The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.)., Vol. 56, No. 84, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 8, 1959 Page: 4 of 16
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EDITORIAL PAQC THI orange HADE*
WEDNESDAY, APRIL t, 1939
Moment of Meditation
Behold, the Lord's hand h not shortened, that it
cannot save; neither His ear heavy, that it cannot
hear. Isaiah 59:1.
LOCKED OUT!
New Building for the Red Cross
The Orange County Chapter of the American Red
Cross has been serving the community for many year*
in peace and in war.
But never in that time has it had a headquarters
building that could be considered adequate by modern
standards. r
Now such a building is to be provided by the chap*
ter, from its own resources and with the help of a gen-
erous gift of land by Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Brown Jr.
No fund-raising campaign will be conducted to raise
money for erecting the new building, and no money
raised in the United Fund campaigns will be used. The
cost will be raised with the proceeds of investments
made in War Sayings Bonds during World War II, be-
fore the chapter became a United Fund agency, and
from sale of real estate it now owns.
This is another of a number of instances in which
needed community facilities are provided through a
union of available resources and philanthropy.
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THE ORANGE LEADER
iWey _
owning
James B. Quisle
J. Cullen Brov
Jo* Parsley
Pbnip Lilly
Bob Axelson
Herfoie Dees
L. R. (Bob) McHugh
Jean Saxon
E. F. Krietsch
S. R. Davis
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——
-Publisher
.Editor
—Managing Editor
-Area News Editor
-City Editor
.Women's News Editor
.Sports Editor
Magazine Editor
_Advert) lng Director
-Circulation
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MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Ate., by The Orange Leader Publishing Co.
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daas matter under act ot Congress March i, 1S7S.
Across the Editor's Desk ...
The Smokehouse School
Of Applied Psychology
By J. CULLEN BROWNING
An article In the April issue of
East Texas magazine asks: What's
happened to the smokehouse?
The author is Pat Sim]
Commerce
ager of the McKinney
npson, man-
Chamber of
A Challenge for Chamber Members
In the two weeks immediately preceding this one,
Ofange developers took out 29 permits for the construc-
tion of new residences, bringing the total for the year
to 53. .
In West Orange last month, building permits were
•„ issued for the erection of 21 new houses.
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School people who made a tour of the BHdge City
community recently counted 19 newly poured concrete
dabs for new homes.
These figures provide solid evidence that the econ-
omyvof the Orange trade area is expanding faster than
it-ever dfc except in the feverish World War II ship-
building boom. .
And this expansion provides the business communi-
ty with a continuing opportunity to enlarge upon its
services and to maintain a healthy flow of dollars
through retail channels.
In order- to take full advantage of that opportunity,
the business man must make maxium use of a number
of tools, one of which,is the Orange Chamber of Com-
merce. , • '
The extent to which that Will, be used as the families
who will occupy all the new houses now going up over
the trade area add their incomes to the economy will
be determined during a sales campaign to be conducted
by the chamber's board of directors within the ,next
few days. >
Following an exhaustive study by a special com-
mittee, the chamber directors adopted a new schedule
of dues. Its two principal objectives are: (1) to equalize
the cost of providing the agency's services among its
members, and (2) to raise the money still needed to meet
the current budget
Based oa number of employes, some of the chamber
members are presently paying more than a fair share
of the cost of its services. Some are contributing some-
what less than a fair share.
Those who ere-paying less than a full share will be
asked to increase tneir investment.
The premise for the new schedule of dues is a simple
one: While the chamber has been highly effective in
its various fields of endeavor up to now, it can be made
more effective if it is more adequately financed. It needa
to be made more effectve; its services need to be ex-
panded in a number of areas.
There are certain things a business man cannot
feasibly do for himself. There are certain things a busi-
ness man should do for his community that he cannot
do alone. The purpose of a chamber or commerce is to
perform the tasks which a businessman cannot feasibly
do for himself and the things he should do for the com-
munity but cannot do alone. . ,
But the chamber cannot do the things its members
expect of. it unless they provide the money needed to
cover the cost of its services. So this boils down to a
question: Do the chamber members, in this period of
rapid expansion of the area's economy indicated by
housing construction figures used above, want to make
maxium use of the chamber as a means to the ends for .
which it was created? -
The answer will be provided as the members are '
contacted during the forthcoming sales campaign.
Since chamber managers usual-
ly spend their time worryipg about
such things aj, high taxes, new In-
dustries and anti-business legisla-
tion, I can't Imagine what prompt-
ed Simpson to start fretting about
the passage of the smokehouse.
Very likely he is just another
ex-country boy who, as all ex-
* country boys do, sometimes wishes
he. still was.
Simpson's conclusion is that the
smokehouse with the many useful
articles it once sheltered is being
replaced by carports and by ga-
rages built in.
He doubts these new - fangled
buildings will ever offer the cul-
tural advantages of the smoke-
house, but such, he says, is the
path of progress and wo must fol-
low it or be left behind.
And that last word set me to
thinking—not about what's happen-
ed to the smokehouse, but about
what used to happen in it.
In the part of the country where
Simpson and I grew up there were
no such things ae woodsheds. So
when it came time for a certain
parental duty to be performed,
father and son (the latter most
reluctantly) hied themselves to the
smokehouse.
Hog sides weren't the only things
that got smoked In there. Back-
sides also got smoked on occasion
and the owners thereof usually
were as much improved in charac-
ter as a result as the regular func-
tion of the building improved the
lasting quality of the harm and
bacon swinging from the rafters.
I daresay that many an Orange-
ite counted today as a leading citi-
zen of the community owe* some
of the qualities that made him
such to the trips he made with
dad to the smokehouse.
Sometimes the smoking back-
sides resulted from smoking of
still another sort that took place In
the smokehouse. That was the
trouble with a burning mixture of
com silk and kraft paper torn from
a grocery bag. A dad could smell
the stuff across 400 acres of ground
and all ho had to do w«s follow
his nose to the smokehouse, pick-
ing up any handy piece of leather
along the way.
As Simpson pointed - out, car
ports and built-in garages fall to
offer the cultural advantages of
the smokehouse. Neighbors some-
how Just don't ootton to the dis-
charge of parental responsibility
involving the use of s bridle rein
or razor strap in semi-public sur-
roundings.
In fact, most of the newer homes
of todsy ane without any jdequate
area for the performance of this
Important function. For ops thing,
they'rs built so clteo together that
some neighbor usually calls the
police if the chore la done with
enough vigor to set across the|
point at Is
■ For another, rooms in the mod-l
era home are, as my Uncle Charlie
Rouse once pot it, "too small to I
cuss a cat in without getting hair
In your mouth." By the same token,
the/re too small for effective
swinging of a length of leather
without ripping the pictures from
the wall, shreadfnt the drspes snd|
pulling the light fixtures down.
There are tnoee, of course, whol
sgree with the statement made by I
Dennis the Menace to his dad as
he sat in the corner of page 2 of
Monday's edition of The Leader.
The statement was, you may ra-|
member, "My klnderearter teach-
er says any wg people that would)
hit little people is SICK!"
Those who sgree may-say that!
graduates of the Smokehouse
school of AppHed Psychology who
turned out to be preachers, bank
presidents and furniture store
magnates did so in spite of their
instruction rather than because of|
it.
I'm of the opposite opinion, sndl
I believe that others who received |
such Instruction share the view.
The periodic smokehouse sym-
posium* were not, of course totally
responsible for the good character
pf those who were the pupils. There]
were other things: parental ex-
ample that brooked no eompro-l
mise with waywardness, the hard!
wooden pew of s church, and the
sweat generated by labor perform-
ed in shsring the work It took to
raise a crop and run a household.
Except in a few rural areas I
where it is still used for the)
original purpose or for storage, the
smokehouse is gone, as Simpson
said.
Progress hss relegated ft to ob-
scurity. But progress has done
nothing, in my opinion, to change
a fundamental principle often
stressed within its confines — the
principle that there is no substi-
tute for good character, and If ac-
f CANYTOLEWE
stupidity!
AND THCRCS NOfWfc
snjpf oat THAN A BBeru
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BEETLE BAILEY
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mr. abernakthv
is very fumy
about his eggs!
they have to
BE STRICTLY
PRESH EVERY
MORNING.
WWAT3 SO
ODD ABOUT THAT?
-but this is
ridiculous;
KNOW-
r
MIL ABERNATHY
quiring it sometimes necessitates
the acquisition also of a smoking
backside the parental energy ex-
pended in the proceas is wisely
used
the offbeat; newsbeat
'Nobody in 1946,
Jane Morgan on
Br HAL BOYLE
NEW YORK (AP)—Jane Mor-
gan, who has 300 hats and spends
up to $2,900 for a single gown, was
paid $25 a week for singing in a
ballroom here In 1946.
Right now Jane, known as "ths
Fascination Girl," is spending ex-
actly one thouaand times that to
create a new night club act,
' You don't just get up and sing
a few songs," she said. "You have
to put on a smalL revue. A new
act costa 125,000—enough to pro-
duce an off-Broadway drama.
"But that kind of show has
angela to back it. A night club
performer has to put up his own
dough."
This interesting behind - the-
scenes peek at show world fi-
nsnce was given by Miss Morgan
over a steak sandwich luncheon.
Blonde, blue-eyed and beautiful,
she showed up wearing a striking
Christian Dior suit the color of
mellow old money.
Where will here $25,000 go?
"Half of It will go for getting
the material for the show, sht
said. "I have six wrltsrs working
on It.
"The other half will go for the
wardrobe. Sometimes I envy mov-
ie stars. The studio supplies their
gowns. We have to buy our own."
In addition to the six writers,
Jane's 45-minute act will require
the services of a producer, a mu-
sical director, a choreographer, a
dressmaker, a lighting expert,
two song and dance lads and 10
fiddle players. Then, of course,
there are also her personal man-
ager and her maid-secretary.
All this money and talent is tid-
ing spent for a four-week engage-
supper club circuit
"You hope you can make it back
on the road," said Jane a bit
grimly, "but if the reviews are
bad, there may be no road.
"You never really know."
It is unlikely Miss Morgan wil
meet with this particular disaster.
She is a top star in one of the
most elite circles in show busi
ness. It is made up cf fewer than
a dozen girls who can average
$3,000 a week in swank
clubs acroaa the country.
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