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PorUmonlli Portsmouth, N. H. Four tY.mn 1955 Always fight jar progress and. reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, fight demagogues of aU parties, never belong to any always remain devoted to the public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, always be ly independent, never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty" --Joseph Pulitzer Editorial Opinion No News Is Good News We were confronted the other day with the question of why The Herald doesn't give greater publicity to the incidence of polio in and around Portsmouth. Our answer was that polio hasn't been making news in the local area.

There have been cases of it, of course, even a few serious ones. But we have no information that the rate of affliction is any worse this year than what has come to be regarded as normal. So why engage in a lot of fanfare that only causes undue public alarm? The situation in Massachusetts is much different. The polio scourge has reached epidemic proportions in certain areas of that state, and is is necessary to spread the word of it to put people on their guard. Only in such circumstances does polio live up to the publicity it.

gets. But don't get us wrong. We do not underestimate either the disease or its danger. We merely want to point out that there is no justification for a story in the newspaper every time a local resident contracts polio, any more than there Should be a published account of each case of many other dread diseases--cancer, for instance, and even VD. Polio, without doubt, is the most highly publicized disease in this country today; yet at the same- time it probably is "the most misunderstood.

think a great deal of ill-chosen publicity has been responsible for this. Time was when we were as guilty as the next in contributing to the misbegotten hysteria. We, too, looked upon every reported case of polio' as an essential news story and we played it up accordingly. But finally someone who Knew a lot more on the subject than we did called us aside and adjusted our thinking. Now, for the sake of general information, we simply carry periodic reports of what the statistical record shows.

To our mind, this is no matter of omission or suppression. It's merely an attempt to present the news in terms of its true value. So if you're wondering why you haven't been reading more about polio in The Herald lately, just be comforted in the fact that no news is good news. Blow to Freedom We have been concerned an awful lot in late vears with communism as 'a threat to freedom--and well we should be. But while focusing attention on the Communist menace, we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that tyranny by other names, just as insidious in purpose and effect, is holding sway in various parts of the world.

For instance, there was the case down in South America of a newspaper publisher and who met death at a time most convenient to the prevailing government of Colombia. The government claimed it was the result of an automobile accident. But another El Tiempo of Bogota, charged that the victims were assassinated. This latter exercise of free expression didn't suit the Colombian government at all, so the authorities ordered-El Tiempo's editors to print a public retraction for 30 consecutive days. The editors refused.

Consequently, El Tiempo was closed down by government decree early month. While all of this may seem too remote to have significance to us here, that is not the case. The destruction of a newspaper which has the willingness and courage to stand up against tyranny is a cruel blow to the whole cause of freedom wherever it occurs. And loving freedom they do, the American people are bound to look with revulsion upon any infringement so ruthless as that perpetrat-' ed by the government of Colombia. Look Back, Ay ere 11 Gov.

Averell Harriman of New York appears to be warming steadily to the idea of himself as a Democratic presidential prospect in 1956. But if he expects to be taken seriously, he will have to lard his political comment with more logic than he has been showing. I Naturally, the Democrats are nettled by President Eisenhower's popularity as the Republicans used to be over Franklin D. Roosevelt's. To stay in business, they must constantly suggest that the President is vulnerable.

Nevertheless, went rather far afield. He said "Ike" kepb his standing with the people only because he managed to separate. himself from his administration associates and others in the GOP. He added that in a presidential campaign this wouldn't work. We would like'to remind Harriman that it worked very well in 1952.

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Th assumes no Hnanelsl reiponslbllltles for typo- craphlcil errors In advertisements but will reprint that part of an advertisement In which the typographical error occurs. Represented nationally by The Julius Mothews Special Dr. William Brady Personal Health Service Before we begin 'lesson may I inform- knuckle-heads I heard from scores of dents about a catcher on a league baseball team. Beriberi a Singhalese word (the principal race Ceylon) which means great weakness: Full- fledged beriberi causes one-fifth'of all disease in -Malaya. Formerly it caused 17,000 deaths in a year in Japan.

It. is endemic (prevails constantly) in India, China, tie Phlhp- pines, East Indies. It is a nutritional deficiency disease, due primarily to insufficient vitamin Bl but lack of vitamins usually plays a contributing Beriberi de- velops insidiously, not abruptly. In- Dr. Brady stead of a few days or a it is months, as a rule, before it disables.

It is characterized by heart- artery troubles, what is wrongly called "neuritis" but is really not nerve inflammation but degenera-' tion of nerves, and But such full fledged beriberi is seldom encountered in North America. What we have is Yankee beriberi, and most cases are not diagnosed even if the affected individuals consult physicians. Doctors in America wait for the characteristic" manifestations of full Hedged beriberi as the disease is described in textbooks--and while they wait for signs or symptoms which are riot likely to occur they string patients along with vague and phony diagnoses such as "neuritis," "run down condition," "overwork and need for a long rest;" "poor Symptoms are generally out of place in a health even mention of Yankee beriberi would be a disservice unless I tell you what I'm talking about. Here, then, are the common manifestations of Yankee beriberi: Fatigue. Dyspepsia.

Palpitation. Breathlessness. Slight i around the ankles. Pain produced by squeezing the calf muscles. Pins and needles sensations in hands and arms or feet and.legs.

Distension of veins in neck and arms. Squatting on heels is painful and it is difficult or impossible to rise from squatting without using your hands. Poor memory. Inability to concentrate. Anxiety and 'nervous irritability.

Diminished inclination to perform accustomed work. Now that's a fine assortment of symptoms to try one, eh, If perchance I have "hit your case," don't get morbid about it. On bad days--for instance- Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, work days, that is--I can muster most of the symptoms On -days--Monday, Wednesday and Friday, bowling'days, that 'is-positively no symptoms, Here is the prophylactic (I dare not say remedy lest some nitfny- few doses, experience no remarkable result and resume dabbling with their favorite nostrums) for all the signs, and symptoms of Yankee beri-beri: A tablespoonful of B-nutron syrup with or after food twice daily or 2 B-nutron tablets twice, a day, to supplement the ordinary diet. In either form it is virtually the same supplement--an optional ration of vitamin Bl, (thiaminV riboflavin, niacinamide, pyridoxine, calcium pantothenate, vitamin B12, folic aid, ferrous (iron) gluconate and manganese. Supplement the die.t thus for at least three months or until you learn how to ge-t daily ration requirement of vitamin from nature's source-Tpia-in wheat.

QUESTIONS ANSWERS Osteopath In my second month of pregnancy. When 7 years age fell hard on bottom and now I'm afraid it may be a complication would an osteopathic baby doctor be best (Mrs. R.W.) Answer--If your doctor is an osteopath okay, but the injury of years ago probably has nothing to do with your'present'well bein-g. Looking Back In The Herald 100 Afa--Avg. 16, 1855 A boy was fined $3 and costs in Police Court today for throwing a stone by which another boy was badly injured.

75 Years 16, 1880 A Hancock and English club has been organized in Exeterr 50 Years Aro--Aur. 16, 1905 Ad--Are you summer tired? Then try Duffy's Pure Malt Whis-. key. Doctors agree it's the greatest summer medicine for the weak, wasted and run down, in body, nerve and muscle. 25'Years Ago--Avx.

16, 1930 A total of $1,452 was realized from the recent garden fete at the navy yard by the Navy Relief Society. Proceeds exceed last year's figure. 10 AJTO--Aut. 16, 1945 Rear Adm. a Withers, USN, commandant at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, announced that effective next Monday- the navy yard will revert to a five-day work week.

5 Years Ago--Aug. 16, JL950 Three hundred fifty-eight permanent workers will be added to the payroll of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. 1 Year Aro--Aug. 16,1854 Air Force personnel may be stationed at Ft. Dearborn, Rye, before the first of the year.

Bids will be received soon for construction. of nine buildings at Odiorne's Point. 'I'm Glad Somebody's Happy' Drew Pear son News Views at Random Westbrook Pegler Job of Self-Glorification Feslcr GENEVA The January issue of the ILO News, the official monthly, journal of the International L'abor Office, contained on page one two -articles of personal ballyhoo for 'David A. Morse, the hicogalorum of this socialistic subsidiary' of the United Nations. Morse is a veteran bureaucrat of the Roosevelt-Truman regime held over into the off-Republican Eisenhower extension.

The two articles honor 'Mr. Morse with' lavish recognition of the great efforts of bureaucracy. One is headed "The ILO and Assistance." It carries a Geneva dateline with a par" enthetical bution to ILO News, which is actually a news service at all but Morse's publicity office in the same beautiful palace in a 'setting of beautiful gardens and 'lawns hard by a bathing beach. This. says that in a year-end statement, Morse noted a trend toward "larger, long-range projects of technical assistance to the less-de-- veloped countries." The story adds up to about three tabloid columns, mostly direct quote from Mr, Morse.

The middle of page one is occupied by a. group news photo entitled "press conference at which Director-General David A. Morse (facing newsmen) informed Geneva press corps about the agenda for xhe'ILO's first European. regional Just beneath this picture is Morse's own year message to mankind. It says that after 36 years under the oid League ol Nations and the United Nations, "the basic problem" of ILO still is "to get the facts," "The ILO has facilities," he wrote, "which can be of substantial assistance in finding the' upon which-, wise decisions may be laid.

everyone, a peaceful and prosperous new year." There is a small reprint from the Akron Beacon-Journal to the effect that the annual cost to Americans of the ILO is only .88 of one cent. Page two has a big group photo of the ILO. "governing body" with PiuS' XII and. a translation of the apostolic blessing. The ILO offers reprints on request.

The "governing body" went to Rome for a conference with-itself. An informal group shot shows-J. Ernest Wilkins, a Chicago, attorney, selected by Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell to succeed Spencer Miller, who had been fired from assistant secretary of labor. Miller was canned for exposing and trying'to destroy the clandestine power of David Dubinsky's political stooge, Jay Lovestone, a Communist-of the most bnital declared-purposes, in the appointment of.

"labor attaches" in American embassies all over the world. Dubinsky and Lovestone. h-ave mysterious relations with the Central Intelligence Agency, now- operated by Allen Dulles, which flopped wretchedly in its duty of information of all kinds about Soviet Russia, Lovestone quit the Kreonlin Reds to work for a Soviet America through his own party bearing his own name. Miller fin ally, reported his knowledge of Lovestone's activities to the FBI. The Anniversary Issue" of Morse's personal, house-organ really went to town for the -hicogalc- rum.

The top spread- read "ILO Hails U.N.'s Tenth Anniversary: Director General Sees Much To Be Proud of. Much Still To Be Done If World Ever Is To Have Peace." Morse then swung space with article under his name preceded by a note in blue ink authorizing, reproduction of the great man thoughts. He. wrote that 10 years "is a brief, moment in the. history of ma-nkind's search for the 'good society'." There was a one-column cut of the iiicogalorum's smiling visage and his message broke over to the' last page with about.four columns more.

This issue contains a reminder, three columns long, -that we pay less than one mill each per year to support ILO's "technical assistance 1 program." There is also a photo and tribute to the late John G. Winant, Roosevelt's -ambassador to London, who helped draw the lines of demarcation in Germany the surrender 'of our victory -which Truman and Eisenhower later solemnized at Potsdam. Winani killed himself. He served a term in- Morse's job of hicogalorum of the ILO. i There is also a picture- 'of Mr.

Mitchell, the secretary of labor, adorning a long article complain- i.iS that th! American people fcew ttle about the Th'cse csmnwntaries 'are my effort to remedy that defect. The ILO news publishes about 60,000 copies of each' monthly is. sue in many languages The press run 'f'r the anniversary number' was 330,000. When a man' thinks his wife doesn't understand him, why does he always pick younger woman for an interpreter? Dawson OUT OUR WAY Sam Dowson Business Mirror NEW YORK, walk along the street and see a si-gn on a good used 'car: down." You look at a new house' and the builder tells you: "K.you'r* a veteran, $200 is ail you jieed." (Until recenffly you didn't need even that.) Your radio blares: "Install a window cooler now, payments start next ad in the paper says: "Wall- to-wall casting for the entire house at S4 "a week." Next to striking oil, it's the easiest way man ever has devised for raising his standard Jof living and I fast. It's also one of the easiest ways of getting beyond your depth if you donjt wa-tch your step.

The vast majority of Americans are meeting their weekly or monthly payments. Finance companies' say the record instalment'pay- ments on cars is now the best in history. In June, when a record credit was extended -to new car buyers, others were paying in 51,190,000,000 on previous loa-ns. The percentage of' delinquencies sesoisesnre and repossessions remains at a remarkably low level--and stable over the years. But as the total of consumer debt rises, the total amount of delinquencies tends to rise also, even if at the same low percentage.

The American Collectors Assn. says that six million American 1 families are delinquent 'on payments for one. or more things they've bought-on time. An agency that specializes in helping families, after they get-in a financial- mess estimates that 10, million families are pinched by the debts they've piled up with overen- thusia'sm. The quality of some instalment loans in recent months worries Administration officials.

Terms have- been getting' easier--down payments' lower, maturity times extended. This'has been -due to sales competition. Almost all kinds of consumer'goods are in abundant supply. How 'do people; get in over their depth? Silver Shield, an" organization tha-t makes a business to help people who find they can't meet their payments--and changes 10 per" cent for doing it-says that most of them just didn't realize they were taking on so much debt. Modern merchandising puts such emphasis on time payment sales and makes' credit.look sp easy that' a family lacking sound money, judgment just eases into debt before it knows it.

Others are victim of illness or reduced income because of loss of overtime or" from Fina-nce companies and baakers have assured the administration that from now on'they'll be looking more closely i cants are credit-worthy. WASHINGTON--Inside Ohkrgo: Every Democratic governor beat a -path to Adlai Stevenson's door at Liberyville, last week. (Govs. Shivers of Tejcas and Kennon of Louisiana, are no longer considered full-fledged Democrats -by their-colleagues). The original resolution on highways was cut'be-.

fore finally adopted by the governors. Originally it- referred to the "bold and imaginative" highway program of Eisenhower. Gov. Harriman of New York objected, these stricken. Gov.

of Wisconsin, Republican, bad drafted the Governors 'Shivers of Texas and 'Leader of Pennsylvania compared at on Pearson chicken farming. Leader is one "of the nation's top breeders of baby chicks. Sells over' a million chicks a year. Shivers raises Indian River and some Governor Orval Faubus of Arkan- sas'gave this friendly advice to Adlai: "If you want the nomination I think you have to show people that you want it more than anything else- in 'the world. You have to enthuse your followers.

If you take the attitude that you want the nomination only if the party wants you, then you won't Adlai replied that- there may be men "better qualified than "If so," replied Faubus, "the party will decide that in Chicago." Reports out of Chicago that Happy Chandler 'proposed a deal first with Adlai Stevenson backers-then with Kefauver followers to throw them Kentucky's presidential delegates in for $100,000 are phony on the surface. Even if willing, neither Stevenson nor Kefauver have that told- of money. Happy got plenty of dough for his campaign right, but his more.likely pals are' the Texas-Louisiana oil boys. It will be interesting to see whether Kentucky delegates line, up with. Shivers when the presidential i rolls around.

Republicans were jubilant over the outcome, predict Chandler will' swing to the' GOP in 1956. Chandler had enough -money to put a campaign circular in every post, office box in the State of Kentucky during the closing days of the campaign. It blasted his opponent for favoring the sales tax, though Judge Combs, was against the sales tax. Talbott's Farewell--Despite denials, Secretary of Defense Wilson and Harold Talbott have been on outs-for a long time. was Wilson who helped push Talbott "out" of Pentagon--and Tal-.

bott knew it. That was the reason for the tiff they had In front of newsmen on the -day Talbott left. Despite Talbott's office official denial. Peurifoy, the cplorful U.S. ambassador to, Thailand who began as a month- elevator operator in the Senate, met his tragic death in a new sports car.

He had inaugurated the first American fair, in Thailand, at which the Ford Co. exhibited a Thunderbird. It caught Peurifoy's fancy, and he acquired it after, the He driving it when a truck collided with, him head-on a. narrow bridge. There are now eifht Constellations in Washington net aside, solely for the carrying cabinet members and top bureaucrats around the country.

(This is In addition to Ike's plane.) How about selling or renting to the struggling' Israeli' Airline whose only Constellation was shot down by the Bulgars? bureaucrats would never miss it. Harold Talbott wante'd some B52s to fly in the farewell sendoff given him- in. Washington, -but the Air Force said'ho. They come up with 48 other jets: 12 B47s flown from Savannah- and Pinecastle, $207 an hour; 24 F84s flown Langr ley. Va.

cost $52 an hour; and 12 F86DS flown from Wright Field, Ohio--cost $56 an only fair' to point out-that these planes have to be flown every seven days anyway, and the pilots have to be exercised, so the actual cost was However, why give a terrific send-off to a man who was eased out of the Cabinet for working for his own private gain? Joe's McCarthy is a i a a.r torining tour accusing Ike of i out to the Reds in and Asia. Most people don't know It, but McCarthy makes about as many'press statements as. he used to. They're carefully mimeographed and handed out to newsmen. But not ma-ny are published.

Reason: He's no longer attacking' the Truman administration. It.was. the anti-Truin-an press-that made McCarthy. If Joe.were philosophical he would say: "The press raaketh and the press taketh. away." But he isn't philosophical.

He's bitter. He's also a crushed and disappointed man, which'tends- to make him'an ill man. Joe can't belieye his eclipse" is permanent and now plans to unleash his worst tirade yet against' Eisen-. hower and John Foster Dulles. The White House mail shows, no groundswell of opposition -against the present policy of getting along with Russia and Public fomm Persecution of Baha'is To the Editor: With World War II not far.

behind us, I'm sure that stories of atroci- -ties and -injustices are all too fa- milia-r. However, I find. such. acts, particularly appalling when done for religious reasons. On May 17th of.

this year the Ba- ha'is, Faith was outlawed in Iran and'since that time brutal and hideous persecution of Baha'is has'run rampant in that land. Cablegrams have been sent to the Shahinshah, the Prime. Minis-. -ter, the Senate a-nd the Majlis of, Iran, from Baha'is Communities located in every corner of the globe, appealing for justice. These pleas.

went unheeded and now the Baha'is International Community.has prepared an appeal to the United Nations asking for an investigation of the situation. For instance, in southern Iran, "-the head of the Department of Finance openly encouraged the people to kill and plunder the Baha'is, and the cooperated. As a result, a number of priests and several thousand' persons attacked the homes of individual Baha'is, and beat those they found on the, streets. A large number went to the Baha'i cemetery, broke the grave stones, felled trees and started to open the graves. Several Baha'is taken to the mosque under threats of, death- and violation of their women; they were forced to recant faith.

About 40 Baha'i homes in the vicinity were set on fire 'and In another, town four Baaa'l houses were burned and three homes plundered and torn Coal oil was poured on a cow belonging to a-Baha'i and set One Baha'i a.government employe, was beaten and his hand broken; later his wife's head was split open with a cutlass. In a third town the local police openly- approved' the persecution of Baha'is. The house of a Baha'i was burned down, and. he himself had to hide from the mob' on killing him. In a fourth city -a.

large of people seized and stripped her. They severely beat two Baha'is men, one' of -whom is believed toi have died of the wounds received. The Baha'is of this-city-do not dare leave their houses, as being tak'en to a special building, and no one knows the'fate of those taken away. The governor and the superintendent of police openly pro- tect'the persons committing these acts. In principal city ol southwest- plundered and demolished.

Baha'i children in schools in this region, were ins.ulted..and beaten. Their teachers failed them in examinations. In -a neighboring town the furnishings of a-Balia'i's house destroyed, and his wife was publicly 'stripped. In the same, region, Baha'i factory director was and he was obliged to the vicinity. A local ind a Moslem preach'er.

went attack the house of a Baha'i factory wbrk- e'r. The Baha'i was dragged frpm his home and told to either become-a Moslem or be killed. He fled to a' nearby city for' protection. In that eity butchers, and bakers received instructions not to sell bread or meat to Baha'is. In western Iran inhabitants of.

one town cursed the Baha'is and their observances, and, stoned their houses. A number of their children were expelled, from the schools. In another western. town three men 'attacked daughter a Baha'i, and she Beaten and raped. In central Iran-Baha'is were.pre- vented from practicing.

their profession, the making of rose water. A number of Baha'is taking their harvest to market and their, harvest plundered. Four harvest storehouses belonging to Baha'is were set on fire, as were their houses. In the same region, the populace broke -down the- wall of the Baha'i cemetery, entered.it, and dug open a grave. They carried away the corpse and the coffin.

I could go on but the already presented are sickening enough. It is obvious that the Moslems of Iran fanatically afraid of this new Baha'i World Faith which numbers more tbsn two million in that-country and is fast growing, and" art duplicating the actions of the- Romans in. their early. Christian martyrs. By their actions, these Moslems have departed sadly from the 'spiritual teachings of Muhammad.

Such outright defiance of the international standards of human! rights is a-n affront to every person who loves justice and freedom. is allowed to happen to' one could happen to; any group. The Baha'is of your city ask ftat you join us in prayer, whatever your asiking-that the world witness of heart among its. people that aE individuals turn, at last, to their Creator a-ud tremble before His alHpotent justice. FLORA M.

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