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Evening star., 1953-04-14

ing room. We aim for the
chuckle, not the belly-laugh. And
instead of using the laughter of
a studio audience of a thousand,
we rely on the reactions of a
group of 10 or IL persons, such
as might conceivably get to-
gether in a living room. We now
use only Is per cent of the
laughter we used to employ on
the sound track. :"
This is not as far as Mr.. Be-
loin would like to go. He makes
it clear, however, why it isn't
and where he stands.
''The chuckle track is not as
offensive and only nudges the
audience, instead of pushing
them out of their chairs" the
producer says. This way, per-
haps the public won't mind it as
much until such time as we can
completely do away with phony
laughter.
1T doesn't make a bad show
funny and can't make a funny
show funnier." he continues.
However, neither the sponsor
nor the network will allow me to
take them away. Perhaps, if a
few people wrote their opinions
of laugh tracks to the network
and sponsor. we could bring
peace and quiet to the living
room. People could enjoy their
favorite comedy shows by laugh
ing when they wanted to and
not hearing laughter at some
thing they may not think
funny"
Nothing less than a Peabody
Award should be Ed Beloin's
due if he wins this fight.
4 y X
TV DRAMA-Televiewers here
will get their first locally pro-
duced drama series when "Wash-
ington Theater Showcase" bows
on WMAL-TV on April 80. The
Thursday-night-at-1O:30 feature
also will be a sort of TV version
of the towns annual One-Act
Play Tournament featuring orig
inal plays and non-professional
actors. The series will be pre-
sented on a competitive basis,
with prizes in the end for best
play, best production group, best
performers and best director.
Evelyn Freyman, president of
the Washington local of AFTRA,
will act as mistress of cere-
monies for washington Theater
Showcase" David Davis will be
the producer and Bill Flaherty
will be the TV director for
WMAL-TV. Dramatic direction
will be done by a member of
each group participating.
The first play in the Show
case" series. on April 80, will
be twenty-five Times Re-
moved" written and directed by
Carl Eardley. It will be per-
formed by the original Falls
Church Community Theater cast
which played in the last tour
nament. Other groups and the
dates of their appearances are:
darlington Players, May z; The
ater Lobby. May IA; American
University TV Glass, May Fl;
Mt. Vernon Players, May %;
George Washington University
Drama Department, June 4:
Foundry Players. June IL: Mont
gomery Players, June 18; Uni
tartan Players, June 25; Ken
sington Players, July 2; Silver
Spring Adventure Theater, July
9: Pentagon Players, July Is, and
Alexandria Little Theater. July
%.
X X y
Yes, Junior, WTOP-TV's Let
ter of the Law" is a locally pro-
duced series. It is not precisely
drama, though. Rather it is a
series of fictional trials designed
to show the workings of a court
room and, well. the letter of the
Evening star., 1953-04-14
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7:45, WCFM - Home Rule in
'53: Senator John F. Kennedy is
interviewed.
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Evening star., 1953-04-14

Evening news broadcast
direct from The Stars news
room Monday through FRI
day over Stations WMAL
and WMAL-FM, 6 PM.
Milford chronicle., 1953-10-30
"THE WORST THING THAT CAN HAPPEN
TO LABOR"

On many occasions, labor leaders have
denounced the profits earned by industry
saying, directly or by inference, that these
profits amount to a species of robbery, with
the working people the principal victims
Happily, that attitude is not universally
true, as an editorial in the August issue of
The Electrical Workers Journal attests.
The editorial began by quoting Samuel
GOmpers, one of the great labor leaders and
organizers of all time, as saying: "The worst
thing that can happen to labor, is for the en-
plOyer not to make profit"
Then it continued: Its still the right
the just, the honorable thing to give good
days work for good days pay and when
any member of organized labor fOrgets that
he is stealing, whether his conscience tells
him so or not 1900.
owe of organized labor earnestly desire
labOr-management cooperation. We want free
collective bargaining. Well, we must have the
employers interest at heart, if we expect
him to have our interests at heart"
This is the attitude that, in the long run
will do more to advance the welfare of labor
than anything else.
<OGRRG
Milford chronicle., 1953-10-30
THE RIGHT ANSWER

Congress will be called upon to consider
a plan to add more than 100000 people to
the social security rolls. These would include
Self-emplOyed families, farm and domestic
workers not now covered, and professional
peOple-phySician lawyers, ETC.
Very cOgent objections can be made to
this project. For one thing, it would mean
more and more government involvement with
the lives of more and more people, whether
they desired it or nOt-and certainly, one of
the greatest needs of the time is to limit
government, to call halt to paternalism and
the socialism, and to return to those concepts
of local individual responsibility and indepen-
dence upon which this government was
founded and which made us strong. For
another thing, almost all authorities are
agreed that the present social security system
is about as unsOund as anything could be, and
both official and private agencies are now
working on plans to draStically revise it. So
long as that is the case, it should not be ex-
panded.
A much better plan has been proposed
bv the American Medical Association, and has
been given wide support. Under it, Self-em-
plOyed persons would be allowed to defer
federal income tax payments on part of their
earnings. These earnings would be put into
pension funds which could be withdrawn only
when the person retired or became permanent
ly disabled.
1t is hard to see how anyone can validity
oppose so sound a concept as this. 1t wOulC
be 100 per cent voluntary. 1t would encourage
Individual thrift and self-reliance And II
would not result in a bigger and more expen
sive bureaucracy.
Milford chronicle., 1953-10-30
This Is Good News

1t looks from here as though the
plan to offer up Agriculture Secre-
tary Ezra Taft Benson as the sacri-
ficial goat on the high altar Of
politics has been indefinitely post
pOned. The get Benson" drive
which eliminated in the demand of
Senator Milton r. Young, (Rep)
of North Dakota, for the SeCretary's
resignation, met with stern rebuff
from President Eisenhower in his
press conference, and the statement
from Mr. Benson to the United
Press that Il didn't want this job
but I'm not going to quit as long
as the President wants me here
President Eisenhower told. the
newsmen that he had seen no one
more dedicated to America . . more
anxious to get the welfare Oi
America, the consumer in the city
the user of grain, the producer Ot
grain, the user of beef, the producer
of beef-all of them in a fair posi-.
tiOn with respect to each other. The
critical, he said, because Secretary
Benson couldn't produce miracu
lOus, One-line cure for all evils. Ii
answer to an earlier question tn,
President had indicated his feelin{
that the farmers of the country
were considering their ecOnOmi,
troubles more realistically than tn,
politicians.
Had the Benson purge effOr
succeeded it might have distracted
the nations attention from bulge
that is likely to stay unbalanced
a debt limit about to blow it's tor
new taxes that must be thought uT
and the slOw-mOtiOn picture O
bureaucratic reduction. And certain
| ly the resignation of Mr.. BensO
would mean the continuance of high
rigid price supports and the retur
of the farmer to the position c
Overseer on his own land-grOwin
what Uncle Sam ordered, and in tn
quantities allowed.
Out of five million America
/ farmers, many would no doubt b
glad to give up their managemer
functions for the security offere
in return. But we think it is evider
by now, that the great maiOrit
: want freedom of opportunity q
much as they cherish the Otht
=. American freedoms, are intelligel
enough, experienced enough, edl
Gated enough and energetic enOug
= to make good use of it-for tt
) benefit of all. They, like the Pres
, dent, are standing behind Secrctal
Benson.
Milford chronicle., 1953-10-30
More Table.TaIk

German Chancellor Konrad Alden
auer thinks that the friendly, in
formal and personal talks" that
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
is still urging with Russia's GeOrgi
MaienkOv would be a bust.
Il am convinced" said DR.. Alden
auer, that one should not attempt
to use means that are hopeless in
advance. That only strengthens the
position of the other side and makes
them think we are crawling after
them"
He most certainly would not go
to Moscow himself, the West
German leader declared, to try to
make an agreement. He also pre-
dicted an end to the nOte-writing
between the Big Three and the Big
One if the latter turns down the
current invitation for a November
9th conference at Lugano, SwitzeT-
land.
But our Senator Alexander Wiley,
chairman of the Senate Foreign
Relations committee. is more Opti-
mistic In a seeech to Iowa bankers
the other day, WiscOnsin's senior
senator declared that 8" it is
time that we sit down again, face
tO-face, to try our utmost to reach
firm, reliable agreement that we
may live and let live"
The Senator's earnestness is
COmmendable, even though it is Out
of step with the Administration
view that there must be some in
dicatiOn of good faith from th'
Kremlin before a tOp-level meeting
is in order. But we don't like to SET
the Wiley elOquence wasted on thu
empty air, and would suggest tina
he might go over to PanmInjOn
and sit down "face-tO-face" witt
North Korea's Chou En- Lai ant
Red China's Mao Use Tung ant
straighten out the snafu in tn
elabOrately-plann fully agreed
, upon prisoner repatriation routine
With that done, and the Asian Red
, fulfilling their promises, the Senate
, might be ready for the big leagu
+ hassle in Moscow.
I In fact, DR.. Adenauer might the
+ offer to go with him.
y Bulls Eye!
S Announcement of Americas frs
r full-scale atomic power project ha
t at least a semblance of the impaC
. of the bomb dropped on HirOshim
h eight years ago. Thomas E. Murra!
e a member of the Atomic Energ
= Commission, let go with the new
y that the Government will spen
l"many tens of millions of dollars
Milford chronicle., 1953-10-30
FREEZE THE SOCIAL SECURITY TAX

The President, in his budget message,
said that the increase in the social security
levy, which under the present law will go
into effect on the first of next year, should be
postponed The increase would raise the tax
on both employers and employees from one
and-One-half to two per cent. 1t would, there
fore, amount to an automatic jump in the in
come taxes of all the millions of people under
social security.
The case for freezing the tax rate is a
very strong one. Social security reserves
are enormOus-sOme $18,000,000, 900. And
annual collections are running greatly In eX-
cess of benefits payments and expenses.
Moreover, few believe that the present
social security set-up is sound and equitable
The House Ways and Means Committee has
established a subcommittee to make an eX-
haustive study of the entire SOcial security
SyStem-a matter which will take consider
able time. Other authoritative nOn-gOvern-
mental studies have been started, including
at least one which seeks ways for putting
social security on pay-aS-We-gO basis.
In the light of all this-tO say nothing
of the fact that the Administration is pledged
to eventual tax reduction, not tax increases
the levy should be frozen. The danger lies
in the fact that, simply through inactiOn on
the part of Congress, the automatic provision
of the present law will be allowed to become
operative and all of us will suffer another
tax bite. Here's a case where only specific
Congressional action to change the law can
do needed job.
Milford chronicle., 1953-10-30
COST OF TRANSPORTING MAIL

Claims are being made that the Post
Office Department could economic by moving
all lOng-haul first class mail by air. In the
light of that, it's interesting to analyze the
Departments own cost ascertalnment report
for the last fiscal year.
1t shows that the railroads and other sur
face carriers moved $500, 100000 pieces of
nOn-loca first class mail for which they
received an average Of about one ninth OF one
cent for transporting each piece. The airllnes
carried about / $3.50, 100000 pieces of air mail
for which they received an average of some
two and two thirds cents per piece-mOre
than 20 times as much as the railroads.
The railroads also rent to the Department
space and facilities for distributing mail en-
route, a service not provided by airlines. When
the money paid the railroads for these facili-
ties is considered, their revenues came to one
fourth of one cent per piece-leSS than one
tenth as much as was paid air carriers fOl
transportation only.
On a tOn-mile basis, railroads and Other
surface carriers (the railroads providing ap
proximately 80 per cent of the service) re
ceived an average of little more than II
cents for moving one ton of first class mail one
mile. The airline's average was $1.33 per ton
mile. And according to the Departments eSti
mates, 688 cents of this was paid for trans
pOrtatiOn service and the balance was direC
subsidy to airlines.
Taking everything into account, no Othe
form of transportation can approach tn
efficiency and economy of the railroads TO
moving the great bulk of our mail.
Milford chronicle., 1953-10-30

Delaware right and that's what
counted! These coffees are giv-n
by the various business women in
Topeka who are the heads of con-
Germs in town or are the depart
ment heads.
That afternoon they had bridge
at the officers Wives Club. The
following day / was busy all NOR
ming getting ready for a surprise
bridge party given here in my
house for Mrs. Frederick Hollister,
who lives with her daughter Jane
Alexander, right across the street
from us. Every party this week
used the orange and black motif
and my theme was no different.
had bought a ceramic pumpkin
downtown this week and used it
SOn one of my tables-it covers a
candle which can be replaced when
/ necessary. So many admired it and
! hope l can use it from year to
year if the movers don't destroy
it first.
Yesterday afternoon four Forbes
gals gave an eleven table bridge
party at the club. / sat opposite
Marie Williams and it didn't dawn
on me until some time after being
introduced that she is the wife of
Hayes squadron commanding Of
flcer, and then l had to go over in
my mind all past conversations
that l had blurted out. That's the
way it goes! The girls had pump
kin ice cream mOlds encircled with
! dark green shredded cOcOanut, it
, was very pretty and with it they
, had cookies and good, hot coffee.
This afternoon, Saturday, Lynne
is attending a birthday Party for
t Susan Peters and they more than
Y likely are pinning the vine on the
pumpkin right now.
= We were notified to be at MARS
a Military Amateur Radio Station)
G on Forbes AFB at 1400 this after
3 noon. believe that is George Will.
: liams' call letters. We rushed oveI
e there and were right on time, but
- the ham operator didn't show III
D and we were unable to get in the
G receiving room. Maybe we can
2 make contact again.
, Right now Hayes is flying over
I Texas and should be home about
= two or three o'clock tomorrow NOR
I ming. He's had a busy week, too.
Y Guess you all are busy with Hal
n lOwe'en ahead, Thanksgiving next
?. month, and Christmas right upon
f US. Hope we'll see you during
d some of these holidays.
S Always,
It Elaine Townsend DickersOn
Milford chronicle., 1953-10-30

can be provided. There are very
important reasons for everyone to
make and constantly revise a WILL
Perhaps your wife may die first.
or you both get killed together in
an automobile accident. Perhaps
some relative of hers (whOm you do
not like) would get her share of
your property. Your wife might cut
off one of your children or all of
the grandchildren if she married
again.
If you have not made a WILL you
should consult your lawyer to-
morrow. First, find out to whom
your property would go if you died
now. (His answer will surprise
you). Second, ask him what could
happen to your life's earnings and
savings if your wife should marry
again. (Couid she cut off your own
children and relatives9. Third
could one of your own children
marry and give or loan her part
to her husband to lose in some
business or investment? Fourth, are
you absolutely protecting your
grandchildren?
What About Taxes?
\ Assume you may die tomorrow
and leave, with or without WILL
considerable property to your wife
Your estate might be liable for g
heavy tax upon this. Then assume
that in few years your wife should
die and your children inherit this
money. This could result in a second
tax. In fact, without a WILL the
grandchildren might get very little
You'd better leave your wife''
share, at your death, to Trus
Company in trust for your children
and grandchildren, with this prOvi
Milford chronicle., 1953-10-30
N&0&G
STRANGE ATTITUDE

No country can long exist half socialist
and half free or half communist and half
free. One must be victorious; one must be
defeated and destroyed.
In every country which has adopted die
tatOrship, regardless of what it calls itself,
organized labor has been one of the first
victims
No one who knows anything of history
can doubt these facts. So a resolution adopted
at the last annual convention of the CIO
seems strange indeed "The CIO reaffirmS
its support for a national health program
which will provide the people of our nation
with needed medical services, facilities and
personnel. Such program must include ex-
panded federal aid. 1t must also include
system of national health insurance. :"
This resolution calls for degree of pO-
litical domination of medicine which could
result only in sOcialized medicine. And So
cialized medicine, as history attestS, is one
OF the main plankS in the general socialist
program. Do the CIO policy makers honestly
believe that we can sOcialze and regiment
certain professions and certain enterprises
and leave other groups, including labor, free
and independent?
The CIO wants improved medical care.
So does everyone else. And we are getting
better care-in a sound, and orderly manner.
We are gradually solving the problems in
VOlVed. No major nation can point to greater
medical progress than ours To make the
medical arts the instrument of government
would be to turn the clock back, and to set in
motion chain of the most OminOus and far
reaching consequences.
Milford chronicle., 1953-10-30
Washington Letter - BY Robert Nelson Taylor

on an industrial power reactOr that
will supply enough electricity for
city of $4,000 people. And he did
so in a speech prepared for 'the
electric companies public infor-
nation program" which is spOn-
sOTed by the private power interests
who have been struggling so long
to get the Government out of the
power business!
Mr.. Murray says it's all for
Russia's benefit. This is America S
answer" he declared, "its significant
peacetime answer to recent Soviet
atomic weapons tests. 1t should
show the world that, even in this
gravest phase of arming for defense,
Americas eyes are still on the
peaceful future"
But electric power people were
inclined to regard it as bureau
Cracy's answer to private enterprise.
They seemed stunned that the Acc
would so completely ignore the
study that industry members and
groups have been giving to atomic
power developments, and the pre-
sent competence of the industry to
build such plants-on a more modest
/ scale.
: Atom bombs are nObOdy's business
but Uncle's. Atom power is some
thing else again. The new venture
is redolent of the ROosevelt-Truman
days of tax and tax, spend and
spend. elect and elect" Some day
the new plant may be known as
'Ike's IVA"
Hear This
Old-timers in the Good Samaritan
arts of first aid received the shock
of their lives this week. A new
supplement to the first aid text
book of the American Red Cross
now being issued to it's more thar
$1,000 instructors, reverses tradi
tiOnal ideas on tOurniquets ant
treatment of frOst-bite,
The Red Cross now recommend
that tOurniquets be used only wher'
loss of blood threatens life. If i
must be used, it should be place.
close 10 the wound; and one
tightened is not to be relaxed unit
a physician orders it. Frozen mem
t bers should now be warmed quickl
in pan or tub of warm (nOt hot
t water, rather than thawed out slow
1 ly in cool water as heretofore. Am
=, don't keep the victim out in tn
y cold.
Make a nOte-if you have one c
l those 100000 first aid hooks nov
obsolete!
Milford chronicle., 1953-10-30
BABSON Discusses willis"

New Boston, N. H., October 20,
1853. In view of my recent column
on the Importance of Trust Funds
for children and others, l must
today refer to the recent terrible
kidnapping and murder of the six
year-Old son of Robert c. Greanlease
of Kansas City.
What Caused The Kidnapping!
Apparently, Carl Hall, a son of a
reputable citizen, was the cause
of this frightful crime. Although
Carl Halls father knew that his
boy was rather unstable, yet he
left him 100000 of property out
right. If Carl had been a poor boy
and trained to work, the crime
might never have occurred. Or, if
the father had left his boy, Carl,
the money in Trust it probably never
would have happened.
Unfortunately. money was left to
the Hall boy outright, enabling him
to live like a drunken sailor" as
long as it lasted; but when it was
gone he was penniless, 'left in the
gutter" Young Hall could not re-
adjust himself to these changed
conditions. He sought to devise g
plan to again get a fortune foI
nothing. This kidnapping was his
solution" Hence, the crime, mur.
der, disgrace and grief which came
with it, I repeat that if the money
had been left in Trust so that the
boy received fair sum from the
Bank each month, the crime might
not have happened So much fol
this.
Have You An Up-TO-Date Will?
Now let me discuss WILLS, which
must come before any Trust Fund.
Milford chronicle., 1953-10-30

sion: So long as your wife lives,
she is to have the income At her
death, your children can have the
income. When your grandchildren
reach a certain age (say 26 years.
after the death of your wife and
their mother, they are to gradually
get the principal, as well as the
income.
Remember Relatives And Charities
Have you an aunt or cousin who
was very good to you when you were
young? These you can remember
only by a WILL! On the other hand,
without a WILL your estate could
go 10 distant relatives whom you
never knew. Remember you can
easily remember these old relatives
and friends by adding a simple
cOdicil, which your lawyer can
/ quickly draw Do it now. Never
sign any paper while in your last
/ illness. Be sure the original of your
] WILL and ALL CODICILLS are in
the custody of a bank, with only
copies IN your nome Sdle OF your
safety deposit box.
Why not give something to the
Church which brought you up, or
to some hospital or other charity?
You would not live in a community
without these. Then you should
help them out. You can do it only
by making a WILL or CODICIL. My
full name is Roger w. BabsOn. The
"W" really stands for Capt. Ward
an old Gloucester fisherman; but
when people ask me for what il
stands l reply will" I wish
could devote the rest of my life to
helping people to make WILLS and
i lC0DICT.S.