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Show 'Relax, Cherie, He's Almost Housebroken!J Tenacity Aids LBJtcl In Congress Drive TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1964 WASHINGTON (NEA) President Johnson is up against heavy odds in much of his con- ' Today's Editorials De Gaulle's 'Oui'Jo Red China demonstrate once again his (The pendence of Washington. decision to recognize China was not discussed beforehand with President Johnson but routinely conveyed by the French ambassador to the State Department.) But probably the most realtistic analysis is one that looks at De Gauile through De Gaulle's own eyes. With the retirement of Adenauer of Germany and Macmillan of Britain and the death of President Kennedy, De Gaulle now stands alone on the world's stage. He not only has a mission but no serious rival to oppose him. According to his analysis, De Gaulle believes America is miring itself deeper and deeper into a hopeless struggle in South Viet Nam, creating a dangerous situation where exasperation and desto peration on our part could lead unwin-nable effort to win an an because unwinnable war Red China will not tolerate a strong Western bastion in the "soft underbelly" of Southeast Red China. There are as many explanations for De Gaulle's move as there are commentators offering them. It is suggested, for instance that he hopes to cement the split between Russia and China by giving the latter the respectability of diplomatic recognition. Nothing is to be gained by continuing to treat her like a delinquent in the back alleys of the international community. It will only drive her deeper into hooliganism or back to the Russians. The maneuver is also quite compatible with De Gaulle's quest for "grandeur' for France. It will We're Getting Bigger Make way for the economy. trillion-doll- ar Business firms in the United States and there are 11 million of them registered receipts in excess of a trillion dollars during 1960-6- 1. The figures are reported by Commerce Clearing House, based on a review of income tax returns. Corporate receipts amounted to approximately $803 billion while partnerships and sole proprietorships accounted for $244 billion. U.S. corporation did Fifty-si- x total business of over $1 billion. Contrasted with this were 2.3 million businesses which listed gross receipts of less than one-own- er Congress Fired Shot Heard Round the World Last Year Last ''year and its in tracks stood firm Congress fired a shot heard round the world. It reduced foreign aid by about 33 per cent (the largest previous cut had been 19 per cent). It wrote into the AID bill a large number of D.C. n, Congress-controlle- d pro-busine- ss, restric- tions. You'd have thought that the message but last week the was clarion-clea- r, America Share lobby, represented by y Democratic Senators Fulbright, and Clark, were around with a New Frontier blunderbuss that is calculated to shoot holes in strictures which the same Congress enacted no longer than Christmastide. Largely because of Mon-rone- Timely Quotes I would accept with pleasure the idea of spending the rest of my life in this house of detention where, between three copious daily meals, I would divide my time among various distractions: reading, table tennis, television, chess and so forth. Vo Thanh Minn, 57, Vietnamese demonstrator, after being released from police custody in Brooklyn, N.Y. Businessmen don't elect presidents. It's the common people who do that. I taught you that in 1948. -- wfi Wife. Allen-Sco- tt Harry S. Truman. Nuclear war is not an acceptable instrument of national policy. John J. McCloy, U. S. disarmament chief. combat fatigue, and resentment growing from last year's exhausting session, 33 senators were absent on the key vote, and all but a corporal's guard were absent from the. explanatory debate. Anyhow, the bill (S. 2214) passed the Senate. It is a bill of legislative trickery to undo much of last year's work and to override much Congressional control of foreign assistance. The bill increases our participation in something called the International Development Association (IDA) in which we put up about 42 per cent of the funds and retain only about 26 per cent of the voting power. The bill authorizes an international banking institution to make loans to backward nations that pay no interest for he first 50 years. Worse, it effectively thwarts these decisions taken i 1963 under the AID bill: 1. A decision to deny aid to foreign countries which expropriate American property or annul American contracts as in Brazil and Argentina. 2. A decision to deny aid to socialized projects in foreign countries where there is unnecessary competition with the free enterprise system notably the Kokaro Steel Mill in India. 3. A decision to use sound business practices under AID. The new bill would permit foreign nations to borrow, interest free, from the American taxpayer, and then to earn profits as high as 12 per cent on the same money. 4. A decision not to subsidize Latin American governments until they make no such concertain internal reforms dition attaches to IDA loans. The IDA plan originated four years ago when the Eisenhower administration discovered with horror that we had acquired a ruinous rate of loss in our s. In order to get wealthy allies to join in foreign aid, we set up this international association as a subsidiary of the World Bank. But we apparently did not choose to remember that multiple membership, as in the United Nations, means multiple control. In IDA we can be outvoted better than 3 to 1, and there is no Buy American policy to protect American industries and jobs. Senator Symington remarked on the g action Senate floor how a in Canada on automobile parts was now calculated to cost at least 600 jobs in Missouri. The point was not labored in debate, but the IDA bill is, I think, the first one of the new session which raises a searching question. Can the Johnson administration wage war on poverty in America, retaining current jobs and creating new ones, if we march American dollars' for foreign assistance, not foreign investment, to the ends of the earth? The 88th Congress didn't think so in 1963, and there's nothing about Leap Year to suggest a change of mind. , own ambition. Franz Joseph Strauss, former West German defense minister. The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity. U Thant, U.N. secretary general. , The terrifying characteristic of British society is that many of those who are supposed to be inferior have been brainwashed into believing that they actually are. Anthony Wedgewood Benn, M. P. If there were to take place tomorrow war, equivalent to the six-megat- on Second World War in power of explosives used, and another such war the following day, and so on, day after day, for 146 years, 'the present stockpile (of nuclear weapons) would then be exhausted. Dr. Iinus C. PauHng. tariff-waivin- m jAv. Economic Boycott of Cuba Weakened By' Canadian Sale a Mr. Scott Mr. Allen By ROBERT S. ALLEN and PAUL SCOTT - The U. S. of Cuba is economic boycott fast coming apart at the seams. In addition to those sales to Castro, Canada is shipping both wheat and flour to Cuba despite Secretary Rusk's blunt warning that this trade is harming Western Hemisphere against Communism. To add insult to injury, the Canadian exports are being paid for in cash by the Russians, who are asking for U. S. credits to pay for their huge grain purWASHINGTON British-French-Spani- sh defenses These shipments, which are helping Castro solve his severe food shortages, include 240,000 long tons of wheat and 150,000 long tons of flour. The sales are being handled under the $500 million Canadian-Russia- n grain agreement signed on September 16, 1963. While the flour is being shipped directly to Havana aboard Iron Curtain vessels from Canadian East Coast ports, U. S. Naval Intelligence experts suspect that at least some of the wheat is being exported to Cuba from U. S. ports. Their preliminary investigation shows that part of the Canadian wheat purchased by the Soviet has been going by rail to Boston and Baltimore for overseas shipment since the St. Lawrence Seaway closed down for the winter. At least one vessel, after loading Canadian wheat at Boston, was tracked to Cuba, although its original destination was a Russian port on the Black Sea. Whether other ships in the Canada-to-Russgrain deal are to Cuba is being diverted being the probed by Navy. These and other startling details of Canada's growing trade with Cuba and other Communist countries was made known by ia U. authorities dur- ing the recent meeting of the U. S. - Canadian Parliamentary Committee. SEEKING MORE TRADE One confidential briefing paper circulated among the U.S.-Cana-di- an legislators frankly reported that "The Canadian government believes consideration should be given to increasing trade with all Communist countries. Large sales of wheat and flour to Russia in recent months have pointed up the potential benefits to Canada of such trade." The document stressed that, "Although Canada has no formal trade agreement with Cuba, the government agreed with the USSR, in its wheat sale to that country, to sell for 100 per cent cash some 240,000 long tons of wheat and 150,000 tons of flour to for immediate delivery Cuba." It also revealed that Canada doesn't consider its grain sales to Russia and China X one-sh- ot deals, stating: n wheat "The to is run until agreement April Soviet-Canadia- 17, 1966, and provides Soviet purchase of 5.3 million long tons of wheat and 576,000 long tons of flour to be shipped by Canada by July 31, 1964. 'Specific purchases for the second year of the agreement are now being worked out and may include new shipments to Cuba. The USSR agreed to purchase 500,000 long tons of wheat or flour in the third year of the agreement. "The wheat agreement be- tween Canada and Communist China will run through July 1966. Similar to an earlier agreement signed in 1961, the new agreement provides for the Chinese purchase of a minimum of 3 million long tons and maximum of 5 million long tons of wheat over the next three Obviously to cover up this curious gaff, the President jumped to his feet and proposed a toast to Senator George Aiken, Vt., ranking Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee and chairman of the Joint U. S. Canadian Parliamentary Committee, whom Pearson referred to cordially in his meandering discourse. But again the Canadian leader muffed the ball. He joined in the toast to Aiken, then sat down and that was that. U. S. officials present still are baffled at his odd behavior. -- CANADIAN FLASHES A review of the toll charges on the St. Lawrence Seaway is currently being undertaken by U. S. and Canadian authorities. Any decision to change the tolls is to be announced by U. S. and Canadian authorities Any decision to change the tolls is to be announced by acto White House sources cording . . . Under the joint U. S. Canadian defense production program, the U. S. has purchased $675 million worth of arms in Canada and the Canadian government has procured $574 million in the U. S. . . Canada's exports to Communist China have increased from $125 million to more than $250 million mid-196- 4, -- . in 1963. Editor's Mailbag Relax and Let Do George Editor Herald: easy." One high government official who was once on his staff ex- plains Johnson's successes this way: "He comes at you like a gangbuster. He keeps pushing away until he finds what affects you, what's in it for you on a high plane or low. "When he comes at you, you see everything come out the the his vanity, anger, appeals to your better nature and your But everything. this seems to release his strength and his good qualities as well as his bad. People like myself, who hold things back, work on one cylinder while he's working on six." Some of Johnson's success seems to be based on his Says one former colleague: "He"s got a fantastic sense of the proper priorities. When he's on something important, someone could literally walk across his toes and get no more than a smile and a continuation of the conversation. "And he has a remarkable capacity for going back into a situation when he's been licked self-intere- st, all-outne- ss : single-mindednes- According to reliable congressional sources, President Johnson got nowhere - with Prime Minister Lester Pearson when he tried to persuade him to cut back Canada's trade with Cuba during their recent Washington conference. SOCIAL BLOPER-T- he s. once. "Take a case in which he has with great difficulty brought a bill to the point where he can get unanimious consent for a vote after talking to say 60 or so senators who might be interested. This can be a very difficult maneuver indeed. "Then when he brings it up on the floor some senator who no one thought would say anything, or even be interested, were being exchanged. The President, in a brief but warm tribute, acclaimed the Canadian Prime Minister as a great statesman and concluded with, "Gentlemen, a toast to our illustrious guest, steadfast friend and a good neighbor." To this hearty accolade, Pearson responded with a rambling talk of some 15 minutes, and then sat down without toasting to everyone's the President SASK I ABOUT OUR I I IfoimcAL GifrsI DISCOUNTS Off Brandstadt Understanding Eases Youth Growth Problem three- score prominent guests at President Johnson's luncheon for Prime Minister Lester Pearson are still agog over an inexplicable faux pas by the latter. It occurred at the end of the meal when the usual amenities astonishment. Dr. As a boy reaches the age of to 15, he may undergo an enlargement of the breasts. This is caused by the changes in 12 hormone secretions associated with puberty. In some boys, the breasts may even be slightly sore when this enlargement occurs. The enlargement usually lasts from a few months to two years and then subsides. If this is understood and proper reassurance is given, or embarrassment can be minmized. In extreme instances, some form of treatment may be advisable. Male hormones have been tried, but without success. The only satisfactory treatment is surgical removal. If this is done, it should be performed by a plastic surgeon who will restore the normal contours, and leave an inconspicuous self-consciousn- scar. If the enlargement persists past age 18 or has its onset be- tween ages 18 and 20, a tumor of one of the glands of internal secretion should be suspected. In this case, a biopsy specimen Of the breast should be examined and other tests made to determine the cause. If a tumor is found, it should be removed without delay. Q My daughter, 16 months old, hasn't many teeth and can't chew meat. She won't eat baby food, so I've been giving her plenty of eggs. Could you suggest some meats she could chew or some substitute for meat? A It is most unusual for a baby not to accept the specially prepared baby foods that consist of meat or mixed meat and vegetables. Have you tried different brands? Have you given up too easily? You may, however, give a baby cookfinely ground round steak ed without seasoning and without being made into patties. The Reading Reform Foundation reports that the phonetic system of teaching reading, a system which stresses the alphabet, now is. in use in more of the nation's than schools. one-quart- er It Thank heavens at last we what's wrong with the far right group they're unintelligent. How do we know? Well because a contributor to the mail bag tells us so and he has the information from the book of an eminent psychoanalyst and social psychologist to prove know years." balance-of-payment- Politics is the art of not measuring the necessity by the yardstick of one's a " Report chases here. Holmes Alexander pro-America- Wm 10 wrong, he could be opening the box to a whole new flock of troubles. $2,000. WASHINGTON, fe fiPlr Asia. years since France herself was mired on this area and was urging John Foster Dulles to drop an atom bomb or two. But that was before De Gaulle's time.) De Gaulle believes he understands the Chinese as no one else in the West does and that the peace of Asia, and of the world, depends upon creating a French "moral presence" in Asian affairs. The first step toward this goal is, naturellement, establishing diplomatic relations with the giant. (But Britain has had a diplomatic presence in Peking ever since the Communists took over in 1949, with no discernible moral influence on the Chinese.) If De Gaulle is right, then he will be very very right. If he is heavily on his own personal brand of persuasion. What then has been the key to Johnson's victories with Congress in the past? Johnson, himself, says he wasn't born with ability to crack the whip. He tells of this incident shortly after he became Senate majority leader. A senator who had promised him his vote on a very close issue, but who had voted the other way instead, came up to Johnson and said: "I'm sorry, I wish I could have told you beforehand, but got hold of me and I couldn't say no." Johnson reassured the wayward senator: "Don't worry about it at all." Another colleague then came up and said: "Johnson, you'll never make a successful majority leader. Old Joe Robinson would never have put up with that sort of thing. That senator gives that same excuse all the time." Said Johnson, reminiscing, "I learned to hold people's feet to the fire and not let them off so-and-- so all-o- ut (It is only stands up on the floor to object. "Johnson's first reaction is one of disbelief. He'll go out for about 15 minutes, then come back in with that sort of a lope, hands in his pockets, sort of a propulsive walk, a kind of shambling. "He'll go and talk with the objecting senator for about half a minute. They'll go off and talk in his office. Then he'll come back in; make the motion again. But he'll put the time for action off a day or for three or four hours, to give the opposing senator some token of victory. He keeps his eye on the main objective. "Any other man would blow up and say 'I've done my best,' and drop it." troversial congressional program: His success may depend inde- There seems to be little the United States can do about French recognition of Red China. It will be difficult enough for Americans merely to understand it. The question is not what the United States can do at this juncture, but what President De Gaulle thinks he can accomplish by '"recognizing" what is, after all, an undeniable fact even to Anglo-Saxo- n minds the existence of 7 Ray Cromley it. These far righters are also most always among the hate groups. How do we know? Because most people say they are, and most people are never wrong. In fact if you want to be safe these days stay in this group of most of the people, the majority. Don't join any groups or societies that claim they are fighting a great cause. Stay unidentified with the most people. ; Don't stick your neck out For some cause. If you do every Tom, Dick and Harry will take up his pen against you. Don't be a George Washington or a member of a group such as the framers of the Constitution, because these days this might place you among the radical'right. Always stay on the moderate path, don't join with people who have a tendency to claim "give me liberty or give me death." At all costs don't join the JBS. The Communists have said that this group will have to be stamped out in order for them to take over this country, and besides you don't want to belong to a group that most people are pointing their fingers at and calling dirty names. Now on the other hand don't belong to the far left group either, for bad things are being said about them too. So just pull yourself back into the crowd, pull in your neck and settle yourself comfortable like. After all everything is going to be all right. Things : will take care of themselves. We have competent leaders who will take care of us, feed us, cloth and protect. You don't even have to get out and vote if you don't feel like it. Most of the people who vote, will vote for the candidate that most of us want. So won't you join us, lay down your pen, your cause and let somebody else handle it? Join us, we are a large group, "The Most of The People" and live happily ever after. Everything is going to be all right. Roger E. Mellor 185 E. 12th S., Orem Ruth Millett Let's Give Patient A Break In Hospital - It certainly was a surprise to me to find out how many usually d people don't know how to talk to a friend or relative going through the experience of a hospital stay. Friends sally forth with grim determination to "cheer up" the patient and their famous first words usually are, "So you decided you needed a vacation. Pretty soft! I wouldn't mind changing places with you." The last three or four visitors to pop their heads into the room have probably aiTeady hit upon that particular "light approach." And speaking of the light approach, which seems to be the only accepted one there is today for greeting those in, misery: "Don't overdo it." The person whose world is temporarily bordered by touch. his own aches and pains finds it hard to rally to the Bring no troubles of your own with you. There's just one thing wrong with the world so far as the sick person is concerned,, and that is whatever has gotten him down. So concentrate on that with if you want him to feel you really sympathize. him If you're sending a card in lieu of a visit, don't fall for the funny kind that treat a visit to the hospital as a huge j6ke. It may be delivered when the patient is wondering whether or not he's really going to make it. If so, its humor wuT most certainly not be appreciated. level-heade- too-lig- ht so-call-ed |