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VC Sunday, Oct. 7, 1956 DETROIT FREE PRESS Making Life ir Live a Year Make Sense n- vgc gKfp. w-jSs Who Said World's Tha Life Loneliest Snot Night, Ice and Cold Lure Him Back He'll At the JL fw" 4 Now the new bases have about that amount of space per man. Many have curtained private cubicles for sleeping quarters. Was Simple? The Overstreets Explain Behavior BY HARRY AND BONARO OVERSTREET Across a dozen years or more, we recall the exact words with which Eduard Lindemann once began a speech at an adult education lunch in New York "Nothing is ever as simple as I say it is when I am talking earnestly." These words have stayed with us because they struck home.

We all oversimplify not only when we are talking earnestly, but also when we are talking angrily, self -defensively, self-righteously. This also applies when we are just lazy in our thinking, or when we are impatiently saying to someone else: "Whir vmi "WOMEN IN THE WIND," is the title of this pastel by Hans Jaenisch, a young German painter who is establishing a strong reputation abroad. It is one of the contemporary European works about to go on exhibition at the Little Gallery, 915 E. Maple, Birmingham. Also showing: Modern examples of art in crafts.

ART NOTES How Do Our Artists Compare with Europe's? (EDITOR'S NOTE: Dr. Paul Siple, the famous Boy Scout of the first Byrd expedition to the Antarctic, is preparing for a year's sojourn on the South Pole, something no man has done before. Already the veteran explorer has made five Antarctic trips and all because of a promise lightly given as a boy.) BY ALTON L. BLAKESLEE Asorited St'ieme Writer Paul Siple, a big and rugged explorer-scientist, is setting out to do what no man has ever done live for a year at the world's most lonesome spot, the South Pole. He and the 16 other scientists he will lead on the expedition, will live in quarters connected by tunnels, buried under blizzards of ice and snow.

Temperatures in the totally-black night outside will drop to more than 100 degrees below zero. Before it gets that cold, the diesel oil to keep you warm solidifies in its drums. DR. SIPLE will have to worry about that and other dangers. Their quarters will be ata part of Antarctica where no man has set foot since Amundson discovered the pole in 1912.

The 17 men Mill be exposed to the coldest temperatures for the longest time that humans probably have ever experienced. For months on end they'll be able to come out for brief moments, only. BUT LIFE there will be relatively palatial compared with 1929, Siple expects. The first Byrd expeditions operated on a shoestring. Many of the scientists, and Siple, too, received pay of just SI a.

year. Now the resources of the Navy and government are behind the expeditions. In 1929, eight men slept in a room 10 by 10 feet, with double deck bunks on all four sides, a packing box for a table, and an oil stove. SIPLE LOOKS and acts the part of the experienced explorer. Infinitely patient, self-possessed, friendly, he talks easily of plans and history and human psychology.

Flashes of humor light his brown eyes. He'll be 48 in December, and his blond hair now is thinning and graying. What launched him as an arctic explorer, a career he began as a boy? A lightly-given promise is how it began. SIPLE WAS AN Eagle Scout, preparing to set up a summer scout camp at Erie, in 1928. A contest was underway for a boy scout to accompany Byrd.

"I hadn't heard of It, but the boy helping meSandy McGavern had. He kept urging: me to apply. Sandy was too young to enter himself, but excitedly pestered me. "Finally to make him hush up so I could sleep, I promised I'd apply." His conversation turned back to the present. "I woke up the other morning wondering what we'd do if the electric power shuts off.

"That could ruin all the scientif'c work, and leave us without lights. "We'd stiil have space heaters in the rooms. "Oil solidifies at about 72 below zero. We'd have to warm up one drum while another is being rpent." The party will concentrate on science studies before, during and after the long polar night. THEIR ONLY contact with the rest of the world will be by radio.

The nearest neighbors will be some 700 miles away. They'll have to be fully self-sufficient, and improvise or make-do if anything goes BY ARTHUR W. O'SHEA Free Press Staff Writer DID YOU EVER WONDER what the young European artist is doing, whether he tends to be more abstract or more classical in his interpretation than the young American? Starting Monday, you'll have an opportunity to make the comparison. The Little Gallery, at 915 E. Maple, Birmingham, opens an exhibit of European contemporary work at that time.

It isn't work that has been in this country for years. Peggy DeSalle, proprietor of Is I tome excellent signed lithographs. Signed by whom? Some newcomer named Picasso, for one. Then there was Matisse. And a number of others.

Also showmg will be recent examples of European crafts. Work in leather and enamels, as well as other mediums. SPEAKING OF other mediums, the Toledo Museum of Art has two displays this month that are practically the last woro" on glass. Both exhibits are showing at this time. For one, "Adventure in Glass," a Swedish exhibition.

This showing is the world premiere. It deals comprehensively with the technical and artistic aspects of glass. Very informative. The other, "European Glass Design," is a cross section of some of the best hand-fashioned glass produced in nine European countries during the past 10 years. It's appropriate that the exhibitions be at Toledo the world capital of glass.

The museum there has in its permanent collection one of the world'r finest glass exhibitions. ATTENTION ARTISTS: The jury for the Michigan Artists' show at the Detroit Institute of Arte meets Monday and Tuesday at the Insti Deck show 5 Harry and Bonaro Overstreet So we shout at those who are coping with them, "Why don't you Maybe the reason they don't take our advice is that the situation looks different and tougher to handle from where they stand. WE'VE THOUGHT a lot about this lately. Everywhere, today, it seems whatever the subject, people are talking with ready anger and quick certainty. They are talking of situations they themselves would not know how to handle if they were right up against them.

And often they talk in generalizations that make complex problems sound easy enough for a right-minded child to solve. WE MIGHT SAY that the person we call an extremist is the one who always believes that things are as simple as they look from where he stands. The person of generous moderation, on the other hand, stands readv to remind himself: "Nothing is ever as simple as I say it is D02 is Sent On a Man's Job GREENVILLE, Ky. (J) Workmen laid 600 feet of wide pipe as a protective covering for a telephone cable, but nobody told them to insert the cable as they went along. T.

H. Wells, telephone company technician, solved the problem. He sent his cocker spaniel through the pipe, a. rope tied to his collar. The cable was tied to the rope and workmen pulled it through the pipe.

Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle 1 Siple today 20 years ago THE GOLDEN YEARS I Jl VIVll Is Jf L4, One time when we often oversimplify is, oddly enough, when we are doing our best to talk sense but are talking in general terms, or in ideal terms. WE OURSELVES have had to realize this in our own work. We may be talking to a PTA group about how children grow and why they behave as they do at different stages. What we are saying is not something we have dreamed up for ourselves. It represents what psychologists and therapists have learned from work with a host of children.

It is about the unfolding of life and the right conditions for that unfolding. Ou material is as solid as we know how to make it. BUT THEN a father or mother speaks up: "Yesterday our boy he's almost six did so and so. What should I have done?" Suddenly, life in general becomes life in particular. And life in particular is always far from simple.

We cannot answer this parent's question as it is asked. It is too specific. WE DO NOT know enough about the child, the parents, their past relationshop, other people in the home, or the immediate mood or circumstance that sparked off the child's behavior. However, the parent who awaits our response has to deal with his child, not children in general. He is himself, not "parents in general." And in dealing with the child, he acts within the atmosphere of his home, not homes in general.

AT TIMES like this, we hear, in imagination, Eduard Lindemann's quiet voice: "Nothing is ever as simple as I say it is We are able, as human beings, to make generalizations, and to talk in terms of principles and ideals. Yet we live, always, in specific situations. And these situations nve never ideal. They are always mixed up. All sorts of factors out of the past have gone into their making.

THIS CONSTANT specific character of our experience does not make our generalizations, principles, and ideals irrelevant or futile. Yet we must warn ourselves, often, against making our generalizations too simple. Par- ticularly we must do this when we are talking about problems that are not our own. FROM WHERE we stand, the problems may look simple. CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS Boys iili nery Hurler Open space On the summit.

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This is International Museum Week, by the way. It's that all over the world a UNESCO project. That's our excuse for mentioning that Detroit can be mighty proud of the Institute's collection, comparing it with that of any city. It's valued currently at more than $10,000,000. One of the major attractions is Breughel's i Dance." The expurgated lithographs sell well, too.

Drv Cloth Harmful to Windshields PITTSBURGH (U.R) Wiping your automobile windshield with a dry cloth might mar instead of clean it, according to a glass expert. Russell C. Whittemore, product development director of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass said that grit particles, which are harder than glass, may scratch glass if it is wiped with a dry cloth. Instead, he suggests keeping windshields clean by washing with a soft cloth or a sponge and lots of water. He also suggested that motorists should avoid running windshield wipers on dry glass, cleaning glass with abrasive compounds, or using oily or greasy rags of cleaning preparations containing oil or grease.

Whittemore advised against following other cars too closely because the tires of the car ahead will hurl small stones, sand and gravel with enough force to cause pock marks, conical fractures, and outright breakage. Obviously but six hearts could not have been made. BY THE THREAT of an overruff combined with an "uppercut" Alan Benbow managed to defeat an otherwise unbeatable contract. NORTH A 5 A 8 3 7 6 5 A 4 WEST EAST (Benbow) A A 9 A 8 4 5 4 10 A 3 4 10 9 AAK 10 76 A83 SOUTH A -I 10 7 6 3 2 7 2 A 9 5 2 South 1 A Pass 3 A North 1 2 A 3 Pass East Pass West Dbl. 3 A Pass Pass Pass Pass Benbow led the club king and followed with the ace and led the third round after his partner's high low come-on.

North trumped with spade queen to prevent an overruff by East. North now led trump 5 and South's 1C lost to the ace. Benbow now led the fourth club, forcing North to trump with the king. North led a diamond and West took the ace and led the fifth club. East trumped with the 8, thereby promoting West's spade 9 to a winner.

Benbow clubbed his way to a victory. Put On the Squeeze By F. S. Eaton- the gadery, just brought them back from a European trip. She goe.i there every year to bring back art works.

BESIDES representative work from the art colonies in Germany, Austria, Italy and elsewhere, her exhibition will Dayli ight Time Has Young Supporter MAYFIELD, Ky. (JP) In the midst of the agitation for and against Daylight Saving Time, Mayor J. Clifton Boyd received this letter: "Dear Mayor Boyd: "I am a little boy, 7 years old. I have a real bad habit of waking up every morning at 4:30 when daylight comes in my window. I am so glad to see the daylight that I begin to crow like a rooster.

This seems to bother my mother and daddy, because for some reason they don't like daylight. "My mother says if you would move up your clocks, I wouldn't wake up until 5:30, and she would be in a better humor all day. "Thank you, Bobby Suitor." Bobby's letter no doubt wasn't the only reason, but afterward Mayfield went on Daylight Saving Time for the first time since World War II. The Bridge Many MARY MALCHIE obtained a top score at the recent Windsor Bridge tournament by making a play that did not occur to anyone else, in a field packed with bridge talent from Canada, Ohio and Michigan. NORTH A 8 4 3 A 9 4 9 7 A A 8 3 WEST 7 5 8 6 4 A 6 4 7 6 EAST 10 2 7 5 3 2 5 2 10 2 A A A SOUTH (Mary A A 9 6 10 10 8 3 A 9 5 4 WEST NORTH EAST SOUTH 1 4 Dbl.

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When Declarer led the last trump, 9 tricks were in the bag and nothing could be made by retaining the trump. But failure to lead it would have meant down one. BY THOMAS COLLINS THE SMARTEST WAY TO RETIRE, according to a man named George G. Milburn, who has tried it, is to do it on the installment plan. "And do it on company time," he says.

the company won't let you hang around after 65 to experiment. sjPjArjpjH ojTr-f aidTaTm CIQNjTiR I fDTVA E. E. lEIDCtcT ctotDnptAfBOy I A I jROgjU 0AjfEtN 5X I il Lt I I CAN I I A I AD aw aiycIp a rIa a ET uJt OlR ede1n. jsl 1 IdeoeId'e" But don't make the company pay.

"Start taking a few four-day week ends about 18 months before retirement. "Then in your last year take a six-week vacation and maybe a couple of six-week leaves. "Let the company dock your pay for all of this you don't deserve. It'll be one of the best investments you ever made." Mr. Milburn works for a Pennsylvania coal company.

wrong But how does this compare to that first trip? "They sort of kept me under wraps hat first winter, so no harm would come to the boy scout," Siple said. "The Admiral wouldn't let me go on trail parties. "I PROBABLY did more dangerous things. "I remember foolishly standing at the edge of the shelf ice and dropping1 a plumb bob to see how high it was. The line went out 125 feet without touching water.

"If the edge had crumbled, I wouldn't be here now." So began experiences and observations that made Siple an authority on ice flow and features. FRIENDS SAY he can tell you just where an iceberg was born and how old it is. He is a world authority on antarctic survival. Siple has spent more time on that frozen continent than any other including Adm. Richard E.

Byrd. Between trips "There's not a high demand for south polar experts most years." Dr. Siple is a civilian scientist with the army. He holds the next to top civilian rank, applying knowledge of climate and ge graphy to problems facing fighting men anywhere on the globe. SIPLE HAS contributed much to the science of cold and hot weather clothing, particularly with an insulated boot to keep feet warm that was used in Korea.

There, he also tested an experimental suit designed on the same principle of keeping water out and preventing evaporation. He received his Ph.D. in geography from Clark University, after graduating from Allegheny College where he did his last three years' work in just two years in order to make the second Byrd expedition on time. THERE'S POTENTIALLY a sequel to his career. For the first time since 1928, there'll be another Boy Scout going to the Antarctic this winter.

He's Eagle Scout Richard Lee Chappell, 18, of Eggerts-ville. N. chosen in a competition by a committee of the Boy Scouts of America and the National Committee for the IGY. S. Wanderer 3 Maple genus 1 1.

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B. KESS-LER were vacationing in Frankfort and enrolled in a regional bridge championship. Mrs. Kessler won a match in the Open Pairs, by a very courageous handling of the following difficult situation. NORTH (Dr.

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Another heart led and king fell West and Declarer trumped and Dummy entered with "club king. Three clubs discarded on the hearts. The final verdict was 6 bid and 7 made for all the points. His duties are divided between office work and selling. But according to him, almost any working man or woman in the country can do what he is doing.

Just about everybody working for a company that requires you to retire at 65 is pretty well given up for gone by the time he is 63, Mr. Milburn thinks. "Nine times out of ten," he says, "your company would be glad to see you taking some extra time off. There are two reasons for it. "It would really like to see you go into a satisfactory retirement, and would just as soon see you out of the office occasionally to try out someone else in your spot." Here's what Mr.

Milburn and his wife have done since he turned 63: On their four-day week ends discovered loafing was dullish. Drove to California on a five-week vacation and found l5 io T5 35 To in "77 5 IT TT" iO 'f "in 225 that their retirement income per month wasn't enough there. Took a six-week leave and drove to North Carolina, explored the coast and liked it. Added three-week leaves to their last vacation and drove to Florida. Their opinion at the moment: They'll wind up early in 1957 going to coastal North Carolina, will buy a cheap farm of 100 acres and find their Golden Years in turning their farmhouse into a country estate..