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Fourteen THE LEAVENWOBTH TPIES, Thursday Evening, August 6,1953. i Real Problems Yet To Come Now for the Real Magic The Worry Clinic Helps Win Back Husband Among all free men there must be relief that the sounds of battle have stopped in Korea, that the end has come to the awful devastation of that peninsula, that there -will be no more bloodshed. Korea ought to be remembered in the history books as the place where Freedom took a stand at the very start against the aggressor and halted him. No one can argue with accuracy that the truce represents either surrender or appeasement. We repelled the Red invasion of South Korea, and then we, entered and held to the end a sizable part of North Korea.

That was a defeat for communism and a victory for America and the United Nations, albeit a modest one in the military sense. But neither this knowledge nor relief that the war is over can provide much solace for the difficult days which lie ahead. Except perhaps in India and certain portions of the British Labor Party, there are no optimists who imagine we shall now conclude with dispatch a Korean peace settlement and a broader agreement ending the Indo-China war and bringing fresh order to the whole Far East. Indeed, it is conceivable that the freeing of a million Red Chinese soldiers from Korean combat may mean the use of at least some of them in new adventures either against Indo- China or the Nationalist stronghold of Formosa. Short of that, all past evidence suggests the Communists will delay and delay and delay in settling the political issues that have to do with unification of Korea and establishment of broad Asiatic peace.

They are conscious that in Asia a divided Korea can be what a divided Germany and Austria have been in Europe, a focus of tensions that compels the west constantly to stay on guard militarily, to expend vast sums for defense and impose heavy burdens on its peoples. At the same time, the U. S. will be under great pressure both from Syng- man Rhee, South Korean president, and our UN allies to obtain a united Korea and a general Asiatic settlement. All our troubles with Rhee stem basically from his fear this goal never will be achieved.

And we are committed to join him in walking out of a political conference after 90 days if we become convinced the Reds are not dealing in good faith and talks have become futile. To keep this from happening, we may bend over backwards to find a basis for agreement with the Communists. The time to worry about appeasement is from now on. Likewise, Britain and some of our other UN allies will be pushing us hard to settle, very possibly on terms we do not believe wise or proper, questions such as admission of Red China to the UN. Almost certainly, relations among the western allies will be strained anew by the peace negotiations.

Yet, realistically, no deep observer of Red behavior believes any Korean settlement is possible which will unify the country and bring about withdrawal of all Red by some miracle the Kremlin sincerely wants a world-wide agreement of which Korea could be a part. And of this there is still no sign. The shooting and the destruction have ceased. But this precarious armistice opens the door to a whole host of new problems that are very likely greater than any the war itself has solved. Collected From Other Typewriters Fleet Fire Fighters The fire siren stuck out at Garden City the other day and wailed like a banshee with the stomach ache until the boys got it unglued.

Then, after the bedizzied and be- deafened populace felt a subsiding of that ringing in their ears, Stuart Aubrey came along in the Telegram and set down some sentiments regarding that dashing and redoubtable tribe of fire fighters, which we freely endorse. Here is what he wrote: "Fire fighters are probably my favorite people. They perform a dirty, dangerous job with a zest and selflessness that few professions engender. No city ever pays them enough for the job they do. All Quiet Again at Coffeyville Down at Coffeyville the natives were alarmed when a shower of white ashes mysteriously fell in their midst.

Lacking an immediate explanation some of the more timid feared the Dalton Boys were riding again, as they did back in the 1890's, to their own regret Or that the drouth had dried up Oklahoma's oil wells across the border and the high wind was scattering the residue. There was speculation about A- bombs, flying saucers exploding, and about every kind of gag the imaginative Coffey- villians could cook up. One visiting punster, who will never again dare poke his head across the border of the industrious city, What They Are Saying Mr. Mack was a father to me in many ways. After I left him, I was just another Simmons, voted into baseball's Hall of Fame, gives credit to Connie Mack.

We are living in a complex and explosive world which we cannot control with atomic power or buy with foreign aid. We must learn to live with it constructively, responsively, patiently. Chester Bowles, former U. S. ambassador to India.

"But they do seem to have one chronic blind spot. They are usually too darned anxious to get to the fire. Your defenses are down when you try to debate this with them, for they invariably answer: "Well, you want the blaze out, don't you?" And of course you do. "But I still wish they would take it a bit easier. Particularly in July.

It's worry enough wondering how serious a fire is without having the added question of whether one of our firemen will find himself rolling in the street on his way to the Dorado Times. suggested the possibility of Old Satan chucking a little brimstone around. The scalawag was headed for the Rio Grande at last reports. The mystery was easily solved. The visitation of mineralized ashes came from an explosion at the city dump.

Somebody had piled a truck load of magnesium filings too near a trash fire. The inevitable happened. So now the residents of a fine and rapidly growing city are back to normal, awaiting the next burst of excitement. Being so close to Oklahoma and the Cookson Hills, most anything can happen in Coffeyville. and usually Daily Capital.

I believe we should try to work with Britain in a military alliance in the east but not one in which they possess any Una) veto against our Robert A. Taft. I want to show them up North that if it I wanted, I can make O'Dwyer, ex-ambassador to Mexico, starts business there. THE DAILY TIMES 87 D. B.

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3ft Madison Avenue. Chicago office Vcrlk Jtiehifin SUNFLOWER STATE POLITICS 'Lizzie' Was School Dictator By A. L. SHULTZ TOPEKA The last really glamorous meteor across educational skies in Kansas vanished in the recent death of Lorraine Elizabeth Wooster. Generally, the press gave little heed to the passing of this maiden woman who was former state superintendent of public instruction.

In a brief four years she terrified more class room princesses than all of her predecessors combined. "Lizzie" Wooster, was her commonly accepted name among school officials, students and voters on foot. She was a female dragon hunter on a white charger, seeking destruction of every school ma'am who violated her code of moral ethics. From the standpoint of color, Lizzie Wooster rated a thousand feature stories. Few teachers of the present generation knew her.

Only the older crop of classroom prima donnas were conscious of the devastating fear that chilled members of the profession who felt her relentless lash on their backs. In two successive 1919 to was a female dictator and czarina. Her stringent requirements of morals were as rigid as any outlined since the days of witchcraft. She ruled the public schools of the state with an iron hand that would bend quickly under present public sentiment. Lizzie was a crusader and reformer who established standards in keeping with her own strict principles.

In spite of some very contradictory stories, she seemingly never thrilled to a genuine romance. She stood at classroom doors in defiance of short skirts and rolled stockings, and challenged teaching permits to classroom queens who dared use rouge and lipstick in public. All cigarette smoking teachers were warned that their licenses were in dispute if convincing evidence was produced. No lady, in Lizzie Wooster's book, lowered herself to the level of smoking cigarettes. That was a cardinal sin and a "lizzie" pet hate.

She loathed strong drink with a burning passion and lay in wait for opportunities to make horrible examples of teachers of either sex who were caught in the act of sipping anything from beer to 100 proof voltage. Peculiarly, Miss Wooster, who was a right capable publicist in her own right, did not seek to monopolize the field of prohibition. She.felt that area was covered by pioneers of the period of Carry Nation, Myra McHenry and Lillian Mitchner. Lizzie rated dance halls as breeding pens of iniquity. She was constantly on the trail of school ma'ams who did the tango and fox trot.

All forms of body movement set to music constituted an expression of immorality against which the state superintendent sought to enforce extreme discipline. Time and again she lectured to state house newsmen on the suggestive features of female dress, that invited vivid imaginations of the mystery of the human form. Personally she went vigorously in the direction of long, flowing skirts and high button shoes. She probably would suffer a stroke if she walked down Kansas Avenue in Topeka and beheld the present day mode of bare legs, wedgies and painted toe nails. Yet, with it all, Lizzie Wooster was more than a mere quaint character.

She was an intense Republican, a tireless worker for her party, and a persistent peddler of her own school text books. She once owned a Chicago publishing plant, and was a bitter personal and political enemy of Ella Burton in the school book market. On any scene of battle she was a fearless and spectacular fighter. In her heydey Lizzie Wooster was rated as a wealthy woman. There are reports that she lived in almost abject poverty during her later years.

Once she owned a rambling frame house overlooking the capital grounds in Topeka. Tragically, it was sold for taxes and Miss Wooster's personal effects removed to the front yard under an eviction order by the Shawnee county district court. She made one of her grand appearances on the political stage, in an effort to recover 55,000 from the GOP national committee. She claimed it was due her as expenses for winning Texas for the Hoover-Curtis ticket in 1928. For months she hounded the offices of Dave Mulvane, Charley Curtis and the national committee with her claim.

Proof of authority to tour southern states for the a trip which seemed to include intensive sales efforts for Miss Wooster's own text books, never was established. The claim was not approved. During her period in public life Lizzie Wooster was a subject of controversy in the political arena. She was uncompromising in support of her principles and theories. There was no middle ground for her enemies.

No one ever entered the office of state superintendent of public instruction with such a fantastic display of classroom codes and standards. It was a dull day at the state house when she did not issue some startling edict to trembling members of the teaching profession. IHE POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER Pleasing the Wife Pays Off By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK, Iffi All most husbands feel they get for trying to please their wives is and maybe a kind word. But the reward of Paul Charlap, a 28-year-old chemist, was fame and financial success. It was by trying to please his wife that Charlap developed Nylast, a chemical substance that increases the snag-resistance of nylon stockings and adds to their wearing quality.

The Charlap success saga is the kind of young-love-conquere- all story that Hollywood would reject as oo true to life to make a good movie. Back in 1949, while caring for their infant son, "Cookie" Charlap snagged her and complained to Paul: "If you know so much about chemistry, why can't you do something to make my hosiery last longer?" "Being as it's your wife, you don't ordinarily pay any attention to a remark like that." Paul recalled. "But that night she showed me that she was spending $4 to So a week for that kind of woke me up." Paul checked with the Du Pont Co. chemists and found they had a substance which helped protect nylon from snagging during the manufacturing process. "Why couldn't a housewife use it?" he asked.

He was told it was high a temperature was required, and the substance washed away in soap and water. But Chariap wasn't satisfied. He took some of the substance home, set up a laboratory in his basement. After 18 months in which he devoted every spare hour to the problem, Paul came up from the basement one day and said confidently: "I've got it!" He had developed a chemical solution that put a protective coating on stockings. But first the stockings had to be washed and then thoroughly rinsed twice.

Cookie found that was so much trouble that after a few weeks she quit using it. "You're just too lazy," Paul accused her. "Nope, (oo busy," she said. "Why don't you combine the chemical solution with soap? Then could wash my stockings and put the protective coating on them at the same time." Great idea. "The only trouble was that the basic ingredient and soap were oil and water," said Paul.

But he set out again to please his wife. He and Cookie tested more than 200 soaps, detergents and other cleaning agents in their basement laboratory before finding one that might work. "It took us a year to solve the problem," said Paul. Paul still thought of his product only as something to please his wife and her friends. Cookie had to prod him into taking it to a merchandising firm.

This firm lab tested it for six months, had 1,000 women try it put it on the market. The Charlaps are still dazed at what happened. Some of two million dollars worth of the Nylast solution was sold in the first few months. The firm expects it to mushroom into a 10 million a year business. The royalties assure Paul and Cookie of a fortune.

BY DR. GEORGE CRANE Case H-352: Flora 44, is aft attractive mother of three grown children. "Dr. Crane, my husband is so cool toward me," she protested. "We have three wonderful children who are now grown.

And while they were at home, I never noticed his indifference so much. "But during the past year or so, I find that we are having a platonic marriage. "He never seems interested in kissing me and seldom takes me anywhere on a date. So what can I do to revive more romance?" Flora's problem didn't develop just in the past year. For I know her husband personally.

It was 10 years ago that he first grew irritated at his wife's indifference. She was so wrapped up in their children that she forgot the salient fact that a man's ardor cannot be bottled up. So they quarreled repeatedly. Flora has conveniently forgotten that because she doesn't want to admit that she is largely to blame for this present platonic relationship. Her husband finally developed an affair with a girl in his office.

It is still continuing. He isn't cold or indifferent to his paramour, for she has responded to his love advances. Won't you wives please remember this law of medicine and psychology, namely: "A man's physiology must function or his love will not function." Prolonged abstinence does not build up greater love in a man. way. His ardor atrophies.

The sex hunger in males is much like the gastric hunger. If you starve a man too long for food, he will actually lose his appetite. His stomach will shrink and his From Files of The Times This Was the News gastric juices will be so diminished ed that his stomach no longer will demand food. Most of you readers have found that if you go too long past your proper meal time, then your appetite gets squeamish and you no longer have a desire for a full meal. The same situation exists in the realm of love.

You wives who short ration your mates in the 30's, mustn't expect your husbands to be romantic sweethearts in the 40's. The emotions need regular calisthenics. But the emotion of love is based on glandular action. And glands likewise demand regular functioning or they wither. Modem medicine now recognizes that physiological funtion underlies psychological desire.

A healthy stomach causes a voracious appetite for meat and potatoes. A withered and shrunken stomach will not generate a big appetite. Furthermore, a cow must be milked regularly and on schedule or her milk supply dwindles. And an erratic nursing schedule even reduces a human mother's breast supply of milk for her infant. I helped Flora win back her husband's love at this late date, but it would have been far better 10 years earlier.

Wives are naturally monogamous so they must feign extra ardor to keep their natually polygamous husbands fully satisfied. Remember, it is easier to hold your husband than to win him back again! (Alwayn write to Dr. Crane to care of The Hopkins Syndicate, Box 3210, Mellott Ind. Enclose a long, three cents stamped sell-addressed envelope and a dime to cover typing and printing costs when you ser.d for one of his psychological charts.) (Copyright by the HopHnl Syndicate tnc.) TEK YEARS AGO a claim to the title: "Leavenworth's Champion Tomato Grower" was made by Henry Glettig, 522 Columbia since his Victory Garden produced a two pound, four ounce Ponderosa tomato. The Glettig's had quite a few tomatoes, ranging in size from lYz pounds to this giant.

Sergeant Clarence J. Bauer of Leavenworth was one of six Air Corps members commended for their performance in carrying parachute troops to Sicily during the Allied invasion of that island. A railway company track maintenance crew was renewing the surface of the railroad tracks at the Seventh Street crossing. Motorists had been avoiding the crossing when possible because the condition of the pav.ement between the rails. The Leavenworth Lions purchased S154 in savings bonds and stamps at their regular noon luncheon.

Final arrangements were made to sponsor a dance, in conjunction with the USD. at the City Hall recreation room, and Marcus Sickel spoke briefly on the wartime activities of Colorado Springs, Colo. Hollywood Today Vera Vague Joins TV FORTT TEARS AGO East Atchison, was threatened with total devastation when two wholesale liquor firms were completely destroyed by fire and two others were damaged extensively. About 2,600 feet of hose was used to check the flames, being attached to a hydrant on the Kansas side and strung across the bridge. An entertainment was given for the pleasure of the ladies of the William Small Memorial Home when a Mrs.

Wyles, visiting in the city, gave a talk on manners and customs of the inhabitants of the Philippine Islands. Otto Rothenberger and Miss Leby and Miss Schalker gave a musical program consisting of piano, violin and vocal solos. Francis McAuliffe, Miss Mabel Short and Mrs. C. E.

Merchant returned from Rockport, where they had attended the funeral of a former Leavenworth resident. John Hassett was appointed general baggage checker at the Union Depot succeeding Charles Bristow. Denny Howard was made mail clerk to succeed Hassett. BY ERSKINE JOHNSON HOLLYWOOD (NEA) First it was Joan Davis who gave up being a man-chaser when TV came along and now it's Vera Vague. Vera's buried her famous shrill, crazy about the boys character for a quieter and funnier, she hopes, rib-tickler as the star of CBS' "Follow the Leader" and she's telling the world: "I'm happy for the first time in years with my career.

That loud character running after men wasn't me." Happily married, unfrustrated Vera is turning the burner way down on her comedy salesmanship for television, claiming: "The level or comedy on TV is 50 per cent more relaxed than in radio. You see comedians get out and kill themselves on television. You want to turn them off. It's the easy, casual performer who knows how to underplay who will last in television." AH four Zsa Zsa, and Mama on a panel show sounds interesting but dangerous. A 4-G production, I'm afraid, would keep the FCC spinning over zippy dialog and cleavage.

Hoagy Carmichael's summer replacement for "Your Show of Shows" fades in September, but NBC's shopping for ideas to keep him on the home screens during the winter. Carlson's the star of a new action adventure series for Ziv-TV. Dick plays the role of a counter-intelligence serviceman. Day finally got the green light to put all of his shows on film. Now that a TV salesman has made the grade as a movie actor with star prospects, you'd better look at the repair man more closely next time you call him to check your picture tubes! He may be the next Gregory Peck.

John Gifford, a darkly hancj- some newcomer who makes life miserable for Bella Dam and Richard Widmark in Fox's "Hell and High Water," owned TV stores in Washington, D. and once had 16 salesmen selling sets for him in North Carolina as "Big John, the Working Man's Friend." "But after five years," he told me, "the money didn't mean anything. I had gone into the TV appliance game when I couldn't land work on the stage. I sold lots of TV sets, but I wasn't happy. So I came out to Hollywood and landed in the movies." Chill Wills is saying "This may be it" in his best Francis-the- mule voice about a video series based on the paintings of famous western artist Charles Russell.

Barbs BY HAL COCHRAX You can't do much without some sort of backing, says a banker. Except make an evening dress. Are you broke or haven't you been on your vacation yet? A doctor advises people to take up bike riding to reduce. They're bound to fall off a bit. Women, according to statistics, are better auto drivers than men.

From which seat? The more credit you get for what you do. the less credit you need for what you buy. The way some people let their children run wild you'd think they had thousands of them. Every child will grasp at a straw you stick it in an ice cream soda. Maybe we need more early risers in this world of ours.

At least they have get-up! Grabbing for a meal check indicates how important a part you think money plays in friendship. As more and more new cars come out, more and more men are not only out, but in debt.