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EDITORIAL PAGE Wednesday, Victor RIESEL Today's Editorial Nation Should Not Fear Disarmament believe the slander that American capitalists are war mongers, the Morgan Guaranty Bank of New York has analyzed.the of sizable cuts in. military: spending in United States history and' found to fear from, disarmament, should that ever come. Even in this there are those who fear that disarmament might cause severe dislocation if not depression. What are the facts as revealed by the bank's latest survey? The economic disturbance after the Civil War was over in a matter of months, the bank points oiit. Parenthetically, it be said that this was true for the commercial and industrial North and that the recovery and rehabilitation of the South took many years, but that does -not detract from the national economic view'as a whole.

After World War the reaction was sharp but short-lived. There followed seven years of prosperity. The greatest readjustment of all had to be faced after World War'H. Military spending plummeted from $89 billion to $11 billion a year. And yet the readjustment caused hardly a ripple in economic After the Korean conflict, there was i the recession of 1953-54 but it was mild and brief, then was followed by boom.

"The nation's serious arid occasionally prolonged depressions have had no visible connection with disarmament," the bank concludes. Viewers with alarm at home and slanderers of our private enterprise system abroad can be refuted with this brief survey. The American economic system is dynamic and growing, not because of the large expenditures to maintain its military The natural growth of the country will absorb, as it has absorbed on every occasion in the last hundred years, the readjustment from a wartime to a peacetime economy. Hal Boyle's Column Thanksgiving Time for Gratitude on Many Items NEW YORK Wt Thanksgiving is a time of summary gratitude. Each person has his own private roll call of appreciation.

But practically everyone can be grateful that: A I I day doesn't fall on a Monday. Nik'ita Khrushchev isn't twins. The national election isn't until next year. Declining buying power of money hasn't yet forced racetracks to put a $3-sign over the $2 window. The holiday piece de resistance is turkey and not ostrich.

Think how weary you'd get of ostrich hash! The hard hit television in- dustry'still has one thing to fall back on Milton Berle. The country no longer needs a good five cent cigar. It needs a good two for a quarter cigar. CONGRESS hasn't around to investigating professional wrestling. Santa Claus is still a full month! away.

The football season is about over, and we won't have to worry about warming up baseball's hot stove league for at least six weeks. Changes Are Detailed Ike's Successor Faces Different World in 1961 By JAMES MARLOW Associated Press News Analyst WASHINGTON The world which President Eisenhower's successor faces in 1961 unless there are miter changes before then will be different from the one Eisenhower had to deal with when he (ook office in 1953. And it will require different American measures, to some degree and perhaps to a great degree, in coping with the world ahead it only because nations, like animals, are in an evolutionary process. AMERICAN foreign policy now is what it has been pretty much back into the. 1940s when the cold war began: To mam- tain alliances and heavy armament to prevent Communist ex- pansion; give American military help and economic aid to allied and friendly fiations, and particularly economic aid to the backward ones.

Eisenhower, like President Truman before him, has follow- cdt his policy. As Eisenhower begins his farewell tour next month to 11 countires, it is doubtful he will propose any changes. It is too soon in the presidential campaign to 'tell whether any of the would be candidates who want his job have any ideas different from Eisenhower's. So far they have offered nothing hasically different. STILL, THE world is not the same as in 195H and it will be even more different 10 years from now.

When Eisenhower moved into OUR READERS WRITE TO THE EDITOR KILLING ISN'T SPORT John Heinie Centralia Dear Sir: Today you published a photo of six hunters, pridefully posed on your front step, with several dead elk heads. Such pictures appear with regularity in your sports section, apparently on the assumption that all your readers appreciate such things. How about equal space for those folks who don't? There are a great many animal and nature lovers to whom this sort of thing is repulsive, lo say the least. So what, if these "hunt- trs" went to the upper Olympic DENNIS THE MENACE Peninsula, the lower Chehalis, or eastern Siberia. Does this make them sporjsmen? Where else in any recognized sport is the balance so heavily in favor of one side? Since when is all even and equal between a herd of elk and six high-powered rifles? Don't make heroes out of these people.

Some of us don't core for this sort of brutality. There are many people who use the privilege of Ihe great outdoors without abusing 11; who enjoy seeing these animals alive, as God intended them to be. Killing for fun is not sport! Let's leave Ihe sports page for sportsmen! Bv Hank Kercham MEAN 'aeroee MO A The man in the moon still doesn't have foreign company. Space suits won't have pleated pants or need lo be set off by a necktie. The little folk from Mars haven't landed.

Or have they? YOU CAN charge things al the' stores now and not have to start paying until January. From now until Christmas all children, including teen-agers, will be on their good behavior. Sex, despite all rumors to the contrary, is indubitably here to stay. On one day in one country in the world no one Thursday has lo go to bed hungry. the White House almost seven years ago there was a war in Korea; Red China was just beginning to be a world power and feel its oats; Western Europe was just gelling on its economic feet, wilh American help.

There was no revolt in the Soviet satellites. The United States was still far ahead of the Soviet Union in armaments, since it wasn't until the summer of 1953 that 'the Soviets produced their hydrogen bomb. The Soviet Union itself was completely hostile and erratically dangerous. But now Ihe Korean war is over; Red China slowly is becoming a giant; Western Europe is highly prosperous and able to join this country in helping backward There has been turbulence in the lies. It may show up again.

NOW THE Soviet Union not only has the H-bomb, but missiles, too, and is ahead of this country in space development, roughly the military equal of the United States. But one of the mosl significant changes is the fact thai Ihe Soviet Union, under premier Nikita Khrushchev, is talking peace and economic competition, disarmament and the end of nuclear tests. This country is the two sides have agreed on a both. If by 1961 there has ben some progress on disarament and the two sides'have agred on a fool proof inspection system making further nuclear tests unnecessary, then Eisenhower's successor faces another kind of world. It will be one in which neither sidfe will completely let down its guard or strip itself of the means of annihilating the other if it has lo; but a world in which the Communists bloc would be much further advanced in its preparations for competing economically wilh the West.

MAY be no shooting but the Western and Communist worlds will be in competilion for the friendship and allegiance of Ihe smaller and backward nations. This is a contest the world faces for years. In Ihe end the one who wins this one will probably the a for a long time to come, with Communism either waning iojts power and influence or the West sliding, into a long and fatal decline. Such a clear victory or defeat for one side or Ihe other is not likely in the next 10 years, but the man who 'succeeds Eisenhower must, as the drama unfolds, find ways of preventing a Communist victory. is possible, too, as the West and Easl struggle, even though peacefully, that Ihe Soviet Union may move more lo the right, the United States more lo the left.

It Is almost as if the Truman- i adminlslra- lions were a period of stale- 'mnle and preparation for a new world, new probloms, new noli- cien, which no one righl now can confidently predict. Plan Eases Automation Cut-Backs No matter how you" slice it the grim strike crises eventually will be settled according to the bacon formula; That's what some of us are calling it now. The bacon ifor- mula was prepared by Armour and Co. to the bitterness out of automation. When you next rip open a neat little packabge of a might give a thought, while scrambling the 'egg, to the role those slices are playing in the future of America, its industrial peace and its peace of mind, too.

HERE'S HOW it (ers of the great meat packing industry realized that, although their big plants had America's first conveyor belt systems, the meatpacking was done mostly by hand. Bacon and pork products were cured by rubbing the slabs with salt and other curing stuff about which the ladies of the house can tell you. Now the hand has given way to the "needle." It's a cure by injection. The pickling material is forced into the bacon pork products under heavy pressure. As for ham, it no longer has to be packed in a vat wallowing in brine.

Nor does it have to be shifted later to a second vat for what's called "even curing." All this saves enormous lime. It just lakes a few injections to cure the meat now. AFTER THEflnjection, the bacon goes for a ride on an assembly line. The bacon is sliced. It is packaged.

It is automatically weighed. Should the one- pound package be short or over even one slice, back it goes for re-doing. You're certain of getting a straight count. There are infra red cookers. The hickory smoke the kind of ham you're going to cut up on your holiday table.

Only the cooker cooks the ham in three minutes instead of several weeks. There ar.e machines for those who prefer sausages with their eggs. These electronic brains stuff the sausages and link them. Out they go automatically tied to each other, all even, all weighed, all counted all without the touch of human hands. Nor have the other meats been ignored.

Beef carcasses now are hooked up on moving overhead railroads. WITH THIS stuff overhead, automation has done in the old meal cleaver. Now the men slice up the beef with pneumatic electric knives. It's faster and cleaner. There's less waste, so the meal is better priced and you get more on your table for your dollar.

When the beef needs to be chilled, it Is run into a refrigerator, where the temperature is regulated without any human eye watching it or hand touching the All this saved time, but the electronic brain and the knives and the linking and stuffing equipment also began replacing men and women. In Armour's bacon and sausage division, seven workers survived out of every nine. Throughout the industry, 36,000 jobs disappeared in four Not all were automated out. But most of them were. IN A there were 60,000 workers five years ago.

Now there are When the union contracts earlier this year, the parties made history by deciding to put aside one penny, for every hundred weight of meat processed by the plants, Everybody knows that this will go into a $500,000 kitty. But what hasn't gotten around is this section of the agreement between the company and Pat Gorman's Meatcutters Union and Ralph Helstein's Packinghouse workers. It "It is recognized that the meatpacking industry is under- rnethods of production, processing, marketing and distribution. "Armour's modernization program is vital to its ability 0 compete and grow successfully, thus providing a resonable return on capital invested and providing the assurance of continued employment lor the em- ployes under fair standards of benefits and working conditions. Jobs are directly de' pendent upon making Armour products desirable to present andjuture customers from the viewpoint of quality and price "MECHANIZATION and new methods to promote operating and distributing efficiency affect the number of employes required and the manner in which they dq (heir work.

(This) may result in the need for devclopming new skills the employes. In addition, problems are created for employes affected by these changes that require the joint consideration of the company and the unions. ''It Is recognized that these problems require continued study to promote employment opportunities for affected by the introduction of more efficient methods and technological changei." WITH HUMBLE THANKS' Dear Abby Hairs By A i a i Van Buren DEAR ABBY: I have started my Christmas shopping and the same old problem has come up again. We have only one child but that's no fault of ours. We'd have welcomed a dozen if the good Lord had sent them to us.

I married into one of those families that makes a fuss over Christmas. My husband has four sisters and three brothers. They have a total, of 33'children. (I have only one sister and she has one child so she's not mixed i this.) Our problem is this: We spend about $10 on each child's Christmas gift. This adds to $330.

In return, each FAMILY gives our child a gift which costs about $10. This means we are getting $70 worth of presents" for our $330. This is not fair. Can you, or any of your readers figure out some way for us to come out even? SHORT END DEAR SHORT: In order to "come out even" you'll have to cut down cost of your gW to $2.12 per child. Christmas-giving shouldn't be an eye for an I.

0. U. affair. DEAR ABBY: This has been bothering me for a bug time so I decided to write to you and get your opinion of it. While I was at a friend's house watching the World Series on television, when the band played "The Star-Spangled Banner," I stood up.

Everyone lold me to sit down. I felt very foolish because 1 am a War Bride and was advised that Americans were supposed to stand up when "The Star-Spangled Banner" was played. Please tell me if I was wrong? WAR BRIDE DEAR BRIDE: It is not necessary to stand up in the privacy of a home when the national anthem is being played. But having stood, your friends were rude to have told you to sit down. DEAR ABBY: The girl who signed, herself "HATES PIANO" could have been me when I was a kid.

Only I am a My parents actually struggled to give me piano lessons when I was eight years old. I despised it and Ihrefy'tantrums and acted like I was doing them a favor to practice au hour a day. I finally got them to let me' quit when I was twelve. I am 42 years old now and I will never forgive my parents for not giving me a good swift kick in the pants and making me go on. THE BOAT" DEAR ABBY: My husband is a great one for hunting.

Last year he got a deer and I have had my freezer full of deer Weal all winter. My husband is very fond of deer meat but I haven't fixed him any because I am not sure I know how lo- pvepare it. It is. all cut up into roasts and steaks, I feel so foolish asking my friends. Can yoii'tell me? HUNTER'S WIFE DEAR WIFE: Season'and cook deer roasts exactly the same way you'd cuts of venison is best when'cooked slowly.

Deer steaks are prepared same as beef steaks. you have a problem, write to Abigail Van Buren in care of this paper. She will bo glad to ansioer jfour letter. For a personal reply, enclose a stomped sell-addressed envelope. In the Twin Cities and Lewis County 10 Years Ago Nov.

25, 194? Guests of the Rev. and Mrs. R. Cartwright for Thanksgiving were Mr. Cartwright's mother, Mrs.

Grace Carlwrighl of Centralia, and his brothers family, and Mrs. Wesley Cartwright, Darlene, and Shirley of Renton. Guests of Mrs. Etta JJayne Thanksgiving dinner were her son and family, Mr. and BffiHWEHB Mrs, Robert Bayne of Bremerton and her daughter and family, Mr- and Mrs.

C. II. Draper of Centralia. Miss Beverly Hayes, daugh-, tcr of Mr. and Mrs.

J. Hayes of Cenlralia, was presented in a solo recital last Sunday in Seattle by her teacher, Gene Sundsten. 25 Years Ago Nov. 25, 1934 Ronald Bangert has arrived home for a visit with mother ACROSS 1. Prevari- tator 5.

Former capital of Belgian Congo t. Perch IS. Formerly 13. To such a degree 14. Jap.

15. Name specifically 17. Cry of a cat IS.Turt 19. Valley SO. Char 21.

Steal n. Or. pillar M. Third stage of an insect 37. Cry of pain.

20. Growing out .31. Turkish chieftain 32. Wear away 34. Beverage 35.

Private teacher 37. Word of choice 38. Finest 39. Long marks 41. 43.

Masculine Father 46. English letter Goddess of infatuation M. Heavenly 52. Affirmative 53. Perceive sound 54.

Press 55. Donkey Solution of Puult 56. Roman date Small ball DOWN 1. Deprivation 1. To a pi ace inside 3.Sour 4.

Corded fabric 8. Whip 5 f- 37 6. Elliptical 7. One: Scot, 9.Assume 10.Repeats 11. Village 16.

Edible herb JO. Man's nickname 31. Sun god. pagoda 24. Stroke gently 25.

Howl! i 26. Cruel 29. Court 30. Dine 32. Before 33.

Clothes merchants 34. Individual 38, Exist 40. Velocity 4J. Vapor. 43, So.

lean Indian tribe. 45. Wings 46. Ireland 17. Trad It tonal tale 48.

Winter vehicle 90. Or. letter 51. Vat 50 Years Ago Nov. 25, 1909 People wishing to let their friends know about Centralia are leaving names and addresses at the office of Frank H.

Miller, secretary of the Commercial club. A copy of the Seattle Past Intelligences will be sent to each containing the write-up of Cen- lralia. The BPOE held their Thanksgiving ball last evening and everyone spent an enjoyable evening. This was the second of a series of dances to be given this season. So They Say YOUNG MEN and women in- tersted in police work, recruited at age 18 to work part-time as' civilians in police units, would, form a police cadet corps to relieve members of the police for basic police duty.

Trley would be paid by the hour. Eventually, it would be hoped that they would also join the force. This is the latest idea of Police Commissioner Stephen P. Kennedy of New York to upgrade the police department, an idea that has obvious advantages anywhere. THE PROPOSED new United Stales treaty with Japan 'provides that American forces based there may be deployed ey.ef necessary the and security the.

Far In the debate, foreign Minister Ailchiro Fujiyama defined the Far East as territories north of the' Phiilippines, Sylvia PORTER s. Prosperity Is Debated, For Nation I sit going to be a new boom or just a steady What a happy question with which to start a report on Thanksgiving eve! It's a valid quesiion, though In the- mosl informed, alert circles in Washington and Wall Street the pros and cons of both sides are now being asked and will be asked with increasing intensity through December Actually, there is an attitude of "eager waiting to t.ee" Which is so perceptible that it has most a physical 'quality to a reporter. Jtist: about every. interview I've top authorities since the steel mills reopened has come down to these three points: (1) THE assumption must be made that the steel mills will not be shut down again in early for only on this basis can any forecast be made with confidence. Assuming this, the question is: (2) Will the country take off oh a roaring upsurge to all-time records now that steel is pouring out, industries across the.

land are striving lo refill their warehouses and a settlement giving the sleelwoflcers fairly impressive advances seems likely? Or 3 Will the economy move upward al a pace with businesses and consumers buying on a relatively conservative scale? The stakes involved in the answer arc tremendous, and don't kid yourself. Your job and cost of living are concerned too. LET'S SAY thai what we're facing is just a steady expansion. There are many forces suggesting that's what pattern will be. For instance, the steel strike's duration cut so' deeply into incomes that many families aren't in position to buy what they had planned to.

It slashed profits of a large number of corporations and quite possibly compelled some shelving of spending plans. It so depleted steel supplies that the crucially important auto industry can't get cars to market on schedule, and a stretch out in caV production and buying is being forced. Business always slides a bit after Christmas, and buying from this fall to January February simply may plfset' a seasonal not impel a new boom. The slowdown in housing is a drag There'll be no spur from a vast U. S.

budget deficit as there was this lime a year ago. What would (his steady expansion mean lo yen? IT WOULD mean less, pres- -sure on the cost of living It would mean less borrowing by businessmen and consumers and this would help level off interest rales, prevent the money squeeze from getting worse of joblessness. But let's say that we're mov- a new upsurge. also are forces on a side. were emptied of -steel during the strike, corporations are scrambling for the immense rebuilding of inventories well may be underway.

The auto industry is fight- lug to produce cars lo meet otir rtcmands. Consumers were feeling optimistic before (he strike rqsumably un are; and sumer buying for cash and cred- could rise in defiance of usual seasonal trends in January February. A "catch-up boom is not al all unlikely particularly if the terms of the steel settlement are quite generous to the steelworkers WHAT WOULD this new upsurge mean tg you? It would 'mean heightened pressures on prices. would mean a stepped up i squeeze in early '60. j(.

wou mean a quickened absorption of the jobless and the whole atmosphere in our economy would be lending loward exuberance "Which? Which?" I've been asking again and again. In various forms, back has come the reply: "Don't try to decide in December what won't' be clear i later. When the most informed men are wailing' to see which way to jump you wait the terms of the settlement will be known, this is a time when 'uncertainty' is in itself the big news. "But another alternative is not a recession now?" In various forms, back has come the answer to this: 'No. On the assumption that's not one of the alternatives now.

Happy Thanksgiving! inland areas of China and Siberia. Thai leaves out the Philipl pines and Southeast Asia, areas American defense com- milmenls in the Far East. WE IT hard to believe, in view of the mounting traffic toll, but the average speed checked this year on New York slate highways whose speed limit was'50 mile san hour'was 48,2 miles an hour. dropped in .1058. It'was an even Ert.

miles, an hour in 1953. and family from the U. S. S. wolM mean a high' tTennessee, stationed at San Ped- level of joblessness -ro, Calif.

Miss Esther MacIIenry and her young nephew, Donald Ward Haven, will arrive here Wednesday from Seattle to remain Monday visiting her parents, the Rev. and Mrs. War'd MacHenry. Mr. and Mrs.

Waller Douglas of Washington, D. C. were guests Thursday night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Laurence of Ford's Prairie, 'after which they left lor Seattle lo visit with friends.

NHf MM. Ihe coastal zones Commit- If speed kills, then why thi' nl.it the Maritime number of fatal accidents inces.ot the Soviet Union a "as the average driving speed Japan but not drops?.