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Four THE LEAVENWORTH TIMES, Friday Evening, November 7,1951 Too Effective To Neglect It's an old statistic that drivers, rather than their automobiles, cause most accidents. The experts agree the best way to reduce driver failures is to improve motorists' skill at the wheel. If you can catch them in the learning stage and teach them to drive in high school, so much the better. High school training courses have proved their worth over decades. Safety authorities say a youngster thus trained is usually far more safety-minded than one who learns from friends, or on his own.

But now the National Safety Council reports that the high school training program in the United States has reached a standstill Schools already offering such courses haven't cut down, but few new ones are being added. More than half of American high school youth is denied driver training under proper supervision. Since the effectiveness of this attack on motoring fatalities is well established, it ought not to be neglected. There are too few reasonably sure methods of coping with what it still an increasing problem. Worthy Contribution to Our Safety The Ford Foundation warrants general praise for providing funds to develop an adequate program of information and education for the country's armed forces.

Its survey and others have shown a sad lack in this field. There is strong evidence that thousands in the military service have no real notion why they are in uniform morale has suffered in consequenct. If the Ford fund's program succeeds in improving the training of these men who must carry the burden for our armed forces, it will have contributed very usefully to the security and safety of the nation. Kansas Snapshots From Here and There Another absent-minded professor report from the Augusta Gazette tells of the one who left his car at the beauty parlor and took his wife to the garage to get her valves ground. We hope that some countries we could name will be satisfied with the outcome-of our election.

We would hate to do it all over again just so they would feel better about accepting our help. Collected From Other Typewriters "The Baker" It Is Hutchtoson's new hotel is to be The Baker and there could hardly be a better name. The Baker at Dallas enjoys one of the most enviable hotel reputations in the middle west The assurance that the local institution will have the same name, the same supervision of construction and- the same management of its operations means that mis community will have a hotel even finer than its past hopes. It has taken a lot of blood, sweat, and money to get a firm foundation laid to that big hole on East Second street and bring the formwork about ground level as it is today. It will take considerable more of the same before the first guest is registered to.

But the last of hurdles now has been surmounted. The contract the local hotel company directors have signed with Dallas underwriters amounts to a reorganization of the original program. That has been necessi- Dog Days In December It may be Indian Summer elsewhere, but to Denver it still is dog days. Dog days of a sort, moreover, to have the'whole community roused to fever pitch with half of it snapping at the other half and howls rising at every hand. Denver's dog days are more political than climatic.

The uproar has been touched off by the introduction of a city ordinance which would prohibit canines from roaming the streets unattached, chasing cars, digging in gardens, barking in public, nipping postmen, disturbing the peace of cats, or to otherwise conducting 'themselves like dogs. Infractions may result not only to punishments ranging up to death for the animals, but also in fines and imprisonment for their owners. tated by the fact the hotel will cost at least 5500,000 more than was originally estimated. This reorganization promises to provide the additional money. For those who have put their faith and their funds into the project, the proposed plan will give a renewal of the one and a greater probability of the return of the other.

But there are still two lesser hurdles immediately ahead. If this program to insure the early completion in the proper fashion of the soundly financed Hutchinson Baker hotel is to be effective, all of the unpaid subscriptions for securities must be paid in full and approval in writing must be obtained from three-fourths of the holders of those securities. Considerable fast footwork will be required if those requirements are to be met, but the hotel project, not having faltered up to mis point, certainly will not fail now. News-Herald. The reaction of the Denver dog-owners has been exactly what the reaction of dog- owners- in any other city would be were such regulations proposed.

They have raised such a rumpus Hut "the mile high city" is now it least two miles up in the air. Joining them at this altitude are the anti-dog 7 forces who are determined the traditional canine freedoms shall be curtailed, for cat's sake. Whatever the outcome, by its dog fight already has identified itself as a queer sort of city. Elsewhere dogs are highly regarded as man's best friend. Out there today it would be a cur indeed who said dogs returned the compliment and thought as highly of Journal.

What They Are Saying How far can we go on this road (of wages and prices) before we are continually engaged in chasing each others tails? Lincoln Evans, British labor leader. British imperialism has aimed at the subjugation of my country (Iran). lf this ungodly and unfriendly attitude have no other road open to us than breaking off all connections with Seyed' Kashani, Iranian Moslem leader. IX there had been one world government, the Continental Congress, the French Revolution and the Latin American Republics would not have been Tom Connally of Texas. I don't want to create revolution.

I just want to create a few more (motion) Chaplin. I guess I drove it (a missing golf ball) straight into somebody'! pante pocket. Bing Crosby, at a crowded golf course. THE DAILY TIMES By D. R.

Anthony Entered as second-class' nutter at the port office at Leavenworth, Kansas under the aet tt Congress, March 3, 1878. THE TUBS TCLLS THE TRUTH LEAVENWORTH THUS published evening! (ettept- Saturday) and Sunday mominf. Established in 1857. Consolidated with the Conservative to MM. The BuUtttB established in 1862.

and The Commercial established to "Circulation of The.Evening Standard and consolidated with Times" in-1903. Circulation of The Leavenworth Pott absorbed In 1923. THE DAILY TIMES is delivered by carrier to any part of Leavenwortk or for tje a month. The paper may be ordered by mail or telephone or through our autboriaw local agents Wffliam A. Dresser and Floyd Braksy.

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There's a Certain Difference, What? ROM THE NATIONAL WHIRLIGIG Washington Harry S. Truman will become one of the world's most disappointed and unhappy men when he discovers that he cannot take the aura of the White House him into private life after next January 20. Not even his most intimate friends dare to prepare him for the steep comedown from his present place. He is in no mood to listen. Privately and publicly, Truman has disclosed his designs for post- presidential living.

He has told so many visiting ambassadors and ministers of his plans to tour their countries that the United States may not see him again, if he keeps his promises. Should he go abroad to inspect the operation of his Point Four Program, which was his own idea when he sprung it in his 1948 inaugural address, he may never return. For it would be like looking for an American needle in an international haystack, in view of the paltry amounts he has asked Congress to appropriate for this scheme to modernize the "backward and undeveloped lands." Once he settles down, i Truman has expressed a desire to write, to lecture and to teach. Here again his associates hesitate to point out that the market for ex-presidential wares usually disappears soon after his" departure from the White Rouse. Coolidge made that discovery within a year, although he could turn a phrase more neatly or puckishly than the outbound Missouriar His syndicated articles did not jeB or sell.

Truman fancies 'himself as an expert in American history, especially during the Jacksonian period, when the backwoodsmen and mountaineers, ousted the. Virginian artistocracy from control-of the Party and the government He regards himself -as a direct descendant of "Old Hickory." However, it is doubtful if he has the temperament of a teacher, or that he would enjoy the solitudes of an assumed scholarship. Moreover, he would have to do a great deal of brushing-up before he could qualify. There are great gaps in the canvas of history he would paint for his students. Truman ban not the intellectual detachment or historical perspective for a classroom, elementary or advanced.

As he demonstrated most vividly and conclusively in the campaign, there would be too many courses hi 'T' and "Me" in the assignments he gave to his pupils. And they would most assuredly flunk if they did not follow instructions to the letter both letters. Literary experts, however, believe that Truman has one or two good 1 -'mportant books in him. They say that they might pay a high price, if he would reveal many hitherto unrevealed happenings during eight years in office. In view of his gossipy tendencies, and the grudges he would like to pay off, they figure that he has enough enemies to insure several "best sellers." It is too much to expect a "Grant's Memoirs," for-the realistic and unpretentious old soldier stuck to the facts.

He did not permit his prejudices to influence him in writing about his enemies in politics or on the battlefield. Truman will learn, as have so many of his predecessors, that history does not halt and salute when a President takes his last official ride down Pennsylvania Avenue. Perhaps the only "Ex" whose influence lingered, and with tremendous effect on the nation's future, was Theodore Roosevelt And Truman is not a The recent unbereaved Presidential campaign was, perhaps, one of the most bitter in modern American politics. It was the cause of division and doubt, meanness and bitterness. Against that background, it may -be helpful and timely to quote a little known ad- Ray Tucker dress by a little known but great American.

He was the late Senator George Frisbie Hoar of Massachusetts. Addressing the Republican state convention in Boston only twenty days after the nation had been shaken by the assassination of McKinley, he said: "You and I are Republicans. You and I are men of the North. Most of us Protestants in religion. We are men of native birth.

Yet, if every Republican today were to fall in his place, as William McKinley has fallen, I believe that our countrymen of the other Party, in spite of what we deem their errors, would take the Republic and bear on the flag to liberty and glory. "I believe that, if every Protestant were to be stricken down by a lightning stroke, our brethren of the Catholic faith would still carry on the Republic in the spirit of a true and liberal freedom. I believe that, if every man of native birth within our borders were to die this day, the men of foreign birth, who have come here to seek homes and liberty under the shadow of the Republic, would carry on the Republic in God's appointed way. "I believe that, if every man of the North were to die; the new and chastened South, with the virtues it has cherished from the beginning, of love of home and love of state.and love.of freedom, with its courage and its 'constancy, wpuld take the country and bear it on: to the achievement of its lofty destiny. The anarchist most slay 75 million Americans before he can slay the Republic.

"Of course, there would be mistakes. Of course, there would be disappointments and grievous errors. Of course, there would be many things for which the lovers of liberty would mourn. But America would survive them all, and the nation our fathers planted would abide in perennial life." ACCORDING TO BOYLE ROME If there is. anything an American cannot stand, it is to be' disliked.

And the feeling he is disliked Bow abroad ruins the visit of many a tourist to "You know, they really don't like us over one tourist tells and adds virtuously: "After all we did for theni, I just, can't understand It is this attitude, of this air of bragging look-at-all-we- did-for-you-, that is sure to win contemptuous dislike wherever, and whenever it is displayed. The ordinaryEuropean doesn't like to be regarded, as an object of char- rity; he does not regard Uncle Sam's' roving nephews as philanthropists, and in any case he is unwilling to drop dead of gratitude for anybody. The best way to win friends and influence people in Europe is to avoid taking personal credit for the Marshall Plan, the subject even is mentioned, look smv prised and say, "the Marshall Plan? What is it?" This will endear you forever to all Europeans within of them are weary of explaining why, despite all the good old American dollars poured so generously into th's country, it still looks slightly shabbier than the Garden of Eden. In Italy, as elsewhere hi Europe, the Marshall Plan comes in for a lot of ribbing. As we passed a hugh apartment project on'the outskirts Ro-ie, our Italian guide explained it being built with Marshall-Plan funds and a(Hed: "No one with hiccups is allowed to move in for he will jar the walls down." Actually, the average American tourist's feeling he is disliked abroad is generally exaggerated, except in Communist areas.

There he is not only disliked; he is actively hated. 'You can visible hatred, and it makes you uneasy and depressed, because what can you do about it? Nothing. It gives you a kind of brief hopeless loneliness to be hated in this unreasoning way, and it takes some of the luster from your But with this disturbing exception, 'Frances and I have encountered no widespread or general an- imosty against Americans. The friendliness with which you are greeted in Europe is measured in exact ratio to your behavior, as it should' be. Knowing only a single Italian "Grazie," which means "thank traveled happily throughout Italy and met nothing but helpful kindness all.

the way. have a good time in any land if you take the trouble to learn that one warm word of phrase in its "language which allows you to tell a man in his own tongue you appreciate the he extends you, a stranger. Barbs Music is like medicine, says a doctor. We'll agree that some of it on TV and radio is hard, to Each year when squirrel season opens a flock. of hunters, go nuts.

If you need further proof that this is mechanical age, just recall' how politicians- kissed babies. With prices where they are, half world doesn't know'how the other lives. Ignorance has -its of, the world's conversation output. Dr. George W.

Crane's WORRY CLINIC Molly says she is so confused in her moral values that she no longer knows" what to believe. What do you readers think about her argument with her husband? You might discuss this case in your Sunday school class. Does any church gain in public respect by running lotteries or serving liquor? Case F-312: Molly 27, has been married for four years. "Dr. Crane, my husband is a very attractive man, but he has 'been addicted to gambling," she spoke nervously.

"I have tried everything in my power to make him give up this evil habit, but it seems to have him enslaved as much as if he were a dope addict. "I have given him your Case Records in which you explained that gambling is an evidence of juvenile thinking whereby a person hopes to win success, instead of laboriously trying to earn it. "Just when I thought I a making some progress, my husband conies home with an handful of tickets being sold church, and waves them to my face. "My church is having a lottery, and is giving away S500 to cash prizes. The first prize amounts to $200, and the smallest is "The tickets sold for 10 cents apiece, but this pric was listed to the corner as 'Donation 10 cents'.

I suppose that was just a means of evading the laws against gambling. "Dr. Crane, I was stunned. Now I am going around in circles. For my husband tells me that I have a lot of nerve to preach to him about the evils of gambling when my own church is running a lottery.

"He asks me to explain the difference between his patronizing a bookie, where he bets 52 on a race horse, and buying a handful of chances on a church lottery at a dime a ticket. "I asked some of the leaders of my' church about this lottery and they told me gambling is per- fectly all right if the church gets a cut in the profits. "My education stopped to high school, so I havenlt the advantage of a college education, but that argument doesn't make good sense to me. "I am sure that Jesus would never have endorsed such hairsplitting distinctions to the field of morals. "He drove the money changers out of the Temple, even though the priests of the Temple probably got a commission or royalty on the business transactions conducted there.

"If a thing is right just because the church gets a share of the profits, then wouldn't it be logical to s.ay that houses of prostitution, are moral and praiseworthy it the churches get a commission on the commercialized vice taking place there? "Where can one draw the lint between morality and sin? Is sin only that type of behavior on which the church obtains no financial returns? "Can the church lend its good name and blessing to sinful things and thus whitewash the latter, just because it gets its thirty pieces of silver out of the deal? "If so, Judas Iscariot would have done a noble deed if he had simply paid the High Priests a commission. "My husband is now ridiculing my religion and calling us hypocrites. He says we serve liquor and sell it at our church picnics. And we run public gambling affairs. "He says we aren't.

even honest enough to pay a liquor license or admit that we are to the same class with Monte Carlo and the bookie joints. "He says honest bartenders pay the state the legal license and conduct their business to law. But we not only rationalize about sin, but even indulge ia trickery to avoid the letter of the law." (Always write to Or; Crane care of The Hopkins Syndicate. Box 3210, -Mellott. Ind.

inclose a long, three cents stamped, self-addressed envelope and a dime to cover typing and printing when on send for one of hie psychological charts.) (Copyright by the Hopkins Syndicate, Inc.) REMINISCENCE 10 YEARS AGO Many valuable cattle will be killed this fall by "corn stalk disease" unless farmers exercise caution and vigilance the animals are turned into corn fields, authorities of-the American Foundation for Animal Health warned today. Mrs. Minniemae Jones, head of the Leavenworth high English department, attended the Kansas State Teacher's convention -in Topeka where she was' one of four English teachers who spoke on "Helpful Technique" in the teaching of English. 25 YEARS AGO The Kaaz Manufacturing company, located in the former amusement device a on South Fourth is a beehive of industry with a large force of men busy changing walnut and mahogany into elaborate fixtures for pub-. lie and lodge buildings hi' various parts of the country.

Marie and Marjorie Meeker, of who play big time vaud- ville houses, will appear at, the local Orpheum theater in "a few Ertkine Johnson's weeks. They have a act this season that is going over big. Last week the act played at the at Kansas According to Dr. D. R.

Sterett, city physician, a large number of local people victims of la grippe. Many of the are unusually severe, he said. The sudden change-in the weather is responsible for a large portion.of the illness, he believes. YEARS AGO Delegates to the I conference at Frr va were Mrs. Elizabeth Knox.

Mrs. Effie VanTuyl, Mrs. Frank Carroll and Mrs. C. TJoyd.

Efforts are being to have new addition to the high school building completed- and ready for occupancy of the teachers- from- the association 'meeting on next Monday morning. The election returns'tarown on the canvas at the drew a gooi. j- nnmber of m4t. to association building, In? addition to the returns a 'of inter- "ig slides HOLLYWOOD Cooney- will warble -a new song, "Ah" Babyj OBe My Baby," in ''Here Come the Girls," And at one spot she on-a-my Horse. I wonder-if Harry S.

will be: writing Heiiny Youngman a. caus: tic letter, too. Henny Mikei Connolly: "Margaret the only singer I know who can change keys in the middle of a Paramount will follow through in building Gene Barry, such a click in ''Atomic City," to stardom. He draws hi Seas," the new version of "Spawn of the North." Edward G. Robinson, as pre- here, ha his fight to his place in the movie Industry.

He plays Tony Curtis' father in "Drifting" at U-I. British medics have warned Errol Flynn-to give up the death-' defying leaps and climbs because of his injured spine. During the production of "The of Ballantrae," Flynn had to have noyo- catae injections in his back to alleviate the pain Hurrah for Maria Riva, daughter of Marlene Dietrich. She turned down a movie offer saying, "The role is a cheap imitation of my mother." Maria wants no part of cashing in on mama's stardom. Tom heading for England to star in "Norman Conquest" after completing his rote to "far- zan and the She-Devil" quipped: "If you should mention me in your 'column, I hope you win not refer to my relationship to my brother, George Sanders, ''as -I do not like to trade on name.

However, I would be happy-jfovou should say that I related toy marriage to Zsa Zsa Gabor." Red Sketton's giving this, answer to grapevine whispers that his TV show win go back to tfve production because of poor film quality: give up television unlesa it's on film. Smart money's on New York actress Joan EraUne as the lass who will be chosen to play Ida Cantor in "The Eddie Cantor Story." Tyler has dyed her tresses a Hedy Lamarrish. color and will leap to Broadway the ingenue lead in In Flanders." flicker biography of' Sophie-Tuck- will go beyond the aifestory material that Soph out in her book. 'More stress, on the" private-life the last of the red-hot mamas: 1 Hollywood's letting, down its new faces. Flickerdom's promise to- create -a whole crop cf new stars has turned out to be a fizzle..