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Every afternoon, Monday through Friday
What About Spelling?
Beaman Kelly, our very capable and enterprising assist
ant superintendent of county schools, has just announced
a six-point program for improving the quality of school
teaching in Harnett.
His recommendations were made after he personally
visited various classrooms in the county schools.
.He made some very interesting observations and some
valuable and constructive recommendation in his six-point
program.
Far instance, he wants increased and better use of
audio-visual aids; a better health and physical education
program, particularly in the ninth grades, further plan
ning for better guidance service, more extensive use of
standardized test results.
• . Summing up his program, he wants emphasis placed
on first things first —reading, writing and ’rithmetic.
We want to commend Mr. Kelly for going above and
beyond the call of his routine duties to make this survey
add'to work out this program.
However, we’re a little disturbed that Mi - . Kelly didn’t
include spelling among his list of recommendations.
"' We believe it to be unforunate that schools don't
teach spelling any more that is, they don’t apparent
ly, put enough on spelling.
The failure of students in these modern times to
how to spell is something simply appalling. We
kpqw many people—and people who are supposed to be
educated —who can’t even spell the simple words in Noah’s
Webster’s dictionary.
All the blame doesn’t lie in the public schools, be
cause we’ve found that §ome college graduates can’t spell
any better than a sixth grader ought to know how to spell.
- - On a recent occasion, we are tempted to send to
the" board of trustees of the Greater University a mis
erable and horrible example of spelling by a University
student. We finally decided against it because we fig
ured it wouldn’t do any good.
Apparently, North Carolina spellers aren’t any worse
than those in some other States. The situation is so bqd
across the whole country that the great Scripps-How
ri4 chain of newspapers has started holding public spell
ing bees and offering fabulously large sums of money as
prizes to encourage people to learn to spell.
Unfortunately, this newspaper can t afford such. We
wish we could. / >
We believe that the need for turning out better spell
ers offers a real challenge to our public schools and also
to the higher halls of learning.
CULLMAN, ALA., DEMOCRAT: “The politicians’
creed seemed to be to keep the people’s pockets full of
‘money,’ even though the ‘money’ eventually drops to
where it is not worth the cost of the paper used to make
it.
jtfmOO. WISC., DAILY JOURNAL: “The National
Security Resources Board is trying to promote the dis
persal of new industry in the United States for safety
reasons. Says the board: ‘There is no need of a bureau
ini Washington or elsewhere in the federal government
this job.’ And apparently the effort is meeting with
considerable initial success despite the boards almost
heretical views. If it works out, maybe others will be in
clined toward this unorthodoxy and away from the pre
vailing notion that you’re not in business until you’ve
denuded the capital warehouses of every available desk
and have hired people to lean on them.”
Frederick OTHMAN
WASHINGTON The Bureau
of i Internal Revenue will be sad- :
dened to learn that as March » I
aonrcaches I am becoming—eeee- s
X**!*—lncreasingly hysterical i
my distraught and bewildered I
condition I’m likely to cheat the
/ tM collector am ol his eyelashes. I <
wouldn't be surprised even if I 1
developed a hysterical psychosis.
Then all I’U need is a Public
Health Service doc to swear to my '
». sorry condKion and the good, old. 1
humane Department of Justice will 1
7 refuse to prosecute me for my '
v thievery. This surprising news t 1
u><yn»rf when the tax investigating 1
i
barney who succeeded the cetebrat- ;
of ike Ui prosecutors. Slack’s !
his evenings looking at no
gift television set, or his weekends
what you'd call a conscientious
i -figpuraat.
hetthh policy Has nothing to do
with accident insurance, it means
(Ml that some tax racketeers
egm are mighty sick men Guilty
of Mask crookedness they may be
strain at a trial in court might re- :
suit JMfoeir death or insanity, the
JtojjT Department refuses to pro*- :
The gentleman from New Jer
sey said he thought the judge ought
to decide: Slack begged to disa
gree. Said it saved a lot of Mine
if tike justice Department decided
first.
So I got to thinking about my
own hysteria over those withhold
ing forms and that sharp letter
I got from the Commissioner of
internal Revenue. No wonder. There
was Adrian Dewind, the commit
tee's chief counsel, bringing up the
case of an unnamed tax scoundrel
who went unjailed because he suf
fered from what a psychiatrist
called hysteria psychosis.
How many docs, he wondered,
will agree op what is hysteria?
Not to mention a psychosis?
Nobody was going to trap prose
cutor Slack AH he knew, he sted.
was that he took the word of a
physician from the Public Health
Service about hysteria acting
ipftiy Be furthermore, tbfbre
haven't been many tax cases
These Days
sd*Ukn
UNIVERSAL MILITARY
SERVICE
The organization of a Garrison
State involves social and political
consequences and the diversion of
men from their normal activities
to military participation- Shifting
youth from schools to camps,
from free activities to regimented
' disciplines, during the early years
of their lives, can produce perma
nent psychological reactions.
The present program for uni
versal military service is an extra
ordinarily involved one, from which
only the mentally and physically
defective trill be freed. All young
men, 18 years of age, fresh out
of high. school, are to be given a
six months' pilot course in Uni
versal Military Training.
About 1,200,000 come °f »B e ' that
is 18'- years old, each year. Os
this number, it is estimated that
400,000 will be unfit, leaving 800,-
000 for this program. Only the
physically and mentally unfit, ac
cording to Pentagon standards, will
be able to proceed directly from
high school to college with some
assurance of remaining there:
After a young man has served
for six months in this pilot course,
he will be put into the active re
serve for one year and a half. This
means that the young man might
begin a course at college, but could
be interrupted at any time by be
ing called up to replace American
troops in Korea, Malaya, Burma
or Europe, without regard to his
personal future. As, except in Ko
rea, our troops mostly mark time,
this enforced idleness, in uniform,
is of great concern to those who
fear its social consequences.
At any rate, according to this
program, few ambitious young men
would be able to enter college be
fore they are 20 or 21 years of age.
They would be 24 or 25 years old
before they got their Bachelor's
degree. Those who require grad
uate work, such as doctors, law
yers, engineers, technicians, would
be close to 30 before they would
be graduated.
Experience shows that many in
the military services, out of bore
dom and loneltness, marry, often
under circumstances and to per
sons that can only be regarded as
unfortunate. This raises moral
problems which permanently affect
our society.
In the past, our youth were used
in this way to defend their country
for Comparatively short periods of
great national peril. This, how
ever, is planned to be a permanent
program, to be followed in peace
as well as in war. Further, after
a young man has given his two.
years to this service, he is to be
put into the inactive reserve for
a period of six years, the Presi
dent apparently to have the right
to shift individuals from the in
active to the active reserve at will.
Smart boys, that is, those who
are brilliant in their' marks, will
be able to find ways to get an
education. In this country, how
ever. it has been experience that
the most useful men are not al
ways those who have been excep-
Mcnally smart as boys. The large
reservoir of college graduates has
been drawn upon to produce com
petent persons to do the multitude
of tasks essential in an industrial
society.
Already, as a consequence of
World War H. this country is
short of engineers, which is a seri
ous matter for the future. Short
ages also appear in many fields
of scholarship in which the theo
retical work is done, thus forming
the basis for our amazing success
in technical fields. Atomic fission
is a product of the classroom and
college laboratory as it is of engi
neering and industrial skill.
Recently, a number of religious
leaders came to Washington for
one of those orientation sessions
which have become so customary
since the war. This conference was
called to consider the character
guidance program for our troops,
UMT arose only in question
time, and was not on the agenda
among the clergymen and religious
leaders present. These men have
devoted their lives to moral Issugs
. and have had to deal with young
people through the various stages
of development Also, scene had
even served as chaplains.
Sq far as I can learn, while the
clergy were deeply moved by the
, broad nature of the discussion of
, moral problems, which, at this
t conference, transcended religious
differences, many o< them felt that
UMT Imperils both the young man
and the country and is not wist for
such a society as purs.. It could
1 defeat our civUriatton by making
it
employed it. In one form or an
i other.
: tion**and*tti«^relatiimship f
i to, it 7
This is a subject that requires
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TIB DAILY RECORD, DUNN. N. a
MISTER BREGER _
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“There are times when I feel a man is entitled to get
outta dryin’ dishes ONCE in a while ..."
| «ih vuswnoir
Merry-GO-roumd
>t 0»1W MAtSOII .
WASHINGTON One reason for
the extra-tight secrecy during the
House Judiciary Committee’s de
bate on probing the Justice De
partment was that the personal
doctor of President Truman, Maj.
Gen. Wallace Graham, was in
volved.
Also, Attorney General Howard
McGrath used just about every
lobbying trick in the bag to pre
vent the probe, and certain Con
gressmen didn't want it known how
abruptly they reversed themselves
because of Administration pressure.
Among these was Chairman Em
manuel Celler of New York, who
had just notified the President
that he was going to do what he
did not do—investigate.
The dynamite regarding Tru
-1 man's personal physician was toss
ed into the closed-door committee
discussion by Congressman Keft
neth Keating of New York, who
told how General Graham had tried
to keep the notorious Rumanian,
Nicola Malaxa. in the U. S. A.
Keating has alleged that Malaxa
has sent jewelry to Ann Pauker,
Communist Premier of Rumania,
has collaborated both with the Na
zi and the Communists, and has
had so much drag with Moscow
that he is the only Rumanian bus
inesAaan able to get $2,000,000 out
of t»t country. A CIA report found
' In jf/fly Coplon’s purse also show
ed tr.at Malaxa made Mar
shall Ooering's brother a partner
in his business before the war.
Nevertheless, the Justice De
partment gave Malaxa a favorable
report, putting him in a preferred
Dosition to become a permanent
resident Qf the United States.
This recommendation. Congress
man Keating told the Judiciary
Committee, was based partly on an
affidavit from Maj. Gen. Wallace
i Graham “building him up as a
fine fellow.”
“Apparently this man (Malaxa)
. r’aches into high places,” the New
, York Republican told his astonish
ed colleagues. “I want to find out
. how high—and who his sponsors
. are besides Dr. Graham. I also
; want to find out who in the immi
gration Service wrote that report
. clearing Malaxa.”
( Note—Once before, Dr. Graham
faced Congressional charges, and
> admitted speculating on the com
; modify market. Unreproved, he
, was lated promoted by the Presi
. dent from Brigadier General to
, Major General, On one occasion,
. Malaxa came all the way from.
. New York to Washington to get a
| physical checkup by General Gra
. ham. ( *
HOT WIRE-PULLING
About ten days before the foot,
debate inside the Judiciary Com
. mittee, its chairman Manny Cel
. ler of. Brooklyn, went down to thß
. White House and warned the
‘ President that he was going to in
; vestigate the Justice Department.
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“Let’* l<xA over. here, dear. Here's a much LARGER
TZm 01 "a* *-*■* -ar ’
He told Mr. Truman that he
was under great pressure to make
the probe and, as a matter of cour
tesy, wanted the White House to
know he was proceeding. The
President, however, urged him to
hold off, even promised to remove
Attorney General McGrath.
“I'm going to clean this thing
up,” the President said, and told
Celler how he was appointing Mc-
Grath as Ambassador to Spain,
replacing him with Judge Justin
Miller. The President talked at
some length about what an able
man Miller is and how everything
would be cleaned up, thus making
Celler’s investigation unnecessary.
Thereafter, powerful influences
went to bat for the Attorney Gen
eral, including his law parkier.
Senator Green of Rhode Island,
and Cardinal Spellman of New
York. Thereafter, also, the Presi
dent reversed himself.
But, despite the fact that no
change -has been made in the Jus
tice Department, Celler did exact
ly the opposite of what he told
the White House. He pulled all
sorts of wires to block a Justice
Department probe by his commit
tee, even postponing the first vote
for five days to give the adminis
tration time to high-pressure all
Democratic members.
“BACKWARD” DENVER
Few American cities
ntributdß nubfe to western Vulture
than Denver, Colo. Since the day
when Buffalo Bill hitched his horse
In front of the Windson Hotel, the
colorful rocky mountain metropolis
has given the nation such famous
figures for Judge Ben Lindsay,
novelist Gene Fowler, and maes
tro Paul Whiteman.
President Truman. therefore,
pricked' up his ears, when it was
suggested that he include Denver
in his pqint 4 relief program for
“backward areas.”
The proposal was made by In
diana’s puckish, redheaded Con
gressman Ray Madden as a joke
on former Congressman John Car
roll -of Colorado, now a White
House adviser.
“All right, 111 bite—why does
Denver belong under the point 4
program?” inquired Truman.
“Oh, it’s a backward area, sure
, enough, Mr. President," replied
Madden, dryly. “John Carroll here
. tqlls me that Denver doesn’t have
a television station.”
i “That’s because we’re wafting for
, the TV programs to improve,”
, bantered Carroll, with a grin.
, “Folks out my way are awfully
, particular.”
BRASS HAT WITNESS
So many brass hats have been
attending Congressional hearings—
. some as mere messenger boys—
, that Secretary of Defense Lovett
, has cracked down on them.
> What made him do so was when
[ Sen, Lyndon Johnson. Texas Dem
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Walter
Winchell
In
New
York
Memos of a Girl Friday
Dear WW: The AF confirmed
"dental” with its piece from Holly
wood about Jolson’s widow winning
a second $1,000,000 from hia will.
When we said she would try to
upset his, bequests of $3 000,00 Q to
charities several dopes denied it.
This new million has t# come out
of those three!. Connie Mack's
daughter got her final decree (out
there the other day. Her merger
name is Mrs. Marshall Breedlove
Prince Alexis Romanoff, re
cently divorced from Phyllis B.
Brown of here, |elU friends his
next will be Barbara Fidler ■of
Cincey Gen. Patton’s widow will
be urged to campaign actively for
Taft, but she is not very likely to
be "used” that way. Something a
bout an Eisenhower-Patton feud,
etc.
Sleeping pill addicts should ap
preciate this: It happened to co
median Harvey Stone. Been tak
ing pills for years because of in
somnia. Desperate for slumber
this day (because he hadn’t slept
the previous night), he took
four, not a lethal dose. However
in trying to shake a cold earlier
he took two empirin and then
used strong nose drops He start
ed choking, turned purple, and
firemen took ten hours to revive
him.
Federal Judge J. W. Waring of
South Carolina achieved quite a
reputation for his stand on racial
questions last year. Landed in Col
lier's and the newsweeklies with
his fight. He retires tomorrow —
just 10 years to the day he took
office . He was called "The man
they love to C., vilified
in the papers there, ostracized so
cially and his Charleston house was
stoned for opening the Democratic
primaries in South Carolina to all
citizens. He is 74.
Ethel Merman is reported defi
nitely getting a divorce. When you
said so six months ago the same
opposition paper said It wasn't true.
How stale can they get?.. Sam
Goldwyn’s uphappy about the way
you handled the Moira Shearer
thUig. Sam Goldwyn's always un
hafopy about sonietljing. End of
Yaw. The twice-postpohed S. Ray
-Bobo Olson fight In San Francis
co is now listed for Feb. 14th. The
Runyon Fund gets most of the gate
Sacha Guitry, the French play
wright, is getting his 51Ji divorce.
The French recognize only 5 mar
riages. so he weds his next here.
Jane Russell's friends wonder
why a child (with passport issued
by Eire and a U. S. quota num
ber) should become of such in
terest to His Majesty’s gov’t. Es
pecially, when both Irisji parents
gave full consent for the tot to
remain here. Jane and her hus
band pretty unhappy about It all
Money talks with millionaires.
Howard Hughes gave Ed Grainger
a 5 year contract because his flick
ers prospered. Hughes gave Wal<J
& Krasna. whose films didn't, on-,
ly a one-year renewal.
Tip came in that a model named
Shirim Devrim works in a 7th
Avenue dress shop (Passel's) and
that she is the dghtr. of Iraq’s
acting Regent. I didn’t check,
dearie, because I don’t givadamb
Must be awful to be an actress.
Carol Stone dines in Gallagher’s
every 4:30 P. M. (except matinees
and Sabbaths) on only a IH lb.
steak. That's all she eats before
the curtain goes up on “Desire" a
cross the street . Ed Barrow, for
mer gen. mgr. for the Yankees, is
still in the Portchester Hospital
following an operation New Year's.
He’s 83 . A sealed indictment has
been returned against a cop in
Bklyn. They’U act on It any edition.
t) Jbg.,ywjww^g
the 'fatyorites, however, are RMftd
by only that much Olifl fltpgßrk
the Qoral recording married
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Jeragy cops, While Tgflyflpg iftjjfc
I ■«'B44 w JaA wh
n ransom” which sp heavy
II sceeo. When theword spread
to ifajTTW *S?rT are cops in Jer
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TUESDAY ArTtiIIWUUW• JANUAKx *9 9 1952
The Worry CHnic BMj
By DR. GEORGE W. CRANE
Dolly shows mere cleverness than
both her father and mother. H
they would have two or three more
youngsters, they’d learn not to
make a prims donna out of a
child. Horse sense is excellent for
hearing human babies. It eliminates
a lot of the nonsense so prevalent
nowadays.
CASE C-356: Dolly B„ aged 18
months, can teach young parents
an excellent lesson in child psy
chology.
“Dolly simply will not eat,” her
fond father protested. “She is
practically existing on one day a
day.
“We complained to our physi
cian, but he told us it was prob
ably due to her teething and not
to worry about it. But we feel that
something is wrong.
“During her meal, for example,
we must give her a toy or some
thing to make her forget that she
is eating.
“At times she may voluntarily
take one or two spoonsful but then
she calls it quits. She will refuse
to open her mouth.
“Then I take her on my lap and
feed her with a spoon. As soon as
I dp tills, she readily opens her
mouth and eats.
“My wife is quite worried be
cause Dolly does not eat properly.
Is it possible she has developed
a dislike toward eating?
“Dr. Crane, would it be better
for us to feed her in a room of
her own, and not have her at the
table with us?”
BABY TRICKS PARENTS
There are thousands of parents,
especially oif “only” children, who
are making a similar theatrical
performance out of every meal. That
is wrong.
Babies soon learn that they can
thus monopolize the spotlight and
cause two parents, plus possibly
a doting grandparent, to become
their slaves at the dinner table.
They enjoy this excitement. In
fact, they will actually refuse to
B Y America's Foremost
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1 WHILE ASLEEP, WOMAN PASSES
’ INTO TRANCELIKE STATE, BUT
CANNOT AROUSE HERSELF UN
LESS ANOTHER WAKENS HER.
DEAR MARY HAWORTH,: While
I was In the hospital recently,
having my fourth baby, I had a
recurrence of a disturbing experi
ence in which I pass from normal
sleep to a trancelike state. In this
. state I know where J am, and all
that goes on about me, and I make
frantic efforts to waken myself—
to no avail. I cannot rouse my
self uptll someone speaks directly
to me or touches me. How long I
am In suspense I don’t know; it
seems like 15 or 20 minutes
Sometimes I atq able to call out;
and when I do wakea, I am in a
cold sweat. I tremble and feel as
if X hacj been through a physical
ordeal, and wonder what would
happen If no one wakened me.
About six months ago I had my
worst attack of this kind. I hap
pened to be sleeping upstairs and
my husband WS» sleeping down
stairs and he heard me. call out.
He called to me as he came up
stairs. and I could hear his voice
apd footsteps, but still couldn’t
waken until he shook iqe by the
- shoulder. I was so unnerved I be
gan to cry, and couldn't sleep again
that night.
I wasn't bothered any more un
til I went to the hospital. There a
nurse entered the room and spoke
to me. which wakened me; and
when I thanked her and told her
what I was going through, she
thought I should speak to the doc
-1 tor about It. I hesitated, fearing
lie toight think me slUy; and I
overheard another nurse say I was
just steeping too soundly. I deter
mined to write you, to ask if I am
: in any danger during tfcse attacks,
or are they just a form of night-
X have problems—past,
i present and future; so many that
leas stean T .m told
K, xx c -»•
eat in order to briwbeat their
parents into making a gala event
out of eating.
Dolly’s father wonders if. she
hasn't developed a dislike toward
eating.
On the contrary, she is thrlUedv
by the prospect, for she knows
she can then be the prima donna,
with her parents as the supporting
cast.
USE HORSE SENSE
The proper way to handle the
eating problem with a child is for
adults to stop making fools of
themselves.
Place the food on the young
ster’s plate. Be pleasant and cheer
ful, but don't focus your attention
on the child. U he eats, well andO
good. If he doesn’t, well and good.
When you adults have finished,
clear the table. Including the tod
dler's plate. Then put him down.
Don’t feed him between meals.
Meanwhile, let him get plenty
of physical exercise. Take him out
for a walk. Let him romp with
other youngsters. -
Get him a puppy to serve in lieu
of a little brother or sister and
help stimulate him.
At the next meal, treat him adi
before. Some stubborn children
may resist for several ratals, but
they are basically animals, so they
will not hurt themselves seriously
by hunger strikes
It is amateur parents who are
the ones with such feeding prob
lems. The children will eat for
strangers who don’t humor them
or degenerate into theatrical play
ers.
So use common sense. Young
sters will not starve themselves tcf>
death and the lack of even a dozen
meals will not seriously injure
their growth, so stop letting them
bluff you. American babies are too
fat, anyway.
Mothers, have a second baby
within 2 years qf the first, for that
will give you better perspective and
furnish a playmate for your first
born.
In the
sieep: there is a gradual dimming
out of. consciousness; and in his
approach to wakefulness, the lights
of consciousness go on again grad
ually. This misty indeterminate
arga, between sleeping and waking,
is sometimes called “the threshold
of consciousness.” And it is in this
argg that you are having trouble,
it seems; and the trouble prob
ably consists in trying to shake-off
a had dream that deals with some
basic emotional deadlock, early
grglned end long since lost-sight- w
of.
The panicky sense of urgent need
and stymied helplessness, which
seems to pin you down just short
of waking, is a dream-fftting. »
probably alto is the dimly recog-’
nised postlude to a dream’ epi
sode. In which you are always un
copyiously trying to solve or escape
a psychological dilemma, Implicit
in some forgotten life-situation.
Your nightmare as described is
common to many, arm embodies ti*u
s&nwtioQS oi hapless childhood —as
when a youngster is to
establish satisfactory communica
tion with hia mother, or any close
“safe" loving relationship with her,
for the mothering person) in his
early defenseless years.
REFERS TO. PBORLSM
OX INNER ISOLATION
You mas insist, sincerely, that
yoq have w> recollection of un
pleasant. dreams Receding toese
noctural attacks of frozen dread--w
But the more painful or threaten
ing the emotional stuff embroid
ered in dreams, the less apt to
dream-story, is to break through to
surface mind or conscious revery.
I’ve no dpubt there is special
significance in the fact that yew
335 terrors tend to stride when
your husband, your famUx protec
ness stirs up complex anxiety In
the the eW
This interpretation M toe am
seems further sustained tot sew