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Show ''Never Mind What I Said, Jackie, You're Spending Too Much Money" il i 27, 1963 SUNDAY, JANUARY Ii fi B f It 1 lilt i 11 - 1 ' I ill , Money and the Scientists We live in an age often sailed the "scientific revolution?' 'scholars think it is not as scientific as it ought to be. The complaint is simple but important: that not enough time, money and manpower are spent on basic research. Too much is specifically related to projects like weapons development or space programs. Alan T. Waterman, director of the National Science Foundation, takes note of this in the foundation's newest yearly report to the President. He says : "Although the desirability and importance of such an ideal (ample, basic research) is surely understood by thoughtful people everywhere, it appears to be one that is very difficult for a country to adopt as a national objective." The difficulties include : The sheer size of the effort in money and men,' compelling extreme care in the quest for "productive" results. The fact that the federal government is now the main source of research support, which again forces attention to projects that will yield visible return. The foundation estimates that in 1961-6- 2 about $15 billion was spent in the United States for research and development in the natural sciences. That is nearly three times the outlay for 1953-5when the check was made. first formal Of the $15 billion, roughly went for basic research. All other research effort was directly tied to specific project goals, like finding out how to heat a space capsule adequately. Basic research expenditures also have tripled since 1953-5But a breakdown of this increase shows what troubled scientists are talking about. Government-performe- d basic rein measured search, dollars, is up 400 per cent largely owing to stepped-u- p space programs. Meanfunds laid out by colleges for time, the same purpose basic study rose 175 per cent. A good many people make the But-man- y 4, one-ten- th 4. r our own." 1 think Senator Moss is in a fair way to eventually have a monument erected to !iim as the man who created more monuments than any other man in history. It used to be a monument was a granite shaft, but now they measure them by the acre, and if it doesn't embrace more than a hundred acres it doesn't count. If Wyrming succeeds in getting the new lake which will be formed above the Flaming Gorge dam in Utah named after its Senator O'Mahoney I think we should change Great Salt Lake t Lake Moss. lobby is pulling to have e lake named after Gor. Flaming General Ashley, the first white man to n. vigate Green River. Since everybody is getting into the act I should like to make my nominations for prominent people historically ssociated with the place who deserve to be honored. First, there was Butch Cassidy, a fine broth of a Utah lad who made Lis headquarters in Brown's Hole for several years and came as close as anyone could do toward proving that train robbing id horse stealing was an honorable profession. Another man who was in Brown's Hole lon before Cassidy, and carried no taint c. outlawry might have a better claim. This was "Uncle Jack" Robinson. I will waive the point that his name was really Robertson, which I learned by research last summer. He was, I am quite sure, the first man in Utah to show what could be accomplished by free enterprise. Uncle Jack was a trader. He kept his goods in an Indian lodge, and a buffalo robe spread in front o the lodge served a. counter. Here he did a lucrative business trading whiskey, guns, calico, fishhooks, beads and baubles to the Indians A tht- - fair-size- d ii effects which can yield broad general scientific benefits to the whole Of society. One can never be sure what offshoot idea may spring from1 solving some particular problem in soace technology. Not many scientists probably would quarrel with this contention. Yet they still don't like the idea of having so much research tied tight to practical, immediate goals. They think mankind benefits most when the scientist can explore the unknown with full freedom. Waterman makes the point in the foundation report: "Because basic research in science is closely related to scholarly work in all disciplines, and to the arts, it is the mark of a mature nation to allow full play to exploration of the mind in these directions." America still seems well short of such maturity. 1940s. That means that 73 of 100 have been in the Senate only since 1950 or subsequent election years. And a whopping 22 more than a fifth of the total chamber date their service from 1960 and later. Not for too many in this age is a Senate seat a lifetime career. for furs and stolen ponies. I am sure that historian will be writing about Ashley, Cassidy and Robinson long after they have forgotten who was the senator from Wyoming. With all the weighty things going on in Washington it is hard to concentrate on what goes on at our state capitol. I did notice, however, that one of the first bills to be introduced w s the good old Sunday Closing Act. I'm afraid they have failed In the past because they were content with half way measures. I would like to see the legislature really live up to its responsibilities and amend the bill to make it compulsory for everyone to attend Sunday School and Sacrament Meetings. Believing as I d. in the will of the majority I should put it to a vote as to which church should be attended. Thy one getting the largest vote should get everybody. (I reckon that would show you Jews and Gentiles). I don't believe th- - law would work unless we could, as they say, put teeth in it. They did back in Puritan New England, and there was very little Sabbath breaking. They used fines and imprisonment as a matter of course, but they added such things as the whipping post, the ducking stool, and the public stocks. I don't as a rule go to church, but I would be ther? bright and early if threatened with any one of these last three. Those old fellows let very few escape. Here are a few authenticated cases, from the January-Februar- y Jssue of LIBERTY Two magazine. lovers, John Lewis and Sarah Chapman were ccused and tried for 'sitting together on the Lord's Day under an apple tree in Goodman Chapman's orchard.' "Captain Kemble, of Boston, was in 1656 set for two hours in the public stocks for his 'lewd and behavior,' which consisted in kissing his wife 'publicly' on the Sabbath day, upon the doorstep of his house," on his return from a three years' voyage. A man failed to attend church because he was drying out his only suit of clothes was publicly" whipped. Such cases were common. Those who made the Blue Laws in those ways were not fooling. They didn't try to salve their conscience by claiming it was to give overworked groce clerks a little more leisure. They said straight out that the object was to make people observe the Lord's day, and go to cl urch. I should like to see this tried again, just to see if we could produce another Roger Williams, the first man in this country who really fought for civil rights and the separation of churcl and state. The other alternative is to repeal all Bine Law, and leave the matter of going to church, or working on Sunday to each man's conscience. i Of ; iV ill' I I I The opinions and pressed by Herald their own and do reflect the views of statements ex- columnists aro not necessarily this newspaper. ( 9 last L o w - f 1 y ing reconnaissance planes, equipped with special surveillance instruments, detected "fissionable material" aboard three Russian vessels docking at ports near Havana and Banes within the past 10 days. This "hot" nuclear cargo Was ZJ-,- unloaded from the Semperpol, Michurinski and Anganskles, three of the 150 Soviet bloc cargo ships that now regularly ply the Russia-to-Cub- a run. These vessels are still in Cuba loading for their S return trip. That's the dark heart of a Naval Intelligence report which is keeping President Kennedy's new interagency Cuban task force burning lights late at night at their headquarters in the State Department. Cuban refugee reports already have indirectly confirmed the Naval Intelligence estimate. These refugees, arriving in the U.S. last week, brought information from the Cuban underground that heavy lead caskets, similar to those used for carrying nuclear warheads and bombs, were unloaded by Soviet military personnel under strict measures. All Cubans were barred from the dock area during the -- y Withholding Off the Beat Tax: Political Gravy Train By LYLE C. WILSON United Press International WASHINGTON vUPD Herald Staff By The Capital View To pro- mote government economy is the noble purpose of a couple of bills just introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. No crystal ball is needed to foresee what happens next. What happens next is: Nothing! Chairman Clarence Cannon, of the House Appropriations Committee and Rep. Bruce introduced the Alger, bills. Both seek to amend the Revenue Act to take the painkiller out ' of tax paying. Their method is to reduce or eliminate withholding of wages by employers in behalf of the Internal Revenue Service. By statute, employers must withhold at least 18 per cent of an employe's wages and pay the withheld sum to the government. Employes never see this tax money. Tax Bite Forgotten Since they never see it, they tend to forget they are paying it. They come to believe, in time, that they do not pay it at all. Take-hom- e pay is what these citizens understand to be dopey their real wage. Their real wage is at least 18 per cent greater, but is paid to the government instead of the wage earner. This dulls the pain of taxpay-ing- . It tends to restrain voters from the kind of rebellion against government spending that might be expected if the taxpayers were aware of the real tax bite. Alger proposes that the withr. holding system be repealed Cannon wants to reduce withholding from 18 per cent to 4Vi per cent. Cannon's is the more realistic approach because it appears to be impossible to repeal withholding. But, then, it is equally unlikely that the Congress would make the cut as proposed by Cannon. Their bills have gone to the House Ways & Means Committee. Predictably, they will die there as have similar bills before them. A'.ger is a member of Ways & Means. It is possible that he could persuade chairman Wilbur to permit hearings Mills, that is unlikely. bill. But on his will be committee First, Mills' the with Kennedy Tax wrestling Bill through most of this session. Second, there is not much Congressional support for modifying the withholding system. President Kennedy would be against it. The Treasury would be against it. There is no majority in Congress for it. 'Painless Taxes' There hasn't been a majority of any kind for economy in Washington for more than 30 years. Cannon told the House last week D-M- R-Te- his buddies who were to the incident. Years ag6 when they were virile young Jaycees, they were wont to indulge now and then in poker sessions. After one such event, the young men were being taken to their respective abodes' by one of their number in the lat- -' POLITICAL PROGNOSTICATION It may be denied, and it certainly won't be confirmed at this time," but BYU President Ernest L. Wilkinson is making noises lile a candidate specifically for the U.S. Senate seat available in the fall of 1964. Tu .k this away somewhere eye-witness- as ter's car. prediction for that senate race. For the Democrats, there is every reason to believe right now that incumbent Senator Frank my As they drove up in front of the home of the subject of this and Moss will seek will get his party's nomination without a great deal of difficulty, if any. For the Republicans, hold the limb still while I crawl out on it: President Wilkinson, Governor George D. Clyde and Salt Lake mayor and former Governor J. Bracken Lee will make a three-wa- y fight for the nomination. Party politics and machinery being what it is right now we'd pick President Wilkinson and Gov. Clyde to win the party now at the pary (which convention, nominating must eliminate all but two candidates who in turn will go on a primary ballot). If this happens, don't consider it too improbable for Mayor Lee to make another independent race of it. Not claiming to be any real political prognosticator, I wouldn't crawl so far out on the limb this early if a very prominent and influential Utah Republican hadn't made exactly this prediction to me at the height of.the political battle last fall. So if I miss, chalk it up to fools rushing in where heavenly bodies fear to venture. If I'm right, I can say I told you so. T.H.L. on, D-Ar- k., DID YOU KNOW? That the sparkle in diamonds was unknown before the 15th century. In ancient times they were polished and worn in their natural shapes. But a Belgian stone cutter discovered how to polish a diamond with diamond dust. The cutting: of a diamond is a still more recent improvement for it adds 40 extra facets to the surface sparkle. 40 story, at a bright sunshiny 7 a.m., all were somewhat taken aback to see his wife sitting on the front steps in housecoat and slippers, looking as enraged as any wife gets after her husband has indulged in perhaps an unauthorized poke, session. The subject of this incident took one look, thought fast, stepped out of the car, spread his arms wide in a gesture of love and welcome, and shouted: "Thank God, honey, you' e all-nig- ht safe!" tried valiantly to her maintain rage, but it was no use. She started to laugh, and the His wife errant husband wen safely into his home. T.H.L. SAGEBRUSH SAGE SAYS Some grolfers call their clubs j by number and some by a number of names. SURROUNDED! For an organization its size, The Daily Herald newsroom is fairly well represented, ecclesiastically. Editor N.L. Christensen is bishop of the Provo Fourth LDS Ward. Chief Photographer Harold K. Monson is first counselor in the bishopric of the Provo 18th Ward. (City Editor Theron H. Luke for several years has been "bishop" of the 25th Ward at the Utah State Hospital, but we don't count that). , The other day one of the lady members of the staff learned, apparently for the first time of Mr. Monson's ecclesiastical status. "You me. n he's in the bishopric too?" she asked. i'Let's face it," said Our Girl T.H.L. ' QUOTABLE NOTABLES Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds. . WINNING POKER PLAYER n Everytime I see a certain Provo businessman I am reminded of the gospeRrue story about him during his younger veil-know- ' With the names withheld to protect the guilty, if that be the case, here it is, as attested by two of rf that withholding was a painkiller. "The people would demand that we practice some restraint (in spending)," Cannon said, "if they were but harshaly aware of what they are paying Uncle Sam for each month or week in income taxes. security unloading. THE SEA CHASE The Joint Chiefs of Staff ordered the Navy's air and sea surveillance of the three Russian vessels after the Pentagon- received reports from Turkey that the Soviet skippers - refused to declare their cargoes or destination in passing through the Turkish strait. According to the Naval report, two of the ships communicated with radio stations in Russia during the entire trip from their home port on the Black Sea. All messages were transmitted in a secret code which is different from that used by the Soviets in their communications with Cuba. Actual detection of the "fissionable material" was made when the Naval reconnaissance planes flew at mast height over the Russian ships in international waters about 100 miles from' Cuba. The planes made several passes to make sure their instruments were recording accurately. It Friday. "We're surrounded." times as much days. es all-nig- ht alto-getce- U-- g reconnaissance 2 flights over the ships while docked also produced pictures of large crates bein? unloaded from both the Semperpol and Anganskles. Note: During recent U-- 2 flights over Cuba, the Soviet military operations center there has sent out specific instructions that the planes be tracked by missile radar stations but not intercepted. - MAKING IT PAY The abortive Cuban invasion, which hat already cost U.S. taxpayers more than $75 million, has really paid off for the former Central Intelligence Agency official who masterminded the military fiasco. e Richard Bissell, CIA deputy for covert operations, is now the $45,000-a-yepresident of the Institute of Defense Analyses a private group that was set up to handle some of the government's most secret defense planning. g The job, netting Bissell double the salary he re- -' ceived at CIA, was arranged for him by high officials in the Defense and State Departments after CIA Director John McCone dropped Bissell following a full review of the Bay of Pigs debacle. Main sources of income of Bissell's organization are the Defense and State Departments, and the U.S. Disarmament Agency. Records now in the hands of a House Investigating Subcommittee headed by Representative Wright Patman. show that the Bissell group received study contracts from these agencies totaling $8 million during one-tim- ar tax-exem- pt lush-payin- D-Te- x., 1962. Bissell's institute is now advising top Disarmament Agency officials to the need for "on site" inspections in their present nuclear test ban and disarmament talks with the Soviet. Instead, the institute favors adopting "verification"' methods similar to those used by the U.S. in checking Russia's reported withdrawal of missiles and bombers from Cuba. This new disarmament approach is contained in a Bissell group study, prepared at Woods Hole, Mass., in consultation with Soviet and U.S. scientists. CUBAN FLASHES The Justice Department dropped its plans to seek grand jury action against o 13 freedom fighters, arrested as they prepared to leave Florida for Cuba last November, after defense attorneys threatened to subpoena top CIA and FBI officials. If called to testify, these officials would have been asked to detail the help they ha 1 given these refugees before the President offered his pledge to Premier Khrushchev . . . anti-Castr- on Seems To Me True Religious Freedom Frequently Misunderstood By DAVID GARDNER It is' easy to defend popular causes. Unfortunately, too many men who write columns o1 edit papers follow the line of leas' resistance a n o their confine c r u s a ding to popular causes such as: Crime must stop, down wit! c o r r u p tion throw the rascals out, etc. A southern editor tit Ktandladf once told me that the only really safe subjects in his city were: Home and mother and cotton. We hear much about religious freedom granted to everyone by our great country. But, in reality, we don't have the freedom that is promised. What we do have, to a large degree at least, is the right to belong to a church or denomination of our choice. But the right to not belong to any organized group, or to be an agnostic or 40-ce- nt, EDISON'S VACATION Thomas Edison would work from early morning until late at night in his laboratory. One night, when he returned home, his wife said to him: "You've been working too hard. You must take a vacation." "But where shall I go?" said the inventor. "Anywhere :ou wish," she said. "Think of the one place in the world where you would most like to be and go there." "All right," agreed Edison. "I'll leave in the morning." The folloving morning, he returned to his laboratory. High-flyin- atheist is severely hampered by law and custom. As an example: During the last presidential campaign much was made of the fact that being a Catholic should not have any bearing chances. on Mr. Kennedy's Mr. Nixon stressed the issue in his speeches, but also demon- strated the point I am making that the right to believe is sacred but the right not to believe is not. He said: "There is only one way that I can visualize religion being a legitimate issue in American politics. That would be if one of the candidates had no religious be- lief." v Since we don't have a state church or compulsory religious beliefs, how could one man's lack of belief be a legitimate campaign issue? If we are to have the right of choice, it must be complete choice not just choice of denomination. But the qualifications for many offices do require a stated belief in God. And most oaths (not the President's) end with the phrase: "So Help Me God." While some states indicate religious freedom in theory, It is not carried out in practice. A provision of the Maryland Con- stitution demonstrates this: "No religious test ought ever to be required as a qualification for any office of profit or trust in this state" but the rest of the sentence changes the meaning entirely "other than a declaration of belief in the existence of God." A sentence from the Pennsyl- Advice by Ruth Mi I left Older Person Wants The Right To Be Regarded As An Individual The authors of a booklet called "Your Important Years" point out that the mature person resents labels like "senior citizen" and "oldster," partly because they are too cute, but chiefly because he dislikes any label, preferring to think of himself, as .he always has, as an individual. The older person has a perfect right to want to be re-gard- j bombers destine operation. il i : pre-193- and missiles October, the Kremlin is believed to be sneaking atomic warheads and bombs to the island. The Navy has uncovered some convincing evidence of this clan- No Old Man's Club Notes From a Jaundiced Eye three There are ominous new. signs that Russia is again building a formidable nuclear weapons in stockpile Cuba. By using the same tight security methods employed in shipping "spill-over- " In the. sports world it has become a commonplace that faces in the team lineup change rapidly, even among champions. Half a decade brings heavy turnover. In government, however, we have tended to cling to the idea that Congress is a fairly enduring body. For some it is. But a glance at the 1963 lineup of the U.S. Senate shows that here, too, turnover is tremendous. Of the Senate's present 100 members, only five go back to the 1930s or earlier. Arizona's ancient Carl Hayden is the only 0 member. Another 22 too koffice in the Report By Robert S. Allen and Panl Scott WASHINGTON The Chopping Block By FRANK C. ROBERTSON The big questions these Jays seem to be: can we spend 100 billion dollars a year and get away with it, and will a ten per cent income tax cut give us more spending money? I think both questions can be answered with words. For a while. I.Iaybe we should be happy with it and re- ft. " V IV'. J strain our skepticism. Utah's two senators claim to hold opposite political philosop hies about gove r n m e nt Robertson spending, yet they ie with each other as to which gets the most government money for Utah: Like Annie Oakley who sang lustily, "Oh, you kain't git a man with a gun," Senator Bennett puts up his gun when he wants an appropriation for Utah. I can almost imagine the senator and the two new Republican Congressmen from Utah joinin hands while they d.nce around the, rotunda of the capital singing loud and clear: "Mr. Kennedy, we will help you get a loan If you raise everybody's taxes but i argument that research linked with space development, or even that devoted to specific health projects, has Allen-Sco- tt Soviets Still Shipping Atomic Bombs to Cuba ti t y.i I I II I I Tho ed beas an individual cause he is one, every bit as much as he was as a child, as an adolescent, or in his middle years. Just look around at all the older lumping them all togeth-tw- o of them alike? Of course not. Some are hard workers, some are idle. Some are independent, some have given up. Some have courage, some seem defeated. some are Some are long-facehappylooking. Some like to laugh, others like to igh. Some are interested in everything new, others are interested mainly in themselves. Some' are set in their ways, some are venturesome. And so it goes. If you think 11 older people arc persons d, -- alike, or if you tend to group them all together, you just aren't with many older well-acquaint- ed persons. Yet that seems to be the biggest injustice done today toward older persons lumping them al together and referring to them as our "senior citizens," and regarding them as a problem simply .because they have passed from middle to old age. So look carefully and listen to the next "senior citizen" you happen to meet. It just might happen that you wi. in-ten- so-call- ed ty discover how "young" he is despite his years if you will bother to find out what he is thinking, what he hs been doing, and what he is planning to do. Don't automatically dismiss him as being an "oldster" whose important years are past. Some good tips on the care of husbands: "How to Have a Happy Husband." Snd 25 cents to Ruth Millett Reader Service, o Daily Herald, P.O. 3ox 489, Dept. A, Radio City Station, New York 19, c-- N. Y. vania Constitution makes this statement: "No human authority can, in any case whatsoever, control,' or interfere with the rights of conscience." But when the 28th (Pennsylvania) division left to occupy Germany after World War II, the commanding general ordered his men to attend church on Sunday. I can't believe there .is any place in this country for com- pulsory church attendance or .religious tests for office holder. This gets too close to the radc school pupil's composition on the Pilgrims, which read: "The Pilgrims came to America to worship God as they pleased and make others do the same." |
