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PAGE TWO (Ehu j? ailij JWntrd DUNN, N. G. Published By RECORD PUBLISHING COMP ANT At 311 East Canary Street r NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE THOMAS F. CLARK CO., INC. 105-2X7 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 year in advance; $0 for six months; $3 for three months IN TOWNB NOT SERVED BY CARRIER AND ON RURAL ' RQUTES INSIDE NORTH CAROLINA: $6.00 per year; $3.30 for six months; $2 for three months OUT-OF-STATE: $8.50 per year in advance; $5 for six months. $1 for three months Entered as 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 Military Service: A Down Payment On Security Burlington twins, who had a chance for fame and for tune on television, will have to postpone the happy day. One of them has been drafted into the Army and the other one is ready to go. Our sympathy gees out to the twins. We hope that in some future and better time they will be able to realize their ambitions to be great entertainment stars. At the same time we must realize that other people have ambitions which are constantly being frustrated by the demands of national security. Perhaps these ambitions are not as pretentious as those of the talented Burlington boys. They are just humdrum things as educations, ca reers, marriages, home life. But young Americans have been laying their ambit ions on the altar of their country’s welfare for almost four hundred years. They made sacrifices to protect the wooden palisades of their early settlements against the aboriginal savages and the wild beasts which prowled the frontier forests. They made sacrifices in Alamance, at Bunker Hill, at the Alamo. They marched away from quite, peaceful and prosper ous farms to fight at Bethel and Gettysburg and Appo mattox. They left their workshops to go into battle at Chateau Thierry. They quit their colleges to fly planes over the Coral Sea and shoot machine guns on the muddy banks of the Lunga river. Armed service for one’s country is a calculated risk of the youth of today. It is part of the down payment for security and survival in a troubled world. We have set up a system for selecting young men for military system which in theory is an impartial system. Wealth is not supposed to be able to buv exemption from that service, or fame to win deferement. Americans in charge cf the administration of this sy stem have a deep and patriotic challenge to keep the sys tem impartial, to make no discrimination between the fumbling Class D substitute catcher and the world champ ion Big League home run hitter. They must make no discrimination between the guitar player in the barnstorming hillbilly band and the Emcee in the biggest television show' on earth. They must treat the stockroom clerk with the same consideration they give the heir to the greatest fortune. One’s life is just as precious to him as the other’s. The notification to the next-of-kin hits the unpainted cottage in the valley just as hard as it hits the marbled mansion on the hill. From The Fayetteville Observer Firinri Os Rnmk in the " ake of a floocl ot e >' e_ 1 ■' ~,S Ow'MU witness accounts from Eniwetok Is Now Official SS'SJo.St “” s WASHINGTON IIP Thehvdro- These sources also said that de gen super-bomb, capable of development of the . super-bomb was straying whole cities in a flash a brilliant scientific and iechni with blast and fire, has now joined cal achievernent which rives the America's arsenal of atomic wea- West a tretnendo - new weapon, pons. not yet possessed by Russia, for That, informed sources said to- enforcement of peace. They pre dav. is the clear meaning of a dieted that the first test model of brief official announcement issued the H-bomb will be followed short by the Atomic Energy Commission ly by even more violent vesions. Frederick OTHMAN WASHINGTON. I don't know whether Karen Morley, the beau tiful alleged lady Communist, was telling a whopper, or whether the Congressilonal sleuths were down right stupid. For nearly two years the gum shoes of the House Un-American Activities Committee tried to serve a subpoena on La Morley, the movie star turned pinko. They claimed she was on the lam. Once they said she was hiding out in Mexico. Again she was reported in Europe. A few days back they managed to hand the papers to her in New York and here she was. as hand some as she ever was on the silver screen, indicating that those coos must have been looking for her in saloons. Miss M. said she did not, either, disappear from her Hollywood can yon home in early 1951. She merely dropped over to La Quinta, a desfsl resort near Indio. Calif., to absorb some sunshine. Then, she added, she went to New York.,where she remained continuously. while the bawkshaws beat the bushes else- So. all right. Was she. the Con gressmen wanted to know, a Com munist? In a well-modulated voice and with a smile, as if she were engaging in chitchat oiler the tea cups in a high society movie, she said she refused to answer on the grounds that she might incrimin ate herself. The statesmen showed her a pile of Communist-front letter heads with her name printed on them and articles in Red news sheets under her by-line. Was this her name? She stared at it each time and refused to answer. Td guess ilia Morley today is about 40: her haid is as blond and curley as it ever was when she was a top-flight actress and her features as handsomely chiseled. And what I can't understand is what ever got into: her pretty head. In the long ago in Hollywood I used to know her. I'd. see her on the sets around town and I'd write pieces for the paper about, her. She struck me then as one of the most vivacious and intelligent women I knew in the movie business. Then she got into the far-left side of the labor movement, began palling around with the Reds til the West, and gradually sank to making films on poverty row l . When finally she was charged with being an out-and-out Communist. Holly wood black-listed her and she now identifies herself as an actress looking for a job. This is something she hasn't had in,a long time. What makes her tale the odder still is the fact that she’s perhaps the only alleged big-time Com munist that lowa ever produced. She was a cutie with corn-colored curls when she headed west from Ottumwa in 1931. That same year the Hollywood press agents spon . sored her as one of their Wampas ■ baby stars and her career soared , immediately in a trail of golden dust. She appeared in one big-time film . after another and earned critical accolades every time: my own guess is that her weekly wage averaged around $3,000. She married Charles Vidor, a leading director, and : . eventually became the mother of ; his son. ; I don’t believe I knew' any other woman who had prospered more spectacularly under our capitalist system than Miss M I must report These Days STRICKLY PERSONAL It >s not often that events un fold Which throw light on a per plexing personal problem years af ter it no longer matters. For a prolonged period after 1937, things happened to me. Before then, I had written a l.vrgp number of articles for “The Atlantic Monthly,” and occasional articles for other magazines. Suddenly no magazine in the United States would pur chase anything I wrote. I could not get work on the radio. I had been accused by the Nye Committee of trafficking in arms ■ for Japan which was obviously un true as I had never bought or sold arms, individually or on a large scale, for myself or anyone else, much less Japan. I was smeared without benefit of a hearing by the 1 La Foliette Committee. Curiously. I noted at the time that some of , my best friends believed that where there was so much smoke, there must also be fire, but they never asked who built the fire. I knew ivho built that fire. I ac . tuaily overheard some of them talk ing about what they were going to do to Sokolsky. I have a copy of ’ the letter that Mrs. Clifford Durr, sister-in-law of Justice Hugo Black, wrote to the editor of "The Atlantic Monthly." I knew then what Alger Hiss, John Abt, and Charles Kramer i Krivitsky i plan ned to do to me. Then last week, I picked up a book. “Crime Without Punishment," by Guenther Reinhardt, whom I do not know. He had worked for the FBI and the U. S. Counter Intelligence Corps. I glanced through the index when lo and behold! My name appeared. Reinhardt at that point is deal ing with a Soviet agent, Louis Gibarti, who was sent to this country to do a job for Stalin. I come into it as follows : "Under his guidance, in 1937 and 1938. the weapon of the deadly word, the smear campaign, was ordered into the arsenal of Com munism in America. It was a special assignment of Gibarti's. He carried it off well. He explained some of it to me in March 1938. We were discussing the dispatches to the 'New York Times' being then sent by the Times' correspondent on the Franco side of the Spanish fighting. George Sokolsky, the King Features columnist who has brought a knowing and .literate anti-Communist attitude to the columns of hundreds of American newspapers, was also a subject for discussion that day. “Gibarti opined that both men’ were being taken care of.' Hadn’t I noticed, he asked., how so many other writers had gone out of their 'way to take cracks at such Dersons? He -railed pridefully. Soklsky in particular, he confided, was an oia target. He boasted how American friends’ had taken care of Sokol sky by using their influence with such Senate committees as the Nye munitions probe group and the La Foliette labor rights committee. These groups, he chortled, had been led Out of their wav to take cracks at Sokolsky’s activities. It was easy for me to see how the leading had been done. Under the carefully guarded pen name of Gordon Rena, I had exposed how the La Foliette Committee had been penetrated by such subversive agents as John Abt and Charles Krivitsky. known then only as Charles Kramer, i Eleven years later both Elizabeth Bentley and Whittaker Chambers were to. confirm my story by their own recollections and Chambers, in his monumental tilt with Alger Hiss, was to force into the open the fact, among many more amaz ing that the Soviet's man Alger Hiss had been playing on the Red team while serving in a key posi tion on the Nye Committee, Gib arti was not. idly boasting when he explained how the party could use the Senate committees to hurt an tr-Communists).” Actually. Gerald Nye, Senator from North Dakota, had no idea what all this was about. He was a Republican, a conservative, an Am erica Firster. a pacifist. When he organized his Committee in the Senate to investigate the causes of war. he did not suspect that the Harold Ware cell was using him as a front. I often wonder why none of the so-called liberals who now object to what the House Committee on Un-American Activities or the Mc- Carran Committee do, did not ob ject then to w'hat the Nye Com mittee or the- La Foliette Com mittee. both manned by Com munists, were doing. They praised these committees. that when I knew her. she never ; opce hinted that .weird political i ideas were boiling behind that lovely face. We need not bother more with i her refusal to testify before the 1 Congressmen. Afterward in the ; marble corridor outside, she said l she was a fighter against Fascism and dictatorships. In Moscow, she said, there is no dictatorship. •And I suppose we can only feel sorry for a beautiful woman whose ideas got so twisted that today she can't even earn a living in her t chosen profession. It is a sad thing and, to me, a mysterious one. TWE DAILY RECORD, DUNN, R. C. f MISTER BREGER “It’s NOT the beef stew I mind —it's our fire insurance I forgot to renew! ’ ’ - a qKTwSiH6JOH sSsif MERRY-GO-ROIWD Itiw 9tAtiOn " * —- Washington General Eisen hower has received two invitations to visit Latin America and is con sidering the possibility of making a good-neighbor trip there before his inauguration Jan. 20. The two inv.itatki.is are from Mexico and Chile, both among the few remaining democracies in the Western Hemisphere. Though Chile is now under the presidency of General Ibanez, he was elected in a free election and has shown no tendencies toward dictatorship, though he staged an anti-U. S. A. campaign to get elected. The Eisen hower trip would help to melt Ibanez’ frigidity. If Eisenhower makes the pilgri mage. he would follow in the foot steps of Herbert Hoover who mad” a good-will tour of Latin America between the period of his election and inauguration. Some of Ike's advisers urge that since Latin Americans generally hoped Stevenson would b? elected, he should go: thus dispelling Lat in-American predictions of a re turn to isolationist imperialism un der the Republicans. FRICTION AMONG DEMOCRATS Sen. Lyndon Johnson of Texas will be the new leader of Senate Democrats all right, but some Dem ocratic Senato-s aren't at all hap py about it. They figure that “Lv- AV-Down.” as he is nicknamed, will follow a pro-Ropublican line and there won’t be much Democratic opposition to GOP policies. What Senator Johnson did to ensure his selection was to start a telephone barrage the day after election to line up votes for him self. When freshmen Senators .such as “Scoop" Jackson of Washington and Mike Mansfield of Montana were pressured by Lyndon there wasn't much they could say except that 'they would support him. Later. Mansfield was asked by an older Southern senator why he had been stampeded into endorsing Johnson. The new senator from Montana didn't have much of an answer. “Don’t you think it's healthy to have Texans leading the party in both houses of congress—Sam Ray burn in the House and Johnson in the Senate?" Mansfield was" asked. "I thought Lyndon was Sam Ray burn’s boy,” Mansfield replied. “And if there's, anything I can ever do to repay Rayburn forth ? favors he's done me I’d like to do it." Senators Paul Douglas of Illi nois. Hubert Humphrey of Minne sota. and Guy Gillette of lowa tried to organize opposition to Johnson with Gillette urging Senator List er Hill of Alabama to become min ority leader. Senator Pastore o: Rhode Island also urged Senator Clements of Kentucky to serve. When Senator Fulbright of Ar kansas sounded out Lister Hill. CUTIES “I don’t know WHERE your girl friend is. We only watch hats and coats in this place.” „ however, the Alabama solon replied: "No. sir. I had enough of being Senate leader. It Lyndon wants that job let him have it, “I don't know but what lie's making an awful mistake, toough.’ philosophized Hill. “He's up for re election two years from now and look what’s happened to McFar land in Arizona and what happened to Scott Lucas in Illinois. “Every Democratic leader ot the Senate of late has been defeated. And it's bound to happen again. For the man who's Senate leader just hasn’t got the time to give to his own State. So folks back home turn him out when his term is no. “No. sir.” concluded Hill. "II Lyndon wants that job. let him have it,” TRUMAN AND ADLAI It isn’t supposed to be known, but Governor Stevenson will come to Washington on or about Dec. 1 to spend an evening with President T c.man and chart the future course of the Democratic Party. Truman will nretty much turn over the party to Stevenson at that time. One think they will discuss is the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee, now in the hands cf Stevenson's former law associate. Stephen Mitchell. There are a lot of divergent views among Democrats as to what lost them the election, but one thing they hll agree on is that Mitchell didn’t help. Mitehp’l did not call one meeting of the Democratic National Com mittee during the caumawn. though urged to do so repeatedly. He would not even call regional meetings. He antagonized so many local leaders that many refused even to call him on the phone. Stevenson may insist on keening Mitchell, but Truman and every one arm nd him will urge that he be eased out. GOP PATRONAGE BOW Taftit”S aren't at all happy ever the appointment of Herbert Brow nell. former campaign manager for Governor Dewey, as Chief patron age adviser for General Eisenhow er. , . In their opinion this means that jobs, for which the GOP has been waiting 20 long, lean years, will now go to the Dewey Wing of the Republican party. BrowntH is under instructions to clear appointments with GOP Na tipnal Chairman Arthur Summer field, who is a Taft man. and to ork with the Republican National Committee. Furthermore, lie is on ly to handle jobs below cabinet rank. Nevertheless, leaders of the Taft wing are not at all happy. They foresaw something like this im mediately after the Chicago Con vention at which Dewey and Brow nell were largely responsible for Walter WlneheU York VMCMB MAN ABOUT TOWN John Jacob Astor and Lois De- Fee ?? ? Dined in public thrice last week .. . . Intimates are boom ing Morton Downey for Mayor ... Margot Fonteyn, the Sadler’s Wells prima galerina, seriously ill in a Southampton hosp .... When the Crime probers finish here Yonkers will be the next stop thief ... Rumors again that Lindbergh may inherit a diplomatic post . The Pearl Eailey-Lpuis Bellson story raging on the London-N. Y. front pages was WineheU'd Friday .... According to Phyllis Hill husband Jose Ferrer hasn't mentioned di vorce . The D. A.'s office has an elaborate list of all the “Johns” who dated the gals in the Jclke In vicetigation. But it won't be made public .. Margot Morris's date didn't show up at Coq Rouge be cause he's in Bellevue after 22 slecpingpills .... Miriam Thropp (the railroad heiress) is wearing a new diamond bracelet and shoe mfr Alt' Payne . . Headline: “Ike meets Truman Tomorrow" ... Poor Harry, just one sad Tuesday after the other. The Washington Wire: Dr. Van nevar Bush, wartime director- of The Office of Scientific Research & Development Hop brains of American science), auth'd a blas'J at the Joint Chiefs of Staff. For the Dec. Collier's •. Acheson would enjoy chucking it all next month .... Ike’s first problem will come with the strike of the non operating RR Brotherhoods against the Western & Southern Lines .... A leading teevy comedy writer (Canadian by birth) may be ex pelled for refusing to answer queries before the House Comm, on Un - American Activities .... The CAB is probing 65 non-seheduled air lines. Too many squawks about “no refunds” on cancelled flights, etc.... Headline: "Farewell Parties Start ing at White House” Boozeness as Usual. WW predicted this before the election: "Stevenson will win by the margin of the Negro vote in three or four states” .... The WW of course, is Walter White (high exec of Nat‘l Ass’n for Advance ment of Colored People), Josephine Baker's gullible ally . F. Carle's album, “For Me and My Gal,” pas sed the 500,009 sales mark... Memo to Commissioners Monaghan and Grumet: The Irish Societies sug gest the benefit at the Garden (for survivors, of cops and fire men killed on duty) be held th<* night of March 16th. Because on St. Patrick's night they all hold dances, parties, etc. (Okay here!) Mrs. Elmer Bobst (beloved of Hie Richard Iludnut chief) is too ill .... Add hone.vmooners at the Astor: Sgt. J. E. Williamson (of Nashville) and Loretta Principe of Chappcau, Ontario (and Knox ville. Tenn.) .... Coca-Cola de bunks the untrumors that it tried suppressing the bock about it. Th«* like it! The ' Int’l Set: The younger son of the West Germany chancellor and Washington socialite Doris Dumont are sotto voce Lady Astor is ill .... Ex-King Carol had an op—similar to the one the late British King had .... The Robert Taylor-Lili Dußois romance has the cables sizzling. She’s a French socialite . .. Rita plans educating the kids in a convent Sheraton Hotel exec (in Detroit) Neal Lang’s wife (Suivi) is America’s newest citizen. They Aved during the war— after the lovely WAAF took one look at Martha Rave’s ex-groom and told a gal-pal: "I’m going to marry him!” .. Lustiest lass in town: In the “Limelight” movie when- Chaplin telis leading lady Claire Bloom (on Time's cover) that she’s “too young" for him. nominating Eisenhower. And it was fear that the Deweyites might take over patronage- that caused Taft to write a special patronage provi sion into the “Declaration of Morn ingside Heights” after his break fast with Eisenhower. Brownell went down to Agusta quite unobtrusively and the first thing the Taft people knew he had come back to New York with the job-screening arrangements in his hands. He is to set up charts on job vacancies, check on loyalty, ability; etc., cf nandidates. And while he is instructed to check w'ith Summerfield, the power to recom mend which is all-important— will be largely his. NOTE Regardless of Dewey’s unpopularity inside his own party, he has picked some top men to run his administration in New York State. Sills Qualifies As Sharpshooter WITH THE 2ND ARMOURED DIV. IN GERMANY Army Sgt. Herman W. Sills of Erwin, N. C., recently qualified as a rifle sharp shooter while serving with the 2d Armored Division in Germany. Part of western Europe’s NATO Army, his unit is conducting train ing maneuvers in the U. S. Oc- WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBERI9, 1952^ The Worry Clinic HM|| by DK. GEORGE W. CRAKE The most essential organ in the body is the heart. Give it fre quent vacations. I.earn how to relax. Don’t listen to frenzied radio broadcasts and thus keep yourself constantantly agitated. Notice how my heart worked harder under emotional excite ment than in strenuous physical exercise. Case F-821: Nina R., aged 1!), is a college sophomore who . wishes to be a physician. “Dr. Crane, you have often men tioned that possibly half of medi cal practice is psychological. “Can you give us some examples of how the body and mind inter act ?■” MIND VS. BODY Recently, i was listening to a radio broadcast of a prize tight. My feet were propped up on a hassock and I sat in an easy chair. In that position, when under no mental or emotional strain, my pulse rate is usually 63 beats per minute. But 1 felt excited as the prize fignt progressed, so out of curio sity I took my pulse. It was 120. During the early summer I played some tennis. Being some what overweight and out of prac tice, 1 was puffing after 30 min utes of running around the tennis court. So I took my pulse and found that it was 90. Notice the contrast between the strain upon my heart from emotional stimulation in con trast to that of hard physical ac tivity. DON’T DIE EARLY While I was sitting in front of the radio, my heart raced at a speed of 120 beats. But strenuous physical exercise brought it up only to 90. The blood pressure usually ris es, too, when the pulse rate climbs, so my heart was not only beating faster but also against a greater resistance. This example shows why busi ness and professional men burn themselves out, so to speak, at an earlier age than the average longe vity for Americans. In “fronting” before the public and engaging in the keen competi tion of modern life, these men “race their motors” and thus wear out their hearts. So they begin dy ing of heart attacks in the early forties. Persona! Affairs Counselor DEVOTED WIFE ASKS HOW TO CURB HUSBAND'S HABI TUAL HECKLING OF THEIR DAUGHTER, 12. DEAR MARY HAWORTH: My husband, whom I love dearly, was eighth in a family of 13 children. His parents were lovely and good to the children, but there was never any show of affection; and the children did pretty much as they' pleased, with no bad effects. I was one of two girls, brought up by a very kind, affectionate moth er and a cruel, stern stepfather. Tom and I have been married 15 years and have two children, a daughter, 12, and a son, 10. Tom has never been very understanding with the children’s little problems nor even interested; but I try to overlook this. I am much more con cerned about his heckling of our litle girl. It has been going on since she was two. He is kinder to the boy in every' way but calls the girl “honey” only to ihake her mad. I honestly feel his constant pick ing at Lucy about little things is ruining her disposition, which changes the minute he gets home. At table there is always bickering between them, and I know I should not interfere; but at times, when he is very unreasonable, I do. Like one night when she had eaten a big dinner, including more than half of her salad, which she loves. Then she said she could eat no more and Tom spoke up, “You’ll eat it all, if I have to shove it down.” I interrupted and excused her from the table, which I knew was wrong—and he was angry at me, of course. But I couldn't stand to see her choke it down. We never have trouble over any thing else. He is very considerate of me in every way but I can’t understand his treatment of Lucy. The children never ask him for fa vors because they always know the answer would be “No.” My son is very fond of his dad, but I am afraid our daughter is grow ing farther and farther away from him. Please help me find a solu tion. R. S. , SADIST-MASOCHIST PATTERN APPARENT DEAR R. S.: In a sense, Lucy is indirectly the victim of your cruel stepfather, Who made you so meek ly uncertain in dealing with men cupation Zone of Germany. Called the “Hell on Wheels” Division, it was the first American outfit to enter Berlin as World Warr II ■ neared its end. They don't exercise physically as much as manual workers but they prod their hearts in a possible ra tio of 120:9(1 because of their great er emotional and mental strain. Besides, their worries carry over into the . evenings, for much of their social life involves business contacts. . . A laborer stops with the quitting whistle but an employer or busi ness man carries his worries and professional work into his even ings. . t here is zest in competition and most business or professional men enjoy the battle, but they, should learn how to avoid some of this extra strain on the heart. HEART VACATIONS No vacation is completely effec tive, unless your heart is relieved of some of its strain! But a shift front business duties or office worries, to simple physi cal work, will often lower your blood pressure and slow down your pulse. Many high pressure business leaders, with blood pressures of 200, will go to Florida or Califor nia and soon find that their blood pressure falls to 170. The essential thing in a vacation is to break your mental and emo tional tension. Getting away from your office or business, will help you forget the many stimuli which habitually prod your heart into its faster speed. Fear is also one of the greatest 'causes of strain on the heart. If you carry adequate insurance to protect yourself in old age and if you have an abiding faitli in God, you can relax and thus take a great load off your heart. Clergymen, therefore, can often do more good for your hearts than we physicians. Few heart attacks ever occur in a church. And don’t work on the Sabbath! That’s how I break my weekly tension. Regardless of my heavy schedule, 1 quit work on Sunday. That relaxation may be a chief reason why God wanted us to cease our labors one day per week. (Always write to Dr. Crane in care of this newspaper, en closing a long 3e stamped, ad dressed envelope and a dime to cover typing and printing costs when you send for one of his psychological charts.) —unconsciously so fearful that you tolerate a streak of sadism in Tom, not knowing it. Far from rec ognizing what goes on, you have an apologetic feeling that it’s “wrong” of you to take issue with his habitual compulsive torture of Lucy—for this is what his nagging amounts to. It is absurd to say—as you na ively do—that Tom is considerate of you in every way, when all the while, for 10 years, he has been making Lucy’s life miserable, and yours, too, wringing your heart with balked pity for her potentially ruinous plight. He must know that he is hurting you in distressing her maliciously. I am sure your at titude makes that clear even when you are mute and passive on the sidelines. It is possible that the obscure neurotic aim of Toni’s fault find ing is to keep you on the rack, aflutter with pain, hence more ap pealing to his sadistic fancy. May be he just blundered onto the dis covery that by heckling Lucy he could drain your face oi peace and gaiety, without letting you (or in deed himself) know that he is clawing at you, really. Your early subjection to pointless parental cruelty would dispose you to ac cept the masochist role in relation to Tom—with a feeling of “ex piating” nameless guilt, implanted by infant anxieties. CHALLENGE FATHER WHEN HE’S WRONG The most help I can offer is per spective on justice in the situa tion. I feel all reasonable minds will agree that you are doing the right thing in speaking firmly in Lucy’s defense when her father is being insistently unkind to her. If he behaves so unfairly at times that you are conscience driven to dispute his dictums in the children’s presence, that’s his fault. He is the traitor to conjugal accord. And instead of fussing at you, he should apologize promptly to the group, expressing regret for his hasty, inconsiderate attitude. Readiness to apologize, when bossy misjudgments are realized, or unreasonable outbursts chal lenged, is a form of bigness in sen sible parents that children respect and emulate. And I hope that Tom, reading these remarks, will invite specialist guidance, if necessary, in getting himself straightened out . —to prevent permanent damage to his daughter’s life. M. H. Mary Haworth counsels through her column, not by mail or per sonal interview. Write her in care of The Daily Record.
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