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PAGE f HERALD AND All around the country the moonlighter ; the man or woman who holds down two jobs : at once has been drawing more attention, : and some fire. ' Typical moonlighting: the office clerk who drives a taxi at night; the teacher who sells insurance; the off-duty policeman who works in a store; the farmer who tills his land in the late hours after he has left his factory job. The notion is widely held that most people hold two jobs because they need the money to meet rising living costs. i Actually the evidence is mixed on that point. Even if it weren't, some authorities in city and state government are now saying the :. moonlighters should give up their second jobs to ease unemployment in the current rcces rsion. ; Let's take a look at moonlighting and : see whether that suggestion might in fact tend to spread the available work. A quick review shows that most double ; jobholding is practiced among farmers, teach ' ers, lower echelon government workers, in : eluding policemen and firemen, and construe : tion workers. Most of these fields are gener ally thought of as low paying. But government studies don't support fully the idea that people take on extra work just to keep body and soul together. Many poorly paid people don't moonlight at all. And ': If your youngsters are now around the .'age of 8 to 12, they'll be looking for a job in iabout nine years. Finding one may be a good :deal tougher than it is today. ': By that time, some 87 million Americans are expected to be in the country's work force. But in many fields the job opportunities may by then have dwindled sharply. In countless instances this has already happened. Automation the introduction of automatic or nearly automatic equipment to do productive work has wiped out thousands upon thousands of jobs. There are said to be half a million fewer full time jobs In the nation now than in 1958. Your boy would find the pay good in the steel industry. The trouble is, his chances of hooking on there have been cut in two, and likely will be reduced further in the years ahead. General Electric says a "push-button" steel mill will be here soon. Automobile plants have always been high ly mechanized, but the trend is now to the fan tastic. In a Cleveland factory, one automatic unit performs more than 500 individual oper ations. It can turn out 100 engine blocks in a single hour. , PALM BEACH, Fla. - Tongues wag. The phones are busy. At the height of the season, the se rene solitude of society is brok en: behind the damask drapes of this colony, Palm Beach talks of nothing but the Chillingworth murder case. This Is unusual in a place where the people are so aloof that they won't look at the ocean unless someone backs it up to the front door. Five years ago almost six Judge C. E. Chillingworth and his wife Marjorie went to their beach home at Manalapan for the night. They had a drink and went to bed. They have not been seen since. All that has been found are bloodstains on their beach walk, a broken porch light, and three sets of footprints in the s.md. The judge was a man who worked by the book. He was tall and slender and his sleeves were too short and his head was full of law. He was born and raised here and he knew the Bradleys. tin Hutlons, the Sherwoods and the Boston Irish at the north end of the beach the Kennedys. Mar jorie was short and pretty, with bird-like dark eyes and three grown daughters. They were her special charge. '. In a few days, a shocking Hung will happen. A fellow judge will go on trial charged with the mur ders of the Chillingworths. H 1 1 name is James Peel. He is hand ome, a glamorous figure with ;black wavy hair, big sincere eyes, and white linen suits. The mo ;tive? The police say that Judge reel was in the moonshine rack el, in the bolita racket, and. In the practic of law, misadvised a few clients. NEWS, Klamath Falls. Oregon Moonlighting Problem Dwindling Job Potentia JIM BISHOP: REPORTER . . . n i w i I renaina iviuraer I rial is Source Of Conversation The last part, according to Prosecutor Phil O'Conncll, led to murdor. Peel was reprimanded once for representing both parties in a divorce action. In 1955, ho was threatened with disbarment for telling a woman client that she was divorced when, in truth, 1 she wasn't. The hearing was to come up before Judge Chilling worth. The judge disappeared, and left nothing hut bloodstains and footprints in the sand. The moonshine racket is big here. White distillers make the alcohol out in the woods and sell it to Negroes cheap. All the moon shiners arrested in the Palm Beach area came before Judge Peel. Many were acquitted. The bolita racket is the old numbers game with a Spanish twist. Poor people play any number from one to a hundred. If thev pick tlie right number, they are paid 70 times whatever they play. Tiny plastic balls with the num.-' bers are placed in a bean bag and are tossed mound among a group of "responsible" parties un til the head of the racket yells "slop." The person who then holds the bag reaches In and picks a ball. Whatever number is on it Is the winning number for the day. The bolita racketeers do $10. 000 a week business in the Pulm Beach area, They get 30 per cent $3,000. This wasn't enough. Each day, before the drawuig, they would find out what number was played the least. Let us say it was i7. They did not want to pay oft the numbers played lieavi ly, so, sometimes, all the num bers In the bean bag were 17. Another way of beating the poor out of their pennies was to take the number 17 ball and freeze it Wednesday, March 1, 19R1 some who do are reasonably well paid in their primary jobs, even considering living costs. The studies indicate that opportunity for extra work is a big factor. Letter carriers, for instance, can take on additional jobs be cause their work schedule allows it. One in every 10 does so. The same is true for many teachers, whose teaching day may be relative ly short. Yet a lot of people could never find the time. Would unemployment fall sharply off if the two to three million moonlighters sudden ly quit their second jobs and opened them to others? Jobholding figures cast doubt on that idea. In one month surveyed by government, 60 per cent of the moonlighters' second jobs were found to be in farming or various white collar occupations, with self-employment bulk ing heavily. In the same span, only 15 per cent of the unemployed fell in these categories. Furthermore, the long look shows that moonlighting rales, as a percentage of total employment, tend to hold fairly even In both good times and bad. Seasoned appraisers thus question that to eliminate moonlighting would make any appre ciable dent in unemployed ranks. The fuller effect might be to leave a lot of useful work undone, to reduce the flow of money in the already thinned out national stream, and to hurt those who really do need extra work to make ends meet. Looked at your radio's "works" lately? It's a complex thing. Yet today two men can put together 1,000 radios a day, an output that once required 200 men. The next time you step into a building elevator, you'll probably find that it's auto matic. The switch, which can be accomplished very easily and quickly, has eliminated 40,000 elevator operators in 15 years. Reports to President Kennedy to congres sional committees and to labor and business leaders abound with such evidences. Very few fields of endeavor have escaped the advance of automation. . - Jobs no longer grow on trees, as we like to think they once did. We seem to be faced with the need to "create" new jobs at an as tonishing pace in the next 10 years if we are to keep up with the tremendous additions to the work force each year. Whether your youngster can turn in 1970 from studying and having fun to doing pro ductive work may depend in the end on how well the "creating" is done by all those con cerned 'with the problem, from government down through business management to the labor unions. t i In a refrigerator. When the beg was passed around the circle of people, the leader would yell stop when a confederate had it. All he had to do was to dig his hand into the bag and find a cold ball. Judi'.e Peel is said to have been in with these people. Disbarment might make him useless to the mob. He would not he a munici pal judge anymore. So, according lo the state charge, he hired Luckv Holrnpfcl. a local cipher, to kidnap the judge and take him to sea and drown him. Lucky re tained the services of a Negro naiied Bobbie Lincoln, who was pretty good w ith a shotgun. They were lo be paid $2,000. If one can believe the confes sions ol Lucky and Bobbie, they bought a little boat, equipped it with an outboard motor, and ar rived on the Chillingwortn beach before dawn, posing as sailors from a sinking yacht. They slugged Mrs. Chillingworth be. cause she resisted. Thus the blood. Bobbie Lincoln carried her lo the boat. That accounts for three sets of footprints. They took the Cliillingworlhs four miles lo sea and draped (hem In chains. "Ladles first," Lincoln said, nnd pushed Mrs. Chillingworth over. The judge yelled: "Remember, I lovo you:" Then they pushed him. He strug gled and they hit him with an oar. Tlte bodies have never been recovered. Lucky says that the prosecutor, Phil O'Conncll, was the neM nun scheduled lo he murdered. This Is high irony indeed because no O'Connell will prosecute his old friend. Judge Peel, and li-y lo put lum lo death legally. , , , "Get Al manac By United Press International Today is Wednesday, March 1. the BOth day of the year with 305 more in twit. The moon is approaching its full phase. The morning stars are Jupiter and Saturn. The evening stars are Venus and Mars. . On this day in history: In 1P.03, Ohio became the 17th state in the Union. In 1367, Nebraska became the 37th state in the Union. In 1872, Congress authorized creation of Yellowstone National Tark. In 1001), American musician Glenn Miller was born. In 1032, (he 20-month-old son of Colonel and Mrs. Charles Lind bergh was kidnapped from his bed in his home near Hopewell. N.J. Thought for today:, Edmund Burke said: "The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear." QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q Is softball a game of Amer ican origin? A Yes, originated in 1887 in Chicago. What Biblical books have been attributed to King Solo mon? A Proverbs. Ecclcsiastes. and Ihe Song of Solomon. Q How large Is the new U.S. military cemetery at Manila? A About 152 acres. Q What regiment Is responsible for guarding the Tomb of the Un knowns in Arlington? A The 1st Battle Group, 3rd "Old Guard" Infantry Regiment. Q What does the Jewish festi val of Hanukkah commemorate? A The eight-day holiday of Hanukkah symbolizes the winning of religious freedom by the Jews about 2.000 years ago. Travel Talk ACROSS Uundrv device 1 South American ISi'i0," countrv 8 Property item 5 Its capital STransocean 9 Cane in messaK IS Enlargements 17 Wager IS Monument 19 Sewing tools 21 Identical 23 Golf device -u i4m-ge uuit-iiii 22 Ancient Asians 24 Grant 25 Greek war god 35. Comes m 26 Traveler 40 Senior 2S Rackbone 4.1 Mouth 30 Electrical atoma 45 Dcnl 24 Headgear 27 Indian weight. 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Unless you are absolutely certain of when you can make repayment, don't make any prom- Iscs: simply present your facts with complete honesty. Take your small debts and to tal thcin. I'm not suggesting you do this to make you panic. In stead, the time has come for you lo face facts. If there are install ment loans costing you money in interest, figure out whether you would be better off if you were to do what the bankers call "con solidating your debts." Borrowing money to get you nut of debt may not make much sense to you. Yet. it could prove a solution. Never lose sight of the fact that it tosls money to bor row. Would you be better off ow ing one person rather than sev eral people? Perhaps a larger . personal loan would be cheaper thun several small installment type loans. If you have a savings account, the cheapest type of a personal bank loan is one you can get on your savings. This is a better sol ution than withdrawing savings that may take years to replace. If you have exhausted your banker as a source (or money and you have a mortgage on your home, see whether you could bor row on that mortgage. It is called open-ending your mortgage, ad vances you money, adding the amount to what you'll owe on your mortgage. It means that it will lake longer to get the prop erty free and clear, but this could Answer to Previous Puzile 40 Level 50 Branlian city 51 Brain passage 52 Deceased &5 Scottish 4 aailyard 4fi Consider " i onsioor 47 Monster ylPIWl I IN PaAKfFl ? E O L Al lelEISIelNITl g e" a kVj i"BB HE B g la i 1 1 fppB & ait i Ib b. H jfg atIi tTb H e" e g L g e p e-paflfA gw na g 6 a p oBAielg "6aij, ' f o glMie gr a AN e g It" ft eat e.1 e P i l' e iT-gv;v t i oIpIeIsi i p u u I ib it p it rTurir r5 ra u rs ii rj n n ft 53 zzz51 " n31" ii 25 K in 37 psVlS ET5T 5T IH nv " J"" ' Li5 "THF 1 LJ 1 irjn nn arsrp- a a & 3 57 5T- 3 a n cost you less in interest than other types of debts and it could restore your creditors' faith in you. Paid-up life insurance is anoth er " source for a loan. Finance companies also offer loans for debt repayment. These general ly are more expensive. Bankers report delinquency on repayment of their installment loans is at the highest rate in six years. A leading finance company says delinquencies are up 15 per cent over a year ago. OTHER EDITORS' " OPINIONS Fallacious Claims (CORVALLIS GAZETTE-TIMES! We, like everyone else, would like to see every -worker getting a minimum wage of $1.23 as pro posed by President Kennedy. But why stop there? We would like it better if they were receiving $2.50 or $3. But this wage fixing isn't just a matter of tight-fisted employers holding out on employes so they can build private fortunes. There are many ramifications to this problem. When the minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938. it was set at 25 cents an hour, raised to 40 cents in 1945 and 75 cents in 1949. In 1956 it was boosted to si. The purpose of the law was to eliminate from industries and interstate commerce "labor con ditions detrimental to the main tenance of the minimum standard of living necessary for health, ef ficiency and general well-being of the workers." It did not apply to "local pursuits and services which no federal legislation can effec tively cover." While the humanitarian goals of the law are more than worth while, its application has worked in reverse and to increase it even more will result in even more hardships for more workers. This is what happens: No less an authority than Ihe U.S. Labor Department studied the economic effects of the min mum wage after it was raised in 1956. The agency found "signifi cant declines in employment in most of the low-wage industry segments studied." W hat h a p pencd was that "employers cut their payrolls and replaced less efficient workers. They also in stalled mote efficient machinery, changed product lines and raised production quotas." In thousands of retailing and service businesses, teen-agers and older men and women are t h e backbone of the employe force. Many Negroes and marginal work-ei-s find their only place of em ployment here. Imposing mini mum wage laws on these employ ee and increasing those already coming under it would result in swelling Ihe already growing ranks of the unemployed. Furthermore, boosting wage costs at the minimum level lends to boost all wage costs so that experienced workers and capable workers maintain a differential they deserve. This, of course, re acts on every single consumer in EDSON IN WASHINGTON Shippers Battle Sea Of Red Tape By PETER EDSON Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON (NEAl - Efforts to cut through government and . big business red tape always turn up a good horror story. Three years ago the Maritime Administration assigned one of its auditors, Frank J. Horuif. to look into the possibilities of put ting a lot of shipping records in electronic data processing ma chines to simplify bookkeeping. Horuff discovered that the pa perwork requirements in the ship ping industry were so complicated that no electric brain could ab sorb all the facts. So the first thing to be done was to simplify some 300 forms used by half a dozen government agencies and the shipping indus try. There were over 4,400 blank spaces on these forms that had to be filled in by somebody. - In reviewing these forms, it was discovered that the ship clearance form needed to move a vessel in or out of port still used practically the same lan guage adopted in 1710 during the reign of Queen Anne of England: "These are to certify all whom it doth concern that the master of the , of tons burden . . . hath here entered and cleared . . ." etc., etc.. etc. . . . "accord ing to law." It takes 24 'such documents to clear a ship in and out of New York harbor, 39 in Buenos Aires and 44 in Manila, which requires a total of 213 carbon copies. These forms cover crew and passenger lists, health certificates, plant and animal quarantine data, immigra tion and customs declarations and all manner of statistics. Dr. C. L. Guthrie of the U.S. Archives Records Management Service called in to help simplify these forms, estimates that at least five billion words a year THE DOCTOR Life Sometimes Too Earnest For Young By HAROLD T. HYMAN, M.D. Written for Newspaper Enterprise Assn. "My son has threatened to com mit suicide," writes an anguished mother, "if he fails to be ac cepted for a certain college that he's been planning to go to ever since he was a little boy. "He just took his entrance ex aminations. He says he was so rattled he knows he didn't do well. And he told one of his friends, whose mother repeated what he said to me. that he would end his life if he was turned down. "I suppose you may think I'm foolish to put any stock in a boy's idle talk but, just a year ago, a neighbor's son made the same threat and carried it out." Indeed I don't think you're fool ish to be alarmed, dear mother. 1 have known of far too many of these adolescent suicides to dis regard any such threat. Ordinarily there are at least two important considerations that lie behind a threat of this kind. The first is the absolutism that dominates youthful choices. To the inexperienced, there are no in-betweens. You succeed or you fail. The second consideration that weighs heavily with the young, to say nothing of immature adults, is the matter of "face." I imagine that every pal and girl friend has been made aware of your son's ambition. In all probability, he has rooted for the college's teams wherever they played and cele brated their victories season in and season out. For him to be turned down by the college to which he has been so loyal and with which his friends identify him would he a the country as prices must be boosted for the employers to stay in business. This is bad not only for the consumer but is bad also because of foreign competition. Almost ev ery day a woman goes shopping she buys one or more articles made all' or in part in foreign countries. Raw materials can be shipped lo Japan, for instance, and return as manufactured prod ucts and sell cheaper than those made here because of the already existing wage differential between what American workers get and what most foreign workers re ceive. Increasing the minimum wage will only encourage foreign competition and drive even more of our industries out of business and thereby increase unemploy ment. The minimum wage thing sounds fine but economically it hurts the workers themselves, causes unemployment, increases prices to the consumers, causes more inflation and abets foreign competition Humanitarism is all very well and good when it helps people but not worth a darn when a short-sighted point of view actually hurts them. have to be written to handle America's 32 billion dollar annual foreign commerce. When international air transport started to grow, airlines decided they could not be bothered by all this paperwork. It took them 10 years to get airport clearance pa pers down to five. San Francisco's Marine Ex change sparked a similar effort on shipping paperwork three years ago by publishing a book. '"Merchant Shipping on a Sea of Red Tape." And so, after much bureaucrat ic fooling around, a committee of five experts from five govern ment agencies is being put to gether under Commerce Depart ment auspices, to go lo work on the vast amounts of red tape that hamstring the growth of the U.S. shipping business. It's the Water Transportation Facilities Committee, lo give it the full handle, and Frank Horuff is its active head. Other agencies represented are Coast Guard. Bureau of Customs, Public Health Service, Plant Quar antine Service, Budget Bureau, General Accounting Office and Archives,, which stores the rec ords. All of them, plus State, Justice and Ihe shipping industry help clutter the ocean with more paperwork than It has seaweed. ' It will lake several years more for the new committee to com plete its simplification work. The Certificate of Registry which all ships must carry now requires 60 documents. This can be reduced to two. In this process, it may be nec essary to write a new dictionary of about 150,000 words so that government agencies and ship ping firms use the . same terms to list cargo on standardized ship ping manifests. The task of winning interna tional acceptance will be taken up by the U.N. in April. SAYS . . . grievous blow. He could neither defend the college for its "ingrat itude" to him, nor could he ac cept total responsibility for his re jection. Now, if I have judged this sit uation correctly, there are at least two approaches that may prove fruitful. And, since you're not supposed to know of the threat, you will have to attempt each through indirection. The first would involve "face saving." And that I think you can accomplish through raising objec tions lo your son's admission to the college of his choice. To your son, his friend's moth er who repeated the threat, and others of your acquaintance, let it be known that you disapprove of the college. It's too near home or it's loo far away. It's too small or too large. It places too much emphasis on athletics. Or too little. And you continue your objec tions until it's made quite clear that failure to enter the particular college is attributable, not to the institution or your son, but to your objections. And these can be withdrawn with good grace if he's accepted. The second policy is that of sug gesting alternatives, much as a military tactician plans an "es cape corridor" when he maps his battle campaign. Send for college catalogues far and wide. Pore , over them with your son. Point out advantages and opportunities presented by each. And maybe, during spring vacation, blow him to a trip to several nearby cam puses. Let him see for himself what each has to offer. And maybe he'll discover by himself of course that there are really gradations of shade be tween black and white. For a copy of Dr. Hyman's leaflet "How to Combat the Com mon Cold." send 10 cents to Dr. Hyman. care of Herald and News, Box 489. Dept. B. Radio City Sta tion. New York 19, N.Y. THEY SAY... ! think par! of out problem 'as Americans! is that we respond readily to a visible, tangible chal lenge such a? Ihe elimination of material want, but that we are ill at ease in the realm of ideas, human values and social impon derables. Gov. Robert B. Meyner of New Jersey. France is not decadent. Only its leaders are allowed to be old. tired and gloomy. -Henri Titmbiet d Villern. member at Krenrh parliament.
