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The Terre Haute Tribune. Saturday, February 18, 1961. EDITORIALS may disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say Hoffa's Risky Dream If Teamster President James R. Hof fa has his way, all trucking of freight in the country will be controlled by one master union contract. He reported at a meeting of the executive board that this goal was within reach.

Hoffa gave assurances at the same time that this presented no threat to the general welfare, that there would be no danger of a nationwide stoppage. just be a national he said. good business for the union Nevertheless, the public would feel less concerned about a master union contract if these assurances had been voiced by someone ith a greater sense of responsibility, both to the public and to organized labor, than Hoffa has shown. The cocky president, whose union has been expelled from the AFL-CIO, has shown scorn for both Congress and the courts and stands accused by the Senate rackets committee in after instance of unconscionable of his own union members. Hoffa, in short, hardly qualifies as a reliable defender of the public interest, which would be far better served if his master contract never were realized.

It poses far too grave a risk. The 1960s Are Crucial The federal conservation chief said an important mouthful the other day. Don W. Williams, administrator of the soil conservation service, told a group of like thinkers assembled in Memphis, that 1960s are the crucial so far as conservation of the natural resources is concerned. Williams spoke at the national soil conservation districts convention.

The men he addressed, men who spend their working days on the firing line of conservation programs in all parts of the United States, must have nodded quick agreement when he declared that this nation advances with an all-out conservation push now, we may have too little too late 15 years from In the history of a great nation, 15 years is a very short time indeed. To speak of little too late 15 years hence is about like telling an individual that something dangerously unpleasant is going to happen unless he takes corrective action by the middle of next week. The evidence does not support any comforting thought that Williams was merely exaggerating for effect The drain on our precious oil, water, timber, coal, as well as on alarming enough to fully justify his warning that the nation had better act promptly to stave off serious deficiencies. The Motive Beneath Lately there was a report that Russian women stood in line three for a quarter of a look at fabrics such as can be seen every day in bargain basements of American department stores. The story may seem to call for rather patronizing amusement in the United States.

What a backwoods country the Soviet Union is, after all some Americans may say to themselves. How can such a nation, or even more backward Red China, make serious pretensions of challenging the sophisticated United States? How can they hope to compete with this nation, where the wardrobes of clerks, stenographers housemaids would strike envy in the heart of the elite among Russian women? Accounts of the drabness of life under Communism feed both our vanity and our complacency. The trouble is that they tell but a small part of the story. The rosy glow departs when one reflects on the vastness of the Russian empire, when one realizes that the U.S.S.R. and Red China have us vastly outnumbered, that the Soviet Union leads in the field of heavy missiles, that the Communists have a beachhead in Cuba and are a growing threat in Africa, Asia and South America.

Most Communist women may have to work like men; most of them may be frumpy dressers. But the chances are that this is not much of a worry to Khrushchev and Mao. They are dedicated to world domination, and more cheerful garb for the ladies does not stand high on their list of aims. We forget that at our peril. Penalty for Pickups Drivers who give lifts to hitchhikers usually feel that they are doing a kindness.

Perhaps they think about the school children who might otherwise have to walk a considerable distance, and visualize all other self-invited guests as being equally harmless. The trouble is that they may not be. Police reports indicate that many are escaped prisoners or wanted criminals. To give one such a ride may cause the pursuing police to lose track of him altogether. Also, there are too many cases of hitchhikers knocking out their hosts and driving off With their valuables and car.

One furthei objection: even when hiker is entirely harmless, a sudden stop to pick him up may cause an accident. Many states forbid the solicitation of rides on the highways, but few make it an offense to pick up a rider. Something Is being done about the situation in New York, where a driver who picks up a hitchhiker on the state thruway is liable for a fine and jail sentence. It may turn out that this approach is the only effective way to minimize the dangers that arise through hitchhiking MAN IN THE IRON MASK i i i (ft The Terre Haute Tribune AND GAZETTE Daily Sunday, the Terre Haute Gaeette established In 1889; The Terre Haute Tribune established in 1894. CALL THE TRIBUNE.

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Jim Bishop Reporter HOROSCOPE By STELLA SATURDAY, FEBRUARY IB- Born today you have a practical, matter-of-fact nature which, when combined with your artistic talents, can bring you to a real and lasting success. You are not one to be hurried into action. Your motto is and to win out. Careful in money matters, you will probably make plenty, not by taking chances, but by investing wisely. You have executive ability and know how to delegate work to others without appearing to slide out of your own responsibility.

You would probably do well in the field of the natural sciences and might make some important discovery in the area of physics or chemistry which might change many previously conceived concepts. Once you have set out on a course of examination, you will discover all known facts before presenting your case! The stars have given you a fine speaking voice, a sence of the dramatic and the ability to appear before the public without nervousness. You might enter politics at some period in your life, practice law, or try for a career on the stage. Among those born on this date are: Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor; Luis Munoz-Marin, Puerto Rican Governor; Pabez Gorham, Silversmith; Charles M. Schwab, industrialist; William Parsons Winchester Dana, marine painter.

To find what the stars have in store for you tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide. Sunday, February IB. Aquarius (Jan. 21-Feb.

you have letters to write, then this is a fine day to take care of them. Pisces (Feb. 20-March There are apt to be minor misunderstandings when it comes to marriage. Conciliate. Aries (March 21-April any differences of opinion which may arise, since peace is very important.

Tarus (April 21-May the time to worry over money matters, so take it easy and forget business matters. Gemini (May 22-June Dual interests may vie for your attention. Keep both under consideration for now. Cancer (June 22-July at the church of your choice can bring you inspiration and encouragement. Leo (July 24-August is your best day of the week when it is easy for you to come to important decisions.

Virgo (Aug. 24-Sept. been spending the weekend away from home, get an early start before the rush. Libra (Sept. 24-Oct.

may find it necessary to revise plans, previously made, but go about it diplomatically. Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. Gain inspiration from church services and make plans in accordance with new ideas. Sagittarius (Nov.

23-Dec. may be spondence which needs handling at once; do it today. Capricorn (Dec. 23 Jan. Not the right day for arguing legal matters.

Wait until later when you have all the Copyright, 1961. by United Syndicate. Inc. NEW YORK Confidential COSTLY OMISSION TUCSON, Ariz. Fred Frederico, 39.

of Tucson reported his car stolen. Later he located the vehicle but forgot to notify officers. Four months later Tucson policeman Elbert Meeks spotted the vehicle and forced the driver to the curb. Frederico not only had to prove the car was his but he was charged with driving on a revoked license. By LEE MORTIMER HOLLYWOOD AS CLOSE as my telephone where I learned that Cara Williams and Scotty Rubin are having Ha together, which Is more than she had with John Barrymore, Jr.

Steve latest is actress Suzanne Sydney Connie Stevens still hot with Tony Travis, Dinah protege, and if you wanta know why Dinah will work Las Vegas but not Miami (at any amount) she says Vegas in near enough to Hollywood and in case anything goes wrong with the film she can fly home in 55 minutes Figured it was time for some new for Rod Taylor. The France Nuven bit completely legit. (More for publicity.) The new one is in the same idiom however. Kikko Mara a Japanese actress been doing six a week since WW got sick, which is one more than he did. It was quite a chore.

So happy to have the extra day off. According to Kathryn Murray, a playboy is a fellow who insists on loving beyond his means. MAY I NOTE that wherever comic Jack Carter goes Paula Stewart goes too. in Miami All along, I thought George boy Ronnie was sweet on Yvonne Lime but been stepping out with pretty Joan Staley, the starlet And speaking of Yvonne Lime. not worried.

got cowboy star Ty Hardin All those columnists who were trying to make something of the fact that Shirley MacLaine spends most of her time in California while her husband, Steve Parker, spends most of his time in Japan, have had to eat their words siace Shirley gave up everything to make that picture in Kyoto Anything with songbird Vicki Benet and Liam Sullivan? notice that the same soft-in-the-head crowd that signs all the appeals to recognize Red China or end the House Un-American Activities Committee usually spouts against capital punishment? Whatever happened to the professionals who made a living for so long keeping Chessman alive? SOMETIMES I WONDER if the world be better off if show people switch partners from day to day for the sole purpose of getting their names in columns like this. For instance, the rumor mongers now link Dolores Michaels (who used to go with Don Murray) with David Hedison, but at least Hedison is a new name in this merry-go- round And Dolores Hart is seeting things clear with Rick Clair and I wish I could pun that one up better Singer Earl Grant, busting records in Japan, wants model Carolyn Cole to pay him a flying visit. Note to American: Joseph Hannah of your city and Odette Benjamin, divorced wife of the real estate tycoon, doing it up brown at the Colony in Palm Beach And Robert Rassmussen of the Windy City millions, invited 180 top drawer Palm Beach socialites to help him celebrate his birthday and make up with his wife Snooty eyebrows in the snooty colony being lifted by the romance between Estelle Parker Hoaglund and an important law enforcement official Princess tege, 13-year-old Alicia Juvikova, who was flown to New York to represent Monaco at a series of balls, is being guardianed by Bill Russell, president of Cosmetiques Biotherm, who put up the dough for the goodwill visit A vain woman buys shoes a size too small and a bra two sizes too large. PRO-CASTRO AGITATORS in Miami (and Harlem) are tailing up an irridenta for Florida, which is a two-bit diplomatic word meaning that when comes the glorious revolution, Florida will be to Cuba which never owned it. Pan-Cubans are also being promised Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and as much of Central America as anyone wants One particularly violent street corner Demosthenes was heard to shout that Texas and New Mexico will be given back to Mexico.

As far as Texas is concerned, oh well, I can dream, Now that the White House is in Palm Beach, so muoh Federal stationed there permanently, that the guys with badges trip over one another Press agents so surprised that Marlon Tahitian discovery, name of Tarita, speaks French, but even a press agent should know that Tahita is a French colony. The residents there, Polynesians, Chinese, speak it as their native tongue, just as the Polynesians and Orientals who lived in the old Territory of Hawaii spoke English. But of course a press agent know everything unless he reads it here. OUR COLUMNISTS UNION oughtta charge for all the ideas people pick up from us. For instance, David Newton Lott says his new book, Addresses of American was inspired by a column WWinchell wrote four years ago in which he noted: could almost write a history of this nation by compiling an anthology of inaugural addresses.

Many were eloquent and a few had a special quality which made them Their pals say stress Jo-Ann Campbell finally said finish to Barry Finn Detroit mob operating the Miamis this year with Joe Massei on the scene to see it goes right Arthur Godfrey who has a boulevard named after him in Miami will tape an hour spectacular next month on the Gold Coast Jie Roe, the powerful Queens Democrat leader, is recuperating from a serious illness in wood, Fla. more of the same that Inger Stevens is now alternating between Alan Livingston, a Betty Hutton ex, and producer George Englund one of the nicest guys in Hollywood There must be a recession. I saw a Texan applying for a loan. (What do you think I was doing?) Terre Haute Thirty Years Ago Today February 18. Mr.

and Mrs. Arthur Judson, Kalamazoo, who were on their way to spend three weeks in Florida, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Barnes, Crawford street. Ida Kingery, Pueblo, was visiting Mr.

and Mrs. John M. Freitag, Kent avenue. Guests of Mr. and Mrs.

Charles Kirkham, North Twelfth street, were Mrs. sister, Mrs. Raymond Koons, Roekport, and her daughter, Alberta. Mrs. W.

Gray Brown, Oak Park, 111., was the guest of Mrs. Mattie Lake, 1631 Locust street. Hostess for a meeting of the Kent Avenue Club was Mrs. Frank Tabor, 308 Kent avenue. Mrs.

John Evans. Deming place, entertained with a luncheon bridge at her home. Hostess for a meeting of the Portfolio Club was Mrs. Robert A. Gilchrist, South Center street.

The Grab Bag The Answer, Quick! 1. What was the name of father? 2. What author began his famous essays, with thou hast an honest 3. Laertes was the father of what Greek legendary hero? 4. What state is represented by Sen.

Frank Carlson? 5. What is the largest triumphal arqji? Your Future. Idyllic domestic bliss should be yours this year. child will be lucky in business. For Supday, Feb.

19: Determination brings reward in an eventful year. child will be enterprising. Happy Birthday. To Dane Clark, actor; Joe Gordon, baseball figure, and Paul Berlanback, former light heavyweight boxer. For Sunday, Feb.

19: Determination brings reward in an event- comedian, and Eddie Arcaro, famous jockey. It Happened Today. Thirteen years ago today Eamon de Valera was ousted as prime minister of Ireland. On Sunday. Feb.

19: On this date in 1878 Thomas Edison patented the phonograph. Been Said. Never do anything concerning the rectitude of which you have a Watch Your Language. CONNIPTION (ke-NIP shen) noun; a fit of hysterics or hysterical excitement. Origin: U.

S. slang. You Make Out? 1. Powhatan. 2.

Montaigne. 3. Odysseus. 4. Kansas.

5. The Arc de Triomphe in Paris. MIAMI, Fla sun was hot and steady. It wilted the wild on the palm trees and spangled the blue sequins of the sea with gold. It was a rich morning, a morning bright with promise and rare beauty.

At 11 a.m., Mrs. Jane G. decided to die. She had thought about it a long time, and she was afraid to go. But the hour had struck and her nerves were steady and numb.

She had one last phone call to make. There was an organization in Miami called Friends. They try to talk people out of suicide. The lady knew they do it in her case, but she felt she owed it to herself to dial F-R-I E-N-D-S. Her motel room was neat.

She had written two notes, one to her sister, and one to a nephew who was 17. Jane was stout and fiftyish, with long hair done in a bun and an edging of gray. She dialed the numbeif and an answering service cut in. the operator said. is Friends.

May I help Jane was silent a minute. Then she said she think so. The operator asked for name and phone number. is the answering she said. will have someone call you at She pulled the plug out and studied the list of volunteers.

There are 40. Mrs. Louise Bean was on duty this morning. The operator dialed Highland 3-6000. Mrs.

Bean answered. the operator said, have a number for you to Mrs. Bean wrote it on a pad. She hung up and dialed at once. When potential suicides call Friends, their last forlorn hope and their lowest depression cross trails.

Telephone Trial. Mrs. Bean said. is There was no hello. Just the sound of sobbing coming through the transmitter.

Mrs. Bean said. good to She waited. The woman wept a long time. When the tears began to slow, Louise Bean took a chance.

is your she said. Mrs. Jane G. started to cry again. She caught her breath and said: lost my husband last April.

I have no place to go. You see, we were married 28 years. We went everywhere together. Now gone and 54 and nobody wants Mrs. Bean listened.

She is a little womay with china blue eyes, straight champagne hair, and the brand of common sense that comes out of New England. about your Mrs. Bean said. The woman said she had no children. She had come to Miami to see her sister and her sister had ordered har to snap out of her depression your husband the sister had said.

your crying bring him back. Go out and get a job. Foiget your Mrs. G. decided to join her husband.

She had a tittle insurance and she was goi lg to leave it to her nepwew for college. Mrs. Bean shook her head. you think he would want to go through college on that kind of The womar at the other end of the phone stopped crying. never though of she said.

Mrs. Bean said: something on and meet me at the Urney Hotel. Do you know where that The woman did. me in the coffee shop. leaving The voice said will I know Mrs.

Bean said: will you be Che woman in the woman began to show through. plain black dress and white shoos. I have a little gray in my hair although I look my age sort of Works It Ont. They met. They talked.

Jane cried some more. Mrs. Bean listened and sipped coffee. She has a husband and two children and a lot of housewor; Like the 39 volunteers in Friends, like the group in Boston cal ed Rescue, and the Save-A-Life League in New York, Mrs. Bean feels that the saving of only oie life is a rich reward for anj volunteer.

Every year, 16,000 ons take their lives in the U. S. This is about the population of Durango, Colorado. Around Miami, 130 commit suicide each jear. It used to be 155, before Friends.

If Louise had found the case complicated, she would have- referred it to a psychiatrist. It Mrs. Ben and Mrs. G. talked for hours.

Louise suggested that Jane ask the hotel manager if anyone needed a baby sitter. This worked out fine. Jane got more jobs than she could handle. People reeded her. Children wanted her.

earned money. One man with children asked her to join his organization. He collects old recipes for cookbooks. Jane now travels all over the country and gets paid for it. Her most recent postcard to Louise says: whole outlook has changed.

busy and happy again. God bless you. Louise. God bless all who do His IJou yd nel IjJourS By BURTON H. FERN, Dr.

Fern The Lincoln Memorial in Washington was completed in 1922. HEFTY THEFT ARDMORE. that was taken in a book store robbery, apparently by a thief who likes to read, was a $40 dictionary weighing 25 pounds. Eels Into Plowshares Are scientists cheating you? How about the trained mind that prefers probing eel electricity to helping humanity? Shocking? Through serendipity, it may help humanity more than all the cancer and heart researchers in the world. You never know! why called accidental reward you looking for.

Some years back, a doctor took off for a cocktail party instead of going to his laboratory. Over martinis he heard a veterinarian complain about spoiled hay. It interfered with blood- clotting in cattle. The doctor had been search- ing for a way to prevent blood- clotting in humans. He found his secret in spoiled hay.

Who knows how many millions of heart attacks victims owe their lives to that cocktail party! Must Be Recognized. Gold mines of information surround us all. But gold remains worthless if valuable ore goes unrecognized. At the start of the century, doctors and nurses watched a scrawny toddler dump salt on his half shaker at a time. Diseased adrenal glands kept the lad in the hospital.

A strict nurse took away his salt Try and Stop Me ---------------By BENNETT CERF---------------- FUTURE CANDIDATES for office should bear in mind this reminiscence of Senator Karl Mundt, of South Dakota: once was told at a rally that my allotted time to speak was exactly five minutes. I began, I speak more than five minutes, I hope you will vote for opponent and that he will win the I did, and they did, and he can clean-cut Ameri- maintains Mitch Miller, some day to be a model wife to some man only stop counting his millions long enough to ask Epitaph for a philanthropist: gave to this, he gave to that, He headed all alarms. Then one fine day he got fed up And said, to shaker and he died. Years later, doctors discovered that sick adrenal glands increase the need for salt. Seeds of serendipi grow only when planted in a ierttle mind.

Development of Penicillin. While others complained of molds which killed test tube bacteria, an English scientist molded molds into medicine. From the troublesome mold he extracted a chemical called penicillin. In Baltimore a housewife remarked that her car-sickness disappeared while she was taking an allergy medicne. A young interne perked his ears, thousand of soldiers were tested and a modern cure for seasickness was found.

Comprehensive Program. Today, accidents are being set up like crash programs. Research foundations sponsor conferences where experts frori different fields compare notes. Other experts are hunting for the magic which fertilizes minds and helps accidents grow inio modern miracles. Is the man with the electric eel cheating you? Who knows what turn up? A cure for multiple sclerosis? A revolutionary way of producing electricity? Dr.

mailiwx is wide open for letters from readers. While he cannot undertake to answer individual letters, he will use question? in his column whenever possible and when they are of general interest. Address your letters ti Dr. Fern in care of this newspaper. Laff-A-Day "Gertrude, please 1".