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Show ‘We Oughta Stop Making These Things!’ BruceBiossai LBJ Top Showman; mor FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, lees score enough figures he’s =o musical “The exciting ‘70s dians At every pins reading ‘ or ‘the other is bound to happen. ‘Disease Can't Happen to Me’ nine million came to these shores. through gaps in airport fences ioe? eager, outstretched All of us, ultimately, trace back to immigrants. getting people to take preventive health measures is the eppeneet The contribution of each of the scores of nationalities and ethnic , natural feeling that “It can’t groups to the country is scarcely calculable. America today is not happen to me.’ And the more serious the dis- a homogenous alloy, the product ease and the greater the belief that it is incurable, the stronger this feeling seems to be. of the so-called “melting pot,” but a fabric made of many intermoven cultural strands. This was the most important fact to come out of an 18-month survey recently concluded by the University of Michigan School of Public Health. If each nationality were given a color, the history of the nation would be seen as a multicolored, At one time or another, a single color is dominant—first the English, then the’ the country, selected as a typical northern Europeans,the Irish, the cross-section, Eastern and Southern Europeans, the Chinese and Japanese. It is not always a pretty pat- their attitudes to three diseases of varying severity: tooth decay, tuberculosis and cancer. tern. There is a black hue, the only one .forcibly added to the that other people were more like- In the study, 1,500 adults across It has been kept apart, as the old pattern, about In each case, the majority felt ly to contract the diseases than they themselves. But with the most of: the others were at first, before they gradually interwove with were “asked most serious of the three, “the though of contracting cancer would seem to be. . . so painful adding freshness and strength. Nothing: could be more fitting that almost a third of the’people . could not admit it at all.” than that the buildings of old Ellis Island,’ which represented the end of a long journey and the With such an attitude, it is no surprise that 90 per cent of the beginning of hope for so many millions of Americans, should become ‘a museum dedicated to interviews had not had a cancer their story. that health educators place less It is even more fitting that Udall’s announcement be made at this time, for. it coincides with the publication of John F. Ken- emphasis on the seriousness of cancer and TB and start stressing test during the previous 10 years. The researchers recommended science’s growing ability to detect and cure these diseases in their early stages, even before: any nedy’s last book, “A Nation of Immigrants,” on which he was symptoms are evident. Holmes Alexander Johnson Pitches Appeal To Mothers of Draft-AgeBoys IN DIXIE WITH LBJ-—There was a population explosion when President Johnson twice declared in Memphis that he would never press a button to “wipe out 300 million Americans” — which is about 110 million more persons than the nation contains. There was a segregated brass band of 78 Negro high schoolers, playing boogie-woogie, and another segregated band of 120 white children, playing most- ly military marches, at the Memphis airport —-and another 38 segregated bands along the streets — but the President stoutly pitched his southern speeches to the theme of unity between the races. : There was nothing whatever in the eampaign which calls for Barry Goldwater to make war and for Lyndon Johnson to refuse to fight a war if an ' _. enemy should force one. Both candidates are pledged to peace, one thr greater “preparedness” and the through continued “restraint.” There is certainly nothing that Americans can do on November 3rd to mollify the policies a good crowd, with good people, once in - a while,” he declared. _ In Chattanooga there was a homemade streamer raised directly in front of his speaking platform, reading, “TVA —television-Austin.” ‘“‘LBJ — LyndonBaker-Jenkins.” At one point, the President d in his speech for several mom to stare at what seemed to be an altercation between rival banner-bearers, and to ask, “Anything wrong down there?” But what might have becomean ugly disturbance quickly subsided, and for the most part the President relied on light sarcasm to squelch what Goldwaterism was present. Referring to the Arizonasenator’s ubiquitous billboard portrait with its motto, ‘In your heart, you know he’sright,” the President hit the laugh button: “You don’t develop and do what’s right by saying so on a billboard.” “Men don’t talk about their integrity When he climbs onto the roof and Cuba. But the President pitched his appeal to “the mothers who-must supply the boys” and: “the boys who must die in the wars.” told. his listeners He asked his audience to vote ‘‘your conscience,” and ‘‘to go into that*polling booth and do what you knowis right in your heart.” The President’s campaign ‘was ending —ao ° There was a sick man, a former presi- é going over. ° 7 ’ Bia Hustling along an. airport © i hand- to catch a child’s ed, confidence, ot to say a homely’ © word to an old gaffer ih a Téxas’ hat like his own. ey In astreet crowd, he stack’ ” out his cheek, expecting a Kiss ” from a four-year-old girl. She didn’t deliver, so he gave her a ’ quick buss. Now and then, as at the MernPhis airport, he finds a you of that old baleony-| Douglas Fairbanks, back x oe , it was really His hands, once battered, touch-and-go. He took a mom- and PAUL SCOTT WASHINGTON — West Ger- and Paris, France would produce the. proposed Davy Crockett substitute with West Ger- man financial and other assistmany and France are exploring ance. the possibility of developing and producing their own tactical nuFrance already has considerable know-how and some manuclear weapons. facturing facilities in this wea| These portentous informaldiscussions are taking place in ponry. Paris and Bonn between high , Three per cent of NATO’s tacmilitary and diplomaticofficials tical nuclear warheads are of the two countries. That is French and British-made. These known to State Department and mobile weapons have destrucPentagon authorities. tive- power ranging from 40 to gsi tons of TNT. The other This profoundly significant 97 per cent of these arms are backstage development is a diAmerican. rect outgrowth of the Johnson administration’s un announced The Bonn government’s decidecision several months ago to sion to proposition the DeGaulwithdraw the Army’s most mole regime on the joint developbile tactical nuclear weapon — ment of a new tactical weapon the Davy Crockett — from U. S. was based on a report by Dr. combat\forces in Europe. Richard Jager chairman of the influential Defense Committee That was ordered by Defense of the Federal Parliament — Secretary McNamara with the following a mid-September full: knowledge and approval of meeting with Secretary McNaPresident Johnson. mara/in the Pentagon. It was When this secret action was at this talk that Jager learned by: this column on Oct. of the. Johnson ,administration’s 9, lacHesanen directed his press determination to recall the Davy chief to flatly deny it — despite Crocketts from Europe in three the following indisputable facts: years. : McNamera had two, discusWhen Jager and the members sions with important West Gerof his committee returned to man officials on stripping U. Bonn, they immediately strongS. fighting units in Europe of ly recommended to the Erhard the Davy Crockett; this publicregime that overtures be made ly- disclaimed recall is fully to Paris on a joint undertaking known in NATO and other Allied . to meet this serious reduction in headquarters; Washington is front-line fire power. aware that as a direct consel The committee madestill anquence, France and West Germany have initiated steps deother far-reaching recommendation — that France also be signed to provide their own tacsounded out on a joint venture tical nuclear arms. to produce a mobile medium Withdrawal of the Davy range ballistic missile (MMCrockett, to be spaced out over RBM). Neither France nor West three years according to what Germany have such missiles. McNamara told the alarmed Presumably, the proposed MMWest German officials, will mean a serious cut in fire RBMs_ would be armed with power. * warheads developed under the A light and highly mobile joint tactical nulcear arms plan. The MMRBM recommendaground weapon, the Davy tion stems from what the Jager Crockett is operated by two group considered a deliberately men. It has a destructive equivmisleading assurance by Mcalent of 40 tons of TNT, and its Namara. principal use is against personDuring ‘the Defense chief’s nel. However, it is equally efconference with them, he stated fective against tanks and fortiunequivocally he would give fied positions. In field training careful consideration to Bonn’s exercises, this arm -has repeatrequest for an MMRBM. West edly proven a decisive battle Germany considers the speedy factor. development of such a missile WHAT THEY’RE PLANNING — Under the counter move ap-' essential to offset a dire: Soviet threat, parently contemplated by Bonn BERRY’S WORLD But the scars have their big’ a white rose just given him. Mr. Scott Allied intelligence has definitely established that the Reds” have more than 50 nuclear- armed MMRBMs in East Germany. Several weeks after the Jager committee returned home, it learned that McNamara had canceled anig project for an prea At Memphis, reporters’ faces brightened. as the President started slashing whole parawoe from his. pr remarks. The joy was Paatlived: He tacked on an inspirational post script that went on and on. Growled one newsman: tember 11 — about a fon before his conference with the West German legislators. The Jager committee’s recom- were unanimous. They were signed by Dr. George Klesig and Dr. Gerhard Stallenberg, two leaders of the Federal Parliment, and the other five committeemen. Under present U.S. policy, no nuclear weapons are stationed in West Germany which could reach Russia. When McNamara informed the Jager group of the plan to withdraw Davy Crocketts, he ex- ADD W. GERMANY . plained this was due to disturbing défects_in the weapon. He carefully made no mention that this is emphatically denied by the Army. These privately sharply critical military sources charge When he straight-talks, in his role as President of all Amer- Pinion polls to take another -re- ./ 2Ssuring He finds ¢om- .! icans ofevery hue. and political fort enough in the warm, hum-— cry, he is the binder of wounds, the healer of rifts, the calm him., Good SurgeonCan Correct* Forward Buckling of Chest” be broken and reset in a more: normal alignment. 5 Qu I am 15 years old. Ever since I was about 1-year-old I have had what is known as Q—The doctor says my grand- é son has infantile cortical hyper-? pigeon breast. What can I do about it? Will it hinder my participation in sports? Will it make me short of breath? A—Pigeon breast’ is a con- gential condition in which the breast bone in the center’ of | swelling in one or more ofthe. . bones, some fever cr: ank-| the chest buckles forward. In ° ness. Usually the involved bories are tender to touch and the severe cases, there may be pressure on the heart and a infant: prefers. not to move Davy Crockett is part of a decrease in the volume of the Johnson administration decision to remove from U. S. com- _ lungs. This could make you completes ; bat forces all tactical nuclear short-winded and hinder your Q—About eight. months ago | athletic endeavors. A good weapons not equipped with the my daughter, 8, was’ hogpitalichest surgeon can correct this electronic lock system that condition. This repair operation ized with a strep throat, Since gives the Presiednt sole control her return from the hospital * is highly desirable if the deformover their use. her temperature ranges from ity is causing you any trouble. U. S. strategic nuclear wea98.6 to 99.8 and. she has freQ— My 15-year-old daughter pons now have such electronic quent sore throats. She is takis bowlegged and is very self locks. ing penicillin tablets twice a conscious about’ it. What can day: to prevent rheumatic fever. i be done for her? ewe these temperatures seri- ° A—This trouble is now prevented in infancy by gine oiAlthough 98.6 is given as” vitamin D in the form of the normal temperature ond 4 liver oil and by moderate nts Letters from readers are inalthough many persons rarely i A few vited. They should be as conspite of adequate cod liver oil. cise as possible, with a limit Nonsurgical correction is sucof 350 words. Letters longer cessful in many younger chilthan this faust be cut. Typedren, but 15 is a little .old for write if possible, double spaced. this. If the condition is truly Letters must carry writer’s a handicap, the bowed bone can true name and address. Pseudonyms are not permitted. The Herald assumes no responsibility for Statements in the Mailbag column. -The Herald reserves the right to reject or edit letters which are too long, that the covert recall of the FORUM RULES Ruth Millett -Here Are Things To not in good taste or pariety BY JAMES O, BERRY = healed. nearly lost his balance. Riding «: ing folk in Memphis their off from one of his street stops, airport fence with of old he stood on the car’s running _ fire, hose, hoping to hold ews board. In his hand he clutched fresh da’mage. point. Comments an observer: Use of Own Nuclear Arms By ROBERT S. ALLEN DI ent to hitch up his pants and Inside Washington i or contain statements deroga- tory to any religion or creed will be rejected. Do OnIn-Law Visit So you’re off to visit a married son or daughter. You won’t wear out your welcome if you'will just remember that, you area guest and try to.be a gracious one. ‘ PRINCESS ROBBED ROME (UPI)—Princess Maria Jose del Drago w.auae of $4,000 Thursday whil -ing through the Enjoy your| teescts nell vee ee ee enae on the subject into practice, now let them havetheirs. s : opbest Sto pesstion: oar in thar here as the * casé may be — has to work. Most young men have to work hard teakherdaf tmemeing ne ‘k hard at nome-making ranean. mcdcrt wap IAeastontle ame homemaker feel pi t’s following, and ona bold nda of his opponent's be on. did in Memphis, and women don’t talk abouttheir virtue, if.they haveit.” But, again and again, the President of Communist leaders in Russia, China ~. was borrowing from his rival’s repetoire. es ee of his glass-top limousine for a little street corner spiel, as he West Germany,France Study Medical people have found that one of the\biggest obstacles to he doles out ” or shaped like western hats, poking them under the English Channel. One their lives and fortunes, what little fortunes they may have had, on this new experiment called America. At the peak, in the first decade of this century, nearly with Lyndon’s little: -carnival, which moves... u first offered beads to the In- course) represented the greatest mass migration of people in hu- ed by 1974. The 1970s looks like an exciting manhistory. \ décade. Men plan to go to the In the 180 years between 1781 moon by then; men plan to drive men, women and children staked was doing Memphis and Baltimore. There could have been no greater dispenser of trinkets well, the tunnel could be complet- and 1961, more than 42 million : it srety: aiastha. dete dap rhe showte wats bo tpleve and a year of negotiating, work could begin by 1967. If all went The immigration movement toAmerica (whichstill continues, of fabric. ee fully painted vehicle called Air“. Force One. we has stood abandoned in New York Harbor, just beyond the Statue of It’s official—or pretty muchso. Liberty. Shortly, says Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall, The much talked about tunnel he will present a plan to President under- the English Channel—the ‘Johnson whereby the island and dream of visionaries, the strateits buildings will be turned into gic wish of Napoleon, the ambia park, with gardens, promenades tion of practical-minded engineers —is now a “certainty,” says forand an immigration museum. The latter, suggested some time _mer British Minister of Transport ago by the National Park Service Ernest Marples. According to Marples, after anand countless private citizens, is other year of preliminary survey what will make the park unique. evolving pattern. i from place to place in a cheer- If people offer smiling faces and fluttering hand waves, he laws S processed ‘through it, Ellis Island i brass. immigration have today. since the last American-to-be was ea overhauling of the excessively restrictive ever ¢, wee £ years. the horn section for gutsier neta apes 10 8 symphony conductor entrea te i last ee ee Completed by his brother Robert, it makes a plea for the Z ‘the 8 working at the time of his death. Ii-seems certain that the United States in the near future will have a new national park, one that will be unique in the world. For E = fb Unique Salute to Immigrants 3z Today's Editorials lem$. Make the man of the way handles the children’s the house ‘ with the way he is protiing for his tami. What you ca In honestypraie i erin the Young sop’ ei, ofthem. ae |