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PAGE SIX FRANK JENKINS Enured ..ZXJ SLMtT Ore ,on mIbeb of ti e MAIL 1 Month 6 Months X Year 135 ..$ 6.50 -tll-OO BILLBOARD By BILL JENKINS It seems that a fellow to business these days, particularly If he has anything to do with writing, spends aSout as much time filling out que Uonnaires as he does conducting his business. And almost all of the firms, grout, foundation, and graduate ftudents putting out these forms make the same mistake. They send you a blank that takes an hour or more to fill out, and encose . stamped envelope Just a half inch smaller thun the form. This morning I spent at least an hour filling out a complicated form stating various preferences in everything from collecting butter files to cooking in a restaurant. When it came time to send it in, lo and behold, the form was exactly half an Inch longer, no matter how you folded it, than the envelope. From here on out we will test the container first and answer the ques tions later. As the continuing years pile their dusty weight on our weary should ers we become convinced that a pood manv of our well founded be liefs are nothing but so much hog- We are referring at the moment to the belief, long current around my household at least, that you eat Jess meat in the summer months than you do In the winter, lay off the hot dishes and go in for nothing but salads, seafood, deviled eggs and lemonade. After a long spell of almost be lieving this myself I have come to the conclusion that H Is an old wives' tale with no foundation In fact. A large succulent juicy meat pie tastes Just as good to me on a hot summer night as It does on the coldest night of the winter. The for steak and potatoes. 1 lots of gravy and hot biscuits. Not to mention such Roooies as spare ribs, spaghetti with hot sauce, chili ALONG NATURE'S TRAIL by KEN McLEOD ThU problem of Increasing pop- illation is not merely & subject ol cademio interest as it is a sud- ject that effects the lives of each and every one of us as to our oc cupation and opportunities for rec reation. A third and least pressing of the problems, though being stressed by tho alarmists as the most important, is the subject food supply. This writer holds little regard for the "calamity howlers," who, by grovelling at the leet of a deliberately distorted Malthusian doctrine hope that the g u 1 1 1 b 1 e American public will follow their leadership. I doubt if one out of a thousand who so skillfully quote Malthus has ever read the works of that emniinent scholar, they are content to distort tho evolutionary I hypothesis of Darwin It has paid well to do so. The fundamental problem is no different today than in 1798 when Malthus published the first edition of hla great work, "An Essay on! the Principle of Population as It Effects the Future improvement of Society." There was no shortage of food In the dnys of Malthus, the basic economic problem was the lack of money to purchase food which was ample and abundant. And why was this so? Any student of history can tell you the story of the oppressive taxation that was the burden of the people. The ot licials of government and their ser vants lived in comparative splend or upon the forced sacrifice of the people. Sometime ao I read an article In which the writer sought to use the fable ol Kobm Hood as a paral lel of out times. The King and his court tine government) were pre Mimably. honest business men ol (he free enterprise system and Rob in Hood, ihe "New Dealer" who robbed the honest merehimt and gave to the pour. 1 think the writer hadly missed the point ot the story lor nr. the icople ot America, mnv like the early citizen ot Britian be seeking our Robin Hood in the undeniable ronutin UuUlr over the siibiert of oppressive t at ion. You jee, tht- writer who sought to use table of Hobm Hood as (he point of his story I.uUhI to recounlze the true conflict ot eno- nomic forces involved why we if the people poor and who made them that way? 11 could bo. a Rullible American nubile mav have thought the "New Deal" it's Robin Hood I wouldn't know, however, the result Is quite apparent and new Robin Hoods will appear to knock at our door to save us from oppression. But so much for Malthus and Robin Hood as elements of economic his- iory those days are pnst and we iave to lace a future. The rise of population itrowth is an undeniable factor with winch v:it are laced and with which we must cope, there will be plenty of njy o oo(B BILL JENKINS Managing Editor aTsociaied press 1 Month 6 Months 1 Year .. $ 8.10 $16.20 relcnos, onion soup and lamb curry. Prom here on out we shall eat as our appetite dictates and not as the popular beliefs would have us. It tastes so much better, stays with you so much longer and keeps up your energy so much better. Having Just come back to civili zation again following a few days out in the hills with a crowd of men we are justified, I guess. In giving out with a little philosophy on the subject of men in the woods. Seems that the minute you take a man out of his comfortable home and park him in the middle of the woods the first thing he does is break out a Jug and start remem bering all about home and his life there. On top of that he raises his voice about four octaves, leaves off his g's, swears at least once in every sentence and works the con versation around to women within three minutes. With all the great outdoors, pine trees looming overhead, a beauti ful moon soaring above the rim rocks, the wind moaning in the sagebrush and all the other beau ties of nature unfolded for him he spends half the evening rounding up a coal oil lantern and tnen sits around for the rest of the night playing poker or shooting craps. And It doesn't matter a whit what sort of an expedition he's on at the moment. It can be a fishing trip, a hunting trip, a picnic, a ride, a hike. Anything. At home he sits around on a noise filled night and wishes for the sigh of the wind in the trees and the deen and dreamless sleep that comes to those who sleep under the stars. And when he's out under those stars he thinks about the clean sheets at home, the shower before tumbling In, the Icebox full of cold milk and all the other com. forts. There are times when I wonder If mankind as a whole Is really ra tional. food so long us we have money tc purchase It. The problem then is not ioou dui juus u buvwiuhwh, nrovides neither except insofar as is required in the conduct oi tne business of government. Most re gions in the past have been able to keep pace with the normal ex pansion of a resident population; ( the increase of births over deaths). In Uie case of our western country, as Varden Fuller has pointed out, in California, for each person the state gains by natural increase it has had five or six ad ditional persons come in from oth er states. What has been true In California has had its counterpart in our other western states; though, probably not in such a marked degree as in California where "Native Sons or Daughters" are still a comparative curiosity. In the early history of our coun try, such in-migration from the country east of the Rocky Moun tains was largely absorbed by agri culture, that condition has long ago been passed and today the task must fall upon Industry to ab sorb such Increases in population, to provide jobs, and the money necessary for the malntainace of a suitable standard of living in the American tradition. However, if jobs ate not available to absorb the growing influx and natural in crease In our population then we will be reduced to the same eco nomic problem that faced Malthus 156 years ago. Labor Unions have been one of tho present day forms of organiza tion that have played a part to raise the standard of living lor the American workman to the highest standard of any people ever in the history of the world; and, though they may have been the Robin Hood for a vast body of American workmen in the attempt to estab nsh nn aristocracy ot labor, even such efforts must tail in the face ol this threat of population for peo ple must eat unless new industry is developed to absorb the expand ing population. The world has seen the act repealed again and again ol people starving in the midst ot plenty. The first problem I would place in our planning tor the future is that of occupations to absorb the el forts ot our people, however, how tllle is this most iiim.n-tant nrnlv 1cm realized. Tuduv our covern. incut Is spending billions to de elop new lands to feed new peo ple the cart Is decidedly bcloic tne horse. PALMIST READING will tell your pa it, pteient and futurt. Love, morriaga, buiineit. A completa $5 lif, reading for $1 and this ad. 2804 So. 6lh St. Hours: 10 a.m. to II p.m. Frank Tripp The chore of parenthood became vastly more intricate with the ad vent of television. It never was simple to wheedle youngsters into reading and nomeworic. wow n ap proaches a task for a genius. The day when Junior would need forth in the family car used to be the dread of every house hold. Television has moved anxiety ahead at least ten years ior a par ent who has dreams to rear a boy and girl equipped to take a worth while place in our complex society. They must read to get there. The scene in the average home today Is a far cry from young Abraham Lincoln, prone on a log cabin floor, eagerly searching knowledge from borrowed books by the lhckenng light ol a lire- place. The scene Is less disturbing than the lazy era it depicts, the habits it instills. Our kids still sprawl on the floor full length as did young Abe; but there Is little yen for knowledge mostly insatiable de sire lor amusement, without ef fort; neglect even of body-building play. All around them are publications and books for which Lincoln would have given his eyetceth. One's guess Is as good as another's whe ther or not there ever would have been an Abraham Lincoln had he been beset by the diversions which surround our youth. - The odds are high "that no di version could overcome the ambi tion of a Lincoln, then or now. But what of the millions of others with out such capacity and urge to learn? This Is no indictment of tele vision or the formula it must pur sue to be acceptable. Neither Is It a diatribe advocating all work and no play. Some of television is grand for kids. Play and diversion are essentials of a full life. The Joker lies in the prescription and control of the dosage. Right there rests the obligation of the parent, and a new problem, vastly more complicated than ever In the past. We all know men who have blun dered through Hie half equipped; failures compared to what they might have been, because of the indulgence of their parents in their childhood. We even know those who curse their parents for their laxity. Such dismal cases came from days of few diversions compared to now. Temptations to be lax with children then did not beset every waking hour, stand on every street corner, in every garage, in every j living room, to distract youngsters from the essential things they should be doing to develop their minds and bodies. Hours that belong to play, read ing and homework are being spent absorbing pictures and stories which contribute nothing to their future, some which children might better not see and hear. It seems so easy, such a slick way to keep the kids occupied. while we too enjoy ourselves. Yet it engenders indolence and habits that may wreck our children's lives. Mont dangerous is the lazy habit of watching and listening, at the expense of reading, which is the very foundation of education. The more youngsters read, be ginning as tots with Mother Goose and Peter Rabbit, mounting grad ually as their minds develop, the more will they read and learn through life; by searching knowl edge rather than accidentally en countering It on a picture hereon. The sooner they must leave school, the mqre important read ing bacomes. Successful people never stop reading textbooks, classics, old masters for their foundation; newspapers, magazines and current literature to be abreast of the era in which ihey must com pete. There are few places, none at the top, lor the person who doesn't know what's going on in the world. He can't converse intelligently; without the newspaper, not even about his own neighbors. Knowledge is free to every youth who will read; none is so doomed as one who will not. That which one reads cannot be tainted by the suavity or whims of an airway narrator, only savages hand down shifty legends by word of mouth. Parents who condone or abet Ig norance ol tho printed word, both past and current, are more than enemies of society. If you love your children. Insist that they read. Some day they will bless you for it. And remember that the newspaper is the poor man's university. tiiu:k SANTA MONICA. Calif. i.H Three pairs ol silk pannes disap peared fr.m Mrs. Dolores D. Slack's clothesline yesterday. In their place, attached to the line with a clothespin, was a dollar bill. X A HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON , youR state ffS HAL NEW YORK Ifl Fighting be tween married people often ends in black eyes and divorce suits. But 22 years of almost continu ous verbal warfare have made Albert Hackett and Frances Good rich into one of Hollywood's most successful husband-and-wlfe mar- Sam Dawson NEW YORK 11 Cross a scientist with a practical Joker and you get a way to knock the breath out of the long-winded speaker at a businessman's get-together. Many a convention-goer won't believe It possible to stop a speak er pnee he's hit his stride. But scientists of the Standard Oil Development Co. say they have found ways to make a convention sound businesslike, run along on schedule, and induce a minimum of. sleeping sickness among the captive audience. With the aid of electronic gad gets they see to it that a speaker keeps to his allotted lime. If the speaker doesn't lights flash on the rostrum panel before him; comic cartoons appear upon the projection screen behind him, bringing guffaws from the audi ence he thinks he is impressing; or clouds of smoke puff up In his fnce. Emily Post might take a dim view of such practical jokes, might even call them Juvenile. But the scientists who have to listen to some 50 or more formal presentations during a four day conclave think the end Justifies the means. They've worked out an elabo rate, electrical control center to do the trick. The convention's sec retary and an assistant operate it. When the speaker still has two minutes left, a yellow light flashes on the rostrum. When his time Is up, a red light blinks brightly In his eyes and the rosy reflection lets his listeners also know .that he's talking too long. The wise one will shut up and sit down. The secretary -who controls the gadgets can even pull a dirty trick on a speaker who proves loo bor ing. He can cut off some of the speaker's time, if he appears to be wasting it. Tills is done through souped-up electric clocks one at the con trol center synchronized with the second on the speaker's reading stand. The secretary at the con trol board can regulate the fre quency of the current to the ros trum clock, unknown to the speak er. The control man can use this setup to cut off up to 20 per cent of a speaker's time. The souped-up clock and most of the electronic devices are de signed and made by the employes of standard Oil Development Co. doubtless In self-defense. Brevity, however, Isn't the prime object of the meetings. Ac tually some 400 petroleum scien tists and plant operations officials representing Jersey Standard Oil affiliates located in many coun tries gather for the serious pur pose of comparing notes on re search and techniques of practical application. They read papers on "produc tion of cyclohexane" and "hydro desulturization" and come to con clusions about the "conversion of residua." In cases like that you need terminal facilities. I: Shrimp S-OI. f BOYLE rying teams. Their long wordy quarrel has re sulted In several jointly written Broadway plays, 25 movie scripts, and an annual Income In the high clear financial stratosphere some where above $50,000. "But If we take time off to do a play, as we have this year, we sometimes don't earn a nickel, said Miss Goodrich. Both started out as actors. They turned to writing during lean sea sons. After their third play, "Up Pops the Devil," made the grade on Broadway, they went to Holly wood, married, and settled down with the M-G-M studio. "We were in the doghouse for a long time," Miss Goodrich re called. "It was easy lo get lost out there then. The studio had 155 writers, and everybody was taking a fling at everybody else's script. "Now they have only 30 writers, and they cast a writer almost as they do an actor for a part. They try to fit the writer to the kind of material he Is best at." Frances and "Hacky" hit pay dirt first with "The Thin Man." Among other well-known screen plays they fought out together are "Ah, Wilderness." "Father of the Bride," and their recently com pleted "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers." For mutual safety many colla borating teams divide a script into acts, and the partners write alter nate scenes. But tne ttacneus Be lieve fighting makes good writing. Each does the same scene, and then comes the nerve-wearing job of piecing them together. "We fight, fight, fight every line of the way." said Frances. "And rewrite, rewrite, re write," murmured Hackett. "We used to hnve separate rooms, but now we write together in the same room, and that's better." continued his wife. "We're closer in the clinches. We don't have so far to walk to fight, do we, Hacky?" "Um-nv-m-m," murmured Hack ett. "I think it's a good thing we fight so much over our work." said Frances. "That way we avoid the quarrels that other married people get mixed up in. We never fight at any other time, do we, Albert?" "Oh, not much anyway," mur mured her husband. "Listen, Hackett," said Frances, "that three days I didn't speak to vou It was a Quarrel about work. Remember? it s more interesting to fight about work than about whether you can afford a new dress." "M-m-m-m." murmured Hackett. In 1939 they both wearied of the writing strain and let their type writers rust for three years. "It was a lovely nervous break down." said Frances. "And we enjoyed it together. We Just broke down at the typewriter and started crying, and neither of us could stop crying." "In a relationship like ours," said Hackett, "if one partner gets sick, he soon puts the oilier one in the same condition." Now thev pick the scripts they want, knock off often for long va cations abroad together to keep from getting into a writing rut. "We do everything together," said Fiances, smiling. "Poor Hackett. He never gets away from me. He never gets to take ad vantage ol all the opportunities in Hollywood and there are so many." 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They would be based on testimony at hearings here, on the West Coast and in Michigan. Recommended for contempt on the basis of testimony at the West Coast hearings were Carl Harvey Jackins and George Tony Starko vitch, who appeared before a sub committee in Seattle; Thomas F. Moore, John Rogers, Mackenzie, Donald M. Wollam and Hebert Simpson, who testified in Portland, Ore., and Richard E. Adams, a witness at San Diego. Velde said the 17 either failed to invoke the Fifth Amendment in refusing to answer questions or did it improperly. The Fifth Amendment says no one may be forced to give self incriminating testimony and has been held a valid reason for fail ing to answer questions In court and before congressional commit tees. In several instances, Velde said, the witnesses testified freely re garding their own Communist as sociations but remained silent when asked about other reasons. If voted by the House, the con tempt citations would go to the Justice Department for prosecu tion. Conviction carries a maxi mum sentence of a year in prison and a $1,000 fine. Special Counsel Put On Ballot KNOXVILLE, Tenn. 11 Ray H. Jenkins said recently he would not run for the Senate, but his name will be on the Republican primary ballot Aug. 5 anyway. Jenkins neglected to give official notification needed to cancel Qual ifying petitions filed by friends alt er he gained tne puonc eye as spe cial counsel in the televised Army McCarthy hearings. Jenkins could not be reached for comment, but his wife said, "Ray isn't a candidate for any office." QUICKIES By Ken Reynolds "Since getting this tub In the Her ald & News Want Ads I'm not as tan as I thought!" 6 ' ' Dalewood is fresh, because it's made on order and rushed to your store. Dalewood is foil-wrapped to preserv all its delicate flavor. and yet this fine margarine costs less at SAFEWAY Anniversary On Hitler's Life Recalled tjitot tm tai Ten vears ago to day a Prussian nobleman, crippled by war wounas aim uuuiuoiv" by Nazism, placed a briefcase against a pillar in Adolf Hitler's Rastenburg military headquarters. Count Claus von Stauffenberg had worked hard to reach a posi tion of confidence that made his briefcase" visit possioie. No one noticed, when he left the headquarters in East Prussia, that he had left anything behind. As he reached tne outer Darners of the tightly guarded area, a giant explosion rocked the building and the walls of the Hitler hideout belched smoke, dust and flame. The deadly bomb contained in the briefcase had gone off right on time. But Hitler was only wounded in the left arm. He lived to compel Germany to struggle orr another vear with a war that already was lost. ANTI-NAZIS Had ih Julv 50 nutsch succeeded a government headed by honorable anti-Nazi military men would have taken over Germany and sued for peace while the Allied nations were still outside its border. A million lives would have been spared and the Soviet Union might not now be planted solidly in central Europe. Despite this, in Germany today two is still argument whether the men who planned and executed me attempted assasination were heroes or traitors. Aside from the physical dancer Involved in bucking tne dic tatorship, a moral principle was involved. All of them had at one time sworn the traditional military oath of fealty. In their secret coun cils they decided, however, that the Fuehrer had prostituted me oath by exacting it personally rather than directing It toward the interest of the fatherland. The West German government has taken Its stand definitely on the side of the band as patriots who thought of their nation first and their personal lives and liberty second. swnilN OATHS But die-hard Nazis had sticklers for sworn oaths, regardless of the imnlications. still regard tne at tempted putsch as treasonable. His tory as it is being taught in the German schools does not pin down the decision either way. However, the textbooks cautiously point out ihat the 10 months of war that loi lowed smashed the nation for many vears to come. The mainsDdngs of the plot were senior officers trained for years to know when a battle is won or lost,. Ton man was Col. Gen. Ludwlg Beck, former chief of state. With him was Col. Gen. Fritz Oster, his boon companion. Adm. Wilhelm Canaris, head of Hitler's military secret service, was executive Din ner Another hlch official con nected with the group was Field Maislial Erwln von witzeioen. Their nlan had one gigantic flaw; no one was assigned to seize Radio Berlin. Propaganda Ministei Joseph Gocbbels capitalized on this weakness immediately. He quickly Introducing Contour Makeup Contour mokeup ts being introduced in our store this week and we wont to be sure you don't miss it. It's Helena Rubinstein's marvelous new technique f o r changing shapes and shadows to hide the years. Her beauty con sultant is introducing this good news to our customers and giving them a compli mentary bottle of Silk-Tone Foundation. Come in today! CURRIN'S for Drugs 9th & Main Phone 2-3475 Dalewood is easy to spread, (even at "icebox temperatures"!) TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1954 Of Futile Try took to the air and told the German people the Fuehrer was alive and well and presented Hitler's voice in a recording. This turned the tide in a revolt that conceivably could have succeeded even without Hitler's immediate death. SUICIDE Beck took the Prussian officer's traditional way out. His pistol beat approaching SS guards by a mat ter of hours. Three of his closest associates in the old Wehrmacbt headquarters on Bendlerstrasse were hauled into the courtyard, lined up against a wall and sum marily snot wnnoui trial. The headquarters now is a leiu- gee center. A bronze statue in the center honors the conspirators as men who fought for liberty. SS squads in various parts of Germany mowed down several thousand suspects, again without trial. The total had been estimated at slightly less than 5,000. Witzleben. Leipzig Mayor Kan Goerdeler, Canaris and Oster were jailed. Hitler ordered a trial and put in charge tne notorious "Hang man" of the people's courts, Ro land Freisler. There was no doubt about the trial's outcome. HANGINGS Witzleben and five lesser figures in the plot were hanged in Pioet zensee prison as "examples." Thej were strung up with wire nooses meathooks. Motion pictures were made to be shown to Hitler later. The Fuehrer chuckled with sadistic glee when he saw them. Canaris and Oster were ex ecuted in Flossenburg concentra tion camp. In most official circles today. the Beck-Witzleben group has a position ot honor ranking with the current victims of Soviet Commu nist dictatorship. The Reds, plant ed firmly from the Elbe to tne Oder, have done more to increase public sympathy toward tne vic tims of the Dlot than anyone else. " Those who can forget or minimize the oath of loyalty to Hitler, sworn by every German, think with some bitterness that the Russians might never have seen the soil of Deutschland had Stauffenberg's bomb succeeded. Pigeons Cause Nuisance Charge LOS ANGELES W They wers roosters, not stool . pigeons, but they double-crossed their owner. Mrs. Ednah Allbright, 59, had just teslified yesterday that the roosters were trained to crow only on cue, for television and movie jobs. Just then the three roosters in the corridor started crowing. 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