Show r V Mil1 1 TT OGDEN UTAH SATURDAY EVENING JUNE THHS Posonnq juveniles The power of suggestion great enough at any age finds young people particularly susceptible Adolescents have a man-size- d Williams and Secretary of State s friends and no Hare made Gov safety-consciou- enemies when they proposed last week as members of the State Safety 'Commission that Michigan Connecticut in a "drastic crackdown" on traffic violators But the State isn't going to get that tough— not right away at least Assistant Attorney General Russell Searl has ruled that the plan can't be carried out under g Out-Connectic- ut ' SAY ew Interior Secretary May Reverse Ike Giveaway Policy So-Call- ed present law that there is no way to do it except by changing the law The plan has merit nevertheless It works where it has been tried It has its political hazards of course Gov Abraham A Rubicoff of Connecticut who at the turn of the year ordered that the license of every first offense speeder ' be suspended for SO days and of every second offender for 60 days recognized the political hazards at the first of a series of regional meetings sponsored by the President's Committee for Traffic Safety last week in Atlantic City r He reported a 14 percent drop in accidents since he started his crackdown j Michigan has had a 13 per cent increase in the same period Gov Ribicoff at Atlantic City conceded that enforcement alone is not enough but he also said this: "It is apparent that even if motorists won't slow down to' save their lives they will to save their licenses" — Grand Rapids (Mich) Herald so-call- Shivers of Texas called on Val Peterson of Nebraska who had appointed Seaton to the Senate urged that Seaton be persuaded to vote for tidelands oil "I have no control over the senator's vote" Peterson n plied thereby winning the umiymg opsenators to his position of own appointment to the Interior Department later Seaton 'was in Germany uhcre and his wife were adopting two he as secretary of the interior children when the tidelands oil Inside fact is that Seaton first debate started in 1952 But tried to appoint his friend Val he rushed backearly in time to be rePeterson another leader of the corded against the billr liberal GOP as secretary of the SMALL-TOWPUBLISHER interior ' But when Republican small-towa were is miduest Seaton leaders confidentially sounded out 10 days ago opposihi newspaper publisher tion erupted from Neunderstands people as well as braska Republicans politics Through his friend Sen St Louis is fortunate according to the subcommittee in having relatively little of the smut in question to cope with That should be the incentive for vigilance which will keep our city so Nationally says the report the flood of sex obscenity is causing an almost unbelievably rapid rise in juvenile sex crimes More stringent penalties for these offenses as advocated by the subcommittee will certainly be justifiable Poisoning the minds of our youth is a serious offense indeed A few stiff punishments would take some of the lure out of this $500000000-a-y°a- r racket in polluting the young — St Louis i Violin Affects Plant Hearing that two students at Anamalai university in Madras India claimed to have stimulated the growth of a plant called mimosa pudica (the "sensitive plant") — a kind of mimosa — by playing the violin to it I asked a distinguished biologist what old-lin- e IS THERE "Maya-MalvaGaul- a musical seedling developed 35 per cent more prickles and their branches grew 50 per cent longer than the control seedlings One explanation offered at Paris was that music might stimulate the streaming of the protoplasm in the plants' cells If one violin can do this what might not be accomplished by the London Philharmonic? I hope experiments continue — Pendennis in London Observer 1 opposition to Hi is year's request for foreign aid Ever since the middle of March when the President asked for a new authorization of nearly five billions it has been plain enough that he and his advisors were not taking into account how much world public opinion including American was being affected by the changing world situation The administration has put forward its request for another and a bigger authorization using the same old slogans that have been doing duty year after year It has taken no serious notice of the fact that foreign aid both military and civilian is undergoing a r evolutionary reappraisal throughout the world It has treated this great development as not strictly relevant to the business before Congress Congress has reacted to this lack of plainness and candor It knows that the whole subject of foreign aid has to be reconsidered It knows that the administration is in fact beginning to reconsider it It knows that the administration has not yet reached re- soil Grass all gone papoose too No chuck-awaNo pig no corn no hay no cow no pony Indian no plow land Keep grass Buffalo eat Indian eat buffalo Hide make tepee moccasins too Indian no make terrace No build dam No give a damn All time eat No hunt job No hitchhike No ask relief Great Spirit make grass Indian no waste anything White man crazy" — Dallas Herald y Easy and Soft Voters tend to shy away from the politician who poses the tough question and embraces the one who has the easy answer when it should be the other way around— Detroit News When it comes to claiming veterans' "benefits one requirement which makes a lot of difference is' whether a veteran has wartime or peacetime military service ' Right now the men going into military service for the first time are classed as peacetime veterans as are all men who've entered service after Jan 31 1955 In fact there are four periods since 1900 which generally are classed as peacetime when veterans' bene- fits are figured: — The period between July 4 1902 when the War ended for all except a few and April 6 1917 when World War 1 started — The period between Nov 12 1918 when World War I ended for 'a!! except a few and Dec 7 1941 when World War II started — The period between Dec 31 ANSWERS Spanish-America- n ' 1946 when World War II was de- clared en£ed for all except a few veteransand June 17 1950 when the Korean War started — The period between Feb 1 1955 when the Korean War was officiary ended and the present but which didn't result from service is space in VA hospitals is available and they sign an oath stating they can't afford to pay for the treatment elsewhere Of course they must have been separated from service under other than dishonorable conditions The only conditions under which peacetime vets may get free care are: 1 If they're receiving veterans compensation for an ailment resulting from or aggravated in service or 2 If they were separated from service under other than dishonorable conditions for a disability incurred in line of duty In other words they can't get free care without disabilities Or take pensions for disabilities A veteran of World War I or II or Korean War service is eligible for a pension generally amounting to $6615 or $7375 a month if he can meet three VA requirements: 1 Be totally and permanently disabled from a disability having nothing to do with his military merit j i service-connecte- d Q — When do scholars believe that the historic Stonehenge mon- - ument in England was built? A — Its origin is still a mystery Te circle of neolithic stones is thought to have been erected over 4000 years ago by a migratory Bronze Age tribe d c self-addresse- d - - j Auin- dustries are taking the lead in criticizing the April 14 Federal Reserve banks' increase in discount rates on laons to their member banks But both industries arc having a hard time proving that they have been hurt by the FRB tight money policy General Motors President Harlow M Curtice declared recently that Federal Reserve's "very restrictive" current credit policy was a major factor in reduced auto sales But this last Federal Reserve rise in interest rates has not been passed on to GM customers and no further increases are contemplated now The last increase in General Motors Acceptance Corp inierest rates was in December Wholesale interest rates on Ksns to dealers were then advanced from 4 to 4Vj per cent Retail financing charges were advanced at the same time by 50 cents—equivalf ent of per cent — to $6 on each S100 borrowed by the new car purchaser But this increase was made only in a few areas— not countrywide — How did Martha's Vineyard Mass get its name? A — It probably was named for the baby daughter of one of the sailors who explored the island and for the many grape vines found on it Q — What bird did the Alaskan legislature name the territory's official bird? one-halA — The willow ptarmigan Q — Who is the oldest president we have ever had? A — Andrew Jackson who lacked only a few days of beGOES RIGHT ACROSS ing 70 when he left office Even though the last FRB inQ — Who is the largest single terest raise has not been passed consumer of electric power in on the point which Curtice makes the United States? is that a tight money policy goes A — The Atomic Energy right across the country reduces business confidence and so reCommission Q WARTIME SERVICE All service not between the above period is considered as war- service and" Q — What type of vehicle is a time service And for benefit pursanlor? 2 Be separated under other poses a veteran is generally con- than dishonorable A — It is a three-wheeleconditions from sidered a wartime veteran if he at least 90 pedalled contraption days of service some bicycle has at least one day of wartime used as a taxi in Bangkok Hong of which is wartime part during service For example a veteran 3 Have a yearly income of less Kong and the other Eastern who wnt in uniform on the day than where manpower is spots if he has no depend$1400 of the official ending of the Ko- ents than gasoline or if he has cheaper $2700 dependrean War — Jan 31 1955—' is ents classed as a Korean War vet Q — Where did the steepleA peacetime veteran is not eliWhat's the difference when it chase originate? d comes to claiming veterans' bene- gible to a pension for a — A In England as a diverailment fits? j sion from fox hunting Riders Take free medical care in Vet(You may write Maj Thomas approaching a city would pick erans Administration hospitals M Nial The Associated Press a church steeple as a goal and All wartime veterans with ail- 330 Star Building 1101 Pennsylrace for it ments resulting from or aggra- vania Ave Washington D C vated in service niay get free about your service-- onnected Q — What are the flower cluscare Free care is also provided of the pussy willow called? ters problem Please enclose a to all wartime vets who have ail- stamped A — These clusters are called " ments for which they need treat- - and 20 cents' in coin) envelope catkins nonserv-ice-connecte- n WASHINGTON (NEA) — tomobile and home building I is ami no A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE? if done well to listen to those who advised it to go to Congress sayf T ing that foreign aid was going lm I to be revised that while the revision was going on the existing programs should not be disturbed and that as and when new programs were worked out Congress would be told all about them less job of civil defense adminOn that kind of a submission istrator the' President would in fact A-- l job where he has done an have been asking Congress not Peterson also a liberal Repubto approve a program' that is out lican also opposed the natural of date but to trust him "while a gas lobby and the tidelands oil many definite conclusions as to new program is being worked out lobby So last week Nebraska senhow in the light of the new He might well have gotten such ators Curtis and Hruska not only world situation to form a sound a vote of confidence frowned on him as secretary of as In aid has reacted the interior but sent word back it reacting policy foreign Then Congress finds that the the House Foreign Affairs Com- to the White House that the man new money it is being asked to mittee is moving with not coun- to appoint was another Ne-- i vote is to be used to finance the ter to the tides of opinion in braskan Clarence Davis now unflow of military assistance not Western Europe When it voted dersecretary of the interior Davis however was frowned this year and not next year but to reduce military aid by a billion dollars it did not in the on by Seaton and other White in 1958 and 1959 believe that it was voting House advisers Knowing that the strategical least just as much as to reduce the of of our military Peterson NATO was and security on by Cur-- : frowned planning other alliances may be seriously of the United States and of its tis and Hruska For Davis had been closely revised in the next two years allies was in It same the as mood are anic mnnr! in tn rtn identified with the Al Sarena nnf rfee fthnriTP IsrPP funds to he used ithe Germans who do not want giveaway of the Rogue River Na t0 conscript the promised Ger- - tional Forest with the encroach two or three years hence divisions as the French who ment of oil chair-rn3" "The Congress" said the companies on wildon fuave n?wA moved virtually all: life refuges and with McKay's man of the House Committee Affairs- - Mr Richards their infantry to North Africa as 1 generous policy toward the priForeign -British who are beginning to vate utilities may well regard the pending J"? So Seaton in turn blocked an as bill mutual security Jhink about abolishing conscrip-- ! only JV Davis In fact he had been pullinterim measure": 11 is me mooa or ine people ing wires (backstage for a month As there are nearly two years' who do not to want waste their to keep the reactionary Davis funds already in the pipe line time and money cutpreparing not from becoming secretary of the the committee felt that after for war the next but for the last interior Seaton's motive in this ting the authorization by over a war was not to get the job for himrecomsums billion dollars "the self He had no idea that lightbill are in this mended ample MIRRORS PUBLIC OPINION until we know more about the The attitude of Cnncrrpcs ic iho ning would strike him But in the direction in which the program American expression of the same! end that is exactly what hapwill move mood which we are thinking pened When Seaton served in the about abroad when we talk of the Senate SHOULD HAVE LISTENED out the unexpired of interest in NATO I term of tothefilllate The administration would have decline Kenneth Wherdo not believe that the deep it became known that he was ry cause of this loss of interest Is not to vote with the gulf due to the new look of Soviet statesgoing and various Republican policy to senators the tidelands oil The deep cause is that the high- to Texas give Louisiana and Calier leadership of NATO as it fornia reflects itself in the requests to This caused dismay and indigthe governments his not kept nation gas-oi- l lobbyists it abreast of the revolution in the was in among the of the closiog days military art The loss of interest Truman administration and Senis due to a loss of belief in the ate noses were being counted to Pinned down by reporters how- realism of NATO's strategical override his veto So expected ever Haverstick admitted that a conceptions U we are wise we shall 'not rerising interest rate on mortgage loans was not the most appre- gard the action of the Committee VHY SAY- as merely a relapse into isolationciable factor in any housing price ism and Inso- rise tar as there has been such a re- HIGH AND DRY Federal Housing and Veterans lapse it is due to a failure in Administration mortgage loan leariershm— a fnuiirt tn srefuo v K interest rates are fixed by law case for foreign aid in terms 5f"-r-A and have not advanced They which are relevant and cover most of the new housing PMA tards consumer spending The Federal Reserve's answer to this philosophy is that if money were made available to everyone wanting a loan the country would soon ' have runaway inflation The Washington angle is that the auto companies' present distress is largely their own fault for overselling- the market last year And few buyers have a Iage enough equity in their cars at the end cf a year to trade in every year Making much of the same kind of argument as Curtice President Joseph B Haverstick of National Assn of Homebuilders blames Federal Reserve policy for the recent turndown in new housing starts he got to know candidate Eisenhower during the 1952 campaign and became one of his close advisers He was also one of his liberal advisers joined the group on the Eisenhower campaign train which wanted to throw Nixon off the Republican ticket when his $18000 personal expense fund was re- vealed Seaton did his best to persuade Sen Wayne Morse of Oregon not Nebraska Republican primary and Butler would neither forget nor forgive He blocked the apHe even blocked pointment Peterson's appointment as U S ambassador to distant India Final'v Peterson was appointed to kc's White House staff which uoesn't require Senate confirmation and later to the thank- to bolt the Republican party helped persuade the sometimes nervous Mr Eisenhower that the press would not bite him after election was appointed assistant secretary of defense to hold the hand of wobbly Charlie Wilson In that job and later as a member of the White House staff he has hailed tough and touchy political "problems He urged the firing of GOP National Chairman Wes Roberts when Roberts was revealed as a Kansas lobbyist He was delegated to fire Ed Mansure as boss of the' General Sendees Administration was also delegated to smooth out the farm snafu and went to Des Moines to persuade five midwest Republican governors not to censure the Eisenhower administration on farm public-relation- s ' j j policies Seaton's policies as secretary of the interior should be almost directly opposite to those of een- erous Doug McKay i i E IN j i k Measures Bring Brickbat Barrage Anti-Inflatio- QUESTIONS i P It is not in the least surprising that Congress is showing so much cently sponsored a contest for the best essays suggested by two pictures one showing a dilapidated house and the other a field badly eroded First prize went to a Cherokee Indian who wrote: "Both pictures show white man crazy Make big tepee Plow hill Water wash Wind blow is 1 Frank Carlson NEBRASKA BITTERNESS This climaxed a long series of attempts by Seaton to put his friend Peterson in hish position beginning just before Ike took office when Seaton urged Peterson as secretary of agriculture or secretary of the mterior however had run against crotchet v- - conserva tive Sen Hugh Butler in the Congress Slashing of Foreign Aid Is Not in the Least Surprising Vhiie Man Crazy AAJ THOMAS NIAL gas-oi- l n He was skeptical at first but later rang me and said that the experiment was reported in a paper read to the last International Botanical Congress in Paris An Indian tune called Raga" was played to the plants for 25 minutes a day A control group was kept in similar conditions but without music The Farmer-Stockma- n Gov Gov - h The Oklahoma good Eisenhower "giveaway" policy But tempers sizzled privately a bit among old guard Republicans when his appointment was sent to the 'Senate The opposition was not personal It: went much deeper and embraces the entire Eisenhower policy on tidelands oil public power natural gas wildlife refuges "and even Hell's Canyon Seaton was opposed to giving tidelands oil to the states when he was in the Senate and might well reverse Eisenhower policies their lives Post-Dispatc- (Ed Note— The brass ring foe one free ride on the Washington Merry - Go Round today goes to Fred Seaton newly appointed secretary of the interior) WASHINGTON— Fred Seaton the new? secretary of the interior is one of the best men Mr Eisen hower could have picked for that key spot His appointment may mean a jcomplete change in the job on their hands growing understanding their natures and developing individual standards They need constructive suggestions Destructive ones can cause tragic confusion not only then but for the rest of he thought Enforcement Pays Off " PEARSON 1956 Minds or Our Children The direct connection which a Senate subcommittee says it has found between publications dealing with sex perversion and "torture maiming and killing" is perhaps the most disturbing of the many disturbing aspects of the group's report There may be conflicting judgments about the influence of comic books and magazines that stand at the borderline between bad taste and viciousness The subcommittee headed by Sen Kefauver of Tennessee and including Sen Hennings of Missouri is not speaking of these borderline cases however It refers to publications portraying the dangerous abnormalities of sadism and masochism — of hurting and being hurt Most of these vicious publications it says fall into the hands of reckless-drivin- 2 VE know-nothingis- Cy lm IS JHf By W L GORDON j WORDS' OFTEN MISUSED An "oculist" is a physiciaa skilled in treating diseases of the An "optometrist" is one eye skilled in finding and measuring errors in vision for the purpose of determining the kind of ln which will correct the error An lenses and fits them OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED Plethora (excess) Pronounce accent on first syl- pleth-oh-r- a lable OFTEN MISSPELLED Descent (going down) Dissent (to disagree) ' Decent (proper) SYNONYMS Mercy kindness forgiveness pardon pity clemency corneal jSion tenderness lenience leni ency lenity WORD STUDY "Use a word three times and it is yours" Let us increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day Today's word INDOMITABLE not to be subdued unconquerable follows the "m") "He (Accent has an indomitable will'' built The NAHB president reported some evidence that mortgage companies are being more selective in their loans They are charging a higher discount rate to borrowers wanting low down payments and longer terms But the increased costs of building materials and labor and the greatly increased cost of land were admitted to be the principal causes of higher prices Haverstick adFurthermore mitted that sales might pick up at the end of this summer Supply and demand for new housing are now about in balance The vacancy rate is just about stationary at 23 per cent There is great interest reported in housing for new families and only a few areas are overbuilt WHIPPING WRONG BOY So in jumping on Federal Reserve credit policies the auto and housing industry leaders are judged in Washington as possibly whipping the wrong boy Actually there is considerable misunderstanding on the Federal Reserve action Adjustments in interest discount rates are not dictated from Washington They are made in 12 separate Federal Reserve District cities The board of each bank is required to meet every two weeks on Interest rates The Federal Reserve Board of Governors meeting in Washington has power to veto actions of the 12 regional banks But the last time Washington overruled a regional bank-- Chicago —was in the 1920s So all th talk about political pressure being applied to make the Federal Reserve change its credit policy is meaningless The bank is completely independent — S K E T ' "Dig" Up Food C H E S Wood ibises scratch! the bottoms of shallow Florida ponds with their feet This muddier By BEN BURROUGHS IT It means one cheer living hear the water so thoroughly that the fish rise to the surface where they fall victims to the birds' appetites MEANS A LOT" lot to have somewho spreads a ray of to make this life worth a whenever they are sweet and tender person with faith in things to be who lives for you and you alone molding a hopeful key it means a lot to walk life's road together hand in hand I with one who by a word or deed shows you they underit means a lot to merely stand a friend is by your know to comfort you when side and help things go wrong i it means a you stem the tide 1 lot to have someone with lova pal to ing heart and true as share the smiles and tears onward you pursue a (Copyright 1956 General Features Corp) Outstanding Miqratdr- The golden plover is one of the most outstanding of all migrating birds It nests on the Alaskan tundra in summertime makes a flight of 2400 miles to Hawaii at the approach of cold weather and returns to Alaska in the late spring non-sto- p Vermont's Trees' '? Hardwood types of trees cover of Vermore than mont's commercial forest area with sugar maple beach and yellow birch the dominant types two-thir- ds When someone is left without assistance he is said to be "high and dry" The expression comes from the sea where if a ship runs aground it is too high and dry to float J Birdiess Trees There are no birds in California's redwood trees They secrete poisonous substances which are deadly to insects upon which the birds normally would feed BOOK REVIEW THE NINTH WAVE By Eugene Bur dick Houghton Mifflin Boys riding surfboards on the California beach wait for the big wave the ninth that gives the strongest and most hazardous push— so this novel begins So this novel will end but in be- tween: Mike Free smith and Hank Moore battle the surf and each other- too They have their ways to make they are the closest friends but do not see eye to eye cn fundamentals The main difference is that Hank anold-fash-ionefellow believes in right and good while Mike is for efficiency and accomplishment He finds (some women are ''helpful and some courses at college and the Navy which pays for some of his studies and lets him travel From his varied experiences he comes to the conclusion that two emotions rule most of the people most ''of the time fear and hate d Coldly and deliberately he goes to work on that idea He picks a political leader he sets out to shove him down the throats of the supposedly sovereign voters of his state his theories begin to show their value the powerful knuckle before the new and greater power and then the 'fateful ninth wave comes in foaming and roaring again For election year here is a novel about an election written on a Houghton Mifflin fellowship and chosen as a Boo You will not forget Mike he's not a political boss he's a ' calculating heartless machine But you'll worry more about us the people Mike is so smart because the voters he molds are such dumb sheep He wouldn't do so much damage pulling strings if we were not such puppets Read this before you register read this before you vote — W G Rogers A P book staff |