TUESDAY. DECEMBER 13. 1955
French Reds
May Win Seats
PARIS. Dec. 12 (£>) —French
Communists today seem likely to
gain a score of seats in the Jan. 2
election for the National Assembly
though they may actually poll
fewer votes than in the last elec
tion.
The prospect emerged as non-
Communists continued to pile up
rival candidacies before the mid
night deadline for filing. The
situation arises from the French
election law, passed five years
ago partly to cut down' Commu
nist parliamentary representa
tion.
The law succeeded then, but
rivalry among anti-Communists
promises to reduce its efficiency
this time.
It provides that parties may
form alliances, and if no alliance
gets a clear majority of seats, the
seats are divided according to
each party’s' voting strength. This
system favors the Communists
since they get more votes than
any other single party.
UN Fails to End
Membership Snarl
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Dec.
12 C/P) —A huge secret caucus of
UN delegates failed today to end
a snarl on admitting 18 new mem
bers.
Nearly all of the 52 delegates
who voted in the General Assem
bly last week for the 18-nation
package deal attended the meet
ing. No decisions- were taken.
Diplomatic sources said the pur
pose of the caucus was to attempt
to arrange the approval of any
country admitted.
13 Weekend Deaths
Thirteen persons died in aci
dents throughout Pennsylvania
over the weekend—four of them
in a two-car collision yesterday
in Reading.
Toys, 800
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• Kids
HO Gauge trains, Revelle plastic ships Wigglie, Scrabble, "Bobbsey Twins"
and airplanes, Tinker Toys, trucks, and "Nancy Drew" mysteries.
Monopoly, Winkie Dink, Sorry, Uncle
Just the right thing for that woman in your life. Remember, you only have a few
days at home to shop—get your presents now. Our selection includes cook books,
trays, and silver sets.
We can't leave out the men (heavens no!). How about shaving kits or bar supplies?
The latter includes cocktail shakers, lemon squeezers, stirers, flasks, Scotch coolers.
Parker P.en and Pencil sets, desk sets, Argus, Bell-Howell,—jce skates, golf
wallets, Royal typewriters, artist sup- clubs, footballs, basketballs, baseballs,
plies, photographic supplies—Kodak, and guns.
World at a Gla
H-Bomb Seen
As Possible
Light Source
CLEVELAND, Dec. 12 (/P)—One
of the ingredients of the hydrogen
bomb offers possibilities for emer
gency illumination in public build
ings and other places, a nuclear
science and engineering congress
was. told today.
An official of the U.S. Radium
Corp. said that tritium, an H-bomb
material, and a variety of other
man-made radioactive substances
producible in the atomic program
show promise of providing a new
and improved method of furnish
ing "self-luminous” illumination.
That’s the same, kind of lighting
that has been long used in radium
doal wrist watches, enabling a
person to see the dial in the dark.
Atomic rays from the radium ac
tivate a so-called phosporescent
material which “glows” continu
ously.
Berlin Police Squelch
Reef Demonstration
BERLIN, Dec. 12 (jT*)—A throng
of East German Communists took
a beating from the clubs and wat
er cannon of West Berlin police
tonight in a riot which stemmed
from a Red march on a French
sector beer hall.
A tightly organized company of
250 of the riot police turned back
the invaders—estimated to num
ber more than 1500 after an
hour-long fight.
The Communists braved 28-de
gree weather and the riot can
nons’ icy water, which froze al
most - as soon as it hit, for a de
monstration against the Stahlhelm
Steel Helmet, a World War II vet
erans’ organization which they
call Fascist and militaristic.
• Mom
• Men
t Everyone
you can get it at
ETZGERS
(The store with tho black granite front)
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Israel Renews
Border Attacks
JERUSALEM, Dec. 12 (JP) —UN
truce observers hastened to the
Syrian border today to investi
gate the latest crisis in the waver
ing peace between Israel and her
Arab neighbors.
Israeli forces attacked four
Syrian fortified posts overlooking
the northeastern shore of the Sea
of Galilee Sunday night and by
Israeli account blew jip the posi
tions before retiring to their base
after an all-night battle., ,
Syrian spokesmen described the
action as a surprise assault by
commando units and two infantry
brigades which were backed up
by tanks, artillery, and armored
boats firing from' -the Sea of
Galilee.
. The four posts fell, the Syrians
admitted, after four hours of
fighting, but they said the Israelis
were forced to withdraw after
three more hours when they at
tempted -to seize heights behind
the posts.
Board Urges Raise
For Rail Workers
WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 (JP) —A
fact-finding report' filed at the
White House today recommended
a quarter billion dollar annual
boost in wages and health bene
fits for 750.000 non operating em
ployes of the nation’s railroads.
The report, Ribmittfedh by an
emergency board named by Presi
dent Eisenhower, said the em
ployes should get' a 14% cent
hourly pay increase, plus an add
ed two cents per hour payment
toward their health, and welfare
plan.
Epidemic Halted
LANCASTER, Pa., Dec. 12 (JP)
—Lancaster County’s paratyphoid
outbreak declared under con
trol today with the number of
cases reported thus far at 153.
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ADVENTURES IN SOCIAL SCIENCE: NO. 2
Doff your caps and bells; there will be no fun and games this
day.' Today, with earnestness and sobriety, we make the second
of our forays into social science. Today we take up the most
basic of all the social sciences—sociology itself.
Sociology teaches us that man is a social animal. It is not his
instincts or his heredity that determine his conduct; it is his
environment. This fact is vividly borne out when one considers
any- of the several cases of children who were raised by wild ani
mals. Take, for example, the dossier on Julio Sigafoos.
Julio, abandoned as an infant in a dark wood near Cleveland,
was adopted by a pack of wild dogs and reared as one of their
own. When Julio was found by a hunter at the age of twelve, the
poor child was more canine than human. He ran on all fours,
barked and growled, ate raw meat, lapped water with his tongue,
and could neither speak nor understand one single word. In
short, he was a complete product of his environment.
(Julio, incidentally, was more fortunate than most wild chil
dren. They never become truly humanized, but Julio was excep
tional. Bit by bit, he began to talk and walk and eat and drink
as people do. His long dormant mental processes, when awakened
at last, turned out to be remarkably acute. In fact, he was so
bright that he learned to read and write in a month, got through
grammar school in five years and high school in two. And last
June, as thousands of spectators, knowing Julio’s tragic back
ground, stood and cheered, he was graduated valedictorian from
Cal Tech with a degree in astrophysics!
(Who can say to what towering heights this incredible boy
would have risen had he not been killed the day after commence
ment while chasing a car?)
But 1 digress. To return to sociology, people tend to gather in
groups—a tendency that began, as we all know, with the intro
duction of Philip Morris Cigarettes. What an aid to sociability
they are! How benignly one looks upon his fellows after a puff
of Philip Morris's gentle, pleasant, flavorful tobacco! How eager
it makes one to share, to communicate, to extend the hand of
friendship! How grateful we all are to Philip Morris for mak
ing possible this togetherness! How good not to live in the bleak
pre-Philip Morris world, with every man a stranger!
The groups that people live in today (thanks to Philip Morris)
vary widely in tteir customs. What is perfectly acceptable in
one society may be outlandish in another. Take, for instance, the
case of Ug Poopoomoogoo.
Ug, a Polynesian lad, grew up in an idyllic South Sea isle
where the leading social event of the year was the feast of Max,
the sun god. A quaint all-day ceremony was held, with tribal
dancing, war chants, fat lady races, pie eating contests, and,
for the grand finale, the sacrifice of two dozen maidens.
According to Ug’s folkways, sacrificing maidens was quite
acceptable, but when in his eighteenth year he was sent as an
exchange student to the University of Wisconsin, he soon learned
that Americans take a dim view of this practice —in Wisconsin,
at any rate. The first twelve or thirteen maidens Ug sacrificed,
he was let off with a warning. When, however, he persisted, dras
tic measures were taken—he was de-pledged by his fraternity.
A broken man, Ug quit school and moved to Milwaukee where
today he earns a meagre living as a stein. cu» ism
This column U brought to you by the makers of Philip MorrU
Cigarette «, who ore otherwise rational men. Ash for new Philip
Morris iu the smart new red, white end geld package.
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