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WEDNESDAY, APRIL Z6, 1961 Need Better Key Americans are justly proud of the great, resourceful, productive economy which a given them living standards the world envies. But they are learning slowly and painfully that it has some persistent major flaws. The recessions we a undergone since World War II cover a total time span equal to roughly five years. Before that war we suffered a deep slump which a many economists now consider ran with little interruption for a staggering 12 years. Thus we have been in economic declines of varying breadth and depth for more than half the 32 years since the 1920s boom collapsed in late 1929.

Of the remaining 15 years, seven were taken up by World War II and the 1950-53 Korean War. We cannot be sure what they would have been like had they been peaceful. But we do know that war added the sharp artificial stimulus of heavy military demand. That leaves eight nonwar years--one fourth of the time -wherein we have enjoyed prosperity of an order that features not only heavy national output but reasonably full of manpower and a capacity. For 10 of the 12 years of the a Depression, unemployment never fell below 14 per cent of the civilian work force.

In the 1932-35 span it ranged from 20 to 25 per cent. And the two "low" years were between 8 and 10 per cent. Today we are properly concerned when joblessness starts moving much above the 5 per cent mark. But in our most recent recovery we did not in fact get below that level. Further worry is voiced over evidence that "high periods" between recessions have been shrinking, from 45 months between 1949 and 1954 to 25 months in the most recent instance.

Government economists say that now, in i newest recession, we have about $50 billion less annual output than we could have with full use of our capacity. What a measure could be put on all the unused capacity in the Great Depression and the four recessions suffered between 1929 and 1961? And who can gauge the human waste that has accompanied this obviously vast economic loss? More and more leaders in business, labor and government are coming to the view that new, deeper assaults are needed on the nagging ills that afflict the fundamentally sturdy American economy. Our standards continue high, and our resources of men and materials are great. But U. S.

leaders agree we must find a better key to the steady and full use of the economic and human riches we have. Figure Your If ay Two postelection surveys seem at odds over the question whether, on balance, President was helped or hurt in the 1960 presidential race by his Catholicism. The latest, by the University of Michigan Survey Research Center, says his religion cost Kennedy a net loss of 1.5 million votes, some 2 per cent of the two-party vote. An earlier research staff report from the Republican National Committee suggests Kennedy was materially aided by a six million vote shift of Catholics to his banner, especially in the big-city states with large electoral votes. Obviously the two studies are here talking about different things, but when they zero in on the same points there is a real conflict.

The Michigan analysts themselves strongly emphasize the 1960 switch of Catholic voters to Kennedy, saying he drew a record 80 per cent of all Catholics voting. Yet, while the GOP study pits this showing against the 1956 result, when half the voting Catholics voted for the immensely popular Dwight Eisenhower, the Michigan group argues a the 1960 performance should be judged against a "normal" Democratic expectation of 65 per cent of the Catholic vote. The Republican study put the acknowledged big Catholic i to- gether i another acknowledged fact--that heavy Catholic concentrations exist in the big-city states. From this it concluded that Kennedy was advantaged decisively by the religious factor in these key areas. --0-The GOP report did not, however, offer evidence of the specific Catholic voting switch in individual big states, or of the relations between' change and Kennedy's winning margins.

The Michigan surveyors contend that in the absence of such specifics, Republican analysts cannot prove a tight link between Kennedy's victory and i tremendous Catholic vote. Still, they do not flatly deny such a link may exist Their own samplings cannot be applied to the problem, since i those in most voter surveys they are too thinly spread. In the Michigan findings, it is a Kennedy's net national loss from the religious a results mainly from a striking 16 per cent decline in 15 southern states, where a record outpouring of devout Protestant Democrats and many independents rolled up a heavy anti-Catholic vote. But Kennedy took that blow and still won seven southern states. Outside the South, his net vote advantage from his Catholicism was judged to be 1.5 per cent.

How decisive that was is the issue. Researchers disagree, and the facts seem sketchy. That perhaps leaves something for everybody in the analysts' grab bag. Remarks To Irk Career Woman By Hal Boyle NEW YORK a career woman gets tired of hearing: "After all, she's married to her job." "Sometimes, don't you feel you'd like to chuck it all for a husband and a home?" "And now it is my pleasure to introduce to you Miss Nell Crapplc. a pioneer in our field who, as you all know, was among the first women in our industry to--" "It's not only that she knows the business inside out.

To hire a man with half her brains would cost us twice as much." "I'm sorry, ma'am, we don't serve unescorted ladies at the "Miss, that is your third one. How about taking a look at the menu?" "Let her pick up the tab. What if she is a woman? She's got a bigger expense account allowance than any man in the office." "What do you do with all the money you make?" "I know I'm talking rough, and you'll have to excuse my language. But I've always thought of you as one of the boys." "Gee, I don't know the answer to that one. You'd bptlrr ask Miss Grapple.

She in the company when Abe Lincoln was chasing ambulances in a buggy." "Frankly, Miss Grapple, we think tj. tun tint make; you look a bit haggard. We recommend in your case our new tint, glam- orine-gray. which is specifically designed to accentuate your mature youthfulness--and at the same time point out that here is a person of responsibility." "I'm glad you've agreed to come to the office picnic. Miss Grapple.

You'll be a real force in keeping it from getting out of hand." "You wouldn't believe it, looking at her now. but I can remember when she came to work with a ribbon in her hair." "Would you mind taking up a collection in the office for Judy, who joined us last month: She's getting married." "We have to face facts, Miss Grapple. Our gross has dropped off months in a row. We'll have to cut our personnel 10 per cent, and since you arc single--" "Why, Nell Grapple, what a surprise! 1 haven't seen you since college. Meet my husband, George.

What have you been doing all these years? Having fun, I hope." "Thf thing I often wonder about you career women is: Who zippers up the of your dress when you go out of an elevator operator?" "Actually, our she 14 is cut tight and is the same as size 10 in the less expensive shops. I would recommend size M. You'll fool more comfortable and your won't show." Peter Edson Kennedy's New Plans On Taxes WASHINGTON (NEA) House Ways and Means Committee under chairman Wilbur Mills ID-Ark.) is expected to begin hearings 0 Ken- Inedy's new tax proposals a in May. Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon will be the first of will prob- 'ably be a long PETER EDSON line of witness- i present what he will have to offer.

The secretary will not present a draft of legislation, as Congress likes to write its own lax bills. But Dillon will have a technical paper which will detail how the new programs will work out. The President's tax message to Congress was delayed over three weeks for refinement of some of its complex proposals. Even so. it offers no recommendation for reduction of present depletion allowances on oil and mineral production.

There is no proposal for a cut in taxes on low incomes, such as labor organizations have been urging as an incentive to increase consumer spending and to stimulate recovery. KOREAN WAR CORPORATE, INCOME and excise tax rates are to be continued at present levels and there is no general overhaul of the depreciation allowance schedules, which business has been urging. All these controversial questions are to be deferred for a long- range, sweeping reform of the basic tax structure which the Kennetty administration will offer Congress next year. This year's short-range program makes no change in the amount of tax revenues which the treasury hopes to collect next year. The tax burden is just shifted a little.

On the one band, it is proposed to close existing tax loopholes and special benefits which will give the government an additional $1.7 billion. But at the same time, the president proposes a new tax incentive plan which will give a $1.7 billion tax cut to business firms that modernize and expand their plants so as to increase their productivity. This is far and away the most important of the President's new recommendations. He admits that it is an experiment that will need review and modification by Congress from time to time to adapt it to changes in the economy. THIS PROPOSAL TIES IN WITH the President's continuous insistence that the growth rate of the U.

S. economy must be raised. It based on the belief that many American industries have not modernized their plants as rapidly, as their European competitors have in the last ten years. The aim is to get American cosh down so that prices can be cut to meet low cost foreign competition by more efficient production. As an oversimplified example, the new accelerated depreciation tax credit would work like this in the case of a small manufacturer: Assume that his annual depreciation is $100,000 a year and that he wants to spend $150,000 on modernization.

The excess of his investment over his depreciation would be $50,000. He would get a 15 per cent tax credit on this amount, or $7,500. In addition, he would get a 6 per cent credit on expenditures for improvement above half of his depreciation allowance. On S50.000 in this case, this cut would be $3.000. And there would be a further cut of 10 per cent on the first $5,000 of investment, or $500, irrespective of depreciation.

So the manufacturer's total tax incentive would be $11,000. The maximum would be 30 per cent of his total tax liability. Incentive would apply to all investments made after Jan. 1, 1961. COMMERCE AND LABOR DEPARTMENT officials estimate that these incentives should stimulate new investments of $2 billion to $3 billion in plant modernization, increase the gross national product by $5 billion a year--a I per cent increase in the national growth rate--and provide half a million additional jobs in the construction and toolrnaking industries.

There is, of course, the long- range risk that the mow efficient a plant becomes, the fewer its employes will be aiid the greater will be general unemployment. That is another problem that government, management and labor must tackle. "Personally, I Prefer My Stutz Bearcat" Vast Audience Startles Writers Leonard Lyoa Howard Lindsay and Russel Grouse, co-authors of "The Sound of Music," went to Toronto to see the national company open there. learned a the two week booking i gross $208,000.1 i fantastic! sale was made) possible by the? fact that thef i a isj playing in the I O'Keefe r. i seats 3,211 customers.

Lindsay looked at the a audience and beamed. Crouse whispered: "Yeah, but suppose they turn on us?" The Washington Square folk- singers have an ally in Carmine DeSapio. He sees no reason why they shouldn't be permitted to sing there, as long as they behave Dorothy Lamour may retire from her cosmetic chain store business Joan Plowright couldn't accept her Tony Award in person because she was at Mount Sinai Hospital. The obstetricians estimate Dec. 10 will be the date.

Helen Traubel, the former Met Opera star, has a role in Jerry Lewis' new movie, "The Ladies Man." Lewis hired Lillian Briggs, the rock 'n' roll singer, to teach Miss Traubel how to deliver a rock 'n' roll number. Miss Briggs said: "I had to put a few pits in her pear-shaped tones." Susan Cabot, the film and TV actress who made the front pages with a brief romance with King Hussein, will do "Paint Your Wagon" this summer at Cohasset, Mass Ethel Colt's Town Hall concert last Friday was her fifth appearance there. She's dropped her middle name, "Barrymore" Cedric Hardwicke heard a formula for longevity from a 102- year-old man: "I don't smoke much; I don't drink much, and I'm lenient with women." Sarah Marshall, of "Come Blow Your Horn," is the daughter of Herbert Marshall and Edna Best. When Miss Marshall decided to become an actress, her mother look her to see Lunts perform, and then introduced her to the stars backstage. Sarah asked By Leonard Lyons Lynn Fontanne what acting method they used.

Miss Fontanne started to reply, paused, then called to Alfred Lunt: "Alfred, dear, be a good fellow and tell Sarah how we do it." The newspaper editors' convention, usually held in Washington, will move to New Orleans next year Cue magazine, one of the first to include TV criticisms, is dropping (he section When Warren Caro of the Theater Guild won 3 Tony Award this year, he placed it on the mantelpiece at home, next to the Tony Award won by his wife, Nancy Kelly, in "The Bad Seed." They're the first husband and wife to win individual Tonys. Harpo Marx tells of once shopping for a Christmas gift for Alexander Wonllcott, an old and good friend. He finally bought the most elaborate radio console on the market. It was delivered on Christmas morning. Woollcott on- crated it, took one glance at it, then telephoned Marx immediately and said: "Harpo, I'll give you 15 minutes to get this thing out of here." Bob Merrill, who wrote the songs for "Carnival," will next do a movie based on the Grimms' Fairy Tales for producer George Pal baked a 60-pound cheesecake and air-expressed it to Frank Havoc to mark the first day's filming of Damon Runyon's "A Pocketful of Miracles" Walter Slezak's daughter will work in summer stock in Vermont.

Slezak says that she'll have a walk-on role: "But the more I pay, the bigger her part." The bearded Keenan Wynn was introduced at Sardi's to the bearded Steve Hill, who portrays Sigmund Freud in "The Far Country" Wynn studied Hall, then asked: "Don't give me any of that Freudian junk, but tell me plain--why do I like to ride motorcycles?" Sol Hurok, whose newest triumph is the Moiseyev Ballet at the Met, will be guest of honor next spring at a Madison Square Garden tribute to mark his 50th anniversary as an impresario. The sponsor, Children's Asthma Research Institute did the salute to Robert Bowling at the Moi- seyev Ballet last week Carlcy Mills' new novel. "A Nearness of Local Events Of Other Years From The Files Sunday. April 1896 A commission of Mount Pleasant citizens inspected the borough's brick streets and had high praise for Fayette St. Monday, April 26, 1926 The News Standard was to conduct a cooking school the next week.

Friday, April 26. 1901 Funeral services were scheduled the next day for Joseph E. South, who was electrocuted while working in Connellsville. Thursday. April 26, 1906 The charter of the Smithfield- Fairchance Railway Co.

Inc. was approved. Tracks were to be laid in the summer. Sunday. April 26, 1931 Uniontown i had pledged $16,798 to the YMCA drive.

Sunday, April 26, 1936 Junior Wilson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Wilson of Fairchance, injured his leg in a fall against a curb in front of his home. Wednesday, April 26, 1911 Mr. and Mrs.

1. L. Messmore Rave a reception in honor of their son. Dr. Harry B.

Messmore, and his bride. Saturday. April 26, 191 Mr. and Mrs. R.

J. McGee observed their 54th wedding anniversary the following day. They lived on Braddock Ave. Friday, April 26, War Dads and firemen were canvassing the city in another waste paper collection drive. Wednesday.

April 26, 1916 Charles P. Chick resigned as city tax collector and former sheriff Martin A. Kiefer was appointed to fill the vacancy. Thursday, April 26, 1951 For the third time in four nights the Belmont Tavern was burglarized the night before. Evil." is based on the Wayne Lonergan murder case James Michener.

mentioned for an ambassadorship, is incommunicado; he's following the bullfights in Spain. Anatole Litvak, the film director, flew here from Paris recently to show his new movie, "Goodbye Again." He went to Dunhill's to buy some cigars. The man at Dunhill's greeted him: "Oh, we have the box you ordered. Here it is." Litvak remembered no order. The date was on the box, "April 1.

1941." That was when he joined the Army. They've been in the humidor ever since. Abram Chasins, who retired from (lie concert field 15 years ago to devote himself to WQXR, writing and editing, will play the piano again for a Kapp Records album Columbia Pictures has given Sam Spiegel carte blanche--meaning no budget--for "Lawrence of Arabia." That's because his last three films for the firm have grossed over $60,000,000 A man who admired Bob Hope's suit asked what he does with his old clothes. Hope said: "I have them cleaned." Agriculture Secretary Freeman told the Insider's Newsletter man: "The secret of a successful man is a wife who tells him what to do and a secretary who does it." (Distributed 1961 by The Hall Syndicate, Inc.) (All Rights Reserved) By tlte Staff They Have Books On Civil War This newspaper carried story on Monday that Mrs. Lillian Seanor.

of West Leisenring. has a copy of the Life of Gen. Philip Sheridan in her possession. It seems that a number of persons in this area have Civil War books. Just to mention two, Frank Check of Republic and Lonnie Workman of Braddock in Uniontown.

Frank says that while he was working in Cleveland he two books on Lincoln and one on the Civil War in general. He's not a Civil War "bug" but he does enjoy reading and collecting such books. Lonnie's not a Civil War enthusiast either but like Frank be enjoys reading books about that period in American history. --x-In a recent column. Dr.

William L. Henning, state secretary of agriculture, predicted a Pennsylvanians will suffer less from infestations of Eastern tent caterpillars this year than in the past two or three. He explained that entomologists have told him that there has been a great build-up in the natural enemies of the troublesome caterpillars, and that with natural enemies present in large numbers, the caterpillars will be destroyed before they have too much of a chance to defoliate trees and shrubs. One such natural enemy of the caterpillar, a fly that mummifies the caterpillar in its reproduction cycle, is usually considered to be a rare insect. Last year, however, it was present in such large numbers in some areas as to become a pesL "Sometimes," the secretary says, "it is possible to lose sight of the fact that natural enemies of many of our plant pests exist and that they can do a better control job than some of our chemicals." --x-Speaking of tent caterpillars, one of our readers, Mrs.

Joseph M. Soom, of 151 Easy Uniontown, looked out her window the, other day and there was one of the pests in her apple tree. --x-District folks are discussing (and cussing) the state representatives and how they voted on the matter of pay raises for themselves. All of the assemblymen in Fayette. Greene, Washington a Westmoreland Counties, voted for the raises.

Only the ones in Somerset County voted against them. The Somerset assemblymen are Republicans; those from the other foui' counties are Democrats. --x-In some parts of the area, magnolia trees are at the height of their bloom. This gives you an idea how late spring is. Normally the magnolias are through blooming about the middle of the month, and sometimes sooner.

-By RALPH SCHULZE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Q--Is it a fact that winters are getting colder? A--Scientists now say that winters throughout the world have been getting steadily colder since 1940. We have left the judges too long alone in the line of battle. The profession of law has a plain duty to lead in the effort to recreate a climate of legality in our society. --Dean Eugene V. Rostow of Yale Law School, admonishing lawyers for failing to speak out for civil rights.

Wives Resent Mental Cruelty By Dr. George W. Crane, Ph.D., M.D. You don't need to worry about joining temptation as you grow older. It avoids you.

Tuesday. April 26, 1921 Wilmer Wilkey's 19-ton shovel was making rapid progress into the 20,000 yards of excavation being dug on a Sij-mile stretch in North Union Twp. Thursday, April 26, 1956 Junior high school principals from Southwestern Pennsylvania met in a workshop session at Ben Franklin Junior High School yesterday to confer on revision of thfi Junior High School Manual. Case H--469: Donna aged 24, is a cultured English girl. She was engaged to an aristocratic, college graduate named Gerald who loved music and had the refinement you'd expect would atract Donna.

But Gerald overly worshipped Donna. He placed her on such a high pedestal that he reverenced her. Subconsciously, Donna probably enjoyed some of the prestige of Gerald's mother and sisters. For. despite the fact they were.

engaged. Gerald stiJl had never kissed her: This distrubed Donna's feminine pride. Her roommate knew of the platonic nature of their dates, so one night the roommate challenged Donna. "I'll bet you a box of chocolates that Gerald will not kiss you tonight on your date." she said. Well, Donna had to take the wager.

Gerald took her to the concert that night; then to a eup- per club afterwards. As they spun along toward her home, he still hadn't put his arm around her. so she shivered tactfully and said: "My. isn't it cool tonight?" Instead of picking up his he thoughtfully placed her wrap around her shoulders, but that wall all. Donna knew it was only a couple of miles farther till Uiey reached her home, so she grew desperate and shivered harder than ever.

"Oh. it's REALLY cold tonight." slic exclaimed, and again Gerald dutifully reached over to ptece her wrap around her shoulders. Before he withdrew his arm, however. Donna added: "Your arm feels so just leave it here." which he did. She snuggled down into the crook of his shoulder and finally had her face close to his.

As he glanced down into her eager eyes, with her lips ex- pectantly half parted, he still had made no follow-up, so she genfly suggested: "Why don't you?" To which he responded with an artless: "Why don't I what?" So Donna kissed him to win the box of chocolates and vindicate her feminine allure. Taming Of The Shrew Shakespeare perfectly diagnosed this type of situation when he wrote his famous "Taming of the For a girl like Donna will ultimately become a nagging wife unless her husband learns to give her some he-man treatment, at least occasionally. Women are basically rather frigid as measured by usual male standard of passion. But they do require occasional dominance in order to -etain full respect for their mates. And some girls who have been rather loose prior to marriage, will often revert to their previous unmoral ways unless they are scared within an inch of their lives by their mates.

Donna's boy friend was not a sissy. But he idolized Donna and simply had her on the puppy love pedestal till he regarded her in poetical fastoon instead of as a flcsh-and-blood woman. So she finally broke her engagement to Gerald and married a roughneck who reduced her to tears every week or so by Ws boorishness and selfish cruelty. Gerald could have made her a perfect mate if he had shattered his halo about her and given her some rugged treatment. (Always write to Dr.

Crane in care of this newspaper, enclosing a long 4c stamped, addressed envelope and 20c to cover typing oixl printing costs when you send for one of his booklets.) (Copyright by The Hopkins Syndicate, Inc.).