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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 . . .
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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.
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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. , , ,
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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.
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YOUR POCKET800K
These Sources Of
Credit May' Help
By FAYE IIENI.E
If you are in debt and behind
in meeting payments on your
loans,' don't let your debts mount
another day without action.
Make a list of all those to
whom you owe money, jotting
down for how many weeks or
months you have been delinquent
in payment.
Start with the largest debt out
standing. Make a personal call to
the institution or person to whom
you owe the money. Explain what
has caused your delay in repay
ment. Ask for an extension of that
loan. 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
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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.