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Oneonta Area Has Many Progressive Qualities Oneonta is in an area much like that in any other place in the United States. It's an old city, a city that has many progressive qualities, a busy city. It's past is much like any other city its size--rich and robust. There are many other cities like Oneonta in this country. There is much of the same character--a city of homes, a (juiet city, a city a deep appreciation of cultural Ann it's a city which draws strength from a rich agricultural area, a balanced variety of industry.

But methods which havti worked in other cities have failed in Oneonta. Why? Actually, when you come down to it, simply the determination to get something done, the willingness to the jirip of die past, and to bring a great little city up to date. This opportunity exists in Oneonta. This is a rich and i i and prosperous city. The basic economic strength is great enough to support just about any biff idea anyone can come up with.

There've been plenty of ideas, ioo, proposals for reshaping and revitalizing a and the area. But one by one, they seem to either disappear, or to hang forever in a kind of motionless suspension. The hard fact is that the atmosphere here has not been one of getting things done, but of dreaming up reasons why they can't be done. Things are happening in other communities. They could happen here.

An alert, live cilixpnry could help to see that, they happen not only in Oneonta but in sego and Delaware Counties. It could, too -With a little luck -A Little push -A little vision And, particularly, with more daring- and less super- caution. Prudence In Personal Spending A Good Quality A Cornell University economist predicts that the I960 consumer will spend more than he earns, but adds that this does not worry him (the economist). Such a prediction requires no great insight, since consumers have been behaving that way for some time. And it may be that not being worried about it is a state of mind which reflects more optimism than wisdom.

Dr. C. Stewart Sheppard, dean of the graduate school of business and public administration at Cornell, holds that the consumer's debt will be "justified by expectations of higher income during the balance of his working career." To some extent this is true. Dr. Sheppard's remarks suggest what might be called the credit, card philosophy of economics.

The only trouble with it is that credit, if encouraged too strongly, has a way of transforming itself into plain old money owed. One wonders if President Eisenhower, who has just made a plea to Americans to protect the dollar and fight inflation would applaud Dr. Sheppard's feeling that less income than outgo can be justified on the assumption of higher earnings later. We believe in the economic future of the United States. But we also believe that prudence in personal spending is still a good quality.

'Give Me the I'll Vote for All of'em' Did Former Gl Become a Bride? Editors might check the report tiiat Charlotte I formerly Charlie) McCleod, once a GL became a bride in Florida a couple of ago. If so. she's succeeded where Christine failed: Christine had a "fiance" ready to flip the ring on her finger, but New York authorities wouldn't okay the wedding because Chris's birth certificate listed her as Senator of Washing- who started a TV invL-s-ti- gaiinn a few years aeo hut didn't pursue very far. ha? revived hi. interest in the and is on the verge of tha: his Senate committee fearlessly out IJie he 'lidn'! ing daring the oricir.a: A Japanpsp Las Vegas soon will marry a L'.

S. citizen, enabling hc-r to stay in 'he country as a citizen will mak-' i powerful figure in the gambling city very, very happy. Dan Rowan and his wife wili end it in the divorce courts. He's half of the Rowan and Mnrtin comedy team. IT'S MORK than just a simple feud between authoi Pierre La Mure ami brainy Greta Thypsen: he wants her to pay damages for allegedly wrecking some expensive items in the apartment ho sublet to hor.

A TV special making the net- By Dorothy Kilgallen work rounds h.is a formal so dose to the pattern of Evelyn Rudie's publicity junket across the country thai the writors of the show it's called "Fun- town" arc trying to get the precocious i actress for a leading role in the program. It teems economically impossible, bu: thp management of Basin Street East claims to be pnyin-; Bonny Goodman S7.500 a week pins a percentage during his current engagement. This would a history; no other Gnth.im miuic room can offer any artist a comparable doal. Detroit disc jockey Ed Mc- Kenzic. u-ho gave up his jab because he could not stand the constant programming of iwk 'n' roll tunes, will go into partnership with conccr: producer Ed Sarkpsian.

T.ney plan to buy their own ra- 0:0 station in the Motor City. Don't tangle with the newest St. striptiMser. Her name's Annie Mosity. i OF TIIK TV networks is planning a really "special" spectacular for nt'Xt year he four hours ionj.

The hottest rumor around the Kremlin has Xikita Khrushchev making a dram a i flidn to Berlin to confuse the East West problem. Sammy Davis OPS! friends will make any big hots on his marriage to that Canadian blonde really coming off. The Oneonta Daily Star Member. The Asfndatcd find Tha Audit Bureau Circulations 102 Chestnut Oneonta, N. Y.

Dial GE 2-1 000 Otsegoand Delaware's Independent Newspaper Elton P. Hall, General Manager Gerald Gunthrup, Editor Donald J. Clifford, Business Manager Editor's Chicago Crime Leader Touring Europe with Policeman: Pearson Washington The strange case of Chicago's No. 1 criminal touring Europe with a Chicago police lieutenant lias just been flashed to Washington by the Italian police. The Chicago racketeer is Tony Accardo, successor to Al Capone as czar of the Chicago underworld.

The policeman is Lt. Anthony Do Grazo, supposed to root out crime in Chicago. The two men checked into Rome's fashionable Excelsior Hotel last week with their wives, taking an expensive suite with a joint living room. They bad hardly unpacked before Dominico Roberto, an exiled Chicago gangster now living in Italy, moved into the room across the hall. What the Accardo party didn't know was that it had been followed across Europe by the International Criminal Police organization, better known as Inte'-nol.

In Geneva, the Swiss police snapped pictures of the gangster and the Chicago cop touring together. Upon learning he was making a grand tour Europe with Chicago's No. 1 criminal, the Chicago 'police department promptly suspended Lieutenant Do Gr.uo. This isn't the first time De Gram has been suspended. Twenty-live years ago he was suspended for allegedly taking a bribe but was returned to the force after a few days off duty.

The record of this earlier suspension has now disappeared mysteriously from the Chicago police files. Note Their crnss-thc-hall visitor in Rome. Dominico Roberto alias Dan Roberts, was deported from the U. S. as an un- dosirablp in 1935.

HP has a police record dating back to the roaring Twenties. By Drew Pearson Ben West of Nashville, who gets the overwhelming vote of both whites and Negroes, tells this story about religion and the race problem: An old colored man came into a Nashville church and sat unobtrusively In the back row. Afterward, the preacher came up to him and said: "Tom, I suppose you know that you just caused all sorts of commotion when you camp in here." Tom didn't seem to realize that he was unwanted. The preacher continued: "Now Tom, suppose you go and talk this over with God, and see if he wants you to come back heah next Sunday." Later in the week the preacher saw Tom again and asked him whether he had discussed the matter with the Lord. "Yes, suh.

I done talked de matter ovah wid de Lord." replied Tom, "an' he told me. 'Tom. doan you' worry about dat at all. Ah've been tryin' to get in dat church myself, evah since the day it was STUIKE AGAIN' IN 80 DAYS Biggest question mark in the industrial world today is whether the Unitpri Stnnlworkcrs will go out on strike again after the 80- day Taft Hartley injunction period is over. This writer is predicting that they will.

Reason: Industry and the White House handled this strike with inexcusable ineptitude. What they did solidified the ranks of labor. The steel union didn't want a strike. Many members didn't like their president. They came close to voting him out some time ago.

Other labor leaders didn't like Dave McDonald. Walter Reuther. head of the Auto Workers, has long been peeved at him. John L. Lewis of the Mine Workers has called McDonald a playboy actor.

But now, Reuther has voted him one million dollars. Other labor leaders have gone to bat for McDonald. Labor is now united. Why? Labor sees this as an industry showdown against one union which later will spread to other unions. They watched the following: One Ike didn't Federal mediation to head off the strike until the day the strike started June 30.

This is unprecedented. But Ike's golf cabinet kept telling him to stay out, they could handle it, that labor had to be put in its place, STEEL'S liOUSE GUEST Two George Humphrey, ex- secretary of the treasury, now head of National Steel; George Allen, Ike's farm golf bridge partner who's a director of Republic Steel, ant 1 Jim Black, vice president of Republic, were his top advisers. Labor knew this. They resented the fact that Ike would go to Calilornia as the house guest of George Allen in the very middle of the strike. They wondered what public reaction would have been if Ike had been entertained for a week by Dave McDonald instead.

Three The President didn't sonally until early October, though urged repeatedly to do so by his secretary of labor and by Vice President Nixon. Once in September when he proposed a fact finding board, he withdrew the offer quickly after his steel friends opposed. Gerald Morgan, former attorney for U. S. Steel, now No.

2 assistant to Ike in the White House, wrote and signed the letter vetoing the fact finding board. No Intellectual Class Exists In United States, Says Sokolsky By George Sokolsly Publljfoe'l mornlnm SUnaayi or thn etur, in- CHUivay, President; Byron E. French. Vlro rresl.lrnt: nrnuV Pmldtnt: Mm Ruth OIUNHy. BrmiUry; Elton Hull aeuld Ountlirup, Alililint aeeretnry' Entered us Second Class Matter, Oneonta, N.

Y. i i Thursday, Novombor 12, 1959 I recently received a letter which contained this paragraph: "You know better than I that the has fallen into Khrush- dun-'s trap. I consider that it is t.hp of American intellectuals to warn the people about this danger. The word, intellectuals, troubled mp. Who is an intollpctual? Adlai Stevpnson.

for instance, has been called an egghead and that word came to bo used for an American who spoke grammatical and rhetorical English. It hardly denotes morp than that. After all. Michapl Pupin. one of tiip greatest physicists this country lias known, did not necessarily sppak so perfect an English, he having been liorn and reared in what is now called Yugoslavia.

Perfection of speech docs not necessarily represent of- thought. William Jennings Bryan was undoubtedly one of the greatest orators this nation produced but hp siirply was not a man. of pnofmous intellect. On the other h.ind, A a a Lincoln never wont to college, hut he was a man of profound wisdom. TFirc TKK.M.

intellectual, in nur society, cnn only mean a who devotes himself to which require the use of the bruin rather than brawn. l-'ulbrighl, the former Rhodes Scholar, would probably lind such a definition inadeauate. He would perhaps prefer a closer scrutiny of brain work to eliminate any who do original thinking but have not attained the scholar's A. But then, neither Thomas Edison nor George Westinghouse could have obtained a Fulbright Scholarship, provided by the American taxpayer, to educate American students abroad. The dil- ference between Cecil Rhodes and Senator Fulbright Is that Rhodes put up his own money to give a British education to American and other Anglo Saxons, but Fulbright's scholarships come from the government treasury and the persons involved should he called wards of the treasury.

It is curious how one man's name latched itself on to something that all the people the United States are paying for. But that does not make anyone an intellectual; that is. someone who is different from all others, like a llanlin scholar in ancient China, who. it was said, walked on eggs. Among the Jews in the ghetto, the intellectual was one who could read the Talmud and my father used to sny that he could put a pin through 27 pages nnd tell which letter the pin had pricked.

And I nl- ways wondered what thnt proved. On the other Iwnd, a shoe- njnkcr should be lower than man who could put a pin through 27 pages, I never could understand, allmen heina eaiial in the eyes of the Lord. IX THE UNITED STATES, no intellectual class exists. Nobody is set aside as elite, either by political prestige, family distinction, intellectual attainments or extraordinary wealth. There may be a few who believe that they are superior to others, but that is only temporary.

Ours is truly a classless society in the strict sense tiiat no position and few advantages in life are hereditary. It thoTich do not move from, shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves in three generations, they do it In two and the son of a professor in a university might well be a' taxicab driver or jazz musician. Each man forms (he pattern his own life to' a very great degree. Therefore when one speaks of the intellectuals of this country, he is denominating a class that does not Now, in Czarlst Russia, it did exist because so few were literate that those who could read were ipfo facto superior (n those who could not read. In China, the scholars wrre a class apart, above the ordinary folks who were merchants, peasants or soldiers nnd could not road.

And it was assumed a man who could write an cssn.v or poem could do anything in this world. That is why China' became so backward. Since the Sung Dynasty (960-'' 1127). the country intn the Just Curious In Her Day Editor, The Star: Are we gullible! It is very amusing to think that, after seventy years, we have lost our faith in Carter's Little Liver Pills. (See page 1 of Nov.

10 "Oneonta Some of you may remember the song: "Sing, oh sing of Lydia Pinkham and love for the human race; How she sells her Vegetable Compound and the papers publish her and another verse: "It sells for a dollar a bottle, and will cure all manner of ills. It is even more to be recommended than are Carter's Little Liver Pills." When I was a kiddie of about three, samples of medicines were left on doorsteps. Children are curious, and I had a habit of trying them. One of Carter's hitter pills was too much, and never since have I indulged in them. So farewell to a too long era of credulity.

Old Timer Worcester, N. Y. TV Networks Fooling No One Editor, The Star: It has occured to me that the networks are subscribing to the old adage that one bad apple spoils the whole bushel. You know, the spoiled part of that bad apple can be cut out and the good part saved. And then, perhaps, a fine apple pie can be made.

The whole bushel is not ruined; in fact it is put to a good use, instead of being just a static "bushel-of Thus it is in the case of Charles Van Doren. NBC a removed the "bad apple" instead of taking that larger part which is not spoiled and making good use of an excellent, intelligent personality. And I wonder if in doing so, the big, important "bushel" has been improved. It seems to me that nothing has been accomplished except a network ing that is really fooling no one! Video Fan Cooperstown, N. Y.

Sucker Born Every Minute Editor. The Star: My w'ile and I never watched the quiz programs when were popular two years ago but we're sure getting a kick out of them now. I think it was T. Barnum who mentioned many years ago that "there is a sucker born every minute." Radio Listener Oneonla, N. Going Back To Yesteryear In Our Area 20 Years Ago Today Oneonta High School Yellowjackets remained winless this season as Walton trounced them in Saturday's game, 12-0.

Charles Simons. Clinton suffered slight ankle abrasions when he was struck by an auto yesterday afternoon. Norman II. Meagley of Jefferson, father of Norman Mengley and Donald Meagley of this city, was elected Tow Clerk of Jefferson in town elections last week. William Finnigan of New York- spent the wcekent with his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. W. S. Finnigan. 26 Spruce St.

Mr. and Mrs. Orson Miller -146 Main left yesterday for Daytona Beach, where they will spend the winter. Mrs. John L.

VanWoert. 7 Oak Mrs. A. A. Myrus, SI Ford Mrs.

James Van Woert, 23 Ford and Willis Fosdick. attended (he Cornell-Colgate football game at Ithaca Saturday. 30 rears Ago Today Arthur Bouton of this city and his uncle, Norman Jackson of Binghamton. returned to Oneonta yesterday a weekend hunting trip in the Adirondacks, bringing with thorn two fine bucks. In honor of their 55th wedding anniversary.

Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Brownson of West Oneonta were given a reception attended by about' 70 friends.

Mrs. Alice Stevens of Johnson City has returned home after visiting her sister. Mrs. Catharine Dimmick, 17 Church St. hands of scholars and government wont into gradual collapse until the Communists captured it.

The snobbish may excite themselves over having rend few more printed words than another man read. But the brains of many untutored men have produced some remarkable results, particularly in business whore such a one as Andrew Cnrnogio i unit like the United Sledl Corporation without even a B.A. degree. The Gunny Sack By Gerald "Gunny" Gunthrup Now the leaves all at once, it seems, though the change has been coming on gradually for weeks are gone from the trees that stand there on the horizon. The dark branches are like nerve ends, moving swiftly against a gray sky, sensing the approach of even more profound change.

A man sitting at a. window feels his own being attached to those nerve ends. Their prescient message-of stillness and cold, of a vast descending white that will drain color from the landscape--strikes deep into his consciousness. He draws back, glad for the room's warmth and light. It is a sad thing, the approach of winter.

The melancholy of it has not been lost on the poets, and even in our time of insulation from winter's bite some of that feeling persists. Yet there is a pleasant aspect to watching those bare branches against the gloomy sky. The mind projects itself five months, six a day when those very branches will mist over with pale green. If the trees did not become stiff and barren in November, there could be no sweet dream of greening in the spring. Down in the vicinity of Biloxi, a few years ago we visited the home of Jefferson Davis, and it was then that we had the feeling that Southerners think of their first and only president with mixed emotions.

Davis did more than any other man, with the exception of South Carolina's John C. Calhoun, to bring about secession. But even in the South, as we found out, there are differences of opinion as to what kind of a man Davis was. Further light is shed on that question by his latest biographer, Prof. Hudson Strode of the University of Alabama.

Strode agrees with the admirers of Davis. They note that after the defeat of-the South he indulged neither in recrimination nor apologies. They point out that, though' imprisoned for a time after the war, he spent the rest of his life above controversy in his Mississippi. His big white house, with broad front- steps, is now a museum visited annually by thousands. A beautiful garden, through which flows a small creek is an added attraction.

But to get back to Davis. His detractors have seemed of late to outnumber his admirers. He is charged with an egotistic belief that he knew more about war than his generals. It also is said that he picked poorly qualified commanders and had a'tendency to quarrel with advisors of superior judgement. Only two volumes of Strode's projected three are as yet published, but they register the author's firm belief in Davis, He asks one unanswerable question: "What Southerner could have done better?" His supporting arguments make this biography an interesting contribution to the story of a tragic era.

THE GUNNY SACK: Mae West may return to the screen to play Mae West. We're surprised that Hollywood thought of her for the part Wilbert (Bill)' Gravelin, Maple Street, getting paperwork out of the way for Allis Chalmers preparatory to-his Retirement as zone manager following many years of service with the company BPOElks planning its annual Memorial on Sunday, December with James Millspaugh, Bill Hall, Egbert Leach, H. E. Bobbins and Wirt Lewis in charge of arrangements. Three gals from our business office, June Steifel, Harriet Henderson and Ann Ross, looking ahead to viewing the Paris creations on Fifth Avenue one week from tomorrow Brackett's display window bulging with color photographs of the Oneonta High School senior class Frank (Diz) Lamonica publicized in the latest issue of Piel's magazine as the distributor of the month Tommy Pondolfino natty in his green jacket lettered "Varsity Litterbugs abounded on the Main Stem yesterday and even the leaves got into the act.

Relief in Sight For Gout Victims By Herman Bundsnsen, M. D. If you have the gout, chances are you arc in the best of company. For some unknown reason, this painful ailment often strikes extremely brilliant persons. Isaac Newton, Francis Bacon and Charles Darwin, for example, were victims.

CONSOLING NEWS This, of course, is probably of little consolation to anyone suffering with gout today. However, I do have some consoling information. For thousands of years the pain of gout has been eased through the use of clochicum, an herb medicine. This herb, found in the bulbs of the autumn crocus, is one of the most ancient of all such medicines. It was used long before there was such a thing as medical science.

MODERN ALKALOID We now have, and have )iad lor some time, a modern alkaloid of this herb medicine. We call it colchicine. With this medicine nnd others which we have avnllnblo, wn nnn generally eliminate Iho intense pain of nil acute nllnck of gout in relatively short time. As effective as colchlclnc Is in treating a sincle altkck, by itself It isn't much good in preventing subsequent flare-ups. The gout is apt to return.

Maybe it will take months or even years, but it will be back. However, when it is taken properly, along with a chemical called Benemid, the number of acute attacks usually can be curbed. Recent articles by a friend of mine. Paul de Knifl, in both the American Medical Association's publication "Today's Health" and the "Reader's Digest." term this two-front attack "a powerful preventive." GOOD RESULTS The articles quote one doctor as saying that a number of his gout patients haven't lost a single day from work during the last nine years, due to this combination of drugs. It would seem, therefore, that few persons have to worry much these days about severe attacks of this age-old affliction.

QUISTION AND ANSWER Mrs. C. Would elevated afternoon temperatures of 100 and anliing joints bo considered a normal condition? Answer: This is not considered a normal condition. You should consult your doctor,.