Show uliiaiii in OGDEN UTAH SATURDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 17 i iiMi-jjii- mumiMuuii auj—uh i imimjimim— mhhj Mil umjiuiiiL HJ y UL jkm— mmtMi-pi- 1962 LMJ EDITORIALS WASHINGTON— The big story Glutton for Punishment At least from the outset of World War lions' The country's whole physical fabric — II it has been popular to play the game of schools hospitals community facilities translating the federal budget into dollars roads airports— has had to expand to meet that growth in numbers v spent by the minute and the hour Except for schools where federal help I If the President's new budget of $925 has been relatively minor the United j billion is not materially reduced the US States government grants-in-aigovernment in the coming fiscal year will and other programs through has necessarily done be spending a million dollars every five much to support expansion of the nation's : minutes and 40 seconds for the whole physical framework spanv Another matter In 1938 when federal I The family economics bureau of North-westoutlays were 9 per cent of GNP the deNational Life Insurance Co fig- - fense budget was just over $1 billion Tonr-- n no ic 1 07 Km no to that cnonrlinfr 1irc 1 l 111 till 1TA LiULl It 111 day it ranges above $52 billion and there O as in 1862 are other extraordinary expenditures inciCcan contest the fact we ' are dent to general US security Nobody I out sums todav putting huge government The truth is we appear to be absorbing The is budget expected soon these heavy burdens so well that except for President :by Kennedy's budget advisers as an upsurge caused by the Korean War it was forecast in 1958 by Maurice Stans budget outlays — as a percentage of GNP— 'Dwight Eisenhower's last budget director have kept on a pretty even keel for the But a few balancing facts need to be last dozen years tossed into the picture Furthermore the fedIn 1938 a little before World War II eral debt standing now at $298 billion has : 1 Imt l!i J i ui j Luuiury s expenditures been dropping! steadily as a percentage of amounted to roughly 9 per cent of its total our GNP This year for the first time since economic output-t- he 1942 it is hovering around the 50 per cent gross national product At war's Deak the nereentaPA wat near mark As recently as 1954 it was 75 per cent of GNP ly 50 Since then it has declined sharply No one can condone a penny of wasteToday federal outlays are running 16 to 18 per cent of gross national product ful spending But the really astonishing It must be remembered however that in thing is not how much we are spending It the 24 years from 1938 to the present this is the remarkable capacity of our enlargnation's population has soared by 55 mil ing economy to bear the load d : ern LAACft 1 £ — 1 "l X A— w 4-- 4 — 1 1 1 " r"::Z v: x L Vv:j 7 iivioicu until ttjj djn ana inai even me secretary or de- $100-billio- n ment of an amazing victory as we can be UN Beats Alternative: War it people bent on living it up and the restaurants and nightclubs in - middle-age- d folks and oldsters who have made it and don't mind spending it Buti in addition there is more than a sprinkling of harassed executives who have discovered they can liv longer make wiser decisions and reduce1 the incidence of ulcers by commuting here by jet and opening a "branch office" in a poolside oceanside or bayside cabana I'd like to wager that many of the most important deals consummated in this country are plotted parlayed and wrapped up here on a golf course at the track or in a cabana And the trend is just beginning to be recognized There are many events of national significance on the local agenda Ed Sullivan LawTence Welk and Ted Mack will originate their net work shows from here and on March 10 one of those dinners will be staged in the grand" ballroom of the Fontainebleau honoring President Kennedy There's a chance that the White House wand' ering minstrels Frank Sinatra Dean Martin and Sammy Dayis Jr will entertain at the dinner since all three are scheduled to make an appearance at the hotel anyway sometime during that period There's another Sinatra on the local scene who is a darling with the girls—Frank's uncle Oscar Sinatra In his eighties he burns up ?10O-a-pl- gate Robert- - Merrill flushed with victory when his horse Figaro Bobb won told us that he's been tapped with a double honor He'll open the Met next season in "Andrea Chenier" and in company with Leonard Bernstein and Leon-tyn- e Price will open the Philharmonic Hall at Lincoln Center on Alan Freed's Twist Sept 23 Club closed after two weeks raided for allegedly selling whisky to minors Incidentally the twist has supplanted the cha-ch- a as THE dance of Miami Beach You haven't lived (and maybe it's better that way) until : you see embryonic Bikinilad twisters taking mass instruction around hotel pools Th exiled owners of Havana's Tropica na nightclub new operate a similar Boite en Biscayne Boulevard end call their revue Cas-tr- e "Cuba Before Castro" according to a radio program monitored -- from Havana spent two hours before a microphone hoarsely screaming out reasons why he couldn't make a speech An oddball comic named 4 Freddie Ross gets laughts at Murray Franklin's Club when he says dejectedly "I'm the world's unluckiest guy My rich uncle iuit died and left me a barber-sho- p In Cuba" at After watching Milton Berle performing the warmest most entertaining act of his career at the Eden Roc we visited his apartment upstairs where his wife Ruth introduced us to the couple's adorable infant The doll slept all the vay from Los Angeles to Miami by jet and believe it or not has already learned how to smile when pop toys with his chin and does a one-ma- n show for the tot five-week-o- ld Arthur Desser president of the Lef court Building and Development Enterprises will become a father again in late July At a recent dinner honoring Gen Omar Bradley Desser walked up to Ralph Bunche to introduce himself Before he said a word Bunche said "It's wonderful to see you again Arthur you don't look a "day older than the last time I saw you" The last time was in 1923 when both the Bayshore golf course by shooting in the nineties Jack price owner of Carry Back was disap-rWnte- J when his champion lost the Falrn Beach Handicap: at Hialsah but insisted the name horse drew thousands of added fans to the track He suggested that a horse with that kind of drawing power should percentage cf thi men attended the same class rusem at u's is possible to be so logical than that minn! vr rln vo np-tic-- against u: iVldllieilldllCiailb JllUlllCi peace-disturbin- An Stanley Kramer paid author Erich Maria Remarque a sum to translate the dialogue of "Judgment At Nuremberg" into German Richard Boone TV's Paladin admits he's always uneasy when sipping a drink at a public bar "I get the queasy feeling that somebody's going to take a shot at me" Here's one for imrfecUons five-figu- re Bennett Cerf's puntifical dictionary Vic Dana dated a French girl and tried to keep her out until the oui ' hours of the morning There's now a Red Skelton Street in Arlington Heights Chicago The next time you see "Lavender Hill Mob" on the late late show look carefully and you'll see Audrey Hepburn playing a minor minor role According to Taxi the use of police-drive- n Weekly down cabs" cut hackie hold"ghost ups in 1961 by some 44 per cent One of the most interesting whodunits to be presented this season will be one titled "Design for Murder" Seven in the Lighthouse Players cast are The theme ef totally blind! the Rita Hayworth-Re- x Harrison film "The Happy Thieves" is right on top of the news it's based on thieves stealing priceless are treasures from Madrid's Prado Museum ay of an organVzation which lives by a maioritv vote Zr ioue" :namely thatTu"1 "ifJ will unsatisfactory mat nappens all the terminology 1 uie m me united b ates when we' are suddenly faced by some Politician whnse mnnnorc am n dignified We shrug our shoulders and hope for the best and it often does work out surprisingly well After all none of the great states men of the world were trained for their jobs--not Caesar or Napoleon although Alexander was brought A mFtv" wu iuuc than wroie so how — SSomT33 f£tn ?vfmilt0£ and by Ale Th°mas JeJ- amateurs who risked success against the tide of k! thein Roseland's Lou Brecker takes pen WhifTSf m — ui ure uuhcu in hand to suggest some additional Nations is that it has existed less variations to the "Old Generals Never Die" game we played in a s recent column "Old never die they're just left holding the bag" "Old actors never die they just keep going through stages" "Old actresses never die they just touch up their hair" "Old baseball pitchers never die they QTo what depth did Jacques just go off on a bat" Joe E Ross has been seen park- Piceard and Lieut Walsh tak ing "Car 54" at Vincent & Neal's th bathyscape Trieste? Challenger tVlt Hampton East' lately accompanied off the Mariana Islands Deep Liz Stubblefield a 1962 model by The Parke-BernGalleries Q-are asteroids? will auction off Moss Hart's original Mars and Jupiter is penciled manuscript of "Once in a in otherwise regular spacing Lifetime" which the late playwright of gap the planets Thousands of small gave to Lester Sweyd for helping bodies with orbits occupy this area to bring the masterpiece to Sam They are known as asteroids Harris' attention Now they've planetoids or minor planets gone and done it The Florida State Game and Fresh Water Fish ComQ— What law keeps the Austral- mission Jias made it a punishable ians from becoming toe apathetic offense to capture alligators! (Just about politics? when we were getting so good at A—Every citizen must vote or pay it toot) a fint XPS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS s?yel et What A-Be- tween — — - -- — — iSSSivw niyA attUUCUV ' SP the United Nations "DIKi! — tk — °— —- -- ISLl i""- me lucauuxs w mat uie wiuie naiions nave iaiieu to prove their supremacy for other reasons than the existence of the United Nations that during a peri- od of universal revolution and con- tinuous war we have not discovered for war other than an alternate ' KinfV-Vnn- - ti: 4 — n Among the guests were not only such JFK favorites as Prince Oleg Cassini brother of Cholly Knickerbocker and dress designer for Jackie Kennedy but Tom Watson head of International Business Ma- chines also Chiquita Astor who is to the youngest son of ' Lady Astor and loves an excuse to pop across me Aiianuc aiso m Fell and Patsv Pulitzer Preston the former Vogue model Then there was Magda Moyano the Areentine beauty her raven xvjta Elicit icgaiiy vu tuu ui jici head She is usually squired by Congressman John Brademas of South Bend Ind but on this night was left at home To make for the lack of Washington bach- up elors the First Lady imported an assortment of debonair New York- ers— Michael Forrestal son of the late secretary of defense Peter Duchin son of the orchestra lead- er iayion v nicney assistant 10 Auiai oievenson: ueorse jfiimuton — jL oi man or me Dioiogicai Kin&mp young of species or we are licked by the 1 "wsi ui uicin vci STILL SHORT ia majority vote in me unuea Despite these importations the tions My friend does not like that narfv woo cf ill c?s tmam fknl Too long he has lived as a superior some of the t ffamoroiK dolls aJ gwrying in his production ever seen in had to sit of the Greek poets of Shakespeare jowliro1 QWWashington tVlZ u Goethe Beethoven and Tchiakov- - to do the twiT I l tneuie LI skv anu tie asKs 1L On macf uiatiis anu 1L LIVE WITH WAR Is this perfection? Of course not! yellows what they have contributed It is a strident effort by man to to civilization 1 TRUMAN-GO-ROUN- D Said Harry Truman on coming uacK-io "wnen a tei vvasnington: YZJiTSi S U1I ? :ww"" """" low knows who his real friends are" "I live in the best town in Missouri" says HST "of which Kansas City is a suburb-Howeveno city is any greater than the ti-- 1 1 r 1 1 1 1 ivirr I ZTv'XS r GOLDWATER Nation Needs New Angle In Cold War 1 was not advocating the immedi-marrie- d ate inauguration of a shooting war in my proposals to the Air War mibw in 10 iQfiri I'm confident the military men m my audiences understood that Those of us who arsue lor a wuiu wu the only policy that can argue for "v""j insure against war and the only policy that can guarantee the ture of freedom d 0ur very failure to proclaim tpry as our purpose is of and by it5elf a defeat for the side of free-th- e fu-won- vic-hol- dom- - 11 amounts to an open mission that we do not know what ea e doing mat we Deneve com-'"a uidu x ad-wond- er wua ui iuicc diiu violence and terror This singular lack in our policy stance denotes timidity and reluctance to make the proper use of our i j ii a WWji w?ere siren§1" 15 111 uc ACUglJJltCVl nominator FORMED ALLIANCE? We are the world's most nation both economically and — 1 Kr-we!- tnK iti ri remarked:- "It makes you leading free nations we 1U?C find a techniaue for living together nnt beauty I fear that if mv friend-doe- s mucn ice without constant war It would be choose murder as his device he """"V1 IiavinS so much easier to hold the world must try something like the United with' the Pridpnt himlf nn find vm$ nn!?ISl!t?n nf£I together in ereat emoires to suo- - Nations bMause' we have cone ton press every Expression of indepen- - far bers Why has this happened? Why are get into the act Bob McNamara proved to we losing? Why are we paralyzed be the most agile of the Cabinet in a posture of global ineffective-twister- s ALbOP Secretary of the Treasury hess? The answer is that we've pre- Douglas Dillon complained later that he was exhausted pared our defense and offense for The ladies with the sexiest twist one kind of war while the enemy is fighting a totally different kind were two 18- - and Parisian dolls house guests of of war— a war for which we as yet Madame Alphand the French am- - have devised no over-al- l design or bassadress Their evening gowns strategy WASHINGTON— In the past two neutral and will cease in particu were a bit bikimesque and if they Our wars m the past past all months Communist North Vietna- - lar to serve as a transit-rout- e for had nut on their bacchanalian orev sprung from clashes of interest he ese tr°°Ps have been continually the North Vietnamese attack on of twisting in the Place D La Re- - tween nations They've involved in- moving into disordered Laos The South Viet Nam publique they would have caused ternational power rivalries and have concealed invasion— there is no The origin of the gamble is the even greater riots for the Paris concerned all the ingredients of other word — has approximately agreement in principle which Gov police such power— things like boundaries doubled the number of Vietnamese Harriman negotiated with the Rus- Sen Claiborne Pell the young territories armaments and pres-o- f infiltrators on Laotian soil In these conflicts military The Russians diplomat from Rhode Island whose tige sians in Geneva to wife an is A heiress the war became and the ultimate ratio of P When President Kennedy and his pledged themselves this under A chain looked immaculate war was meant grocery power to Gov Averell Eastern enforce shooting Far the complete deputy agreement Harriman first tackled the thorny evacuation of Laos by all North as did his handsome colleague from to lead ultimately to peace that of nor-tio- n Laos problem there were from 3000 Vietnamese and to stop all use of Missouri Stuart Symington and is to the hls fellow senator mal relations with the couto 5000 Vietnamese infiltrators Laos as a transit-rout- e the North enemy by most of them disguised as Laotians Vietnamese They swore to take ' from Kentucky John Sherman tries Consequently these wars were never total in the sense they aimed and acting as cadres to stiffen the two steps which would effectively Cooper eernara lanvin wnosepertumes at relative power and not at the pro Communist Laotian forces insure Laotian neutrality as soon in famous and on Fifth enemy's actual existence Paris into 0000 There are now close as an Laotian government Avenue admired the Texas We've done all the conventional yellow filtrators and about half of these had been formed Under Prince Sousuu m iduy D uu juiuibuu rrauK- - m ugs we ve sirenginenea our are in organized North V etnamese vanna Phnnma in u Roosevelt Jr who hasn t military system evolved all ianres army nattanons witn lew rem- ON REDS RELY as a attended since with our friends sought to contain young party of the orn the disuises ?a"ts was House White his in the enemy and to the father It is clear therefore that the Xli dif-on a skit the Kennedy-Harrima- n Put at the conference table 'We've him illustrating policy in Laos is - done Casterence between Fnnce two on Oleg based everything but understand how movement into Laos is ohviniilv squarely assumptions: our power in a new kind use recan Russians be first the that significant because of its effect on mu ml wai twnai out to their clear mujjt vve the military balance there The lied upon carry uuumy are losing me struggle' today and uneauivocal nledae to Harri- - win wno is descended irom I'onsn because we are mistaking both nobility th Russians second manr and that the Jik tAlV iVVUUillVK& MUttUUUllO "iw was fish It served and the cold war for somebeing Friday enemy over the nave Communist side make a really subenough authority — DUC wnat iisn:— poacneu m a inmg tney are not The conflict in North Vietnamese to inforce the stantial difference But the question being debated in terms of their pledge cu at iu uciweeu great-na" There can be no argument about with rising of these as- - to stea from the French embassy ions over boundaries and terri- iLrs TZ? couldn't have done better and Am- - tones The Communists aim their : d — bassador AIPnand himself testified war at the socia1' economic politi- ially when the des- -' car and military fiber of all non- -' eten iTLv L wants to if But of souffIe Macaroon sert b£ was Communist societies It is their in- lnPZ f°S2 7£$£1 ab ed tention to overwhelm and destroy — — " : uuee lvieauwuue teams— z musical wesiern civilization f which are no long- - large numbers of North Vietnamese th Air Trr- - cinffArs on assumptions chni i o troops inside the borders of Laos C1 vtuuj Hence the massive (in Laotian GAMBLE ENORMOUS LAFF-A-DA- V terms) Vietnamese military moveThe p°Ucy is t0 secure the for" ment into Laos has special signifimatin Laos of an gov- - cance It calls into question the ernment led by the neutralist value of the Russian pledge though tain Snivama " 'S Phm9 Gov Harrison is reportedly stiii T"' l w uuapuixuy illc S"3"1 mat tne Russians Will Keep has always been enormous As the arguing faith if Voun Oum ind Phoumi will :r Cmi l nr oo nf iua hie onnnorot nn xPr nna WJVj tt : uiuy 1C1U ttliU c veil u vxuv xiaiiivuijuuuii vanna has demanded that the anti- - man is still judging Russian inten- Communist leaders In Laos Gen tions as correctly as he has gen- Phoumi Nosavan and Prince Voun erally done the troop movement Oum hand over to him both the De- - into Laos also calls into question fense and Interior Ministries the Russians' power" to carry out This means nothing less than giv-- their pledge ing to Prince Souvanna final con- For it is far from clear whether trol of both the Laotian police and Moscow or Peking now speaks with the 60000 -- man American-arme- d thp innrW vnW in tlv American-traine- d royal Laotian the North Vietnamese Communists army This could be downright dis- - After Khrushchev attacked the astrous if Prince Souvanna is less Chinese by proclaiming his ana- neutral than he pretends as many thema against Albania the North informed persons rather strongly Vietnamese signified support for 5 Pckin" by sendi tbebanians a "S message of Mendship Then hi mid-- a 2 - KSf rnifr - JObtPn Kennedy Gamble in Laos May Prove a Costly One : slow-speakin- g- j all-par- ty out-maneuv- er aLZ Z T 7 fJii "SSicSSS TMS - " l neal'sSbTgfthSe Tt ty "c Jr-V9'- :u U- !nff tST rJSt&' ffP2?etAVSJ?1n: Kosfvan fTOJL1""uutc that-espec- Prw "u U1a :u2 houm — ZZ'1 cac vTnntC all-par- JT: 7 aiietyJswheS rzrV MSLZ men shnnW— ffnv0m 0wtwa niviiicti v o We have done remarkably well by a hit and miss method even letter-carrier- years and has not yet 20 t—n anH nno and philosophers are capable of that kind of pilpulism They can deal with a theory until they have slaughtered the practical and nothing remains for them but words which bump into each other and flash for a second and are gone in the stillness A friend of mine who has un doubtedly found life disappointing wonders how I can find anything to praise m a world held together by spit and molasses What he does not understand is that I am en- thusiastic that it holds together at all man having a way of tear- mg everyimng apart as children tear paper dolls We could of course make a worse mess than we have of the world we live in but the human mind and spirit emerges and finds justification for virtue and for life My friend writes me: "Holding a thing together despite an absurdity does not always represent significant statesmanship in this case it means holding to gether an organization which has g become a organiz- ation under the control of the Asian-African-Sovie- t bloc which preach- es and practices the holy mission conducting wars of liberation and uses the UN as a forum for subversive propaganda a g a i n s t other nations It is true that the UN has certain success of media- to its credit but the same ntings could have been accom- plished by other devices without lostenng a machine for world gov- ewmieni wmcn is in tne nanas ot our enemies" j HAPPENS REGULARLY My friend finds in the UN the all-wis- e school m Sjadiete Inc dence and to have a council of five or ten to decide all questions with unerring wisdom 1 4 TTt : black and yellow boys to school and they have read the same books that the white boys read and they if certain rules of life hold-Johfor the whites why do they not for them And they go in for biology and anthropology and all learned disciplines and they what is the essential dif- - For All Its Imperfections all-powerf- ul young course hotels abound McNaught GEORGE SOKOLSKY 120-00- of ' ptf-- 'TO ALL DUTCH TROOP PLANES— WE'RE SOCKED IN' At this moment when man faces nu- - today did we but have faith clear extinction the thought of God must certainly creep often even into the minds The Science Hunt of agnostics and atheists as well as be- So long as 23768 students enter the anlievers no matter how cavalierly they may nave dismissed the idea heretofore For nual science hunt for1 the best science students in1 the country there can be little only the hand of God at times seems to hold fear that the quality of our future scienback the holocaust For a dramatic exposition of God's in-- - tists is in jeopardy The hunt locates boys tervention in the affairs of men wrapped and girls who compete for five scholarships in warmth humor and humanity there is ranging from $7500 to $3000 There are a play on Broadway these days that is 40 finalists After the winners the rest get bound to send road companies to all parts $250 awards A merit scholarship of this oi tne country and eventually reach the kind encourages the students and their screen for all the millions to savor It tells teachers to their best efforts how God chose Gideon a weakling farmer with no military experience to defeat 0 Midianiteswith a band of 300 chosen Consumer Revolt ' cowards The high cost of service and repairs are Paddy Chayefsky uses the Angel of pushing the American consumer to the God played by Frederick March' to carry verge of revolt a group of securities anout the Divine plan By turns stern gentle alysts were told Formerly the customer angry loving impatient amused blamed the local man Being brand the Angel shows God's in- conscious he nowrepair also brings in the com- finite concern for his creature man In for blame The manufacturer either pany Gideon as played by Douglas Campbell has to build life into his product or man sees himself as bumbling ignorant in- stand behind long it if he wants repeat orders effective defeated who under the hand of Customers are tired o f being pushed God becomes valorous wise and trium around MIAMI BEACH— To an itinerant visitor the Miami Beach-Mia' area which just celebrated its en try into the charmed circle of mil-- lion - populat ion 'cities seems to be playing host to a new and more substantial type of sun wors hiper You see many WW 9 phant By God's strategy he is the instru- jeffers°n ut peo-Detai- ls The leaks came from the horde BARRY ieaerai HY GARDNER C ALLI N G al en-abo- of about 50 guests imported from New York who next day were itching to spill everything about the glamor night at the White House much-talked-- of The Hand of God c Lanin's Strollers and a US Ma-cirine combo— kept everyone both tertained and dancing They didn't stop playing until 4:30 am It was a great evening! And everyone is hoping that Congress-Whit- e man H R Gross the mean old Republican economizer from Water--' loss Iowa won't get too mean He has a habit of getting up on the House floor and reminding P' that they the taxpayers put UP the money to pay the bills at the White House "iiruuucea me otner day to an the greatest enter atiQigncg 35 tainer in the United States" Trufense joined in this hot dance im- man replied: "If I'm an enterported from New York's Pepper- tainer on my own hook it's unmint Lounge was too much to intentional not by profession" ' keep It made the society columns next day ' L so- - Washington has been buzzing has not been U2 pilot Powers or astronaut Col Glenn or the pro- posed summit meeting but rather who leaked the news about the big House twist party when even the secretary of defense to the amazement of his generals twisted and when the President himself danced until 4:30 am of these White House par- ties are supposed to be more care- fully censored than the speeches of the admirals No information is given out and attractive Pamela Turnure Mrs Kennedy's press sec- nA retarv tilts hftr nrPttv with anyone gets very hoity-toit- y wno asks tor the guest list to Jackie's intimate parties for her sister Princess Radziwill or her sister-in-laEunice Smith Guests are even cautioned not to divulge the names of other guests In: this rnsp nnuwpr neu-- that ' : WLJ — PEARSON - a !long visit a31: ?P miSSxrw paid FtP'l ment on Prince Souvanna's terms e The really significant North risk is great since the only namese military movement into forces in Laos will Laos appears to have begun afier control this Chinese visit Add up all these pass from if Prince Voun Oum and Gen signs and the level of doubt about Phoumi yield But the gamble is the gamble in Laos is seen to rise that Laos will then become truly pretty steeply Viet-Th- anti-Commun- ist anti-Commun- ist s ZA1 4u Tn 1962 Worldrijihts reserved "The clerk said I had the prettiest feet in townl |