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Friday, March 16, 1962

Geneva Sure To Affect The Future

After Geneva, What? cant progress toward agreement will lead to an eas-

In many different forms, that question is beihg ing of international tension between the Western asked throughout the globe in high official circles Allies and the Soviet Union. Lack of progress cannot and by the man on the street. Most eyes are on the help but increase international tension, resulting in disarmament negotiations now underway in Geneva, both sides placing greater emphasis on the arms where for the first time in almost two years the race.

Western Allies and the Soviets are sitting across the The free world would much prefer,the former

table from each other discussing possibilities for outcome to the latter. Even so, to face life in the

disarmament. world of today realistically, the West cannot forfeit

And although all eyes are looking to Geneva, its place of military strength and hope to ^remain there is not great optimism that a disarmament tree. If the course is to be increased armament agreement will come out of the current meeting, rather than disarmament, the West must continue It may end on a high note of greater harmony be- to compete and..compete effectively with the com-tween the opposing camps, or the negotiations may munist camp:

conclude under a cloud of greater international One >vay or the other, the current conference tension, a continuation of the old stalemate with in Geneva will precipitate a change in international each side resorting to blistering.verbal attacks upon affairs.

ie other for making impossible demands. i

The W^^tern Allies have shown no indication T ^r*nt

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for th^ new highway bridge between the coastal cities and adequate protection for future development of the port c.^^nnot be fulfilled in plans for the new bridge, it is well, we think, that the Highway Commission has maue a deci^on on the location of the bridge instead of further delaying the matter.

* r. The bridge location approvedjby the Highway it-,.

betlftaT"fieSDur: "me itVhe fnm-ov^ri morfThr' A'' '"fh By DON SCHLIENZ

B his absence auest writers end of the vear thp appio\ed more than 18 months ago under the

Hodges admini.stration. The location, therefore, T*X ,

should be considered a closed matter both by those 1 Q "! I

who favored the location which was approved and JL>LO LXJ. by those who favored another location farther re-

moved from the present bridge. Saint Patricks Day is an

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Ing his absence guest writers will supply material for this column.)

By BUD WILSON Guest Writer

SOUTHPORT. N.C. One of the more glamorous but least understood Jobs in North Carolina Is that of piloting the ships Into and out of the t^ilsting, ahoallng Cape Pear River.

Those who bring the freighters, tankers and passenger ships up the river have what the average male considers the ideal Job one which provides adventure, excellent pay and the respect of his fellow me*

And for a man uith the ability. training, knowledge and that rare intangible known as good Judgment, a pUots Job is ideal.

Pilots are made, not bom, although most if not all those actively engaged in the profession today can trace direct descen-dency from blockade runners of the War Between the States.

In addition to holding a federal license to pilot the Cape Fear waters, a State license called a branch Is required. It is Issued annually by the board which controls all activity on the Cape Fear River, the Board of Commissioners for Navigation and Pilotage for the Cape Fear River and Bar.

The commission, created by the 1921 General Assembly, consists of five men who are appointed by the Governor for four-year terms. They have ultimate, and absolute, responsibility for licensing pilots. Louis Hanson Is chairman of the commission and recently started his 33rd year on the board. Other members are Prince OBrien, vice chairman, and Oliver Carter, R. M. Williams and J. E. L. Wade.

The pilc^ themselves belong to an oi^anization knowm as The Wilmington Cape Fear Pilots Association and elect a manager, or chairman, from their number annually. They maintain their owm office, dispatching service, two stout boats with crews to carry them to sea where they board or leave ships, carry their own insurance, and collect their fees. Neither the pilots nor the commission receive State or federal funds of any sort. All fees collected they run from about $100 to $150 per trip go into a central fund from which all expenses are paid by the

end of the year, the association contributes heavily to the Widows and Orphans Fund. which currently pays dividends to eight people left by former pilots.

There -are eight licensed pilots now working on the ri\er. and two other men are receiving training in an apprentice prt^ram. All of those holding branches are veterans as far

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Both these groups should now join forces in ^<^^sion carried to four cor-

ah effort to assure construction of "a bridge lhat TUny'Day'

Will not hamper the ports development. Through for the Irish apd^ar-irish.

as lar ^^6 joillt cffoit of these two local groups in Carte- Irelands history didnt be-

as experience is concerned. Op- ret County, plus the concerted efforts of the High^ SvsUc link

erating much as the guds of way Commission and the State Ports Authority, the ron saint and the irTsh and

be.'it interests of both the highway users and the f^ose of Irish descent is so

Morehead City port can be served.

the Middle Ages, the Association sees to it an apprentice Ls fully qualified before he is allowed to take on the responsibility of full-fledged pilot. The net result is that Chairman Hanson cannot recall a major mishap or accident caused on the Cape Fear River by a pilots error.

All foreign vessels must carry a pilot. Coastal shipping Is not required to have a local pilot aboard, provided a federally licensed man is aboard. But as a matter of pure economics, virtually all coastwise ships find it safer and less costly to use the Cape Fear men.

The pilots offer 24-hour service. the year around. That can mean boarding a rolling ship at sea at 3 p.m. while the sleet and rain makes leaping for a Jacobs ladder from a tiny, tossing pilot boat highly dangerous.

The Cape Fear River was apparently named by a sailor or master with considerable personal knowledge of its physical features. A giant sand bar extends for about five miles across the mouth of the river and is crossed by a narrow channel. Project depth of the river channel itself is 34 feet, and there are many exceedingly sharp turns on its 28-mile route from the sea to the Wilmington docks. Ships grow larger, year by year, and when the pilots have to bring in super tanker.s, every bit of lore and .skill they have acquired comes into play. Wind its velocity and direction along with tides, river currents, type of ships and her design and power, weather, visibility, and other factors must be weighed by the pilot before he gives a command.

The records show pilots on the Cape Fear River have, for years, been giving the right commands.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON lAPt When President Kennedy decided to resume atmospheric nuclear testsa move of sensational magnitude and interest he announced it in a tv-radio broadcast and not in a news conference.

This, if only by contrast, gives an insight into the nature of his meetings with the press where, while providing a lot of news, he avoids sensationalism.

There were good reasons for the way he announced the test.s. It got him maximum attention. But it was also a decision which needed full and detailed explanation, carefully prepared and stated.

It was in a field too dangerous and slippery to be skipped over casually or quickly, as might happen at a news conference. since a careless phrEuse could cause an explosion. And there was the time element.

Kennedy took almost 30-minutes in his broadcast. His news confeernces last 30 mLnute.s. If he had tried to use hLs news conference for the statement he gave on TV there would have been no time for a conference.

An examination of his eight meetings with the press in 1962 shows a pattern which has been consistent In his news conferences with very few exceptions, since he took office in 1961.

If it is granted that a cardinal mark of maturity in a man with great power is the steady exercise of restraint and the ability to look beyond the immediate hazardous or angry moment. then Kennedy Is very mature.

Restraint is the one word which can sum up the pattern of hi.s new.s conferences.

This i.s the pattern:

VeiT little di.splav of anger, particularly of a pcnsonal kind; an extraordinarily detaled knowledge of government, foreign and domc.stic; streaks of humor; aoidance of language which would htimiliaH or need-lesslv irritate and antagonize individuals who di.saeree with hm but with whom he mu.'=t ron-tinue to deal, whether It's P e mor Khnishehe or members of Congress working to scuttle

his programs.

Sometimes he seerhs more relaxed than others in the way he catches and answ'ers questions. The questions themselves may have something to do with it. For instance, he refuses to accept those which are based on assumptions or occasionally those which look like deliberate needles.

At any rate the less relaxed mood shows up, as it did Wednesday when he had to backtrack on a question to be sure he heard it right and then gives disjointed and even garbled an-

S'Wei-s.

Pre.sident Eisenhower, except when visibly angered, was always harder to peg as more or less relaxed because he had a sentence-scrambling habit.

But the conferences themselves vary in tone and quality. There are days that have an almost merry bang-bang-bang air. Some are fast, serious, and packed with news. Others are just dull.

Here again some little differences in Kennedys mood may be a factor. A far bigger factor probably is the kind of questions asked some of them hum-dnim. and .some w'hich sound just plain stupid.

One of the truly fascinating aspects of Kennedys conferencesnot at all obvious because the fascination lies far more in what he doesnt say than In what he saysis his handling of Khrushchev.

Kennedy acts as If he knows or assumes Khrushchev has plenty of unpublicized troubles with some of the top Commu-ni.st leadership on his ideas and policies.

The President from the beginning. while dealing firnily with the Rus.sians, has refrained from saying anything that would personally embarrass or pu.'^h him. out of anger or self-defen.'^e, into a position he would not othenvise have felt himself forced into.

Khnishchev has done pretty much the same with Kennedy. If.s as if the two leaders, out actually telling each so. are sa.ylng: So long as we leave the door or^-n a bit we can still do business.

strong that one might say there will no longer be an Ireland ivhen there is no longer a St. Patricks Day.

People who have seen celebration of The Day in New York or Boston say it outrivals by far the display of Irish in their own land.

There are reasons, of course.

The natives of the Emerald Isle live as Irish 365 days of the year; their distant kin on these shores are Americans

with pride only one day a year. Such occasions call for cheerful exuberance beyond the norm.

Another point: Some 20 million Americans, perhaps more, trace their ancestry to Ire-land.^hat lands population today stands at around 4 million, so there are more potential observers hereabouts than thereabouts.

It can be truthfully said tkat with arrival of the Irisii, Anierica would never be the same.

During sixty years of heaviest Irish emigration, more people left Ireland than stayed behind. Famine and persecution were largely responsible. And history records that no major immigrant group ever embraced their new home with more ardor than

Other Editors Saying. . Clemency Not Deservec

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

Rep. Francis E. Walter, Democrat of Pennsylvania, has offered a very substantial reason why he opposes the release from prison of former Communist leader Junius Scales of North Carolina. Says Walter: Just before Scales began serving his prison sentence he told an interviewer, I can't say that I regret any of it. We did a lot of god things. I would ask Mr. Scales if he includes among those good things the teaching of how to murder with a pencil point?

Junius Scales came from good Tar Heel stock. His forebears were leaders, people of the professions. They helped to build this state. He, of all people. should have knowm what he was getting into. Yet he has not evidenced regret over his relationship with communism. He w'as an intelligent man; he knew the goals of communism, yet he served these goals.

He was convicted of violating the membership clause of the Smith Act and sentenced to six years in prison. He has served five months. As Walter pointed out, on at least one occasion at a secret Communist training school, of which Scales was a director and with Scales watching, an instructor taught and demonstrated how a person on a picket line could kill an opponent by stabbing a pencil into his heart or throat.

Scales Issued a declaration that he withdrew from the Communist party in 19.57. This declaration does not mean he actually did so. He also insist

ed publicly back in the 1940;^ that the Communist party oft the United States is not domi- nated by the Soviet Union. But Congress, the executive branch and the judiciary have all found Scales wrongif not a calculated liaron that score.

After Scales was convicted In Greensboro in 19.55 he said my party has never advocated force and violence. On this claim he Was also found incorrect. The Communist party would be delighted to see the Smith Act downgraded by his premature release from prison.

Apparently the peculiar breed of Americans pushing the clemency - for - Scales campaign are not bent so much on a mission for mercy as they are just plain galled that an anti-Communlst law of the land has been upheld by the Supreme Court. Well, it is something of a switch.

Was Junius Scales a victim of circumstances or a dupe when he joined the Reds in 1940? As a student at the University of North Carolina, as the son of a wealthy attorney, as the grandnephew of a governor of North Carolina, and as a descendant of college presidents, a Confederate general, ministers, editors. Revolutionary War soldiers and colonial Judges dating gack to 1623 in American history. Scales had far better rea.son than most U.

S. Communists to know what he was betraying. Because of this he deserves no clemency.

His violation of the law was deliberate. His punishment should be Just as deliberate.

those who came to our shores.

They were born with a love for liberty and Irish history is full of the story of fighting for liberty. Small wonder they were In the forefront of the American Revolution.

George Washingtons army is estimated to have had one-third of its men from Ireland or of Irish descent. Four signers of the Declaration of Independence were born in Ireland, and five signers had Irish parents or grandparents.

That section of the Declaration dealing with wrongs inflicted upon the Colonies was mainly the work of John Sullivan. a member of the Continental Congress and early agitator for independence.

Its a matter of record that Washington made Saint Patrick the watchword of the Continental Armv on the night of March 17, 1776, when the British held Boston.

While the years of the great exodus from Ireland are long since past, the Irish still go out to civilize the rest of the world, theyll tell you with barely a trace of a smile.

The Irish who came to Colonial America were not especially drawn to New England or the Middle Atlantic sections. They disembarked where there Were ports. Some to the Carolinas, some to 'Virginia, some to Maryland. New Orleans, too, offered haven. The fir.st' official cen.sus (1790) of persons born in Ireland counted about 44,000; and more than half of these lived south of Pennsylvania.

In the subsequent years sons of Erin served America as teachers, judges, playwrights, priests, poets, lawmakers, authors, actors, writers, soldiers and sailors. They built railroads and canals, composed music and dug ditches, laid bricks and tilled the soil.

So how come a person named Schlienz is writing of the Irish on this eve of St. Patricks Day?

I'm just breaking out the Green, friend. Theres enough Irish in my background to relish a little honest celebrating on March 17.

Opinions In Brie;:

The South knows too much about chicken fried, broiled or baked really to pay much attention to right wing or left w1ng: its the in-between that counts. Birmingham (Ala.) News.

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By GEOBOl E. 80K0LSKT

Copyright. 1962. King Featuivg Syndicate, Ine.

Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina baa been raising an issue, not of the right to know but of the right to tell. Military men and many publio officials come into possession of much informaUon either because of the work they do or because of tbeir proximity to others who do very Important work.

The issue is: are they Justified in telling what they know while they remain in the employ of the government? Does wearing the uniform enjoin a man from freespeech?

This is an old issue and ther had been many quarrels over it. The most recent <me is that of General Edwin. A. Walker who, after a brilliant military career, was. in effect, forced out of command In Germany because his anti-Com-munist activities were distasteful to the Administration. Many persons believe that General Walker was mistreated.

The attitude of the Kennedy Administration is ^at the for^ eign policy of this country Is to be conducted by the President, assisted by the Secretary of State; that when public officials, particularly men in uniform. speak, we, in the United States, understand that each man speaks for himself but that in other countries, particularly Communist countries, whatever is said by an offlclal person is assumed to be policy, determined in advance of the address. Also the Admlnlstreti(Mi takes the position that it may wish to time a case softly, mildly or angrily imd that it alone shall determine the degree of emphasis.

For instance, when a speaker wrote Communist China has territorial objectives of its owm which must be reck(xied with quite apart from loyalUca to Moscow, the censor removed the words which must be reckoned with quite apart from loyalties to Moscow. It is possible to understand the reason for the destructicm of the second clause of the sentence. It must be a matter of policy to acknowledge the degree of the split between Russia and Red China.

The Issue then comes down to this:

1. Public officials, unless authorized. should be silent;

2. Public officials should speak but their speeches should conform to policy;

3. Public officials should be free to say anything they choose.

The second choice, under most circumstances, 1 most likely to be correct, provided:

1. That the national policy la

known to them;

2. That the censorship over their speeches Is done for the sake of national policy and not to satisfy the whislcalltles of the individual censor or perhaps his private decision as to what Is policy:

3. That the censor be a mature person of sound Judgement at least equal In rank to the censored.

General B. A. Schrlever, Air, Research and Development Command, had the following sentence taken out of a speech' which said that if the Commu-* nists were to develop an effective anti-KTBM before wa do, they would have a tremendous advantage. So, taken out was this:

They might be able to negotiate any solution they desired without the fear of armed conflict or retaliation.

The censored sentence is correct. It is truthful. It does not belie national policy. Why waa the sentence taken out of tlia speech? As a matter of fact. President Kennedy has made similar statements as far back as his campaign America must be on the move!

Similarly, General George H. Decker. Chief of Staff of the Army, who ought to know policy, WAS censored in this fashion:

It appears better to some by their false rationaleto ao-cede to totalitarianism than to risk the destruction of mllUonf of human beings and large segments of the fruits of civilizationthey would rather be Red than dead.

The words, they would rather be Red than dead, were censored. Why? That is a commonplace phrase that flte (Continued on Page 6)

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Plato, the Grcf k philo.soplit r. wrote on one () that "on

ly by .some divine disclosure coming into life fioin oulside it conld men find (he way truth and freedom.

Long before Clul.tian think eis had worked out what w* have coine to call a Christian theology, this pauan pliilosoph er, Plato, put his finger on one of the most important trulh.s o relltion. namely thai life gains its* significance, it.s energy, and its purpose not primarily because of what we do but by way of some /divine disclosure coming into life from outside it.

We can look upon a creaU d world and can easily come to the conclusion that a Creator

mu.st have been present in the bi 1nmn,i;. We can obsmve the law- (f nature and belu've that thei e i.s dcsieu and pui-pose behind the uni\er.se and the way It acts and reacts. But the ti'ulh tiuii God lia.s the nature 0 a fathd'. that He 1s . , euncerned about our welfare that He i.s willin'' to take any .step to promote it, that life ha.s a purpo.se. that we have powers within ouiy elvps making us acle-Qua e to every situation these tnitli.-- eoine to us not through iva.'^^on but through some di vine disnlosu e coming into life from out.slde it.

We call this re^elation. The continual workino of God.s purpose On our hearts, we call guidance The end to wliich 01 ir li\es are being flirected we call pro\idence realitie.-. from the o'li lde V, lii-I) eoniinually streng- then, sustain, and guide us.

By EI.MER ROESSNER

Astronauts wont figure much In toys this Christmas unless the toymakers of America are secretly rushing through .some man-in-space devico.s. At the .59tli annual American Toy Fair In New York this week are some astral tele.scope.s and a few space ship models, but lew Ovh(*r toys related to Colo:ul John Glenns orbiting of the earth or other orbital flights that may take place later this yer

Toy de.sfgning for ChrI.stmas. 1962, b<gan late last .year. The taigct date for revealing the new lines was this week, when the fair opened. Even at that, many of the manufacturers are showing only hand-made models of projected toys. And ap-P'arently the manufacturers hadnt gambled that Colonel Glenn would make it.

However, the trends for next Chrlstma.s are falrlv clear.

El E(TRO,\I(S IN FORE

It will lie an electronic Christmas, it will be an auto mated Clirlstmas. It will be a science Christmas. It will be a

television Christmas. It will be an expensive Christmas.

In the constantly growing model field, a series of electronic kits has been introduced by Revell, Venice. Calif. These Include a hi-fi amplifier, a stereo record pla.ver, a .ster-

hobby hor.se whinnies and asks, How about .some hay?

MOKE SCIENCE TOYS Science toys, which have been increasing in profusion in recent years, are more numerous than ever. Theres a model atomic plant, a model

amounts promised to be spent.

There are some minor trends. The trend in recent years toward more toys with which children can Imitate the acUons of the elders Is stUl strong. There are more kitchen and dining room sets and Merry,

eo conversion kit and a .short piop-jet engine, .several weath- Cincinnati. Is Introduclna di/v

WBVO rildin. Thp IcitiJ fnr fni'i^/'actinar cofc onH /'hsam_ noU ' m ^

wave radio. The kits .sell for half the price of comparable completed .set.s, and some regular electronic manufacturers may be worried.

Automation is all over the lot. Theres an automated baseball game in which runners actually move around the diamond by Kenner. Cincinnati. There is a battery-powered lathe for turning foam plastic, and attachments for six other home workshop tools. Tlieres a dino.saur that roars and fights back and roars when hit by an arrow on a .sensitive point on Its tail. This is by Ideal, New York.

There is also a 2.3-lnch bas-.^ett hound that walks with a waddle and bark.'- it can also pick up a bone with its magnetized teeth. Alsp by Ideal. A

,er forecasting sets, and chemistry sets unlimited.

Television has become a tw'o-way .street. Toy manufacturers are drawing from television for dolls and characters. Almost any TV cartoon you can thitik of now appears, more or le.ss animated, at the fair. Some are jointed, three dimen-.sional characters, some appear in colored slides, some are In coloring sels and make-lt-your-.sclf kits. At the same time, toy manufacturers are boa.sting how much they will spend on television advertising this year. TV toy advertising has become so spectacular In recent years that the Federal Communlca-tion.s Cnmmls.slon has wanird adverti.s( rs to iT.strict thA^-.selves to thi truth. That, /rtw-evcr, has not lessened the

nail polish, powder and perfume and beauty sleep sets for little girls. It has a buzzing, play safety razor for boys.

The dvil War theme, which was so strong last year, is not so apparent this week. Whlla there are some Civil War toys and games apparently the centennial has not aroused much enthusiasm. Perhaps as Varle-ty might stUl say, the dv Jaylng an egg. And prices! While prices for Individual

lighter than In recent years and. In fact, some are lower, the general trend has been producing more Items at the high end of the scale. There seems t be less lntere.st in producing 49-rent and 88-cent toys and more enthuslMm In bringing out $9.98, $15.95 aod $24.50 toys.