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"Buzzing" Hinted In Air Crash That Cost 16 Lives 14 Tht News-Review, Roseburg, Or. Tut., Aug. 2, 1949 Poor Man's Philosopher Discourses On Endeavors For Self-Improvement By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK. iF The week I am most in favor of having ii a be-yourself-week. During this period everybody would take a holiday from self Improvement In any form. He would Just relax and let himself alone. He would be what he Is and nothing more and I think he'd enjoy It. It would be restful. For one of the curses of our time is that practically nobody is satisfied with himself as he Is. He wants to change himself In some way he hopes is for the bet ter. But is It for the better? Most of the self-improvement pro grams I've seen haven't made much difference. You can't change a cabbage into a cauliflow er by Just putting it in a cello phane wrapper. But that doesn't keep people from frittering their contentment away in endless and aimless ef forts to be something besides what they are. Self-improvement today is one of the biggest Ameri can industries. Billions are spent on It. Are you overweight? Try our 99-day diet. Are you too thin? Try our 101-day diet. It's the same thing but you Just eat more of It. Are you lonely and misunder stood? Take our 35-year course In how to be charming. Then you'll be popular and misunder stood. Do you want to get ahead in business? Here's a book that tells you how. The more you buy the more the author who wrote It gets ahead In his business. Other Guy Becomes Pest The worst thing about people enraptured wltn soil-Improve-ment campaigns Is they want you to Improve yourself, too. They develop a kind of cultural snobbery similar to that of a re formed drunk. This great crusade for personal culture breeds intolerance and breaks up lifelong friendships. If a pal gets hipped on symnnony music, you've got to drop Steph en Foster and dogtrot back to Bach with him or he regards you as a moron on the downbeat. Why? If he Joins the book-of-the-month club you must, too, or else he thinks you still secretly read "Elsie Dinsmore" at night when the rest of the family Is asleep. I became disillusioned with self improvement early In life when I took a correspondence course in muscle building. "Don't look like a beanpole," said the ad. "Be a panther man. Have muscles that ripple." Weil, It sounded fascinating. I took the course, bought a gadget with coils that you stretched and str-r-etched until you were muscles all over. Be wars of Ripples It worked all right. Soon I had muscles that rippled like mad. Then I found I really didn't like my muscles to ripple. It was rath er unnerving. But I was stuck. There is no course sold on how to de-ripple your muscles. So I have gone striding through the years like a panther man, listening to my muscles, go ripple, rlpple-rlpple, ripple. Sometimes I meet strangers and they pause and say, "do you hear it that rippling noise? And I have to break down and confess it is my muscles. Never mind self-improvement. Let yourself alone, or maybe you'll end In a worse plight than I am. You may get ripples in the brain. U. S. Consul Freed From Shanghai Detention SHANGHAI, Aug. 2. (-Reuben Thomas, U. S. consulate ad ministrative officer, was free to leave the consulate Monday after being held In the building for 30 hours by former U. S. Navy employes. He had not loft the building late today, however. The workers Chinese, some Indians and White Russians blocked Thomas and other Ameri can officials from leaving the building on Friday. They de manded severance pay and bon uses of six and one half months' wages as navy employes dis charged when the navy pulled out of Shanghai upon the ap proach of the communists. Still in the building late today with Thomas were Cmdr. Morgan Slayton, navy attache, and Wal ter McConaghty, acting consul general. The men were to go to the communist labor board building for further negotiations some time today. FORT DIX, N. J., Aug. 2.-4JP) A public hearing by the civil aeronautics board appeared pos sible today as an aftermath of the crash of a navy fighter plane and a commercial airliner in which 16 persons died Saturday. The possibility of a public hearing was suggested by Wll lam K. Andrews, director of the board's bureau of safety Investi gation. CAB representatives and navy officials are investigating reports that the naval pilot was "buzzing" the Eastern Airlines plane when thoy collided in the air near Fort Dix, N. J. An account of the buzzing from a Piper cub pilot who witnessed the accident, George W. Hum phries of Falrhaven, was back ed up by pilots for Eastern Air lines and National Airlines. They said their pianos had been buzzed Dy navy ngnters In ine same area shortly before the colli sion. Identification of the airlines' 15 victims 12 passengers and three crewmen meanwhile was proceeding slowly. All were char red beyond recognition by a fire which broke out when the plane hit the ground. Teeth pro vided the only means ot Monti flcation. The body of the navy pilot, Lieut. (J.g.) Robert V. Poe, 2b, of Hampton, Va., was found two miles away. Admiral Luclan Moebus, as sistant chief of naval operations for air, said in Washington that "if there was any buzzing it was in direct violation of our exist ing rules." A national military establish ment spokesman said the navy's regulations call for pilots to stay 1,000 feet away from commercial or transport craft. In Miami, NAL President G. T. Baker said he couldn't "imag ine a pilot like that being per mitted to take a plane off on his own." Drowning Adds To Bad Luck Of Destitute Family PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 2.(JP A destitute family of 10 reached the climax of trouble Sunday, when one of the children drowned In the Columbia river. Nancy Jean Entriken, 13, was swept off her feet by the current yesterday as she waded with a brother and sister. Her 14-year-old sister, Donna, was pulled to safety by Alfred Burns, passing In a motor boat, Just before she went under. It was the climax of months of trouble for Mr. and Mrs. David Entriken and their eight children. Entriken, a electrician who had lived here six years, hadn't been able to got work. "We didn't want to stav on re lief," said his wife, 33. ''It's no plonlc." So two months ago Entriken went to Long Beach, Calif., and found a Job in the Chrysler plant. He came bark to get his family. They got 50 miles away wnen their aged car broke down. Friends drove them back .to an auto court near here last Fridav. With nothing to eat. the children started raiding pear and apple trees. The auto court operator and po lice contributed food to the fam ily. Saturday, welfare officials gave them emergency help. Sun day a woman olfercd the family a house. It was Just after thoy moved in that three of the children made the Ill-fated excursion Into the Columbia river. Today, Entriken didn't know how he would get the remaining members of his family to Long Boach or whether he would still have a Job If he got there. f 'l GET IT OVER WITH JUST A rJWJ QUICK.' THE ONE WHO MINUTE HOLDS Trf SHORT STRAW 1 V'Wk OBJS TH' LAST PIECE OP W gggs Mx4 BACON TO STRENGTHEN! VEH, JUST 00 iP HIM FOR TH StX-MiLE gff A SECONP ; Pt A WALK TO TH NEAREST EK SO p V t.miiKtw, InC WnlOtllNKJ PUJK ro m Kt ,w j OUT OUR WAY By J. R. William Farm Bill 'Must' At Session Now, Lucas Declares WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.-UF) Senator Lucas of Illinois, the Democratic loader of the Senate, called Monday for passage of a larm bin. He Included it on a long list of "must measures that may keep Congress in session well Into September. Lucas told a reporter he sees nine cnance tnat congress can get away before Labor day (Sept. 5), at the earliest. If it takes much longer than that to get ac tion on administration bills piled up on the calendar, the lawmak ers will just have to stay here, he said. Among measures Lucas sched uled for action are the House- approved reciprocal trade agree ments bill, a measure to lift the minimum wage level to 75 cents an hour, a House-approved pro posal to increase government sal aries from cabinet members down the line, the pendine for eign arms program, a displaced persons bill, appropriations meas ures and a civil rights bill. Republican senators will dis cuss tomorrow a proposal by Sen ator Morse (R.-Ore.) that they back a plan for Congress to wind up its present work August 20 and come back November 15. Luras said he would rather go on through than to have any such recess. Senator Taft of Ohio, chairman of the GOP policy com mittee, also Is against returning to Washington In November. Lucas said he will keoD the Senate working on appropria tions hills until all of thorn have been passed. The minimum wage wage proposal will come up then, with reciprocal trade agreements legislation nenina it. The Senate may untangle Itself The Great Lakes form the larg est Inland body of fresh water in the world. Something New Has Been Added at Adair's Associated Service & Parking We are now renting Flegel's Drive UR-SELF Trucks Open day or night 7:00 a.m. 12:00 p.m. Weekdays 8:00 a.m. 6:30 p.m. Sunday Fret parking while you rent a truck Adair's Associated Service & Parking New , f imhii hj iV i.m.ih.-bm.i . w n E V s Tv 4 -1 rv f .v. VJ i't t , 1 Uot ; ofV,; : ' - . : i t ' VJ -EH. r x, ' , iJaiexandh '' - ' i Tint CiC THIS BtAUTIFUl ALEXANDER SMITH BR0ADL00M! Smirt nfw rwit wejve in the famoui AlexinJer Smith all wool pilr. B H F. (EUsic Home Furnishing) shadr to to with evrrv room. Br the yrd for wall-to-wall carpeting or io room-size rugs. 11.50 sq. yd. lorn early this week from a parlia mentary knot which has held up final action on the $5,500,000,000 foreign aid funds bill, most of which is for European recovery. The News-Review classified ads bring best results. Phone 100. High Tension To Achieve 'Success' Has Lost Real Meaning Of Living By BRUCE BIOSSAT We've been hearing for years that many of our top business executives kill themselves with the strain of overwork. Perhaps most of us have felt this situation was just an unfortunate accom paniment of modern living about which nothing could be done. But now comes a suggestion that this tense pace is neither normal nor necessary, even for today. Writing in Collier's maga zine, Howard Whitman quotes psychiatrists as declaring it is an abnormal, neurotic drive rath er than brains, energy or ambi tion that leads a man to punish himself with work and possibly "succeed himself to death." Business - leaders can amass plenty of evidence to support their contention that their proo lems and burdens have mounted to dizzy heights in the last two decades, and that their own ten sions have risen in proportion. The doctors, however, decline to admit that most executives have to work as hard as they often do. They insist that the men who let work dominate their lives are out of balance in some way. They say some nave a distorted idea ot life that allows no place for fun and rest. Some men simply don't know how to use free time and tie themselves to work to avoid boredom. Others are ridden by fears of failure, and competing executives, of insecurity they often can't define. So these high voltage Individuals focus so hard on making a living that they forget all about making a life. They deprive their families of badly needed companionship and guardianship. They lose the matchless riches of leisure, the fulfillment of spiritual wants that can't be satisfied In the grubbing world of work. And Into the bargain, they kill themselves. In so doing, they rob business of brain power, training and lead ership. Thus they defeat the very pur poses for which they are sup posedly slaving. The doctors' ad vice to business executives Is to grow up, to stop racing each other to the grave and grasping for the symbols of life instead of life itself. Any sensible person would be likely to agree with Dr. Leo H. Bartemeier of Detroit, whom Whitman quotes as follows: "Tho grown-up man has his prestige and security within him. He doesn't need the biggest car. His Joy comes from being a person, a fully realized human being." r f HEATING OILS Diesel and Steve Oils Quality Oils For Every Purpose PROMPT METERED DELIVERIES E. A. 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Drop around to the Roseburg Jewelers and see their fine array of many items which you can lay-away now to start your Christmas shopping. Just think back to last year how at the last minute you discovered nothing left to buy because you had left your shopping until the last minute, thinking you had lots of time left. Look at the list below of the many things we have to offer you and more besides. You can fit every need and every desire all in one place at the same time for as little os $1.00 or $5.00 down on our lay-away. 0 TOASTMASTERS 0 WATCHES COSTUME JEWELRY 0 COMPACTS SILVERWARE 0 SILVER FLATWARE 0 LODGE RINGS PEARLS 0 BIRTHSTONE RINGS 0 PENS and PENCILS 0 LIGHTERS 0 CLOCKS In back of Montgomery Ward Main A Washington IT'S ON JACKSON 3 LaV-aWay LAY-AWAY LaV-aWaY LaY-aWaY Lay-aWaY Phono 1531 LAY-AWAY 4
