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Pottstown Mercury Reader. Say: and The Pottitown News PublUhed everv morning eicept Sunday by Pottstown Daily Nows Hanover and DIAL FA 3-3000 WILLIAM H1E8TER. President SHANDY HILL, General Manner SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY CARRIER 42c ner Week $2100 per BY MAIL STRICTLY IN The name complete of the author must contribution, but on request, will not be published. not exceeding 250 words will receive preference. Inspiration to Others in Plight All Dressed Up, and No Place to Go One One Three Week Month Months 45c $1.75 $5 25 Current Slniile Cony By Mall Bnck Copy over 30 Old Six Mont ha $10 50 10c 35c Year.

One Year $21 00 Entered at Pottstown Poatoiflce as 2nd class matter MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to the use for republleatlon of all In this newspaper as well as all A1 news dispatches. All rights of special dispatches herein ate reserved. WEDNESDAY, AUG I'ST 9, It is a man's mission to learn to understand. (1 annevar Hush) Unity With Our Allies ESTERN Europe, traditionally fragmented by national rivalries, is emerging as a giant among the power centers ot the world. This new Europe could he a deciding factor in turning the tide against the advance of world communism.

The new spirit of cooperation sparking this development is now spearheaded hy the six nations joined together, in the European Economic Community or Common Market. Tariff walls are being torn down and trade between the countries has risen to heights unimaginable in any previous time. Already the immense benefits of regional specialization, mass production and mass marketing are beginning to be felt. Despite age-old barriers of distrust, language and custom, national borders are coming to mean less than they ever have before. Added to this political change has been an all-important shift in economic thinking by practically all of the governments of Europe.

They have discovered that contrary to the teachings of liberal economists, cheap money is not in the long run. cheap. Following the pattern of West Germany, most of them have taken whatever steps necessary to make their money sound. Trust in the currencies of other countries has been a key factor in stimulating international investment and trade. Uncertainty of payment would kill both.

U. S. News and World Report describes Western Europe as the sleeping giant, pointing out that, standing between the two other giants, the U. S. and Soviet Union is a group of nations with a potential strength which far exceeds that of The total population of these countries is 328 million, with a total output of $300 billion a year.

This compares with a population of 214 million for Russia, with an output of $225 billion a year. Western Europe spends the equivalent of $15 billion a year on defense, or an average of one out of each twenty dollars of total output. The United States, further away from the firing line, spends $46.5 billion, or one out of eleven dollars. Why does the United States carry the major burden of the free defense? In the first place. European countries have been learning to work together toward common goals for only a decade.

Unbelievable progress has been made, but there is far to go. Secondly, the United States by assuming most of the defense load has enabled them to ignore for awhile their own responsibilities and duties. Vermont Royster, writing in the Wall Street Journal, after spending six weeks criss-crossing Europe this Spring and Summer, makes two observations which have a significant bearing. impression is of a Europe bursting with economic vitality, enjoying not only a prosperity it has not known since before World War but a confidence that it stands now on the threshold of a truly affluent society such as it has never known. second is of a Europe weary, bone weary, of the wars, turmoils and political crises which have swept over it in the first half of this century.

Here, everywhere, are a people who look longingly for anything that will give them surcease and a time to enjoy what seems now within their grasp The fear of war made possible the economic cooperation which is welding the countries together today. But as Mr Royster points out the prosperity resulting from this cooperation has itself the despair with which the people of Europe contemplate the new dangers of war from Hut even this is changing. As economic ties strengthen, political divisions weaken, and the necessity of concerted action in such matters as the defense of the common interest will be more compelling. no longer too hard to imagine such a thing as a United States of Europe. Mr.

Royster sums it up this way: I he fact that a Frenchman is beginning to think of Europe as Europe means that he is also aware that what threatens Germany threatens him; it is no longer just a problem for distant people whom he like very well anyway. the very existence of this new kind of prosperity, untasted before by the majority of the people of Europe, gives all the people of Europe a feeling that they are creating something worth United States military and economic aid has helped an old Europe change into a vital force that may prove decisive in perpetuating a free world. If so, this would certiinly be tne biggest victory for free men in world history. Grampaw Oakley CORNER.1!», Editor, The Mercury, August Dear Sir Brother: Wal, I see by the papers where to bolster their demand they be given an increased living allowance, 5,000 South India plantation workers refused their midday meal. Sounds more like a crash dieting program than a strike! Also as a symbol of their protest, the tioneers decided to let beards grow.

Pretty fuzzy thinking, say. And say: Caves may prove best shelters for the first men to reach the Moon, say space planners. that where we came In? as cave men? llopin' )ou air the same, CRAMPAW oakley Grateful for Wisdom To the Editor: In this world of morbid, grousing dreamers who think they should have a golden stairway to comfort and success opened to them, it is revitalizing and inspiring to read of Mrs. Ruth Bennett. Here is a woman who has every reason to turn her back on life and at what fate has brought her.

Yet she says that she feels fortunate to be alive and have a home, children, a good hits- band. And this woman faces death in the near future. What she expressed in her few sincere words would solve a million problems Many people should be grateful for her anyone stopped to think about it tell you, Mrs. Bennett, 1 am deeply grateful for your message. Pottstown D.

INDEBTED Stop The Draft To the Editor: Why must we have the draft? According to all the press reports, both young and old male and female are raring to go. If this is so, why not depend on volunteers? Gratcrford L.L. Cruelty to Dogs? To the Editor: What 1 want to know is: Whv do people have a When the husband and wife work all day thev leave the dog in the house to bark all day. The dog barks from the time they leave till they come home at night. The least they could do is close the dows, because the barking is sure annoying to me and other neighbors.

I sure would hate to come home to that hotiM' after having the dog locked inside. Pottstown DOG BARKER High-Priced Moon To the Editor: Politicians have long "promised us the if we would but elect them to office. President Kennedy is probably the first who intends to deliver. When politicians give us what they promise, we must always pay the bill MO billion for this moon trip Less needless spending and some tax cuts would carry us farther than any moon trips. Boycrtown THRIFTY Trim The Fat To the Editor: The increase in Federal taxes for national defense, the request by President Kennedy for citizens to prepare for further sacrifices, has not as vet brought any noticeable effort by the state and local governments to re-examine their budgets ant.

eliminate unnecessary spending in order to compensate, in some degree, for the new federal costs. It is suggested that we are all in this Federal effort together the private budgets of each citizen and the public budgets of all citizens. The heads of each unit of government should each establish a task force of public officials and qualified citizens to recommend belt-tightening where it will salvage the most with the least harm. Pottstown RD 18 S.O.F, The Voice of Broadway By DOROTHY KILG ALLEN Miss Notebook: Marie McDonald is disappointed, to put it mildly, that she land the feminine lead in the Broadwav-bound musical, It even though she was enthusiastic enough about the words and tunes to offer to invest a large sum of money in the production. Barbara Nichols, also curvaceous and sometimes also blonde, got the part.

Residents of Central Park West are preparing lengthy petitions addressed to Mayor Wagner, urging beefed-up police protection against the violence and muggings in the area. Worried tenants in many apartment houses along the avenue are currently collecting names. RCA believes Audrey Hepburn's which she sings so delightfully in at is such a winner, putting out two records featuring the song one a single, the other an I PROMOTERS OF rock roll shows are taking it on the chin. Racial tensions are keeping the crowds away. Martha Raye and Robert her cop ex-husband, have split again.

reportedly in seclusion somewhere in New England. Football scandal headlines due for the front pages next month will be bigger than the recent basketball scandal and will involve star football players in important colleges. The war panic is on around Hollywood, with the rich building bomb shelters and stocking them with luxury foods and guns. (Hie guns are for use in case desperate outsiders, who failed to provide similar shelters for themselves, should try to break in.) Groucho Marx, interviewed in Honolulu, insisted make any more mistakes than the Groucho believes there are two alternatives to the present television system Pay TV or government operation, but he added, the government handles TV like it handles the farm problem and foreign affairs, rather have private enterprise do APPARENTLY COMEDIANS are among the citizens most critical of Washington. When Mort Sahl was in London he declared: I face up to my problems any longer.

I think Eisenhower and Kennedy and the H-bomb and a lot of unreal things like It will be memory-time next December 10th when baritone Robert Merrill and his former wife, Roberta Peters, sing together at the County Center in White Plains. Both have married others since their honeymoon hit the rocks. Movie exec Abe Schneider of Columbia Pictures, in town for necessary business conferences, is esconced in a large suite at the St. Regis, and his staff occupies smaller but no less plush quarters in the same hotel. The Worry Clinic By DR.

GEORGE W. CRANE B. A. YENK1N. of Columbus, Ohio, sat beside me recently during an airplane trip.

he began. just finished addressing the salesmen of our firm. 1 told them that it costs an average of $50 for each call they make on prospects. So 1 urged them to use care in selecting potential prospects. concluded my address by reminding them that salesmen are the first men in modern society to he eliminated in a police state.

you agree with that. Dr Yes, 1 certainly do, for salesmen are the typical symbol of our Republic with its great system. IN BRITISH socialism and Russian communism, the salesmen disappear, for free competition between manufacturers and retailers is then stifled. Instead, the government then orders everybody around and tells citizens what to buy, plus how much and at what price. It may even use the ration card in peace times.

Stagnation follows a dearth of salesmanship. A creative nation is a direct tribute to advertising and selling. The U.S.A. is the greatest advertising and sales nation on earth, which is one notable reason why we are still the mecca for all other peoples! BIT BIG central government and the zooming number of employes on the tax back, is threatening even our own system. More and more millions of Americans are now living on federal or state salaries and Social Security.

Alas, even educated Americans are woefully ignorant of private business costs. They think the income of a grocer or gas station operator can be taken home to be spent as the owner wishes. Not only do we need to train our grade schoolers in the marked difference between vs. but we need to inform our voters accordingly. Write to Dr.

Crane at The Mercury for the booklet, "Tests for Good Parents," enclosing a stamped 4c self-addressed envelope plus 20c. Inside Television Bv EVE STARR STARR REPORT: An actress friend of mine who has been kicking haphazardly around the business for the last 15 years or so without having made a name for herself, had an interesting comment to make the other day. was out at Revue for a routine we't- she said, there was Ralph Bellamy in the make-up room. It was 6 o'clock in the morning. That night I saw Agnes Moorhead give a fine performance in a half hour Western and I knew she bad gone through the same routine make up at fi on set at 8, work through until after 7 or at night.

And I wondered why they did this; why, after all these years, two such fine performers were still going through the mill like the rest of BELLAMY AND Agnes Moorhead are both fine performers and fine human Iw-mgs. They are honored and respected in every branch of show business radio, Broadway, motion pictures, television, on the road. They command top billing and top money. Ho why are they wasting their time and talents in routine TV films that are wiitten yesterday, filmed today and forgotten tomorrow? The answer is quite simple and one that should be pondered by crop of undisciplined youngsters who seem to feel show business ow es them not only a hand- somi living but even homage Bellamy a rut Miss Moorhead are professionals and in the finest sense of the word. They epitomize that old cliche that there are no small parts, only small actors.

BECAUSE THEY are professionals, they accept unquestiomngly any job their agents fen is right for them. They report on the set on time, their lines learned. They cooperate with cast, staff and crew, and they are courteous and considerate in their relationship with everyone from the producer down to the man who brings the coffee around They are grateful for any attention paid them by the press, but they do not fawn upon newsmen. Neither do they ask to see copy in advance or refuse to be interviewed by publications They do not complain about bad reviews or unfavorable stories. reviews come occasionally to the best of actors, but it would be difficult to imagine an unfavorable story about either Bellamy or Moorhead Acting is their craft and their profession.

'Ihey would rather work in a routine show than sit around waiting for the script. By their very presence they can enhance not a mediocre script but the performances of their fellow actors. Both have forgotten more about acting than most young, will ever let themselves learn To use a quite old-fashioned term, Bell, a my and Moorhead are gentry. hy they are seen in the make-up room at 6 in the morning And why they will continue to be honored and respected in their profession long after many of young TV have been forgotten. Interpreting The U.

S. Delays Opening Counteroffensive By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst The United States is delaying a political counteroffensive to which tne Soviet Union has laid itself wide open in Europe. The major effort at the moment, as clearly indicated by Secretary Dean tactics in Paris, is to make the one step policy of the Kennedy administration the accepted policy of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, with emphasis on military posture.

This is not to be accomplished by waving a wand, one reason being the expense, and another being the vociferous conviction in many quarters that negotiation must go at least hand in hand, if not ahead, of military containment. This negotiation-mindcdness even goes to the extent, with some people, of believing that diplomatic recognition of East Germany should be paid for Soviet guarantees of the status quo in Berlin. This the governments are not about to do, but they cannot completely ignore the pressure, despite the fact that the synthetic crisis over Berlin created by Soviet Premier Khrushchev is within itself clearly revelatory of the value of Soviet guarantees. The delay in putting forward demands of a political nature to counter the Soviet offensive is not entirely due to the fact that diplomatic decisions have not been reached. They could be rushed up a little.

But there is a tendency throughout the Atlantic ty not to rock the German political boat with a national election coming up next month Chancellor Konrad challenger, Mayor Willy Brandt of Berlin, is well-liked in the West, and there will be no great cause for lamentation if he wins. But the Old become a symbol of Western unity; of German cooperation with France, a most important element in the Western posture, and of West (ierman ability to withstand the temptation to pay in vital coin for reunification. These considerations, however, may cause the West to miss a most opportune time to meet Soviet demands with demands of their own that self-determination as advocated by the Communists for part of the new coun tries be made something more than a political football, and be applied to the old but subjugated countries of Eastern Europe as well. The Kennedy administration already is putting new emphasis on this issue. Keeping it on the back burner until late in the year, at a conference which might then appear to the world to have been forced by the Soviet Union instead of demanded by the West, may dull its edge There is a difference between going to a conference merely to answer Soviet demands, and to a conference at which the Soviets will also have to answer concrete and determinedly pressed Allied demands.

In Retrospect 50 Years Ago August 9, BIRTHDAY honor of their seventh and fifth birthday anniversaries, Ruth and Thelma Kochel, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Kochel of Ccdarville, were feted at a party. Those attending were Nellie Main, Adeline Johnson, Jennie Miller, Nora Miller, Addie Shaner, Blanche Baker, Martha Evans, Emerson Wade, Edward Neiman and Earl Flood. MEMBERS VISIT Horace Skean Jr.

and Earl Livingood drove to Schwenksville for a visit with members of the Washington AC. team. 25 Years Ago August 9. 19.16 NAMED PRESIDENT Mrs. Elsie Coles was elected president of the American Legion auxiliary drill team at the monthly meeting of the group.

Other officers elected were Mrs. Edna Fredd, vice president; Mrs. George Herbst, secretary, Mrs Bertha Ginther, treasurer, Ruth Reynier, captain, and Leah Boalton, historian. RECEIVES TRANSFER Lt. Col.

Carl Spaatz, a native of Boycrtown, was transferred to Langley field, Va after completing a course for aviators at the War college at Fort Leavenworth, Kans CLASS PICNIC The annual picnic of the Trinity Bible class of Trinity Reformed Sunday school was served indoors in the social rooms of the King and Hanover streets church. Present were Mrs. W. Van Buskirk. Mary Rhoads, Mr.

and Mrs. Frank Wells, Edmund Wells, Harold Lachman, Davis Lachman, Richard Leinbaeh, Mrs. Josiah Wagner, and Mrs. Kline Geyer. 10 Years Ago August 9.

1951 PRIZE FRUIT Frank D. Strunk. 228 South Price street, has seen some large tomatoes grow in his truck garden, but none so heavy as the one he found which weighed one pound and 13 ounces. It was about six inches long and four inches thick. A END Ethel Hut man.

Sandra Johnson, and Mrs. Anna Benfield and daughter, Morine, of Spring City, attended the graduation review at the U.S. Naval training center, Bainbridge, Md. Participating in the review was Mrs. son, Robert, who graduated after 11 weeks of basic training.

SOROPT1MIST A special meeting of the Sorop- timist club was conducted at the home of the newly elected president, Mrs. Alice K. Willauer, North Charlotte street. In attendance were Mrs. Dorothy Ayres, Mrs.

Lillian Bennett, Mrs. Lillian Christy, Mrs Margaret Clements, Mrs. Margaret Fray, Mrs. Anne Hasty and Mrs. Mary McElroy.

Pottstown Sketches freeway 70 thought it was just a hay wagon. Darn these sneaky cops and their unmarked All AROUND THE TOWN Fun in the West Pottstown Produces Back from a motor trip through the West is Pottstown real estate man Richard II. Thompson and family. Travel report on the four week sojourn: A good time was had by the youngsters, Richard 12; Marcia, 9 and Vanessa, 3. The trip was a combination of touring places of interest and visiting with Pottstown acquaintances.

The Thompsons stopped off in Phoenix, to spend some time with O. I). McNlU, former personnel manager at the Dana corporation plant in Pottstow-n, and his family. Later the vacationers spent a couple days with Walter S. Zimmerman, former cir filiation manager of The Mercury who retired two years ago Zimmerman and his family were visiting with his daughter and her family in Ontario, near Angeles.

While in California the Thompsons also went to Dis nevland, to the Knotts Berry frontier land park, and to the Golden Gate and cable ears of San Francisco. The return trip included a brief visit to Las Vegas and Reno, Nev. The younger Thompsons thrilled at feeding the bears at Yellowstone National park, at the natural wonders of Salt Lake City, and at the giant sculpture of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt at Mount Rushmore, South Dakota Thompson noted, weather was excellent, and we had a very good the ranging In age from three months to 79 years gathered at the Schaeffer road, Pottstown RD 3 home of Gordon R. Ilafer a Dana corporation machine operator), for the third annual reunion of the llafer clan. Youngest of the 76 family members attending the conclave was three month old Barry llafer, son of Mr.

anti Mrs. John llafer Willow And sitting nearby but three generations away was 79 year old Freeman Sullivan, of Morysville. The reunion was in the shape of a picnic, which was saved from showers by a huge tent set up in backyard. Good thing too, the llafer clan decided, as each reunion has brought rain. A former Pottstown girl completed hostess and stewardess training at Grace Downs Air Career school.

New York city, and is working in a tariff firm in that city. She is Shirley Graham, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Luther Graham, formerly of King street, and now of St. Petersburg, Fla.

POTTSTOWN the of the US Information Service, a publication from Manila in the far away Philip pine Islands, a page is devoted to pictures and text describing New York newest skyscraper, the Chase Manhattan Bank build mg, for which Bethlehem Steel Company smelted, rolled, fabricated and erected 870 tons of All of the steel for the million, 810-fthtgh, 60 story building, sixth tallest on Manhattan island, was fabricated at the Pottstown works. The Chase- Manhattan Bank is the tallest and most massive structure constructed in New York citv in the past quarter century. Only five exceed it in height: the Empire State, Chrysler, Cities Service, 40 Wall Street, and RCA building. Only two exceed it in steel tonnage: the RCA with 58 500 tons and Empire State with 58,000 tons. In its skeleton steelwork are some of the heaviest skyscraper columns ever fabricated.

Made up of 36 foot-long laminated steel sections weighing as much as i2 tons apiece, they each support loads up to 7,900 tons. These columns rest on 121? ton forged billets which are in turn carried on built-up steel grillages standing on concrete bases 100 feet below pavement level. ULCERS? TAKE A LONG NAP! I Iter patients may find themselves sleeping away their troubles anti gastrointestinal complaints if experiments in Russia prove successful, reported. New tests in Leningrad call for anesthetizing the patient at regular intervals over a period of weeks with feeding done intravenously while the patient sleeps. Several wards are now tilled with patients undergoing the "sleep cure at a hospital where "a permanent quiet reigns where there is not even the sountl of a The cure is based on the belief that bv isolating the brain, the patient is completely freed from tensions anti his body tissues can be prevented from reacting any more to the ulcer.

SIA1 Summer swimming and outing season is at its peak and with it the sunburn season. A little common sense and care will avoid the severe sunburn that often spoils a vacation on its first day 1. Take it easy at first. Tan with 10 minutes the first day anti increase the time by 10 minutes each day. 2.

Suntan lotions and creams can screen out some of the burning ultraviolet rays and thus reduce burn. They can't speed up tanning, Suntan pills can help those with sensitive skins avoid burns, but they are triekv and should be used only as directed by a physician 4 Protect your hair. Too much sun can make it brittle and hard to manage 5 Lubricate the skin with cream or lot ion after a day in the sun to help offset the excessive drying effect. 6. Protect your eyes, with dark glasses, or when lying down, with gauze pads Follow these precautions and avoid spending most of the holiday suffering from sunburn.

What Know? By NAN JONES I III VI I( 1, What was the oldest Greek colonv in Italy, and when was it founded'1 2. If you saw a pinkie, would it be most apt to be floating, flying or crawling, II IIAPPFSt I) It)l) On this date in 1902 the Victorian era ended officially as the late queen's son ascended the throne of Britain as Edward VII IIOW 'I) yur Of 1. Cumae, former suburb of Rome, founded about 1030 B.C. 2 Floating; it is a type of Atlantic fishing boat. Flowers for the Living for MRS JENNIE Pottstown hospital.

BECAUSE today she is celebrating her 80th birthday..