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II' A suburban lad handcuffed a young adult couple, strangers to him, and held them in their home at gun point for hours. His griev ance: He didn't want to return to the private school his parents bad chosen for him. A five-year-old, angered because a' rela tive refused to take him along on a little trip, carried out his threat and burned down the : man's, house and barn. These are merely new examples of a not uncommon phenomenon of the times. All of us have read again and again of instances in which boys of varying ages have shot and killed one or both of their parents for such minor grievances as having been criticized for not doing their homework. For a good while it was the fashion in some expert circles to ascribe such behavior either to the tensions of a troubled age or to some dark, mysterious inner human compul sion. Certainly every case is an individual thing and no one could in good sense auto matically rule out either one of these possible causes. There are indeed twisted, tense young sters just as there are warped adults. But in the last year or so some students of youthful behavior' have begun to suggest that in many cases the cause of shocking mis deeds may be far from deeply puzzling. They say the evidence is substantial that Wisely used, the live TV press conference as inaugurated by President JCennedy promis es important benefits for the American pub lic and potential political gains for the Presi dent himself. The first such conference was a resound ing success on several levels. It contained a substantial quota of hard news. It moved rap Idly over many widely varied questions 33 in 38 minutes. It featured the President's opin ions on hot topics, like the current House Rules Committee fight. So long as a reasonable blend of these elements Is present, the live TV broadcast of presidential press conferences is bound to at tract big audiences as a good show. Their value to the viewing citizen, of course, is much more than that. They can give him a sense of participation In the workings of his government, a feeling of immediacy and Involvement with the issues of the day. In a wholly palatable way, they can instruct him. Kennedy placed his finger on this point. He sees the live presentation as an advance In "direcj communication" between the White House and the people. The purpose accords well with the general aim of a democracy to develop an informed public equipped for the choices it must make. But the live conference can mean a good deal to Kennedy, too. To the extent that he is dealing steadily and directly with the people m Old MIAMI, Fla He la a big man, ' big and old and slow-speaking. The skin around his eyes are sun bursts. His name is Captain Wil liam Gray and he Is, in my es timation, tho world's greatest fisherman. He brings them back - alive. It isn't easy. His square fingojts fondle each other end he takes a 70-for out to sea and fishes the Bahama Banks for tigf sharks, queen trigger, porpoises, barracuda 2i0 species of fish and mammal. He doesn't use hooks or lines. CapU Bill traps fish and his assistants haul them over the side tenderly, arc) drop them into big tanks afU The capt.fn orders a wet blan ket thrown over a porpoise at once or his skin will become sun burned. A hysterical shark gets tranquilizers to prevent him from killing himself by butting his head against the side of a tank. A beautiful queen trigger, with orange and green stripes and huge dotted eyelashes the Mari lyn Monroe of the sea is ordered to a tank by herself or she will nibble the big fish to deelh. Gray is director of collections and exhibits at Die Miami Se quarltim. There. 700,000 people visit the mysteries of the deep every year and see the porpoises leap through hoops and blow horns and play games, or they land below and look Into the green tanks and watih 300-pound turtles and huge groupers swim by. I like to fish and. at sea, I've had a few good days and many poor ones. Someone gave me a -copy of Capt. Bill's book, "Crea tures of the Sea," and, within a few days, I doubled my knowl edge about fish. Did you know Loss Of Perspective Coming In Clear JIM BISHOP: REPORTER . . . Man Of The . Sea Brings 'Em Back that a shark has no bones? He is also the only fish who can go six monlhs without food and live. He is able to store large quan tities of vitamins in his liver and nature made him Uiis way be cause he is a slow thinker and a slow 3Wimmor. Small fish have no trouble racing away from him. The shark lives mostly off dead or Injured fish. Sometime when he Is first brought to the aquarium, the shark decides to die. He will not eat or swim. He turns belly up in the pool. A 750-foot shark chan neUhas been built, and Capt. Bin's assistants have to "walk" Uie shark by the fins to induce him to swim and live. Once he decides that lile Wt too bad In confinement, he loams that when a big dead fish, drip ping blood, Is dragged through the channel, it is feeding time. However, he and his friends are so hysterical that they go into a frenzy of foam-lashing and, in their excitement) they sometimes bite each other by mistake. When this happens, all the sharks turn on the wounded one and devour him. Porpoises are mammals, not fish. All are born with perpetual grins. Mothers nurse the babies for a year and a hall. Their noses are as hard as formica and, when one leaped and dived back into the tank a few years ago, his nose, punched a hole in the shell of a 300-pound turtle. Both were stunned. Both recovered. Bill Gray started fishing when he stood on a pier at Ocean Grove, N.J.. at the age of 12. and came up with a skate. He was sure it was a sea monster. He thought he had hooked the in countless cases the ttroblem Is simply an almost total lack of sound values. Some youngsters, they say, resort quickly and easily to violent means for redressing even the most trivial grievances because they have never really been forcefully taught that such means are not acceptable in an orderly society living under law. Their parents often do not enforce the most elemental disciplines. Even when they try, they frequently fail to fix in the growing child's mind the idea that violence is not an approved counterweight to any grievance, small or large. Meantime, jiuch children are being del uged with comic books, television programs and similar presentations which daily pro claim to them that violence is not only ac ceptable, but Is in all too many instances the only final means of redress. These distortions of life which flood the American living room cannot alone be blamed. For they fill an awful vacuum of values. When a good system of values is taught from the earliest age, we can have some hope that children from five on up excepting always the truly abnormal will not kill their mothers and fathers because they were re fused a favor or ordered t their room. Violence is kept under control when it is kept in sane perspective. over the heads of Congress, he will increase his leverage on the lawmakers and enhance his authority and prestige. Moreover, regular appearances on TV will surely enlarge and intensify the general Image the public has of the President. If, as in the'first effort, he continuously conveys an air of crisp, clear command, of confidence, of full grasp of the issues and policies, he ob viously can only advance his personal political cause. By. its nature, the presidency already commands a large share of the national snot-. light. Live TV appearances will add further dimension to the President's broad area of automatic publicity. ' This additional advantage, compounding a condition of Imbalance that has long existed between an incumbent chief executive and his political challengers, puis fresh responsibili ty on Kennedy. In the interest of fair elections, of offer ing the voters a clearly understood choice, he is bound now more than ever to meet his presi dential adversary in 1964 in live TV combat . such as occurred to his great benefit in 1960. Sensibly the President has moved toward fuller communication with the people. As a fair-minded man he. should be the last to at tempt to monopolize these improved avenues of contact. We must hope that he will not. Alive fish. The opposite was true. Since that time, he has fished the deep waters from Nova Scolia to South America, and he has directed ex peditions Into the far reaches of the Pacific I asked 'what his biggest thrill was 1 thought perhaps a giant whale shark and he said he onca captured infant sailfish. five inch es long, weighing two ounces apiece. He froze a few and air mailed them home. He and Fred D. Coppork of Greenville, Ohio, wanted to build a sequarium. Coppock and some friends had the money: Capt, Bill could get the Jish. The Dad County officials, after years of delay, gave consent but only If the sequarium was built on Virginia Key. The reason for this was that a new causeway had been built from Miami to Virginia Key to Key Biscayne and it could be financed only if enough people paid the loll of :.t cents. So the new sequarium be came two-bit bait. Most fish, when they become reconciled to captivity, are lazy and greedy. They no longer have to fight for food or fight to keep alive, so they overeat. They die of heart disease. Capt. Bill has outlived every, thing except the turtles, lie u tw. anything but lazy and greedy. He works hard and he frets when there is nothing to do. His arms are hard: hii heart is soft. He seemed to be extra happy at lunch. I asked him why. Tlw big fingers traced nothing on the tablecloth. "Tomorrow morning." he said. "I'm heading out on I he rising sea. That's enough to keep me happy." The old man and the sea, . PAGE t-A HLKALD 1 7 THE DOCTOR SAYS 'GUnd j j Bring By HAROLD T. HYMAN,' M.D. Written for Newspaper Knlerprlse Assn. "My husband is now 50 years old and he's just about driving me out of my mind," writes a house wife. "He has suddenly become grumpy and irritable and a prob lem drinker. I read in a movie magazine that things like this hap pen to men when they have 'change of life.' Is this true? And if it is, could he be helped with gland shots like they give some of the older movie stars?" Dear, dear lady, I'm afraid you are among the many who've been taken in by. what someone called ' "marquee medicine." All bright . lights and no substance. Let me try to straighten you out. Men do not have a "change of life," comparable to that experi enced by the female. The woman's menopause, as in dicated by a cessation of the nor mal cycle of periodic bleedings, marks the end of her opportunity for child-bearing. By contrast, the normal male may and frequently does achieve fatherhood up to and beyond the biblical three score -and 10 ye.irs. Despite this fundamental differ ence in the reproductive capaci ties of the sexes, the possible existence of a "male climacter ic" was popularized primarily by Writers of what may he described as "science fiction." Their views were quickly taken up by, those who saw a bright op)ortunity for exploitation of the many men who, at 50 and be yond, give up the search for the pot of gold at the foot of the rainbow and now feck waters from the Fountain of Youth. For a while, "gland shots" for the male climacteric were ao c'aimed bv the same gullible cel ebrities who are presently singing the praises of Ihe Swiss "miracle man" and the European lady doc tor whose marquees advertise "rejuvenation" as the eurrent at traction. Unhappily the unglamoious Male and Female ACROSS 1 Woman's partner 4 What Pollyanna was B Grime 12 Ninry Hunks' son 13 Hoarfrost 14 Lily Pons' specialty IB Romanian coin ltt Entertainment IB Everlasting 3 What Poet raven said 4 Former president ft Ohio city e tnarm 7 Moines, Iowa t Pythias' friend 9 Angered 10 Skating place 11 British good-by 17 Show 19 Harvests 23 Reposes 24 Allot 25 Mimics 2ft Eagle's nest 27 Sensible 23 Noun suffix 20 Russian drink 21 Soak flax 22 "Emerald tile" 24 Papa's spouse 2t Solar disk 27 Detray cost SO Heroic poetry 32 Shows disdain 34 More concise 39 Bridge holding 30 Compass point 37 i ears 39 Refn 40 Whan 41 Urva 42 Fine thread 45 Senseless 49 Arrange between 81 Dairv animal S.2 Creek porch 53 Danube tributary 54 Goddess of infatuation 35 Spinning toys 58 Daily paper forte $7 Diminutive of Lester DOWN 1 Female's eounterpart I Encourage AND NtMS, Klamath Falli, Or. Shots' Can Men Misery truths about the male climacteric and its treatment with "gland shots" are these: - . 1. "The concept of a male cli macteric," wrote Dr. Elmer Hess, former president of the American Medical Association, "is mislead ing and dangerous, fostering indis criminate administration of an drogen (male sex hormone) to men over 50:" And (2 "the promiscuous use of male hormone Is unwarranted and may prove harmful," states the Journal of the A.M.A. edito rially "(when given for the relief of nervous and mental symptoms t, under the impression that these symptoms are due to failure of sexual function." As to the "change" being re sponsible for problem drinking, that's about the wildest medical yarn since the ancient Greeks "blamed the womb (hystera) for the nervous disturbance they then labeled "hysteria." Dear Reader: Dr. Hyman ap preciates your comments and questions but regrets that t h e heavy volume of his mail doesn't permit him to answer each Indi vidual letter or post card. How ever, he will comment in col umns like the above upon mat ters of general or unusual inter est. For a copy of Dr. Hyman's leaflet "What .'.bout Cancer?" send to cents to Dr. Hyman. care Herald and News, Box 489, Dept. B, Radio City Station, New York 10. N.Y. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q By what other name is the Old Testament's "Song of Solo mon" known? A The "Song of Songs." Q What Is the meteorological name for Ihe process of keeping track of rainfall? A Hvetogrnphy. 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This geometrically balanced ar rangement obviously was planned by Mother Nature to provide the human face with some sort of symmetry. And, heaven, knows, most human faces can use a little symmetry. Rarely does the eyebrow, of its own volition, take off at oblique angles across the forehead, and rarely does it spin around into a kind of a curlicue. Even more rarely does the eye brow arch up into the shape of new moons, or horseshoes, giving the face an expression of perpet ual astonishment. How, then, do we account for the fact that about 95 per cent of the women these days have semi circular eyebrows? The answer, obviously, is that the eyebrow is being diverted from its natural path.' And what is the purpose of this? Have women, taking a cue from the soil conservationists, de cided that facial erosion can be prevented by terracing their eye brows? Apparently not. Female facial erosion mainly is caused by tears cascading down the cheeks. To control this flow of moisture with terraced eyebrows, a woman, when crying, would have to stand on her head. This obviously is impractical. If a woman did a headsland each time she was moved to tears, she would find it difficult to throw things. I can only conclude, then, that the quest for new eyebrow fron tiers is somehow connected with the "Jackie look" that is current ly sweeping the country. The "Jackie look" is responsible for a lot of strange occurrences. For instance. I noticed recently thaf my wife was shortening Ihe sleeves on her old dresses. At the time. I wrote this olf. as whim and tried to ignore it. I didn't realize what was be hind it until a day or two later when we were going out for the evening. When 1 got home, she was already dressed. For a wild, brief moment I thought I had ac tually stumbled into the White House. Tell me. my lovelies, why is it that all of you want to look like the first lady? I'll grant that she -is a beauty. But does the nation really need 90 million Mrs. Ken nedys? According to an Hem I saw in the paper the other day, some women are even going so far as to have their noses made over in the first lady's image. I don't know where it all will lead, but I fear that some wom en, in striving for the "Jackie look," will end up looking like Jackie Gleason. How would you women like It If all of us men tried to make ourselves look like Jack Kennedy? On second thought, don't answer that. EDSON IN WASHINGTON Ippfi U.S. Labor Market 77? Demands Exacting By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON 'NEAi "Every one with compassion in his heart would like to see better employ ment prospects," says the Cham ber of Commerce of the U.S. in a business news feature- just issued here. Not even left wing labor leaders can take exception to that. But the .U.S. chamber makes this dec laration in between a couple of other statements that are apt to be challenged by Kennedy admin istration spokesmen interested in putting jobless Americans back to work. "Unemployment is concentrated among the young, the unskilled and the minority races," says the chamber after its analysis of gov ernment figures. The chamber therefore argues: "If these young people, these unskilled workers and these non white workers cannot find now enough jobs under existing wage rates, is it likely that they will find jobs under even higher rates? "There is nothing humane," the national chamber then concludes, "in raising the minimum wage (from $1 to $1.15 or $1.25 an hour) and pricing people out of jobs." If this somewhat tortured logic is pursued to the end, it would seem that the w'ay to reduce un employment would be to cut all wage levels to the present mini mum. v That most certainly isn't going to happen and it wouldn't bring back prosperity if it did. All it would do is further reduce pur chasing power, bringing on even worse business conditions.. But this is typical of much of the misinformation now being cir culated on the current recession and unemployment. When Dr. Raymond J. Saulnier, former chairman of the Council of ' Economic Advisers, was briefing reporters on former President Eisenhower's last economic report to Congress, he was asked if the expected big increase in the la bor force and higher productivity . Kennedy Faces Big Headache In Congress By JAMES MARLOW Associated Press News Analyst WASHINGTON (AP)-That an cient struggle between a president and Congress sometimes oiled over, sometimes quietly sullen, sometimes raw and bleeding be gan anew Monday. Like windswept Robert Frost's poem, President Kennedy's tidy inaugural address was the disci plined expression of spirit. Much that he said Kennedy can carry out on his own through the powers of the presidency. But on the broad meat-and-po-latoes level of government there is much he can't do without the help of Congress which must give approval for both spending mon ey and starting programs. So Monday in his Stale of Ihe Union message Kennedy had to come fate to face (or the first time as president w ith a Congress where he himself served 14 years. Because he knows it well he knows the endless' struggle to get action on what he wants. Con- . gress can be led easily only in moments of frightening emergen cy, like war or depression. Presidents Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower could bear wit ness to this. True, Congress is run by Ken nedy's own Democrats because they outnumber the Republicans. But the real control is in the hands of the conservatives of both parties, as it has been for years. Their policy is to move slowly, if at all. Eisenhower learned that. But he was a conservative, ton, and it is one reason he and Con gress got along so well. Kennedy, despite his talk of new frontiers, may turn out to be no boal-rocker, either. He indicat ed at his news conference last week he intends to keep hands off the inner workings of Con gress. This may be taken to mean he will avoid interfering publicly. But he also knows that unless he and his team pull the strings behind the scenes his programs will die in the cradle. Since the war this countrv has Thoughts He did what was evil In the tight of the Lord, and walked In the way el his father, and in the way n( his mother, and In the way of Jeroboam the son of N'etiat; who made Israel to tin. Kings KM. Sin Is the insurrection and re bellion of the heart against God; it turns from Him. and turns ecainst Hurt: it lakes up arms gainst God. Richard Alleine. in Industry did not contribute bt unemployment. He admitted that they did. He was then asked if that did not mean there was a shortage of jobs and a need to create more; work opportunities. "Oh, no," he said vehemently. Thai's where the reporter was w rong. There were plenty of Jobs available. There were actually la bor shortages in some occupa tions, like data processing and other highly skilled technical work. - The trouble was, Saulnier went on, that the requirements of the labor market were becoming more exacting. This was a conse quence of rapid technological do velopment. The labor force was not ac commodating itself to this aspect of a changing economy and there was a need for upgrading in the education and vocational training of workers. Such unemployment as there is, he maintained, is spotty. It is con centrated in depressed areas whose industries are dead or dy ing. This is of course, the typical "do-nothing" approach to unem ployment, hoping that after a while it will correct itself. If labor can't find jobs, it's la bor's fault. The responsibility of the free enterprise system to cre ate new jobs for the technologi cally unemployed and the need to train workers for higher skills in automaled industry are com petely ignored The responsibility of government to provide incentives for private) industry to stimulate higher em ployment is not even considered. Those are not going to be the policies of Ihe Kennedy adminis tration With about 5.5 million Americans out of work now, with only 3 3 million of them eligible for stale unemployment compen- . sation and with the prospect that unemployment may rise to 7.5 mil lion, the new administration ap parently intends to try to correct the trend. "Everyone with a compassion ate heart." to use the U.S. Cham ber of Commerce phrase, may' have reason to hope it succeeds. gone through two phases. It Is not clear yet whether the years ahead will be a third one or a continua tion of an old one. The first was Ihe postwar Tru man phase which lasled eight years. It was a turbulent time of ad justing to peace, of labor strife, inflation, industrial expansion, trouble with Russia, even of sus picion of Ihe government itself In the form of McCarlhyism. It was an era of transition from terrible power, the atomic bomb, to incredible power, the hydrogen bomb. It was the time when America finally abandoned isola tionism for internationalism. It was a period which cried for, and got, innovations in the form of foreign aid, military alliances, and bases around Russia. Eisenhower apparently looked on himself not as an innovator hut as a restorer of peace at home and a preserver of peace abroad. He tried nothing really new but America became prosperous and there was no war. His was also the time when the world moved into the jet and mis sile age. It was a time when this country and Russia, while avoid ing war. consolidated forces and prepared for what might become war. At this point Kennedy steps in. There is peace at home but the world, still without war, is in upheaval. Al manac By United Press International Today is Wednesday, Feb. 1, the 32nd day of the year with 33$ more in 1061. The moon is approaching its last quarter. The evening stars are Venul and Mars. On this day in history: In 17W, the Supreme Court held lis first session, meeting in the Royal Exchange Building in New York City. In lftfil. Texas voted to secede from the Union. In 1892, Mrs. William Astor gave a hall at her New York town house limited to 400 guests. It marked the beginning of the social term. "The Four Hundred " In ltwi. Adolf Hitler, the new chancellor of Germany. Issued an order dissolving the Reichstag. In 19,vt. Autherine Lucy. M year old student, became the first Ne gro admitted to the University of Alabama on a federal court order. Thought for Today: American writer James Russell Lowell said: "Folks never understand the folks they hate."
