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all department Circulation, etc mi IMPORTANT I mmJ 8 VOLUME 102, NUMBER The. neurotic anxieties of a worrying world so far haven't taken hold of Mitchum, remains as retaxed as an elephant in a field of hay. TIME TO SIT" "I'm probably afraid of everything," he said, "but so far 1 haven't found time to sit down and discover it The only thing I'm afraid of is" he yawned "that I'm not getting enough sleep. "Do I exercise to keep' fit? Sure. I try to breathe regularly." But no one can say the guy isn't responsible in his own way.

He's had the same wife for near 17 years. He's buying annuities for his three -children. "I think every kid ought to be taught in kindergarten," he said, "that it's impossible to please everybody in this world. "Your first duty is to please, yourself and those close to you and if you have any time left, then you can try to please the others." Helping and Hindering By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK, March 15 tf Bob Mitchum has an unusual ambition for an actor. He doesn't want to play Hamlet.

He doesn't yearn to be a director or a producer. He doesn't pine to have the world of television at his feet Hej simply wants to be the laziest man on earth if vou take what Hal Boyle he says seriously, which might be a mistake. "I just hang around the house until I go broke," he said, "and then I go to work. a dismal thought so early in the morning. (It was 11:30 a.

Life always looks better in the cool of the eve-'ning. "The role Pd really like to pl-'y is a tax-exempt one in which I merely phoned the studio and' didn't have to show up on the set at all." RESTING UP Robust Robert is resting up after completing a Twentieth Century-Fox ilnv "Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison," in which he plays a marine stranded behind Japanese lines with a nun (Deborah Kerr). Despite his pretense of laziness, Mitchum has played in 111 pictures, in 15 years, including eight Hopalong Cassidy epics. Befo-e that he had been an amateur a professional fighter, a writer, -and an aircraft factory worker.

He said the aircraft job left him with an allergy to metal, and the Hopalong Cassidy films an allergy to horses. only way they can get me back on a horse now is at gun point," he said. Mitchum, who has been called "The Unspoiled Savage" and who has never let Holly wood go either to his head or" his says this is why; he went into the i movies: "I don't lilra rtpnnla taII. ing me, 'Do this lfcf or This is the only busi-i ness I've found .3 where you can get by with my attitude. You can remain an individual in the movies but the price sometimes seems high." Stan Delaplane'a IPS ttmK)t Tnr ritip mmmmm iisn lie Nellie Revell Keeps Chin Up Despite Long Run of Bad Luck A subcommittee of the bouse un-American activities committee was told this week that United States taxpayers are paying part of the bill for postal distribution of tons of Communist propaganda material in this country.

The house groHp also heard, testimony that the taxpayers are bearing part of the cost of trans-shipping Red publicity material to South America. Seventeen unopened sacks of mail from Soviet-bloc nations were piled in front of the subcommittee as it heard the testimony. None of the sacks contained first-class mail The deputy collector of customs in the port of New York testified that the huge volume of Communist propaganda was directed to "every college in the-United States and student organizations," nationality and foreign language groups and foreign language newspapers. American taxpayers know Extra Travel Some Americans are likely to glow with satisfaction over the news that Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia warmly welcomed Vice Pres. Richard M.

Nixon at his im perial palace after an esti- mated Ethiopians cheered the U. S. official's arrival What with attacks by the Communists, criticism from some of the neutrals and oc-, casional rebukes from some of this country's allies, it is natural for Americans to be -gratified by such expres-'. sions of affection as Mr. Nix- on has received in Ethiopia and other places he has visited during his good-will trip.

Such expressions must be satisfying to the vice president personally because he doesn't always do as well among some of his own countrymen, including a few of his fellow Republicans. The satisfaction in this country over Ethiopia's welcome to the traveling vice i POSTCARD Ike Indicates Great Restraint In Conferences By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON, March 15' UB After 104 presidential news conferences, Pres. Eisenhower who was awkward and stum bling in his early meeting with the press, has developed ease, speed and sureness. He still long-winded. He still manages to scramble his sentences at times.

He still goes in for pious platitudes and ringing generalities that come close to banality. But in the perilous quick sands of these conferences he has done an job of staying clear of careless or im pulsive answers that would embarrass him or the government or cause needless trouble. ONE QUALITY SHOWS The one quality which has shone through all his conferences is restraint in talking of people, problems or events. This restraint may turn out to have been his greatest contribution to the presidency and history. These conferences have giv en mm a priceless chance to create in the minds of the people an impression of him as reasonable, patient, decent man of goodwill.

And, judging from his great popularity, he has succeeded. Through all his conferences he has so consistently followed three policies that they look less like a state of mind than the result of deliberate deci sions made before he ever held his first White House news con ference Feb. 17, 1953. These three policies are: he almost never "No comment" to a question; he has carefully refrained from personal attacks on others; and he never acts like a boss. Presidents Roosevelt and Truman used the "no comment" device to brush aside what they wouldn't or couldn't answer.

Not Eisenhower. He persists in giving answers even when his pnly answer is that he has none. RAMBLING ANSWERS Often, even when he gets wound up, his answers aren't really answers. Many times, because of this rambling which often gives the appearance of avoiding a direct answer, he'd be just as enlightening by saying "No comment." By steenng clear of person al attacks on others, Eisenhower has given his foes and critics a minimum of excuse for attacking him. This has the added effect of saving the pres idency from mudslinging.

The results he gets from fol lowing this course meaning- his amazing continued popular-ity-r-would indicate he's a far better politician, although not necessarily, a better president. than Truman. He has been president through treacherous times abroad and a period of national sickness over Communism at home. A news conference is full of jeopary for a president who gets overheated and shoots from the hip. Never has Eisenhower slipped into using an inflammatory, defiant, domineering or careless word that could cause a crisis abroad or a tempest at home.

This is a tribute to his restraint and his high sense of responsibility. it was particularly useful right after he became presi dent when the country was sick in its division over the menace, or alleged menace, of Communism at home. He led. the country out of that morass by patience and reasonableness. McCarthy fades 1 There are those who criticize him for not having taken an open stand against Sen.

McCarthy (R-Wis), then the No, 1 Red-hunter. But his admirers can point out that McCarthy and McCarthyism have faded into the background. At his conferences his very restraint gives him the appearance of a man who believes that if people are allowed to cool off they will, and that time is a marvelous healer of open wounds. Lansing Yesterdays ONE YEAR AGO Thursday A Michigan State student was injured when he was knocked from his bicycle and dragged for 100 feet under an automobile Contributions totaling $7,172 have been received from Ingham county residents so far in the Easter Seal campaign George Thornton, East Lansing attorney and. director of the 1956 March, of Dimes, was elected chairman of the Ingham county chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paral ysis.

10 YEARS Saturday Liquor was sold acrqss the bar to the public here for the first time in 31 years Eastern high school debaters won the right to compete in state finals by defeating Ann Arbor high school in a semi-final debate A city gasoline station at 1901 S. Lo gan st. was robbed of $344. 25 YEARS AGO- Tuesday Rev. Robert Owen Thomas, pastor of the First Presbyterian church was named chairman of the Ingham county chaptes of the American Red Cross A 10 percent reduction in the salaries of Lansing public school teachers, librarians, office employes, jan itors and other employes of the board of education was ordered An agreement whereby the Ingham County Medical so ciety will be reimbursed by the city for services in behalf of in digent persons was reached.

State Journal. 120 K. Lenawee at-1 natter at tbe port of Ilea, Lamina. In ealllna aak lor desired 321 FRIDAY, MARCH 15,. 1957 their government is spending a lot of money for military defenses and foreign aid to defend freedom against the Communist threat, but it is likely to come as a shock to many of them to hear that, through subsidy for certain classes of mail, they also are helping the Reds pay the cost of distributing their propaganda in this country.

It doesn't make sense to burden the taxpayer with the expense of winning the struggle with Communism and at the same time require him to pay to support the Communists' efforts to win. If the government continues to permit the Reds to distribute their propaganda in the United States the least that should be done is to require the Communists to pay the whole cost of distribution. It's a pretty safe bet that the Communists aren't as cooperative in distribution of the American side oc the argument on their side of the Iron Curtain. Expenses president, may be tempered 'somewhat, however, by the report that Mrv Nixon ar-, ranged to begin talks with Ethiopian leaders on the subject of American military and economic aid. The taxpayers may not be- grudge the money being used for the vice president's travels, because of a feeling that it will be a good investment in global good-will, but they might feel -better if there were assurance that Mr.

Nixon will not return to Washington with a suitcase full of new applications for American aid. There is some comfort, however, in the fact that the -talks on the possibility of American aid for Ethiopia were requested by the emperor and not suggested by Mr. Nixon. This may counter to some extent the claims of opponents of foreign aid that the government is too zealous in looking for new foreign places to ship American tax dollars. is to prevent war, not merely to build-shelters for part of the population.

Costs of preventing war are necessarily high. They include building and maintaining military defenses strong enough to deter potential aggressors and helping to strengthen the military and economic resources of the free world. The American people don't like high taxes but they prefer them to the prospects of nuclear war. They fervently hope that huge investments in defense pay off in dividends of peace eveta though they know that what- 'ever the White House decides about the defense shelter they will have no place to hide from the tax collector. money back their hosts can tell them that the monster is in the lake but that they came too late to witness its public appearance and that they should come earlier and stay longer next year.

A new system of photog raphy uses warmth to develop images. The first time on record that "heat" helped clear the picture. In winter it is sometimes hard to believe that the heat of the sun is an estimated 9,000 degrees Fahrenheit What's in a Name? How Michigan Area Were Christened By TED FOSTER Alder Point. Houghton town' ship, Houghton county. Located in Portage lake the name was used by the white man in place of the Ojibway Indian name Nedopikan which means "Vxq point where there is an alder No, "a wadop jorest.

no, a wadop, No Place to Hide Williams of Michigan, Sen. Joseph Clark of Pennsylvania and Gov. Edmund Muskie of Maine. She added that there were "many more eligibles, but she did not name them. Her omission of Kennedy is regarded as surprising, for the 40-year-old Bay Stater is one of the most discussed, promising and refreshing men on Capitol Hill, according to his colleagues.

He barelx missed out on the vice presi dential nomination last (year, which was a lucky break for him. -V SENATOR KENNEDY RATED AS LIBERAL rpHE convention support of so many southern delegates seems to negate, the suspicion that his religion is an insuperable handicap. Moreover, it It believed that the bigotry which so disgraced the Hoover-Smith clash in 1928 has burned out. Kennedy suffers none of the collateral liabilities that hurt "Al" even among those who recognized the New Yorker's administrative and executive talents a Tammany back ground, a brown derby, a premature demand for prohibition repeal, and an affected rather than a natural east side accent. A World War n.

hero, Kennedy is the son of a distin guished and wealthy Boston- ian, former Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy. The Massachusetts senator is rated as a liberal, but no radi cal. In his recent Life article. although severely critical of his party, he advocated no basic principles that would of-f economic conservatives of either party.

Although he assailed what he regards as a lack of firm administration policy in the middle east, he voted for the Eisenhower doctrine, which the business and financial interests in his area support BAY STATER'S COLLEAGUES RECOGNIZED HIS ABILITY ITENNEDY might appeal to 1 1 1 i me elements pi me eiect torate which the Democrats must recapture namely the mass urban vote. Although city folk have shown a Democratic trend in local and state elections, they plumped for Ike in 1952 and 1956, and the White House is making every effort to hold them for Nixon or some other nominee in 1960. Kennedy's colleagues recognized his ability when they, named him chairman of a committee to select and honor our five greatest senators. He was a "natural" because of his historical research for his best-selling volume, "Profiles in Courage." Senator Johnson has gained stature and friends from the balanced leadership he has given senate Democrats, especially in view of the politico-economic differences between the Morse-Humphrey and the Byrd-Russell factions. Indeed, largely inspired by Eleanor's guesses, there quiet talk of a Johnson-Kennedy ticket, or a Kennedy-Johnson slate.

A Texas -Massachusetts combination assuredly would have a comprehensive appeal, with the further note of novelty. (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Questions, And Answers What animal' receives the most notice in the Bible? A The sheep. It 'played an important part in th religious, civil and domestic life of the ancient Hebrews. a a How many of the South American countries he wholly north of the equator? AVenezuela is the only one. Who participated in the historic dsel on Weehawken Heights, N.

on July 11, 1804? A Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton was killed. a a What is the origin of the expression "go whole hog?" A This expression is traceable to English money. A shilling is sometimes referred to as a hog. Thus one willing to spend a whole shilling is willing to "go whole hog." a a 0.

Did the phrase "government of the people, by the people and for the people" originate with Abraham Lincoln? A The phrase was immortalized in the Gettysburg Address but Lincoln did not originate it It was a restatement of a' phrase used earlier by Daniel Webster. de Villa. Ay, Chihuahua! That Luz Corral!" Luz Corral de Villa1 corraled the elegant Villa hotise in Chi-; huahua. She has turned it into a little Villa museum. And hopes to make a small hotel out of the room where Villa's bodyguard, the 200 Dorados' lived in chili-con-carne splendor.

The Greyhound tours stop at Luz Corral's house for a sightseeing tour. The plusb Italian-decorated dining room. The statues. The pictures of Villa at Zacatecas. At Durangc.

At Mexico City. The saber from Oaxaca with the blade inscription: "Cuando este Vibora pica No hay remedio in la botica." "When this viper bites There is no remedy in the drugstore." i a a Up1 jn Mexico City, there was talk about naming a street for Villa. But like the statue, they, finally settled by naming it "Gran Division del Norte." "It is like this," said Mr. Olea. "Suppose your bandit John Dillinger raided Mexico.

Then later he became a famous general. Now we say to you, 'You must pay us thousands of But you say, 'Oh, jm. He was a bandit' "So if you put up a statue, we say to ycu, "You do not put up statues to bandits, no? Now you must pay us the said Mr. Olea, "you say to us, That is not statue of John Dillinger. It is statue of the.

First V' "You would not want us to pay for a statue of a division, -would you?" "Certainly not," I said. "Instead," said Mr. Olea, "let me buy you a drink." "I will, said. The U. S.

may now consider the Columbus incident closed. I made a separate -(Pitt, by McNaught Inc.) By Hank Kttcham Doctor! HE rweds to relaxl" By BOB CONSIDINE NEW YORK, March 15 (INS). Took some posies to a girl friend of mine named Nellie Revell at her place in the Hotel Flanders in New York's theatrical district, on her birthday the other day, and found her in such good shape that if she felt any better it might be declared illegal. "I remember one day in the 1920s when I was laid up with my broken back," the wonderful old doll recalled, I woke up to see a whole roonv ful of chiropractors. 'You look like a bunch of craps shooters to I said to them.

Not one of those squares got it: you know, they played around with bones so naturally should know something about dice. "Well, anyway," she said, sitting in a flower-filled room on a street in which she has worked and dwelt for better than half a century, "the croakers agreed that I'd never walk again. How wrong can people be? I walked down the aisle Three Minutes A Day BY JAMES KELLER HE BURNT DOWN THE SCHOOL A 12-year-old boy in Ontario, Canada, made' three attempts to burn down his school recently. The reason he gave the police was that he wanted to "get a fresh'start in his wdrk." He said he had fallen so far behind he had given up hope of evej catching up. As this youngster showed no concern for the rights of other boys-and girls who wanted their school building left intact, so do most of us fail when we try to solve our own problems at the expense of others.

We can become scrupulously conscious of our own rights, and yet often blandly overlook our responsibilities to others. We may not go so far as to "burn down a school" to Settle our difficulties. But even before taking any steps we should show due regard for the rights of others. It often takes a little more time and patience to follow the normal, legitimate processes of God's law and order. But in doing so you will accomplish more than by "burning down a school" or resorting to similar extremes.

Jesus Christ Himself gave us a sound standard: 'As -you would that men should do-to you, do you also to them 'in manner." (Luke 6:31. a a Grant, 6 Holy Spirit, that I may learn how tt make haste slowly. (Released, Trie Bell Inc.) to all their funerals. A dozen of them. READ HIS OBIT "Then there was the doctor who took the cataracts off my a couple years ago.

It was' a rough time, including the hemorrhages. he said one day, his face down to here, I'm afraid you'll never see Imagine that! I said, 'Doc, I'll read your obit in the and darn if I didn't, two weeks later. My wonderful present doctor is very discreet Never makes any predictions." Nellie Revell wrote for the Morning Telegraph, was a theatrical publicity woman for many years, ghosted excellent political speeches for at least one late golden voiced New York statesman, had a 10-year hitch on radio that people at N. B. C.

still hear about She could go back to work in any of those fields tomorrow if it would not involve her moving about Yet as a girl she attended the funeral of Mrs. Abe Lincoln. REALLY WRITES When Nellie writes a letter, you read it. One she wrote, in the wake of an experience she had at her district registration center last fall, had G. O.

P. National Chairman Len Hall jumping. Seems that Nellie was assisted into the registration room, found no suitable place to sit, then was grilled about her age. "Just say I'm old enough," she said, and when the lady behind the desk crossly cross-examined her on that and her marital status Nellie bristled and said, "I no-' tice you didn't ask that Demo-, crat ahead of me how old he was or whether he's married. I know all the 'vive la difference' bit, but we come in here equal at voting time." Nellie arranged for an absentee ballot, because she was due to be in a hospital for a check-up on election day.

She duly made it out, only to learn later that she had been directed to the wrong table in the registration barn, and the vote that cost her so much physical effort and pain was not only null but yoid. So she sat down and sent a little note to Len hall. It must have been a beauty because a day- or two later there was a call on the house phone saying that Mrs. Some-body-or-other, a lady Republican, was downstairs and wanted to come up to explain. She may still be in the lobby.

As I left the Flanders a sightseeing bus was disgorging a group of visitors who were plainly startled by the bustle and noise of 47th st They would be' almost certain to say, upon reaching home, "New York's an interesting place to visit but I wouldn't live there for a millon dollars. People are so cold." Eleven stories up over them, Nellie sat with her flowers, her birthday cards, her radio (TV jumps around too much, and, besides, why miss "One Man's her trunks and clippings and her memories and she could have so easily have talked them out of their estimate. Across the street from her is a hotel where she lived and had wonderful times 50 years ago. The night bellhop in her own hotel had brought Iter yellow tulips for her birthday. The Chinese laundryman on the block sent his best The nice fellow from the Steuben Tavern down the street had called to say, off-handed, "Nellie, if you were in here tonight what would you -order?" and in short order the meal was there, piping hot, with a birthday cake.

to boot That's Nellie Revell's New York. Thoughts And be withdrew himself Into the wilderness, and prayed. Luke 5:16. Val Peterson, civil defense administrator, has recommended to the White House a 32-billion-dollar program of building shelters against atomic attacks. Mr.

Peterson said he', doesn't know what the White House will decide but that he doesn't believe the shelter program should be oversold as an absolute answer to atomic attack. "In a thermonuclear war there are no means of saving all of the people, "the civil defense official warned. "It simply can't be done. We are going to lose millions of people if we have a war." The same point has been made many times in the past It is that the best against atomic attack Night in Chihuahua The Greyhound guided tours of Mexico stop in Chihuahua at the Hotel Palacio Hilton. A lesser jewel in Conrad Hilton's elegant chain but enhanced by Miguel A.

Olea, the intelligent manager. I joined him and several of his friends aft- dinner. I was curious about the great statue of Pancho Villa on horseback that stands at the entrance of town. "But you see," said Mr. Olea, "it is not called Pancho Villa.

The statue is called 'Gran Division del Norte' the name of his army. "The reason is this: the Americans still claim reparations for Villa's raid on Columbus, N. M. Now, when they said this, the Mexican government replied: 'How can we make official payments for something done by a "So no, Villa is a national hero in one way. But if we admit this by putting up his statue, maybe we would have to pay for the raid, no?" "Is this true?" I asked.

"I think so, maybe," said Mr, Olea. a a a Chihuahua is the Villa country. In Chihuahua, he built a tomb that looks like a small church. But his body headless since the head was stolen lies under a cracked concrete slab in Hidalgo del Parral. This seems to be a matter of jurisdiction among several of the general's 10 wives and some 50 children.

There are quite a few widows of Villa. The nominal head of the family is Senor.t Austraberta Renteria Vda. Je Villa. "She gets along with all the other wives," said a Chihuahua taxi driver. "All but Luz Corral DENNIS THE MENACE "I don't need to relax, Helpful Monster The Loch Ness monster, which usually keeps but of sight until the tourists are due in Scotland, has put in an early appearance this year.

Five Scots, including a po- lice inspector, said they saw the mysterious beast enjoying the warm sun for six minutes Monday. They agreed the creature was vast and black and stirred up a great commotion on the lake. The fact that the monster's appearance was reported by a police inspector presumably a man of unassailable integrity and clarity of vision gives the story of the monster an official support that may prove a boon to the Loch Ness resort trade this year. By making an appearance before the tourists arrive the, monster co-operated in a way that may stimulate tourist interest in the lake where it is reputed to make its home. If visitors fail to see the reportedly huge beast this year and demand their PORTRAITS By Jaines J.

Metcalfe Coach JL7E IS the one who trains a team With faith and expectation That someday it uMl be among The best ones in the nation He drills and drives from day to day To bring, about perfection And boost morale, to give each boy The healthiest complexion His time is taken up with things Too numerous to mention Yet every player's problems get His personal attention And as he strives (o shape the skill That wins in competition We hopes and prays Iha he Kill gain His greatest recognition Not by the scores and victories Of physical collisions But building character in youth To make the right decisions. Cerrriafct. IS7. FieM Eaterrrhee. Imr.

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