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ws «DLR 2, _ Sylvester For Todcy By ROBERT 6YLVESTER = HW Trib- (Copyright: 1963: By Chicago une-New York News Bnyd. Inc.) NEY YORK. — You're setting elder If you can remember when milk came in cans and beer didn't ... Men wore full Jength one- piece bathing suits with big holes en the sides of the rib cage... Tenth Avenue was called Death Avenue and railroad trains ran in it... You played stickball in practically car-less city streets ... You could buy any color automobile you wanted as long as it was black... You had regularly scheduled seasons for marbles, checkers, chestnuts, tops, rubber loand guns, orange crate scooters, and tree house buildings . . . lip- stick came in flat, round boxes and wast called lip rouge and tasted Uke candle wax .. . Ice cream PaT- | Va5 climbed. Andreas Heckmair, Political meat. It was compiled under the, Chicago l direction of Dr. William Prender- | basketball team, filed a $144,166.60 | Jors smelled of vanilla ice cream and movie theatres smelled of aelluloid ... If you rubbed a sore muscle with omega of}... Hf you ok cod liver oil... if you made &@ psir of skis out of barrel staves. Vou're getting cider if you can wemember technocracy ... If you owned a short overcoat called a wecfer or wore a muffler called a tippet, a Scotch cap, felt shoes in- side overshoes, or relaxed reading in a Morria chair... If you can remember the names of ali four Rover boys .. ef sap beer te age in the ceHar for harvest time... If your mother worried ebout your contracting quinay eore throat . .. HH the butcher gave you a free piece of catf Iiver for your cat... If you complained about wearing knickers, te school, - Older and Older You're getting older if you smoked a Cubes, Hassan, or Home . Hf you put a barrel, Jenkin ~ ues (Continued From = ge 8) the Hintersoisser Traverse. But he and two companions were swept down in an avalanche. The fourth member of the perty, Toni Kurz, had lowered himself to within 50 feet of his rescuers when a knot jammed in a cleat. He died swinging. - But the challenge had been voiced. Now the bravest climbers in Europe began to slip into Grin- delwald to study the Eiger. Most of them were poor and unheraid- ed—clerks, masons, students, fac- tory workers. But practically all were master rock men. Some came by motor bike. Some, too poor to afford sleeping rooms, camped in the meadow. Karl | Winter started up the Eiger with itive Swiss francs in his pocket. Only a few exhibitionists (who rarely got above the Ice Hose} boasted of their intentions. In the pre-dawn hours the good men ‘just quietly left for the mountain. ME SCAAMINGR GOP-Prepa ed Bo Cuts Pre-Campaign Fog Sy VERA GLASER WASHINGTON (NANA)—Re- publican Jeaders are privately feasting on a new document specially prepered for their guidance in the coming pres!- dential yebr.- When word of this campaign goodie gets ground, voters and professionals of every political stripe will be on the prowl for! copies. It is the only known bolled- down, updated, and mentally digestible version of the complex system used by 50 different states to select delegates to the - 1964 presidential nominating conventions, . Even this short-order fare adds | AND IN 1938 the North Face: UP {© 23 single-spaced pages of Ludwig Vorg, Fritz Kasparek and Heinrich Harrer made it jn four days, and Harrer’s book, “The ; White Spider,” is a mountsineer- jing classic. Nine years later two Frenchmen got up, a month later three Ger- mans. With each success the in- terest increased, The year 1952 j was “the good year." Nineteen men reached the top. Then the mountain turned. In July 53, Korber and Vass were swept away during a storm and the next month Wyss and Gonda ‘fell from the summit ice-slope, In ‘56 it was Sohnel and Moosmuller and in '57 the Corti disaster, One body, held by sa belt, swung grotesquely for two years before it was cut down, But still they come, and last month a young Swiss went up all by himself in ‘30 hours. Why? Run cigarette... 1f you remem-} THE SAFE wiseacres at the ber grandpa having a coach dog valley telescopes talk of ‘thirst trained to run under the carriage! for glory.” The amateur psychia- .-. If you ever took Duffy's pure trists suspect that these climbers malt tonic or Father Doan's pills! are misfits trying to prove that 1f your idea of having a won-| they are conquerors. But the face derfully exciting time was to hang of the Eiger seems to be no place around the blacksmith shop or the! for neurotics, and in their normal fire house ... If you can remem- ber how you used to pull down the gas Jever, shove up the spark lever, crank the Ford, and then run madly back to reverse the Jevers ... If you bought a dozen «rullers or rolls at the baker's and he threw in an extra one to make a “baker's dozen.’ . . . If you wore 2 big button saying “Chicken In- <pector or “I Love My Wife, But Oh You Kid” or “23 Skidoo.” You're getting older if you re- member when the grocer’s coal bin wat outside the stere and you titled your pall for sa dime... if the richest man in your tewn had a locomobile or @ Pierce Arrow car and 4 you felt almost as rich tf your father could afford to buy a tperty Flint touring car... You tought five cakes of yeast for a dime so your matker could make bread ... if you washed with big, ragged cakes of homemade Yeglos toap which were made In flat cans out of tye and saved fat... it you went to bed with a hot seapstone wrapped in a towel on your chest -«. Hf you remember when Jerry Lame was “King of the Musica Eaw” on primitive radie. Recalis Some Dances | You're getting older if you danced the Balconades, the Twinkletoes, the Bunny Hug, the Grapevine, or the Pivot ... Or if you competed in a public waltz contest .. If you played an Edison lives climbers rarely display per- sonality problems, So why, again? Heinrich Harrer tries an answer: . 7 e “I do not think any one of us who climbed that 6,000-foot bas- 'tion of rock and ice was at any time in fear of his life. But after our safe return we felt more con~ scious of the privilege of having been allowed to live. The Eiger's face helped me to believe in life when all the circumstances seemed ‘most hostile to life itself.” ese. Or, as old Kurt Maix put tt: “Climbing is the most royal ir- rationality out of which Man has | been able to fashion the hfghest personal values.” Vl never understand it.’ But after a look at the Eiger I'll never sneer again. (Copyright 1963, Gen- eral Features Corp.) eee slice... eaten sour milk chocolate cake... set a pan of hot fudge in the snow to cool. You're getting older if you can remember when women needed “rats” and “buns” and “switchex” for their hair-dog . . . if you swiped potatoes to roast in an open fire ... If you still know how to patch an inner tube with a scraper, tube of glue, and a round patch phonograph with half-inch thick|-.- If you had to share your roller records . . . used a hot salt bag against the side of your face for earrache .. turning the handle of “we ite cream freezer . . . set the aatmeal to cook slowly all night on (he back of the stove . . bought bacon by the slab instead of the skates, you keeping one and giving your pal the other... If Ken Strong writes you a note to tell you that Ken Strong 11 is a star little league pitcher ... If all of « sudden you can’t remember more things about being young. gast, research director of { i Are Gelegates regally pound by primary results? Is consent of =| presidential candidate required to enter his name? Which states select delegates by convention? Which use other systems? This year Prendergast is ready Lane Names Finley In _ Funds Suit (Chicago Tribune Press Service) | CHICAGO—Frank Lane, former ' general manager of the Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Cardinals,’ Chicago White Sox, and Kansas: City Athletics baseball teams and Zephyrs professional suit against the Charles O. Finley | Republican National Committee.'! Company, owner of the Athletics, : For weeks, his staff has been’ jn federa) district court here. cramming state election laws, sur- veying secretaries of state, and corresponding with GOP officials‘ tends around the country. | - “We undertook the job to clarify procedures leading up to the Re- publican convention in San Fran- cisco,” Dr. Prendergast says, “but the booklet contains primary, filing, legal and other information useful to both parties.” Frequent Purzztera Every four years politicians get out the aspirin bottle, straighten their bifocals, and study the fine print for answers to these and scores of other questions: How are delegates apportioned among states? Which states hold primeries? What are the dates? - Stand Against {Continued From Page 6) earlier than most that their poor, dumb, hardluck parents either couldn’t or wouldn't make it, ' Preseurea Mount - THE PRESSURES to be an ad- equate Santa Claus to one's chil- dren are terrific on all parents. The old idea of giving something to the children, in remembrance of the gifts taken to the Baby Jesus, long ago got out of bounds. A gift or two, offered in love, even offered anonymously in the name of the mythical St. Nick, was a tender way to observe the Holy Day. ene But somehow the whole thing got away from us, Children start- ed making lists and writing let- ters detailing their wants. The stores abound in Santas, hired for the purpose of encouraging the young ones in their exercise of the gimme’s. | - e'ee Parents not only give to please their children but to make cer- tain that the range and cost of the Christmas morning haul is ex- tensive enough not to shame the child before his peers. I heard of a 16-year-old the other day who is already warning bér parents that “all the giris” in her class are getting conver- tibles for Christmas. Meanwhile, the agencies which could be concentrating on jong- range problems of health ang ed- ucation, gird themselves for the December toy drive — for the community-wide effort to make sure that Santa leaves no a sine gle stocking empty. I wonder if we haven't created for oursel'~ a monster and called his n: Santa Claus. \ | | i tn his suit, Lane, 65, who Ilves in B81. Petersburg, Fla. con- threugh hia = atterney, Charies D. Gtein, that the . amount i¢ owed him by Finley in @ contract signed Feb. 15, 1961, when Lane Joined the Athletica. . According to the contract, Lane’ was to receive $25,000 a year trom | Feb. 15, 1961, through Dec. $1,/ 1864, as genera] manager of the! team. He also was to receive $25,000 g year from Dec. 31, 1864, through Dec. 31, 1968, as a con-! sultant. . * Fired By Finley Lane was fired by Finley on Aug. 20, 1961, and received a salary of $5,000 per year until May 7, 1962, when he joined the Zephyrs. Stein with facta on the barrelhead: < His booklet, regretfully, does not make things as casy as pie—enly fleas paintul. . - While the delegate booklet wad simmering, his researchers whip- ped up another batch of useful. election statistics—this one a roundup of Republican and Demo- | cratic results since 1948 in the 13 states and District of Columbia. which hold primaries. No Democratic Plang ' Dr. Prendergast’s opposite num- ber on the Democratic side, tracked down at his own party lair, reported no immediate plans to cook up something for his parti- sans to devour. “We'll probably get out a table some time soon,” he said, It_would not be the first tlme Dr. Prendergast and his staff have serviced voters of both parties. In his Pulitzer -prize-winning “Making of the President 1960,” Author Theodore White, a self- | styled Democrat, wrote: “Over the years | have found the research etaff. of the Re- Publican national committee the finest source of quick accurate tabulation and gnatysis of re- turns in Washington. - “It is remarkabie that the higt command of the Republican Party, which supports the finest research staff In Washington, should pay so little attention to their researchers, while the Democratic National Committee, full of men who love | politics, should have so primitive a research staff and resources." Capital Stuff (Continued from Page 9) contends Lane hes received no salary Yrom the Athletics since! te? force the retorn of exiled that date. Lane left the Zephyrs, } President Juan Bosch? hi Hi A Castro Still Sore Toe 30, “oove? to Baltimore, on April How could the Kennedy admtini- Stein contends that no effort! $!7ation dare do this? How could was made by Kansas City to buy! it use our armed forces to boot out up the Lane contract and that no|® ‘rightist military junta when jt and. reason was given for the firing.| allows Red dictator Castro to stay He added that Lane would like to} 0” in Cuba? . bring the case to court so that the} And for that matter, this reason for his firing would be! government long ago tied its hands made public. {on all such hemispheric problems. In the good old days we would E d ry simply wand the Marines, install any old kind of government cap- ucator S able or ruling and promising to {Continved From Page 6) keep on good relations with the ceive the type of schooling that/ U.S.A. best fits their needs. Now, since 1947 and as a direct - The same individual learns dif-|result of the “good neighbor” ferently ai cifferent times and) policy of FDR's secretary of state with different teachers. Some} Cordell Hull, we are pledged not students profit most from lectures, | to intervene anywhere unless such others profit from sma}! group dit-/ a move is sanctioned by the 21- cussions. In the elementary school,) nation organization of American the report holds, students should| States. Even the missile-crisis have an opportunity to explore all| blockade of Cuba had to be okayed of these approaches. | by this body before it was ordered. For yeare educators assumed) Just because we are powerless that a classroom group of 30 was} on our own fo strike back at South an ideal size. The egg-crate de-| American dictators does not mean, sign of school rooms supported | however, that the Stale Depart- such an assumption, Todey, many| ment {s given a license to epolo- educators are breaking out of this! gize for them and find a silver concept. Some classes may be 30.| lining in their rise to power, Others 45, still others five. A{ Esepecially the kind of argu- drastic 8-thinking in classroom size} ment, now being peddled brazenly is essential, around, that these new military Other Revisions regimes are not like those which In eddition to nongrading and| seized power 30 years ago. They team teaching, the schools ere] are described as “civilized,” com~ urged to introduce television, tape! posed of men who recognize the recordings, teaching miachines,| necessity of eventual return to language Jsboratories, films and| constitutional government filmstrips, To function properly in today’s world, pupils should know about have the interests of the peaple at heart, This is pure baloney. What is communism and how to combat it./ even worse is the effort to implant Although the more intensive siudy | the idea that a dictatorship repre- of communism may be delayed] sents a democratic gain, as there until the senior high school, theJ/is 3 transitional stage jin a topic should receive attention in} country’s movement toward popu-~ the elementary school, the study ‘ meintains. lar governmént, and ‘a junta htlps in this development,