Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 190, Decatur, Adams County, 13 August 1963 — Page 6

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Adams County Farmers’ Corner

Purple Pennings By: Pasty Lee Leaders County Extension Agent Home Economics Meetings to be noted are: August 20, there will be a Christmas workshop committee meeting in the extension office at 1:30 p.m. August 22, the home demonstration club lesson leaders will attend an all day workshop at the Farm Bureau Coop on “Family Food Needs.” Every once in awhile, I find it necessary to start on a soapbox sermon — this time it isn’t overweight — what triggered the present frame of mind is that recently I was in a hobby shop looking for Dew craft ideas for 4-H projects when I happened upon some model airplane kits and ship kits. Gone are the days when boys practically built their airplanes and model ships from scratch. Maybe some of you men (if you read this column) remember the hours you spent building a ship or airplane and the sense of satisfaction which you had after the project was completed. Today all a child need do is assemble a few bits of plastic and there is a facsimile of the “old fashioned” hobby. Why is it every-

SPECIAL WASHINGTON REPORT

Small Givers Needed To Finance Elections By Sen. Maurine B. Neuberger (D-Oreg.)

Not all of our political practices are admirable, but surely one of the least palatable to Americans is the dominance of the large, private campaign contributions. For the prospective candidate to national political office, the first order of business in seeking elec-

tion is the selling of his political beliefs, not to the electorate at large, but to the narrow financial constituency who must be prevailed upon to finance the campaign. The surprising aspAt of this narrow funding process is, not that it exists, but that the vast majority of legislators nevertheless exercise independent judgment and action. Yet the pressure to treat with sympathy the interests of one’s major contributors is obviously great, and too often disrupts the freedom of judgment which a truly representative legislator must maintain.

lonically, I know of no Member of Congress who enjoys the frantic pursuit of funds which has become the constant counterpoint of every campaign. It is demeaning, where it is not an affirmative evil; and it is unworthy of the most powerful deliberate body in the world. Nor is this a static situation. Hundreds of thousand of dollars are consumed in today's campaigns by needs which were nonexistent as recently as 20 years ago. Television enables the presidential or congressional candidate to confront his electorate as intimately as does the local candidate who can call personally on his neighbors who will elect him. It is no luxury for the candidate. It has become an absolute necessity. And extensive radio, billboard, and newspaper coverage are equally critical to the effective campaign. | The campaigns of 1960 furnished fresh evidence, if any was needed, of the massive financial pressures upon the candidates, inherent in all major election campaigns. The reported expenditures of the two msjor parties in the national campaigns alone reached nearly S2O million as compared with $12.9 million in 1912. The Democrats in 1960 spent $3.8 million more than they had raised, while the Republicans incurred a deficit of $700,000. President Kennedy, following the report of his Commission on Campaign Costs, urged Congress

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where we turn there is automation and kits, paint by number pictures, cake mixes, frozen TV dinners — and on down the line of stereotyped items to destroy our creative ability. Granted some time saving devices are certainly welcome — but what happens to the time that is saved? Is it spent wisely? Just how wisely depends upon the persons interest. But, I certainly don’t think a good healthy adult spends his time wisely simply sitting around watching the "good tube” or sitting in a rocking Chair gossiping — or for that matter the housewife who spends all her time on the telephone gossiping. How many of you have a hobby that can be counted in the worthwhile column? This same atitude of wanting things quickly with a minimunm of effort can bp found among a good percentage of the school children —notice the few who really put time into their classroom assignments, and then notice the large majority who race through their homework like it was the plague and turn in school work which is really much below their ability. This same attitude of not putting your whole “heart and soul”

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, to consider, together with tax ’ incentives, a program of Federal matching incentives for small . contributions. I was pleased to ' introduce such legislation to the Senate. Under a matching ini centives plan, contributions in amounts of $lO or less per person raised by designated political ■ committees would be matched 1 by a like sum from funds appropriated by Congress. Where a contribution is earmarked for t the use of a particular candidate, - the matching grant must also be used to pay the expenses of the 1 designated candidate. I A matching incentives program is essential to motivate the political committees to organize solicitation drives on a broad basis—drives which have not in the past been characterized by either enthusiasm or efficiency. A matching incentives program would hold out to the parties a • doubling of their successes in i small-gift fund raising. WithI out the stimulus of a matching ( incentives program, I doubt seriously whether tax incentives alone would produce sufficient i numbers of small gifts to free candidates from the need to rely on major contributions from a narrow circle of sources. This is a limited program. But it will, if favorably acted upon, be a beginning. Fifty years ago President Theodore Roosevelt endorsed the principle of Federal contributions to campaign financing. It is time for a beginning.

into your work can be found in many places of work. How many of you have noticed employes who spend the good percentage of tne day chatting with their fellow workers, taking extended lunch hours or perhaps not keeping their mind on their work. 'lbis dissertation could go on,, I remember several years ago when we were first threatened by Russia that someone said that they would not attack us openly, but we would be destroyed from within. Maybe this is what they had in mind. In reading the history of great countries one usually finds that they destroy themselves by not continuing the goodness which built the country. So perhaps the large percentage of Americans are becoming a nation of weaklings — not only in physical fitness but weaklings in developing their natural abilities. PREVENT MILDEW: Hot and humid summer days promote more bathing, more damp clothing — and more mildew especially in* the bathroom. If you smell a must ordor in room mildew is striking, says Elkin Minter, Purdue University home management specialist. Usually musty odors disappear if the room is well heated and dried, she continues. Shower stalls and bathtubs are frequently victims of mildew. To prevent mildew, keep the room well ventilated and towel dry the tub and shower after using them, suggests the specialist. If mildew has’already formed on tile, walls and floor, scrub them with a solution of % to 1 cup liquid chlorine bleach in a gallon of water. Rinse with clear water and wipe as dry as possible. Keep windows open until walls and floors are thoroughly dry. Work quickly to prevent damaging surfaces. If a cotton shower curtain is mildewy, boil the curtain and dry it in the sun. Come plastic shower curtains will stand washing with the chlo rine bleach solution, while others may have to be cut off or replaced. Read the manufacturer’s directions. Wet towels and swimsuits hanging in the bathroom and damp clothing In the laundry hamper aid the growth of mildew. Dry any damp articles before putting them in the hamper and dry swimming Items outside whenever possible.

mW r — Hi Neighbors! Did you ever think of how much the soil means to you? From the soil came the food you ate today, the wood to build the house you live in, the flowers and grass you enjoy. Your food, your clothing and your shelter come from the soil. Upon it, to a large extent, depends your present health and comfort and your future welfare. Have you ever seen a counterfeit coin? If you have you know it looks much like a real coin. But a chemist’s test will show that it contains less silver or other precious metals. Food raised on poor soils can be counterfeits too. It may look good, but tests will show that it has in it too little of the things we need to keep healthy. If we look at our soil as a bank account or something that is very important to our health and comfort we are apt to be more careful with its use. It is as important as our bank acount so let us use it wisely. ‘

THE DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, DECATUR, INDIANA

PREVENT PICNIC POISONING: To be sure everyone enjoys your next picnic — take extra precautions against food spoilage. Marcile Allen, food specialist at Purdue University, says that food spoilage will occur quickly in certain foods during warm months, if they aren’t kept properly cooled. The simplest precaution against picnic poisoning is a avoid foods that favor growth of organisms causing food poisoning, she advises. These include custard-type pie filings, cream fillings and cream sauces, creamed casseroles, and fish, egg and chicken salads. Whether or not you include any of these dishes. Miss Allen urges you to follow this basic rule in transporting food: Keep hot food hot and cold food cold. Keep hot dishes at a temperature of 150 degrees F. or more and cold ones at 50 degrees F. or less. If hot food will be eaten soon after it is cooked, wrap containers in several thicknesses of paper. But, if the picnic is delayed, unwrap the food and keep it hot on a fire or unwrap and cool it completely. Prepare cold food far enough in advance to chill it thoroughly. Then wrap the containers to insulate them. The best solution to the sandwich problem is to make the sandwiches at the picnic site. Refrigerate all ingredients until the very last minute. Or, make the sandwiches early enough to freeze them, and allow them to thaw in time for eating. One added warning about cooking pork at the picnic. Be sure all pork products are cooked thoroughly. SOMEONE SAID: Summer is the time when it’s too hot to do the things it was too cold to do in the winter. Texan Civic Pride Is A Strong Force By DICK WEST United Press International WASHINGTON (UPI) — The civic pride of a Texan is one of nature’s strongest forces, ranking just behind the pull of gravity and just ahead of the capillary attraction of a tuberous begonia. His talent is such that a Texan can find something affirmative to say about the place where he lives, even when the odds overwhelmingly favor the negative. The untrained eye, for instance, might not notice anything superlative about Merkel, Texas, which is my old home town. Yet the citizenry there has never been without a claim of distinction. At one point they used to boast that Merkel was the only town in the world where the population was the same as the elevation. At that time it had 1,872 residents living 1,872 feet above sea level. Increases Slightly Unfortunately, however, the population increased slightly in the next census. Either that or the elevation sank a few feet. I forget which. At any rate the two figures no longer matched. The change was a catastrophe, civic pride-wise, and I wasn’t certain that the town would be able to recover. So when I visited in Merkel during a recent vacation, I asked my father whether there was anything left to brag about. “Why, certainly,” my father said. “This town is now the home of Cassius Lipbutton, the world’s most modest Texan.” “A modest Texan!” I exclaimed. “You must be pulling my leg.” “Honest injun,” my father said. “If you don’t believe it you can go talk to him yourself.” Wells In Yard When I drove up the Lipbutton home, Cassius was out in the back yard camouflaging his oil wells to make them less conspicuous. He wore a pair of low heel boots and his hat wouldn't have held a drop more than four and a half gallons. I began the interview by commenting on the size of his swimming pool, which was the largest one I had ever seen. "There’s a bigger one down state,” Lipbutton protested, blushing furiously. "It’s called the Gulf Os Mexico.” “Are those your airplanes?” I asked, pointing to an airdrome behind the pool. “Just a few jet transports,” Lipbutton said shyly. "Shucks, American Airlines has more jets than I do.” “What about your ranch?” I asked. "Isn’t it pretty big?” "Heck, no,” Lipbutton said. "It ain’t much bigger than Rhode Island.” “You certainly have a lot of humility,” I said. "No wonder they call you the world’s most modest Texan.” “I usually am more humble than this,” Lipbutton said apologetically, "but I’ve been sick.” If you have something to sell or trade — use the Democrat Want ads — they get BIG results.

More Violence At Chicago's School Site CHICAGO (UPI) — Integrationists climbed power poles, buildings and barricades today in the second day of demonstrations at a mobile calssroom site on Chicago’s racially troubled South Side. Police estimated from 15 to 20 persons were arrested and carried bodily off to paddy wagons in the first few hours of demonstrations. The arrests took place on a block where the Board of Education is trying to install mobile classrooms which integrationists charge foster de facto segregation. Among those arrested were six girls, two white and four Negro, who lay down on Rock Island Railroad tracks closeby the classroom site. Chilling rain began falling on the demonstrators a| mid-morn-ing. than 50 persons were arrested in tumultous demonstrations Monday and 37 of them spent the night in jail. During the night, an attempt was made to burn down one of the five mobile classrooms at the 73rd Street and Lowe site. An arson squad investigation was ordered. The pickets showed a shift in strategy today when Wayne Yancy, 20, a Negro, and Sibylle Bearskin, 18, an Indian girl from Greenßay, Wis., scampered up ladders and perched on the cross beams of power poles 35 feet above the ground. Police summoned a fire department snorkel—a crane-like device used to rescue persons from burning buildings—in hopes of getting them down. While police waited, six demonstrators sat down around a power company truck which had arrived to check the poles. The six—three of them young women—were arrested. Simultaneously, a white girl scrambled to the top of one of the mobile classrooms and refused to come down. Five policemen went after her. They strapped her into a bag normally used for psychiatric cases, lowered to the ground and placed her under arrest. The hard core of the demonstration was a group of 15 pickets, sponsored by the Congress of Racial Equality. Many of the demonstrators wore slings and bandages. A Negro Aiderman charged police roughed up some of them. Police said gasoline was poured on one of the mobile classrooms but burned out quickly. Damage was slight. Mrs. Verdie Bluff, secretary of the 71st and Stewart Committee, said the fire must have been started by “some idiot—someone who just doesn’t have -anything else to do.” In another incident during the night, a group of Negro youths threw stones and bricks at some white boys at 33rd and Shields. One of the white youths, Paul Bertucci, 14, was hit in the face by a brick and was treated at Mercy hospital. Monday’s demonstration started peacefully but erupted into violence when pickets charged police lines and rocks flew from a crowd of demonstrators and their hooting supporters. Grills Petitions To Enter Tax Fight INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — Former State Sen. Nelson Grills, DIndianapolis, who has been itching on the sidelines to join in the court battle over Indiana’s sales tax law, apparently will get the chance. Grills late Monday filed a petition with the Indiana Supreme Court asking leave to file a brief in the case upon behalf of the Hoosiers for Good Government and Hammond Business Men’s Association!" Both are non-profit organizations, the first composed of about 135,000 persons opposed to the sales tax, and the second of about 100 retailers—also against the sales tax. If the high court grants Grills' petition, he has already indicated he will argue that the 1963 Legislature legally did not exist and therefore had no authority to pass the sales tax or any other law. Grills, while state senator, '’began a spirited campaign to gain reapportionment of the Legislature. He won a lower court victory which held the legislature to be illegal because of its failure to reapportion” itself as required by the constitution. The decision was never reviewed by the Indiana Su-, preme Court, and Grills maintains It therefore is “the law of the land.”

Seaway Still Short Os Expected Traffic

„ By GAYLORD P. GODWIN - United Press International WASHINGTON (UPI)—An Agriculture Department study shows that traffic on the St. Lawrence Seaway has increased spectacularly since 1958, but is still short of expectations. If current trends continue the volume on the new waterway may not reach its expected goal of 50 million tons cargo by 1968, the department said. The study, prepared by the department’s economic research service, shows the quantities of agricultural and other commodities shipped on the seaway from 1958—a year before it was opened to large seagoing vessels—to 1962. Traffic of all commodities on the seaway in 1958 totaled 11.8 million tons. During 1959 the enlarged and improved seaway carried 20.4 million tons, although the expected amount was 25 tons. The tonnage in 1962 reached 25.6 million. If this rate of increase does not increase, the goal of 50 million tons annually will not be achieved by 1968. A volume ranging from 35 to 40 million tons by 1968 appears more likely. ERS said that although a lasting traffic pattern probably has not been established, completion oft he seaway already has altered the movement of agricultural commodities, particularly U.S. grain for export. Grain shipments from Great Lakes ports directly to overseas destinations via the St. Lawrence River in 1958 totaled only about 100,000 tons. This was 4 per cent Berne Area Youths Attending YFC Camp Thirty six young people from the Berne area left Monday morning for Lake Geneva, Wis., to attend a Youth for Christ camp meeting to be held this week. The camp is a regional event held annually and serves as a leadership training week for the YFC clubs. More than 400 Illinois and Indiana youths will be attending. Brice Fennig, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fennig, Berne, present YFO director at Indianapolis, will serve as camp director. Attending from the Beren area are Helen Liechty, Judie Zeigler, Joan Hanni, Janet Hanni, Myrna Sprunger, Ruth Sprunger, Donna Amstutz, Nancy Weidler, Diana Beer, Angela Lehman, Kathy Lehman, Betty Miller, Grace Amstutz, Erma Stauffer, Sharon Witte, Pamela Nidlinger, Ronnie Luginbill, Ronnie Habegger, Sheila Smith, Regina Smith, Ted Lautzenheiser, Stanley Liechty, Bob Patterson, John Lehman, Christy Stauffer, Dave Flueckinger, Steve Steury, Dave Steury, Loren Wanner and Ted Nussbaum. Attending as staff members are Rosetta Liechty, Margie Neuenschwander, Wilma Graber and Leroy and Carolyn Sprunger.

PEACE CORPS PLACEMENT TEST (■OH-coMPinnn) AUG. 24,1963-8:30 A.M. ROOM 103, 11. S. POST OFFICE FORT WAYNE More than 4,000 Peace Corps Volunteers are needed to meet urgent requests from developing nations in South America, Africa and Asia. To be considered for training programs you should take the non-competitive placement test August 24. Either send a completed application to the Peace Corps before the test, or fill one out and submit it at the time you take the test. .For an application, or more information, write the Peace Corps, or see your local Postmaster. PEACE CORPS Washington 25, D. C. Published as a public service In cooperation with The Advertising Council

of all US. grain exported in that year. In 1962, U.S. overseas shipments from the Great Lakes ports were 5.8 million tons, 18 per cent of the expanded total of U.S. grain exports. Overseas grain shipments from Atlantic Coast ports remained almost stable from 1958 to 1962, although total grain exports rose 70 per cent. The proportion of grain shipped from Atlantic ports declined from 25 per cent in 1958 to 13 per cent in 1962. ERS said that export grain traffic at Gulf and Pacific ports' so far has not been materially affected by the seaway. In fact, export grain traffic at Gulf ports increased, due partially to reduced rail rates to the Gulf ports. The department said the percentage of income spent for food declined from 23 per cent in 1952 to 19 per cent in 1962. The agency said the proportion spent for food declined in all but two years from 1952 to 1962. On the other hand, consumer expenditures for goods other than food and for services increased to 73 per cent of disposable income in 1962 from 69 per cent in 1952.

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TUESDAY AUGUST 13, 1963

f k / • ■> ■ A ■ v ' »Ji ■ HONORED — James R. Borchers, local representative for the Brotherhood Mutual Life Insurance Co. is being honored by his company for outstanding leadership in -the life insurance business. Merle N, Rocke, vice .president-director of agencies for the Fort Wayne company, announces Borchers has met the membership qualifications of the company’s "leaders club” for 1963, which are based on certain products on requirements and service to policyholders. Borchers is a member of the George McGlennen agency of Fort Wayne.