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AGEt— T>1E BAYTOWN SUN, FRIDAY. MAY 8, I9S3
Editorials...
Its Take-Home Pay, Not Salary That Counts These Day
This is an era of big wages and big sal-
aries But, after the ravages of taxes and
inflation are taken into account, our take-
home pay and our buying power is, in many
cases, much lower than it was in allegedly
less prosperous times.
The Foundation for Economic Education
recently publicized an interesting example
Of this, Back in 1950, baseball star Ted
Williams was given the most lush contract
in the game’s history—an estimated $125,-
000 a season. The prior high was the $80,-
000 paid to the legendary Babe Ruth. So,
on the fact of it, Williams was earning
more than half again as much as Ruth.
However, after the deduction of federal
income taxes (and without making allow-
ance for any other taxes) it turns out that
Ruth’s 1931 take-home pay was $68,535,
while William’s take-home pay was down to
$62,028. And when a further computation is
made, and that take-home pay is translated
into actual buying power, it is found that
Williams’ real income was but a little more
than half of Ruth’s.
And certain kinds of indirect taxes,
which constitute a large part of the selling
cost of food, clothes, housing and every-
thing else, often hit the moderate means
harder than the man of large means.
The point is this: The current drive to
cut government costs, balance the budget,
and bring about tax reduction is in every-
body’s interest.
Nutrition And Heart Disease
“Today with the wonder drugs ... avail-
able for infectious diseases and with mod-
em sanitation preventing such scourages as
typhoid fever, many physicians and scien- A
tists consider nutrition the most important
environmental factor in health.” That
statement is made in a manual, "Food for
Your Heart,” recently issued by the Amer-
ican Heart Association. Copies of the man-
ual, which was prepared by the Department
of Nutrition of the School of Public Health,
Harvard University, are available to indi-
viduals only on prescription by physicians
through local Heart Associations.
The manual points out that nutrition and
food have a two-way relationship to normal
heart funtion and to high blood pressure.
First is the prevention or treat
obesity resulting from the consuiJ ,•!
more food energy (calories) than tt?
needs. Second is treatment of hvt*
and fluid in body tissues by
intake of sodium. Diets which are ^
in their meat content often aid ^
in these treatments.
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SUN SLANTS
more effective than drugB in c^'
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By Fred Hartman
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ABOUT NOTHING BUT BAPTISTS
WELL, EVERYBODY else is writing or talking
•bout the Baptists the*e days, so I guess I can if I
want to:
I can’t rightly claim to be one of the 1,373,398 Bap-
• tists in Texas, but you can catalog me u being
about as near being a Baptist as you can be with-
• out being one.
rm definitely for the Baptists. In fact, I'vs done
about everything a man could do to get along with
; the Baptists. Everything, of course, except con-
{ tribute to their causes.
And let me say here, and I don’t mean this mean,
, the Baptists have more cause* than some denomin-
ations have members.
It’s true that ever so often I get relieved of a
few bucks for my mother's Lottie Moon offering up
in Marlin, but far and wide I would say that thus
far I have escaped every financial opportunity af-
forded by the aforementioned brethren and sister*.
I can say further that thus far I have managed
to beat the Baptist* to nearly every punch.
I must admit that the Baptists have done a whole
lot more for me than I can ever do for the Baptists.
Every school is supposed to lose money on every
individual student, and on that basis I cost the
Baptists plenty of dough.
of Baylor—that’s the Baptists' biggest school—and
although fm not very proud of it, I have managed
thus far to etave off all Baylor's causes to date, too.
New Baylor has many .causes, but not quite as
many as the Bap*iS!?^fc|encral.
I served on a Vrandjjury recently with several
Baptists. They a*d*-dSrae of the non-Baptists
couldn’t understand why it was that so many Bap-
priMd tWUbIc. I can explain.it.. It’s simple.
There's just so many of them.
Houston. That count* 15,000 regular delegates—they
call them messengers. That Includes several hun-
dred from right here in Baytown, You try to get in
touch with a Baptist. The chances are he’s in Hous-
ton at the convention.
The Baptists have been growing and growing ip
Texas for about 120 years. They even tell me that
when the Baptists first came to Texas it was
against the law to be a Baptist. Knowing human
nature, maybe that’s the reason they got off to
such a fast start.
They had lots of trouble with the Baptists in the
early pioneer days before Texas won independence.
They tell a story about an old boy up there In the
Red river bottom*. They said he stroked hi* beard,
changed his chew of tobacco from one jaw to the
other and predicted that “some day the Baptists
and the red ants will take Texas.”
The old prophet proved only 50 per cent correct
Somewhere along the line the ants fell by the way-
side, but if you don’t thing the Baptists took
you just take a trip over the state and count their
3400 churches one at a time.
TIMES AND BAPTISTS DO CHANGE
TON”F admit it but they have changed.
BAPTISTS WON'
To tell you the truth they aren’t as longwmded as
they used to be. . '
I can remember when w*-used to get out of our ,
church, ride clear across town in a buggy, wait for
a noon freight train to pass and then get to the
Baptist efaureh 10 or 15 minutes before it let out.
And then you add about IS minutes more of visit-
ing friends on the way out of church and out on
the churchyard, and you can see why I’m a near-
Baptist instead of a Baptist. They nearly starved
me
Other families used to have Sunday dinner and
»..v. —v ------ get-the- dishes, .washed before we. would ever ait
There will be more Baptists in heaven than any- down to the table. And all because my mother, her
’ 1 * “—*• ...... “ “ ' 1 mother and her sisters were Baptists. But I notice
Baptists eat earlier now than they used to. I pre-
sume that Baptist preachers quit quicker now than
they used to. . . , ~
Radio has made a great contribution to our times!
You can kid the Baptists all you want to, and
they’ll keep right on being Baptists. They don’t
body else. Likewise, you will find more Baptists in
the penitentiary than any others. They’re j(i|t so
plentiful. . .L
Right here In the Baytown area I can- couht 14
Baptist churches. And I may have missed some. A
Methodist told me he remembers when there were
three Methodist churches and only one Baptist The
Baptists were backed up behind their own goal «***■
line. They kicked out recovered a fumble or two ‘ T k
and now they're by far the biggest church outfit
In these parts.
I hope to do something more for the Baptists than
d them one of these days. I don’t know how you
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BAPTISTS TOOK TEXAS
SOME ESTIMATES say that there are as many as
60,000 Baptist* at the big convention ending la
Wt
feel about it. but I. couldn’t get along without the
~ ‘ *...... ‘ muse I’m going to
Baptists. I've tried to be kind because__„
Marlin Saturday for Mother’s day, and I’m going
to be held accountable for everything contained
LOOKING AT LIFE
herein.
§1
By Erich Brandeis
AFTER 24 HOURS AS a cop on the Chicago police
force, Edward Yankoe'has gone back to his old job
•re better than people.
Take his partocujar pet * wild Australian dog,
called a dingo.
friendly, reliable and thankful for the
favors ** si
ib0Ut “J Wlld “W* ’ GARDEN OF ALLAH
.aid, theyjiont hold any.grudge, again* you".
WHEN EDDIE GOT hi* job as a policeman, after v . , * ,-*■ _
waiting three years for it, he waa assigned to direct May nave Fortune
Washington Merry-Go-Round:
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WA^JNGTON—One’dfotreMlnj time’ mfttjlm fo”-' lrM
aspect of the Korean prisoner re- armed service inequity^ '*
lease Is that some families of Am-
erican POW’s were
joining Communist-front organiza- jn turn has endMv»,, "
tions in the U.S.A. In hope* of some of then.
getting ther sons released.
some of these problem,.
armed services '
Just how extensively parents them out. Here are ■» ”
joined up Is now being investigated from the GI mailbag- 1
by the Pentagon. The belief is that An Air Force seree... ,
only a few did so. However, the Field, Tripoli Ubva~
Pentagon first learned of the mat- jng in tents ’eight " '*•.
ter when some of the parent* told The floor boards ar. H
of receiving letters from their son* a fine layer of '"***
asking them to Jot. Communist- are full of It, our W5°Ur,i
front^rganiation# in th«£ope that ets are full 0f it an?? ^*
it would speed their release. ed mv Sunrf,v d 1 h* U
Those parent, who reported the ?ull of
matter to. Washington did not join, tent, but a person ^**3
But some did. door 0r llft a f) HJ
What happened was that 42,000 sand will blow |n V01 f
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ve been delivered from in your eyes, ears ’hair iff
prisoners in North Ko- neck and in your’ shot, <L”l
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the true* In the tent and sweat TV*
talks began. These letters, uncen- of the men in this wi”j
“He is
amallett favors,” said Eddie, “but people—they just
aren^ as nice *s a dingo or even a bear or a wolf."
YANKOE TOOK HIS JOB as a cop because there
was more money in it than in his zoo job, 10 dol-
lars a month more, to be exact.
But “money isn’t everything” to quote Yankoe.
So now he is back at the zoo, and his particular
charge*, the bears and the wolves, greeted him joy-
ously when he returned.
The dingo snuggled up to him and licked his
waiting three yam tot it, he waa assigned todliect ....... .... ,
ZttfJZZZltiSiS?' Look Carefully Before You Bum Old Stocks
It was a nightmare. There was hardly a friendly
Nothing like his animals. They were friendly. Not l E? t tS&J* thoae ** 9^ ’ investig*J««
sored by UN officials, were for- lowest of any that I h,V
warded intact to relatives. For seen. Enlisted men wi*k
this reason. Pentagon official* did year* service ate taking,
not know that suggfstiona were charges. They are
being made by POW’s that their the Air Force any
families join Communist-front, They don’t want to dn
group*.. --------------------
It was not until the wounded ataylng here.”
prisoners began arriving on our Answer—I have in
side of the fine that new* of the ing conditions at Wheefaj
brain-washing of American par- and unfortunately mu!!
enta, aa well as the POW’s them- that you have understated
•elves, came to light. cue. Condition, there ,
Since then, all from POW’s haa human. It Is not the fault J
been ceniored. The Pentagon is Air Force, however, whici
also appointing a committee of asked Congress for the me*
civilian specialists to study the un- build ventilated barracks and
fortunate aituation. a awimming pool for rehef
the terrible desert heat Hon
CRITICISM OF EISENHOWER the congreasmen, who adjourn.
— Some administration leader* in* the summer becaui* #,]
have been complaining privately *«* in Wariiington. seem aim
that the preas has been too critical, terested in saving a few nick
that they have to labor under auch Mr*. Elizabeth Gal* Hill
an intense spotlight of publicity Worth, T*x.-“My husband,
that they can’t accomplish any- Sidney Hill, lost his lit* in \
thing. This may be one reason why crash at Harmon Air Fowl
the secrecy order* from the Whlto Newfoundland, on Jan. «, i
House and various government de- weak before the died bt tolli
partments have made Information that a maintenance disaster
tighter than ever. - squadron was inevitable for
Those who complain should take 6621 Air Transport Squadrattli
a look at criticism back In the writing to solicit your aid. Ni
early days of the republic. This can ever bring my husband
nation haa thrived On it. It wa| to me, but unless
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rhing like hia animals. They i _ ___ __
a one of them sneered at him-not even the laugh- Them': You may haves'fortune in thT'charred'liaZfaTt Wkw-
ing nyena. ^^tic ing^s
m&m ttmm
IMt’ boxes. discovered he had some irrigation
The firm’* job is to track down bonds that had been worth 35,000
"cats and dogs" — the broker’s just five month* before but since
name for washed-up and washed- had become worthless.
A I /Nk If* A P\\ A / A \/ n I I sew out securities. The president of However, even Smythe some-
ALONG BROADWAY By Jack Gaver ******
PAl
. hand. None of the animals seemed to hold it against
him that he deserted them for more money. They
were too happy to have him back.
So on Monday morning Eddie Yankoe quit and
went back to his old job.
supposedly worthies* stock* turn-
atjiiSMses: sassarrr
Sur?» a sSsT-'Vas sarasrssii
p°urt dccc^ed no more re.pect near the bottom of the 1
mt the oM stwk b^for? i^Tinv th“ * “majority of those congrc list, so that the skiUed
4t0Ck *«ted in any Wa-' lngton bar- crew, go first to Korea, tiv,|
room-'' (he Strategic Air Comnumi, k
Abraham Lincoln once used ing transport pilots to depnll
these words in describing the Su- green, sometimes slipshod *T
preme Court's doctrie - of - de- tenance men. The Air Fora I
moeracy: “As thln as the home- forms me, however, the i
opathic aoup made by boiling a tunate crash that cost youi t
2800 U
new share*
A company representative visit-
ed the doctor’* house and solemn-
ly stamped conceled all over the
walls. For this the doctor got a
tidy sum—340,000.
NEW YORK — Can you remember back five year*? The survey showed also that there are now about ing "out to be valuable.
..... 120 stations on the air, reaching an estimated po- For example, there’s the Amer-
tential audience of 95 million persons. These sta- ican-oWned mining company that
You were perhaps one of those real early birds
in the East who had a television set. But can you
recall what you didn't have on April 30 that you
Had on Mhy 1 in 1948; ■
Commercial network TV service is the answer.
Grab Bag Of Easy Knowledge
'Another 13,000 channel miles will be added to the discovered the Mexican govern- 1 To whom doe* the island of Dianist for" Trvkne ’..... t “Shall—he-h* iurmin^i-P°^*ress to[ enouZh aom'j
■ jRcsse&rs, - siass k Kirstf^ ~
I "o-*May 1. IMS, [he 8,11 Tel.phon, Syttem 0p,n«l SmSLH commy”^ SmSSSSSt WlpilSM r»c»? tor mu*lc«l ,hbwfc2woi, ttmrOk fett.r ”,
; for commercial use 916 miles of telerision channel* order to meet the anticipated increasedr equire- nobody knew who the stockholders -3 How did Joan of Arc convince *tc. Some compositions are I Can’t having his neck twisted?" ordinary, bu* I was n:*if
to provide network service to 12 stations in five ments of broadcasters." ■ W(,r(, hnider'ur.« finaiw in. the king that she was divinely You Anything But Love, This was some of the criticism you seemed to be helping s e««
.3 How did Joan Of Arc convince ***• Some compositions are I Can’t having his neck twisted?”
~ r.-----——-« -------osar »".■?).'!- w» were one newer was nnaiiv lo- the king that *he was divinely 2iYe You Anything But Love, Thia was some of the criticiam _____ ___________
cities—Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washing- By the end of 1948, the number of Channel miles cated and paid 31,600. But the in«P‘red? Hitting a New High, Cuban which the men who made this of GIs and thought maybf 1
Tuesday that these facilities now have been extend- of 7,000 channel miles were added to Bell System bine ™ iZ/Z” J-V 1 »muae Be- 0inner at Eieht etc anrf „ mnnv Woodrow Wi,.„„
* for "more than 150 stations in 87 cities to receive
“live" network programs.
are carried out.
It Happened Today
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DATELINE: HOLLYWOOD By Aline Mosby
3AN HERSHOLT said today he v
pitting occasional villains in the
blic accepts him only as radio’s ft
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Looking Backward
Ying and a Prayer. Now, who eminent “criticism in
JEAN HERSHOLT said today he wants to go back the Swedish consul for a list of Scandinavian names,
to playing occasional villains in the movies—but the and chose Paul Christian.” «
pul
tian.
i radio’s famed "Dr. Chris-
Hersholt first gained fame a* the bad man of the
cinema, but this week, in a Jekytl-Hyd! switch, he
celebrates 16 years as a kindly medic of the air-
waves. By now, he said, his transformation is com-
l plete that even real-life doctors treat him as a
fooileaiue. *
colleague.
"I used td portray mean villains,” chuckled the
actor. “But I never could do that again. The pub-
lic never would accept me.,"
The crowning glory to Hersholt'* “medical” ca-
reer comes next month when the American Medical
Association officially recognizes the show at it*
New York convention. He already owns honorary
memberships in the Washington Medical Associa-
tion ,the Cancer Society and many other groups,
hen I went through Beverly Hills clinic for a
talked to me as if I
t In 16 years Hersholt never has missed a per-
formance, an unsurpassed record in radio. Once he
was so sick the show had to be broadcast from, hia
bouse. 5 <
“They brought along another actor, Francis X
Bushman, just in case," he recalled. “The doctor ed t e C°mpany 8 30 yclr
said it was amazing what a sick person could do.
ton, was engaged as the com- M*PP.v Birthday
, “When I went through Beve
checkup recently, the doetoM
were a doctor, too,” he saifr
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“Fans often write me for medical advice. It’s
r embarrassing! I never give advice to anybody,
iwp^vugh.
The one-time villain of the celluloid turned doc-
tor when he played the medical man in a movie
Francis X. Bushman!'
Now medical societies invite Hersholt to speak
at their meetings. He receive* rkiany fan letters
from doctors, but not one complaint about medical
mistakes. He has two doctors on hand as technical
advisers for the CBS program.
“Dr. Christian,” which also may move to tele-
vision, is the only program written entirely by the
audience. Every script Is selected during an annual
contest.
“Even our mail at home calls toe doctor,” smiled
the veteran actor. “Yet my wife tells me I don’t
know how to take an aspirin.”
1823—“Home, Sweet Home” first is he?
heard as part of opera, “Clari, or on .......
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TODAYS HEADLINES: Gov- Watch Your Language O., and was elected as a Whig
ernment To Seize Rails If Strike 'PANDEMONIUM - (PAN-de- melnber of the Senate in 1831. In
Is earned Out; City Piw.-erty In- MO-niuml-noun; the abode of March’ became secretary
ventory Estimated (at 335,000,000. demons; in Milton, the capital of of the treasury in President Wil-
The Bbytown city council grant- Hell or palace of Satan; loosely Iiam Henry Harrisoh’s Cabinet.
I the gas company a 30-ycir ex- Hell; a wild tumult. Origin: New From Mareh, ««, to July, 1850, he
tension of 1U franchise. Latin—From Pan plus Greek dai- was a member of President
Dr. Kyle Yates, pastor of the mon, a demon. " Zachary Taylor's Cabinet as the
first secretary of the newly-estab-
_ - liabed department of the interior,
mencement speaker at the 1948 ex- Ex-President Harry S. Truman He served later in the Senate, and
ercises for graduates of Cedar Ba- J* one of today’s birthday cele- died at Lancaster, O., on Oct. 26,
you high school. brants; others are Thomas Cos- 1871. The name, please.
tain, novelist; Jimmy Demarest, (Name at bottom of column).
10 YEARS AGO g0,f atar; Ux Barker, film star, .
County Judge Roy Hofheinz was and Frit2^e Zlvic. one-time ring U* ®een Said
the principal speaker at a meeting ,tar' . Absence ot occupation is not
°oi commerce!'^ JUni#r 'hamber ^ ^e-Guess IBe Name mind duSd'-Will^^
Your Future
guage: . , v .
"*We do not need less criticiam,
with h"sDtomfly Ct‘am Win be wMSwe^but^rt-
yct admittde state if -7 unfair.criticlsm than automa-
tic repression.1
my intended bride and I «ffll
op getting married rcgard5*J
how and when, I was woaCT
if you could get some sct««J
the application before I
back to the United States os i
16, 1953.”
PICK
sue
it the Dionne quintuplets.
“I got so much fan mail I thought people would
It more about such a character,” he said. 'The ra-
dio show was my own idea. Because I had an ac-
cent, we put the doctor in Minnesota. We wrote to
You're Telling Me
Try And Stop Me
By Bennetf Cerf
By William Ritt
ml
Today’s Bible Verse
YIELD ye your member* **
> of unrighteousness unto 9in:
, d yourselves unto God, as those
that are alive from the dead, and your
members as instruments of righteousness
unto God. Rontons 6:13
THERE IS A reporter who rates
very high with his editor, but is
Flap is new word the Pentagon now uses In place In the doghouse as for aa his wife
of World War H’s Snafu. If you don't know what is concerned, because of his habit-
snafu means, you're in it—a state of confusion. ually sloppy and careless way of
. „„ ,. . • , dressing. The fellow just hates
A. 90-year-oldster says the younger generation is neckie* :.nd formal attire of any
just a bunch of cry-baWes. Whimper-snappers, he sort. Recently he came home to re-
probably means. port that he was going off on a
novel assignment—to cover a nud-
Guard against financial losses;
"Forewarfied is forearmed," they
say. Some good fo*n..>.s may
eventuate in the course of your
next year. Today's child should be
lucky in vocational and money
matters.
A tree has begun to grow inside the bathroom of
a Wisconsin home,
towl rack
How’d You Make Out?
L France.
2. Australia (Oceana).
3. She refused to kneel to the
puppet king who occupied the
throne to deceive her, and picked
out the real king from among the’
courtiers.
lo grow inside the Bathroom or .v.w » 1 -Boston, Mass., is his place of 4 No it i> c«n«cH „„ , ,
vHiir',0'"
Scienti«tj. «re read, are trying to aolve the myateqr for once in your life youT. be the career as office bov in thf n 1 ^ *MUu0r'u
of fog. Probably require* a very penetrating atudy. best-dreased man in the place!” Opera Houae. After ihat he waa Ewing!"1^ McHu"h 2 ^'>mas
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