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'its r-IPMW vl w-, fV, ih Si I v. i 'f 'Vi SATl IM)V, IUUTAKV I960 'New' Society Downgrading Self-Reliance By HKNKY W. riERCE Prct-GtitlU Starr Writer A GOOD MANY AMERICANS are being shaken up pretty badly by sudden changes In moral values, Ideals and standards being forced on them by Industrial and economic advances. Many of the beliefs and it V'KU ft Happened Last Night By r.AUL WILSON Hi rj TEW YOHK-Five foot two, eyes of hazel, I causes we ve been loyal to suddenly aren't considered JL II. i tr I iftm a II I I Jt a- I 1 but oh, how those five feet are able! worth it and maybe never Were.

How, people are ask- Pamela Murphy, the beautiful Pittsburgh I ing, shall we behave? Shall native who fits this description, Is particul we ah our pleasures vhen this Pel feet arly able when she deliveis i and whre we can, living for i the moment? What shall we I teach our kitls about right (and wrong? Where is it all XT 1 going? "VU-. fJrt VvV ('T Mil lA" TMii I is ir i ft ill' i'- i'' I iicV'Ht Kr- 'Vv 4 A study or tnese manges Squelch In the Alan King comedy, "The Impossible Years:" Sister, aged 1.1: "Mi it her, I don't have a clean bia Pain: "Why don't you use a Band-Aid?" "That's my favorite line In the play," says the 0-year-old brunet who's making her Broadway debut In the play. Actually, she understudies Jane Elliot, but when Jane 1'am Murphy broke a blood vessel in her throat, she went on all last week, with E1 McMahon. who was Henry Pierre- has been In progress at the University of Pittsburgh for nearly a year and a half. Results are starting to come In.

In a series of three articles starting today I will outline many of the more striking conclusions. Dr. Nicholas Rcni-her, a philosophy professor at Pitt, believes Hint the old emphasis on self-reliance, Independence, and Individualism is gradually be'-i replaced by what lie culls "mankind-oriented values" involving hiimuiiitail-anism and internationalism. He sees a downgrading of self-reliance and self-sufficiency in favor of group acceptance, a downgrading of Individualism In favor of Miciiil welfare, and a downgrading of self- advancement In favor of social accountability. The Importance of order, he says, Is replacing the importance of economic secu lift ti- 4 taking over temporarily for Alan King, "I broke a bhxxl vessel myself, hitting the next tolast note in a couple years ao," recalled the daughter of John A.

and Dorothy Murphy, of Oakdale Drive, tiler father' a former water controller of Pittsburgh.) "I was the only other Kill In the rast who could hit the note hut It turned out It was too high for me, too. "The doctor told nie to kIiiiI up for mouth, and for nie that's hard. I walked around with a pencil and pad, but by the time I wrote down my whole meisase, the person would he miles away already." rity. Public service will lie cmpnasizcn over property rights and personal liberty generally. Dr.

Reseller says we can confidently look for a shift away from what he calls "the Protestant Ethic of "getting ahead in the world' to the Social Ethic of 'service to one's fellows'- from the gospel of profit and devotion to Mammon to the gospel of service Pamela (she likes to be called Pam when anyone called her "Pamela" as a child it meant she had done something wrong) doesn't turn 21 till April 28, but she's (been performing since she was 10 at the Him ncvouuii in man. I Si A.Vf Dr. Rescher attributes this partly to the decline of traditional religious values and partly to material causes such as the of the welfare state. He comments, for Instance: "'God helps those who help themselves' perhaps but the state is not so exclusive about it, and so it is less urgent in our affluent society to 'look out for oneself." Instead of individual responsibility, he navs. the emphasis in the future will be on social accountability- in oilier words, society as a whole will be responsible for a crime i committed against you.

Suppose someone steals your hubcaps, for example; according Perry High School geography teacher Ivan Jirak leads practice assault on ice-covered Seneca Rock in West Virginia, followed by Edward Augustine, 18, senior at Bethel Park High School. Practice climbs are preparation for expedition to Ecuador. Pittsburgh Explorers Club Practicing in West Virginia Ecuador Volcano Target of Climbers Pittsburgh Playhouse and Totem Pole. In liXiO she was Pittsburgh's representative in the first Miss Teen-Age America contest in Dallas. There she suffered another mishap she fell down the stairs coming from the stage and had to be carried to the hospital.

"I tripped over the carpet," she explained. The Perkins Eh Taylor (circa "National look-alike Is married to actor Hay EaJne, who was serving as slagn production manager of the Pittsburgh Playhouse when they met. "When I wrolfl hlnv I used to eli Ids name and he wrote back to me, 'Boy you must really be In love with nie. You don't even know how to Rpell my Tarn's height really only may not work against her In getting jobs but she does have to work harder once she has it. "Ed McMahon Is six feet-four," she pointed out, "and in his first entrance I say, 'Oil, hi, and go running over to him and give him a big hug.

All of a sudden I looked down and realized I wasn't touching the ground any more. "After that performance, the director sent me a memo. lie 'Please Pam, when you're talking to Ed, don't stand on tippy toes. It's distracting to the "I said, 'How else am I going to see By MERZ pnM-GiMU Staff Writer WHAT MAKES A MAN want to climb a mountain? The question has boon answered in many ways. Perhaps the best-known of all is Sir Edmund Hillary's cryptic reply, made shortly after his history-making ascent of Everest: "I did it because it was there." Among the illustrious mountain climlHTS of the past, there have been a few "literary chaps," but even the best of them gets a faraway look on Ids face and becomes mysterious, belligerent or even just plain tongue-tied when the question is put to him.

Screwballs? Thrill-seekers? Modem-day holy men? Adventurers? Seekers of the ultimate? Perhaps all of these, and more. IVAN" iIIKAK a geography teacher at Perry High School and founder-president of the Pittsburgh Explorers Club, is one of these men who climb mountains. Jirak, who celebrated his 40th birthday last Thursday, got started in Hawaii while in the Marine Corps during World War II. Since then, he has put on his spiked crampons to take to the high ground in Alaska, the Rockies, and Central and South America. He has climbed mountains in the Andes that were previously uncon-(juered, even naming one "Mount Pittsburgh" after his native rity (Colombian natives are still puzzled they can't pronounce ill, and has led several expeditions to faraway and unheard-of places.

This year, while snowbound Pittshurghers grumbled about he nasty white stuff on their sidewalks, Ivan and a few fiiends were periodically spending weekends in friendly West Virginia. Climbing mountains. ONE OF THESE is Seneca Hock feet of vertical cliff faces overlooking the Potomac -dazzling and eerie ith frozen waterfalls and snow and ice formations that look like a scene from a science-fiction movie. The ice makes for treacherous handholds and some parts of the cliff face would make a healthy mountain goat cringe. Hut Ivan and some experienced mountain climber friends and a few novices-practice their hobby there.

And, of course, if scampering around 1,000 feet in the air is not quite someone's cup of tea, they can always drop out of the group. Most of the Jirak Mountaineers on Seneca Rock, however, are only using tlip West Virginia precipices as practice for even wilder things to come. A DOEN of them are getting ready for an expedition this summer into the jungles of Ecuador, to headhunting Jivaro Indian territory, to launch an assault on El Sanguay, an active and unexplored volcano that looms 17,000 feet into the clouds over South America. Ivan's Dozen is a strange assortment of unlikely types in fact, it seems that all they have In common is a lust for the high peaks. Besides Jirak, it includes an airline executive, a poet, a local architect, a doctor, two ministers, a medi cal technician, three students and a travel agent.

Each of these, at some time or another, has to stake his very life on the abilities of another. One might say hat mountain climbing promotes togetherness. And each of them probably has his own, and very different, reasons for wanting to do the whole thing in the first place. IVAN HAS IT pretty well figured out. lie looks at the high places as a testing ground.

"Put a man on a mountain," he says, "and you find out what the man is made of." "Ordinary men under extraordinary circumstances," added Jirak, philosophically. "All the differ-enivs, all the pettinesses of our day-today lives disappear up there, and these strange bedfellows function as a team. For some this is the only time in their lives that this will ever happen." "And then again," he added, looking at a few pictures from previous expeditions, "then again, maybe people just climb them because they're there." to tomorrows justice, you should not nave to look to the culprit for recovery you should look to some agency, perhaps resembling today's Veterans Administration, lor recovery of the value of the hubcaps. The theory behind this is that, when someone breaks laws, it is the social system that has gotten fouled up not the individual. As Dr.

Rescher puts it: "Many of the things that: go wrong are best looked at -at any rate from the standpoint of their victims as system malfunctions. It seems prohahle in this context that we will less and less treat such failures as matters of individual accountability." As our society gets more complex and technical, we will have a greater need for Intelligence, inventiveness, and general creativity, Dr. Rescher predicts. "Many think the values of hard work and pride of workmanship are declining in an era of automation, but this conclusion strikes me as doubtful." lie says. The values many of us are most worried about are the so-called "family virtues" family loyalty, marital fidelity, prudence, and thrift.

Dr. Rescher sees an end to family units that continue for more than a generation, however. As he puts it: "Various tendencies ranging from the contraceptive to the welfare state's case of the helpless In an affluent society can reasonably be expected to make deeper Inroads upon familv values and domestic virtues. In the urban Negro Rbetlo Hie family Is already well on the way to extinction. "It is even possible that in a few decades the multi-generation continuing family unit will become outside the Tatliolie orbit a status symbol of the especially affluent, exactly as the inulli-plicity of wives In the Islam of today." Dr.

Rescher concludes with a list of 20 value changes he thinks may take place between now and the year 2000. He empha Landmark By WILLIAM M. KI.MMEI, BACK IN I8D0 when old Dulchtown was a thriving community and East Ohio Street was packed curb to curb with shoppers six nights a week, a tiny band of Jewish residents who had settled in Allegheny began holding religious services In a nail uri iu iiuiu oueei hiiu A later in Mendel's Hall on East Ohio Street. By 1007 the numlcr of Jewish families had grown. And 42 prominent men gathered on May 12 in the Hirsch-Raskin store at Sandusky and East Ohio Street to form the Beth Israel Congregation of i Allegheny.

Herman Jacob I was elected president; L. Gar- iiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiitiiniiiiiiiiiMiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiH iiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Maclnnes Mixes Intrigue, Political Overtones Rlmmel Mr. fj MANY writers have axes jfinkei, vice president; L. Baskin, secretary, 'and A. llirsch, treasurer of the new organi and action, a lovely, innocent and very vulnerable young girl, Veronica Clark, is also entangled, and he Nazi's Double Image becomes the crux.

miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiir THE DOUBLE IMAGE By Helen Harcoiirt, Brace World $5.95 lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllimilllll rj to grind. Often tliey turn to fiction which becomes thin- ly-disguised as an outlet for a cause. And the story suffers. I In the case of Helen Mac-I Innes Hie first sentence is true. The next two sentences are not.

Miss Maclnnes has e- Cubes, arches, horizontals of steps, vertical balustrades, curves of domed churches, cylindrical windmills each with twelve triangular sails in clock-like precision. "Bright sunlight cast black sharp edge shadow. Houses, stairways, pavement were a blazing white. Color was left to the domes, to the fishing boats drawn up along the zation. Later In the same year the congregation voted to purchase a building that could be converted into a fitting Jewish house of worship.

After looking about the district a committee appointed by the congregation recommended the purchase of the old First German Baptist Church at First and East Streets. sizes that he does not consider them inevitable, but that they "plausibly may happen." Among these changes: Devaluation of privacy, of tolerance. Upgrading of beauty. Erosion of idealism. Downgrading of material values.

Upgrading of handicrafts, workmanship, and skilled and unskilled services. Erosion of Initiative. Flight from responsibility George do Miss Gcnovese and the 20-odd witnesses). Onset of the "big hrother state." Weakening of family values. Disillusionment with education lit will no longer be looked on as a cure-all for social ills).

More Next Saturday, poured "Above Suspicion," "Assignment in i 1 1 a The story races through Paris, through northern Italy to Greece and to the sun-lighted island of Mykonos. Powerful forces pray cat and mouse with each other. John Craig becomes involved in action that could only happen I hope in fiction. There are French, British, Greek and American intelli- thing on her mind, all right. She has for more than 20 years deeply believed that Communism Is a very real threat to Western civilization, Words Wisdom By WILLIAM MORItIS agents, Russian and agents, and even a gence Czech I After remodeling the synagogue was formally dedicated at sen-ices conducted by the newly selected Rnbbi Henry Tolochko.

A Sunday religious school for the children of the members as well as a Hebrew School was started shortly afterward. And for the next 40 years the congregation prospered. Then one by one the Jewish families began to move from Allegheny to Pittsburgh and other sections of the county. Many of them discontinued their membership in the congregation. Before long the membership had dwindled so low that the remaining members could not support a rabbi to minister to their spiritual needs.

of men carried over couple from 'The Venetian Affair." Frank Rosenfeld and Chris Holland. SO YOlf THINK YOU'RE GOOD with words? Here's a game that lests your skill in deciding which words are opposite in meaning to each other. From the two lists below, try to determine which word is closest In opposite meaning to which other word. to exhibit naked power; men who are willing to eliminate a troublesome person, and to manipulate a useful one; men who do not underestimate the intensity of the opposition these are the ones who determine the future freedom or enslavement of millions. Don't let all this put you away from good reading.

As the author admits: "A novel is not a thesis, or a sermon, or a political pamphlet The backgrounds of my novels are as factual as I can make them. There is geography but ihere is history, too: past history, present history, politics and religion. This means research "Against this I set Imaginary characters and the Imaginary plot. The novelist can allow himself to feel the pain and the fears of his characters." ANT) SO SHE dors. In addition, she ran write.

Here is a description of a town on an Aegean island: "In half an hour Craig had walked through and around thf town. It was a place of patterns, Imposed, Interposed. "While Still We Live," and "Horizon." Then came the Korean war. She and her husband (Gilbert Iligheti became American citizens. Communism replaced other threats to her way of life.

Out poured more novels, some of which will ring hells with you. "Neither Five Nor Three," "I and My True Love," "Pray For a Brave Heart," "North From Koine," "Decision at Delphi," "The Venetian Affair." And now "The Double Image." The story is not too complicated, and believe me, even if you never thought of the right or wrong of the political tones of this book, you would still have a rip-roaring in-Irigue to enjoy. iIOHN CRAIG, a young American, runs Into a former professor, once an Inmate of Auschwitz, in a stale of shock on the streets of Paris. Professor Sussmnn has just seen a dead Nazi passing by. The professor soon Is truly dead, John Craig is tightly hound into a web of suspense and that this fact is not going to go away.

Political Intrigue Is the warp of her novels; fast paced action the woof. All is not black and white. The "enemy" Is not likely to be all black -but he is mighty dark. The "good gin are not pure white but tliey are right clean. And this is all right with me, because Miss Maclnnes has convincing beliefs that If the right guys ever fail to win, we're all in a peck of trouble.

She writes so convincingly about political plotters and ambitious Communists that I'm willing to accept her diesis. She makes real good sense, front street, to the potted flowers on the stone staircases, to the twisted dark green trees with their sculptural trunks, to the carved doors, to the Inside shutters of the windows that stared out in bare rectangles from their whitewashed walls. "People had their patterns, too: slender girls, stout women, headcloths and cotton dresses cat tiered around the wells: thin hoys on small mules; men in caps, with creased brow faces and dark mustaches, some working in bare feet with trousers rolled up modestly only to mid-leg. others already gathered around their own tables at their special cafes; and the tourists those who kept themselves covered like the Mykoniots, those who bared thigh and arm as much as possible -wandering aimlessly." Suffice it to say that if you have read previous suspense thrillers by Miss Maclnnes, you'll enjoy "The Double Image." If you haven't found out nbout her stories, now is a good time to start. A.

Apathetic B. Vigorous C. Good-natured D. Occasional Unceremonious F. Diverse G.

Hot H. Tastless I. Rigid J. Fallible 31; 411; 5-A; 6-G; Today there are only 15 families on the membership rolls of the congregation. And the Synagogue Is open only on high holidays and festivals.

Old timers wonder how long: Hie dwindling congregation will continue to operate. But Its. officers, Milton Krupp, Inils U. Michaels and Jerome Rosen-bloom, Dulchtown business men, aee that the one -story red brick structure Is kept 1. Habitual 2.

Unerring 3. Elastic 4. Toothsome 5. Enthusiastic 6. Glacial 7.

Formal 8. Conforming 9. Lethargic 10. Irascible Answers 1-D; 2-J; 7-E; 8-F; )B; IOC. This Is no Ian Fleming novel.

This is an adult story full of knowledge and belief in the tangling skein of international politics. If you think the showdown between the two world power systems Is to be a strength, you won't get agreement from this author. Again If you believe that Ideals win out because they are "better" than those of the other side, you'll find Miss Maclnnes flagging you down. SHE ILL! I RATES hat Is more likely the truth that men who make use of the idealists, and who know when I In good repair and rcadieo ror an rengi- ous services. When questioned as to what fate holds In store for their house of religion, these men Do you wonder if It's ever correct to say "ain't" or whether Southerners say "You all" to a single person? For answers to these and other important questions about today's grammar and usage, 10 cents plus a stamped, self-addressed envelope to William Morris Good Grammar, in care of the Back In 1911 Miss Machines, then a British cltlen, was concerned about the Nazi and Fascist threat to the values of her civilization.

Out from her typewriter just smile and repeat the Bible verse the congregation used when they celebrated their anniversary back In 1012 "and we will not forsake the house of our God." (Nehemla 10:40.) "iTtn.1 i kNm.