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PAGE 4A-THE POLK COUNTY ENTERPRISE, THURSDAY NOVEMBER 28, 1»M
Editorial
Complex
Charles Lindbergh became an international
hero when he was the first to fly the Atlantic solo,
in his “Spirit of St. Louis” monoplanerUi 1927."
But as World War n approached, Lindy became
controversial among his own countrymen. They
heard his praise of Germany’s military might,
and they listened to his speeches advising this na-
tion to stay out of a European war. Some
Americans judged him a Nazi sympathizer and a
racist for ignoring what was happening to Jews in
Germany.
Now, a new bode, “Berlin Alert: The Memoirs
and Papers of Truman Smith,” says Lindbergh
was judged unfairly - that the Lone Eagle spoke
highly of Germany and mingled with Nazi leaders
(and even accepted a medal from Air Marshal
Hermann Goering) as a means to an end - in
order to gather data on Germany’s Luftwaffe for
the U.S. military.
The papers contained in the book are those of
the late Lt. Col. Smith, who was an American
military attache in Berlin. He became a close
friend of Lindbergh’s and accompanied the flier
when he inspected Germany’s airfields and tested
its military aircraft. Smith’s papers document
Lindbergh’s intelligence role and are supported
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Kenneths. Davis’ book, “The Hero,” published
in 1959, tells of Lindbergh returning from Europe
and meeting repeatedly with Maj. Gen. H.H.
“Hap” Arnold, chief of the U.S. Army Corps. Ar-
nold wrote in his memoirs that Lindbergh “con-
tinued to tell us about Hitler’s air force - Lind-
bergh gave me the most accurate picture of the
Luftwaffe, its equipment, leaders, apparent
plans, training methods, and present defects that
I have so far received.”
There’s no doubt that Lindbergh had firsthand
knowledge of the air strength of all the major
European nations with the exception of Italy. He
visited their airfields, he flew their fighters and
bombers - and he passed vital information on to
our military leaders.
But he was an isolationist, opposed to our in-
volvement in European power politics. He was the
leading spokesman of the American First move-
ment, supported by Americans who believed
isolation was the way to keep this country out of
the war. Many believed President Franklin D.
Roosevelt and the Eastern establishment was
steadily pushing us toward one. Lindbergh was
their populist hero and FDR’s leading antagonist.
Lindbergh’s radio speeches were heard intently
throughout the nation. He spoke at huge America
First rallies. He said the real enemy in Europe
was Russia and not Germany - and in the Pacific
it was Japan.
When Britain and France were retreating
before Germany’s war might, Lindbergh was
castigated for declaring Britain’s cause hopeless
and advising that the United States was too late
and too weak to help. He appeared _beforeJCon-
gress to testify against Lend-Lease aid to Britain,
calling instead for a negotiated peace. When FDR
questioned his patriotism, Lindbergh resigned his
Army Air Corps reserve commission as a colonel.
Lindbergh was wrong about Europe and
Roosevelt was right. Hitler and his Nazi hordes
were evil. They had to be stopped, and the United
States was the only power that could turn the
balance.
The United States finally entered the war, but
only after we were attacked by Japan at Pearl
Harbor. We did not declare war on Germany until
after Germany declared war on us.
Once war was declared, Lindbergh served his
country well. There was no question of his loyalty
or patriotism. He became an executive at Ford’s
Willow Run plant, where military aircraft were
built. He instructed fighter pilots and flew combat
missions in the South Pacific, even though he re-
mained a civilian.
After the war, Lindbergh was named a special
consultant to the Air Force chief of staff. He was
granted a brigadier general in the Air Force in
1954. He died in 1974.
He was a great hero and a patriot, but in hind-
sight it is clear he was mistaken in his pre-war
isolationism.
It is well that that Smith papers have been
published. They give the public an insight into the
motives of a complex man in a difficult period.
etters to the editor
T-Wheeler
Different 'Apples' needed?
Ts toe editor:
II has come to my attention that the
usn hu purchased some Apple per-
sonal computers for student instruc-
tion. I hope that this acUon will be
beneficial to the students.
ThO function of the school board and
the staff is to help the student
develop the computer between the ears,
the brain, in order that knowledge and
sometimes intelligence can be
displayed by the pencil on paper or the
utterance of the mouth. What we pro-
bably need are apples for the old-
fashioned dedicated teacher who can
point the studehts in the direction of
education.
DanRlenstra
4:1 Edgewater Drive
Livingston
Garden Club's efforts appreciated
Ts toe editor:
It is with great pleasure that I con-
gratulate the Garden Club on the
beautiful planters in downtown Liv-
^'Thnakea my day to look out the win-
dows ot Livingston Drug and see the
beautiful Chrysanthemums blooming.
Thanks for a beautiful job.
Annabel Stevenson
111 Skyview Drive
Livingston
Important folks on line
By Alan Miller
The T-Wheeler got a telephone call
from Charlton Heston the other even-
ing. Tom Landry had called just before
the election. Our favorite spouse took
that call.
The telephone at the T-Wheeler’s is
becoming as busy with important
callers as the reservation desk at the
Fairmont in San Francisco.
Mr. Heston wanted money. And with
those dulcet tones of his, he had us real-
ly getting concerned about all the folks
in Africa who were finding it hard to get
a square meal. Seems like drought and
overgrazing and too many people had
created a real problem. We’d been see-
ing the picture on television about what
had been happening in Ethiopia, but
gosh, wasn’t the United Nations kind of
responsible for things like that. They
meet in New York City all the time wor-
rying about things world-wide, seems
like they would have had a handle on
the famine problems over there before
NBC decided to take their cameras
7,000 miles and transport the problem
into our living rooms.
We were at a convention in Kansas
City a few weeks ago and a casual con-
versation with a wheat farmer in Kan-
sas related that all the silos were full
and they were now storing wheat on the
ground because of another bumper
crop. Prices were low, and they
couldn’t see any profit this year. So
while we sit over here in the land of
agricultural plenty, there are folks on
the other side of the world who can’t
make ends meet. We mentioned that
and he said it’s the transportation of the
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commodity from here to there that is as
depressing as the situation. No roads,
no rail lines, dirt airstrips that tear the
tires off the planes, a whole passel of
frustrations that no one seems to know
how to solve.
So that’s why Mr. Heston was calling.
Another private relief organization set
up to try to do what governments and
the United Nations can’t seem to ac-
complish. And you can kind of get upset
with the Ethiopian government in par-
ticular because when all this was going
on they were apparently buying
boatloads of Scotch to soiree some kind
of government function back home.
Mr. Landry’s call was a little more
upbeat. He didn’t mention the Cowboy
football team, since they had been ex-
periencing a bit of a problem this
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season. But he wanted to riftke sure we
got out there and voted, and he had a
few comments on which person we
might consider voting for. You know it
used to be that your precinct commit-
teeman gave you a call and asked if you
needed a ride to the polls, or if you
would consider helping in a car pool.
But now times have changed, and
there’s old Tom Landry sitting in his
den at the house after workouts making
telephone calls to the T-Wheeler in
Diboll, Texas. Makes you feel a little
humble, come to think of it.
At least we’d sooner listen to Tom
than the lady with the high-pitched wail
who calls about every two months and
tries to sell us aluminum siding to cover
our brick house. Or the lady who was so
excited that we used her rug cleaning
firm a while back that she now calls at
least once a month to see if the dog has
doo-dooed on the carpet.
We have a sneaking hunch we are go-
ing to be hearing from a lot of impor-
tant people in the months ahead. Those
computer phone banks can Just plug in
your telephone number, unlisted or not,
to receive calls from almost anyone
from any where and certainly at any
time.
In fact telphone marketing is now the
new wave of advertising, picking up
steam Just like the catalogue folks who
have been flooding your mail box of late
with all those super bargains for
Christmas.
We hate having to add telephone
solicitation and catalogues to our other
two pet advertising hates. Namely, the
tear outs in most magazines, and the
confounded inserts in the daily
newspaper, especially those wrap-
around advertisments that always
seem to be tangled up in the funny
paper section. We don’t mind the
display ads in newspapers. Scan’em,
and turn the page. It’s the ones that fall
in your lap when you open the paper,
and account for just th^^iuch more
trash that you carry to t^wrbage.
On the other hand, do Vv suppose if
Sophia Loren called and said she would
supervise the installation, that there
really is a way you could put aluminum
siding on the T’Wheeler’s brick house?
Jack Anderson
Emergency ideas far-out
WASHINGTON-Scientists at the Los
Alamos National Laboratory have ap-
parently been reading comic strips.
They’ve submitted some proposals for
anti-terrorist devices that seem to have
come off the drawing boards of
pseudoscientific cartoonists.
The far-out ideas are contained in an
internal study, “Concepts for Assisting
the Federal Emergency Management
Agency in Its Various Missions.” Our
associates Donald Goldberg and Indy
Badhwar have seen a copy of the report
sent to FEMA. Here are some of the
wilder proposals:
-"Identification of Stressed In-
dividuals.” The study points out that “a
potential assassin entering the White
House for a tour or reception or stan-
ding in a crowd waiting for a presiden-
tial appearance ... is likely to be under
stress.”
To pick up the signs of what it calls
the "manifold symptoms” of this
stress, the study of proposes develop-
ment of a sort of “metal detector" for
nail biters, teeth grinders, shifty-eyed
sweaters and other twitchy types who
may be planning an attack on the presi-
dent.
The scientists don’t say how the scan-
ner would distinguish between ner-
vous assassins and, say, someone
whose lunch is fighting back, who needs
to go to the bathroom or who simply had
a bad day at the office.
-"Human Performance Enhance-
ment (or Degradation) in a Counter-
Terrorist Context." The idea here is to
inject chemicals into either the food,
drink or air ingested by the bad guys,
which will knock them out.
“For example," the study explains,
“hostages and guards could be over-
whelmed by sleep in a hostage-
barricade situation by some substance
in the air they breathed, the fooji they
ate or the water they drank. The
hazards inherent in this (hostage)
situation could be quickly overcome
without risk of injury or death."
The Los Alamos scientists say they
don’t have the capability yet, “but it is
an exciting avenue to explore.” We
might point out that the idea occurred
more than 15 years ago to the radicals,
who threatened to dump LSD into
municipal water supplies.
-"Microwave Radiation.” The
Kremlin may already be ahead of us in
the race to cook human brains instead
of cheeseburgers with microwave
machines, the study warns. "There are
reports of Eurasian communist coun-
tries performing research with combin-
ed fields of signals from several dif-
ferent microwave frequencies to pro-
duce at least perceptual distortions in
humans,” it states.
Microwaves could be used to stun or
kill their targets as well as warp their
minds, the study indicates, so it sug-
gests that experiments be limited to
mice for the time being.
Footnote: A FEMA spokeswoman
said the study was a catalog of potential
ideas worth studying, and said the
agency has not spent any money follow-
ing up the proposals - yet.
DIPLOMATIC DIGEST: The U.S.
ambassador to Morocco, Joseph Vemer
Reed, was taken by surprise last
September when his supposed good
friend, Kin Hassan, signed a treaty of
unity with America’s most virulent
enemy in the Arab world, Libyan strong
man Muammar Qaddafi.
Bud Reed's blunder came as no sur-
prise to Sen. Thomas Eagleton, D-Mo.
The senator had informed Secretary of
State George Shult^two years earlier
that Reed was, in Eagleton’s opinion,
“a 14-karat nitwit.”
Eagleton had visited Morocco with
two colleagues, Sens. Paul Laxalt,
R-Nev., and Mark Hatfield, R-Ore., and
they shared his low opinion of Reed.
“George,?’ Eagleton wrote in a letter to
Shultz, "for the first time in my 14-year
Senate career, I must write an over-
whelmingly negative report on a am-
bassador. Without beating around the
diplomatic bush, Ambassador Joseph
Reed is a 14-karat nitwit."
The ambassador had a habit of runn-
ing around in a “Yale jogging suit,”
Eagleton wrote, and he had repeatedly
made “proprietary and possessive”
references to Hassan as “our king.”
The senator observed: “George, the
embassy staff is demoralized. I would
be, too, if I worked for this nitwit.”
Eagleton added: “I am informed that
he is so dippy that he has had the shah
of Iran’s son as his house guest and
refers to him as “your majesty.”
If Ambassador Reed were serving in
Monaco, it wouldn’t make a hell of a lot
of difference,” concluded Eagleton.
“But Morocco deserves better.... The
matter is very serious.”
Footnote: Reed did not respond to our
repeated requests for comment
Eagleton’s office declined to comment;
as did the State Department.
T. BEAR SAYS “WASH”: Alarmed
by the 20,000 annual deaths from infeev
tion among hospital patients (a million
Americans a year catch an infection of
some kind during their hospital stays),
the Department of Health and Humart
Services has come up with a possible
solution. It’s a stuffed animal called “T.
Bear.” Badges bearing his likeness re?
mind children, other patients and
hospital workers to wash their hands.
HHS says it seems to be working.
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