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TWELVE THE MORNING HERALD, HAGERSTOWN. MARYLAND WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1961 The Morning Herald Do You Want The whole seat?" IflttlMMlM 1171) Iwy tiaft tundiy SKtnd "ANKLIN 0. SCMUKZ, fR. WILLIAM PRESTON LANE, FRANKLIN D. SCHURl JR.

NULL BAYLOR JOSEPH HARP Anli! nil Pucitunr Ototrtl M4nagtf Eallor C. P. PSow Will Audit Buriw or Clmlilion l.71'"', iir ucml 'I" mcnlM Legislative Shenauigaiis THINK it would be a good idea for the Maryland Legislature to adjourn before this state is reduced to a political shambles. As reported in news stories, considerable alarm has been expressed over legislation to virtually strip our competent and bonded county treasurer of his responsibilities. The other would give the majority party authority lo make minority appointments.

Boih bills smell of politics of the worst order. Our Nation's Schools JN RECENT years every major report on U.S. school needs has urged the various states to consolidate their present 40.000 school districts into 10,000 larger, more workable systems. The National Goals Commission thinks this objective should be attained no later than 1970. Why is this regarded as so emincnily desirable? Education authorities agree that such a program will yield remarkable benefits, on the one hand to Hudents in the form of better schooling, on the other to teachers, schools administrators and taxpayers in tho form of more efficient, more economical school operation.

It is believed, too, that these benefits can be won regardless of the fate of the present federal aid to education bill or any similar measure. Ideally, the educators say, a school district should have no less than 2,000 students. But probably less than 5,000 districts meet that standard today, and from 20,000 to 25,000 are so small they average less than 50 students a district. Indeed, there are around 5,000 school systems in which no schools function at all. They amount to tax havens, since their school tax rates are naturally low.

Many states are gradually wiping them out. Says one specialist: "Such schools offer the bare bones of an educational program. In this skeletonized system, teachers must often teach out of their fields. The student is the loser." The big school system can offer superior technical facilities, attract qualified teachers at proper salaries, and give the student a full, rounded curriculum. A new study by Dr.

Lindsey Harmon, of the National Academy of Sciences, shows how real is the difference. He checked out the high school records of more than 6,200 successful candidates for doctor's degrees and found this: Large high schools are three times and six times more effective than small ones in producing successful bidders for high educational degrees. This is especially true in the critical field of the physical sciences. The old notion that the small school with few students held some special educational advantage appears ill-founded. The reverse seems to be true.

Down On The Farm He Should Have Been A Farmer By Ed Harris Washington Merry Go Round Catholic Clerical Press Attacks First Catholic President SOMETIMES I THINK the most marvelous invention of all time is the fireplace, especially down on the farm. True, there is something to be said for the invention of electric power and lights, the telephone, printing, radio and television, the wireless and the mechanical gadget that the center of half- grapefruits. But more than any of these, a crackling, a ing fireplace in a snow-clad i soolhes the soul as well as the body. In our old-fashioned frame country house here on Hidden Valley Farm there oricinally were seven fireplaces, i ing a large one in ihe spacious Kitchen. They were sufficient to heat the entire house half century ago, and the cost must have been negligible.

The logs were cut from the hundreds of acres of woods on the farm poplars, locusts, sycamores, black walnuts, oaks and many other trees Our farm hands still heal their tenant houses wilh this "free" wood, the whplc winler long, but the invention of the oil burner "enables" us to heat the entire main house at the staggering cost of $120 a month. Today we have five fireplaces--three In bedrooms, one in the living room (where we rarely spend any time) and one in the family room-dining room, where we spend most of our lime indoors. The only one we use regularly is the last one, Aflcr a hard'day outside (or even an hour or two in the ice and snow and whip- lashing wind), the dancing yellow flames of the fireplace fire, the hiss and crackle of burning wood go a long way to make a house a home. Vie do use the bedroom fireplace at times as a special (real, late at night when the lights are turned out. But we had a battle royal wilh chimney swifts before we could use it.

They had taken possession of the chimney top, and all night long we could heir them tearing in out, like fluttering helicopters, causlnc soot and cinders to fall in the fireplace. Smoke and fire from the fireplace didn't a them. It was necessary to climb up the high-peaked roof and fasten wire netting over the chimney top. This the irate dispossessed birds attacked with a vengeance at dusk, sweeping down like jet bombers. But the wire held, and we had peace at night.

The new occupants of the While House in Washington found that even it could be a home instead of merely a house, if they got the 'fireplaces going. For years the White Mouse fireplaces were not used Rut the new President and 'First Lady put chimney cleaners to work and soon had three lovely fireplaces burning brightly. At first this smoked lip the While House, but the trouble was fixed and now everything's fine. It Cvas that amazing genius. Benjamin Franklin, who first "enclosed" the open fireplace in 1742 "for the better warming of rooms and at the same time the saving of fuel, as tha fresh air admitted was warmed In entering," as he in his absorbing witty autobiography.

This, of course, was the famed Franklin Stove, which led lo the great stove manu- facluring boom in this coun- iry, as well as abroad. When Franklin was offered a palenl he turned it down. "I declined it," lie explain- cd, "from a principle which has ever weighed with me on such occasions, that as we enjoy great advantages from the invention of others, we should be glad of an oppor- lunily to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generous- I wish wonderful old Ben had been a farmer. Then some or our farm implements would be far more simple in design and utility. But I'll 8e lot the fireplace, WASHINGTON.

Behind President Kennedy's plea for reason in the discussion of federal aid for Catholic schools was a series of editorials in the Catholic press critical of his stand plus a move by the clergy to mobilize Catholic laymen all over the country to bombard their Congressmen against the Kennedy aid-to- education bill. Significantly only one leading Catholic paper, the Commonweal, has vigorously come lo the defense of the first Catholic president in monweal is edited by lay Catholics. It was the first Catholic publication, and for some i the only one, to criticize the late Sen. Joe McCarthy. In contrast, America, the Jesuit weekly, in an article by Father Charles M.

Whelan, charges that Kennedy's statement regarding the unconstitutionality of aid to Cattiblic schools was "erroneous, inopportune and unnecessary." "We could and did expect a silence respectful of the problem," said Father Whelan. "As President of the United Slates, he should avoid unnecessary pronouncements on delicate constitutional issues." Then the Jesuit weekly took this crack at the only Catholic in the Kennedy cabinet, brother Bobby: "Neither Mr. Kennedy nor his Attorney General enjoy the reputation of great constitutional lawyers," The Transcript of Harlford, was also caustic, "It is no part of the President's business to rule them (aid to parochial schools) out peremptorily," said the Transcript. "The President gave ample evidence here of unbecoming hasle in judgment and a dismaying lack of fairness." The Transcript then asked all readers to slarl a letter writing campaign lo their Congressmen. Our Sunday visilor, published in Huntington, but distributed nationally, featured an article by one of its editors, Father Richard Cinder, dissecting (he Kennedy posilion against aid lo Catholic schools.

Aside from a caustic swipe at Kennedy's "brains and beauty." Father (Under concentra- on (he issues rather than the President personally. Ktnrwdy's However, Commonweal, the Catholic newspaper not edited or dominated by the clergy, defended Kennedy and chidod the heirarchy. "The Roman Catholic heir- archy," it wrote, "has now added a religious problem lo Ihe administration's nid to education headache. The administration's program is, under present circumstances, as good as we can hope for. It is realistic, carefully wrought out and establishes valuable and significant precedents.

"Above all, Its measures to improve our educational system arc manifestly and urgently needed. Even so (he school hill will have lo face a punishing lihoral-conserva- livo-soiilhorn-sccular- religions cross fire. We hope lhal ils wounds will not prove 1 Bitttrmst In Pmrto Rico The other type of criticism which Kennedy had in mind when he appealed for "reason" was given by Sen. Hipolilo Marcano, Puerto Rican Son- alor-al-larpo. in testimony before the U.S.

Scnale Education Commitlecs. Sen. Marcano compared Ihe currcnl Catholic attempt to Influence legislation with tho attempt of blshopj to interfere in by Drew Pearson Puerto Rican politics last fall lo defeat Gov. Luis Jlunoz- Marin. "It started with a little bill to establish religious education for public school children through the released-time plan," testified Sen.

Marcano. "The bill was an attempt to circumvent the Constitutional a a of the people of Puerto Rico. In spite of ecclesiastical power we defeated the bill "Next the bishops went out and organized a political party --the Christian Action Party, to be used as a political weapon of the church to launch a frontal attack, not only to capture the public schools of Puerto Rico, but also to capture the government of Puerto Rico. The pulpit was turned into a political forum, the people were coerced and threatened with excommunication if they did not follow the political advice of the heirarchy. Fear and spiritual punishment was pumped into their minds, but they resisted firmly." Sen.

Marcano cited the bishops' pastoral letter telling the people it was a "sin" to vote for the popular Democratic Parly "The three bishops tried to acl as political leaders," Marcano said. "The bishops Iried lo deslroy the loyalty of the people to their political party and failed We faced this issue squarely. We sincerely hope you will share with us the benefits of ihis Democratic achievement." The bishops were nol foreigners, he said. Archbishop Davis was born in Philadelphia and Bishop McManus in Brooklyn. "Thise men were all educated in the Roman Catholic, institutions of higher learning in the United States.

They are blood brothers of your Roman Catholic bishops, the same who are warning you, in effect, that unless they get concessions for their church school system by loans or grants there will be no aid to the public schools either here or in Puerto Rico. "Bear in mind," continued the Senator from Puerto Rico, "that it was the Roman Catholic people of Puerto Rico in fjeat numbers who joined wilh non-Catholic Puerto Ricans to bring about this great victory. "What you are facing here is a tactical attack on the public school system of our nation by those who are not only vehement in their criticisms of our public schools, but who would substitute for them parochial schools supervised, tightly controlled and wholly owned by ecclesiastical authorities although financed with public funds. "They say there should be public taxation to support sectarian public schools in Ihe conlrol of which the people have no representation and over which the governmenl has no supervision or control but in which there is exclusive control by tbose who are tax- exempt. "In the first case there is taxation without representation and in the second case it is representation withoul taxation." This is some of Jhe educational-secular debate which President Kennedy wanls to avoid, but which appears to be getting more vehement.

Today's Talk The Mind by George Mattheie Adams Many a-rnan has risen from obscurity and walked his way lo fame and usefulness simply by Inking advantage of opportunities which others have passed by or spurned as unimportant. Many a man has grown rich from picking up what others have thrown away! The pick-up mind is the alert mind ready, willing, unafraid. II is built on Ihe selective plan. sees and lakes advantage of the seemingly unimportant and makes it serve the important. All things serve such a mind --nature, history, daily events, art, books, You who are so fortunate as to fall under the spell of such a mind, are immediately for it is bound lo draw from you much of the best that is wilhin you which, in turn, The To Your Good Health Once Over Heart Disease Can Have Many Symptoms by Dr.

Joseph Molner A Break At Last by H. I. PhMpt California has authorized a corporation to sell stock to horse players who think they would do better if they owned the "skinners." Corporation will buy, breed and run horses, and declares players will have a better chance than a( J2 windows, since they will be on the other side of them. Horse players will at least get a stock certificate, which is more a they can count on when they make a bet. Possible corporation report: Dear Stockholder: Your directors in this first semi- annupj report announce your investment broke fast, showed fine form for first quarter, but weakened at the half.

The corporation needs schooling and should stage upsets in next six months, possibly lowering six-month mark to five and Your officers are in fine shape. Onlv one is out with a bad knee. The report that your company treasurer has been bsj-red as a ringer is a false one. circulated by some rival company which said the company a i had been suspended for not trying. Predictions of a stock split were premature and a vice president's statement that the split would be 100 to 1 or better was due to his confusing facts with horse-track over- optimism.

Your corporation is interested in certain mergers for purposes of diversification and has negotiated with Federated Dog Tracks and Electric Rabbit Mfg. Corp. as well as with U. S. Jolting Company which controls all the signs reading "Disqualification." It is also interested in acquiring Universal Hot Dogs, Inc.

and Acme Crying Towels. You will please sign the in. closed proxy, marking "yes" on the proposition that corp. oration directors get an apprentice allowance, that they be permitted when necessary to convert nags into steeplechasers and that the disappearance of any member of the board be announced on a leie scratch list. spurs you on to the task of producing something belter.

The cycles of us all meet and cross. Our humanity The same sign posts which guided our famous forebears, in turn lead us on. The real, deep desire of us all is lo live! And to live, we must serve. Every day we must walk happily through Ihe splendors of promise. We must keep picking up.

But we must keep giving away so lhal our equipment may carry us far. Like the Irain which picks up its passengers only to deliver them at their destinations, we must have minds that load -only to unload, In other words, let us make of our minds useful carriers! Bread Of Life by Rev. A. Purnell Bailey I have a friend who feels that the grealest lesson England has a Ihe world was nol her magnificicnt sland during Ihe early days of World War II, but the manner in which her people girded themselves through a long period of denial after the war. For eight years the English people faced the self-denials of war time, but the winning of the war brought ihem little relief.

One did not hear a complaints as these democratic people imposed upon themselves Uia discipline of ration cards, gasoline and travel At the same time thai black markets were thriving in many European countries with more food and privilege available to their citizens, England was nol plagued with this wide-spread boil, By common consent from the King and noble lords down to the humblest worker on the land, it was agreed that all must go As the world watched, it learned again that greatness docs not come from plenty; it abides with those who learn to discipline themselves. Wt mutt through much trlb- "I 1 81 lnt Kingdom el Oed, (Acti "Dear Dr. Molner: Is a cough a symptom of heart brother died suddenly apparently from a heart allack. He never complained of being ill, but he had what he termed a clgarel cough. Would lying in front of a fan cause a heart attack? Please A cough can be, in some cases, a symptom of heart disease -but I think it's safe to say that in any such case, there will always bo some other symptom, too.

may be shortness of breath, sometimes heart pain (but far from always), edema (that is, accumulation of fluids, and hence puffy swelling of feet, legs or other parts of the body), perhaps blueness or faulty color in the skin oh, quite a number of things. Still other symptoms, which the patient can't see but the doctor with instruments can detect, will be present in chronic heart trouble. The cardiogram, the stethoscope, and sometimes other devices will show these. In some heart cases, "cardiac asthma occurs." This can bring a cough. In other heart cases, this docs not occur.

A cough can be the result of cigarct irritation, throat irria- tion, lung trouble, nervousness, allergy, common cold, flu, bad tonsils, and a lot of less familiar causes. AJ to "lying in front of a fan," this wouldn't cause a heart attack. In short and I guess this is what I really want to get across today you have to remember that "heart trouble" is a general term, just as "foot trouble" is general. The latter can be weak arches, athlete's fool, ingrown toenails, planater warts, bunions, cramps, swollen feel, corns or a broken toe. All "foot trouble." It can take ten years for a bunion to develop or more.

Or you can get a broken toe in a split second stumble. So with the heari. An attack may (although it rarely does) strike without any warning. Most of the time, however, the various kinds of heart trouble give warning in advance. If people will, at reasonable intervals, go to their doctors and tell them about any and all symptoms that have become genuinely noticeable since the last visit, they'll have at least a fair warning of what lo look out for, what troubles lo guard against.

You can't tell, positively, In advance, when a tire will go flat, or the vacuum cleaner will develop "sclerosis of the dirt- catcher," or an electric light bulb will burn out. The human body Is a lot more complicated than any of these. Health isn't something that stops all of a sudden, as a rule. Usually there's advance warning, and we should heed it. A cough isn't "a sign of heart disease." But a cough, lika a squeak In a car, is a sign of something.

So observe, and take care of, the small squeaks as they appear, and you'll be doing a fair and sensible job of protecting your heallh. Hunting for some simple sign afterward isn't of much use. "Dear Dr. Molner: What can be done lo obliterate tiny surface blood vessels of the nose? Nothing that I know of. "Dear Dr.

Molner: Is it harmful to wear a luminous dial watch?" S.S." No. I'm in favor of being smart enough lo keep a cautious eye on fallout from atomic explosions, just as I'm in favor of having traffic laws, vaccinating against dangerous diseases, testing cily water supplies and in general taking precautions against known dangers. But the radiation from a luminous watch is so small that you'd have to be older than Methuselah before the ra. (nation would even have any detectable effect, much less hurt you. In fact, if you lived so long, the luminous dial would wear out before you would.

So just keep wearing your walch and don't worry about it. Count your calories the easy way! To receive a copy of my pamphlet, "The Calorie Chart," write Dr. Molner in care of Tha Morning Herald, enclosing a long, self-addressed, stamped envelope and 5c in coin to cover handling. Dr. Molner welcomes all reader mail, but regrets that, due to the tremendous volume received daily, he is unable to answer individual letters.

Readers' questions are incorporated in his column whenever possible. Khrush says he will have a man on the moon soon. Let's hope il will be one who will keep his shoes on. Ike has been restored to his five-star general rank and why not? He not only did great in the war but for eight years staged a brave battle to beat the White House headaches. Every time Castro opens his mouth he puts his beard into it.

Frank O'Connor in his new book "An Only Child" may have a "Life With Mother" stage hit It's a whale of a story of life in a family that had major troubles which it survived largely through a noble mother, born in an orphanage and who had worked as a domestic Times have changed indeed when a J10 book can become a best seller, which is case of Bill Shirer's "Rise and Fall of Third Reich." It has sold 229,000 copies and will make the author rich in his sixties. Edward R. Murrow, new head of U.S. Information, is a Greenboro, N. C.

boy who made good in the cities. It is Wing to cost Uncle Sam plenty to keep him in ash a N. new police commissioner has set up a grievance commitlee so cops can air their complaints and get attention. When a policeman can't complain to a policeman, it's pretty tough. Do You Remember? 50 Ago --The West End Bod and Gun Club has been organized, with these officers: J.

W. Coughenour, president; J. W. Williams, vice-president; A. A.

Tymeson, secretary; and D. B. Sollenberger, treasurer. Harry E. Marlin has sold the cigar store on South Jonathan Street, which he recently purchased, to Joshua Thomas, who will continue the business.

C. C. Easton was named chairman a committee appointed by the Hagerstown Automobile Company to seek improvements to highways in this area. The First Hose Fire Company voled to erect a new building that will include a roof garden and bathroom. The commilte in charge consists of C.

E. Heard, F. N. Fahrney, R. M.

Hays, Edward Oswald, and Alexander Armstrong, Jr. 30 Ago --Fire Chief Jack Byerg was unanimously recommended for reappointment as city fire chief at the fire chief convention. Edwin Stilzel was chairman of the convention. Mrs. Fred W.

Lillard, 644 Summilt Avenue, was critically burned when a pan of gasoline with which she was cleaning the floor of her home ignited. Local youths who have enlisted in the army through Sgt. John Chop are Donald S. Kearton, John L. Black, Samuel B.

Kelso, Waller C. Minnich, and Percy A. The Anlielam Battlefield GAR Memorial Association is incorporating, Directors are Clyde B. Roulette, William H. Stillwell, Otho T.

Kaylor, George B. Alexander, Evans Poffenberger, Elmer G. Boyer and H. S. Churchey, 15 Ago --John Rinehart was elected president of the newly organized 4-H Electrical Club, sponsored by Potomac Edison Company.

George Schamel is its vice- president and Downey Harshman, secretary. Lt. (j.g.) Richard B. Lohman, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Richard Lohman, South Locust Street, has received an appointment in the Regular Navy. He is stationed at Pensacpla Naval Air Station, as pilot and instructor in engineering. Lt. Joseph H. Byron, son of Major General and Mrs.

Joseph R. Byron, has been assigned to the Pacific Air Service Command Headquarters at Manila. He entered West Point in 1942, arriving in the Pacific last month. A German shepherd dog that guarded first Americans, then Germans in Eupropean prisoner of war camps has become the property of Lewis Spickler, Public Square, a Blue Ridge Bus driver. He reports that the dog is now friendly toward Americans.

Editor's Letter Box Bigots Criticized Dear Sir: I am proud to speak up for justice and equality just as I wrculd be ashamed to speak for prejudice and bias under any guise. An incident that occurred to me this past Saturday afternoon carried to me most forcefully the message that support beyond tolerance, appreciation beyond a passivity necessary for all races under the law. Prejudice and bias toward one race Is indivisible from prejudice and bias toward many or alt races. I happened to be at the Y. M.

C. A. Saturday afternoon for the purpose of getting some exercise and in this connection I went up to the track to ran. When 1 finished running. I descended the steps to reach Ihe floor of the gymnasium itself.

As I descended, I came across written in ink the crude words "Auchlung (it should have been Achtung, if the person wanted to be grammatically correct in German) Judc" and then the sign of tho swastika (which was actually wrongly Inverted). Attention Jew it said. I had little doubt that the perpetrator of the legend did it as a joke. what a grim joke and what a suggestion to the Some time ago there were anti-JewUh iloganj written on tyaafioguet in Harrliburg and other places, even burnings. Docs it seem to be a joke to the Jewish people and others who have suffered in the past, for example under the Nazi yoke? If I had seen the person who had done this, I would not have let it pass.

And I asked Ihe authorities to have the vicious thing erased. Right then ant' (here I knew I could have no bias or prejudice against any minority race, Negro, Jew, or olher. If something cannot be justified, how can it be supported? How can a person in this community call himself a Christian and blacfc ball persons from joining the country club or a social club merely because they are not of their faith or persuasion? If the person were morally or otherwise unfit, Ihis would be a different matter. Yours truly, W.G.R. On Sewage Systems Dear Sir; I have observed In a recent edition of the Morning Herald that the Hancock community dumps ils refuse in the river, and that that Is the same water that Hagerstown citizens drink.

We are supposed to have a health department. Our laws unfortunately apply only lo the Individual Sincerely, TOT Supply Demand Dear Editor: I wish to congratulate you on your down to earth solution to the farm siluation in Morning Herald of March 17th. The idea of letting things go back to the law of supply and demand appeals to me. Of course while we're at it, let's be fair, let's stop subsidizing practically every other business in the country. Why back the E.D.C.

In tho county? you would like to see dog eat dog In the farm policy, why not In every olher case too. Let's stop the wbsidity to labor, such as the "unemploy- mcnt compensation." There is a surplus of labor all over the country, why not let the man who will work the hardest and longest for the least money have the Job, Hard to tell whose pocket that would hurt --yours maybe? Your farm policymaker! who sit behind a desk telling us how things SHOULD be make me sick, Intending to stay farmw, UB.JZER.