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Show oe Editorial Page Feature J. Edgar Hoover—Legendin His Own Time Dedicated to the Progress And Growthof Central Utah Sunday, January 3, 1971 Page 23—THE HERALD, Provo, Utah New Crunch on HEW Scene From now on through the Seventies, the increased birth rate that followed World War II will makeitself felt in every branch of education, creating a demand for facilities from kindergarten through college beyond anything we have ever seen. High School enrollments are expected to climb from the current 13.7 million to 16.6 million by the mid-Seventies, with college enrollments jumping from 6.5 to 9 million Personal incomes doubled during the last twentyyears while spending on education quintupled; health expenditures more than tripled and the demand seeminglyis insatiable. Aboutail the taxpayer can hope for is moreefficient use of available funds for education and health services and pray that welfare can begin its long phase-out through training and “‘workfare.”” Medical and hospital bills are expected to continue their steep rise in the years ahead, partly because of inflation, partly because of in- creasing demand, and partly becauseselfish interests are willing to gouge the government. Meantime, inflation has taken care of any “peace dividend” that might have accrued from winding down the warin Vietnam. Quotes In News There is not a third world, a The outlook, therefore, is for another record federal budget for the new Congress te act upon. Indications are that it will be as loath as its predecessor to slash expenses and raise revenue to balance the budget. And the public, fighting its own battle of the budget agains‘ inflation, does not want to see new and higher taxes. The Nixon administration has pinch of deflation, ployment climate of change, challenge, and controversy, but looking back over the nearly two-hundred year historyofthis country, this has been characteristic of the nation's tremendous development from a frontier society to an international leader. Americans werethefirst people to insist that a man should be physically and spiritually free, to have a unique freedom, to be enterprising, and to alter his economic destiny. These ideas are basic in the free enterprise system that guarantees opportunity for an individual's personal ambition and ability to be developed to the utmost. It’s an incentive system. I can per- sonally testify, it works. My Woolworth career began in ProvoSept. 14, 1923, approximately 48 years ago, as a manager trainee, but before that I had worked after school and on weekend at such diverse jobs as a water boy during the building of the Provo roundhouse, a helper in the Startup Candy Company, a newspaper delivery boy, and as a clerk during my high school years in the Thornton Drugstore, then managed by myuncle. ‘This kindoftraining and experience helped a great deal in my Woolworth career, but whatreally inspired me were two remaks madeto me by James Norfleet, who then was the manager ofthe local Woolworth store. Mr. Norfleet said that if and when I completed my management training program and was promoted to manage a Woolworth store 1 would be given a contrict to earn a shae in the profits produced. Secondly, he stated that opportunities in the Wooiworth Company were unlimited all the way to the top posifion. I did finish my training period and was given the management of a store, and for 46 years thereafter worked under a contract percentage of the profits that I was able to produce or help produce. AndI further found that opportunities in the company were unlimited, for I became President and Chief Executive Officer in 1958, and later, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer in 1965, a position which I held until I retired Dec.31, 1969. During the past 15 years there has been a vast change in the trainee recruitment requirements, and during this period and for in: Another Year Just Whizzed By Last yearis now three days removed. Somewill say it was a good year while others will say it was a bad one. All I gotta sayis, “where did it go?" I swear it was onlyyesterdaythat I waspulling the month of Julyoff the calendar. the voters who elect the generous spenders instead of the budget-balancers will foot the bills in the end, willy-nilly. Speaking of calendars, I received my new calendar from Wally Gloverthe other day and it’s a dandy! NowI just wish I had a place to hang it. AboutLittle Amid all the hoopla a few days agu when the nation crossed the magic $1 trillion mark in Gross National Product, only a spoilsport would havepointed out that the emperor,if not exactly nude, was rather scantily dressed. But the housewife who found her dollar buying less at the local market last week than it did the week before knew the embarrassing truth as well as did President Nixon Idon’t know whatbroughtit up butin talking with John Manning (John W) tue other day, he was telling methat as a kid, his father alwaystold him to tell the truth because it was easier to remember. And ain’tit the truth. Alex B. Darais sends alonga little verse that seems appropriate forthis holiday weekend.It’s titled, “TO BE CONTINUED” — and goes like this: The hydrogen bombwas thebest of them all: The bomb with the far biggest boom. Hebragged and he swaggered and stuck outhis chest — The greatest performer of doom. and his household retainers, even for its training material, for we realize that in today’s complex atomic space agethewill to work and the desire to succeed need to be supplemented by a carefully designed education. Today’s younger generation faces a future that promises to provide even greater challenges; for example, we are only 30 years awayfrom the year 2000. Imagine what must be accomplished to provide for the housing, clothing, and feeding of a population that is expected to increase from today’s 200 million to approximately 330 million in the U.S. alone! Young people wholike to be involved and wholike to meet challenges will strive for the kind of education that will equip them for the job ahead. Some maythink of the futurein terms of problems, but most will look upon them as opportunities, Adversity can provide a climate for the development of excellence and change can help provide that climate. It isn’t essential to suffer hard times to become tough and lean and to reach top efficiency. Technological change, social change, and the change that competition effects also can have the same disciplinary effect on our actions. WhenI wasgrowing up in Provo my family teachers, and friends instilled in me the importance of the other person's point of view, and this is very essential because no man can achieve any degree of real success without good character, without guidance, help from others, and confidence and loyal supportof those with whom heis associated. This is just as true for industrial and service companiesas it is for individuals. In today’s society millions of consumers constantly choose between competitive products and services, and people tend to buy from companiesthey feel they know and respect. Good humanrelations provides the key to opportunity for every individual and opportunity is basic in the free enterprise system. Today In History Fatalities chalked up by crime and disease Were quitz obsolescent by now; And H-Bomb, who vied for the Pulverize Prize, Conceitedly started to bo’ By United Press International Obviousin Area’s Growth Editor Herald: There has been muchsaid for and against the road through Provo Canyon. I speak for the project, along with many others who feel the same way as I do. I have confidence in our engineers; their work is comparable to any in the nation. With all due respect to constructive criticism, much criticism of the projectis artistic thinking and does not concern the engineering aspects nor the greatfuture this area mustplay becomes more important than beauty. One can see very little of Provo River now from Olmstead to Nunns, due to undergrowth and rotting timber. The new road would clear up this condition also. But the main reason for our new road through Provo Canyon is the importance it is to Provo's part in the nation’s commerce.It will always be our only free way to the great highways coming from the East. Therewill only be room very soon for the Provo River andthe roadin the bottom in our nation’s commerce. We are now in a very of Provo Canyon. precarious position where safety Only a fool would not see this future growth and need, and many of us are fools. G. L. Knudson Where Are Holiday Greetings? 667 N. 500 W., Provo Bereaved Embezzler FARNBOROUGH, Editor Herald: T'm sorry to say for all the shopping I have done from Springville to Murray, I've only heard Merry Christmas once — from fellow at A & Y Lumber. As for the rest of them, they seem only to care for the almighty dollar and to get you out of their hair. i you wish them a merry Christmas they seem to think you've just cracked up. Hurrah for you at A & Y Lumber. There is someoldspirit left yet. Holiday greetings and a HappyNew Yearto one andall, Sincerely, Mrs. Keenan Mrs. Zobell England (UPI)—Bank manager Kenneth Harvey stole money from the till so he would have enough to give his daughter a holiday before she died of leukemia, his attorney told Wednesday. Harvey, 42, a stole court $7,862, lawyer Colin MacKay said. Harvey’s daughter Rosemary died in 1966, after the vacation. Harvey was sentenced to a year in jail. BEARY'S WORLD Today is Sunday, Jan. 3, the 3rd day of 1971. ‘The moon is between its new “Old Hyis a good boy, a joy to myheart, Deserving of honor and glory, The morning stars are But champof them all is the cumpat the wheel Mercury, Venus, Mars and Still writing my serial story.” Jupiter. And ain't THAT the truth. Last year in Utah, ol’ Death wrote The eveningstar is Saturn. himself a couple of new chaptersin his continuingserial story. I say Those born on this date are it’s timeto putthe guyoutof business. Possible? underthe sign of Capricorn. Mythanksto Alex, who incidentally, wrote the aboveverse. On this date in history: Tn 1938 the March of Dimes Well, happy, happy! campaign was organized to fight infantile paralysis. In 1961 the United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba. In 1967 Jack Ruby, who fatally shot presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, died of cancerin Dallas. In 1968 Sen. Eugene McCarthy announced he would oppose President Johnson in the New Hampshire primary. unsung any longer, and all of The Lighter Side those sports announcerswill be By DICK WEST A thought for today: British _ unableto identify 934 players.” satirist Jonathan Swift said, WASHINGTON (UPI) “We have just enough religion There are 1,040 players in the Could Cail Them “Sung” to make us hate, but not National Football League. By enough to make us love one mycalculation, compiled during “Well, they couldstart calling another.”” a weekend in front of the them ‘sung’ heroes,” I said, but television set, 934 of them are I knew deep down that it wouldn’t work. “unsung heroes.” I arrived at this figure by At the next time out, and ‘A Crooked Man’ taking the number of players again while the referee was CINCINNATI (UPI) —While identified as unsung heroes in giving the two-minute notice, I “There Was a Crooked Man” four games and then multiply- blitzed my brains for other was being shown at the Albee ing that by the number of ways to honor unsung heroes. Theater downtown Tuesday teams in the league, divided by night, an armed man robbed the number of play-by-play The idea I finally came up with is an NFL Unsung Hero announcers and analysts. the ticket office of $70. All-Star team. Plus an unsung The presence of so many hero “Hall of Fame” in which unsung heroes on the screen the busts of football’s most gave my heart a wrench, and eminent nonentities would be Lighter Side Ode to Unsung Football Heroes as the games wore on I began BARBS By PHIL PASTORET Considering the trouble somebig city electric utilities have been having in sup- plying the juice, there's a new meaning, now, for the phrase “generation gap.’’ An old-timer is a gal who recalls when the stores had “write sales” only in January. Any parent who can help the kids with the new math America has spent nearly two centuries adjustments in the system, and there no is in an advanced stage of © yw 7 geniusness. The office mooch is adept at the touch-system, though he can't use a typewriter. Apparently no one would challenge to beat The bombastic bombin his boast. Then Death proudly stood and patted the hood Of Speed and delivered a toast; phase andfirst quarter. developing the laws and institutions that make this principle work. There have been doubt will be further adjustments to meet changing needs to continue to contribute to the national good. Opportunities for young people under thefree enterprise system have never been better, and young men and women need to fight to maintain the system that has created the highest standard ofliving in the world. % : Youall know where babies comefrom but do you know where our calendars come from? That's right,the printing shop. (Bad joke, right?) Actually, we get our calendars from the Egyptians whi adopted the first calendarin 4246 BC.It was basedonthe Solar year and had twelve months with each month containing thirty days, totaling 360 daysfor the year. To makethe calendar comeout even with the sun,they added five daysatthe endof the year — six days every fourth year. The five days werenot partof any months. They |4 were usedas feast days in honoroftheir Gods, ie Iknow someguys whostill use that calendar. They addfive days of festivities to the end of every year — andnotin honorof any Gods either. Muchto Do the future the Company looksto the colleges a Bye Line by Jensen Deflation certainly hurts politicians’ chances for re-election. And sudden collapse of health, which might induce Hoover to retire before 1975 would be a oe a part that the great law enforcement ag he created would be Deteroff with vigorous young leadership.| Hoover's long tenure has had the same effect on the FBIthat a marathon presidency has on a business corporation. Seeing no room at the top, many bright | and ambitious young FBI officials haveleft the organization in recent years to seek better opportunities elsewhere. i.e., unem- Rich Opportunities Under Free Enterprise System The American scene today reflects Danse Macabre inflationary pressures to ease the Herald Guest Column By ROBERT C. KIRKWOOD the dedication of the new FBI ington from time to time that Building, aRS $100 million struc- President Nixon might try to cs nudge Hoover into retirement, vania Avenue from the Justice as he did 76-year-old draft Director Lewis B. Hershey. Department. It is a foregone conclusion Nixon has said nothing and thatthe building sooner or later done nothing to encourage this will be named for Hoover and tion, On the contrary, he will become a memorial to him has indicated both in public and after his death. The FBI in private that he is keenly director is aware of this, and aware of Hoover's ity alreadyis thinking ahead to the and is somewhat in awe of the dedication ceremonies. man himself. Speculation arises in WashThe only thing, other than a been forced to give ground against though they choseto ignoreit during second world or a first world, but the ceremonies in the Commerce just one, ihe only one we have. Man Department. has the capability and the power Thefact is that in terms of 1969 either to destroy or to develop it. To destroy it may be easier and — dollars, the nation has stood stockstill in its output of goods and serplease forgive mefor being cynical — evenless expensive. To developit vices for the past i8 months. The is far more complicated andit takes entire “gain” in GNP from $931 more courage. Butit is worth trying. billion in 1969 to a little over $1 trillion today wasthe result of rising —Erhard Eppler, West German prices — in a word,inflation. ne for Economic Co-operaWheninflation since 1958 is taken ion. into account (1958 is used as a If the human raceis to survive, the “base’’ year by government human interest must be placed economists), we have actually gone above the national interest. The backwards. natural and essential agency for In 1958 dollars, GNP wasreally advancing the humaninterestis the $727.1 billion last year, not $931 United Nations. billion. In 1958 dollars, GNP this —tLester B. Pearson, former year will really be around $725 prime minister of Canada,in a billion, not $1 trillion. letter to U ‘Thant, secretary So what wasall the celebrating general of the U.N. about? Former Chairman of the Board Chief Executive Officer, F. W. Woolworth Co. WASHINGTON (UPI) —This intimates that he has no New Year's Day was the 76th intention of abdicating any time birthday of a man who has soon the vast power he has held becom a legend in his own for 45 years. time. In fact, he has indicated that FBI Director J. me he intends to remain FBI Hoover spent the ay director at least until fis 80:h quietly, as usual. No special birthday,in 1975. He would by then have celebration. Critics who have expected or hoped that he might completed half a century in office. use the occasion to announce his Postponing his retirement retirement were disappointed until 1975 also would enable him Hoover has made clear to to preside, as FBI director, at “Gentlemen, now that our network no longer carries cigarette commercials, what excuses can we use for not giving up smoking?” to try to think of some way to preserved. sing them. Beyondthat, I would have the At halftime, during the first UPIpick an “Unsung Hero of game Sunday afternoon, I even the Week’’ to provide more went so far as to compose a frequentrecognition for obscure song about them: exploits, 5 _ And Here It Is Andfinally, at the end of the “Sing a song of unsung season, I would schedule yet heroes; “Publicity-wise, a string of another bowl game -—the “Incognito Bowl,” featuring the zeroes, most anonymous experts in the “How sad it is to be heroic “And not have anybody but a Teague. television announcerknow it. “So lift your voice’ to the Last Korean Snow highest rung, “And Jet no hero remain SEOUL (UPI) —Bob Hope unsung.” and his troupe today gave their (These lyrics should be sung to the tune of Bach's third second and last show for American servicemen in Korea ‘cantata for zither and chorus, at Osan Air Base, 30 miles Opus 23, in D sharp minor.) south of Seoul. Sometimes an outsider can The group, comprising over see things moreclearly than a person who is personally 70 entertainers andofficials, arrived in Korea Sunday and involved. Therefore, I audi- gaveits first performance later tioned the song for my wife, in the day at a recreation who is very unemotional about in the 2nd U.S. Infantry eal, other than hating it a center Division area about 30 miles lot. north of Seoul. “Tt doesn’t scan, crazythighs,” she said, addressing me Following today’s show at by one of my nicknames, “And Osan Air Base, the group will besides that, if you sing about leave for Alaska on its trip an unsung hero, won't be back home, 5 |