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Show Behind the Das News Mo Humph, f Newspaper Enterprise Analyst d naence of tions. The big surprise of the conference was President Tito. Everyone expected the Yugoslav leader to follow the lead of Gamal Abdel Nasser, president of the United Arab Republic, and condemn Moscow's resumption of atomic testing. Instead Tito launched an attack on West Germany and chided be the Russians gently-r-Chie- fly n, Road Divider Critically Needed 'The strip of Provo U.S. 91 from the to the top of the hill into Orem has developed River-Bridg- e into one of the most accident-pron- e stretches of highway in the entire state of Utah. Some of the.causes have existed for many years'; some are more recent; but all could be virtually the corrected by one remedy placing of a divider center strip and oomorofa .f ln-F- f lonoJ ny-- of three or four strategic spots. Only a few days ago a four-caccident sent three persons to the ar -- hospital in ; serious condition from that chronic and always present danger on highways, the rear-en- d collision. This stretch of road is particu- from this stand point. For years it has been necessary to make left turns at road3 leading off both east and west from U. S. 91 midway up of down the dugway. More recently, addition of the Thrift City Shopping tenter, just north ol the rrovo River Bridge has greatly increased turnoff traffic, which already was heavy because of a concentration of commercial establishments in that area. Channeling and installation of separate left turn lanes, where a motorist can stop and wait in safety, to make a left turn without getting hit from the rear by traffic, has cut down accidents almost miraculously on heavily traveled highways. Orem's accident rate dropped astonishingly and immediately avhen chanelling and left turn lanes went into use along U.S. 91 from the top of the hill in South Orem to about 10th North. Prior to that, the rear-en- d collision as motorists slowed or to mike left turns off U.S. halted , 91 was the most prevalent type of accident along Orem's e main thoroughfare. left Channeling and turn lanes from theinstalling Provo River bridge to the top pf the hill (connecting with already existing di- viuers at LKun would be one of the greatest enasj safety moves that larly - .dano-erou- s on-rushi- ng five-mil- could be made. It would require widening the road, but apparently the s tate already possesses sufficient right - of - way along this stretch or could get it without top much difficulty. Las t Wednesday two cars were badly mangled, three persons were badly injured, and two other cars all besuffered minor damage rear-enwhile a collision d cause of cars topped or slowed for someone to make a left turn off the dugway. It was but one of many like it over the years on thjs die." . It would seem 1 rs f .U.;:, y full-size- destroy us- - Our" annoyance over such little things; as socialized medicine in England con tributed to the belief of other countries "that we were opposed to human Welfare" any place it interferred with profits. In trying "to help in our bungling way we became the enemy, the menace. Now we are involved so heavily that we can't back out, we have a horse in our stomach, or perhaps it's an overgrown dragon-fly. It's too bad that a shrinking world has made it .impossible for us to mind our own Dusiness tne way we used to do. Our best hope now is that the Communist world will prove to be even dumber than we are. They are v.certainly giving sit i n Luc tn anli iVio. xiicjr nave awauuvreu uiui(.auuua, Tu too many countries that will give them an ever increasing bellyache. I am writing this on Labor Day, and coward that I am i am staying strictly at home, I remarked to a neighbor-lad- y Prime Minister Nehru emerged as a genuinely neutral statesman. He urged the conference to forget past grievances against the "colonialists." The colonialist theme was played like a broken record by ambitious politicians such as Indonesia's Sukarno, Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah and Cuba's Oswaldo Dorticos. But Nehru urged the delegates to stay truly neutral and to use whatever .far-sighte- d, op- portunity to emerge as a teal balance in a world beset by fears of The Other World . .. . . .- -. ?- . : .. . . . sv..'.v-:.-.-- .. . , . . ..;.;.'.:: .cvvi PSYCHOLOGY WORKS Dragged my youngest child luctantly to school last week for his first day in first grade. He had announced the night before that there would be nothing in first grade to interest him, so he didn't think he'd go to school this year. And besides, he didn't even know who his teacher would and minerals (he's a junior rock hound); an! aquarium filled with guppies (he has a goldfish); and best of all, a cage in which a lively little chipmunk was performing for the children. He dragged himself away from the displays long enough to ."join the first grade club" and receive a name badge from his smiling teacher. He never saw me leave, and I'm sure he didn't care. But as I walked to the car I couldn't help add a postscript to The Beatitudes: Blessed are teachers (Who understand child psychology. --Lj. S. Z., Springville. ' ' ; porary extended unemployment beneilts. Ihey represented a' third of the two million workers who had used up their-statunemploy ment benetit rights since mid- - ill e iyto The average worker, had received' about 22 weeks of benefits and had about 10 more weeks left. Thik general picture has not chang ed significantly since June. While individual workers have joined or left the group, this large army of unemployed remains, seemm gly unabsorbable in an oth- erwise prosperous economy. it I have about forgotten how much life is in youngsters. Yesterday we had five of them in the house who call us Grandma Winnie and Grandpa Frank, because their mother adopted us as a pair of extra parents. Lucille Barthole-meof Spanish Fork is the lady. Years ago when she was a little tyke she wanted a job up here picking raspberries, but nobody would hire her, so enterprisingly she climbed into the truck and when she got here went to work. Lila Brake, who was handling the pickers, thought we had hired her, and we thought Lila had. When v e compared notes we discovered that she was the best picker in the patch, and Lucille has been our faithful there w friend over since. She r as a fine bunch of kids in whom we take all the pride of real grandparents. I like the way the kids stick together. While one little girl was out in the yard yesterday a neighbor boy on his way home from Sunday School stopped to throw rocks at her. In a moment our clan gathered and sent the invader up the road in a shower of rocks. I like to think it was my influence, for I am ever ready to throw a rock, even though nowadays it is of necessity a verbal one, whenev ier I am assailed. Children are nice to have around, though I must confess that now and then I had o retreat to the sanctity of my room to sort of gather my scattered wits. The years dp take something out of one, and I know I'm not qualified to be a baby-sitte- r. I have been warned that. I. must help take care of little, Fpnkiewin Marsh, our namesake, while her mother picks peaches, but I have a strong premonition that I am going to brace my study door, and leave the baby tending up to Grandma Winnie. Being called a grouch is a small payment to make for peace and quiet. less-than-tw- $ GOOD By HENRY J. TAYLOR North Atlantic Communist convoys delivered Russia complete chemical electric power stations mills, tire plants, petroleum electric power stations and block-signsystems, not to mention $1,647,000 worth of buttons. They were not sent or meant for war use. They were goodies to be used whenever peace came; like a stcred-u- p crate of plums from Aunt Mary. No conception of this or everything else we gave ever reached the Russian people. Nor, of course, has the Kremlin paid the vast sums in default. 1 was present with General Mark W-- Clark in Vienna when an officer of the Soviet forces that met our troops there asked him in all seriousness: "General Clark, will you please tell me how your American Army got so many Russian jeeps?" Russia never even made a horn's toot for a jeep. Yet even this officer thought the Soviet was on the giving end until General Clark dropped his soldierly gallantry and replied in a hurry. We watch the excellent Bolshoi ballet twinkle here, see Nixon in the kitchen or pictures of peasants in the fields and in 'other ways get the correct . impression that, like average people everywhere, the Russian people mean well. But perhaps it is impossible for us to put ourselves in the position of a. mass mind of 200 million people where a government controls every newspaper, radio, moving picture, billboard,, loudspeaker, book, encyclopedia, library, training center, school, university and all sources of information and has for over o, statements ex- - columnists are not necessarily this newspaper, !: j g tellectually emancipated. Indoctrination is to learn subjection to a central will and is basically the method used by animal trainers. We might well remember there is no such thing as an educated lion. We saw what happened to the young .German millions in Hitler's little red schoolhousesllit-le- r had only seven years before 1939 to mdoctrinate Nazism. The Communists have had 44; every Russian younger than 45 was born under the Red fraud. Thus our thinking is vulnerable. Knowing the Soviet people are be t her and ing better "educated" and consesuch is our conclusion quently more enlightened, we confuse our terms. To let Soviet propaganda impress us by the growth' of education among a population in the straitjacket of indoctrination is like listenng to a 'dancng master eulogize the waltz while he cuts off the pupils' legs.. Our own educators should be very careful to straighten our public out on that fact and never praise a fraud. Our truths when they do strike home by radio, exhibits, programs or other are immensely valuable, means for their limited effect and we health. 40 years. In our Western way, and in terms of the objectives of our own education, we may feel dimly encouraged by the growth of Soviet education; and perhaps as the Russians "know more" many may see through the vicious shams. But the Soviet little red sehoolhouse remains the big red arsenal. And it is not our friend. We are only 12,000 years re- moved from our ancestor with the brutal jaw, the h teeth, the h forehead. See him shivering in some icy pool. He has taken refuge there from a pursuing animal, snarling at the water's edge. And there, born in that dark brain long ago and lost in the canyons of intelligence, is the first desperate craving for knowledge. We were then, and remain today, in a battle between education and destruction. But, "education," Communist-stylis a tragic retreat toward the Icy pool. Education is one thing. Indoctrination is tthe reverse To be educated is to learn to think for one's self (a very hard task), to learn what wrecked two-inc- one-inc- 1 ture, rugs etc.? I've used all sorts of sprays s y s t tically em a once a J ' r forI month' and any results. A I may be wrong but I think , Dr. Ilyman you've misstated the problem. Most commercial insecticides are enormously effective. I'm sure you've your etc. what's furniture, rugs Perhaps by househappening is hold pets. Next time you spray, include Fido and or Tabby. And then just see that they do their relaxing on tfie kitchen floor instead of on your parlor rugs and furniture. Q My teen-ag- e daughter needs a reshaping of for plastic surgery her nose. Can you furnish me with the name of reliable surgeons in " our. locality? A Write Miss Estelle E. Hiller-icof 4647 Pershing Ave., St. Louis 8, Mo., Corresponding Secretary of the American Board of Plastic Surgery. Give your address and enclose a stamped envelope for the reply. Q What objections are there to fluoridation of community water supplies? A Writing in the official organ of the Pennsylvania State Department of Health, the Director of Dental Health asserts that the are "an assortment of people ranging from some skep- de-bugg- ed h, ,: people-to- -people mirror. w Telestory. QUALITY WILL TELL! There are two ways to find out what you are like deep down inside. Oiy is to go through the laborious and expensive process via the psychiaof The couch. other is to go trist's to a Chinese restaurant and read k self-analys- "There is the contents of a fortune cookie. I encountered the latlr 'method;; recently, and belv-- me it's h0 seemed in excellent I became all ears. went to lunch with Frank C. Robertson, novelist and author of the Herald's Chopping Block, and Winifred N. Jones. Herald Society editor. Hers was something about "A good memory does not equal pale ink," for which I missed the point and had tohave it explained (and still don't completely understand). For a man who has written nearly 150 novels (including'1 his "Ram in the Thicket" biography which this summer was a book condensation in The Headers' .Digest) Frank drew a pointed: "A correspondence course may be just the thing you need." And mine? Well, it's kind ol personal, but I guess a man's true qualities will come to the' fore. Mine read: "You are haunting as twilight, elusive as evening shadows." Downright exotic, ch what? I T. H. L. Your Pocketbodk tics to those Who just naturally gravitate to opposition groups of all kinds. They are frequently" he adds "people who dislike change and alw?ays suspect the worst." In this instance, according to the aforementioned director Dr. G. Grace, "the worst" includes a "plot by ithe. communists to gain control of the country"; a "great scheme of the aluminum industry to dispose of one of its waste products at a profit" andor feeding of "rrt poison" to an- un-- . " informed public. Yet the American Medical Association, the American Dental Association, the United States Public Health Service and many state boards of health (none Communist-controlle- d r affiliates of the alu-minum company) all endorse fluoridation. These endorsements have been based on numerous statistical studies the latest of which comes from Corvallis, Ore.t After fluoridation 6f the municipal water supply for seven years, "dental caries of the permanent and primary teeth (of school children) was markedly reduced as compared with the incidence prevailing among children of the corresponding age before water fluoridation." There was also a "mark- ed reduction in the numbers of. decayed and missing teeth," state Drs. Tanks and Storvick writing in the Journal of Pediatricts. No harmful effects of fluoridation were noted. Spendable Money Grows; Business Will Benefit Lin-wo- od By FAYE HENLE How's your behavior ' asf a ' !.; Dear Reader: Dr. ilyman appreciates your comments and questions but regrets that the heavy volume of his mail doesn't permit him to answer each individual letter or post card. However, he will comment In columns like the above upon matters of general or unusu-i- ll interest. s of facturers, reports to Muring sell mofe them expect this quarter than they did a year ago. About half of them predict the rise of new orders will go 10 percent or more over 1900's figure, i Taking a more temperate view, Leonard II. Lcmpert of Statistical Indicators Associates sees an three-quarter- ; would discover you had a you $7,000 invest ment. But if you f .wanted to sell all these, you probably would be i. abld to raise only Faye Henle $3,300 in cash. Thejse figures come from a report on "Consumer Behavior in 1961" issued by the Foundation for Research on Human Behavior at ? !. stepping up: your buying of both goods and services by 7 per cent, between now and next summer. The National Industrial Conference Board, surveying 220 manu- con- sumer? If yours is an average household and you ere to total your spending for ther acquis- - fYfJV,. i ition of your car t? '3 v wZ3 and other bigticket items like j a rof H aoiit tor v: f . sts rear-vie- But Russia is an enormously versified and very big country and 11 time zones to our four with fundamental our problem the mass mind is that the truth must jump the deep trench, of slanted history and generations of misinformation which has done there what Hitler did to German youth but for six times as lon,g. Tragically, no education by us from far away or from within by can create the growth of school - between the breatfany decisive Kerm-lin- . the and mind Russian mass Tyrants do many things badly but they are very good at , can't seem to get SAGEBRUSH SAGE SAYS Nothing: improves your automobile driving: like a vision of a highway patrol car in your must try to keep delivering the truth by every possible means. di- - 'months -r-- V. "Yes," said Jan. And she continued, "There's something wrong Could Pets Be Unwitting Fifth Column Agents? 1 , I had just passed her grandpa, Jim McMahon, before meeting" The Doctor Says By HAROLD T. IIYMAN, M.D. Written for Newspaper Enterprise Assn. Q Thank you for your directions for ridding humans of lice with (Kwell) shampoo. But how in the world do you get mites of out up- a l i riurm- - r noisierea E certain Provo grade instructor demonstrated a neat bit of psychology last week with a class of fourth graders. It seems that beginning shop students spend a good share of their time twisting bench vise handles and this has apparently proven to be distracting. SO the instructor devoted an entire period to having the youngsters tighten and loosen vises with the idea, I guess, that the kids would get so sick ' of turning vise handles that it would be no problem from then on. B And mine says he did., is?" . e, : old cities, to learn to test whatever may be false and to be in- AD-VIS- ; A ," my grandpa." Rather startled, I said Soviet Education Is Indoctrination al Slaughter Day. From the reports already coming1 in we'll be able to kill more .people than ever while we're supposedly honoring the dignity of labor. We have pretty generally taken the dignity out of work so perhaps it is well to remember for jusi one day in the year that there was a ime when men expected to do a day's v.ork for a day's pay, but killing and maiming people seem a poor way POOR GRANDPA! "I want to tell said my little friend Jan Brown when I met her in town oh her way home from kindergarten. "There's something wrong with Around the Capitol re-iners- that if it wasn't a holiday I would take off somewhere on a trip, and she wanted to know what difference that made. ' I could only tell her that I'm a coward. The fewer years I have left, the more I seem to want to hang onto them. I think .we should take to calling it The opinions and pressed by Herald their own and do reflect the views of J i up, gotten married and had children of their own? Baby sitters. Changing Times. & youy-something- fac-fineri- es, ' AIN'T IT THE TRUTH! Know what you call people whose children have" grown center containing fossils, rocks He was a resident of one of six large industrial states New York, California, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Illinois and was reMichigan ceiving about $32 a week in unemployment benefits. At the time of the study, 700.000 unemployed were receivincr tem J v be! He balked at getting out of the car, pulled at my hand and protested that he was sure he . wouldn't like it. On entering4, his classroom, we found a remarkable display of things to interest little people. lie moved right to the table in the mid-jun- e, to do with him. Every time I see him he gives me some money." Then away she went with her newly acquired dime. K. D. G., Payson. re- . goods! industries. the underdeveloped of countries was severely undermined by the fact that even a man like Nasser condemned Russia's re--' sumption of nuclear testing. OH the Beat . . champion By the Herald Staff Who are the unemployed? According to the Department of the comLabor, as of posite jobless worker was between 25 and 55, and an unskilled or semiskilled worker in durable' rea- sonable to assume that .the old ladv wouldRobertson have a fair sized turnthose anall ache after my swallowing imals to get rid of the fly, but let's not laugh at her. The masters of our foreign policy have followed exactly the same procedure. At the beginning what happened abroad was no more than an annoyance like a fly accidentally swallowed, but in trying to 4dll that fly we d horse have wound up with a in our stomach, and a war horse at that. A few countries wanted to experiment with socialism because they had too much poverty and exploitation, but it was a fly in our capitalistic stomach so we went after it with the intention of seeing to it that these nations maintained their capitalistic form of government whether their people wanted it or not. As it became harder we med- -. died more and more, supporting one dictator after another. As fast as one was .overthrown a more powerful one took, his place, and the fly grew larger and larger as it fed on its would be destroy-- ; ers until now it is powerful enough to Tibet. Thus, they missed an historic non-aligne- The Hard Core The Fable of the Swallowed Ply ' non-aligne- To be sure, the comments and d statesactions of all the not underline "neutrality men did on the side of Russia." India's The Herald vigorously recommends that the state road commission give immediate consideration to the construction of a divider and left turn lanes along this portion of highway. The Chopping Block and shallowed horse to catch the dog. At eacn singing the entire menagarie was repeated, concluding with a mournful and prophetic, "I think she will assurance. Edelmann's statement emphasizes again the conviction rof the East German Reds that they can continue to apply their "salami slicing" tactics against West Berlin without fear of reprisals. There is no ddubt that East Ger 'Our wartime e so-call- ed moral credit they have in an effort to mediate between East and West In the cause of peace. ' Although the Belgrade conference was intimidated by Nikita .it was by no means r Khrushchev, a triumph for Moscow. The Russians regard as enemies all nations or any group of nations which try to steer an independent course, which do not take their orders from Moscow. Khrushchev's pose as a war. segment. T By FRANK C. ROBERTSON Remember the old nursery rhyme which began, "There was an old lady who swallowed a fly. I don't know why. I think she will die." She then swallowed a, spider that sat down beside her to catch the fly, then she swallowed a bird to catch the spider, and swallowed a car to catch-thbird, and swallowed a dog to catch the cat, cause their announcement of nuclear testing coincidedl yith the opening of the' Belgrade "peace" conference. (It was also Marshal Tito's birthday.) Many pf the uncommitted nations used a double standard; in judging the acts of Russia and of the Western" allies. They were , quick to condemn France for Bizefte, for instance, but completely ignored Russian and Chinese acts of aggression in Hungary, Berlin and Soviet-Germa- n BELGRADE (NEA) 4- - "Don't The United States kid yourself. never will fight for West Berlin." The speaker was Gerhard Edel-manchief editor of Radio East Berlin, and Walter UlbrichFs top propagandist. He spoke with blunt On Highway 91 North, of Provo Mo scow ai Be rade Meei many was encouraged by the support Of a separate peace treaty and for a divided Germany which it received from some delegates at the Belgrade confer- By LEON DENNEN SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER ,it), 1961 1& Ann Arbor, Mich. II you followed the national pattern, your spending for these items . increased 8 per cent from 1946 through 1955, then tapered off and increased by only 1 per icent over the. past five years. Do any of your possessions look shabby? If so, the foundation is correct in predicting that within the next two or three years your replacement needs will increase. The big unanswered question that business is seeking is: when will you step up your buying? My desk is covered with even course of an upswing, saying: "We would appraise the odds of a continuing upswing during the asup- swing in business, and the biggest Christmas ever. Here's why: Right this minute our income, after taxes and adjusted for buying power, for every man, woman and child hi this country, equals $2,015. This is 3 per' cent Jiigher than it was earlier this year and 1 per cent above last summer's . peak. . . fore-cds- ts William F. Butler, economist and vice president for New York's Chase Manhattan Bank, sees you 1961 as 8 in 10." remainder After carefully studying our sets I am willing to predict an , ' And more spendable money is coming. Because of the hikes in social security benefits, some of us will have $1 billion more to spend during the next 12 mainly months. These benefits go ' to "little people," those with the lowest income and the highest needs. With the step-u- p in draftees, with the step-u- p in defense outlays, job opportunities will increase. AAArMM..c L - (All .rights reserved. Newspaper Enterprise-Assn.- ) |