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flituljkqjsic 3H $nv Jjnr tier PAGE SIX FRIDAY. JULY 31. 1959 Foreign Aid Hodgepodge With one or two exceptions, the foreign aid program thu year moving through Congress in accord with standard patterns. The lawmakers have just approved a foreign aid authorization bill totaling nine percent less than President Eisenhower requested Such relatively moderate cuts at this stage are usual. Where the big gunning occurs, of course, is in the appropriations committees which decide the actual amount of money to be voted under the authorization.

The latter merely provides ceiling In recent years Congress has had a habit of topping well short of the ceiling It has sought lo redeem loudly proclaimed economy pledges by slashing foreign aid but little else. The prospect the same this time. Perhaps it will always be so. Programs for pending abroad simply are too enticing a target for Jcgiilatori who seldom can bring themselves lo enforce their economy promises on domestic programs Vet foreign aid might fare a good deal better If its purposes were mora clearly defined and No Rest for Visitors to the USSR exposition in New Yoik are dazzled by a score of varieties of TV rt doens of hi fi's and other luxury goods rrndr in Russia. But they are not fooled into believing that these items have found their way Into the hands of the average Russian worker.

In fad, Pravda has just complained (hat It lakes months to find a pillow for sale. When onr does find a pillow, the paper continues, it tan I he bought without a special stamp in the purchaser's passport. And when the buyer at last lays down his weary head, he's gagged by were attuned more exactly to the real needs should be serving. Countries Irke India, for example, have important development plans'1 of their own. It makes no sense for us to try to interpose programs of our making.

The wise thing would seem to be to make practical contribution to India's program, on a useful scale. If the foreign assistance effort were well thought out this way in every regard, it would no longer be open to such easy charges of vagueness, inefficiency and wastefulness. Waste would be more quickly pinned down and eliminated. That Congress this time voted to authorize $1.8 billion for the Development Loan Fund over the next two years indicates some hope in this direction. It not only means less money flowing in outright grants, it means less tossed to the winds in piecemeal fashion, and more guided carefully toward genuine foreign development needs.

Until this aspect of the program is fully and effectively worked out. there can be no expectation that the lawmakers will stop singling out foreign aid as their chief economy target. the Comrade i the smell of the chickens that contributed the feathers. Production schedules get snarled up like that in state planning We've seen our own government create artificial of goods with price controls, and artificial surpluses of other goods through subsidies An economic system seems today to be too complicated for efficient central administration So we can hope that when the day comes for Comrade Khrushchev to carry out his threat to "bury" us with production, some Russian bureaucrat will have forgotten to order the shovels. 'Excuse I Have a.

Dale With Your I Girl' Polio Through Inattention Polio is supposed to be the beaten scourge Since 1955 we have had the Salk vaccine, tffrdive in from 75 lo 00 percent of cases where it has been administered as a preventive. Hut ')')') so far has turned out to he the Vorst polio year suite the vaccine was introduced ates on record are nraily double 1958 lotiiK for the comparable penod. Reports of the inneased incidence are Coming in fioin all sections of the nation Worst I is I Iowa, especially in Des Moines and Vicinity. Surveys there and in Kansas City suggest that the chief victims are individuals in the 'lower economic groups. This was also found to be true in an outbreak some time back in Chicago.

In these groups, the evidence indicates, the Salk vaccine is most widely ignored as a protective measure The lull story is, of course, that across the nation many millions of youngsters in the most susicptilile age brackets still have no Salk shots or loo few II is one of I lie really sad chapters in modern U.S. medical history. Jimmie Isn't Kidding James Hoffa, scandal haunted president of the scandal ridden 1 eamsters union, has announced his own version of tilt AFL CIO's Political Action committee. I lolla expects lo be able lo raise up to .0 million lo spend in the I960 election by "voluntary" 50 cenl a month assessments on his I 5 million members I his money is lo be spent on electing candidates favorable, to labor's legis lative of view, and defeating those who oppose more spending, more government controls ol business and more license of labor unions. And it's to be spent "wherever possible" in cooperation wilh COPE, to which I lolfa no longer is eligible to belong It remains lo be seen whether contribution from Hoffa will buy more votes than it will eost a candidatt.

George E. Sokolslty Orthodoxy Not for These Days; Nixon Can Play Khrushchev's Game Old time diplomacy requite old I line dlplci mnli Hie Count! Wltte and OnsMnl aie no mme in Soviet Ruasli. Perhaps they no longer exist anywhere In the world At any rate our task Is to do bualnesi with such a man as Khrushchev who started as a miner became politic Ian and rose to the top of tils country a i specialist in the operation of the machinery of a political party We need to deal vlth a man like Mlkoyan, an Armrnlajn mer rhant, keen in the methods of trade or man like Kozlov who la accustomed to maneuvering men to serve whoever la In control of the Kremlin These are no Talleyrands or OnstlcrenKlis who utilized diplomacy as a weapon 1 hose new men appeal to the people over the bonds of governments; they are technologists In propaganda and In tlu' hard listed give and take of debate Khrushchev In many was, reminds one of Al Smith who built a following by the simplicity of his manner Ills gestures may mean little to Americans who have never seen them before, but who have lived among Eastern Europeans, caught In Khrushchev's handshake With Nixon, as I saw It on television, a gesture that meant "You live up to Vthat you say and I'll stick to the agreement" WE IIAVE TALKED SINCE the days of Woodrow Wilson about open dlplpmacy, about covenanti openly arrived at, but we nave no practice In this method and have never really done anything that way. On the other hand, this Is precisely what wants accomplish, so that the peoples of Asia and Africa will see how wonderful he Is and how much he can accomplish Very few Americans of this generation art any good at Just plain, simple, extemporaneous arguing In public. Too many public men.

are too accustomed to press agents, to having speeches written or them, written and rewritten and gone over by advisers and counsel, until what comes out Is a lot of hokum that is convincing to nobody. Nixon usually does his home work and comes into a debate thoroughly" prepared to meet his adversary In this sort of thing, there is no time for polished statements, for having the Slate department and the While House and all the advisers and hired help go over every word. Khrushchev has In, the past dealt with mch itumblen maliciously He knocked them over with a wisecrack or talked them to death InlNixon.ihe found his match anit mu would Wityt bt enjoyed the argumenfand foliar Sp Drew Pearson Khrushchev Was Truthful About Red A superiority f. i that he and Nixon, In private talked differently because each respected the Intelligence of the other Nixon had a particular advantage lie comes from a proletarian family He la not a monopolist" or a Wall Streeter Ills father una a grocer as Khrushchev's was a peasant He worked his v. ay upward by politics not by capitalistic wealth, as Khrushchev did lie ran approach any Ituistan official on an equal basis His ulfe is not a hoity toity lady Just plain Pat who Is loved by everybody who knows her THIS llACKOItmiMi F()KES enthusiasm In Marxist country because the assumption tliem i that those who understand the trials and tribulations of llu plain people are not iikciv in lavor in llirlr hearts thc exploiting monopolists wo mi, nly translate normal Russian mass emotions It Is easy to understand why Nixon gains such favor among the people even if officials wonder at his unorthodox ways Oitliodoxy Is not for these clays Wars and revolutions have throvyn up Into positions of power as by volcanic action, Hew tjpes of hu miui brings to whom we have to find some means of communication or we cannot deal with thorn at alt Kew of them are trained In the of Khrushchev throws protocol out of the window and if we Insist that we behave like a Disraeli or a Bismarck, we are not going to have our way He simply will not do It Ihp great value of Nixon to the United Stales In his flexibility of personality He has learned to deal with people as they are That is the art of polities even if it Is not the per fectlon of diplomacy.

Ills frankness and his youngish attitude toward lift make friends for hl country which li his job. (Copyright, 1959, King Featurei Syndicate. Inc.) Everybody's Column We Welcome Your Signed Utters Ulttrs lo Editor an llmlt sou words mint nsn.d bj Hit wrll.i with hit adrtrtM Namot will bo' rpi coniwpauai sua not prlnud II so roo.ut.Ud Tbo Poughkoop.lo. Now rrsorvoa tho rlfhl to rojool ant '1 Cominunlesuoat annot bo rolilrnod union aeeonpanlod ojr a tUmpod hII ddroiMd otlopo, Anonymous lotion WILL NOT BE PRINTED. iHnuas a lalaa porno lo a wttoo Uobio 1 7 WASIIINC.TON Irony In the fact that Nl kita Khrushchev's unprecedent ed and on the whole healthy public debate at the American Exposition in Moscow was staged wilh the man who has consistently urged more American concentration on missiles.

When Khrushchev threw In Vice President Nixon's face the warning "we have means at our disposal which can have very bad consequences and again when he said, obviously referring lo missiles, "but ours are better If you want lo compete" Nixon knew Krushchev was telling the truth It was Nixon who urged a franker policy In telling the American people how far behind Russia we were when the llrst Russian sputnik was launched on Oct. 4. 1937. He was overruled by the White House In the approximately two years since then, we have lagged even farther behind And the real reason foreign Minister Gromyko has been so tough at Geneva Is because Russia Is now ahead of the United States in every military department except sea power Here is the box score on Soviet vs. American military strength, which both Nixon and Krushchev had In mind when they debated In Moscow.

INTERCONTINENTAL MISSILES Russia suddenly resumed testing Intercontinental missiles In March after a long lapse From this. Secretary of Defense McElroy hopefully concluded that Die lapse meant the Russians, like us, were having trouble with their longdistance missile Other experts believe Russia stopped firing the big missiles simply because she was busy producing them In any event, there can be no mistaking the fact Russia has been blasting off about four missiles a month since March from her great test center noilheaat of the Caspian aea Our powerful radar eyes In 1 in key have spotted the missiles lake off another radar station In the Aleutians has fol lowed Ihe warheads as they plunged back to earth Only two of the big missiles have been hurled a full 5 000 miles The. remaining 18 which we were able to track went 3.S00 to 4,500 miles Whether these were test models or production models, however, remains a question mark. Our own ICBM firings have been plagued by minor malfunctions. It is no military secret that we have tested 28 Atlas ICBMS, of which eleven have been successful, six partially successful, and nine complete failures.

In contrast, our mon itor shows that 75 percent of the Russian ICBM tests have been successful. They have operated wilh alarming reliability The first of our 3,300 mlle Atlas missiles were supposed to be combat ready in July But five misfires in a row have delayed the operational date until Sep tember or October. It Is doubtful that we wlU have the 10 operational Atlases that Secre Mcfclroy promised by the end of the year Russls ought to nae ten limes mat number. INTERMEDIATE MISSILES: Russia Is known to hsve 730 medium range missiles ready to launch against our overseas bases. They Include both Vs, which can shoot 1,000 miles snd 2's, which can hit targets up to miles away.

Our first squadron of 1,200 mile Thor jnissUcs was delivered to England last winter and waa supposed to be ready for com' bat by January. It dldnt become operational ufttll June. This now gives us IS Intermediate missiles against Russia's 730. We should whin another 13 mtaslle squadron Into shine, be fore the summer is over Alto gether, we will set tip foi squadrons In England. We also hope to locate tour squadrons In Italy, petrhaps four more in Turkey.

But we haveTt even elected the launching sites. Our present schedule also call halting production, al There was together after we have built about 200 intermediate missiles UNDERWATER MISSILES We have taken actual photographs of Soviet submarines equipped with vertical launch ing tubes These are capable of firing stub nosed Comet mis siles from underwater hiding places at targets 700 miles Inland Russia has also stepped up its submarine activity In Ameri can waters during the past three years Apparently the Reds have even planted secret transmitters along the ocean bottom near our shores These serve as homing devices to guide other submarines In contrastove wont be able lo launch unufcjater missiles until late I960 Tilts will be 1.200 rniIe Polaris missiles, which have fizzled In preliminary tests at Cape Canaveral. Fla The test program will be stepped up for the next 12 months Then the Navy may attempt a shipboard launching from a surface ship If this succeeds, the Navy will try firing Polaris missiles from submerged auhmarincs Of Russia 000 submarines, an estimated 100 are equipped to fire missllca The United States has only five missiles submarines, all carrying winged Iteguius which must be fired from the surface. Our total submarine fleet, counting 80 used for training, or stored In mothballs, is less than 200 RUSSIAN ATOMIC SUBS: Thanks to Adm. Hyman Rick over, however, we are well ahead of Russia in designing and constructing atomic sub marines But the latest Intelligence reports claim Russia will soon launch its first two atomic subs In atomic weapons, Russia has caught up with us In and Is not iar behind In quantity We have picked up enough informalion from Russian nuclear tests to convince our scientists that Russia has developed compact hydrogen war heads better In some respects man our own In conventional weapons Russia still maintains an over whelming superiority Her land army Is still 17.

divisions ours has dwindled lo 14 elTecllve divisions The Red Army also has better modern rifles, self propelled assault artillery, armored personnel carriers, heavy tanks, and grasshopping heli copters Russia still has about 20.000 coijibat jet planes to our 18,000 wnue ner ngtuer planes are probably superior to ours, our Strategic Air command is still considered a more effective Earl L. Douglass, P.P. lAlic Hugh 'Living Earth' a Document Of Lusty Life Under Foot One time Impossibilities The four minute, mile ap peared some years ago to be an utter Impossibility Track coachc a and physicians were ready to testify that the human body was made in such a way that it was Impossible for a human being to run a mile in four minutes. Then a young English doctor did run a mile in four minutes The astonishing thing was not Just that he did it but that within five years a number of people bettered his record He showed Che way It could be done Others demonstrated that It was comparatively easy to achieve All the great minds of Spain tried to get the ears of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella and urge them not to allow the foolish, murderous sailor, Christopher Columbus to start on his ridiculous attempt to cross the ocean But once Columbus had crossed the ocean it was com paratively, easy for others to do the same Furthermore the world was circumnavigated within a few years Many of us remember Llrid borg flight and the way the world that May day reacted when the naive, loveaole youngster landed In Paris thirty three and a half horns after he left New York But rmadreds of planes cross the ocean now every day, thousands every week After somebody has shown us how to to the Impossible, we find that it Is not only not Impossible but that It Is not too difficult after all Too few of us understand 'ecology." which means the study of all living things in re lation to their envlrbnrnent Also, too few of us have the pa tience or time to pick up where we left off in a subject all encompassing as natural history and science. Therefore, I recommend the aeugnuui once over lightly story of tne marvelous abundance and com plexity of life within the soli beneath us." This Is the description author Peter Farb gives when asked what his book Living Earth" aooui.

I Lknow this young man as a New York born product of not city sidewalks, gang wars and other unpleasant aspects of the big towns burly burly. Tnereiore I asked him to explain what led his curious mind to the natural living wonders which even the millions of tons of concrete under the world's biggest city cannot suppress Here his explanation "While at college I had an English prof who had succumbed to an animalistic philosophy that regards the whole world as alive No matter how much he tried. he must have felt mortified be cause, unlike St. Thomas, he could not speak to the birds, but his love of nature express ed Itself beyond his control Once he made a regrettable mistake. During a reading of the Romantic poets he interrupted himself to tell the class that he never walks on grass, because for all we know the earth, so full of living things, might cry out in.

pain, shrieks and protests that only supersonic ears could hear. Thereafter, this professor's life on campus became a "living hell. for every time he was seen step ping off concrete and on to grass, students would let out ungodly shrieks. There are millions! mora microbes than there are people on our planet. Every lime an averageaverage size shoe treads the soil It is indenting the roof over untold populations of living crea tures.

That they cry out In pain, I doubt, as nature's visible camouflages protects as well as conceals. When animals grow extinct, It is folly to shed tears. Certain species die out because life on this planet Is a shifting thing. When two opposing species cannot live together, one gradually grows extinct. That's why those great, repulsive, monstrous creatures preserved in museums, no longer live today There Is no room for them in world full of people.

En tire species, even up to human level, disappear for the same revolutionary reason Along with studying whata living on this earth, there's a great need to know how to conserve what's livling and growing. A book I am writing, "Any Fool Can Wreck The Land," states that it takes no special talent to cut down forests, to overlook the wise use of water holding grass which Is nature's own flood control. It may not De renown us, Dsn mere art usually good, reasons for the existence of whatever HiP ture creates until Its useful ness Is over. Snow packs, crab grass and numerous other growths regarded strictly ss nuisance value, can be put to good use with some knowledge and much love of nature, which summed up, means the entire earth and everything that grows In it, under it and over it And that is why Peter Farb became an entomologist; is now Secretary of the New York Entomological Society and other top rated scientific organiza tions, and also is the author of the book published by Harper, Earth," a delightful "Living "HOWEVER HE CONVINC down to earth education for ED ME, and 1 hope my 'Living young and old Earth book convinces oUiersI (Copyright, 1959, King that this earth is lustily Features Syndicate, Inc Thought He answered and said unto them. Because it Is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven but to them it Is not given Matthew 13 11 A religion without Its mysteries Is a temple without a God Robert Hall Little University Look and Learn 1 Which S.

state has had the greatest percentage of population Increase since the 1950 census' 2. What Is the function of the carburetor In a car? 3 What was the national ity of each of these famous authors (a i Burns; (t) Ibsen, (c) Poe. (d) Zola' 4 What Is a 5 What were the last names of Romeo and Juliet' ANSWERS 1 Nevada, with 66 percent Increase, followed by Arizona with 51 percent, Florida with 48 percent, and Delaware with 38 percent 2 It converts the liquid gas oline Into vapor 3 ((a) Scottish, (b) Norwegian, let American, (dl French 4 The recipient of a gift, as opposed to "donor 5 Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet Modern Etiquette If a girl is to be married In church wearing an afternoon dress and having only one maid of honor, Is she supposed to invite only a very few friends and relatives to a wedding of this type? A. There Is no limit to the number of guests she may Invite to her wedding, provided, of course, there is ample room for everyone. When one's partner has unwittingly given some Infor Better English 1.

What is wrong with this sentence? "Each of us hsve got to exercise more patience." 2 What is the correct pronunciation of 3 Which one of these words Is misspelled' Animosity, anonymous, annull, analysis 4 What does the word "warrantable" mean' 3 What Is a word beginning with ame that means "answerable, ANSWERS 1 Say, "Each of us MUST exercise more patience" 2. Pronounce vuhr bl Ij, accent on first syllable 3 Annul 4. Justifiable, defensible Falsehood Is never warrantable" 3. Amenable Short Takes There's a chuckle In It when hotel towels are missing from your returned laundry Watch your appetite' It's easy to get 'round on more than three square meals a day. It's much better for a worker to be fired with ambition than with angry words.

Right now Is a good time to buy a thermometer they're always higher in the summer. Questions Answers The ruler of what country Is still regarded as a god by his people' A The Dalai Lama of Tlbe1 matlon about his hand urinff Is the onlv ruler In th wnrl me progress of a bridge game. I whom his people regsrd as a what should one do' leod lcF bomber force. Russia has been testing a new supersonic bomber which might be the fore runner of the worlds first six atomic bomber Her atomic aircraft program Is believed to be ahead of ours On Die high seas we still surpass Russia In fleet strength But the Red surface fleet is now second only to our own, while her submarine fleet Is superior Russia hasn't bothered to build any airplane carriers, perhaps because carders may be as outmoded as battleships In this atomic age. (Copyright, 1939.

by The Bell Syndicate, Inc A Disregard It Under no circumstances should one take advantage of such Information, since this would not only be bad manners, but poor sportsmanship. At what age should I begin teaching my three year old son to rise in the presence of women guests? A When he Is about five or A Problem a Day A father is 50 years old and twice the age of his son In how many years will the son be 712 as old as his father' ANSWER In 10 years. Let eoual number of years required. Then form the equation: 712 times (50 plus X) equals 23 plus X. Solve for How Can SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith I.J' UktUMM I I I vim to MA fcnta i i How can 1 remedv some screws that have worked loose In their holes? A.

Try filling the enlareed screw holes with some solid wire solder, then reset your screw Into this You should find this method much easier than whittling a wooden peg to fit the hole Is there something I on do to help preserve some important document against the ravages of time? A. lou can try giving them' a pnce over with a gutta percha solution, obtainable at msi drugstores VJ. How can I renovat bamboo garden rake when the ends become frayed or worn' a. 2oak them In verv hot water for about riv then bend the ends under again' pair or pners. Is the old Yule custom of presenting each congressman with a trunk still In practice' A Yes, it Is a sort of badge of office.

The lawmakers presumably use the trunks for storage and to ship documents back to their home district offices Is the wood of the crab apple tree used commercially? A Yes. the wood Is used to make tool handles and various lother small articles What was America's first offensive battle of World War II' A The battle on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. When did Walter Dam rosch found the Damrosch Opera Company for producing Wagner? A In 1894. Two yean later he produced Wagner's Farcifal id concert form for the first tjbie in the United States. If you desire to writ or telegraph your representative In Congress which Is In session, here is the form to be used CONGRESS (J.

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