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Show 1. tirf' Editorial Page Feature Some Sidelights on By ME1UUMAN SMITH LTI White House Reporter Dedicated to the Progress And Growth of Central Utah " (UPI)-Rack-s- SUNDAY, MARCH 3, 1963 ," Majority Deaf to World Events The "people's right to know" is the implied reverse of the free-- ; coin minted by the First Amendment to the Son- atitution. But what if the people, or most of them, don't want to know ? Two social scientists at the University of Michigan claim that studies show that newspaper bto-rior television programs dealing with world affairs generally attract only the small proportion of the population which is already gpeech-and-pre- , ss es . 'well-infor- larger than the percentage of readers who read such articles, they say. They estimate that only about 10 per cent of the publia can absorb the backgrounds of Mrs. Lincoln has more than Mrs. Lincoln's earlier and that report Kennedy told her in private conversation just three days before his assassination that much-public'- ed Johnson would not be his choice as a running mate in the 1964 elections an assertion flatly denied by Sen. Robert K. and Theodore Kennedy, C. Sorensen, special counsel to the late chief executive. Published Monday The book will be published formally Monday (March 4) by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, but copies have been showing up in bookstores ahead of time. Conversely, those least informinterested are most likely to "tune out" mass media information. Most people, maintain John P. Robinson and James W. Swine- ; hart, have little understanding of distant events, distrust much of I what they hear about such events and may even be hostile if events ed or least S threatenirg. Something like read no news, ( see no news, speak no news. Though newspapers have some- times been criticized for slighting world affairs, the percentage of ; space devoted to them is still far lt "A monopoly of programs at the better-educate- d Each year sees a record num-Hbof automobiles on American 'highways. The total is edging towards 100 million. Yet interestingly enough, re- ports the American Road Builders Association, there are now more 'than 30 million bicycles in America, another record. w If you are wondering what connection road builders have with jbicycles, the ARBA evolved out of something called the League of LAmerican Wheelmen, which was ' organized way back in the muddy, rutted days of 1880 to fight for good roads and bicycle sidepaths. .. But when the horseless carriage 'began multiplying back in the ; early 1900s, not only horses but bicycle manufacturers fell on hard .'times. Production dropped. ; Now the bike is bouncing back. The year 1966 was the best sales year in history. Consequently, .'there is increasing demand for ; safe bikeways. These are routes ; usually parallel to main streets SJid leading to and from schools, er - fs. ? On our tour of Watts with Miss Doyle Twe went into the finely equipped build--j Ing called the South Central Multipur-- 5 pose Health Service Center of the Uni-- 2 versity of Southern California at 2051 E. 103rd St It seems larger than the Center to which Dr. Howard first took - ij me and has a larger staff. The young lady receptionist asked m to be seated in the waiting room un-Jt-il Mr. Clay was free to show us 7 round. It was only a few mirutea until Mr. Clay, a good looking Negro with beard and mustache 6lightly tinged " with gray appeared and showed us ; through the establishment. A young 'Negro girl from a Junior College who 'was doing a paper on the Health Cen-tjoined us, and I'm sure she got a better comprehenson of the piroject :than I did. Mr. Clay was an eloquent guide, T patently proud of the facilities which he said were as modern as in any but was somewhat critical of "doctors who are covertly fighting the Center, and of social workers who bein invading the come of the families they are supposed ; to help. Miss Doyle told us later while it was i; occasionally true the indictment was nuch too broad. Dr. Howard's opinion !of his own profession seemed to be, ;'Well, there are doctors, and doctors." The 103rd. Street was where the worst jp .of the riot had taken place. Mr. Clay called our attention to a group of young 'men who had been training for jobs, Ibut which hadn't materialized as prom-;iseThere was little for them to do, he explained, except wait. Employment ,is certanily the great need, and if promises are not kept, Mr. Clay said with sad conviction, there may be another iking, hot summer coming up. Next to employment, or perhaps i ahead of it, comes the problem of 'health and education. A new hospital is being built close by, and part of its function will be to train more doctors ? and nurses, and I take It most of them Swill be Negroes. We talked with Dr, 'Porter, a vigorous, articulate Negro t doctor who is presently engaged in men-Uhealth work here in the city, but 'is slated to head the new hospital. He ; er hos--pit- pri-'.va- cy over-zealo- d. al 'Jbnt this Medical Center owes as much 4 to Dr. Howard as to any one person. It revolves around him." It is concerned mostly with prevention of disease. A large part of work l, has to do with and post-natcare. The corridors and waiting rooms were overflowing with young mothers, about-to-b- e mothers many of whom and young children. were unmarried al pre-nata- I wandered around among them exciting curious stares until I was glad to be invited into the laboratory by Mr. Landrey, the technician in charge, for a cup of coffee. He is a and thinks he should have more work to do. Upon learning that I needed a blood sugar count he obligingly gave me the test. I watched him take blood from one or two young colored girls who were obviously frightened and had to be gently persuaded. Many of the tests he made he told me had to do with V.D., which the Center has to struggle against constantly. All is not sweetness and light in Watts. As we drove up 103rd. St. Miss Doyle pointed out the House of Happiness where a few nights before a girl in her district who lived in an apartment house close by, had been raped by two men. It is not an infrequent occurrence according to Miss Doyle who like the ether white women who work there would not dare to live there, and if they did would not go out after dark. few tilings that day which I saw dejected me, but more that encouraged me for they were the opening of the gates of hope for people who have too long been neglected. I was tired and weary when we started home, and Forrest took another route there are freeways everywhere through Long Beach where we had a look at the once Mighty Queen Mary e lying in her dock where the queen of the ocean is doomed to become an American convention center. We had lunch in a bowling ally in Compton operated by Woody Lewis, e pro football great with the Los Angeles Rams. The colored waitress was courteous and polite, but she looked at us with that remote which I quickly learned to except in Watts and Compton. I think I'm beginning to dig the peopU there. French-Canadia- one-tim- one-tim- sus-pick- m rather poorly. Mrs. Lincoln has been married for some years to Harold "Abe" Lincoln, described in the book as a political scientist and for who ran unsuccessfully Congress from Maryland two years ago. Jensen "You see, Kid, people who hire people aren't 'with' a lot of things. We know more about Bing than about Ringo, and we have Stone-Ag- e ideas about who owes whom a living. Maybe that makes us prehistoric, but there's nothing wrong with the checks we sign. "Ever hear of 'empathy'? It's the trick of seeing the other fellow's side of things. But what I needed was someone who'd go out in the plant, keep his eyes open, and work for me as he'd work for himself. If you have even the vaguest idea of what I'm trying to say, let it show the next time you ask for a job. You'll be head and shoulders over the rest. "You know, Kid, men have always bad to get a job like you get a girl: Case the situation, wear a clean shirt, and try to appear reasonably willing. A lot of us can remember when master craftsmen walked the streets. Yon don't know the meaning of 'scare'. "You may not believe it, but all around you employers are looking for young men and women smart enough to go after a job in the way. "For both our sakes, get eager will you? ... ed What's With Watts? Second of 4 Columns himself who comes off looking you out. majority. The Chopping Block tion, but passages it is John F. Kennedy Youngster:" "Dear Kid: "Today you came to me for a job. From the look of your shoulders as you walked out, I suspect you've been turned down before. And maybe you believe by now that kids out of high school can't find work. "But I hired a teenager today. You saw him. He was the one with polished shoes and a necktie. What was so special about him? Not experience. Neither of you had any. It was his attitude that put him on the payroll instead of yon. Attitude, son. He wanted that job badly enough to shuck the leather jacket, get a haircut, and look in the phone book to find out what this company makes. "He did his best to impress me. That's where he edged ences could serve to create even greater apathy or distrust of government foreign policy among those who can't follow what's happening," they warn. If the "untouchable" minority was a problem for democracy in India, the "unreachable" majority is an even greater one in this country. For the functioning of a democracy ultimately depends upon the decision informed uninformed or made by the misinformed Reads-approv- any such intensome of her I don't know who authored the following nor do I know where it first appeared but I was impressed when I read it. It makes several points that today's youngsters hould be aware of. See if you don't agree. It is entitled: "An Open Letter to a Discouraged beamaudi- recreation areas and points of scenic interest. They are marked by a Bureau of Public sign in white and green. The first bikeway was dedicated in 1962 in Homestead, Fla., home of famed heart specialist and biking enthusiast, Dr. Paul Dudley White. Chicago was the first large city to try the idea. Its bikeway covers 115 miles of lakefront paths and is used by an estimated 10,000 bicyclists every day. The nation's longest bikeway begins at LaCrosse, Wis., and leads for 320 miles to the shore of Lake Michigan at Kenosha. The federal government is also getting into the act. In 1966, the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation granted some $367,000 to 12 urban areas to help them get bikeways started. There are now plans for nearly 200,000 miles of bike path development. And appropriately enough, the League of American Wheelmen is pedaling again, out of headquarters in Chicago. in And Some Philosophy New Heyday for the Bicycle ; anti-Johns- ernever had A Letter To A Boy d. ed The kind of anecdotal material about Johnson used by Mrs. Lincoln ordinarily would produce joy in opponents of an incumbent president in a campaign year. Interestingly, some however, figures withh the Democratic party have advised a hands-of- f attitude toward Mrs. Lincoln's material. Why? Evelyn Lincoln who literally worshipped her employ Bye Line by Felled news events. Failure to reach the mass audience has numerous dangers, not the least of which, say Robinson and Swinehart, is an increase in the already substantial feeling of resentment toward "eggheads" and "professors" by the edv m , 6eem tairs WASHINGTON at the White House: A closer examination of the new book "Kennedy and John-ionby Evelyn Lincoln, personal secretary to the late President John F. Kennedy, reveals it to be a 4.95 martial about hating Lyndon B. John-io- her own active dislike of the current President who succeeded her boss. She portrays the late President as alternately annoyed, dismayed, astonished and even angry at the pushy conduct of his vice president. And all this is in addition to Relationship JFK-LB- J i ' ' ... "The Boss." Analysis Post-Morte- m Pretty good, huh? I read it a couple of weeks ago in Ray Nelson's column in the Logan Herald Journal. It impressed me because I have had similar experiences with young people looking for jobs. Romney Washed Out by 'Brainwash7 By BRUCE BIOSSAT WASHINGTON (NEA)-G- ov. George W. Romney of Michigan was beaten before he ever launched into 1968 campaigning for the Republican presiand his dential nomination use of the word "brainwash" delivered the decisive blow to his candidacy. In a relatively obscure taped television interview around Labor Day, 1967, Romney said he thought he had been brainwashed by Johnson administration officials when he and other governors visited Viet- nam in late 1965. Much later, Romney told a friend: "That came right off the top of my head." The first stories reporting the interview buried the comment eight paragraphs deep. But at a GOP National Com- mittee meeting here only days afterward, the word "brainwash" traveled the party political circuit like a distress code on the high seas. More important still, it was word. Witha in days, businessmen, clerks, cab drivers, waitresses and housewives were asking: "How can a man ask to be president who says he can be brainwashed?" To reporters who had been covering Rcmney'a national travels for nearly a year, "brainwash" was merely the most dramatic of many Romney utterances which they felt suggested a consistent lack of grasp of foreign affairs generally and Vietnam hi particular. But the professional opinion samplers now confirm that this was the turning point the moment at which the American voting public concluded for itself that George Romney was not equipped to handle the great issues as a president must do. A poll taken in New Hampshire in the spring of 1967 found voters placing Romney high on the leadership scale. A similar poll in that state in December, three months fitter "brainwash," revealed a serious reversal. Symbolized by that statement, his evident inability to handle Vietnam and other big issues gave the voters strong negative perceptions of the governor as a prospective leader. In percentage terms, viiis switch wa3 devastating. Romney had a bare 13 per cent of support among Republican voters, against 63 per cent fur Nixon. Richard Nixon's aides refused to accept the figures as valid, dismissing them as "snow job" intended to pave the way for a spectacular winter upsurge by Romney. But they were quite real. Two midwinter telephone polls taken in New Hampshire indicated no measurable improvement after the governor began actively campaigning there. But the crucial moment came when another poll disclosed that Nixon at February's close stood at 70.3 per cent to Rom-ney- 's 1L5 and New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller's 8.4 per cent. a governor of three-ter- m a great industrial state, the savior of a major company, a prime mover in endless civic endeavors? His friends and one or two of his biographers offer suggestive evidence. He is a self-maman who rose to considerable heights despite a sketchy education, whose narrow limits were made more rigid by the heavy influence of his sturdy Mormon upbring- de ing. Unlike the Nixon, Romney throughout his public life never seemed to theorize well from a neatly structured body of thought on the great issues. Says one Romney watcher: "George has always arrived at solutions to ever-plausib-le The negative perceptions of Romney as leader seemed set in concrete, which is why he was beaten before he started. The brutal irony is that Romney the New Hampshire and Wisconsin campaigner was problems by what . I call the much improved over the theory of successive approxiwho stumbled his way ' mations.' across the continent from the friend meant that By Alaska to Georgia in 1967. It off that the . fired governor was too late. The voters were ideas like space missiles, misstuned out and looking elseing his target, redirecting the where. missile for another try, missAsia Southeast Romney's more narrneutralization plan and other ing again, though owly, until finally he struck 1968 views on Vietnam and solution. were well home and had a related matters Within the orbit of a comthought out, articulately presented and doggedly defended, pany or even a state, says mis friend, Romney could get against hard questioning. It with this special problem-solvin- g by made absolutely no difference, technique. To critics, as the polls showed. furthermore, he had1 one unAll this is clearly surface manifestation. The underlying answerable rejoinder: It worked, sooner or later, and puzzle is: How could a man record stood there to prove his be so unprepared for the big issues who stood out ai a Jt. As yet, I haven't interviewed the leather jacket type but I've talked with some that sure have a 'lousy' attitude. They've come walking in my office plunked themselves down in a chair without being invited to do nd then give me a look as if to say, "Look me over buddy I'm the hottest thing on two wheels." so-a- ... In some instances, before I could get their name, they've opened their mouths and let fly a barrage of statements like: Do I get Saturdays off? . . , "What are the hours here? How many weeks vacation do I get? . . . What's your pension Do you furnish a plan? . . . How about health insurance? car? . . . How much sick leave do you give?" . . . and so on. No sir, they don't .want to know about the job, they want to. know what I'm going to do for THEM. They don't want to say things like "Mr. Jensen, I would really like to have mat job and show what I can do for YOU." Maybe I remember the first Maybe I'm too time I ever applied for a job. Maybe my father taught me the wrong philosophy when applying for a job and if so, I sure hope it rubs off on my Kids. ... ... -- ver-baliz-er BERRY'S WORLD BY TAMES a BZRRY , My father once said to me: "Son, if you do nothing is your life but dig ditches, be a damn good ditch digger. When it comes time to quit, don't just lay your shovel down and head for home. Rather, dig-i- n and give the boss a couple of it won't cost you a thing." eitra shovel loads ... Paul Harvey the World Without Vietnam Life In By PAUL HARVEY Let's try to envision without United States our Viet- nam. With that mess out of the way, much ferment in the U.S.A. would subside. Many demonstrations and much mischief derive from opposition to this winless war. Hopefully young Americans, spared the specter of involuntary military service, could be reinspired to uplift our home front. As despair is contagious, Is pride. so farfetched to It's not too imagine that racial tensions would subside in the esprit de corps resulting from a united effort to make our America the beautiful more beautiful. Also, erosion of our dollar would be retarded, conceivably rsversed, when more of our dollars "stay home," recirculating through our own economy. official However tardily, Washington is beginning to reflect a ground swell of grassroots "enlightened selfishness." !9H kj NtA, ht. "It Qt A'"'" Sowni pnrf WflrfiVs wld bh iint wctfc 'uxk 'touah-tn- H to ' mT that he They call it "growing concern for domestic problems." Sargent Shriver, the poverty war general, in Atlanta the other day, said, "Americans today favor spending more money on our problems at home and not so much overseas." Well, What do you know! You and I recognized more than 10 years ago that foreip aid had that we should boomcranged, be husbanding our dollars, making the United States vigorous and strong. The notion that we should try to cure Asia's ills when our own country's temperature ranged from turbulent to violent seemed to us nonsense. Draining gold from our anemic reserves to support unworthy allies seemed to us suicidal. At long last this conspicuous hypocrisy has penetrated the Potomac fog. Sargent Shriver, with personal political ambitions, might be expected to start moving closer to toe voters, but, whatever his motivation, he's welcome to the ranks of what were once derisively called "isolationists." Shriver told the Atlanta Press Club that most Americans have now "come to the conclusion that unless we make progress on the home front it doesn't matter too much how successful we are in Africa or Asia' or somewhere else. The voters think we have gotten too far away from our own knitting." He promises to circulate a pledge among congressmen that "when the war in Vietnam is over, they will spend that money on the home front." ' |