a Editorial Features PAGE 2 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1958 The City's Engineers Aren't So Sure Now IT'S getting so a fellow doesn't understand about the question of selling all he knows Company. But the thing is shaping up the city power plant to the Central Power Light read like the story of Alice in Blunderland. to The firm to "evaluate" an offer by the city hired itself a high-potency engineering buy the city power plant. The engineers to reported back that the offer was strictly no-good and recommended the city enlarge its present million. power plant an at estimated cost of $4.6 The came down from Corpus and demanded to have a stare-down with the critter who bad branded their offer "totally inadequate." The was quite hurt about it, but the power company licked its wounded pride, all the same, and upped its offered guarantee $50,000 a year.
After all, pride isn't everything when you run a business. And that's how the matter stood until 8 few days ago: The said it had made its "final" offer rather a doubtful statement; the city just let the thing piddle along like it didn't make a whole lot of difference: the city attorney said the populace could not force an election by petition; and the power plant limped along on its one remaining lung (the other is somewhere at the factory getting patched up). THE engineering firm charged the offer city 000 to "evaluate" the and find it "totally inadequate." That was on Sept. 26. Fourteen days later, these same engineers sent the city manager a letter saying they may have been real wrong about the whole thing on account of they (the engineers) didn't understand three or four factors which entered into the matter of setting a value on the electric plant.
example--said the engineers in their letter--they didn't know the city might lower its electric rates, thereby making the plant income considerably less than heretofore; they didn't know, they said, how beat-up the electric plant is; they didn't know that not enough was being set aside for keeping the plant in good condition; they didn't know how much it would take to put the plant in good shape; they didn't know the plant might be called upon to furnish power to industry at the port. Lord, we wonder what they did know. 'And, we wonder how they arrived at a conclusion not knowing 60 many things! Now, say the engineers, it begins to look as if the offer might be a pretty good one, after all--better for the city, in fact, than if the city continued to operate its own plant. Well, its beats us, too. But everybody with a reputation has "surveyed" the plant by now.
It's been looked at, taken apart, scrutinized and dissected. At the moment it's half busted and without management. We have electric power--most of the time except when the lights go out. We are making so much money we haven't reserved enough for depreciation and plant maintenance and we're going to have to borrow $4.6 million more. We have some people who want to keep the plant and sion some that who don't.
And we have a city commisdoesn't want to call an election, for some reason. Maybe the people want to sell the plant; maybe they don't. If the people are smart enough to be allowed to elect their city commission, why can't the city commission trust those same people to vote on the power plant? Test Your Horse Sense Score one point for a correct solution of each of tho first five problems. The last prublem counts fire points. Score 9-10, yourself as follows: 0-2, poor; 3-6, average; 7-8, superior; very superior.
1. Da Vinci's "Last Supper" has been reproduced more times than any other picture but which one rates second place? MONA LISA WHISTLER'S MOTHER SALLMAN'S HEAD OF CHRIST HOFMANN'S CHRIST IN GETHSEMANE 2. of Which one of these measuring units is most suggestive a surveyor? CHAIN KNOT FATHOM LEAGUE 3. Which one of these is most suggestive of a hotel? NARTHEX AISLE LOBBY ROTUNDA 4. The name Stradivarius is most suggestive of which instrument below? FLUTE VIOLIN PIANO ORGAN 5.
The first name of the famous boxer called the "Manassa Mauler" was JIM JOE JACK GENE 6. This is an analogy probiem in which the first two items on the line are related to each other in some way. Try to pick one of the four words in capital letters which holds 8 similar relationship to the third word of that same line. You are entitied to nne point for cach correct judgment. (a) Hone: MUSIC COOKING.
BARBERING-FARMING. (b) Wheat: Corn: OATMEAL GRITS COOKIESCRACKERS. (c) Horse: Acto: BRAKE BUMPERHORN. (d) Dough: Iron: PEDDLER PLASTERER. JUGGLER PLUMBER.
(e) Miter box: Metronome: MACHINIST. LAWYER CHEMIST -MUSICIAN. ANSWERS 'NFIJISON somedueg doN ta) (P) Hall (9) 12) 41042 (000'000 Jax0 jo peeli. "Freedom Of Action" CO -WITHIN THE PRESCRIBED LIMITS, OF COURSE. I POLAND'S 11 AM RUSSIA WILLIAM EWALD Live Script Leads To Hilarious 'Boo Boos' promptly trotted forward agaln.
This happened three times. Finally, a dignitied voice shouted in desperate tones to all America: "Will someone puh-leeze grab the horse?" There were also several interviews conducted by Miss Lewis that hit new peaks for this sort of thing. I give you the following: 1.) Miss Lewis: "How does swing and sway compare with rock 'n' roll?" Sammy Kaye: "Swing and sway is nothing Ilke rock 'n' roll." 2.) Miss Lewis (to a comic who arrived with a girl): "Where is your wife?" Comic: "She's standing in for Chester Morris." 3.) Miss Lewis (to Gig Young and Liz Montgomery, a married couple): "When you work with each other do you bring home the problems of the script?" Young (grimly): "We bring home problems, but not those of the script." This sort of stulf, I submit, yott Just can't get in filmed television, pa Short Shots: NBC-TV': "Alcoa Theatre" presented a che-man "Eddie," that seemed like a pointless trick. However, Mickey Rooney, in the solo role, turned in a bonny job. O.
Kitty" on CBS-TV "Desilu NEW YORK (UPI) Offhand, I can't think of anything I enjoy more on TV than the telecasts of movie premieres. They satisfy lagoons ol sadism, deep and darkling, within me. Monday night, ABC-TV journeyed to the squalor of Broadway to pick up the New York debut of a Pat Boone movie whose title I have carefully forgollen. Whatever its name, it couldn't have been half as entertaining as the parade of semi-celebrities who stalked by the cameras. Stanicale, It was, in two words, in-credible, a kind of too broad burlesque of what is known in show biz as show business.
Or is it the other way around? Anyway, I'L give you a sample: -Starlet Christine Carere, finally discovering the camera after waving in the wrong direction, coyly inched her stole her low cut dress would be bared, -Gary Crosby, looking like all of the wise guys of the world rolled into one, arrived with a blonde who must have been seven feet tall and looked like all the chorus girls of the world rolled into one. As they say, you had to be there to appreciate -Terry Moore and Bob Evans, seated in a horse-drawn carriage, whooshed grandly up to the front of the theater only to have the continue right past it. The driver backed up. The horse Playhouse," had some fairly amusing light scenes, but for the most part just wasted Lucille Ball. The Channel Swim: Another quiz, ABC-TV's "Anybody Can Play," is getting the ax-it'll be chopped off the schedule around the end of this year, Jack Benny's spoof of the movie, "Gaslight," will be seen on CBS-TV Jan.
11, Dinah Shore and her kids, Missy and Jody, will appear in the NBC TV Western, "Cimarron City," Dec. 20 George Montgomery, Dinah's husband, is hero of the series. CBS Theater" will offer Gisele MacKenzie and John Raitt in a hallhour musical, "Taming of the Squaw," on Dec. 12 Gower Champion will direct. Audrey Meadows, Jackie Gleason's former sidekick and presently on the NBC TV's "Masquerade Party," has taken on a couple of additional assignmenis she'll appear with Caesar on the TV "Chevy Show" Dec.
7 and she'll help with the commentary on the Jan. 1 "Tournament of Roses Parade" on Monasha Skulnik will star in an original comedy, "The NBC So-Called Human 00 "Omnibus" Nov. 23. Gearge Gobel will appear in Tulsa Dec. 6 when he opens newest link in his chain of motels.
ART BUCHWALD Debt Unites Two Nations Nations never be able to fill the gap. But we assured them that it their credit people adopted American methods the gap would be closed and the day would not be far off when the British owed as much as the Americans. Our friends were gratified that we had this much faith in their credit-buying system, but were skeptical that we really wanted them to be in as much debt as the Americans. We assured them that most Americans not all would welcome the British closing the gap. "It's not a question of how much you have that makes a successful economy it's how much you owe.
Stores in the United States are much more friendly to people who have charge accounts than those who pay cash. You will find more you owe the friendlicr the merchants will become." The Express continues ils edItorial by saying "Hire purchase is not just a method of buying gonds on tick. it is a way of lite. holly debated down through the years. IL is a cult keeping up with the Joneses, of matching his new car and her new washing machine.
And the competition rearhes down to buying bicycles for your kiddies hecause they have them. Il is a way of spending tomorrow's drawn out savings today. the signs are that hire. purchase in Britain will become just as vital to our connomy R5 it is to 50 there it is. The bond that we've All been wailing for.
It wasn't the Marshall Plan or Intercontinenial missiles or Montgomery's memoirs that brought real Britain mud the United States together again. It was credit-buying. We 110W owe SI 10 each other to he friends again. IC; New Yours Tr.tune C. HOILES Better Jobs Importance Of Reaching The Moon Frank S.
Meyer, one of the edl. tors of the "National Review" thinks we are wasting a lot of chergy attempting to shoot to the moon. He contends there are multitude of directions in which our energy can better be employed He writes: are told that the 'conquest of space' will transform men, will, that is, make, a different creature of him, our experience, conned by instructed Intelligence, shows that the expansion of the area and power available to the human will does not by a 1 jot or tittle transform the character of the human soul. It heightens the dimensions of the drama, but it does not affect the terms of good and evil which define it. It may indeed, increase the temptation to the temptable side of man's nature so that the corruption to which we are heir have greater Neglecting Important Problems Then Meyer lists some the problems we are neglecting.
He puts it this way: "Entry into space, command of space, will do nothing to change the essential problems of human existence. It will do nothing to mention a few of the most vexing problems of this critical age overcome tie catastrophic decay of the education of new gener. ations, which ycar by 'year de. stroys the memory of our lion. Nor will it reverse the process whereby our great cities, and with them the political and social control of nation, are given over to the passions of the most primitive, the least elevated, the lowest common denominator of our people.
It will do nothing to restore the authority of truth and the spirit, nothing to evercome the present predominance of our priests and priestesses of utility, the manipulators of the masses, who rule under the sign of the full belly and the aver-full garage. "Indeed, if we choose to devote our energies to the extension of our power through the exploration and conquest of space, we will doubtedly aggravate these, our true problems. In the first place, concentration upon the material end of extending our control of the physical universe will deepen the already portentously threatening neglect of the intensive values which were given to men as the end ol their existence. "In the second place, on the purely practical level, the vast resources for the kind of projects necessary to space ploration (figures that run into billions upon biLions) are such that only the state (using its power of taxalion to take money from the citizen who may not care a fig about what kind of little men live on Venus) can under present conditions direct and control such activity. And St is an axiorn, theoretically derivable, and confirmed beyond dispute by twentleth-century experlence, that what the state does in any area beyond its proper functions of preserving order and administering justice buttresses evil and dermines the good.
Intellectual Shell Game "But, we are told: the military necessities you admit, and the de velopment of science which you as libertarians would not sor, make it certain that, whether you like it or not, the exploration of space is forced upon us by the inexorable unrolling of reality; to which I can only reply, inelegantly 'Hey, wait a "This is the shell-game of the determinists. Because a certain penctration beyond the atmasphere with satellites, or to the moon for missile bases, is sitated by military considerations, does not mean that we have to go any further. Nor does the development of selence' force upon us any activity whose ends we do not consciously choose for reasons that deprive from the values we espouse. the Marxists and the Freudians, those who exult that the scientific possibilities of space travel determne by their material pressure men's future have forgotten that men were created with the great gift of being able to say Yes or No, Let us hope that we will say No lo the temptation of power over universes at the very least until we have set our own house in some order." Top of List NOTE: Mr. Meyer seems to think as I do that the most of our trouble comes from our organized educational practices.
He comments on "the catastrophic decay of the cducation of new generaLions which year by year destroys the memory of our civilization." More and more people are beginning to see that non-free enter. prise schools cannot successfull teach their pupils to believe in other human relations. Barbs As we swing into Christmas shopping time Dad's probably thinking about the annual feminine touch. Auto neckers should be compelled to disarm while driving. Even though it isn't human to be perfect, you can always try.
A Toledo. Ohio, lad was cd for stealing fruit from a roadside stand. Wonder the cop had a guilty conscience. LITTLE LIZ 8-29 A good friend is one who con you toke it easy without saying you're lazy. CIAO GEORGE SOKOLSKY Ike Has Freedom To Restore U.
S. Credit When It to a discussion ol money and gold, the economist thinks in broad terms of the reJationship of the total economy of one nation to that of another and how that relationship might affect the flow of goods and services and the well-being of peoples. The financier cannot concern himself with 50 broad a point. He is concerned with what the situation immediately means to him as a business operation. Money in the United Stales is growing steadily cheaper as 8 characteristic of the inflation.
Money is various things, It is medium of exchange, It is a receipt for goods and services. It is a method of transferring wealth. It have intrinsic value if it is supported by value: it may have no intrinsic It is merely the product of printing press. A government bond Is really an equivalent of money. It is a promise by a government to repay a loan with interest, but no government issues such bonus stipulating what kind of moncy it will use to repay a loan.
When a government is strong and slable and its currency is secured by gold, it can usually borrow money at reduced interest rales; when. a government's economic condition is not 100 sound, it must pay a higher inlerest rate. Such a rate as four, per cent would be too high government of the United States to pay. It a government. in addition to a high has to pay discount or provide a premium, Its credit may be said to be bad.
Government bonds, therefore, are a better barometer than stocks as to the state of the tion. Stocks are hardly baroall. The experiences inflations and with depressions Inthat very false conclusions can be drawn from the stale of the stock market as many people buy stocks because they believe that they are a hedge against inflation; also. it a war is in sight or an enormous budget is prepared for defense purposes. some financiers believe that whcreas inflation may become spiral like A tornado, their equiLies may remain stable Ir thry have invested in war industries.
They fall lo recognize two factors that the political economist can foresee: onc. that in the event that war should come or the economy go out of hand, political controls would to be established which would make their plans go awry; secondly, that if the money of a nation is no good, it does not matter how much it one has. This. then. Is the mast serious problem the day one that most a closely affects the politics of the next two years.
President Eisenhower has an unusual opportunity. Ile cannot constitutionally run for re-election. He is bounden to nobody. lle has fought for his partw and has lost and is now under no obligations to fight further as a partisan. He can view public questions from the broadest standpoint of public interest without giving any consideralion to his particular supporters or tisans.
He need not worry about any special groups who may have helped him emerge 10 the Presidency. lie can design against his a tide program of private Interests. to alone, one man save America, controls have to be put on and Its movement, I believe that the President bolds residual powers sutficient to do as he secs fit, In a word, as a lame duck President, Elsennower can become truly great if he labors against the inflation and puts it down. If that requires a return to the gold standard, then he can find a way. to do just that even it it means temporarily a ceiling on wages, prices, laxes, profits, interest and everything elce until a proper adjustment has been made.
President Eisenhower now def. inilely has the widest freedom of action, and in the year, 1958, he need consult no one in his own party and only Sam Ray. burn and Lyndon Johnson among the Democrats. He can go ahcad and save the American economy as he went ahead and crossed the English Channel to invade France. One day the American people, who now find inflation as salubrious A Miltown.
will discover the inflation and the damage It can do. The consequences 'el an inflation be devastating. (C) Ring Features Ine. FULTON LEWIS, JR. Perjurer Hiss Joins Ranks Of T-V Actors WASHINGTON Mr.
Alger Hias, unrepentent perjurer, is now Alger Hiss, TV slar. He was honored as the "distinguished guest expert," on a Providence, R. 1., television show last week. Mr. Hiss was not asked to speak on lying before Congresslonal Committecs or on prison life at Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, although he is well-ver.
sed in both. Instead Mr. Hiss held forth as a "special guest on international affairs." He appeared on the WJAR-TV program, "The World Around Us, part of which is being fered for college credit Providence College. Appearing with bim was a left-wing prolessor by the name of David Warren, and a moderalor named Betty Adams who clearly showed that Foreign Policy was not her forte. "'The World Around of Nov.
4, opened with orchestral fanfare, and the folksy comment of Miss Adams that she and her audience were going to "meet and talk with Alger Hiss." But before the audience had this rare treat Miss Adams gave down on Mr. Hiss' "vital istics." Miss Adams told of Alger's "brilliant" school record, including his graduating Phi Bela Kappa (which she mispronounced) from Johns Hopkins University. Miss Adams then continued So They Say The United States is a very democratic country and anybody can be a candidate (tor prosident. This is a danger to which every American is exposed from babyhood. One cannot be too careful.
Adlai Stevenson, explaining American democracy to Russians in Len'ngrad. A pedestrian out there (1,03 Angeles) is a misfit though--a man in the wrong cra-a space man in reverse -an odd ball. The dogs set up a great hue and cry, children peer over hedges in alarm Using legs for walk. inz is as archaic a mancuver as trying to wag your coccyx thinking it still to be a tail. -Musican Meredith Willson.
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can be develop to his etinest map abilitica. Any emine.us reflections upon the charafter on mandin2 ed And person u.F watt he cheerinite costeded to the allention of the linner. with Alger's career, telling of his rise in the State Department, of acting as secretary general of the L'N charter conference at San Francisco, and of being elected in 1946 as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. From that year she skipped to 1958, and mentioned that Sir. Hiss was now engaged in business in New York.
There was no mention of his association with Whittaker bers, of the House Un-American Activities Commiltee, of two perjury trails, and his conviction. or of his subsequent years in prison. To listen to Miss Adams, these were not "vital statistics." Alger Hiss spoke in that smooth, carefully moduated voice that once foaled American liber. als but failed fool two dog. ged Congressmen by the names of Richard Nixon and Karl Mundt.
He was asked nothing ol an embarrassing nature, but his answers, to the quesSIlss Adams are extremely Interesting. On the subject ot a pol project, the man woo acted as secretary general of the UN cr conference sand he was "extremely pleased" with its work during the 13 years since he had helped sel it up. And lie thought it was fine that the ranks of the with so-called "neutralists" and United 'Nations are being filled pro-Communist nations. Said Hiss: "I thing it is wholesome that we can no longer count on a sure majority." Hiss Is extremely unhappy that the Administration refuses to recognize Red China or the "'New China" as he calls it because it is not a "very realistic view." And Mr. Hiss goes on to say that this was not the view they had taken "instially" in Washington ably when then was back-seat driver for State Department.
According to Hiss, Red China is not the aggressor in the mosa Strait. "The terms sor aggressor aren't very relevant" there. Alter all, "what we feel it Staten Island were heid by another country?" Mr. Iliss is proud of his part In the Yalta sell-out. and declares that "we had to have a summit conference then." He solemnly maintains that the Russians haven't broken their promises to allow free and unfettered elections in Eastern Europe.
"I think." say's Mr. Hiss, "there were phrases which were understood differently by ditferent sides." Mr. pronouncements have a hollow sound, one only has 10 remember that a jury of his peers sent him to jail for perjury. And if they didn't believe him when he was under cath, why should a TV audience believe him now? (Ci King Features Syndicate the LONDON The London Dally Express, which in the past has not been too kindly disposed towards the United States, has just Inaugurated a "Transatlantic page," giving their four and one million readers a full page of juicy and mostly friendly tidbits about America. We were wondering why, at this time, would the Express launch such a page.
and it was fortunate the clue lo it was on the page itself. The lead edilorial said. "Could there in all history better moment for a big newspaper to launch a Transatlantic page? For the past low have -in the hire -purchase (buying on credit) revolution hereA closer association than ever before between the basic can economy and ours. "The Transallantic page intro duced loday, is therefore cated to examine the ever growing stream of interest and influence between Britain and Am. erica.
"And all things imported to these shores under the label 'The American Way of the tinuing through the Suez crisis and further on, relations between Britain and the United States have been strained. The reason was we had nothing In common any more. But now, thanks to Britain taking on credit-buying, we all have a common enemy againdebl. The British are starting to RO into hock, and soon we will be going in hock together, hand in hand exchanging fighting off foreclosures, and living up to our down payments. The Britishers will soon discover that everything Americans have or will have.
really belongs to somebody else. and they will also realize, if they don't already, that Antericans are not millionaires they just borrow from people who are. According to the Express, ericans are in debt to the tune of $300 per person. while the Britisher is only debt for $28. Many British friends have eXpressed the fear that they would bonst is most arrival of the new hire purchase It srems to HIS that alter 13 years of misunderstanding, in: just after V- Day and con- CHIP WHY 0065 OUR WHY DOESN'T SHE LET TEACHER US FIND OUR MISTAKES WAYS CORRECT FOR OURSELVES 44164 Crossword Puzzle we Screen ACROSS 1,4 Screen star, 9 She is at home on a molion picture 12 Cily in The Netherlands 13 Join 14 Mariner 15 Meadow 16 Annual income (Fr.) 17 Her talents many 1R Window parts 20 Analyze sentence 72 Seine 24 Mariner's direction 25 llighway 28 High cald 30 Blemish 34 Feminine appellation 35 Witticism 36 Winchke part 37 Recent (comb.
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