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Page 3 -A-NAPA REGISTER Saturday, Sept. 29, 19621 California's Population Reaches Toward Top Place Books Promote Knowledge Basic To Informed Voting Twain's Biting Sketches Will Be Published BY ELLA MILLER City Librarian As we move toward the November elections, all citizens should remind themselves of their responsibilities of citizenship. An awareness of our voting rights, understanding of our constitutions (both state and federal), and general knowledge of the issues of the elections, all enable us to use our vote to the best advantage. Librarians will be urging that some reading be done along these lines during the coming months. We suggest: This American People by Gerald W.

Johnson; American Ways Of Life by George R. Stewart; The Republic by Charles A. Beard; Your Rugged Constitution by Bruce A. Findlay; Your California Governments In Action by Crouch. The Voters Handbook, published by the League Of Women Voters, is an excellent source of information.

Related to the subject of, citizenship are lists of books on tolerance, the world, and dangers to democracy. Some of these titles are: Forbidden Neighbors by Charles Abrams; The Nature Of Prejudice by Allport; A Measure Of Freedom by Arnold Forster; Social Psychology Of Prejudice by Saemger; U. N. The First Ten Years by Eichel-berger, Realities Of American Foreign Policy by G. F.

Ken-nan; Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent by Henry S. Commager, Todays Isms by William Ebenstein; American Security And Freedom by Maurice J. Goldbloom; How We Fought For Our Schools by Edward Darling; The Conflict In Education In A Democratic Society by Robert M. Hutchins; The Education Of Free Men by Horace M. Kallen; and Education, The Wellspring Of Democracy by McGrath.

Goodman Library does tiot list all of these titles but they are available through our inter-library loan privileges. BY JOSEPH A. ST. AMANT United Free International LOS ANGELES (UPI) California is expected to pass New York as the most populous state in the union next December. The credit (or blame, depending on the veiwpoint), goes in part to Stanley and Joan Beecher.

They migrated here from New York. Theres no such animal as a typical California' family. The state has its poor, it has its slums. Theres a wide difference in climate conditions between the north and the south. But the Beechers, after years of struggling, 'seem to have found the good life in California.

The Beechers met and fell in love at a New Years Eve party here at the home of mutual friends. By coincidence, they had lived in the same New York neighborhood as children but they did not know each other. That was in the Washington Heights section where Stan last lived in an apartment house (728 W. 181st Street). It was cramped compared to what we have now, Beecher said.

Lets face it New York is a cramped city. Well never live in an apartment again anywhere. His wife, the former Joan Rosenfeld, spent most of her childhood in Freeport, Long Island, where the family lived in a home not as outdoorsy as the Beechers place. She came J.0 California in 1936 when she was in her early teens. Her father was a chemist and he heard of a job opening here and packed up the family and came west to better himself economically.

Stanley H. Beecher is an aircraft design engineer for Lockheed-Califomia Corporation, in the income bracket. Stanley and Joan Beecher have been married for 20 years. They have a daughter, Janet, 17, a son, Stephen, 11. Beecher, 44, and his wife now live in a home valued at between $25,000 and $30,000.

They have a 155 by 55-foot lot and love the feeling of spaciousness it gives them. And theyve got a swimming Insect Poisons Threat To Birds, Animals, Writer Say: pool in the back yard, installed at a cost of about $3,000 two years ago. Theyre living comfortably and beginning to get a solid financial footing. But it was not always thus. For the first seven years of our married life, said Beecher, we lived in a pretty crumby Hollywood apartment.

Up until a couple of years, we were really struggling like most families. They were drawn here from the East with their families. Stanley was 19 when his father, who was in the restaurant business, decided to try for better opportunities. That was in 1937. What I remember most when I first came out here was the wide open spaces and the orange drinks all you could drink and the wonderful weather in those pre-smog days.

Everyone was smitten with the apparent glamour of the entertainment people but that sort of thing wears off rapidly. But what they always say New York is a wonderful place to visit, but thats all. LONDON GETS FILM HOLLYWOOD (UPI) 1The Victos, Carl Foremans international film, will be shot in London. The all-star cast includes George Hamilton, George Pep-pard, Melina Mercouri, Vincent Edwards, Eli Wallach, Jeanne Moreau, Rosanna Shiffino and three sons of famous fathers, Peter Fonda, Jim Mitchum and Tony Wallace. SIGN SARGENT HOLLYWOOD (UPI) Writer and director Arthur Dreifuss has purchased the screen rights to the best selling novel, The Master Forger.

John Godleys novel is scheduled to go before the cameras as the second film on Dreifuss 1962 Screen Arts Production schedule. Dreifuss at present in Ireland filming the Brendan Behan play, The Qauare fellow. cations. When Castro reneged on the deal, as the Communist nature of his government appeared, Harris was left with the obligation to pay for the space contracted for. How Harris eventually made Castro pay him the hard way is told in the story.

People Reed Spot Ads YOU ARE DOCIG SO NOW NAPA REGISTER DA 6-3711 BY MILES SMITH AP Newsfcatoree LETTERS FROM THE EARTH. By Mark Twain. Harper Row. $5.95. Part of this book is bitterly and bitingly antireligious.

For that reason it has been withheld from publication for 23 years. When Twain died in 1910 he left a good many manuscripts, some unfinished. The present collection of sketches and fragments was edited for publication in 1939 by the late Bernard De Voto. But the title piece, and several others, drew the objections of Twains surviving daughter Clara. Only recently, at the age of 88, did she give permission for its publication.

In Letters From The Earth, Twain creates a situation in which the archangel Satan, having incurred the Deitys wrath, was banished from heaven for a celestial day and decided to visit the Earth. He writes back to the other archangels to tell them about human beings. Writing from Satans' viewpoint, Twain makes many venomous statements attributing vanity and cruelty to the Creator. He declares that God created the laws of nature and then in the Biblical laws gave out their exact opposites. For example, nature demands sexual outlets, but the Bible prohibits adultery and fornication applying the injunction, and others, indiscriminately against babes and septuagenarians as well as others.

In. this and other essays, Twain is. bitter' about the human race, contending it invented for itself a heaven containing everything it does not want. He argues that 'Jesus invented hell. He insists that such things -as disease are ways in which "God punishes the innocent as well as the guilty.

He scorns the human race for worshipping a Deity for his opposites praising Him for mercy when He is cruel. And in one essay he sets out to prove that human beings are the lowest animals, not the highest. One short sketch, purporting to be a business letter from the recording Angel to a miserly coal dealer in Buffalo about his hypocritical prayers, is a devastating document. In many parts of this book, it is the Twain of The Mysterious Stranger who is addressing the reader, not the Twain who depicted Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. It might be kept in mind that these pieces were written near the end of his life, when he was burdened by misfortunes and the deaths of his Wife and a daughter.

BALDWIN hm a 0ifM 1)14 Pearl Sfree, A 4-4949 Nctny Han Tuner incidence of cancer and the risks of genetic change. She argues that insects, which multiply rapidly man does not, and cannot adapt soon become resistant to specific poisons; from that she argues thfe uselessness of using these synthetic chemicals for even short-range effects. She says they should be used sparingly and under strictly controlled conditions. And she suggests other ways in which pests can be brought under control such as introducing their predatory enemies. Cop's Ordeal Is Basis Of Drama On a hot summer evening in 1933, in the tenement area of a large city, an off-duty patrolman cornered and held five wanted men at gun point for nearly two hours before help arrived as recounted in the story "V-Victor 5 on General Electric True Oct 7, p.m., on the CBS Television Network.

Jack Webb is host-narrator of the series. Karl Held portrays patrolman John Eagan, whose desperate experience is dramatized in the play. Barbara Wilkin portrays Jean, a suspicious young acquaintance of one of the hoodlums. John Sebastian portrays Eddy, leader of the five-man gang. Neil Nephew as Whip and Tony Call as Benjy portray a pair of punks.

AP Newsfeetum SILENT SPRING. By Rachel Carson. Houghton Mifflin. $5. Controversial, argumentative and frightening.

That is the nature of Miss Carsons powerful indictment of the use of deadly synthetic chemicals as insecticides and pesticides. The hazards of nuclear radiation sound no more terrifying than the dangers against which she sounds a tocsin. The substance of the authors message is that our bodies accumulate these chemicals from our soil, water and food, so that eventually they can be as deadly as radiation to our own bodies and to our offspring. Furthermore, she asserts that in spraying against a bad insect, we may kill many good insects and soil bacteria, and along with them a lot of birds and animals, thus upsetting natures balance and imperilling our future existence. It is a prospect more far-reaching than the effects of the drug thalidomide, recently in the news.

The silent spring she describes the disappearance of birds actually has occurred in some communities; she cites places and dates. She names the poisons such as DDT, chlordane, dieldrin, parathion. She piles up case histories about the soil, water pollution and food supplies. She considers the 'Harris Vs. Castro'-Story Of Unique Legal Conflict The true story of Erwin Harris, Miami advertising executive, and his legal battle with Castros Cuban government to save himself from bankruptcy is dramatized in Harris vs.

Castro on General Electric True, Sunday, Oct 14 on the CBS Television Network. Harris found himself in the same predicament as many American businessmen when the real image of Castros Communist Cuba emerged from the revolution: he was holding a worthless contract with Castros government Castro and Che Guevara hired Harris to advertise and promote Cuba after their successful revolution. To do so, Harris contracted for worth of advertising space in United States publi BRAKES $1945 RELINE LABOR MATERIALS Cylinder a Drum werfc equally lew priced Uneurpatted weifcmanddp back-up If yean la Ilia baclnere STORCKS GARAGE Since im Wheel I Brake are eur butlne First a Ornduff Street BA -515.