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THE DAILY NEWS-TELEGRAM Wednesday, June 3, 1959.
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EDITORIALS
Here and Now
We’ve had a lot of deploring in
this country over the fact that Amer-
ican youngsters in school don’t get
enough mathematics, science and lan-
guage.
Without wishing in any wav to de-
tract from the case for greater knowl-
edge in these fields, knowledge which
may one day be essential to our safe-
ty as a nation, one may point out that
we have some other glaring shortcom-
ings in education.
Geography is one.
A smart young girl nearing senior
high school age was asked by her fa-
ther the other day which way she
would^go to get to Paris. Standing a
bare 70 miles from the eastern sea-
board, she pointed west. And she
said “Pacific” when asked which
ocean she’d cross to get there.
Now of course it IS possible to
reach Paris that way, but don't rec-
ommend it to anybody with only two
weeks’ vacation, even in the jet age.
Youthful grasp of elemental geo-
graphy. both in their own country and
the world beyond, is in countless in-
stances pitifully weak.
They can’t name or spell the 50
states, let alone place them. Whole
continents are largely blank no-man’s-
lands to them. The world’s great riv-
ers, mountain system, fruitful plains,
deserts, all facts easy to come by, they
know little of. Yet the complex poli-
tics of the great East-West struggle
revolve about these things.
So with history. Whether we be
leaders or ordinary citizens, we have
problems enough in this age if we
bring to bear every bit of past expe-
rience and guidance we can collect.
We simply compound our difficulties
if we come to the .world of practical
affairs substantially ignorant of what
has gone before.
There is a kind of blind, foolish,
self-defeating arrogance in the as-
sumption, made consciously or uncon-
sciously by millions, that the past is a
waste of time, that what matters is
their presence on the scene, here and
now.
The hard kernel of it is that their
presence would be. a lot more reward-
. ing for them and a g&ori deal * more'
useful for their nation and forJiuman-
ity if they know their historical her-
itage.
Young liVes that are living on the
stirface. with no solid bearings of time
and place, can translate into adult
lives without meaning.
If you are'not,to', drift-aimlessly on
a vacant sea, you must know, where
you are. what your world is, what you
cfcme from.
’writes of centered in the student quartet*,
from S. German des Fres to the Pome and
back down to the river. She recalls the
“dreary” Cafe Flore. For a time the fam-
ily lived »n apartment opposite the old
Dome and right above the “rowdy” Rotonde
—which she will later frequent. She visits
book stores in the Place St. Sulpice, the Cath-
olic heart of the city. She strolls under the
chestnut trees in the Luxembourg gardens.
Her scrutiny of her background, relatives,
friends and social position may not be pro-
found or pioneering, yet it' is extra ordinar-
ily thorough—this book is long but I would
not want it cut anywhere. She examines
her relationship with her sister; her school
girl friend Zaza whose fate provides a stirring
climax to these pages; her assiduous com-
panion Jacques; her introduction to the the-
ater, as disappointing, ciiriously, as Proust's;
her disillusionment, as she cal's it, with the
church, beginning with the tutorial confessor.
Books in English influenced her import-
antly, from "Little Women,” most unexpect-
edly, to “Silas Marner,” ‘‘Adam Bede” and
“The Mill on the Floss.” She learned early
to prefer virtue and culture to riches. Read-
ing took the place cf religion, she says. One
of her most perplexing problems was exem-
plified in the contract between her mother as
the model, submissive wife and her father
and his belief in the double standard. The
story moves inevitably to her meeting with
Jean-Paul Sartre who “corresponded exactly
to the dream companion I had longed for
since I was 15.”
An inspirational book in the best sense,
this belongs with the biographies and auto-
biographies of the great feminist leaders who
have fought for individual freedom. Step by-
step, day by day, doggedly yet quietly, Miss
de Beauvoir overcame handicaps and threw
off shackles on her way to emancipation. This
is the painstaking record of a splendid per-
sonal triumph.
Through These Postals Pass $$$$$$
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★ EPSON IN WASHINGTON ★
[Who's Ahead in Latin
America? Not the U. S.
BY PETER EDSON
NEA Waahinfton Correspondent
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Thoughts
And thouc, shalt remember all the way
which the Lord thy God led thee these 40
years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and
to prove thee, to know what was in thine
heart, whether thou wouldest keep his com-
mandments, or no.—Deut. 8:2.
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JNEA Sendee, InC,
Nothing h. really lost by a life
fice; everything is lost by failure
God’s call.—Henry P. Liddon.
of sacri-
to obey
And from Jesus Christ, who is the faith-
ful witness, and the first begotten of the
dead, and the prince of the kings of earth.
Unto him that loved us, and washed us from
our sins in his own blood.-—Rev. 1:5.
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He was himself forsaken that none of his
children might ever need to utter his cry of
loneliness.—-J. H. Vincient.
ness to discuss the Berlin prob-
lem on the basis of justice and
reason. Somehow, though, be-
cause of the echo chamber of
propaganda many facts and
meanings got twisted beyond
recognition.
In a manner of speaking, the
foreign ministers of the Big 4
By LEO ANAVI , without running the r i s k of are now trying to put the right
Washington, June 3 fll —It war. j perspective on the Berlin issue,
is a tragedy of our times that j There is no doubt at all that | Soviet Foreign Minister Gro-
we cannot bring ourselves to j Sovie-t Premier Khrushchev j myko is not contributing much
Berlin Problem
Is Thorny Issue
We hope you have such a swell time on
vacation that it’ll be worth going broke for.
The Literary Guidepost
By W. C. Roger*
MEMOIRS OF A DUTIFUL DAUGHTER.
By Simone de Beauvoir. Translated from
French by James Kirkup. World. $5.
The soundest literary work to come out
of France in a long time, this is also one' of
the most absorbing.
Litterateurs will be fascinated by Miss de
Beauvoir’s reflections on- her calling. Stu-
dents of human nature will enjoy her titil-
lating recollections of a fumbling research
for some basic physiology. Students of so-
ciology will be intrigued by her picture of
stolid middle-class life and its fixed mental
habits. And lovers of Paris will be charmed
by her scattered vignettes of the city in
‘which, on the Boulevard Raspail, she was born
in 1908.
The author’s father, who came of a well-
to-do family, took up the law, though he
would have liked to become a professional
actor. He was a free thinker, the mother a
Catholic. Between them, they shielded their
daughter, who hated to be shielded, from lib-
eralizing thought, and where she might have
expected a chink in the armor of one parent,
tke other served as backstop. A truly duti-
ful daughter could not have developed Miss
dc Beauvoir’s original creative genius.
> Her life in the first two decades that she
When you’re satisfied to sit back and take
things as they come, they don’t!
A college professor says people are smart-
est at 50. Maybe now women will admit their
age.
Folks are entitled to their own opinions
but we’ll bet you sometimes wish they’d keep
them.
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accept realities. Every issue—
or almost—is examined ’ with
colored glasses. Estimates are'
tainted with-wishful thinking
of one kind or another. It is
no wonder that th ere is so
much disillusionment at the
payoff.
The Berlin problem may be
taken as a case in point. It was
obvious from the very begin-
ning of the argument that
neither side could have its own
way. It was obvious that a com-
promise formula had to be
evolved.
Yet both sides felt obligated
to commit themselves well be-
yond reasonable limits. The
Russians knew they could not tain terms, he might not have
throw us out by force. They, taken a chance on war. This
certainly were not going to may or may not be valid, but
fight a war just to get us out I it is the better part of discre-
of Berlin. On the other hand,
we knew that the Russians and
their East G e r m a n puppets
could make, things terribly un-
comfortable for Allied occupa-
tion troops in West Berlin
to this effort because he has to
contend with a demanding boss.
But he will have to go along
with a compromise in tH’e end
—a compromise that will clear-
ify the situation and leave the
free status of West Berlin un-
impaired.
Cotton, Wool
Outlook Good
Washington, June 3 lAl —
The next 12 months or so
promise to be fairly prosper-
ous ones for this country’s two
major fiber crops—cotton and
wool.
The agricultural marketing
service reports that cotton and
woolen mills are pulling out of
a slump that started in 1957
and carried through most of
1958.
The agency says consump-
troversy we started our readi- ton of cotton by domestic mills
started the nasty business. In
his efforts to impress various
grbups, he engaged in the kind
of--huffing and puffing that
was bound to create resent-
ment and fear the world over.
There was no choice for the
West but to issue well-timed
warnings. It has become a tenet
of Western policy to answer
threats with counter-threats.
This is on the principle that
if habitual aggressors are not
warned, they may take the si-
lence of the opposition as a
sign of weakness.
It has been said that if the
mature nations of t h e world
had warned Hitler in no uncer-
Washington, (NEA) — While the United States has been
concentrating on winning the cold war in Europe, the colds wars
in Latin America have been going well. --
Latin Americans like to blame the United States for this,
which is the easy way out. But an equal share of the responsi-
bility lies with the Latinos themselves. For they have not been
using the tools which they have at hand for winning their own
cold wars.
Good Latin-Amerioan liberals and democratic leaders like
ex-President Jose Figueres, of Costa Rica, who has been visiting
in Washington, will admit this frankly.
He admits, for instance, that the ruling classes in Latin
America for several generations have been too far removed from
the poor of their own countries.
All governments in Latin America have their own problems
of social and economic reform. They include such things as dis-
tribution of land to their poor and the collection of adequate
income taxes from their rich.
It has been said that in comparison with the Latin-Ameri-
can business interests, U.S. business Is positively communistic.
Yet the entrenched and often hereditary business interests of
Latin America consider themselves the ally of U.S. business in-
terests.
This plays light into the hands of Communists who play
on the poverty and the misery of the Latin-American masses as
exploited by “Yanquis.”
The rich in Latin America are primarily the supporters of
the oligarchies and the dictators of their countries. In the last
10 years democratic-minded Latin Americans have been trying
to overthrow their corrupt governments.
But the U.S. takes a position of recognizing and support-
ing only established governments. The official position in Wash-
ington is to lean over backward to avoid giving any appearance
interfering in the internal affairs of neighboring republics.
The United States has adopted this policy after learning
its lessons the hard way. Too often in the past where the U.S.
did interfere, it got slapped down. But in today’s world, this
policy may now lead the United States to make other mistakes.
Sincere and honest democratic reformers have been con-
sidered trouble makers. U.S. aims furnished to the oligarchies
have been used to keep them under control. The excuse for
furnishing these arms has been to keep the European Communist
governments from furnishing them.
But liberal leaders now say, in effect, the United States,
“Doesn’t furnish the dictators with arms to shoot us down with.
When you do, you lose a cold war battle to the Communists.
They tag you every time with supporting the wrong side.”
U.S. business which necessarily makes deals with exist-
ing governments and Latin-American business interests, gets
carried along in this propoganda stream.
Even American tourists sometimes add to this bad impres-
sion. They stay at the luxury hotels. They, visit the American em-
bassy. They meet only the well-to-do Latinos. They have a langu-
age barrier. They never get close enough to the people to under-
stand what is going on.
There are some U.S. business representatives, labor, cul-
tural and agricultural attaches and some consular officials who
break through this barrier. But they are considered the excep-
tion.
The U.S. labor union movement is considered more success-
ful in understanding the situation in Latin America. But is had
not been too successful in getting the U.S. labor union system
adopted in Latin America.
tion to resort to any device
that might conceivably slow
down the process of aggression.
It is our credit that from
the very beginning of the con-
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
and other users may reach
8,70 0,000 bales during the year
ending August 1st. This com-
pares with 8 million during the
preceding 12 months.
This upturn shows signs, of-
ficials said, of continuing into
1960.
Domesitc woolen and worst-
ed mills used 32 per cent more
wool during the first 4 months
By MERRILL BLOSSER
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Please, mr_obtuse-----
MERCY/
IT* HURTS Mr'
To SEE ANYONE-
REDUCED Tb SUCH
A GUHVER/NS PULP-
CONSlPEg. M/ PUGWT,
CAPTAIN EASY
By LESLIE TURNER
of this calendar year than one
year earlier. A further expan-
sion is being forecast by mar-
keting experts. Usage for the
full year, they said, may be
20 per cent above Usage in
1958.
These developments in tex-
tile industries are helping to
strengthen producer prices for
both cotton and wool.
The marketing service said
supplies of wool for domestic
mills could become tight this
year unless imports were held
at a high level. Domestic pro-
duction of wooj is expected to
increase this year and next.
There are 4 per cent more
sheep on farms and ranches
than a year earlier.
A big increase in U.l. ex-
ports of cotton during the mar-
keting year beginning Aug. 1st
is expected. The government
has stepped in with a bigger
subsidy designed to help ex-
porters meet foreign competi-
tion.
The marketing service says
that an increase in production
and usage of such manmade
fibers as rayon and acetate
has accompanied the pickup in
cotton and woolen mill activ-
ity.
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ALLEY OOP
By V. T. HAMLIN
Youth Drowns
In Canal
Pharr, June 3 (CD) — A 12-
year-old boy —Agapito Suarez
—d r o w n e d in an irrigation
canal south of Pharr, in the
lower Rio Grande Valley. An
hour later a quarter-mile away,
firemen recovered the boy’s
body from a standpipe.
The strong current pulled
the body through an irrigation
pipe to the sandpipe. The boy
was the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Manuel Suarez of Pharr. He
was the fifth boy to drown in
a canal in the lower valley
since May 27th.
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—
J.fr.WlLUAMJ
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Frailey, F. W. & Woosley, Joe. The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 131, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 3, 1959, newspaper, June 3, 1959; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth828570/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.