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GREENVILLE, SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1958 THE RECORD-ARi SECOND SECTION Ignorance Cited What's the government Whether it concerns national, state or local affairs, an often-heard question. It can never get more than a partial answer, for reasons that should be obvious. But do persons who ask this ques-. tion really care what, if anything, is wrong with the whatever level. The question, it may be conceded, is well meant.

But again and again the person who poses it turns out to have an appalling lack of knowledge about the subject of government. It's clear that behind this ignorance is not lack of capacity to know and understand what goes on in government but lack of application. When some one Who knows something about government offers enlightenment, the conversation can easily come to grief in short order. The person who has been too busy with his own affairs to inform himself in this field is likely to find, fairly soon, that he is beyond bis depth. He cannot even put a value on what he is hearing, much less make any helpful comments.

But this is an election year, and good citizens who would like to use their votes to improve their government want to know how they can make their ballots count. The answer must be that they inform themselves on the issues and the candidates. It will' take some home work, but there is no other way. A citizen really concerned about ood government can do a great eal to tiring it about even if he has only one vote. And only one voice.

He is by no means limited 1,0 the vote he casts at the polls. He can do much more if he is willing to go to the necessary effort. The concerned citizen, in informing himself. about public affairs, will find among the many problems of government one that he can center upon as his own personal cause. A reasonably intent look around will disclose many things done for better government that have come ifom just such beginnings.

It's elementary civics that if enough people decide that certain things must be done, the changes will come. What's wrong with the government? In this country, the government rules by consent of the governed. If the people refuse to consent to bad government, the government will get better. The people can do it. Nobody else will.

U. S. Obligated The decision by the United States to provide loan and development funds to the Philippines was one that this country could not dodge in good conscience. The Pacific island nation, spawned and pushed to maturity by the U. is in financial difficulties.

Yet it is the "shining light" of freedom in Asia and the symbol of American generosity and non-colonial attitude toward underdeveloped countries. I Anything this country can do to push the, Philippines to more economic stability will be a gain for free men in a part of the world where the been the dominating pattern. One of the questions raised by the Washington visit of Philippine President Carlos P. Garcia was his attitude toward corruption in his Manila government. He pledged himself to make every effort to clean up the situation, which has led to tremendous criticism in his country.

The U. S. has thrown "good money after bad" enough times around the world for many Americans to become skeptical about gifts and loans to foreign nations. But in this case there should be- opproval, for the Philippines is America's "best bet" 'in Asia. Bible Thought for Today I have esteemed the word of hla mouth more than necessary Job 23:12.

We all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory. 3:18 RECORD-ARGUS Issued Dally Except Sunday by THE RECORD-ARGOS, Inc. and being merger of EVENING RECORD Greenville ADVANCE ARGUS Greenville STONEBORO CITIZEN Stoneboro JAMESTOWN WORLD Jamestown Morrison, Editor, 1889-1917 John Morrison, Publisher and Editor 1917-1957. Daisy T. Morrison, Publisher John H.

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The marvelous musical "West Side Story" is juggling offers from 'our movie studios. At the moment highest bidder is ready to part with $750,000 plus a percentage for the screen Hayworth, who hates airplanes, will train into own with her daughters next week, bridegroom, Jim Hill, will fly here to join them The ivith Jack Astor at Number One Fifth Avenue was Madeline Broussard, a former cover girl who ap- to be his reigning favorite Kurt Kaszners (actress Leora Dana) are about to make it an amicable abrogation. Charles Cochrane, jazz pian- st at the Toast, has proposed to uena Home's daughter, Gail Jones Credit novelist Jane Dolinger with an original gimmick. She tells ihums she'll take off for Saudi Arabia and actually join a sultan's mrem as "one of the girls" to jet authentic material for a new DOOk. The Senate investigators are apt ask "Bernard Goldfine if he paid personally for the Sherman Adams 'guest" hotel tabs, or did he charge them off to one of his firms as a business Jie government actually picked up Boothe Luce made fashion news at the Colony the other night in a black hat with feathers arranged like a 'fan in the back.

Looked chic, young and lovely. Just to prove they care, Esther Williams and Jeff Chandler are driving identical Lincoln Roosevelt is involved in some quiet negotiations that would merge Western Union with a couple of other ironic that Paddy Chayefsky's flicker, "The Goddess," opened at a midtown art house (the 55th St. Theatre) after his blistering rap against art De Fee, the sky-scraper-tall stripper, will be a grandma this winter. Her daughter Starr, now Mrs. George Heinzeing) is knitting tiny garments.

Have a hoot. The newest "anonymous" group is "Neurotics, Anonymous;" which will have its first meeting in New York on July 2. (If all the eligibles attend, they'll need Madison Square Mijonou Mardot, Brigitte's 19-year- old supposed to be ever more far out, if that's possible to the leading candidate for the title role in a rd Merrill's forthcoming Broadway musical, "Holiday for Henrietta." Gourmets are expected to flip over the new Empress Restaurant (a Chinesery) on Third Avenue. One dish, Peking Duck, will cost $12 a plate and you'll have to order it a day in Stevens at "21," was showing off her new coiffure and crediting it to Harry Belafonte, who cut her hair as part of the do-it-yourself Safety Program Throughout the country a year- old movement is gathering momentum and soon could reach proportions to make it a truly effective weapon against the rising toll taken by motor traffic. The National Safety Council is striving to get the churches of the country into all-out support of safe driving.

Churchmen individually have given highway safety support, but organized church groups have tended to leave the problem for others to handle. Now they are recognizing the kind of driving that produces death and injury as a "sin" and are joining in the attack. This new approach to the problem was given birth last fall in Greenwich, Conn. A gift of $75,000 resulted National Church Activities Division of the Nation- il Safety Council. 'The leadership of the church in this field unquestionably is of great value.

The success with which safety leaders have been able to convince churchmen that their help is needed and justified may mark a major step toward making highways safer for all. HLG ALLEN plot' for the movie "End of the World." Tito of Yugoslavia is frantically angling for a White House Starr pulled a switch on the usual celebrity divorce settlement demands. She vows she doesn't want, a "cent of George Mellen's property or, he's wealthy. She just wants her freedom. Erroll Garner and his booking agent, Joe Glaser, have come to a bitter Scott, who was divorced by Hollywood when he played in "Children of Darkness" at the Circle In The Square, will make his screen debut in the next Gary Cooper picture, "The Hanging Tree." Zara, the voluptuous Greek dancer in the Chateau Madrid revue, has all the other girls jealous with tales of her admirer, George as "a shipping showers her with diamonds and may be apocryphal, but Tennessee Williams' chums quote him as saying he stopped going to his psychiatrist because "he asked me too many personal questions." Get out the aspirin.

The newest Tin Pan Alley ditty is titled "Nee Nee Na Na Na Nu Maxwell, a 16-year-old Brooklyn high school student, who looks rather more like a sexy French actress, was spotted by director Vincent Minelli and flown to the West Coast to test for the role of Frank Sinatra's daughter in "Some Came Running." There's been an astonishing response along Broadway to "Co- Star," the series of party game albums that enable any amateur to play dramatic scenes with such giant stars as Tallulah Bankhead and Basil Rathbone. Two Main Stem disc stores disposed of more than 1,000 copies in one day. (Copyright, in.18, King Features Syndicate, Inc.) AUNT HET I wonder women always feel just suspect a trap. I never saw one that cikln't dodge when her husband asked her a plain ques- EDGAR A. GUEST The Poet of the People SONG OF THE OPTIMIST I may not win the prize today.

The chances are I won't, I know, But I'll keep plodding on my way; There's quite a distance yet to go. But I'm not going to cease to smile; I'll get there in a little while. Perhaps I got the worst of it. I'll try to think I didn't, though; For I'm not ready to admit The world's not giving me a show. I'll set my teeth and bravely grin; It isn't yet my time to win.

These burdens that I have to bear Seem needless, but perhaps they're not; They're lighter, too, than those, I swear, That fall to other people's lot. And I can look about and see Worse things that might have happened me. I'm not the one to say: "Dear Lord, Please hurry up today and send Some pleasures from your bounteous hoard And let my worries quickly end." I am content to go my way; I'll get my share of joy some day. Protected by George Mathews Adams Service) Chinese storekeepers have complete control over the native economic life of Madagascar, the French-owned island off the east coast of Africa. Cloves are the principal crop of Madagascar and the Chinese storekeepers barter food products and other necessities for the clove harvest.

French exporters are forced to buy from the Chinese. They'll Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo NO RICH OR. POOR, 8I6SHOT OK JUST R-4IN JOHN PUBLIC'" 1 TREAT 'EM 4LL 4LIKE DON'T CARE WHO THEV ARE OR WHO TVIEV IF THEV BRE4K THE L4W, SLAP 'EM TO THE LINE- LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEV THAT'S WHAT G4PT. COLLAR TELLS HIS MEN "See Pennsylvania First" Vacation Taken by Writer WrtUT A 6uT WHEM HE GETS PULLED OVER OH 4 JAUNT OUT OF TH4NX4N04T1POF THE HATLO HAT fOjiMTOLLEV, 1945 3O. WICHITA II, KANSAS THE SQUIRREL CAGE "Stomp 11 for a Wispy Wash It now appears that the old- fashioned way of doing in the brook or on the river bank, with sticks and stones and magic a good deal more effective than we've been led to believe.

To be sure, it resulted in a lot of "tattle-gray" but when every woman's laundry was gray, who There was a bonus, too. The stooping, the bending, the fetching and the carrying, the stamping on the laundry with her bare feet kept a woman supple and thin, and it gave her an enormous sense of achievement, like slaying a dragon. It also provided, her with an outlet for hostility and the days her family annoyed her the most, she beat the laundry the hardest. It provided her, too, with a regular opportunity, once or twice a week, to cut up touches with her neighbors. The brook was the place for woman-talk.

The Cleanliness Bureau of the Association of American Soap and Glycerine Producers, a little old group of soap and detergent- makers, is now proposing that the woman who has everything and is bored with everything try "stomping" her laundry the family bathtub. She should turn on the water, toss in the soap, take off her shoes and stockings and get aboard. Perhaps she should sing some spirited marching song as she goose-steps back and forth. "This approximates washing- machine action by setting up suction which forces soap or detergent suds through the fabric, loosening dirt," the bureau says. We have recommended this to Green Eyes but she doesn't seem much interested.

All she said was "Oh, you," which was no answer at all. In the blackless dress, which is becoming increasingly more the fashion, the soap and detergent people see a means of selling more of their product. "Get yourself in shape to turn your back upon the man in your life, and let him enjoy the view," they are urging, and it makes sense. Then they go on, to say that "a nice, well-scrubbed back with a clear skin and a healthy glow is soothing scenery. The way to have a good-looking back is simply to scrub soapsuds and a long-handled back brush.

Daily scrubbing helps to make and keep the skin soft and smooth." Here suddenly we aire confronted by a whole new concept of skin care. Scrub your skin to keep it soft. Get down on your hands and knees and scrub your back as often as you scrub the kitchen floor. If you can't reach your back with a longhandled brush, call in your husband and have him scrub it for you. So far, so good.

But what of the girl who hopes to attract a husband by having a well-scrubbed back but who hasn't yet acquired a husband she can call in to scrub it for her? The fashion specialists at Washington State College are advising girl students that the ascending hemline, up, up, to the knee and beyond, will inevitably separate the girls from the women. The women will rebel and have nothing to do with it. As it is now, says Miss Marjorie Lusk, a member of the faculty, the average off a full inch of her pres- sent too-short dress just tugging it into place when she sits down." The adult woman's legs, sihe says and if a man said it he would be considered are just not pretty enough to be displayed from above the knee downward. The way she put it is: "Their legs are not whistle-bait." What kind of talk is this? In ancient times almost every voman you met possessed a witch's magic powers and was thirsting to turn some inoffensive man into a barking dog, a flower- ng quince or a salami sandwich on date-nut bread. Primitive man soon recognized this fact, we are told by H.

R. Hayes in his book, 'From Ape to Angel," and began to set up defenses. He soon discovered that a woman was powerless, for instance, work magic against her hus- sand, at least, if she were required always to wear something that jelonged -to him. So, according to Hayes' account, he gave her a wedding our own modern exchange of wedding rings allegedly a survival of this early precaution. Freud had a lit- le different theory of the origin and significance of the wedding ring, but this is a family newspaper and we'll let it pass.

Anyway, after the first primi- man gave the first primitive tvife a wedding ring, his friends asked him how effective it was against her magic, and he replied: 'She ain't laid a glove on me yet" the word went out that the wedding ring was strong medicine, indeed, against woman- magic. For a long time, though, men and women ate separately. A husband might be magic-proof against his wife's baser self, but ic wasn't digestion-proof against her bad cooking. It wasn't until her cooking improved through the ages that he finally consented to let her stand and watch while he ate. It is a wonder that the wife- husband relationship ever progressed beyond that point.

Man had a pretty good thing there and didn't realize it. Maybe her magic wasn't entirely neutarilized by the wedding ring. There was enough magic left to get her a seat at the table eventually. Weed Control Dandelions, Plantain, Buckhorn, and other broadleaved weeds axe quickly destroyed by easy Spreader applications of 4-xo, Scotts dry form of famous A stroll with a Scotts Spreader automatically applies 4-xo, no mixing or measuring. Box Treats sq.

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CLASSIFIEDS BRING RESULTS Your Health From the Educational Committee the Board of Trustees of the Medical Society of Uie Stato of Penniyl- vanla to -which the Mercer Medical Society la a component. By LEONARD A. UNGEtt HARRISBURG on a short vacation tour of Pennsylvania Our family (wife, eight-year-old daughter, five-year-old son and your columnist) packed and unpacked the station wagon even before it left the garage. Little Susan had caught the 48-hour German measles. Repacked a few days later.

and off to Pittsburgh via the Pennsylvania Turnpike to the high- speed delight of son Mark. The children loved the idea of stopping at roadside tables for a picnic. Since the end of World War II the Turnpike Commission and Highways Department have put up hundreds of these picnic tables. Old Glory was being lowered at the Ft. Pitt blockhouse in Pittsburgh when we left that site of important battles in the French- Indian wars of colonial America.

Thanks to the Allegheny County Historical Society, the blockhouse and surroundings were shiny and attractive. bright, The first governor of Pennsylvania was Dr. Thomas Lloyd, a physician educated at Oxford, England, who came to America with William Penn in 1682. Many positions of honor and trust in the world of politics and statesmanship have been held by doctors. The pioneer history of America includes the names of physicians who have had the distinction of being firsts in various aspects of public service.

Dr. John Winthrop, was the first governor of Connecticut. Dr. Charles Robinson was the first governor of Kansas. Dr.

William Wyatt Bibb was Alabama's first governor. Dr. Joshua Clayton, who had one term in the U.S. Senate at the end of the 18th century, was Delaware's first governor. Dr.

Edward Tiffin was the first governor of Ohio, following which he went to Washington as a U.S. senator. Dr. Arthur St. Clair, who was the first governor of the Northwest Territory, had previously been one of the first physicians to practice in Western Pennsylvania.

Dr. Thomas Wynne, who accam- panied William Penn on the latter's first voyage to America, was chosen preside'nnt of the first pro- cincial assembly of Pennsylvania. Dr. Benjamin Rush of Pennsylvania, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and the most famous physician and medical teacher of his time, was the first secretary of the Abolition Party organized in 1775. Another signer of the Declaration of Independence, Dr.

William Shippen of Pennsylvania, was a member of the Continental Congress, and was one of the founders of the College of Philadelphia, new the University of Pennsylvania, and of the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University. On July 4, 1778, Dr. David Ramsey, physician, delivered the first Independence Day oration ever given. These were skilled medical men who also served their country patriotically. Do You Know? Twenty years ago, only 45 per cent of babies were born in hospitals, while today 95 per cent of deliveries take place in hospitals.

Swinging north on Route 8 in western Pennsylvania, the highway turned out to be a driving nightmare. The road was mass of potholes and crumbling concrete, particularly in Butler County. Repairs were under way on this highway, the only really bad stretch we found on the 1,135. mile tour. Peninsula State Park at Eric, the closest thing to a seashore in Pennsylvania, bore grim evidence of erosion.

Concrete highways suddenly dropped off into Lake Erie where waves had washed away sub-surface support. Reconstruction is under way. Across scenic U. S. 6 in northern Pennsylvania and to thoughts of why nearby communities like Warren, Kane, Bradford, Smethport, Coudersport and Wellsboro would have wanted that highway converted into the Keystone Shortway.

The Grand Canyon near Wellsboro was breath-taking. Wellsboro, primed for its annual Laurel Festival, was bare of blossoms on its hillsides. The only laurel we saw was in vases in the lovely dining room at the Penn- Wells Hotel in Wellsboro. But to the south, in the Williamsport-Jersey Shore area, the official state flower was in full bloom on Route 84. No swimming at all on the trip.

Too cold. But the family enjoyed its "see Pennsylvania first" vacation. From Our Files 20 Years Ago Council gave its OK to the erection of a new Greenville municipal building to cost an estimated A picnic for couples married by Rev. C. E.

Schweikert during his residence here was held at St. John's Lutheran Church. Earl Wagner elected president of the group. 30 Years Ago Miss Ruth Bates left for N. to enter the graduate school of Cornell University in preparation for her master of arts degree.

Miss Katharine Harris, of Salem, is the guest of MIFH Florence Fay, Jamestown Road. Walter E. Beer, New York City, was the guest of F. Wells Fay. 50 Years Ago R.

Roscoe Simons, Clarks Mills, spoke on the subject of "The New Era" at the commencement day exercises at Fredonia Institute. Other speakers included Helen Maxwell, Florence McDowell. Edna Page, Elizabeth Davis, John Hawthorne, Paul Baer. H. A.

Lewis, D. R. and B. E. Connors had returned from Hazleton, in the hard coal country.

where they had been installing electrical machinery. 70 Years Ago R. S. Johnston, vice president of the First National Bank, was again at his post, looking better as a result of his trip to his Wyoming ranch. Miss Mamie Wheeler, who As if to offset the effects of a a warming up cold war, this June was one of the coolest on record in many parts of the U.

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