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yiifriiriifrumgi'TN'" yr-sPTap' qr' 1 SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 12, I960 THE DAILY SENTINEL, JUNCTION, COLORADO PAGE FIVE, IP An Editor's Outlook The Observer T.yw- ly on TH VIET NAM 'As The Grand Kleagle Said' Chess Escalates To 'Dolly' QuangTri Huone Hoa A VIET IIAH HOTSPOTS QHu.V,ng Nam Hoa Phil loeV: -DA NANG' Hoi Thuong Due Hiep Due DakGle Dak Set By RUSSELL BAKER New York Times WASHINGTON Moscows abrupt decision to keep Hello Dolly! off the boards in Russia is bad news. official interpretation that the show was banned in retaliation against United States war policy in Viet Nam is not taken seriously by people who understand relations between modern superstates. These people find it laughable to suggest that Moscow thinks it can give American bombers tit-for-tat by cutting off David Merricks rubles. The Hello Dolly! crisis, they agree, is retaliation all right, but not agamst An Han ic Bmh Son Quang Ngai Duc'PhO Dong Xuan -H Tuy Hoa Buon Thoat Thuot ByiENKIN LLOYD JONES This pretty young chick got off the plane at St. Louis and left in her seat a copy of a magazine called Glamour.

I picked it up and right away I could see by the foundation garment and bikini ads that it was aimed at the female late-teen and coed crowd. There was this article On Becoming 18 which purported to ttll a young girl what to talk about on her first college blind date. I never read more awful advice." IT IS ACTUALLY possible to block out possible topics of conversation in your mind and cautiously use them up over the weekend, said the She suggested: What do you know Madame Blavatsky? Why was. Tamerlane considered great? Ever read any Eudora Welty? Whered you prep? Now, it occurs to me that the only one of those questions the normal young American male could reply to is, Whered you prep? And, after he says Sioux Falls East High theres going to be an awkward silence. THE WRITER FURTHER suggested that the girl may intrigue the young man by slipping hi provocative phrases like, As we a i-vivisectionists always Lies, Big Lies, And Statistics Buon Bneng Ban Don Ban Me will knock him off his perch.

The idea that a girl can become a fascinating conversationalist if she jots down a series of unrelated topics on the bus up to the junior prom is questionable. Conversationalists are a around the family dinner table from about age three. Chilren with reasonable brainpower are turned into conversationalists if parents talk intelligently tCT each other, if kidtf are exposed to adult ideas early, if they are read to instead of being fobbed off on the deadly repetition of Tv. THE ART of conversation is the art of knowing at least a little about a lot of things. It requires neither depth nor originality.

Some of the worlds most delightful talkers are shallow thinkers, while many a specialized genius stands in glum and embarrassed silence at a cocktail party. There are, of course, tricks to it. And the lady writer for Glamour must be given credit for trying to help insecure adolescents, for we adults too often forget the tortures of that wonderful awkward age when girls try to mask their confusions in hysterical babble and when the collars of young men never seem to quite fit. But the real trick of conversation is.the art of interview. It is the art of finding out what your companion is interested in and drawing him out.

All human beings are, to a degree, egocen-tic; and nothing warms us to person like the feeling that he or she is fascinated by us. YOUTHS WHO are stupid or inordinately vain can be trapped by the Oh-you-great-big-wonderful-man technique, which -requires nothing more than an adoring expression. But most discriminating males will expect a good date to take a cut at conversational pitches and once in a while, perhaps, get the ball out of the infield. A young woman, bent on impressing; doesnt have to. be an expert on slaloms, the under-four-minute mile, the thrust of the Saturn or four-barrel carburetors; but if she knows enough to ask a few leading questions, it helps.

An impossible situation arises, of course, where a callow gentleman can do nothing but recite old football scores. But the solution for the lady is not, as the Glamour writer suggested, to bore him back with a monolope on opera plots. THE SOLUTION is to get her teeth straightened so she wont be reduced to trying to impress idiots. Smoothness is largely a mat-terofbeing atease.Theat-ease young person usually feel capable of being interesting. To be interesting you have to know some-thing.

Synthetic conversation gimmicks rarely work. By the way, who was Madame Blavatsky, and what did Marisol sculpt? (Gen. Fe. Crp.) Singapore Plans To Go Own Way say. Now, this" idea does have some merit.

She could certainly wake up a sleepy date by remarking parenthetically, As my father, the Grand Kleagle, said. or As my mother laughingly remarked while strangling the parakeet. or As I told my Young Communist cell But it might not help her get another date. The article then tackled the problem of how to cover your ignorance. Suppose, said the Writer, he mentions Marisol.

The trick is to skid along in the discussion, even avoiding the word he, or it, putting everything into the passive voice and never making concrete statements, thus forcing him to say something crucial and definitive like, But I still think her sculpture reflects the central experience of our time, which puts you on firm ground again." THIS IS ONE of the troubles with our country millions of people skidding along, pretending to know things they dont, What America needs are more future mothers who have the courage to roll their baby blue eyes up at their dates and ask, Who or what the hell is Since the young man who brought the matter up is probably a poseur this rugged honesty presence of the Bank of China in Singapore and to substantial trade, in form of imports from China. These relations are affected by Chinas support of Indonesia which is attempting to crush Singapore and Malaysia because they are neo-colonial creations of the British. Peking exists, Rajaratnam You must enter some kind of relationship with it. How close that is will depend mostly on whether China is willing to accept as an independent nation. Rajaratnam denied that thert were any internal pressures on Singapores Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew for closer ties with Peking.

Mr. Lee has a solid anti-communist majority in our legislature, the foreign minister said. We' are free as a new government to choose our own path." SINGAPORE IS EAGER to become a member of the Afri-can-Asian bloc. To that end Rajaratnam and a group of Singapore officials will soon begin a limited tour of African and Asian coun tries to explain Singapores position' Only 38 countries have recognized Singapore since the island city left Malaysia Aug. 9.

The figure does not include British Commonwealth countries who are expected to recognize Singapore after it becomes a member of the commonwealth. In Peculiar War Buon Houei forces to resume attacks at any time. The central highlands region from Pleiku to northern Konmm, and across the An Khe Valley to coastal Binh Dinh Province, remain critical areas. LARGE VIET CONG forces are known to be massing there, and regular North Vietnamese units are thought to be with them. A similar situation exists along the coast 'rom Quang Ngai north to Chu Lai, Da Nang and Hue.

U.S. troop movements have been determined with these Viet Cong concentrations in mind. The Vietnamese Army has been given. the Mekong Delta to defend, but U.S. troops are based at Bien Hoa near Saigon, at Cam Ranh Bay and Qui Nhon along the central coast, and at Chu Lai, Da Nang and Hue in the north.

More U.S. troops may move into strong points in the central highlands. North Viet Nam, U.S. air strikes have pummelled military installations, roads irnd bridges from the 17th parallel to 35 miles south of Hanoi. Current air strikes are directed at targets to the northwest of Hanoi along routes coming into North Viet Nam from Laos and China and at military strongpoints such as Dien bien phu.

As the air strikes continue, they may creep down the Red River Valley toward Hanoi. anything that is happening in Asia. IN THE WORDS of one war-room thinker, What we are faced with is the danger of total cultural warfare." In striking against Broadways most successful musical, Moscow is overreacting in an escalation out nf all proportion to the origin, American thrust. The crisis was begun quielly enough last month when Soviet photographic planes flying over Cuba recorded the absence of Bobby Fischer from the Capa-blanca Chess Tournament, Scanning newspaper cuttings in the Ministry of Cultural Warfare, several commissars ic- dramatic decline in Negro unemployment, to 7.6 per cent of the Negro labor force. The July figure, on hich all the commentary had been based, was seen to be in error.

STATISTICIANS quickly point out that the August figure is not reliable, either. But they add that the trend over a period of months is reliable. What this trend shows it that Negro unemployment has been steadily declining" with expansion of the economy, and that this decline in the last year has been faster than the drop in white unemployment. It also shows that for the second quarter of this year a period long enough to be statistically meaningful Negro unemployment was less than double white unemployment for the first time since 1957. The same is likely to be true 0 the third quarter, when July and August figures are combined and September is added.

THE. BUREAU OF LABOR statistics made this laconic comment as It published its August figures: While the job situation for nonwhites is still markedly worse than for whites the continued pressures of economic expansion have made significant inroads on the problem. This Week Monday 9 a.m. Mesa County Commissioners, Courthouse. Tuesday 7:30 p.m.

Mesa County Planning Commission, Courthouse. -Wednesday 7:30 p.m. Grand Junction City Council, Civic Auditorium. Friday 10 a.m. Colorado Association of Retarded Children, La Court.

7 p.m. Colorado Federation of Jane Jefferson Clubs, La Court. Saturday 9 a.m. Colorado Association of Retarded Children, State Home. 10 a.m.

Colorado Federation of Jane' Jefferson Clubs, La Court. ,11 a.m. Dedication of hy-rec Dormitory at Kiwanis-Eas-ter Seal Camp and convention of Colorado Society for Crippled Children and Adults, Grand Mesa. has produced a number of the pulps says he writes By and large for men who are afraid of women. The editor of a leading.

line of sex books believes his audience is primarily made up of frustrated men. THE WRITERS of Ihe pulp novels get a fldt rate averaging $750 or $1,000, although some smaller Concerns a much less. It takes about two weeks to complete a book. According to one editor, many of the men and the few women who write sex' books have enough talent to move on to better things but very few do. iOn the whole their lives are disorderly and speculative; few have families or live outside the large cities.

The publishers fall generally into three First there are the three middle-of-the-road ones Midwood Lancer Books and Beacon Publishers, all of New York. A second class, which produces slightly more sensational items, are the doz ported simultaneously that' Fischer, the American ches; champion, had been denied American passport permission to attend the tournament. Here, it seemed, was a quie concealed move by the United States to strike a sneak blow against Communist culture. Th suspicion may have been heightened by the negligible coverage given to the United Stales Fischer gambit in the Ameru an press. THE STATE DEPARTMENTS motives are obscure.

The Fischer affair may have been merely a case of bureaucratic bumbling, or it may have been a small probe by the CIA designed to test Communist cultural defenses. Whatever the case, no one anticipated a violent Communist response. Compared to Hello Dolly!" Fischer is scarcely mure than a popgun in the American cultural arsenal. At most, the Soviets were expected to hit back by throwing a couple of touring American engineers out of Dnieperpetrovsk. In banning Hello Dolly! Moscow abruptly confronted Washington with a cultural challenge of the deepest gravity.

The men here who favor lobbing one into the mens room of the Kremlin are already urging a five-year prohibition against the Bolshoi ballet. THE VOICE OF SANITY behind the scenes belongs to Dr. Hugo Hans, whose seminal work, Culture Can Turn the Tide, defines 93 brilliantly thought-out steps up the escalation ladder which precede the dreadful step 94: Universal Cul- tural War. (Banning pre-dawn Russian classes on educational Tv, permitting unlimited export of movie magazines to the Soviet Union, etc.) Dr. Hans points out that in refusing to let Fischer go to Cuba to play chess, the United States, unwittingly perhaps, was escalating to Step 22.

(Insulting the Enemys National Game.) A reasoned response by the Russians would have been a long article in Pravda denouncing baseball as hooliganism This, 1 he notes, was impos- sible for a number -of reasons. For another, the Russians hadnt read his book and hence did 0 1 know the proper response. INSTEAD, THEY escalated immediately to Step 67. (Ha-rass the Enemy's Road Shows.) Even at this Dr. Hans points out, effective cultural warfare can be waged without intense danger of wiping out all culture.

To ban further tours by Bolshoi, for example, would invite further escalation by the Russians. The reasoned response would be to bed the troupe in sheets full of cracker crumbs, house them in hotel-rooms next to convention parties, and steer them through a program of rigorously planned activity such as Doris Day movies, visits to the Senate, and afternoon Tv game shows. DR. HANS critics have vilified him for daring to think about ways of making culture an effective weapon of the state. As the Russians have shown again, however, culture in the era of the'superstate is as much an instrument of policy as the ICBM and the secret agent.

-As "Dr. Hans puts it, You cant make an omelet without cracking a few eggheads. en or so concerns in Chicago, Detroit and on the West Coast. The third group, which is responsible for what the trade calls the very rough stuff, consists of fly-by-night operators. These are men, generally of unsavory character and long experience in the trade, who conduct their business wherever there is space for their suitcase.

THE SUITCASE OPERATORS Generally begin by assembling two or three manuscripts, though they are not above stealing stories. They get them printed cheaply, usually in a run of 50, 000 or 60,000. The books appear with an imprint like an Atlas Book but have no publishers name or address. They then sell their out-put to a distributor for about half the cover price and move on. The retailers are generally a group of tight-lipped, harassed men who must bear the brunt of police raids, fines, ard pressures from censorship galps.

Ry SETH S. KING York Times To Insure a stable Singapore we must now take some steps that may not always suit the United States. Its up to the Americans to understand this. i nathamby Rajaratnam, Singapore's new foreign was trying to explain his countrys foreign policy which has been slowly crystallizing during the month since Singapore. was.

'separated from 3 i RAJARATNAM SAID Singapore was determined to establish- itself as an independent, nonaligned Asian country. We are not going to let the Communists take over here," he said. we dont want to be pushed about by the anti-Communists. By nonaligned, Rajaratnam said, meant that she was not going be drawn into any military blocs. But this did not mean that Singapore could Ignore the need to retain British military bases, he added.

Peking hassaid wanted to enter into friendly relations with us, 7 he said, but we said first you must recognize bur sovereignty and independence. Until that happens our relations with China Will remain-as they now are. PEKIN.G-SlNGAPORE relations are presently limited to By EDWIN L. DALE JR. New York Times According to a slightly moldy joke, there are lies, big lies, and statistics.

While government statisticians and the thousands of private citizens who use them would vigorously dispute the implication of the joke, a dramatic example of the problem involved in statistics has arisen in the last month over the issue of Negro unemployment. SHORTLY BEFORE the Los Angeles riots, the Labor Department had released its replar monthly figures on employment and unemployment. Among the maze of figures, breaking down the working population and the unemployed, was the report that Negro unemployment had risen from 8.4 per cent in June to 9.1 per cent in July, This appeared to present a paradox of profound social impli-cations. All the other jobless figures were good. Total unemployment dropped to an eight-year low.

Teenage unemployment was much less than had been feared, White adult unemployment was dropped to the nearly full-employment level of 2.3 per cent. But, said the figures, Negro unemployment had risen, VICE PRESIDENT Humphrey stressed this figure in a White House meeting on employment opportunity. At least four na-1 1 0 a 1 newspaper columnists picked it up, along with an unknown number of radio and tel' evision commentators. A former assistant secretary of labor, Daniel P. Moynihan, based an entire magazine article on the figure.

All made the same point: the figures showed that vigorous expansion of the economy somehow left the Negro behind, that he did not benefit from general prosperity. Los Angeles rendered the conclusion all the more dramatic. BUT, FROM THE vice president down, the commentators had failed to notice an important qualification that the Bureau of Labor statistics has long made. This is that, while the over-all figures on employment and unemployment-based on a scientific sample of the population-are quite accurate, the figures on any small sub group of the population for one month are unreliable. A major reason for this it that the sample of most subgroups of the population is too small to.

give statistically accurate results for one month. In any case, last week the Labor Department published its figures for August. They showed and even some are a profitable item. To some, the ready availability of the prurient indicates progress toward American maturity in matters sexual. Others, including the censorship groups and most churches, do not agree.

A veritable floodgate of obscenity (has been) opened in the last 12months in the form nf 00 scene pocket books, magazines and greeting cards, to such an extent that it is unbelievable, the Mayors Citizens Antipornography Commission of York reported recently. THERE ARE FEW on either side of the argument, however, who would deny that the sex novels are badly written, joyless, repetitious and twisted. It is difficult not to regard many of the outpourings of extravagant language and soaring passion as boring, if not comical. Even those who write and publish the works feel thay are engaged in a less than noble profession. Commercial writer who Harris Survey Support More Solid For Viet Nam Policy Pattern By EDWIN Q.

WHITE Associated Press Writer The hot spots in South Viet Nam spread like a heat rash and disappear just as quickly; Names like Dong Xoai, Song Be, and Due Co catch the headlines, then disappear. The battles seem to pop up all over the countryside in an unrelated series of explosions. But there is a pattern to the war confusion of Viet Nam. THIS PATTERN is based on the areas where the Viet Cong are actively building up their big, hardcore battalions. Their presence in an area is usually well-telegraphed to government authorities by intelligence reports from friendly villagers', roads cut, and minor attacks.

The specific location of the Viet Cong is harder to find. There are 10 major Viet Cong buildup areas in South Viet Nam The most southern spreads on! from the swamps of Minh Forest into An Xuyen and a 0 i of the people have made up their minds that this country must stand up against Communist aggression in Asia no matter what it takes and that Viet Nam is the place in whiriu they are prepared to see us stand. In sharp contrast, the 25 per cent of the public who want to end the fighting in Viet Nam with the best settlement we can get is far less solid in its views. Seventy per cent of these people they would change their minds about our course in Viet Nam if it means that Com' munists would use similar tactics on other continents. Almost two-thirds say they would change their minds if negotiating our way out of Viet Nam fn a that the Communists would take over all of Southeast Asia or that Ameri- cans would be fighting against Communist wars of liberation in other places in the next 15 years.

THUS, IT IS CLEAR that some of the possible consequences of pulling out of Viet Nam now are unacceptable even to those who believe President Johnson is pursuing the wrong policy there. In fact, when public opinion about Viet Nam is assessed the light of these probes, it is perfectly apparent that the American people are nearly 70- Chuong Thien Provinces. The Minh Forest has lohg harbored several hard-core Viet Cong battalions. They are. reportedly moving out for action.

SOUTH OF CAN THO on the Bassac River and stretching into Vinh Binh Province is another concentration area whfire the Viet Cong are known to be mingling with the population. The Viet Cong have moved in force into provinces to the east, west and north of Saigon. Battalions of Viet Cong clobbered government forces in Phqoc Tuy province, east of Saigon, last Decemher and they are still there and unbeaten. In Hau Nghia and North Long An Province to thj the Viet Cong had dug in along the Vaico Oriental River and are daily harrassing strategic villages and government posts. To the north of Saigon, the Viet Cong have made their presence felt at Dong Xoai, Song Be, and Bu Dop this year and reportedly have enough 30 behind the proposition that Viet Nam should be the ground on which the United Stales should take its stand against communism in Asia.

The main concerns of the public are over the risk of American lives and the desire to avoid another world war as weighed against fears of a Communist take-over. Typical was a 25-year-old store clerk in Fort Wayne, who said, My brother is over there. People are getting killed and it could be him. We all hate war, but we have to take our stand there or it will be. worse later on.

IN GREENE, IOWA, a 46-year-old bu si sjnan said, Were goin to lose a lot of lives and the cost is high. But you have to pay the price to keep the Communists from winning. And a' housewife in Somers Point, N. added, It is terrible to have the killing and the people separated from their loved ones. But if it werent Viet Nam, it would be another spot.

In Ballardsville, a 27-year-old woman said, My brother who is 20 years old left last night, drafted into the ssr-vice. My husband was in the Korean War, and we know what it is to go through it. I wish it didnt have to be, but there comes a time to stand up. Dirty books Making Big Dirtymoney By LOUIS HARRIS President Johnson today has more solid support for his policies in Viet Nam 66 per cent of the public than at any other prom "the essentially negative feelings of last January, public opinion has shifted sharply. Furthermore, there is a growing firmness about the course the American people want to see followed In Viet Nam.

The public wag a in May, July and again in this latest survey: What course do you feel the United States should follow in the Viet Nam fighting carry the ground fighting to North Viet Nam, at the risk of bringing Red China into the war, negotiate a settlement orhold the. line to keep the communists from taking over South Viet Nam? July May Hold tha Una 41 45 42 Negotiata 25 30 Carry thy war north 28 25 22 In order to test just how solidly people are willing to hold to their positions about file Viet Nam War, a series of statements was presented to people who professed to hold each point of view. After each statement was read, each person was then asked if he would still agree with his stated position. The rentes are particularly revealing. All of the 25 per cent of the public who want to carry the war to North Vt Nam are willing to see this done even if it time since the fighting began to escalate jn February.

Opposition to U.S. involvement In the war appears to be fading, while public opinion behind firm military action is very substantial. The American people apparently have passed an important threshold in their thinking about Viet Nam, Only a relatively small minority any longer Expect a quick settlement of the war. More than twice as many, in 'fact a' majority of the public, believe That the Viet Nam fighting will go on for several years. It is now clear that as concern over the war in Asia has mounted 73 per cent say they think about -it often and 61 per cent feel personally affected by it most Americans have concluded that the failure of Ithe United States to stand firm in Viet Nam would lead to even deeper trouble for the free world later ON FIVE OCCASIONS this year, the Harris Survey has ed cross sections of the public: How would you rate the job President Johnson has been doing in handling the war in Viet Nam pretty good, only fair or poor? Excellent-Pretty Good Per Cent 65 57 60 41 means the government would have to re-impose the taxes that were reduced last year.

Ninety-five per cfent of this group feel the war should be carried to the North even if it means that the United States would become involved in an Asian land War with casualties as great as in Korea or if it means that Russia and China Join forces with North Viet Nam. Ninety-two per cent of this group favor carrying the war to the North even if it means we would ultimately have to use atom bombs on the Chinese mainland. THE BULK of Americans 49 per cent who want to hold the line in South Viet Nam feel a 1 as strongly about that view. Ninety-five per cent of them say they are willing to give up last years tax cut to maintain that Seventy-three per cent say they are for holding the line if it means a land war like in Korea. Sixty-n i per cent say they are for holding the line even if pit means Russia and China join with North Viet Nam.

And 58 per cent are for staying in South Viet Nam even if it means the eventual use of atom bombs against China. THIS DOES NOT MEAN that a majority of Americans now favor dropping atom bombs on China. But it does mean that 4 ask-' PAUL L. MONTGOMERY New York Times The pulp sex novel, once considered the preserve of pasty-faced men in shabby overcoats, has emerged from underground to become an $18 million-a-year business. This year, by conservative estimate, the burgeoning industry will produce 500 titles exploring pursuits that used to be treated only in medical journals.

The estimate for the sex book industrys annual income of $18 million, a conservative figure, is reached by multiplying, the years harvest of titles (500) by an average press run (60,000) and an average price (60 cnts). IN THE WELL-ORDERED dirtybook stores, of which there are now a dozen in midtown Manhattan, special sections are set aside for the most popular categories of aberrance. Much of the expanded market, however, has come from otlujr outlets. Racks of thC sex paperbacks blossom these days in many cigar and candy stores, 1 m' -i I -P? 4T ef C. -t ,1,..

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