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period. The tests are performed with controls -that
compare the reaction of the suspect’s urine with
that of urine from known pregnant and nonpreg-
nant women. The results are said to be 95 to 100
The good old days have been
replaced by the good new days
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tige was that of banker—from 10th to 24th. (The
poll takers ventured no explanation for this.)
A different survey, based not on prestige but on
salary, offers an interesting comparison.
Conducted by the National Education Associa-
tion, it found that schoolteachers, while making
faster salary gains than any other group over (he
past decade, still ranked far down on the list-
15th out of a group of 18.
They barely edged out librarians, clergymen
and dieticians.
Public schoolteachers will earn a national average.
of $5,963 this year, a rise of $231 over 1962-63.
Nevertheless, college graduates going into teach-
ing, says the NEA, can expect to receive a start-
ing wage ($4,700) that is at least $1,000 less than
that for any other profession.
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By DON
Despite all the criticism the U.S. Supreme
Court brings down upon itself because of its deci-
sions. a job on the high bench still ranks first
in prestige over at least 90 other professions.
A study by the National Opinion Research Cen-
ter reveals that 77 per cent of people questioned
considered Supreme Court justice an excellent job;
18 per cent ranked it as good.
It has slipped in its rating, however, during
the past 15 years. In a similar survey made in
1947, 83 per cent ranked it as the best, 15 per
cent as good.
Greatest gain was made by nuclear physicists,
who jumped from 18th place in 1947 to third place
in 1963. Physicians placed second in both years.
The profession which dropped the most in pres-
The danger, of course, is that the Pathet Lao
would pay no attention to the next-door presence of
U.S. troops. Some officials worry the Reds might
advance so rapidly that American forces couldn’t
arrive in Thailand in time to do any good.
There’s strong belief among the military-diplo-
matic analysts here, however, that the Red troops
are not planning a complete take-over of Laos now.
These analysts hold that the Reds -ere simply
moving their troops into stronger positions at key
points along the old battle lines and fighting to se-
cure control of key military-geographical areas out-
side their lines.
Their aim, it is reasoned, is to put their forces
in more threatening positions. With the resulting
strong military posture, the Pathet Lao might be
able to force any Laotian government to bend to
its will.
These U.S. planners believe the Reds have been
set off by the growing unity between the so - called
neutralists and rightists groups in Laos and by the
Communist loss of prestige among the neutralists,
non-Communist leftists and nationalists.
When the Original three-part Communist-neutral-
ist-rightist government was set up by East - West
agreement, it was believed in Communist countries
and feared in the Defense and State Departments
that the Communists and neutralists would get to-
gether in Laos for a Red take-over.
Instead, the left-wing neutralists have found it
Impossible to get along with the Communists, even
though the neutralist premier is the half brother
of the head of the Red Pathet Lao.
By RAY
WASHINGTON (NEA) - Key State and Defense
Department officials are convinced that only a show
of force by the United States in Southeast Asia—
preferably in Thailand — has any chance of stop-
ping the Reds in Laos if the Pathet Lao and North
Vietnamese have set their minds on a military
take-over now.
American planners are making preparations for
another landing of U.S. Marines or infantry in Thai-
land and for moving U.S. naval vessels to the Gulf
of Siam. These landings and naval demonstrations
would be carried out if the Red advances continue
IN WASHINGTON
U.S. Hopes in Laos Crisis
OAKLEY COMMENTS
High Court Seat Tops in Prestige
Most women had lost their
beauty by the time they were
THE BUSINESS MIRROR . . .
Wholesale Prices
Remaining Stable
By SAM DAWSON
ed. The roads were so bad you
were lucky, if you went 100 glass or nickei veer ana k s
miles without a flat tire; if you hardly worth turning the calen-
did get a flat tire, you had to ‘ dar back just for that.
fix it yourself. ~ - •• -
The human rights revolution in this coun-
try is being fought on an ever-broadening
front and some of the battles are as im-
portant to members of the white race as
to the Negroes.
One in that category is the developing
campaign to eliminate injustices and racke-
teering in the bail bond system. This even-
tually will touch many city halls and court-
houses and there are gping to be some
shocking scandals before this mess is cleaned
up.
The federal government, led by Atty.
Gen. Robert F. Kennedy and aided by pri-
vate organizations, is pushing for reforms
in the bail system. Last month he convened
the National Conference on Bail and Crim-
inal Justice in Washington, D.C., to discuss
refofm proposals.
The U.S. Constitution does not specifically
provide the right to bail. The 8th amendment
says only that “excessive bail shall not be
breeding a variety of bee that is completely
nonagressive. ’
Lassen spent 50 of his 80 years to, achieve his
goal by breeding from bees' selected for their
gentle nature. His "pacifistic" bees can still sting
but never do, and Lassen can handle them without
■ gloves or mask.
Now, thanks to the work of a West German
apiarist, it may be to the bee that men should go .
to leam, not the ways of industry, but the ways
of peace. One Jan Lassen, beekeeper In the village
of Wohlde in Schleswig-Holstein, has succeeded in
he referred to Moscow or Washington in- .
stead of his own capital. They, too, have
learned that trying to run agriculture from
a national seat of government never works
out as intended.
After years and years of bureaucratic
operation from Moscow, farming in Russia
■ is almost chaotic. The problem there is that
the vast territory of the USSR devoted to
agriculture can’t produce enough commodi-
ties to meet the needs of the Russian people.
The reason, of course, is that bureaucrats and
politicians are not very good farmers as a
rule.
In this country, the problem is entirely
made as honest and honorable as other lines
of endeavor.
Congress is considering three bills, apply-
ing to the federal courts, to prohibit retention
' of a defendant solely because he does not
have the money for bail. There eventually
will be legislation of this nature applying to
all courts. Along with it will come a cam-
paign to end favoritism and racketeering in
the bail bond business.
When this day arrives—and it is not too
far away—those communities which have
not already dealt with this problem in an
effective manner are going to find them-
selves highly embarrassed.
— . - Because there is no such thing as being a little
ways and be wise.” So the Book of Proverbs has bit pregnant, scientists have long searched for
been admonishing mankind for three milleniums. ........
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required.” The Judiciary Act of 1789, how:
• ever, stated that “upon all arrests in criminal
cases, bail shall be admitted except where
the punishment may be death . . " and the
bail in capital cases could be set at the dis-
cretion of the court.
The U.S. Supreme Court has further de-
fined bail by holding that it is solely for
the purpose of insuring the accused’s ap-
pearance at his trial. That some defendants
are more likely than others to flee, noted the
court, does not condone the denial of bail.
Nowhere have the courts been authorized
to use bail as a means of protecting society
from further crimes by the accused.
ACROSS THE EDITOR’S DESK . . .
Veteran Former Reporters Come to Visit Us
By J. CULLEN BROWNING
THE OFFBEAT NEWSBEAT . . .
What Do They Mean
‘The Good Old Days?9
By HAL BOYLE
a woman is pregnant. Tests that used’ frogs, rab-
bits and other animals were fairly accurate, but:
were expensive and required several days to
perform.
We now Have a number of greatly improved
The Orange Leader
TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 1964
EDITORIAL PAGE
old days?” .About all they had
we don't have is a big foamy
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But these restrictions often are ignored
in practice. Studies, mostly in the larger,
cities, have found that the bail system is
not working in accordance with the Supreme
Court ruling. Many, many accused spend
long periods of time in jail while awaiting
trial because they cannot afford to post bail.
Quite often these people arg found to be
innocent of the crime with which they are
charged.
The bail bond business has become highly
lucrative. Men are making fortunes (and
sometimes sharing their wealth with dis-
honest public officials) by providing bail
for a stiff fee. Law enforcement officers can
be very influential in deciding who gets
such business at a courthouse or city hall.
Kennedy is determined to put an end to
all this to the extent that he can. We wish
him every success. We would like- to see
every man who is entitled to bail get it
whether he js able to pay for it or not. We
would like to see the bail bond business
not possible to run agriculture from Havana."
He would have bi
for tobacco and beverages to de-
creases of 3.6 per cent for chem-
icals and 4.8 per cent for fuels.
More recent price increases
have been listed for various met-
als. Coal prices have risen, at
many mines after the latest
wage increase.
In most previous periods of
business expansion price chang- an:
es have been much quicker and
larger. This was particularly
marked in the 1955-57 boom.
Since then, however, .capacity
to produce has become so large
that it acted as a damper on
wholesale price fluctuations.
This was true during the last
previous expansion period, 1958-
60, although industrial wholesale
prices did rise 3 per cent in that
period. This was, offset by a
drop of 15 per cent in the index
for farm products. .
In the current expansion,
abundant capacity to produce
commodity prices. This surplus
of facilities has kept competi-
tion keen in many commodity t .
markets.
The problem today is what
extent surplus capacity has now
been reduced, to what degree
the effests of recent advances in
productivity have already been
realized, and to how much high-
er industrial demand may rise.
If the stablizing forces of the
past few years have now lost
■their punch, the pressure for
price rises may send commodi-
ties upward once more.
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In addition to greater accuracy than was possible
with the older tests, the new tests have the ad-
vantage that they can be set up in a few minutes
and the results can be read in two hours or less.
Another difference is that, whereas inaccuracies
In the older tests were sometimes reporting preg-
nancy when pregnancy did not exist, the new test
sometimes reports negative results early in the
course of a pregnancy. Results were improved
between at least 30 days had elapsed since the
skipped period.
Another entirely different type of test, which is
said to be 98 per cent accurate, has been devised.
When a woman suspects she might be pregnant,
she takes one tablet of medroxyprogesterone, a hor-
mone derived from the ovaries, every day for five
days. If she is not pregnant and there is no other
cause for her skipped period, the normal menstrual
cycle will be resumed within two to seven days
after this treatment.
NEW YORK (AP) - Those
good old days. Oh, those good
old days!
Old-timers 60 years of age or
more like to drop a tear in their
sarsaparilla as they recall bow
•much better and more romantic
life was in their youth than it
is now.
But was it really?
Life in America before World
War I still-had something of a
pioneer quality, and hardship
and discomfort were pretty
much taken for granted.
Weather and work held peo-
ple in thrall far more than they
do now; leisure was more for
the dead than the living.
When old-timers reminisce,
they don’t dwell on such points
as:
Probably not half the homes
in America had indoor plumb-
ing.
Most homes were heated by
pot-bellied stoves or balky coal
furnaces, the ashes from which
had to be lugged out with mo-
notonous regularity.
People worked a 50- to 60-
hour week.
When a rug had to be cleaned
it was hung on a line in the
backyard and dust was spanked
out with a beater.
You didn’t ride on power
mowers; you cut the grass with
a sickle.
If you were wealthy enough
to afford a car, you had to hand
crank it to get the motor start-
For God will bring every deed into judgment, with
every secret thing, whether good or evil.—Ecd. 12.14.
another of our former reporters who visits us
from time to time already was a veteran in the
business. He is A. F. Burns Sr., who is living
quietly in retirement here in Orange.
Burns wrote his first story for The Leader (or
maybe it was our predecsssor, the Tribune) in
the year this newspaper switched from a weekly
to a daily. That was in 1902 and Bums has been
an observer, chronicler and participant in the com-
munity affairs of Orange ever since.
He still maintains a lively Interest In The
Leader, the town, and his neighbors throughout
the community. Right now, he la as excited as
anybody over the prospect that something is going
to be done, one way or another, about the down-
town business district.
When I went to work for The Leader a little
over 18 years ago Burns was still reporting for the
paper and writing a daily column captioned "Let’s
Do Something About It.”
His pet peeve then (and that’s still pretty
much the case) was the railroad switch track
running along Front Avenue. Bums thought it
should be moved to a trestle running along the
riverbank. I agreed with him then and still do.
Bums served the town, the newspaper and his
church well. He was a teetotaler and stood his
ground on that score to the extent of once facing
down a man who threatened to shoot him if he
didn't take a drink.
He was-an officer and Sunday school teacher
in the First Baptist Church for many, many
years and would be yet if his health permitted.
He was an active worker in scores of civic en-
deavors spreading over a period of M years.
And I know what he is thinking about the
downtown problem: There's been enough talk now,
let's do something about it.
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tests all based on a serologic reaction between
three ingredients: sheep's red blood cells that have
been treated with an extract of human placenta,
blood serum that contains antibodies against this
extract and the freshly voided urine of the woman
who suspects that she is pregnant. The different
‘ tests vary only in minor details.
Alas, as is so often the case in human affairs, in some eases, the test indicates pregnancy
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wandering, belligerent male successfully woos one
of the gentle queens, producing a generation of little
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different. Here we have far and away too
much production of many commodities. Bil-
lions of dollars of tax money are spent or
kept tied up to provide subsidies and storage
for crops. The reason is the same.
All this should suggest to the bureaucrats
and politicians in Cuba, Russia and the
United States that they get out of the busi-
ness of farming and leave it to those who
know something about it. But they never
seem to learn.
They go right on passing new laws and
making new regulations, devising new
schemes for increasing production or re-
ducing it, and doing other things in the
continuing effort to circumvent the law of
supply and demand as it applies to agricul-
ture. None of these have-ever worked. None
ever will.
40; most men were considered
old at 45.
Pensions were unheard of in
most industries.
There were no electric wash-
ing machines. Wives had to
souse the family’s grimy duds
in tuba, and launder them by
hand or with a scrubbing brush
on a ridged washboard.
Winters were long and cold;
summers long and hot.
The kitchen held no gleaming
refrigerator. The pan under the
icebox had to emptied daily.,
Wood-burning stoves were
used in rural areas, and some-
body in the household had to
chop the wood.
After a hard day spent at
other chores, mothers had to
dam, often by lamplight, the
menfolks' socks.
In addition to all their other
woes, women had to lace them-
selves into corsets so tightly
they couldn't swallow a grape
without feeling uncomfortable.
It took almost as many days
to travel across the continent
by train as it now does' hours
by jet plane. In a small town,
any resident who had seen both
Niagara Falls and the Grand
Canyon was a celebrity. No
banker was crazy enough to
lend you money to make a va-
cation trip.
There were no drive-In the-
aters, no radio, no television,
no hi-fi sets, no piped-In music,
no canned dog food.
What do they mean "the good
Conrad Manley dropped into the Lonesome Pole-
cat Den the other day. He is in town with his
family to visit relatives and renew some old ac-
quaintances while on vacation from a rather
frustrating but interesting job In Miami.
Conrad always comes by to see us when he is
in Grange. Not only because he grew up here but
also because he started his career as a journalist
while working as a cub reporter for The Leader,
30 years ago this month.
After looking over our new plant and noting the
number of people now employed by the newspaper,
Conrad was moved to comment that The Leader
has come a long, long way since he sat down at
one of its typewriters three decades ago and
pounded out his first words for pay.
He still writes for pay, not as a reporter In
the sense that the term is usually Interpreted but
as a reporter just the same. He is now officer
in charge of the United States Information Ser-
vice agency in exile from Havana.
What that means is that the office was in Cuba
until this country broke diplomatic relations with
the Castro government. It was then moved “tem-
porarily” to Miami and will remain there until
diplomatic relations are resumed with some Cuban
government—if ever.
The mission of this office is to provide informa-
tion to the Cuban people about the United States.
This it does in more detail and probably with
greater effectiveness than most of us realize.
The USIS is barred by law from publishing or
otherwise disseminating information in the U.S.
Therefore, as Conrad put it, when talking to a fel-
low citizen of this country, “I’m limited to giving
you the time of day.”
Tools of his office are information sheets,
film strips, radio scripts, and such like. Every
word it sends otitisin the Spanish language.
Every employe of the office except Conrad is
a Cuban.
Before going to Miami, Conrad was with the
USIS in Bolivia. Prior to that he did public rela-
tions work for a Louisiana state agency after a
career with newspapers and a wire service.
When be started in journalism with The Leader
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NEW YORK (AP) - Stability
of wholesale prices — a rare
thing during business expan-
sions — has been a mark of the
current upswing. But new pres-
sures may be building up to tip
the balance.
Already there have been con-
siderable fluctuations in some
commodities. Some prices have
risen, particularly for industrial
materials, because demand has
caught up with supply. Others
have been raised as a result of
recent wage contracts. And
more such negotiations are in
the offing.
But so far, weakness in other
commodities has kept the over-
all price index almost level.
The cost of living — or con-
sumer price index — hasn't been
so accommodating. It has held
to a fairly steady if slow up-
ward course, due mainly to ad-
vancing charges for services.
Since the present business up-
swing started early in 1961 the
Bureau of Labor Statistics
wholesale price index — based
on the 1957-59 average as 100 —
has moved between 99.5 and
101.2. It now is right in between,
just slightly above 100. The con-
sumer price index in April was
107.8, from the same base.
Individual commodity price
changes have been marked dur-
ing the last three years, how-
ever.
Changes ranged from gains of
4.4 per cent for lumber and
wood products and 4.3 per cent
and if U.S. diplomats secure an O.K. front
Thailand.
Officials here hope the threat would be enough.
They have no present plans for moving U.S. troops
into Laos. They hope the Communists, however,
wouldn't be certain of what the United States
might do.
These officials believe diplomatic pressure on
Mao Tse-tung’s Red Chinese government will have
no effect. Nevertheless, the United States is using .
whatever meager pressure Is available. This pres-
sure includes veiled suggestions of a U.S. action
in Southeast Asia.
Diplomats also believe appeals to Nikita Khrush-
chev will produce no results, though they’re mak-
ing these appeals.
Even if Khrushchev should be willing, for rea-
sons of his own, to try to halt the fighting, the cur-
rent feeling here is that his power and prestige
among the Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese have
sunk to a new low.
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