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febanon HENRY L. WILDER, Publisher. 1W1862 Publithed Daily Except Sundays By LZBAIOM NEWS P01U4IIMC MMFJUiT South Sth and Poplar Lebanon, 17042, Penns. Phone Lebanon 272-5611 ADAM S. WILDER Editor.

JOSEPH SANSONE ARBELYN WILDER SANSONE Pretidcat ud Editor JACK SCHROPP Vice-President and General MtnafW MARY JANE WILDER Secretary ROSEMARY L. SCHROPP Traaiurer SAMUEL D. EVANS AdvertUujf Director Second Clan Paid Fa. Newt delivered by carrier centi weefclyi KIM amiaallyi mall. Ml.M ananiUy UNITED ritESS INTERNATIONAL NEWS SEEVICE MEMBER OP THE ASSOCIATED FKESS' Associated Freti exehnirely ealHkd tot rcpubllotlcB tt all printed fai tbii MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS, AMERICAN NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION, BUREAU OF ADVERTISING Don't Stop The Trains The dispute over the railroads' work rules has been going on for well over three and a half years.

Twice during this time presidential inquirers have come up with reports supporting the carriers' featherbedding charges and their right to eliminate the 40,000 jobs. The unions carried their case through the lower federal courts and on up to the TJ.S: Supreme Court, and in every instance lost their appeal. Actually, the railroads have been trying for more than 10 years to achieve the $600 million annual saving on work they consider is no longer needed because there is no need for firemen on diesel locomotives. Following the ruling of the highest court in the land, the roads rightly considered they could go ahead and overhaul work orders to enable them to lop off as many as 65,000 jobs. But the five operating unions have chosen to disregard the Supreme Court's final decision.

From the union's consideration of the issues has been absent an appreciation of an elemental truth, repeatedly attested by a history that never grows tired of its grim reiterations. This truth is that an irrational defense of the vested interest in a job, carried on at the expense of progress, ends in the job's being eliminated not by management but by economics. On Eastern railroads, year after year, the brotherhoods have seen that each little 1-car train carries its full crew of engineer, fireman, conductor, and. trainman. Year after year, the.

overmanned trains have dwindled away, priced out of the competition. The brotherhoods have neglected their first responsibility: To be on the winning side. To the railroad unions may be recommended another reading of a report filed in 1957 by a study committee of Pacific Coast longshoremen. The critical passage: "Our present policy can be described aa one of intermittent warfare directed against all changes which we anticipate will reduce the need for men. Do we want to stick with our present policy of guerrilla resistance, or do we want to adopt a more flexible policy in order to buy specific benefits in return?" The longshoremen chose to adjust to automation.

The result is full employment, even for non-union men in the so-called class, alongside a saving of 1.5 million man- hours in 1962. The union is asking employers to speed up automation. It makes shipping, and it makes jobs. AH labor, concerned as it is over the inroads of automation, would do well to give some serious thought to this angle of the problem. Free Advice During the summer months, you can outwit the traffic hazard of the highways and still land in the You can stay out of the paths of drunken drivers, drivers who fall asleep at the wheels, drivers whose hurry to get somewhere has dulled their caution and fall victim to a boiled egg or a dab of salad dressing.

In other words, the perils of summer picnics must be considered along with those of summer driving. The American Medical Association, passing out some advice for which the good doctors won't send you a bill, say there are several things you can do to avoid the staphy- lococcic bacteria which are eagerly lying in wait for a chance to spoil your food and your health. One step you can take is to use a good portable icebox, using plenty of ice. Before putting your foods into it, however, chill them thoroughly your refrigerator at home. Make sure the traveling icebox lid is tight.

Insofar as you can, stick to foods that can be kept in sealed cans, jars and bottles until time to eat. If your ham comes in a can, for example, leave it sealed until just before picnic time. Keep boiled eggs and potatoes separate in the icebox and mix potato salad at the last moment. Shy away from pies and cream filled bakery items; they spoil fast on a hot day. Fresh fruit keeps better, and makes a good dessert.

Having done all that, happy picnicking! Slowdown Way back in February, before the lazy mood of summer put the hiking fad in its place, two Indiana postmen started walking a letter to Washington to show Postmaster General Day how fit his troops are. By May more than 50 pairs of mailmen had walked the letter to Morgantown, W. and then nothing more was heard of it. Someone checked with the postmaster at Morgantown. Turns out he wasn't a hiking fan himself and so he sent the letter on by regular mail.

If Mr. Day will just be patient like the rest of the populace, he'll get the letter sooner or later. What was all the hurry about anyway, that they had to rush it in by foot? Potomac Fever By FMcfcer KMbel Gov. Rockefeller says the Right- wing would destroy the Republican Party. Rocky's new definition of G.O.P.: Goldwater'i Our Peril'.

A White Howe aide sayi Jack Kennedy will have a tough fight for re-election. Trouble ii, half people think he's done a rood Job and half think he't No wonder the Russians sore at the Chinese. They're acting like a bunch of Communists. Big change in Latin America: It't getting so the number of elections: is almost great as the number of revolutions. If the doctor tells you you'ra as sound as a dollar, it means you're half dead.

Republican presidential bulletin: If they had names to fit, the candidate in New York would be and the one from Arizona, Rockwater. Labor Scales Tipped Against Poor In Courts By VICTOR RIESEL Robert Kennedy Is active on as many fronts as there are social issues and conflicts. One of those fronts is "The Hill." I asked the Attorney General to discuss any one of the laws which he has proposed, but which has not been in the news as heavily as the other drives in which he is engaged. Here is his answer: By ROBERT F. KENNEDY Attorney General ot the United States D.

C. The- scales of justice in this country are weighted against the poor. Each year, 10,000 persons nearly 30 per cent of all the defendants in federal criminal cases must receive the services of court-appointed attorneys because they cannot afford to pay their own. In many cases, these appointed attorneys carry out their duties with and responsibility. But the fact remains that they must do so for free.

We have proceeded on the assumption that society's obligation to the accused can be redeemed simply by telling private lawyers: "Defend this man. Give him your time and your advice. Protect his rights. And then pay for it out of your own pocket." These lawyers are not reimbursed even for their out-of pocket costs. They will not receive a shred of assistance from investigators or expert witnesses.

They often will not be appointed until long after arrest, when witnesses may have disappeared and leads grown stale. How wrong this system is was made clear in a recent study we had conducted for the Department of Justice. The study found that often, poor defendants plead guilty because their appointed attorneys realize the futility of trying to contest a case without adequate resources. Defendants in this position enter guilty pleas much more often in some areas three often than defendants with the money to hire their own attorneys. And such'defendants, the study showed, have less chance to gei charges against them dismissed, less chance of acquittal if they go to trial, and less chance for probation instead of jail if they are convicted.

A system which permits indeed encourages such a difference is unfair to defendants. It is a burden on private attorneys. It denies equal justice. It demands correction. That is why this administration has sponsored and strongly urges the enactment of the Criminal Justice Act of 1963.

We believe it is the most comprehensive yet flexible solution ever devised to the problem. The Criminal Justice Act would require, for the first time, that a system of adequate representation must be established in every federal district. Each district has freedom to devise a plan best suited to its local needs. The choice of a plan is wide, but a choice must be made. There is no option to do nothing, to permit inadequate representation to continue in any federal court.

There are four choices: to continue to appoint private attorneys, but to pay them $15 an hour for their services; to establish a paid public defender's office; to wse legal aid or private defender organizations, also paid at the $15 rate; or a combination of these plans. The $15 figure is substantially less than the minimum recommended by bar associations for charges to private clients. We believe, however, that it is fair. The further fairness of reimbursing appointed attorneys for out-of- pocket expenses is plain. Providing for paid attorneys is fundamental.

But an adequate de- more than representation in court. Equally im- Lebanon Daily News, Lebanon, Wednesday, July 17, 1963 JUST A PRAYER AT TWILIGHT Public Forum TOT NEWS 'thi'right to reject or 'condejtil. tionrmust br signed wttlv full and of Names vritt not be used or revealed if so requested. assumes no responsibility ttatements made tn column. Contributions defacing an established religion art unacceptable.

out tidi 'of. paper only and double John Chamberlain This Is Captive Nations Week, A Most Inappropriate Time For Bowing To Khrush 'T'HIS IS CAPTIVE Nations Week, as proclaimed, perhaps with some embarrassment, by President Kennedy and it comes, truly, at a strange conjunction of the stars. On the one hand, the sponsors of the Week, insistently active National Captive Nations HARRIMAN Committee, with Herbert Hoover as its honorary chairman and the fire-breathing Dr. Lev E. Dobriansky of Georgetown University as its working head, is busy deploring our "many grave sins of omission in the Cold War, for which we shall unquestionably pay heavily later." "Beyond all rationality," says Dr.

Dobriansky, "is the thought of allowing the avowed enemy a 'breather' to put his empire in order and strengthen it for further thrusts against the Free World." While Dr. Dobriansky speaks with an iron voice, however, the administration obviously hopes that Khrushchev, with Undersecretary of State Averell Harriman waiting on his doorstep, will not take any of this "sturm und drang" stuff on the part of the Captive Nations Committee too seriously. It is not that anybody contemplates a conscious "sellout" of eastern European hopes in exchange for a nuclear test-ban pact with the Soviets. The idea of an "opening to the East," which was first explored by the Vatican, is something that is conceived in expectations a quid for a quo. The theory behind it all is that Soviet Russia has actually been undergoing a mutation, or a sea-change, and is ready to ease up on the Captive Nations.

The "things that are God's" in Poland and Hungary, so the hopes run, will be freed from secui'ar or political interference; the churches will be allowed to preach practice Christianity without hindrance; and some measures of ciril liberty might be expected to follow in an atmosphere that is purged of religious tensions. When this columnist put the foregoing case for the "opening T-J) JrOlltlCS In County, State Nation rpHE camp of Sen. Barry Goldwater, views Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller's attack on the "radical right" as notice that Rockefeller is a presidential candidate.

The New York governor's statement also was considered in some quarters as the forerunner of a stop-Goldwater movement by other presidential hopefuls in the Republican Party. A spokesman for Goldwater Monday night quoted the Arizona conservative as saying the Rockefeller statement amounted to the governor's "formal declaration of candidacy" for the GOP nomination. Although Goldwater has never acknowledged that he is a presidential aspirant himself, his stock has boomed in recent months following Rockefeller's remarriage to a divorced woman. Political observers speculated that Rockefeller felt he was losing ground in the presidential race and sought to regain leadership by his attack on groups supporting Newsweek magazine said Monday the Rockefeller statement was part of a concerted drive to block Goldwater's nomination by forming a coalition of Republicans supporting the New York governor, Michigan Gov. George portant are defense services.

For example, the poor man cannot hire an investigator to find the witnesses and evidence which may be indispensable to his case. He cannot retain a physician, psychiatrist or handwriting expert. The importance of skilled investigation is underscored in work every day. It works the same way for the defense. Not long ago, here in the District of Columbia, an appointed defense attorney through the investigative facilities of the Legal Aid Agency was able to expose facts damaging to the government's principal witnesses.

These were facts the government previously did not know, and the case, as a result, was dismissed. Congress now has the opportunity and, indeed, the responsibility to enact a comprehensive solution to the federal problem. In the process, it can provide a model for the states to follow. I believe the Department of Justice shares responsibility for the administration of justice in (I Pi ft Tweily-lhree) Romney and Pennsylvania Gov. William Scranton.

In a statement in Albany Sunday, Rockefeller lashed out at the "radical right lunatic branch" and said the Republican Party was in "real danger of subversion" by that group. He underscored that statement Monday night when he expressed fears that Goldwater will become a "captive" candidate of the GOP's extreme right wing. Rockefeller, whose remarks obviously were directed- at some vocal backers of Goldwater, is expected to renew the attack at the governors' conference in Miami Beach next week. Sen. Kenneth B.

Keating RN. Rockefeller supporter, followed up the governor's latest attack by calling on Goldwater Monday to repudiate the John Birch Society and "crackpot elements" baqking him. Keating commended Rockefeller for his Sunday statement. He said Rockefeller had spoken out against "know-nothing, do-nothing elements attempting to take over the party." Reaction from other Republicans was mixed. Many were careful to stay on the sidelines, but Senate GOP Whip Thomas H.

Kuchel, said Rockefeller had "performed a splendid service for his country and for his party." to the East" to organizers of Captive Nations Week, however, he got a short answer: "Crumbs!" He also got a prediction that the Kennedy Administration, for all the hopes that Averell Harriman may carry with him to Moscow, not dare settle for crumbs. Khrushchev is already on record as being willing to accept a test-ban agreement that would cover nuclear explosions in the air or underwater provided the NATO nations are ready to sign a non- aggression pact with the Soviet Union and its East European "allies." But the trade of pact for pact, short of including along with it a Soviet guarantee of free elections in the East European satel- 'lites, will almost certainly never be made. For one thing, a pact is a treaty, and all' treaties to which the U. S. is a signatory must be by two-thirds of the Senate under the "advice and consent" clause of the Constitution.

It is impossible to visualize two- thirds of the Senate signing away the hopes of the East European captive peoples, or granting what would amount to recognition of the long-term legitimacy of the East German Communist State. If you don't believe that the Senate would put its collective foot down on a treaty that would consign eastern Europe to the Soviets in perpetuity, just take a look at the list of honorary members of the National Captive Nations Committee. The list includes Senators Paul Douglas of Illinois, Frank Lausche of Ohio, Ralph Yarborough of Texas, Keating and Javits of New York, Kuchel of California, Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, Thruston Morton of Kentucky, and Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota. A bi-partisan list that crosses all' lines, whether of party or ideology. Moreover, there is more than idealism involved.

A Scott of Pennsylvania has a Polish and Hungarian vote to worry about; a Lausche, with much of his strength in Cleveland, Ohio, has all the bloods of eastern Europe watching him. In Connecticut? Senator Thomas Dodd cannot live politically without support from people with Polish tics. There is one way around the U. S. Senate; an exchange of on the part of the NATO nations and the Warsaw Pact stooges would not have to run any constitutional gauntlet, for it would not have the force of a treaty.

But one cannot, conceive of such a "declaration" passing muster with the West Germans or with De Gaulle. The worries about a "seli'out" this week, then, are not very real, even if Averell Harriman might be complaisant, which is extremely doubtful, anyway. PURELY COINCIDENTAL Editor, I tend to take issue with the Lebanon Daily News 'tor the irre- iponsible view 'which they have presented to the public concerning the recent Court decision on a Pennsylvania law ing the reading of the Bible, and on a Baltimore law requiring recitation of the Lord's Prayer in the public schools. In your editorial of June 26, entitled "A Lesson in History," you referred to the Supreme Court as "Godless" for ruling against what you called "the voluntary recitation of the Lord's Prayer in public schools." Any resemblance between what you said the court ruled on and what the court actually rules on is purely coincidental. As I stated in my opening paragraph, the ruling concerned a law which made a certain form of religious exercise compulsory.

Your "voluntary recitation" was just as "voluntary" as paying taxes. In your editorial you also stated that you could not see how recitation of the Lord's Prayer (you apparently didn't' even know that the Bible was involved with the case) could be equated with the First Amendment, which states that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." Today's' schools are public schools supported by public taxes? Every child, regardless of religious affiliation, is entitled to attend these schools. Thus we have students today who are from families of many varied beliefs, including a large number who either do- not agree with certain interpretations of the Lord's Prayer, or do not believe in it. This statement also applies to the Bible. Thus there are a number of taxpaying citizens who have children attending schools they support with their own taxes and being forced to participate in religious-exercises in which they do not believe, This is clearly a violation of the First Amendment since it forces either unwanted religion or religion of another faith on the child.

This application of the First Amendment to cover state and local law is supported by the Fourteenth Amendment which states that "no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States It is clear (or should be) that with the law the way it now stands, the Supreme Court could not have made any other ruling without violating both the First and the Fourteenth Amendments. It is true (as you said) that the writers of the First Amendment would not -have wanted it to tell people whether they should or should not have religious instruction in their schools. And the Supreme Court has kept this faith. They have simply pointed out that the present laws are loo harrow and that, by being so, the laws offend the rights of certain citizens. I believe that there is a need for religious instruction in the schools, but the variety of religious sects have made the present laws in Pennsylvania old- fashioned.

What's needed is a more comprehensive perhaps one such as that used in New York City. However, wherever the answer to this problem may lie, one thing is certain, The solution will not be found in any editorial which lashes out blindly, twisting the facts so that they seem what they are not. It appears to me that the Communists are not the only ones' guilty of propaganda John A. Uhrich III ,827 Church St. FAR CRY FROM Editor, Daily NEWS: Please print this imissllr Verbatim Time and place, July 4th on Si between Cumberland and 'Chestnut ah approximately 11:30 p.m.

Two boys after viewing the fireworks at Coleman Park decided to have a coke and hamburger at 8th, and Chestnut Sts. These boys walking and fooling. Hitting c'ach other with our own Lebanon daily newspaper. What happens? I will tell you. A cruiser car comes along and picks them up.

Please note there was no complaint made. So our Infallible police bundle them up and take-, them to the city hall lock-up. Their parents stayed up all night. Their parents called their friends and the hospital with a negative result. Finally on July Sth at approximately 12:30 p.m.

the parents through their own initiative located the boys. The police did not even tell the boys that they could call their parents. I am no lawyer I think there is that the law enforcement "or police department must inform the parents of a if they are 18 or under. So this is our heritage on this day July 4th, It's a long cry from 1776. Factually yours, W.

Warren Bashore, 1401 N. Sth St. ADVANCING TO THE REAR Editor, Daily NEWS: As a former resident of Lebanon, and now residing out of town, it burns me up reading nothing but knocks about my fair old hometown, as regards to parking lots and various other things. I think a solution to parking would be iij my opinion, (no one asked for it so here it is) to tear down the old county hall of justice at 8th and Cumberland, leave the trees alone in the rear for a small park, then level the old courthouse i 1 di area, then dismantle the soldiers and sailors monument in Monument Park, reconstruct it in the former courthouse area, sow grass seed and you'll have something any city can be of. Then tear up the pavements in former Monument Park, 'leave the trees, put up parking meters and you would ha.ve a parking lot under shade.

The city and county fathers could do it, as they do as they please anyway with John money. The downtown area is getting dressier every day, especially on Sth between.Cumberland and Willow on the west side. Not all stores, mind some stores look well, while some have the appearance of those business places outside the Ginza area in Tokyo. I believe in progress but those days of Stanbaugh and Haak, Stein and Kreitzer, C. and H.

J. Shenk, Simon Ruttenberg, the Royal and Crystal Restaurants, all the home-owned bakeries and flour mills, those first-run movies at the Scenic at 8th and Cumberland, the dances at the Armory or the Masonic Hall, the-little No. 1 or 2 engine coming into the and -R depot with several coaches and carrying passengers, then down to the old and are over. That was real progress in its day. Is Lebanon advancing forward, or is it advancing to the rear? Otis Q.

Snape, Palmyra I just read July 9th Daily NEWS and read the item about the bill requiring the licensing'pf our feline friends. Now bill that required a lot of I am sure will be one of the important bills on the agenda when the so-called Legislature meets again. What's Right-What's Wrong THREE MINUTES A DAY By After 3 persons had been killed wifhin a month at a dangerous intersection in -Kansas, drastic efforts were taken to help motorists protect themselves aga'inst further disasters. A total of 13 warning signs were erected to alert drivers to the approaching "death corner." Seven signs warned of the upcoming four-way stop; 2 spelled out the 30-mile speed limit; 4 enormous stop signs were added, including one with a flashing warning light. Despite this, traffic officers, a 15-minute checking period, found that 12 autoists failed to pay attention to any of the warnings.

No amount of cautioning and forewarning on the part of others is of much avail in protecting an individual against personal carelessness' if he is not deeply concerned about his own welfare. But once a person takes to heart that his own salvation, both of body and soul, starts with himself, then a hopeful change takes place. He begins to see warning signs that he never saw before. "You know then how to, read the face of the sky, but cannot read the signs of the (Matthew 16:4) Let me learn, divine Master, that peace and order In the world begin with me at much with anybody. A matron on Oak Street a neat, well-turned-out matron laundered three girdles the other day and pinned them to her backyard washline to dry.

She busied herself about the house for a few hours and then went out to see whether her girdles were dry. Only two girdles were hanging on the line. The pins that had held the third were still on the line, but no girdle. We can't think of any appro- priate comment to make on this, so we'll just pass along the information. A group of new Girl Scouts had been given a course in first aid and were now being given an examination.

"What would you'do if a small child swallowed the door key?" the instructor asked one girl. "I guess," she reasoned, "I'd climb in through the window." Turning Back The 20 YEARS AGO July 17, IMS A fire at the Strickler Milling Company Building, 124 N. Seventh resulted in damages estimated at $4,000. Thomas B. Douglass, chairman of the auditing committee for the Lebanon Chamber of that the semi-annual audit of the'books and accounts of that organization, was completed.

40 YEARS AGO July 17, 1923 John D. Miller was named chief burgess of Independent Borough, succeeding the late Harvey Ham. oath of office was administered by Squire J. Harvey Beajn- esderfer. The new engine recently acquired by the Washington OF i re was given a satisfactory "test under the direction of the Board of Firs Underwriters..