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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 8, 1961)
(Uktopfo IFindiy Qufts 11 ' ' ' "Sk. zmr .1 ' 'J 4 mem a Society Drops Last Vestige Of Commune By WARD CANNEL AMANA, Iowa (NEA) On a Sunday morning before the win ter snow thaws from these rich rolling hills, Martin Dickel will rise in the Church of Amana and begin: "Brothers and sisters For the first time since 1714 tile Amana movement was a protest against Lutheranism in Germany Today it's a corporation worth millions of dollars in land, crops and industry More than 100 years ago, the Amana Society was a busy com mime of Christians working their Amana service will be read in Iowa 'and without need of mon .English instead of German.- And.ey, policemen, divorce courts, MARTIN DICKEL will begin with "Brother! and litters." the oldest Utopia in the U.S. will surrender its last dream of heav en on earth. Church elder Dickel says' it is a small surrender the dream was really over long ago. Some of the younger and less spiritual of the 700 shareholders in the re-zoned heaven say it's about time. Who needs a Utopia when you're making lots of mon ey? Nearly 250 years ago, the , By IRVING DKSKOR AP Newgfeatures Have you ever fumbled for a roll of 35mm film at the bottom of your gadget bag or in youi pocket or purse? Why not tape an empty metal film container to the neck strap of your camera or glue one to the top of your camera case? It'll always be handy when the next roll of film is needed. Do you have one flashgun for two different cameras thereby re quiring two different electrical cord connectors? Why not solder the tip of one shutter connection about two inch es from the end of the other cord connector? With both shut ter connectors on the one wire, you can change cameras without having to hunt for the other cord. . Have you ever wanted to make a tremendous enlargement b u t found your enlarger head couldn't be raised high enough to project the image? Put a portrait attachment on your enlarger lens. This decreases the focal length of the enlarger lens and increases the projected negative image size. These are some of the short cuts and time-savers that prac tical photographers have evolved to solve routine work-a-day prob- lems. I guess every camera fan has come up with some little gimmick or trick that makes pic -L0 . l If m A FIRM GRIP on your camera if recommended at all timet. Famed cat photographer Walter Chandoha, . Annandale, N. J., illustrate! this safety tip when hit children proved overly enthutiattic. Fear And Desperation May Be Castro Motive By WILLIAM L. RYAN Associated Press News Analyst There is evidence that Fidel Castro deliberately sought to make the United States break relations with Cuba, and' that his provoea Hons in this respect grew out of fear and desperation. The Castro revolution is in trou ble. It is doubtful whether the Communist bloc possesses the means and the ability to keep the Cuban regime above water. . Castro seems to fear that other Latin American governments, no longer able to abide interference in their affairs, are themselves about to call it quits with him. Castro and his Communist advis ers want to be able to sav that the United States has forced those other governments to break rela tions, that tliis proves U.S. "im perialist" maneuvers and bad in tentions toward Cuba. He wants to use the forthcoming breaks in relations as pegs for new agila Ho"h aj$iits existing governments elseWlijfi; ,iq. (ftp Westeri), H&tai phcre. This is not just speculation. The Fidelislas have learned from the Communists the technique of ac cusing an enemy of what one plans oneself. A few weeks ago the Castro newspaper Revolucion told its readers that the United States was planning a new offen sive against Cuba and was "put ting pressure on puppet govern ments of the continent- to put it into effect." It added: "The four points of this plan are as follows: A collec tive break of diplomatic relations with Cuba; an economic embar go; establishment of an inter- American police force and the creation of a committee to study the political situation in Latin American nations." The Communist bloc is anxious for additional excuses to stir up ture taking or life in the dark room a little easier. Now these have been collected by Wayne Floyd and arranged for easy reference in a book called "Floyd's Pholo Tips," published by Amphoto, New York. It c o n- tains 450 sensible suggestions for situations encountered in amateur and professional photography such as loading and handling film lighting, developing films, mak ing prints and care of equipment. Here are a few more Floyd hints that could prove useful in the right place at the right time To prevent extension cords from slipping out of an extension plug tie a simple knot in the two ends before making the connection. Any tension on" a wire will then make the connection more secure in stead of pulling apart. When washing roll films in a developing tank, insert a funnel in the center hole of the tank and direct the stream of water into the funnel. It will flow to the bottom of the tank and go up and out. This method keeps hvpo from settling on the bottom of the tank and provides quicker, more thorough washing. To speed up darkroom drying like drying of film borrow the electric hair dryer from the lady of the hr.use. To keep a towel handy for dark room chores, why not slip a cor ner of it through your belt or pin it to your apron? To protect clothing in darkroom work, improvise an apron from one of the clear plastic bags that come over suits and dresses from (lie cleaners. Enlarge the hole at the top for your neck and cut holes for tlie arms. Flexible, plastic bottles which are widely used now for cosmet ic and drug preparations can be used in darkrooms after they have served their primary purpose. When empty and thoroughly dry, they can become an air syringe lo blow dust off negatives, lenses and camera and enlarger bellows. Ordinary dusting by rubbing some times builds up a static charge which attracts more dust. Blow ing the dust away by mouth some times deposits moisture on a negative. An air syringe does the job best. More artistic enlargements re suit, at times, when the print is softened or diffused in portraiture and in sccnics. ou can make a ainuser ov stretching part ot a discarded nylon stocking across an embroidery hoop Still another diffuser c a n be made out of a wire mesli flv swatter. The long wire handle is perfect for holding the mesh por tion in the enlarger light beam and the degree of diffusion can be varied by tilting it from a hori zontal position. Maximum diffu popular unrest against existing sion is obtained when the wire Latin American governmoitbs and j screen is at a 45 degree angle. is intent upon using Citen. m full advantage while I ho tusgssrtuHity sUH eMfih. la ist to, It must be kept in motion, of course, to prevent a wire pat tern from showing on tlie print. wills, state aid, probation offi cers, locks and keys. Today, Amana Society Secre tary Peter Stuck says: "I don't know what we've lost in giving up the commune. But we certainly couldn't keep alive the old way." There may have been no di vorce, venereal disease, felony or juvenile delinquency. But by 1930 there was no hope of the future either. We didn t have money, one of the now middle aged citizens of the Utopia recalls. "We didn't use moncv but the hank did. It was the depth of the depression.' With liquidation imminent, sec retary Stuck called a meeting of some of the younger men. They presented a plan to the elders and within two years Amana be came a stock corporation. The total assets of Utopia di vided out to a $50 share for each member. With it, eventually came radios, salesmanship movies, cars, church once a week instead of 1 1 times and of course competition. By 1945 each share in the so ciety and its farms, textile and woodworking shops, etc., was worth $3,000. A big piece of the business came from tlie tourist trade. 'visitors," as one resident put it, 'who came to look at us without really knowing what they were looking at." By 1956, each share was worth 4.700. 'Suddenly," William Noe said in the Society of I ice, we wore faced with the problem of capi talism where we had been faced Iwfore with the problems of the commune. Young people in Amana start ing out in life could not afford to buy shares in their commu nity. So, what the hope of heaven had once solved was now turned over to (lie accounting depart ment. ' The stock was split 100 to one. Two kinds of shares were is suedequal in value but not in benefits (free medical dental and burial privileges! for members who moved away. All that remained was the church language, the German brought to Utopia by the pio neers from Hesse. But with the service now being translated into English, there is no longer need for the German. "And no place to teach it any longer," says Charles Selzer, superintendent of Amajia schools. Today, the theory is that schools as small as ours 100 in the high school can't offer as much as the big, consolidated area schools. 'It seems a- shame to close tlie doors. We ve done very well by our children and their parent and their grandparents." Neither Selzer nor anybody else in Amana will fight for this last vestige of their great-grand fathers' haven. Today's Amana belongs lo young people like Alex Meyer1, a boy from nearby Ce dar Rapids wIk married ail Amana girl: "Sure, it was terrific in its day," Meyer says. "But this is the second half of tlie 20th Cen tury. Tilings are changing. You can't get tlie preparation you need lor it in Amana etlie way things are now." PETER STUCK: "We cer tainly couldn't keep alive the old way." ALEX MEYER: "You can't get the preparation you need in Amana the way things are." HITS FOOD DUMPING NEW YORK (UPI) Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt said Thursday night that "dumping" of surplus food in tlie United States "doe not go unnoticed by tlie Commu nists." "People and countries I have visited constantly ask 'why do you in the United States throw away food instead of giving it to people who haven't any?" " she said. r.i.iti.iii'i-ijui.i'njiajn
