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Show Ray Cromley ' ' Locked In Jail, He Rhee They Also Serve v t -- . 'VfS- -" ij ' .c. . Re-Evaluat- SUNDAY, JULY 25, 1965 ed WASHINGTON ' that - the Demands and truthfltbout the' "tell government ; i'ieLliam'trike .jltW is generally-availab- le in the presi and published literature. so. this carries two sicmifl- cant implications one general and the other particular, for all shift to ': JLiJA -, A..- Tic Lr1 'rfZ -- THE CHOPPING BLOCK . -"- Those Lig hts w I n the Nig ht Mr. Robertson 'By -- Holmes Alexander come up here anf say,-- T nave jnore boxes of cherries on the ork sheet than I picked," but FRANK C, ROBERTSON Most of the fields up here in Mapleton arc bordered by lanes . 'Lovers' lanes" some call them. Car lights go into them, blink out for a while, and go on. But what we up here have learned is that it seldom is : - i ocal-Korean . The 6tory filtered back to the GI's in "Are you Mrs. WASHINGTON, D.C. John Doe whose son, John Doe Jr., is V'etnam (hat Mrs. O'Sulhvan had been forced to obtain art unlisted phone numserving in Vietnam? Did you know he'd been killed in action?" ber, and an AP dispatch nf last Saturday ."What? It couldn't be true! We haven't" stated: "A ntuiber of service men here (at Da Nang) reported their wives had been notified." the same thing because of calls or done "Well, It's true Just the same. Goodthreats to them." bye." As to background, we must turn to the This kind of phone call has recently come to several families with men serv-- . last war we fought against Communists the one in Korea." The Communist ing in the Vietnam War. Frantic mes- propaganda thrust then, as now, was at sages have reached the casualty Jiranch al the Pentagon asking, "Is my son (or . the American fondness for "peace." by- different Then, aS"now,-Talthouhusband) a casualty? Why haven't I been told?" methods,, the Reds tried to tell anxious wives and parents in the United States In. every instance, I learned upon of Washington the' cruel and anonymous death ,that the needless and unto men were sending to notice has proved be false. Army sources, when I checked them at the . warranted death.. Mrjor William Raymond Shadlsh, for Pentagon, say that the incidents numerous enough, or sufficiently concen- - .83 months a prisoner in Ilorth Korea, is one of many who later testified on the trated in localities, to form a pattern. The Army at this writing officially dubs Red methods. In 1954 he told a Congressional committees dem the work of J'cranks. "There was a concentrated effort by That explanation jvould be easier to "believe if it weren't for other evidence" "the communists" to procure letters from of similar ghoulishness In the side ground the prisoners with political content " and background. There is the case of It was impossible to get a letter out of Mrs. Christopher 0Sullivan of Queens, camp without political content . . . In a N.Y.. whose husband, an Army captain, letter to my wife (I wrote): 'Please use was killed hi battle on Memorial Day. your influence to see that the war in KoSoon afterwards the widow began get--tirea Is settled peacefully and that all for unidentified phone calls and letters Korea. jign troops are removed from felt -- - saying, "Your husband this I chose td write because I got what he deserved He didn't belong in Vietnam was my last opportunity to talk to my in the first place." i ..: wife." , of :ca-"si- ' j imperi-ousne- ss a d - ds Korea-wh- en 111 one-ma- . Gls--Re- . He had some of the of . Charles de Gaulle. He ruled with an iron hand. American officers and' officials in Seoul who attempted to deal with him on any but his own terms came away muttering under their breath. They called him "stubborn old manf-Antihe was. But he held South- - that Rhee's police were-vtKorea together, much . in the'J ous, brutal men used lo Keep same way that Diem held South, fKe populace 'in"Tine poTitiJaily . Viet Nam "Together while he 2 iMaybe so, but on one in this early period, I nad lived. EARLY IN THE Uoccu- - myself locked inside a dirty4' jail and th- epatiori of "South Korea, .."there - was serious daneer of a far left - guards kept away so they w C0Uian 1 near ..my quest take-ove- r. As the Japanese laid the prisoners or what they told down their arms, as in Viet me- - "ere was no wnness pres-o- f Nam, it was the Communist .elements the underground ent, riot even an interpreter. (We sPke 10 Japanese! : tnen which came forward best or-understood in kot universally and best ganized prepared. . . In Viet Nam, Ho Chi Minh rea). The prisoners talked strongly received considerable help from U. S. officials during and right of mistreatment. - Some WJ if the-tactic- al MB peacetime . n. . Calls, Threats to Families Of Viet Nam Work stable Perhaps the dual, role was too' mucnttrask-e- f one man. My own contact with Rhee came in the early days of the newly independent ' South Korea at the end of World War " - a rrulers w" troub,e a8aln- - He annoyed toe Americans because nis venement insistence trn-march to the Yala and no peace talks. But Rhee's fight-in-g Korean armies under young, inexperienced - generals, held their section of the line against the North Korean and Red : Chinese forces. In South Korea, in ther early days of independence, men said of Rhee .all 'the things they later said of Diem in South. Viet Nam that he was a Mar.darin, n a believer in rule, ihat democracy'.'. , :r- r makr the16" ' he swaTlinahir to many Americans, voiced by per- are whether they ..of us: sons who oDDoae the administra tion's actions or by those who In general, it means there can be no excuse for shrugging off support them.. Although most of us have a responsibility for what the nation decided oDinidn about what should does in the world arena on the be done "in matters of domestic ." grounds that we cannot possibly concern, when it Comes to' foreign know or learn as much "about affairs we are usually more ready the issues as the men who have to abdicate our own judgment and to make the decisions. look to the government experts In the particular . issue of Viet for answers, even while not quite Nam, it means thaf despite any ir'usting'them the government poa fond Thiswas pointed out recently sps.spshopes, no secret Knowledge put by Gunnar Myrdal, an astute for the revelation of which we Swedish observer oftheAmeri- coul,d arrive ,at a quick' and' easy can scene. solution to the war there. . Writing in the New YorFTi'mes "The truth about Viet Nam" is Magazine, he gives as the reason evident to the ordinary citizen. as the fact that the ordinary citizen as it is to the man in the White "tends to assume that the govern House. , indent Juts information of a iBecret want Communists It is that the nature, not available to the gen' Nam Viet swallow to South eral public." up. and weJriTend to stop Ihem from While it may be to advantage of governmenfofficials doing it. -- to maintain this . belief , experience . It is - that we face a long and suggestsjihat outside purely increasingly costly struggle, with no certain prospect of victory or military matters the belief-i- s when it is not "even some kind of peace that is exaggerated vastly ' neither victory nor defeat. entirely false.". maintains There are no hidden truths that Myrdal, Ordinarily, no government has more know- -. will make these obvious truths go . ledge about a foreign country than- away. chord- - among devoted his whole life to that : aimr lutionary patriot. His raw cour- '' He first went to"afl lor lis age and resolution brought country through its first falter-- beUe, to tte.UWs for his part ta demonstraUohs nrginj ing yeari safe forn internal and from-getti- ng jgrmjJBtte Korean monarchy. enmeshed in communism. But 'Rie J"Pnese tod barely set-- Everyone In Know On Viet Nam " (NEA)Syng. -- Today's Eclitoiiali - - " what it seems. These are not . kids out. .testing Iheic. morals, but adults, . heads of families, out stealing whatever kind of produce happens to be within " - reach. Over the years quite a few of them have been caught, among them prominent leaders of the community Their alibi is al- -' ways the same. "You have so I didn't think a few bushels would be missed."-B- y what reasoning, I wonder, do they convince themselves that this is not stealing? The farmers work hard to raise these crops, and what js.stolen may ell be the difference between profit and loss for the season. All of these adults would say that they have done right by their children. They see that they' go to church, and have told them allabout the evils of smoking, but they seem never to have heard of the old com- mandment, "Thou shalt not . yI have "I yet tu hear an adult say, stole some peas from your field last night, .and I want to pay for them." An example of how rotten an adult can be occurred' ud this way last week. A neighbor lady has a few cherry frees. She and her children worked hard to pick some 300. pounds of them one day. While she was but looking for"a roadside stand that she left Tier ...might buy them little daughter at nine-year-o- home.. While she was away a A gentle-muc- h A the m('mOTihgwords"TTiave ever heardhiir. speak. Adlai Stevenson was unabashedly an intellectual. The Ameri-ca- n people wrote him off as an egghead. He always spiced his words of. wisdom with humor, and we have a fixation that wis-- dom and solemn pomposity are synonymous. The people. thought ; they couldn't trust the- - govern- - ment in the hands of a man who had a sense of humor. Only twice have we ever elected a president who had both eloquence anddb.umor. In other words, they "were eggheads. Qne was Abraham Lin- oln4hether- - was John -- F Kennedy. Me, I thank whatever gods there be for men like Abra harii Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, and Adlai Stevenson. : afterWorlr-War-I- f. Likewise," been arrested, the slowness of being brought to trialr the bad food and pushed ing around. The treatment they complained of was certainly not good. But it was no worse than in the average Asian prison. "Rhee's life perhaps illustrates one thing that sometimes there 5 . ie,7 right . man lor a ley role at a certam critical pe nod of history. If he isn't best for a later time, this doesn t make him any the less a great " ' man. , the South Korean far left ele- mentsrwhich posed as nationalist patriotspreceived considerable, unwitting, U. S. encour agement. lt was a tribute to the genius (or toughness) of Rhee that, the South Korean Reds never theless were unable to burrow -- in. -- They never . achieved,the underground bases the Commu- nists used as stepping-of- f points in the South Vietnamese War. It also, took a strong hand to keep the fiercely individualistic, -- - newly independent South '- Ko- reans from splintering into a" - dozen rival Jactionsas happen-ed in South Viet Nam. RHEE WAS. A RIGID MAN i with one objective an independent, Unified, stableKorea. He links Domestic Affairs With Viet Nam War uiyvc ui'llMyAi:Ci. CU UIC little girl a dollar for them. When the" child " hesitated he said; "I'll tell" you what I'll do. Editor Herald: I'll give you two dollars, and James G. Buchanan's book, I'll keep the boxes." Tempted "Who Killed Kennedy?" states the and " sight of4hejnoneyr by on page 144, para. 4,. "I believe thinking she would be - helping the murder of the President was her mother,' the child took the ' and provoked, primarily, by fear of the specimen of money the domestic and international ; adulthood drove away with consequences of the M o s c o w more than fifty dollars worth of of disarma- Pact: cherries. I'm sure that man 1 which would disrupt the . ment chuckled all the way back to industries on which the plotters wherever he came from: depended and of an internatiorial Last week I praised the kids" detente which would, in their; who work here, and I don't take steal . iewJjaveihreatenedJieevent-A- i To me there Is no difference Remember the passage of ual nationalization of their oil Editor Herald: any of it back, though as I knew were "What betweeninadult stealing peasthey would, some)f-the- mscripture- which says, investments overseas' why aremost of the mennn he if man. a it doth aim a iuu stealing gdsiiiner ca- - (jripmg use araiieesin a uooi gains This fearless newspaperman profit Indifso so. Provo uninformed, -loses-h- isbut and G. Buchanan) whose cept thaHheoVgfr-on-to-va- n eamp before James ferent, oFso deceived concern own soul?.'lAniwhat about the dalism, and the adults go back that is their privilege. iThe. im- ancestors lived in Dallas claims freeOur urban renewal? to church. I have known kids to portant thing is that they work-- " ing women of Provo? The women that former President Kennedy dom and our property rights are of Chile saved their country ed, and were reasonably cheerwas an expert detente which at stake! A few are fighting ful. We are going about the cure are means he was relaxing strained communism. from .What this battle almost alone! God relations between nations and RULFS of juvenile delinquency the bless them for "their courage! American women doing? lost his life on account of this. --Wrong .way. JVead.hetter start One of the men I talked to had Sincerely yours. L ?r- the big question is: Are Ruth Perry with the adults, and pay more Today Letters from readers are in heard only the argument 132 W. 960 N. American boys going to die in vited - They should be as con- -: .attention to those lights in" the favor of urban renewal and had -South Viet Nam to jrote"ct the . dse as possiblerwith a limit : night. already made up his mind. He hugeTirinvestments.-oDallas, of 350 words. Letters longer What a different world this told me he didn't want to listen ' I happened to havethe tele- to any "alarmists." He said we "would bj"if peoplewould mag-- " Tex., in Indonesia and Southeast thm this must be cut TypeAsia? ; . write if possible, double spaced. vision on the other "day when couldn't . lose our. property.-rights- nify their blesslngsthe way they Gerald Henrje Letters itnust carry writer's" President Johnson broke into do troubles. their Survey Several of my ancestors ' - - 369 N. 1st W.- ' true. name and address. the program to announce the were colonels in the American death' of Adlai Stevenson and Revolution. donyms are not permitted. The I wonder what this Herald assumes no pronounce a eulogy. Normally, would have told Paul jnan bility for- - statements in the -- don't care much for the PresiMailbag column. The Herald dent's oratory, but those were at the Paramount TheaJensen reserves the right to reject or the - review in the : from ter, edit letters which are too long, like the story of ' sounds stateThe paper; and "opinions not in goodlaste or potentially who refused to take sides a man ments Herald by libelous. expressed Letters which deal What qualities does a person possess during the Civil War, : This is columnists are their own By golly a person with those ten with church doctrinal subjects "You are what you read." This :Editor Herald: who can avoid fights.Ismooth out mis- -. cowardice! My and do not necessarily requalities has got to be the world's best. or contain statements deroga-- . also applies to TV and movies. ancestorswere Our the pilWar Civil in the killed was h er and news-bad situations? flect the yiews of this understandings jal ; I can't help but think what a wonderful tory to any religion or creed We wilderness." of are all basically decent peo little two a, settling grims Norman -- Vincent Peale asked some-peop- le world this would be if ALL ...J.. leaving his wife and - paper. .' will be rejected. people poswould-hais goodness in all of a so country,they plethere" in a business office to make a girls. sessed those qualities. -- In fact, I think should be fed and could usrThis have so goodness liberty they' list of such qualities which I present all of us could Lieut. Col. John McCrae died possess each of those with goodness. We should be in- ; justice. here. How many apply to you? in France on Jan. 28, 1918, after, qualities if we exerted a little effort. BRPV'S WORLD BY JAMES BERRY four years of service oil the - We are pilgrims with a muchl suited with having this garbage . The Person Who Gets Along With Think how much better a person would served to us. . to do, settling the ? western front ' He' wrote :the bigger job Others. . . . be V they only possessed three of them. . 'of wilderness of were us aware If each immorality. ;' only : Flanders famous poem, "In I think I'll .start with number six. 1, knowsttenames of all Just as we should care about of, the importance of our indi- - . people Fields." The last two stanzas Double N will really appreciate that!' with whom he associates and how America looks, so should we these: vidual stand against this yiola-'- J are ..' " : - care about how America acts. l speaks to tbem often by name. 4 the Dead. tion of our decency, andwould Short are "We ; days' 1 read in The Herald the other day There are signs all over our 2. Is very quick with ': '. praise. this wilderness could ago Diller where comedienne Phyllis plans country "Let's Keep America Erotest, 5. is always constructive when it We lived, felt dawn, saw but each of us is to her husband for file from divorce cans There trash Beautiful." are ' is necessary to criticize. . needed. For sunset just .as each tiny glow, litter-frewhom sherefers to affectionately as to keep our country snow flake makes the beauty Loved and were loved, and 4. has his temper under control. for resents cans he her also us Let trash get "Fang." Undoubtedly of a winter scene, so too, each now we lie 5.. is quick to lend a helpful hand. filthy literature, talk and accalling him "Fang" and has asked her ' of us is important o make the In fields. Flanders . readily admits a mistake and 1. to ' r tions. . get, the divorce, ... real beauty of America a living with the Take our never hesitates to up quarrel ; say "I'm . Everyone knows that a good Shucks, he shouldn't take offense to a ' scene. Deep in eacl person's foe; . sorry." is diet for nickname like that. He should hear what good necessary heart is a desire for what is ' 7. believes in his work and takes -- To you from failing hands we, J health, so it is only logical that Double N calls me sometimes and I don't -- thrOW and each of us should take best, r a real interest in the welfare " taki offense. . . . r this trash that is handed to us The torclu be ,y ours , to hold of the organization which em- -. for moral healtm' Everyone t and to our children and" friends '" it . high. hot uHrimif Innue ntvmAr 9 ; ; him. ploys Several readers have asked "how come If ye break faith with us' who mntkcAs a Personal insult against om 8. rather than seek acclaim for ' I don't give Double N the opportunity to ' and dignity as human . : ; die ' rfrtainlv not it is to hard an achievement, is willing to .?ncy defend herself of my charges written in We not ' shall UCUlg3v sleep, though stai i what becomes of one's lef someone else have the ' this column?" . ;T A country' is not merely a poppies grow cha acter if it is fed on credit. I've given this considerable thotlght beautiful land lo look at; a. In Flanders fields."' , esome food of .; 9r assumes that other people like immorality. and come up with the conclusion that Urban renewal, as I see it, Is We would be highly insulted country is the people who live him as result they do. , this column is the only distinct advanand Vightly so if we were fed Jn it. just one more battle in the war 10. believes In the true worth of ' !. tage I have over Double Nf However, between freedom and socialism. garbage, yet how insulted are ? Let us have liberty and jus-people, knowing that we are all , I'm not too unreasonable- - to give it adUnless Provo o we we when are on fed tice for all. Liberty to do the the Jhe people garchildren of God and as His ditional consideration; After all, I might wake up and get busy we are" bage of filthy literature, that we should, and jus--' things creations deserving of each learn something about myself some going' to lose this battle filled with just tice, which is righteousness, v other's respect and understand . should know and don't!. We'll things I like we have been losing all the the degrading of sex and filled Beth Johnson in& . .. ' "Name , , i address , , opinion of Medicare , , ," - 635 N. 880 W, ..with vtoltooa, As has been said, . lithen, '... : gh rs lu-elli- 1I1CU1 Woman Commends Those Fighting Urban Renewal . . -- they-finish- ed,- -- FORUM ng ... ... : , . . J me by- - Challenge in Modern Day: To Stamp Out Immorality great-grandfau- V ' ve . -- 0. - , ' ' e. . 4 ! Hip(t,W"ii?m. . - nr,. un-w- . 1. television- ' -shows,-movies ' -- - : 7 I. |
