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THE ENQUIRER Innocent Bystander Ollie M. JAMES July 30, 1938 Arabs Page 4 Wednesday, Communism And Wednesday Whatnots SAMMY LEEDS of Squire's and swing, tells about a Mrs. Springswitchr who decided she would look up the grave of her late husband and see if he was being well taken care of. She called at the cemetery office and asked where August Springswitch's grave was located. They searched the record.

other. MJ buu ujey muu i nave any hR August Springswitch. "You're bound to have him," she in WE HEARD a commercial the other night that said ths product "contains three miracle ingredients, including aspirin." Something tells us if the Madison Avenue boys wrote the commercials for bricks they would say: "Mads of two miracle ingredients mud and water." L. D. WARREN had a fins cartoon recently showing the Iraq rebel regime bending over a valve on the Western oil pipeline, and Oucle Sam and John Bull were hollering: "But I'm warning you, no left turn!" All of our valve-minded friends have called up to point out a valve must turned to the left to be open.

Maybe L. D. was just trying to illustrate how confused the situation is. DR. ERWIN STRAEHLEY JR.

is confused by an ad in the Mt. Washington Press that started out: "Elderly window living alone wants apartment." Well, if you're an elderly window living alone it can be a pane. sisted. "He bought a lot here and he was buried on it." "No," the custodian said. "We don't have any August Springuwitch.

But wait here, we do have a Barbara Springswitch." "Oh," she said, "I forgot. August had everything put in my name." MRS. JULIUS McINTOSH of Middletown sends us an ad from the Middletown Journal offering bed sheets "81x81x108 Or Full Fitted." You can't get any fuller fitted than that, but they seem a little thick for summer. OLE D. TREBOR says that Will Harridge seems to have gotten the idea across to Ted Williams that if you expect to rate you shouldn't expectorate.

it THE KREOLITE News reports that as the X-ray specialist walked down the church aisle with his betrothed, two of his associates were in the audience, and one DAILY THOUCHT: Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do. Carlyle. new leaders are left to make their own decisions, they undoubtedly will honor the promise recently made to continue their close economic relationship with the West and to stay on inside the Baghdad Pact structure. Two factors work against this 'logical" tendency of the Middle East oil states to cling firmly to the West. One is Arab nationalism, which echoes the anti-Western spirit that led Egypt to force British troops out of its territory and to nationalize the Suez Canal.

The other factor is the economic and military assistance supplied by the Russians in the area, and the anti-Western propaganda contributed from Moscow with considerable finesse. IT IS TOO simple to face into the UN summit talks merely ranting against Soviet aggression in the Middle East. We are not dealing for the moment with Communist penetration, or even with Soviet expansion in that area. We are dealing mainly with an indigenous pan-Arab movement, one the Russians are trying to turn against us and set up for later exploitation. If we are to help keep the peace and also avoid the collapse of our own influence in the Middle East, we must go into these discussions with a more posi IF OUR problem in the Middle East were only to help the local governments and peoples combat Communist infiltration and propaganda, it would be much simpler than it is.

The reality is that Moscow, proceeding with great subtlety, is seeking to break down the political and economic ties that have bound the Middle Kast to the major Western powers for many years past. Once that is done, the Russians ran move ahead at their own pace to extend their power and finally their ideology. The main vehicle for this Soviet effort, of course, is Arab nationalism. By supporting Gamal Abdcl Nasser and his pan-Arab campaign the Russians are trying to help create a strong, united Arab federation or state, committed to neutralism and to moderate social reforms. Some unification of the Arab world and some reforms to end feudalism and landlordism are in the cards, and have been for decades.

The question really is whether this will come about with Russian help or Western, whether it will be channeled into neutralism and an anti-Western posture, or whether it can be done within the framework of a cordial and mutually beneficial relationship between the Arab world and the West. Basically, the Arab states have far more to gain by a close and cordial relationship to the West. And those who are oil producers know Ihls very well. Their markets are in the West. The capital already invested and still to be invested is Western.

The tanker fleets to move the oil are Western-owned. If Iraq's 'C01NC UP STEP. TO THE REAR WBv MA. Sk A Walt or PPMANN Ik 111. A Westbrook PEG U.

S. Fences Need Mending In Middle East Before Summit ling Communism Wins Against Pure Patriotism HOWEVER bitter the taste, every brothel in his barony in governments have not the power, even if they had the tive program than just a condemnation of what the Kremlin is doing there. Truman's own time on the Kansas City County Board. Pender-gast's conduct likewise endeared Claire Chennault U. S.

service to head a civil air line serving Formosa on various we may as well gulp down the truth that Communism has won the political campaign against pure, constitutional patriotism which was the ideal of this nation until not long before the advent of Roosevelt II and his wife. In these years we have seen the steady, impudent rise of disloyalty in the bureaucracy of Washington and a hundred scattered, inflamed spots such as Fort Monmouth, the higher educational centers of New York and New England and overseas outposts of our timid imperial design. JUST WHAT went wrong as between London, Paris and Washington is not quite clear. But something did go wrong, in that we find ourselves committed to a spectacular summit meeting in New York, which we did not want, and unable to support General de Gaulle's proposal for a quiet meeting in Europe later on, which is what we ought to want. If a New York meeting is unavoidable, the question is how to manage the encounter Eisenhower and Khrushchev with the least damages.

A way must be found to avoid a public debate. For the President has neither the training and knowledge nor the vitality for such an ordeal. Beyond that, it is highly desirable, indeed necessary, to of Nasserism has been the main strategical device in this campaign. The immediate objective of the campaign is to deny to the West, and particularly to the United States, the strategic control of the Middle East. It is Important to understand your adversary, and this analysis is the primary truth about Soviet policy, there are important conclusions to be drawn from it.

The first is that a settlement cannot be achieved with Nasser alone. An accommodation with him is most desirable. But appeasement of Nasser is quite unnecessary. The basic settlement must be reached with Moscow, and the subject of that settlement must be the strategic control of the Middle East. There are three conceivable possibilities.

One would be to restore the Middle East as a sphere of influence for Britain, France and the United States, with Russia excluded. This cannot be done. It is too late. We are not strong enough to do it. A second would be to let the Middle East become a Russian sphere of influence.

This would be an unnecessarily abject surrender. We are not so weak that we must accept it. THE THIRD possibility would be to neutralize the Middle East as between the two great military alliances, and to build upon this over-all neutralization, specific agreements about the oil business, about the security of Iran, Lebanon and Israel. This will not be easy, and it requires a higher order of statesmanship than we are now accustomed to But it is not impossible. For it does not run contrary to the vital interests of any of the nations resolution, to restore tne supremacy which Britain possessed before World War II.

What has still to be proved is whether the Western governments have the imagination and the brains to play a leading part in the liquidation of the old privileges and in the construction of a new order. In my view, the paramount issue in the Middle East is not oil, which the Arabs must sell to the West. It is not Israel, which is on the sidelines in the present crisis. It is not the revolutionary force of Nasser-ism. The paramount issue is Russia's determination not to have U.

S. military power stationed on her sou'tJiern flank. We can. never, I think, understand the inwardness of the Middle Eastern crisis unless we recognize that what we consider the military containment of the Soviet Union, Moscow is bound to regard as a military menace to the Soviet Union. Our forces are in Turkey, of which the equivalent would be that the Red forces were in Mexico.

We have the North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and the Baghdad Pact, of which the equivalent would be an anti-American Soviet Military a 1 1 1 a nee consisting of Mexico, Cuba and Central America. WHAT WE are i is a campaign by the Soviet Union to disrupt the containing alliance on her frontiers, and, with the explosion In Iraq, this campaign has had a great success. It has not only knocked out the only Arab state in the alliance, but it has isolated Turkey. The Russian support routes. He gave immensely valuable service to his own country and to China and to their allies.

He set an example of fidelity and boundless energy. He came to symbolize the hardy spirit that enabled the United States to exert great power in a theater of war 7000 miles from American soil. If TV has killed conversation, it must be that neighborhood gossip had taken to spreading by osmosis. Coney Island WHEN WE TICK off the things that Cincinnati has to offer visitors and vacationers the ball team, the symphony, the Zoo and so forth we should not overlook the fact that Coney Island is a fine municipal asset. A New Yorker was heard to remark a few days ago: "I'm always anxious to get to Cincinnati and go to Coney Island.

We have a Coney Island in New York, but it's nothing CONGRESS has made awkward laws to harass a leering horde whose features were plain to them in their daily traffic at the Capital. But the Supreme Court has nullified these laws in a positive expression of political policy since Eisenhower took power. This aggressive attitude is a mere substitute for wilfully negligent and inefficient prosecution by the Department of Justice under the Democrats. The result is about the same. Nowadays the department can solemnly say it has done its best and was frustrated by the Court.

No loyalist, however ardent his contempt for Truman, would weaken his argument by accusing him of joining any apparatus of the Soviet Party. But actually that puts Truman in him to Truman, So, though it is futile to try to specify his ethical process, we may nevertheless move the pieces around on the board and draw our own conclusions. All this is sad enough, but the jovial attitude of the press toward Truman bespeaks another decline of the old ideal. We may be mistaken in exalting the President, whoever he is, into our own substitute for a royal figure. Descended from a monarchy and still given to naming hotels and dry-cleaning companies "Imperial" and we rob ourselves of an important right when we persuade ourselves that ordinary, ill-qualified politicians in the White House must be gentled as though they were kings.

SINCE ROOSEVELT recognized Moscow in 1933 we have laggardly sensed a rising hatred of American principles in our own country. These principles were naive, to be sure, but our very own and a in our hearts. They were not at all inferior to the basic brutality and greed of the Communists whose massacres were waged for nothing finer than the lust for wealth that they pretend to hate in us. The Communist Party was a reliable jackal on which we could concentrate our loathing. Its dissolution has actually been a severe loss to us.

Without labeled identity, the enemies of. our ideals and of this culture and state now pass freely among us as Republicans and Democrats. George Sokolsky, at the mention of an audacious New York Red now high in the Eisenhower a hi remarked with a sorry laugh, "Oh, yes; they are all Republicans now." This all happened in France and we looked on France with lofty pity. They put Petain on trial and degraded him in his old age for patriotic conduct. But they welcomed Thorez back from his refuge in Moscow after the war.

And in our country, Lindbergh was dishonored and Sidney Hillman, who had paid homage and tribute to Moscow, was, by Roosevelt's offhand decree, allowed to choose Truman to be President for almost eight years. mend our fences in the Middle East so that when the meeting takes place we shall not be the defendants in a public trial. Tins CAN be done if two things, now in the works, can be achieved before the summit meeting. One would be an agreement in Lebanon which leads us to withdraw the Marines or at least to fix a definite date for their withdrawal. The other would be to extend diplomatic recognition to the new Iraqi government, as Dr.

Adenauer and others are advising us to do. These two actions together would refute completely the charge that we are AVIATION today is chiefly a matter of mass transportation or of warfare. But over the five decades of flight, it has produced a great number of adventurous and colorful figures. One of the most gallant personalities of this company was Lt. Gen.

Claire L. Chennault of Flying Tiger fame. His death at age 67 has brought to an end a career that was not only eventful and colorful and beset by hazards, but also was constructive and valuable. From 1937, General Chennault lived almost entirely in the Far East and was identified with the shifting fortunes of Nationalist China. He went out to train Chinese pilots and develop the Chinese air force.

He etayed on to form the Flying Tigers, in the days when flying was a rough business early in the war. And he continued as the dominant figure in U. S. military aviation in the China theater. Even after the war, when the Nationalists were reduced to the limits of Formosa, General Chennault remained a loyal and effective pillar of Nationalist power, leaving the The Edge Of Space WE HAVE "atmosphere" of some sort for 200 or 300 miles above the Earth, although the density beyond 10 miles is so slight that for most purposes, it might be outer space.

With various ends in view, balloonists have been probing ever higher into the atmosphere for centuries. The first editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, for example, a Scotsman, was an incorrigible balloonist, and nearly lost his engaged in a military adventure in the Middle East, and we would no longer be on the defensive. There no use pretending, however, that there will be any glory or profit in this. It will be recognized by all the world as a forced retreat from an untenable position in Lebanon and in Iraq. The question then will be whether the three Western governments can produce proposals which open up the prospects of better days in the Middle East.

It has been proved first at Suez and now again in Lebanon and Jordan that the Western Re aders 'Wants To Study Here' to thi vditob or hquheb. I am taking the liberty of writing this letter to you in order to solicit your advice on how I could possibly go to the United States to study. Ever since I took up the study of English in my first year at a middle school, I have always cherished an over- like this!" Others who have traveled widely have expressed a similar opinion. Coney Island really is an exceptional amusement park not only in the variety of its entertainment, but also in its general appearance, tone and tidiness. The loss of the Island Queen was a blow to Coney Island, but in this era of automotive transport the park is easily accessible.

This isn't an advertisement for the place. It's simply a reaction of pleasant surprise on the part of a writer who visited Coney recently after a number of years. The out-of-towners are right. Few cities have an amusement park to compare with Coney Island. even worse position.

He leaves himself without excuse for his uncouth flippancy in the Alger Hiss matter, his suppression of information on Communist treachery which Congress tried to subpoena and his repeated promotions of Harry Dexter White, a historic rascal of this tragic dissolution. AFTER THE FBI had notified him of White's guilt, the incidents rush past and people forget. But Herbert Brownell nailed Truman with this episode and Truman himself acknowledged an unspeak able aspersion against him in his reiterated complaint that Vice President Nixon called him a traitor. For some reason, Nixon has denied that he said or intended to mean quite that. So the allegation, whatever it was, stands unadjudicated but, also unfortunately, forgotten.

Truman lives by a standard that endeared him to the late Tom Pendergast, who took his tithe of every brass check in ALTAR STAIRS By John Marvin Rast MOTIVATING POWER VIEWS whelming ambition to go to the United States some day in order to study. But, until today, I did not attempt to write even a postcard. The other day, however, I spoke my thinking to my elder brother. Then he quoted a few lines from the Bible. Hie message ran, "Ask, and ye shall receive.

Knock, and it shall be opened unto ye." And he urged, "Go ahead, Kunio." Thus encouraged by my elder brother, I immediately decided to carry out his suggestion, and this letter is the result. Anyway, I am ready to do any work to accomplish my study in your country. I shall be much happy if some of your readers may too realize my study in your country. I am expecting your cordial suggestion for my future. KUNIO TATE.

Noi, Misato-Cho, Ena-Qty, Gifu-ken, Japan. P. Here is little introduction of myself. I am a Just average Japanese school boy of 18 years old, attending to the third year class of the Ena Senior High School. My family consists of my mother, father, two elder brothers, two younger brothers and me.

My.father is a schoolmaster. LILAC This lilt's for the lissom lilac, brittle bloom. And perhaps loo brittlr praised by songsters past: The lilt's in larendar. Bemused in gloom Br sleeping taller, as I moonstruck cast Mr eye on flitting nightbirds, treetnpt, shy Mysteriously, perradingly, the night Came hearr u-ith soothing sanctity The luhtle lilac's scent was Around me, filling all the summer air. That perfume's from a better world, nrear.

JOHN" F. DAVIDSON in the New York Herald Tribune. life twice in experimental flights. The standards are pretty high, by now. And the requirements are so exacting and costly that amateurs on a private-enterprise basis have been crowded out of the competition.

Only the armed forces can afford this kind of space exploration. But records still are beirg made. Two Navy balloonists achieved a new altitude endurance record last wt-ekend, soaring to 80,500 feet with some thousands of live insects as their nonpaying passengers. This 15-mile venture may seem mundane alongside the heights achieved by rockets. But because they are manned, balloons that rise only to 15 miles may bring back far more information of value than rockets that flash 50 times farther into the great emptiness beyond the stratosphere.

Wake Americans! By Otto Garr Tague It is literally impossible to exaggerate the danger of losing their freedom which the people of this nation face! At the moment a picture titled "Custer's Last Stand" most graphically depicts the desperate position into which have been ambushed For at this very moment we are surrounded by uncounted millions of enemies All organized into hundreds of regimented units Each assigned a particular position in the attack But all with a common objective That being the destruction of our form of government and its ultimate obsorption into a world government One dominated by forces alien to our form of government which recognizes man as the master of government, not its servant. I wish I had the spare, time and ability to spread before you in detail even the meager facts with which I am familiar being impossible, I must be content to present this stupendous panorama in small bits as I come upon them Hoping that as I do so, your imagination may be trusted to bring to you some understanding of the vastness of the organized peril you and every and God-serving American face! Consider now that organized group known the "National Conference on International Economic and Social Development." One you never even heard of before But something you'd better bone up on! For this division of the army of your enemies is made up of more than 170 regiments, each with an important sounding name Each made up of thousands of members bringing the' total well into the millions Karh unit with its assigned work to do That work carefully outlined by and cleared with the high command with offices within the United Nations Each unit an agency for spreading its poison among our people in every city, town and hamlet of the nation! Can you estimate the impact of this one group ujtn the President, the Supreme Court and Congress? Can't you begin to see why we are being bankrupted by giving away billions for foreign aid? In tomorrow's column I'll tell you of more of these activities that I hope will scare you out of your rocking chair! NIKITA Khruchev had the gall to ask for U. S. financial aid for Russia. The very idea.

Let him come over and take his chances on a TV giveaway snow like anyone else. We Just can't believe that shooting mice Into space ever will replace cat or mousetraps. The biggest fish aren't caught with a hook. They prefer a dimple ok a pair of pretty legs. The difference between a man and a woman that every man thinks every baby la Just another baby.

THE ENCjllRER 17 Vint Cincinnetl I Ohio NONE A 1.J00 MAU SUBSCR1PTI0K RATES. Duly on, va, $16 09 Stmdiy on, yeer $10 40 WAII OUISlOf Of CAIWEP. DELIVERY" Districts (Ruril (ovm weeded! in Zones I end BEYOND, Doily one yeer $22 00 oundey only one vtor $i0 40 The tssocieteo Pren it entitle enre-ml hi the ie of ouklketioo ell the Its! Man oriattd Ik mwihoot 00 well 01 ell diseettMO We can remember when community responsibility covered something more than providing a place to park. 0 A New Friendship AMIDST THE turmoil over the Middle East's Mediterranean extremity, it is gratifying to note that a pacific settlement of the protracted Afghan-Pakistan quarrel has been reached at the othos end. The new treaty between Kabul and Karachi, providing for reciprocal rights of transit, ends differences that have existed during the entire life of Pakistan, being inflamed by the boundary demands of the Pushtu tribesmen occupying both sides of the border.

By this agreement landlocked Afghanistan will enjoy a natural outlet to the sea at the Pakistan port of Karachi. The treaty will facilitate the marketing of Afghan produce and should create a new era of good feeling between these neighbors. The next step for Afghanistan on its road into the 20th century is a railway from Kabul to Karachi. Some foreign power will make that possible. It could be the United States.

From the Journal of the Ala-fa a a Medical Association comes the estimate that in a year the amount of barbituric derivatives a i produced in our country is the equivalent of 32.3 grains for every person enough to secure 176 hours of artificial sieep per capital. Thankful as we may be that man has learned how to quiet distraught nerves with sedatives, most of us do not need anything conducive to apathy or self-satisfaction. More than quiet acquiescence we need stirring convictions and the will to see them through convictions that reflect the mind of Christ concerning human well-being. "Now to him who by the power at work within us it able to do far more abundantly than all thtzt we ask or think, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, for ever ever. Amen." (Ephesians 3:20, RSV).

Our trust Is In Thee, Lord, supremely. Thoo only mrt our hope, our stay. With new resolve we would rise up and follow Thy lead. Voice Of The ENQUIRER Somev here in the constitutions and bylaws of most organisations must be two key words: "Meet and eat." second-tless metier, Auoirtt Poiiotfice. Cine msli.

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