The Austin Daily Herald from Austin, Minnesota • 4

fit! 4 BUT HOPES ARE HIGH YEAR) iaii' since Member tf the Aasodated Pretty Z1 SATURDAY AUGUST 2 1951 NEA Ssrvic Inc AMERICA'S ROAD PROGRAM ANOTHER IN SERIES Sj'T that Jesus never claimed' to be ANSWER You had every right uuuvv muuu iuaUD 0UVUAU uv pufesjirst all ssa irsiftwpdirtftd to AAnnnivn 'hinatwAutt iA'n ikA Oikld http ha ttriie 4fiVint 'a wX 'tihed whcHpcKticts pj' ItlQiaf fnowtnr 4 lmi nvuv the platform to shout that the Russians 'will bury the capitalist democracies He is surprised thereafter when at least a few ifif t5 tureof the fiVf nthin Iawtw kwIflwA hmAnrr SIDEGLANCES Z' ri :4 and our roads especially those on the all important Interstate Sys Accordtag to estimates 1958 will record the smallest number of marriages in the United States in but these highways were inade quate and the problem was com pounded by the fantastic increase in the number of cars predicted for Xv'rqUWION ti The' other day wThe principal' contribution of the maa 1 know ulte weU "marked 81 AO IM UM 25 850 1000 I 7 AUSTIN (Minn) HERALD Saturday August 2 1958 A innish' ling lemming Takes Over Cabinet Post king 30 Abandon 32 tti capital i 8 SINCE THE AD MEN were fairly sociable this week we de cided not to chide them on the fact that a rival newspaper had just twice as many pages of ad vertising one day Deceht free men of good will may not beable to stem the flow of violent utter ACTRESS ACTOR WED NEW YORK Actress Kiin Stanley and actor Alfred Ryder have been married in Riverdale Temple It wasjbe third marriage for Miss Stanley 33 and the first for Ryder 39 Ohly relatives and few close fneuds attended ths ceremony nmwiii (3C3BGS pite the fact that it comprises only 12 per cent of the road mileage It serves 65? per cent 'of the nation's Mrbiri popuW tion and 45 per cent of its rural population In addition it joins 42 state capitals and 90 per cent of all cities over z50 000 population Because the interstate system is not too aptly named many have been confused as to what it is intended to serve the motoring 1 Tbentry 8 ropes RThends (Tr) 10 Cattle Units of enerrv 10 Roman god of underworld 21 Poem 8 president On the 40th anniversary of Mc coming to Austin he was a guest at a dinner at the Rasmussen home That was Aug ust 1931 The Dec 25 1932 Clip ping from the Herald reported the golden anniversary celebration and included as a poem written by McCulloch and dedicated to his wife as follows: YOU AND I ifty years trod Pathway You and I On the hilltop in the valley In the sunshine and the shadows Sharing both the joys and sor rows You and 2 Watched the phasing of old friendships Shared the pleasures of the new ones Waiting for the final summons You and When crossed the silent river WhereiyeTl meet'to part no never We will know each other better You and I The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use lor republication' of all the local news printed in this newspaper as well as all pews dispatches 7 check Congress put on the system was that its total mileage be lim ited to 40000 Last year however the lawmakers authorized an ad ditional 1000 miles bringing the total to 41000 The first federal funds were authorized for the interstate sys tem in 1952 when Congress set aside $25 million a year to be matched by the states on a 50 50 basis Since that time the ed eral' government following urgent appeals by the American Automo bile Assn and other civic groups has assumed a progressively great er financial responsibility for im provement of the interstate sys tem or example in 1954 Con gress adopted legislation approp riating $175 million for the net work This time Uncle Sam paid conceivea as a 'network of roads betweejustates 'Neither is it' a general term applied to all the so called routes Actually the fact that the Interstate Sys tem passes through every one of the 48 'states in coincidental 'and only a fraction bf the routes are incorporated into it Proposed 35 Years Ago The interstate system was first proposed nearly 35 years ago aft er the Army experienced endless frustration in trying to move vit al military supplies and person nel around the country during World War I but nearly a qua er of a century passed before Con gress made it official The ederal aid Highway Act of 1944 passed at the height of World War II gave the interstate 'fcy By BAM DAWSON AP Badness News Analyst NEW YORK (AP) of nearly Tour out' of five corpora tions took it on the chin in the first half of the year for a knock down of 32 per cent The Treasury will suffer a tax loss of roughly similar per centage in collecting from corpo rate incomes But business entered the second half of the year on the upbeat Hopes are high that earnings will rise now and erase part of decline Treasary Optimistic The Treasury shares this hope Its new estimates of total collect tions show it expects its share of gross corporate earnings: to top the first six months? So far 576 corporations have re ported six month earnings Of these 417 show declines from the first half of 1957 some sharp ones And 39 of them operated at a net loss compared with 16 in that fix a year ago The Treasury not only will lose on collections from the 39 but these companies will have tax losses to offset future The Herald has been for 68 years and still is a newspaper for Austin and com inanity fair and impartlarto all seek ing always to promote the best interest of agriculture labor and industry cater inf to no demagogues and showing fav oritism tono group firm or individuaL REASON WE NEED to squeeze in a little of that shop talk above is that the Hormel Magazine car riesa lot of interesting news of it would otherwise be in the Herald They do have a dand magazine over there too it al ways was and the present chief has' to keep on his toes to keep the pace set by the former Squeal editor who retired to conserve more of his energy for bridge games ATER LEARNING' the' plumb er had promised to makei needed repairs on the dishwasher in the Herald Junchroom the accounting dept head wryly remarked to the cook: the dishwasher look gOda' in'tier hew Now we learn the fellow is full of column type remarks like that and he ought to have been doing this column the vacation (which expires of today) of the regular author 1 One fourth shekel 2 Maple genus 1 Entry in a ledger 4 Strap shaped (hot) TTfnnian Opinions of Others WIN IGHTING EACH OTHER In the ninth district we have three running for congress one republican and two democrats Coya family troubles in the headlines almost 'daily and millions of words have been' written about her and Andy Evenson Moorhead man wants the seat for himself and care who wins if he This is a real fight and lots at people are getting hurt besides the two guys fighting In the face of all the fighting the loneRepublican candidate Odin Langen has been In our area many times and is going quietly around meeting the people and asking for their votes He doing any name calling he mad at anyone he is just shaking hands and asking for votes Looks like this will have a good effect on the voters and have a Republican Congressman from the ninth district HALSTAD VALLEY JOURNAL states were asked to put up only 40xper cent Last year the inter state system received the highest priority so far when Congress voted that the federal govern ment should pay 90 per cent of the cost Half for Large Areas'' Within the next 13 years Im provements on the interstae sys tem will bring about far reach ing changes in the lives of Motor ists At least half of the money Uncle Sam has set aside for the network is earmarked for metro politan area construction Safe and efficient expressways with limited access and by passing traf fic congestion will replacemany of antiquated urban rout es New superhighways will pro vide Speedy transportation from one state to nother One day soon city workers will be able to live as far as 40 miles from the me mme nut ne was strpang at the heart of the" Christian faith Listen to some of these facts: He claimed to be one with God the ather and said: that hath seen me hath seen the In John 5:18 we are told that his enemies sought to kill him because He God was his ather making himself equal with When Peter said to Jesus: are the Christ the son of the living Christ commended him in these words: art thou Simon lesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee but my ather which is in He claimed and received wor ship as God and He is the one who said: the Lord thy God and Him In the New Testament there areincidents of a number of His followers who people tried to worship but they vigorously refused: Christ accept ed even invited worship One time He said that all men should honor the Son even as they honor the ather He told people their sins were forgiven and only God can forgive sins He also showed by His miracles that He exercised full power over demons physical sickness events and nature itself One time He said: give unto them eternal Who God could do this? He frankly asserted himself to bethe Lord of the Sabbath breaking the old traditions He said He was the judge of the world Yes by word by deed and by implication He claimed to be the Son of God ban improvements on the Inter state System The structure of our cities will change as the sub tem must be ready rd HBH I ewidfs I iibbs ms an BEjraagoMBia wMiysnweffliBneniss nujiasHHasGsnwois HE 3 8856 er Inetelsriti ttrrics plsue call the aba mm bar fcrfwaaa 5:30 litre dativery sarvica wffl Made aeceeierv AND SPEAKING of do it your self projects we wonder how the Austin doctor who fell and hurt himself quite painfully while paint ing is getting along Also wonder how the airmont attorney is get ting around on those heel bones he broke last summer in a fall while trimming a branch from a tree in his yard Professional people find satlsfac uon In a bit of manual work oc casionally but unfortunate acci dents often dim their WASHINGTON (AP) Dr Ar thur lemming was sworn in riday as the new secretary of health education and welfare lemming served earlier in the administration as chief of the old Office of Defense Mobilisation lemming 53 succeeds Marion olsom who resigned lem ming resigned as president 'of Ohio Wesleyan University to ac cept the post PROUD a little of our succesk the advertising dept week Every time Dollar Days roll around supposed to come up with a snappy come on line across the bottom of Page One' This time we told those fellows: your party you furnish the cana pes" They did too comifig up with a line for Thursday: Save Many Ways riday Saturday Are Dollar Days I Then for riday it: was: Over Town Prices Down Gay Dol lar If these been the most successful of all Dollar Days pep' pie just like rhymes To most motorists the inter state system has been only a name in news stories about high way legislation Where it went what roads' were part of it and how it differed from other high ways have been largely the con cern of professional engineers and highway experts Now thanks to the new multi billion dollar federal highway program and the current project to interstate system roads it seems destined to become a household word for mot orists Billions Earmarked 39 Sea eagle 40 Weight of India 41 Seesaw 43 Meal cut 44 Graceful 45 Cry of bacchanals Pot Pourri SOUNDS? LIKE OLD stuff but good reading nevertheless The National Assn of Home Builders Washington reports that changes in design better planning and more efficient production is enabling builders to cut down costs of new houses despite the fact that materials labor and land costs continue higher Many years ago' they started predicting that: new ideas would knife building costs and make low er mortgages possible Every cou ple years a new forecast of ideas and reports of new materials give rise to hopes of lower construc tion costs but been a catch every time In fairness to moat builders they have been working long and hard to increase efficiency and keep costs down the taillenlum Is not in sight Even the few eager beavers who find time to build their own places complain wf the high cost So far nobody has got ahead by waiting until next year for sure vjiit i kwAii" sji icw 4 defined' purpose "as follows connect by routes as dir ectly as practicable the principal metropolitan areas cities and in dustrial centers to serve the na tional defense and to connect at suitable border points with the routes of continental importance in the Dominion of Canada and the Republic of At the time of passage nation al defense was uppermost in the minds of the legislators but they also were fully aware of the trem endous effect a system of effi cient fast and safe highways would have on the peacetime prosperity andtiwell being of the nation Proposed Existing Roads But in defining the interstate system Congress did not propose that an entirely' new of roads be constructed Existing roads connected' the industrial cen Circnlaiion DepL PHONE Zona rate will ap ply for subscription service" SoTng to iervico personnel In and Armed forces In all areas of United States pnd areas served thru APO and NPO MC scrapbook could easily be his most prized possession or at least one of his favorites In it are clippings dating well down through the years McCulloch who will note his 96tb birthday next Tuesday had his own name for the Pot Pourri column He called it wha cha call it" column end be wrote column one dv i the Scraoboot lscrtS an other telling about election to the wTy organized Ben ranklin Club of the irst Dist rict" This latter club was orzaniz I Neither filthiness nor foolish talking" nor jesting which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks Ephesians 5:4 3 1 1 thank my Heavenly ather for every manifestation of human love I thank Him for all experiences be they sweet or bit ter which help me to forgive all things and to enfold the whole world with a blessing Mrs Child ance But at the very least they can let 1 the demagogues know that they are held accountable by the world for everything earnings when making up Income returns Low Point Reached But a sizable number of the 576 show that profits turned upward significantly im 'the April May June quarter Many others feel that the low point has been reached In the January ebruary March 'quarter earnings of 580 corporations werp off 33 per cent from the previous year The first half decline of 321 per cent this year compares with a 45 per cent gain of the 1957 first half over 1956 a 5A per cent rise of the 1956 ffrst half over 1955 and jump of 347 per cent over 1954 'Most of the companies report tag declines in profits this year also show drops in production and sales as the recession trimmed demand their products 'But some show sales gains and profit losses Almost all tfie companies complain of rising 'operating posts squeezing their profit margins Higher Profits A handful of industries have higher profits this year than last Tobaccos drugs foods airlines and utilities are in this lucky class Hardest hit in the profit side are the railroads Only one of the 38 to report so far shows: a gain land 10 of them are using red ink or the group as a whole the de cline is 71 per cent Recovered Ground The auto Industry and its sup liers suffer the second greatest drop off 57 per cent as" a group with six reportingnet losses But this industry pins its hopes on the forthcoming new models Which it thinks will help it regain much of the lost ground Almost tied with the car' mak ers are the companies in the en tertainment field Makers of rail equipment are fourth with a group decane of 54 per cent The steel and iron industry which dropped off 58 per cent in the first quarter recovered some ground in the second The decline for the first half is 52 per cent Its second half results will be col ored both fiy the wage scale boost July 1 and the price rise now un der way Mining and tne talwoijktag also have firming prices and' in some cases rising labor costs on their second half horoscope In the first half their 44 per cent drop was the sixth largest The 576 corporations as a whole reported 1958 earnings as $3751 701000 compared with $5529359 000 for the" same companies in the first half of 1957 when many of them were setting records 24 Slavic 25 Not any 26 Consumes 27 Lubricants 28 Mystery writer Stanley Gardner 29 Shakespearean 46 Arachnid 48 Minute skin opening 49 Presently '60 Bird's home 38 Pleasant looks 63 Always (poet) Another? Things move fast these days Explorer IV was lucky to stay on Page One for two days Was that only last October when Sputnik gave the world the beepie jeep ies? they say that their wild verbal gyrations are not forgiven and forgotten when they decide it is time to smile shake hands and sit down td talk good They cannot be allowed the luxury of having two voices They' like everyone else speak with only one voice If it Is evil ugly and inflammatory the' world must know it Jt cannot be disguised with the fraudulent overtones of good will 4 are many mixtures of systems or instance Soviet Russia which re i Corporate Prof its Skid 32 During irst Half of 58 gm from the barter methods of socialism to a gold exchange' bas is Trace Source Me 'Graw Hill Publishing Co Inc and an expert on banking referring to a CED discussion on the subject of inflation wrote: do not believe that this poUcy statemenT comes togrips with "tfie real difficulties of the inflation sit uation There is no real effort to say why the policies of recent years have so signally failed to de fend us agameU inflation If we cannot even agree on where we failed I do not think we can get very far in prescribing a recipe for The reason I think that manycknowledgeable men even ex perts fail to agree on a possible cure for inflation or on the causes for any economic disturbance in our society is that they do not agree as to what our society is We speak of it as a democracy as a republic as a country in which private enterprise prevails None of these words or phrases correctly describes the American way of life although all of them do to a certain degree Pnblic Enterprise Growing When for instance we say that private enterprise prevails that is true but public enterprise 1s grow tag apace And fat private enter prise big tMistaeqa is squeezing small business which is the social core of private enterprise jAnd as big business grows it becomes a bureaucratic as gov ernment Bureaucracy usually leads to Stagnation to a substitu tion of fofrns for thought to a les sening of initiative and competi urban areas grow with the develop ment of new expressways It is a fascinating' picture but the changes will come none too soon! The hiehwavs are center of totvn and make the trip lagging far behind the needsJThe' now population for a 20 milc a series of articles prepared by Ray Cory Austin and pre sented the Austin Dailvrfer aid 'as 't public service about a clearer understSidtag of the current road program the biggest public works under taking in all history RAY CORY 4 (President State Auto Assn) An eye catching red yhite and blueroad sign will soon begin to II lift Lil 1111 I II 11 IK: 1 1 1 1 of the natlonlt: will mark for the first time the route of our most important but little know road network the 41000 mile7 nat ional system of ihterstate and de Matter of Pressure It has been pointed out before that the members of Congress intercede constant ly with government regulatory agencies in behalf of their constituents and friends But two senators in defending the prac tice seem to have missed one large point Senators Mansfield of Montana and Bridges of New Hampshire said quite ac curately? that lawmakers might not last long in Washington if they do it Both added that they did nof ask fav ors or exert pressure and implied that this is true of most legislators i As a general statement of intent this cn be accepted But anyone familiar with the operations of a congressional office understands that pressure is sometimes applied Yet this is not the real point the sena tors missed The fact is that in countless cases whatever the intent pressure is felt This is true because the lawmakers control the purse strings that govern an funds they have the biggest for um in the nation from which to voice public criticisms and they have the pow er to alter the laws under which an agency operates1 Oren Harris of Arkansas now running uie uuiiuiuiive iiivuougaung uic Adams affair is also chairman of the full House Interstate and oreign Commerce Committee Within its orbit is the eder al Communications Commission among others" Does anyone really imagine that a call or letter to the CC from a lawmaker jo placed would be regarded as purely rou Legislators saying THEY regard the inquiries as routine is part of the story The real question is how the agen cies regard them The members of Congress? and their committees appear increasingly of late to enjoy taking on a sort" of quasi judicial role in which thev judge everybody else and judge themselves as wellrNaturally The American public would undoubt edlylike to have the performance of its public officials elected or appointed ap praised with a somewhat more impartial hand Under rthe stepped Urfir system its first official status and tJtrtpercent of the bin' while the road program billions of dollars have been earmarked to build the interstate system to adequate standards to meet needs of traffic in 1975 Of the total cost Uncle Sam will pay 90 per cent and the states will appropriate the remain ing 10 per cent This reflects the great importance the federal gov ernment attaches" to the project The total price tag on the inter state system is subject to fluctua tion as road costs rise and fall over the years Under original plans as contemplated in ederal aid Highway Act of 1956 the price tag waa set at $276 billion However in Januar of 1958 the Department of estimated that the total cost had risen to approximately $376 bil lion What is the interstate 'system and why is it'ao vital? As the backbone of our entire road net work it carries one seventh outers referred to in the legislation We i I took your advice sir and let my wife Randle all the charge that's twice ae much as I ever was overdrawn!" I Tie about the same if a fellow got 1 your job by malicious scheming against you in the office and then professed to be stunned because you show up for4he old bridge gamesyou all used to love Demogogues there always been jcnd presumably always will be And that means we shall always have to contend with the reckless use of words as a device in the struggle for political power KSW' MAiOVU UJClCdlLCl WAlCLl ilL LtfHSL 1HW of the free diplomats decline his invitation to a jolly Communist cocktail party Qr when they question his sincer ity in proposing disarmament 'and peace plans" Cairo radio can as it has in cite Arabs to murder and riot Inflame the passions of the fanatics blare false re "ports of fighting in the hope these ac j' counts will touch off the real thing Yet Nasser expects to be accepted in diplo 3 inatic exchange as if he were a sober wise responsible and far seeing leader of Arab ism ana socialism is competition in a free market Thus it can be said that in" the United States while many groups official and unofficial have tried to study the nature and causes of infiation no group except per haps the Rockefeller brothers pan el has approached the problem from the basic standpoint as to whether it is wise or possible or probable for the United States to remain a capitalistic country Witnessed Gigantic Changes This much we have ourselves witnessed: two world wars a pro longed depression a shift in pop ulation from rural to urban areas a smaller war in Korea and the need for the enormous cost of per manent preparation for war These may be the principal causes for the present inflation they are not the inly ones The social effects of inflation are more complex aix ugly than the: immediate economic effects or instance all forms of service to the home have praiieall dis appeared from nuddte claM Am erican life which is reflected in the vogue of do it youroeU opera tions and a consumption of leisure time of male and female waters in the type of chores for which numerous devices were ex 4 Kdh Mm MwlIM wv MM vvyj a AS right 1958 King eatures jtwo decades MV Red White and Blue Road Signs ANSWER WJ41 ml 1 9 1 jCAubor jNove xms one in au motor venicie tranic des but these highways were made We Are Mng to Cope With Our Great National Problem: Inflation By GEOltGE SpKOLSKY The really big and devastating problem tbst the American peo toflation What it real prices have doubled since 1939 According to the Committee for conomic Development 1956 and 1957 alode the consumer price index rose six per fcent a rate which' if tinned would double the price level 23 yearsV What this means in simple lang uage is that the value at the dot lar as a means' of exchange: is constantly going 'down and that therefore the standard of life will ultimately also go down if not altogether in the quantity of goods consume by the individual cer tataly in the quality not only of goods but also of services 9 The capitalistic system has two justifications That it produces a esastant ly ristag standard ef Bring the greatest good for the som ber as a result of constant eotnpefitioa ia a free market 2 That because the fadividtuU possesses 'freedom of economic action he also possesses freedom la all other phases of life sodb as theoght speech religion movement research teaching If the capitalistic system bogs down in those two aspects it fails Ccmpletely and some other system ACROSS 58 Golf mounds 1 inland owns 59 Annoy most (f its 60 Lease 295Smiles DOWN roaas5 Seventy percent of land is forested It contains about 60000 a 12 External Tcomb form) 13 emale rabbit 14 Afghanistan prince 15 Malt drink 16 Eternity 17 Warble 18 Armed fleet 20 Hurls 22 Sesame 23 Artificial language 24 Dirks 27 Pronoun 31 African worm 32Hasten 33 Unit of reluctance 34 Social insect 33 Measure of cloth 38 New Guineaport 37 Ships 40 Cubic meter 42 Written form of Mistress Observe 44 Sign of the zodiae 47 Surgical MW 51 Wicked 82 Born 64 Musical quality 33 Memorandum 56 Parrot God bf Im tion In many Instanefeobig busi ness hires outside policy fidrisers outside economists outside publi 'city men to think out the social na ers form a bridge among similar companies to eliminate competition Without competition there can be no capitalism The es ce i910with McCullocha9 first 1CTYI nnr! eviahsm ve nmnnhhAn an A J' A ErtaMshed November I 1891 Rasmussen Editor and Publisher Geraldine Rasmussen Business Manager Entered as lad class matter at ths post office at Austin Minnesota sader the act of March 3 1876 Issued Dally Except Sunday 41 1944 Highway Act Was that it of ficially recognized the need for an God This shocked me very much interstate system and set up the but I did not have the fact neces machinery for the state highway gary answer him SUBSCRIPTION RATES stasis Cop i st ttawsdoatars and StTM Sales! 07 HOME DELIVERY JN AUSTEN Single Copy (other than tegu lar weekly Subscribers) 10 Per Week Carrier Delivery 40 28 Weeks 1040 Ono Tear 2010 BY MAIL ZONE 1 Delivery in postoffleo within SO miles radius of Austin Payable In uvMtre On Month Three Months Six Months Ono Tear MAIL ZONE 2 Delivery in poetofflee outstdo SO 150 Payable In advance Per Week Three Months 350 six Months 850 One Year 1200 mail all other zones Delivery in poefne ovtr156 miles radius of Payabls tn advanoe rvy WCT' Six Months Ono Tear departments and the Bur can nf PfiNir Rnnrlc tn nnf nallv designate which roads should be to hocked Not snanekow amnalltnz tffnAMnrtO A Where Is Truth? By BRUCE BIOSSAT' 5 As You f'ead the utterances of Snviof Premier Khrushchev and Egyptian Presi Nasser in the current Miridln nct 'j era muddle' you see at work a technique pouucs wmen py its very nature is de 'i'structive of good faith in international re Both these men belong to the school decrees thJ? in the tnterest of your Political nbiprtivM vnn mav av4 arv thing no matter how false wild and ir i responsible But at the same time they do not expect to be held accountable for these Indulgences in verbal In other words because they look up v01 words as tools of war on every level Jhey regard them with a kind of detach ment And they are considerablyastori muhsv on viewing ineir utterances as au thentic representations' of their Character andpersonality: Khrushchev for example will mount yum 'fl Zi WK 7r I ui i 'I 19U bf MA Sdte nnnn ir nr 4 rr irr rfTp il 22 yp wlrnnmt 1 1.