Americana

MANNERS & MORALS

P: Chicago bookies quoted odds of 3 to 5 that Princess Elizabeth would name her baby George. Other odds: even money on Philip, 6 to 5 on Albert, 2 to 11against Louis, 100 to 1 against Jake.

P: A federal court of claims commissioner recommended that the Government pay $2,367,950 to Oregon's Tillamook, Coquille, Too-Too-To-Ney and Chetco Indians, for land taken 93 years ago under a treaty never ratified by the Senate.

P: When a movie theater in Angier, N.C. (pop. 1,028) scheduled a sex picture called Mom and Dad ("Bold! Shocking! The Secrets of Sensible Sex"), it was overrun by an unmanageable crowd. Firemen had to wet down the crowd with a hose before the picture could be shown to an all-male audience.

P: Manhattan's Daily News got a case of the dry grins over two eels which had stoppered Bronx water pipes and an owl which flew into the 67th floor of the RCA building. "If the whole metropolitan animal kingdom--cats, dogs, horses, pigeons, even cockroaches--has decided to gang up on us city dwellers," said the News, "they could probably drive us all nuts in no time."

P: The Organization to Encourage People to quit Organizations was founded by the Rev. Howard W. Stone of the First Presbyterian Church in Franklin, Ind., in the hope that it would give people more time to go to church. The organization's motto: "Be a Quitter"; its password: "No."

P: Cinemactress Esther Williams prepared a Hollywood opening for her new filling station: searchlights, beer, gardenias--and attendants in dinner jackets.

P: Children should not be spanked, declared Yale's Dr. Arnold Gesell, particularly when they are around 2 1/2 years old. Such a child is just learning the difference between "yes" and "no," "come" and "go." When he seems disobedient he is probably only confused. For confused parents, Psychologist Gesell added: "If a child becomes destructive, you can try to beat it out of him . . . The better way is to try to lead him to play situations where these impulses are directed and put to constructive ends . . ." In other words, give him something better to do.

P: As a means of increasing the vote in national elections,* New York's Democratic Representative Arthur G. Klein proposed a $30 income-tax deduction for every voter who casts his ballot.

P: To save himself time & trouble, Houston Oilman W. W. West took to parking his car in the bus zone in front of his office, forced bus passengers to alight in the street, cheerfully paid a daily $5 parking fine. Total to date: $1,000.

* Of the nation's 95 million eligible voters, only 50% went to the polls on Election Day. Comparable figures from elections abroad: Britain, 73%; Italy, 92%; France, over 80%.

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