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People of Hungary, Bitter in
Still Turn Razor-Sharp Wit on Rulers
Munich, Germany (U.R,) The
people of Hungary, bitter in de
feat, still turn a caustic, razor
aharp wit on their Communist
rulers.
Current jokes in Budapest,
whispered in sidestreet cafes
and private rooms filter through
the Iron Curtain to show the
free world that the weapon of
wit has not been blunted by So
viet armor.
The size of the cabinet of Pre
mier Janos Kadar, who called
in Russian troops to crush the
Hungarian uprising, amuses in
habitants of Budapest.
Joke About Kadar
"Why are there only six peo
ple in the Kadar government?"
one asks another.
The sotto voice reply is "Be
cause there's only room for six
men in a tank."
And the Communist claim that
"Fascists and counter - revolu
tionaries," staged the uprising
brings this comment:
"Except for nine million counter-revolutionary
landlords, fac
tory owners, bankers, counts
and cardinals, the Hungarian
people and peasants remained
loyal to the peoples democratic
regime . . . and all six of them
formed the Kadar government."
The Family Council
Editor'! note: Th Family Council consists or a Jndfe, a psychiatrist,
tta'e clergymen, a newspaper editor, a women's editor and two writers. Eacb
article Is a summary of an actual report. The Family Council does not give
advice; It merely reports on problem that have been dealt with by responsible
agencies and counselors.
Monday the family council
Dan D. She won't forgive my
past.
Rtgina F. How can I trust
him?
'
Dan D. I am a bachelor of
39. Until about two years ago I
lived a pretty wild life, I guess.
I had many affairs with women,
.rank too much, and in general,
jZot into all the trouble I could
find for myself.
It took some serious trouble
to pull me up short and one day
I found myself in jail. That real
ly hit me and I made up my
mind to change things. Since
then I've been leading a decent
Jife.
Several months ago the thing
I never thought could happen
fame about I fell in love.
The girl is ten years my junior
and is everything I ever wanted
in a wife. She fell in love with
me, too, but when I asked her
to marry me I felt it was im
portant to be honest with her
and told her all about my past.
Her reaction was not what I
expected. Instead of giving me
credit for pulling myself up the
way I have, she became very
distressed and said she doesn't
feel she can trust me. How can
I convince her all that is. over?
Regina F. I am not so unfor
giving and strict a person as Dan
makes out, but I cannot under
stand how the man Dan seemed
to me to be could have sunk
quite so low and led such a
lurid life as he described to me.
How can I be sure that this
streak in him won't break out
pgain? It frightens me to think
of uniting my life to a person
like that.
I come of a good, religious
family and I know that if my
parents knew the truth about
Dan they would be horrified.
The police record alone would
scandalize them. As it is, they
?ike Dan very much and are en
rouraging me to marry him.
They can t understand my hesi
tation and accuse me of throw
ing away a "wonderful chance."
Ever since Dan told me what
he did I have been unable to
feel the same toward him. Per
haps I didn't really know him,
but loved somebody I thought I
knew. I am completely confused.
The Council: Regina should
understand that a person who
has changed as drastically as
Dan has. looks upon his past
with horror and loathing, pos
sibly with even more disgust
than she feels. He may paint that
past to himself in even more lur
id colors than it had in reality.
In his effort to be honest
with Regina, Dan has probably
gone all out in describing that
past. It was right of him to tell
cbout the police record, but he
may have exaggerated details
and given the whole story an
excessively sordid cast per
haps because he wants so much
to be forgiven by her.
Since Regina is" concerned
about how her parents would
view the matter if told the truth,
she would do well to discuss it
with them. It is possible that
their broader understanding of
life will help restore her sense
of balance. Their favorable im
pression of Dan will probably
be affected by the story but they
may be better able to judge the i
total picture than Regina. In
any case, open discussion will
relieve Regina of some of her
Vienna (U.R) Radio Buda
pest reported Friday that a mili
tary court in Drebrecen sentenc
ed three Hungarians to long pris
on terms for violating the mar
tial law regulations. A student
and a truckdriver were sentenc
ed to 15 year terms for "illegal
position of arms." Another man
was given 10 years in jail for
concealing information.
Radio Free Europe here,
which collects the current stor
ies from behind the Iron Curtain
has other examples:
"Why is Kadar called the
Hungarian premier?"
"Because Khrushchev is too
difficult to pronounce."
Red Army boss Georgi Zhu-
kov, Soviet defense minister,
came in for comment in spuri
ous "advertisement of the Zhu
kov company offering:
"Hot and cold running war
in every room.
"Ventilation of your home
free of charge.
"Free guided tours to the So
viet Union."
Even the gift of laughing at
themselves is not lost. One Hun
garian asks another: "What na
tionality were Adam and Eve?"
The other replies "Hungarians
they lived in a paradise with
out clothes."
Minor Variations
Some stories turn up time and
again with minor variations
through the satellites. One of
the latest versions of the leading
Communist who died and was
sent to hell comes from Ro
mania. He was surprised to find the
demon in charge offered him
sense of shock about Dan, and
help her to new objectivity.
Even if in the end Regina de
cides she cannot marry Dan, she
should recognize that people can
?nd do change and the "streak"
in Dan that she worries about
could "break out" in others.
There is no such thing as a guar
antee about the future of any'
individual.
(Copyright 1957, General
Features Corp.)
Space Traveler
Slower Than Twin Brother,
Wisconsin Physicist Says
Washington UR) Want to
stay looking fresh as a daisy
while all your friends are going
to pot?
Some day it may be easy: just
spend your summer vacations
buzzing around outer space at
186,000 miles a second.
Physicist Harold W, Lewis of
the University of Wisconsin said
Thursday night that theoretical
ly that a man barreling through
space at almost the speed of
light would compress into one
year a normal eight years back
here on earth.
Group Unable to Find
Beck's Relatives
Washington (U.R) The Sen
ate rackets committee, despite
weeks of effort, has been un
able to locate teamster boss Dave
Beck's son, two other Beck rel
atives and the union president's
bookkeeper.
The committee wants to ques
tion them about Beck's business
deals with his own union. Beck
himself has ignored committee
requests for help in locating the
four witnesses.
Committee counsel Robert F.
Kennedy told reporters Satur
day that if the four are not
found, "there will be a blank"
in part of the committee's case
against Beck "Unless Beck
comes in and answers the ques
tions himself."
Mikoyan Rejects
Conference Proposal
Vienna (U.R) Soviet Deputy
Premier A. I. Mikoyan Satur
day rejected Secretary of State
John Foster Dulle's proposals
for a new Big Four conference
as "demagogic and unrealisitic."
Mikoyan was especially bitter
about U.S. insistence that Rus
sia must fulfill certain conditions
to qualify for further contact
with the West.
Dulles told a news conference
Tuesday that there is no point
to new East-West talks unless
Russia shows some sign of sin
cere willingness to compromise
on such issues as disarmament,
German reunification and self
determination for the Soviet
satellite states.
Daily's U-Drive
Medford Airport
Monday, April 29, 1957
Defeat,
the choice of two gates to hell,
one marked "Capitalists," . the
other, "Communists."
"Which one for you?" the de
mon asks.
"The Communist hell, of
course," the Communist replies.
"There's bound to be a fuel
shortage there."
Poland chuckles quietly over
this exchange:
"My photograph appeared in
the paper this morning."
"Why, what had you done?"
"I was smiling." '
Is That
Horses have always played an
important role in our country's
history stagecoach, pony ex
press, cowboy saga. In warfare,
too. .
One has but to make a roll
call of leaders: Count Pulaski,
whose estates were confiscated
by the Russians and came - to
America to offer his services to
Washington; Henry (Light Horse
Harry) Lee, father of Robert E.
Lee, who headed up the "Troop
of Light Horse of the City
of Philadelphia"; and Francis
(Swamp Fox) Marion all of
the Revolutionary; James Ewell
Brown (Jeb) Stuart of the Civil
war one of the greatest caval
ry tacticians of all times, whose
methods were copied most effec
tively by the Russians in the last
great war; and Generals Custer,
Stuart, and Sheridan of the In
dian wars of the plains.
Would Age
' Lewis said when the traveler
returned he would find he was
seven years youngeJ than his
twin brother who had been plod
ding at home.
Fountain of Youth
"He will have found a modern
day fountain of youth," he said.
Lewis told the American Phy
sical society in a scientific paper
that the "fountain of youth"
theory is based on demonstra
tions that the aging process is
slowed down in radioactive par
ticles moving at high speeds. ,
"I have no doubt that the
same thing would apply to bio
logical processes," he said.
For example, Lewis said, it
would take a man traveling at
about the speed of light 186,
000 miles a second eight years
of earth time to buzz from say
Bangor, Maine, to the nearest
star and back.
If the traveler and his twin
were 30 when the traveler left,
the twin brother would be 38
when the traveler returned.
But Lewis said the traveler
would have aged only one year:
he would be only 31.
Not that the traveler while
out among the asteroids would
feel any different or realize that
his twin brother back in Bangor
was aging faster than he was.
Lewis said the traveler while
in space would feel that "every
one was zipping along with
him." He said that the traveler
wouldn't be aware of the differ
ence until he came home and
saw his brother's changed face.
The physicist said he had no
idea how the traveler would
square himself with the Internal
Revenue Service.
Russian Note Warns
West Germany of Bomb
Moscow (U.R) The Soviet
Union has warned West Ger
many that a future atomic
war would turn Germany into
"a cemetery." It proposed a nu
clear vacuum in both East and
West Germany.
The note was the latest in a
series of warnings from Russia
to the western European NATO
members about the dangers of
another world war. Denmark,
Norway and Holland have been
similarly warned.
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Navy Develops New
Television Screen
Washington (U.R) The Navy
has announced it has developed
a "revolutionary" television
screen which could hasten
development of color TV and
three-dimensional viewing.
In place of opaque white
powders now used, phosphorous
in the form of thin transparent
film is deposited on the face
of the tube in the new process.
The result, the Navy said is
a screen with a much sharper
image and little loss of contrast.
The transparent films also make
possible a "completely new ap
proach" to color television.
By EUGENE BURNS
Ranger-Naturalist
But it was not the Allied pow
ers who used cavalry first and
most tellingly during the begin
ning of World War II. -
While western nations were
placing their trust in motorized
equipment, changing cavalry to
armored divisions, Russians,
Japanese and Germans retained
large numbers of their horse
drawn equipment and cavalry
and in many instances, the
horses served them effectively.
It may come as a rude sur
prise to many a western armor
division - minded militarist to
know that despite the publicized
Panzer divisions the Germans
turned up with 800,000 military
horses 75,000 for transport,
the remaining 725,000 for caval
ry some of it from overrun
countries like Poland and Aus
tria. To begin with, the Germans
used them well. After their Pan
zer divisions had blitzed through
the Low countries, the cavalry
accompanied the infantry and
occupying forces and followed
shock troops into newiywon
territory thereby saving valua
ble fuel and by spreading out
far beyond the easily-traversed
highways and into the moun
tainous, forested areas denied
to the Panzers, clinched gains
made by their mechanized spear
heads and forestalled outflank
ing maneuvers. It added speed
to their thrusts.
When Japan overran large
roadless areas of China, particu
larly during the muddy rainy
seasons, - she too used many
horses. Remnants of these 300,
000 may . be seen even today
scattered throughout Japan.
But when Germany began
folding, the Nazis failed to do
what Jeb Stuart did a century
earlier in America they failed
to exploit the mobility of their
cavalry, to use surprise and thus
make "their strength count, or
use it in terrain which was im
passable to vehicles. -
"When Germany's fuel and
vehicles gave out,- they resorted
to pathetic desperation tactics
with their cavalry," recalled Lt.
Gen. Robert N. Young, present
commander of the Sixth Army,
who directed the fighting in the
Colmar pocket, in northeast
France. He explained to me: '.'As
a last resort they threw, their
mounted troops at us. We spot
ted it a long way off. We used
planes with anti - personnel
bombs. We used artillery shells
which would explode above
ground. I tell you, I would rath
er not think of the slaughter we
gave that Nazi cavalry. I love
horses too well."
But the Soviets', as we shall
see next Monday, used their cav
alry effectively and made it
count as did our own Jeb Stuart,
a century later. .
Copyright 1957.
by Eugene Burns)
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Two Junior James Ty rones
Plays Starting
By JACK GAVER
United Press Drama Editor
New York U.R) Beginning
Thursday, Broadway will have
Junior James Tyrones back to
back.
James Tyrone Jr., aged 33,
will be found where he has
been since last fall in the
Helen Hayes Theater on West
46th street.
James Tyrone Jr., aged 44,
will take up tenancy that eve
ning in the Bijou theater, front
ing on West 45th street, directly
in back of the Hayes.
Both are characters in' plays
by the late Eugene O'Neill. Both
are based on the playwright's
older brother, James O'Neill Jr.
The younger James Jr. is in
the successful "Long Day's
Journey Into Night" which is
frankly based on the home life
of Mi-, and Mrs. James O'Neill
Sr. and their two sons in Con
necticut in 1912.
Sertral Ties To Reality
Son James is the only Tyrone
(O'Neill) who figures in the new
arrival at the Bijou, "A Moon
for The Misbegotten." It is not
known whether its story js bio
graphical or simply a fictional
incident, but it does have sev
eral ties to reality.
For example, "Moon" takes
place in 1923 on a Connecticut
tenant farm owned by the Ty
rones. James, the father, is dead
(1920). Some of the dialogue
tells of the recent death of the
wife and mother, who did die in
1923. As James, embittered and
sick, leaves at the end " of the
play there is dialogue to the
effect that he hasn't long to
live. James did die within a few
months after his mother.
The descriptions of James Jr.
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on Broadway
in the published versions of the
two plays are much alike, even
to identical long phrases. O'Neill
wrote "Journey" in 1940 and
"Moon" in 1943.
Those who view both plays
will note one odd thing. In
"Journey," there is mention of
the tenant farm and of its rather
unreliable tenant, who is named
Shaughnessy. Edmund (Eugene)
relates to his father a story
Shaughnessy told about how he
got the better of a Standard Oil
millionaire neighbor named
Harker who accused . Shaugh
nessy of fouling Harker's ice
pond by breaking down a fence
and allowing pigs to wallow in
the pond.
Tenant's Name Changed
i In "Moon," which is set 11
years later, this incident is part
of the action. Only here the ten
ant's name is Hogan and the
millionaire is called Harker.
Son James is played in "Jour-
Efforts to Have
More Trade Planned
Paris (U.R) Japan and
America's European allies will
begin efforts this week to per
suade the United States to grant
further concessions on trade
with Red China.
.U. S. leaders were not expect
ed to yield to pressure from al
'ied nations who want to do bus
iness with the Communists.
The Atlantic pact committee
which regulates western trade
with "the Communist world
meets here Tuesday to begin
the negotiations. Japan, not us
ually represented on the com
mittee, has been especially in
vited to attend.
rvn
Will Be in
This Week
ney" by James Robards Jr. In
the new arrival, the character
is portrayed by Franchot Tone.
"A Moon For The Misbegot
ten" was headed for Broadway
once before but never made it.
That was the late winter of
1947, in the same season that
the Theater Guild offered the
original production of O'Neill's
"The Iceman Cometh," his first
presentation in 12 years.
The guild started "Moon" on
its break-in tour in Columbus,
Ohio, in February and closed it
five weeks later in St. Louis
after one cast change en route.
O'Neill was represented at the
time as being very unhappy
about both the casting and stag
ing. He was never well enough
to supervise a new production
of the play after that.
Since his death in 1953, var
ious producers have sought to
get it on, but Carmen Capalbo
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