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- NEW YORK 'AR* —Things *
columnist might never know
he didn't open his mail:
When secretary of State Dean
The chances appear slim that sure to government employes
those 218 million oun.es set to volunteer for extra hours
aside for redeeming the certifi- without Pay or to doa stint
cates will be used up v ieast in the fields. To hold back
Iwn lk . . . . risks transfer permariently to
they won t at the present rate of -productive labor.
redemption. u . Some people with jobs have
n he past months said been declared without them
Wallace, about 43 million ounces and .sent to the can fields
have been paid out for silver Hundreds waiting to leave the
certificates The peak was country have been summoned
reached in March when Hi 5 to immigration headquarters,
million ounces were released, given a couple of days' notice
Monday, May 13. 1968
Dean Rusk - I
w as Best I
IRE WELCOME
the need in
is zeroing in i
ished objectiv
Cuba the first
liking than a Nixon or a Reagan eminent supply, and whether ba s desperate need to extract
Every day's delay in reaching an the government has enough for all possible from its fertile
agreement means of course. that more Its needs grow s so important fields R also reinforces the
American lives wiR be lost The toss of Speaking here earlier this government s determination
IHE SILENT VOTE
The youth vote will be im-
LONDON (API - While ap-
plauding the Hanot-Washing-
ton peace talks in Paris some
foreign commiertators say it
‘ past
ins in
worth ahead
what has become an interna-
tional war between America
and North Vietnam. The sec-
ond. and harder task, will lie
schools
Equality of educational op-
portunity is an important gnat
111 conceived plans to achieve
it, though, run th risk of im-
posing an equality of medioc-
rity — Wall Street Journal
namese government," the pa-
per added ■
An Associated Press sam-
pling of foreign opinion show-
ed a number ofcommentatirs
calling for <j case-fire during
enough
cerrer Or D
many plate
such mailer
meet its needs ’
Does the U S. Tre:
enough silver to sail
commitments, such
pledge to redeem stl
v have
all its
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certifi-
By FENTON WHEELER
Associated Press Writer
HAVANA <AP) — Alter nine
years of timing, FgM Castro
duce to eat in Cub.
Undoubtedly thou
thousands work the
patriotic reasons :
ecwaxo4,,
waiting lists
In published interviews,
workers have called for send-
ing loafers to agriculture,
evidence the man on the
street knows of the practice
and approves it. If you are
what they can for their chil-
dren it's also true, however,
that these localities contribute
a disproportionatty large
share of the state and f eder-
al taxes that go to aid poorer
schools if the contributions
become excessive, these areas
probably would tie less able
i n t 1.1 y r II y a t Ml B H < || R n M U E
school control, and this proc-
ess would continue. Further
< entralization almost certain-
ly would limit local experi-
mentation with programs
geared to local requirements
it's true that wealthier com-
munities can afford higher lo-
uct, still
2 per cent
argue that there is sufficient sil-
ver for dentists, silverware,
makers television set manufac-
turers and others
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Johnson Se
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most Texan
to be and
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budding wi
LBJ School
on a hill ea
versity of
about 20 pet
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1969, to com
project.
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bers. Dr W
chairman of
government
Texas at Ai
of a faculty
ommend on
to head the
today that,
mittee will
by the end
"We have
the program
even thougt
not be com
pears dubioi
Dr. Livings!
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university ci
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ment at the
mer preside
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and a long
President, a
tian.
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of administr
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tion for the
a member
commite.
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ambassador
1966, when f
the uni versit
that Johnse
vited to tea
the new sche
occasions, I
told newsme
ing forward
university.
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The high cost of government:
Federal aid programs for fiscal
1969 will total about $20 billior
three times the $6 6 billior
such programs cost in 1959.
Alcoholism, which takes at
least 11,000 American lives eat
year, is becoming an increasing
problem among older segmen
of the population The deat
rate from drinking disorder
has increased 27 per cent
among men over 70 in the last
10 years and 39 per cent among
women in that age group
if you value your pet 4
dog. better keep it at home
on a leash "Petnapers e
now stealing some two millin
i early for optimism
appallingly intraci
of peal emaking"
to preven the civil war con-
tinuing" between the Sa gon
government and the .Viet
tong
The United States has obli-
gallons now tn South Vietnam,
obligations to thos - who would
be the innocent v itims of an
-aid the Eritish newspaper
Guardian
life doesn’t mean so much to the Com-
munists as it does to us They have little
regard for life, the sacrifice of lives is
the inevitable cost of the world conquest
they seek They have lots of lives to
give and their leaders have no com-
punction about throwing them into
mortal combat
So the Communists are not in the
same hurry that we are. and they know
it They will haggle and provoke They
will stretch out the debate They will do
everything they can to make us willing
to concede benefits to them
But we should not, in our eagerness
to end this bloodshed, end it in futility
and with no guarantee of a safe future.
MOTHER S DAV
Tn The Editor
music professors and the man cats and dogs a year H
repairing television sets in his It certainly is hard to fig lle ■
spare time out real estate values. In 1867
A principal target was the the United States bought all |
private grocery, sometimes an Alaska for a mere 57 2 mullo ■
outlet for blackmarket food Just 90 years later the late J< E
With a persistent food prob- D. Rockefeller Jr signed
lem ,the government put new check for $8 5 million in Pa)
restrictions on the purchase of ment for the site here o1 ! ■
milk, eggs. sugar, salt and United Nations Which will i I
crackers Of basic foodstuffs, tory rate as the bigger barsal
only bread can now be bought Our quotable notables Yuu l
in unlimited quantities. A new gain strength. courage and tie
rule against reserving places fidence by every experience 1 I
in line stretched queues to which you really stop to 100k I
block length. Clothing is still fear in the face. You must do I
rationed and hard to get Add- the things you think you cannot ■
ed to these hardships since do. —Eleanor Roosevelt. I
the first of year has been Precedence: Because Dela- I
gasoline rationing ware was the first state to ratify ■
thefederaliConstitition.iinsE
T^Ubca^ X h- I'
sumer but says socialist ton- or rank at national events.such I
science and work will see peo- aspresidential inaugurations ■
pie through. The CDR lakes Butting asunder One.hundred
up the cry with signs: "DU- years ago fhereswas one divoree
ficulties don't matter, we in the United Statesuforevery I
i i, 36 marriages, in 1900 one for I
have dignity every 12. Now the divorce rate ■
In the middle of these hard seems to be holding pretty ■
times. Castro doesilittle to hide steady at about one for every ■
his disgust with the Russians fouir marriages
tor not pitching in with more Home is a dangerous place for I
aid. In fact, he has virtually kids. It is estimated that sone
accused the Soviets of doing 250.000 household products are I
the opposite — pressuring potentially poisonous to children I
Cuba economically to change if gulpedin quantity. The items I
its line. they accidentally poison theni-E
"We have known the bitter- selves with most often are I
ness of having to depend to drugs. particularly aspirin, I
a considerable extent on what cleaning compounds, bleaches
Let’s iroid Pulse Hopes
e Sir would you please
my little note, in sour pap
J. My name, is Edgar Mil
» per lent from the
■spile its numerical
the under 30 group
utnumbored by the
ters, those past age
the respective concessions
harder to envisage," said the
Sunday Times of London
- "Opitmism for a sut cessful
outcome to the negotiations is
If added We mu
None of us should be lulled into any
false hopes of a quick settlement by the
cordiality with which both sides opened
the Paris peace talks
We must be prepared for a long time
many months before a truce is reach-
ed. if ever
Communists argue long and loud
They will exploit every opportunity.
seize upon every propagandadevice, and
condemn us daily
The only language they understand is
the language of strength Our represen-
tatives must be firm, very turn, with the
North Vietnamese, oi well suffer an
other defeat at the conference table
it is decidedly unlikely that the Paris
negotiations will make much progress
before our presidential elections Ho
Chi Minh probably prefers to wait and
see who is elected A Kennedy' or Mc-
Carthy or Humphey or Rockefeller in
Bv THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Today is Tuesday, May 14,
the 135th day of 1968 Thiere are
231 days left in the year
Today s highlight in hustory:
On this date in 1787. a con
vention met in Philadelphia 10
draw up (he I S Constitution
On this date
charged were inflated by the Rusk was a Boy Scout, he w
former parasitic owners. Georgia s "knot-tying champ
part so far.
• Along with the nationaliza-
tion the offensive abolished
the lottery, and outlawed cock-
fighting a campesino favorite
All priv ate and most state
bars were closed and the
government's fancy night
spots shut down
Havana’s nightlife died in a
matter of hours as Castro said
people could learn to drink
at home away from corrup-
tion. black marketerring and
and - government talk.
The campaign also reached
to private language schools.
dustry. the Treasury ’s supply
would seem to be nearly used
up But there is a catch and it
involves those silver certifi-
cates.
i today. . n
ands and is
fields for q
be unnecessary: lor one already is eroding local
$1 95 per
al US $1
s $23 40
ant Treasure secretary said the projects despite suggestions
1 s silver stoik amounted to from outside do so On the
more than 520 million ounces or contrary, more effort thane-
seemingly enough for govern- er appears to be going into
mint needs As coins are melt- t he construction of fertilizer,
ed this stock could grow and cement facilities.
Against this supply are these The offensive's war cry is.
commitments 165 million - Death to capitalism, we are
ounces for the stockpile, another socialists"
63 million ounces said to tie One instant result has been
needed by the Atomic Energy a harder life for everyone,
Commission, and 218 million involvement for everyone, cu-
ounces for redeeming silver cer- ban officials agree privately
can bequickly reached on the games to be held in the United
negotiatiny table States opered at St Louis
of-public opinien at home ily now lives at 720 Ponder; Souiil"F me , In 1940 German bomt
tends to keep them there No Denton. Thank you yomiur called.on the Unit- wiped out large sections of
amount of ptiblic pressure NOTE:-To my mother and, 60 States to hal completely Dutch city of Rotterdam, killing
however, can diminish the ap- all the mothers of Denton , omoing of North Viet- some 30,000 persons,
pallingly intractable task of I m writing to say-1 wish you nam 1,1 enhance chances for In 1948 Britain ended 31 yea
peacemaking that lies ahead all a very-happy Mothers- P.C5 of rule in Palestine and the r
Dav and many more to come " As the mightie t nation in dependent date of Israel i
• SP-4 EDGAR MILLER _ the world ihe United State- proclaimed
St i BN 30th Arty < an afford to show greater fol- Ten vears ago — The United
APO 26449 ... --erance and such an initiative States said it would send police
(EDITOR'S NOTE: ’ The would make it easier for" Ha- equipment, including tear gas.
above was received too lite mu to take a more flexible to Lebanon, where a pro-west
to be panted in advance bP' attitude h tbe sensitite nego- cm government was threatened
Mother's Day i tiatiors," Yomiur said h disorders.
are KWRC
million ounces—perhaps more
Ihe Treasury really figures
that much of that siluer is safe,
that the silver certificates will
be held by their present owners
In any COM
mote than a it
A scramble fa
in 1804, Cap! Merrwetner
Lewis and William Clark set out
from St Louts. Mo. on their
expedition to the Pacific cdast
in 1811. Paraguay declared
its independence from Spam
in ' 1904. the first Olympi
.lutionary offensive" was _ —
harsh, have seen how this can be Having trouble figuring but
’ Quietly and unofficially, turned into a weapon, how. at what makes you tired? No won
beards were banned at the the very least. there is a der At a symposium in Paris on
University ofHavana and long temptation to use it against fatigue, 800 psychologists, soci-
hair for men outlawed Boys our country." Castro said in ologists and physicians spent
in tight pants were denounc- announcing the offensive. four days discussing the prun-
ed as vagrants and loafers. Mass assemblies were call- lem—and failed to agree on
The miniskirt fell into disfa- ed throughout the island to a definition of what fatigue is.
vor and some people hissed proclaim support and get the Worth remembering "You
at girls who wore them big push moving This brought are getting pretty old when you
There was marching in tlie grumbling and uneasiness start bragging that you feel a;
street,', arrests, search and among anti • Castroites in Ha- young as you ever did
seizure of suspected anti-Cas- vana Some apolitical people History lesson Can you name
troites and shouts of "to the said they, too. now wanted to the U S. presidents who bore tbe
death with capitalism and leave the country, following nicknames "PhilosD-
parasitism " But Havana itself never pher of Democracy.' Napolern
There were isolated inci- has been a consistent indi< a- of the Stump. Son of Hs
dents of violence as the 2 4 tor of public sentiment in the Grandfather, and Houdini in
million member Committee colintry. enthusiasm for the the White House 3 They were
for the Defense of the Revo- government normally Is high- Thomas Jefferson. James K
lution - CDR - took over er mhere, weathered eampe- Polk..Benjamin Harrison, and
and nationalized 55,000 small sins and young construction Franklin D Roosevelt ■
private businesses This was workers de lared it wa nigh You re wrong if xou thinkice- ■
called "tearing capitalism out Wine I( Ralianeros started bergs taste salty. They are huge
by the roots," and signs on nXaihetr Khare <4 the lo d chunks of frozen fresh water
the nationalized businesses de- T) nareaoineoad that have broken off glacier
daring them "the property of There., ' , suggestions PC- They have been known to reaeb
people ’ blossomed every. p ..without - sweaty, shirts a height of 550 feet it would
Where ought to be investigated take up to 2 000 tons or more of
Sime then this element of From the tens of thousands, explosives to blow up some we
the offensive has been divert- 0( students the government is bergs, but the warm water- d
-lull—be moved down on the ea m agricultural emphasis educating housing and feed- the Gulf Stream can melt ti11 1
But what kind of service mg came strong support, in a couple of weeks
the nationalized small shops Scholarship students, who to- Four wheels with an engine
can offer in the face of rec- tal more than 150,008, took are safer than two wheels with
ognized distribution problems, their daily drill and, when an engine The injury rate
a shortage of everything and asked if they were ready to do among the 612 per cent of -t
government red tape is still their part, chanted You can dents at the University ol (a
uncertain Must of the new always do more " ..fornia who ride motorcycles
100 times that among the stu
dents—55 per cent—who use au
a tomobiles.
They must be signed and
they mu-J include the ad-
dress and telephone number
< ates for the metal if turned in great leap toward utopian
bv June 24 ' communism, changing Cuban
or will it have to renege on its society, almost by the hour
promtses, another 0 which is to and killing individualism liter-
supply the national defense allybythe minute ; ,
4 H.r ii .Nobody knows exactly -hew
stockpile with 165 million ounces far the bearded prime minis-
for strategic purposes’ ter can carry his drive but it
These are some of the ques- is evident his goal is some-
lions in today’s crazy mixed up where beyond the commu-
silver market in which indus- uism of the Soviet Union
trial users, such as manufactur- The Russians do not pretend
ers of photographic film battle to have achieved communism
hoarders and speculators for a Doctrine has it that commu-
ortant in this year’s nation- reacting to these uncertainties
One problem that has long
worried educators is the wide
variation in school spending
on a per-pupil basis Now the
Detroit School Board has
come up with an approach
which if somehow successful,
would only aggravate other
diffi ulties
Although state aid to educa-
tion in Michigan is weighted
lo favor poorer school dis-
tricts,.the Board charges that
the average outlay on each
pupil ■ still runs higher in
a long-cher-
To make
uly Commu-
market- boils
To be in-
ian said, will be to estop
nism is a final stage of de
velopment which first must go
through the dictatorship of
the proletariat" and the
building of socialism " The
Soviets claim to have achiev-
ed "socialism" and to be on
their way to building "com-
munism "
1 elections, but not so tin- and perhaps even sh
■ortant as all the noise about has risen stronelv. in I
would indicat vear the prr-1964 silver
The 21-29 age group for all your pocket are now
s loud botsterous and excit- more thanther fare v al
BASIC SUBSCRIPTION RATES
ing 10 cents Sunday 15 ce
metor re te 35 cents per wet
nce tanvwtere in the contie
It’s the speculators, the Castro's offensive is both
hoarders with something like militant and moral, reaching
300 million ounces hidden, who deep into daily living habits
are keeping the prices so high. It has produced a grayness
the industrialists say, unremembered before on this
Rumors race through todays sunny island The question
silver market, particularly in now iS how far ( astro can
the nine months or so since the take the people, how far they
federal government's decision are willing o 80 as life gets
to end a 29 an ounce ceiling state demands more and
on the metal and let the market me
, . IIUre.
( H iO'■ ' —-----— j.. .
CastroS 0enSiveSeEkS:1O
Since then the price has been hurrv'along the . rcaTwiTor
mostly higher, bobbing around Cuba's new Communist
$.‘30 an ounce in recent days, man." a selfless, tireless
amid a great deal of controver- worker who sweats for man-
sy over whether this represents kind to build a moneyless so-
a big demand and a short sup- ciety somewhere in the future
ply or mostly speculation where all share equally.
That's why the size of the gov- The offensive mirrors Cu-
MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION
NOTIC TO THE PUBLiE Any cc-tc • reflect 01 pon fhe ■ n
mst country in the world
Earlier efforts at building
communism, here, however
sturdy, seem fragile along-
side the current "revolution-
ary offensive"
The government is off on a
to describe it, they say.
munist party, have volunteer-
ed for two vears of agricul-
tural labor. .These are called
the "vanguard of the revolu-
tion by Castro.
Students from a sizable part
of the labor force: Their mor-
ale and enthusiasm is usual-
l high.
On the Is'e of Pines.‘re-
named the Isle of Youth, the
Young Communist League i
making Cuba s first attempt to
build an all-Communist socie-
ty from the ground up Travel-
ers report’The island swirling
with dust and activity as more
than 40,000 volunteers labor in
fruit fields, build houses for
workers, construct dams and
carve out roads
On the main island, students
annually take part in a
school - to - country" pro-
gram, working 45 days in the
fields Other selected students
man the governments scat-
tered pilot Communisty socie-
ty projects.
The country ■ is now in the
midst of its biggest manpow-
er mobilization in history
with more than one million
men and women involved As
in previous years, the mobi-
lization commemorates the
Bay of Pigs victory but the
work time has been extend-
ed from two weeks to a month
this year.
Everyone from Castro down
—Cabinet members. ambassa-
dee-.-oldier--atudentschause.
wives, trade umomst*, goverf-
ment employes, television per-
sonalities—is expected to do
his bit to reacii four million
tons of syg.tr production
Still, this year s sugar crop
will be far below the pro-
grammed 8.5 million tons.
Castro says that despite the
drought last year that bit
deep into yield the crop will
make 5 5 million tons ' Ex-
perts outside the government
think even that figure is high.
The crop is v ital because the
island is dependent on foreign
trade and sugar provides 80
per cent of the national in-
come to trade.
In its first days, the "revo-
school agency in a Musuil
attacks the rsult.as uncon-
stittional. contending chil-
dren in the poore : disfricts
are denied equal protection
of the laws
Since the Detroit board is
primarily concerned with its
own budge! problems it might
admit that dollar-for -dollar
equality throughout the coun-
trv. even if possible, would
facts from rumors and lies, that -
you can tolerate frustrations,
that you understand mining.
mass psychology and finance
You must also accept the im-
probable .1
Because the’ price of silver.
has promised service wm De
better Some of the food shops
have been cleaned up already
Prices which the government
in additton, a central state
or Federal agency to equalize
outlays would scarcely 'tup
with that Growing state Fed-
eral spending on education
thing.' costs vary so widely
among areas that school out-
lays can differ considerably
without affecting educational
quality
Some local governments
moreover, s i m p l y operate
more efficiently than others
and thus are able to muster
greater resources for the edu-
cationat job The problem of
school financing is in, some
degree only one more reflec-
non. of the widespread nieed
fet local, governmental re-
•till unwarranted." said th1
This is not to say that.the
young vote should fold its
political tent and silently steal
away The nation needs its
younger voters even if they
are brash It a so needs its
middle-age vote and its elder-
ly vote
The older vote still has to
be heard from, and probably
won't be unfit it is time tn
count the ballots At that time
probably the great, older, si-
lertt vote will make, itself
heard above the huhbub of this
h?rd lo recall any
ion in which the pros
or a settled peact
at least at the out
be more remote, or
Letters to. the Editor, from
individual reader-, arg wel
t omed by the Record-hroni-
cle The right to edit letters
regarding length, gnod taste
and libel is reserved
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