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Page 4r Taylor Daily. Press, Monday, May 8, 1961
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f- The Record Hundred Days
Possibly no extraordinary public attention
would be paid President Kennedy’s first 100 days
had not Franklin D. Roosevelt made that span of
time historic with his whirlwind beginning 28 years
ago.
Comparisons really are hardly fair, since Roose-
velt took over at the very pit of the nation’s worst
economic crisis, with 1 in every 4 workers jobless,
national income an anemic 50 per cent of 1929,
every bank shut tight.
Neither Kennedy nor his two predecessors,
Dwight Eisenhower and Harry Truman, were called
on to meet so dire an emergency.
Yet, acknowledge as we must the near panic of
1933, Roosevelt’s initial 100 days still offer an as-
tonishing catalogue of effort. They shook the coun-
try out of black despair, restored its confidence,
set it on a new social and economic course from
which it never turned back.
In this bristling period of action, FDR’s first
12 days were perhaps most remarkable of all.
He began by decreeing a bank holiday to buy
time to find a way to end the banking paralysis.
March 9, the day a re-summoned Congress con-
vened, Roosevelt was ready with a sweeping bill
designed to promote renewed gold flow into the
banks and permit their orderly reopening.
Fours hours after he sent his plan to Congress,
the House passed it unanimously, having had but
40 minutes’ debate. Three and a half hours later, the
Senate concurred by heavy margin. Roosevelt signed
the measure that night, eight hours after sending
it up.
March 10 he asked approval of a $500 million
budget economy bill featuring cuts in veterans’
pensions and federal salaries. The House approved
it next day and the Senate followed March 15.
Sandwiched into that action came another
major bill to legalize light wines and beer. By
March 16 both houses had approved.
Seldom slackening pace, Roosevelt pushed on.
He rammed through a new federal relief system,
the CCC work program, the famous “AAA” farm
plan to cut surpluses and hike income, refinancing
plans for farm and home mortgages, the TVA,
securities reform, a banking bill separating com-
mercial and investment banking and guaranteeing
* deposits, new farm credit, the NIRA measure call-
ing for industrial self-governing codes and $3.3
billion in public works.
Amid this fantastic flurry of major legislation
(15 sweeping laws signed), Roosevelt took the coun-
try off the gold standard, met many heads of state,
made 10 important speeches, held press conferences
and cabinet meetings.
If the test be casting programs into law in
short order, Roosevelt seems likely to remain a
champion for a long time to come.
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It takes not only nerve for women to wear
some of the evening gowns we’ve seen, but also
backbone.
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Mom may want a garden this year, but from
a slang standpoint, Dad doesn’t dig it.
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An Ohio man has changed his will ten times.
A fresh heir fiend.
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When all of the spring slush gets off the high-
ways we’ll really be in a rut.
A girl whose face is her fortune should watch
out it isn’t overdrawn.
Speaking of Sports
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* The Washington *
Merry-Go-Round
By Drew Pearson
WASHINGTON—It’s time some-
one called the turn on certain
congressmen who have been dis-
gracing the good name of Con
gress. One of those high on the
list is Rep. Mendel Rivers, the
flowing-maned solon from South
Carolina who dresses the way a
congressman is supposed to dress
in a musical comedy, and acts the
same way.
Rivers has become so intoxicat-
ed on congressional junkets to
Europe, and so disgraced him-
self by running scantily clad
through the corridors of a London
hotel, that Speaker Sam Rayburn
has done his best to bar him from
further junkets.
Yet officers in the Pentagon
treat the “gentleman from South
Carolina” not only as if he were
a gentleman but with more defer-
ence than a Cabinet member.
With almost clocklike regularity
in the summer months, the Air
Force trundles a C-54 out on the
runway every Monday morning at
Charleston AFB to carry the con-
gressman back to Washington. And
almost every Friday evening when
the congressman yearns for home,
another C-54 is wheeled out on
the Mats terminal in Washing-
ton to fly Rivers down to South
Carolina.
Air Force public relations of-
ficers are supposed to be alerted
every time a VIP arrives at most
bases. However, Congressman
Rivers has been such a regular
commuter that he has worn out
his welcome. The press relations
officer in Charleston got tired of
going to meet him.
This kowtowing to congressional
pull is practiced not merely by
the Air Force. Another branch of
the services which bows and
scrapes when the hard-drinking,
free-wheeling congressman snaps
his fingers is the Navy.
The Public Pays
And what the public doesn’t
realize is that this military boot-
licking costs the taxpayers money.
To illustrate:
When the power equipment cor-
poration of Brooklyn low-bid $142,-
860 to repair the USS Randall, a
Navy transport, on March 3, 1959,
it got the contract. But on March
6, three days later, Joe Kelly,
chief owner of Power Equipment,
went back to the Navy with a
demand for more money to take
care of “extra work.”
G. D. Cross, Brooklyn port en-
gineer of the Military Sea Trans-
portation Service, ruled that the
extras would have to be rebid.
Other Navy people supported this.
They were conscientious in crying
to save the taxpayers money.
But at this point the white-man
ed congressman from South Caro-
lina entered the picture. He is a
member not only of the House
Armed Services Committee, which
is why the Air Force kowtows to
him, but of the House Merchant
Marine Committee. The Navy’s
military sea transportation service
is answerable to both.
Though Kelly comes from Con-
necticut and his company is loc-
ated in Brooklyn, he approached
the congressman from South Car-
olina through an intermediary.
Mr. Rivers has a keen sense of
Geography. He orates frequently
in Congress about his state, the
traditions of his state, makes ii
constantly clear that he is a
South Carolinian. Most of his votes
and most of his speeches run
counter to the sentiment of peo-
ple in Brooklyn or Connecticut.
In this case, however, the ship
executive from Connecticut with
a shipyard in Brooklyn seemed
to have a peculiar influence over
the congressman from South Caro-
lina. An appointment was arrang-
ed for Kelly with Vice Adm. John
“Dutch” Will, then commander of
the Military Sea Transportation
Service, now president of Ameri-
can Export Lines.
Admiral Will saw Kelly at 9:30
a.m., March 10, just four days
after Kelly filed his first claim
for more money.
“What’s all this trouble over
extras?” the congressman had
asked the admiral. The admiral
took the hint. Even while Kelly
sat opposite him, Admiral Will
picked up the phone, called his
commander in Brooklyn, Rear
Adm. D. T. Eller, and ordered
him to negotiate with Kelly.
That phone call from Rivers to
Will, plus 'the phone call from
Will to Eller, cost the taxpayer
$104,394. This was the amount
awarded Power Equipment for
“extra work.”
It illustrates how the armed
services kowtow to certain con-
gressmen. But it does not explain
the mysterious reason why the
congressman from South Carolina
went to bat for a ship repairman
from Brooklyn whom he had nev-
er before met.
Parsimonious Democrats
Democratic senators are balking
over raising money for President
Kennedy’s birthday banquet on
May 27 — which may shed light
on why Secretary Udall’s oil
friend got so busy.
Sen. Vance Hartke of Indiana,
the Democratic campaign chair-
man, asked each Democratic Sen-
ator to sell three tables at $100
a plate — total $3,000. However,
only Senator Sparkman of Alaba-
ma is really trying to sell ail
three tables.
Sen. Pat Mcnamara of Michi-
gan pointed out that the cam-
paign committee contributed lit-
tle to his campaign, so he does-
n’t intend to raise money for the
committee now. McNamara, for-
"I've Tried 'Em All—None of Them Work"
Life Begins at Forty
New Hope for Ailing Elders
By ROBERT PETERSON
The 78-year-old mother of a
friend of mine suffered a severe
stroke three years ago. Following
four months in the hospital she
was moved to her son’s home,
He and his wife did their best
to care for her. But she was
paralyzed on one side of her
body, and—with a small home
and three active youngsters—it
ultimately became necessary to
move her to a nursing home
some 20 miles away.
“She’s fairly comfortable and
they’re good to her,” says my
friend. “But what’s to become of
her? She’s been there two years
now. The doctor looks in once a
week and tells us she’s doing as
well as can be expected'. But
it doesn’t seem right that noth-
ing’s being’done to prevent fur-
ther deterioration.; She can’t
read as her eyesight is poor and
there’s nothing to watch except
television. Her roommate’s mind
has failed so she’s no company.
And except when we come for a
visit there’s no one to talk with
except the nurse and the bus
boy.”
This story underscores the tra-
gedy facing a few elders in just
about every community in the
country. Fortunately, chronic in-
validism touches only a small
percentage of those along in
years—perhaps four per cent—
but these cases make up their
tragic quality for the lack of
number involved.
When I related this woman’s
case to Dr. Howard A. Rusk—
generally acclaimed the world’s
top authority on rehabilitation—I
asked what’s on the horizon to
improve the situation of elder
invalids.
“Eventually,” replied this great
humanitarian, “we should require
all nursing homes to have ac-
cess to the services of a thera-
pist trained in rehabilitation.
Based on studies we’ve conducted
I’m inclined to believe that per-
haps half our invalids today could
be gotten, on their feet and im-
proved to a point where they
could largely care for themselves
IF they were regularly exposed
to rehabilitative techniques.
“In most cases chronic invalid-
ism is the result of too much
lying in bed with no attention
given to keeping muscles from
atrophying, joints from stiffening,
and circulation from becoming
sluggish. The longer an indivi-
dual lies in bed' with everything
done for him and no one prodding
him to regain self-sufficiency the
more progressively weak he be-
comes.
“I’d like to see nursing homes
in a community get together and
jointly employ a capable thera-
pist trained in rehabilitation. This
person could then, make the round
of homes where he would work
not only with patients in teaching
them exercises to restore muscle
tone and stimulate circulation,
but would motivate patients to
become self-sufficient again. He
would also pass along rehabilita-
tion tips to nursing staffs and
generally stimulate an atmosphere
of optimism and encouragement.
“I’m afraid,” he concluded,
“that we’ve been much too pessi-
mistic in dealing with older pa-
tients. We’ve been inclined to
say, ‘You can’t expect much im-
provement at that age!’ But the
fact is that patients of any age
respond to rehabilitative techni-
ques and the recovery possibili-
ties for the chronically ill are
not anywhere near as bleak as
tradition has led us to believe.”
If you would like a free book-
let “Tips on Caring for Aged, In-
firm Patients” write to this col-
umn care of Taylor Daily Press
enclosing a stamped, self-address-
ed envelope.
(Copyright, 1961, King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
Why Grow Old?
By JOSEPHINE LOWMAN
Considering the fact that most
people get only one vacation, a
year, the way it is spent is most
important. It is a sad fact that
often men and women return
from their vacation feeling much
more tired than the day when
they left home.
I have suggested in this column
many times that there are some
years when staying at home is
mer official of the AFL Pipe Fit-
ters Union, faced a race against
millionaire Congressman Alvin
Bentley, who spent over $500,000.
But the Senate Elections Com-
mittee, then under Smathers ot
Florida, gave McNamara only $7,-
500, which was just one-third
what it sent to pro-oil Sen. Allen
Frear of Delaware.
Senate leader Mike Mansfield
of Montana grudgingly promised
to try to sell three tables. But
his freshman colleague from
Montana, Lee Metcalf, complain-
ed that there were’nt enough
democratic contributors in Mon-
tana to sell six tables between
them. He offered to sell one.
the best vacation of all. No mat-
ter how much fun, it is, getting
ready for a vacation and travel-
ing to get there are tiring. If
you feel the need of real rest
and getting ready for departure
seems a chore, a home vacation
is probably best for you.
A couple who have no children
can have a wonderful and much
less expensive vacation in this
way. They can loaf in their
Sen. Oren Long of Hawaii said
he couldn’t sell three tables—
people wouldn’t come all the way
from Honolulu — but promised to
make up the difference out of
his own pocket.
Both Georgia Senators, Russell
and Talmadge, are showing no
enthusiasm for the assignment.
Senator Hartke didn’t even, both-
er to ask Dixiecrat Senators Byrd
and Robertson of Virginia to help.
They aren’t even expected to buy
plates for themselves to Ken-
nedy’s birthday party. Most oth-
er senators offered to sell one
table, but refused to pledge three.
(Copyright, 1951, by the Bell
Syndicate)
own home and their own back-
yard and go out to attractive
restaurants for dinner when they
wish. They can take short trips
of a couple of days’ duration
to nearby, attractive spots.
A couple who has children can
spend one-tenth the money they
would on a two-week trip away
from home and still employ a
combination cook and nurse, who
sleeps in. They, too, can go on
short trips away from the child-
ren.
One of the most deceptive, so-
called vacations, is summer re-
sort. For those who do not have
enough social life or those who
do not have many friends, this is
wonderful. It gives them a chance
to make new friends and to enjoy
various activities with others.
However, if you lead a busy life,
and are active socially at home,
it may be extremely tiring to
you to have the meet the daily
social engagements planned for
you.
At any rate, a vacation is a
highly individual matter and' what
was the perfect one for last year
may not be appropriate for this
year, and vice versa. Why not
give some thought to those won-
derful few weeks?
If you would like to have my
leaflet, “Tricks in Camping” send
a stamped, self-addressed enve-
lope with your request for leaflet
No. 69 to Josephine Lowman in
care of this newspaper.
(Released by The Register and
Tribune Syndicate, 1961)
-o--
Happy Birthday
Greetings of “Happy Birthday”
ire being extended to the follow-
ing birthday celebrants:
Mrs. Mae Smith and Connie
Landrum.
-o-
CONFERENCE SCHEDULED
WASHINGTON (ff) — President
Kennedy plans to discuss with a
group of newspaper executives
next Tuesday problems facing a
free press in times of internation-
al dangers.
Puzzle picture: Can you tell which couple most en-
joyed their vacation?
* IT OCCURS TO ME *#
HE GOT DOWN
TO THE FACTS
By LIN MILLS
Taylor Press News Editor
WISH EVERYONE could have
heard Les Box’s talk before the
Lions Club the other day.
It was inspirational, yes, and
in one way it was a promote-
your-chamber talk.
But much more important
was the fact that he hit the
nail so squarely on the head
in connection with what it will
take for our town to grow.
There are a number of im-
portant things, but one stands
out above all others—industrial-
ization.
As Box put it, “Rapid indus-
trialization to provide payrolls
is a must for Taylor. If this
opportunity is not provided we
can’t expect to hold on to the
population we have, much less
gain.”
If you had heard him, you’d
realize how terribly important
it is to throw everything we
have behind this industrializa-
tion effort.
It’s going to take payrolls to
make Taylor grow. How can we
get them? Through industrializa-
tion. It’s almost that simple. . .
IT’S GOOD TO know that
our National Guardsmen are
keeping themselves prepared in
case of emergency.
I know it isn’t always plea-
sant to the Guardsmen to have
to leave town for a . couple of
days like they did Friday and
Saturday to spend a weekend
firing weapons at North Fort
Hood.
But that’s part of being a
National Guardsman, and we
as citizens can be glad of this.
You never can tell when we
will need well-trained men in
case of emergency.
CONGRATULATIONS to the
posed to see the lights go up
this week.
Unless something goes wrong,
the crack of the bat will be
heard in that desperately-need-
ed field.
SHOULD AMERICAN women
be called up for selective ser-
vice?
Read an interesting article in
which a majority of teen-ages
said they should be drafted
for selective servce as teach-
ers’ assistants, nurses’ aids or
social workers. The girls were
more enthusiastic about the
idea than the boys.
About 10,000 teen-agers took
part in the Institute of Student
Opinion Poll.
This question was asked, “A
prominent educator has pro-
posed that young women be
drafted for selective service. In-
stad of serving in the military,
women would serve as teach-
ers’ assistants, nruses’ aids,
social workrs, either in the^Pf
U.S. or overseas. Do you favor
the plan?”
10 and
Years Ago
10 YEARS AGO
Allied forces on all fronts in
Korea stab northward.
Truman to make major policy
speech.
Jack Barkley to address Opti-
mists.
American troops lead to defend
Iceland.
Programs mark Music Week
in all schools.
Taylor Ducks on their state
track championship.
We may not have the best
athletes in the world in the
field events, but we’ve sure got
some fellows who can run!
Jan Mohel’s rcord-smashing
9.7 second 100-yard dash for
example. Wow!
The victory is quite a tribute
to the all-around athletes we’ve
had this year, to the coaches
and to the school system as a
whole.
It’s been, a most successful
year!
THERE’S SOMETHING down-
right American about seeing
our boys, and men for that
matter, playing baseball and
softball, with fine crowds watch-
ing.
It’ll be a common sight at
Little League Field and at
Sportsmans Field just about
all summer from now on. The
Pony League gets started this
coming Friday night.
And before too long, we hope,
we’ll see games going on a
third field—Murphy Field. Per-
haps you’ve noticed all the dirt
has been leveled out. We’re sup-
20 YEARS AGO
Lyndon Johnson urges all-out
support of FDR’s Foreign pol-
icy.
Further rise .in price of retail
food is expected.
Lee declares US warships are
not engaged in convoys;.
Five white men are slated for
induction.
The PRAYER
For Today From
The UPPER ROOM
Run now, I pray thee, to
meet her, and say unto her^ft^
Is it well with thee? is
well with thy husband? is it
well with the child? (11 Kings
4:26.) ‘
PRAYER: Our Father, help
us to realize that our respon-
sibilities are great. Teach us
to live so close to Thee that
not only we ourselves, our
households, and our children
, may be Thy followers, but
that through our influence, the
world may be brought nearer
to Thee. Help us, we pray,
in Christ’s name. Amen.
* WASHINGTON COLUMN ★
Need for Nuclear Test Ban
Is Real and Immediate
BY PETER EDSON
Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON—(NEA)—Unless there are quick new con-
cessions from the Russians, it begins to look as though the
.nuclear weapon test ban talks are headed for another bust-up.
The Kennedy administration, which postponed starting the
new series of American-British-Russian talks at Geneva from
Feb. 7 to March 21 to prepare a new offer, doesn’t want to
break off the negotiations just yet, if this can be avoided.
WHAT RUSSIAN DELEGATE SEMYON TSARAPKIN pro-
poses for the Communists is imposition of three-power control
over future testing. This is the same formula the Russians
are proposing at the United Nations for replacement of
Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold.
One would be from the Communist camp, one from the
Western nations and one from the neutrals. Unanimous agreed
ment of the three would be required for any action. In other
words, the Russians would have a veto on everything they
didn’t like, including all inspection within their own borders.
The United States and Britain have proposed and Russia
has accepted over-all test-ban policy determination by an 11-
nation, tripartite governing body made up of four representa-
tives from countries of the Free World, four from Communist
countries and three from neutrals.
But along with this, the United States wants day-to-day oper-
ations of test-ban control run by a single administrator. And
this the Russians have so far refused to accept.
THE ORIGINAL ONE-YEAR MORATORIUM on nuclear
testing has now been allowed to run for V-fz years by un-
declared but mutual agreement. Some progress in the develop-
ment of the nuclear science “art” of destruction can be tested
in the laboratories. But eventually such small scale controlled
experiments must be checked in the field.
There is pressure from some Western military leaders and
scientists to resume such testing. There is suspicion but
inadequate proof through atmospheric contamination detection
that some of the huge “chemical” explosions which Russia has
announced in. its earthquake belt are underground nuclear
weapons tests.
The Russians may be relying on a belief that the United
States and the United Kingdom will not arbitrarily announce
plans to resume testing. Perhaps the Russians should be
corrected on this point.
But any unilateral declaration by the Western powers that
they are even considering resumption of testing would
probably get a bad public relations reaction throughout the
world.
THE UNITED STATES, FOR ITS PART, might give full
assurance that all its future tests would be open to inspection.
A demand for similar guarantees could be made of thfltfk
Russians on any future tests they might make. But this woulcBP
run straight into the Communists’ traditional insistence for
secrecy on the conduct of internal affairs. A denial of
inspection by outsiders would be certain.
So the demands for an effective nuclear test ban with full
international control and inspection are real and urgent.
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