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I I EDITORIAL OPINION nr WORLD TO Jn 6 3 oumal A StlVIMA All Of MAIIH COUNTY KG ASKS THE WORLD today A THOUGHT FOR THE HOLIDAY Hiyroay teaches EDITORIAL PAGE July 6, 1953 Supervisors Resort Again To Their Do-Nothing Policy Once again th; board of supervisors is resorting to its old habit of doing today what can be put off until This time the situation was sharply defined. It was, Should Margaret Whitelock be given a use permit to operate a rest home at Woodacre? The alternative was to let her operate merely a boarding home for aged women, as she has a right.and plans to do regardless of what the supervisors say. The board had before it a recommendation of its planning commission, an appointed body of men and women who investigate such things and are noted for a stringent attitude toward deviations from prescribed property use. The recommendation was to grant the use permit. The board also had the recommendation of one of its members, William Q.

Wright, in whose district Woodacie is situated. He had investigated extensively, talked to numerous people about it and had received scores of let-, ters on both sides. He recommended denial of the use permit. He based his decision on the belief that so much friction had been created by the proposed rest home that denial of the permit would create a cooling off period. Mrs.

Whitelock would move in with boarding house, prove to the residents she operated a desirable establishment, and when in six months or a year she again applies for a test home permit, it would have no opposition. Difference between a boarding home and a rest home is that in a boarding home all residents must be ambulatory. In other words none of them could be sick in bed. Mrs. Whitelock, a registered nurse, would like to be able to take care of any of her old people who become sick.

So she desires the test ftbme license in an area zoned to exclude it. Wright, a freshman on the board, thought Can Teach Old Dog New Tricks Can you teach an old dog new tricks? You can in Marin-no offense intended. The Pacific'Telephone and Telegraph company recently switched over to long range dialing, making ft possible for residents of the Mill Valley and San Rafael areas to dial telephone numbers as far awav as San Jose and Concord. It was a new experience and challenge for Marin phone users. Whereas Tormerlv a slip of the finger brought a taulty-number wail from the telephone instrument or a number are vou inquiry from an operator, now It might mean a toll call.

Realizing the problem, launched HAL BOYLE'S COLUMN he had lined up the needed three votes to deny the permit. He told some of the permit opponents what he intended to do and told them it would be necessary for them to be present. Mrs. Whitelock and her supporters were present. hen Wright called for a vote on his motion to deny the application, he got only two votes and lost.

Chairman William Fusselman then resorted to parliamentary maneuvering by changing his vote and asking for reconsideration next meeting, tomorrow. Another full scale hearing with the community choosing up sides and hard feelings increasing was exactly what Wright was trying to avoid. He wanted to heal, not to aggravate the breach. Wright was forced to call for a rescinding of the previous vote and move for a six-month continuation of action on the application. Although the discussion had shown that every one of the supervisors had a definite opinion tm the matter, they all heaved a sigh ol relief and voted to put olf the necessity of taking a stand.

The action, as far as this particular case is concerned, was probably, the worst the board could have made. It left the situation in a state of suspended animation. Mrs. Whitelock will go into Woodacrc under the cloud of a decision vet unreached. If the board wanted the people to have time to give her fair trial, they should have denied her application.

If they wanted her to have her rest home, they should have said so. Doing nothing soothes no one, solves nothing. Worse stiil the put-it-olf attitude gives thinking residents of Marin reason for concern. If their board take action on a clear-cut complicated thing like a use permit, what can the people expect of their supervisors on meters of liscal and county-wide importance? upon an extensive nevyspaper advertising campaign, assisted by direct mail, to educate the public concerning this new service and its use. The Independent-Journal carried the message into more than 16,000 Marin homes as sensibly used the most effective means of reaching population.

ovv did it work out? The results ate now in and happy to tell vou. On the first day of the new operation records show it was 98 per cent effective. Only 2 per cent of calls placed were iaulty. The second day only 1 per cent were in error, making the service 99 per cent effective. Since then it has been only a small fraction of one per cent faulty.

should lie congratulated for planning such a successful educational campaign. It proved you can teach an old dog new Marin. You Should Try The Fishing In Naromiyocknowhus Unkatankshunk By GEORGE MACKIE (For llal Bovle) HARTFORD. Conn. Arthur H.

vice president and dean of Trinity College, thinks would be rice if the Post Department would establish past offices in such Connecticut localities as Gadpouch, Lull, Moose Meadow', Nod, Obtuse, Pigtail Corners, Puddletown and Wallop. Hughes wont argue that their populations are sufficient to warrant a post office. He just thinks they would make lovely postmarks. HOBBY is Connecticut place names. He has catalogued 20,000 in the last 10 years, working first with former Lt.

Gov. Odell Shepard, author and English teacher now at Bard College, THE TIMID SOUL and more recently with Morse Allen of Trinity's English faculty. Obviously, Hughes doesn't confine his studies to formally organized towns and cities. There are only 169 of them. He collects names of rivers, lakes, swamps and localities used principally by folks in the immediate neighborhood.

AMONG OTHER things his studies have made him quite an authority on Indian languages. The Quinnpiac River in Connecticut. for instance, is the same word as the Kennebec in Main. It means water He has become also a debunke? of local legends. The story that Yelping Hill gets its name from a pack of foxes disregards the fact By Webster-Roth the land was once owned by a man named Yelping.

Among the assortment of odd facts compiled by Hughes: Most place names grow of a prosy, workaday so that Connecticut has 18 Chestnut Hills and the same number of Prospect Hills. Animals, birds, fishes, points of the compass, colors, numerals and people's names wind up referring to a locality. It's not hard to guess what gave names to at least two (Connecticut localities. Hardschrabble in Warren and Pinchgut in Danbury. Suspended Judgment By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON President moderate statement about the achievements of the Republican party can be taken as a suggestion to both friends and critics of his administration to suspend judgment awhile.

At a news conference, he said the Republican party is gradually showing its ability to assume responsibility and carry it out. In using the word he seemed to be making a frank admission that his party, in control of the government since January. has been something less than a of fire. AT THE SAME time this can be interpreted as meaning he expects his administration to be judged more on what it does in the future than on wrhat it has done to date. What the Republican-controlled Congress has done in the past six months in the way of legislation has not been much, and not much is expected of it before it clpses up shop for the year.

Since so much human reaction is based on high hope or great disappointment, it is not unusual for judgments to be extreme. Undoubtedly there have been extreme judgments already on the first six months of the Republican administration: that it has been wonderful or that it has been NEITHER AT THE moment seems fair or accurate. The truth probably lies somewhere between the two extremes, which is what Eisenhower may have had in mind when he refrained from praising or criticizing what the Republican Congress has aone in 1933. Actually, any attempt at fair appraisal of the success or failure of the Eisenhower administration will have to wait at least another year. By the time of the 1954 congressional elections the voters should have a pretty clear idea of what the score is.

In the first pflace, there was the problem of the budget. As is customary, President Truman submitted his budget th Congress early in January. In other years, when the president who submitted the budget was going to continue as president, Congress went to work on it at once with its appropriations committees to examine it, try to reduce it, and finally pass the money bills. THIS YEAR IT WAS known that Eisenhower would have his own people the short Time they had, a budget of their own. Therefore, Congress was delayed several months in considering appropriations.

Only one appropriation bill has been passed so far and sent to the White House for signature. Both houses passed the bill giving states control of the underwater oil off their coasts out to a line still undetermined. And both Rouses gave the president an extension on limited controls over certain materials. But while the House has passed a statehood for Hawaii bill and a one-year extension of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, the Senate has acted on neither. The Senate no doubt will pass the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, but practically no one expects it to go along with the House on Hawaii statehood.

BOTH HOUSES ARE expected to extend the excess profits tax for six months. The delay on this was due mainly to one man, a New York Republican. Chairman Daniel A. Reed of the House Ways and Means Committee. And that will probably be all that Congress accomplishes this year.

It was a Congress in which the Republicans, who had spent almost 20 years criticizing the Democrats, suddenly found themselves in the position of responsibility and, as Eisenhower pointed out. it took them time to get used to it. McNaught Syndicate, In oh migcsh ill HAVC lo PRACTISE utt ng ihis coat ON FASTSR ie doctor has ordered air milquetoast NOT lb EXPOSE HIS SOOY 'lb iHE RAYS or iHf SUN MORE IRAN HALF AN HOUR A DAY HOPYARD and Kingdom are two of a dozen wild and rocky places in Connecticut taking their names from the nether regions. There are corresponding and compensating appellations that belong oji the side of the Hughes says. The Bible had its influence, though, with 11 Goshens and a number of Sharons and Canaans.

Banrall, in Stamford, got its name because it is the former site of a tin shop. Cherry Park, in Avon, may never have seen a cherry tree. It is named for an Indian chief called of his fondness for cherry rum. IF THE INDIANS could come back to Connecticut (Quinnitu- they probably wouldn't recognize many places they named: but it's their own fault because they never developed a wTitten language. Each early settler who heard an Indian name wrote it the way it sounded to him the result has been something that borders on Hence nobody knows how it started out, but the longest place name in Connecticut, applied to a stream in Sherman, now looks like this: Naromiyocknowhus-un- katankshunk Brook.

EISENHOWER HIMSELF i these first six months has also had the problem of adjustment: in the new job as president and in trying to get along with Congress. He has moved with extreme mildness and caution. Next year Eisenhower and the Republican controlled Congress will have had plenty of time to fit into their new jobs. What they accomplish nextr year, or fail to. will be a much truer measure of their worth than what happened in 1953.

NOAH NUMSKULL GUESSING GAME 3 Theories On Trouble Winston By W. G. LANDREY LONDON (U.RI The favorite guessing game today in London: really wrong with Prime Minister Winston Churchill? There are three theories: is more gravely ill than has been announced, possibly having suffered something like a nervous breakdown. illness is a one to postpone painlessly the Bermuda conference with President Eisenhower and French Premier Joseph Laniel. are exactly as stated: Churchill has been overworked and needs a good and complete rest.

THESE ARE THE known facts: On June 23, a week ago last Tuesday, he presided at a long session of his Conservative cabinet. But he did not appear in the House of Commons that afternoon and those who wondered why were told that the press of business had kept him at No. 10 Downing St. Last Thursday morning, another scheduled cabinet meeting was cancelled and Churchill went to his country home, Chartwell, in the Kent hills. That night the names of his Bermuda entourage were announced.

ON SATURDAY came the stunning announcement that the Bermuda meeting, set for July 8. was postponed because of illness. He was ordered to rest for at least a month. The medical bulletin was signed by Lord Moran, Churchill's regular physician, and Sir Russell Brain, an eminent nerve specialist. Since then, Churchill has been up and about at Chartwell.

Wearing his favorite blue siren suit, he has played with his grandchildren in the garden. Old friends have come regularly to lunch. He has been reported cheerful. The known facts support theory No. 3 that as the medical bulletin said and as officials in Whitewall insist, Churchill has overworked.

He is seeimr his friends. He is reading the more important state papers. It was he who announced the appointment of the Marquess of Salisbury as acting foreign secretary. WHAT READERS SAY: Figures In Hospital Story Are Meaningless EDITOR, Independent-Journal: I bring home with me the two evening San Francisco papers, for which I pay 10c apiece, and I can psure you that there is more news in the Independent-Journal than in the other two papers combined. I would, however, like to draw your attention to one article that I thought was very badly reported.

That was in the issue of June 23, No. front page column entitled: Treats 5.000 Patients, Loses $95,000 The figures which you gave are REMEMBER WHEN? 10 YEARS AGO Bill Beebe and Art Napoletano, of San Anselmo, were elected and at Boys' State in Sacramento. Mrs. Magnus and Reno Prozim purchased the grocery department of H. Pini and Novato.

Prize-winners at the annual pet parade were Dick Ensign, Dale Chaney, Ronnie Kien- est, Jimmie, Paul, Alice and Arlie Austin, Johnnie Tweedie, Jimmie Horal. Aileen Miller, Billy Hughes and Phyllis Lonsdale. 20 YEARS AGO Fred Croker. Marin county realtor. saved his 9 year old son.

Rolfe, from drowning in Merced river while the family was vacationing in the Yosemite valley. In opening games of a newly formed county baseball league, Fairfax Athletic club beat El Camino theater 3-1, and San Rafael Foresters beat West End 14-1. Mrs. Jonathon B. Crooks, ber of the Business and Professional Women's club of Marin, was appointed club delegate to the biennial convention in Chicago.

TODAY'S BUSINESS MIRROR Hot Weather Will Be Major Business Factor For While meaningless. When you say that 5.000 adults were treated, it is impossible to draw any conclusions. It should be stated in The Marin General Hospital Is a very fine institution. Of course it comparable with any of the teaching institutions such as Stanford, California. Mount Zion, Frankin, but for anybody who too sick, they couldn't be confined in a better place.

Mrs. Heller spent some five or six days there last year and received excellent attention. The main trouble is thafr the staff doctors are trying to play politics and that just cannot be done. If Marin county wants a first class hospital, it should have it staffed by either California or Stanford, and it should be kept entirely out of local politics. I don't know anything about Dr.

Goddard. He may be the best physician in the country, but when he says there has been bad feeling in the county, the staff rbust in some way be responsible because the doctors are the only salesmen the tal has. alter heller San Rafael Nobody's Wrong, Everyone's Right EDITOR. Independent-Journal: In regard to the article in our Readers of June 15. The article concerned a Louisiana Bridge with side bracing.

Mr. Paolino stated that is the longest suspension bridge in the You stated that this statement was incorrect, that the Golden Gate Bridge was the longest suspension bridge in the world. You are both correct. But the Golden Gate Bridge, ls of course, a vehicular bridge. Therefore you were wrong in stating that Mr.

Paolino's statement was incorrect. Please withhold my name.) San Anselmo (NOTE: Unidentified Reader is wrong. We were not wrong. As he noted Reader Paolino's quotation called it the suspension bridge in the He did not qualify it with as Unidentified Reader did.) AFFAIRS OF STATE Dr.Tallmon Resignation Is Surprise By HENRY C. MacARTHUR SACRAMENTO (CNS) Resignation of Dr.

Frank F. Tallman, state director of mental hygiene, came as something of a surprise, for a rather unusual procedure to resign from a $16,000 a year post rated as one of the most important In state government. Dr. Tallman, however, becomes a professor of psychiatry at the medical school, University of California at Los Angeles, a position in which he will be able to engage in private practice. Reports from the department indicate that the combination of these two would be much more beneficial to him financially, plus tenure as a professor, than would the continued direction of the state department.

DR. TALLMAN, originally from Ohio, was appointed to the department by Governor Warren in September, 1949. When his term of service with the state ends September 1, he will have fallen just 15 days short of a four-year directorship. The circumstances surrounding his appointment were unusual enough to be recalled. In March of 1949, Governor Warren called a state-wide conference on mental hygiene, a call that was spurred by reports of neglect of mental patients, inad- equate and antiquated facilities in state mental hospitals and an old- fashioned attitude of caring 'for patients.

ON THE DAY the conference opened, Dora Heffner, then director of mental institutions, submitted her resignation. Mrs. Heffner was seriously ill at the time, and left the post because of health. The conference went on, however, Recommendations were made, and subsequently, the governor appointed a committee to assist him in finding the man in the nation to head the state department. The committee recommended Dr.

Tallman, who had been director of a similar department for the state of Ohio. In the following September, his appointment was announced. DURING HIS TERM in state office, Dr. Tallman has not had too happy a time with the state legislature. Faced with an overwhelming need for more state institutional facilities reportedly some 13,000 patients are still on the waiting list for assignment to state hospital mental his recommendations for expenditure of funds for capital outlay, as well as additional help to man the institutions, were considered too large in some quarters.

Consequently, virtually everything the department has attained since Dr. Tallman took office was secured only through lengthy justification and continuous battle for what the director believed was necessary for proper administration. Tremendous strides have been made, but the complete goal has not as yet been achieved. SUCCEEDING Dr. Tallman will be Dr.

E. H. Crawfis, who now is medical deputy director of the department. Like Dr. Tallman, Dr.

Crawfis is a widely recognized psychiatrist, educator and also an attorney. He has been with the state since March, 1951, and secured his present post through a nation-wide civil service examination. Dr. Crawfis also is from Ohio, where he engaged.in private practice. Later he was administrator of Cleveland State Hospital.

His appointment is approved by the California Advisory Committee on Mental Health, which points out he has demonstrated his ability both as a professional man and an administrator. Exiled Government Maintains Offices PARIS 1944 a Spanish Republican exile has maintained offices in Paris. It has a president of the republic, a premier, and several ministers. It maintains diplomatic relations wr i Czechoslovakia, Hungary. Yugoslavia, Guatemala and Mexico.

It never has been recognized by France. TRY AND STOP ME BENNETT CERF AJOAH COULD A Bull a eiNG in 8i9 NOGE BE COW BO LUCIUS CONVJEBSE au lust'ous conserve MANTUA, By SAM DAWSON NEW YORK Hot weather will be a major business item for a while. It throws production into slow' motion. Absenteeism increases as fishing streams and beaches acquire new lure. Workers who did not sleep' well because of the heat don't product too efficiently next day.

In industry during July many factories and mills will close for mass vacations. But strangely enough July often marks the start of a new trend in industry and finance. In recent years major upturns have started in the lazy days. Three years ago the Korean War gave industrial activity a big kick upstairs. Last year the ending of the steel strike in mid-summer gave the business boom a and bigger lease on life.

This July Korea or the satellite nations might be the scene where a change one way or the other gets going. Stock brokers, rather wistfvltlv, still hope that Ferdinand will crawl out from undAr the shade tree and start the traditional summer bull market. Considerably more than half the time July has seen stock prices rise. July will see a let-down in everywhere but Congress. The month starts with the excess profits tax dead.

But Republican leaders say it will be revived shortly. Battles still lie ahead over other taxes, appropriations, foreign aid, military spending cuts, and budget balancing all matters of import to business and finance. The success of recent monologists like Charles Laughton and Emlyn Williams recalls the triumph scored by Charles Dickens when he visited America in 1862. He appeared at the old Steinway Hall in New York, and the line of ticket-seekers was so long that many brought mattresses with them and rested on their way to the box-office. Opening night tickets fetched $25 apiece and those were days when a was worth a dollarrdoo! George Dolby, who presented Dickens to the American public, discovered that there was such a thing as too much success.

An irate citizen who had been unable to buy a ticket cornered him in his office, waved a gun under his nose, and would not let him go until Dickens himself. hearing the furore, came in and read a story on the spot. said Dolby later, sure that if you hadn't scored a hit our friend would have all by himself.