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Daily Gazette, Friday, Nov. 3, 1967 fireplace Gives Evansville ibrary Homelike Atomosphere By ELIZABETH llATl.EN EVANSVILLE Judging from the, increased circulation at the Eager Free Public library, books have become one of Evansvillc's latest fads. Even more surprising is the fact that residents of all ages m-e equally fascinated by them. From 1 until Sept. 30 of tihis year, sign-outs totaled 29,627 an increase of .1,378 over the same period two years ago.

According to Mrs.Marjorie Staffeld. libra- rarian. circulation is about divided between youth and adults. In keeping with National Book Week, 17 gi-oups of second, third and fourth graders from the Schools visited the library this week as Mrs. Staffeld and her assistant, Mrs.

Irene Higginbotham, gave them first hand hand of 125 new children's books purchased for the occasion. During blistery winter months, at the library are welcomed by the warmth of a crackling fire in the fireplace. This atmosphere makes a perfect setting for an armchair tour of the world a good book. Or better still, it offers a place for youth to form nsions of the future as flames leap over the grate. The mere fact that Evansville has such an edifice for self enrichment is the result of one man's for hia town.

Opened in 1908, the building is a memorial to Almeron Eager who made provisions for it in his will. Many memorials and gifts in the form of books and furnishings have since enhanced the catalogue and interior beauty of the library. One of the recent memorials was that for Mrs. Gertrude Eager, consisting of new fireplace fixtures and a unique Egyptian coffee table which her son, Leonard P. Eager, purchased during a recent trip to Egypt.

While students are using books as keys to open doors the future, adults are en- ioying educational programs of Iheir In addition to reading as a pasttimc. some area housewives are continuing their college education. adults are presently enrolled in classes offering instruction in creative sewing, oil and water painting, cake decorating, antiquing and refinishing at the high school. Line Up Flattery A HOMELIKE atmosphere condusiv to reading is supplied by a fireplace at the Eager Free Library at Evansville. 0 i-ville Lewis is shown here enjoying both the warmth of the fire and a good book.

Fireplace furnishings and Egyptian table were presented by Leonard P. Eager as a memorial to his mother, Mrs. Gertrude Eager. Freedom of Speech in Class? "Dear Helen: I certainly enjoy your column. Don't stop! I hope you and your readers will be interested in the following opinions I compiled." writes Henry L.W.

a Nifty-Swifty. Or two. Or three. "The subject is freedom of expression. Not Student Power.

More exactly, I mean the freedom of expression that's proper in classrooms. "This is what we call a De- batette in our school paper, 'The Charlotte "The subject reminds me of Nifty-Swifty No. 1. You heard about the teacher who calls her students The Unteacha- bles? "And there's the girl who said; 'If a girl's smart, doesn't have to have "AnyM-ay, here it is, and I hope you can use this." GOOD FOR YOU. Henrj'! Let's use it right now! Here, then, are the Pros and Cons on: "Freedom of Expression Should be an Essential in Every Class." vSee where you agree.

Pro: Classes are sometimes a dictatorship with the teacher as dictator. How can we be thrust into life and be prepared with decisions when we must sit and absorb exactly what's taught to us? Pro: A universal complaint is extreme lack of understanding. Therefore, a free discussion classroom opens up a situation in which an adult would really listen to the ideas of the j'oung. Pro: Free discussion pro- moles mutual understanding. It also replaces inferiorities with confidence.

Pro: In today's massive world, there is a dire need for individuality. Let the student speak out and show he is not just another teen-ager, but himself! Pro: More n-eedom could give life to a possibly dull course. Many students have surprisingly good insight, yet are still spoon-fed. Pro: Freedom of expression in the classroom, when con- conduLled in an orderly way, would leach students that freedom is doing what they should do, not necessarily what they want to do. AT THIS POINT, having listened in an orderly way, the opposition rolls in its artillery.

Those who oppose it say: Con: A personal opinion expressed in class may be premature (made before all the facts are known) and wrongly influence the rest of the class. Con: Opinions should be served for out of class. Those 45 minutes should be used in learning the subject, not evaluating it. Con: Student discussion in class could throw the teacher off the point. Con: Students could take advantage of a liberal teacher and bog down the flow of classwork with comments which do not add to the lesson.

Con: The time spent in class is better spent listening to the teacher who knows what he wishes to get across. Con: Students can discuss their out of class, without delaying the work that must be finished in June. THIS IS nice thinking, isn't it? "I also thought," Henry concludes, "you would all enjoy this flip-out I heard yesterday. It just started making the rounds in our school. 'Keep your eye on the ball, your shoulder to the wheel, yovu- ear to the try to study in that position! "So-o-o best regards and sincerely yours!" Henry, we thank you! TOD A On this date in 1814, European powers trying to resolve the problems left by the Napoleonic Wars, opened the Congress of Vienna.

In 1868, the Republican candidate, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant was elected president over Horatio Seymour. In 1883, the world Woman's Christian Temperance Union was organized at a national convention in Chicago. In 1936, the New Deal re- Blackness of Skin Is Accidental Attribute 9002 SIZES This lovely, oulswept flow of lines wins first place in the heart and wardrobe of every well dressed woman.

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"The whiteness of a man's teeth," observes Thomas in the Summa, "primarily belongs not to him, but to them." If the whiteness of the teeth belongs to the teeth, and not to the man, then the blackness of the belongs to the skin, and not to the man. And, thus, all the accidental attributes of the body must not be ascribed to the essence of the individual personality. This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identified, and stratify, and treat pcr- Striclly Personal By SYDNEY J. 1-lARRIS sons largely on Ihc basis of their accidental characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.

Then, because our treatment of such persons makes them sensitive and resentful and angry and out of joint with us, we then turn around and blame them for being "different." This is the history of all discrimination and persecution. Suppose we did this with a child in our family, who had some peculiar physical char- tcteristic, one not shared by the rest of the family. By the lime the child was adolescent, the weight of disapproval would have shaped (and misshaped) his whole character and personality. Our tliinking him "different" would truly make him different; our dislike would make him unlikable. We can clearly see what would happen in the case of an individual child; but we somehow cannot grasp the analogy to a whole race or of people who are treated in the same fashion.

What social scientists have called "the fulfilling prophecy" is hard at work in such cases. Because of our prejudice or fear or ignorance, we expect certain groups to behave in a certain negative way; and the very trust of our expectations tends to drive tliem in that same direction, Then we feel "justified" in condemming them, because they have predictably reacted as we thought they would. In tills truly vicious circle, all racial and religious and geographical discrimination is constantly being the objects of our prejudice eventually come to rc- sembly the stereotypes we have.cast them in. And our contempt becomes their tempt. The vast revolutions awaiting us in me latter Uiird of the 20th Century may take the form of political revolutions, but they will be racial in subsance, using as their tremendou.s lever the insane delusion of the white race that the blackness of the skin belongs to the man, and not merely to the skin.

RECORDS EVERY my You Can't Tell When You'll Be in a Mishap DEAR ANN LANDERS: My mother used to say, "Always wear nice underwear. You never can tell when you'll get into an accident." I thought that was pretty funny. Yesterday I stopped laughing. A college friend and 1 went bike riding. We are expe- By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ceived a vole of confidence as President Franklin D.

Roosevelt was re-elected. Republican Alfred M. Landon can'ied only Maine and Vermont. In 1964, President Johnson swamped Republican Barry Goldwater in a presidential election. Ten years Soviet Union announced it had put into operation the TV114 described it as the biggest and fastest passenger plane in the world.

Ann Landers rienced cyclists and neither of us had ever had an accident. Delia's bike suddenly hit a hole in the cement. She went sailing head first and landed in a clump of bushes. Fortunately, a squad car was within 100 feet of us and the police officers rushed her to the hospital. Of course I went along.

The first thing the doctor did was cut oft Delia's blouse and slacks. Soon she regained consciousness and called me by name. Although she was in pain she seemed much more concerned about her underwear than her injuries. And well she might have been. I never saw such a filthy and her panUe girdle was in even worse condition.

Luckily she suffered only a broken shoulder and a dislocated hip, but she told me later that her embarrassment over her underwear was more painful than her injuries. I learned a lesson at Delia's expense, Ann. Maybe others can profit by it as I ALL THE WAY THROUGH DEAR NEAT: Thank you for sharing. O.K. girls, take a fast reading.

Are you wearing undies you wouldn't mind modeling in an emergency room? How 's the lace on your slip? Is your girdle a wee mite shredded? Did you hurriedly pin that busted bra strap this morning instead of sew it on? Upgrade your underwear. Sisters. You never know. DEAR ANN LANDERS: My next door neighbor has read every word you have ever written. Before you get to feeling flattered let me tell you that the idea behind this is to catch, you in a mistake.

She checks out every fact, gets on the phone' and calls the newspaper, the public library, legal aid, welfare agencies, clinics, veterinarians, doctors, clergymen, police, firemen, the post she can pump for information. I would judge that this nut spends anywhere from two to three hoiirs a day trying to trip you up. She thought she had you the day you said a pregnant WAC is not kicked out of the service and dishonorably discharged. Her face fell a foot when she told by the recruiting office here, "Ann is right. Pregnant Wacs are simply separated from the service." This woman used to be the town's worst meddler and most vicious troublemaker.

Since she has made you her hobby she hasn't had time for groublcmaking and gossip. So thank you. DEAR RCO: I am delighted that I am providing a harmless outlet for (he woman's energies. If she catches a mistake, I'd be delighted to hear from her. CONFIDENTIAL TO PLENTY SUSPICIOUS: Just because a man wants to smell good doesn't mean he has another dame some place.

Good grief, Woman, get off his back or he might make good your goofy accusations. Ann Landers will be glad to help you with your problems. Send them to her in care of the Janesville Gazette, enclosing a self addressed, stamped envelope. Firming Exercises Give Bonus Re ware. Dieters, the most rewarding time in your slimming program is when you are nearing normal weight.

Friends will comment on your new figure. You feel of the burden of fat, It is then that you get a quickening of the spirit ind become enthusiastic about exercising. You will suddenly know it is possible for you to have a really good figure and a magnificent posture. Specific exercise is particularly helpful at this time. Dui-mg the weight-gaining period you were not exercising anything near enough, therefore your muscles were losing tone.

"Creeping poundage" is the consequence of too little exercise. Flabby muscles invite fatty infiltration. Put live tone back in the figure controlling muscles and you will find it pleasant to keep slender. Reducers need to tone and strengthen the mus- dles that form the abdominal wall. A good place to begin a toning program is with those front ine muscles, for tone there brings a quickening of energ)'.

Also, strong ab- dominals make, for better po.s- ture and good posture in itself affords exercise. When your posture is on the beam, every move amounts to exercise. Praise Carol Burne Dick Smothers Discs By MARY CAIVU'BELL AP Newsfcatures Writer Leon Bibb, known as a folk singer, who has sung spirituals a lot also, takes a new tack on his first album for Philips. The album is titled the "Now Composers" and Bibb turns out to be ju the person to sing them. The songs reflect the way songwriters are looking at life currently.

We have here praise of a way of life that is pastoral and beautiful (that's why the flower children like flowers) and disparaging the phony, pretentious, complex, materialistic. Not all the songs arc new; they're enclosed if they have a "now" phitosophy. Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changin'" is included. More than anything else these songs praise the simpler ways of living, "Patch of Green." "If I Were a Carpenter," "Suzanne," "In My Life." Bibb's style of singing is quietly assured. He has an individualistic sound in his voice, always difficult to describe, but it's there, raising his performance far above the bland.

A couple of people from comedy have new albums out on which they sing, both very well. They are Dick Smothers with "Saturday Night at the World" on Mercury and "Carol Burnett Sings." the comedienne's first for RCA. Sings in Light Voice Dick Smothers is best known as straight man and inept brother of Tom Smothers in the comedy routines by the Smothers Brothers. Their audience also realizes that he can sing and must sometimes say, "Why doesn't he ever sing a song all the way through, without clowningu" Wei) now he does, in a light voice. His volume is not boosted unnaturally by recording THE FOLLOWING routine, taken from the physical training program of the Women's Army Corps, is particularly good for these exercises arc graduated.

The instruction is to master each exercise be- for progressing to the next. Starting position: Lie on back with legs straight out and palms of hands resting on top of upper tliighs. Arms should be relaxed so hands may slide toward knees as head and shoulders are raised. Raise head and shoulders off the floor and look toward tlie feet. Hold position, but do not attempt to sit up.

Relax and repeal. VKOM THIS SAME starting position, raise head and shoulders off floor and at the same time raise left leg about 8 inches from floor hold If this exercise proves too tough, try doing it with right knee bent, sole of foot flat on floor. Relax and repeat, raising left leg off floor, Sti'oamlining, sti-engthcning results come with regularity in exercise. Start with five minutes of daily exercise. In the beginning, the holding time is at least two seconds.

As your muscles become stronger, the holding time should be gradually increased to six seconds, which will be a slow count of six. Hold the' muscle contraction but do not hold your bre'ath. Breathe freely. Send stamped, self-addressed, long envelope for "Away With tile Middle Spread." Address request to Ida Jean Kain care of the Gazette, Postcard requests cannot be answered. Pink Cupcakes Making vanilla-flavored cupcakes for your children? Tint the batter pink, using red vegetable coloring.

Cover the cupcakes with while frosting and garni.sh with cherries. Pretty enough for a party. CAROL BURNETT techniques. Songs such as "The World I Used to Know," are selected carefully to suit his voice. Most, but not all, are wistful.

None requires a socko delivery. Smothers is at his best with simple accompaniment. Only fault we can find witli the album is that sometimes it is overproduced; sometimes here are too many instruments playing a "big" accompaniment, in a complicated arrangement. "I Know Why (And So Do You)" starts nicely, with voice backed with one instrument, harpsichord, but goes on to loud, fancy ui- stnunentation with an orchestra. If other tracks weren't good, and they are, the last track alone would make this album worth the listening.

Smothers proves that "What Now My Love" does not necessarily have to be a declamation. In Merman Tradition Carol Burnett also is a person who can be funny and who can sing. She really gets into the lyi-ic of "What Did I Have that I Don't Have Now?" and makes a driving song of "Wait bp Records of the Week Till the Sun Shines, Nellie." Another "important" arrangement comes off like a gimmick; that's "No Business Like Show Business," done with funky bass and lots of instruments. She sings it slowly, as if she had her head back and eyes closed, ruminating. Miss Burnett is in the Ethd Merman tradition of really knowing how to put big line, like "Today's Hdli- Day" from the song "Enter Laughing." She has an edge on her voice which may be too much for some listeners.

It was too strident for us only on one song, "Georgy Girl." Nancy Wilson never disappoints. New girl singers flash across the record and nightclub sky, but Nancy Wilson mains the best of the young girl singers devoted to pbp "good music." Elaborate Arrangements 1 On her new album, "Lush Life," she has elaborate arrangements. She has lihe vo'm and assurance to tinumph them, like a surfer coming in standing above even the biggest waves. Miss Wilson's voice can be quiet or out and wail. Among her songs on this album are "Frejs Again," "When the World Was Young" and a couple once belonged to June (Christie, "You've CJhanged" ahd "Midnight Sim." On CapibSI.

"Music from Million Dollar Shows" by Arthur Fiedlet and the Boston Pops, on RCSAj takes the big view musically of "My Fair Lady," "Camelot," "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever" and Sound of Music." Whether you saw all shows or not, you can enjoy their lovely melodies as dona here in tasteful arrangements by Richard Hayman and Robert Russell Bennett. CONTRACT This Last Week WrcV 7 A 10 6 How Can I Voung Rascsli Man and Dave 3 Hey Baby, The Buckinghamj 1 To Sir With Love Lulu 7 Your Precious Love Marvin Oaye-Tammi Trrrell 11 Cvprcssway To Your Heart Soul 12 It Must Be Him. Vikki Carr The Letter The Box Topi Please Love Me Forever Bobby Vinton 14 Incense and Peppcrmint.s Alarm Clock This Last Week Week 11 IS 17 IS 5 Never My Love The As.sociation The Rain, The Park and Other Things Cowsill.i 13 Gimme Litllt Sisn Bren ton Wond I'm Wonderins. Stevie Wonder People Are The Doorj 2D Love Is Strange Peaches and Herb Holiday Bee Geee 10 A Natural Woman Aretha Franklin Get On Up Esquires Little Ole Man Bill Cosby DR. JOS.

MOLNER To Your Good Health Dear Dr. Molner: What causes high blood pressure? 1 always thought it was from a person's temper, resentment, criticism, etc. Emotional pressures can be important and ai'e fairly common but are by no means the cause of high blood pressure. Tliere are many causes. Some people, after retirement, benefit from a moderate reduction in blood pressui-e because they are relieved of the strain and anxiety of business problems.

Certain types of hardening of the arteries are on important cause of high blood pressure, and this is particularly true when small vessels of the kidneys are great deal of blood must flow through the kidneys, so if blood flow is impeded in these vessels, pressure rises as a result. A narrowed main artery leading to the kidneys also can increase the pressure; this is one type of high blood pressure which can be corrected surgically. Coarctation (narrowing) of the aorta, which is the main artery leading from the heart, can be responsible for high blood pressure in young people. Kidney disease, such as nephritis, is still another cause. And there are some cases in which we are unable to isolate a specific cause.

Dear Dr. Molner: I have been taking a almost daily for seven years. Can phenolphtalein become habit- forming? Is it related to benzene drugs? What effect can prolonged use If you've been using it almost daily you've answered your own question you've I into the habit of tak- ng it. (Habit and addiction are quite different things, remember.) PhenoliJhthalein is an effective laxative but repeated can iiTitate the bowel membrane. It usually produces a loose, watery stool which is not normal.

Occasional use of phenolph- thalem would not be objectionable, but I wish you would read my booklet, "The Way to Stop Ck)nsttpation," which you may obtain by sending 20 cents in coin and a long, self- addressed, stamped envelope to Dr. Molner in care of the Janesville Gazette. The booklet not only discuses a variety of ways to overcome constipation but also how to overcome the laxative habit (Phenolphthalein is a derivative of phenol, not benzene.) Dr. Molner: The articles I read ui magazines and newspapers admonishing husbands to be patient and considerate when their wives are going through menopause makes me sick! What about the unmarried women who must go through this period without a "loving and understanding" husband to cater to their whims? Most of these women have to stand at a machine in a factory all day, teach a roomful of lively children, or sit at a typewriter in a room full of men. Perhaps she has parents to care for and cater to.

She must get up every morning regardless; she cannot lie down when she feels like it or resort to crying and complaining. She must carry on; there is no one to feel sorry for Who said anything about catering to whims? Some understanding of the problem, and making use of such medical help as is needed can prevent and necessity for "crying and complaining." Your physician can provide such treatment. rir. Molner welcomes all reader miil, bul lesreis thai, due lo the iremeiulous volume received daily, he is unble in answer individual letters. Readers' questions are incorporated ia liu umn whenever posibti.

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Most of the lime this assumption turns out to be false, but that does not prove that the approach was wrong in the fii'st place. All it means is that what you hoped for did- not materialize, which is quite a bit different from giving up at the stai't on the lazy assumption that declarer cannot be.stopped from making the contract. Take this case, where the openuig lead is a club and East wins the jack svilh the ace. From East's viewpoint "it certainly looks unlikely that his side can take three more tricks. If he adopts a give-up attitude by making a neutral or indifferent return, his expectation will eventually be realized.

But if East starts to think in terms of what kind of hand his partner must have to make it possible to defeat the contract, he is boiuid to come up with the winning line of play. He credits West with the ace of diamonds and a high of which assumptions arc entirely possible on the defends accordingly. He returns (he nine of diamonds at trick two and declarer is well on his way to defeat, West wins the diamond with the ace and returns a diamond in (he hope Uial Ihe nine was a singleton. wins the diamond return in dummy and leads tlie queen of spades, but he is or not he elects to finesse the queen. In either event, West plays a third round of diamonds as soon as he gets in with tho king of spades, and the end result is that South goes down one..