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THE WINONA DAILY NEWS, WINONA, MINNESOTA THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1956 'WOW THEY MUST ALL BE SOUR, PAUL HARVEY NEWS The Winona Daily News An Independent Newspaper Established 1855 41 a Whtt Whit R. Closway Publisher Business tlgr. Exec Editor MEMBEB Of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all the local news printed in this newspaper as well as all A P. news dispatches. Hoover Makes Report But Nothing Happens By PAUL HARVEY NEW YORK With appropriate farfare the Hoover Commisicn was launched in July 19S3.

April 1355, its findings were greeted with overwhelming applause. The distilled essence of the intensive study by the economics scholars and practical businessmen who comprised" the commission was this: With improved manage- i By JAMES J. METCALFE Some people are deceiving and Some people are sincere And there are some who do not want Their meaning to be clear There are the ones who try to cheat For their own selfish gain And those who put umbrellas up For neighbors in the rain And then there are the humble ones Who simply go their way And merely mind their business by Each hour of the day And so the shape of things to come Depends on how we live As much as we would conquer or We are prepared to give And finally the answer as We walk upon this sod Is whether we obey our hearts And we are true to God. Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly. Colossians 3:14.

ment our government can save five billion dollars a year. The Hoover Commission learn Another thing, The present rate of turnover cf government personnel is 500,000 ed that many of those precious do) These Days lars withheld from your paycheck tv would not have to be withheld. enlire work orc-we would lop off the deadwood. i That percentage. says Mr.

President Eisenhower lauded the Hoover, would bankrupt any pri-report. vate enterprL-e twice a year! The comptroller general approv-j Mr. Hoover and his management ed the recommended reforms, experts advocate a 'Senior Civil The budget director was de-1 Service" composed of persons lighted. chosen for "character and talent" Most all the executive leaders of alone, with salaries commensurate our government said Mr. Herbert with high responsibility.

Executive Hoover had done a splendid job. administrative talent will not star That the study was just what was in government at today's prices, needed. That the recommended We are getting the kind of manage streamlining was necessary and ment we are paying for and It it long overdue. costing us five billion watted dol- So what has happened in the 12 lars a year. months since? Mr.

Hooter says. "If our top xniLlary officers had been chosen Virtually nothing. The budgets cuts got down to the on the Civil Service basi of rro- point of "leilation" and got lost, motion, the deadwood st the top Certain budgeting and account-! would hae lost us two world ing reforms were instituted, but wars." only a handful. But instead of streamlining, next The customary practice of year's projected budget is com- sweeping housekeeping problems pounding the felony. under the carpet was perpetuated.

One out of eight American it The armed services blushed over still working for the government. the waste revealed by the Everybody cheers for a tai cut, Is the Price Spread Too Wide? The perennial question of why the farmer gets such a small share of the consumer's food dollar, got another going over by Paul S. Willis, president of the Grocery Manufacturers of America, who maintains that neither the processor nor the retailer is the culprit. That conclusion was to be expected but Willis found some reasons that will be unexpected to the casual observer. The packaging of modern foods, for example, does not add enough to the retail cost of food to make a noticeable difference.

Neither do freezing, making up prepared mixes and other so-called "kitchen services," Furthermore, whether we believe it or not. the larger part of the decline in farm prices has been passed on to the consumer, says Mr. Willis. If you don't believe that, consider that what the farmer sold for $482 in 1952 brought him only $400 in 1955. but the consumer's part of it dropped from $1,035 to $980.

The farmer's share was down $82, the consumer's price $55. The real trouble, Mr. Willis finds, is in the Increased cost of transportation caused by the rising wage and tax costs of the carriers. Transportation costs, he said, have accounted for 80 per cent of the increased spread between prices at the farm and prices in the store. The general public will probably always have misconceptions about this spread and the causes of it.

Almost every survey yet made has absolved the retailers. Mr. Willis clears the processors. Some day we may be able to put a finger on the exact cause. Kilt koit rff Hi if nr.Vwwl uanfc in a tV.a fwv.

the quartermaster relaxed again. litical sacrifice necesary to justify "Congress." says Mr. Hoover, i it. "has lost control of the purse ty And what party dares to scrap ill in Letters to the Editor allowing huge backlogs of unspent the freeloaders off the gravy trais appropriations to be built up." 'during an election year? Washington Merry-Go-Round Dulles Brothers Differ On Cold Var Speeches By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON The brothers Dulles usually function so veil to- Latsch Beach and they aren't ceive of something which will bene-about to start. 1 love my kids too fit the city's young people and much to let them travel over that children instead of filling their tills Says Ntwipapcr Unfair To the Editor: I think you are being unfair to the six men who voted "no" for the pool.

In all of your writeups on the story it doesn't state clearly what their reasons were, but I presume that they were thinking of the higher taxes we would be burdened with. My children never have had a hard time to find a safe place to swim, and let's remember the children who drowned at the lake last summer weren't swimming or even wading; they went in after a ball so tragedies like that can occur ro matter how many pools we would have. Mother of Five bridge unchaperoned. I know my with silver? Maybe Fountain City wife isn't going to take that stroll WH invite us all to their pool fcr on a hot day clutching the babv summer swimming? That seems to and trying to manage three chii- be the closest suitable spot. dren besides.

As a child I didn't I hope our dear aldermen can get to the beach often, either. I sleep well nights with the spirit of wasn't fortunate enough to own a every child who drowns haunting bicycle and the long walk took all I them until the day they e. These I the incentive away frcm the pleas- are the men who have it in their ure of swimming. Now that the power to provide the sale swim-j men we voted into ofiice have de- ming facilities we so badly need. cided against swimming for this Our tot beach is fine for children generation, also, I had better be-! age three to e'glit.

The younger I gin working out a personal prob- or older brothers and sisters can lem. stay at home. Stalin's Aides Turn Against Him By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY NEW YORK It stands to reason that those who hope to hold Stalin's place as Czar of all the Russians have to destroy his "personality, as they call it. Otherwise, as long as they rule, they will be compared to Stalin to their disadvantage becausenot only the Russian people, but the conquered peoples in all the satellite countries have been forced to believe that Stalin is the greatest figure that ever lived and that whatever he said and did was right.

How is such an order of life suddenly changed? The collective leadership consists entirely of Stalin's subordinates, men who are alive because Stalin let them live. Never once did they risk their lives to oppose what they now say Stalin did. Of course, Stalin was a murderer. Of course, he emulated Ivan the Terrible. But all the men who are in the collective leadership today were associated with Stalin in his absolutism.

They profited by it. HOWEVER, POLITICS IS a technique that i practiced without too much sentimentality anywhere. The objective of the politician is to keep himself in office and in power and a dead man is only useful to him if his ghost can help keep him in office and in power. Stalin built the largest and most compact empire in history. He brought to Russia great power and enormous wealth.

He did it by a brutality hardly equalled in history. His successors have to produce something to equal the achievements of Stalin. One of the ways for them to succeed is to discredit Stalin and his accomplishments. "Do you think that Stalin did so much at Yalta?" they can ask. "Look what we did at Geneva! Stalin made all the world suspicious of Russia, but we are winning victories without suspicion." Another factor in this situation is that no great revolutionary leaders exist in Russia today because Stalin killed them.

The present collective leadership is post-revolutionary as most of the people in Russia are post-revolutionary. If a man is 50 years old today, he was 11 years old in 1917; a man of 30 was born altogether outside the period of revolution and during the the time when Stalin was already in control. There is little memory among the people of Trotzky. Bukharin. Zino-viev or Kamenev; Lenin is recalled as a distant god whose writings must be read to gain any advancement in the Communist hierarchy.

The people to whom Stalin addressed himself in the 1920s were very different from those to whom Khrushchev addresses himself today. Bolshevik Russia is dying; a new Russia has come upon the scene. The Martini has taken the place of Vodka, but it's still bad for the liver. THE NEW RUSSIA is being designed by Khrushchev who has to destroy Stalin's Russia and Stalin's Soviet Universal State before he can make his plans work. Stalin apparently preferred to be feared; Khrushchev, Bulganin, Malenkov and the others of this generation prefer to be popular.

They travel abroad and dress in native costume wherever they happen to be. Malenkov grins in London like a cartoon of a cockney character I once saw in a Charles Laughton picture. Maybe he saw that picture, too. Stalin did not find it necessary to do any grinning; he was obviously willing to be hated by those who were not his slaves. In places like Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and China, the elimination of Stalinism must come as a shock to the Communists who have been drilled to accept Stalinism as part of the socialist canon.

In Italy and the United States, this new development is particularly damaging. The American Communists on orders of Stalin through Jacques Duclcs humiliated and eliminated Earl Browder for taking the identical position that Khrushchev took in his famous seven-hour speech, namely, that there is more than one road for the achievement of socialism. What can the American Communists say to Browder How can they defend themselves except by insisting that Stalin was right and that Khrushchev is now wrong? This situation needs to be watched closely and understood because it may turn into a world cataclysm during the next year. gether personally that most people forget there are two Dulles brother. John Foster Duiles, the Secretary of State, is continually in the bead-l lines magazine or otherwise; his brother Allen is not.

Allen Dulles, head of Central Intelligence, operates an agency which tries to stay out of the headlines, has the job of reporting to th State Department and the Pentagon on the strength of Russia and her farm na(j dropped. satellites, plus the danger of war Arjderjs0n was regularly ftstion- any place in the world ed outside the door of the Senat. I Recently the Dulles brotLers had the farro-bill debate, check- an unpubhcized clasa vDl available to antucr Allen went to see his brother questions. Inside the a e. kt Jonn with an assistant and during observers in the gallery the course of their visit told older watchi amendments and tk.

brother John that he thought he -f Senate whi 1 i was wrong in making rf- that Russia is losing out in the n.lfean2 ftj'? arm i a I mont, manager of tne farm Dill, John Foster looked displeased. VJfiSS ST Eut the younger Dulles continued 1 Pnent ttorne ready to an-, swer questions and rewrite amend. How can I restrain my children Mr. Christensen thinks $3,000 a from marrying too young? I am year is too much for swimming. I thirty-one years of age and I have would say that if even one life a a son aged thirteen.

If he should year was saved, it would be monev decide to get married in six or sev-1 well spent, I am sure if it would en years I would still be a long be ne of hi children he would way from the retirement age. I think fo too! Have his children ever had sort of wistfully figured that walked across the hot bridge to when my grandchildren came swim in the dirty yellow waters along I might be retired and ot th Mississippi? It is so nice could chaperone them across the that Ald- Christensm can afford to bridge so that thev wouldn't have i belong to the Country Club so that to miss the most wonderful of children can have a nice, clean, youthful pleasures, a cool dip in I safe Place t0 swim, the pool on a hot day, as my sons I The parent who give their chil-and I have had to da. In closing I dren bus money to go to the beach a a mm ments. Foster's SDeeches. he said, had Not On Good Reason Civon for Pool Action To the Editor: My congratulations to you on your splendid editorial of March 20.

The city of Winona again has been refused a swimming pool after a Lake site has been so generously donated and so graciously accepted by our mayor. It seems to me the six opposing aldermen should write letter" to Mr. E. L. King and in that letter each alderman should state one good reason why he voted against the pool.

The read the article over very closely and cautiously not one legitimate reason was given by the opposition. The people voted want to say that there is one fac- wouia De more man giaa, i sure. made it appear that the United! In general, senators appreciate States was not in trouble. On the this kind of contact with executivo contrary, the Russians were mak- departments. It makes for better ing headway and had us in real liaison between Capitol Hill and trouble.

"down town." Foster looked flustered. Finally Tho Nion Writo-ln he told his younger brother that Sen styles Bridges, most pow-his job was to evaluate and re-; enul flgure ia New Hampshire pol-port on intelligence, not advise the itJCSf described the Nixon write-ia Secretary of State on his speeches, i vote as per cent spontane- Ezra Taft Benson may not have 'ous He said rather modestl the most efficient Agriculture De-; thal he and Gov Lane Dwineil partment in the world, but he has nad urged New Hampshire voter operated one of the most efficient -to keep the two members tbt and effective lobbying machines Eisenhower-Nixon team. to have the same money go toward the upkeep of a beautiful pool. The outHssed bathhouse his no orooer facilities to safely store clothing while swimming. I always thought a bathhouse for a public beach should have shower facilities and treated water to step in to prevent tion I am proud of our Winona Daily News.

Thank you fcr printing the facts. A Native Son Pool Ono of Many Improvtmonti We Nttd To the Editor: I did not find your announce for a pool in an election, various I seen recently on Capitol Hill. It Behind this is the fact that people were asked their opinion on the pool and their answers were ment about the death of progress was thanks to this machine that Bridges is determined to stop Gov. he did as well as he did with the chns Herter of Massachusetts ia vote on the farm bill. ambition to be Vice President.

Most efficient member of the published in the paper, with the disease, and proper lavatory facilities. Can our aldermen think of a more wholesome summer sport than swimming? Maybe it would help juvenile delinquency too. Han-py, healthy children are good majority saying yes. Did our Maybe These Will Become 'The Good Old Days' Driving through this rich agricultural area one is struck with the thought that it was less than half a century ago that practically any quarter section of land could be purchased for $40 an acre. Today it commands around $300 an acre 'and we bemoan and bewail the fact that at today's prices it is practically "hopeless" for anyone to think he could start from scratch and own such a farm.

But let's do a simple problem in arithmetic, not forgetting, of course, to rely also on historical fact. Back in 1900, when land sold at $40 an acre, a quarter section was worth $6,400. Today, at $300 an acre, that same quarter section is valued at $48,000. In 1900, a farm hand was lucky to earn $10 a month the year around whicli means that had he applied the entire $10 a month forgetting real estate taxes and cost of living 640 months work would pay for the farm. Today a farm hand earns around $125 a month.

The farm costs $48,000. A little figuring, on the same basis, will show that only 384 months of work is required to liquidate the debt. Of course the 1900-era individual had no income tax to pay. The 1955 farm worker does. A single man on a $125 a month salary would pay an annual federal income tax of $145.60 the wage for a little better than a month's work.

The "good old days?" Well, in a way. But it all adds up to a realization that whatever the age, whatever the times, each had their drawbacks as well as advantages. Millions of dollars now being drained into the yawning maw of the tax coffers would be diverted to worthwhile projects, such as community hospitals, parks, playgrounds, youth centers, museums and the like, but for one thing. That is the failure of most of us to acquaint ourselves with how much we can give, tax free, at what little cost to ourselves, for so worthy a cause. And the tragic part of it is we don't realize that money so given can be "earmarked." The Fairmont, Sentinel.

AT WILLIAMS opposing aldermen take the time to ask their ward members what in Winona a bit startling, in my opinion Winona has been ailing for a long time. Its chief affliction has been stagnation caused internally by partisan considerations. This unfortunate illness has made our they would like done concerning Benson team is Jack Anderson, ex-congressman from California, a Republican who retired to operate his 300-acre pear farm near San Francisco, but came back to Washington this year to be Benson's Capitol Hill lobbyist. He found that the pool? I would like very much to see EXECUTIVE FURNITURE I would think the shore line of town dull, inactive and even in the lake could be filled in some our six opposing aldermen "walk" to prevent droooffs and on'y cer to and from the bathing beach KIW COLO IS when the temperatures are in the A4wtliriwM Wt Soy We Mean 90s and 100s and see how they like it. Many of our children do it.

I sincerely hope that there will be no drownings in Winona this FREES some respects an unpleasant place in which to live. A pool, one of the many improvements we need in Winona, would help to make our town a more pleasant place. Such a pool should not be considered as a luxury "for the few" but as a necessity for the many. This thought has obviously escaped the majority of our. city fathers.

It has however not been so elusive to the directors of other communities such as Austin and Rochester. As for Alderman Christensen's statement that no one had spoken tain supervised areas be ooen to swimming a the tot beach. Ti lake is a heauty spot and good for 1 don't think a larp swimming beach there would be the bet thing. It would detract from its beauty and serenity. We love it as it is.

I don't enjoy swimming with moss and dead fish either. I don't believe for one moment that a swimming pool would eliminate all drownings but at least we could all not feel guilty becau-e our children did not have the proper facilities. summer. If we are unfortunate to have any I'd hate to be in the shoes of those six aldermen. Think it over men! J.

M. F. IN YEARS GONE BY Add new Lfe, r.ew Lght to jour ofTico Color rtyl-ing by Sh w-Wmlkrr give visitor, clients, a pietur of modern working comfort and tvecrtt. We stock all types of office furniture including desks, chairs, fire and regular files. All people young and old love to him about the pool, it seems to 'Native Son' Wants to Bo Proud of His City To the Editor: I would like to say first of all that Tuesday night was the only time an obituary gave me a big fat chuckle.

I refer, of course, to the charming notice on page six. A thousand hurrahs for its me that evidently the public spir-1 th coul in mind horror imagine our the of ited alderman either moves in mute $1.00 Bex Pile Suppositories Naff Clinic Makts Most UrvshsI Offtr fa Aay Afflicted Person-Ne Cevpo Ne Chorgt There ro no "strinjjs: we don't mean free "with" Wo mean just thia: In order to introduce it to anyone who ia afflicted with Piles (Hemorrhoids! ary similar rectal condit ion. the Thornton Minor Cliric will send free on request, a fall-sire fl.ro hox of 12 (not a mere cf Thornton Minor Pile Suppo-itories free and postage paid. Send only your fall rame. aj'e and address.

A jot card will do. However, his offer ia limited and may be withdrawn at any time, so we aurjrest you write at once. Addre Thornton Minor Clinic, 911-S Eat Lin-wood Kansas City 9, Mo. This offer is exactly as stated above no charge no obligation no bill now or later. i aiui mail ivvi an i te society or else in the wrong 8eLn 'ur r.

lov or', so But looking objectively at the ho fe ft minutes ago was happily erman statement, is it not the A alderm it would to think and ret one cause us Phono 4952 and ask for Carl Kiohnbaum Your Shaw-Walkar Daalar WILLIAMS BOOK and STATIONERY Winona, Minn. on our feet and do something before it is too late! A Pleading Parent A Mom To 'My Thrtt Sons To the Editor: Memo: To my Three Sons-It would have been pretty fine to be able to walk to the swimming pool with you a couple of afternoons each week after work It appears now that it will be impossible to have that privilege. But let's be tolerant. And also say "forgive them, for they know not what they do." Frederick J. Busch Try and Stop Me duty of a "public servant" serving in a capacity such as Alderman Christensen holds, to seek out the opinions of the citizens he represents? However supposing that the alderman has diligently fulfilled this part of his responsibility, it would seem that the people of the 2nd Ward are not only silent on the matter of the pool, but even secretive.

In fact a casual observer from another city might ask, "Have the pP'e no voices, are they dumb? If they are not dumb, they are either indifferent to the welfare of their community or blind to its needs!" Michael Pierce 'Pleading Parent Furious Over Pool Action An iaemrtit By BENNETT CERF Ten Years Ago 1946 Mayor John Druey announced plans to be put before the Board of Education by which city-operated buses would be employed for transportation to the Latsch bathing beach next summer. Road restrictions have been placed on many of the highways with the spring break-up at hand. A near drowning has prompted appeal to parents to keep children off all ice areas. Harold B. Law, local exchange manager, states that orders for telephone service which the exchange has been unable to fill will be met within the next few months.

Twenty-Five Years Ago 1931 Permits to build new homes have been issued to Marion Pehler, for a one-story home, and H. W. Reinke, for a cottage. Two former Winona State Teachers College students, Miss Martha Dallman and Percy Feany, have received their degrees at the University of Minnesota. Fifty Years Ago 1906 Harry Harrington has accepted a position as collector in the Winona Deposit Bank.

A program rendered at the Mar School of Music proved to be very entertaining and interesting. Seventy-Five Years Ago 1881 The ice on the Mississippi River has reached the unsafe stage where teams cannot cross. John Manning has resigned his position at the State Normal School here. One-Hundred Years Ago 1856 H. M.

Rice, our delegate in Congress, has in troduced a bill into the House of Representatives "to aid the Territory of Minnesota to establish and support an asylum for the afflicted." Cerebral Palsy, Mental Deficiency Can How Be Treated at Home At the same time I had an underlying feeling of sadness. I want to be proud of 'my city. Today I am deeply ashamed. I have heard many comparisons made between progressive Rochester and Winona. The conversation usually ends with a shrug and a hopeless, "Yes, but look what the Mayo brothers have done for Rochester." Winona, too, had a generous benefactor in Mr.

E. L. King but his gracious gift has been tossed aside. My children came running In with The Daily News and said, "Gee, Dad, no swimming pool. They promised.

Why did they break their promise?" This brings to my mind a remark I overheard a Winonan make last year. "If people want their kids to go swimming so badly why don't they buy kids a membership in the Y'?" It may come as a great shock to a lot of people but the greater share of the population of Winona cannot afford the membership fee. even if the 'Y did have the facilities. I'd like to trade worries with the worried al. derman who thinks that Latsch Beach would be more patronized Denver.

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I thought at last our dreams were going to come true when the land was donated but no! How many times have we gone to the polls to vote for a swimming pool? Can the men in office who are supposed to be "public men whose du is to ut into effect the peoples wishes, make such an about face and get away with it? Can't our pious aldermen con- la laai A 'I tve mf actaaar atjarpBr4 KoIUr Bicycle Store tne benefits of there a nome treatment so simple and highlv illutrated that mothers can treat their own childrer' Of than a local swimming pool. My kids have never gone toi.