Tuesday, Nvember 14, 1961

Harmony In Most Excluive Club

Wonderful Wizards of Washington

The most exclusive club of all, the Ex-Presidents Club, has three members . . 1 all of whpm are on speaking terms with one another. This latter happy ^.quality was attained only last week when Dwight Eisenhower and Harry Truman ended a stoney aloofness that endured too long.

*There is little or no reason to believe the coolness between two of our elder statesmen could not have been resolved long before now.

They had so much in common.

Both intimately knew the, lonely burden of the highest office in the landboth had served in the same history-making era of the world; >they had friends (and enemies) in common.

On occasion, both could and did rise above partisan politics. Particularly did Presidents Truman and Eisenhower honor and respect Herbert Hoover, our oldest ex-President.

This too they shared; an early misgiving over John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Subsequently both bestowed their approval as to qualifications of the newcomer.

So the estrangement of two elder statesmen was something that in logic could not endure. We would guess there were many occasions over the years when one or the other was within a hairsbreadth of making the first gesture of conciliation, only to be held back by something within.

The news services say their meeting was brought about by Mr. Eisenhowers expressing a desire to see Truman Library. In turn, Mr. Truman arranged to be on hand to meet him at the door with a smiling Come in, come in, and a handshake. Either of them could have avoided the meeting. Neither of them did.

It was the first time either had called on the other since the Eisenhower inauguration of January 1953.

This new aura of harmony among members of the Ex-Presidents Club provides a certain sense of satisfaction to their 180-million American well-wishers.Storied Will O:: Chas. Lounsbury

By and large, we approve of harmoijy; especially .in the wholly mythical brotherhood made up of ex-C)hiefs ofiiCtate. ^ _

We suspect, too, that the honorary chairman, Mr. Hoover, is also pleased. He is now less likely to have to cast a tie-breaking vote.

Survival Lessons Are No temporary Matter

White House emergency planners who are scheduling conferences and training sessions on local government survival in the event of nuclear attack, are taking the logical view of an obvious measure of national preparedness.

It is as necessary to prepare for continuity of government at all levels, as it is to insure our military measures are adequate for all contingencies.

One unnamed spokesman reminds that the gravest post-attack problem could be a lapse of civil authority when commuriities find themselves cut off from state and federal direction.

^ Planning sessions for meeting this problem are to be held in each of the fifty states. We may presume that concurrent with the sense of national danger, the problems will be energetically studied and contingency plans drawn up. It is that way with Civil Defense participation today.

But what of the future, when the heat is off and interest wanes?

Will survival lessons (both governmental and familv) be remembered and useable in 1963? In 1970? In 1980?

The mohths and years of Nuclear Age tensions have raised no clues and few hopes the world can relax in this decade or the next.

Hair-Splitting

kfcN'usht Syndicate.

By PATRICIA MOORE

Ruined'His Life Turkey s On The High way

By LYNN NISBET

ESTATEA 40-year-old newspaper clipping tells the story of a remarkable laust will and testament. The document was found among the scant papers of one Charles Lounsbury. who died in the Cook County Asylum at Dunning, Illinois, soon after World War I. The will was never probated, but the story is it was a popular substitute for after dinner speeches at many bar association meetings during the 20s. Here it is:

I, Charles Lounsbury, being of sound, mind and dLsposlng memory, do hereby make and publish this, my last will and testament, in order, as Justly as may be, to distribute my interest in the world among succeeding men. That part of my Interest which is known in law and recognized in the sheep-bound volumes as my property, being inconsiderate and of noaccount, I make no disposal of. In this, my will. My right to live being but a life estate is not at my disposal but these things excepted. all else in the world I now proceed to devise and bc-queth:

"Item: I give to good fathers and mothers, in trast for their children, all good little words of praise and encouragement, and ell quaint pet names and endearments as the needs of their children may require.

The Flowers Of The Field

"Item: I leave to children inclusively, but only for the term of their childhood, all and ever, the flowers of the field and the blossoms of the woods, with the right to play among them freely. according to the customs of children, warning them at the same time against thistles and thorns.

And I devise to children, the banks of the brooks and the golden sands beneath the waters thereof, and the odors of the willows that dip therein, and the white clouds, that float high over the giant trees. And I leave to children the long, long days to be merry in, in a thousand moon and the train of the Milky Way to wonder at, but subject, nevertheless to the rights hereinafter given to

lovers. ,

The Fields For Boys

"Item: I devise to boys Jointly all the useful fields and commons where ball may be played; all the pleasant waters where one may swim, all the snowclad hills where one may coast and all streams and ponds, where one may .skate, to have and to hold the same for the period of their boyhood and all meadows with the clover blossoms and the butterflies thereof. the woods and their appurtenances, the squirrels and birds, and echoes of the strange noises. and all distant places which may be visited, together with the adventures they found And I give to said boys each his own place at the fireside at night, with all pictures that may be seen in the burning wood, to enjoy without let or hindrance and without encumbrance or care.

"Item: To lovers I devLse their imaginary world, with whatever they may need, as the stars of the sky, and red roses by the wall, the blassom of the-hawthorn, the sweet strains of music and aught else by which they may desire to figure to each other the lastingness and beauty of their love.

"Item: To young men Jointly I devise and bequeath all boisterous and inspiring sports of rivalry, and I give to them the disdain of weakness and undaunted confidence in their own strength, though they are rude; and I give them the power to make lasting friendships, and of posse.sslng companions and to them exclusively I give all merry songs and brave choruses to sing with lusty voices.

HeiiUge of Memory

"Item: And to those who are no longer children or youths or lovers, I leave memory, and I bequeath to them the volumes of the poems of Burns and Shakespeare and other poets, if there be others, to the end that they may live over again the old days, freely and fully, without tithe and diminution.

"Item: To our loved ones with snowy crowns I bequeath the happiness of old age, the love and gratitude of their children until they fall asleep."

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - V. M. Molotovs life has been ruined in a hair-splitting contest. About the only consolation left him is to wonder; Whos next?

\ The old Bolshevik, now 71, thinks Stalin, his great friend and benefactor, was a more aggressive revolutionary than Premier Khrushchev, and he said 60. For this he has been disgraced and Sunday went home to Moscow Jobless.

Just as any differences between American Democrats and Republicans, seen from Moscow, must seem infinitesimal, so any differences in the ultimate aims of Stalin and Khrusuchev. looked at from here, are practically invisible.

Many of the old Bolsheviks, executed by Stalin, were restored by Premier Khrushchev to good standing in the Russian history books after Stalins death, although this must have been cold comfort to them then.

That was four years ago when Khrushchev first denounced Stalin as a murderous monster. At the time he was in a power struggle, which he won, with Molotov and other old Stalinists like Georgi Malenkov and Lazar Kaganovich.

They were demoted to obscure jobs, under the Kremlin rule of winner take all, but otherwise left unharmed because Khrushchev was trying some changes such as more civilized treatment for the Soviet people at home and a foreign policy more flexible and Imaginative than Stalins but less openly pugnacious and stupidly stumbling.

Here are a couple examples of the stupidity:

1. Stalin tried to shut off Berlin with a blockade. President Truman countered with the airlift. Stalin tried to be tough. He wasnt tough enough. Because he lacked courage to risk war by shooting down the airlift, the blockade failed.

2. He tried to test the Wests will with a war In Korea, letting the North Koreans start It. This not only got nowhere, but Stalin so scared the Allies they formed their NATO military alliance. the l&8t thing he wanted Nobody has accused Khrushchev of not wanting to spread communism. But in the hydrogen Iwmb age, when both sides could-destroy each other, he is more. subtle than Stalin, so far using devices short of war.

But this wasnt good enough for stubborn old Molotov who described Khrushchevs tactics as "antirevolutionary and "pacifist Khrushchev now has linked Molotov and the others with Stalins terror, although he was Stalins boy, too.

The result; The Soviet Communist partys 22nd congress recommended that Molotov be thrown out of the party. Thus Molotovs whole lifes workdone as he thought right, no matter how it looks to others goes down the drain.

Since the party switches tactics to fit its needs at any given

time, Molotov can only hope that in time Khrushchev will be denounced as an enemy of communism and he himself restored to good standing in the history books.

But what makes Molotovs belief that Khrushchev is antirevolutionary and thus anti-Stalin ary and thus anti-Stalin look grotesque when observed from here is that Stalin 'abandoned Communist revolution not long after he took over from Lenin in the 1920s in order to build up "socialism in one country. This was simply recognition of a reality.

Russia at the time didnt have the strength to export revolution.

So Stalin set about building up the Soviet Union as a No 1 world power. The foundation he laid at homein industrial and nuclear development is what now enables Khrushchev to talk tough.

There are some who look upon both Stalin and Khrushchev not as revolutionaries at all but as managers. This kind of conclusion seems too early. Stalin was beginning to stir himself after World War n when he had power.

This countrys possession of the atomic bomb kept him from being too brazen. If it had not been for that alone after the war, when Europe was prostrate, he might have tried with his huge and intact armies to overrun the area with war and revolution.

There is nothing to indicate Khrushchev is any less revolutionary than Stalin. He is just not as clumsy. And he, like Stalin. is now living in a nuclear age when he has to be careful. This doesnt mean he wont push where he can.

The Public Forum

TO THE EDITOR:

I wish to thank you, the people of Greenville and Pitt County for supporting the bond issue. Even though it didnt pass, the students of East Carolina College appreciate your support.

Ever since the bond issue was defeated, I have had doubts about our good North Carolinianswas It Just selfishness or was it ignorance on the part of these voters in other counties that caused the defeat of the bond issue?

A growing community sees the need of Improvements and initiates an "all-out" campaign to obtain these improvements. These are the communities which will produce the leaders of our state, and these are the communities which will have others depend upon them in the future. You are one of these communities and to you I express my sincere thanks.

Sincerely.

. Eleanor Speckman

We were driving down the highway a few days ago when tn apparition-like thing appeared ahead. We slowed down and looked harder.

The thing began to take shape of a goose. Then we were closer and it began to look like a huge turkey. We came to a screeching, grinding stop there were two of them: the biggest, fattest alive turkey gobblers we have ever seen (well, almost). We blew our horn for them to remove themselves from the highway. They didnt, but at least they left room for us to pas.s.

Then we believe the turkeys read our thoughts; as we passed, they scrambled to the side of the road and safety.

Its getting a bit near Thanks giving for such tempting morsels to be rambling around loose. Had we been braver, we might have relieved the state highway of its burdens.

We dont know whether anyone else watches the Sunday television program "College Bowl. We drifted into it in our more listless moments, but it

seemed to us that the last few times we turned it on the same team was winning heads over heels.

The winner who retired this past Sunday after five straight wins was Pomona College of Claremont, Calif. If anyone thinks American education is in danger, we suggest you watch that program.

Not all the schools perform really well, and some seem outclassed. But the ability of some of those colleges students to answer some of the questions with such rapidity shows that they have not only remember spot facts, but that they must have assimilated a vast store of knowledge on a great many subjects. It is a reassuring thing to watch.

One realizes that even if they "brush up" for the particular program, still one person could not learn as much as one of those students from Pomona seem to know overnight; he vas a budding genius.

You might think weve gone overboard. If you have any doubts about some of our American colleges and universities pre

senting a real education, we suggest you watch that program. The education is here for the taking.

Opinions in Brief

A real old-timer is a fellow who can recall the times when jou could find a man every now and then who took pride ip doing more work in a day than anyone else. Memphis Commercial Appeal.

'The Russians announce they have now perfected a way to make champagne in three' weeks instead of three years. Could that have been what they were testing in Siberia? Fort Myers (Fla.) News-Press.

Other Editors Saying... Hedges On Foreign Trode

Regenerated cellulose, water end glycerine sounds only slightly more appetizing than Intestinal membranes. Be that as it may, pass the mustardand put another weenie on the grill.** Lynchburg (Va.) News.

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

If the U. S. wants to get its share of the expanding world market then it must, as Secretary of Commerce Hodges pointed out, move in the direction of more liberal world trade. Hodges deems it unfortunate, and he is correct, of course, that this country is low on the "totem pole" of the proportion of its gross national product that goes into exports. Many other countries are ahead of the U. S. and gaining steadily.

Studies are now under way to correct this situation. The administration is now deciding on the position it will take when the Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act comes up for renewal next .spring. Whether President Kennedy should ask for broader power,*; to cut tariffs, or should urge only a. simple renewal of the act as it stands for one or two years or more, remains to be seen.

As a general proposition. Secretary Hodges favors cutting down trade barriers wherever they exist, but there also must be propcjlisafeguards for American indHo-y and this nations overall interests. No one should know this any better than Hodges who was a former textile executive In North Carolina. Today the textile Industry is screaming for protection from overseas competition in the form of low Japanese prices-

"If there had been drunken driving in the days of the Ten Commandments, there would have been eleven.Portland (Me.) Evening Express.

The U. S. today is facing new situations that never existed before. For example Great Britain is seeking to become a member of the Common Market, and this would pose entirely new and serious problems for the U. S. New forces are in play .^nd it is a problem as to how far one can go in readjustment. Business and industry generally have gained a fuller understanding of the developments which have been occurring abroad, such as the creation of the Common Market-

There is a deeper appreciation of the problems involved in the gold and dollar issue, and there steps are favored for improving this countrys trade position. The persistent high level of unemployment in the U, S. can be met and reduced with expanded output. To achieve this we must be assured of our share of the expanding world market.

An example of how this works can be found in the case of Japan. We have been growing only about three and a half per cent annually while Japan has been growing by leaps and bounds, a fantastic 12 per cent or more each year. Why? Because Japan has Jumped into the keen competition for the world market and some of Japans gains have been at the expense of American industry. It is a lesson we should not forget.

"RJpybe it is Just an impression, but poets seem to be getting in the White House a lot lately. It at least proves the nation has moved from one place to another, be it advance, or otherwise. Birmingham News.

"Another thing that amazes the young is that there wasnt any button the pioneers pusned to raise or lower the canvas top on the prairie schooner." Kansas City Star.GIVE

THE UNITED WAYNature ; Doesnt Wait

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY

Copyright. 1961, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

When one talks to young people, these days, he discovers a total lack of knowledge of geography in them- We are told that the world has grown smaller and that we all know each other better. But without a knowledge of geography. It is hardly possible to understand what is going on- *

For Instance, most of us who talk about nuclear fission and fallout know nothing of the Aic-tic Ocean which lies between Canada and Soviet Russia, It is on the Russian side that the big bombs are being exploded-Novaya Zemlya, where the detonations are taking place Is an Island which lies on the Kara Sea which is part of the Arctic Ocean. The reason for using this place is that it so lies that the clouds containing Strontium 90 and other products of a 50-megaton bomb detonations are not likely to flow over Russian territory, although such clouds would across the Arctic Ocean and fall out over Greenland, Canada and the United States.

Even if the winds changed, only the sparsely settled Eastern Siberia and Mongolia and North China would suffer severely. The heavily settled areas of Soviet Russia are not likely to be affected, although that is possible.

Geography is inevitable. The Artie Ocean is where it is and no politics will change its position although engineering has made it possible to fly across the North Pole without difficulty. In fact, such flights are constantly taking place and missiles will be hurled over the. North Pole in due course.

But the most serious geographic factor that faces us is the Ice Cap which lies in the Arctic and which, if it melted, would raise the waters of the oceans and rivers and produce in some areas a flood which would make ^Noahs look like a Hollywood swimming pool. Weather would everywhere be changed in due course and until a new balance of nature established itself, the Earth, as we know it, would cease to exL'^t.

No nation would deliberately undertake the smashing of the Ice Cap because no nation would be free from its devastation. In fact, Soviet Russia could be the first to suffer, particularly as its rivers run- north and south. However, Soviet Russia Is detonating mighty weapons close to the North Pole and no human being can. at this moment, foretell what the effect of such explosions can be on the ice.

I was recently told by a young student that Soviet Russia is courageously speeding up time to effect vital changes. It is one thing effecting vital social and political changes; it is altogether another attempting to interfere with the balance of nature. In fact, a fundamental change in weather can eliminate civilization altogether. Where once mighty dinosaurs ate the top of date trees, is now arid, desert land. And where mighty icebergs once moved southward is today warm country. But during the centuries of these changes, civilization rose, fell and disappeared and men suffered greatly.

So while we are all excited about the fall-out, let us keep our eye on the map of the Earth and watch what happens to weather, water, and the rise and wearing down of mountains. For the surface of the Earth does change; new mountains appear and old ones are eroded and islands in the sea sink. If these events occur slowly and in some orderly system, they, at worst, produce 'local cataclysms, but when man begins to play about with the balance of nature, he is likely to provide major catastrophes which may never be corrected.

The 50 or 100 megaton bomb is too devastating for any use. They are too destructive. The effects of such destruction could be permanent and could be more harmful than we presently conceive.

Politicians seek solutions to Immediate problems-but nature does not deal with the immediate. It does not wait for an Election Day to determine its course. An earthquake can bring a mighty nation to its knees as no army can; a tidal wave can cause industrial areas that cost billions of dollars to create, to disappear in a few hours. When mighty missiles are exploded at the Ice Cap, the (Continued on Page 5)

HxDortina Food To Import More

Strenqth For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS

GODS PEOPLE It was recently my privilege to attend a Billy Graham meeting and to sit on the platform with that forceful evangelist. At the close of his sermon he asked for decisions, and between six and seven hundred people came forward.

As I watched these people standing before the platform. I found myself saying. "I know what heaven is. It is the gathering together of Gods people."

Thia does not mean that only those people who came forward at an evangelistic meeting will achieve heaven. Probably the overwhelming majority of those people who will finally come to eternal blessedness will be people who grew up amid the normal and unexciting experiences of reguUr church life and at

tendance. But of this we can be sure heavens population will be made uP of Gods people. These will be from all branches of the Church, from all nations and races, from all generations of history, from all stations of life. Jesus was crucified with two criminals, but he was buried in the tomb of a rich man. The earthy difierencr which mean much to us mean nothing to God. His demand is for a committed and faithful life.

Heaven will consist of that vast multitude of Gods people, and hell will be made up of those who have neglected or de-fled the will, purposes and rtgirP eous commandments of the Most High.' '

Heaven is the gathering together of Gods people. It begins on earth. It comes to its (onsumatiou 'in a distant .Beyond.

By ELMER ROESSNER

Japanese cleverness is amazing. The Japanese have devised a way to remedy their chronic food shortages: export more

food.

Strangely, this paradox may be resiLtful.

Food has always been scarce in Japan. Only 15 per cent of the land area is arable and the population is beyond the level of the productive capacity of the soil. In the past, Japan has sought more land by conquest; utilized more products from the. sea, Including octopodes and' kelp; adopted strange edibles such as giant snails and insects, and has imported foods. It has long bougjit rice from the rice bowl nations;, it is buying soy 'IJFffns from the United* States

and. at the moment, is negotiating a deal for more Argentinian beef.

LUXURIE.S FOR BASIC ' COMMODITIES Now Japan is stepping up exports of foods. The basic idea

IS that Japan, by exporting specialties and luxuries, can earn more foreign currencies and thereby be able to have the funds to pay for basic commodities. such as grains, pulse, meats, sugars, cheese and other hlgh-pVotein foods./

It figures. A four-ounce can of smoked Japanese fish may yield enough in dollars to pay for a quarter bushel of corn; a can of sukiyakl ingredients may bring enough pesos to buy two pounds of sugar.

The Japanese External Trade Organization (JETRO) is stepping up efforts to gain larger markeU for Japanese special-tlci. -,It la forgetting the novelties of a few years back, such as gra;>ihoppers fried in .*K)y oil and chocolate-covefred ants, and is prcvnoting goods closer to American tastes.

GUSTATORY WONDERS At the recent Japanese fancy food show In New York. Japanese 1 exporters displayed such foods

as;

A

soy sauce brewed for 18

months to develop its flavor;, Mirin, a Japanese cooking wine; Ajinomoto, declared to be the original monsodium glutamate, powder; Teriyakl barbecue sauce, a blend of soy. sugar, ginger, garlic and salad oil.

Cannc(i saki, the Japanese wine; Shochu. a sweet potato wine; Yomeishu.*a wine made from a blend of 13 herbs; Os-hiruko, an instant sweet, red bean soup;

Pickled ginger sprouts as cocktail snacks: canned red

clams; canned smoked baby clams; canned smoked crab^ meat; canned halibut fillets, canned octopus: canned smoked salmon; canned saury fillets, a fish something like the pilchard; canned smoked shrimp (delicious!) canned smoked swordfish;

Canned instant powdered mandarin orange Juice; canned muscat grapes in syrup, each as b'K as a kumquat; canned white peaches: And chill chips, peppery cocktail crackers; tea nuts, peanuts baked in ting crack

ers^ HaiH Jaks, another peanut cracker; soy bits, star-shaped cocktail crackers with the tang of soy, and sesame seeds.

MORE TO COME

Still to be exploited In American are cbied sea cucumber, dried shark fin, dried cuttlefish, dried scaweek, smd sausages of fish and ham.

All these exports will take few calories out of Japan, but will provide hard currency for a vastly greater amount of foodstuffs.

FTC APPROVES NEW FUR NAMES The Federal Trade Commission has approved the use of three new names for furs. They are "fox" to serve as an alternative for five names permissible for the red fox and- lUr' color phases: black toy, cross fox, platinum fox. red fox and silver fox; "A.slatlc Racoon, r a different speciea of racoons already listed; and "South American Opossum," for the fur of that beastie.