The Pocono Record from Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania • Page 16

The General Hospital The idea that comparisons are odious is accepted rather loosely by all of us. Once in a while there comes a comparison which, rather than being odious in the strict sense of the word, points up to our attention something never appreciated as a tact something criticized, probably a bit thoughtlessly. Such is the comparison contained in a letter received a few days ago by Harry J. Smith4 superintendent of the General Hospital of Monroe County. It not only speaks for itself, but says something we should all acknowledge with the just pride of citizens who helped create such an institution.

Here it is: AMI ENT, 7 East 15th Street, New York 3, N. Y. Dear Mr. Smith: Ever since I left your hospital where I was a patient from September 18th to October 23rd, 1950, I wanted to write you this note of thanks and appreciation. My own convalescence, but more particularly my very serious illness and ail the attendant anxiety about her critical condition.

prevented me from doing it sooner. I greatly appreciated the courtesy and kindness shown me by yourself as well as every member of your staff', and was especially impressed with the courtesy, friendliness and devotion your nurses exhibited in their attention not just to me alone, but to all the patients, as I had occasion to observe. I realized then how different your friendly attitude and your nurses attention towards your patients was from that of the administration and nurses of many New York City hospitals. 1 have for the past seven weeks come in contact with the administration and personnel of two wellknown hospitals in New York City and I am surprised and chagrined at the crass and mercenary attitude of some administrations and the and callous behavior of so many nurses. One is forced to the unhappy conclusion that the men who built each of these magnificent edifices forgot to put a heart into it.

Your institution, as well as your personnel, friendly and honestly devoted to helping the sick, stands out as a shining light by comparison. Very sincerely yours, LEON J. MALLON. Relief Paradox The Pennsylvania Department of Public Assistance announces that relief lists are rising despite actual reduction in cases during a time of high level employment. The paradoxical situation arises from addition of larger families than are removed from the relief rolls.

The answer to this, says the Department, is entirely a matter of advances in the costs of foods and other household essentials. The housewife and the husband who helps in the buying know of the fantastic jumps made in prices of butter, eggs, coffee, meat and other foodstuff's. The situation almost seems beyond solution in many a large family. The wages had been barely sufficient to meet needs in pre-Korean ar days. The- alternative for such marginal families has been to seek state assistance.

Most present day applicants are deserving; their situations merit the most compassionate consideration from those more happily blessed. Jolt Time, as they say, has wings. But the sort of thing that really jolts a fellow up against stern realization of the swift flight is this headline: Temple weds Americans and Canadians spent nearly $900 million for newspapers in 1917. THE DAILY RECORD KataLHshed April IKilt On Except SsinCBy, Memorial Day. Day.

Labor Pay, Thanksgiving and Christmas By JPsrono Kvford, Inc No Seventh Stroudsburg, ottavutv, President and Byron I Vu Pres Eugene I Brown. Vice Merle c. OMrom. Trenaurpf truth way, Sectbs Ml LK OSTROM Cenerai Manager it enow Advertising Manager nor.ACL 0 HEI.LEB Editor JOHN HILL News Editor TKLKRHOrn NT MME It SUBSCRIPTION RATES FOR THE DAILY RECORD Mall (tat and Zoftej Carrier Months f- 7ft tine Week Months 8 Months Year Outside 2nd Zorie, Yearly 12 One Year Entered ms Second Class Matte 1, at Pom office at Stroudsburg, under An ef Congress. March 3.

1879 The Daily Record is a member of The Asaofliated Press The Audit Bureau of he Penns.vIt seta Newspaper Publishers Association American Publishers Association Bnrern of A.N.P.A 30. $1 $7.110 MEMBER Ol THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is utitied exclusively to the use for repiitdleatlon of nil the printed la this well as all AP ew rtispatthm THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1950 PAGE FOUR You're Telling Me This old world be mean as ir to be. Statistics revealed by Factographs show that an average of 80,000 copies of the Bibie are purchased every day! Prunes, Junior has just found out, originated in Asia. And how he wishes they had stayed there! hildren, says a Cleveland pediatrician, may be allergic to stuffed furniture. Especially if (they get a toy tool set for Christmas, Electronic calculators, declare a University of Delaware mathematician, will do away with accountant clerks.

Just another white collar class becoming a collar class! An eastern zoo has added a curly-haired tapir. Better take another look -it might he wearing a toupee. Someone has written a piece about the language of bees. Zadok Dumkopf, who read it, thinks it should he a hum-dinger. Granripappy Jenkins has begun to save pennies.

He ligures that if prices go any higher the one- cent pieces should become the rarest of coins. Try And Stop Me By Bennett Cert History is on our side, by Joseph Nedham, is an optimistic view of the world outlook today. He counts on American democratic spirit to ultimately triumph. essence of that he writes, expressed in the story of the train porter who was told that Lord Halifax would be riding in his car and that he would tind the then-English Ambassador to Washington extremely democratic and easy to get on with. The porter replied, tind me just the Rev.

William Pet heriek writes about a minister who arose to deliver his sermon, carefully laid the manuscript on the pulpit, and began lishing for his glasses. A member of the congregation caused something of a crisis by rising to his feet and asking in a respectful but firm voice, Reverend, how' do you expect us to remember your sermon if you ol lywood By Gene Handsaker Hollywood a practical Christmas in movie-star gift-giving -that is, if you include mink coats as The threat of war shortages is as evident in Beverly Hills as across the tracks. Well-heeled women shoppers bought their menfolk quality wearing apparel, a shopping counselor at one of the tonier stores reports. are afraid there will be the lady said. The men favored expensive furs for their on the theory that these, too, may diminish.

Most popular gift in this line, she reported, was the mink Most stars Christmas-shop in person in broad daylight In Beverly Hills' plush marts, not such a novelty that autograph hunters lay siege. Margaret Sut- lavan, Red Skelton, and Judy Garland were among the many who took children out to meet si ore Santas. Some stars, though, shopped by telephone or sent their secretaries. At least one emporium opened its doors privately aflor hours to movie stars and other customers with weighty bank balances. My figurative snooping under the stars' Christmas trees disclosed Janet Leigh gave Tony Curtis a gold rist atch engraved ith something in of Hungarian ancestry.

She couldn't spell it for me, hut her pronunciation sounded like Ann Miller gave her Mom a gold locket shaped like a cat, with green emerald eyes. always called her because always worried about her little kitten." Ann explained. Ann Blvth a tweed sport Jacket to her Uncle Pat Tobin and rd si'k neckties to boy friends Roddy McDowell and Richard Long. Rhonda Fleming bought her father a coffee maker, her mother a ear radio. Anne Baxter bought husband John Hodiak a television set.

Jan Sterling presented her bridegroom, Paul Douglas, with a wire recorder. David Wayne bought his spouse a new car. Irene Dunne gave several friends perfume and gloves she brought back from France. So it goes in the glamor capital, folks. Like my new tie? It not definitely known hen or how iron first was used in the construction of buildings.

Abraham Lincoln left an estate of more than $110,000. There in no known insulator for magnetism. The origin of the sweet potato is not definitely known. The eggs of the halibut are largest of the deep sea fish. These Days By George Sokolsky Old Men Thomas C.

Desmond, chairman of the New York Stale joint legislative com on gf the aging, has for many years been devoting himself to the problem of old men and women There are more in these days than there used" to be. They are not only healthier but quicker than old men and women used to be. They are not only in body but in mind. Of course, everybody admits that about such publicized human beings as Herbert Hoover, Bernard Baruch, William Randolph Hearst, Jesse Jones. Thomas Watson and many others.

But simple men and women, not so well know'n. Back In 1900, the life expectancy of a man was 48 years; today it is 66 years In 1900, women had an expectancy of 51 years; today, it is 71 years. In 1900, there w'ere 13,500,000 men and women 45 years of age and over; today that segment of the population amounts to 42,500,000. That is a large slice out of 150,000.000 population. If all those who are 50 and over are to have no work because they are too old, we are bound to have a labor shortage, with in enormous number of useful, competent, able persons twiddling their thumbs, living on pensions and social security.

Instead of being useful, such so-called aged persons, Whose experience Is Invaluable, would be living on the rest of the population. Businesses which refuse to give jobs to such men and women are doing themselves and the country infinite mischief. Senator Desmond writes: "Continual rebuffs may have brought you to the point where you feel that you are not, in fact, a qualified worker. As an individual, maybe yes and maybe no. But a number of studies show that mature workers, as a group, make good employes.

When compared with younger workers, they are as productive, their attendance record is better, they are as efficient, more attentive, more conscientious, less likely to be, ed, and they cut down on labor- turn-over. In addition offer the great benefit of their experience in working with other people and in knowing the conditions and the attitudes of It would seem to be ridiculous for us to prolong life, to keep the heart strong, the arteries soft, the pancreas working and all that, and then to bring disaster to the lives at oldsters by telling them that they are too old, that they are being pushed aside to make room for others whose only superiority Is that they were born later. That does not mean that youth has no value. It does mean that experience, like aging of w'ine. has a value all its own.

That is why men like Herbert Hoover and Bernard Baruch are not swept off their feet by popular slogans and the fierce fire of press agents who cremate what they call public opinion. Half a century of experience is a tool. It is a tool for which there is no substitute. England sees that in the person of Winston Churchill. He stands like a Gibraltar against the Socialist leaders who frighten so easily.

Churchill does not frighten. He has seen too njuch of life, four wars, the Boer W'ar, World War I and World War II and now World War III. He has made frightful mistakes, particularly at Teheran and Yalta, but he knows what happens when great nations make historic mistakes: they can never be corrected. It takes a of experience to know' that. It takes experience for a statesman to that covering up mistakes does not keep them covered up.

Before we throw' our men over 45 or over 50 or over 60 into the discard, we need to readjust our minds to the fact old age is not to be measured by the calendar; it is to be measured by quickness of response, mental flexibility, wisdom, experience, capacity. The old cabinet maker, the old tool maker, the old all-round mechanic is still a valuable citizen, whatever his age. Perhaps this is a good week for everybody to think about that, for. if we are to send our youth to war, must keep our labor force effective by using all who can do the work of this nation without regard to years. Washington Report By Lewis Jr.

Washington Any day now, your dear government will begin beleaguering you to pitch your aluminum pots and pans on the Court House square. We have to build airplanes to lick Russia, Also, we have to build up gigantic aluminum stockpile so that we can keep on building them after the war starts. Industries making non-military civilian goods of aluminum already have had their supplies drastically curtailed. The tragic part Is 1 hat there is no need for any of if. Russia has a growing pack Schnorkel submarines which, come a real war, will hit American shipping a lot harder than U-boat commanders ever dreamed of.

And when the pack strikes we are going to he short a lot of important war materials. including aluminum. Hardly a merchant seaman alive will ever forget what the U-Boats did to American ships bringing Bauxite up the coast from Dutch Guiana. Bauxite is the ore from which aluminum made. The Germans blew -o many of these ships out of thrt water that the government started scratching the crest of the earth here at home, to find a substitute ore.

A substitute was found iij Wyoming. an ore known as Anorth- osite. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation in 1943 loaned four million dollars for construction of an Anorthosite plant near Laramie, Wyoming. The bureau of mines and other experts said the Anorthosite substitute for Bauxite would make good aluminum and that its supply was unlimited. This is important, view of the Schnorkel pack we can exjiect on our seacoast.

The war ended before the Laramie plant was finished and the government took hack the machinery and buildings from the Monolith Portland Midwest Company, which had been supervising the construction. With a few more months. Monolith would have completed the plant for pilot production of the strategic metal. With unprecedented Speed, however, the RFC, on advice of the War Production Board, in and ordered the plant sold. Monclith sued to halt the plant dismantling and since 1946 the case has been in the courts.

Sin then the government has had to maintain guards and maintenance crews at the plant which have cost you taxpayers well over two hundred thousand dollars. Senator Joseph C. the ahle Wyoming Democrat who usually is listened to when he raises his voice in the senate, has been trying to persuade the National Security Resources to complete construction of the plant so our home grown aluminum ore can be mined and si piled. The Senator is on his knees row however, after an exhaust run-around from governr agencies. He hardly ever takes i licking lying down, but this has him groggy.

He has squeezed a promise out of the general services administration and the RFC that the plant will rot he disturbed any further until he has talked to a few hundred more bu- The Bureau of Mutes already has reported to Congress that the Anorthosite process is feasible. Monolith has risked a lot of money and time to get the plant in The Nat'mnal Seourby Resources Board is triHng to Vfock pile strategic metal and almost everybody admits that the Bauxite supply will drop fast when and if the Schnorkels start shellacking our Dutch Guiana lanes. Yet nothing is done NSRB Chairman W. Stuart Symington, has reported to the White House that the aluminum stock piling program Is in a mess. He blames the board, which will give you some idea of what it is like in Washington when a business man comes up with the facts and plants that can ease up on some of the production heap.

Practically emergency defense agency Mr. Truman has set up is Involved and Walter Winchell on Broadway Wlnrhell Broadway Heartbeat Celebs About Town: Cole Porter, the of This daddy, enjoying cheers of the Century Theater elapplaud- ienres. The show has $500.000 in advance sales Katharine Cornell, whose show, folded fast. She will assume deficit, paving every hacker every cent Gary Davis, the who tailed to a mention for his part in You Patti Page, the thrush, showing Our Town to her folks, the B. Fowlers Tulsa.

Okla. Boris Karloff, co-star of assuring all concerned there is no dispute with Jean Arthur Christmas Carols: Carol Channmg, Carol Bruce, and Carol Stone swapping Yule greetings near the Ziegfeld Theater M. Betle, the sillybrity, in a serious discussion (about the war) with other comics at 50th and the Stem The J. Jacob Astors, reported dividing (by many of the doing the Alibi and other midtown spots together A1 widow, inconsolable without him. Sallies in Our Alley: They were gabbing about Variety's report on Margaret Truman.

That NBC dangled a $120,000 contract at her punned a wag. to write Hume (Joke over) Maestro Ted Streator suggested the perfect holiday gift for Mr. Truman: An incinerator that looks like a mailbox Jack Barry says it must he wonderful to be a Washington critic. meet such interesting Broadway Melody: During the first rehearsal of and the producers were explaining the role portrayed by Vivian Blaine. She is in love with a Runyonesque character, played by Sam Levene a interrupted unbeautiful George S.

Kaufman (whose bride Is lovely actress Loueen McGrath), is a benutiful movie star. Does it make sense to have a girl like her fall in love with a guy like A-bonibed author Abe Burrows, McGrath Memos of a Midnighter: Mrs. Rally Herbert, wddovv of the Mickey Cohen henchman slain in last year (on Sunset Boulevard), married a wealthy amian secretly Betty Swift of the meat clan weds P. Merlin (of a Swiss legal tribe) Jan. 20th The underworld hears the Chicago Crime Commission will send a bill of $100,000 to the Kefauver group Veep friends are concerned about his health Searles Mrs.

Robert Stout) will blessed event soon. She lost an arm at the Central Park zoo trying to feed a hear through the cage Ronald Saypol, twin son of the popular U. S. here, will middle aisle with lovaly Cynthia Otis (of the officials of the Monolith Company have given up trying fo keep track of them. The Bureau of Mines, the one agency that know something about the Anorthosite process, has been squeezed out of the picture.

It will be interesting to see how many of these eager bureaucrats, now exerting on the situation, will be visible when and if the Schnorkel blasts our Bauxite supply out of the water and we have nothing left but a prayer. Factographs Bull baiting as a sport once as popular in England, but was barred in 1835. There are about 100 different of singing birds In the United States. Cow tree er milk tree is the popular name given to several species of tree found in South and Central America. The like sap of the tree is sw eet and palatable, as well as nourishing.

Lionel Trains family) next summer They say several long- shots winning at the tracks are injected with the miracle drug Cortisone. against the they add, chases their rheumatiz! Racetrack Vignette: It happened at Hialeah a season or so ago One of the Broadway-Miami wisenheimers put $5,000 on Chicle II, always a throat We wagered the 5 Gs on the horse to show There w'ere only 5 steeds in the race The mu- tuels guarantee show-hettors at least 1 to 10 Displaying his tickets. Mr. Wiseguy chuckled: where could I get 10 per cent on my money like that? make $500 in a minute-and-n- Chicle IT came in 5th Goomby $5,000. Bright-Lightems: The AP has posted a memo on its bulletin board practically pleading for reporters to take war correspondent assignments Big lawsuit upcoming between two Madison Avenue public relations outfits.

Involves the John L. Lewis and Chiang Kai-shek accounts. The trial is in Supreme Court mid- Jan. Burton Salmon (of the upstream Salmons) and post-deb Barbara Cavanaugh do their guy- and-dolling at the Rough Rider Room Caviar, imported from Russia, just went up in many smart spots to $4 more per lb. Barbara stage-door favorite at of is Geo.

MacCrady, the Hollywood villian Skitch Henderson, the bridegroom, given up his bachelor apartment Wm. chums blame his predicament (in the Federal Court) on a former-wife Oiiionairess Millicent 11. Rogers and an old flame (Capt. Ian Fleming of Britain) have re-ignited. Looking at Lite Bv Erich (Wan An eight-column headline appeared on ton of page one of my morning paper.

Battle China Reds in snowstorm with Home Troops Breaking Thru The story tells of thp desperate battle for life which our boys are fighting. There are many killed, many wounded. More will die. more ill he wounded It is one of the darkest moments in wur history. Right under that headline was a picture with his caption: and Truman in Jovial Truman and British Prime Minister Clement Attlee Hash smiles as they pose for pictures at the President's House office The picture shows both of these gentlemen grinning in happy glee looking smug, contented, if they had just eaten a large dinner at which they were notified of a glorious victory.

You probably saw that same picture in your own paper, or in the movies. Probably you. too, were wondering what these two great statesmen had to laugh about. Were they possibly laughing at you and me? On the Name page appeared another picture. Mt showed a little girl with tears in eyes.

The caption said: CUTIES rhUllpa ce By H. I. Phillipi Pamela Lord cries in her crib for her Afghan hound. Abdullah, missing six days from her home in Los Since then the dog has returned. But during all the six davs he was away little Pamela.

17 months old. refused to eat and had to be fed intravenously. As soon as Abdullah came home, Pamela ate and was all right again. I inder which one of these two pictures would have to you more. By the time this column appears in print I hope the outlook in Korea and other danger spots will have changed for the belter.

I sincerely hope that we will have bungled ourselves out of our predicament, just as we have bungled ourselves out of others that happened before. But will we have learned our lesson this lime? Or will we he the same self- satisfied. happy-go-lucky, boasting suckers forever? The trouble with us is that we are still a bunch of children. We have had it too easy. Nature has been too kind to us.

Our country has never been ravaged, blasted, bombed, raped. Not a single bomb has ever touch, ed one of our buildings or even scratched one of our homes. One condemn the Europeans for not wanting another war. Attlee knows what war can do to a country; Truman ought to know. So what in are they grinning about? -By E.

Simms Campbell Reactions To A New Year Wish listen, General Wu still trying to unravel it Your holiday greetings America made me sick and gaggy all through Christmas time It gave me that lean-on-the-raii feeling wish the American people a Merry Christmas and a Happy New you said, hopping the plane back to China Well, I once a man stop beating his wife for a minutes while he to the all smiles, and told the boy delivering flowers for birthday to handle carefully and be sure the card and was inside Your nervy good wishes reminded me of thai Wu. You. a top agent of a government throwing the monkey wrench into every peace effort, warring on the United Nations and slaughtering American have the goshorful nerve to wish American mothers and fathers a Happy New Year! If that isn't profaning a custom I don't know' w'hat it New Year from General In your hat! What I figure out is why no correspondent spit in your eye and why' no photographer gave you the hark of Mis camera Those American cops w'ho provided you with an escort showed surprising self-control, too And I wondered that nobody in the crowd at the airport blew his top and said, going too far. We stood for the special police escorts, the Waldorf suite- and the banquets, but a limit, and this desecration of the American Yuletide spirit is it One more Santa Claus gesture out of you and you get thrown back that plane so fast put a backspin on the whole Chinese delegation." How come you wave a holly branch at the cameras? What kept you from singing in Chinese? How come you Hash white whiskers and a Santa suit? I see you took a ton of luggage aboard from our stores and shops No mistletoe, copies of Christmas Carol or recordings of our Yuletide music, 1 trust No New Year cards to be sent to people you are bayoneting. Well.

I can think of nothing that has made the American people see so clearly and completely the hypocracy and the leering air titude of the Commies more than your Merry Christmas and Happy New Year greetings Happy New Year from the defenders of the kind of folks who murder American soldiers with hands tied behind their hack! the clincher! You are entitled to some New- Year wishes, too, from us So here goes! A very Unhappy, lousy, bitter New Year to you and the gang And a sincere wish somebody will yet your greetings to us down your throat! Special Reaction take the video gags But favor Interdictions. For those who grin and close their acts With Broadway benedictions. Hhudda laments Sunnyside Gal came second in a recent race and paid $123 to place and $41 to show. Shudrta Haddtm is more distressed than usual, and is still burning. account of so many Jong shots I decide to go for a real one," he weeps.

I spend six hours to find the beetle that figures to be the biggest bum. I come up with Sunnyside Gal. pure genius Also I get a tip So put down an extra big bet for me. I double it. Meaning $4 But know what? Longshots ain't been much to come place or show so I plav her ON THE NOSE! And shp comes down at sixty to onp to Got an aspirin?" The voluntary price freeze will, of course, produce the type of American who thinks everything is covered when he gives an icy stare to the customer complaining that he has just upped the price another dollar.

Miami had such a cold spell that long underwear was in demand a few days hack. We hear the pink flamingo flock being readied for the Hialeah meeting next month ia in a had way through failure to winterize it. Thoughts Looking At The U.N. Building ork now ending or begun, White shaft looming in the sun? Countless windows blinking high, Are you Hashing or Attlee argues that the British policy of recognizing and trading with Chinese Communists was News item. Yeah.

Death in ambush in the snow- packed hills and murder with your arms tied are realistic, too, hub. looked in his and he give ME the btet years of his Ceramic mosaic tiles, widely used in bathroom were first made in America about 50 years ago.