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El Reno (Okla.) Daily Tribune
The El Reno Daily Tribune
A Blue Ribbon Newspaper Serving a Blue Ribbon Community
Issued daily except Saturday from 207 South Rock Island Avenue,
and entered as second-class mail matter under the act of March 3, 1879.
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Monday, November 27, 1956
Talk is chran. We are judged by our deeds as
fruit. Some have assumed a sanctimonious air
within. They profess that they know God. but in
a tree is judged by Us
to cover mortal defects
works they deny him.—
Tit. 1:16.
Campaign Expenses Untold
T
tHE Ohio elections this year are a perfect example of the
■ futility of trying to determine accurately how much
money is spent in major political campaigns.
The law puts a limit on the amount individual candidates
may spend, hut it doesn’t mean much, since there isn’t a
limit on the sums campaign committees and other contrib-
utors may put out.
In the important senate contest, for instance, Senator
Taft filed an expense record of $1,529 and his Democratic
opponent, Joseph T. Ferguson, one amounting to $Ki0.
But if you add up the recorded expenditures of all the
special Taft committees, you get a figure close to $420,000.
And that’s only part of the story.
The regular state Republican committee put out $425,000
during the campaign. Here you run into trouble. It can’t all
he ascribed to helping elect Taft, since that committee is
responsible for promoting the whole state ticket. County
candidates were handed money in addition.
Yet the costliest single items in the Taft campaign were
paid for by the state committee—all the radio and television
programs and the 600 billboards used for the senator. So
what proportion of the $425,000 should he applied to Taft's
expendituresV It’s almost impossible to tell.
* * *
CLrvn,
Mr. Breger
Monday, November 27, 1950
By Dave Breger
SetAf*
umHE TIME HAS COME’ the
walrus said, "to talk of
many things: of shoes—and ships
—and sealing wax—of cabbages
and kinds.”
Shoe meaning the community
chest, ships, implying increased,
war time preparedness, sealing
wax. all the administration se-
crets which seem to get about,
largely to the wrong people and
kings, the crowned heads in the
late election. I mean to deal onlv
with kings in this printed stint
and that but briefly. Now that
! the election is over and winners
named, the parties settled down
to an armistice, why must we
continue to look at the horrible
f Dicturcs of all candidates, on
billboards, fence posts, tree
trunks and blown against fences
from which ignominious nosition
the winners, a-s well as thp losers,
leer at passers-by as if from be-
hind bars?
This subject was discussed in
a letter to the people in a Sun-
day paper and the writers’ sug-
gestion that each candidate be
responsible for removing his like-
ness from public notice mioht
be all right but I like Fay’s idea
better. Says he "That’s too
much duplicated effort and a
waste of men power. It should
be party activity, instead of ad-
ditional candidate duty, and the
wheel horses in both parties
could get together and mnkc as-
signments of volunteers and
areas to be cleared, irrespective
“Ah ... don’t you just love a brisk, crackling fire
★ WASHINGTON COLUMN ★
BY PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
Russia, Not U. S., Should Pay
For Reconstruction of Korea
VyASHINGTON. Nov. 27—(NEAi
—Korean reconstruction aid is
SPHERE’S still another item. The state committee allotted
an extra $107,80(1 to the campaign of the OOP’s various
of party affiliations.” I suspect *
congressional candidates. But in most places their promo-
tion was woven in rather closely with Taft’s. Their names
often appeared on the same billboards, they showed up on
the same platforms, were mentioned in the same radio pro-
grams. and they plugged Taft in their speeches.
How do you measure what share of the $107,800 should
properly he chalked up to Taft? Again, who can tell?
If you added all those figures together, you’d come up
with around $975,000. Hut the total obviously wouldn’t be
a sound indication of Taft expenses.
On the Democratic side, the difficulties are no less. A
day or so after the final date for filing of expenses, the most
you could ascribe to the Ferguson campaign was around
$120,000. This unfortunately included funds spent by the
Democratic state committee for other candidates.
* * *
T’HF Ohio CIO-PAC spent $74,470, according to the ex-
pense account filed hv Jacob dayman, the secretary-
treasurer. Of this, he said, $48,204 came from “innumer-
able small contributions from thousands of persons.” The
bulk of the remainder was furnished by the national PAC.
Some other important labor outlays were still being pre-
pared for filing, hut it seemed clear the ultimate total would
not be too revealing.
Tlu*re was little likelihood, for example, that it would
cover the cost of bringing in a long list of out-of-state speak-
ers from the administration and the top labor command to
speak against Taft. Furthermore, the national labor head-
quarters in Washington performed the basic research that
supplied Ohio campaigners with their anti-Taft propaganda.
How much did it cost to assemble and distribute the CIO’s
200-odd page speaker’s handbook which contained most of
this material?
All of this suggests that as the law' is now written and
as campaigns are now conducted, very little can be done to
ascertain fully what any candidate has spent. Perhaps only
a congressional investigation could determine, but such in-
quiries are too costly to be made the rule.
If limits on campaign expenses are desirable, they ought
to be extended to cover all contributors. Otherwise it would
be better to forget the whole thing. Certainly it’s perfectly
silly to make wild charges and counter-charges about any
man’s outlays when there’s not a hope in the world of prov-
ing or disproving them.
Down Memory Lane
Nov. 27, 1925
Miss Anita Whitmond of Hamilton, Mo., is the week-end
guest of her cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Koren, FI Reno.
Miss Whitmond is kindergarten teacher in the McKinley
school of Oklahoma City and is the niece of J. C. Penney. I
Mrs. C. C. Harkins, El Reno, entertained members of the
Delta Alpha class of the Methodist Sunday school Friday
evening.
Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Helwig of Little Rock, Ark., are guests
of Mr. and Mrs. George Woods, El Reno.
Mr. and Mrs. Enimett Collins and family and Mrs. Mary
Collins returned Friday evening from Cordell where they
spent Thanksgiving.
Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Seiver left Friday afternoon for Ama-
rillo, Tex., on a business trip.
Nov. 27, 1940
Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Niles, El Reno, have received word
that their son, W. E. Niles of Stillwater, has accepted a
position in Stillwater with the Nash-Finch company. Mr.
and Mrs. Niles and family moved to Stillwater from El Reno
alKHit seven years ago.
Possibly fearing that the utility-crippling freeze from
Amarillo had advanced this far east, any number of El Reno
residents this morning called the city hall to ask what had
happened to the water pressure. It was low, all right, but
not because of any power failure—which couldn’t happen
here because of gasoline power plant for emergency use
should the electricity fail. What happened, as Miss Ethel
Dowell, El Reno city clerk, explained over and over, was
that the big tower tank on the south end of Rock Island
avenue was being drained so that the interior could be
painted for the first time since the tank was completed in
1926. Steam pressure pumps lifted the water pressure later.
TIIE STORY: An inland-} squad,
wiped out in (hr Pacific war. finds
ilsrlf in V\ estwaygo, where must
of the unit lived before the war.
At the beach a girl. Margie Lou
Denslow, almost drowns, but Ser-
geant Eddie gets his dog Duke
(who ran see Ms master and his
friends) to save her. The dog’*
barking attracts a man passing,
in a car. who tries artificial res-
piration. Another of the squad,
Unrl Peterson, has gone to visit
his wife.
* * *
VII
/ 1AR.I, PFtTFRSON had no trou-
a ble finding his wife. Without
knowing why he did it he went
automatically to the little house
on Ponlar Street which he and Kir-
sten had wanted, to buy since long
before they were married.
There was a vacant lot on the
north side of the house. Three
kids about 12 were playing One Old
Cat there with an indoor base-
ball. While Carl was watching one
of them hit a liner that bounced
eff the side of the house. It
missed a large window by inches,
a fact which caused the players
considerable concern mingled with
congratulatory satisfaction. Th»y
eautioned one another to be more
careful but went, on with the
game.
As Carl stood on the sidewalk
lonkinR over the white picket fence
at the front door Kirsten got off
the bus at the corner and came
immediately toward him.
She was wearing dark blue cov-
eralls with a worker’s photograph!-
identification disc over the left
breast Kir.Ten was tall and btg
In a sleek, lithe sort of a way,
equipped with long, strong muscles
like a man. She carried herself
as queens probably used to walk,
high and confidently, as if she
knew that all obstacles would bt
cleared from her path. Her taffy-
colored hair was stuffed under a
bandana leaving her fair com-
plexion and fine features to fend
for themselves without benefit of
a frame She hadn't changed much
unless you counted the fact that
now she looked as if she seldom
smiled any more. At the moment
her expression was one of serious
determination like that of someone
who was going to keep an impor-
tant appointment, say with a
dentist.
Carl's emotion on seeing her was
a torturing mixture of. the old
adoration which he had nlways felt
toward his wife and outraged mas-
culine pride for which he could
think of no satisfactory assuage-
ment save pressing her lovely
throat with hi- fingers until she
could breathe no more. That she
could have been false to her own
code seemed unthinkable.
Carl, who had no very great
conceit about his own ability or
attractiveness, could understand
that she might have found some-
one whom she liked better than
himself. But that she should have
broken the promise which they had
made to each other was un-
thinkable Kirsten was not that
kind of a person. She had a faith
like a marble shaft reaching up
toward the sky. You either kept
h faith like that or you died.
* * *
IS she passed him at the gate
he could have struck her, at
least he thought he could. And
yet, ns she came near, his will to
hurt her turned to wnter. There
was that much of the old magic
left. He followed her to the door
which she opened with a latch-
key. It startled him a little when
she closed the door after she had
entered and lorked it again in his
face. He had forgotten that she
hadn’t been able to see him wait-
ing there. It had all seemed so
natural otherwise.
After a moment of indecision he
disregarded the locked door and
went in anyway.
Yes, it was the house of their
drpams. furnished just the wav
they had planned it togetner so
long ago. the gay dandelion yel-
low wallpaper on the living room
wails and the blue and red over-
stuffed three-piece suite plus a
mahogany table big enough to hold
their small radio. There was a
fireplace, one of the reasons they
had wanted that particular house
when they were only window
.- hopping for n home Opposite to
the fireplace was the big window
outside of whlrh the kids were
playing One Old Cat.
Kirsten went Into the bedroom
and so, after a moment, did Carl.
Their very ov.T. old familiar things
were there, the curly maple dres-
ser with the squeaky drawer that
sturk, the prim little straightback
chair that Kirsten Hlways sat on
when she put on her stockings.
Carl was amazed at how little
she had changed in any particular
whatever. As the son of a minister
he had been reared in the tradi-
tion that sinning set Its indelible
stamp on the sinner. It would have
been more in keeping with Carl's
preconceived ideas il Kirsten wire
haggard and bedraggled looking
The absolute opposite of that was
true. Kirsten was lovelier than he
remembered. He had to readjust
emotions to fit the facts.
* * *
/ sARI, did not follow her into the
adjoining bath. He could hear
the water from the shower spray
running in icy needles, Kirsten
was a seal in her preference for
cold water, as he sat down on her
own private stiff-backed dressing
chair to try to decide what to do. |
Providentially he got it when
Kirsten, wearing a ragged old
bathrobe of his own that he had
left behind, came out from her
shower all glo-.ving and more
beautiful than ever.
Carl failed to get the slgnlfi-'
cance of the bathrobe until later.
Scandinavian minds do not leap
to conclusions so readily as those
of the Latin and Gallic races. The
this is asking too much, but I’ll j
make a small wager that future I
candidates would go for the idea
The soldiers in Korea will
probably be without a Christmas
box Just like they were without
winter clothes. As the dead linp
for mailing such boxes drew near
we were busy playing that o'rl
worn out record, "T'll be home
for Christmas” and now look at
the situation.
We can’t even turn the record
over and play it on the other
side. The one I saw hns “I’m
dreaming of a white Christmas’
and if the kids in Korea can
get any bang out of that I miss
my guess.
Why doesn't some one luirry
up and write a song such as:
“Let’s spend Christmas in Ha-
waii. baby, where everything’s
warm and nice; let's spend
Christmas in the southern Isles,
where there ain't nc snow and
ice.” so we could broadcast it
to the Korean klutohers and give
them something pleasant to
dream about? Sez I.
Public Records
Civil Suits
Archie Burton vs. Martin Wolf
and Edwin Koelsch, doing business
as Wolf and company. Suit for
men
of the north, however.'when ,45;000 to da,ma^ af l„hc of
they do get a good grip on an
idea usually die with it still be-
tween their teeth.
What did attract and hold Carl’s
immediate attention was that Kir-
sten went to the dresser where
she had laid her purse, took a key
from an inner flap of the small
bag and opened the top drawer.
(To Be Continued)
a farm accident Sept. 8, 1950
Phillip McCool et al vs. Ralph
Taylor et al. Suit for $20,400 in
damages as the result of a traffic
accident July 27, 1950.
Warranty Deeds
Paul Joseph and Jeanne Maxine
Reynolds to M. E. and Grace
Girard. Lot 2. block 2. Park Ridge
sub-division, block 3. Morrison's
fourth addition. El Reno.
William R. and Inez Dunlap to
Roy L. and Betty Jean Swalm. Lots
4, 5 and 6. block 1. Jackson's sub-
FAMILY LONG-LIVED
PROVIDENCE. R. I. — (U.R)
Keeping up with an old family division, block 166, El Reno,
tradition, Elisha S. Miller celebrated Relpase of oil and Gas l,ease
his 100th birthday. A sister lived
to be 101 and his mother died at
103.
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James B. Rogers. SW 26-12-6.
Compromise Reported
In Rubber Tax Fight
SINGAPORE. Nov. 27—(Ab—Ma-
layas’ rebellious rubber nroducers
appeared Sunday to have won their
fight against a big boost in ex-
port taxes which were to have be-
come effective Jan. 1.
The government federation of
Malaya and rubber exporters were
reported to have agreed on a cut
of more than half fit the proposed
new levy. The government had an-
nounced Nov. 3 the export tax
would be to straits cents (17
American cents) on rubber exports
for $2 straits (65 ‘-fe American
cents) per pound. The planters
now expect to pay a tax of 20
straits cents (6’i American cents).
Look and Learn
1. Which were the first two
cities connected by a telegraph
line?
2. How long does the average
dream last,, according to scien-
tists?
3. In what state is the geograph-
ical center of the United States?
4. Dees dew form more readily
on cloudy or clear nights?
5. What is the largest game
bird?
ANSWERS
1. Baltimore and Washington^,
2. About five seconds.
3. Kansas.
4. Clear nights
5. The turkey.
running into a nice foul-up in the
united nations. It is being dis-
covered—apparently for the first
time—that this job is going to cost
a little money. And the glorious
allies are shunning the bill like
the plague.
What should happen here, is that
the bill for all Korean relief and
rehabilitation should be handed to
Soviet Russia. Tney started this
thing. let them foot the bill, and
let the united nations assess the
damages. They could never collect.
But it would be a good counter-
propaganda trick to have Ambas-
sador Warren Austin get up some-
day at a UN meeting and present a
detailed statement to Vishinsk.v
and Malik.
Since diplomats are diplomats,
however, this will never be done.
Instead, the world now has the
spectacle of the Russian represent-
atives sitting in on committee and
economic and social council meet-
ings where Korean recovery is be-
ing discussed, dotting i’s, crossing
t’s and shifting commas about in
such manner that they will later
be able to get out of paying one
ragged ruble.
* * *
/'OFFICIAL chatter around Wash-
*ington is that the United States
will be asked—or will volunteer—
to pick up the check for about 70
percent of whatever it will cost to
pqt Korea back on its feet. It is
the job of collecting the other 30
percent that will cause the head-
aches.
First estimates on what Korean
reconstruction would cost were put
together by the army general staff
and the Marshall plan organiza-
tion In Korea. These figures were
taken to Wake Island and given to
President Truman by General Mac-
Arthur.
Estimates were made for some-
thing like a five-year plan. But the
east was found to be so high that
the total has never been released.
South Korean government esti-
mates have put the total need at
$2,000,000,000. Whatever the figure,
constant effort has been made to
get it down to manageable pro-
portions.
South Korean requirements are
fairly well known in some cate-
gories. The number of destroyed
railway and highway bridges, for
instance, and the cost of replacing
some oombed-out factories. Nearly
149.000 out of 150,000 looms were
destroyed, and 3,200 out of 4,500
spindles. '*•
Destruction of farm livestock can
only be guessed at. says Dr. Edgar
A. J. Johnson, acting chief of the
Marshall plan mission to Korea,
who recently returned to Washing-
ton from Seoul. Another major
uncertainty is the amount of loot
taken from warehouses by the
Communists. And requirements for
North Korea still have to be sur-
veyed.
At Lake Success, in order to make,
the figures look .smaller, an effort
was made to set up a budget for a
shorter period of time. For the first
18 months, it lias been thought thsi
$350,000,000 might gel the Job
started.
Since the U. S. army and the
Marshall plan will spend at least
SlOO.oOO.OOO on Korean rehabilita-
tion in the next few months, this
sum was subtiacted from the 18-
month estimate to give a balance
of $250,000,000 that the united na-
tions might be asked to contribute
for the calendar year 1951 or slight-
ly beyond.
* * *
/APPOSITION to approving even
” this sum has come from two
sources. First from the smaller
countries who fear that Korea
would be given too big an advan-
tage over them by modernization.
Second from the biggei countries
who don’t want to spend anything
at all.
But within a few days or weeks,
the UN ecnomic and social council
resolution on Korean relief will
make its way through the various
political committees and finally
oome up for a vote before the full
general assembly. How much the
resolution will be amended is any-
body’s guess.
Then will come the longer, slow-
er process of trying to collect the
money to pay for whatever aid is
voted, after making long and de-
tailed surveys of what’s needed and
reporting back to UN. It will be
another UNRRA type operation.
Problem a Day
A gave B as many dollars as
B already had. Then B gave A
back as much as A had left. A,
who was equally generous, gave B
back as many dollars as B had left.
This left A without any money
and gave B $80 altogether. How
much did each have originally?
ANSWER
A had $50: B had $30. Let X
equal B’s money, and 80 minus X
equal A’s money. Form equation
2X minus <80 minus 2X) plus 2X
minus (80 minus 2X> equals 80;
solve for X.
Sally’s Sallies
By Scott
STATEHOOD UROED
WASHINGTON. Nov. 27-PFV-
Delegate Farrington of Hawaii
urged the senate Sunday to com-
plete action on the aHwali state-
hood bill before Christmas.
“I didn’t open this letter, dear; it’s marked: Personal"
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