El Paso Herald-Post from El Paso, Texas • 18

'Were Debating the Sort of Life You'll Lead' Thinking Out Loud GIVE LIGHT AND THE PEOPLE WILL FIND THEIR OWN WAY El Paso Herald-Post A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER ROBERT LEE Editor Mills irau sad Kansas street Phone KE 2-1601 SECTION PAGE 2 Thursday February ft 1964 Hail to the Consumer to be fair prices Some of the law Mr Johnson proposed (as Mr Kennedy dkl) will stir up storms 8ome of It merely tightens the abundance of existing law What Is "new" In his program the President said Is an active for the consumer an attitude which should have been paramount In the Government all along He has appointed a special White House assistant to deal with the consumer point of view although everybody In the Government In fact should be a special assistant for this purpose The proof of the Johnson will be In performance But the President In his message displayed one certain understanding of what Is best for consumers: He came out flatly against the so-called "qqallty bills now pending in Congress bills so called to disguise their real Intention which Is to fix prices "I oppose legislation which limits price Mr Johnson said "Whether under the label of or any other This squarely Identifies him with consumers Even If this wera not a presidential election year it would be logical lor a President to make a special pitch to consumers The purpose ol the Government In essence Is to tend to their welfare And they deserve this attention Also as President Johnson remarked In his special message to Congress on consumer Interest: economy centers on the In accord with the late President Kennedy Mr Johnson said the consumer (who Is everybody) "has had too little voice and too little weight In This Is because the Government too regularly Is too busy looking out for Itself Its bureaucracy its perpetuation In office and the pressure groups who speak for their own Interests Mr Johnson has a program for file consumer It Is not as all-embracing as one proposed by Mr Kqp-nedy two years ago It has some deletions and additions Mr Johnson is a little more specific Hardly anyone could oppose the objectives: Safe drugs safe pesticides assurances that what the consumer buys Is what it Is advertised A Funnel to Drain Our Wealth EDITOR: Dated September 27 1963 under heading Will Reap Harvest of a letter was published While not naming Panama as tha focal of trouble this letter did that the bitter fruit of our national weakness on the International is already ripening soon we trill reap tha harvest of contempt Yes the first fruit came from Panama other pieces will bear more of this samo fruit of lost prestige In other letters and statements it has been said many times that once the Chamizal treaty wee ratified that Panama would ask for tha canal and will get it May I suggest that you take a good look at a map of the Western Hemisphere Note the position at Mexico and the rest of Latin Americas Mexico is shaped quite similar to a funnel and this fun-nell along with the Central American banana republic empties into South America A study of the history of this pert of the world will show that it absorbs wealth like a dry desert absorbs water with this one a dry desert will blosom but not South The bacteria action of the polygot culture at this part at the world is such that the benefits at the wealth poured into it through the funnel of the Alliance for Progress is acted on in such a manner' that tiie greater portion of this wealth is drained away leaving only a residue at contempt for the colossus of the North This could better be named instead of the Alliance for Progress Funnel to Poverty for Us James Conner 3S94 Piedras No Reason for Anonymous Laffers EDITOR: Congratulations for your new policy requiring TOL contributors to furnish correct addresses or otherwise identify them- eeives when writing for the letters column It is difficult to understand why person who writes a letter to inform or influence the reader would object to identifying himself Could It be that he is not fully convinced of his own Could he be wilfully spreading propaganda while hiding behind a cloak of anonymity? This new policy should induce cramp among about a dozen contributors some' long-time and others comparatively newcomers We conservatives have been receiving letters from anonymous writers for a long tima and we may now have an increase in our incoming maiL I have some beautiful specimens some writ-then in red ink to properly impress me and some in language that could not be printed in TOL or any other place All of tills because I have expressed my approval of constitutional adherence and fiscal and moral' responsibility in government and disapproval at irresponsibility end immorality in government end denounced Communism for what it is I hope you will energetically pursue tine announced new policy as too many anonymous writers have been playing the letter columns of our newspapers for soft Callham-4775 Cumberland circle I What Next on 'Cooperation'? EDITOR: Walter Cronkite is repented to have said that Russian seamen and American sailors are going to share a ship this fal as an experiment sure this will be heralded by our Navy men as just too too ducky! And recent paper stated that the Russians and US plan a venture I read avidly to see what we were going to share with them now and it seems that we are going to allow the Russians to bounce voices end pictures off of our new: Echo 11 that be fun! The next thing on tha agenda will be a dance given by the bean- ad one Inviting the Russians and Americansas special guests Al tills while some of our men are rotting in Castro's dungeons And just in case you believe they are there Just reed the book written by John Martina American (who spent 40 months in these prisons of horror) Was And it our embassy or State Department who helped him but another country! Animals have a certain amount of respect for each other but these perverted people make the cheering mob in the arenas in Rome-look like choir boys Only people inspired by the devil could de! the things John Martina describe Read this book and then de something! Bertha Agnea Schindler Alamogordo NJVL- What GOP Needs Is an Issue The average man Is said fo get 112 Utters a year from Me wife Wonder how many he forgete to mail Congress the chance to propose amendments to these pending bills If their arguments are good their amendments are approved If their arguments are full of holes they lose And when the record Is made we as voters can keep our senators and congressmen In office or we can kick them out In both Houses In these two Instances debate has been germane well-mannered knowledgeable and forthright It Just too bad that Congress operate fills way all the time? Good Word for On the theory that even the devil must be given his due we say today a good word for Congress It meandered through an entire year In Its first session dawdling over major chores sweeping more hw a few under the rug But this year doing better and Its operations this week are a demonstration of one of the finest aspects of our system Each House Is confronted with a major Issue: The Senate with the tax reduction bill the House with the civil rights bill Every member of both Houses has photographed in glorious off-color Before it was done a Republican cabinet minister went to prison and to this day there is no evidence it changed one vote The squares have always had a curiously inverted admiration for the eon men who fleece them The late Sen Robert A Taft said it all when he dourly observed Mr defeat at the hands of Mr Truman by sagely remarking that in times of peace and prosperity it was almost impossible to turn out an administration It is true that occasionally sheer ennui (the syndrome) upsets this rule and it is equally true that our peace is a shaky illusion and our prosperity is held together with baling wire and string But who cares? Not many are actually being killed in Viet Nam and the few who dwell on the brink of starvation are probably shiftless and who is going to fret himself over Bobby Baker fulfilling the great American dream? MY POLL IS as limited loaded slanted distorted and as essentially worthless as any poll you can name But it leads inexorably to the conclusion that unless they catch young Mr Baker trying to pray in school or surprise him in the act of advocating atheistic communism or some other godless philosophy he just ever going to grow up to be potent campaign lurking beningly in the background indeed all manner of stratospheric hi-jinks that might ordinarily be calculated to engorge the public with tum-the-rascals-out piety No such thing has happened at course A profoundly unsystematic study just completed here reveals no righteous legions queueing up to march against the entrenched forces of evil in the nation's Capital Indeed to a man or a woman) the rate-payers who have been cross examined on this subject have all turned out to be vastly indifferent Once one gets beyond the inbred circle of official and journalistic Washington one is likely to hear a great deal more talk about Margaret Chase Smith flouning off to campaign for the presidency THE BOBBY BAKER show touted as the gamiest mess in Washington since Teapot Dome has laid an egg It is possible to be sure that some yet-to-be-revealed peccadillo may still revolt the specimen American voter but the suspicion grows that no such thing is likely to happen The yahoo on his witless way to the polling booth has a gag reflex a buzzard might envy and the prudent observer must expect him to swallow the Baker case with nary a twitch of the esophagus He did the same thing with Teapot Dome which was a genuine high-octane scandal with a cast of dozens of highbinders all By RICHARD STARNEg WASHINGTON It seems cruel hard to be the bearer of sad tidings to the gents with the dollar signs embroidered on their vests but a thoroughly unscientific poll reveals that the GOP is in deeper trouble than even its gloomiest savants imagine Issue-wise the Repuo-licans are from hunger While been whining Starnes about economy LBJ has been switching off electric lights in the White House They bemoan big government and the President cheerfully cuts the ground from under them by ordering reductions in the federal payrolls If as now seems likely a tax bill is passed Mr Johnson will reap the credit Likewise cm civil rights ALL THAT IS left that held any promise of becoming a viable election issue was the moneymaking minuet danced by Bobby Baker a young man who as we know was raised from a shot on the Democratic side of the Senate The Baker scandal seemed to have every ingredient a campaign manager could pine for money high-level lubricity fancy girls securities supported by metaphysics exalted personages How about parking" eigne In department etore aisles Aguinaldo-Freedom Fighter Agulnaldo first proclaimed that the Philippines was a republic General Agulnaldo Incidentally was one whose fame the Communist world never celebrated never wanted that kind of Not Enough Interest In Chess? EDITOR: On the evening at Jan 3 20-year-old Bobby Fischer from Brooklyn won the United States Chess Championship for the sixth timet Thia is what the January issue at says "By virtue performance (11-0) the US Championship will undoubtedly be remembered as one of the greatest chess events' of all time Though the winner wee never in doubt few tournaments have produced as much excitement The tension built-up round-by round as one player after another resigned to the 20-year-old grandmaster frpm Again quoting from Fischer grandmaster at tiie age of 14 has now won the national title for the sixth time At the moment he seems clearly to be in a class by himself among American players The next step the only further step possible to' a player who has done just about everything is the World Championship Will Fischer enter the Interzonal this summer in order to try for a match with Tigran Petrosian? (The As amazing as performance was in this tournament it is almost at amazing to find that very few American newspapers print this type of news end this despite the fact that the news of this history-making event were flashed to the Hector ML Fabela 59M Delta US May Dicker for New Canal Emilio Agulnaldo probably the oldest authentic "Independence is dead at 96 He was the greatest living hero in the Philippines- a land that loves its freedom as much as fighters and statesmen who helped to gain It Agulnaldo who early In life gained a reputation for ability leadership and personal magnetism first led the Filipinos in their rebellion against Spain in 1896 Subsequently he proclaimed a republic with himself as the President When the United States refused recognition Agulnaldo took the field again this time against the Americans and waged a tough war Captured by Gen Frederick Funs ton he then took-an oath of allegiance to the UB in the belief that the quickest route to Philippines Independence would be through our help He turned out to be right His countrymen have always honored so much so two years ago they changed the date of their national holiday to June the date Castro Switch Interesting thing about Fidel Castro the what-you-call-lt of Cuba When he formally opens a baseball championship series In Havana Instead of throwing out the first ball he takes a first turn at bat Last year on such an occasion he swung at three balls and was declared out he dicta torlaliy ruled man In his position rated the fourth strike He got It and fanned This year on Sunday he swung at the first two balls and then grounded out Curiously he reverse the ruling Is he slipping we hope? No Communist dictator In his right mind needs to bow to an umpire THE ESTIMATED costs in millions of dollars of tha other in 1960 and are: ROUTE 1960 1964 Mexico $2300 $1500 Nicaragua- Costa Rica 1900 1240 Northern Colombia 1200 790 Given the technical progress and the mesa in Panama there is a sense of urgency in government circles today for getting on with a second canal plan As for the old Panama Canal when the new one is completed traffic there it likely to dwindle to trickle end another problem mey arise with Panama Panama now benefits by abour $90 million a year from the canal Deprivation of that kind of income would put already a poverty-stricken nation in even worse economic difficulties the century It will be totally Inadequate In another 20 years it is estimated that the long delays for canal transit will make costs prohibitive Meanwhile the refinement of nuclear explosives for excavating work is moving ahead fast Hits involves the reduction of fall-out compatible with the nuclear test ban treaty That treaty permits any peaceful explosion if the fallout doesn't go into other countries Even more progress is expected in months ahead toward this goaL Another canal through the lathmua of Panama would be tha least expensive but also the moat risky in view of the 50 years of difficulties over the existing canaL In 1960 another canal in Panama using nuclear explosions was estimated to cost $770 million Today it would cost about $500 million In Old El Paso People who let their shopping accounts get overcharged are likely to be shocked by the bills Editor's Corner By Lee A total of 650 more homes 1 are planned for tiie Clardy-Fox area A plant for producing hard-! board a building material-made from yucca will be set I up here during the year according to a Chamber of Com-! merce spokesman Tha City will take action on the extension of Delta street some time during tiie summer Side Glances By SHACKFORD The United States may start negotiations soon with other nations for a site to construct a second canal a sea-level alternative for the Panama Canal Rapid progress in adaptation of nuclear explosives for excavating in recent months makes the long talked-about second canal feasible and relatively inexpensive g-ewerf Numerous sites for such a canal have been suggested over the years but most recent studies boil down to these possible routes: 1 In southern Mexico through the Tehuantepec Isthmus In Nicaragua and Costa Rica making use of the Lake of Nicaragua Two routes hi Panama especially ths so-called Sasardi-Morti route 110 miles east of the present canal 4 A routs through Northern Colombia NO DECISION on a route hae been made But it is most unlikely that either of the Panama routes would be selected although they would cost less than the others As for early negotiations it was noted that President Johnson caught in the Panama crisis during the early weeks of his incumbency is spending two days soon with Mexican President Adolfo Lopez Mateos in California Tha proposed canal is likely to be -discussed Sen Mike Mansfield (D Mont) has urged the US to proceed with the Mexican route Any new one at sea level without the necessity of expensive sabotage-prone locks would not be built or operated on die same basis as the Panama Cana The US would be sympathetic to inter-American ownership and control In many respects West Coast Latin-Ameri-can countries need- the canal more than the US FIFTY YEARS AGO HaraM af ISIS Basket bell games are being held twice a week at the El Paso School for Girls A four year old child who ays her name is Norine Knoblauch was found wandering near 1800 Ohio avenue Bible stories have been Introduced into the public school work this term in the English Composition department for the half year term remember the time when you could travel from New York to Beyrouth Syria for lid Monroe TWENTY FIVE YEAR SAGO Vra I Tha HaraM-raal af rah IMS Woodard uses his spare time to run the Prayer Faith Mission an inst'tution devoted to taking can of charity cases There is an oleander in the front yard of the home of Arturo Isias that la as high as tha houst Mr end Mrs Araiza are keeping a pictorial record of the growth and development of their three children The shape of your nose is not important a the expression on your face a consultant in appearance told 700 El Paso High School girls TEN YEARS AGO Pram Tha HataM-Paal a M- a IM Four hundred and fifty exhibitors are preparing for the opening of the 25th annual Southwestern Livestock show The Fence ji By DR CONNER Tax Collector Elliott find out who built the stately Victorian mansion in 1900 at I 1200 North Mesa street that will be torn down': by Welly Sheid for building an office structure I Whoever built it wee somebody! big A house like that in 1900 rated high! Through tiie years there has been love end laughter sadness end tears youth and old age debt and --anxiety anxiety and youth old I-age and sadness love and tears sadness and youth debt and i laughter and lots of chamber toss their heads and how they take fancy little short steps sort of like they were walking on eggs They look so darn PROUD!) parade started off with Miss Rodeo America Sandy Prati and a flock of other pretty gals whose names I know but for whose good looks I can vouch Then the El Paso Posse El Paso band a neat crew of rope twiriers called the Paso Lassos and riders from Clovis Anthony Eddy County (New Mexico) and assented other places (sorry I missed some I got a phone call in midparade) There was even a beer truck with a loudspeaker incongruously blaring out Hawaiian tunes And at the tail end at course three bright yellow street sweepers which whinny or neigh at all but filled a very functional purpose NOW one other nice thing about parades and to watch the kids on the sidewalk when jt breaks up They Just walk they prance and snort and shy from side to side just like an old cowhand astride a frisky mount I saw many a stellar performance from my window yesterday perhaps the best being put on by a small girl in a cowgirl skirt and 10-gallon hat with two six guns flapping at her side You could almost see the imaginary horse she was riding It locked like so much fun that I spurred the family car all the way home at quitting time no reason kid should have ALL As Ain One at the nicest things about occupying the corner office here at Mills and Kansas street is that provides a ringside view of Just about eveiy parade that El Paso stages And Tin a seeker for parades Let a drum beat a trumpet Mow and at the window In a split second to see going by Yesterday I held a stopworic meeting ail my own for about three-quarters at an hour to watch the Rodeo parade pass by down below the caravan marching toward me down Mills street and turning away down Kansas so I had a coming and going view AND1T WAS a darn good parade One of the unhappy aspects at many a metropolis is that they out-giow parades Things reach the point where the city fathers feel that too much transportation is disrupted for too long or that too much policing required So they ban parades I hope that happen in El Paso Parades are part and parcel at American life and in my view a kid Is cheated It he grows -up never seeing one Particularly parades with horses The nice thing about El Paso parades is that they all have horses I will admit to having readied the happy stage in life where I sometimes admire riding them too but basically my feeling is that parade without horses is like mashed potatoes without gravy Anthony without Cleopatra If you will LI Taylor without Richard Burton (Frankly I think horses enjoy parades too Notion how they arch their necks and A music DAILY IFAXHX LESSON Whm SU tha paapla gat DOXDa i an rat toda la gente rr aar faa-ar taa4ah la haalayt win jwm ha haia SMST KSTABA 'J raiEB AUCI XX Doe MIL toUWal -ah-baa ta iaaa aiaatrt mDo something! fm fd up with tha raal THE PRESENT canal is fast growing obsolete By the end of I.