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THE KANSAS CITY TIMES FRIDAY APRIL 27 1956 dUB Mcrntni KANSAS CITY STAB) Site Simeg The Wheel of Major Bowes Gave I Opportunity to Many Amateurs Original Amateur Hour Made Debut on Radio Twenty Years Ago to Become 19 tioi War developments Most Popular Show on Air Originator a Man of Many Activities in citv Four thousand telegrams The Morning Tsatrs of Tits 3taa Established Octobe 19 1901 Wvuiu Roc hill Nelson CORA There Is an Intimacy sprung between A man and stalks of corn the cn who tends The chlldUne sprout through springtime -comes to know An August stalwart towering green And voiceful character a man has friends In stalks of corn wheat straws ar never so I knew a field of corn I knew eaca row sas City to Senators Reed and When it was April-high and weed-Stone and Rep William Bor- patrol the summer loitic ttH plum land No one connected with the! nd I In silvery silk they freed me from Western Union and the Postal tlie hoe after ail vu the hoe Telegraph companies would say 1 1 TTiennthe stubble One ol Which a Kansas Citian Was His Partner The Kansas City Stas Company Owner and Publisher who paid for the messages I found a silence Address All Letters: Th5 Kansas City Stas 1729 Grand Avenue Kansas City 8 Mo Telephone HA 1 1200 (Want Ad Dept Only Telephone BA 1-5500) If death -were Vaun ArnOud there war and national defense It should be possible however to make a much better showing in the long run and especially if Congress acts on accounting budgeting and other fiscal proposals that are now in its hands The millions of people whose earnings are at stake have an obvious interest in the outcome Big Government at best will require support at a high level We can have no illusions on that score We should expect responsibility to the utmost In the use of the billions that people contribute Russia Rewrites History The world's toughest pedagogic job right now is being a teacher of history in Russia Nobody knows for sure what Russian history is now that Stalin has turned out to be a no-good and many of his purge victims have been rehabilitated as heroes History in the Soviet Union is what the Kremlin says it is as of the particular moment The chronicles ace changing fast and no wonder that the schools have suspended all history examinations until the newly anointed myth-makers complete their re-write jobs These are nerve-wracking times for history teachers in Russia but the exam-free students must like all the doubt and confusion just fine YE SHALL BE WITNESSES SuaacAtP'riON Rath Morning erenirg and Sunday (tiurt-eea papers a week) delivered by carmer In Kansas City AO cents a week $174 a month By Mall postage prepaid in Missouri and Kansas 45 cents a elsewhere in the United States and the United States possessions 55 cents a week in foreign countries $100 a week The Kansas City Real Estate Board Today authorized the naming of a committee to prepare a provision for a city planning commission in the proposed new city charter Seven men last of those arrested on election dav oni j- taking a back seat in some in-trumped up charges were dis- Missouri Notes Changing the Hours: Daylight time proposals have developed quite an argument around the state but another tradition is Entered as second-class matter at the postofllcs in Kansas City Mo under the Act of March 3 1879 charged today by Denney min or the Associates Fasss rights of publication of apecial dispatches are also reserved stances and may give mor ground soon -the Saturday night shopping custom Stores in some towns have decided to close Saturday nights and remain open on Friday rights But that plan has its opponents the same as daylight time In some areas other nights cost Acs ros hingl copras: 8 to 14 pages cents 16 to 24 pages 4 cents 26 to 32 oases 5 cents 34 to 40 pages 6 cents 40 to 50 pages 7 cents 52 to 58 cages 8 cents 60 to 66 pages 9 cents 68 to 74 pages 10 cents 78 to 84 cages 11 cents: 86 to 92 pages 12 cents 94 to 100 pages 13 cents: 102 to 108 pages 14 cents 110 to 118 pages 15 cents The home of Frank Norton 3517 Main street has been razed to make room for a 300-suite hotel (The Southland) of which Mis Nelle Graves will manager Miss Gertrude Patterson and CarroT Haff married in Ann Arbor Mich April 26 be By Phil Osborne (A Mem ber ol The Start Staff) DURING his ll years as boss of Amateur the late Maj Edward Bowes encountered every type ol entertainer from garden hose instrumentalist to coloratura soprano Sunday night at the Municipal Auditorium that same Amateur Hour will be telecast on the A network instead of broadcast and Ted Mack not Bowes will be the man behind the gong But the staff diversity of talent and format of the program will be fundamentally unchanged from what it was March 24 1935 when the Amateur with Major Bowes made its debut over 60 stations Since that initial performance about 15000 contestants have appeared on the program with 1500 of those going on to earn what Arnold Rittenberg a member of Mack auditioning staff here calls as professionals Although the mortality rate in the pro circuit is high for Amateur Hour graduates Rittenberg cites the one purpose of the show as laid down by Bowes is to offer beginners an opportunity to perform in public What they do in later life is of secondary importance Majoi Bowes always said The interests of the major who inherited his military title from an obsolete reserve commission were as motley as the acts assembled on the Amateur Hour stage every week Aside from being an authority on Napoleon and onetime vice-president of the Shakespeare Association of America he w7as an Ithan Fridays are being suggested for At a glance there doesn't seem to be much alarm about closing on Saturday nights The talk is more about what night will take its place in the evening shopping schedule In any event the move to close (Saturday nights seems to be go-By Doris Fleeson ling over more quietly where it IYONS "It Presidentjhas been proposed than the Eisenhower ever came here on a windy day he do proposals Perhaps in some areas at And he said unto them It is not for yon to know the times or the seasons which the Father hath put in his men power But ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both tn Jerusalem and in all Judea and in Samaria and unto the uttermost part of the Acts I 7 8 Election Foretastes: Ike Sprints Ahead least shoppers already have Maj Edward Bowes and His Gong The Amateur Hour Which He Started Was Only One Facet of an Amazing Career During March 1956 the net paid circulation of The Star was as follows: Svenlng (daily average! 350899 Morning (dally average) 343678 Sunday (average) 368802 Weekly Star Farmer (average) 447128 FRIDAY APRIL 27 1956 A BOOST FOR THE TEACHERS IN the last ten years more than 250000 teachers have deserted their profession for the financial opportunities and security offered by business and industry Most of them probably would have preferred to remain teachers But low pay meager retirement benefits and long hours in the classroom don't offer much of a challenge Over the years Kansas City has lost its share of teachers to other professions The completely inadequate retirement pay undoubtedly has been a large factor Now the way is clear for increased benefits that will nearly double the amount of the retirement checks At the request of the school board Governor Donnelly asked that permissive legislation be enacted in this special session of the General Assembly This has been accomplished Wednesday the governor signed the measure that will allow the school district to combine the present retirement plan with social security The teachers themselves will consider the change in a referendum May 25 The choice will be between the present maximum payment of $125 a possible maximum of $23350 The improved schedule will move the teachers a little closer to the kind of rewards they ought to be receiving for their important work Ir will definitely put the Kansas City district in a stronger position to retain the good teacher it has and to attract the teachers it needs something for The wheat farmer said sprayed from stores on Saturday this was talking about drought eights but the idea of going all That problem haunts the daily: out on changing the clock is less life of citv and country dweller urrversah Several straw votes alike in the plains area have favored daylight threatens them with woes ex-lhne tending far beyond a diminish-' Meanwhile the Missouri Farm ing annual income I Bureau federation has announced For the dust storms are back (opposition to the time change on Every time the wind gets up to a OC3 basis but says it would 40 miles an hour rho rnwder-lnot oppose Jt on a State-Wide soil thickens the air like The Missouri Farmers a s- Dickens if Ration bas said Jt wiH not Ire-f rfl tb furnish ltake a hand the in humble homes! And while talktis wherever they may be every weekend ntmues to The entire winter wheat beltbajlgild has taken this ghastly beating oG Rains are localized and never j7 i stores are closed on Saturdav ring more than an inch at a njghts or the clock is moved (ahead it would be a help if more Ye as were motorists would start their trips bothered with mud was 19o2 going and coming-an hour said a Kansan The drought exaggerates sllj All Well Deserved: Former aspects of the wheat surplus President Truman former gov-consequent federally-jgmors editors and Missourians his radio station in Manhattan the vice-presidency of Goldwyn Pictures corporation for se pral years play productions 15 to 20 ardent music fan and glass c9'( travejing( companies comprised lector and considered a connois-0f Amateur hour contestants 1 17 1906 The following morning seur of fine wines liquors an- ancj various sales products surh the great San Francisco earth- as cotton fabrics with designsjquake leveled much of the city of Amateur hour performers a including real estate parchesi-type game and a spe-1 Stephens a retired man- cially constructed alarm clock that gonged like the Amateur hour bell Although Bowes always had a dozen prongs in the fire he never seemed to get his fingers riede ited6 cestral home in Northern land returning to San Francisco into his Capitol theater office (burned Charities and friends and a chamois bag of 25jwere one thing but when he dis-to 30 uncut diamonds to Frances Adams his secretary telling her to take care of them for him never forget that apartment of Stephens said hundreds of other unique items he had about five dozen bottles of Napoleon's own private liquor stock under glass The bottles were so old and covered with so much dust one could barely distinguish the San Francsoo bav oc- other item He took over the duty himself Tar Facer Bxer Leisure hours crowded into the major's career were taken up with his horse stables yacht casional boxing lessons from By Tat Hayden (North Ameitcan Xi csvaver Alltarce) WASHINGTON Continuance cf the indication uniform in all balloting so far that President Eisenhower is at least as popular today as in 1952 and definite emergence of Adlai Stevenson as the front runner were the outstanding signs from three primaries Tuesday With less than 500 of Pennsylvania's 8724 precincts unreported Eisenhower had 892009 votes running substantially alone on the Republican side to 571925 for Stevenson in the same situation on the Democratic ballot In comparison Eisenhower in 1952 received 2415-789 Pennsylvania votes as against 2146269 for Stevenson Percentage-wisp the division this time was substantially 60-40 in favor of Eisenhower as against 53-47 four years ago Massachusetts returns are not very significant because the vote was infinitesimal and names of no presidential candidates were listed or the primary ballot Even so it is a worth noting that with 1710 of the state's 1757 precincts reported 51657 voters took the trouble to write in name compared with 28984 for John McCormack majority leader of the House of Representatives and a Democratic favorite son 18918 for Stevenson and 4431 for Sen Estes Kefauver Returns from the first Alaskan presidential primary will be a long time reaching conclusion because many of the returns have to be delivered by dog sled But as this is written skimpy reports show Eisenhower leading Sen William Knovvland of California 1513 to 68 for Republican preference compared with 1246 for Stevenson and 759 for Kefauver on the Democratic ballot This is the first time Alaska ever has been asked to express a presidential choice but it has been consistently Democratic in its election of congressional delegates and local officials And there was an active contest between Stevenson and Kefauver In the over-all race for Democratic presidential nomination Stevenson after a discouraging start has begun to roll Successively he has picked up 64 delegates from Illinois 74 from Pennsylvania and a probable 35 from New Jersey In those three states the only Democratic opposition accomplishment is one-half a vote for Kefauver in New Jersey Quite definitely support of Stevenson by the Democratic organization leaders is beginning to pay off as against Kefauver's boasted appeal to the party rank and file However the most significant single item in returns was the rise of support in the city of Philadelphia Whereas he lost that city in 1952 to Stevenson 557352 to 396874 Eisenhower this time led Stevenson by 30000 A factor in this Eisenhower gain is said to have been the same switch in Negro voting which has shown up in other cities While the Republicans regard the racial issue as important they believe the biggest factor promotive of their city gains is the high wages and steady work now prevailing in almost all industrial plants so later he had one housekeeper taken out of wheat and put intojtion the same as the FBI and (and one cook to man the apart-jmilo brought one landowner! cer Mainly Missouri and the troop merit while his personal retinue near here $54 in the market- ers themselves can be proud of included five secretaries a'place a profit of 77 cents an the quarter-century record now sei'vanf look after his dog an acre being acclaimed fxJnannLwbo and iLeoPe "10 'n tbe 9rfat I 1 be high regard for the patrol bodyguard and a tailor who kept Plains understand very well that'aiso is a compliment to Missouri (he handsewn 100- this is no passing calamity itself The state has insistedXhac suit wardrobe up to date Even if an abrupt change injthe troopers be kept free to do Handyman (rain and snowfall occurred their duty and to operate in a The bodyguard as well as thethere is no guarantee of its being manner commanding respect not tailor also had his chores cut lasting in effect (only for the troopers themselves out for him In one particular in-J They orry about the water hut for Missourians and Missouri stance when Major Bowes wasLable and look to Washington laws This has been done to the interviewing talent for his Sun-lfor creative planning There is highest degree and everybody day night show the vice-talk there of another study but'has benefitted president in charge of produc- mention of studying problems in Modern conditions and traffic Corbett and road racing In his youth Bowes won a 50-mile nonsTop automobile race at a time when a cowpath constituted a thoroughfare and every race was a tbrillcade His yacht the 80-foot Edmar W'as turned over to the Navy in 1940 along with two smaller crafts The major's apartment was actually so cluttered with his various collections portraits of his friends and paintings by such artists as Whistler Sargent and Daumier visitors there said one could barely make out the color of The Signed photographs of men like Henry James Mark Twain John Rockefeller and Franklin Roosevelt covered tables and shelves and in the bathroom amid a wilderness of other luxuries he had a built-in Bowes was born June 14 1874 ai reflsing to in San Francisco His father fa 'I16 GudV? as who worked as a weigher on the docks died when young Edward was six and the boy had to leave school when he 13 He took barber chair ja j0)n ushering at a National Ed- Sfephens and incorpof-Urafion association convention Washington at this point has (make the patrol more important little appeal among farmers (than ever and thus it is more They think open eyes are al! important than ever that Mis-that is needed jsouri continues to demand that The referenceGoYresident Ei- patwi go with the excel-vears after Bowes started broad dutv in the matterjjem reror 1 as achieved More Sg change SSffb from the Capitol theater t0 temper in this rock-YG Ytp Th acHa-i'a'e it as a moviehouse The Republican area Farmer sia on for three yearslunbaPPiness has transferred it-j Ore never knows when he is 1925 Roxy left the CapitolJself to him from the secretary really well off says the Glasgow Bowes stepped in nith agriculture Ezra Taft Ben-Missourian Youth looks with Capitol Fam- who has been wnitten off asJonging eyes at the material Nine years later the major a possible source of help and 'sessions of its elders who look where he discovered guests would pay 25 cents a dozen for calling cards lettered in his flowery Spencerian hand and garnished with birds When the convention was over Bowes became a S3 a week office boy in gtarte'd a real estate office By 1900 he wras a dealer licize show but in and prosperous real estate Rattan ana in I9U3 he marriea Parlors But Ao Porches The old-fashioned parlor a separate dining room sidewalks and a household decontamination chamber have received a vote of confidence Basement attic den and guest room were tabled in committee And houses should not only be more livable they should be larger Thus the representatives of the housewives cf America in duly constituted assembly have spoken At the call of Albert Cole housing administrator 103 of them gathered in Washington to plan the ideal house And who could be better qualified? The home is certainly the woman province Most men we think would concur in the majority report The separate dining room would remove that supermarket atmosphere from many a mealtime The absence of Superman or Hopalong during the main course would as one woman declared help the children how to eat graciously and in And after dinner the parlor would be an oasis for the harried husband and wife to enjoy the evening paper cr a good book in unaccustomed silence The decontamination chamber or mud room is to be near the back doer a working space where small children large husbands and animals of assorted sizes can be cleansed before entering the inner sanctum Some men would be unwilling to surrender the basement without at least a token struggle The workbench crowded among the laundry equipment in the utility room is not attractive but perhaps this is one way to avoid work And personally we would recommend the old-fashioned front porch as an adjunct of the old-fashioned parlor But the wives already have settled most of the blueprint problems Sordid details such as financing are presumably left to the husbands comfort There back even more longingly at the no question that indestructible digestion of the an amateur his own station program in Man- ated in 1936 to publish the Major Bowes Amateur magazine a monthly follow-up on the careers of ex-Amateur hour contestants Each owned 50 per cent of the stock with Stephens supplying the capital and general promotion work and Bowes the editorial management and majority of news items Circulation had jumped to 300000 monthly after the first year when the two partners sold out to Walter Chrysler wrho commercialized the magazine for distribution through his motor car dealers But the Major Bowes Amateur magazine was only one of many enterprises for versatile The idea proved so sue- fhis area the President's golf-jyoungsters ressful he resigned his vice-ing vacation during the farm bill! a res rga ret 1 hngtpn who preside cy with Goldwyn Pic-'hassle hurt The politicians who1 1 'vas sad- aspired his ture corporation in 1935 to reflected such dissatisfaction1 if u-iii ginal with the Eisenhower timing! a Amateur a show later(reallv had their trained ears at 03s have go to net him $10000 weekly plus the grass roots jwlth these wonderful modem $5000 in royalties from associ- What will it mean politically 1 ated sidelines After only one An editor answers that it is (-ountY Mail at Rockport year the Amateur Hour becamenarlv to tell An astute Pj Two Festivals: Camdenton will the most popular on the political leader in Kansas its Dogwood festival May qir diets The loss of at least threel0 to 13 this year and May 31 later it beater- be die(i launch Original 'with in 19o4 As foreman of a grand jury investigating corruption in San Francisco in 1904 he won countrywide recognition and a personal commendation from Then- auy such thing as Turn backward Oh! time in thy Foreign Policy Bog Others included WHN 'dorp Roosevelt Once the trials yashinotonMbn 6leview Republican congressmen noito June 2 the second annual In-matter wbo runs against themjrernational Round and Square He savs Senator Frank Carlson Dance festival will be held there Hannibal vot it Democrats nan an aggressive prs have a datp at tha polls May jt to decide whether the city shall i order the writing of a home rule impossible for the Individual to delegate his responsibilities Democrats had some eood candi 'der th policemens and Lre-the field to political figures even Lates vpri bd fd frouhle impT1's pension ordinance: and ap ilia rnnet i (dales VV 0 Op tn 030 trOU Ol mo rra iecno frvr- If it would only rain and and Chester A Bradley the most trusted We must know because a policy doesn't become translated into national LAXITY WITH THE BILLIONS (Copyright Hammond Organ leadership until the nation is truly leading the nation expresses itself through its elected heads and through its Congress and so on but we need an understanding in this country of what is going on in the world what are the troubles what are the difficulties why can't we make better progress By John Cauley (Member The Star's Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Even the most fervent Eisenhower supporters at the dinner last Saturday night of the American Society of Newspaper Editors began to grow restless as the President through the text of his speech What he had to say was important informative and sometimes inspiring but it the audience At the conclusion of his address the President dramatical ly removed his glasses and announced that he wanted to make a few informal remarks The effect was electrifying There was a wave of applause from the big audience because it was clear that here was going to be Eisenhower at his speaking from the heart in his nwn vibrant and tremendously effective language The President lived up to his reputation and at the close of his off-the-cuff speech the ova- words did he have any sugges- By Dorothy Thompson the election campaign now under way contenders against the present administration are attempting to convince us that if they were in office they would handle American affairs more satisfactorily In domestic matters their bid boils down to assessing the discontent of national groups and organized minorities The same holds true for foreign affairs except that here satisfaction or dissatisfaction is registered on a national level in foreign relations the government does not act in behalf of groups within the nation but for the whole nation The Democrats in attacking the foreign policy of the administration are The Eisenhower administration in defending it is also weak The plain fact of the matter is that both are at sea not because the Eisenhower administration has departed from the policy of its it has not- but because that policy was designed and continued to meet a condition that no longer exists or exists in a greatly changed form It has changed because of developments outside the United States and therefore outside our direct control the chief of these being that Stalin died in Russia that with him died the policy that was largely responsible for our own and that the new leaders have moved diplomatically into the Middle East where it may or may not be possible to obtain their co-operation for a policy that will relax tensions avert war and protect the most vital Western interests I submit that neither Mr Stevenson ilor Governor Harriman nor Senator Kefauver can truthfully tell the American people what he would do were he in President place The only specific thing they hav come up wiih is that they would immediate send arms to Israel to redress the balance of armed power between Israel and the Arab states But whether any one of them would actually have done so had he already been in office listening to the analyses of military advisers and foreign service officials is another question For it is not the Arab states who have upset the power balance in the Middle Last but the Soviet Union 1 ePPat as the Democrats do that are csmg the cold is to assume that we must take it up and intensifv it along the pat- rL1Y1lted by Truman while what has created the present dilemma is the diplomatic moves to end to pursue it by very different means than Mr (Released by the Bell Syndicate Inc) FIND OUT For YOURSELF FREE Home Demonstration No Obligation Of all the things that you might buy how many will bring you the lifetime of pleasure that the Hammond Organ will? Here is the instrument that brings you relaxation brings fun to family and friends can be the basis of a rewarding lifetime hobby or even a career Without knowing a note you can quickly play simple but effective music Come in try it today! know of put it this wav: know of nothing more' important than that the United States gain a constantly improv-! ing understanding of "what are: the main difficulties in the world what are the principal ways of attacking those difficulties so we can achieve a program of peace my first statement is it just on on the Democrats Republicans it President alone great and re-But it is on has been said that if a private business were run as the federal government is run it would go broke in six months The private concern of course have the power cf taxation to keep it in motion With that power and by virtue of necessity Big Government in recent decades has far outdistanced any form cf Big Business in theland Through wars and depression the lush growth of government has left too little thought for the introduction and use of efficient and businesslike methods This was the problem tackled by the second Hoover commission in the most extensive study of government operation in the history Now the commission 314 recommendations are before Congress and the administration Something more than one-half of them require legislative action while the others can be made effective by executive agencies themselves The United States Chamber of Commerce points out that if all the proposals were put to work the saving would amount to 55 billion dollars a year That would be more than 15 per cent of the 35 billion paid out in personal income taxes in the last twelve months And the logical conclusion is that it could result in a 15 per cent cut in those obligations These are not fanciful ideas or the suggestion of false hope For important saving of 2 billion or more did result from the work of the first Hoover commission But those economies were overshadowed by the new demands of tiors on how to improve political semantics? Mr Eisenhower joined in the ensuing laughter aod there w-as laughter again after the President replied know dutieg merely this- That Congress it isn't or on the on the They have very i Mnni 4 MMOA OR G4 Complete one equipment bench tion was deafening Wednesday at the President's news conference a reporter remarked that Mr Eisenhower seemed to be so much more at home in his off-the-cuff remarks than in his prepared speech The reporter went on to comment that official statements always seem to be so general Secretary Dulles he added had said that it is time to raise NAJ'O to the totality of its meaning and that Democrats undoubtedly furnish similar vague statements on their side Then the reporter asked if the President had time to ponder the problems of communicating government purposes and policy to could must stick to small words when bod who sees or believes you re talking to me he sees some of the basic far- Then Mr Eisenhower on tors in this problem and has to say that reason I made some little ability or opportunity my off-the-cuff talk was to try to explain them to others be-to convey to editors to the press cause they are very seri-in genera to all media of i communications that there is aj The President's reply was not terrific responsibility resting could be remotely called a everybody in this country- notjprecise answer to the merely on government notjquestion but it once more! Come In end Hey If vi 1217 evidence of the President's ability to express his philosophy and ideas in a sincere and appealing! merely on the President or not merely on the Congress a nation is going to lead -M0 SIC CO the ordinary citizen In otherT point out again it is absolutely Imanner.