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328 N. LaSallt Chlcafo. 111. Morrlt Bulldtnc, Philadelphia, Pa. PAGE 14 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1958 "What makes kids today so lazy?" asks one of my older readers.

She complains, "I've just returned from visiting my son. His children, ages 12, 15 and 17, don't do anything but have a good time. Neither do their friends. "I honestly don't see how their parents manage without any help at all from their children." Children have always been naturally lazy. Even great-great grandpa, as a boy, probably never looked around for work to do.

1 He did his chores because parents used to hold to the theory that a family was a working unit with each member being responsible for his share of the jobs to be done. But somehow modern parents have given up that idea. Now all they want is for their children to be happy and well-adjusted. So if Junior grumbles about mowing the lawn, and Sis says do the dinner dishes, Pop gets fcehind the lawn mower and Mom heads from the dinner table to the kitchen sink while Junior goes cruising around in the family car and Sis gets on the telephone until the dishes are done. The old-fashioned idea was that a kid could go out and have fun after he did his chores and.

if he wasn't needed for any extra jobs. Now the fun comes first and the chores naturally don't get done. So let's not blame the kids for being lazy. They're just doing what comes naturally to kids as little as possible. And it will be that way until parents go back to the old-fashioned-idea of work first, play later.

It is we who are encouraging them to believe that nothing is as important as having fun. The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new. Marcus Fortius Cato Project Discoverer Trail Blazer -Jb LJ sap wM Raising A Genius Is Not Easy Says Mother of Brooklyn Boy "Bobby doesn't like the idea Ever have trouble coping with your teen-ager? How would you like it if he were a genius? "It's not easy," s'ays Mrs. Regina Fischer of Brooklyn. Her 15-year-old son, Bobby, is a genius at chess.

He won the United States championship at 14 and became the youngest international Grand Master in history this summer. Sir Hubert Wilkins was an old-school seeker of the new and enormously important knowledge man is acquiring of the frozen, mysterious and still only partJy charted wastes at the ends of his planet. The class roster contains the names of similarly dauntless adventurers such as Stefansson, Byrd, Shackleton, Nobile, Scott, Amundsen and Peary, all of whom have grappled and won or lost with forces and elements that still defy civilization's The failures and limited successes of hardy souls who in years past have set out for these regions with information and equipment which today's scientist-explorers would regard as inadequate to the point of being suicidal, have made it possible, how-' ever, for their latter-day counterparts to learn more and go farther. Sir Hubert, a pioneer in polar flying, risked his life repeatedly in flights in a plane that would make today's pilot shudder. Those flights provided knowledge upon which later air explorers were able to build His unsuccessful effort in 1931 to opez an.

Arctic submarine route in an antiquated undersea boat contributed mightily to the triumph last August of the atomic-powered Nautilus, which negotiated the passage under the North Pole icecap without incident. Thus it is that modern man reaps harvests planted by his elders sifts the results of their efforts, adds the advances they made possible, and steadily pushes his frontiers, i The road to the polar wastes is being cleared, and when it is paved another valuable source of scientific knowledge and even A steady acceleration in the nation's upace effort has been confirmed by the Pentagon's announcement of "Project Discoverer." This will be a series of firings aimed at orbiting a five-ton space vehicle by late 1959. The magnitude of the project may be judged from the fact that American satel- lites thus far have not exceeded 32 pounds as against the one and a half tons of Russia's Sputnik III. The Discoverer, launchings may match or even surpass Soviet efforts in the race to obtain the spatial information necessary for both manned flight and global reconnaissance from outer space. The American program, which calls eventually for one "shot" per month, also has broad international implications.

No national security restrictions are to be placed on biological and medical information which may be obtained from mice and monkeys which will be borne aloft in Discoverer satellites. Findings of intrinsically military value, however, will be kept under wraps, according to Roy W. Johnson, chief of the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency. With a relatively low orbit of a few hundred miles, as JJr. Johnson points out, the Discoverer program is an intermediate move toward greater space efforts in the future.

Nonetheless, it is both encouraging and essential that, in the absence of international control of space exploration, the United States presses ahead in its own interest and that of the free world. Undernourished Everybody assumes the average healthy American youngster, in the presence of a well-stocked family larder, gets plenty to Interpreting The Neus What Is the Conflict Between Objectives of Arab Nationalism And Communism in Middle East? GIs Outshine Collegians In Dice Game COLUMBUS, Ohio-Three college faculty members who ran a scientific floating dice game say Joe College is more cautious at craps than GI Joe. To gather information for the Air Force on making risky decisions, the researchers from Ohio State University began the experiment in Albuquerque, N. with 28 airmen from Kirt- This is the provocation for plotting by Arab extremists which resulted in the sensational expose of the Arif plot, and which now appears to have produced another batch of arrests in what seems to have been a rather sketchy attempt at a coup. of his mother going around with him to tournaments.

Besides, I figured it would' be better for me to be here in case anything was needed money, primarily." She laughed ruefully a slender, dark-haired woman "with a smiling mouth in a gamine face. The Fischers separated when Bobby was 2 and Mrs. Fischer raised her two children on her earnings as a nurse. "I don't discipline Bobby. He's too big.

Anyway, there's not much to say. He comes home and sticks his nose in a chess book, stops to eat, and he's back again until it's time to go to bed. Bobby's one of the ones who play for blood as they say in chess. He's serious. He has to study all the time.

The countries publish pamphlets and books at a great rate new openings always being worked out. "He's not interested in girls yet they don't play chess. He doesn't smoke or drink. He does chew his nails down to the bone, but I'm afraid to make him stop. I don't know what he might take up.

"Some of these chess players twitch all over. Honest. They start with an eye and twitch down to their feet and start again. I'd rather he chewed his nails." "The only thing I do is nag him to get some fresh air. This year he's joined the and says he's going to get in better physical shape.

"He used to be wonderful at sports in fact, he himself used to say he wanted to be a baseball player. "I don't know a thing about chess. In fact, I tried to make him stop for four years. But I've given up now." As usual among dictators, an and AFB and eight summer stu His one dream is to snatch the world chess crown from the present champion, Russia's Mikhail Botvinnik. One of Mrs.

Fischer's definitely "not. easy" moments came this summer when Bobby appeared to be stranded in Yugoslavia after his first international tournament. "He had a round trip ticket, but nobody made any reservations for him and he couldn't get a plane. I knew he'd spent most of his money at the World Fair in Belguim and I was afraid the Yugoslav Chess Federation wouldn't go on paying for him after the tournament had ended. "I went to the Yugoslav Embassy but it was the weekend and I couldn't find anybody.

I tried to call Bobby, but they said lie had left by train. "I was really worried. I knew he was loaded down with books and I didn't see how he could manage. He doesn't speak the languages. I could just see him sleeping in a train station somewhere and people stealing everything he had." But Bobby used his tournament prize money to get to Munich where he found plane space home.

Chess is not a popular game and there are no funds to send the American champion to tournaments. Bobby won two tickets to Yugoslavia on a television program. His 21-year-old sister, Joan, took the second. attempt is made to make it ap material things will have been tapped. The name of Sir Hubert Wilkins will be on one of its mileposts.

pear that all opposition is fomented by foreign interests. There is, however, even more dents at the University of New Mexico. The rest of the study was conducted at Ohio State with 26 students from an introductory reason to believe that Kssem's By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst One question raised by the continuing pro-Nasser plotting in Iraq is whether it has produced a conflict between the objectives of communism and Arab nationalism in the Middle East.

In Middle Eastern the dividing lines between ideological conflict and the constant battles between the ins and outs are so dim that it is difficult to draw conclusions. Nevertheless, there are certain factors in Iraqi politics which must be borne in mind as the West attempts to assess the results of the recent revolt. Premier Abden Karim Kassem has broad general support among Iraqi Communists, although as yet there is no visible political link between him and the Kremlin. He had a trade agreement with the Soviet Union. But he also has one with Yugoslavia, which Is Communist but on the outs with International Communism.

He has permitted the return from exile of Sheik Mustafa Bara-zaini, Soviet-trained agitator for Kurdish nationalism. He professes friendship for President Nasser of Egypt, but has carefully avoided anything which might lead to extension of the United Arab Republic into Iraq. communist supporters aiso are psychology course, foreign-connected, too. The 2g Air Force enHsted mpn The Baghdad regime is thus are between 18 and 38, the 34 walking between two militant college men between 18 and 35. forces while attempting to give Each got $10 and rolled the dice an impression of neutrality in 50 times.

Those who managed to the West, where the money hold on to the $10 kept a dollar comes from. plus half of any money they In the trials of leaders of the won. Those wound up with former royal regime, however, a less than $10 kept 10 per cent key charge was relationship with of what they had left, the Western powers. The prose- Winning seemed more importation's presentation followed the ant to the collegians, research-international Communist line just ers noted. Afraid of failure, the as faithfully as the trials had college men generally favored been in Budapest.

bets which allowed them to win Since the Communist line is frequently, though payoffs were then so prominent in Kasserrf's small, the report said, adding: background, his continued stand- "Certainly, it is credible to' offishness toward the U. A. expect this, kind of value orient- which the Communist line also ation to be more prevalent in a supports as against the- West, middle class population." leads to wonderment as to whats As a tentative explanation for 25 Years Ago 50 Years Ago Citv Commissioner Charles B. cooking. Questions and Answers eat.

A New Jersey survey casts doubt on that assumption. After investigating the diets of 9,000 high school juniors and seniors, it is announced that four out of five teenagers eat poorly. Teenage boys do better than girls. They eat so much that most food essentials are likely to be included just by chance. Their between-meals snacks also help them to keep adequately vitamined.

But teenage girls, already concerned with dieting at that tender age, are inclined' to-avoid essential foods such as milk and eggs. Many of them, no doubt aping their elders, eat no breakfast. Or they do not trouble to get breakfast if their mothers work or lie abed; Americans think of teenagers abroad as lacking proper nutriment because of actual food shortages. But in the abundant U. S.

it is some kind of travesty that boys and girls are laying the groundwork for future poor health because of their neglect to consume the foods that are all around them. So They Say We are not going to reopen those mines and send more miners to their deaths. A. C. MacDonald, official of Springhill, Nova Scotia, mine where 74 men died in most recent disaster.

According to the world press, (U. S. Secretary of State) Dulles' actions have been disastrous to the West but they have been a blessing to us. We gained the Suez Canal, won the economic blockade battle What has DulleS or Eisenhower gained? Nothing. Egyptian paper Al Akhbar.

The Chinese are about a quarter of the whole human race, and the oldest of all living civilizations. Can we safely throw away any chance of telling them directly about us Author Waldo Frank, filing suit to compel State Department to allow him to travel to Red China. Money-Menders Everybody is no doubt aware that a great deal of currency is manhandled in a year's time in the United States. It would be an interesting travelogue to follow the myriad paths traveled by a dollar bill as it performs its functions as a tool of barter. In the course of daily, often hourly, much of this currency soon resembles the tattered remnants of a battle flag.

To prevent the economy of the nation from thus dissipating into a pile of confetti, the Treasury Department has a 'currency redemption division which constantly revitalizes the paper money supply with crisp, new notes. From banks and other collection centers in every city and town, worn-out money finds its way into the hands of the redemption section. Not the least of the section's work, however, is replacing currency mutilated in the most bizarre manners. Specifically charged by law with the redemption of paper money "which has been mutilated in any manner," providing it is still identifiable, the Treasury spares no effort in piecing together piles of the most hopelessly damaged currency. Among the 50,000 who last year benefited from the money-menders' art were owners of the usually high quantities of moneys damaged by.

fire, explosion and flood. There are many more interesting cases than these, however such as the housewife who forgets to remove her household money from the oven before baking a cake, or the, miser who digs up his hoard from the back yard only to find his currency has degenerated into a mound of pulp. From animals' stomachs to the ashes of trash barrels, currency has come to the redemption division in many forms, but all of it is replaced providing microscopic examinations or chemical analyses prove the remains to be those of genuine U. S. currency.

Regardless of its relative buying power, there is scarcely a product made by anyone which is as conscientiously backed as U. S. currency, even when it has been reduced to ashes. What type of musical instrument is the recorder? A A Medieval woodwind instrument much like a flute. It is enjoying new popularity today.

the collegians' taking moderate risks, the researchers offered: "Their Value system derogates failure and places high premium on success, but success must be small. Small successes not only enable them to avoid' failure but insure a certain feeling of safe-ness or lack of deviance." While college men are more conservative in decisions under conditions of risk, there is no apparent relation between intelligence and risk-taking, the report continued. Alvin Scodcl and i 1 nl Bittenbendcr, who is director of accounts and finances, has ordered a heavy cut in the budget for next year. He says the street and highways department is spending too much money. Dr.

William V. Coyle has been elected president of the Hazleton Branch of the Luzerne County Medical Society. Dr. George F. Burkhart was named as vice president and Dr.

Arthur W. Allen re-elected secretary-treasurer. Edward Byorick, West Hazleton, has been named as manager of the Hazleton District for the CWA under the federal government and he has already placed 100 women at work in The great struggle between the residents of Hazle Township and Hazleton city over annexation of the Fifth, Ninth and the Fifteenth Districts of the township to the city was marked by a very quiet election. Hazleton won by a margin of 156 votes. The returns Fifth Dis-trict, Yes 173, No 206; 9th District, Yes 191, No 106; 15th District, Yes 106, No 16.

The Board of Trade, headed by President Thomas E. Samuels, Secretary M. F. Kocnig, and Daniel T. McKelvey championed for the annexation.

The leader of the Hazle Town-shippers was School Director George Fichter. He told The Plain Speaker to put a picture of the victorious rooster on page one with its head cocked in the air. He wanted tho tnwnckm Why did Joel Chandler Harris call his home the Wren's Nest? A Because a wren once made tt nict in tho mailhnv Pathoi T.i.L than disturb it, Harris built an- "sogiaie Pressors or psychology, and J. Sa-yer Minas, other box. QWho was the first woman to be elected to the United States Congress? A Jeanette Rankin was the first woman member of the House of Representatives.

QWhat two great Midwest universities fight for the possession of the "Little Brown A Michigan and Minnesota. What is the most popular milk goat in the United States? A The Toggenburg, imported from Switzerland. What act authorized the coining of U. A It was authorized by an Act of 1849. How can a spider be distinguished from an insect? A A spider has four pairs of legs; the'insect has only three.

instructor in philosophy, conducted the study. Their report, was prepared for the Behavioral Science Division of the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, which supported the study under contract with Ohio State University's research foundation. A Thought Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord. Romans 12:11.

plants here. Men from the Wyoming Valley are reported to be interested in reopening a mine at Yorktown. Mayor Alvin Beisel has announced that after the new year he will re-assign a number of policemen. lie said it will be for the good of the force. The ground of all religion, that which makes it possible, is the relation in which the human soul stands to God.

J. C. Shairp. Thinking It Side Glances By Galbraith Uptown residents are planning a banquet to be tendered to John W. Walters and Michael Fescina.

They will be seated as city coun-cilmen after the new year. The Kiwanis Club has arranged to care for a number of underprivileged children during the Christmas Season. A number are now being cared for during the summer camping season. Doggett's Theory May Spread to Other Areas should park anything we're phy Barbs Over By R. L.

Dieffenbacher, D.D. Some folks work themselves Into a frenzy over insignificant slights, or trivial words which they have misunderstood. They turn their emotions over to their imaginations. What a terrific combination that is. Even the psychiatrists have their difficulties when imagination and emotion go together on a rampage.

If this pair is not curbed, they destroy the human in whose mind and body they exist. Without inhibitions they smash mater-rial things as well as the peace and faith of others. They destroy character, break up homes, cause sin to reign and make temptation contagious. We all need an inoculation of unselfishness, tolerance, faith and belief in others 'as well as patience and understanding love. This love stimulus will develop antibodies in the soul.

Self-destruction and attack on others will be controlled and the frenzied imagination will spend itself in the fever of repentance. cock put on the back page with its head down in the dirt. Fichter, fiery leader of the opponents in the Fifth District, which was on Alter street sector, said he will move to Jeddo, as he is to be elected treasurer of the school board next year at a salary of $1,400 a year, While there were seven members of the State Police from the Wyoming Barracks on hand, there was not one sign of trouble. McKelvey had the Colonial Band all ready at the No. 3 school house in Gloucester, and the march down town was head-ed by Frank Sacco, popular Dia-mond avenue restaurant owner.

Few mine foremen showed up at the polls and the day, a Ro- man Catholic Church holiday, went off quietly. Fichter said that he lost a lot of votes as Greek Catholics did not have a holiday and they had to go to work. Rev. Joseph Brunn, the pastor of the Italian Church on Hayes street, was a hard worker to have the city expand. An incident occurred In West Hazleton where Attorney Adam Smith, solicitor for Hazle Township, was arrested for votin in the Township, where his home was on the borough line.

His father also voted with him It strange with Smith a member of the law firm of Kline, Bigclow and Smith, being opposed on the other side, as Attorney Bigclow was one of the champions for the annexation. So the baldhead pays the same price. for a haircut as the man who looks like he's the first cousin of a chow dog. Will the barber of the future recognize this gross injustice? Will each shop have a hair counter to determine who gets the reduced rate? Will the shoeshine be less for the fellow who wears small shoes? Can the skinny man pay the transit company less because he requires less room while standing on the bus? Contrarily, what happens to the fat lady? These are intriguing questions for a social historian, and well worth a visit to the National Parking Assn. to -see if everything is under control.

William G. Barr, its executive director, assures us that it is. It all started, Barr said, when a St. Louis parker took one look at the size of the 1959 Cadillac, let out a horrified squawk and said he would have'nothing to do with it. Barr deplores this as bad public relations.

"It's our position," he said, "that we're a public service. We sically able to handle." He therefore was pleased when another St. Louis firm offered to park any Cadillac, from 1912 to 1959, free for one month. Not that Barr isn't sympathetic with the problem. Apparently every time parking people meet, they gloomily review the size of most U.

S. cars. They now park two where three were parked before. Barr likes the Doggett plan, although he points out that it is being used only for those who park by the month. In-and-out parking presents problems.

Such as arguments with the attendant over whether the car" is small or almost small. And the fact that many parking garages are self-service, which makes It difficult to irse every speck of space economically. "But I will say," Barr said, "that it's attracting a lot of attention." So it's too early to tell the ultimate effects. But keep your wits about you. If your barber- starts counting hairs, it may be the first Sunday in the dawn of a new era.

Bv ARTHUR EDSON' WASHINGTON Washington parking lot operator, L. B. Doggett, has coma up with a daring idea. He has decided that since smaller cars use a smaller space they should pay a smaller parking fee. "It's just pure economics," Doggett said.

"A housewife wouldn't be expected to buy a whole extra yard of material she'd never use for making a dress. "Why should anyone be expected to pay for an extra yard of valuable downtown real estate they never need for parking their automobile." Naturally owners of small cars to Doggett, an auto is small if It's not more than 6'i by 14 feet are delighted with this line of reasoning. And now 42 of the little fellows are roosting cosily on a lot where only 20 big cars bad been parking. If the Doggett theory should pread to other areas, all American life as we now know it could be affected. It's true we often pay for what jet.

Rut those in the service busieess rarely discriminate. Chewing gum manufacturers really ought to give stenographers birthday presents. A man was arrested in the south for having three wives. Imagine three mothers-in-law. The average husbands thinks a bargain is anything his wife comes home with and sneaks in back door.

Love thy neighbor especially if he has a power snow remover. With foolish people, the cost of living always seems to be the same just about what they make. An optimist is a grown man who decides to take up ice skating again, with a bottle on his hip. Dictators try to control the thoughts of their people all the time. Over here the politicions try it only once every two years.

Normalcy now is a period in which no great crisis is being debated in the United Nations. S. Pal Off. IZ-IO 1MI bj NCA tome. M.

"But, Nora, that.dress let's reason this out!".