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Show Safarf Your Pocketbook Family Budget, Investment Are Still Biggest Worries only daily newspaper devoted to the progress and advancement of. Central Utah and its people Tr-- e AUGUST 301959 SUNDAY, Warped Ideas of Youngsters and workers who make astonishing demands in the way of salary and benefits, without offering convincing evidence of either ability or the willingness to work hard and learn. If the demands are not met, they look elsewhere, with a pre- A good house painter is a busy fellow these days most anywhere., Often he needs a helper. We know a skilled, conscientious painter who took on a boy of around 18. The boy seemed willing enough to' learn, and he soon was drawing $1.50 an hour, pretty fair country wages for a beginner. Not too- long afterward, however, the painter noticed that his boy was doing a pretty careless job. He was forgetting to paint whole sides of radiators, to finish off trim, and so on. The man found . he was spending hours tracking after his apprentice, redoing the unfinished work.: Listening to the painter's comHe plaints, the boy was unmoved. to do didn't say he would try better. He said:. "I won't beable' to work for you any more unless I get $2.00 an hour." That, needless to say, was the end of the boy's job. But the point here is that he is just one of countless youngsters, This is not the place to argue how the blame for this circumstance should be distributed. It IS the place to say a society is in trouble when any fair proportion of its young people imagines the world owes them a living and a good time. From parents on down the scale, it's time to tell them that they owe something to society, too. On this tough old crust, you earn' your way, one way or another, or in the end you flouder and go . under. . '" - ... Mll NEA Service. from Kansas began a series of treatments of. major consequence to the harassed citizens of that New York. City suburb. He's trying to rid thetown of Mail-Readi- rolling wooded area. To find playmates for his toddling kids he had to bundle them into the car and drive awhile. His only fairly close neighbor had no children. Protective barking dogs provided the noise. Today? New houses are closing in all around as the trees go down and the noise level goes up. But those aren't tree stumps he can see from his windows. They're kids' heads. The neighborhood kiddie-coun- t, way out there in the lonesome woods, is up to ten. The population is bursting, all right. Right in your face, where-evyou are. lect a big, fat fee. The interesting thing is how he does it. He drives the birds away with noise, a very special kind of noise. It's produced by loudly clapping together two pieces "ofmetal, and mingling with that racket the gentle pealing of a chime. The successful practitioner of this antistarling treatment, one Otto Standke, confesses he doesn't know why the thing . works. But i it does. er The Chopping Block ' u A few things are being overlooked. The whole thing is based on the belief that America cannot avoid ever increasing prosperity, and that private enterprise is what everybody wants. I saw a set of statistics the other day which showed that only ten years ago Federal and state taxes amounted to about 65 billion dollars. This year they will reach around 135 billion dollars. This isn't all waste. Most of it has come about because the ASM. public demands ever increasing service. It no longer depends upon private thrift for security in old age, but upon the government to provide security. It demands free diapers at birth, and a handsome coffin at death, and every available luxury in between. We deplore statism in theory, and demand it in practice. I received a bulletin the other day from a well known economic research bureau which supplies information to speculators in the stock market. They assert that continued increase in national prosperity is a myth, and that a crash is inevitable. Over production at home, and a saturation of foreign markets will be responsible. The wise money, they say, is taking to cover, and the poor dupes who believe that America's economic prosperity can never falter are going to be put through the wringer. The brokers and commission men who profit on every transaction, of course, are still singing the same old song. And why shouldn't they, since their businesses to harvest a crop of suckers? It's popular to bow to the sickle. , feeble-minde- Without wishing to get my .whiskers caught in the wringer I finda little amusement in the dispute about the truck Voute west of Utah Lake. Common sense, of course, would dictate that it should be there, It's' a shorter route, and would relieve the pressure of our other overcrowded highways. It's most beneficient result, I think, would be to allow people to hear their own and the voices f others in the towns through which the trucks now pass. The way people on Main Street in Springville, for instance, have to shout at each other above the noise of the trucks makes roe wonder why they don't all go in for making popular records, for the sounds they make sound very much like the voices of the new crop of singers. Weird, man, weird! But 7 guess I can understand why the businesmen all want the truck traffic to continue. For them to protest would be like me protesting the noise of the lawn mower when my neighbor, Janet Marh, comes up here every week to 'mow our lawn out of the goodness of her heart, because she is afraid I'll collapse if I try to do it. I'm not above letting her think she is right as perhaps she is. -- . , Is Mechanical Marvel WASHINGTON. I walked into the room and there was this machine sitting over in a corner reading the mail and tossing envelopes into different chutes. And in another corner was another mechanical monster shooting envelopes down a metal alley for cancellation, en route flipping over the upside down one and rejecting those withput stamps. What I had walked into was Postmaster General Arthur E. Sum-merfiel- d's de- postal fantasyland, designed to meet the space-ag- e mands for speed in the mails. Then there was this robot substation that did everything for you, short of reaching into your pocket for the stamp money. An automatic parcel post machine, for instance, hummed along ' toting a package onto a scale, weighed it, checked on the proper postal zone, figured out the exact postage and insurance, totaled it all up, made change and sent the package xiown a chute out of sight. -- , . to separate mail for all states simply by reading the how I presumed that from there it went down a mechanical conveyor to a rocket with Postmaster standing by in his office to push the starter button by remote control. In this postal carnival, the thin that had me spellbound was that g machine. It's still experimental, but it's more human than some humans I know. mail-readin- It does is to recognize the of a city. And in a name printed split second, it casts the envelope into its proper slot. Right .now, it's capable of identifying 20 different cities on a given setting, rejecting anything it doesn't recognize or handwriting that's illegible. Soon, its inventors, The Intelligent Machines Research Corp. of Alexandria, Va., expect to teach it What Herald Correspondents - listed also They stand ready to help you with problems concerning delivery of the paper. Name Phone Community i Alpine Marlene Avery .... SK American Fork Dena Grant SK Karma Criddle .v.. SK American Fork (Circ). Jennie Gilbert PI. Gr. SU Benjamin 0119-R- 3 Mrs. J. R. Peay Edjjemont Laura N. Bendlxsen FR Goshen. Elberta Marguerite Waterbury Lake Shore Alba J. Anderson ! . . 0410-J- 1 Lake View, Vineyard Mrs. Kent A Prue AC Lehi Edna Loveridge .... PO Lehi, (Circ). PO Paul Willes Linaon Velma Walker Mapleton Mrs. Preston Hooper HU Nephi 471-Mrs. Grace Judd "21 Mr. and Mrs Lee Bailey Orem Carma Andersen . . . AC Orem. (Circ.) Karl Wood AC . Orem Office ..AC Palmyra ..0311-R- 3 Shirlene Ottesen Payson .223-- J Madoline Dixon 327 Amber Jackman Pleasant Grove Marilynn Potter . . SU 2 82 3 Guy Hillman sports SU Pleasant Grove (Circ.) SU Jennie Gilbert Pleasant View Yvonne Perry .... .. . ..FR Salem O107-R- 1 Margrette Taylor Santa quin 9902 Estella Peterson Spanish Fork .... 988--297 Frank G King Virginia Evans, society . . Spanish Fork (Circ.) 297 B. Davis Evan Spring Lake O303-J- 2 Tressa Lyman Springville Josephine Zimmerman HU Evelyn Boyer. society HU West Mountain ...0100-J- 5 Ever Bishop 55 33 38 95 W ........ ......... ........ 5-- ...... W .... ...... Tell Me Why - human hands." It's frightening in a way. Those postoffice robots may relegate us humans to second-clas- s people. What x But to get back to earth.. ... I wonder what happened - to that parcel post package that was' mailed to me from Los Angeles three weeks ago? Win the Britannica play Misses Evelyn and Mabel tt of Lakewood, Ohio, have a pretty good hunch that, when they retire, they will spend a good bit of their time in a one-roosrhoolhouse which their mother once attended, and where ghe taught in 1898. Two years, ago, they and their Mrs. Grace mother,, Trowbridge DeWitt, bought the white frame building that once housed old South School, an historic old landmark at Fowler Center hear Youngstown, Ohio. This ts' is some 70 miles from the present home. Then the three women launched tt the McGuffey Museum and a Crafts Shop, project th.it started with moving the 24x25-fobuilding a half mile to th Do-Wi- m ld De-Wit- Da-Wi- 100-ac- re Trowbridge family farm. Jt included renovating the building, some of this a job, and installing it in the McGuffey Reader collection that is one of Mrs. DeWitt's treasures, and also a gift shop. "We hope to make this a center for people fro.n the countryside," surrounding Mrs. DeWitt said. "We want to have classes in such subjects as genealogy, needlework, ceramics, shellcraft and textile painting. The DeWitts will recruit instructors for some of their classes. Mrs. DeWitt herself has gained a reputation for dramatic recitations, so she will put this talent to use and again turn teacher. Another old South School pupil, Samuel Scovil, offered he DeWitts an 1846 map of the countryside and an old ,pump organ for their museum-recreatio- n center. Miss Mabel is an accomplished organist, so she plans to elf learn-ing-and-f- . un for the entertainment care of this paper. Today's winner is: Valerie Harris, 10, Ottawa, Canada of visitors. Other exhibits that will interest people rof all ages' are a dress which Airs. DeWitt's mother wore when she attended old South School during Civil War days, i iongbook of the 1870s, and an jld bell, dictionary and a chart of ih solar system that were part of the school's equipment. The DeWitts were delighted with the excellent condition of th old building's white oak framework. They replaced the yellow poplar siding with Philippine mahogany. They added knotty pint paneling and an ironstone fireplace. Miss Evelyn is librarian for a lav, firm. Her sister is a secretary at an insurance agency. "We're spending every weekend at the project now," Miss Evelyn said. "If it is successful, Mab?I, and I won't need to look for a postretirement hobby." Q What is .the main requirement of a bland diet? li. R. F. A Foods in a bland diet should have the least possible amount of roughage., or residue. Q I'm 75 and have always don a lot of walking. I hike a couple of miles a day. My children, aNad ' my grandmother, too, are beginning , to nag about this. They tell me I should ride instead of walk when I want to go to the corner store. What do you think? .J.G. A I'd say that, II you have been a walker all your life, it's probably a good idea to continue, so long as you don't overdo. Just to be safe, and .to satisfy your children and grandchildren, why don't you ask your doctor about this, next time you have a physi' f cal? sible," "unthinkable," and "unsuitable" when those words are based in such worldly consideraas a difference in background, women, social position, education and so on. We love to see love's young dream triumph over any and all obstacles. That appeal of the Cinderella story is to our romantic natures. The second appeal isn't quite as tions ; marks. A considerable amount of superstition and many wrong ideas exist" concerning birthmarks. Some people believe that they are caused by fright or some 6ther exciting experience the mother has before the birth of the child. This is definitely not true. Actually, the cause of moles is not known, nor does medical sci-- ; ence know how to prevent their appearance. Moles are generally brown of black, though there are some that are red or blue. If left alone, birthmarks rarely cause any harm to the individual. Almost everyone has at least one mole, and there are some people who have dozens in various parts of their body. Moles can appear on almost every part of the skin, In. , " Triumph of True Love er junior The medical name for a mole which is present at birth or devel' ops shortly, after birth, is a nevus." they are also known as birth- Ruth Millett There - are "two reasons why a true-lif- e Cinderella story like the romance of young Steven Rocke-le-lland the pretty girl .who worked in his home as a maid never fails to intrigue and delight the public. The first is the triumph of true love over adverse circumstances. We love a lover who refuses to listen ' to such words as "impos a Mole? encyclopedia for school and. home. Send your questions, name, age, address to ?TelI Me Why!" m By MARIE DAERR Is By A. LEOKUM Sisters Plan Fun, Learning In One-RooSchoolhouse ot Here are Herald staff correspondents ........ , Happy Times . in the various communities of Utah County. Contact them if you have news. District circulation agents are . 50 en-- velopes. Mr. Summerfield was milling around the big room across the halL from his private office! cackling over those inventions like a proud hen over a brood of fine, new chicks. This was just the beginning in his march of progress toward automation, he was saying. Out in Oakland, Calif., for instance, his Rube Golberg Buck Rogerses were drawing up a postoffice building that would be completely automatic except for the postmaster and a few other humans. Mr. Summerfield will be spending $80 million just for research and development this year. This man is all for speeding up the Sum-merfie- ld So These Are the "Facts By FRANK C. ROBERTSON The government's disclosure off "the true facts in the steel strike was greeted by paeons of great joy by both sides, each claiming that.it proved what they had been saying all along that the other side was guilty of un- mitigated greed. And of course it did just that, to the astonishment of nobody except those biased partisans who believe that their side can do no wrong. It proved that the steel companies could raise wages, or lower prices if they wanted to. It proved that the Mr. Robertson steel workers are already far better paid than other workers. And it proved that the administration is unwilling to dc anything about it to protect the public interest. It proved that the consumer has been, and is going to get it worse, in the nck. For the eventual solution, fcr which a government which believes in doing nothing, will take to itself great credit, will be that the union will get an increase in wages, the price of steel will go up and so will everything else. d The public will dig. deeper into its ieans,' and hail a great victory for private enterprise. As usual, the rich will come out of it a little richer, and the poor a little poorer. There are inklings that some of the public may be growing a little"8 weary with strikes and increases in the cost of living. The unions have made another blunder by demanding that the public help share the burden of getting them more loot. Asking that the strikers be supported from public welfare funds is not sitting good with many' people, for it coms straight" out of their taxes, al. ready unbearably high. Nobody wants to see anybody go hung ry, but people who work for two dollars an hour, or less, are going to resent haying their taxes increased to support others who have been drawing more than three dollars per hour, and who if successful in their strike will make the take home pay of those with fixed incomes still less. It is doing the cause of unionism no good whatever where public relations are concerned, but it is in line with the public be damned attitude of both sides. Other strikes have begun, or are in the making, and the public will have to bear me Duraen ox sustaining tnem aiso. uut any demand for ah economic court to decide the issues meets with cries of protest that it would interfere with private ' enterprise. By ED KOTERBA He was smack in the middle of a have made community life miserable- at dusk for something like a decade. If he succeeds, nVll col- Machine ng , years ago. All he "could see out of the windows was sky and trees. clattering starlings- who .r Assignment: Washington the suburban, fringes about ten - -- L. explosion" is something you capjj find only on the big board ovown at the Census Bureau, look again. Fellow we know moved out to old Inc'V ; If you think the "population Up in Mt. Vernon, N.Y., the fellow other day, a ; u No Place to Hide They Got the Message 10,000 n. . Employers the nation over can tell you stories of young applicants 71-year-- . -- entering the labor market either temporarily or permanently, who think the world owes them a good wage whether they work well or , l- turn. - not. . sumptive arrogance that would ill befit them even if 'Jthey were loaded with talent. In this age we get an awful lot of this business of the young demanding things, from their parents, their friends, tljeir schools, their employers, without feeling it necessary to offer much in re- ... Next most frequently asked in By FAYE HENLEY . Want to know what is worrymy mail: I'm a novice," but I'd like to ining your neighbor? . vest Who can help me? I've sorted the masses of letThe logica' place rto turn is to ters I've received during just the your banker, Explain that 'you've past four weeks. A host of probtwo so many dollars that you want are are lems , aired, but here to of the most frequently recurring, invest. Br specific about what , you want your investments to do along with answers I trust; that . v'j, . will be helpful: for you. '"; Biggest headache of 'cm all is Perhaps you're building toward retirement' and are satisfied as the family budget. The statistics that float across ' anyone can be with your present -' desk Perincome. In that case you'll want three prove my things: stocks that will gain in value in sonal income is the highest ever. the future and you'll be less inAt an annual rate of 376.4 billion terested ' in the current return. dollars during the first six months of this yeai , it showed a 4 per Or you may wish tn augment simover the your cur. ent income. In that case cenj per capita gain ilar 1958 period. Savings f banks you'll want issues that offer as handsome "a return as po;sible all deposits, compared with a year the while guarding your capital. ago, are dropping. The cost of Or you may be in the mood for living is still rising. a flyer. Under sucfc circumstances, how are you going to balance the till? Depending upon the amount of I'll wage: that you who ask money you have to invest and the results you seek your banker will keep no careful records of what guide you. He may offer you the you spend. Go over services of his banK, if his is a back . your spending bank or trust com- the commercial months. several past during or he See how much of it for which pany, may suggest you go ste a stockbroker. In that case, you can account. If you discover feel free to ask for a recommen-datioa sizeable' sum that you have no He will probably suggest f idea how ou spent do this: Write down what you expect several amerent jirms, 11 there is a choice in your locale. your income will be for the balAs in everv profession, there ance of the year. Under this are ng, fixed list expenses-housigood, mediocre , and poor your figure stockbrokers. Also you will disdeb you'll have to meet cover that your personality might-messuch as insurance premiums, with one;broker, clash with charges for items bought with another. credit. Estimate how much you'll need for food, clothing, medical Speak with your prospective " stockbroker at length. If he is expenses, education, recreation, etc. Total these figures and subeager to know your totd financial tract from what you expect to picture so that he car plan an investment program tailored to earn. This should give you a good idea of where you stand. your needs, he is the man, for The way bankers figure it, you. If his attitude is a disinterested one here are a couple of reckoning today's high living mail,' and no telling what he'll 10 be should costs, you suggestions, take 'em orleave saving come up with. to 15 per- -' cent of your income,. 'em leave him. You arethe boss, x I can just see .what will happen he is selling a service and you spending 15 to 30 per cent for someday at our house in Bethesda, should deal only with someone in' housing, 15 to 40 per cent for food, Md. This metal creature will ring 10 to 18 per cent for clothing, 9 whom you can have confidence. the front-doo- r bell and our dog will Be selective. to 10 per cent for transportation. rush out and break her teeth on" its iron bones. Then the automaton, its head flashing yellow, green and purple lights, will thrust a handful of letters at me' all stamped with the snide notation"untouched by . 6 cluding the scalp. Most moles appear just before or after birth, but some develop at puberty. Since moles often appears on the face and in other prominent places, they can affect the appearance, considerably. A little mole on the skin is even sometimes called a "beauty spot." But when a mole is very large and unattractive, covered with hairs, it can be quite embarrassing to the person. In such cases they can be removed, often without even leaving a scar. Sometimes people are concerned about moles because of the possibility that the mole will be transformed Into a cancerous growth. While this does sometimes happen1, It is a very rare condition, and most people who have moles should have no reason to fear it. If a mole is not very disfiguring, . naively charming. It has a touch of malice in it. We like to think of all the Mama's with social ambitions for the daughters who must be gnashingtheir teeth at th thought of a Cinderella getting such a catch. How some of those Mamas must have pulled strings to give their daughters a chance to meet young Rockefeller. It's safe to bet that some of those Mamas were making their plans before the Rockefeller heir was out of his playpen. The thought of their discomfort now Is nothing short of delightful for human nature always snickers when the best laid plans of mice and men and socially ambitious mothers go awry. Even the original Cinderella story had both of these appeals. For the of the stepmother who threw her own daughters at the Prince's head gives the reader almost as much satisfaction as the triumph of poor little Cinderella. come-uppan- ce and is not located in an area where can be frequently irritated or injured, the best thing to do is leave it alone. Moles which appear on ' the soles of the feet, palms of the hands, collar line of the neck or belt line of the waist, might have to be removed. This is also true of any mole which increases in size rapidly, changes color, scales,' itches, or bleeds. Thf nnlv rwirsnn urtifl shnnld vcr remove a mole is a doctor and absolutely no one else! it" FUN TIME The Chuckle Box . Ricky: How much weight can you carry? .Mickey: About 100 pounds. Ricky: What would you do if you had to rescue a 200 pound man? Mickey: I'd make two ' tripe. e , , Housewife: Is this milk fresh? Grocer. Lady, three hours age it was grass! . PICTURE SECRET Add and eubtract the letter im the names of the things shown. Clue: It's always coming in and going out. i 'i . V Win the Britannica World Atlaf or Yearbook of Events. Send your rid- dles, jokes, tricks to "Tell Me Why!" Today's winner Is: Cheryl Weller, 1J, Vero Beach. Fit. So They Say Despite the fact that we may expect to be nauseated by a torrent of gush, adulation, sentimentality and mawkishness . . . we wish the newcomer well. - London's Communist Daily Worker, on the announcement that Queen Elizabeth expected a third child. Let there be no cheers for the Red dictator, no crowds assembled to greet him, no flattery or flowers. Let pur people be civil but silent. Sen. Thomas J. Dodd on the forthcoming visit of Nikita Khrushchev. (D-Conn- .), I realize a movie actor is in offbeat breed of cat to the mili- tary establishment. But there's nothing that says an actor can't be a man who can do an effective job as an officer with duties that normally befall an airman. Actor Jimmy Stewart, recently promoted to brigadier general in the Air Force. |