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Monday, May 2, 1955
Recent Publicity May Aid Fulbright's Plans
The publicity that Sen. J. William Fulbright has received recently for his study of the stock market probably will help his campaign for re-election on the Democratic ticket next year. However, even without the publicity, his chances look good.
When he announced the plans for the stock market inquiry in January, Sen. Fulbright stressed that it would be a study and not an investigation. The study comes under the jurisdiction of his Senate Banking committee and is the first look the government has taken into the stock market in more than 20 years.
Sen. Fulbright's record during his two terms in the Senate and one in the House has been impressive.
After he was elected to the House in 1942, he got attention with a 55-word resolution expressing approval of participation in an international organization with power to establish and maintain peace. It was adopted by the House with little change, and the Senate approved it after making it more wordy. This was considered a triumph for a freshman representative.
Much of the work on the Reconstruction Finance corporation investigation was done by Sen. Fulbright. He was able to simplify a complicated situation by a few well framed questions. The job was regarded as a model of fact-finding.
The role Sen. Fulbright played in the RFC inspection showed that he can be a thorough and aggressive investigator, but his friendly feelings toward the stock market study have won him the cooperation of Wall Street leaders. He has gone into the matter with a positive attitude of preventing a disaster similar to the 1929 crash.
His voting record in Congress has indicated that he is against cutting economic aid to Europe. When he was in the House, he voted to discontinue the committee on un-American activities.
Last year he voted to deprive Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R.-Wis.) of funds for his investigating committee. Earlier he disagreed on several points with Gen. MacArthur.
He went along with other southern Democrats by supporting public power production by TVA until 1954, when he surprised them by a sudden shift. He backed the plan to buy power from a private firm to supplement TVA power instead of expanding TVA plants. Some thought it was because the proposed plant was to be located in Arkansas, which meant a $107 million break for an area that lives almost entirely on cotton growing.
When Republicans won control of Congress in 1946, Mr. Fulbright lost favor in the sight of President Truman by suggesting the President resign. However, he later offered to support the President if he ran in 1952.
One of the most formally educated members of the Senate,Mr. Fulbright began his Congressional career with little actual political experience but with a great deal of knowledge. He is noted in the Senate for his intellectual background.
For a year or so Mr. Fulbright worked with family enterprises—including the newspaper. In 1942 he was elected to the United States House of Representatives, defeating Mr. Adkins' choice. Two years later, he defeated Adkins to become a U.S. senator. In 1950 he was re-elected without opposition, receiving 302,686 votes.
The senator was born in Sumner, Mo., on April 9, 1905, but he grew up in Arkansas. His parents were well-to-do, with interests in farming, lumber, and an investment company in addition to the newspaper. The senator is married and has two daughters.
Senator Fulbright has won many admirers with his record, and many friends with his friendly, approachable attitude.
—Lee Ann Urban
One Woman's Opinion
How many pictures of a kid with a bridge rail in his stomach does it take to make people realize that an automobile is not a kiddy-car? How many close calls does it take to make us realize that playing with life is not a notable pastime?
Millions are spent annually trying to persuade the American public to "drive carefully." The traffic toll continues to mount. Manufacturers continue to sell their cars by advertising the fact that "this year's model is the fastest car on the road."
It has been estimated that more Americans have been killed in traffic accidents than in both world wars. Ours is a very materialistic society—money can buy anything. We are the world's greatest wasters and perhaps that is why we are so careless with out most precious commodity—life.
If it were just a question of jeopardizing our own lives when we drive like fools it would be a different matter. We could get ourselves killed and people could say we deserved it. Unfortunately when we drive like idiots we endanger the lives of others and as often as not they are completely innocent victims.
Of course most people are convinced that they don't drive like idiots—that they are good drivers. Oh maybe they do pass on a hill every now and then, or do a little showing-off when they're had a couple, but they can always present at least ten good reasons why they really weren't taking a chance.
What's the point of it? So what if you made it back from Kansas City in 27 minutes? Are you going to swell with pride when you give St. Peter this glorious information? He'll probably tell you to get to Hell just that fast.
Who cares about those ten good reasons when someone is dead or maimed? There's none as aject in their apologies as the guy who took a chance—after the 'accident' has happened.
Margot Baker
The public land states which no longer have a district land office are Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Wiscinson. The Bureau of Land Management refers to them as "closed land states."
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The section of the country with the largest proportion of older persons is New England, although many older people have settled in both California and Florida in recent years.
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New York City received its first electricity supply in September, 1882 when Edison opened a generating station in Pearl street.
No, that's not such a good idea, lady. A little skidding goes a long way on ice. But it is a good idea to get the feel of the road surface before starting out. Try your brakes lightly while driving slowly and when no other vehicles are near. Test acceleration, too, because "gunning" a car is as dangerous as breaking suddenly.
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"I somehow managed to ignore his advances last term."
Study of Einstein's Brain Shows How Little We Know
By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor
New York —(U,P)— Referring to the brain of Einstein, which now is in a glass jar awaiting scientific study, an eminent neurologist was reminded of his student days.
He was in a mental institution, assisting the man in charge. This world-famous, most learned doctor was engaged in a game of chess with an inmate who was, by all measurements except one, an idiot.
He played a mean game of chess which is reputed to be an intellectual game. When the young doctor came into the room, the idiot had the great brain of his opponent perplexed, bewildered, and frustrated. All these things were reflected on the great brain's face.
But the idiotic brain's facial mirror was bright with mastery, and a very odd question popped into the young doctor's mind. The question was: "Which is the idiot?"
What's The Difference
Difference The neurologist was pointing out that despite the vast accumulation of knowledge about the human brain, science knows very little about it. That's not contradiction. Science knows its anatomy in minute detail. Yet anatomically science usually can't tell the difference between the brain of a genius and the brain of an idiot.
Scientifically the neurologist belongs to the school which argues that genius has no physical cause. Therefore, the physical cause of
Einstein's genius must be in his brain, since the human body has no other intellectual organ. It just has to be there, and if it isn't found it means only that science doesn't yet know how to look.
Since the physical cause-foreverything-school has, so far, found nothing to support itself in the human brain, then how do their opponents argue?
"Forces" Develon
They argue that "forces" develop in the intricate physical functioning of the brain which converts a blubbery mass of blood, tissue, and nerve cells into a mind, but that these "forces" have no anatomy because they have no physical existence. Yet the proofs are obvious, they say.
For example, we all have conscience, in greater or lesser degree, but where, anatomically is the conscience? Yet there is a conscience of which we are conscious and another, the "superego," of which we are not conscious. Also there are both a consciousness and an unconscious one which both are manifestations of the same brain.
The interplay of these "forces," the shifting of power from one to another, the subjugation of one by another, the balances achieved among them—all these vastly subtle and intricate relations, can make for genius and can also make for idiocy, these scientists say.
—A reprint from the Oregon State Daily Barometer.