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THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR PAGE 8 We Hae A 3-Man Orbital Flight The Indianapolis Star Eds: Arms 'Issue' In Campaign TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1964 Inside labor i Big Labor Goes All Out In Effort To Beat Barry By Victor Riesel Washington Nothing has been overlooked by Big Labor in its drive to raise more than $10 million, distribute tens of millions of pieces of literature and union publications and Where The Spirit Of The I.nrd It, Therm Liberty 11 Corinthians 3:17 EUGENE C. PL'LLIAM, Pnhhshrr "Let the people know Vie facts and the country rail be Lincoln Is Phony And Depressing Washington So the Democrats and "liberal" Republicans have been damning Barry Goldwater for advocating something that has existed for many years, namely, that American military reach millions of voters through special broadcasts in the final push to de- 1 commanders abroad possess the authority to use small nuclear weapons if attacked. Unless LBJ has countermanded that order since becoming President, the commanders still have that right. I find it depressing that any such false controversy could arise, still less become a phony campaign issue. Even more disturbing teat narry uoiuwaiei.

Several national unions are contributing to the -campaigns of at least 95 congressional canaiaaies. National Maritime Union -President Joe Curran hit on a unique propaganda device. On weekends he rolls his -38-foot personal craft into Mowrer jh Riesel i jtife' 'Bobby "1 me pleasure Doai-iaaen waters ui tung is- 1 I A A. 1L. 1 1 hi Virt the Land-Ho, Curran ran up signal flags reading "LBJ for the USA." But that's weekend stuff.

Back in his New York headquarters, he directs the NMU Fighting Fund, which asks sailors for political contributions for the Johnson-Humphrey ticket every "pay off" day. More than has been raised. Across the Hudson River in New Jersey, II. II'- -J tm-m InUM.fiAM.I roui nan uyiiamiu ocaiaicia iiiiciuauuiiai Union operates its campaign on land. In charge is G.

Patrick McGinty, regional director of the SIU's Railway Marine Division, who directed a swift transportation-to-the-registration-center system, He used buses, station wagons, and a fleet of cars. A regu The People Speak Rolling Over Again? Psychologists may someday reveal for our enlightenment the curious relationship between the Democratic administration's anxiety to roll over and play dead and the occurrence of any event in the world that smacks of power politics. An infant is born into the world with only two instinctive fears of falling, and of loud noises and there is no evidence that the current administration is any further up the evolutionary scale. The dust had no sooner spread from Red China's nuclear blast last week, for instance, than the administration was sending up trial balloons on the wisdom of dropping our opposition to that country's admittance to the United Nations. Why? Because Red China is now a "nuclear power," that's why, and we can no longer ignore her.

It's the same argument that is being advanced, shrilly, to explain why the United States must spare no effort no humiliation to include Red China in the limited nuciear test ban signed last year. Rarely have so many people been exposed to so much hogwash with so little logic behind it. No one ever doubted for a minute that Red China would not produce such an explosion in time, and military experts are already agreed that the device that was detonated might best be described as "a can of plutonium." So why the horror? To use this inevitability as an excuse for admitting Red China to the U.N. would be simple and clear-cut acknowledgment that that body for all of its pious pretensions actually respects only one thing: blackmail. If the United States sits still or, worse, encourages Red China's admission to the U.N., then it is serving notice to the world that all any two-bit dictator must do to bring us to our knees is to wave a "can of plutonium" in front of us.

It is only slightly less ridiculous than persuading Red China to sign the test ban agreement would be. Of the 107 nations who signed it in the first place magnanimously 103 of them had absolutely nothing to lose by doing so. Of the nation's five nuclear powers today, two (France and China) refused to sign the treaty last year, one would have no compunction about breaking the treaty at any time, if it hasn't already (Russia) and that leaves only the United States and Great Britain smug in the belief that the problem has been solved. A potentially dangerous source of power in the hands of Red China is always a serious matter, no matter how rudimentary it may be at the moment, but it does nothing but spread the danger to roll over, whimpering, and play dead. The only solution is that of a long-range program of alertness, continual pressure aimed at thwarting Red China's military aims and encouraging the evolution of new forces within that country with whom we can, eventually, reach an understanding.

lar schedule was maintained from NAACP headquarters for members, for senior citizens and Spanish language and Puerto Rican groups. In one fashion or other there are similar systems being prepared all the way from Virginia, South Carolina, Mississippi, Texas, to Carlsbad, N.M., where the labor people now run the city. Says Thurmond Statement Recalls Declaration Of Independence The Star likes to get your letters. Keep writing them, but please keep them short. We reserve the right to save space on long ones.

Sign your name and address. Your name will not be used, If you so request. Writers who allow their names to be printed will be given preference. We welcome letters that disagree with our editorial views. Appeal To Dixie 'Liberals' In the South the coalition is among the young 'liberal' Democrats, the union leaders and the Negro organizations.

In the Southwest, the big blocs of Americans of Latin To the Editor of The Star: Senator Strom Thurmond, in withdrawing from the Democrat Party, has written the strongest indictment ever written since the signers of the Declaration of Independence set forth their indictment of old King George III of England. I would like to quote part of Senator Thurmond's statement, and I hope the Indianapolis Star will print his full statement before the November elections. Senator Thurmond stated, "If the American people permit the Democrat Party is the report of the Republican "peace through preparedness" task force accusing the Kennedy-Johnson administration of "serious deficiency" in maintaining the "safeguard" provisions of the partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Both these arguments reveal a basic difference concerning the proper defense policy of the United States and that of NATO. In the strictly American field, the Kennedy-Johnson people seem to have made three basic decisions.

First, the U.S. will never "strike first" and therefore does not need overwhelming military preponderance, but only effective parity. Second, the plan is to strike only at the enemy's military targets and not at his population centers; therefore not to imitate the USSR in producing "gigaton" warheads whose purpose is terrorizing a rival nation. Third- the goal is what Walter Millis calls a "demilitarized" world under some sort of limited central authority which restricts its scope to making decisions that "will not alter the basic power relationships between" (he means "the member states great or small." Nuclear capons Restricted Moreover, to realize these purposes, the administration has given first priority to an understanding with the only other major nuclear power, the USSR, and done all it could to restrict the possession of nuclear weapons. In the pursuit of this last aim, it has dropped the Eisenhower-Dulles policy of meeting aggression in Europe with "massive retaliation" and endeavored, unsuccessfully to induce our NATO partners to concentrate or producing bigger ground forces, leaving the nuclears to us, and to accept a policy of "flexible response" to say, a Communist attack on Norway or West Germany or Turkey.

But these decisions could all be wrong and if so, could lead directly to the defeat or submission to Communism of the United States. Furthermore, they are not acceptable to France nor, really, to Germany. Last June 26, at the NATO conference, France's Gen. Ailleret explained why his country insisted on the policy of "massive retaliation." Anything less, Ailleret argued, would lead either to NATO's defeat by superior Communist ground forces or, at the best, to the devastation of Europe. France accepts neither and therefore insists on acquiring its own retaliation nuclear force.

Ultimatum Submit Or Die But to Implement the French policy the U.S. would have to possess a "first-strike" of acceptable proportions. Moreover, to carry convictions, the American deterrent must include "gigaton" terror weapons of the type the Russians have now built. For the USSR could and possibly would, once the U.S. had eliminated bombers and reduced its nuclear arsenal to military target weapons, present the U.S.

with an ultimatum: Submit or die. Or suddenly wipe out the 10 most important American cities in the conviction that what remained of American leadership would prefer submission to launching a useless "second strike." These are difficult matters for a non-military writer to discuss and all I hope to do is to emphasize some of the more obvious points of dispute. But I must admit that as between the judgment of a motor car manufacturer like Robert McNamara and a congenital pacifist like Walter Millis on one side, and that of experts like Adm. Radford and Gen. Nathan Twining on the other, I prefer to trust the latter.

This means preponderance, not parity, in all types of weapons, including super nuclears an arms race that the U.S. can take in its stride but that will bleed backward Russia white. extraction are added. In what is generally the Republican Northwest, the burden is almost completely on the unions. In some cities such as Portland, unionists are preparing telephone squads to sit at phones all through Election Day summoning voters to the ballot box.

One union leader here believes that more than one million calls will be made in the Northwestern states from special labor headquarters. But the labor leaders figure it won't be enough just to have the transportation fleets ready. The worker must be ready and willing to be transported to the polls. So the air is filled with radio and TV broadcasts, some of them produced directly by the union specialists themselves. Tens of thousands of local meetings have been held across the country and many of them have featured special motion pictures attacking the Republicans and praising the Johnson-Kennedy administration.

All this takes money. For months now the AFL-CIO, nearly 13 million strong, has been pushing its dollar-a-member campaign. The slogan has been "Register-Vote-Give a sincere belief that I could best serve my country by following a course designed to keep myself in office, I can only say that I fully realize the political risk involved in this step and that my chances for re-election might, because of this step, go down into oblivion, but in the final analysis, I can only follow the course which, in my heart and conscience, I believe to be in the best interest of our State, our Country and the freedom of our people. "I have chosen this course because I cannot consider any risks in a cause which I am convinced is right." JAMES D. GARDNER Mayor Citv of Martinsville.

to return to power, Freedom as we have known it in this country is doomed, and individuals will be destined to lives of regulation, control, coercion, intimidation, and subservience to a power elite who shall rule from Washington." "Fortunately, for those of us who cherish the traditional freedom entrusted to us by our forefathers, there is another choice this year. Although the party of our fathers is dead, the principles of our forefathers live now in the cause of a presidential nominee. The man who has gained the Republican nomination for President against all the odds and opinion polls, and who now has control of the Republican Party, is one who believes in and abides by our Constitution. He has demonstrated his fidelity to freedom, independence, and the Constitution by his actions and his votes in the United States Senate. I personally know him to be able and responsible.

He is an honest man of courage and conviction, who trusts the American people to hold the reigns of government and rule themselves. "For me, there is no alternative. The future of freedom and constitutional government is at stake, and this requires that I do everything in my power to help Barry Goldwater return our nation to constitutional government, through his election to the presidency. This also requires that I join him in his fight, successful as of now, to make the Republican Party a party which supports freedom, justice and constitutional government. It will be a long and hard struggle, with many battles to be fought.

At this time, one objective takes precedence over all others electing Barry Goldwater President. As we give the presidential race our undivided effort, I hope all our people, and particularly our young people whose future hangs in the balance, will join this cause with enthusiasm. "To my friends who have ientiously advised me against this step, because of a LBJ And 'Rights' To the Editor of The Star: As an individual who has made many firm friends, regardless of race or religion, and as an advocate of civil rights, I cannot help but wonder why so many polls show that the minority groups are strongly supporting Lyndon Johnson in the forthcoming election. Anyone who compares the records of Lyndon Johnson and Barry Goldwater on civil rights will vote for Barry with confidence. Barry Goldwater voted for the 1957 and I960 civil rights bills: he voted against the 1964 bill because of two sections which he felt were unconstitutional, one of which has Just been so ruled in court.

LBJ's record is three votes against anti-lynching bills and twelve votes against outlawing the discriminatory poll tax. In February 1960, Senator Johnson said and it was reported in the Madison, Wisconsin, Capital Times: "I am not now and never have been an advocate of civil rights. I don't think I ever will be." If LBJ wins, I think many Negro voters are going to be bitterly disappointed when he turns his back on them. Let's remember that two years ago Joseph Rauh of the ADA described Johnson as "a true friend of the Southern racists." SCHUYLER CORWIN Southaven, N.Y. The Star Is Fair To the Editor of The Star: Recently I was a visitor in Indiana and I read several issues of The Indianapolis Star.

And I heartily commend The Star for its page "As Others See It." A letter to the editor entitled "Liberal Drivel" in the Sept. 26 issue argued that printing what others said, "ruined a good paper." In my opinion that's what makes a good newspaper. I saw right away that you were supporting Senator Gold-water for President but the fact that you were printing some of the opposite viewpoints made me conclude that you were being fair. So I read a lot more of the arguments for your side than I ordinarily would. But I still choose President Johnson as being more responsible and dependable.

MARVIN WISECUP Dayton O. buck io tuft icommiuee un onticai ta-ucation). Reuther Figures In Drive And the money has been pouring in since mid-August in batches of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Sometimes it has come in bulk, such as the $100,000 the International Union of Electrical Workers' president, Jim Carey, gave in behalf of the industrial union department. The department is headed by Walter Reuther.

Sometimes it comes in small sums, such as have been collected in needle workers' shops from New York and Boston right across to Los Angeles by the International Ladies Garment Workers, headed by President Johnson's close friend and ally, David Dubinsky. Thus it is with the Machinists, the rail-, road brotherhoods, the steel and auto workers unions, just to name a few which have thousands of locals meeting regularly. Some locals have raised as much as $10,000. Some, in the small communities in Idaho, Montana and the northern Pacific Coast states have poured in hundreds of dollars each. But the total is in the millions.

Collectors have been trained and have been assigned 10 to 20 fellow members from whom to "get a buck." Courthouse To White House Not all of these funds are going for the national ticket. In the words of Hank Brown, leader of the Texas AFL-CIO. labor wants to win "from the courthouse to the White House." The political machinery now being welded will not be dismantled. It will be used for drives on the city halls, state legislatures' and the gubernatorial chairs everywhere. In the Southwest and even as far north as Seattle, many conversations include a discussion of little Carlsbad, N.M.

There last April 7 a union slate ran on a citizens' ticket. It got most of its people registered and then on the final day got its members to the polls. The citizens' ticket elected a member of the Machinists union as mayor, a member of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, another Machinist and an active member in the Retail Clerks to the city council. Labor took all posts but one. You may not have heard of Carlsbad's city government, but the labor people have.

To some of them its full meaning ranks sec-' ond only to the national election in the planning for the future. AS THE DAY HKCINS Corhin Patrick What Is Secret Of Serenity To These Patriarchs? A Practical Trigger Finger Defense of President Lyndon Johnson's nuclear weapons policy has centered strongly on claims that there are adequate safeguards for the test-ban treaty and in controls over the potential decision to use the weapons. A Republican task force charges these safeguards have not been maintained. The preparedness investigating subcommittee of the Senate Armed Services Committee listed dangers of the treaty at the time it was before the Senate for investigation. These were in the area of United States ability to perfect and maintain defense systems without further atmospheric explosion tests.

These questions were met by assurances from the administration that specific test and readiness programs would be maintained. Now the "peace through preparedness" task force of the Republican Party charges that not one weapons effects test has been conducted since the treaty was signed. Further, it charges that an administrative reorganization to expedite weapons effects tests has not yet been completed. These are tests to determine the effect of nuclear explosions on missile sites and control centers, on missile re-entry bodies and on radar, electronic and communication systems. These findings are needed to assess the comparative nuclear positions of the United States and the Soviet Union.

Of particular significance is the known Soviet capacity to explode very high yield weapons in the upper atmosphere or in outer space. We need to know what effects such explosions would have on defensive systems. The debate about control of the decision to use nuclear weapons has raised questions which have not been answered. President Johnson and his supporters and campaigners cling staunchly to the position that the President should retain sole power to order use of nuclear weapons. There is now a report that this position has been reinforced by installation of a locking system on nuclear weapons which can be released only by the President personally.

The Johnson position is bound to raise doubts in the minds of both allies and enemies as to the ability to put the nuclear deterrent to use in time to do any good in the event it should be needed. Senator Barry Goldwater has been called "irresponsible" for proposing that power of decision to use at least small tactical weapons should be in the hands of some military commanders below the White House level. It is even more irresponsible and egocentric as well to insist that one man and one alone should retain the power to order the use of any nuclear weapon. Goldwater's statements on this subject, taken in total, indicate a readiness to work out sound and ensible means of sharing control over this vital decision. The need for the decision, if it comes, will come unpredictably.

Prudence requires that the decision rest at high levels. But prudence also requires that the practical capacity to make the decision exist at all times, and in unpredictable circumstances. Neglect of testing safeguards and the obsession with one-man control indicate a lack of understanding of the critical importance of the nuclear deterrent in reducing the chances that an all-out war will occur. The Goldwater position is the sound and responsible one. Today's successors to ye olden alchemists, who seek the secret of life than a means of transmuting all that glitters into gold, can his memorial program.

Their lives have not been entirely peaceful to date. Casals has known frustrations on account of a burning desire to improve the state of mankind, which also bothers politicians. Stokowski, a romantic, has survived many storms. not help being struck by the sereni-f I ty that surrounds fit'JL orchestra conduc tors. Considering them en masse, they INotes On The iVews prooamy are I world's oldest pro-fessional men.

They hardly mature by Concerned To the Editor of The Star: I am amused, and concerned, at the statement of Harriet Hackler, in "The People Speak." She claims she could not trust her beloved country to a man who says "of we Republicans." I also have noted similar incorrect usage in a great portion of our citizenry. John Bailey, chairman of the Democrats, at the opening of the convention at Atlantic City, stood before that vast throng and talked of "between you and Perfect grammar is no indication of a person's character. Senator Goldwater was deprived of the last three years of a college education, because of the death of his father. But his sincerity and dedication to truth far offset any grammatical errors that Harriet Hackler has taken so to heart! Granted, good grammar is to be desired, and is a beautiful accomplishment, but a clever crook can acquire it. Grammar shows one's opportunity for an education, and how much he absorbs of it, but integrity is the indication of his character, and that is inherent in Barry Goldwater.

BEULAH PLATT SHERR1TT 7105 Linden Drive. ment age. The stars of their galaxy are Patrick But the point is that both still are going strong when less favored men would be content to sit by the fire. How can they maintain this aplomb in a profession that drives them ceaselessly to seek the unattainable, that lost chord, perfection? We suppose they cannot answer that question to anyone's satisfaction themselves. Perhaps the e-cret lies close to that of a Hollywood producer, quoted here recently, who said that he does not get ulcers, he gives them.

Maybe their musicians suffer the slings and arrows. While some few exceptions can be cited, most of the persevering musicians who play instruments for a living are soloists, like Arthur Rubinstein, who undertakes prodigious tours at the age of 78. But we suppose he gives ulcers to pianos, which are expendable, while music releases his inner tensions. On the other hand, it may be partly a matter of disposition. Monteux, we are told, was expectant.

He expected good things and by expecting, got them. It's worth trying, anyway. Let's expect the best, and see what often past 80. We are reminded of their singular hardihood by a program that will be played in New York this week in memory of the late Pierre Monteux, who, we are told, died a happy man, still conducting at the age of 89. Among the famous last words of history are those attributed to Mirabeau, who said "let me die to the sounds of delicious music." Monteux evidently found a better way he lived to them.

The same must apply as well to Pablo Casals, 88, and Leopold 82, who are to conduct Slamerick The interest is growing quite Keane In who'll crank the Yanks' clanking machine. plain to a ool That a cardinal rule Will be not to disManfle the team. "With all thrir little warn you'd think thry wouldn't have tim tn thnnt at.