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Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world. (11 Timothy 4:10.)..
PR AY ER: Our Father God, grant us the gift of constancy
in faith. W hen tempted to seek ease and comfort, arouse us
with a new baptism of Thy spirit. W hen lured by the en-
ticements of this world, may we keep hr gaze upon Christ
lest we miss the trail leading lo Thy kingdom.
THE ABILENE REPORTER NEWS
Abilene, Texas, Thursday Morning, July 13, 1NI
Mystery in Chambers'
Death, as in His Life
Whittaker Chambers even in death
was strange
He died Sunday, but it was not an-
nounced until after his cremation
Tuesday.
Chambers became famous when he
turned informer' and helped send
Communist spy Alger Hiss to prison
for perjury
He admitted that he himself had
been a Communist for 14 years, then
was revuised by Communism and did
all he could to turn the spotlight on
Hiss.
He appeared before the House Un-
American Activities Committee when
Richard Nixon was a freshman con-
gressman member of that body Later
he led investigators to his farm and
turned up microfilm in pumpkins
which he said Hiss had given to him
to relay to Communist agents
Later' he wrote an autobiography
called “Witness.” in which he recount-
ed his experiences with the Com-
munists
Chambers was one of those strange
enigmas, a man of intelligence and
education (Columbia University), and
professional success who still could
embrace communism But he saw the
folly of his ways and reformed.
During the weird, hectic days of
the Chambers - Hiss battle before the
House Un-American Committee and
in trial courts, the man who knew
him best was Richard Nixon
Nixon had this comment Tuesday
on Chambers’ death:
"One of the great tragedies of our
time is that a man of Whittaker
Chambers’ extraordinary abilities be-
came involved in the Communist con-
spiracy.
“But the courage which led him to
break with that conspiracy and the
inspired eloquence with which he
fought it to the dav of his death more
than atoned for his earlier mistakes.
“His book ’Witness’ is the most
penetrating analysis of the true na-
ture and deadly appeal of communism
produced in this generation it should
be required reading for every Ameri-
can who is concerned bv the threat
of communism ”
TAS
Other Viewpoints
Honorary Degrees
The Austin American:
It is truly a jaundiced eye that many
Americans cast upon the honorary academic
degree these days — and in some cases their
skepticism is justified.
No Room for Chance
"I’d much rather have us do it this
way than to have to send American
CIVIL
DEF
La S
Matter of Fact
Civil Defense Rebuffed,
But Need May Be Near
By JOSEPH ALSOP gress. But think of my responsi-
WASHINGTON - Since it was bility If something goes wrong.
boys to do it," President Kennedy
told his 30-man Committee for Inter-
national Development in a Monday Honoct Action Needed
interview on the White House lawn 1 ONEol CUOIl ACcdeu
Does Seem There's Room for Improvement
The committee chairman, Warren
Lee Pierson representing Trans
In, recent years there have been a few World Airlines, told the President
well - publicized awards made by universities that "we are going to do our best to
for poorly disguised commercial reasons, for see that the (pending) bill is passed"
political expediency or as publicity bait Un- The committee asks the American
fortunately, these represent for the public peop|e to give their support to a bill
the whole system of honorary degrees Histori- that wonl bromide fem, t . Give
rally, these degrees have been more positive that would provide four to five bil- facilities in the Southern states
in nature . lion dollars worth of aid to our friends will be availabe to all citizens.
A: Its best an honorary degree from a and to beef up our own defenses exactly as they already are in
university is awarded for distinguished puplic The President has described this the rest ot the states of this
service 'outstanding creative work, or other measure as "probably the most vital country
altruistic accomplishments of note The most piece of legislation in the national What produces so much agony
frequently given of these degrees are the interest that may be before the coun- of spirit for those who love the
Doctor of Laws the Doctor of Humane Let- try this year." ’ South is the incredible gulf which
• ters and the Doctor of Divinity. The president's military leaders are exists for so many persons be
The first honorary degrees to be awarded known to have taken a dim view of tweeaith o X revealed x
in America went tOlthe three faculty mem our defense preparations in the face the near bankruptcy ore honest
hers VI 2 of increasing Russian threats to stir action on the part of much of the
Benjamin Franklin received an honorary . 1 :,
Master of Arts degree from Harvard and up trouble in Europe especially con- regions business, religious, news
Yale Universities and the College of Wil- cerning Berlin paper and political leadership.
liam and Marv in Virginia. Americans who imagine we are “the Members of these compartments
George Washington received an honorary strongest nation on earth.” as some of our life know what the facts
Doctor of Laws degree from Harvard Umi- of our suner-pat riots insist, are play- nuamobers of econudtAn
versity in 1776 and his young friend the ing with fire not to mention the per- on the other side 0 the gulf of
Marquis de Lafayette received the same de petuity of this nation as a democracy, unawareness they consider them-
free from the same university when he was We simply cannot afford to take selves paralyzed insofar as any
only 27 years old From then on the honorary chances' We must be as certain as we leadership is concerned They wait
* as entrenched in academic history can be that our defenses are power- for an injunctive lawsuit or bloody
The most recent figures available report ful and always ready for defensive mob violence to compel decision.
a total of 6,291,779 earned degrees granted by action ’ We may pass over whether this
542 American universities since their found- other friendly nations look to us paralysis of intellectual honesty
ing In the same length of time, 77,116 honor- - bli hut re must mate or and leadership truly constitutes
ary degrees were awarded for backing but we must make cert love of the South and move 0n to
Honorary degrees can serve as an impor- tain-sure that we ourselves are ready yet another aspect of this unhappy
tant reward for service well rendered to so- for any eventuality situation
ciety. If granted and received as such they Russia and her satellites mean us The quality of unawareness IS
can reflect dedicated public service or unus- no good They are out to "get us and at times almost unbelievable. A
Facts of Life in the South
By RALPH McGILL Texas editor, for example asked
The facts of life in the South in a recent angry editorial about
are that sooner or later all public • freedom riders "How would the
people of Harlem feel if loads of
is a court suit for each one The
state laws, now being depended
ual and constructive service to institutions of our friends We must take no chances
higher learning.
that they will catch us napping. (F. G)
Soviet Planes Noted
Send Aid--or U. S. Boys?
By DORIS FLEESON
WASHINGTON - In the face of a Soviet
about-face on arms, President Kennedy in
his strongest statement to date on behalf of
his foreign aid program, said that he would
rather send aid than American boys abroad
to protect the nation The aid program, he
declared before a citizens group organized to
aid his program was the most vital now be-
fore Congress
Military experts in Washington were deep-
ly interested in the show of force Chairman
Khrushchev put on for Soviet Air Force Day
There was concern at the advances which
the Soviet air force demonstrated, but no
alarm
What was obvious was that new planes of
advanced designs, and some of those shown
cannot be duplicated by the 1 United States
at present were not developed overnight
Some of them have taken years to get from
the drawing boards of Russian engineers to
, the operational stage Their existence proves
two things One is that while Khrushchev
7, has been claiming some sort of unilateral dis-
armament during the past year, he has been
getting militarily stronger at least in some
directions, despite his claims The other is
that the plans of the Soviet Union in the
prospective change from manned planes to
missiles have not gone so far as the United
States
In any event, the news from Moscow is
causing a new review of American strength
e and plans by the Pentagon Defense Secre-
Ury Robert S McNamara said that another
examination of our defense posture would be
made Despite the demonstration of new So-
iff viet weapons he still finds the U S “as
strong or stronger than any potential aggres-
sor ’
1 Khrushchev doubtless did not intend to do
so, but he notably increased chances for
Il passage of the foreign aid bill which has
been under isolationist attack That there
- will be some sort of aid program again this
year no one doubts What is at stake is what
kind of program will be available Kennedy
is trying again this year to attain what Pres-
ident Eisenhower failed to do, which Is to
get a five year program roing He feels that
ma ny of the failures of the program in the
past have come from piecemeal planning
hi nations such as India and Pakistan
which have good planning and five - year
programs, haw as an help them effectively
first established, the Office of Ci-
vilian Defense Mobilization has
been one of those areas of govern-
ment that come to resemble city
dumps littered with unread press
releases, unrealized programs,
and otherwise unemployable pa-
tronage appointees But it is now
the center of a major, vividly
revealing drama
The chief actor in the drama is
President Kennedy. The theme
and cause is the President’s reali-
zation, which seems to be shared
by very few people as yet, that
the decision to stand up and be
counted at Berlin involves a clear
risk of a nuclear exchange The
risk is thought to be very small,
if Nikita S Khrushchev can
only be convinced the U S
means business. No one believes
the Kremlin is in the least pre-
pared to fight an intentional nu-
clear war for Berlin But what is
risked is so stupendous and terri-
ble that even one chance in a thou-
sand of this result is enough to af-
flict any responsible man
The best figures come from a
study of the need for serious Civ
il Defense measures, which was
ordered by President Eisenhower
and filed and forgotten, as usual,
as soon as it was completed The
figures of casualties are substan-
. tially too high, since they were
based on an assumed Sov iet nu-
clear attack in the year 1963,
when Soviet intercontinental rock-
et - power will be much greater
than it is today But even alt-
er making due allowance for this
important error, the study’s fore
cast of seventy million American
dead is quite ugly enough
we might have 70 million dead.”
For this stern reason, serious
action on the Civil Defense front
is now being prepared in the sen-
sible expectation that Congress
will have to vote the funds if
asked for them in a business - like
and convincing tone The sign of
these preparations is the behind-
the - scenes tussle that has been
going on, about the responsibili-
ties ot tiie Office of Civil De-
fense Mobilization
Organizations long treated as
governmental dumping grounds
are seldom well adapted to great,
last minute efforts Until very
recently, the OCDM did not even
have in its files a program of
short - range action, aimed to
minimize the impact of a nuclear
exchange in so far as this is pos-
sible to do in a short space of
time The administrator, Frank
Ellis 4 Louisiana politician, is a
patronage appointee like all his
predecessors.
Hence the OCDM is clearly un-
fitted for the kind of efforts the
President now wants Plans have
therefore been prepared for trans-
fer of action responsibility to Sec-
retary of Defense Robert MeNa-
mara Civil Defense Administra-
tor Ellis is resisting the transfer,
on the fairly specious slogan
that Civil Defense ought to be a
civilian task But it is a good bet
that the transfer will be made
rather shortly.
It would be made now, in all
probability, if the Defense De-
partment experts did not first
have to do a lot of basic home-
work The most effective type of
short term shelter program fit st
has to be determined. The pro-
This is what has been afflicting gram then has to be “costed out”
the President The most import- in the government accountants’
ant symptom, to date, has been phrase
his recurrent attempt to persuade
In reality, much can be ac-
the Congressional leaders that complished in the short time,
something big ought to be done available before the expected .
on for such segregation in public without further delay, about the crunch at Berlin Fall out shel-
travel are unconstitutional Civil Defense program. From ters are by no means difficult or
The freedom riders may be go- Vice President Johnson down, expensive to pres re The mere
ing where they are not wanted, they have told him that Civil De- preparation of fall - out shelters
fense was one activity for which for persons outside immediate
but hey are none ne ess dram the Congress would not appropri- target areas would reduce the
atizing that the states involved ate additional funds casualites of a nuclear exchange
are invoking laws which have The Congressional dislike for by more than one half Even in
been declared unconstitutional Civil Defense spending is in fact target areas, blast shelters that
In Montgomery the local buses plain from the record The new will stand up except at “ground
have been desegregated tor about State Department was built, in zero" are not impossible to im-
three years On the day of the the era of Soviet rocketry, with provise
mob some members ot that violent no adequate shelters Just the oth- When a program is completed,
South-damaging group undoubted- er day. $1 500,000 was cut from the President is thinking about
ly rode desegregated buses to the cost of a new federal build- writing a personal letter to all U.
participate in brutal beatings of ing in New York by the simple s cit zens tellin s each ot them
persons at" e segrega in er- expedient of cutting out its blast- what to do nd how to do it in a
state bus depot proof shelter But this feckless brief simple way In short, he
rides with the denial of equal Since then this station has been record does not sat sly the Pres means business about Civil De-
protection of the law, and the desegregated, yet life at Mont- dent He grimly answered one fense strange as this may st II
rights ot citizenship, illustrates the somery goes on its accustomed group of his discouraging congres- seem to m ny people - Copy-
almost unbelievable lack of under- way sional consultants right, 1961 New York Herald Tri-
slanding of what is at issue Columbus, Georgia, whose seg- "Maybe you re right about Con- bune Inc.)
The freedom riders, who may resated municipal airport had for
or may not have overdone their years affronted South American - ,
protest, patently are quite another military office s arriving there en- To Join Common Market
thing A number of bus and rail- route to Fort Benning for training.
road depots in the South long have has desegregated its airport ter-
been desegregated without waiting minal on request of the F A A.
for mobs An ICC ruling soon Thus, an important Latin Amer-
may order all bus stations to end ican gateway td American prin-
discrimination But, until, and un- ciples' has been cleared of re-
less, that is done, the alternative strictions which caused many for-
Klansmen started rides into Har-
lem?"
This is perhaps the masterpiece
of irrelevancy insofar as this is-
sue is concerned The K K. K.
if its members started invading
Harlem, might not attract any
attention at all That area is used
to Muslims and various esoteric
religious groups going in various
sorts of robes
If recognized for what they are.
the K K K likely would attract
some boos or, perhaps, a few
demonstrations. That an adult
person would seriously seek to
compare such theatrical Klan
Stop Killing Yourself
Saying Is Wrong! A Little
Knowledge Isn't Dangerous
eign visitors to take away hurt
feelings and a hostile image of this
country.
By PETER J. STEINCROHN
MD., F.A.C P.
on major projects when we have to go back People get into the habit of
to Congress every year for appropriations swallowing what they hear with
which ’he aided nations do not know they can out really thinking through the
count on he asks import of the remark For ex-
whether I have hardening of the
arteries I am only 48 and I can t
seem to remember as well as I
ample, one
Kennedy demonstrated some of the extra-
ordinary candor of which he is capable in
discussing the aid program with industrial-
ists, labor leaders and educators who had
joined to support his program He told of
his plans for organization of the new foreign
aid agency which is contemplated and asked
for help in staffing it with more people of
the highest ability Out of the meeting may
come more candid talks with members of
Congress, some of whom have been soured
man will hear.
“Exercise is
STEINCROHN
good for you."
and will pro-
ceed to go in
for rigorous ex-
ertions — play-
ing 18 holes of
golf a day or
taking 10 mile
used to.. If I don t write it all
down on paper I forget what I
planned to do When I’m convers-
ing with friends and neighbors I
suddenly can t continue because
1 forget what I was talking about
During the past year my grand-
child died and my youngest son
was killed in an accident. I just
can’t get over it And my two
other boys, who were involved in
a manslaughter charge, are in pris
on now I have had two major
Economics Bring England
Into Line Against Reds
By CONSTANTINE BROWN
ZURICH — This somewhat
sleepy city in German-speaking
Must, then, the Souths leader- Switzerland does not boast about
ship remain paralyzed—unable, or being the financial capital of the
unwilling, to act to bring an end world, but big industrialists and
to discriminations in public facil- bankers the world over including,
ities until mobs or the slower monopolists behind the Iron and
processes of law substitute for Bamboo Curtains regard it as
local action? Where are those who such
have been saying, "Let the South When asked about accounts
solve its problems?" bearing numtiers rather than
In their private affairs, the names, extremely discreet and
people of Southern states, as of uncommunicative Swiss bankers
New York, California, or Vermont, —insofar as their bank affairs are
may practice racial discrimination concerned — will simply remind
as severely as they choose They you of their stringent banking reg
remain highly selective in their ulations But it is pretty well
choices of associates and guests, known that not a single dictator
by past failures walks Another will sensibly ask
The President is aware that while a slowly himself if he’s a good candidate
increasing number of nations can use foreign for exercise Is his heart strong
aid most effectively, there are others where enough Wouldn’t it be better to
failures are almost certain to result But in relax more’
these cases — and in private he names And so it is with this remark
names — withdrawal of all aid would al- "A little knowledge is danger-
most certainly be an invitation for Soviet or 0l‘' Some people swallow this
perhaps Cuban interests to walk in and pick and refuse to learn anything al
pieces Some suc h nations occupy geo all about their heart lor
graphically vital places from which contagion sure, ulcers or anything else per
could spread to countries sounder and more taining to health Very often
Fea - CooTient, Wl by United Feature ^ * accident they re nd the
Syndicate Inc.) warnings against cancer. As a
result they are the most likely
to die of a cancer which they
didn't even suspect — they don’t
believe in a ' little knowledge "
Don't let anyone talk you into
believing that a little knowledge is
dangerous We who are interested
in giving you health information
realize that we aren't lecturing
to medical students We don't ex-
pect you to be able to diagnose or
treat We wouldn't want you to do
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it’s true that the difference be-
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clock on how many priceless
days have been lost on the calen-
dar. Procrastination is what kills
Dear Dr Steincrohn: I'd like
to know if I am mentally HI or
operations and also suffer from
arthritis — Mrs T. U.S.A
COMMENT Have you been to
your doctor"’ Chances are he said
that you are quite sane and that
your forgetfulness isn’t due to
hardening of the arteries My
guess is that he is right I think
you've had your fill of misery
during the past year.
But. it is urgently necessary and very few business tycoons
that the South realize that con- are without a secret numtier ac
tinued denial of the rights of all count either in Zurich, Basle or
citizens to share public facilities Geneva Hence, by necessity, these
1 can bring only chaos, and econom- large banking cities, and espe-
ic. spiritual and educational loss cially Zurich, have by far the best
Surely it is not anti white, or anti- political intelligence in the world
Southern to insist that leadership —probably even better than the
cease deceiving and agitating Vatican's
those who do not understand this This prologue was needed to
inescapable fact of their lives show why the most reliable news
GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty
Dear Dr Steincrohn I have at-
tacks of cystitis My bladder gets
inflamed and I have pain and
pass urine frequently I drink a
lot of water but it doesn t seem
to help I’m afraid to go to a doc-
tor because 1 know he will recom-
mend a cystoscopic examina-
tion - Mrs. L., Ohio
A And that’s probably what
you need if you want to get well:
otherwise, you'll be guessing In-
flammation of the bladder can
come from infection below or
from above — in the ureters and
the kidneys It can also come
from infection in the blood or as
a secondary infection from some
growth in the bladder wall itself
Better find out Guessing will get
you nothing but grief and unneces.
sary suffering
Dr. Steincrohn’s leaflet. “When
to Suspect Your Gall Bladder," ‘
will be mailed on receipt of a
stamped, self - addressed envel-
ope. and 10 cents in coin for han-
dling Address your request to Dr.
Steincrohh, c-o this newspaper.-
(A Bell Syndicate Feature).
%.
. He
“My folks think we see too much violence on televi-
sion . .They just won’t give us credit for having ideas
of our own, Otis!’’
about Britain's present financial
plight and her hard drive to join
the continental European Com-
mon Market is better-known and
understood here than anywhere
else. For several months now the
British government has realized
that its economic policies, repre-
sented in the organize ation of the
Outer Seven the British Com-
monwealth Portugal, Norway,
Sweden. Denmark Austria and
Switzerland), did not offer the
best chance for economic surviv al.
While all, the nations in the
Common Market France, Ger-
many. Italy and the three Bene-
lux countries: have been enjoy-
ing an unprecedented boom. Brit-
ain is miles behind The British
gold and hard currency reserves
have been dwindling and so has
her export trade While in the
Common Market group unemploy-,
ment is practically nonexistent, it
is rampant in Britain
Under these conditions, the Lon-
don government turned toward
the Common Market, which it
had once spurned. Negotiations
were started with the two prin-
cipal leaders De Gaulle of
France and Adenauer of Ger-
many but canny British Prime
Minister Macmillan was in for a
shock On general pr inciple, there
was no objection to Britain being
added to the list of the prosperous
six the complicated economic dif-
ferences could lie straightened
out, with good will from both
sides But the price asked from
Britain by the French and Ger-
man leaders was political, Brit-
ain. they insisted must cease try-
ing to be the “honest broker" be-
tween the Communist dictators
and the democratic powers of the
West.
Macmillan was gently but dip-
lomatically told that Britain had
been doing a disservice by play-
ing both ends against the middle
in the hope of keeping a shaky
peace- more profitable to the
Communist cause than to the free
world — with the expectation of
deriving substantial economic
gains by trade with the Commu-
nist bloc, especially in strategic
materials' Unless Britain joined
continental Europe with all sin-
cerity in opposing international
communism, no room could be
found for her in the Common Mar-
ket
Europe’s statesmen refused to
See BROWN, Pg. 16-B, Col. 7
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