SUNDAY, JULY 27, 1938
HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
PAGE SEVEN
"Soft and scared. Infected by the anxieties of his mother.'
The American Mole, 7958,
May Be Bumbling, Bui
He Has His Points, Too
By WAKD CANNI'.L
NEA Slaff Correspondent
NEW YORK (NEA) t- With his
last, miserable, weak measure of
resistance, the Modern American
Male somehow continues to get
through each day in spiteful de
fiance of expert opinion.
Ask almost any family patholo
gist, psychologist, sociologist, an
thropologist, welfare agent, thera
pist. Then sit hack while the dread
ful saga unfolds, something like
this:
Along with his razor-strop and
scuttle of suds, America's once
staunch Manhood has retreated
Into the American past.
"Today," eminent Professor Na
than Ackerman says, "the world
views the American man as a pas
sive. inadequate, immature, jeal
ous hoy who brings home his fear
of defeat by his competitors. And
it is not alone the world's view.
The frightened warrior holds it
himself."
Where is the independent man
of yesteryear? Gone, according to
the recent "The Decline of the
American Male" into The Group.
"The Group . . . is . . . always
right," this book laments, leaving
man nowhere "to stand in alone
ness and dignity."
Our men are over-supervised,
other - directed, under developed,
while the community, club and av
erage take the lead.
And what of that once familiar
All American Boy is his knickers
and ambition to be President or
make a million?
"Over-protected," says Bonnie
Prudden of the Physical Fitness
Institute. "Soft and scared. Infect
ed by the anxieties of his mother
and the women who rear him until
lie is an adolescent."
Seeking security only, comes
chorus of artists and social critics.
"And has the autobiography of any
creat man ever said. 'AH 1 ever
asked of life was a sense of se
curity?' " asks novelist J. B
Priestley.
"Unable to identify with any
masculine image." says one an
thropologist, "because there are so
few men in the Boy s uie umu u
may be too late."
All right. How about the young
buck: That dashing blade who used
to hang around the drug store un
til he could work up enough cour
age to spark a girl?
"What about him?" one psychi
atrist after another asks. "He's
learned that sex is a marketable
commodity. It helps him get ahead
on his job. in his competition with
women, in his seeking for reassur
ance that he is a worthwhile person.
"He's not down at the corner
anvinore. unless every girl he
knows is busy tonight."
That leaves the autocrat of the
breakfast table, the patriarch of
home and hearth in short, the
American Father. Well sir, a re
cent study by the redoubtable
Kirkbride Fund is entitled "Fath
er. The Forgotten Man."
Here is their 'definition of the
old man: "A mother substitute
one who merely imitates the meth
ods of the mother while the moth
er remains in control.
A recent survey by the Fun with
Pop committee shows that the
pressures on him leave him only
minutes alone each week with
his children.
And the pressures? Practically
every popular magazine will give
them to you from making break
fast to helping the kids get oil to
school to keeping the house un
der repair to participating in com
munity affairs to that common,
garden variety problem of getting
ahead in business. Or at least not
losing ground.
There is also, the sociologists
say, considerable pressure on him
from the head of the table where
his wife sits.
The problem facing men, ac
cording to Dr. Clara Thompson,
teacher and leader of a school of
social psychiatry, "stems largely
from the problems lacing i n e
emancipated woman."
This is no inconsiderable prob
lem. It is a paradox that "the
emancipation of women seems to
have made men less masculine,
suggests Dr. Ackerman.
And if all' these shifting sands
were not enough. Homo American-
us still has to contend with the
entertainments that portray him
as a stumbling, bumbling feckless
idiot. And wilh change that has
severed him from an older, more
stable climate. And with an enor
mity of world povvcr that has
robbed him of a feeling of effec
tiveness, and with it, the yardstick
of his own worth.
In the end, the experts say, he
climbs down from the 5:13 iso
lated from other men, dispossessed
by his women, battle-weary from
a world that will neither let him
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Speed up sandwich making for pic
nic crowds wilh ingredients and
equipment close at hand. Whether
making sandwiches for five or 50,
hortculs used by restaurants and
other food services can make the
sandwich-maker's job easier, say
Oregon State College extension spe
cialists. Here's what they suggest.
Assemble all ingredients and
equipment before starting sand
wiches. Sandwiches ar e fresher
ind taste better if they're niadej
close to eating tune, .says Mrs.
Huth Klippstein, OSC nutritionist.
Soften butter or mateiarine. drain1
lettuce and make fillings. Whipped j
butter, the kind used by many
restaurants, spreads easily and
goes further. To whip butter, soft
en one pound of butter, whip in
mixer. As it mixes, add three ta-l
blespoons of boiling water, a few
drops at a time. One pound of
whipped butter will spread about
115 sandwiches. !
Vary kinds of breads and in-1
gredients for tastier sandwiches,
the home economist suggests. Day-
ld pullman or sandwich bread,
sliced medium thin, is firm enough
lor easy spreading, yet not too
dry.
Use a wood-topped table or cut-
ling board to prepare sandwiches.
Assemble other equipment: Spoon
or ice cream scoop for easy-accurate
measuring of sandwich
mixtures; spreading knife or spat
ula, long sharp knife for cutting
sandwiches; waxed paper; damp
towels and storage pans.
Mix mayonnaise and prepared
mustard together. Thin with' cream
or evaporated milk if too thick for
spreading. Bone "pickings" from
ham or turkey make good salad
fillings.
Place cut sandwiches into a
large pan that has been lined with
damp towels and cover with waxed
paper. Keep them refrigerated un
til serving time.
Lettuce, cucumbers, zucchini and
other crisp vegetables should be
packed separately in plastic bags.
Add to sandwiches just before
serving.
To make fresh hamburger pal
ties for a crowd, Mrs. Klippstein
suggests use of a one-cup ice
cream scoop to measure individual
patties. Wood hamburger presses
can be used to shape patties.
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JOHN BLISS
Diamond Lake
Traps Yield
Fish Eggs
EARNING POWER
CAMDEN, N. J. (UP!) John
P.runner, school janitor in Cam
den, recently won a raise to $,
ri(h a year. He now makes the
same salary as the school's principal.
I'
CHEMULT The Oregon FLshjj
and Wildlife Commission took;
1,800,000 green' eggs from the
traps at Diamond Lake. John
Bliss, superintendent of the Dia-
mond Lake fish hatchery, took ap
proximately one million of these'
green eggs. About .000 fingerlings
will be put into Diamond Lake.
Eggs were shipped to hatcheries
in Idaho. Hock salt is used to sep
arate the bad eggs from those that,
are fertile. They are dipped in the j
saline solution and the bad eggsj
come to the top and are screened'
oft. Eggs were ready to plant that!
were hatched, due to the iem-
perature of the water within a
few weeks.
There's a
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Douglas Fir :
Figures Given
PORTLAND (Special) Doug
las fir region sawmill production,
orders and shipments for June
were reported today by the West
Coast Lumbermen's Association.
The weekly average of West
Coast lumber production in June
was 157.283,000 b.f. or 88.1 per
cent of the 1953-1957 average. Ord
ers averaged 157, 278. 0H0 b.f.; ship
ments 172,104.000 b.f.; weekly av
erages lor May were: Production
160.320.000 b.f.; 89.8 per cent of
the 1953 1957 average; orders 175.
9(i3,000 b.f.; shipments 104,003,001)
b.f.
Six months of 1957 cumulative
production 4.016,299.000 b.f., six
months of 1957, 4.309,928.090 b.f
six months of l:5ti, 4,524,192,000
b.f.
Orders for six months of 1958
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mature to adult masculinity norl 2B100KO()0 bf : domestic
TOWN'S REVENUE LOST
NOUTII TONAWANDA, N. Y.
UP1) Red-faced town officials
here recently confessed to an over
sight.' Since -1907, they had . been
overlooking a lnw allowing col
lection of taxes from utility com
panies having "poles, wires, con
duits and 'other facilities" parul
leling city streets.
hide in the American dream ot
eternal youth.
"Huw. asks a tomiiy merapisi,
ran anv man teach his children
anything but the lesson he has
Ix-en forced to learn; fear and defeat."
All of the expert evidence points
in the same direction: The Amer
ican Male is not what he used to
be.
But on the other hand, there is
considerable doubt that he ever
was.
Next Week: Debunking the Man
hood Experts.
cargo imo.fi2(i,iM0 U.I.; export nil,
337.000 b.f.; local 109.790.000 b.f.
The industry's unfilled order file
stood ot 570.575.000 b.f. at the end
of June, lumber inventory at 980,-
105,000 b.f
LATE COFI'EE BltEAK
NEW YORK (LTIt A new
coffee-counting report from the
Pan-American Coflee Bureau says
29 million cups of the brew are
downed between dinner and bed
lime in the U.S., an increase of
nearly 7Q per cent stnee 1050.
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