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Show Thp Report Allen-Sco- tt Morse H its ing Strategy of Democrats Do-No- th I Tlanningf IstheWordfoij it SUNDAY, IULY 8, 1962 , Planning as a word is hardly more popular in 1962 than it was in the .1930's when "government first began to growj big. But planning as a1 fact is an increasing ele ment in American government at . all levels. No longer may critics of planning argue sensibly that the federal1 government is "plan happy" while state and local governments avoid such pitfalls. The governors who assembled at Hershey, Pa., for their annual ex- change of views found the problem of planning uppermost in many j - . . minds. - . They agreed that popular and resistance to the idea political magnified their difficulties. Yet in numerous instances they are finding ways of getting around these roadblocks. The reason they are so insistent In this course is their common belief that the head-lon- g growth of their areas will lead to costly, damaging chaos if allowed to continue substantially without plan.; Industrial development is taking new shape and forms, clinging more now to superhighway routes than to established rail lines, moving to the suburbs. Suburban growth generally is pushing out at fantastic pace creating tremendous problems in the fields of roads, community facilities, schools, recreation. No governor wants this growth to get out of hand, as it is threatening in many places to do. This explains the general eagerness displayed at Hershey for" comprehensive planning, Onestate's chief executive, Gov. j Ernest Hollings of South Carolina, frankly told fellow governors the ' - llUfL M j you. v fc.v ii people want,' 1 m X their children to pray, and I have no objection tnthp.m Hrviriff it it It pleases them, they still have plenty of time to do It out of ' f chool 'hours. j ! It has been said so often that the constitution .was insDired by' f 4 ? ii urn 1 W . 'i1 v. Roberteon God that most f people seem to think He affixed His signature to if. Yet He is not mentioned in the constitution,' and many of the men! who did sign it were freethinkers. It does guarantee freedom of religion, but where is the freedom if the child of an atheist or a "Moslem is forced to join iri the prayers of a Christian? Where iri the Constitution does it" say that we must believe in God because certain people that we fear don't? . f Here Is a way to tell whether you are a conservative or a liberal. If you are a conservative you will agree with H. Ladd Plumley, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, that, income taxes- should be cut mostly iri the upper brackets. If you are a liberal you will go along with Walter Reuther; the labor leader,! that the cuts should be mostly in the lower and middle brackets. It is just that simple. If you believe that! taxes are necessary, but that tax collectors have no right to be tyrants, and that waste of, government funds is sinful then you arej in my 'camp and probably should call, yourself a mugWump.l The defination of a mugwump is a bird that ' sits on the fence with its mug onj one side and its wump on the other. - X ; ' Being unable to sleep the other night I spent the hours from one until three a.m. walking up and down the road and watching the passing cars. While; most of them paused to pick a few cherries they somehow didn't seem to care to stop and. visit, and always drove on when1 I approached them. I dislike unsociable ; ' ;.; 'people. I wasn't carrying a gun though one night last year I did step out on the .bridge and fire a shot at the moon high enough to make sure I wasn't going to hit anybody but I got quite a; scare A young anyway. couple ran out of the orchard and I thought they .were going to take the fence with them. A.' wire fence across the highway might cause an accident. If the young couple had an accident I didn't hear of it, but from the ' : . .j been voted.. So long ran-- was fearful. J We started our cherry harvest this morning and by five a.m. there! were more than" a hundred kids around here. Wa used to could count on sixty per cent ; of last years pickers coming back, but sixty per cent, of last year's crew accounts for only a small part of. those required this year so' the ladder boys have to use a lot of patience. Most of these boys are still In high school but they, take the responsibility of managing j their crews seriously One of our headaches has always been that right! when we needed the kids, the most there was always some church car By ROBERT S. ALLENj and PAUL SCOTT v Senate DemWASHINGTON, ocratic leaders are likely to remember for quite a while the w m ' i scorching castigatlon they got from Senator Wayne Morse at a strategy meeting. The militant Oregonian Jolted this unannounced pow-wointo startled astonishment by lacing into the party chiefs as caustically as if they were hostile Republi;J cans. The flabbergasted Deniocratic leaders were bitingly berated for timidity, pussyfooting and backsliding, When Morse finished blasting them, not one said a wordv in reply. The only comment was Vice President Lyndon Johnson's wry remark, "One thing is certain. When Wayne has anything to say, he never leaves any doubt as to . , What's on his mind." President Kennedy apparently felt the same way, and wanted a first-han- d account of Morse's rambunctious thinking. Several days after, this backstage explosion, the President invited Morse for a private late afternoon talk.. It lasted an hour Morse entering, and and a half White House unobthe leaving served. What transpired between them is unknown. But Morse seems to be quite content. He may not have swallowed the proverbial canary, but he must have gotten something! The meeting, was the first of two arranged by Senate Democratic leaders to discuss campaign policies and plans with Democratic and senators up for others seeking Senate seats. Vice Johnson President presided, flaked by the party's two floor j . . J as a necessary job gets of government. M one of smokescreens Admittedly, eort or, another seem to play a considerable role in much that we do in many walks of life. There are some things we sbem unable to deal with candidly.! They are enmeshed in myth and prejudice Planning plainly js; one. In many , . j " ;j people's minds, this idea is bound! up with the notion, of government fir encroaching too on personal : freedom of action The fear is not unreasonable. Yet a society must always move aheac in some order, and this inevitably jmeans imposing limits ori free action. and The; nation's governors others are; unquestionably many tent on assuring that our great new growth is under sensible control. Though they cannot-alwayUse the word, they ard in fdct planning on a wide scale today and contriving ways to do even more of s it tomorrow. scout activity to take them away. This year it has at least smarted out different-lOne ward in SprJngvilleJ concerned (about khe children finding ejnploymnt, asked us if we would employ a certain number if the ward would enlist them and get their agreement to stay on the job unkil it was finished. We were glad to do that, and when the season started the kids had collected at the place agreed upon where we were to pick them jjup. Mays Anderson,! who first presented the idea to us, has started something which I hope will snowball throughout the county in this and coming years. I am 'sure that most fruitgrowers in the county) would ratherj hire local people than transients if thejy could be assured of getting dependable help. The wards are in a position to do what the farmer's can't, for it is the parentsj who will termine whether the) kids stay on job, ajid whether they come to work or to "goof off," many of them do. A child who comes to the orchilrd, picks a bucket or so of cherries then, goes visiting among! other crews that want to work- is no hflp at all. Only parents who would rathjer have their children earning a few dollars rather than roaming, the streets pan cure that, Farmers j will not overwork or abuse the children in any Way, but they can't hire them unless thy can have some assurance that they Won't b left in khe lurch at a critical time. With the" backing of the church and tbe parents we can do a lot more against juvenile delinquency thari.any government agency can y. j i' o ' - I have one suggestion for my fellow farmers. Children ae people, and they have names and thejf will respond better if you use their nams instead of a number. It is worth the little extra time. Children have picked our cherries for many years,jand we have never had! one called, Hey You, in our orchard. Kelly and Dean would be shocked if any kid called them Mr. Robertson, or Mr. Binks. I know I can do more with a child who feels free to call me Frank. Get the kids to feel that they are working with, rather j than for you. ( So They Soy Short of a catastrophe that would destroy most of the world . . .1 there seems little prospect for the unification of Christendom. DrJJaroslav Pelikian, Lutheran theolo gian of the University of Chicago. '! jr When the Proteus came", we were in formed that its persqrinel were the cream of the American $avy. If that is (the case, I hope I never have dealings with their inferiors. Anne Dunoon, Scotland, council-woma- n Melville, .citing increasing immorality since the town became a U.S. a tomic submarine base. You have to like people to like politics. James A. Farley ; 174. . 6 I : - The opinions and statements ex-- j j I their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of this newspaper. . Lp . f Matt by The Herald . p. Mature Parent . Dont Presume 'I WOMAN, THE PIONEER Newspaper Enterprise Assn. The year that she was 8 years old, nice ladies were buzzing excitedly over a book; about what its author called "white slavery." It contained extremely sensational descriptions of the methods by which wicked men were said to be luring, abducting andi dragging young girls into lives of pros- titution. Inevitably, hints of its provocative contents seeped down to the nice ladies' children, Mothers darkly warned little girls again of the mysterious perils involved in "speaking to strangers." In parks, during recess, behind bushes on suburban lawns, the warnings with' their delicious suggestion of female were repeated to other little girls. (I riiyself learned about the "white slavery" book from the daughter of my respectable music Utah. j in- terpretive dance perhaps an maneven and effeminate arty ner, you riiight think, to tell of) a homespun - Swearing, Indian-fightin- wildeniess-conquerin- g g, i N II j It was composed and choreo-- ! graphed by Virginia Tanner (Ms. Bruce Bennett) of Salt Lake City who has attained nation - wide fame with her Children's Dance Theatre and the things she does with it. Her assistant, Ruth Burke, helped her, and Robert Cundick of the BYU music faculty wrote a delightfully listen able original musical score. The dance is called "Woman, the Pioneer," and it is the'stojry of the Mormon pioneer woman. jit was the climax of a program which Miss Tanner's troupe put on for four performances at the luxurious Playhouse Theater jat the Seattle World's Fair. Thir run two matinees and two evenings was one of the longest for any single group appearing at the fair. They played to two packed houses, and drew rave notices from the music arid art critic of the Seattle Times. Two little Provo misses, Janeice Jenkins and Jane Luke, were among the 30 children who made up the troupe. But back to "Woman, the Pioneer." It was composed especially for the Seattle performance. The Seattle sponsored the trip to the fair, and its members had previously said to Miss Tanner "Give us something from your great Mormon heritage." And I think she has. The dance Is by xno means obscure. Anyone familiar with Mormon history will recognize every segment of jit. Dressed 4n pioneer women the older girls of the troupe portray the saga of the Mormon pioneer woman. And the climax where they battle the child So one day the of this column told a classmate ' that she read it. She told the lie because she was a lonely little and so grateful to have girl been invited to the classmate's home for Saturday lunch that ' she tried to insure hei new friend's continuing admiration by a display of an enviable experience. But her social triiimph Was short-liveSoon after she left, her hostess suffered an attack of bad conscience. Seeking out her mamma, she reported thsit Virginia Peterson knew all about the of prostitutiorf. atRecalling her frienda to consolidate tempt ship, Virginia Peterson said to me, "My classmate's mother telephoned my mother." I had asked her to see me because this distinguished (writer and critic's best seller, "A Mat-ter of Life and Death," is not just autobiography. It is t le pro- foundly sensitive and moving story of the process of estranges- ment as it takes place between a parent and child. Now, pouring my tea, the woman who has written so well of the pa in suffered as a result of estrangement from her mother, said: "This experience of my childhood does not appear iri my book. I have only remembered, it because you asked me if I was often punished for doing jwhat 1 hadn't done. I was. Do you take crearii?" I said "No," but she gave it to me anyway. Neither of us noticed because we were jboth engaged in the recollection she was sharing with me. "That day,! when I got home," she told mej "I walked into a house of ice I was sent to my room and given no dinner. The frost continued for many days. I was not asked if I had really read the book. I was not asked four-performan- d. ; i Symj-phon- y ; cos-tuirie- s, why I had toldmy classmate a lie. I was asked nothing. "My mother punished me without telling me how I had offended. I accepted the punishment without asking how I had offended. Only years later could I put two and see I and two together had been outcast for reading a I hadn't read." book V In courts of law an accused adult is presumed to be innocent until he is proven guilty. Butj in arixjac-cushomes -- - nice ones, too child is often so aggreslye-l-y presumed to be guilty thatj he forgets he is innocent. (All rights reserved. Newspaper enterprise Assn.) ed Advice by Ruth Millett re-elect- leaders Senators- Mike Mansfield, Mont.,; and Hubert Humphrey, Minn. Among thole attending were r j jBut great though the dance, was, and it brought the house down, it cannot be appreciated as much by audiences as by Mor-moI think it should be presented before Mormon audiences, many of them. I jthink it should be a part of the next June MIA conference. I think every descendant of those Mormon pioneer women should have a chance to see it ahd feel the lump in his throat. arid the tingle ddwn his spine, and khow that no orie ever had more courage or greatness. T.H.L. non-Morm- on ri. j 3 4 j 100-pou- Seems to Me an says she wouldn't trust another woman she means with her man. But when a man says he wouldn't . trust another man he means with his moriey. When a wonv he '""'' 8 ' ' ? V its . (i mean that over "How could you think such a fhing, Marie?" he said, with vious hurt. VI admiring her diamonds, t was admiring her n't J j Mollified, Matte apologized for misjudging him and the evening was saved.! From Famous Fables by E. E. Edgar i I LI "l ! Ruth Millett 1 . ternational headquarters to clear it with Sidney or whoever might j be the head man at that time. Cabinet members might have to 2.5 riiillion would be covered v This would. mean that a majority of civil servants would become union pawns; It would mean an even lapger lever for pressure politics: it would mean an addi tional burden for the taxpayer. We may well be heading for a union-sho- p where government belong to district, fifty of the "United Mine Workers, while1 Hoffa might have been Jimmy successful in picking up the Am- bassadors because traveling men. j husband with a pit!- Is ful tale about how tired is she getting ready to suggest they go out to dinner. But when a man comes home from work saying he is "beat" he is plariting the idea that he is too tired to go anywhere. When a woman finds a dress that "will do" in the first store she goes to she tells the clerk, "I may come back for it but: I'd Hke to look around a bit first g ,,' - When a man finds a! suit that "will do In the! first store he enters he tells the clerk, "I'll take: it" a , I husband gives a wife an impracticalj gift, she exchanges it. When a wif gives her husband something he can't use he says it is just what; hejwanted and puts it carefully awayVto be forgotten. When a woman is ready to leave a party she murmurs something about having to get the baby sit- -, ter home. When her husband if When ' , A - . . . V. . ready to leave he remembers that he has a big day ahead of . him at the office. When a ' woman chances her mind she simply says that she has changed her mind. But when a man changes his mind he says that after careful consideration he has decided thus or so. . Although a good mule may. bring $56 there, wives are sold ior as little as $45 in the African city ef Timbuktu, J- are they . . j A Aj have jurisdictional fights between various unions for the right to represent certain groups. Ve may see Senators picketing Congressmen and ' carrying signs denouncing the unfair , labor practices of these lawmakers for working two "hours a week when the established standard is one. jit is possible that a President may be forced tolresign from office because the union leader lifted his work permit because to hf wouldn't pay an assessment his the political fund to elect ' opponent. - And no certainly Supreme Court jjistice would consider a decision without first checking with the in- broadest sense as the union will not Mr. Gardner be forced to recruit members, but will merely inherit the work ers if the government decides that they should belong to a union. A Presidential task force has already held hearings on the relationship of unions and the federal government. Should the government sign a contract unionizing its employees, it would I j home-comin- - union to hold his job. In fact, we might even reach a point where elected officials will have to joint the union before they can be g worn. in. I forsee a time when we may in "organize" Words of Men and Women May Differ Considerably In Meaning You no doubt have noticed: When a worn- - mm w- every worker must oeiong to tne sure will be even greater. I use the word " ! v ernment workers, this pres- attended One a banquet. Marie observed with distress that her husband could not keep his eyes off (the lady seated opposite1! them; a stunning woman who was wearing a dazzling diamond necklace, j When they: lft the table, she said with some asperity: "Why were ou staring so at her diamonds? pan it be that you too are succumbing to the lure" of wealth?" Her husband gave her a pained beauty." j ' i; ob-was- ty - organize almost all gov- night J the ' two ' great-ma-JoTi- and prize-Winnin- ! , leaders get their way g Nobel scientists, Tarie and Pierre Curie lived only fpr their work. pThey not! only did riot seek financial reward; they felt that wealth would destroy i l labor FALSE ACCUSATION look. Mr. Scott dividend and Interest tax withholding proposal that . was voted by the House, but has been stalled ' for eeks in the Seriate Finance.. Committee; and the drastic grain coriti-obill that the Senate passed, but which the House. rejected by a close margin. Finally, Vice President John- son, summing up these views, said 'As I' gather it, the con- sensUs of this meeting is to ad vise the President that these me a' sures should be laid over un til the next Congress." ' At this point, Morse, who had been listening in brooding silence, exploded with a roar. "That may be the consensus of this meeting," he snapped, "but I wint the record to show that it most emphatically is not mine. Ahdj that goes for the of the American people, too. 1 couldn't disagree more W5th you, and neither do they. "vhat you propose is a betray al of the heart of what the Democratic party and the Kennedy administration stand for. The pjirjty and the Administration solemnly pledged to do their utmost t) enact these measures. If you now pussyfoot and backslide,"! the party will be over- whelrriingly defeated in this year's elections. I know the temper of the voters; they want actiori and you had better watch your step. , "It's been said here that most of the doctors are against the medicare plan. But nothing has been said about most of the people being for it. We were told that a majority of the Senate is against the dividend and interest withholding tax.. Maybe so. But that's no reason why this measure , should be pigeonholed. That is a $600 million tax loophole, and it's tiirie we plugged it up. The House approved it, and I see utterly ho reason why the Senate shouldn't. fYou mark my word. You're asking for defeat by stalling and dodging these issues. You can't fool the voters. The great majority of them knowj what's going, on, and they will be very tough on Democratic . candidates if we haven't got the courage of our" convictions and run for cover on these measures. I'm telling you, it's far better to go down fighting for them in the Senate than to shelve them and get licked by the voters." By DAVID GARDNER The effect of labor on both national and local politics is one of tremendous pressure: And if J j Mr. Allen Unionized Government Workers Visualized nd their integrity, Senator Frank Church, Idaho; Joseph Clark, Philadelphia ; J. W. Fulbrighi, Ark., chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee; Carl Hayden, Ariz., head of the Appropriations Committee ; Frank Lausche, O. ; Edward Long, Mo. ; Warren Magnuson, Wash., chairman of the Commerce Committee; Representative Daniel Inouye, Hawaii, and HEW Secretary Abraham Ribicoff. Until TELLING 'EM OFF Morse unlimbered his searing guns, the meeting was peaceful and quiet. In fact, it verged on sweetness and light. Democrat Democrat voiced the, opinion that controversial measures of the President's legislative program should be shelved until next year, after the fall election is out of the way. Particularly singled out for such ditching were the hotly embattled medicare for the aged plan; the It DEFENSELESS, (?) SEX A wire service report received ih The Herald office told of a woman attacking a husky professional wrestler with her shoe and injuring him so severely that he required hospi talization. Her reason for the, attack, she&aid, was that he pinched 'her. After hearing the story our. city ejditor, Theron Luke dryly remarked that the spike heel had Undoubtedly replaced the hatpin as woman's defense. J." S. Z. - after , j PROBLEM FpR TEACHER An eastern town voted for a new school, but defeated a bond issue) to pay for it. There's one! for the teachers to figure out. ce j ; j people. You won't think so if you ever see that dance.! j ts : We. saw it portrayed through j j J crickets, watch the. seagulls come, arid give thanks to God for their deliverance, is one' of the most mjoving portrayals of a great arid moving moment (in history that I ever hope to see The, dance needed one more thing for an audience not familiar wth Mormon history. It needed a brief prologue which set the stage, so) to speak, for what was to come. It was my privilege to write the prologue, and,! kt the final performance at Seattle, to read it from backstage over the micro-Phon- e. The Mormon saga has been portrayed in countless ways, but we saw a facet of it in Seattle that left us With. a lump in our throat, a tingle down our spine, and ja . fierce pride in the people who wOn that part of the West that became MRS. MURIEL LAWRENCE teacher.) , Off the Beat Child Guilty Until Proven ins-and-ou- 'I'M j.. .i . w done, perhaps there is no reason to complain that roundabout techniques (have to be employed. Just possibly, this is a part of the art j way they : . -- . km i Three Cheers for Supreme Court m ?1 . The Chopping Block ' By FRANK G. ROBERTSON Let me go on record. I lam proud of the 6upreme Court for its decision in the prayer case. I hold that) my righttnbt to pray Is as important to me as your right to pray is important to ?a V f ! best device for putting across tht planning approach was to stress resources and industrial development and leave out jail reference to planning; as such. Many nodded in agreement, This smacks a little of tie gam congressional leaders have playei for years in pushing foreign aid to j passage . " j Untold millions of dollars in economic. assistance "have been ap- -; proved under the heading "support for military assistance." Without that tidy subterfuge, much of that money would probably never have . I And if we have this unionization in government, why not in the armed services? There is no reason "why soldiers shouldn't also have to pay tribute for the right to defend their country, Naturally, there would have to be separate unions for the officeri arid enlisted men. And enlisted would have to be broken 2ien "to specific categories. It would certainly be an unfair labor practice for a soldier Jin the rifle local to handle a ma-- , chine gun to kill the enemy. And surely no machine gunner would risk being a fink by throwing a , grenade. high-levI can visualize a meeting of the future in which pur government officials and military leaders (all union stewards, el of course) plot the future of the nation on the basis of which unions' have jurisdiction over " various problems. |