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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER I960
EDITORIAL
Khrushchev Seems Certain
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The Reds contend they, are try.
ing to keep potential agitators
away from Communists East Ber-
Un during West Berlin meetings
of people who formerly lived in
East Germany. This sound pretty
thin.
By HAL BOYLE
NEW YORK (AP) — Are you
an addict of television Western
programs?
Do you feel they are blighting
Curtain. Whether Khrushchev has
decided to have a showdown now
is still not clear.
But Wednesday, Communists
commanding entry to West Ber-
lin turned back many would-be
visitors from the West.
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End To Lawyers?
The New York Law School has announced plans to
start a new course in English. Officials believe too
few lawyers express themselves clearly and simply.
Commenting on this, the Wall Street Journal says:
“Well, that sounds like a good idea to us, but we won-
der if the implications of the step have been carefully
considered. If legal documents are written in plain
English, what will become of lawyers?”
Next thing you know, somebody will start a course
in penmanship for doctors whose prescriptions . . .
By JAMES MARLOW
Associated Press News Analyst
WASHINGTON (AP) - Has So-
viet Premier Nikita Khrushchev
decided to create a crisis in the
midst of the American presiden-
tial campaign and freeze the coid
war colder than it has been for
years?
Last May, after he had torpe
doed the summit conference with
President Eisenhower in Paris,
Khrushchev indicated be would do
just the opposite.
1. He would wait six or eight
months—for the election of a new
president— before seeking another
summit meeting, this time with
Eisenhower's successor.
2. In that time he would not try
to force a showdown on West Ber-
lin.
He said: "‘We will not do any-
thing that might aggravate the
international situation and bring
it back to the worst times qf the
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All 50 States Provide Way
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Jan. 13, 1921, according to Act of Congress, March 3, 1872.
Published every evening except Saturday and on Sunday morning by
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AGE FOtfRr r r rTHE DENTON RECORB^HRONiCtE rm EDITORIALS AND FEATURES-: i : t
There's Good Reason —
For Our Being Wooed
THE SOUTH to something of a beautiful young lady
being wooed by two suitors whose names are Democrats
and Republicans. . :
Not since the Civil War have we been fought over
(or been so loved) bo seriously. Both Nixon and Ken-
nedy will be in Texas (but not Denton) early this month.
The Democrats frankly say they’ve never had it so
bad in the South as far as election possibilities are con-
cerned. The Republicans make chipper claims but
know the South customarily has been prime Democra-
tic territory, and bright GOP hopes in September may
have nothing to do with what happens in November.
The general attitude of the Democrats is that it is
better to run scared in the South, taking nothing for
granted. There also is the Democratic claim that the
Southern revolt which followed the Los Angeles dr-'
cub will subside fo such an extent that the Demos
will be able to claim states (such as Texas) where the
prospects are not at all encouraging.
Republicans take the opposite view, of course. They
say the life of the normal “sore” feeling after a party
convention is 30 days and that as the halfway point
between Democratic convention and election day ap-
proaches. the feeling against the Democratic ticket is
rising—not falling—in the South. That halfway point,
incidentally, is Sept- 11.
One reason the Nixon forces are feeling good about
their possibilities in Texas, Florida and Tennessee is
the fact that many Republicans have moved to all three
states, particularly to Texas and Florida. And, more
than that, Texans are generally of a conservative nat-
ure, and the Nixon-Lodge ticket more nearly follows
what most Texans believe in. Many Texans for years
have voted Democratic in local elections and Repub-
lican in national elections. Many more probably will
this year, for the day of the Independent Voter has
arrived. He has a choice, and he’s going to choose.
That’s why we’re being wooed—despite the fact a
Texan has the No. 2 spot on the ballot.
tana, Nebraska,
tropical lands.
Jungles, deserts and erosion are
tropical wastelands created by
exploitation, explained Drs. James
G. Dickson of the University of
Wisconsin and William C. Steere
of the New York Botanical Gar-
den.
Potentially the troops are the
world’s greenhouse for food pro-
duction— a great fertile belt of
rain and sun 1.000 miles north and
south of the equator.
Only scientific research can
find the efficient agricultural pro-
cesses, the scientists said in an
interview this week.
The sun is always directly over-
head some place in the tropics
no matter what the season—and
the combination of rain and sun
makes the tropics a 12-month
vegetable factory. 1 f
Even the jungles are testimony
to this. Great masses of vegeta-
tion took over when the original
virgin forests were destroyed.
Today much of Mexico is desert
and great clay mountains rise in
Our Standard Of Living
What is the criterion for a high standard of living?
It's not fine cars, swimming pools or even yachts, it
seems, but paper. The higher a nation’s standard of
living, the more paper it consumes. The average
American family uses a ton each year. Per capita an-
nual use of paper in the United States is 417 pounds
compared to 150 pounds in Denmark, one pound in
Red China and virtually none in Central Africa.
From the moment we acquire a birth certificate the
great events of our lives are recorded on paper. We
read from it, write on it, use it to decorate our homes
and keep them clean. We receive most of our educa-
tion from words printed on paper. Love letters and
wedding certificates are made of paper.
So is money.
And, we might add, in addition to the fact that a
nation is rated by the paper it uses, a man or woman
is rated by the paper he reads.
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Pressures For Pay
Denton firemen and policemen, most would agree,
are not paid enough. Neither are most of the other
city employes, not the school teachers, nor the carpen-
ters, nor the secretaries, nor the newspaper reporters,
nor the sales clerks, nor anyone else for that matter.
The firemen and policemen, like other city em-
ployes, got a raise in the new fiscal year. Then they
tried to get more and had a committee meet with the
city manager the night before the City Council approv-
ed the budget. The city manager told them the facts
of life: there just isn't any more money this year.
Instead of losing their battle gallantly, the policemen
and firemen called a meeting Wednesday night in an
attempt to get some of the city’s businessmen on their
side. About 25 businessmen were expected at the
meeting. But only six non-policemen and non-firemen
and a few wives attended the meeting.
Just what the policemen and firemen think they can
accomplish is ng quite clear to the outsider.
Most Dentonites are sympathetic with their needs
but also know that trying to pressure a pay raise is
not the way to succeed.
birds had a good batch this year
and are here in numbers, they
are shy and scattered and the
average hunter this week is doing
more looking than shooting. War-
den T, O. Bobbitt said.
An agreement to trade 50 over-
age American destroyers for a
chain of naval and air base sites
in the Atlantic and Caribbean was
announced by President Roosevelt.
At the same time the State De-
partment announced that Britain
has promised this country never
to "‘surrender or sink her fleet.**
The chief executive sent Congres
a message containing afirst news
of the historic trade of warships
for defensive bases.
SCHOOL ELECTION
LOOMS IN DENTON
SEPT. 2, IMO
Taxpayers in the Denton Inde-
pendent School District have a
date at the polls in the morning.
That's the day they will ballot on
the proposed school referendum
election for an equalized school
tax and neumntion of indebted.
LONGSHOREMEN
STAGE BATTLE
SEPT. 1. 1920
More than 2,000 longshoremen
engaged in a pitched battle at
Pier 18, North River, in New Yurt
City dividing along racial lines
with the whites centering their at-
tack on Negro longshoreman
brought here by the ship compan-
ies.
Out of the 31 days in August
only three of them could be class
ed as dear days by the State
Experiment Station and of the re-
maining 28. one was foggy 12
cloudy and IB partly cloudy. The
rainfall for the month was 5.74
inches The hgttest day of the
month was Aug. 1 when the read-
ing was 101 and the coolest was
Aug. 15 when the temperature
dropped to Bl. ,
DENTON HUNTERS
LOOK FOR DOVES
SEPT. t, IMO
Dove hunters are plentiful over
Denton County; Indeed more in____- — _____ _
evidence than doves. game war-1 ness over the entire school dis-
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Bigger And Bigger, Louder And Louder
The Tropics
STILLWATER, Okla. (AP)—
Jungles are the weeds of the
tropics—the ruin of what might
be man’s most wonderful garden
on earth.
and Wyoming. Ten other states
require that election officials be
present, but do not spell out
that they must be from op-
posing parties Alaska, Arkansas,
Georgia, Iowa, New Mexico, Ore-
gon. South Carolina, Vermont,
Virginia ano West Virginia be'ong
to this group.
"Make your own decision”
is the rule for blind voters in 14
states which grant them the op-
tion of being helped ei’her by im-
personal officials or by retauves
and friends. They are California,
Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii,
Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi,
New York, North Carolina, North
Dakota, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas
and Washington.
FURTHER QUALIFYING re-
strictions apply, however, in Col-
orado, Minnesota and Utah which
insist that any helping friends or
relatives themselves be . “elect-
ors” that is — voters. And Wash-
ington goes even further, requir-
ing that the helper be either a
"spouse or near relative” in ad-
dition to being a registered
voter.
But wherever he lives you’ll
took a long way to find a more
conscientious "elector” thar. the
blind voter Chances are that
long before he gets arouna to
choosing his voting companion or
team hes done thorougi studying
of the candidates and issues so he
can make his will known
Two scientists thus picture the mmore gunfire, more stampedes,
vegetative tangle that symbolizesTmore redskin raids, more U.S.
Cavalry charges, more rustlers.
Without knowing it I was hooked.
One led to another, and soon-I
was thinking up excuses to leave ,
the office early so I could get
home early and switch on the kid’
Westerns.
“Dadd6
"Daddy, do we have to look at
any more cowboys?" pleaded my
7-year-old daughter, Tracy.
"Shut up, kid,” I grated, "and
watch the posse,"
"You don’t eat dinner any •
more,” complained my wife. "You
just gulp your food in between
hangings and stagecoach hold-
ups.”
It was true. It got so I couldn’t
even go to sleep unless I first had
a nightcap in the form of a late,
late movie.
When the doctor heard of my
vice, he said: “We're getting a
tot of cases like yours lately.
You're simply suffering Western
hallucinations — a form of TV
DTs.”
He suggested that I taper off.
I couldn't taper off. The disease
got worse. Then suddenly one
night, while I was watching my
fifth Western program of the
evening, I began to sweat. I
trembled violently.
The hero was just about to gun
down the villain, but I instinctive-
ly switched off the set. In a few
moments I calmed down and felt
better.
What had happened? I still don't
know. But the disease had ap-
parently run its course. It is still
too early to be sure the remedy
is permanent, but I feel it is. -
If you are a helpless horse
opera addict, don’t give up hope.
An overdose of the stuff may turn
you into a teetotaler, too, and you
can start living a normal life .
again free from the nois of
bang-bang.
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central Colombia where the
vegetative cover was destroyed
and the land eroded away. It
might take nature a thousand
years to rebuild the land, they
said.
Once protective trees and grass
arc stripped away, the sun and
rain which made the tropics fertile
become enemies of the soil.
In north central Mexico side-
walks rise several feet above the
soil level. The concrete protected
the original level of the land while
the rest eroded away.
In Colombia there is a great
scar of land where vegetation was
cleared to make farms for Inex-
perienced European immigrants
who have since abandoned them
because they couldn't make them
work.
msmmam I THE WORLD TODAY
from election officials in every
state but Nevada, which for rea-
sons best known to itself,. forbids
an election official’s assisting a
blind voter.
Alabama has a special provi-
sion of its own: no one who is
himself a candidate can assist a
blind voter. This holds true even
if the blind voter be a relative.
A threesome crowding into the
election - booth space intended for
one is a frequent arrangement;
although by the time the laws of
Kentucky are fulfilled the min-
imum grouping has increased to
four; the blind voter, and a clerk
to act for him in the presence
of "other officers of the election."
PERSONS UNDER 21 can peep
into an active voting booth
ahead of their time in two states,
if they are chosen as assistants
by blind voters in Oklahoma and
New York.
Oklahoma requires only that
the blind voter’s assistant be “at
least 16 years of age.” New
York law provides the following
selection of relatives for the
blind voter: "Father mother,
brother, sister. husband, wife or
child.” If a blind New Yorker
does choose the services of elec-
tion officials instead, things get
more technical and there must
be two of them from opposing
parties.
An "opposition > twosome,” one
member from each ot the major
political parties, is the mandato-
Come election time, especially
the presidential election — you
choose your candidate and cast
your vote. But it’s not always
that easy.
At least America’s estimated
355,000 blind citizens don’t vote
so easily. They vote, all right —
more efficiently than some sight-
ed people do.
Voting, privilege though it is,
is never quite simple for any-
body. And it's even a bit more
complex for the nation's regis-
tered blind voters. The American
Foundation for the Blind reports
that though the specifications differ
widely, every state in the union,
has special provisions and laws to
assist blind voters. In no case
does blindness prevent a compe-
tent citizen from exercising his
voting rights—a phase of demo-
cracy in action.
There are special problems,
though. Even the average sight-
ed voter sometimes worries about
whether he did what he wanted
to do in that voting booth.
MR. AVERAGE VOTER may I
suffer from election booth jitters,
and in retrospect be certain he
pulled the wrong lever on the
voting machine, or pencilled in
the wrong X. Voting, after all,
isn't something we do every day.
Perhaps the voter has been
standing in line, waiting, waiting,
while his feet got tired, then re-
belliously achey, and his nerves
more and more tense as he
thought of all he could be doing
instead. Then perhaps the light
in the booth was too harsh, or too
dim, or perhaps It was too hot
or too cold And there was al-
ways the pressure of that waiting
line behind him — urging him
on to hurry.
Such election -.trauma, and
amnesia - aftermath, notwith-
standing. the exverts assure us
chances are that Mr. Average
Voter did succeed in casting his
vote accurately. In other words,
this anxiety is almost normal un-
der the circumstances and so
mild it doesn't affect the voter’s
effectiveness to carry out his |
voting intentions.
Paradoxically, however,- It is
usually the blind voter who leaves
the booth with the assurance that
his ballot has been cast,accord
ing to his predetermined will.
Most likely he has Been assisted
by one or more people. In at
least seven, state* his team of
assistants — by law — will have
had to consist of election officials
from the major opposition par-
ties. < - •
AND WHAT of the blind voter
who wants absolute freedom to
choose his own election ejes” ’
in many states he gets his wish
to choose whomever he will. A
number of other stales require
that the blind voter's range of
choice be limited to fellow regis-
tered voters in his state, with a
' few pinpointing it lurther to de-
i mnd residency in the same vot-
ling district
your life because you spend more
time watching them than you do
working at your job or entertain-
ing your wife and children?
Do not despair. Hope may be at
hand. The ailment may cure it-
self spontaneously. It did with me.
Today there are millions of
Americana addicted to liquor,
narcotics or gambling. But for
every one of these there are prob-
ably five who are compulsive
viewers of TV horse operas.
The disease is insidious in its
onset. At first the victim is su-
premely self-confident.
. "I can take this stuff or leave it
alone,” he says, twirling the .knobs
on his TV set.
That’s the way I felt, too. At
the start I watched one. I dis-
covered one Western program
wasn’t enough.
One simply left me feeling
empty and unsatisfied. I craved
Vic* President Richard M. Nixon
and Sen. John F. Kennedy. He
called them both "lackeys of mon-
opoly capital.”
Since one of these two men will
be the next president, Khrushchev
has deliberatelv by this kind of
insult added difficulty to having
a summit meeting with either , of
them.
2. The Communists suddenly set
up a limited blockade of West Ber-
lin and turned back many West
German visitors seeking to reach
the city by road and rail. They
said it would continue through
Monday.
Khrushchev has thrown Insults
repeatedly at Nixon. The best-re-
membered one came when Eis-
enhower said he might let Nixon
sit in for awhile at the summit
meeting which was never held.
Khrushchev said that would be
like sending "the goat to take
care of the cabbage ’
NEW FOR KENNEDY
But he had never cut loose at
Kennedy until now He said his
new appraisal was "to put an end
to talk that I favor one oresiden-
tial candidate and not the other.”
But it’s possible the Kremlin has
decided not to try for a summit
meeting at all and intends instead
to try to grab West Berlin.
The peo»le of that citv . 110
miles inside Communist East Ger-
may. .give their allegiance to
West Germany and the Western
Allies. Yet all travel between the
East and West Berlin has to move
through or over East Germany
The presence of Western forces
in Berlin has been n sore spoi
with the Communists since the end
of World War II. Joseph Stalir
tried to end that situation with a
blockade in 1949, but the block-
ade was broken by the Western
airlift. He could not at that tme
risk war by shooting down the
airlift.
NO POSITION
The Soviet Union at the time
was in no position to try war since
the United Stites had a monopoly
on the atom bomb and a superior
air force. Now the Soviets have
hydrogen weapons and missiles.
The West could not — without
taking the chance of seeing its al-
liance fall apart — make any
agreement with the Soviet Union
to turn West Berlin over to the
Communists. But the Reds, with
their present strength, could risk
a blockade.
In the face of such action. if the
West backed down, West Berlin
would disappear behind the Iron
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