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Show i ! - the Allen ''We're Just Bolstering Our DofensGs!" T Scott Report Consumer Price Rise of 2 Forecast by Presidents Economic Advisers Fall-Wint- er j SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1962 The Monroe Dottri he of Today Grover. Cleveland's top diplomat, Secretary of State Olney, went to Russia's announced military taid pact with Castro's Cuba has brought the famous Monroe Doc- trine down from the history book shelf and into the active foreign affairs arena. What is it, and what meaning does it have for us today? In 1823, aV a time when it was feared European nations were in- a great pains to affirm that the doctrine did not establish any general tLS. protectorate over Latin Amer- : ica, or country scrapped that idea in uary dec- f ep; - I veil !: v-- m : it, unilaterally, to the extent of using force against Cuba or any other? Many presidential utterances, including one by Kennedy after the Cuban fiasco of 1961, suggest we but only in the last exmight tremity of national danger. ' - l ' 1 1 Yi i n r i ' viYi i . k Eff ictive 7 Teanjwork Needed To Halt Communism Spread; No Time for Apathy European-America- n 67-da- V A staunch world situation. pro- - American platform is needed badly in jail the mass media of com munication throughout the U.S. and Europe. In my travels through Scotland, England, the Continent, and Den mark! Sweden and Norway, I talked with many common peo ple aid some students about prob- lems Kvhich Europeans and Amer- icans have faced or have yet to face. tions The Chopping Block Wh Trails And Legends Roundup of the League of Utah Writers, which indicates happily that if there are writers there must be readers ' couple of new books of I "!. J is the story of the builS'M ding of the railroad across the nation, Mr. Robertson which culminated in the joining of the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific at Promontory, Utah. Its importance is well known; its history is not. Now Howard tells it in its worldwide ramifications. He is not only a historian who has . done a vast amount, of research on the subject, but he has the happy faculty of knowing how to write interestingly. The facts, figures and statistics are ali in the book, but Howard has realized that they can never tell the whole story. That can be done only by probing the motives and deeds of people. Deftly he sorts out the nfen of vision who gave their lives to accomplishment from the rogues who saw in the railroad only an opportunity to amass fortunes through manipulation of stocks such as the scandalous operations of the Credit Mobilier. One class were genuine heroes; the other financial pirates The book shrinks to their' normal 'size the Big Four: Stanford, Huntington, Crocker and Hopkins, who were profit seekers to the last man. It exposes the financial skullduggery of Durrant and Huntington and many more, but gives full credit to the builders like Theodore Judah and Grenville DoIge who broke their hearts trying to unite a nation. It was a heroic story, but one full of rascality,. President Lincoln' was practically bludgeoned into making the Federal government stand most of the cost by giving away millions of acres of the public do- main and financing the building from the Federal Treasury. The art of the doublecross never reached greater ' heights. The pirates doubleorossed cities like Denver and Salt Lake, and almost accomplished the same thing with Omaha. Utah and the Mormons were peculiarly involved,iri the Salt Lake deal, for they provided the bone and sinew that built much of the road, and Brigham Young had the promise that the road would go through Salt Lake City. Just before the roads were united at Promontory the Union Pacific owed the Mormons a million dollars - which might never have been collected had . not Thomas Durrant, the vice president of the road been kidnaped in Weber Canyon. Mr. Howard is a friend to the Mormons," a great admirer of Brigham Young, and much of his research was done in, Utah, but he raises an interesting question.. Why did Brigham Young ) The book does not ignore the little people who built the tracks and laid the rails. Without the Chinese the Central Pacific could not have been built, yet their condition was worse than that of the slaves in the South and hundreds of them were ruthlessly killed in the operation. V Howard dispels the myth that the Union Pacific was built by the Irish. Most of the work was done by the Galvanized Yankees, in reality soldiers who were capable of- - fights ing off the Indians while they laid the tracks. The book also tells of the railroads that were planned but got nowhere, and served no purpose but to line the pockets of the promoters. ; The whole story is one of heartbreak, valor, greed and colossal achievement all in all: one of the great sagas of the winning of t the West. -- THE OTHER BOOK on my list is byN contrast light-hearte-d and gay. It is a collection of legends, folk stories and tall tales collected and edited by S. Omar Barker, and published by Double-da- y under the title: LEGENDS AND TALES OF THE OLD WEST, $4.50. The stories were gathered and written by the more than one- hundred members of Western Writers of America, and is in my opinion the best of the more than ten other anthologies previously published by this organization. The contents have been divided into eight sections, which just about covers the entire field. They are: The Golden Magnet;- Where the Mining Camps Boomed, Moccasin Trails; Tall Tales, Ghosts, .Miracles, and Monsters; - Adventures on Path of Peace; Tales of jat-th- - e j - Death: Characters Fabulous and Fantastic; Outlaws, Gunmen, and Gamblers. From these titles you can ' see that our own particular section could not be ignored, nor has it been There are too many good stories to single any one out for special praise. The' object of the book, says the editor., isf entertainment in the campfire fashion,! not .historical reporting. In his foreward Mr. Barker quotes from a poem by Frances! Brown called, "Oh, the pleasant Days lof Old." "I love to sing their ancient rhymes, to hear" their legends told "But Heaven be thanked! I live not in those blessed times of oldl" Rjed-support- ed a j'helping" (Indonesia's Sakarno (an avowed) Marxist who is supported by Russia and Red China) get the Dutch West New Guinea just by dropping a few hundred then obtaining U.N. paratroops Control of the island for 10 months before "giving" it to Indonesia. Some Dutchmen claimed that Alaska could be "given" back to the Russians by the same principal or tactics. 4. Germarly, the most industrialized country there, should be kept at all posts our closest ally in Europe. Those people seemed tp be the most similar to Americans and are they workers! 5. Europeans, most significant ly the Germans, on the whole, wondered if jwe would really stand our ground on the Berlin situa- tion especially after we let the illegal wall be constructed. 6. Many Europeans, asked what we were going to do about Cuba and chided jus about the way Cas tro met and defeated the inva -- Editojr Herald: On Aug. 21, we toured through the Capitol keef National Monument, We went in on a beautiful, newlj finished road. It was wide, smooJi, and had many places avail ible; to stop and park while looking at the scenery. We went straight through until the colored cliffs ran out and we didn't see what I had heard was there to be seen. We returned to the information building land told the ranger in Charge that we were disappointed in what we saw He said, "If you want! to see the Capitol Wash you must leave the main road and drive to the south and make a loop about seven miles long." We took this road and were rewarded by seeing some of the most spectacular scenery I had ever seen. The road was not bad. It hai places all along Where we could stop and get out to really look rocks and see the water action that had cut the gorge into vhat it is. have Now, the powers-that-b- e blocked this road No one is allowed to drive through it. They are supposed to walk. Who is youn i and spry enough to take that walk? Who wants to brave to stroll dese; t temperatures wash? There the through may be once a . about year but flocdjs there are signs warning travelers to stjay out when It is stormy. I should like to know their motive. It seems to me it will ruin the canybn as a tourist attraction) if cars are no longer allowed to drive through the wash.. Winona F. Thomas, ; Spanish Fork. . , at Cai itdl Reef Park? tory? 'some still around. So this column will be devoted to a It Scenic; Wash find it necessary to tour the southern missions at this particular time instead of attending the ceremonies at Promon- At this time writers from all over the Block Cars From 1. Europeans seem grateful for our help since World War II, but Wonder how long we can keep it up and alsc survive. 2. French nen and, some Algerian' refugees I talked with won-- ., dered why the U.S. encouraged )eGaulle td give Algeria to the )mmunist-packe- d Ben Bella of le FLN. (Tihis fight is still on by Some patriots who know the pow FLN. It er of the was also surprising" to learn from the European press that Ben Bella received $150 million worth of arms from his "good friends" in Red-Chnand the FLN also received $18 million from a United Nations organization.) 3. The Dotch (and Americans there too) were upset about our 4 j j sion forces 7. It was surprising in so many countries to see the Communist party so obviously active every thing from daily papers to spon sorship of public meetings. This summer tour convinced me that a strong Western Europe can be a great block against " the spread of Communism. But, as in all countries, the conspiracy is on the move to enslave the world. Europeans as well as Ameri cans must work closely together to win the cold war which is a hot one in disguise. Visiting these countries re-a- f firmed my conviction that Ameri- ca is the greatest nation In the. world, and that this system of government, if kept as establish ed by thej .founding fathers, is how God nieant man to be free. Mcy Godj have mercy on those who are too apathetic or misinj 3 formed to care! Henry (Hank) Williams ts ir" -- ' mmxm Editor Herald: Haying just returned from ama tour of Europe, I pleased to find the Herald printing some truths about the present playing his 15th seasonal? National Football League pro competition. As a quarterback Bobby has had a .broken leg, head concussion and blood tumor. He says he'll quit when it "ceases to be fun." state are in , Provo for the Writer's . s - j non-medic-al - non-durab- le . - thin-sole- d out-of-to- -- ribn-reside- nts ' ' j ; Heller argued that fan immediate tax cut was needed to stimulate the economy by increasing the purchasing power of consumers. Otherwise, Heller warned price increases would act as an additional brake on the economy. President Kennedy turned aside at these pleas and adopted, least for now policies of Federal Board Chairman Martin, Treasury Secretary Dillon and Treasury Undersecretary Robert , Roosa. V. I ' Jl j All three are influenced by Per Jacobson, chairman of the International MonetaryFundJ who believes the economy,, would now be, regarded as doing very vell if it hadn't been for progress forecasts by Heller. The Martin-Hell- ! relationship sometimes gets to the shouting stage, Martin's term is up this month and Heller is leading a er That under the state law, only churches, school houses, theatres, town halls, and the like, require doors to swing out, while! there are no such requirements for hotels motels, restaurants, apartment houses, stores, office buildings, and similarj types of buildings. And in case of fires ,in these structures, with doors swinging in, in the rush for the exit, doors are frequently pushed shut, and hundreds of persons haVe lost their lives, not only from the fires, but by being trampled to death. Manifestly, Provo City is in need of lani ordinance to protect the lives of its citizens from such !a A hazard. to is if Provo City That pro- -, a should install sugges- - t gress, it a award cash tion box, whereby to the is given employee for la would result in that suggestion a financial saving to the city? At Geneva Steel Co., several employes have received cash awards for methods of doing things that have saved thousands of dollars' " to' th6 company. In Los Angeles county, suggestions employee have resulted in county govern mental savings totaling $176,436 during the last two years. Jacob Coleman It more government contracts. ' An estimated! 150,000 business-- , men are scheduled to attend from New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Connecticut, Nejw Hampshire, Maryland, Maine, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Vermont and .Massachusetts.:! f ' ! ! Note: The exposition was 'first proposed by Massachusetts Attorney General Edward J.j who is seeking the Mc-Corma- ck, Democratic senatorial nomination'. His opponent is Edward "M. Kennedy, the president's youngest J, ft .". brother. ' I. , . Q's and A's event took Q What historic place at Weehawken, N.J., July 11, 1804? A Vice j President Aaron Burr mortally wounded Alexander Hamilton in a duel.! j m i By DAVID GARDNER To most people, money, is just something, they never seem to have enough of. But in addition to being a nice thing tp have in your pocket, money is! the very foundation of a . i government. Down through the ages sound govern ments have been built around a sound money,, and unsound govern-me- n ts have IV been built (and fallen ) around unsound money. Mr. Gardner it has been observed that 'a government takes unirestrairiable control of a people byi the use of either military force or irredeemable currency,! or some combination of both. military . control! is easily I Barbs Little children around the house Is one reason life is so full lof stumbling blocks.' Try counting your blessings hi stead of adding up your troubles understood; the monetary control is a subtle drug jthat is not generally understood. Ih fact, during the first stages of Inflation folio w I n g currency manipulation many people think that they are living high on the hog because the$r are handling more currency. ' Therefore, the first goal' of any. dictatorship is to gain j control of the monetary i system of the nation. The ability to late and manipulate money the power to regulate and manipu- - , late people. ; . In order to manipulate money a government must create a currency that is not backed by. anything of established value, such as gold. When this Is done,, new mo ney can be put into circulation by Ithe simple process of printing additional paper. This printing of new; money alto lows reckless governments spend ever greater Amounts to buy the support of the 'public. But as this activity continues to pyramid, paper money grows less and lesi valuable until the day jcomes when it is literally worth no more than the paper it Is printed on. ' This is the danger jthat confronts us' today. When' we went to a paper money that was not redeemable in gold back in the early the door to ever control, ingovernment increasing flation! and debt. We have witnessed this control through federal grants and sub sidies. We have witnessed this in-flation as we watched the pur- chasing power of our dollar reduced to less than half.! We have watched the debt climb to box-cfigures. The advocates, of this policy talk vaguely of getting; off this kick when the "emergency" is oyer. But' In checking back through history I find that the emergency is never over. It is hard to picture an enlightened electorate throwing the "rascals", out of office, because too large a per centage of the voters are under the government control Just mentioned. Khrushchev has boastedthat he will bury us, and many have laughed at what they: consider his idle boast. But If we continue on jour economic binge, we will bury ourselves. All Khrushchev will have to do is erect the head-ston- e v thirties-we.opene- d ar Tomorrow Plan It Today Instead Planning Never Gets I! Thfe sooner you answer a letter the sasier it is to answer. Tie : sooner, you show some hospitality to a n e v acquaintance the more likel f you are to makjs . a n e w friend, 1 j ! T c sooner Ii I I 1 ' Being royal is fine. But you have to f work at it. 'Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands. ... e j Money Held Foundation a. ii a. All Governments ut Ruth! Milletf So They Say I te Seems to Me j statements ex-columnists ar not necessarily this newspaper. 1 ; j The opinions and pressed by Herald their own and do reflect the views of group of White House aides trying V to persuade the President against I his reappointment. Note: Manufacturers cut back in capital-spendin- g plans during the past three months has President Kennedy upset. He blames the 15 per. cent reduction on Congress' failure to act quickly on his proposal to provide a new . investment tax credit for business. PREPARING THE WAY President Kennedy is preparing a bigshot in the arm for the lagging economics of East Coast states from Maine to Maryland. He has orderect..all government agencies to go all out in helping the Massachusetts Department of Commerce organize an commerce - Industry - Spacej-Df ense exposition and! symposium In Boston on Oct. 1 to 5. Quietly shifted from Buffalo, N. Y.," to Boston on the President's orders, tills exposition is designed to serve as the fulcrum for the launching of government programs to stimulate the economy in the Northeastern section of the nation. j James Administrator Webb, of Aeronautics and National the will lead Space Administration, a group of more than 100 administration officials to the confer- ence. Their job j will be to outline how Industry irt these states can participate in thje growing "spacer age market place" by obtaining 11-sta- son is the boost in hospital costs caused by the payment pf higher wages to help. ' Slight price rises in rents and- goods are being forecast by the President's Economic Advisers. Also, they say food prices, which have held steady for months; may rise slightly. This TAX CUT NEEDED the in of higher prices prospect fall and winter is one of the key factors behind) Chairmaijj Heller's unsuccessful fight to have President Kennedy propose an immediate tax cut to Congress.! In face of these rising prices, j J Mr. Scott : ; ' Editor Herald: The Observer Notices: That Provo City and the State Road Commission sure did a good job in putting a smooth surface on University Avenue, but the crosswalks in the heart of the business district w4re overt' ooked. As a result, the rough pebbly surface of these walks makes it hard going for the lady pedestrishoe's. ans with their That! notwithstanding the fact that Provo City has an ordinance, requiring all habitable buildings to display an address number, there are scores of them without number signs. As a consequence, we have a situation which' occurs peralmost daily: an son who has looked up the house number in the phone book of a person he wants to1 see, is 'unable to find such an address, and is put to the trouble of inquiring at several homes to locate his1 party. And thus the failure of the city officials to enforce the ordinance, causes Provo City to bear some of the earmarks of a hick town. That in. view ofj the fact that Provo City has been operating its culinary water department at a loss, the query arises f- why do the city officials continue to furnish city water! below cost to approximately 350 of the city? 11963. profit private health insurance plans. In a number of states, higher insurance premiums) will go into effect on Oct. 1, Another rea- i Why Not Establish Suggestion Box for 'Provo City Employees? 1 Bobby Layne of Pittsburgh is 35 years old and is about to start By FRANK C. ROBERTSON t " r i ii These are some of my reac- - $6.50. f r. : priY ft 1 The Pro Approach -- Mr. Allen j This price boost during the next four months will match the in- -j in the consumer price in- Srease the first 20 months of the Kennedy Administration. Dur- Ing that period, prices jumped or by two from 103.5 to 105.5 i cent. per The new forecast of the President's Council of Economic Advis-er- sI is based on estimates that the cost of services, which has (been risihg twice as fast as other Costs, Will continue to be the pain" inflation valve for the ' steady price hike. Of the services, the cost of medical care is climbing the fastest. One of the reajsons for this is the increases in jcostsj of nonr feM wmL . ii:::;::::::::S Are we ever likely to act under r ard. Putnam slow-dow- . al" policy. f I President Ken nedy's Council of Economic Advi- sors are forecasting a continued rise in consumer prices during the; fall and winter months despite n in the nation's eco-the WASHINGTON sign- Kennedy intimated recently that it is an implementing of the doctrine to work with other Latin lands to isolate the Communist menace in Cuba. Historians like to point out, however, that in purest sense the doctrine is a "nation- . - me policy. . i 5 By ROBERT and PAUL SCOTT A 'M , r ' - L nomic growth. Headed by Chairman Walter W. Heller, these economic experts re sending a report to the Presi- 5 ent stating that the consumer rice index, now at an all-tihigh of 105.5, will rise by approximately two per cent before Jan- ing the laration. During and after. World War II, we finally allied ourselves with the other American republics in compacts which assert our joint purpose to defend the hemisphere against external threat or attack. Since then we have preferred to rely on these pacts rather than the Monroe Doctrine. Yet both Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy have seen fit to reassert the living character of that Montevideo so-call- ed - GREAT IRON TRAIL, by Robert West How- r55Sfi 'A . Later Theodore Roosevelt modified the policy to embrace such interference, but in 1933 this tending to reimpose colonial rule - over Latin American lands newly independent, President J a me s Monroe decreed : "We should consider any' attempt on their part to extend their system to any portions of this hemisphere as dangerous .fo our peace and safety.". He added that any European effort to control the destiny of Latin countries in any fashion would- be taken by the United States as an unfriendly act. This doctrine in subsequent years was restated by Presidents Polk, Cleveland, Wilson. and others. Most diplomatic historians regard it as a cornerstone of American foreign policy, substantially effective in warding off foreign intervention or control in this hemisphere. Yet, when put to. the severest test, we did not implement the doctrine with military action. While distracted by the Civil War, we watched three countries intervene in Mexico and did not go beyond verbal protest. France even set up a puppet regime. We seem to have regarded the Monroe Doctrine as a big stick which we have been willing" to brandish but have hoped We would not have to use. . Even decades ago, we showed signs of discomfort that our Latin neighbors' hands . were not gripping the stick with us. Often U.S. leaders said we would welcome adoption of a similar policy by the other American nations. President Wilson once sought to .give the nonintervention substance of. the doctrine a worldwide application. rather special interest. The first" is THE 5r I! ' S. ALLEN " ' justify interference with any Latinnation's internal affairs. - r C ' y o 4 tackle j tough job' a the 5 0 Rnth MiHett less time you will have to worry aboift i land dread it. The sooner you quit worrying j about your; age the younger you will feel, j . The sooner you apologize for a mistake, fthe sooner you wUl feel easy in yoir mind. The sooner you make a child understand! that when you say "No" you kion't mean "Maybe," the easier; the child will be to live with and the happier both of you will be. i j The sooner you get to work in the morning the less hectic your day will The sooner you start planning your days jto include at least one thing you look forward to, the . b. sooner you will stop existing and start living. The sooner you face a fear and overcome it, the less damage it will do you. The sooner you assume respon- sibilitles you can ' handle, tha sooner you will become a mature,' dependable human being. The sooner you decide to run your own. life instead of letting! others run it for you, the morel an Individual you will become. Thexsooner you learn, to say "No" to pointless demands upon ' j your time and energy, the less and hectic your life will ed be. The sooner you begin to rid yourself of a fault, or develop a talent, the better your chances of . making a success of your1 effort. These things being so, why do we plan what we will do "tomor-- , row" instead of planningiwbat we will today? Plan right now to send for Ruth Milletfs booklet, "Happier Wives (hint for husbands)." Just send 25 cents to Ruth Millett Reader Service, co The Daily Herald, P. Dept. A, Radio City New York 19, N. Y. Station, O. Box 489,- - S ' '.!.'-- : .vi '. ' 1 |