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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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,
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