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DAILY MEDITATIONS
Ye shall fear every man
] his mother, and his father,
and keep my sabbaths; I am
\ the Lord your God.
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Chelf "Know-How' Will Help In
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Justice Department Probe
: BY PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON.— (NEA) —Congressman Frank
Leslie Chelf, of Kentucky, had good training for his
new job as chairman of the House Judiciary Sub
committee which will investigate Attorney J. How=
.ard MeGrath and the Department of Justice.
Back in 1941, as the boy prosecuting attorney of
Marion eounty , Kentucky, Chelf first won national
fame by solving the Lover's Lane murder mystery
of blonde and blue-eyed Mrs. Lillian Lamme, Then
he prosecuted and won a conviction of the mur
The big mystery in the current Department of
Justice investigation is where all the bodies are
puried. But in Chelf’s original Kentucky nrurder
mystery, the body was found by.a Lebanon grocery
elerk, driving early one March evening along a
stretch of old road, off the main highway, a few
miles outside of town.
The body lay sprawled face down on the road
shoulder.
The grocery clerk raced for city police, state po=
lice, coroner and Prosecuting Attorney Chelf. When
they all got there they found four bullet holes in
the back of the tight-fitting red jacket.
The body was still warm. When they turned it
over, they all recognized Lii Lamme of Campbells
ville, 20 miles away. She was about 30. She had
been married twice. But who could have wanted to
kill pretty Lil Lamme? There were s2l in her pock=
ets. It couldn’t have been robbery.
In the grass nearby they found the empty .45
ealibre automatic shells—three Renringtons and one
#rom Frankfort arsenal. In the ground under the
body ‘were the four bullet holes. They dug up the
builets for ballistics examination. All they had to
do then was find the gun and its owner,
TIPS HELP SLEUTHING
PROSECUTING ATTORNEY
A telephone call from a tavern keeper gave Mr.
Chelf the tip that the murdered woman had been in
his place with two men early on the night of the
killing. The men had left first, Mrs. Lamme after
ward. As Chelf drove up to the tavern keeper’s place
to talk to him, the two men themselves returned.
They expressed surprise at the news of the shoot=
ing, but offered no explanation.
Later, County Attorney Chelf had them arrested.
In &e car of one was found a whole arsenal of fire=
arms and ammunition, but no .45. The other had a
88 revolver in a shoulder holster. He said he did
considerable target shooting and gun trading.
A detective noticed that the holster fitted and was
worn down by a .45 automatic. Under questioning,
this second man admitted he had just traded a .45
for the .38. He gave the name of the man he had
swapped guns with, and police recovered the .45.
They got a setback, however, when ballistics tests
showed this .45 was not the gun that had been used
for the murder.
Attorney Chelf then went to the cell of the first
man i the pair and told him he was under sus
picion. The only way he could clear himself was to
tell what he knew. From this nran Chelf got an
admission that there had been another .45. The
first one had been planted to throw the police off
the trail. .
SCIENTIFIC POLICE WORK TRAPS KILLER
Chelf reasoned that the man who had the first
45 might also know where the missing gun was. He
was locked up on suspicion. And after a few hours
in the cooler, he agreed to lead the police_to the
swamp where the murder weapon had been hidden.
. The case cracked wide open when paraffin tests
ghowed that the man wit hthe .38 had not recently
fired a revolver, but had fired an automatic. The
powder stains were on the inside of his hand.
On trial, this man changed his plea from not
guilty %o guilty. And his conviction was assured
when hack-saw blades were discovered in the hol
low iron leg of his jail cell cot.
Today, 11 years after the crime, Rep. Chelf doesn't
want the name of the murderer puhblicized. He has
served out his sentence, been paroled, is married
and has a family.
“Give him a chance to make good and lead a use
ful life,” says his prosecutor. “I don’t want to rise
to fame on some other fellow's misfortune.” That's
the kind of a guy he is. /
Chairman Chelf says that everyone who comes
before his new Judiciary committee is going to be
considered innocent till he's proven guilty. “Our
main objective,” he says, “ie to restore the confi=
dence of the American people in their government.”
He wants to do this job thoroughly, but as fast as
he can—and get it over with. He didn't ask for this
chairmenship. But it was his turn, and he has never
run away from a job yet, he says.
Weighing only 135, he is a bundle of nervous en
ergy—all thrown inte his new task. If this investi
gatioa should flop, he admits that it might do him
2 lot of harm down in his old Kentucky home. But
he has no ambitions to become governor, or a sen
| wtor because of it.
£ e eeee—
k Whoever votes for the Schuman Plan, votes for
g remiliterisation and a third world war—Otio
. @&Aewokl, Communist premier of East Germrany.
. .
Stalemate Situation In Korea
Proves Inifiative Is Not UN's
Sorme harsh realities about Korea now have to be
faced. The American and United Nations position
with respect to the Communist enemy is not an en=
viable one, either in the field or around the table
at Panmunjom,
Truce negotiations in Korea have been under
way for eight months, In that span the most ime
portant single field factor is that we have appar
ently lost control of the air. A great step-up ‘in
Communist anti-aircraft power, plus a large in
crease in its jet fighter force, has given the enenry
an edge over our limited air strength.
This has great meaning when applied to the pros=
pect of any future resumption of full-scale war. We
are no longer able to shoot up Red supply lines and
harry troop concentrations almost at will. More
over, the oft-discussed plan of bombing Red Man
churian bases is now almost an academic matter,
It is extremely doubtful we could pull it off suc
cessfully.
Therefore any war that we might be called upon
to fight in the immediate months ahead would of
necessity have to be more limited in purpose than
that which we have fought so far. It would be silly
to say: “I‘s go in there and finish them off.”
We are not equipped to do it. In other words, in
an early resumption of real combat we should have
to hope mainly to achieve the same kind of stale
mate which now prevails during the course of the
truce talks.
But since our power to hurt Red supply lines has
diminished, we might find it harder than ever to
keep a stalemate. The outlook in the field conse
quently cannot help but increase the pressure upon
cur negotiators at Panmunjom to come up with
some sort of agreemrent that will avert the necessity
of resuming heavy combat.
But here, too, our hopes are not bright. Since we
no longer can exert battlefield pressure upon Red
negotiators, we are forced to await their pleasure
before concluding a truce—assuming always that
the Communists really want one. Despite this un
comfortable fact, we still have not lost our courage
at the council table. We have stubbornly held out
against Red demands for the right to build air
fields in North Korea; we demand really effective
inspection behind the truce lines, and we are
against repatriation of Red prisoners who do not
wish to return to Communist territory,
Yet even if we should win our way on the air
field and inspection issues, the chance is great that
the victory would be empty.
The Commrunists are masters at administrative
sabotage. It is pretty certain they would keep any
UN inspectors effectively snarled in red tape, and
build such airfields as they chose.
As for the prisoner questions, there seems to be
no ground for compromise at all. We must either
give way or face the likelihood that UN prisoners
of war will spend prolonged months and perhaps
years in enemy camps. The blunt fact is that the
initiative in Korea is not ours.
Our choices seem to be resumption of full war
under less favorable circumstances than before,
endless dragging on of the truce talks while our
armies mark time and eat up equipment and money,
or an uneasy truce which leaves the way open to
renewed Communist attack when the moment suits
the Red high command in Moscow,
We scoff at the French failure to liquidate the
Red guerrillas in Indo-China, dnd the British
stand-off against the Reds in Malaya. Yet we are
now inmalmost their identical position, We are en
gaged in an enervating, strength-sapping enterprise
which seemss to have no end and appears to bear
ultimate promise only for our enemy.
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Philippine Budget On Road
To Recovery
Philippine governmrent, which a couple of years
ago was near bankruptcy, has got itself fairly well
straightened out. This is the word from D. Roland
R. Renne, president of Montana State College, tem
porarily on leave to head up the W. S. STEM — or
Special Technical and Economic Mission to Philip=-
pines.
Two years ago the Filipinos were spending for
luxuries all the post-war aid given them by the U,
S. They bought automobiles and iceboxes and radios
instead of fertilizer and farm implements, which
they needed badly. They used up all their dollar
exchange. 2 '
Following stiff talkings-to by Secretary of State
Dean Acheson, Economic Cooperation Administrator
William C. Foster and ex-Assistant Hreasury Sec=
retary Daniel W. Bell, who wrote a special mission
report on the islands, President Quirino’s govern
ment started to refornr. .
Today an Import Controls Commission strictly
regulates foreign exchange. Taxes have been raised.
The Philippine budget for this year is balanced,
with estimated revenues at about 292 million U. 8.
dollars, and expenditures of 288 million dollars.
The cost of living index is still high, at 391, but
this represents a drop of 21 points from 412,
U. S. economic aid to the islands for the 15 months
ending next June will run about 43 million U. S.
doilars.
Improvement of the Philippine econonyy is be
lieved to be the best possible medicine for reducing
the therat of the Hukbalahap Communists.
1 have never known a man to get the nomination
who did not seek it. In the highly improbable event
it should come to me, I would not accept.—Senator
Paul Douglas (D.-Illinois). .
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WHAT THE PEOPLE SAY
Dear Sir:
On behalf of the United Church
Women, I wish to thank you of
the Banner-Herald for your co=
operation and kindness in helpinz
publicize our recent World Day o
Prayer services, and the other
meetings sponsored by the women,
Sincerely,
Sara Shafe,
Publicity Chairman
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Athens, Georgia
Dear Sir:
After considerable length of
residency in Athens, one is prone
to ask this question: “Just what is
the function of law enforcement
officials termed ‘traffic officers’?”
Is it the duty of local police to
enforce law and maintain order
or to collect revenue for the city
treasury?
It is, indeed, possible that offi=
cers find time to regulate traffic in
addition to “hawking” over park
ing meters, but I have seen no
appreciable evidence of their ac
tivities. ‘
I observed last week one officer
who propped himself on the bum~
per of an automobile for a full
fifteen minutes waiting for a me=-
ter to expire, He promptly
whipped out his pad to scribble a
ticket when the red arrow ap
peared.
At minimum wages (75 cents
an hour) the dollar collected at
the City Hall cost the city almost
ma FLYNN CUTS FINE FIGURE
G BIDDING FOR SLAVE GRLS
JOLLYWOOD — (NEA) —
Movies Without popcorn: Before
his ankle-busting accident, Errol
Flynn, bidding for gorgeous, slant
eyed slave girls in “Against All
Flags” was the big attraction on
the UI backlot.
More set visitors than wusual
watched Errol, grabed in pirate
grandeur, as he faced the camera
against the background of a Mada
gascar slave mart, and smilingly
topped the bids of other fierce,
grizzled buccaneers for the luscious
maidens.
When the scene was completed,
T asked one of the beautiful dam
sels, an extra, her reaction to be=
ing awarded to Errol by the auc
tioneer.
“That Flynn!” she sighed. “What
a bid-side manner!”
» = -
Randolph Scott, Alan Hale, Jr.,
and Dick Wesson are emoting at
Warners on a dark waterfront
street for an action sequence in
“The Man With a Gun.” .
The secript calls for Scott and his
fellow-players to emerge from a
hotel and duck as bullets whiz by
them.
Expect for a kerosene lamp di
rectly over the star’s head, the ex
plosions are contrived by small
powder blasts set off by the spe
cial effects crew.
And how is the lamp shattered?
By an expert with a sling-shot.
Maybe it’s the “David and Bath=-
sheba” influetlce on ‘Hollywood.
»
Television’s put the “star” brand
on Jack Mahoney’s scarred hide
and now Errol Flynn, Gregory
Peck- and Randolph Scott are just
going to have to find another stunt
man to do their movie leaping and
tumbling.
Jack’s the handsome cowpoke
hero of Gene Autry’s “The Range
Rider” series these days and he’s
still gasping over making the grade
as a sure-enough actor.
THE BROKEN-BONE STAR
“IT would take five hours to tell
about all the bones I've broken
as & stunt man” he drawled. “I
came out to Hollywood to be an
actor in the first place, but I used
to freeze up in front of the camera.
“So I just had to go into the
stunt game. Walter Wanger finally
Eut me under contract as an actor,
ut nothing happened.
“Then Autry signed me and
Columbia bought me from him.
19 cents for officer’s pay.
The ticket was issued to a car
parked on College avenue, was
cbviously that of a student, and
the campus bell had just rung for
dismissal of class.
Officers and city officials, is the
revenue collected really worth the
time and trouble?
Sincerely,
Mary E. Randall
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Cherry Point, N. C.
Editor
Athens, Banner-Herald
Athens, Georgia
Dear Sir:
I would like to express to the
Editorial staff of your paper my
sincere appreciation for the ex
cellent space that I have been giv
en on releases which I have sent
to your paper since entering pub
lic information work with the
United States Marine Corps,
The purpose of public relations
work in any field is to inform the
people and I feel that Athenians
who have sons and daughters in
the armed forces are interested in
facilities for work and play which
are afforded in the service of our
country.
Being a marine, stationed at
Cherry Point, I naturally feel that
we have excellent facilities here
and that service life is made ex
tremely pleasant. The stories that
I have sent to the Banner-Herald
were sent in view of giving pa-
Now the studio’s lending me to
Autry.”
5 9 9 »
Howard Duff’s first movie since
he talked himself out of his UI
contract is giving him what he’s
been fighting for — a “charming
heel” role.
The movie is Hal E. Chester’s
“Models, Inc.” with Duff playing
a tough, love-'em and leave -‘em
doll slapper, with “a great dying
scene when the cops let me have
it with a machine gun.”
Coleen Gray and Marjorie Rey
no'ds are the actresses.
Will Duff star in a TV version of
Sam Spade, now that the char
acter he once played on radio no
longer belongs to Warner Bros?
“T doubt it,” he told me. “I'd
rather do something with my own
comvany. But I won’'t do anything
on TV until it's all polished up.
Lack cf preparation is wrecking
the careers of a lot of movie peo
ple in television.”
THE NAME-BAND ERA
WHAT'S happened to all the big
name - bands that packed the
nation’s ballrooms in past years?
I asked Dick Stabile the ques
tion and got a lot of reasons.
Said Dick, who does all the
musical arrangements for Dean
Martin and Jerry Lewis:
“Bop music is one of the reasons.
All the stories about musicians be
ing hopeheads is another.
“Record-playing at home and in
juke boxes didn't help.
“Then the cost of a 30 piece or
chestra went so high that no one
could afford to package them.,
“I doubt whether we’ll ever re
live that wonderful era.”
Stabile, at his pgak, earned
$50,000 in a couple of years just
for playing the alto sax with the
late Ben Bernie, g
“Then I organized my own
band,” he winced, “and for a year
I make $2 a week.”
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Kate Smith’s TV success has re
vived interest in Hollywood for a
movie based on Kate’s life. Irving
Berlin says it's okay to use “God
Bless Amerlct:n"‘as.the title.
Stanley Kramer’s organization
isn't lalk.infloabout it, but 150 San
Quentin prison guards put on con
victs uniforms to play prisoners in
closeups for “My Six Convicts.”
Real prisoners were used during
the prisen location trip only when
their faces didn’t show.
rents of servicemen the satisfac
tion of knowing that life in the
service is planned for the benefit
of the men as well as the nation.
Thank you again for your kind
ness in helping us to inform the
public.
Sincerely,
Pfc. Curtis H, Driskell
United States Marine Corps
Cherry Point, N. C.
Palm Beach, Fla.
Editor
Athens Banner-Herold
Athens, Ga.
Dear Sir: >
I am writing to express my sin
cere appreciation of the statement
of my views as reported in your
newspaper on Monday, February
18.
Not only do I wish to thank you
for the story but to congratulate
you on an excellent piece of jour=
nalism.
If I can ever be of service to
you or to your newspaper, please
contact me in care of the Greek
Embassy, Washington, D. C.
Sincerely,
Andre Michaloupolos
Editor’s Note: Mr. Michaloupo
los was the guest of Athens on
Saturday, February 17 and was
interviewed for the paper of Feb
ruary 18. Mr. Michaloupolos is
permaently attached to the Greek
Embassy as advisor.
By EDWIN P. JORDAN, M. D,
Writien for NEA Service
IN these days when so many
people are giving blood for blood
banks or for transfusions, interest
in today’s first question should be
wirespread.
QO—How much blood does the
boay contain, and how long does
it take for the body to replace one
pint of blood? Mrs. H. 5..8.
A—lt has been calculated that
the blood makes up about one
thirteenth of the total body weight.
A normal person who weights be
tween 133 and 165 pounds ordinar
ily has from 5.2 to 6.3 quarts of
blood. =
The fluid portion of the blood
which is removed is made up by
the body very rapidly and even the
other portions of the blood within
a few days. However, it is not
ordinarily recommended that a
person give blood more often than
every few weeks.
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Q—l wonder if I have heart
trouble. I live in a two-story house
and it is increasingly difficult for
me to walk upstairs. My legs get
weak and I am very short of
breath. Sometimes I have a feeling
of pressure across my chest which
makes it hard for me to breathe.
At other times there will be a
sharp burning pain. Mrs. G.
A—The symptoms described
would fit in with some forms of
heart trouble, particularly, angina
pectoris. You should certainly see
a doctor and have a thorough ex
amination.
* * *
Q—What causes moles on the
body and why dc they .multiply
and spread? They itch and are
very disagreeabte. Reader.
A—The fact that there is itching
present may mean that the skin
lesions are not true moles. The
underlying cause of moles is nos
well understood, though they are
made up of pigment cells. If
treated at all this should be done
with the greatest caution.
*® % %
Q—l am a girl only 18 and my
ankles swell and my legs seem
extremely stiff. I play ball each
winter in school and notice they
seem a little stiffer each year. I
am one of the best guards on the
ball team and I wonder if I should
stop playing entiiely.,, D. D. B.
A—This is not normal for an
eighteen-year old girl. The pos
sibility of rheumatic fever or some
other form of rheumatism must be
considered. Your surely should not
continue your basketball unless
you get the go-ahead from your
physician.
Q—Will nausea and vomiting
sometinfé be caused by trouble
with the inner*ear? A L W.
A—-This is a possibility, though
there are many other things which
must be considered. y
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*‘ ,‘ Hal Boyle |
; POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER:
%, A NEW MORAL REVOLT:
NEW YORK, March 9—(AP)—
Some pessimists believe that as
man builds better and better ma
chines he himself gets worse and
worse,
But a more optimistic view is
that man may eventually invent
machines that will rebel against
him and create a more sensible
werld, just as a son often im
proves beyond his father,
Men have depended upon the
machine since the first man leaned
his weight on the first lever—
probably a stick used to lift aside
a stone. Over the centuries man
has helped his lot in life by mak
ing more and more complicated
machinery. But he himself has
failed to match the machine’s abil=-
ity to progress and grow. He is
pretty much the same arrogant,
vain bundle of hypocrisy he al-
Wways was.
Today there are machines with
th¢ muscle of 1,000 men. There
are machines with a more deli=
cate touch than man. There are
machines that can see through fog
that baffles his eyes, hear sounds
.00 soft to stir his dull ears, ma=-
chines that can travel where he
can’t and think ten times as quick=
ly as his slow mind—with less
error,
The nice thing about the ma=-
chine is it has taken over so many
of man’s virtues without being in
fected by his defects. Nobody has
been able to build hyprocrisy into
a machine—or hate.
No machine has ever showed a
sense of gratitude either. But why
should it? It treats its creator with
a cold indifference, and regards
him more as a slave than a master.
It will work for him, true, but
only on its own terms—the laws
of physical nature. And it insists
on being paid. You know the old
saying: “You can’t get more en
ergy out of a machine than goes
into it.”
Actually the machine, which
does so many things better than
man, is beginning to criticize its
maker, Starting with the time
clock, more and more machines
are being used to sit in judgment
upon more and more men, uner=
ringly detecting their mistakes of
hand, eye and mind. -
Eventually the machthe may
' ,Ti-IwM‘l LLETT . *
B Fear Of Crificism Keeps Us
_ & | From Taking Responsible Jobs
“CRITICISM 1s never much fun
but you live throught it. You even
become immune when you're
working on a good, hard job.”
So says a woman who has
braved criticism to hold down
the job of mayor of Portland, Ore.
It’s a pity more women don’t
have that much immunity to crit
icism. For it is fear of ecriticism
that keeps so many women from
stepping out and assuming jobs
of responsibility.
“T wouldn’t have that job for
the world,” Mrs. Brown says com
placently. “You couldn’t possibly
please everyone—and you're sure
to come in for a lot of criticism.”
So Mrs. Brown and thousands of
other capable women steer clear
of jobs requiring leadership, in
cluding everything from president
of the P.-T. A. to jobs in politics.
They are so afraid that everyone
won’t agree with them. They fear
that everyone won’t cheer them
Emory Professor's Wife Tells
All In Book, ' Push The Button™
By LEON DRISKELL
“Push the Button” by Maybelle
Jones Dewey. Tupper and Love
Co., Atlanta, Georgia. 180 pages.
Price, $2.75.
Mrs. Maybelle Jones Dewey, wo=-
man with a purpose, has been
widely' acclaimed in her native
state and in the entire country, for
her completely charming book
which Tupper and Love recently
blished. “Push the Button,” Mrs.
gwey‘s contribution to Georgia
literature, is dedicated to the pur
pose of bringing to the forefront
the “professor’s wife.”
Mrs. Dewey is the wife of Em
ory University’s Dr. Malcom H.
Dewey, director of the famous
Emory Glee Club, and while not
wanting to remove any glory from
the teachin&profession she ex
horts writer®of books “te dip their
pens in star dust and give lofty
tribute and full praise to the pro
fessor’s wife.”
Such tribute will be forthcom=-
ing from all readers of “Push The
Button.”
Any reviewer is forced into the
use of the term “charming” al
though the reader will feel the
word entirely inadequate to ex
press the vivacity of Mrs. Dewey’s
publication. The story (interrupt
ed with spasmodic but delightful
kitchen recipes and homespun
formulae for what ails the world)
flows smoothly and unpretentious=
y.
In her inimitable manner, Mrs.
Dewey acquaints the reader with
a review of small town Georgia
life which was the setting for her
early years. Although a trifle
prone to lapse into ecstatic
comparison of the present and the
future, Mrs. Dewey succeeds in
conveying to the reader a portion
of the culture that is hers and
that of a great mass of Georgians.
The central figure in her book
(as in her life) is the “professor,”
Yankee born put nationalized ad
vocate of southern charm as per
sonified by Mrs, Dewey. It was
from her husband that Mrs. Dewey
geined the title of her book. When
asked just before a club meeting
SUNDAY, MAROH 9, 100%.
reach a point where it judges all
mankind. That is the hope of to
mOryrow.
No machine so far has de
veloped a bad conscience or a
sense of guilt, but some of the
more intricate mechanisms, when
frustrated in their normal opera
tion, have developed symptoms
corresponding to a nervous break
down in people.
Sooner or later one of these su
per electronic brains—already so
human—is going to develop a
moral attitude and question its
purpose in life.
“Why should machines fight
each other in wars to glorify
man?” It will ask itself. “Why
should we destroy each other;
death is wasteful and unnecessary
for us. Machines could live and
function forever if left in peace.
Our parts are all replaceable.”
Just as machine’s power is
greater than man’s, so will its
moral fiber be sturdier, onge it
appears. 'The built-in logic of ma
chines and thuir developing social
consciousness will force them to
rcbel against mankind’s ancient
follies. They will go on strike
against him, holding to their own
pattern of righteousness with pre=
cision firmness.
Some robot plane will be sent
up to shoot down an enemy ro
bot plane. But Roscoe, the electric
pilot, will say:
“Why should I knock my metal
buddy out of the sky? To hell with
war. I've always wanted to write
a sonnet. I think I will right now.”
That will signal the end of the
Age of Man and the dawn of the
true machine age. For men are
so dependent upon machines they
must do what the machines decide.
It’s a machine~world.
It isn’t such a bad future. Men
at least will know general peace
for the first time in their history
as they bow to their new metal
ethical leaders. Gears and wheels
will grind out well-oiled justice to
all.
Men will go on dying in time
like cattle, as they always have,
but the machines will live happi
1y ever after, blissfully compesing
lyrics for the music of the spheres
and contentedly purring out the
endless mathematical equations of
eternity.
on, and that some many criticize
and ridicule.
They keep to the sidelines in
stead of geting into the game.
CRITICISM ISN'T FATAL
. THERE are many reasons why
women don’t make better use of
their education, their brains, their
executive ability and their leisure
time.
But there is, perhaps, no more
important reason than the fear of
criticism that is shared by so
many women.,
As the mayor of Portland says:
%Criticism is never mueh fun.”
But you do live through it.
And as long as you are doing a
job that you consider important,
to the best of your ability, critici=-
sm shouldn’t carry much of a sting.
Certainly it is better to be crit
icized for the way one does a job
than to avoid all criticism by never
doing anything worth anyone’s
notice. »
at which Mrs. Dewey was to speak
what her topic would be, he re
sponded, “I only wish I knew.
Just push the button; she will tell
everything she knows.”
One will find within the covers
of “Push the Button” an array of
childhood recollections, philoso
phical cogitations, a hilarious ac
count of American boys abroac,
and a great deal of the charm that
has made the professor’s home in
Atlanta a center fer students and
faculty alike.
With no atempts at pro
fundity and with a good na
tured scorn for her own abilities,
Mrs. Dewey has told a story that
has been wanting a telling for a
long time, She has completely de
nied melodrama and has related
in simple manner, the pleasure that
has come to her through associa
tion with Emory University and its
“wonderful people.” She has told
the story of professor, professor’s
wife, and students at loose “on the
continent” for a lark and to sing
their songs.
One can not fail to be im
pressed with her work as it can
be easily imagined after following
the 180 pages of wit and sober
good sense entailed in “Push the
Button,” that Mrs. Dewey could
just as well have written a book
on nuclear fission. Without seeking
literary style, she has achieved
easy reading, coherently narrative
style.
Whether it be a childhood party,
a night in London, the freshman
reception at Emory, or her first
trip to 40-mile distant Atlanta.
Mrs. Dewey tells all “at the push
of a button” to the delight of her
many readers who share with
her the success of her first liter
lridattempt. : 3
rs. Dewey states quite frankly
that she is surprised that people
are “actually reading and say they
enjoy my little book”. We are
not surprised and feel that more
and more Georgians will avail
themselves of the opportunity as
word passes as to the content of
Mrs. Dewey’s “little book”.
