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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
By SPECTATOR
Teachers know the value of repetition. As we read in
the Bible: “For precept must be upon precept, precept upon
precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and
there a little”.
Mere repetition may not accomplish the best results,
though even a sing-song repeating, over and over, will
make an impression, though tiresome. If the teacher will
hold the puple’s attention and say to him, man to man, X
plus Y is Z; X is Z, looking him in the eye, the lad will
probably remember. Of course there are times when the
teacher must almost explode in the face of a wandering
mind to make an impression.
I recall a professor in a class in Criminal Law. Sounds
bad, doesn’t it — class in Criminal Law? Well, then, let’s
say “Crimionlogy”, which sounds better, but is not the
same thing.
That teacher was a retired lawyer who had attained
great eminence in Virginia, a State, or Commonwealth, of
very able lawyers. He had a young man standing during
the entire period — an hour. He stated a case and asked
whether a man would be guilty of manslaughter or mur-
, der. The student’s mind rambled around for a while in what
the student regarded as thinking. He then answered “Man
slaughter”. The old lawyer stood near him and screamed
one'word: “Murder! That blasted away all the fog and
cobwebs in our minds. That’s what he did: he blasted our
minds.
I know that this will shock all the fond mothers whose
aittle boys obey strictly and never forget. The little boys of
today are, then, better than they used to be. Some years ago
nice, obedient, industrious, clean, clean, little boys were so
rare that indulgent parents were afraid they would die
young.
Well, what’s all this about? As a friend of mine asks,
*'What's all this to do ^ith the high cost of living”? For
tunately electricity is still cheap and electric power is abun
dant; and our banks have plenty of money.
T used to know a man who, when repeating something
the second or third time, would look you in the eye and
say: “Now what I mean to say is this”.
What I mean to repeat is this:
“Sharing the feeling of most of my fellow citizens that
wdth the election of General Eisenhower, honor and dig
nity will be restored to their rightful place in the Federal
government, I have lately been reading about the enormity
of the tasks before him.
In this connection probably the staggering national debt
presents his greatest problem. Of all the suggested reme
dies, none has seemed to me to have the merits of that sug
gested by Mr.Charles E. .Wilson, former Director of De
fense Mobilization. He proposes the sale of government
power and water projects to private owners. He estimates
that approximately $27 billion could be realized from such
sales, which if applied in reduction of the debt would reduce
it by some 10 percent. Such reductions, he reasons, would
reduce the annual interest payable by the Treasury about
1-2 billion dollars. Further, says he, these properties, if
well managed in private hands should yield $1 billion in
annual tax revenues.”
Our Government should not be in the power business,
or the banking business. And certainly the Government
should not have preferred customers. The courts should
knock all this in the head.
We Americans have been adopting all sorts of measures
from Europe. Well, did you ever hear of millions of Ameri
cans leaving for Europe every year? Oh, yes, but they are'
tourists, travelling with ample money and able to come
back. Yet strangely enough, millions of people of Europe
want to come here. Let’s be American and stay so. I didn’t
see anything in Europe thatl would rather have, did you?
Let’s put on a little highbrow stuff for a moment: A few
words about Atomic power. I may be like my Peruvian
friend who said he would explain something in “Cuatro
palabras” — four words; but strung out these “four” words
over fifteen minutes.
“Atomic Energy is part of a marvelous scientific develop
ment. The part which started in war can of course make
life very dangerous. But there is a lot more to science than
that — and even to the part of it we call atomic energy.
Its contribution to weapons is small compared to its con
tribution to human welfare, said Dr. J. Robert Oppen-
heimer a few weeks ago as he sat behind the well-polished
conference table in his office at the Institute for Advanced
Study in Princeton.
Says David E. Lilienthal former AEG Chairman: ‘Peo
ple have been misled into thinking the atom is a weapon
and nothing else. The truth is, here is a great new field of
knowledge which can be converted to the peaceful service
of humankind’. *
The atom and its energy are no great mysteries. Every
thing — the chairs people sit in, the clothes they wear and
even the air they breathe — is made up of invisible tiny
particles called atoms.
The various parts of the atom are held together by ar^
invisible, binding force. This binding force is nuclear or
atomic energy.
Born of war, atomic energy continues to be predominant
ly a military project. When international accord on the
at°m appeared impossible, the US determined to stay ahead
in atomic research, Hence Dr. Oppenheimer estimates ‘per
haps 90 percent of all money spent on the atom is for mili
tary objectives. Of the thousands of scientists, engineers
and technicians presently engaged in atomic research and
development, about 60 percent work on war projects.
President Walker Cisier of Detroit Edison has just told
the Society of Engineers: ‘The greatest commercial peace
time use appears to be in electric power production.’
Clearly, atomic energy has broad social, economic and
political implications. The horror of atomic weapons has
altered the relations between nations. Dr Oppenheimer
points out: ‘The vastly increased powers of destruction that
atomic weapons give us have brought with them a profound
change in the balance between national and international
interests. The common interest of all in the prevention of
atomic warefare would seem immensely to overshadow any
purely national interest’.
These are grave problems but perhaps the expected
change in Government attitude towards business and in
dustry will also extend to the atom. Properly handled, there
is little reason why commercial development of atomic
energy cannot proceed side-by-side with military advances.
And at the same time America’s secrets can be secure.
The Savannah River Plant in South Carolina is still un
der construction and when finished will be the world's
largest atomic plant. Built and operated by duPont it has
been called 'the great construction project in world history’.
Total cost: $1.25 billion. Like Hanford, this plant will make
materials for bombs. ♦
To the businessman, atoms can mean better products,
cheaper and easier production methods. Example: Standard
Oil of California has estimated radioisotopes helped it ac
complish 60 years research work in seven at a cost of only
$35,000 instead of $1,000,000.
To the consumer it can mean a healthier, happier and
more comfortable life at less cost. One example: under a
grant from Nash-Kelvinator, the University of Michigan
hopes to use atomic energy to ‘preserve foods for a very
long period of time’.
To the investor it offers a chance to get in on the ground
floor of a new industry. A chance which can be compared
to the beginnings of the automobile or radio or aviation
industries — and a chance which necessarily relies heavily
on judgment and luck. But all these happy dreams will not
become reality over a week-end. For one thing 90 percent of
all the money being spent on atomic energy is for defense.
Radioistopes are atoms which have been made radioac
tive through artificial means. Of the 92 natural elements
only a few like uranium, thorium and radium are radioat-
tive. All three are in short supply and prohibitively expen
sive. One gram of radium costs $20,000.
It is this energy (ie, radiation) which makes radioiso
topes so valuable to industry. But since no one can see
radioisotopes, it is the sound of the radiation picked up and
recorded which betrays their presence.
In many industries like paper and plastics, there are
frequently parallel uses. For example, both use radioiso
topes to measure and control thickness of their product.
Or there are interrelated uses such as chemical companies
using radioactive tracers to learn about the cleansing ac
tion of detergents; textile makers use them to study the
reaction of fabrics to various detergents.
Food and drug companies also benefit from the magic of
radioisotopes, hope to use them for cold sterilization of food
and drugs, to chart fermation processes, etc. And not long
ago physicists Ernest Pollard of Yale suggested ‘atom-split-
ting techniques be applied to the study of germs in order
to learn the mechanics of bacteria and viruses’. Such a
study could conceivably bring about a cure for the common
cold and mean millions of dollars for drug makers.
CHANGES. For every industrial change wrought direct
ly by the atom there will be one brought about indirectly.
Example: the use of isotopes has become a transportation
problem. One happy solution has been devised by the Bri
tish who outfit their transport planes so radioactive iso
topes can be carried in the wing tips. The cost of shipping
them has been reduced 60 percent.
Right now some agricultural research in centered on
explaining one of the most fascinating mysteries of all
time — photosynthesis. This is the fundamental process
by which green plants use energy from the sun to form
Test Your I. Q.
1. Is there such a thing as ab
solute zero?
2. Name the jockey who has
ridden four winners in the Ken-
'kv Derby.
3. Testing the fact that gentle
men prefer blondes, how many
“Miss America” Contest winners
vince 1940 have been blonde?
4. Which state is known as the
"Sooner State”?
5. What is the name of the
world’s largest encyclopedia?
ANSWERS TO
Test Your I. Q.
1. Yes, minus 459.6 degrees
Fahrenheit or minus 273.15 centi
grade.
2. Eddie Arcaro in 1938, 1941,
1945 and 1948.
3. One. Colleen Kay Hutchins
of Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1952.
4. Oklahoma.
5. “Yung La Ta Tien,” consist
ing of 11,095 volumes, was pub
lished in 1408. Forty-one original
volumes of this set are in the Li
brary af Congress.
STRICTLY FRESH
A CROOK complained about the
jail’s bean diet but refused to
be extradited till shown a fake
home-town jail menu. His first
meal back home was a beef sand
wich instead of roast chicken. Bet
now he’s beefing about his beef!
* * *
Sliding into the river, an empty
Milwaukee, Wis., car was pulled
to shore by a fire tug named Del
uge. Bet the owner flooded Deluge
with thanks!
Library fine collectors in a
California town opened a young
lady’s letter enclosing $5 for “One
Night of Love.” She meant an
overdue library book about music.
To the boys it was just a sweet
note turned sour.
I REMEMBER"
BY THE OLD TIMERS
From Ester Anderson, 523 Le-
baron Street, Mesa, Arizona: I re
member when grandmother had
a calf butchered and she hung
chunks of beef in front of the fire
place to dry. She made a hole in
the chunk with an ice pick, placed
a string through the hole. We had
dried beef in every shape and form
for the whole winter.
From Mrs. Raymond Shelden,
Ekalaka, Montana: I remember
when treadmills furnished the pow
er to run threshing machines. Two
horses were tied into a «ontraption
like a loading chute, which had a
revolving slot floor. They stood
there walking for hours making a
wheel go round that was attached
by pulleys to the threshing ma
chine. A fresh lean, was used ev- v
ery few hours. It was fascinating
to watch the horses walk and walk
and never get anywhere.
From Mrs. Bertha Williams,
Fort Recovery, Ohio: I remember
when my mother made her own
yeast from the hops that vined
high on a pole by the garden
gate. There was a saying that to
make good bread with the yeast
the hops should be picked before
the September wind blew on them
From Mrs. Lola B. McComb,
Welsonville, Nebraska: I remem
ber when we went to town to buy
groceries. Sugar was scooped out
of an open barrel and weighed on
an old fashion scale. Crackers
came in pine boxes. Coffee came
to us unroasted. Pickles came in
barrels and tea was weighed out
by the pound.
From Mrs. G. M. Houch, Hast
ings, Pa.: I remember when we
used to make grape wine and we
used “foot power” to press the
grapes The grapes would be put
in a large wooden barrel, a few
at a time, and the children would
take turn about trampling the fruit
with their bare feet.
Sixty per cent of America’s mo
tor vehicle traffic is concentrated
on 7 per cent of the road mileage.
Yet two-thirds of the nation’s main
highways are regarded as short of
safe driving standards.
It is estimated that 60 million
Americans use automobiles to get
to and from work or school every
day.
When the wood gutter on the
White House was replaced in 1727
it was found still serviceable after
110 years of use.
It is estimated that U. S. rail
roads have in place about one bil
lion wooden ties, and over nine
million lineal feet of timber trestle.
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WEEKLY CROSSWORD PUZZLE
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Former President
Here’s the Answer
HORIZONTAL VERTICAL
1 Pictured
former
president of
Venezuela
9 Roves
14 Idle
15 Heron
16 Permit
17 Winged
19 Age
20 Lieutenant
(ab.)
21 Qualified
22 Hoax
24 Symbol for
erbium
25 Malt drink
26 Term used in
cribbage
28 Direction
30 Back of neck
33 Tube
34 Genus of
shrubs
35 Roman road
36 Civil wrong
37 Fiber knots
39 Male child
40 Pair (ab.)
42 Short barb
45 Sea (Fr.)
46 Ambary
48 Swiss river
50 He also is
internationally
known as a
52 Point
53 Discolor
55 Visionaries
57 Canvas
shelters
68 Appraise
1 Branchia
2 Dill
3 Column
4 Lower case
(ab.)
5 Storehouse
6*Gilding
7 Egg
8 Hardens
9 Fortification
10 Giant king of
Bashan
11 Exist
12 Simple
13 Heaven’y
body
18 Exclamation
21 Changed
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23 Kind of lizard
25 Tremulous
27 Wand
28 Roof finial
29 River isle
31 Through
32 Dine
38 Chessmen
39 Seraglio
40 Time gone by
41 Proportion
43 Railroad (ab.)
44 Ocean
movement
45 Encounter
46 Filth
47 Church part
49 Sped
51 Transposes
(ab.)
52 Beverage
54 That thing
56 Millimeter
(ab.)
sugar, starch, cellulose and other carbon compounds needed
and used by man.
Still in the elementary stages of research, despite eye-
catchiqg publicity, is the use of radioactive isotopes in the
treatment of cancer and other diseases. For one thing only
eight radioactive isotopes are now used experimentally by
the medical profession. One of these is radioactive iodine
which is used to treat just one kind of cancer — thyroid
cancer. Popular name for the radioactive iodine which is
taken by mouth is ‘atomic cocktail’.
An increasingly big problem is what to do with by-pro
ducts. One of the factors which recently led Dr. James B.
Conant to a pessimistic appraisal of the outlook for atomic
energy is the problem of coping with fission by-products.
For example the Hanford plant cannot toss ifs waste pro
ducts into the Columbia River because the radioactive part
icles would kill valuable salmon.*’
DaleCarnegie
“ H0W T0 STOP WORRYING AND STARTIIVING" ^
Before and during the war Eva St. Charles. 1960 Santa Fe Avenue,
Long Beach. California, and her family operated several restaurants.
They made a lot of money but she detested the business. She had once
been away from it for several years and when she had returned to it
she had forgotten how she really felt about it.
By and by she and her husband bought a restaurant. She says she
can hardly excuse herself for not knowing better than
to go into it. but here she was in the same business
she had promised herself she never would go into
again.
A few days after they took over the restaurant,
she began to question her sanity. A state of depres
sion settled on her which steadily became worse.
Instead of looking forward to each new day with
cheerful thoughts that might lift her out of this mental
state, she let morbid, unhappy thoughts take pos
session and they would last through the day. The
only relief she had from this terrible suffocating feel
ing was when she was asleep. She wondered if she ever would be able
to overcome it and be happy again.
Then someone gave her a copy of a book on Worry. As she read
it, her slant on life gradually changed. She started applying to her
life some of the rules contained in the book. Soon she felt like a new
person and she declares she is happier now than she has been in a
long time.
Here are some of the rules: the application of which she says is
transforming her life:
1. When you are inclined to worry, lose yourself in action.
2. Cooperate with the inevitable.
3. Don’t permit trifles to irritate you.
4. Think cheerful thoughts; act cheerful.
5. L^arn to relax—preferably out of doors.
6. Stop thinking about people you don’t like.
7 Count your blessings every day
CARNEGIE
From the Duncannon Record,
Duncannon, Pa.: Once upon a time,
long, long ago, bc.ng in business
was a simple matter. A man was
able to compute his profits at the
end of the year by a record of in
come and expenditures, and the
difference in inventory at the close
of the year. He paid his income tax,
and the rest was his.
Maybe the net result is still the
same—we wouldn’t know. We do
know that it is no longer a simple
process. Now a businessman col
lects the income tax from his em
ployees, and turns it over to the gov
ernment. He must file a quarterly
return on this tax. He not only col
lects the employees’ share of social
security and turns it over to the
government, he also contributes a
like amount. For this job, he must
also submit a quarterly return to
the government. He must give each
employee a statement of his earn
ings, tax withheld, social security
deducted, number of dependents,
etc., etc. Unemployment compen
sation insurance is also compul
sory. For this, too, quarterly re
ports are required.
Don’t get us wrong. We are heart
ily in favor of social security, un
employment insurance, and hospi
talization. We wouldn’t want to be
without them. But we’re not in
favor of having a report waiting
to be filled out every time we turn
around. Here are some statistics
asked for a report we’re struggling
with now: Capital invested; days
in operation; rated horsepower of
motors driven by purchased cur
rent; total primary horsepower;
total number of electric motors
and horsepower; wage earners,
nationality; wage earners, sex and
wages paid; salaried persons and
office force, and total salaries for
year; cost of materials, cost of
fuel, cost of purchased electric en
ergy, cost of contract work done
for you.
Add these all up. throw in the
headaches of labor turnover, sky-
high prices, wage stabilization and
a few dozen other agencies, and
there you are. Sittin’ on top of the
world, a business of your own—
even if a couple dozen governmen
tal agencies know more about it
than you do. This is Utopia?
• • *
From the Lamar County Echo,
Lamar, Texas: Our neighbors have
two pet rabbits which are kept in
a cage about four feet square. Ev
ery morning another rabbit hops up
to yie cage for a “visit” and then,
when he sights a dog or other dan
ger, scampers off to safety. Why do
we have an item like in an edito
rial column? Simply to illustrate
the difference between “security”
and “freedom.” The pets are un
doubtedly secure—no harm can
come to them, but they have no
freedom. 'Which do the people of
this country prefer—security or
freedom?
• • •
From the Herington Advertiser-
Times, Herington, Kansas: The
press has sometimes been criti
cized for squawking too much about
their own freedom. But it is not
their own freedom in question, it is
the freedom of the people who have
a press which can give them all
the facts on the news of the day
without being subject to censorship.
• If there were ever any doubts
that President Eisenhower would
not carry out his promise of econ
omy and efficiency in government,
they have now been dispelled.
Washington is being shaken to the
very foundations these days—like
it hasn’t been shaken for 20 years.
Beginning with his first State of
the Union Message to congress
and a series of executive orders
immediately afterwards, the Presi
dent has shown he means business.
A number of the points touched
upon in his address to congress
have seen fast action.
As an example:
1. He said there no longer was
any “sense or logic” in the use
of the Seventh Fleet to shield Red
China. He immediately ordered the
fleet to stop its screening. This
opens the way for Nationalist forces
to attack the Communist-held main
land if they so desire. That China
doesn’t like the idea was apparent
the following day when Red lead
ers began asking for renewal of
the hopeless peace talks in Korea.
2. The first order of domestic
business should be to balance the
budget, .after which a reduction
in taxation would be in order. This
statement was followed by orders
freezing, hiring and strict econ
omy in government expenditures.
3. Aid to Europe would be con
tinued with the Allies required to
be full partners matching United
States contributions according to
their capabilities. Immediately
afterwards Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles, on his visit to Eu
rope. told big Western European
powers they have 75 days to show
real progress in setting up a uni
fied defense or they faced cuts in
American military and economic
aid.
• One of the most talked about
moves of the administration is t^e
killing of the Defense Production
Administration. Its functions have
been taken over by the Office of
Defense Mobilization. The move Is
the first step to end controls on
materials and products except for
highly essential defense items.
This swing to free-economy,
which the Republican party has
long advocated, is the forerunner
of decontrol of prices and wages.
The administration may face some
opposition in that many in con
gress want a stand-by organization
ready in the event prices and
wages get out of hand. It is gen
erally believed, however, that Eis
enhower will have his way.
• After the first weeks his ad- *
ministration has been in power,
there is a general feeling, in Wash
ington that any collision between
the White House and congress is
yet in the distant future. The rea
son: the President’s prestige is vast
and his political power is over
whelming. No one or group, as yet,
has had the courage to seriously
cross him. The Democrats are
actually beginning to believe Jhey
can get along with him much bet
ter' than they supposed. And al
though a number of Republicans
are developing signs of congres
sional independence, none of them,
including Senator Taft, are likely
to get far out of line in the near
future.