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Styj? Sunday rib EDITORIAL PAGE Page 4 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1957 Pattern For Marsh Development Calls For Specific Long Range Planning The City Plan Commission: The Park Department: The Common Council: In the midst of spasmodic effort so far in behalf of marsh reclamation, we call your attention to the Imminent need for specific long range planning in this area. All of us presumably share the belief that a program for marsh eradication is long overdue. All of us are too, that mention of the project frequently has been heard in public and private discussion, but that no force in the community has been energized to implement it. This, we submit, should be done in cooperation with planning authorities, public park officials and members of the Common Council. At stake in the restoration are far- reaching economic benefits, aside from landscape transformation in which the possibilities are almost limitless to create physical beauty where only ugliness now exists.

If any quarter in La Crosse poses the need for face-lifting, it obviously is the marshy pool fronting much of the area between the north and south tides. Perhaps most of us will concede that the area lying west of Lang Drive is committed to industrial and business use. This seems to be indicated by the proposal to extend Seventh street for commercial purposes, enclosing on either side what in will develop as a business area. The portion lying east of Lang Drive holds a far different potential It lends itself in the main to a combination of residential and park development, extending to the old Green Bay railroad right-of-way, projected as the future Eighteenth street extension. Tragic hit-and-miss development could easily creep in upon this area in the absence of a plan to deter a long range plan for orderly and systematic land use incorporating both residence and park districts.

Business enterprises traditionally follow in the wake of new highways. We are already witnessing new land fills jutting out from Lung Drive, even in its present undeveloped state. More will areas consigned to business. More roads across the marsh are a means to private enterprise taking over alongside, and that is as it should be. But if we care to preserve a major portion of the marsh for other purposes, the time is at hand to act.

It will be too late when, as certainly will happen, other streets bisect the area and invite a disorderly pattern of development none would like to lee. What we propose, therefore, is more a plan than any immediacy of its undertaking, as welcome as that would be. Of necessity, a plan must be designed to preserve the area for the purposes intended and to fix the limitations beyond which commercial development must not descend. This would require no great financial outlay now, but it does require brain power outlay at a time to insure implementation later of a plan drawn while limitat ions are non-existent and the possibilities wide open. We respectfully submit these suggestions in a constructive effort at looking ahead, and for whatever merit they may possess in the achievement of marsh reclamation first, and orderly development second.

I have coveted no silver, or gold, or 20:33. 'Fair Share' Asked In Chest Giving If you have not already done so, today should be the day to figure out the amount of your contribution to this years Community Chest campaign. Committees hope that within one week starting Monday they will meet or surpass their $209,381 goal, which is considered to be the absolute minimum required for the 21 organizations which benefit. Simple aim of the campaign is to ask that you give your fair share in the American way to help others. Vital voluntary health and welfare services such as the Community Chest assists are in growing need in the community and to fall short of the goal might seriously jeopardize their abilities to perform the functions which they now so capably perform.

So consider carefully your contribution and be ready to sign a pledge card this week. Yours will be a feeling great satisfaction if you pledge what you sincerely believe to be your fair share. ROBERT C. RUARK Jhinks Most People Have A Secret Desire To Fuss THIS PIECE IS NOT aimed it any wives I know, in particular. but it is interesting to report that in England the other day an Old Bailey jury let a man off a murder hook when he killed his wife.

The charge was reduced from murder to rn a I a ghter, and he was given only five years because she was a chronic nagger. I keep telling Mama that it is not my natural inclina lion to stove in her little, RUARK pointed head, because I love her dear and would really rather use a pistol, except for the fear of warm trousers in that known hot squat. But this business in England puts another face on the matter. It seems this fellow that done in his ever-kmng was a mild sort, so mild that his love-bug kept after him for a divorce. She kept waking him up.

night after night, to ask him when he was going to file, and one night, more in nightmare than in anger, he just sort of kind ai throttled her. it it A LOVELY quote from tile widower: kept waking me up and asking me what I was going to do. I had no sleep at all that night. was daylight-1 found she had her hand on my throat. The next thing I remember, I was sitting on the side el the bed holding her neck ic my Said counsel for the defense: man liad no sleep and this happened at a time when some people say life is at its thinnest edge.

I submit this is a genuine case of provocation which has driven this man beyond the limits of Well, now, me and Mama got long history of nag, nag, nag. with her always at me for more bouet money and why I do this and how come I forgot to mail the letters, and why I get out of here and make her some money like the other men do. One time I try to correct Mama's lack of social presence with a short left, after taking off her glasses because I am a gentleman and glasses are expensive, and she countered with the rolling-pin so I give up trying to reform her. But now I am not so sure that a little trip to England, to see some shows and telling you, that England is the only place where a man stands a chance these days. All you got to do to get away with nearly anything ut say you were provoked, or that homosexuality is fun, or that you really didn't know it was arsenic you shoved into the tea, and they practically decorate you for what they used to hang you for.

But they got a fair point on this nagging bit. There are times, in a well-trusted marital arrangement, when either side of the loving pair would be justified in bashing the other. I do not really approve of murder as a solution to disagreement in tile love bower, but a poke in the snoot sometimes could be better than a million words. More people have talked themselves into divorce courts than those who delivered the hasty black eye which ended the argument. I quite figure out how people who sincerely or at least other can go on and on and on in mounting rhetoric, knowing doggone well that they are fueling the flames -and getting a kind of satisfaction out of it.

Maybe Martinis help, but there is something deeper to the nag business. BUILT IN, I THINK, in most people is a secret desire to fuss. A pair of pants, unsent to the cleaners, constructs a four- alarm argument when the ty party could stop it all by saying simply: sorry. I should have sent the pants to the But it never ends so, simply. At 3 a.m.

Ma accuses Pa of having invented the atom-bomb, although he change a razor blade without lopping off a thumb. And Pa figures, aloud, that Ma not only invented Asian flu but is a typhoid carrier as well. And the lawyers get richer all the time Nag, nag, nag. So I rich, and I pretty, but I can afford passage to London, my good woman, and we got a precedent over there. Five years really isn't so very long if you take a few good books with you and mind picking oakum.

There may be something in this Pax Brittanica, after all. (Copyright. IMI, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) When you really take good care of your health very likely to do the same for you. The size of some of the 195? wool bathing suits is a dirty trick on moths. A friendly tip to teenage drivers- forget the gal and hug the road.

PORTRAITS JAMES METCALFE vt- jir "EA Service, lee GIVE TO THE COMMUNITY CHEST FREDERICK C. OTHMAN Idea: Don't Retire Unless Young Enough To Enjoy It time has come for another report, IO years later, on my favorite lotus eaters. To Robert J. Allen and his beautiful Edith, the lotus still tastes sweet; a decade of con- acientionsly doing nothing whatever to earn money has left them with a desire for more of the same. Life without alarm clocks, say they, has meaning.

As publisher of the Elmira, N.Y.. News in 1947, Allen was growing rich and having no fun, largely because of unceasing arguments with the union. He offered to give the newspaper to his employes if pay him union wages. They thought he was kidding. Allen sold the paper at a profit; the final edition carried the front-page editorial, which still is the subject of awe in newspaper circles.

It went like this: we are quitting because we want to take a long, long vacation. We want to come a sort of lotus eater, at least for a while. We want to see all the warm, azure seas and lie beside them on the white sands. We want to travel to all the continents and to most of the countries. We want to sleep late or get up ear ly without compulsion to do either.

We want to loaf and travel as long as it amuses it it it WARTIME FLIER Allen trundled out his own airplane one snowy afternoon and headed with Edith to the Caribbean. They gave the South Sea Islands a whirl. They tried the palm trees of Beverly Hills and they soon discovered they were welcome everywhere. Citizens simply run into people before like the Allens. They had nothing for sale, no deals on the fire, no loans to be made.

All they sought were pleasant memories. Suspicious natives in far places soon became warm friends. I first met the Allens in Mex- AROUND THE TOWN SMALL LA CRESCENT boy describing a current health note in the news: automatic flu. it it tit MOST NORWEGIANS never heard alwmt popcorn. Knowing this, we brought along a supply.

As I was popping some in a pan, cousin Inger, became curious. I cautioned her against removing the cover. She insisted. As if she had been struck by a bullet, she screamed and jumped back as the corn popped up in her face and spread over the kitchen floor. They loved it as they ate it Controlled Mutation From Scientific American.

A team of biologists at Columbia University has succeeded in producing synthetic genes which changed the heredity of bacteria. Stephen Zamenhof, Rosalie de Giovanni and Sheldon Greer reported their achievement at a meeting of tile American Institute of Biological Sciences in Palo Alto. Calif. They created the new genes by substituting one compound for another in nucleic acids, the genetic material. The substance they replaced is thymine.

Instead of thymine they fed the bacteria a similar substance called 5-bromouracil. Apparently some of tile bacteria incorporated 5-bromouracil in their genetic material, for their offspring differed drastically from the original strain. Some were giants, others dwarfs, still others grotesquely misshapen. Not all the changes were permanent, but a few have persisted through 180 generations. in wonderment, never believing it could be possible that the tiny kernels would increase to that size.

it it it CHALK UP ONE casualty for Daylight Saving Time. Milton Frederixon of Blair, like many others, forgot to set his clock back when he retired Saturday night. Awaken- ning Sunday morning, Frederixon could not understand why daylight had come around so early, so he arose to peek out the window. Well, it wasn't quite light enough, because Mr. Frederixon stubbed his toe on the caster of the bed.

Chalk up one broken toe for Daylight (but not toe-) Saving Time. -Mrs. H. FROM TRIBUNE READERS Editor Tribune: One of the things many La Crosse people are talking about is the fact that we could enjoy the out-of-doors and our lawns this past summer in a way in which we have not enjoyed them in years past. Some of us would like to commend our City Council and the department responsible for the program.

It was wonderful. Often we criticize our city fathers, but for this we certainly wish to praise them! And, we might add, we thought the flowers in our city parks were especially beautiful this year too. A CITIZEN Letters to this column discussing matters of general Interest are welcomed. They should not exceed 300 words, the right being reserved to condense and eliminate or to withhold from publication entirely. Personal or religious controversies will not be used.

Names and addresses of the authors must accompany letters but may be withheld upon request in which case a pen name should be given. However. In esse of persons, organisations or causes mentioned, those directly affected are entitled, upon request, to the author's name. Some Weather Omens Prove Accurate WE BELONG TO GOD As God created everytliing So we belong to Him With all our joys and sorrows and Our hopes however dun Our dreams and cair ambitions and Our charity or greed As we may live from day to By thought and word and deed No victory belongs to us No talent is cair own Though sometimes God allows some praise For efforts we have shown He lets rn go along our path The best way that we can And hopes that we will honor Him And serve our fellow man But whether we would rule the world Or just the surface skim Our bodies and our souls and Belong at last'to Him. Copyright 1957, Field Int.

All rights reserved. Catty From Pueblo, Madrid. Spain. Psychologists from Oxford University have asked thousands of people throughout the British Isles into what animal they would like to change in case of metamorphosis. Ninety per cent of the men named the horse, 97 per cent of the women voted for the cat.

Unmarried Authors Lady Gough, in "A Book of Etiquette" The perfect hostess will see to it that the works of male and female authors are segregated on her book shelves. Their proximity, unless they are married, should not be tolerated. Duncan Smrich. is Reader's Digest. disregard all the fixed saws and proverbs about the weather.

Some of them are based on fact. at night, delight; rainbow in the morning, sailors take That happens to be true. Rainbows can only be seen in the morning or in the late afternoon. when tile low position of tile sun in the sky is reflected agauist the clouds. Since our weather normally comes from the west, a rainbow in the late afternoon when the sun is setting in the west, means that the clouds and storm causing it are in the east, and have passed over.

A rainbow seen in the morning, on the other hand, will be in the the rising sun from the east against the western clouds makes it possible; the rain and storm- wili thus be moving eastward toward you. Other weather folklore also is based on scientific observation. For instance, old-timers believe that cobwebs on the grass are a sign of fair weather. They also believe that the dew is on the grass, rain will never come to Both Hie belief and the proverb are true. Cobwebs can be seen only when there is dew on the ground.

And dew cannot form unless the skies are cloudless and there is no wind. A cloud sheet would prevent the radiation which caused the loss of heat and resulting condensation on the grass. A windless night is necessary lest warm air passing over the ground prevent it from cooling. The weather bureau does not draw upon such proverbs fat its scientific reports, but its F. ft.

Reichelderfer, is not dogmatically negative about them. Some of the omens prove out with remarkable accuracy. GEORGE FIELDING ELIOT US. Must Get Satellite 'Upstairs' Fast To Offset Russian Superiority THE SOVIET space-traveling satellite indicates tile breadth and competence of the Soviet long-range missile program. It was developed as part of that program.

It has a definite application to Soviet military policy and plans for world domination. It establishes a worldwide belief in superior Soviet power and efficiency. It provides vi- a I information about space fly- I mg for use in de- ELIOT long-range especially in improving their accuracy. It may be the first step toward a space platform from which the whole world could be threatened with nuclear destruction. The conquest of outer space, is, in fact, the last and only hope of Soviet world domination.

If this hope is to be thwarted, the United States will have to take effective countermeasures, and we will have to move fast. Long-term as a major reorganization of our missile be needed later on. But this will take time. The immediate need is to offset the impression of Soviet superiority, not only in the minds of our friends but also in the minds of the Soviet leaders and tile Soviet people. FRANK TRIPP ico City, about the time that Bob discovered the lotus was fattening.

He weighed 240 pounds, and so he took up golf. For this game, for which he seemed to have a knack, he obviously had plenty of time. At the age of 51, which apparently is some kind of record, he won his first amateur tournament. Since then filled all his mantelpieces with silver cups, tea services and mighty trays, engraved with testimony to his prowess. won so many trophies that giving them now to his friends, because why siiould a fellow own more than one sterling teapot? The Allens lived in Mexico City for five years.

Then they traveled for a spell and eventually built themselves a home in Phoenix. with a view of the purple mountains. They still make this their headquarters when not in far places playing golf. it it it IN WASHINGTON at the moment on a writing assignment for his old outfit, the Marine Corps. not being paid for this, or at least not much.

The Marines merely put him on active duty for a month. been doing some other writing, he said. it reminds me of newspaper days in reverse. done a number of pieces for various golfing magazines, but there have been no deadlines. I usually write a paragraph, or maybe two, per His bay window long since has disappeared.

a golfer good enough today to play in any tournament anywhere. The beauty of his life, he says, is that he need not entertain people he like simply because they might be customers. He carries on a vast correspondence with those he does approve, but that he considers fup. He used to be, after all, one of the fastest copywriters in the newspaper business. So I suppose the thing for me to do is let another IO years pass and do a third piece about the lotus eaters.

I think, myself, got it made. The idea is: retire unless young enough to enjoy it. Copyright. 1957 by United Features Syndicate, Ire American Home Facing Growing Burden Of Taxes TRIPP WE HEAR MUCH about government ccm cern for small business, little about the destructive taxes imposed upon the most vital small American home. Business is taxed upon its profits; what is left after actual operating costs.

The homemaker, whatever i operating costs may actually be, is supposed to live, shelter, feed, clothe, educate, heal and breed patriots at a cost of $600 a head per year, $1.70 a day. The arbitrary figure is the same for Park Avenue and Main St. The tax law says that your of staying alive and raising a family is $600 a year per person and that your earnings over that, less a few vote-wheedling allowances, is from which you mugt pay government from 20 to 90 per cent in income taxes, according to your status in our spendthrift economy. it it it THIS RUNAWAY inflationary economy, created and fostered by inept government, has so burdened homemakers that, in order to maintain the home, mothers and elder children now are in factories and shops while hired help inadequately take their places. To the end that more homes than not today have some sort of payroll that adds to costs but is non-deductible taxwise.

Originally and basically the home was sustained and operated by the love and labor of its inhabitants. It was as comfortable and lovely as the time and handicraft of the whole family could make it. If it had a payroll it was a who worked for her keep and two or three dollars a week. homes pay more for baby sitters than homes paid for competent housekeepers. In today's economy the cost of home help is a necessary expense, and should be as tax deductible as is the payroll of a factory.

It is inconsistent and discriminatory that a business payroll is rightly deductible as an operating cost, and that a household payroll wrongly is not. it it it CANNOT be away from home earning taxable wages without luring others to do the home duties that once were done by family members; or they may be too old or sick to do the work themselves. What happens is that the humblest worker, earning the minimum dollar an hour wage, is taxed 20 cents on every dollar that he earns, so his becomes 80 cents an hour. If he or she must hire home help in order to work, he must pay $1.00 or more an hour plus social security, giving him a loss of 20 cents an hour. Of course he can stay home, do the work himself and earn neat way of starving to death.

it it it IT IS THE ARGUMENT of this thesis that actual costs (not $1.70 a day) including wages paid to others for house (other than for capital improvements) should be tax deductible cost of maintaining the American home; that the best manager cannot adequately or healthfully survive on $1.70 a day in the current economy; that tile home is the most important small business; and that the whole theory and method of taxing the homemaker is unrealistic, unfair and destructive. All of the ado about the preservation of the family circle, its place in civilization, Godliness and delinquency need importantly take serious account of tile growing burden that taxation is piling upon the American home. What it costs you to run a home is as much your cost of staying in business as is the payroll of General Motors. With its homes out of business God help America. 1957, General Features Corp.) BEULAH STOWE Don't Let 'Nots' Spoil Your Retirement Plans If you are approaching 65 and you work for a company employing more than two people, you can expect to be invited to a party.

It will be a retirement party anc' you will be the guest of honor. Some nice people will go to considerable effort to give you a good send-off, to schedule some speeches, to arrange for dinner and to present you with a gift. by with pink ribbons. There is a hard note underneath the pink party ribbons. Do not come back and hang around the old store.

Do not expect your former co-workers to find you quite as interesting a companion as you were before. Do not set the alarm clock to go to work. Do not expect to maintain your accustomed standard of living. Unless you are luckier than most, your income is drastically reduced. But let the spoil your retirement.

Create a new life interest, whether it is a job or an avocation. Find new friends to add to the old. Find something worth getting up for in the morning. it "it it Jim Briggs, who retired as an executive of a large trucking company, found a post 65 job as an expert in routes and schedules for a smaller trucking company. Mr.

A. a technician in a pharmaceutical laboratory, found a two-day-a- week research job with an independent chemist and inventor. Chester Patterson, a state employe, found a job with a private company as a mail clerk. Albert a worker in an electronics plant, opened a repair shop for household appliances in the back room of the electric supply store in his town. Whether you look for a new career when the retirement is over, or decide to live on what you have and like it, let the nots discourage you.

it it it care of my father has become almost impossible. My mother died eight years ago, leaving my father and me alone. Dad is a little senile, and I must work to support us. I hate to leave him alone during the day, and I cannot afford a nurse. Circumstances are pushing me into looking for a home for F.

C. are many good homes, especially those operated by church and fraternal organizations. If you feel your father would be safer and happier in a home, ask the pastor of your church, and check with lodge and union connections. Choose a privately operated home only with the greatest of care. If this impression ic allowed to prevail for any length of time, it may lead to disastroua overconfidence.

So what can we do NOW? if it FIRST, WE MUST GET an American satellite where all can see it. To do that quickly, there is just one chance. It is this: Order our best working missile team to get busy, and provide that team with full authority and unlimited funds. The best team we have at this time for this purpose is the Army Ballistic Missile Agency at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. This statement is in no way a criticism of the Naval Research Laboratory, which is now dinating the U.S.

satellite program. The NRL has been sadly handicapped by (a) orders to keep Vanguard entirely separate from the military missile the exact opposite of the successful Soviet and (b) by lack of which the case in Russia either. The NRL is in fact accustomed to cooperating with Redstone in missile matters, and the two could get together very easily and effectively. The next thing to do is to stop cutting down our armed strength. The President should cancel, as of now, all planned reductions in U.S.

combat pending a complete review of the military budget for the coming year. Suspend the existing order that imposes an annual ceiling of $38 000,000,000 on defense expenditures. Prepare legislation for introduction in the next Congress extendmg the present limit on the national debt. Thus we serve notice we are not going to cut away our fighting power while Soviet power is being increased. it it it THE THIRD REQUIREMENT is a sensible U.S.

information policy on what we are doing, what we intend to do, and how seriously we view the Soviet accomplishment. We oily make ourselves ridiculous by playing it down. The U.S. Information Service directive, for example, to linking the Russian achievement with Soviet military just belly-laughs in the and everywhere I se. OF COURSE it is linked with the Soviet military potential.

Why should we picture ourselves as fools who realize that fact? Finally we should push forward strongly and firmly in demanding a worldwide agreement to prohibit the use of outer space for military purposes, and to establish an international scientific agency which would have the exclusive right to explore and operate beyond the atmosphere. It is now technically possible to monitor and such an agreement. It may not be possible to do this once large numbers of missiles and are cruising around in outer space. it it it IN PURSUING OUR demand for this agreement, we will in part be cashing in on the fear which the Soviet satellite has undoubtedly produced around the world. We will be accused, of course, of being afraid being This is too true for comfort.

We can offset this charge only by determined and immediate action to demonstrate we are going ahead with our own satellite program, by doing this successfully. and meanwhile demonstrating also that we do not mean to allow dollar considerations to weaken our military posture at such a time of crisis. Faced with this realistic approach, it is just possible such a hard-boiled realist as Marshal Zhukov might decide to make a deal. Zhukov is probably rather worried, at this moment, over the effect the satellite excitement may have cai the unstable, excitable Khrushchev. Once we convince him we intend, at whatever cost, to allow anything like permanent Soviet military superiority in space or anywhere else, Zhukov may well listen to reason.

And he has the power to make his decisions stick. But the time to start is now, before the satellite hysteria gets altogether out of control. 1957, General Feature! Corp.) Ca (CroHHr arihutir L. BANGSBERQ Editor J. I.

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