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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON MONDAY. OCTOBER 21, 1963 A 5 y and Stop Me By BENNETT CERF- L'UDV HACKKTT tells of a morning in Las Vegas when he erucicd a drug stoic to buy a packet of aspirin. The druggist, a true La.-, Veguaite, proposed, "I'll match you double or nuihing. Kackctt lost the toss and vent out with two head-tchei. DOUftLC OA At least some of Amer ica's juvenile delinquents );ave brushed up on rhil csonhy. Here's h ki;cnd that one of thorn chalked ip on the wall of the Times pquare subway s'.Rtion: 'Schopenhauer is a finkl" i After a long editorial conference, a book publish er in our town took one of Jiis most productive and thirstiest authors for ft spot of re Jivshment in a neighboring" bistro. No sooner had they seated themselves than a waiter set down a tray nearby with twenty martinis on it. The publisher and the authGi gratefully imbibed ten martinis npicc. Then they discovered that the tray was intended for a fatty of twenty in the next room. C 1063, by Bennett Ccif. Distributed by King Features Syndicate l 1 r ? "'1 t f bv' W I, I t., .n: t'4 v4 ISA Your Money's Worth By SYLVIA PORTER Cpyrifkr, Hall Syntfican, Inc. St'tt'fcSS APPARENT lbs success scorns apparent as Brit ain s Lord Home leaves No. 10 Downing st. in London to re port to Queen Elizabeth that he is able to form a new govern rient. He was named Prime Minister to succeed Harold Mac millan, who resigned. (LTD. 5 ri::tn V .. - ' " 5 4Z t ,1 . 1 i AmJ v i ! 1 a ? . THAUING WITH ItLSSIA Strictly from the viewpoint of jobs, paychecks, profits and our dollar, any significant increase in our trade with the Soviet bloc could only be a big, bright plus for all of us. You may have plenty of reservations on other grounds about raising our trade with the USSR and its satellites. The risks in the spheres of national defense and politics (domestic and international) are obvious. But you cannot downgrade the im pressive gains to us in the economic-financial sphere. To be specific, the increase trade would: (1) Directly create jobs, paychecks and profits throughout the country. Trade is trade and any rise in our exports to any country willing to buy and able to pay has this stimulating im pact. (2) Ease our tax burden. We are spending huge amounts to store our commodity surpluses and support farm prices. As our surpluses were sold, our storage costs would decline and the effect of the sales on farm prices well might eventually cut the costs of our farm price support program too. The estimate is that this one wheat sale to Russia will save us, as taxpayers, about S225 million in storage and allied costs during this fiscal year. (3) Reduce the federal budget deficit. As the funds from sales of surplus commodities came back to the Treasury', the budget would get a windfall. The wheat sale will illustrate this. (4) Help stem the drain on our precious gold reserve and thus safeguard the dollar. Russia is paying and would pay us for her purchases in dollars. Thus contributing to closing the gap between what we spend abroad and what we earn abroad. Any factor narrowing the deficit in our balance of payments bol sters the dollar. (5) Strengthen the currencies and trade positions of the Western world in general by adding to the West's supply of gold the basis for all major currencies and the foundation for trade. Russia already has sold major quantities of gold in the West to get dollars to pay for wheat. (6) Open new markets (or our goods at a time of intensify ing trade competition between us and the Common Market. There's a ceiling on what we could sell to the Soviet bloc, for there's not much we want to buy in return and sustained trade must be a two-way affair. But even the near-term potentials for sales of our goods to the East are spectacular. The giant wheat sale to the USSR has at last forced the issue nf blast-West trade into American homes which is fine. For far loo long, (he hard facts about the extent to which Western Europe has been expanding its trade with the Soviets while the United States has been the oulsider-looking-in have been buried by eniotiun and politics. The key hard fact is that while we have been pursuing the equivalent of a next-to-nothing trade policy with the Soviets, our allies have been vigorously bootsing their sales to these areas. Whatever the virtues of our tough trade policy, the truth is that, as one of the nation's top experts on Russian trade put it in an interview, "We are not depriving Russia of anything by not selling to her, for what we won't sell, the Russians can readily get in Europe. What we have been doing is depriving U.S. businessmen of tremendous sales while businessmen elsewhere have been moving in." Here's the evidence. Ilcm: In 1962. Western Europe sold the Soviet bloc $2.1 bil lion of goods against our sales of $123 million. To Russia alone, we sold a picavune $15 million in the entire year. Most of the rest almost $95 million was in sales of surplus farm com modities to Poland. Item: In the area of machinery and transport equipment the richest potential market for trade with the Soviets wc sold only $7.6 million in 1962, one-hundredth or Western Eu rope's exports of $756 million.' Item: While Western Europe's sales to Eastern Europe have jumped 21 per cent since 1960, United States sales to Eastern Europe actually have shrunk 35 per cent. While our total sales of manufactured goods to the Soviet bloc were a scant $11.2 mil lion last year. Western Europe's sales of manufactured goods were $1.5 billion. For many reasons, we may continue our embargoes on ex ports which the Soviets easily can get from our friends. But if so, we will be, in the words of the conservative Journal of Com merce, "Just biting our nose off to spite our face." BY T5ICK WC5T Mme. Nhu's Dance Ban Has Support Coast Areas on Tidal Wave Alert SAN FRANCISCO (UPD-For the second weekend in a row, an earthquake near Japan put the Hawaiian Islands and the California coast on a tidal wave lert. And, for the second weekend 'rJ How to get ready for a happy retirement. 1. Avnirl over-eating. 2. Keep in pood shape. 3. Cultivate a hobby. 4. Save all you can now. Saving can mean the difference between "really living" or "existing" after retirement. Flan ahead. Open a savings account with us and add to it regularly. Excellent earnings. CURRENT DIVIDEND 4,4o PER ANNUM ( and LOAN ASSOCIATION 201 West 6th Free Customer Parking in Our lot Robert F. Kyle, Mgr. Welcome the United Crwad Worktr when he call on you for your ne-.yar support L'niiod Press International i WASHINGTON tUPI) - In the past fortnight virtually ev ery newsman with access to the public print has had a go at I South Vict Nam's Madame Nhu. I There is something about this I incredible and controversial lady that is journalistically challenging. She has the same effect on newsmen that Mt. Ev erest has on mountain climbers. Not being an expert on Asian affairs, I wouldn't attempt to weigh the impact of her U. S. visit on relations between her country and America. There is, however, one facet of her career that I am more than qualified to appraise. I re fer to her action in banning dancing in Viet Nam. If Madame Nhu feels that some unkind things have been written about her, she might like to know that on this issue i at least there is one American I newsman who is with her 100 ' per cent. Being one of the most dedi cated non-dancers in the West ern Hemisphere. I regard her anti-dancing edict as a boon to humanity. "My country is the only coun try in the world where we nev er danced," Madame Nhu ex plained when asked about the ban. "When we meet, we enjoy ourselves." Bravo! Well said! There are few things on earth more dele terious to enjoyment than danc ing. Imagine a land that is free of the gavot, the minuet, the reel, the jig. the hornpipe, the cake walk, the quadrille, the waltz, the polka, the mazurka, the scholtische. the two-step and the in a row, the threatened tidal wave amounted to little more than a ripple in the Pacific. The earthquake struck north of Japan Saturday night. Civil defense officials in Hawaii sounded the alert on all islands and ordered the evacuation of all beachfront areas. But the tidal wave measured just one foot as it passed Mid way Island and was even lower when recorded at Hawaii. There was no indication of whether the wave ever reached the California coast. fox-trot, not to mention the highland fling, the rhumba, the samba, the bossa nova and the twist. Imagine a land where a man can take his wife out to dinner without first surreptitiously checking to make certain the joint doesn't have a dance floor. Imagine being able to go home from a party without hav ing your companion of the evening berate you for making her teel like a wallflower. Imagine never again being in formed that you have insulted ; the hostess by not asking her to dance. I I'll tell you, chums, if Ma-, dame Nhu s policy were uni versally adopted it would elimi nate the singlcmost sedulous source of marital friction. Possibly she deserved some of the criticism sent her way, but any woman who takes a stand against terpsichorcan torture can't be all bad. The greatest name in bourbon...historic Enjoy its finer tastetonight $5'JQ, THt 010 CSOW DlSllLUir CO.. FRMfORT. HY. hlNlUCKf SIHIGNF BOURBON KWSKEY 86 PROW Vitamin Intoxication Often Mistaken for Tumor, Meningitis By DliLOS SMITH UPI Science Editor NEW YORK (UPI) - What I itching, dry skin, enlargements of liver and spleen, anemia, headache and skin rashes. Thn ai-rtnlnal rnro ttirniwl mil makes a vitamin A intoxication , to be simpic Snc was deprived a horror to a physician is that of her vitamin A. its signs can be confused with i Soler - Bechara and Soscia those of a brain tumor. And i s aroused they made an i ...-.i, r oi.,o mnn exhaustive study of what mcdi- also with those of serious men- , sdence nas earned ingitis, chronic encephalitis and ( vjtamin a intoxication since the infectious arthritis to name a 1 first case was reported in 1944. few without mentioning ncuro- j They reported this study to a tecnmcai publication ol the American Medical Association. There have been only a few cases of acute intoxication, in small children and in arctic ex plorers. The former got huge single doses of vitamin A from solicitous mothers; the explor ers got their huge single doses by eating the liver of the polar bear. Others Chronic Cases The others were chronic cases "and these may exist for years without recognition", they said. "The present-day sales of The complaining physicians were Drs. Joaquin Soler Bechara and John L. Soscia of New York's St. Vincent's Hos pital, and theirs were the latest scientific voices raised in alarm at the fabulous rate at which Americans now dose themselves with vitamins. They had just completed a 36 - day hospital study on a 39 - year - old female secretary who for years had been dosing herself heavily with vitamin A, in oArWWnn In mult i nlp.vit amins. i. .h hnnf it wnniH hnktnr vitamins emphasizes the aware- her fading energy. One sign of I "ess that must be exerted by ,.;t,in a intnviraiinn it pn. 1 physicians. Drugstore sales of vuamin prouucis reaenca vitamin crgy loss. Arrav of Signs Her bewildering array of ma tal of $250 million in 1WS0." 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