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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1959-05-07
eel TOW much LAWN we going to MOW?"
Robert Osborn, the cartoonist, was at the

Robert Osborn, the canoonis was the Interna-
tional Design Conference in Aspen, Colorado, when
he asked this question.
Seven hundred successful and very busy heard him ASK
and watched nteny he projected his Moer-rg-on the
in front of them Osborn discussing LEISURE
heartfelt words illustrated with coored slides of fortysx his
fierce and poetic He tells you critic puts it,
what it looks like to feel"
This discussion of Leisure :" he began LET pursue
for few minutes (manly in pcure) got
the crush and what does us-and what if anything we
can do about it."
When he had finished the ground swell of response finally
to words and pictures being made into book-"Osbon
Lesure"whch hundred thousand men and women so far
have taken into their lives
These figures astonish Osborn.
Il thought few thousand copies would SELL he said but
wasn't expecting anything like this"
He explains by pointing that these times
And even we're not constantly of that he says our
psyches are. They remember every minute.
NO say how many days he is going have What
ne can count what he chooses do with them How he
chooses is what makes the difference between life and rat
Our psyches know that of course the choice the
good choice what they're looking my psyche
is looking for in Leisure"
The CRUX of the matter, he says the book is "How
much LAWN are we going TO MOW?
Since many thousand people wondering answer
that Subnba Today located Robert Osborn deep in Con-
necicut and asked for an interview.
The Osborrs and their small live outside Salisbury
on hillside which they discovered time they were
skiing country To the they look away
woods to the Berkshes The house white timber glass;
modern but startling; natural and content in
its country fields.
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SubHrbia Today. May 1859
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1959-10-15

fest itself through the social
idealism of religion. Even now,
and on the very civil rights issue
mentioned by the Congressman,
there has been conspicuous lead
ership shown by many church
men of all faiths. Jewish and
Catholic influences, even through
the South, have been practicing
indignation for several years. The
Quakers and many conventional
Protestant groups have also Civ
en- support to school indignation
and even to Negro participation
in their own activities. Among
the more fervent evangelists (Je-
hovah's Witnesses, for instance)
there is positive position against
segregation.
We do not argue with Congress
man Coad's statement about the
llstlessness of the churches of his
District, but the situation is not
all bad. There is much ferment,
some leadership, and not all pas
tors duck the great issues of the
world today just most of
them.
-(Milwaukee Review
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1959-10-15
BY One Of Them
Prayer BY A Modern Pharisee

brown or black. The Bible does
teach that white man looketh
on the outward appearance, God
looketh on the heart" but the
outward appearance counts for a
lot below the Mason and Dixon
line. I thank thee, o God, that I
am civilized and not a savage,
though they do say it is the civil
lied countries which are at war
today, while the "uncivilized" ma
tons are at peace.
] thank thee, o Lord, that / am
Protestant and not a Roman
Catholic. Yes, it is fact that for
hundreds of -years-long before
anyone had ever thought of a
Protestant Church-the Catholics
kept alive the light Of the Chris
tan faith. and my determination
no longer brands the Pope as that
"antichrist and son of perdi-
tion," but, anyway, put it to my
credit that l am a Protestant
And, Lord, I thank thee that I
am Prssbyteyian, and not-well
one hesitates to be too specific
but, after all, we Presbyterians
are educated Or used to be, and
we do feel that it is nice to be
Just right; not'"high-hat' like
the Episcopalians, nor yet so,
well, shall we say, provincial or
narrow as the Baptists and Meth
odists? Yes, naturally there are
some Presbyterians who are not
what they ought to be, but they
are mostly in the Northern
branch. I thank thee, Lord, that
/ am a Southern Presbyterian,
yes, an Eastern-North Carolina,
North A m erican, occidental,
Scotch, Gentle, white, civilized,
Protestant, Southern Presbyte-
rian! What a mani!
- (The Presbyterian Outlook
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1959-10-15

THE Pharisee stood up and
prayed thus with himself. God. I
thank thee that I am not as other
men are. Luke 1911.
l thank, thee, Lord, that I am
a North Carolinian and not from
Virginia or South Carolina, those
1.-TWO mountains of conceit bor-
dering the vale of humiliation"
full of pompous pride and una
ware that their progressive
neighbors have long ago outdis-
tanced them; and l thank thee,
Lord, that I am an EASTERN
North Cafolinian, for it is not a
proverb that mo gentleman was
ever born west of tidewater"?
Especially, Lord, I thank thee
that / am a Southerner and not
a Yankee-for there are many
things one might endure, but not
that! Grateful am /, O Lord, that
l am a North American, and not
a South American, for there is a
vast difference, as everybody
knows; and that I was born in
these favored United States, and
not among the gringos of Mexico
or the Canucks of Canada. Thank
full, too, am l, to be an occidental
and not an oriental-one of those
lesser breeds without the law. !"
True that Confucius and Gau-
tama Buddha and Abraham and
Moses and Kagawa and Gandhi
were, or are, great men, but /
never liked slanting eyes or the
wrong shape of nose. / thank
thee, Lord, that I am a Gentle
and not Jew. Yes, of course,
Jesus was born a Jew and many
others of that race were princes
in Israel when my ancestors were
Nordic barbarians, but that has
been long time ago. Why bring
that up now? l thank thee that I
am white, not yellow or red or
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1959-10-15
LocuI Ministers Please Note
Not All Pastors Duck The Issues

We were very much interested;
in the somewhat dismal comment
made recently by one of the three
ministers among the $50 members
Of the U. S. House and Senate.
Congressman Merwin Coad, in
his End term and still only "a,
represents Is counties in Iowa's
rich north central area. In 1856
he was elected by only 1913 votes
to become the first Democrat from
any Iowa District in 16 years. But
by 1858 his people returned him
with $4,000 majority.
Asked to comment on church
influences in national legislation
Congressman Coad said:
Ministers and laYmen of local
churches are generally not in
touch with public issues. They
seem to fear politics. Ministers
follow. they do not lead. If the
church were doing its job. civil
rights would not be the serious
national issue that it is. When
the civil rights question was up.
l did not hear a word from one
church or church organization in
defense of civil rights. In the pas
torate man can duck a hot pub
lie issue: here in Congress he has
to face it and commit his own
future to what he thinks is right. :"
Perhaps the Reverend-congress-
man has put his finger on the
reason behind relative ineffec-
tiveness of most churches in Am
erican life today.
Seeking responsibility and stat
us above all, more concerned with
consolation and soothing sounds
than human welfare, the typical
church is not center of decisive
influence on its community. But
in all ages there has been a di-
vine discomfort which has mani
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1959-10-15
Please. Comrade!
4841 N. Willamette Blvd.
Portland 3, Oregon

FOTt1aIlQ ., oregon
Dear P. D.:
The letters in your September
"a issue interested me greatly,
even though they seemed to miss
the points of your original argu-
ments concerning organized re-
ligion. I will state that | disagree
with these views of yours, but,
right now, l am more interested
in discussing the letters of read
ers Marthaler and FERN. I will
try to leave out the words Cod
and Creator" except in two
places. And I propose that we
start with the question of in
finity.
Before we can start such dis
cussion, we must find out what
infinite is supposed to mean. We
are in difficult position because,
even though we admit something
called infinity, we can't describe
it. This is the same position as
the mathematician who is asked
to solve the equation X-square
plus equals 0. BY all valid alge-
braic operations he arrives at an
answer of x equaling the square
root of minus /. Yet, according
to the valid rule of squares, there
is no number which, when null
tiplied by itself, results in a neg
alive. So what does he do? He
differentiates and calls this result
imaginary. This word is used only
in opposition to the word real
where real means the system OF
numbers which he has set up to
begin with. And so it is with in
finity.
How can we define infinity?
Let's say that it is the opposite of
finiteness. And what is finiteness?
l propose that it is all that we
can understand by ourselves with
our human capabilities. Next, let's
determine whether or not we can
assume that we understand ev-
erything. If we assume this, then
we must conclude that we under
stand our fellow man. But, from
today's world situation, it is OBJ
vious that we don't understand
our fellow man. We distrust him.
And yet understanding him
would be the basis for trust. So
we must conclude that our as
sumption is false. What other as
sumption can we make? We can
assume the opposite-that there
are things which we cannot un-
derstand. Then by our original
definition of infinity and finite
ness, there does exist an infinity
that which we can't understand
or don't understand through our
human capabilities.
From here we can turn to the
question posed by reader FERN
of why the Creator is cruel to IN
nocent people. This statement IS
linked very closely with state
ment that Mr.. FERN rejects too
quickly. This statement concerns
the necessity of believing in a
Creator because one "sees a tree
and who else but-a Creator could
make that?" l propose that it IS
not so much the fact that the
tree exists. This is taking the tree
out of context. / rather say that
we have to look at the tree IN the
whole of existence. Look at ex-
istence and its harmony. Look at
the perfection of the relation be-
Continued on Page y
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1959-10-15
THEATRE
By
Cyrus Adler

Editors Note: What with our
circulation in New York exceed
ing our local circulation by about
1907 we don't think the COM
ments by Mr.. Adler on the thea
Continued on Page 81
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1959-10-15
Letters
Lakewood, Calf

Lakewood, Calf.

Editor:
The stupid red batting of Au-
brey Williams is unfortunate.
1t seems to be stupid excuse
for almost anything. Please re-
frain from mailing me any more
copies of The Petal Paper.
LEON SATIN
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1959-10-15
BY P. D.

little over two years ago was moved to do bit of social
climbing therefore, did what any normal edbooded southern
boy would do gave help to the citizens councils OF Mississippi
nc etc. Actually at the time they getting their educational
program underway and had printed the first Of series of art
cles entitled "A Manual For Southerners.
Naturally as said, being normal edbooded, southern
boy inclined social climbing considered great opportun
Nv to present in this paper the ManUa for grades and av
ina done expected sort OF recognition at least the Mag
noa Medal even without Pine Tree Cluster The recognition
was not forthcoming Crushed defeated and feeling helpless be-
came interested in other matters OF which were OF any I'M
portance you know, the Constitution Bill OF Rights suft like
that
Anyway am again inclined TO win my badge sincere
southene redbooded normal ETC. am therefore presenting
below the Manual for grades and g. assure you it's well
worth YOUR attention. especially from literary point Of view
think the 5th and 9th grades write exceptionally WE'LL I'm not
sure but the grades and could have written this for grades
and g. II doesn't NATTER the thing that really counts is the
content.
l. THE SOUTHERN STATES
United States of America country and it has forty
eight grouped into several big
sections or parts your map you Northern
the Western states and the Southern states Geor
ga Florida South Carolina Virginia Alabama Tenne
see Arkansas Texas Mississippi of the
will that they all right together when
MANY AMERICAN LEADERS WE'RE soUTHERNERs
Many probably think live South America because
YOU say you come Souherners people
from the South are from South stae South
of Americas greatest and most beloved leaders
EARLY AMERICA WAS RULED BY ENGLAND
had much do with making country
When America nation or country 1t
thirteen states These states between the Atlantic
Appalachian Mountains When look
you country much bigger The thirteen
young today They belonged Eng
land country other side of the Atlantic Ocean
something back early his
tory they King England first the King didn't
something he just said mo can't do it, and
they mind him, he would punish them.
SOUTH LED THE WAY TO FREEDOM
Americans tired of being told what to do by
King foreign country They make
King England So when from all thirteen states
began meeting together talking their problems
freedom America against Eng
land
PATRICK HENRY WAS A SOUTFIERNER
Southerner, who from Virginia made
against England and said other Americans
liberty DEATH! Patrick Henry
brave The old king might well
have killed the brave Southener said
he rather be free than be slave to any King
OUR FoREFATHERS WON OUR FREEDOM
Finally country told King George of England
that they going be separate country They told him they
were going their business King
George the thirteen states He sent his
Continued Page p 8sz5sasxsesa-->-.
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1959-10-15
I. THE SOUTHERN STATES

and it has forty
fortyeigh states grouped into several big
parts find the Northern states
Southern
g North Carolina Virginia Alabama Tennes-
Arkansas Mississippi OF the
they right together when
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1959-06-04
How Much Does It Cost?

This fixed charge is for depreciation, by
far the largest part of it, for property dam
age and liability insurance (S25,000 and $780,
O00) and for fire and theft coverage. Colli-
sion insurance is not included.
AS to the 3.99 cents mile additional, that
is for gas and oil, 261 cents, for tires, 059
cents. and for maintenance, 079 cents.
For Noble county drivers who do 10000
miles year under average conditions, the
total cost is approximately II cents mile.
1t compares with 1913 cents the prior year
Those who use their cars twice as much,
10000 miles, come out relatively better. To
the fixed charges of 1901 are added the regu-
lar mileage costs. The total, 1,628, amounts
to 81 cents mile.
Less efficient is operation at 5000 miles
a year. Weighted down with the same fixed
charges, the cost per mile ICONS up to 20
cents.
Gas stations in Noble county have been
benefiting by the increased amount of auto
travel in recent years In the last fiscal year
their business volume reached new high
$1,042000. 1t was $982,000 in 1857.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1959-06-04

Experience will teach some and discour-
age others depending on whether the first ex-
perience is pleasant one or frightening.
We could have all pond owners and lake
owners prohibit swimming but we would
still hear or read of these sad experiences.
In the final analysis the responsibility
lies with the parents and adults who must
understand the need for and accept the pro-
gram OF training young people how to swim
AS swimming pools and lakes open through
out the country this month, it should behoove
each adult to make certain that the children
of today do not become the headlines of to-
morrow in needless drowning accident.
1t is food for thought and one which
must bear fruit this summer if headlines of
tragic nature are to be avoided.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1959-06-04
Your
| Election
k0WS +.
by Ted w. Brown
Secretary of Stote of Ohio

Each year brings new voters
to Ohio's polls. 1t is estimated
that approximately 100000 will
become q years of age in 1859.
Our voting roster is also increas-
ed to those people who move into
Ohio from other states and have
attained the years residence re-
quirement by the date of the
election, or having lived in Ohio
for a year, have just received
their final citizenship papers.
Our Constitution requires that
voters be citizens of the United
States, and be at least 81 years
of age; and the statutes require
that voter be a resident of the
county and precinct for 40 days
in order to be eligible to vote at
the primary election. The law
permits a person who will be 81
years of age before the day of
the next general election to vote
at the primary election preceding
such general election. If you
reside in territory which has
registration, you must have regis
tered prior to March 25.
When you present yourself at
the polling place to vote, you
shall announce your full name
and address to the official and
the name of the political party
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1959-06-04
BhAMER|[kN WlY>
RMas3 As EwEo ev
NdzM2@4,~ &
DOWNRIGHT BORING

1t is getting to be downright
boring, the furor raised by the
so-called liberals" about that
big bad wolf, profits" Congress
sional committees are wasting a
lot of valuable time on hearings
on wages, prices, profits and re-
lated topics time that might
better be devoted to matters that
really require their attention.
Bills have been introduced for
graduated corporation tax and
for revival Of an excess profits
tax by these misguided liberals.
Their fuzzy thinking doesn't take
into account the vital role that
profis play in our economy-they
either don't know or choose to
ignore that profits are the main
spring that makes our private
enterprise economy tick. While
tinkering with profits is danger
Gus at any time, it is doubly SO
at this time when the U.S.A.
faces the challenge of the COM
munist nations in production and
trade.
To the charge of the profits"
haters, that profits are too high,
let's take a look at the record.
The proportion of the national
income originating in business
corporations in 1857 was slightly
in excess of 5000 billion, or an
increase of $97 billion over 1947.
Of this increase, $81 billion or
83 percent was accounted for by
higher wages and salaries and
supplements thereto. Corporate
taxes were higher by over $40
billion and profits increased by
less than $4 billion. Looks mighty
like profits should be doing the
hollering instead of the profits
haters, doesn't it?
AS we said at the outset, this
furor about profits gets to be
downright boring.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1959-06-04
EDITORIAL PAGE
A Plant With A Heart

The Caldwell plant of the Cleveland Gra-
phite Bronze company stepped into the pic
ture and uring the past two weeks, they have
been repairing this truck on their own time
and free of charge.
This was public gesture which was not
solicited but which, in itself, means much to
the entire community, the 20 young men who
serve on volunteer basis as members of the
fire department and last but not the least,
the plant itself for adequate fire protection
is very important to this industrial unit.
The boys in the fire department and the
community as whole are very grateful to
the Cleveland Graphite Bronze company and
its manager, Ken Leighton, for this unselfish
gesture on the part of plant that has be-
come such an important barometer of sue
cess to the entire of Noble county.
The local fire department has four
trucks which they can now press into service
during a fire call, including the one just re-
paired the emergency truck, the pumper
truck and a small pickup truck, which will
eventually have a tank mounted on it to be
used exclusively for grass fires.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1959-06-04

they carry or wear as sand
Wich aprons may brazenly as
sert, if the local State law SO
allows, that the firm they are
picketing is unfair to organ
lied labor'-which of course,
could be quite true. However,
it could as easily be down
right libelous statement, de-
pending on just how unfair
to organized labor" the en-
ployer in question could be
shown to be in court of law.
In states where such obviously
one-sided public trials are ban
ned by statute, equally ques-
tionable or demonstrably un-
truthful statements may never
theless be paraded by pickets.
There is, for example, the
public assertion that 'the en-
ployees of this establishment
are on strike" Haunted before
a place of business all of whose
employees are faithfully on the
job.
Cross such a picket line"
and enter the struck CD estab-
lishment and inquire of the en-
ployees within, and likely as
not they'll tell you, "None of
us are on strike! It's just that
the union out there is trying to
organize us against our will"
THAT union out there?" You
read on the signs the picketers
carry just what union it is
and in most cases its name in
some measure at least relates
to the occupation of the en-
ployees at work inside. So then
you ask one of the picketers
exactly what gives. That is, if
you are fair-minded and would
like to hear both sides of the
story. But, the picketer has no
story to give you. He hasn't
the faintest idea what the story
is--all he knows is what it says
on the sign. He himself isn't a
striker; he's a hired picket.
In my next article, I'll have
more to say about this hired
picket and how he is just as
offensive to the spirit of Amer
lean justice as would be the
denial to a union to engage in
legitimate picketing.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1959-06-04

For every car that is registered in Noble
county there is an owner who asks himself
at least once year, "How much does it cost
me to run it?"
Generally, the answer is hard to come by.
It is difficult to tie in all the variable expend
itures, such as oil, gas and service charges,
with the fixed costs, such as insurance, taxes
and depreciation
Help in this direction has come from the
American Automobile Association, following
a study of operating costs in various parts of
the country. It's figures are for car in the
popular-price field, driven the average
amount of 10000 miles year.
The average cost is 1901 a year in fixed
charges and 3.99 cents additional for every
mile travelled.
Applying this average to Noble County
and to the number of passenger cars in cur
rent use locally, yields 900 as the esti-
mated annual operating expenditure. Per car,
it is 81 200 on the l0,000-mile basis
Every day of the year whether the car
is used or not, its owner has bill for So 19,
the AAA study shows