Kossuth County Advance from Algona, Iowa • Page 16

Mcond clou matter Dec. 1, 1908, at Alfiona, Iowa port. Act of Congress March 8. 1879. The Duke Finds Fault With New World Kitchens Countryside NoAerg.

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Irt county and to neotett postoffice outside Six months $2.00 Year outside county and to other thin nearest outside P.0.1 4.00 AUJONA PAKRS. Year in county and to nccrest postoffice outside 5.00 tear county and to other than neorest outside P.O.t.., 6.00 I I A Thursday. September 9 The Entire Senate a Bit Guilty in McCarthy-Army Mess. The net result of the McCarthy-army hearings as given by the investijniting committee is unsatisfactory. In fact the entire proceeding was unsatisfactory.

Both tKe McCarthy forces and' Secretary Stevens were rapped in the committee reports. As customary, the republicans viewed the fracas with a great deal less alarm than the democrats on the committee. There had to be sonic politics injected. The American public had given about the same kind of a verdict leng before the committee settled down to putting the findings in the record. One item was not satisfied.

That is simply how far'can a member of congress go' in an investigation 1 McCarthy went plenty far. He even had a FBI letter filched from the files, and only partially reproduced, to bolster his position'. McCarthy even asked members of the government to supply him with confidential material. This raises the question--does congress take precedence! over the, executive and judicial branches of the government. McCarthy seems to think so', despite the constitution.

These were the more important things in the whole fracas. The endeavor of Cohn to get preferential treatment of his pal Schine from the army, and the natural dislike of a member of the executive branch to displease McCarthy are secondary. McCarthy set himself up not only as a legislator, but also as a judge, prosecutor, and as a member of the' executive department. Those who thwarted him were' browbeaten. He endeavored to make' a oiie-man government out of himself, but when He went before the TV cameras with his "point of order" monkeyshines hf out-smarted himself.

The whole mess is the fault of t'h'6 senate itself in failing to impose rules on the conduct of investi- I am not, by and large, resentful of change. I do not think things are bad just because they are not as they once were. Most alterations are comforting milestones on the path of progress. -K- But if I were to find fault with the march of mankind toward the brave new world it would be in the kitchen. -A The modern Ami-Mean kitchen --far to and porcelained and chromed and cabinfV-'i from Moor to ceiling--is better fitted for surgery than cookery.

It has convenience- but no has no sound and no and. worst of all, no pantry attached. It is the most orderly mess man has created. The primary reason too' mahy American youngsters are' growing up on the streets is that' 'there's no room for them in the kitchen. A kitchen should-not be a laboratory for the processing ol vitamins and counting of calo- rics--it should be a place for sitting and watching and hearing and smelling.

It should be rambling and in- rony-nient and a rooth whore mothers get admiration as well as meals. Our generation and the next, would be far better off inheriting grandma's kitchen than 1 Brand- pa's money. For the good of life we need a pantry, long and dark, its air rn-h with the smell of spices a pantry with shelf after shelf. For the good life we need to hear cooking food gently bubble, not roar in a pressure hear the crunch of coffee beans in a hand-powered grinder, hear ing three pans io get one. or moting four saucers to capture a plate.

For the life we need a kitchen with more space and less housing a big table and comfortable sturdy chairs--and no chintz. For the good life we should watch the top of a coal-bburning We have chased our children away from" the most interesting and informative spot in the home toward television a comic books, arid have denied them the our. stockinged feet after coming in from the cold. before it is dropped' into the bread baking pan. For the good life we should sit and watch tea become brewed in an earthen pot" instead of being soaked from a sanitary bag, and wrinkle up our noses while freshly-made cottage cheese- is being prepared.

If we loused up our lives it is probably because, in great mea- kitchen'and made it a corner of family living rather than the center. mother's cooking is an act of love as well' as duty. We have gained time around the house, and lost the only worthwhile place in which to spend it. The decline of the front porch was a hard blow, but it Jeast created more room on the lawn. Mist, as white thick as milk, hover over tne countryside.

We had not realized the presence of this fragmentary visitor, half real and half spectral, until we came back from the farm the other evening. You-have to live in the country, or happen to be on the road early fn the morning or late at night, tb be aware of it. No reading about it. or hearing it over the radio, or by word of mouth suffices. Arnold tcok us out to sec some work they are doing on the The loss of grahdma's kitchen is house.

It was on the way back'to tow'n thn) wr- nri a moral, social and economic catastrophe--and there's nothing to show for it except a downstairs bathroom that is always in when you want it. a a Scandal Has Not Been Unexpected Journal Giles of Many Years Are We Losing Asia to the Reds? Gaietle-Tribune Fear. We Depend Too Much on BulleU and Not Enough on For anyone even faintly associated with girls basketball on a district, or state basis in Iowa in recent years the dis- clusures and executive committee resignations arc no surprise. Events leading'up to the present scandals have been brewing with an odor that it was possible to detect in advance. was all part of the same picture for example, when salesmen appeared on the streets of Knoxville selling advertising in the basketball annual publication at prices somewhat more than reasonable, and when school officials at various locations could be heard grumbling about most of the receipts from staging district and sectional tournaments going to the state asoocia- lion.

To weekly newspaper throughout the state, one of the best tipoffs to Che situation was he standard reply given b.V the former secretary of the association to requests for information about girls basketball on a or district basis--that it had never been the policy of the as- sociation to' make releases of information to weekly newspapers For further information the writers were urged' to purchase a syndicated column, Queens of the Court, which was written am? sold privately by the secretary. That sort of thing never quite made sense. In the first place, the vast majority of support for girls basketball in this state comes from the smaller communities and schools. In the second place, no voluntary association related to education can afford to treat reasonable requests for information in such an off-handed manner. Coaches, school officials haVe been starry-eyed about girls basketball in Iowa for year's, and'the present mess is the unhappy result.

Now is the time for all concerned to put some of the sentiment aside, look at girls basketball as only one of a number of Worthwhile school activities and take steps to arrange the girls association so the the schools involved, rather than the secretary and the board members gain the profits, if any from the sport. gations. Senators oil the committee seemed too to McCarthy, particularly the Republican LOWCF AgC Limit Oil Child Labor' Law Is Uiirfcasons County Monitor Says Children Should Learn The major political fight of the. world is now shaping up in Asia, and the United States is squarely in the middle of it. The issue of the Iron Curtain against the free world is one which is going to have to be faced in this part of the world.

Bullets are not enough in this fight. We can tell by our past experiences in Korea and Indo- China that if we depend upon this argument alone to convince Asian nations of the goodness of our cause we will be out-voted. This in not the 1st time in history that an ideological war has been fought. And, time and time again, it has been proved that you cannot kill an idea with a bullet. Napoleon proved to the world that if you instill a dream in the hearts of the people they will yladly die for the perpetuation of that dream.

Our own history is full of this same type of action. And this is exactly what Russia has done in Asia. They have given these people a dream of something better in the future than they have had in the past. It is hard for those 1 of us living in this country to realize that communism as we view it can hold a promise of something better. But at the same time, it is difficult for us to understand and appreciate the conditions under which these people have been living for so many years.

The people, of Asia have lived too long in subjection to western powers to believe the old arguments anymore. The day of the white man is over, and the people are looking for leaders of their own nationality and race. This is something which many of our lawmakers have evidently forgotten when they demand the complete ostracizing of Nehru and India. But, regardless of. whether or not we like Nghru, we must recognize that he is a power to be dealt with in Asia.

Too often, this country has been on the side of colonialism and imperialism. If we are' going to win Asia for the free world, we must make our offer of freedom available to all peoples rather than to a select group only. attitude which has so often characterized our actions was probably never better demonstrated "than when President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill announced their Atlantic Pact and the Four Free- When this historic decision was first announced, there was much rejoicing in Asia because the people felt they had been promised freedom along with the rest of the world. This feeling of joy was quickly quelled soon after the original announcement it was made clear that the Atlantic- Pact should not be considered as applicable.to that part of the world. This is the time to make it applicable.

This is the time to cover our bets by promising freedom to these people and seeing to it that they receive what they have been promised. Merely damning communism is not enough! The world situation calls for immt'di- ate action, if the West loses Asia, we will soon be in a position to lose the entire pacific. Empty promises can only destroy wha't friendship we have remaining among the people of the Orient. We would like to agree with the recent statement of Defense Secretary Wilson that "We cannot knock out false ideas with bullets; we must counter and destroy them with the truth, with superior ideas and sound philosophy. While the army, McCarthy, Cohn, and others too got a rapping- the senate itself should be criti- cised for letting 'McCarthy get into the position in the government he did.

The holier than thou ex- pressiohs of -all -members, democrats and republi- look a little silly. There's another investigation under way. It is hoped.the members delve a bit deeper into" the responsibility of the senate itself. French Action Killing EDC a Bit Disgusting. No Funds for Poison Ivy Danger Increase fearfully expected France turned down the EDC plan of rearming- Europe against Russia.

It means a lot of work will have to be done all over. France has always been afraid of an Germany. A part of the EDC plan was to rearm Germany to take part in the joint army ef the western allies to prevent aggresion from Russia. Now it appears Germany may have to be armed anyway--without the restraint "that might be involved in the EDC plan. France outsmarted herself.

The government of France is a woeful mess al best. Dozens of political parties vie with each other 01 fcr thc sood of the country, but for petty. pfiva'te, selfish political purposes. A French pr'e- jmler is not the choice of one party. No party has near a A French premier is choice of parties -which he mst keep happy.

in this century the western world has cotne to the aid of France. Twice the victory has been won and the allies banded together to" give France aid to rebuild. Millions of dollars have been poured into that country by the United States. It's a bit difficult to "follow Eisenhower's plea at the Iowa state fair last week when he said, speaking cf EDC: must never be discouraged." Maybe so. but at least we can be a bit disgusted at the way the French have acted on a plan the French themselves proposed.

They got everyone else to OK it, and then balked. It's hardlv': way to keep friends or influence anyone. Here's a New and Better Answer to the Milk Problem. The dairy industry over the country has hired Bob Hope for a TV show to sell milk. Thousands of dollars are being poured into the project.

Bob plugs milk but the plugs are written bv an advertising agency and as usual with TV and radio commercials, the audience leaves--starts chatting gets a drink, or attends to such little chores as might be necessary. It may sell milk and butter. It is aimed at the BIG market. Yet a better way was demonstrated in Minnesota where a man invented a machine that distributes small bottles of milk just as other machines dispense Coca Cola and other soft drinks. The result was rather with milk outselling other products in the vending machine Here in the milk producing country restaurants penalize a dinner buyer by charging extra for milk --with the price of coffee what it is today It's the custdm to do so.

and no blame should be attached 'o cafe owners. They're following precedent More milk will be sold when it is made more convenient for the public to get away from the family dinner table. If a milk dispensing machine stood beside every Coke dispensing machine the milk and butter problem would be reversed--we'd need more than we now produce. According, to recent report-jn, the daily press, thc Iowa Commission on Children and Youth proposes to go before the next legislature to lower thc age limits on the present child labor laws. The points to be covered are to decrease the age limit from 16 to 14; small employers under the law, and to increase the penalties.

We are unequivocally opposed to lowering the age limit to 14. That docs not mean that we are in favor of exploiting child labor. That does not mean that we are in favor of their working at hours which would interfere with school workr that does not mean that we are in favor of anything which would be detrimental to- any boy or girl at any time or place. But one of the factors in our present day problem of juvenile delinquency is fact that some young people never learn how to in formative They don't know how to work arid therefore they drift into trouble. It- is quite possible that there are some places in the larger centers of population which might attempt to exploit child labor.

That is something that is almost unknown in small towns and rural areas. Everybody knows everybody else xvell enough that any possible offender on that point just couldn't get away with it. We believe legislature should go over the recommendations of the commission with a very practical eye. We recognize- all the dangers which the commission is trying to prohibit. But there is also the very serious danger of setting up barriers which would lead young teenagers into habits which arc far worse than principles in the proposed legislation.

Finds Farmer Gets 75.6 of Every Dollar for Livestock Chronicle Quotes Surrey by Meat Meat prices sometimes rise and sometimes fnll. as the supply and demand situation changes. But one thing is sure, meat is agriculture's primary source of cash income. And tho farmer receives a remarkably high percentage of all the money the packers get from meat sales The American Meat Institute has published the results of .1 survey of la.vt year's packing industry operations. The packers sold SI0.850 000 000 worth of products, and cf every dollar received out 75.6 for livestock and other farm tommouities.

That left thi packer i a i a twenty-five cent.s of tho dollar. Pracitic- ally all of a was absorbed by and other necosary ex- Compensation Certain Leah Jane Smith in Rock Rapids Reporter Thero is no more accurate philosophy of life than a expounded many years ago by Emer.von when he wrote his famous essay on Every evil thing do has a way of coming back to us usually in the same coin. If you can't be a friend, then you surely will not have any. Ii you are a troublemaker, you i soon find yourself alone. Revenge has a temporary sweetness and "getting penses.

When the bills were paid, their profits from all sources, including by-products, amounted to only eighttenths of one cent on each dollar of By way of comparison. United States manufacturing corporations as a whole averaged profits of four and one-third cents out of every dollar last year, about five times the figure averaged by the packing companies. The packers naturally hope that the profit picture will improve somewhat In the future. Whatever happens, however, the profits earned will be so small, say the meat packers, that if they ceased to exist altogether consumers would be unable to notice the difference in prices. Inflated prices and labor costs are likely to continue for some time.

even" for a real or imagined slight will win a temporary sense of power. But the victory is always short lived and the inevi- tible payment is often worse than the momentary victory. The Only Perfect Man preached the gospel of love. He loved even His enemies and He has become the most loved Personage of all time. If all mankind could only learn this lesson in little and big things both! HEADLINES WRITTEN TOO FAST South Girl Is New Miss U.

S. A. Blonde Lost Clothes On Way to (Ohio) Times, Toll Road Jaqua in Humboldt The proposed new toll road across Iowa from east to west would be a good thing if it could be financed from its own revenue. The big hurdle in its construction comes when the consulting engineers who investigated and planned the proposed road stated that the bonds might have to be guaranteed by the slate. When there is such a need for more roads and road improvement in Iowa the legislature would be foolish to guarantee the bonds for a toll road.

The proponents for the toll road are making every etfort to get public acceptance for the idea of state guaranteed bonds but we expect they will find it a difficult ob to use state funds for a toll road when there is so much need for those funds to keep our present road system in repair and for the widening of present roads, as well as the construction of needed roads. If a toll road crosses Iowa, as has been is built it should be self supporting. It should pay off its own oonds from the tolls collected from the users of the road. State Kinds, badly needed elsewhere, should, not be used. Boy or Girl Problem? Emmetsburg Democrat An 8-year-old Emmetsburg girl with her dad and brother attended the widely known Sidney.

a couple of weeks ago. She was all dressed up in appropriate western' garb, complete with boots, chaps, cowboy shirt and hat. As is the current fad with young gals, she wore the short Audrey Hepburn-style hair cut. During the afternoon she visited the ladies' rest room but was stopped by the matron in charge with this ultimatum: no boys allowed. Katln was in somewhat of a dilcmna but removing her sombrero she convinced the matron that her boyish haircut was really a feminine glamour trick.

She won. KIDDIES YOU--ALL WENT TOO FAR Ken Miller in Armstrong Journal These days of prominent TV characters and personalities arc certainly a trial for fathers of young children. During the McCarthy hearings the children of one local father were comparing him with the villian, Joo, himself. And now, as if that not bad enough, they are their mother she didn't marry Liberace. Seen During the Fall Months Tells How to Recognize the In the fall of the year is when the Americans take to the woods picnics and just walking through' the woodfe sight-seeing and enjoying nature.

This is also the season for poison ivy and its close relatives poison sumac and poison oak. Poison ivy vines have green leaves in the spring, turning reddish brown by fall. It may be a climbing vine or trailing shrubs and bushes. Its poisonous leaves always come in clusters of three. However, if you spend all of your time watching for poison ivy, you will not do much hunting or bird watching.

A few protective devices will help. Gloves, boots, or stockings and long sleeves. However, when you return home all protective clothing should be scrubbed with soap and water when removed for the poisonous sap clings to it. Handling it will produce just as itchy a case of poison ivy as if the person had walked naked into the stuff. The itching blister of poison ivy.

Sumac and oak will extract nine million dollars each year in hospitalization, doctor fees, and drugs, from the American pocketbook to say nothing of the days of misery, whiclVcannot be solved at any cost. Almost nobody is immune to poison ivy, sensitivity is only heightened by repeated infections. It is dangerous all-the year around and attempt to destroy the plants have so far met with little success. Many a gardncr has carefully raked the ivy into a neat pile and burned it and then acquired a paiticularly nasty case from breathing the smoke. You can get poison ivy by petting a dog has run through it or by changing a flat tire if you have driven through poison ivy.

Small children arc the commonest victims. Poison Ivy's incubation period is one to two days. Most cases clear up in one or two weeks. When blisters appear, preparations like calamme lotion, wet dressings of mild salt, solution of milk of magnesia, Epsom salts or aluminum acetate, while noi cures, soothe the horrible itching. Scientists are working on it and someday there may be a cure and we certainly hope so, and soon.

Finds Gillette a Democrat R. in Hartley Sentinel, Discusses As fall draws near more attention is being focused on the November election. Perhaps the most interesting and hardest- fought contest will be between Senator Guy Gillette and Representative Tom Martin for one of the two Iowa seats in the U. S. Senate.

Early polls indicate that Senator Gillette. is leading in popularity and that a substantial part of his support is coming from Republican voters. Per. haps the reason for this is that many Republican-; feel thr.t Mr. Gillette votes with the Republicans in spite of the fact that he is a Democrat.

Actually his voting record does not substantiate Punctuation Troubles GWB in Wrighi Co. Monitor- Misplaced punctuation can also be mighty disrupting and disconcerting at times. The Exira Journal recently came up with this one that subject: recently made the statement that one thing which 'urped him good' was a this mistaken belief. When the chips are down Senator Gillette almost always lines 'up with the, party bosses. On a few minor issues he has voted with the opposition and his oackcrs are making much of these infrequent balks.

Another thing to remember is that Gillette is now 75 years old --certainly not in his favor when you consider that the senate term is six years. Mavtin's record in Congress is excellent and there is no denying a the administration needs all the seats it can muster in the Senate. This should be food for thought for all Republicans. misplacel "comma which could in innocence misconstrue meaning of a agree, and for cx- nmple a dot can be important too. Take the s.iying.

'Half the world doesn't thc other half Then punctuate it this way: the world doesn't know how. The other half "Another of thc power of punctuation: 'Woman, without her man, is lost Woman, without her, man is tow'n thai we came on the mists. We first encountered them near the old lake bed. They hung low and dense along the north border, skirting a neighbor's cornfield. In fact, they were so close to the earth, that the rows of corn seemed to act as a barrier to them.

A large, long area paralleling the road, was completely blotted out. Farther along a tree-lined farmstead, another area was covered with this smooth, soft blank- ket. Across the road to the south, three or four other formations of mist had collected. It gave the world an upside down look. As if the clouds had suddenly fallen to earth, or by some divine juxtaposition, we had become topsy-turvy.

The sight was startling. Not the ordinary pockets of fog ono encounters in low places, or scudding wildly through woodlands, or being broken up in rag- gy portions, by sun or wind. Just mist. Mist that seemed chiseled and permanent in character, like something carved out of marble. It was that substantial.

We both watched it with.qbic- kening breath. Neither of us had ever seen a' sight lik'e this, a sight so perfect, so fabled: It was indeed a blue thing of the soiil. If you haven't walked through a field of soy beans yet this year, do so. They arc fabulously tall and abundant. And now while they are ripening, and the plants are still hung with gold-coin leaves, they are a delight.

Our car balked last night in Fairmont, so we had to take the bus home from there. Over our coffee we sat and relaxed. Another bus came in and several women seated themselves at the counter for coffee. We happened to notice that as each one of them went to the cashier's desk, they fumbled in their handbags for change. Not a one of them had her money handy.

When we went to pay for ours, neither did we. And we got to thinking. Women are purse fumblers. There's something fumbling in a purse that appeals to a woman. What is it? There we were.

Down into our pouch bag we went. Up came everything but a dime. The bus ticket. Like an imp popping up at the wrong time. A nail file! A book of matches.

A sample' of cloth we tried to match. A button. A dollar bill. Some one's calling card. The cover to the nail file.

An earring. A penny. A lipstick. We fumbled some more. This was awful.

Then in desperation we drew out a handful of pencils. We lik'e long pencils with sharp points and carry several along with us. One of them jabbed us viciously and made 'the blood come. So we were sidetracked momentarily in our search for a handkerchief. Oh well, we might as well gather up all the stuff and start over.

It wasn't bus time yet." So we went over to a booth and started unpacking. Car keys. Another earring. Wrist watch. Letters.

Stamps, Chewing gum. Driver's license. Compact. Mints. Key to apartment.

Some pearl beads, lost from a necklace that was being repaired. A receipt. A recipe clipped from a paper. Notebook. And so on.

Why on earth we can't have a more orderly purse we don't As we said, women just like to fumble around in their purses. While billfolds, brief cases, various gift pocketbooks with carefully planned and designated compartments gather dust on our shelves and dresser drawers. After being conspicuous by their absence this summer, our wasps are back again. They glow brightly, their furry yellow bodies etched against the window- screens like figurines in pantomime. Back and forth they go, up and down, and then zigzag- godly again.

Thc sun shines' on them and seems to warm and sustain them. But they are hopelessly trapped. AT LAST! GOOD USE FOR PEANUT BUTTER Roy A. Jarntgin in Patriot--A sure sign of the approach of fall is the influx of mice into the house. Our daughter, Betty, says she ihas found a very successful bait for a mousetrap is peanut butter.

Glad' they have found some use for the darned stuff. JEWS PA PER I NFWSFAPF.R!.