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By Gilbert Love How To Edt, Etc. rA The Pittsburgh Press Ana mi 1 I I 4 I i lo ii ii MAY 13 II IT 11 I 1 7-T 2 3 4 1 6 (7)8 9 10 1112 tm 13 IS 16'17 18 19 itnti! 2021 22 23 24 2S 26 niiuiiMiiH 2728I29 30 311 it it a a 1 1 1 1 I and red dinner wines, to a sweet dessert wine, They ended the "tour" with pink champagne. I got into conversation with a couple of The big Georgian Room of Webster Hall Hotel was full of men and women holding lit tie wine glasses. Some of them were carefully inspecting the contents of their glasses, then passing them under their noses, then youngish men with carnations in their lapels. They were Randall Dickins, president, and SECTION TWO PAGE 25 MONDAY, MAY 7, 1962 T.

M. Palmer, a director, of the national Gourmet Society for the Leisure Arts, New York. Dinner Praised They described, lovingly and in great de tail, a gourmet dinner the society recently put 'on in New York. They called over a Pitts sipping thoughtfully. "That's what you're supposed to do to appreciate wine," said a young lady standing next to me.

"They tell you to 'See, sniff and This was a wine-tasting session sponsored by the Pittsburgh Chapter of the Gourmet Society for the Leisure Arts (formerly The Escof- ACTION burgher, Leonard Samuelson. He and his wife had flown to New York for the dinner. He How Houston Went Against Heart Of Texas said it was well worth while. The conversation turned to an all-Amerl-ran gourmet dinner that is scheduled for May 26, also in New York. Turtles for soup will be brought in from the Dry Tortugas.

Other courses will include pompano from Florida, wild turkey, Texas longhorn beef and a dessert made of native American fruits. These three food-lovers were slim and athletic-looking, so I asked how they stayed that way. They explained that gourmet dining does not involve stuffing oneself. Portions are small. They are eaten slowly and thoughtfully.

Between courses, at a full-scale gourmet dinner, a narrator talks about the food and its preparation. Thus spread out, dinner takes all evening. It is accompanied by five or six kinds of wine, but before-dinner cocktails are discouraged. Also smoking. The chefs don't want anything to dull the taste buds of their patrons.

So now we know how to eat well without bulging. i flers). The wines were brought in by Taylor Wine Co. of Hammondsport, N. Y.

A large gentleman, obviously from the company, got behind a microphone and began talking about New York State wines, Good Wine Country He said the Finger Lakes region produces good wine grapes because of the moderating influence of the lakes and the relatively poor but well-drained soil. With one minor exception, only native American grapes are grown In this section, while California tends to grow European varieties. The result is a flavor that cannot be duplicated anywhere else in the world. Europeans say it's a "wild" taste, but it is favored by a great many Americans. While he was talking, the Pittsburgh wine-tasters went from the pale sherry (recommended for pre-dinner cocktails) to the white Hate Peddler IT'iy is America north living and dying for? Some famous authors tell what they think has made and will continue to make the United States great.

Today's chapter 12th of a series tells Iww Sam Houston stood up when all Texas thought he was wrong. (Copyniht. 1962, by Scrlppi-Howard Newipaperi) By J. FRANK DOBIE Sam Houston had a sense of the dramatic. He under 6 Inez Robb stood theatrics.

For him to act a part, however bizarre, was natural even to get votes. He was more himself as actor than as conformist to tame respectability. While still an Army lieutenant, he appeared in Washing They keep adding other prominent citi zens to their pro-Communist roster, and they NEW YORK Both Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower have served this nation with distinction and deserve its gratitude and honors.

But I respectfully submit that they have done this nation a ton dressed in breechclout and blanket, with a delegation of Cherokee Indians and was reprimanded by Secretary of War John C. Calhoun for being out of uniform. Calhoun was to know him better. He was out of uni passed (17 io 3) by the Texas Legislature condemning his stand. great disservice by Galveston Bay.

When they at Brenham, friends urged Sam Houston to speak his sentiments. He refused repeatedly until he heard that hot-blooded Secessionists threatened to keep him from speaking. Then he consented. The hour was announced; the place was the county courthouse. The town boiled under the fires of Houston partisans and secessionists swearing that to give Houston a hearing would be Ignoring the extremists' charges that both are Communists or agents of the Communist conspiracy.

Of course the charges are absurd; it is difficult to say whether they are the height or depth of the ridiculous. Ordinarily that would be the correct form when he wrapped himself in a simulated Roman toga to have his portrait painted as "Marius Amid the Ruins." He was out of uniform when as president of the Republic of Texas he stripped to the skin, sans even breechclout, and sat on a pine box atop a pine table to receive a foreign emissary who expected only savages in this new nation. Yet at times the right times his dress was the glass of fashion. No matter how extravagant he might be, his chief "foppery" was consistently within. Properties of the stage, small marrying a lass of 20.

After Texas entered the Union he represented the state as U. S. senator for 13 years. As senator he never relaxed or relented in standing for the Union and against disunion. From the beginning of his career in Washington lie opposed Calhoun, the high priest of nullification the doctrine of the right of Individual states to secede.

In 1854 he was the solitary Southern Democrat to vote against the Kansas-Nebraska bill (devised by the South to extend slavery). He was rewarded with a resolution will be encouraged to keep doing so until some citizen decides to stand and fight on the grounds of criminal libel. In this instance, no action would be more salutary or let more air into the noisome activities of this extremist riffraff than for two former presidents of the United States to decide they have had enough and demand justice in a court of law. The extremists, be they Birchers, Minute Men. or whatever, are a divisive element in a nation that needs unity as never before.

We face a powerful, implacable Communist foe and it is probable that we Khali have to face him indefinitely. Organizations pledged to divisive tactics, to setting neighbor against neighbor and American against American, to planting suspicion and fomenting doubt about our Government, our leaders and each other, are despicable. The Birchers interested in fighting Communism? Nonsense. That is only a front. What they are hot to destroy is the income tax, labor unions, social security and any other aspect of the 20th century they dislike.

We have at last in this country a splinter party whose doctrine is pure fascism. Let's stop pussyfooting and call it what it Is and start exposing it as we long ago started exposing Communists and communism. Dwight Eisenhower a few days ago said something for every citizen to paste in his hat: "Only Americans can hurt America." Crowd Demands Death The courtroom was jammed before Houston showed himself amid cries of "Put him out!" "Don't let him speak!" "Kill him!" "Traitor!" Now a wealthy planter and also a secessionist named Hugh Mclntyre sprang on a table, drew a long Colt's six shooter and said: or large, may achieve Disneyland, but true drama comes only out of human character. evidenced. Indeed, the crowd several times cheered.

Refuses To Change Houston began by saying that "Vox Populi" is sometimes the demagog-led voice of the devil instead of the voice of God, and that "no fear of popular condemnation" could induce him io change a verdict he had come to through consideration of full evidence. He ridiculed Southerner boasts that descendants of the men of Lexington and Bunker Hill would not fight. Sam Houston, 68 year old, sitting there alone In the rapitol of Austin while refusing to sign the oath of allegiance and, then, ue posed but magnificently erect, standing up In the courthouse at Brenham and telling the mob what he still thought was larger and more dramatic than he was as conqueror on horseback at San Jacinto. "It Is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion," Emerson wrote in that noble essay on Self -Reliance. "It is easy in solitude to Jive after our own; but the great man is he who In the midst of the crowd keeps with per-' feet sweetness the lndepcnd ence of solitude." NEXT: An Immigrant, doctor who refused to give up performed a great Ice for the South.

Author Harry Golden tells how he did it in "The Immigrant and the Children of Dixie." The climax of Sam Houston's diagnosis of the charges and the proper way for prominent citizens to treat such contemptible mouthings of the faceless Birchers and other hate-merchants. But these are not ordinary times in which even a former President of the United States can afford to wrap himself in the deserved mantle of his dignity and respectability and be silent. Former President Eisenhower and former President Truman could do their country no greater service at this time than to make their accusers prove their charges in a court of law. The Extremists of the Right only know and practice lynch law. They set out to lynch anyone they hate or whose ideas don't coincide with theirs by spreading the word that he Is a Communist or a Communist In 1857, still In the Senate, he ran for governor of Texas and was defeated.

Two years later, no longer senator, he ran again as an independent on a slogan of "The Constitution and the Union." He was elected; also Abraham Lincoln was elected President. As soon as the news reached Texas, poles were set up to fly the Lone Star flag. Houston said, "The Union is worth more than Mr. Lincoln The Union must be preserved." Secession Voted On March 2, 1861, Houston was 68 years old, and on that date the secession of Texas, carried both by legislative convention and popular vote over his head, became effective. Fourteen days later the Secession Convention, in legislative capacity, called on him to take the oath of allegiance to the Confederate government.

Three times thti rail, "Sam Houston! Sam Houston sounded while he sat below, silent, immovable, whittling. A new governor whs sworn In. Houston's family was expelled from the governor's mansion. "I am. ready," he declared, "to be ostracized sooner than submit to usurpation." The aging warrior of field and forum and his young drama came near the end of a lifetime marked by intense privacy in private matters and by belligerent, often flamboyant, domination in public affairs.

Never Broke Silence He had taught school, fought Indians, also been their enduring advocate, gone to Congress from Tennessee, where he practiced law, been elected governor of that state, married, resigned office and "I and 100 other friends of Gov. Sam Houston have invited him to address us. We will kill any man who Insults him or attempts to injure him. I myself think he should have accepted secession and have taken the oalh of allegiance to the Confederate over tiincot. He thoiutht otherwise, lie is honest and sincere.

He shed his blood for Texas in-dejendeiice, and no oilier man lives with more right to be heard by the people of Texas. Now, fellow citizens, give him your addition, and, you ruffians, keep quiet or be killed." By Richard Starnes woman Into tears of ecstaey, but he has left his bride in a silence he never broke to live in what is now Oklahoma with the Cherokees especially with Titania. He had gone to Texas, commanded the army that de Royal Flush WASHINGTON-The sorry pass to which the king business has fallen was never better Illustrated than by the wan little gathering of surviving royalty in Amsterdam last week. The occasion was the silver wedding anniversary of Queen Juliana, and even after shaking down every comic-opera principality on the continent, the never once betrayed any talent for shahing. He and his consort live like the Persian princes of old, but within a few leagues of his palace in Teheran you can see helpless human beings living in the most appalling squalor that exists anywhere on this earth.

Defenders of the Shah claim he has dl J. FRANK DOBIE feated Mexico, served twice as president of the Republic Author of I he Longhorns family took the stage for meanwhile at the age of 47 and "The Mustangs." their home at Cedar Point on No violation of respect was vided his tremendous land holdings among the peasants, but the reply to that is to point out how miserably he has failed to Outer Space Study Iff induce Iran's outrageously rapacious landlord class to do likewise. Solar Winds Blow Good, Bad For Earth The Shah "title, of course, comes to Glenn's Parents Visit New York Mother Of Year Award Week On Dutch managed to lasso only five reigning monarchs. Half a century ago, a similar to-do would have been surrounded by an impenetrable forest of Hapsburgs, a dozen or so congenitally witless dauphins, a quorum of mad archdukes, and perhaps a. score of assassination-minded preten him from his late father, and the old man came by it through the time-honored method By JOSEPH L.

MYLER posed vacuum of interplane of poohbahs from Tamerlane to Trujillo WASHINGTON, May 7 bulging magnetic field pass through the earth, high speed particles ejected during the flare "have an easy access" to he took it. tary space. Eruptions Occur (UPD Solar winds blow both The old shah was tough as a boot and smart as paint, and his claim to the throne good and bad. the planet. Result: Auroral displays, magnetic storms and Probes and satellites, Russian and American, have run into and radioed data on these was genuine: he was strong enough to take They may protect the earth it and keep it.

Not so, I fear, the incumbent. from charged particles which fields and clouds. Sept. 12, 1959, with providing "the most extensive Information concerning Interplanetary plasma" produced by any spacecraft yet launched. This Lunik crashed Into the moon.

Before doing so, it sent reports on space out to a distance of 100,000 miles. The M.I.T. scientist said "the only American space mission so far that-yielded information on interplanetary plas disrupt radio communications. More or less continuously, They may, on the other the sun's million-degree cor NEW YORK, May 7 (UPI) Mr. and Mrs.

John H. Glenn, parents of the first U. S. orbital astronaut, arrived here yesterday to participate in the American Mothers Awards week conference. Mrs.

Glenn was named Ohio molher of 1962 earlier this hand, breach the earth's mag ona broadcasts a so-called "solar wind" of high-speed netic defenses and open the planet to direct invasion by powerful tiny projectiles from the sun. particles. From time to time, vast eruptions (flares) occur on the sun which throw myriads of particles, some mov- year and is a possibility to win the conference's Ameri radio blackouts. But if the, force lines of the Interplanetary magnetic field concentrate between sun and earth, they tend to trap moving particles In a region away from the planet. The field acts as "a magnetic barrier." A third possibility Is that a magnetic field advancing outwardly from the sun will sweep space npar the earth free of charged particles.

Winds Affect Comets An American scientist, Bruno Rossi of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said the solar wind is what keeps Queen Elizabeth, of England, next to Grace Kelly the most celebrated lady regnant, was in Amsterdam for Juliana's soiree, as was her prince, whom history will doubtless know as Philip the Editor. The apologia for British royalty always goes as follows: Of course it's an anachronism, old chap, but it's the glue that holds the ruddy Commonwealth together. That nonsense Is fit for schoolboys or palace-crawlers, but not for people who can think. The only thing that ever held the Commonwealth together was economic interdependence, and when the motherland joins the Common Market and ends the system of Commonwealth preferences, we will all see how much cohesive value the queen has. ma was Explorer launched in March, 1961." This satellite.

Professor Rossi said, sent back information that there exists a region behind the earth down ing close to the ders. No one in his right mind laments the passing of such Neanderthal rubbish. Rut even improved as man's dignity is today, civilization is still disgraded by the handful of hereditary kings and queens who are still doing business. Some day (and from the pale congregation in Amsterdam I'd say that day isn't far off) all the simpering foolishness of royalty will be relegated to the fairy tales, which is here it belongs. The Shah of Iran, who attended Juliana's hoedown with a lady who sails under the title of the Empress Farah, is a splendid case in point.

The Shah occupies the peacock throne and enjoys a string of titles that would dissolve any fool American club- Backward View NEW YORK This is a street scene in any This was suggested today in papers at the third international Space Science Symposium being held here by the World Committee on Space Research (COSPAR). per-sceond speed of light, and also dump great slower-moving clouds of electrified gas (plasma) into space. stream from the solar plasma wind which is shielded from Some 800 space scientists the solar projectiles by the According to Tatsuzo of Kyoto 'Japan) Uni planet's magnetic field. from 18 nations are attending. The space age promises new can mother of the year award.

Mother's from throughout the 50 states are attending the conference. The Glenns planned to do some sightseeing in and around the city. This evening they will be guests of honor at a meeting of the Ohio Society of New York, an organization of native Ohioans who reside in New York. The American mother award will be announced tomorrow. The conference ends Thursday with a luncheon at which Rep.

Walter H. Judd, Minnesota Republican will speak. certain kinds of comet tails Surplus Report Out understanding of the turbu versity, these plasma clouds form expanding shells of the sun's magnetic field extending far out into space. If the lines of force of this WASHINGTON, May 7 By Gaile Dugas lent magnetic fields and clouds of plasma electrified atomic particles which roil the sup- pointed away from the sun. Professor Rossi credited Russia's Lunik II, launched The Health, Education and Welfare Department reported today that surplus property OFF THE RECORD By Ed Reed "My wife wears pants so much that I finally asked her to put on a dress occasionally so that our two boys would understand that men and women don't dress alike." In the opinion of Madeleine Darling, de mall town or big city in the U.

S. A. Strolling along the street are Mom, Pop and Little Widget. All three are wearing pants. In the case of Pop and Little Widget, this costing $01,234,143 was made available to the states by the Federal Government in Janu Sketches By BEN' BURROUGHS Ult It Will So little time have we to do ary, February and March.

all of the things we should for there is so much to ONLY amateur photographers are eligible to enter the Press Snapshot Contest. See next Sunday's Press. NEXT MONDAY in The Press starts a physical fitness scries for men over 50 by Dr. H. C.

arlson. be done much to be understood it seems there never are enough minutes to fill the day because be AMY Isn't startling. But in Mom's case, it is. From the rear, she resembles a striped balloon topped by a plaid shirt. The pants are tight at the calf and the legs resemble drumsticks.

This scene is duplicated across the country many times and in many ways. Women turn up in beauty parlors, supermarkets, department stores, friends' homes, restaurants, movies, launder-ets and at parties in pants. Here's a sampling of the reactions of designers who created women's pants. "We had never intended this!" "A woman over size 16 Should NEVER wear pants!" "The woman with a large derriere should stay out of signer for Jack Winter, pants are right for suburbia but never for the city. And they should be feminine in feeling.

"Because pants are so masculine," she says, "we try to make them as feminine in cut as possible. We suit patterns and fabrics to the figure type. Women don't seem to realize that the world sees them from the rear. When she tries on pants, a woman should walk away from a mirror and look at herself over one shoulder." In the opinion of one of the country's top designers, Larry Aldrich, women should Just stay out of pants. Designer Ceil Chapman agrees.

Known for her beautiful and very feminine clothes, she thinks you can't beat a pretty dress for making a woman look good. "I'll never forget the lovely, elderly woman I met last year at a resort," she says. "She was beautiful in cocktail clothes. And she had elegance, Then, the next morning, I saw her waddling across the golf course in white stretch pants and I couldn't believe it was the same woman. Enormous!" --fit fore we know it time has swiftly passed away there's so much good that must be done so many hearts to cheer and so much bad to be undone before we disappear so much to gain; so little time to create happiness the world is reaching out for joy and welcomes its caress yes, everyone should try to fill each day with doing good and in this way the universe will live in brotherhood but sad alas, people avoid the good in their great haste and much of all the time they spend is time that goes to waste.

Teg9'm' pants!" Mrs. Kennpdy "7ue woman who has a hip problem ahould never wear pants at all!" A man who wishes to remain anonymous baa this to say: "Every time I doze off. you find onother key you're looking for!" "You cannibal!".