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Page 4 Editorials and Columnists RECORD-EAGLE, TRAVERSE CITY, MICHIGAN FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1963 New Expense Rules Expense account living was not as prevalent back in 1930 as it is today, but it was a lot simpler. That was the year George M. Cohan Jr. won Supreme Court approval of his claiming tax deductions on estimated business, entertainment expenses, without benefit of records to substantiate the claim. The Cohan rule was not repealed until 1961, when Congress passed the tax revision act.

Since then, there has been turmoil expense account livers. When the Internal Revenue Service promulgated its regulations last December the turmoil rose to new heights. There was a sharp decline in expense account spending, and Congress was bombarded with protests. One reason for protest was that IRS regulations were unclear and downright confusing. Businessmen simply could not determine in advance what they ought to do in an effort to comply.

Another source of irritation was that the rules apparently were not designed merely to crack down on abuses, but hit legitimate business expenses as well. Both of these reasons for protest-are sound. This was underscored, it now appears, in a confidential report ty the staff of the joint Internal Revenue Committee of Congress. It is asserted that Commissioner Mortimer Caplin of the IRS has agreed, after hearing this report, to bring in amended regulations. The rules are to be clarified, and directed more sharply at expense account abuses.

That is an outcome greatly to be desired. It's A Brutal Sport It has become popular, among sports writers, to groan about Sonny Listen as a poor exemplar of the noble art of fisticuffs. The idea seems to be that what the fight game must have is a clean-cut champion of irreproachable conduct and sterling background --a man able to slaughter 'em in the ring yet also competent to turn in a good performance at the table on the chicken and peas circuit. There is some validity in this general notion. Certainly the sport gains no stature in polite society by.having a champion of sour disposition and jaundiced outlook whose brushes with the police have become legend.

There is no point, however, in ignoring the fact thar prize fighting -is a brutal sport whose objective is one man's battering another into submission. That cannot be glossed over. A brutish champion may be precisely what this survival of ancient gladiatorial combat calls for. Moment Of Triumph Life, for all its difficulties, offers many small gratifications. There is that moment, for example, when every last smidgin of crabgrass has been expunged from the front lawn.

Or consider the pleasure of hearing a connoisseur of patio cuisine, nervously invited to supper in the backyard, praise the kebabs with genuine The gratification that prompted these remarks is rather different--and in some ways rather special. It comes when a man trying to whack off a few pounds puts his belt buckle in the usual notch and finds (joydelightus and hallelujah!) that the feels a trifle loose. This is an occasion of singular rarity. Even should the buckle move down another notch or two, the dieter will never again have the feeling of accomplishment he experienced that first time. The moment when the belt is first taken in a hitch that is one of those moments that make life worth living.

U.S. airmen in Scotland must have at least $280 in the bank before they can marry local lassies. Over here all a fellow needs is a father who'll finance him. Rev. King Fires O'Dell by Fulton Lewis, Jr.

The Rev. Martin Luther King has given the pink slip to a top-ranking aide exposed as a former member of the National Committee of the Communist Party. Ho is Jack O'Dell, a -10-year-old Negro whose real name is Hunter Pitts O'Deli. Until the fall of 1962, O'Deli served as a Staff Consultant to King's national organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. O'Dell was then promoted to Acting Staff Director in -charge of voter registration and integration workshops.

Several, weeks after O'Dell assumed that post, his background was revealed by several newspapers. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat, the Birmingham News, and the Atlanta; Constitution disclosed that O'Dell was a member of the Communist Party's National Committee. O'Doll had been expelled from the National Maritime Union in 1950 for circulation of a pro-Soviet petition attacking the United States. On April 12.

1956, identity- ing himself as Hunter Pitts O'Dell. he testified before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, invoking the Fifth Amendment when asked if he was a Southern district organizer for the Communist Party. Subcommittee counsel Itobert Morris then revealed that information in his possession showed O'Dell to he one of the prime Communist operatives in New Orleans. Using two aliases (Ben Jones and John Vesey). O'Dell served as district organizer for the Party, issuing "directives to the (Communist) professional group" in that city.

Hundreds of documents seized at O'Dell's home by New Orleans police also established his position in the Communist movement. On July 30, 195S, again as Hunter Pitts O'Dell, he appeared before the House UuAmerican Activities Committee. Identifying himself as a Montgomery, Ala. insurance man. O'Dell refused to answer questions about his Communist activities, citing tbe First and Fifth Amendments.

Ehbarrassed by disclosure of O'Dell's background. King fired his controversial aide last fall, he told reporters. A few months later. O'Dell was very much in evidence as director of King's New York office located at 312 W. 12." Street, Manhattan.

When my associate, Bill Schulz, contacted King's New York office, he was told by the receptionist that O'Dell longer worked there. Miss Ruth Bailey, secretary of the office, then' took over to say she could say nothing: "No comment. Call King in Atlanta." Dr. King was not in. Mr.

Schulz talked to Edward Clayton, King's public relations director, who explained i that O'Dell had been rehired seven months ago because he was found to be a dedicated Christian. He quoted Dr. King: "After what we considered a thorough and good faith investigation we concluded that Mr. O'Dell had no present connection with the Communist Parly, nor any sympathy with its philosophy. "While he may have had some connections in the past, wo were convinced that he had.renounced them and had become committed to the Christian Philosophy violence in dealing with America's social injustices." On June -S, O'Dell and Dr.

King had another meeting. They both agreed that "segregationists and race baiters" could cite O'Dell's "alleged" background and smear the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. So O'Dell left Dr. King's employ for the second time. The whole episode.

Dr. Kiug insists, is a red herring. He says: "This issue of Mr. O'Deil's is only another attempt to forestall and hamper the true essence of today's civil rights struggle." Tonight TRAVERSE CITY--CHANNEL 7 4:55 NBC News 5:00 Popcyc 5:30 Fury 6:00 News--Sports-- Weothex 6:30 Farm And Forestry 6:45 Huntley-Brinkley Report 7:00 LlmellRht 7:30 International Showtime 8:30 TEA 9:00 Collcjc AU-Suir Football 11:00 News--Weather--Scoria 11:30 ToniRhl Show--Color 12:30 News Roundup Saturday TRAVERSE Sign On 12:30 Country Style U.S.A. CBS Game The Week (Baltimore At N.Y.) 3:30 Voice Of Concress 4:00 Interlochen Showcase 4:30 TEA 3:00 National SkatinE Derby Paul Bunyan fruinenade (i-00 Fllntstones Going My Way 7:30 Sam Benedict 8:30 Joey Bishop 9:00 Saturday Night Uovlo Final Edition--Weather--Sports 11:15 Paul Bunyan Theatre 12:45 Newi Roundup--Sign Off Sunday CADILLAC--CHANNEL 9 4:30 Millionaire 5:00 Mickey Mouse 5:30 RanRe Rider 6:00 Jetsons 6:30 Weather--News 6:45 CBS News 7:30 Rawhide 8:30 Route 66 9:30 'Alfred Hitchcock Eyewitness 11:00 News--Weather--Sprti 11:20 Feature Movie CADILLAC--CHANNEL 9 9:00 Caplaln Kangaroo 10:00 Alvln ChipmunKt 10:30 Mlchty Mouse 11:00 Rln Tin Tin :30 Hoy Rogers Show 12:00 Sky KinK 12:30 Picture 1:00 Industry On Parade 1:15 Ticer Warm-Up 1:30 Tifier Baseball (Detroit At Cleveland) 4:50 Wide World Of Sports 6:00 Fair Exchange 6:31) Lawrence Weik 7:30 Hour 8:30 Defenders Have Gun Will Travel 10:00 Gunsmoke 11:05 Movie TRAVERSE CITY--CHANNEL 7 Slfn Oc 11:00 Cnthnllc Miws 12:00 This Is The Life 12:30 LlRht Time CBS Came Of The Week (Baltimore At N.

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But today most communities sport an emporium for hobbyists. I stopped at one the other day and was astonished at the diversity of Its wares and at man's 1n- Kenuity in.devising appealing uses for leisure time. Those who complain that they have "nothing interesting to do" should rouse from their rockers and inspect one of the better Sobby shops stocked to the rafters with assorted craft and art products. "Our most popular item these days is mosaics," said the clerk, showing me a sheet to which were affixed some 200 colorful ceramic tiles. "With a dollar's worth of tiles and some.porcelain filler you can make handsome wal! decorations or beautiful, permanent designs on ash trays, desks or coffee tables.

You can make your own designs, or for a few cents buy patterns of classic mosaic designs. "Leath-ercraft is always popular. Here's a kit," he said shoving me a box bearing a $1.25 price tag. "containing cut pieces of leather, cord and instructions for making a. pair of moccasins.

We also have kits for making wallets, purses and belts. We oven sell entire animal skins for folks who want to make jackets and skirts. "The hottest postwaj hobby item was painting. Millions who normally wouldn't have dreamed of tackling oi! painting were tempted by the simplicity of number painting. And I can vouch for the fact that perhaps half of all who tried it became so fascinated that they were soon making original paintings.

"Then there's enameling. The average person thinks it's complex, but watch this, 1 he said taking me to a table where a young Indy was demonstrating. She took a two-Inch oval of copper sheeting, brushed It with ceramic paint, and sprinkled some granules of ceramic powder in a geometric pattern. Then with a spatula she placed it in a. i electric i (cost She removed the piece of copper moments later and when it cooled the a i a powder had melted into a shiny enamel pattern permanently baked onto the metal.

She glued a pin clasp to the back and held up a handsome, enameled brooch. If you would like a booklet "Let's Tnke Up Weaving" write to this column Record-Eagle a stamped, self-addressed envelope and ten. cents to cover handling tosts. Our teenage dropouts are not heading back to school. Despite urgent warnings exploding across the nation's front pages, despite the obvious fact that school i their only escape route from swelling, dead-end ranks of unemployment, dropouts are not going back to school.

There have been a few optimistic rumors, particularly in New York City, that desperate dropouts were "escaping" back to school. But even In the nation's biggest city, where a concentrated "stay-in-school" program is underway, the reports are definitely not true. Item: Summer school enrollment in New York City's, high schools increased only a disappointing 5,900, compared to more than 7,000 in 19C2 and nearly 7,000 in 1901. Item: Enrollments this fall in New York City are not expected to rise at all. In 1961, enrollment was np 10,000 to in 1962 it was up another 7,000 to 205,000.

This year the projection of the New York City Board of Education is a status quo of 205,000. Item: There are more school dropouts, in total numbers than ever before in history, even though the rate of dropouts in New York City is down. The story is the same throughout the country, says Kli Cohen, executive secretary of the National Committee on Employment of Youth. "There has been no groundswell of dropouts going back to school. Instead, they continue to crowd Into an overcrowded job market where they have nothing to sell." Teenage unemployment today is running at the highest rate since the government has kept records.

Officially, the rate is 1C per cent, nearly three times the nation's overall jobless rate of 5.7 per cent and up from 10.9 per cent in jnst one year. Fully 24 per cent of the' nation's 4.1 milli'on unemployed, the Labor Department reports, are teenagers. "Two million teenagers now looking for jobs across the country won't get them." Cohen states flatly--more than 50 per cent the number looking. "In New York City, 125,000 will have found jobs by the end of the summer; another 250,000 won't-." Behind these estimates is who are out of school, out of work and who are not even looking for work. Another 300.000 across the nation have given up hope.

Other officials underline the crisis at hand: "Any youngster between the ages of 13 and 21 who is out of school' and out of work is social dynamite," says Dr. Bernard B. Donovan, executive deputy superintendent of schools in New York U. Labor Secretary Willard WIrtz has warned over and over that the situation could develop into one of the most explosive problems in the nation's history. If they're not going back to school, what are all these jobless teenagers doing? "A few of them are taking part in racial demonstrations as a temporary outlet for their frustrations," says Eli Cohen.

"But a majority of them are stewing in their own Juices, a i nround restless and defeated, nothing." At the heart of today's teenage unemployment crisis is one- central fact: one million more babies were born In the bumper year 1947 than were born in 1D40. This year there are 800,000 more in the H-through-19 age group than there were last year. And this is only the beginning: 3.S million boys and girls turn l(i this year i i J9-)7's bumper crop--the "dropout age." To deepen the era automation is dryirig'uii unskilled job positions at a record rale. The need for a 'crash program to meet the crisis- has never been more obvious. Now is the time, more than ever before in our history, -for dropouts and un-.

employed teenagers, to prepare themselves for skilled jobs. Further education is their only escape today. Test Ban Hope or Fear? by Inez Robb The members of the United States Senate are now circling the proposed East-West test-ban agreement with the wariness of old Towser scouting a new dog that has just moved i the neighborhood. The great problem that each Senator must solve, to his own satisfaction, is how much political mileage or advantage can be wrung from (1) advocacy of and (2) denunciation of the test-linn agreement. The nc.n-committal a i of many members of the most exclusive gentlemen's club in the nation leads to the not too cynical conclusion that the Senators may be waiting for the opinion that will for won't) tell which way the wind is blowing across the nation.

It is no more cynical to suspect that more than one Senator has already stuck a wet finger into that i to his own findings. It is om woman's i i a it would be a grave mistake to read any poll figures, no matter what they show, without taking Glancing Through Our Yesteryears 25 Years Ago Miss a i Mikesell was host- at a kitclien shower honoring Miss A Moore, whose marriage to Ford Fisher OC Ml. Pleasant take place in August. Prizes at games were awarded to Miss Maizie Smith and Miss Phyllis Johnson. I i i on Peninsula drive I'm Teviewin' my life history to someone o' short acquaintance, I skip over all the uninterestin' episodes, just like I when I'm readin' a took.

Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. (Jeorge Whiting entertained a Kroup of friends in honor of Mr. and Mrs.

Frank Reynolds of Lake" Forest, house guests of Mr. and Mrs. i Beers, A caravan of 35 new Ford passenger cars and trucks and Lincoln Zephyrs arrived in the city today ns a part of the special Ford traveling show to be staged on Fourteenth street Tuesday. 15 Years Ago Pfc. Gary Routsong, son of Mr.

and Mrs. C. J. Routsong of South Spruce street, has entered as a student in the dental laboratory technicians course at Brooke Army Hospital, Texas. Mr.

and Mrs. Ed Lewis of Crais, former residents of Elk Rapids, are spending two weeks vacation at the of Mrs. Louise Cnvitch and other local relatives and friends. William McCort, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Yale McCort of Washington street, is now a midshipman iii the US Naval pre-flight training school at Pensacola. Florida. Xearly 100 phj-sicians assembled at the Park Place hotel today for the open session of the annual Col- Icr-Penherthy Medical Conference. into account their hidden emotional quotient or content. The figures in favor of a test ban are bound to be affected by (1) weariness of the cold war and (2) -a pervading longing tor peace.

Conversely, the figures against a test-ban agreement are certain to reflect the underlying American belief that the Russian word, whether initialed by the late Pialin or by Khrushchev. isn't worth the paper it's written on. The straggle over a tost ban. in or out of tile United States Senate, is certain to be the classic srniggle of hope vs. experience, ns well as hope vs.

fear. Mankind's hope a a test ban could be the first i i i i a step toward easing: the cold war a its corollary armaments burden will bo pitted against its despair that the Russian hierarchy only keeps its word as Ions as it Is advantageous to the U.S.S.R. There will be hope that this first step could lead eventually to some kind of. a workable peace Man's fear not only of a destruction In a world war but. in the interim, of poisoning of the atmosphere through nuclear test- ins.

There will be many who will ask. "Do we dare take a chance?" and many who will answer, "What do we have tO' lose? In an atomic war we would lose everything, in- elttdinff our world." The question devolves i how a will be willing to gamble on a test ban thnt does not outlaw war, much less nuclear war, but offers only some slight hope that nations may sometime make a toward disarmament. Should the Senate confirm the test-ban agreement, that accord i not automatically cut in half the nation's multibillion-dollar defense bucket. It would probably not even shave a billion from the a a total, now i at about billions. It would not ease the tax burden, nor does it threaten a terrible dislocation of the nation's economy by foreshadowing the inunediatu outbreak of peace, with catastrophic unemployment while the in- diit-trlal complex is put on a peace- i footing.

Senate approval of tiio test ban would not have much of an impact on our present life and times as far as externals go. It would not mean a larger share of public monies for better schools, or roads, or for slum clearance, or for the arts, or for tackling urban ills. The test ban, in short, wouldn't work miracles in the national or change our way of lite overnight. It would offer hope, it, wotiid guarantee nothing, absolutely nothing. What it boils down to is hope against hope.

And man's willingness to gamble on it when he has lived with fear tor so long. You save more than money with U.S. Savings Bonds Radio Program. Schedule WTCM 7400 K.C. (Program inaccuracies arc not tho fault of the Rscord-Eagls.

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