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BROWNWOOD BULLETIN
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COMMENTARY
Donald F. Graff
Dear Editor,
I have just completed reading a most interesting book:
"Make-Believe Presidents" by Nicholas von Hoffman. Though
his book is not factual in many instances, it does give an outline
for those interested in history to review more closely. Notes
carefully numbered make researching his material very sim-
ple. The index is complete so few books of this nature record in
detail sources of information).
The book portrays the last nine presidents of the US in fairly
accurate historical light... those interested in history will have
no trouble detecting fallacies. The book is worthy of an A-<ninus
grade. It is very readable
I am convinced that Mr Hoffman has hit the right note in a-
piaimng the difficulties confronting President Carter today as
presidents of the past have been unmasked also.
Government seems to be a decade behind the people that ac-
tually dictate the future of the US... it is so far behind that the
nation can fall before those in supposed power even know what
hit them. It is time for the average citizen to start a recon-
struction program long overdue
I predict a revolution (not one with arms) that is now in
progress to restore the fundamentals dictated by our founding
fathers.
Today this nation is headed for Hell on a greased pole if the
common man doesn’t demand a recounting of issues that will
assure his/her survival An awakening period is at hand’
Demand results or resignations in all branches of government!
If no resignations, impose empeachment procedures! We are all
aware that a vice president and a president have both resigned
during one administration. If others need the axe give it to them.
Mr Editor, please give the general public your support After
all, we are your bread and butter Let it never be said that the
government ever controlled the press or TV!
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Egotism is not a modem
affliction. It was known, and
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memorabilia in the Boothbay Theater Museum in
Boothbay, Maine.
interpretation is called Dor-
cas: this woman was full of
good works and almsdeeds
which she did. — Acts 9:36
Friday
The ’Holy Shroud,” not
found in the Bible, means
the winding cloth in which
Jesus was buried. The Holy
Shroud at Turin, Italy, ac-
cording to the Catholic tradi-
tion, is the actual “clean
linen cloth" supplied by Jo-
seph of Arinathea.
“And he bought fine linen
and took him down, and
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Solomon was a wise judge
whose most famous decision
was based not on law or
precedent but on human
nature
“The king answered and
said. Give her the living
child, and in no wise slay it;
she is the mother thereof."
- I Kings 3:27
Tuesday
On the subject of weather in general, Washington is
thinking of doing something about it — for the benefit of the
farmer.
A plan is in the works which would bring specialized
weather reports and other important agricultural informa-
tion directly to TV sets equipped with a special receiving
device called a “green thumb box." The box, ata probable
cost of $100. would enable a farmer to dial his county farm
agent’s office, where a computer would relay the full
weather story directly to the home tube.
Originating at a Weather Service computer center in
Silver Springs, Md., the service would distribute via a
telephone line network reports much more precise than
those now being broadcast.
The weather people believe the present state of
forecasting is much more accurate than the public
realizes. The weather facts, however, are subject to
mangling by the time limitations and production require-
ments of TV newscasts of which they are a fixture.
But that, as they say, is show business.
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5 THE U.S. AND YOU
J William Steif
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can actor."Prince of
Players," when it appeared
in 1953 With $100 lent by hLs
Methodist minister he
bought 10,000 playbills from
an old New Englander.
Since then he has teamed
that trading is a function of
collecting. "I buy things at
antique shows and flea mar-
kets that I do not want, that
have to do with other arts,
such as dance. By now I
know all the other collectors,
so when I see a good dance
item, I buy it, then sell it to a
dance collector, to make the
money with which I can buy
the things I want,” he
explains.
He obtains many items
from England, mostly from
three men who deal exclu-
sively in theater mementos.
But much of the best part of
the collection comes from
Maine: “Summer people,
especially from Boston, long
have had homes here. Peo-
ple emptying out attics when
they are moving find inter-
esting things, and tell us.”
A shrewd shopper, Len-
thall figures he has spent
less than $40,000 over the
past quarter-century on the
collection, which has been
appraised at nearly $1 mil-
lion. He loves the detective
work involved. Once he and
The “Jesse tree" of deco-
rative art is used in Chris-
tian churches as a decora-
tion for walls. windows, ceil-
ings and vestments. Its
origin is the genealogical
tree of Jesus from Jesse,
father of David.
"And there shall come
forth a rod out of the stem of
grow out of his roots." —
Isa. 11:1
Saturday
Dear Editor:
Several of your readers have suggested that I follow up my
previous letter (the Bulletin Jan. 1) with others on English
usage. So here goes.
You see by those last introductory words that I am not a
purist. I have nothing against colloquialisms that serve a useful
purpose and are widely accepted by people of average education
and culture in our country.
"Who were you talking to" is an example of acceptable
modem usage, although not perhaps in formal writing. The
purist would insist on “whom" and might even object to ending
the sentence with a preposition, which there is nothing wrong
with.
Another example is the use of “will" instead of “shall" in for-
mation of first-person future tenses as in “We will go.” The
purist would nervously justify this only on grounds it must be
emphatic, but I'll take it with any arguments or none.
This isn't to say, anything goes! Please sharpen and
strengthen communication by avoiding such expressions as the
following: "one of these kind" (make it this kind" or "these kin-
ds"), "where we are at” (omit “at"), “each of them are with
us" ("is"), “each does their thing" i "his or her thing”), "don't
feel badly about it” ("bad"), "different than" (“from"), "like
she did" (“as”), “he don't have no sense" (doesn't have any"),
“my family and myself" (“my family and I” is better), “as
mayor of Brownwood, I think he should go" (not right for
anyone but Truman Harlow to speak like this), “no one but the
mayor and I” (“me," for “but" is a preposition here), “speak
and write good” (“well" or "good English”).
John Allen Moore
Brownwood
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BOOTHBAY, Maine
(NEA) - Snow and cold have
taken command in this
northeast corner of the coun-
try. and the tourists are long
gone, not to return until well
into spring. But occasional
visitors continue to stop by
the hospitable house across
the road from the post office,
to look at the finest collec-
tion of theater memorabilia
in the United States.
They are greeted by
Franklyn Lenthall or James
Wilmot, who never seem to
tire of describing the pro-
grams, posters, costumes,
stage props, souvenirs and
other items, each represent-
ing a moment of theater
history. Maybe there will be
tea in the living room. Good
tea. And good talk.
Anyone who collects any-
thing will tell you a story:
where and how it began, how
a collection grew, and the
adventure of tracking down
great “finds." For theater
collectors, it is an attempt to
capture the flavor, the ambi-
ance, the aura of players
and performances long
gone. Although the written
word endures, theater itself
— the playing of the play —
is gone the instant it ends,
except in memory. So people
treasure programs or what-
ever will provide a tangible
proof of something they
might have experienced
themselves, or have only
heard about.
There was time — regrett-
ably past — when theaters
passed out souvenirs to
mark special occasions,
such as the 100th perform-
ance of a play. The Boothbay
Theater Museum is rich in
these. Consider the pressed
glass slipper given to pa-
trons of "The Crystal
Slipper" co-starring Eddie
Foy and May Yohe at the
Boston Theater in 1888.
Each member of the audi-
ence at Ford's theater in
Boston, the night of April 23.
1892, received a Shake-
speare birthday memorial
china pitcher, gift of the
American Shakespearean
actress Julia Marlowe, who
Wilmot saw a figurine
was performing there. Silk ing to Lenthall, she was one decked out as a pirate in the
programs also marked spe- of 200 actresses who played window of the Grace Lines
cial events. the male role. steamship office on Fifth
But the Boothbay collec- As a child in Nanticoke, Avenue in New York City,
tion goes far beyond Pa., Lenthall loved plaving They recognized it as a rare
souvenirs. There is the spear with a toy theater made for figurine of the actor Joseph
carried by Edwin Forrest as him by a neighbor. During Jefferson as Bob Acres in
the titular Indian chief in his junior and senior high Sheridan's "The Rivals.”
“Metamora” in 1861; the school years in Harvey’s It's now in the museum,
staff used by Moliere at the Lake, Pa he played the (NEWSPAPER enterprise assn i
Comedie Francaise in 1666; lead in 35 school and com-
the transparent woman dis- munity theater productions,
played in a "medical Naturally, he wanted to get
lecture” given by the late to New York and he got
Doc Rockwell, certainly one there, building a reputation
of the funniest routines in as a fine actor and director
the history of vaudeville. He came to Maine, with
John Wilkes Booth’s cane is Wilmot, to operate the
valued at $50,000 (recently Boothbay Playhouse from
his signature on a check sold 1957 to 1975. That’s where is
at auction for $1,900). Henry growing collection was first
Irving's sword and prompt displayed.
books are some of the A “junk collector" since
memorabilia of that daz- childhood, Lenthall began
zling career. There is a full- the collection after reading
length poster of Anna Die- Eleanor Ruggles’ biography
kinson as Hamlet; accord- of Edwin Booth, the Ameri-
Dear Editor:
About two years ago, we had the privilege of sharing our home
with four teenage boys as overnight guests. They were members
of a youth choir from Richardson and were in Brownwood to
sing at Coggin Avenue Baptist Church.
As they were eating breakfast, one of the boys remarked that
he had never been here before, but there was one thing he would
always remember about his visit in Brownwood. I thought
perhaps he would remember our good pastor, Leon Aduddell, or
maybe my grandson, Ed. When I asked him what he would
remember, he said, "The rough streets.”
Mrs. Bernie Norton
181110th St.
Brownwood
take thee a sharp knife, take wrapped him in the linen.”
thee a barber's razor, and — Mark 15:46
cause it to pass upon thine Sunday
bead and upon thine beard
...” — Ezek. 5:1 The first man recorded as
Thursday hanging himself is a practi-
cally unknown hero whose
The pioneer in women's advice David once deemed
church work began her ca- infallible.
reer in Paul's lifetime. Her “And when Ahithophel
name has lived 19 centuries saw that his counsel was not
through the Dorcas Soci- followed, be saddled his ass
eties. ... put his household in
“Now there was at Jop- order, and hanged himself,
pam a certain disciple, and died...” — II Sam. 17:23
named Tabitha, which by ■ newspaper enterprise assn. >
The barber's trade existed
600 B.C. Barbers were for-
merly also practitioners in
surgery and dentistry and
were often called barber-
surgeons.
“And thou, son of man.
Rainy day for savings
By Dou Graff
Saving for a rainy day has been going out of fashion in
the United States.
Or it could be that for most Americans that day is
already here — a veritable cloudburst - in the form of
apparently no-end inflation.
Whatever their reasons, U.S. wage-earners are socking
less of their income into savings than those in any other
major industrial country, according to a recent survey by
The Wall Street Journal.
In 1977, Americans saved 5.1 percent of total after-tax
income. This put them at the bottom of a list headed by
Japan (21.5 percent) and followed by France (16.1
percent), West Germany (14 percent), Britain (13.9
percent) and Canada 19.8 percent).
Worse, the U.S. savings rate has been declining steadily
— from 7.5 percent in 1967 — while the trend is up for the
others Canada, for example, starting at 6.2 percent picked
up 3 6 points in the same period.
Inflation does not adequately explain the U.S. trend.
Britain, for example, has been hit much more severely
during the past decade but nevertheless has outpaced the
United States in rate of savings.
If the reasons are unclear, the implication is not.
Americans are not investing as much in their future as
their industrial partners/competitors are.
It is interesting that the savings growth countries
included those with shaky economies — Britain, France
and currently Canada and also the powerhouses - West
Germany and Japan
None of these economies, as it happens, is expanding at
the rate of the American — currently some 7 percent
annually.
Expansion and growth, however, are not necessarily the
same thing. U.S. expansion is primarily the product of
spending on consumables. This is spending for present
gratification.
Capital spending, which is an investment in future
growth and for which savings are a major source of funds,
has not been keeping pace. The Commerce Department
figures total capital investment in 1977 at 17 percent of the
gross national product, again the lowest figure among
major nations. In Japan it was 30 percent, in Canada 21
percent
An immediate consequence, according to the survey,
could be a sharp rise in interest rates — in the event an
upturn in industrial expansion placed too great a demand
on the limited supply of savings resources. For the
individual, this would translate into higher rates on
mortgages, bank loans and the like.
A long-term consequence could be a progressive lag in
coming years in U.S. economic growth as a result of an
investment capital, while the other countries spurt ahead
on the savings reserves they are presently accumulating.
There may be a lot of rainy weather ahead in the U.S.
economic forecast.
All the weather fit to. . .
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Know the government
Howard K. Ottenstein, a 48-year-old native of Brooklyn.
U.S.A., is interested in "who does what and why in the
federal government."
So interested, in fact, that he’s written a book.
It's not your average, humdrum political science tract.
It’s packed with information of use to the normal, hard-
working American taxpayer, anywhere Lots of phone
numbers, addresses, hard data, tips.
You want to complain about a moving company’ See
page 33.
You want to uncover your family history’ See page 66.
You want a job abroad’ See page 75.
You want to open an ethnic restaurant? See page 84
You want to buy a used jeep’ See page 113.
The federal government is involved in all those things,
and thousands more The trick is to have the INFORMA-
TION you need to make the federal government work for
you. That means you've got to know how to go about it.
Ottenstein's 160-page paperback provides the informa-
tion , preicsely and concisely. It's called "Beat the
Bureaucracy.” a title that may promise more than it
delivers because once you get inside the book you see it
doesn't prescribe ways to "beat” your own government. It
simply tells you what you want to know to get what's
coming to you. As such, it's valuable.
Ottenstein qualifies as a bureaucrat, if you don’t
consider that an invidious term for civil servants.
He graduated from Brooklyn College, served in the
Marines from 1951 to 1953, and later got a master's degree
in history from New York University. Between 1955 and
1964, he says, he held "a whole bunch of jobs” in the
business end of big business — Douglas Aircraft, RCA,
AVCO, ITT, Martin-Marietta.
In 1964 he went to work for the federal government at the
Goddard Space Flight Center in suburban Maryland
outside Washington. He's been there ever since, except for
a year with the Federal Maritime Administration Cur-
rently, he's special assistant to the Goddard Center’s
personnel chief.
That may not seem like much until you realize that the
center employs 3,750 people — among them some of the
world's most brilliant scientists — and has an annual
budget of $500 million, one-twelfth of the total budget of the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
The center, says Ottenstein, "has the capacity to think
up, design, build and test” all American satellites and
rockets. Florida's Kennedy Center then sends the instru-
ment "packages" aloft. In short, having a part in
managing the Goddard’Center is like having a part in
managing a $500 million-a-year business.
Ottenstein, who lives in Catonsville, Md., with his write
and three children, says he got the idea for his book while
writing a “federal worker” column for the Baltimore Sun.
He’s always been interested in the organization — and
reorganization — of the federal government, he says, so
when he got down to writing his book it was "a relatively
simple task." The main job was to “check and double-
check with the appropriate people." He adds:
“I feel strongly that the book can be of help to the
average person."
The author's feeling on that point is summed up in the
book’s final sentence: "It’s up to you to get your money’s
worth from the federal government."
The book is put out by Enterprise Publications, of New
York, and isn't in bookstores yet. When it gets there it’ll
sell for more than $3. But right now it’s available by check a
or money order for $2.65 through the mail. The address is
"Beat the Bureaucracy," Post Office Box 489, Department
B, Radio City Station, New York, N.Y., 10019.
This weekly column provides information about federal
services offered to individuals and groups. Queries are
invited. We can’t reply to each letter but will answer as
many as possible. Write to “THE U.S. AND YOU," care of
this paper.
NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN I
Dear Editor:
The Brown County American Red Cross would like to take this
means to thank all of the wonderful ladies of Brownwood that
gave their time and talents knitting house shoes, and crocheting
around lap robes. With the materials provided by the Red Cross
and the kindness of all these ladies, we were able to provide
every nursing home patient in Brown County with a lovely gift
for Christmas.
The volunteer committee packaged each gift and they were
delivered by men of the Red Cross board.
Barbara Hickman
Volunteer Committee Chairman
Brownwood
were written.
“Let another man praise
thee, and not thine own
mouth; a stranger, and not
thine own lips." - Prov.
27:2
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