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fl It I Monroe County News Official County and City Paper ALBIA. IOWA Published Evciy Monday Donald A. Norberg, Editor (On Leave of ft licence) ALBIA PUBLISHING Publishers VOL. LXXIII NO. 31 Subscription 00 pci venr In Jowa.

15.00 per year ot i In i a tion With The A i i a $1 per year iMilh Jtnv.i- $7 pel- year for bolli papf-is i i i Iowa. Kntered as second i i i i i i a lowTM, March 3, i post a or able to speak, the language of the conn- -Wrenlike- pilasters and cornices, their try to which he is assigned. But nothing important has ever resulted from the argument. Primarily the United States is simply unable to find competent diplomats who arc acquainted with foreign languages. So sve continue to send into the capitals and cultural centers of the world men who are unable to understand one word of the language they hear in councils or on the streets.

gaze farther. takes up at least a temporary lodging in the high place to which towers of peace were meant to lift it. Histories of church architecture re- call'how among early peoples who were preserving the Christian tradition, as in Persia, the building of towers or steeples was a conscious effort to enclose, to provide shelter into which the influ- No Second Chances for Making Flight Into Training Schedule Sheer Torture for Average Man Nothing corrective is to be ence thought of as detity might be in- Monday, August 4, 1958 America is Lagging In Languages Taught Recently when some Americans were visiting a school in Moscow a Russian girl of high school age arose and addressed the visitors in English. It was rather broKen English, but it was intelligible. And one of the American visitors, Jenkins Lloyd Jones of the Tulsa Tribune, confessed to sadness that there was not a public school in the United States where a single pupil could welcome Russian visitors in the Russian language.

While English is taught in most of the leading schools ol Russia the Russian language is taught in 1'eu public schools in the United States. A few weeks ago a convoy of three Russian landed at the capital city of one of the countries of the southwestern Pacific. Every one of the 125 visiting Russians was able to speak the native had been trained in that language before they undertook their mission. But in the American embassy in that island capital there was only one employee could speak the native language, and he was a native of the island, an interpreter employed by the United States. It is unusual for an American ambas- bador to be able to speak the language of the country to which he is assigned.

This ignorance of foreign languages has its handicaps. To begin with it is a positive embarrassment, because an ability to speak many languages is considered the hallmark of an educated person in most of the world's capitals. Hense no matter now skilled the American representative may be in the language of his own country he is written down as ignorant hen he shows his inability to speak another tongue. It has been argueu tor years that no one should be sent abroad" to represent the United States officially unless he is done about this for a long time. You can imagine what would happen to the American lawmaker who launched a movement to require the teaching of the Russian language in all American schools.

Yet Russian speech is gradually becoming the court language of half the world. --Daily Oklahoman. Getting Out of Cars On the Safe Side Presumably most people want to be on the safe side, but if that is true we wonder why so many motorists on our streets get in and out of their parked cars on the left side. It is obvious enough, we should think, that adequate operation of the instinct of self-preservation would mean getting in and getting out of a parked vehicle so as to run no risk of being hit by moving cars and trucks. Besides that, of course, there is a fair chance of getting a door damaged.

In any case, the nerves of drivers who wonder if the person with "leftest" tendencies is going to move away in time, deserve consideration. It is bad business all the way around to inject yourself into the stream of traffic if you can avoid it--and generally you can. No one in his right mind wants to hit either another person or said person's car and he will do what he can to prevent it, but courtesy and common sense alike suggest using the safe side of a car or truck for entry and Commercial Appeal. Light Seen Through The Tower Windows Even in this day of actual air travel and potential interplanetary space routes thousands have stayed firmly on the ground and yet never felt earthbound. They walk across some field or open square beside which a church or memorial hall raises a tower into the sky.

If the tower carries unbroken walls to its top, their sight travels to the pinnacle and off into space, and their thought may rise with their sight and at last take wings into the vague forgetfulness of unclouded sky. But if the tower has windows on two or more sides so that light shines through it, or if the gky itself may be seen blue in a white framework of duced to enter. This influence people assumed to be in the heavens over them --but perhaps some guessed it might be nearer than it seemed. In any event, they raised towers as if to catch it, or they raised them simply as a gesture of meeting it halfway. Today such actions are chiefly appreciated for their symbolism.

Yet it is a good thing to do--to stop not far from some lovely tower, to let the thought climb it with the sight: and if there are windows to let in light or to let the sky. shine through, to feel how a glow stays benignly in the memory throughout many an otherwise earth-bound day to Science Monitor. Can You Blame Canada For Being Irritated? One would assume that the United States had trouble enough in this world without giving cause to the Canadians to become irritated by this country's policies. But we annoy them just the same by the actions which we take. Consider the recent remarks of Lester B.

Pearson, Canada's former Secretary of State for External Affairs, who spoke recently in Williamsburg Va. He said Canada is irriiatec- when told that North America must be all one unit for defense while the United States raises economic barriers that leave Canada with a trade deficit. While he said that Canadians appreciated the U. S. invest' merits north of the border, "which incidentally have been very profitable to the investors also," he added that "we become understandably annoyed when your Congress raises or threatens to raise barriers against our exports to you, which now are more than $l-billion less than the value of the goods we buy from you each year." He also asserted that while Canada knows that defense in today's world means collective security, "we are uneasy in the that decisions can be taken in Washington with inescapable and far- reaching consequences which we might have little to say about." Congress would do well to give more attention to our relations with Canada, both as far as trade and defense are concerned.

It is our nearest English- speaking neighbor and one with which we have enjoyed friendly contact for well more than a century. Couldn't we have more co-operation between the two Courier Express. This is tht third chopttr of lire in which a noted U. S. tx- pert on science tells the itory of America's first traveler in space and how he it being prepared for hjs historic journey.

The author is Martin Caiden. (Cepyiifht 19W tor UN) The training schedule for Jim Randall's first flight beyond the earth was so demanding physically that the average man would have regarded the punishment as sheer torture. There ore no second chances en this space mission the doctors KNOW that Randall can withstand the forces imposed by rocket plane's performance. Further, his superiors know he is able to operate controls and equipment during those same moments when he may be suf- ferina most severely. Can he take high gravity-forces? In a Jet fighter, a steep turn at high speed imposes tremendous loads (g-forces) on a pilot's body.

As a'jet pilot Randall has taken as high as when with his personal flying equipment his body weighed nearly a ton. Can he take 14-g's? To find out, scientists placed him in a centrifuge, a giant machine that was whirled around rapidly. At the end of long steel girders rode an enclosed cabin, simulating the X-15. Inside Jrm Randall was faster and faster. The g- loads increased until Randall's arms were like steel bars.

He could not move his feet. His head seemed to be imbedded in concrete. The blood drained away, from his brain, forming a grey cloud before, his eyes. His heart "pounded his chest muscles could barfly raise his lungs. Finally, "weighing" more than 3,000 pounds, Randall blacked out.

The doctors were pleased. Randall worked fingertip controls with his right hand up to a force nine times that of gravity, much higher than that required for his Impending space flight. But' what about the return to earth? When Jim Randall 1 X-15 plunges back into the atmosphere ham space it will race into, air that resists rocket's performance as though it were a thick' and viscous "mass. The ship may decelerate rapidly; slowing down with such force that Randall will be subjected to violent punishment a deceleration force of nine gravities. But on the earthbound day of testing, Randall returned to the centrifuge.

With a booming whin? the great machine began to whirl, spinning faster and faster. Sudden- the control engineer slammed on the brakes. Within the sealed cabin, Randall's body burst forward against his retsraining straps. The pressure mounted with cruel orce. Blood pounded heavily gainst his eyeballs.

His skin stretched and twisted into a rubbery, grotesque mask. Small blood ruptured. Finally, at a force just above 9-g's, he passed cut. His limits of control operation were carefully noted the X-15 is designed to fly with maximum forces well below Randall's limit. His flight in space will be in vacuum.

Because the X-1S orbital flight is not a crash program, the rocket is not designed for pilot comfort. The pressurized cabin is small, and Bandall will wear his pressure suit for the entire mission. If the cabin suddenly springs a leak and the air rushes into space, the suit wiU mean his life. Without this suit pressure, the air in Randall's body would explode outward. Under zero-pressure conditions his blood and other body fluids would boil with such violence that they would literally explode.

Without his pressure suit Randall would be unconscious in a few seconds, dead in less than 15 seconds. Can he live, can he perform his flight duties, in a tight pressure suit? Duriruj his preparation for the space night, the doctors placed Randall in a decompression chamber, inflated the suit, and depres- sunzed the chamber. They kept Randall there for two, days, eating baby foods and drinking liquids the suit. After the first three hours he perspired freely from the slightest movement. "It was hell in there," he reported.

But he could survive, and he could control his spaceship. Another hurdle had been overcome. During his orbit around the earth, Jim Randall will be totally weightless. No human being has ever been in a weightless "condition for longer than 45 or 50 seconds. To simulate zero gravity conditions, in readiness for this, Ran.

dall (lew as a passenger in a jet fighter. The pilot dove the jet, then pulled up sharply to swing into a gerat soaring arc in the sky. For as long as 48 seconds, the tighter coasted "up and over," Randall was weightless. At first he couldn't coordinate his hands. Everything "seemed wrong." But after a dozen flights weightlessness no longer bothered him.

The doctors were elater, for Randall's natural pilot instincts and continued practice in weighlessness flights, means he would experience little or no difficulties from zero giavity in orbit. For more than a year, whle he flew special test flights, while he visited the North American factory to keep pace with the rocket plane's construction, Randall continued with his special medical tests. Finally they were all completed. He had passed every test that aviation and space medicine could devise. As much as any man on earth could possibly be prepared, Jim is ready for the first- manned space flight in history.

(Next: Randalls' ticket to space.) Priest Describes "Communist China As I Saw It 7 (This is the second of two dispatches in which Maryknoll Mis- soiner Father Joseph Patrick McCormock tells of his ordeal in Red China where he was imprisoned for five years until his release this summer.) By JOSEPH P. McCORMACE. M. M. (Written for United Press International) It was in June of 1953 that the Communists airested me in Shanghai.

For two reasons: I was a Maiyknoll priest, and I was an American' iffffl TURE IS GREAT IN A GROWING AMERICA My house-boy had tipped me off, so I sat there on my front porch one beautiful summer evening waiting for them. And sure enough, they came, and led me off to police headquarters. They brought me into a large room which had been set up for a special tribunal, with ten people in military uniform sitting along- the left wall; in front of them, five women and an interpreter. In the center of the room was a table, lined with my judges, and at- the far doorway, a rather young looking girl holding a machine-gun. I sat down in a low slung chair that was obviously meant for me.

That was about 9:30 at night. I was still sitting there at 5 o'clock the next morning. They kept firing questions at me, ami I fired answers back at them as best I could. In a way this confused them, because the judges would frown at one another, then have a whispered conference, and make new charges. All of the accusations had something to do with illegal financing or espionage.

Altogether, in that first session with them, they changed the charges against me 20 times. By the time they led me to my cell I was pretty tired, and I had the feeling thai they weren't too sure why 1 was ar- lested. Looking back on it all now, I still can't think of any reasons, within Chinese law, lor my imprisonment other than the fact that I was an "undesirable" a priest and an American. The prison conditions were rough. I had to lie flat on the floor without uttering a single word.

Armed guards stood over me to make the slightest move with my hands or feet. The food, when I got it, was a soft mushy kind of something, and pretty strong smelling. But I was hungry. And I ate it--at times, with an appetite. I had been "in prison about three days, when the interrogations began.

There were 72 of them altogether, each one lasting about two and a half hours. It was hard at first, but I got used to them. Most of the interrogations, in the beginning, centered on the 30 seminarians, my bringing them to Pei- ping, and then shipping some of temples to her knees I dictated for about 20 minutes, denying everything in my written confession. "Pigtails" just sat there, stone-faced; when I had finished, she whisked upstairs. Another 10 days went by.

Finally the judges' summoned me, and when I appealed before them they asked McCormack, why did you write this bundle of lies? Why did you try to deceive us?" I looked right at them and said. "Because you kept pressing me. Press, press, press these last months-- and I'm not one who can keep my mouth closed." Which was true. That was toward the end of 1955. this time, the brainwash sessions tapered oil.

Then, after all those months, they filed formal charges of "espionage and saba- toge for American imperialists" against me. The trial itself lasted about eight weeks. "We are not trying you as an imperialist or as a capitalist," they said. "We know that you are the son of a poor man, that you like the Chinese people, that since ou were born Ireland, you must be anti-British. And we thank you for that.

But you have allowed yourself to be used by the capitalists, and for that reason you must be punished." It was for this" crime" that I received my five-year sentence. A lew months latei, about the beginning of 1956, I asked for an interview with the piison officials. I explained to them that I was a sick, stupid old man. Which was partly true. I was, actually, very sick.

My entire body was swollen and distended because ot the prison diet. Lack of vitamins, I suppose. They talked this over among themselves, end decided to send me to the prison hospital we called it Ward Row and that meant I'd sleep in a bed for the lust time in three years. Of course, the big reason for allowing me to go to the hospital was obvious, loo many priests had already died in the jails and prisons of China. 'I hoy didn't want that to happen to me.

The tieatment adequate. I at the hospital received injections once a month, but the swelling of my bocly and limbs still continued. Even now, my stomach still expands about six or seven inches ery day. In June 1956 my health impioved considerably, so I was iency," and they moved me into a small house on other side of Shanghai, wheie I lived with several American priest-prisoners. One ol the piiests there was Father Cyril Wagner, the Franciscan from Pittsburgh who had been framed on charges similar to mine.

We were eventually released together. The "food was terrible there. We I would have all died had it not been for Red Cioss parcels, and the parcels from America that the Red Cross managed to get to us. So we lived, until the day of freedom came. Since I've been back, nearly everyone has asked me about the Chutcli in China.

Is Christianity surviving? And I tell them this story. It's true it happened not too long ago the "Communists launched a big campaign in Shanghai to kill all of the sparrows around the city. The people were mobilized and told to keep a constant racket going, by beating pans, blowing horns and lighting firecrackers. The idea was to frighten and kill all the Well, the sparrows took it all in stride. They hid under the eaves, or (lew to the highest trees; sometimes they moved their nests out into suburbs.

When they could not get worms, they ate insects. When thl ponds and puddles of a were closed off, they survived on dew. A several days, the fanatical persecutors were worn out and the noise and iury died down. The sparrows? Today in Shanghai, there are almost as many sparrows as before stronger ones. The sick and the weak died.

The healthy survived. And that's the way it is with the Church in China. It Happened Years Ago THE CITY THAT DIDN'T EXIST A MONTH AGO Every 30 days the U. S. adds as many new Americans as live in Norfolk.

creating brand-new wanta and needs'which must be satisfied. What docs this mean to you? It means greater opportunities than ever before- in all fields. Home construction is expected to doyblc by 1975. Power companies plan to increase output 250 in the next 20 years to provide the power for scores of new labor-saving devices. Cloth- injr suppliers predict a one-third increase in 7 years.

With 11,000 new citizen-consumers born every day, a new wave of opportunity coming. Rf ASONS FOR CONFIDENCE IN AMERICA'S FUTUR1 1. Mort people Four million babies yearly. U.S. population has doubled in last 50 years! And our prosperity curve has always followed our population curve.

2. Though employment in some areas has fallen off, there are 15 million more jobs than in will be Si million more in 1975 than today. income Family income after taxes is at an all- time hieh of $3300-i8 expected to pass $7000 by 1978. More production U. S.

production doubles efery 20 years. We will require millions more people to make, sell and distribute our products. 5. Mere savings Individual savings are at highest level ever-fno ftiWon-a record amount available for spending. 6.

Mere research fio billion spent each year will pay off in more jobs, better living, whole new industries. I thc next few yea" we will need $SOO btllfon worth of schools, highways, homes, durable equip, ment. Meeting these needs will create new opportunittai for everyone. Add them up and you have the makings of another big up- Wise planners, builders and buyers will act new get ready for it. FREE! Send for this new 24-page illustrated booklet, "Your Great Future in a Growing America." Every American should know these facts.

Drop card today to: ABVERTtSING COUNCIL, Box 30, Mid town Station, New York 18, N.Y. them to Hong Kong. I told the Communists the straight story about it all, but they weren't convinced. Later, the line of questioning switched to the entire diocese of Fushun and the work of Maryknoll in Manchuria. They wanted to know statistics on converts, the number of mission out-stations, and the names of clergy, religious and seminarians.

I gave them as many wrong answers as I could. But they kept pressing for more. So I finally took a week off, asked for pen and, paper, and wrote in my most legible handwriting, a full "confession." It was right off the top of my head and not a shred of truth to it. But I was quite proufl of it when I handed it to the Judge, and he gave me a big smile, as if to say. "Ah, McCormack we always knew we could scrub your brains clean." Ten days went by.

Evidently they were studying my manuscript, because they left me to myself, and I was able to catch up on my sleep. But then I figured it was time to call it quits, so I told the guard I had another confession to make. He hopped upstairs and brought back one the secretaries a girl we had nick-named "Pigtails" who had two long braids hanging from her 50 Years Ago-- The Hagenback and Wallace circus came to Albia. Wynogene i and Llojd Huston were married at the United Presbyterian parsonage by thc Rev. T.

R. Aiken. Jonas Rowley, wlio formerly lived in Monroe county, a resident of Indian territory, came to visit his mother, Mrs. John Rowley, who had been ill. Carrie Anderson went to Duluth, Minn for a few weeks' visit with her sister Mrs.

Kate Bean. Ed Jolif, who was formerly with Clark Bros, and Downs, became thc manager of a furniture store at Rock Rapids. W. B. Griffin had the upstairs in his building at the northwest corner of the square remodled and modern conveniences put in for office rooms.

40 Years Ago- Ed Rayden, 56, was killed in a fall of slate in tMe Sheridan Coal Co. mine at Avery. President J. C. Lewis and Secretary John Gray of the U.M.W.A.

district No. 13 spent a day in Des Moines. Mr. and Mrs. Noah Billiard and daughter, Edna, are home from a trip to Brooklyn and Iowa City.

Earl Streepy and family rented the Canning cottage which was being vacated by the McDonald family. The McDonalds were moving to Centerville. A farewell reception was held for Homer Bird, who was home from the army on a 10-day furlough, at the Service Chapel church. C. Ramseyer, congressman from the Sixth Iowa district was in Iowa one day during the week.

Mahon went north to help in the harvest fields. Gasoline took a cent a gallon in all Albia tilling stations. W. G. Estlack died a wife and five daughters.

Mr. and Mrs. O. G. Hull, Mr.

and Mrs. Fred Hull and children loll for a fishing and champing trip near Keokuk. C. C. Kitterman became the new Chevrolet dealer and James R.

Palmer, who had been the Chevrolet dealer, went into the Dodge business. Nine couples were fhanied in the county during the month of July. Iconium homecoming was announced for August 5. 20 Yeors Ago-- Monroe county is working on the possibilities of a greatly expanded program of liming of the soil under the impetus of increased interest among farmers in such a move. C.

S. successor had been appointed to the position of city water works clerk, left vacant a week ago by the disappearance of Cecil Sloan ii was reported by Roy Maneor, chairman of the waterworks board of trustees. 10 Years Ago-- With the solid backing of the fifth and other districts local Amei- ican Legion auxiliary members reported that Mrs. Frances R. Bickert was the new Iowa Department President.

County auditor Frank Nichol, who was a Republican for years and years tried unofficially to change his party affiliation Friday in Des Moines but the Democrats C. V. Blomgren and James Weaiherstone, at State College at Ames attended a summer camp for civil engineeung students. A Year Ago-- Carl F. Kietzman, Albia route 5, was appointed to the Monroe County Farmers Home Administration Committee.

Larry Wilkm, 13, showed his Hereford to the grand championship baby beef competition at the Monroe County 4-H fair. Victor Maddalozzo, 20 of Mystic was fined $300 in mayor's court here after his car was involved in a collision with a motorcycle operated by the Rev. Harry. Ryna of Georgetown near the 4-H fairgrounds entrance. Maddalozo en- teied a plea of guilty to a charge of improper passing.

Father Ryan suffered minor The National Automobile Club estimates that traffic in U. S. in 1957 took one life every 13 minutes. 6Ef (W TIME 10 BUY balked and Nichol remained a Republican. The annual 4-H achievement and 30 TtOrS AOO-- show was held.

The girl's showed their exhibits at thc Farm Otto Derby, Maiken Miller, Dick Bureau Hall and trfe boys exhibited Kellogg, Charles Brawn, and Bill) at the sale barn. Albia PHONI 164 sv.