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FOUR A THE MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER MONDAY, DECEMBER 5,. 1255 fuuiM iiwi cm tn UOKTOOIOST DVfTI3m tatml a Pom Offlea at Uontnaan. aa Caoond Class- Matter On of Csunm March 3. lT R. HVMON sua(ih m.

hudsom, jm. tt i' aa stxaautiva Miter IIOVH MALL, JR. Mitar J. rumo THORNTON Aaaaniata Mttar LP VettftrMwTo ST DUtribwtetJ by Kin fwatur- Syndicate Soviet Rope Trick National Whirligig By Ray Tucker MIAMI, FLAS 'T'HE shrill attacks on Adlai E. Steven- son's call for "moderation" by the Trumans, Harnmans, Williamses afcd fellow-AD-Aers strengthen the -1962 nominee in the South.

Although Dixie's political leaders are not entirely satisfied with the prospect of a Stevenson renomination, they may settle on him for the factional critics he has created. Stevenson, Incidentally, recently visited Florida on a glad-handing mission. After hunting quail on the estate his host, Harry Guggenheim, he attended a few classes at the Universtjy of Florida in Gainesville, and addressed a convention of the American Municipal Congress at Miami. He was admittedly trying to make friends in the state that went for President Eisenhower in1952, and which gave Sen. Richard B.

Russell of Georgia a primary majority of 82.000 over Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee in that year. PLIGHT OF FOUR SOUTHER? STATES Southerners in the four states that Ike carried would like to return their historic, post-Civil War Party, biit on their own terms. Their difficulj-y lies in the fact that they have no representative with a chance to cop the nonii-nation or the election, for Sen. Kefauver rings no bells below the Mason ahd Dixon Line.

He is suspect as both a liberal and an opportunist. Numerous Southern spokesmen haire mentioned Gov. Frank J. Lausche as; a possibility, although he ls a Catholic. But this pre-convention flirtation with the bushy-haired Ohioan seems designed more as a warning to Stevenson thar a real effort on Launches behalf.

JX'in sharp notice that Stevenson should stfck to his "moderation' theme, and not 3e shoved to the left by the party's rsdleal faction, and especially by Harry Truman. IKE RETAINS HOLD Should Stevenson pursue this path, he might win the South's delegates at the and also the four states he lest in 1952. It ls doubtful if he could hold the Solid South against Ike, for the PresidenC-ix liked down here as a friendly and veil-meaning person rather than as a prty politician. Gov. Averell Harriman of New.JTork and Gov.

G. Mennen Williams of Michigan would probably run worse in Dixit than Stevenson did. Their nomination might produce a third candidate representing the South, even though, the movement would be only a forlorn against radical domination. Besides the objections to KefauverP'ifl-ready listed, the South resents his -rapid political progress, in view of the fact that such worthy men as Byrd of, Virginia, Byrnes of South Carolina, Russell and George of Georgia, have been passed over year after year in the party's distributions of its highest honors. WAIVING NAMING CANDIDATE-Th South, however, is deliberately waiting any chance to name a presidential or vice presidential nominee.

So long ax a single Southern state holds out against the Supreme Court's decision against segregation in public schools and parks and most of them will for many years no major party will dare to name any of her sons on a national ticket, no matter how able or distinguished he may be. To do so would be throwing away the colored vote that often determines the electoral results in great Northern and Middle Western states. But the South seems willing to pay the penalty. Ironically, the -South does not appear to blame Eisenhower for the ruling against segregation. As in so many other Washington controversies, he standa Im Off The Bench By Judge Walter one The Yankees Had Their Andersonvilles, Too Tell It To Old (Branforaa Tour nam and address mutt given on letter But upon name will often be withheld at the Editors discretion We reserve the right to shorten letters No poetry, please Repeat: No letter will be printed unless Editor knows who wrote it.

Trdnsvestite Chickens TTDITOR, THE ADVERTISER I read in The Advertiser about a poultry woman who had one hen turn into a rooster. She sent It to Ohio University's department of agriculture for observation. Tney were going to make a study of hens turning to roosters. Kow I had one her after another to do this. So I wrote the university about my experiences and received the reply-that I had had a rare experience as the usual ratio of hns changing to roosters is one to 1,000 hens.

Like a great many other people, I had a small flock in the yard to furnish eggs for the household. The hens disposed of table scraps which would otherwise have been wasted. And were worth the cost of the grain and mash they required to have fresh eggs. This is what happened. A few years I turned out about six Rhode Island Red pullets for- layers.

The next year, six New Hampshires. There was no rooster. For the last, two years the only young ones added to the flock were two black pullets. I don't remember just when it was that 1 heard the first hen attempting to crow like a rooster. But when she kept it up I killed and ate her.

The change seems to be a gradual one and I did not like the idea of eating naif done eggs from such a chicken. Alter a while another one started acting 'the same way. Each time I killed'one I thought that would be the last of the trouble but it never was. Two cases I remember especially. One of these was the case that I 'procrastinated several months before was the heaviest hen I ever dressed.

In dressing her. I could see where the -breast bone had started growing again and grown longer. After reaching maturity she took a second start to growing. The second case, and the most astonishing, was that of the Red hen which had been the best layer I ever had. She was about four years old, the oldest hen left in the flock, when she started acting like the boss of the yard.

Of course some of the hens I killed out of the group were normal. But towards the end I was killing nothing but freaks. When the chickens got down to four, one turned to a rooster, when they got down to three, ditto, when they got down to two, the same thing happened, and when they got down to one hen, she started crowing. So I hope the scientists will be able to learn more about the problem. Midway, Ala.

(Miss) FRANCES P. HALL. Sidney Levy Editor, The Advertiser: Little did Sidney Levy realize the consequences of his thoughtfulness which convinced the writer that even the remotest things In life can count so much. I had been ill since the first of May, 1955, and at times felt the situation hopeless. In the latter part of this last summer I had improved to the extent that I could sit on my back porch late in the afternoons.

I was cheered each day by the call of Sidney Levy over the back fence. He rarely failed to greet me after he returned from his work. He brought me magazines to read and a word of good cheer at all times. You see I was the next door neighbor of Mr. Levy.

He owed me nothing and had no duty "toward me. As you so aptly put it in your editorial of Nov. 29, after referring to his many activities: "And all the while he glowed with a warm Interest in everything and everybody about him." A beautiful memory of Sidney Levy will always be imbedded in my heart and mind. THOMAS H. WATTSi Montgomery.

Un-Southern Editor, The Advertiser: I should think that as editor of The Advertiser, a Southern paper, you'd think a little more as a Southerner and not act bored with-it all. I like Negroes but I wish them to be with Negroes, not integrated. I certainly wish you would join not the "White Sopremictsts" as you call us, but the segregationists. Don't try to be another Hodding Carter who sold himself out to Look magazine. Tallahassee, Fla.

ALLISON COOK. Russia Is gaining ground in Burma, at our expense. Burma's chief export is rice. She had a surplus to sell, but the United States didn't buy it, because we had a rice surplus, too. Then along came the Russians, who produce little rice at home, and bought the surplus, thereby endearing themselves to the Burmese.

The implication was that we should have bought it first, even if it had to be fed to the hogs. From this we dissent. The Idea that It is our duty to bolster every sagging market and try to gratify every desire, in any part of the world, can be run in the ground. Limited Warfare "yE HAVE voiced the view that the destructive effect of modern bombs, the prospect of a war in which there would be no victors, is a potent deterrent to war. We also recognize that at -best this is an uneasy base for peace the hope that one side will remain scared and the other glad of it, until good will can replace" fear.

We find The London Economist voicing similar views: There is fairly general agreement In Western countries that the policy of the deterrent to put it more blunt-lv, the threat to use the hydrogen bomb has improved the chances of peace. Indeed, the facts are plain. Once full-scale war becomes a suicide pact it can no longer be regarded even by the most cold-blooded aggressor as the continuation of policy by other means. Even before the July conference in Geneva it was evident that both the western and the Soviet governments had grasped, this fact; at. that conference, they had a chance to convince each other that both had grasped it.

They seem to have sue-. ceeded. The "hydrogen stalemate" is' a reat deal better than a dangerous unbalance, and a great aeal surer than a balance in conventional arms. This is something gained. But that does not mean that anybody can feel very happy about the present state of affairs.

Indeed, who can be content to entrust himself to the paradox of building safety on a threat to destroy human civilization? It Is not only In conscience that many people are troubled, but in reason too. For suppose that something were to slip, and the bombs, which can preserve peace only because they are so awful, came to be dropped in earnest. And can one believe that the age of slips and errors of judgment Is gone for ever? Thn thf-re is the problem of the "little Will the hydrogen bomb be used to stop them, perhaps to broaden them Into the dreaded full-scale holocaust? Or, will little wars be fought with less" destructive weapons? The latter course might encourage China and Russia, with their vast manpower resources and few qualms over expending it, to provoke more exhausting little wars, like the Korean, aggression, This" would involve the expense of keeping armed on two, and maybe three levels. In fact, there has already been talk of possibly three kinds of war, based on three grades of weapons. First, the "conventional" weapons, meaning all weapons of destruction In use before the first atomic bomb was dropped.

Second, "tactical atomic" weapons those whose effect' is confined within a radius of a mile or two. Third, strategic weapons, featuring the hydrogen bomb, the civilization-wrecker. There has even been talk of a plan under which, as The Economist puts it, we would witness "an attempt to confine any future war to the weapons of the war of 1939-45 plus tactical atomic weapons In the fighting area itself, while still retaining the ability and the willingness to hit back with the full horrors If the enemy used them first." It is impossible to avoid an uneasy feeling when reading such stuff as the above. The prospect of socking guy, but putting only so much behind the punch, and never knowing when he will start giving you the works, is not a pleasant one. Americans got jittery enough over the Korean War with its limited objectives and privileged sanctuaries.

We might not be able to keep one within limits even if we wanted to. iVs Only Wrong For The U.S. David Lawrence was among the first to detect a conspicious silence on the part of those here and abroad who have been denouncing the U.S. for testing nuclear weapons following the news that Russia had exploded a giant H-Bomb. Lawrence observed that had the bomb been exploded by the Atomic Energy Commission, the UN would already be rocking with protests from "neutralists." The most notable absence of reaction was India's failure to protest, as she has when we were testing bombs in the Pacific, that the explosion displayed a wanton disregard of the effectsof fallout on the colored peoples of Asia.

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News Department -T -2ll Circulation T748 Colored News Bureaa (all haara ports Department -Hens Into Roosters A correspondent at Midway writes about her hens that turned into roosters. She describes this as a frequent phenomenon. The news intrigued us, and we contacted H. M. Warren, poultry specialist of the Auburn Extension He said he had never heard of a hen turning to a rooster down on the farm.

He was practically, certain that it had been done through experimental opera-: tions in laboratories and clinics, but not as an unassisted act of evolution. confirmed, however, that hens sometimes adopt mannish ways. Could this be what our correspondent had in mind? Some hens crow, though their crowing Is not Identical with that of a rooster, and the poultry expert could not say why they do it. They also have been known to manifest certain other masculine traits. We have all heard of women who wore the pants In tha family, without of course undergoing any actual change in sex.

Maybe the crowing, domineering hen is In the same- category still a hen right According, to the old saw, the crowing hen and the whistling woman are both destined to a bad end. Girls, pre-; rum ably, are supposed to be more coy" and retiringto inspire whistles rather than go In-, for them. The crowing, masculine hen is a more brazen example of effronteryflouting the principle that the female of the species should rule In subtle fashion. Fighting Fire With Same Our. Holiday Safety Hero No.

1 Is New York Fire Inspector Henry Gartland. Going his rounds the other day he spotted some material in a Christmas display in a Times Square bar. It looked dangerously inflammable. To test it, Gart- land stuck at match to it. It exploded, flames raced through the bar and spread to a grill adjoining, severely damaging both in a two-alarm fire.

Fire Commissioner Edward F. Cava-naugh had no apologies for Gartland," whom the commissioner identified as "one, of best inspectors." In fact, the commissioner seemed jubilant over Gartland'a action. It was "a god- send," the commissioner said, that the display hadn't caught fire accidentally when the joint was filled with The Gartland system of fire prevention may be drastic, but you'll have to admit" it's fool-proof. Award Of Merit A brass button lb hereby awarded to Isaac Harris of Staten Island, New York, because, on his recent 105th birthday, he freely conceded that he had "no formula for longevity JAny such formula is Their futility is underscored by their conflict- i ing nature. Some men who reach the century mark are total abstainers from alcoholic beverages, others like their toddy, some derive solace from a pipe, others eschew nicotine.

About the most that can. be said is that gross over-indulgence in most anything including eating can be bad. Even there, some notable exceptions arise to confound the statisticians. The man who laps llkker to excess, or is a glutton at. table, may outlive more ab-itemious ones, even though excesses are not to be recommended.

Overdoing It This business of extending the helping hand to foreign lands is great stuff, but naturally It has its limitations. Thus -we the other tljat 'pHERE ls always someone, generally some writer at the North, who enjoys writing books which arouse prejudice against the South and which, with istudied aim, never give all the facts of history. Such a book Is MacKinlay Kantor's recent, best-selling novel, Andersonville. One of the best discussions of this book is found in the Nov. 20, 1955, issue of The Rich mond Times Dispatch.

This edito-. i i I A Is0 "wel1 written inns latraaai, Ithat It ShOUld haVB JOXES a wide circulation, not only among our own people here in the South, but also Jn the North. It is a pleasure to reprint this editorial from the pen of a distinguished American editor, Vir-ginius Dabney, and I also appreciate his reference to John S. Tilley, a distinguished, fair and thoughtful, American historian. The editorial referred to is entitled, Andersonville Horrors and the Facts, and is as follows: "Publication of the best-selling novel, Andersonville, by MacKinlay Kantor, is bound to arouse prejudice against the Confederacy and the Southern people in the minds of some readers.

For although the massive' book point out that during the period when the Andersonville prison was operating (1864-65) the Confederate army and people were themselves half-starved, short of medicines, and otherwise pinched by the Union blockade, the impact of this powerful volume is terrific. "Blame for some of the Union sufferings at Andersonville must be put at the door of President Lincoln and Gen. Grant, who refused to exchange prisoners with the South after 1863. They specifically refused to exchange the Andersonville prisoners for an equal number of Confederates. They knew that the South was running short of men, and consequently decided to let the Union soldiers stay at Andersonville, despite the undeniable horrors there, "Some of the things that happened at Andersonville cannot be excused.

Whether they were chiefly attributable to Confederate Gen. John H. Winder, who had over-all supervision, or to Henry Wirz, the prison superintendent, is not clear. Almost indescribable conditions are related in the novel, Andersonville. "gUT it should by all means be noted that some of the things that happened to Confederate prisoners in Northern prisons were equally inexcusable, perhaps more so.

For the North was not starved, blockaded and devastated, as the South was by 1864. "Various Southerners have told how they were almost frozen to death in these Northern prisons such as Johnson's Island, in Lake Erie. Others actually froze to death. A Confederate officer said he scraped up some fish skins out of a gutter for his Christmas dinner at Johnson's Island. Another Confederate told how the prisoners there were reduced to eating rats.

Still another said he was glad to be transferred from the federal prison at Ohio, to the one at Ft. Delaware, on Chesapeake Bay, since the rats at Ft. Delaware were fatter and had a better flavor than-those in Columbus. "Highly important statistics concerning conditions in Northern and Southern prisons are contained in John S. Tilley 's valuable little volume, Facts The Historians Leave Out, published In Montgomery in 1951, and now in its seventh 1 1 I e5V fiSe 1 1 I i printing.

Mr. Tiliey, a Harvard MA. who lives in Montgomery, writes: 'The Union soldiers held in Southern prisons outnumbered by 50,000 the Confederates imprisoned In the North. This was revealed in a report made in 1866 by Stanton, Lincoln's secretary of war. The report shoiced further that 26,246 Confederates died in Northern prisons as against 22,576 Union soldiers dying in Southern prisons.

(Italics ours), "Somebody ought 'to write a grimly realistic novel about Johnson's Island or Ft. Delaware, with the freezing, starving Confederates and their broiled rat dinners among the high lights. All too often the only novels that get written are those which purport to show the South as the home of sadists, degenerates and lunatics. Andersonville seems destined to heighten that Impression." In Memoriam: Sidney Levy THE waning afternoon hours of last Tuesday, I stood reverently with a great throng of mourners on the windswept hillsides of Eternal Rest Cemetery to pay the last sweet tribute to" my good and life-long friend, Sidney Levy, dead at the age of 83 years, leaving behind to bless his family and friends the record of a kindly, useful and upright life. Sidney Levy was truly a Montgomery institution.

He spent all the years of his manhood, and part of his boyhood, as a business man and merchant with his place of business on old Court Square. From that vantage point, he watched the historic happenings, of more than a quarter of a century. He saw the inaugural processions of many governors move on toward the state Capitol. He saw mayors of the city come and go. He saw the flower of Alabama's young manhood march off to wars In foreign lands.

He saw the great military parades sweep on past the Square to the state house. He saw hundreds of panic stricken people fleeing across the square and down to the railroad station in the yellow fever days. For nearly three-quarters of a -century he was part of Montgomery's life. He was a citizen who loved his home town, who worked for its betterment, and who was happy In the companionship of his fellow men. He walked among our people with a smile on his face, a kind word on his lips, and an open hand to all need and to all worthy causes.

Montgomery will miss Sidney Levy, but the sweetness of his memory and the beauty of his life will remain among us always. The simple graveside services, conducted by Rabbi Eugene Blachschleger of Temple Beth-Or, deeply moved the hearts of the sorrowing friends gathered around the kindly man's last resting place; and the words of Roselle Mercier Montgomery, in her touching poem On The Death Of An Aged Friend, so feelingly read by the good Rabbi, touched all hearts: You are not dead Life has but set you free! your years of life were like a lovely song, The last sweet poignant note of which, held long. Passed into silence while we listened, we Who loved you, listened still expectantly! And we about you whom you moved among Would feel that grief for you were surely wrong- You have passed beyond where we can see. For us who knew you, dread of age is past! You took life, tiptoe, to the very last; It never lost for you its lovely look; Yo ukept your interest in its thrilling book; To you Death came no conqueror', in the end You merely smiled to greet another friend. YfOSHE SHARETT, the foreign minister of Israel, is here to negotiate a treaty to balance Egypt's communist armaments.

Last week he went to see the musical, Silk Stockings. Sharetts cousin, Leon Belasco, plays the role cf a Soviet agent in the They had a supper party at Sardi's afterwards. "Of course we're celebrating-," said Sharett, "I'm the only foreign diplomat who can boast of a cousin in a Broadway show." (Coprrisht, 1W. Hall Eyndicsts, Inc.) mune from criticism on this Issue. AJ-thought it visits its special wrath against Chief Justice Earl Warren, who delivered the unanimous "opinion, it realizes that the majority was composed of Roosevelt-Truman appointees.

But if Atty. Gen. Brownell or any other federal agency attempts to enforce or implement the edict against growing popular and legislative defiance, the GOP will not carry a single Southern state, even with Ike heading the ticket. STEVENSON ON SIDELINES As 'a lawyer, Stevenson felt compelled to approve the anti-segregation decision: As of today, however, he stands on the "sidelines, although not an entirely innoceat bystander. As a matter of curious fact, Stevenson's recent palavering with Southern politicians Sen.

Lyndon B. Johnson and Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas have antagonized colored leaders. An official of the South Carolina branch of the Association for the Advancement of Colored People recently referred to himta "silent Steve," and described him- a "Talmadge man." Ex-Gov. Herman T3-madge of Georgia Is a violent and vocal foe of any form of integration. In short, the South today is a political wilderness crying for a voice! (Released by McClura Newspsiter Syndicate) a Generous Offer" The Cleveland Plain Dealer JJEMOCRATIC National Chairman Paul M.

Butler is a generous fellow. He'd willingly engage in political combat wih one hand tied behind his back If his Republican opponent would agree to have both hands tied behind his back and blindfolded as well. To be specific, Sutler has made an offer on the part of the Democrats a refrain from attacking the Eisenhowei administration's foreign policies provided the Republicans will quit braggini about peace. This is a lot of foolishness, of course The Democrats know just as well as thei; opponents do that the slogan of peaci and prosperity is the Republicans' greatest asset. The basic nature of the presidential campaign, regardless of who thi nominees are, will be an effort on thi part cf the Republicans to convince th voter? they are responsible for the peace and the prosperity; while the Democrat; will try to convince the voters that thi peace and prosperity are not as real a the Republicans claim they are, or they would be if the Democrats wen put in charge of the government.

PAUSE THAT PROVOKES The Cincinnati Enquirer They've beefed up the power of ear, for a faster getaway. So there'll more time to wait at the next traffic light? Living Today By Arlie B. Davidson Start At The Bottom! VOUR Hie is likely to be a failure If you do not start at the bottom, lay good foundations, and build from there. If you desire a pleasing and effective personality, you must start at the bottom of man's na- of HitVl gaa riie jf I potentialities, and build I I according to the laws of. human development.

If you want a happy, marriage, you must start UX I at the bottom of your Jt J-- I needs your Interests, "aaal vour nersonalitv and DAVIDSON character traits, habit-patterns, Ideals, and the part you expect to play as a partner. Then make the same anaiysis of your prospective mate and check for compatibility. Don't let surface matters control. Problems in personal and group living have a cause, or causes. Don't go on living on the surface as if all were well.

Start at the bottom, find the influences which make the trouble. Then you can work toward solutions. Delinquency, crime, loneliness, unhap-piness, maybe the result of serious failure to make good adjustments to life. Start at the bottom of the trouble and work from there. Eliminate the cause first.

Fears, abnormal obsessions, self-pity, and feelings of inferiority, all have some basis. Find it. Then build new attitudes, take a new outlook, establish yourself on new values. Start at the bottom and build carefully and wisely. This is the easiest and surest way to reach the top.

The Lyons Den By Leonard Lyons JOHN GIELGUD directed a play in which he had the starring role. An American director saw the play, and told Gielgud how impressed he was. He was particularly impressed by the way the other performers didn't make any distracting moves while Gielgud read his lines. He asked: "How did you get them to stand still?" "It was easy," said Gielgud. "I merely called them all together, and warned them that if they moved I'd kill them.".