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Show Ray Cromley Mirror, Mirror... Reds Get an Edge in ArmsResearch Area SUNDAY, APRIL 5, 1964 WASHINGTON — (NEA) — In attempting to build better weapons, U. S. scientists are running into major gaps in their knowledge. Yet Defense Secretary Robert Today’s Editorials Dole-ful Future in Automation By now just about everybody has had a good laugh over the recommendation of the “Ad Hoc Committee on the Triple Revolution” that every American should qualify for an adequate, guaranteed, lifetime income simply by virtue of being born, whether he works or not. This was only one of several suggestions recently put forward by the group of economists, educators, writers and intellectuals by way of solving the social problems of our time. The idea may be revolutionary but it is far from novel. Radicals of the last century dreamed about it. British philosopher Bertrand Russell discussed the possibility about the time of World WarI. Automation, however, has re- moved the idea from the realm of fuzzy fantasy and threatens to place it squarely in front of us as a fact in the much-too-near future. According to the committee, the cybernetic (automation) revolution has broken the traditional incomes-through-jobs link. If society is to fully realize the potential good of automation, they say, a guaranteed income is the only way that “the quarter of the nation now dispossessed and soon to be dispossessed by lack of employment can be brought within the abundant society.” Markof Integrity It must be especially painful for one who belongs to that select group of daring men who have sailed the near reaches of space to have been brought low by a slippery bathroom rug. John Glenn has withdrawn from the Ohio senatorial contest because he believes no man has the right to ask people to vote just for a well-known name. There is no question that Colonel Glenn is a man of the highest integrity. His friends hope this is a temporary setback to his career in politics. Glenn is still young. There will be other elections, not necessarily to such a high office as the Senate. Just as his journey into space began with small steps, so may his entry into political life. In other words, if people — slow the pace of military scien- through no fault of their own— have no income with which to qualify as consumers, then they Reports from Moscow show Khrushchev is taking a different must be provided with those incomes as a matter of necessity, if not of right. Else, automation could turn into a curse dooming large segments of the population to poverty. Already we view it as simple humanity for those unable to work to be supported, at least on the existence level, out of the public treasury. Already we consider it only just for oldsters to receive minimum retirement incomes, even if they may not have contributed to a pension fund during their working years. But we feel it is somehow un‘American — certainly counter to all human history, if not the very laws of nature — to talk about giving money to able-bodied people who haven’t done anything to “earn” it. Yet already many thousands are having their earning careers cut short by automation while still in their prime. What of them? Re-education is a partial answer, but what if the jobs they are being retrained for today are automated tomorrow ? More importantly, what of the millions of young people of tumorrow who will never even begin to earn because there will just be no need for them in an economy run by machines and a small elite of humans? If the seers are correct, growing numbers of nonworking human beings will somehow have to be supported from birth to death — on a level far above that of the public dole — whether they — or we — like it or not. Howthis can be done is really a minor problem compared to the social implications of the cyberne- tic revolution. What the world may be like with whole generations enabled to live lives of complete leisure is something we can scarcely imagine. It could work the greatest transformation of human society since the discovery of agricu'ture. But right now, Utopia looks pretty frightening. Maybe that’s why we laugh. Dr. George W. Crane Scribe Defends Criticism Of the Use of Long Words By GEORGE W. CRANE, Ph.D., M.D. ASE S430: Hiram J., aged 37, is a theology professor. “Dr. Crane,” he challenged, ‘you have stressed the fact that the Bible , contains simple vocabulary. “You say the average word contains enly two syllables, so you urge clergymen to speak simply. Over 1,000,000 high schoolers, not to mention college youth, have heard this talk of mine. But suppose I had delivered that address in Greek or Russian! My influence would then have been nil, wouldn’t it? For you can’t inspire or teach people who can’t understand what you are saying! And this holds true very largely even fn religion, for black robes and unintelligible theological jargon have little effect except soporific! Sometimes inferiority complexers try to strut their stuff in big words, in an effort to intimidate the audience. “But I think you are wrong. Why shouldn’t the audience learn to come up te the higher level of theological termin? “Why should we stoop to the public’s more limited comprehension?” Pearls Before Swine Jesus warned his Apostles by saying: “Cast not your pearls before swine.” Which means, in modern advertising . parlance, “Speak words the customer (client, patient or parishioner) can un- derstand.” When I go forth on lecture tours, my tions during the day, before I deliver my main evening address. i Ze it I try to offer an inspiring, yet talk that will impress pupils value of finishing school, and g how to get along harmoniously people. iso, I show by cases the folly of oing..steady during high school and the hazards of teen-age marriages. Moreover, I satirize the stupidity in slaves to nuisance but ex- McNamera is making plans to They thus talk about “‘obfuscating the theological nuances with polysyllabic circumlocutions.” That sounds very impressive doesn’t “jt? But meaningless, eh? If you inferiority complexers wani to throw your weight around in such jawbreaker fashion, at least connect your polysyllables with a little “or” and throw in the simpler definittion thereFor example, say clouding the issue.” ‘“Obfuscating or In that manner a doctor or cleric or professor can still pat himself on the back with his technical terms, yet enlighten the crowd, too. This simple trick of using the “or” will thus permit clergymen to inflate their ego with long words, yet keep the audience from sleeping — at least if they meanwhile employ Christ’s anecdotal formula. So They Say Space research and development already have enriched the economyof the South and the future for the South is as bright as the stars and as vast and boundless in its promise as the far reaches of outer space. —Mrs. Lyndon Johnson, visiting George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. _ We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. —Rev. Martin Luther King, eivil rights leader. The Chopping Block Spirit of Jeff Davis Lives On By FRANK C. ROBERTSON The great ‘‘debate’’ on civil rights is on, and what it amounts to is that two-thirds of the Senate will sit on their hands while approximately one-third of the senators will engage in obsolete or meaningless talk to defeat the will of the people. A great constitutional question is involved: whether the human rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights is of no effect when it conflicts with the right of any state to abuse and persecute its own people as it chooses. Opponents of the Civil Rights bill are saying that it is only a piece of Democratic villainy, but if villainy it is it is shared by numerous Republican senators such as Javits, Keating and Kuchel, who are ardently advocating the bill. These people seem to have forgotten that the Civil War was fought over this very issue of the right of a state to usurp the powersof the Federal government. The people of the North thought they had freed the Negroes, but the rights enjoyed by white people have been denied thm, and will continue to be unless a real Civil Rights law is passed. If any state is free to discriminate against Negroes, or Jews, Catholics, or labor unions we had as well say farewell to liberty. In an apparent effort to justify Senator Goldwater in his stand against the Civil Rights bill a correspondent to the Herald quotes from HUMAN EVENTS, a Washington, D. C., magazine which is strongly proGoldwater, telling how much the senator loves the Negroes, and how much he has done for them in the state of Arizona. This, he seems to think, makes it all right for Goldwater to hire them in his store in Arizona, but deny them a drink of water or access to a lavatory in Alabama. Goldwater, though a Republican candidate for president is a staunch ally of the Southern Democratic senators engaged in the filibuster. In this same HUMAN EVENTS magazine Senator Goldwater is quoted: “I would oppose completely the provision on public accomodations— hotels, motels, restaurants , ete. — and accept no compromise on it. It’s entirely unconstitutional . . . I feel very strongly that, when a man invests his property in a business, he has the legal right to conduct that business any way he wants to, just so it doesn’t do damage to other businesses. I think he has a moral obligation, in his advertising, to say that he will not cater to this group or that group or any group he chooses.” What the senator is really saying is that he would defend property rights at all costs, but will look the other way when human rights are being violated. I do not believe that the authors of the constitution, who have been dead a hundred and fifty years ever believed that they could solve all the problems of future generations. Instead of leaving the interpretation of the constitution to Senator Goldwater and his White Supremist friends they establish a Supreme Court to perform that function, which I am sure is made up of lawyers of as much knowledge of the law as Senator Goldwater, or even Howard F. Hatch of Provo, Utah, who from the authority with which he speaks must be a great constitution lawyer, though I have never heard of him. If the anti-Negro senators were as sure of their position as they maintain they would not waste the time of the Senate, but would let the majority rule, and allow the Supreme Court to pass on the constitutionality of the Civil Rights bill. They are fearful of the Court because of such decisions as it made last week when it overruled the conviction for contempt of a Negro woman who was thrown in jail for insisting on her right to be called Miss Hamilton instead of Mary in a Southern court. Had she been white she would have been called Miss Hamilton instead of the contemptuous first name. I believe that Negroes when they travel have a right to eat, a right to a place to sleep, and the right not to be arrested for indecent exposure because they are denied access to a public toilet. I shall not comment on the recent race riots in Arizona, don’t believe in riots any more than I do in the injustices that provoke these demonstrations. I believe with one great humanitarian that so long as one child Mr. Robertson nied humanand dignified rights I cannot be free. His military expenditures roughly equal ours. Although he lags in intercontinental ballistic missile output, Khrushchev is not investing heavily in today’s ICBMs. On the day he announced budget plans for cutting his conventional armies, he made clear he was sharply increasing the pace of Soviet military scientific research. That increase may be equivalent to half a billion dollars a year. Under McNamara there has been a growing tendency to cancel out research for which there is no clear, foreseen, strong military usefulness. This is good business applied to the automobile industry. It is not good in national defense. This attitude, under a previous defense secretary, enabled Khrushchev to beat the United States to the intercontinental ballistic missile. The Russians, on the contrary, are spending a good deal of money and effort in “way out” and “esoteric” research. Most of it will fail. But one success, like their achievements with the ICBM and Sputnix, could give the Reds a major advantage. By The Herald Staff Off the ZIP CODE RIBBED BUT IT WORKS! The Zip Code (Zone Improvement Program) instituted by the Post Office Department last July has come up with a lot of ribbing, cussing and general comment from all sides and is bound to remain a target for years to come. New devices and systems face constant resistance to change no matter what they involve. The Zip Code system, being as far-reaching in scope as it is, is bound to stir up many stories and legends which will far outlive the name of the man who thought up the system (who was he by the way?). Already several incidents have occurred which are true, according to George S. Hotchkiss, regional customer rela- tions officer from the Denver regional office of the Post Office. Shortly after the system was inaugurated it was blamed in the death of three people. Mr. Hotchkiss said last August an engineer for the Glenn L. Martin Co., Denver, apparently slipped a cog and killed his wife and two children. — He reportedly explained to police that conversion of everything to numbers was getting him down. When the Zip Code camein, it was the last straw, he told police. The Zip Code was also blam- ed in the breakup of a budding romance in Denver. It seems a young man camecalling on his girl friend one day and was met by the girl’s father. “What's your Zip Code?” demanded the father. The young swain was wont to admit that frankly he just didn’t know what his Zip Code number was (and probably didn’t care either). The father ordered him out Beat still brought a chuckle as we ran onto it while cleaning out a drawer of our desk. And for all of you who have taken, or are taking, that painful step into the new world of doublevision, hereit is. eee a ds jm sedis Women’s Page Editot Wini Jones brought it over one day, as we were vainly trying to find the right focal with our new glasses. —T. H. L. * e* ¢# * SING WHEN DRIVING At 45 miles per hour sing, “Pack Up Your Troubles.” At 55 miles per hour sing, “Highways Are Happy Ways.” At 65 miles per hour sing, “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.” At 75 miles per hour sing, “Nearer My God to Thee.” At 85 miles per hour sing, “Lord, I’m Coming Home.” Exceeding 85 miles an hour, you may not sing, but your friends will at your funeral. —By David McBride 554-5th Ave, Salt Lake City *- * * * QUOTE AND REQUOTE One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. —Lowell * ff FRIENDLY FACE MISSING They say “we never miss the water ’tit the well runs dry,” and I’m sure the townspeople of Nephi never missed (or fully appreciated) the friendly face of the clock which hung Though Soviet military re- search is secret, the Russian approach can be seen in the Khrushchev space program. The Russians are concentrat- ing their work in a few critical «. fields. They’re letting the United States carry the bulk of the’ work load in i tions, meteorology and navigation and taking our results “for ce They are launching more scientific satellites than we, with a comparatively high percentage of successes. In the area of planetary exploration, the Russian effort is clearly much greater than ours. Results of their specialized work are. being kept secret; much of ours isn’t. They thus have the benefit of much of our. work and all of theirs. Their use of our results enables them to concentrate. It means their research ruble can go further. They can gamble large sums for a break-through in risky but potentially profitable fields. Military men, In random examples, say McNamara is spending too little on research aimed at: 1. A revolutionary type of missile to replace Polaris and Minuteman. 2. Radical new methods of propulsion. 3. Learning more about the basic characteristics of electromagnetic waves (possible key to break-throughs in anti-submarine warfare and missile defense). The thought is now being posed that McNamara made a serious mistake in canceling research on the Skybolt — an airplane-carried ballistic missile which could be fired 1,000 miles to target. BICYCLE THIEF PLEASANT HILL, Calif. (UPI)—A hooded man carrying a revolver walked into the Mayfair Market Thursday, forced the manager and four clerks to lie on the floor, scooped up $300—and made his escape on a bicycle. Bank Building until it was taken down when the building was demolished. I’m sure that clock has been greatly missed by the Nephites, both old and young, as it has by my family. School children can be heard to say on their way to school, “Gee, I hope I’m not late, but now that we can’t see the clock by the bank I won’t know ’til I get there.” The working gals in the business houses run to the cafes for their coffee break each morning and afternoon and used to look up both coming and going, to check the time. And how they miss that friendly face! When I asked our daughter the other morning what time she camein the night before, she said, “I’m not sure, the bank clock is gone, but it was 11:20 when we came through Payson.’ Our teen-age son, who had been ing Main with the boys, was being scolded for being late for supper and he replied with: ‘How did I know I was late, the clock on the bank is gone, or didn’t you know?” I for one will be glad (and I know a few others) when the new building is finished and that friendly face is back where it belongs. —Lucille eS of the house saying that a man WhyEnlarge Sunset Manor? is without food I should be hun- enough for his daughter. Editor Herald: gry; so long as one man is de- the unbeliever, vil got time who didn’t know his own Zip Code number was not good ‘And then, of course, there is happened to live oeniz. To test the system (or to be sarcastic) he sent a letter to his son stationed at a Texas Army base using only num- bers. Instead of the name, the boy’s serial number was listed. Instead of the Army post, the regiment were listed. of the city and state, just the . Zip Code was The letter was delivered the day after it was mailed. — Jerry Cornell * * FROM THE SCRAPBOOK I have broken are hearts, injured millions reputations beyond repair; — once loosed, no one has the power to stay my stinging, relentless assault. a compassion I destroy innocent and guilty alike. I am gossip! ‘ocals for but this Most nursing homes now have empty beds, and with the new best ° ones being built, they should fill our needs for a long time to come. Should we spend more tax money for the county-operated facility to increase the the people, and take an interest in what interests them. Many competition with private indus2 times I’ve thought about joining Is the Eldred Sunset Manor a in, especially as I thoroughly hospital or a rest home? If it agreed or disa about is a hospital, do they release something, but I always put it patients to rest homes when the off until it was too late. patient is improved? The, article in the Herald on Feb. 24 about the “cost of care for patients” gave the impression these costs were compared with |