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SUNDAY NEWS. SEPTEMBER 22. 1957 X. -S3 SUNDAYNEWS The Inquiring Totographer Br JIMMY JEM AIL THE NEWS uill fmr $1(1 far emrh Eait 424 St. 1 ci.

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well all AP ew rii-pal- ln-. A. J. THK QUESTION. AMERICANS TO REMEMBER LEWIS AND CLARK You might call Meriwether Lewis and William Clark the great-granddads of all the explorers, pioneers, soldiers and scouts who opened up the American West.

Certainly Other generations had their marathon danrerst. eoldtiwh kwiI- lowers and flagpole bitter. What Am zany custom will lie remrmWed with this generation? the Lewis and Clark ex- VII EKE ASKED. Various spots. THE ANSWERS.

Stanley pedition of 1804-06 was one of the most heroic and productive exploits of its kind in U. S. history. Lewis and Clark were both Virginians the former born near Charlottesville Aug. 18, 1774, and the latter in Caroline County Aug.

1. 1770. Clark's family moved to Kentucky when he was i2 Church, former Mayor of New Kuchelle: "The antics of the rck 'n rollers in our theatres. Some of these kids actually fw.mn with excitement. This lias gotten so out of hand that a good many theatres employ special Meriwether Lewi William 'Clark Itl Itk'bKCliutiiy Thct br.ns ort lha a A 4r; and flut police to control the youngsters." M.J.

Tally, Jersey City, driver: V5 WL "The trend among- teen agers, girls as well as boys, to VOICi: OF THE PEOrLE wear sloppy i flemit gin mtmt mni mdJiea uilh tltr. ill i ilkhalj hlt qurit. a youngster. He joined the Army in 1792, and fought under Gen. (Mad) Anthony Wayne against the Indians in 1791.

Lewis enlisted at age 20 when President George Washington called for troops to put down the Whiskey Rebellion in Pennsylvania. He found that Army life was for him, and became a Regular Army man as soon as he could. The families of Lewis and Thomas Jefferson were old friends and neighbors in Virginia. When Jefferson became Tresident in 1801. he retained Lewis as his private secretary.

Came 1803, and the Louisiana Purchase, which more than doubled the size of the United States in one historic real estate deal. Jefferson, before the transaction was completed, had been planning to send explorers to map an overland route to the Pacific Ocean. With Louisiana Territory ours, the President made haste to get Congress' approval of the expidition, and chose Lewis and Clark to head it. The official takeoff was performed at St. Ixmis May 14.

clothes ami dungarees. They wear them on YOUTH ON 1 HE HAIL flUE IIAT1STA h.KOl ND dates, at parties Manhattan: Listen, you wise t'nion City, N. I am 21 and going to l'i. an x-st udent of tha school. Some laising hell; can you tup what times I wonder if they own suits two New 101k students did; and dresses.

1 he Nineteen-year-old William Lom- practice is so widespread that bardy of CCNY became world about hit song was written gill in dungarees, lunior chess champ, inning by a bull's-eye score of 1 1-0. Fourteen-year-old Robert Hobby Fischer won the U.S. junior championship L. W. Frederick, Rochester, general contrac tor: "The panty University of Havana who, with many others, was foiced to flee our country because of the pohti.

ral situation which throttled freedom, self-respect and endangeiej our very rinht to live. Since in your editorial of Sept. 7 you expressed the near-certamty that Fidel Castro was either a Cuiu-munist or a Communist sympathiser, I would HUe lo make a few facts known. In the 3 1 Cuban geneial elections, Fulgenci.i was elected Senator of the Province of Villas on ths Communist Party ticket, liuring his previous Piesidcntial term. twice a row; also, this year, became the U.S.

open champ. raid. For the life of me, I beating out men and women old ran't understand 180 4, by a party which finally shook down to Lewis, Clark, 23 soldiers, three inter enough to be his parents and then some. Can you top thcmT behind this sort 0f thine. Here PAL LEITH.

Brooklyn: How could a Yoicer say that teen-agers wouldn get we nave me most intelligent of our youth up at 7 A.M. to go to woik with preters, and a colored slave named York. You almost have to out pay? I did it three years ago I suddenly seized and so did many other volunteer LM by a mass lm- pulse to do hospital workers. 1 worked close to 300 hours for no pay other Trails of Lewis and Clark (presentday names used). read these men's journals to picture the hardships.

something none of them in his ight mind would think of doing. the excitements and the triumphs they experienced. The than certificate and a pin. of which I am very pioud. Many other teen-agers do voluntary Batista legalized and supported the Communist Party, oiganired a labor party infiltrated by Reds and fellow travelers.

Fidel Castro's past and premmt political life offers no such mi immat-ing episodes. He is only a courageous young man who strives ti flee Cuba of the corruption eu-gendered by a bated dictator. Howard A. Heinsius, Little Silver, N. ad- vertising vice work.

Try reading the small articles telling of the good things teen-agers do, instead of just the president: "The hot-rodder. Peo ple use the term front-page story. Personally, 1 am proud of being a tejpn-aner in this generation. winters were terrible for the most part, the springs rainy and depressing, the summers hot. A good deal of trouble with Indian tribes had been expected, but fortunately next to none developed.

This piece of luck was most likely due to two things the diplomacy and tact of both Lewis and Clark, and the hopes of various Indian chiefs that they might induce these explorers to side with them in their wars with other tribes. Of great help, too, was an Indian woman named Saca- in a derogatory sense. Actually, the real hotrod has a BARBARA MAY RE LIS. GOLDEN SOLI TION Port Washington: Bravo for practical and in ventive flair. Too bad there jawea, wife of a French trader named Toussaint Charbon- your editorial, hen loney Goea Haywire." Our etandard unit of value is a dollar consist- isn't a place neau who joined the expedition as an interpreter in tne where they can ing of IS 5 21 grains of gold 0.9 fine.

But on March 9, isr.f. A it i ir INFLATION "ON Ft SIOV Brooklyn: If. as President Eisenhower says, raising federal employes' salaries less than a billion a year would be inflationary, then what the heck is ike'a giveaway of S'j billions of American taxpayers' dollais lo the oi Id's corrupt scum? CURTIS GRAY. BRONX itot yiiri' Bronx: Many thanks the crossing guard in front of P.S 14, the l'ronx. She did a magnificent job on busy Bruckner Blvd.

for two days when the tiaflic lights speed their hot-rods they won't have to use our highways." D. L. David, Houston, Texas, Mandan country (now is orth On Nov. 15, 1803, the Lewis and Clark party at last reached the Pacific. They spent a horrible winter at the little fort (named Clatsop) which they hastened to build.

The return trip began March 23, 1806, with the ex transfer of gold was stopped. That repudiated our money, bonds, notes, debts, wages, and they remain repudiated. sales manager: "The-oraie over certain type of male singer the Elvii EDWARD HENRY NEARY. CRUSADER CORNKRF.U Manhattan: Help! Mv wife Presley type plorers splitting up into two parties which between them managed to have a pretty good look at much of what is now the giant state of Montana. They reunited below the ve never en a burlesque wears 'slacks and an old chin.

I can't stand seeing her in th-m her or any other dame, fr mouth of th Yellowstone, made excellent time down the show, but inde- Missouri River, and reached St. Louis Sept. 23, 1806. rent movements that should be that matter. Well, I told ber as T.owia and Clark hrourht hick a long as she insists upon wearing barred in bur They Blazed great and valuable amount of geo- pants when I home, I going lesque seem to to wear a dress of hers.

So I did. drive young The Trails graphical, astronomical and plain-facts But the other evening: some bovs and ciils crary. I wonder friends dropped in to visit us and reporting. Because of these men. the West ceased to be a forbid what their parents must think.

Marylois I'urdy, aianhattan, department ding, all but unknown area. They had blazed" the first of many trails to the Pacific, and had shown that the West head: "No actual custom ill I opened the door dressed in my wife's clothes. What should I do now, fellows? 11ELPI.KSS GUY. PAPER AS THE VILLAIN Manhattan: Those who do not. want to face the truth as to 1he could be explored and colonized.

(Free advertisement: If you're ever on the Northern be remembered. This generation were not wot king. nan cont red very heavy UalW ami tha children, by herself. It would some teachers good 1o obsei her and see how calmly and efficiently all the childien in tins schooi can be handled. IM1ROTII DEROSIER.

TAKE A ROW, I'll. US Brooklyn: I have a by in the Little league and have aeen many of their games. I would like to report that they aie well behaved and lasten to everything their managers and coaches tell them. Also, when any makes an enor or can't get a bit, the other boys just pat him on the hack and give him encoutage-ment. I certainly give these ciedit, along with the men whu yave their time to help the bovn.

They are doing a wmWful Job. This also goes fw ibe PiMiy League. AY LANi.O. will be remem Pacific Railway's crack North Coast Limited, don't miss the Traveler's Rest car, with its murals picturing highlights of bered for its the Lewis and Clark saga.) turn to higher learning. It all Clark later became Governor of the Northwest Ter ritory: Lewis.

Governor of Louisiana. Clark died at St. started with the CI 3 i 1 I of cause of inflation aay that government waste and reckless spending started the trouble. 1 nay paper money is responsible. This phony money is rolled out of presses in stupendous amounts and there is no limit because Rights, which Louis Sept.

1, 1838. Lewis either killed himself or was murdered Oct. 11, 1809, at a dirty little inn near Nashville, gave boys a chance to go to on a trip which was to have taken him to ashing- there is no gold hacking. Paper ton on eovernment business. college that they wouldn have had otherwise.

Now our colleges money may go road oi the In the lore of American exploration and pioneering, it's can accept only one of every four German mark, R. CAZAL LEVY. a safe bet that these men names will never die..

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