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untai I I I I Ali 6 A I It COUHTY NOT ENOUGH MIDNIGHT OIL editorial page Friday, January 10, 958 TODAY'S EDITORIAL If Special Deer Hunt Asked, Why Not In Usual Season? State fish and game commissioners have turned down a proposed special out-of season deer hunt on the 8.000 acre Bear Valley ranch near Olema. It was proposed as the first such event since passage of a new state law allowing special hunting permits to the public when deer are damaging private property. Depredation by deer is often serious; something should be done about it. But we can't see that allowing the killing of just 25 deer out of an estimated herd of 1.500 would do much good. That is what the proposal was We think the commission was right in rejecting the idea.

There are other arguments against such a shoot. Hunters tell us that at this time of the year it is difficult to tell does from bucks, and that the 25 deer to be taken could be either sex or even fawns. In addition, the hunters say. deer meat at this time of year is not nearly as good as it is in the fall during the regular hunting season. One reason, say the hunters, that so many deer congregate on ranches like Bear Valley is that no hunting is allowed on them during the regular season Why, if the hunters can hunt during a special season, can they hunt during the regular season? ask the hunters.

We wonder that too. What's All This About Advertising It has been popular in recent months to criticize advertising. Probably sparked by public resentment towards certain types oi TV advertising, critics have lashed out in all directions, blaming.ad­ vertising for everything from debasing the good taste of the American people to controlling publishers of newspapers. A well known advertising executive, Fairfax Cone, has written a thoughtful, accurate picture of the situation in the current issue of The Atlantic Monthly. Explaining that advertising is nothing more than an inexpensive way for a merchant to put his sales message into the hands of the consumer, makes this revealing comment: guarantees the honesty of advertising and advertising people is vertising itself.

Punishment for sinning is swift and sure. It comes from a public that deeply resents being fooled and that will not buy any product again that has failed to live up to its original advertising The public long ago became conscious of which newspapers, for example, were as honest in their advertising columns as they were in their news columns. If the advertisers influenced the news columns, both were soon found to be unreliable. Most of this type of newspaper is no longer with us. We of the are proud of our reputation for honest reporting We are just as proud of the reputation of our advertisers for honest advertising.

Mr iught Syndicate, 1, WHAT OUR READERS SAY THREE MINUTES A DAY By JAMES KELLER INFLUENCE INCREASES In fi7 countries women now have the right to vote and hold public office New' Zealand was the first country to grant women full voting rights in 189.1 Since then great strides have been made in making it possible for women to exert a strong influence in public affairs. Today only 12 countries in the world decree that they shall have no political rights at all Without ever neglecting the family circle, the most vital unit in every country, women can be a powerful factor in restoring to the mainstream of modern life the great ual truths upon which civilization depends. From the sanctuary of the home, wives and mothers can do much to change the world for the better. Through her husband and children, as well as herself, a woman can see that local, state and national government is conducted so efficiently as to merit the blessing of God and the confidence of man. beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of (Rom.

10:15) Bless all women. () Holy Spirit, who strive to apply divine truth to the running of government. Denial Of Sign Is Discrimination EDITOR. Thought this letter to the people of Terra Linda, regarding the denial of a sign permit, might be of interest to your readers. An Open Letter to the Residents of Terra Linda: As you have probably seen, Alameda Homes is now in the process of building 155 new homes in Terra Linda.

I his group of homes is being built across Freitas parkway from the present Unit 3 of Terra Linda and east of the market. In order to advertise these attractive homes, a temporary sign at the entrance to Terra Linda is needed. We applied to the board of supervisors ior a permit to install such a sjgn, which was withip the limits and provision of the existing sign ordinance. The permit was denied and, in our opinion, the denial was one of discrimination. We sincerely feel that, since other off-highwav subdivisions in the county such as nearby Marinwood and Loma Verde, have been given the necessary permits and signs for a two-year period, w'e should be given equal treatmeot.

Why discriminate HENRY MacARTHUR Comic Opera Uniforms For CHP Is Clear Flaunting Of Legislature DOC QUIGG'S COLUMN 'Let's Go Says 14-Year-Old After Winning U.S. Chess Title NEW YORK (IP Robert James Fischer. Brooklyn's gift to international eggheadism. sa there in shirtsleeves, tie- less. biting his dirty fingernails.

chewjng his tongue, twisting his lanky schoolboy legs against the chair rungs as his gray eyes swept up and down the chessboard Across the narrow room of the Manhattan Chess Club, in another final-round game of the tournament for the coveted V. S. chess championship, sat the great Samuel Reshev- skv, an international grandmaster and long regarded as one of the worlds greatest players. THECYNICSCORNER Reshevskv was a study in poise and confidence in a neat blue suit, cigarette perched between two fingers, arms folded, eyes blinking behind brown-rim glasses. ON THF ARCHWAY en trance was pasted a penciled sign: are requested not to snore in the tournament room This civilized wav of yelling was the only touch of humor as three nerve-wracking weeks of chess play reached climax.

The 14 top Robby Fischer each played the others once. in the evening there was a By Interlondi My husband goes Walter Lippman one better he thinks Ike, Nixon, Dulles and the whole kit kaboodle should winner and new champ, 14- year-old Bobby Fischer. Reshevskv finished in second place. Out in the lobby. Maurice J.

Kasper, club president, was saying: fantastic. unbelievable. Never in the history of the world has a 14- year-old boy been playing, and winning, from masters and grandmasters BOBBY IS a quiet boy. His reaction at the moment of winning was typical. He looked at his mother and said.

go Asked yesterday, on the morning after his victory, if he would care to be interviewed for the papers, he said. talk to you Did he think he would be able to talk some other day? don't think His voice is piping, hasn't changed yet. But the top of his forward-brushed towhead reaches about five-feet-nine. He has a long nose and thin, angular face and he plays chess with a pleasantly studied air, flicking his head to the right occasionally as if rejecting strategy ideas. BOBBY LAST summer won the U.

Open championship. With this new, and top. title he is eligible to be declared an international grandmaster and compete for the world championship, now held by Vassily Smyslov of Russia. Bobby used to cry hen he lost a game but he anymore. For about a year now he hasn't had much chance to cry.

SACRAMENTO disclosure that California Highway Patrol Commissioner Bernard H. Caldwell had ordered his men to don additional and decorative raiment by May 1 is another example of the power the state departments have in eluding the intent of the Legislature. order calls for piping on trousers and blouses. royal blue socks and neckties, yellow raincoats. It sets up new specifications for shoes, gun belts, caps and shirts.

The order was made about six months after the 1957 Legislature rejected a bill which would provide similar attire. THE ORDER ITSELF involves the problem of requiring the patrolman to lay out money for the decorations, plus that for items of apparel they own which will not he permitted under the order. Two legislators have raised the question as to whether the state might be liable for reimbursement claims from the patrolmen. It also involves the question, as pointed out by Sen. George Miller Jr.

(D-Rich- niond), of whether patrolmen should be forced to purchase new outfits at the whim of a commissioner, especially when the commissioner is subject to be changed at any time. RUT THE MORE important question in the action is how- far a state department chief can go in flaunting the wishes of the Legislature. It is true, in many instances, that the elusive phrases, is difficult to determine. In such cases, a department chief usually calls in his attorneys and asks for a ruling. But the case of the opera attire" for highway patrolmen fails to fit such a category.

The lawmakers rejected the request for a change in uniform regulations just as surely as they turned down use of radar by the patrol or the use of unmarked vehicles. ONE OF THE CURIOUS and alarming things about, state government is that this isn the first time a department head has taken it upon himself to legislate on his own. The Department of Agriculture has been a notable example of this type of operation. Some of the biggest debates in recent years in Capitol halls have concerned such things as the sale of imitation ice cream or the practice of passing through milk price increases to the producers. In the battle of the mellor- ine (synthetic ice the milk trust swung from side to side until many legislators were not sure who was friend or foe.

When the several days debate ended in bill matter appeared to have been settled, at least for two years. Rut several months after the Legislature adjourned, the Department of Agriculture quietly went about issuing regulations governing the sale of imitation ice cream. REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK By CHAPIN A. DAY Arizona May Be Good For Growing Oranges, But Too Cold For Picking The Independent -Journal welcomes contributions to "What Our Readers Letters must he signed and must not exceed .100 words in length. The editor reserves the right to delete malicious material.

against one builder? Our subdivision of 155 homes is a project of $4,000.000, including a payroll of over $2.000.000 paid and spent in the county. These homes will enhance the value of Terra Linda in many ways, A broader tax base will accrue to the Community Service District, school funds will become more available as building progresses. School bonds will be spread over a broader base. But, in order for these benefits to come to Terra Linda, the homes must be sold. To sell the homes we must be able to direct prospective buyers to the area.

In order to do this, a reasonable sized temporary sign is essential. JOHN KENNEY President Alameda Homes, Inc. Terra Linda Support Urged For Slaughter Bills EDITOR. Independent-Journal: Enclosed please find bulletin from American Humane Association regarding compulsory humane slaughter legislation. Any word of yours would mean so much for the cause and would be greatly appreciated by the writer and many others interested.

Thank you for your wonderful editorials. MARGARET SMITH RICE Larkspur (NOTE: Reader Rice included a four page report by the association on humane slaughter for all food animals, urging public support through contact, letters and telegrams to legislators, of HR 8.303 and 1497 to be considered at this session of Congress.) Supervisor Vera Schultz came back to Marin this week after a stay in Arizona. rested and relaxed. Maybe the weather wasn't all it is cracked up to be down there. She reported she picked oranges until her hands were about to freeze.

Speaking of that, she also has a new short cool. THE WIRE SERVICE didn't carry the fact, but it was a Marin man who made the motion making Dr. Wallace Hall the new associate state superintendent of instruction. He is Thomas J. Mellon of Kentfield.

a member of the State Board of Education. Note to real estate dealers: Wally Hall may be moving to Sacramento, but he selling his new Belvedere home. He plans to keep it and see if he be a weekend commuter. So please, fellows, not so many telephone calls with offers, eh? ONE MORE New Eve story: We there (darn it), but we're told that about 1 p.m. a couple got out of the back seat of a car in front of the Mill Valley American Legion building, the car door slammed shut on the skirt of the strapless car drove off.

taking the gown with it. She stood there quite composed in bra. garter belt, shoes and stockings, turned to her escort: rather cold out here, will you loan me your coat, George gave up his suit coat; she put it on and they disappeared into the door of the hall. As we say, we weren't there, so we must end the story here. YOUNG JIMMY McKEEV- ER of Tamalpais Valley has been taught to be a gentleman.

The other day he had his tonsils out. As he was being wheeled out of the hospital, he turned to the nurse and through clenched teeth, rasped out: had a very good THE OTHER EVENING members of the Associated Press News Executives Conference held a meeting at San Quentin prison. As they were seated around the square tables in the prison mess hall, the only inmate seated with them was the young editor of the San Quentin News, the own paper. To get an attendance record, a sheet of paper was passed around on which those present were asked to sign their names and affiliations. When it got to the prison editor, he balked.

he declared. signed anything in years. Look what happened last WHILE WE RE TALKING about the Associated Press, an item that came in this week, just the way it came in: Singer David Street has wed a fourth Lee. Friends disclosed their secret marriage lust Dec. 14 in Las Vegas, SIGN IN WINDOW of doughnut shop on Mill Valley's East Blithedale evenue: CUSTOMERS No Experience WALTER LIPPMANN Our Military Supremacy Was Brief, It Has Ended, We Need New Approach TRY AND STOP ME BKNNETT CERF There are countless stories about Joe Frisco, the stuttering individualist who made a fortune starring in night clubs, and lost it all at various race tracks.

One of them concerns the day Bing Crosby found Frisco sadly staring into space at a coffee stand in Palm Springs. the. matter inquired Bing. that t-t-third race t-t-thinking said Frisco. only put $10 on Royal Tiger.

I s-s-shoulda put down it win by Crosby asked. didn't w-w-win at admitted Frisco. it almost glad you're going out with a UCLA. senior told her roommate, find him a gentleman from the word The roommate returned some hours later, somewhat upset. had Willie just a bit she reported.

turned out to be a gentleman from the word The Congress will be more than willing to vote, indeed it will be insistent upon, a substantial increase in military expenditures. The President can have the money he asks for. and as a matter of fact, he is likely to be criticized because he has asked for too little rather than because he has asked for too much. The realization has struck home that in the race of armaments the Soviet Union is moving at a faster rate than we are. and that the time is in sight when the balance of power will be decisively against this country.

WHAT IS NOT so certain is whether the country has been made to realize that the insecurity in which we are beginning to live cannot be overcome by weapons to put it concretely, our insecurity cannot be cured in the Pentagon alone, no matter how it is reorganized, streamlined, unified, and financed. The fact that we have fallen behind in the race is the result of a decline in our intellectual activities and of our public energies. THIS OMINOUS default cannot be corrected by a crash program in which it becomes our supreme national purpose to acquire a supply of missiles. If we whip ourselves into an hysterial fixation on missiles, we as surely as fate the allied countries in which the bases for the missiles would have to be placed. We can achieve the security, which we now believe to be threatened, only if our military firm and part of a much larger which includes our diplomacy and our education and the intellectual life of the nation.

We shall have missed the point of the challenge to which we are put if this Congress, having voted an increase in the military budget, turns its back, on education and research, and settles for some trifling and timid contribution. THE AMERICAN CRISIS today is the result of a long accumulation of errors and glect in the field of education. And while it cannot be cured by money alone, it cannot be cured without money, wdthout much more money. It cannot be cured without a change in the popular attitude toward the support of education. By existing standards this would constitute a break-through to a new and higher level.

Nothing would so stimulate this country as the demonstration that we have read the meaning of the Sputniks, not as frightened men rushing excitedly for weapons but as lucid and honest men, unafraid and unashamed to admit their failings. NOTHING, MORE OVER, would do so much to restore the confidence of mankind in the United States, and to dissipate their fear that we have lost our nerve. But that will not be enough. We shall have to reappraise some of the principal aims of our foreign policy in view of the fact that our military preponderance has ended. Let us have no illusions.

If we do everything recommended in the Gaither and the Rockefeller reports, shall at best maintain the balance of power. We shall still be only one great power competing with an equally great power. The days of our military supremacy were brief and they have ended. The Country Parson thing you must do that nobody can help you do your place in the.