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Show Hidden Boll Play it ¥ @ miracle Harriman, Rockefeller Hard up for Cash NEW YORK (NEA) — Most amusing ond ‘colorful highlight of this year’s po- litical campaign is the New York spectacle in which the two richest candidates in the country are making. like they were hard up for cash with which to electioneer. These two poor little rich men are of of course Democrat Averell Harriman and Republican Nelson A. Rockefeller, running for governor in the Empire State. ‘ The Fortune magazine survey ‘on 75 wealthiest American families put Nelson Rockefeller in the 100 million to 200 million dollar class, Averell] Harrim.a 75 to 100 million. The general assumption has been that with all that money behind them; political headquarters’ for the two candidates would be rolling in dough and campaign expenses would offer no problem. Inquiries put-to both headquarters. however, bring put a different story, Managers for: both candidates are | going around for broke, complaining that campaign contributions are hard to come by. This, however, is par for the course. Political collections are always slow until just before election. Both par- ties hope to have more money. for the windup. THERF IS NO ‘LEGAL maximum on the amount of money that may. be spent in a gubernatorial election in New York. The only limits are set by what cam-~- paign workers can raise and public opin- ion against rich men trying to buy an election. : 5 This latter curb is obviously having _ its influence on the tv‘o New York candidates for governor. Neither wants to give the impression that his personal penses will be at. about the same level this year that they were in 1954—maybe a little higher. Gov. Harriman defeated Senator Irvirg M. Ives in that election for the $50,000-a-year job. Reports filed with No ‘similar figure is obtainable from the Secretary of State at Albany, Nov. 18, 1954, showed Democratic state committee expendi- tures of $1,007,944, Republicans $884,679. Both figures seem pretty. high, even for the richest state in the union. But that’s what modern campaigning costs. Television time for. a state hook-up of six stations costs $10,000 for each half hour. ROCKEFELLER HAS BOOKED six telecasts—one a week for his campaign. But a couple of extras may be scheduled for the two final weeks. Gov, Harriman has averaged two broadcasts a week, but they have been put on with other stete candidates. Republicans claim: the Democrats have an advantage in that New York labor unions have been buying time for Gov. Harriman. of hidden persuasion. Just all of a sudden I see a lot of dinner jackets at parties *and such, 2 More invitations read: “Black tie,” ‘There is a lot of bird of para- dise in the old crowd. sce @ The problem with tuxedoes is they last so long. They last for years’ and years and years. Fathers pass them along to their sons. That is what happens to a suit you wear about once a year. It never wears out. — I have ‘seen some fairly rare specimens recently. (There is a fine, ‘strong reek of mothballs in the evening air.) Doublebreasted jobs ‘n midnight: blue— remember? I pulled my own dinner clothes out of the plastic cover this morning. There is a light, white film.on the shoulders. That is where the moth spray settled. as many people i and bridge... Can Fish Smell? Win the Britannica Junior 15- FUN TIME The Riddle Box ¢ 1, What starts with T, ends with T, and is full of T? 2. ‘Why is an empty purse al-' ways the same? 3. What does a calf become after it ig one year old? Answers as thought it is harder for us Many readers will recall that to influenza among its policyholders for the time be- y “She took another one right on No, 2 gun turret, And ‘she blew forward.”’ And he indicated the mile-long stretch of the harbor. “They. came in low, through here,” he said. ‘It was like a bowling alley...” might. But it was not anything to sneeze at either. last year what came to be called Asian fly started in China and reached the North American Continent in June. last four months of 1957 something like 20 million people in the’ United States are thought to have been attacked by the disease. Recently a large life insurance company reportad on the deaths “What killed her was a torepdo amidships and » 2,000 - pound shell bomb between the stack Tell Me Why? « By EDWIN P. JORDAN, M.D. Written for NEA Service Last year at this time there was great concern about Asian influenza, That epidemic of flu did not turn out to be as severe as the 1918-19: pandemic, nor authorities * could look down, nine feet beJow, and see the main deck. But mo more. Leahey knows whgt it was Somewhere -under that deck, a tender the Kansan’s son was buried— ~ like. He saw it all a few hundred yards away. . entombed with 1101 other men who. went down with her that (Distributed 1958, by The Hall Syndicate, Inc.) morning of: December 7, 1941 ..., Your Family Doctor Prostrate battle- water—the seeping oil gave it a brassy, steely blue color — he terial to let. out, « T do not ;think we will have to let out much. It is not fat. I just seem to be a Kittle more muscular, that is all. Spring steel. some 31,000-ton * Try Some of the. conclusions com- tween September 1957 and April , The number of deaths rose rapidly during October 1957, riddles, jokes,. “Tell Me Why!” Today’s winner it: On theother side of the fence, Demoerats claim that the Republicans have been spending bigger money than the Harriman camp can afford for advertising car cards. : Al campaign expenses are -of coutse met by having a multiplicity of committees who go out and raise their own funds. In addition to the* regular, state committees, the Republicans have a Citizens’ C e for and Keating, the Democrats an Indepéndent a Committee for Harriman and an. Barbs By HAL COCHRAN fortune has been thrown into this con- test. z In Rockefeller’s case,’ a $20,000 limit has’ been placed on the amount of his own money going. into. the campaign. “? is making a comeback.’ Not because of miracle fibers or the Washington Low Down _ "By PETER EDSON | ep “ es The tuxedo NEA Washington Correspondent 8 aZ cope er. proud ‘Women scantil; dressed owner. The men don’t dare. applaud Mi girls more than men, saye a night club) Maybe you're Wcky M your mirror doesn’t let you see yourself as others see. you. Va throw it away. Why, the seat is not even shiny yet. . ss @ I-cannot remember what Tpur -chased this formal attire for. no sales resistance whatscever in this kind of. weather. I wore it very Hétle. I wore it one opening night. And the pants I wore on shipboard for five straight days. I had to buy a jacket. It was a black jacket has wen Hl sending the * [ he’s eta at i checks of Youngest, Oldest Hit Worst me, The miracle words don’t hurt any, eith- stand ship, the Arizona. ‘Where-he now stood was the second deck. And through the 2 such miracle fibers send ocean—to & the only the touch the lly 3h f i reac ERELe i IEE i na E s3E Fe ZH junior. First store I passed, I bought myself a new shirt, That: is the way these things affect’ me. “Drips: dry and’ needs only the touch of an iron.’’ When you come to think of it, ALL shirts drip dry. And need The Navy ig not proud of this living reminder. Pride in the men and in the: ship, yes. But could hear the pain in Leahey’s voice when he said: i! * cover rest of the world, including Russia, realizes: could be a total disaster. for humanity. deal of energy in the air. The sunlight is brighter and the sky is the bright blue of Chinese coolie pants. te- roll up ‘the flag... . They all went down with her.” across the pante. There is plenty of ma- ‘ “She was hit around 8:10 in the morning. She blew up at 8:27 . . . The ship’s band wus on deck. They were getting ready look at those pictures of the handsomeyoung ensign, the old man’s son. “The boy graduated in June of ’41,” thé man was saying. ~ . ‘ - The father had come here — i together some bank deposits. to which could make them ready to A fine, blowy day with a good ing far into memory. like Leahey it was a tough test of emotion to bring himself to his son’s grave. standing on it—the broken form Stan Delaplane’s Postcard Column out in the distance when ne speaks, as| one-does wh 2 reach- hi ‘accept a world war that al) the Bird of Paradise affectionate tones. And he gazes Sg campus at all. He’s back at the parental mansion trying to- scrape gaat eee ateeae as The chief, who comes from Tacoma, Wash. talks in clipped, oe Even. more tragic is that the weapon of hate used by Peiping fires them into a militant mood | about- a1Hae Gane being branded. upon the world’s most numerous people. —what with the inflationary costs and the competition of more young folks trying to get into college— the real oe hero isn’t on the The man was from Kansas. over to this spot from the deck—it was a ten minute ride—he pulled out a small’ picture album and was showing it to Chief Chuck Leahey, assigned to. escort him. Leahey, a beefy, salty man of 23 years on the sea t~ied to turn away. Even for a hardened man ? ef ~be misguided. In this day and age mye to Chief Leahey tell Abt Each weekend the trumpets blow tragic price: their minds and their loud and clear for the heroes of the gridiron. When the. leaves are ° ‘spirits have been tightly harnessed to the ruthless purposes of China’s . coloring it is their time to grace the Reddictators. The. slave stamp. is \ collegiate pedestal. But let no one | « —especially when you are listen- 3 you with above all is that to achieve even this much has cost the Chinese a staggering and ** You relive the story of tlie " Arizona with your heart when you ‘stand there on her 0-2 deck itiy And what Strohm’s report strikes were killed. 1 oh5rel Real Campus Hero pe sia in long and careful firsthand focus,‘says Red China’s communiz- i But now the barrier of ignorance ~ has been broken, thanks to one of ing pace far outstrips the Soviet Union’s, the most superb exploits in American journalism in many years. The back-yard blast furnace, For the first time in nearly ten uctive of mere droplets of iron ears of Red China’s existence, a y comparison with great mill furvs. S. reporter of great experience . naces, is the ever-present symbol of the Communist attempt to, giveas a foreign observer and with a a broad industrial footingto this broad background in agriculture and other economic fields has gain- - vast peasant land. ‘ed entry to bring us a report that Strohm acknowledges that pal is at once comprehensive in extent ly as result of this immense labor and massivein detail. : and partly as a spur to greater efThe man is John Strohm, whose fort, the Peiping government has penetrating conclusions and ric done, much to make over the face of China, cleaning it up, injecting documentation have been made available to Herald and other readan “honor system” into many ers in a six-part series by NEA money dealings, improving housing and other living conditions. Service. Merely to get into, through and But the evident truth is this: Red China’s industrial output is out of Red China called for courstill but a trickle when set: beside age, ingenuity and high resourcethe world’s industrial giants. Most fulness, all of which Strohm disof its labor is ‘still at the primitive played. \ level, j Yet he could have shown these attributes and still returned. with a And meantime Red China’s poputhin, shallow, narrow-gauge relation is spiraling toward a frightport. The big news is that his reening onebillion estimated for the porting matched his. nerve. He has early 1980's. The Chinese are al. given us an astonishingly full porready scratching the earth frantitrait of the Communist. Chinese. cally for-every edible shoot. . The picture is one of a teeming The task ahead is monumental. f andi- iit| country has been a aevete cap : of effort at industrializing and communizing 650 million peo- The heavy cables that held the Arizona to mooring - Quays are still in placé. Salvage crews cut. away the superstructure long ago, but otherwise she sits uprights on the bottom of " ‘the harbor, in the position where she went, down in "41. ‘ Two divers did go down to explore her lower decks, but they plein record time. Strohm, who has twice had Rus- seg little of the world’s mostpopulous j its of life in Red China, mostly from untrained observers. To know so being. 1 hate of < nation Alemeioe teak coutionsCetne nee ao ee into a frenzy 8 For many years wehave had to depend upon ‘fragmentary reports: lf - Behind BambooCurtain' seeces. COW $ |