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Page 4 THE LEXINGTON HERALD Thursday Morning August 25 1D55 1 "Give Me Those Matches! THE LEXINGTON HERALD (Established 178) Published Dally Mornings By LEX1NOTON HERALD-LEADER CO LEXINOTON 837 Short St KKW YORK 488 Madison A vs frOM UNDERWOOD Editor PRED WACHS Oensral Manager $5000000 in Immediate relief in the flood-stricken area The American people have been shocked by this tremendous disaster and by the terrific effect of the floods that called the President from his Colorado vacation to view the damage Unquestionably the generosity and resources of the American public together with the immense set-up for defense mobilization and other purposes and the federal aid will respond to what the President has called "a terrible that has happened to the Northeastern states Entered as second-class matter at ths post office Llnton Ky under the act of March 1 1879 The Associated Press Is ezcluslVely entitled to the use tor republlcatlon of all the news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited to the paper and also the local news published herein SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY MAH DAILY AND SUNDAY 1 Yr Mos 3 Mos 1 Mo In Kentucky 81300 8875 8350 8113 All Other States 81000 89-00 450 1150 DAILY HERALD ONLY 1 Yr 0 Mos 3 Mos 1 Mo 8 900 8500 8375 81-00 In Kentucky SUNDAY HERAU3-LEADER 1 Yr 0 Mos 3 Mos 1 Mo Anywhere in 8 8 550 8200 8150 9 50 Mall orders not accepted from localities served by delivery agents CARRIER DELIVERY Sunday Only 10c per week Dally and Sunday 40c per week MONTHLY Herald Dally Only Herald Dally and Sunday 8130 per month 8175 per month Stonewall Jackson Nominated Gen Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall) Jackson has been nominated for the Hall of Fame of the New York University by the United Daughters of the Confederacy He is one of the greatest and most brilliant military figures of all times truly a genius as evidenced in the famous Valley campaign and as "right until his death qt Chancellorsville A professor at VMI he took his class of cadets with him into the war But sharing that professorship was his teaching of a Sunday School class for Negro children which resulted in their Baptist Church being the first contributor to his monument in Lexington Va Wherever the art of war is studied the strategy and tactics of Stonewall Jackson are used as examples No partisanship or sectionalism should deny to him his rightful place in the Hall of Fame for he already has won undying fame as a military genius The name Stonewall always is attached to him but in the Shenandoah Valley he was compared to a tornado a comparison most timely at this writing Finally Puts Up By Frederick Othman WASHINGTON The time came finally to put up or shut up After spending all these years demanding that Detroit make an automobile with running boards and a crank (for when the battery runs down) my old sedan gasped her last So I had to buy a new one as designed by those engineers in Michigan instead of by me and I freely admit got something Take the engine My complaint all along has been that been too much horsepower bottled up in those new V-8's And then I pick a blue sedan with 260 horses or about 200 more than' I figured necessary Still I must report that driving a car with more horsepower probably than the Ringling Brothers Circus in fun She rolls up mountainsides as easily as she rolls down Model With Everything Long have I ranted against automobiles plastered with dingbats for the benefit of lazy people Yet when the time came to sign the contract I chose a model with power-everything including the radio aeriaL Touch a button and an electric motor runs this up and down Two other motors slide the front seat vertically and horizontally Four more one in each door operate the windows Deep down in the innards an eighth motor twists the torsion bars automatically as necessary When a fat lady settles down in the back seat for Instance there is a buzzing sound and the rear end of the car raises Itself to compensate for her weight When she gets out another buzz sends the tail of the car down again This is embarrassing for overweight passengers but it does add to their comfort That is if a large lady blushing scarlet can be comfortable As for the torsion bars they're simpler to use than to explain Instead of springs as American motorists have come to know them my new sedan is equipped with 26 feet of steel bars attached to the wheels The twisting of these rods provide the springing action When the front wheels hit a bump they put a twist in the bars that stiffens the tension in the rear thus causing the back wheels to slide over the hump The result is one of those rides you dream about Littered With Lights My car also is littered with electric lights including some in the side doors which go on automatically when you open them so you fall on your face on moonless nights All these electric motors and the 30-odd lamp bulbs take a lot of juice So there's an over-sized generator charging a 12-volt battery which the salesman insisted would be ample If the battery should run down he continued a crank such as I wanted would be no use anyhow A mere man couldn't turn over an engine with such high compression That brings us past the power brakes steering wheel and transmission to the trickiest widget of all: The automatic windshield washer I never saw one of these before You merely touch a button Water with detergent in it squirts itself on the windshields When it shuts off the wiper blades start going and continue to rub the glass until it is dry Then they subside all by themselves got the idea bought exactly the kind of car I swore I'd never have and got to confess that every last one of its gismos strikes me as a fine thing I'll let you know later whether they continue to work 0 Readers' Letters To The Herald Editor Washington Calling By Marquis Childs ROME The Italian Communist party which is the largest and most shrewdly directed of any in the West has not been slow In the aftermath of the summit conference to exploit the new theme ef "Peace it's Because of the power of the party and the resourcefulness of the men who direct It Italy promise to become a testing ground to determine whether It is possible for a Western democracy to remain comparatively strong and prepared in a new era of relaxing tensions Knowledgeable observers here believe that the test is at hand The new president Giovanni Gronchi has talked confidently in the past of opening to the and it is a phrase widely repeated today A left-wing member of the Christian Democratic party Gronchi has believed that a program of far-reaching social reform would win away many of the adherents of communism and more particularly the followers of Pietro Nenni who led most of the Socialists into tho Communist camp and has kept them there This is the opening or opportunity which Gronchi foresaw before he cam to power thanks to a weird combination of tho votes of right-wing Christian Democrats and Communists Whether he would today eneouraga tho government of Premier Antonio Segni to try this maneuver is questionable Those close to him say that he realizes the risks Involved the danger of a popular front government In which the Communists in the new era of relaxed tensions would bo given respectability In other words instead of the left-wing of the Christian Democratic party and the center government absorbing Nenni the crafty Nenni would in effect absorb the center WhQo he is away taking a cure for his liver and pending the return of the parliament Gronchi will have ample time to reflect on the difficult choices that confront tho government of which he Is the constitutional head Communist Strategy Clearly it Is Communist strategy on this ancient battleground to translate tho general relaxing of tensions which was achieved at Geneva into terms of domestic politics The Communist newspapers have carried large pictures of Eisenhower and Bulganin shaking hands at Geneva The left-wing press has been almost fulsome in its praise of Eisenhower for the achievement of Geneva But they have kept Dulles as the villain in the plot suggesting that if only the secretary of state can be prevented from interfering a long and lasting peace can come from the beginning that has been made If Eisenhower can get along with Bulganin then why can not Gronchi and Segni sit down with the Communist boas Palmire Togliatll and Nenni and work things out peaceably here in Italy That is the powerful logic Implicit In the new Communist line It illustrates one of tho risks which some American policymakers Dulles among them clearly foresaw In a heads of government conference Because of the vitality the exuberance the emotional volatility of the Italian people this country has long been kind of a Coney Island distorting mirror for tho political currenta of the world If these people begin to relax and enjoy this period of relaxed tensions then despite all assurances of officialdom to the contrary they will do it with a great big bang Fast And Furious If the "Communist appears to have evaporated the Italian politicians of the right and center can revert to politics as usual and the game of polities In Italy Is fast and furious with no holds barred The first anniversary has Just been observed of the death of a man who understood supremely well how to balance Italy's divided political forces of right and center and slightly left of center to achieve stability Alcide De Gasper! was a master ef the game and it was in his government that Mario Scelba as minister of Interior began the difficult and dangerous task of driving the Communists from positions of power Not only could De Gavperi balance off the separate parties but be understood how to control the factions In his own Christian Democratic party Segni has the respect of everyone and some go so far as to say he is too fine a man for the rough and tumble of Italian politics But he has nothing like the skill of the late master and if ft Is now no longer possible to unite against the Communist threat he will find himself at tha head of his shaky coalition government with almost no power at alL marriage Clementine will again be performing the ceremony and again there will be Ward the flower girL Too you will find Sales Tax Johnny a-holding up the wedding train as on-lookers and well-wishers dump bushels of pennies (not rice) onto the beaming bride and bridegroom Barkley will be there as best man Most all the present big-wig administrators will be there This time it won't be Clementine a-marrying up Combs This time it will be Clementine a marrying-up Happy Chandler Now I never won an election in Clennie Advises Chandler Editor The Herald: Looks like the administration leaders are already a beginning to eat out'n Happy hand We expect any day to see a big picture a showing Ward whom Happy referred to as the "flower a pinning a big bunch of blossoms in the lapel of Happy's coat Happy will be a-beaming with smiles Then a little later we can expect to see a big announcement in the papers which will give in details the arrangements for another big Brevities In a speed contest in Oregon a man shaved himself in 49 seconds Sounds like a slashing victory The old argument against diving into a strange stream is built on a rock foundation It usually winds up that the best allround meal is that good old square one on your own table The first thing the average young man does when driving a new car is wonder if all the girls are looking Loafing around and trying to keep cool seems to be a very good way to get fat and hot Directly under a column of accidents a newspaper carried a list of salad recipes Sounds reasonable We often read about a racket in old cars and hear it in the new ones from the rear seat Your Health By William Brady MD Space Ship's Little Men State Police investigators officers of the Army from Fort Campbell astronomers from Louisville and one or two scientifically inclined sight-seers have Investigated the report that a flying saucer landed near Kelly Ky and a crew of little one-eyed men got out They say there is not any truth in the report and that it is just a big story the way it is with the police Army officers and scientists never believe any stories anyone tells without Investigating them they any imagination? Now we believe there must be some truth in It Kelly nine miles from Hopkinsville is one of those small towns that peacefully pursues its destined way usually unmolested by sightseers and photographers and seldom making the headlines But now Kelly becomes a mecca for the curious who in this age of Disney will believe almost anything And furthermore Cecil (Lucky) Sutton will show them the proof for 50 cents admission beyond the hastily raised "No sign He will take them right out and show them where the space ship or flying saucer or whatever this fantastic craft might have been landed and where the little one-eyed men fled at the sight of a human being with a gun Sadly enough they all got away But there were almost enough of them for a baseball team Clearly too these were not gremlins from the Kremlin or any type of earth-bound invaders but from another world This form of evidence long has been accepted in these parts Long ago the story was told about the hunter who pursued a fox to the Cumberland River and when the fox seemed to have gone over it the dog followed by the hunter on horseback simply "jumped across" The inevitable ending was that "if you believe it take you right where it happened and show you where they jumped from" So "Lucky" shows the disbelievers right where it all happened Oh that Disney some of these days might create a monument to these remarkable little men and their strange weird craft! Descendants of some Cyclops of a distant world they rumbled in with a flash of light and perhaps no little thunder That they came between April Day and Halloween shows that they came from a planet or the moon or some place where no calendar similar to our own In Midsummer Dream the description is given: "The eyes in a fine frenzy rolling Both glance from Heaven to earth from earth to Heaven And as Imagination bodes forth The form of things unknown the pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothings A local habitation and a name" And surely in Kelly where the art of story-telling still lives if any child should ask "Grandpa did you ever see a man from it would be a dull and listless day if the answer were "No" While not absolutely certain as to exactly what occurred we believe unquestionably that somebody must have seen My Day By Eleanor Roosevelt Strength For Today By Earl Douglas my life and I don't guess I ever will but I am still liberal with my free advice Chandler's smiles did not win all the votes he got A very large part of those votes came from fellers what was all fed up with the present administration They voted for a change Ifn Happy gets too chummy with the very ones what he cussed out so soundly and caused so many fellers to vote for him then you might expect a mighty lot of these fellers a looking up to Denney for the much-wanted change It seems that Wetherby Clements Barkley and a few others put the party above the people whenever it comes to voting They have told everyone in every possible way that they could that Happy Chandler wasn't fit to run the state of Kentucky for the people Then you find these same fellers literally a-saying heck with the people We will vote the Democratic ticket We can't help it ifn Chandler is heading this Men of their caliber should never have been trusted to serve the people In the first place The man should come first with voters Ifn Chandler expects to win the coming election with a big majority he had better not eat too much out'n the present administrators' hands CLENNIE HOLLON Williba Ky Praises Acting Postmaster Editor The Herald: In answer to letter in The Herald of Aug 18 I agree indeed that Lexington has too long been without a permanent postmaster Despite over-all departmental changes caused by decentralization and reclassification since our present acting postmaster has been in office Lexington's mail service has been improved in many ways Necessary but unpleasant changes have been made in personnel larger areas are receiving city delivery service the collection service has been vastly improved as has the window services and clean workrooms and lobbies are evident A greater and ever-in-creasing volume of mail is being handled by the Lexington Post Office force in a more efficient manner and at a consequent greater saving to the stamp-buying public The present acting postmaster upon appointment had much to learn of postal service but has applied himself to learning his job and has made every effort to improve the postal service for the people of Lexington So for the "big that is the Lexington Post Office let's seek a permanent appointment for our present acting postmaster His record of achievement since he took office is the measure for the choice never a cheap politician plucking a cheaper one from the swarm of job-seekers REPUBLICAN Lexington stamped self-addressed envelope and ask for the pamphlet Yankee Stomach Not For Arthritis How grateful I am for your advice on arthritis after taking calcium for about 2 months I got wonderful relief now I can get down and scrub floors without any trouble (Mrs A) Answer I never recommended it for arthritis I do recommend an optimal daily ration of calcium and vitamin to prevent rheuma-tiz Send stamped self-addressed envelope and ask for pamphlet Calcium And Rheumatiz Menopause Wife in change of life Almost Impossible to live with her at times (M R) Often hormone tablets prove beneficial such as premarin or progesterone Send stamped self-addressed envelope and ask for pamphlet Correspondents should remember that an unsigned request brings no reply Calloused Ilnsband My husband got rid of his calloused feet which had caused him so much trouble and money spent on foot doctors soon after he began using the treatment given in your booklet (MRS W) Yahbut where's he going to get new feet? Readers who wish to exchange old feet for new send 25c and stamped self-addressed envelope and ask for booklet CARE OF THE FEET Painful Nocturnal Cramps Since taking cod liver oil (I have always drank one or two glasses of milk every day) I no longer have painful cramps in legs or feet at night (EL) Answer Usual cause of such cramps whether in legs or feet arms or hands is tetany due to Insufficient calcium and vitamin Cod liver oil is richest natural source of vitamin Send stamped self-addressed envelope for pamphlet on TETANY One or two glasses of milk dally is insufficient for even a mature adult only half enough for a growing child Keep Moving Have you ever driven behind a truck carrying mixed concrete to a building job? You noticed of course that the huge cylinder keeps turning slowly all the time The chief reason for this is that if not continually activated the concerete would harden The message la Keep on the move This may seem to be unwise counsel to a generation which is so Jittery now that it is positively scampering into nervous breakdowns But the antidote for too much tension is not too much relaxation Both extremes are bad Life has to be kept moving all the time or it will quickly harden as mixed concrete would unless the drum in which it is carried is slowly revolved There are businesses going on the rocks today because their administrators and their policies have hardened into a rigidity which prevents adaptation to new conditions There are thousands of people who after they leave college do not read three worthwhile books a year There are people whose lives come to a dead stop in bridge business or alcohol There are ministers preaching from the and wondering what is happening to their church attendance There are scientists scoffing at and because these unorthodox healers and writers suggest that truth may be approached by pathways never before tried Remember the truck that gets usable concrete to the job only because the load is constantly kept moving Soda Bicarbonate of soda aspirin vita' mm shots bourbon ulcer ready access to dope to make one sleep or quiet the nerves That doesn seem quite all oh yes one other feature the business of lighting a cigarette Without that how could the Yankee Wiseacre achieve nonchalance? Some persons like to hear themselves talk Others' like to hear themselves belch If they are Dr Brady not belching enough or with suffi cient authority they take a dose of sodium bicarbonate otherwise known as bicarbonate of soda baking soda Ten to twenty grains of It taken by one with a healthy stomach will generate enough gas (carbon dioxide) in the stomach to power a series of impressive belches Such belching of large quantities of carbon dioxide (generated by the reaction of the acid of the gastric juice with sodium bicarbonate) mixed with air (gulped by the nervous patient unconsciously and unintentionally) constitutes many a bad attack1 Although it may be harmless to take anywhere from a good pinch (5 grains) up to a level teaspoonful of bicarbonate occasionally the frequent or habitual use of soda in even the smallest doses is bad medicine in almost any circumstance Bicarbonate of soda is the weakest antacid in medical use but it is more likely to produce alkalosis (lowered blood bicarbonate) than are other antacids When bicarbonate is taken frequently or regularly the reaction of the urine should be watched If the urine becomes persistently alkaline precipitation of phosphatic stones in the urinary tract may follow In any case of stomach trouble the relief the sufferer gets from antacids is not entirely due to neutralization of acid In so-called pain may occur when acidity is low and subside or be absent when acidity is high Sometimes a single dose of an ant-arid taken at the end of digestion relieves or for hours or through the night although hyperacidity soon returns in higher degree than before So you see antacids relieve discomfort distress or pain due to other causes than excessive acidity This is true to bicarbonate of soda but more particularly is it true of calcium carbonate and magnesium trisilicate These antacids disturb the acid-base balance in tissues and blood less than soda does and the calcium not only supplies an element which most Americans need but in my opinion it raises one's pain threshold Class dismissed for today Tm pit for the bowling green If you get your mind off your stomach please bother me with your symptoms Send me a TOKYO Japan The other morning we went to the big fish market which is really quite a sight There were enormous pieces of tuna fish fascinating green crahs and more fish of every size shape and description than I have ever seen They hold an auction early in the morning for the big retailers of fish After this the public can walk through the aisles or booths and buy what they want or go to the little shops In the neighboring streets where the price might be a little more but would still be moderate I saw a man sweeping up small pieces of fish from the floor in the big market that had dropped from the stands and Mrs Matsumoto said that ha probably took those scraps and sold them in a cheap market for poor people This seemed to me rather appalling and certainly not very sanitary When we left the market we visited a cultured pearl merchant where we saw an infinite variety of pears and tried to tell the difference between them I finally decided that the value of a pearl depends on what an individual personally likes I was told that pearls with a pink luster had been the most popular pearls until recently now gray ones were more in vogue However my preference is still for ones with the pinkish color We lunched at International House and I was glad to see some of my friends who helped to plan my activities when I was here two years ago Later we went to the museum and saw some interesting archaeological finds dating back to the Sixth Century most of which were found in burial mounds We also had a glimpse of lovely textiles and then saw some screens and drawings of a later period We dined in the evening with our ambassador John Allison and his wife and I asked the ambassador some of the questions I had put to my Japanese friends at luncheon I was glad to find that he felt much the way they did on the subject of Japanese reactions to America My curiosity and Interest in this was prompted primarily by the fact that on the way out in the plane several people had shown me clippings of articles written by Americans that told of the anti-American feeling which seemed to be on the Increase in Japan But both groups of the Americans who have been here over two years and the Japanese felt that this feeling was principally local If the Americans took land for a new air strip and reduced land available for agriculture then the farmers were angry but that was a local situation not a national one The real concern of the Japanese people is trade Most responsible Japanese know the trade with Communist China will only be about 10 per cent of all their trade but it is vital for them to renew trade relations with Communist China There is great satisfaction here over reductions which we have made in our tariffs but these do not appear to be enough and the Japanese feel the need to develop their trade with many other countries The most unpopular change with the Japanese in American policy was our decision that it was necessary for Japan to rearm after the cold war began The students expressed their rage as did many others However a defense army has been built up and now I see from an article in the paper this morning that when Japanese reach a certain number Japan will undoubtedly wish to see American troops withdrawn Personally I think this would be a good idea because it would give the Japanese a sense of complete freedom which would be good for their morale and for our friendship My Answer By Billy Graham QUESTION: Fhm I work there are several people who aro church members but I see ne difference In their lives frem ether people I have often felt the urge to go to church too and then I think of this and decide to stay away ANSWER: You can not Judge Christ by those who claim to represent Him Certainly there should be a difference between church members and those who are not There are many whose lives do not square with their Christian professions But this is no excuse: the hypocrisy of others means no escape for you when you face the Judgment of God Henry Ward Beecher once said the church is not a gal- Graham lery of saints but a congregation ef confessed sinners seeking redemption through the cross of Jesus Christ Neighbors In The Herald Portraits By James Metcalf Editorial Comment1 Chandler 'Man Of The Year' (Jackson Times) If this newspaper made a of the award it would most necessarily go to none other than A (Happy) Chandler that Iron Man of Kentucky politics who won the Democratic nomination for governor Laughing off predictions of defeat scoffing at the administration's efforts to defeat him and waging the most active campaign in the history of the state Chandler won the nomination against seemingly insurmountable odds Tackling a man with the backing of the state administration the blessings of both of Kentucky's senators congressmen and other state and county leaders the Versailles publisher launched a blitz attack on excessive spending and proposed added taxation and emerged smiling and unscathed as the undisputed champion of Kentucky politics to represent his party as its choice for governor for the next four years Amassing a majority of near 20000 votes the former governor senator and baseball commissioner ran on a platform of governmental economy a halt to increased taxes and his record as having been one of governors He told the people of getting Kentucky out of debt and reducing the load while serving them as governor before and the record bears him out that he rescued the state from a threat of virtual bankruptcy So to the Versailles Iron Man we say Congratulations for a successful campaign and wish you well in November and in your future four years of service as highest Eastern Flood Disaster The American Red Cross has issued a nationwide appeal for funds for relief in the disaster-stricken regions where floods followed In the wake of hurricanes causing tremendous damage Dr Davis Fayette County Red Cross chairman has issued an appeal for contributions that should be sent locally to the American Red Cross Security Trust Building President Eisenhower has flown over the flood area and he and Civil Defense Administrator Val Peterson have estimated that a flood relief fund of $80000-000 or more would be needed The President has inquired into what federal agencies may do and what may be asked later of Congress Mr Eisenhower has explained the difference between what the Red Cross will do in disaster relief and what the federal government will do in the way of permanent restoration He says that the Red Cross money will go to "people who are in need to human beings not just to cleaning roads or rebuilding schools but to people who are hungry or cold and have no place to The Civil Defense Agency is acting as the coordinator in determining what some eight or more different federal agencies may do Roland Harriman president of the American Red Cross and others have estimated that they will need more than Birthdays Our Camin an Worry How many problems do you have? How heavy do they weigh? How readily would you exchange With someone else today? If all our troubles could be placed Upon a common stand Which ones would you be more Inclined To take into your hand? You probably would choose your own And grab them in a hurry And at the same time tell yourself That you had less to worry You think that you have problems in Soma circumstance or place Until you aee tho hardships that Your neighbors have to face So just re member as you live That there are others too And they may have much more to be Concerned about than you According to a beauty expert cars of the eyebrows Is tricky Not to mention tha pluck it take JOSHUA LIONEL COWEN born Aar 25 1880 in New York City Designer of toy electric trains he is responsible for more than 25000 miles of miniature rail lines Now chairman of the board of Lionel Corp he also invented a mine detonator which the US Navy adopted He likes fishing and photography Finds toy train enthusiasts more interested in freight trains than passenger cars "Keep your dirty fingers off that fudge ar yaull hava ta cal it all.