Abilene Reporter-News from Abilene, Texas • 4

IN IDEAL COSTUME in a coal mine accident recently loc-luvshia the Free Enrppe at Kicava in Communist Czech-1 tin reported today 6-A THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS -Abllrnr Trial Monday fcvrnbig Rrplrmbrr It Bearded Americans I Fool Native French BUSINESS OUTLOOK Medical Science Discovert New Formula hunger tablets let you lose ugly fat while eating the foods you choose By A LIVINGSTON Ex-Illinois Legion Chief Lauds Fund CHICAGO UB A former commander of the Illinois American fogion says he "sincerely deplores" rerent criticism of the Fund fur the Republic by tlie legion's national commander Sea born Collins Irving Breakstone in an open letter to Collina yesterday said Hie legion's Americanism program in Illinois Education for Freedom its principal financial support from Uie fund Collins had said of Uie fund: "By shrewd grunts and expenditures tlie Fund for Uie Republic is threatening and may succeed in crippling the nutional security" He said (lie fund attacked lots of communism The fund an independent corporation was created In 1932 by trusters of the Ford Foundation to study civil liberties and support activities Hint oppose restrictions on thought It operates on a 13 milliwwlullar grant from the Ford Foundation's $20 Million Grant To Merit Scholarship Corp Applauded shout any place you want to go day or night because these establishments are not interested In your color echeme-thry're interested In the color of those travelers checks And to me the most aggravating phase of travel trying to keep some clean dotliea foundry is slow In most places and you are on too fast a aCliedule to get it done ofton Dry-cleaning-well alinqst impossible I sent out suit on a two-day rush deaMn Stockholm and it cost me $420 I left another suit In Oslo for (wo weeks and when I returned It had been cleaned and pressed and then folded and tied up in a small package That fiasco only cost $3 Therefore you just forget the cleaning problem A footnote to tlie beard affair which will he disputed by the three lieard-wearere Is that I hare observed that it doesn't help them with the girls Somehow the girla here in Europe don't seem too en tiiuslastic about those beards I har tried to use that as a telling argument in trying to get the boy's to shave off tlieir hirsute adornment but it didn't work Come to think aiioul it I don't know why I should be trying to get them to sacrifice their beards unless it's plain jealousy Mediral science has discovered this new formula for taking fat ofT hips and waistline For you who have lost faith in reducing treatments "exaggerated and ineffectual results Hunger Tablets bring new hope ors fan from all ever llllW lr Odriik Urn "(tail or "bun voyage" meaning "have a good And now when we are a French car we honk and honk and wave and wave first Nothing like us Frenchmen being aociahlc when way from home And we drive up to a hotel or filling elation and stop and tlie proprietor bows low end speaks rapidly in Frenrh That throw us Hurriedly we have to confess that we are Just fuur imposters not Frenchmen at all but just Americana in disguise Unfortunately however the good voters of -Jim Weils Dm id Starr and Zapata counties will never get to enjoy Bob Mullen's goatee I had looked forward to seeing him campaign next suhimrr in his goatee and lieret but Bob began to find tlial trimming his gontee each morning was more trouble than shaving and Just about as painful so he shaved it off leaving nothing but a becoming mustache Iet Beards Ge Mike and Tuny still are letting (heir beards go and by the time' they get home they'll really look like a couple of bomb-carrying Bol-! sheviks One of the pleasant tilings about the trip la that we can dress as plrase After you are here a 1 while you r-dljje that nobody! knows who you are and they care less The result you dress com- furtahly and often terribly I An ideal ctunie for European travel consists of a sports shirt 1 khaki trousers and easy slippers That attire will suffice for just Mishap Kills 1 1 VIENNA Nintr convict work era snJ two civilians were killed (EDITOR'S NOTE: Tills ie one in a aeries of articles by Hardeman veteran Texas legislator and newsman from Denison who is making an extensive tour of Europe) By HARDEMAN GOTEBOBG Sweden When four American vagabonds can make Eumprens think they loo are Europeans they must be successful travelers Well that is the experience Rep Bob Mullen of Alice Mike Mitchell of Chicago Tony Hughes of Los Angeles and myself have had all over Scandinavia Of course it was tlie beards that turned the trick This is the shaggiest one carload of Americans that ever toured Europe When the four of us met in Copenhagen as planned Mike turned up with an enormous black beard lie's a Cornell geology student and went to a geology ramp in Pennsylvania for six weeks before coming to Europe Tliere was a lack of warm water at camp so he just let his beard grow and did grow Although he's only 31 with that flowering heard he looks just like Abe Lincoln Well his friend Tony couldn't be left behind so he turned loose and grew one of the fieriest red beards I've ever seen Hr reminded me of pictures I'd seen of the Gen Sherman who took a short march through Georgia And of course Rep Mullen wanted to he sociable so to be different he grew a mustache and goatee a sharp-pointed goalee Gave It Up Me I once tried to grow a mustache with miserable results and the way my hair is turning loose I f(gured it was useless anyhow so 1 juU went on shaving Now as we set out on our trip we were driving in Bcb's French Cit men with license plates purchased in Paris Moreover there's a big in an oval next to tlie license plate meaning the car is registered in France That was enough to mislead folks license plates and three "un American" beards But then Bob bought a black French beret which flopped over on one side of his head So (or days now as we pass another car from France they honk and hunk and wave and wave and shout "Bon jour" meaning For safe healthful ry reducing get Hunger Tablets today Leu than I9r a you get a sixtern day supply If in that time you are not fully satisfied with the mulls full purchase price will be refunded to you tauKSasMOOWureHatara Sold at leading drug stores Abilene Printing and Stationery Co Offers Today PERSONALIZED CHRISTMAS CARDS SAMPLE BOOKS NOW ON DISPLAY FROM AMERICA! BEST KNOWN CARD SHOPS Free Parking Anderson Bldg While Shopping With I's 2 IS Cedar St This Is In praise of selfishness politely known as self-interest It's in praise of capitalism in which self-interest is Riven wide rein Finally it's in praise of the Ford Foundation which by seeing that tlie nation's mental capital is replenished regenerated and nut wasted is helping to America's brand of capitalism of which Is such an outstanding product Specifically this Is a chortle of gladness that the Ford Foundation has contributed $20000000 to establish the National Merit Scholar-ahip Corporation to provide college educations for the young men and women of not on the basil of family wealth or ability to make touchdowns but on the hasia of educational I on the basis of capacity to be of service to society to capitalism Here is the complete answer to the charge that this is a country for the rich Here is capitalistic self-interest hard at work Campuses Combed Ever since the war Ameriran corporations have been combing college campuses hr youth of ability-engineers physicists chemists economists and just well-rounded students with liberal arts educations Corporations and want even men and women of intelligence poise and competence to grow with their to get ready hr top spots executives and heads of departments The supply has not met and is not meeting the demand Mindful of this corporations have been generous in recent years In their gifts to colleges and universities The list of givers is a Who's Who in Unhm Carbide Carbon General Motors Standard Oil of New Jersey Steel Bethlehem General Electric Scott Paper and so on But nothing quite MEDICAL ARTS PHARMACY Phone 4-7234 1190 3rd so massive as the National Merit Scholarship Corporation sponsored by tlie Ford Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation has come along before Right now and every fall hereafter the principals of the nation's high and preparatory school ttill be asked to nominute candidates to compete for four-year Nulionul Merit Scholarships After screening the more promising candidates in each stale will then lie given the supervised Scholastic Aptitude Test of the College Entrance Examiners Board The highest scorers in these tests will be asked to send school records biographical data and recommendations from teachers and others Then the awards will he on the basis of scholarship and wcll-roundedncss Race religion or color are to be ignored as criteria SOS Scholarships Initially about 3U0 scholarships will be awarded But tlie goal is 4000 if contributions permit Other contributors along with Ford and Carnegie were Seara Roebuck Co and Time Inc Tlie amount of the scholarships will vary A winner whose family can well afford to pay will be given a token honorarium A poor boy will have all his expenses paid tuition books board and room etc These merit scholarships come under the head of human husbandry We look upon copper oil coal iron as great resources A bad error Brains ability and a thrust-forward spirit in youth are far more important to be exploited developed and nurtured not squandered Resources without brains and knowhow equal nothing The "poor boy makes good" saga has beeme an American cliche Yet many a poor boy who might have made good with the pnqier training never had that training Ilia brains and ability were Inst The National Merit Scholarship Corporation contrives to protect you and me against such lost And it protects business and capitalism too Tsugh World In spite of such cultural adornments as washing machines air conditioners and nylon this is still a tooth-and-claw world General Electric Westinghouse and Allis-Chalmm not only compete with one another but with companies all over the world Great Britain has proved how tough that competition can in making low bids on sev eral American power I jobs In the world of the future 1 American corporations will un- doubfedly compete more and more with one another with oilier west- ern naions and with Russia this last peaceably we hope We afford to fall behind in this competition Industrial ef-' ficienry is measured hy the number of manhours required to con- vert iron ore into steel raw pe-: troicum into gasoline cotton Into shirts and strri into electronic computers But the better the man behind the processes behind the machinery the greater the efficiency So when the Ford Foundation and business men provide funds fur the training of and for the support of they are bring selfish in the most enlighten- ed sense They are perpetuating their own tlie managerial industrial and technological elite i seeing that this country has a continuing supply of intelligence and knowhow They are underwrit-1 ing the long-term industrial ef- ficiency of tomorrow as well as its culture The mind is tlie new economic frontier CARPET Your Entire HOME NOTHING DOWN MONTHS TO FAT KNIGHT CARPET CO 205 Grape Ph 2-9179 Police Technique Expert Succumbs By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SOUTHHAMPTON NY-Bruce Smith S3 nationally known expert on police techniques and administration Revised police systems in IS cities and II states Died yesterday INDIANAPOLIS Dr John Potzger (9 head of Butler University's botany department and authority' on fossil plants Born in Michigan Died yesterday BEVERLY HILLS Calif -Michael O'Rourke 74 postmaster of Beverly Hills for 17 years and former city councilman in Columbus Ohio Also helped found the National Football League Died Saturday LONDON Lord Inverforth 90 British shipping tycoun who organized supply of raw materials for British war effort during World War I Bora in Scotland Died Saturday (ZcbiftMhA PHARMACIES 929 BuNaraut Ph 2-2122 )4tb SI Mine CaM Pb 2-2101 Ba fob 1323 Hichuiy Ph2-1023 PROMPT DELIVERY The Question How Did He Escape? 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