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SECTION 1 THB COURIER. JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, KY. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 5. 1937 1IAVIII LAWnECr Sam: I Khrushchev TV Talk lo People of The U.S. Retards Cause of Peace and Restores Suspicion WASHINGTON As commanding general for the Communists in the Cold War, which reaches around the globe, Nikita Khrushchev has suffered a defeat of his own making.

By his television address, he has retarded, rather than forwarded, the cause of world peace. For, within the last few weeks, it had been believed in official Washington that the Soviet Government was really serious about disarmament and had stopped playing propaganda tunes in an tack on the United States itself. It calls for immediate war even without a resolution by Congress. Now the spokesman for the Kremlin wants America to give up this strategic advantage this deterrent force in exchange for a paper withdrawal of Russian troops from East Germany, Hungary and Poland. Moscow has its generals and its commanding officers inside every satellite country and in their local armies.

Satellite premiers have Russian training and Communist background. So to say that things will be materially changed just because the Russian armies move back a few hundred miles is to tax the credulity. of the Western world. Khrushchev had the audacity to tell the television and radio audience of this country that, if war came, capitalism would be destroyed but communism would survive. Khrushchev parrots this Stalinist line before an American audience which he thinks will swallow such absurdities.

If an atomic war comes, the blame will be plainly placed on the Communist leaders by the people of Soviet Russia. It will spell the death of communism, because the survivors would bitterly resent the war into which they had been plunged. What Khrushchev really fears is internal revolution. Khrushchev has shown how impossible it is going to be for the American Government or any Western Government to earnest effort to reach some kind of initial agreement. But the Sunday speech by the Communist leader has restored suspicion and distrust, if indeed they had been entirely dissolved.

To offer, for instance, as Khrushchev did, to withdraw Russian troops from East Germany, Poland and Hungary, on condition that the United States move its forces out of Europe altogether, is to deal frivolously with a major problem in world affairs. Indeed, for a Soviet dictator (o assume that the American people or their Government would be so naive as to consider such a proposal is to reveal the shortcomings of the Communist mind itself. It knows so little about world affairs and the simple rules of military protection that free peoples have a right to apply in their own interest. For if the United States withdrew its forces from Europe, the HAPPY AS SHOATS IN A MUDDY MEADOW BOTTOM N. KHRUSHCHEV Taxes Western credulity' make "deals" or negotiate agreements with the men in the Kremlin.

Coyri9ht, 1S7, Nw York Hrld Tribunt, Inc. STEIXBECK IV ITALY, o. 14 Solvent and Bored? Italy's Spas Hold Out Alluring Message of Hope KILL L. tilt'S Almanac So Aulo Industry's Problems Arc Solved diseases, postoperative perivisceritis, chron- By JOHN STEINBECK free countries would be vulner- acxaiarrh of the respiratory organs. Tterostomcr just tils In vtgelo-mlMUT "hl" mud and all those things happen, then Bases Are Vital What Khrushchev wants the American people to ignore is the importance of the strategically placed air bases overseas which the United States how can use and which are vital to the defense of free Europe.

What the Communist dictator is proposing treatment are beneficial to a great number of diseases affecting every part of the body: the motor apparatus, the digestive system, the respiratory organs, the heart and blood circulation, the genito-urinary organs, the central and peripheric nervous system and the skin." It's as lovely and soothing as a medical report in Time magazine. "Finally the inexhaustible therapeutic opportunities offered by the Italian healing waters are enhanced by the unequaled beauty of the landscape, the benefits of the climate, the comfort and conveniences of the sojourn so that even now as in the old days it may be said, UBI THERMAE, 1BI SALUS! There it is across the board. Each spa is listed with its waters, its treatment, its hotels and its therapeutic directions in that order. Let us take a sampling. Get ready to feel your mouth beginning to water! Just Sit There There is for example, the Abano Therma in the Province of Padua.

Its waters are muriated and contain bromine and iodine and there is vegeto-mineral mud. The hotels are magnificent, and there is a doctor on every floor. Abano goes to work on rheumatism, arthritis, stiffness, weakness, limitation of movement following distortions, strains, dislocations, fractures and other traumatisms, sequelae of gynaecological there is Bagni di Chiatamone in Campania. It wrestles with primary and secondary anemia, exhaustion after overwork and male troubles. Bagni di Lucca in Tuscany handles neuralgia, neuritis, uricemia, gout, obesity, complaints of the liver and bile ducts, of the stomach and intestine and skin diseases.

There are five hotels. No one in a decent income bracket lacks for at least two of these complaints. But for pure originality and thrill consider Bagni di Vinadio in Piedmont. Here one has "hot sulphur springs from 115 to 126 degrees Fahrenheit, but it also offers muds and molds and gelatinous protophyte masses vegetating on rocky levels where thermal water is kept running which may be applied instead of mud." And as though that weren't enough, there are "caves dug into the rocks and saturated with the vapours given forth by the running mineral waters. Here you use both mud and mold packs." It kind of exhausts you, just thinking about it.

I'm going to dream about those "gelatinous protophyte masses vegetating on rocky levels." Why can't we have stuff like that in America instead of just aspirin and Bisodol and, if you're in real trouble, a dose of castor oil. It's barbarous. VNY DAY NOW I expect them to drive a new air-conditioned hardtop up in front of my house, a gift of sheer gratitude. I spent the other evening solving the worries of the automotive world. A lady showed up in the middle of "Highway Patrol" to conduct a survey.

Upon finding that the credit union and I were halfics in a car. she sat herself down, unfolded what looked like John Foster Dullcs's go-away bag, and wc went at it. What model? What make? What price? Did it have power steering? What kind of tires? Were they new? Was the car new and did the salesman ever call up to ask how I liked the thing? Did you ever notice what kind of tires came on your car? Mine arc round and black. They are said to be tubeless, though I have never looked inside them, thank God. Corner Slinkers Did anyone who ever sold you a car call you up and ask how you liked it? No one who ever sold me a car did.

A few of them have been sighted slinking around corners to avoid me, an answer she did not enter on her sheet. We got into why I bought the car, which is a good question. I did no shopping around, just went down and bought a car. Come to think of it, I did look at some higher-priced cars first, more in hope that economic disaster had set in at the dealers' than in expectation of buying a car. If economic disaster was abroad in the land, as I kept reading in the ads, it hadn't progressed far enough to reduce the price of the car, so I got the same old model from the same old place.

The industry's lady seemed anxious to know what I had had repaired on my car. I hadn't thought they cared. I leveled with her, telling her just to name it, I had had it repaired. She named numerous things that never seem to get out of fix, but avoided mention of the automatic choke. Come to think of it, the auto matic choke wasn't on the list of gadgets at all.

She had expressed great interest in the gimmicks 1 had added to the thing when I bought it. I suppose there is no reason to mention the automatic choke since, like measles, everyone has them. We got into a hassle when she asked me what I had had repaired most recently. This came up a dead heat for several things. The welcome at my repair place is standard, for instance.

It goes like this, "Good-morning-you-ought-to-have-new-sparkplugs." Bui we finally settled on a new oil-filler cartridge which I had never considered as repair work. I change them with my shirt. "Do you think," she asked, "that this cost too much?" That was the most useless question since Dave Beck left Washington. Takes The Fifth We discussed my reactions to the new models, too. Lumping in a whole pride of cars good looking, crummy looking, extravagant in design and conservative Republican in appearance she asked me if I thought they looked better, worse or about the same as last year's.

I took the Fifth. We wound up our discussion with a question as to whether I was home at 8:50 p.m. on the last 10 nights. If she had asked what I was doin? the next Monday at 8:30, 1 would have recognized a possible reason, although the gambit is seldom used in my case any more. The lady said this was to find out the-au4i-ence for a possible radio or TV commercial.

Since I get paid for listening and watching at 8:50 every night, barring acts of Providence, this may lead to trouble on Madison Avenue. If they project me into being 1,000,000 average Americans, they may think they have one whale of an audience when actually everyone but me is at "Around The World In 80 Days." Or the roller derby. SOMEWHERE In Italy I have before me a pamphlet which should carry unbounded pleasure to otherwise healthy Americans searching for a comfortable and expensive illness to fill in the time between Labor Day and Thanksgiving. The booklet is called "The Spas of Italy," and brings a message of hope for many of my retired and solvent countrymen. In our lliriceblcsscd country, a man, while he is building and consolidating his fortune, has no lime for the pleasures of illness.

Only after his work is done and his stock certificates rest in the sweet, cool darkness of the safety deposit vault can he relax happily in the Mayo Clinic with barium and catheter, while his wife, who once was tough as a boot and strong as a horse, both of which she now resembles, languishes under- the curative hands of Elizabeth Arden. To these fortunate souls I bring good news from the beautifully illustrated booklet on Italian spas. It lists 84 separate and distinct springs, wells, baths and mud holes, and the descriptions sing in the heart and kidneys like a hymn of praise to Aesculapius. One Thing In Common Many of these centers of regeneration have been known and utilized since the ancient days of Rome. There is a natural cure for everything from ingrown toenails to dandruff, and all of the spas have one thing in common they are expensive.

For beauty of expression, I can't-do better than to quote the booklet itself. "Every kind of mineral water is represented in Italy," it begins, "lightly mineralized water (also called Oligomineral), viuriated waters, simple or containing iodine and bromine, sulphur waters, the whole gamut of alkaline waters, chalybeate and arsenical waters, strongly radioactive waters. The hydromineral treatment presently carried out in the Italian Thermae includes drinking, baths, inhalations and douches to which are to be added muds and vapour baths, in natural and artificial grottoes and hot chambers You can't beat that for poetry to a successful man who, after a lifetime of work and martinis, feels that he owes something to his community in the way of obscure illness. "These various means of hydromineral is not merely that American ground forces be withdrawn to this continent, but that all overseas bases manned now by American planes and soon to be equipped with guided missiles containing atomic warheads should be given up. Meanwhile, the big bombing planes of the Soviet Union can reach every one of the free countries of Europe.

What Khrushchev is suggesting is a form of voluntary surrender by the West. Everyone knows, too, that the populace of the Western countries fear attack and that, if there were no defense available with the aid of America, infiltration into all countries by the Communist sympathizers would be made easier. In the next war, retaliatory action will have to be taken instantly. There will be no time, "for America to negotiate for overseas bases or to send planes and equipment across the ocean. That's why the Senate of the United States a few years ago ratified the North Atlantic Treaty, which says explicitly that an attack on any one of the 15 member countries is to be considered the same as an at- Wallow In The Mud I have never been a guest at one of these disposal plants, but I have lots of friends who go regularly everytime the grim reaper and a hangover get into cahoots.

For two weeks they wallow around in the mud, happy as shoats in a meadow bottom on a hot afternoon. They're so busy drinking the stilff and plastering it on themselves and washing it off and running for the bathroom every Jittle while that they don't have either the lime or the room for a pitcher of martinis. At the end of two weeks and $2,000, they clean the mud from under their finger nails and, sure enough, they feel better. It's belter and a lot more expensive than going deer hunting and running out of booze, and besides they can talk about it all winter to their underprivileged neighbors while they're getting sick again for next season. Cepyright, 1M7, John Stttnbfck mmm start vour career right 1 jjL- DRINKING THE 'CURE' RECORDED MUSIC By Norman Johnson Four New Calypso Collections Now on The Market at etc.) are pleasant old things, and they do them competently.

With Latin Flavor A TOUCH OF ARGENTINA (Epic LN 3346) Hector Varela, according to the jacket notes a IdDIM Where You Get 1 5 V- TV means of a phonograph records, which give the impression of a small, thin, wispy but sometimes surprisingly sweet voice. Bergen sounds a great deal more healthy 'and more milk-fed than Morgan ever did. Out of The Past WEST OF THE MOON (Victor LPM) This, too, is a voice out of the past. This time, however, it is the original toice that of Lee Wiley, who made a tremendous reputation for herself a good many years ago. Her voice, husky and even raspy, isn't much, but she sings as though she meant every word of the lyrics.

You may not like what she docs with a song (I don't all the time), but you must admit THE calypso craze continues unabated. This week there are four new collections. THE CALYPSO CARNIVAL (Columbia 1007) This is a series of 13 numbers featuring various persons: Sammy Hey-ward, Irene Lusan, Lord Zebc-dee, Amy Goqdwin, Massie Tat-tcrson, Theresa Merritt, Alfred Earle and King Flash. A couple of the songs are Haitian folk tunes (Chouconne and Ministre a Zaca); others are standard calypso songs, and a few are wholly original. CALYPSO HOLIDAY (Columbia CL 1000) This is something a little different.

Most calypso singers, whatever their aw This Mood, This Is New, East of The Sun, Who Can 1 Turn to Now, As Time Goes By. Newlyweds Sing SPEAKING OF LOVE (Columbia CL 991) A couple of newlyweds, Shirley Jones and Jack Cassidy, sing a dozen old (from 20 to 50 years old) romantic songs here. Miss Jones (or Mrs. Cassidy, if she prefers) had the lead in the movie versions of Oklahoma! and her husband has sung musical comedy on records (Babes In Arms, On Your Toes, The Boys From Syracuse) and on Broadway (Wish You Were Here). Neither has what I would call a really good voice, although Cassidy sounds a lot better than he did the last time I heard him, which was in Wish You Were Here.

But most of the songs they do (Vienna, City of My Dreams, I'll Follow My Secret Heart, The Song Is You, I'll See You Again, Wanting You, You Are Love, Ql) INTEREST she does things with it. She other merits, are not particularly ocsnt just accept it paSsively. good singers. Here the Norman she works on it, for better or worse. There are some fine old numbers in this collection, among them Can't Get Out of The Neighbors II, George Clark On Ccrtificalcs of Deposit When Held Only 1 Year IN ANY AMOUNTS from $100 to $100,000 The MAXIMUM INTEREST Any Insured Bank Can Pay Wc Welcome Checking Accounts All Royal Depositors are inurel up to $10000 by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Be Smart Get Move Interest on Your Bank Savings at Royal Come in, phone or write very big man in Argentine popular music, and his orchestra plays a dozen Latin-flavored tunes, a couple of them written by Varela himself. It's good music, most of it unfamiliar to me, well played and beautifully recorded. If you like Latin music, listen to this one. DANCE THE BOP (Columbia CL 1004) You get both music and a dance lesson literally with this record. The bop appears to be some new dance step.

Here Ray Coniff and his orchestra and chorus do a dozen numbers which Coniff wrote specifically for the dance. All of them have a heavy beat, and some of them are quite attractive. With the record is an illustrated booklet showing how to do the dance. Salute to Season SUMMERTIME 1395) This is the last of the Ray Charles Singers' salutes to the four seasons. They started off with Autumn Nocturne, then came Spring Is Here and Winter Wonderland.

In Summertime they sing 12 summerish songs, including the wonderful Lazy Afternoon, Cruising Down The River, Summertime and Moun-tain Greenery. They sing well and have appealing, not too fancy, arrangements. ZING WENT THE STRINGS OF MY HEART 1429) The strings and the heart are those of harpist Robert Maxwell who, with his orchestra, plays an off beat program of a dozen tunes, most of them in the romantic mood. Maxwell is at the top of his field, and engineers let you hear every last zing of his strings. Very Sentimental LOVE LETTERS 1364) Vic Ashe, a British clarinetist, and the Laurie Johnson Ensemble play the sort of program you would expect in an album with that title: Lote Walked In, When Your Lover Has Gone, I'm In The Mood for Love and so on and so on.

Their style is extremely sentimental, but I suppose it's appropriate for the subject matter. Luboff Choir, an outstanding choral group, does a dozen numbers, and very effectively, too. CALYPSO CARNIVAL: THE DUKE OF IRON (Victor LPM 1336) The Duke of Iron, Trinidad-born but a resident of the United States for more than 30 years, is one of the better known exponents of the art. Backed up by a five-man instrumental combination, he sings 12 songs, among them things having such intriguing titles as repper Sauce Milly, Bartender Harry, Vitalogy. CALYPSO (C a CAL 360) Here are 12 more tunes, played and sung by Wilmoth Houdini and his orchestra and Bert McLean's Jazz Hounds.

I know nothing about either group, but their casual approach to their work gives me the impression that this is the authentic stuff. Bergen ag Morgan BERGEN SINGS MORGAN (Columbia CL 94) A few weeks ago Polly Bergen did a television show based more or less loosely on the life of Helen Morgan, the legendary torch singer of the '20's. Here Miss Bergen sings a dozen songs she did in that show, songs Morgan had done 30 years before. Among them arc Don't Ever Leave Me, Can't Help Lovin' That Man, More Than Yon Know, Mean lo Me, Why Wan 1 Born and, of course, Bill. I have heard Morgan only by Bank by Mail Royal Pays Postage Doth Ways Park Free it Open and 4 P.M.

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