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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1959
A-14
Presummit Soundings
President Eisenhower has announced
an ambitious schedule for himself, pre
liminary to sitting down in Paris on
December 19 with the top spokesmen
of our biggest allies in a pre-East-West
summit meeting. In the preceding fort
night, he will visit seven other capitals
in Europe and Asia —capitals where
sentiment in the cold war ranges from
long and determined commitment to
the West to cautious noninvolvement.
After the Paris meeting he will go to
Africa for a stop at Rabat.
But just as a picture is said to be
worth many words, so is it likely that
a personal appearance by the President
and ftie opportunity for an on-the-.
spot discussion of views will be worth
the exchange of many communications
through normal diplomatic channels. In
any case, whatever the eventual result,
this has become a period for the testing
of person-to-person diplomacy at the
highest level and Mr. Eisenhower has
made it clear that he will continue to
practice this technique to the fullest.
His record thus far, not only in.his
meetings here with many chiefs of
state —including Soviet Premier Khru
shchev—but in his recent trip to Bonn,
London and Paris, supports hopes for
the future.
The President’s itinerary for the
projected tour promises considerable. In
the Mediterranean-Middle East region,
in a sense the southern frontier of the
Western alliance, he will visit Italy,
Greece, Turkey and Iran—all formally
associated through NATO, CENTO (the
former Baghdad pact alliance) or both.
His visit to Italy, for example, will come
at a time which might be most helpful
to Premier Segni, a staunch friend of
the West who is striving to retain con
trol over a restless domestic political
situation. Similarly, he will visit Turkey
and Iran at a time when Soviet com
plaints over their pro-Western policies
are rising to a new peak of threatfulness.
In Asia, too, there are special cir
cumstances making the Eisenhower tour
a timely one. Under persistent pressure
from Communist China, India is dis
playing both alarm and determination
to resist Peiping’s aggressive actions.
And while Prime Minister Nehru has ex
pressly said his government is not plan
ning to change its long-time neutralist
foreign policy, it is equally clear that he
has been angered and disillusioned by
the Communist Chinese behavior. At
the same time, there has been evidence
that India and Pakistan (the latter un
equivocally committed to military and
political partnership with the West)
are slowly working out some of their
own long-standing differences.
While the Paris meetings scheduled
for next month will revolve primarily
around the views of the Big Four —
United States, Britain, France and West
Germany—other countries outside the
Communist bloc have a direct stake
and their particular concerns are of im
portance. On this basis, the President
should be armed with last-minute, first
hand information of benefit in the
shaping of the Western position at a
critical time in history.
Dark Horse Stumbles
Scrutiny of Tuesday’s off-year elec
tion results throws little new light on
what to expect in the main event of 1960,
the presidential race. With few of this
year’s contests having potential signifi
cance, probably the greatest national
Interest centered on the bid by 'New
Jersey’s Governor Meyner to lead the
Democrats to a complete capture of
the State government. Mr. Meyner, one
of the darker “horses” in the large
stable of possible Democratic presiden
tial nominees, has had increasing na
tional attention since his initial election
In 1953, his repeat in 1957 and his con
tributions to the party’s good showing
In New Jersey in 1958.
By a narrow, but nevertheless con
clusive, margin he suffered a setback
this week. Os greatest importance in
this instance was his all-out effort to
gain Democratic control of the State
Senate, a result that would have per
mitted him if he wished to turn over
the governorship and the State admin
istration to another Democrat in order
to run for the United States Senate next
year or to be freely available for a place
on the national ticket. When the votes
were counted, however, Republicans still
control®*! the State Senate and had
increased their minority membership In
the Assembly.
This result does not, of course,
eliminate Mr. Meyner entirely from
presidential speculation. It has, how
ever, restricted his maneuverability and
slowed down his winning momentum in
his own State. The prestige of victories
only—a record that could have appeal
to a deadlocked national convention—
has been diminished.
Panama Joins In
The anti-American rioting in Pan
ama, while similar to the efforts being
made by agitators to stir up hatred of
the United States In Latin America,
apparently had no relation to recent
disturbances in Cuba and elsewhere.
Panama long has regarded the United
States as an Intruder in Central Amer
ica, albeit a benevolent one. Although
the United States helped Panama to win
independence from Colombia 56 years
ago, Panamanian Nationalists in recent
years have campaigned to have us re
linquish some or all of our rights under
the 1903 Panama Canal Zone treaty.
That treaty gave us authority over the
10-mile-wlde zone and over the isthmian
waterway through it.
It was a celebration of Panama’s
independence day that touched off the
violent demonstrations in Panama City
against the American Embassy and in
Colon against American property. The
demonstration had been well advertised,
but the celebrants had been advised to
be “peaceful.” Instead, mobs stormed
and stoned the Embassy and the United
States Information Office building, over
turned American automobiles and tore
down and destroyed an American flag
in front of the Embassy. Panamanian
policemen, firemen and national guards
men finally brought the disorders under
control.
Ambassador Julian Harrington’s
strong protest to the Panama Foreign
Office has met with countercharges.
However, President Eisenhower has
wisely counseled against taking the in
cidents too seriously. He blamed ex
citable groups for setting off the rioting.
And, as he stressed at his news confer
ence, it is to the mutual advantage of
Panama and the United States to main
tain the friendly relations which have
prevailed in the past.
Much Heat , Little Light
Nothing that is really constructive
has emerged from the hearings before
a gubernatorial commission on propos
als to enlarge the board of regents of
the University of Maryland. There have
been numerous charges directed at the
present board and the university admin
istration—charges of inefficiency, politi
cal maneuvering and the like. There
has been little or no supporting evi
dence, however. And, in view of the
failure of the past General Assembly to
approve enlargement of the board, -it
probably wi)l take something more per
suasive than opinions of the board’s
critics to induce the Legislature to
change a system under which the
university maintains a creditable edu
cational standing.
There are now eleven regents, in
cluding several alumni. Most of the
criticism, incidentally, has come from
the Alumni Association. It was charged
during the legislative hearings last year
that proponents of an expanded board
wanted to “pack” it with alumni more
Interested in improving the university’s
athletic standing than its academic
standing. However, proposals under
study do not specify that additional
regents should be alumni. One of the
recommendations is for enlargement of
the board to twenty-nine members.
University President Elkins and rep
resentatives of the board already have
advised the commission that a larger
board might prove to be unwieldy.
They have testified that the present
board is functioning well. Certainly the
educational prestige of the university
under the present board and adminis
tration is unquestioned. It may well be ’
that the board should be more widely
representative from a geographical
standpoint—Montgomery County has
no regent, while Baltimore is heavily
represented. If, however, the next Leg
islature should decide to authorize more
regents, the members should be chosen
not for political reasons, but because
of their interest in promoting the con
tinued growth and prestige of the Col
lege Park institution.
Warning on TV Ads
In announcing a more vigorous
Federal Trade Commission crackdown
on false or misleading television com
mercials, Chairman Earl W. Kintner has
warned that the greater responsibility
for wielding the cleanup broom rests
with the broadcasting industry itself.
Dishonest TV advertisements, those
which misrepresent or mislead in vio
lation of the law are “very much our
concern,” Mr. Kintner said. It is to halt
“illegal huckstering” in such cases that
the FTC will expand program monitor
ing and will require networks to submit
nationally used commercials for advance
screening.
The bulk of the offensive TV
and radio commercials, however, falls
outside the FTC’s jurisdiction. They
involve “advertising excesses” which
“exaggerate, irritate and nauseate.”
They “dance on the edges of the law,”
and the clamp against them must be
applied by the broadcasting industry.
The FTC’s expanded activities
against the illegal commercials, in re
sponse to public pressure, is the result,
in a very real sense, of the industry’s
failure to police itself. The warning
inherent in Mr. Kintner’s statement is
that the public also is concerned about
those commercials which “skirt the
law.” And some sort of Federal regu
lation of these is likely if the industry
cannot or will not handle the problem
itself.
'l've Got to Get Away From It AH' *
LETTERS TO THE STAR
Reactions Vary Widely on Van Doren's Confession
It is said that confession
is good for the soul, so
no doubt Charles Van Doren
feels better, and if others feel
as I do, I feqj sorry for him.
No doubt he has learned his
lesson, and if this is his first
mistake, I am prepared to
forgive and forget. However,
since be admitted to wrong
doing, he should now make
complete restitution.
To clear his conscience en
tirely, I suggest he donate
the amount of money he had
remaining after taxes to the
Red Cross, or other worthy
charity. Then, and only then
will he have shown remorse.
Who knows, perhaps he
will have set an example to
others who may have a guilty
conscience.
Herman M. Young,
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We’ve stopped throwing
Christians to lions! Ye gods,
what a hullabaloo ’twould
create if their fate were a sad
duplicate of what people once
used to do.
We’ve stopped throwing
Christians to lions but are
we more tender of heart
when we throw to the wolves
our Van Dorens and let them
all tear him apart?
The lions had reason for
killing. They did it from
hunger pains. Are we now
so hungry for scandal that
we have nothing better to do
than to take fine young men
like Van Doren and tear him
to shreds when we’re
through?
Florence M. Stellwagen.
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My applause -is reserved for
Representative Derounian
whose was the lone voice cry
ing out above the wilderness
of bravo’s, welldone’s, cheers,
plaudits and God-bless-you’s
following conclusion of young
Van Doren’s testimony.
Far from pinning accolades
on the former quiz whiz as
did Oren Harris and others,
Representative Derounian’s
clear words struck at the very
heart of the sordid situation.
The most appalling aspect of
the aftermath of the quiz
program scandal has been
the serene, undismayed ac
ceptance by the public of the
deception perpetrated on a
wholesale level.
“I don’t think an adult of
your intelligence ought to be
commended for telling the
truth,” stated Mr. Derounian.
He alone, apparently, saw
the shabbiness of the per
formance and had the cour
age to speak out over the
welter of the cheering crowd.
I commend Representative
Derounian to his fellow Con
gressmen and to his fellow
Republicans, for here is a
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Everybody's Doing It
No one who has been as
signed to the Foreign Service
or who has attended govern
ment intelligence and coun
ter-intelligence schools of any
nation will doubt for a mo
ment the purported state
ment of Russell A. Langelle,
U. S. Embassy security of
ficial, Moscow, to the effect
that the Russians are at
tempting tb “penetrate” the
American Embassy in Moscow
(Associated Press, Washing
ton, D.C., October 26, 1959)
What he didn’t say and
#hat the American people in
general do not know, but
should, is that the govern
ments of every great power
and most secondary ones are
trying continuously to do the
same thing.
This is standard operating
• procedure, otherwise known
as “old hat” to the informed
everywhere. Spying is an es
sential ingredient of the pres
ent cold war and is as old
as the nation-state system
itself. Governments not only
spy upon their “opponents,”
but also upon their “friends.”
The "cloak and dagger” sys
tem is not something reserved
for the “Mafia.” It is one of
the weapons in the arsenal of
every nation and is in con
stant use. But like the “fam
ily skeleton,” it is not dis
cussed publicly or ever ad
mitted officially.
Denial, in fact. Is automatic
In every foreign office every
where. Never to my knowl
stalwart American of whom
they well might take note.
A. L. H.
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What a sense of moral up
lift must have accompanied
the Van Doren hearing in
“the high-ceilinged caucus
room of the Old House Office
Building”!
The quest of centuries,
initiated by a great Man
some 1,900 years ago, was
triumphantly concluded. Ad
mittedly, it was a bit
bewildering; for here we
find not just one individual
worthy of casting the first
stone but a whole bunch!
Truly, we live in a wondrously
pious era.
And the poor, witless, un
holy victim! He, too
fortuitously has stumbled
on a key to redemption. All
he need do is cultivate a few
more enemies like Repre
sentative Derounian of New
York, keep ’«m vocal, and he
will have a future of un
paralleled possibilities.
Our stupefaction in face of
these developments is some
what alloyed, however, by a
single, furtive, ineradicable
suspicion. Which is to say,
the entire drama was enacted
with such a degree of un
impeachable candor, abound
ed in such p a ho s, and
brought forth such a deal of
g e n u i n e—uh—inspiration,
that hardly any bemused,
TV-q u i z - show enthusiast
could help wondering: “Was
this a ‘rigged’ presentation?”
Stuart D. Smith.
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Whom does Van Doren
think he’s fooling? This man,
who cheated, lied, and then
( accepted money to do so, and
then perjured himself, now in
a prepared statement to the
House subcommittee claims
that all the time his con
science hurt him. Evidently
his conscience didn’t “hurt”
him enough to turn down
large sums of money, or just
walk out on the show. Now he
says he is telling the truth
because he feels he has no
alternative. Os course he
couldn’t do anything else,
simply because everyone knew
the truth.
What is even worse is that
Subcommittee Chairman
Harris and Robert W. Lish
man, the subcommittee coun
sel, commended him.
How can we teach our chil
dren that lying and cheating
are wrong if people who hold
responsible positions in this
country commend a man who
tells a sob story to try to
avoid punishment for just
such offenses?
In my opinion this man
has broken and rebroken the
edge has any government
ever admitted that these
“dark agents,” even when
caught red-handed, were act
ing under its instructions, or
in its service, if possible to
deny. This again is part of
the state system. And no one
should be disturbed by these
reports unless he proposes to
challenge the state system.
It is very important for the
American people to note that
the first casualty in any war,
hot or cold, is truth, and al
ways has been. It is not that
the individuals engaged in
international subversion are
immoral themselves, but
rather that the system itself
is amoral.
Hugh B. Hester,
Brig. Gen., U. S. Army, Ret.
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'Open Occupancy '
A marvelous man, Morris
Milgram, speaker at Mont
gomery County’s Unitarian
Church, has for years been
implementing the only prin
ciple that offers a permanent
solution in the area of racial
discrimination in housing.
The principle is “open oc
cupancy.” Mr. Milgram has
shown beyond any contradic
tion that Negroes and whites
can live communally with
mutual profit and pleasure..
According to Mr. Milgram.
the hardest factor to bring
to bear on the problem is a
builder’s faith in democracy
and in God. Given this ele
ment, the plan can be
laws of this country and
should be punished as any
lawbreaker would be.
Deborah F. Culman.
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I would like to offer a few
comments on the television
quiz-show affair:
(1) Since it seems agreed
that the “fixing” of these
programs offended no exist
ing statute, the former con
testants are being compelled,
under threat of perjuring
themselves, to admit in pub
lic to moral wrongdoing in
an area accessible only to the
judgment of individual con
science. They are thus, in a
very real way, being convicted
ex post facto, by the publica
tion of their actions. Neither
the mass media, nor the Har
ris committee, nor indeed
anyone connected with the
affair (save Prof. Louis
Hacker, foreman of the
original grand jury) has done
anything but intensify the
unjust effects of this investi
gation upon the lives and
characters of the contestants.
Owing to his background and
professional status, Charles
Van Doren emerges as the
greatest sufferer. Maybe he
should have known better
than to participate in an en
terprise made to order for
“fixing”—l, for one, think he
should—but this is just the
point: for that decision was
all .his own, and so were
whatever other decisions he
had to make. Thus the in
justice of persecuting him
now for having violated, if,
anything at all, his own con
science and nothing more.
Could anything be more irra
tional?
(2) The whole distasteful
affair is valuable chiefly as
an index to certain of the
more alarming symptoms of
moral unhealth in this coun
try: our infatuation with per
sonalities and our habit of
taking personality as a sign
of competence in anything
beyond personal relations;
our meretricious notion of
“knowledge” as the memo
rization of factual informa
tion; our unbelievable moral
innocence, which we com
pensate for with an equally
unbelievable moral cynicism
—the cynicism of innocence
betrayed; our misunderstand
ing of the distinctions be
tween illusion and reality
(neatly shown in the ridicu
lous efforts of TV executives
to "clean house” in their in
dustry); and the insidious
self-deception which permits
the mass media to justify, in
the name of freedom of in
formation, practices that
have much more to do with
money than with news.
Rudolph von Abele.
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worked with astonishing suc
cess through proper mer
chandising techniques.
If there is one bright
souled builder in this high
capital of democracy who is
brave enough to adopt the
modus operandi of Morris
Milgram, he will by so doing
fire a figurative shot for free
dom that will, like that at
Concord in the old days, be
heard around the world.
J. W. Haywood, Jr.
Dogs for Protection
I do not believe our police
force could cope with the
crime wave that would follow
if it were against the law
for homeowners to keep a
sizable dog.
Very recently I read in one
of our papers of the need
for outlawing door-to-door
sales solicitation because a
wave of burglaries so often
followed in the areas solicited.
All could likely be prevented
by a “king-sized dog” in the
house. A “harmless little dog”
would be of little value ex
cept to warn.
Almost every day the news
papers report a new list of
horrible crimes in this and
many other cities to such an
extent that I do not believe
I would want to live in a
house anywhere were I de
prived of the protection of
what E. C. P. in a letter to
The Star calls a "king-sized
dog.”
- D. W. F.
THE POLITICAL MILL
By GOULD LINCOLN
The Spotty Elections of 7939
In the spotty, off-year
elections Tuesday, two poten
tial aspirants to the Dem
ocratic nomination suffered
checks to their ambitions,
and one Republican presi
dential possibility may have
strengthened himself. The
Democrats are Gov. Robert
B Meyner of New Jersey and
Gov. A. B. i Happy ( Chandler
of Kentucky. The Republican,
who certainly lost no ground,
is Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller
of New York.
Oov. Meyner, who has
never said publicly he is a
candidate for the Democratic
presidential nomination but
who has clearly had ambi
tions in that direction, lost
his bid to take control of the
State Senate away from the
Republicans. And while the
Democrats retained control
of the General Assembly,
they lost eight seats in that
body to the Republicans. The
fight over State Senate con
trol was a near thing, for the
Republicans lost two seats
but held a margin in the
body, 11 to 10. Gov. Meyner
had gone all out in this
campaign to win the State
Senate. It would have been
a real feather in his cap. The
result not only is a jolt to his
prestige, which has been on
the up and up since he was
elected Governor of New
Jersey in 1953 and re-elected
in 1957, but it also will make
It very difficult for him to
run for the United States
Senate in 1960 against
Republican Senator Clifford
P. Case. For if he should step
out of the Governor’s chair,
it would turn the State house
over to a Republican, the
leader of the State Senate,
since New Jersey does not
elect lieutenant governors.
Gov. Meyner’s term does not
end until the close of 1961.
Gov. Meyner, having served
two terms as Governor, will
be ineligible to run for re
election in 1961. The Demo
crats in his State would not
like him to turn the office of
Governor over to a Repub
lican for a whole year, even
if he were elected to the
Senate. The Governor of New
Jersey handles a tremendous
amount of patronage. Also
with a Republican in the
State house, the Republican
controlled State Senate might
start a series of investiga
tions into Gov. Meyner’s
administration that might
prove embarrassing in the
campaign of 1961.
Dark Horse Possibility
Gov. Meyner still remains,
however, a dark-horse possi
bility for a presidential nomi
nation should the Demo
cratic National Convention
become deadlocked. The
Democrats of New Jersey
would be willing, it is said,
to trade a Governor for a
New Jersey Democrat in the
White House, if Gov. Meyner
could make it. One other
suggestion has been made to
keep him alive politically
after 1961. Should Demo
cratic Senator Harrison Wil
liams decide to quit the Sen
ate and run for Governor, he
might appoint himself to suc
ceed Senator WilliEtms for the
rest of the latter’s term in
the Senate at the close of
1961.
THIS AND THAT
By CHARLES E. TRACEWELL
“COLLEGE PARK, MD.
“Dear Sir:
“Down at my office, a per
son has been fired who ought
to have been fired, and I
am happy.
“Do you think it mean of
me?
«**l am a bit frightened at
feeling happy about some
body else’s misfortune. It is
against everything I have
ever been taught.
“Do you think it possible
that it is right to rejoice?
“I have been working only
two years, but even in that
time I see that everything is
not just as I was told.
“Evidently the world is not
as simple a thing as I once
thought.
“The complexity of affairs
and men’s thoughts worry
me. Will I ever master them,
or begin to feel at home?
“Sincerely, EVALYN G. Y."
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We are afraid, Evalyn, you
never will.
Men and affairs are so
complex that nobody ever
masters them He only thinks
he has, in some cases.
The rest of us, basically
honest, know that there is
no mastery here.
On the tennis court, yes.
On the golf links, perhaps.
In the boxing ring, once
every hundred years.
In the field of business
and earning a living, well—
If one works hard, and
does the best one can, and
then brings to his aid the
disposition of a saint along
with the shrewdness of the
crocodile, then he may have
a chance of mastering life,
men and affairs.
There is another field in
which one may become
master, we believe.
That is table tennis.
They used to call it ping
pong, which had a right
merry sound.
It is too bad that this fine
indoor sport seems to have
suffered an eclipse. Prob
ably it was the passage of
the old-fashioned dining
room table.
Today’s tables are not
quite the thing for this game.
The old ones could double in
mahogany. They were sturdy,
and could take it.
The results of the elections
in Kentucky were disastrous
for Oov. Chandler. His old
enemy, Bert T. Combs, was
elected Governor, and
another, Wilson W. Wyatt,
was elected Lieutenant Gov
ernor. They were backed by
former Senator Earl Clem
ents, another foe of Mr.
Chandler. Furthermore, the
Democrats seem to have
gotten together again In the
border State, which may
mrke it difficult for Republi
can Benator John Sherman
Cooper, who must run for re
election next year. Senator
Cooper, however, is extremely
popular in the State, and
should former Senator Clem
ents run against him. he
might win again.
The Republicans had hoped
that the Chandler faction
would support their candi
date for Governor, former
Representative Robsion. It
did not work that way, how
ever, and Mr. Combs was
elected by a big vote. Gov.
Chandler, who already has
said he would make a try for
the Democratic presidential
nomination —as he did in
1956 when he held control
of the State and its delega
tion to the Democratic Na
tional Convention—will have
no such grip on the State
delegation next year.
Rockefeller Candidate Wins
In the elections in New
York, the Republicans picked
up more mayors of cities now *
held by Democrats than they
lost to the Democrats. Gov.
Rockefeller campaigned per
sonally in behalf of the Re
publican candidate for Mayor
of Auburn, where there was
a Democratic mayor and a
solidly Democratic city
council. The Governor’s can
didate won. Judging from
the vote over the State, the
Governor has not lost his
popularity—and the vote of
New York in a presidential
election is a potent affair.
The Democratic leaders,
including Democratic Na
tional Chairman Paul M.
Butler, were quick to claim
that, taken the country over,
the local elections had fav
ored the Democratic Party.
They had good reason to be
encouraged by the manner in
which the Democrats won in
Indiana, for example, where
they swept most of the big
city election’s.
Out in California, however.
Republican Mayor George
Christopher of San Francisco
was re-elected over a Demo
cratic opponent, who sought
to make a partisan race in a
so-called nonpartisan elec
tion, believing that the Dem
ocratic tide which ran strongly
in the 1958 elections would
carry him to victory.
The Democrats rolled up a
big victory for Mayor of
Philadelphia, where incum
bent Richardson Dilworth
defeated Harold E. Stassen.
The result was a foregone
conclusion right from the
start. Mr. Dilworth had a
lot of Republican support as
well as Democratic. Chair
man Butler, in a statement,
insisted that the elections
Tuesday “reaffirmed the
mandate the Democratic
Party was given in 1958,”
and predicted kjetory in the
national elections next year.
Many a child went into
the ping-pong business on
mother’s favorite table, after
convincing her that no harm
would come to it.
No damage was done, as
far as we can recall, except
a few scufTs on the legs, and
some mars on the rim.
Tables had to be able to
take it in those days. Now
and then a table was turned
over and made into a sort
of flying machine, according
to full directions contained
in Mark Twain’s ‘‘Tom Saw
yer Abroad.”
Occasionally a table turned
on its side became a Boer
fortress. There was no know
ing exactly what the dining
room table would become
next.
Mother, however, had her
own idea of what it would
become.
It became a dining room
.table, exactly that and noth
ing else, from the Boer war
on.
** * *
To get back to offices—
In every office, there is at
all times some one who
ought to be fired.
The sad fact is that usually
he isn’t.
He isn’t, that is, for such
a long time that the salutary
effect of his dismissal loses
all the good effect it should
have.
Such a guy often seems to
lead a charmed life. He is
obnoxious, but there he is.
When he finally goes, he is
gone; rejoicing abounds, but
it has lost its zest.
Management fails here be
cause of the weight of Its own
rules.
It tries to be fair, and in
being fair, it sometimes be
comes unfair to those who
walk the straight line.
We have always thought
that perhaps the old boss,
with his keen eye, would be
a good person to have around
today.
He looked over an appli
cant. and if he didn’t like his
looks, he turned him down.
Maybe he didn't like red
headed people, or persons too
thin, or too fat. Whatever
it was, it was a handy rule
of thumb that saved much
stress and strain and some
times worked. That's all you
can ask of any rule.