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Show I - Hear Something Maybe It's Just the Beating of Our Hearts" The 4 -- rAlinniiAKif-Tito IIV rull Will lWI I IVjjlrll i u c I ;. I vr f ?r I It has now become usual to By ROBERT S. AIIEN a and PAUL SCOTT WASHINGTON There is a What is wrong with parties where youngsters just have fun instead of trying to break up the deplore in sharp terms the all too customary youthful disturbance which mar big holiday weekends at many of the nation's seaside and other resorts. They are deplorable. But they are something else, too. They are a great big crashing bore, not only to those who Jiave to deal with them, but to many who hear of them. If some of our psychologists are right and this sort of behavior is designed to be attention-gettinits tiresomeness for others ought to be something of a blow to the unruly participants. Why is it a bore? Because underlying this in- very special reason behind President Kennedy's insistent demand for speedy ratification of the nuc lear test ban treaty and restoration of the House's drastic slash of bis $4.5 billion foreign aid budget. Once these highly controversial issues are out of the way, backstage plans are afoot to eventually add Hungary and Rumania to the list of "trade and aid" nations. Already closely - guarded overtures are underway looking toward the resumption of normal diplomatic relations with Hungary, and the establishment of some measure of trade ties with Rumania. Significantly revealing of what is transpiring behind- - the- - scenes place? Who says playgrounds have to become battlegrounds ? Why should the baseball park, the football stadium, the swimming pool ever be the scene of marauding mis- behavior? Whatever became of just plain fun, as distinguished from "kicks?" We've all heard that youngsters' search for "kicks" reflects their quest for identity, for attention, for manhood or womanhood, for a way, too, to express feelings of hostility engendered jby the complex age they live ini Grant all this. It! still doesn't let the unruly kids bff the hook altogether. For the many who get beyond asphalt, brick) and concrete, the marvelous world is still here to be taken at its worth. And you don't need a primer at hand to respond warmly to the sky, the sun, the water, the trees, the sand and all the games and pleasures linked with them. Unless we are ready to concede that a good many kids are monstrous automatons incapable of feeling the stimulus of these things, then we have to say they have the eyes, the hearts and the minds to respond. Those who react instead by wrecking, corrupting and depreciating what they see about them are indeed incredible bores. They are still baffled by one of life's most easily fathomed secrets. g, excusable conduct is the assumption that life in this country for some young people just isn't worth a thing unless it can somehow be juiced up with beer drinking, wild general driving, vandalism and riot. We all know that America has come a long way from the captivating innocence that marked its earlier history. But can we really accept the idea that for some of us there is" no shred of this left ? The answer ought to be "no," which is why these tales of youthrock-throwin- g, ful depredation are so wearying. What is the matter with enjoying a beach as" a beach instead of as no more than a setting for a raucous brawl? Why can't trees in a park or wood be appreciated for what they are, instead of hacked at, cut down or otherwise marred as if they were somehow hostile objects? hideout, he found that his first-clamail was being forwarded as he had asked. But so were his magazines, which he had asked the post office to hold until his return. They, 3f course, all arrived "postage due." If he declined to pay the charge, they were simply tossed away, not. sent back where they should have been held in the first place. ss Q-44- 3: lifelong farmer. As he was sitting atop a pile of poles, the county agricultural agent drove up beside him. alive. And the same ratio holds true of the fun& M-1- p- i 50-h- op : I i j I ; j j j j j j one-four- th 40-h- j, Music, too, is largely a matter of repetition. So is driving a car and per-- j forming most of the tasks required toj earn a living. BuuVhen logical decisions are to bej made, then the person with low I.Q. ia handicapped badly. A feebleminded person may thus work,; for hours trying to fit a square block! of wood into a rectangular pocket. For be cannot analyze the spacial differences. Even a nornjal child of four can draw; a square but he cannot draw a diamond-- i shaped figure. . It requires three more years of mental; growth for the average child to copy a diamond, though he can copy a square; at the age of four. These differences are due to lack of adequate mental age; for teaching and familiarity do not offset significant dif--j ferences in I.Q. (mental horsepower). But love and patience and cultured; parents can help a dull child greatly, (Always write to Dr. Crane in card of this newspaper, enclosing a long stamped, addressed envelope and 20c; to cover typing, and printing costs when you seatf for one at xss odeuaeta. j i . By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst Notes from the foreign news cables: No Deal: Diplomats in Paris see no real i likelihood of the West taking up Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush-jche- v seriously on his plan for a snon - aggression treaty between NATO and the Warsaw Pact j countries. Although the NATO council is spending long hours discussing the project, the French jare adamantly opposed and West Germany is extremely cool. Dip-- S lomats expect the whole project ultimately to be talked to death. Auto War: Listen for the opening salvos of an indirect price war among Eu-- j ropean au'to firms at the Frank- furt automobile show opening this j Thursday, Sept. 12. Ford will of-- I a fer version of its p 2 Taunus for little more than $25 extra. It also will dangle at no extra price, disc brakes ; and plush upholstery formerly j expensive extrasi before car-hapy show visitors. Volkswagen is cutting the price of its 1,500 mod- el, which is being threatened in ; the marketplace by Ford's 1,500-- ; machine. Auto industry cc, I experts say other major Euro-- ; pean car builders ma have to match these leaders in cutting prices and making concessions. Inflation Fight: President Charles de Gaulle's government will announce plans next Thursday to fight the infla-- ) tion which is threatening to un- -; dermine the whole image of the prosperous new Gaullist France. The plans probably will include a modest credit squeeze, a crimp in installment buying particularly of automobiles attempts to control speculation in real estate, and ceiling prices on key foodstuffs. Presidential Ambitions: Vice President Amanuel Pelaez has his eye set on being the next president of the Philippines and, according to Filipino political sources, his chances are good. The sources say Philippine President Diosadado Macapagal gave Pelaez his big chance though not intentionally when he linked Pelaez with American businessj grammar. Amos," the agent began, "how about coming over to the county seat for a new course in scientific farming methods? "I'm sure you'll get a lot of new ideas by which you can farm much more efficiently." But Amos shook his head. "There's no need for that," he replied, "for I'm not using half the new Ideas I already know." MENTAL TESTS That same situation exists with reference to our brain cells. It is estimated that we have almost 15 billion brain cells but we don't use bf them! more than For God Almighty apparently endowed us with a wide margin of safety with reference to many of our vital organs, For example, we have about four times the kidney tissue required to stay Handle Industrial Disputes I The liver has almost 8 times as much liver tissue as we need for survival. We also have two eyes and two ears. But, alas, we have but one heart! "Dr. Crane," many people have asked, "if we have far more brain cells than we ever use, then why can't a person with a low I.Q. offset that lack of mental horsepower by simply work- ing harder at his lessons? "Wouldn't elbow grease and longer hours enable him to equal his more brilliant classmates? "Doesn't the story of the tortoise and the hare apply in this situation?" To a minor degree, the slow plodder can offset the greater brain power of his brilliant comrades. But only partially. Many of the things we learn in school depend on re-petition rather than logical ability. For example, if you rear a moron, in a home where correct En9sh is always employed, that moron will speak per-feet English and be correct in his By GEORGE W. CRANE, Ph.D., M.D. Amos G., aged 47, is a CASE ForNikita's Proposed Pact 1 More Brain Cells Than We Ever Use low I.Q. U.S. Labor Court Needed to j :' n Little Chance I The Worry Clinic ' Holmes Alexander World View isolated samples, ask around. And, by the way, have you tried to change address on any of your magazine subscriptions lately? That'll keep you busy for a couple of months. aided; greatly as regards habits that are based on imitation Thus, if you surround your youngsters with correct English and good music and moral idealism, they can become fairly cultured, even in 6pite of a asylum in the U. S. legatiori In Budapest since the 1956 revolt jthat was suppressed by Soviet I i . man Harry S. Sfconehill who was deported from the Philippines last year. The sources say the Pelaez, once a loyal supporter of Macapagal, now' feels he is his own man and is free to pursue his own political ambitions. Diplomatic recognition: Look for East Germany to try to cash in on the continuing bad feelings Pakistan feels towards Free in matters handled by the speech National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is pretty much what its WASHINGTON politically ar - ap- pointed m e niters say it is. This statement is not a matter of opinion, but a able. On Aug. 27. while Congress was fact real hind- solemn and a rance to the civil ligerty or self expression. Both political parties havetheirrecently Mr. Alexander had whacks at deciding where the freedom to speak starts and stops in Labor matters. Eisenhower was President, his NLRB chairmen were Guv Farmer and Boyd Lee-dothe latter still an NLRB ruled that member. The "Ike-me- n the free speech provision of the y Act extended both to the conduct of NLRB-superviselections and to matters determining Unfair Labor Practices. An employer could communicate with the workers, in both these areas,, as long as he did not hold out a threat or a promise of benefit. But wnen Mr Kennedy become President, and Frank McCulloch became chairman of NLRB, the Free Speech provision was held not to apply to the conduct of elections. The ruling said, in effect, that if an employer put out bad literature (even if it When General m, Taft-Hartle- ed rejecting President Ken nedy's plan to turn the railroad dispute over to another Federal agency, the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), Congressman Phil Landrum (D., Ga.) proposed taking Unfair Labor Practices out cf the jurisdiction of NLRB and lodging them in the Federal courts-- . As a man usually on manage- ment's side, Landrum felt that the NLRB was too biased toward Labor. Significantly, the Railroad Brotherhoods objected to the IOC's handling their dispute for a similar reason They felt that ICC was too biased toward management. So, the rather complicated matter boils down to a rather simple residue. Should Federal agencies decide questions of a nature? Should not these questions go into the Federal courts? An alternate solution to that of dumping all these Labor disputes into the regular courts, it quasi-judici- al seems to me, might be to set up a special Labor Court. There is plenty of precedent. We already have several "legislaso-call- ed didn't threaten or promise any benefits), he made it impossibe tive" courts, those established by stature rather than by the Con- the United States. of Customs and Patent Appeal, the U.S. Court of Claims, the U.S. Customs Court, the U.S. Court of Military Appeals and the Tax Court of the United States. Why not, then, a Labor Court to take the politically - charged for the workers to vote intelligently. Hence, elections in which an employer exercised free speech could be set aside. How free is speech when Repub- U.S. Under-Secreta- ry State George Ball went to Pakistan las week to try to keep Pakistan from drifting closer to Red China a move generated largely by Pakistan's anger over continued U.S. arming of India, which it considers a greater threat than the Communist Chinese. Bali failed to win any assurances. Working on President Mohammad Ahub Khan's general displeasure with the West the Reds have been working to solidify their ties with his country and can be expected to work harder now. According to reports from East Berlin some time ago, the East German Communists are trying to expand trade relations with Pakistan, particularly by working for an exchange of of trade missions. The Communists hope that such trade missions could pave the way for the establishment of diplomatic stitution. We have the U.S. Court Labor entirely away from the Federal agencies, which have little competence and much prejudice? disputes Barbs If there weren't so many station breaks on television, viewers would get more. Some money talks so loud a man marries it. A great many swimming spots on Lake Erie are so polluted they're dirty and dangerous tricks on the kids . husbands do a week's washing every Saturday night, and sing while doing it. Some About the only way you can depend on summer weather Ms as a topic of conversation. ; A LONG TRAIL that are lie ans interpret its protection one way, and Democrats interpret it another? NLRB members are appointed to five-yeterms, so that the personality and the politics of new members may be decisive in a matter that ought to be immut- D.C. late "policy days review and consultations"; the recent visit to Rumania of Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, the first Cabinet member ever to go to that country, and the trip there of two of the President's sisters) Mrs. Peter Law-for- d and Mrs. Stephen Smith. From all inside signs, definitely on the administration's mind re- garding both these Iron Curtan, satellites is the possible sale of large quantities of surplus farm commodities under Public Law 480 under which the buyers pay with their own currency, remains in their countries, tn many instances to finance projects there. In effect, PL 480 transactions military forces.' For Rumania, backstage plans contemplate, trade loans; and PL 480 surplus food sales of more than $30 million. Minister Crawford advises State Department authorities that a key reason for Rumania's public slaps at Russia is the latter's failure to make good on economic commitments, chief among them a 206 million steel plant. The Soviet was unable to go through with this huge project becausejof its own shortage and difficulties. Rumania is now seeking U.S British and French loans for this consortplant. A Franco-Britis- h ium is reportedly interested pro7 vided the U.S. joins in. It is authoritatively understood that it has been explained to Crawford that the administration will make no decision on this and other "trade and aid" questions affecting Communist countries until the test ban treaty and heavily embattled foreign aid budget are out of the, way." In the case of the latter, that .. means not until at least Novem- ber. H from Bucharest return of last month for ten you be reached by phone, sir?" Should you imagine these are Amos is like most of us, for we seldom live up to our potential. And even a feeble-minde- d child can be . Minister William Crawford's quiet Then the man's wife had to go home early. She quickly requested resumption there of first class deliveries. For the next 10 days, half such mail came to their home and the rest to the vacation place. Now there isthis other matter. A business outfit which is moving its quarters from one building to another was startled one Monday morning to discover its telephone service had been prematurely cut off. For four hours the firm was severed from the ' outside world. But the telephone company mustered its resources $nd was equal to the occasion. One of its eager agents stepped into the Jbreach. "I'll report your troiible. Can have a little look at how things are going down in the Department of Small Affairs. A friend who was going on vacation made the usual arrangements about stopping his newspapers and having his mail shifted to the holiday spot. One newspaper was cut off two days before the date he requested. The other was continued for two or three days after he left town. When he got to his vacation improve diplomatic ties was a "satisfactory solution" of; the Cardinal Mindszenty problem. The - plrelate has been living in political are: Bungling Begins at Home Worried about how the big boys are conducting the nation's and the world's affairs? Well, let's Report Reason Behind Kennedy Urgency on Ratification Of Test Ban Treaty Seen , MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1963 Allen-Sco- tt give-awa- That's ys. their overwhelming record on the books of the government. Yugoslavia and Poland, presently the only Communist countries on the "trade and aid" list, have benefited immensely from this law. Since 1954, Yugoslavia has obtained more than $624 million in U.S. surplus agricultural products, and Poland $425 million. In both countries, hundreds of "counmillions of these unused are still funds" terpart while the U.S. is coping withian increasingly serious deficit problem. WHAT THEY ARE. AFTER Hungary's first objective is the restoration of normal diplomatic relations the return of a U.S. Minister to Budapest. That has already been discussed at the State Department. Janos Radvanyi, Hungarian Charge d' Affaires, had a meeting there on this matter last month with Deputy Assistant Secretary Richard Davis. Nothing was disclosed about their talk. Congressional inquirers have been told that Rodvanyi was informed that a major obstacle, to so-call- ed balance-of-paymen- ts a characteristically tracted Labor Day recess, the Wheels of Congress are rolling again in their usual lanquid man ner. The lawmakers, now are quite reconciled to being in sion the remainder bf the year. They are even jesting: about it. Following is an example of r this humor: Representative H. R. Gross, veteran militant economizer and budget balancer: "I wonder if any attention has been given to Christmas decorations for the House, in view of the snail's pace with which this session is proceeding." Representative Carl Albert, Okla., Democratic floor leader: "If we are here at Christmastime, I would be willing to join in designating the gentleman to be in charge of decorations. He gives so much attention to everything else that I know he could do this job well, too." Gross: "I wonder if the gentleman would join me In a modest contribution toward those decora. ' tions?" Representative Clarence Brown, longtime member of the powerful Rules Committee: "IN want to express the hope that'; if we do have a Christmas party, the leadership will not arrange matters so that my good friend and colleague from Iowa is Santa . ' . R-I- a., R-O- ., v Clause.. The Doctor Says Today's Contact Lenses-- Far Cry From Early Ones creased the time a single pair of contact lenses can be worn. Much of the research has been By DR. WAYNE G. BRAND STADT Newspaper Enterprise Assn. You never know friends are wearing because they are worn. You do persons who are wearing spec-tacle- s are not wearing tacts, but which of your contact lenses, invisible while-beiknow that most ng con- even then you can't be sure. Contact lenses have been made for many years but were never popular until .modern research D ' Brandrfadt begun to get some of the "bugs" out of them. The older lenses were large and covered the whites of the eyes as well as the pupils. They were so uncomfortable few people could get used to them. The newer lenses are small and fit over the pupils ' only. -- The first contact lenses . were made of glass, but them ild acidity, of the tears after a few months of wear caused clouding of the surface so that they had to be replaced every three to six months. Theplastics now used have greatly in- done by two doctors in Chicaeo. One of them, Dr. N. K. Wesley, was told when he was 21 that he had a deformity of the cornea (keratoconus) that would slowly but inevitably lead to blindness. Although he enrolled at once in a! school for the blind, he refused to , , accept this verchct. "For six years he and his partner. Dr. G. N. Jessen, worked on im-- v proving contact lenses. In that time Dr. Wesley's vision had become sp poor he couldn't see beyond two feet, but the contact lenses the two doctors designed, restored Dr. Wesley's Vision to ' : ' normal. This is another instance of ne cessity being the mother of in- vehtion. No one is ever quite so interested in saving others from blindness as a person who has once almost lost his sight. In 1958, Dr. Wesley founded the National Eye Research Foundation, a nonprofit organization that has helped researchers all over the . world advance the "cause of sight- saving. Although contact lenses are a specific remedy for the many per-sons with keratoconus who would ofoerwisebe blind, they have other r uses. !,'!'. Ruth MHIett s Nearsighted prefer them to glasses ; athletes, persons who have had a lens removed, per sons who are so) nearsighted thatx they need very heavy, and unsight- ly glass lenses, and persons who have severe facial skin diseases A that would be aggravated by find contact lenses advanteen-agerj Good Manners Suffer When We Think We're Too Busy for Niceties Everything today has to be 4 uivk a u u easy" or "instant," so it's not surprising that there is a new ma nners book, "The called Collier Quick and Easy Guide to Eti-- q u e 1 1 e." The book may be ex cellent, but the Ruth Mffllett title could be misleading. Anyone who thinks there is some quick and easy formula for goo manners is bound to come up missing. Above all else, good manners take some time. It takes time to hear the other person through without interrupting, and it takes time plus patience if the other person happens to be a bore. It takes time to do the small favors for others that are such an important part of good manners the troubling to put yourself out for someone else. It takes time to write the thank-yo- u notes, the letters, the words of condolence, the letters of congratulation" that bread-and-butt- er etiquette demands and that friendship dictates. It takes time to call on a new neighbor, to visit the sick, to take an elderly person for a ride, to en-tertain a friend's houseguest or help a newcomer to get acquainte- dIt takes time to keep in - touch with friends. It takes time to entertain the unexpected guest, and to make him feel that he has not intruded. Good manners, in fact, are so much a matter of "taking time" o be gracious and friendly and helpful that the more we rush around the more our manners suf- fer. How often we make and hear such excuses as, "I've been meaning to write you for such a long but I just haven't had a time moment or "I'm ashamed I didn't get by to see you when you but I've were in the hospital been so busy." Politeness pays at home: Read "How to Have a Happy Husband." Just send 25 cents to Ruth Mfllett Reader Service, co The Daily Herald, P. O. Box 489, Depfc A, Radio City Station, New York 19, N. Y. spec-tacl- es i A H,: Everyone who, would like to wear contact lenses cannot do so. Anyone who has any kind of eye infla-- m ation or glaucoma cannot wear them, and persons who must work in a very dusty atmosphere or who are in danger of splashing chemnot wear ' icals in their eyes should ' 1: ". them. j'J".. I tageous, " ' If dust or chemicals get under the lenses great damage may be done before ' the irritant can be washed out. ; |