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MEN AND THINGS
cowards who do the screaming.
Listen for the Americans. M ,
That is what a great American
Corporation said in their adver
tising space in a national maga
zine., It is pure Americanism and
we heed more of it.
“Most of the thousands of
visitors to the 599% foot-high
How’s this: What say you?
“Does the world think Ameri
cans are afraid of nuclear war
and death? The true Americans
are not!
But they are worried about
weakness. It seems to them
there is too much talk of dis
armament and not enough of
tough preparedness. Too much
desire to make deals and not
enough insistence the other side
do the petitioning. Too much
whispering of words we can’t
hear. Too much appeasement,
not enough demand. Too much
No Win, not enough Victory. Too
much trust of the untrustworthy.
This is the only nation that has
always given, not taken. It
seems to us this allows ns cer
tain important rights. And we
earnestly believe the American
people are willing to risk their
lives if need be to enforce those
rights of decency, and honor, and
freedom.
Whenever our government has
courageously stood up fer our
nation's right in the world there
has been a heartening wave of
enthusiastic support and pride.
Americans are not afraid:
their is quiet courage. It is the
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W ashington Monument probably
know little of its stormy past or
its myriad oMities. Standing on
the famous Mall halfway between
the Lincoln Memorial and the
Capitol, the white marble obelisk
is the capital’s hightest structure.
For a nominal ten cents, an
elevator whisks visitors to the
top ih 70 seconds. Since revenue
from this source exceeds operat
ing and maintenance expenses,
the Monument actually pays its
own way ... a striking phenom
enon itself in these days of high
spending on Government pro
jects. From the top, visitors
thrill to a spectacular view of
the city.
Although Monument officials
discourage publicity stunts, usu
ally about one person a year suc
ceeds in walking down the hun
dreds of steps on his hands. One
day Blackstone, the magician,
rode up to the Monument astride
a pony. Officials refused his re
quest to take the horse to the top
and make it disappear. No one
knows how he proposed to carry
off this bit of legerdemain.
However, some stunts have
been permitted. Dr. Alfredo
Warsaw of the Metropolitan
Opera Company once sang from
the top of the shaft to test the
carrying power of his voice. A
National Symphony Orchestra
trumpeter gave his lungs a real
workout when the notes he blew
from the Monument’s top could
be heard way down on Constitu
tion Avenue.
Thoughtless visitors sometimes
toss all manner of things from
the top of the shaft, including 12-
inch steel spikes, pennies and
bottles. One unhappy housewife
flung her wedding ring over the
side. Perhaps her husband fear
ed he might be next for they
quickly patched up their differ
ences and a few minutes later re
covered the gold band.
Undoubtedly A(rs. S. E. Long
well of Middleairy, Vermont,
suffered one ofjM most harrow
ing experiences. Several years
back, when attendants locked up
for the night, they inadvertently
overlooked her presence. After
a long night alone in the shaft
with only bats and howling winds
for company, an hysterical Mrs.
Longwell greeted the guards in
the morning. A very thorough
night check is now the last order
of the day.
About one of seven visitors
walk up the 886 steps to the top
of the Monument, a feat that re
quires about half an hour. Those
hardy souls view the 202 memo
rial stones along the stairway in
the shaft’s interior. Contributed
by indivduals, states, groups and
even countries throughout the
world, they include some from
Iginal debt, Governor Earl War
ren signed the checks to pay off
in full.
The Monument opened to the
public on October 9, 1888, the to
tal coat . . . foundations and
shaft. . . amounted to $1,187,710.
But if it were construted at to
day’s prices it would probably
cost close to $15-million to buy
the, land, pay the labor and pur
chase the materials."
I never walked up the monu
ment, but I walked down: that
was quite bad enough.
I recall walking down the steps
from the top of the beautiful ca
thedral in France. v It causes
sore muscles. We Americans
are becoming soft. An English
man rejoices in a country home
several miles from the Railroad
and frequently he walks from
the train to his country estate.
the tomb of Napoleon and the
battlefield of Bunker Hill.
California voted to give a gold
quartz block in 1890. It rests on
the 120-foot landing. Low on
funds, the state signed a note for
$975 in payment for the stone.
Not until 1943 did the legislature
realize the original $979, plus
compound interest, had snow
balled to a whopping $2,277,550.
That year, 93 years after the or-
Raymond Moley will be re
membered as the very able man
who worked with Mr. Roosevelt
as leading man in the original
Brain Trust. For some years
Mr. Moley has written Uluminat
ing articles on public problems.
Let me quote him:
**. . . Let us not beguile our
selves by the argument that since
we are spending so much on the
military, no appreciable savings
can be made in civil expendi
tures. In ten years the cost of
national defense has increased
18.8 per cent. All other expend!
tures have gone up 162 per cent.
One of the most glaring items
of pork is the fantastic plan to
make Tulsa. Okla., an inland
port. It grow through the influ
ence of Robert S. Kerr, who was
governor from 1943 to 1947 and
senator from 1949 to his death
last year. First, he secured an
‘authorization’, which is a ‘hunt
ing license for an appropriation’.
Then a small item was appro
priated, $1.7 million. With this
foot in the Treasury door, more
and more was appropriated
yearly, until the final cost wil
be $1.2 billion. The project, wel
under way, would build into the
shallow, meandering Arkansas
River a channel to carry freight
vessels 516 miles from the Mis
sissippi. But there are railroads
serving that inland city of Tulsa
which desperately need the busi
ness which this project will deny
to them. What next? A subsidy
for the railroads to make up for
the lost business.
Another fat piece of pork is the
Fryingpan - Arkansas diversion
project. This one, authorized last
year, will take water from the
west slope of the Rockies, where
every drop is needed, and dump
it into the Arkansas, mostly for
the purpose of supplying supple
mental irrigation in areas where
the government is already spend
ing tens of millions to put acre
age out of cultivation. And the
states on the lower Colorado des
perately need the water thus di
verted.
But the people who lobby for
these projects in Congress are
of Spanish. And even among our
Western States we find Spanish
names.
Views
Of Our Readers
To" The Editor: . ? -
Halloween time is almost
here again and housewives all
over town an beginning to
worry about the aftermath of
the “Trick or Treat” crowd this
year. It used to be a neighbor
hood affair with the small chil
dren dressing up and going
from door to door in the vicin
ity of their homes and they
were admired and welcomed
and given treats and everybody
enjoyed it. But now crowds of
older boys and girls go all over
town, far from their homes,
practically demandnig a bribe
to keep them from doing real
damage. And it costs the
housewife more and more to
supply these “treats” when as
many as eighty call at one
home as was done last year.
We all have the interests of
our young people at heart and
want them to have a good time,
but it is growing more and
more difficult to handle the
situation.
If the older boys and girls
could have their own parties
and leave the “Trick or Treat”
fun to the little ones it would
eliminate a great deal of the
trouble. Here the churches, or
ganizations, such as the PTA,
Camp Fire, Scouts,' etc., could
help by having some organized
recreation for the children on
that night. If we could show
our young people that we are
interested in their having a
good time by organizing par
ties for different groups, it
would be a very worthwhile
project
Why not get busy with plans
for a wholesome, happy, safe,
and sane Halloween for the
children of Clinton this year.
I am sure the majority of
the citizens of Clinton will
agree with me and appreciate
their efforts. We have talked
with a number of people and
they all agree that it Is up to
the adults in town to do some
thing about this growing prob
lem.
The time is growing short, so
we must begin now to make
some plans.
We urgently request that the
young people’s organizations
both churches and civil
get nenind this move
ment and help our young peo
ple have a good time without
disturbing a great number of
older citizens who are no longv
able to cope with this probkm.
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mainly employees of President
the ancient ruins of Carthage, Kennedy. He alone among elected
officials should serve the national
rather than greedy local inter
ests. But he is not meeting that
responsibility . . .”.
Unhappily for the nation the
principal effort of today is to
persuade the National Govern
ment to spend millions for what
ever somebody dreams about.
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Are you interested in observ
ing how fast the country is grow
ing? Well, here are some figures
sent me by Mr. Paul Quattle-
baum, Junior, of the United
States Department of Commer
ce, the Charleston office.
Queer about life, isn’t it? Mr.
Quattlebaum doesn’t know me
! and the bulletins are incorrectly
addressed, but his father, a citi
zen of Conway, was a greatly ap
preciated friend of mine in the
days of the Farmers and Tax
payers League.
Well now, what about residen
tial growth in the United States?
Just at random, you will ob
serve the rapid growth of Califor
nia. All the figures are for the
period January to or through
June of this year.
Los Angeles led the list with
73,300 houses; quite a great city
by those figures alone, eh? New
York 32,311, though the year be
fore New Yor£Jmilt 51,300. But
didn’t you think that 4n the New
Yorkers lived in massive hotels
and mammoth apartment build
ings so high that the top-floor
man could almost talk to the
man in the moon? Although New
York lost nearly 20,000 houses
from 1962 to this year, Los
Angeles rose from 54,619 to 73-
300.
How the West grows!!
After studying the figures for
Los Angeles the other cities look
like small potatoes: San Fran
cisco 21, 245; Chicago 16,982;
Houston, Texas, 12,068; Miami
4,857. San Diego appears Hfc» a
weak sister when compared with
Los Angeles but the figure for
San Diego — 6,245, Saint Louis,
Miami, New Orleans, Milwaukee,
and all the others.
Los Angeles, friends, is the
Spanish for “The Angels”. I
have remarked before that the
angels must have been In hiding,
or lost in Convents, when I was
there.
You will observe the Spanish
names in the West. Spain was a
Poor colonizer, but Spain gave
her names and her language to
most of the vast territory of
North, Central and South Amer-
ica, because beginning at the Rio
Grande Hie language is
Spanish except in Brazil, which
speaks Portuguese, an off-shoot
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