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Show Behind The Day's Now n M UcH J THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1961 f ny. Made Up Of ; y By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News' Analyst pellees," refugees from Czechoslovakia, the territories beyond the e line now occupied by and Communist East from Poland, Germany. Herzig is a neat, grey - haired man; with the comfortable well-fe- d and look that toto common is West day Germany. Lived in Prague But he remembers his return from the United States where" he spent time as a prisoner of war, and his return to his family in Prague, Czechoslovakia. His cast-of- f The Most Vital Ingredient Too easily we i One of the most Utopian angles in the Communist plan for man is the" eventual "withering away" of the. state. Russia has promised that this process should be pretty well advanced in 20 years. Presumably among the state organs due to wither are the police and the penal institutions. Everything will be free, so why should there be crime? Since 20 years is not a long time,one may be justi-- fied in looking for signs of de. creasing criminal activity sia. . The fact is, reports the Institute for the Study of the U.S.S.R., the crime rate has risen there since World War II and continues to rise. It is being met by a "get tough". policy of stiffer sentences and an increase in the number of le re-mo- . - to be worldlier for the good of the, state but who in reality are deriving income from fiitfis" who rvretend ventures. unapproved private, Since almost all of Russia's crim- inals have grown up under the Plmriof svstorh- - nnnf.rtpr Iatca Vinlft is shot through Marx's dogma that all social ills are caused by bourgeois, cap titalism. It is not for Americans, speaking from the depths of their blackened pot, to point to any kettle when it 'comes to criminal statistics. It is to be sincerely hoped, that Russia, which once seemed on a road of enlightened penology, can solve her problem of genuine crimes-cri- mes which plague all, nations. But it is to be doubted whether, the Communist ideology will ever give rise to anything but a great many "antisocial" activities which, anywhere else, would not be regarded as crimes. I . . Even where the democratic impulse is reasonably strong, there usually is a lack of men with civilian governing experience. Army leaders are trained administrators and they already hold within their grasp the vital police power any national leader must wield. From the most intensely practical viewpoint, military men are often moved to act to assure that they and their costly establishment will continue to be paid and supported. Thus military commanders are almost inevitably the inheritors of power, when democracy falters. They alone appear to be able to bring some semblance of order out of chaos. Why does democracy falter in such countries as these? The reasons naturally are varied and complex. But it is abundantly clear that in virtually all the newly independent lands no tradition of individual of freedom, exists. Not only is there no corps of trained civilians to govern. There is deep ignorance of the new nation's own domestic problems. Democracy is not so, hardy a growth that it can be grafted onto so shaky a framework as this. It is common to say that democracy will not prosper in lands where there are not full stomachs. This may well be true. Yet it may be wise to add that full stomachs are not the only prerequisite. Democracy demands educated and much and aroused minds of the world about us still has far too few of these. self-governme- WASHINGTON, D. - AAedicine--G- o C Socalized medi- Britain, under X 'v-'-v-vo- -- .fts; 5j la in a time of history liWrt when4 costs of construc- Mr. Alexander tion, of administration, -- well-bein- the elixir for everlasting of youth. The Labor fountain life, or the the same number about force stil loses For every sickness. hours from of work been vanquished, jailing disease that has toll of annual its increased has another human life. of Where, then, is the abomination not . It has Well, medicine? socialized cursed men's bodies" in Britain, but it has bedeviled their - peace ofbemind and possible fettered their souls.- It may but respectable case to make a shaky as a' monopoGovernment for the Central of medical care and, listic purchaser dictator-b- ut good nothing its therefore, of said for the totalitarian the cure-al- l, Savins individual citizen 'his. choice. Only if "freedom" in sov-ereiS- S Xmerican Home! parlance means "free-- option and liberty of the hand and mind, is socialized medicine .a defensible system in what we call thfe Free World of the West. As a corrupt tree, it has brought forth such diseased fruit as: 1. The claptrap argument that people desire and are entitled to health. Truthfully, most people who smoke, drink,, overeat, overwork, travel by air, sea and highway do not set the highest store upon their health and longevity. lany other good things of life come first. As to entitlement, people certainly have a greater inherent right to purchase the best that their purses can afford, whether in food, housing, clothing, entertainment or medical care. Socialized medicine deprives people of this "freedom. 2. The demoralization of the medical professions. In the 1950's British doctors h suffered a loss of their living the standards, while general population Dentists have had was gaining it much worse. A minority report of a Royal Commission says: "It would be difficult, even by searching the records of periods of violent economic upheaval, to find a parallel case where the standard of living of a whole occupation has 'swung about so wildly as it has for dentists in this decade." 3. The thick squll of bureaucracy. The Willink Committee of 1955 was formed to consider the future supply of doctors. For the period of 1961-7it predicted ' that the British population would increase by 4.5 percent (it is now increasing by 7 per cent); that a NHS doctors' retirement scheme would not significantly affect the doctor supply (so many doctors retired that' the increase of new physicians, which was 256 in 1956-5-7 fell to 55 in 195859); that few doctors would leave Britain (the emigration of doctors has been high and is increasing) . The Committee estimates were so wrong that chaos is now the forecast for 1961-74. Th hard heart of bureaucracy. The British central government has not been nearly so generous in medical care as a market would have British ministries made been. In 1949-5average spendings of 225 million pounds ' for electricity, 67 million pounds for coalt but only 28 million pounds for health service and virtually nothing for dental schools. It is an awful record an awesome . one-fift- of manufacture and research of medicines, have all gone up. So have the and figures 'on longevity, use of denturesother" and hearing aids, tranquilizers wonder drugs. It would: be manifestly unfair and illogical to blame NHS for inflation or to credit it with. new medical' discoveries and concoctions. A forthcoming study of British health, by the private enterprise Institute of Economic Affairs in London, says that of Britons is no g the physical better, no worse than that of Germans, Scandinavians and Americans. Neither the medical monolith of Britain, nor the free markets elsewhere, has produced ty . successful newsman and press chief to Lower Saxony's prime Minister. Herzig has resigned himself to one-fift- h. 1, 1. supply-and-dema-nd ? issJ ther. Sadness Decreases s West Germany.-- , , The booming West German economy has absorbed them,, and could use more. Many are more comfortable now than in their forrr.?r homes. The desire to return is fading awajn and will fade more as memories grow more dim. But there is a sadness in him that exists scarcely at all in his children. His daughter does not remember Prague, and his; son, born in Hanover, has no interest in it at all. His son " does not understand why his identification card also' :I iillillfell Editorial Comments on Ouster of Commission Government by the City Which Originated It' Editor Herald: perience with the commission form than any other state, so it is significant that in 1949 the New Jersey Commission on Municipal Government which drafted an outstanding group of optional local government laws, pronounced this judgment: "It has inherent weakness which are responsible for many of the municipal difficulties in commission-governe- d cities that we face today." "Historically the commission form 'has proved to be a transition device. It was an immediate, more or less accidental answer to the overcomplicated system of the nineteenth century with bicameral municipal legislatures, weak mayors, and numerous separately-electe- d officials and boards. Subsequent has demonstrated" that it was, owevcr, by no means a completely satisfactory or final" answer. Since this report, New Jersey's largest city, Newark, abandoned the commission form in favor of the strong mayor plan; and Jcr sey City has a charter commission at work. When a legislative committee was considering a bill last year which would repeal the law permitting Wisconsin ' cities to adopt-thcommission form, no one testified in defense of the system, A civic leader from Fond du Lac, the last of eighteen cities to abon-do- n it, testified his city was happier now with the council-managplan. It is not likely, lie added, that any Wisconsin city would want a commission in the future. Galveston, with adorous reputation for bad government and something less than generally moral conditions, now seems at least to be" on the verge of repentance. When the next test at the polls comes, it should be more difficult to assess the "club" operators for money to fight progress. Attached hereto is a copy of an editorial which appeared in the May, 1960, National Civic Review. It seems to me that it is very appropriate for the people of Pro-v- o to read it in view of the present struggle over the nature of our municipal government. I think it has so much good information in it and comes from such a reputable magazine, that the people of Pro vo would be interested in getting the information which it contains. Stewart L. Grow, Director Institute of Government Service, Brigham Young University Editor's Nate: The editorial from National Civic Review, submitted by Mr. Grow, is reprinted below: . cheek-and-balan- manager plan. The vote was lighter and closer than the good of the city and the nation' should have demanded 5,505 to 4,803 but the well majority can look to a The Allen-Sco- tt On the heels of the disasterous tidal wave of 1900, the governor of Texas appointed a commission of five leading citizens to bring JFK Bars New Farm Price Subsidies By ROBERT S. ALLEN and PAUL SCOTT WASHINGTON, Oct. 12 Presi- dent Kennedy is quietly barring the Agriculture Department from making new price support commitments on .major farm com- modities without White H o us el approval. This fiscal rein, tightening is being ordered by the President as the first of a series of major economy moves that he plans to take to cut domestic government spending before Congress returns in January. His objective: a balanced federal budget for fiscal '63, that runs from July 1, 1962, to July 1, The President issued his order after Walter Heller, chairman of his Council of Economic Advisers, .warned that this year's bumper farm crops were threatening to increase government farm price support payments by billion. more ' than An increase of such propor2 tions would throw the fiscal '63 budget completely out of balance. In addition to his veto order, the President is asking Heller to make a study to determine if farm subsidies could be drastically reduced during the coming year. Heller's findings are due by December 1. At present, the Agriculture Department has holdings of surplus farm commodities valued at slightly more than $7 billion. According to Agriculture Depart-meaides, these government surpluses could climb to $9 billion next year unless new production curbs are ordered: this -- are considering a possible, cut in the national cotton quota to help reduce the high cost of the price support and subsidy program. A reduction of 2Vz million acres is being mentioned in administration crcles. The present7 quota is 18.5 million, acres, while cotton' producers Want it boosted to around 20 million. Agriculture Secretary Orville L. Freeman must announce the 1962 cotton allotments by Oct. 15. STORM WARNINGS In a major effort to head off this cotton allotment reduction, eight cotton state senators, headed by Senator Allen Ellender, D., La., chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, have appealed directly to the President In their letter, they warned that a sharp cut in quotas "would lead to a possible cotton shortage that would be detrimental to the national interests at a time of threatened war." "A prospective in shortage off scare would touch buysupply ing around the world," the Senators wrote, "which would temporarily stimulate U. S. cotton exports and increase the cost of export subsidy." President Kennedy acknowledg na-ton- Q's and A's What is the meaning of the Q political term "gerrymander?" A It is the practice of dividing a city, state, or county into voting districts in an unfair way, so the party in power stays there. How does a day on Jupiter Q compare in length with a day on earth? A It is less than 'half as long" as our day. This planet turns on its axis once every nine hours and 55 minutes. Q What is the practice of -- thaumaturgy? A The performance of magic. What do the colors in the s United States Flag symbolize? A Traditionally, white for and innocence, red for purity hardiness and valor, and blue for vigilance, perseverance, and Q - al S. C; Everett Jordan, D., N. C; Clair Engle, D., Calif.; Richard Russell, D., Ga., and Carl Hay- den, D., Ariz. . BACK Other spendcutbacks under consideration ing the President and his top by fiscal aides include the impounding, of $200 million in extra defense funds voted by Congress; a slow down in spending for public works projects; and limiting of manpower hiring by several government agencies. White House aides report that the President is planning to try to bring the 1963 budget into balance despite the big boost in military spending caused by the Berlin crisis. "By ordering reductions now," a presidential aide points out, "the President is getting ready to meet his congressional spending critics head on In January." CUTTING acreage The Doctor Says By H. T. IIYMAN, M. D. Newspaper Enterprise Assn. We were looking at TV the other night when the pitchman announced that his medical was used and endorsed product by 9 out of 10 physicians. My friend turned to me and Furthermore, if the manufacturer obtained 9 endorsements out of a particular group of 10, were other groups questioned? And were there 9 out of 10 en- dorsements in all groups? Indeed the inquiry might be extended. "Used at leading hospitals!" say other commercials. What leading hospitals? How many? Why not all leading hospitals? What reason were given by leading hospitals that did not use the product? The product is "like a doctor's boasts another prescription" blurb. What doctor? What prescription? x It's all like a poem we used to recite when we were kids, It began, "I was with Grant," the stranger said. Said the woman "Say no nore." And she invited the passer-b-y to eat at her table. Not until he'd had. his fill did the stranger complete his opening sentence. "I was with Grant in Illinois," he said as he wiped his mouth "Some 10 years be- re-mark- ed, "I guess you must have been the tenth doctor." That set me thinking to about these ads and their endorsements. Who were the Dr. Hyman nine endorsers? What are their names? If they thought the product good enough to endorse, why did they not sanction mention of their names? What were they doctors of? Medicine? Philosophy? Music? Fine Arts? . Economics? And if they gave their en- dorsements to the manufacturer and sanctioned use. of ; their names, why were they not identified in the commercial? v , : fore the war." At any rate," that's' how it seems to the TENTH DOCTOR. er order out of chaos in Galveston. There is no particular reason io believe that the governor intended to invent a new type of government, but the idea caught on, especially after a judge ruled later that the five commissioners should be elected. Because of its apparent simplicity and the relatives shortness of the ballot the commission form spread rapidly in the early years of the century until it reached its zenith of about 600 communities. Then, as its fatal weakness became apparent, use of it declined steadily. Authorities on government uniformly condemn it as unworkable, headless, a spending machine without brakes, a futile attempt to combine administration and a long - rolling set-uan invitation to spoils bossism. As one expert put it, "The Galveston tidal wave did more damage to other cities than it did to Galveston." At the risk of kicking a fellow when he is almost down and out, it may be appropriate to, remind the cities which still have commissions in the saddle that "you can't run, anything with' a committee." Jersey City, with a commission, actually was ruled for many years by Boss Hague as Memphis was by Boss Crump. Both simply nullified an unworkable arrangement." New Jersey has had nrore ex-policy-makin- Barbs A judge says the average police- man is good natured. Well, a lot of them whistle while they work. FORUM RULES Letters from readers are invited. They should be brief (preferred limit 200. to 300 words) typewritten if possible (double spaced) ; must carry writer's true name and address and be in good taste. Pseudonyms arc not permitted. The Herald assumes no responsibility for statements appearing in the Mailbag column. triters are limited to one letter in 10 days. Letters which exceed space limitation may be ut by the editor. The Herald reserves the right ti reject letters which arc not in good taste or are potentially libelous g, p, dic-tatoria- Ruth MilleU Thinking Doctor Filters Spiels Of The Pitchmen year. On request of the President, Agriculture Department officials ed' the appeal without making a Commitment. He had Larry top liaison man O'Brien, his with Congf-ess- , reply that ',tne whole cotton situation is being carefully studied." Senators making the appeal included James O. Eastland, D., Olin D. Johnston, D.t Miss.; S. C; Strom Thurmond, D., - nt e brighter future with the knowledge that it is possible to fight city hall and the "club", (saloon) operators. Report ce cej GALVESTON REPENTS AT LAST On April 19, Galveston, where the commission form of government originated 60 years ago, voted it out in favor of the council .' 4 Her-zig- - irpitesi 9, warning. should be stamped "expellee, for he is a native of Hanover. The three 'generations of s are illustrative of a sentiment gradually taking 'over, most of the refugees who sought refuge in Toga War 1963. the National not as abominHealth Service (NHS), is able as its detractors sometimes say-- but it is abominable enough, and is tingprogessively worse. Its cardinal virtue, as seen from the Ameriacn viewpoint, is that the 13-year history pf NHS looks like the gaunt skeleton of a chicken-haw- k v 'v nailed to the deadla barn farmer's y- warning for other :' m predatory birds to stay i away. ) Nationalized health in Britain has taken place I cines in Ger- many. Half of Lower Saxony's six million population is made up of "ex nt, Holmes Alexander Socialized ern powers in a dismembered where, once more penniless, they begged two iron cots to sleep on. Those things have changed for Erhard Herzig. Today, he is a d some common threads. ' offenses this year. From a situation in 1947, when 'the death penalty, was abolished, Russia now has reinstated captial punishment for a number of crimes and is moving back to the old system of forced labor in exile in te areas of the country. Among those liable to exile are txlitical convicts and- "social oara- - Saxony, which borders the Communist zone and which was a creation of the West. knowledge that he will not return to Czechoslovakia. : The wish to retu- - is not as stronn i- -- him as it is in his fa- fled ahead of them to Hanover er in Rus- crimes.; Counterfeiting and gross embezzling of public property were made capital state of Lower well-dresse- countries around the globe where democracy , either had a foothold or a bright promise, the experiment has now been abandoned at least temporarily and military commanders hold power. The list includes Egypt, which now is part of the United Arab Republic, Turkey, Iraq, Pakistan, most recently Thailand and Korea. Brazil evidently missed joining this company by only a narrow margin. The internal and external political currents that led to a military take-ovdiffered, of course, in every case. But there were also Snakes in Paradise ........ death-punishab- . forget our own hazardous beginnings after "the Revolution. The British, another fabled example, took centuries to learn how, to just "muddle through." But we don't have to look to history for testimony. In several The great East-We- st struggle' is made infinitely more tantalizing for Americans by the fact that the democracy we - would like to see flourish around the jworld is one of the most difficult of all "political plants" to nuture. Germany Erhard identification Herzig's card reads, "expellee." This is not exceptional in the West German federal republic's possession wore. As the Communists moved up on Czechoslovakia, Herzig, his wife and their small daughter Oder-Neiss- West HANOVER, 'was the uniform British army he sole XD e i - lly i Let The Poor Fellow Read This Paper In Peace This "togetherness" kick the women's magazines are on doesn't show any sign of letting up. . In a recent issue, of oW such magazine there is this bit of advice to young husbands: "Please don't bury your nose in a newspaper. News is something that can be shared." Just how is the young husband supposed to go about sharing the news? Is he supposed to hold his wife, on his lap while he ' ' reads aloud to her, so she won't feel left out .while H he concentrates on the daily paper? Or is he supposed to ignore the paper and learn ... only as much of the day's happenings as he can get from a TV newscast sandwiched in between commercials. . . . T11 be back in a moment. But. first a word from our sponsor.! . . ."? A Or would it be better if he ignored the news altogether, being content just to sit and listen while his Tvuth Millch . wile gives him an account of her day? Or. would it be allowable for him to say to his wife, "Honey, when you're ready to read the paper, let me know and we'll divide it. You know I wouldn't want to sit down and read until you can."? Of course, not .many husbands are going" to be reading the advice aimed at them in women's magazines. But their" wives will read it. And some of them are bound to get the idea that George or Bill or Jim Is being downright selfish to come at night, and grab the newspaper and act for all the world as though world news was more important than news of the neighborhood as reported by their wives. -- ' " i ? J i . |
