anaheim-bulletin 1959-04-01

The Bulletin Editorial Page D-2—Anaheim (Cal.) Bulletin Wednesday, April 1, 1958 A State's Right Upheld For some time, decisions of the United States Supreme Court involving communists and criminals have seemed to a great many Americans to overlook the States' Rights sections of the Bill of Rights. A recent finding, however, took a different tack. In a case involving New York State's desire to have a Florida witness brought before a New York County grand jury, the federal high court ruled in favor of the State as against the individual. Actually, it upheld the validity of a uniform law that had been adopted in 42 States, New York and Florida included, in which they agreed on methods of procuring such witnesses from each other in criminal proceedings. Oddly enough, the two dissenters in the Court's decision were Hugo Black and William Douglas. Neither justice has been noted for his concern over States' rights, yet their dissent was based on just that point. Admittedly, the whole problem of individual rights vs. community rights is an intricate and delicate one. But in the case in question it is difficult to see how any State or individual rights could have been impaired by the decision. Certainly States should have the right to work out mutually beneficial agreements among themselves in matters concerning which they have constitutional prerogatives. Assignment: Washington by Ed Koterba WASHINGTON — The lady inventor from Philadelphia came up with a gadget to overcome the woes of womankind's modern heel. The U. S. Patent Office liked the idea well enough to issue her patent No. 2,875,534. It's a heel protector. The inventress, Evelyn Grossman, devised a flexible detachable cover that clamps to millady's needle heel. It's sort of like a flist-bottomed cup that keeps the heel unmarred as the lady, out on an evening, clomps up the gravel driveway or sloshes through the mud. Now, no longer will those pin-thin heels of our modern ladies sink in soft earth or get tangled in welcome mats. It was just like the man at the Patent Office said: "People hear of a new invention and they say, why couldn't I have thought of that?" There's Florence Canaday of Scarsdale, N. Y., who got Patent No. 2,875,772 for a invention with a lot of vision. It's an umbrella with a window in it. Now, somebody will come along and invent an umbrella with a window with a windshield wiper. Down at the Patent Office, where they issue 1,000 patents a week, there's a surprise every day for the man who has everything. Take what George Tsuda of Hilo, Hawaii, invented — an electric toothbrush. The motor is in the handle. An oscillator jiggles the brush back and forth. Plug it in, hold the handle steady, keep your head stationary and with a soft hum it goes, "Brusha, brusha, brusha." Then there's the lazy man's garden rake. It cleans its own teeth. Philip Miller Sr. of Florissant, Mo., thought this one up. A pushrod on the handle activates a series of metal loops on the head of the rake. Move the rod forward and the loops drop down and sweep the tines clean. Recommended for sacroiliac patients. Life's little annoying problems like the slipping ring on your finger — Sid Krandall of Detroit has the answer for that. He figured out a pair of tiny leaf springs, the blunt ends of which turn slightly inward. Inside a ring, that spring grips the finger lightly, and forever your setting remains face up. And if you're wondering what to do with the wet, drippy, soggy tea bag, look for the new design in china by Thomas A. Anderson of Batavia, Ill. He just got his patent for a little side dish moulded to a saucer. He calls it "the combined saucer and tea bag receptacle." Ever snag a fishhook ducking through the brush? Well, Thomas L. Talbert, of Slaton, Tex., invented a fool proof anti-snag device that slips over fishhooks — snags only fish. Maurice C. Kahler, of Palmyra, Pa., has patent No. 2,874,700 for his self-lighting cigarette. Serine Smith of West New York, N. J., invented an automatic household mop shaker. I've just thought of a good idea, so simple some people may laugh. It should be worth millions. It's a plain, light plastic colored hoop about four feet in diameter. You could call it, say, hula hoop. An idea like that could make somebody a millionaire. (Copyright, 1959, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Strange As It Seems By Elsie Hix WOMEN OF ANCIENT ATHENS WERE— COMPELLED BY LAW TO OWN AT LEAST 3 DRESSES— THE RULING WAS AN ATTEMPT TO MAKE THE WIVES OF POOR MEN DRESS BETTER! THE GREAT FRENCH SCHOLAR, DESCARTES, MADE AN HONEST EFFORT TO FORGET ALL HE HAD LEARNED HE WANTED AN OPEN MIND TO RECEIVE THE TRUTH AS HE FOUND IT AND EVENTUALLY BECAME ONE OF THE MOST LEARNED MEN OF ALL TIMES! Tax Exempt, Too WELL--YOU TOLD US TO CLEAN UP! SENATE RACKET PROBE UNION OFFICER TEAMSTER FUNDS Your Birthday by Stella WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1—Born today you have magnificent ideas, but you do not always carry them through to completion. When you do, you advance rapidly toward success. But when you spend your time daydreaming, you find that the rest of the world has marched ahead of you—leaving you to daydream alone. You have a fine memory for detail and a great capacity for learning. You have an innate restlessness that makes you want to go from one thing to another, seeking that perfection you never quite seem to reach. Possibly you are a little too analytical for your own good and should try to accept the bitter along with the sweet; the good with the bad—and then go forward from there. If you wait for perfection all at once, you may never get anything. You are a good critic but are inclined to tear down, rather than offer constructive criticism. Learn to look for the good in things, rather than the bad and you will be able to enjoy life a little more. Although the stars have given you tremendous physical and mental energy, you are inclined to waste it on unimportant things. Learn to channel your energies into one major project at a time so that you will not scatter your efforts over too wide a field of activity. Your intuitions are strong and your dreams are vivid. You often sense things before they happen. Pay heed to these inner warnings and you will seldom, if ever, err in judgment. Among those born on this date are: Lon Chaney, actor; Bismarck, statesman; Henry B. Anthony, politician; William Harvey, physician, anthropologist and physiologist. To find what the stars have in store for you tomorrow select your birthday star and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide Farmer McCabe "The luck of the Irish is with me" -I thought as I bent over to pick up a fat billfold. Just as my fat little fingers started to tighten around it, the darn thing scooted across the walk toward three guff-hawing kids. Pesky little jokers—their parents ought to give 'em a strapping for playing tricks on grown-ups, 'taint respectful... Still, it was April Fools Day, and how else do you celebrate it. Farmer McCabe (All rights reserved) Looking Ahead by Dr. George S. Benson Declaration for Freedom Recently in Boston's big Symphony Hall, not far from the scene of many heroic events in American history, a group of farm leaders erected another monument worthy of the attention of citizens throughout the nation. The delegates constituted the leadership of Farm Bureau organizations in 49 states and Hawaii. Without a dissenting vote, they adopted a declaration of American citizenship for the nearly 8 million citizens now counted within the nationwide Farm Bureau family. It is a challenge to 170 million Americans! It declares: "Nations may live or die, but nations which live by the great principles of Christianity can be expected to endure. The true measure of a nation is found not in its census, the size of its cities, the yield of its crops, nor the strength of its armies, but in the kind of people it has as citizens. "Ours is the privilege of citizenship in the United States of America. It is a symbol of hope in the eyes of millions of people throughout the world who cannot claim it as their own. Yet we — in the relative ease, luxury, and abundance which is America — tend to stake in the outcome of the current attempt by some people to change our economic system and our form of self-government. They need to learn the great truths underlying our American system and participate actively in programs designed to strengthen it. It is therefore important that teachers, clergymen, and all who help shape the character of young people be adequately and properly trained. Farm Bureau has a special opportunity to join with others who hold beliefs similar to ours in formulating and carrying out programs designed achieve these goals. Farm Bureau should assume leadership in obtaining this helpful cooperation." Toward Free Market Farm Bureau, which has more members than all other farm organizations combined, doesn't hesitate to make known its beliefs. In spite of what some Congressmen may declare, the farmers of this great organization are not seeking more governmental intervention and "security guarantees" but less. The voting delegates at Boston urged the use of every means to: 1. Eliminate excessive accumulation of surplus production. Farm Bureau, which has more members than all other farm organizations combined, doesn't hesitate to make known its beliefs. In spite of what some Congressmen may declare, the farmers of this great organization are not seeking more governmental intervention and "security guarantees" but less. The voting delegates at Boston urged the use of every means to: 1. Eliminate excessive accumulation of surplus production. 2. Reduce the use of public funds to increase farm production capacity. 3. Restore the farmer's freedom to grow crops he chooses. 4. Allow prices to respond to supply and demand. 5. Reduce cost of farm programs to taxpayers. Farm Bureau people generally believe that government paternalism for any group hinders genuine progress for all and endangers everybody's freedom. They subscribe to the axiom that only a self-reliant people can be free and recognize that there is no such thing as "something for nothing." Our whole population needs a good strong dose of this philosophy. Citizenship Actions Needed "We recommend the continuation of active citizenship programs of American civic education and the accurate teaching of history, market economics, and true citizenship in our schools, institutions, and local organizations, to the end that generations to follow may enjoy the priceless freedoms and opportunities of the American system. "Young people have a special Capitol Dispatch by David Lawrence WASHINGTON — When President Eisenhower appealed last week to labor and management for "statesmanship on both sides," he was concerned with its absence nowadays at the bargaining table. How different, for instance, is the attitude of the big labor unions today from what it was only ten years ago when there was evidence of real statesmanship as well as sound economics! Attention was called recently to this contrast by one of the editors of the "Springfield (Mass.) Republican," who wrote that, on unwrapping an old mirror, he found in a 10-year-old newspaper some quotations which afford an opportunity for comparison with what is being said today. In the article, which happened to be one that this correspondent wrote on June 21, 1949, there was an excerpt from the monthly survey issued by the National Headquarters of the American Federation of Labor and distributed to local unions throughout the country. The A.F. of L. declaration read as follows: "In the present precarious business situation, wise union policies are of utmost importance in negotiating with your employer. Get the facts on his financial condition and outlook from him if possible; supplement your information by writing to A. F. of L. headquarters. "Perhaps your employer's prospects are excellent; but if his profit margin is being squeezed by price declines your future will be more secure if you help him improve his competitive position. A wage increase may depend upon job creation by setting uniform wage rates in an industry on a scale that the big companies usually can afford to pay, but which compel the smaller companies to operate on thin margins or profit or in 'the red. Nowadays the AFL-CIO merged organization seems to have two voices. George Meany tends to be like his predecessors in the AFL-Sam Gompers and Bill Green—while Walter Reuther makes speeches which would indicate that he sincerely believes the American economic system would fare better along socialistic lines and with more and more government control, intervention or even government ownership. His views are often reflected by many of the so-called "liberals" in Congress. There's a big argument currently as to what has caused inflation. The fact is that the dollar is 52 cents less in buying power than 20 years ago. Wage rates that are forced upward irrespective of the higher prices they induce-can, only result in more and more unemployment. The workers with seniority keep their jobs. The younger ones lose them. As for the youth coming of age in the labor market, many don't get jobs at all. Unemployment today is due largely to the attacks on the private-enterprise system by thoughtless labor-union leaders. This is the opposite of statesmanship. It can only bring discouragement to private initiative and, finally, introduce a species of government control and monopoly. There is no substitute for competition, and even the labor-union In the present precarious business situation, wise union policies are of utmost importance in negotiating with your employer. Get the facts on his financial condition and outlook from him if possible; supplement your information by writing to A. F. of L. headquarters. "Perhaps your employer's prospects are excellent; but if his profit margin is being squeezed by price declines your future will be more secure if you help him improve his competitive position. A wage increase may depend upon a plan for union cooperation to prevent waste, save expense, cut costs, improve production." "Such a plan can be developed through a union-management production committee. Now is the time to revive this pre-war idea and make it effective for today's needs." This writer in his 1949 dispatch characterized the statement as "an excellent example of responsible leadership in the trade-union movement," and added: "The main pillar of the free-enterprise system is competition, but again and again wage rates are forced upwards by considering only what large units in business can absorb. These are the very increases that put smaller companies in the red or out of business." "The A.F. of L. does not by any means abate its interest in wage increases. In fact, it urges these be sought wherever possible because of the need for maintaining consumer purchasing power." "There is no doubt that union leaders of the responsible type are fearful of the effects of the present recession. The fact that thy are sending out words of reassurance concerning the underlying strength of the economic system does not alter the fact that they know this is no time for boatrocking on extraneous issues." The "Springfield Republican" in its editorial the other day describes the 1949 pronouncement of the A.F. of L. as significant of what its doctrines used to be before the merger and prior to "The AFL's absorption of the Reuther philosophy," and adds this comment: "Today, the merged AFL-CIO demands regular annual pay boosts, plus ever-mounting fringe benefits and other built-in inflation devices, regardless of the competitive position of any business." Large unions, moreover, are frustrating the historic process of seniority keep their jobs. The younger ones lose them. As for the youth coming of age in the labor market, many don't get jobs at all. Unemployment today is due largely to the attacks on the private-enterprise system by thoughtless labor-union leaders. This is the opposite of statesmanship. It can only bring discouragement to private initiative and, finally, introduce a species of government control and monopoly. There is no substitute for competition, and even the labor-union movement, which is governed by a monopoly today, would be far better off with a little competition inside its own ranks or at least some of the 1949 statesmanship that sincerely recognized at the bargaining table the common interest of employer and employee. (Copyright, 1959, New York Herald Tribune Inc.) CROSSWORD PUZZLE Answer to Yesterday's Puzzle ACROSS 1. Balance 2. Power 3. Roam 4. Kind of flower 5. Near 6. Merit 7. Hitch 8. Anger 9. Insect 10. Obscure 11. Chinese fashion 12. Vexes 13. Comb form: dawn 14. Trap 15. Lamp 16. Makes lace 17. Urge on 18. Conjunction 19. Ascetics 20. Sun god 21. Weird 22. Depression 23. Suffix: adherent of 24. 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