European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 27, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes a in Idoy March 27, our vines Havo tender gripes or. Brown by 1 11 k West Washington up1 Mal Colm Muggeridge former editor of the British humor Magazine punch observed in a speech her last week that those Are perilous times for wildest inventions prove to be exceeded by the originals Muggeridge is so right. Columnist Art Buchwald recently wrote a funny satire about the White House denying that president Johnson was stuck in an elevator in the Pentagon. Such a denial actually happened years ago when John son was Senate democratic Leader he got stuck in an ele Vator in the Capitol. A up re Porter put a squib about it on the next Day Johnson called him up and denied it Ever happened. Real events have topped my own wild inventions More Lime than i can count. I once jes tingly recommended that somebody bring out a hair Cream called Greasy kid turned out that such a product already had been made a facetious proposal that the trash disposal problem be solved by using garbage to build ski mountains. Only to learn that such a project already was under s maddening i Tell you. Try putting your Tongue in Yourchek nowadays and you Hul up biting the moment i am suffering Over a column i wrote a few Day Sago about a lady who cleaned out her Medicine Cabinet and dumped the leftover pills and stuff on her Geranium claimed one of the reran us responded favourably to anti histamines which was downright ridiculous and i treated it a was still chuckling Over it a few Days later when i picked up a press release from the Agri culture department. The second my eyes hit the caption 1 turned deathly for human pneumonia Are effective on Plant disease quoth the official release the department went on t0 w late that several antibiotics commonly used to treat a Journo had been found to be a cure a vegetable disease known i Aster n a this is the last Straw. I am Shook up i Don t even have the nerve to suggest that doctors will soon be making House Cal sailing Tomato vines. If i did i know what would happen next. I would come Down with a severe Case of Aster . Stress on racism assailed welfare chief criticizes riot panel Washington a the Man president Johnson has nominated As Secretary of health education and welfare disagreed monday with the conclusion of a presidential com Mission that White racism is a principal cause of riots. Wilbur j. Cohen acting Secre tary of the department said at j his first news conference since Johnson announced his Nomina j Tori As Secretary Friday i think you could also say that there is Black racism and Brown racism and red racism. I m not sure that its the term s use is a great own Bootstraps Cohen s statement on the Rio commission report differs from the views of Many liberals but is in line with criticism voiced by vice president Hubert ii. Humphrey who has said the re port overstressed tin racism an said i wish some of the Energy that has gone into rioting had gone instead into self improvement. Without specifying negroes he said he sees a need fur oppressed people to be lifting themselves up by their own while he did not deny that White racism plays a part in causing riots Cohen said he feels the riot commission Over simplified the situation by attributing too much of the prob Lem to that phrase. The acting Secretary added he thinks Many civil rights groups and reporters have been re pulsed by those who think Black Power Means Black Segre a dissent Wilbur j. Cohen nominated As Secretary of health education and welfare gives his views on riots. A i photo teen smog cars san disco Calif. A . Public health service sur vey of teen agers across the country shows to per cent fewer smokers than 10 years ago and says 80 per cent of those who do smoke plan to of the Survey first of its scope since Hiis were Dis closed monday by or. Daniel Horn director of the service National Clearing House for smoking and health at a symposium for science writers sponsored by the american cancel society. Horn also reported a decrease of More than two per cent i cigarette manufacture in the past year and said we May very Well be on our Way to Suc Cess in bringing this important problem under some kind of lie credited recent news Sto Ries and television advertise ments on the health hazards of cigarette smoking with a significant role in the random Telephone Survey covers 4,414 interviews from de Cember to february with boys and girls ranging from 12 to years old. Among the findings one boy in 7 and one girl in12 were regular smokers. This was a drop of 10 per cent in each group from a Survey made in 1958.More than 45 per cent said they definitely do not expect to be cigarette smokers in five years and More than 34 percent said they probably will not be smokers per cent g o to. 6otauv of a Tuvou ? o 6otf a of into angwun0,. Can t see our wofzkshuck6.misht jus a a a us of would you say smoking i harmful to health smoking is More common among children whose parents smoke who have fallen behind in school or who do not expect to go on to College. The number of parents who smoke has dropped from 5f per cent 10 years ago to 50 per Cen today. Output drops Horn said reports by the internal Revenue service show manufacture of cigarettes dropped from 133 billion in no vember december january of 19 56-67 to 130 billion in the Sam months of 1967-68. Results of a Survey of smok ing among College students will be available in a few months or. Horn said. I Cohen 54, was under secretary1 to John w. Gardner who re signed March 1 and has become chairman of the National Urban said he and his wife both plan to Campaign for the reelection of president Johnson. Humphrey cautions on group guilt Washington a Vic president Hubert h. Humphrey asserted sunday that the con Tention by the president s riot commission that White society condones negro slums comes dangerously close to a doctrine of group the vice president who had said earlier the commission re port is open to some Chal Lenge broadened a speech prepared Nial convention of women. Not whole picture while praising the commis Sion for a major contribution toward finding workable solutions to these critical problems Humphrey said its conclusion that our nation is moving to Ward two societies is Only part of the picture and i do no believe it is the a n separatism in America today is a minority movement led by White and Black extremists who can take advantage1 of current frustrations but do not speak forthe bulk of americans Black and White he said. Avoid scapegoats Humphrey cautioned let snot fall into the error of condemning whole societies while or Black or Herman or Arab or chinese. Let us not look Humphrey said the real pre occupation of both the govern ment and the people is to pro vide for every last american in every last Urban and Rural slum a Way of sharing to his fullest capacity in the possible dream the american his attack in for the Trien-1.5 Nai b Rith Nader goes on Warpath for indians Wash inc ton u i safety critic Ralph Nader turned to civil rights monday by accusing the government of neglecting the american Indian. The plight of America s400,000 reservation indians is As bad or worse than 10 or 21 years ago Nader said in an article in the current new re Public Magazine. Nader who has criticized Auto safety standards Federal meat inspection Laws and mine safety said in the article that schools managed by the Bureau of Indian affairs Breed Despon Dency cultural inferiority and charges negligence he also accused the Bureau of being negligent in of seeing j land Timber and water resources i on Indian reservation. Nader charged in entitled to the in that the White h health education hew. Despite the Ern ment s outlay of Sio million for indians in the current fiscal year. Nader said the present poverty tally is a -10 per cent unemployment rate grossly dilapidated Iio Miu. To least 3per cent illiteracy. To thirds c the life Anil Les than a third of the averse income of other my article i Indian rejected m of As k Force Transfer Interior Renu it of welfare 1-2-15-4 a a wlm a \ of 7r%x.�- it w 1 a. I a 5- Sivit m i i i i i atrial eur Rrpuu-,1 h. L Cosa Nomra in a l " was sen Leiu Eil years in ton of it it Nauls lire a a
