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Show ... . - : . The A Many Happier Returns!" TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1962 Whyte's Formula Historians, no less than physical scientists, are fond, of devising theoretical frames on which . to hang' the facta of the. past and present in order to predict the future'. Outstanding examples are Os- I wald. Spengler and Arnold Toyn-beThe first compared societies to living organhms which gd e. through (cycles of youth, flourish- ing, maturity and inevitable old age. The other originated the "challenge and response" formula to explain the growth and decay ' of cultures. view of A third recent over-ahistory is that of Lancelot Law ll who straddles both science ZVhyte, The English physicist land philosopher disputes' one of il?e main tenets of liberalistic faith that history has been a progressive struggle toward greater human liberty. Rather, Bays Whyte, liberty has been a byproduct !of something else. He sees European history (of which American is a special case) as a shifting between "heirarchies Sometimes the news- from Russia causes a chuckle rather than a grimace or la. new pang of fear over the international situ- i The newspaper Red Star has broken a scandal involving "rack- eteers" who converted a military accessories plant in Leningrad to a private factory for manufacturing peris, shavng goods and other consumer items. These things were then sold on the black market. Numerous individuals were involved. Bribery and corruption were ram- pant. One of the most interesting features, (however, was the charge that members of the gang had "infiltrated" the local party or- '', The first hierarchy was thkt of organized religion.. Religious iree-doonly became possible at the Reformation because the growth disof centralized nation-state- s placed religious power. In turn, political equality came in the 19th century when economic institutions and persons became the effective wielders of power in terms of the goals and interests of men. "After each of these steps," says Whyte, "the European individual enjoyed a new realm of liberty in which he could choose his own ' way of life without threatening the established social order." Now the world is ready for the next stage: "Th shifting of the ' These techniqueSv would be scientific in the broadest" sense, covering all fields of the human spec- to pure sociology All mathematics. knowledge would trum from Mature Parent the western. . All Parents Whyte tabs7 the United States as the leader of this stage. l ". Whether, or not one agrees with the theory, it 4s an undeniable fact that the specialist is' becoming more and more important in the decisions of the nation: economists, statisticians, physical scientists (especially in space research) population experts, conservationists, and so on and on. GWernrnent today waits upon-th- e nt Holmes Alexander Senate Staff er of the Year-- I tions is just and merciless. He needs a researcher who knows where the skeletons are buried and who is not afraid of digging in the midnight gravenon-partisa-n, Senator. , Thej contest would have shaken down to a duel between the alter egos of two master egos now gone on to higher things.. Who . could dispute in 1960 that Ted Sorensen, the top brain truster of Senator Kennedy's office and George Iteedyl, the 'George" whom evexiybody in Senator Johnson's of-- ' A fleelet do it." were ' outstanding? The lean Ted and the stout i I Georce are now ... out of contention ana tne aces , i ) run wild. ' yard. r-ew: : n ... Tor several now years All I have picked Star performers at this season of the Congres- 1UIUU wo a - - er trust-buster- s, Mn-BebJnoThe-M- an. . - atii i fti i - i Provo's Public ii utes, seems almost unbelievable to me. in my Am I getting old age? Or is this a bad habit of some Utahns which merits some thought? Perhaps, if I intend staying here, I should slow down and arrive late with the rest, I guess this would be the simplest. MRS. J. V. BRENNER. ed Do people who have lived here all their lives realize that a large percentage of them never get to anything on time? Our first en- sort counter with of left us wondering, having been brought up to believe that if something is to start at 8 p. m. we should be there at 8 p. m. if not five minutes before. Meetings not starting on time, or social functions half hour late getting underway made us wonder. After many months here, it became apparent to us that this was the general practice and until this past few weeks hasn't affected me one way or another. s. My sympathy was with the Arriving late to a BYU basketball game, for instance, just left you standing out on the track waiting for a timeout, and at times this could be a Jong wait. felt the late arrival was I always ' himself of somedepriving only thing, but two recent events have bothered me. The recent Philadelphia y-Tabernacle Choir concert, which should have been a thrill for anyone to attend, had its usual quota of laggards, in fact, the concert didn't start on time and I would suspect that the commotion of late comers was the holdup. And still with a late start, people were streaming in after it for well over half-hobegan, which in my estimation is most disrespectful of two such famed groups, besides being a nuisance to those of us who had gotten there on time. And have you. ever heard of anyone being late for their own graduation? Well, many were at the Provo High School commencement Saturday night. The exercises started on the stroke of 7 p. m., with many spectators streaming in for over half an hour after it began. This I could understand, we have become accustomed to it by now, but to find several students late for the event, some as late as 50 min-- 1590 "late-arriver- s" drag-along- Symphon- ur yst 1 , i editor." ; high-power- ed n Editor Herald: After residing nearly two years in the state of Utah, a minor bad habit of native Utahns has gotten to me to the point I feel I must write a "letter to the By MRS. MURIEL LAWRENCE Newspaper Enterprise Assn. She is a hospital's supervisor of student nurses, a job which includes the ability to make palatable to untrained girls the hard and rigorous disciplines of the nursing profession. One day when I admired an enameled brooch she was wearing, her husband told me that her students had given it to her for a recent birthday. Then, pride shining in his face, he said, "Go on, Helen, tell her about that string of pearls psy-coanal- ut sharp policy . and unthreatened, "Come on, Til help you set it." Parents who must have obedience disconnected from any effort of their own are those who secretly feel: "I work so hard; I sacrifice so much and am so generally hounded by the obligation to consider others that nobody Is entitled to require proof of my competence. I'm above having to prove anything. My noble life is enough justification of. my right to command." N. 300 W., Provo, Utah. City Administration Urged to Lead Out In Beautification Plans grain-producin- g OPPOSING VIEW Congres- sional leaders beaded by Speaker and John McCormack, Representative Francis Walter. chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Refugees, are arguing against giving Peiping any help that would strengthen that Communist regime. Instead, they want the President to (1) help feed and resettle s.. Editor Herald: I recently had occasion to get the reaction of a tourist regarding his impressions of Provo City. He thought that Provo, with its towering Swiss mountains on the east, and its lake Galilee on the west, had an ideal setting for a city. He was attracted by our unique drinking fountains, and the Lion's Club litter containers. d He admired the North was and he University Avenue; beauin his of the profuse praise tiful, modern college buildings, and the landscaping that surrounded them. "But," said he, "your city has more weeds, more dead trees, trees with ugly dead more branches, than any city that I have traveled through." By HAROLD T. HY.MAN. M.D. Isn't this last observation a Birth of a deformed child, after sad commentary on our city? I months of eager and hopeful anwish we could induce a city administration to have the spirit ticipation, is a heartbreak of im of beautification like the one a measurable intensity. In the past. few years ago had, who promoted the tragedy was all the planting of the North Univerheightened, trees. Avenue too often, by an sity How different are the Salt Lake unmerited sense officials who purchase a choice of guilt inspired s shade tree, plant it, furnish a by mis info rma- - ! r tree guard, to every property tion. ;4JM owner who maintains a parking - ' attribGossips -- r J space. uted malforma- - ( And yet, notwithstanding the K K tions to "the I fact that Provo City has sufficiv i a j ni tne ia-- t in ent surplus water that it supplies to ther." injuries Z vJ it to approximately 350 the maternal ab-it will not encourage the domen, emotional upsets, shocks, beautification of our streets by continuance of marital relationfurnishing a little water to the ships during the pregnancy or to taxpayers who plant trees and retribution for evil thoughts or lawns in the street parking area. actions. Let us hope that the present With the early death of the decity administration will take a formed child, parental reactions little pride in the appearance of be overwhelming. With surmight our city, and that it will have the daily sight of the deformed intestinal fortitude to enforce i vival, child and the consequences of the their ordinances requiring propdeformity might be a source of erty owners to remove weeds in continuing emotional drain. front of their premises. And, In past decades, we have learned with scores of high school graduabout these defects. And nomuch ates looking for Jobs, why couldn't thing that we have learned susthe property owners do the boys tains the cruel misconceptions uta good turn by giving them a tered so glibly by the gossips. Injob of cleaning out the weeds? JACOB COLEMAN. stead, we are collecting an in- - j D.-P- tree-line- a., Vj non-residen- So They Say , jC- - 1 1 " . -- d her. Men just aren't as sensitive to the moods of others as women are. That kind of sensitivity to S.-Re- TAKING A d STAND Rep- resentative Waller mde these congressional views known to President Kennedy uben called to the White Hous.e to discuss the Chinese Communist refugee problem. "How far da you think Cangrets is ready to go to help the refugees?" asked the President. "The House will support whatever you propose in the way of aid to these refugees as Jong as it doesn't save or strengthen the regime responsible far their present plight." answered Walter. "Would you favor furnishing surplus grain to the present Pel ping government if that would stop the outpouring of thee refugees?" inquired the President. "Absolutely not." replied Walter. "If we give the Chinese grain now. it would only strengthen that regime- - Some members I talked to believe that if we help them now. we will save that govern- ment." "What would you propote? challenged the President. "I have talked this over wit Speaker McCormack. Representative tThomas) Morgan Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and a bipartisan group of other members, and they favor giving all the aid we can to the refugees cooing through Hong Kong. They will support any measures to resettle D-Pa.- l. them." "What about bringing them to the U. S.?" asked the President "Would you favor opening our doors to 5.000 of the refugees?" TU go even higher if you want me to," answered Walter. "I plan to fly to Hong Kong after Memorial Day for an check. If you want tne to tell the British that we will take W.-0refugees. I will I don't think we should announce it now, but we should give them assurances that we stand ready to take our on-the-sp- 00 fair share." fections, the changing moods of others is a feminine trait. So it's a waste of time and happiness for a woman to bemoan the fact that she doesn't get as complete understanding as she gives. Any husband who is sympathetic and understanding once he is told that his wife is unhappy, upset, or disturbed about something Is showing his love just as much as Is the wife who doesn't have to be told when her husband needs her help. Any wife with a husband who is genuinely concerned about her welfare ought to thank her lucky tax she hxc him Instead cf ex pecting his reactions to be the same as hers. Men are men and women are .women and the only way they can live happily together Is never to expect exactly the same kind of reactions from each other. In fact, the happiest couples are as often intrigued and amused as they are baffled by the differences in the feminine and masculine attitudes and reactions.- Basis for hapiness. Read MIIow to Have a Happy Husband." Send 25 cents to Ruth Millett Reader Service, co The Daily Herald, P. O. Box 40, Dept. A, Radio City Station, New York 19, K. Y. especially German measles (rubella), suffered by the mother in the first third or half of her carrying period. Also at fault Is injudicious exposure to radiation during these critical months, or mismatch of parental bloods (erythroblastosis fetalis). Alterations in the colored skeins (chromosomes) that carry hereditary characteristics can be at fault. As the result cf our growing ts, Husbands', Wives' Reactions, Attitudes Never Quite the Same m Also, they want the President la review U. S. policy cn Communist China to determine whether the Slate Department can take advantage of the deteriorating iuiiica on the mainland to use this country's vast influence to topple the present Peiping regime. These legislators are planning to bar any U. China grain deal by including a prohibiting amendment in the Agriculture bill when it comes to the House floor. creasing body of information which tends to prove that injury to the unborn child f embryopathy) is the result of circumstances unrtlited to parental habits, customs, deeds or misdeeds. Stated in the positive, embryopathies are the result of virus in- .". Advice by Ruth Mil left p? areas of China. Infant Malformations Stem From Natural Causation , to encourage her and sympathize with her, but only if she tells him in so many words how she feels. Yet she can't help thinking he ought to understand her without explanations. That young wife is suffering from the - romantic notion that love means perfect understanding. She Is also suffering from a stubborn belief that because she knows instinctively when something is troubling her husband' he should be just as intuitive about the Chinese refuses escipiss to freedom in Hong Kong, and 2 give U. S. surplus food to the Chinese Nationalist govercmect a Formosa to be air dropped into The Doctor Says , st man-behiad-hi- anti-Reuth- i Functions Give Our Community a Black Eye There are others, and any selection of mine is admittedly prejudiced and arbitrary. But after combing the Senate community for nominees, after dolefully eliminating good friends whom I'd like to mention, here is my field of ten finalists in alphabetical order: 1. Jerome Alderman, the man behind McClellan, and formerly the man .behind Robert Kennedy. .Alderman, who had much to do with making a name for the Attorney General, now has the latter's job as counsel for the Senate Permanent Subcommittee for Investigations. 2. Mike Bernstein, the man behind the minority members of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, the stimulator and ,of Goldwater's ideas. 3. John Blair, the man behind Kefauver and the who 'dearly loves his work. 4. Fred Buzhardt, the man behind Senator Thurmond and the probe into the CEPTANCE DEPENDS ON ITS Administration's No Win policy. PERFORMANCE." 5. Carl Marcy, the man behind Chair- That is exactly what the popular man William Fulbright of the Senate supervisor of student nurses was Foreign Relations Committee. . telling us. 6. Dave Martin, the man behind Dodd If we must always have a child's and his catholic concern for world and without leading him into obedience j national affairs. Fromm's and the supervisDr. it, 7. Bob MoCaughey, the man behind will infuriate us. We or's opinions Mundt. feel will outraged by my sugges8. Bill Murphy, the man behind the disobedience calls tion Julie's that extraordinarily active and ambitious for a refreshment of her respect Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania. for our competence in setting the 9. Jay Sourwine, the man behind the table, for the cheerful, uncritical Internal Security Subcommittee and its sleepless vigilance against subversive persons, organizations, i d e a s and schemes. 10. David Shea Teeple, the man behind .... Chairman Hickenlooper of the Republif ; can Policy Committee, a board that is reawakened to the duty of minority partisanship. (To be continued) (Distributed by McNaught By RUTH MILLETT ; Sometimes a wife underesti Syndicate, Inc.) mates a hus- band s love simply because his reactions and attitudes aren't The stakes are greater than South Viet the same a s Nam itself. The independence of. all hers. people of Southeast Asia is involved. This A young mothaggression against Southeast Asia must ' er of small chilnot be allowed to succeed. dren is upset be-- c Secretary of State Dean Rusk. a use, though Us she can quickly 3 The opinions and statements ex- sense her 'hus- - Ruth Millett j band's moods, he never knows if pressed by Herald columnists are ' j own and do not necessarily their something is troubling her unless j reflect the views of this newspaper. she spells it out for him. h admits he does his best ft ft anti-Kenne- dy Aiexanaer Star Freshman Senator and Representative, the Committee of Senator and the Year, and the Stand-oRepresentative have been relatively easy to discern. But last year I indiscreetly promised to pick nominees as the best and then to pick the champion himself. Difficulties are manifest Such an outstanding Senator as Harry Byrd of Virginia, runs the Senate Finance Commit, tee himself. He permits no subcommittees to divide the work. He has no staff economist or counsel. A Unri lady named Mrs. Elizabeth B. Springer lets you come inland poke around among the public records if the Chairman says so, but publicity and high pressure are unknown here. There! are other Senator and other Committees which, for these and different reasons, do not have any Man Behind the Senator. But then you find a Senator like Dodd of Connecticut, whose Interests are universal. Dodd runs an office that is not unlike a newspaper newsroom presided over by an editor who knows every story that everybody in the shop is working on and wtio will write the big stories himself. Or a man like Kefauver of Tennessee, and monopoly chairman of the anti-truof subcommittee Judiciary, whose pas"conviction" on some a to sion is slap corporate miscreant. He needs a who shares the same passion. Or a man like Karl Mundt of South Dakota with a mind that plays quietly ' with ideas on American education, on methods of combating the internal threat of Communism, and on problems of agriculture ia his own part of the country. Or a man like John McClellan of Arkansas, unspectacular, patient and penetrating, who, years ago, got struck with investigative work for the Senate and as chairman ci Government Opera- ; - ii Habitual Late - Arrivers you're wearing." And turning back to me said, "It was sent to her from three of her graduated children in three different states who got together to send it to her for Christmas. Go on, tell her what they said on the card, Helen..." After she had told me, I said, "What do you do whenone of your students balks at what you tell her to do?" She laughed. I say, 'Come on and I'll do it with you,' " she said. "When I was training, that's what my supervisor used to say to us. Never was she unwilling to help us do what she'd told us to do. jl guess you might say that she taught me the secret of discipline." So is the secret of parental discipline the willingness to do what we ask children to do, although many parents won't believe this. When Julie dawdles, complains or otherwise balks at an order to sec the supper table, some parents find her disobedience sp humiliating that they either fuss back or precipitate a will power showdown with Julie. When Billy ignores a command to remove his fishing tackle from the porch, they can't remove it themselves lest he get the idea that he has defeated them. To such parents a child's obedience is always deference to their power over him, and when he denies it, they feel so threat- ened they either have to force his submission or boil with resentment at his .defiance. "Rational authority," writes Erich Fromm, "has its source in COMPETENCE. ITS AC- -- WASHINGTON. D.C.Two years ago It would have been relatively simple to pick the best staff member behind the iff- Discipline , T jyfi:;: Should Know j i too. Jirffy A dispute has developed- - within the Kennedy Administration" and Congress over the dark heart of the Chinese Communist refugee should the U. S. furproblem nish surplus grain to Communist China. This backstage debate; which at any ,ould explode into thiTopen -' moment, has been"- going on at the very top government levels the past two weeks, with President Kennedy getting conflicting advice from his principal administration advisers and Democratic leaders in Congress. State Department officials, headed by Secretary of State Rusk, are arguing the President must find a way to furnish U. Chinese S. grain to the famine-hi- t the or mainland face haunting n specter of upwards of 50 into Chinese refugees pouring and swamping Hong Kong before the end of the year. Secretary Rusk's group includes Averell Harriman, Assistant Secretary for the Far East; Dr. Walt Rostow, chairman of the State Department's Policy Planning Council; Seymour J. Janow, Assistant Administrator of the Agency for International Development for the Far East; McGeorge Bundy. the President's chief foreign policy adviser in the White House, and Ambassador Adlai Stevenson. U. S. representative at the UN. They cite warnings from the British that this unprecendented exodus, which would dwarf the recent outpouring of refugees, is clearly possible if food conditions inside China continue to deteriorate and Pciplng fails to the only get help from the U. S. still that country has a large reserve of wheat. The Rusk group favors solving this refugee problem by having the United Nations or the International Red Cross distribute U. S. surplus grain inside China. They are proposing that the President offer to make available upwards of 10 million tons of wheat and barley for this purpose. rail-lio- , They1 have a "security" problem, ilk 11 hierarchy into the hands of those possessing techniques for facilitating the general development of man." j , science-governme- - ganization. ALLEN' And PAUL SCOTT WASHINGTON opinion and advice of the technical expert. Unfortunately, his voice is most heeded only when it comes $o matters of military importance. Perhaps the day is coming when will be devoted solely to positive ends. If it is, it is to be hoped that Whyte's thesis will be proved right that mankind will enjoy another new realm of freedom. im-porta- nj; ' t Bj ROBERT S. free- - be applied to the betterment of humanity at large, crossing national boundaries, ywith special the. eastern emphasis on raising 7 the! level of to world shalf of the Subversives, Soviet Style ation. " Twwmr w f m '. :! ! with individual f dnm incrfiasincr at each stage nf v. rhmi' ,m0-- -' Report tt Administration Split Over How to Get Food to Starving Masses in Communist China l jug len-Sco- knowledge, we are becoming increasingly equipped to prevent many of these congenital malformations and deformities. An encouraging advance of al- ' most equal ln43riance ii the increasing ability cf specially trained surgeons to correct certain major birth defects. To altrsct attention to these advances, the Children's Ilospit&I of Philadelphia, Pa., has been conducting a pilot stady of these turgifsl advances under the auspices cf the United States Children's Bureau and the Pennsylvania Department cf Health. Of particular interest ia this pilot study are lifesaving procedures for the correction of blockages of the gullet (esophagus), intestines and rectum (Imperforate anus); for correction of emplacements cf abdominal organs (omphalocele) and stomach (diafor "upside-dow- n phragmatic hernia). In the case cf obstructions to the gullet (esophageal atresias), the previous mortality of 100 per cent has been reduced to 20 per cent as a single example of the beneficial resets of the pilot study. Naturally, operations of this type must be performed Immediately after birth. And their success depends. In great part, on the skill and experience cf specially trained surgeons working ender Ideal operative conditions. Should you require these services, you may obtain details cf the study from tie administrator of the Children's Hospital, lth and Eraisbride, Philadelphia 4S, Pa. |