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Thursday, October 24, 1963 THE McHENRY PLAINDEALER Pag* Bmii ! Auto Here To Stay - Traffic Problems Will Also Remain The day of the auto is with us to stay, for which we are ever grateful -- but greater precaution in driving would not only save lives but also insure a better return of tax dollars spent for good highways and traffic control. For every ten accidents that occurred on Illinois highways in 1962, nine could be attributed to some kind of improper driving on the part of one or more drivers involved. Speeding, failing to yield the right of way, driving left of center and drinking contributed to three-fourths of the fatal accidents. Alarming figures compiled during the last ten years list motor vehicle registrations up 34 per cent, licensed drivers up 12 per cent, travelled vehicle miles up 30 per cent, injuries up 56 per cent and accidents up 102 per cent. These figures are alarming, but the percentages will certainly continue to rise with our yearly increase in drivers unless each of us places the word "precaution" in our driving vocabulary. It jyill save lives and dollars and cents. In direct line with travel and accidents is the hope that some of the scientists who have done such profound thinking relative to landing on the moon may devote attention to one of our biggest problems on earth -- traffic. ^ Have you ever considered how goods and people m^iy be transported in dense population arejas some quarter of a century in the future? Both the auto industry and highway builders can increase their output, but it is doubtful if they will be in balance if each is left to itself. Makers of cars can step up production, but it is a well known fact that building cars is a faster process than building highways. A situation could conceivably ^ result where traffic will move so slowly that; it would be easier and quicker to get out and walk. Perhaps there will come a day when a scientific mind will become more interested in this problem of earth than those of the solar system and attempt to meet the need of something new in transport which will get people and goods to their destination with ease, convenience and at a reasonably good pace. C^apitoi Report Now that the Senate has made it quite clear that there will be no tax bill at this session of Congress, the one remaining principal issue is civil rights. The need for appropriate civil rights legislation is recognized by the vast majority of the members of Congress. Indeed, dozens of civil rights bills have been presented by both Republicans and Democrats. After the President delivered his civil rights message on June 19, I commended the President's plea for bipartisan, support of this legislation. But the President's words urging a bipartisan program have not been backcd up by the President's legislative leaders in the House of Representatives. The Democratic members of a subcommittee of the House Judiciary committee have devised a revised and more stringent civil rights bill which is now before the full committee. The bill is solely the product of the Democratic members and is not a bipartisan effort at all. Indeed, Republican invitations to the Democratic committee members to sit down and forge out an acceptable bill have been politely but firmly declined. Thus the civil rights issue seems bound up in a web of partisan politics from which it probably cannot be extricated. Republican strategy in the House of Representatives in the face of^thjs Democratic "lake it cr leave it" attitude now must be developed. If Republican members seek to amend the Democratic version in order to write a bill that can be passed "with bipartisan support," the Democrats will charge that Republicans "watered down" or "gutted" the hill. On the other hand, if the Republicans accept - and support--the Democrats' stringent civil rights bill, it is Lrnerally conceded that the bill will die in the Senate. So the Administration appears to be giving no support in Congress to its plea for bipartisan statesmanship. And no reasons--other than political --can explain this White House attitude. We know that a position which results in no civil rights legislation would undoubtedly please the Southern Democrats whose support enabled John Kennedy to narrowly slip in as president in 1960. The alternative hope that Republicans will offer amendments which will result in a more moderate but effective civil rights bill, acceptable to a majority in both the House and Senate, is a move fraught with serious risks--and political repercussions. The civil rights issue is a great national problem. It deserves statesmanship and the most earnest bipartisan consideration. Playing politics with the issue endangers the entire nation--and the welfare of its citizens ... of all races. McHenry Library Corner Main and Green Sta. 1 HOURS Friday Evenings: 7 to 9 p.m. Daily, Including Saturday: * 2 to 5 p.m. AID MENTAL HEALTH Appropriations for mental health purposes in Illinois have increased by almost S'50.5 million in the last two years, to a grand total of $281 million for the current biennium, according to figures quoted last week by Gov. Otto Kerner. ADULT FICTION "Joy in the Morning" by Betty Smith. Once upon a time a boy and a girl met in Brooklyn, New York, and fell in love. The boy went on to a midwest university to study law, and the girl, who was only 18, traveled alone from Brooklyn to marry him. They were very poor as well as very young, but they were determined to make something wonderful of their life together, even though the odds were all against it. And they did. In Betty Smith's hands the story of "Joy in the Morning" becomes what thousands upon thousands have been yearning for. The circumstances that harass Annie and Carl Brown are harsh, indeed, and they are set down without romantic gilding: their poverty, first of all; their sheer inexperience; the bitterness of parental opposition; the brutally hard work. Betty Smith is not one to mince such matters, nor the toll they take in human energy and hope. But she knows that human beings can and do survive them, uncorrupted, and that hardship often has singularly little effect on human happiness. What the reader takes away from "Joy in the Morning" is its sunny tenderness, Carl's decency and determination, Annie's freshness and warmth. "A Tree (irow* in Brooklyn" was Frnncie Nolan's story. One might call "Joy In the Morning" the story of Francie's younger sister. "The Drums of April" by Charles Mergondahl. Tom Willet arrives in colonial Boston with Jenny, the girl he hopes to marry, to seek out the man who is supposedly his father and act as a spy on behalf of George III. To be sure he fulfills his mission, the British hold Jenny as captive while Tom infiltrates the revolutionary movement of the colonists. Caught between his concern for Jenny's safety and his-increasing sympathy for the colonial cause, Tom is forced to play a double game, matching his wits against the psychotic scheming of Captain Anthony Quinn, the Crown's master spy. Set against the opening days of the American Revolution, "The Drums Of April" skillfully interweave history and fiction as Tom's own story becomes blended with some of the most glorious moments of America's past. Here are Paiil Revere's famous ride, the stirring battles at Lexington and Concord as the Minutemen take Irms, and the charge at Bunkej/ Hill. Historical personages -- (George Washington, Samuel A^lams, the colorful British geheral, Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne, the perfidious Dr. Benjamin Church -- share the pages with a host of fictional characters-- the mysterious Abby Cato, who will risk her life to save Tom's Annie Blake, whose patriotism and beauty make Tom reassess his feelings for Jenny; Major Giles Gillis, who remains loyal to the Crown even while he sees fair play carried out; and Tom's father, who has changed his own allegiance. "The Drums Of April" is a book that is sure to delight and entertain the hundreds of thousands of readers of Charles Mergendahl's other novels, including his great best seller "The Bramble Brush." "THE LIVING SEA," by Captain J. Y. Cousteau with James Dugan. Few explorers have combined scientific quest, technological innovation and personal adventure as notably as has J a c q u e s - Y v e s C o u s t e a u . Through his invention, with Emile Gagnan of the aqua-lung, he is known as "the father of free diving." "The Silent World," his chronicle of pioneer free-driving days with this device, is a classic of discovery and adventure. In the decade since its publication, Captain Cousteau has gone farther and deeper into the sea, using his famous oceanographic ship, Calypso, as a mobile base, and with a dazzling array of new depth-exploring techniques and devices. "The Living Sea" is his narrative of this rich and exciting progress. Beneath the mantling oceans, Cousteau and his professional driving team excavate a ship which sank in the third century B.C. They roam afar to investigate other wrecks ... from one sunk ih" the Bronze Age to a freighter which went down before their eyes. Captain Cousteau goes down to the bottom of the sea in the bathyscaph and starts an undersea avalanche which engulfs the vessel. He drinks wine that has lain on the sea bottom for 2,000 years; he is entrapped at night by twenty-five-foot seaweeds in the Gibraltar current. Persistent attempts to learn what causes the rise and fall of the Deep Scatering Layers, and a curiosity about life on the ocean floor, lead to the invention of the deepsea camera sled, which travels miles below the ocean's surface photographing phenomena never before seen by man. The explorer's range under wafer is further extended by Cousteau's Diving Saucer, a jet-propelled submarine with portholes and mechanical claws, able to cruise a thousand feet below the surface. "In The Living Sea" you will meet creatures never before seen or classified; abyssal sharks with shovel snouts and white protruding eyes; a silver fish shaped like a triangle; a fish whose skin is marked off into perfect checker board squares. You will encounter "the truck-fish,' an animal unaccountably grown to fifty times the normal weight of its species, and Ulyses, the giai^t grouper which became the diver's pet. The undersea explorer's life is visited by pain and tragedy; it is also marked by moments of rare beauty in the undreamed- of splendor of the world below the sea. And "The Living Sea" is climaxed by the description of an experiment of m (n?9 RRee asons Why To See Us If You Need A Wffter System or Well 1. Only trained personnel in their respective field of Drilling -- Pump Installations Point Changing -- Service Calls 2. Largest pump inventory in the county (Jets, Submersibles and Sump Pumps) 3. Both Red Jacket and Dayton authorized agency 4. We guarantee water in 24 hours on our system 5. A guarantee in writing 6. We service all makes including Montgomery Wards and Sears pumps 7. Our men and machines are completely Insured 8. Pump cutaways on hand for your inspection 9. Parts available for all make* 10. 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