anaheim-bulletin 1959-04-13

The Bulletin Editorial Page B-6—Anaheim (Cal.) Bulletin Monday, April 13, 1950 Stamp Out Mental Health? A special study group reported to the American Orthopsychiatric Association in its annual meeting in San Francisco last week that opponents of public expenditures for mental health clinics suffer from psychological insecurity. Needless to say, the Association favors such expenditures and deplores the "irrational anxiety" of people who disagree. The meeting then was addressed by the principal speaker, Dr. Linus Pauling, who proceeded to scare the psychological pants off everyone present. Contrary to the opinion of Dr. Edward Teller and other nuclear scientists who believe there is no danger from nuclear explosion tests, Dr. Pauling long has exhibited irrational anxiety on the subject. Fallout of atom bombs so far tested, Dr. Pauling told his audience, will cause the death or serious illness of 50,000 Americans and will produce 23,000 mental defectives among yet unborn infants; if the tests are continued, he predicted, the casualty rate can go seven times higher. If the good psychiatrists are trying to reduce opposition to public mental health clinics by reducing anxiety and insecurity, they certainly are going about it in a curious way! Assignment: Washington by Ed Koterba WASHINGTON — The $1.65-an-hour census takers hired to count noses in the 1960 census next April will have to know how to read and write, there's no two ways about it. That's what the stately, gray-haired gentleman with the rimless eyeglasses said. He is Dr. Robert W. Burgess, Director of the Census Bureau, who laid his 1960 census plans before our lawmakers. Politicians will use their influence to get jobs for those 180,000 part-time workers, conceded Dr. Burgess. But, he said carefully, he won't tolerate the hiring of pure incompetents. Maybe what happened out at his own home in Pelham Manor, N.Y., in the last census is what made Uncle Sam's No. 1 head counter so adamant. He told me about it out in the hall. It was in 1950, and Mrs. Burgess answered the door. "Your husband's occupation?" asked the census taker. "Statistician," said the statistician's wife. The enumerator started to write it down. "S-t-a... er, how do you spell 'statistician'?" She spelled it out for him and he wrinkled his nose. "Statistician—can you tell me what one of those does?" Rep. Charles O. Porter (D., Ore.) brought up the question about using the spoils system in hiring census takers. Said Dr. Burgess: "I don't think it's possible to take it out of politics. It's an established institution." He did say each applicant for the three-week job would be given a qualifying test. Mostly thought, our census takers will be intelligent folks out to pick up $200 to $300 for a couple weeks' work. But the Census Bureau is doing away with a good part of human labor. They have in their building in nearby Suitland, Md., a ghastly robot they call Fosdic. This fearless Fosdic is a film optical sensing device for computers. It transcribes to tape the information from questionnaires. The facts are fed into a Univac and out comes the complicated total. Dr. Burgess and his three unsmiling assistants estimated that the 1960 population would be 180 million. I could have told the machine-age gentleman they don't need census takers to find that out. All they have to do is consult that electronic brain downtown in the Commerce Building. It's at work constantly, and as of precisely 4 p.m., April 8, 1959, the flashing lights totted up 176,-460,761 men, women and children in these United States. However, our census takers will be counting more than just noses. For instances, freezers, air conditioners, clothes dryers and commodes. Rep. George E. Shipley (D.-Ill.) said, why commodes? Unblinking, Dr. Burgess replied that people who make plumbing want to know. Important, said the census overlord, is the question of fertility. Our modern-day Kinseys will be out to determine how many more (or less) babies our mamas are producing. This, he said, is required to project our population figures into the distant future. Dr. Burgess' men will drop some perennial queries, but the one on how much money a person makes per year will stay in. "That will bring a lot of complaints about invasion of privacy and snooping and things like that," lamented Rep. August E. Johansen (R., Mich.). "The enumerators," Dr. Burgess nodded, "will be facing up to some hardships." (Copyright, 1959, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Strange As It Seems By Elsie Hix FLYING COFFIN! APTER BOMBING A JAP CRUSER, ALL CREW MEMBERS OF A CONSOLIDATED PBY WERE KILLED EXCEPT THE NON-PILOT ENGINEER, WHO WAS KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS— BUT THE SHIP CONTINUED TO FLY! WHEN THE ENGINEER BAILED OUT OVER AN ISLAND, THE PLANE CONTINUED ITS EVEN COURSE OVER THE PACIFIC! GRAPEFRUIT WAS THought to be INEDIBLE AND WAS ORIGINALLY RAISED FOR ORNAMENTAL PURPOSES ONLY! THE SWEETEST THING ON EARTH/ ALPHA-PERILLA-ALDOXIME IS 4,000 TIMES AS SWEET AG CANE SUGAR! Chirping Before It's Hatched KHRUSHCHEV SUMMIT MEETING LEXANDER FROM The Mail Box Dear Sir: I note that the church and school have joined in the advance of culture in Anaheim with a tawdry professional wrestling stunt in the High School Auditorium. Why not next with a strip-tease. At least that could have beauty if the stripper were properly selected. Very truly yours, Grover A. Kempf, M. D., 1249 East Adele St. MONDAY, APRIL 13 — Born today you like to dominate circumstances and control people. You take yourself and your lifework very seriously and seldom, if ever, will you deviate from what you consider your path of duty. The stars have been generous in giving you many and varied talents. Touched with genius, you may have difficulty at times, however, in persuading others to go along with your ideas. You appear to have periods of great success and then times of retrogression. Learn to sit out the poor periods and build strength for the upswing. Always try to take advantage of an upturn in your fortunes and you will continue to advance. Learn to be a little more practical about money matters, since you are not too good a manager when it comes to business affairs. In public you are quite austere and formal. But among close friends and within your family group you are quite a different personality. You have a great deal of personal charm and you of the fair sex will have more than one romance before you settle down to marriage. Among those born on this date are: Thomas Jefferson, U. S. President; Harold E. Stassen, legislator; Sidney B. Fay, historian; Henry Broadhurst, British labor leader; Ludwig Rehn, noted surgeon. 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. Tuesday, April 14 ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 20)—Use discretion in forcing personal issues involving family and business matters. TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)—Investigate all details of any legal matter involving family interests before deciding anything. GEMINI (May 22-June 21)—Separate truth from rumor; and use your best judgment in all important matters. CANCER (June 22-July 23)—You can press your personal advantages forcefully while being thoroughly practical and tactful. LEO (July 24-Aug. 23)—Several varying interests may vie for your attention today, so make your selection wisely. VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 23)—Your highest hopes give promise of... "He may not be comfortable, and he probably won't be." Brig. Gen. Don D. Flickinger, an Air Force space doctor, told Stennis' space subcommittee. "But he'll come out of it no worse for the wear." Stennis admitted he had been in sort of a hurry when he studied physics. So he said there is a lot about project mercury he can't understand. He said one thing he did get from the hearing was that Christopher Columbus was no pioneer at all compared to the first man to fly off into space. 15 Miles A Gallon Stennis understood also about miles to the gallon, and was happy to hear that our first manned satellite won't really be so costly to run. "On the basis of a 24-hour flight," said Maxime A. Faget, one of the space agency experts. "It will burn 200,000 pounds of fuel, and in terms of gasoline mileage—if you want to look at it that way—that is a little more than 15 miles to the gallon." Stennis said maybe this meant that the Cadillacs in which some senators like to rocket around Washington have new competition. What Stennis knows about the gas mileage of Cadillacs wasn't brought out. I do know he drives a Buick himself. Anyway, Faget was sort of kidding about the gas mileage of the first manned satellite. But he and the other bright young men who spent the day explaining patiently to Stennis & Co. the theory and practice of space travel weren't kidding at all when they said it is just a matter of time till we put one man, and then several, and finally a whole bunch, into orbit. How much time, they never did say exactly. They seemed to be looking toward 1961 for the first "one man, one day" space trip! They said a "two men, two weeks" venture should come along "several" years after that. They didn't fix a timetable at all for the next step—a half dozen nose of an atlas rocket. Once in orbit, his couch will be upended, so he sits in a normal position. He will peer through a periscope. "To optimize the earth display." This turned out to be a scientific way of saying that being weightless in space he won't know which way is up unless he has something to look at. On the first flight, he won't be expected to make more than two or three west-to-east tours of the earth. Then, coming in over the Pacific toward California he will fire three reverse action rockets to slow himself down. He will reenter the atmosphere about over Cape Canaveral, Fla., his takeoff point. A small parachute will pop out at 60,000 feet to slow him down further, and a bigger one when he gets down to 10,000. On that one, he will drop into the ocean, hopefully beside one of the four ships that will be waiting to fish him out. "It's amazing," said Stennis. I felt the same way. ON GUARD ALWAYS! YOUR ARMY NATIONAL GUARD CO. "B" 161st AIB 400 S. Brookhurst, Fullerton Phone TRojan 1-1765 Capt. Ralph E. Comstock Commanding Capitol Dispatch by David Lawrence WASHINGTON — An alluring appeal is being made not only in the constant stream of statements from prominent Democrats here but in writings and utterances publicized by political groups in other capitals of the Free World. It says, in effect, that, since Communist Imperialism is "here to stay," there is nothing else to do but get along with it. Hence proposals are being advanced not only to keep the two Germanys disunited but to add a third Germany — The Berlin Zone — which would have some sort of international status. It would be politically detached from West Germany. Strangely enough, the argument is being made that, unless the West bows to the Kremlin and makes "concessions" or accepts the "status quo" — that is, things as they are in respect to the "capative" states in Europe — there is no way to satisfy the Soviet Union. Back in the 1930's the same sort of arguments were being advanced as many a diplomat and many a writer insisted that "you can do business with Hitler." In this country most of the articulate Democrats keep saving nowadays that what is needed in Foreign policy are "bold and imaginative ideas." It doesn't, however, take much imagination or boldness to surrender. Acquiescence comes from the indifferent segments of the nation, and applause comes from the peace-at-any price groups that have dragged the world into two global wars. The reason why Cancellor Adenauer is widely acclaimed today as a great statesman by so many observers throughout the world expediency. Thus, the argument for a recognition of the Red Regime in China which has been made by a minority of churchmen — but whose spoken words receive wide attention — is that, after all, Red China is here to stay and hence the United States might as well deal with its government and forsake the cause of a free China. This is the same sort of reasoning, too, which accepts the enslavement of the peoples of Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Rumania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and East Germany with the argument that, after all, since these countries are occupied by Soviet Troops, America might as well accept the situation as it is — the "status quo." This is the very opposite of morality in world affairs. It awards to the aggressor the fruits of his aggression. It deserts the precepts of moral principle which, when upheld by a great statesman like Woodrow Wilson, have mobilized world opinion and made of it a stronger force than military might ever assembled. To abandon now the cause of "liberation" and to accept instead the crafty devices of the Communists for "freezing" the conquests of the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe would be a catastrophe that could only end in another world war. That's why the efforts to lull the American people and the British people into acceptance of Soviet schemes euphemistically called the "compromises" of "peaceful co-existence," should be recognized for what they are — a total abandonment of moral force and a surrender to the opportunistic doctrines of misguided expediency. build strength for always try to take upturn in your will continue to be a little more money matters, too good a man comes to business are quite austere but among close within your family quite a different have a great deal warm and you of the love more than one you settle down to born on this date Jefferson, U. S. Presidency, Stassen, legislature Fay, historian; first, British labor Rehn, noted surveyors have in tomorrow, select star and read the paragraph. Let your be your daily guide. April 14-Apr. 20)—Use disclosing personal is family and business. May 21—Investigate any legal family interests anything. 22-June 21)—September rumor; and use argument in all importments in all important leaders who believe in surrendering a principle of morality to the illusions of ticulate Democrats keep saying nowadays that what is needed in Foreign policy are "bold and imaginative ideas." It doesn't, however, take much imagination or boldness to surrender. Acquisence comes from the indifferent segments of the nation, and applause comes from the peace-at any price groups that have dragged the world into two global wars. The reason why Cancellor Adenauer is widely acclaimed today as a great statesman by so many observers throughout the world, but denounced as "too rigid" by others, is that he has had the wisdom to see through the deceptive doctrine of "peaceful co-existence" and the strategies of the appeaser. In his speech just delivered to the German people, he says: "He who bears the burden of political responsibility must reject any sort of wishful thinking. An inclination for wishful thinking is fatally dangerous above all in Foreign Policy because Foreign Policy determines the fate of not only the present but the future generations. We all know how bitter and often bloody illusions in foreign policy have the habit of revenging themselves. How futile it is in this sphere above all to wish to correct any mistake once made." The Chancellor supplemented this with the pointed comment that "a dogged defense of right contains within itself the least risk for all concerned." In that simple truth lies the whole case for moral force as the strongest weapon diplomacy has ever had. Surveying the world situation today, it may seem paradoxical that a leading exponent of moral force speaks in behalf of the very country where a dictator held forth only 15 years ago. But the German people have learned through suffering that the esteem and respect of a Free World is of transcendent importance. They are striving today to preserve their freedom and to prevent a recurrence of the totalitarianism of the past which is being practiced as brutally now by the Kremlin as it was by the Nazi Regime of yesteryears. What is surprising is that in America, which likes to think that its churchmen are true exponents of Christian philosophy — and most of them are — there should be so many prominent leaders who believe in surrendering a principle of morality to the illusions of THE Family Scrapbook By DR. ERNEST G. OSBORNE "Not Really Stubborn" Four-year-old Trask, according to the way his mother saw it, was acting very stubbornly. She believed in permitting children to choose. So, Trask could have either the cowboy hat and vest or a policeman's cap and badge. Mother was anxious to get home but he just couldn't or, as she thought, wouldn't make up his mind. The salesgirl was clearly impatient too. Duncan, aged eight, was being obstreperous. The gym teacher was trying to get all the third-graders to play a new game, but Duncan refused. Neither pleasing nor threatening could move him. He was being really stubborn, as Miss Dwight insisted to his mother later in the day. But are these instances of real stubbornness? Trask was overwhelmed. It was too much to expect of him to choose between two such fascinating outfits. In a sense, he was stuck on dead center. And Duncan, when his mother helped him talk about it, revealed that he was really afraid to try the new game. It was this fear that made him act as he did, not stubbornness. We sometimes act as though there were a character trait we could label "stubbornness". The fact of the matter is that there's usually some understandable cause behind what we call stubbornness. And it's important that we try to understand what it is. (Copyright, 1959, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) 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