Tuesday, March 31, 1964

Alaskan Economy Must Be Rebuilt

Don't Look On This As Aid Cuts V

It will take years, perhaps decades, for Alaska to recover from the devestating Good Friday earthquake. While loss of life has been surprisingly low in the walke o fone of the most severe earthquakes in history, theres no minimizing the extent of property damage throughout the'^49th state.

Initially it has been estimated that damage in Alaska as result of the quake may run as high as half a billion dollars. In the long run, the damage figure may be even more. It will be a formidable task for the people of Alaska to remove the debris and rebuild what was destroyed in the natural disaster. Of necessity it will be a slow and tedious process.

In the meantime, the Anchorage area, where almost 60 per cent of the states population lives, finds its economy at a standstill. The government of the state can look forward to little tax revenue during the period that its citizens undertake the job of rebuilding. The state itself and its munlcipali-tes face a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars in restoring hikhways, utilities, public facilities of all kinds that were severely damaged during the quake.

Temporary aid from the federal government and from private organizations already has begun to flow into Alaska and other areas hit by the quake and its resulting tidal waves. But this temporary avssistance will be only a drop in the bucket compared wdth the immense amount of long-term

assistance that will be needed to rebuild what was lo.st.

In a very real sense the economy of Alaska must be recon.striicted as the economy of some nations wa.s reconstructed following World War II. The success of the task will depend on the kind of aid which is made available by the federal government to help the state and its people undertake the task. It will also depend upon the initiative and determination of the people of the 49th state to rebuild what kas been lost . . . and more.

The nation has seen proof of w'hat substantial aid to foreign nations can do in rebuilding a nation. It must now stand ready to lend whatever assistance is needed to rebuild one of its states in the wake of a natural rather than a man-made disaster.

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New Emphasis Given

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In Cancer Study

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES TOOLS Science employs many rare and exotic, often costly and stnnetimes common tools in its painstaking search for the causes and cure of cancer.

I Consider, for example, things with such strange %nd unfamiliar names as Chlamyclomona}>, electiTMi microscopes, ruby lasers. antobiotics. ambulatory pumps and quokkas.

Scientists also work wlth-deadly viruses, with hormones, with newly developed drugs and synthesized compounds, methods of radiation, with cellular structures and molecular formulas. In theory and fact, all play at least a small and possibly significant part in a vast, far - flung research effort going on around the globe. And each bit of new knowledge represents another step toward the final goal.

CELLS Something as microscopic as the organism, chlamydomonas, three ten-thousandths of an inch long an exotic bright green with an organge eye Is helping unravel secrets of the cell.

The single cell of this tiny organism, both plant and animal and about midway on the evoluUonary ladder, contains primitive counterparts of organs such as the eye. muscle fibres and kidney.

Dr Ruth Sager, geneticist at Columbia University, chose Chlamydomonas for her Investigations Into one of bilogys best - kept secrets, existence of a second, nwi-Chromosomal genetic system.

Studying Chlamydomonas sub - cellular stiucture under the electron microscope, she hopes, w'lll reveal something about mutant type cells unable to manufacture certain groalh factors. Also, she suspects that the second system might direct organization of molecules within a cell Into special struc

tures.

COMMON Chlamydomonas Is exotic and scientifically In-tere.stlng. yes. but not rare.

The organism may be found by the thousands in any spadeful of garden dirt. On the other

hand, the electron microscope Dr. Sager uses casts $3.5.000.

Actually, all nature may be a fertile garden for cancer research. Dr. Albert Szcnt Gyor-gyi, Nobel Prize winner, working at Marine Blloglcal Laboratory. Woods Hole. Mass,, a.sserts that there is a whole gamut of widely distributed

cancer Inhibiting substances in nature."

These, he says, demand thor

ough study and "open the way to a new attack on cancer. He calls the substances autobio-tics and believes they are analogous to discovery of plentiful antibiotic substances in nature.

INHIBITORS--Szent - Gyor-gyi says a highly potetit cancer inhibitor had been found in clams. Animals tissues contain, strong cancer Inhibitors. So does the human body.

The problem, he says, is final Isolation, identification and systhesLs of these substances.

The reason they have been hitherto overlooked, he says, "seems to be that cells contain, at the side, at the side of the inhibitor, an equally potent growth promoting substance. In resting tissue, they balance one another.

QUOKKAS Science does not hesitate to go far afield to prove or disprove a theory On two smaU, Isolated and remote islands off the coast of western Australia there lives and extremely rare marsupial, about 20 inches high, akin to the opossum and kangaroo, called the quokka.

Australian scientist Neville Stanley led a scientific expedition to the islands, Rottnest and Bald Islands, to collect quokkas to investigate a theory that association with humans caused development of antibodies to a strain of reovirus. When the quokkas which had had no previous contact with man were collected, they Were found to have the antibodies and the finding exploded Stanleys theory.

"But. he says, "it was a beautiful experiment.

COSTS Costs are tremendous in research and therapy Involving supervoltage radiation techniques and using amplified, high energy potential light beams called lasers.

Lasers are concentrated light beams which, with military application, have been called death rays. Actually, a fine beam laser focussed thrmigh a ruby crystal can Irradiate individual structures within a single cell with energy potentially equal to that in the periphery of the sun.

VIRUSES Many cancer scientists are W'orklng with viruses and have succeeded in isolating and purifying some known to cause cancer In animals. Dr. Olive Stull Davis of Purdue who worked for 10 years with a chicken tumor vlnjs now has cancers herself similar to those found caused by the virus. She continues her research

Perhaps more than any single incident in year.s the case of Spaceman John Glenn ha.s emphasized the toll that i.s taken in home accidents across the United States each year,

Lt. Col. Glenn became a national hero as the American who pioneered into space, faced all the hazzards of the unknown and returned toearth without any ill effects. He decided to enter politics to seek his future as a public .servant in Congress rather than in the space field. But that dream mu.st now be postponed because of the injury he received when he slipped and fell in the bathroom of his own home. His physicians have said that his entry into a political campaign now would be detrimental to his recovery from the injury he received in the fall.

Home accidents, such a.s that of John Glenn are .so common in the United States that thev seldom catch the public eye. But each year literally thou-.sands of people are seriously injuredsome of them permanently disabledby home accidents. The injury may come from tripping over a toy, stumbling on the .stairs, falling from a ladder or any of hundreds of ways. In John Glenns case, it was slipping in the bathtub.

In terms of their annual toll, home accidents rank as a menace that is more serious than industrial accidents. Even the despicable highway toll that is exacted each year across the country does not far outstrip the accident toll taken in the homes across the nation.

This latest chapter in the life .story of Lt. Col John Glenn should cause each family to take extra precaution to prevent accidents where each person feels most secure and mo.st confident that he is safe from danger ... in his own home.

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By ART BUCHWAL

Subtitles For Old Books

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1964, King Features Syndicate. Inc.

Something more ought to bo said about this Ad Hoc Committee on the Triple Revolution, which thinks that "cybernation (a fancy word for extreme computer omtrol of automated factories) is going to relieve almost all of us fnxn the necessity of working. The Ad Hoc-ers or Ad Hockers, as I prefer to call themarguo that the only way to keep people consuming in the world of the future will be to divorce Income from the need to draw down a paycheck, with the government dishing out the mcmey by way of what economist Milton Friedman calls "negative taxation. (any man showing less than $3,000 a year on hi* tax form would autmnatically be presented with enough to bring him up to standard.)

Try as I may as I lug my aching carcass about the mechanized modem world. I cant see automation really taking over. How do you automate taxicab service? Or an advertising agency? Or a newspaper city room Or door-to-door salesmanship? Or horse racing? Or Casey Stengels Mets? Or two-platoon football? Or television repair work? Or the conduct of political campaigns? Or the making of moving pictures? '

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There was a time when the only way you could get a pornographic book wa.s to smuggle it in from Paris. But in recent years the paperback book industry in the United States has been outdoing anything you could bring in from Paris. We feel everyone has a right to make a dollar under our first enterprise system and if people want to buy pornographic making non-pomographic books pompgraphic by putting half-naked women on the covers of good books and printing descriptions of the contents which give an entirely different idea of the plot.

If the trend continues, here is how our paperback publishers will soon describe some books familiar to all of us;

ed men, all with 'different lusts.

"Cinderella A beautiful pas.sionate woman bares her. naked foot to the man she loves while her stepmother arid stepsisters plot to cheat her out of the one memorable night in her life.

"Alice,in Wonderland A young girl's search for happiness in a weird depraved world of animal desires. Can she ever return to a normal happy life after falling so far?

"Huckleberry Finn A wild youth runs aw'ay from h i s home to help a Negro slave-escape from the ravishing Miss Watson.

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By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) - Reexamination takes time, changes come slowly, old attitudes dont get unstuck easily, arid in a country as full of prejudices as this one politicians step gingerly.

Over a year ago the Kennedy people began saying winds of change were sweeping t h e world after Soviet Premier Khrushchev packed up his missiles in the 1962 Cuban missile crisis and took them home.

In the last few' months of his life President John P. Kennedy spoke repeatedly on the idea of finding new ways to peace. At American University he said, "Let us re-examine our attitude toward peace itself.

At the University of Maine he said, "While it is too late to say nothing has changed In Soviet-American pelations, it is too early to assume that the change is permanent.

These were cautious statements to get people thinking, but pitched in a low key, no doubt to prevent any sudden surge of false hopes about the immediate future.

What changes did take place since the Cuban crisis and up through Kennedys death to the pre.sent time?

The biggest, perhaps, h a .s been the intensified split between the Soviet Union and Red China, dividing communism into two huge and antagonistic blocs which, if continued, almost certainly will force them to seek new friend.s.

Then there was the limited American-Ru.ssian agreement to ban nuclear tests, an achievement long disciKssed but never attained before. Meanwhile. American allies stepped up trade with communism.

French President Charles de Gaulle, while safe under the American defense umbrella from Russian attack, took it on himself to be a disnipMve force in the We.st, and In his iisual crude and overbear in g way.

Nevertheless, in the past week President Johnson. Adlai E. Stevcn.son. U.S. ambassa

dor to hte United Natiortk, .and Sen. J. W. Pulbright, D-Arit all in separate speeches talked of a changing world.

Pulbright, like Kennedy, asked for a re-examination of attitudes but he went further than any of them by suggesting that changes in the world required changes in American foreign policy on a number of fronts.

This was like throwing a nest of bees into a crowded bus where the passengers had been sitting comfortably on their old attitudes for years.

Although praised for stirring things up, he was savagely denounced by some politicians of both parties in Congress to the point of implying this conservative Southerner was outlining surrender to communism,.

Both Johnson, who had talked of change, and Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who earlier this year pictured 1964 as a year when long deadlocked cold war issues may start moving out of deadlock, said Fulbright was "thought-provoking.

But then Rusk disagreed with Rilbright on how to handle Cuba and Johnson disagreed on Cuba and Panama.

Johnson is the man upon w'hom rests the task of invoking changes, if there are to be aoy by this country.

But Johnson is new to foreign affairs, this Is an election year when he hopes to be chosen preirident on his own. and he is very sensitive to popular attitudes. So far he ha.sn't tried to disturb them.

So any changes in foreign policy would seem more likely next year than this, unless they arc an obvious and incontrovertible improvement.

"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs The story of a ravishing blonde virgin who was held captive by seven deform-

" Little W(|men Four teenagers, wise beyond their years, are caught up in the throbbing tumult of the,Civil War, Read what happens to therfi when a rich old gentleman and h i s greedy grandson take rooms as.

boarders in a houise without i men.

"Tom Browns^ Schooldays For the first time we look be-, yond the locked doc^rs of an English boarding school to re-veal the truth about a life that rio one talks .^tbout and only a few^lijgpsper.

^"freasure IslandThe crew of a ship bent on rape and plunder land on an island inhabited by sex-crazed cannibals. An innocent boy finds the secret of growing up,

"Little Red Riding Hood A girl goes to visit her grandmother only to discover a wolf in her bed. Read what happens w'hen, the girl refuses to get into bed with the wolf.

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Senator Fulbrights review of foreign policy has made a large splash. This is because no one else is performing a similar function. Secretary Rusk is the most anonymous Secretary of State in recent memory. His impress on public opinion is close to nil. President Johnson is feeling his way into partly unfamiliar matters. He fields questions well in his talks with the press but offers no really satisfying or thorough review of all major policies, as the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has now done.

Senator Fulbrights has therefore extended his neck, like the southern schoolmaster as someone called him. He has given a thorough review with pras, cons, alternatives and his own crisply formulated decision, covering the major hotspots like Panama, Cuba, Vietnam and policy toward Cora-muni.st countries. By its vigor of opinion it challenges counterattack.

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There is some arguments wliether he Ls running interference for an evolving administration policy which wants to be bolder but isnt ready to b<\ We are inclined, however, to think this is mostly pure Ful-brlght. He has a iTcord of speaking out, agree or disagriee, with statemanlike motive and a high level of responsiblity.

The speech should not be jud-

ged on the basis of fragments or any one section isolated from the other. We w'ould inclinre to say that he had underestimated the need for keeping up pressure on Cuba desisite the allies of the United States/Who do not agree. We would be'glad to see President Johnson agree to negotiate a revised treaty % w ith Panama which gets everyone out of the present dispute between discuss and negotiate but does not commit the United States to any particular revision. The senators position on Vietnam, which is to work harder along present lines before attempting to negotiate, and certainly not to withdraw,

Is a reasonable one.

His warning that communism can no longer be dealt with as a unified world system, but has broken into many pieces of varying commitments, is sensible, Different sections should be treated differently. It Is intelligent to work and watch for changes in our favor as well as thase against. We would be more wary than he seems to b<\ le.s.s realist and more of what he disparagingly calls "moralist fighting persistently for convictions more than yielding to the moments actualities.

"Tom Sawyer A gang of sub-teenage hoodlums paint the town white, and commit mayhem and murder to satisfy their desires.

"Heidi A young lady cuaht up In the w'ild life of Switzerland fights for love.

"Babar the Elephant Life In the raw.

And so It goes. As for the covers, well have to leave that up tq the publishers. We hate to think what the paperback artists will do with Wind in the Willows.

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"The rec-ent improvement In Ea.st-West relations is not due to the test-ban treaty, which was the result, and not the cause, of a steadly improve-rnent In international relations since the Cuba crisis in the autumn of 1962. The Manchester Guardian.

"The vision of things to be done may come a long time before the way of doing them becomes clear; but woe to him who distrusts the vision. Jenkin Lloyd Jones.

But the value of the Fulbright lecture is its honest desire to shake Americans out of reflex, preconceived notions and force them out. This Is a valuable service and on that, mo.st Americans who work at being citizens, would agree.

"Khrushchev has a farm shortage so hes turning away from government controls to stimulate private Initiative. We have farm abundance, so we re imposing governmental, controls and dulling privat' initiative. Mixed up world, Isnt it?Chattanooga News-Free Pre.ss.

"Do you know why that rocket didnt send back television pictures of the moon? No sponsor. Greenville Piedmont,

You can make out Mst after list of this sort, and all you can conjure up In your minds eye is a picture of more and more people being put to work because gadgets create the necessity for the endless supplementary jobs that .seem Inevitably to' be called Into being by the operations of efficiency experts.

Take the movies, for example. When Charlie Chaplin was making his inimitable silent pictures, he did a lot of the direction himself. But today the list of screen credits that go with a movie Is, give or take a few yards, at least a quarter of a mile long.

The post office, you hear. Is going to be automated, with mechanical scanning of zip code numbers. But how do you automate the processes involved in the interminable produo tion of junk mail? The proliferation of sucker llsts.is guaranteed to get you eight invitations a day to subscribe to a * magazine which you have already subscribed for three years In advance. If you are dead, you still get the Invitations. Meanwhile, mn continue to plant trees, for wood pulp and to manufac.ture paper and to compose deathless prose to sustain something extremely elaborate which, in Itself, is a creation of the time-saving computers that nable people to manipulate sucker lists.

The big automobile compan- les hg.ve found many ingenious ways of cutting the labor costs of manufacturing a car. Cylinder'blocks are machined without the InterCesslmi of a human vhand. The assembly line has become the last word In efficiency. But the cars are so comppcated that it takes hundreds of labor hours by garage mechanics to repair what can be made In Detroit in & few seconds flat. If you have a fender, a bumper and a grill replaced after an accident, the bill for the labor Involved Is more than the down payment for a new car.

Parkinsons Law, which states - that work expands to fill the time allotted for It. Is on reason for believing that the fears of joblessness In an automated world are being vastly overplayed. But Parkinsons Law Is not even the half of it. There Ls also Murphys Law, which says that if there Is any PosslbUity of a thing going wrong. It will.

There isnt a gadget made by automated factories that wont break down at least three times a year after Its Initial guarantee has run out. If only some of thase disemployed factory hands would learn how te rebuild what they used to make, there wouldnt be an unemployment problem.

The Ad Hoc-ers, or Ad Hock^ ers, have addressed their feare about the effects of automatlmi to Lyndon Johnson In the White House. Lyndon has been around (Continued On Page )

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By KARL I,. 1)01 (H.A.SS .MORAL THII MPH

Edwin Markham has written; Defeat may .serve as well as victory

To shake the soul and let the Rlory out

Only the soul that knows the mighty grief

Can know the mighty rapture Sorrows come

To search out spaces in the heart of Jqv

It is hard to belive this when everything going against us Trouble comes down upon us and we immediately begin asking ourselves. "What did I do to deserve this?" We scan our actions ior mistakes. We question our molive.s in an effort to find out wheiein we have ile-parted from straight and narrow pathways. Only a lew pea pie can raise their heari.s I nthe

day of trouble, and keep their heads in hours of confusion, and say to themselves that sor-row.s come to stretch out spaces in the heart of joy.

Helen Keller, blind, deaf, and unable to speak, yet one of Uie outstanding pensonalities of the twentieth century and a writer of great literary worth, is perhaps the outstanding example of how defeat may serve as well as victory In the shaping and glorifying of the mind and soul

The cross on every altar and on every church bids us remember the place, the glory, the functiouluK of suffering and sorrow in the life of the world.

Victory over lifes cireiim-stances lies not at the end of a narrow, constricted and difficult pathway. That pathway leads to glory, to light, to triumph.

By EL.MER ROES.SNER The retail sales figures for the week ended March 14 are now in. [

So w hat happtmed?

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The tax cut, and the lower rates o withholding, were effective ior all paydays after March 5. Thus paydays on March 6 and 7 were expected to fill wage-caniers with a new feeling of prosperity and in the follow ing week they were expected to spend like dninken landlubbers. But they- didnt,.

Commerce Depaitment ifigur-es indicate the total sales for that week were $4.5 billion, about 1 per cent above t h e previous week and 4 ptw cent above the comparable wc^k a year ago. Sales were actually below the week ended February 9.

Is the tax cut failing to boost spending? Will the ?1 bill i o n plus being remitted to taxpayers l>e squirreled away in sav inns? Will the John.son boom be on!\ a pop in the market place? OTHER ( ONSIDERATIONS There are rca.son.s for thinking otherwise. For example;

1, Many persona ai e on

monthly salaries or wage s, hence they will not feel the les-ser lax withholdings until tomorrow' or after.

2. Resarch, consisting of qestioning Marty Linehan. the man at the next desk, shows that many persons got only modest increases in take-home pay. Only after many fatter paychecks will these people feel free to increase spending, or commit themselves to more instalments.

3. Many benefici a r i e s are hard-headed. They are determined not to be swept up in a reckless buying wave. They know that free spending can boost prices and they do n o t w ant to be contributors to their owTi ruin.

4. Some family units regard the tax cut as a step to inflation and they have resolved to avoid spi'iiding. for consumer goods and divert added income to real csYate. stocks and otlier hedges.

However, whilh the figures are not in yet, it seems likely that retail sales for the week.s ended Mareh 21 and last Saturday will .show more sizt'able gams. Reports irow

New's Service and other sales-watchers indicate an increased rate of consumer spending, and Easter surely lifted totals last week.

ans were fascinated by televi. Ion, they might be as reluctant as Americans are to leave their living rooms and shoot t h c m-selves into trouble.

TV tOULD HAVE AVERTED TROUBLE IN CYPRUS

There are scattering few television receivers on Cyprus. But if they were as common as they are in the United States, there would have been little or no bloodshed, in the opinion of George Lardner, news analyst.

If President Makarious. the Kutchuk, the Turkish Vice President had been able to go into the living rooms of every Cyprolt family and counseled tolerance, there need have been no violence, and if a .stale television system had .been able to beam in comicf and dancing girls, neither Greeks nor Turks would have torn themselves away from TV sets to go out and kill each other.

A SMAIX BRAG FROM YOUR COLUMNIST When this column* was young In 1946 or 47, your columnist, discussing that new phenomenon of color television, ventured the statement that If the TV industry could produce co 1 o r television, then It could also produce three-dimensional black-and-white TV,

There was no ticker-tape pa> ade up Broadway for your boy. But thLs month, using the simple principles he ment 1 o n e d, Sylvanla demonstrated three-dimensional television at the International Electrical and Electronic Engineer show In New York,

Perhaps in sending balloons over Ru.ssia, Americans ought to airlift tekvi'-nn .sets to the

Let*.*; scoop the world again: With principles already under-.Hood by Sylvanla and all other television manufaeturers. It la possible to produce three-dimensional color televlslwi recelv-er.s. Expensive, yes. Impra-Uoal m.

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