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One For Joe To Explain
.The giant Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., some stat
isticans noticed a few days ago, has bloomed into the larg
est private enterprise in the world. Until the figures were
toted up last weed, that top spot had been hela by the A
| merican Telephone & Telegraph Co. ' v
r .We noted this event briefly in our news columns but
| didn’t have the space, sorry, to do any editorial comment
ing at the time, it s still a most significant story, so M’s
t tale a close look at it.
.First item, of course, is the size of this American busi
* ness colossus. At last year’s end, Met owned total assets of
I $11,592,52!*,000. Those are billions, not any of your li’l ole
r small change millions. A.T.&T., former snamp, is in sec
jp ond place now with $10,734,349,000.
.Next item—and we would dearly love to hear Josef
Stalin or one of his little helpers try to explain any of this
‘ —is that Met Life doesn’t have a single wicked, imperialist,
I cannabalistic stockholder. Its elected president is Charles
G. Taylor Jr. His sole bosses are the 33,700,000 individuals
in the U. S. and Canada who mutually hold Metropolitan
|M Another item: What does the biggest of private com
; panies sell that’s desirable enough to attract the hard
| earned savings of all those Americans and Canadians?
.Met primarily is in the business of protecting people
| from the consequences of tough luck. Last year tne bene
t ficiaries of deceased Metropolitan life insurance policy
holders were handed $336,000,000. These dollars made life
i : freer and easier for maijy widows, children and other de
pendents.
g > .JKven so, almost twice as much dough—s6o9,ooolooo—
was paid put to living policyholders. Mel’s life insurance
business has been eclipsed by its still-growing trade in an
| nuities and hospital, surgical aha medical expense poli
fodes. At the end of 1952, some 6,200,000 persons had elected
g" to buy themselves economic protection under Metro
| politan’s group and individual health policies.
So what, in a nutshell, is the main news about this
f Wggest-yet, 100% customer-owned company? As wee see
it, it’s a truly vivid example of how a free world can and
tect his slaves, after his dictator’s fashion. He gives them
§ does work. Behind his Iron Curtain, Joe Stalin does pro
gJAhhcks to live in, enough grub to keep them donkay-strong,
1 * some medicine to hold them in laboring condition, and
1 cwy urahubn or whatever Mines toktolMr •*»i.nfitil, they
Smhn f iibert hiS miseried pay sos this service is their
As mentioned in the heading of this editorial, we’d
•early love to near Mr. Stalin explain td his subjects how
UlljCfcy they are to have his kindly protection—especialy
1 compared to those 33 milion Americans so ignorant
HP Soviet-style joys as to prefer the protection this one
|gNi|anys insurance gives them, without strings attach
ly From, The New York Daily News. 1
a means that usual first Monday ‘
3ChOOIS meetings will be held on Tues-
Commissioners will meet Tues
, (Continned from page mm) day at 10 a. m. However, the coun
regular schedule on Thursday ty board of education, as required
■Hpnpon and open again on sche- by statute to meet on the first
morning. Monday of each quarter, will hold
employees will git its meeting as usual on Easter
|||||pter Monday for a holiday. This Monday night. Prof fit said.
I Frederick OTHMAN
1 . itss ones in our goveiyutaent would
HCty, including Mrs. P Frances P D.
tton’s toMecloth,^we^stm
‘0 .The annual bill for houses smash
fences cut, calves lost, autos
S||g||ngfcod ftnd assorted other darriag
|sto caused by dopey Federate, as
to Congress by Presi
iSßt This is a lot of money, not to
the anguish of Mrs. Pat
mm* which is incalulable. She still
fps not fit tablecloth for use when
Rico, where depar.t
--f , g§fgfc' stores are searce, imported
l&M. The collator of cus
& was danged if he .could tell
r^any. ot « J-eb^O,
President Eisenhower forwarded the .
facts to Vice President Richard M.
Nixon, who presented then to the
U. S. Senate.
The gentlemsto eventually will
consider Mrs. Patton’s tablecloth at
a meeting oT the Appropriations
Committee. Then the whole Senate
will rote and the problem wIR be
turned over to the House.
If both branches of the legisla
ture agree that the government is
responsible for ruining Mrs. Pat
ton’s tablecloth, die’ll get her mon
ey. But this will take time and
I suggest she not invite company
to dinner for the next couple or
three months. • >
The things that other Federate
did to other innocent citizens were
equally as ludicrous and consider
ably more expensive.
Careless drivers of Federal ve
hicles all over the world caused
extensive damage, of course, and
then there was the case of Paul
during Operation
ea nis iences ana ssaneo snooting.
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THE BBKISEf BURDEN
The broad problem of war we
must face requires an analysis of
» the position of Great Britain, which
. is the principal American military
base in Europe. Some British re
sent this fact: many Americans
prefer to ignore it. It is this awk
ward geographical and military re
lationship which has laid Great
Britain open *o attack by Russian
airpower, bombs and guided mis
sies..
■ No matter how much we may
! disagree with British policy, this
. one fact explains the British fears
that American policy may lead to
f World War m, which the British
• mky not ne able to take. Two uni
■ versal Wars have destroyed the
i great British Empire and have de
prived Britain of its prime position
as leader among all nations. A
! third universal war could reduce
: Great Britain to a satellite of the
! victor, if any.
Great Britain’s power was built
upon its navy, which kept open
, the lanes of trade and commerce for
all nations. Great Britain is now
! probably the third naval power, the
, United States being first, and So
viet , Russia, second. Even if Rus
sian naval power Is exaggerated,
the peril Is great.
The British are now engaged In
a hot war in Malaya. That is an
undramatic war that does not (mm
pete with Korea or French Indo
china In the news. It is sheer
murder in those swamps. The Ma
layan war pins down about 35,000
British troops and both the Brit
ish Pacific Fleet and the Far East
Air Force.
The British maintain a consid
erable force in Hongkong to hold
that island against the Chinese
Communists. If Mao Tze-tung’s hor
des were ready to seize Hongkong,
it would not be a difficult task.
Hongkong is not easy to defend
as the Japanese proved in the last
war.
The British maintain a consid
erable'force in Hongkong to hold
that island against the Chinese
Communists. If Mao Tze-tung’s
hordes were ready to seize Hong
kong, it would not be a. difficult
task. Hongkong is not easy to de
fend as the Japanese proved in the
last war. . ,
The British also hold a territory
known as Btowloon, which is act
ually on the Chinese mato|Uiafn <
is an almost impossible 'area to
hold agp |n *t millions of Chinese'
who live in Hongkong and Kow
loon. Yet, they have managed to
keep both, possibly by their* tem
porizing policy, which has, to the
Chinese Communists, the virtue of
an open door to the non-Russian
world.
The British are "in Korea where
by the end of 1952, they had suf
fered about 3,500 They
• have troops in Germany, in Aus
tria, and in the Middle East.
The point of all this is that the
British are convinced that they
are doing -about as much as their
population and their reduced * re
sources will permit. They desire
that Americans understand that
their problems are different from
ours: that they no longer control
colonies but are a member of a
Commonwealth Os Nations, tha
members of which are not bound
by British deefctoos.
For instance, India, which is a
member of the Commonwealth, has
adopted a posittdn of neutrality
between the United States and
Soviet Russia even in the matter
at the Korean War. Every question
of policy has to be referred to each
Commonwealth nations foe its own
decisions. The British Empire,
wKi* in tjvo wan drew- troops
froth India, can no longer draw on
any Commonwealth nation, each
deciding what it will do in any
Great Britain there is.
no unanimity of opinion as to the
relations with the United States.
The left wing Laborites, led by
Aneurin Bevan, are definitely anti-
American. They are opposed to
cspOahsm, particularly the Am
erican type. .The Churchill govern
ment’s majority In Parliament Is
narrow and moves carefully, lest, a
change of government bring Bevan
into power, which, from the Am
erican standpoint, could be satas-
Added to Bevan is a sizeable
CummutUst contigenk As in the
is notmearnraUe iMterm^o^party
i accent Deace
withHftussiain whatever formit
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WASHINGTON. Dr. A. V.
Astin, Director of the Bureau of
Standards, and a noted scientist,
has been trying for several weeks
to get an appointment with his
chief, the new Secretary of Com
merce, Sinclair Weeks. As the head
of one of the non-politleM, scien
tific bureaus of government, he
wanted to discuss future problems.
Secretary Weeks, however, did not
see him. But last week. Dr. Astin
suddenly wap summoned to the
Commerce Department by Assistant
Secretary Cpaig Sheaffer, head of
the fountain pen fcompany, and
fired. He was asked to turn in his
resignation within three days.
He was also lectured regarding ■
the Bureau of Standard’s diagnosis
of battery additives, a system of
injecting Epsom salt, supposedly to 1
pep uff aUto batteries. The Bureau
bad officially found that these :
battery additives or hypoes to give
a battery nJW strength were of no
value. Sheaffer didn’t like this
diagnosis and told Dr. Astin the ;
Bureau of Standards In the future
was t? '•* run on a businessman's 1
basis.- 1
Behind this is some highly in- :
teresting background. t
. standards, Samuel Stratton held i
office for 25 years under both
Republicans and Democrats. An- ]
other director Lyman S. Briggs was
appointed 1 by Herbert Hoovpr, Re- ;
publican, and reappointed by
Franklin Roosevelt, Democrat. Po- *
littos has been kept out of the ,
bureau.
BATTLE OVER BATTERIES
Second, It should be known that i
the Bureau of standards Is called t
upon almost every -week by the :
Poet Office Department or the Fed- i
eral Trade Commission to test i
.some article which may be falsely I
advertised or may be involved in 1
fraudulent use of the mails. Such i
examinations are routine. They are i
also welcomed by most business
firms. Willard, Exide, and other I
standard battery manufacturers, j
, for instance, have supported the
Bureau of Standards in this work i
of dlagnosfalg battery addltivei.
As such routine, the Bureau was i
asked to examine AD-X7, a battery-<
additive manufactured by Pioneers, 1
lOc., of Oakland,- Calif., which I
claimed AD-X 2 could restdre Jad- i
ed or seml-wornout batteries. The i
Bureau made such an examination, ’
and reported that “The addition I
of AD-X 2 to the acid solution -of I
storage batteries decreases rather i
than increases the electrical con- 1
ductlvlty of the electrolyte.”
This report Immediately was am
tested by Jess M Ritchie, i
i. ; ——’ —; i —pre—• -~ r -
CUTIES • ■;
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“NfitumMy, when he said he LOVED her she
; knew it was before he’d lie *bout
dent of Pioneers, Inc., who began
to pull wires in Washington. Event
ually his wire-pulling contributed to
the sudden firing of the Director
of the Bureau of Standards.
How powerful was Mr. Ritchie’s
wire-pulling is,.indicated by what
happened after the Post Office De
partment issued an official mail
fraud order against AD-X 2 on
March 3, putting it on the mail
fraud list.
That night the Secretary of Com
merce himself argued and pleaded
with Postmaster General Arthur
Summerfield, persuaded him to
suspended mail fraud order. Thus
In the official postal guide of March
3 it is stated that AD-X 2 is placed
on the list of mall frauds, while
two days later, March 5, the Postal
Guide suspends the order and says
AD-X 2 is not a mail fraud after
all. *
It was one of the quickest re
versals of fraud seen around the
Post Office Department in many
years.
That is only part of the story,'
however. Assistant Secretary of
Commerce Sheaffer of -Bheaffer
pens has said that he came to
Washington to help business. Ap
parently hfe was not interested in
helping Exide, Willard, or other
standard battery manufacturers,
but rather the makers battery
hypoes.
Later, Mr. Sheaffer wrote the
News an official letter stating that
the report did-not represent the
'views of the Department of Com
merce. . 1 i
Sheaffer also phoned the Bureau
of Standards and demanded that
no more copies of the report be
given out and that no.statement
regarding battery - additives be
made. However, the House Com
merce Committee later , asked
Sheaffer for copies, and, red-faced,
he had to ask the Bureau to violate
the rule he hath Just Jaid down,and
send out 'more copies.
As a climax to the whole thing,
Sheaffer called in Dr. Astin, whose
scientists , had merely been doing
what they had been doing for years,
and fired him.
Note When Sheaffer was ex
amined by the Senate Interstate
Commerce committee he defended
his sponsorship of radio commen
garding the fact thit he contribut
ed $1,300 to Rabble-Rouser Mer
win K. Hart. He also contributed
*I,OOO to Senator McCarthy, - the
man who Is causing Bheaffer’s chief
in. the White Htfuse so muih
trouble. 1 -■» r
ammunition shortage
Senators are still trying to get
at the bottom of the ammunition
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THE BROADWAY LIGHTS
Curtain-Time: Broadway had a
First-Night famine bat PkUly had
a Feast at Cd« Porter’s “Can-Can,"
a merry new mslgaL Variety’s for
eign correspondent was jabitaatj
"This one," he noted, "ought to be
something execpetkmaL" Phflly
observers concurred The Bex
Harrison-LilU Palmer opus, “The
Lore of Four Coleneis,” repaid Its
backers In t weeks, despite mixed
notices. (Certifying the marquee
power of* its star* .... About a
dozen new attractions will bloom
in -the Broadway garden during
Spring Although “On Borrowed
Time’’ and “Pergy and Bess" at
tracted sugary notices the box
offices suffered .... There are *7
sheets on Broadway with only two
empty temples. Many will vanish
before Summer .... “Canrtno Beal”
is not expected to linger much
longer .... “Picnic” and “The sth
Season” were within $1,60# of Jein
' tag the Golden Circle . .. With
Ty Power, Baymend Massey, Bez
Russell, Mark Stevens and Vicki
Cummings slicking on the Big
t Town stage, Broadway, is more pbp
. ular with Hollywood stars than
i Bene,
In the Wings: The story about
i the drama critic being barred from
: a Hartford theatre reminded New
Yorkers that Broadway critics
t haven't been barred-for years ....
i “Good thing, too,” chuckled a
1 colyumlst. “What would George
Jean Nathan ever do with all that
spare time?” .... Variety will de
. vote an entire issue to Joe E. Lewis’
30th Ann’y in showbiz We
i presume his best friends are taking
i ads in It. 3 Feathers, 4 Roses, De
war'S, Canadian Club, etc.
The Cinemagkians: Rita Hay
worth (The Queen of Hearts) is
perfectly cast as the Biblical be
witcher in "Salome," a dazzling
pageant .... “Desperate Search"
is hardly worth sleeping through
.... “Penny Pricess” is a British
whimsy “Call Me Madam” h*s
Ethel Merman guaranteeing the
-metodieuz laffapalooza “By the
Light of the Silvery Moon” is
brightened by Doris Day’s stardust.
Gus Edwards’ tide tune still tin
kles prettily .... “The Naked Spur”
is superior saddie-faddle. Jimmy
Stewart |sjn the sharp-shooting
daruWril and Janet Leigh’s curvy
ammunition 1 aims to please.
Stairway to the Stars: Ginger
Rogers wants to dwell in Paree but
; her French husband prefers Mel
ancholy wood They are calling
Jackie Gleason “Mr. Saturday
Night” along Teevy Row. Be&use
he single-handedly killed his com
petition, the name-studded “All
. Star Revue" .... Helen (Wotta)
Gallagher, star of “Hazel Flagg,"
'.has had a hair-do created in her
honor, by heck .... Roz Russell
posed for (a total of) 19 hours for
Chaliapin’s portrait on the current
cover of Time. (The finest Time
since Gruen began!) .... Rosalind
Court-right is the new ITtraction
. at the St Regis .... It says here
Donald O’Connor, 27. has trouped
25 years. Waster 2 yean of his life
.... It's about time Jack E. Leon
ard is in Hollywood. He’s so F»tty
genic Starlet Elaine Stew
art (such a face act last week's
Life cover) confessed: “lty big ror
mance & rty work.”, Look, Girl, a
Career is never so much fun As a
Caress., %
shortage, which the Pentagon tried
to shrug off hut Which General
Van Fleet claimed dost American
lives in Korea.
To get off the hook, the Army
Claimed that the steel t strike cut
artfflegy ammunition production Pi
per cent last year. However, this
column can report that the pyo- ,
ductlon of carbon steel, the type
used for artillery shells, was great
er last year than any war year
in history— 3,428.112 tons: Os this
tremendous output; ’only 525,309
tons were used for ammunition.
In other wards, the Army had
steel running out its ears despite
the strike. Real fact is that ord
nance giants were shut down and
men laid off work last year, not
becauseof the Strike but to tack
of ammunition orders.
Foe example, the largest producer*
of artillery shells, V. S. Steel’s
Christy Park Works at McKees
tott, P» . operated at only one -
toe
T 4
other* *7?!?,, was
~ nm imi nT^JnMt
at Wilkes-Barre, Pa. haven’t
THESDAY AFTERNOON,MARCH 31,1953
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Clarence to a perfect example es
a husband with a sexual inferiority
complex. Thousands of men at
the menopause atoe demonstrate his
identical symptoms. Your news -
paper to the only source es these
educational cases that mart of you
will ever have access to, so ’ save
them in a scrapbook. These are ail
real cases drawn from current Am
erican society.
Case Q-350: clarence F„ aged
29, has been married for five yean.
“Dr. Crane, we have two fine
children and a new home all paid
for,” his wife informed me.
“In fact we hate everything to
make us happy, except one thing.
But tack of that one thing is break
ing up our home
“I have never been able to obtain
any definite enjoyment of the mar
ital relationship. Though I must
be cold and frigid naturally I have
tried to act ardent.
“My husband, however, has
found out i.iat I have simply been
putting up a front. Now he has
become bitter and sarcastic; He ac
cuses me of having married him
omy for a meal ticket.
“Finally he reached the pplnt
house, even to gp to the grocery,
if I so much as set foot tot of the
honuse .even to go to the grocery.
SEXUAL INFERIORITY
“Next, he began to accuse me of
loving somebody else and x began
claiming that I was having affairs
with some other man.
“He says the reason I am frigid
with him to because somebody else
to giving me satisfaction.
“Dr. Crane, hi* charges are so
fantastic and absolutely false, that
I would laugh at tbri* ridicu
lousness if it weren’t that our
home life to being destroyed.
“He decided I shouldn’t have any
money for new clothes, apparently
thinking I was dressing up to please
some other man. x
“Then, to hurt me and possibly
get revenge, he stayed out for three
nights last week, not getting home
till as late as 6 A. M. He never did
this before in all of our married
lif#. - •
SEXUAL VENGEANCE
“Lately he has begun telling me
I should get a Job, for he to in love
with a young woman whore he
works.
fratk Hawrth'A frail'
By Amorka's Foremost titrsonal Affaire Counselor *”
Trying to Overcome Problem of
Shyness, Woman Flgtom The Cure
wouldn’t mtos your column to to
world but so far X haven't found
the answer to my problem in read
ing Urn of other people.
You gee, I have no self-confidence
al. UKpf I meet people on um
street whom I know, or if they
come to the house, I am so shy
that it is uncomfortable to them
to be around me. %
It has dawned on me lately that
shyneaa to simply « by-product of
understtmating oneself, as compared
to others. From this I conclude
that if one thinks of others, one
cannot poaribiy be concerned about
oneeelf. But by how, everybody in
town knows how shy I am and toy
avoid me, whtfch deprives me of
opportunity to exercise my new -
minted wisdom.
•My problem is how to overcome
this handicap. I am a married wo
man of 40, so you might think I’d
know better. How can I dissolve the
tensions tot disturb othersf . *
HEAL MEMORY. f‘'.
/ SANFORD,SAYS
DEAR L. S.r Shyness has to do
with involuntary Ingrained anxiety
when one to under scrutiny, as if
one expected attack-criticism and
or rejection by to audience. Atoe
it stems fronj persistent lack of
experience in dealing comfortably
with people —a tack that is linked
to “guilty” assumption that one
isn’t worth wile or lovable, by pre
valent standards of acceptable
quality. In brief, shynemteT pro
duct of negative human condltlon
®y way of easing to tensions or
ego-crushing incidents in years
• when one was helplessly subservient
to adult authority.
If such problem-material can' be
relieved imaginatively, so that one
objeeUve look at what
Juxy SP wM infUctad*
memory, m Agnes SAZUora mkfrfr'
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! “Rut if I were to take him up
on his statement, and start, to
; look for a Job, he wouldn’t let me
> leave the house.
“And he has recently begun to
> call me cheap names, especially
since he has now became practically
impotent.
“I love my husband with all my
heart, but I confess 1 have never
been passionate sexually.
“If you could help us in some
. manner, you would oe saving our
: home, ror things cannot go on like
this lorever.
“I have been faithful and true
i to my husband, but his suspicions
and jealousy are getting on my
nerves." s
AFRAID OF HIMSELF '
Clarence to a classical example
of the male who fcrows confused
: because his wife is not as ardent
> as some of those vulgar tales of his
youth have made him think a
i women should be.
The usual passivity and frigidity
, of his Wife terrify him. Ho two
fears immediately come to mind.
, lh* first, to a fear of other men.
Maybe she loved somebody else and
; married him only on the rebound.
Or maybe she. to carrying on an
affair with some rival male. So he
grows excessively jealous and
watchful. He will not let her ott
of the house. He even euts down
her allowance to clothes and be
comes stingy.
His second fear to that he is sex
ually inferior to other males. This
worry also enhances his jealousy,
but it likewise makes him self -
critical.
When a man begins to worry and
analyse himself m the sexual
realm, he soon throws himself in
to a state of psychological impo
tence. . : /<
Then he may start cursing and
berating his wife, of he may flee
into drunkenness, excessive gam
bling and other outlets for his tor
tured spirit
The whole difficulty can be
cleared up quickly and successfully
by getting the facts in my bulletin,
“sex Problem lb Marriage,” Send
a Stamped return envelope, plus a
dime.
Ignorance almost ruined Gtar
enoe’s home Until this bulletin
Cleared up his misapprehensions.
HIDDEN ROOTS
OP DEJECTION
Ailing memvies bunted in blind
tend to give rise to compulsive re
sentments, Which cloud personality
in an aura es dejection and. pre
occupation —two characteristic
aMiecte of the chronically shy per
son. Hence the importance of re
lieving 000*5 consciousness of this
poison as can be done in con
fidential self revealing discourse
with a good psychologist, porcMn
trtot or enlightened prayer part
ner. As to hidden, resentment
self-acceptance take its place,
one’s personality spontaneously be
comes sunnier, more friendly, re
taxed and gracious.
The feeling of being really khoWn
admireOs atao a shy
individual. Presumably you enjoy
this status in relation to your hus
band. But in the eveqt he is a
self-enclosed mgn Whqse .aloofness
shrivels your timorous spirit, my
sdvld* to to seek diligently until
you find the professional counsel
lor who can be, sincerely, a friend
wrnaMatemew 0 Spite* her in core .
of (The Dally Record).
Bridal Shower Is
Given In Lillington
iFor Mrs . Newton
An attractive bridal shower was
given Friday night at the Ms.
Fisgah Community House near
Broadway honoring Mrs. Newton
Netotqn of LUllngton, a recent
fcrldft
Before her marriage on March
14 at to Methodist parsonage in
Mainers, Mrs. Newton was the for- /
''Afound 36 guests attended the
party. They yferC all members of
where to bride and members of.
tyer family were for many years
lavender hyaClnto. - *.
• A' variety of bridal, contests were..