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MOi TBE M0FN1W HERALD, IWlbNTOWX. MOTiPaY, DtCEH IT. liUionh Highway Death The Morning Herald Fayette County'i Only Morning Newspaper Entered at Postoffloe In Unicntown, Second-eJaw Matter IfNIONTOWN NEWSPAPERS. INC 0ner and S. W.

CALKINS r- Treasurer C. D. HAJtADER Sfitor JOE DICKSON ri.v SStor PHIL E. CONNELLY, Jr. IT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT By Eorl Wilson fru will claim its millionth vie So many movie stars have been claiming oil wells lately that one cvnic said most of them don't have SUBSCRIPTION RATES any du eti" what they put on their hair.

Jack Carson explained to me the other day about oil wells and how he hopes to become sr. Rv Carrier 80 wn" rer By Mail (in Pennsylvania and Preston County, W. Ve.) to advance Mall rates in territory beyond that thus defined: in advance Per Year Unsolicited manuscripts or photographs will not be returned MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for eation of all oews credited to it or not otherwise, credited papej and also the local news published therein. All rights of publication 01 special dispatches herein are also reserved. Stupidity And Inefficiency Are Not Law Violations By David LawrencB WASHINGTON.

Dec. 1C-- President Truman had an opportunity to strike while the iron was hot-to' reflect the indignation of Lhe country over the tax scandals. Bui ho chose instead to adopt at his press conference a defensive rnood-lhe. same attitude which he has exhibited often in the past toward charges of wrongdoing leveled at his appointees. The President has promised a new "clean-up" plan.

Until he was ready to announce it, he would have been belter advised not fo argue (lie merits of the criticism mat nas ueen oirecico ai various persons in his administration. The hint he has given that he will set up a special agency to ferret out corruption in the government, and that il will be an agency of the executive branch of the government reporting to him will inevilably arouse suspicion that Mr. Truman wants to control such an investigating and prosecuting process. But in all probability what is bothering Mr. Truman is the difficulty of punishing wrongdoing when rWo hac hpen indiscretiuns and improprieties that tiro on or about Dec.

21, according to the National Safety Council. The millionth highway death originally had been forecast for some time in but with accident and fatality rates running ahead of last year's, the grim statistic is now expected to fro on the record just before the Christmas holidays. Death rates per 10,000 motor vehicles have recently reversed a downward trend in evidence since 1913. the first year for which these figures are available. In 1913, 30.7 persons died for every in.000 vehicles on the road.

Twenty-five years later in 193R, the rate was down to 11 pfer 10,000 vehicles. A low of 7.1 fatalities per 10,000 atitos was touched in 1949. The figure for 1950 was 7.2, arid the rate has risen in 1951. The actual number of highway deaths in 1950 was 35,000. Greater highway tolls were recorded only in 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, and 1941.

Deaths in the. first seven months of 1951 were seven per cent higher than in the corresponding months of 1950. The first automobile killing in the United States was that of a New York real estate man, Bliss, who was run over by an electric taxi-cab on Sept. 13, 1899. From JS99 through the first few days of December 1951, highway, accidents had accounted for 99S.099 additional deaths.

Traffic deaths currently are running at the rate of about 101 a day. More cars are now being driven more miles bv more drivers than ever before, according to the American Automobile Association. Registrations in 1950 were 48 million, an increase of million over 1949. Eight million registrations were of trucks. But the AAA estimates the "loss of adequate roads" at 20,000 miles annually.

Roads are out wore rapidly than-new ones-are being-built or Old ones reconditioned. And the preparation of drivers "in information, skills, -and atti- tudes does not. keep pace with the need." Of more than 59 million registered drivers on rnads iii 1950. 1 1-3 million were, involved in accidents, In addilion to the 35,000 killed in 1950, the National Safety Council estimates that, more than a million persons received nonfatal injuries. Causes of the AAA reports, are "not at, present totally analyzed and Factors which make for accidents appear to multiply more rapidly than factors which prevent accidents.

Only fourteen states and the District of Columbia have laws' requiring periodical motor vehicle inspection. However, even if nil states adopted such laws, the effect on accident rates might prove unspectacular. The. National Safety Council says only about five per cent of all auto accidents can he traced to mechanical defects. Safetv experts see greatest possibilities of prevention in the field of driver and pedestrian education.

Largely as the result of the work of AAA-svKinsored school safety patrols, the motor vehicle death rate for children aged five to years was reduced by 39 per cent in the period 19H2-1 950. In all other ago groups the death rale in the period 1922-1950 rose by 63 per cent. This Morning's MATCHBOX are not actual violations of law. LAWRENCE It isn't a violation of law lor an official of ihe government to have as his friends persons of questionable character. It isn't a violation of the law to mingle socially with persons who ask favors from the government.

In fact, it isn't unlawful lo let poisons of influence come to government offices and give them time to discuss tax cases or anything else. But it is of course, Improper, and, where there is a question ot failure lo prosecute where wrongdoing or tax frauds have been involved Draftees and Veterans' Guide For Service and Ex-Service Men and Women neelect of duty is plain. Inef- Banks and other money lenders arc turning a cold shoulder to many veterans seeking home loans guaranteed lay the Veterans Administration. The reason, according to VA A Scotsman, Of All Persons, Originated Christmas Card By CLOVER CULVER THOUGHT FOR THE DAY Rare indulgence produce greatest pleasure," cratic administration is that some thing be done to offset the bad impression being created daily by the headlines and dispatches reporting the testimony before the congressional investigating fiency and stupidity, however, and even failure to do a duty are not in themselves a violation of law that can be proved in a court and conviction obtained. These cases call fDr removal or dismissal, but they do not necessarily permit uroseculion.

sources, is thai tho VA author ized interest rate When Congress, through ine So when Mr. Truman talks of -imorlcan activities com- isn't attractive enough to lend- WILSON 63 and 208, I believe every word. -I was one of the- people that made deals with Glen McCarthy," Carson said, sipping some of his favorite beverage, buttermilk got 55,000 a week for putting on a show at the Emerald Room al the Hotel Shamrock. Then Glen put another 15,000 a week for us inlo oil wells. "So pretty soon I felt like an oil man.

It's easy to (eel that way in Houston. In "that Emerald Hoom alone, wc used to have at least 10 millionaires sittin' around." Carson treated his investment ralher lightly at first. Then one day McCarthy tnld him, "You put that piece of paper away and take care of it. You'll be a rich man some day." This was fine with Cai-son but still he didn't really believe much would happen. Then ono day McCarthy suggested that Carson go up country in Texas with him and see one tl the oil wells he had invested in.

"How far is it?" Carson asked. "Hundred miles," McCarthy thought. "I'm not driving any-two hours to see a bunch of stinking oil wells." replied Carson. "We'll fly," said McCarthy. "LI was mv first ride in a helicopter," Carson told me.

"The day we cnosc to go. I hey hit a gusher. We got Ihere 40 minutes afterward. They hadn't capped it yet." "Did yuu slosh around the black gold in high fop boots?" I asked. "Mo.

But McCarthy felt the oil" "He felt 11?" "He bent over and touched it. They say a gardener is supposed to have a grcnu thumb. "I guess an oil man is supposed Lo have a greasy thumb." "Arc you gelling any money out of your investment?" "Some," said Carson. "And- I'm hoping to get a lot more." Carson and the movie mob are willing to take a flyer in oil because nowadavs an entertainer's 111-Lure seems so uncertain anyway. Back in the World War II boom davs, when Carson was introducing "Hubba Hubba" to the.

public he nicked it up first in a Texas Army camp-il appeared that a star would never have any financial problem. Jack Warner said in those days that it was impossible for a movie slar to lose money. One exhibitor said he could put up a sign. "Absolutely Nothing Going on Here Today Admission 25 cents," and sell the place out. Then came, the slump.

Hollywood saw it had to make better pictures. "lVc turned down pictures since the first of the year," Carson said. "I tbink I've got a good one now There's no reason for doing a picture now if il isn't a hell of a picture." So TV beckoned and he found a world of confusion he found lhal everybody in America' is an expert on'show business, suddenly. "I went into a drug store and a soda-jcrker said to me, 'Did you see so-and-so's show last Before 1 could comment, ahout ft, he said 'Wasn't thaL the lousiest lighting job you ever saw in yourlilcr' Carson also gets appalled at Ihe eacrness of some TV watchers to The VA allows I lenders to charge board or commission of prominent men, he is. thinking no doubt not only of some way to bring about prosecutions where there has been wrongdoing but of away to ferret out lhe much larger group of the government, Mr.

Truman set up a loyally review board and departmental loyalty boards in response to a congressional mandate. Ho has hinted that he has something of the same kind of ma- cent per year in- the I est i mm lend pursojla IJU nave u.Eut thniioii lawful conduct. 1 chin idais. ers now can gel MAJOR NIAL 4 12 or five per r-oil interest (rem other borrowers. innnirv if ann led to leceju the whole government, would take But the Congress will have some- good credit risk and wants to lend the money under the VA conditions, he okays the loan.

Tie VA then appraises the home on which the loan is lo be made and does a litlle checking on the vet, too. the VA okays the loan, (he vet has himsell a home. To be eligible for the VA loan gusraiilee the vel must have served at least 00 days in the armed forces helwcen Sept. 16, 1B4U, and July 25, 1B47. He must have been discharged under other lhan dishonorable conditions.

If he served less than 90 days, he must have been discharged fnr a disability duo fo service to be eligible. Loans arc guaranteed for the purchase of an already built house or for the construction oi one. The loan also can be fnr repairs or alterations of a house which the vet already occupies, or for payment of delinquent Indebtedness, taxes or special assessments on a home. The amount of the guarantee varies with the circumstances. Most of the VA home loan business centers upon a guarantee of fill per cent of the loan up to a maximum guarantee of $7,500.

The loan may be made for a maximum of 25 years on homes cosling 5,12,000 or less, years years on homes costing nare than "that. The down payment a lender may require ranges from four per cent up to 45 per cent depending On the price of the house. A vet may not borrow lhc down payment from another lender. When the loan is made, Lhe VA makes the veteran a gift of four per cent of the guaranteed part of the loan, up to a maximum of S1B0. This rnuil he applied to the principal of, lhc loan.

GREETINGS ARRIVING-This week mail carrier will start delivering to your door Christmas greetings from loved ones, relatives and friends, which convey messages of good cheer for the Yuletide. The custom of sending Christmas greetings has been carried on for "a great many years and in many instances it is the only Lime throughout the year we hear from old acquaintances. Have you ever, wondered who was ihe originator of this fine Did custom of sending greetings. Through a research we have discovered that the first holiday greeting card was sent a hundred years ago by a Scotsman of Leith, named Thomas Shonock to Ins friends, reading "A Cudc New Years to Ye." For several years lie had some imitators and in 1846 the idea spread to Kngland when Sir Henry Cole suggested it to a London printer who had sent one of the Scotish cards. The printer hired an artist to draw a picture of Christ in the manger, which was printed in black ami white and colored by hand with water colors.

Only about a thousand copies of this" first English Christmas card were sold. It was Twenty years before the custom sending cards months, if not years, to Ret going. What is important to the Demo- (Continued on Page 15) little Old NEW YORK By. ED SULLIVAN BehinS a ronSSal the Gen. MacArthur hearings in Washington, which served lo embarrass the White House, almost saved the Adminu- "Cn testimony, Republican Senator frJs and added charges against ex-Collector Jim Finnes an of The hiacArthur hearings drowned out Senator Vullsams charges that day.

Fortunately, the soft-spoken Delaware Republican who hlew the lid off internal Revenue corruption, kept on the Lr.il. The country ought lo give him some sort ol a decoration. see You In My Dreams," screen story of Cius Kahn on -the Radio City Music Hall screen, expresses the vast gap between the Tin Pan Allev of his day and its present counterpart. In Kahns days, you 'ubmU ed ur songs lo biglime publishers and they decided whether or Tot to publish them. Today, a recording of the song is Eddie Howard, Tony Bennett, Champ Butler, Johnnie Ray, Ames Ton- navaar and Eddie Smith are some of the comparative unknowns who" vaulted to overnight siardom via one record.

Typical: Johnnie Ray, I Don't Get It One VA source estimates that at least eight oat of 10 vets seeking home loans are being turned down because al this. The estimate is an off-the-cuff guess, however, Because the VA doesn't got involved in the lending until tho loans actually are made. Officially, the VA says there are a number nf areas-mamly in large cities- Where loan money is scarce. In other areas money is available. Congress authorized the VA administrator In change the interest rate whenever he felt the need.

Administrator Carl Gray's office says a change isn't contemplated only advice Gray's office gives to vets having difficulty getting loans is lo scout around for the money. Congress also authorized the administration to innko direct loans to some vets in areas where no loan money was available. There's NO use applying for such loan, however, since all the money Congress set aside lor dirccL loans has been used up. There's NO way of knowing when more money "ill be available for direct loans. Essentially, here's how the VA luan setup works: The VA says to any eligible vet it will stand behind him if he can gel a home loan from a lender.

Then Ihe vet. goes to a lender and asks if ho may horrow Lhc money. If the lender thinks Ihe vet is a Personal Heniih Service By WltLIAM BRADY, M. D. rteg.

U. S. Pat. In the course of 'World War II 3 correspondent sent home a report of ihe great joy of a batallion ol Yanks when, after weeks nf "black bread." Ihcy arrived al a village where they could once more gel white bread. In the popular magazines recently a great corporation presented a picture uf an American family at dinner To announce to lhe people that their bread was finished and ready for sale, 14th century bakers blew one of the 1 the Unit- unknown, because a top attraction The gas industry is oldest public utilities i ed States.

mnrJ nf "Crv." written by became popular and men mamiy because the King and Queen cided to do it. In 1876 Christmas cards were introduced into Ihe United States by Marcus Whitman and Company of London. They had a monopoly of the market for a time, until Prang and Company of Boston began to compete for the trade with considerable success. 1'rang offered priies amounting to two thousand dollars for Ihe best designs for such cards, and hundreds ol designs flooded in Irom both amateur and professional artists, The line ol Christmas cards is nude almost a year before the holiday season begins for you and the storekeeper. Thousands of designs and sentiments must be prepared, millions of dollars invested.

Paper by the carload must be purchased, ribbon, tinsel, lace and even sachets must be paid in stock. Artists of every kind, from painters In oil to you can tell it is American, all ricm, because the family group comprises (al one adult with the lined face and gray temples of the typical 50-year-old business man, (b) anuiher adult who is foctyisli. and presumably feminine, and eke te) offspring about ten, count him. At any rate this was the typical American family earlier in the century With the growth of the cocktail evil and divorce in the past quarter of a century it is doubtful whelher there is an aver aec of one child Id Ihe family. It is said the glove industry first as established in Nirot, France, 1 1277, turn on somebody who's Been a rile.

-Take nit. RRADY The Neighbors Ceorge ctark a Cleveland unknown for a smalltime publisher. Perry Alexander, who will make a clear $100,000 on it. At the Noire Dame football banquet at South Bend, your reporter suddenly came upon a most depressing discovery. He had just read to the banqnelecrs an excerpt ol a column he'd devoted in December, 1938, to the Notre Dame-TJSC game of that season.

Father Hesburgh, Noire Dame's eee. v. whispered to mc: "Ed, vou're getting a trifle old. That was i-ritten 13 years ago. Gugliel-mi, our quarterback, was just 5 years old when that column ap- Nolo to Jim Thorpe: Rev.

Thomas Morrelt, Church of St. Michael and All Angels, Seaford, wants vou to contact him. When you were starring at Carlisle, Tom Morrcll was captain the 1012 Syracuse University cross-counlry' team. Jean-Pierre Aumont, the French star, arm-inarm with Sarah Churchill. The Sid Tannebaums named the new cage star Steven.

Bob Hope's manager. Charles Yates, hospitalized at New York Hospital. Mary Pickford at work on her autobiography. Mother of Florence, of Florence and Al-varei, died, Some of Orson Welles' financial headaches art lifted by his "Black Museum" radio series. It originates in London, is aired over 500 stations of the Mutual wch in.

the U. S. Drop a Christmas card to Mrs. Craig Wood at St. Lukes Hospital.

Carson, naming a his slar who only recently went on TV. "He started out great and, my opinion, he's still great. "But vesterday I heard somebody say 'He's He's only been 011' five weeks, and he's slipping. Carson groaned as he ale some Ice cream, which, by the way, he feasts oh frequently, because some football coach told him it builds energy- "If a toy can starl slipping a1" only five weeks, hope McCarthy's oil wells keep coming in!" TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: Maestro Milton DeLugg tells the Illy about Ihe Shanghai wolf who takes his girl friends, out or long rickshaw rides and on lonely country roads runs out of coolies. TODAY'S DAFFYNITION: "Quicksilver," says Margaret Pho.

Ian, 'Is what tho Lone Ranger says when he's in a l9Si; Post Hall Syndicate, Inc.) Whcn insurance lycoons play golf, they survey the problem as scientificallya5.lhey fashion their actuarial tables, as witness this She nas neen nuajiiwiiieu suite nas oeeu Interesting letter lroni Leroy interesting letter ironi mmy Lincoln, chairman of the board of last April as a result that Pine- 1 lrr.nm Co rneli near Fd: The handsome husband in the picture is pointing reproachfully at the only food on Ihe table a Iray nf black bread and Saying: "Nice tiling to serve a guy after a hard days work! Why that's the kind of food they cat on the other side of ihe iron curtain." Bui this darling American husband got il right away. "Then I rauchl on to why Mabel did it. I'd complained because we'd had baked ham twice thai week." The hrute. Flic. You can lake it from Ihcro, art lib, on Ihe freedoms wo enjoy in America and al! that sort of thing, leading from this inio a plus for your product which conlrihutes so much lo Ihe American way of lite.

Tn my mind this whole parable, sounds phoney. Did the corporation clear it first wllh Ihe milline and baking industries? Ten to one the answer to that is "Certainly." But ten to one the corporation did not clear il with the nutrition or health authorities. Shucks, they' don'l count they declare no dividends, issue un slocks, have no in-flueore io Washington. A white collir worker who aspires to be identified with society must eal white bread because black hrcad is peasant, food, jays one reader who comments on ihe ad. Another observes that some people will sacrifice anything, health, sanity, ethics, human relations, for social stains or acceptance, in society.

Still another wonders whether people who buy brown or dark bread Instead of bleached white brca'd are "subversive." To say the least. It would be belter for health If more "black," brown, dark or natural' color, whnle wheat, or so-called Griham tflour less refined than while flour) bread were used In every American hnme instead of w-hllc bread. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Font llch By following (he sdvirr in your pamphlet nn Foot Itch 1 cleared up iur.eus Inflection (hit hid bothered (ConllDUtd on Tilt H) are assigned their tasics, ann a staff of writers of verse- and prose begin grinding out sentiments, Scriptural, lyrical and, satirical. Several thousand amateur poets seiie the opportunity to flood the publishing offices" with verses which, If accepted will be paid for at fifty cenls a line. In July, while the nation swelters, salesmen in palm beach suits tour the country selling cards depicting snow scenes, reindeer and holly.

Again this year thousands of Christmas cards will be lo soldiers, scattered all over the world In the armed forces. Many arc the traditional Christmas greetings expressing Ihe same kind, homey thoughts, thai have been exchanged for decides at Christmas time. About forty per cent of all Christmas cards carry religious pictures or sentiments. Pictures of the Christ Child In the manger, of (he Wise Men and of the Shepherds who watched their flocks by night have boon universal favorites lor more than fifty yean. (Continued on Fsg 15) Dear F.d' I have just read your Thanks for publicising the Jewish column about the golfing terrors War Veterans' reminder to al! of Pine Valley, where I play once Americans not to buy Christmas or twice a vcar with Lhe only mar.

products made by slave-labor ol in lhc world I can beat '(but don't Commie satellite states. Sincerely, always beat him), lo wit, Bob Mc- Paul Ginshurg. National Command-Math, Bethlehem Steel p. En- Atlanta, Ga. Postmaster closed is a chart, projected from Ed Quigley of Brooklyn, beaming 1921 to 1945 by another Pine Val- at the first Brooklyn alamp ever lev member, M.

Albert' Linton, issued by Washington. Vet-president, of the Provident Mutual eran A. Mai thews a big London 1 Ife Insurance Co. of Philadelphia, hit In "The Galloping This charts his score at Pine Val- For the seventh year, Paul Win-ley and al other courses and and Jerry Mahoney will spend proves that Pino Valley Is about Christmas week entertaining enp-Icn strokes harder for the average pled children in hospitals in and or near-average golfer, than other around N. Y.

(Paul hart polio him-eorn-Mi It should interest and aelf). Recommended; dance solace all, like you, whoa hearta routine of Bob Alton, lor "Pal art twit out by Pint Vsiley. Joey," The Upward Look "It hi iuft his wife again don't leave it lit this address. Just send it back to me. My tongue also shall islk of (by righteousness all the day long; for (hey are confounded, for they art brought unto shame, that seek my hurt, Pialm 71:24.