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THE ABILENE BEPORTER-NEWS . 4-B
Abilene, Texas, Saturday Morning, November 15,1958
THERE
Pur I delivered unto you first of all that which 1 also received, hou that Christ
died for our tint according to thr scriptures.—1 Cor. 15:3.
As a dead man cannot inherit an estate, no more ran a
dead soul inherit heaven. The soul must be resurrected in
Christ.—D. L. Moody.
No Changes Here
Sturdy Burghers Still Run
Own Show in Switzerland
Traffic Safety Rules
Need to Be Overhauled
It took years of campaigning to put
several of the fundamental traffic
safety rules in the statute books of
Texas. Year after year opponents of
these measures fought stubbornly to
delay enactment of a driver license
law, and almost every provision in
that law was fought to the bitter end.
It took years to get a workable
headlight law, for instance. There was
another long struggle to set up a
driver responsibility statute, and com-
pulsory inspection of motor vehicles
took even longer. Driver qualification
came slowly, and this and other regu-
lations could still stand strengthening.
Most of the opposition to these
wholesome laws was based on the
mistaken notion that operating a
motor vehicle was an inherent right,
that making a driver qualify and ob-
serve certain regulations relating to
the mechanical condition of his ve-
hicle was an unwarranted invasion of
personal rights. ... ,
Partly as 3 result of these long de-
lays — and the continuing opposition
About People
RUTH MILLETT
when a group of 100 women was asked
if the modern home ought to include a room
for Pop to relax and work in. the majority
of the women said, "Not necessary.
Of course, they wanted big, automatic
kitchens and a play room for the kids
But Pop-well, if he wants to get off by
himself let him take to the cellar, if there
is a cellar, or to the garage if it hasn’t been
replaced by a carport.
And yet Pop is the one who foots the bills
and makes the monthly mortgage payments
on the family's dream house.
So aren’t the homein. kers of America being
short-sighted when they figure that Pop
doesn’t need or deserve his own little hide-
away where he can get away from the
telephone, the TV, the children's squabbles
and the neighbor's kids?
It seems to me that a man who hasnt
any place "to get away from it all" when he
needs to can hardly call his home his castle.
In (act. he may find so little peace at home
that he develops the habit of stopping oil at
a bar to fortify himself against another hectic
evening before he faces his family O' he
may just grow more and more tense, without
any place in which to relax, until he develops
ulcers or heart trouble and isn't around long
enough to make the final payments on the
dream house
Time was when a man’s family thought he
had a right to some peace and quiet when
he finished a day’s work. If the family could
a ford an extra room, Pop had a study Now
if there is to be an extra room in the house,
it s usually a room for the kids, or a utility
room for Mom to have for housing the washer
and the home freezer.
If 100 men had been polled on whether or
not a house should have a special room for
Pop, 111 bet the results would have been
di ferent. And as long as Pop is paying for
the house, his tone ought to be heard by
the home builders. .00.—All rights reserved.
NEA Service, Inc
to some of the laws—Texas has one of
the worst records tor traffic accidents
in the country.
At a regional gathering in Abilene
Thursday night sponsored by the Tex-
as Safety Association, awards for traf-
fic safety achievements in five area
towns - Snyder, Stamford, Cisco,
Colorado City and Breckenridge —
were handed out and the five-point
legislative safety program outlined.
This legislative program includes:
1. Enactment of a Uniform Driver’s
License Law; 2 A law permitting use
of approved chemical tests and other
aids in drunk-driving cases; 3. Per-
mitting counties and cities to create
traffic courts of record; 4. Doubling
the number of state highway patrol-
men; and 5 Universal driver educa-
tion in all high schools, supported by
state aid.
You may be certain that, true to
past experience, all of these sought-
for goals will meet with opposition,
in and out of the Legislature.
Too many of our people refuse to
accept the obvious fact that operating
a motor vehicle on streets and high-
ways is a privilege, not a right — and.
a high privilege at that.
Traffic safety is a state concern,
and an individual responsibility.
The law is handicapped in too many
particulars to permit of a realistic
enforcement of such rules as we have,
and public resentment or indifference
makes the task all the harder.
Until our laws are strengthened
and public responsibility aroused,
there is not much hope of bringing
about much improvement in our
dreary traffic record.
2 The
s QUESTION
5 15, DO WE
7 TRY TO
I REBUILD
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, Res MANni
McNaught Syndicate.
Quotable Quotes
The (Chinese) Communists seem to believe
that they can best achieve domination of the
Western Pacific it they perpetuate confusion
and uncertainty and if they alternately give
hopes for peace and fears of war.—Secretary
of State Dulles.
Life’s Frustrations
Life is full of little frustrations and
minor disappointments, and Max V.
Pickel Jr , a fifth-grader at York, Pa.,
relates his most recent experience in
this matter in an item published in
the school column of the York Dis-
patch
Max's harrowing story is a model
of succinctness and unadorned Eng-
lish. Telling how he and his father
had whiled away their afternoon fly-
ing model airplanes, Max gets right
down to the point in this brief para-
graph:
"When we came home it was time
to go to evening church. My mother
made me take a bath. But when I
was done, it was too late to go to
church. So I had taken a bath for
nothing.”
We know exactly what Max meant:
there he was, all dressed up and no
place to go. He had wasted Mis time,
and presumably he intended his little
news item to serve as a warning to
his fellow fifth-graders to be careful
how they organize their existence
In the old days, now, taking a bath
was no small matter. It was a rite,
a ritual, in the average large family
of those times It usually occurred on
Saturday night, and it called for a
lot of preparation. Vast quantities of
water had to be heated on the kitchen
stove A large washtub was brought
in and placed in a strategic position.
Then a small boy was placed in the
tub and the water poured in. Mother
stood by to see that the scrubbing
was thorough
The boys took turn about, and if
water was scarce — which it some-
times was - - the contents of the tub
got a little thick and soapy before the
last one in was taken care of.
The soap” None of that fanev stuff,
but the home made variety specially
cooked for bathing, so light it floated.
PLAN
: FOR
NEW
GOP
l KE
Reconstruction Project
Matter of Fact
The Theory of the Deterrent
By JOSEPH ALSOP
PARIS — These words are writ-
ten in Paris because this reporter
is again on his way to the trou-
bled Middle East. The diplomats
here are anxiously arguing about
the meaning of Nikita Khrush-
chev's recent open threat to vul-
nerable. vital West Berlin.
Yet the storm signals abroad
are very much less significant
than the process going on in
Washington — the President's
painful, personal effort to prepare
next year's defense budget. Now
is literally the last chance (and
it is very late by now) to deal
with the problem of the oncom-
ing missile gap Hence, it seems
worth trying to show how the
missile gap will affect the whole
theory of Western defense
Very few persons outside the
sacred circle of those having clear-
ance realize how enormously
American and Western defense
theory has already changed in
the Eisenhower years To begin
with, any idea of maintaining true
offensive capability has long
since been abandoned by the Ei-
to think about striking a nuclear
first blow. Even today, the So-
viets are just as unable to pre-
vent or cripple SAC’s return blow
as SAC is unable to prevent or
cripple their return blow.
In this precariously balanced
situation, all the actions of each
side are limited by the other
side's nuclear deterrent. This ef-
fect was clearly visible, even in
such a strange local conflict as
the fight at Quemoy.
On the American side, the Presi-
dent at once tore up all his pre-
vious "bigger bang for a buck"
directives authorizing our armed
forces to use tactical nuclear
weapons in almost any kind of
local military spat. By the same
token, the Soviets clearly held
back the Chinese Communists, in
order to avoid an uncontrollable
widening of the war. One side
was deterred from using tactical
nuclear arms The other side was
deterred from bringing to bear
the full weight of its conventional
armaments. In both cases, the
other side's strategic nuclear de-
terrent was the great persuader.
In my country sugar is not only s
commodity, it is a political problem, an
economic weapon and a social opportunity.
With sugar we feed and clothe our population
and provide it with work.—Leon Maria
Guerrero, Philippines delegate to United
Nations Sugar (Conference.
Other Viewpoints
By CONSTANTINE BROWN ing, mumbled: “Narrishe kerls."
ZURICH, Switzerland — We. A literal translation would be
have left the mysterious and ro- "they're nuts."
mantle East behind and returned Labor is, of course, organized
to prosaic civilization where one here. But there are no labor boss-
can drink Up water without fear es in the same way that there are
and sleep on inner-spring mat- no political bosses. There are
tresses about seven political parties from
As a soft American I am glad conservatives to left wing labor
to say goodbye to a diet of power- sites. But politics is not a national
ful curries and nights on thin cot- pastime in this hard working coun
ton - filled mattresses over wood-
en slats for springs. The East is
for persons who regard a half-
inch thick bed as a luxury be-
try which despite the lack of many
raw materials remains one of the
most important and prosperous in-
dustrial countries in the world.
cause so many lie on the side-
walks with a stone for a pillow.
Switzerland is the only pure
democracy in the world. There are
no VIPs and no hero - politicians
in this land of sturdy burghers. It
is a federation of 22 independent
sovereign cantons. The federal
government correlates some of the
affairs of the country. But its role
is insignificant.
The burghers in every canton
insist on taking care of their own
business without help from the
Politicians are unimportant and
play only a small role in Switzer-
land’s national life. I have yet to
find, after nearly a week in this
country, one man who knows the
name of the republic's president.
Most people I talked to know about
"der Eisenhower" and even "der
Dulles" but not the name of their
own chief executive who is elected
by the federal parliament — not
FANFAI
by a popular vote — for one year
only. After that year the president
disappears into oblivion.
“federals” in Berne Hence the Local political matters are dis-
frequent plebiscites of either local cussed to some extent in the eve-
or national importance. The Swiss ning when they get together for a
love to vote on everything. few glasses of beer or wine. But
A couple of days after my ar- nobody makes much of them. Pol-
rival there was an important vote itical affairs are not important in
here The polls were open for a country where hard work is the
three days including Sunday. The principal pastime of the popula-
issue was whether the present 48. tion. Whenever a politician wants
hour work week should be re- to play an important role he is
placed by a 44-hour week. This slapped down quickly by being ig-
was too important a matter to be nored. Political parties as numer.
entrusted to the federal parliament ous as they are here are insignifi-
in Berne Hence the nationwide cant in the country's life.
vote. What about the Communists?
To this reporter's great, surprise Surely Moscow could not afford to
the 44-hour proposition was sound- miss such an excellent bet as in-
ly defeated. It was interesting to filtrating this country of workers
read in the newspaper that the and farmers. The Communist Far-
heaviest vote in favor of the 48- ly, this reporter was told, was
hour week came from the large in- banned during the war. In 1947 1
dustrial areas. 1 asked newspaper- as a gesture toward the Soviet
men, waiters and businessmen Union it was permitted to func-
whom I met to explain this phenom- tion once more It started with a
range missiles Even _in 1962. enon — why would workers pre- membership of some 12.000 men
approximately three-quarters of fer longer hours than in any in- (women have no vote or political
SAC’s total striking power will dustrial country in the world? The rights). Today the number has
be composed of short-range B-47 answer was this: The Swiss people dwindled to perhaps a couple of
aircraft, which are heavily de- are money minded and if they thousand.
pendent on the overseas bases, figure that by working more hours Socialism is widespread but it is
When the overseas bases are neu- they earn more they want to do the old type which does not believe
tralized. a very high proportion just that. I observed that the ref- in the dictatorship of the proletar-
of the B-47's will simply become erendum could have provided for iat. And this for an odd reason:
unusable. Very few suitable tank- 44 hours work with 48 hours pay. There is no proletariat, and no
ers will be available for B-47's to The answer was: True, we can do desperately poor and hungry peo-
strike Russian targets from bases anything by these national votes, ple living in dark smelly tene-
on this continent: and only these But Switzerland’s prosperity de- ments.
B-47's can be counted on for the pends on a balance between im- As for infiltration and subver-
return blow ports and exports. If the Swiss in- sion, the most important Commu-
Subtraction number two will be dustrial workers and farmers — nist weapon in the Western world,
required because even SAC’s long- some 3 million — worked 12 mil- there is little if any. You just can-
range bombers, based in the lion hours a week less where not infiltrate stubborn people who
Western hemisphere will not be would the country's industry and have been used to their own demo-
immune to Soviet intercontinental export capabilities be? cratic life for nearly 1,000 years
missiles In fact only the rela- 1 pointed out to a worker in a You cannot infiltrate or subvert a
tively small proportion of B-52's beer hall that in the United States people who are so fully satisfied
and B-58's that are in the air or there is a move by some labor with their own ways and are de-
on 15-minute alert can be count- leaders for a 36-hour week. He termined to remain Swiss no mat-
ed on for the return blow These looked at me incredulously and, ter what changes take place else-
two subtractions, taken together, after 1 assured him I was not jok- where. - (Bell Syndicate)
will thus reduce SAC’s dependa-
ble retaliatory striking power by
somewhere between 70 and 85 per All-Out Effort
cent _
Finally, a third subtraction
But what will happen when the must be made because of the
balance of the nuclear deterrent great and continuous improve-
__________ _ changes again, during the period ments of the Soviet air defense
tegic Air Command still had the 'of the missile gap that now lies system la the period that lies
ahead? In order to answer this ahead, the Soviet war planners
question coherently, it is first of cannot only expect their first blow
all necessary to note that your to destroy or neutralize a huge __________
true nuclear deterrent is what the part of SAC’s over-all striking salvage at least half of the last
other side thinks will be led over power. They can also expect their ]augh of the 1958 election. Interior
after their first blow. For the air defense to destroy or turn Secretary Fred A. Seaton flew to
other side is certainly not going back much of what is left over. Alaska Nov. 8 to electioneer until
to be deterred by airplanes they Having made this third subtrac- the new state votes Nov. 25
count on destroying on the ground tion, the Soviet war planners will This is more time than Presi-
and bombs they believe will not then ask themselves how much dent Eisenhower has given the en-
be delivered, damage the American return tire campaign for one - third plus
Having noted this crucial point, blow can do. And if the answer three of the Senate and 'all of the
it is then necessary to make a to this final question is accepta- House. Only Vice President Rich-
series of subtractions from the ble the Kremlin will then con- ard M. Nixon and Agriculture Sec-
existing strengths of the Amen- sider that it has full freedom to rotary Ezra Taft Benson have giv-
can nuclear deterrent, in order to strike the first blow if this seems en that effort anything like the
allow for the progress of Soviet desirable. — (NY Herald Tribune), same attention.
arms. * * Seaton’s objective is to spread
Subtraction number one will be . the mantle of his own modern Re-
required because of the neutrali- The Long Wait publicanism over the young con-
zation of the American overseas A. T: servative, Mike Stepovich, who is
air bases by Soviet intermediate- Election lime running for the Senate against
TUCSON. Ariz, UP — A man New Deal Democrat Ernest Gruen-
senhower policy-makers
When President Eisenhower
took office, the American Stra-
power to strike the first blow,
but Soviet nuclear sinking power
was already growing fast, and the
Eisenhower Administration decid-
ed not to make the great effort
to maintain the American lead
Hence, SAC lost its true offensive
capability rather early on. The
Dulles doctrine of "massive re-
taliation" became massive' non-
sense not long after it was pro-
claimed.
Secretary Dulles was talking
about striking a nuclear first
blow in retaliation for non-nuclear
aggression. The United States lost
the power to retaliate in this man
ner by 1956, because by then SAC
was no longer able to prevent or
cripple the Soviet return blow.
This did not mean, however, that
the Soviets could in turn begin
Seaton to Alaska to Help
Bolster GOP Senate Hopes
By DORIS FLEESON
w ASHINGTON - In an effort to
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NANCY
MORTY
Interpreting the News
Liberalization Movement
In Poland Losing Ground
took his infant son with him to ing. It is widely agreed that the
vote in the Arizona primary He other Democratic Senatorial can-
was greeted by long lines of wait-
ing voters.
An election official spotted the
pair and told the father: "He
doesn't look old enough to vote,
but he may be by the time you
get into the voting booth "
-: ■» J. M. ROBERTS
It seems to me that we find the (political) Mixed Uniforms sun pre Analyst
campaign getting louder and uglier to the Associated PresthNone
point where it is time to call a halt. Wall Street Journal: Two years, ago the niteearo s
Democratic National Chairman Paul M Politicians and pundits commenting on last gave limited approval to Go-
Butler. week's election returns have noted that many mulka regime in Poland
___ more Americans than usual declined to vote Gomulka was credited with try-
a straight party ticket and instead staggered jng to pu‘ Poland in somewhat the
THE ARII CMC their ballots according to preference for in- same position as Finland with re-
1 ADILENE dividuals. This has been widely interpreted as lation to the Soviet Union Peace
REPORTER NEWC reflecting general disinterest in party plat- ful coexistence was the order of
RETURIER-NEYYJ forms or ignorance of party views, the day, with an increase in the
Published twice Dil, Except onc. w Saturday Some of these commentators have traced civil rights of the Polish people
E co the rise of what they term the "personality" Free speech and religious toler-
North 2nd a Cspress Ph OR 3-4271 Abflene, Tex. in American politics to General Eisenhower’s ance seemed to be making some
-----------------------------------------------------victory in 1952. Since then, they go on, headway.
CERTIFIED CIRCULATION-The Abilene Reporter- Americans have exhibited an almost naive The negative results of outright
HFcurMtTOL concern with the candidate's charm quotient revolution had just been made ap-
N the leading newspapers of the United States while ignoring his position on many of the parent by the Hungarian fiasco.
-------------------------------issues. The "personal" victories in the recent Gomulka appeared (o be mov-
Second class mail ‘privileges authorized at Abilene. Rockefeller's win in New York and Senator jng in the Tito direction, but with-
Te Kennedy’s landslide triumph in Massachusetts out the provocations which have
—have given momentum to this view disturbed Yugoslav relations with
Texan-MorninE Merunmac Evening esuname Ms Well, the charm and individual haracter- the Soviet Union
Weenitore and Evening and Sunday $2.30 per istics of a candidate would seem to he the At first the Soviets showed signs
E..P..mal toehe sisr: Mornins d, sunder, only factors left to motivate voters—if only of cutting off Poland's economic
outside of‘Texas s.%, mot % aria * sear: because voters are somewhat like baseball water. Contracts for ships under
fans. Ordinarily the fan has his favorite construction were canceled. Un-
team and the voter his favorite party But employment became a threat.
The AartE Peceo, Menoere elmt ess ia the what would happen to baseball partisanship To help what it believed to be
ES atone a.".n@expoen SoAMSoMTeE in if the New York Yankees tock the field with a limited liberalization movement,
four or five men outfitted in the uniform of the Eisenhower administration
The liberalization movement, GRIN AND BEAR IT
however, has seemed to be losing GRIN BEAR 1 1
ground. There have been conflicts
with religious and liberal ele-
ments. The Polish government has
frequently seemed to be going far-
didate. E. L. Bob' Bartlett, who
has for years been Alaska’s del-
egate to the House of Representa-
lives, cannot be beaten.
Both Stepov ich and Gruening are
former Governors of the Territory
of Alaska Stepovich was appoint-
By Lichty
T 1 -■ .6 the Milwaukee Braves, and with some of the persuaded a reluctant Congress to
sons, poerieta,"trrors or unintentional errors that Milwaukee players wearing the pinstripe of give Poland some aid from sur-
m ’ J^E the Yankees? plus stocks-food and cotton—and
***A2,*oncou2“-necln the character stand- The fan might still know the stars and some machinery. It’s been hardly
.5. or .reputation S.ninerem FTCRECSTIUE what to expect from them, but both teams more than a token-about 200 mil-
News — be sadis corrected upon being brought to would look pretty much the same—with or lion dollars worth, but a help,
* o the manement, , without a scorecard, nonetheless.
ther than was necessary in sup-
porting the International Commu-
nist propaganda campaign
Warsaw's promotion of the idea
of a demilitarized zone in Europe
including Germany is a case in
point
Gomulka undoubtedly was put
under heavy pressure during his
recent visit to Moscow. He joined
in some of Khrushchev's latest
bombast. On his return home he
said United States imperialism is
the principal danger to peace.
The question now is how much
of this acquiescence in the Soviet
position is forced or whether some
of it is gratuitous.
The administration still seems
inclined to be lenient and under-
stand him in a different way
There has always been some
suspicion that his liberalisation
program was designed to keep Po-
land in thraildom without revolu-
tion rather than as a truly pro-
gressive movement.
Gomulka always has been a
Communist Washington no longer
forgets as easily as it once did
that the ways of Communists are
devious.
ed by President Eisenhower in
1957 after six years' service in the
territorial Legislature. Gruening
held the post 13 years, including
the World War II period, retiring
when Eisenhower became Presi-
dent.
Stepovich is pleading his youth
and vigor — he is 39 Gruening is
hitting back at the Stepovich rec-
ord of opposition to education and
welfare measures, to mental
health and agricultural programs
and to public power A long and
insistent advocate of statehood,
Gruening also charges that Step-
ovich has a checkered record re-
yarding it
Seaton s own statehood record
is clear. He sold it first to the
White House and to enough Re-
publicans to put it over. Demo-
crats are charging in the present
campaign that part of the Seaton
sell was the Secretary's personal
assurance that at least one of the
Senators from Alaska would be a
Republican
This would help to explain his
all - out effort for one seat In
what is bound to be a lopsided
Democratic Senate. The two Alas-
ka Senate votes will be important
in a civil rights fight, but the
November 4 Democratic a v a-
lanch severely reduced their rela-
live importance in other fields
Nor can it be wholly agreeable
to Seaton to help increase Repub-
lican conservative strength He
has long been identified with the
party’s more progressive wing and
entertains an ambition for the
Vice Presidential nomination in
1960. His home base is Nebraska
and he already has been injured
by the party slippage in the Mid-
dle West
Democrats admit that in the rec-
lamation states, of which Alaska
is now one the Interior Secretary
is big medicine. They have sent
there some of their freshest West-
ern voices to help their ticket. Sen-
ator John F. Kennedy of Mas-
sachuisetts has also included Alas-
ka in his pre-1960 tours. Demo-
crats are relying heavily, too, on
the trend so manifest last week.-
(United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
MUGGI
(WELL,
IM OFF
GRANT
MYRT
“I think he’s had too much television! ... It's normal
for a child to go through phases, but he seems to be
repeating some of his favorites!” ,
West Is East -
NORTHWEST, Va. on - De-
spite its name, the Norfolk
County town is in extreme south-
east Virginie. It isn’t even in the
northwest section of the county
and is just a hop skip and jump
from North Carolina.
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