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Show ‘Editorial Page Feature - ald Syria, Israel Still Feuding After 20 Years By JOHN LAWTON BEIRUT. (UPI) —Syria and Israel fought a day-long jet, tank Dedicated to the Progress And Growth of Central Utah WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1967 Postal Reform TopPriority Job to contend--with sleet and. snow and gloom. of night), of letters lost and packages mangled, We forget, however, all the other times when the mail is delivered dependably, day after day. Werecall the long, lost days of twice-daily delivery and the threecent stamp, but forget that the increase in mail volume has far outstripped the increase in popu‘lation, We read about the more efficient services in Europe, but forget-that the U.S. Post Office, which this year expects a flood of 80 billion pieces of mail, han- dies more mail than the rest of the world combined. This is not to say there is not ly patching and mending lies in three demilitarized zones. which cover about two-thirds of the Syrian-Israeli border. The zones are part of old Palestine occupied by the Syrians during the 1947-48 war ich led to the creation of peace treaty. But the peace treaty never came because the Arabs refused to recognize the Jewish state. Now, nearly two decades after the armistice was signed the Arabs and the Jewsarestill occurred in’ Chicago a while ago simply cannot continue operating under the same general rules that obtained when Andrew Jackson made it part of his cabinet 125 years ago, dependent upon appro- Don’t Let Whales BecomeExtinct Wonder why men don’t cry? Dr. Ashley Montagu, critic at large has this to say aboutit: . “American men don't cry because it is considered unmasculine to do so. Only sissies cry. Cryinig is a ‘weakness’ characteristic of the female, and no American male wants to be identified with anythi thing in the least weak or feminine. Crying, in our culture,is identified with-childishness, with weakness and dependence, No one likes a crybaby, and we disapprove of crying even in children, discouraging it in them as early as possible.In a land 80 devoted to the pursuit of happiness as ours, crying really is rather un-American, Adults must learn not to cry in situations in which it is permissible for a child to cry. Women being the ‘weaker’ and ‘dependent’ sex,it is only natural that they should ri Ccurrurat Instead of hunting whales to extinction, as men-are very close to doing, why not raise these valuable animals in captivity in sea pastures the way we raise livestock on land? ean bg Biochemist Gifford B. Pinchot cry in certain emotional situation. In women, crying is excusable. of Johns Hopkins University has advanced an idea which would not only save these animals from ex- But in men, crying is a mark of weakness. So goes the American eredo with regard to crying.” . “ ‘A little man,’ we impress on our male children, ‘never tinction but help provide food for an expanding world population as well, reports Scientific American run down in that capacity as they grow older, but that they are trained not to cry . relatively immune from predators and easy to keep track of. The waters within these coral corrals would be fertilized, either by adding commercial fertilizer or by pumping up nutrient-rich water from the depths. The pumping could be done by windmills, since “It ts high time that parents realized that being a tender, gentle, warm, loving human being, who can cry as well as laugh is net incompatiblewithbeing a man.” Gee, I wish everybody felt that way. I haven't had a good ery in many years... . Only because I can’t stand to see a man ry—nor a woman for that matter! 8 “ small fish that eat smaller fish Tt would be a real tragedy, says Inside Washington By ROBERT $. ALLEN and PAUL SCOTT purpose of ladling out funds to certain charge the Arms Control Agency—which has yet to record any achievement of note, “Nobody ever asked us what the money goes for,” said a Navy official, “The only interest seems to be in how much If you want to borrow trouble, you'll find your credit is good. We hear there are some good late movies on television if you can glimpse them through the commercials, moon is over when Digging at random , one Navy file cabinet shed little light on these “reasearch” projects, as ft lorado State College got $10,200 for a study of “M jetabolism of Hibernation.” —Wilkes Coll Wilkes-Barre, Pa., 4 itis it E search.” —National Academy of Science, $6,150 for a “Breathold Diving Symposium.” 4 of ‘“Microstress i} if 1” instead of $19,000 for a study ia : He who depends on getting the breaks often goes broke. i | hy il ' ! i 4ies : 8 r z3 Eagle's code. This picture was donated by a young man who himself is an Eagle and a very fine one. This writer was present when the picture was presented to the officers of Provo Aerie No. 2924, and all officers and members present expressed deep ‘appreciation and gratitude to Barbs variousMindspot$59 2 Truth, which is part of the & TBF Bli i z i : are: On another wall hangs a beautiful picture of an eagle, spread-winged and standing on a Bible witha streamer marked 238 3 member tive H. R. Gross, R-lowa, of the Foreign Affairs Commit: 785 8 5S 5 F gra ie z ie F i : fz L aI Z significant disclosures Hider 3 ere is PaRSesEuci i i tli88g ! i i ! ifj Rgiz z i E5 1i ; A I i ; z2 i |Fe a il a bs ite3g individuals, concerns, organizations and Editor Herald: ‘The Eagles apologize. There is an Eagle's Lodge in Provo, located —at -501-South State Street, and on one of its walls hangs a picture of an eagle in flight high above the mist-filled valley below, circling the ledge where his mate patiently awaits the hatch of their young. The picture was inted and donated by Clyde j inquiries — which on the basis of avail- the unemployed and providing jobs for them, Congressional authorities in charge of anti-poverty legislation bluntly characterized these “research” projects as largely boondoggles with the primary Additional Thanks Given By Eagles Lodge Officers 2 lions of dollars for so-called studies and The News. tremely efficient mechanisms for be brought up to the standardsof - Pinchot, if the whale were allowed loyes in comparable industries. to disappear through human O'Brien’s suggestions shortsightedness. and Air Force are spending tens of mil- QuotesIn called plankton (instead of eating that eat plankton), they are ex- supoe you heard that Al killed his wife?” eally,how?” “Really, “With a golf club.” “Well I'll be darned! How many strokes did he take?” —e— filter-feeding whales converting plant energy into animal, protein. e A conversation overheard between Grant Hanson and Cullen Miltowsky commenting on America’s latest moon robot now speeding toward its lunar digging mission: “Surveyor 1 put man’s eyes on the’ moon -and this little cient, not Knowing that it was necessary to—-thank— his —relatives. For this we apologize, and express our deepest and M. Offret of Wildwood, and all of your relatives: wherever they may be. Officers and Members Provo Aerie No. 2924 Provo Anybody Attend Okmulgee High In Year 1917? Editor Herald: I am hoping to contact fellow members of the class of 1917 of Okmulgee, Oklahoma High School. I want to round up as many of the 34 members of the. class as possible for a 50th anniversary class reunion in Okmulgee in May. So far I-have located fee other members of the ass. I will be grateful if any classmates will write to me. extension of man himself.” WASHINGTON —America’s first space Alan Shepard, testifying with four colleagues before a House committee investigating the capsule fire that killed three astronauts: Although a penalty has been paid, it seems to .mé we can benefit from this penalty. It seems to me the benefit from this accident is to discontinue recriminations and press WASHINGTON —Senate Republican leader Everett Dirksen, pressing forward with his 1 resolution to make the marigold the national flower: “It is as sprightly as the daffodil, as colorful as the rose, as resolute as the zinnia, as delicate as the carnation, as haughty as the Chrysanthemum, as aggressive as the petunia, as ubiquitous as the violet, as stately as the snapdr: oa08 truly American flower.” Alaska alone has as many Species of big game as the rest of the U.S. combined. BERRY’S WORLD BY JAMES0. BERRY 4 U.S. Window By LYLE WILSON By LYLE WILSON to take OEO apart and to assign The administration has asked the disassembled elements vaCongress to clean up someof riously to other agencies in the the mess in the Job Corps executive department. Congress program to head off a mightstill do that, although the congressional bulldozing job on * reform proposals now advanced are likely to obtain a reprieve the whole works. Some sample clean-up propo- for OEO. An OEO official told Bill Stief of the Washington sals: Reduce the annual cost per Daily News that the reform Proposals would put into law Job Corps enrollee from $7,500 what the OEO managementhad to $7,300. _ learned in three years, Establish safeguards against Three yearsis a long timefor using federal funds for illegal eting or demonstrations. an administrative staff to find out what goes on in its own (Seems reasonable.) Prohibit anti-poverty workers organization. Shriver and his from partisan political activity aides cannot be accused of paying too much alert attention of any kind or any kind of direct action in violation of law. to their jobs. Their outfit would There is much more. Pres- have been better served if they ident Johnson's request for this read a daily newspaper and Clean-up was accompanied to occasionally paid someattention Congress by his request for a to what Congress was saying $2.06 billion anti-poverty appro- about their anti-poverty efforts. priation for fiscal 1968, nearly half a billion more than ee appropriated for fiscal Itis “not unreasonable to it for clean-u if program has been badly administéred, the cost per enrollee is EWpR i tid ‘iaps Because by a professional executive. e board, says O'Brien, should Onlyfour Alaskan cities have & population over 10,000. archaic system, their own mail Postmaster General Lawrence like the huge blue whale, the O’Brien has proposed some radi- humpback and the sei whale feed cal changes. Among them: “Mak- directly on mi nute organisms have the power to set postal rates and Post Befice employes ought to pushing farther east.” problem deserves to get worse — with sacks* of letters from disgruntled constituents. men! ing the Post Office a non-profit ernment corporation, operated In this respect, most of the United Nations officials charged with maintaining peace along the tensé frontier seem to sympathize with the Arab view. “Our chief task,” one U.N. official said recently, “is trying to prevent the Israelis from Chairman Mao Emerges from the Long. Swim the atolls are in the Pacific trade noe funds and political appoint- wind belt. is board of directors and man- over the demilitarized zone through which runs an unclear demarcation line. The Jews have established several farming settlements in the western half of the demilitarized zones, and, the Syrians charge, are gradually extending their cultivation east and taking over landthe Arabs claim. Take Arab View an vast room for improvement in the magazine. mail service. In fact, unless radiPinchot suggests that the circueal changes are made soon,it will lar coral atolls in the Pacific would reach a point of crisis in which make ideal preformed containers paralyzing jams like the one that for the whales, which would be will become more and more frequent. The Post Office Department temporary expedient have be ome a festering political sore. Israel now claims sovereignty ial! z deliver (even when he didn't have If the lawmakers bobble the ball or content themselves with mere- land And the demilitarized zones, which seemed workable as a # Hhi alHit Chel ises we hear concerning the wonders, science and technology will someday perform, nobody really does anything aboutit: Anyone who has ever affixed stamp to envelope can cite instances of the postman failing to disputed . Officially at war. 3 2 about it, but despite the prom- may not be the only answers, or the best answers, to the postal dilemma, he has thrown down a long overdue challenge to Congress. Postal reform deserves high priority consideration. This When the United Nations finally arranged an armistice between the Arabs and the Jews, the Syrians agreed to move out of the zones provided they remain under international supervision pending a formal ? The postal service is like the weather: Everyone complains and artillery battle April 7 because an israeli farmer plowed a few feet of arid border land. The bitter clash—worst outbreak of border fighting in the Middle East since Israel invaded Egypt during the 1956 Suez it seyen lives and Millions of dollars of wrecked military hardware. It also highlighted the main source of tension on the embattled 47-mile border between Syria and Israel Israel is trying to cultivate land Arabs claim is theirs. TodayIn History By United Press International Today is Wednesday, April 19, the 109th day of 1967 with 265 to follow. ‘The moon ts between the first |