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IIERAL0 AMD NEWS, KlanQh, Falli, Ore, Thnnday, October J, 1M1 i O . oliticffl Fortune 0 PACE -A e o NOTHING SPECIAL (W. I. S.I ". For those of us who had hoped for some dramatic or world-winning statement from President Kennedy in his address to the Unit fed Nations Assembly, that we experienced a ;big disappointment is putting it mildly. ', - At the same time, we understand and ap preciate some of the limitations the President labored through. However, for all of the high sounding talk, we think that the United States is still on the defensive in the international word game. Still, we must admit that the President's talk cut some of the margin from the Communist lead in the race of words and propaganda. The United States, often driven onto the 'defensive by clamorous Soviet slogans on dis armament and Berlin, has the makings now of a new initiative which could have forceful impact around the world. For years the Kremlin has trumpeted, with undeserved effectiveness among the world's naive and gullible, that jt favors "general and complete disarmament." All specific, enforceable proposals advanced by others have been dismissed as obstacles to the broad goal. Never has Russia defined the means by which this objective would be achieved and safeguarded. ' President Kennedy,, speaking for free men weary and troubled over Soviet efforts to preempt this field by hollow slogan, seeks to take back "general and complete disarm ament" as the proper possession of those who mean sincerely to establish and enforce it. In his United Nations address the Presi dent spelled out main elements of a general plan now offered to the U.N. He struck direct- . ly , at the Kremlin's false front on disarma- - .PY!1' How "What's Happened to Patriotism"? That striking and chilling question ;forms the title of an article in a current maga zine. The article is condensed from a speech made by Dr. Max Rafferty, Superintendent of 'Schools at La Canada, California. And his opinion is that we have, in effect, been mak ing patriotism obsolete. He says: "We have been so busy educat- Ing for 'life adjustment' that we have forgotten to educate for survival. Words that America once treasured as a rich legacy,, ,' that once 'sounded like trumpet calls, we have allowed to v fade from the classrooms and the conscious ness of the pupils; 'Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable. . . .' 'Wo Lhave met the enemy, and" they are ours . . .' '-'Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute. . ., .' In too many of our schools you An urgent domestic problem has to do with "backdoor" financing for federal projects of various kinds. There are a number of de vices employed in this, but all of them have one thing in common they raise and spend billions in ways which evade the Constitu tional provision that the House of Representa tives shall have control of the nation's purse strings. In other words, when the "backdoor" 'approach is used, Congress loses, practically if not literally, its power over appropria tions. This Is a very important matter indeed. According to Representative Pelly of Wash ington, writing in Tax Review, proposed back - Birthdays Sad Affairs? 7; By ARTHUR LORD Dear Arthur: I grow older and I hate it. Each birthday that comes makes me sadder, uglier, and unhappier than before. I so wish I could find the birthday joy I had as a child. Why have I lost it? ' G.A. .. Dear G.A.! Poor G.A. Don't you realize that it Is never pos sible to celebrate a birthday as you did as a child? A birthday to a child Is an elusive moment whfli the entire litUe world that he "knows looks to him, praises him, gives him gifts, and withes him well. You cannot recapture the child's Instantaneous joy of being little and being alive. Unfortunately, most of us try. The fn ration of our futile attempts is what makes most birthdays so sad. Dear Arthur: What a hideous man I married I For 39 years we bickered and fought. The only Restoration Of Perspective About Patriotism? can search for these towering phrases in vain." He adds and this is certainly a matter of the utmost significance: "Patriotism feeds on hero worship, but education during the past three decades had deliberately debunked the hero. The quest of the Golden Fleece has been crowded out of our textbooks by the visit of Tom and Susan to the zoo." In sum, in too many cases our schools em phasize the trivial, and minimize the vital. Unless that trend is reversed, the nation will face the darkest of futures, in which standards will wither swiftly away, cheap material con siderations will outweigh all others, and we will have neither, the will nor the ability to survive the attacks of a determined and dedi cated enemy. A Duty Abandoned door spending measures before this year's Congress added up to nearly $24 billion. And since 1932, $140 billion in backdoor borrow ing has been authorized, while only $65 bil lion has so far been repaid. An example is the $13 billion owed the Treasury by the Com modity Credit Corporation. There is grave doubt if any large portion of this loan ever will be repaid, according to Mr. Pelly. Congress has no greater duty than that of controlling the spending of the people's money, and appraising and debating every budget. In the case of backdoor financing, that , duly is abandoned. thing that kept us together was our daughter Carla, a beautiful girl who was born when we were in our 40s. Well, when my girl entered college, 1 decided to call it quits and got a divorce. Now my ex is galavanting around with a middle-aged woman and making a perfect fool of himself. Of course, lie says he's in love. He says he's found someone who understands him. My daughter loves him in spite of his outrag eous behavior. How ran I bring Carla to her senses? Barbara Dear Barbara: If anyone needs to be brought to her senses, it's you, Barbara. In the first place, Carla is no child. She's going to make her own decisions from here on out and you'd better act Oed to It. In the second plate, who are you to be legislating love especially between father and daughter? In Uie third place, "General and complete disarmament must no longer be a mere slogan, used to, resist the first steps. It is no longer to be a goal with out means of achieving it, without means of verifying its progress. ... It is now a realistic . plan, and a test a test of who is only willing to talk and who is also willing to act." On the issue of Berlin, the Soviet Union tries endlessly to persuade the world it wants only a "peace treaty" with East Germany, and that the West is making warlike preparations to block that aim. Again, Kennedy spoke sharply to the point: "It is absurd to allege that we are threat ening a war merely to prevent the Soviet Union and East Germany from signing a so called 'treaty' of peace. "The Western Allies are not concerned with any paper arrangement the Soviets wish to make with a regime of their own creation, on territory occupied by their own troops and governed by their own agents. No such action, can affect either our rights or our responsi bilities." ' Thus the president lays open the Kremlin fraud that peace in central Europe hinges on conclusion of what amounts to an internal Soviet-East German agreement. The real dan ger, he stresses anew, is the Soviet threat to the freedom of West Berlin's people, to our rights in and to that city. As he applied himself to the Kremlin and disarmament matters so badly misunderstood in so many parts of the globe, Kennedy per formed an important exercise in the restoring of vital perspectives. Free men must hope that the President's listeners at the U.N. are capable of the bal anced understanding he credited them with when he spoke. ' whatever your ex is doing is none of your business any more. So for your own sake and for the sake of a healthy relationship with your daughter, leave her alone. Don't speak disparagingly to her about her father. Dear Arthur: It is disgraceful tlie way young girls ran around the beaches this summer. I am liberal minded, but Bikini bathing suits leave nothing at all to my imagination. It's like free bur lesque. Don't you think something should be done about Bikinis? ' Standard bearer ' Dear Standardbearer: Yes, we should have none of theA. By the way, when was the last time you attended burlesque ami free burlesque at that? Dear Reader: Please send your questions to me. Arthur 1ord, in care of this newspaper, took for an answer to those of general in terest in future columns. Writer Observes Dissension In Third Year Editor's Note: Nearing the. end of his third year of power, Fidel Castro is facing increas ing problems in bringing about communization of Cuba. In the following dispatch Milton Carr, who has reported Latin Ameri can affairs for 17 years and re cently returned from a month in Havana, pinpoints growing dis sension and Castro's counter measures. By MILTON CARR United Press International A painting was hung recently in the lobby of the National Bank of Cuba. It depicts an attack eight years ago on an army barracks, marking the start of Fidel Cas tro's campaign to overthrow the government of Fulgenck) Batista. In the painUng are Castro, his brother, Raul, and others who took part in the July. 26, 1953, attack. In the upper left hand corner Almanac By United Press International Today is Thursday, Oct. 5, 278th day of the year with 87 to follow in 1961. The moon is approaching its new phase. The morning star is Venus. The evening stars are Jupiter and Saturn. On this day in history: In 1881, Spanish painter Pablo Picasso was born. In 1931, Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Hcrndon Jr. completed the first nonstop flight across the Pa cific Ocean. They arrived in We natchee, Wash., 41 hours after they left Japan. In 1954, Italy. Yugoslavia, the United States and Great Britain signed a pact setUing the parti tion of Trieste. A Uiought for today: British writer Charles Dickens said: "De testation of the high is the invol untary homage of the low." Land or Sea ACROSS 1 Set giant 6 M natter of the i 11 Corridor 12 Weird 13 Standard! of perfection IS Natural 1A Grown on land 17 Short jackets 19 Hill iScoU 30 Seaman's term B Ceremony 10 Sharp 14 Female saint lab.) 15 Change to opposite 18 Whirlwind 21 Hebrew month 22 Distant (comb, form) 23 Squad 24 Bear '26 Smalt pastry .11 II...,: l.l. -J ' Al it Always .10 Forest creature, vJC!?" . si Rock? .k iiST" sorrow AS East (Ft.) 38 Interpret 37 Stay 39 Ijind plant 40 Wealthy on 44 Bustle 47 Gastropod molluslt 48 Land viper SI Weeaellise animal M Cleaner Idial ) S3 Fall (lower M Roman magistrate ,S7 Set anew 69 Transactions DOWN 1 Rest in paUetK 2 Conceal 3 Sailing 4 adv Literate in Art lab.) 6 Lamprey , fisherman Feeli 7 Land bin) Nomad . Of Castro's Regime are crossed Cuban and Communist flags. This is a measure of the extent to which Castro and his associates have gone in the swing, no longer disguised, of Cuba to-communism. Cuba today is a country beset by food shortages, inefficiency and growing dissension. Shortages, which have become more acute in recent weeks, have set people to grumbling particu larly the housewives who spend much of their time standing in line for food and other essential items. Castro's . move to communism has given many Cubans cause for second thoughts about their na tional hero. But the bearded prime minister still enjoys the support of a large segment of the population and he has taken the necessary measures to prevent those who do not agree with him from doing anything about it. With each passing day, Castro adds to his stockpile of weapons which already exceeds that of any other Latin American country. His internal network of spies, inform ers and political commissars is growing, along with his armed forces. Each residential block and each center of employment has its Com mittee for the Defense of the Rev olution (CDR), a group of five persons whose function it is to spy on their neighbors and fellow workers. By recent official c4mt there were more than 100.000 such committees in Cuba half a mil lion informers in an island of 9 million inhabitants. Houses are searched without . warning, often late at night, and their occupants carted off to jail if a weapon or anything sus picious is found. A letter from a person outside of Cuba, a name in an address book, a short-wave radio might be enough "evidence" of counter-revolutionary activity. Jails and prisons are so crowded that many prisoners sleep on bare floors. In this atmosphere, the once- Amwer to Previous Puzile EH 41 Soul iF.Rypt) 42 Lubricant 43 Lose blood 44 At a distance 45 Legal term 40 Table scraps 4ft Land mass 40 Vend 50 President (abJ B2 Scottish sheepfold 54 Fniit drink i ABCJ.2 Av B2yi 2 i & 3 E E U I L 22 ,, , .11 i gBAegjE-ZS, SIPIA 3qWpa rIsIe mIeIii mMM itmsB r-rTTrr-i . it is n r, rj ra rnp a rj ir; n ' ' ' ' a ' ' ' ' ' 5I H IB M ' ' IT 'H M IH B. O "1 t ki W ' ft ii i4 1 v nrpp" i 3 p 5 sr 1 si 57 9 1 J j 1 I I I I i happy, fun-loving Cuban is forget ting how to smile. Doctors report an increase in the number of pa tients with nervous disorders. Vio lent arguments erupt on the streets and sidewalks over inci dents that normally would have gone unnoticed. One thing that strikes the return ing visitor to Havana is the im pression of general inefficiency under the socialist system. Serv ice in nationalized stores, hotels and restaurants has deteriorated markedly. Waiters and clerks ap pear sullen, with no desire to serve or sell. Many of the present shortages, aside from those items formerly imported from the United States, can be attributed to inefficiency in government handling of agricul tural and industrial production. The government explanation is that more people are consuming more under the socialist system. OTHER EDITORS' OPINIONS The Lady Who Went To Dinner (The Wall Street Journal) . There's no doubt about it; we just don't view with equanimity all the signs of progress in this world. And certainly not the prospect that our summer evenings will be full of instant potato salad. Real potatoes are a real man's dish. Even just boiled they are palatable, if you can escape the parsley and sprinkle them with salt, pepper and butter. And when they are baked long and lovingly in the oven, or finely sliced and fried just to the right point in a big pot of deep fat, then they are truly delectable. But in summertime there is some deep affinity between the fe male spirit and potato salad, which is a concoction of tired spuds which have slumbered long in the refrigerator and are ce mented with mayonnaise to odds and ends of old celery, cucumbers and radishes. That the sum is less than the whole of its parts makes it a rarity in the culinary arts. The saving grace, at least at our house, has been that it is some trouble to prepare. It was not, up to now, a dish to be whisked out on a moment's notice; it required a bit of foresight. So there have been many nights this summer ("It's just too hot to spend the day in the kitchen") when we enjoyed instead a juicy, man-sized hamburger. So now. we see by this newspa per, somebody has thought up "in stant potato salad." All you have to do is drop it in boiling water, and there you are. The very thought made us telephone the lady at our house and. at long last, invite her out to dinner. QUESTIONS O AND ANSWERS IJ Who would succeed the Vice P&idcnt If he should die In of fireT A The office would remain va cant until the next election. I believe that last Saturday was the first deer season opening day in many a year that I didn't get to take a picture of the proud slayer by his killed deer. Some compensation, though, came when Ken Pallies called to see if we wanted a picture of his 400-pound black bear, And that is quite a hunk of black bear. Most people have larger dol lar, incomes now than they had In 194$, just after World War II. But that doesn't mean that we have higher real incomes a term which covers purchasing power for taxation and infla tion have worn away the worth of the dollar. If a married cou ple with two children had an in come of $3,000 in 1946, they need $4,756 now if they stayed even a jump of 59 per cent. And the percentages are pretty much the same for all other income brackets. A man and a rather shaggy haired boy walked into a barber shop. The boy climbed into an empty chair and the barber went right to work. The man sat and watched a few minutes, then got up and left the shop. Minutes passed. The barber, through with his cutting, began whisking away the loose hair and said, "Looks like your Dad forgot you." "Oh, he ain't my Dad," the boy answered. "Who is he?" "I dunno. He just came up to me on the street and asked if I wanted a free hair cut." In one of the numerous Sunday supplements I saw in the papers last week was an article pointing up the value of awarding "let ters" to outstanding high school students who rank high in their classes scholastically. The idea makes sense, in my opinion. Why shouldn't a student who compiles an outstanding scholastic record be entitled to some recognition as well as those young men and women who shine on the athletic field? Absolute knowledge 1 have none. But my neighbor's washerwom an's son Heard a policeman on his beat Say to a laborer on the street That he had a letter last week Written in the finest Greek, From a Chinese coolee in Tim bucktoo. ' Who said that the Negroes in Cuba knew Of a colored man in a Texas town, Who got it straight from a cir cus clown. That a man in the Klondike heard the news From a gang of South American ' Jews, Who heard of a society female rake Whose mother-in-law will undertake THE DOCTOR 'Doing Something' Sometimes Harmful By HAROLD T. HYMAN, M.D. Written for Newspaper Enterprise Assn. Dr. Robert B. Lawson, chair man of the Department of Pedi atrics at Miami University's School of Medicine, asks, "Do we physicians have to give some form of treatment to every child brought to us? Should we pre scribe a medicine just because the family expects it?" Answering his own questions, he urges restraint under at least the following circumstances: (1) when treatment may prove more harmful than the disorder itself; (21 when failure to recognize self limited variations from the normal may lead to (unwarranted) inse curity on the part of parents; and (31 when undue emphasis on treatment may exaggerate the problem it is meant to control. Here are some examples of what Dr. Lawson means: In the second year of life, babies are apt to develop day-to-day swings in appetite. If vitamins and tonics are prescribed because of the parent's unwarranted con cern over a normal variant, treat, ment may be not only unnecessa ry but actually harmful. The child's continuance of t h e normal variant, regardless of the treatment, may cause anxious par ents to lose confidence in their doctor and start on a medical "shopping tour." Certain minor defects and vari ations in development lend to cor rect themselves without recourse to needless sgery. Illustrative of these are umbilical hernias, port wine slainW strawberry marks, tongue-tie etBy the same token, tonsils need fiot be removed mere To prove her husband's sister knows, As stated in a printed piece, That she has a son, who has a friend Who knows how the election is going to end! And, as the politicos warm up to their trade, one is constantly reminded that he can always get - the truth from an American ' statesman after he has turned 70, or given up all hope to be ,r. President. - i - A smile costs nothing, but ere- - aloe miir.li It hanriMiG in a finch lasts forever. It cannot be bought, '.. Deggea. Dorrowea or stolen, dui is is of no earthly good to anyone until H is given away, au, 11 in your hurry, you meet someone .! who is too weary to give a smile. leave one of yours, for no one needs a smile quite so much as ' he who has none to give. . I have a great affection for the cartoonist who depicted two old ' girls ready to tee off on the golf -course. One is saying to the otH- jl: er: "What I like about this game ;. ' is you don't have to think." ' An Indian, with the peculiar name of "Chief Screeching Train Whistle" applied to the Montana courts, for a shorter name. The judges agreed and shortened it as per request: to "Toots." Some anonymous reader, appar ently weary of the tired old jokes that show up in this corner sent in a page of quips the other day, viz: These are difficult times some of us have to do without the things our parents never had ... Why do our mints continue to make dimes and nickels when there is little real use for them . . . According to a health article, pain strikes the body at its weak est point, so don't go around com- . plaining of a headache ... . ; One wonderful minister told ; about the lady who swept up to . him after a particularly sweeping J sermon. "Wonderful sermon," she - purred. "Everything you said ap plies to somebody or other I know." : Reading of some of the zany .,, antics of wealthy Americans re minds me that a hair divides genius and insanity but mon ey is what separates as eccen tric from a crackpot, A politician out looking for votes in a hillbilly country saw a cabin in the distance, approached it and asked the woman at the home if she knew of any Republicans in . the vicinity. She replied, "Wal, mister, I kaint say, for John does all the trappin' of varmints here abouts, but you can go back of the barn where he nails up their hides and see what vou can find." SAYS ly because they appear to be en larged. And physiologic flat feet, . bowlegs and knock-knees of minor degree may be corrected by the "beneficial progress of normal . growth" sometime before t h e fifth birthday. The common viral infections of respiratory and intestinal tracts ' are not responsive to treatment with antibiotics. They are self limited invasions except under utO . usual circumstances. "The excuse that the family demands a 'shot' or a 'mycin' does not justify the unwarranted use of potentially harmful and costly drugs." So-called "innocent heart mur murs" are frequently encountered in early life. These must be called to the attention of the family as matters of fact. Not as threats. If restrictions are placed on the child's activites and-or the family is warned to keep a close watch on the youngster so that ho doesn't "overdo." this state of oversolici tude and overprotection can only be harmful. What Dr. Lawson is urging is normal concern and intelligent ob servation. Not neglect. And not a policy of therapeutic nothingness. -It is his enlightened view that "the test of good medicine is to practice the art of intelligent, planned neglect." To do this, the physician should not yield to the pressure to "do something" and advocate treat ment when treatment is not neces sary. And ry even be harmful. Fora copy of Dr. Hyman's "aflet "Your Heart: angina pec toris." send' 10 cents to Dr. fly man, care Herald and News. Box 4S9. Dept. B. Radio City Station, New York 19, N Y.
