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Show J' "T"' 7f ft like to live In tn end die of ViotnomT Follewln I article Martin tv tint Genhen, a with reoertee-kel- n ha Comptn- - M tt hunoie Chv South Krantr of terrain Vietnam) ted lungie f Nv , Vietnam And Glory: - (Not; Wht Viet ttie -- i O i N For The Infantryman; Parti War'ls 'Always' V By MARTIN GERSHEN North American Newspaper Alliance CHU KRAM, SOUTH VIETNAM -Tthose who say that this war is different than any other because there are no front lines. .Thats a lot of baloney. Dont ever tell an infantryman, here In the jungles along the Cambodian border, that there are no frontlines In Vietnam. Hes init. Hes on it. Hes - For the infantryman, this war is no-different than any other war. Hes get' ting killed wounded and maimed here -- d and. every day. Hes filthy-dirtalthough he comes from a nation where the emphasis on body deodorants le second only to the need for new cars, he : stinks. , -- He wears his fatigues till they fall from his body; a shower means it a raining, so during the tnonsoon season Jte showers frequently, A bath, is wading a dog-tire- river, a towel; the almost "unbearable heat between showers which would dry' your body completely if it didnt make , you sweat. the They say infantryman gets, one hot meal a day. Thats a lot of baloney too, unless you call heating a can of C radons over" a pasty"demolltionI pound a hot meal. Sometimes die war comes to die gar-rfson troops in Saigon when a Viet Cong terrorist throws a grenade at an American hangout. x And sometimes the war comes to an air base when it is mortared. .And the fighter pilots and the bombless them all bardiers bring the war to the enemy sometimes twice and three times a day when they fly missions to the north or onto Viet Cong strongholds or troop concentrations. ' But the war is always with the infanevery fninute of the always tryman lousy day and every moment of die long drawn out night and everyone of those days and everyone of those nights and the weeks and months that follow. It is a proud boast by thq Defense Department that one reason, morale out here is so high is that every service man assigned here knpws he will only spend a year In Vietnam and from the moment he arrives- - he knows the date of his de Vietnam. He's in , And this is true. The airman knows when he is going home and he can settle down in his barracks and count the days to his departure. The sailor knows when he is going home and he can X off the 365 numbers on the pinup girl in his locker until-hreaches that lovely moment of truth. By STEVE HALE it. He's it.'1 The soldier knows when he is going home and he can mark the days, too. But the Infantryman, who also knows when he is going home, can rot in the jungle before that day arrives, Once he is assigned to a line company here, he is assured of one thing and one thing only: If he lives he will go home in a year; otherwise, once he is plunked into the THE MEDICAL PULSE Deseret News Medical Writer , The woman lay in her bed in the hospital for the sixth successive day, hiccupping endlessly, The hiccups made her so nerv- ous -- she hadnt slept in all that By WILLIAM S. SCHAILL time. President, The Reading Laboratory - --- (Part - t parture. in . , dioxide gas, which sometimes worked. It didnt work on this woman. Finally, after six days. .of enduring these repeated involuntary contractions of the disaphragm, the woman 'Stopped . 4 all. Shed, tried the remedies that rt - To read rapidly you must Instantly recognize thousands of words. You have? probably discovered . already in doing . seme of the practice'drills that failure to' know a word puts a power1 brake on your speed. The only way to overcome this handicap is to add constantly to the reservoir of words at your command. well-meanin- g' friends suggested. Like breathing in a paper bag and getting a grip on Stove Hale her tongue and pulling it out as far as she could. She even suffered through their attempts to away the hiccups by popping frighten paper sacks. And still she hicked. ' Her doctor tried administering carbon You will find excellent manuals on vocabulary building in the paperbacks. Buy one and study it at the same time you are working on rapid reading. - I also suggest that you get a special notebook In which you write down unfa- -' miliar words. Dont stop to look up words while you are reading. When you have, finished is the time for a session with the , V dictionary. You will retain, the word better if you copy the definition and put the word immediately In a sentence. Its a r I good idea to review new words regularly . till you are sure you have mastered fate, hiccupping. Nobody knew why. - Many similar cases have been reported to Utah,- - and doctors everywhere have been just as stumped for a sure cure to hiccups as they have been in trying to conquer the common cold. Doctors have had limited success with drugs and nerve blockage, but often they get no better results than folk medicine practitioners who suggested swallowing ice. But all that may be ended. Believe it or not, theres a chance that some doctors have found a reliable way to halt the hiccups. The discoverers of this technique said 84 of 85 cases. Thats what the Journal of the American Medical Association reports. The new remedy involves Inserting a flexible tube into a nostril and stimulating nerves in the pharynx, the area at the back of the mouth where nasal pas- sages join the throat. Dont try it yourself. Inserting any object deeply in the nasal passages can be dangerous, and should be done only by a physician. Surgeons taay be especially happy to hear about this method. Hiccups occur rather often in patients who are under light anesthesia. And the surgeons cant have their patients jerking about with hicciups during an operation. Some of those old home remedies," it worked in - Now lets do Deseret News Music Editor shall, as far as possible, defy my Beethoven wrote In 1802 when he laced the fact that he might be losing his hearing. -Although there - - - a little on the state of your present familiarity with , words. Every person has three types of toust vocabulary! be mo- ments when I shall be the most miserable of Gods ere-- ' atures, he contiI will nued, grapple with fate.. It shall never pull j ACTIVE These are the words you customarily use in speaking. Your active vocabulary probably runs from 5,000 to ' 10,000 words. . MUSICAL WHIRL RESERVE These are the words you know but rarely if ever use in ordinary speech. You use them in writing a letter, wbgn you have more time to consider or when you are searching for a synonym. You know these words well enough so tljat you would not hesitate over them in me down! ' It seemed to Beethoven that for a mu- deafness was a ridiculous and shameful malady, and he did his best to hide sician it rapid reading. "'PASSIVE This is the odds and ends residue of words that you recognize vaguely but are not sure of the meanings. You never use them in either speech or writing. You just know that you have seen them before, and theyll stop you dead in rapid reading. To be merrily hard of hearing was a bearable misfortune. That could be as or so he thought passed off But now a total silence was closing to upon him, cutting him off from the world, from his friends, from tiie sound of music. Beethovens Symphony No. 2 Jjjiot a heroic work. Yet it has been called an heroic liq because Beethoven was able to write such graceful, witty, exuberant music while he himself was passing through the most terrible agony. The symphony was composed chiefly during the summer and early fall of 1802 at Heiligenstadt, and finished there in October, shortly after he wrote that secret, tragic letter to his brothers, which we know as his Heiligenstadt Will. His doctor advised him to protect his Beethoven used to take long walks ears by spending the summer of 1802 outOn one of into the surroundings woods. side noisy Vienna. One of his favorite these wanderings," his pupil, Ferdinand country haunts for composing was the litWes, wrote, I called his attention to a tle village of Heilingenstadt, near Vienna. So he took rooms in a solitary peasshepherd who was piping very agreeably ant house that stood outside the village in the woods on a flute made of a twig of where his windows looked out far over elder. For half an hour, Beethoven could the plain, across the Danube and beyoftd hear nothing, and though I assured him To increase the size of your vocabu-- to tiie Carpathian Mountains that lined it was tiie same for me (which was not ' lary you should constantly upgrade the horizon. ' true), he became extremely quiet and words until they are part of your active , ' morose. When he occasionally appeared to the these In . idyllic surroundings, vocabulary, ready for use when an occa- -' midst of it was generally to the point composing the gracious music to be merry, sion rises. If you work at this, you will of but even that hapboisterousness, of the No. .2 his Symphony (which be pleasantly surprised at the words you . pened seldom." will at Orchestra Utah Symphony play begin to use, .t It may have been this very incident its opening concert this Wednesday (11) One quick aid to vocabulary building to the Tabernacle at 8:30 p.m.), Beethothat suddenly confronted Beethoven with Is knowing thepreflxes and suffixes from the suffering that lay ahead, and which ven realized with crushing certainty which many words Are built Mastering what was to store for him. Still inspired the Heiligenstadt Will. (heir meanings will help to Increase your reading speed, too It opens the door to what I call intelligent anticipation', a' tool' , , r alj rapid readers.learn to use., I . T th small society he continued to dine and Joke and play music with his friends. Not until after his death did the record of the Heiligenstadt Will disclose the anguish he had gone through during that apparently serene summer, Final reflecTHE SOLID BEAT tion, the eminent jazz critic, Leonard Feather, who has participated in the annual University of Utah Workshop in Jazz, summarized about the rash of jazz Who festivals he has been attending: has the best time at a Jazz festival? The dollars to youngster who scrounges achieve a weekend of musical pleasure, who perhaps understands little of the music technically, but whd enjoys every- -' thing to the utmost, from seats in a rear section. Who gripes the most? The critic, who thinks he knows all the answers, who got in free and sits up front. Perhaps we malcontents should be relegated back there to mingle with the masses. If we could identify with them, we might discover in tiie music a little more of what they find to It without our help. - -- n Re Pastore, by ON RECORD The Mozart. (RCA Victor 10th of the 19 operas Mozart was to write has been one of the least performed. The composer, at 19, was commissioned to compose the work in honor of Archduke Maximilian, youngest son of Austrian Empress Maria Theresa, on his visit to Salzburg. The recording features the voices of Rerl Grist (singing the part originallv written for. a piale soprano), Lucia Popp, and Arlene Sanders (whd sang Marguerite In the University Summer Festival Faust" three summers ago). bv Brickman ' - K grasp of the familiar prefixes will get you Into a word quickly; a knowledge of the suffixes will get you out of it, since you anticipate what the rest of the word must be from the shape of the ending. rrs a ooP society but ' j -- Hot A &RCAT oc eT- Yi ( ft A bigger vocabulary will speed your perception rate, the time required for , your mind to recognize words from the. images thq eyes flash to it Speeding, up; your perception rate leads to faster read-tog, since it cuts down the time required to absorb a word. That is why a wide vo cabulary is so necessary to the rapid, reader. t f ! TOMOffROW: Pacing . s ' . - - F f b p A mF , When LBJ signed .the bit, he mentioned how important a free press is to a free Society. Then to almost the same breath the newsmen hadnt finished he said this country clapping yet needs a tax hike. Some tion will never have to worry about long sieges of this worrisome problem. And it IS a worrisome problem A short case of hiccups is quickly forgotten, but one that lasts longer is no happy holiday. One Salt Laker, after a four-da- y fight y with hiccups blinked his eyes and said: Ive never teen more miserable in my life. sleep-hungr- BOOKS free1 Hodge-Podg- of I mean, to eat the meals the members four of em to a the civic clubs eat week! He wont be able to face instant potatoes and creamed peas for a year. He built the newspaper business up so I just happened to high in his notes that I went to and asked read them for a raise. And know just what an important Im mixed up to, I said. Im really mixed up. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BERAtlantic-LittlTRAND RUSSELL, Brown. $7.95. This is a curious sort of autobiog- And, 4s part of the week, a day is being set aside to pay honor to the greatest newspaper group of all: those good little guys who sell newspapers on the corner or have routes to their neighborhoods. . raphy. The present volume covers the first 42 years, less than half the full story, but presumably the remainder will be in the same mold. Most people who present accounts of their lives' make some effort to establish 4 a relationship ImmmmA tween their per- Lord Bussell sqnal and professional lives, but Russell concentrates chiefly on the personal side. He begins with the usual business of childhood and the sophomoric in college, and as is often the case in autobiographies, he includes too much trivia. He also gives a great deal of space to the period in which he was courting his first wife, and to a rather boorish recital of how their marriage broke up, only to be followed by some be--'- philandering. The author makes the unwarranted assumption that every reader is familiar with his many books; instead of telling what it was like to be a mathematician and philosopher, he describes how he suffered in writing his works. Russell was a pacifist as early as World War I, but here he neglects to . state tiie basis of his position. The same is triie of his atheism. He was an academic man who often blundered into political stances of which he had no concept, and if he had possessed the slightest sense of humor he would have real-ize- d what an intellectual snob he was. The format of this book presents an irritating hurdle. Russell throws in large cVott of letters at the end of his chapters," many of which came from peopld who , deserved Jo be forgotten long ago, and contain material that even a sociologist would find pointless. This is poorly organized patchwork in which - the author unconsciously reveals more than he realizes. , ... . .Miles A. Smith- - V - " V , e, They have as good a record as the I Boy Scouts for turning out great men . . . presidents, military men, business gr niuses. ' I must have been one of the worst carriers in the history of the press. Cus- tomers would pay me in pennies. They would throw them on the lawn and say, Find them, like I have to find the paper every night. So, if you see your carrier this week, give him a smile. Tell him yon appreci- ate him. Hell tike that , 1 I just got my answer on the raise. The boss says my raise becomes effective whenever I become effective! . nuiHiiiiiHimiitiiinniiimiinHiinimniinnnnitnnninwituuiiniui BIG TALK "Bob Welti had a scoop on the latest hurricane . . but he bjewit!" -- st0-- 9 ' ' e 1872-191- 1 ... Didnt A Disappointing society. The boss is slated to speak on the subject of a free press at three or four civic club meetings this week. And let me tell you Makes a pretty strong man a man with a lot of stomach. , business yNf - -- - columa It could provide a means of coping with those operating room hiccups. It may mean that persons whose hiccupping would have required hospitaliza- .... k I wrote about seven paragraphs about freedom of the press. The prose fairly rang out. But I didnt get it okayed to the front office to time to use it in the centuries. t By HAROLD LUNDSTROM port like swallowing ice or water, might have worked because they stimulate the pha' ryngeal nerves, too. If this new remedy for hiccups gains widespread use' and continues to prove effective, it will be a significant advance. It will mean that doctors have finally solved a puzzle that has defied them for Total' Silence Was Closing In Upon Him them. newspapers Get em out of the basement, or youll wind up sleeping down there with The old gal is mellowing. She them. usually fells me to sleep out in the car- Help May Be Near For Poor Hiccuppers . "Of Recognition r "Don't ever tell an infantryman there are na front lines of Build Vocabulary To Raise Rate -- Jungle, he is lost from civilization. He disappears just like the Viet Cong. There are. however, several ways he can cut his tour short. He can go stark raving mad, which isnt difficult here, or he can be wounded badly enough so that it will take a year to reeuperate or he can come down with the black plague or a bad case of malaria or any number of diseases known and unknown to man. He Cant count on getting out if he has worms, jungle rot, a mild fever or those little infect was sores that you get when youre cut by elephant grass or stuck by thorns. They would have to take every infantryman out of here if those things counted. By HARRY JONES And he cant count on minor wounds L r to get him out because every infantryNational Newspaper Week, and ft Its man here has at least one knick on his would be a good time to tell you what theirs and ours body from shrapnel on behind the scenes of your local goes and many, dont even put in for the daily paper . . . Purple Heart. the excitement of But there are lots of ways to get the city room. killed or badly maimed. It Isnt the sudBut, Im - not den mortar attacks that come at the going to do it. most unexpected times, it can be the bite Weve got a real of a poisonous snake. 'thing going, and I And if it isnt a sniper who gets you dont want to be then a tiger might. And if you dont go the one to blow it down in a human wave attack of the But 1 can tell North Vietnamese Army, a charging one thing. you water buffalo can kill you just as dead. Is realYou' are doomed to live in hell for a Superman Mr. Jones ly a woman. And year, to disappear from the face of the star dont sit around playing reporters to in suffer for fear 525,600 minearth, billiards waiting for the big story to utes of your life, never knowing from moment to moment when your time will happen. come, They play ping pong. Everybody says this war is different The slower group plays chess. because ithas no front lines. Everybody If you lined up 100 newspapermen In a is dead wrong. For there is a front line row. you would have about 70 who were here. It is drawn wherever a U.S. infantryman stalks. If his countrymen and his good spellers, three who take shorthand colleagues choose to forget him, then its seven who wear hats, none who carry a because theyve never teen in the infanpress card, and one with a trench coat try, Or maybe theyre jealous. For every And he picked it up by mistake over infantryman knows, that among all Gods at the cafe. creatures, he is the most select. The proclamation signed by President After all, who is tetter qualified than the' infantryman to be a candidate for Johnson said something about the role of one of this nations highest honors the newspapers. And wouldnt you know it. When I told right to lie in the grave of the Unknown Soldier? my pretty wife Donna about it, she had a (Next: Pride, A Job Done) proclamation of her own about the rola To" Newsboys ? A ah Monday, October 9, 1967 Hats Off -- O. FASTER READING i This Week, , liere are it j DE5ERET, NEWS' . rV wwtaa taken by Lionel v. McNteiy tor Iti OMurat New' poMlar Sally Baby Birthday taatur. Bmiyiimiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiminmmiimmniiffliiiiiiiiiinmiiimtiuus 4 W r t x . |