Page 2 TONAWANDA NEWS Friday, January 3, 1958

A Page of Opinion A Staff to Match the Facilities

Hoped-For Atom Smasher

The Town of Tonawanda now has a full-time recreation director, a logical development in view of the size of the program and th* expansion that is due in the next two years.

The program and the additions that are to come have been carefully planned t<» give the town facilities that are second to none. In a hearing last fall on the expansion, residents indi­cated this is exactly the way they wantor! it.

Facilities, of course, are only part of the story, although an important

part. The manner in which programs are conducted, using these facilities, determines the public's reaction to to them. *

We are confident the Town Board, which has been interested in the best possible recreation facilities, will con­tinue to show equally-keen interest in providing the best possible recreation staff.

This will assure that the program best serves the interests of community members.

Your Town Meeting . . . Peoples' Forum

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PARENTS GRATEFUL E ' tor:

We «ould like to publicly acknowledge and thank the many, many kind friends and neighbors who took time out from their busy holiday sche­dules to send us congratula-tions, cards, flowers and gifts or the birUi ot our triplets. It would be impossilbe to thank tach person who did 10 much to ease the financial burden for us. Since we do not have a complete list ourselves we cannot mention all their names. Thanks is such a small word, we c a n n o t say it enough to all the Tonawandans and particularly our neigh­bors in Gratwick who gave cur babies such a wonderful start in life.

First, we are deeply indebt­ed to the nurses, doctors and •tail of DeGraff Hospital. especially Dr. William Kneer and Dr. Alan Reckhow for the wonderful care and attention we received, and are still re­ceiving. Thanks, too. for the beautiful floral arrangements from Hock's Flower Shop. Jones Florist and Miller Florist.

Secondly, we want to thank you and your staff for all the

publicity you gave us and without which we probably would not have received so many gifts. We appreciate very much the pictures your photographers took and pre­sented to us.

A surprise to end all sur­prises was the drier we re­ceived, made possible through the generousity of Bill Foster of Foster-Bodie TV 4 Appli­ance, Charles Fleischman, who did the wiring, and the friends who went out and col­lected from neighbors, fellow church members, co-workers at National Grinding Wheel. Remington Rand and the Twin Cities Rifle. Revolver and Pistol Club.

Last, but far from least, we thank the local merchants who were so generous in their ex­pressions of congratulations. To Twin - Ton Department Store which started the parade of gifts with three elaborate layettes and dis­played them so beautifully, we can only say a humble "thank you." What else can we say but "thank you" to O'Connor's for the beautiful 'and much needed* bathinette, to Bran­don's Department Store for sleeping bags and pajamas, to Witkop & Holmes co. for a playpen, to Dy-Dee Wash, Inc. for diaper service and to all of the following our grati­tude:

Bern's Children's Shop. Lane Jewelers. Walker Bros. & Mon­roe. T. C. Smith Pharmacy, G. F. Helwig Drug Store. Parsons Drug Store, Fischer's Pharmacy, Tonawanda Drug, Inc., Reeves Photos, Style

Shop and Schwartz Men's Shop.

Any omission of names on our part is certainly uninten­tional. We appreciate the in­terest everyone has shown and we can only say how thank­ful we are to live in a com­munity where people do not hesitate to extend a helping hand. Mere words cannot ex­press our.feelings. All we can say is thanks a million.

Sincerely. Mr. and Mrs. Edward

Hromowvk

POST OFFICE GRATEFUL Editor:

We. at the Buffalo P o s t Office, have just succeeded in processing the largest volume of Christmas mail in our his­tory.

A large measure of our suc­cess can be attributed direct­ly to your willingness to help brmg our requests to the at­tention of the public. T h i s year patrons responded to our appeals for early mailing, zon­ing, bundling and separating of their greeting cards as never before. This vital co­operation on the part of our mailers is of tremendous as­sistance to us and without it we would have great difficulty in accomplishing our purpose.

Please accept my personal thanks for the valuable ser­vice you have rendered yoor United States Postal Service.

My best wishes to you and your staff for a pleasant and prosperous New Year.

Myron F. Blakeney Acting Postmaster

Buffalo

Nikita Makes Hay *

By Charles McCann

Charles McCann

NIKITA S. KHRUSHCHEV is strengthening Communist Party dom­ination of all Russian governmental, military and economic affairs.

A t t h e s a m e t i m e , Khrushchev is

.strengthening his own | personal authority as first secretary of the party in control of its machinery.

The operation has been in progress for several weeks. It has been marked by a number of trans­fers of government and party officials and by i-ncreased emphasis on the role of the Communist Party as the su­preme power over all aspects of ad­ministration in the Soviet Union.

The effect is to restore the sit­uation which existed between the death of Jos^ef Stalin in 1953 and Khrushchev's sensational denuncia­tion of Stalin in February, 1956.

IT CANNOT BE SAID that the Stalin-era situation has been restored. Stalin made himself the sole authority in the government the armed forces, economic affairs and the party itself.

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Khrushchev is making the central committee of the party and its ruling presidium the supreme authority.

Of course, Khrushchev is at the head of the committee and the pre­sidium. And it appears that his posi­tion is unchallenged.

The increasing authority g i v e n the Communist Party is a confession that Khrushchev's attempt to liberal­ize Russian life after his denunciation of Stalin was a failure.

EVEN A LITTLE liberalism can be dangerous in a country like Russia. First intellectuals and workers got too enthusiastic over the loosening up of the dictatorship. Then Georgi K. Zhukov, made defense minister and restored to his one-time status of Rus­sia's No. 1 war hero, got obstreperous. He wanted no Communist interference with his direction of the armed forces, even though he had been a Communist since his youth.

N o w , since Zhukov has been ousted, the armed forces are being subjected to strict indoctrination of officers and men is being intensified.

The newspaper Red Star, organ of the Sovet ministry of defense, dis­closed recently that officers, from gen­erals and admirals down, had 'been directed to devote at least 50 hours a year to political courses — lectures on Communist party history and doc­trine. These lectures are to be sup­plemented by home study.

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For purpose and direction, with a con­structive goal in view, I pray earnestly, great God of Heaven. Give me the good sense to strip myself of blundering fears and foolish cynicism, of unwarranted cau-t i o n s and spiritual hesitancies, of false values that focus on material possessions, I pray for access to the highway of happi ness, that I may so live and work and play, singing along the way, that my journey shall be pleasant and productive, improving my skills, enriching my mind and soul, build­ing sturdiness into my body and experience into my life — giving me the tremendous satisfactions that come with this kind of exercise of God-given freedoms.

Hangover Cures- • • By Frederick c othman

RAY TUCKER-

Allied Distrust

Of U.S. Policies

Blamed on Dulles

WASHINGTON - The conflict­ing views of Washington official­dom on America's military Strength in relation to Russia's has increased West European cau­tion and skepticism over ballistic rearming. Even a large segment of popular and political opinion in Britain is hostile.

Pentagon experts. including members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have testified before t h e Johnson Preparedness Commit­tee that the West stands in "dire peril." At private sessions, they have asked for far more money than the administration, as of to-day. seems willing to spend. The secret and suppressed Gaither report used even more serious language in its warning of our plight.

Dr. Edward Teller and Wernher von Braun — the scientists most responsible for the atom bomb and Hitler's Y-2 projectile, respective­ly — have been even more mo­rose. Discussing the two great powers' capabilities and t h e i r present rate of activity, they pre­dict that Moscow may 'shoot the moon" first.

Dr. Teller has said that this country could probably make a strike, but not a lunar landing, in five year.-, if he and his staff were given ,the funds and the green light for such an awesome attempt

AS AGAINST these gloomy forebodings from official and re­sponsible sources, Gen. Lauris Norstad maintains that the West has a "safe" lead in retaliatory power, and can retain it until bal-listically equipped and fortified.

Even though Washington experts disagree on the date when the U. S. can produce even a 1,500-mile. intermediate weapon — 1958 to i960 — the commander of NATO believes that his B-32 bomb­ers and atomic warheads will deter the Communists from start­ing a war. global or local, during the period of lag.

Many European statesmen and newspapers do not share his op­timism. In fact, they are down­right critical of Washington

spokesmen's general attitude and approach.

Gen. Norstad also refuses to admit what is generally known in European 'and Russian1 political and military circles — namely, that even NATO's conventional forces are far below the neces­sary strength to resist a Red of­fensive. He has less than 30 di­visions to match their 400. includ­ing satellite contributions, a n d many of the NATO member- are now reducing their defense budg­ets.

BIT, AS USUAL, it is Secre­tary Dulles who stirs our allies' distrust most acutely. His report to the nation on the rearming ac­complishments at Paris, with President Eisenhower sitting alongside and nodding approval, was a diplomatic back-flip and le­gal legerdemain.

It must have amazed the for­eign ministers and heads of state who sat in with him while tbey wrote and rewrote the Paris agreement and communique.

For the first time on a nation­wide sta^e and before an audi­ence of the American people, the American secretary of state dem­onstrated why our general foreign policy baffles and frustrates both our allies and neutrals like India.

Mr. Dulles' report was utterly optimistic, reading almost like a national convention's platform. He declared that the V. S. had pur­sued and obtained its objective of persuading NATO countries to ac­cept American 'launching pads and intermediate missiles on a when-and-if basis.

He failed to emphasize that they agreed only "in principle," and pending the outcome of talks with Khrushchev which he had previ­ously denounced as "futile." Nor did he note that only a few days before he left Washington f o r Paris, he had branded agree­ments "in principle" as innocuous, meaningless and undependablc. It is no wonder that Europeans re­gard John Foster Dulles as a re­markable man.

cJLe C*nalisli eSSonS in i^na

By W. L. Gordon

WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say. "I can't seem to solve this." It is much better to say, "IT SEEMS that I cannot solve this."

OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Hussar. Pronounce hoo-zahr, ac­cent second syllable.

OFTEN MISSPELLED: Foundling (a child found). Fondling (caressing).

SYNONYMS: Memory, remembrance, reminiscence, recollec­tion, retrospect, retrospection. %g

WORD STUDY: FIXATION: act of fixing; state of being fixed. "He has an unalterable fixation of resolution."

THE FAMILY CAR By Wally Folk

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Frederick C. Othman

WASHINGTON — This day I have spent in my laboratory, the Na­tional Press Club bar, garnering from e x e r t s the latest scientific word on that epidemic of the new year, the hang­over.

Here white-clad specialists and their clients mull over causes and cures of t h a t most horrendous of diseases, and it pleases me to offer as a public service a dis­tillation of their wisdom.

Best advice is stay away from the stuff like old Doc Othman, who toasted the new year in tomato juice. But if the all-gone feeling, including red eyes, hurting feet, and wooly bears in the stomach, sneaks up on you, then place no reliance on the hair of the dog, et cetera.

This is like rubbing salt in an open wound and it'll make you feel worse. All the scientists hereabouts agree to this except one, who claims that he has found a bottle of warm beer soothing on the morning after. Others feel that concoctions involving raw eggs, tabasco sauce and aspirin tablets have their place. Milk and lots of it also is said to be palliative.

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SURE CURES are more difficult to come by. One of these, the experts insist, is opium, but this is scarce, ex­cept possibly in Communist China. If you're not a Red Chinese, then the next best thing, according to the spe­cialists, is an ounce of paregoric, sipped slowly.

This is what mothers gave their babies back before the Food and Drug

Administration. It has a little opium in it, and that means you'll need a doctor's presciption. I'd hesitate my­self, to call any doctor out of bed for hangover medicine.

Cure No. 2 is pure oxygen, breathed deep. Military fliers have been known to use this with salutary effect.

The third and final cure for the horrors of the morning after is Vita­min B-l. Some of our leading citizens go for this, taking massive doses by means of injection in the shoulder blade.

THE VICE PRESIDENT of Ken­tucky Distillery had a study of what alcohol did to the nerve ends; he con­cluded that they disintegrated into a kind of jelly and this, he said, was the primary cause of hangovers. His studies indicated further that Vita­min B-l was the only substance that would knit the nerves back together again.

He then had an inspiration; he'd combine the vitamins with the whisky in the bottle and produce the world's only hangover-proof drinking liquor. He had the process patented and was about to go into production when the alcohol tax unit came up with sad news.

It ruled that he could make whis­ky, as he'd been doing all along, or he could manufacture medicine, but he couldn't put both in the same jug. Came then a number of outfits, which attacked the problem by putting the vitamin in the soda water.

Apparently s o m e of t h e m skimped on the amount of B-l they mixed in the fizz; they didn't ty so well, and I haven't heard much of them lately.

A Fortunate Year • • • B* Ed^ar Ansel Mowrer

Edgar Ansel Mowrer

THIS IS THE TIME when a lot of people give their opinions about the past twelve months and the year a-borning. Here are mine.

1957 was mixed, with the accent on good.

The only real blemish was the eco­nomic s 1 o w d o w n , "rolling recession,'' ' ' b u s i n e s s adjust­ment" or just plain slump (whichever you choose to call i t ) . With consumption so high it is hard to see how this can go very far — or that the administration will let it in an election year. But until consump­tion increases per capita or wages fall, inflation seems bound to rear its enticing but deadly head.

Against this blemish there are a number of outstanding gains.

The most notable was in the re-assertion of civil rights by the Su­preme Court, the President and the Congress. The Supreme Court swept out the last traces of McCarthy ism and stopped the sag toward a police state in America by its reassertion of the primacy of the Bill of Rights in time of peace — formal peace, I mean.

If in 1958 it goes further and rules (a) that the right to travel is inherent in American citizenship and (b) that wire tapping can be legally undertaken by any agency or any au­thority only with a court order.

THE COURT also moved to end

legal segregation in the U.S. — an

evil which should have ended with the

Emancipation Proclamation in 1863,

but did not for various reasons.

The President made this decision

effective — in part — at Little Rock

by showing Gov. Faubus of Arkansas

that Uncle Sam means business and

will not yield to southern threats, still

less to southern force.

In passing even a weak civil

rights bill the Congress showed itself

mindful of this fact. This is a most

important gain for our side.

BUT THE GREATEST gain in

1957 was the end of material compla­

cency through the loss of two illu­

sions: The illusion of Soviet incapac­

ity to harm the U.S. and the illusion

that the Soviets are either reasonable

or "peace minded."

The Sputniks and the claim to

have launched an ICBM did the first; recent Soviet conduct at the London disarmament talks, the Cairo anti-West meeting did the second. This has pro­moted the belief that there is no quick, cheap, painless road to either peace or freedom — which is marvel­ous. For despite the partial growth of hysteria among appeasers, this has been the fact for many years.

As for 1958, it will, in my judg­ment, either be a lot better or much worse. Either we shall meet the chal­lenge — or slump further toward ghastly trouble.

Do You Remember When

'Now, don't get excited. We'll unload and if we don't find Junior we'll backtrack."

35 Years Ago — 1923 Syracuse University students returning

to classes after spending the holidays in the Tonawandas included Mildred Gardei, Maude Griffin, Clarence Grainge, Wilbert J. Lincoln, Allen Ives, William Wendler, Ray­mond Stumpf and Earl E. Thompson.

C. P. Hugo Schoellkopf, Buffalo mil­lionaire whose wife was chloroformed and robbed of $500,000 worth of jewelry, after a poker party in New York City, issued a statement in which he declared faith in his wife and thoroughly believed her story.

25 Years Ago — 1933 Mrs. Harold Wulf entertained the C. H.

Club at a Christmas party in the home of Mrs. Romaine Strickland of Loretta St. Prizes in games were awarded to Mrs. Carl Liber and Mrs. Terry Bigelow.

Immediate sale of beer in New York State, should * Congress legalize it, was demanded by Gov. Lehman in his first mes­sage to the 1933 Legislature, which disclosed

unemployement funds' were practically ex­hausted. L

Rocket engineer Rudolf Neriel, advocate of the "stratosphere rocket," was planning to be the first man to make an attempt to ascend with a passenger rocket, probably early in the spring of 1933. according to reports from Madgeburg, Germany.

70 Years Ago— 1948 Mrs. Ida M. H. Rogalsky, deputy city

clerk for several years, was appointed to a two-year term as Tonawanda City Clerk at the annual reorganization meeting of the Common Council.

Communist deputies in the National Assembly were defeated 340 to 183 in at­tempts to force debate on American stop­gap aid to France, forerunner of the Mar­shall Plan, according to a news report from Paris. '"«

France was plunged into a new govern­ment crisis when Premier Robert Schuman demanded a virtual vote of confidence by insisting upon immediate passage of his drastic anti-inflation measure by an un­willing national assembly.

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