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MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1965 THE MINNEAPOLIS STAR 4A CHANGING BANNERS Editorials EDITORIAL and OPINION PAGE Uruguay 'Good Lesson for U.S.' mv oninion that we should have more strict enforcement of the law rather than more To the Editor: Ernest Lewald (Aug. 11) finds the proud people of Uruguay have a bitter pill to swallow their once proud gold A 1 lax enforcement. In states like California where law enforcement has been strictly enforced, automobile deaths have decreased drastically. Spring Lake Park. S.

A. LeDuc. LETTERS to the EDITOR peso is gone ana iney are bankrupt and destroyed by inflation. He adds that Uruguay was a pioneer in this century in the field of social legislation. VIp acks if a nation the He Finally Writes To the Editor: I have delayed writing this letter for a few months on a matter which has agitated me greatly, hoping thereby to avoid judging it in an impetuous manner.

I refer to the towering monstrosities which an outdoor advertising company has constructed at its new location in Richfield with the approval of Richfield officials. I must go by this ugly sight twice daily. As the office building progressed through its stages of construction, I was increasingly impressed by its beauty. I could not help but admire its final form of southern colonial architecture with its imposing white columns set off by a spacious lawn. But later I was aghast as two steel towers which appear as sentinels began to flank its sides and was finally appalled at the advertisement which crowned one of them an advertisement of hot dogs! This is definitely a retrogressive step in the state's and nation's efforts to make our highways and freeways attractive to motorists' view and free from distracting elements which are hazards to safety.

Minneapolis. John C. Matlon. Exaggeration and Prostitution WE THINK that Mayor Arthur Naftalin restored some needed perspective to the matter of prostitution in Minneapolis by challenging statements that "tended to give undue importance to this problem." It is true that the police have made 200 arrests this year for prostitution and related offenses, 16 for indecent conduct and 9 for pandering. But it is also true that the morals squad is working harder than ever, and it is fantasy to think that prostitution can be wiped out entirely.

Those who see prostitutes "all over the place" imply that Minneapolis is a wide-open city. Actually, according to those who ought to know, what they are seeing are some of an estimated 100 girls and at least 30 of these are no strangers in the courtroom. One of the few new developments is that the police plan to increase their efforts to arrest the client as well as the prostitute. This does not sit well with many persons, including some judges, but the police ought not be criticized for enforcing the law. There is no evidence that professional vice rings have organized prostitution in Minneapolis, and neither is there evidence that prostitution is suddenly getting out of hand.

It has been moved to more conspicuous spots by the Gateway Center redevelopment, but that doesn't mean that every gal on Hennepin Av. has a shady career. U.S. Wheat Growers Gypped THERE'S jubilation in Canada over new wheat sales to the Soviet Union. Last week the Russians bought 187 million bushels for cash.

Other deals already arranged will bring delivery of 222 million bushels in the 1965-66 crop year. The Russians also are buying about 75 million bushels of wheat from Argentina half for cash at world prices, half in exchange for crude oil. Australia has drought problems and isn't exporting much wheat this season. The United States is happy to see its hemispheric neighbors prosper. But American farmers and exporters should be sharing in this business.

Because U.S. policy excludes American wheat from the Soviet market, the other exporting countries have been urging their farmers to raise more and more wheat. Here acreage is restricted. Canada will harvest a bumper crop from 'increased acreage this year an estimated 800 million bushels. That happens to be just about the U.S.

carryover of wheat, and the government payment for storage probably would allow us to ship wheat to Russia without any freight charge. U.S. exporters must obtain an export license to send wheat to Russia and the license requires that half of the volume go in U.S. vessels, which means 11 to 15 cents more per bushed for U.S. wheat.

So no sales. Top Washington officials keep repeating that farm sales to the Soviet bloc are in the national interest. All commodities but wheat the most important item are unhampered by export licenses. The exporters make the best shipping arrangements possible. Why then the restriction on wheat? Apparently to appease the maritime unions and owners.

But they MINNEAPOLIS -V) Singapore's Policy Worries West size of Minnesota can guarantee a pleasant and secure way of life in what has obviously been a welfare state. Liberal (i.e., unpaid-for) social legislation has destroyed our little friend, and it will destroy our own once proud nation if we continue our "Great Society" welfare state. Will some voters please do some serious thinking? Minneapolis. Edwin F. Luh, M.D.

Protect the Swamp To the Editor: In regard to the Aug. 10 picture of a swamp at 5500 Girard Av. it seems very unfortunate that so many civic-minded individuals of our 13th Ward define a marsh as an area of land whose presence indicates a pressing need for development. This idea is expensive and wasteful. The fear of these people that their offspring are endangered by the existence of a square block of wilderness is really more of a sophistry than a justification.

For in the hundreds of years in which that swamp has managed to exist, we think that the last fatality therein may well have been that of an Indian. Our far-thinking and broad-minded alderman, John W. Johnson, would do well to reconsider his position on this issue. Instead of promoting a few more rows of tract housing development (which will certainly be put in if Humboldt is extended), the city should try some more useful project which could benefit the community without destroying one of our rare pieces of undeveloped land. Minneapolis.

Pat Cooper. John Bergman. Cold War GI Bill To the Editor: After reading your July 26 editorial regarding the Cold War GI Bill, I felt a need to express my feelings. My husband and I will be married four years in October. My husband spent three of them in the Army.

Before going into the service my husband was a licensed cosmetologist. When we returned to civilian life, he had intentions of re-entering the beauty business, but after taking a refresher course he felt he had lost too much. At the present he is working in a factory and I'm working as a receptionist in a doctor's office trying to save enough for him to attend one year of IBM computing and processing school. If he hadn't spent three years in the service, I'm sure he would be doing very well in the beauty business, possibly owning his own shop. As you can see we have quite a bit of adjusting to do in the future.

The passing of the GI Bill would certainly help us get a start. Mrs. Allan J. Roensch. Owatonna, Minn.

More Enforcement Needed To the Editor: In response to the complaints of Loga and Chaderchon (Aug. 19) to the effect that our police are "picking on drivers," may I remind them of the Our police are here to protect us all from individuals who have no respect for our laws, be the laws small or large. It is i to shatter the communal or racial system i of politics on which the 1963 Federation of Malaysia was founded. If successful, this tactic could have brought him new power outside Singapore. 1 Malaysian Prime Minister Abdul Rahman (known as the "Tunku," or prince) had two choices as Lee's political activity mounted.

He could attempt "repressive measures" (in i his own words of Aug. 10) or he could let Lee disaffiliate. Lee's public actions since the severance give no hint of a major foreign policy switch away from the West. Deeply entrenched in their historic base at Singapore, the British have tens of thousands of men fighting the Indonesians in Borneo (a jungle island 750 I miles east of Singapore, part of which also belongs to the Malaysian Federation. So long as the British stay in Singapore Where U.S.

Spells Hope By JOHN T. CONNOR Secretary of Commerce In a commencement address at St. Louis University An experience I had in Brazil shows what a profound impact American business can have on the lives of people in a land where the means of production have not yet caught up with the needs of the population. The firm I was with opened up a new plant in the tiny village of Sousas, where less than a thousand people lived. Even though the village was near Campinas, a modern industrial city and cultural center, few people had shoes, many were unemployed and few had running water or sanitary facilities.

At a gathering during my visit, the local priest stood up and, with tears streaming down his cheeks, told what our operation had meant to the villagers. Before we came, he said, Sousas was a place without hope. Now, he said, Sousas had been transformed. Many of the townspeople were employed at the plant because our on-the-job training had succeeded in turning them from farm laborers into mechanics and technicians. Their wages, plus company-paid taxes and increased merchant activities, had injected new life into the community.

Additional electric power had been installed. Health facilities had been established. The people, the priest said, now have shoes and good clothes and better food. And, significantly, the 10-mile rough clay road that had been Sousas' only connection with Campinas, with the modern world, had been replaced with a shorter, well-paved highway. That new road stands, I think, as a symbol of how American business can help build pathways to hope and a better life for "the forgotten man" everywhere.

Without the techniques and organization of our business system, Sousas would still be a village of forgotten people at the end of a little-traveled road. If this is materialism, let us have more of it. to guard Malaysia from the Indonesians, any radical swing to the left by Lee is perilous. But the pressures on Lee from Chinese Communists in Singapore working in clandestine alliance with Peking could force him further and further leftward. This "would mean serious trouble if, for example, he eventually recognized the Chinese Communists and accepted the usual "cultural" (intelligence) apparatus that comes with it.

All this is entirely possible in the near future. No wonder, then, that the brooding statesmen of the West, now studying the wreckage of that two-year-old hopeful experiment in nation-making, view an independent and Chinese-dominated Singapore as their newest headache. By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK New York Herald Tribune Service Washington. The explosive potential of an independent Singapore headed by mercurial, brilliant, and ambitious Lee Kuan Yew is the newest worry of Western diplomats. Prime Minister Lee once said that, if he had to choose between Western-style colonialism and communism, he would choose the latter.

Now the father of the world's newest country, Lee is free to exploit the political passions of close to 1,350,000 Chinese (75 per cent of Singapore's total population) liberated from the restraints imposed by the Malaysian central government in Kuala Lumpur. A relatively small decision already taken by the government of newly independent Singapore underlines the danger. Before the swift, clean surgery severing Singapore from Malaysia (akin to making New York City independent of New York State), a final decision had been reached to close down the Singapore branch of the Peking Bank of China. Now the bank will stay open. True, the China bank has been operating in Singapore for many years.

But the Malaysian government's decision to close it was symbolic of Malaysia's tightening commitment to the West. The question worrying the West: Does Lee's decision to retain the bank point to a neutralist foreign policy line which Lee hopes will make his voice one to be reckoned with in the Afro-Asian world? It was Lee's restless ambition that forced Kuala Lumpur to throw Singapore out of the federation. When the politicians of Malaya and Singapore devised their ingenious federation two years ago, a political agreement was the solid underpinning. The agreement: Lee's all-Chinese Peoples' Action party would not campaign for seats in the national legislature outside Singapore. Thus, Chinese domination of the federation would be impossible.

But Lee infuriated (and frightened) the central government by breaking this agreement. In last year's elections, he entered nine candidates outside Singapore and captured one seat. In short, forced leftward by far-left politicians inSingapore, leftist Lee was moving Potomac Fever By JACK WILSON Washington. LBJ says the United Slates will abide by When Uncle Sam Enacts Happiness the humane warfare provisions of the Gene-1 va convention. Well, there goes our plan to drop 10,000 guitars on Hanoi.

i The Erie, zoo buys two gorillas fori 4,500 books of trading stamps. And if they! can save another couple of thousand they! take a member of the Happiness Corps in'o their lives or submit to counseling serv ee i from the Office of Happy Operations. In dif-, ficult cases, they may be asked if ihey would prefer to tell the Joint Congressional Internal Happiness Subcommittee why they are undermining the security of American contentment. 4. The Internal Happiness Service.

Inor-jnal happiness will collect the new "glum tax," which is needed to finance the over-! all haDDiness Drosram. The tax structure hope to get a second-hand Tarzan. Two undertakers' organizations have drafted professional codes of ethics. That's what the industry needs a good, acceptable lay-away plan. By RUSSELL BAKER New York Times Service Washington.

News item: President Johnson announces that he will form a White House study group to define United States goals in health, education and "happiness." The historic Internal Happiness Act of 1966, which the President signed today in a joyful setting at Disneyland, will throw the full weight of the federal government behind man's ancient battle against depression, blues, boredom, Sunday-morning letdown, lacklustre marriage and inferiority complex. The act establishes a new cabinet agency, to be called the Federal Happiness Admin aren't getting any of the business now. What have they to lose by junking the licenses? Watching the Water Flow By -v THERE'S a grim fascination in the advice delug- ing New Yorkers in the effort to conserve the city's shrunken water supply. Take a shower (X gallons) instead of a bath (Y gallons), they're told. Take a small bath instead of revelling in a tubful.

Turn the faucet off between swishes of toothbrush and razor. Water the-shrubbery with rinse water from dishes. Don't even drink it with abandon. etc. Now even Mayor Wagner is being critiziced as complacent for saying, "I don't think anyone will have to go without a bath." Officials are wrestling with the major problems of industrial water waste, the need for new sources of water supply, and whether to install individual meters, to make people more aware of how much is flowing through the pipes.

The basic rule is simple: Use the minimum needed, then turn off the faucet immediately. It's not a bad rule for places other than New York such as the Twin Cities area, where water is relatively abun-, dant but far from inexhaustible. A Nonsensical Chess Gambit THE MOVES in the international chess game involving the U.S. champion and Fidel Castro are the kind that would classify as amusing if they weren't so pathetic. First our State Department said our chess champion, Bobby Fischer, couldn't go to Cuba to take i part (along with other experts from around the world) in a tournament in Havana.

Then Bobby said he would play in the tourney by telephone or cable. But he read a report that Cuba's premier had called the U.S. refusal to let him go to Havana as "a propagandistic victory for Cuba." So Bobby cabled Castro saying he was withdrawing. And now Castro has denied making such a state- ment. A spokesman for Bobby says this opens the door for the champ to take part in the event, by telephone.

What's the next move? It ought to be one by the State Department, to end the type of nonsense which started this whole thing. But State probably has "castled" and won't be budged. the Minneapolis STAR LARGEST DAILY NEWSPAPER IN THE UPPER MIDWEST Circulation mor. Ihon 285,000 Progress on Lowry Hill? too complicated to explain in less than 20 volumes of small print. Suffice it to say that everyone should retain a lawyer and immediately start keeping records "of how many minutes of unhappiness he spends each day, and for what purpose they were spent.

The tax is based, crudely speaking, on the amount of time spent over the year in being unhappy, Jess the amount of time spent spreading happiness about matters that affect the general welfare, such as the nuclear stockpile and the present income-tax law. Everyone should receive within the next few weeks a set of "glum-tax" forms, including forms for estimating next year's tax, as well as a copy of "Smile, Dam Ya, Smile!" the new pamphlet explaining why everyone should happy about hiring By TED KOLDERIE Of Ihe editorialopinion page staff Such frozen points of view as those of the homeowners' group on Lowry Hill but new single-family and of the proposed apartment, developers do not thaw quickly. Yet at the meeting called Thursday by Citv Council President Glenn Olson to discuss future policy for the hill, some melting was evident. Infill AililiM MM istration. Here, a new secretary of serenity, joy and contentment will co-ordinate a multitude of sub-agencies with activities reaching into every cranny of American life.

The most important of these will be: 1. The Happiness Corps. An elite group of college-trained extroverts, the corps will be sent into the field to live and work among the unhappy, bucking up life's losers, training the desperate to look for the silver lining, and teaching modem smile techniques to people who hate their work, who can't pay their bills or who suffer from unrequited love. 2. The Office of Happy Operations.

Operations is charged with the responsibility of creating happy alternatives for the unhappy. Happiness studies show that a great deal of unhappiness results from man's tendency to brood upon his adversities. Thus, the man blackballed at the country as ft 5S i in It 1 KilS to till out tnese forms. Heavy political fighting has already developed over the appointment of the" new secretary of serenity, joy and contentment. jWhen the President was asked at his news conference whether the job would go, as rumored, to Dick Gregory, he snapped, "There's nothing funny about happiness." This was widely interpreted as a slap at the Negro community and certain hotheads are already talking angrily about staging I grouch-ins at the White House.

I Moreover, the American Dental Association remains infuriated with the program's jMedismile provision, which offers low-cost federal dental caps for some 10 million hard-core non-smilers. The heaviest opposition, however, conies jfrom the intellectual community, which believes the Greek theorv that th prp ran hp All parties now seem1 agreed, for one thing, that any decision made cannot be a decision simply about one1 property, but must be a decision involving substantial-l ly the entire neighborhood. The staff of the city plan-j ning commission has now! given its professional opinion: that the preferred (and.1 realistically, the only) alter-! native to the high-rise apart-: ment tower, as the old mansions come down, is some form of town-house development. The principal developer, Anthony Cherne perhaps; reflecting the current feel-j ing that high-rise towers (at! least those not located within walking distance of shops' and offices) are not so attractive a venture as they seemed a year or two ago now says he is willing to! "negotiate" about the type of I JOHN COWLES. JOYCE A.

S.VAN, Executive Vice President end Publisher; JOHN COWLES. ice President end Editor; OTTO A SILHA, Vice President and Business Manager; JOHN W. MOFFETT, President and Advertising Duector; HOWARD W. MITHUN. V.ce President and Secretary; PHILIP VON ELON.

Vice President; CLARENCE B. McCUE. Treasurer Editor of Edi-I. PETERSON, BOWER HAWTHORNE, Executive New Editor; DANIEL M. UPHM.

Managing Editor. ROBERT V. SMITH, torial Pages; GEORGE Associate Editor. club tends to let the social snub eat into his soul until he feels thoroughly depressed and inferior. The Office of Happy Operations will carry out programs to combat this sort of thing.

It might, for example, encourage the man snubbed at the country club to form a car pool of his fellow workers and, so, repair his sense of belonging. 3. The Gloom Intelligence Agency. G.I.A. is the police arm of the Happiness Administration.

By tapping telephones and using trick mirrors, it will ferret out hidden brooders, who publicly profess loyalty to the rosy outlook while, before the privacy of their shaving mirrors, secretly asking themselves "What's the use?" These brooders will then be asked to cific idea of what town-house; development might look like! what area of the hill might! be included, what densities: Published Daily Except Sunday ot 425 Portland Minneapolis. Minn. 55415, by the Minneapolis Star and Tribune Company. Telephones: General 372-4141; Circulation, 372-4343; Want Ads. 372-4242.

no pleasure without pain, no happiness without unharjoiness. Some nrofessors arp development lie puts on the' old Bennett mansion site. The homeowners, responding to the planning commission's "alternatives," now are cautiously indicating they might compromise on' some form of town-house de- velopment after all. All this is progress. What's needed next is a more spe-J threatening to risk jail by burning their THE STAR'S POLICY 1.

Report fh news fully and impartially in the news columns. 2. Express fh opinions of fhe Star in but only in editorials on the editorialopinion pages. 3. Publish all sides of important controversial issues.

would be desirable and what zoning action would be required. One example, though perhaps too severe for many tastes, are the town houses by I. M. Pei on Philadelphia's Society Hill, shown here. gium-tax torms.

Happiness, these men feel, is having a President who makes vou unhappy enough to get out of the faculty iciud ana discover that lite can be VOLUME LXXXVII NUMBER.