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Editorial Page Monday, July 25, 1955 Anaheim (Cal.) Bulletin — 11 Road Responsibility A traffic expert says that the finest roads and the finest cars that can be built will not correct our traffic problems as long as motorists refuse to face up to their responsibilities on the road. Paul H. Blaisdell, traffic safety director of the Association of Casualty and Surety Companies, points out that America is trying to dispose of the traffic problem through technology. "It is not surprising," he declares, "that we, as a people, are certain that technology can solve all of our problems. We have built a way of life on our mechanized ability and the labor-saving efficiency of the machine. It's easy to expect the same application of science to rid us of the menace of highway traffic, because it relieves us of all personal responsibility. Our most popular answer to the problem is that if we built enough good roads and enough good vehicles for those roads-our traffic woes would be over." The trouble with this thinking, he states, is that the human being has not improved along with the better roads and better cars. "We have built a superman complex into the modern driver," says Blaisdell, "while God has yet to turn out a new model with a turbojet brain, corneatical powered eyesight or a supergashiating nervous system." Mr. Blaisdell concludes his comment with this observation, which we all might well take to heart: "When the moment arrives that individuals accept the responsibility for their own performance as highway users, safety on the roads will be a reality instead of an objective." AS NICHOLS SEES IT Workers in Copyright Office Usually Know What's on Public's Mind by Checking Songs "When the moment arrives that individuals accept the responsibility for their own performance as highway users, safety on the roads will be a reality instead of an objective." AS NICHOLS SEES IT Workers in Copyright Office Usually Know What's on Public's Mind by Checking Songs By HARMAN W. NICHOLS United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON (UP) — Folks who work at the U.S. Copyright Office generally can tell what's on the public's mind without looking at the papers or listening to the radio. Last year, it was the Army-McCarthy hearings which inspired amateur song writers to go to work. The pros, too. One ditty called "Point Of Order" finally broke out on wax and made somebody a bundle. Hurricane Hazel made her influence felt, too. The big wind came in for copyright consideration dressed in such titles as "She Blew And She Blew" and "Whither Now, Hazel" Now Davy Crockett has captured the nation's fancy, Kids mostly. There are Davy Crockett coonskin toppers, which no six-year-old boy would be without even in the sweler of summer. Also Daisy Crockett bonnets, also with tails, albeit white ones, grace the heads of little girls. Davy On Box Tops Some of the titles are rather interesting. Some will be copyrighted by Uncle Sam; some won't. Paul Lasky and Jack Liebmann came up with a song titled "Davy Crockett And The Liberty Bell," which probably will be accompanied by the ringing of mallet on brass. Others have broken through the bonds of song. It was inevitable that Davy, musket and all, should invade the somewhat crowded field of cereals. Most youngsters won't eat their oats unless they can put the box on the kitchen table and look at a cow poke. The Old Virginia Packing Co., Inc., has registered copyright claims on labels with these exciting titles: "Davy Crockett in a Jam With Congress." "Davy Crockett in a Jam at the Alamo." "Davy Crockett in a Jam With a Bear." "Davy Crockett in a Jam With an Indian." The box tops, doubtless will be returnable, along with two bits or so, for some frilly memento of "The King of The Wild Frontier." A man can get rid of a lot of oats and puffed rice that way. Echoes Around World The now famous original "Ballad of Davy Crockett" was copyrighted by Wonderland Music. Lives there a soul with a gramophone, radio or TV set who hasn't by now heard it. The Crockett craze has even reached Zippy, the chimpanzee of the Howdy Doody show. He used to dress like a civilized ape, in the modern manner. But now the rubber replicas of Zippy, which are on sale in toy stores come in buckskin britches and a coonskin hat, wardrobe copyrighted by the Rushton Co. But what stopped me was a copyright application by the Robert H. Clark Co. This outfit dabbles in smelly stuff for the bath. It would dearly love to copyright a new suds in the bubble tub department and would like to call the concoction "The Aroma of The Old Frontier." BACKSTAIRS AT THE WHITE HOUSE Eisenhower Returns From Europe But Still Hasn't Seen Imitation of Self by Grandchild Mr. Eisenhower moved in a closed carol channel stars in classic drama on TV By ALINE MOUNDER HOLLYWOOD — star Clara Kimball You in "Trilby and Svenga she stripped for a scout—but the 1953 Trilby Channing, lamented can't do that for television. Husky-voiced Carol least the fifth Trilby tackles the role in a mime version of the clan on NBC-TV July 30. Carol's romp, with bone as Svenga, has up title of "Svenga Blonde." As research, NBC Carol takes lessons Young, who created the silent screen, and in the of research I went along meeting. The 1915 movie version 000, compared to $100,000 night stand on today's Bohemian Park. But Miss Young outdoor acting in her birthday "Trilby is a model for Paris, so I appeared together," the veteran nounced. "The cameraman always were the only persons she set, and it was so I sat on a cushion and from a three-quarter distance. At this news Miss Clover on her "Gentlemen Blondes" stare. She stammer that "NBC wonders that 'NBC wonders that we can't even do that—we can't even photograph of Trilby's nuance." BACKSTAIRS AT THE WHITE HOUSE Eisenhower Returns From Europe But Still Hasn’t Seen Imitation of Self by Grandchild By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press White House Writer WASHINGTON (UP) — Backstairs at the White House: President Eisenhower naturally was happy to get home from Europe with a load of toys for his grandchildren. But is doubtful that he has had an opportunity to observe one of the latest accomplishments of his 7-year-old grandson, David. David, according to friends who knew the John Eisenhower family well at Ft. Benning, Ga., and more recently at Ft. Leavenworth, Kans., has become quite adept at imitating his grandfather. Other kids sometimes stage mock "press conferences" with David and question him on the pressing events of their day, just as they see Mr. Eisenhower interrogated on television. His youthful brows furrow gravely and he’ll strut around the sidewalk conference attending with mock concern to such vital items as “What do you think of your new teacher” or “Give us your opinion of the Long Ranger.” Much was made, particularly in the European press last week, of protection afforded Mr. Eisenhower as contrasted with the security arrangements for his Russian counterparts. A number of Europeans, and Americans, too, were critical because the President was given much heavier and more oblique protection than Premier Bulganin. It was pointed out repeatedly that the Russians stole the propaganda ball from the United States, by having their principals travel about Geneva in open cars, while Mr. Eisenhower moved in a closed car. This interpretation was far from true. Bulganin and the Communist Party boss, Nikta Khrushchev, rarely moved without at least six carloads of Russian and Swiss security agents around them. There usually were three or four carloads of American Secret Service agents and Swiss detectives around Mr. Eisenhower. It was a fact that the Russians moved in open cars long enough to get their pictures distributed all over the world, but then they went back to the bullet-proof closed jobs from Moscow with heavy curtains across the rear windows. There also was a widely printed report that the gate to the President’s villa was guarded around the clock by three or more SS agents. Actually, there was rarely more than one American on the gate, plus a Swiss soldier and a Swiss detective. The Swiss government maintained similar and sometimes heavier protective details at the villas of other principals. The American security men around the Eisenhower villa felt genuinely sympathetic for the Swiss troops on guard duty. Most of these troops carried 500 rounds of rifle ammunition around their necks, packed in two heavy boxes. The buffet sessions arranged for the Big Four adjoining their council chamber after each day’ meeting turned out to be generally brief affairs. They rarely lasted as much as 30 minutes, and sometimes only five or six as far as the principals were concerned. At this news Miss Clyde on her “Gentlemen Blondes” stare. She stammer that “NBC would do that—we can’t even photograph of Trilby’s nudity. But I would have done a Trilby.” “I don’t know why pigs to be so prudish,” she Young now o plump with beautiful eyes and “It could be played in There was nothing vuvu my scene.” Carol’s hotbed appeal ever, will be similar. Young’s—the traditional up of striped petticoats’dier’s jacket and long boy hair-do with bang. No Singing “Did you sing The Of Summer’ in the most asked Miss Young. ‘My dear,’ said the haired actress, “It was We added two mubers,” said Carol. “But kidding the story. And a happy ending.” “I died at the end, play and the book,” Ms said firmly. “Trilby’ in I was struggling to go net, symbolic of Svengo.” “We have a net, too Carol. Miss Young retired tures in 1940 after doing roles in Hopalong Cass She lives alone in an apartment, bare of any toes of her 40-year care. “I threw out all those and photos,” she said. With you now I wouldn’t about the past. “我 living today!” she raised her highball glass Carol. “I'm in this era! To hell with the Paris, so I appeared here gether,” the veteran nounced. “The cameraman always were the only persons in the set, and it was so I sat on a cushion and from a three-quarter view.” At this news Miss Clyde on her “Gentlemen Blondes” stare. She stammer that “NBC would do that—we can't even photograph of Trilby's nudity. But I would have done a Trilby.” “I don't know why pigs to be so prudish," she Young now o plump with beautiful eyes and "It could be played in There was nothing vuvu my scene." Carol's hotbed appeal ever, will be similar. Young's—the traditional up of striped petticoats’dier's jacket and long boy hair-do with bang. No Singing “Did you sing The Of Summer' in the most asked Miss Young. ‘My dear,' said the haired actress, "It was We added two mubers," said Carol. "But kidding the story. And a happy ending."" "I died at the end, play and the book," Ms said firmly. "Trilby' in I was struggling to go net, symbolic of Svengo." "We have a net, too Carol. Miss Young retired tures in 1940 after doing roles in Hopalong Cass She lives alone in an apartment, bare of any toes of her 40-year care." "I threw out all those and photos," she said. With you now I wouldn't about the past." “我 living today!" she raised her highball glass Carol. "I'm in this era! To hell with the Paris, so I appeared here gether,” the veteran nounced. “The cameraman always were the only persons in the set, and it was so I sat on a cushion and from a three-quarter view.” At this news Miss Clyde on her “Gentlemen Blondes” stare. She stammer that “NBC would do that—we can't even photograph of Trilby's nudity. But I would have done a Trilby.” “I don't know why pigs to be so prudish," she Young now o plump with beautiful eyes and "It could be played in There was nothing vuvu my scene." Carol's hotbed appeal ever, will be similar. Young's—the traditional up of striped petticoats’dier's jacket and long boy hair-do with bang. No Singing “Did you sing The Of Summer' in the most asked Miss Young. ‘My dear,' said the haired actress, "It was We added two mubers," said Carol. "But kidding the story. And a happy ending."" "I died at the end, play and the book," Ms said firmly. "Trilby' in I was struggling to go net, symbolic of Svengo." “我们 have a net, too Carol. Miss Young retired tures in 1940 after doing roles in Hopalong Cass She lives alone in an apartment, bare of any toes of her 40-year care." "I threw out all those and photos," she said. With you now I wouldn't about the past." “我 living today!" she raised her highball glass Carol. "I'm in this era! To hell with the Paris, so I appeared here gether,” the veteran nounced. “The cameraman always were the only persons in the set, and it was so I sat on a cushion and from a three-quarter view.” At this news Miss Clyde on her “Gentlemen Blondes” stare. She stammer that “NBC would do that—we can't even photograph of Trilby's nudity. But I would have done a Trilby.” “I don't know why pigs to be so prudish," she Young now o plump with beautiful eyes and "It could be played in There was nothing vuvu my scene." Carol's hotbed appeal ever, will be similar. Young's—the traditional up of striped petticoats’dier's jacket and long boy hair-do with bang. No Singing “Did you sing The Of Summer' in the most asked Miss Young. ‘My dear,' said the haired actress, "It was We added two mubers," said Carol. "But kidding the story. And a happy ending."" "I died at the end, play and the book," Ms said firmly. "Trilby' in I was struggling to go net, symbolic of Svengo." HERE TO STAY!!! GERMAN QUESTION Distr. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc. OTHMAN'S W Transit St In Washington At a Stand WASHINGTON got specks of rust car tracks. The on the loading p Connecticut Ave nig to go to seee The big green es, which have the lots for 22 splashed with m a few brief show accumulations of the tires on these going flat. Getting started, when as tal Transit Co. s is likely to be on lems. What this strie the capital of th is horrid. How o her best by her she's hiked 20 b gree heat both her job and her he she eat, if she's money on taxis? Either way sh work properly a multiply her by and entwine her red tape, there's the work-a-day op government are That brings u crous part. The bus drivers say have more mon son, the boy w finance- who con pany, agrees the raise. But he refu what they want u he gets a fare So we've got t ty Commission in Carol Channing Stars in Classic Drama on TV By ALINE MOSBY United Press Hollywood Writer HOLLYWOOD — When silent star Clara Kimball Young starred in "Trilby and Svengall" in 1915, she stripped for a scene in the nude—but the 1953 Trilby, Carol Channing, lamented today she can't do that for television. Husky-voiced Carol will be at least the fifth Trilby when she tackles the role in a musical comedy version of the classic drama on NBC-TV July 30. Carol's romp, with Basil Rathbone as Svengall, has the jazzed-up title of "Svengall and the Blonde." As research, NBC suggested Carol take lessons from Miss Young, who created the role for the silent screen, and in the interests of research I went along for the meeting. The 1915 movie version cost $10,-000, compared to $100,000 for a one-night stand on today's television. Bohemian Paris But Miss Young outdid Carol by acting in her birthday suit. "Trilby is a model in bohemian Paris, so I appeared in the altogether," the veteran actress announced. "The cameraman and director were the only persons allowed on the set, and it was screened off. I sat on a cushion and they shot from a three-quarter view." At this news Miss Channing put on her "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" stare. She could only stammer that "NBC won't let me do that—we can't even show a photograph of Trilby's nude calendar. Your Birthday Forecast By STELLA TUESDAY, JULY 26 — Born to-ponding paragraph. Let your birthday day be your daily guide. Wednesday, July 27 LEO (July 24-Aug. 23) — If you are fully cooperative you will find that business is rather better than you had anticipated. VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 23) — There are some adverse aspects but if you have a constructive, optimistic attitude, you will prosper. LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct. 23) — If you are careless, you might suffer a serious loss. Postpone new ventures until later on. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — Best not to be overambitious today. Take all opportunities offered, just now, with a grain of salt! SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22) — Learn to be content with what you have, for being envious of others is a very poor idea! CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20) — Be conservative, especially in matters of business and finance. This is not the time to be adventuresome. AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19) — If not contented with things as they are, instigate progressive change and watch things take a turn for the better. PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 20) — If you have taken on added responsibilities which are a burden, make an attempt, soon, to change the situation. ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 20) — This is not the time to overanticipate. You make progress although it may not be too spectacular. TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21) — The unexpected could happen today and it might not be something you really want. Being forewarned, is forearmed against trouble. GEMINI (May 22-June 21) — Be careful on the jury; mistake could upset things at the office for you, so be on guard. CANCER (June 22-July 23) — Prudent action will pay the best dividend. So we've got thety Commission in situation. Along ber, maybe it will er the present or is enough. The quirde? Or how can fares for trolley in the car barns? That brings up District Commis ride in government who'd like to seize lift its franchise seeking a custom let the District spend a year run. The commission this without app gress; our town, for mayor 96 Se Representatives.) men have our int constantly, but they seem to agree on terests are. The Senate Dite seems to lik passing a law to chise away from Co. All but Sen., (D., Ore.), that is out Wolfson by away the franchi the commissioner own bus system cars plying Pen nue. So the comm hearings on the sweaty citizens their long hikes). The trouble is committee doesn scheme. It favors junction to get back on the track. The more the ggle, the further settlement of the downtown stores increasingly emp and then there'S Bayard Evans, t owner. Most of his wavers and cooks have fight of getting to fortunately, is a himself, and his Paris, so I appeared in the altogether," the veteran actress announced. "The cameraman and director were the only persons allowed on the set, and it was screened off. I sat on a cushion and they shot from a three-quarter view." At this news Miss Channing put on her "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" stare. She could only stammer that "NBC won't let me do that—we can't even show a photograph of Trilby's nude calendar. But I would have done anything for Trilby." "I don't know why people want to be so prudish." sniffed Miss Young now o plump 65 but still with beautiful eyes and hair. "It could be played artistically. There was nothing vulgar about my scene." Carol's clothing appearance, however, will be similar to Miss Young's—the traditional Trilby get up of striped petticoat, old soldier's jacket and long blonde pageboy hair-do with bangs. No Singing "Did you sing 'The Last Rose of Summer' in the movies?" Carol asked Miss Young. "My dear," said the blue-white-haired actress, "it was a silent!" "We added two musical numbers," said Carol. "But we're not kidding the story. And we gave it a happy ending." "I died at the end, as in the play and the book," Miss Young said firmly. "'Trilby' is a tragedy, I was struggling to get out of a net, symbolic of Syngall—" "We have a net, too," squealed Carol. Miss Young retired from pictures in 1940 after doing character roles in Hopalong Cassidy films. She lives alone in a Hollywood apartment, bare of any mememores of her 40-year career. "I threw out all those scrapbooks and photos," she said. "If I weren't with you now I wouldn't be talking about the past." "I'm living today!" she said and raised her highball glass to toast Carol. "I'm in this rocket ship! To hell with the past." Janet Leigh told me that when she went to work on her singing dramatic stint in "Pete Kelly's Blues," down Warner way, she received a bouquet of roses with this note from husband Tony Curtis: "To Canary Jane: Have a ball and wall like a crazy slippo, and play it cool. From the wack wallin' Tone." Janet said she wasn't sure what Tony meant by the jive talk. I couldn't help her. Benny Goodman has a dragnet out for a clarinet he formerly owned. The missing squealing stick is a Selmer, Serial No. L3682. Benny will give the owner a new $500 Selmer Omega for three weeks loan of the older instrument. Seems he needs to use it to match the total recordings of some of his old records for his screen bio. John Agar and Colleen Miller will have the fun of emoting in "Law Man," out at U-I. The yarn has a western locale in the 1880s and takes place in a single day. A young sheriff is determined if you do not, there is a good chance that you might never get around to it, later on in life! You are very self-sufficient, emotionally, but would be happier in the long-range view, if you had your own home to which you could return after your wandering days are over. Among those born on this date are: Carl Jung, psychologist; George Bernard Shaw, playwright; William R. Harper, educator; Robert Graves, poet; George Barr McCutcheon, artist; Gracie Allen, actress; Emil Jannings, actor; and Aldous Huxley, novelist. To find what the stars have in store for you tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the corres- AMBLING WITH ANN Janet Leigh Gets Roses, 'Crazy' Note From Husband While Working on Pete Kelly's Blues' Janet Leigh told me that when she went to work on her singing dramatic stint in "Pete Kelly's Blues," down Warner way, she received a bouquet of roses with this note from husband Tony Curtis: "To Canary Jane: Have a ball and wall like a crazy slippo, and play it cool. From the wack wallin' Tone." Janet said she wasn't sure what Tony meant by the jive talk. I couldn't help her. Benny Goodman has a dragnet out for a clarinet he formerly owned. The missing squealing stick is a Selmer, Serial No. L3682. Benny will give the owner a new $500 Selmer Omega for three weeks loan of the older instrument. Seems he needs to use it to match the total recordings of some of his old records for his screen bio. John Agar and Colleen Miller will have the fun of emoting in "Law Man," out at U-I. The yarn has a western locale in the 1880s and takes place in a single day. A young sheriff is determined if you do not, there is a good chance that you might never get around to it, later on in life! You are very self-sufficient, emotionally, but would be happier in the long-range view, if you had your own home to which you could return after your wandering days are over. Among those born on this date are: Carl Jung, psychologist; George Bernard Shaw, playwright; William R. Harper, educator; Robert Graves, poet; George Barr McCutcheon, artist; Gracie Allen, actress; Emil Jannings, actor; and Aldous Huxley, novelist. To find what the stars have in store for you tomorrow, select your birthday star and read the corres- TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21) — The unexpected could happen today and it might not be something you really want. Being forewarned, is forearmed against trouble. GEMINI (May 22-June 21) — Be careful on the joys mistake could upset things at the office for you, so be on guard. CANCER (June 22-July 23) — Prudent action will pay the best dividends in the long run. Don't attempt to be too adventuresome now. (Copyright, 955, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) OTHMAN'S VIEWS Transit Strike In Washington At a Standstill WASHINGTON — Now we've got specks of rust on our streetcar tracks. The grass growing on the loading platforms along Connecticut Avenue is beginning to go to seed. The big green and silver buses, which have been parked in the lots for 22 days now, are splashed with mud, caused by a few brief showers hitting the accumulations of dust. Some of the tires on these beliemoths are going flat. Getting their engines started, when as and if the Capital Transit Co. strike is settled, is likely to be one of those problems. What this strike is doing to the capital of the United States is horrid. How can a G-girl do her best by her typewriter if she's hiked 20 blocks in 95-degree heat both ways, between her job and her home? How can she eat, if she's spent all her money on taxis? Either way she can't do her work properly and when you multiply her by the thousand and entwine her with the usual red tape, there's no wonder that the work-a-day operations of the government are suffering. That brings us to the ludicrous part. The motormen and bus drivers say they've got to have more money. Louis Wolfson, the boy wonder of high finance who controls the company, agrees they deserve the raise. But he refuses to give 'em what they want until and unless he gets a fare increase. So we've got the Public Utility Commission investigating the biggest headache for Soviet Russia and eventually be the means of breaking down the present regime in the Kremlin. WASHINGTON — There's one real disappointment about the Big Four meeting at Geneva — that the dramatic talks had to come to an end. The world would have been glad to see them go on. The pressure for peace is so intense that any amount of inconvenience to the statesmen involved—any delay in other official business would seem to have been justified if there was a chance for worthwhile agreements. But the sad truth is that the Soviet rulers, unlike their Western colleagues, represented only themselves. They could not make agreements on substantive questions without confessing publicly to their peoples a certain responsibility for some of the evils they have wrought in the last ten years especially among the satellite states where they have imposed a system of slavery. So far as the Western governments were concerned, their representatives achieved a moral triumph. It was not a triumph merely because they helped to create an atmosphere or spirit of peaceful purpose. The Geneva conference may be termed a success from the Western viewpoint only because it concentrated the attention of the entire world for a full week on the issues that separate the East and the West. This is no ordinary achievement. Not in ten years has the Iron Curtain been penetrated so as to enable American and British and French viewpoints to be printed at length in Soviet newspapers. Whatever the Soviet people have been told about the "warmongers" of the West must now seem untruthful to the readers of the newspapers biggest headache for Soviet Russia and eventually be the means of breaking down the present regime in the Kremlin. B. A dramatic rebuttal of the Soviet propaganda of the last ten years that America is "warmonger" and aggressor engaged in building alliance which encircle Russia with all bases just for the purpose of attack. Even the Russian spokesman at Geneva had to say publicly many kind words about the peaceful purposes expressed by President Eisenhower. This alone was worth to America the entire trouble of a presidential trip to Geneva. For the worldwide propaganda battle is more important than most American realize: C. An effective manifestation of the moral force of the free world with a spectacular display of Allied unity. This is an incalculable value in building a demand for peace that must inevitably overflow the borders of the iron curtain countries and seep through to the peoples beyond. D. The decision to put the same issues as were discussed last week before another four power conference of foreign ministers at Geneva in October. This means that the pressure for peace continues with intensity. E. Relaxation of war tension for the time being. This is an advantage but it also has its dangers. For if the West gives the impression that it will accept the Russian concept of "peaceful coexistence" it could be interpreted by the liberty loving elements behind the iron curtain as a acceptance by the West of the "status quo," a freezing of the existing conditions. the work-a-day operations of the government are suffering. That brings us to the ludicrous part. The motormen and bus drivers say they've got to have more money. Louis Wolfson, the boy wonder of high finance who controls the company, agrees they deserve the raise. But he refuses to give 'em what they want until and unless he gets a fare increase. So we've got the Public Utility Commission investigating the situation. Along about September, maybe it will decide whether the present charge per ride is enough. The question is, what ride? Or how can you raise fares for trolleys that remain in the car barns? That brings us to the three District Commissioners (who ride in government limousines) who'd like to seize the company, lift its franchise, and, while seeking a customer for the firm, let the District government spend a year running it. The commissioners can't do this without approval of Congress; our town, after all, has for mayor 96 Senators and 435 Representatives.) These gentlemen have our interests at heart constantly, but they never can seem to agree on what our interests are. The Senate District Committee seems to like the idea of passing a law taking the franchise away from Wolfson and Co. All but Sen. Wayne Morse (D., Ore.) that is. He says kick out Wolfson by way of taking away the franchise and then let the commissioners set up their own bus system, with汀ney cars plying Pennsylvania Avenue. So the committee's holding hearings on these ideas, with sweaty citizens (damp from their long hikes) talking heatedly. The trouble is that the House committee doesn't like either scheme. It favors a kind of injunction to get those streetcars back on the tracks. The more the gentlemen wangle, the further away seems settlement of the strike. The downtown stores are growing increasingly empty of customers and then there's my old friend, Bayard Evans, the restaurant owner. Most of his waiters, dishwashers and cooks have given up the fight of getting to work. Evans, fortunately, is a first-class cook, himself, and his wife is an at-birth. This is no ordinary achievement. Not in ten years has the Iron Curtain been penetrated so as to enable American and British and French viewpoints to be printed at length in Soviet newspapers. Whatever the Soviet people have been told about the "warmongers" of the West must now seem untruthful to the readers of the newspapers and the listeners to radio broadcasts behind the iron curtain. There were to be sure risks involved. What a mischievous use the Soviet propagandists can make now, for example, of those snapshots showing Ike and Bulganin and Krushechev hobnobbing and smiling and fraternizing. They can display those photos all through the satellite countries as if to say to the oppressed peoples—"don't depend on the United States and the West to help you out—they are playing ball with us now." Better accept your fate." There were, on the other hand to offset such an impression plenty of significant statements made by President Eisenhower in his addresses at Geneva to indicate clearly that the United States has not lost interest in what is happening to the peoples of the satellite states. Analyzing the Geneva conference—what Russia got out of it and wat the West derived—the diplomatic scoreboard looks something like this: What the Russians Got: 1. A new prestige inside Soviet Russia for her rulers—equality with the heads of the Western states. A certain respectability was bestowed on the Kremlin group by President Eisenhower's conspicuous gestures of personal and official friendship. This is important to enhance the domestic position of the Kremlin as against the restless elements of the people who believe Western charges that Communist imperialism has brought the world to the brink of a nuclear war. 2. A spectacular chance to restate the Soviet position for unification of Germany, whenever the Kremlin chooses, and on its own terms and conditions. This is important in future maneuvers inside both East and West Germany in attaining the main Soviet objective—detaching Germany completely from the North Atlantic treaty. E. Relaxation of war tension for the time being. This is an advantage but it also has its dangers. For if the West gives the impression that it will accept the Russian concept or "peaceful coexistence" it could be interpreted by the liberty loving elements behind the iron curtain as a acceptance by the West of the "status quo," freezing of the existing condition of slavery in Eastern Europe, and a removal of all hope of liberation as the West may allow trade in strategic goods to build up the power of the Kremlin over the people. American statesmen, however, can be expected to exercise care in the next few months to eliminate any such misunderstandings. Based on what has been revealed thus far and assuming that there have been no promises made in private by the U.S. delegation, Geneya's conference—on balance — appears to have been more of a plus than a minus for the West. (Copyright, 1955, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Letter to the Editor Communications published in this department are strictly the statements and opinions of readers and The Belfast News Corp.'s responsibility for them. Letters should not be more than 300 words; the editor reserves the right to edit them down to this length. All letters must be signed although full names will not be printed if it is so indicated—Editor. Dear Sir: In reply to the writer who was so disappointed with his excursion to Disneyland as an invited guest: To begin with, neighbor... What did you expect?... Didn't you go a little bit overboard in your anticipation? What did you think $17,000,000 would look like... as compared to a four bit ham-sandwich? There isn't another man, or person in the wide world today... we don't believe... who would let you approach within shotgun range of his $17,000,000 if he had that much. Over at Disneyland you can see it... touch it... walk on it and use it, at your own pleasure. Of course there were Holly The more the gentlemen wangle, the further away seems settlement of the strike. The downtown stores are growing increasingly empty of customers and then there's my old friend, Bayard Evans, the restaurant owner. Most of his waiters, dishwashers and cooks have given up the fight of getting to work, Evans, fortunately, is a first-class cook, himself, and his wife is an attractive waitress. And that brings us to the only good solution I've ever yet: Bring in crusty old Sewell Avery, who beat out financier Wolfson for control of Montgomery Ward, and let him show how a transit company should be run. (Copyright, 1955, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)