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Show "Hey, Watch It! That’s a Deadly Weapon!” The Allen-Scott Report | a Proxmire Plans $25-a-Plate {i Dinner To Raise Funds To . Finance His Tough Re-election Intolerable Incompetence of many ‘individual servicemen — not to mention the security of the country—mayde- pend on the soundness with which missiles, planes, submarines and other defense devices are put ther. ouldn’t you imagine, therefore, that workmen and firms who turn these things out would apply themselves to their tasks with extreme care and high dedication? Large numbers plainly do just that. But, as we are learning from the inquiry into the trafic case of the submarine Thresher, some do not. If ever a matter called for full congressional would seem to. ? investigation, this Indeed, enough evidence of poor performance exists to suggest that we ought to have a revival of the militant spirit which characterized the Senate Preparedness subcommittee in wartime. And any probe should concern itself not simply with what happened to the Thresher in the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, but with what happens to other sub- marines and many types of naval eraft when they are being built, overhauled or repaired. Some reports filtering out of these places are pretty frightening. From one yard, a submarine commander examining repairs to his ship’s hull said: Puppet Show “That weld will never hold un- as take a submarine down with a imitation of it in public than they In fact, they can’t help acting like a bunch of puppets on Khrushchev’s string. Remember the premier’s great desk-pounding act at the United Nations a while back? How em- barrassing for poor Andrei Gromyko that he and other Soviet aids had to copy the boss so slavishly. Now a Russian consul and his minions, visiting the home of U President James Monroe in Virginia, have done it again. Handed a copy of the Monroe doctrine by Monroe's great-grandeon, the Soviet consul barked: “The document is completely dead.” Like an echo bouncing repeatedly off the walls, the consul’s little helpers muttered “dead document” until their predictable vote was all in. Of course things must bealittle bit loose inside the Kremlin itself. After all, a few Reds have to be free to argue vigorously when and where to fake freedom next. half. Testimony already taken with ficiencies, on the part of both naval yard workmen and outside, private suppliers of components. Of the vessel’s executive system of hydraulic valves, one in every five was originally installed backwards. The same thing happened to the periscope mechanism. The rudder complex, the air system and other elements were defective at the outset. Some of ‘the proud working folk at Portsmouth yard do not like to hear such criticisms. full-time ‘graduate student at the University of Wisconsin. Frank J. Campenni, 33, was getting $14,596 ‘jas “legislative assistant,” al- though he does not live in Wash- ‘ington and hadn’t done a lick of work in Proxmire’s office. This column pointed out that this curious situation was in strik‘mg contrast to a pet role of Proxmire—of declaiming often and at length about economizing, fiscal repsongibility (a favorite expression) and the need to balance the federal budget. | When Proxmire got wind of this column’s interest in his high- One called them “lumps in-the mashed potatoes.” But when lives—and the nation’s salaried safety—are involved, this is no time to invoke the great alibi of the mid-20th century: “Only a minority were responsible.” A minority of one can send a submarine to the bottom. What goes on in naval construction is only part of what may be a very large and unhappy commentary on certain elements in American labor and management. The Thresher disaster suggests, however, that this is the place to begin digging. News pictures of Cuba’s Fidel Castro parading through chilly Moscowstir many thoughts. It must have! been a comfort to Fidel to ride in a ear for which spare parts and tires with tread could be had. On his somewhat tattered island, the predominantly American vehicles are in generally sad shape. One wonders if the Beard bothered to notice how close a copy of the modern U.S. car was his Americans Should Get Better Acquainted With African Nations shiny Russian conveyance. It is all there — the stainless steel trim, the extra banksof lights, even the V-shaped monogram which in one form or another has become a U.S. status symbol. If Castro will dig a little, he will learn, in fact, that the Rus- sians have become the great copyists in the postwar era. Once it was the Japanese. Now Moscow’s designers, if that is the term, get out their tracing paper and give the Kremlin close reproductions of many American and western products. Russia’s imitations are a form of flattery we would be happyto do without, but evidently we have no choice but to accept this unwelcome praise. WASHINGTON, DC. — Congress. after a slow start, is now approaching the peak of its session. with both Houses dealing with the meat of the New Frontier programs, and i is possible to hage. But in the 1962 congressional elections there was unmistakable proof that the GOP is establishing itself as a sepa-ate political entity in the confederate and border states. While this is a cause for rejoicing in one sense, it also has Tess report. had the effect of driving independentminded Southerners closer to the nation- * Despite the hot vows t® chop up President Kennedy's $99 billion 2l Democratic establishment. Both the Georgia senators voted for the Urban Transport Bill which, even in its reduced amount of Byre of Virginia, the majority of members Mr Alexander still give lip service to the ideal of ecohomy but would not think of missing an opportunity to enrich their own districts, states and personal provinces. The big public works pork barrel bill, having had its fat cut off in the House Appropriations Committee, largely through the unpublicized machinations of the wily Howard (‘‘Judge’’) Smith of Virginia, was restored to porcine fullmess when voted on by the House. The bill is now in the Senate, where the , did establish the Paradoxically, the one program likely way. And while it is desirable to have to be severely cut owes its fate to a non- a muscle-man in the Pentagon, the overall result of McNamara’s presence and power is a further weakening of Congress. No doubt, as the President’s entire program moves along, there will be loud acclamations of House ‘‘headership."’ This would be well enough if, in fact, Mr. Kenmedy were leading Congress where it — and the country — desired and agreed to go. But the signs are that weariness, staleness and futil- Clay's subse- will who have been trying for years to hold down the money that we annually send abroad in search of purchasable friendship. Even though the President will probably get a little under $4 billion im foreign aid, there is a chance that Congress this year will draw some new ity have beset the Legislative Branch. The story is more of failure on Capitol guidelines for doing only what is most Hill than of success at the other end of weeful to the USA — rather than what Pennsylvania Avenue. is most desirable for the recipients Not much noted, but of increasing importance in congressional control of the mational purse strings, is the continued rumbling of the old coalition between Southern Democrats and conservative Republicans who, for years, have kept pending from becoming a (Distributed by McNaught Syndicate, | The opinions and | pressed by Herald | their own and do | reflect the views of _» Inc.) 2 statements ex- | eolumnists are | not necessarily | this newspaper. | 7 employe, he that Campenni would come to Editor Herald: Not manypeople in the United States know very much about the other countries of the world. One of these uncommonly known countries is Africa. Americans who go to Africa mainly as businessmen and missionaries are finally realizing that Africa is an important field for investment and trade. Africa is getting more and more attention from the world’s people because it is growing and becoming a highly industrialized nation, but many things are slowing it down. Many of the people in Africa are undernourished and lack proper medical care. Little has been done to cure the problems for disease, bad housing, lack of sanitation, and lack of transportation facilities. Most of the Africans still use old tribal customs. They still believe in magic and witchcraft which plays an important part in their lives. They usually build their homes of mud, cornstalks, dried grass, or sticks. Because of this the people are unskilled for the industrial work that has to be done. Each year disease takes a large amount of the population. The main causes of these diseases is the poor sanitary facilities, contaminated water, and deadly mosquitoes. Modern hospitals are located in the large cities and missionaries have helped the less populated areas. Help has come from all over the world to try and help these people, but funds are very scarce and people have ignored Africa and have put it aside as an unimportant country, but if everyone would contribute to these funds and give help to these people, Africa’ could soon become an important nation. Susan McNamara 936 N. 900 E. Provo, Utah May Festival At Brookside Praised Editor Herald: I spent a wonderful two hours at Brookside School last week. Those of you who missed the May Festival there missed something « Editor Herald: Much has been discussed about the cramped quarters and bad conditions at the American Fork Training School. If everyone in the county would contribute and get. busy and all dig in like the people in Delta, I’m sure they could accomplish their goal in a short time. I've read of the interest even the children had in getting a muchneeded hospital in Delta, Wegive a dollar for Heart Fund, Dear Mrs. Lawrence: My 8-yearoe) old granddaughter is what ‘in my day was called ‘‘affert- is now busily organizing is avow- edly “ “ed.” I saw this our children the three ‘‘R’s.’’ I guess none of us know what will happen come September, but each of you who had a child in that beautiful performance must realize how vital and important a part their teachers have in the lives of their children. These are dedicated people to their profession, Let us acknowledge this and pay them accordingly. Having taught school in California (civil service), one here has no idea of the difference. We didn’t have one large event — come Easter, Fourth of July, Christmas, etc. Mainly because I doubt very much if the mothers weuld cooperate in the blending of teacher, principal, mother, and child. In our neighborhood it is quite an event. My oldest is at Jefferson, so I get to go to another one. But may I say to the ringmaster, Mr. Jacobson and all his many diligent helpers, please stay. If you make parents feel as proud as we did. Let’s worry about Springville teachers and put up to us the voters in this area when it comes to a salary raise. Mrs. Joyce LeRay 563 S. 300 E Delta Sets Example In Building Hospital Several days later Senate Dem- ocratic Leader Mike Mansfield, Mont., who also faces a tough reelection struggle next year, warmly lauded’ Proxmire for his high sense’ of public responsibility. Mansfield carefully said nothing about Proxmire having had this :high-paid absentee employee on his payroll for eight months and acting only when he learned this was to be published. The $25-a-plate dinner Proxmire By MRS. MURIEL LAWRENCE Newspaper Enterprise Assn. ¢ very great. I have been to movies, operas, plays and concerts performed by some of the so-called ‘“‘greatest,”” but never have I seen so many smiles, laughs, tears and real enjoyment as I saw on the parents and friends who observed this. It was wonderful—thanks to the teachers, room. mothers, and helpers who took the time to please us adults besides teaching together Washington in| June to head his office staff. Mature Teach Useful Phrases | * principle of federal aid (and, hence, control) in the purely local matter of street traffic in Southern cities. In the biggest single item of spending, the Defense Department’s $50 billion request, Congress has become hardly more than a chattering bystander. Again, there are half a dozen strong-minded, well-informed senators qwho struggle to keep the traditional control which the Constitution assigns them, but it’s clear by this time that im Defense Secretary McNamara a Samson has come to the tussle Ironically enough, McNamara is at once both the administration’s biggest spender and the tightest money-manager. He wants to spend less on defense than Congress actually wants him to spend, but he is determined to do it in his own abséntee jsuddenly issued a three-page statement announcing he was repaying the government upwards of $9,000—the salary plus interest Campenni had received since Proxmire put him on his payroll last August. The Senator solemnly explained he was/ doing this wholly on his own initiative, and Mid-Session Report on Congress offer an interim prog- | Last week this column disclosed that the highest-paid employe on the senatorial payroll of the Wis‘consin liberal) Democrat was a respect to the Thresher offers a considerable catalogue of de- Holmes Alexander ww furd-raising dinner in his own be- weak spot in its hull. * Since the Russians like to pretend they invented freedom, you General and his WASHINGTON — Senator William“Proxmire: is adding a new dimension to his favorite oratorial topic—‘‘fiseal responsibility.” He is promoting a $25-a-plate der pressure.” You might as well send a plane up with a gaping hole in the wing Soviets See, Soviets Do would think they'd give a better member of Congress. much-discussed report, By ROBERT S. ALLEN and PAUL SCOTT Springville Boys Town, Easter Seals, asthmatic children in Arizona, etc. Why not someone start a project to help our own county? I’m sure everyone would gladly give time and cash to something that is needed so badly. There aré so many ways in which to raise money. With a little help ai few cents soon make dollars. We ‘should begin at home to help thos¢ who need help. R. Simpson clearly the other day when I took an old friend to visit my son aind © i his family. My Mrs. Lawrence friend gave my granddaughter a small purse vial of perfume the child had admired. We were both. very embarrased by her gushy thanks and affected chatter about how generous my friend was. | i ANSWER: Isit possible that your granddaughter has not been taught use of the plain old phrase ‘Thank you’? | It is a functional phrase. The reason we don’t require social phrases like ‘‘Thank you.” .|. . ‘How do you do?’’ from little boys and girls is that they do not understand: these phrases’ usefulness. We can/|force them to repeat them like parrots, but they lack the experience, that makes practical sense of them. However, at your granddaughter’s age, children are ready : to adopt them as useful, If they are not taught them, then, in situations that call for one of these phrases, they are at a/loss. t Their responses may strike us as “affected” or downright rude. But the truth is, the untrained child is «struggling to improvise words and behavior which he hopes will fit the occasion.| Thus, in her eagerness to express thanks properly, a girl of 8 will sound gushy and ‘affected’ just as a boy will sound too gruff and offhanded. Parents sometimes fail to teach children good manners because they regard these manners as ornamental. Children don’t want to) be decorated. They don’t care about being approved as ‘‘little ladies and gentlemen.” To make good manners accept: able, we have to appreciate them as functional |things. Then we can ‘make sense of them to youngsters. By the time they have reached your) granddaughter’s age, they al- ready have experienced some of the embarrassment we’ all feel when we don’t know how strangers expect us to| treat them and are ‘only too glad|to receive instruction in the conventional phrases of courtesy that e it unnecessary for them to improvise their own. + American Fork to raise funds for his re- election campaign next year Proxmire’s is $25,000. unannounced goal The affair is to be a buffet on June 25, in one of Washington's newhotels that seems to specialize in fund-raising events. No speakers have yet been selected, and other important arrangements are still up in the air. Proxmire has encountered some difficulty in putting together an imposing list of ‘‘sponsors.”’ At least several prominent Democrats, turned him down. Profitable Shindigs—Proxmire’s fund-raising dinner is the latest to be launched. It will be the last if genator Warren Magnuson, Wash chairman of the’! Senate Democratic Campaign Committee, has his way. He wants to concenttfate all fund-raising |in’ his committee, and is utgently appealing to other Democratic senators up for election to support his plan. In return, Magnuson is offering Palmer, wife of how a wife can best help her husband take wins and losses in stride. Knowing when * to be cheery and Ruth Miillett when to be quiet is important to ALL wives. A salesman who has just flubbed a ‘‘sure’’ sale or an i who doesn’t get the ductive, One for Senator Howard Cannon, D-Nev., in Las Vegas, raised $100,000 for his 1964 electioneering. This was a $100-a-plate affair attended by more. than 1,000, A special plane with some 70 Washington notables flew to the famed resort city for the occasion. From their elated accounts, a “‘wonderful time’’ was had by all. Another dinner for Senator Vance Hartke, Ind., in Washington, netted more than $40,000. The charge was $50-a-plate, and close to 1,000 tickets were sold. Next Monday a $100-a-plate dinner is being held in the capital for Senator Frank Moss, Utah. Former President Truman has contributed $25, the only senatorial fund to which he has contributed. Truman, Vice President Lyndon Johnson and Senator Clinton Anderson, N.M., are honorary chairmen of Moss’ affair. Anderson will act as master of ceremonies. President Kennedy will be the big attraction at $1,000-a-plate dinners in New York on fy 23, and in Los Angeles on June 20. Similar affairs also are contemplated in Chicago, Boston and Dallas. No dates have yet been set for them, but they will take place this year, probably in the fall. Funds from these events will go to the Democrtic National Committee. 2 More than $1 million was netted last winter at a combined $1,000- a-plate dinner and $100-a-ticket gala to celebrate the second anniversary. of the Kennedy administration eee Rebuffed — President Kennedy ran head-on into a cool reception when he Sounded out House Democratic leaders on increasing the pay of government scientists to $22,500 — the same amount received by Congress. The President, seconded by Dr. Jerome Wiesner, his scientific adviser, urged this pay boost at the weekly meeting with Democratic congressional leaders. Wiesner warned that unless scientists’ salaries are increased the government will lose up to 50 per cent of them. He pointed out that the present top pay of $20,500 is far short of what scientists make in private. industry. Said Wiesner, “T spend half my time pleating with scientists in the government to stay rather than to take higherpaid jobs outside.” Speaker John McCormack and House Demo- cratic Leader Carl Albert, Okla., stated their chamber would never approve a salary scale for government employes that equaled congressional pay. Senate Democratic Whip*Hubert Humphrey, Minn., favored an increase for scientists —provided congressional salaries are ‘raised. No decision was reached. Puzzler for Medicine--_ Subject of Breast Cancer By WAYNE G. BRANDSTADT, M.D. In spite of progress made in manyfields, breast canceris still | something of an enigma. It is the leading cause of death from cancer in women. It is estimated that one woman in 18 will develop breast cancer at some time in herlife, One fact that has assumed grea-t importance is that there! are at least two types of breast can- Dr. Brandstadt cer, one that depends on the hor- monal balance in thé body, and one that does not. The chances for effective treatment are little better in the hormone-dependent women who are late in starting to have the menopause. Some observers have stated that the prevalence is greater in women who have had no children or who have not nursed their babies, but the evidence is not convincing. Unfortunately, the number of mothers who do not nurse their babies has increased in the last 25 years. But the general prevalence rates for breast cancer have not appreciably changed. Breast cancer rarely occurs on both sides, but women who have had one breast removed for this cause have a 10-times greater chance of getting cancer in the remaining breast than have the geperal run of women. It is a waste of time to try to tie a breast cancer up with a bump bruise received int he near or distant past. A recent bump may be type than in the other. The only lead we have to the cause is that the prevalence appears to be greater in those is in no way- causative. One hopeful aspect of the problem is the fact that about 95 per cent of breast cancers are now This is a result of a nationwide It Takes Some Thinking To Know When to Create Right Silence the great golfer sums up her philosophy of to be seen So far, individual fund-raising dinners have been far more pro- The Doctor Says Ruth Millett cheery and when to be quiet, and * That is how Ae ; Mrs. them $5,000 each this year and at ledst $10,000 next year. How far he will get with that remains promotion he feels is his due is in about the same state of mind as the tournanjent golfer who flubs a crucial shot. Mrs. Palmer didn’t enlarge on her statement) there are silence, to explain different kinds that of , A wife whose husband is upset, or worried; or irritable, can create a hurt silencethat ismore destructive than any kind of inane chatter. : Or she can create an apprehensive silence, wearing a long face that only makes matters seem worse than they are. Neither of these is the kind af silence Mrs.| Palmer was talking about. as What she was advocating is the kind of silence that a happy-hea: understa! |, sympathetic, wife can create just by waiting unobtrusively until her husband is’ ready to talk about what is on his mind, or talking he decides that isn’t going to do any good. To create) that kind of silence, a woman keeps busy at some) pur- suit.of her own but'stays close at | hand so her quiet presence gays, without words, “I'm here, I’m > aa ready to quit everything and listen when and jif you decide you want to talk.” campaign to teach women the technique of self-examination, in addition to having periodic check~ups by their doctors. 4) In case of doubt, your doctor can easily determine the nature of a breaet tumor by getting an To create thiat kind of silence DOES take some thinking. But it is worth the effort. For the ability to be constructively silent at the right time is one of the things (that makes a wife a good com; Ppanion and.a trusted friend, . is the microscopic examination of tissue removed for biopsy. Many a lumpim the breast turns out to be a benign cyst. proved, it should not be Some things for HUSBANDS to consider; ‘‘Happier Wives (hints for husbands).’’ Just send 25 cents ‘\ta Ruth Millett Reader Service, +o Daily Herald, P. O. Box 489, Dept. A, Radio City Station, New York 19, N, Y. ered a forerunner of cancer, the other hand, pain of origin that is present on only side and does not disappear two or three weeks be son enough for a nation by your lisile The lives lh MONDAY, MAY6, 1963 |
