March 3, 1960 (6 pages)

a Nevada City, California, under Act of Congress of. March 3, 1879. \ a legal newspaper November 6, 1951, in Nevada County Court, Decree No. 10023. Subscription: Yearly $3.00; Six Months $1.75 Advertising Rates on Request : ~GALIFORNIA CONSERVATION WEEK : The 26th annual California Conservation Week will be Observed next week, March 7 to 14, with the theme biadt Californian’s Year of Decision.” : The theme is well chosen, for this year and those in the immediate future, are indeed crucial in conservation. é If we are'to save enonugh seashore, valley and mountain areas to meet the recreational needs of the state’s huge population in the years_to come, it must be done soon before they succumb to other incompatible uses. If we are to conserve our wildlife, we must set aside “enough refuges large enough so that wildlife can reproduce and our game laws must insure survival of the species. If we are to retain. some wilderness, we must decide that not every mountain pass needs to be pierced with a road; that some are better left in their primeval state. We need to use intelligently and conserve our water resources, our timber resources, our marine resources and insist that they be harvested with a minimum of pollution. or waste. These are decisions which an informed petigle must make, after weighing the alternatives and the costs involved if conservation is to mean anything. They are decisions which cannot be left to chance. California Conservation Week should stir Californians to take an interest in conservation, to inform themselves and to make their views known on conservation matters. TIME FOR A GOOD TURN The Presidential sweepstakes start March 8 in New Hampshire and the fact that that date comes during Girl Scout Week gives rise to a not-too-far-fetched editorial thought. The young ladies in Scouting—whom we salute with sincere approbation—share with the Boy Scouts the motto: “Do a Good Turn Daily.”’ It is one that we could well adopt for our. personal lives, but it is especially appropriate for us as members of the electorate. If only we would work a little harder to get good candidates in contention, to study the issues before us, and to vote with sense rather than seniment, we would indeed be were a good turn—for ourselves, our state, and for our nation. Oo TWO CAN PLAY THIS GAME “As is human, natural and traditional, public attention is focused in this Presidential election year on the struggle for the White House. But, while the great mass of voters is being distracted by the big show, the big names and the big noise, contests that could be far. more important to our future are now under way in 56 congressional districts across the nation! Jimmy Hoffa, labor’s bad boy and the monitor-supervised president of the Teamsters Union, has decided now is the time to show our lawmakers that it is very short-sighted to supp legislation that Mr. Hoffa doesn’t like. e Hoffa campaign for 1960 is to defeat 56 members of the i of Representatives (including both Democrats and Republicans), “because they voted for the LandrumGriffin Labor-Management Reform Bill.” This political. program is outlined in detail in Hoffa’s house organ, The International Teamster for November, 1959. The union, it notes, has just organized a “Department of Legislation and Po-. litical Education . . . to provide materials and assist in de-" veloping these (‘Register to Vote’ and ‘Get out the Vote’) campaigns.” The article fails to mention how much this will cost and whether the slush fund will be excised from’ the ‘treasury or provided by assessment of the members. But it does boast that through this plan “Teamster members alone ay uaa victory or defeat for congressional memrae And in case you are wondering why the Hoffa vendetta covers only 56 of the 229 congressmen who voted for the original Landrum-Griffin measure, the proscribed 56 represent “marginal” districts in which the culprit who .“voted against labor’’ won election by 5 per cent or less. Thus, Mr. Hoffa is hand picking what looks to him like the easy ones first; expecting, no doubt, that a sweeping victory. in _ this area will enable him to keep his political vendetta hot and ever expanding. But the 56 are not curling up at the Hoffa threat. In_ stead, they have formed a bi-partisan national committee .to , for the reelection of all under the immediate direction of Representative William H. Ayres of Ohio and Representa_. tive Carroll D. Kearns of Pennsylvania. “It would be a serious _ blow to democratic government,” says Spokesman Ayres, _ “$f this arrogant labor boss succeeded in carrying out his threats. We must not let him be victorious!” : Now that Mr. Hoffa has raised this issue and will be _ rubbing our noses in it, the whole electorate, for whose proPe the labor-management control law was passed should "gee to it that every representative who voted for a good labor control bill is returned to office—and that every one cd the 201 who voted ie it stays home. _HUMPHREY DUMPTY ' Senator Hubert Humphrey, Minnesota’s Democritic of ything Republican, unburdened himself of the profound that election of a Democratic President—prehimself —is necessary if the West’s natural reare to be properly developed and if this great region raise from the colonial status to which he. insists ‘a lack of ent for 4 December 5, 1926, as second class matter at the post office 1h in alvoniby only dopandan Gink session in Sacramento a number of hot issues will be dragged before us in one fashion or another. is released what matters the Governor may put in his call for the special session, but many items are being discussed as possibilities. Education is one of*the basically important’ fields in which we may be called upon to act. New classrooms for public elementary and Secondary schools are still a major necessity. Two months ago a new school building bond issue of $250 million was being discussed. Today the figure is $430 million, and nobody knows what the amount may be when the matter comes up for final consideration. Higher education presents other problems which will be put before Us next week. A knotty and complicated question which has at long last been worked out by educational authorities is the respective areas which should be blocked out for the university, the state and the junior colleges. This matter must be resolved once, and for all, or California will be confronted by costly compeptition and building races between the various kinds of public colleges, Because of the need for settling this question, the request of the university for $13 million for new campuses was omitted from the budget bill. However, when the matter came up for hearing in committee, university sjokesmen pressed for the re-inclusion of $3 million for a site in the middle of the state, giving as their reason the ever-growing threat of inflation in land prices. Still a differént topic which could be brought before us via the budgetary route, if not included in the special session agenda, is the matter of automatic suspension of the driver’s licenses of those convicted’ of driving while under the influence of alcohol, The current. practice of the Department of Motor Vehicles in making such suspensions has been successfully attacked in several recent court actions. Some jurists have also independently criticized the practice as invading the prerogatives of the courts. A senate subcommittee has indicated it will study the budgetary implications of the policy very carefully. In the field of welfare legislation, it is apparent that strong efforts are being made to get two items. include® in the agenda. First of these would call for the complete repeal of the “relative’s responsibility” clause which is now in our state old age security law. This provision has been hotly controversial for many years. Repealed once, before, it was restored by vote of the people, and has since been readjusted a number of times by our legislative action. If it is put on the agenda, it could greatly influence the length of the special session. The second welfare matter being pressed as a change in the law under which aid is provided to needy chilren. Local officials who administer the program have been severely critical of laxity in the law and regulations. They asssert this situation encourages parents to shift the financial burden of many children to the taxpayers. Since this system is financied by county as well as state and federal funds, there are many angles involved which will require extended study before a good solution can be worked out. From these illustrations it’ can be seen that there are many complicated subjects which could be added to the list for the special session. I know that many of my colleagues join me in the hope that only those matters in which a real emergency exists are brought before us. STRING DRIVING . GLOVES ARE HELP fortable and unsafe, since a slidwhen we reconvene our budget. We will not know until after it t aks are ge often . “and tke strange may well prove to be. the very break to enable Democrats. Among other actions, the CDC at its Fresno convention approved a declaration favoring the “remodeling of the United Nations into a world organization . ~ that can enact world law, interpret it and enforce it upon indiBy CLEM WHITAKER, .Jr. Qn his recent trips to South America, Europe and other areas of the globe, President Eisenhower is expected to play the role of the world’s number one salesman for democracy. Working the same territory is Russia’s Premier Khrushchev, peddling Communism promises to the neutral, uncommitted, underdeveloped peoples. Which line of political goods will prove most popular with the customers? As of now, democracy holds the edge—although a rather thin one. In an analysis of the worlt’s political systems in the current U. S. News & World Report, democracies are credited with holding the allegiances’ of 57 per cent of the. world’s population. Dictatorships, most though not all are Communist, claim 43 per cent. What about the future of de-: mocracy? A noted historian and author, C. Northcote Parkinson, writing in the Saturday Evening Post’s Adventures of the Mind series, raises the question of whether democracy can survive at all. History, Parkinson says, shows that various forms of rule tend to succeed one another in sequence: monarchy gives place to aristocracy, aristocracy to democracy, and democracy to a dictatorship which turns into monarchy again. On the other hand, the historian concedes, what. proved true in the past may not necessarily recur in the future. The great changes that spectaculat advances in technology have wrought upon the earth may: make past patterns no longer valid. Parkinson thinks that democracy has a good chance to last, at least in the United States, beeause the growth of the proletariat, predicted by Karl Marx, failed to take place. What took place, instead, was an enormous growth of a middle class, interested in protecting .and keeping the good things it has acquired. The best way ‘to keep them is through democratic government, not a socialistic dictatorship. Parkinson bélieves, however, that for Amefica’s democratic ‘system to survive it needs reinforcing at the points where it is weak. He has three rather startling remedies to suggest: 1. That the vote should be restricted to those who have earned it, e.g., for people who are over 30, have passed educational standards, have performed public service, have paid taxes about @ cretain minimum, ete. 2. That_ legislators should be freed from the influence of pressure groups by making their votes in legislative halls secret just as the individual’s vote at the ballot box if secret; and 3. That the public revenues should be limited under the Constitution to a stated proportion of the.national income. Even if truly necessary to save democracy, Parkinson’s proposals probably. have slight chance of adoption—but what interesting new ground rules they would create for the great game of politics! viduals and governments alike.” Do most California Democrats really believe in scuttling the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights—abandoning our individual freedoms and civil liberties to the tender mercies of a totalitarian majority of the world’s rulers? The CDC convention called for a halt to nuclear bomb tests and declared the United States should disarm unilaterally even if negotions to achieve world disarmament fail. Does afiyone really ‘believe that most California Democrats favor abandoning our defenses and inviting Russia to take over? There were resolutions urging votes for ex-convicts, demanding the Post Office Department be prohibited from keepingpornographic material out of the mails, proposing legislation to give public employees the right to strike, and demanding an end to all loycalled for “ultimate justice” for convicted atom spy Morton Sobel, an associate of the Rosenbergs, whose execution after long and scrupulously careful action in United States courts was used by interntaional ‘Communism as a promotion vehicle to defame the U. S. in every country on the globe. Do most California Democrats really go along with all this wildeved adult delinquency? Hardly. Fortunately for Mr. Nixon—an for America—most Californians, regardless of party, ate, like the] Vice Presient himself, sensible and responsible citizens. Ii You Can't See It The continued sparring between the United States and Russia on the matter of banning or limiting nuclear tests has brought forth a serious proposal that only the detectable tests be banned, Those far out in space or of ‘limited magnitude underground, and therefore undetectable, would be permitted.At first glance this seems to be a prime example of diplomatic artlessness—a sort of extension of that old childhood philosophy that if you don’t get caught you didn’t do it. Yet there is an element of sound reasoning in the proposal. The undetectable types of nuclear explosions also are those that create no fallout. Since fallout seems to be the most frightening aspect of such tests, at least such a limitation could be a calming factor in the inevitable internatinoal experimentation into nuclear fission and fusion. There is, of course, much less to be said for it as a bow to expediency, an admission of the impossibility of controlling these surance, F urthermore, as before. housing Slichter believes, ming pools, gardening tools, and books. get a second job: a four-day week appears not only as a gain in leisure time but as a tremendous boost for sports and recréation activities of all kinds —a veritable revolution in American living habits, with immense potential benefits for businesses that deal in luxury products. Not so, says economist Slichter. Not only is there serious doubt that Mama and the kids will permit the breadwinner to goof off one more day a week; but there is the serious consideration that the family provider literally will be winning less bread. That being the case, he’ll have’ less—rather than more—money to spend on such major luxury items as motor boats, power tools, motion picture cameras and deep freezers. According to Slichter, it is Very obvious that “less can be produced and earned in a four-day week than in a five-day week.” tax rates would have to be higher, because government would take the same amount of the country’s output Therefore, ‘the reasons, most industries would find their markets curtailed, Not only that, but the four-day week would cause drasalty oaths. The convention even tic changes in the kind of goods people would buy. Men working four days a week would be less able to buy the luxuries of life than men working five days. _ So-called discretionary demand (the demand for the good things of life) would be sharply curtailed. The would be. greatly damaged, and with it businesses that manufacture and sell home furnishings and equipment. ; Other articles and services that would be bought in smaller quantities under a four-day week in-} [ clude cars, travel, trailers, swimair conditioning equipment, theater tickets, life inmedical and hosptial services and college education. The few industries that would. benefit would be those dealing in relatively inexpensive goods that can be used in filling leisure time: whiskey, tobacco, movie tickets, small TVsets industry If Professor Slichter is proved right, the future for leisure looks so grim that there appears to be only one answer for Papa under the four-day week: go out and ; see your FORD TRACTOR DEALER Try Nugget Want Ads with Ford Select-0-Speed o “ [i'ma have e's eed cord i‘ bapindenen 6 ols ne for U-turns iaices: whether they want 00 oF ~ . not. Then two new appointments to the court were made, and now ~ the new judges, joining the ineumbent dissenters from the previous decision, have made organi-zational picketing the law of the land again, Reversals ar@ part of our julicial heritage, part of the growth of our nation. They come hatu‘rally as conditions and the’ thinking of the people change. It is difficult, however, to escape the disturbing conclusion that some changing political winds can make our highest interpreters of law look as changéable as a weather vane in a williwaw. Back To The Old Days? There was an item in the news not long ago that set -nostalgia stirring. It concerned the suggestion by Morris Forgash, president of the nation’s biggest frieght forwarding operation, that one solutién to the railroads’ falling passenger income would be to add freight cars to passenger trains. Several lines have started small scale experiments along this line, it is reported, but we hardly expect soon to see red boxcars on the Lark or the Zephyr or the Super Chief. Neverless, a lot of older railroad buffs ,will sit back and dream happily of the early days when many a trip was made in a passenger car hooked on to the end of a slow freight. And who knows? Maybe the old ways of the old days do have something to offer this streamlined age! liquid or ointment—a docZemo—liq or tor’s antiseptic, promptly stops scra’ a so helps eal and clear Rear EMO SEE US FOR YOUR Insulation and Roofing Problems We carry a complete supply. BUILDERS AND \. CONSUMERS LUMBER COMPANY G. V.-N. C. Hwy. at Glenbrook Phones G. V. 1050, N, C. 1192 tests in an atmosphere of mutual trust and. respect. GOING PLACES? 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a Nevada City, California, under Act of Congress of. March 3, 1879. \ a legal newspaper November 6, 1951, in Nevada County Court, Decree No. 10023. Subscription: Yearly $3.00; Six Months $1.75 Advertising Rates on Request : ~GALIFORNIA CONSERVATION WEEK : The 26th annual California Conservation Week will be Observed next week, March 7 to 14, with the theme biadt Californian’s Year of Decision.” : The theme is well chosen, for this year and those in the immediate future, are indeed crucial in conservation. é If we are'to save enonugh seashore, valley and mountain areas to meet the recreational needs of the state’s huge population in the years_to come, it must be done soon before they succumb to other incompatible uses. If we are to conserve our wildlife, we must set aside “enough refuges large enough so that wildlife can reproduce and our game laws must insure survival of the species. If we are to retain. some wilderness, we must decide that not every mountain pass needs to be pierced with a road; that some are better left in their primeval state. We need to use intelligently and conserve our water resources, our timber resources, our marine resources and insist that they be harvested with a minimum of pollution. or waste. These are decisions which an informed petigle must make, after weighing the alternatives and the costs involved if conservation is to mean anything. They are decisions which cannot be left to chance. California Conservation Week should stir Californians to take an interest in conservation, to inform themselves and to make their views known on conservation matters. TIME FOR A GOOD TURN The Presidential sweepstakes start March 8 in New Hampshire and the fact that that date comes during Girl Scout Week gives rise to a not-too-far-fetched editorial thought. The young ladies in Scouting—whom we salute with sincere approbation—share with the Boy Scouts the motto: “Do a Good Turn Daily.”’ It is one that we could well adopt for our. personal lives, but it is especially appropriate for us as members of the electorate. If only we would work a little harder to get good candidates in contention, to study the issues before us, and to vote with sense rather than seniment, we would indeed be were a good turn—for ourselves, our state, and for our nation. Oo TWO CAN PLAY THIS GAME “As is human, natural and traditional, public attention is focused in this Presidential election year on the struggle for the White House. But, while the great mass of voters is being distracted by the big show, the big names and the big noise, contests that could be far. more important to our future are now under way in 56 congressional districts across the nation! Jimmy Hoffa, labor’s bad boy and the monitor-supervised president of the Teamsters Union, has decided now is the time to show our lawmakers that it is very short-sighted to supp legislation that Mr. Hoffa doesn’t like. e Hoffa campaign for 1960 is to defeat 56 members of the i of Representatives (including both Democrats and Republicans), “because they voted for the LandrumGriffin Labor-Management Reform Bill.” This political. program is outlined in detail in Hoffa’s house organ, The International Teamster for November, 1959. The union, it notes, has just organized a “Department of Legislation and Po-. litical Education . . . to provide materials and assist in de-" veloping these (‘Register to Vote’ and ‘Get out the Vote’) campaigns.” The article fails to mention how much this will cost and whether the slush fund will be excised from’ the ‘treasury or provided by assessment of the members. But it does boast that through this plan “Teamster members alone ay uaa victory or defeat for congressional memrae And in case you are wondering why the Hoffa vendetta covers only 56 of the 229 congressmen who voted for the original Landrum-Griffin measure, the proscribed 56 represent “marginal” districts in which the culprit who .“voted against labor’’ won election by 5 per cent or less. Thus, Mr. Hoffa is hand picking what looks to him like the easy ones first; expecting, no doubt, that a sweeping victory. in _ this area will enable him to keep his political vendetta hot and ever expanding. But the 56 are not curling up at the Hoffa threat. In_ stead, they have formed a bi-partisan national committee .to , for the reelection of all under the immediate direction of Representative William H. Ayres of Ohio and Representa_. tive Carroll D. Kearns of Pennsylvania. “It would be a serious _ blow to democratic government,” says Spokesman Ayres, _ “$f this arrogant labor boss succeeded in carrying out his threats. We must not let him be victorious!” : Now that Mr. Hoffa has raised this issue and will be _ rubbing our noses in it, the whole electorate, for whose proPe the labor-management control law was passed should "gee to it that every representative who voted for a good labor control bill is returned to office—and that every one cd the 201 who voted ie it stays home. _HUMPHREY DUMPTY ' Senator Hubert Humphrey, Minnesota’s Democritic of ything Republican, unburdened himself of the profound that election of a Democratic President—prehimself —is necessary if the West’s natural reare to be properly developed and if this great region raise from the colonial status to which he. insists ‘a lack of ent for 4 December 5, 1926, as second class matter at the post office 1h in alvoniby only dopandan Gink session in Sacramento a number of hot issues will be dragged before us in one fashion or another. is released what matters the Governor may put in his call for the special session, but many items are being discussed as possibilities. Education is one of*the basically important’ fields in which we may be called upon to act. New classrooms for public elementary and Secondary schools are still a major necessity. Two months ago a new school building bond issue of $250 million was being discussed. Today the figure is $430 million, and nobody knows what the amount may be when the matter comes up for final consideration. Higher education presents other problems which will be put before Us next week. A knotty and complicated question which has at long last been worked out by educational authorities is the respective areas which should be blocked out for the university, the state and the junior colleges. This matter must be resolved once, and for all, or California will be confronted by costly compeptition and building races between the various kinds of public colleges, Because of the need for settling this question, the request of the university for $13 million for new campuses was omitted from the budget bill. However, when the matter came up for hearing in committee, university sjokesmen pressed for the re-inclusion of $3 million for a site in the middle of the state, giving as their reason the ever-growing threat of inflation in land prices. Still a differént topic which could be brought before us via the budgetary route, if not included in the special session agenda, is the matter of automatic suspension of the driver’s licenses of those convicted’ of driving while under the influence of alcohol, The current. practice of the Department of Motor Vehicles in making such suspensions has been successfully attacked in several recent court actions. Some jurists have also independently criticized the practice as invading the prerogatives of the courts. A senate subcommittee has indicated it will study the budgetary implications of the policy very carefully. In the field of welfare legislation, it is apparent that strong efforts are being made to get two items. include® in the agenda. First of these would call for the complete repeal of the “relative’s responsibility” clause which is now in our state old age security law. This provision has been hotly controversial for many years. Repealed once, before, it was restored by vote of the people, and has since been readjusted a number of times by our legislative action. If it is put on the agenda, it could greatly influence the length of the special session. The second welfare matter being pressed as a change in the law under which aid is provided to needy chilren. Local officials who administer the program have been severely critical of laxity in the law and regulations. They asssert this situation encourages parents to shift the financial burden of many children to the taxpayers. Since this system is financied by county as well as state and federal funds, there are many angles involved which will require extended study before a good solution can be worked out. From these illustrations it’ can be seen that there are many complicated subjects which could be added to the list for the special session. I know that many of my colleagues join me in the hope that only those matters in which a real emergency exists are brought before us. STRING DRIVING . GLOVES ARE HELP fortable and unsafe, since a slidwhen we reconvene our budget. We will not know until after it t aks are ge often . “and tke strange may well prove to be. the very break to enable Democrats. Among other actions, the CDC at its Fresno convention approved a declaration favoring the “remodeling of the United Nations into a world organization . ~ that can enact world law, interpret it and enforce it upon indiBy CLEM WHITAKER, .Jr. Qn his recent trips to South America, Europe and other areas of the globe, President Eisenhower is expected to play the role of the world’s number one salesman for democracy. Working the same territory is Russia’s Premier Khrushchev, peddling Communism promises to the neutral, uncommitted, underdeveloped peoples. Which line of political goods will prove most popular with the customers? As of now, democracy holds the edge—although a rather thin one. In an analysis of the worlt’s political systems in the current U. S. News & World Report, democracies are credited with holding the allegiances’ of 57 per cent of the. world’s population. Dictatorships, most though not all are Communist, claim 43 per cent. What about the future of de-: mocracy? A noted historian and author, C. Northcote Parkinson, writing in the Saturday Evening Post’s Adventures of the Mind series, raises the question of whether democracy can survive at all. History, Parkinson says, shows that various forms of rule tend to succeed one another in sequence: monarchy gives place to aristocracy, aristocracy to democracy, and democracy to a dictatorship which turns into monarchy again. On the other hand, the historian concedes, what. proved true in the past may not necessarily recur in the future. The great changes that spectaculat advances in technology have wrought upon the earth may: make past patterns no longer valid. Parkinson thinks that democracy has a good chance to last,

at least in the United States, beeause the growth of the proletariat, predicted by Karl Marx, failed to take place. What took place, instead, was an enormous growth of a middle class, interested in protecting .and keeping the good things it has acquired. The best way ‘to keep them is through democratic government, not a socialistic dictatorship. Parkinson bélieves, however, that for Amefica’s democratic ‘system to survive it needs reinforcing at the points where it is weak. He has three rather startling remedies to suggest: 1. That the vote should be restricted to those who have earned it, e.g., for people who are over 30, have passed educational standards, have performed public service, have paid taxes about @ cretain minimum, ete. 2. That_ legislators should be freed from the influence of pressure groups by making their votes in legislative halls secret just as the individual’s vote at the ballot box if secret; and 3. That the public revenues should be limited under the Constitution to a stated proportion of the.national income. Even if truly necessary to save democracy, Parkinson’s proposals probably. have slight chance of adoption—but what interesting new ground rules they would create for the great game of politics! viduals and governments alike.” Do most California Democrats really believe in scuttling the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights—abandoning our individual freedoms and civil liberties to the tender mercies of a totalitarian majority of the world’s rulers? The CDC convention called for a halt to nuclear bomb tests and declared the United States should disarm unilaterally even if negotions to achieve world disarmament fail. Does afiyone really ‘believe that most California Democrats favor abandoning our defenses and inviting Russia to take over? There were resolutions urging votes for ex-convicts, demanding the Post Office Department be prohibited from keepingpornographic material out of the mails, proposing legislation to give public employees the right to strike, and demanding an end to all loycalled for “ultimate justice” for convicted atom spy Morton Sobel, an associate of the Rosenbergs, whose execution after long and scrupulously careful action in United States courts was used by interntaional ‘Communism as a promotion vehicle to defame the U. S. in every country on the globe. Do most California Democrats really go along with all this wildeved adult delinquency? Hardly. Fortunately for Mr. Nixon—an for America—most Californians, regardless of party, ate, like the] Vice Presient himself, sensible and responsible citizens. Ii You Can't See It The continued sparring between the United States and Russia on the matter of banning or limiting nuclear tests has brought forth a serious proposal that only the detectable tests be banned, Those far out in space or of ‘limited magnitude underground, and therefore undetectable, would be permitted.At first glance this seems to be a prime example of diplomatic artlessness—a sort of extension of that old childhood philosophy that if you don’t get caught you didn’t do it. Yet there is an element of sound reasoning in the proposal. The undetectable types of nuclear explosions also are those that create no fallout. Since fallout seems to be the most frightening aspect of such tests, at least such a limitation could be a calming factor in the inevitable internatinoal experimentation into nuclear fission and fusion. There is, of course, much less to be said for it as a bow to expediency, an admission of the impossibility of controlling these surance, F urthermore, as before. housing Slichter believes, ming pools, gardening tools, and books. get a second job: a four-day week appears not only as a gain in leisure time but as a tremendous boost for sports and recréation activities of all kinds —a veritable revolution in American living habits, with immense potential benefits for businesses that deal in luxury products. Not so, says economist Slichter. Not only is there serious doubt that Mama and the kids will permit the breadwinner to goof off one more day a week; but there is the serious consideration that the family provider literally will be winning less bread. That being the case, he’ll have’ less—rather than more—money to spend on such major luxury items as motor boats, power tools, motion picture cameras and deep freezers. According to Slichter, it is Very obvious that “less can be produced and earned in a four-day week than in a five-day week.” tax rates would have to be higher, because government would take the same amount of the country’s output Therefore, ‘the reasons, most industries would find their markets curtailed, Not only that, but the four-day week would cause drasalty oaths. The convention even tic changes in the kind of goods people would buy. Men working four days a week would be less able to buy the luxuries of life than men working five days. _ So-called discretionary demand (the demand for the good things of life) would be sharply curtailed. The would be. greatly damaged, and with it businesses that manufacture and sell home furnishings and equipment. ; Other articles and services that would be bought in smaller quantities under a four-day week in-} [ clude cars, travel, trailers, swimair conditioning equipment, theater tickets, life inmedical and hosptial services and college education. The few industries that would. benefit would be those dealing in relatively inexpensive goods that can be used in filling leisure time: whiskey, tobacco, movie tickets, small TVsets industry If Professor Slichter is proved right, the future for leisure looks so grim that there appears to be only one answer for Papa under the four-day week: go out and ; see your FORD TRACTOR DEALER Try Nugget Want Ads with Ford Select-0-Speed o “ [i'ma have e's eed cord i‘ bapindenen 6 ols ne for U-turns iaices: whether they want 00 oF ~ . not. Then two new appointments to the court were made, and now ~ the new judges, joining the ineumbent dissenters from the previous decision, have made organi-zational picketing the law of the land again, Reversals ar@ part of our julicial heritage, part of the growth of our nation. They come hatu‘rally as conditions and the’ thinking of the people change. It is difficult, however, to escape the disturbing conclusion that some changing political winds can make our highest interpreters of law look as changéable as a weather vane in a williwaw. Back To The Old Days? There was an item in the news not long ago that set -nostalgia stirring. It concerned the suggestion by Morris Forgash, president of the nation’s biggest frieght forwarding operation, that one solutién to the railroads’ falling passenger income would be to add freight cars to passenger trains. 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