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Show fT :' .'i ' ,; - y t: - ' -- Morry Christmas I Scz Who? Bruce Biossat Nigeria Chief Hope Of Africa Stability TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22,. 1964 , f , Todays Editorials i How Long for Terror' Peace ,31 I At first glance, Defense Secre-- a nuclear "exchange." The balance of terror is. pre carious! as well. So far, France's development of an independent tary McNamara's description of the situation between East and i as a "peace of mutual West terror" seems merely a play on the phrase "balance, of terror." - This in , turn was merely a nuclear-age updating of . the old ''.;' full-fledg- V i Its two contradictory images mind us, that it is an imperfect M Article I, Section 9, Paragraph & of the United States Constitution forbids Congress to pass any i ex post facto law This, means j simply that no one can, be punished for doing something which' wasn't illegal until a particular law was passed. But what happens when Congress passes an "ex post - facto' law law tof a different kindVthat makes legal what was once i i " The Supreme Four major northern industrial states and the entire South are singled out for "concentrated efforts" in a So THey new organizational drive being Both politics and life are built around launched by U. S. Gommunist and leaders, j. the art f the possible. Hie art the mert r lies in knowing what is , The fdur normern states are Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and possible; and hi not being willing to se Pennsylvania. ; t tic for anything else. The decision to embark on a Conunerce Secretary Lu her Hodges. program to re- S. , Communist U. What s a humanist? He is a person vitalize the Party was reached at a secret who cales, profoundly, and professioik-'allabout what happened week before National Board meeting last month. It was the first since the last, celtury before last,1 perhaps milsudden ouster of Nikita Krush lennium before last. "': 1' chev.. :. :. :' Rober E. Streeter, dean of humaniPrincipal eatures of the re ties division at University of Chicago. vitalization program are: members front It is af crime to build an ugly bridge. the"Recruiting movement among militant master bridge designer the negro people." OthmaH. Ammann85, designer of "Combining party work with the ; George Washington, Golden Gate work in or mass i and Mlckinac; bridges and newly op organizations." ened ifefrazano Narrows Bridge in "Increasing party activity at New prk. j the club level." and students "Organizing v working class youth." "Projecting 'socialism' on a mass basis." "Raising funds for party work I i y, . . 19 - j ii additional legislation. j . non-commm- a Holmes Alexander ' . I 'For Heaven's Sake, in America-Wisl-- Up!' WASHINGTON, It ' has to be r'v themselves to shame people who buy D.C. ; merely coincidental A Senate, committee under Senator Harrison Williams (D., N.J.) plans to investigate medical quackery; at the same time that the Democratic administration is launching its joint drive on poverty and death. Senator Williams says that bogus "salesmen" of quack cures and longevity are preying upon millions of sick and aged citizens, bilking them of their meager savings 'and leaving them sometimes sicker and always older. Useless f and often harmful drugs still change i hands across drug store counters and through the mails. Charlatans get rich performing rituals' and ' operations for the gullible. This is despicable. It is indefensible. It ought to be fought by punitive legislation, executive fiat and police crackdown. It J ought to be combatted in another way, too. We ought to be too sophisticated a people to be taken in by the quacks that the Williams group will be chasing. An equal party to the cheat are the gulls who let themselves in for but it it. it would be , also, if Senators would be the Willams like with a high forum ' panel- - let the:; victims know they are stugetting what they deserve for their ' pidity. " On the grounds of exposing both the culprits and the simpletons in' the quackery game, it might be helpful if the senators took a look uptown to see if k any political f fakery is being foisted upon the people. Some of the welfare panaceas, like the medical 'one, are highoctane hokum. We have heard it serde--: i iously proposed to end poverty in a cade or two by giving every family a a ''.'decent" j living income '.and providing home out of federal taxation, regardless of whether the head 'of the family works at a ibb.f It almost goes without saying, Innnan .nature being what ? it ' Is, that ; a, large segment of the population would quftlooldiig 'for: jobs, .'and mat the taxes to support the leisure classes would work against the incentive for profit seeking, the key to our private enter- priss system. : could A..-Ibring 1 phony. - B-i- - ; hard-hearte- d, " ! - f CJ"-(rrery-hunt- fee ar -- hard-headed- Jitfdical services, they would equally niseful in shaming voters who believe! ! that billion-dollboondoggles can bdt produce wealth and subdivide it to th. point of abolishing poverty. Of coarse, the promise by politicians to takeaway the vicissitudes of life is of equeir vintage- with the fraudulent huckstering of bogus medicines and treatments. t something new mavv be in the :btfing when we find the politicos edging ?fip on the proposition that they can ahojish deau. This is .not' quite the implication of the proposed $2.9 billion federal; program to cut the death rates by canfer, heart disease and strokes.' Not quite but almost) The .commission whjch reported to President Johnson onjihis subject led into its discussion with a slogan that would do credit : .' to any charlatan: . ' ' j . ."What price, what priority, human life?" This j Ks coming pretty! close to inviting foofoli people to believe that the Great litciety and its disciples are fighting agafnst death with a chance to overcome that human inevitability, whereas anybocrf who questions the investment has an Indifference to human life. there" is a need to be skeptical - of salmanship which even suggests that pimple can vote themselves ";free- ;S 1 5 death. : dom Skepticism, in fact, 'is a watchword that tfi!4; people's representatives owe to the pele. There is a iriinhihgl dispute on Captol Hill as to whether investigations sre : intended to get information . or to give it. When the late Senator Ke- fauver.jwaaK; investigating drug f prices, he wa fsank to say that he regarded the disemination of truth as part of his duty, hether or not he also obtained remedM legislation. ,Whaif better: information could a Con- forth than, , gressionalv committee put some found warnings against popular gullibility?? A nation whichs year after years, fpays quacks for phony medical and : suffers politicians Vho service,; promise impossibilities, needs leaders to sayi V'For heaven's sake, America i Cer-tainl- yi j fn ; ' ! . -- : ; i mstxzpln 4 non - communist tions." v 6 mm nst 1 2 ' ng j court as had to poll its collective conscience and, in effect, write ', WASHINGTON wide-rangi- : ? By ROBERT S. ALLEN and PAUL SCOTT ' . w 1 Blr. Allen Say per- competing forces. What appears to save the country is a brand of elemental political wisdom that reflects the presence there of a sizable cadre of trained civil servants something ' the chaotic Congo organiza- ' i I The National Board meeting was stormy A detailed report, in the hands of the Senate Internal ' Security Soboommittee, headed by Senator James East; , describes me proland, as ceedings "prolonged and D-Mi- ss. heated."- - ' -- :' MortiMORE DETAILS Daniel mer Rubin, the party's new national organizational, secretary, stressed tjere is urgent need for a revitalization pro1 : gram because "(1) The Communist Party has failed to grow among negroes and youth; (2) failed to achieve better circulation of 'The Worker' and 'People's World'; and (3) improve finan1 cial resources." , Party vice chairman Henry Winston stated he had the feeling the "party has great reserves of sympathizers who agree basically with its point of view, and would be willing to participate in many forms of j coalitions around explicit problems (i e. front groups), but are unwilling to join the party." The problem, Winston asserted, is how best to utilize this extension underlying interest and support. His answer was "front organizations." "There are hundreds of thousands in the trade unions and the negro communities" said Win- s. a." 1 Winston also urged the "creation and development of guides" for speakers and outlines for group discussions,! and increased distribution of party publics- tions, such as "Political Af--i fairs," "The Worker" and "Peo--! pie's World." Prior to the National Board meeting, a memorandum was sent to party members asking There was furious discussion over "developments in the international Communist movement" meaning the abrupt and denunciation of deposal Rhrushchevi which severely shook U. S. femmunist leaders; for written recommendations and the violent verbal fusilladfor a "renewal program." Specifically, the memorandum ing, acridly echoed among parsought answers ' to three probing, acridliy echoed among parr lems: How to (1)! create new ty chiefs here. The plans formulated by the forms for extending the party National Board are normally base: (2) improve the party orconsidered by a national con(3) improve the ganization; vention of the party. But none work of party clubs and headhas been hld since December quarters, j 1959. Similarly, the on memoranthe parry's Commenting National Committee hasn't met dum, Rubin expressed the view since June 1961. that "There is a great upsurge , , There was no explanation for of radicalization' among Amereither at the secret National ican youth, and the tommunist ' Board meeting. Party is reaching and working I j BERRY'S WORLD Mr. Scott with thousands of people. But the party is unable to take advantage of this positive development because of the existence of reluctance, for security reasons, of many workers to join the party, and the necessity for the party to operate on three levels and legale semi-legillegal." "What we are seeking," continued Rubin, "are ideas and suggestions for forms short of the party organization (i.e. front groups) where policy would be formulated and discussed with Abu-bak- ar , present Nigerian prime minister. His party gained more than a third of all House seats in the elections. It governed through! coalition wtih other ', : parties.) Today the NPC is campaigning as part of a seven-partalliance, with itself and the 1959 .j al y " Iiiiuj. . .. i " ir :"Sv:-::- people who are willing to work with the party and support party policy, but are not ready to aft filiate organizationally with the .1 . I .1 Ca ny o n Road Re va m p Ca n't v ': HEADED FOR TROUBLE Gomel Too Soon For Of fret President Johnson has his work party." , i ,1 L ' cut out if he asks the Senate to confirm an appointment of Max Kampelman to the federal ... j': j ston, "who would join organiza- tions in which they could take the initiative in giving 'left leadership.' In years past, organizations of this type - have been great sources of financial and organizational strength for the Communist Party of the-U- .' gravely lacks. In Nigeria there is respect for the rule of law, for justice and for freedom. ' Blessed with good national and . regional leaders, the coun- -, is try steadily conscious of its size and consequent predominance in uie general African setting. ; In a very real ense Nigeria is new Africa's keTstone.- - It has a - genuine economic potential, with cotton, cacao, palm oil, nuts and a growing oil output But there are population pressures, a shift to the cities, a mounting need for good jobs and men trained for them. The Nigerians badly, need more technical aid. Their impressive record as a young nation suggests they deserve it. ;r;': bility. Hopefully, the common sense balance now prevailing in Nigeria among its rival tribes and regions will not be upset if the leading party element in the outgoing government the Northern ) People's Congress is somehow thrust aside in the Dec. 30! voting. The NPC's leader, Sir Tafawa Balewa, is the . an- r an ! Drive to Kea ize - '.ft Party Set in Many States - - -- : Inside Washington on swers to their problems. Without the two big canvases these coalitions provide,. Nigerian politics might at this point be bogged down hopelessly in interregional and intertribal combat. Yet the existence of the alliances should not suggest all is rosy. Nigerian politics often flares into bitter violence, and may again. A kind of uneasy truce now rules among the , H H '!" to find workable land spoke up for us and for the duly constituted Congolese government of Moise Tshombe. It is that Nigeria holds so much promise for the future and can conceivably lead the way toward a! broader African sta"' created States must Fronim the United j ... come unrelenting pressure on me Soviets! in this regard and th constant readiness to explore anylikely pathway out of the jungle of mutual terror. i Court has Just ruled that, at least in the matter of state segregation laws, they are. Furthermore, all cases pend- ing under those laws are wiped out because of the passage of the Civil Rights Law of 1964. Itf. was another one of those close decisions, with five justices voting for the ruling and four against: The latter based theirdissents on the question of wheth-rer Congress had intended this effect when writing the law. ;Not for the first time, where Congress was - not explicit, the " territory. " certain states? Are to; be ls by any Ihumber of other countries. Onlyp! the United States and Russia ican lead the world toward the beginnings of true peace. Prom the Russians must ' soon come the willingness to allow at least 'limited inspection of their j sons who were convicted prior to the new law now to be set free? sub-arsena- deter-minati- mat Africa's most populous j mitting! so-call-ed The big point is not, however, j ness of eitjier side to lose a hun-dre- d million or so of its citizens in illegal-i- n U.S.-Belgi- st and fragile arrangement. It will never be a true peace so long as it rests simply on the unwilling- , j . Soviet Union. jThe secretary's phrase is good. re- , parties are arrayed m what could prove to be a close fight. Most of the individual; parties have a strongly regional base in a nation with sharp regional and ethnic divisions. Caught up though it is in the . confusions of an ardent camnevertheless Nigeria paign, spoke dramatically in the Unit ed Nations in opposition to 18 lesser African states which, in strident racist tones, lashed the air rescue of beleaguered! whites and blacks from the Congo. ed Nigerian National Democratic party the largest elements. The rival group is the United . Progressive Grand Alliance, in which the most important owk stituent parties are the National Council of Nigerian Citizens Action Group and the in Western Nigeria. The NCNC had been part of the recently dissolved government coalition. For outsiders, the significance of these two campaigning alliances is that they seem to offer one moret impressive demonstration of1 the Nigerians' - j I uct The Vagaries Of Lawmaking jy "'.-- the awesome destructive power possessed by this country and the' j wT i e .. ;'",;' history. "Peace," however, is a happy, chofce of words, for peace has, of ironically, been the by-prod- n nuclearU striking force and f iled China's! explosion of a nuclear device haj-- not shaken it seriously). What cfpuld happen when China become a power anl several other nations acquire nuclear bombs and the means to deto think liver trjem is something ' !, about. -The time available for thinking is not jtinlimited. The knowledge necessary for making atomic bombs is no longer a secret ; an reasonably advanced nation coiil make tjiem if it were willing t snend the money arms race .hi The East-Weserved ts purpose. Both in military aid political terms , very little is? to be gained by increasing or refining the arsenals of terroij. Everything is to be lost by per- "balance of power," the breaking down of which resulted in so many of the wars in Europe's -- electians, the first in five years, could have an important effect on the valued stability jof populous Nigeria. . This relatively sturdy rock, . whose 55 j million people comprise roughly a fifth of all Africa's population, stands in many ways as tne brightest hope in (the huge collection of new African states. In tiie elections called to fill 312 seats in Nigeria's lower house, two major coalitions of Year-en- d .. i Editor Herald: ' Good a flexible car so as to be able to make the snake possession of in iews the atmos- phere. It seems by the sound of newpaper talk that after f The wealthy Washis years of delay Highway 189 is ington attorney pulling, every wire to be named, to the U. S. . being earmarked for a hair-cu- t. Court of Appeals. Apparently, In me iec, 10 issue of the the President is considering that Herald appeared an article because the FBI is known to be quoting! Ftsl' jW; Cron of U. S. making the check required for Bureau of Public Roads. He such appointments. : calls for) beautifying of public But both Democratic and Rehighways, ciauning mat utan has many scenic values through publican senators are set to raise a stormy challenge on a which our scenic highways are number of grounds. Foremost in need of improvements to match the Wonderful scenes. among ,them are the following: e Then again on the Dec. 11. legislaKampelman, issue came another statement tive counsel of yice Presidentelect Hubert Humphrey, was a by Bill Hawkesworth. His conscientious objector during claim also tells us that our the war. Yet he is now reputed state highway system is subto have a reserve military comstandard and, requiries a meamission. Also, he was one of the sure ofj improvements. And in founders and a board member the saimel article Reed H. Wins-lo- w of the Washington bank that also makes the remark unthat our state highways along gave Bobby Baker a f 125,000 . 1 secured loan. the Wasatch front are badly At that time, Kampelman was in need of overhauling. the general counsel as well as Now, I wonder if Mr. Wins-lo- w board member of the bank. has; ever taken a trip While Kampelman has the through Provo Canyon? I doubt that he has unless he was in powerful backing of Humphrey, District of Columbia Democratic leaders are far from enthuscontend other more deserving 44-year-- : i -- , J one-tim- iastic about has getting the party aspirants are entitled to Court of Appeals post. They it.. li Some Husbdhds We Can Feel Sorry For When a wife's behavior causes her friends to pity her ' and pains and miseries, but she gets 10 times the ordinary amount of conversation out of those she does have.; There is also the wife, who treats her husband as though he n man. She watches over him were a child, instead of a & as though he were an invalid. And what about the nagger? Certainly no one thinks a man is lucky to be married to a wife who doesn't know when. to drop a subject, especially when the aim is getting; her husband to do something he doesn't wan to do. , r, who has a way of get-There is also me married ting everything she wants, and letting her husband worry about V 'i the biiis. . ;':'. A woman who displays any of these traits ; causes everyone to feel sorry for her husband, simply because he chose her for '" 1' his wife! full-grow- -- Y. M. Offret, Wildwood. Letters from readers are They should be as concise as possible, 'vrith a limit of 350 words. Letters longer than this must be cutr Typewrite if possible, double spaced Letters must carry writer's true name and. address. Pseudonyms are not permitted. The Herald assumes no responsibility for statements in the Mailbag column. The Herald reserves the right to reject or edit letters which are too long, not in good taste or potentially libelous. Letters which deal with church doctrinal subjects f or contain statements derogatory to any religion or creed will be rejected. In-vite- hus- 11 '';,'. ,. And then there is the fellow married to the woman who enjoys poor health. She doesn't have more than her share of aches i. ; FORUM RULES band, she places herself in an unflattering position. One husband who is an object of pity isi the man whose wife v always talks about what they CAN'T affordj j K Everyone who has a little more than they have is made uncomfortable by the "poor" talk of the wife, which inevitably brands her husband as a failure, whether he is or not. Another husband no one envies is the one who never is allowed to tell a story without interruptions or! corrections by his ..wife. : Our guess is that an empty ambulance is out to pick up business when it speeds on the V , highway. Ruth Millet BY JAMES O. BERRY joint turns between the mouth of the canyon and Wildwood . Also to make this project doubly certain we are due soon for a new governor and there is no question but what he will look into this matter s and see for himself that this short stretch of cow trail has long been neglected. It's like a short i piece of rusty chain attached f to , a length of gold chain, in comparison, and owning to the fact that the upper half of me I canyon has been made into a I nice four-lan- e ..highway while the ' lower part left into a. crooked two lane. . Any roadway engineer wouM 1 agree that ; the beauty of this canyon warrants a pleasant looking highway. The gain, in V tourists alone would in a short time pay for the expense involved, and besides," 4t would shorten mis stretch of highway some three miles by cutting back those seven death-tra-p turns and widen that goat r bridge at the Rotary Park site, i Let's go, whoever is in favor say I. d-J i I gold-digge- ' - -- ; " ' - The opinions and statements expressed by Herald colomnists are their owa and do not necessarily reflect the views cf (Ms newst paper, ' i . , . ; .i 4 |