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PAGE TWO (lits* JJatlu Itenin& DUNN, N. G. Published By RECORD PUBLISHING COMPANY At 311 East Canary Street ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE THOMAS F. CLARK CO., INC. 205-217 E. 42nd St.. New York 17. N. Y Branch Office* In Every Major City “ SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY CARRIER. 20 cents per week; $8.50 per yea' In advance; U for six months; $3 for three months IN TOWNS NOT SERVED BY CARRIER AND ON RURAL ROUTES INSIDE NORTH CAROLINA: $6.00 per year; $3.54 for six months; $2 for three months OUT-OP-STATE: $8.50 per year in advance; $5 for six months. $1 for three months Entered its second-class matter in the Post Office in Dunn, N. C., under the laws of Congress, Act of March 3, 1879 Every afternoon, Monday through Friday The Retirement Issue Members of Dunn's city council are reported as sharp ly divided on whether or not the town shall adopt a re tirement plan which would guarantee security for its faithful employees and at the same time would add an extra tax burden of several thousand dollars a year on tax payers. There has come into the debate over the issue a dis pute as to whether or not members Os the council promis ed City Manager A. B. Uzzle that they would put in a re tirement system before he accented the post here. Mr. Uzzle is quoted as saying that the officials made him that promise. Mayor Ralph Hanna says that Mr. Uz zle might have misinterpreted the board’s promise to in vestigate the possibility, that the council did not make a definite promise. We don’t know whether a definite promise was made or not. Apparently City Manager Uzzle. who already has 23 years service toward retirement, is under the impres sion that this was one of the terms promised him before he accepted the post. It is easy to understand Mr. Uzzle's position. We can not blame him for wanting to serve in a town that does have a retirement plan ana we wouldn’t blame him to quit his post here, if he feels that strongly about it. We believe, however, that if the board did make such a promise it was moa, unfortunate fer both Mr. Uzzle and for the Town of Dunn and its taxpayers. We also believe that if members of the board made any such promise that they were acting hastily. Under the proposed plan, the retirement system would cost lccal taxpayers about SB.OOO the first year and several thousand dollars a year afterwards. The city would have to pay eight per cent of the total salary for all employees except police officers and firemen and would have to pay 14 per cent on the two latter groups. " Which means, of course, an eight per cent and a 14 per cent raise, respectively. Only recently, the council voluntarily started paying Social Security, which also costs the taxpayers. Local gov ernmental units are exempted from this law but can vol untarily participate. We doubt that the Town cf Dunn can afford such a retirement plan, no matter-how desirable it might be. Few' business firms in town, eveh among the largest ones, can afford to pay retirement for their employees. This raises the question Why are governmental em ployees any more entitled to retirement pay (at the ex pense of the taxpayers) than a store clerk, a garage me chanic or any other working man? Why should the working people of Dunn be taxed to provide social security for ethers w'hen they have no such plan for themselves?' During the past quarter of a century, only three em ployees in the Town of Dunn would have been eligible for retirement. The political axe falls too fast and too fre quently in this town for employees to accumulate much service toward retirement. One or two officials are reported to believe that the town should adopt the plan in order to keep Mr. Uzzle. who is making us a very fine city manager. We don't see it that way. If the town wanted to make an exception in his case in order to live up to its purported promise, it could take out a retirement insurance policy for him—or raise his salary in the equivalent much cheaper than $3,000 a year. We do not believe the taxpayers of Dunn can possib ly stand any more taxation. The time has come for the council to start cutting expenditures rather than to keep increasing them. Frederick OTHMAN ABOARD EL BARQUE DEL ORO, AT SEA. Here I am flat on my back on the mahogany deck of this round-the-world sailing schooner, looking at the moon. The doggonedest. biggest. brightest moon T ever did see. A trio of musicians with mando ■ lins back by the helmsman is sing ing Mexican love songs, an Indian steward in white pants and nothing else is rushing refreshments that seem to contain rum palm trees are swaying gently on the shore (in the moonlight they look bluer and phosphorescent fish are glow ing in our wake. There must be something wrong with me. I keep worrying about the leaves I've got to rake back in McLean, Va., the oil I must buy for the furnace, and the anti-freeze I have to pour into the tractor so I’ll be ready to plow the first snowdrifts. No romance in my soul. I guess. So perhaps I'd better tell you a bout the Barque del Oro. which translates as the ship of gold. She’s a two-master, owned by Enrique Braun, son of a Mexican coffee planter, who took her in 1946 on the longest boat ride possible. Five of his friends started with )iim when she sailed from Acapulco, but ho isting those sails day after day and month after month is hard work. One by one at ports around the globe, they dropped off. When En rique got home some eight months later, he had a crew of two. in cluding himself. His ship of gold he gave a coat of fresh white paint, a new suit of creamy sails, and a large store of 1 jseft cushions, which double as life preservers. Then he went into the cruise and or. tropical romance business, de luxe. This has been surprisingly successful. Enrique now is in New York spending some of the profits. I suppose he’s mar veling even now at our cold winds, even as I ant appreciating his soft zephyrs. In Enrique’s absence. Tom Kirk patrick. the New York City tennis star and yachtsman, is serving as el capitan. Mighty nice little bus iness he's got, too. he said, except in the dark of the moon. Then trade falls off precipitately. Nightly El Barque del Oro takes on a load of rum. pale Mexican beer, and sunburned, turistas at 50 pesos a head. She sails from Aca pulco around 10 P. M. (such things as schedules being a little inde finite hereabouts), cruises the brill iantly lit bay, drops anchor at a small island to give all hands a swim at a deserted beach, heads out to sea. and returns to dock when the passengers please. This usually is in the small hours be fore dawn. Mostly the customers are young lovers; you mix them with moon light so bright it's metallic and music so soft it almost seems to come from the waves, and you’ve got a pleasant sight. Then, of course, there are some married folks a board like Hilda and me, with memories. What pleased me most was a number of gray-haired ladies from our own Midwest. They sank to their cushions on deck, timidly sampled their rum concoctions (with the compliments of the capitan', and admired the These Days CUING NU-CHI One is ever learning new things about our relations with China. Slowly the mosaic is being filled in showing the tragic pattern of er rors which has brought on the greatest disaster in our history. We have lost a war; we have lost an historic ally: we have become in volved in the Korean War because oi errors made in our China policy between 1945 and 1949. In "The "Enemy Within.” a book on the Communist conquest of China by Father Raymond J. de Jaegher and Irene Corbally Kuhn, I read for the first time the story of Ching Nu-chi, a Chinese Com munist who had got the job of Chief Secretary of the Chinese Documents Secretariat under Gen era! George Marshall. Little by little, the story unfolds, mostly in books written by those who were on the scene or by those who have access to hidden documents. Ching Nu-chi had been a stu dent in Chicago. In China, he was employed by the American Gov ernment and serviced the Marshall mission in China. As he was in charge of everything translated from the Chinese, he was in a pivo tal position to twist all the docu ments to favor the Chinese Com munists. He could withold data which Marshall should have seen’. Subsequently, he wrote a book, en titled "Secret Report on the United States Chiang Kai-shek Con spiracy." This was published in Hongkong in 1949. It disclosed the Communist character of this Am erican employee. Ching Nu-chi was in a position to know the plans and secrets of both the Marshall and Wedemeyer missions to China; in his book he publishes some top secret docu ments which are still unknown to the American people. For approxi mately four years, this Chinese Communist was so employed. It is a little difficult to understand what our intelligence officers were doing when they permitted such condi tions to exist, or were they help less in the face of General George Marshall’s obvious preference for Chinese Communists? Father de Jaegher tells of a curious experience with General Marshall’s office in Peiping. He had tried to make an appointment to see General Marshall through Captain James Grant. He went to the headquarters in Peifflng, but Captain Grant had gone to Muk den. Instead he encountered a Chinese attendant. Let me give it in Father de Jaegher’s words; "The Chinese looked me over with curling lip and patronizing air. " 'The General is very busy. He won't be able to see you.’ he added, ’he knows whatever it is that you think you can tell him! ’ "This gratuitous observation made me quite angry. How do you know what is in my head?’ I asked him. I don’t pretend to know what is in yours.’ "He made a sarcastic rejoinde* and we had a small argument, but I soon saw that he had no inten tion of checking on my appoint ment Captain Grant may have made for me or making any slightest effort in my behalf. I made no fur ther attempt to see General Mar shall at this time, since he was leaving Peiping almost at once.’’ Apparently the Chinese Com munists had so thoroughly sur rounded General Marshall in Peip ing that it was difficult for others to see him. This was the period when Marshall was organizing truce talks similar to those from which we are now suffering in Korea. Af ter months of talks and maneuver ing, the Chinese Communists had placed themselves in position to hold Manchuria and to invade North China. Actually, General Marshall’s strategy had accomp lished for the Chinese Com munists what they could not ac complish for themselves. Father de Jaegher, who tells' of these incidents as an eye-witness, is a Belgian priest who has been a missionary in China and who was caught in the Communist conquest of China. His description of' this period is exciting and historically important. Father Mark Tennien writes of a later period in this conquest in his book “No Secret Is Safe. - Behind the Bamboo Curtain.” While Father de Jaegher presents the political and social transformation of China, Father Tennien gives the human side of the tribulations and trails of an innocent people tortured by their own sons in the interests of an enemy. And so the story, about which so many official lies were told, comes to us in detailed truth. And there will be more to follow. blinking lights of the fishermen in their dugout canoes dotting a wide expanse of ocean. Soon the ladies had removed their shoes and were joining the musicians in song, which they fondly believed was Spanish. High adventure this was for the elderly ones in the dignified print dresses. Life never was like this in Qaincy, 111., (or McLean, Va.. for that matter), and I do believe the ladies got their 50 pesos’ worth. It was a joy to watch them. THE DAILY KECORD, DUNN, N. C MISTER BREGER “Psst! The Marriage License Bureau reports your cneek came back marked ‘lnsufficient Funds’... ”i ' a Cfte YttSMttTOH sSt MERRY-GO-ROUKD mv» muon WASHINGTON. Pentagon planners have held several nervous huddles regarding security for the President-elect on his trip to Korea. They realize that if anything should happen to General Eisenhower on this . trip it might prove another Sarajevo. Less than three months • ago. Russian Higs, based on Tsingtao in North China, shot down a Navy patrol plane while over the Japan Sea. This is approximately the route ; which Eisenhower’s plane will have to take from Japan to Korea. In the north also, the Russians have Migs based in Sakhalin, well within range of traffic across the Japan Sea. Furthermore, Soviet planes from Sakhalin have been picked up on radar as far as 53 miles inland over northern Japan. Considering all these factors, the Air Force has come up with several means of guarding the President elect on his trip. First the Eisen hower route can and will be care fully patrolled by Saber jets. Second Eisenhower could be flown at night. These precautions will be taken. It is regarding the time, date, and other details of his trip, that this columnist urges other newsmen to maintain a complete news blackout. However, another aspect of the Eisenhower trip is equally worry ing. Ike has promised to ride through the streets of Seoul with President Syngman Rhee. The streets naturally will be packed. And since both North and South Koreans look alike, it would be easy for the Communists to place a fanatic in the crowd willing to make an attempt on Eisenhower's life. With even the most expert po licing. it would be difficult to de tect such a fanatic in advance. That is why the trip of the President - elect is so dangerous. Note lt was a trip by Arch duke Franz-Ferdinand to the Bo snian city of Sarajevo in 1914 where he Was killed that touched off World War I. It was also the assassination of King Alexander of Yugoslavia and Premier Barthou of France when riding in a parade through Marseillies that helped pave the waiy for World War 11. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE Gen. Eisenhower is being urged by Bernie Baruch to appoint Charles E. Wilson, former head of General Electric, as Secretary of Defense. This puts him in a tough spot with his old friend. Senator Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, who hitherto was considered a sure bet for the defense post. Wilson resigned as Defense Mo bilizer during a row with Truman over increased steel wages. In the CUTIES eOFt 1M1.,K1N6 rSATVUS \ “I’ve got thermos bottles, blankets, sandwiches, binocu lars, pennants, score cards—Gosh, the only thing I for got is the tioketc'” recent war he was vice chairman of 1 the War Production Board under Roosevelt. As such he has always leaned toward the military, and during the bitter wartime battle i when the military wanted to take i over civilian controls. Wilson threw his weight against his chief, Don- 1 aid Nelson, and with the brass hats. Some businessmen feel that with , Wilson as Secretary of Defense, the generals would have too much 1 power; that army-navy orders would gravitate completely to big bus iness, with little business left out in the cold. i MERRY-GO-ROUND FDR made it a practice to confer frequently with Bill Green, the late Phil Murray, other labor leaders. This will not happen so. , much in the GOP. First the Repub licans feel no obligation to labor, second Ike doesn’t want any sug gestions as to who should be his new Secretary of Labor before he’s , appointed. This job is slated for Harold Stassen. ex-Governor of Minnesota, now President of the University of Pennsylvania. Ike doesn’t want him blackballed by labor in advance .... It was Stas sen who wrote Ike’s Labor Day speech .. Another reason the new president will do less conferring is that he believes in delegating res posibility, understands labor prob lems himself .... One of Ike's Washington problems is going to be a goif course. He can’t play on an ordinary course—too many sightseers, autograph hunters, job hunters. There's a beautiful public course just below the White House run by the National Parks, but it’s too public. And exclusive Burn ing Tree is far away. Perhaps the solution is for ex-Ambassador Joe Davies «to lend Ike his private golf course only ten minutes from the White House Joe and Ike used to be bosom friends at Potsdam —though they’ve differed vigorously of. late .... There hasn't been a fjclfing president in the White House since Harding. Cooilidge fished. Hoover didn’t exercise. FDR swam. Truman walks. NEW PALACE GUARD Here is the probable White House staff for the new President the men who will really administer Washington. Under some presidents, this staff can be more important than the cabinet. Around Truman, it was the old cronies, the Vaughans and the Connelleys, that bogged him down. Under Eisenhower, the lineup will be about as follows: TOM STEPHENS Secretary of State for the Republican party in New York, will be appointment Walter WineheO York New York Telegram: “Winched, Daily Mirror, 235 E. 45th St.: The rank and file members of the Fa ther Duffy Post of The Catholic War Veterans of the U. S. fire a roused over the implied political endorsement (in the N. Y. Com post) on Thursday. Oct. 30th, all eged to have been subscribed to by Catholic War Veterans National Commander Thomas Cuitie. To date we have no reply to the demand that such endorsement be V th " drawn. The Catholic War Veterans is a non-politieal organization. We repudiate and deplore any such po litical endorsements by national, state or county officers; Tom Kelly and Jim Walsh (both Cong. Medal winners and members of this post) resent this implication vigorously. (Signed): T. Moran, trustee and Past Cmdr.. Father Duffy Post, Catholic War Veterans.” Okay. Cmdr. Let’s put it here and make it public. The Times Square Circle: De nials that the Ted Collins are dividing are counterfeit. Mrs. Col- lins won’t deny it Private sleuth Ray Schindler will be 70 on the 11th. Happy Birthday, kid The Francois Heidsiecks (of the cham pagne family) uncorked a baby doll. Why not call her Piper?" ... Newest style for poodles (especial ly for Toy Winipoo, whose residence is the Berkshire Hotel): Wool plaid jersey sweaters with patent leather roll collars .... “Stars and Stripes Forever” (the biog of Sousa) had Tin Pan Alley raving and whistling after the preev ... Cosmopolitan kissed Perry Como with scads of photos (and pages) in the Nov. issue. Collier’s has a ditto .... Some of the non-commies( on you know what paper) arc not decided which they like best. The Day Sehiff or the Night Sehiff . . Baby Lake wings to the Miami Beach Latin Q„ which resumes its girleque Dec. 15th .... Wasn't Mrs. Harvey Stone married again in Mexico the other day? He’s from her home town, Deetroyt .... It's a shame there’s no longer a Dixie in Hollywood. There was so little Hollywood in Dixie. The WWinners!: Composer Otto Sesana’s 60 piece orchestra (record ed) thrilling music lovers with "Ecstasy”. Bill Snyder’s latest plat ter (a revival) of Al Porgie’s “Twi light Time." (Art WNEW Ford! Play the Music!) L. Kronen berger's "The Thread of Laughter” (partic page 95) .... The Mimi Warren Trio at the Mermaid Room The McGuire Sisters ((new comers to Broadway), future stars Johnny Windhurst’s trumpet magic at Eddie Condon’s jazzpot .... Allen (Candid Camera) Funt’s "Eavesdropper at Large.” Hilarious! The Midnight Watch: We ad vertised (here) that we would dis play Sen. Sparkman’s Washington house-lease (on teevy), showing his and his wife’s signatures on the covenant barring Negroes and Jews and others. (Because Pearson dis played Nixon’s the week earlier.) It was crowded out. (Many news papers have it in their files) The lawyers for the N. Y. Post (suing us) was Judy Hollidays. She was accused of entertaining Red front groups. She gave the familiar replies: “So young, didn’t know what I was doing, I am so dumb, etc." .... At the party for Mickey Spillane ' (guests came attired rn macabre costumes) the gels practi cally wore skin ... Bobby La- Branche’s Halloween celebration included throwing his jas at re fugee G. Lubovitch’s fist .... If Stevenson wins, every bank in the U. S. will be closed within a week and soldiers will march in the streets (with rifles and sidearms) in every state in the Union. Armi stice Day! .... Ken Clark’s piano (at cocktail time) will delight you at Gogi’s starting tomorrow ... Wire from Salinas, Cal: “Just heard Democratic Party complaining a bout your ,Coast-to Coast Vote for Ike. It would appear they would stop freedom of speech until after election. (Signed): J. P. Adcock and H. L. Scott, Jr.” .... Coinci dence Dep't: In the film, “The Thief” (in the 66th and B'way Lin coln Park scene) a commy spy is seen reading the N. Y. Post! Secretary, He is one of Dewey’s right-hand men, efficient and fair minded. JIM HAGERTY Press rela tions secretary. Another Dewey man; has been on the Eisenhower train all during the campaign* competent. GEN. WILTON G. PERSONS Closest man to Eisenhower, will be legislative liaison man; handle con tacts with Congress. ROBERT CUTLER Boston banker, probably adviser on econo mic matters. KEVIN MCCANN President of Defiance College, Ohio, and author of “The Man from Abilene,” will write speeches and answer corres pondence. EMMETT HUGHES Os Life magazine, will be the Sam Rose nman of the Eisenhower adminis tration. There are the men who will be closest to the President, in some cases dominate him. Their views can have terrific impact on the natiop. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. NOVEMBER 12, 195: The Worry Clinic jfJHpip By DR. GEORGE W. CRAKT WORDS ARE THE TOOLS OF THE MIND. SO BE SURE YOUR CHILD HAS A RICH MENTAL "TOOL KIT” BEFORE HE LEAVES HIGH SCHOOL. NOTICE THE SUPERIOR SCHOLASTIC RE CORD OF GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR WHO WAS TOP man at west point, but he HAD READ THE BIBLE THROUGH FOR SIX TIMES BE FORE HIS GRADUATION. AB RAHAM LINCOLN USED THE BIBLE AS HIS TEXTBOOK. TOO. Case E-396: Larry L.. aged 16. is an Eagle Scout, which means he probably has more practical know ledge already than the average college graduate. "During the vacations I don’t have enough to keep my mind oc cupied,” he said, "so I think it would be well if I did more reading. "Dr. Crane, what books would you recommend? I heard a prea cher say that during youth we should read widely in order to fur nish our minds with a rich store house of ideas for the rest of our lives.” MENTAL .CALORIES That clergyman’s recommendation to Larry is very wise, and has been proved on numerous occasions by many eminent Americans. The most famous and most in fluential books in human history is the Bible. Nobody is truly edu cated who hasn’t read it. It is full of mental calories. While it describes events far back into antiquity, its earlies writ ten portions probably were not set down in writing until about 850 B. C. But for the intervening 2.800 years it has been the most widely read book by the foremost think ers of each generation. It is the one volume, which links intelligent men and women of the last 28 centuries. It is more widely quoted than all other volumes combined. HEAD THE BIBLE Apart from its moral precepts and its direct or indirect production of our schools and colleges, hos pitals and Red Cross, Y. M. C. A., C. Y. O. and Salvation Army, the Bible has some other very valuable educational uses. To illustrate its aid to a student as regards vocabulary, grammar, philosophy and literature, let me cite the example of General Douglas S Ay America's Foremost y Personal Affairs Counselor INVITED TO .CHURCH RALLY DAY AS CONTRIBUTORS TO AFTERNOON PROGRAM. COU PLE ARE THEN SNUBBED DEAR MARY HAWORTH: Some weeks ago my wife and I received a letter from an acquaintance in the neighborhood which read as follows: "Our churclj is observing Rally Day on October 17. We are hav;ng a basket dinner at noon and a pro gram at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. We should be most happy to have you with us for the day; but know ing you have your own church affi liations we hope that you can be with us in the afternoon. Also we hope you will recite for us some of your poems which we enjoy. If it is possible to come, please notify us. Sincerely, etc.” In reply we wrote that inasmuch as our church had no special ser vices for the day, we would be with them for the morning worship and basket dinner. Accordingly, we went and after the preaching hour, quite a few 'members of the con gregation shook hands with us and chatted briefly but nobody invited us to the basement dining room. The letter writer did greet us when we first arrived but didn’t come near us after the service. We tarried in the church until all but three had gone to the dining room, expecting someone would invite us to dinner, but nobody did. Very embarrassed and chagrined, and not knowing what else to do, we drove home some 22 miles and didn’t return for the afternoon pro gram. We have heard nothing more from the others. We were very hurt at being ignored after the close of the service. Are we at fault in any way? We would like your comment and advice. ’ R. B. IT SEEMS DINNER WAS DUTCH TREAT * DEAR R. B.: Seen from this dis tance, the crux of the general mis understanding is readily apparent. You got the impression from the Found Dead In Gcr. RICHMOND HILL, Ga. (IPI —Army criminal investigators today sought to discover what killed a para trooper whose body was found in a wood some 15 miles from here after an eight-day search. Pfc. John H. Minor, on leave from Ft. Bragg, N. C.. was found dead in the thicketed area, ap parently as a result of) a shotgun wound. He had been missing since he. disappeared from a hunting party. MacArthur. w . Before he had completed West Point, he had read the through from cover to covei six times. Just remember, too that he set the top scholastic maik at West Point! It still stands. \ I can personally attest to the Bible’s educational value in this regard for I had read it through from cover to cover a halt dozen times before I had even graduated from High School, including two times before I completed the Bth grade. , . • _ As a result, I coasted along through many college courses in English with little effort because I had a better foundation in En glish than non-Bible students could', glean from 4 full years of majoi ing in English. Abraham Lincoln evolved his beautiful literary style from the King James version of the Bible. PENNY WISE; POUND FOOLISH Thousands of modern Americans are straining to appear educated. So they buy new books and maga zines literally by the score. They belong to the Book-of-the- Month Club and similar organizations. But in 5 years, of those books are gone and for gotten. Even their titles are an cient history in a decade. Meanwhile these same Americans often ignore the best educational tool and the most stimulating vol ume in the history of the human race. Their children grow up with Comic Book vocabularies and a cowboy range of ideas, so is it any wonder our American youth are being indicted for lack of ability and slowness in comprehen ding printed instructions? I don’t disapprove of Comic Books, but we need something mole "meaty”' to round out a child’s education and vocabulary. Words and ideas are the tools of the mind, so give your child an unexcelled mental tool kit by ur ging him to read the Bible. Reward him if need be, or pay him $1 per each of the 66 books in the Bible, for it will be cheap "tu-. ition” for his English composition. (Always write to Dr. Crane in care of this newspaper, enclosing a long 3c stamped, addressed en velope and a dime to cover typing and printing costs when you send for one of his psychological charts). neighbor’s letter that you were" in vited to dinner as guests of the congregation on Rally Sunday provided you could come to the morning service and stay on for; the afternoon program. However, the term “basket din ner” has an idomatic meaning for many Americans, particularly those cradled in the Midwest. It is syn onymous with "dutch treat” pic nic. It means bring your ovn pro visions fried chicken, hard cook ed eggs, pickles, bread and butter sandwiches, fruits, pastries, what have-you. Depending upon local, custom, the contents of all bas kets may be spread together on ar common table, with everyone urged'' to step up and sample freely. Or iimily groups may eat from their own baskets like diners assemb led at different tables. The letter you received was am biguously phrased although per hap; not intentionally so. Actually it doesn’t make clear whether (a) your presence was asked for the day: or whether (b) you were being politely told that your cue was to come only in the afternoon. In any£ case, the fact that you showed up for worship and dinner after (mailing a.v acceptance to that effect certainly confronted the spokesman with an obligation of • hospitality, especially as you were to be on the afternoon program.^ BEST FORGIVE THE GAUCHERIE In the circumstances, the person who asked your presence as en tertainer was remiss in letting you/-, stand around unsponsored and to * finally creep away in flaming em barrassment. In failing to sense your mistake and erase it with warm cordiality, she showed her self wanting in good judgment and good manners. Instead of avoiding you after the service, she should have conferred quickly with fellow workers and brought you into a’ “basket circle,” never letting you guess anything was amiss. As to why she let you down, prob- jm ably she is so unsure of herself ** socially that she can’t gracefully compensate for another’s blunder, for fear of being identified with the blunderer, in the public mind. Such gaucherie isn’t uncommon a mongst those unversed in the forms and patterns of polite usage. Since nobody came to your rescue, your only “out” was to go home. But my advice is, forgive the incident. Don’t harbor ill feeling about it. „ M. H./jj Mary Haworth counsels through v her column, not by mail or per- , sonal interview, Write her in care of (The Daily Record).