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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
By SPECTATOR
Are you a mathematician? Were you “good at figures”
in school? Even if you were fairly proficient in Algebra
Geometry, “Trig” and Calculus, do you really believe that
one and one are two? The world has never suffered because
of our deficiency in the higher branches of Mathematics,
but mankind has been grievously afflicted with the pre
vailing ignorance of simple addition — that one and one
are two, just two, seldom three and almost never four.
Some folk have a Mathematical imagination and they be
come great mathematical philosophers, as, for example,
Einstein and the late Colonel Bond of The Citidel. But
there are others whose mathematical imagination causes
them to spend $200, when they have only $150. Our country
is full of people who spend more than they have. They mis
calculate, don't they? Or are they like Mr. Micawber, who
was sure something good would turn up?
Recently I read of a new machine to calculate. I thought
that might serve backward students in College, but I was
in error: the machine will rent for about $12,000 a month:
that will put it beyond most students.
This calculator is for that kind of mathematics which is
in the clouds or down deep in the earth: it doesn’t apply
to us ordinary mortals. Still here’s what they tell us:
“International Business Machines Corp. has taken the
wraps off its new electronic calculator, designed to shatter
the time barrier confronting technicians working on vital
atomic and airplane projects.
These electronic data-processing machines, to rent for
$11,900 or more monthly, will be used to calculate atomic
radiation effects and to compute the many statistical things
scientists need to know about planes, guided missies and
rocket engines.
It will be a technical computing bureau for organizations
that have such math problems to figure out as interpreting
production-cost data.
A staff of scientists already has spent two years plan
ning the economical solution of typical problems. One re
sult of this work, according to the company, is that users
of the machine need no longer be concerned with tracing
the position of the decimal point through problems involv
ing thouasnds of millions of arithmetical steps.
The machine was designed for scientific and research
purposes, but its parts are adaptable for accounting and
record-keeping.
It is said to be capable of doing each second more than
16,000 addition or subtraction operations or some 2,000
multiplication operations. In solving a typical problem it
averages 14,000 mathematical operations a second.
It is toiling for the Government. It waits about eagerly
at New York headquarters for commercial customers. A
Chemical concern has a cost-accounting problem now being
programmed.
When the machine starts working the chemical firm will
be billed for time in use at $300 an hour. It can engage
the machine for as short a period as an hour, but this
particular problem will run about 100 hours.
Asked how long it would take a man to work out the
problem on a hand-calculator: ‘Two thousand five hundred
years", the reply was.”
[ So far as I am concerned I do not need a machine that
will save me two thousand five hundred years, do you? But
isn’t this a wonderful era? And yet men and women will
continue to believe firmly that two and two are only four,
regardless of the weather or the smile of the merchant.
I have great respect for Iowa: it produces fine people.
So I feel deep concern over the problem of low prices for
cattle. Here is an interesting account:
“The first fresh green of spring is beginning to touch
the rich, rolling farmlands around this town in the heart of
the Iowa cattle-feeding country. But blue is the prevailing
mood, both among the feeders and the merchants of Neola,
Iowa.
The mood could spread. What’s happening to the rich
farm market hereabouts under the impact of profitless
farming could be instructive to many businessmen from
Pittsburg steelmakers to Oregon lumbermen.
Farmer Walt. Wellman summed up the view of many
farmers: I’ve justf got to curtail my buying. I was going
to get a new tractor and might have purchased a new car,
but they’re out now’.
About 90 percent of the farmers here in Pottawattamie
County are cattle feeders. They buy calves weighing about
400 pounds and fatten them for a year or more; they also
purchase heavier beeves (700 to 900 pounds) and fatten
them for six months or so before shipping them to market.
They raise most of the com the cattle eat.
This has been a highly profitable operation during most
of the post-war period. But since late last summer cattle
prices have flopped hard. From a price of 31 cents a pound
in September, only five cents below the postwar high,
slaughter steers have fallen to about 21 cents.”
A Clarendon County farmer sold his cattle for less than
twenty one cents.
Our Iowa friends will sympathize with the cotton far
mer who finds the price below his expectations.
A great secretary makes a great chief, I used to hear.
There is a lot of truth in that. A top executive may become
so absorbed in the big problems that he forgets many little
things. And the little things count. The capable secretary
keeps her finger on details — Mr. X’s birthday; the death
of Mr. Y’s wife; Mr. A’s new job; Mr. B’s invitation to
play golf; and dozens of other things, the little attentions'
that make up life for so many. Many a man owes a great
debt to his secretary. Well secretaries of the Number One
variety are hard to find; most of them are already em
ployed.
One night several of us were talking and one man told
us what he thought of heaven. He covered the subject so
well, thought ponderously, that I tried to approach from
another angle. So I told him that the ancients conceived
of heaven as the ideal, the farthest reach of the imagination
in terms of happiness. Then I mentioned the stalwart
Norsemen who thought of heaven, Valhalla, as the place
where they would rise in the morning to engage in bloody,
hand-to-hand battle, but at sundown the fighters, both
dead and alive, responded to the bugle call to cease fight
ing and one and all were revived and spent hours drinking
until they fell under the table.
I said, “on that ground I could imagine the happy land
to be a place where one might find a stenographer who
could take dictation rapidly and accurately and could trans
cribe it nicely, cleanly, and in good style, also spelling, pun
ctuating, capitalizing, paragraphing, quoting — everything
correctly done”.
There are such people, as you know, but they are rare. So
ponder this:
“Almost everybody these days is shorthanded on short
hand. So says the president of one large New York concern
with branches in most major cities. His remarks pretty
well sums up the findings of a cross-country check on the
secretarial supply situation. Talks with executives, employ
ment agencies and secretaries themselves indicate that the
efficient well-trained ‘Girl’ can pick her job and working
conditions most places.
A Los Angeles employer offers free vitamins to secre
taries in an effort to keep them on his payroll. ‘When it
comes to secretaries, we can offer you quantity, but not
quality’, says a St. Louis employment service manager. ‘It’s
a bargaining proposition, with the good secretaries naming
their own terms’.
The secretary to a Detroit auto executive says a large
Michigan chemical firm “is pestering the life out of me.
They’ll pay my transportation, my room and board for two
weeks, and they promise to wine and dine me — if only I’ll
work for them.’
A look at Census figures gives a national view. Between
1940 and 1950 the total U. S. population rose from 131.7
millian to 150.7 million. But the number of females age 20
years to 24 years remained stationary at 5.9 million for
both years. The number of girls between age 15 years and
age 19 actually was lower in 1950 than in 1940. There were
6.2 million in 1940, only 5.4 million in 1950.
There are exceptions, of course, to the general trend
of good secretaries being hard to find. Most employment
agencies agree they’re scarce. Si do a majority of employ
ers, although a fairly large minority claim they have no
trouble meeting their needs.
More typical, however, is this comment: ‘When a guy
loses a secretary around here, it’s a major tragedy’,”
PIG CAST . . . It Is always difficult ta mare a baaifc af pigs. This
type cart, which mast aay fanner eaa build, wffll make the Jet
easy. The gate Is at the end and put aa with hiagee.
I T IS becoming increasingly clear
to Washington observers that
Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wiscon
sin is becoming a serious problem
for the Eisenhower administration.
And it is becoming more evident
with each passing day that eventu
ally the Pres'dent is going to be
forced, if he is to retain a firm
grip on the reins of his administra
tion, to “smack down" the senator
from Wisconsin.
The Bohlen incident and agree
ment with Greek ship owners, the
latter being a case where McCar
thy took credit for much good work
previously done by the State De
partment, points up the fact that
McCarthy is the leader of a small
group who are anti-Eisenhower.
It is reliably reported that Pres
ident Eisenhower was very angry
at the dangerous split that the two
incidents caused within the party
and the administration. The Presi
dent did everything in his power to
keep the peace. But many observ
ers say he has been pushed just
as far as he will go and that a
showdown is in the making
This showdown is likely to come
when Senator McCarthy turns all
his guns on Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles. Because McCarthy
is reported to have stated we’re
going to get Dulles’ head. In other
words, after having made a repu
tation with his attacks upon Dean
Acheson, he is prepared to go for
ward with attacks upon Mr. Dulles.
It is impossible to believe
President Eisenhower will sit on
the sidelines during such an at
tack. He is a man of great deter
mination once his mind is made up
and in the resulting explosion some
one is going to get hurt: Mr. Dulles,
the President, Mr. McCarthy, one
and all, to say nothing of the Re-
mihlican party and the nation.
• Farm prices are still much in
the news. And they are likely to
be so for considerable time to
come. The man who must solve
farm problems is Agriculture Sec
retary Ezra Taft Benson.
As Congressional Quarterly |
points out, Mr. Benson, who got a
salty taste of political storms dur
ing his first month in office, has
extensive administrative powers at
his command and already has used
some of them in past crisis.
Benson reported March 7 that he
had checked a two-year decline in
cattle prices without using gov
ernment financial aid. He said he
turned the trick by working to end
price ceilings, increase beef con
sumption and encourage more or
derly cattle marketing.
February 27, dealing with sag
ging butter prices, he took a dif
ferent tack, and announced he
would continue for another year
the government program of buying
butter at 90 per cent of parity
The Agriculture Act of 1949 and
related statutes give the Agricul
ture Secretary broad authority to
keep up farm prices. In part the
actions he can take are required
by law. But the statutes leave
many to his discretion.
He is required to support the
prices of certain commodities—the
six “basics,” which are corn, cot
ton, wheat, rice, peanuts, and to
bacco, and these “designated non
basics”: wool and mohair, tung
nuts, honey, milk, butterfat, and
milk and butterfat products. .
At present the required price
support level for the “basics” is
90 per cent of parity. The support
level of the designated “nonbas
ics” may vary within a prescribed
range, set by law at 60 to 90 per
cent, at the discretion of the Agri-
, culture Secretary
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INTELEIGRAMI
Check the correct word.
1. Brigham Yaung had (19) (50) wives.
2. Gypsies speak (Romany) (Hindi).
3. (N. Y. state) (Canada) has a larger population.
4. Istanbul is a city in (Turkey) (Bulgaria).
5. (Mayans) (Chinese) predated Spaniards in
Mexico.
6. Digit means (number) (stiffened).
7. Eddie Arcaro is a (golfer) (jockey).
8. (Covent Garden) (The Castle) is London’s
Opera House.
9. The Sorbonne is a (university) (fortress).
10. Crepe suzette is,(pastry) (fabric).
Total your points, scoring yourself 10 points for each
correct choice. A score of 0-20 is poor; 30-60, average;
70-80, superior; 90-100, very superior.
1—19. 2—Romany. 3—N, Y. state. 4—Turkey. 5—Mayans. 6—
Number. 7—Jockey. 8—Covent Garden. 9—University. 10—Pastry.
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It’s a Girl
By Hannah Smith
I T WAS downright silly, after
fourteen years, for Laura to
break down and cry. That’s what
her husband Joe pointed out to her
as he stood at the window with her
looking out at the cause of her
tears — their fourteen - year - old
daughter, Rosalie. Not that anyone
ever called her that. Ever since
Rosalie was three and kicked the
minister behind his pink clerical
ear, she had been known to all and
sundry as Butch.
“Butch.” Laura took one more
hopeless look at the jeansclad fig
ure hanging upside down from the
tree branch and groaned. “When
I think how much I dreamed of
having a girl!”
After three boys, it had seemed
like a miracle that morning in the
hospital when the nurse brought
her the joyous news—“It’s a girl!”
And such a pretty little girl.
Lying there in bed, Laura had
dreamed happily. Of pink pina
fores, of dancing school’and piano
lessor, of fairy costumes for
school plays.
-When Butch was four, Laura had
given the last of* the ragged, grass-
stained pinafores to the Good Will
and bought six pairs of blue jeans
with reinforced knees.
When Butch was eight, after the
fist fight at the tap dance recital,
Laura took her out of dancing
school and let her take the swim
ming lessons she begged for.
And at eleven, in the sixth grade
play, while the other little girls
flittered daintily in gilt-splashed
white crepe paper, Butch had been
the Hairy Ogre in a black* wig. a
foot-long beard and a mouthful of
horrible snaggle teeth.
*'I kept hoping and hoping,”
Laura said almost to herself,
“that she’d grow out of it.”
"I don’t see why you’re so up
set all of a sudden,” Joe said.
“She’s always been this way. What
set you off right now?”
"Don’t laugh, but I guess it was
seeing that boy—the one who moved
in next door yesterday. He’s an
awfully good looking kid. In a cou
ple of years—well, she could go to
dances and—” She broke off, mop
ping fresh tears.
“Oh, well,” Joe said, comfort
ingly if not convincingly. “Two
years is a long time. She can
change, I guess.”
“Not Butch. When the other girls
are dancing, she’ll probably be
under a car fixing a plugged gas
line or—”
“This the new boy?” Joe asked,
as a tall, black-haired boy in grey
flannels and a yellow sweater
strolled toward the noisy group
around the tree. Laura groaned
and nodded. Just as the newcomer
approached. Butch swung her legs
above her head and did a neat
double flip over the tree branch.
Laura’s groan stretched to a wail.
“Look at her! Just look! Blonde
hair a witch mop. Plaid shirt tail
flying. Dirty jeans. And barefoot.
Barefoot!”
“Watch out belowwww!” yelled
Butch, letting go of the branch.
Laura shut her eyes. She turned
her back to the window. “Butch, ’
she whispered in tones of undiluted
tragedy.
Joe was still watching. “Guess
that flop shook her up a little,”
he said. “She’s coming in.”
The door opened. Ollie Williams
was ahead. He was.looking back
over his shoulder, round-eyed.
Over Butch’s head, Laura saw that
the other boys were staring at the
pair in the doorway with the same
round-eyed bewilderment. Laura
stared, too.
The girl was leaning hard on die
yellow shoulder. Her blue eyes
looked wide, sweet, limpid. She
seemed frail, small, even ethereal.
“Does It hurt much?” Ollie was
asking, in a strange new voice.
"‘How many times do I have to
tell you. Ollie Williams,” said
Laura’s daughter, as the tall, dark
haired boy led her gently toward a
chair, “that my name Is Rosalie?”
FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1953
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|UJK0|JF “HOW TO STOP WORRYING ANDSTARTtIVING" +
M RS. ALICE HODGE, Roscoe, New York, was on the verge of a
nervous breakdown. As far as she was concerned, she was just
over-tired and very, very irritable. She was trying to help run the large
furniture business while caring for three young children at the sama
time—two real jobs for one person! But she managed to keep going
until her grandmother died. Then she was all done! She didn’t eat and
she couldn’t sleep. Every doctor said the same thing: “Rest, rela^
take it easy; go away on a nice long vacation.”
Fighting words when they are an impossibility!
Month after month passed and she went from bad
to worse. Then one day she met an old family friend
and he invited her to lunch. After listening to her
cares an’d woes for a while, he said, “How about
some advice from an old duffer? The first thing
that I would do if I were you, is to try to forget
about all these things that you can’t possibly do
anything about and try to accept the things that you
must face. Few people can live their lives exactly CARNEGIE
the way they would like to live them. Besides, you
have a job to do. Maybe it is a little bigger than the job* most people
fill, but I suspect you are not doing it well right now as you should—
nor as you could.”
Of all the people Alice Hodge had seen and talked with, this max
was the only one who came up with a common sense answer to her
problems. R was all the medicine she needed. From that time on she
tried to live constructively instead of destructively and, although it was
a long process, she gradually found herself feeling better and better.
Not only that, but she says she knows she became a much nicer person
to live with.
From the Ravenswood News,
Ravenswood, West Virginia. If, as
the federal reserve board appears
to suspect, “you are as rich as
you feel,” Americans are pretty
darn well heeled. To measure this
mental attitude, this financial con
fidence of the nation, the board
has had the University of Mich
igan interview 2,400 people in 66
different test areas during January
and February.
This is the eighth such annual
survey the board has made and
if their sampling technique is cor
rect:
More people are planning to buy
new carj', new homes, new furni
ture, T-V sets and washing ma
chines this year than in 1952. The
same number, approximately, plan
to buy refrigerators. And. natural
ly, more people think this is a good
time for major purchases than did
a year ago. Eighty per cent are
unworried about prices, believing
they will remain at present levels
or go down this year. In early
1951 and 1952, more than half ex
pected them to go up.
And ev'-n though experts are
pointing with alarm to the $23,700,-
000,000 the American public owes
the installment man, those who
have to get it up are feeling no
pain.
We still wonder who these people
are who get surveyed. Did you ever
get the treatment. We never did.
• • •
From the Catskill Mountain Star,
Saugerties, New York: The fellow
with the loudest mouth is usually
the one with the smallest brain
and seldom fails to advertise that
fact for some strange reason.
* • •
From the Dallas Part Cities
News, Dallas, Texas: The most
potent force we can have toward
combatting Communism is a cit
izenry aware of the workings and
dangers of Communism ... by
keeping tab on the propaganda line
as set forth in the party’s known
organs, we would be better able
recognize . . its more subtle
guise.
* • v
From the Denver Mining Record,
Denver, Colorado: The events lead
ing up to . . . the nationalization
of gold . . . actually amounted to
the robbery of a trusting, hard
working people who have as a re
sult lost not only their gold but
more than half the value of their
savings, pensions, life insurance,
etc. The government had not one
more whit of right to seize gold
than it had to seize the steel prop
erties.
• * *
From the Garden City News,
Garden City, N. Y.: America is a
little Noah’s Ark. It is sailing somn
uncharged and dangerous seas.
And the passengers have come
from every land in the world. For
us the promotion of brotherhood
is a necessity. With our heterogen
eous population we must actively
try to be tolerant, to see others’
point of view—or we will a If be in
peril.
CROSSWORD
PUZZLE
HORIZONTAL
1 Pouch
4 Eskimo boat
9 Meadow
12 Gold, in S.
American
countries
13 Feminine
name
14 Native metal
15 Variegated
with spots
17 Vegetable
19
20
21
23
Electrified
particle
Narrow
openings
Merriment
Hawaiian
wreath
Armed galley
of old North
men
Cover
Obese
Kind of shrub
Cooled lava
Obtained
Cunning
Note of scale
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34 Breathe
loudly asleep
36 A bribe
37 Part of boat
38 Withered
35 Occupied a
seat
40 Irish Gaelic
41 To hinder
43 Cereal grata
44 Planted
46 Wing
49 To mistake
50 Challenges
52 Vessel’s curv
ed planking
53 Form of
‘to be*
84 Trap
56 Golf mound
VERTICAL
1 Turf
2 A macaw
3 Patterned
4 Oven
5 Form of to be
8 Old pronoun
7 A lizard
• Card gam*
9 Untied
10 Sea eagle
11 Roman br
16 American
16
20 To place
21 Mirror
32 Climbing
plant
23 Buddti
pillar
PUZZLE NO. 2S4
25 Slaves
26 Island in
Mediterranean
28 Enemy
29 High
mountain
31 Cupidity
32 Drunkard
35 Commands
36 Sixty-sixties,
a Babylonian
numeral
37 Painter
38 Kind of ear
40 To bring
forth
42 Spreads for
drying
43 River of
Europe
44 To stitch
45 Period of
time
46 Through
47 Number
42 Brood of
^ pheasants
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