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Tuesday, January t, 161 r "Would You Relinquish Four Million Bucks To Become Secretary of Defense?" Herald mtdfttto NOTHING SPECIAL (W. I. S.) HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Ort. Q Size Of The Dilemma , The government of course has no inten tion of disclosing how many big hydrogen bombs we have stored against the prospect of war. But there is inevitable interest in the informed guess by Dr. Ralph Lapp, atomic scientist, that our backlog of bombs comes to around 1,000. When Lapp, s pioneer in U.S. atomic bomb development, made his estimate, he was thinking only of those weapons big enough to destroy a major city. And he pointed out that we probably have sufficient nuclear ma terials on hand to build another 50,000 H bombs. We must assume that Soviet experts have long since made the same kind of informed calculations that Lapp has done, and thus that Khrushchev understands thoroughly what would hit him if he struck first at us yet somehow failed to crush our power to re taliate. If Lapp's estimate is anywhere close to accuracy, perhaps the most interesting thing about it is the "safety margin" our stockpile teems to provide. ; Obviously there are not 1,000 big cities on earth that are worth wiping out for military purposes. Indeed, less than a dozen H-bombs might prove decisive in a nuclear war if they should be delivered successfully over the prop er Soviet targets. Certainly, awareness of our tremendous H-bomb backlog and our additional nuclear weapons potential must be the big thing which gives the Russians pause today. It can hardly be a comfort to them to know that their coun try could be substantially ruined by 12 bombs, even though they might earlier, in a surprise attack, have demolished 988 others we held in reserve. We cannot forget, on the other hand, that a relative handful of H-bombs delivered from Russia could also inflict colossal damage on the United States. Successful retaliation would be small compensation for gazing upon the ruin of our great cities. Dr. Lapp's estimate underscores afresh the need to search urgently for some sort of disarmament agreement, embracing all pres ent and possibly future nuclear powers. Whether the bombs in the racks total 50 or 50,000, they should never move from there except to be transferred from the stockpile , to the junk pile. ..,''.'' The world must hope fervently that this will happen before even one is delivered over a target. With new nations threatening to gain the nuclear weapon, time may be running against us. Now Is The Time : ' Crisis and near-crisis have been the rule for the United States and the world almost continuously since World War II. In that 15-year span the earth has in many ways been made over by the great boom in population, the accelerated industrial-scientific revolution, the emergence of countless newly independent nations. Overlaying all these fundamental changes has been the unrelieved tension enforced by . the struggle between freedom and Communist tyranny. The accumulation of unsolved problems Is immense. The complexities of the age al most defy unraveling. ' ' No one dares contemplate whether there is somewhere a breaking point beyond which the world and this country cannot move suc cessfully under this crushing load. But this much may well be said right now: From here on, any American government worth its salt must operate at two major levels. Certainly this goes for the Kennedy admin istration. . .' . , On the one, it must attack the immediate problems declining employment in a sag ging economy, the outward, flow of gold and , our deteriorating international economic posi tion, the lag in the building of schools, houses, roads, the threat to Berlin, nuclear testing and disarmament, the menace of communism in Asia, Africa, Latin America. . : On the broader level it must begin to find means of coping with the vast shifts in the world's and this nation's make-up. The population boom is world-wide. It is also an American phenomenon. Every as-, pect of our life is affected by it. How do we propose to meet the problem? . , We have built a massive economy whose , wage-price structure rises so high that some of its products now seem beyond the range of markets both here and abroad. - As this structure goes on soaring, it adds untold billions to the cost of our absolute ne cessities not only schools and houses and roads but public facilities of many kinds and the general upkeep of our swelling metropoli tan centers. ' ' ' We see before us the paradox of unpar alleled economic potential and great cities . wondering where those needed extra dollars will come from. Our people multiply in record numbers, their needs mount, yet we cannot bring our selves to .think that we must add to already mountainous tax burdens to meet these prob lems. , So the richest nation on earth has gen , erally inadequate police forces, insufficient hospital and other. welfare services, transpor ' tation systems bogged in financial troubles, cultural enterprises that wallow in a sea of deficits. : ; 1 ' The long-range crisis is more than "mate rial," it also touches the spirit. We have slipped into a mood of comfort and conven ience and disorder. We seem to demand above all that living be fun and that it be easy. ' Thus it is that our young boys, raised on the world's fullest diet, find themselves out done by British girls in tests of physical prow ess. No wonder juvenile gangs must attack in the ratio of 8 to 1. In his campaign, President-elect Kennedy said he would ask sacrifice of the American people. Perhaps no promise he made is more important to keep. v If this nation is to move on its high road of destiny,' it must be called to a new mood of hard work, service, fulfillment of obligation, discipline, order, deep caring for what lies beyond one's own door. , It is already late. The time to start is now, January, 1961. " BARBS Award Winner If you're constantly losing yours, don't expect it to be easy to get ahead. With poor roads and wintertime ice, speed can easily lead to rocking nd rolling. . A failure is a guy who is satisfied to ge a slap on the back just 'cause he's coughing. Many a husband gets an awful charge out of what his wife buys. . Mixing drinks isn't so bad its mixing drunks. Don't ever guess you can beat a train to a crossing. You may never have another guess coming. The smart man discharges his du ties promptly and gets rid of them. Every time we think of winter ga loshes we feel sorry for the fat man. Head colds this time of year are Bothini to sneeze at just with. ACROSS llBMLasker Award winner, Karl Paul (Irving Wrifht . and Edgar Allen wera co-winner with ' ( They found new drugi to combat blood diseases II Nautical term 13 British money of account 14 Girl's nam 15 Sport IS Chum 17 African antelope (var.i IS Through I Natives of Latvia 21 Exist 22 Mariner. , direction 23 Utopias 24 Poetic contraction 25 Horse's (alt . 27 Em 29 Church seat SI Collection of sayings 32 Before 33 Augment 34 Moon-goddess. 34 Discern 39 Diminutive of Ronald 40 Drunkard 44 Soak flax 44 Roof flnial 47 Bacchanalian cries 43 Swiss stream . 43 Seines 1 Shoemaker's Implement tt Forefather 33 Allowance lor wsste 34 Golf mound 65 Domestic slsve M Essential being 37 Make a mistake 33 Promontory DOWN 1 Laplander 2 Sickest 3 Closer 4 Lock opener 3 Espected ( Angry 7 Mediterranean Island 3 Blood money (Llgulste(bot) 10 Son of Geb 11 Assessment It Educated I Answer to Prevlou Puiile '- i u n am i 4 i Eos 5 ; Star u sEjsj it e IB o R iu wIElel iciua f LJelg I IAINIT C BIAIO NIRIAI 20 Defame 28 Unclosed 23 Wanders Idly SO Pronoun 31 Rough lava 34 Saddl animal 33 Joins 37 Eulogies 38 Longs 30 Annual IncosM irr.) 41 Egg-shaped 42 Potency 43 Lsmprey fisherman 43 Large plant 30 Ssinte (sb.) 32 Oriental cola 12 14 rrr . . i6 u il " il 14 i n pi 1 -fT" BT "11 a a a a- a- 11 rrt 1 L-l-ar lq .if L-' a in srpr ' - irrr s - - a- irprpr - a rr a o a a C - si t a n a a n 9 1 1 1 1 1 1 m Kennedy Attitude Indicates Sensitivity To Public Pulse Ay JAMES MARLOW Associated Frets News Analyst WASHINGTON (AP) - President-elect John F. Kennedy shows all the signs of being highly con scious of public relations and, perhaps, public reaction. Whether this will affect his pres idency by deterring him from some step which may create ad verse public reaction remains to be seen. One example of his awareness of public relations, particularly in timing and maximum publicity, is the way he announced his top appointments. Another is his willingness to have his news conferences broad cast" by television and radio while lie's' holding them. V ' Here's another: A woman re porter asked him a question and . identified herself and her organi-. ration. Instantly be told her a story carried by her publication was ' inaccurate and he would have to look into it before dealing with her further. Here's another: At the time his new son was born he was walk ing through the corridor of the hospital when he spotted a report er from a national magazine. He offered congratulations on a story it had carried. So he's cither personally keep ing abreast of what's being writ-' ten or he's made it his business to be kept well-informed and up to date by his aides. This is in contrast U President Eisenhower who once publicly said he did not do a lot of news paper reading. There is also a contrast be tween the two men in the way they publicly handled their cabin et appointments. Eisenhower, after winning the 1952 election, announced the selec tion of his nine-man cabinet two and three members at a time. This meant that in a relatively few days the complete cabinet se lection had been reported in tho press. And Eisenhower acted fast. He made his first announcement by Nov. 20, 1952, and was finished by Dec. 1. Kennedy took his time. His as sociates let it be know n he was seeking the best advice he could find before reaching decisions. ' He didr.'t announce his first cab inet appointment Connecticut's Gov. Abraham A. Ribicoff as sec retary of health, education and welfare until Dec. 1. Then day after day although there were some lapses between days he ticked off this cabinet. . He'd come out of his George town home here, stand in the freezing cold with his latest ap pointee, name him, make a state ment praising him and explain ing his selection. And the new man would make a statement. He an nounced some of his appointments while he was at Palm Beach, Fla. News photographers and tele vision cameras duly recorded all this, day after day. But because of the way he han dled all this, each appointment by being the only one on a given day got the maximum publicity in the press and on TV and radio. It would seem reasonable to think Kennedy deliberately chose , to do it this way because it is unlikely he was actually reach ing decisions on a day by day basis. For example: The Kennedy in ner circle told reporters at least 10 days before Arthur J. Goldberg was announced as new secretary of labor that the decision on Gold berg had already been settled. It is noteworthy that Kennedy hasn't stirred up any very strong reactions,, from . liberals or con servatives, by his cabinet choices who can probably best be de scribed as a group of liberal-conservatives. Kennedy's cabinet may be a complete reflection of his own views and have no connection with any concern of his about pub lic opinion or reaction. But it is at least the kind of cab inet which gives him as he soon starts on his presidency a mini mum of handicaps in the form cf strong opposition. Kennedy's vice president, Lyn don B. Johnson, who was leader of the Democrats in the Senate, made a career of following a mid dle ground and was extremely sensitive to what was said and written about him. If Kennedy follows the same road this may turn out to be a middle ground administration. Other Editors' Opinions Al manac By United Press International Today is Tuesday, Jan. 3, the third day of the year with 362 more to follow in 1961. The moon is approaching its last quarter. The morning star is Mars. The evening stars are Venus and Mars. On this day in history: In 1866. Edwin Booth, in re tirement from the stage since his brother assassinated President Lincoln, made a comeback when he opened in "Hamlet" in New York. In 1876, the first private kinder garten to offer free instruction opened in the home of Samuel Hill at Florence, Mass. In 1935, 90 per cent of the peo ple living in the Saar voted for reunion with Germany. In 1942, Japanese invaders started their siege of Bataan in the Philippines. A thought for today: English essayist Walter Pater said: "Re ligions, as they grow by nalural laws out of man's life, are modi fied by whatever modified his life." . 'KEEP GOVERNMENT POOR' From the New York Dally News By former Representative Sam- THEY SAY... A deer slung across the fender . of a car is coming to be as big a status symbol as the car it self . . . There is little differ ence between the man who feels he must own the biggest house on the block and the man who feels impelled to bring home the big gest buck of the season. . Prof. Carl Carlozzl of New York State College f Agricul ture. The paramount goal of the Unit ed States was set long ago. It is to guard the rights of the individual, to ensure his develop ment and to enlarge his oppor tunity. ' ' From the report ky President Eisenhower's Commlssioa M National Goals. I hope and pray that I die a poor man. Mori-Is Morgenslern, New York millionaire and philanthropist. In America we still respect the dignity of the individual, and even an unsavory character is not to be imprisoned except on definite proof of specific crime. Judge Charles Clark at U.S. appellate court which over turned conviction of 2t me who attended Apalachli, N.Y., gangland "coavcalioa." I blame myself. I blame my self and I blame the townspeo ple of Lamont for the crash. The crossing should have been protect ed by lights . . . Maybe it will smart up some of the people. Paul Nvchk of Lamont, Al berta, where 17 children died la school bus-trail ratllsioa. uel B. Pettcngill (D.-Ind), in the publication spotlight: "Not one of the extensions of Socialism could be put into effect without money. Cut off Ihe money supply and the power to borrow and you stop them in their tracks. As (Thomas) Jefferson said, 'We must make our selec tion between economy and liber ty, or profusion and servitude. "Harry Hopkins gave the for mula for Socialism tax, spend and elect. Yet, ' because they failed to grasp the grand strat egy of freedom, various groups exhaust themselves on scattered tactical skirmishes good in them selves, but largely futile in the face of this overpowering flood of money. "(Associate Supreme Court) Justice (Oliver Wendell) Holmes used to say, 'We must strike for Ihe jugular and let the rest go.' I would urge no one to abandon the fight lor his own program or group, but the No. 1 plank in all platforms must be the exact re verse of the Hopkins formula 'Reduce taxes and spending, es pecially at the federal level. Keep government poor and re main free.'." THE GOVERNMENT PAYROLL From the Nashville Banner ' One out of every seven persons employed works for a gov ernmental agency either at the Federal, slate or local level. It costs about 33 billion dollars to support the payrolls covering the eight million government workers, 2.3 million of which ar on Federal jobs and the remain- der on state and local payrolls. And the Tax Foundation esti mates that by 1970 there will be 10 million persons on government payrolls. It costs each family in the na tion $610 to maintain this army of workers And if the estimate for 1970 proves correct, it will cost nearly $800 per family. In 1950. it cost each family $340 to meet these payrolls. The one out of seven statistic is for civilian workers only. Big government requires big payrolls. Some time ago we discussed in here whai were considered the most expressive words. Now comes the 10 most dramatic sounds in everyday life. See if you agree with the list compiled by a group of psychologists who apparently had nothing better to do one day. For their first choice they took a baby's first cry as the most dramatic sound. They agreed this sound carries a variety of emo tionshappiness, excitement and a tinge of sadness. Number two on their list was a siren i.e., the ambulance, police or fire si rens. There is a direct associa- ' tion, they thought, between this . sound and the automatic .fear, ex citement and emotional upheaval it causes subconsciously. Follow ing these two were the other sounds chosen for the emotions they contained and evoked: Thunder of breakers on a rocky beach: "Its melancholy, long withdrawing roar" of the poet Matthew Arnold, which has brought the surge and mystery of cosmic power to so many cen turies of human beings. The roar and crackle of a for est fire: The danger of a fire is one of the basic primitive fears.' Anyone who has witnessed tho roar -of a forest fire will never forget- the terror and strange grandeur of the spectacle. Fog horn: Its low melancholy wail suggests the drama of hope, warning and helplessness. ' The slow drip of water: Monoto . ny itself possesses a strange kind of drama. Each halting drop be comes a minuscule of eternity. Gallop of a herd of horses: Strength and beauty of unbridled animal life. Sound of conflicting rhythms suggests drama of wild animal life. Footsteps on a quiet night: The drama of adventure, the unknown. ' Whistle of a train on a' still night: Combination of the unusu al and acceptance of one's cir cumstances. Howl of a dog: Regardless of what canine cause (or canine emotions arousing the call) it sug gests the drama of loneliness of the individual against the world. Yes, I know. Any father can tell you that the baby's first cry might sound dramatic to the psy chologist. But, it's those cries for' the 2 ayem feeding that arouse the most emotion in papa. LOOSE ENDS: Check this if you want to, - but chances are that you will make 231 phone calls this year. ... You might be interested in knowing that the weight of a man's clothing is four times heavier than a wom an's. . . . No, I'm not going to tell you how I found out. ... It is reported that the average homemaker washes 26,000 dishes a year and spends 9't years of her life just making meals. . . . Speaking of meals, our middle one asked al the lunch table the other day, "What does six and six and six make?" What? I asked. "Three sixes" he rejoined. . Two women were gossiping on a stairway one morning and they were discussing the marriage of a sweet young thing. "Have you heard how she is getting along since she got mar ried?" asked one. . . "Oh, she's getting along fine." replied the other. "There's only one thing the matter." "What's that?" asked the first. "Well," was the reply, "she just can't stand her husband. But, when a person gets married, there is always something." And we know that all Texas gentlemen aren't like the bird wo read about the other day. He ex plained to the judge why he beat his wife with a broomstick at regular intervals, to keep her from going to church: "I want to go to hell, and I want her to go along." This is lift. At five Ihe youngster says: "Tha stork brought us a new baby." , At 10: "My Dad can lick any man twice his size." - At 15: "Girls are blah." At 20: "Just give me a chance. I'll show them." At 25: "The system is all wrong; there should be reform." At 30: "In a few years people will wake up and demand their rights." At 35: "I'd be rich ' if I'd stayed single." At 40: "Give me another, and a larger bottle of that cure-all tonic." At 45: "I'm sick of reform ers." At 50: "Thank God, I've got a comfortable bed to sleep in." At 55: "I was mighty lucky to pick such a fine woman for a wife." At 60: "I feel as young as I did at 25." At' 70: "I don't know what these young people are coming to." Joke: A guy had been trying desperately to make some head . way with a beautiful tomato, but she always looked upon him as if he were a stopped up sink. Fi nally one evening they had dinner-together and everything was perfect. They drove into the coun tryside and parked. The beauti ful tomato sighed and said: "I think I'd be in the mood for ro mance if the top were down on the car." "So," said the guy, telling a friend about it later, "30 min utes later I had the top down." Said the friend with amazement. "Thirty minutes? Why, I can get the top down in two minutes." "Yeah," said our hero. "But you've got a convertible." Weill, I've been warning you to send in some of your own stuff to help me fill this corner. THE DOCTOR SAYS Teen-Agers Should Beware Diet Fads By HAROLD T. HYMAN, M.D. Written for Newspaper Enterprise Assn. As if the housewife hasn't diffi culty enough Ihese days in choos " ing, buying, preparing and serv ing the family meals, certain nu tritionists are now informing teen agers that they "have the free dom of looking over what's avail able and selecting foods and re jecting others" in order to devel op a "personality plus" or to improve Iheir "figures." In one pamphlet I have before me, youngsters are told that "the food you eat can play a part in the kind of person you are now and the person you will become by its effect on your appearance, your performance and your per sonality." In another, they are told that, while body build is inherited, fig ures are "built." And the teen ager who wants to build "curves where curves were meant to be" must adjust her diet to conform with her figure requirements. Now I am perfectly willing to ' grant that it would be difficult for an undernourished child "to be radiant, fun, full of pep and spar kling laughter." This is a matter of the young ster's disposition at the moment. It is not a matter of personality H 1 have a correct understanding of the meaning of personality. I am willing to concede, too, that the fat youngster might put in a better appearance if she lost some weight and the skinny youngster if she gained some weight. But I do rot concede that a weight loss in the first in stance and weight gain in the second instance w ill put "curves where thoy were meant to be." I am willing to concede also that Ihe chiles ho is a victim of a dietary insufficiency would hava clearer skin, better vision and stronger bones if given a diet that compensated for deficiencies of vitamins and minerals. But I am not willing to concede that ad ministration of these vitamins of minerals, in food or in supple ments, will accomplish anything for the child whose nutritional needs have been met since biilh by the foods that grace the table set by every conscientious house wife. For myself, 1 do not think it in the best interests of a teen ager to make her any more "figure-conscious" than she is today. Nor do I think it in the best interests of teenagers to concen trate on developing a "personal ity plus" that consists of a "nico smile, pretty skin and a figura set off by becoming clothes, pos ture and grooming." These are not the values that will prove of much service u a generation that may be called on to fight for maintenance of the freedoms and democrat ie principles for which we and our forefathers struggled, bled and died. The Communist menace will not be defeated by figures, personal ity pluses or by "selecting somo foods and rejecting others." For a copy of Dr. Hvman'i leaflet "What About Cancer?" send 10 cents to Dr. Hyman, car Herald and News, Box" 489, Dept. B, Radio City Station. New York 19. N.Y. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS . Q How does printing rank among U.S. Industries? A It's among the lop 20 in sii. I
