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The frontiersman., 1958-07-24
Springer Bees Club

Our meeting opened with a demonstration given by LaVerda Erickson which was on a jello cake. Then we went to the liv- ing room and talked about when and Where to go on our next meeting and discussed the train ing school, we also discussed a club picnic. There were ten mem bers present and one absent. Re freshments were served and we played games.
 "#0## Nancy Woods, reporter
 4-H Roller Skating Party
 All members of the Palmer area plan a roller skating party at the Anchorage Roller Rink on Monday August 4 from ' to 10 pm announced Martin Sherman, president of the Palmer All Council Each club will arrange for its own transportation. The group will meet at 5:30 at the Central school to 50 in body. Drivers are invited to participate in roller skating but will not be expected to chaparone the party.
 # Cheechako Chefs
 Mrs- Bacon helped all the members get started on their clothing garments on July l6 at her home. Most of the members are making skirts for their gar- ments- Gloria Beylund demon strated How to Sew on But ton.7 The next meeting will be a cooking meeting on July 23. "The members will go on a shop ping tour
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Stunning wide arm modern sofa and chair with
handsome back design Full FOAM RUBBER scot
cushions and beautiful tailored NYLON fobrie
in YOUR choice of the latest colors.
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VALENTINE-SEAVER

Magnificent big q" SOTO with diamond tufting Full
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cushionno in back and on arms Beautiful decorator
fabric in Charcoal Brown, Turquoise or Coral Match
ina chair also available.
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KROEHLER TV Swivel Chairs

Yes these charming occasional chairs ideoI siney or
in poirs Use them in corner in front Of your picture
window or fireplace. They wonderful TV chairs be-
cause they swivel Choose from Red, Black Gold dec
orator fobrics.
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Genius in Fear of Itself

1t appears now that guided anti
aircraft missiles may soon become far
less formidable than they once seemed
to be. There are strong indications, at any
rate, that swift progress is being made
toward the day when our supersonic
bomberS will be equipped to surround
themselves with "electronic shields"
capable of warding off all such weapons.
This constitutes another example of
how even the latest types of costly mill
tary equipment-defensive and offensive
alike-can lose effectiveness or become
outmoded altogether It is one of those
things that show there is as much truth
as wit in the new Pentagon motto re-
ported by Deputy Defense Secretary
Quarles. Coined by experts specializing in
the development of advanced weapons,
the motto is this: IF 1t works, it's OBJ
SoleScent."
There has been ample justification
for such view ever since the start of
the Second World War, and particularly
since the advent of radar and atomic
energy. During the past is or 20 years,
we have been witnessing veritable ex-
ploSion of scientific and chronological
progress, and the progress continues now
at an ever accelerating pace. AS far as
weapons are concerned, this has placed
us in the middle Of revolution that
has yet to run its course. Yesterdays
arms are no good any more, and some Of
those being built today are already in
question because Of what is on the
drawing boards for tomorrow.
Wholly apart from the dollar costs
involved, this process of constant mill
tary modification and change adds
enormous complications to defense plan
ming. For such planning must reckon
with possible scientific developments
that could suddenly undercut and in
validate decisions reached on projects
for this year or next. In short, the whole
field Is so fluid that nobody can be quite
sure about what may happen from SUM-
rise to sunset.
IF 1t works, it's obSoleScent." As
never before in history, man is moving
so fast with his science and technology
that he seems to be caught up in kind
of confusion or fright over how his in
ventiveneSs is tending to outdate some
Of his shiniest new weapons. Unfortun-
ately, however, this does not apply to
things like hydrogen bombs and inter-
continental balliStic missiles. If only
they could be made obsolete by human
genius, then human genius wouldFhave
reason TO feel less afraid of itself than 1t
feels now.
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/ am laughing at Commits
sioner Mclaughlin. Who sub
sidizes the roadbed for tran
sit or interstate buses? Mo-
body but us taxpaying mo-
florists. Why don't the Com
missioners segregate their
road repair expenses into
three categories: ID Rail-
transit streets: 90 bus-tran-
sit streets. and 81 non-tran-
sit streets, and then deter
mine the per mile subsidy
for transit buses?
Previous Commissioners
jerked out transit trackage
from Fourteenth to Fifth
streets NV. For the sacrifice
OF these most valuable nine
blocks Of rush-hour bypass
trackage. what have the pre-
vious or present Commits
sioners gained? Not one
additional vehicle lane Of
traffic but four blocks Of grass
growing in the streets Of the
Nations Capitall
When I ride transit down.
town, I ride the rail routes
After 1868. / viii still want
to ride transit downtown on
streetcars. Tom CleatOn.
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local planners could refer in their efforts
toward INTERPRETATIONS teamwork
1t is to fill this void that the North-
ern Virginia agency, representing gov
erning bodies in Alexandra and Falls
Church and in Arlington, Fairfax, Lou
doun and Prince William Counties, has
ordered study Of the problem. The
ultimate objective is to prepare for the
whole region guide to future growth
that will At in with plans for develop
nent of Washington and the Maryland
suburbs. Without such master plan
as pattern, metropolitan expansion
In this area could result in mistakes Of
planning that would be hard to correct
In later years.
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Regional Blueprint

The Northern Virginia Regional
Planning Commission has given proper
priority to study of problem that is
hampering the orderly development Of
communities in nearby Virginia. This
is the lack of Joint plan under which
all jurisdictions would work together
on public service problems that cross
boundary lines.
At present the various counties,
cities and towns are making their own
plans for residential and business
growth, park development and related
projects and facilities. Too often there
Is little Or no co-o4sination Of plans.
One OF TIE reasons for this is the lack
Of an overall master plan TO which
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Promoted President

Canal NaSser, formally nominated
by the legislative bodies of both Egypt
and Syria to be first president of the new
United Arab Republic, has outlined
form of government in which the chief
executive will be all-powerful. 1t was
expected to be that way and, since
Colonel Nasser will be unopposed for
election, it is assumed that his personal
power as political leader in the Middle
East will be greater than ever.
1t is not surprising, in the light of
controversy and criticism that long have
centered on Colonel NasSer, that some
quarters view this prospect with dismay.
Western voices, for example, have been
raised repeatedly against Nasser policies
OF accepting military and economic aid
from Soviet Russia-many of them
charging the Egyptian President with
being either witless or a calculating.
Stooge for communism. Colonel NaSSer
has provided additional fuel for these
charges by some of his own criticisms
of the West and by permitting the con-
trolled Cairo press and radio to be even
more Incorporate.
At the same time, there are substan-
tial grounds for believing that Colonel
NaSSer has motivations and objectiYes
fully as inimical to communism as to
foreign influence from any other direc-
ton. In Egypt itself, the Communist
Party is outlawed and only in Syria has
1t attained any important political in
fiuence in the Arab world. Significantly,
1t was the anti Communist Bath Party
in Syria that most strongly pressed for
the Egyptian Syrian union at this time.
And when the Communist political
leader in Syria said his party would
continue to operate, 1t was an interesting
coincidence that Colonel NaSSer said
shortly thereafter that competitive party
activities would be abolished in favor
OF single party system.
Arab nationalism is a broadly based
force that is not merely vehicle for
Colonel NaSser'S personal ambitions,
whatever they may be. It is not an
anti-WeStern instrument only. Bash
cally, 1t Is anti-foreign and quite as
apt to be turned against Soviet Rus
STA as against the West. Colonel NasSer
is product of Arab nationalism, not its
creator. And while he may have been
playing dangerous game in his close
association with the Soviet government,
he undoubtedly knows better than some
Of his critics that the Arab world is not
about to accept a new foreign master
In exchange for an old one. Fear and
antipathy toward Russia has existed in
the Middle East longer than enmity
toward Western colonialism. And god
less communism has no basic appeal to
Islam. The chances are that the Krem-
lin may be more apprehensive than
happy about this new step in the
progress of Arab nationalism.
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60 Protect the Innocent

The New York authorities have
moved at last to rid the city's schools
ofsthe vicious young hoodlums who have
made Shambles of public education.
e. At least 644 violent" pupils already
have been suspended and will not be
permitted to return unless and until
they have been cleared by a court of
competent Jurisdiction The Board Of
Education based this Salutary action on
aNcommendable principle-that it "has
aduty to protect the innocent from the
Violent"
- This is duty which has been too
long neglected For the terrorists, though
consisting only of about i per cent of
the student body. or perhaps 10000 in
~, have blighted the educational process
IN New York City. The rapes, the beat
Tags and the knifings have made the
headlines But what has gone relatively
ulanoticed, and what is perhaps more
important, has been the denial of a
decent educational opportunity to the
'dnnocent" pupils-the so per cent of
the whole.
There is little doubt that the school
authorities have taken this action reluc-
family and in response to great public
pressure. This pressure has come pri-
nnarily from a Brooklyn grand Jury APP
pointed by Judge Samuel S. Leibowitz
to investigate the operation of the
schools. This grand jury, although for
q long time abuse was its principal re-
ward, did commendable job. 1t brought
the facts into the open and focused
public attention on them. It's liberal"
critics Notwithstanding, it seems fair
to say that this grand jury has rescued
the city's school system from utter chaos.
We think It richly deserves the common
dation it has received from Judge Leib-
owitz for doing its duty Gin spite of all
the brickbats that have been aimed at it."
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THIS AND THAT
Rv THAPIES < TDAHEMEII

We wrote an article about
the basically mean person,
found so often in commerce,
the arts and in everyday life.
It was a good article, but
when we got 1t finished, we
realized at once that we had
not really said what we
wanted to say.
Articles are often like that.
What they do for you, and
for the reader. is make you
think as you go along, and
when you think, you invari-
ably progress to something
else.
1t is this something else"
that stands out at the end.
You had not written
enough.
You still had more to say.
1t was a good article, just
because both you, as writer,
and the perceptive reader.
could say that it made you
think more.
\ 4 y 4
What we had wanted to
say about the mean per-
son, the totally unnecessar-
lily mean person, is that some
one should knock him on the
head right at first.
There you have it. 1t was
what we should have said.
Hit him where he deserves
to be hit, and forget about
him.
He deserves nothing less.
Maybe a good lesson, at
first. will reform him.
He needs reforming.
Life is much too short to
stand for such people.
They do too much to dim
life, make 1t lack sweetness
and light. A great deal Of
fun has been poked at Mat
thew Arnold for coming that
phrase, sweetness and light"
but he was a real writing
man, he knew what he wanted
to say and sometimes said 1t.
Old Arnold had met his
mean people, too. and he
knew how they dimmed the
everyday life, made 1t dull
and tawdry.
50 4
II it we're not for the mean
people. basically jealous peo-
pie. this world of humanity
might attain to real sweet
ness and light.
Sometimes the animals do,
without beneflt OF alphabet
and reading. writing and
'rithmetic.
Sometimes old dogs, romp-
ing on the lawn. show watch
ers how the world of man
could romp on the lawn OF
this world, II 1t weren't for
the mean people in all ranks
and in all nations.
The meanies stand out, In
any society.
They are always after yeu
to do something you know Is
wrong, distasteful.
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Shift in Budapest

A change has taken place in the
puppet government at Budapest, but it
does not seem to have any particular
significance for the Hungarian people.
Janos Kadar, who became their pre-
mier" after the KremlinS savage sup
preston Of their 1856 rebellion for free
dom, has resigned to devote all his time
to the Job of running the country's
Communist Party. His successor is
Ferenc Muennich, a 72-year-old ideolog-
ical Stalwart who has spent most of his
life reasonably working for the Soviet
conspiracy. Actually, in his new post
he will be subordinate to Kadar, who
in turn will continue to carry out
MoScow's orders.
So this shift from one Premier" to
another apparently foreshadows no
change in policy. In fact, both Kadar
and Muennich have emphasized that
things will remain as they have been
ever since Soviet troops moved in to
smash the popular uprising. They have
been at pains, too, to express their
eternal thanks" to the Kremlin for
that awful crime against humanity, and
they have made clear that Russian
armed forces are likely to remain in
Hungary for long time to come. More
over, they have had the effrontery to
suggest that the Hungarian people are
happy with all this and stand firmly
united behind Budapest's puppet
tyranny truth-mocking claim which
Premier Bulganin has echoed in his
latest letter to President Eisenhower.
1t is not hard to imagine the bitter
inward laughter of the Hungarians
when they hear such talk. Enslaved
and terrorized, they must listen to men
like Kadar and Muennich tell them that
they should be grateful to the naked
Soviet power that has crushed their bid
for liberty and now holds them in tight
captivity. Surely, If ever that power is
withdrawn and they are free once again
to act as their own masters, these peo-
pie will sweep away their traitorouS
regime and show the world what they
really think of communism.
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Practical Projects

BY all means, let's have a
Freedom Shrine. But instead
of a wall in Arlington, let's
make it a bridge to Arling-
ton.
BY Harvesting all Of the
energy of Representative As
pinall and his hackers, plus
all of the funds they plan to
raise, we could speed con-
struction Of a Freedom Bridge
across the Potomac.
The Freedom Bridge would
serve all Of the functions de-
sired by the shrine partisans.
1t would serve the additional
good purpose Of giving us
commuters freedom from
constant traffic jams.
How about It?
Henry LOwenstern.
AS an art student, I am
concerned over the proposal
to place the Freedom Wall"
memorial close to the heroic
Two .Jima Statue. The Ma
rine memorial is a realistic
and a bold piece Of sculpture,
fascinating. in its rugged
simplicity. The Ere e d o m
Wall" is to be an magma
tive, poetic and detailed work.
In the proposed unfortunate
juxtaposition, emphasis must
be placed on one splendid
sculpture or the other. This
placement Of emphasis can
not be on both fine works at
the same time. To emphasize
one it must be that the other
will be sacrificed. Which
work will be de-emphasized to
the esthetic enhancement of
the other? What artist would
undertake the task. or be
party to the sacrifice?
Some thought should be
given to making the Free
dom Wall" useful as well as
ornamental. Its esthetic SYM
bols could easily be incor-
porated in a much needed
memorial wing" of our Ar
lington Hospital. An archi-
tect's imagination could
easily incorporate the entire
story into a functional wing
or building. Why not a
Freedom Memorial Wing" to
the Arlington Hospital?
Stan Stanton.
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Everything Rockets

Most everyone, even Con-
gress, is worried over the
rising cost of everything. AS
neither political party seems
to be doing anything about
it perhaps a few suggestions
might help.
The ever-increasing wages
granted on labor's demands
causes rs to 80 per cent Of
the increase in the factory
cost of processed or manu-
featured articles. Then when
the retailer adds on his ex-
penses and profit on a per-
centage basis of the factory
cost to him, it jumps the
added cost to the consumer
to 100 per cent Of the in
creased cost.
consumer resistance to
higher prices may cause the
retailer to fold UP and the
factory to reduce its labor
force.
The Presidents message on
labor troubles does not strike
at the roots Of labor mis-
management.
The closed union shop is
unfair, unconstitutional, un-
American and gives the union
bosses and their goons dicta-
torial powers which they too
often misuse.
Congress should enact a
right-to-work law which will
void all present and future
slave-labor (union shop con-
tracts.
Wages should be tied to
the cost Of living. Pay Of
civil servants and the mill
tary should be brought into
line with pay for similar jobs
in industry, and future in
creases or decreases should
be geared to the rise or de-
cline in the cost Of living,
thereby setting a pattern for
industry. A rational plan for
profit-sharing by labor in in
dustry might benefit every
one.
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Congratulations on Glib
Crockett's wonderful cartoon
February 2, sh wing the
President trying to get the
American public back on the
ground-and back at work
after John @. followed the
Explorer into outer space. I
was deeply impressed by the
good, plain horse sense de-
picted.
VaounV n;vnn
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THE POLITICAL MILL
By GOULD LINCOLN
G. o. P. in New York Playing Coqey

The Republicans in New
York are playing it close to
their chests so far as candi-
dates for the 1858 guberna-
torial nomination are con-
cerned. No one has announced
for the nomination. The gos-
sip in New York, however
and there is plenty of it.
centers around Leonard w.
Hall, former Republican Ma
tional Chairman, and Nelson
A. Rockefeller, an assistant
in the past to three Presi-
dents - Roosevelt, Truman
and Eisenhower. Mr.. Rookie
Teller has denied he is a
candidate, but has left him
self open to a draft. Mr.. Hall.
like 'Brer Rabbit, don't say
nuthin." That does not mean.
however, he Is not stirring
around.
The probabilities are an
nouncements for the GO. p.
gubernatorial nomination viii
not be forthcoming until after
the present session Of the
State legislature ends, around
March is. One reason for
this is that any candidate
who sticks his neck out while
the legislators are at work
in Albany would be asked
Immediately to take q stand
on the various issues that
are worrying members of
that body today. Also, it has
become an unwritten custom
for gubernatorial candidates
to hold back until the legis-
lative sessions have closed.
Rockefeller VS.. Hartman
On the Democratic side, no
one has come forward to
challenge Gov. Averell Har-
riman for a second-term
nomination. No one, in all
probability, will. Mr.. Rookie
Teller, a millionaire, it said to
believe that if he is going
into the great game of politics
in a big way, the fact that
his Democratic opponent
Mr.. Harriman-also is a mil
lionaire evens the score on
the wealth issue which might
be raised against him If he
were running against a man
Of moderate means, q poor
man by comparison. The
Republican millionaire has
served in high posts in the
executive branch of the Fed
eral Government but has
never offered himself as a
candidate to the electorate.
Gov. Hartman also had a
record of high Office in the
executive branch, and had
never run for public Office in
an election until he was NOM
mated for Governor and won
in 1854. Mr.. Hartman there
by proved that a very wealthy
man could be elected Gov
ernor Of New York. Mr..
Rockefeller feels that If Gov.
Hartman could make the
grade, so can he.
The Rockefeller drive-or
movement-for the guberna-
torial nomination has mush-
roomed in the last few
months. It has been aided
by the fact that Mr.. Rookie
Teller has been in the public
eye and the public press. not.
as a politician but as inter-
ested deeply in public affairs.
The Rockefeller name has
become identified more and
more with philanthropy. It
didn't do him any harm
when he tried to keep q Ma
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tional League baseball club
in New York, and more re-
Gently he has had much pub
licity from the comprehen-
sive report on national de-
Tense and what should be
done about it, made by the
Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
In some respects, the sudden
upsurge Of talk of Mr.. Rookie
Teller for what frequently
has been called the second
highest executive office in
the land-Governor Of New
York-recalls the movement
which swept the late Wendell
Willkie into the Republican
nomination for President in
1910. Mr.. Willkie was presi-
dent of the Commonwealth
and Southern Corporation
and a public utility magnate
though not a millionaire in
the sense that is Mr.. Rookie
Teller or Mr.. Hartman. He
came into prominence be.
cause Of speeches he made,
defending the free enterprise
system and attacking the
New Deal of President Frank
lin D. Roosevelt. The finan-
cial interests of the country
took him to their bosom.
From New York to Cali
fornia, these interests put on
a drive to nominate him for
President. Mrs. Alice Long
worth quipped: Hes the
William Jennings Bryan Of
the rich" It will be interest,"
ing to see If these financial
interests in New York go to
work for Mr.. Rockefeller.
What they can do, if they
try, was demonstrated in the
Willkie episode. The politi-
cos at the time wanted
Thomas E. Dewey or Robert
A. Taft. but they we're
showed under.
Hall Better Known
Mr.. Hall, however, may be
no easy man to beat off If
he decides to make the race.
He is far better known
throughout the State than is
Mr.. Rockefeller. AS a CAM
paigner. he might be much
more effective. For Len Hall
is an outgiving, genial man
who makes friends and gen.
crates enthusiasm.
No one has forgotten that
he, almost single-handed,
kept alive the belief that
President Eisenhower would
run for a second term after
the President had suffered a
heart attack, and later, an
operation for ileitis. Or that
Mr.. Hall never gave up on
the denomination of the
Eisenhower-Nixon ticket, and
that he directed the cam
paign which brought that
ticket across the line a win
ner by a huge plurality, both
of the popular and the cleo
toral college vote.
Further, it is reported that
Mr.. Hall and j. Russell
Sprague, for years a power
full figure in the Republican
Party of New York. are now
on friendly terms, after a
long period of hostility. The
gubernatorial nominations in
the Empire State are made in
party conventions, with dele
gates elected in a primary.
The big fight. if there is one,
may come after the delegates
have been chosen. /.