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A $20 allowance for a kid in a junior high school seems too high and the parents sound like dopeaf also the children lbs teachers say their exercise by rashlng to mount their motor Dastardly things motor bikes! But I never heard of them being mounted It used to he that people got oa bicycles and let It go at' that These must be terrible kids in Miami mounting motor bicycles and spending $20 a week Apparently as a result of mounting these bicycles can get to more trouble easier and faster than ever Nothing is said aboul hot-rods so it must be assumed that these Miami youngsters have not yet taken to doctoring motor cars or diluting gasoline with hair tonic or some other unportable alcohol But youngsters will get into trouble anywhere if they are so minded and speed makes hardly any difference The' reason for this letter Is to educate me to the fact that It Is parents who spoil children and that teachers are stuck with the spoiled child It is probably true that spoiled parents turn out spoiled children but it Is I maintain part of a teacher's Job particularly iu the tower grades of the elementary school to teach children good manners and proper working habits and a competent teacher usually can do it without whacking the infant but If whacking is required It should be done and a teacher can be more objective about whacking than a parent ran In my school days we got whacked In the public schools and learned to use grammatical English thereby Also xawliing and other simple things like saying morning and 'lhank Children have been spoiled by their parents since time immemorial and have been rescued from a fate worse than death by inspired and inspirational teachers This of course was when teaching was a vocation not a job I RECEIVED A most interesting letter from three schoolteachers in Miami who must be having a very tough time in that delightful resort city They make the point: also object to being professional baby-sitters for parents whose golf game would be inter-ferred (sic) with otherwise or who brdggingly admits (sic) they caiy not control their own children It isn't pleasant to be considered dumping ground for all society's evils neglect and lack of It would appear that these are 'the children of the idle rich who can afford to take time off any day of the week to play golf and to lack responsibility Most Americans have to work for a living at least 40 hours a week 50 weeks a year although I note that some labor leaders want to bring it down to 30 hours a week Perhaps the day may come when automation will be perfected and nobody will have to work any hours a week and then everybody can play golf all the time or even look after their children Maybe under such perfections tear hers also will be unnecessary as children will be taught by television Walt Disney's stadia preparing the lessons with the assistance of Donald Duck However when teachers write that "The youth of today faces many problems not in existence even 5 years one wonders precisely what they are I wonder what problems youth faces today that were not faced by the young people when Aristotle taught Alexander whatever it was he taught him Even as far back as that sex reared itself distrubingiy OF COURSE back in those day? Freud had not yet become a fancy so young men did not find it necessary to hate their fathers but there were other complications and fashions as one pan read about in the literatur that has come down to us These teachers say that some of their pupils (in a junior high school have an allowance of $20 a week When I went to high school 1 got a quarter a day which was too little It cost a dime for subway fare and about a dime a day for lunch which often consisted of a heaping plate of mashed potatoes Last Memorial Day weekend 372 people were killed in car accidents This year the number of violent deaths is expected to be slightly less because the holiday falls in the middle of the week Our experience with highways during one of the holiday weekends is that the average driver appears to be more cautious He needs to be because the risk is greater With more cars on the road and with most roads inadequate for present day traffic the accident rate soars Each driver can do two things to insure his safety if he must be on the highway on Memorial day First he should drive more carefully than usual and that means allow himself more time to reach his destination Consider the following facts about last Memorial Day mishaps: Three out of 10 drivers in fatal ac cidents were violating a speed law 18 out of 100 had been drinking seven out of 100 did not have the right of way three out of 100 were passing improperly three out of 100 disre- Jarded a stop sign two out of 100 ailed to heed a warning sign and one out of 10 disregarded a signal or officer These were human failures What about mechanical failures? The National Safety Council says about 6 per cent of cars involved in fatal traffic accidents have been found to have one or more unsafe conditions Nearly one-fourth of the cars inspected in one spot safety check needed some work done on their brakes So when you take the road over Memorial Day stay awake so you can stay alive But the best rule for this and any other holiday is stay at home Ray Tucker Russ Leaders Gain Object Hanford's Here To Stay In production of plutonium key element in the atomic energy program Hanford stands first Only one other installation is a production center and Hanford is larger The vast area 631 square miles already belongs to the government and there are huge buildings already in place Evfn though the reactors may become obsolete or obsolescent the sun-porting facilities can retain their value Some measure of reassurance for Richland residents and Hanford workers mav h- the recent yrords of MacCready man- ager of maniu for General Electric In a talk at Kiwanis Club in Richland Wednesday MacCready said it was his personal opinion that the Hanford plant is here to stay He said he came to this conclusion on the basis of pure logic rather than on any inside information lion tnen But a factual break down reveals that these figure) are extremely deceptive They are more nominal than real They present an imposing but a flimsy military facade Gen Alfred Gruenther for instance has only about 10 full divisions in his NATO command mostly American and British French troops may be pinnrd down in North Africa for years German rearmament is at least three years distant The Japanese may not remilitarize at all WEST FORCES SCATTERED The balance of tlie West's forces are scattered all acrnss the world ami the reliability of irany units is dubious They cuuld not leava their homelands defenseless for a mobilization in Europe the Middle East or the Far East In atomic war no land would be a sanctuary IvUchty GIN ANDIJAk IT Communist China however has an army and trained reserve of about 4 million The satellites can mobilize at least another million On the highly questionable ground that China and the puppet countries are independent states Moscow pretends that she cannot influence their military policies by forcing them to curtail RED MILITARY ADVANTAGES In addition to this numerical superiority there are other equally disturbing discrepancies As against the short-term training of Western recruits (usually only 1R months) the Communist troops are hardened veterans They need no protracted physical shape-up for their thin living at home makes them adaptable to the rigors of field and barracks hardships Moreover their 10 million soldiers would 'fight on or attark from favorable interior lines that is from the Eurasian heartland Their units could he shifted with relative ease from one front to another Their industrial renters would be open only la onslaught from the air They enjoy geographical unity and solidity These are great military advantages DECEPTIVE FIGURES In their public statements Allied military men boast that the democracies possess ad over-all force of about 200 divisions or between four million and live mil- Of the three primary functions preparations production and separations at least preparations and separations appear to be fairly well stabilized It is logical that if there are changes it will be easier to make these changes here where supporting facilities are available than to construct a whole new plant somewhere else There has been a certain amount of instability based on the belief that rocesses in atomic energy may un-ergo radical changes with developments from research that may occur at any time MacCready acknowledges this possibility but points out that the plant and the community represent a government investment of about one billion dollars WASHINGTON The Western Powers' inability to accept Russia's proposed reduction of military personnel has had the effect which the Kremlin intended with its Machiavellian scheme The Allies cannot reduce their establishment for the simple reason that their total streng'h in conventional ground forces amounts to only a hollow shell The challenge has resulted la a ruthless and realistic reappraisal of the West's military potential on land as rompared with the Communists' might While the Pentagon and Congress squabble aver details of aur national defense program this survey discloses that we are so far behind the Coinmunisti that there is no comparison As a result and the Russian offer has helped to emphasize the point the West's principal reliance in any World War III must be tactical nuclear weapons atomic and hydrogen bombs shells rockets and guided missiles They will have to make up for our weakness on the ground for our woeful lack of trained manpower It is a prospect which gives shivers to the peoples and the ruling class of Britian France Germany Italy etc inasmuch as they would be under retaliatory atomic fire RUSS ARMED STRENGTH Russia is estimated to hare at least four trillion men under arms row Her proposed cut of 1200-OOo with the recent reduction of 640000 soldiers would leave her with sligh'ly more than two million Our total will soon be down to about 2900000 Herald I See In The The Brite Spot VANCOUVER I Tiki Graham captured 405 votes and third place In the race for chair man of s(udi'il undergraduate societies In an Flection at the University of British Columbia Tiki a French poodle was put on the ballot as a student prank His campaign slogan: of the According to a Los Angeles sport writer a football player at Washington State College acquired 25 acres of Palouse Valley land apparently in connection with his playing football for the school but then if we had his high blood pressure we either It won't be long till all the "bathing are out themselves every day and have to put blinders on Unc so he won't "blow during his daily Thai darned high blood pressure! "A at the University of Idaho a reporter wrote turned nut to be mostly a Cousin Wayne wonders if the anatomical ana-logy was meant to be a pun FAMOUS LAST WORDS: "He can't read and write but he sure can run with that heard of guys working their way through college by harvesting wheat in the jibed Uncle Fred "but if this is true it is the first time I heard of a guy working his way through farming by going to tr Hal Boyle Cherokee Tribe Says It Could Use Some Aid Too Just bit of indigestion and a touch of Goat Nothing howsre-in the way of as ailment that might endear you to the voters Unc has a hard time keeping up with "modern He never has approved of the bathing Voice Of The People Richlander Says We Don't Have To Buy And Won't Vietor Reisel Japanese Problem Stays Father Keller Three Minutes A Day PRAYERS GET THERE QUICKLY It took 43 years fur a post card to travel from Paterson to Pequannock live miles away Posted in 1911 it was addressed to Mrs John Doming who had moved to Texas five years ago It was signed "Ella" Mrs Deming's son-in-law finally received the card in Pequan-ncck in 1954 He thinks "Ella" might have been an aunt who is now dead Postal officials could not exp'ain the delay It is rare that such a delay would take place On the contrary the post office does a wonderful job in carrying our messages to all parts of the world with speed scarcely dreamed of a hundred years ago But the fastest mail cannot transmit your personal messages with the speed that you can wing a prayer to God Prayer is a powerful means of contact with heaven that is constantly at your disposal You never need worry about delays in your prayers reaching their destination At times it may seem as if they are not heard Buton't worry about that God hears the piayers of cwn the least human being although for our own good He must occasionally say "no" evetyone that asketh received (Luke 11:10) Teach me to pray Lord CHEROKEE XC Should Uncle Sam include the American Indian under its program of aid to foreign nations? Some members of the proud and diabetes-ridden Cherokee Nation think he should we feel the need of some kind of Point Four program" said Waller Jackson a Navy veteran and one of tile 12 tribal council leaders of the Chero-kees here need capital If the federal givcrnment would provide us with the capital we could create more industry We could put more Indians in business We could be independent again And that's what we want to be" The Cherokces were a proud and free nation centuries before the US governmen put the portrait of an Indian on the other side cf a buffalo nickel Must historians today agree the Cherokees were more peaceful than warlike better farmers than warriors They lived in log cabins tilled their own corn What happened to the Cherokees of course is about the saddest chronicle in American history At one time they ruled some 480000 square miles ranging from Virginia into Alabama They tried hard for peace made 80 separate treaties with the white said Jack-son gravely "We lived up to every and the white man broke every treaty" Under the pressure of incoming settlers the US Army was ordered in 1836 to them to a new heme in the area that is now in Oklahoma Some 180T0 Cherokees submitted and started the 1000 mile winter march Some 4000 died on this famous ef Some 900 Cherokees chose la hide out in the hills here Thanks to the help of changing and their own hard-saved they now own a 55000-acre reset alion in the Great Smoky Moun tains which they bought themselves They have grown to 3500 members Most of tiiem are Christian There are 18 churches on the 14 of them and all but about a dozen of the oldest Cherokces speak English The younger ones now usually go through high school Jackson who served four years himself in the Pacific in the Second World War is proud that most Cherokees in that conflict were volunteers rather than draftees He is proud a Cherokee was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in Korea The chief white man's gilt is the smallpox and tu are no longer major scourges But diabetes is afflicts 75 per cent of our Jackson said and vhen 1 expressed -doubt he added "We are poor We don't get to eat what we once did The doctors tell us it is because we eat too much corn potatoes and beans But what else can afford? Thesa are things we can Thf eastern branch of the Cherokee nation has one solid reason to ask more help from Uncle Sam than many foreign nations Some years ago the Cherokees borrowed $350000 from the federal government to build a tourist mo-tor court gasoline station and native crafts shop It was a 25-year loan The operation has shown a profit every said Jackson we are 10 years ahead ca our repayment schedule All we want is to be self-sufficient" to the residents Since the prices on houses have been published too uften heard the remark have to buy they've got us over a barrel" My answer to that is who's got who over a barrel? We've liked uur work with GE we've liked the people who cane and stayed here and we've adjusted to a unique but we've lived here by choice and I for one can leave by choice if the first disposition cf homes here is out of reason according to my cwn thinking People do live and work elsewhere so I'm told and in much better built houses than these! Are we a flock of sheep which must tag along with the comparatively few priority heiders who are happy with the quarters they're occupying at the prices quoted on them or do we have enough intestinal fortitude to get out and lind employment and housing where we can at least have some choice in the selection of the place in which we live? I don't believe this town is populated with individuals of such dependence on one job in one location that they will accede to the indignity of accepting the completely ridiculous terms and conditions which are being currently offered Noel Lowman 2113 Trippe St Richland Dear Editor: We are fortunate Richland residents wi'h problem whatsoever where the housing disposal hassle is concerned We've lived here since 1943 in a succession of dwellings from an area house (four rooms and a path with a family of bats as senior tenants and a condemned well through a prefab (which we outgiewi to our present house (where the bedroom door wept tears of resin through its paint I suppose because it was so newly separated from the parent tree' We're long on industry but short cn management we couldn't make a downpayment cn a pup tent and even if we owned one free and whole we wouldn't afford a passcl of land to pilch it on in this Estate Community not even one of these residential lots between the irrigation ditch fence and the street curbing out on Alder So if we've no worries why this letter? I'll tell you I'm weary of hearing that we of Richland are a bunch of knuckleheaded namby-pambies who must be coddled to survive! Certainly we've lived in a government-owned town and if low-cost housing was a factor in keeping the Hanford plant in operation by retaining the necessary personnel it must be acknowledged as a compensation for various and sundry inconveniences rather than as an extraordinary of the prinripal sanctuaries for obscun money in the wwld It is possible to say from a study of the statistical data of fonign capital investment in Japan as of 1 7 end of 1955 as issued by the foreign capital research society of Japan that that country is rapidly moving back to its former position of industrialization And in spite of point 4 and other devices there is little to indicate that Japan will encounter any serious competitors in eastern Asia in the near future It is not known what industrial development has taken place in Red China but as the Communists usually boast of their successes it ran be reported that there have been few hsosis in that quarter The problem however remains markets For many years the Japanese were able to gain great economic advantage by their export of silk principally to the United States However silk Is no longer a tremendous Item of commerce Its beautihil place has been taken by textiles made out of chemicals which seem to increase in number constantly American women who enriched Japan by wearing silk stackings now wear nylons There may still be a market for Japanese silks in the East of Asia but they have to compete with all sorts of silk-like or silk -looking textiles from all over the world It will take most unusual ingenuity on the part of the Japanese to restore silk as an important item ef international commerce and it may not be worth the effort JAPAN prior to World War II wai the principal induitrial nation in Asia That industry was based on the concept of the export of manufactured goods exceeding the cost uf imports of raw materials and foodstufis which Japan lacked During World War II Japan was defeated by the ability of the United States to cut off supplies and raw materials Japan was in fact starved into defeat It was the genius of Gen Douglas McArthur to recognize that Japan should not be given a Carthaginian peace but should rather lie given every opportunity to rebuild itself on a peaceful basis This of course encountered many difficulties The Japenese yen for instance before the war was worth 50 cents American currency in a statistical statement I am now looking at 360 yen is equivalent to one American dollar Furthermore the Communist revolution in China baa closed Japan's most advantageous market Even if trade treaties wen arranged between Japan and Red China then is little hope that the trade can develop very favorably for Japan Also the markets of Southeast Asia have continued to be disturbed by war and revolution Nevertheless industry Is being rebuilt sharply and seme 41 billion yen have come Into Japan through foreign investors the principal investor being American companies Then Is also a considerable number ef Swiss ttwipoHioo about the realistic ownership of whick bo one caa tefl as Switzerland is one 0 i i.