The Charlotte News

Monday, May 18, 1959

THREE EDITORIALS

Site Ed. Note: The front page reports from Taipei, Formosa, that Communist China had turned its guns on Matsu Island for the first time in two years on Sunday, heightening Nationalist Chinese fears that the Communists might be preparing a new crisis in the Formosa Strait. A Nationalist officer and two soldiers had been reported killed as the Communist Chinese had lobbed over 444 shells at the offshore island group at the northern end of the Strait. The Nationalists said that 162 Communist shells had hit Matsu, with 112 landing on a nearby island, Peikantang, and 170 having dropped into the sea. The barrage reportedly had destroyed six civilian homes on the two islands. The Nationalist Defense Ministry said that the Chinese mainland batteries were silenced after 90 minutes by effective counter-fire. An hour before the firing had begun against Matsu, ten Communist Chinese ships had fired on Nationalist warships which sighted them west of the little island. The Defense Ministry said that the Nationalist ships had returned the fire and the Communist craft had fled. A few hours before, the Communists had hurled 82 shells at their usual target, the Quemoy Islands, 150 miles south of Matsu. It had been the first time that the Communists had shelled Matsu since April 28, 1957, but Communist batteries had hit the nearby Peikantang with 23 shells in a 14-minute barrage the previous Wednesday. Nationalist circles had been predicting for several weeks that the Communists might try to stage a new crisis in the Formosa Strait to warn the West that there could be trouble in the area unless concessions were made to the Soviets regarding Berlin and Germany at the ongoing foreign ministers conference in Geneva. Foreign observers were inclined to make light of those fears. Rear Admiral Liu Hoh-tu, spokesman of the Nationalist Defense Ministry, declined to say whether he thought the attack was a prelude to major action.

In Geneva, Western foreign ministers at the Big Four conference quickly patched up this date a brief but stormy dispute over how and when to negotiate with Russia regarding the Berlin crisis. The U.S., Britain, France and West Germany announced that they were willing to discuss Berlin and other issues separately from the Western package plan for an all-German peace settlement. While willing to talk about Berlin separately, they said that no issue covered by the plan could be "settled in isolation". The Western allies had then closed ranks and charted strategy for the second week of the foreign ministers conference. The statement did not eliminate the fundamental differences arising from the West German-French determination to pursue a hard line in the negotiations and the British-U.S. position favoring more flexible tactics and a softer approach. Secretary of State Christian Herter had met with his Western colleagues at his office around noon this date for about 40 minutes, talking about tactics for dealing with the Russians during the ensuing few days. The statement anent a united stand regarding Berlin was then issued. The Western ministers wanted first a full-dress debate on rival East-West plans for a German settlement and second, to find out in secret discussions on what the Russians might be prepared to negotiate seriously. The U.S. and British delegations let it be known during the weekend that they had felt Russia's adamant rejection of the Western package proposal for German reunification and a European security system had necessitated negotiations on the immediately pressing question of Berlin. French and West German officials had insisted on continued firm support for the package program and a very tough line in negotiating with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. The joint Western statement had denied that the Western allies had decided to break up the Western package plan and concentrate on a Berlin settlement. It said that the Western powers had already stated that "the various questions included in the [Western package] plan can be discussed one by one. But as they are, in fact, all connected, they cannot be settled in isolation." The statement also said that regarding Berlin, "the Western foreign ministers expect to discuss this problem along the line of the proposals on Berlin contained in phase 1 of the Western peace plan." The plan proposed that West and East Berlin be united by free elections and the unified city be guaranteed by the Big Four, including Russia. That would be the first step toward German reunification.

Congress was urged this date to add 400 million dollars to the 3.93 billion dollars sought by the President for foreign aid. William Draper, Jr., told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the additional money would be used to arm the country's European allies with new missiles, nuclear weapons and faster planes. Mr. Draper, a former Undersecretary of the Army, was chairman of a committee set up the previous year by the President to evaluate the military assistance program, for which the President was seeking 1.6 billion dollars for the fiscal year beginning July 1. Mr. Draper said: "Russia's conventional forces of 175 active ground divisions and more than 20,000 combat planes are now being greatly strengthened with nuclear weapons and with intermediate and long-range ballistic missiles." A copy of his statement from the closed hearing was made public. He said that the foreign aid program had to be considered in the context of "open threat of war … and open threats of nuclear destruction over Berlin", as well as the increased distribution of weapons to Soviet forces and Russia's new economic offensive. He said that there had been major mistakes in the past in administration of the foreign aid program, and that his committee would have a report on that later. He argued that to abandon the program, "for errors, in execution or for any other reason, would be to abandon the free world and to lose the cold war." He said that if it had not been for NATO, "there is little doubt that some of the free countries of Europe would, like Czechoslovakia, have long since been dragged behind the Iron Curtain." Because of U.S. aid, he said, the Nationalist Chinese had "successfully repulsed the Red Chinese attempts to engulf Quemoy and Matsu." The general expectation in Congress was that there would be a cut in foreign aid sought by the President, but two influential Democratic Senators had predicted this date that any reductions would be moderate.

In Kansas City, Mo., it was reported that former First Lady Bess Truman had undergone major surgery for an undisclosed ailment at Research Hospital this date and that former President Truman was at the hospital as she was taken to the operating room early in the morning. The operation had taken place with the long-time family doctor, Dr. Wallace Graham, and his associate, a general surgeon, in charge. There had been no indication as to how long the surgery would last. Hospital information officers said that doctors had declined to disclose the exact nature of the surgery but said that Mrs. Truman had been in the hospital for a series of diagnostic checks and decided that as long as she was there, they would perform the surgery. Mr. Truman declined to see either newsmen or photographers while he waited for the outcome of the surgery. Mrs. Truman's personal physician also declined to discuss the nature of the surgery. Mrs. Truman, 74, had entered the hospital on Thursday and at that time, a member of the family had said that she would undergo a check-up to determine the cause of a series of colds which she had suffered during the winter. She was in the same hospital where former President Truman had undergone a gall bladder operation in 1954 and was a patient for 20 days.

In Chicago, at least 119 persons had been injured, two of whom seriously, this date in a head-tail collision of two jammed rush-hour elevated trains carrying riders to downtown Chicago. The impact had telescoped a four-foot section of the Logan Square trains and had thrown standing passengers to the floor. Scores had been treated at the scene and others were taken to hospitals for treatment or examination. The collision of the 26-coach trains of all-steel construction had occurred when the first train had stopped after leaving a station and was rammed by the second. A passenger in the rear car of the train which was hit said that he turned his head and saw the other train approaching. "There was a big bang and sparks were flying. All the people started running for the front of the car. One girl who had been standing near me started screaming for her mother. 'God help me,' she cried. Her leg was cut off near the bottom. There was a Japanese man. His arm was cut and he was bleeding from the mouth." A passenger on the train which had rammed the second one said that everything had gone black upon the impact and a side door in his car had flown open, whereupon a woman beside him had fallen backward as he hit his head on the seat. Witnesses said passengers in the rear car of the standing train had run forward to the other cars while those in the front car of the rear train tried to crowd into the rear cars. Passengers said that the rear train had just pulled away from the Western Avenue station and was traveling slowly at the time of the collision. A second deputy fire marshal in charge of rescue operations estimated that there were 800 passengers on the two trains. The motorman of the rear train said that he had pulled away from the station when a train had stalled in front of him and he came up behind it, being unable to estimate his speed because the straight stretch of tracks at the scene had no signal.

In Tucson, Ariz., it was reported that a four-day search, which had cost two lives, had ended with the rescue of two plane-crash victims who had survived a torturous battle for life in the desert. A 44-year old man and a 33-year old man, both Tucson construction workers, had been found in desolate south-central Arizona the previous day and were recovering in a Tucson hospital this date. The two had cheated the desert of death in a five-day fight against starvation, heat and pain after being stranded in the barren wasteland when their light plane had crashed on Wednesday. But two Civil Air Patrol fliers hunting for the missing plane had been killed on Thursday when their plane had struck power lines and crashed near Ray Airport. Hope for the missing men had been fading the previous day when one of them, dehydrated and suffering a broken ankle and a cracked vertebra, had been found stumbling and crawling down a rocky gully near the small mining community of Kearney. With no food or water and little sleep, he struggled for 8 miles through temperatures of up to 100 degrees, seeking help amid little shade. He directed searchers to the wreckage where the other man lay with a broken arm, broken leg and possible chest injuries. In the hospital this date, the man who had struggled to get help was listed as in good condition while the other man was listed in poor condition. The doctor said that both were "physically tough characters", that others would have died from such an ordeal. The man who had struggled to find help said he would never go to the corner drugstore again without a glass of water.

In St. Louis, a gunman had deserted his dying holdup partner after a drugstore gun battle with two detectives and then had terrorized a family and a hostage on Sunday before police had flushed him from a dingy attic. He had still been defiant even though out of ammunition. The desperado, a 32-year old man from Heltonville, Ind., was bleeding from an arm wound. Two detectives had also been wounded, neither seriously, during the gun battle in a neighborhood drugstore in suburban University City. Cornered two hours later 5 miles from the holdup, the man said: "I only regret I didn't have more bullets. I'm not yellow. I just ran out of ammunition." A short time earlier near his hiding place in North St. Louis, the man had released his hostage, a 23-year old man of suburban Wellston, the hostage having been unharmed. The arrested man had been sought since his escape from the Federal building in downtown St. Louis on April 13 where he was being held on a charge of possession of a machine gun.

Dick Young of The News reports that the framework of the committee system which Mayor Jim Smith expected to operate during the current municipal administration had been instituted this date. At the afternoon session of the City Council, the Mayor planned to announce his first selection of committees, which are listed.

In Mayetta, Kans., it was reported that a rodeo arena bleachers had buckled "with a pop and a bang" on Sunday, injuring 150 persons, 23 of whom had required hospitalization. The others had been released after treatment. There had been no warning, according to spectators, before the bleachers had given way.

In Chattanooga, Tenn., an undercover agent, hailed the previous week for his role in exposing a gang of alleged safe crackers, had been fired with thanks from the sheriff's patrol, following the 330-pound man's prison record from Florida and New Jersey having come to light.

In Lancaster, Pa., three cars had piled up the previous night on a road near Martindale, with all occupants escaping injury.

In New York, it was reported that Marie McDonald, actress-singer, was in Broadway producer Michael Myerberg's plans for two Broadway shows.

In San Antonio, Tex., a young civilian Air Force clerk, jailed for allegedly trying to kiss a preacher's daughter, said this date that he would fast until the girl came to him. The 23-year old said that he was not going to eat a bite of food until the girl, 16, turned up at the city jail to help him get out. The youth was jailed the previous day after the girl's father filed complaints charging him with aggravated assault and disturbing the peace, accusing him of trying to kiss his pretty daughter between services at his church. From his jail cell, the man denied that he tried to kiss the girl and said that he had just waved his arms. The incident had happened in a hallway after Sunday School and the girl said that she had resisted the man's approach, that he had followed her into a classroom. Police said that they were told that several members of the congregation had restrained the man. He said, "I'm determined in my heart to do without food until she comes and gets me." Asked why he was fasting, he said it was because of God. "By fasting, I believe He will send her to me."

On the editorial page, "Hungry Children: Time Trundles On" finds that time had not lesssened to any degree the plight of Charlotte's hungry schoolchildren, that youngsters were still going without lunches and the community remained without a solution.

A special study committee of the Social Planning Council would issue an interim report on the problem the following day, but its chairman had said that it was not yet ready to recommend a feeding plan, that such a plan would not be ready until the fall.

Another school year would begin at that time and another pattern of need would be established with another cycle of neglect to begin. It finds the problem great and indescribably complex, but not unique in that other cities had experienced the same thing and many had done something about it.

In Charlotte, impatience regarding the problem was pardonable and every reasonable effort should be made to work out a solution and establish a policy to put into effect before the ensuing fall. The seriousness of the situation had been known since early December, 1958 when staff writer Ann Sawyer had begun her series of articles in the newspaper, at a time when it was estimated that 2,000 pupils were going without lunches because their parents could not afford to pack sandwiches for them or to purchase hot food at the schools. Charlotte residents had been deeply touched and several private organizations and individuals had responded immediately with contributions, such that the number of hungry children had been reduced by several hundred. Meanwhile, the Social Planning Council had initiated its special study.

The gifts had represented palliatives and not cures, though the temporary treatment was nevertheless welcome. It reflected the community's deep concern and the bigness of its heart, but did not diminish the need for a comprehensive long-term solution.

It indicates great admiration for the chairman of the Planning Council and his staff, who were volunteering their time and energy to try to effect a solution. Some progress had been made in narrowing the limits of responsibility to the schools, but more was needed and soon.

"The One Race We KNOW We'll Win" quotes the caption of a Herblock cartoon from 1955: "And where would the pearl industry be without irritating ingredients?"

It indicates that Herblock was not the most popular person in the cartooning trade, but was the best. "Toss up a target and WHAMMO! He'll nail it from any angle. No one can unstuff a shirt or an idea any more skillfully than the artist who reigns supreme on The News' editorial page."

He had won two Pulitzer prizes and any number of other awards, as well as having accumulated along the way some enemies. One of those enemies had complained bitterly to the newspaper that Herblock was "pro-Russian" because he caricatured the Soviets as gaining on a complacent America in the arms race, the space race, and, the previous week, the economic race. It finds the complaint too absurd to consider seriously as Herblock had been taking "the sacred hide of the present administration simply because it is not doing enough to beat the Russians."

It suggests another look at the previous week's cartoon which had bruised some feelings in high places, which it provides with the piece, asking the reader to look especially at the oarsmen in the boat captained by the Russian who looked like Nikita Khrushchev. "No. Herblock's true-blue. Those Russians will never beat us. They're all rowing in the wrong direction."

"Bringing Reckless Drivers to the Curb" indicates that drivers who ignored traffic laws by habit threatened society as surely as a compulsive killer, with the difference that the automobile could be deadlier than a pistol, a knife or a bludgeon. Driver's licenses extended privileges and not rights and it was essential for the state to be able to retract those privileges by suspending licenses.

Because of a recent State Supreme Court decision, however, the Motor Vehicles Department lacked the necessary authority to act in that vital area of public concern, the court having noted that no legal standards had been established for license revocation and consequently, many licenses which had been taken for multiple traffic offenses had to be returned.

If passed, a new bill before the Legislature would restore the necessary prerogative to the state. The two legislators who had sponsored it had evolved a highly sensible solution to the problem of suspending licenses ex post facto, as their law would set up a "point system", empowering the traffic courts to give so many points for each offense and upon the accumulation of a certain number of points in the space of three years, the driver's license could be suspended. No driver could complain as the penalties were clearly set forth and when the license was taken, the errant motorist could only admit that he had notice that it was coming. It urges that the bill be passed immediately.

Be sure also that there are adequately stringent eye tests for motorists, as that is a critical prerequisite to safe driving, as well as for being an accurate percipient witness to any accident, whether in Cuba or the United States.

A piece from the Baltimore Sun, titled "There's No Escape", indicates that the feeling of "being crowded", according to the annual report of the 20th Century Fund, could be considered "the almost universal experience of today's citizen". The crowding had resulted not only from population growth but also from the impact of technological advancement and the demands of modern living. The city had forced itself on the countryside and international crises had forced old sovereignties into new dependencies, with missiles having blasted the comforts of distance such that everywhere people were jostled by issues, demands, needs and other people, with "time running out."

Everyday pressures meant that modern man had too little time and too much to do in an age when labor-saving devices supposedly had created the greatest amount of leisure time ever known. "Crowded onto the land, with one picture window staring at another picture window; crowded on the highways, along the beaches, in the theater lobby, at the cigarette counter and over the luncheon table; crowded by commercial announcements, truck noises, sirens, 'walk' signs, the crying of a child, the oven bell, the talk of the car-pool—people are pushed in from all sides until they have no time to call their own or place to be alone."

It finds that the symbol of the age could be the ringing telephone, the unread book or the confinement implicit in the "No Turns" sign. "Yet one hears far less talk than formerly of chucking it all and going to a deserted island. Possibly this only confirms that the world has become so crowded that nobody sees any likelihood of escape, or maybe we no longer have the time even to think about it."

Drew Pearson indicates that though the President had shrugged off a question at his press conference regarding a visit by Premier Nikita Khrushchev to the U.S., the inside fact was that shortly before Secretary of State Christian Herter had departed for Geneva, the two men had come to a definite agreement on the point, that barring unforeseen Russian problems created at Geneva, there would be a summit conference in the U.S. and that Mr. Khrushchev would be invited to tour the country following that conference. The President had been reluctant to make both decisions for two reasons, that John Foster Dulles had long been opposed to such a visit, and that both the FBI and the Secret Service were worried about the prospect of protecting Mr. Khrushchev from crackpots and assassins within the United States. He had said that it gave him the shivers when he thought of what might occur to the peace of the world should Mr. Khrushchev be injured in the U.S. Secretary Herter had convinced the President, however, that he had no alternative. Since Vice-President Nixon was going to Moscow with complete freedom to tour all Russian cities and even return home via Siberia, Mr. Herter had argued that the U.S. would have to provide Mr. Khrushchev the privilege of either opening the Soviet Trade Fair in New York or coming to a summit conference in the U.S. Thus, if there were a reasonable agreement achieved at Geneva, Mr. Herter proposed that on August 1 or August 3 to have a meeting in Washington with Mr. Khrushchev and afterward, the latter would be invited to tour the country on one condition, that the tour would take place only after the conference. Thus if Mr. Khrushchev were too negative at the summit meeting, he would get a sour reaction from the American people down below, with Mr. Herter hoping it would create the opportunity for more success at the conference.

Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas had a policy of carefully scrutinizing politically appointed diplomats, which promised improvement in American diplomacy. But it should not overlook the fact that some of the most outstanding diplomats had been politicians, beginning with Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson. More recently, William O'Dwyer, purely a politician, had gone to Mexico as Ambassador and had proved a great hit. He had been on par with Josephus Daniels, the former Secretary of the Navy who had ordered the Navy to fire on Tampico in 1917. Mr. Daniels had been criticized before he had gone to Mexico as Ambassador but was nevertheless loved after he got there. The same was true of Mr. O'Dwyer. But on the other hand, Walter Thurston, a career diplomat, and Francis White, who had spent most of his life in the career service, had been flops in Mexico City. Bob Hill, a Republican political appointee, presently the Ambassador to Mexico, was extremely popular.

Marquis Childs, in Geneva, finds that in the time when the foreign ministers of Russian and the three Western powers were trying to find a way to check the drift toward nuclear holocaust, the face of Europe had never been "more brilliant, more gay, more outwardly peaceful." He finds it a paradox certain to puzzle historians of the future should civilization as they knew it survive to write the history of the era.

Europeans were determined to enjoy life amid beautiful weather. Traffic jams had never been longer and the shop windows never brighter, with reservations at hotels and sidewalk cafés difficult or impossible to obtain. He finds it true even though only the first wave of American tourists had arrived. The major invasion was still to come and it promised to be bigger than ever.

In Paris, the traffic in the streets leading to the great squares was so thick that the lines of cars barely crawled. It had taken him nearly 15 minutes to cross the Place Vendome in a taxi at the evening rush hour. The same was true in London, particularly when the weekend exodus began on Friday afternoons. An estimated four million West Germans had visited Italy the previous year and the total would be much larger in the current year. The tourist invasion from France and the low countries into Spain was already at a peak.

"In a curious way this determined holiday mood becomes a factor in international politics. It is an advertisement written large for all to see that Europe either does not believe in the possibility of war or is determined to go on one last glorious spending spree before it all comes to an end."

The contrast with Russia was stark, as the Soviet citizen lived in the austerity of what appeared to the Westerner to be a garrison state, with the impression conveyed that every third person was dressed in military uniform.

It had been argued often in the past, and particularly by John Foster Dulles while Secretary of State, that the strength of the West was inherent in a high consumer economy. In the number of automobiles, refrigerators and washing machines per person, the West measured its power. In terms of human satisfaction, it might be indisputable. But in relation to the Communist challenge, both militarily and economically, it might not be a measure of strength and that doubt was what Prime Minister Harold Macmillan had raised when he had gone from one Western capital to another following his reconnaissance mission to Moscow. If war were actually threatened over Berlin, he had then asked whether the West ought not begin to take some of the steps, such as stopping the tourist invasion and moving military dependents out of forward positions in Germany, which such a threat would require. But he found that even in those countries talking the hardest line and intimating that nuclear war might occur at the end of May, little interest in such suggestions. Tourists, and especially American tourists, were an important element in the balance of payments in many countries and he had also been told that if everyone was to be destroyed in a war involving hydrogen bombs, it did not matter whether the tourist was destroyed in Europe or at home.

He finds it hard to believe in the picture postcard setting of Geneva that war, even the limited and relatively polite wars of the past, was an imminent threat. With one international organization and several American corporations establishing headquarters there, Geneva had become a boom town bursting from the confines of the past. "As the symbol of the Europe that is hell-bent on peace and prosperity, Geneva is the perfect setting for this conference."

He finds it possible that the Russians would interpret that symbol as meaning that the West was ready to make any concession rather than sacrifice the present sense of well-being, the fear of the pessimists. But it was also possible that Premier Khrushchev might mean it when he said that he wanted to give his own people an equally high standard of living and thus would go to a summit conference prepared to make some counter concessions.

Robert C. Ruark, in Palamos, Spain, indicates he had just had some communications from Cuba by an old and savvy Cuban hand, about 40, and it appeared to him that it was about time that someone bigger than Fidel Castro had slapped down "this noisy boy with the beard. Certainly, he needs no more dignifying in the manner that we have dignified him." His contact said that the Communists had already moved in on Sr. Castro heavily and Lyle Wilson of the United Press International had written a documented piece sometime earlier which had named the Communists whom Sr. Castro had brought to America with him recently "on that ridiculous thing about us giving Latin America three billion bucks a year. Plus a fandango for Fidel."

His contact had also told him that the publicized murder of Sr. Castro's war criminals did not comprise a tenth of the backstreet assassinations and cold exterminations which were never discussed in print or on television. "It seems to me that we are big brother enough to tell this cigar-smoking gentleman with the low-comedy whiskers to mind his manners or we will spank him considerably, economically, or, if necessary, hire a few hundred thugs and knock over the island again. It is a nice island, too, but it always seemed to be afflicted with gun-happy idiots."

He finds it too much to expect that there would be honest, decent government from any Latin American politician, "because these boys live in the smoke-filled back rooms of the mind. Perhaps Castro has not personally started to mink-line his pockets, but you can bet the line forms to the right, dear, while his Mac-the-Knife henchmen get the rackets tamed down to hand-feeding."

He had known of no honest Cuban regime since that of President Gerardo Machado, who had taken off from the island with his suitcases loaded with loot. They had pulled "one delightful swindle once", as he recalled it, by deciding to print a whole new set of extra pesos, valued at the dollar rate, running into millions of dollars because they actually did need the currency to meet the demands of new post-war prosperity. But at the same time, the ruling powers had delayed the plates and printed another new issue of completely legal currency for their own personal use. That had gone to Miami and since there was no law against bringing legal money into America, real estate in Miami had boomed that year.

"The Latin-American is a strange and wonderful character, but he is also kind of like the Irish. All the brave buckos love to plot, to scheme, and it is asking too much to trust a professional politician or any other caballero with an opportunity to steal not to shove his claws into the jampot."

He indicates that in Cuban slang, an honest man was called a "bobo", meaning a dumb jerk. His opposite number was called a "vivos", or live one. He had met very few "bobos" in Cuba, in Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, Peru, Chile or other Latin American nations. The compulsion to steal was as ingrained, he finds, in the Latino as deeply as his love for sun and shade or his ability to play moving music without lessons. The bribe was as much a part of living as eating or out-figuring the lottery. "Actually, bribery and corruption are considered a recognized right of office, not a sin, or even a frivolity."

His Havana contact told him that there was a very steady fellow standing by, waiting for Sr. Castro to "depopularize himself" and then the real pros would be back into business, and all the old moonlight requisition business would be back in order again. He says that it could be sooner than one thought as "these boys love guns. Boom. Un otro accidente del trafico. Another monument in the Plaza."

A letter writer from Spartanburg, S.C., indicates that heretofore they had segregationists, integrationists and the so-called moderates. He suggests why not providing recognition to a new and fast-growing group, both North and South. "We go all the way and believe in slavery!"

A letter writer indicates that as a manager of the Salvation Army's Rehabilitation Center for unfortunate men, he expresses appreciation to the newspaper and those on the staff who had anything to do with the publicity given them on different occasions immediately preceding and during their spring salvage campaign of the previous month. He says that their telephone calls had more than doubled and there had been a tremendous increase in the number of people who had dropped off packages of clothing and various items at the center. During the previous year, there had been over 300 men at their center and out of that number, a third had been rehabilitated or returned to their place in society. It was through the efforts of friends, such as the newspaper and its staff, that those who had so generously donated their discarded materials had helped to make the business of working with unfortunate men a success.

A letter writer comments on the upcoming bond election, indicating that with a debt of 85 to 90 million dollars owed by the City from past bond elections, the citizens ought oppose the one upcoming to fund school construction and repair. He indicates that if the Federal Government was going to run their schools, it should pay for them. "And a lot of our public schools children are being taught evolution, and religion and the Bible have been outlawed. I shall vote against any more bonds."

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