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Arkansas State press., 1953-04-24
A. ". Young YMCA
by Fletcher T. Muldrew, Exeeu-
tive Secretary 4. W. Young YM-
"a, North Little Rock
"DECENTRALIZATION"

Recently We discussed at length
the role of the Professional Social
Worker. This week We would like
to discuss the pattern of work
that Is being followed through
most GMCA branches, To the lay
person the word decentralization
perhaps doesn't mean too much
when one refers to it as an es-
tahAshed pattern Of program pre-
sentauon by a YMCA or by a re-
lated agency. To bring it home to
you however and to explain what
II means is not always a simple
task, but for this effort it may
be explained in this manner:
Most YMCA's where the word
branch is used in it's identifi-
cation, either means that it is a
eolored y or one that stems from
parent or central association. In
large metropolitan areas where
the word branch is used, it may
or may not denote that this par
ticular Y is colored, but rather
due to the fact that the area is
large 1t is necessary to establish
several branches in order to give
a heavily populated area conven-
lent access to YMCA privileges,
but it does not exclude one from
participation in the main or CEN
trail " In this area however,
(the southwest, Arkansas, Okla
homa and Texas branches usual
ly means colored YMCA's. These
Colored branches are usually I'M
derstaffed inadequately housed
and have very little to offer in
the form of actual building ia
eilitles such as swimming pools.
gymnasiums, club rooms, and
hence in an effort to carry on the
great work of the YMCA move
ment the idea of using a decen-
traIized program is the only course
Arkansas State press., 1953-04-24
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\ PART EIGHT
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NJ Harvey Peak, the highest
most colorful place in the
on hiway 81, through Gus
IS'ate park. This marvellous
can not be too highly en-
Milford chronicle., 1953-06-05
I'm TIE AIR FORCE"
By EIoino townsend Dickerson

town that didn't. OF course, he
must have been jesting because the
school wouldn't Course, it could
in that town, but don't think so.
We ate at the Chuck Wagon in
the Hotel Riverside and sat next
to prosperous lawyer-and
guess they all are in Reno. We
watched part Of a fashion show ii
the hotel and then saw the guests
swimming and summing in and
around the hotels heated outdoor
/ pool.
We were about 30 minutes out
side Of Reno and began climbing
the Sierras when we ran into snow.
Gladys just couldn't get over such
extremes in weather 1t was no time
before we were really in a snow
storm and since we were climbing
all the time I need not tell you
why Gladys said "GiYe me the cas-
tern shore. We skidded on the
winding, slippery road and saw one
fellow having the same trouble be-
hind US, and it was miles and miles
before he ever caught up with us
and we honestly didn't know il he
had gone over the steep side or not.
but he didn't. That day, before we
got home, we were in fog, rain.
hail, sleet, snow and when we near
ed Sacramento we showed the chill
dren a rainbow in the sky. When
we did get home again Gladys then
could say the scenry was beautiful.
and 1t is when the mountains are
covered with snow.
Sunday, Jean was back with us
again and we had a turkey dinner.
You know how imperfect my din
ners are. Having gotten new
stove Just two days before the girls
came this month / wasn't familiar
with its manipulations and / only
had the oven partially turned or
and the turkey only got partially
done. Isn't that awful?
Monday we went in Suffers Fort
which is right here in Sacramento
and we had never seen it before and
VIII take a whole column to tell
you about that some other time
Ihat night we went to Coral Reef
IOr dlnner-Which have preVions-
ly mentioned. The girls seemed to
love the restaurant atmosphere and
especially the Chinese food and
their Chinese fortune cookies
wednesday they left on that
beautiful Zephyr train. We surely
nave missed them. Yesterday LYNNE
celebrated her sixth birthday and
with little guests in the house foT.
ly. % 1Oile-
Now this week is filled with Ne
mortal Day, Indianapolis Races +bo
Coronation, termination If scbooI SleJ
Ior this year and tomorrow we are
scheduled to have "different'' nic-
NC; II It's sunny here in California
ana were permitted to 60 III tell
you about it next week.
Always,
Elaine Townsend Dickerson
Milford chronicle., 1953-06-05

various reasons feel obligated to carry. OF course,
che future OF your community depends. in the long
run, on keeping purchasing power and inventories
on a reasonable balance.
Such balanced condition would help to give
your community steady but gradually increasing
prosperity Various suggestions have been made for
preventing excessive inventories. One is that the
Excess Profits Tax be switched to an Excess In
Ventories Tax Surely, some check on excess inven-
tories is needed to avoid a business depression
hope each merchant will be careful
I3lStGIJ0eRt Debts
The American people today indebted for
1888 billions due on installment purchases Savings
are larger than and these should to a certain
extent, serve as an Offset. Unfortunately however
Congress has not given the Federal Reserve System
the power to curb consumer credit and this un-
necessarily permits further credit expansion
dangerous feature of the situation is that
local banks, which refused to loan customers when
are now, with higher prices being paid for auto
mobiles refrtgeratOTs, fur coats, etc. encouraging
unnecessary borrowing. hope they will be careful
and avoid a policy which would not be good for
their community.
Labor Leaders
From almost every state receive complaints
about the arbitrary actions of union labor MY cor
respondents do not object to the carpenter painter
plumber, bricklayer, etc, getting more pay They
however, complain desperately that these workers
are not producing what they should and are oafne
on the JOB. The workmen in turn blame the prob
lem on the labor leaders, All Of this sets up vicious
circle which sometime must collapse
am great believer in every family having q
nome, and hence have always encouraged the bufld-
ing and buying Of homes / fear however that the
present attitude Of labor leaders may cause the
ouiloing boom to collapse Considering that the
building OF small house aids twenty-seven differ
en' lnuusules' such COLLAPSE should be avoided
Milford chronicle., 1953-06-05
Ties ThGt Bind
BABSON Discusses Unemployment Insurance

NEW YORK CITY, June 5-During the past win
ter, while in the South received many interesting
letters which have saved. Most of these letters
can be classified under four headlines: ID Unem-
ployment Insurance (2) Excess Inventories C3)
Personal Debts and (4) Labor Unions AS these let
cross section of what the average businessman
is thinking about.
Unemployment Insurance
For a very subtle reason most businessmen es-
pecially retailers, not opposed to unemployment
insurance. They feel that if a depression comes
these unemployment checks-as we'll as pensions
od-age assistance and other sources of Government
state and Municipal aid-will be Of real help i'm
preventing a business collapse. Doubtless these
cline in their business when unemployment comes
But why have the unemployment?
These letters almost unanimously however COM
pam ABOUT the present abuse of this unemployment
insurance For instance in Massachusetts, person
who earns approximately $500 in each quarter of 4
year. or approximately $4,000 year. is entitled to
collect $50 for twenty three weeks for unemnIov-
ment or S575. But the laws Of the various states
vary somewhat as to the amount paid and the dIra
ton OF payment If these were bOna-hde cases II
would not be so bad; but my correspondents claim
that large proportion of these unemployed have
purposely arranged to get fired" in order to GET
this insurance In other words II is beconnipp .
racket which is upsetting the emDiov
ment situation, undermining the character OF en-
ployees and causing an unnecessary drain on public
FUNDS. II unemployment Offices are not operafad bv
politicians and their friends officials do seem ~ hs
shutting their eyes to this abuse 1t should be
stopped
Danger of EIceSS Inventories
John c. Lang Of Baltimore writes a letter which
s typical OF many similar letters He calls attention
% the excess inventories which businessmen for
Milford chronicle., 1953-06-05
473O FL Cerrito
Sacramento 18, Calf.
Nav %. 1853

~N-a 49, +epo
Dear Friends:
Two weeks from today and our
address will be u. S. A., because
we will be travelling across them
enrOute to you on the eastern shore.
Hayes S0-day leave was granted
this week and that just makes the
time at home with you seem that
much closer.
Speaking of being close to Deia-
ware, Mrs James o. Dickerson
and MissNM Jean Dennis are pretty
close to that favorite state of ours
by today. They left here Wednes-
day, the 9th, after. what we hope
was a nice 23-day vacation in Cali
fOrnia.
The 21st, Jean was still visiting
friends over in the bay area, so that
night we tOoks Gladys out for din
ner to Parissi's for wonderful spag-
hetti and prior to dinner she had
her first pizza pie, which she loved
just like we do. After dinner we
went to an auction here in town.
We were enjoying the evening and
having fun picking out things we
would and would not have and as
Gladys turned and said something
to me and we raised up our heads
to laugh, she bought five combs for
25e. OF course she had no idea she
had bought them and this lust
brought rOars of laughter from the
three of us and after that we sat
like mummies, scared to raise a
finger-'fraid we'd unwitingly buy
the store.
Saturday before Jean returned to
us, we three and Lynne and Dawn
took off early in the A. M. for
Reno, Nevada. The only place in
Reno / knew / wanted to see was
HarOld's Club had seen that club
advertised on the DUPONT Highway
just below st. Georges Bridge.
Know which sign 1 mean? So you
see 1t does pay to advertise. On
our way to Reno we went through
Carson City and past Virginia City.
l would have loved to have spent
some time in both towns because
they really are the old west, but we
Just couldn't do it all Hayes and 1
took turns keeping the children
while we saw the various clubs.
HarOld's Club has lots of gay nine
ty paintings inside and a massive
mural painting outside which is
dedicated to those who blazed the
trail west. There is the Reno Club.
the Golden Club and Harrah's Club.
where Gladys put four nickles in a
slot machine and won the jack pot
Later we stopped at a garage for
gas and asked where to eat. They
suggested the Mapes Hotel or the
riverside Hotel. Hayes asked if
they would have slot machines
there and the attendant said his fill
ing station and the post Office were
the only two public buildings in
Milford chronicle., 1953-06-05
HINDU APPRAIszs AMERICANS

RoCKPORT, Me.-tP)-The out
standing elements in the Character
of American people are coopera-
tiveness, courage and candor. saws
Hindu savant
DR.. D. G. Who'd, a friend of the
late Mahatma Gandhi, has iust
completed six months as a research
consultant at the Round Table
Foundation in Glen Cove.
The scientist says he doesn't be-
lieve Americans are "a group OF
rank materialists tied down only
to adolescent interests, such as sex
and sports.
Some degree Of insensitiveness
to the higher values Of life and
some insularity qualify the Ameri-
can temperament, he added. but
he believes these are being over
come rapidly.
Milford chronicle., 1953-06-05
More School For Less Moneg

We CAN reduce the cost of new school houses
And they can still be mOdern-provide up-to-minute
teaching facilities and guard child health.
Equally important they can be buildings that
will serve many school generations at low mainte-
nance because Of the materials used in construction
One example of this new boon to Over-burdened
taxpayers and frantic school administrators was
built at Eureka Springs Ark 1t cost $565 per square
foot The national average is $145O per square foot
principal construction materials used were concrete
steel and glass bOck-sturdy weather resistant ma
terals
Since completion, similar buildings have been
constructed in twenty other school districts in the
South The cost ranged from $547 to $S.79 per
square foot q
ExterOrs of these buildings compare favorably
with far more expensive structures and their eff
cheney is superior to most Interior design provides
maximum classroom area, all of which is daylighted
by panels OF ight-drecting glass block over clear
vision window strips
The Eureka Spring school is a continuing sue
cess story of mind-Over-matter. skillful and ex-
perienced architect has taken time to analyze the
functions of a school house. and then employed his
determination and sure knowledge of
materials to provide what taxpayers and school men
alike have been waiting for
We thought you'd like to know
Milford chronicle., 1953-06-05
SUICIDE TROUBLE

NEW DELHI (Rl-The Indian
government is determined to stamp
OUT sati-the practice Of widows
committing suicide BY hurting
themselves on their dead husbands
funeral pyres.
Deputy Home Minister B. NJ Da-
tar told parliament "strinqenf in-
structions9 had been issued ~ fhe
state governments to control this
once popular custom.
during the last three years. he
aaaeo, only FIVE incidents Of "saii''
Werc reported
Milford chronicle., 1953-06-05
TAXPAYER Hard Az

Whatever his income, the taxpayer is
hard pressed today
He pays local taxes, state taxes, sales
taxes, inheritance taxes, and corporate taxes
through the manufactured products he BUYS.
Heaviest of all is the Federal income tax.
which takes from 22.2 cents to 90 cents of
every taxable dollar
The present Congress has made good
progress in cutting the 'lame duck" budget
inherited by the Administration. It must do
more, however, because the present level of
taxation is more than the economy can bear
indefinitely. People in every community must
cooperate by foregoing demands not only for
,pork-barreI' projects, DQt also for some of
gne pIuSh" services the government has been
furnishing. The Truman 'lanne duck" bud
get viii have to be cut by around Sl2.5OO.-
100000 down to S66, 100,00O,0OO in order to
give minimum tax relief to the people and
balance the budget.
Here IN Delaware the same condition of
affairs exists. Governor Boggs and the Leg
lsiature are struggling with the problem.
Here too, as in Washington, the trouble lies
at the feet OF the outgoing administration
The Carvel-McDoWell dynasty has saddled
the people Of Delaware with a debt load and
az oVer-elaborate service program which Is
taxing the efforts of Gale Boggs and leois-
iatlNe leaders. Some progress has been made
ln nnolng 2 solution-but it will be wears
DeLore DeiaWareans win stop paying for the
extrayaganC and wasteful Carvel adminis-
tration at Dover.
Milford chronicle., 1953-06-05
POLICE DOCS WANTED

SINGAPORE up Singapore
police inteGd forming a police dog
section to reinforce the fight
against crime in this colony.
Assistant Superintendent Of Po-
lice o. Lewis, who returned from
a course at Scotland Yard. said 1T
is proposed to send a lieutenant
and constable to Imber Court, the
metropolitan Police dog training
centre, for q course Of study.
Milford chronicle., 1953-06-05
BETTER LIVING IS AIM

MANILA-(P)-The director Of
the y. s, Foreign Aid program Ia
the Philippines says it is aimed 81
raising living standards and "not
on a negative concept Of simply
Delng against something, such as
Communism"
Dr Roland Rene, chief Of the
mutual Security Agency mission
mere told a meeting Of educators
ana college students recently:
Communism may provide us
raliying point. but only
Dy positive, aggressive action to
overcome poverty, illiteracy, hun
ger and disease can we build the
conditions in which men and wo-
men can really be free. !"
Milford chronicle., 1953-06-05
DELAWARE FARM MARKET NEWS
Market News Informuon Supplied By The R,,reo, e
stute Beard OF Agriculture Dover palcn.,rra

The following is a weekly round
up of livestock prices and miscel-
laneous commodities prevailing last
week. This report shows average
prices received by Delaware farm
ers for commodities that were mar
keted throughout this week.
LIVESTOCK PRICES
VEAL CALVES
Choice: $26.00 to $3050, mostly
$3.50 per cwt.
Medium to good: $1,000 to s24.5O.
mostly $3.50 per cwt.
Rough and common: $3.50 to
$27.5O, mostly $22.00 per cWt.
LAMBS
Medium: $24.OO to $3.50, mostly
$3.50 per cwt.
Wool: SAG per lb.
SLAUGHTER HOGS
Medium to good: $3.50 to $500,
mostly $14.00 per cwt.
Common: $11.75 to $13.25, most
ly $3.50 per cwt.
Gamers and cutters: $3.50 to
S11.5O, mostly $11OO per cwt.
FEEDER HEIFERS
Dairy type: $11.5O to S19.75.
mostly $500 per cwt.
Beef type: $500 to S21.OO.
mostly $4,000 per cwt.
BULLS
Medium to good: S16.25 to $3.50.
mostly $500 per cwt.
500 to 1000 lbs.
Medium to good: $500 to $1,000.
mostly $15.75 per cwt.
HOGS straight Hogs)
(gOod QUality)
100 to 10 lbs: $22.25 to S24.5O
mostly S24.OO per cwt.
17O to 24O lbs.: S24.OO to s2e5O
mostly $26.50 per cwt.
24O to $50 lbs: $2S.OO to S25.75.
Mostly $25.25 per cwt.
SOWS (good quality)
200 to 300 lbs: $500 to S22.75.
Mostly $21.75 per cwt.
800 to 400 lbs.: $500 to S21. so:
Mostly $2O.50 per .cwt.
Over 900 lbs: $3.50 to $1,000.
Milford chronicle., 1953-06-05

mostly $18.75 per cwt.
BOARS (good quality
Under $50 lbs: $1,000 to s1e5O
mostly $3.50 per cwt.
over $50 lbs.:. $11.OO to S1975
mostly $11.5O per cwt.
SHOATS
Medium to good: S14.OO to s2s sO
mostly $17.OO per cwt.
FEEDER PIGS
(6 to 12 weeks old)
Cnoice; $3.50 to $1,000, mostly
$3.50 per cwt.
Medium to good: $500 to $500
mostly $500 per cwt.
Common: $500 to $500, mostly
$3.50 per cwt.
HORSES AND MULES
Work type: $4,000 to slO000
mostly $500 per cwt.
Butcher type: $500 to ss2O0
$4,000 per cwt.
LIVE POULTRY
HEAVY BREEDS
Fowl: $1.25 to 1920. mostly e an
LIGHT BREEDS
$50. Wv nuOstis
Bantam chickens: S.S5 to $50.
mostly $.S5.
Guineas: $50.
DUCKS
Museovy ducks: SIS to S1.s5
RABBITS
Large breeds: S1.0O to Sl6O
mostly $1.35.
!. Small . "a breeds: $50 to $50. most
Young rabbits: $50 to $50.
mostly s.35.
EGGS
Ungraded, mixed: S.475kc to S.5t
per dozen.
Pullet: s.24 per dozen.
MlSCELLANEOUS PRODUCE
Strawberries: $3.50 to $3.50 per
a quart crate.
hale: S.S5 to $.65 per q bushel
Peas; $1.10 to S1.20 per s. bushel.
sweet potatoes: $3.50 per &
DusheI.
Milford chronicle., 1953-06-05
But No Overtin,e

We understand that General LawtOh Collins
soon to be relieved Army Chief of Staff by General
Matt Rdgway, outgoing NATO commander will step
out into not one, but TWO NATO jobs. He will have
one Office in Washington's Pentagon, and another
IN Paris in which to hang his two hats
Word from the White House is that he will be
nominated to retain his fOur-star rank . two stars
for each job, perhaps.
That may give you some idea of the seriousness
of the proposed reduction of 100000 in our military
Milford chronicle., 1953-06-05
Washington Letter - By Robert Nelson Fovlor

try for peace, seem as remote ever. This years
on-aga1n on-again peace talks, featuring success
sion OF windy proposals" on the original stumbling
DlOck OF prisoner repatriation, have lost whatever
luser of hope the earlier editions might have had
And as the shooting and bombing went on, and
Iront-lne positions changed haHds and men went on
bleeding and dying, the Administration in Washington
marked time because Sir Winston Churchill was
Dusy IN London getting Elizabeth II crowned Queen
OF what remains of Britain.
Meantime delegation of South Korean assem-
Dlymen met with Lieutenant General William Henry
HARRISON at the u N truce camp to protest the latest
proposal as surrender" and Indicating that South
Korea would withdraw from the talks rather than
accept such terms From Seoul came reports that
president Singhman Rhees Government would com
them. "
And in a speech in his hometown, Senator Rob
ert A Taft declared " believe we might as well for
get the United Nations as far the Korean War is
concerned. l think should do best now to
negotiate this truce, and if fail then let England
ana our other allies know that we are withdrawing
from all further peace negotiations in Korea.
Even the best truce under present conditions
present truce, no matter what put in the agree
ment about further negotiations for United Korea,
1t is no more likely to occur than united Germany"
TWO days later at his White House press con-
ference, President Eisenhower emphaticaIly dis
agreed with the Senator. He said that no single
nation can live alone in the world it is today .
that have got to have friends tied to us some way
or another
He said he intended himself to lead the Ameri-
people in the direction he believed would hiring
free-world unity and peace.
We presume this will happen after the Bermuda
meeting or after the Kremlin meeting after the Ber
muda meeting AS to the possibility of "gong it
alone, we think it is significant that impoverished
demolished little South Korea prefers to die alone
rather than live with friends" who have let her
down.
No Precedent
The Mutual Security Administration has shatter-
ed so far recall, all fiscal precedents in
the National Capital 1t has cut its original budget
request from S582S 10000 to $5,474OOOOOO The
ducOn of S54 millions represents savings the Agency
has been able to make in expenditures for this year.
without, it is claimed, reducing the effectiveness of
its operations 1t is also strongly limited by Acting
Director William M. Rand that MSA will be able to
save another so million by the end of the year
Chairman Alexander Wiley of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee to whom Mr. Rand wrote the
good tidings described it evidence of the con-
scientOus efforts of the Administration to maintain
a constant review of the program and cut costs
whenever that can be done without harming actual
operations"
Which also proves the Senator equal to any
emergency. Most old Washington hands would be
speechess.
Milford chronicle., 1953-06-05
NRNN&
CLEARING THE AIR


In mld-March, the Supreme Court hand
ca down decision of the first importance
involving the. Federal Power Commission
tne interior Department, and a LIGHT and
power utility. anu
Some years ago FPC had granted this
utlllty a license to build, with its own funds
a multl-mlllion dollar electric plant ON the
Roanoke River in Virginia. But Interior
WhIcn Tor many years had pursued a policy
OF forcing Specialization of the power industTv
on the country by direct and devious means
ankle, opposed the license. The case went
into the courts. 1t ended when the Supreme
court held in favor of the Federal Power
commission, stating that FPC had the inris-
dlctlon to issue the license involved.
Thus, in effect, the court said that FPC
had the right and the authority to do what
II was created to do by Congress. It is oh
Vlous That there would be no point in FPC's
existence II its decisions could be successful
~ challenged by other government bureaus
winch were primarily interested in grinding
their own axes.
Secondly, the decision is gratifying to
everyone who believes in private enterprise
and who has watched with disnav the
1O-year-long trend toward socialism and
Super-government in Nthis country. That
trend has been most marked in the electric
power field. =