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Pago 4 FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1959 RECORD-EAGLE, TRAVERSE CITY, MICHIGAN Editorials and Columnists WHILE MICHIGAN SUFFERS The Michigan legislature and, we believe, a majority of Michigan citizens, prefer a sales tax increase of one cent for two years, over an income tax, but Gov. Williams -will have none of it. The governor wants the income tax but the slate legislature will have none of it. There the matter rests while Michigan, one of the nation's greatest states, is held up to scorn and ridicule all over the country. As has been pointed out, a state income tax would be expensive to collect, calling for many more persons on the state payrolls, while an increase in the sales tax, could be processed by the present organization.

But the legislature and the governor are doing Michigan incalculable harm. After all, it should be the right of those taxed to select the taxation method, but the Michigan government fiddled around in partisan politics too long to get either proposal on the ballot. In the meantime. Mighty Michigan hangs head in shame, its standing and reputation among states and its pride ruined by politics. THE U.N.'S ROLE A curious thing about the Berlin crisis is that hardly anyone seems to think of the United Nations as a legitimate participant in the drama.

The U.N. has not been an active member of the cost, even in a supporting role. There have been practical" reasons for this. When major powers are concerned, the United Nations lacks the machinery to enforce decisions. Besides, the Soviet Union does not fancy having the Berlin question placed before the Security Council, which has a pro-Western majority.

Then, too, there is a general tendency among the great powers to tackle momentous questions on their own at first, with the Security Council in the background as a kind of last resort. Nevertheless, there is reason to suppose that the United Nations will have a part in this matter before it is resolved. A summit conference next summer now appears to be almost a certainty. If that conference should fail to produce a substantial agreement, the Kremlin- dominoted East German government probably would assert control over West Berlin's communications. Even if this did not immediately involve provocative actions, it seems.likely that the United States would then bring the issue into the Security Council.

The United Nations might be celled on for help, in any case. Secretary Dajg Hammarskjold has suggested that it might be useful in two ways--as a "framework of negotiations," and as an "executive organ" to carry out any Big Four agreement. Certainly the possibility of U.N. assistance should not be ignored. If at any stage in the negotiations there appears to be a chance thcvt more progress could be made i through'the U.N.

rather than independently, the West should grab at that chance. THE BIG OIL QUESTION In a recent address, the president of Standard Oil of New Jersey reported that his company alone has worldwide reserves of petroleum that exceed all proven reserves in the United Slates. From the fact that these latter reserves in 1958 equalled 30.5 billion barrels, one can gain an idea of the magnitude of American oil companies' operations. The consumption of petroleum products in nearly every quarter of the globe is of concern to several large firms. And while petroleum prices have softened recently, oil executives see no slackening in the worldwide rate of consumption of this vital product.

On the contrary, it is anticipated that the use of oil will increase in 1959 by one million barrels a day. With the mechanization of farms and the ever-present automobile the U.S. petroleum industry has grown at a fantastic rate. As this happens in other parts of the industrialized world, the potential for the oil producers Icoks bright indeed. The big question for oil producers i is not one of demand for their product.

The big question is: How much oil does old Mother Earth have for man? Polish writers have been forbidden to sign conlracts for publication of their books abroad, in line with a "cultural offensive." It sounds more like a defensive offensive. THE A Grand Traverse Herald Established In 1858. The Record-Eagle Established in 1897. Published at 120 W. Front Street every evening except Sunday at Traverse City.

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SMITH, Managing Editor. Entered at the Post Office at Traverse City, Oct. 31, 1910, as second class matter under the act of March 3, 1879. Where we made our first mistake was laying up the family phaeton last February and going to and from work by taxi. But one day we got stuck in snow and had to call help to get us Into the garage.

That night it was all f-hov- eled out smooth as a billiard table. The next day we aimed the bus at the garage door, pulled the trigger and nothing happened. We were on ice. So we got the same help to get us In and there the gas and payment eater has stayed while wa rode In Last Sunday we announced that, starting Monday, we were going to drive again. Unfortunately, the family doctor was there when we made the crack.

"Xo you're not, Buster," he said. "You are going to walk home every afternoon, rain or shine, foul weather and fair. We'll see If we can't get you a little We begged, wo whined, we threatened, we shouted he was trying to kill us. The good doctor merely shook his head. Trouble is, that gentleman knows too much about us, including our lethargy.

All right, so we're walking, some days both ways. There's nothing quite like getting out in the morning, takirs few deep breaths and swlngin? off at a brisk pace down the street for the office. And in the noon, there's nothing like walking along Front street, mingling with the crowds and being in the middle of things. We hate it. both going and coming.

Our legs ache at night and our heart aches as we watch the more fortunate tool by in their limousines. "And what," we asked this doctor we always considered a friend, "if we have to carry a load of stuff home, like toothpaste o- a cucumber or even a a of milk?" "That," said the doctor, "wtild bo even better and on days you have i to carry, stuff your pockets with rocks." And so we walk. We walk close to the curb and stnp now and tnen so our so-called i will ick us up. They zoom by like the Czar Nicholas passing a peasant. me day we'll be driving ngain ind we'll drive by these folks if happen to be a i i both lefrs broken.

Xo riders. This walking is oxper.sive, 100. There's something about it a stretches the a i a of pants and your belt all out of shape. They don't put good old non-stretching materials in waistbands and belts anymore. Red Chinese Would Destroy Buddhism by George f.

Among the religions ivhich Soviet Universal State finds it necessary to destroy is Buddhism which prevails in such countries as Tibet, China, India, Mongolia, Korea, Japan and other countries including parts of Soviet Russia. The influence of Buddhism has been enormous in these countries, particularly in.the form of Lamaism which is centered in Tibet and -whose votaries accept the Dalai Lama as God. The method by which person becomes a god is called metempsychosis which simply nieans that we are all constantly passing through a succession of lives; that the soul of man never dies but finds refuge in some living body at the moment which we call death. So, when a Dalai Lama dies, his soul takes refuge in the body of a babe born that moment. It is a doctrinu of the eternity, the everlastingness, to i coin a word, of life.

There have been many Buddhas, but the ones most revered are Sakyamuni (Gotama), the founder of Buddhism, and Amltabha (in Chinese, Omito Fuh) who is especially worshipped in Mongolia and northern China. Another god-person is Kuan Yin, the goddess of Mercury, who in distant history was a male but is now universally a female. She is often represented with a child in her arms. Buddhism is a product of the life, the conduct, the theories of a person who was born, as some 6ny, in 623 B.C., a prince of a small kingdom near Nepal. His name was Gotama, although his clan name is often given as Snkyamuni.

At the age of 25, he decided to become a recluse; he lett his lather's court; lived ao ascetic life for five years. He became a beggar and "he entered into a state of reverie, emitting a bright light and reflecting on the four modes of truth." He gathered disciples whom he trained according to his ideas and whom he sent far and wide to preach his doctrine. Monasteries were established and monastic vows were binding. His teachings are con- Statement! made In this column do not neceuarlly raflect the opinion of the Record-Eagle. Aunt Met I don't want anybody leUin' me I've pot a charmin' personality.

It's just a kind w.ay oC sayin' you're nice in spite bein' homely. IT HAPPENED IN 1934 25 YIARS AGO TODAY talned in the sutras, or laws, which nil Buddhists accept and the possession of copies not only brings knowledge but health and good luck. Gotamu. died in 543 B.C. end at the time of his death, his religion was well established throughout India.

The central point, sociological- ly, of his religion was self-denial and good works. Religiously, the cen- tra! principle of Buddhism is not god, as the West understands God. but rather the soul of man, by prayers, alms, austerities and other virtues so perfects Itself that it finds lodgings in higher and higher beings until It becomes a god. In a word, Buddhism is a humanistic form of religion. Of course, over the centuries, rites and rituals, idols and other manifestations of gods (Buddhas) and saints or prospective Buddhas (Bodhisattva) have appeared in the various forms of Buddhism.

Many customs of Buddhism and both Roman. Catholic and Greek orthodox Christianity are similar. Abbe Hue, a Roman Catholic priest, who travelled in China and Tibet in the lS40's, described this similarity as he witnessed it at that time, as follows: "The cross, the mitre, tho dalmatica, the cope which the Lamas wear on their or performing some ceremony out of the temple: the service with double choirs, the psalmody, the exorcisms, the censer suspended from chains, which you can open or close ai pleasure; the benedictions givi-n by extending the right hand over tht heads of the faithful; the rosary, ecclesiastical celibacy, spiritual retirement, worship of the saints: the fasts, processions, litanies, and holy water--all these are analogies between ourselves and the Buddhists." The form of Buddhism prevailing in Tibet and Mongolia and in I many parts of China is known as Lamaism. The headquarters of this sect is Lhasa and the head of the church, the Dalai Lama, lives them in the magnificent potala which is a combined fortress and monastery. It is from the potala that the Chinese Communists have recently driven the Dalai Lama.

Because of Tibet's Inaccessibility, no Chinese government has ever really ruled Tibet, and other foreigners were forbidden to enter it. The government was by monks in the monasteries at the head of whom was the Dalai Lama. Lhasa, where the Dalai Lama resided, was often referred to as "the forbidden city." This city Is now in the hands if the Chinese Communists. New Products TELEPHONES ALL DEPARTMENTS Wl 7-7410 MEMBER NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION By CLYDE H. FARNSWORTH NEW YORK (LTD--Twq decades ago television was simply, a glint in an inventor's eye.

Nw, provided you've got $1,435, ARMS AND THE (WORKING) MAN Mr. and Mrs. William Blanchard have rettti'ni'd to their home in Grand Rapids following a short visit here guests of Mr. and Mrs. It.

O. Joyat of Cass street. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Richardson and the Misses Edith and Ethel Ely left by motor today for a visit with relatives and friends in De- roit and Flint.

John and George Hamlin of the Sebright Anto Sales and Gene Sampsim returned Thursday by motor from a. short stay in Detroit. Mrs. Milton Petcrtyl entertained members of her bridge club at her home on East Tenth street Thursday evening. At the three tables of bridge prizes were won by Mrs.

Julius Petertyl and Miss Catherine Record Review SCOTT'S SCRAP BOOK By R. J. SCOTT WAS -ftt. FIRSf ILJROPEAH SEE RUBBER- 4-i A KM hw tr-u And the Greatest of These fs Chanty By Inez Robb can buy a TV camera for your own personal use. What wcwld you want it for; The maker lists among ils possible uses: swimming pool monitoring, nursery observation or checking guest arrivals at the front door.

The camera Is connected by closed circuit to tha ordinary home TV set and the picture 1 is received on a channel that's unused commercially. The manutac- tiirere is the Dage Television Division of Thompson Ramo Wooldridge. Michigan City, Ind. I introduced by Sessions Clock Forestville. Conn.

The prin- I ciple involves the use of a governor which makes sure that the motor runs at a steady pace even as battery voltage runs down. Sessions says its new Chronometric Cordless Clocks can run for a year on the power of an ordinary flashlight i battery. Here's a new car radiator cleaner for the spring drain-out. Unlike older cleaners, the new Pyro Rapid Flush of Olin llathieson Chemical New York, can be applied in a single step and left in the cooling system to drain when convenient. The product is non-acid, non-flammable and harmless to metal and rubber parts, the company says.

A new plant food with additives that are supposed to build up the nutritional content of the soil comes in a reusable plastic con- taler that you can turn into anything from a flower pot to a candy dish. Called VI-C, it is bing made by Leeds Chemical Products, Chicago. Battery-powered clocks that run by the same principle as misiiile and aircraft timing devices have A new game is aimed at teaching some of the rudiments of antique buying. For two to six players, the game is playea on a board showing antiques from world art centers. Bidding is done by means of cablegram forms, token money and a catalogue listing exhibits.

Called Auctioneer, it's made by a British firm, TJniray (U. Chelsea. Radio Program WTCM By DELOS SMITH United Press International NEW I electronics of stereophonic sound take much of the agony out of the tortured voc.M lines In a new recording of Beethoven's "Choral" symphony. You'd suspect that some of the soloists in this jiressing would be unequal to the task of shouting over the orchestra in an unatnpll- fied performance. But stereo, fortunately for them, a twice- amplifled performance.

Indeed. Dietrich Fischev-lMeskau and Irmgard Seefried, the baritone and soprano, sound relaxed in their shoutis, and theirs are voices not suited for gigantic strains under natural conditions. Maureen Forrester, contralto, and Ernst Haefligcr, tenor, are the other singers. The chorus is the choir of St. Hedwig's Cathedral, Berlin; the orchestra, tbe Berlin Philharmonic, Ferenc Fricsay conducting.

Fricsay's grace was to let this mighty work move on its own power. The tell-tale signs of con- ductorial pushing and i i are absent. The over-all result is awesome in the way a natural phenomenon is. and this first stereo recording the "Choral" la something to live by--but do turn down the volume controls a bit during the choral movement! (Decca-DXB-7157). Another stereo recording of much merit has Pierre Monteux conducting the London Symphony and Henryk Szorylng, violinist, playing the Brahms concerto In major, a piece that gives up its riches only to high caliber and determined musicianship.

This youngish Szerying is becoming the intuitively discerning musical poet among the new gen- Charity, sweet charity, begins in Fort Knox these days and is rapidly becoming one of the most glittering status symbols. (How I love that term "status symbol!" Madison Avenue gobbledegoofc for "keeping up with the Joneses," but in step with the times it sounds so much, more scientific.) The situation is the same irom. coast to coast and border to border. In many of its manifestations charity is beginning to rival chinchilla, the French impressionists (ownership the four-car garage, the three-tone ulcer and a foreign racing car as a proof of success, a symbol that one occupies the executive suite and signs all chits. (Wall-to-wall corpeting and psychoanalysis are pure corn, honey, dated like Congress gaiters.

And nobody, but NOBODY, carries money any more. One just has it, plus credit-cards.) I catch glimpses of this nouveau world through my daily mail, which is a far richer mixture than I. Any number of unknown persons, apparently attempting to use the power of positive thinking on me, continuously importune me to take a table for ten (in tlie new -world of the big rich charity, tables don't come smaller) at $50, 575 and $100 per person for a wondrous variety of charity parties. For this trifling sum, I am guaranteed a glimpse of Elsa Maxwell, or the Duchess of Windsor or, bliss! a clutch of Gabors. The mail is also filled with invites to theatre parties, -with the price of the seats only advanced from to $50 over the cost at the box office, where the cashiers already wear black masks.

Now I have been flattered half out of my wits at an invite to take a table (guess for how many?) at tha annual April in Paris Ball, at the Waldorf-Astoria, at per person or 5300 It you want to waltz. And to think that one used to be able to get "Tales of the Vienna Woods" on the juke box for a dime! But the evils of inflation eventually affect everything. In the beginning, the April in Paris Ball, for a covey of worthy French and American charities, was only $100 per person. But charity must keep pace' with the times and I am now looking down a roseate future in, the blooming 'sixties when the gross national product and the Dow Jones average will justify a tariff of $1,000 per person, or $2,000 if you want to cha-cha. The April in Paris Ball has been a radiant success from the first because so many persons simply cannot afford not to be seen at this and similar charity parties where the price is right for seeing and being seen.

Charity is the showcase for our new affluent society. But it is not so the April in Paris Ball as a recent recital, sung for sweet charity by Harry Belafonte, that underscored my realization of charity as the new status symbol. The committee, and ia fairness Mr. Belafonte must be absolved from participation in its plans, invited every person who bought a $50 ticket "(for what would have been, at best, a or $6 recital under commercial auspices) to attend a reception for the singer after the concert. Guests who merely shelled out $15 to S35 per ticket were invited to gather up their wraps, walk quietly to the nearest exit and take the subway home.

But the $50 seat holders got to go to the party. Now, who could afford not to pay "And the greatest of these is charity." eration of virtuosi, and Montcux's depths are well known (RCA Victor-2231). From the Netherlands come two choral recordings of quite exceptional interest and quality. One presents the choice works of Palestrina and Monteverdi, sung by the Netherlands Chamber Choir, a 22-year-old group which performs with exquisite finesse and feeling (AngeI-35667). The other record has the choir of the Netherlands Bach Society singing Handel's Dettingen Te Deum which originally celebrated: an English military victory but can be used to commemorate anything, including the current 200th anniversary year of Handel's death (Epic-3540).

A VETERAN AT 23 HOLLYWOOD (UPI) Janet Munro, star of Walt Disney's live- action feature about leprechauns in Ireland, "Darby Q'GHl and the Little People," has been on the stage nearly all of her 23 years. She studied under her famous father, British variety comedian. Alex Munro, and later was on her own as a stage manager and actress before coming to Hollywood. TONIGHT 5:00 News 5:05 Musical Corner 6:00 News 6:15 Interlude 6:25 News 6:30 Sports HlghllchU 0:45 Three Star Extra 7:00 News 7:05 Congressman Griffin 7:10 Interlude 1:15 Alex Dicier 7:30 Ncwi of the World 6:00 News 8:05 Monitor 0:00 News 9:05 Monitor 3:55 News 10:00 Gillette Fights Sports Hi kites 11:00 News 11:15 Sign Off SATURDAY 6:30 News 6:45 Weather Bird 6:55 News 7:00 Breakfast Club 7:25 News 7:30 Breakfast CluU 7:45 Sports Report 7:50 News 7:55 Interlude 8:00 News Bteaklasl Club 8:30 News 8:35 Breakfast Club 0.00 News :05 Morning Devotions Evelyn Temple rtrrm 10:00 News 10:03 Mornlnc Records 10:15 Drama Of Medicine 10:30 Down Story Book 10:45 Salvation Army 11:00 News 11:05 MommB Records 11:15 Conservation 11:30 Children's Bible Hour 12:00 National Farm And Borne Hour 12:25 Alex Dreier 12:30 News 12:45 Music From Sunnysldo 1:00 News 1:05 Monitor 1:30 News 1:35 Monitor 2:00 News 2:05 Monitor 3:00 News 3:05 Monitor 3:30 News 3:35 Monitor News 4:05 Monitor 4:30 News 4:35 Monitor 1:00 Newt 5:05 Monitor 5:30 News 5:35 Monitor 6:00 News 6:15 Music 6:25 News 6:30 Song Michigan 6:45 Here's To 7:00 'Monitor 7:30 News 7:35 Monitor 6:00 News Monitor Neivi 8:35 Monitor 9:00 News 9:05 Monitor 9:30 Grand Old Opry 10:00 News 10:05 Monitor 10:30 News 30:35 Monitor 11:00 News 11:15 Sign OU Record-Eagle TELEVISION TONIGHT TRAVERSE CITY--CHANNEL 7 3:00 Teddy Bear 'Show 5:30 Three Stooges 6:00 News. Sports Weather 6:30 Michigan Conservation 6:45 NBC News 7:00 Bright As A Dollar 7:30 Amos nnd Andy 8:00 Ellcry Queen (Color) 9:00 The Grey Ghost 9:30 The Thin Man, Cavalcade Of Sports 10:45 Jackpot Bowline 11:00 Final edition.

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Gun, Will Travel 10:00 Gunsmoke Zane Grey Theatre 11:00 Feature SUNDAY TRAVERSE CITY--CHANNEL 7 1:00 Sign On 1:15 Christian Science 1:30 U. Of TV Hour 2:30 NBA Basketball 4:30 "Sure As Death" 5:00 KaHcdescope 6:00 State Chiropractic Society 6:15 Industry On Parade 6:30 Billy Graham 7:30 Steve Allen (Color) 8:30 Pete Kelly's Blues 9:00 Chew Show (ColorI 10:00 Loretta Young 10:30 Republican Cen. Committee 10:45 Paul Bunyan Theatre 12:15 Late Weather CADILLAC--CHANNEL 1S 12:45 Back To God Hour 1:00 Oral Roberts 1:30 U. Of Hour All Star Golf 3:30 Billy Graham 4:30 Master's "Golf 6:00 Waterfront 6:30 20th Century 7:00 Lassie 7:30 Jack Benny 8:00 Ed Sullivan Show 9:00 G. Theater 9:30 Hitchcock Presents.

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