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THE DETAILS

Mrs. B. Tour daughter is 81
years old, has already had two
husbands and is contemplating
Ia third marriage. / was SYM
pathetic with her when she broke
with her first husband and /
tried to help her, but this is
going too far.
We have had a happy home
and there has never been a
divorce in either my family or
my husbands. so I can't see
where my daughter gets her
crazy ideas about marriage. !
have tried to show her that If
she can't make a go of marriage
with two different husbands,
there is no possibility of her
finding happiness with a third,
but 1 have been unable to do a
thing with her.
Lillian F.-My mother has
never understood me and now
considers me an immoral girl.
The fact is / have never before
known real love.
Both my husbands were rivals
for me throughout my teen
years. l never got to know many
other boys because they took all
my time. I finally married one of
them at IS and the other kept
pursuing me anyway. After a
few months Of marriage real
lied ! had made q mistake and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-27
FAMOUS FABLES
BY E. E. EDGAR

COMPLAINT: Mrs. Stuyvesant
Fish, one of society's grande
danes at the turn of the GEN.
tury, was always up to her ear
rings in the social whirl. Her
husband. however, preferred an
evening by the Preside.
Once a week, as a concession
to him, they would have q quiet
dinner at home, without the
chattering presence of scores of
guests.
On these occasions, Mr.. Fish's
favorite dish. corned beef and
cabbage, would be served.
At one time, Mrs. Fish hired
a new cook, who had spent years
Of service in the kitchens of
royalty. When Mr.. Fish's favor
tie food was served for the first
time. the cook came into the
dining room and gave her notice.
Notice? But why are you
leaving?" asked Mrs. Fish.
The cook pointed at the corned
beef and cabbage and turned up
her nose.
Madam" was her frigid reply,
maybe you can stand this
this food-but ! am not used to
such things!"
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thought it must be because
was in love with the other.
Now I realize I never loved
either of these boys. I've met a
wonderful man, somewhat older.
He means more to me than any
one ever has. know this will
be the first real marriage for me.
THE COUNCILS VIEWS
Mrs. B. T. is both late and of
the track in her horror at her
daughters situation.
Three marriages, she believes,
is just ''going too far" Two
didn't seem like such a bad
number so she evidently gave
her daughter no warning
against early marriages and
helped her to separate from her
first husband after a few
months. She apparently made
no attempt to steady the girl and
urge her to give the marriage a
better chance or to take a long
wait before leaping again.
And why are two divorces and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-27
3 Top Art Prizes
To Go to Handicapped

Three handicapped amateur
painters came to Washington
this week to accept the three
top awards in the National Art
Contest for the Handicapped
sponsored by the Presidents
Committee on Employment OF
the Physically Handicapped and
other agencies.
Twenty-Five prizes totaling So
1850 were awarded. The top three
winners were Mrs. Lucille Drey-
blatt, of Forest Hills, N. Y. q
cerebral palsy victim; James M.
Abercrombie. of Bryan. Tex, a
double amputee. and Edward F,
Mcdonald. of Somerville, Mass,
"a disabled World War II veteran,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-27

three marriages so very bad?
Well, says Mrs. B. T., there has
never before been a divorce in
the family. This does indeed
spoil the neatness Of the record,
but naturally Lillian is less in
Iterested in that tina n her
mother.
No wonder Lillian feels that
mother doesn't understand
me-" She has gotten little sta
|bility or insight into emotions
from her home life and from
her mother. who seems too con-
cerned with the surface Of
things.
Lillian is jumping like a
frightened animal from one
corner to another for 'real
love-" She does not try to seek
the causes of her dissatifac-
tion with marriage, but fees in
panic toward another person,
whom, she believes, will provide
the real thing.
Both Lillian and her mother
fail to recognize the real mistake
in her life-haste. She was hasty
when she married at 10. She
had a right to ask for time to
|get to know another man so
she could make comparisons.
She leaped again without CIV
ing the first marriage a chance
and the reaction came swiftly.
Now she is about to make the
same mistake a third time.
At this point, Lillian needs
some personal professional help
from a clergyman or physician.
She must find some of the I'M
Iderlying causes of her unhappi-
ness and learn what she can
expect from marriage and what
she must give to it.
copyright. 1856, General Features Corp.
Tomorrow: Widow Goes Out With
Aar,;nA Aan
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-27

] shall give you a simple for
mula that will add two months
to every IL you now live every
year. If you can follow the rou-
tine suggested. at the end Of 80
years you will have lived i've
years more than your neighbor.
The answer depends entirely
upon you. How much sleep do
you need? The less you require,
the more you will live.
Let me give you examples of
two actual patients Il have
seen hundreds in their category /.
The first is a businessman of
62. He is in excellent physical
condition. I asked him about his
habits. He takes an occasional
glass of sherry before dinner and
smokes three or four pipefuls of
tobacco a day
What especially interested me
was his sleep schedule. Doc
tor" he said, Il need little
sleep. You may think it is a bad
habit, but I need only five hours
OF sleep. And that's all I get in
"a hours because I've never got
ten into the habit of taking an
Afternoon nap.
4 Even as a child / didn't seem
Ito need as much sleep as the
other kids. I rarely turn out
my bed light until 2 am. and
I'm up regularly at seven. / hope
you don't ask me to go to sleep
Iearlier-or sleep later-because
I don't think I could change. !"
I Immediately urged him not
to change.
Other Needs Nine Hours
The other patient is a lawyer
of So. He, too, is in fine shape.
He takes an occasional drink and
smokes one or two cigars a day.
II asked him about his sleep
schedule.
I'm one of those unfortunate
iIpeople who require at least nine
hours of Sleep" he said. IF
have been out late the night be-
fore and get only six or seven
hours. I'm beat! 1 go around
with my eyes half closed and you
can imagine what that does to
my efficiency and temper. I'm
ready to snap at anybody within
100 yards"
There you have the two ex-
Itremes. I happen to know that
the "five-hour sleeper" is getting
more out Of life than his nine
hour friend. He can accomplish
more without feeling beat. He
reads two books q week. He is
active on many boards that re-
Iquire late hours. He has time to
spend with his wife and three
children. He is wide awake at
business and has made a great
success Of it. He has time for the
Itheater and many social affairs.
All because he is not hamstrung
Iby the fear of getting to bed too
late.
The nine-hour man comes
home from his job, falls asleep
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-27

a Government worker who quits
may get q refund Of his contri-
buttons If he quits at least a
month before the earliest pos
sible date on which he could
start drawing retirement pay
ments.
Previously. he could only draw
them out II he quit with less
than 20 years Of Government
e m p loyment. Otherwise, the
money had to stay in the retire.
ment fund for which he even
tually was given retirement pay
mentS.
Also, no interest will accumu-
late after December 81, 1856.
on contributions made by Gov
eminent workers with more than
five years of employment. Pre-
viously, the contributions &C.
cumulated three per cent inter-
est as long as they stayed in the
retirement fund. If a Federal
employe quit and withdrew his
contributions, he received the
accumulated interest.
X 4 \
You may write Ray Henry in
care Of this newspaper about
your Social Security or retire.
ment problem. Please enclose a
stamped, self-addressed env-
lope and IS cents. in coin.
(From AP Newsfeatures)
The next Security for You article
will oppeor Saturday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-27
ADVERTISEMENT.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-27

The next Security for You article
will oppeor Saturday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-27

mum annual payment. There
has been no such provision up
to now. although disability pay
ments based on a workers aver
age salary and length Of service
have been possible.
The new minimum payment
will be the lesser of (A) 40 per
cent of a workers average an
nual salary. or (B) an amount
equal to what his annual retire
ment payments would be If he
had continued to work until he
was so.
For example: Suppose a Fed
eral employe were disabled at
age IS after working for the
Government for 20 years and
that his average salary was
$4,000 per year.
Payments Compared
Under the new minimum pay
ment arrangement, he'd be eligi-
bic for annual disability pay
ments Of $1,000, or $3.50 a month.
Under the old disability setup
his payments would have been
$1.400 a year or $116.67 a month.
OF course, if a disabled Gov
eminent worker is eligible for
higher payments based on his
actual length Of service and
average salary than he could get
under this new disability setup,
he may get the higher payments.
For a Government worker to
get disability payments, he must
have at least five years service.
Congress also changed the
formula used to figure the size
of payments for surviving widows
and children of deceased Gov
eminent workers. The change
raises the possible payments and
goes into effect October /.
Widows of Government work
ers who die as a Government
employe may now receive one
half of the employees earned re-
tirement payments. Previously,
she could only draw such pay
mentS If she was so or more or
if the worker had left surviving
children.
Benefits to Child
If a widow survives, a child
will receive the least of: (A) 40
per cent of the deceased work.
er's average annual salary di-
vided by the number of surviv-
ing children. or OBJ 5000 a year,
or Co $1,000 a year divided by
the number Of surviving chill
dren.
If only children survive, a
child will receive the least Of:
CAD so per cent Of the deceased
workers average annual salary
divided by the number of surviv-
ing children, or (B) $720 a year,
or Co $2,160 a year divided by
the number of surviving chill
dren.
Congress also changed the
rules on how refunds of con-
tributions made to the Civil
Service Retirement program
may be made. After October l.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-27

The FomiIy Council consists Of .
judge, q psyehiotrist. three clersymen.
q newspaper editor, q women's editor
and two writer's. Eoeh article is a
summary Of on OetuoI eose history.
The council reports on problems that
hove been deoIt with BY responsible
agencies and counseIors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-27

Lost in q series on new changes in
Social Security, Roilroad Retirement
and Civil Service Retirement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-27
FEATURE Rcz
SECURITY FOR YOU
Higher Disability Pay
Set for U. S. EmpIoye
By RAY HENRY

Many Federal Government
workers who retire after October
because Of a disability will get
higher payments than would
have been possible in the past.
This results from a change Con-
gress made in the Civil Service
Retirement program.
The change provides that all
disabled workers will be guar
anteed at least a certain mini
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-27
THE FAMILY COUNCIL
Mother Upset By Plans
OfGirI to Wed Sd Time
THE PROBLEM

MRS. Tour 1year-old daughter wants to make third
marriage.
LILLIAN F.-Ths time it's real
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and efficiency, consider you're
self fortunate.
Even though you cannot be-
come q "five-hour sleeper" be
thankful If you can cut down to
eight and seven hours. Every
hour you save is actually an ex-
ira hour Of life each day.
released by The Bell Syndicate, Inch
Tomorrow: When An Operation b
Advisable for Angina Sufferer
The Arizona post., 1956-03-16
How Judaism Differs
From Christianity

despair is. Despair means ut
ter fultility, being utterly lost.
1 will never be lost. l know
where 1 came from, 1 know
where I am going. 1 am the
son of Abraham. Despite all
m y imperfections, deficien-
cies, faults, and sins, I remain
a part of that Covenant that
God made with Abraham. We
began with Abraham; we are
going toward the Kingship of
God and the MeSSianic era.
This is the preciousness of be-
ing a Jew.
Excerpts from a lecture by
DIR. Abraham HeSchel at a
BIB Institute of Judaism.
The Arizona post., 1956-03-16
For Him
It's Paradise

SAN ANTONIO-You just
can't keep a good man down
under any economic system
or so it appears.
Proof of the pudding comes
in the shape of a Yemenite
who made the switch from his
former country's feudalism to
IsraeTs socio-capitalism.
He arrived in Israel wi t h
two wives. AS was the custom,
he was given as a residence a
one-roomed hut. He demand
ed two huts; one for each
wife. After a hassle with the
authorities, including a hun
ger S trik e on his part, the
loyal husband got his way.
After a time an "inVestiga-
tor" came to see how he was
getting along. He found that
both wives were working dill
gently in the fields while the
husband was taking it easy,
lazily lounging about near one
hut or the o t h er. With the
earnings given to him by both
wives he was now consider
ing the purchase of a third
wi f e, and the problem now
presented itself; would he be
given a hut for a third wife?
The Arizona post., 1956-03-16

Christianity starts with one
idea about man; j u d S m
starts another. The idea that
Judaism starts with is that
man is created in the likeness
of God. You don't have to go
far to discover that it is pos
sible to bring forth the divine
within you and the divine in
other men. There is always
the opportunity to do a mitZ-
yah. 1t is with that opportun-
ity that I begin as a Jew.
Christianity be gin S with
the b a s C assumption t h a t
man is essentially depraved
and sinful-that left to him
self he can do nothing. He has
to be saved. Man starts with
despair. To the profoundest
minds in Christian theology
it is inconceivable that man
should ever be able to do any,
thing good. He is involved in
evil.
This is not the Jewish way
of t h in k in G. When 1 walk
through the streets of a city
and a Christian missionary
meets me, the first question
he asks me is: "What do you
do for the salvation of your
soul?" I have never thought
of salvation. 1t is not a Jewish
problem. My problem is what
mitzvah can 1 do next? Am I
going to say a brocha? Am I
going to be kind to another
person? To stu dy Torah?
How am I going to prepare
for the Sabbath? Those are
my problems. The central is
sue in Judaism is the mitZvah,
the sacred act. And it is the
greatness of man that he can
do a mitzvah. How great we
are that we can fulfil the will
of God!
Pauline Christianity starts
with the idea that man is new
er able to fulfil the will of
God. All he has to do, essen
TALLY, is to wait for salvation.
Here we have two different
ways-the classical ] e wi S h
way, the way of the Bible and
the Rabbis, and the other way.
I have profound respect for
Christianity and Oh r i S a n
theology. Christianity is one
way and Judaism is another.
I as a Jew do not know what
The Arizona post., 1956-03-16

Moshe Oysher, the renown-
ed cantor, who last year went
to Germany to S h oot back
ground scenes in the ruins of
the gre a t Synagogue" of
Berlin, now has previeWed his
completed motion picture in
Hollywood. Singing in the
Dark" as d ir e e d by Max
Nossek, is a sad mixture of
Jewish suffering in Nazi con-
centration camps, sentiment
alities, and a trumped up yarn
about American bookies and
international gangsters, with
Lawrence Tierney as the lead
The Arizona post., 1956-03-16
BY Herbert c.. Luft

Twentieth Century-Fox has
completed Land of the Bible"
a CinemaScope f e a t ur t t e
photographed in Israel. It
breaks new round in the
movie industry's attitude to-
wards the Middle East. The
30 minute color film, is the
first one in the documentary
field to do justice to the young
democracy-against a sweep
ingly beautiful landscape of
antiquity.
The Arizona post., 1956-03-16
Film Personalities

heavy. Cantor Oysher's rare
tenor voice, his own melodic
musical score, and his pleas
ant screen personalities are
the sole assets of a motion
picture whose story violates
all rules of good taste.
The Arizona post., 1956-03-16

Luther Adler soon will be
seen in a novel motion picture
role, the one of Marco Torino,
gypsy king of Los Angeles, in
Columbia's Hot Blood" CO.
starring with Jane Russell and
Cornell Wilde. A dler, whose
acting talent has been wasted
in too many villainous cliche
parts, this time gives a per-
formance of warmth and as
sured strength, one which will
bring this scion of the YiddiSh
acting family new admirers
from the younger set.
The Arizona post., 1956-03-16

Joel Grey, son of bandleader
and Comedian Mickey Katz, is.
the WiStful star of "Joy Ride"
the new musical revue at
Huntington Hartford's fash
ion a b | e Hollywood theatre.
Grey, who has appeared in
nightclubs coast to coast and
also guested on the Ed Sulli-
van-and Eddie Can tor TV
shows, displays subtle panti-
mimic skill and has an easy,
pleasant style of song deliv-
cry. Among his Yiddish-Eng-
lish recordings, our favorite
is the one enumerating the
joys of our Jewish holidays.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-01

The test that you this page was prepared for
This WEEK Magazine from much lzrser group Of
questions that have been given to great nuThen Of
people. Here is the way the questions we're originally
chosen The Lentz researchers asked jury outssand
ing authorities in the fields Of religion, philosophy
psychatry, medicine and education to studN ples
viouSly researched list Of 5000 questions and pick cut
200 that were most vitality concerned with happinesss
THIS Weeks QUESTIONABLE is condensation of tie co.
The questions that form the happiness test.s DR.
Lentz says, "are rooted in the idea that happness
depends how we'll you make yourself get along win
the people around you how much you worry about hav
ing only little of this that instead Of plenty In
Short happiness is mans ability to adjust to himself
and to his environment
So get pencil and check the following questions.
Remember that brief this pretend to be
conclusive At best, be indicative, and it should
be taken in the spirit of scientific fun
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-01

1. Does impuIsiveness in speech action frequently
get you into embarrassing situations? L Yes L No
2. Do you expect to be happy five years from
as you now? q Yes . No
3. Do you think much cheating goes where the
honor system is practiced? ! Yes q No
4. Would you like to know more about art, music
and literature than you do? & Yes q No
5. When you dislike person very much. do you
try to keep him from knowing it? q Yes L No
6. Does it give you greater pleasure to spend money
your family than on yourself? L Yes c No
]. Do you very much dislike washing dishes?
g Yes G No
8. Do you actively object when person steps in
front Of you in a waiting line? II Yes l. No
9. Would you return article TO a store if you
decide you don't like it after all? u Yes q No
10. Do you like to gossip about other people with
friend? u Yes II No
IL. Does anyone really hate you? Il Yes Il No
II. Do you have many close friends? q Yes q No
-. Do you find it discouraging to work without
praise? u Yes Il No
IA. Do you get tired of hobbies easily?O Yes Z No
is. Do you generally treat domineering person the
way he treats you? i Yes l. No
is. Did moving from one home to another ever
cause you great distress? ! Yes II No
II. Are you often blamed for things you haven't
done? u Yes II No
IS. Are you at in group of people older than
yourself? II Yes II No
10. Do you read science magazines? Q Yes q No
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-01

The worlds most important question
is also the hardest to answer. But new
quiz provides clues = and fun
Happiness is undoubtedly the commodity most wanted
by the most people in this world and yet the hardest
of all commodities to Every person asks him.
self from time to time Just how happy am ~" Am
as happy other people know?
Happiness is complex and personal matter that is
difficult About the only Of measuring
il by psychological tests that have been administered
TO large groups Many such tests have been devised;
of the most exhaustive has been compiled by DR..
Theodore F. Lentz, Director of the Attitude Research
Laboratory in ST. Louis, Mo- For the past 20 years. Dr.
Lentz and his associates have been anayzng personal
ty attitudes, with happiness of the prime targets
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-04-01

~ DO you md II 0ncult TO speak IN pubic!
>, 2 Yes 9Mo
n. Do you often daydream? 9 Yes u No
u. Are you hard to please? = Yes g No
q. Do you often go to parties? . Yes q No
"a. Do you like to go places you have never been
before? q Yes q No
Is. Do you dress we'll of your associates?
Q Yes q No
rs. Do you wish for many things which you are
unable to get? q Yes @ No
n. Do you like to read fiction? = Yes = No
70. Are you too fat? q Yes g No
2S. Do you hate to go to bed? G Yes 9 No
80. Do you like to draw or, if you can't, do you
wish you could? 9 Yes { No
81. Do you usually feel weI-rested in the morning?
& Yes 9 No
81. Do you think you are not good-looking?
= Yes g No
50. Do you worry about getting sick? & Yes 9 No
81. Do you alternate between happiness and sadness
without any apparent reason? . Yes G No
IS. Are you often depressed? e Yes ONo
IS. Are you Self-confident? 9 Yes ONo
81. Do you think that you as good as others?
. Yes q No
50. Are you often lonely with others? { Yes e No
80. Do daydreams console you? G Yes e No
40. Would you criticize a person who knowingly
failed to return the difference when mistake in change
is made TO his advantage? 9 Yes . No
For scoring and explanation, turn page
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-10

1T WAS A wise Providence that
Il destined this Sub-debutante for her
present niche of distinction. The
portrait of the poised 17-year-old was
made in 1913
She was educated in a fashionable
young lady's school But it was her
early home life that Sedulously nur-
tured the charm for which she is
noted Themselves possessing person
alitieS that were packed with warmth.
her parents passed along to her their
faculty for really loving people.
From the moment she was old
enough to assert herself, nothing de-
lighted her more than dressing up"
to take part in amateur muSicaleS.
She still loves to sing and play the
piano.
Her flair for fashion followed her
through the years, and today she is
characterized by her impeccable taste
in clothes.
She is of English Scottish ancestry
dating back to the 18th century in this
country. A native of Iowa, she was
one of four daughters of a meat
packer who had been prosperous
enough to retire at an early age
Hers was a family that took time
out for picnics in the summertime