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Show 2L-- JT $f - ...ui mi .in..., .m ,Mumna,mm, t The Chopping Block ..,u u, a Christmas iri California W i th H e ra I d Col umnist SUNDAY, JANUARY 5, 1964 Our Christmas Disgrace You'd think by this time we'd know better. You'd think drivers and pedestrians would realize the danger that stalks the highways on even the merriest of holidays and act accordingly. You'd think that after all these exyears the police, the safety perts, the public of ficials, or some-of body would be able to think something that would hold down Jthe sickening slaughter that 'mocks a holiday dedicated to "peace on earth, good will toward men." Good will. More than 225 people killed needlessly traffic within a Christmas in period 30-ho- ur be- - Deserved Tribute To Provo Citizen One of Provo's received a best-love- d well-deserv- ed citi-ze- ns trib- ute Friday. George W. Fitzroy, music teacher, civic worker, and community . backer, was the central figure in a "This Is Your Life" type proRogram presented by the Provochar-tary Club, of which he is a ter member. Now nearing four score years, Mr. Fitzroy came to Provo more than 50 years ago 'from the Midwest. Actually he and Mrs. Fitzroy were still honeymooning when they arrived here Feb. 7, 1911. Friends urged them to stay. They did, and have been among Provo's best citizens and backers ever since. Rotarians, in making Mr. Fitzroy an honorary member, presented him with a volume of personal letters. Trained under some of the world's best music teachers before coming here, Mr. Fitzroy has taught hundreds of young musicians and encouraged them to higher endeavor. His active interest in music, art, and poetry has helped to raise the entire tone of culture in the community. Without attempting to enumer- ate all his accomplishments, we Bimply mention here that he was for the Community church for 30 years. Rotary song leader from the time the club was organized in 1919, director of Rotary, faculty member of Brigham Young University, member of the Provo Library Board, secretary of the Utah Wildlife Society, and a charter member of the Hymn Society of America. For Rotary to honor this distinguished Provoan was fitting indeed. The whole community, we are sure, would join in adding its organist tribute. will? When are we going to become really concerned over this rising traffic toll and take practical steps to put an end to such trafic nonsense? When are we going to insist that no one drives a car until he has proved he not only can drive skillfully but with judgment, decency and common sense? When are we going to demand and support stricter traffic laws by police. and courts? When are we going to see to it that a driver is taken off the road when he demonstrates he can't share a public highway without endangering the lives of others ? Finally, when is each of us going to drive as he wants others to drive? Wouldn't the New Year's holiday be a good time to begin? Or, if you just can't wait how about today? So They Say If the day comes when we find it impossible to govern because of pressure from any quarter, we will resign. Manuel Tavares Espaillat, head of civilian junta ruling the Dominican Republic. I'm not afraid of the outside. I'm in the same condition as in 1897 when I went west and I wasn't afraid then. Richard Honeck, 84, on parole from prison at Menard, 111., after 64 years served for murder. I am . . . optimistic as to the progress that can be made during the coming year. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, after checkup visit on fight against Communists in South Viet Nam. In many cases it is easier to enlist in the armed services than to go and vote. President Johnson to commission investigating voting conditions. If he (President and I felt it was health and other course I would do Johnson) asked me, compatible with my personal factors, of it. Adlai Stevenson, on possibility of being a Democratic vice presidential candidate in '64. I will try to be balm, sustainer, and sometimes critic for my husband; to help my children look at his job, with all the reverence due it, to get from it the knowledge their unique vantage point gives them, and to retain the lightheart-ednes- s to which every teen-agis entitled. er Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson. Learn to Go Down Front in Church R-44- 8: ple. a He was a devout Christian, and had wife who was one of the mainstays ef the church. But Bill was a traveling salesman. One Sunday in his early marriage he dropped into a big church at Pittsburgh. He sat down near the rear and listened to the sermon. But when it was over, nobody greeted him or asked him to come back the next Sunday. So when Mrs. Austin arrived the following week, Bill said: "We better attend a diffeernt church this Sunday. For last week the people were chilly and unfriendly." But his wife couldn't believe Bill's report. "I'm sure they are not like that," she protested. So she insisted they go back to that same supposedly chilly church. She went far down front for a pew, with Bill following. And at the conclusion of the service, people shook handstand invited them back. In fact, some of the ladies asked Mrs. Austin to join their Ladies Aid, and Bill was invited to become a member of the men's club. "I just don't understand this change," Bill said later. "It must have been your attractive personality, for they ignored me last week." 'No, Bill, it wasn't the fact that I was with you," she modestly disclaimed his compliment. "Instead, it was just a matter of where we sat!" Then she went on to explain to Bill that people who occupy the rear pews are usually strangers or shy folks. "So you were surrounded by other visitors just like yourself," Mrs. Austin reminded him. "They were visitors so they, too, were waiting for somebody to welcome them back. "But since you were all strangers to each other, nobody took the lead in being friendly or shaking hands. "Today, however, we went down nearer the front, where the members of the church usually sit. "So we were surrounded by the home folks of the congregation. If you had gone forward just another dozen rows, you'd have been greeted as warmly last week as we both were today." Mrs. Austin stated a very good axiom of applied psychology. For the back rows of a church are occupied by the stranger or timid members, and neither of these groups is likely to take the initiative in shaking hands or being friendly. So learn to go down front in church, not only because you will meet more friendly souls there. But your positive example will also encourage other less assured folks so they will come farther forward. If you ushers can also get the front pews occupied early, then the rest of the congregation will soon fill in behind them. So try to prod church members into taking those front pews early! Then the late comers will follow you leaders. Send for my booklet "Psychology Goes to Church," enclosing a long stamped, return envelope, plus 20c. (Always write to Dr. Crane in care of this newspaper, enclosing a long stamped, addressed envelope and 29 cents to cover typing and printing costs when you send for one of his booklets.) Jiil-ario- us about buying presepts. I did give my wife ten dollars to blow in on the slot machines at Las Vegas. Art with more and judgment waited until we got keep them unhere to give her ten bucks to til we got to blow. In, but shell hang onto Beaver. W e it until we get back up there. had beauti-fu- l Vera prepared a wonderful weather turkey dinner for Us, all acuntil we got cording to Hoyle, and we were into the eterglad to have Art along so we nal fog of the Had someone in our party to San Joaquin :im laJii VxvuJ ask the blessing. We were Be all filled with the. Christmas Valley. Mr. Robertson we had cause spirit. It was nice to spend three extra tires in the trunk Christmas with our children and much of the stuff, including me, relatives. We found ourselves had to be stacked into the back hoping 'that all our friends had seat. I burrowed a hole in one an equally enjoyable Christmas. corner and rode very comfortOne encouraging thing about ably all the way. Our young this city is that they are aban-gettinephew, Mont Faulkner, drove y streets. more all the way, and a very skilful Here, apparently, they stand driver he is. My wife, who up ito the highway dictators inweighs about ninety pounds stead of surrendering supinely him between sat wet, dripping as did a Utah city I know of. and her brother, Art Bowman, California is the land of the who is about as broad as he John Birchers break extremists. is tall, but they all seemed sat- . up meetings they don't like, and isfied. Except for being held up the lefters break up the John a while by road work in the Birsh meetings, and the modTehachapi mountains we had erates stay home. In yesterday's no trouble at all and the fog paper I saw where Mr. Robert wasn't too bad in the San JoaWelsh, Jr., head of the John quin. The visability was at came out with Birch least a couple of hundred yards the typeSociety, of logic for which he all the time. is famous. President Kennedy, We stayed all night at Las he says, was part of the Comto went men munist conspiracy, therefore, Vegas. The single bed early, thus saving themthe Communists killed him. I selves some money, and I think cannot see how this would make Winnie broke even, and nobody sense to anyone but a John got very rich off of me. Winnie Bircher. and I wandered from casino to The stately and casino until midnight, and felt Los Angeles Times came out editorially against the exright at home among so many people from Utah. tremists of both right and left, Glen and Vera were expectand immediately its columns to and filled with violent proabout had were tellus ing us, of their tests from the John Birch Sothe phenomenal growth city. All California cities seem ciety. As in Utah these people to be having growing pains. manage to grab off most of the we Glen set up his projector and space in the public forums. If noise was reason these people looked at the pictures of their would soon be running the counrecent trip to Hawaii, with runtry, and the rest of us would ning comments by Glen on a be in concentration camps. tape recorder. Then we watchMr. Ezra Taft Benson says ed a lot of fine pictures Art had Monon to a recent trip the racial question is a phony. taken cam-aras tana. There being three If he was down where they are we all had our pictures trying to repeal the Rumford I was astonished Act firbidding discrimination on taken, and when they failed to vote me the racial grounds he ' would find most beautiful subject. But you that the bitterness over the iscan't have everything, and besue is the real thing. The great ing the biggest I naturally used majority of people who believe most the in justice and equality would up space. were eve Christmas presents laugh Mr. Benson right out of distributed. I think I got the the state. lion's share, and gave the least. Here they know that the issue I know now why Shirley Schar-dingoes deeper than pious platiof Springville, calls me tudes and protestation that patriotism is limited to members Scrooge, but at least she wasto of the John Birch Society. n't there gloat. It's not that tires, cause somebody was driving too fast, or was driving when drinking, or was taking chances sensible people don't take. This is good The Worry Clinic By GEORGE W. CRANE, Ph.D., M.D. CASE Bill Austin served for 25 years as the president of the Bible class which I teach at the Chicago Tem- I'm stingy, I just don't get By FRANK C. ROBERTSON We left VISALIA, Calif. home when the roads were so icy that we had to put on snow ! h,l i y jth jrs't 'W.-- -- HlxA i3A 4sFvC zzZTf ng one-wa- Holmes Alexander Editor's Some Tests Amount to Invasion of Privacy Mailbag Benson Lauded For Alerting Public To Commie Dangers WASHINGTON, Editor Herald: Much has been written recently about the spirit of hate being prevalent in our society today. Some writers think we must all share in the guilt of the brutal murder of President Kennedy Others take a more moderate view and limit it to hate organizations, etc. In a recent letter to this column one writer quotes a paragraph from a speech made by J. Edgar Hoover wherein he refers to hate organizations, fanatics, fringe-lunatiand rabble. Then this writer, not Mr. Hoover, is wondering if the John Birchers will not be able to see themselves in that bunch referred to by Mr. of riff-racs ff Hoover. They won't, no matter how hard they look, because they are not there. They operate on an entirely different level. In the same article this writer also takes a whack at Ezra T. Benson. I am not a member of the John Birch Society, but I have gone to the society itself to find out who they are, what they are aiming to do, and I would recommend that others do likewise. Hirough the Birch society, Belmont 78, Mass. you can get the society's "Blue Book." salt Lake newspaper for Dec. 21 carries this announcement: Ezra Taft Benson has A been awarded the John Irvin S. Cobb and Robert Hughes Award of Merit for the "excellence" of his book "The Red Carpet." Justice Phelps said in an accompanying letter to Mr. Benson: "Congratulations for your contribution being made in respect to awakening our nation today concerning the dangers immediately confronting u s, created by the International C. Mer-ria- m, Communist Conspiracy. "The Red Carpet' will be of inestimable value in awakening the people and alerting them to the dangers immediately ahead." I have read the "Red Carpet" and my sentiment has been expressed by a Los Angeles columnist when he said of this book, "it should be read in every American Home." The John Birch Society is striving for the same goal as Ezra Taft Benson, placing their Late D.C. in the last session the Senate passed a version of the Vocational Education Bill which prohibited a certain pernicious kind of psychological testing of high school and junior high school children. The Senate language forbade the conduct of any questionnaire "which is designed to elicit information dealing with home life, parental or family relationships, economic status, or sociological or psychological problems of the students test- ed." The prohibition was thought necessary because the senators had received hundreds of letters from parents who objected to tests, sponsored in part by the HEW Department, with questions such as the following: "Did you, during the last two years: Steal goods from warehouses or storage houses? Steal more than $2 from your parents? Fight physically and bodily with an adult relative? (Go) further than petting with a person of the opposite sex? Is your father fairer about punishment than your mother? (Do you) wish (your) family had as much money as the families of many of (your) classmates? (Do you) wish (your) father and mother were better educated, like the parents of many of (your) class- mates?" It is no wonder that the par- ents objected to their children being submitted by the federal government to such power-of-suggesti- on invasion of privthe and that Senate agreed acy, with the objections. But no secsooner was the tion in print than another deluge of letters fell upon Capitol HilL They came from psychologists and professional educationists who urged the necessity of these tests in the name of something called "educational research." When the bill went to the HouseSenate cong section ference, the was killed. Not a voice, it appears, was raised to save it. So, what do we have? We have the Senate, in the first instances obeying the voice of the people In the; second instance, we nave both House and Senate overriding the people's voice and obeying the voice of the anti-testi- ng anti-testin- confidence in the sound judgment of a thoroughly awakened and informed American public. Hans Mikkelsen 445 E. 1010 S. Orem. ultra-conservati- ve educational experts. We have, I think, in concrete example, one of the most intense struggles within our American society. It is a struggle between democratic expression and expert advice. The questions at issue are: Have we reached a point in history where the complexities of living make us incapable of Must the electorate give way to the elite? There is a chapter on just this subject in a new book entitled, "Challenges to Democracy," sponsored by a symposium of The Fund For the Republic. Two senators, Bill Fulbright (D., Ark.) and Joe Clark (D., Pa.), contribute essays to the chapter, which is called "The Elite and the Electorate: Is Government by People Possible?" self-governme- Fulbright says that: "Government by the people is possible but highly improbable." Clark is still more pessimistic about democracy. He believes in something, near the liberal absolutionism which is a form of totalitarianism. Of big government, Clark says, "I would defend the proposition that this not bad." expansion is good He continues: "Surely we have reached the point where we can say, for our time at least, that Jefferson was wrong: Government is not best that governs least." It will not do, I think, mereto rail against these proposily tions on the inadequacy of self-governme- nt. Impalatable as they are, they are not wholly indefensible. We are in the age of expertise. leadership, We do need the the advice of the elite. But, coming back to the ex ample of the psychological tests, it is easy to see how big brother starts by giving advice and ends by seizing authority. We can lose our privacy, along with our other liberties, when we grant the experts and the elite any license to invade the sanctums of home and school. (Distributed by McNaughton Syndicate, Inc.) SUPERNOVA In 1054, Chinese astronomers recorded the appearance of a star so bright it shone by day, blazing for a few months, then disappearing. This was what is nature's rarest and most awesome fireworks a supernoca. A supernova is an exploding star that may erupt with the brightness of 100 million suns. e, It Seems to Me Reduction In Spending Must Go With Tax Cut mad, madin spende rs Washin g t o n refer to any item of less than a million" dollars way. But though that even the program' may be LA s Mr. Gardner item of unlittle only a trifling der a million dollars, it is never unimportant to the planers. To them, the fate of the nation may hinge on a study of of a rattlesnake. the love-lif-e So, the new budget will be full little of "peanut" amounts. But the Kennedy budget for fiscal 1964 contained an these actual peanut request: A demand was made for $963, 000 for federal crop insurance on the 1964 peanut crop. mention this trivia merely to set the stage for a brief look at the President's proposed tax reduction program. We have been told that this reduction in Ruth Millett Some Husbands Hard Put to Find Suitable Gift for Wife Whose fault is it when a hus band gives his wife a gift that isn't even on her list of "most wanted" or "most needed" items instead of one of the many things she have chosen for would til Hif'A Rath Millett herself? Before you decide it's the husband's fault, listen to this: A recent survey of more than a thousand men revealed that only three had been able to find out from their wives what they really wanted in the way of a gift. That must mean that when asked what they want for a birthday present or anniversary gift, most wives either say, "I don't know," or "I'd like to be surprised," or they are so subtle with their hints that their poor husbands don't realize they are hinting. Having no idea of what their wives are secretly hoping they will give them, the poor husbands in desperation let some saleswoman tell them what to buy. If you've ever been in a store and watched a man trying to find a gift for his wife without the foggiest notion of what will really please her, you know it is a desperate situation. He has a lost look in his eye, and a helplessness that makes him fair game for any saleswoman who wants to unload some expensive, impractical item it is far easier to sell to a man than to a woman. To keep her husband from such frantic searching for a gift, a wife either has: to come right out and tell him what she wants or tell her best friend to relay the news, or she has to taxes will stimulate our By DAVID GARDNER "Peanuts" is a figure of speech used to indicate that something is of little size. Our , - econ- omy. Many economists agree that this is true. But substantial thinkers hasten to add that a tax reduction without a corresponding reduction in spending would contribute nothing to the long range stability of the nation. It should require no mathematical wizard to calculate that if we are running into debt now, we will run deeper into debt if the income of the government is reduced. The new President has prom-- . ised to take a fresh look at government spending, and to reduce costs where ever possible. But such promises are too vague to mean anything. This is so because no bureau would admit that it was possible to reduce its budget. In fact, more .money is always needed because bureau heads rate themselves by the money spent, not by money saved. Therefore. Mr. Johnson should in-I g0 on record, with specific rewould of he where stances duce spending, and by how much, before he demands a tax reduction. Closing a military base and then announcing that the displaced workers could get other government jobs hardly qualifies as an austerity program. As a former member of the hint so broadly and so often that she is yearning for some particular thing that even the most absent-mindepreoccupied, unimaginative husband gets the idea, and can happily "surprise'1 his wife with the perfect gift that will make her voice ring true when she says, "It's just what I wanted. How did you ever think of it?" d, House and Senate, he knows where much of the fat is hidden. He also knows that the budget is not even a true picture of actual spending since much money is wasted through backdoor spending that is not included in the budget The President must know that from 1954 to 1962 while prices rose 13 per cent, population 15 per cent and gross national product 53 per cent, federal spending rose 127 per cent, And by the 1964 budget this spending had risen to 162 per cent. We all want a tax reduction but it must be justified by a reduction in spending. non-defen- se The perfect gift: Ruth Mi." lieu's "Tips on Send 25 cents to Ruth Millett Reader Service, in care of The Daily Herald, P.O. Box 4B9, Dept. A, Radio City Station, New York 19, N.Y. Teen-Agers- non-defen- se |