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Show eorgiaiCooIing Off On D emc ratob Ties ' 'j ' j 1 MONDAYJ OCTOBER 3, 1960 By I.VLK Unit iVrt atizeniChanceto'SpekUp' - as a crackpot 7 J Don't blame trie j rr nitrronf .' torials. .The public in rrii forum - CA- (Editorfs Mailbag column) is the vehicle by which citizens can make their views known. j Make your letters concise and to the 'point. Write on any topic of public interest. Comments on laws under consideration ; on civic problems; on action taken! by city, county, state or national officials ; on public; needs all these would be welcome from Central Utaih .i. readers. k'; to like jcommerid Perhaps you'd a public official, recommend a law for consideration, criticize' some current- practice, or offer instrucon a particution or enlightment " ' -- If a ; ". - lar subject. . ythat tothe reason he didn't write let- ters the public forum was that it might brand him as a "crack-".pot.- " , , . does speaking out on n WASHINGTON The tVVl) mot unKtfm pw from the Houth for Hen. John V, Kennedy pwb-nU- y H frnn Ueorin, (ieitritty in tin anchor kUite of iu: uolUi hn never H HoulU, nominee ittr hflre Arkanna Only with tlvhritin lbit distinction of party Joyjilty, (U'(jft'ia now neemn w be mar inn nway from the Democratic 'parly in a national nenne, Many (fforgiflnk would tell you that the move is the other way, that the httUed n i.H'ftwerittk pn-Kidcn- solid iThe evidence of move ment Is last month'! traw vota in Georgia on the question wheth er the state'i preuidentinl eieetor ahould m pledged to tn in th tlecloful I'tAteiM for the Demo cratic presidential ticket, An over-whfrlmi- vote for pledged ng e tors was expected. There was a Lr&w vote majority of more than 20,W;0 for free electors. Kxeept as it may do tract from the aggregate of the electoral college vote for the ticket, this Js no cauxe for unrestrained Republican the Ilepublican tUxm-hodztick' et. More likely, Qeorgie'i eUc ion wouM vote for ome notable Houtherri connervntive, mch aa their own $en, Richard H, JluiieU or Hen, Umy Y, Jiyrd of Virginia, Jf nui'h maverick Georgia electoral voifi and otben ilmilarly freed inHher South prevtnted either major party ticket from obtaining a majorty the content would e it, South Moving All good cltln might rejoice in the outcome of Urn itraw ballot j .evidence that the Uojith li If moving, alowly, toward a legit- imate nyttem. The lraw vote wai not binding on the elector, who may or may not decide to cant free nther than pledged votei in the electoral two-part- y college.. . , go to tlie lloujiei of tlvei, Southern conservative would Uke that, In the House, each state would have a single vote, M votes being necessary to elect a prcsl- - eat If they epreenta ': Kouth Would hike L "; free volea, it would riot, follow that they would go to Romeo And Juliet SO YOtj'RE TOO BUSY TO ATTEND A FUNERAL! i Have you ever had occasion to lament (that so few people at- tended a funeral? Some funerals are of course. But in , too many cases only a handful of loyal friends, 1 addition to the relatives, are in the audience, even though the deceased person obviously had numerous friends. ' Especially lamentable is the exceedingly poor attendance at funerals for aged persons who have outlived their generation, so to speak. It is sad Indeed when a person who served so well and for so long is so little recognized in death, A whlijj back Max Berg handed me a cli ping which ties In with this subject. We think it should be read by all who search for excuses hy they "can't" attend a funcra (and that includei just about al of us at one time or another), The article; written by Huth MacKay, was firat published in the Chicago Tribune and later reprinted by The Director, magazine of the funeral trade. It is reproduced below. well-attende- d, .: Holmes Alexande Nixon Shades Kennedy In Round One WASHINGTON, D.C. salaries, Nixon showed Misery is loved with a. fervor by presidential candidates and a certain class of writers for a reckon Whteh It wll mini A hv' iho Mtw Yorker Magazine book t: reviewer, Whitney j "The reason so many novelists relish misery Is simple; by being ' i ; pre-em-boss- ed characters, the v- them." Tn ) . - 'vpar whw It. n Hiffiriilt I nr. invfttratlv ti &&Aer. crime, en- llailnatUn lavAtnjinf mm ViilVi vvftv arm Uia4)H facts. To point them lU attention-gettinout as if they were basic discoveries, to loat over them in accepted bleeding-hea- rt style, is surely the sign of the mind. If either Kennedy or Nixon outshines his rival in embracing and exaggerating the unhappiness of America, then we have detected the, inferior man. ; J Conversely, the observer who sees with truth, and proceeds to reason creatively on the evident fact that most Americans not discriminire ated against, not trembling; at! or H bombs, is an uncommon fellow and the superior! artist or leader.' If either Kennedy or mxon outsmnes ms rival in seeing American life as the normal and cheerful thing that It Is, "despite acknowledged exceptions to the rule, then 'we have discovered . .it's about time! the better man to bf president. In their first TV debate, there was little to choose between Kennedy and Nixon- -f but that little; Is important,-- : Kennedy went for the prefabricated picture of misery among the aged, ignorance among the young, penury among the teacheri and farmers, fear on. every door-sland a werewolf "iloffa itlil - on' the prowl. freel" ; There never was a clearer example of misery-lovin- g than the ginv lobcr-sidc- d Student Prince gave us the other; night. Moreover Kennedy featured himself and his liberal pro gram as the answer for alLthose who say their prayers at the federal shrine of cornucopia. He nver did explain with any lucidity why, as the party's anointi ed leader, girded with a majority in Congress, he was unable to produce any? part of his prof gram at the! August session. And wheiji he touched upon foreign policy, which is almost an; exclusive "presidential duty;, Kennedy mentioned his chairmanship of the Foreign Relations Subcommittee on& African Affairs without explaining why he .hadn'.t called a meeting sine V w In tMivnle W mm m . j - ; Foverty, illness, deformity, ti4 es bacje-to-the-stat- choose between candidates John Kennedy and Richard Nixon, I am tempted to fall upon this idea as If it' were a loose footbaliin the homecoming game. makes the, most of I The man who human misery is likely to be poor shakes rratlv m g, com!-amonpl- r well-heale- j So - d, Petty act of petty people. Russian newspaper Pravda, on U.S. travel restrictions against Khrushchev. ns I want to die. I do not belong in thJ world. I want to go to heaven. If I just killed one they might Just send mo to the reform school again, but U I killed (them both they'll send me to the " chair, j ' ; Fourteen-year-ol-d - other, boy ' boy who killed two in West Memphis, Ark, matter of li WW--7- h let-eye- d, two-to-o- ne " - J Richard Nixon did the far more difficult thing of accenting the positive in American life. He told of increased income, multiplying school houses and stabilized jprices at home. He pointed out that the dreaded-Sovie- t Juggernaut has an industrial production .of only 40 per cent of ours. Nixon emphasized more than once the difference in philosophy between himself and Kennedy on federal responsibility. On the subject of teacheri The toad is a friend to man, ugly though he is. Toads make "pigs" of themselves! over insect pests they're always hungry. Puerto Rico actually imported toads to wipe out a white grub which had been de stroying sugar cane. - e Encyclopedia Britannic & . ; The opinions and pressed by Herald their own and do reflect the views of statements what name were the Samoa Islands once called? AThe Navigators Islands. Q ex- - columnists are not necessarily this newspaper. i By ; , Who was the first man who in the U.S. House of served had Representatives and later became Q president? A J ames Madison. -- - either. .,. ' y! , I : '.. Then you reach the check-ou- t counter - green pills and prescriptions, some sample pink and; yellow capsules, nose drops, gargle, ;cough syrup, a note for the inhalator ' and white pills..; Now whenever I stir, I clatter and gurgle. Ikcep imagining that I look like a walking medicine cab .' inet. At least the trains have stopped rushing, and the silver circles are now merely grey when I cobgh. (Copyright, 1960, by United Feature "Syndicates, Inici) . i Ir, Hjrold Thomas Hyman' Written for Newspaper Rnterprlse An. I continue to receive! many fascinating Informative letters I' from aubscrlbera. Mill Nancy Mycra of Kansas C ty, wlio algna Uy fierielf a "loyal reader," mildly rebukes me for J r o commending mineral salad there" tyere five toruihern boilers, t is beginning to. look like a trend, dressing ? i j soon horseradish; garlic ness, the sharing of sorrow offer inestimable solace to the bereaved, and who. is there among us who has not experienced this? "Particularly our presence is. needed in- - the case of elderly ; persons whose con- temporaries have ' gone be. fore. . "However, we arc mistaken if we look upon attendance at a funeral wholly unselfish. Quite' aside from paying- tribute to those we love, there is another aspect. "Rightly viewed, we should gain something ourselves in and strength perspective toward our short span of living. "Do we rely on a philosophy rA life? Then, the passing of friends serves to deepen it, by emphasizing the nobility of a good life, no matter how simple, how unheralded, how unnung, "Do we have religious faith? Then it Is renewed by the Psalms and a reminder that 'a thousand years in Ills sight are but a day 11 is enhanced by the quiet thought of those who have gone before and those who will coma after us who are still in our pilgrimage and who walk as yet by faith The pilgrimage from birth jto the graveseems so very- natural and the faith so very right, in the shadow of death. "Well, anyway, the next time I look out my window and think, 'O dear, the funeral home is miles away and the weather is bad and I won't be missed' I shall, run to the closet and slip on my coat, shamed by a little boy who mice loved the - - - junkman." WASN'T MISLAID AFTER ALL Our friends from the Army! Recruiting Office, . Sgts. Alvin Anderson) and Maynard Hickman, called concerning our recent item in this column on the 155 Howitzer parked by Sears. They assured us that: 1. Sears are not selling them, ven on the deferred ' payment plan. 2. They didn't have to feed the parking meters on it, and 3. The gun was not really mislaid, which source of great is, we're sure,-relief to the taxpayers. Seems it was part of a Steel-maweapons display .on that., corner which, later in the day after we started wondering about the howitzer, also included an 'Honest John and Nike A jax missiles. Guess it's one of those times when an old journalistic joke applies:- "Sure is, too bad to ruin a good story with the facts." a rk . v T. If. L. . to1 - ' THE SAD TRUTH Jt wasn't too long ago that you could finance a pretty good war for what six months of peace costs today. Bill Waui han, , taste, if desired. Jar Combine ingredients in with a tightly fitted top, tthike well before using, We'va Just tried Mli Nancy'a recipe. It'a so good, I've decided not to argue with her, I'VE RECEIVED several let teri inquiring about the causes of, and treatment for, hair! loss by female lubscrlberi, Curiously enough, thli problem wai recently investigated by members of the American Dcr-matologlcal Association. sent to 170 A questionnaire mcmberi revealed the fact that more than half had noted in creased balding in female pa tients, Loss of hair was particularly observed sin women past, the age of puberty. Although the report closes with the statement that nothing is known of the cause or treatment of this embarrasing condition, I venture the opinion that much of this type of hair loss is due to the injury inflicted on hair roots by permanent .waving and related insults to the human scalp, conducted in the name of beauty aids. v'j: With which statement, I retire to my bombproof, shelter. Ruth' Millett Little Boys Need Guidance Only a Father Can Give t oil for people who arc watching thiir weight, parently left enough money for his funeral. The little boy went to the funeral; he was, the only mourner j So now, whenever- - there is a funeral at the neighborhood undertaking establishment, the little boy goes just to make certain someone is there, "It brings to mind a heartbreaking scene in the play 'Death of a Salesman,' in which the devoted, mutely patient wife returns to the house after burying her bus-- 1 band, and asks, wistfully, Why didn't anybody come?' "Of course no normal person enjoys funerals. Yet, don't we all know some who will find any excuse not to go? 'Funerals are barbaric they contend. (Some arc!) They "suffer so much they explain. (Who doesn't?) They 'prefer to remember the person alive (Naturally, we all j :' do!) "Fortified by such alibis, they stay at home, or go on a sprcowhile a friend is laid to rest without their earnest prayers and loving blessing. And, members of the family are deprived of the comfort of others touching their shoulders in the common grief. "Certainly, the presence of fellow human beings helps. Sympathetic faces remain in memory as a blur, perhaps, Nonetheless, the aggregate warmth, the good shop1-pin- g Redder Has 'Prescription7 For 'Zero' Salad Dressing trains rushing past my left car. My right was drowned in a roar one hears at the base of Niagara Fails. It was like sound on two tracks. Stereo fanatics would call it "tremendous separation," Fvery t mo I'd blow my nose, It tflt like 'I blew corks Into my ear drums, W (h each cough, the area just insldtj my forehead flashed a Wftll of deep red marred only by solid ilver circles that danced like Q's and A's with two thermometers . sticking out to tell whether I was done or ' j not. Toward the end of this (human conveyor belt, you get' a hot and not the home-remedkind, The Doctor Says ac-ccnt- ed . six-poi- nt 1959. he twisted a cotton-tippe- d into each nostril and looked into the caverns, he frowned. he sighed. Finally be' did say, something: "I think we'll be able to pull you through." I noticed the way he th! second word, but I shared his negative optimism. All night, with my head on the plltow, II kept hearing electric when stick down Then - . June, Ed .Koterba round lightning, I Mtfend not from Just a mere rold, This was some-thinspecial. My broocMfll tubes were wrapped In sandpaper, fine grade, and somfwhero down In my cheat the germs, were teamed up playing with hobnailed boots. football And sombody down there was using an icepick. I finally fell into a fit! of sleep only to awaken and find that some of. those little people running around in side , must have poured wet cement in ;my head.! Had to lift it with my hands. The same gremlins replaced my knee bones with spong ;. balls. I wantec to growl at somebody and say I wouldn't be at work this day. But i i this business, no sickness, unle:;s fotal, is. supposed to interfere with the daily deadline. i j that-whic- And would still think. , But my doctor is a genius at knocking out colds. He's got a production line. After he tests you, to make sure you're at least still breathing, he directs you to the spray room. The nurse wields a spray gun she obviously got from the orchard ' Suppliers. It's a tight squeeze to fit the nozzle in the nostril. Then she pumps mist Into your head until your tonsils are floating in it. Most intriguing procedure is' when she punches a coated cotton stick In each nostril, then puts you but to hake. She sets a timer on the lamp, like you do when baking a cake. And I felt like one, too, ! .' man on the phone argue: "You can still type, can't you?" He wouldn't ask if you could 'H-m-m- m 'Ya-aaah- Men in high places In both Democratic and Republican administrations- greased the way for the Russians to work their way into ihe strategic center of international affairs. Hugh Balllle, former president of United Press. The mer, ire did lojk a bit startled when' he c a m p d my tongue aider a Mick and I went They Say ace . K.-frow- The doctor thumped rny chest like you thump a melon, He drilled a small flash-on- e ear while his nurse light into o in the other with another peered were They light. apparently trying to see if the beams would meet. After each stop in this ad onizing th e appraisal doc did nothing but shake ' his head am mur- WASHINGTON 1 -- Well-fed- ,; Poor Koterbaj Racked by Virus Bug j poor, the deformed, the Ignorant, the crim' inal, the enslaved, the dissolute and the ill Mr. Alexander cam do half (the and the novelists') work for paigners Koterba Ed - OF FRIENDS AND FUNERAL "Jtcturnlng from a cemetery, I was told a story, It concerns a little boy, rather shy, and lacking companionship. In the vicinity of his home Is a junk yard. The old man who watched over it was kind to the lonely child. '"'When! the old man died he ap- - Bal-liet- ready-mad- e, $- that the differschool construc- ence between federal tion and federal salaries for local teachers is the difference - between material and mind. On the- subject of medical aid for the aged, Nixon was for helping only those who need ltj: whereas Kennedy would force aid (and interference) upon J all. The distinction between the Democrat's, concept and the Republican's concept of federalia is a fine one, a vital one, an elucidating one. ..The senator exthat pressed seeming disapproval school districts were actually taxing themselves to provide new buildings. The vice president expressed overt satisfaction in this phase of .the Eisenhower era. The two candidates have three TV de- bates to go, and perhaps we should wait and see. But after the first rounjd, Kennedy seems to be doing what is eisy and while Nixon is attempting what banal is far more difficult, rewarding and irumiui. ' ' (Distributed by McNaught Syndicate, Inc.1 Vive Southern states' bolted; (ha Democratic ticket in Ui2ft, Four in lm and 1032, Your years ago Off' the Beat . - dent, Under such circumstances. atatea could, or would band together; anything could hap' pen. The atate'i rights holier tried to bring that about in m, ailing by a whUUer, More lmm'di-al- e, howeytr, li (hi (miiam What do th rumUllnm of Georgia rebellion mean for the Kennedy-Johnso- n ticket? . Not merely in but the Georgia,, throughout Southern the Herald Staff By and make their views known. The Herald publishes its Editor's Mailbag column three times a week (more often when warranted). This is your invitation to be a participant in the column. One prominent citizen confided Since-whe- !lntfrnatlonal applause. The vote is not at all evidence that Georgians love the Republican party more, but only that Georgians love th national Democratic party j " : political party of iheir fathers has moved away from Georgia, : J Jrtna mmm who write letter regularly if they U;nd to dominate the column. JJlame the citizens in general for not being Interested enough and wide awake enough to send in their own contributions. Hules for the forum arc published from time tojtime tm the editorial page, where the forum appears. Letters should be brief (preferred limit 200 words) ; but take more space if .you need it. Typewrite your letters if possible (double spaced)!. Letters must and carry the writer's true namePseu-. address and be in good taste. donyms may be (permitted, if requested, if the writer's name and address are signed to the original letter; but letter signed for publication with writer's full name will be given preference. .From the early days of journalism, the newspaper forum has served as a vehicle for sounding out public opinion. It is one of the best means for feeling the public pulse, or should be at" least. But the forum loses its effec tiveness .when the public fails to respond.! Let's not be tbo busy to make our opinions on public questions known.' Let's not discount the privilege, a newspaper forum affords private citizens to speak up -- . mm ,a public question cJaaaJfy a Several week ago the Herald wade a front page appeal for read-e- n to exerclue a valuable privilege and make their opinion on vital matters known through the public forum columns of the newspaper. The response was encouraging. Since then, many new names have been seen in print in the Editor' Mailbag column, in connection with letters on timely topics, But people still aren't making the forum as effective as it could be. All too few take the time and trouble to write ajetter. So the Herald would like to renew its invitation now for broad participation in the column.. A newspaper expresses its opin- - C. WILSON A She .correctly calls my atten Dr. flyman tion to the capa city of mineral oil for dissolving vitamins. She, fears that use of the dressing may produce a vitamin deficiency state. While it is my own feeling that the slight ainounts used in the ordinary diet have little significant effect on the total economy, I yield the theoretical point to Miss Myers, particularly in view of her kindness in furnishing me with what she calls "a zero dressing! for saiads." Here are the ingredients of "Zero Salad Dressing": One-ha- lf cup tomato juice, 2 tablespoons vinegar or . lemon juice, 1 tablespoon finely chopped onion, dash of black pepper, xft cup chopped green pepper, 1 tablespoon chopped parsley., 1 tea- fat-solub- le . I T 'fx'.:- ! For. a copy of Dr. Hy man's leaflet "How to Choose Your Family Doctor," send 10 cents to Dr. Hyman, care Daily Herald, Box 489, Dept. B, Radio City Station. New York 10, N.Y. v Memo to young fatberi; If you are wise you will make a deal with your wjfe when youf children are still young, whereby you let her have the final say-s- o about the guidance and dlaclpline of your daughters and you have the final authority on question! that concern your sons, There is a trend among middle-cla- ss families, e authorities tell us, for mama to make the decisions concerning both sons and daughters. And the results aren't too good. What is happening, they say, is that boys are : being disciplined like girls, because mama is And of both. kind the and discipline disciplining guidance that is good for sis, Isn't right for junior. So if your wife tries to sell you the idea; that she knows what is best for all the kids in the family boys and girls alike just don't let her get by Ruth MUlett with it. She doesn't know what is best for a boy because she doesn't know what it is like to be a boy or what qualities a boy needs to develop to get along in a man's world You know much better than your wife how to direct and guide and discipline your sons. - - But what you know isn't going to be of much value to your sons unless you make it clear when they L are small that you want and Intend to have the final word where your sons are concerned. Start that pattern early. It will be too late if you wait until your sons are teen-age- rs to try to take over. By then they will be used to child-guidanc- $&'. M 'j a woman's discipline, to a woman's set of values, perhaps, even, to a woman's tendency to overprotect her young. ., Mother knows best when it comes to rearing daughters but lather knows best when it cornea to rearing sons. -- |