The Charlotte News

Wednesday, February 1, 1956

FIVE EDITORIALS

Site Ed. Note: The front page reports that in the final round of talks between the President and Prime Minister Anthony Eden, the U.S. and British delegations were seeking to formulate means to secure the Middle East against Soviet power and save the peace in the Far East. British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd and his top advisers had met with Secretary of State Dulles and State Department policy-makers to try to reach some final recommendations for action by the President and Prime Minister during the afternoon. The President and the Prime Minister had agreed the previous day that peace between Israel and the Arab states was essential to stability in the Middle East, discussing, among other things, the possibility of posting U.N. troops in the demilitarized zone. U.S. officials, however, had demonstrated little enthusiasm for that possibility, but an American spokesman said that such a proposal had not been ruled out by the two leaders. Other matters considered included a new public declaration stressing the vital importance of peace between the Arabs and Israelis, and a reassertion of a British-French-American agreement. The two heads of state also gave serious attention to new threats against Formosa by the Communist Chinese, including the statement by the Communists that they would use war if necessary to take Formosa. Britain and the U.S. had split in their views regarding Communist China, with Britain willing to accept U.N. membership for Communist China and expanded trade, both positions opposed by the U.S. Both the President and Mr. Eden had reportedly agreed that such differences would not disrupt the united Anglo-American front opposing Communist threats and expansionist moves.

In Moscow, it was reported that a new Soviet Government shakeup had unseated the successor of summarily executed L. P. Beria, former boss of the secret police, as S. N. Kruglov, who had become internal affairs minister in July, 1953, had been dismissed, though the secret police had been removed from that ministry nearly two years earlier, albeit with Mr. Kruglov having continued in command of law enforcement police, the militia. According to Pravda, Mr. Kruglov would be succeeded by N. P. Dudorov, largely unknown to Western newsmen in Moscow. The militia had come under increasing criticism recently for failing to deal adequately with hooliganism, public drunkenness, and such outbreaks at sporting events as the riot at a football game in Armenia the previous November. In several of the Soviet republics, there had been a series of top-level replacements, believed by Western observers to represent a tightening of controls in preparation for the 20th Soviet Communist Party Congress, set to open in two weeks.

In New York, former President Truman said this date that he did not want to run for any kind of political office again, much less the presidency, indicating that he was "just a retired has-been", that he had served his country, and that if he were between the ages of 46 and 50, it might be different. He was now 71. The subject had arisen as he took his customary morning constitutional, accompanied by 25 newsmen, including a photographer on roller skates to assist in keeping up with Mr. Truman's usually brisk pace, prompting the latter to ask whether he could borrow the skates. He said that the presidency was a "killing job and a man must be young enough and vigorous enough to meet that situation." He said that the office had killed a half-dozen men. When asked whether President Eisenhower should seek re-election, he said that the question ought be put to the President and that it would not be proper for him to discuss it.

In Cape Town, South Africa, the Government had ordered the Soviet Union to remove its consular staff from the country by March 1, because the consulate general in Pretoria had engaged in "subversive activity". There was no break in diplomatic relations between the two countries, as those relations were based in London, with the Soviets having no embassy in Cape Town and South Africa having none in Moscow. It became the third country within the British Commonwealth to accuse the Soviets of subversive activity in recent years. Canada had uncovered a spy ring in 1946, centered around the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, and in Australia in 1954, a Soviet Embassy official had defected with information exposing a spy ring, subsequent to which, Russia had broken off diplomatic relations with Australia.

In Greensboro, N.C., it was reported that a knitter who had stayed on the job despite a strike, reported this date that his home near Pleasant Garden had been dynamited the previous night, with no one injured. The man said that he had been threatened by striking fellow workers at a hosiery mill of Liberty, where a walkout had begun on January 23, indicating that three strikers had blocked his car on Highway 421 just inside Randolph County, location of Liberty, the previous Thursday, but that since he had refused to open the doors, he had not been harmed. He had been one of six employees who remained on the job in a division of the mill employing 36 persons. He said that he had been asleep in the house, along with his wife and two small sons, sleeping in the rear of the structure, when the dynamite blast had taken place in the front portion late at night. A large picture window in the living room had been shattered and the eaves were badly damaged. He said that apparently the dynamite had been thrown against the front of the house from a passing car. The knitters were not represented by a union, but the NLRB had scheduled a hearing for the following Friday in the Guilford County courthouse on a petition presented by the American Federation of Hosiery Workers, seeking an election to determine whether it should be certified as the collective bargaining agent for the knitters. The strike had begun after the company had initiated a reduction in pay of 14 to 16 cents per dozen pairs of hose produced by the knitters, with the president of the mill saying at the time that it was necessary to meet competition from other firms. (You know things are getting bad when you're being paid by the pair of hose rather than by the hour.)

In Charlotte, the attorney for the defendant convicted of second-degree murder in the shooting death of his wife's suspected lover, after he had emerged from the trunk of her car with a combination rifle and shotgun while she and the other man sat in the front seat at a drive-in restaurant on January 3, had made a motion for new trial this date based on newly discovered evidence consisting of two eyewitnesses who claimed to have observed a struggle between the two men involving the firearm, which had then discharged, the claim of the defense during the trial, though disputed by another eyewitness, who testified that the two men had never gotten closer than eight feet from one another. The attorney had claimed that the evidence had come to his attention only in the latter stages of the trial, after final arguments had concluded and just before the instructions to the jury by the court, believing it then to have been too late to present it. The judge, in denying the motion, stated that the defense counsel had not been fair to the court or his client by not immediately bringing the matter to the court's attention, that it had not been too late to do so, that he would have stopped the trial or at least delayed it until the witnesses came into court and more was determined regarding their claimed observations. He said that there was no excuse for not having protected the rights of his client and also the rights of society, accusing him of gross delay in bringing the matter to the court's attention. The defendant faced a prison sentence of thirty years. Don't despair, however, as "Shorty" will again have his day in court the following summer, after a reversal on other grounds by the State Supreme Court, regarding the judge's inquiry of the defendant during his testimony, pertaining to his personal perceptions of the kissing sounds which he claimed to have heard while he was in the trunk, prompting him to emerge with the gun, soon after which, he had shot and killed the other man. The surprise ending is yet to come… Whether he will have a new attorney by the following summer, we shall just have to wait and see.

In Los Angeles, a former dancing instructor testified in divorce court that she had successfully broken up the infatuation of her 14-year old daughter for her male teacher, to whom she referred as "Sugarfoot", but then had developed a fondness for the teacher, herself, after the love for her husband, an accountant, had ended. She had sued for divorce on grounds of mental cruelty, which her husband had countered with like claims. She said that the teacher had kissed her on several occasions, and the daughter's diary was read in court to show that he had also kissed the daughter. The mother said that she had visited the teacher in his apartment on several occasions, but never after late afternoon, on one such occasion, the daughter having been waiting in the car outside, which the mother said she believed was not harmful because, by that point, the daughter's infatuation for the teacher had ended and she had focused on someone else. The couple had been divorced previously and then were remarried a year later.

Also in Los Angeles, a salesman denied that he was the father of a nurse's child and claimed that it was a test-tube baby, claiming in a lawsuit that the nurse and a doctor had conspired to have him named falsely as the father, seeking $25,000 in damages. His suit countered one which had been filed by the nurse as guardian of her 18-month old daughter, seeking to have the court declare the salesman as the father, the salesman contending that he had lost his job as a result of the paternity suit. He said the child was born from artificial insemination and that the doctor and nurse had sought to force him to marry the nurse or leave the state, as a plan to prevent him from making public "certain activities" attributed to the doctor and nurse, not detailing those "activities" in his cross-complaint.

In Norfolk, Va., it was reported that the U.S.S. Rushmore had sent a message which said: "Desire daily polar bear report at your earliest convenience." Another ship, a landing craft, had replied: "Herded bear to within 50 feet of well several times but bear proved more agile" than the ship. Later, the Rushmore had reported: "Re polar bear report, please keep us advised all bear episodes; odds quoted 10 to one on bear with few takers." Crew members of the other ship had related the bear story upon their return from the far north. They told of an inquisitive polar bear having nosed up to a porthole of their ship, whereupon a cook had sounded the alarm and the landing craft had gone out of the larger ship in pursuit of the bear, the crew of the ship having said that even a losing bear unit was something special in an area where there wasn't much to do. (We suppose that's accurate, as we got lost somewhere in between the Rushmore and the LSD.)

In Charlotte, an intruder who had looted a market, waited inside long enough to eat groceries, then took an undetermined amount of other groceries and between 50 cents and a dollar in pennies from the cash register, with the owner saying that he believed the entire loss was under $50 worth, the thief having consumed approximately a half a loaf of bread, half of a cake and a quart of chocolate milk.

Charles Kuralt of The News reports that the chairman of the Auditorium-Coliseum Authority had said that public ice-skating would probably be allowed in the Coliseum within the ensuing 30 to 40 days, that it might not become a regular event right away, as it would not be allowed to interfere with attractions which were likely to make more money. Local skaters had their interests piqued by ice shows and hockey, and the ice might be left on the floor for a day or two of skating after the Hollywood Ice Review would close on March 18. Get your skates greased and ready to go. The manager of William Neal Reynolds Coliseum in Raleigh had told the newspaper that when that arena had allowed public skating during the four previous summers, it had taken in almost $50,000 in revenue, but that the cost of freezing and maintaining the ice far exceeded that amount. How about the rollerskates? (We are reminded of our interview for a job once upon a time down in Riverside, when one of the interviewers rolled in on skates. We did not get the job, despite being called back for a second interview with the higher-ups, but that was all because of Prop. 13 having cut down the revenue to fund the jobs, one of which being that for which we were applying. You remember that one.)

Ticket sales for the hockey match between the Baltimore Clippers, who were playing their last six home games in Charlotte because their arena had burned down the previous week, and Johnstown, were going like hot cakes, following the first hockey match against New Haven before a sellout crowd on Monday night. All of the circle seats had been sold, with 1,266 mezzanine seats at mid-rink having been turned into reserve seats.

Emery Wister of The News reports that there was talk of record-breaking attendance at the Coliseum, opened the prior September, with the prospect of 40,000 people in four days seeing four attractions, after attendance at the first two nights of performances had already exceeded 21,000, 10,300 having seen the first hockey match on Monday, and 11,544 having attended a "jump and jive show" the previous night, with a performance this night by Fred Waring's "Hear! Hear!" show, with ticket sales being good. The following night, hockey would return. Get the rollerskaters in there on Friday. You'll have them hanging from the rafters. We shall lay you good odds that two years to the day from the gracing of the Coliseum by Elvis next summer, will appear The Hardman, the Roller, the queen of the Derby.

In Isola, Miss., a first grader, called upon to tell a short story about his pet, said, according to his teacher: "My calf—he bull. He butts."

In Philadelphia, the groundhog at the local zoo had died the day before Groundhog Day, with the curator of animals suggesting that it might have been the result of the weather. The groundhog was to have performed the annual weather forecast the following day. Guess that means there will be no weather this year. That's a relief.

On the editorial page, "Better Roads: A Very Proper Bow" finds that the Administration's reluctant switch from its plan to finance the national highway construction program with bonds to a pay-as-you-go plan, as demanded by Democrats in Congress, had been a sound decision, as pushing its bond program would have run into Democratic opposition and jeopardized the badly needed program.

The number of motor vehicles had doubled since World War II and there had been little road-building since prior to that war, as inflation had reduced the number of miles of road which could be improved with available money. Improvement was also quite beneficial to American defense.

While bonds had offered the most certain method of quickly raising the funds needed for the construction plan, the bonds would also have carried considerable interest, and Congress had an alternative plan of supplementing highway usage taxes with general revenue during the period of about a decade when the construction would take place. It finds that the Administration had acted wisely in bowing to Congress, therefore, on the method of financing.

"Tar Heel Symphony Sets an Example" indicates that the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra's decision to feature contemporary American music during its annual spring tour of the state was admirable. The conductor had announced concert packages which would include "Brief Folk Suite" by Davidson College composer John Satterfield, as well as works by Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, Frederick Schreiber, Mabel Daniels and other American composers. The orchestra would perform its program for audiences throughout the state and as far south as Tallahassee, Fla.

It indicates that younger people might find the selections too conservative, but that they represented at least a start on introducing Americans to American music. While the chosen work of Mr. Copland, "Hoe Down" from the ballet suite "Rodeo", was not one of his cerebral efforts, no one likely would be frightened by it, as might occur with more progressive works.

Among the nation's top 30 symphony orchestras, only 8 percent of the works performed the previous season had been by American-born composers, and it finds it a shame that more such works were not being performed, praises the North Carolina Symphony for setting a good example for the larger orchestras.

"A Public House To Be Set in Order" suggests that the new local air pollution engineer, Charles Frost, was following a wise course by surveying public buildings first, in his campaign to eliminate smoke and smog from Charlotte, as the government structures, including schools, were among the major offenders. When the smoke problem was solved in public buildings, the city would be in a better position to lecture private citizens on the matter.

"Second Best" tells of the Post Office Department having too many wildlife designs for new stamps, with an antelope having been selected for one new issue, a Pacific salmon and a wild turkey, under consideration for others. As the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence had been passed over for a stamp, it suggests that it might as well ride the trend and lobby for an elephant stamp in honor of Vicki, the elephant which had escaped the Airport Zoo the previous year and remained at large in the area nearby for several weeks, garnering repeated headlines locally and appearing in the national press on several occasions, before finally being captured.

"Muzzles Are for Kennel Dogs" finds that the suggestion of Representative Usher Burdick of North Dakota, that Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson and other members of the Cabinet should "wear muzzles", had been outrageously unfair to the aficionados of ad lib Americana.

It suggests that there might not have been ideological slips when Mr. Benson's name had been signed to a letter applauding an article which had called the American farmer "our pampered tyrant", or when Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson had said, "What's good for General Motors is good for the country," Mr. Wilson having been the former president of G.M. But, it suggests, politicians had been pigeonholed for lesser indiscretions. Henry George had once asked one of the leading American Spencerians what he proposed to do about poverty, with the answer being: "Nothing. You and I can do nothing at all. It's all a matter of evolution." Herbert Spencer had maintained that successful businessmen had proved their superior fitness by their triumph in competition, such that social legislation would disrupt the "survival of the fittest" rule, necessary for evolution of society.

In recent years, prior to the tenure of Mr. Wilson, coyness about such matters had been popular, and his statement about G.M. had been a refreshing change.

It suggests that perhaps the most delightful tenet of modern American conservatism had been issued by Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey, when he had been asked to comment on Ernest Hemingway's prize-winning novel, The Old Man and the Sea, stating: "Why would anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?"

It concludes that muzzles were for kennel dogs, while it was for bird dog loquacity—referring obliquely to the controversial remark a couple of years earlier by Secretary Wilson regarding unemployment and the draft, developing an analogy between kennel dogs and bird dogs.

A piece from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, titled "Why It's Pop", indicates that soda pop was called "pop" instead of soda because when the first stopper had been withdrawn from the neck of the bottle, the gas which was released had made a popping sound, at least according to the engineers of the Crown Cork and Seal Co. That had been before the practical bottle crown had been invented 63 years earlier.

It wonders, therefore, why champagne, which made an even louder pop, was also not referred to as "pop", the engineers being silent on that point. Nor did they explain why in England lemon pop was known as "lemon squash".

It says it had occasionally heard bottles from which the cork had been removed make a "whuff!" or "whfft!" sound, and it is glad that those were not the sounds heard by the early American bottle openers, as drinking a soft drink colloquially referred to by one of those sounds would make it feel that it had become semi-explosive and make the consumer of the product feel uncomfortably full. "And we do not even care to think about whfft, whuff, or even squash going the weasel."

Drew Pearson says that one of the most important things to watch regarding the bill to deregulate natural gas was whether certain Senators would follow Senate Rule 12, which disqualified any Senator with a pecuniary or pocketbook interest in particular legislation. It did not prevent the Senator from voting on the measure, but the practice had been to abide by it and to abstain. Senator Warren Austin of Vermont, for instance, had disqualified himself from voting on a talc bill, because he had investments in talc. There had, however, been flagrant abuses of Rule 12 vis-à-vis the issue of oil and gas, as Senators had piously investigated conflicts of interest in the executive branch, demanding the resignation of former Air Force Secretary Harold Talbott on that ground, while doing the same thing in their roles as Senators.

Senator Bob Kerr of Oklahoma, for instance, owned 100 million dollars worth of gas-oil reserves, and had nevertheless maneuvered the first natural gas deregulation bill through Congress, only to have it vetoed by President Truman. Senator Kerr and his partner in Kerr-McGee oil industries had officially reported in 1949 gross income of nearly 15 million dollars, on which was paid only $25,000 in taxes because of the oil-gas depletion allowance. That company had at least four contracts to sell natural gas in interstate commerce, thus immediately benefiting from the deregulation bill. Yet, Senator Kerr had pushed that bill through and voted for it, not abstaining per Rule 12. He and his company were one of the biggest suppliers of natural gas to Phillips Petroleum, and he had also been the recipient of a windfall from Phillips, when it assigned 100 square miles of proven gas reserves to one of the Senator's gas companies for drilling in December, 1949. That had occurred just as the Senator was preparing the natural gas bill for passage in the Senate. The Senator's profits from that windfall were estimated at between 1.3 million and 2.15 million dollars, by the vice-president of Phillips, who had vigorously objected to the windfall to the Senator.

During the current Senate debate on natural gas, Senator Kerr was keeping a low profile, as his previous activity had hurt him during the 1950 debate, and Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, the mastermind behind the present bill, had advised him to remain in the background this time.

Mr. Pearson indicates that it would be interesting to observe whether Senator Kerr would refrain from voting on the bill, per Senate Rule 12, but that if he did not, it was unlikely any other Senator would challenge him, as it was an unwritten rule that the Senate did not investigate one of its own.

Senator Russell Long of Louisiana, who, with his family, owned part of an oil company in Louisiana, had once informed Mr. Pearson that an estimate of $25,000 per share of stock in the company was not far out of line. Yet, Senator Long had helped lead the debate on the current natural gas bill, and he regards it as unlikely that he would step aside under Rule 12.

Senator Allen Ellender of Louisiana also owned oil and gas properties, and Senators Johnson and Price Daniel of Texas received heavy contributions from the oil and gas interests, with so much money having been volunteered for Senator Daniel by those interests in advance of his campaign that former Senator Tom Connally, who had often bucked the oil-gas interests, had bowed out of the Senate race. Senator Johnson's biggest money backer during his political career had been George Brown and members of the Brown & Root firm, with Senator Johnson's heart attack the prior July 4 having occurred at Mr. Brown's home, Mr. Brown being the head of a big gas pipeline company, for which Senator Johnson had done favors which Mr. Pearson says would amaze the nation.

Joseph & Stewart Alsop tell of the Democrats planning, for the first time during the Administration, to make an issue of defense policy, planning a Senate debate on the subject within seven to ten days, probably to be initially led by Senator Henry Jackson of Washington, set to accuse the Administration of letting the Soviets gain a decisive advantage in ballistic missile development. Senator Stuart Symington was preparing his angriest defense speech thus far, to describe the Administration defense program as a fraud on the American people. Others expected to speak were Senators John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, Mike Mansfield of Montana and Clinton Anderson of New Mexico.

After that debate, there were four different committees set to inquire into various phases of the defense program, including the Armed Services Committee, which would call before it former Army chief of staff General Matthew Ridgway to testify regarding his charges that defense appropriations had been established on a political basis during his tenure, the General also possibly to be called before the Appropriations Committee. The preparedness subcommittee of the Armed Services Committee, headed by Majority Leader Johnson, was also planning a serious inquiry into the status of air power, seeking a staff director, with former Undersecretary of the Air Force Ross Gilpatrick and former chief of policy planning, Paul Nitze, being considered for the post. Several experts, both within and without the Administration, would be called to provide the effects of the reductions in the Air Force program.

Senator Johnson had long believed, and still believed, that to make defense a partisan issue would be a mistake, especially with the President being popular and a career military man. The previous year, the Senator had more or less left the issue alone, but the previous fall, entertainer Arthur Godfrey had visited him at his ranch in Texas, urging the importance of air power, converting Senator Johnson to his view that a great national effort was required to retain U.S. supremacy in that area. Since that time, the Senator had determined to make a critical inquiry into the defense program of the Administration.

Senator Jackson, who headed a subcommittee regarding military application of nuclear weapons, was also planning an inquiry, to emphasize the comparative progress of the U.S. vis-à-vis the Soviets in missile development, planning to call Air Force Secretary Donald Quarles, Air Force chief of staff Nathan Twining and many others.

The special subcommittee on disarmament, chaired by Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, also was planning an inquiry involving defense, intending to call witnesses on the comparative level of U.S. and Soviet armaments, hearings which the Alsops think could become frequently explosive, with the "sharp-tongued and aggressive" Senator Humphrey in the chair.

The Alsops venture that the motives by the Democrats for the offensive regarding the nation's defense policy were mixed, in part political, given that it was an election year and the fact that the Administration would naturally claim credit with the voters for a balanced budget and reduced taxes, with the Democrats therefore eager to explain to voters that both had been achieved at the expense of heavy reductions of defense and of the areas secured. But, they add, the motives were not entirely political, as Senators Johnson, Jackson and Symington were genuinely concerned about the mounting evidence that the balance of power was shifting heavily toward the Soviets.

Doris Fleeson tells of Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson being in deep trouble with Midwest Republicans in Congress, having been so before one of his underlings had signed an ill-advised fan letter to the author of an article attacking the "pampered" farmers. Secretary Benson had disavowed that letter, but his critics in Congress believed that he was, nevertheless, in sympathy with it. But the fact that the President was considering whether or not to run caused Republicans to desire not to anger him, and lobbyists of the Farm Bureau had been putting pressure on members of Congress regarding the more prosperous parts of agriculture, the large growers and corporate farms, both situations causing Republicans to remain fairly quiet about the farm problem. Yet, some Republicans were so concerned that they had even consulted New Deal experts about alternatives to the Administration's agriculture program.

It had been many years since the farm bloc had been so divided and so desperate, wanting action but not having any solutions to offer, with the Democrats also not having any plans to offer.

The Administration program had set no prosperity goals for the farmer and so gave no real encouragement for the future. It also offered no immediate, forthright plans to increase farm income, which had dropped about 30 percent during the previous four years. Politicians believed that would amount to political suicide in the farm states in the coming election campaign. Secretary Benson's tolerance for depressed farm incomes, until long-range programs could correct the situation, was infuriating to politicians, who believed that it was unacceptable to the farmers while the remainder of the economy was booming, believing themselves better judges of the situation than either the President or his brother, Milton.

It was improbable that the President could receive approval of a long-range program, as many Democrats wanted a return to rigid price supports, which they suggested as at least a temporary fix, though that was doubted by many other Democrats, notably Adlai Stevenson. Ms. Fleeson suggests that Congressional hearings might develop some leadership out of the present excess of recrimination.

Senators Paul Douglas of Illinois and Hubert Humphrey had called attention to the changing patterns in agriculture which now ran the gamut from the large, prosperous factory-type farm to the small farms of 50 acres or less, from which a million farmers, primarily in the South, still received a subsistence living, with the Senators' suggested solution being a ceiling on subsidies to the larger producers, a move which Congress previously had been reluctant to make. Congress was prepared to pay some prices of its own in return for the immediate help for its political viability with farmers, but no such balance of forces had yet been achieved in any program presently before it.

Robert C. Ruark, still in Sydney, Australia, says that he admired the country for something the U.S. no longer had, bare-knuckled journalism, indicating that the U.S. press had become too polite to each other in recent years. Gone were the days of hard fighting among local newspapers for circulation battles, as had occurred in Denver and Chicago. Now, such battles were frowned upon, with the belief being that the public did not care what one newspaperman thought of another. He believes it not a good development, as it was stimulative of the juices to holler and heave a chair once in awhile.

But in Australia, they were "still hairy in the ears and short in the temper." One august publisher had once fought it out with another such publisher in front of the members of Australia's racing public at the Randwick race course. The newspapers shamelessly preyed on each other's staffs and fought open battles in their columns and editorials as well as competing for each other's properties. He cites as example the Sydney Daily Telegraph recently having taken to task the Sun, which had purchased someone's memoirs, and on the day of the publication of the first installment, the editor of the Telegraph had induced his New York man to cable a full story of quotable parts from the memoirs, published it and thereby cut off the competition.

All of the newspapers concentrated on what they considered people wanted to read, not what they believed that they were supposed to read. Mr. Ruark says that in his 12 years of going in and out of Australia, he had never picked up a single dull copy of a local newspaper. "They hit the personal story hard. Not since some ancient Meyer Bergrer have I read as fine a piece of copy as the Telegraph's account of a wedding between the scions of two enormously wealthy families, in which this meeting of the mighty was traced straight back to the immigrant forebears and their pushcarts."

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