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THE ADVANCE-NEWS \I've Got My Doubts, Too, Virginia!\ Single Copies And B> Carrier 25c Published Every Sunday at 308-312 Isabella St., Ogdensburg, NY., by the Northern New York Publishing Co. Inc. F R. Little, President; F P. Uttle, Treasurer Charles W Kelly Editor MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republications of all the local news printed in this newspaper as we!) as all AP news dispatches. The Julius Mathews Special Agency tnc National Representatives. New York. Syra- luse, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit. Philadelphia. Boston Entered at tne Ogdensburg Post Office as second class matter under the act o1 March 1876 - MAIL SUBSCRIPTION SAWS - In St. Lawrence Countj 1 year „_ $7 00 6 months $4 50 3 months $U.50 Outside St. Lawrence County 1 year S8 25 6 months „... $5 00 3 months $3 00 Is There A Santa Claus? Dear Editor — I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus'? Virginia O'Hanlon, 115 West Ninetv-Fifth Street. Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe ex- cept what they see. They think that noth- ing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capa- ble of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge. Yes. Virginia, there is a SANTA CLAUS. He exists as certainly as love and gener- osity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its high- est beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no SANTA CLAUS I It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no child-like faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which child- hood fills the world would be extinguished. Not believe in SANTA CLAUS! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in al line chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch SANTA CLAUS, but even if they did not see SANTA CLAUS coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees SANTA CLAUS, but that is no sign there is no SANTA CLAUS. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can con- ceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world. You tear apart a baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the super- natural beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No SANTA CLAUS! Thank GOD! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay. ten times ten thousand years from now, he will con- tinue to make glad the heart of childhood. (Editorial in the New York Sun, Sept. 21, 189\ by Francis P. Church). Atomic Bombs For Sale For the price of a fully equipped execu- tive jet, any old millionaire can now afford his own atomic bomb. The Atomic Energy Commission is ask- ing $350,000 for a 10-kiloton device, the size of the Hiroshima bomb. A two-megaton device, equal to two milion tons of TNT, cost $600,000. Not any old millionaire can buy one, however. The bombs are for use in AEC- approved underground explosions, such as the recent Gas Buggy experiment, to open up otherwise untappable deposits of gas, oil and minerals. The price does not include the costs of drilling, planting the device, reopening the cavity or extracting the raw material inside it, if any. Peace Is The Gift BY BISHOP THOMAS A. DONNELLAN Roman Catholic Diocese of Ogdensburg \May the peace of God which surpasses all understanding guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.\ These words are the wish of St. Paul for his Christians at PhiUipi. They offer a fitting Christmas greeting for surely peace is the Christmas gift and it must be the heart's desire of every Christian. The Christmas that falls in this troubled and fateful year is far from what we have wanted it to be. Peace is still far off. Pre- judice and hatred still separate human beings. But the Christian is committed to the ideal of peace, and to the love and sac- rifice that can bring it about. In its decree on the Church in the Mod- ern World, the Second Vatican Council ad- dressed this message to the followers of Christ: Peace on earth which is born from love of neighbor Is the symbol and the consequence of the peace of Christ Who comes forth from God the Father. For, by His cross, the incarnate Son, The Prince of Peace, Reconciled all men with God. In so restoring the unity of all men In one people and one body, He slew hatred in His own flesh. After being lifted on high by His Resur- rection, He poured the Spirit of love into the hearts of men. For this reason, all Christians are ur- gently called To practice the truth in love And to join with all true peacemakers In pledging for peace and bringing about. The Level 0 f Mediocrity Big Brother's Eye On You Big Brother won't arrive all at once in 1984, but by stages here and there. One of two recent electronic heralds of his coming is a new device developed by Cubic Corp. to keep tab on bartenders. Ac- cording to Science Service, it fits on a spe- cial pouring spout and signals whenever the bottle is tilted. A receiver in the man- ager's office records the number of drinks poured. Not only that, but each price category of liquor is transmitted on a separate fre- quency, allowing automatic accounting. Well, that's the bartenders' worry. Any- way, somebody will probably come up with a jamming device that can be worn in a ring. But in Newport Beach. Calif., every- bodys going to be under the eye of a sur- veillance system the city is planning, re- ports the Family Economics Bureau of Northwestern National Life Insurance Com- pany. Mobile television cameras, able to pick out people a mile away in the dark, will fo- cus on shopping centers, intersections and four miles of beachfront. Fixed cameras will be installed in supermarkets, banks Most of us are conscious of the fact that the world contains multitudes of men who are far abler than ourselves. Far from making us jealous or unhappy, we are exceedingly grateful for them. We enjoy great music though we could not write it as Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Schu- bert, Mozart, Verdi and a host of others have done. We can play a few instruments, but not like Liszt, Paderewski, Kreisler, Heifetz, Ru- benstein, and many other immortals who have brought heaven down to earth with their su- perb excellence. Our libraries are filled with good books, the treasuries of history, literature, and cul- ture. We take great delight in reading Shakes- peare's plays and Tennyson's poetry, but we could not have written such marvelous works. We are fortunate that they could. How fortu- nate that we can ride along with them, enioy- ing their creations as if they were our own. Whv should we the jealous of them' Rather it !we should be thankful and pay tribute to them. Our devotion and spiritual perception is vastly inferior to that of a Saint Paul, a Saint Francis, a Saint Augustine, or a Saint Thomas Aquinas, but we can soar up into the heavens jon the spiritual power generated by a host of | saints and prophets, and other public places. The cameras will • We en j oy th e au tomobile, riding about the be monitored by police officers, who will j worl d in j e \ t p j aneS! the radio, television, and alert cruising patrol cars in the event of | s t ere0 phonir music. We could not have devel- any illegal goings-on. \\Indiscriminate surveillance, even to deter crime, may not be worth loss of pri- vacy to people who never have and never will commit a crime against society,\ sug- gests the bureau. oped the great industrial giants of our country that have lifted the burden of toil from our backs and emancipated us from a handicraft age to a degree of luxury unknown by kings a few centuries ago, but we can enjoy the results of the efforts of the great men who created these things for our enjoyment. When taking a loved one to the hospital, who wants a common, average surgeon' We all want a doctor, not only with sunerio\- skill, but a conscientious, honorable man whom we know has spent many long years deve'ort'ng the knowledge and skill rpnuired lo save the life of the dear one we entrust fo his care. We don't want eoualify. If there were no men in this world superior to ourselves, no men capable of earning more than we earn, no men capable of preaching finer sermons, organizing greater businesses, developing greater skills in m°dcine. ; in the arts, and in literature, and no men of great devotion or spiritual insight, it would be a poor, dmb world in which to live. Let us havp done with the cult of the common man and begin to re- cognize and aporeciafp worth. taVnt. ability, and devotion wherever we find it. Gifted men haw carried the world forward on uVir shoul- ders. Whatsoever progress we have made, we owe to them. Let us acknowledge it and he grateful for it. and no* try to clip th»ir winus and reduce them to the level of mediocrity. Nobodv (?) Wants Involvement It is generally believed that today's inno- cent bystander often prefers to be just that, Maybe not. but more and more people jrather\ than become involved in whatever it are being watched more and more closely ! !S tha t h e s '7 centI J f \^ b *' Eve n lf 6 someone urgently needs his help. And there's a frustrated bank bandit in Columbia, S. C. who must be fervently wish- ing that someone had told the Seawell broth- ers of Columbia how bystanders are supposed to act. This would-be robber stepped up to the in more and more places all the time—in stores, banks, factories, warehouses, you name it. Why? At least 25 million larcenies will be committed in the United States this year, says Paul D. Astor. president of an outfit j ^ ve _ j n wJndow Qf ^ Nort h Majn strer f that plants agents mside companies to de- |branc h of ^ ^ NaHma] gank flf So[]th tect employe pilferage. [Carolina in Columbia. He wore a paper sack Thirty percent of all business failures i over his head and held his hand in his pocket. are lue to theft by employes, says the \i have a gun in my hand,\ he told Mrs. Fireman's Insurance Company. Rose Morrison, the teller. \Hand over all the One nationwide discount store chain was driven into bankruptcy this year by shoplifters, says Life magazine. Big Brother, save us from ourselves. Science Is Everybody's Business The feat of Stanford University scien- tists in artificially reproducing the infec- tious core of a virus has excited fellow sci- entists more than it has the ordinary man in the street. In the first place, only a molecular bio- logist can fully understand what was done arid how close it brings us to the day when \life\ can be created in a test tube or hu- man inheritance or evolution can be man- ipulated. In the second place, most people are al- ready quite confident that scientists can do anything, or eventually will (a conviction not shared by scientists). In the third place, it is really the simple things that amaze the scientifically unso- phisticated • • * live tomorrow. The primitive savage is startled by the production of flame from a cigarette light- er; a wrist watch interests him only mildly because its function and complexity are be- yond his comprehension. And on our own level of civilization, a camera that develops its own film elicits \oobs\ and \ahhs\ of genuine appreciation while the transmission of television pic- tures of the surface of a planet millions of miles away does not. Scientifically unsophisticated people are in the majority, and probably always will be. Nevertheless, it behooves all of us to begin learning just where to properly direct our appreciation—and understand- ing— of the scientists' pioneering accom- plishments. For the new worlds they are exploring today are where our children will have to money yon have.\ That's when his troubles began. Mrs Morrison looked at him calmly. \Are you kidding?\ she said, and walked away. She notified the bank manager, anrl he called the police. Simultaneously, the Seawell brothers — Jack and Carroll—happened to glance a* the bank from th\ re^taura\ 1 thev operate next door. They saw the man with th» paper sa\k over his head, and got the message. And it never occurred to *hem to stay uninvo'ved. They dashed over, grabbed th<> rohb°r, paper sack and all. ignored his threats to shoot them, subdued him and held on to him until the police arrived. It turned out he didn't have a gun after all. He'd been bluffing But the Seawe\ brothers hadn't been bluff- ing. And neither had the lady teller when she kept her cool. Nobody wants to ge' involved these days? Nobody wanls to help someone in trouble'' Try to tell that to the hank bandit with the paper sack over his head—the guy left hold- ing the bag! Simplicity December brings the grays and browns: it reveals the secrets hidden by summer foliage and tall grasses; it shows the land's bare bones on the thin-soiled, ledgy hillsides. Before snow comes to paint a sparkling canvas, grays and browns dominate the land- scape. Gray frost crisps the grasses, and the crunching sounds beneath a man's feet as he walks his acres, remind him of the snow-roll- ed roads he walked in the days of coal nil lamps and wod-burning stoves. Gray clcuds hang low above the chilitd countryside and Faded windrows of brown leaves line the banks of country roads through the woodlands. There are days when a low- circling sun sends its rays far among the boles of trees and reveal interesting bark pal- terns. Now one can feel the simplicity and fun- damentals. Hedgerows are op-m and meadow creeks flow ouietly along 'heir grass-banked paths. The bugles of the blue jays have a thin, steel-like quality. The call of a lonesumi crow in an elm in Ihe meadow b'ends with the spirit of the season. This is Ihe last page of the book But it is pari of nature's plan Buds are waiting on the branches; woodchucks are sleeping in their burrows. December is a wailing time waiting for its covering. In the simplicity ol the twelfth month, we know that nature is on its schedule. Our New Column With this issue of the Advance-News ; starts Albany Open Line, a weekly column | written and prepared by staff members of I the New York Press Association, of which this newspaper is a member. I Written especially for the community press by an experienced and permanently- assigned newsman, we are sure you will find Albany Open Line informative and interesting, as we open the doors for you on the Albany legislative scene several weeks before the session begin;; formally DREW PEARSON: Petty Thievery Hits Its Peak During Christmas Washington — This has been the season for respecta- ble folks, many of them churchgoing citizens, to engage in petty thievery as part of their preparations for hon- oring Jesus Christ. During the Christmas shopping crush, stores in this country will have lost up to $50 million to shoplifters. Most of these light-fingered thieves arc pillars of the community. They are housewives stretching budgets, teenagers out for an extra Beatles record, husbands who can't find salesclcrks in the noon rush, and store employes giving themselves pre-Christmas bonuses. Despite all precautions, only one in ten is caught. And despite posted warnings that \shoplifters will be prosecuted,'' only one in ten who are caught will be brought to court. Often a store manager finds that the woman who just tried to waltz out with an extra, unpaid dress under her regular frock is a charge-account customer who spends hundreds of dollars in the store. The postwar proliferation of supermarkets and dis- count stores, with merchandise piled high and few sales- clerks around, has made shoplifting — or \boosting\ as it's known in the trade — an apparently irresistible temptation. Particularly at this time, with a gaggle of shoppers clamoring for Christmas items, harassed salesclerks are too busy to notice an extra item secreted in a shopping bag. The stores, moreover, are strangely sanguine about the whole business. They say, simply, that nothing can be be done, but take the loss and pass it along to the honest customers in the form of higher prices. — ELECTRONIC DETECTIVES — Most supermarkets and department stores have pro- tective devices — store detectives, strategic mirrors, as- sorted warnings and sometimes cameras. But they realize these devices don't stop shoplifters, any more than air raids stop the Viet Cong. Many store executives also feel that this protection costs more than the pilferage. \Look a Sears Roebuck manager told this column, \a good store detective costs $200 a week and more, and he doesn't always save us that much a week. If we trained our salesclerks to spend all their time watching for shoplifters, they'd lose a lot more in sales than they'd ever gain in thwarting boosters.\ Between what customers lift off the shelves and employees remove without payment, stores lose 1 to 5 percent of their inventory. A large percentage of the annual loss occurs during the Christmas shopping (and boosting) season. The fact that most boosters are otherwise respectable , citizens — and only one or two in a hundred ever get tried for their crimes — is what distinguishes shoplifting from other crimes. Even as protection has improved against most crime — hidden cameras in banks photo- graph bad-check passers, and burglar alarms are better than ever — shoplifting is becoming easier all the time. The best protection against shoplifters is alert per- sonnel. But as labor costs have gone up, the number of clerks has gone down. As for detectives, most retail stores depend on detective agencies, which keep opera- . lives in the store only occasionally. Meanwhile, there are more unattended sales counters, piled high with tempt- ing wares. All these problems are multiplied during the pre- Christmas whirl. A startling number of customers take advantage of this to swipe some of the gifts they will decorate with religious stickers. — VANCE HEADS PENTAGON LIST — The man President Johnson has at the top of his list to succeed Bob McNamara in the Defense Department is Cyrus Vance, the troubleshooter recently returned from Cyprus. Johnson has known Vance more than ten years, ever since Vance handled a special Senate investigation of missile failures for Johnson, who was then chairman of the Senate Preparedness Committee, boring in on Eisenhower's missile lag. Vance is highly qualified to be Secretary of Defense, but has one physical handicap — a slipped disk in his back, which causes such excruciating pain that sometimes ' he can hardly sit through Cabinet meetings. Last summer Vance finally resigned and went abroad for a long-postponed vacation. He was in Italy only one week when he had to return because of a death in the family. Then came the Detroit race riots, and the President rushed him there as a troubleshooter. Then came the danger of war over Cyprus. Vance still has not got his vacation. Others on the Johnson list for Secretary of Defense are; Gov. John Connally, of Texas, administrative assistant to LBJ when he was in the Senate. Connally was Johnson's campaign manager for the Presidential nomination against John F. Kennedy in 1960, and incurred the Kennedy clan's wrath when he dictated a statement to Mrs. India Edwards and ex- Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman that Kennedy \ was suffering from Addison's disease. India's husband was promptly fired from the US1A, but the Kennedys forgave Connally when LBJ urged that he be appointed Secretary of the Navy. If Johnson runs again in 1968, he would prefer to have the popular Connally run for reelection as governor of Texas to nelp to keep Texas in the Democratic column. Clark Ciiitord is one of the most astute lawyers in Washington, with a long list of top clients ranging from DuPont to Phillips Petroleum and the Pennsylvania Rail- road. Johnson has been leaning heavily on Clifford for advice in the Vietnam war, was grooming him to be Sec- retary of State, but could appoint him as Secretary of Defense first. As head of the Committee for Central intelligence, Clifford attends top strategy meetings, listens to others argue, then tells LBJ: 'If you really are serious about discussing this, Mr. President, I'd like to be consulted.\' This usually ends the argument. Robert Anderson, a Republican, is an old Texas friend of LBJ, was manager of the J00,00u-aere Waggoner Ranch near Wichita Falls, later became Secretary of the Navy and Secretary of the Treasury under Eisenhower. Before he took a job in the Eisenhower Cabinet, ac- cording to Robert Sherrell in his book \The Accidental President,\ Anderson had a million dollars deposited to his account by Sid Richardosn, the big Texas oil man. m order lo insure security after he retired.
