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4 Thortdar August M. The dropouts may have been the decent youngsters who could no longer endure the atmosphere. The Lyons Den By Leonard Lyons QLIFFORD ODETS, who died in Hollywood last week changed the American theater a generation ago. His Waiting for Lefty and Awake and Prattville Proposes A Pratfall Motel pROM time to time municipal bonds have been used In Alabama to buy and develop plant sites. This procedure, by which counties and municipalities intrude on the domain cf private Initiative to become landlords and plant brokers, is occasionally justifiable, as when unemployment is severe and capital is not otherwise available.

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Ed. tain scenery, but rather a portly, -cigar-smoking former professor who is due to take over the reins of the West German government when 87-year-old Konrad Adenauer reluctantly steps down as Chancellor In October. In the popular magazines, Ludwig Erhard, the economics minister, vice chancellor, and chancellor-designate, is pictured romping with his grandchildren on the lakefront lawns of his modern summer house at the Tegarn-see. But he also has spent much of his time when not called back to Bonn by affairs of state in serious conferences with political leaders. Of all those who have beaten a path to his door, none has aroused as much interest and concern, both within the government and without, as Franz Josef Strauss, the fiery former defense minister.

JT IS NO SECRET that the outspoken Mr. Strauss is anxious to make a political comeback following his ouster from the cabinet last December in the aftermath of the arrest of the publisher and several staff members of the weekly news magazine, Der Spiegel. Even after losing his Defense Ministry post, he was able to win a convincing re-election last month a3 chairman of the Christian Socialist Union, the Bavarian affiliate of Chancellor Adenauer's Christian Democratic Union. But he did not regain the national spotlight until three weeks ago, when he began leading the intra-party fight against West German acceptance of the limited nuclear test-ban treaty negotiated in Moscow by the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union. Despite repeated assurances from Washington and London that the treaty would not help the Communist East German regime gain diplomatic recognition, Mr.

Strauss remained bitterly opposed to it. He has held to this view, even though he did not raise any objections while attending the cabinet meeting that officially decided last Friday to ratify the treaty. Many people here believe that Mr. Strauss seized on the test-ban issue to project himself back onto the front pages. They also saw a desire to embarrass Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroeder, who strongly favored West German accession to the pact.

JF THESE were his aims, Mr. Strauss succeeded admirably in the first one, but failed completely on the second. The 52-year-old Mr. Schroeder who holds the post that Mr. Strauss would like to have and who is considered a good bet to follow Dr.

Erhard Into the chancellorship, a path that Mr. Strauss once had mapped out for himself emerged as the victor on the issue. The fact remains, however, that the Bavarian leader demonstrated a good deal of party support before finally bowing to the view that West Germany had to agree to the treaty or risk standing before world opinion with such other non-signers as Communist China, North Korea, Albania, and France as Its partners. What Mr. Strauss succeeded in doing, even while waging a losing fight, was to resurrect his standing as a political power far more quickly than most observers thought possible eight rnonths ago, when his national career appeared at an end following his ouster from the cabinet.

As a result, many people here are taking a hard look at the course Mr. Strauss might be taking. Some see his nationalist position on the test-ban treaty leading him into the Gaullist camp on other matters as well. But the French approach toward the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has won little popular support In West Germany, and what Mr. Strauss needs at this point Is an issue with widespread appeal.

He guessed wrong on opposition to the test-ban pact, but might not do so next time. (c) 1963, New York Herald Tribune Inc. BEER CAN UTTER The Milwaukee Journal PJACH technological leap forward seems to produce Its own headaches. Take beverage containers. Time was when beer bottles were returnable for a refund.

Small boys scrambled to collect them. The cleanup problem was negligible. Then came the beverage can and finally the "no-deposit, no-return" beverage bottle, the enduring curse of our roadsides and parks. Metal cans at least have the slender virtue of eventually rusting and disintegrating, but the "no-return" bottles appear to be nearly Indestructible. We now have beer cans with easily tapped aluminum ends.

Eventually the whole can may be of aluminum, an incredibly durable metal. The Sport Fishing Institute, concerned over the prospect of decades of aluminum cans accumulating in our waterways and elsewhere, asked the people at Keep America Beautiful (KAB) what could be done about It. KAB, which is conducting an antl-lltter campaign, had an answer. All-aluminum cans will have a relatively high salvage value about three-quarters of a cent per can at current aluminum prices. Here would be a fair incentive for small boys, youth groups and civic organizations looking for a cleanup drive with Its own rewards.

Sing sounded the pro tests of those depres- sipn years. But unlike! the Angry Young Men of post-war Britain, Odets wrote with poetic beauty instead of nastlness, and of hope instead of despair. One of his earliest. writings was for thej rat.alnpup rlpsprlhlnf the wares of his fa- LYONS ther, Louis J. Odets, a mattress manufacturer in Philadelphia.

Clifford wrote, Civilization Harasses People. He started In the theater as an actor. Rouben Mamoulian hired him to play a galley slave in the second company of the Theater Guild's Marco Millions. He had a minor role In Sidney Kingsley's Pulitzer Prize play, Men in White. Years later they reminisced about that play, and Kingsley recalled that one actor gave himself an additional line "Say, what are we, Boy Scouts?" Odets remembered it: "I did it." SINGLE sentence, he told me, was responsible for his career as a playwright.

Harold Clurman called on him, mentioned a new organization to be called the Group Theater, and said: "I hear you have some good ideas." Odets replied that his ideas for writing would enable actors to give polyphonic performances." Clurman, puzzled, made ready to leave. "And I'll say this," Odets continued, "I really don't know what the hell I'm talking about at this moment." Clurman stayed, and invited Odets to Join the Group Theater. As a young actor with The Group forerunner of the Actors Studio he was explosive. He'd strike his head against a wall, bang his fist on a piano and, one day, hurled a billiard ball at the wall. "Honestly, Clifford," Stella Adler told him, "unless you turn out to be a genius, no one will ever speak to you." "When I was 21," he said, "I vowed I'd be famous.

At 28 I was and found that fame Isn't all it's cracked up to be." He told me he could write a commercial success for Broadway whenever he wanted to and did It, deliberately, twice. The first wa3 Golden Boy, the other The Country Girl. He said: "An American playwright shouldn't be afraid of being a bit corny. Corn is part of American art. If an artist isn't a bit corny, then he's imitative of the Old World." QDETS once interviewed actresses for roles in his play, and was disappointed: "They're not really actresses; they're run-aways.

They all say they ran away from home to come to Broadway. So what? The fact that you're an actress may make you run away from home but the fact that you ruA away from home doesn't make you an actress." Gary Cooper was the first star for whom Odets wrote a screenplay, The General Died at Dawn. Cooper, who had an option to reject it, read It for three days then said: "A lot of words, but I'll learn 'em." Odets married Luise Rainer, and wrote to her new agent: "You must remember one thing that Luise Rainer is the Thomas Mann of film actresses." He became trapped for a while with the radical groups but at the same time kept investing all his money in U.S. government bonds. He expressed shock at the operation of Washington lobbyists, and confessed that he was naive: "I am a guy who still believes in Santa Claus." Odets had rare taste in art and, 25 years ago, bought Modigllanis, Utril-los, Soutines and 50 Paul Kees.

Had he held them it would have made him rich, but he had to sell most ot them for the divorce settlement with his second wife, the late Betty Hudson, and to support their two children. He became trapped again, with Hollywood's offers of financial security. He'd been burned by his experience with The Flowering Peach, a play about Noah's Ark, "I have boy meeting girl In a cute way," he said. "Each is the last on earth." His year's work on this earned him only $18,000 less than a month's pay from Hollywood. (Distributed 1963, by The Hall Syndicate, Inc.) LIVING TODAY By Arlie B.

Davidson Power To Stay QOOD Intentions are only the beginnings, not the end. It is easy to stop there and fall in the end. You may start out with great promise, but failure comes because of a lack of staying power. "Wherever there is failure," declared Ralph Waldo Emerson, "there is some superstition about luck, some step omitted There must be fidelity and adher-. ence.

How respectable! the life that clings tol these objects! Youth-' ful aspirations are DAVIDSON fine things, your theories and plans of life are fair and commendable. But will you stick?" In every day life, as in military combat, many battles are lost because of an early surrender, the failure to stay on the Job. Ambitions may be stirred, high goals may be selected and Initiative applied in the right direction. But the failure to use sufficient staying pover brings no rewards. Whatever you want to do, prepare for a hard Journey and perhaps slow progress.

Analyze yourself, the requirements of the task, and get going in the right direction with good methods, Then, stay on the Job. Gettlag started is important. Having the power to stay is more important. 1 11 1 nc build a $1,350,000 motel on the Southern Bypass in Montgomery County. In this Prattville is strictly an entrepreneur.

The motel cannot conceivably benefit Prattville, even indirectly. The object Is solely a profit on a capital Investment. JN RETURN for lending Its bonding authority to the project municipal bonds are tax-free and thus attractive to many investors the town of Prattville would receive $247,500 over a period of 19 years. The city attorney of Prattville says this price is "in lieu of taxes." It is not in lieu of taxes payable to Prattville because Montgomery County property is not taxable by that authority. Well, says the attorney, it was a price agreed upon by bargaining: "Prattville has to get something out of this deal." The next question Is what this does to the taxability of the motel site by Montgomery County.

It Is valuable land, yet the act under which Prattville proposes to build the motel would render the property at least partially non-taxable by Montgomery County. The clerk of the Montgomery County Board of Revenue has the Impression that only the structures upon the site would be taxable. The land itself would not be. JS IT a proper exercise when a municipality in one county uses its favored authority to (1) engage In a strictly private, profit-making venture and (2) at the same time retire valuable property from the tax rolls of another county? If the last is true, the town of Prattville will commit the taxpayers of Montgomery County to subsidize the land use of that site. The larger risk Is that the frivolous use of municipal bonds is a threat to the treasury of every state and local borrowing authority.

Municipal bonds are used in almost every local project schools, roads, sewers and the like. Because the federal government does not tax the Income from municipal bonds, the bonds carry a lower interest rate. This saves the state, counties and cities of Alabama untold millions of dollars. If because of abuses the tax exemption were removed from municipal bonds as Is periodically urged in Congress it probably would double the cost of borrowing In local government. The result would be severely restricted local government and a doubled burden upon the taxpayers.

An angry congressman waving a fistful' of documents describing the Prattville stupefaction could hurt every city In America. MONTGOMERY COUNTY, if it permits this transaction, is hazarding its own future. The idea is beyond belief. The Hoods Are In School The report that juvenile arrests In Washington, D. rose 13 during the past year occasions no surprise; such has been the trend for many years.

Neither is there anything new in the fact that the vast majority of offenders were non-white. But one aspect of the report muot have come as a shocker to certain educators and government officials the finding that there is no apparent relation between delinquency and school dropouts. It destroys a pet theory that youngsters quit high school to enter Into a life of crime. After an analysis of the records of Juvenile offenders In the 16-17 age group and those of 3,000 dropouts, the Youth Aid Division said, "It appears clear that the large majority of the dropouts are not Involved in delinquent behavior." The hoodlums, then, are still in school. Come to think of It, this should be no surprise either considering the warlike conditions said to exist In Washington's public schools.

The Oilier Shoe That Wasn't There What remains astonishing about the Posf-Butts affair Is that the article was ever published. The single most commanding feature of the trial was the suspense of awaiting some "ace In the hole" from the Saturday Evening Post. As day after day went by, nothing came forth. Finally, It was evident that the Post had committed all its forces on the first rush when the article was published-and had no reserve. On the unsupported testimony of one man and not the most reputable man at that the Post labeled Butts and Bryant corrupt.

The $3,060,000 awarded to Butts Is the first Installment. The next turn is Bryant's. When all else about the case is forgotten, the Post will be remembered with wonder for having committed a dumfounding publishing misadventure. The memoirs of the man who made that decision will be read with some The Lights Go Out In Baltimore Small fry of Baltimore, after riding a high tide of prosperity for the past several summers, have learned a harsh lesson In business economics. The trouble lies In a disastrous decrease in the firefly population.

Thirteen years ago, The Johns Hopkins University began Investigating the chemical properties which make fireflies light up. The school needed vast numbers of the Insects and children were asked to catch them during the evening, at 20 a hundred. Children responded enthusiastically and the chase and catch of the flashing creatures became a favorite nighttime activity. Long lines formed on the campus as youngsters turned in their catch and collected their pay. Baltimore developed quick understanding of the economic principles and firefly catching began to take on the aspects of Industry.

One perceptive lad organized a neighborhood and became a firefly broker. At another time, the children, knowing the demand for fireflies was critical to the Hopkins research project, used strong-arm labor tactics and went on strike with a demand of 301 a hundred or no fireflies. An arbitration board was set up and the strikers settled for 25), In the pattern of the steelworkers and the auto unions. In the summer of 1962, Baltimore children caught and were paid for over 1,000,000 fireflies. Summertime and the living was easy.

But came the summer of 1963 and the depression was on. Instead of the customary warm, muggy weather which produces billions of fireflies In the area, the weather turned cool and dry. Disheartened children who once scooped up hundreds of fireflies In their gossamer nets in one evening now find It difficult to catch a handful. So far as the children are concerned, Baltimore is an economically depressed area. However, since they can't vote It's not likely they will become eligible for government aid.

When times get better and they can afford the luxury of a strike again, the kids would be wise to demand a guaranteed Annual wag. tears because of his doing what he said he would do. I'd take my medicine like a man. A. E.

MIDDLEBROOKS. Athens. In Lincoln's Name Editor, The Advertiser: The enclosed article from the Montgomery County, Suburban Record "Don't Be A Martyr, Stay Home" recommends that Washington residents stay away from our nation's Capital Aug. 28. It expects violence.

Will there be violence? This is the burning question the people of metropolitan Washington area are asking. One Individual, who Is welcoming the march that Washington residents do not welcome, is the President. Of the march he stated July 17: "I think that is In the great tradition. I shad look forward to being there." The American people can only pray that this statement Is the heartfelt conviction of the man who wrote Profiles of Courage, whose presence in the White House Aug. 28 is to rally the confidence of the people of Washington and America in a crisis as grave as April 14, 1865 or Dec.

7, 1941. To entertain the thought that this confidence might stem from prior knowledge that the march-turned-riot will be directed at Congress, and not the White House or the Supreme Court, would destroy the trust of the American people in their leadership. But should Congress alone be "worked over" by the mob, with the Supreme Court and the White House getting off scot-free, what other explanation can be entertained? President Abraham Lincoln, lu whose name they march, stood for moral responsibility, for non-violence and for Christian charity as the most practical prescription to bind up our nation's bleeding wounds: "With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds Abraham Lincoln's secret weapon to save America was simply fundamental Christianity, the Golden Rule. It is most disturbing to note in 1963 the weapons proposed for civil rights from the pulpits by the advocates of "ecumenical social action," who form the backbone of the drive to be "Fully Free in Sixty-three." Ever since the march of ecumenical clerics at Gwynn Oak Park, Baltimore, on July 4, the march of civil rights demonstrations has taken on all the aspects of a "holy war" against all those resisting the "Crusade" enforced social integration backed up by the federal government and the armed forces of the United States! RUFUS WEBB. RFD 1, Box 392 Gaithersburg, Md.

Chicken Exports Courier-Journal part." France now Is looking for export markets for butter; a few years ago she imported it. AH of these facts show that the chicken tariff, and the hard bargaining over other details of agricultural tariffs, are not simply a matter of the inefficient Europeans protecting themselves against the low-cost, low-priced products of U.S. mechanization. The struggle Is going on inside the Common Market as well as between it and the outside world, for the wealth of food suddenly spilling over each national boundary becomes an internal marketing problem as well as one to be adjusted to outside competition. The outcome will not simply be a matter of chickens.

It has to be the result of testing the grand design of the Common Market itself. If it is as good as its most inspired planners hoped and believed, these growing pains will take care of themselves within a few years, as the benefits of a constantly expanding free world trade outweigh all individual efforts to hoard and protect. Our own record on free trade is not one entitling us to an excess of moral Indignation over the backwardness cf other nations. EDITOR, THE ADVERTISER What has happened to ex-Gov. Patterson? Has he left the country? In all the furore about Kennedy and civil rights we don't hear a word from former Gov.

John. Just three years ago he was "beating the bushes" for the election of President Kennedy, proud of the fact that he was the first Southern governor to come out for Kennedy. Looking through some newspaper clippings I find glowing statements from Mr. Patterson assuring Ala-bamians that everything would be all right if we would vote for Mr. Kennedy.

He appealed to Alabamians to put aside their differences and "support the new administration." The governor declared that Alabama and its sister states would be "in a better position to protect ourselves" against civil rights prosecutions. I wrote Patterson two or three personal letters urging him before the Democratic Convention to cease his support of Mr. Kennedy and said that Patterson would soon regret that support should Kennedy be elected. But the governor did not even acknowledge my letters. Mr.

Kennedy carried Alabama because politicians like Patterson, Bull Connor (who was state Democratic committeeman and who at the convention meekly signed the loyalty pledge to support the ticket) and our congressional delegation led by Senators Hill and Sparkman went up and down the state pleadihg with the people to support the Kennedy-Johnson ticket. (I feel confident that the then Judge George Wallace also voted for the man he is now denouncing so bitterly.) These politicians had heard Kennedy say again and again that he would do certain things If elected. Kennedy declared: "The Democratic Party Intends to use the full legal and moral authority of the federal government including in particular the presidency Itself to put an end to racial and religious discrimination in every area of our national life so that every American has the same right as every other American to go to school, to get a job, to vote, to buy a house, to use any public facility and to sit down at any public lunch counter." Kennedy also declared more than once that "we must grant the attorney general more power to enforce all constitutional rights, not just the right to vote." Our politicians and the majority Df Alabamians heard and read these statements of Kennedy declaring emphatically what he would do If elect-' ed. But even so they went right on to the polls and voted to elect him. Now the President Is doing Just what he said he would do If elected.

I did not vote for Mr. Kennedy, but if I had voted for him I would not now be wringing my hands and shedding The Fuss Over The Louisville ipHE FUSS over American chicken exports to Europe has to be seen In the context of a larger and profoundly altered agricultural picture in the Western world. The Issue is, in some ways, as trivial as Its subject, the chicken. But as a symbol It is Important and indicative of still more upsets to come. For one thing, our mass-produced, factory-packed little birds are no longer competing only with the barnyard beauties of Bresse or the surplus of some German farm wife's hen house.

"Vertical integration," which is a most misleading phrase, is now at home In European farming country as well as in the valleys of California. It means the complete handling of a food crop, from the farmyard to the consumer package, at one spot and in one operation. A direct challenge to our mass-produced poultry, for Instance, Is a Netherlands co-operative which handles 10,000 birds an hour, According to The Wall Street Journal, French farmers now grow 50 more wheat per acre than the average U.S. farmer does. And, continues The Journal, "the average Dutch cow In 1961 yielded 9,280 pounds of milk against 7,196 pounds for her American counter.