Wednesday, December 12, .962

dia To Become A Military Power

Anyone For Kissing Games?

India, which during its yeai*s of independence has spumed the build-up of a strong military force, is now moving to increase and modernize its standing military strength in the face of armed aggression.

Although the undeclared border war between India and Red China has stopped for the moment, it is evident that India does not intent to continue to rely on words to protect its borders from communism. Premier Nehrus assertion that the military conflict between India and Red China may last for five years or longer is indicative of long-range military planning by the Indians.

The United States and Great Brftian are in the process of making long-range plans for military aid to help India build her armed forces.

India, even without an imposing military force, has long been regardedbecause of its sizeas a nation of considerable influence in Asia. With a long-range build-up of its military strength in the making, it may be expected that its influence in

future years. It is also probable that Red China, in the face of Indias increased military strength, finds India more of a thorn in its side than it has in the past.

Although it has appeared often to lean toward the communist bloc of nations rather than the Western world in international affairs, India now seems to be moving more firmly into the Western cmp. Certainly its former outward appearance of friendship with Red China has disappeared in recent months. The new po.sition of India at the same time has increased the strained relations between the Soviet Union and Red China.

Unless changes are made in the present trend of planning, India appears certain to emerge as a nation of considerable military strength in Asia. As she does, ^e military balance of power in Asia will be altered by the manner in which India aligns itself, either on the side of the West, or on the side of Moscow.

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Plymouth Bridge

If Convicted, Should Get Maximum Penalty

By WILUAM A. SHIRES

BRIDGE ^ Governor Terry Sanfords pledge to build a brand new bridge across the Roanoke River at the little town of Plymouth may be viewed as a fine P(dltical plum for Eastern North Carolina.

R will be equally Interesting politically to see how it is to be financed.

Sanford said the bridge within a few years "will pay for itself." but he was talking about economic, betterment for the southern Albemarle and not about tolls. The toll bridge idea apparently is dead, and has been aince lormer State Sen. Lindsay C. Warren attacked toll financing so vigorously last Spring at the Alligator River bridge dedi-catimi.

It may be that when the Plymouth bridge is approved and put on the priority list and plans are drawn, Sanford may furnish the funds from the unallocated highway surplus. He has given no indication of this, but allocating highway surplus has been a political prerogative exercised by governors back to Kerr Scott.

Then. finaUy, it could be that the bridge will be built with reg--ular highway money, following the usual procedure and priority system except that Sanford has asked the Highway Commissim to move up this project.

QUESTION Question as to why this particular project, requested, discussed and delayed for 25 years, suddenly has become impcatant enough to warrant urgent prlmlty would be a natural one.

There are many urgently needed highway projects across the state that will be considered just as Important and deserv-big of priority.

And In facing these various highway needs, it is well knowm that highway officials are having to scratch hard for money. Sanford Umself two days before his Plymouth speech said North Carolina is falling behind in its 1.5-year highway program at the rate of 35 million dollars a year.

He said, too, that he does not Intend to ask for a new highway bold Issue and that he would devote his efforts to stretching funds that are available and using them to best ad-yanUge.

In view of this, what were the considerations in favor of building a new bridge at Plymouth which is barely 15 miles from one of the states biggest and finest bridges, the Great Sound bridge that spans the Albemarle Sound and serves roughly much the same area that a bridge at Plymouth would insofar as connecting the southern and northern shores of the sound.

REASONS The Great Sound bridge, however, has nev- * er been totally satisfactory to the Plymouth people and those In Bertie County and others, primarily because it docs not

serve their local needs. The bridge at Plymouth is and has been a local cause celebre.

Eastern North Carolina, too. has been chafing about being left off the Interstate highway system, and jealous of the big superhighways being built in the Piedmont and West.

And the predominantly Democratic East has a powerful political voice, (me that will be especially powerful in the 1963 General Assembly and later. The East Is being wooed too.

The East is concerned about its economic development which has lagged behind the Piedmont. R is especially ccmcemed in view of farm out-migration and tobacco problems. It has been asking for roads and bridges to help industrial development and its tourist business.

The Plymwith bridge would help a great deal in both and, incidentally might become part of the proposed "history highway in the old, storied Eden-ton-Washington-New Bern section.

IMPROVE But opponents will say the East has not been faring badly. Huge amounts of mwiey have been spent on several big new bridge projects, either already open, under contract or on the drawing boards all the way from the Alligator River, Oregon Inlet, and Croatan Sound to Morehead City and Wilmingtrai.

There are plans for Improving U. S. 17 and other major Eastern highway arteries and plans for a new road to tie in with the Virginia routing from the Chesapeake Bay bridge-tun-nel. The Plymouth bridge would help in this.

DEVELOP Sanford said the Plymouth bridge "will open up new country, promote the industrial development you have .started, create new opportunities. He said the state is doing everything possible to speed industrial development of Eastern North Carolina.

In this connection, a report has circulated for some time that a large, nr.ajor industry was considering a site in Bertie County in the same area that would be served by the bridge at Plymouth. Nature of this industry has not been disclosed, but the firm is reported to be a large domestic North Carolina company which is now located entirely in the Piedmont.

This, then, could be part of the answer to why, in the midst of apparent highway financing troubles, Sanford put his okay on the Plymouth project.

PROPOSAL There is another promotional - value highway project being proposed for the Piedmont, something which the Piedmont people may be pushing very soon. This is a "furniture highway looping from High Point to Statesvle, Hickory, Drcxel and Morganton, then to Lenoir and back to Winston-Salem, a highway designed to serve this heart of the states furniture Industry and promoted as such.

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High-sounding phrases are being used by supporters of the communist party in the United States in denouncing government action in trying the party and its officials for failure to comply with the law requiring them to register as agents of the Soviet Union.

They spoke of constitutional rights. They asserted the action threatens political freedom in the United States and endangers the existence of every minority political party. They declared the action denies the American people their right of political choice and because of that no American citizen is safe.

These are the spokesmen for the same communist party which has crushed personal liberties and political rights in every nation in which they have gained control. These are spokesmen for communism which advocates the overthrow of the United States gibvernment and the government o every other nation, by force, in order that communism may gain a strangle-hold on the nation and its people.

. On the one hand they are dedicated to the oveidhrow of the constitution of the United States and the laws* under that constitution. On the othe-, they are seeking to hide behind the constitution in an effort to avoid pernal ties they justly deserve under its implementing laws. ,

The Justice Department should prosecute its case against the communist party and its leaders with all the vigor it commands. And if they are found guilty as charged, the courts should assess the party and its leaders with the maximum penalties authorized under the law.

aught SyndiMrte,

By JOHN ABNEY nrr

Bhe Earth-Is-Flat Tribe

MEXICO CITY Browsing through the newspapers Is a most edify^ experience and we just noticed a feature story on a gentleman named Wilbur Glenn Volvia who passed to his reward 20 years ago.

Apparently, Mr. Voliva and the Lacandon Indians of southeastern Mexico were pen pals because they had some similar thoughts.

The thing people considered curious about Mr. Voliva was his insistence that the world was flat as a pancake. In fact, he had a rather poetic type of philosophy about this matter which he summed up as: "The World Is Flat And That Is That.

The story described Mr. Vol

iva as the Iron-willed ruler of Zion, Illinois, and he had signs around to^Ti announcing that traitors, thieves and thugs would find his city hotter than the bad place.

He forbid his natives to drink, dance, smoke, play cards, take medicines or consult doctors, see movies, attend other churches, use cosmetics, eat pork, lard, oysters or fool around with ouija boards.

And Mr. Voliva instructed his schools to teach the children that the world was flat, FLAT, FT.AT,

He would be c(msiderably cheered today in knowing that his theory is still adhered to by the Lacandon Indians and nobody is about to tell them difi-

Finger Pointed Other Editors Saying...

At The President show case

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By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON CAP) Still unsettled, like a lingering sore, is the question: Who revealed what went mi when President Kennedy decided on a showdown with Russia over its missiles in Cuba?

He acted after getting the views of his National Security Council in a highly secret sion. The council members are among the most important men in government.

This week, the Columbia Broadcasting System and Life, Time and Newsweek magazines said Kennedy himself threw open government files to two Saturday Evening Post reporters, one of them a close, personal friend, to prepare a chronology on what happened. It was quite a chronology.

Last week the Post came out with a story on what happened and who said what. It was too, well documented, too full of direct and indirect quotes, to have been dreamed up.

The most super-secret outfit in the government is the Central Intelligence Agency. The Post even quoted CIA men, directly and indirectly, including a telephone conversation with Mc-George Bundy. Kennedys special assistant. And Monday night a CBS correspondent said Bundy supplied much of the material for the Post article.

Pierre Salinger, White House press secretary, said the Life story pointing the finger at the President is "absolutely and completely without foundation. But there has been no indication from the White House that Kennedy has ordered an investigation of the leak or intends to do anything about it. And meanwhile the Washington Evening Star backs up the Life story. It said Monday: "Competent sources told the Star that Mr. Kennedy did tell his advisers to, cooperate with the Post reporters and that some of them refused to do so.

The Star said Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara wa.' one who refused.

The President will be a.sked about all this at his news conference Wednesday. Unle.ss he discloses more than the White House has been willing to so far, the whole subject will remain a sore.

This basic issue who talked to reporters about what happened at the secret council meeting? got lost sight of for a while in the uproar caused by what the Post said was Adlai Stevensons role in the council session.

The Post quoted a non-admiring offlciar as saying Stev-en5on, U. S. ambassador to'the United Natlom, "wanted a Munich by making conces-slon.s to the Russian.^ Instead of insisting on a .showdown.

If left unanswered, this .statement would .seein to undercut Steven.sons po.slUon In the Kennedy administration and at the United Nations. Stevenson promptly and repeatedly denied the Post account. He said his view was the opposite.

Kennedy finally, but after some days, let it be known that Stevenson had backed Ws decision to have a showdown. But at no time has Kennedy either criticized the Post story or denied its accuracy.

Kennedy did not say that Stevenson had not first proposed concessions to Russia. That Stevenson supported Kennedys decision, once it was made, can be taken for granted. His usefulness would be ended if be didnt.

Kennedy called on his council to get the members advice. It has to be assumed that each would give his most honest advice, even if it disagreed with that of everyone else in the room.

It is out of the different opinions, and the conflict of opinions, that the President could reach a decision.

Even if Stevenson at first had advised concessions, this should hardly justify the public belit-tlingi inflicted upon him by the "nori - Admiring official In the post article.

But, just because there was a leak on what happened and because Stevenon was belittled, two serious questions are left:

1. The next time there Is a crisis and Kennedy calls his council into very secret session, will the events there be piped out to the public later? so, then what meaning does secrecy have?

2. After the Post disclosures particularly after what happened to Stevenson will council members in the future be willing to give a frank Opinion since they can now fear, if the opiniiMi is unp<H>ular, it will be leaked?

This will give some idea of how detailed the Post story was. A number of people were quoted indirectly. But the following were directly quoted:

Kennedy himself; his brother, Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy; McNamara, Secretary of State Dean Rusk; Ray Cline, CIAs chief of intelligence in a telephone call to Bundy; CIA Director John McCone, and a number of people not otherwise identified except as "one of the wisest presidential advisers or "CIA men or one of the actors In the drama or "one of those present and six people (perhaps the same person) Identified as a member of the council.

Us* Christmas Seals

(Goldsboro News-Argus) Seymour Johnson Air Force Base is a "show case for the Air Force.

Here we have units of all three major combat commands Tactical Air Command, Strategic Air Command and the Air Defense Command. We understand that this is the only base in the nation that has that distinction.

Units here share roles of equal importance to the base, to the community and to the nation.

The Air Force is understandably proud of what it has at Goldsboro. Because of the unique assignment of units from all three major commands, the base frequently is singled out for visits by officers attending the Armed Forces staff colleges and by officers and officials from foreign countries.

Goldsboro, Wayne County and Eastern North Carolina are equally proud of this distinction. ^

We believe that it Is to the advantage of the Air Force, the morale of its personnel here, and all concerned for Seymour Johnson to stress this uniqueness in its press releases.

Such has not been the case. Seymour Johnson is technically a Tactical Air Command base and as such its publicity office comes under the TAC base group, or "housekeeping unit.

In every press release made from the base, the first paragraph makes it a point to refer to Seymour Johnson as "this Tactical Air Command Base. Occasionally, it will be identified only as "home of the Famous Fourth Tactical Wing.

Those reading the releases get the impression that only TAC units are here. And while

no one has said it aloud, it must be of some concern to the thousands of men in Strategic Air Command and Air Defense Command units here to constantly be reminded that they merely are "guests or "tenants on the base.

Those aware of the assignment here of organizations from all three commands might, on seeing the repeated "this Tactical Air Command base reference, get the mistaken idea that there is jealousy beyond the limits of heal-tky rivalry between the units. Such, of course, is not the case.

Certainly no one wants to take from Tactical Air Command any of the credit for the excellent Job it has done and is doing in running a multi-million dollar facility.

But at the same time no one wants to subordinate the importance of the other units assigned here. And certainly we would not want to leave the impression that these units do not even exist.

We would like to suggest to the Seymour Johnson public information office that it take a long thoughtful look at its present policy of identifying the base.

Meanwhile, the News-Argus will be very careful to always identify Seymour Johnson as the home of elements from all three major combat commands and as the unique "shew case facility of which we all are proud.

We hope that other newspapers jicross the state will exercise the same care so that Goldsboro, the Air Force, and all the fine personnel assigned here vlU get full credit and recognition for the importance of what we have.

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The Lacandon world is flat and you can say what you want about satellites fl^g around but all they do is go in a big circle like an orange swinging on a string over a table. Science is all right for a pastime but the truth is something else.

In the Lacandon world, the sun gets up early every morning and says, "Well, here we go again. Ths sun is a sort of person.

Then he makes a trip across the sky just like Apollo, or whoever it was that went around In a fireball chariot for the Greeks, and comes 6:3ft^p. m. he sets.

And since he has arrived exhausted to the other side of the world (no dimentions mentioned but it sounds like a tedious journey) something has to be done about it.

So two gentlemen load the s.un into a hammock and carry it back under the earth to the starting line for the next days run.

Of course, the Lacandones are much more liberal than Mr. Voliva because they do not hang signs around warning people against evil and nobody cares a fig if the other fellow wants to take a pill or a nip of sugar cane gin now and then or even hold a ouija board session.

After you cover the flat theory, there is a startling difference in the beliefs of Mr. Voliva and the Lacandones.

The Lacandon world was made by a fellow named No-hotsakyum who smokes cigars and eats beans and is married to a lady named Nainohotsak-yum. And having a wife with a name like that, he probably spades off a very dry martini now and then and sits there muttering to himself, "Whynt I marry somebody named Ana? '

Nohotsakyum apparently had nothing to do so one day he patted out the world, Just like a tortilla, and then started putting people and things all over it.

The Lacandones say he decided to grow a few items that might come in handy so he created com and bananas and garlic and cane. With a menu like that, imagine going into a Lacandon restaurant when the waitress comes to take your order you say, A bowl of bananas and garlic please.

Now when the world has had it, a huge jaguar comes along and eats the population and everyone somehow ends up living in the sky with Nohotsakyum, just the way he does.

Mr. Voliva would certainly disapprove of such an existence in the after-world but it doesnt sound bad provided Nohot-sakjoim passes out decent cigars.

What

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Study?

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY Copyright, 1962, King Feature!

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I was going through Love-Joys "Guidance Digest, the authoritative publication on American colleges, and came acn^ this:

"Could you send me a list of coUeges that do not require math as a requirement for a degree whUe in college?

C. G. R.

(Guid. Couns., N.Y. high school) "In many cases students are allowed to choose either a math or science course to meet degree requirements. The following colleges do not specifically have a math requirement for the undergraduate degree: Adel-phi Coll.,- Bethany Coll. (W. Va.), Boston Univ.. Centre ColL of Kentucky. Colorado CoU., Georgetown Coll. (Ky.), Iowa Wesleyan Coll., Adrian Coll., Allegheny, and Ball State Teachers Coll.

It came to me to wonder why this student wanted a college that required no math. Had he failed in math? I know a boy who is a brilliant scientific student but who had to take his calculus examlnatiwi three times before he got it well. Now he can teach calculus.

Education is not how little you can get away with but how much knowledge and universal experience you can accumulate. Mathematics Is essential. All science uses mathematics for measurement, calculation and computation. Without a basic knowledge of mathematics, how can one know physics or chemistry or even measure an iambic pentameter?

The guidance counsellor of that New York high school really ought to ask his student to go back and stpdy some math before his arteries get too hard to study anything. How much literature does this student know? What languages has he studied? Why does he wint to go to college at all? Or is it a trade school?

For instance, in the same Issue of Lovejoys guide, I find a letter which asks:

"One of my counselees is Interested in a college which has a good wrestling team and which could offer some financial aid to an excellent, lightweight wrestler. He Is not a top student but maintains about a 75 per cent average. He plan# to major in physical education. Please send me the names of colleges we might investigate. This raises the question of the athletic scholarship which is a public relations gambit and is in no manner related to education. Physical education is a misnomer because education has to do with the mind and not with muscles. If we require muscular fellows, there should be special places for that purpose, principally gymnasiums. A college should exist for the cultivation of the mind. Wrestling does not cultivate the mind.

Instead of looking for an athletic scholarship, that student should be told to push his mark# up and get into a good school. Ike Lovejoy answers him: "Most colleges these days do not offer grants to athletes for athletic skill alone but you may want to contact the following colleges wlch are among those which have a physical education major and a wrestling team: Pennsylvania State Coll. (at E. Stroudsburg, Lock Haven, Slippery Rock, West Chester), Marshal Coll., Kent State Univ., Ball State Teachers Coll., Bowling Green State Univ.

As much as I dislike the expansion of the Federal Government into education, I nevertheless am sure that the day must come when a degree again has some specific value. A degree, B. A. or B. S., often means nothing and when one talks to the person who bean such a degree and even wears a Phi Beta Kappa key, he might be floored by the ignorance of ordinary things. One who said that he had a familiarity with American history did not know Colonel House or James Madison or who wrote the Rfonroo Doctrine, it, of course, not bo-ing President Mwiroe. How little knowledge does one need to get by?

For those to whom ignoranco Is bliss, the college ought to bo no place. The cost of natlnte-nance is so great that ther# must be a screening of students so that college funds are not consiuned by students who can-(Continued on page 7)

Fmployees Gypped, Firm Movec

Fight TB and Other Rtspiratory Oiseass

By ELM^R ROESSNER

When I was a tad, I heard the story about the girl who was hired as a secretary in Fort Wayne. On her first day, she asked, "Do you work here like they do in New York? The boss said, "Well, I guess so. The girl replied, Then kiss me and lets get to work.

This story was recalled when I heard about the moving of the Walworth Co., a valve-manufacturing concern, from N%w York to Oakland, Calif.

In explaining why the corporation left Manhattan. W. Frederick Spense, chairman, said of his New York employees:

"They used to have trouble with the trains. Then they had to have a coffee break of about 30 minutes and by 11:30 they were making plans for lunch, and most of them were back by 2 p.m. Then they had to leave to catrli the trains by 4:30.

"YttU HAVE TO HAVE PEOPLE"

However, if the employees were gypping Walworth, the company got even, according to Mr. Spense! explanation.

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The move from New York to Oakland was decided upon a year ago, Mr. Spense said. But the employees were not told "because you have to have people around an office and if theyd known we were going to move theyd have gone out and found other jobs.

John W. Collins, president, said that about 220 persons worked in the New York offices, but none were brought west. Many of their jobs have been taken over by a computer in Oakland, and about 120 persons have been hired to replace the others.

The company also had a plant at Braintree, Mass., where about 40 engineers were employed. Eight were transferred to Oakland, the rest fired. HOW TO DO IT THE WRONG WAY

Many companies In New York and, in truth, many other cities, are lK\set and iwsslbly robbed by the les.s than hoiie.st practices by office employees. In some cases, especially where employee.s are tightly organized, moving is the only solution if the union contract permits tt.

Nevertheless, attacking former employees only irritates all organized workers and dares organized labor to do something about it. Mr. Spense should know that unions are just about as tough in California as they are in New York.

The fact that employees came in late, took long coffee breaks and lunches and skipped out early seems to be a confession of bad management by the company. No union insists on such concessions. In fact, most unions will join management in enforcing prompt attendance. If a secretary wasnt bussed promptly at 9 a.m., it was probably her boss fault.

Specials of individual supers cover about a third of a familys basic food budget, they found. By shopping specials, a buyer who can store some Items and who has a menu flexibility can save consistently.

The professors said: "It pays, not only to shop the specials, but also to keep posted on which items are being most widely and frequently featured.

The analysis was based on supermarket advertising in the Palo Alto (Calif.) Times.

.SUPERMARKET SPECIALS SHOW HOW TO SAVE MONEY Supermarket speciMs advertised in newspapers offer price reductions averaging 20 percent over nonspecials, a study by .Stanford University demon-strate.s. Advertised speiials may reduce fariiUy food bills up to 10 per cent, Roger W, Grey and Roice Anderson reported in Food Reseaich Institute Stqdles, published by ' Stanford.

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LOUIS H. BEAN MOVES INTO MARKET FORECASTING How to Predict the Stock Market might be just another one of those books if it had been written by anyone else than Louis H. Bean. He was the government economist that predicted election results so accurately that he fell under the .susplclun of at least three Pre.s-Idents. However, he cleared himself of the Implied accusation of witchcraft, and is telling the populace how to play the "Bean line." (By Luce, 2|2 pages, $5.50).