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THE MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 195 5 FOUR A 'I've Heard And Seen So Much For One So Young! I aflMf tsW" jf" W1rwawtayoaMI 8JpayWs8yWBWfPjs PnaToweWeay Published Every Wn Dr By THX MONTGOMERY ADVaBTUTSB Established 1828 entered tbe Post Oil Ice at Montaomery. lav, as Second Claas natter undtr net of March 3. 187 a. V. HUDSON W.

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Km Department n-aaai 'fy-a-kLy. PLJir Circulation T748 3-96M Colored News Bureaa (all hoara Sports Department Here's Henry By Henry McLemore TyiTH every seat occupied, the big pas-senger plane revved its motors, zoomed down the runway and then didn't take off. Three times the crew tried to get it airborne, and three failed. Finally, the captain walked back from the cockpit, tapped me on the shoulder, and said, "111 have to ask you to get off the plane and get a haircut. The plane is overloaded, and we'll never get off the ground until you do.

We'll wait for you." That's the dream I had five nights in a row last week, and I don't mind telling you that it had rne worried. Not because strange dreams are new to me. I have dreamed about almost everything under the sun that begins with evry letter of the alphabet. I Just didn't like the way I reacted to the captain's orders. Instead of tell ing him that he must be crazy, or pointing out that I had less hair than any man on the plane, why pick on me, I meekly unfastened my seat belt, got up, and went and had a haircut.

That's too mousy a way for a man to act, even in a dream. p00, the "daily haircut was breaking; me. There wasn't a shop in the airport and I had to catch a cab and ride about five miles. The fare, plus the dollar and a half and a tip for the barber, ran into serious money. After I had dreamed the same thing four nights running and this shows you how it was preying on my mind and getting me down I had my hair cut late in the afternoon.

"Now," I said to myself when I gol into bed, "the captain won't have any reason on earth to single me out among the passengers. But if he does welt I'll tell him off plenty." But back the captain came, and Just as on the flights of the preceding nights, I was the absolute timid soul. I deplaned and spent another six seven bucks for a haircut. I broke the spell by staying up all night the sixth night. And as sleepy as I was about 4 in the morning, couldn't help but chuckle at how the captain must have and how mad he must have been, when he came back and found his sucker wasn't on board.

I was about to see a psychiatrist about this persistent dream when I remember that among my books I had one entitled Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted by Gustavus. Hindman Miller. When, where or why I ever bought it escapes me, but I got it out and searched for a solution. JT DIDN'T do much good. Mr.

Miller covers a lot of ground the first interpretation is Abandon and the last is Zoological Gardens but there wasnt anything dealing with airplane haircuts. There was quite a bit about hair, though. (To dream you cut your hair close to the scalp denotes lavishness toward a friend. If you dream of a woman with golden hair you will prove to be a fearless lover.) I' also found out that the occasional dreams I have about rhubarb mean that I am in for some pleasant entertainment, and that the dream I had about Swiss cheese a while back will result in my coming Into a substantial fortune. If that comes true, I won't feel so bad about the money I spent on those needless haircuts.

attributed by McNaufht Syndicate. Inc.) Living Today By Arlie B. Davidson Why Fear? JTEAR is one of man's chief enemies. It creates uneasiness, weakens courage, reduces natural powers to a mini Off The Bench By Judge Walter B. Jones HerhertvHoover Points With Pride their mark in the world by peaceful means.

It cannot be disputed that this is all to the good, and should be encouraged by all means short of coddling and taking on too much over the reformation of our late enemies. Atty. Gen. Patterson's Loan Shark Victory JUDGE JONES' strongly worded injunction against a local loan company as a public nuisance, apparently the ilrst cuch injunction ever issued in Alabama, should serve notice on the remaining 800 small loan companies in Alabama that Atty. Gen.

John Patterson means business and has the power of the courts behind him. When he filed petitions for injunctions against Tide Finance, and two other money lenders, Patterson announced thai he had undertaken a campaign to rid the state of usury on the theory that extortionate rates of interest were public nuisances policy. He had behind him a long line of cases, dating all the way back to old English court rulings, up to a ruling of the Alabama Supreme Court (the "Bynum all supporting the public nuisance theory. However so far as we have been able to determine, the nubile nuisance doctrine and the Supreme Court ruling In the Bynum case had never been translated into actual injunctions. It was left for Patterson to see the ev that existed, the notorious failure- of the legislature through the years to do anything about it, and organize hp own campaign against the ancient scourge of usury.

Judge Jones found, as The Advertiser has reported over the past several years, instances of interest rates up to 700. We believe others are regularly charging even higher rates, protected by the state's farcical small loan law, the Harris Act, which prohibits criminal prose-cut'on for usury. Usury Is defined by the Harris Act and Alabama's general usury law as anything over 8 on a written contract (or over 6 on an oral Seeing law enforcement agencies hobbled by this protective law and seeing the power of the loan shark lobby in preventing the enactment of remedial legislation, Patterson turned to the courts of equity for redress. As is seen by the ruling of Judge j6nes, perhaps the state's foremost equity authority, Patterson is on sound ground and the loan sharks all of them are in peril. As a practical matter, it seems impossible for Patterson to joust with any but the most flagrant offenders.

He could hardly hope to keep 800 operators under constant surveillance. In addition, 8 Is unrealistically low for small, unsecured loans. Still that's the law, a law the loan sharks helped enact and have defended through the years because of its unenforceability. We doubt that Patterson will concern himself with minor overcharges. But the guiding principal In his fight is a good one.

As he puts it: "The best way to get rid of a bad law (The Harris Act) is to enforce it." The attorney general of Nebraska has undertaken a similar campaign. To Alabama loan sharks, the Harris Act seems to have turned into a Frankenstein mpnster, threatening them all. They asked for it. QNE of the most interesting addresses I have read recently was delivered by Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States, on his 81st birthday anni versary at his hoy hcod home at New fill- frr berg, Oregon. Mr.

Hoover is one of America's great and noble sons, one who has always been devoted to the ideals to his country and who has served her usefully and with honor all of his life. It would take 10 or 15 Off the SLXZ Bench columns tell of the fine Judge Jones. things he has done not only for our country, but for -the National Whirligig By Ray Tucker WASHINGTON. "THE belated British admissions about the MacLean-Burgess betrayal of vital allied secrets to Russia over a period of about 20 years reveal the utter ineptitude of Anglo-American Intelligence before, during and after World War II. They cast a pall over forthcoming negotiations with the communists, and support the suspicions Of Allan W.

Dulles' Central Intelligence Agency. MacLean and Burgess were important figures in the British Foreign Service, serving here and in London in posts that provided th.em with access to secret atomic data and our military strategy in the Far East. They fled to Russia in 1951, which the British admit publicly only now. But the new and astonishing development is that they were bestraying Eritain to the communists morethun 20 years ago, when they were university students. UNSUSPECTED TRAITORS They were so unsuspected that they were given vital assignments at Whitehall where they were able to keep Moscow informed of high Anglo-American policy political, military, economic, atomic.

They were not screened by the FBI because of our trust An British efficiency. Two others cleared by the British au thorities and, therefore, not investigated by the FBI, were Klaus Fuchs and Dr. Allan Nunn May, who were given extremely sensitive spots at the Los Alamos laboratory. They were not detected until years after they had enabled Russia to develop atomic weapons at least ten years before our experts had anticipated. But the British hurl their own recriminations against us against American Intelligence operators, or against even higher officials.

Although the FBI arrested several Russian agents, who were connected with the atomic spy rings in Canada and the United States, they were released without -severe qus-tioning or convicted on only minor charges. FDR DEAF TO WARNING The pre sumption is that the administration at Washington preferred not to affront Stalin during the war and in the early postwar era, when Truman trusted that "good old Uncle Joe Stalin" would remain a friend and ally. It was this -consideration which led FDR to disregard the warning of communist cells within his administration, which Whittaker Chambers gave to Adolph A. Berle then assistant secretary ol state. Similar evidence against the HJss-White cell, then.

in possession of the FBI, was not acted on by the White House or the Department of Justice. TRAGIC COMPLACENCY This carelessness and complacency, as even Democratic members of congressional investigating committees believe, turned out to be a world tragedy in that it changed the course of history," as a federal judge salJ when he sentenced Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to death. Without the atomic weapons she now possesses, Russia might not be a threat to world peace. Without the Information passed along to Moscow by Mac-Lean, which conveyed Truman's refusal to permit MacArthur to wage an all-out war against the North Koreans, China and North Korea might not now be powerful Red STALIN'S WORTHLESS PLEDGE These revelations may have other immediate effects. They jeopardize the success of next meeting of the foreign ministers to Implement the "spirit of Geneva." For they prove that Russia was waging conspiratorial war against us at the moment that FDR was recognizing Moscow on the basis of Stalin's pledge to abandon world espionage and propaganda.

The question Washington now asks is How can we trust them again? These new developments may also toss the Red issue into the 1958 campaignagain. They may subordinate such domestic questions as the farm slump, the influence of "big business" at Washington and the unbalanced budget. The GOP will certainly revive 1952 charges, if Truman or Gov. Averell Harriman. of New York figure prominently on.

the Democratic front. (Released by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) from the communists at home and aboard who would overthrow our American system. And it even comes from free nations whom we have tried to help. "Altogether, if we look at the criticisms alone, we seem to be In a very, very bad way and engaged in our decline and fall. "In all this clamor we might occasionally mention something good about "We could point out that American way of life has perfected the greatest productivity of any nation on earth; that our standard of living is the highest in the world.

We could point to our constantly improving health and lengthening span of life. We could point out that the mechanical genius of our people has. by millions of labor-saving machines, taken the sweat from the backs of most of our people. 4 "In the governmental field, we could suggest that our supposedly decadent people still rely upon the ballot and the legislative hall to settle their differences without a secret police with slave camps. "In the cultural field, we could point out that with only about of the world's population we have more youth in our institutions of higher learning than all the rest of the world put together.

We could probably enumerate more libraries and more printed serious words than all other 94 of the people of the earth. 'QN THE moral and spiritual side, we have more hospitals and charitable institutions than all of them. "And we could suggest that we alone, or all nations. fought in two world wars and askad no indemnities, no acquisition of territory, no domination over other nations. "We could" point "to our advancement of the spirit of compassion.

We could prove it by the billions of dollars we have made as gifts to save millions from famine and governments from collapse. "Much as I feel deeply the lag In giying a full equal chance to our Negro population, yet I cannot refrain from mentioning that our 14,000.000 American Negroes own more automobiles than all the 200 million Russians or the 300 million Negroes in Africa. "All of which is not boasting, but just fact. And we could say a good deal more. "What does all this mean? It means that, freedom of mind, of spirit and of initiative still lives in America.

It means that our people are strong in religious faith. Here alone are the open windows through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit. Here alone, even with all its defects, Is human dignity, not a dream but an accomplishment. "These ideals of freedom and religious faith guarantee there will be no decline and fall of American civilization. "Therefore we should lift our eyes unto the hills from whence cometh our help.

"God bless you all." stricken and impoverished nations of the world. On Aug. 10 last, Mr. Hoover went to Newbery to spend his birthday among the friends of his boyhood. Mr.

Hoover was both motherless and fatherless from the time he was 10 years old; and in 1884. at the age of 11, he removed from Iowa to Oregon to live with an uncle, Dr. Henry John Minthorn. Here he spent the happy years of his boyhood. The purpose of his visit to Newberg was to have part in the restoration and dedication of the little two-story frame nouse where he lived as a boy with him uncle, who was for long, long years a beloved physician in the country.

Mr. Hoover paid touching tribute to the country doctor of a generation, ago. Another part of Mr. Hoover's address was a tribute to the part played by the pioneer women and men in the Northwest and he recalled again memories "of courage with which the pioneers felled these forests to make their farms, of their staunch fidelities to the ideals of free men and the moral and spiritual life with which they endowed our generation." THE most interesting part of Mr. Hoover's address to me was his suggestion that" after the long period in which our American' way of life had been subjected to foreign criticism and that of the Quislings among us we might mention "something good" about ourselves." Xn this part of his speech he said: "Criticism comes daily from the habit of our political parties to deplore the opposition.

It arises from the forthright refusal of the American people to wash their dirty linen in secret. It comes from our love of sensational in-' cldents where villainy is pursued by law and virtue triumphs. "And it comes from the fuzzy-minded totalitarian liberals who believe that creeping collectivism can be adopted without destroying the safeguards of free men. It comes bitterly and daily if A' mum, and often makes life miserable. And so much of our fear is so unnecessary.

Why fear, anyway? 1. Why fear the dark? Children often do and some adults do. But it has no Innate power. Accept the darkness, move cautiously, and if necessary get a light. 2.

Why fear people? If you are on good terms you try to treat them Deflated, Pennies From Heaven The out-of-court settlement of the Talladega dispute the ownership of the meteorite which, struck Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges seems eminently fair. Mrs. Hodges has agreed to pay her landlady, Mrs. Birdie Guy, $500 when the meteorite is sols.

Mrs. Kodges claimed ownership because the star fell on her; Mrs. Guy argued that it was hers because it had struck her house. It's just as well thai the ladies got together on a settlement because there Was obviously no legal precedent for the case and the courts would have been in "a quandary to give either of the two contenders a clear title to the celestial rock. However, to restate our argument favoring the paramount claim of.

Mrs. Hodges, it was the fact that she was hit by the meteorite which inflated the market for the rock, one offer being re-, ported at $5,500. Meteorites are rela-tivly commonplace, but meteorites which have hit people are unknown in all recorded lilstory that is, until Mrs. Hodges was so honored. If Mrs.

Guy gets $500 for her claim to the missile, she will have received several times the normal value of a jneteorite; Mrs. Hodges will be paid for her distinction of being the only known living target of a meteorite, and everybody should be happy. However, the" dispute has occupied ten crucial months during which time the novelty value of a human-hitting meteorite has probably dropped sharply. We don't taow of any reliable meteorite market reporting service, but we'll hazard the guess that offer now won't exceed three figures, or Just about enough to pay off the opposing lawyers. Thus proving once again that the ultimate beneficiary of almost every happening on this planet Is a lawyer.

Japan And Germany One encouraging feature about the postwar period is the way our defeated enemies have pitched in and gone to work, with results reflected in mounting prosperity. There has been widespread comment on the way the Germans have snapped cut- of it. West Germany today Is prosperous, and of increasing importance in world trade. Japan is not as well off as Germany, but the Japs are in there pitching, with no symptoms of folding up and dying in the wake of defeat. A recent item told of Japan ousting Britain from her traditional position of chief exporter of new merchant ships.

As of a recent date, Japanese shipyards had a total of $540 million in shipbuilding contracts. Both Japan and Germany have been aided in staging comebacks by. liberal' treatment from the victors the Western powers, that is, and especially the lUnited States. This treatment has been hi part by a worthy impure to be generous to a defeated foe and in we might as well admit, by the of the communist menace, which 'make Germany and Japan take on adaed importance as possible allies. It Is a pity that Japan and Germany 'could not have decided in the first place to make it the hard way, instead of trying short cuts.

Their peaceful competition poses some problems-j-but here we cannot smack them down as summarily as in the case of armed aggression. Even the individual gangster who reforms and pitches In to earn an honest living is given a chance. I An important factor of the postwar Is that In the Germans and Japanese we have two virile and industrious breeds who have refused to succumb to athy and defeatism, but are making a DAVIDSON with 'them, if fairly, if you violate no basic laws and Lyons Den By Leonard Lyons British Justice The Richmond Times-Dispatch commented the other day on the arrest of two Londoners on charges of "behaving in a disorderly manner whilst drunk." It just so happened that one of them was John Churchill, a nephew of Sir Winston, one of the greatest figures in all England's history. The other was John Churchill's wife, sister of Anthony Eden, currently Britain's prime minister. The Times-Dispatch noted that the two prominent personages were taken into custody by a constable, who was no more awed influenced by their standing than if they had been slum dwellers.

They were arraigned, and required to post bond, Just like anyone else. The Richmond paper observed: It is somewhat difficult to imagine that Americans of similarly exalted connections would have been subjected to the same "inconveniences" in this country. Even if a conscientious policeman had insisted on taking them, bodily, into custody, almost any presiding justice would have released them "on' their own recognizance." No great harm would have been done. But to the British it would have made all the difference in the world. 1 Britons of all classes despite class-angled diatribes of Hyde Park soapboxers, are proud of the great families of the kingdom.

For that very reason they insist on even-handed justice for all. This serves a double purpose conducive to democracy. It works both ways, it places the great and mighty on the same level as the little man; it also places the humblest British subject on a par with men in high office, at the bar of justice. This is a principle and example from which we in this country, should profit. It is a paradox that in England, a try to play your part, people will not harm you, as a rule.

3. fear the truth? It may' be difficult to accept and incorporate in your life, but it is the surest foundation for a sate and happy life. 4. Why fear cyclones, earthquakes, and othei unusual disturbances of nature? Yoa can't control them. But you can place yourself where they are least likely to appear, and if they do come, you can hold yourself together.

5. Why fear the past? It Is gone and you can't restore it. It may have scars, but you can make your life so full and Important, today that the scars of yesterday won't bother you. 6. Why fear the future? Live wisely and build good foundations today.

The future will take care of itself. The fear of possible calamity wiil increase your 'anxiety and unhappiness today. Master these fears. Don't let them master you. FOR FLORIDA PARTITION The Brewton Standard If there is consolation In miserable company, Alabama and Florida should find a lot of it in the reapportionment troubles that have beset both states.

Florida has just wrangled Its way through one stormy legislative session that went nowhere in trying to solve the matter of how many senators and representatives each county should have. Alabama is headed for the same sort of political uproar when Gov. James FoLsom calls the legislature back for a special session in November. There's one heartening note from the Florida fracas. It is being rumored that some of the south and east Florida counties want to split, off from Northwest Florida and form another state.

We're for it. Fact is, if we can find the leader of this secession movement, we'll help him plot and plan the whole move. Because it that happens, then Alabama might work out a deal to unite with Northwest Florida and put the two states together the 'Way they should be from the Apalachicola River west. If those transplanted Yankees whs live in south Florida are serious, the least us Alabamlans could do would be to send them some Confederate flags and money. CHIRLE BOOTH is in Boston with Desk-Set, a new play by William Marchant.

The author has been living at the YMCA in New York. The producers invited him to stay, In Boston, at the Ritz Hotel at their expense. Marchant, however, insisted on staying at a small inexpensive hotel. "I don't want to get accustomed to expensive habits," he explained. "It might spoil mc Just in case the play is not a hit." TACK KEARNS, who managed Jack Dempsey and Mickey Walker, owns a piece of Archie Moore.

He was in Lindy's the other night reminiscing of his years as a hustler in the Yukon gold rush of his adventures with Tex Rickard, Jack London, Rex Beach, Robert W. Service and Wilson Mlzner. He also told of how his advice had brought Archie Moore to the million-dollar fight with Maiciano. "Will you be in Moore's corner at the fight?" he was asked "Nab," said Kearns. "I'll be in a more important place with Jim Norris, counting the receipts." A LEX ROSE, head of the Milliners Union and Liberal Party leader, served with the Jewish Legion under Lord Allenby during World War I.

After the war, he had to do guard duty at a munitions A corporal caught him napping. Rose persuaded the man not to report him. After all, hostilities had ceased, and Rose had had a rough time of it including long hours that day They shook hands, and said some day they'd meet again, in America. They: met again last week, in Baltimore. Rose, representing his union, found the ex-corporal representing management.

They shook hands again and, naturally, reached another quick JARL BAKAL interviewed some elderly doctors for his Coronet article, "285 Years of Medicine." One of the doctors, Dr. Maurice J. Lewi, is 97 years old. Bakal asked: "To what do you attribute your longevity?" Dr. Lewi replied: "I never waste energy resisting temptation." Q.OV.

AVERELL HARRIMAN will make a regular TV and radio report to the people at the end of each month. Paul Hoffman is flying to Rome next week Robert Mitchum flew from Paris to New York recently, Just for the premiere of Night Of The Hunter 5 Henri Dendel no longer will use glamour but a "Bendel Family" a. 40-year-old woman, a 25-year-old girl and a 4-year-old, all non-professionals. (Copyright, 19SS, FotiEaU Syndicate, Inc.) Rough Stuff The Milwaukee Journal HAT was the. New York waterfront, strike all about? A Newark dock worker asked that question last week to his sorrow.

A union speaker was addressing a meeting, The New York Times reports, when a rank and file member queried: "What are the principles for which we are going out?" A husky individual walked up to the questioner and punched him in the nose. The speaker continued: "Now Til answer the question. The principles are these: You go home and don't work. We dont want you' guys asking questions." BONE OF CONTENTION The Cincinnati Enquirer It your city or town has become so peaceful that the monotony is getting boresome, you can enliven it to an enormous extent by launching a movement to have its water fluorinated. A.