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Show r Behind the Day's News i By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst "What the world is seeing at the moment is a perfect example Of the kind of a nationalist a t neutral can turn into when TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1961 AG ood Worki jrig Mode When President Kennedy paid ; . With all these promising vances, the island is not, however, entirely out of the economic swamps. The great exodus notwithstanding, more than 12 per cent of Puerto Rico's work force is still unemployed. And its per capita income gains put it at a level only half that of the least prosperous TJ8. state. con-tradict- About to .1 4 in- - j ed . m,.i .i.n.,,1 l i. -- j - Feature Article On Best U.S. Course: Dennett Called Political Propaganda Follow Constitution Editor Herald: - . . j 1 party, and its major' rival, seek ' lasting union- with the United iX M ' States. Rican Perhaps only the (Puerto politicians themselves can puzzle this one out. Further grist for the mill is the evidence of other, broader efforts by Munoz to read more indepedence into the "commonwealth" status than the U.S. Congress agreed to. Puerto Rico unquestionably is a bright show window for the to look at. jWfe must hope that the island's tangled politics will not cloud it over (just when m&ny lands need the encourage ment of seeing proven, tangible results. ve A , 5 v. ... Haldeman - Julius Publications, Editor Herald: Girard, Kansas, published a copyMost American dally newsrighted booklet in 1942 called, 'The Rights of Man" by H. G. papers give lip service to a : Wells.On page 21 this booklet policy of giving Impartial coversays, "Perhaps the most formidable-age to political figures and polilooking antagonist to the tical news ;; but close examination new of way living (socialism) In almost invariably shows that the world will be the associated most of them including the Daily priestly religions, of which the Herald are in fact partial to the Roman Catholic Church is the political figures they favor. most highly organized, tenacious The ' Herald has repeatedly ' and dangerous . . . " shown favor to Senator Walla ce Wells goes on to comment, "The F. Bennett. It showed most . re(World (socialist) Revolutionary cently in a Nov. 13 story, with or nis forerunner the Communist picture, Ion the Senator's travels is In exactly the position of a in Utah County. It hat shown Roman Catholic with regard to favor lor him all through the the I contemporary political sysyear by carrying articles written tem of which he is a subject. He by Mrr Wallace F.. Bennett on wants and merge it the women's page. into; something greater . . . As If the Ilerald were living up to between the world (socialists) revolution and the Roman Catholic the high principle of Impartiality Church we have an. open conin political coverage, it would flict of . what are 'technically seek out Senator, Frank E. Moss treasons to those collapsing in- -. and Rep. David S. King, who visit stitutions . y" Utah County easily as often as The "treasons" Wells speaks Senator Bennett does, and - pre-about are against nations of the sent articles on their t work world which are neither Comamong the Utah County people. munist nor Fascist, but are termIt would also invite Mrs. Moss ed ; collaspsing institutions," and Mrs. King to help cover the such as United . States, England, women's scene to Wasbmgton.; ' Scandinavia, and other indepenI must confess that the article, dent, countries. These independant on Senator Bennett's travels in f neutral or nations have the Utah County did have one genuine, squeeze-pla- y placed against them news angle to it. It observed that must either the Comthey join he visited the steel plant and mie or Catholic block nations. talked with some, of the workers.' May the United States fbllove When Senator Bennett stops (or neither the Commie nor Fascist Stoops) to listen to the working trend but the Constitution of classes! Brother, that's news Hi ' United States. would do it only because he desGerald Henrie perately needs votes as he does In the next year. they pay and not canned poliThe affront to the reading' tical propaganda; ' public Is compounded, however, Nancy Jeppsen because the article on Bennett 14T M. Smith Hall ' ' obviously was canried-writte- n, Halls . .Heritage In other words, not by Herald Provo, Utah newsmen, but ' by the senator's j Editors note: The Herald Is own publicity hounds . ;It bore a occasionally accused by both flavor which only the senator's Republicans and Democrats of own writers could concoct. It atfavoring the "other side" in its news coverage. As long as both tempted to strike every political chord drawing in the late Heber sides complain (or offer comJ. Grant, the Senator's Sunday mendation) we will continue to etc. School class, We are doing a fair job. Imfeel .. .... t The people who buy the newspartial observers will recognize enare that ALL members of Utah's cor, or any other) paper (this titled to get the news for which gressional delegation receive coverage in the Herald as they are involved in the news. The fact that- - our society editor used a has promised his interior secrefew unsolicited columns by Sen. tary, Fred Seaton, to vigorously him for for governor Bennett's wife on the women's campaign imwas Eisenhower Nebraska. of angle on Washington goings-o- n in instrumental perportantlyrequires no apology. We will conto his throw hat Seaton tinue to present items we feel are suading; him and assured has the of general interest regardless of. into ring, effort in his behalf. who happens to be the writer. of an all-oArticles from the wives of other 'You name it, and Til do it," Eisenhower told Seaton. "And 1'H Washington representatives would to too." , others of a lot help, get bej considered 'for their news and y reader interest, as were those we '. . . Close friends of new Secreused from Mrs. Bennett. We tary Abraham Ribicoff are saying Senator run will he against sincerely welcome comments and flatly criticism from readers, but sugPrescott Bush, R, Conn. Accordhas Ribicoff to already gest that those who write either ' them, ing to the word that President, identify their own leanings or be given sure they, themselves, are writand he has started looking around for a successor to Ribicoff. ing from an unbiased viewpoint. - -- m. ii. - own jMunoz .independence. i.m means. . ')!!' ar - IB--- - , .....I -- "I Don't Trust These Givo-Ava- y Guys Put Him Down as a Comsymp" . . ' wn 1 certain of his recent actions and statements are being interpreted by his political critics as aimed at Rican ties. weakening U.-Puert- o He proposed Puerto Rican membership in the Organization of American States, though the status island's commonwealth leaves its foreign affairs in U.S. s 'i V hands. Only full independence would qualify Puerto Rico for such membership. At the last election, just 3 per cent of its population favor- off-yea- rs l 72." But there had been other examples of the conflict between Munoz has always eagerly courted major U.S. Investment. Yet Roll t'-- er . This, despite his earlier promises to the United Nations that ruch a plebiscite would be held. There has been his tough action against home-groCommunists even as he promoted his ory ' is much like Politics in the rest of public affairs. Everything comes in shades of gray, there is much too much talk, and very little is settled. ; Politics in election years is like baseball. You play a certain length of time, and you get a result. There is still plenty of talk and fuzzy nonsense, but it all ends on the great cutoff dav in November. The already denied reports that Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York would bow out of politics as result of personal problems dently fit properly the off-yeatmosphere. In scant days it will be 1962, election year, and we will have action instead of reports of impending action. There is always a certain welcome relief In it. Promised a Plebiscite That is the training I received throughout my life, and I cannot easily get rid of it at the age cf positions. i I . "I am free to confess to this house," he said, "that my soul reacts against war anywhere. ties generally, appears to be getting into somewhat the migration of nearly 500,000 - flict. five ' principles of with Red China. Ah example was his take-ovIn 1959 of , the administration of the state of Kerala after a Communist election victory there and a subsequent period of chaotic Communist rule. ' The quarrel between India and Portugal over Goa has been festering for 15 years. Repeatedly Nehru has called for the Portuguese! to get out and repeatedly he has said their departure would be ticcomplished by peaceful Nehru, the philosopher of peace, and Nehru, the Indian nationalist. There has been ' his continuing refusal to permit a plebiscite in Kashmir whose predominately Moslem population almost certainly would vote to join neigh-bori- ai Pakistan if given free U.S.-Lat- in period. While this effort was producing 60,000 new jobs, Puerto Rico's economy was further bolstered by i . . (I hope that) men will adjust their minds to the ' idea of peace." But two weeks later, back la his own favorite forum before tha Indian parliament In New Delhi, he expressed his own inner con . ....... In these circumstances, Puerto tax-fre- e 10-ye- ar - Ja-wahar- lal Rico's Gov. Luis Munoz Marine a long time battler for his island's progress and a promoter of closer This minor miracle can be largely ascribed, of course, to the well known program which lured heavy amounts of United States capital and brought 700 new industries by offering investors a ' Sun speaking editorially of the Indian attack on Goa and two other tiny Portuguese enclaves on tha west coast of India. It was a reaction which must have been shared by many witnessing the conflict between Nehru, the philosopher ad- population. 4 massive military strength against three little territories whose value- seemed scarcely worth the bother. venture Certainly, his military ' against the small and ancient Portuguese holding on the Indian subcontinent seemed out of accord with his own words in Mexico City scarcely a month ago. There, speaking to Mexico City councilmen at the municipal palace, he said: "War cannot solve any problem It was the Sydney,, Australia, 1950s. V. S. commonwealth, he put the world spotlight on an island which could well serve as a small model of improvement for underdeveloped areas in Latin America and elsewhere. In the 20 years from 1940, to 1960, income per person in Puerto Rico bounded upward from $121 to $622. Liberal wage policies and sl graduated personal income tax helped to distribute these gains widely through the Puerto Rican of world peace, and Nehru, the prime minister of India hurling J scratched." Islanders to the mainland in the his brief visit to Puerto Rico, a eirtect To ma bout in nm Stages j Mj0h1u j under-develop- ed : ; . V - . 1 ThoAllen-Sco- Holmes Alexander i Report tt McGormack Plans Changes If He'samed "Killer Airlines" Seldo m Liquidated .. "Killer WASHINGTON, D; C. III i; air- lines' seldom die. They change their names, but not their natures, and often they go back Into business with the same men la the front offices, the flight lines and the cockpits. Before very long, there Is another airplane ca- tastrophe, killing from tO to 80 civilians, mill-t tary personnel or mill-tary dependants, and I rarely does anybody i state the reason why. Yet there is a special reason why, although 1 s the basic reason is, of r course, that flying has I as do L Inherent risks all other forms of mo- - Mr. Alexander tion. The reason behind all but a few, unavoidable, plane crash-,' es Is lack of financial stability and reof the sponsibility companies which operate the planes. This is not to say that only big, rich companies should be allowed to operate air services. Far from that. Some of the big, rich companies occasionally have a lapse of conscience or vigilance, also. They neglect to equip their planes with the latest air safety devices, or they overinvest in a bad plane, and won't admit it As sure as shooting, a disaster win follow. No, the criterion is sot wealth and prominence in airline . companies it is a sense of responsibility which causes a firm, large or small, to operate within its financial resources. There are so many tragic proofs of this thesis that it is unfair to mention past offenders by name without mentioning which is impossible. But all offenders the way to prevent recurrence of preventable accidents is for Congress to give the government better legislation with sharper teeth, and for the government agencies to apply the laws without fear or favor. At this writing, Congress has been remiss. Last session, the Senate passed an air policy bill by Senator Monroney which was thought by many to be too lax on the independent airlines. The House passed a stricter bill by Congressman John, Bell Williams. The two bills went into a Senate-Hous- e Conference and never emerged. It is the duty of the 67th Congress to come up with a law which protects the public (not just business interests, labor unions, pilots' associations and individuals), before some makeshift legislation expires in March. The government has been remiss. The Civil Aeronautics Board (CBA) is charged with passing on the financial and supability of all airplemental (formerly lines. But there are supplemental lines which everybody in the business knows to be financially infirm. They own few, sometimes no, planes of their own, but lease them when able to wrangle a flight contract. These companies do not have the money to pay for fuel, except on a basis. Much less are to able for expensive replacepay they ment parts. They are not very cheery about their pilots and crews. Tha case law-of-avera- ge : i t f : route-traveli- " ng non-schedul- flight-to-flig- 4 ht ed) histories on file at the CBA make scandalous reading. Something over a year ago an Oakland (Cal.) college football squad was killed at Toledo by a pilot who was appealing the suspension of his license and whom the company permitted to fly passengers; after allegedly firing him. As the case history reads, the pilot did not feel he could obligate the company to hire a bus to return the boys to a hotel, and for that reason seemingly decided to take off in xero weather. Financial insecurity was the root of the disaster, yet the CAB allowed this company to stay In business. One whole known as class of contract carriers ;do not have to part 45 carriers prove, financial stability at all. The Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) certifies all jlanes and pilots. Close to one-ha- lf of the plane U accidents occur from pilot error, which suggests that is an area tor a lot more work. Not long ago; a U. S. Senator defended the right of an epileptic to fly as a private pilot in the crowded air. The; Senator contended that individuals had a right to kin themselves in airplanes if they wanted to. This is carrying Individual rights to the point where it becomes a public menace, and the government, should have no patience with such argu. . ments. ! .f j. The old bureaucratic; game of passing-the-buc- k often prevents the true cause of airplane accidents from being exposed, and the situation righted. Until the fatal crash which took the lives of 74 Army recruits at Richmond, the Pentagon took airline the position that an was good enough. Today, the Pentagon takes full responsibility by requiring llilitary Air Transport Service (MATS) to do the certifying. The Military Traffic Management Agency blames the local recruiting personnel when recruits are placed upon a doomed plane. The buck goes around and around. (Distributed by McNaught , J ... Syndicate,! Inc.) , FAA-certifi-ed ; .', , er but has only an outside chance of getting it. Governor Hopeful Aspirants Michael DiSalle may run for a second term despite his statement that he wouldn't. White House Insiders are saying President Kennedy has persuaded the Ohioan to change' his mind, and DiSalle will ' disclose that at a January 6 birthday party which the President will address . -. Food for Peace administrator George McGovern is seriously considering trying for the Senate again this time against Senator Francis' Case, R, S.D. A former congressman, By ROBERT S. ALLEN and PAUL SCOTT WASHINGTON, D.C. r Repre- McGovern narrowly lost to Sena- tor Karl Mundt, R, in sentative John McCormack, 1 Mass., already is laying the ground for a number of significant changes - when he becomes speaker of the House next month. Their primary purpose is tighter control of the Democratic majority to muster greater support for the highly controversial features of, President Kennedy's forthcoming legislative program notably medical care for the aged under Social ; Security, federal aid for colleges, and liberalization of foreign trade barriers. In discussing his plans with other Democratic leaders, McCormack is outlining the follow-- , '. ing major changes: Restoration of the 18 member Democratic steering committee to consist of representatives of . every section of the country. Created in the late 1930s to strengthen Democratic party discipline, the committee was allow"I am sick up to here of TV ed to gradually lapse by the late Q Our neighbor's girl of 11 . and . Sam the from Four returned magazines blaming everyhospital Rayburn. Speaker just; of an shelved he attack it thing and. everybody but the percompletefollowing hepatitis. years ago 2- "saw son himself for his vices. I wish reto kiss her my Yesterday I ly. McCormack proposes of the some experts had vive it, and to make its chairman year old, son alcoholic for .a an to on the lips. Now live with a member of his inner advisory A. Mrs. while." I'm. - wondering "group. . 1 11 An electronic information cenme waemer "Writing this to say 'thank you ter to keep tabs on the members germs can be on behalf of all the unselfish, at all times. The aim is to avert transmitted that I women who have the will power dose-vot- e , I defeats as occurred on way. to give of themselves to be helpA The virus ' f three key measures in this year's ful and understanding to weak-willof infectious he- - ! session due to tiie unforeseen abalcoholics. These women sence of Democratic legislators. pititis (catarr deserve gratitude for what they hal jaundice) is $ Committee chairmen to have the suffer in trying to help someone 1 vJ s not proceed-ingtrans allow to mitted their who needs their help. authority Dr. if approvOyman of to be televised the by way "Criticism and punishment mouth. It is transmitted by way ed by a majority of the committhe last things they need. Chances of ; the bowei and, through contee. are they never dreamed what tact with the lower bowel or the 7 Both the White House and they were in for when, they got bowel movement, by way of soiled Democratic congressional lead.. married; fingers. ers have signified their support "I am not overlooking the fact of these proposals. r Nevertheless, the general practhere are women who acthat tice of kissing children, and esThe - President's backing was tually drive a man to drink by pecially of kissing them on the conveyed by Lawrence O'Brien, demands and then lack of their his congressional liaison official. mouth, is a dangerous way of understanding. Most of us get to O'Brien has told McCormack that showing affection and a selfish the point, however, where the one since most children derive the President is. particularly enonly peace we get is when the no enjoyment whatsoever from thusiastic about reviving the man is dead drunk, because when to strengthen the practice. In point of fact, steering committee he sobers up, he Is in an unbear" ' many resent being bussed, and party discipline. able mood." M. D. L. The President feels that this twist and turn to avoid a kiss. "We have just discussed your If (the kissers would only give group, representing on the wives of alcoholics article, can every section of the country, thought to the menagerie of orour in Family Group do much to enact his legislative ganisms that may be transmitted which consists of those of us who to the helpless object of their program. are wives of alcoholic husbands The heads of three powerful affection, I'm sure they'd conand also the husbands of alcotent themselves with a pat on the state delegations also are throwMcCor-mackholic wives. 's head or a bit of a squeeze. ing their weight behind on "After column plans. reading your "Many of us felt very guilty . to Emanare blame for not wives and Representative responsible for our spouse's being They alcoholic husbatids, I'd like to condition until we came to uel Celler, D, N.Y.; William Green, and discovered that alcoshake your hanc; Yes, I've got D, Pa., and Harry Sheppard, D, one. is and He hates his job Calif. Green and Shephard maytj afraid holism . was a disease against comto He to which the victim was powerless. used be chairman of the steering get try another. "Thank you for all of us for mittee. drunk only over weekends and on special occasions. Then the Another possibility is Represenletting people know more about this insidious condition." weekends got longer until they tative Richard Boiling, D, Mo., are longer than the weeks. Mrs. B. who is running for majority lead . .- ... , ica) that it seems as if some evil genie to drag mysteriously was contriving the American republics into such a morass of socialism as in due cpurst ... would meld us into ''one world" communism with the Soviets. Spruilie Braden, former ambassador to Cuba, Argentina and Colombia. - ..'..' would .,..!. ..... . Khrushchev please more than to have a split labor movement in the United .States, fighting among Itself rather than fighting to build a better world in freedom. Labor Secretary Goldberg, urging tha AFL-CIto step its internal feuding. j - , j O J j j j ' r- - Tia opinions and statements ex- - pressed by Ilerald columnists are their own and do jnot necessarily TtVazt Vz9 rlzv cf d!j uyrpap-ej i . - j The Doctor Says ut Not Transmit Infectious Hepatitis Kiss Will " -- , ; so-call- ed Ruth Millctt ' I A - Protect 'Rights' Buf Not Against The Common Good . ed i '" . :" . & j j a 18-mem- ber Al-An- on i . . Al-An- on . . When a recently was suspended from a Georgia high school because he insisted on wearing a ducktafl "hairdo" his parents, took his fight to the school board, lost there, and filed suit in Superior Court to enjoin the principal from enforcing the rule. The parents contend. their son has a basic American right to wear any hair style he chooses. What parents who go to bat against authority, to protect their children's "rights" seem to overlook is that a young person's obligations are every bit as important as his rights. i Ha principal and school board decide that un-j. conventional haircuts are taboo then it is up to on to to side to the of stand parents authority, say their son, "You're a student; you don't make the rules. You obey them, So gd get a haircut and get Rets Millett back In school where you belong." As for a principal and school board having the 'right" to tell that is a responsibility that students how they can and can't look has been forced upon them by parents who refuse to make their sons and daughters dress and act like ladies and gentlemen. And there is some connection between the two. " ; A few years ago a high school In San Antonio, Tex., wis havinr a 1st of disciplinary problems with "toughs." Authorities banned ducktail haircuts, blue jeans worn low on the hips and a few other such hoodlum fads and found out that when boys weren't allowed to dress like toughs they weren't nearly as likely to act like toughs. If this Georgia" boy's parents should win their fight, what are they going to do when Uncle Sam calls their son into the armed services? He sn't going to wear any duclctall while wearing the uniform cf the Army, Navy, the Air Force or the Marines. His 'basic American right to wear his hair aliy way he pleases" is going to have to bow to armed 'service regulations. So it can't be a banc American rc-- t no-duckt- ail , So bad is the situation (in Latin Amer- Nothing 1 cent Democratic poll in South Dakota, gave Case a narrow lead over McGovern. The latter has told the President he will maka If up his mind by February McGovern does run, that might open the way for a reshuffling of the Cabinet. The President may try to persuade Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman to shift to McGovern!s job. It's an open secret the President is far from happy with Freeman's record to date. Former President Elsenhower - So Thoy Say 1960. A re- -- , r'i) " ; after all, can it? - ' i I II |