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Show Light of Life iMmmmmmm SUNDAY, MARCH 29, 1964 Data On sM5 that Westerners are fascinated by a shiny, yellowish metal called gold, of which Mother Russia holds cast stores beneath her copious bosom, they are sellcash on ing it for the European market. The Russians are estimated to have sold from $450 to $550 million worth of gold last year to the West more than double the amount they traded in 1962. One effect has been to depress the price of gold to its lowest level in months. As if this were not enough, the Russians have been reduced to the disgusting capitalistic practice of borrowing money and, like good businessmen, trying to get the e best credit terms they ed going long-rang- can wangle. This bourgeois Russian behavi- or is generally attributed to lagging export earnings and the need to pay for the huge amounts of wheat they are importing. What impact all this could have in the long run, not only on the world's monetary structure but on the ideological wall the Russians have built to protect themselves against Western influences, is something better left for experts in various fields to ponder. Westerners might keep in mind, however, that the Russians may not be the only ones dealing with the devil. sght-seein- - The "white lie" has some standing in diplomacy and social intercourse, but in journalism it deserves to be treated as a leper. Let us walk wide of the amiable liars who use imposter euphemisms to misinform the public about the relationships between President Johnson and Attorney General Robert Kennedy. It just isn't true that the two men are "amused" or "puzzled" or in any way unaware or und concerned that they are now rivals for power inside the Democratic party. The situation is very much as it was in 1960: Johnson vs. Kennedy. The latest manifestation of the dark war is the resignation of Bob Kennedy's e protege, White House Secretary Pierre Salinger. It follows those of Kennedy men named Schlesinger, Sorensen, Reardon and Hays. It will precede additional resignations, and the reason for the increasing exodus is more important and more authentic than a guesswork l. The Kennedy men are leaving because they can't work for Bob Kennedy while serving under Lyndon Johnson. And work they must, with or without the attorney general's say-sHere is an expression of their compulsion, somewhat paraphrased to spare the speaker and to respect his confidence: "There are those of us who love the Kennedys. We loved Jack, and our affection is transferred to Bob. He is powerless to call us off, even if we embarrass him, even if he wishes we'd quit. What Bob would like to do is take his family to Europe for a year's recuperation from the shock of the assassination. But he can't very well do this while urging others to stay in the fight for all the things that President Kennedy stood for." The above is reportI with it mixed emotions. make and ing, My heart has gone out to Bob Kennedy, a figure of courage and sorrow, and I that a man who think it is has managed a winning presidential campaign, and who has run a clean, active Justice Department, is eligible for national election. But there are good reasons in a republic to be suspicious of any dynasty, and many more reasons to D.C. horn-locke- one-tim- roll-cal- o. self-evide- nt job-traini- ng Cana- g dian troops of the United Nations peace - keeping force as they watched women dig in an excavation at the site of an ancient Greek city. It is somehow calming to reflect that the matters which are of life and death concern to living men will one day be but the dusty discoveries of some unborn archeologist. It's Johnson vs. Kennedy AO In lucf Iklilra I X WW I IVW In II 1QA4 III 10 J W W7 W from the 12th grade. According to officials here, his Army tests score was equivalent to something between the 5bh and 6th even though the test grade doesn't strictly measure grade level. His score was not unusual. Considerable numbers of young men who take these tests have graduated from the 9th, 10th, llfih or 12th grades, yet fail to reach 5th, 6th, 7th or 8th grade standards on the tests. Three out of four Army mental rejectees finished the 8th grade. Half completed 9Y2 years of school. Twenty per cent graduated from high school. Most government schools have had to reject large numbers of the unemployed. Regardless of their schooling, they don't have the reading, writing and arithmetic skills to even take the training courses. A spot survey in selected states of high school vocational courses shows that most students are being taught the wrong vocations. In some states, at least, 10 times as many students are being trained in agriculture as will ever be connected with farming. Computer, electronics and laboratory - technician courses are scarce. High schools, colleges and the federal Department of Labor do A news picture out of Cyprus the other day was a welcome change from what we have been accustomed to from that unhappy island in recent months. It showed 1 abhor both the foreign and domestic legacies of the New Frontier. Still, facts are facts, and the Kennedy candidacy for vice president is a reality in flesh and blood. All over Washington, and all over the country, there are men and women of the Kennedy underground. At the Justice Department his legionnaires are apt to be anonymous, for many are civil servants who must be mum on politics. But they think that no attorney general has run a more aggressive fight against gangsters, dope peddlers, and political crooks, and they want to keep Kennedy in public life. In the White House there are Kennedy clansmen like McGeorge Bundy and Michael Forestall. One of Kennedy's is strong admirers in the now of State Harriman, Under Secretary on a roving exile in Africa. At the higher level, in strong rapport with the sub-cabin- et attorney general, are Secretary Secretary Dillon and General Max Mc-Na-ma- ra, Another nucleus of Kennedy strength is the Kennedy Library, a memorial to JFK, where brother-in-laStephen Smith is entrenched. If there is a chief of staff at this writing, he would be Senator Ted Kennedy, who's up for Nearly all the Negro a good many churchmen, a leaders, good many educators and hundreds of ardent, ambitious politicians and administrators in the states make up the officer corps. It is not predictable that any individual named will soon resign his post, and there is no innuendo that anybody named is undercutting the President. But for several weeks the White House has been a house divided, by a few who have been responsible for a rift, and by others who have tried to close the rift, between the factions of the quick and the dead. Personal relationships of the President and attorney general are too much in a state of fluidity for present comment, but one situation has solidified to a point where it deserves notice as an historical phenomenon. We are not in a presidential year where the head of the Democratic ticket will have full freedom to name his running mate. The choice of a Democratic vice presidential candidate is being worked out by invisible, perhaps invincible forces. Taylor. w re-electi- The Chopping Block The Art of Being Unreasonable Mr. Robertson By FRANK C. ROBERTSON Like almost everybody else I like to think of myself as having an open mind, free from prejudice, and I am kidding nobody but myself with that preposterous claim. Please don't call me a Communist because I'm going to indulge in a little self criticism, which is only another name for self defense. Politically, I started out as a Republican because my mother was one and she was wise and good, but at the mature age of six I became a Democrat because I was carried away by the oratory of William Jennings Bryan who cried, '"You shall not press upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns . . . You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold." When I came to voting age I was an idealist and looked upon Eugene V. Debs as the greatest humanitarian of the age. Since then I have voted for Democrats, Republicans, Socialists and Progressives, whichever at the time I thought would be best for the country, but come right down to it I am influenced by personalities and philosophies; by my likes and dislikes. I don't favor one church above another, mostly because I don't like any of them very much. I suspect religious people who claim to be too righteous, as I suspect patriots who always put a quaver in their voice when they mention our great and beloved nation as though it is their personal property, and nobody else could have its interests at heart. I think those quivering voiced people are usually trying to cover up their hatred for those, who don't agree with them. I have known people I could personally bump off without a pang of remorse, except that I don't believe in violence. I wouldn't want to kill anybody if I had a few minutes to think it over, yet a society which believes in capital punishment, which has always proven futile, and tends to degrade society itself, does it deliberately and I believe in racial equality so much that I hate people who preach race hatred. I work up a strong case of dislike against somebody, and then I get acquainted with them and decide cold-blooded- ly. that they are pretty fine people after all. If I reasoned it all out I wouldn't be so wishy-- . washy. I yield to the bias of the moment. I was much interested in two recent championship basketball games. I suffered when Bradley knocked the stuffing out of New Mexico, and I was jubilant when UCLA tromped over Duke. I have no affiliation with either of the teams I rooted for as I watched the games on television. The only reason I could give is that they were Western teams playing against Eastern teams, and I am a Westerner. So, sectional pride was the only reason I had to justify my prejudice. I have lived briefly in California and New Mexico, but if their teams were playing against Utah or Idaho teams I would be rooting against them. The closer they come to home the more I want them to win. I would back Mapleton over Springville in anything, Spring-vill- e over Provo, Provo over Salt Lake, and Salt Lake over Los Angeles. As my son once said I would automatically side with a hobo against a policeman without knowing the facts. I have been a hobo and I have never been a policeman. It is that simple. Because most of my life has been spent in that country I tend to think farmers are the salt of the earth and city folks are mostly slickers. My farm neighbors seem to think I must be a pretty good writer because they know I am a lousy farmer. My city friends think we must have a pretty good farm up here because they know more about writing and they say even I must have something to live on. They are both wrong because my nephew makes my living for me. But in any dispute between city and country count me on the side of the country. Color me green. I am a provincial. I would like to see juvenile delinquents punished more sever-lbut not the least of my reasons is that I like kids, and I hate to see the good ones get a bad name because they happen to be in the same age group. I resent certain people because they like to flex their muscles, for no sounder reason y, than I hate the New York Yankees and always lilse to see them shown up by weaker teams. If you don't have some pre judices you are a bett er man than I am, Gunga Din. By The Heitald Staff Offline Beat BEATLE, FEMININE GENDER The Beatle bug has bitten at our house. But we didn't sus pect it would be quit so conHowtagious. Eleven-year-ol- d record Beatle a ard bought on condition he play it in his room. His older bro her and sister, Brent and Am , caught the fever rather quickly, as expected. But we didn't count on Mark being so susceptible. He now can spot their picture in a newspaper or magazine. He comes out singing, "Wanna Ho id Your Haaaaaand . ." (don't question this statement - it sounds as good as the record). But the real clincher happened the other night in a restaurant. in Mark stood on his ch?iir-sefamthe our booth, peering at ily across the aisle. "Look, Mama," he said, printing at the lady with straigit "shaggy dog" hair, ."there's a beatle." We left as quickly and as inconspicuously as posEdna Loveridge, Lehi sible. SCOOTER SKID Motorists on Columbia Lane have been mildly curious about a skid mark down the near verticle em bankment east of the Lane at South, Oreita. Recentlv. we saw how 2000 it was done. motor scooter was sil- houetted on the tfim; an-other watching be ow, sig- naled as both streets were from fre momentarily traffic. Then the scooter on the rim rode straight down th mud cliff. J G. A NO GUILT HERE Outlook and rationalization way of when conscience easing one's it happens to itch a little. receiving Often, persons or or travel for study grants have certain feelings of guilt regarding whether they dessrve such grants or Whether they should take time from thsir normal jobs to take advanlage of the have a remarkabl; Timely Quotes No one can bury us or bluff us or beat us so long- as our economy - remains strong. President Johnson. If we do not learn this lesson of sharing, of helping our colleagues throughout the world, others will. grants. Professor R. Stephen Milne of the University of Singapore, attending the Western Political annual Association Science meeting in Salt Laki; last week, expressed such fe slings. The Professor is on a trip in the Uiited State making 26 speeches at 15 unl versities on a grart from the Carnegie Foundation. He has Leonard ancient Britain delighted in beauty of form and detail and flamboyant treatment of plant and animal forms, in this way, they are akin to the artists of the Middle Ages since, tot both, love of beauty was mixed with a feeling for the fantastic and the grotesque. q EacydofNMfio fcststtici H. Goldenson, presAmerican ident, Broadcasting to Americans Company, urges share know-nowith broadcasters in developing nations lest Communists step in. If this is justice in the United States I pity those who don't have the money to pay for an appeal . . . This is a railroad job In my two-mon- th w opinion. James R Hoffa, on conviction for jury tampering. hi, dad . . . thought it was about tim to Jet you know how much fun I'm havin' down hero in Florida dutfoa ipriflfl racethid" "Hi. mom college-graduat- few known jobs. But they're not touching the heart of the unemployed.) Without such information, U.S. government officials admit privately, much of the money we spend directly or indirectly for vocational, tendhnical, occupational or professional training may be wasted. What it boils down to, say some officials, is that we're spending considerable sums of money on programs without spending the lesser amounts of money to get the statistics we need to let us know where we're going. bread-and-butt- er tic people is not in expecting too much of the future, but in expecting too little from the present. Tyler so-call- ed TAKE PEN IN HAND Earl Warr of Goodyear, Ariz., would like to hear from all the "little people" in this area, and he doesn't mean gremlins. He means those of us who feel like pygmies in this giant world seven-foo- t basketball of "orand players dinary" people. The "upper limit" for this group is a height of four feet 10 inches. Mr. Warr's address is P.O. Box 484, Goodyear, Ariz. six-fo- made similar trips on grants from other U.S. foundations in other Vears. "On the other giants I felt sort of badly that I was accept ing them just because of the not that 1 don't like money FLYING LOW ot IN CHURCH It has been a generally ac- cepted fact that party guests were invited and those who go to church were members. On a recent Sunday there were present at the Orem 24th Ward two that very definitely were 'neither invited nor members. In fact they weren't even welcome. The two intruders somehow gained entrance to the chapel and were having a fine time high overhead one moment and swooping low over the heads of the church members the next. No one knows how the two starlings got into church but the custodian said they went hurriedl through a side door after a short battle with a long Bertha Clark, Alpine pole. QUOTE AND The mistake SAGE SAYS We have to laugh and I'm from Scotland and this makes the grant quite all right." Jerry Cornell RE-QUOT- E of optimis- - ) have reasonably accurate figures on what job openings there are now, let alone what openings there will be five or so years hence when many of today's students will e job hunting. The Labor Department furnishes forecasts. Forecasters say they work with insufficient data. Current data is insufficient to determine whether a man school-traine- d in one field stays in that field generally or enters another, or whether, if he stays in the field he trained in, he is more or less qualified than a man who hasn't had that specialized training. Some labor department officials admit privately they don't know why those out of work are unemployed. They have some general statistics. They talk blithely about its being the uneducated. But they don't know, for example, how many e trained engineers are unemployed or why. They don't know whether their retraining programs correctly train people. (They've had luck so far because they're taking the cream of the crop for a SAGEBRUSH the money," he said. "But I feel better about this once since Carnegie was a Scot -- rl-- not dream at the houses. They always cost more than folks ever dreamed they would. POET AT 82 Mrs. Delia Waterlyn of 394 W. 4th S., Provo, 82 years of age, probably got tired of waiting for the real spring. So she created one in words. Her poem, submitted to the Herald, is entitled- - "Spring at Dawn": The morning light is a dainty miss In clouds of feathery white; She pins up the rays of the morning sun, Draws shutters over the night. Touching the rose, Dispelling their perfume, Walks through the dewey garden, Dim from the dimming moon. at what-have-yo- u, The Celts of a case in point. He graduated ifc Philosophical Perspective Holmes Alexander WASHINGTON, -S- causing growing concern over whether we are wasting sizable amounts of money and effort and causing considerable amount of , unemployment by teaching the wrong things or teaching them the wrong way in our schools. Cassius Clay, the heavyweight boxing champion of the world, Soviet Dealing With the 'Devil' old-fashion- (NEA) draftees tudies make on Army mental tests are Today's Editorials So, finding - of the scores along in the world as it is. -- Training Revealing WASHINGTON Nikita Khrushchev once defended the infamous Hitler-Stali- n pact of 1940 by saying the Russians would have signed an agreement with the devil himself if it would have prevented or postponed war. The Russians are still finding themselves forced to deal with a sort of devil in this case, the capitalist world. They may not believe that money and its uses are here to stay, but until that glorious day of the classless and wantless society dawns, they, like the rest of us, need cash (or credit) to get f n School-Jo- b Lingering in the tall green trees As the golden sun arrives, To awaken in the early dawn, Our hopes to revive. She traces the rim of the mountains In irregular lines to see. And etches the clouds like silver, Over the dark blue sea. She is the queen of the birds festival As they sing at break of day, Does not tarry but disappears When the sun shines its ray. If you can't find her High on the mountain top, She's down in the valley . . . Kissing the flowers to wake them up. There is no other joy So lovely and bright, As to retrieve our dreams Laid loW by silent night. Ruth Millett Smart Woman Likes To Tell Her Age When asked if she minded telling her age, an said with a twinkle: "No, 1 love to tell my age. llect the nicest compliments 1 Co- that way." Now there's a smart woman. Much, much smarter than the woman who sets her age back 5 or 10 years or the one who plays a cagey game of trying to make others figure1 out for themselves that she is younger than she actually is. When a woman who looks 40 admits she is 50, everyone is impressed. When a woman says she is 70, even though she seems years younger, she gets a lot of credit for being so young for her age. But what does the woman who tries, and sometimes succeeds, in convincing you that she Is 4$ when she is actually 50, get for her troubles? Nothing much at all. She is just another (supposedly) woman who looks and acts every bit her age and probably a bit more since she has actually lived five years more. What special compliments does she rate, or ever get? None. That being the case, it's kind of foolish for women to be ashamLOOKS ed of whatever age they happen to be. If a woman of 60 look her age then 60, what's wrong with that? And if she doesn't she will "collect the nicest compliments" by admitting it. old |