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Show V THE LOOMING 10A Solt lolt City, Utah, Wadnwday, least one place There is, apparently, THE U.S, INFORMATION Agency has'' whfere the centers have been appreciated . never enjoyed what might be called a and chances are experince will show us life of roses. are many more. there . Or the one hand it has been under. :I.Xhis Is not' pointed out as meaning eer-we;should not make such ichangeswe pbrtftyinf'Armetea Tmagirabroad.' On 7 tainly cannot take uponourselvea the ob- -. the other, its information centers have, ligations of providing reading material been among the first buildings stoned and culture for foreign cities indefinitely. riot has We mustconstantly review and update our whenever an broken out anyplace in the world. operations to be sure our money is being is spent in the most effective possible way. But likeso many things, it starting We certainly have a long way to go. to be appreciated where It is about to be i lost. IN THE FIELD of publishing, for ex.j returned Senator Eilender ample, the Soviet Union and Red China (D-La- THE GLOOM AND DOOM criers who insist that the West is losing the Cold War and democracy is going down the drain should take a look at the Philippines r" this month. Here Is a nation of recent Independence, where the ravages of war and the lack of solid political traditions offered an invitation to the Communists to try to take over. They did try, of course. But we were; there too, with programs of aid and educa- - openly invited Congress to upset the victory of his opfxment on grounds of fraud despite the fact that the Commissioners of Elections who oversaw the balloting had ' all been Garcia appointees. Obviously, here was a fertile breeding ground tor Communist agitators and for serious civil strife. But the Congress did nothing of the kind. It calmly and simply did its duty and proclaimed Macapagals election. The new president will be inaugurated 4r jn sh -- ca ye Si iw tk H Bi tr fa -- fU to cu ; mi r SOI Hi tic ou th pu pli mi U. i Fidel Had To Assure Soviets . By ROSCOE D WASHINGTON, era and his Communists that he is fully with them, a complete inist, and says this has been his view for fully eight years. Some of the early reports of Castros recent confession inaccurately stated that the Cuban Premier d been a dedicated Communist IOND D. The Marxist-Len- rea-penl- y de- an ex clajedNi his communism -- -- tremely awkward moment self are coming clearer. , On the surface It seemed inopportune from his standpoint to disclosehakedly" his Intention to foist a. Communist dictatorship upon the Cuban people on the eve of- the meeting of the Organization of American States. But it is now evident that forces beneath the surface Castro persuaded that he had to Mr. Drummond prove to Moscow that he was a dedicated and reliable Communist, and, the risk of not doing so were greater than the disadvantages of admitting the truth. I suggest there are two powerful reasons Castro had to choose the awkward truth: 1 UNREST AND dissatisfaction among the Cuban people, including peasants and workers, have been mounting so visibly that Castro concluded he had to play his final card to try to commit the Soviet Union to the total defense of his regime. If he made Cuba openly and wholly Communist then he could feel sure that Khrushchev would not let the Cuban Communist government be overthrown. 2 CASTRO ALSO WELL realizes that he himself is not secure with that Cuban lewed disclipline, erratic, and Under these circumstances he could readily see that as far as Moscow and the Cuban Communist Party is concerned, he (Castro) has nearly ended his usefulness; that is, he has carried Cuba well down the road to communism and enabled the Communist Party to get a total hold on the levers of government Thus, to avoid being discarded by the Kremlin, he assures his communist back- - 'days buf that he concealed his views so it would be easier tb seize power. AFTER EXAMINING the full text of the recorded speech, it Is evident that the Associated Press version is the accurateqne. The AP reported that Castro said that by 1953, three years before his invasion of Cuba. His political thinWpg was more or less like what it is how, but that it was only after he Pmjje to power that he developed into sln'e - . hls Marxist-Leninis- College t It is also true and on this point I wish to correct my own statement that Castro did not admit that he concealed his Communist views in order to make it easier to seize power. And where do these' corrections In the early reports of the speech leave the facts? They leave the facts right here: union-industr- OUR DEFEATINO OWN EFFORTS in of T1 th Li Ri D cii ra St Ui pi ar Ri al y se tii fo Bi IS u w P lil b fc m ca FOR PEACE ti si Righteousness, Sympathy Needed and consideration for all W people Everywhere. Edward P. si ai w - te d Vice Pays Tribute To Virtue d I To Err Is Khrushchev -- ' ffSMIMHSMs w bMrt Ntwt jPim) 25 Years Ago (From - Dec. 28, 1936 Chfirles Mattson, :' 3rd, 10. years of age, was kidnapped vl from near his Tacoma home. The ; kidnapers demanded $28,000 ran-som. : , 50 Years Age Salt Lakes YWCA' purchased the Gordon Academy buildings and ground on east Third Dec. 28, 1911 ! South Street for $25,000. Another weuid remodel the buildings to uit the new owners. It was mated that the property was worth some $80,000. $2,Q0ft -- esti-again- st ' 1 1 fe. lii Our READ YOUR editorial National Flabbiness, and Robbs similar comments. That should be alarmed to action" on this deplorable situation is the un derstatement of the year. Yet, as is always the case, the emphasis is being placed on physical activity to. amend this situation, while the ques-,- " tion of nutritional adequacy is care- fully side stepped. Why? The selective service's calling of J seven young men to get two is a"-national disgrace. The frightening of 96 million chronically HI; the 58 of U.S. school children; flunking, of tests that' only 9 of European school kids flunked doesnt leave much for the Russians to conquer, does it? . To date we have only push-up-s to counteract this deadly trend. But this is not enough. The root of this problem goes much deeper than exercise. It stems from bur national malnutrition. This takes courage to say and determination to overcome. If we would regain our health (nationally) to a comparable position with Russia, tve must declare war on all refined, denatured, chemically treated and synthetic foods.. Further,. ye cannot build national health from our colossal liquor and, tobacco consumption, and the fare our school kids get would play havoc with test animals. John S Jorgenson -628 East, 150 South Kaysville sH lng M On National Flabbiness I'Msws y anti-Stali- di Dickson, Malta Ave. Burley, Idaho 4510- - ll with-threateii- sc bi half-truth- s. J. ar ne y CASTRO SAID that he has been an approximate Marxist-Leninis- t since 1953. He described his thinking at that time as more or less like .It is now. Castro said he has been a comsince he plete Marxist-Leninis- t seized power in 1958. Now Castro confirms that he was a Communist when he said he wasn't ; he admits there will be no free elections and tells the Cuban f pe of exactly" and Most d M Wl Y - human condition or human sciousness causes war? Obviously- - fanatic belief in the superiority of ones own country, economic" dogma, bet on Jan. 2 he will file charges agaiftst ofto vote under his rule, they will be combined with doing things. ficials allegedly involved in graft and will able to vote only for one party, the The result is a business-minde- d counor intolerance Communist Party. and out expose vigorousy corrupstamp of those that arent has excited admiration by its fast try that is I doubt if Fidel Castro today tion in government. He also premises swift on our side, is a economic growth and a per capita income very secure with the real Cuban action Communist elements he vital cause. against In light of the new higher than any other Asian country exCommunists. have gained Influence in the govIf we had no becharges mounand central in the rebel fighting cept Japan Malaya. Economically, but that of lief ernment. tains. I suspect that Mr. Castro is kindness Communism faces a staunch and solid foe ,and the One of the standard with Cuban insecure gibes It the against people in the. Philippines. . of love, goodwill and conpractice his we the is is await in this setting that Macapagal by ' But what about political opponents politics? What are sideration, then there would be no action of the foreign ministers of that he is more than the the chances of disorder and confusion wars. But we are fed on dogmas, 10. on the American Jan. States Americans themselves. . that could lead to a Communist takeover? x political and economic; religious, e of is sort exactly-thcourse, That, The answer to that also Is becoming" we are taught untruths and Americans Would like see to -leading clear. Until a few weeks ago, the threat HUMAN NATURE BEING AS IT IS: Violent discontents, misery the Philippines. More important. It seems of civil war hung over the sprawling and social upheavals result be to kind of the themleader citizens the islands because outgoing President Carlos The present crisis is astounding. selves want P. Garcia refused to concede defeat in the The mistakes made by governments Nov. 14 election despite a 650,000-vot- e and by the everyday actions of InTHE DEMOCRATIC process has passed a SYDNEY J. HARRIS true that we are generous, By dividuals and nations are bound to for his Diosdado opponent, majority potentially dangerous test in the and honest When a family the whirlwind, as the Bible once a month, I receive a reap MacapagaL with Philippines highest marks, and ABOUT from someone in the or a society holds out the proper says. Garcias Nacionalista Party controls democracy everywhere should be strengthPerhaps every citizen, deep slough of despondency about the goals for Individuals, Individuals re . the Philippine Congress. And Garcia ened as a result. within, desires to see those condi state of the world usually a college spond to these goals. All personal student who says. In effect, Noth- and formal education is based on this tions which he knows would mean the greatest security and happiness ing is going to help us, because you belief. cant change human nature. It seems to me significant that for alL gut our nationalistic desire for power and protection from our This seems to me a false and we Instinctively recognize a person NO ONE IS LIKELY to take Soviet Prealmost meaningless proposition. I who is what a person ought to be; enemies; and Russia's and Red time Soviet agricultural experts told Chinas desire for the same; the desee no need for changing human we know, almost by intuitive inmier Nikita Khrushchev seriously Khrushchev he was wrong in ordering mands of each of these hideous within for our is to what natures nature, proper sight when he calls for more criticism of any crops planted in certain areas of Russia us we have potenas human beings even the thief, for powers that every other nation take mistakes he makes, ieast of all the Comtialities to bring us instance, respects an "honest thief; a side, choose one of these amalgawhere the soil is 'poor and the weather Is mations of stupidity; the continuous almost as high as even those who are disloyal to socito munist functionaries at whom his advice adverse farming. But Khrushchev igthe angels or con- - ety respect loyalty within their own howling in the press " and news was directed. nored their advice and when his agricul1 d e r a b 1 V Vice always pays tribute' media about our enemies what y lower tural plan's failed he blamed some of the They remember all too well what hap) . i than the apes. . to virtue, however, distorted It they are doing to destroy us, while same men who had dared to tell him he made a similar we go on doing the same things ourpened when Mao Tse-tun- g What we loosely may be. -was wrong. suggestion in Red China in 1958. That call human na- WE HAVE MANY problems to face, selves, obviously to destroy them These conditions have led us to the was the year of Communist Chinas Recture Is capable of Perhaps the destiny of Khrushchevs many obstacles to overcome but precipice. to a call for more criticism was foreshadowed responding tification Campaign. The idea was that human nature itself is not one of wide gamut of stim-M- r. No nation and no leader, in the the Red regime had solidified itself so by qh Interview with a delegation of Sothem. There is no need to change the face of ulL This is why w Harris public opinion and Ignorance, viet newsmen when they visited the U.S. a . much that it could now jafford to tolerate into to something else; only putty educate our children so carefully strong enough or idealistic a little criticism as a means of effecting fw years ago. The questions and answers and rigorously to enable them to mould it closer to our hearts desire.' enough to buck this trend. The picsome needed improvements as well as letweht something like this: respond to the .stimuli .we think are ture jails for men of peerless char; Q. Are you allowed theright to criU ting the comrades blow off a little steam. good and decent, and to react against acterT ability and idealism. those stimuli we consider bad. cize government policies and officials? SENATOR CAUCUS Or so the Red Chinese bosses reasoned. We talk about peace, sit around A. We not only have the right to criti; But their plans went awry when what tables and discuss peace, but inSHAW ONCE COMPARED human cize but also the obligation. wardly we hate our enemies and we nature to a piece of putty, and I thought would be only a small , they distrust everyone! We need power - Q. Can you give us an example of such trickle of criticism turned Into a veritable think his illustration is a sound one. against our enemies and we have Of course we cannot change the escriticism? When the late Premier Stalin avalanche of commentary pointing out the a grand excuse and alibi that everywe cannot nature of , sential was alive, lor instance, was there any putty defects of the Red regime with embarone everywhere falls for protecsew or with swim eat in it It it, newsof criticism him in the Russian rassing thoroughness and persuasiveness. tion fantastic error. Apparently But we can, and do, mould it Into we never dream that we might impapers? The result: In order to retrace a source I various shapes. After it has been A. So far as the late Joseph Stalin was . prove ourselves. " of irritation that they themselves had shaped, it becomes hard and set In We are suspicious and have days tte confi guration then it eannot fee brtedTtKelmmunIsl''Kiders . resorted nwnttnmedr-f- h on which we pray for world p6hcej changed without being broken. This to repressive measures of frightening sions for criticism. and yet we contrive for advantage our we Is do with what KhruComrade precisely thereafter,. Shortly verity.. , other countries and hold off children, whether we know it .or not. n shchev made his famous Quite naturally, Russias Reds dont , What has happened to the human surplus foods while millions starve And since on then Stalin attacks speech. want the same thing to happen to them. because the nation in question has race, it seems to me, has little to have filled Soviet newspaper columns. a different economic ideology from do with the substance of human also must have been .The Soviet-Peopl- e ours. nature, and eyerythlng to do with SO JUST BE patient, Nikita. No Russian , struck by thefecjUftat wlen Khrushchev as we of natures the human shape Would that our. desire and our called for eriticismhf was addressing a who values his scalp, is likely to call have moulded them. In families and have! wisdonv were strong enough to rewell a what Boy, rating conference of Russian fanners. The mem-;mor- y to now. task after But you youre safely In nations. linquish ' reliance on materialistic Everybody must have been listening of the Russian people is not so dead and buried, then and only then IT IS PERFECTLY true that human to yoor speech! Our telephone weapons and demonic gadgetg-t- o deshort that they" have forgotten what will you get the full shape of criticism you switchboard is Just Jammed beings are greedy, lustful, egostroy others, and to substitute rightdeserve. pened a little over a year ago. At that centric and devjous; but It Is equally ' eousness of action and loving sym-- i phone calls!! an sii . (R-Wis- Democracy Wins A Battle I its e, , B D - to the uncommitted natjons a large share of the several billion books they publish each year with the result, among others, that Lenin, is the worlds inost translated author. The USIA last year distributed less than five milllo books. Television otters astounding possibilities for the future.. It will soon be'pos-siblfor example, to bounce a televisibo picture off a reflector satellite to a halfway around the world, showing the true picture of America instead of the false image created by Communist propagandists. Buf our efforts to exploit this possibility have hardly.' got off the plan.end ning boards. And in radio we lag badly. Sen. Wiley .) pointed out to the Senate last expanded program possible. February, for example, that the Commu-nl- st world beams 174 hours of programs to ONE INFORMATION center to be closed America each week, while here in Latin Dec. 31 is at Bilbao, Spain, a city of own hemisphere the U.S. broadcasts our. 230.000 population. The Casa Americana only 31 Yt hours a week to Latin America. has been a landmark there for 13 yease. Less than half of these broadcasts are in An average of between 7,500 and 8,000 and none in Portuguese. Spanish persons have attended the public lending a For long time now, our efforts lave library at the center each week, and inbeen frustrated partly because of a conformation films about America have been cern that telling foreigners about America shown in and around the city to about might be resented. It might be, indeed. 150.000 persons every month. " But that is achance we must take; ceHave the citizens appreciated or rewe &nt afford to abandon the rtainly sented the service? A news correspondent field to those who are trying so hard to has reported that Bilbaons are unhappy destroy our Image abroad. about the closure and have expressed resentment at what they regard as a move MOREOVER, BILBAOS experience may on the part pf the United States that be a tipoff that while surface resent-- . ments may be exploited by a noisy few, downgrades Spain while giving more imthere is a substantial and important unportance and priority to places in Africa whose populations are regarded as primiderlying feeling of appreciation and tive and uncultured. respect. 2 -- anti-Americ- d, 3 There WASHINGTON, members who travel, you know, and last Monday Secretary of Commerce Luther Hodges was scheduled for a Keeping Our Image Bright at abol-ishe- cated they would demand. They will certainly ask for a shorter work week perhaps 32 hours at 40 hours pay; and for heavier supplemental unemployment benefits and many wage adjustments. The cost will run into the hun-deeof millions. The union will say t ' that this matches White House ". rather , important policy because the Administration break-- f has said that increased productivity as t appointment . uld bring: with "it an Increased with'.: .nationally; in;' ';j5hare7inr: the workera.: fiuentialbusinis The industry wilL of course; stand; policy makers. They pat. "Already the Iron and Steel Instiwere due to break tute has released figures showing . eggs and bacon in a that the industry has absorbed three . Sec. Hodges Pittsburgh hotel. big rounds of employment cost inMr. Secretary was disturbed by creases in three years, during which conventhere - have been no price In- - , reports from the AFL-Cltion , that the other secretary," creases. The Institute Says that the Arthur Goldberg, had indicated the payroll cost for each hojur worked C administration was not altogether by hourly employes In the iron ; too serious in its efforts to hold the and steel Industry during October increased to a record $3,548, com- - , wage line as tight as the price ---4line. pared with $3.321 4itOctober-6Q- u The. Secretary of Commerce THE INSTITUTE also said that dt wanted to Impress on the Pittsburgh rect employment costs rose $1,261 businessmen, including steel Industry per employ on the average between , leaders, that the Secretary of Labor 1956 and 1960, while Iron and steel- United of the and the President revenues from sales and ' States were devoutly pledged against companies services wait up $517 per employe. . pew rounds of wage and price inThe union people retort that-profr. creases which might inflate the still re good and that automation is . disemploying hunMr.' Hodges never got t to that dreds of thousands breakfast His plane, like ours, sur-"- " ,! of workers. rendered wisely to the snow and ice. other There are Into He did, however, get Pittsburgh signs that the indus- in time to make a speech to the try and the Union Better Business Bureau and say that -arent we'd really be prosperous if the naRomeoing' tion could avoid a crippling steel ' strike next summer. , Julieting. folks apparently - And there you have the Inner have forgotten that . and labor of the politiworkings big the last steel con- cal story of 62. What started all the strike the 116-daafter thact signed controversy down in Bal Harbour for called special labor managewas the effort of some of us newsmen to smoke out Arthur Goldberg ment committees to meet and on just what he and the White House cuss human relations in the big mills and the old work rules. These combelieved the United Steelworkers of were supposed to select neu. mittees Dave headed America, McDonald, by chairmen. tral They have not been would demand. able to agree on such .symbols of I placed reporter and pressed the So they have been meetthe point But Mr. Goldberg would neutrality. rather regularly but without a . ing not be pressed, which is a deuce of a chairman and have been accomplish- old friend on a big way to treat an little. very ing story. Mr. Goldberg would not say It had been hoped that these ' what he would consider inflationgroups would ease the bitterness by ary. next May 1 when the first bipartite committee large THIS WAS INDEED wise on his - part, for if he had, he would have meets to discuss the expiration of the , In fact put the government in the general contracts on June 30. position of bargaining for either the SO JT DOES APPEAR that if the union or the industry, depending on union makes the demands its .'Jhat he said. leaders have been saying privately Npr would he indicate what the they will throw on the table next government would do if Mr. Mcspring, there will be a strike unless Donald and the union wage policy the administration through Arthur committee asked for a whopping Goldberg moves in and heads it off. big increase ih 62. There are many who believe he crint This is exactlyNwhat steel union unless the President personally pres-leaden around the convention indi- - sures one side or the other. By VICTOR RIESEL D.C. having been divinely , inspired. ported he was "convinced that the USIA, as now operated, has about served its purpose and that drastic changes as to its ' operation are in order. He recommended that the agency abolish its overseas information centers because they "are regarded in most countries as purely propa- ganda outlets for spreading Imperialism. A number are now about to be but not for that reason. Recently, the decision was made in Washington to step up the U . Information program in Africa a decision that can hardly be disputed in view of the increasing in that area. Because of limited budgets, a number of European centers will be closed in order to make the STRIKE Kennedy's Men Gird For Battle Dacwnbar 27, IW1 Wt stand for the Constitution of the United' States 4$ STEEL 75 Years Ago Dec. 28, 1888 There was trouble on the Liberty Park street car this morning. It started a half hour late, and when It reached the Eighth Ward square it turned around and went back. ' As a result, soipe passengers missed the tra.n thy were planning to take. ! I h si ai T ni I |