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Show Will, Over His Dead Body" I Your Pocketbook Changes Are Urged to Ease Present Retirement Laws daily newspaper devoted t6 tne progress arid advancement of Central Utah and its people The-onl- y By MARIE DAERR SUNDAY, DECEMBER 131959 the Era of the Ex We live in cuse. Whatever the offense 'against society, major or minor, a good in the' courts, in other , many government bodies, in the social agencies, in the family and among the citizens generally will search out an excuse. Too often blame will be fastened on other people, or on any of a hundred social and economic factors bad housing; poor schools, tensions of overcrowding, broken J no Irxrirr m rtf Vt otC it. t tl aonar-geare- a m "Tn. econ- - petitions oi a omy, etc. j ' One need not minimize the?; power of many of these factors! It is real. ,But itfisn't so great that in the vast majority of cases itjj . , Lona and Short of It i i . . The voters of this country! sometimes seem to reward political!; shenanigans almost as if theyj' were a proof of honor. The late James M. Curley of Boston won their support as mayor while serving a jail sentence. It has happened, elsewhere. Gov. Earl Long, of Louisiana evidently thought he might win g endorsea similar heart-warmin- ment after his series of free-- ; wheeling escapades earlier this year. He misjudged the voters o hisr state. .uegauy ne couian t run ?or governor; again, so he had a hahdj picked candidate in the race, a!nq he himself ran for lieutenant governor. Naturally he hoped they'd be statehouse mates. Neither one of them made iti Long's man ran fourth for goverj nor, and Long came up third in a field of six for lieutenant goverr nor, i j It ilooks as if the i dynasty Lofrg ? so nara to tKeep gom t nas mea needs a new dynamo. -- -- 1 i T I j I , 1 1 i can overcome the power of the human will. The theory! of the excuse seems to assume that none of us have any will, that we are wholly the creatures of outside forces. . So when a youngster goes wrong, few in this day say: "He did wrong. He is guilty. There is no excuse He should be punished." The quest begins for the circumstance that) will wash him free of blame. If a 'i can't hancjjr object of blame be found, like a drunken father or an unloving mother, then one of the more impersonal forces has to be chosen. The - search reached heights of absurdity some years back when, after it wa's disclosed that a sizable number of college youths had taken bribes in New York to throw basketball games, somebody popped up to blame their long subway ride to and from school. j it'vki.--pNEA Service, It truthful I really said, "It just in'(t possible, that there can be a public book tore in Provo, Utah with an unrestricted' book inventory. So the friend who had told me there was, insisted on falling ine up to the Cottage Book, Store to see the store and meet Jacob Huaet- . znan, the proprietor. It was. there all right, and is as pleasant and well ordered a place of its kind as I have ever seen. Although I had forgotten his name; I ' in remembered having met "Mr. Heinerman several times in a book victims of crime. Any society wishing to endure must- have, internal peace and order, and that means it must have laws which hold men accountable for their wrong acts in all but the rarest and most special circumstances. j d soft-spoke- n, . isj-base- ' -- e fJu&Ar.?-'-i Czechs Need American Dollars to Buy at Tuzex Czech-speaki- ie, SOMEWHERE IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA In a small town outside Prague where the families of collective farmers live, I was being introduced around. "Here we have an American!" my guide yelled at an old woman sitting behind a window. The window flung open. "Dolare! Americanski dolare!" That's what I signified to her: American dollars. On my arrival by train in Prague, a porter who knew no English but could spot an American through the misty darkness, grabbed my bags. He was .nearly seven feet tall, lanky, emaciated. His fingers were long and txny, and they twitched. He put a death hold on the bags. "Wre will walk to the hotel," he said. I protested. It did no d good. We cut across the wooded park. Suddenly, the man crossed in front and blocked me with ray own bag. He leaned down.' "Say," he said, "you don't happen to have a spare American dollar on you, g," on. People who are willing .to excuse so much wrongdoing may! build a society in which it could, ulti- mately, engulf them. Frank, have you read all those?" Or By pAYE IIENLE ""very one of us appears to.be for more leisure. Shorter working hours are a stated gojl. Spending to pursue our pleasures, which has increased t$y 40 per cent in the past six years, shows signs of increasing momentum. By nexi year, it is predicted son.e 36 million families will enincomes in excess joy after-ta- x of $4,000, and will control something like 60 per cent of the nation's 135 billion dollars in discretionary income. In another 10 years it is expected that 25 inmillion families will after-ta- x comes of over $7,500. This 40 per cent of the population will control 85 per cent of discretionary spending. Discretionary dollars are those dollars which we have left over after we have paid taxes and bought shelter, food, clothing and other necessities. The prediction is that this Christmas will see retail sales One high. hitting an reason for this is that while the steel strike has hugged the nation's spotlight, thousands upon thousands of workers in other industries have been quietly hikes. wage granted Another reason is our impatience to own both the device that makes leisure possible and those that make leisure fun. It is expected that consumer credit soon will push past the e mark to hit an high. Dollar-wis- e, how big is our leisure ' market currently? What does it constitute? The, total volume is estimated at 41 billion dollars. The largest share, 16.8 billion, is spent' on clamoring " do you?" The lust for U.S., green in Czechoslovakia is a disease. It's more than that: it's a way of life. Another man offered me 30 crowns for a dollar. Official rate of exchange for Czechs is seven crowns to the dollar. Had I taken him up on his black-markoffer, we both could have landed in et jail. Why the,, fuss for the dollar? all-ti- hard one Tuzex. thing Tuzex is a department store, a mail-ordhouse, the clearing house for major foreign goods at prices; that are only What you cannot buy in Czechoslovakia, else anywhere can at Tuzex. you buy To the poor, shabby Czech, Tuzex is like a Taj Mahal encrusted with diamonds and piled full of shiny gold. To the Communists, Tuzex is a gimmick be it legal or illegal a scheme to get their hands on hard currency .which they need intensely for international trade and they make no bones about to the Czechs: er half-iddiculo- 37, 80. : it- - . us. one-ten- all-tim- So They Say After a month of stopping my countrymen from escaping to freedom, I decided to escape myself. Andrei Hanc, a Czech who fled through the Iron Curtain after being assigned as a border guard. 1 We never pay enough prize money to make cheating worthwhile. Mogens Lind, Danish TV personality, .saying o ' shows in Denmark are on " the . up-and-- up. : velope, with their own money. But that was another world ago 11 years. (Copyright, 1959, by United Features Syndicate Inc.) is' j present law: Increasing the m a x 1 m u tn amount of earnings subject to . social security. Relating benefits of those now starting to receive social security to present wage levelsf j alAdjusting benefits of those ready receiving social security!. "Many people have no permanent income except social security," he said. "We must keep benefit payments in line with the general level of the economy." -- . Q I am a widow 47 with two children over 18. I have a houU from which I can't get any income, because it is too far awiy from town. I have no training for a job. I' have savings jof $38,000 What kind of investments would you advise? Mrs. S.Z A In your, case, I would advise considering mutual funds. n Consult your bank or a securitves broker about your specific situation. Regarding a job, have you thought jof Uo n working as an older person or invalid? j Q I'm a widow who has; Re- benefits. , Another 200,000 who1 earn between $1,200 and $2,800 and who now get only partial benefits, depending on how much they earn. About 1.4 million older people who are still working full time and who have earnings over $2 800. No social security benefits are paid these people or their dependents. David, who addressed the University of Michigan's annual Conference on Aging, said the s' part of any funds spent to ease the present retirement laws w'uld go to this third group. "Withnhe many unmet needs among the aged, this doesn't seem the best use of funds from the social insurance program," he said. David reported that more than 90 per cent of those now working can look forward to getting some kind of insurance benefits in old agn. In 1952 the figure wasi less Tell Me well-know- will find a notice which reads: "You have, credited! to your account (so nurse-companio- cently moved into an apartment building. I know no- one jjejre. Would it be "nervy" of me to - have a tea. And ed invite the other women in! the f building? L.F.R. ,A I think it's a splendid Idea. A friend of mine did just thlsl in .... n . l-- l Tl A --4 was a great success and started f many new friendships. Winds Hove Different Names i recreation and domestic travel. Five billion dollars goes for the of purchase and maintenance radios, TV sets, phonographs and tape recorders. Some 3.5. billion dollars is spent on gardening equipment; 2.3 billion on overseas travel and 2.1 billion each on boating and photography. To those who sell leisure-tim- e merchandise, this looks good. Bui a note of warning comes a from a group representing much broader segment of bur economy. Studying the prerequisites for our economic growth: in relation to that of other nations, the National Industrial Conference Board points out: "The American preference for more leisure may be among the factors contributing toward a lower rate of economic growth in this country than in others during the past decade." Conference For generations Board members note, Americans , have preferred more leisure to more goods. They ask whether something must not give in the U.S. structure ofwage and capital costs that will improve our competitive position in wbrld ; , markets. ' can have quite a few faults and still be better than no husband at all. Yet it's surprising how many wives don't think of that until after they've broken up a marriage and are living alone. They've let themselves concentrate so hard Ort a husband's faults that completely overlooked are the advantages marriage offers a woman even when her husband is far from perfect. Before she starts talking about divorce, a wife ought to make sure that life wtihout a husband isn't going to be drearier than life with a husband who- has faults From a purely selfish point of view a wife should consider that divorce is going to cost her the A husband - . VVhy 3 " The question is also raised as to .whether we can continue to center our economic growth around the satisfaction of individual desires for more and more leisure as well as high material standard while we live in a world wherein growth targets in other nations do not necessarily match our own peaceful aims. No one says that we njust choose to alter the direction of our economic growth today. But as you listen ;to your new hi-by the cozy fireside, recall that no. one has said that we might not have to choose tomorrow. fi th T Czech strange money game, this is. There was the time when Czechs could buy in any store Wife May Regret Divorce hard-mone- the a Ruth Millett worth-lessne- ss j me . - There are Tuzex stores in four Czech cities. You buy only by coupon. You get seven crowns of Tuzex coupons for a dollar in any bank no questions asked. In Tuzex, for example, imported coffee costs only $2 a the pound less than cost outside. At Tuzex you can buy a Czech Tatra car for $2,300. The normal Czech cost, in crowns, is $13,000. Gasoline there is to cents a gallon. Elsewhere it's $2.25 a gallon. y These "values" at Tuzex prove the virtual of the crown. This demoralizes the thinking Czech but. what can he do about it? How do the fortunate ones get their hands on U. S. money? Mostly, relatives ur the States send it. But all envelopes are opened, by the state and any money removed. It's unlawful for a Czech to possess American dollars. Instead of money in the en- It's For Our Love or Leisure? dimly-lighte- dollar or any other currency means foreign Tuzex coupoh.) What Price Might We Pay -- A admittance to most Tuzex stores if you're not able to flash a j Happy Times ; anti-socia- . ng articles.) : ed Editor's note: An intimate picture .of life behind the iron curtain of Czechoslovakia is revealed by our 'Washington correspondent, Ed Koterba, on a visit to his parents' homeland. This is the sixth of 12 , We now have, in law, a category called "justifiable homicide." In we this age' of also have, iti fact if not in law, "excusable homicide," "excusable burglary," ""excusable assault," and "so "excusable so-call- many dollars), converted into Tuzex coupons." Should someone ' inherit, say $10,000, the Communists will likewise take the money and give coupons. One of the most pitiful sights in all Czechoslovakia is the hungry look of the old woman who gazes by the hour at a Tuzex window. (You can't gain By ED KOTERBA ( . He urged these change in the big-ge- - some say in awed voices, "Did you write all those?" I recall one neighbor who said, "Somejday I think I'd like to read a book." But it took a broken leg to get him to do it. Oddly enough, he borrowed a lot of books when he couldn't get out of bed, and found that he liked reading. The decline of reading began with the rise of the craze for recreation. If you can't talk about cars, boats, guns or phonograph records you are considered an ignoramus, or worse, a square or an egghead. ln college the stress is l. It's placed on how not to be to form a bad read book, because it takes you away from the crowd. Most reading that is done today is by thoe poor people who think they must read for a purpose; either to improve their morals by reading religious: matter, or to keep abreast with the atomic age. They miss all the fun. of reading. It should be wide and varied, and for pleasure. If you don't know the past you can't understand the present or comprehend the future, and you can't know the past unless you read history, philosophy and fiction. A recent survey showed that only 13 of the American public reads books. In and in the European England it is countries, which includes Russia the perThe to centage runs from 40 scientific race is not' the only one we are losing; we are getting farther behind in the intellectual race every day. We are in real danger of becoming a race of gadget-minde- d morons. Most children would like to read if their parents would give them any opportunity or encouragement. As it is most of the poor little devils have to comic be satisfied with the books they read in the stores while mom does her shopping. Christmas is coming. Why not, for a change, give your child a book, instead of a toy that will be destroyed before the week is over? It won't cost any more, and the experiment might be interesting to watch. There is now in this county a book store where you can drop in and inspect various kinds of books, at your leisure. Why not, just for the hell of it, find out how it feels to hold a book in your hand? Why not send a book to a friend or a relative just to let him think you still believe he is literate and still has a mind? years. . . store in Salt Lake. The. books were skillfully and artistically arrang ed, so that you can walk Mt Roberfsoi through the store and find books on. any 1)1 subject you desire. A book store is about the only .kind of store I know of where you arejfjep-mitteto browse, to sample! the wares as it were. The floor is carpeted,! aiid an air of quiet ' serenity prevails.4 ir. Heinerman himself is a cultured gentleman with a vast knowledge of books and authors, and what is more a great love for them. If he didn't have be wouldn't be in the business for it is no place to get rich. Books arl ithe one thing people seem determined! riot to buy, and the only thing this store lacked was customers. I wonder why. Our whole civiliza ion on books. Without he pointed word we would still be living in Jtfees and chasing our dinner with a club The people who founded our naiion valued books almost as much as freedom! bur great men and women have all I been students. The sum total of human knowledge is in them, and moreover, j oVer the" years books have given people snore genuine pleasure than any other mejdium of entertainment, and they have usually been available tat less cost. iWhy, then, has reading. fallen into such disfavor?) In the past, even among the moderate ly well, to do a man's chief pride vas his hbrary; a town's most respected dealer .was the book feller. In college the man voted most, likely to succeed was? the best student; today-his the best football, or basketball hero. Once a man considered it his dutyj to be well informed o' that he could vote intelligently; now, most men Vote as their Chamber of Commerce or their union recommends, and let it go at thatl It's a far cry from Abraham Lincoln rprawled in front of a fireplace with a borrowed book which he had walked miles to obtain to the present day youngster sprawled in front of a TV set absorbing violere as a way of life. When neighbor ladies drop into lour" house they show quite clearly that they consider my .wife a sloppy housekeeper because she permits me to keep a few hundred ;books and magazines in the front room. The kids usually ay, YGosh, j- 1 Assignment Washington It Was Darned Hard to Believe just isn't possible," or to be striptly IncJShc count- The Chopping Block By FRANK C. ROBERTSON skeptic I skid, Being a natural-bor- n " rvu. avr - - T one for the perpetrators than for the car-stealin- security benefits .kept pace with increases in the price level from 1950 to 1958, they didn't keep up with wage gains during ; these About 300,000 people who now $900 and $1,200 and who presumably may be curtailing their earnings so, Uiey can qualify for full ' social security is less instances. Already too idea often the the that given concern of some people is more pass-the-blan- month from these sources. David said that, while social $50 a earn between . gets as much as beneficiaries one-fift- 4 k accounts and bonds. ; Bilt cne in 10. sopial security ings only ' There will be little meaning to laws designed to protect lis from the depredations of our fellows if, their violation is excused in ceiving social security benefits also have income from rents, dividends and interest on sav- ' f"f per cent. 75 About half the people now re Remove the limitation on earnings. Many an older person thinks this change in social security laws would release showers of dollars for people 65 and over. In fact, social security officials say there has, been, more pressure for changing this "retirement test" than for altering any o'ther part of the social security law. What would such a change actually do? Alvin M. l5avid. assistant director of the Bureau of Old Age and Survivors Insurance, iaid h that about of those who now receive social security benefits would gain from "easing up on earned income restrictions. Present laws limit benefits which can be paid anyone who earns more than $1,200 a year. David said liberalizing the "retirement test" would help three groups of people: Pardon My Gun i than position of a married woman. It will also probably cost her a lot in living standards. No man can support two households as well as he can support much-prize- d one. It will cost her some of her friends. Mutual friends will be divided in their loyalties," and even those who take her side may soon stop including her in their plans because she is no longer half of a couple. Divorce will also cost her the sense of accomplishment that comes from making a marriage work. The wife who quits a marriage is sure to have times of feeling like a failure, no matter how much she blames her husband for the marriage being unhappy. By A. LEOKUN Britannica Junior encyclopedia for school and home. Send your questions, name, age, address to "Tell Me Why!" care of this paper. Today's winner is: Jint. Moore, 12, Win the Robson, W. Va. winds ' of course, don't have names. You just say "It's windy." Or "the wind is blow- ing." Sometimes we might say "the north wind is blowing." But many of the winds do have special names. Winds are simply air currents that move parallel tq the surface of the earth and close to it. Winds blow because the air above the earth is heated unequally in, different places. When air is heated it expands, becomes lighter in weight, and rises. As it rises, it is replaced at the bottom by colder and heavier air which flows in on all sides. Rising air removes weight and creates a low pressure. Sinking air compresses tne air beneath' it and creates a high pressure. So winds always blow from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure. wTinds which have spe- cial names have acquired them for different ' reasons. For example, you know how it feels when you have the doldrums. You feel listless and without energy. Well, certain winds are actually called the doldrums! They are found near the Equator, where there r is 'a great belt of .rising air and low pressure. 'When you are caught in the doldrums in. a ship, you are becalmed. Winds that blow from above and below toward the Equator are called the trade winds. They are strong and steady and they got their name because in the days of sailing vessels they were a great help to navigation. There ' are also some special winds. Monsoon winds, for example, are winds that change their direction with the season-IIndia, the monsoons blow south as hot, dry winds 'in the winter time, and blow north in the summer, bringing heavy rainfall. When I lived in the south of France sojne years ago, we always dreaded a wind called the "mistral." This wind blew steadily from the sea . for days at , n i Marriage offers a woman a lot even when the marriage is far from perfect. And it's a shame for a woman not to recognize that fact until after she has brpken the marriage bonds and had a taste of going it alone, (AU right reserved, NEA Service, Inc.) , a time and made everybody table and uncomfortable FUN TIME The Chuckle Box Man (to boy playing on steps): l.,t sonny.. Is your mother home? Boy: Yes, sir. j ftrln-ues- ): a few Man (after knocking But no one answers. I thought you said your mother j was home? I But live don't . Boy: She is. , Most Those LrJ- - here- I - PICTURE SECRET Add and subtract the letters in the names of the things shown. Clue: It's good to have one vhen I you're going places. Win the Britannica World ItUIai or learbook of JLvents. Send your riddles, jokes, tricks to "Tell Me Why!" Today's winner is: Douglas Daggett, 8, Chicago, 111. Q's and A's Does the Soviet Union! have f capital punishment? A The Soviet Union, officially abolished capital punishment in 11547, but the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet in January, 1950 revived it for "traitors spie$ and Q saboteurs." I Q What is the longest muscH in the human body? 4 The sartorius, crossing front of th thigh obliquelyi A , the : What commoner ruler of England? A Oliver Cromwell. Q was 1 on. was King Arthur's Q Why Round Table so fashioned? A Legend says that having no head, it allowed him to sit among his knights as a man amon? equals. ' According to most scientists where was the birthplace of life?A In the water. 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