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watching television, making friends with burglars, and snapping at policemen. There have been a lot of dogs in the news since the starf of dog days early in July. One keeps cool under the collar by staying indoors and watching television. Another collapsed of heat prostration after going out into the noonday sun.

. 2 out to be heroes, and several wound up as bums. :

The four-legged video viewer is a Columbus, O., pekingese. called “Little Girl,” who belongs to Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Bishop. She likes wrestling matches and western movies best, and keeps time to singing commsicials by nodding her

<* < <> THE HEAT prostration victim was a mongrel in Providence, R. I, Veterinarians at the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals had to revive the animal with ice packs. A seven-year-old Back Bay Boston beagle hound named Skipper became the first dog in medical history to 'receive radioactive iodine treatment for cancer of the. thyroid. In five months, the dog has been given four heavy Injections of “hot” material from the Oak Ridge, Tenn., atomic energy plant.

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson °

ROME, Aug. 20—We didn’t bring you along on our round-the-world hop just to see a basketball game—but after all, this was an AMERICAN

_ basketball game,

Every American from Ambassador Dunn down was talking about Bill Veeck’s and Abe Baperstein’s wonderful Harlem Globe Trotters. So one night we sat in an open-air’ Madison 8quare Garden sort of place watching the Globe Trotters put on a great show while clowning through a 56-49 victory over the Boston Whirlwinds. “We're feeling real great today,” the captain, Mark Haynes, told me, “because we just had a private audience with the Pope.” Pope Pius had received the two teams at his summer residence, Castel Gandolfo, and they all had religious medals which His Holiness had blessed.

“The Pope said he had shaken a lot of hands “but mine was the biggest,” Reece “Goose” Tatum, “the clown prince of basketball,” a South Bend boy, told me in the dressing room. Tatum, who can hold a basketball in his hand almost as though it were a pea, was the Italian fans’ big favorite. .At one point one of his fellow players leaped

"on his shoulders, Tatum trotted up to the basket

and, athlete on his shoulders, dropped the ball in. Po. dP

YOU CAN SEE nobody was being very serious, including the referee, Elliott Hasan, the athletic director of Chicago's Hyde Park High School. Actually, the boys saw Pope Pius twice. The first time they were in a large group. The Pope discovered later they'd been there and invited them back for a private audience. e Pope amazed the boys by showing them that he knew something about their record and something about basketball. All we Americans felt very nationalistic about the team—Marilyn Suferd, Leo Rostand of Look, Bill Atwood of the N. Y. Post and Collier's, Photographer Bob Capa, Walt Disney, Paul McGrath and all the rest hanging out around the Hotel Excelsior. ° “We carry our opposition with us,” one Globe Trotter said, ‘ He meant the so-called Boston Whirlwinds— the three sets of Clark Twins from Huntington, Ind.; Tony Lavelli of New York, Yale All-Amer-ican; Bob Karstens, Okla.,.and the University of Towa, and Wally Osterkorn of Chicago. The Jrotters’ home towns were more Amer-

ican geography—Horse Cave, Ky.’s Clarence Wilson; Ft. Wayne, Ind.’s Bobby Milton; Kan-

Americana eis

By Robert C. Ruark

NEW YORK, Aug. 20—More in desperation than in hope we sent the animals to college this. summer, on the off-chance that a smitech of obedience and good breeding would soak into their knotty skulls. But in honesty I must announce that education is not for the masses. Both of my mutts seem more fit for the job of day-laborer in dogdom. Ma’mselle, the she-poodle, as adept a cracksman and as able a pickpocket as ever was whelped, turned out to be the dunce of the class. She can open the trash can by treading on the pedal, and she can filch an earring off a guest without ruffling the victim’s hairdo, but such a simple command as “come here,” still means nothing at all, despite the valiant efforts of the tutors. I had some vision that the he-boxer, Schnorkel, might be spiritually reformed on my return from afar—at least to a point where it was possible to walk him without losing an arm. Not so. He has even managed to forget the one thing that I had laboriously massaged into his posterior with a chair leg—tne act of staying the bejabbers out of the dining room when human beings were being fed. College has taught him that dogs are as good as humans and should always be included in the table setting. * Oo FROM CLOSE inspection of the students, as they are called by their personal slaves, I would deduce that both aspirants to knowledge cheated their entire way through college. Certainly they never studied their English, because when I say, “down,” both leap up and bite me in the face. I notice a fresh air of lofty superiority to their surroundings that would go better on a Yale sophomore than on a couple of refugees from the incorrigible pound. It is a sort of Brooks Bros. attitude toward me that I resent, as a graduate of a state university. Not everybody is rich

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‘an advanced dog. I have trouble enough keeping

began yelling for help. They were Pal swam to shore. : AD eS 9 » SEVERAL DOGS weren't watching their canine P's and Q's, however. An 11-year-old Chicago boxer named “General,” failed to live up to his impressive name. He stood by while bandits tied up a porter in his master's restaurant and took $3000. Kenneth Johnson, Reading, Mass. put -his watchdog Ginger on guard when he left an outboard motor in his yard. The next day, the motor was gone. When police came to investigate; Ginger would not let them into the yard until his master restrained him. And in Chicago, a man was charged with larceny for stealing materials with which to build his pet a doghouse. Dog days, incidentally, is a period of from four to six weeks between the early part of July and early in September when dogs are popularly supposed to be especially likely to go mad because of the sultry weather.

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Greeting by Pope Thrills Cage Stars

sas City’s Josh Grider; Tulsa’s Tommy Gipson; St. Louis’ Sam Wheeler; Philadelphia's Bill Brown, and Detroit's Bob Hall. oD oS

IT WAS NICK ALTROCK sort of basketball— but a good show that-Bill Veeck: must have had something to do with planning. Bill's partner, Abe Saperstein, coach of. the team, had rushed back to help Bill with his St. Louis baseball problems—but a medal blessed by the Pope was sent on to him. The show even included baton-tossing by a pretty Great Neck gal, Dotty Grover, a student at Syracuse, and track exhibitions by Jesse Owens. If the Italians and American tourists would go crazy over a basketball team, what would they do about Joe DiMaggio if he came to Italy? Well; there’s a rumor he might at the end of this season—and Rome can’t wait, Hb > THE MIDNIGHT EARL: Singer (and comic) Phil Regan brought BBD and O’s Ben Duffy, who publicized and promoted Dewey’s last Presidential campaign, to Washington to meet Truman, He was warmly received . . . Peter Crosby, barely divorced by Denise Darcel, is consoling himself with Roma Paige, once engaged to Alan Dale.

oe oo o EARL'S PEARLS: Winnie Garrett suggests a theme song for track fans: “Come On A My Horse.” oo oo oo» B'WAY BULLETINS: Manufacturggs are scrambling for contracts to supply expanding Army Post Exchanges . . . There's talk of a musical “Gone With the Wind” . . . Betty George signed to understudy Dolores Gray in “Two On the Aisle” . « +» Geene Courtney and Durante gag-writer Jack Barnett are on the edge of the ledge . . . The rivalry between hatcheck bosses Abe Ellis and Jack Rosen is about to come to a head . . . That elusive occurrence, the birth of a star, is currently taking place at the Versailles. Carmen Torres, already well known in other parts of the world, is displaying her glorius voice in a group of Spanish, Cuban, French and American songs. Also featured is harpist Robert Maxwell, who has the facility of making his instrument sound like everything but a harp. When the audience applauded him, he said, “Thank you from the bottom of my harp” . .. That's Earl, brother. :

Suggests M ISP DagLabored

Miss Darcel

enough to afford private

and there will be no more of this sneering at the

tutoring, kids,

master. Or... Or what? I am informed that'I no langer dare correct them with the old methed—generally a trunk strap—because in modern education one reasons with the student. Corporal punishment warps the soul and sets up an emotional block to learning. oe oe oe IT IS NOT enough that I must provide the hamburger and the tuition, I also got to reason with the dogs. And thay won’t get down off the divan, on grounds that such evasive action might tend to incriminate them. Education is a fine thing for some people, or dogs, but it rides badly on the unfit. I had two uncomplicated morons previously, and now I have two sad neurotics. Their little pea-brains are cluttered with such esoteric extravagances as “charge” and “stay” and “heel” and their old habit patterns have been destroyed. The boxer has even stopped trying to kill the he-poodle next door, while the girl dog has lost her taste for cuff links. ~ They used to be reasonably happy animals, content with mama’s best hat or a new pair of shoes, but now they brood and sulk and worry over their incomplete knowledge. They feel that they are too good to: be dogs. They remain resentful all the time, and the air around the house is charged with tension. I do not quite know what to make of the students—whether to send them back to college for more learning, or just to leave them alone in hope that they'll forget what they've learned and sink back into happy stupidity. But one thing I will not do, as has already been suggested: I will not go to their college to learn to think like

up with the retarded humans.

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New Hot Weather Playground—

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By DOUGLAS LARSEN

: Times § Writer . MIAMI BEACH, Aug. 20—This season proyes that

America now has a brand new summer playground. Three years ago Miami Beach and other vacation spots in Florida were boarded up in the hot months. Thanks mostly to a campaign led by the airlines, this has been quickly changing during the last couple/2bove last summer. of years. It is running four New YorkAnd this summer Florida is|Miami round-trip flights a day, grabbing off a big slice of the na-/compared to six in the winter. tion’s summer vacation trade. [Some of the hotels which are Chambers of Commerce report Part of National's package plan 30 to 680 per cent increases of last/are now booked for the season. summer’a record business. About! "a2 = 85 per cent of Miami Beach's ho-l THE SPECIAL inspiration to tels are open and report a boom-| Florida's big hotels to stay open ing business. Offering rates of in the summer is the savings on about a third of winter rates, the insurance, which is higher when most expensive hotels like the hotels are left empty, an savings Saxony and Roney Plaza are on the cost of recruiting and trainjammed. |ing new staffs each year. w. n= v | Most of the people trying FloIN MIAM1 BEACH there arerida for the first time this sum-

at mealtime. State police officials/are a lot of repeaters. The cheap) estimate traffic from the north/luxury facilities are the big at-| only a shade under the mid-winter traction. average, with cars from New| The heat isn't bad. The conYork, New Jersey, Ohio and Penn-stant trade winds off the ocean! {sylvania predominating. There are keep the temperature under 87, |plenty of- tourists from the north-/although the thermometer rarely {ern summer resort states of Mich- dips below 75. There's never need

|igan and Wisconsin, too. to sleep under a blanket and

sparked the Florida summer boom sheet. | with its slogan of -a “Millionaire's 4 | Vacation on a Budget” reports its package va-|/Florida summer resort hoom is

Gambling Fever—

the gambling picture,” declared Alfred E. Johns, Ph. D., consultant psychologist of New York, “not the parasites who prey on him. The habitual gambler has a compulsive neurosis. He needs intensive treatment. Cure him and there won't be any need for periodic drives against gambling racketeers.” ” = o DR. JOHN'S OFFICE is near Times Square, which probably has more gamblers than any similar area in the country. He has treated many gambling

EDITOR’S NOTE: Sure, send the big shot gamblers to jail. But will that stop gambling? No, say the psychologists. They make out a pretty good case that habitual gambling is a disease. Here is the first of a series which indicates that 60 suckers are born every minute, especially during the racing season, and that many of them are victims of a strange mania.

CHAPTER ONE By MURRAY ROBINSON

neurotics, made intensive The Kefauver Committee studies of them. estimated that Americans an- “The habitual gambler's nually gamble §$20,000,000,000, problem,” Dr. Johns declares,

with mobsters handling the bulk of the action. The corollary is graft to cops and politicians. This unpretty picture has set off a reform chain reaction, with committees being formed everywhere to get after the rascals.

“is basically the same as that of the habitual drinker. It is the psychologist’s job to determine the deep-rooted cause of this compulsion. “But his work is in vain unless the patient has the will to be cured. Cure is accomplished by the substitution of socially Revulsion against the mani- useful hobbies for the gambling cured mugs and their easy habit.” . gambling money is all to thessss “Dr. Johns points out that the gambler’'s ‘compulsive neuro“#13 'no respecter of .rank or estate... You find habitual’ gamblers among persons who apparently have every material and social advantage. = On the other side of the same coin you find the familiar picture of the shabby, financially harassed wage-earner, usually

nt the anti-game are blasting the wrong target. Their battle cry is “Get the higher ups!” — when, in the opinion of psychologists, it should be “Cure the gamblers!” “The gambler himself is the most important figure in

Florida Warms Upto

cation plan selling 55 per cent

MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1951

SUMMER SOUTH—Florida's beaches, usually bare in summer, look like this as business booms

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in what used to be the off-season. This is Miami Beach, once just a winter playground.

lines in front of the restaurants mer appear satisfied. And there the threatened loss of its chief]

“In many instances he is told!

Other lures of Florida are at

appeal — economy. The Miami there is no more room at the min- winter price levels, such as the

Beach Chamber of Commerce this

summer was forced to issue this figure.” oh warning to hotel and motel op-

erators:

“Don’t kill. the goose that laid about 50 per cent last summer,|

the golden egg. Tourist courts are nearly all getting $6 double and and when luxury Miami Beach hotels advertise

is skeptical of the offering.

in a dull job, who never misses a day without making a bet on a horse. The same difference in social and financial standings may also be seen among female gamblers. “I am not speaking of the occasional horse bettor or week-end card player when I discuss gambling neurotics,” Dr. Johns says. “I am speaking of the person who simply can’t take gambling or leave

it alone. Some inner force compels him to gamble. = o 2

“THE POOR gamble to com-

pensate for financial or social inferiority. “The wealthy gamble to compensate for other frustrations. They may be of sexual or social origin.” Recently Dr. Johns made his first trip to the race track. His purpose was to study horse players in action. There were some 20,000 of them scurrying about Belmont Park. At day’s end, Dr. Johns shook

his head sadly. “I looked and look®d all af-

,ternoon,” he said “but I didn’t

sée one reladed, contentéa-hte man face. Everywhere I saw tension, nervous twitching and

- other gestures typical of neu-

rotics,” - ® 8 4 DURING the course of his day at the races, Df Johns’ practiced eye picked out an

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Urges Probe Of Service Academ

By SEN. WILLIAM BENTON |and the committees they grace WASHINGTON, (NEA) -—1Iare puolic relations fronts de-

; |signed to justify current prohave sent to President Truman, grams. I would lite to see a com|General Marshall, Secretary Pace mittee drawn from the most

{and the superintendents of the competent men in the field of col-

| military and naval academies, lege curriculum-building. {ny recommendations given in a 1 4o not believe the Congress {speech on the floor of the Senate itself can he expected to do a conAug. 6. In these I proposed: (structive job on the question of ONE: Abolishing intercollegiate the abolition of football in the football at our service academies. service academies. It is too much TWO: Concurrent with this ac-/to expect Congressmen to stand |tion, letting the 90 accused cadets/Up against the pressures of the lat West Point remain in the in- alumni bodies and other groups stitution, on probation ‘and sub- Which have developed vested inject to the strict discipline which terests in big-time, professionalthey

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first to admit should be theirs. [ball | THREE: Undertaking an im- RT Re WHA mediate investigation, by the! IF CONGRESSMEN are suscep

|tible to pressures from veterans,

most competent people in the] - academic world, looking toward C01 Soctoss SHY other Zroups the reorganization of the cur-| p

riculum, the teaching standards| they be io organized pressures in

{defense of the vast paraphernalia ang Lhe jacuities Of, our service which has developed arbund the ' |college football spectacle? If these recommendations are| One of the most interesting arfollowed, 1 see no reason for a guments advanced on the floor in Congressional investigation Into|gefense of Army-Navy football the West Point football scandal./was by Sen. Francis Case (D. I do not believe the Congress is/s Dn.) who alleged “that many competent to investigate the aca-|of the offensive tactics and the demic standards of the service matter of deployment of troops academies and I would urge theland airplanes have been learned

level competent educators. ~ s ” SO-CALLED | are not what is required here; too dents—and

often they are window-dressing have 50 tgams—yes, 150 teams,

[that

ripps-Howard Newspapers |

momentum to the drive to limit federal income, estate and

gift taxes to. a maximum of 25 per cent. D. E. Casey of the Ameri

1 of amending the Clonetity

within the next two years.

plished by 1953 at the latest, and|warrantedly optimistic view. possibly by next year.

themselves would be the'ized college and university foot- §

n that enough states tion starts operating. Mr. Casey the Constitutional convention syswill petition Congress to force says he is certain that the 10/tem. its hand on the limitation pro- extra states can be “picked up” stitution doesn’t specify how the . delegates shall be selected, And He says’ this will be accom-| But some believe this is an un-{there would be no up other sections of the ConstiuIn the first place, the sponsorsition to amendment — something Twenty-two states already have of the 25 per cent limit drive dan’t|sponsors of the drive aren't inter-

Sen. William Benton I DENY SEN. CASE'S high|

the Military and|

would have to act if as many

By Se : WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 — Forthcoming passage in| nh 30 states petition Congress for Congress of a new tax increase bill is expected to add the limitation.

Congress could grab the ball,

pass the proposed amendment and submit it to the states for rati- would put the fication.

Theie ade lualy diawbauks (0) In the first place, the Con-

n on opening

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imum rate and an attempt is

| made to sell him at a higher big fish pond known as Marine.

{land, about a 30-minute attracItion, which costs a man and wife down and two children $6.60 for a peek. Another gripe of the summer but are only down about 20 per trade is the disdainful attitude of cent this summer. A hamburger most of the help in the hotels and

” ” 5 FOOD PRICES were

stance, is a rarity.

than 10 or 20 per cent.

elderly woman in the crowd under the grandstand. She was dumpy, sallow-faced ang wore a baggy housedress under an old sweater. Her heels were run down. Her face was stonily impassive, except for facial muscles which rippled under the skin and told of constantly gritting teeth. “Let’s see what she does,” Dr. Johns said. “An excellent type.” Just before the third race the woman shuffled over toward the mutuel betting windows. “A $2 bettor,” I guessed. “Do not jump te conclusions,” Dr. Johns cautioned. ” EJ 5

One airline (National), which seldom an urge to sleep under a up for overnight accommodations for less than 40 cents, for in-|/restaurants toward them. They Nightclub/make it clear that the only cus accomodations prices, considered fabulous in the tomers worth the grade “A” treatiggy Bank| AN OBVIOUS danger in thelat from $2 to $4 a day the visitor winter, aren't down much more ment are the big spenders of the Iwinter trade.

Bettors, Not Mobsters, Are Problems

fumbled in her purse, took oui her remaining $2—and bet it. The horse ran fourth. s 8 s “FROM this woman’s ace tions,” Dr. Johns commented, “I would say she is a compulsive gambler. Her gritting teeth showed her inner tension. How much she bets makes no difference to her. She bets what she has. And the fact that she quickly took the man’s advice, even after he was once wrong, shows her susceptibility to suggestion, a neurotic character= istic.”

Dr. Johns listed other such characteristics, which will be demonstrated as part of the

THE WOMAN went to thes habitual gambler's makeup lat-

$50 window and bought a ticket.

er in this series. Among them is

i gation would be the failure of the § West Point officials to reinstate nent up to and including dismis-

We watched her as she watched the race, She sat quietly in her

superstition. At the track he was in-

seat. Her facial expression never changed—even when her ‘rigued by the sight of dozens horse won. : of horse players either hiding After the race she went back their eyes from the races or under the grandstand and closing their eyes against the

talked with a man leaning against a post, obviously a tout. Then she cashed her ticket, getting back. $102.50. She shuffled off again to. {fre $5 Window. This time she bet $100. Her horse lost—and the only change of appearance in her -was the reddening of her ears. The woman tore up her worthless mutuel tickets and again conferred with the tout. He spoke earnestly to her. She

track announcer’s report on the horses as they ran. “This is typical of neurotics,” Dr. Johns said. “I call it their _Mostrich-like. policy” It {s an escape: mechanism. It lessens their tension—and aiso ‘gives the gambler one more moment «in the world of high hope and fantasy.”

NEXT: How the touts took a Connecticut sucker in four months.

ies By Educators

admirals; and (b) what percent- munity, the College cannot and age of those finishing in the top will not condone. It seems clear 10 per cent or 20 per cent of their that the students are opposed, as classes academically have become a whole, to taking this matter generals or admirals. into their own hands, and I am But whatever these percentages, afraid that community disI predict that 30 years hence they approval for such conduct is lackwould be even more emphatically|ing. on the side of those who have ap-| a .% 'n plied themselves to their studies. “THE STUDENTS seem to Bigtime football has thrown the have adopted the easy moral football players Wholly out of bal-| a ndards of the society about ance and this is a tragedy in : that is not good

which these young men are merely them. But the ey 8 Y! enough for Yale College. I am

{sure that fierce punishments are My feeling is that the only rea- good correctives for this malson for a Congressional investi-l qv "put I hold it my duty te (warn the student that punish-

thesé.young men who are, as I gq) will be meted out in those said on the. floor ‘of the Senate, cases where the «cheater: is more sinned against than sinning. caught. And I wish to remind you As further indication that their/that a record of cheating, a sinpunishment has not been fitted to gle incident, indeed, upon the recthe crime, I submit the following ord effectively prevents the stutwo paragraphs from a letter dent from entering many of the from Dean William C. DeVane of desirable professions and busiYale College. nesses after he leaves college.” # un 8 { Dean DeVane rightly says that THIS LETTER is dated Aug. 1. he $asy moral an Dur Isociety are not good eno or It is addressed to all students of Yale. Neither are they good Yale College. It came to my at-lanough for West Point. Nevertention oecause my oldest son is theless, I believe these West Point entering his Junior year at Yale: |cadets should be given a lesser “One cther matter considerably punishment than that which is to

creation wf a committee of high- in the offensive tactics of foot- opinion of football. I should like troubled the faculty at its final\be meted out to them, and that ball.” My answer to that wasito get from

meeting. This was the amount of the Defense Department and the

if this is right, football|Naval Academies the figures on cheating sthat, if.the evidence is Administration of the Service “BIG NAMES” should he compulsory for all stu-| (a) what percentage of winners/to be believed, takes place in un-| Academies, should take the farWest Point should of major football letters in past dergraduate classes. Such a crime reaching steps required to prevent years have become generals orlagainst one’s self and the com-la recurrence.

Proposed 25 Pct. Tax Limit In U. S. Gains Favor

But with so many states having| House tax bill proposes to raise petitioned Congress already, tax-|the corporate rate to 52 per cent. conscious members are giving the; Lower income people now pay proposal thorough study. much less than 25 per cent of One is that the amendment their income in taxes. And some government in a objectors say that-one smiult of

can Approval by 36 states strait-jacket on raising revenues the 25 per cent limitation would Taxpayers Assn. sponsor of the|fore this never before used would put it into the Constitution.|at a time when it might he ne«/he to fores impasition 58 he

vesdary 0 raise revenues sharp- maximum rate on the lower ly. groups to get the money needed The proposal would allow: the by the government. oie 25 per cent limit to be lifted only| States which already have petiby a three-fourths vote of both|tioned Congress for the Salling of Houses of Congress in time of|a Constitutional convention for war or emergency equivalent to|the adoption of the r cent war. And the waiver of the limit-| limitation ame ne

ation wotild last only one year. |New E Under present law, tax rates|Rhode Island,

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