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Laws Are Rules People Make So They May Live in Harmony This is the foarth of a series of ten articles from the booklet “Good Citiien” published by The Amert* ®an Heritage Foundation concerning the rights and duties of an Ameri can. ' '"0!^ *•, ' y .1 -f *,’V THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY. S. C. GOOD CITIZEN CROSSWORD PUZZLE ft ' \ £W •T«HE THIRD promise of a good ^ citizen: I will respect and obey the laws. I will assist public of ficials in preventing crime and the courts in giving evidence. Laws are rules people make so they can live together without step ping on each other’s toes. The simplest law of all, perhaps, is the traffic light. When it is green it’s supposed to protect you against the other fellow. When it is red it’s supposed to protect the other per son from you. Ours is a government of laws— not men. Our constitution guarantees that our laws may be made in one way, and one way only, by the people, through their elected representa tives—not by one man, or a few men, or by any appointed group. No man in this country is so big that he is above the law, and none so insignificant that he cannot look to the law for protection. A good citizen cooperates with the law. He assists public agents In preventing crime, and the courts In giving evidence. zc; ■ ssh: E#.” gk? By INEZ GERHARD N ANCY OLSON’S career so far has been one of those amazing Hollywood success stories; a tal ent scout saw her in a play at the University of California, two years ago; she had a screen test the next day, a Paramount contract the day after that. One month later she was co-starring with Randolph Scott in 20th Century-Fox’s “Ca nadian Pacific.” She had a fine role in “Sunset Boulevard,” her second film, so perfectly suited to her that she wore her own clothes. “Union Station” is her third. But it hasn’t all been just luck. Young Nancy has both beauty and talent, and has worked hard in college dramatic courses to get experi ence. Sen. Alexander Wiley, of the spe cial senate committee investigat- ing interstate crime, held a screen ing of Columbia’s “711 Ocean Drive” for Sen. Kefauver and the other members. The film, starring Edmond O’Brien and Joanne Dru, exposes the techniques and meth ods used by horse racing wire sfer- ! vices to disseminate their illegal ! information throughout the coun try. ' f mi*' Matt McHugh was cast as a hard-boiled sheriff in “Return of the Frontiersman” because he looks more like a cowboy than most ' cowboys do. But Mat, born and raised on New York’s Tenth Ave nue, had never mounted a horse or carried a gun before the picture started. The brother of Frank Mc Hugh, he appears in support of Gordon MacRae, Rory Calhoun, Julie London and Jack Holt. A good citizen does not evade the law. He does not say, “I know somebody who can fix my ticket.’ • Laws necessarily change with needs of the times. A good citizen’s attitude toward a law which he regards as unfair, unreasonable and out of step with the times is that of working to get it changed— but obeying it while it is on the books. There is the letter of the law— and the spirit of the law. You cannot make men good by laws, and the hope *of law and order is grounded in the reverence of a major ity of peo pie for jus tice, truth and good ness. But, in the final analysis, a law has teeth in it Using fed eral offenses as an example, one great historian says, / ‘‘If you refuse long enough to make out a correct income tax re turn and refuse to obey an order to appear in court, you will get a touch of government power. Three or four husky fellows will take you by the scruff of the neck and the seat of the pants and hustle you in to a police van motored by the power of internal combustion.” To guard against hasty and ill- advised action or the concentration of powers in any one man or body of men, a system of checks and balances is provided ’by the federal constitution. Of these: It would take six years com pletely to replace the elected branches of the federal govern ment composed exclusively of members of one party by the mem bers of another. This is due to the fact that: The President is elected for four years; the members of the house of representatives are elected every two years, and one-third of the sen ators are elected every two years but for •». six-year term. Laws passed either by the sen ate or by the house of representa tives must be approved by a ma jority of the other body. The President can veto laws en acted by congress, and his veto can be overridden only by a two- thirds vote of each house. The courts have the right to in terpret laws passed by congress and to review the legality of acts of of ficers of the government charged with the administration. In many cases the courts have held acts of congress invalid as being in con flict with a provision of the consti tution. The senate has the power to re view and reject Presidential ap pointments of diplomatic, judicial, and certain other officers of the government, as well as the power to approve or reject treaties with foreign governments. The house of representatives has the power to impeach and the sen ate the place of trial and to re move from office all civil officers of the United States including even the President. Thla article is Chapter S of the booklet “Good Citizen’’ prodneed by The American Heritage Foundation, sponsors of the freedom train. 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Female sheep LAST WEEK'S ANSWER UUU BQQQ □□ QQDQ no □□□ns □□one oeq QQDD □□ ICQ □□□□ PBO OQDBQ OggD ODHC □OOD DDj e oaDEiaQol □g OBOBEI BOOB HtpD [31300 no. ei 35. Scorch 38. Gazelle (Tibet) 39. Milkfish 40. Pinch I i 2 3 4 i * « 7 « y/s 9 IO tl IX 13 t4 1 i Ya » 17 It it I To 1 I i 2* 1 2* 27 TA 25 • 2* 27 YZ/< 2* I i I 2* /Wi v> 3i 32 33 J4 y/j v/a 36 i 36 57 58 JSSs 59 40 i At 42 45 44 il THE FICTION CORNER TABLES TURNED By Richard H. Wilkinson F LIRTING was second nature with Deborah Bellamy. No one would have guessed, after one glance at her gay, laughing face, after one look into her mocking, tantalizing eyes, that inwardly she was afraid. Afraid that sometime some one of her vic tims was going to turn the tables. That is to say, she knew that one day she was going to fall in love with one of the men with whom she flirted. And that, she knew, would be the end. The end to all her gay, reckless happiness. She never dreamed—that this man would prove to be a cowboy, named Lon Fairweather. Deborah had joined a party who planned a month’s vacation at a dude ranch in Wyoming. Lon was the foreman. He was tall, fair, handsome. After one look into his sober blue eyes, Deborah began to lay her snares. Lon was different, but he was also human. Hence he succumbed to her wiles, just as had the others. The night he told Deborah of his love they were seated on a high boulder overlooking a hemmed-in lake. Something about the beauty and grandeur of the scene stirred De borah’s soul. She found herself listening to Lon’s love-making more soberly than was her cus tom. “Oh, Lon,” she said a little breathlessly, “Not now . . .” She pushed him away and ran up the path toward the ranch house. Once back in her room she faced herself in the mirror and laughed. BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET Television Versus IQ-lt Can Be Made Cultural Medium By BILLY ROSE As an old blab merchant, I seldom pay much attention to the other fellow’s speeches, and when I do it’s generally to take um brage rather than notice. This week, however, I’d like to turn coat and tables on myself and do some hefty hollering about a speech on the future of television recently de livered by Dr. Millard Faugbt, an economist, at the University Club of Chicago. I happened to pop-eye a copy of it the other day, and while I haven’t the space to give you the whole 4,000 words, here’s a bit of the cream off the top . . . Billy Rose To begin with. Dr. Faught ax ioms that TV can be used for a lot of things besides selling eyewash, mouthwash and hogwash, and in sists that its full potentialities will never be realized if we allow it to be taken over lock, stock and antenna by the hucksters. In his opinion, the new dingus can do an unprecedented job for us in a dozen esthetic fields providing, of course, that a method can be devised whereby someone besides the advertiser foots part of the bill. The gimmick he suggests Is a television box office operating on a pay-as-you-see-it basis, and the one he specifically mentions in his speech—Phonevision—is due to be tested in Chicago this fall with the blessings of the F.C.C. + » • LEAVING ELECTRONIC double- talk out of it, Phonevision, which was recently demonstrated for me, is simply this: a system whereby 99 par cent of an image Is telecast free of charge, hot shows up oa ths home screen as so much hash. To unscramble the picture one picks up the phone and asks the operator to pipe in the missing 1 per cent through a gadget on his set hooked up to his telephone line. At the end of the month, the charge for this service is included In his phone bill, and the gross take divvied betwen the television sta tion, the creator of the program, and the phone company. According to Dr. P aught, Phonevision—or some equivalent device—will make it possible to collect millions of dollars in a single evening for, let us say, the Red Cross by putting on one nationwide benefit video show. It will enable our sick-unto- dearth Hollywood studios to quin tuple their audiences and double their grosses, and also make Possible lO-million-dollar gates for championship fights and World Series games. But, opines the good doctor, its most eye- bugging impact will he on edu cation. By bringing the classroom into the home. It will be possible for 100,000 students simultaneously to take the same beginners’ course in Spanish, or child care, or interior decorating, whereas the average class on campus today consists of ! from 25 to 50 students. • • e YOU-SEE revenue from these home extension courses would pro vide the monies for new university buildings, laboratories, scholar ships and teachers’ salaries, and once and for all our colleges could stop passing .the hat. Education, the doc goes on to say, is our best bet to stand off totalitarianism, de spite which it’s probably the most obsoletely merchandized comodity in our society. The economist stresses that he has no quarrel with the adver tisers, but maintains that if they're the only source of reve nue, TV is a cinch to wind up the same sort of cultural pigmy that radio is. The living room, he argues, is probably the room farthest re moved from the marketplace, and if Joe Jones and his missus want something in it besides cornflake and Cuticura commercials, they’ll have to contribute the pennies to make it possible. The government could probably be pressured into doing it for them, but who with an IQ above zero, asks Dr. Faught, wants political appointees messing with our educational processes and cultural preferences? I particularly like the last line of his speech: “Never in the history of the communicative arts was there a greater premium on fore sight.” She found herself listening to Lon’s love-making a little more soberly than was her custom. In the days that followed Lon persisted in occupying her thoughts. Some what in desperation she cast about for escape. And then a plan came to mind. She’d ask him to come to New York. She’d get him on home ground, compare him with the sort of life she was used to. The idea seemed a good one and strangely enough Lon agreed to come—in the fall. rvALL CAME, and she planned a ^ party. She invited all those who had been at the Double O Bar that summer. Lon arrived in due time and called at Deborah’s apartment. She was h little taken aback at the ease and grace with which ne wore his smart new tuxedo, and in spite of herself she thrilled when he swept her into his arms. The dinner was set for 8. At 7:30 the guests began to arrive. Lon was surprised when he saw that the men wore chaps and high- heeled boots; that the women were garbed in divided riding skirts and gay-colored blouses. ■ A butler came to the door and yelled: “Come and get it, cowboy 1” Deborah felt a little uneasy as Lon escorted her to her seat. Her uneasiness grew as he looked slightly puzzled upon discovering there was no silverware at his place save a broad-bladed knife. He hesitated, watching in amazement as the other guests picked up their knives, and with suppressed chuck les began to scoop up peas and shove them into their mouths. He watched as they poured coffee from their cups and drank from their saucers. “I understand,” he said, looking directly at Deborah. “And I regret I can't appreciate the humor of the thing. You see,” he added, “we westerners have had it drilled into us by you easterners, that we’re crude and have no manners. “But,” he paused and made a little, perfunctory bow toward De borah. “Now I know something else; know that whatever other manners you, folks might have you don’t know the meaning of hos pitality.” And with this he carefully placed his napkin on the table, ..ushed back his chair and strode from the room. _ “Lon! LonI” she called. “Please come back. It was all my fault I’m sorry. Please!” But Lon was already through the door and halfway down the stairs. Above, on the landing Deborah stood as if dazed. There was a ter rible gnawing sensation inside of her, a great, desolate, miserable feeling. She knew then that Lon Fairweather had been the man she was afraid of meeting. High Quality Hay Cuts Dairy Costs Feed, Labor 80 Percent Of Production Cost x Good pasture and high-quality, low-cost hay will cut feed and labor costs and greatly increase net re turns for dairymen, declared Tim othy Hodge, Michigan State College agricultural economist. Hodge estimates that feed and labor expense represents 80 per cent of the cost of keeping a dairy cow. Ibe lower the feed and labor costr can be made, the bigger will be the dairyman’s net return. Pasture and hay are the cheapest teed a cow can get. Agronomists re- The above Illustration clearly shows the net returns for ample good pasture and hay and re turns when pasture Is scarce and of low volume. port that 25 pounds of good alfalfa hay will supply all the protein need ed to produce about 30 pounds of A per cent milk daily and furnish cal cium, darotene and vitamin D as well. Good pasture cuts labor ex pense, because the cows do the har vesting.;^ Three essentials needed to main tain good pasture and get maximum returns from pasture crops are: (1) —a good legume-grass mixture best adapted to your growing conditions. (2)—-a fertile soil that will steadily furnish a well balanced supply of plant foods. Soil tests will show the land’s need for lime and for phos phate and potash fertilizer. (3) — good management which rotates grazing and avoids overworking some areas whila others become coarse and unpalatable. Good man agement also involves harvesting pasture growth at the peak of Its protein value to insure high quality hay. Fanners Report New Disease Among Pigs A strange disease of little pigs that makes them shiver, jerk and sometimes “dance” is worrying quite a few farmers. What causes the condition is some what of a mystery, the American Veterinary Medical association says. It strikes newly born pigs. Some of the affected animals merely shiver and tremble. In other cases, the pigs may not be able to keep their feet still, resulting in an in voluntary “dance.” The latest report, by Dr. H. C. H. Kernkamp, a research veterinarian at the University of Minnesota, in dicates that the disease, known as myoclonia congenita, is still almost as baffling to scientists as it was when first described in 1922. Electric Hired Hand Electricity can lighten farm chores and greatly increase pro ductivity. How it’s done is shown in a new color film, “Electrified Farming” which has been released by General Electric. Crop dryers, barn cleaners, milk ing machines, water pumping sys tems, electric brookers, and venti lating fans are cited as examples of the widening use of electricity in production on modern farms. Soybeans Important Cash Crop in Minnesota Soybeans as a cash crop in Minne sota responded to high prices dur ing the war and post-war years. The acreage harvested for beans in creased from 30,000 acres in 1939 to 929.000 in 1947 and then dropped back to 709,000 in 1949. Most of the Increase occurred from 1944 to 1947. In 19 counties 9 per cent or more of the tillable land was in soybean! harvested for beans In 1949. MIRROR Idle 'Chitchat 0/ Your * * * Is Social Contact MIND By Lawrence Gould Is “chitchat” a waste of time? Answer: Not always, at any rate. ; ["here's a type of intellectual snob j who feels it is beneath his dignity to talk to the elevator man about the weather or to exchange polite nothings at a party. But these often are the only practical ways of making human contacts and let ting our neighbors know we ara aware of their existence. Saying, “Nice day, isn’t it?” to someone who has heard it twenty times al ready may save him the hurt of feeling that you don’t regard him as important enough to be worthy of your notice. Con a wife help her husband “succeed”? Answer: Yes, but not all hus bands need the same kind of help. A man who grew up depending on his mother to plan his life for him might need prodding, if not nag ging to spur him to do his best work and stand up for his rights, while one who at heart resented and rebelled against parental domi nation may ‘ (at least, unconscious ly) resolve to “show bis indepen dence” by being a. failure if he feels his wife is trying to “make him”' succeed. But to any normal man a home where he is loved and happy win be a real and effective “inspiration.” For Your Future Huy | U.S. Savings Bonds How mild can a cigarette be* MORE PEOPLE SMOKE CAMELS than any other cigarette! and a mnm g tht millions who do.** EZIO NNZA who Btarrod in •‘South Pacme” Ezio Pinza says: “Mildness is all- important to me as a linger. I smoke the ciga rette that agrees with my throat... Camel/” Each Vtffh Your rrT: Are “anxiety” and “insecurity” the same? Answer: Not as psychiatrists use the words, writes Dr. Siegfried Fischer in the American Journal of Psychotherapy. “Insecurity” is an habitual state of mind which in fluences every act and feeling, while “anxiety” is an acute reac tion of intolerable tension which occurs only In specific situations. For instance, . a person who is chronically unsure of himself (in secure) might be thrown Into a state of anxiety if called upon to face an audience. 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While these K often otherwise occur, it's many times Doan’s rive help the 16 miles of kidney < flush out waste. Get Doan’s DOAN’S KEEPING HEALTHY ( The Emotions and Skin Diseases By Dr. James W. Barton W E ARE FAMILIAR with the effect of the emotions upon certain organs of the body—rapid beating of the heart, rapid breath ing and stomach upsets. Recently we have learned that attacks of sfsthma are brought on by the emo tions. However, many of us are not prepared to agree with the state ment that certain skin disturbances and diseases can be caused by the emotions. As we think of the matter, how ever. we must admit that if fright can cause the hair to stand on end, the skin to become clammy and cold sometimes, and turn red at other times, why then cannot the emotions cause or aggravate skin ailments by affecting the nerver and blood supply of the part? In “General Practice Clinics,” Dr. A. H. Gottesman, Beverly Hills, California, states that dermatolo gists (skin specialists) are in gen eral agreement that the emotions and skin changes are often related but controversy exist* as to the nature of the relationship. “Do certain types of skin diseases owe* their origin to disturbances of the emotional sphere?” they ask. “Or are emotional factors .without any significance in skin diseases?* Dr. Gottesman and his co-work- ers at Menninger clinic believe that overconcern with «the question of whether the emotions are the un derlying cause refllly interferes with the prompt treatment of the skin disease. That the relationship exists, to some extent, must be ad mitted and treatment should be given with this thought in mind. Four or five methods of treatment are then available: (1) Treatment of the skin disease according to symptoms present disregarding the emotional condition of the patient (2) Combined skin and psychiatric 'treatment by the skin specialist. (3) Combined treatment by the skin specialist and psychiatrist working together. (4) Treatment by psychia trist alone. While infection is the commonest cause of pain in the shoulder and arm, pressure on the nerves of shoulder and arm is the next most frequent cause. o o o Tuberculosis experts have been so successful that some tuberculosis hospitals are being closed because there are not enough patients to iustify them. T Because physicians are able to give relief to asthmatics in most cases, it is well that these patients should know this and consult their physicians. When emotional disturbances cause skin reactions, it is because of some frustration in the life of the patient which makes allergic to various i A