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Well, If Looks Easy i i tD Robert C. Ruqrk A Shiv Poor Substitute For Talent in Writing Reno Evening Gazette A NEWSPAPER FOR THE HOME "5 Published every evening except Sunday by Reno Newspapers, i Gazette-Journal Building, Reno, Nevada; Charles H. Stout, President. JOHN SANFORD, Editor JOSEPH Ri JACKSON, Managing Editor CLARENCE K. JONES, Business Manager A MILTON B.

GERWIN, Circulation Manager 4 ALBERT D. CONTON, Advertising Director VICTOR 0. ANDERSON, Mechanical Superintendent The Reno Evening Gazette is a member of the Soeidel Newspapers, a national service organization, promoting i- through the publication ol progressive newspapers the best interests ot tne comrrunitv ana tne nome. Entered at the post office at Reno, NevrJa, as second class matter. National Advertising Representatives: Nelson Roberts As Stan Delaplane Only fhe Names Are Changed This December 7 The last few weeks have been busy enough.

Full of excursions and alarums. All through the Army, the Navy and the Air Force, recalled reservists asked for releases, pleaded nolo contendere don't want' to set the world on fire, sergeant. I just want to be the flame in your It seemed a most reasonable protest. If is frustrating to be pulled out of civilian life, playing "salute it, pick it up, paint it" again. Just when the job was going good and flie mortgage whittled down.

There was the familiar ring of that' other peacetime draft. When reluctant dragoons chalked on the summer-warm barracks walls: "OHIO." "Over the hill in October." That was the October before December. Before December 7, 1941 sociates, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Detroit, Los 2 Angeies, portiana, Denver. Member Associated Press, Audit Bureau of Circulation, and the American Newspaper Publishers' Association. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Single copy, 10 cents; Carrier Salesmen and Motor Route, 50c per week.

MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By mall In the State of Nevada and Modoc, Lassen, Plumas, Sierra, Inyo, Alpine, Mono and Nevada Counties and the Lake Tahoe area in One year, six months, three months, one month, $1.75. By mail to alt domestic points outside the above areas: One year, six months, si 1-50; three months, one month, $2.25. December 7, 1961 I was trying to bust some ice in the bucket with an ancient hunting knife the other day, while talking literature, and I more or less accidentally point the knife at my beloved as a gesture of emphasis. You could have heard the squawk clean to the Kremlin. "Put down that thing!" she yelled.

"My married name is Ruark, not Mailer! You ain't going to make any literary reputation by slicing a filet off my haunch!" Well, I will admit freely that during some moments of domestic strife over 24 years I have been tempted to reason with my beloved with something stronger than mere words, and may even have eyed the poker speculatively with the fleeting thought of making Mama a new necklace out of it. But I never yet pulled no knife on her, and perhaps I was wrong. Maybe that's how you sell books and make a big reputation in the literary world of today. Be an angry young man. Recite obscene poetry, confess you have been on the dope kick and have boozed it up too much for too long, and finally carve a couple of chops off your wife, and you got it made.

Big celebrity stuff, and oh, how the royalties roll in. I never cared a great deal about Mr. Norman Mailer's prose, even before he took up the beatniks, the jive and the booze, and adopted wife-stabbing as some illustration of the artist's free approach to art. Self-conscious, self-admitted intellecuals bore me, whether that's a Zen Buddha or a monkey they're wearing on their back. A bum writer is a bum writer, even if he refuses to wash, wears turtleneck sweaters, and grows a beard in lieu of inspiration.

But I do think Mr. Mailer's set- mi, Caucasus Amtkm ting, a dangerous precedent for writers with two or three flops ia a row. Never, I believe has Mr. Mailer received so much attention from press and public since he took a shiv to his ever-loving and was carted off to Bellevue, He was in England the other day, and from the lionization and, the calmness with which he accepted the fawning, you would have thought he had been sent over by the State Department as an example of the All-American boy. As a panga-swinger, he could probably live up to that billing in the Congo, but in England, well.

But my only point is that writers, being notoriously unstable people anyhow, should not be encouraged generally to substitute the machete for hard work and sobriety. Nor, I think, should judges, such as General Sessions' Mitchell D. Schweitzer (probably distant cousin to Albert, the humanist), be overlavish in the granting of suspended sentences, as in the case of Mr. Mailer. Where I come from, a man pulls a knife on you, you get a right to shoot before he sticks you with it.

I am not saying that Mr. Mailer would ever learn to be a very good writer in jail, although most everybody from Marx to Hitler has produced literature when stuck in the pokey for a spelL Jail is sometimes benefcial in the resettling of one's literary thoughts, and I know a lot of people who should be put in jail merely for the way they write as free men, without the excuse of felonious assault with a deadly weapon, which is what a knife is all about. It is quite possible, as the judgt allowed, that in telling Mr. Mailer to go and sin no more, to tend to his knitting, to take it easy on the booze and quit hanging out with musicians, he was committing a wise and generous act of justice in its best and finest tradition. Not for a moment would I suggest strong punishment as a cure for wife-sticking, unless it gets to be a habit and winds up fatally, in which case writers had best be excluded from the jury panel.

I merely am saying that if this sort of thing grows in popularity due to Mr. Mailer's obvious success with it as a public relations device, things are going to be pretty edgy around the garret when the author gets his fifth rejection slip in a row. There is something terribly disturbing about the sound of switchblade on whetstone in the pastoral peace' of an artist's splendid withdrawal from a world he often cannot, as a rule, control with his pen. Barbs If and when' all hitchhiking Is banned finger-waving will be confined to the girls. Few men are born to be happy warriors.

And the most unhappy are the Constitutionally guaranteed militia called to active duty. I spent 10 days on a flat-bottomed LST approaching a piece of coco-palm real estate that nobody wanted but the General Staff. The entire conversation for 10 solid days was how to get out of the Army. I cannot recall any other subject of conversation. "The way you get a Section 8 is to eat cigarettes," said the sergeant.

He was 20 years old and from Nebraska and considered something of a brain. A Section 8 was a medical discharge for reasons of mental instability. It was more highly prized in that Tealistic world than a Medal of Honor. The sergeant had seen a man released for eating cigarettes. "Ate a whole pack of Camels.

Ran down the road with 77 shells busting all over and ate the pack. Section 8. Home to mother." -Holmes Alexander There's a Hidden Reason Why America Does Not Resume Atomic Tests in Air of 1960, which gave Presidential Aide Jim Hagerty a bad time and caused President Eisenhower to cancel a scheduled visit to Japan. Natives on such islands as Bikini and Eniwetok were moved in 1946 to Kili and Uje-lang. Other groups of Micronesians were displaced in 1954 from Rongelap and Utirik because of radioactive fallout.

They have since been repatriated. The Russian Arctic tests of September-October, 1961, ironically caused more animosity against the tests than the testers. The situation today in the UN is that practically any resolution against atmospheric testing, if It doesn't mention or clearly refer to any particular nation or bloc, will automatically get about 90 votes and will provide untold decibels of screaming propaganda. But even if the Kennedy Administration dared do what Khrushchev did, and defy world opinion in the name of national interests, the USA could conceivably be blocked from testing by action of the Trusteeship Council. The membership is worth noting.

The Trusteeship Council consists of three groups. The first is made up of countries which ad minister territories the aforesaid, USA, New Zealand and the U.K., all members of the Western bloc. The second group consists of countries with no administration of territories Nationalist China, France and Soviet Rus- sia. The third group is elected by' the General Assembly, and is composed of Burma, Paraguay and the United Arab Republic until 1962, and Bolivia and India until 1963. The five permanent members of the Security Council, all included above, are required to be members.

It takes little imagination to anticipate ways in which Russia, along with India, Egypt and Burma, could use their memberships on the Trusteeship Council to thwart American plans for testing in the Pacific. We would have to display a much bolder defiance of international pressure groups than has evern been indicated if we intend to put America's interests before all else. As fate will have it, Russia has vast Arctic wastes in which to test, while we have nothing of our own that is comparable. Russia doesn't care what other people think, and we do. We are in a real bind, and the question is Do we have the nerve to shoot our way out? All the young men squatting on the hot deck got' out packages of cigarettes from their faded green jackets and looked at them.

I mean it was a serious thing. The desire to get out, the boredom, the occasions of unbelievable fright, the unending sameness all lead to entertaining pure nonsense at times. There was a great deal of speculation on what' kind of fright wig you could put on and fool the Army psychiatrist. The general opinion was that they could not be put upon not because they were so smart, either. "Because if they were so smart, how does it happen they're in the Army?" said the sergeant.

"Stands to reason they catch only the dumb ones. With that kind you got to make it simple and clear. Like eating cigarettes." WASHINGTON Russia's presence on the United Nations Trustee Council appears to be one of the hidden reasons why the United States does not resume atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons. This is as tender a subject as can be found in Washington. No high official wants to admit that Russia holds this much veto power over American policy.

Those officials who are against testing, anyhow, have here an imposing argument for their do-nothing case. Officials who are deeply convinced that we should get on with in-the-air testing, and who are disturbed because so much time has already gone by, are hesitant to agitate the issue. The situation Is as follows: Only three nations of the world the USA, New Zealand and the United Kingdom are today administering the affairs trust territories under the UN Charter. The USA has a vast expanse and literally hundreds of islands in the Pacific, the region where most our above-the-sur-face tests have been made. The following is a description of the U.S.

trust territory from the handbook, "Everyman's United Nations, 1959, Sixth Edition," the most recent to be published in English: "This U.S.-administered territory, located in the Central Pacific and spread over three million square miles of ocean, is composed of 2,141 islands with a total land area of 687 square miles. Of these islands only 97 are inhabited by some 65,000 people, who are broadly classed as Micronesians." The U.S. Pacific tests in the mid-1950s caused wails and protests from Japan. They were not unconnected with the Tokyo riots Day of Blindness DEC. 7, 1941, was indeed, as President Roosevelt called it, a day of infamy, but it.

also was a day of astonishing blindness. The American people had Jbeen told lime and again by their leaders that there avould be no war, even though the United States actually had been engaged in an inofficial shooting war in the Atlantic for TOore than a vear. Only a few days before that shocking jSunday 20 years ago, one of the leading jand influential commentators, or at least Jhat was his reputation at the time, had "declared almost rudelv to Reno interview- ers that "there will be no war!" So, it was an almost unbelieving people that heard the news on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, that Japanese planes had bombed Pearl Harbor. It took only about an hour and 50 'Jninufces for Japan to inflict upon the United States its most crushing defeat of arms.

The air attack on Pearl Harbor impregnable Pearl Harbor began a few seconds before or after 7:55 a.m. At 9:45 jail Japanese planes over Oalm rendezvoused and returned to their carriers. The battleship Arizona was totally jost. Severely damaged were the Oklahoma, Nevada, California and "West Virginia, all dreadnaughts. The Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Maryland were damaged.

So were the cruisers Helena, Honolulu land Raleigh. Severely damaged were three destroyers, one target ship, and one minelayer. Damaged but later repaired were one seaplane tender, one repair vessel, and one dry dock. The Navy lost 80 planes, the lArmy Air Corps 97. The battle force of tthe Pacific Fleet was wrecked beyond any possibility of offensive action within a year.

More somberly important were the casualties: Navy, 2117 officers and men "killed, 960 missing, 876 wounded; Army, officers and men killed, 396 wounded. jSome 70 civilians were killed. The Japs lost 9 fighter planes and 20 bombers. It wras many months before the full extent of these losses were made known. There was confusion and evasion in high and efforts to shift the blame that not been settled satisfactorily to this Jday.

All that the American people knew ithat day was that they had been plunged Jinto a war. And while the action against JJapan and Germany ended 16 years ago, tthis nation has not been truly at peace since. The war against the Axis powers jquickly shifted into the Cold War, with an enen'v far more dangerous than Ger--many and Japan. Today it is not a sudden raid of enemy bombers" that will herald another war. It is the feaTful possibility that missiles will come from halfway around the world, loaded with nuclear death more devastating than anything dreamed of in 1941.

But today, the American people are, 'not lulled into a false sense of security, -like that induced by those in Washington 120 years ago who talked publicly of peace, knew privately that this country was "plunging headlong into global war. The lesson of Pearl Harbor is vividly jemem- bored. William Morris Words, Wit and Wisdom Here's another of our multiple-choice memory-ticklers. Try to match the numbered word with the lettered phrase closest in meaning to it You'll find several really tricky words, so don't be too much surprised if you don't score 100 first time around. Answers (with pronunciations) down below but don't peek.

1. Proliferate: (a) embezzle; (b) make holes in; (c) multiply in quick succession, 2. Procrastination (a) enforced conformity; (b) repeated postponement; (c) lying face down. 3. Prognosis: (a) analysis; (b) long nose; (c) forecast.

4. Progenitor: (a) ancestor; (D pilot model; (c) lover of large families. 5. Prefect: (a) without error; (b) rule of conduct; (c) French official. 6.

Prolix: (a) bearing on shaft; (b) tiresomely wordy; (c) extremely complex. 7. Prostrate: (a) statehood for colonies; (b) male gland; (c) lying flat. 8. Propensity: (a) natural inclination toward; (b) lust; (c) state of well-being.

9. Promontory: (a) A a warning; (b) high Turkish officer; (c) headland. 10. Promulgate: (a) forbid; (b) publish decree; (c) involve in punitive legal action. ANWERS: 1-C (proh-LIF-er-ate); 2-B (proh-kras-tih-NAY-shun); 3-C (prog-NOH-sis); 4-A (pro-JEN-ih-ter); 5-C (PREE-fect); 6-B (proh-LIX); 7-C (PROSS-trate); 8-A (proh-PEN-sih-tee); S-C (PROM-un-tor-ee); 10-B (proh-MUL-gate).

Some people talk along interesting lines and others just talk along. It's funny how often we're afraid a barber is going to make our hair look like his. Other Editors What the Thieves who are out for what they can get eventually are in for it. Keep your figures girls, if you want the boys to call your Even on that December 7 (so long ago), the Army did not become a home away from home. It just" got bigger and moved to different climates.

Wherever it moved, it seemed to choose the most uncomfortable places. Attu and Bizerte. Nipa hut villages and mud-walled houses on a sandy track in Africa. Training camps in America. Small towns where you bought "beer and a sneer for a buck." Atabrine, cosmoline, K-rations, gasoline, dog tags "show your pass," "now hear this," "Dear John," "passed by censor." Only the names have been changed (and not to protect the innocent).

Berlin, Quemoy and nameless villages in Southeast Asia. The pulse of powers beats harder. And the militia reports again as it has since Caesar pulled up his conscripted Gauls. The unhappy warriors. People Want the part of the public cannot be ignored by the highway engineers and the California Highway Commission.

The engineers have stated that both the low and high level routes are feasible. The cost would be approximately the same. The difference, of course, is that the high level route would preserve the isolation of two widely used state parks and the matchless beauty of Emerald Bay. The recreational and esthetic factors under any circumstances should weigh heavily in the official considerations. But where cost and feasibility are so nearly equal, can there be any doubt of Thoughts Then the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves, and said, the Lord is righteous.

II Chron. 12:6. The truly godly are instinctively humble. There is no humility so deep and real as that which the knowledge of grace produces, -i Andrew Miller. Sacramento Bee: District Highway Engineer Alan S.

Hart states hundreds of letters from the public are flooding his office on the location of the proposed new highway at Emerald Bay on Lake Tahoe and they are running between 20 and 30 to 1 in favor of the high level route. A 30 day period, following a public hearing on the matter, was allowed to permit interested persons to file written arguments. Hart said the letters received are many rimes the number generally sent in on a controversial highway location, indicating the deep public feeling in respect to the Lake Tahoe routing. The alternate to the high level route would skirt the edge of the lake, bisect two state parks and require a bridge across world famous Emerald Bay. Surely such an expression on Prayer for Today Dear God, on this observance of Pearl Harbor Day, our hearts and minds return to that day when the forces of evil swept down on our military forces in what is now one of our states.

We are grateful that the perpetrator of that attack has now become a friend of our nation. We pray Thy continued blessings upon this friendship to the end that these two peoples may continue to grow in mutual understanding; in His name. Amen. the right decision? Crossword Puzzle Antwr to Previous Punt Playing Cards TApTl lPOiel leieieip OMAR. ALL I A mole Jfe a gTo A OTTO' TAN eT IomeTCItatI coge fp a Nie s- 0 Af1j oot ZP ja a mat ETJg a a Ads AMDOO Ami? leHiorrtNTi 16 II.

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Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Davies of Reno were hosts at a banquet in the Riverside Hotel honoring movie star Tom Mix.

Guests included Messrs. and Mesdames H. E. Stewart, R. B.

Hawcroft, S. M. Pickett, Joe Lozano, Rufe Henrichs, II. E. Benson, George Bartlett'and Earle Snell.

25 Years Ago Registration and licensing of bicycles in Reno was being studied by police. The plan was used in many cities. The "new" Tarzan, Johnny Weissmuller, was starred in 'Tarzan Escapes," af the Majestic. George Tharp, former Nevada star, was playing professional football with the Salinas Ice Packers and was to try for a berth with the Boston Redskins in 1937. Forming the chorus line during entertainment' at the annual Block "stag night" were Duncan Dorsey, Al Lansdon, Bill Grubbs, Paul Walker, Frank Showaher, Bill Cashill, and Louis Nash.

Riding Free WTall Street Journal: The city fathers of Ithaca, New York, are poised to open a new frontier of municipal government. They are sure they can lick the local parking problem by inviting citizens to leave their automobiles home and ride the city buses for nothing. Of course, somebody will have to put money in the fare box. Ithaca expects the Federal Housing and Home Finance Agency to oblige with a grant of $120,000. Washington seems favorably impressed; after all, parking space for Ithaca would cost nearly a million dollars, so what's some small change for bus fare? Really, the Ithaca approach to local problems could sweep the country.

How about free subway rides for all New Yorkers, courtesy of Uncle Sam? And traffic-chocked Los Angeles might solve Its problem by stationing fleets of Government subsidized helicopters on the city's outskirts. Those who would raise objec-. tions, such as the illogic of a housing agency operating a local bus line, simply aren't in the spirit of the thing. Only the unimaginative will concern themselves with the astronomical cost to all the tax-payers of "free" rides. And why stop with transportation? Why not free everything.

After all, it's a free country, isn't It? 5T pa 7 jf Telegram 18 Permit 19 Prayer endings 21 Nothing 22 Book of maps 24 Lock of hair 26 Signification 28 Barter 29Norel 30 Auricle SI Compass point 32 Falsehood 33 Petty quarrels 35 Coquettish glances 38 Inscribed pffisr 59 Animal 41 Golf term 42 Resign, 46 Tennis stroke 47 Operatic solo 49 Offspring 50 Olympian goddess 51 Remove 52 Burmese wood sprite 53 Angers 54 Formerly 55 European theater operation (ab.) 86 Essential being DOWN 1 Australian marsupial Surprise Anyone IT any surprise to most Americans when Fidel Castro declared i-he was a dedicated Communist and had wbeen a devout follower of the Marxist-T; Lenin line since his college days. The only persons disconcerted by the i Cuban dictator's declaration were gome of the apologists in Washington and I among the liberal leftists in New York I and Washington who had been trying for years to make Castro into a 20th Century Robin Hood. But then these are the people who once talked about Joseph Stalin a fine and gentle old soul, and who even today are trying to paint a picture of a benevolent Khrushchev who really doesn't mean all the harsh things he says. 3S- RT 50 NEWSPAPER fcNTZXPKISE ASSH. 4 4.