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S^ J A * ?;■ ■ • ■ V- : • “ r ■ I* :-..". mm Pi M 5?,t ■f'V ii--:" WSV* 'sS 2.'1 THE NEWBERRY SUN, NEWBERRY, SOUTH CAROLINA THURSDAY, ..>'; ;■! —- — t«w». tW: [yl&V« rT- mm ■: ‘ ipllfp 1218 CoUfigG Street NEWBERRY. S. C. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY O. F. Armfield. Jr., Owner Secc Caroli: md-Class postage paid at Ne: ‘ ^rry t South oa. SUI vance: ASCRIPTION RATES; $2.00 per year in ad- six months, $1.25. Dean Manion COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS George Washington! What a monumental figure, how gigantic among the hum-drum men of to day. Washington appears s o sound, so marvellously poised in mind and spirit. He seemed to see the principle involved and to hew to the line. Not a scholar in the sense - of academic pretension but a thinker with a mind of clarity and a cour* age befitting such mental grasp. Washington was a patriot in the true sense: he loved his coun try and saw with unexampled pre science the real road to progress. Today when all the little figures, rush about and seem lest in the infusion of problems we look [>ack to the calm man whose wis dom was equal to every occasion, and whose dignity of expresion always indicated the loftiness of his spirit. Everything is being organized and every worthy service is now tied up with professional money- raisers. Before the days of the New Deal the churches supported mis- ] sionaries in China. We had thru- out the Nation private charities, usually sponsored by churches or other religious groups. Today the Congress spends billions on chari ties (called welfare), the States spend billions on all that, yet the number of groups soliciting money grows year by year. I receive ap peals even from New York. Well, great soliciting organiza tions make up mailing lists and they probably think one out of ten may contribute and the Solicitors receive a per centage. Consider this now: “Since its organization 17 years ago as a non-profit organization corporation for treatment of polio victims, the Sister Kenny Founda tion of Minneapolis has always fared well in fund raising cam paigns. From 1952 to 1960, the Founda tion raised about twenty million. But the foundation was reorganiz ed last year after investigation by the state attorney general’s office led to the conviction of the Foun dation’s first president, the form er Minneapolis Mayor Marvin L. Kline, on charges of illegally rais ing his yearly salary from $23,000 to $48,000. Mr. Kline, who is free on bail pending an appeal, last week was indicted by a Federal grand jury along with two other former Foundation officials and four members of several Chicago ad vertising firms on charges of con spiracy and mail fraud in connec tion with Foundation funds. The grand jury said that in the 1962-60 period the advertising companies charged fees amount- • ing to half the money they raised for the Foundation. In addition, Mr. Kline and Fred Fadell, a one time Kenny publicity agent, re ceived kickbacks of $360,000 from the advertising executives, accord ing to the indictment. The indict ment also accused Mr. Kline and Mr. Fadell of awarding direct- mail advertising contracts to the Chicago firms without bids in re turn for the kickbacks.” If we fathom the depths and breadth of the virus affliction we may be relieved of the shots. You know how dt is: we do not have simple ailments, such as rheuma tism, neuralgia and other visita tions of long ago with the vigor ous rubbing with linaments. To day we walk briskly to the hospi tal and soon we are favored with shots. When I was in the hospital a tap on the door would announce the coming of someone in author ity. Usually an angelic little lady, all in white and seeming a new’ edition of a Heavenly visitation. Forthwith she looked me over for some untouched spot and vigor ously threw a harpoon into my tender skin and fired a shot like molten lava and as I squirmed she smiled and left, headed for the next victim. Of course if we eliminate the • • viruses and escape the shots we may lose the nurse, too. And that would deprive us of the great joy of being hospitalized. . What say you men who groan and growl even under the sooth ing administrations of the nurse? “A University of Florida oph thalmologist said a drug, origin ally developed for cancer, has been found effective against virus in fections in the eye. The researcher said this may be the first successful use of a drug to treat a true virus infection in humans. Heretofore, drugs found ^effective against viruses in the test tube have been to piononous for humans. Vaccines and some chemicals are used to prevent virus diseases but not for treat ment of the disease once the in fection has occurred. Dr. Herbert E. Kaufman said the drug, 5-iodo-2 deoxyuridine, or IDU, had been used to treat 46 persons with virus infections in the eye. The infections were caused by a virus called herpes simplex. For many people the virus is responsible for annoying ‘cold sores’ around the mouth. When it iftfects the eye, however, it causes inflamation and damage to the corneaT^o^en Resulting in blind ness. * Out of those tested with IDU drops, 25 had acute infections, all of which cleared up after 3 to 11 days of treatment, Dr. Kaufman said. Almost all the others, with varying degrees of infection, also benefitted from IDU w r ith the ex ception of a few in w’hich the in fection was extremely deep in the eye, he explained. Previously the only treatment of such eye infections has been the removal of the damaged cornea— the ‘window* that covers the eye— by surgery or chemicals, Dr. Kauf man said. Herpes simplex infect ion of the eye, he added, is the leading reason for the corneal transplant operation in which a healthy cornea, often donated by a condemned criminal, is trans planted to restore sight. Some of the patients who res ponded to the IDU treatment had been suffering from herpes sim plex keratites, as the disease is called, for years. In some cases, the cornea is permanently and badly scarred and has to be re placed. In other cases, however, where the infection is relatively recent, IDU appeared to clear up the infection and the eye healed, he said. The chemical was drop ped into the eye every hour dur ing the day and every two hours at night. Dr. Kaufman said that w r ith the finding of a drug effective against a virus but not harmful to the pa tient ‘further study of (the drug’s) action may make virus disease curable as well as pre ventable.’ For some time scient ists have searched intensely for safe anti-viral drugs that could be used against diseases that the not preventable by vaccines, such as encephatitis, or virus-caused in flamation of the brain tissue, mumps and viral pneumonia. The Florida eye researcher said IDU, in experimental rabbits, not only cured eye infection caused by herpes simplex virus but also eye infections caused by the vaccine virus, the virus used in small pox vaccine, IDU also is being tested on skin sores in humans caused by herpes simplex but it is too early for conclusive results, Dr. Kaufman said. The IDU used by Dr. Kaufman was prepared by Smith, Kline & French, Laboratories, Inc., Phila delphia. A spokesman for the com pany said researchers there now are making up quantities of the compound for further study in humans. Dr. Kaufman said IDU had originally been developed by scientists at Yale University as a possible anti-cancer drug. Dr. Kaufman reported the eye research at a symposium on virus es here sponsored by the Gustav Stern Foundation, nlc., a charit able organization. The research, he said, was done at the Massa chusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston and at the University of Florida in Gainesville.” THE MANION FORUM The safest and most subtle method for murder is to drive the victim to suicide. It has been said that any fool can commit a mur der, but it takes an artist to com mit a good natural death. In the matter of murder by “natural death” Communists are the most accomplished artists in the world. The mysterious “heart attack” of Harry Dexter White, the unexplained death-leap of the Communist suspect Lawrence Dug gan, years ago, and the more re cent Bang-Jensen “suicide” were, to say the least, convenient for the Communist cause. The first two, you may remember, occurred dur ing the investigation and trial of Alger Hiss. Now, that same Communist art istry is working on a death sent ence for the United States itself. Generously, we are given two al ternative methods for self-des truction and we have obliged by employing both at the same time. To avoid threatened annihilation by Communist missiles and bombs, we are trying to destroy ourselves in national bankruptcy. Simultaneously, we have sought to end our national existence by submerging our sovereignty in a political union owith tnations of the world which are supposed to share our fear of World War III. Our rapid progress toward nat ional bankruptcy is a matter of fact and figures, available to any one, including the Communists. Our gold reserves are being ship ped out of the country all over the w’orld, although we are required by law to retain a sufficient a- mount of gold to back up our pa per monev. The amount that has actually g> 2 to foreign countries is staggerin, but a large amount of gold, still this country, ac tually belongs i j foreign countries and will have to be turned over to them, any time they demand it. ... by Dr. G«org* S. Benson PRESIDENT—NATIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAM Searcy, Artenses ANGER FROM THE LEFT Leaders in our public life who declaim against those whom they characterize as “super-patriots,” the raging opposition that liberals and leftists have brought to bear against patriotic activities and ex-' pressions. These liberals are dis trustful of the people. Their poli cies are in many ways restrictive and opposed to freedom, for their appetite is for power. They want no rebirth of interest in Constitu tional government; they do want a free hand in creating change. Without Gets Within Whether the danger is from “extremists,” and “radicals of j without or from within begs a cer- right” ought to know better than taj n viewpoint. The threat comes to foster restrictive attitudes to wards citizens who dare to speak out for Americans. Thomas Paine and Patrick Henry, by such stand ards, would be two of the chief villians of American history. If anybody deserves such criticism, it is the complacent citizen who never has any reactions at all, who takes their political nostrums lying down, and then seeks refuge from many directions, without and within. But the liberals mislead by denying there is danger within. To be sure, most of the anti-free dom ideas that plague us origin ated afar and were fostered on the outside. Outright Communism, if labled “made in Moscow,” could have no popular acceptance in Am erica. But we are induced to ac cept it under some other label in middle-of-the-road positions study the following general des- results from intense competition among tire companies in which research is becoming an increas ingly important weapon. The keen rivalry is causing new develop ment to be moved quickly out of the laboratory and onto the road. ‘There’s never been a time when we’ve had better materials to work with’, says a director of a tire research and development for Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., J. J. Robson, director of tire develop ment for Firestone declares: ‘Com promising with nature's materials is over. Now we can tailor-make what we need for almost any pur pose’. To develop the new mater ials and the tires that use them, one rubber company economist es timates that tire research out lays now are running at about 4 per cent of sales, nearly double the 1956 figure.” that offend nobody and get him nowhere. But these liberals prefer to lull the middle-roaders to sleep. It is the current awakening of the pat riotic impulse that mightily dis turbs them. One of the most en couraging signs of our times is Our Federal spenders are still hard at work, with new and better ways to spend the taxpayer’s money, and to incur bigger and better debts in their haste to cov er an equivalent amount of ground on the road to national extinction in an internaitonal superstate. As a help to this mad rush into oblivion, more and more use is cription of Communism by Admir al Ben Moreel and ask yourself how much of it is without and ho^fr much of it within: “Marxism, denying God, logical ly denies the idea of individual rights and thus reduces individ uals from persons in their own right to mere wards of the State. Communism is an idea. It is a be lief that individual freedom as a way of life will not work. It is a conviction that certain ordinary mortals like you and me who, mostly by fortuituous circumstan ces ,happen to occupy the seats of _ _ _ upon such a course of action, the made" of the ’ international agreed liberties in such interchange may ments which can be entered into I be yours. How much more money must we spend, ,how much more liberty must we lose before our leaders acknowledge the fact that the truth is not in the godless amoral mobsters who run the Kremlin ? Shrimps will whistle and blood will be transfused from turnips before any binding respectable agreement can be had with Khru shchev and the people that he represents. Think about it before we are “negotiated” and “spent” com pletely out of our national exist ence. by the President and heads of foreign governments without the ratification, or even the knowl edge of the Senate, as’ is required of the ordinary treaty. These are known as Executive agreements, and they have exactly the same force and effect on all of us and on the nation as a regular Senate- ratified treaty. Back in 1933, Roosevelt and Lit vinov of Russia, entered into just such an agreement which gave of ficial recognition of this country to Stalin as the legitimate govern ment of Russia. This agreement, for one thing, opened the doors of this country to the swarm of Com munist spies posing as diplomats. What they have done to this coun try is a matter of history, both past and current. But that agreement did more than exalt the menace of Com munism. It effectively amended and changed the Constitution of the United States. In 1942 the United States Supreme Court said: “The Fifth Amendment does not stand in the way of giving full force and effect to the Litvinov assignment ... A treaty is a ‘Law of the Land’ under the supremacy clause of the Constitution. Such international compacts and agree ments as the Litvinov assignment have a similar dignity.” At Yalta, Teheran and Pottsdam the President of the United States bartered away the liberty of Poles, Germans, Chinese and others to the Communists. Next time, if the President and the head of some foreign government should agree AMERICANA College Notebook Florida State University m f,’fL J: Now, as a practical question I ask what will the Doctors do if they locate and control and expel the virus? Nothing in modern medicine has served the Docs as well as “the virus”. Whether an ailment of a foot, dimness of sight, ordinary headache, perni cious earache, nose-bleeding—or whatnot, the Doc looked at us over his specs and his benigant count enance reflected his deep concern for our virus. So now! The sad-eyed delver into the secrets of nature fairly carries the world on his shoulders even tho he tells us of his discoveries in a language foreign to us. I’ve just read about discoveries which may double the life of our automobile tires. The be-spectacl- ed researchers tell us that Polybu tadiene wdll do w’onders. Did you ever hear of this? “Motorists who buy new tires for their cars this year stand a good chance that they will w’ear longer and ride better than their last set. This cheerful possibility government, are far more capable of running our lives than we are. Ideas Infiltrate, Too “It is a fear that if we, the peo ple, are left free to manage our own affairs, most of us will go hungry and be cold. It repudiates the free market, where willing buyers and willing sellers volun tarily arrive at a figure agreeable to both.. It embraces the false thesis that employers and employ ees belong to a different class and are natural enemies. It is a co ercive process whereby some peo ple use the power of government to make others conform to their views and their desires. It debases the intelligence, integrity and dig nity of the individual, who is forc ed to bow his head in deference to his political overlords.” Ideas can infiltrate a nation as well as bearded saboteurs and the stealers of atomic secrets. It is dangerous folly to pretend that America need defend herself only against the might of Soviet mis siles and tanks. It is a serious dis service to dismiss as “counsels of fear and suspicion” the appeals of patriots who would thwart Communism within out nation. “Quiet preparedness” of arms and a show of “confidence” in elected leaders may be useful, but these tactics cannot win the battle of the enemy is within the gates. Unity and Silence Attorney General Robert Ken nedy has warned against “vigil antes” who “sow seeds of suspic ion and distrust.” This advice may not be as wise as it sounds. On topics of national concern, it makes more sense to speak up than to shut up. Unity on basic issues can at times be a virtue, but if by this our citizens are made no longer vigilant, then the Am erican way of life can be eroded continually with each passing year. J.Edgar Hoover and his staff can take care of the spies and saboteurs, if the politicians will let him. But Mr. Hoover has not proposed to the public that it should become disinterested in the oroblem of Communism. It would be tragic if our people should be lulled into unconcern about basic issues. In a free America, who ACROSS IDEAS FROM OTHER EDITORS OF REALTY y Newberry No. 1 Eugene Gregory to Eugene Gregory Jr. and Rosa Belle Greg ory, three lots and one building, $5.00 and other valuable considera tions. Susie Q. Cook, et al to Charlotte Kincaid, et al, one lot, $175. Irma H. Perry to Irma H. Per ry and James D. Perry, one lot and one building, $5.00. W. Fulmer Wells and H. B. Wells to Curtis Woolsey, one lot, 50 feet on Hillcrest Road, $5 and other valuable considerations. The Kendall Company to F. H. Rinehart, one lot, .46 acre, $200. Newberry No. 1 Outside Sadie L. Crooks to Claudie Sims, one lot and one building, formerly Joseph Douglas, prop., $5.00 and r r valuable considers tions. J. Ralph Williams to Willie Lee Prile, one lot and one build ing, contains one acre, $1,250. Silverstreet No. 2 The Mead Corp. to Champion Paper Inc., 190 and 207.9 acres, $24,466. Marguerite S. Moseley and Ger ald W. Scurry to Bobby K. Ruff, one lot, Lake Greenwood, $1,250. Whitmire No. 4 John W. and Edna M. Lackey to Curtis L. Taylor and Nedra M. Taylor, one lot and one building, 506 Sims St., $10, and other val uable considerations. Pomaria No. 5 Perry F. Halfacre to Perry E. Halfacre, one lot, $5.00 and other considerations. Little Mountain No. 6 A. Y. Teed to The Newberry County Board of Education, one lot, $100. Prosperity No. 7 Murray Lumber Company to Dorothy Moon Long, Curtis Long and James E. Moon, one lot and one building, $800. J. G. Huffstetler to R. W. Shipp, one lot, $1.00 and other valuable considerations. MILLS CUNIC P Mrs. Judy White anc Batesburg Mrs. Julia Kyzer, Nc Mrs. Nellie Davis, Mrs. Myrtie Attaway, Edgar Hiller, Newberry Mrs. Eva Mae Taylor, ity . ’ ■' ^gj| Jimmy Morris, Newberry Jake West, Leesville Mrs. J. C. Berley, Pomaria - *'v M ANY years ago, hurricane cam Louisiana From Hie Valley Farmer, Bay City, Michigan: How important is the stock market to Americans? That’s an easily answered ques tion for one big group, numbering about. 12.5 million. These are the people who individually own stock now, and their ranks are increas ing by close to a million a year. They aren’t wealthy people for the most part—their average fam ily income is $7,000 a year Ob viously, stocks and the market for stocks are of very direct personal concern to them But what about the millions of people who own no stocks? They have an interest in the market too, whether they know it or not. For instance take our major securities market—the New York Stock Exchange The com panics whose securities are listed on its “big board” make nearly all of our autos, generate over 80 per cent of our electric power and produce over 90 per cent of our steel. They also refine domesti cally over 85 per cent of our oil, haul 95 per cent of our rail traffic and fly more than nine out of ten air passenger miles in the U.S That’s the way it goes, down the lengthy list of companies—en terprises which supply us with goods and services of almost every conceivable kind, and which are responsible for much of our employment, family income and spending power. So, one way or another, we all have an inte. est in the stock market and invest ments in securities which result > ftYoansion of industry and jobs. WASHINGTONAND "SMALL BUSINESS” By C. WILSON HARDER Florida State University was created by an 1851 act of the Florida Legislature as the Institute West of the Suwannee, and the inatitiitian held first classes in 1857. Civil War cadets from thi« co-educationaJ institution participated in the nearby BatUo. of Natural Bridge along with Confederate homeguards. In 1905 the school became a woman’s college and existed as Florida State College for Women until 1947, when the Legislature made it coeducational Florida State University. 9,659 includes 5,228 men and 4,433 women who are Tallahassee resi dent students. Approximately 1,300 of these are graduate students. Florida State University has no large branch centers. However, it conducts a graduate program hi certain fields at Eglin Air Force Base; it has an oceanographic laboratory at Alligator Harbor is the Gulf of Mexico; and it has Armed Force College Program instruction at military bases (10 of them) extending from Charles ton, S.C. through Southern Geor gia and Florida to the Canal Zone. The last is called the Bootstrap Program and many of the stu dents involved later come to FSU for six months or more of resi dence work to earn a degree. FSU has a full athletic program with intercollegiate competition in football, basketball, track, swim ming and several other sports. The FSU Student Circus performs every May for several nights and does several shows on the road. It has been televised nationally several times. The College of Arts and Sci ences, School of Music, School of Education and School of Home Economics were created when the institution was a school for women. Since then a Library School, School of Nursing, School of Business and School of Social Welfare have been added. The Graduate School has grown prin- cipally since the university status was granted and now enrolls about 1,300 students. A main campus of 300 acres extends westward along U.S. Highway 90 beginning about one mile from Tallahassee. All of the classroom buildings and dormitories are on this campus and the architecture ranges from “college Gothic” on the older part of the campus to more functional architecture in the newer build ings. A 950-acre tract two miles away contains the university farm and Alumni Village. The Village provides 288 apartments for mar ried students and their families and 186 additional units are under construction. Florida State’s enrollment of In analyzing the figures that will be publicized to support the attempt to slash U.S. protective tariffs to tie in with the so- called European Common Mar ket, it is perhaps important to bear in mind the story about the government statistician who drowned while wading across a riv er with an average depth of two feet. v * e Stripped of all non-essen tial verbiage, the plans pro posed have but one final result. That c. W. Harder is the establishment in the United States of a bureaucratic economic dictatorship. * * ♦ Perhaps the best evidence of this result is found in the pub lication “Import Competition and Small Business” written by Howard S. Piquet, senior specialist in international econ omics of Library of Congress. * * a Drawing most of his data from 1954 as Ms latest date which was before the full affect of modern production machin ery given to European nations by the U. S. give away pro grams, and before the rounds of wages increases in U. S. sines then, and before the in crease in the minimum wage that was made law, he finds that many American industries cannot compete with wage scales of Europe In a free market. * * * He points out, due to Euro pean subsidiaries, other meas ures, Big Business can protect itself. It is the small business of America that will suffer. But he also raises the question whether or not those American industries which are primar (3) National Federation of Indapwdent Bmlnnt ily areas of operation for small business should be permitted to exist. oo* The report indicates that probably some American in dustries should, by govern ment edict, be pronounced as inefficient and thus be per mitted to be destroyed by cheap foreign imports, o o o Under this plan, it is pro posed, that the businesses op erating in these condemned industries be urged to produce something else, with the gov ernment giving them loans to re-tool or otherwise revamp their operations. o o o In addition, the government will pot up the money to retrain the workers in these firms in new skills. • * « This, then, could be the final step to establish a dictatorship in America. Eventually, it would also lead to government telling farmers what they could plant; could not plant. * o * - After ail, bureancracy now tells business how it shall keep books, how much it shall col lect in taxes for government, the lowest wages business can pay. In addition, an agreement on wages and hours reached in Pittsburg must be adhered to by a small plant in Idaho Falls. In short, bureaucracy has already made great strides in dictating how business shall be done in this nation. * * * So it is not surprising that the drive is now on for the ultimate step. oo* And that is to dictate what kinds of activity a business may or may not engage in so that this nation of Harvard, by Harvard and for Harvard shall not perish from the earth. should determine the course of our destiny but the people, who through free debate and discuss ion attempt to arrive at decisions that are right mid just? Gulf of Mexico to low-lying brought a great to the havoc that th< winds had wrought On the day of the gre an employee of a gas was at a well a half from' the front when he be had better lem place. He had distance when the struck him and soon to his —_ The waters rising man climbed upon a Boating prairie—a pic formed of water plants sam QTld hand fell upon found it was s ms he found a quilt, and soggy but he mattress, pulled him as a slight the driving wind, went to sleep, hausted, he had. of Ms endurance. When he ceased and there was a m >on shining over the wal after dawn, he saw a driven swiftly by who came to take piece of floating , safety. I sought the and asked about f He said he regarded it as tural happening; others garded it as a stance of Providence ta of s lone man in a dread The reader is left to decide he thinks ■ nCSrSMSt* SENATOR — , ' .fev: m - Nuclear Nonsense OUR NO-WIN, defeatist poli cies of paralysis in meekly meet ing the threat posed by world communism are based on false conceptions of communism. One of these false conceptions is that we can still trust the commu nists to keep true faith and alle giance to their word. Where they fool us is that their word means one thing to them and quite another to us, and—unlike us—they put their ideology and its aims first. When a commu nist promises peace he is using his own dictionary for the defi nition of the word “peace.” To him it means that time when the communists have dominated the world, all property has been col lectivized, and everyone is on the same level and oriented to ward materialism rather than any love of liberty, country, or God. - OUR POIiCY of nuclear non sense is a good example of a policy based on the false con ception that we can trust the communists. Almost from the day wo unlocked the secret of the atom there has been a cry, especially from Moscow, that we should share our secret and lay down oar nuclear arms. There is evidence that although we did not lay down our arms wo did share our secret, both voluntarily and through the naive notion that there were no subversives about, such as Greenglass, Fuchs, or the Ro senberg*. OUR RELUCTANCE to forge ahead with further development of the A-bomb almost caused us to get leap-frogged by the So viets with development of the H-bomb, as happened with the nuclear-tipped ICBMs. The ban- the-bomb backers, however, fi nally won out soon after Adlai Stevenson scared the country in 1956 with his exaggerated claims of nuclear fallout dan gers. President Eisenhower fi nally succumbed to a voluntary test moratorium in 1958. After 35 months and 353 conferences later, we awakened to find that we had fallen into another com munist trap. In rapid succes sion the Soviets exploded 40-50 nuclear devices, one packing the power of 58 megatons. IT IS NOW widely agreed among US experts that Soviet technology in nuclear weapons has qualitatively passed our own (Not printed at in the specific categor/ of stra tegic warheads. It U likewise acknowledged even by the Pres ident that the Soviets have made some gains in developing an anti-missile capability. Addi tionally, the US Disarmament Agency Chief has stated that | the Soviets “achieved some sub- stantial gains in their test se ries.” 1 WE KNOW now that, al though the Soviets fooled Pres idential Aides Jerome Weisner and Walt Rostow after the 1960 election into thinking they want ed to make an accommodation on nuclear testing and other matters, they had to prepare for IVt years to be able to set off their 40-50 stmospheric tests. While they were preparing they had us negotiating naively in 353 conferences with so much hope that we let our test facili ties rot. HERE IS what we can gain from testing: (1) maintenance of a supremacy of power; (2) possible' development of a neu tron bomb to destroy persons but not property and to prevent contamination of the atmos phere; (8) development of an anti-missile capability; (4) per fection of better yield-to-weight ratios for nuclear warheads— that is, more punch per pound —and (5) better battlefield nu clear weapons. ARRAYED IN favor of nu clear testing are our military leaders, the AEG, the CIA, Dr. Edward Teller (father of the H- bomb), the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy, and many other experts. On the other side are such trusting souls as the panel of scientists who said right before the recent tests that we need fear no Red duplicity, Adlai Stevenson, the State Department, the US In formation Agency, and Messrs. Weisner and Rostow, who ap parently are still looking for an accommodation with commu nism. THE PRESIDENT has been wrestling with a problem which has been governed too long by a policy of nuclear nonsense which jeopardizes the security of our nation and the free world. A dash of good ole common horse sense would be in order at this late date. Sincerely, ma m ✓ capenae) 1 ■ ' S&Mt ■pi . Wk h ...C