The Salt Lake Tribune from Salt Lake City, Utah • 13

4 vr "9 i r' rTrr i pwf Vryfwyr' i Salt Lake Tribune Sunday January 18 1959 4 77 A 13 The Neighbors I)r Van Dellen By George Clark Editors Notebook -N Jim Bishop Kcportcr arllcarl Wctc old I'm a crook at heart I'm times the- amount that had was sent2hv--aNpmVnr)t boon taken They sent back a thank you note and said that I was now a patron of newspaper to a cockfight in Paterson Cockfights are illegal and it required little delicacy to get the story-' plot went something like this: Ferry and train to Paterson NJ 54 Room at Hotel Alexan- der Hamilton 4f50 Met guide in bar He drank a pint I had coffee 710 Dinner for two 630 Tickets to cockfight 800 -Fix for--two cops 1000 Cab" to and from cock-' fight 240 Room for- guide 450 He couldn't sleep ac-' companied him to speakeasy he drank whiskey I had coffee 1300 He picked up two girls 7 Cl I husband play golf with me because I make sort of a game of sure of ib "Whenever I read about a little simp of a bank teller running off-witha hundred thousand I starbrooting for the teller I hope he makes it to Honduras or Hoboken or wherever lie is runrtfng Remember the little old lady in Maryland Mr Bishop who ratpoff with the-big gave idpst of it away She's in jail bSt I'm still on her side Recently a theory has been expounded that Ihere is larceny in all of us I'm not sure of all of us But I hav a pretty good case agajntit me I lack the courage of the real thief Today if I find a dime on the sidewalk I waste a half-hour asking who dropped it My ZbsF crooked days wem-djien I wasa little ljffy CWe I told my mother that he fruit store man charged five cents for the soup-greens whereas (he usually gave them free I spent the nickel for 20 haggies a like candy with a gum and sugar cover TWO DAYS I A momma 'had an argument with the fruit store man and he- almost had a nervous breakdown Another time she was collecting money for an old folks home and she had thb money in a container on her-dresser One Sunday I turned it upside down and ran the blade of a knife back and forth I took all the neighborhood kids to Coney Island My conscience never even quivered until I was 25 years of age Then I decided to repay -the Home 1 sent a check for several the Old Folks Home When" I grew up I was never tempted I once worked as an assistant bank teller for the Manufacturers Trust Co and I saw a lot of legal lettuce lying all over the place but it was like a doctor studying an appendicitis scar on Miss Amgrira" Turdy professional I was air office boy for Lehman Brothers they sent me for lhe weekly payroll on Fridays Sometimes on those Fridays I lacked JunA money It never grossed my mlndthat I was carrying enough money for 6000 lunches Today the best thievery is done on expense accounts A man can throw an extra 30 cents in on fare or a lunch that was really paid for by someone else or a bedroom on a train when he really sat in a day coach" Still there is no thrill in this unless the home office wants to argue about it If they can prove that you cheated there Is no course open except to become dismally honest Tire best expense account I ever saw was a piece of fiction written in 1929 by a cub reporter who later became a sports writer He Soapcr Says Lord Attlee says he advised General Eisenhower not to go into politics he complaining about took his advice he? Probably-the lowest point socially is trying to introduce two men whose names you remember but who unknown to you are intimate friends Quiz on Bridge (JscCalorics 0r Stoic as Fat Modern -living is condheive to more rest and less "physical actJvityi We are loaded to the hilt with labor saving' devices and equipment' ve power steering and power brakes have eliminated what little physical ex--ertion there is to driving "To work All this has affected what the Council on Foods and Nutrition of American Medical Association calls the caloric cost of living 1 Food supplies the energy needed by the body to func- Health Whisky makes a good gar-gle-but a poor cure for colds tion properly These basic requirements constitute one half to two thirds of the total requirements of The average white collar wbrker and housewife Pi irf of the calories are used by the body to keep warpaf the heart to pump hlopd the stomach to digest fafd and the lungs to oxygen HAT HArrENS to the remainder? They supply energy needed for physical activity Any excess is stored as fat It is here that our soft life is beginning to shovv Our positive caloric balance eventually results in pronounced obesity When unused calories are converted into weight approximately 3500 are needed to make one pound The reverse is true also in that 3500 calories must be burned up through physical activity to lose one pound of fat By WEEKLY QUIZ BRIDGE Youc partner has opened with one spade and you AJ ip 4 3VQ 10 6 4K8 4 7 54 What is your response? Your partner has opened with one no trump and you hold: AA4 3 VQJ7 4J432 AQ6 hWat is your response? 3 As South you hold: AQ7 VA96532 4K9 A75 Total: $7568 An artist of this callbrs Is rare Tin was a poor liar with guts The city editor read it smiled and okayed it Then he had a photographer make copies of it and lt was hung all over the city room our he wrote across the bottom of it have a novelist of The OXFORD SHOP features FIRST in FASHION FIRST in FIT FIRST in FAVOR SHOES FOR MEM 9 Broadway Goren The bidding reeded: South West 1 Pass 1 NT Pass 2 NT Pass has pro- North East 1 East 2 A Pass 3 A Pass What do you bid now? As South vou hobf: AK J43 Q10953 Al042 The bidding lias 'pro ceeded: South Most North East Pass fass 14 1 A Vhat do you bid now? Q- 6 Partner opens with one heart and you hold: A TO 76 4AJ 10 6 A Q'9 7 6 3 What is your response? (Look for answers Monday) No when Ap: squat would honor her NATO alliances While there might be no direct conflict between US and the USSR he continued we could be drawn into war if our allies on either side got out Of hand WHAT MIKOYAN was actually saying is that the United States and Russia should divide up the world in respective spheres of1 influence that bther countries" do not count This is not a view that could or ever will be ac- copied by our country But" it reveals that the modern Kremlin leaders far from resembling the bombtossing 6f old are hard-headed pragmatic men prepared to deal and wheel with the one capitalistic nation they fear Mr Mikoyan seemed pleased with our country and Its people impressed by hat he saw Far better for the Russian leaders to know us as we are than to reach decisions based upon faulty and incomplete information The freer contacts are between us the better our hopes for peace SITUATION OBSCURE: American newspapers depend largely upon the Associated Press and United Press International for their domestic andforeign news A wisp of gunsmoke in Nicaragua a train wreck in New York fires disasters deaths Winston tummyache or an Item on Liz latest boy friend these and hundreds of thousands of words daily on every conceivable subject make up the wire reports which flow to the nation's editors The old reliable AP" and the highly readable U'PI are excellent news services which usually deliver the goods So what a Cuba? For two years botli news agencies haVp been filing stories abdut a bearded young re volutionary named Fidpj Castro holed up in the making sporadic raids with a few followers but never strong enough for an open battle ON THE NIGHT of Dec 31 the AP filed a story telling of sweeping Batista'vic-tories at Santa Clara slaugh ter of the rebels and triumphs everywhere for the government forces "Government forces are driving the rebpls reported the AP and would "keep on fighting until the revolutionary movement is utterly Then suddenly came the story of flight and the collapse of his regime Castro had won the war-Just like that "From all we can apologizes the AP situation on Dec 31 was ob- It sure was to the wire services even though two of children had fled the country earlier and Roy Rubottom assistant secretary of state had told a Senate committee that the dictator's chances to win were slight EARLY IN THE revolu- tion when AP and UPI were relying on government handouts and- submitting to censorship Herbert Matthews of the New York Times interviewed Fidel Castro at his mountain retreat His subsequent dispatches reported accurately the growing strength of the rtps- olutionary movement for which Matthews was called a sympathizer" by supporters' of the Batista government Editors who re- sourceful reporting and tegrlty in news have-- a legitimate romp Ia I against both press associations The AP and UPI maintain permanent bureaus in Cuba and are supposed to know what is going on The situation may have been "obscure" in Havana on New Eve hut news- papermen are supposed to give light rgmember? Our readers could see ter if you gave us a little more of it gentlemen JOHN KNIGHT An advanced type of re- frlgerator has comprps-sorjjio refrigerant no moving parts no noise no vibration" We had one of those years a box fastened outside the kitchen- window but it workedoniy in cod weather By John Knight President and Editor Knight Newspapers The visit to the United States by Anastas I Mikoyan has been the greatest road show since last year's tru umphal tour the Moiseyev dancers The shrewd little Spviet deputy prime minister with the Hitler mustache set a a pace In his cross country Mr Knight' Junket that even our sturdiest presidential candidates will find hard to match Undaunted by hostile pickets and cries of go Mikoyan managed to charm a few capitalists and win grudging admiration from the rest Holding babies in his lap and hamming it up with Jerry Lewis were all part of the set He visited supermarkets admired our ladies joked about parking problems and tossed off American-made vodka with evident enjoyment When the suit broke through a dull sky in Detroit" Mikoyan cracked to HeriTy Ford that the capitalists can even make the sun shine Henry a fast man on the verbal draw retorted "Why we thought you Mikoyan was Impressed with lake front and its diversified industry In New York he fountb Macy's "a very good and liked the self-service layout in the food section The capitalists In Wall Street thought Mr Armenian -born deputy a powerful One guest said "it was that of a man whoso mission it was to create good will He speke in suave and soothing terms But he did not mince words in defining 4he Russian Understandably Mikdyan provoked a wide variety of reactions in America There are those like President Dwight Eisenhower who are cautiously hopeful that the deputy prime' min ister's visit will create a ter climate for discussing arms limitation The businessmen ho heard Mikoyan were impressed with his knowledge of world trade and American politics Others like Robert ris counsel to the Hungarian federation said that cordiality to Mr Mikoyan was our allies to doubt ability to withstand Soviet And Lt Gen Arthur Trudeau the Army's chief of research and developmfnt expressed alarm that "many gullible were being influenced by Mr Mikoyan 's and friendly gestures HAVING ATTENDED a luncheon at the Chicago club given for' Mikoyan by Edward Ryerson retired chajrman of Inland Steel I 'came away neither captivated nor inced by everything I had heard -Still it is fair to say that Mikoyan ducked no questions gave direct answers and talked persuasively of the need for a better understanding between the United States and Russia Drew Pearson recalls that Mikoyan is the man who tried to persuade Stalin to accept Marshall plan aid from the United States 1 He is -known to be the most pro-American- of the Kremlin leaders It seems to me that Americans who fear exposure to Russia's leaders either suffer from' an ihferiority com- plex or conceding the Inevitability of war It was a year or more sgo Eisenhower suggested visits by Russians are very important in political i AND WHY NOT? Any exchange of views which serves to clarify even minor points of difference is useful When Mr Mikoyan said that-the gremlin did not want yar-t-and that Mr Dulles'had assured Mnf'ifet the United States did not want war I asked the deputy prime minister: then is there to worry The answer came quick- ly respective In considerably detail' ML- koyan discussed the 'a teas of danger Russia would stand by her allies in the Warsaw pact the ft 1 1 States you own an Electric Exercycle 4 As South yptf hold AKJ 7 VKQ 6 107 4 AJ 6 3 I A DvTirf IMS Gathering A Few Loose Ends Next Tuesday (20th) I leave ior India to do a job lor the International Wel-f fare and CARE organic i izations trying to tie a 1 1 1 loose ends 4' hfor our March of V'- jf- Dimes hgp- wr- 'ng will continue on to a successful 'conclusion "Tvev written a few columns fh advance of my departure To help remind you about thh urgency of this year's March of Dimes appeal and I hop to send you (during February) some reports on my visit to India and what is being done there to help the handicapped But right' now Lm won- dering if you realize how-many people give freely of their -time and effort on behalf of the March of Dimes? 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