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Show ' Bruce Biossat "Tfeady? You Are Using Blanks, of Course?" PityUs-For- m Filler-Oute-rs r .THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1966 mpfani7JiMnn rf going on Am rirm. nmHinJw tha n this country is, in significant ' ways, being Europeanized. . Europeans are taking up increasingly with the motor car, the electronic household gadtelevision, get, commercial-styl- e U.S. theater and music. American slang expressions are find' ing their way intact into and German other con French, tinental languages. But if there are those who resent this American economic and cultural invasion of Europe, TOiUa Today's Editorials Congress recently enacted legis-ktio- punishable by a fine of $100, 80 days in jail or both. On two prior occasions, Con gress reviewed the existing lawi and customs pertaining to the display and use of the flag and these studies resulted in Public Law 829 of the 77th Congress and 107 and 896 of the 83rd Congress. n imDosinff a penalty of up five years imprisonment for to persons whcumatheDvjse draft cards. willfully destroy their person apparently can tear, burn, or trample the American Flag without pen- altv under federal law. ' But , apit-upo- . ? it n, seems proper vmJecnt-imblicemo- that Sen. Wallace F. Bennett (R., Utah) and others are sponsoring a resolution authorizing a comprehensive study and : ters pertaining to the display and. use of the flag. While there is no federal law prescribing penalty for. misusing ordesecratlngOldlGloj, ,the State of Utah has acted to punish persons who defile the national flag. Utah Code Title makes it a misdeameanor for any person to in any way defile the flag, and such wrongful act is 76-1- 44 mm w7. strations in which the flag was reportedly spat, burned, or tram pled upon have led me to conclude that Congress has a duty to again tpvW a physi- cian? All of us7 are now and then faced with a quick decisions Today's Health Guide, the American Medical Association's manual of health information and guidance for the American family, lists four points as a general guide to help yon decide whether medical aid should be sought at once: When the patient's complaint or symptoms are too severe to be endured, such as abdominal pain common to a gall bladder attack or. appendicitis attack or kidney colic, or sudden chest pains. Immediate relief is then the purpose of calling the doctor without delay. When an apparently minor symptom persists for more than a few days or a week, and does not appear to be due to some easily identified cause. A' nose bleed from a sharp blow is one thing; . a nose that bleeds constantly or frequently for not apparent reason ic quite a different matter. When the symptom returns repeatedly for no readily apparent cause. Digestive disturbances due to overindulgence are one thing; constant digestive distress despite great care and moderation in eating is another. When in doubt, it is safer to , :. ,1,1 , 'J (i JL ' 111. whethe further legislation shouTcT be enacted to insure continued proper respect for our flag," Sen. Bennett reported. ft? of Old Glory should subject the violator to severe penalty. In some respects this act seems as serious, if not more so, than the destruction of a draft card. A Pennsylvania motorist, picked up by police in a routine traffic check for driving without a license, told the court he had been driving for more than 50 years but had never obtained a license because his vision was so bad he could not pass the eye test Such an attitude in an individual is both ridiculous and dangerous, but how much more reprehensible it is to entrust an entire nation's safety to a "driver" whose Intellectual and moral vision Florida is open to question. Times Union. Holmes Alexander Stool to Our Enemies D. C. -- J. W. A. Menne, a West Germaisadustrialist end politician, is a heavy-sebespec- 10-m- bomb-maker- Ugh-nquen- ." black-rimm- - Inside Washington lfr. Scott : Tough Action Planned To Make Franco Pay for NATO By ROBERT S. ALIEN and PAUL SCOTT Forceful WASHINGTON congressional notice is being served on President Johnson that the VS. insist on full compensation for relinquishing the costly NATO bases in De Gaul-liFrance. Advocated as nne effective measure to require compensation is barring France from further heavy inroads on the U.S. gold reserve. . Last year France drained $884 million from this reserve. Since the start of this year these "raids" have been at the rate of $30 million a month an overaB total of $1.0004 billion in the past Iff months. The U.S. gold reserve is now down to around $15.8 billon. "II General de Gaulle confiscates the $2.5 billion of American military assets in France," says Senator Paul Douglas1, a ranking member of the influential Finance Committee World and a. combat-disable- d War II Marine veteran, "the Treasury should give prompt consideration to French claims to U.S. gold by the value of the property which the De GauBe government confiscates." Senator Ernest Gruening, chairman of the Government Operations Subcommittee on Foreign Aid Expenditures, is planning a public airing of the compensation issue. He is slating hearings at which Secretaries Rusk, and other top officials will be summoned for question- - st , " D-B- ra ing. De GauBe spokesmen have let it be known the French government does not consider itself bound to pay the U. S. for either the billions of military property that would be left behind or the cost of moving troops, equipment and supplies from the NATO bases. That is estimated at upwards of $700 million. This De GaulHst contention is curtly brushed aside in Congress. Illustrative is the reao- - BERRY'S WORLD Representative Sam who wrote Secretary Rusk: "It wffl cost liundreds of msV Hons of dollars to move our NATO forces in France to another country. The very least De Gaulle can do is to pay the moving charges. Our troops and bases were put in France for the protection of mat country. If De Gaulle now doesnt tion of Gibbons, reducing' U S. Allies Can Supply 4.U- -. legion. It should not be imagined that has some sort of government Jo enjoya. - fMl' a., Quotes In The News By United Press International WASHINGTON -- Vrd Vice President John S. Bugas, speaking for the auto industry on the question of safety: "If we invent gotten the message on safety before, we've got it now. We can assure you that we wfll get our bouse fa order as quickly as possible." SPRING, Pa. -Dr. Patrick M. Boccagno, who has barricaded himself in his home with his four children and held state troopers at bay for two days: "I'll put the children m a safe place if anybody starts ROARING sbooting.,, UNITED NATIONS -Ge-r-shoe Collier of Sierra Leone, chairman of the Special Committee on Colonialism, on British efforts to topple the white government of. Ms former colony, Rhodesia: "The British position has broken down and stronger measures are called for." ST. FRANCIS, Wis. --Louise blue-eye- d Tesmer, a blonde coed who will be the next presiding Judge of the St Francis, Municipal Court-ion whether sex "appeal helped in her election victory: "I guess I'm good looking, but nothing spectacular." n BY JAMES O. BERRY steel-monge- r. lfr. AJlea want us there, then be should foot the bill for our getting out'" DOSE OF OWN MEDICINE Senator Douglas, who has long urged that forceful steps be taken to require France to resume payments on me $6.7 bit Uoh tt still owes in World I loans and other debts, feels the tine has come to deal with De Gaulle in his own peremptory manner. "Leaving France means more than merely pulling out our troops," says Douglas. "We would leave behind a costly network of military installations including depots, barracks, housing, airfields, pipelines, improved ports and numerous other valuable military facilities estimated to have cost us as much as $15 billion. France Will inherit these properties, which will add to France national wealth already conenhanced siderably by the spending of American troops and their families at around $150 milMon a year. "France should not be allowed to take over these properties without due compensation. It's only proper this should be done. .1 do not know the terms of the treaties under which these NATO facilities were constructed, but I cannot believe they contain any authorization for France to confiscate these immensely valuable properties without paying for them. "We should forthwith file daira with the De Gaulle government for me following:. Payment for .these properties on the basis of present value; moving costs for the troops and property not left in France; if this matter is not settled within 60 days after our departure, that it be referred to the International Court of Justice at The Hague for decision.. "General de Gaulle would thus be brought under the rein of law instead of proceeding in and anarchic a fashion. If he should refuse to abide by the World Court's-decisiothere are measures we .could resort to compel him to. One is excluding France from recourse to our gold reserves." These views are heartily echoed by Senators Frank Lausche, DO., member of the Foreign Relations Committee, and Vanee Hartke, member of the Finance Committee. "The time k past to tolerate any more of ' De GauQe's obstructionism," said Hartke. "We should deal with him strictly ss be deals with us. The U.S. went to France's rescue in two world wars at a cost to us of tens of thousands of lives and billions in treasure. Under the Marshall Plan, we gave France more than $9.5 biSioo in. economic and military aid to put her back , ' - high-hand- D-In- . on her feet "Now De Gaufle .is menking us by proposing, to undermine the NATO alliance. If be wants ns out of France, I'm for get-tin-g out but on our terms and not, his. There should be absolutely no oomprornising on "Rtmmtxr, we're tptlttiita tf cfocl, nUVm order that' France, which in recent years baa become a grain exportee, fKo fWTinUter great rate. The layering of agencies and sub - agencies ana Dureaus amounts in many instances tor a beautiful system of built-in-? strayed roadblocks. Delays, memos, interoffice -j- ealousies are but a few of the consequenc es. Reports of these things art monopoly. Corporate America cratic iceberg, against whicnT aH too often, the citizen, chips invain with his little ice pick. Buy a house, seek adequate A phone, deal with an insurance company, try to change the delivery of your newspaper, firut vmi will find that POVem-nt has pIentv o company,. - , ast ew months, this reporter has listened to endless accounts of corporate at inefficiency, suggesting times that not even the simplest transaction or perform- w .'. chance. Accidents require immediate medical attention when the victim is unconscious; when bleeding is severe or cannot be controlled ; when the victim Is groggy or con- Poor Vision J ...Ul. aH SS S ChCCk Oil tax returns income accuracy, still are being misfiled at a this reporter had to fill out an pink sheet just to reserve a theater ticket a few days in advance. .These counWes. we. in the. grip oi a ngiu, encompassing bureaucracy which is both gov ernmental and corporate. They have free choice at the polls, but no free choice to refuse compliance with the endless demands of an overformalized system . The United States, of course, is neither consciously copying Europe's rigid ways nor being forced to accept them as unwelcome imports. But it is a fact, observable daily in count- les splaces, that wer are slowly succummng to me paper ava- lanche and the bureaucratic chaos that seems inescapably to accompany H. The sign-u- p forms of Medicare are merely the latest inundation. In the name of simplicity, tax forms and the regulations they reflect seem to get worse and worse. In this federal capital, there is a noticeable current of quiet' muttering over incredible governmental inefficiencies at the most elemental level A secretary in one agency consumed a full eight-pag- e day typing out ipt call the doctor than to take a fused; when there are signs of shock pale cold skin, sweating and weak pulse with or without loss of consciousness; when there is breathlessness and great thirst J when there are signs of broken bones; when pain is severe; when there are signs of poisoning; when serious or extensive burns have occurred; when persistent severe vomiting la present:when vision is suddenly lost or Wurred. able list of. names and rMaee the inarvei addresses. For n - curious kind oHeveiige. Continental European lands are engulfed in a proliferation of paper. The European's day PTi'itiT'tr laws to rieiermm the Bonn parliament explain bow harmless the steel products of the European-finance- d rolling mills were going to be t, ' in Chins. The sheet metal they make, tacled, gruff and arbitrary personality you see, he said, are gauge and who, Tears ago, might well really intended to be processed into have served as a cartoonist's model (or food cans and automobile fenders. They a might make Red Chinese Army jeeps a Herrenvolk arms manufacturer and maybe soldier helmets, but they'd merchant of death. never be any good for armor or ships. He arrived recently m Washington in When somebody asked him about somewhat that capacity, despite the be dismissed the question: bombs, Tm not a word m his (set that a of history rolled conversation was "peace." Dr. Mom The picture-reel- s was here to tell the State and Combackward as Dr. Menne talked on. The merce Departments, and later the great Krupp factories that armored the was the leader his Kaiser and Der Fuehrer seemed to country why press, in a European consortium to build a dance in the lenses of his 1150 million dollar steel enterprise in spectacles. The rancid smell of comRed China. mercial greed began to permeate the room where he air in the smoke-fille- d that to he explain began Right away spoke. Hypocrisy, which has an odor the steel products which the rolling nulls would produce were "peaceful'1 of its own, was also there. And one reporter was very sorry mat there goods, mat they would not increase China's steel capacity at all, that it was wasn't a cartoonist' to do a sketch of " this German ' the consortium's desire for the Chinese Communists to have a "higher living German capital makes up 50 per cent standard' and that if German mercb- - of the'' consortium's investment, but nts and government hadn't done this, there is. French, British, Italian and Swiss money in It too. Thus twojof the "somebody else would have." nvs paructyetaig nations, uermany and In order to keep the "peaoe" theme Italy, are former enemies of World War rolling, and to dub in some humaniII whom we quickly forgave and retarian and loyalist overtones,' Dr. Menne habilitated. Two others, Britain and declared that the German Federal ReFrance, are former allies in that war public had Just opened a world wide 'peace offensirthe first that his whom we saved from Hitler and restored to a place in the sun. Four out country had ever undertaken. West Gerof the five partners of the steel deal was ambulances be said, sending many, are also our partners in NATO. and medical supplies to South Vietnam. United the if he declared, Naturally, "They did not express happiness, States were in a "formal war" in Southsaid Dr. Menne with heavy Teutonit east Asia ' his country "would do as humor when asked bow American offimuch as you are doing for us." cials felt about this What we're doing, and have done for enterprise. , It's a good guess that the American many years, to protect West Germany from communist aggression is to station people wouldn t "express bappsess' five America! divisions there. During either, not with these European traders that period, we've also been fighting over whom we have no control, much communism both la Korea and Vietless with our own government's pasnam, to say nothing of running the sivity in mis matter. Berlin Blockade and patrolling the ForWhat's a foreign policy for if it cant mosa Strait prevent allies from supplying steel to tt didn't our enemies? Under the circumstances (Distributed by McNsught make very good listening to hear this feeder wish Red China sod member oi tyndtoato, too) ' 4. WASHINGTON, Jbe they-m- ay n' Tips on When to Call tho Doctor When should you call ' Europe' Is reported Punish Desecrators of the Flag k tfu ance of service can be brought without confusion. off cleanly The words that assault our ears daily tell us we are approaching the ease of fingertip control in nearly every field of endeavor. But when the finger touches the button and nothing happens, then the shiny panel comes down- -to reveal tne tan- gle of mislaid repair orders, misleading assurances of quick action, conflicting assertions of what needs to be done and how much it will cost The favored remedy today is to enact another law giving me citizen the right to fiU out a complaint form. There is only one trouble: That tosses the burden back to the government bureaucrat the pioneer who taught his corporate brother everything be knows about delays, imprecise answers and scribbling on paper. . By The Herald Staff Off ffie Beat ' So this much I feel about the BYU A Cappella- Choir. Its ABOUT CHOIR MUSIC, HEAVY AND OTHERWISE music may .eventually Heavy choir music has never heavy to sleep but it's a me dish of tea, and I was put s been my wonderful outfit It has great A BYU that the of the opinion great harmony, precision, and different would no be CappeHa trained as as Stan it's finely if you'll pardon the expresWatts' Cougars. sion ill connection with a BYU The latter half of the proinstitution., was much lighter, and gram J went to its recent concert it hngely. The I enjoyed in a had relative because I - choir did a little ditty about and I went with mixed emotions a certain Nicolette, a French .; A word about my reaction to sounded .. nrettv - raljri " heavy choir musicr and you'H" French all right And there notice I specify heavy. Admitwas a piano duet IH swear ting you cannqt stand much of was stolen from "Three Handel's "Messiah" is like adBlind Mice" with overtones mitting you're against God, of Loodoe Bridge. I mink motherhood and the PTA-- but yon can see, things were two hours of Handel's "Meslivelier toward the end. siah" (the uncut version is I'd like to hear that choir much, much longer) is much, out "Hello Dolly" or "Rally belt much more than I can stand. Round me Flag Boys" just I a am idea Lest you get the two houn of once. IH bet it would tear off mere music-hate- r, the roof with either. Beethoven, Wagner, Tschaikov-Bk- y, But as for my evening- -it was a or Chopin by piano Grieg more than worth h. I heard a or a symphony orchestra can beautiful, prereasonable a in be, my opinion, cision musical group perform facsimile , of what paradise and I can appreciate that under might be like. any circumstances. I enjoyed But back to the BYU- - A immensely the lighter parts oi Cappella Choir. The first the program and during the was of the program part heavier ones I had a couple of very heavy. A member ssid " to me later: "A choir must saps I'd been needing all day. Theron H, Lake . do a' lot of heavy stuff or the critics wont take it WE TOOK CARE OF IT seriously." Perhaps so, but I wrote an open letter io this I'm not a crhic end heavy column a few days ago adchoir music pots me to dressed to President Ernest L sleep, even when I'm rettabout the BYU Wilkinson, awaked and haven't been chimes going off at 4 am. ened at 4 a.m. by the BYU His reply speaks for itself. ' chimes. . " . It started out: "Dear Seepy,, But let me put in snother and went on: "I have just reword on my behalf about muturned to the campus after besic. I have a very good musical ing away and find your open ear, something which you're letter of March 29 rejoicing born with so . it's nothing parover the fact that our carillon boast to But I about ticularly bells go off at 4 a.m. can tell harmony,, and l oan Frankly, I am kind of happy I have beea y tell when someone is as away during that time because quick as Crawford Gates can. I don't like to get up then And I can ten precision and either s timing. In the sixth grade I "We'll see what we can do to scored number one out of aQ have them go off many hours the, sixth grades of Box Elder musical later, so as to conform to your County in an habits. Thanks for informing test (I couldn't resist slipping me of mis situation. Sincerely. that in here somewhere). Ernest L Wilkinson." Guess between the two of us, ; has so far made no move to ' we took care of that one, didn'f we?-Th- eroe H. Lake respond to President Johnson's countries that other appeal join the U.S. in providing wheat d India. for The eptoUns sad stateBut Francs is selling grain ments expressed by Herald to Red Chinabitter enemy of columnists are their ewa India whom De Gaulle recogand de not necessarily re nized last year and is busily Oed the views ef dui aews-wooing wtih trade and credit ' . : if finely-traine- . . - off-ke- famine-threatene- cers. d, |