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Pottstown Mercury Readers Say: The name and addrru of tht author mini accompany ever? contribution, hut on requeat, will not published. Letters not exreedinc will rrcelve prefftence. Out Where The Tall Com Grows and The Pottstown Newi Published every mornlim except Sunday by the PotUtown Daily News Publishing Co. Hanover and Kina DIAL FA 3-3000 WILLIAM H1ESTER rrcsident SHANDY HILL. General Manager Hl'HSCR 1PTION HATES BY per Week $21 00 per Year.

MY MAIL STRICTLY IN One One Three Six One Week Month Months Months Year 4 $5 25 $10 50 $2100 Current 8innle Copy By Mall 10c Pack Copy over 30 Days Old 35c Entered at Pottstown Postoffice as 2nd class matter MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is entitled exclusive to the ase for republics ion of all local news punted in this newspaper as well as all clu patches All rights of special dispatches herein also reserved. SATURDAY. MAY 20. One ptisan with belief is tijuiil In force of 9H uho only have inter Stuart Mill) Saturday Sermon Who Wants Mistakes Publicized? Wrong Number By EDGAR T. CHR1SEMER, Pastor Transfiguration Lutheran Church "Every Common Hush." Dr Chrisemer new book, is a collection ot 62 inspirational articles.

This Saturday sermon is not an ex ceipt. but the book contains many essays enjoy. It's on sale at Smith Son. High and Charlotte street The Lighthouse. King and Penn stieet and the Heritage Hook io North Evans street LIPPING quietly along the dimly-lighted hotel corridor moved the furtive figure of a man.

He stopped at the door of one room, pressed his ear against the door and listened. After a moment his hand reached out and noiselessly turned the knob. Finding it locked, he approached the door to the next room on the floor and repeated his maneuvers. It was nearly 4 clock in the morning, and his strange actions went unnoticed. An elevator door opened and clanged shut, and the prowler waited silently in a darkened recess until he heard retreating footsteps on the side ing of the building.

Then he resumed his activity. On the seventh floor his patience was rewarded. The first door he tried he found unlocked. The room was dark and he slipped in and softly closed the door behind hint. Suddenly the room was a blaze of light, and the startled burglar found himself a prisoner of two detectives and an BI man.

guess 1 picked the wrong muttered the burglar helplessly. the wrong said the FBI man grimly, the wrong A great deal of life is wasted on wrong numbers! So many efforts end in a blind alley because a man opened the wrong door! Life is like a telephone: if you dial the wrong number you get the wrong answer! Every man makes his own calendar! He has only as many days in the year as he uses! Mon often throw away little patches anti shreds of which each day produces, but the great loss is a whole life wasted on a wrong ambition! Professor Paul Knoll, of Oregon State college, noticed to his dismay that his wife had enrolled in his course in argumentation! Some men entertain an idea; others put it to work! In the minutes recorded of various clubs and organizations is often found the phrase: business that required is a sad day for any man who finds that the ledger of life has recorded his wasted years with the business that required entry!" Sometimes a man gets a wrong number wheii he passes judgment on another man. But a judgment is no better than his intormation. In every election in the Mississippi town, one Republican vote persistently cropped up. Everybody knew, of course, that it was cast by an old former Union soldier who had been wounded and left behind during the Civil War.

When the old fellow died the town honored him with an elaborate funeral, then gr.ve a civic sigh of relief that the only black mark against its Democratic honor that one Republican vote had been eliminated. But when Fall came and the votes between Wilson and Hughes in the presidential race were counted, a sudden commotion arose. Republican vote has showed up one of the dorks yelled. buried the wrong It is better to know nothing than to know the wrong things! A Bloody Mess IN a letter to the folks back home, man August E. Johansen (R -Mich) poses this provocative question: it make sense for a patient to be receiving a blood transfusion and giving a blood donation at the same wonder whether wp are not indulging in something just as ridiculous and perilous in the area of government an I economies.

refer to the continuously increasing simultaneous policy of Federal taxation and Federal when resorted to as a supposed basis for improving economic health. course this policy provides a wonderful windfall of political power and profit for the doctors of big government and phony economics who promote and administer fhe Congressman Johansen couldn't he more correct. It is rugged for it sure has the odor of economic and political quackery Grampaw Oakley PI SKIS CORNERS, Editor, The Mercury, May 19. Dear Sir 'n' Brother: Hal I see bv the where there are 100 senators a 137 of the House of Representatives jn Washington. This gives us 537 good reasons why a real anti noise campaign will never work in the national capital.

That film actress who announced she planned to retire and run a farm has already harvested her first publicity. And say: Here's a unique, ami possibly work able, plan to abolish wat: Let all nations insist that their statesmen's heads be as sound as their soldier's bodies' Hopin' you air the same, GK NED OAKLEY Suppressing News To the Editor: The President and a lot of Democratic congressman would like to see more news suppressed. This is understandable. Nobody likes his mistakes and failures broadcast. But if the people are going to vote intelligently, they have to know what is happening.

Since a great many people don't try to find out. somebody has to practically shout at them to inform them. The Republicans fell down on the job on the Cuba fiasco. They should have let us know just what a terrible blunder Kennedy made. Douglassville AD NIB Grateful He's in Pottstown To the Editor: Every intelligent Potts- toman should be grateful we have no election ofticials as they have in Louisiana The Federal civil rights commission investigated voting procedures there with some curious results: One voter registrar who was alleged to have discriminated against Negroes flunked the test she used to determine the qualifications of applicants.

Another registrar with a seventh grade education said he often passed on the qualifications of would-be voters. Still another registrar took the fifth amendment when questioned on voting procedures in a north Louisiana parish This one likened the hearing to public trial of Cuban patriots nowr being conducted by the Communist Fidel Testimony brought out the fact that in one parish white applicants were asked simple questions about the federal Constitution hut that Negroes were required to explain such things as due process. The commission, obviously, is on the right track. In many parts of the South, the Negro who would like to register and vote still finds high barriers in his way. If he is not asked trick questions, he may still be kept from registering by economic pressures or the threat of them.

Those who deny the Negro his right to vote de prive him of a basic freedom. When that right is made fully available to him. the others will be much more easily attained. That is why the hearings just concluded in Louisiana were so important. Pottstown CHURCH MEMBER Effect To the Editor: a public school teacher and I have seen evidence of the eroding influence of TV on the minds of our young getting worse.

The people who say. it to the parents to censor their know what they are talking about, or care what happens to children Spring City MISSUS Work or Else To the Editor: Russia is cracking down on idlers, slackers and those engaged in illegal private enterprise. A new decree is to apply to all those who "evade socially useful and the penalty is two to five years at hard labor in especially set aside for this There are many possible implications in this new government threat to workers. Some of them were beginning to relax a little, and some had been searching for independent ways to increase their meager income and hence their standard of living No doubt a lack of enthusiasm for some work projects reflects a degree of protest, conscious or not. But the tough approach, with a sentence in a forced labor camp as the alternative to toeing the line at home, also indicates that Soviet officials can no longer achieve an all out.

neatly regimented work effort by talking about national goals and offering speed-up incentives on the job. From the democratic viewpoint, the Soviet work decree seems a grim device for increasing national progress toward higher economic accomplishments. Pennsburg THOUGHTFUL Solution for Plight To the Editor: So the five parking lots finally hurt someone! 1 wonder what the taxes would be if private persons owned them. I would have bought one. If you think you heard complaining, wait till three more shopping centers start up.

Now here is a way to keep from raising taxes, that is: Put parking meters in all the garages and let the borough take over the rapid transit company. Councilmen could drive the busses and the chamber of commerce could be the mechanics. Pottstown ONLOOKER The Voice of Broadway By DOROTHY KILGALLEN Jottings in Pencil BROOK Long Island home was robbed of but the kitchen during his recent road engagement. The pert lady receiving Jule undivided attention at Quo Vadis was the Countess De Bendern, who is getting a divorce from her husband. She was one of the Ali close friends.

You think time fly? Stephanie King, who plays a sultry, sexy role in the film Dog was the 7 year old Miss when Bess Meyerson was crowned Miss America. The Embers has signed Peter Nero, RCA hot new piano star, to a July contract better known around where been breaking it up for two years, as Bernie Nierow, but the disc company took him out of the little West Side club, changed his name, and gave him the big album push.) Comedian Dick Gregory is using his $25,000 album advance to buy a new home in Chicago. KING HUSSEIN of Jordan caused quite a furore in the Arab world by announcing that a British girl was his bride-to-be. Many of his followers are incensed at the idea of his selecting a foreigner as his new Queen, the implication being that no Arab beauty was up to his standards. A dilapidated warehouse in one of the ninst bleak of the Roman slums has become the meeting place for some of the best known names in the Italian world of letters.

Writer Albert Moravia and his wife, Elsa Morante, are among those who are working as actors, writers, consultants and cameramen for a daring young newcomer to the cinema world: riter-director Pier Maria. His first movie. is being shot with a cast of non-professionals, and with only the bare essentials of lighting and camera technique. The Worry Clinic Bv DR. GEORGE W.

CRANE BETSY aged 17, is a high school senior. Crane, my boy friend wants me to marry him as soon as I graduate from high school next she began. is two years older than I am and works for his father on a farm. I love him and he loves me. has treated me like a gcntlem.m on all of our dates and he have any bad habits, like using tobacco or drinking.

do you think 1 ought to wait a or two, as my parents BETSY WOULD be much better fitted for successful marriage if she would defer her wedding till she has taken a business college course and has then worked for at least a year. In George day. girls married at 15 or 16 But the average life span was then about 42. Now it is almost 70. So girls need to be in such a great rush.

Besides, Betsy cannot be as good a mother to her future children if she goes right from high school into matrimony. For example, many of her high school girl friends will go to the university or to business college. They will thus gain a broader perspective and develop more poise. Meanwhile, they will have met scores of men and probably dated at a dozen. This will give them a better understanding of male personality.

Thus, when they marry, they will be better prepared to before their children creditably in PTA meetings and church work. I am shy and expect to be a leader in social Betsy might protest That attitude is unfair to her future children For all children are proud of their mothers when the latter can carry their proper share of civic and church and PTA responsibilities. You girls dare doublecross your future unborn babies by rushing into modern marriage without at least a fair amount of social experience and business judgment. You should graduate from high school before you marry. And you should preferably have at least one year in a university or in business college Then you should also work for at least a year so you can learn to budget your own pay check and to buy wisely.

For then you will be far more capable of opeiating your home on a budget and of getting bargains for your pay cneck. Send for the booklet, for Gay to Dr. Crane, care of The Mercury, enclosing long l-vent stamped, addressed envelope and 20c. Inside Television Bv EVE STAR It STARR REPORT: Hcrschcl Bernardi. the taciturn cop on is anything but taciturn off camera.

At the moment he is slewing over a problem whether to go Broadway and star in the new stage ver sion of the original. and (done by Eddie Cantor) or to stav in Hollywood either as a freelance or with He is not committed to anti series has to be renewed for next season. Broadway would turn him into a legitimate star, which he would dearlv love (he comes from New York and uo( his start on the stage there). But on the other hand it would pay little money compared to what he could earn here. Further, he has a wife, two children and a home here.

Problems, problems, problems. THE GRAPEVINE Bob Horton's sonal wishes to the contrary, his contract calls for one more full season of and he's stuck with it whether he likes it or not. He Warner having signed Kathleen row ley to a long term contract, is already discovering they have an actress on their hands who expects the studio to work for them and who cannot be pushed around like a starry eyed ingenue II just It cat this girl like an intelligent human a friend tells me, wind up with the biggest star had on the lot since Bette Davis." that goes back a few years. Nanette Fabray and Jackie Cooper have been signed to co-star in the second annual TV Guide Awards show, scheduled for June 13 via NBC. Nan did the show last and was made one of the comedy hits of the son TV's leading ladies are girding themselves for next episodes.

The is going to lean heavily on the romance department. THE GRAPEVINE II: June AIJyson is back in town after a protracted stay in Florida to recover from the emotional jolt of her divorce from Dic Powell. Her show will not be back next season Missing from next network bedules will be suc great TV names as Jackie (ileason. Milton Berle, Lucille Ball, Desi Jack Webb, (iale storm, Sid aesar, Coca, Phil silvers, Edward R. Murrow, Liberate, Eve den, Fran and list is endless.

an odd feeling to know that TV has now reached the point where one can look on days with oul) been a brief dozen years. Interpreting The SeWB Onions Tell Story Of Iranian Revolt By DAVID LANCASHIRE Associated Press Correspondent In Iran Onions help tell tlie story of this shakeup in Iran. The appointment of Premier Ali Amini two weeks ago was hailed as a by Iranians fed up with lies, corruption, repression and above all. crippling prices. Sugar imported from Formosa or Cuba sold under government controls for 17 cents a pound, but onions grown only 15 miles away cost 23 cents a pound And Iranians love onions.

Amini fired the mayor who controlled market, and then slapped on price controls. Teh- ranians now buy a pound of onions for fi cents. Meat dropped to 43 cents a pound from 67. Onion prices may sound far from revolutionary but in a hard, backward land where wages are grindingly low they mean a lot. newspapers also reflect the changes with comment and opposition statements they would not have dared to print earlier.

Amini up the Jelalieh parade grounds as a place where dissenters may rally and speakers can question regime. Activities of the secret police have become less obvious. The powerful, and long suppressed National Front party has been allowed to emerge despite the fact that it could give Amini some of his biggest headaches. The Communist Tudeh party is still banned. Aside from prices, life has changed little for Iranian in the street-cxcopt for bis delighted excitement that Amini has jailing generals and civilians on corruption charges.

For village farmers scratching out their existence, or nomad tribes wandering the deserts, the words or have never meant much. The words may take on a meaning soon. Amini has said he intends to replace provincial governors general and town governors. This could mean less squeeze on rural people less domination by local and fairer taxation. Democracy will begin to mean something if Amini can hold the honest elections he promises.

Tribesmen, camel drivers, bazaar coolies, villagers and city dwellers would feel their votes really counted. Past elections in Iran have been a bitter joke, openly rigged by government. People danced in the streets when the shah abolished the last Parliament, referred to in print as bunch of Some educated Iranians feel the United has pouted more than a billion dollars of aid into Iran is partly responsible for the changes. The U.S. position here is delicate although the average Iranian apparently thinks the average American is a good There are about 3,000 Americans in Iran but a 11 military television and radio station gives the Iranians the impression there are more Incidents crop up from time to time, but tliere has been no go manifestation in years.

In Retrospect 50 Years Ago May 20, 1911 ELECTED Morris L. Seasholtz, borough manager who was a delegate to the Grand Court Session of the Foresters of America which was conducted in Easton. was elected supreme representative to the Supreme Court of Foresters. DELIVERS bac- calaurate sermon was delivered by the Rev. George G.

Greenawald in the Reformed Church of the Good Shepherd, Boyertown. The graduates of the Boyertown school were Robert Scott, William Reitnauer, Florence Heffner, Maurice Ritter, Samuel Trethewey, Russell Keelcy, Maggie Lorah, Amy Dengler, Lloyd Man- wilier, Eva Beryle Mayer and Ernest Weber. 25 Years Ago Mav 20, 1936 ANNIVERSARY-More than 100 persons attended the third anniversary of the pastorate of the Rev. Harold Anderson of Bethel AME. Addresses made by K.

Roberteon, Charles Roberts, Rev. Edward Willis, the Rev. Charles Butler, and the Rev. Claude Oliver. Capt.

John Woodstock of the Salvation Army and his band attended the banquet at which Leo Hudson was master of ceremonies. TEACHERS DISCUSS-Advantages of the discussion method of teaching in Sunday school were outlined at the meeting of Christ Episcopal teachers in the High street parish house. Present were Elizalieth Bassett, Elizabeth Fizz, (iertrude Fizz, Florence Pangelly, Mrs. William Henry and Pxtith Emrick. CLUB local Century club won second prize and a red ribbon for its outstanding welfare work.

The prize was presented to the president of the club, Mrs. George I) Robins, at the State convention of Pennsylvania clubwomen conductcd in Williamsport. 10 Years Ago May 20, 1951 Francis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Austin Francis, 13 Quintcr street, Stowe, graduated from the Reading hospital School of Nursing.

Francis was graduated from West Pottsgrove High School with the class of l'i4H HEAR Paul S. Hangen, instrumental music in the Boyertown High school, sang a vocal solo in the Young Adult Bible class of the Reformed Church of the Good Shepherd Mrs. Earl Spohn led the group in prayer and Earl Spohn was in charge of the devotional reading. ELECTED Lewis J. Capaldi, a former resident of 629 Lemon street, was elected dent of the West Reading High School Faculty association.

Capaldi, who is a teacher of indus trial arts and safety education and swimming coach at West Reading High, graduated from Pottstown High school in 1941. Pottstown Sketches IHI ALL AROUND THE TOWN New Colored Bills? A Tedious Job if FAST BUCK You may have been Intrigued, as this column was, by the announcement of Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, United States treasurer, that your paper currency soon may have different colors. She said studies were made to shelve the uniform green and to use some sparkling hues. Different colors would make it easier to distinguish denominations, she said.

Then said she admitted the most difficult problem would be to get good Inks. And well she should admit that, for an enormous variety of Inks has been brewed in the past 4500 years, and one of the hardest kinds to make is the pleasant green used on United States currency. The Bureau of Engraving and Printing often rejects batches of green ink as substandard. Manufactured to a secret formula, the ink must resist fading, abrasion, and chemicals. It has to have absolutely true color and ihe proper consistency for the special printing process.

IHE BUREAU Is as exacting as Wei Tan, a third century Chinese Inkmaker, who reputedly beat the Ingredients In his Ink 30,000 times. Among other things, Wei recipe called for an ounce of pearls and a half-ounce of musk. The musk masked the unpleasant odor. The pearls probably were thrown In Just for show. The first known Inks were concocted by the Chinese and Egyptians around 25(H) B.C.

They consisted of lampblack blended with a solution of glue or gums. This was molded into sticks or cakes and dried. It was mixed with water before use. The Egyptians inscribed hieroglyphics on papyrus and mummy bandages with the crude ink. In ancient China, an responsible for the royal supply.

An of- firal named Tsu Min was so renowned that his name was being forgrd on ink cakes eight centuries after his death. it INK CAKES were valued highly and kept in ornate boxes, though one tenth century expert, Fung Chi, recommended wrapping them in leopard skins. In Korea, cm peror offered the cakes as sacrifices to the gods. Ink sticks still are sold in the Orient. Liquid Intlia or China ink, widely used for drawing, is made from essentially the same ancient formula.

Extracts and suspensions of many plants, animals, and minerals have been converted into ink, including the indigo herbs, Persian berries, verdigris, pokeber ries, ocher, and sepia from squid In the second century, an ink formula of soluble iron salts ferrous sulphate and an extract of tannin was developed Nut galls from oak trees furnished an ideal kind of tannin. THE ROMANS were among Ihe first to use iron gall ink, which then was a muddy, gritty substance. ihe basic foi nici 1 a has been refined Into high-quality, permanent blue black writing ink. Synthetic are generally used for colored inks, and washable contain soluble coloring. The development of printing created the need for special inks.

Many early printers prepared their own inks from boiled linseed oil and process described bv a 17th century Englishman as to the body, (and) novsoin and ungrateful to the sence. Some earlv printing ink makers added wine to their product. One Frenchman tossed in a pound of bread and a dozen onions to absorb grease from the hoil- ed oil. Linseed oil remains an ingredient of some modern printing inks. Svn- thetic bases and pigments are common.

One of the newest inks is infused with isotopes. Artists use (he radioactive fluid for drawings. Faithful copies can be made by exposing the originals to sensitized paper. SNICKERS A regular customer at the bar always ordered two martinis. When the bartender suggested a double instead, the man said, I drink with my friend from Seattle day the man ordered only one martini hap asked the bartender.

your friend from Seattle no, replied the man on the wagon During an inspection at Ft. Bliss, Texas, a lieutenant discovered a voting laundry bag full of books Being a stickler for having everything in the proper place, he dressed down the guilty private in grand style. When he was just about out breath, he asked, how by any stretch of the imagination can you justify having your laundry bag full of Quietly the private replied, dirty books, sir (The Reader's Digest). What Know? By NAN JONES I III AVSH I Of l( 1 If you were away from home for a hebciomad, how long would you be gone 2. Germantown is a famous suburb of what American city? 3.

Who starred in the film, Expectation 4 Is a maitre butler, a waiter or a manager? 5 In what country is Paisley, home of shaw! and textile named for II II SI One hundred years ago today North Carolina voted to secede from I nion AH II )(H It I CERENT fJIR ent) noun; manager; ruling power. Origin: Latin -gcrens, conducting a itim To Jimmy Stewart, film star; Allan ins, teacher and author, and II.d Newhouser of baseball fame I low I) ill I 1. A week 2. Philadelphia 3 John Mills, Valerie Hobson and Jean Simmons 4. It can mean any of the three.

5 Scotland. Flowers for the Living for MR. AND MRS MYRON SHAFFER, 405 Walnut street. BECAUSE today ate celebrating their wed ding anniversary..