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MANY 'HAPPY PILLS' CArTBE DANGEROUS TOO 1 JVMW 26 The St Daily Times Feb. 21, 1937 Hal Boyle Modern Art? It Can't Be As Bad as It's Painted Editor's Notebook By HAROLD SCHOELKOPF Tht powtr of arrest bill is bobbing up again in the Minnesota legislature. The measure would authorize slate liquor inspectors to arrest liquor law offenders. They do not have that power now so that on-the-spot arrests are next to impossible. This is the fifth time the measure has come before the legislature.

It has been defeated four times because of powerful opposition to it. The opposition is not from the liquor lobby. The opponents have been members of the State Sheriffs association. Denying the right of arrest to state liquor agents is as silly as to deny the power of arrest to members of the state highway patrol or state game wardens or many other state officials who have arrest authority. Some legislators believe the liquor agent power of arrest bill has a chance to get approval at this session.

Seeing is believing. That you are a born poet if, offhand, you can think up words that rhyme with office, or coba, or award. That the question most often asked last year by 1,400,000 visitors to the Empire State building's observatory was, "How much does the building sway in a storm?" A check by a gyroscope shows the top of the structure never moves more than one-fourth of an inch off center. That some sleepless fellow in Australia has figured out his country now has 139 million sheep. That the Fisherman's magazine, which has its offices in the Salmon tower here, has a boating editor named Clinton R.

Hull. That one can get a divorce in only 6even states on the grounds a mate is a drug addict That "dungarees" comes from the Indian word, dungri, the name of a Bombay suburb where a coarse blue cotton cloth was first manufactured. That the Danish flag, which has a large white cross on a red field, is the oldest unchanged national flag in existence. It originated in the 13th century. That every time pop singer Teresa Brewer comes out with a million-seller hit record she also has had a child.

Her present score: three hits, three children. That it was Sophie Tucker who observed: "From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35, she needs good looks. From 35 to 55, she needs a good personality. From 55 on, she needs good cash." New York LT) Things a columnist might never knov if he didn't open his mail: That the phrase 'red tape" meaning the annoying delays of officialdom arose in the 19th century in England, where government and legal documents were tied with a pink-red tape.

That Maine is the only state in the union which adjoins only one other state. That a honeybee can vibrate its wings 440 times a second, and that's some buzzin', cousin! That the Black sea isn't black. It gets its name because of the dense fogs and violent storms that darken the area. That the "monkey wrench" got its name from its inventor, Charles Moncke, a London blacksmith. That U.S.

government publications, which usually bear titles as long-winded as a marathon run-tier, now include a booklet that is simply called Wonder what in the world it could be about? That Arthur Murray says to learn to dance the cha-cha all you have to do is wave goodby without using your hands. That sportscaster Mel Allen was so studious as a lad he entered the University of Alabama at 15. That surrealist painter Salvador Dali's latest brainstorm is an art form he says is based on the patterns made by electrons and neutrons during atomic experiments. Thaf actor Walter Slezak gives this appraisal of most modern art: "It can be as bad as it's painted." As The Times Sees It Voter Rights Taken Away SUPPOSE THAT a leader in some northern state were to propose that the vote be denied to all women who were divorced or widowed. Or suppose it were suggested that only owners of property valued at more than $10,000 should be entitled to vote.

There would be a great uproar of public protest. The foolhardy man who had made such proposals would be lucky not to be ridden out of tow on a rail. The most vigorous protest would doubtless be made by those groups in danger of being disenfranchised. The chances are, however, that many other citizens would also lend their voices to the outcry. It is widely recognized in this country that depriving a man of his right to vote is one of the most fundamentally damaging things that can be done to him in a democratic society.

Quite properly, we cherish this right above almost any other. It underlies virtually all our other rights as citizens. It is in the light of these considerations that one must weigh Attorney General Brownell's recent testimony before a senate iudiciary subcommittee. Brownell said that in one Louisiana parish some 4,000 to 6,000 Negroes were stricken from the voting rolls prior to the last election. Most of them, he said, were denied any opportunity to establish their qualifications later.

The attorney general also testified that in three North Carolina precincts Negroes were barred by technical requirements from qualifying for the vote. The south has special problems and difficulties, greatly complicated by emotional considerations. Yet however sympathetic one may be with these regional problems, one cannot get away from the fact that barring Negroes from the polling places, on whatever pretext, is no more logical or just than barring divorcees, widows, men without property, or any other group of James Marlow It Says Here By Chuck Rathe Mid-East Problem Takes Encore as Crisis Deepens Schuman Reports In The Legislature Washington W) President Eisenhower's meeting with congressional leaders Wednesday was an encore. He met with them 52 days ago on the same problem: the Middle East. In that time the problem has deepened.

So has confusion over this country's thinking on the Middle East, including Israel. For 52 days the administration or, rather, Sec- By Rep. Marvin C. Schumann mittee of the whole passed it easily however. It is important to remember that this report deals specifically with action in the house of representativesbecause I am a member of that body.

Many of these bills that passed the house have yet to be considered by the senate. After passage by both houses and the signature of the governor, a bill becomes law. Washington Daybook A Littlt Fall lad won a citation from Governor Freeman this week for quick thinking and probably averting a major highway disaster. He thrust eight children back from the path of a car which was speeding through the school bus warning signals and stop lights. But for the patrol boy's action, eight children might have been killed or injured.

The incident points up the splendid work done by patrol boys all over the country. They guard the crossings near school building and act as patrol boys for the school buses, too. It has been said that no child was ever killed at a crossing guarded by a school patrol, and if that is true, and we think it is, it is a magnificent tribute to the effectiveness of these alert youngsters. We have well-organized school patrols in this community, and owe them a vote of thanks for duty well-done. This is tht time for the usual winter reminder to provide food for the birds.

It is such an easy thing to do, too. Any ledge or feeding box will do the trick, and all that is needed is a handful of dry bread or some cereal and perhaps occasionally a piece of suet Quite a few birds stay with us all winter. A graphic txamplt of the bite that taxes take out of an estate was evidenced in a Minnesota case brought to light recently. A woman left an estate of $911,000. The federal estate tax took $722,000 and the state inheritance tax came to $117,000.

Other taxes and attorney fees left just $1,781. That is something like the California movie magnate a couple of years ago whose income for a year was more than $1 million. The federal income tax plus the state of California income tax combined amounted to more than his total income. million earnings he would have to borrow money to pay his taxes. Those are extreme cases, of course, but the truth is that our modern tax system makes it next to impossible to put something away for a rainy day, and if we do succeed in laying by a few dollars, taxes will gobble up a great share of it.

That's part of the welfare state scheme, of course make all of us dependent upon government handouts from the cradle to the grave. Corn it Amtrica's most important food crop. In fact it is double in value over any other crop raised. It is also double In Minnesota. In this state oats is the second most important crop, followed by hay and soybeans.

Potatoes bring the highest return per acre, ranking over sugar beets, corn, winter wheat, soybeans and spring wheat Renville leads Minnesota counties in corn and soybeans; Otter Tail in oats and hay and second in rye; Stearns is second In both oats and hay; Polk leads in barley, sugar beets, potatoes and wheat; Lincoln is tops in flax; and Sherburne county is listed as first in rye. News itm in Eagle River (Wis.) News-Review: "You can now read all afternoon at the public library. The Women's club has just installed a brand new wash room." Southern California brags that there birds swim and fish fly. And the pedestrian is in real danger of early extinction. There are now 34 women bank presidents in the U.

S. This is a nice deal. If you can't get a loan, you can try for a date. A writer urges parents to take children to see things instead of letting them watch television all the time. It doesn't work.

They go to a park, for instance, take one look around and ask, "WTien they going to have this brought down to 21 inches?" I don't think television is bad for kids' eyes though. It's a lot harder on their feet. How can you use them while you're sitting? One thing about the girl who married an X-ray specialist: People don't ask what he sees in her. Going steady works fine for teenagers until they both see each other out on blind dates. Used to be a man was rejected for being a cad.

Now he's in because he owns one. Alarm System A big hotel chain is experimenting with a new method for rousing guests in the morning. The idea behind it all is to make getting up easier. Instead of jangling a telephone bell in the recumbent ear of a guest who has left word to be called at a certain hour, the new system soothes him to wakefulness with a soft voice on a recording. The voice tells the time, gives a snappy resume of the weather, and suggests a tasty breakfast menu.

This may make getting up more pleasant, but it won't make it any easier. Besides, some hard sleepers will not even hear this soothing voice, but will sleep on happily unaware that morning has dawned. Which may, on second thought, be one of the chief advantages of the new sytsem. Influenza Causes Schools to Close From The Daily Timet 25 Yean Ago Feb. 21, 1932 All grade schools in St.

Cloud, with the exception of Riverview, will be closed next week as a precautionary measure against disease. There is a prevalence of influenza, though in a mild form. From The Daily Times 40 Years Ago Feb. 21, 1917 The Minnesota State Dental association will hold its annual convention in Minneapolis this weekend. Local dentists to attend are: Drs.

M. F. Cook, L. G. Gross, G.

J. Hennemann, William Moos, L. P. Leonard and A. L.

Bruener. Ct. Cloud has its third band started. The junior band is for boys 10-16 and present members are: Wilfred McGuire, Frankie Ernst, Lloyd Tenvoorde, Norbert Rau, Sylvester Scharen i Carl Nuerenberg, Edward Rieder, Arthur Franke, Pierre Thomey, Lawrence Schmidt, Carl Gries-back, Joseph Schellinger, Raymond Braun and Victor Heinen. Other People's Opinions 'Let tht PtopU Hat (hi Truth, end Freedom to Ductus It retary of State Dulles has talked almost continually on the Middle East In that time the cherished Democratic-Republican bipartisanship on foreign policy has been badly split.

And Dulles has been treated to the most angry Democratic criticism of his four years in office, even to being called a "liar." If Dulles had talked less, and more to the point, there would now be a clearer understanging at home and abroad of what the administration has in mind on the Middle East in general and Israel in particular. Instead of letting Democratic congressional leaders be the first to know of the program and tell how they felt, the administration meaning Dulles' state department "leaked" it to a newspaper Dec. 28. Democrats have indicated since they consider this an attempt to build up public pressure on them for approval before Eisenhower ever asked for their views. His program was a three-in-one package.

He wanted congressional approval for: Huge economic aid to the Middle East, although who'll get it, and how and why, is not clear; gifts of arms to certain Middle Eastern countries; and use of American armed forces to stop communist aggression in the area. There followed many days of testimony by Dulles and other administration oficials before congressional committees, publicly and behind closed doors. In all he said Dulles followed one consistent line: vagueness. It irritated Democrats. The house has approved the program.

The senate, starting debate on it this week, will probably put some strings on it Meanwhile, something else had been happening. Israel had ignored the United Nations' demand that it quit territory claimed by Egypt, contending it first must have guarantees against Egyptian attack. The Arab members of the UN were getting set to ask for sanctions against Israel for defying the world organization. But the UN has not even considered sanctions against a big power Russia which ignored the UN demand that it get out of Hungary. Israel not only is a friend of the United States, which helped create it, but has a lot of friends in this country, including members of congress, who oppose sanctions against it But if the United States refuses to vote sanctions against Israel, it would antagonize the Arabs at the moment the administration is trying to win them over with Eisenhower's program.

In the hope of avoiding such a showdown, Dulles asked Israel to pull back its troops. But Israel refused Dulles just as it had refused the UN. Now the squeeze is on. The Democratic policy committee in the senate has voted unanimously against sanctions on IsraeL And Eisenhower's own Republican senate leader, William Knowland of California, has come out flatly against sanctions. Dulles will now have to talk his way out of this one, or get in deeper.

Representing Benton and Sherburne counties As days roll by in this 60th session of the Minnesota legislature, the controversial aspects become more sharply defined. This week's legislative actions made the headlines several times. The week started off pleasantly enough. Mrs. Schumann and I attended an open house at the University of Minnesota where we enjoyed a presentation of a musical comedy, "Finian's Rainbow." My wife is a member of the "Dome club," composed of the wives of senate and house members and state constitutional officers.

She and the other women had a tour of the university in the afternoon and we joined the ladies for dinner and the show in the evening. It was excellent entertainment We went back to Rice because the following day, Lincoln's birthday, was a legal holiday and thus the legislature was not in session. After the holiday, thel egislature went back to work. I would like to report on some of the bills that came to my attention. From the very outset, I have been interested in a bill that would revise the procedure followed by county welfare boards in checking property transfers for old age assistance applicants.

Under a long-standing law, county welfare boards must examine every transfer for as far back as 1934. A bill studied by our house welfare committee would shorten the period of time to the past five years. I offered an amendment to this bill that would extend the time to ten years. The committee didn't go along with my amendment, but in the committee of the whole we were successful in tacking it on. This bill is then amended.

The house labor committee, of which I am also a member, indefinitely postponed the so-called "25 pound bill" which would have made it illegal for a woman to carry anything in excess of 25 pounds. It was pointed out that this bill would be discriminatory to women, and would preclude their work in hospitals and other places where they do carry materials of such weight. The committee of the whole voted for repeal of the $5 head tax which pertains to income tax filing. The $5 filing fee was imposed by the 1949 legislature as part of the special taxes for the World war II veterans bonus. Since the bonus is almost paid now, the house felt that the special tax could be eliminated.

Another interesting bill and one which farmers will be interested in would change the length of time for application of gas tax refunds, from 4 to 6 months. Still another bill providing for certain changes in the law regarding death by wrongful act raising the $17,500 limit After a lot of debate and parliamentary maneuvering this bill was re-referred to the judiciary committee. By the time you read this, party designation may have passed the house. It provides that legislators run on a party basis. This has controversial aspects and the debate ran for a hag time.

The com Chicago More than two million persons are employed in the nation's public eating places and the industry ranks third in the number of persons who are given steady employment. Thank You Editor The St Cloud Hairdressers association wishes to express appreciation to the people who helped us make our National Beauty Salon week a success. To the various business firms, KFAM radio station for the interview with Rae Wilson, and the able assistance of the Sisters at the St Joseph's home and the dear women we worked on. Last but not least, we appreciate the St Cloud Daily Times staff for our publicity. These helped so much.

We thank you. St. Goud Hairdressers Ass'n. By Jane Eads "Washington While their husbands are minding the nation's business on Capitol Hill, many congressional wives are taking time out from homemaking and social chores to keep themselves thoroughly informed on national affairs. They want to be able to discuss intelligently the issues about which they are most frequently asked.

To achieve this, some 55 Democratic wives gather once a month for an all day forum, barely taking time out for a bite of lunch. The "workshop," as they call it, is open to all Democratic wives. There are no dues. So that members may speak frankly, sessions are off the record. Organized in 1954 by Mrs.

Katie Louchheim, vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Congressional Wives Forum breaks up into three groups, each with its own study subject and discussion leader and perhaps a guest speaker. The groups join for the afternoon meeting. Campaign techniques, the cost of living, the H-bomb, reciprocal trade, TV makeup and how to make a speech are representative of the subjects taken up. Mrs. Hubert Humphrey, wife of the Minnesota senator, is new chairman of the forum.

Mrs. John Sparkman, wife of the Alabama senator, is vice chairman. Petite, blue-eyed Muriel Humphrey, who wears her prematurely silvered-hair in a becoming page-boy, is one of the town's most popular official wives and the mother of four. Nancy, 18, interested in a nursing career, graduates from high school in Bethesda, this June and plans to enter the University of Minnesota. Hubert, 14, better known as "Skipper," attends junior high and is the one most interested in politics.

The others are Bobby, 12, and Douglas, 9. "I think the wives' forum is one of the most interesting activities in which I have taken part in Washington," Mrs. Humphrey told me. "We've all gained many benefits. We've become better acquainted with each other and with the problems of each other's districts, as well as gaining a better understanging of what our husbands are trying to do." The wives of Reps.

W. F. Norrell (Ark) and Clarence Cannon (Mo) are treasurer and assistant treasurer. The wives of Reps. Omar Burleson (Tex) Aime For and (RI), Clair Engle (Calif), Lee Matcalf (Mont), Frank M.

Clark (Pa), John D. Dingell (Mich) and D. R. Mathews (Fla) and the wife of Sen. Strom Thurmond (SC) are committee mejnbers.

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Owned aiwt anhllihl -w umn Publishing Company, Times Building, -ie auxia Avenue North. Gravity Bomb Man's collective mind is shooting off a lot of creative sparks in our time. Fresh discoveries, and new applications of old ideas, are coming along so fast that society finds it hard to absorb them. We had scarcely entered the atomic age when some scientists were saying that direct energy from the sun would soon make atomic energy old hat. Now, before either atomic energy or polar energy has been harnessed to much of an extent, there is talk of hitching up gravity to do man's work for him.

Jesse Vernon Honeycutt, a vice president of Bethlehem Steel, told a meeting of engineers the other day that "serious scientific research is being concentrated" on finding out how to control the power of gravity. "Should the mystery be solved," Honeycutt, "it would bring about greater revolution in power, transportation and many other fields than the discovery of atomic power." So there it is: atomic power is barely here, and it's already on the way out. First thing you know, we'll all be worrying about the giant gravity bomb. ISM Fred Schllplla mi Frederick C. Schllplla President and Publisher Harold Schoeikopf-Edltor Otte A.

Rupp Bustaess Manager Offniat Paper of Steam County Ci'l of St. Cloud STEADY GROWTH FOR AIRLINES This has been a year of steady growth for the airline industry, and a year in which the airlines have moved cautiously in setting the patterns for jet operations over the next decade. The year 1955 was spectacular in two ways the booming economy carried the airlines to a phenomenal 20 percent growth in business and the end of the year saw a rash of jet transport buying that put a billion dollars worth of orders in the books. The prospect for 1957 is bright, and the pattern of gains made in 1956 is expected to continue. The airlines have committed themselves for a large number of turboprop and turbojet transports with deliveries to start in 1958.

For lung routes, the Douglas DC-8 and the Boeing 707 have a monopoly on the market. On shorter routes, it formerly looked as if the turboprop Lockheed Electra would dominate, but the pattern has changed in the past year. A new medium-range jet, the Convair 880, appeared to compete with the Electra for the medium-range market, and both Boeing and Douglas now have designs for smaller jets. Furthermore, British and French firms are trying to sell turbine transports for the shorter routes, the airlines are now moving much more slowly than a year ago when their initial rash of jet orders broke out The government's big step to establish a $250 million modernization program for the Air Traffic Control System over the next three years, plus the Federal Airport Aid Program will btip prepare for the coming jet operations. llibbing Tribune MEMBER Or THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Eden Begins Rest In New Zealand Auckland, New Zealand W) Smiling but looking weak, former British Prime Minister Eden arrived with his wife in Auckland today for a rest Eden said in a brief news conference that this was his first full day out of bed since two bouts with fever during the trans-Pacific voyage aboard the liner Rangi-tata.

He said the first attack was mild, the other sharper. He said that neither lasted long but they weakened him. The Edens were greeted by Prime Minister Sidney Holland and his wife and Sir William Jordan, New Zealand's wartime high commissioner in London. Eden came to New Zealand to recover from the ill health which his doctors said forced his resignation as prime minister Jan. I.

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