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PAGE TWO (Ehu Jlcmrd DUNN, N. G. Published By RECORD PUBLISHING COMPANY At 311 East Canary Street NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE THOMAS F. CLARK CO., INC. M 6-217 E. 42nd St.. New York 17. N. Y Branch Office* In Every Major City ~~ SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY CARRIES. *• cents per week; $8.50 per year In advance; S* (or six months; $3 (or three months IN TOWNS NOT SERVED BY CARRIER AND ON RURAL ROUTES INSIDE NORTH CAROLINA: *6.o* per year; U.M (or six months; $2 (or three months OUT OF-87 ATK: $8.50 per year in advance; $5 (or six months. $1 (or three months Entered as second-class matter in the Post Office in Dunn, N. C., under the laws of Congress, Act of Ma-ch 3, 1879 Every afternoon, Monday through Friday "Freedom From Government " The Saturday Evening Post recently ran an editor ial called “The America We Lost," by Dr. Mario A. Pei, who emigrated to this country from Italy in 1908 and is now an Associate Professor ot Romance Philology at Co lumbia University. Dr. Pei’s theme is one that should be pondered by every American who loves this country, its traditions, and what it has stood for. He writes, “When I first came to A merica, 44 years ago, I learned a new meaning ot the word ‘Liberty’—freedom from government.” He had come from a country which was dominated bv an octopus-like bu reaucracy. Ihe simplest activity resulted in government interventim In his words, “America in those days made you open you*-, “mgs wide and inhale great gulps of free dam-laden au. ior here was one additional freedom—free dom from government.” This, Dr. Pei finds with sorrow, is the America we have lost. To quote him once more, “Foreign-born citizens have been watching with alarm the gradual Europeani zation of America over the past 20 years. They have seen the growth of the familiar European-style Government octopus, along with the vanishing of the American spirit of freedom and opportunity and its replacement by breath less search for ‘security’ that is doomed to defeat in ad vance in a world where nothing, not even life itself, is secure. “Far more than the native-born, they are in a posit ion to make comparisons. They see that America is fast becoming a nineteenth-century-model European country They are asked to believe that this is progress. But they know from bitter experience that it just isn't so." Those who, like Dr. Pei, came to us from across the seas in search of opportunity and freedom and the right and the chance to be their own masters, are far wiser than many of us whose roots go back to the very beginning of America. We were given the most glorious heritage that any people can have—the heritage of freedom. We have been losing it—through inertia, blindness, the spineless seeking for an- impossible security, the following of false prophets. We can only save it by turning our backs square ly on political philosophies which have made much of the world into a vast slave camp. Duke Is Given Big Endowment DURHAM Mh Duke University president Hollis Edens made a sur prise announcement of a new sl,- 500.000 fund for distinguished pro fessorships here today at Founder’s Day exercises. Edens told members of the fa culty. student body and alumni ga thered to celebrate the 28th anni versary of the founding of Duke University “it is my happy privi lege to tell you that the Duke en downment has made available to the University a fund of $1,500.00000 to be known as the James B Duke Professorship Fund.” EXPLAINS PURPOSE The new fund was treated so that “the university may be in a position to continue to attract and develop in its faculty and staff a group of distinguish°d and out standing professors,” Edens said. The university president said "this magnificent gift" indicates "that these in charge of the affairs of the Duke endowment are fully aware Frederick OTHMAN WASHINGTON. Halp! I hate 1 to seem inhospitable, but our spare < bedroom is all dated up tor Janu- t ary 20. So. apparently, are all the- I hotel rooms in town. Friends, rel atives and countrymen, send me ; no more pleas for a roof over your 1 heads on that historic night. ] The management even now is j worrying about- the possibilty of i parking a few score Pullman cars i on railroad tr?” ' in the outskirts i as temporary tourist camps. I hate ] to sound like a sciehead. but I'll be i just as well hen Ike shakes his last hand . ennsylvania Ave- i nue and takes his Mamie inside for < their first night- in the neatly fur nished house they’ve taken under a four-year lease. Preparations for whoopla cf the general’s inauguration alreadv are - interfering with my routine. There’s no place to put the old sedan on Capitol Hill because most of the parking space now is covered with new pine lumber.. • This is for the swearing-in cere monies. where admission ri free, but by invitation only. Congress will pass an appropriation for this, de ducting salvage value cf the planks of $155,000. This figure seems a little h'oh for about five minutes of Gen. Ike putting his hand on the Chief Jus tice’s Bible and saying. “I do.” but it’s an old custom and I suppose we can afford it. When that’s done, he becomes President Eisenhower and rides slowly down the Ave- , nue cf Presidents to the Whit’ Ho-se. Behind will travel big and little W igs in limousines, on ho s»s. aboard floats and on feet. ThereT |jp dancing in the strect* and of the university's problems." “It is my hope that this will be only the first of many large re quests which will come to th? uni versity lor this purpose from foun dations, corporations and men of —■philanthropy," he said. Letter To Santa Claus Rt. 2 Box 265 Fayetteville. N. C. Dear Santa Claus. , I am a boy four years old. I ) live on a farm about 13 miles from , Fayetteville. I want a tool chest, truck, filling station, blackboard, small tractor with equipment. , blocks, clothes. I have no brothers , or sisters. Santa. I need lots of 1 toys to help keep me busy, i Santa remember all the other . boys and girls in the world and overseas. Will be looking to get ; these toys if you can possibly t bring them. > Yours truly. David Richard Smith brass bands and anybody who has a ticket will see a show lasting for three solid hours. Please ask roe for no more scats. These have been on sale now for a week, ranging in price from $3 to sls. depending on how close each funeral parlor chair is to the Pres idential reviewing stand. I guess the Republicans are weli-heeied;. either that, or they're willing to make financial sacrifices for the privilege of sitting near the seats of the mighty. The sls seats alreadv. are soli cut before they're even built. A few $3 ducats, putting you down near unfashionable Fifth Street, still re main. The carpenters meantime are erecting the stands on both sides of the avenue. This is interfering with traffic. Since I can't park at the Capitol. I’ve been,catching a bus home, from the stop in front of the Executive Mansion. The, rising bleachers are making it increasingly difficult even to flag down this vehicle. For folks who miss the swearing in ceremonies, and can’t buy a seat, at the parade, there’s still a chance to get in on the festivities, There’s going to be an inaugural ball, but you can’t get in (even if you’ve got the scratch) until you receive an official invitation. Then it’ll cost you sl2 per ducat, unless you want a box. That’ll be $37.50. For those whose feet and or poo ketbooks can’t stand the st ain. the official committee has a little iro mentc in the form of a souvenir medal of bronze to see for $3.06. in cluding sales tax. It should be some amboree. The prices are Irish far a fact, These Days COLLECTIVE BARGAINING i TJie theory of collective bargain ing is that the employer and rep resentatives of the employees sit down to bargain over wages, hours, and other: terms of employment until a meeting of the minds is reached The "employer." in this sense, is the actual management of an enterprise: the “representa-. fives of the workers" are labor union officials usually related to the particular enterprise or local labor union heads. To many labor leaders, collective bargaining on this basis, has been regarded as unsatisfactory because the local lobar leaders are con sidered as capable of dealing with great matters: further, the trend in labor organizations has been, wherever possible, to deal with questions on an industry-wide basis rather than with particular enter prises. The professionalization of labor union management has progressed since the NR A days, so that the local business manager of the union or a leader who has come up from the ranks is now being replaced or surrounded by men whose business in life is to work in labor unions and who regard such work as a profession. They approach labor problems not from the standpoint of the worker employed in a parti cular enterprise in a particular locality, but from the standpoint of over-all labor strategy in «the effort to obtain a larger share of the economy for the worker. The NRA was device to abolish collective bargaining bv substituting a government agency as a determ ining arbiter between a union and a trade association. After the NRA was declared unconstitutional, the policy of the Administration was not to revert to collective bargain ing but to find another device by which the government would re main as the controlling factor in labor relations. The Wagner Act was Passed and the National labor Re lat’nns Board was established. The government. under this board, became a strong factor in labor settlements. During the war, the wage board and a few other agencies of government assumed final powers in reference to wages, hours and working conditions. Some onions, such as John I-. Lewis’s United Mine Workers, resisted the government’s Policy of a Fascistic control over work. The power of the government to srizc nlai’t«. exercised 71 times dur ing the Roosevelt and Truman re gimes. ca'-e the Administration o weapon which eliminated collective barganine because precisely how can anyone bargain with the po litical po've’- nf the state? As a matter cf fact, the onlv in dustrialist who effectively chnl lenwpd this .power was Sewell Avery of Montgomery Ward and the only labor loader has been John L. Lewis, cf the United Mine Workers. Gen erally, tbs Arimini'-’-ation has had its way in labor matters. It can be said correctly that the C. T. O. has been a dominant el rtn?”f. in the formulation of labor oolicies in the Truman Administra tion. b"t that is because Mr. Tru man preferred it that way. The point is that the government is the determining factor in labor rela tions. Within the government, a num ber of labor experts have developed as a professional group with great authority a”d power. The original National Labor Board was a Com munist. infiltrated bodv. dominated bv men out of the Harold Ware cel). This is not true of the present NLRB which has settled down to an ordinary bureaucracy. A group of professors in universities have become acknowledged labor exnerts and are called in by various labor departments. The Secretary of Labor has been reduced to a nonentitv in the gov ernment labor set-up. The. first Secretary of Labor was William B Wi'son. of the National Union of Miners. He was appointed bv Wood row Wilson, Presidents Harding. Coolidno and Hoover appointed James J. Da'is of the Amalgamated Association Iron. Steel and Tin Workers of America Union. Hoover subsequently appointed William N. Doak, editor of “Railroad Train men,” . and Franklin D. Roosevelt nut in. that office Frances Per kins, a social worker. It was dur ii,, Mrs. Perkin’s regime that Roosevelt organized various agencies which deprived the department of its proper functions. Truman’s first Secretary Was a lame-duck Sen ator. L, B. Schwellenbach, who did not serve long: he then appointed a Boston politician with A. F. of L. affiliations. Maurice J. Tobin. The Department has been given to the American Federation of Labor, with the apoointment of Martin P. Durkin, of the Plumbers and Pipe-Fitters. but the GOP nromoters have ear marked most of the Drcfits. if anv. for lecal charities. Fo- lucky emoreh to get roorts at all. the ho tels have not raided their prices. Most of the restaurants also have premised t" keep the cost of a meal down to the present high levels. Myself I doubt if I 7et to oaf at all on Inauguration Dav. I’ll be lucky if I manage t 0 Set heme. fICK DAILY RECORD, BUNIN, «. tt MISTER “No, no! 1 meant a TOY one for our little boy . . . 1” I a qi» wsnKriM smmerw-go-round If »1W HAItOR WASHINGTON. Sen. Bob Taft of Ohio, who hit the ceiling when President-elect Eisenhower desig nated a Democrat, Martin Durkin, as Secretary of Labor, is due for another unpleasant surprise. Eisenhower advisers are quietly planning to sidetrack the contro versial Taft-Hartley Act and sup port a new labor-management bill more conciliatory to labor. However, the thing that will really send up Taft's blood pressure is that Ike’s advisers, as further gesture to labor, will endeavor to enact the new bill without Taft’s name on it. The legislation will be sponsored by Congressman Sam McConnell. Pennsylvania Republican, who will be chairman of the House Labor Committee in the next Congress. McConnell comes from a wealthy Philadelphia suburb, but believes in being fair to label- and sponsored the Federal Mine Safety Act. TAX SCANDALS Biggest peeve of Harry Truman, as he is about to leave the White House, is something he discusses only with close friends the fact that he has had to take the rap for crooked Internal Revenue col lectors who. he says, were “handed down to me” from previous Demo cratic administrations. “I didn’t appoint any of those fellows who went sour, except one in New York, who was already in the Bureau, and I got rid of him light away when I learned about his unfitness." Truman recently told an old friend. "I inherited all the others." Truman added that he wasn't blaming his old boss and predeces sor. Franklin Roosevelt, who he said couldn't be expected to forsee that the collectors would turn crooked after lie appointed them. “Those bad actors let both Roosevelt and me down,” the President grumbled. "But whet burns me up is that I have had to take the brunt of the criticism for allegedly appointing low-caliber men to public officer, when I didn’t ap point them. “The Republicans also have ac cused me of being easy on the Com munist, when the truth is that I have prosecuted and put in jail more Communists than any presi dent in history.” Truman said he had been a “good soldier” in taking the brickbats of the last campaign and that he in tended to remain silent after leav ing the White House, rather than give, his GOP critics “the satisfac tion of thinking that I am trying to place the blame on someone else.” Note lnternal Revenue irregu larities were exposed in this column in great detail as early as 1949. Yet the president never moved in CUTIES "Look what your grandmother used to get for only. FIVE dollars!" to clean up until about two years later. MCCARTHYISM" DESPITE * IKE President-elect Eisenhower is al ready running into trouble with the McCarthy wing of his party. The McCarthyites have discovered that one of Ike’s special advisers on government reorganization. Bernard L. Gladieux, formerly sat in judgment on Commerce Depart ment loyalty cases. This automa tically casts suspicion on him in McCarthy’s book, because the Com merce Department passed on the loyalty of such alleged pro-Reds as William Remington and Michael Lee. Gladieux once served under Henry Wallace another Red mark a gainst ■ him to the McCarthyites. In the Commerce Department, Gladieux had the power to over rule the Loyalty Board's findings on appeal cases. He is now working with blue blood Nelson Rockefeller, man power expert Arthur Flemming and Ike’s brother, Milton Eisenhower, on revamping government bureaus. Loudest voice against Gladieux is that of McCarthy's GOP collea gue, Sen. George Malone of Nevada. Malone has been whispering that Gladieux is a “protege of Henry Wallace" Malone doesn’t seem to know it. but both Nelson Rocke feller and Milton Eisenhower were also friends of Henry Wallace; in fact, Milton w-orked under him in the Agriculture Department. It would appear that a change in administrations won't stop the guilt-br-pssociation clamor. WASHINGTON PIPELINE Madam Pandit has urged General Eisenhower to allow Chester Bowles to stay on as American Ambassador to India. Madam Pandit reported that Bowles was the most popular ambassador ever sent to India and it would be a shame to recall him at this time Senator Nixon was the guest of Mexico's big real-estate man at Acapulco. Melchor Perus quia. Funny how Nixon loves real estate men .... Congratulations to Louis Urow for his dissenting re port against the whitewash of Lieut, Joe Shimon the Washington cop who tapped telephone wires for Maine’* Senator Brewester. Urow was the only member of the police board who called a spade a spade .... Reporter magazine really exposes the wiretapping racket in its iss"e this week. TITOISM IN CHINA? ? It's a long shot, but one thing that might play into Eisenhower’s hands in unsnarling the Korean embroglio is a report from Central Intelligence that there are signs of a split between Russia and Com munist, Chir*. Apparently the split opened ’ up as a result of the Indian truce pro- Walter Wincthell York .«■ Times Square Circle: Louis (Sat ehmol Armstrong will soon be named to the Music Hall of Fame. First musician-composer to be so honored. Got the nod over Johann Sebastian Bach, Beethoven and Duke Ellington. Satchmo's bust will be installed in the Chicago Museum of Science and History. (Hush mah mouf!) .. The Nor man Brabson case may be the biggest and most atomic of all the "innocent prisoners” serving time in local goals. Judge Harold Stev ens has ordered him brought from Attiaca where he is doing life Junior Standish is doing the Em bers nightly with millionaire Irv Danburg. Next hu Free Woolen Undies: Lionel Hampton's leapin’ new novelty, "Gates Steps Out.” via MGM. An other "Hucklebuck” Kate Smith's smith-sailing on NBC-tv . .. Diane Ames at La Cava .... Rosa Linda's piano-poetry at the Mermaid Room .... Blackie Jordan at Chez Ztei Como’s recording dong of "Don’t Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes” The Rock Hud son-Julia Adams duet in "The Law less Breed." a good Western Stan Freberg’s platter of “The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise.” A devastating and hilarious take off on Les Paul and Mary Ford, our favorite commershills. The Broadway Line: From Jose fadin' Baker's Argentina anti-U. S. quotes: “In N. Y. we have a disc jockey who can be depended upon to fight Our Fight!” (Wow!) The N. Y. Post's new line. It Is "attacking" Reds on nearly every page. Federal insiders are amused .... To the restaurants in the 48th and Lex. area: That novelette a bout the father (stealing two chic kens for his five kids on Thanks giving) concerned Cobbs’ prop Tommy Brown (to whom we tee veed: “Come on in!”) delayed it until last Friday because (ironi cally) he wanted to celebrate “Thanksgiving" with his family No Tues. or Satdee col’ms unless the ex-Coms want to Make Any thing Os It .... “Sunshine Nell” (our tip) lost by a whisker at Tropical—ot half-a-length. Almost a dead-heat! .. Add Egadver fising! Guess WWho brought The N. Y. Mirrow a new Mirror ad vertiser starting soon after New Year? Over SIOO,OOO worth of ads. Black & Blue Pinks Sec Red: From the punchline of Monday’s column: “The Daily Mirror gained almost 400.000 lines in retail adv. during 1952's first ten months. The N. Y. Post lost nearly 214.000 lines, same period. lEnd of Shovel.” ' These staggering-from-loss -v of blood punks are confirming what I said about them right along. That they slant their reporting. They lie that the figures we quoted are in accurate . Here are the facts: The Media Record figures we used nuoted both Daily and Sunday lineage for all papers. All in the trade marry the two to get their average .. These “former Com munists" omitted the Sunday fig ures for all competitors. Now try to get up off the canvas, you Suckers for a Left. Sounds in the Night: At the Casa Marina: “You’ve heard of Zsa Zsa? Well, this one’s strictly Nah Nah!” At the Stork: “It says here Disc-Jockey Meets President. Hmf. Zero Meets Zero” At the Bth St. (Greenwich Village) “Har riet” Johnson’s: “Limp wrist? At the folks’ house' they have towels marked ‘lt’s!’ ” .... At Manero’s: "He’ll hate himself in the morning. Everybody did last night!” posal to end Korean fighting. Mao Tse-Tung appeared to be interested in the Indian pla” b"t Kremlin slammed the dooi .st further discussions with a ejaug. Now Mao is reported bitter. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky, it will be recalled, an nounced China’s rejection of the Indian True Proposal just 36 hours before China sent its actual turn down. And China doesn’t like to have its foreign affairs dictated by someone else. While there is no sign that Mao plans to break with Moscow, there does seem t,o be a definite cooling off. It will take a lot of Eisenhower luck, plus some skillful U. S. ma neuvering, but eventually Mao might become a Chinese Tito. Caps Ferir Club Has Family Event Members of the Cape Fear Home Demonstration Clvfb feted their families at a picnic supper given Wednesday night at the Lillington Community Center. A festive setting was furnished by the gaily decorated club lounge bright with a Christmas tree and mantel decorations of holiday angels, greenery and white candle* Each member brought a pienic box and hot coffee and home made roll* were also served. Following the supper a variety of games were played, with prizes being awarded to the winners in the biugo epatepts. J. T. hony FRIDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 12, 1952 The Worry Clime By OK. GEORGS K. CRAMS GERTRUDE CRITICIZES HER HUSBAND FOR HIS POOR ENG LISH, BUT HE HAS AN EVEN GREATER FAULT. AND SHE DOESN’T KONW WHAT IT IS FOR AN INEXPERIENCED WIFE DOESN’T EVEN DREAM OF THE DELIGHTS THAT PROPER MAR ITAL RELATIONS CAN OFFER A WOMAN. HER HUSBAND NEEDS TO TAILOR HIS IDEAS SMARTLY BY USE OF GOOD ENGLISH, BUT HE ALSO NEEDS TO IMPROVE HIS MARTIAL TECHNIQUE. Case F - 343: Gertrude L„ aged 28, has been married for six months. "Dr. Crane, I am married to a man I have known for five years,” she said. "We lived in different cities and wrote to each other quite often, though we didn't have many dates. "I felt like I knew him well en ough to marry him. as he had of ten asked me. Being so lonely, I finally decided to do so. "Now, since marrying him, I find that his English grammar and vo cabulary are terrible. "I didn’t notice it in his letters and detected only a few flaws 'in his speech when we were on dates. “Now I am almost sick with em barrassment. I am ashamed to have him around my people or my friends, for they all speak good English. WATCH YOUR SPEECH " "He thinks it is only a small matter, but it is serious to me. I have tried to help him improve his speech, but he grows sarcastic when I correct him. “I can’t understand why I made the mistake of marrying him when our educational backgrounds are so different. "I used to be a school teacher, too, which makes it all the more humiliating to me. "I have refused to live in the same town with my parents for I don’t want them to hear my hus band’s poor English. Dr. Crane what can I do?” WHERE HUSBANDS FAIL Gertrude doesn’t know it, but her husband’s chief fault is not his poor English, but his lack of a scientific marital technique. His wife married him partly from AHC ’ r * MOTHER OF SON, 18, HER ONLY CHILD, WORRIES OVER HIS INTEREST IN GIRL OF AN OTHER RELIGION DEAR MARY HAWORTH: Our son Dave, 18, is an only child and naturally we have tried to give him every advantage we could. At present he is attending college, though living at home. The im mediate problem is his interest in a girl of another religion, and I’ve always felt that one meets diffi culties enough in life, without having a strike against you to start. Right? Dave met Eunice during their last year of high school, and at first we treated the situation light ly, as I felt perhaps his college work would wean him away, as Eunice was taking a job. They broke off going steady, as he was study ing hard and lacked the time or money for dates during the week. He is very interested in his college work and she in buying her silver and filling a hope chest. Dave received bids to several fraternities and now Is pledged to one, which offers many social ac tivities on weekends that call for dates. In recent months he has taken out other girls besides Eunice but she is first in his mind, I know. And with holiday dances and par ties coming up, he thinks only of her. Are we wrong in trying to Steer him, awav from her? I want him to be ’socially active but feel he can find lively girls of his own faith which would solve the big problem. Neither of us approve of picking his life partner since we know this is a free country, where everyone should be allowed his religious be lief without interference. We’ve tried to explain our views to him but never have clamped down' to the point of saying, “You can’t date Eunice ,” for this or that reason. Until now he has been a good obedient child, but they must be allowed to think for them selves. Is it best not to Interfere? Or is now the time to clamp down? OVER-PROTEC+ION HIS BIG PROBLEM DEAR V. jR.: The enormity of your solicitude about Dave’s every experience, which largely deprives him of opportunity to develop so cial gumption, probably already has played several piano selections and led the group in the singing of Christmas carols. Mrs. M. E. Wilder is t.he club president. The party was one of a series Being •’sponsored this month throughout the county by the home demonstration clubs- loneliness, plus the usual female desire to graduate from the un married state to that wherein she can wear a wedding ring. We do not criticize her for mar rying because of those reasons, though she was foolish not to analyze her prosepetive husband more critically regarding his basic habits, including among which are speech, morality, training for a job, You can safely marry even with out an overwhelming love for the other person, providing you select wisely and get a mate who shares similar cultural, religious, educa tional and economic backgrounds. For love can be developed if a young couple will simply practice the proper technique. And when love is overwhelming, a few errors in speech will hot cause so much difficulty. TAILOR YOUR SPEECH The glamour and excitement of the honeymoon beclouded Ger trude's mind so she ignored her husband’s uncouth speech. Perhaps, too, he was more on guard then and spoke more carefully, A few months after marriage, however, the novelty wears off. So, unless husband and wife have built a happy, successful marital relationship, they grow hyper critical of each other. Gertrude’s husband should follow the technique outlined in my “Sex Problems in Marriage,” bulletin. Then his wife would be so ardently in love with him that she’d over look many minor flaws. Meanwhile, however, he should try to improve his speech, for our vocal and written* utterances should be as smartly tailored as our clothes. Language is the appeal of the mind. It isn’t enough to get a shave and haircut, shoeshine and new suit of clothes, if our mind meanwhile parades in shoddy ver bal attire, or is spotted with vul garity and grammatical flaws. So tailor your speech. And set a good example at home for the sake of your children. For more speech aid, send for my bulletin “How to Tutor Your Child at Home,” enclosing a stamp ed return envelope, plus a dine. fouled up his chances of being a happy successful adult. At least in the opening rounds of trying to get launched as a man. I wonder why Eunice attracts him so strongly, against your wishes. It occurs to me that she appeals to him as a girl .with her feet on the ground, whose values are real, who has qualities of strength and surety in coping with life that he feels he lacks. This surmise is based on the fact that you’ve tried to give him "every-ad vantage” and are pushing him through college, whereas Eunice turned to job-holding after high school, with self-reliant intent to accumulate a dowry. Essentially, Eunice suggests the dependable “mother-sweetheart” perhaps. Also it may be that Dave’s in terest in Eunice is an incidental result of vour always mixing into his date life, with unconscious in tent to prevent or delay the wean ing process. Possibly you’ve tact fully derailed all his sentimental alliances thus far, by treating them “lightly,” as you say. Thus it may be that various girls of his own faith, any one of whom hi might have chosen for keeps, are now engrossed in other beaux - leaving Eunice without rivals in his day dreams. DOTING MOMISM HANDICAPS BOY In stressing your concern about the religious angle, you strive to ‘ maintain the pose of large minded parent, conscientiously girding her son for optimum independence. But your closing paragraph is a mud dled contradiction of the pretense to "sweet reason.” Almost in the same breeth you say Dave is a good obedient child, who must be allowed to think for himself and then you ask?” The inner meaning of the ouerv is How best to Im pose vour will unon him? At 18, under the thumb of doting coercive parents, Dave is pitifully unprepared for marriage, and doubtless won’t rush into an all iance that you would disapprove. He’d be afraid, to: and beeause he is afraid to risk his judgment and powers independently, he is to that extent a handicapped lad. oft the threshold of nominal manhood. The possibility of his marrying "outside his faith” is less threatening to his welfare, in my opinion, than the prospect that he’ll never be cleanly weaned from vftu. Mv advice is to lead "Their Mothers’ Sons” bv Dr. Edward A. Strecker (lippineott) to get sane perspective - on Dave’s human rights. m. H. Mary Haworth counsels through her column, not bv mall or per sonal Interview. Write her In care S>f (Tlje Daily Record).
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