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THE TEERE HAUTE STAB, THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1962. EDITORIALS OF THE STAR Where then it no vision, fhe perish, but he that knpeth law. happy it 18. ALL IN A LIFE TIME David Lawrence Packaged Food Problems For months a Senate subcommittee under Democratic Senator Philip Hart of Michigan has been giving some of the nation's food packagers fits. It is looking into charges packaging and labeling practices con- full and mislead the United States house-, wile.

The charges have been landing all ovir the lot. cllart and others contend that food mer- tiiffldisers and other packagers present their products in containers of such varying and sizes that a purchasing housewife can't make sensible comparisons as to price and other factors. argument is also made that in some instances essential information regarding the kind and amount of a product is either missing or inadequately displayed on containers. Most packagers defend the jumble of sizes and weights on the grounds that this gives housewives a wider choice, or that this is not their prime concern anyway. Many women, it is said, are more interested in such things as whether the containers will fit on their sh'elves or in their refrigerators.

Now come the canners with their case. The. inquiring committee may find.it pretty strong. Descriptive labels on cans put the legally required basic information on the right-hand side panel, without variance. They a picture of what's inside.

Can sizes are usually just small, medium and large, with sometimes an extra large or extra small thrown in. New vacuum-packaging methods, say the canners, have forced occasional changes, since have to be proportioned to withstand high internal vacuum without collapsing. Milan Smith, vice president of the National Canners Association, says there also has been a trend toward smaller cans as more people move to the cities, where less robust individual meals are more common. The committee questions any labeling which tries to translate contents into "average number of servings." It argues this is fuzzy stuff, inasmuch as individual and family ideas vary greatly as to what constitutes a serving. Smith says the canners, for their part, put such material on the label only to aid housewives in meal planning.

Hart and his investigators have plenty of time to check out the canners' contentions, and to collect housewives' reactions. If the canners' case is in fact a good one, the committee will do well to acknowledge it. Its assault on bad packaging and labeling will have much more force if it hails sound practices wherever they are found. Little Time For Kibitzing "Some Republican leaders are said to be annoyed at the current wide discussion over party's "image" and its long-range future prospects. They suspect some of the concern is being voiced by persons who may not-really wish them well, including Demo- ciats.

SYet the Democrats ought to have little time for delving into their rivals' problems. They have plenty of their own, even though they have been riding a reasonably consistent victory tide for a long time. democrats have won six of the last eight What Others Say ANOTHER TRAIL (The Portland Oregonian) Some residents of Olympia, plan to tstablish a park on the bay east of the State Capitol "at the end of the Old Oregon Trail," reports the Argus. The Argus says the park is a good idea- but questions the Oregon Trail aUusion. "We suspect Oregonians will differ," opines the Argus.

"They feel 'trail's end' is in the lush Willamette Valley, and we incline to agaee. So, we believe, will most historians." It would be stretching history and geography as the end of the Oregon Trail, the great wagon track across the plains and mountains over which the pioneers drove their oxen from Missouri to the Oregon Country. It is stretching the facts a bit even to say that traa's end was in the Willamette Valley, though that was the destination of most of the travelers. End of the Oregon Trail could better be said to have been at The Dalles, or the rapids There it was that the early pioneers had- to transfer from land to rafts or flatboats for the remainder of the journey to tha'iWillamette. A road soon was built around Mti -Hood, but it was known as the Barlow Howl, not the Oregon Trail.

was the end of the Cowlitz Trail, which Michael T. Simmons and six other men chopped out of the Western Washington forest in 1845 to become the first American settlers on Puget Sound, at a site near the present city of Olympia. This penetration by Americans into territory the Hudson's Bay Company had hoped to retain under the British flag has great historic significance. Other Americans followed this route and saved Washington for the Union. Olympians should be proud of their city's part in history and properly designate the park as the end of the Cowlitz Trail.

Passing Quotes The only agent of communism he (Robert Welch) has supplied us with so far is that of General Robert Kennedy, saying the John Birch Society leader tad so far failed to produce the names of "ilibusands" of Communists in the government. 2The queen has been subjected to a quenchless deluge of fulsome adulation which would have been excessive if applied to a combination of Joan of Arc, Florence Nightingale and the Virgin Mug- geridge, critic of British royalty. -XAnytJung less than a grand design a mtjor idea and a lofty sense of purpose is too puny for the times in which we live. York Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller, advocating a federation of free nations.

Today's Thought Then he opened their minds to understand the 24:45. The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals and a book of religion, of especial revelation from Daniel Webster. presidential elections. They have an incumbent, President Kennedy, to serve up in 1964. Democrats also have captured 13 of the last 15 congressional elections and cannot be.

ousted from control of the United States Senate in 1963. They hold a 34 to 16 edge on governorships, and have had a majority steadily since 1954. Nevertheless, top Democrats agree with the Republicans that the latter are making genuine and perhaps lastings inroads in the traditionally Democratic South. Politicians do not give away any more than they must, and Democrats. may be expected to resist these encroachments.

But they still think the trend in the South is running against thsm. Their big compensating hope lies with the political enlargement of California, which this year elects persons to fill eight brand new United States House seats. As result of the redistricting done in that state, Democrats believe they may take all eight This conceivably could give them their largesl single block of congressmen, larger than they can muster today in New York and Texas. Moreover, in another decade or two, assuming its continued rapid growth, California may have another 8 or 10 additional House seats. The Democrats have their eyes on these for the future.

They think hard and ofte'n of the massive electoral college vote California will contribute in future presidential elections. Since the state is largely dominated by the two huge urban clusters around San Francisco and Los Angeles, they count on their customary big-city appeals to work for them. As Democratic influence diminishes in the South, far-sighted party leaders hope they can put together continuing presidential and congressional victories from "a coalition of highly urbanized states stretching from the East Coast across the Detroit-Chicago central belt to California, Oregon and Washington. All of this geographical realignment may or may not come to pass as the Democrats now envision it. But the evidence suggests they are a lot busier with such plans as these than they are with offering unwanted advice to the Republicans.

Lax Family Ties Blamed American Society of Criminology members have received a report on juvenile delinquency growth throughout the world which, while it does not place modern civilization in very good light behaviorwise, at least develops some insight into the economic and political causes of moral decay among any age group. Those countries which have maintained strong parental ties principally Spain, Portugal and Italy have almost no signs of delinquency. At the other end of the survey Japan, which has witnessed disintegration of family unity in recent years, has also seen a rise in crime among young people. There are many temptations today to look upon family discipline as something carried over from the dark ages, or to be more exact perhaps it is the will to resist these temptations which has changed. One does not need to look to Europe or Asia, however, to see the effects of freedom unbridled by responsibility.

No matter how small a home there always should be room for laughter. The great trouble with nighttime accidents is-the mourning after. Bandits one racket when they stole all the instruments of a jazz band. When some people take on investments all they realize is that they've been taken. THE TERRE HAUTE STAR published Dally (Morning) Except Sunday.

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M. and Holidays and alter f. M. week days when the private exchange closed the calls aa follows: Sports Editor Crawford 1331 Editor Crawford 1334 Oompoiux Boom Crawford 13M The Associated Press la entitled exclusively to use for republication of all local news printed In this newspaper veil aa P. news dlspelrhes publication at special Earl Wilson Oswald Jacoby It Happened Last Night Bridge Came GEORGE BURNS, THE GREAT SINGER, SERVES SONGS UP PRETTY SMOKY NEW Burns is singing now, you know, in his night club act and well everybody's talking about his voice.

I saw (and heard) George sing at the Miami Beach Eden Roc, and I have something important to say about his vocal prowess. After all, I have heard great singers from Moscow to Singapore to Hong Kong to the 606 Club in Chicago. I have known the top stars from Al Jolson to Frank Sinatra to Paul Anka and there's nobody living who can sing a song more beautifully while smoking a cigar than George Burns. "What does George do in his act?" I asked one of the Miami Beach characters before catching him. "He smokes four cigars," the fellow said.

Actually, Georgie Porgie, as Gracie Allen calls him, is excellent. He doesn't need that night club loot. "I love to sing," he confesses. And that's probably why he's working so he can hear himself sing. "I'd rather sing than be funny and I get more laughs when I'm singing," he says.

Along about the fourth cigar, George remarked, "I could have been a recording star, except that when I was 17, Thomas Edison, was 17." He claims that one night when he was singing, "Booth missed me and hit Lincoln." Then he says he's going to sing, "I'll Be Waiting for You, Bill, When You Come Back From San Juan Hill." He may have sung it, too. I couldn't be sure. I liked George's admission that he isn't quite as romantic a singer as Dean Martin. "That boy'll be a star as long as his liver holds out," George said. "Dean doesn't really drink a lot.

He just wants to stay warmed up in case the right part comes along. The last time I saw was he ready!" Spotting Joe E. Lewis there, George said, "Joe E. outlived his liver." George and Carol Channing will be teaming during the next few months. It should be a great act, if one of them would please, just once during the evening, sing, "Smoke Gets In'My Eyes." The broken engagement of Frank Sinatra and Juliet Prowse inspired Mrs.

Howard Teichman, wife of the playwright, to com- ment, "Talk about short engagements! Why, Frank has had longer engagements in Las Vegas!" THE MIDNIGHT EARL Big excitement at the Latin Quarter about a rumor Marilyn Maxwell and Rock Hudson set a wedding date vociferously denied by each. David Selznick brought Henry Fonda's estranged wife to the "Gift of Time" party at she sat next to Fonda. Jackie Gleason's reported set for next season on CBS-TV with a Saturday variety show, (A CBS staff's going to Palm Beach to work on it with him.) Anita Ekberg is demanding 50 per cent of the profits for starring in Leonard Burton's "Girl Beneath the Lion." Tom Poston and Larry Blyden are attending a class in modern jazz dancing. Composer Jule Styne's date, attractive Lynne Sheresky, admires his work: "Sometimes I think he wrote everything but the Star Spangled Banner." Gary Crosby's putting hot compresses on his throat between shows at the vocal cords tighten up. Comic-publisher Jackie Kannon's next "Stoned Like a will be "Fried Like an Egg." One of the Latin Yi camera girls was so excited at seeing Rock Hudson that she pinched his arm.

"And," she says, "he pinched right back" One of the major TV packaging firms is banking on its big new series to keep it from it has become so costly that sponsors are ducking it. EARL'S PEARLS: The hardest job in the in the world is finding an easier one. Today's Best Laugh: A belly dancer at the Istanbul Cafe claims Arabian men are more thoughtful: "American men expect their wives to cook and clean and sew. An Arab has a wife for each job." Wish I'd Said That: With so many Kennedys traveling the world, it's only a matter of time till Caroline makes a good-will tour of Disneyland. "Wearing earmuffs is a great idea," said a local guy.

"It's just that I forget -to take 'em off when I leave the house." That's earl, brother. 196Z. King Features Syndicate. Inc.) (All Rights Beserved. States' Rights ACROSS 1 Ohio city Grande in Colorado SMIddleweatera- state 12 Sacred image 13 Worm 14 Scottish writer.

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Of course, Sam's hand in the South position looks almost as if it were designed for this con- NORTH (D) 1 4KQJ8 4) A.Q1032 2 WEST EAST VAK85Z VQJ103 88 4J975 85 BOOTH East ind West vulnerable North East Sooth Wot Pass 3 N.T. Pass Pass Pass pass Pass Opening vention. Give North three aces and he could bid seven no-trump. Give North two acres only and Sam would surely to delighted to play six clubs. Unfortunately for slam purposes.

Vic showed but one ace in response to Sam's three no- trump bid. This did not upset Sam. He simply went to five clubs and managed to make six because West tried to cash two. heart tricks. Why was this a top score? The other South pairs were not using this new convention.

Some arrived at six clubs when Blackwood exploded in their faces. One South player parsed to his partner's five-diamond bid and watched his partner work out a play for down three. A couple of pairs reached three no-trump, Only to go down two tricks against a heart opening. bidding has been: Ernst South West North 1N.T. Pass Pass 2 N.T.

Pass Pass You, South, hold: VA652 What do you do? three diamonds: There a temptation to bid three no- tnunp bat ran should resist it. For all yoa know your partner ma; be jack high. TODAY'S QUESTION Tour partner continues with a bid of four clubs. What do you do now? TOW 'Sirens' Scheduled NEW Shaffer's new play, "A Place of Sirens," is scheduled for White Way exhibit next season by producer Frederick Brisson. The pair previously were associated in the hit, "Five Finger Exercise." Brisson is seeking Peter O'Toole, London actor, for the principal role and has offered the directing assignment to Donald McWhinnie, mentor of the producer's current show, "The Caretaker." Light in Window ATLANTIC CITY, N.

J. Owners of shops on Atlantic City's Boardwalk have been asked to keep their windows lighted at least until 11 P. M. during conventions. A division of the Chamber of Commerce said the request is part of a campaign to give the Boardwalk a "cheerful look" and 4o give visitors a better impression of the resort.

The manatee, or sea cow, is 15 feet long, measures 7 feet around the middle, and weighs a ton. Today in Washington WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. Everybody here liked John Glenn. He captivated Congress.

But it wasn't just because he had flown around the world three times. It was because he seemed to be a sensible, modest, earnest- minded and bumble hero. Long after the plaudits of the cheering crowds have given way to the silences of life, two paragraphs from the speech the astronaut made to a' joint session of Congress will be remembered as the epitome of true Americanism, true patriotism and true faith. For in these days it has become a'fad to sneer at "flag- waving." Argument is often heard "Nationalism" is a sin. Even the mention of the deity in governmental parlance is frowned, upon by the Supreme Court as possibly giving offense to the atheists.

So it was refreshing to listen to these words from Colonel Glenn over the nationwide television networks: "I know I still get a real-hard- to-define feeling, down inside when the Flag goes I know all of you do, too. As we rode up Pennsylvania Avenue today from the White House and saw this tremendous outpouring of feeling on the part of so many thousands of people, I got that same feeling all over again. And let's hope that none of us ever loses it. "As our knowledge of this universe in which we live increases, may God grant us the widsom and guidance to use it wisely." Much has been heard of late as to whether it is proper to indoctrinate troops with patriotic ideas and to develop in their minds a' spirit of sacrifice by educating them to understand the cause for which they may be asked to die. John Glenn must have gotten his inspiration to service in public-school days, as he pledged allegiance to the Flag.

For he is a dedicated man. He was ready to give his life to help advance man's knowledge of the mysteries of space which could conceivably affect the safety and welfare of all people in centuries to come. It was this simple devotion to national service, shared by his fellow Americans, that made John Glenn's talk to a joint session of Congress a significant event in history. Many heroes have gone before. Some have stumbled.

They have become wrapped up in themselves. They have misunderstood the plaudits of the nation and have fallen victim to a misguided egotism. Back in the Spanish-American war in 1893, Capt. Richmond Pearson Hobson, U. S.

with seven took a daring chance and sank a collier at the entrance to the harbor at Santiago, Cuba, in an effort to bottle up the Spanish See LAWRENCE On Page 26, Column 3 H. H. Hyman, M.D. The Doctor Says Written for Newspaper Enterprise Association Although many of us are accused of being full of "hot air," actually we are half water. Our water balance is regulated as precisely as the tides of the sea, so far for high tide, so much for low tide.

Sometimes the tide goes out a bit too far. Perhaps we got rid of too much by way of our kidneys or digestive tract. Perhaps we lost it through our skin due to overheating or perspiration. We say we are parched. The doctor says we're dehydrated.

Either way, we feel thirsty and we restore the fluid balance by drinking whatever liquids are at hand. Sometimes we overdo high tide and get flooding of the tissues. Our fingers swell and we can't get rings off. There's pitting of the shins. Shoes become too tight and leave dents when they're removed.

The face looks puffy. Bags appear under- the eyes. We know we haven't overeaten but somehow we have gained weight. Sometimes, under more serious conditions, fluid accumulates in chest cavities, the abdominal cavity, or elsewhere in the body. Wherever the accumulation occurs and whatever we call it, there's a disturbance of water balance that is much less easy to deal with than the opposite condition of dehydration.

Your doctor's first task in the investigation of fluid retention is See DOCTOR On Page 26, Column 6 Ruth Millett We, The Women There must be a lot of electrician's wives in New York who secretly hope their men won't ever win their fight for an eventual 20-hour-week. Not that wives want their husbands to overwork. But a husband who is gone from home only 20 hours each week just isn't gone long enough. No housewife can hope to get everything done that she has to do in 20 hours a week. And if there is one thing a housewife hates worse than anything else it is having to turn out work with her husband underfoot.

In time, a housewife gets used to working with children around. She can shoo them put of the house when they get in the way. She can banish them to their rooms if they get rowdy. She can put a baby in a playpen. But what can she do with papa when he gets in the way? Let her start in to cook, and he is sure to want her help in the garage on some project he has begun.

Let her set the living room in order and the man who is loafing around home because he hasn't business elsewhere is sure to have it cluttered up in an hour. Let her sit down to rest and her husband is bound to discover that he has lost something he has to have immediately. Let her say she thinks she'll run a few errands and he wants to know when she'll be back. That's why women are so often unhappy when their husbands the men aren't gone from home long enough each day to let their wives get their work done in peace. From a wife's point of view having a husband gone from home for only 20 hours out of every week would be the next worst thing to having him retired.

But. of course, wives can't admit this kind of thing. That's probably the only reason why we haven't heard of a "Wives Against the 20-Hour Work Week" movement. Revive that "old feeling" by reading Ruth Millett's booklet, "Happier Wives (hints for husbands)." Just send 25 cents to Ruth Millett Reader Service, care of The Terre Haute Star, P. 0.

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Newspaper Enterprise Association.) and A's Q. Where did the expression "Dixieland" meaning the southern part of the United States originate? A. Probably, the phrase originally was "the Land of Dixies" being the popular name for $10 notes issued in Louisiana and bearing the French-Creole word "dix" (10) on one side. Q. What is the name for the craftsman who cuts, polishes and engraves gems? A.

Lapidary. Q. Who was the original Santa Claus? A. St. Nicholas, Archbishop of Myra in Asia Minor in the early Fourth Century.

(Newspaper Enterprise Association) SIDE GLANCES By GaJbraith 9-28 "Another quarter? Dwt they the Urge, conversations?".