The Kansas City Times from Kansas City, Missouri • 30

THE KANSAS CITY TIMES WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 27 1951 OMY OCTOBER (THE Morning KANSAS CITY STAR) (Eity UT-OF Waldo New Subway Blatant Jammed And Popular Is 50 Years Old Today Serving Four of City's Five Boroughs Rapid Transit System With 15-Cent Fare Is Congested to Point of Intimacy You Can Travel 250 Miles on Its Trains Without Retracing Your Way The Morning Issue of The Star Established October 19 1901 William Rockhill Nelsox The Kansas City Star Company and Publisher DURING the American Royal show our anti-horse thief association was on 24-hour duty There is nothing like keeping a coil of 250-pound test hemp rope in sight to protect livestock from horse thieves and cattle rustlers Grave dusk of April that no prlmroe lights Misty with dream of leaf and trem ulous flower Half-hesitant her reverie Invite The gilded blossoms of a future hour Stirs no remembrance in tne folding mist April on April since the world be Ban? Only October keeps the careful list Of primrose petal and the leaf-blad span May will remember June will com Drehend Eternal incarnation of the spring: October keeps the seasons' turn ana end Ledsrered In golden fragile reckoning: Petal of primrose fallen leaf th Sum Century on century of gold residuum Sara VeFord in Winjjs MISSOURI NOTES cept relief goods from Japan where they are and his hardheaded desire to spend millions of dollars from our funds on hotels and radio transmitters instead of the food and housing desperately needed by his people Our government has set aside 700 million dollars for Korean rehabilitation Rhee's judgment on how his money should be used has repeatedly been shown to be bad It appears that the leader of South Korea has been allowed too much leeway due to our eagerness to be fair and noble to his country The United States is the Republic of Korea's best friend Rhee and his countrymen know it well We will have to be firmer with the stubborn Rhee not only in guiding his nation's recovery but in restraining him from his repeated threats to wreck the hard-won armistice by ordering his troops back into action Rhee himself has a thorough understanding of the merits of firmness He will respond to such a policy on our part when hp has no other choice WEARE THE LORD'S Address All Letters: The Kansas City Star 1729 Grand Avenue Kansas City 8 Mo Telephone HA 1200 (Want Ad Dept Only Telephone BA 5500) Subscription Rato: Morning evening and Sunday (thirteen papers a week) delivered bv carrier In Kansas City 40 cents a week 1174 a month Bv mall postage prepaid in Missouri and Kansas 45 cents a week elsewhere In the United States and the United States possessions 55 cents a week in foreign countries ti-00 a week The football game between the Waldo Rams our pro team and Oklahoma is still hanging fire because it's necessary to get the consent of all the other teams in the Big Seven and our pro league It has been agreed to have a 500-mile television and radio blackout around Waldo when the classic is played go into the business itself digging and laying subway track and supplying subway service wherever it was needed In the meantime as a result of the outdated 5-cent fare the private lines went bankrupt Again the city held the short end can you collect taxes from someone who can't pay So not too willingly New York City-bought up the subway lines By expanding the service far parts of the Queens Brooklyn and the Bronx came within easy reach of Manhattan so that new- small homes large apartment buildings and all-inclusive shopping centers with branches of downtown department stores were and still are being built And by paying more than 325 million dollars for the bankrupt transit system New York Citv venir hunters and bulb thieves subway bulbs have left-hand threads that screw into left-hand-threaded bases Special Car for Brass From the beginning bigwigs enjoyed the luxury of their own special car for riding around at their whim It was known as the car August Belmont chairman of the board of the Interborough Rapid Transit used to invite special guests to dinner parties in this mahogany car fitted with deep-piled carpets silk drapes leatherette curtains overstuffed couch rolltop desk and swivel chair The kitchen area had appropriate fittings a kerosene stove icebox glassw-are and chlnaware Plate glass on front and rear ends made it easy for the rubbernecking guests to watch the passing novelties Most of them would Entered as second class matter at the postoffice in Kansas City Mo under the Act of March 3 1879 Member or the associates Press All rights of publication of special dispatches sue also reserved postage poe single copies: 8 to 14 pages 8 cents: 18 to 24 pages 4 cents 26 to 32 pages 5 cents: 34 to 40 pages 6 cents 42 to 50 pages 7 cents 52 to 68 pages 8 cents 60 to 65 pages 9 cent? 68 to 74 pages 10 cents: 76 to 84 pages 11 cents: 83 to 92 pages 12 cents 94 to 100 pages 13 cents 102 to 108 pages 14 cents 110 to 118 pages 15 cents During September 1954 the net paid circulation of The Star was as follows Evening (daily average) 343263 Morning (daily average) 336239 Sundav (average) 361526 Weekly Star Farmer (average) 477359 WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 27 1954 UNIQUE COUNTY CAMPAIGN Notes of a commuter on a 6-day tour of the Ozarks: A man can still find a nice selection of 5-cent cigars back in the hills We smoked a and Boys in and only burned a couple of holes in our hand-painted square dance shirt Climbed to the top of a high observation tower near Eureka Springs and put a dime in" a telescope The scenery and fall coloring was gorgeous and we wanted to see more The telescope was out of order and we get the dime back so we left a note saying that the machine ow-ed us 10 cents and signed it just like we do down at the big plant where we work when the soft drink or cigarette machine won't work Picked up some new square dance lingo The caller would sing: that rooster kill that Visited the Confederate cave in Arkansas that was used as a hiding place for supplies and arms in the Civil war The" big sign on the road said: Open to the When leaving we shook hands with the owner and suggested that he change the sign to read: The antique shop we most enjoyed w-as a deserted looking pile of trash and treasures out in the open along the roadside mostly old coal oil lamps rocking chairs pots and kettles A penciled note said: Money in Milk Bill Michael By Julia Spiegelman New What a jet plane is to the United States air force a subway train is to New Yorkers from one part of their city to another It heeds neither weather nor traffic jams Though New Yorkers may gripe about the subway service now and then no visitor to the city is satisfied to go home without a ride in New underground It has become so much a part of the life of the metropolis that likely to wonder how New-Yorkers moved around their home town before the first subway line went into operation fifty years ago It happened on October 27 1904 Even fifty years before the momentous day the streets of New York were so crowded with the horse-drawn vehicles available to its half million residents that the city fathers worried over the thought of businesses moving out of town True the populated part of the city didn't cover so much ground then as it does now but street traffic was already a headache Yet when a group of merchants offered a plan sometime in the '60s to build a subway from the Battery at the southernmost tip of Manhattan under Broadway all the way up to Central park the trolley car magnates objected And that was the end of that project Forty years later political and personal interests yielded to the hue and cry of the people Elevated trains and additional trolley lines were furnishing inadequate service So one fine spring day in 1904 wdth a lot of fanfare the first pick ax broke the first ground for the first subway line in front of New City hall System Is City-Owned Today New York's subway system wholly city-owned is composed of three separate interlocking routes For 15 cents the price of one yellow metal token smaller than a dime a subway enthusiast (if there is such a creature) may travel within the confines of Greater New York a distance of about 250 miles without retracing his way more than the rail distance between New York and Boston or between New York and Washington Swift blunt unbearably overcrowded during rush hours the subway carries more passengers sitting and standing in its 13000 cars than any other railroad in thp world even while it serves only four of New York's five boroughs Staten Island is not linked to the rest of the city by subway And it's democratic unlike the Paris Metro where you must pay a fine for entering a first-class car with a second-class ticket Practically never has any of For ichether ire lire tre lire unto the Lord and whether ire die we die unto the Lord' whether we- live therefore or die we are the Romans xiv 8 A PPRA 1SINGTU ELECTION: They Like Ike but By Dorothy Thompson TRAVELING around the country from Northern New England to the Mid-West and Northwest I have found relatively little interest in the elections Those whom I have met still and apparently about as many would vote for him as did two years ago And I can't find many except professional Democrats wrho are really hostile to the Eighty-third Congress That holds for midwestern farmers except in certain pockets Most of them think Ezra Benson's reasoning and policies are right but small farmers in the dairy and poultry business are complaining Farmers' wives who usually take care of the chicken business are especially upset People do express gratification that taxes are down that their sons are not on battlefronts anywhere in the world Those interested in foreign affairs give President Eisenhower and Mr Dulles credit over Mr Truman and Mr Acheson for that and if any kind of European defense develops that will take some of the burden off American backs they will rejoice in the western part of the country (I don't know about California) is hardly an issue According to this picture if it is anywhere near the Republicans ought to come in again But regardless of their personal politics or predilections men and women who have their ears to the ground don't think so Local newspapermen reporters and editors some of whom have usually been correct prognosticators say that the Democrats are more than likely to capture the House of Representatives They tell me the Republicans just haven't got the organization at the precinct level explains one midwestern editor (a Republican) twenty years to build a machine on patronage Ike has hardly-made a dent in it Republican office-seekers are disappointed and hence So we may see the rather extraordinary-spectacle of an electorate repudiating a party7 while applauding its leader (Released by Te Bell Syndicate lc) Needs Politicians Big Oak Tree the famous Missouri forest giant is scheduled to come down today after many years of acclaim as the largest of its kind in the nation For some 400 years it has stood as one of the symbols of the great diversification of natural resources A count of its rings will verify its age It is believed to have been 64 years old at the time the Pilgrims landed A Land of Big Trees Even with the passing of Big Oak Missouri holds an unusual position in tree culture The state can boast of seventeen species of trees which exceed all known growth records Of the forty-five species of largest known oaks listed by the American Forestry association six are in Missouri other than the Big Oak being felled today Some of these oaks are in Swope park here in Kansas Citv They are Bebb oak measuring 7 feet in circumference Missouri black oak 5 feet 10 inches and Bushes oak 5 feet 5 inches In Big Oak Tree State park named for the Big Oak also is located Mutabilis oak 10 feet 4 inches in circumference and Swamp Red Oak 11 feet Big Oak park Is a tract of 1007 acres in Mississippi County twenty-five miles south of Charleston Mo It is a virgin forest preserve containing much oak and cypress timber It has the largest Possumhaw tree the largest swamp poplar and the largest shellbark hickory a giant 12 feet 9 inches in girth Mount Washington cemetery here in Kansas City also has a Lanceleaf crabapple and a roughleaf dogwood listed as largest of their kind Other Record Holders The largest known gum Bumelia is in Meramec State park Forest Park St Louis enters the record books with its great Lea Oak The Buckthorn at Vulcan is another record holder Big Oak park is maintained as a botanical preserve and the tract has nicnic area? for the public Officials of thp state park board and resources and development commission will be on hand today for the felling of Bin Oak The great tree was struck hv lightning several rears ago and two years ago despite the efforts of surceons and forestry exnerts it failed to leaf out Tt is being removed as a safety measure Drought conditions the past few years have taken their toll in Missouri forests hut Missouri maintains a great wealth in trees and forest products of many kinds are a big industry in thp state Congestion in the This Is the New York Subway at Times Square at the Rush Hour (Associated Press photograph) FORTY YEAR5 AGO THROUGH all the usual gunfire this county campaign is different For a change the platforms of both parties deal with basic problems of county government And both indicate some positive interest in what a metropolitan government ought to be Of course there is quite a jump from a campaign promise to later performance but the possibilities this year are interesting The question of a county charter is now definitely back in the spotlight A charter is the one hope for a modern form of government capable of handling the business of a metropolitan county On this issue the Republicans go much further than the Democrats The Democrats have committed themselves to calling together a representative group of citizens to study the problem and make recommendations One leader has made it plain he is talking about a strictly political charter and there have been other rumblings against the plan The Republicans have gone all the way to promise an effort for a strong charter with a county manager and a civil service system for employees On the Democratic side the intriguing new element is the power now held by the coalition Its leaders are of the old machine factions but their primary campaign depended heavily on independent Democrats which poses the question of where the coalition will wind up Probably its future course will not be clear until it comes up against the clear-cut issues of the rext city election In this county campaign the coalition platform speaks the language of the independent Democrats It goes further into a definite program of co-operation with the city and an approach to area problems than the Republicans But it's particularly surprising because it is endorsed by thp factional leaders who are now leading the old organization into battle It ts not what you expect 'to hear from the corners of the mouths of organization ward bosses and precinct captains From the public standpoint the big thing now is the opportunity for a new conception of county government Whoever is elected strong and forward looking promises will be in their campaign record The public will be entitled to hear modern ideas coming out of the old courthouse And it has been led to expect action A TV-RADIO MASTERPIECE achieved another record It claims to be largest municipal owner and operator of rapid transit lines in the world To build one mile of the old suhway system cost 5 million dollars To build a mile of the newest line cost 26 millions When Line Was New The New York picture was much different when New York's Mayor George McClellan attended the opening of the first route fifty jears iago amid much dash and splash Starting from City hall in lower Manhattan the first train roared over shining brand-new- tracks to Forty-second street and Lexington now Grand Central station moved west along Forty-second street to Broadway at Times Square over the tracks that now serve as a shuttle he- never for a moment have given a thought to riding in the subway with the general public Distinguished guests of New York City rode in the Directors' car-royalty nobility and Sergt Alvin York the Tennessee mountain boy who was America's great hero of World War I Where is the Directors' car now? Its wheels removed it is set in concrete on an estate in the Jersey woods as a hunting lodge There's still something personal about a subway train Once you understand how to use it it's 3'our baby When there's a big game for instance at the Polo Grounds the Yankee stadium or Ebbets field the Transit authority puts the city to the added expense of keeping a train dispatcher in the hall park As the game draws to an end he sends word to the nearest From th of October 27 1914 Clothes to match womens cloth uppers shoes are advertised William Morton an employee of the post office has resigned to devote full time to his law practice Representative William Borland returned from Washington last night to take part in the closing days of the campaign for his re-election up Broadway to One Hundred on sidings to accommodate the im eJti-n 4 tween the east and west side-Nubway station where extra New subwav lines been-of Manhattan and then turnertjtrains and extra crews are held completely self-supporting Once upon a time when they were private enterprises under municipal franchises operators ventured to ask permission to increase the fare from the traditional 5 cents The povvers-that-were with their eyes on election polls and election day denied the request Meanwhile the growth of the population sent people to find homes in outlying parts- of the city with the consequent demand tor more subways to carry them to and from their jobs Since no philanthropic businessmen could be found to invest their wealth in what was obviously a losing proposition the city decided that it would Forty-fifth street Every station sparkled with white tile walls and brown trim except the Columbia university station In deference to Columbia the trim was done in a medium shade of blue the school colors are light blue and white A few physicians immediately found something to worry about Trainmen and passengers would spoil their eves by staring at the posts in the tunnels as the train rushed past them! Naturally there was no need for staring at the posts when passengers could read their newspapers in the electrically illuminated trains Incidentally to discourage sou- homebound baseball fans when they're ready to go If the game runs beyond nine innings the trains will be waiting for them anyway Aqd where else can you find such an assortment of lost articles as false teeth hearing aids and crutches motors and TV antennae fishing poles and a long loaf of Italian bread all left behindl because their owners were careless or were separated from them by the crowds of people filling the car? To reverse a commertt once made by Simeon the thing which is highly Asteemed in the night spots as -intimacy in the subway is called congestion The new war tax bill passed by Congress will affect 100 theaters in Kansas City The first passenger train entered the new Union Station yesterday The passengers were traveling passenger agents of various railroads who had been attending their national convention in San Francisco They were taken for a drive over the park and boulevard system Mrs Vera Kellogg and Anton Seufert married October 22 Miss Theresa Levy and Louis Reuben married October 21 The final settlement of the David Beals estate under his will was made today in the probate court The estate of 1 million dollars was divided equally among a son David Beals jr and two daughters Mrs Dora A Conover and Mrs Tryphona Brown Mr Beals sr died in 1910 October 17 was a great occasion for the Kninn familv of Tio-ton notes the Tipton Times It was the sixtv-first wedding anniversary for Mr and Mrs George Kninp sr the twenty-sixth wedding anniversary for their daughter and son-in-law Mr and Mrs Andy Schreck and the fourth wedding anniversary for Mr and Mrs Charles Law- of Watertown thp daughter and son-in-law of the Schrecks Also a 9-pound son was born to the Laws on October 17 Chester A Bradley By Doris Fleksox Many peoplp are dismissing the present boring campaign for control of Congress as The real trouble is lack of politics The particular Republican chicken that is coming home to roost is that Republicans were not sufficiently- united and determined to build a party organization which could take command of the government Their soldier-Presi-dent could not lead them in this effort both because of his inexperience and because he has a chief-of-state complex about the presidency Then he hindered them further by- overbalancing his cabinet and staff with people from one special interest business He took some errand boys from politics but no strong men capahle of enforcing party government The Democrats under Roosevelt with such men as Jim Farley and Ed Flynn as national chairmen and Congress dominated by Jack Garner Sam Rayburn Jimmy Byrnes and Alben Barkley consistently- achieved balance The party slipped under Harry Truman whose choice of lieutenants was often so excruciating it raised the corruption issue in its simplest her understood form the deep freeze and the mink coat Even so Truman's personal political astuteness was such that he kept the new deal framework intact and slid hack into the White House on its dying momentum These politicians did not hate businessmen they only considered them irrelevant Perhaps they made more people rich than comparable Republican regimes but their politicians and not their fat cats fixed the government's policies The special interests attached to the did not have to come to a strong party organization for favors They sat in on the decisions made in many cases they made the decisions Since they did not understand polities usually they despise they could not see the forest for the trees Business influence accomplished tax cuts and tax favors even ahead of the balanced budget it was supposed to cherish Defense needs reclamation public power the farmers these yielded to budget economies Inflation has certainly- been stopped but when the w-orkers and the farmer look at corporate profits they think they did all the stopping (Copynpht 195) Vnited Feature Syndicate Veteran Hands at the Helm of Japan keystone of the western alliance in the Far East will next montlji come to Washington as an official visitor Presidents Syngman Rhee of Korea who talked the brave! words of thei vigorous in his re- cent trip to (this country is in the mid-70si Generalissimo' Chiang Kai-snek is calmly facing future tests on the battlefield at age 66- On the otherj side of the iron curtain affairs are in the hands of men of a motje impetuous age Most of those itn control of the satellites are inltheir 50s Premier Georgi Malenkov of Russia is 52 although the head of the Kremlin's eastern division Mao Tse-tung of China is 62 The of the democratic campt is Premier Pierre Mendes-France of France He's 47 ister of South Africa and Theodor Koerner president of Austria Dr Konrad Adenauer chancellor of West Germany is just a step away from 80 as he vigorously brings a revitalized Germany back from the chaos of defeat Giving Chancellor Adenauer a helping hand is the West German president Dr Theodor Heuss a of 70 Greece a country the United States helped preserve from Communist infiltration is mak ing steady progress under the guidance of Field Marshal Alexander Papagos who is in the mid-70s At the same age Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida By David Barnett If age brings wisdom then the councils of the western world are loaded with sagacity President Eisenhower who was 64 October 14 is just a youngster compared with some of the oldtimers with firm hands on the reins of power in other lands Prime Minister Winston Churchill who keeps London talking about his impending retirement but seems to be going on forever will be 80 next month Among the national leaders who are also striding past the 80-year-old mark are President Juko Paasikivi of Finland Dr Daniel Malan prime min The Role HISTORY'S first televised and broadcast cabinet meeting was an exciting event that throbbed with the strength of the democratic American system Government at the top level Was brought into the nations homes The people heard from the secretary of state a detailed and clarifying report on what the great decisions of the recent meetings in London and Paris mean It was a happy inspiration for President Eisenhower to invite the people to sit in on so important a cabinet meeting The atmosphere was dramatic yet informal The setting was perfect for conveying information the public needed to have The main facts werp known already The value and effectiveness of the Dulles report was the way it pulled together the big developments of recent weeks and gave them perspective The conversational approach with Mr Dulles seated at the cabinet table was more effective for this purpose than a fet speech delivered in the familiar pattern His revealing summary rame at a time of high tide for the United States in its activities as a world leader striving for peace As for Russia Mr Dulles underscored a basic policy by stating that we will not negotiate our problems further until we can do so with Allied strength fully developed That will take away the advantage the Russians have had by playing upon fears and weakness of the nations they would despoil Thus all who witnessed the cabinet meeting should have a better understanding of both our new relationship with Europe and where we are trying to go in world affairs The admission of cameras and microphones to a session of the President and his principal advisers has widened and deepened the channels cf communication between the American people and their government We Must Be Firm With Rhee Syngman Rhee persists in making things as difficult as possible for the Americans working to rebuild war-wasted South Korea Rhee's latest obstructive action is an order withholding Korean currency from use in paying the 100000 native employees of the government South Korea's president is insisting on a totally unrealistic rate of exchange of the dollar for the Korean hwan Efforts to negotiate with Rhee in this matter have been fruitless General John Hull commander in the Far East has therefore decided to make payments in currency regardless of Rhee's protests Other major points of difference are Rhee's refusal to ac- CHUCH-GOING PEOPLE of every denomination members of lorge churches and small ones have most often chosen the Hammond Organ for their own church Ai result well over 40000 churches most of them after thorough investigation of oil chosen the Hammond Orgon to enrich the sacred music of their services HERE ARE A FEW OP THE REASONS WHY The Hammond Orgon is the 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