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THERE
For then it if consecrated by the word of God and prayer.—I Timothy 4:5.
God will always reveal His will to one who is willing to do
it.—Hilys Jasper,
The Winner Will Have
A Big Job on His Hands
THE ABILENE REPORTER NEWS
Abilene, Texas, Monday Morning, August 29, 1960
After OAS Decision
Caribbean Pro-Soviet
Unit Possibility Looms
ment they received at San Jose
IRRIT
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AWA
BUT TR
LIKE
That must have been quite a sight
—Harry S. Truman personally con-
ducting John F. Kenendy on a tour
of the Truman museum at Independ-
ence, Mo. There was a lot of politics
in it, naturally; the former president
lost no opportunity to take digs at
Other Viewpoints
Close Election
Richmond, Va., Times-Dispatch:
Richard Nixon's speech at Greensboro, N.
C., launched his campaign in the South,
and is the first of numerous appearances by
the Republican presidential nominee in Vir-
ginia and other places below the Mason and
Dixon Line. Democratic nominee Kennedy
may be expected to appeal with equal fervor
for the votes of Southerners
Here in Virginia, citizens apparently will
be confronted with the problem of choosing
not only between Nixon and Kennedy, but
also between these and the Byrd-Goldwater
ticket.
The group which brought forward the
names of Sens. Byrd and Goldwater was
promptly repudiated by both men, but they
say they are going ahead, anyway. They
have obtained the needed 1.000 signatures,
and they contend that the consent of Messrs
Byrd and Goldwater is not necessary
The Times-Dispatch has many of the same
feelings concerning the Democratic and Re-
publican nominees and platforms that are
expressed by those who have proposed the
names of Byrd and Goldwater. The Demo- ssased.
cratic and Republican nominees and plat-
forms are well to the left of what we should
like to see, and much that they stand for is
the party he hopes a Democratic ad-
ministration will replace in power.
There was some good sense behind the
politics, however.
The good sense and the politics got
mixed up when Truman showed his
party’s standard bearer a succession
of displays illustrating the various
tasks a president must handle. “You’ll
see what you’ve got on your hands,”
said Harry to Jack. But he couldn’t
resist adding, “A president has got to
do them all — unless he just plays
golf all the time.”
Or plays the piano. Or goes fishing,
as Hoover did; or reads mysteries and
collects stamps, as the second Roose-
velt did. It’s all in the way you look
at it.
But there was the good sense;
“You'll see what you’ve got on your
hands.” That is something both Ken-
nedv and Richard M Nixon should be
profoundly aware of. The campaign
is not strictly a political game, an elab-
orately complex and arduous striving
for a great office. There is the great
office itself.
When the heat of politicking is over,
for a time, one man or the other will
take a solemn oath in Washington.
And when he does, there will surely
pass through his mind some long
thoughts about what Truman was
showing Kennedy at Independence —
“what you’ve got on your hands.” That
is a thing for both candidates to think
about even amidst the bruising politi-
cal conflict in which they are now en-
By CONSTANTINE BROWN
The creation of a Caribbean pro-
Soviet unit composed of Cuba, the
Dominican Republic, and inevit-
ably Haiti would have been called
a ridiculous fantasy a few days
ago. Now it could gradually be-
come a reality as a result of the
decisions taken at the OAS con-
ference at San Jose. Costa Rica.
There, by unanimous vote, the
government of the Dominican Re-
public not only has been rep-
rimanded for the alleged at-
tempts to instigate the assassina-
tion of President Romule Betan-
court of Venezuela, but drastic
measures short of war, such as
the withdrawal of the OAS am-
bassadors and an economic boy-
cott, have been ordered.
But while President Eisenhower
demanded legal authority from
Congress to hit the people of the
Dominican Republic where it hurt
—mostly by withholding the Do-
minican share of the United States
but also because at the same time
the OAS mildly rapped the
knuckles of Castro, who has been
guilty of far greater misdeeds in-
cluding the confiscation of legiti-
mate properties valued at close to
1 billion.
It seems that the high priests
of our diplomacy refuse to learn
from the mistakes of the past in
1946 the United Nations, at the
bidding of Joseph Stalin, decided
to make Spain a democracy by
overthrowing Generalissimo Fran,
co. Since it was inconvenient to
send troops into Spain — as Stalin
had demanded originally — the
UN ordered the withdrawal of the
ambassadors of its member na-
tions and the establishment of an
unofficial boycott. This, it was be-
lieved. would bring about another
revolution and the demise of Fran,
co’s dictatorial regime.
The contrary happened. The
Spanish people rallied in support
of their strongly anti - Communist
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objectionable.
Yet there can be little question, as of now,
that the Nixon-Lodge ticket, running on the
Republican platform, is less socialistic and
less committed to huge federal spending than
the Kennedy-Johnson ticket running on the
: Democratic platform. There can be little
E question also that one or the other of these
E is going to carry Virginia in November. The
= Byrd-Goldwater ticket hasn't even got the
: backing of the men nominated thereon, much
- less that of any substantial political group
2 in the state. Hence it is sure to run a poor-
F third.
• Since the Byrd-Goldwater ticket's appeal is
= to have those who are so deeply conservative
“ that they are reluctant to back either the
= Democrats or the Republicans, this means
that whatever votes Byrd and Goldwater get
will be subtracted virtually 100 per cent from
Nixon and Lodge, the more conservative nom-
T inees.
: In other words, in a close election, which
. this one may well be, the Byrd-Goldwater
ticket may throw Virginia to the Democrats.
That, in turn, could mean the difference be-
. , tween victory and defeat for Kennedy in the
nation. This is just another way of saying
that the ultraconservative Byrd-Goldwater
ticket could be the direct cause of turning the
United States over to the Democratic party
for four years, if not eight.
The Virginians who have announced the
Byrd-Goldwater ticket are undoubtedly sin-
. cere. Indeed, they are so sincere, and so
idealistic, that they seem to have lost sight
of the practical realities.
Duty to Society
A recurrent idea, often “discovered”
by the young, is that the individual
owes nothing to society. So long as the
individual does no positive harm, it
is thought, he can be a worthy mem-
ber of society without seeking to im-
prove it.
The concept is quite erroneous. If
many individuals seriously entertain-
ed it, society would collapse. That
would leave individuals as independ-
ent, but also as beleaguered and soon
perhaps as savage, as animals in the
jungle.
Ages ago, Thucydides wrote, "No
matter how any man prospers, if
the fortunes of his city decline, his
fortunes decline.” The individual’s fate
is closely bound up with the fate of
the society in which he lives. It fol-
lows that the citizen is both privileged
and obligated to work for the improve-
ment of his society.
There is yet another branch spring-
ing from Thucydides’ observation. The
necessary prelude to improving society
is understanding it. This takes one
logically to the conclusion that every
man and woman in a democracy has a
twofold duty — to learn, and to apply
knowledge to society’s betterment. To
the extent that citizens do not under-
stand and act on this, democracy
falters.
sugar quota — Moscow, which
seems to anticipate everything, cuuc .uu_______
was ready for action. Soviet of- withstood the hardships of the
ficial agents - the Dominican Re- economic blockade for several
public does not have diplomatic years. The cold war followed the
relations with Communist coun- short honeymoon between the
tries - offered to barter whatever U.S.S.R. and its former wartime
the Republic needed for Domini- allies We needed reliable air and
can sugar. Simultaneously, it was naval bases; Washington came to
announced from Cuidad Trujillo the conclusion that Spain could of.
that the Dominican radio station fer valuable real estate for the de-
was negotiating for the service of fense of the free world,
the Soviet news agency Tass. Friends Again
These first steps may seem in- Not . were diplomatic rela.
o M. 4. consequential ^ first sight. They tions with Madrid renewed and a
One More Hurdle do not indicate in the slightest that firm friendship established, but be-
-
Pet Fidel Castresand the Trej^o' blockade we had to provide Spain
mmeraarre: G9
. . , interested in harmony between bases demanded an improvement
It • • | | • such men. They are interested in of the standard of living of the
H—vpocricy in Punic Lite establishing as many anti - Amer- Spanish people. Spain, while suin
1 I y POCl 13Y HI TUOIC ican areas as possible in this hemni- not a member of NATO, has all
' 1 # sphere i n the same become one of the most
By HOLMES ALEXANDER donable sin of hypocrisy upon our He knows better than to send more would important adjuncts in our planned
CHE MIN DE FER EN heads. Since my own field of criti- our boys, even in integrated units, nosince defense system.
FRANCE — What disturbs the cism is politics. I perceive the hy- to the homeland of the Negro. it paradoxically had been ada- There is much talk, though lit-
traveler in alien lands is not a pocrisy in public life, and con The UN action is one of the most mantly hostile to dictatorships. Be- tie is done from the practical point
dread that foreigners will rise up template it, and am compelled movements of fore and during World War II of view, about the tremendous im-
to smite America the Beautiful - to revile it - but I take no pleas, segregated mass movements of mand portance of Latin America and
but that the Lord God in His ven- ure in it. The four men running people in history. It is a manifest the Nazis and opened the gates especially the Caribbean to our
of his country wide to the victims security. For the first time in our
of Nazism, particularly the Jews, history we have an enemy ded-
Since the beginning of the cold icated ‘o our destruction right on
war he has been equally bitterly our doorsteps. The Iron Curtain
opposed to the Soviet Union and has descended upon Cuba. Now
international communism. It took there is strong possibility, judg ng
a miracle — such as that perform- by the most recent developments,
ed at San Jose by Secretary Her- that it will descend upon the Do-
ter and his Latin - American col- minican Republic as well:
leagues — to induce Trujillo to And all this is the result of a
look toward Moscow for help. Tru- misguided philosophy of some of
jillo and even the moderate mem- pur leaders that while we should
bers of the Dominican govern- tolerate and try to befriend Com-
ment. as well as the rank and file munist dictators, we must do our
of the people, were reported indig- best to kick out the other kind. —
nant not only at the harsh treat- (The Bell Syndicate)
leader, buckled their belts and
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To Gen. Lee
Ike's Eloquent Tribute
By RALPH McGILL
The Atlanta Constitution
A dental surgeon in New Rochelle, N. Y.
giving ear to President Eisenhower’s speech
at the Chicago Convention, brooded a few days
over a part of it, and then wrote a letter
requesting an explanation.
Mr. Eisenhower had mentioned that he had
on the walls of his office the pictures of four
great Americans — George Washington, Ben
Franklin, Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee
The gentleman in New Rochelle was politely
but firmly indignant about this. He demanded
to know why the picture of a man who had
tried to destroy the Union was on the walls of
the office of the President of the United States,
Mr. Eisenhower's answer was an eloquent,
moving tribute to Robert Edward Lee. The
President has long been impressed by the
“selflessness” of General Lee and by the fact
that he was ever “unfailing in his faith in
God." It is the revealed character of Lee which
has made so enduring an impression on Mr.
Eisenhower It was this constant, inner in-
tegrity which made General Lee "a poised
and inspiring leader" and one "unfailing in the
trust imposed in him by his fellow citizens."
Qualities Worth Emulating Today
Another aspect of General Lee's character
which the President likes was his conduct after
the Civil War ended Those who have read
the life of the noble Virginian are aware, with
Mr. Eisenhower, that in the postwar years left
to him he strove with all his might to "help
heal the nation's wounds." “These qualities of
Lee," the President wrote, "are worth emu.
lating today, especially by young Americans ”
To do so, Mr Eisenhower thinks, would
strengthen us as citizens and further sustain
our love of freedom
In an historical sense it is a rare sort of let-
ter. It comes very fittingly as the nation pre-
pares to commemorate the 100th anniversary of
the Civil War ‘which forever perpetuated the
Union.
' We learn from it something about Mr Eisen-
hower himself. We sense what qualities of
• character he views as most necessary. We
* feel, too, since he mentions young Americans,
that here is a sound, old-fashioned bit of ad-
vice on values to teen-agers It is quite ap-
parent he feels that this generation, especially
• the young leadership, is called upon to end the
a present divisive controversies and. In a time
' of grave danger, strengthen the Union and its
* ideals of common liberty and freedom
It is true, as the President says, that General
Lee devoted the years left to him to teaching
and instructing the young men in the south.
Gave Youth Faith in the Future
Time after time, by word and example, he
taught love of country and of the Union. He
made his life a symbol of obedience to civil
authority. It was chiefly because of his de-
sire to set an example for young Southerners
that he turned down more advantageous finan-
cial offers to take the presidency of a small
"discouraged college.” He knew that youth
was the future and he sought to give to it
some of his own idealism and his faith in
the future.
He had never wanted secession. He did not
believe in slavery. One of his letters to his
family said: “I am not pleased with the course
of the Cotton States,’ as they term them-
selves. In addition to their selfish, dictatorial
bearing, the threats they throw out at the bor-
der states argue little for the benefit of peace
for Virginia should she determine to coalesce
with them.”
But after a night of prayer he determined, if
Virginia withdrew, to join his state and fight
in defense of it. He wanted no dealings with hot-
heads or fools, the strident screamers and
shooters. He would, we may be sure, have con-
tempt and distrust of those who fill those roles
in our time The President seems to say as
much if one reads between the lines of his let-
ter.
It is easy to understand why Dwight Eisen-
hower admires the qualities of Robert Edward
Lee. — (Consolidated News Features, Inc )
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geance will, for national office have treated proof that the races, while able to
Absence makes the heart grew me with open friendship. I have live in harmony and even affec-
fonder, but also more fearful that been the guest of two of them, an- themselves will
the sins of the left - behind coun- other has written an introduction tion
try will find it out. Somewhere for a book of mine, the fourth froth and fume and become ex-
along the way, I had a meal with has given me tete - a -tete in- plosive if forcibly mixed.
a lonely Army Colonel who had terviews for many years, upon re- Force is the catalyst. Voluntary
served 19 of his 25 service years quest. But I am bound to say that acceptance in adult communities
abroad. three out of the four are arrantly „ the of force and is
"I will match any of your sup- insincere in their professions of opposit it : a
er - patriots,” he said, "in love liberalism. If God looks into their generally a fine thing. Amid re-
of my native land. There's no hearts, as I'm sure He does. He ports from the Congo, the New
place where the heart beats hard- will find a mare’s nest of quack- York papers in Paris brought a
er for home than on some dis- ery and humbug on the upper-
tant post or station.”
. : ... report that Jackie Robinson, the
most domestic subject of 1960 — .,
the subject called Civil Rights, superb Negro ballplayer of the
This is why, I have been brood- 1940 s and early 50 s, might be se-
ing in these travels, the Lord is . lected to manage the San Fran-
more likely to chastise us with Cisco nts. ..
the race problem than with nu- Well, I hope it happens Major
clear bombs. The hypocrisy in race League baseball 15 > community
matters is now being laid bare which has clearly accepted multi-
and shameless by the shining racial performers. Branch Rickey
Truth of current history. Despite had some trouble introducing Rob-
white expeditionary force io the personal relations. Since then Ne
very frankly on military race- lead us all into falsehood _ not
mixing, is saying the same thing, merely in these matters but many
others.
... . 1 Surely, the races can share the
Good Morning, Ladies earth, and its blessings, but it
_______________-22L__________takes real wisdom among leaders
A J n 1 to bring it off. Three out of the
Comrade Boss Ladies four national candidates don’t
* - Y have it, and don’t want it, be-
A I TAIL I AL: 5 cause wisdom in this field is long
Ask, Where s Chivalry ? - and election day comes in No-
" * vember.
can’s. • From crime, from depravity.
Men of all nationalities balk at from unwisdom, and especially
working under women bosses. In from political hypocrisy, the Lord
this country, a man can always deliver us! — (McNaught Syndi-
quit and get another job if some cate, Inc.)
woman is put in charge of him, COIN AND READ IT
but in Russia he works where GRIN II
he’s told. Also, there are com-
paratively few women bosses in
this country, which is just another
blessing inherent in the American
system.
After a man has been bossed
How truly spoken! And it could
be added, as the traveling Words-
worth wrote:
“What wayward thoughts will
fly into a lover's head!”
Oh, mercy! one thinks. What if
it's too late for the USA to assert
its best and noblest nature! What
if we're due to get our deserts!
We are surely the wickedest na-
tion on earth. The annual uniform
crime reports of the FBI testify
to that. We must be the one na-
tion which makes the most de-
praved use of its leisure. The
television programs sponsored by
the great American private enter-
prise system bear witness to this.
And to his enduring credit as a
journalist of integrity, columnist
John Crosby, who makes his liv-
ing as a TV critic, lays it on the
line. “We teach juvenile delin-
quency on television — spon-
sored," he writes
The worst of it is that we know
better, and this puts the unpar-
Assignment: Washington
Padded Heads Necessary
For Space Astronauts
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By KEN DUVALL
More than half the executives
in all professional and industrial
fields in Russia are women. Wo-
men hold 58 per cent of the labor
jobs on farms and 47 per cent
of office and factory jobs. They
form 55 per cent of the popula-
tion. But they aren't too happy.
For one thing, I've been read-
ing in an economic report from
Moscow on the status of women
in that heavenly republic, the
men are bucking for the soft
jobs, like accounting and plan-
By ED KOTERBA
WASHINGTON — Hold on. the
man said. In a second, the en-
gines of the Atlas missile would
ignite. And there the Congress-
men sat, rigidly, staring tensely
ahead, waiting for the boom
Would they pass the noise test?
Suddenly, the room shuddered
Those of us in the rear winced
and cowered The din was incred-
ible. But up front, the Congress-
men just sat. No physical reac-
tion.
We were, for audio purposes,
in a Mercury capsule set to be
propelled into space The noise
came from an actual recording
of an Atlas rocket. This was the
sound the future astronaut would
hear through his padded helmet.
Two huge speakers, set in the
front corners of the hearing room,
zeroed in on the law-makers It
was through these speakers that
the record of the racket of the
rocket roared at us.
Front and center — wearing no
cotton or other protective devices
— was Rep. Overton Brooks (D-
By Lichty
all day by a lady comrade fore-
man, or had his accounts criti-
ning, and leaving the plowing, cited before the whole office by
planting, street cleaning and hod a lady comrade chief comptroller,
carrying to the muscle girls. Mos- or seen his plans torn up by a
cow has some pretty tart things lady comrade executive planning
to say about these wily com- director, he's not likely to give
rades. up his bar stool even to his com-
But what burns the lady com- rade grandmother in the evening,
rades most is that the men have Like a lot of other things in
lost their chivalry. They don't the Russian scheme, the govern-
know how to ask a girl to dance ment’s insistence upon their wo-
and they have practically aban- men’s parity with men in jobs
doned the practice of giving and salaries, and on the "sweep-
presents, even artificial flowers, ing measures taken to free wo-
The girls think it’s time for a men from household chores,’' as
change, and the Kremlin agrees this document says, runs contrary
with them. Unless the boys learn to male nature. If the men have
to remove their hats and bend found ways to wangle cush jobs,
at the waist in the presence of leaving the heavy heave-ho
lady comrades. I predict some chores to women, who can blame
heads will roll. them?
Admittedly any American man Male chivalry came into being
who comments on this and criti- during the era when the female
cizes the Russian comrade risks was frail and confined her activi-
receiving a sharp note from Com- ties to making the male com-
rade Khrushchev to the effect, fortable and happy It is the first
"Look who’s talking!" Things thing that dies with parity and
aren't so good around here, ei- "emancipation," because the
ther, as any local girl can tell male figures it's no longer neces-
you. Still, there seems to be more sary. We don't like your attitude,
excuse for the Russian man’s Comrade Ivan, but we understand
boorishness than for the Ameri- it. — (Field Enterprises, Inc.)
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“Since when was this organization elected to pioneer
the 30-hour week? . . .”
La.), chairman of the Space
Committee
Staging the test was the Na-
tional Space Agency’s official
noise man. Dr Ira H. Abbott.
“We will hit 115 decibels,” said
Dr. Abbott. This was frightening
in view of what he said earlier.
He said 70 decibels of noise is
so loud it would disturb normal
conversation. And 90 decibels
dulls your hearing. Above 130 deci-
bels. you could become perma-
nently deaf. The noise of 140 dec-
ibels is enough to break up an
airplane.
Now, the roar of the rocket en-
gine crescendoes toward full
thrust, the actual takeoff. . .90.
100, 105...
My uppers jiggled against my
lowers. My ear drums vibrated
like a couple of tom-toms at a bon-
go dance.
But there the Congressmen sat,
showing no discomfort.
After two full minutes, the roar
finally fell away as the rocket
theoretically swept into the high-
er atmosphere. An assistant
turned off the recorder.
"Marvelous!" said a fellow at
my side. He was admiring the
inhuman aplomb of the lawmak-
ers through it all. But his buddy
drawled: "All politicians get that
way after years of hearing their
own noise. Nature has given them
padded heads.”
That got me to thinking that
maybe the space people training
the astronauts are sending up the
wrong men.
Dr. Abbott, who put on the
show to demonstrate the impor-
tance of our noise problems, said
our government is spending per-
haps more than a million dollars
a year in this jet age to find
ways to cut down aircraft racket.
Obviously, said Rep James Ful-
ton (R-Pa.), the noise experts
aren't having much success. Dry-
- ly. he told the racket research-
er
"We have an airport next to
Pittsburgh where the noise is be-
yond the tolerance of the people
there The people are now willing
to give it away.”
The din specialist gave the Con-
gressman a long, understanding
look. And so it appears that
noise, in increasing decibels, is
here to stay.
Perhaps some day nature, which
in the past has given both man
and beast natural tools of de-
fense, will endow us all with pad-
ded heads. — (United Feature
Syndicate, Inc.)
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