful lot of neighbo- rld- ' . . j . her best to make life miserable for the whole , . ' laundry and dry Some cleaning establishments 30,000 such installations are now in operation. 0 The amount of money needed to run such an enterprise depends upon what you will have to pay for rent and how many machines you will install in a single store. According to Jack Coleman, head of Cincinnati's one can net $350 to $400 or more monthly without even working the establishment full time. Merely get someone to check. your shop several tines daily, to clean k? coin-operat- " ic n , . Neighborhood. Scold Had Thrill Value for Children Lack of knowledge of competi- ' neigh-- - borhood. The uncommon scold dislikes children, hates dogs, can't stand noise, is suspicious of her neighbors and regards as trespassing any little incursion such as a child retrieving a ball from her yard. But in most neighborhoods tho other residents are able to take care of the uncommon scold without I too much trouble. i J4 The crownuDs dr it bv leaving hpr KfHrtlv lrr illeti Ruth .The kids take "cart 'of her by turning her Into a sort of scary witch frightening themselves with tales of what the scold would do to any kid who In any way aroused her wrath. I know this because, when I was a .child, we had a scold in our neighborhood. And not having a hunted house anywhere around, we made the scold's house into a reasonable facsimile. At twlight when we grew tired of and we would sit on somebody's porch steps and speculate ' about what the neighborhood scold would do to any kid she caught in her yar3-- ' We had no intention of finding out bift we spent many an exciting evening speculating. I had forgotten all about our scold until I read about the worn sn in Pennsylvania. And then I recalled her, and decided that sheadded as much excitement to cur ycur.3 lives as TV, thrillers effer kids'todsy. . . hide-and-se- ek . ; ia-ri- Ruth Millett failures are: tive conditions. - on the tax issue. No doubt this remark sounds rather out of reason, but not near--. Jy so much1 out of reason jas the tax commissioner's conduct and! if this unreasonable war continues there's a day approaching when this sort of move will be forced to take place in order to save the people from a complete downfall. Why at the rate we are goLig it won't be Ion? before WP art trr thm air we steal from the elements, and for the sutishine we absorb. Together with t the burdened rise of taxation , and continual increase in new permits and forcible laws of "obligations the people are near- - , ing the point-- of slavery. In fact there is very little difference now between slavery and today's way of living. We are now painfully of hanging onto, the last thread ' freedom. These big desk boys seem to think that the people have1 no right i i i l a , aoout vi excuses to grumpie ' Demg, '. taxed to the bone. liva at of time and Why peace, in known what as the is richest ing nation in the world must the peo-,ple of this land suffer and struggle so for existence? , see as I it, it Is amazing to note the increasing corruption being practiced throughout our nation, a full volume could be written ' j on that alone. Here is more of our serious drawbacks, out of an average of 50 men of today there are 49 men put of work on account of the one operating ' an automation ; machine. At first the people were happy io see these power machines step in and dc the heavy work, but science at that time was unable to see tht ( The most important ingredient cited for success is the capacity for hard work. Thinking you can loaf leads to failure.' Principal reasons for business . part-time- ed : ' .! formation in Utah Valley. While I am not a member of the Forum, I certainly dislike someone always finding fault and trying to ridicule the efforts of this organi-zatio- n and its members. The Forum was started several years ago by a group of loyal, respected, and public minded citizens of United States who resided in Utah Valley. The purpose of the Forum was to discuss all sides of public issues and since the schools, educators, Chambers of Commerce, etc., only discuss issues favorable to their own interests the only organization in Utah Valley that gives you the other fellows' viewpoint is perts. or : i ; 1 well-know- t the expanding of world wide . . j ' Editor Herald: The Public Affairs Forum of Utah County has contributed much and report on any machine not in good working order. On Jhe favorable side of the above businesses is the fact that they can be started on a part-tim- e basis without, perhaps disrupting your source of income until certain of success. If you are striking out on your own, .without any other source of income, you will need consider ably more capital, not merely for. the business itself but for living expenses. You should have savings equal to a minimum of three months' living costs, say the ex- - J ! By FAYE HENLE jobs scarcer, pay raises smaller, I'll bet many of you are dreaming the great American a business of your own. dream What does it f take to be the J j , .boss? What are tne mgrecuents for success? What are the .; pitfalls? I bad expected to find that you need money, lots of it, to get into business on Faye Uenla your own. This Is. not necessarily true, selling, one of the oldest ways of being on your own is now a, $2.5 billion industry with 1.5 million participants. It ' requires "no investment on the part of an individual when he handles comthe products of V panies. The profits can be handsome, ranging from weekly commissions to $200 upof $30 for e wards for sellers, ac- cording to the National Association of Direct Selling Companies , , ; Public Affairs Forum Defended by Henrie With sub-committ- ee. J Editor Herald: Have you read the late news on taxation? I suppose you have for it was written in this paper a few days ago by one of our reliable, He claims! that the columnists. . .r . . . 'M i. . taxpayers 01 me u. s. nave paid in $53,701,000,000 more during the last eight years than had aU the population of America paid in during the 164 preceding years. That alone should give, the public a clear picture of what to expect jin the future. ril Vot nil J.: ..ij be nipped in the bud with one stroke. I am sure there are not enough jail houses in the state of Utah to house. all the taxpayers if they all go on strike for one year 1 . Many Pitfalls Strew Path Of Man Starting Business i We are. prepared to. press the button unclaimed. Finally, postal authorities decided to return it all to the senders. It was apparent. Said Director Allan to the Congressmen, the consulate had closed down. 'I guess," he said in the understatement of the year, "they hava gone out of business." (Copyright, 1961, by United Feature. Syndicate, Inc.) Your Pocketboolc j So They Say ' j gs . Koterba Red China Builds Cuban Drug Traffic -- , j i. ii k. 4 Editor Herald: . " Every man whose boyhood wr.s spent on a, farm, whatever his life since, has moments at this season when he longs to get back to childhood friends and the soil. jt long for the fragrant smell of apple blossoms and occupations and associations that come back to me. Wouldn't I like to return again and smell the new mown hay, rake up the litter of straw and corn stalks about the barn, also about the straw stacks where' new grasses are starting. Wouldn't I like to pick up stones from the meadow, to mend the old rock fence about the pasture or hint up old Brihdle'snew calf in the nearby woods and bring in wpod for mother; follow the old hand plow as it turns, up the mellow earth. can. almost smell the smoke frpm the old smoke house and the burning brush that winds up the general orchard clearing. Sometimes I wake in early morn, and seem to hear the old brook gurgling as it goes merrily on its way in my dreams and at the close of day make a beeline for the old swimming hole where the yellow buttercups grow .wild on its banks nearby of velvet green and the old willow tree that shades the waten I can almost feel the fragrant air blowing softly on my face and that surely is the sound of a bumblebee and way out yonder is a meadow lark calling 'his mate. By now, I Realize it is just a dream. I am now wide awake. I rise and look out of my window and see a. weary expanse of roofs and cheerless paved streets, there are soot, gases andssmoke in the air, the bee's 'hum resolves itself into an auto in the 'next block and the meadow lark's "song is hushed, I hear no more'. Off in the distance some harsh whistles blow and there is ja rumble of trucks. What wouldn't I give to turn back the Daees of time to father, moth-e sister, the farm and. those hap- py childhopd carefree yesterdays. Oscar W. Mann - - Ed - rush-wee- . ! big-wi- ' Pages of Time tQ Carefree Yesterdays Senate moves now shaping up to ease this income tax burden and wipe out the foolish social security tax (from which the foreigner will get not a cent of benefit) are f i, , , A Wish: To Turn Back' ? j . ; about the situation, Officially they grumble about the loss of'' dignity in turning a convention into a fraternity But, privately, many officials admit that it's a good deal for members and, of course, you can't change human nature. The employers can only, smile and try to look happy. Aerospace conventions and meetings cost Industry about $20 million annually. Recruitment further ups the ', ,' toll, ', And the engineers themselves? . at All" ,v. The scientific, professional societies seem to be of two minds . is always astonishing to read third. j i One of my recent frustrating experi- . "I Don't Find This Relaxing them." self-defens- e. P It's Easy to Be aa , about sending the better, ' senior scientists to these vital meetings. Some other company might snatch "On the; one hand, companies are forced to recruit at convenOn the other tions in hand, there is a growing fear f The Chopping Block a nf al -- Just to take up the slack in the m-- t- tion tells the tale. Engineers who. have been sent by. their firms to attend meetings, deliver papers, ask questions, swap information and cut through the red tape that blocks R & D, are bleaguered ' to change jobs. At the recent, important institute of Radio Engineers convention in New York, an estimated 150 top companies had recruiters federal government sums withheld from their workers for income tax and. social security, purposes. The employers' behavior is, of course, thoroughly reprehensible, One has to wonder, though, why the government cannot devise more effective enforcement against such flagrant' injustice. It is" ironic, too, that while these tax scoff laws duck payment, government has seen fit to slap a flat 30 per cent income tax and a 3 per cent social security levy on foreign exchange student grants. The effect is simply to cut grants by a I By Frank , A look in on a scientific conven- a fresh report that certain employers have failed to turn in to the . some oz,uuu scnoois siumea m a survey, only 42 per cent had such be in addition. All those needs have piled up at a time when the prospect is for higher and higher book costs, Bigger than the other two, perhaps, is the upheaval in our national V scientific community. - Off-Balan- ce the whole story, either. Trained librarians are required. .Still, of dwellers get inadequate service), an outlay of $500 million to $750 million would be required. The biErcrer annual exDenditures would ing." . Americans everywhere. . fn 4 ' That's how it should be, for all . 1 .'' ' at work (and willing, experts say, to spend up to $2,000 to lure each man they want). Estimates are that one out of three of the engineers at the IRE meeting took at least pne looljc at the job market, and half of those turned in job applications, Now, if you were the R & D di- rector in a company trying to carve a chunk out of the space budget, what would you do? One of the biggest recruiting counselors, Deutsch and Shea says you'd' probably do what everybody else does. - ar personnel. read- . w According to engineers on all levels of our space program from coasi to coast, the frustrations and tethers holding up our R&D include: The necessities of security. Protection means caution in dispensing data by agencies that have needed information like the Ad--v e e d Research Projects Agency, Ballistic Missile Division of the Air. Force, Wright Air Development Center, etc The competition among private contractors to come up with an . - . ds our race into space. At the space vehicle research department in one of our biggest rocket-ag- e factories, 'the lean, gray-eye- d man in charge surveys his list of current projects and says solemnly: "We're pretty sure many of these problems already have been solved In other laboratories around the country. But it's too slow and involved to get thie inforif not mation. It's a lot easier to resolve them for cheaper V ourselves." v His words could serve as a de heavier usage with faster wearing out of books, bigger demand for scientific and technical works. " As the nation's population mounts and interest in books more than keeps pace, government at all levels clearly; must "attend to need 16-2- 2, it) - swers, know-hoand job awards. Reporters on the space beat are becoming accustomed to about what the "others are do- scription of what we're up against In the vital area of research and development (or R & D, as the lingo of modern technology calls By WARD CANNEL Newspaper Enterprise Assn. One NEW YORK NEA) whole sad tells the story picture of one of the biggest obstacles in . for Ou r Mi nds Li g his If , ' run-sheep-r- . un . |