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Show np mj m -i jg fynMgyt,i1,wTJ jl11 m y1"" 16 PcS.alt I Dont Hear So Good, Friend pilmiu itli(. Adlai Regards Draft Talk With Dread and Desire v 16, 1960 Saturday Morning, April Health Insurance Phony Election Issue Although the controversial Forand bill for federal medical insurance for persons over 65 has been shelved by Congress, the problem just wont go yay. Health insurance for the aged is rapidly becoming a red hot campaign issue. This is understandable since there are 15V2 million people over 65 in the country, t some of them politically organized. the number is increasing. And A magazine is now out with the exclusive and titillating pictorial details jmostly posed, of course, -- of the elopement of the poor little rich girl! with the former chauffeur almost - twice her age.' The anxious world must be relieved - to get the complete story of how gamble ' .Benedict, 19, whose grandmother is rich, and Andrei Porumbeanu, 35, and unemployed, escaped the clutches of Grammie Jind a New York court, and made their relationship legal. January the couple ran away to tparis with the result that the girl was brought back and made a ward of a" New York court. The court order forbade them to see each other, In the meantime Andrei obtained a Mexican divorce from his wife and dickered with several New York 'tabloids for financial support for the big couf he was confident he could pull off. But apparently idfe outbid the tabloids. It admits it had , en agreement with the couples representatives for exclusive coverage of the wedding. Newsweek hints that Life arranged Ito smuggle the couple out of New York Jo North Carolina, where they were mar- -' with picturesque rural trappings, and paid for the plane ride, a rented car and jeven the marriage license and blood tests. This is not the first time that participants in an event played up as news have been sponsored by the publication which - exploited them for circulation gain. One wonders, however, where news for hire is to lead. More serious in this caser a court order was blatantly deified, with a magazine at least a conspirator. Interestingly, the same Issue of Life e Easter editorial, based featured a - full-pag- jon the Lords Prayer. The world may be coming apart at the peams but for one week the sex life of an unimportant couple of questionable principles was the top news in a publication 'jwhich has on occasion decried current ' - ynicism and low morality. - - ' like the Old Days When Fulgencio Batista ran Cuba and ;was fighting rebel forces led by Fidel Castro, details of his army's operations were veiled by a curtain of secrecy. That Is true today when the situation 3s reversed and Castro himself has a rebellion of sorts on his hands. ' Reports o of action in Oriente Province reach Havana, but there is no information to how serious athreat the rebels pose J if any. J However, the very fact that fighting is under way was significant since a rebel force could hardly exist without either 3he support or the neutrality of the local population. That was true when Castro jwas trying to overthrow Batista. It is also interesting that Oriente Province was jCastros stronghold in the old days. J While predictions certainly are not in torderr at the moment reports from Cuba' sound like a repeat show. anti-Castr- is old-lin- e Eisenhower Administration has not approved it. Welfare Secretary Flemming says his department is working on an administrative plan, not yet relSy for unveiling. Reportedly Mr. Flemming submitted a plan last month which party leaders rejected. Roughly the plan Flemming and the Republican senators favor would require federal-statpayments to help needy persons over 65 to pay the cqjt of hospitals and medical care through private insur-anc- e firms. The insured would pay as much of the premium as he could, with the state providing the necessary difference and the federal government helping the states to pick up the check. - Presumably a sort of deductible feature would be provided whereby the insured would pay his own minor medical costs, reserv iAg'the insurance for crisis situations, -- e - MR. EISENHOWER HAS said he will reject an insurance plan that is not voluntary and any that increases Social Security taxes. One potent argument against the Forand plan is that it would not benefit about four million older persons not covered by Social Security. , . The two Texas Democrats in control Congress, Senator Majority Leader Johnson and Speaker Rayburn, reportedly are cooking up a plan to try to push through Congress this year. It would furnish federally aided hospitalization, nursing home care and perhaps some other medical benefits for persons over 65. Details have not been revealed. of i-ie- d "ex-elusi- Idea. Briefly, it would add health insurance for people over 65 to the Social Security program by boosting the present 3 per cent tax on employes and employers to 314 per cent. The insurance would be compulsory for everyone and administered by the government. Several Republicans have come ujf with a federal plan of their own but the The Big Scoop - t The growing demands for Improved health insurance cannot be shrugged away or driven under the bed with charges of .socialized medicine." up and hospital care and drugs have skyrocketed. Hospital room rates between 1936 and 1956 zoomed up by 265 per cent. faster than most other costs of goods or services. They are still rising. Equipment costs also have soared, all being reflected in greatly increased private insurance rates. More and more people are demanding hospitalization and better treatment. Blanket insurance coverage could increase the demands far beyond the abilities of the medical profession and the hospitals to meet them. Moreover, since Social Security taxes are increasing on a graduated basis, added taxes are likely to add to gen-- . eral dissatisfaction and lack of confidence in the program. INSURANCE be should carefully studied. It should not be an election year gimmick. The Democrats have controlled Congress since 1954 and neither they nor the administration have formulated an acceptable plan. Hence, one side can hardly put the onus on the other. The problem of crisis costs is not limited to the old folks, although they comprise the largest group. Something must be done, but the blun- -' derbuss' approach could do" more harm medical-hospit- -- draft-Stevenso- n e al than good. Guinea Pig Nation Editor, Tribune:" It Is becoming increasingly difficult to live safely In a poisoned world. Capitalist impatience to exploit new products as quickly as possible, without adequate testing to detereffects on mine human beings, has turned the whole population into guinea pigs. A host of chemicals flood the - market weed killers, pesticides, colorings, emulsions, dyes, synthetic hormones, etc., etc. the pernicious consequences of which are blurred by the slow and deliberate processes of na- ture. Their ingestion leaves no trace. The victim of a chemically induced cancer never knows what carcinogen, or what combination of carcinogens was the actual cause when the fateful cellular process begins that strikes him months or years later. The . U.S. Public Health Service announces at regular intervals the amount of strontium 90 it finds in milk, the consequences of capitalist preparation for nuclear war. But there are no similar tests of food, and no public announcements to advise the people on the poisons in their food or the pollutants in their water. It should be obvious to everyone that the profit-motiv- e system is completely irresponsible. The quest for profits is so powerful a motivation that big business is willing to take a calculated risk. Only socialism can put and end to mass poisoning for profit. It is the only way of life that can introduce the sense of responsibilty and the patience required to insure that new products intended for use or ingestion by human beings will not prove injurious. In short, only socialism can save our - spccics. 'from extinction. LYDIA BURNHAM, Prescott, Ariz. long-rang- Civilizing Cubs Calls for a Few Cuffs In fathers give almost as much Post Dispatch Some of the more important problems that engage us Americans have arisen from within ourselves and not from the stars. They rise from the kinds of peo-pi- e we are and, perhaps not surprisingly, in many from an overdose of our virtues. J' I have spent much of the past two years producing an educational television series jibout American galled Search for America. prom two years of interview-inand thinking about all pinds of Americans I have extracted a brief composite sketch of the kind of people I think we are and some of Ithe problems which seem to arise from a surfeit of our . virtues. s I values g WE ARE attentive parents. No people in history spend so much time Inside the family circle as we do. Once, Americans, fathers specially, were criticized 'for not spending enough time at home and with their 'children. Fathers were either too concerned with .success or spent ,too much time at the local piib. Today, in the homes of our younger families at least, -- r e Slalom Street Xhher Viewpoints By Richard L. Hartzell Jr. infant children as mothers do. This sharing of responsibility was preached by all kinds of marriage experts and is heartily applauded as an achievement But consider the possible results. When infant children were tended almost exclusively by mothers, boys learned how to be men by struggling to be- different from women. Today, infant boys see so much of their fathers that they learn to be men by direct example. time-t- books with respectful tales of all the helpers" who pro-.- , tect our homes and serve us: the policeman, the fireman, the mailman. We have even published a Happy Mother Goose purged of all violence and all nasty stepmothers. We are doing our best- to raise nice children who will stay out of trouble. But the delinquency rate rises. Why? Especially, why the rise among children of nice people? Children are born savages. o long . - To civilize them It Is necessary for us adults to cuff our cubs quite often. THIS VIRTUOUS atten) tiveness to our children by This means that the natboth parents may be conural relationship between children and adults is that tributing to a serious immediate problem, juvenile delinof enemies. Therefore, children need to be able to esquency. Juvenile delincape adults occasionally. quency is often blamed on inattentive parents. Perhaps They also need to be able to most of it should be. Yet, 'rebel, preferably in some American parents try hard fairly acceptable fashion. It to keep their children off the is possible that there is streets and out of trouble. unsupe)rvised There are Cub Scout Packs these days. by the thousands. Halloween finds our children either in . t PERHAPS in our eagerness to keep our children on supervised window painting contest sponsored by the" the path to respectability - and responsibility we have merchants or collecting penwalls along nies for; UNICEF. . , . built restraining . that path which allow too WE TRY to teach our chillittle opportunity to merely dren respect for law and wander from the straight order by filling their story and narrow, too-littl- play - k -- By Our Readers The Public Forum . Many oldsters are in serious need of help. A Senate welfare subcommittee has reported that almost 60 per cent of Americans over 65 had less than $1,000 income in 1958. While the medical profession traditionally gives services to elderly indigent people on a generous basis, fees have gone HEALTH ticket, the asNEW YORK Seeming as inevitable as the coming of sumption being that Kenhis statements spring, the movement to nedy, despite on the vice presidency, would make Adlai take second place on the Stevenson the ticket with Stevenson and nominee for only with Stevenson. pres i d e n t of This is not the view of the the Democratic old party pros such as Harry bound is Party S Truman. to grow in The belief now is that Truforce right up man will come out early next until the day month for Sen. Stuart Sythe convention mington of Missouri. opens in Los Symington will thereby beAngeles. come the rallying point lor He could Mr. Childs Democrats many stop it but only by making a Gen. Sherman type of who want to win with one of their own kind. statement saying ithat he How does Stevenson feel would not run if nominated and would not serve if as he sees this new avalanche threatening to come elected. This he has so far down on him? refused to do. You gather from talking THE DRAFT movement at with him that his emo-tion-s this point has no profesare somewhere besional guidance It has no tween dread and desire. sanction from Stevenson nor - is it likely to have. Insofar He is a complex human as these things ever are in being, with few of the qualthe complexity of American of the hard;shelled extropolitical life it is genuinely ifies vert politician who can go spontaneous. From San Jose, Calif., a out after the prize, whether it's the presidency or the organization sheriff's office, and fix on it 30 in is circulating petitions with a snapping-turtlgrip. states. In other cities across the country similar groups And he, knows, therefore, are springing up. what the ordeal of a third The professional political national campaign can equation, with respect to Stemean. venson, can be put as folOn the other hand, he belows: lieves that we have reached IF THE West Virginia prir moa sort of the that demonstrates mary ment on nuclear testing ami to is and issue of sun believe I speak for many, ments of earth and likely religion the possibility of halting the seeds? split the Democratic Party many persons from the east spread of nuclear weapons esbe will then it wide side of State St. who would open, into fifth and sixth and sevWhy does he choose a to sential find like to make better use of compromise stead to board a chariot of enth powers and on down the not been has candidate who the otherwise smooth and death and destruction and road to final disaster. involved in the struggle. wide 4500 South St ride through streets saturKenF. John Sen. Should WHILE HE is .much too You say it is now spring ated with carbon monoxide nedy come out of that pridiscreet, and in a sense too and the freezes and thaws fumes and strewn with dismary with a feeling that he modest, to say so, he behave been breaking up the aster? had been ganged up on by lieves that his experience I pavement everywhere? In short, why does everyall the others, putting money around the world has have news for you I have to at work one have to go and influence behind his equipped, him to meet the lived on 4500 South for 19 7 a.m.? Why dont at least Sen. Hubert Humphrey, situation with courage and years (almost a generation). some of them go at noon? Stevenson would be the perhaps with the hope of sucThat section of street to Think of the money wed then choice. logical cess. which I refer has never ever save. beThat is the way it is As always he is troubled; been in good condition longWe would have fewer acginning to look, not alone to deeply troubled over the reer than several days or a cidents. We would have ardent Stevensonians but to ligious issue and what it may few weeks at most. Any fewer doctor bills. We would others in the party increasdo to the party and the naever achieved on of best have breakfast. And, ingly fearful that a religious tion; troubled that this seema of been has tempoit very all. we wouldnt have to will further complicate split ing opportunity to halt the nature, patchy at best. widen State St. at South the partys north-sout, rary - ALL nuclear arms race may be ' SHOOK UP ten Temple. We could put lost. In short, in 1960 this is million dollars in the bank the Stevenson as before. StevenHours a THE is UPSHOT Staggered and reduce taxes. Editor, Tribune: Now that Before Trouble Makers, its spring end Im in a ro- Inc. shatter the beauty of mantic mood, I should like to South Temple forever, I urge ask a question. Why is it people in government to that when things are so rare stagger the working hours By Ham Park outside, man is so willing to of all employes as health I had done for the 33 jears. A good ear for music and spend his daylight hours at insurance and as insurance work? I was a member of the Scota taste for music are two of those other rather inhis he doesnt tish Rite Quartet. spend Why tangible but necessary things very different things which mornings in the garden hoegenuine beauty and genuare often confused. Although I was flattered ine worth. ing and planting and workby Glenns suggestion, I deTHE WANDERER ing with the lifegiving ele clined first,' for reasons of Thoughts About Music health, and second, for the One Way to Obtain a Civic Center same reason I gave up singNoStrange thing, music. ing. I dont want to give the units of government Editor, Tribune: I noted in to seems know exactly body anyone an opportunity to the press in the last day or needing space. is. Same as with two that development of say: Why doesnt someone State government could what it tell that old coot that his civic improvements involvelectricity. In become a party to such a school I was singing days are over? ing additional office space corporation or authority and Some singers are endowed that and new police and correccould rent or lease space taught with what is called "absomusic was a tional facilities in the profrom this public landlord lute pitch." I have known in the civic center. sound, and posed civic center are threattwo in my lifetime. Both sound was a ened by bonding, budgetary, Such a course would pervibration. Colcould, at will and without and taxing problems on the mit the Juvenile Court to reassistance from any musical ors are vibramain in the civic center part of Sait Lake County. tions of light, instrument, sing any note in It occurs to me that there near police and public safety the scale. But neither could the shade of is a better way to secure agencies for closer contact color depend-In- g explain how he accomplished needed public buildings than and communication. The disthe feat. on the Strange thing, is now being contemplated. trict attorney could have a music. speed of the Ham Park The Legislature should aupublic office in such a civic vibration. Some colors vithorize city and county govcenter. Notes on Cuff Department brate so rapidly that they ernments to meet together Some of the other 57 taxFamous wisecracks: Oscar cannot seen. Same 'be for the purpose of creating a way ing units in Salt Lake CounWilde's "The old believe with are sound there inclined be likewise public corporation or authormight ty everything; the middle agpd sounds all round us that we sto ;utilize space in such a ity to build needed facilities the suspect can't everything; hear. for the use of government governmental headquarters young know everything. I don't know what got me on the local level. The landinstead of being scattered Bernard Shaw's In heaven, lord" corporation could bond the- - -- started - on - the - train willy-nillof throughout an angel is nobody in parto provide for needed facilithought unless it was Glenn county, ticular. Charles Grant's at-- . I that ties without regard for curThis approach could mean suggestion Culps Streams of oratory do not rent restrictions on the taxa completed civic center for tend the Scottish Rite Realways come from oceans union banquet on the eveSalt Lake County within ing power or bonding power of thought And Mark of local authorities. The three or four years if it were ning of April 23, and lead Twains A classic is somethose present in singing landlord corporation could followed. thing everybody wants to The Bells of St. Mary's as then rent or lease space to GRANT M. PRISBREY have read and nobody wants to read. y The Forand plan would cost an estimated one billion dollars a year at thq outset and nobody knows what the even tual actuarial effect would be. THREE DEMOCRATIC presidential hopefuls, Senators Kennedy, Humphrey and Symington, have endorsed the Forand -- Marquis Qiilds Editor, Tribune: I live on 4500 South I often have occasion to drive across the valley to West Jordan. I usually go by the shortest route, i.e., on 4500 South to State St., thence down through the Murray- - business' district. One evening, as I crossed Cottonwood Creek and began those last three tortuous blocks, the course of my car up the dimly lighted street as we swerved to dodge yawning holes in the black-tosomewhat resembled the performance of a ski novice in a slalom race. As I steered, I had to be mindful of cars coming toward me, whose drivers were also dodging from one side of the road to the other. Despite my best efforts, my nice car frequently dropped with a tir- l, ' bang into huge pavement chuck holes. I stop to shop in Murray occasionally. I have now vowed to spend nothing for gasoline, gro- ceries, etc. in Murray nothing as long as the businessmen of the place continue to countenance such a disgraceful thoroughfare. Is this street the result of some disjointed thinking of the Murray City Council in safeguarding the taxpayers money? In the future I will avoid the place by circling it on 9th East and do any neces- sary buying elsewhere, . I h Senator From Sandpit Gre-vill- y Robert C. Ruark Live in Europe and Dream of Dubuque SOMEWHERE IN AFRICA The time of the sweeping statement is back, I see, together with and baseball the birds. This time its one Maj. Gen. Hef-lewho has been living it up in Paris since 1946 as head of the Air Materiel Command, an- other bone-rattiin- ebreaking, now-or-neve- name Mr. -- a local surfeit of truite and cherries jubilee. Now he comes to the flat statement that all French are thieves, all Spaniards are guitar players and bullfighters, all Africans are lazy, all Italians eat a steady diet of straight garlic, and all Arabs are treacherous. All limeys they have ceased being Eng-- , lish would sell their mothers for another helping of Brussels sprouts and York-- MOST OF THE Americans I know abroad are either in shire pudding. As for the servants, a must lock up the whisky, or theyll steal you blind. - man . It aint like the days on the old plantation or in the s . delightfully bracing climate of Boston, Mass., in February. Most of the people I know who have dwelt long abroad and I am one work a damned sight harder than folks back the home, maintain a tighter rein on personal discipline, and with rare exception shun the natives and hang to-- . gether in tight little cliques. Generally they . refuse - to d the forces, representing American firms, punching holes in the ground looking for oil, serving as consuls or correspondents, writing books or painting pictures in and a great many instances, paying two or three sets of taxes. There is, perhaps the odd remittance man, or some bum that has caught onto a snap in some aspect of governmental bureaucracy, who couldnt make it back home. He is the loudest complainer of them all. It merely happens that I live a good deal of the time in England, Spain, France, Italy and Africa, as well as a good piece of the time in America. I also occasionally visit -- Texas and- Louisiana, two foreign enclaves on the North American continent. I will thank the good general to keep his lip buttoned about Us people who work abroad. k ! Ruark for being chief storekeeper. ' The general, who is headed home lor fresh assignment on July 15, allows as how Americans who live abroad for long periods "are not good citizens and should turn in their passports. The general has developed what we useless American citizens call the hot-docomplex." IT IS QUITE amazing how this malady afflicts the ex-- t patriate Yank once he gets-hifill of truffles, pate de foie and pressed duck. He pines for hawgjowl and chitlins. Corn pone and grease-soakehominy, grits ride his nightly dreams, after learn the language beyond a rudimentary command or so, and dream of the day when they can get back to . -- The thunder of business sometimes sours the milk of human kindness. A country newspaper, in speaking of a deceased citizen, said: We knew him as old Ten Per Cent the more he had the less he spent the more he got the Jess he lent he's dead we dont know where he went but if his soul to heaven is sent, he'll own the harps and charge em rent. A psychiatrist says that eventually Fidel Castro will be forced to quit because of a brain infection. It probably was what also made him start. Miss Fawn Dingle was quite badly shaken up by a fall in her home last Saturday evening. The young man, to whom she recently became engaged, was fitting on. an antique chair in the parlor when it suddenly paper. The Masters Touch In the still air the music lies unheard; In the rough marble beauty To wake the music and the beauty needs The masters touch, the sculptors chisel keen. Horatius Bonar. |
