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The Bulletin Editorial Page B-6—Anaheim (Col.) Bulletin Monday, May 4, 1959 The Power Of Negative Thinking Ever since the days of Couee and the Little Red Engine that Could, Americans have been surcharged with the desire to accomplish what would seem to be impossible. They have repeated the ritualistic formula that every day in every way they are getting better and better, and have imported concepts from the East to aid in the development of certain occult mental powers which supposedly underlie normal consciousness. They have read and practised the benevolent dictates of Norman Vincent Peale, and have brought bookstores into prosperity with How To Win Friends and Influence People. Despite this public enthusiasm and officially decreed optimism in self, a surprisingly large majority of people have remained in the well travelled road mediocrity, in the financial, occupational and social realms. They are, to be blunt, just "Plain Folks." Their subconscious minds have resisted the techniques of self exploitation, and they have, naturally enough, felt resentment that the money they have spent on the how to be successful books was apparently wasted. They are sore. And well they should be. The great of this and any other country did not be come so except through an ill-favored commodity, hard work, add talent, genius perhaps, but mainly hard work. Having a goal and working toward it. Acceptance of reality as it is popularly conceived. This attitude is one of getting something for nothing scious minds have resisted the techniques of self-exploitation, and they have, naturally enough, felt resentment that the money they have spent on the how to be successful books was apparently wasted. They are sore. And well they should be. The great of this and any other country did not be come so except through an ill-favored commodity, hard work, add talent, genius perhaps, but mainly hard work. Having a goal and working toward it. Acceptance of reality as it is popularly conceived. This attitude is one of getting something for nothing and roughly equal to heavenly supplications which leave the job up to supernatural agents. Belief is fine, and belief in REAL ability is what made this country an exceptional one. But the old Biblical adage would seem to need repeating in these days of Zen Bhuddism, Pealism, Welfarism, How To Be A Success In Ten Easy Lessons-ism and any other like 'philsopohy' which is actually a degradation of man and his capacity to honesty improve his status in the universe. "God," after all, "helps them that help themselves." Matter Of Concern "No man should buy stocks unless he can cover his living expenses comfortably, unless he has adequate insurance to protect his family, and unless he has set aside funds to meet emergencies." This statement is contained in an advertisement of the biggest stock brokerage house in the United States. This company makes it clear that they think that it is desirable for every man to have an ownership interest in American business who can afford such an investment. But they point out they are concerned about the growing number of people buying stocks only with the hope of making big, quick profits. Many of these purchases are made on tips and rumors without any knowledge on the part of the purchaser as to the real value of the stocks and the risks involved. "Speculation involves the taking of risks," says the brokerage company. "And when men take risks they can't afford to carry, when they put at stake money that they can't afford to lose, they speculate imprudently. They court trouble." Stock brokers make a living by buying and selling for customers. They don't want fewer customers, but more of them. But they don't want customers who take their meager reserves and try to make a "killing" in the market. People of modest means would be wise to lay the foundation of their future financial security in savings. Their prime need is safety and availability of their funds. Once an adequate reserve is built up they can then think about stock investments-out of new savings. But to do otherwise is, as the brokers warn, to Stock brokers make a living by buying and selling for customers. They don't want fewer customers, but more of them. But they don't want customers who take their meager reserves and try to make a "killing" in the market. People of modest means would be wise to lay the foundation of their future financial security in savings. Their prime need is safety and availability of their funds. Once an adequate reserve is built up they can then think about stock investments out of new savings. But to do otherwise is, as the brokers warn, to "court trouble." Strange As It Seems By Elsie Hix COPPER PLATES, WEIGHING UP TO 44 POUNDS, WERE USED AS CURRENCY ON THE NORTHWEST COAST OF ALASKA ABOUT 150 YEARS AGO! AS A TOKEN OF GRATITUDE, RANCHERS IN HUMBOLDT CO., Calif. DEDICATED A MONUMENT TO THE LEAF-EATING BEETLE THAT HELPED ERADICATE THE POISONOUS KLAMATH WEED FROM THEIR RANGE LANDS -- PAUL CHOUINARD, of St Gabriel de Brandon, Canada, has spent a lifetime developing an uncanny knack in dealing with wildlife... WOLVES HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO FOLLOW HIM ON His Walks AS IF THEY WERE DOGS... AN Owl AND Eagle, NATURAL ENEMIES, SIT QUIETLY AT MEALTIME... TAURUS (A) your long time luck is with GEMINI (M) important int attention to productive CANCER (J) player - e should be e day. Get w out of your LEO (July big day th so be read important. VIRGO (Aug the most o to capitalize are. LIBRA (Sep in your in others and a common SCORPIO (O) Combine b affairs to one help t SAGITTARI — Combine mance wit be done! a lot. CAPRICORN You can a fully calc make sub AQUARIUS you are in 'We Won't Play...' DISARMAMENT LEAGUE UNLESS HE IS THE UMPIRE! U.S.S.R. VETO Farmer McCabe Your Birthday by Stella MONDAY, MAY 4 — Born today, you are practical and matter of fact in whatever you do. You show ingenuity and imagination in doing a job, yet you want it done efficiently and scientifically. You are not one to talk about your prospects ahead of time, so that others may have no idea of what you are planning. This causes others to consider you close-mouthed, even two-faced! Actually, you are neither. You are merely being cautious so that your capabilities will not be overestimated. You have the good of all people at heart and will do everything possible to make life easier for all those less fortunate than yourself. You probably will spend a considerable part of your life seeing that each individual gets a more equal share. You probably will have talent in the arts and sciences. Be sure to make use of your gift for expressing yourself fluently. You have dramatic ability, and you women especially may be drawn toward a stage career. You have better than average good fortune in games of chance and the element of luck probably will play an important role in your life. Among those born on this date are: John Collier, sociologist and specialist in the American Indian; Harold Bell Wright, author; Horace Mann, educator; Thomas Henry Huxley, biologist. 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, May 5 TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)—Play your "long shot" today. This is the time when the stars indicate luck is with you. GEMINI (May 22-June 21)—Important interests vie for your attention today. Select the most Farmer McCabe World news reporting agencies are digging up stories about Khrushchev's health. Some say he has had a stroke—others that he has a brain tumor. Whatever he has doesn't seem to affect his ability to start trouble in some new spot to keep this old world shaking with a constant attack of jitters... Maybe a dose of castor oil would purge him for his own good as well as ours. Farmer McCabe (all rights reserved) The Lighter Side by Frank Eleazer WASHINGTON (UPI) — Consider today the case of the fallen women, of which (our senators are certain) there are none in their new office building. A senatorial discourse on this and related matters began because Sen. Paul H. Douglas (D-III.), an economist before coming to Congress, insisted on exercising his unusual talents for math. Douglas can add, subtract and divide not only in the billions of dollars with which all senators are familiar but also in millions and thousands. Douglas noted that under a pending supplemental money measure that Senate was about to spend an extra four million dollars to extend an unfinished underground railroad from the new Senate Office Building a final 56 feet into the Capitol Building. Most Expensive Line The line is to run about two city blocks. It has cost to date $2,100,000. It is possibly the been carpeted. In each senator's outer suite, of four or five rooms, rubber tile floors have been laid. These are now to be carpeted, at $16 per square yard, and Douglas asked why. Sen. Dennis Chavez (D-N.M.) said it's to cut down the noise, from the electric typewriters and other machines, and also to make walking safer. "Two girls already have fallen and broken their legs," Chavez asserted. "Did they break their legs, or just fail?" Douglas asked, suspiciously. Chavez said anyway they were carried off to the hospital. "Lots of women have fallen," said Douglas. "Not in the Senate Office Building, though." He added, in a confident afterthought. "There is no danger in the new office building. It is a safe building. Safe physically, safe morally." So Douglas said the girls don't need carpets. Art for the new building, he said, is something else. Art is 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, May 5 TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)—Play your "long shot" today. This is the time when the stars indicate luck is with you. GEMINI (May 22-June 21)—Important interests vie for your attention today. Select the most productive to begin with. CANCER (June 22-July 23) — Employer - employee relationships should be excellent for you today. Get what you want most out of your job. LEO (July 24-Aug. 23) — Your big day this month for action, so be ready to do what is most important. VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 23) — Make the most of today. It's your time to capitalize on conditions as they are. LIBRA (Sept. 24-Oct. 23) — Tie in your interests with those of others and make progress toward a common goal. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) — Combine business and personal affairs to your advantage. Let one help the other. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22) — Combine pleasure, and romance with business that has to be done! Have fun; accomplish a lot. CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20) — You can afford to take a carefully calculated risk today to make substantial gains. AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19) — If you are interested in some ma- 30 Years Too Soon BUFFALO, N.Y. (UPI) — City Judge James B. McKenna fined Gary B. Hogan Jr., $15 for speeding after correcting a "mixup" through which Hogan's case had been disposed of as a youthful offense. Hogan is 43. Douglas noted that under a pending supplemental money measure the Senate was about to spend an extra four million dollars to extend an unfinished underground railroad from the new Senate Office Building a final 56 feet into the Capitol Building. Most Expensive Line The line is to run about two city blocks. It has cost to date $2,100,000. It is possibly the world's shortest subway and Douglas said no doubt the world's most expensive. The way he figured it, the extra outlay came to about $80,000 per senatorial footstep to be saved. He said that for this amount, he believed he and his colleagues might walk, especially since exercise is what they need most. Douglas observed along about here that the Senate sometimes is referred to as the "upper body" of Congress. He said maybe the reason for this is that the Senate, as in the matter at hand, is forever "upping", the appropriations bills that come over from the House. This of course is what House members have always suspected, though they never expected to hear it confirmed by a senator. Douglas then turned his attention to an item of $283,000 to complete the purchase of furniture and carpet for the new office building. He said a million dollars already had been spent on this. He said he counted 275 desks, 215 filing cabinets, 85 bookcases, and 400 chairs stacked up in the halls of the old office building, awaiting disposal as surplus. Let's use these, he said, and save $133,000. Some Have Fallen As for the remaining $150,000 for carpet, Douglas noted that each senator's own private office in the new building already has familiar but also in millions and thousands. Chavez said anyway they were carried off to the hospital. "Lots of women have fallen," said Douglas. "Not in the Senate Office Building, though." he added, in a confident afterthought. "There is no danger in the new office building: It is a safe building. Safe physically, safe morally." So Douglas said the girls don't need carpets. Art for the new building, he said, is something else. Art is needed, he said. Forthwith, he put up the first $20 toward a public collection to buy it. The bill drifted unobserved from the desk to the floor. Unobserved, that is, except by Sen. Albert Gore (D-Tenn.) Obviously also a patron of the arts, Gore popped it into a safe place, in his pocket. (PS — Note to police, the Senate sergeant at arms, and registered Tennessee voters: He gave it back later.) Editing the Day's News by H. V. Kaltenborn Lynching Recalls Dying 'Tradition' The reason why the lynch-murder of a Negro in Poplarville, Miss., has attracted so much attention is that such cases now occur so rarely. If we remember that from 1855 to 1950 a total of 4,452 persons were lynched in the United States, we can properly assess current progress in substituting judicial process for mob law. For 65 years, ending 1947, there was still at least one lynching each year. In the next decade there were only four lynchings, which is still four too many, but is one reason why the recent Mississippi case, the first in some time, has drawn national attention. President Eisenhower himself has called for "swift apprehension of the guilty persons." It is also significant that the attitude of the Mississippi community and of local officials in this state where Negroes still outnumber whites has completely changed from what it was in the Scottsboro, Ala., case of unhappy memory. In a radio broadcast of that period I said it was about as difficult for Negroes to get a fair trial in a case of criminal assault against a white woman in the state of Alabama as it was for a Jew to get a fair trial in Hitler's Germany. The Attorney-General of the State of Alabama vainly sought to have me put off the air for making that statement. Yet it was true when I made it. American historian Bancroft says that in the Pacific states up to a century ago more was done toward the righting of wrongs outside of the law than within it. He found some excuse for lynch law under frontier conditions. But for many years Americans have agreed that such agencies as the Ku Klux Klan have been an outmoded survival of what was once called frontier justice. During the nineteenth century southern jails were sometimes left unguarded to make it easy for a mob to abduct prisoners. In the Poplarville, Miss. case the jail was also ungarded, but this was because no one expected anything to happen. The victim of the assault was a relatively unknown woman and there had been no public excitement connected with the attack which occurred in February. The lynchers did not respond to any demand of the public. All this suggests that Judge Dale, who was to have tried the accused Negro last week was right when he exonerated the people of his area from any responsibility for the crime. But he was wrong when he said this incident "opened the floodgates of hell and abuse upon us." Practically all editorial comment on this case has been sober and restrained. It has emphasized the almost complete disappearance of mob law in this country. No one in or out of public office has tried to justify what has happened in Poplarville, Miss. Whether arrested or not, the Mississippi white men who abducted the young negro from jail must know now that they are condemned by the community, the state and the race they pretended to serve. Here is an iso- reporting agencies are stories about Khrushchk. Some say he has others that he has or. Whatever he has to affect his ability in some new spot old world shaking with attack of jitters...ose of castor oil would his own good as well. Farmer McCabe (rights reserved) ank Eleazer ed. In each senator's of four or five rooms, floors have been laid. now to be carpeted, at care yard, and Douglasennis Chavez (D-N.M.) cut down the noise, electric typewriters andines, and also to make safer. Is already have fallen their legs," Chavez by break their legs, or Douglas asked, suspiaid anyway they were to the hospital. Women have fallen," as the Senate Office Build-" he added, in a con- thought. "There is no the new office build-a safe building. Safe safe morally." was said the girls don'ts. the new building, he something else. Art is changed from what it was in the Scottsboro, Ala., case of unhappy memory. In a radio broadcast of that period I said it was about as difficult for Negroes to get a fair trial in a case of criminal assault against a white woman in the state of Alabama as it was for a Jew to get a fair trial in Hitler's Germany. The Attorney-General of the State of Alabama vainly sought to have me put off the air for making that statement. Yet it was true when I made it. Public opinion forced the state of Alabama to drop charges against four of the Negro defendants. Four other Negroes were sent to prison on evidence no northern jury would have accepted. One defendant was sentenced to death, but the pressure of public opinion resulted in commuting this sentence to life imprisonment. That was back in the 30's. What a different situation prevails in Alabama and neighboring Mississippi today! When Governor Coleman of Mississippi heard that eight or ten lawless whites had broken into the Sheriff's office in Poplarville and kidnapped a young Negro truck driver from jail with the obvious purpose of lynching him, he said, "I never expected to see such action in Mississippi. This is the first such incident in 20 years. I want to see the guilty apprehended and vigorously prosecuted." By calling in the F.B.I., which has competent agents working on the case, he proved he meant what he said. He now expects to see some arrests. It is also encouraging to hear that the woman victim of the assault has stated publicly she wanted the accused Negro to have a fair trial. It has been suggested that if the state of Mississippi had a law which declares lynching to be a murder, this particular lynching would not have taken place. Section 44,270 of the State of Virginia's penal code declares that any lynching in Virginia shall be deemed murder and that persons convicted of being principles or accessories in any lynching should be punished as murderers. But it is doubtful that such a statute would prevent lynching. Society is not even agreed on the preventive effects of capital punishment. Unhappily the United States has a historic tradition of lynch law. It was a rough form of justice frequently applied during the past century against Indians, Negroes and frontier outlaws. The Amer- abuse upon us. Practically all editorial comment on this case has been sober and restrained. It has emphasized the almost complete disappearance of mob law in this country. No one in or out of public office has tried to justify what has happened in Poplarville, Miss. Whether arrested or not, the Mississippi white men who abducted/he young negro from jail must know now that they are condemned by the community, the state and the race they pretended to serve. Here is an isolated tragic survival of something we have almost overcome. It will serve the public interest if those guilty are caught and punished. (Copyright 1959, General Features Corp.) 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