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Show Editorial Page Feature ald Syria, Israel StillFeuding After 20. Years By JOHN LAWTON BEIRUT (UPI) —Syria and Israel fought a day-long jet, tank and WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1967. Postal Reform TopPriority Job stamp to envelope can cite instances of the postman failing to deliver (even when he didn’t have 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 population, 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 vast room for improvement in the mail service. In fact, unless radi- If the lawmakers bobble the ball under the same general rules that obtained when Andrew Jackson made it part of his cabinet 125 years ago, dependent upon approbabe funds and political appoint- Jand_ Arabs claim is theirs. This disputed land lies in three demilitarized: zones which cover about two-thirds of the Syrian-Israeli border. zones are part of old Palestine occupied by the The bitier clash—worst outbreak of ‘border fighting in the Middle East since Israel invaded Egypt during the 1956 Suez crisis—cost seven lives and millions of dollars of wrecked military hardware. , It also highlighted the main Syrians during the 1947-48 war which led to the creation of the United Nations they remain under international supervision pending a formal peace treaty. But the ‘peace treaty never came because the Arabs refused to recognize the Jewish decades after the armistice was signed Syrians charge, are gradually the Arabs and the Jewsarestill extending’ their cultivation east Now, nearly two pecs corporation, operated y a board of directors and manby a professional executive. ¢ board, says O’Brien, should - havé the power to set postal rates and Post Ottice employes ought to be brought up to the standards of employes in comparable industries. While O’Brien’s suggestions 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? Biochemist Gifford B. Pinchot advanced an idea which would now only save these animals from extinction but help provide food for an expanding world population: as well, reports Scientifie American magazine. Pinchot suggests that the circu- It is not that American males are unable to cry because of some biological time clock within them that causes them to run down in that capacity as they grow older, but that they are trained not to cry. . .\. ? . “It ts high time that parents gentle, warm, loving human being, laugh 1s not incompatiblewithbeing a man.” would be fertilized, either by ad- Gee, I wish everybody felt that way. I haven't had a good ery in many years... . Only because‘ can’t stand to see a man ry—nor a woman for that matter! 8 8 A conversation overheard between Grant Hanson and Cullen Christensen: ding commercial fertilizer or by pumping up nutrient-rich water from the depths. The pumping could be done by windmills, since the atolls are in the Pacific trade windbelt. “T suppose you heard that Al killed his wife?” “Really, how?” “With a golf club.” “Well I'll be darned! How many--strokes did he take?” shortsightedness. i BEg u iu H a the unemployed and providing jobs for them, : Congressional authorities in charge of tion bluntly charac- Quotes In The News Additional Thanks Given By Eagles Lodge Officers Editor Herald: The Eagles apologize. There is an Eagle's Lodge in Provo, located at 501 South State Street, and on one of its wi 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 the young man, assuming at the time that this was suffi- cient, not knowing that it was necessary to thank his relatives. For this we apologize, and ex, press our deepest and most heartfelt thanks to you, Mr. Y. M. Offret of Wildwood, and to all of your relatives wherever ited and donated by Clyde ‘On another wall hangs a beautiful picture of an eagle, spread-winged and standing on a Bible witha streamer marked is part of- the 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. bat and all officers and mem- 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 present expressed deep School. I want appreciation and gratitude to Barbs kept. ag hid ei bib}1iEei tei demand for them. “Nobody ever asked us what the money goes for,” said a Navy official, “The only interest seems to be in how much He who depends on getting the breaks often goes broke. If you want to borrow trouble, you'll find your credit is good. Wehear there are some good can glimpse them through the commercials. ‘The honeymoon is over when he calls her “Hey!” instead of “Honey.” “It took us eight weeks and cost thou : FORUM RULES oeaeNa Ra e B 5 5 : z a a on “reasearch”projects, as follows: trol established by the Kennedy in 1962, has spent gy Coltado State College got, s1.20 ibd eee —Wilkes Col ege, $19,000 for a study’ Seedteblll ‘wh corale towlnctaten wilt be comiaereds Profencs wit be given ersee short and ogaeAcne Balen ETS eeee _ for & Fetigion or creed. ae 1,800 study, The opinions and So They Say ments expressed by terala ameranyredse |Seecas] ingmy now end it the real andal of us are behind him on it, ~ | J ealDuntemas.However, Wf Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Rinnatlarenmattoa of ““Microstress imately $25 million for Teof ~ gearch out of @ total of $53.831 million dat shpat. fo - This is slightly less —National Academy of ‘of the funds Congress has for an “Aquatic ‘six years of its revealed that as ofJune inquiries, 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 eight other members of the class. 1 will be grateful if any classmates will write to me. Robert F. Oliphant 1900 N. Fitzhugh Dallas, Tex. 75204 eeate sunofdalarstoasemble this dun.” the Arms Con- Only four Alaskan cities -have & population over 10,000. 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 cry in certain emotional situation. In women, crying is excusable. But in men, crying is a mark of Weakness. So goes the American redo with regard to crying.” . “*A little man,’ we of Johns Hopkins University has directly on mi nute organisms called plankton (instead of eating small fish that eat smaller fish that eat plankton), they. are-extremely efficient mechanisms for converting plant energy into aniprotein. It would be a real tragedy, says Pinchot, if the whale were allowed to disappear through human BarryGoldwater om Vietwam. “is trying to prevent the Israelis from pushing farther east.” ture, is identified with childishness, with weakness and dependence. Truth, - It was disclosed “Our chief task,” one U.N. official said recently, Wonder why men don’t cry? Dr. Ashley Montagu, critic at large has this to say about it: “American men don’t cry because it is considered unmasculine to do so, Only sissies cry. Crying is a ‘weakness’ characteristic of the female, and no American male wants to be identified with anything in the least weak or feminine. Crying, in our cul- Don’t Let Whales BecomeExtinct By ROBERT $. ALLEN and PAUL SCOTT Ges see certs Soper, vane sympathize with the Arab view. By B. E. (Bye) JENSEN Inside Washington and Disarmament Agency and the Of- and taking over land the Arabs claim. Take Arab View In this respect, most of the United Nationsofficials charged with maintaining peace along the tense frontier seem to Chairman Mao Emerges from the Long Swim humpback and the sei whale feed ing the Post Office a non-profit several farming settlements in the western half of the demilitarized “zones, and, the state. . Because filter-feeding whales like the huge blue whale, the ment officially at war. And the démilitarized zones, which seemed workable as a temporary expedient have become festering political sore. Israel now claims sovereignty over the demilitarized zone through which runs an unclear demarcationline. The Jews have established By-Line make ideal preformed containers for the whales, which would be relatively immune from predators and easy to keep track of. The waters within these coral corrals quent. The Post Office Department Decause——an Israeli farmer. plowed a few feet of arid border When finally arranged an armistice between the Arabs and the Jews, the Syrians. agreed to moveout of the zones provided archaic system, their own mail occurred in Chicago a while ago will become more and more fre- simply cannot continue operating Israelis trying to cultivate problem deserves to get worse — with sacks of letters from disgruntled constituents. lar coral atolls in the Pacific would reach a point of crisis in which paralyzing jams like the one that source of tension on the embattled 47-mile border between Syria and Israel 7 or content themselves with merely patching and mending an are made soon, it will al April i 2 does anything about it. Anyone who has ever affixed May not be the only answers, or the best answers, to the postal dilemma, he has thrown down & long overdue Il to gress. Postal reform deserves high priority consideration. battle ge The postal service is like the weather: Everyone complains about it, but despite the promises we hear concerning the wonders, science and technology will someday perform, nobody really artillery i Dedicated to the Progress And Growth of Central Utah re flect the views of this news paper. BERRY’S WORLD ‘PASADENA, Calif. —Surveyor 3.project manager Benjamin Miltowsky com menting 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 gadget puts his arms and hands on the moon. It’s really an extension of man himself.” WASHINGTON —America’s first Alan Shepard, testifying with four colleagues before a House committee investigating the capsule fire thatkilled three astronauts: Although a penalty has been paid, it seams to me we can benefit from this penalty. It seems to me the benefit from this accident is to discontinue recriminations and press ahead.” WASHINGTON —Senate Republican leader Everett Dirksen, pressing forward with his hardy perennial resolution to makethe marigold the national flower: “Tt is as sprightly as the daffodil, as colorful as the rose, as resolute as the zinnia, as delicate as the carnation, as es Window By LYLE WILSON By LYLE WILSON The administration has asked Congress to clean up someof ~ the mess in the Job Corps program to head off a congressional bulldozing job on the whole works. : Some sample clean-up proposals: Reduce the annual cost per Job Corps enrollee from $7,500 to $7,300. Establish safeguards against using federal funds for illegal picketing or demonstrations. (Seems reasonable.) Prohibit anti-poverty workers from partisan political activity of any kind or any kind of direct action in violation of law. ‘There is much more. Presubiquitous as the violet, as stately as the snapdragon... a American flower.” Alaska alone has as many species of big game as the rest of the U.S. combined. BY JAMES O. BERRY , f priation for fiscal 1968, nearly half a billion more than Congress appropriated for fiscal to take OEO apart and to assign the disassembled elements vaTiously to other agencies in the executive department. Congress mightstill do that, although the reform proposals now advanced are likely to obtain a reprieve for OEO. An OEO official told Bill Stief of the Washington Daily News that the reform proposals would, put into law what the OEO management had learned in three years. Three years is a long time for an administrative staff to find out what goes on in its own organization. Shriver and his aides cannot be accused of paying too muchalert attention to their jobs. Their outfit would have been better served if they read a daily newspaper and owerGoran attention what Was 88] about their anti-poverty one TodayIn History United Press Today is Wednesday, April 19, the 109th day of 1967 with 265 to follow. ‘The moon 4s between the first |