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THE CHINA MALL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1958.
IS RULE
BY THE
THE RICH
A FLOP?
Just a year ago General Eisenhower was elected U.S. President. The Democrats called his team of Republican business mon "Government by 'Millionaires." How is it working? Here is an authoritativo American assessment
the
by JOSEPH C. HARSCH
woll - known broadcaster and Washington correspondent of the Christian Science Monitor
T
-
W13
HOW ARE YOU HOG,
TO SNOB OR DRIVE A DANGER?
A
CAR
By MIKE HAWTHORN
The 24-year-old British racing champion of 1953 gives all motorists the chance
ERE is a formula to add professional polish to their driving
for
car will
WASHINGTON. reopen the way for private HERE is trouble in initiative in the business world.
One of his first acts
Stylish you.
top, the longer the Washington. The to rack the Director of the
driving smooth last. The opposite is true. Eisenhower Govern- Bureau of Standards, Dr Allen
ness simplicity. ment is creating the impres- V. Astin. Under Astin this Ferget all those com- sion you would expect of a bureau had refused to find that football team made up of certain clemleri emparkan plicated evolutions such as
What tennis, golf, und chess stars, offered for the market as a life-double-declutching.
batteries ever the Grand Old Men lengthener for car actually, did batteries any good. stars The scientists took to the bay, they are not necessary codes in defence of Astin. today unleas your car la
very aged,
These men were all
in their own previous acti- vities, but they never played In any team.
dis-
And to several of them, by their own admission, the covery that government is not business was as startling as chlid's discovery that the pretty rod stuff on the hearth hurts when you touch it. They didn't know it was like that.
But not yet
been telling each other that few sound business principles" applied to "that mess in Wash
the would ington"
put whole thing straight.
FOR 20 years they had
50011
They were going to
put an end to ull nonsense and red tape, atop the wasting of public dollur to the money, restore scundness, and give American people clean, honest, emelent government. And it was all to be done promptly.
Well, unfortunately, it hasn't worked out that way, yet.
Not that it won't come out all right in the end. It very well may.
But here are some of the things that have happened In the meantime.
A switch
WHEN the smoke of battle brain war bacis ut the Bureņu of Standards und Craig Sheaffer, a subordinate millionaire under Mr Wocks who had initiated the sacking of Astin, was himself back at his fountatu-pen factory.
Get in your car. Now relax. No more hugging the steering wheel; no more clutching it with hands like hama. Get as far away from the wheel as you can with comfort.
Caress it. Only gentle fin- gers can feel a car's desires on a bend or corner. Be inaster. Control the car's tendencies, but don't ignore them.
It
Before you drive away, look at your windscreen, Look those of other ears.
How often have you inboured up a hill, your car struggling? Next time, change down. Your speed will go up and the en- 'gine will sing,
.
Travelling at 40 to 45 miles an hour, there's an obstruction ahead traffic lights, 11 roundabout, a jam.
The bad motorist keeps his speed up and then brakes just when
to. That in
he's got
George Humphrey, an cut standing business tycoon, came to Weenington from Cleveland. Ohio, to manage the Treasury to the and "restore soundness" dollar. His first move was to Gov- raise the interest rate, on
Nine, out of ten are filthy. ernment bonds Λ shudiler
Dried rain spots, mud splashes: went through the whole vast,
and all the rest distract the complex credit structure of the
eye, divert the attention and country.
up oncoming Within days the Federal Re-night break
head-lighting into a confusing serve ayatevi had to take action dazzle.
wrong. Press down the clutch case the supply of credit,
pedal, give the accelerator This was a resort lo a New Deal
itile jab, and chunge down.
engine bite. It the forbidden
Feel that device high on list
business
slowing the car down.
to
of pre-January millionaires,
Ezra
Tart Benson, not д millionaire but well of, came to Washington from: Salt Lake City, Utah, to manage the De partment of Agriculture and persuade American farmers that rugged individualism was better for them than farm-price sup- ports, another item on the pre- January forbidden list.
Price fall
Jeseph Dodge, former bank president and director of many big companies including Chry- air Motora, ezine to the Bureau of the Budget from Detroit, Michigan, He was going to AST week, Republican bulance the Federal Budget
Congressmen Senators and the Republican theory that
from the farm States jammed unbalance was due to Demo- the White House switchboard cratic incompetence matters.
in
on Its
Well, the Budget isn't
will balance. By admission It not be balanced next year.
A warning
money with angry
demands for Mr Benson's resignation. For form in prices have dropped seven per- cent since the Republicans look office.
Benson is actually spending more money supporting farm prices
than his predecessors, but he does it grudgingly and so gets the blame for price declines which are probably not his fault.
the
THERE is still some hope that THERE
it can be balanced in third year of the Republileon restoration but that prospect depends on lucky breaks not yet
When driving remember your gearbox. It is your best friend. Many motorists have an odd Idea that the less they use the
more they
stay in Bears, the
Don't wander over the white line on benų
נ
there, change down again, ant your car is rolling along, it
gieo turning strongly.
-It,, all goes well, you will rivens the way ahead in clear; up you change and, on
you go...
I am not saying you must take caclt bend at top speext. But master this drill, and you- will take cornera tucked into your proper side, and your car wll not bully you on to the crown of the road,
Overtaking is an art so tow have mastered. Don't rush up the vehicle you want to
to
Don't get up close behind the lorry you want to pass.
You are back at your .cruis-
Hang back so you can ing speed in the shortest time, pass. and your brakes have not been see the road ahead of it. Now touched.. That's' on economy it is clear. O you go, with no which pays a dividend. And besitation. if you have to brake, then t will be a gentle affair.
If you find trouble in pass- ing, remember your gearbox, One change down. will give you biting neceleration.
Mon people corner badly. When you are past, don't pull Bends frighten them. Over the in, missing the other man's white line they go, on to their front wing by inches. That Is wrong side. So few
drivers clumsy, boorith, and dangerous.
may
other forco the have experienced the fun in You
certainly lo cornering well, although the driver to brake. modern car makes cary,
Here is an excrelse. Choose
slow down,
Don't listen to the wireacres
a left-hand curve on a wil, who tell you not to use your fast, dry road. Drive round it horn. Ute readily, especially. as slowly as you like. so long when overtaking.
There is no
us your wheels stay just three, need for a raucous bellow. feel from the kerb the whole just an apologetic rough is the blog.There's a wealth of time. Now do again a little vocal expression in the cheapest
inster. Repent
and
pushing up the speed
each time.
repent
gently car horn.
As you go faster. you will and, the steering wheel is be-
19
Overtaking involves eignals. ginning, to rosist you, but so To my mind there is far tou incomprehensible hand- Jong as your hands are gently much firm, there is no danger. It is flapping. But a hand signal.is only when you want to strug- belter than a semaphore which If the lights haven't turned gle with the wheel
jams. And an eye on your to green,
mirror and two hands on the if the Jum is still 'inust stup.
wheel are better than either.
'DON'T LET'S BE BEASTLY TO THE GERMANS.
AND
that you
NOW THE RUSSIANS
ARE
SAYING IT
By William
Hided not to be beastly belleve. of
Guards.
the
Hamsher
Russians
You must have met the driver who pulls sharply into his near-side when he is over- taken.
And you know the driver who sticks out his hand and swings in front of you.
Neither knew you wero there. Neither used, his mirror. There is no poorer, driver: So.
BONN. category of "major criminals." Red Army guards behaved bet- TAVE the Russians de- I found none with any sentence ter after Stalin died." he said. undor 25 years, All of them "They seemed freer, easier, as ccurs, that thay if a burden had gone from them." to the Germans? They are were unjustly accused. But they When they finally decided to emptying the prison camps. concede
were send the Germana home, the They are sending home within their rights as conquerors Russians even humoured a Hitler's thugs, the S.S. Black in handing out sentences.
of officers who went on group Not one among the dozens to strike refusing to recept as a whom I talked is prepared, now parting gift from their gaolera a They are sending home that he is at last back home, to new grey suit each and a pair
of yellow shoes. the police troops who herded speak kindly of the Kremlin,
Let's
have a
a little
roll-call But the strikers
found their the slave workers_back_into.
-Don'!– čui-¡n–liko....this..... It's......... There is another side to the
"among the homecomers.
departure was not delayer as a Nazl
boorish Heinz punishment,
and bad driving. story. Attemuy-General Herb Germany to keep Nazi war
Party member
The train for the Brownell is doing a quiet and factories at full pitch. They Grosse, from East Prussia, first Faherland left en time. thorough job of improving the are sending back the Panzer lieutenant, captured at Stalin- What they objected to was the count a black mark from now Blandards of the Justice
"If there had been any condition attached to the gift: on every time you are surprised Charles E. Wilson, former partment. Robert Cutler is said grenadiers who nearly took president of General
high Stalingrad. It seems they are let-up at the end, one good slap- that the suit must not be worn at being overtaken.. Motors to hove injected new
up feed, a tour of Moscow inside Russia apparently co and ns such the highest paid standa
into sending back Field-Marshal before we came home, then we that the Russians should not of competence standards $15.00 man in the US.A., came to the grand strategy work of the Friedrich von Paulus, cap might all have sald, 'At least it think the Germans were being WORK:---
from National Security Council tured at Stalingrad: They ended well.'
treated better than they--but 25.00 Department of Defence
Detroit to cut out "waste" in Secretary of State Jolin Foster
must be wom in East Germany, 1. Is 25.00 the
sending back Hitler are Armed
so that the East Germens living services without Dulles is currently considered 35,00 sacrificing military strength. here to be doing a good job in Youths, some of whom, un-
under Rod rule should not think 10,50
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repentant after ten years as
that Russia was eending Gcr- His first move was to "narrow
prisoners, asked me on their
mans home looking shabby. the mobilisation base" mebris conventrating 5.00 contracts
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Maybe it is a prelude to a new 0. it seems, was that I fought at Moscow drive for a separate Stalingrad."
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When you meet a smaller powered car do you some- times show of?..
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"They could so easily have first night in Germany why made us into friends. But I defence
were received with shall never trust a Russian. they fow
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For Grosso it counts nothing provided ព
In Bonn officials know nothing H
Eisenhower's them to play Deutschland that the Russians knocked 21 1.00 Motors
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At Friedland camp on the
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Another one who will never cconomies.
Brilish zonal border I watched trust a Russian is Otto Jehrling, army will shortly be only one factory
And von Paulus? The 03- manufacturing heavy
The trouble' in Washington generals and privates lining up a policeman from the Rhineland, 15.00 only one producing medium isn't that the millionaires are to get bowls of potato soup, or also sentenced to 20 years in year old Field Marshal, who tanka. And one A-bomb could stupid, inefficient, or incapable to see the doctor, or to get the Soviet Union for opera- joined the "Free German Com- mittee-in. Moscow after being tions against made 5,00 put the whole operation out of of learning. They are not.
Some of the millionaires in one of the dozens I asked could Said Otto:
up my seized at Stalingrad, was given a business.
are learning fast, give a clear answer Commerce Washington
try to stick it until small house in Moscow. He was mind to Secretary of
1955, then kill
myself....The allowed to visit the theatre, Sinclair Weeks, director of com- And they get high, marks for question
have "Wh
the Russlane food
terrible.. A cupful of write a weekly letter home to
In the Rhineland, 6-7 Move up into Form Three chosen fust this time for the big solt nudding of unsweetened his family Blades,
for the next lesson. Washington They have already acquired
cereal, homecoming?".
pound of black, bread, and send them watercolours ho from Boston, Massachusetts, to more humlllly. And less cer
tainty that they came to the The generals and the privates an ounce of linned meat a day, had painted. Now he is in East Government equipped by bust agreed that the Russians had no and occasionally few tiny Berlin. And his family waits ness experience with all the need to do it.
and hopes for news that he, too, For all the potatoes." perfect answers 10 all the thousands now returning home Next, Adolf Reinhardt, Panzer is joining the trek of released Emergency! night, fog and problems of, our times."
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0-2 You are stil
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