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EDITORIAL PAGE Pag 4, Sec. 1 State of the Union Frogrcii Sullctln, Pomona, Calif. Thurtday Evening, ion. II, 1H1 Resigned to Utopia GOSSIP for Today. Jack Spratt could eat no fat his wife could eat no lean But their troubles were nothing as compared to those of a local couple who share one of those His Side-Her Side electric blankets.

The wife is warm blooded the husband cold blooded. Her side she sets on low-temperate. His side is set on high and hot. And with these temperature adjustments they were sleeping happily ever after That' is, things were peaceful and happy until New Years Eve when their young daughter played a Happy New Year Mama and Papa joke on them and switched the blanket. Mama spent most of what remained of the New Years night turning down the gas heater and opening windows.

Papa froze and caught a terrific cold Daughter, who finally admitted her sin, is starting the New Year with the slogan, Things look blue for 21 PETER EDSON Reoorts The dedicated ones, he says, still are those in official life, in the age bracket perhaps 43 to 55. Those highest in the government are the most ruthless dictators to be found anywhere. These observations, evidently widely shared by foreigners who travel the streets of drab Soviet cities with a clear eye and alert ear, are possible signs of hope for the long pull in East-West relations. But strict caution has to govern. We can have no assurance that the somewhat more flexible young Russians of today will not be the rigid masters of tomorrow.

And, the diplomat was careful to note, Soviet citizens disgruntlement over their lot under Communism is one thing. Their patriotic, national feelings are another. Most ordinary folk, he says, appear to accept the version of history which pictures Russia as the constant goal of Western military plotting. Still, the portrait of dingy cities and fussing grumbling citizens presents pointed contrast with Moscows flashy propaganda colors colors which too often seem to catch the eye of uncritical foreigners, including some romantic liberals in Western Europe and elsewhere. Occasionally we in the United States get a chance ta put into a little truer perspective the bright claims Moscow makes about living in Communist Russia.

A young diplomat, speaking privately and unofficially to a small group in Washington, offered a realistic antidote to the well-circulated Red propaganda contention that people in Russia are happy under a regime that allegedly is lifting their Bring standards. In the diplomats view, the attitude of the Soviet man in the street is generally one of grumpy resignation. Most average Russians struck me as devoted to scrounging what they could for themselves. They fret and complain constantly, and since they cant criticize the Communist system, they criticize each other." Many gay quite openly to some foreigners, though not so readily to Americans, that they are not very enthusiastic about the system theyve got, that it's just there and they have to put up with it. This man also gained the sharp impression that Russians of college age are far less wedded than some of their elders to the old, rigid, Communist theories and practices.

Asking for It American politicians perhaps have no more favorite whipping boy than Indias Krishna Menon, but he has done much to be whipped for and keeps on doing more. One flogging he deserves, however, has not yet been meted out. Ilis basic role in Indias ill-advised seizure of Portuguese Goa is clear enough. Only now emerging is the fact that he set the stage with a rashoUies rivaling the output of famed Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels. WASHINGTON (NEA) With the session of Congress opening, the political pot has started to boil in earnest for the 1962 mid-term elections.

4 HISTORY is on the side of the Republicans for' cutting some inroads into the Democratic House majority of nearly 90. Only In 1934, in the middle of Franklin D. Roosevelt's first term, has the party In control of the White House made a gain in its congressional majority. In the Senate, with 21 Democratic seats and 16 Republican Op for election, the Democrats have another advantage of retaining their majority, which is now 28. While the Republicans make big claims for the gains they expect to make, the more realistic Democratic appraisal is that if they hold what they now have, they will be doing all right.

BOTH DEMOCRATS and1. Republicans claim victory in 1961 special elections. Democrats carried Gov. Hughes to victory in New Jersey and Mayor Wagner in New York City. The GOPs principal gain was election of Sen.

John Tower in Texas. Republicans also won mayoralties in Louisville and a few smaller southern communities. But they dont add up to anything like a trend for taking over the South. NEWS BEHIND the News Menon charged, among other things, that the Portuguese were stirring border incidents, committing atrocities, plotting a scorched earth" retreat, plunging the colony into crisis. Reliable U.S.

correspondents like NBCs Welles Hangen, in Goa at the time, say flatly none of these things occurred. They were a product of Menons fertile if not admirable imagination. Everything that happens In the coming congressional session will have political angles. This will be truer in 1962 than in 1961 because the newness of the Kennedy administration program will have worn off. IT IS NONSENSE to try to predict now what the issues will be next November.

What happens in the world outside of Washington can change the whole political picture. But today, these are the big issues politicians watch: Medical Care for the Aged The Kennedy plan to replace and expand the Kerr-Mills bill enacted during the Elsenhower administration is considered most important. It has an appeal not only to the 17 million Americans over 65, but also to their children and other relatives who have to provide for the oldsters, often at some financial sacrifice, if there is no government aid. Extreme Conservative Opposition It is sized up as mostly Republican, taking little or nothing from the Democratic Vote. Its principal complaints are over foreign policies.

The Democratic feeling is that as long as President Kennedy can maintain his popularity rating of over 70 per cent in the public opinion polls, the opposition is not vital. The catch In this Is that much of the ultraconservative strength is concentrated in key congressional districts it will have considerable influence. Civil Rights Extremists In the NAACP criticize the Kennedy administration for not having a stronger reform program to offer Congress. The Democratic reply is that they have given more vigorous enforcement of existing civil rights legislation. And they still get the votes up north where theyre counted, as in New York and New Jersey.

Kennedy's Political Leadership-After Congress adjourns it is expected that the President will take an active part in the campaign. He was most effective in' New York and New Jersey elections last fall. He recognizes his position as head of the party, works at it and loves It. Republican Leadership It is still unclear. Nixon, Rockefel-and even Sen.

Everett Dirksen ler, perhaps George Romney and GOP National Chairman William E. Miller have to be elected in their own states this fall before they have national political stature. I of the survivors the only one now in sight is Barry Goldwater. i AS WE SEE IT By One of Us utilization of space and such matters. Yet it will offer the first motorized subway between the Capitol and a HOB.

IF EARLY and final cost estimates vary as much on the NNHOB as they did on the NSOB, then the NNHOB may wind up as a $100 million-plus item. Back in 1947, when NSOB was planned the cost was figured at $10 million. When it was completed over 10 years later the tab was nearer to $25 million. Whats next after NNHOB? Well, theres proposed modernization of OHOB (Old House Office Building). And there have been proposals to extend and modernize the West Front of the Capitol Building.

Then sometime before very long there must come the second annex to the Library of Congress. Extension of use, to say nothing of new materials and books that have the present old library and its annex bulging at the seams, make this new annex a near compulsory item in the next few years. It would be located across Pennsylvania Avenue from the present annex. Two whole blocks of what Is now primarily commercial and apartment property would have to be condemned and purchased to make way for the new library building. The country is growing all the time.

And so, it seems, must the Congress. MOST VISITORS wont get a really close-up look at the now offices, committee rooms, in the new East Front. This is because the passageways leading to them are rather narrow, and very likely it will be necessary to bar their use as public corridors to prevent human traffic jams. Members of the press galleries are tickled to get access to these new passageways, particularly to the one on the gallery or third floor level. For many a year now, due to the confines of Statuary Hall and the areas under the center dome, reporters have been forced to descend from the gallery level to a lower floor to cross from the House to the Senate and vice versa.

Now a newsman can head directly across. Elevator service will be improved on the Senate side, with two new front elevators making a total of six. This still isnt enough to do the Job adequately on a crowded day, but it will help. Another tourist attraction will be the new. plastic wheels being installed on vehicles in the subway between the Capitol and the NSOB (New Senate Office Building).

The NNHOB (New, New House Office Bilding), due to be completed in 1964 at a presently-estimated cost of $67 million, gives promise of equalling the NSOB in poor By Janies and Ann Free WASHINGTON Architects amateur and professional will have plenty to get upset about when they visit Capitol Hill any time in the next few years There will be something going on steadily in the -way of construction a dor renovation. And a lot of it won't make sense to those familiar with efficient use of stone, steel, plaster and so on. Certainly no Industrial or business firm would build work quarters this way. And most any home owner could design 9 building with less waste space. But businessmen and home designers do NOT have to clear their plans with a big committee of elected officials a committee that has no single boss and a committee that doesnt get upset if the final costs run twice as much as original estimates.

THAT IN SHORT, fa's why private citizens can never understand why foul-ups and inefficiencies are part and parcel of any new structure put up by the Congress. Too many cooks spoiled the broth in the old days, and they still do. Still, believe it or not, the visiting public will like some of what it sees in the new $24 million East Front of the Capitol. It has been apparent since the exterior was finished about the time of President Kennedys inauguration last year that the whole East Front has a shine and glitter almost totally lacking before the late Speaker Sam Rayburn launched what proved to be his farewell project. The Inside, too, has some added features that visitors will appreciate.

One is that more ordinary citizens can get something to eat in the Capitol Building. For the first time, there is a public restaurant on the House side of the Capitol. There is a slight increase in capacity of the public restaurant on the Senate side. These are on the first floor. There is also a new cafeteria on the House side: it is not nearly as big as relatively new cafeterias in both the new Senate Office Building and the new House Office Building.

EVENTS Of Yesteryear Looking backward through the files of this newspaper: 60 years ago Jan. 11, 1902 David Casper P. and Moses P. Stone of San Bernardino, composing the firm of Stone Brothers, Pomona marble dealers, are negotiating for the purchase of the lot at the northwest comer of Second and Thomas Sts. on which they are planning to erect a two-story brick block.

20 years ago Jan. 11, 1942 Miss Jean Roseberry and Charles J. Bowen were married Sunday afternoon in the Chapel of. Trinity Methodist Church. I 10 years age Jan.

11, 1952 Orchard heaters throughout the Pomona Valley burned brightly on Monday night as the thermometers dropped below 26 degrees in some places. THE DOCTOR Comments RATTLES and STRAWS ft hold the child. by natures kindly law pleased with a rattle, hckled with a straw." Alexander Pope. By JOSEPH H. FIRMAN For about a year Mr.

Sheets assistant Jarvis Barlow filled the position as director, but resigned last July on account of ill health. Mr. Sheets has temporarily served as di-rector untilAndersens appointment. Mr. Andersen began his service as of Jan.

1. He has a wide reputation as one of the nations distinguished administrators in the field of art education. Under his guidance 'the art department of the Arizona University grew to a class enrollment of 1,500 with 15 fulltime instructors. THE MALL to be built on 2nd Street is a free enterprise project. Property owners along the street pay almost all of the bill.

This city will receive publicity in every part of the United States because this mall has unique features. First and foremost is the fact that it is largely paid for by private individuals and secondly, it is designed by the famous artist and designer Millard Sheets with new ornamental features never before used in mall building. BIG METROPOLITAN papers have a problem of publishing sufficient local news to please all their subscribers. The local news is a necessity the main excuse for a papers existence. Covering a large area, including millions in population, no single paper can carry sufficient news to satisfy all its readers.

A community newspaper or publications in outlying cities have a great advantage over the big mets. The Progress-Bulletin has been steadily increasing its circulation and to cover the field has enlarged its newsroom staff and through the years has increased its size in order to give necessary coverage. THE ONTARIO School District is to hold a special election March 20 to' decide on a proposed $3 million bond issue and a proposal authorizing a $3 million state building loan. Trustees feel that this is necessary to cover expected school expansion during the coming three years. Included would be the purchase of five new sites immediately and construction of one new junior high and possibly five elementary schools.

POMONA VALLEY people have reason to be disturbed over the proposal to tear the Superior Courts away from the established center of Pomona even though the service at Pomona has been of equal value to all parts of the east portion of Los Angeles Leaders of Pomona are very anxious to have as many letters as possible sent to the committee of judges which is to make recommendation to the Board of Supervisors for final action determining where the courts should be permanently located. One of the leading veteran organizations, the Jack Ford Jr. Chapter 9, Disabled American Veterans, Fo-mona, has passed a strong resolution urging that the courts remain in Pomona. Many other groups have acted similarly; many more should. Individuals are asked to wTite and should do so immediately.

The loss to Pomona would be felt for years to come and It would be an injustice which would be regretted by the whole county if the courts were to be moved. Pomona has been established as a very important center. The dozens of organizations and companies which have headquarters in Pomona is one substantial reason, but it is only one. Every day comes new evidence of Pomonas important position. This week 700 people came here to attend a horse sale conducted by the California Thoroughbred Breeders Assn.

This was an event that attracted national attention. Sales brought a gross of $1,316,500. Two church events in Pomona this week involve many thousands of people. The stage is set here for growth that will increase Pomonas significance as a center. ANDRES ANDERSEN, head of the art department of the University of Arizona for the last 16 years, has been selected as director of Otis Art Institute, operated by Los Angeles County.

Under the direction of Millard Sheets, this art institute was developed until it has become recognized as the leading art institute of the West. Because of his many activities, Mr. Sheets asked to be relieved of the directorship. By HAROLD T. HYMAN M.D.

(NEA) I ant writing in behalf of a neighbor whose husband died at the hospital two weeks ago. After the services, she was rebuked by her sister-in-law for giving permission for an autopsy which an attendant of the funeral parlor said had been performed. When my neighbor denied even knowing that an autopsy had been performed, the sister-in-law took her to the attendant who said that hospitals often performed autopsies without permission. He went on to say that hospitals must perform 100 autopsies a year in order to keep SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith their accredited rating. And since physicians often cannot get permission from families, many autopsies are done without the knowledge of the family.

A Except when legally constituted authorities perform a post-mortem examination for good and sufficient reasons, having to do with crime detection or the public welfare, written permission for an autopsy is required by hospital authorities and by members of the staff whose duty it is to perform the examination. This permission may be given during life by the individual or after death by the nearest of kin. The statements made by the attendant of the funeral parlor are, in my opinion, criminally malicious. There is no truth in the allegation that hospitals must perform 100 autopsies a year to remain accredited. I have Just read an article In which it is stated that many men undergo a climacteric remarkably similar, at least emotionally, to the menopause that marks the end of a womans childbearing years.

Some time ago, if my memory is correct, you wrote that the male climacteric was a i i n. Who am I to believe? A Well, friend, you pay your money and you take your choice, as they used to say at county fairs. I have been practicing medicine for more years than I care to count. I have never seen a bona fide example of the male menopause of climacteric. To be sure, Ive seen men who became nervous, depressed or emotionally disturbed in and after middle life and whose troubles were attributed by them or by gland specialists.

both amateur and professional, to the climacteric. But in nary a one did this fanciful explanation appear valid to me. Usually, an unprejudiced investigation turned up some much more logical cause for the disturbance. Contemplating television as one does, with feelings of combined horror and disbelief, one comes upon that oddest of oddments, the non community community singing known as Sing Along With Mitch. Accompanied by a big band and a handsome complement of choirsters, the Svengali of Song prances before the television camera, conducting if one is to believe the ratings a million American families in singing Shine On, Harvest Moon, Down by the Old Mill Stream, and similar dirges.

THIS IS REALLY an appalling thought the voices of men, women, and children raised in unison in countless livingrooms and dens, hotel bars and all-night lunchrooms in answer to the prompting of the picture tube. The only hope for this latest bit of electronic lunacy is that it will kill off real community singing. Wherever people gather for non-profit and profitless activity, in hall or theater, picnic ground or school auditorium, someone is sure to sit down at a piano and begin thumping Long, Long Trail a-Winding. Another showoff will stand up in front of the throng wagging his finger, grinning, and saying, "Come on, folks everybody sing! THE SONG LEADER is customarily a lovable old character, easy as an old shoe, humorous, and usually fat I don't know why. His jolly remarks about No ladies over 40 may sing and references to sparking under the moon-nothing off color, of course are greeted with guffaws.

The bacchanalia starts' slowly with selections from 101 Favorites of the American Legion. The men are a little embarrassed at first, but the women sail right in, and soon the rafters are a-tremble with My Wild Irish Rose and Long, Long Way to Tipperary. Most of the males, who havent really sung since their 20th reunion at college three years ago, are content to rumble along, singing the melody and what they can recall of the words. THERE ARE SOME exceptions. There is always the star tenor who sings the harmony so loudly that he has half the chorus singing with him.

There is usually a barber shop quartet expert who thunders the baritone harmony to the confusion of those around him. Among the thin, comfortable voices of the women there are usually two or three shrill sopranos who are used to having their way with the church choir, or who "studied voice in some past era. The song fest often becomes a duel between two such pri-ma donnas, and their voices screech above the chorus in angry debate as they try to out-tremolo each other. On the whole, perhaps confining our vocal efforts to discordant yawping in front of a television set is the best way, after all. The set need not necessarily be turned on.

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