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Show 'Y'','fc''fc''r',,''''-N'-V,'- "s V - v' ' v A f 10 ' Pj Balt The Red Shoes Ballet alw fEfibun; Wednesday Morning, January 4, 1961 Joseph Alsop wwa r r Danger of a New Korea. Seen in Laos The vast, potentially deft u c tive forces of our era are now very close to getting wholly out of control. After years of supineness, therefor, the AmWican government' will now have to spring into sudden, vigorous, often risky action on dozens, quite literally dozens, of different fronts. Everything to be done is complex and difficult tr AT THE SAME TIME this is one of the last places in the world where the United States wants to become embroiled In A Korea-lik- e war. Cur problem of support and supply would be far greater than that of the Communists. Furthermore American Interest In Laos is far more in keeping it out of the hands of the Communists than in establishing It as a bastion of Western strength. - 12-m- A struggle looms also in the Senate, which is generally more liberal than the House hut sometimes unpredictable. Two key Democrats, Senators Kerr of Oklahoma and Byrd of Virginia, oppose a Social Security approach to the medical aid program. And Senator J Fulbright .) wants to barter on the minimum , wage proposals. ut -- This again points to the preferred policy for the United States to follow regarding Laos the development there of a stable but strictly neutral government. There is some question whether this country has followed such a policy in the past. Walter Lippmann says the administration has Involved itself In the Internal affairs of Laos more deeply than was , -- JST . . 262-17- Pump-primin- The Fighting Celts wanted except for the six . counties. Brittany still has Editor, Tribune: Celt is the zest from her never-endinand there pronounced kelt, with Paris, though scrap are six countries of Celts wise. And Denis Healy, able spokesman very little else. - for the Labor DONALD E. JENKINS, Party in Britain on foreign today. The six Celtic nations are Ogden, Utah. affairs, told the House of Commons the , Ireland, Scotland, Man (Isle other day that the United States had acted of), Wales, Cornwall, and How to Compete to . overthrow one neutral government Brittany. There now is an Tribune: Here is Editor, after another in L&os. annual Celtic Congress, attended by delegates from your old pessimist bringing IT IS QUITE POSSIBLE thJe hasX each of the six countries. you some nice gloomy re- been entirely too much meddling in Had there been such unity ports. in the past, maybe the RoLaotian affairs on the part of both East I have been predicting for mans, and West And the solution may be to get a long time that if prices the Norand the Vikings, both to agree to leave Laos alone to work mans, and later Englishmen , and wages didnt quit going out its own destiny as an uncommitted would have not done so well! up we would price ourselves state. .IT Be that as it may, outout of the market Now see standing characteristic of what has happened. FactoThis would require some kind of inthe Celt is to be willing to ries are curtailing producternational guarantees-bu- t these ought fight against insuperable tion, unemployment is innot be Impossible to odds. Last bloody revolt of creasing. Germany and Ja6pain. Cornwall land of my anpan have not only taken over When Laos was established as an incestors Jankyn, as it is most of our foreign markets dependent state in 1954 it was at an inspelled in the Cornish plays but our home markets as ternational conference, with a three-natio- n of 1504, Meryesek was as well. The United States is recent as the 18th Century commission (Canada, Imfia and Poland) flooded with goods from after all chance of success these two countries. established to end fighting and assist In was past. Scotch history is The President of the creation of an independent but neutral well known. Irelands sucUnited States became so country. cess, in this century is a wonworried about the of Premier Khrushchev has called for a der of the times. Second only : U.S. dollars abroad flow that he to ramin new conference on Laos and resumption of Eire, though, figuratively got on his knees the work of this commission. Britain and-- . bunctiousness is Brittany. to Germany and asked help young Breton draftees, France reportedly also favor calling the ' The In stabilizing our money. when called to the tricolor, You would be a real opcommission back. And a report from Lonto on Insist marching, timist if you think Germany don says the present Laotian govemmeht behind the Black Cross and Japan have any love for -has agreed under certain conditions. of Brittany banner, alongside the flag of France. The us. Did you ever hear of a THIS COULD point the way out of a Breton running-quarre- l with guy loving the fellow who the national government in ' beat him up? Well we took very perilous situation. We think it should ! be explored. Certainly a .new Korea in Paris is A Germany and Japan both to a cleaning and believe me trouble some people! Laos should be averted at almost any cost they dont love us. What have Celts the short of outright surrender to Communist Now what are we going to otten out of all their do? aggression. battling? I have heard rumors that Meanwhile it is to be hoped the ElsenWales received the Prince there are a number of make-wor- k of Wales. For their historic hower administration tries to avoid makprojects in the offing. old Dukes of Cornwall, the ing any Irretrievable commitments beNaturally they will be paid heir apparent to the English tween now and the Inauguration of Presidenthrone is by birth the Duke for by Unde Sam. I am wont-elect Kennedy. dering who is going to pay of Cornwall. For their belthe taxes when and if our Manxmen ligerence, the factories dose down and we came out very well: they have their own parliament are buying our supplies from foreign countries. and complete home rule. The Now being, a pessimist I Scots, to be sure, have come Edward S. Holts death last weekend shouldnt make a suggestion close to running the very recalls his leadership in developing the oil or should I say, which might bring hope, but empire refining Industry. the United Kingdom and here It is anyway. Whymot Bom ln Paris," Kentucky, in 1893, Mr." cut wages and prices so we the Commonwealth .Holt first joined the oil industry at the --Hons together! The 26 toun-- can compete with these forties of Ireland got what they eign countries age of 18 as an employe of the Texas ComIn Texas the which 1913, pany. Company, had acquired an interest in the Utah Oil Robert" C. Ruark Refining Company, sent him to Salt Lake City to set up si testing laboratory. Two years later he became superintendent of the firms refinery. That was the beginning of a long association which ended ' I have quit making snapx adventure, vested in the in 1955 with his retirement from the resolutions to do b e 1 1 e r, blonde across the way, beckdency of Utah QlL whether or. not. spurred by. oning with each clack of Mr. Holt was a 20th Century pioneer. new years imHe saw the oil refining industry grow pulse, doctors advice, or the from a struggling child into a mighty FOR THEM as likes it, occasional a he role and in that giant, played the instant meal and the major conprick of bulging food freezer are development He was also an outstanding science. I haveu. wondrous inventions. Incitizen of his adopted state. The Tribune had just one TV dinstant instant pizza, numerous in friends with mournhis built-iaim joins ners, Instant mashed potaJ . for a long tiipe ing his passing. toes, Instant pies, instant whenever i , soups, the lot. Simply dedo it possible, or unzip the handy carfrost slower. Use up ton1 andor tin can and more time and, out the by so using, enjoy it I was dump et viola!contents, heat, By Fletcher Knebel Instant india young man in a hurry, and hurl, And theres gestion! always1 now that olde dadde has WASHINGTON Washington Is in a the electric can opener for snow drifted inch of another furor over the winning FDR memorial above the ears, he Is now an those who cant cope with design; eight huge concrete tablets. Its old curmudegon who will the manual weapon.. from the school of architecture known as make a surly point of takTHE ADVT. I saw .the ing his time. early American tank trap, which said; Now you can make regujsr coffee fastbe to Seema everything 'Another brace of Kennedy appoints er with our percolator than Harvard men. Republican ode: Dont - is keyed to speed, and I you can make Instant cofresent it send my boy to Harvard, the dying mother fee may be heaven sent for Most of us mu.it use the minute misers although said, or theyll smother him in red tape - planes, and. they have their I fail to see how anything with Jack and Bob and Ted. advantages, but my idea of can be instanter than pourutmost opulence Is a slow ing hot water on a teaspoon Gpv Furcolo of Massachusetts blasts boat to Australia with stop-- , of eoffee powder. Kennedy for Appointing a Harvard dean. overs on the way. I still love . Perhaps it is necessary to Democrats are jumping the gun again, trains hurtling along in the shave with. an electric razor fighting among themselves before they night with me snugged into plugged to your car dasheven get the license for It Jan. 20. , the club car and perchance board while .they wash the g en-'tfa- McCloys Tough Job As assistant secretary of war during World War H, John J. McCloy ranked as one of the most important military policy makers In the United States. Now, in the Kennedy administration, he will serve as principal adviser on and negotiator for disarmament. His military background should, of course, be of great value In the new assignment. More important Is the mans own character. McCloy is known as a d administrator, trained In the law but with wide Interests in other fields. As high commissioner of Germany . between '1949 and 1952, he guided that countrys transition from military to civilian control. Before that he served two ' years as president of the World Bank. under-1 In his new assignment, McCloy takes what many consider. aaJmpossible -task. For while the need for disarmament Is apparent, progress toward disarmament has been measured In fractions of an Inch. It takes two to make a bargain and the Soviet Union so far has been more interested In propaganda than agreement. McCloy is well aware of all this. But he ' is willing to try and can bring to the effort great ability and forthrightness. "We think that President Kennedy has -made an excellent appointment tough-minde- ? - - Visiting Cartoonist never-ending- 20th Century Pioneer of-N- a- - the-whe- Potomac Fever oth-erd- Pletchcr In Sioux 'fcitjr The Driver! Seat Journal Certain very grave local situations are nqip develop, ing with such speed that weeks, and even days, have clearly begun to count The future of Southeast Asia, for example, will probably hang upon the fate of distorted little Laos. But if anything at all can be done to prevent a final disaster in Laos, it must be done immediately, THE DEANSHIP of Harwithout a moments delay. vard University is not . a THE SAME rule may well trifling job. In addition, apply in the Congo, where Mac George Bundy has the Egyptians are flagrantly more'than onefirst nursing their contingent in rank presidency. "the United Nations Congo Yet university another RepubBundy, force to strengthen the to serve has lican, preferred ence does it make if I get rump regime of in Washington as secretary one dollar per day or 25, if Antoine Gizenga. of the National Security one dollar will buy as much Even the situations that Council, just as Charles E. doldo not now look very urgent goods and services as 25 Bolen Mbs apparently pre- lars? will urgently demand the ferred to serve as the new I suggest vwe put our most painful kind of Presidents chief Soviet exhouse in order. Get back on before the year pert instead of grasping the the markets of the world and 1961 draws to its close. highest honor ever offered a make jobs for our own peocareer diplomat, the embasFOR EXAMPLE, although ple. sy in Paris. noto no one seems have IVOR CLOVE, But will this new administiced It, this country cannot St. George, Utah. again count on mustering a tration, thronging with such United Nations majority men as these, organize itself No Competition rapidly enough to do all the admitting Commuagainst Editor, Tribune: Competinist China. So what is to be things that need to be done in the very short time that tion may be the life of trade done about this unpleasant will be allowed by an unfact, caused by th6 admisbut it should have no place kindly providence? sion to the U.N. of so many in education, according to other new nations? On the answer to that the properly constituted auAgain, the talks about disquestion depends the forethorities of the State Board armament and the control cast for 196L of Education and the Deof nuclear tests have dragged onwards for years on end, This reporters forecast partment of Public Instruction. Yet in most countries with no special urgency. might be called moderately of the world, outside the But the third French atomoptimistic' Considering the Soviet bloc, it is still recogic test and the mysterious number of areas where posinized that private enterprise Israeli nuclear reactor are tive disasters are - already indicators that this absence probable, a few misfortunes provides an independent seem unavoidable. But the of urgency is an illusion. yardstick against which the trend, which has been down efficiency of government-operate- d The Intelligence forecasters expect the worst, namely a for so long, ought to turn undertakings can be measured. Chinese Communist nuclear up before the next new year. - Modern educators have all ! but eliminated competition from the classroom. We have no standards," they are fond of saying. By Ham Park Having so effectually their own bailiThe human body, if propRussia, China and Cuba. wick, the public school adcared for, will last a Had I been the teacher, I erly ministrators are now raising lifetime. Anon. would have marked it "Cora hue and cry for legislation rectPurely Personal to make these same minisaid is often It that theres mum standards apply to priIn a country newspaper a great difference between vate schools. was this ad: The man who ones chronological age and But in the public mind picked up my wallet on Main ones physical Street was recognized. He Is comparisons have long since other In age. been drawn between the acto return it" requested words, a man The next issue carried a complishments of children in private schools and the is as young erreply: The recognized man as old as he who picked up your wallet accomplishments of children feels. Well, in schools under government requests the loser to call and yesterday was control. Many citizens will get It" my birthday view the request to bring and I didnt Marguerite Beck says she private schools under govand still dont, has noticed that when the ernment licensing as the befeel a day over truth is unpleasant, most ginning wedge in a cam90. would rather not people to force standards the paign The Missus Ham Park hear it. . of private schools into conis one who thinks its nicer formity with the existing A group of young men, acto have gifts come as a surour in public standards to Doug Gill, were do unablfilocording prise. Being schools and thus eliminate"" discussing the modern girl. she any hersdf, shopping the competition. One, an Idealist, said hed had to forego the surprise HARTWELL. GOODRICH I am-go- ing Jike to meet a girl who didnt part Soshe-sai- d: to give you a birthsmoke, drink, flirt, use makeup or dissipate in any way. day present and I dont want And the others immediately you to say that youll take the will for the deed. Have wanted to know why? you any Idea of what youd Reputation is a balloon like? that always bursts when a I could use a new garman bage pail, I replied. One of self. tries to blow it up himcar with you in it, or while these days the bottom Is you are awaiting service in going to fall out of the old About the only time you a drlYe lnbank - on!. . get the last word with How about a small elecI STILL fancy the old cutis when you apolothroat straight razor after a tric alarm clock with a lumi-- . gize. .- , nous dial hot and I for your think shower, long ' 'Resignation she asked, ignoring having a car washed around you is a bore. my suggestion. .You wont Gradually my locks are have to wind it, and in the graying. My checks bounce Arteries harden, arches fall; enough without night we can see what time Past drive-iand gone, my days of service on same. it is without turning on the playing What the other people do light W. h. and d. 1. all! So we asked Howard Logswith all the time they save don, our upstairs neighbor, 1 cant imagine, nor do I to bring one home from his wish to be informed. shop. He brought a couple But It seems to me that and I selected the one I If there Is a vacuum, liked best, and Howard conAstronomers report huge psychiatry would fill nected it up. galaxies of stars which are it During the night I kept . going away from the earth You merely order a dried waking up to see if the dial -- at a speed of 90,000 miles a still Once shone. I nearly second. Do you suppose psychiatrist from your fell out of bed. To keep they from friendly neighborhood suknow something? doing so, I bumped into the permarket and Just add waIt Is estimated' Americans ter. The couch comes in a Missus and awakened her.' Go back to sleep, she sent out 3 billion Christmas separate package, and is insaid. Its only ten minutes cards this year, including flated with an ordinary, to five.". , uiose weve been exchanging pump, which can also be used as a stomach pump . Maybe gifts that are a for years with people we for some of the instant surprise ate the best kind still cant identify. after all. foods. The little boy down the Notes on Cuff Department Meanwhile, back at rtiy block got a private eye cosd In an examination paper, ranch, we are having tume for Christmas Didit the question, Name the Low includes a little ice cream tonight, ivy league if I can just find a small Countries, was asked. A suit and a life-sizblonde ' to crank. turn in the girl the sixth grade Wrote: boy doll? policy-decisio- Senator From Sandpit x Young Man in a Hurry Finds Wisdom n - -- By Our Readers TheTPublic Forum Anglo-Saxon-Jute- s, (D-Ark- once. bomb test, within the fairly new future, IF THIS problem is not to slip out of control by the United States, and one must add, by the Soviet Union, decisive action will at least have to be started before the end of 1961. Quite obviously, Presidentelect Kennedy is well aware of these countless coming challenges. He has tried to prepare to meet them by the simplest and best expedient by bringing into his administration a really startling number of men with outstanding gifts. The staffing of the seo ' ondary ranks in the administration has been es-- pecially impressive. John J. McCloy, for instance, is one of the great public servants of the last two decades. He was Presi- - dent Eisenhowers first choice for secretary of state. He refused a later Eisenhower qffer of the secretary of defense. But now, though a Republican, McCloy has agreed to serve Kennedy in a post which would repel any normally ambitious man, as chief negotiator in the field of arms control. -- all-owar Laos would be indefensible. And it has no significant peacetime military, political or economic value to the West. t Yet almost everything is to be done at v In Rayburns experienced hands rest decisions on the future of the House Rules Committee a group that may determine if Mr. Kennedy can obtain even his general, starting program. This program is understood to be in five areas: medical aid for the aged under Social Security, minimum wage, housing, aid to education and aid to depressed areas. In the past the House Rules Committee, dominated by a conservative coalition of four Republicans and two Southern Democrats, has managed to bottle up" legislation in three of the fivj areas. The revolutionary, South Viet Nam on the east This is legitimate cause for concern. The United States could hardly sit idly by while the Communists took over Laos by force. In an WASHINGTON gravest problem confronting President-elec- t John F. Kennedy is, in fact, It has made some moves to be ready for military action if it should be required while consulting with allies and others In search of a political solution. , Laos in Communist hands would outflank Thailand te the west and part of With the country in a 'slump, and an budget shaping up, economic and fiscal problems are sure to dominate the first sessions of the 87th Congress, The national lawmakers have a little more than two weeks to get organized, -- hear fromthe outgoing -- President and ponder the challenges of the New Frontier before the President-elec- t is inand enunciates ideas his for augurated getting America moving again. THE SHADOW OF Sam Rayburn of Texas, speaker of the House, who began his congressional career before John F. Kennedy was born, looms as large over this session as does that of the New Administration Faces Pressing Problem: Time the simple of problem time. The United States reportedly regards the situation as serious. ' enormous Efforts of liberals to make It easier to curb civil rights filibusters might end with a token gesture on Rule 22. Mr. Kennedy and Majority Leader Mansfield of Montana want to avoid an open breach with the South at the opening of the session, If possible. The mood of the new Congress, with the Democrats In control (65-3- 5 in the 5 In the House) Is modSenate and g erate. measures likely will be adopted but controvery over most other proposals seems assured. jfO? A jungle-surround- Tlie Mood Is Moderate President-elec- 4 i .REMOTENESS of the area of conflict between and sketchy communications towns makes it difficult to know just what is going on. The situation is further complicated by poorly defined borders and close similarities between Laotians and Vietnamese which makes it hard to tell one from the other. The small, remote, jungle and mountain kingdom of Laos is once again ominously in the news. The struggle for control of this strategically situated country in southeast Asia has taken a turn which could make It into another Korea. It is charged that Russia, Red China, and North Viet Nam are backing Communist forces within Laos with" supplies of all kinds. There is not much question of this. Whether, as has also been charged, the support' includes organized troops from North Viet Nam or thinly disguised volunteers has not been established. pt els. . bed--Stan- d? fast instant n t Soaper Says hand-churne- e 'V , -- |
