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Show Fair and Warmer The Allen-Sco- tt Report Report of SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1963 A Lesson in Citizenship r pro-porti- on developed their plans without waiting to be ordered into action by a federal court. This tnarks recognition in many quarters that post legal; remedies sought as a means of barring de- segregation have been exhausted. This being so, more and more communities regard a court fight as a fruitless waste of time, energy and money on all sides. It is la further sign, too, that most Americans of region want their schools open and The education of functioning. millions; of American children for a new and more challenging day is too importat to permit of any roadblocks. Many! southern communities are mindful! as well that they are playing an important and growing role in the economic and scientific revolution that is sweeping the nation. They prize their new place in the scheme of things. They see no point in allowing the racial issue or any others to interpose itself between them and ' 'ts whatever For those who bemoan the passrugged individualing of ism in America and lament what they regard as sheeplike submis-- l sion to daily tax shearing by local,1 so-call- ed state and federal governments,! there may be encouraging news in the Treasury Department's report on how its war against the moonshiners went in fiscal 1963. A total of 3,092,000 gallons of il- legal liquor or mash was seized between July 1, 1962, and June 30, 1963. This was a decline of almost 10 per cent from fiscal 1962, indicating there were fewer illegal operators. But 3,000,000 gallons is still a respectable figure (if you can call it that) . More than 8,500 persons were arrested in the one year for federal liquor law violations, 2,400 vehicles were seized and more than 6,200 stills destroyed. Property was confiscated to the tune of $2 million-plu-s. violators are now serving jail sentences of three, four or five years, but there seems to be so lack of volunteers to take their places. Every year since George Washington sent the militia into Pennsylvania to enforce the first liquor Convicted tax against the farmers, the story of moonshiner vs. "revenooer" has been repeated until it is a part of American folklore. If yon want, you might look upon it as proof of man's natural-borplain cussed resistance io taxation or to laws, relation" took place on a voluntary basis. That is, the school districts n, j j through the front door.: In Houston, Texas, for example, 150 families have meals delivered at dinner time six days a week. In Miami, Fla., there are two firms wMch cater individual meals at the home. Each attends the needs of 2,000 families daily. It is especially popular in this city, due to Cuban refugees: who were familiar with such a service, popular back home. d of all U.S. married more women, or than 12 million, have jobs. This new development of meals on wheels can; make their lives easier. For the aged and those on special diets and invalids, it would be a boon. Even welfare people are looking into it.; Under direction of the county health department, one county in Maryland is providing bring-i- n meals for 12 invalids. In New York a study is being made on similar service to elderly families under a grant from the U.S. Public Health Service. five-cour- se , i One-thir- The Worry Clinic Churches Could Do Better, Cheaper Job By GEORGE W. CRANE, Ph.D., M. D. CASE Don J. Odle is a famous Q-44- 8: athletic coach at Taylor University, On a recent lecture series before various seminary and college convocations, I spoke at Taylor University. There I met Don Odle, who for ten years has used a far better plan than our expensive Peace Corps. YMCA handled all such missionary work, Americans were looksd up to, as if we were almost miniature gods. "BuJ. Dr. Crane," somebody may protest, "isn't the; Peace Corps doing a good job?" Yes, it undoubtedly is. But the real test of efficiency nowadays is not a matter of "good" vs. "bad" but of "good" vs. "BETTER." And the $63,000,000 of coerced taxes spent on the Peace Corps in one year for a mere 9,000 men and women sent abroad, would have rendered far better service if the churches had invested that amount. For government cannot equal the efficiency of private business nor of churches. Moreover, the Boy Scouts, the YMCA and CYO, plus the missionary work of the churches, the Red Cross, and such splendid touring basketball teams as those which Don Odle has led abroad for 10 yearsi do NOT take our taxes. Henceforth, please analyze every project with this idea in mind: "Does; it require our taxes?" If so, land if freewill money is available to 4 the same thing, by all means veto such government boondoggling, even under the guise of a laudable goal. You priests, rabbis and ministers must awaken the nation quickly to the danger of letting Uncle Sam usurp the functions of your churches! . For when Uncle Sam imitates Russia in using forced taxes to bribe goodwill around the world, that is! power politics ' and no more worthy of respect than Russia's similar bribery. So send for the bookie "How to Save Our Republic," enclosing a long stamped, return envelope, plus 20c and use it in your sermonizing. For Uncle Sam is fast becoming the "camel'- 'in the church's tent! Beware! (Always write to Dr. Crane in care of this newspaper,! encloing a long stamped, addressed envelope and 20c to cover typing and printing costs wua for one of his booklets.) ; : For Don has toured the Orient and South America with a basketball team of star players from various colleges After their games, as well as at half time, they also serve as preachers, for they all act much like small editions of Billy Graham, for they address packed crowds of 17,500 or more at their games. Remember, too, that these splendid ambassadors of goodwill and brotherhood, are not spending our taxes on such goodwill tours! And that is one of tht dangers in the Peace Corps. For coerced taxes, even when used for good ends, as by the members of the Peace Corps, are still not the right way to help other nations! Our Founding Fathers did not want Uncle Sam to invade the realm of the churches or YMCA and similar philanthropic groups, any more than they wanted him to compete with the steel mills and similar private business firms. Yet Uncle Sam has been sinking literto ally billions of dollars in hand-out- s downtrodden foreign nations, yet we are more hated today than at any previous tune in this entire 20th century! But YihsTt the various churches and j - i . ", afiti-itiissi- le , ianti-missi- le i V . 1 i: .' 1963-196- 25-pa- ge anti-ballist- ic J 1 Washington Window THE CHOPPING BLOCK On Books and Burials "Grief therapy" for which the mourners are eager to pay. Then there is the matter of flowers. Sympathy flowers are said to account for some 70 per cent of all flower sales. "What is POf?" the author asks. It does norstand for Petal Odor, but for the words, Please Omit. The embattled florists fight valiantly against what they call "cheapie" funerals. Please omit flowers to them is an insult. In England, where funerals are much cheaper, there is no public viewing, so no call for a complete restoration, which may be the major item in the funeral director's profit. Bodies will decay in spite of "everlasting" caskets and vaults. As for me I don't want to be a spectacle when I'm dead, but as my wife tells me, "You will have nothing to say about it." When we're dead we're helpless, but I can think of many" other things I'd like to have my money, if any, used for than to create "A Beautiful Memory." People who belong to Memorial Societies are getting buried for around $300. This, the funeral i men say is the working of Communism. If you read this book you may decide that you simply can't afford to die. Miss Mitford's somewhat biased book is going to have the funeral directors spin- ing in their $1,000 caskets. By FRANK C. ROBERTSON In our constant endeavor to point out the changing aspects of life in America, the spotlight should now move to: Meals on the Front Stoop. For, you see, in addition to food coming to the dining room from the kitchen, it is now moving into an increasing number of homes j never conducted similar expert- ments, McNamara's aides con- firmed that this was true, but were unmoved. They also admitted that General Power was' correct in stating the treaty would bar the U.S., nuclear test ban treaty debate. from holding similar tests. HowV The lid was . tightly put on inever, they disagreed with the Air telligence showing a major SoForce general's contention that viet nuclear te'st breakthrough by the tests were needed to develop the Pentagon's; blue penciling of an effective U.S. missile defense a number of important passages system and that the public was en in the highly critical report betitled to this information. fore it was released this week by censors also McNamara's Senate Senator John Stennis struck the report data on from, Armed Services Preparedness missile system the Subcommittee. that the Russians are now deploy- - i The subcommittee's alarming ing around teningrad, including report, outlining the major disan intelligence estimate indicate will the that treaty advantages :'f ing:. have on U.S. security, has beThat the initial operational , come the rallying point and the of the Leningrad syscapability Bible for senators opposing Pres-- , tem could bej achieved irivl963, ident Kennedy's test ban agreewith 32 missiles al-- j ment with Russia. I on launchers. ready cenmissle Defense The That this Department's system is believed to have atsoring, which in effect bars sub- committee members from pub- -' tained effectiveness against bal- inthe deleted listic missiles fired' from 300 to licly discussing Senawhen 1,500 miles. occurred formation, 4 tor Stennis submitted the the Soviet During to to a McNamara's report deploy plan Secretary transportable office for security clearance be'missile system to their army fronts. This system fore making it pubhe. l will be effective against all U.S. After checkjing with the White intermediate range ballistic misHouse, McNa;nara's aides ordersiles and those of shorter range. ed deleted from the committee's The Soviet system possibly report all itiformaiion revealing could underl certain conditions, that the Soviets' "big yield" nunow defend limited areas of the clear tests probed "the ability of USSR against U.S. Titan and Atradars to acquire and track a ralas ICBMs. missile warhead through the SNEAK PREVIEW In his! dar and communications blacknuthe frank, testimony against out created, by nuclear exploForce! test ban Air clear sions." treaty, General Thomas S. Power may! When several committee memhave given a sneak preview o bers vigorously objected to this what could develop into the, maunexpected Censoring, the Pentagon whiz kids made their blue jor issue of next gear's Presidential campaign. the penciling stjick by raising A close friend of Senator Barry security issuje. senators , General J?ow Goldwater, They argued that the to is have influenced er known blunt report, unless changed, 's decision the GOP would give the Russians details to oppose the treaty by' his warnon the capability of U.S. intelliing that the Kennedy administraf-tion'- s gence detection system that they disarmament approach to not now do (have. ACCURATE REPOR T I N G peace will actually lead, to war.1 "In my personal opinion ail While reluctantly admitting that Sensible information committees' people in this world deV the accur?ire was Soviet the about peace and freedom from a gains nuclear war," General Power ate and fairly reported, they told the Senate Armed Services stressed that its publication would the admission be Preparedness Subco irf m 1 1 1 e e. by governfirst, "But there are two different U.S. had the ment sources that - theories of how to information! on the "live" radar-missiget there, i is "One test the Russians (theory) through militracking made during their super-bom- b tary superiority and through deterrence, which is the philosophy experiments. of the strategy we have used When the censors were shown secret testimony of General reported Power. "There is one through disarmament.' Thomas S. Power, Commander- ; further Come Right On In had U.S. anti-ballist- ic j 1 Command, Air Strategic that the -- j Taken together, these are the reasons some racial change came so quietly this year in parts of the South and border zones The performance, generally, was indeed a lesson for the whole country. the of in-Ch- ief , j progress. h By ROBERT S. ALLEN and PAUL SCOTT WASHINGTON Defense Secretary McNamarja'j censors have succeeded in keeping part of the story of recenjt Soviet nuclear-missil- e gains frjom being publicly discussed in the Senate's historic ; Dew on the Mountains; e by Soviets Censored by the Pentagon Break-Throug- Outside the bounds of Alabama, the newly programmed desegregation of southern and border state schools proceeded this year almost without incident. The question is why. No one can imagine that when such changes occur they are welcomed, particularly in Deep South states like Georgia and South Carolina. Yet they are usually accepted in orderly fashion. Counsels of ca'.m prevail. It is apparent that the millions of southerners have a deep commitment to law and order, just as do millions of Americans in other sectors. Often many may disagree with the purpose and content .of particular laws. They may not like what some courts decree as they laws or the interpret either the constitutions. federal and state But they believe that the courts must be obeyed if we are to have rule by law rather than by the whims of men. It is significant that a 'high of this year's "new deseg- - Nuclear-Missil- Salt Lake City's aggressive and indomitable bookman, Sam Wel-le- r, proprietor of Zion's Book Stores, gave me a book the other day and said, "Go home and review it." It is Jessica THE A M E R I CAN Mit-ford- 's OF WAY DEATH, and it has already hit the best seller lists. The very implies title that we lei n.u orison Ameri- - cans have a superior way of dying. The book begins optimis- even tically, that with cheerfully, wonderful quotation, "O is death, where thy sting? O is where grave, thy victory?" But lest the reader feel too much jubilation the author goes on : "Where, indeed. Many a badly stung survivor, faced with the aftermath of some relative's funeral, has ruefully concluded that the victory has been won hands down by a funeral establishment in disastrously unequal battle." acThe book is a count of- the way the gentlemen who care for the dead, and this includes funeral directors, once known as undertakers, land speculators in private cemeteries, crematoriums, florists, have combined to increase the cost of being buried or cremated to a 1961 average of $1450 per funeral for every dead person. It hasn't been easy, and every angle of advertising has been employed. The simple act of getting rid of the dead has been changed to the creation of a Beautiful Memory and lush profits for the mortician's trade. There has been opposition. One chapter of the book is devoted to The Nosy Clergy. The author points out that d battle because, it is a "while the funeral men are always ready with dukes up to go on the offensive, the average minister is generally unaware that war has been declared." "The issue boils down to this: The funeral men resent the intrusion into their business of clergymen who take it upon themselves to steer parishioners in the direction of moderation in choice of casket and other matters pertaining to the poduction of the funeral. Many of the clergy for their part deplore what they regard as intrusion in the role of counselors in a time of grief and need, and the growing distortion of What they view as an extremely important, solemn reblow-by-blo- w - The new style in fiction is too much for an old Western primitive to attempt. The New Yorker gives a couple of pages to a new novel by Leslie Feidler, called, , THE SECOND STONE, which begins enticingly, "At first Hilda, one hand pressed against the Then wall, had only retched .... she had leaned across the railing to puke." Since she was in the vaults of a Capuchin church garnished with the bones of dismantled monks the heroine's actions may be excused, and no doubt there are people who like to read about other people vomiting. one-side- The dialogue is equally sparkgo "Hildo, ling. A sample: home." Hilda sings, "Oh, shut up, shut up, shut UP." She goes on: "I don't smell like Hilda any more. I don't even smell like an Anglo-Saxodo I Clem? Do I? . . . Well, smell me." Clem does, and, "Her smell that assailed n, him as he leaned forward, made him all at once dizzy; and he almost reeled between nausea and desire." I almost feel that the reviewer of the book is trying to be derogatory when he writes: "Clem at length succeeds in seducing Hilda, and the chronicle of their rapture, while lengthy, specific ligious rite." Funeral directors have become Grief Counselors. Hence, the expensive caskets, the often unnecessary embalming fees. They have become cosmetic specialists. The author does not spare the reader ihe gruesome details of bone breaking, and lip sewing to make the corpse look lifelike. There are expensive rest and slumber rooms as status symbols. Above all there is the and unattractive, is the weak point of the novel." We are relieved to learn that Clem returns 4o his abandoned American spouse (who really does smell) keenly aware of the failure of the American Dream. I am shamed that my meager talents do not permit me to enter this lucrative field of present day Ameriacn fiction. Tastes in books Politicians Pass the Buck On Spending - United Press International When Harry S. Truman took over on that April day in 1945, he cleared FDR's desk of a junky per- sonal motto in a prominent spot. The motto read: "The buck stops here." HST was like that. He played politics for keeps, shot from the hip and, more often than not, wounded a fact or some innocent bystander. But he never laid off the blame on circumstances or associates. Nor did he duck the tough decisions that came his way. This modest salute to the tough little man from Missouri was prompted by word from Albany, N.Y., and Washington, D.C., that the head men in those areas are reaching for an alibi to lay off for some of the conditions , blame now existing. There was the Sept. 9 story t, from Albany in which Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller reneged on his 1962 campaign promise to hold the line on New York State taxes through 1966. Rockefeller said he didn't expect any new taxes next year but did not feel bound by his campaign promise thereafter. And, who is to blame for Rockefeller's need to renege on his promise? John F. Kennedy, that's who. The governor said he did not feel bound; because his campaign promise not to raise taxes had been based on a national economic growth rate promised but unachieved by the Kennedy administration. President's Version Al Jolson used to say, you As ain't heard nothin' yet. On NBC's news show this Huntley-Brinkle- y week, President Kennedy was asked about the wisdom of seeking a tax cut when the budget remains ar out of balance. He replied: "The reason the government is. in deficit is because you have more than 4 million persons unemployed, and because the last five years you have had rather a sluggish growth, much slower than any other Western country." And there you have It. Kennea dy tricked Rockefeller with rate the growth promise that So, and tax revenue would zoom. canhe that fault it isn't Rocky's not make good on a major campaign promise that helped elect him. Or, anyway, that is the way Rocky would want you to view it. have changed. As my friend Sam Weller says I am at the tail of the procession. I think he was about to accuse me of writing "wholesome" books, but changed his mind. Anyway, he knows that I am no boon to the book busi ness. R-Ar- Some housewives look at house- Keeping as an endless, thankless job that's never done. They can tell you the week. And they don't realiz home-makin- f' 4- - exact number of times t h e y do the make dishes, beds and pre- pare meals each g tude that makes the job of seem pure drudgery. Taken day by day, housework isn't too bad a job. It isn't "to day" the frustrated housewife can't face. It's all the "tomorrows" on top of "today." So the way to look on houseis to or on any job work a take it one day's work at time. If she didn't become depressed over all she has to do tomorrow and all she wants to accomplish next week, almost any housewife . il M i .si Ruth Miillett own attL. their it's that It iz front-runner- , le . another Seems to Me It Soviet Russia Has Long Record of Broken Pacts By DAVID GARDNER ban generated a The lot of argfuments as to Why it should or shouldn't be accepted by the United States T h os e who favored the ban A-ti- sst had the argument of peace on their side. j And sane no person wijll argue that jpeace is not moipe sirable war. f. mi de- fhan Mr. Gardner were against that it would not the ban argued insure peace and might actuaUy lead to wjar, since, they argued, Russia is already ahead of us in missile defense. Dr Edward Teller, so-call- ed . urged test the pact to Senate reject the interests best the in as bot befng . of our country. He cited the Russian lead in missile defense and stated that to theye wre actually trying prevent us from catching up by having u stop our tests. In addition to this, diplomats pointed lout that the Rusan "economy lis strained to the breaking point, and all Khrushchev wants is to easefi the cold war until he "catches his breath. An examination of the records will show that the road to relations is paved with broken promises. Four presidents and 20 secretaries of state have made soijne 50 agreements involv- - "father" of the H-bo- Rus-sianU.- S.j Ruth Millett Housework Not Necessarily Drudgery. Take .' , By LYLE C. WILSON clutter and installed his own S One Day at a Time ing specific Russian promises.! I believe only three of these agreements were honored, aid they were kept because it best suited the Soviet cause. In fact, one of Lenin's pet theories was to sign any agreement that would give him a temporary advantage, and give jio thought to honoring it when it was no longer desirable. When Maxim Litvinof signed the disarmament agreement after '; World War I, he didn't even both-'e- r to read it because he had k intention of honoring the docu-' ment. A partial list of the broken Rus ' sian pledges reads as though j it were compiled by Satan, himself. Away back in 1932 Russia promised, in return for diplomatic recognition, to refrain from inter-- ! ferring in any manner in the internal affairs ' of the United States. But within two years the Amer- lean commies attended a meeting in Moscow to discuss ways of undermining our government. ' And in the same year, Russia signed a pact with but tavaded later Mat Finland, I country. At Yalta th Russians promised to allow the Peace Conference to set the western frontier of Po-land. But this border was set lay force by the Soviets. Again, at, Yalta the Russians promised to establish an inde-pendent Poland. But Poland lias never had anything but a Russian puppet government. At Potcdam the Russians prom ised to treat all Germany as Ian economic unit. But they have isolated their zone from the west. Again, at Potsdam the RuS- -. sians promised to keep Germany ' But completely demilitarized. have a built substantial up they )' army in East Germany. During World War H, Russia promised to respect the independence of Iran after the war. ut they refused to withdraw their troops and tried fo set up a puppet government. Iri the case of the present test ban, some experts point out that; we are being asked to commit.1 Senourselves with an iron-cla-d ate ratification, to a promise that ties our hands, while Russia gives only a signature that fras proved worthless so many times in the past, - j J j ndn-agressi- on , -- j face today's demands cheerfully. So the thing to do with the hardest job of housekeeping is to set aside a certain number of working hours, accomplish everything possible in those hours. When the time is up, call it a good day's work and quit. Not only quit working, but stop thinking about the work yet to be done. What is left over can be tackled could ; tomorrow. The best mental rule for any overworked housewife is to never think beyond the job at hand. Think jof each day's chores separately,! and you'll find you can cope without undue stress. "Happier Wives (hints for husbands )"j! has some thoughtful observations on the subject by Ruth Millett. i Send 25 cents to Ruth Millett Reader Service, in care of The Daily 'Herald, P.O. Box 489, Dept. Al Radio City Station New York 19, N.Y, r j f |