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Aft THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
AMeae, Texas, Tuesday Evening, December 7. 1884
EDITORIALS
... If we desire to secure peace ... it must be
known that we are at all times ready for war
THOS. L STOKES... -
President’s Rebuke’
Of Senator Knowland
What Is Coexistence?
The term “ccexistence‘ is being tossed
ground pretty freely right now. That
might be all right if there was agreement
an what it means, but there doesn’t seem
to be.
As used by men and nations in many
different places, coexistence has mean-
' ings that grade from white through
shades of gray to black.
To all, it appears to mean an absence
of shooting war. The differences arise
over what men imagine will happen or
is happening while this condition of
nonviolence persists.
To the Soviet leaders in the Kremlin,
coexistence clearly does not mean a state
of happy comradeship with the free na-
. tions. It spells opportunity for conquest
by nonmilitary devices, for spreading its
power through use of all the economic
and political wiles it can apply. It la war
George Washington to Congress, 1793
safe and practical. But that is now the
caM.
Scandinavian Airlines has inaugurat-
ed two flights weekly each way from Los
Angeles and Copenhagen, Denmark. The
distance of 5800 miles will normally be
covered in around 27 hours.
Not without significance is the fact
that Russians pioneered cross-Arctic fly-
ing 17 years ago with an historic trip
to California. Then it had to be done
without major weather and navigational
aids.
Today the general area traveled by the
Scandinavian Airlines route is marked by
many weather and radio stations which
Sen.
KNOWLAND
without guns.
In the free world, some men Me co-
existence as amounting to actual sur-
render to Communist domination, or at
the very least as weak-kneed appease-
ment. The logic of this view is that soon-
er or later Communists and free men
must clash in war, since to do nothing is
to lose.
At the other end of the scale, there
are those who look upon coexistence as
practically synonymous with a glorious
peace founded on real understanding be-
tween East and West. These men seem
willing to take Russian declarations of
peaceful purpose at full value.
The people who fall in the gray zones
between the extremes are neither as pes-
simistic as the one nor as hopeful as the
can assist aircraft spanning the icy
wastes. Some indication of the con-
fidence these aids inspire can be gath-
ered from me distinguished passenger
list on the first westbound flight. Prince
Axel of Denmark, three Nordic premiers
and a host of other important persons
made the trip.
No doubt these flights will ordinarily
come to be viewed as no less routine
than standard transoceanic flights to Eu-
rope and the Far East. Yet it’s still fair
to say that the air passenger seeking ad-
venture is more likely to get a sense of
it from the new Arctic route than any
other way.
The northern passage has other mean-
ings, obviously. It dramatizes the accessi-
bility of Europe and Asia to our military
aircraft flying the Arctic, and makes ft
plain the Russians work the same strate-
gy in reverse.
The northern door to America is no
longer safely shut while we try to guard
our Atlantic and Pacific coast from threat
of hostile planes. We may have known
this for some time, but the reality of
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The Unkindest Blow
other. , '
They believe that, short of war, there
is-no way Communists can be brushed
off this planet. In consequence, they be- We can be thankful that an airline
lieve that some way of living with them representing free Europe is operating
must be found. When they say that they over this route. For as we have been
do not mean living in friendship with 5
them, or giving in to them. They mean
simply existing side by side.
commercial flying over the Arctic must . 3
surely heighten our concern for the de- ROBERT ALLEN REPORTS
fense of this continent and our own bor-
ders.
They have no illusions about Kremlin
purposes. They know Russia is an armed
camp, and that when it is not shooting
it is practicing warfare on every other
imaginable front.
. Thus they believe we free people must
be equipped at all times to defend our-
selves, and must develop political and
economic programs that will keep the
vulnerable but still free sectors of the
globe out of Communist hands.
By this definition of coexistence, free
men are not to be sitting ducks, waiting
to be surrounded by hostile animals
moving ever closer. They are men alert
to their peril, strong enough to meet it,
aggressive enough politically and eco-
nomically to help lessen the danger in
the world’s soft spots.
Somewhere in this middle realm lies
the policy Secretary of State Dulles and
his Western diplomatic collaborators
are trying to lay down. They are search-
ing for a oath that can permit free men
to live without guns beneath their pil-
lows, in nightly fear of the Communist
trespasser. They think it can be had
without war.
Recently the eloquent Winston
Churchill voiced this hope:
“We might even find ourselves, in a
few years, moving along a broad cause-
way of peace and plenty, instead of roam-
ing around on the rim of bell.”
benefiting recently from data com-
piled by Canadian as well as American-
manned Arctic weather and radio sta-
tions, so we may expect to be given all ident Eisenhower is preparing to
useful flying data amassed on Scandi- make more atomic history.
navian's now regular flights For the first time he will:
Both commercially and militarily the Decide the - amount of special
importance of this development is clear, (non-weapons grade) nuclear ma-
But its meaning is greater. It is another terial which the Atomic Energy
triumph of man's spirit. The air con- Commission can make available
quest of the Arctic represents his suc- for domestic and foreign users for
cessful intrusion into one of the last and peaceful purposes in 1955.
most forbidding of the earth's great Announce the U. 8. will build an
wastelands. atomic power reactor for Belgium,
* in exchange for priority rights in
the uranium - rich Belgian Congo.
No Barkina Please The two- governments have just
P497 ricuac concluded a new agreement on
Prodded by Ite humane instincts, the these vital mineral resources.
New York Public Library has altered a In taking the historic step of de-
long standing rule. It haa decided that signating • certain amount of fls-
dogs may hereafter be admitted to its sionable material for users other
sacred precincts. Up to now, they’ve than the federal government, the
been parked outside, even on the coldest President will be acting under a
days. mandatory provision or the new
The library isn’t giving the dogs free Atomic Act passed * Congress
rein, though. Their masters have to keep last August.
them on leach Under little-known Section 41 B.
the President is required to of-
»ficially promulgate every year how
much nuclear material the Atomic
Commission can turn over to do-
Ike to Make Atomic Decisions
By ROBERT 9. ALLEN
WASHINGTON, Dec 7 - Pres-
known, in a general way, to the
public. It will be disclosed to the
Joint Congressional Atomic Com-
mittee.
The outstanding significance of
the President's order is that it
the much - decorated 1st Armored
Division will stage similar exper-
iments at Fort Hood, Tex.
Defense Secretary Charles Wilson
is planning to appoint a "National
Industrial Reserve Review Com-
mittee” to recommend which gov-
will indicate the extent of plans
for private atomic power develop- ernment plants should be sold. The
Crossing the Arctic
Passengers on regular commercial air-
craft who can look down on ice-clogged
polar seas must imagine they are having
a dream.
Even in this day of remarkable air ex-
ploits, it is still hard to believe that man
has arrived at the stage where scheduled
airline operationa across the Arctic are
Of course the new arrangement will be
nicer for the dogs. Maybe the library fig-
ures. It will be better for their masters,
too. Pretty homey setup, reading with
dog at your feet. It wouldn't be surpris-
ing to see some of the hounds trotting in
with their masters’ slippers between
their teeth.
Some delicate questions of library de-
corum may arise. Since signs reading
“Silence, no barking, please” are not
likely to make much of an impression,
what happens when a few canine vipes
break the august stillness? Will the li-
brary throw out just the dog, or the
master, too’ •
Until this thing shakes down a bit,
possibly the authorities ought to hold
competitions for good dog behavior The
winner, naturally, would be pooch-of-the-
month.
CAPITAL COLUMN
Senate Control Is Shaky
By PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON — (NEA) - Whether Re-
publicans or Democrats will organize the U. S.
Senate when the 84th Congress convenes next
Jan. 3 is a question that still hangs on a
heartbeat.
It is not just a question of recounts la
close states like Now Jersey and Ohio, where
Republicans Clifford Case and George Bender
appear to have won the election. Reversals la
those two states would increase the apparent
Democratic lead of 48 to 47 Republicans, with
Oregon Independent Wayne Morse committed
to vote with the Democrats on organization of
the new Senate. But that la not where the rub
Comos -.
What really controls the result is whether
all of the incumbent senators and senators-
elect are alive, healthy, present and voting on
Jan 3 when the session opens to organize
- This may be s ghoulish thing to talk about.
But it is a fact of political life which cannot
be ignored.
Seven senators died during the last session
of Congress.
With a number of senators now well past
the traditional three score and ten, the fact
that some of them or even younger men might
not live through the session has been openly
discussed by even the senators themselves.
The Kennedy Case
Speculation at first centered on young Sen
John P. Kennedy (D-Mass) now hospitalized
for surgery on war injuries Reports became
so prevalent that he had cancer of the blood
and could not resume Ma Senate seat that his
father, former Ambassador Joe Kennedy, had
. to make a public statement to squelch the
rumors. *
Once the Senate is organized, there is little
likelihood that control would be changed in
midseason, regardless of who might die ar
which party would retain actual majority.
There is no record in U. S. congressional
history in which such s shift has been made.
The most recent example of such s situation
arose when Sen. Robert A. Taft died in 1953.
He waa succeeded by Democrat Thomas A.
Burka. The Democratic Party then had a nom-
inal majority of one. But no move was made
by the Democrats to reorganize the Senate.
If this precedent la followed in the 84th Con-
gress. the Republicans would make no move
to change control if they should obtain a ma-
jority through the death of any Democrat and
his replacement by a Republican. There ta no
law prohibiting reorganization, ft la just cus-
tom. _____
Six times In the past, there have been bitter
fights over organisation, of the Senate when
the parties were closely divided And there
is no instance when the party with the ma-
jority failed or refused to take control of the
Senate and keep K.
The first time "was March, Ml, when the
two parties were tied, and there were two in-
dependents. Republican President James A.
Garfield had called a special session to con-
firm appointments. When the Democrats tried
to push through a motion to retain control of
the standing committees. Vice President Chea-
ter A Arthur broke the lie and voted with the
Republicans so they could reorganize
in the 50th Congress, 1885-87, during the
last two years of Democratic President Grover
Cleveland's first term. 37 Democrats were
elected to 39 Republicans. Vice President
Thomas A Hendricks of Ohio had died in 18B5
The Republicans succeeded in organizing the
Senate by electing a Republican President of
the Senate pro tempore
Four times thereafter - In 1919, 1927, 1931
and in the present session of the 83rd Congress
—the division has been 47 Democrats, 48 Re
publicans and one independent at the time of
organization In all cases, the Republicans or-
ganised the Senate.
mestic and foreign companies and
agencies. The government retains
both permanent possession and
control of this material, which the
commission distributes by lease or
license i» der Sections 103 and 104.
'Reasonable' Payment
The new law also requires the
Commission to collect "rea-
sonable" payment. That is now In
process of determination.
The President's forthcoming or-
der will include the 220 pounds of
fissionable material this country
has offered to launch his plan for
an international atoms-for-peace
pool, plus enough for the Belgium
power reactor.
The Belgian government was un-
movably insistent on obtaining thia
. project. It was a key requirement
for renewing the Congo uranium
contract. In building this power
plant, the U. S. will pay all the
costs, supply all the scientific ma-
terial and equipment, and train
the necessary technicians.
Two crucial decisions are involv-
ed in the President's history mak-
ing order:
The amount of special nuclear
material that should be authoriz-
ed.
Whether this secret information
should be declassified and made
ment.
This major factor is the crux of
the discussions going on in inner
White House councils over the pub-
licity question. The power issue
is not the only consideration, but
it's the leading one.
Joint Atomic Committeemen
have been informed that the Pres-
ident's advisers who favor publi-
. city, chiefly from the State' De-
partment,, hold the information
should be disclosed for two rea-
sons: It would greatly help U. S.
relations abroad, and it would en-
able industry to make coherent
atomic plans.
Principal objection against pub-
lication is on grounds of security.
Joint Committeemen have been
told that military authorities have
strong misgivings about revealing
any details regarding this special
nuclear material It is contended
that would be of great value to
Russia.
Atomic Chairman Lewis Strauss
is also credited with holding that
view. But at least one other Com-
missioner is listed ss disagreeing
with him.
Senator Clinton Anderson
(D—NM), who will head the Joint
Committee next year, la keeping a
close eye on this inner debate He
favors private atomic power de-
velopment, and also wants public
projects. Anderson is particularly
insistent that rural electric coop-
eratives be included in this new
field
A big REA co-op in his state is
ready to go into that, and Ander-
son is bent on clearing the way
for it — with new legislation if
necessary.
Note: The series of nuclear tests
scheduled for next February-
March on the Nevada firing range
will not be the only ones conduct-
ed around that time. The Army
is planning two of its own. One
will be "Operation Follow Me" in
which the famous 3rd Infantry
Division will try out various com-
bat formations and weapons for
atomic warfare on a 900,000 - acre
tract near Fort Benning, Ga. The
other will be "Blue Bolt.” in which
government owns more than 100 de-
tenu plants, and it will be the job
of the 15-member Committee to
study them and determine which
can be disposed of. The group will
consist of businessmen and experts
in various fields Unless a law
passed by the 80th Congress, in
1949, is extended, the military
services will lose a considerable
proportion of their senior com-
manders. Under this statute, of-
icers with SO years' service can
retire in their highest grade, up
to major general. But if the law
expires hundreds of officers would
be adversely affected, so they
would spply for retirement before
then in order to take advantage
of the statute . .. Assistant Defense
Secretary Fred Seaton, in charge
of all Pentagon press operations,
was paid an unusual tribute by
Secretary Wilson He described
Seaton's job ss the "toughest in
this place " Seaton, former Sena-
tor from Nebraska, is one of Pres-
ident Eisenhower's closest advis-
ers The new military assistance
program that will be laid before
the next Congress is being for-
mulated by Assistant Defense Sec-
retary Struve Hensel. This impor-
tant task was assigned to Hensel
by the President, who took it out
of the hands of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff. Hansel is being assisted
by Charles Sullivan, brilliant
young official of the Defense De-
partment's Section on Interna-
tional Security Affairs.
WASHINGTON - President Ei-
senhower seems to have cut the
ground from under the Republican
party's belligerent, shoot-from-the-
hip Senate leader — Senator Wil-
liam F. Knowland — by as direct
a repudiation of the California
senator's personal and personally-
publicised foreign policy as one
could imagine.
At least the senator appeared to
have been left stranded and iso-
lated by the thoughtful, considered
and moving exposition of our very
difficult role in the world today
by the Chief Executive at his
weekly news conference. That was
being analyzed for its bearing on
the unprecedented running war
that the party's Senate leader haa
been carrying on with his own
Administration.
Bill Knowland is impulsive and
headstrong. But he would be even
more obtuse than anyone here sup-
poses if he does not read the hint
in what the President said. It cer-
tainly looked like a suggestion, by
1 inference, that the senator either
should try to work out an accom-
modation with his President on
- foreign policy or step down from
his responsible role in Congress
that has come to be called "Ad-
ministration Leader" That’s what
it always has been heretofore.
The senator can no longer be
called that with any accuracy. Not
only did he keep up his drumfire
for a blockade of Red China be-
cause of the 13 American pri-
soners of war sentenced to jail
terms—by Red China after the
President and Secretary of State
Dulles had rejected such a mea-
sure. But he split with the Ad-
ministration on Senator Joe Mc-
Carthy policy and went trooping
off at the "head of the score of
other Republicans who fought cen-
sure of the Wisconsin senator.
Stands Wavering
Senator Knowland seems to
stand now wavering between the
’ Eisenhower wing of the Republi-
can party and the extreme right
wing with which Senator McCar-
thy is identified. He has not pre-
viously been counted with the lat-
ter, though occasionally he has
seen eye to eye with them. It may
be unfair, and incorrect, to so
classify him — even temporarily.
But he certainly gives that im-
preMion to an observer of his re-
cent course. It is suspected that
he, himself, may not be aware
of the impression he is creating.
The President seized sn oppor-
tunity given him at his news con-
ference to show his distaste for
the course and objectives of the
extreme right wing. Once again he
reiterated his aim of a middle-of-
the-road course, avoiding the ex-
tremes of right and left. To be
useful, he emphasized, a political
party must be a progressive, dy-
namic force. The Republican par-
ty either must be that or it won't
be a party at all, he snapped.
The President continues to ex-
hibit extraordinary patience with
the recalcitrant member of his
team. In answer to inquiries at
his news conference, he said he
did not like to differ over policy
with those with whom he worked
in the Administration. He explain-
ed that Senator Knowland had dif-
fered with him and Secretary Dul-
les. according to the senator's pub-
lic statements he had read: and
yet, when he sat down and talked
with the California senator the two
seemed to agree generally on prin-
ciples and he thought the differ-
ence was mostly on method.
•An Act of War’
But no one could have been more
blunt than was the President in
rejecting flatly Senator Know-
land's current pet project of a
blockade of Red China. A block-
ade is an act of war, the Presi-
dent said flatly and so, he added,
it had always been considered.
Conceivably such a blockade might
not lead to war, he explained, but
he could find no case in history
where it did not.
The President did not say so, but
Senator Knowland and others who
have been jumping up and raising
their voices for extreme measures
of a belligerent sort might well
consider what he said about our
position today. He made it a per-
sonal matter which made it more
effective. He has the same sort
of reactions as do all Americans
to such despicable acts as the im-
prisonment of our soldiers. It Is
easy for a President to adopt a
truculent attitude; but he can not
do so in his responsible position
despite his personal feelings. When
anyone accepts public office he
must remember that responsibil-
ity, the President said — and
that, of course, would include the
California senator and party floor
leader. If we are to take action
that might lead to war, then we
can not do that in emotion or
anger but must proceed carefully.
It' was a keep-our-shirts-on mes-
sage and should help to clear the
air — and maybe Senator Know-
land's mind. — (United Feature
Syndicate, Inc.)
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Washington Letter
WASHINGTON — Americans
love a parade, and in any other
town they'd close up shop end
turn out en masse to do full hon-
ors "to anyone from a local 4-H
club winner to Santa Claus.
But in the nation’s capital the
folks are so used to public demon-
strations in honor of kings and in-
-ternational heroes, politicians and
conventions that they no longer get
excited A parade down Pennsyl-
vania Avenue these days attracts
about as much of a crowd as the
Cabin John street car, which tra-
verses the same route.
It used to be right embarrassing
for the city fathers to whip up a
~full - dress welcoming reception,
with flags, motorcades, bands,
military and police escorts and
then have to move down town for
the key-to-the-city deal without a
crowd to whoop things up.
But now most of the headliners
seem to arrive at National Airport
or Union Station around 4:30 in
the afternoon This may be just a
coincidence, but it is the time
when thousands of government
workers are beginning to hot-foot
it for home, and rumor is that it's
planned that way. Naturally, the
carefully - paced, slow - crawling
procession has the right of way.
All traffic halts, and the workers
— at first resigned, sometimes
grumbling and often indifferent —
at least make a sizable crowd and,
being Americans, before long are
loving every minute of it.
How would you like a mountain,
retreat for a birthday present?
That's what Mrs. A. F. Johnson
of Racine, Wis., gave her husband,
the new director of the Office of
Industrial Resources of the For-
eign Operations Administration.
The hospital as we know it to-
day. like the one I am in, dates
back to 400 a. d. So it is no won-
der it is perfectly designed.
Time, plus trial and error, has
enabled hospital planners to per-
fect a room that is absolutely mad-
dening to the patient. From my
bed of pain, let us consider what
I will call "reachability."
Everything that a man who has
- been in an automobile accident
could possibly want is in my room
There is ice water. There are
tissues for nose blowing. There
is a reading light cord. There is
a bell cord for summoning help.
There is an ash tray. There is a
bowl for fruit. There are books
and magazines. There are nose
drops There is a down coverlet
to pull up in case I get cold.
There is a bruah, a comb, and a
nail file.
There are cigarettes and match-
es. There is chewing gum. There’s
a telephone. There’s a pad and
pencil. The few visitors I have
been allowed to see have all re-
marked on how the hospital hasn't
overlooked a thing for my com-
fort.
That's right, except for one thing
— I can't reach a blooming Me
of the comforts! They are placed
for a man with arms a half inch
longer than mine. I am e guy on
the edge of en oasis who can't
make the last inch to the water
hole.
Just Out of Reach
If they were a foot away. T
wouldn't mind. I'd give up and ad-
mit that there was no hope of my
ever reaching them. But they are
so tantalisingly close that I spend
half my day desperately reach-
ing for them.
--Just a few minutes ago I want-
ed a tissue to blow my nose 1
got so close my fingertips could
feel the fuzz of the tissue, but I
Just couldn't get s grip on it.
I tried to pull the cord that sum-
mons the nurse, and it swung Just
a hairbreadth above my fingers.
I’m likely to go crazy watching
the apples rot, the water in the
glass stagnate, the books and mag-
azines -go out of date, and the
tissues yellow with age.
Of course, I could bellow for
the nurse, I guess, but I don’t
want to be known on my floor as
"Bellowing Henry." Then, too,
when your chest is cracked up.
bellowing isn't the most fun in
the world.
At the same time. I don't like
to stretch out here and be a stoic.
By nature, I am a loud sufferer.
1 have given a deal of thought
to what I will do if I ever get in
another accident and have to be
taken to a hospital.
Ta Try Tom-Toms
I am going to ask the ambu-
lance driver to stop by a shop
that rents Indian tom-tom beaters
and engage one to stay in the
room with me Then when I want
something that is a whisper out of
reach 1 will have the torn - torn
beater beat his torn - torn until a
nurse comes and shoves what I
want to where I can get at it.
Either that, or take along a
rope and tie one end of it to the
ankle of the superintendent of
nurses. A good, stout tug will up-
set her and let her know that the
patient in 212 wants a little at-
tention. Of course, I could have
hired a private nurse, just to stay
right with me, but when I priced
such sn article I figured I’d rath-
er put my money in a Rolls-Royce
to ride around in when I start
recuperating. And I didn't think
it was right to make Mary take
in washing while I was in the
hospital.
I’ll have to stop now, because
the X - ray people want me.
They've shot more footage on me
than 2(ith Century did in making
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