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'5 'A i i i i iih l.AUUiKIMl II. FFHf.l.Ji President BRADY I I Ai Editor and Vice I'reMrtrnt IIAKI.KS IV. STAAB V.xih utiVH Vice President and Business Manager Reds Provide Guide For law Offenders BY ALICE WIDENER Publisher, U.S.A. Magazine NEW YORK: Recently I quoted briefly from the Communist pamphlet "Under Arrest," which was Issued in the 1930s by the International Labor Defense and Is the rule book for Communists involved In illegal activities. They fol DECLARATION OF FAITH UY Till.

CINCINNATI ENQUIRER, AFRIL 10, 1841: "If tee fail, that failure shall not arise from a want of strict adherence to principle or attention and ftdeli'y to the trust we assume." Thursday, September 3, 1961 Page 6 low it to the letter. Public interest in this pamphlet appears to be so great that the remainder of this column will be devoted to verbatim quotations from the Communist document: DAILY THOUGHT: Men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck. Theodore Roosevelt More! More! NEWS CONFRONTED Henry Cabot Lodge in London the other day and asked how he was making out in his presidential assignment to "explain our position in Vietnam to our allies." With his usual suavity, the former United Nations ambassador said he was doing famouslythat all of our allies under stood our position and were in accord with our aims. Considering the known difference of opinion abroad regarding the handling of the Vietnam matter, Mr. Lodge must have a fascinating and compelling story to tell.

We wish he'd come back and tell the American people. The trip started, ostensibly, as a trek to bolster foreign approval of President Johnson's aerial shot from the hip at torpedo boat bases in North Vietnam. The way it had been told, though, the President had advised our allies of the planned air strike, and had, presumably, gained their concurrence beforehand. On that score, then, there wasn't much that Mr. Lodge could add to what had already been said explosively by the carrier-based bombers and fighters.

But there is much more of the Vietnam story that Mr. Lodge 13 singularly well qualified to discuss. When he was assigned to Saigon as U. S. ambassador, the military talk was that we were winning, although it might take some time to eradicate the Communist intrusion.

Then came the very widely publicized pictures of Buddhist monks immolating themselves, and it was made to appear yourself the prosecutor." Page 16 "It is important that you insist upon answering questions put to you In your own way. Do not allow yourself to be bulldozed by the prosecutor and Judge who may demand of you a "Yes" or "No" answer. You either answer your own way, or not at all." Page 17 "In criminal syndicalism and other political cases, the worker will be confronted with the question, 'Do you believe in force and If you are forced to answer this question, refuse to give a 'yes' or no' answer. Insist upon your own explanation along the following lines "Militant workers, In defending themselves in capitalist courts, upon being questioned as to the 'overthrow of the government by force and have argued as follows: 'As In past history, so at present, the masses of workers will be fully justified, historically and socially, In using means, including force and violence, in defense against capitalist force and violence and in a revolutionary situation, to dislodge capitalism and replace it with a classless social order that will have neither oppressors nor Never Surrender "Workers in court have also argued: 'History proves that no ruling class gives up peaceably its rule of economic and political oppression of the masses. Capitalism is no exception At this period, while the workers are organizing themselves on the one hand for Immediate betterment of their living condition, and on the other, for the final aim of changing the social order, it is the capitalist class that every day uses pitiless force and violence against the workers." So endeth a part of this Red "Under Arrest" lesson.

One wonders how many present-day agitators charging "police brutality" learned the lesson from propagandists such as those who wrote the Red pamphlet. As I See It Servant Of Bosses Page 7 "The first step in the prosecution of the worker is usually the arrest. The arrest Is made by a policeman, a state trooper, a government agent or person holding some such similar position. It Is absolutely essential to remember that the policeman, arresting you is a servant of the boss class. Otherwise, why should he be arresting you for working class activities? He is your enemy.

Give him no Information, of any kind whatsoever, either about yourself or your fellow workers, or any organization which you belong to, or in which you are interested. Page 16 "Point out what you stand for, and what you believe in Wherever possible, expose the anti-working-class activities of the police, stool pigeons and courts. If you are arrested on the picket line, tell the Judge the rotten conditions which brought about the strike, and outline the demands of the strikers. "If you were arrested in a demonstration, bring out the objects of the demonstration. If you were arrested in an anti imperialist war demonstration, show the constant and immediate danger of war under the capitalist system.

This is your defense. Do not try to crawl out of the charge against you by lies and dodges. You will only involve yourself in a net of conflicting statements. The experience of the HJD (International Labor Defense) has proved that a militant, straightforward defense is the most effective weapon against legal oppression. "For instance, if you are charged with assaulting a policeman, do not deny your acts, but assert your right to defend yourself and your fellow workers By the strength of your case, make capitalism the defendant and at this distance that the Diem regime was wholly responsible for religious persecution and the faltering progress of the war.

Later, it developed that some of the Buddhists were confirmed Communists, and the immolations continued (with very much les3 press coverage) even after the United States made itself a shameful party to the overthrow and murder of the Diem brothers. It would take an awful lot of explaining by Mr. Lodge to convince us that he, in command of the American mission in Saigon, couldn't have forced a better solution of "the political problem." Since Mr. Lodge's triumphal return to the United States, things have gone from bad to worse, as they were virtually certain to do. At this writing, there is no effective head of the state, civil government has broken down, the favorite spearhead of the Communists "the students" are wielding a veto power, and Catholics were murdered in the streets by mob3 while the soldiers looked on.

The administration and Mr. Lodge, entwined to a degree where they are the same thing, have a great deal to account for not to our allies, but to the American people. Explaining, like charity, should begin at home. World Watches Our Elections use that strength in a Soviet threat or attack on some West European victim. In a word, the security of every free nation of Europe (and many in other continents) depends on the policy and the philosophy of the President of the United States.

As for "interference" in our elections, assuming it is possible, we are not in a good position to complain. Time and time again, the U. S. government has interfered, with BY WILLIAM II. IIESSLER WHATEVER OUR leanings, as between Johnson and Ooldwater, most of us Americans were somewhat resentful when political leaders and newspapers overseas commenced to take sides in the American presidential election.

Even those U. S. voters who have no use for Senator Goldwater and there are lots of them were affronted at the extravagant and uninformed condemnation of f' Towns Redeve od Too Readers' Views de Gaulle may pretend to think. As for the neutrals, most of them depend on the United States either for protection or for economic assistance. That leaves our adversaries.

They too are entitled to claim a lively interest in our elections. Khrushchev, heading the chief of them, has staked his career and his hold on power mainly on a policy of peace and coexistence even though he may cherish the same long-range world goals and may try sundry aggressions on a limited scale. From the objective record, he is fully entitled (whether right or wrong) to believe he can get more co-operation from President Johnson than from Senator Goldwater. And what is more natural, for a compulsive talker like Mr. than to articulate his preference? There's no reason why U.

S. voters should worry about the attitudes of peoples and governments overseas. The choice is one for us to make, in terms of our own domestic and foreign policy problems. But neither should we be resentful If the kibitzers abroad are numerous and strident. After all, they have a large stake in our decision.

Difficult Even Here We could wish that the English, the French, the Russians and all of them were basing their attitudes on a more accurate appraisal of the alternatives, on a clearer grasp of the real differences between the Democratic party and the Republican, between Mr. Johnson and Senator Goldwater. But here again, we ought to be charitable. Millions of Americans are having a hard time figuring out just where Senator Goldwater really stands on some crucial issues. It is bound to be much harder for foreigners to winnow the realities from the mass of conflicting declarations piled up over the years.

NIKITA S. KHRUSHCHEV entitled to believe he can get more co-operation from President Johnson the senator by various foreigners, from Niklta Khrushchev to the stately London Telegraph. Big Stake Abroad On more mature consideration, however, we have to recognize that people overseas, friends and enemies alike, have a big stake In the decision we are going to make next November 3. They cannot vote here, fortunately. But they certainly have every right to make known their hopes and fears.

For many of them, the outcome of the U. S. election looks and is more important than their own recent or upcoming elections! This is not hard to prove. The President of the U. S.

A. is the acknowledged leader of the free world. The United States commands the great nuclear arsenal of the free world, with more real military power than all its allies and the neutrals combined. The United States is the mainstay of many developing nations in need of capital and Industrial know-how. To take Just one concrete example, West Germany provides the largest supplement to U.

S. military force of all the Western allies, and yet it depends for its security much more on U. S. nuclear deterrent power than on its own sizable army. And furthermore, its security or that of any West European nation-depends not only on U.

S. strength but on the readiness of the Ameriacn President to wood, Portsmouth, Middletown, 42,000, and so on. All this means that blight and slums are not exclusive problems of the big city, and that congestion, inadequate housing, outdated highway patterns and the like are the concern of a far broader segment of the population than one might imagine. Furthermore, problems of municipal development that larger cities find relatively easy to cope with can pose unsurmountable obstacles to smaller towns without either the experience or the facilities to handle them. To all these smaller cities, Cincinnati sets a good example in at least one respect, the urban renewal commissioner says.

That is in its considerable efforts to rehabilitate structures that are worth saving, instead of tearing them down, and to save neighborhoods that are worth pre- URBAN RENEWAL, with which Cincinnati and other large cities have been so much concerned for many years, is not essentially a big-city program. If this comes as a surprise, it is one that the source of the information would expect, but it happens that Ohio is a good case in point. The head of the Urban Renewal Administration in Washington, William L. Slayton, reports to the Ohio Municipal League that, as of last December, 70 co of the cities engaged in renewal with Federal aid were under 50,000 in population and 22 were under 10,000. Twenty-two Ohio communities were among the 743 in the nation participating in the federally assisted program, and while all eight of the largest Ohio cities were included, so were London, with a population of 6379 (the smallest city in the program); Athens, Campbell, Chillicothe, Marietta, Martins Ferry, Nor money, propaganda, diplomacy and other devices, to influence elections overseas.

Our large-scale and effective intervention in the pivotal Italian elections of 1943 was only the most blatant of many such interpositions of U. S. Influence. That was the turning point for West Europe; ever since then, the Communist threat has ebbed. The interest of our allies, in Europe and elsewhere, is obvious.

They depend for their safety on our power and our pledges. They live and thrive under the American umbrella of nuclear and other military power. Their own defense depends on U. S. assistance.

They are stronger and far more independent than a few years ago, but they still are heavily dependent. And that goes for France as much as for the others, whatever 'Every Referendum Dooms Fluoridation' TO THE EDITOR: Dr. Hugo Theorell, winner of a 1955 Nobel Prize for his work in the field of enzymes, in a report to the Royal Medical Board of Sweden, said, "Even if the experiments so far carried out with the fluoridation of water have scarcely given grounds for all too great fears of chronic poisoning, one must, in connection with water fluoridation on a very great scale, reckon with unfavorable results in a certain number of individuals." Dr. Theorell went on to say: "It strikes the undersigned as in principle wrong to open up possibilities for a majority decision in a body of laymen to be able to impose upon all Individuals in a municipality the consumption of a water that is not 100 guaranteed harmless. Equally good or even better alternatives (A) exist in the form of either local application of fluorine preparations, (B) or the administration of fluorine through other vehicles than water." Following Dr.

Theorell's report the Swedish government refused to permit general mass fluoridation! In the October 26, 1963, issue of the British Medical Journal, Dr. Roger Berry, an Oxford radiobiologist, and Wilfred Trillwood, director of pharmaceutical services for an Oxford hospital group, stated that their experiments in a test-tube environment Indicated that the presence of sodium fluoride in water in as dilute a concentration as .1 part per million appreciably slowed the rate of growth of human cells. More than 600 cities and towns in the United States, comprising over 50 million people, have either initially rejected fluoridation or abandoned it after trial. This in spite of the multimillion-dollar Madison Avenue brainwashing campaign that the U. S.

Public Health Service has been promoting for years. Dental bureaucrat Frank Bull at least knew his political onions when he told the fourth annual dental conference in Washington in 1951, "If you can I say if you can because four times we have been unable to do it keep fluoridation from going to a referendum." As far as I know, not one of the towns in this area now drinking this dilute solution of this toxic rat poison has ever voted for fluoridation. It was imposed. J. JULIAN BOWMAN, 18 E.

Fourth St. Say Good Night, Gracie 1969 Or 1964? retired for about six years prior to her death, but it still seemed only yesterday that she last had said "good night." For those who knew her as a performer, it always will Beem like just yesterday. Victory Must Be Now Or Never Morning Prayer By Robert E. Crawford 'Short Memories' FOR NEARLY FOUR decades, Burns and Allen has been a name-pairing as natural in the American household as bread and butter or bacon and eggs and as comfortable as an old pair of shoes. They earned their places legitimately: audiences found the team's humor not only wore well, but was extremely palatable.

George Burns and Gracie Allen pooled their talents for the first time in 1923. Three years later they were married, and their combined career carried them through the entire panorama of the entertainment world radio (beginning in 1930), motion pictures Big Broadcast" series of the '30s, among others) and television (the Burns and Allen show), as well as the rockbed of the industry, vaudeville. They performed in war years and depression years years when laughing wasn't so easy. Gracie's stock in trade was a brand of humor that tortured reason to and beyond the breaking point. No matter how tough things were she always could find her way to an audience's funny bone.

Her humor, refreshing and wholesome, is very nearly a lost commodity these days. George, of course, was the perfect fall guy whose only escape from Gracie's logic was the team's signature line of "Say good night, Gracie!" Now Gracie is gone. She had been tory in the future to avoid commitment in the present. It Is sheer self-delusion to believe that the United States can win in South Vietnam in 1969, but not in 1964. The United States can win in South Vietnam In 1964, quickly, without provoking any enlargement of the war.

But if we project our present policies Into the future, it is certain that the United States will be defeated in South Vietnam long before 1969. Time will not make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. Only a right policy now can produce any victory at all. The first requirement of a right policy is an uncompromising purpose to win. A weak assertion that we shall not desert the Vietnamese as we deserted the Laotians is no sign of such purpose.

In fact, that pronouncement reveals a purpose not to win. It is so understood both by the disheartened Vietnamese and by the heartened Vlet-cong and its consequence is continuing defeat for the United States. A purpose to win would be plainly and unequivocally stated to the world. The Communists would be told to cease their aggression now, or suffer the consequences. Our power is so overwhelming that we can end these aggressions at any level of fighting at which we choose to act decisively.

The lack of Communist response to our naval raids in Tonkin Gulf was significant evidence of this truth. South Vietnamese casualties have been running at a rate of about 100,000 per year and have been increasing in recent months. Some 4000 civilians are murdered by the Communists every year, and these casualties have been increasing. A passive defense such as we have imposed on the South Vietnam forces is the costliest kind of warfare. There can be no doubt that the new policy recommended above would reduce the rate of losses on our side.

Finally Surrender But war has more important measures than the rate of casualties. How shall we score the significance to the whole free world of such liberation of a valiant people from the oppressive threat of Communist tyranny? We can do this now. if we fail, for lack of intelligence and courage, to act decisively when we have the opportunity and the power, we shall be forced, after further retreat, to surrender. BY THOMAS A. LANE Maj.

Gen, U. S. Retd. WASHINGTON: There is no more Communist-serving propaganda than the oft-heard assertions of some appeasement-minded leaders of the free world that the defeat of Communist tyranny will be a long, slow process. Such talk can serve only to demoralize the free world and to fortify the Communist conspirators.

For this is precisely the claim of the Communist leaders. Plenty Of Time It makes sense, from where they stand. They have less than one-fourth of the military industrial power of the world and only one-third of the population. Anyone starting from such a base to conquer the world would be prudent to allow some time for the operation. The Communists are rich in time.

As long as they can continue to win, time will pass. But when you have three-quarters of the total power and two-thirds cf the people of the world and have been losing ground steadily for 20 years, what logic is there in believing you can win in five years a struggle you cannot win today? Surely this is escapism, an illusion of vic In his acceptance speech at the national meeting of the Lyndon Johnson fan club (more commonly called the Democratic convention), Sen. Hubert Humphrey made a statement which went something like this: We cannot have a President who is violently for something one day and violently against it the next. I wonder if the senator would apply this same logic to Mr. Johnson's quick-change act on civil rights.

Up until the 1960 election Mr. Johnson had repeatedly voted against civil rights legislation, and this record was partly responsible for his popularity among Southern Democrats. This popularity In the South was an important factor in his being selected Senate majority leader from 1954 to 1960 and vice presidential candidate in 1960. But now that he has become President, political expediency requires that he attempt to please the voters of the North who favor civil rights; and apparently Mr. Johnson has been fairly successful in doing this, especially among Negro civil rights leaders with short memories.

CHARLES J. MURRAY, 2741 Montana Ave. A 19th century preacher noted, "Instead of asking yourself whether you believe or not, ask yourself whether this day you have done one thing because Ke said, 'Do or once abstained because He said, 'Do not do It Is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, In Him, If you do not do anything He tells you." There Is little value in belief divorced from action. Faith Is more than philosophy. It acts, or It fails the highest teaching of the Hebrew prophets, of Jesus, and of each age's religious genius.

Our faith Is known by its deeds. Our service, concern, and compassion witness to the ideal we proclaim. Faith produces works. A man had two sons; and he went to the first and said, 'Son, go and work in the vineyard And he answered, 7 will not'; but afterward he repented and went. And he went to the second and said the same; and he answered, 'I go, sir; but did not go.

Which of the two did the will of his father?" Matthew Bless me with a faith visible in my deeds, Lord, my God. THE ENQUIRER 6)7 Vine Cincinnati 1, Ohio Phone 721-2700 BY MAIL OUTSIDE OF CARRIER DEL I VF RY-D I5TR I CTS IN ZONES 1, 2 3 AND BEYOND-Daily one year $26 Sunday on. vtar 113 Second-class postags paid at Cincinnati, Ohio. The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to the uie or euMlntu. local newt printed in this newspaper at well as all newi ll nFws Columbus 15, Ohio 207 Soahr Bldg.

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