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, .
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THE DOCTOR SAYS
'GUnd
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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
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partner
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was
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13 Hoarfrost
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7 Moines,
Iowa
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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
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S.2 Creek porch
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tributary
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infatuation
35 Spinning toys
58 Daily paper
forte
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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.
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Wednesday, February 1. 19M
THE LIGHTER SIDE...
Lifted Brows
New Jackie
Fashion Note
By DICK WEST
WASHINGTON (UPll-The hu
man eyebrow, when left to its
own devices, usually runs in a
fairly straight line at right angles
to the nose on a parallel with the
eyelashes.
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."