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MONDAY. FEBRUARY IS. 1963
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etancourt, Due in Washington Tuesday, Veteran of Political Strife
Caracas, Venezuela - IUPH -When
President Romulo Bet
ancourt of Venezuela lands on
the White House lawn in a
helicopter ' Tuesday, he will
have reached Washington the
hard way.
En route, he has tamed a
political volcano and done it
in his own way, in his own
time. Few presidents any
where have survived the com
bination of forces and stress
es which have hammered Bet
ancourt in four years of strug
gle to make democracy work
in Venezuela.
First Trip Abroad
Bctancourt has triumphed
largely on the strength of his
own wit and will, without
succumbing to the temptations
of iron-handed rule.
Bctancourt's trip to the
U.S. the first leg of a
state tour that will also take
him to Mexico and the Dom
inican Republic marks the
first time he has strayed bc
y 0 n d Venezuela's borders
since taking office on Feb.
13, 1959.
His visit to Washington re
turns one President Kennedy
made to Venezuela in Decem
ber, 1961. Kennedy received
at that time what was up to
then the biggest public recep
tion of his political career.
The simple fact that Bctan
court can leave his own coun
try, perhaps one of the Unit
ed States' most strategic and
psychologically important
'cold war' allies, is proof of
his confidence in the strength
of the democratic foundation
he has laid.
Bentancourt was elected to
office by trade unions and
peasant groups. He since has
welded them into a potent
and militant political force of
1.2-million members. Their
support has enabled him time
and again to ride out political
storms in four years of ef
forts by the right and the
left to oust him.
Not Tool of Military
He has governed with the
support of the armed forces,
but not at any time allowed
himself to become a tool of
the military.
It is for labor and the peas
antry, traditionally ignored in
150 years of independence
during which Venezuela was
ruled almost constantly by
dictators, that Bctancourt has
done the most.
Fortified lately, although
not at the start, by nearly
$13 million in U.S. alliance
for progress program funds,
Bentancourt has initiated an
A Lo-Fi Fellow
Attractive Girl Assemblying
Hi-Fi Kit Depresses Dick West
By DICK WEST
Washington - IUPH - One
of the most depressing things
that has happened to me re
cently w-as
meeting an at
tractive young
gov eminent
girl named
Sharon Hen
derson. Ordi
narily, I do
not find at
tractive young
gov ernmcnt
girls depress
ing. Under certain circum
stances I might even find
them stimulating. But Miss
Henderson is different.
Miss Henderson is building
her own hi-fi system. Better
she should spend her 'ime
making opium pipes or in
somo other comparatively
harmless pursuit.
I was introduced to Miss
El
Weil
Henderson by a representa
tive of Harman Kardon, Inc.,
one of those electronics firms
that market hi-fi kits for as
sembly at home.
Hsrman Kardon select
ed Miss Henderson to dem
onstrate its point that wom
en can put together a hi-fi
kit as well as men. Mist
Henderson told me she is
getting along beautifully
with her kit.
"There's nothing to it," she
said. "Just follow the book
and you can't miss."
I suppose the nearest I ever
came to a nervous breakdown
was the time I purchased a
kit that purported to contain
the components of a stereo
amplifier.
There were about 5,000
loose parts that theoretically
fitted inside a metal cabinet
scarcely larger than a cigar
box. I finally abandoned the
The Family Council
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Harry U, I'm finished i through the same post office
handing out gifts to that that brought the gift. This
bunch. dictum comes whole-hog out
Nottie R. Don't be hard of the etiquette books, as well
on them. They're thoughtless as out of a normal person's
sense oi ncccncy. in uouung
project after discovering that
I had soldered a rheostat to
my 'wristwatch.
This experience automatic
ally made me resent Miss Hen
derson's competence, but that
was not what caused my de
pression. The broader impli
cations of her hobby were
what I found disturbing.
I am referring to the sin
ister ponibility that hi-fi
addiction, which already
has transistorised a large
segment of the male popu
lation, will now become
prevalent in the previously
immune female of the spe
cies. If so, civilization as we have
known it is dead.
Already, It is nearly im
possible to attend a party
that isn't dominated by a
bunch of sound system buffs
woofing about their tweeters.
This customarily leads to
a demonstration of the host's
machine, particularly I h c
prowess of its volume. The
true test seems to be whether
it can shatter a flower pot
in the adjoining room.
For a lo-fi fellow like me,
the only refuge is to join in
conversation with the ladies.
And if Harman Kardon and
Miss Henderson establish a
trend, even that escape hatch
will be closed.
ambitious land reform project In his government the num.
that so far has given nearly ber of persons attending
four million acres of land to schools hat risen by 44 per
53,000 peasant farmers. cent, the number of teachers
Small Worlds
Around Us
By LYNN M. WATKINS
(Register and Tribune
Syndicate, 1963)
Nothing Could Look Worse
Than Last Year's Bird Nest
Few things, or even peo
ple, could look much worse
for wear than a last year's
bird nest. This expression rep
resents just about as low a
point of decrepitude as could
be imagined.
Over the years we have
coined many expressions that
speak poignantly of an un
kcpl or run-down-at-thc-heel
condition. We say an object,
or a person is "coming apart
at the scams," coming unglucd
or unhinged, or looks like the
"breaking up of a hard win
ter." But few things, even
at their worst, could really
look as messy as an unmade
bed or a last year's bird nest.
The overwhelming majori
ty of people probably have
never seen a newly built bird
nest for these objects are
carefully obscured by leaves,
or hidden in some oul-of-the
way place. Once the nesting
season is past, and the con
cealing foliage has fallen, the
nest becomes visible. Then
the analogy between the mos
siness of an unmade bed and
the abandoned nest becomes
glaringly evident.
A Little Pathetic
There is a great deal that
is more than a little pathetic
about these now untidy ob
jects of grasses, sticks, strips
of bark, straw and mud. Once,
for a single season, in the
golden days of summer, it
was the birthplace of a lit
tle family: a few tiny bird
children that were very dear
to a feathered couple were
born in that structure.
Like a very old house that
is now abandoned and in a
sorry slate of repair, whose
family has long since depart
ed, the bird's nest, too, was
once inhabited; around it, and
in the fabric of its form, arc
woven many memories. Like
the old house, the bird's
nest, too, was where the
children were born; joys and
troubles were shared there,
inside those now crumbling
walls. . ..
Sadder, too, if possible, is
a last year's bird nest, on the
bare branch of a tree after a
snowfall, its untidiness hid
den; it now becomes a small
mound of while. That melt
ing snow will later cause a
sogginess in the old nest. ,
Reduced to Dust
The mud will drip away;
the small sticks will detach
themselves, fall away and be
come lost and brittle on the
earth. All the elements of
Nature will align themselves
against this now useless ob
ject. The rain will come, the
frosts of last winter and the
winds will tug at the loose
nest. Time itself will work
to reduce this small structure
to dust.
Like the "breaking up of
a hard winter," the nest, or
the very old house, will fall
to wrack and ruin. Those who
were born there, or those
who loved it and shared its
shelter, arc gone; maybe they
have forgotten it, too.
The old nest has served its
purpose. Last year's bird nest
was intended to be a passing
thing, a nursery for a single
season. The parent birds did
not build it for the ages. Man
really doesn't build for the
ages, either, in spite of the
boast that he docs. All his ef
forts, too, are in vain.
In a relatively short space
of lime in Nature's calendar.
a few decades at best, his most
magnificent structures will
fall to wrack and ruin. In but
a little time, as time is meas
ured by the hand of time, his
buildings will look but a lit
tle better than a last year's
bird nest looks the second
year.
by 47 per cent. His regime
has built 1,322 schools, near
ly double the total built in
the preceding 54 years.
Though the first years of
his regime were marked by
economic recession unem
ployment reached 12 per cent
and the nation's economic
growth slowed to less than
one per cent a year the
economy now - is showing
signs of recovering.
Annual Growth Rate Seen
A recently-announced four
ycar development plan fore
sees an annual growth rate of
seven per cent and the re
duction of unemployment to
four per cent.
At the same time, Betan
court has taken steps to di
versify the economy. During
his reign the country's first
steel mill Latin America's
second largest has been
put into operation.
Agricultural production is
Condemned Slayer
Shipley Granted Stay
To Appeal Case
Salem (UPH Condemned
slayer Larry Shipley, 21, Fri
day was granted a stay of his
Feb. 28 execution date by the
Oregon Supreme Court.
The stay was granted to
allow Shipley's appeal to the
U:' S. Supreme Court. Shipley
was convicted of slaying a 16-year-old
girl.
The American Civil Libcr
tiosUnion had announced ear
lier ' that it was appealing
Shipley's case. , .. .
A
"People
are
talking
about
the '
Kiwanis
Kapers"
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up nine per cent from a year
ago and is expected shortly
to take a larger role in na
tional income.
All of this is "insurance"
against the day, if it ever
comes, that Venezuela's oil
riches fade away. The coun
try is today the free world's
No. 1 oil exporter.
Survived Four Revolts
What Betancourt has done
and is doing has been ac
complished despite tenacious
efforts to unseat him. He has
survived four major military
revolts in four years. He also
has been subjected to heavy
pressure from outside.
In June, 1960, the late Do
minican strongman. General
issimo Rafael L. Trujillo, en
gineered a plot to assassinate
him. Betancourt escaped with
his life, but he bears t h e
scars of the plot on his face
and hands.
More recently, Bctancourt
has seen Cuban Premier Fi
del Castro try repeatedly to
topple him through subver
sion and even through actual
training of anti-Betancourt un
derground terrorists.
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Harry U. This docs It.
Here II is February and not
a word of thanks from my
Connecticut cousin for the
Christmas present I sent. Out
of the 30 out of town friends
and relations I mailed pack
ages to, he and his wife arc
tile only ones who haven't
bothered to acknowledge
theirs. I know they received
it, because I have the return
receipt. And this isn't the
first lime they've shown no
appreciation for my pains.
They Ignored my wedding
gift to them and a birthday
token for Mai.
Now that a baby is due I've
decided to show them how I
feci about their carelessness.
There'll be no contribution
from nic, even though this
will be the first baby in the
next generation. Too bad its
parents have no manners.
Nettie R, I know my
brother is particularly hurl
by Mai's silence, because he
and Mai were great friends
as kids and he still feels the
old affection for him. Maybe
it's because I don't feel so
close that I don't mind getting
the same treatment. 1 figure
that's their way. They're real
ly nice kids. But either they
don't follow the rules of eti
quelle, or else each one thinks
the other sent the card. I
know that sometimes happens
with me and my husband. We
wouldn't want anyone to drop
tis because of that.
1 won't let Mai's oversight
stop me from giving them a
baby present. I'm sure there's
a good explanation. Eventual
ly we'll hear from them.
The Council: As Nettie says,
there's surely a good explana
tion for such cavalier beha
vior on the part of tills young
couple. A blunt, if cynical,
one would be that this Is their
way of saying, "Go ahead and
give, if you want to be a
sucker. But if you insist on
a thank-you, wed rather not
have you give us anything "
Since there seem to be no
occasions when these cousins
can meet face-to-face for a
verbal acknowledgement, a
written note from Mr. and
Mrs. Mai is a must. It can be
as brief as one word: thanks.
But it should go off promptly
It, Mai and his wife (particu
larly the latter, since social
correspondence is a tradition
al duty of the distaff side) are
making their feelings elo
quently clear. Their silence
speaks loud. It says, "Dear
cousins, Please gel lost!"
In sending this pair pres
ents repeatedly, despite their
failure to notify him of their
receipt of or reaction to same,
Harry has given them "over
time" benefit of the doubt.
His next, and filial, package
should be a big gift-wrapped
box of nothing. He won t
mind getting no thanks for
Hint! Strangely, however, it
may evoke his first thank-you
note from Mai. It will read,
"Thank you fur nothing!"
It's true that one doesn't
bestow presents for the sake
of thanks. A gift is a symbol
of friendship. One uses it to
say I like you and I hope
this brings you some pleas
ure. But if there's no re
sponse at tlic other end, where
is the friendship? It takes
two, Just like in a tennis
game. Mere Hurry kept on
serving, long after Mai walk
ed off the court.
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