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Show ByeLine by Jensen Laughter Hides Dedicated to the Progress And Growthof Central Utah Page4—THEProvo, HERALD,Provo, Utah A Broken Heart : Sunday, October17, 1971 AlthoughI've never personally met the woman feel as if I have known herfor a long time. Our only meeting hxs been via the Bell System and from our conversation, you'd think we were bosom ators Safe Make Old Refriger wiring, other methods of storage are Driving about the state, one oc- casionally sees an abandoned refrigerator or freezer in somebody’s yard or stored against a house or garage. Havethese appliances been made safe against entrapment of children? Across the country, many children have suffocated in refrigerators over the years after accidental entrapment. We haven't read of any recently, and that’s good. But there’s no need of taking a chance whenit’s so easy to make the appliance safe. These precautions, when you want to store a refrigeratoror freezer that will be used again, are suggested in a safety booklet published by manfacturers in cooperation with the Food and Drug Administration: --Removethe door. It takes only a moment with a screwdriver and the unitis safe. If the door has internal buddies. (A pun!) She keeps telling me that had we met, I never would have forgotten her because ofhersize. She saysshe is a large woman on for heavy side. Perhaps you know her — Leah Loveless :_unchez. recommended. --Use rubber bumpers or wooden blocks to prevent door from closing completely. Secure with contact I've often wondered aboutlarge people — men and women, and whyit is that they always seem to be laughing and always very cement or stron, adhesive glue. jovial. Too, I've wonderedif their joviality was superficial or were Place high up, outof a child's reach. -Chain and padlock or tape door closed they really that way. Well, now I know because Leah sent me a poem she hadwritten about her “‘world” as a large woman. It has a message | think you'll enjoy. She tities it: A WORLD APART. Heretis: Remove or modify the latch Where removal of latch leaves exposed screwholes, attach wooden block so door cannot close. --As an extra precaution, leave the Tlive in a world that is far apart From the rest of my fellowmen. A world of stones and thorns andhurts, where few have ever been. For nature was far from kind to me, and so 1 was called a freak With just a few thatare good and kind and those that do me seek. This body of mine is far too iarge, double whatit should be, And so the people laugh andstare, not knowing they're hurting me. 1 am just a human being myself shelves in the refrigerator. Such precautions will prevent the sad story of a child using an abandoned or stored unit for a hiding place or playhouse. A small child doesn’t know that a refrigeraior is constructed alen to preserve the food. He doesn’t know the danger... doesn’t even know what suffocation mens. Thisis just another case whereit’s with the likes the same, as you I crave the lovely, chick or bright, as normal beingsdo. But never a dress is put on me looks small and dainty andfine. And never a person does pause to stare with admiration for me, better to be safe than sorry. Frail Ear Cocked to Space ‘Voices’ The U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R., two nations which have trouble enough communicating with each other, held a conference last month on the problems involved in ‘Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence.” That wasthetitle of a joint U.S.Soviet conference at Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory in Armenia last month, jointly sponsored by the U.S. Academyof Sciences and its Soviet counterpart. The conference participants agreed, reports University of Michiganbiophysicist John R.Platt, that when it comes to communication with intelligent extraterrestrial beings, it is much easierto listen thanto do the talking. Even so, our ability to listen is restricted. If pressed to its limits, our present radio-astronomy technology could detect a highpowertelevision transmission at a distance of only some 100 light years from earth. Our own “‘local”’ Milky Way galaxy is about 100,000 light years across. Another aspect of contact, says Platt, is that the initiative always resis with the higher civilization or the more-advancedtechnology. This is why Columbus discovered America and the American Indians did not discover Europe. And evenif we did someday make rontact with an alien stellar civilization, he says, it would probably not be with their highest minds or their best scientists. More likely we would be hearing from extraterrestrial Boy Scouts, basementtinkerers or missionaries. Somehow, the whole idea suddenly loses its excitement. Inside Washington The Wrangle at Passport Corral in Nation’s Capital It’s just a curious, insolent stare at the freak they think they see. Henry J. Tarylor Russ Publicists ignore True Revolt Ending Tsarist Rule ‘The Soviet October Revolution celebration supercharges the impression that no matter how bad the Communists may be they did “free the Russians from the tsar.” Hokus, hokey, hokum. The truth should be dutifully reviewed. some 30 years. Behind Macomber’s menacing crackdown is a protracted bitter wrangle between Miss Knight and her immediate superior, Miss Barbara Watson, Administrator of the Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs. This acrimonious feuding is Miss Knight's latest with the chiefs of the Bureau. She clashed furiously with Miss Watson's predecessor — a man. Miss Knight emerged triumphant from that backstage brawl but the ontcomeof her vendetta with Miss Watson seems headed for a different ending — on the basis of Macomber’s censorious warning. Apparently, the powerful FSO (foreign service officer) establishment, which really rules the State Department, has become fed up with Miss Knight andis benton replacing her, Friends and Foes In the past, Miss Knight has had some potentfriends in Congress — foremost among them Sen. James Eastland (D.-Miss.), chairmanof the Judiciary Committee. Buttimehas thinued those ranks,while her Congressional critics have increased. High among them is Rep. John Rooney (D-N.Y.), tough chairman of the Appropriations sudcommittee with jurisdiction over the State Department budget. The veteran legislator makes no bones of his disapproval. When he was unableto get a copy of the Passport Office’s budget summary,he curtly sent word to Miss Knight, “If we don’t get that information forthwith, she doesn’t get any money. It's as plain and simple as that. She can rant and rave with others, but not with this committee.” The information was immediately forthcoming. Alsc to the discomfiture of State Departmentbrass, Rooney put in‘o the record of the hearings on the Department's budget a detailed account of Miss Knight's wrangling with her immediate superior, Miss Watson. Miss Watson testified that on one occasion Miss Knight, refusing to submit a requested report, said she saw no reason for doing that and accused Miss Watson of harassing her with a “diarrhea of memoranda.” Another time, Miss Knight balked at attending weekly staff meetings on the ground ‘‘they have the reputation of being ineffective and a total waste of time; neither I nor members of my staff who have attended your staff sessions remembera single constructive discussion on policy.” Miss Watson, appointed in 1968 by President Johnson and reappointed by President Nixon,is the daughterof the first Negro judge elected in New York City, and sister of a Federal judge. She is a lawyer and has argued cases in the Court of Appeals. One Candidate’s Qualifications Mayor John Lindsay, busily scampering about the country sampling Democratic Presidential waters, is letting it be known he will makea decisiun by Jan. 1. Pendingthat, he is addressing a wide variety of gatherings and sonorously sounding off on national and foreign problems andissues. Significantly, however, there is one subject about which the photogenicpolitico says virtually nothing — conditions in the huge metropolis of which he is mayor. There are devastating reasons for this silence. Following is the latest — carefully unpublicized crimefigures as reported by his own police department Homicides increased 43 per cent in New York Cityin August as against August 1970; 143 compared to 100. That isn’t all of this terrifyingstatistic. The number of murders and killings jumped every month the past summerover the same period last year; in June,106 killed in contrastto 96 in June 1970; in July, 126 as against 101 slayings the same month in 1970. Robberies and muggings totaled, 7,219 in August over 6,412 in August 1970. Burglaries and other thefts up to 25,311 from 24,385 last year. Rape slightly decreased from 208 to 186, But crimes against person and propertysoared to 47,638 as against 43,289 in August 1970. It’s understandable, therefore, why Mayor Lindsayhas so little to say about New York City affairs — particularly the desperate and sinister troblemof law and order. In that regard, he is no different than the other ultra-liberal and dovish Democratic Presidential aspirants. They spout interminably and imposingly about almost everything under the sun of a “cosmic” nature, but never about the increasingly deadly and somber national affliction of soaring violence and criminality in the streets. ‘They shy fromthat like the plague — for fearof being branded as “racist” bythe black leaders they are assiduously courting. Lindsay,re-elected with only32 per cent of the vote in a three-way race, owes his minority victoryto the big majorities he piled up in Harlem and other black and brown ions. overthrew the established free man, wily, bad and dangerous to OW. governmentthat succeeded Tsar German Gen. Eric von NicholasII in a blood bath eight Ludendorff contacted Lenin in monthslater. Bern, Switzerland. The Ger- In simpletruth, step by step, the Duma, Russia’s Parliament, duly elected by the Russian peopleby secretbailot, called on the tsar to leave his throne. Russia was to be (and become) a republic under a constitution modeled on that of the United cy. ates, Systematically misleading the world’s millions and entire generationsin the Jnited States, the Soviet Unionignoresthe true revolution that actually ended the tsarist rule. Moreover, the true day was February 27, 1917 The Duma delegation, (through March 12), and on that carrying the edict which the U.S.S.R,is totally silent. guaranteed the personal safety of the tsar and the royal family, On March 22, 191/, the United reached him aboard the royal States recognized a new Russian train at the Germanbattlefront. government: the first nation in The tsar signed the abdication the world to recognize great papers. Russia’s democracy. To By ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON — An ominous threat hangs over the head of Miss Frances Knight, contentious long-time Director of the Passport Office. She is under stern warning to mind her behavior — orelse! William Macomber, Deputy UndersecretaryofState for Administration, has admonished Miss Knight that she will be ousted if there is any more trouble “with or from” her — presumably by forced retirement or dismissal. What happensnext is anyone's guess. Miss Knight, 66 and pastthe usual Federal retirement age, is suffering from a throat ailment requiring surgery. Also she has a lengthy record of heated rows with other State Departmentofficials in the 16 years she has forcefully bossed the Passport Office. ButMiss Knight has tenaciously weathered other dire reproofs in the four Administrations she has served — Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon. Appointed in 1955 by the late Secretary Dulles, she succeeded Miss Ruth Shipley, who held the job And so I have learnedto live alone in a world thatis far apart, With a smile that’s forced and a head held high to hide a brokenheart. So if my laughter is loud andlong, and I seem bit too gay It’s just because I play a part, I do notfeel that way. But when the hour of judgement comes and I reach the Pearly Gate, Saint Peter is going to let me in andtell meit is not too late, To live in a world whereall can be as trim and dainty andfine, As I have always wanted to be in this far apart world of mine, emphasize America’s satisfaction and confidence President Woodrow Wilson appeared before Congress.I find that this is what he said: “The great, generous Russian people have been added in all their majesty and mightto the forces fighting for freedom in the world, for justice and for peace. Hereis a fit partner for a League of Honor.” Respected Aleksandr Feodorovich Kerensky, 36, who died only last year in the United States at the age of 89,sat in the Ministry of Justice. He was elected Premier of the provisional government and Commander-in-Chief of the army. But Russiastill faced two malig.iant enemies: the Germansfrom the outside and the mans — Lenin’s employer — supplied him with the famous sealed railway coach across Germanyto the Russian border. Thanks Leah, and have nice day! to stage a Communist dem stration against the American Embassyin Petrograd. Thwarted, Lenin fled into hiding, to emerge again in October on orders from Berlin to WomenDiscovers The first thing Lenin did was, Dr. Lawrence Lamb strike once more. By November 8, 1917, the Communist band controlled Petrograd. Lenin established himself as dictator. He made Lev Bronstein, alias Leon Trotsky, who had arrived from Brooklyn, N.Y., and whom the Communists later (1929) murderedin Mexico City, second in command. Lenin promptly sent Trotsky to the welcoming ns at Brest-Litovsk. There the Communist conspirators, continuing in the pay of the Germans, signed a_ separate peaceatthe war's blackest hour. Their treachery had gone fuil Communists (Bolsheviks) cycle. The cost to our country waiting to attack Russia from was permanent. within. They werein league with Lenin himself said: “The only dispatched distinguished Elihu each other. workable system is dicRoot to Petrogradaschief of an tatorship.”’ Those were his American mission. France, Lenin wasnot even in Russia words. His men rode the cradle of republicanism in when the tsar abdicated. everywhere to sweep away Europe, responded as quickly Moreover. he had not been in Parliament's decrees and drain and as handsomely. Britain Russia for 10 years. Sitting in a the blood of the free men who likewise took quick official small Zurich cafe, he merely had drawn them. Lenin ordered action. learned of this in a Swiss Trotsky’s troops to attack the “This is now Europe's newspaper. Lenin was on the Parliament building. Every springtime. Russia is free,” British blacklist as an enemyof member of the Council of the extolled The Times of London. the Allied war effort, a fifth Republic — freelyelected by the ‘The Bolsheviks under bloody- columnist in the pay of the Russian people — was taken fisted renegade Vladimir Ilyich Germans, a saboteur and a prisoner and most of them shot. Ulyanov, alias Nikolai Lenin, grafter,a thoroughly discredited The Communist rule standardized anarchy and decreed the Soviet reign of terror. Lenin President Wilson immediately Letterto Editor is Russia’s George Washington? You be the judge. Helpfulness of Catholic Her OwnAllergy ~ Dear Dr. Lamb — From 1954 to about 1959 my wife suffered from severe sinus headaches, sometimes accompanied by infections of the posterior ethmoids and sphenoid. An M.D. suspected an allergy and prescribed capsules which relieved the take this medicine and I be gan to worry about the continued use of it. A visit to another doctor produced the familiar, “Mmmmm —nothing we can do, Just continue with the medicine. I'll send my bill.” Thereafter my wile searched systematically for the food that might be the cause of her misery. She did find it; it was yeast. Any foods containing yeast caused recurrence of the headaches Do you have any clue as to what substance in the yeast might be the cause of the allergy? Is there anything that a person can add to homemade bread, for instance, that might neutralize the allergy-producing effect? My wife can eat baking-pow- der biscuits, soda bread, etc that are made without yeast BEARY'S WORLD orders. We had founda doctor in a neighboring camp and he worked on my uncle. The doctor told me we would never have saved myuncle if it hadn't been for that priest. He practically hauled my uncle could put in the bread. Of course, she could take an antihistaminic with the bread but that is essentially what your doctor did for her and apparently she wanted to avoid that. On the practical side, why doesn’t she now go + to anallergist and see if she could undergo desensitization? That might solve her problem HEREIS GOOD NEWS for people who hiave lost their voice because of cancer of the larynx. The American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology has announced that Drs. J. Simon McGrail and David L timethe cancerous voice hox is removedorlater. It is re- ported to be superiortoartificial voice hoxes that have been used in the past. Some really showed us how wrong we patients have been trained to use “esophageal speech” by burping up gas, which has were. The farmer, who was a not beenas ef! e as one might wish, In18 Ss with removalof the voice box and Mormon, not only gave us the gas but he drove us back to the truck and helped us get my uncle to the plane. He wasa real kind old man and his wife even had the middleof the night and hiked some food for us when we got back later. up to our camp. I'mleavingfor California this I expected some frail, pious old guy. But this priest was a morning but I just wanted to bear, young and even had a beard, and boy could he give ing the problem (in this instance yeast), take medicine to prevent the reaction to the offending agent — which is what your doctor prescribed or in somecasesit is possible to desensitize the person with a series of shots of the offending substance. There is nothing your wife It can be put in place at the anybody that wasn’t a Mormon. Boy,did hetell usoff for having the plant in the San Bernardino that view. He said he taught area come to Richfield to do school with the LDS people, and some hunting and fishing. a bunch of other things. He Every year a fewof us from In gies—avoid the agent caus- fromthe patient’s own skin Editor Herald I'm not LDS or Catholic. she was ellergic to yeast. There are about three things you can do foraller- Oldfield, Toronto Medical School and Wellessey Hospital, Toronto, have devetoped an operation that provides a good quality voice. Their method fashions a voice box Priest, LDS Pair Lauded fact I never cared for either bunch. Yesterdaymyuncle, who is a Catholic, had a stroke. We sentfor a priest from your town (Provo). The priest (Father Matthias Lambert, O.F.M. of the St. Francis Parish) came down in Dear Reader — Your wife was very clever to find out fashioning a new one at one operation the patients were all able to talk in three to four weeks after the opera tion BARBS Show us a bar wherethe customers remain stone-cold sober and we'll bet you it apologize for all of us for the views we've held about you Mormons and Catholics. I wanted to thank that Father (Matthias) and Ed Green as they are the two kindest and most helpful men I have ever met. I have much different does yery little business Forgwe us jor remind ing you of the pigeon lookingfor a gull friend. view of Utah now aid I think you people havea lot to be proudof. back. Then we ran out of gas ‘The guys in my dorm atcollege after leaving the camp for the used to make cracks about Utah plane. all the time, and knockreligion. ‘Thepriest told us to ask one of We havea lotto learn. down the canyon on his own the farmers that they'd help us. We told him they were all Mormons and wouldn't help Michael L, Larson San Bernardino,Calif. pir. “We're gonna ‘learn how to survive in combat‘? Hey, wait a minute, Sarge—I thought the army had cut out all that CHICKEN STUFF!” eo 123 People who bounce out of bed in the morning should have those springs fixed. |