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SECTION 1 THE COURIER-JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, KY. TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 27, 1954. 7 i DREW PFUSOV Say: was What's Going To Happen When Rhee, Adenauer and Chiang Cash In Chips? pill mm wit Mark Ethrioge, Publisher. Barry Bingham, President. Editorial Page Staff: Barry Bingham, Editor.

George Birt, Chief Editorial Writer. Adeli Brandeis, Molly Clowes, Tarleton Collier, Weloon James, Grover Page, John Ed Pearce. TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1954. FOUNDED 1826. The Senate Majority Rules Even When It Is Wrong undependable who could embrace communism with the same facility he embraces republicanism.

Such is our diplomacy of looking to the past, not the future. On such frail cornerstones is our policy, in an area drenched with American blood, based today. When you look back over the vista of Syngman Rhee's nearly 80 years, you can understand why he is sometimes difficult to deal with. During those years, he has been beaten with bamboo rods daily for seven months. He has had oil paper wrapped round his wrists and set on fire.

He has had his fingers mashed so horribly that even today he blows on them to keep them warm. He has had to wear a 20-pound weight around his neck and sit with his feet and hands locked in stocks. He has spent seven years in prison, 41 years in exile; has had a 5300,000 Japanese price put on his head. He has been rebuffed. He has been disheartened.

But he has never ceased fighting for the liberty of the barren little country which became the symbol of free world resistance against the Communist world. And since he has staged that fight and suffered much punishment, you can understand why when he talks about resuming war against North Korea, he really means it. Though the American Army has cut off his gasoline, Rhee has carefully hoarded gas. stored it in secret caches until he has enough to permit the well-trained South Korean Army to resume KENTUCKY It Could Happen Only In The Kitty League: Home Run That Wasnt By A GOB OVER the fence was out for Bill Kern when he smashed a homer for Hopkinsville in a wild baseball game in the Kitty League, where anything can happen. Kern blasted the ball over the centerficld fence at Hopkinsville in a game with Paducah.

He headed for first base. Meanwhile, a teammate, Steve Durst, already on first, lit out for second. That's when the Paducah ceRtertielder, John Slachta, did an amazing hit of acting. He leaped against the fence, pretended to catch the ball, then cocked his arm for a throw to the infield. Durst, rounding second, saw Slachta ready to throw.

He streaked back for first. But Kern, never dreaming he wuz about to be robbed, was running to second. Naturally, Kern and Durst passed each other. So Kern's homer went, for naught as he was called out for passing the runner ahead of him. That shenanigan, from The Kentucky New Era, Hopkinsville, leads the crop of capers harvested recently from newspapers throughout the stale.

Sonic Bounce Was Left SEBREE "Come quick with your gun," Mrs. Lolo Conner told Police Chief J. Z. Shelton. "There's a copperhead at my place So the chief loaded his shotgun and got going, according to The Sebree Banner.

A crowd was waiting at the house, keeping its eyes on the snake until the law arrived. "There it is, chief; there it is." The chief contidently assured the crowd he wouldn't miss, hen crawled silently through the weeds toward the snake. He stopped and took careful aim. BANG! He waited a moment to see if the snake moved. It didn't.

Ah, a bull's-eye. He reached down to pick up the snake and came up with an old piece of rubber hose, very, very dead. Something Fishy There HARRODSBURG Ever hear about the fisherman who got away? Ed Reed and Hollie Chilton were fishing in a boat on Salt River, according to The Harrodsburg Herald. Up swam a bass, SYNGMAN RHEE He IS South Korea war for perhaps a month or more. And the patriot of Korea is just stubborn enough to precipitate such a war.

ltM 1 ENOUGH is enough. The stubbornly determined group of senators who have filibustered against the Eisenhower Administration's Atomic Energy Act have made their point. They have laid responsibility for the bill squarely on the Administration. They have explained to the nation that this bill would turn over to private monopoly the atomic power industry which billions of tax dollars have made possible. They have shown how President Eisenhower's order for the Atomic Energy Commission to contract with a private power combine for electric power will cost the government millions of dollars for years to come.

In making these points the filibusterers served a useful purpose. This Administration's giveaway policies on national resources will be a major campaign issue. The men who ran the filibuster have sharpened it. But the time has come to call it quits. The Senate still operates, or should operate, on the majority principle.

Senator Knowland has been unwisely dogmatic in insisting that the Atomic Energy Bill be passed intact both the non-controversial section on information exchange with our allies, and the highly controversial domestic section. To that extent the majority leader invited the fili- busier, and his attitude throughout seems designed to alienate both Democrats and at least some Republicans. Nevertheless, the rest of the Administration's program awaits Senate action. This includes the farm bill, foreign aid, expansion of Social Security coverage, and conference reports on housing and taxation. The filibusterers were able yesterday to kill Senator Knowland's move to invoke cloture stopping the debate.

Knowland needed a two thirds vote (64). He got only 44. This did not mean, however, that the filibuster group could expect anything like enough votes to defeat the atom bill when it comes to a showdown. The Senate just doesn't like to limit debate. Petitions for cloture have been entered 28 times since the cloture rule was adopted in 1917.

Only four times has cloture been invoked. Therefore the debate has reached a point of obstruction by a minority. Though we thoroughly agree with the principle for which the minority has struggled, we cannot agree with them that it is a good thing to deadlock all legislation to try to force Senator Knowland into a compromise. The A.E.C.-T.V.A. deal is a scandalous transaction.

The domestic section of the Atomic Energy Act is extremely questionable and needs much more minute consideration. But both these albatrosses hang on the Administration's neck. Senators Gore, Morse, Langer, Hill, NEELY and Jackson would do well now to leave them there. BJL HUB'S Mwnnac An Ex-Burlesque Comic Believes Americans Have Lost Sense of Humor WASHINGTON One of the four octogenarians on whom the United States is leaning in vital parts of the world is now in Washington receiving the deserved tribute of President Eisenhower. He is Dr.

Syngman Rhee, cantankerous, crusading President of South Korea, without whose stubborn patriotism Korea would not be even half alive today, yet whose stubbornness today may either upset the precarious peace of the Far East or prevent the orderly reconstruction of his country. Dr. Rhee is now 79 years old. And like another old man, Chancellor Adenauer, of West Germany, on whom we are relying in another vital area, he cannot last forever. And because Chiang Kai-shek also is reaching the twilight of his years with no one groomed to succeed him.

and because 79-year-old Winston Churchill, our best champion in England, is certain to step down soon, realist diplomats are wondering whom the United States intends to lean on after these octogenarians are gone. Are we grooming no young men for the future? Adenauer In Same Hoat At best, Dr. Rhee can carry on only two or three years longer. In Germany, Konrad Adenauer can remain Chancellor only a short time. Yet our whole policy in Germany is aimed at arming a government which three years from now may put all the arms we give it in the hands of the anti-American forces almost certain to succeed the aged patriot of West Germany.

In Formosa, with no one trained to succeed the aging champion of Nationalist China, how can we buck Red China's entry into the United Nations after Chiang is gone? Unfortunately, the dominating dispositions of elder statesmen are such that it's difficult to train successors. In Korea, Dr. Rhee has fired 200 Cabinet ministers. For he is the whole show. He IS South Korea.

Without him there would be no South Korea; and unless you please him, you serve not one day longer in his Cabinet. May Tear It, Down His grit, his determination have made Korea what it is today. But his refusal to cooperate with others may tear down the very thing he has built. For when Rhee leaves this earthly scene, as leave he must, the man likely to succeed him is Lee Bum Suk, a Fascist-minded Like Thunder Rhee Comes Visiting With Grim Reminders IN THE wake the disastrous events in Indochina, the problems of Korea have been, for the moment at least, almost forgotten Syngman Rhee is here to see that they do not remain forgotten. Tha fiery, stubborn president of South Korea is here to remind President Eisenhower that his country, like AFTER THE BALL WAS OVER weighing about 3 pounds.

He leaped out of the water, smacked Reed in the kisser, then swam away. But Who Moves The Sun? PA1NTSVILLE Hot enough for you? Ha, ha, ha. Ouch! Stop it! Maybe you'd feel cooler if you had one of the thermometers Paul Sheets has been giving away to advertise his service station. They are mounted on a card, on which are printed the readings for the mercury to hit, according to The Paintsville Herald. Only it's simple to move the glass tube down on the card so the mercury will register a c-c-c-cool 70 or so instead of a s-s-s-sizzling 100.

A real cool trick, huh? And John Doesn't Lie CARLISLE The time has come again to quote Tom Payne, correspondent in The Nicholas County Star, which never edits his copy. Payne, who often quotes himself, had this to say: "What do you think of this? Tom Payne said that John Anderson told him that on Wenesday he was out until 9:30 when he went home he parked his car in frunt of the house and on Thursday when he went out to his car he said that he parked on a possom tail. Had the wheal on it and could not get way, But he let it go. I guess that must be true for John dont lie." Smoky Cola? MAYSVILLE It's truly rare, a vintage crop, that tobacco being raised by Allen Reed, a Drover farmer. It gets just the right amount of gentle rain and sunshine.

It's real pop-bottle-vintage tobacco. Four young tobacco plants are flourishing in four upside-down soft-drink bottles. Reed stuck the necks of the bottles into his tobacco bed to prop the canvas cover. And the plants grew right up into the bottles, according to The Daily Independent. The Pressure Got Pop LEBANON There he stood, the noble host, doing the honors at the buffet supper preceding the rehearsal for his daughter's wedding the next day.

True, he was a bit shaken, and there was a plaster patch on his cheek. But Clyde Williams was game. He was lucky to he there, according to The Lebanon Enterprise. For a while it looked as if Williams would be among the missing. The ham being served with the supper almost didn't make it, either.

A few minutes before, the ham was in a pressure cooker on the kitchen stove, and Williams was watching the gauge. You can guess what happened. All over the kitchen! The lid went thisaway, the handle thataway. The stove fell apart, and the cabinet overhead was wrecked. A hit of plaster fell down, too.

Williams rushed to the hospital, had the cut on his cheek sewed up, then rushed back to greet his guests. And then, only one more day to go. Foreign Aid Cuts Needless and Painful Chickens Come Home to Roost In Texas Red Missile Program Threatens to Disrupt U.S. Defense Plans By Joseph and Stewart Ahop WASHINGTON In the year 1960, by the agreed estimate of the Pentagon's official analysts, the Soviet Union will fly its first intercontinental ballistic missile. That sentence may sound innocent enough, but it is not.

The intercontinental ballistic missile, or I.B.M. as the experts call it, will be an accurately guided rocket, comparable to a giant V-2, capable of carrying a hydrogen warhead over a range of 4,000 to 5.000 miles. Such a weapon will marry the ultimate in de-structiveness with the ultimate in striking power. There will be no defense against this ultimate weapon, nor any warning of its coming. And this is what the most highly qualified American experts now expect the Kremlin to possess within six short years.

It must be noted, furthermore, that our official experts have consistently underrated Russian weapons development. In every major case from the atomic bomb down to the new long-range jet hombers, the Soviet developers have always beaten the American official forecast by at least two years. There are no reasons to suppose that our forecasters are not making the same mistake all over again. There are also many reasons why they may be wrong. In the guided missile art, great strides have recently been made towards solutions of the two most knotty problems, accurate guidance and atmospheric re-entry.

The Soviets are in a good position to take advantage of this forward movement. Since the end of the last war, they have been working all-out to get a long pange guided missile, with the most massive human and material resources going into the effort. In this particular field, moreover, the Russians began with a technology and even a manufacturing capacity superior to ours. The Day of Invulnerability ITERE in America, by contrast, we have not been going all-out. Even today, the total budget of our ATLAS project is reported not to exceed and this and other guided missile projects are complexly entangled in Pentagon red tape.

At present, the National Security Council is ponderously mulling over the question whether to make an all-out effort. Rut for the usual budgetary reasons, the N.S.C.'s answer is just as likely to be "no" as "ves." In short, it seems entirely possible that the Kremlin will possess the ultimate weapon before we possess it. Maybe it Is foolish to be insistent about such unwelcome facts. Last week. Senator Stuart Symington of Missouri made a brilliant speech on this subject.

With all the authority of a man who knows the American defense picture from the inside, Symington warned of the danger described in the present report. His speech, though thoroughly factual as well as grimly ominous, received far less attention than the most recent didoes of the McCarthy Committee. people In this country are not interested in the facts of life and death which the Administration so sedulously conceals from them. All the same, it is timeit is past time to realize that America's traditional invulnerability is not going to last forever, or even for very long. The era of the intercontinental ballistic missile will be the final stage of the journey into danger.

But there will be an intermediate stage first. For the Soviet stock of atomic and hydrogen bombs is continuously growing. The power of the Soviet Long Range Air Army is also growing very rapidly. And business-as-usual has been the keynote of our air defense effort, as of our guided missile effort. Little litis lleen Done IT IS NOW four years since the National Security Council gave continental air defense the highest priority.

It is two years since the summer study group of the Lincoln project proposed a design for an effective air defense. It is one year since the N.S.C. received the culminating report in a long anrl weary series urging instant, energetic action. But what has happened? There have been negotiations for an intermediate warning line in Canada, and that is all. On this line, the so-called Mc-Gill line, not a spade has been turned, although equipment has been ordered.

Project CORRODE long since proved the desirability and practicality of a more advanced warning line. Rut the establishment of such a line has not even been mentioned to the Canadians. Neither has any arrangement for early interception, which is just as important as early warning, or any arrangement for unified command, which is also vital. If these things had been done, or were being done, we might not enter the time of total peril until the I.B.M.s are in the air. As it is, the time of total peril will begin for us in a couple of years.

One wonders what system of logic explains the neglect of the dread problems, and their persistent concealment from the American people. WE WERE strolling by a joint the other day and who do we see sitting in there having tea but Eddie Yunt, the WHAS-TV photographer and film processor, and Jack Albertson, a comedian at Iroquois Ampitheatre. They were, of course, discussing the old days of burlesque. The real old days when people went to burlesque to see the comedians as well as the girls. In fact, the real old days when people went to burlesque, period.

Albertson was interested because he was in burlesque in those days, teamed with Phil Silvers. Yunt was interested as a former ex officio member of the Burlesque Appreciation Commission, headed. I believe, by comic Bobby Ferguson and Glenn Kendall, now a sedate news editor on our paper, but in them days a "patron of the arts." Albertson probably will never be one of the world's great comics. But he will be eating high on the hog when some of the great funny guys are struggling for a buck. This is because Albert-son is what is called a character comic.

That means that he isn't limited to a comedy style of his own, but rather is an actor who can play any style of comedy part. Insurance for Producer He will be the insurance for the producer on the day when the lead comic blows a gasket between matinee and night performance. Albertson can step in and do the part, and probably, unless you know the comic pretty well, you would never know the difference. That Albertson is a rugged guy in the comedv business is attested by the fact that he has survived burlesque and is still working regularly, although the style of American comedy has changed pretty drastically in the past dozen years. Being a straight man and he has been a straight man for almost every major comedian except Jack Benny and Fred Allen he is a student of styles.

What few people realize is that the comic is very much at the mercy of his straight man. The straight line must be right, the timing must be right in order to give the comic the chance to collect the big laugh, or yak. In case your technical knowledge is weak, it is the straight man who says, "Who's the lady I seen you with last night?" As a matter of fact, the straight line takes as much work and study as does the punch line. And a successful straight man must be a good comedian, too. Not many people know what originally Gracie Allen was the straight for George Burns.

And still fewer realize that it is George's feel for comedy which makes Gracie so tremendous. Jack Benny is pretty much his own straight man He lets Rochester and Mary Livingston get the laughs. We were, of course, talking about the oft-repeated statement that Louisville audiences are tough for comedians. Jack says a Louisville audience is "different." They go for a more obvious gag, they don't go for the subtle line. Comic'g Life Rough But, Jack says, Americans are losing their sense of humor.

No longer will anyone laugh at himself. Minority groups carry chips on their shoulders, and since the majority is nothing but a collection of minorities, this makes life rough for the comedian. Blackface comedy, a traditional American form of humor, is unfashionable now, and there is not a single top blackface comic left in a business which used to number Al Jolson, Lasses White, Bert Swor and Billy Beard. Dialect comedy has gone out. Characterizations must now he so exaggerated that no person can identify himself in them.

These changes in comedy fashion affect the man with his individual style. He is the great name who heads the show, or "top banana," to quote a show Jack has played many times. The "second banana," or supporting comic, just changes his style too and goes on eating regularly, which is success no matter how you dish it up. Indochina, is still divided by Communist force, and that more than a year after the end of the so-called peace talks, his people know only an uneasy truce. Our officials know that Rhee is not likely to stop with these simple reminders.

He is expected to point out that he warned us not to partition Korea, to parley with the Chinese Communists at Pan-munjom or to confer with the Communists at Geneva. He will also un A VERY LIKELY STORY, THIS Rhee uneasy truce doubtedly reiterate i 1 A Pontea rrf A Dog Is Mans Best Friend The Laundrymans SOUNDS from Texas are very much like those of scrawny political chickens coming home to roost. Allan Shivers, darling of the old guard of both parties, may wind up with his fourth term as Governor in spite of such embarrassing reminders at the mansion door. But a large part of the price he must pay will be, indeed already has been, his prestige. Two years ago that prestige was high and splendid.

Governor Shivers was the man to reckon with. He led Texas and its valuable 24 electoral votes into the Eisenhower column, holding aloft for Texans to see, signed and sealed, the Republican candidate's promise of offshore oil. Adlai Stevenson had been firm in his stand that treasures beneath the offshore waters belong rightly to the nation, not to states. In the election of that year, the name of Shivers appeared on both Democratic and Republican ballots. He had won the Democratic nomination over an Austin lawyer, Ralph Yarborolch, by more than 300.000 votes, taking 65 per cent of the total.

Today, with the count from the fresh primary just about complete, Yarborough presses Shivers so closely that a runover is in sight. The 300,000 majority has dwindled to less than 20.000. Because of votes cast for two minor candidates, the Shivers total is under the required 50 per cent. THAT, there is evidence that Shivers was saved from defeat in the Democratic primary Saturday by Republicans, not by voters of his nominal party. The Texas law makes it easy for members of one party to cast their votes in primary elections of the other party.

A voter does not have to declare his party affiliation and stick by it. And if Republicans voted Saturday, they did not vote except in scanty tokens for Republican candidates. In the county of mighty Houston, which cast 146.665 votes for Eisenhower in 1952 to 107,504 for Stevenson (and which went also fog Dewey over Truman by almost three to two in 1948), only 320 votes were cast in the Republican primary Saturday. Shivers, the Democrat, mopped up there. Where did the 1952 Shivers majority over Yarborough go? Part of it was swept away by the instinct against long tenure, but perhaps a larger part by the old political truth that such deals as that in which Shivers was a principal agent two years ago have a way of backfiring.

Even the offshore oil bargain has turned somewhat sour. The quitclaim act of 1953, passed in fulfilment of the Eisenhower campaign pledge, gave Texas and Florida special favor title to 102 miles of submerged land out from the shore, where other coastal states got only three miles. Now both departments of Justice and Interior are out to hold all states to the same measure of three miles. As Opponent Yarborough began asking sarcastic questions about the supposed bargain, mainly inquiring what had happened to the vaunted influence of Shivers, there was a hurried call at the White House to reaffirm the golden promise. The President obliged his friend, the Texas Governor, with whom he had exchanged family visits, and said the 10t2-mile promise was as good as ever.

Justice and Interior, however, still shake their heads, and Texans wonder. There are the insurance scandals, which turned up a Shivers former campaign manager as an influence peddler for shaky Texas firms. There was a rather smelly record of a Shivers profit of $425,000 on sale of options on worthless land, for which the Governor paid $25,000. There was a backfire from the school segregation issue, with the Governor's friend in the White House coming out emphatically for an end of segregation and with the news that Shivers has a son in one of the few unsegregated schools in Texas. THIRST and last, however, there was the old sharp cleavage between the orthodox Democrats of Texas and the group of great economic power which has been fighting for control of the stale party and through it the national party since 1936.

Shivers has been a familiar and in fact a member of this group. When he became Governor in 1949 upon the death of Beauford Jester, when he was reelected in 1950 and again so triumphantly in the golden glow of 1952, it seemed that the power of vast Texas fortunes had won for good. But there still remains a hard core of traditional Democrats, vaguely marshalled behind Sam Rayburn, to challenge this power. The big money will be behind Shivers in the second primary campaign, as it was in the first. The Republicans who may still regard the accomplishment of 1952 as holding them in debt to Shivers doubtless will give him a helping hand with their support in the runover.

The odds are rather in his favor in a race narrowed to two men and in a vast state where money counts. One douhts, however, that he will ever be the same again, now that the old-style faithful have come close enough to see the shape of restoration. IN CUTTING an additional 13 per cent from the Administration's already painfully streamlined foreign aid bill, the House Appropriations Committee aims a body blow at East-West co-operation. For while foreign aid programs all suffer to some extent, those taking the most serious setback are concerned with technical assistance to backward nations. The United Nations technical assistance program in particular is deprived by the committee of the entire and very modest sum guaranteed as our share of the co-operative effort.

The committee has earlier shown its hostility to the very forms of non-military technical aid most needed in underdeveloped countries, and equally needed by us as practical examples of friendship toward peoples suspicious of the white man's motives. But this deliberate gesture of hostility toward a United Nations program initiated and fostered by us is almost frightening in its non-comprehension. The other participating nations have already paid their commitments for the current year. Our contribution of around $18 million, small as it is in terms of over-all expenditure, is the backbone of the entire program. It is overdue now, and if the house committee's action stands, projects already begun in countries eagerly awaiting their results must be abandoned.

The propaganda cost of defaulting thus on obligations willingly incurred by a majority of Americans will be many times the small saving the committee has achieved. Indeed the cost may very well be incalculable, since to the disappointment of people expecting our technical advice and assistance must be added the resentment of our partners in the program. We may hope that the House, which now has the bill for consideration, will restore cuts so needlessly and implacably inflicted. SENATOR SOAPER Says: IT'S HARD to understand why the fanciest thing the pipe cleaners have been able to come up with for milady is a mere mink-trimmed meerschaum. You'd think they'd at least have a model with a guppie swimming in the bowl, to match the fair smoker's earrings.

Tiny Guatemala is setting about cleaning up its mess, and in a way the folks there are to be envied. In a country as big as the U.S., the natural tendency is just to kick a mess around until it gets lost. San Francisco MAN named Senator Vest once delivered a eulogy to a dog. He said some mighty kind things about dogs. And when anybody cares to say a few words about dogs, he usually gets out the senator's remarks and repeats them.

I take another view of dogs. The view I take is that dogs are no roses. In fact, they smell warnings against further relations with the Communists, and urge that this country use his nation as a spearhead of resistance to the Red aggression in Asia, even to the point of war. And he will probably ask that the United Slates give him arms and money to expand his army from its present 20 divisions to at least 35 divisions with proportionate air and naval support, and to furnish additional aid for the rehabilitation of his war-torn country. To support his request, Rhee is expected to use an American promise and a Korean threat.

The promise is our commitment to consult with South Korea on possible further steps toward unification in the event the peace conference produced no concrete results in 90 days. This, Rhee can contend, we have not done. He can then threaten, as lie has done in the past, to go it alone if we will not agree to his program, pointing out that he is no longer bound by commitment to "take no unilateral action to unite Korea by military means." President Eisenhower's political and military advisers do not believe that Rhee has any intention of making good his threat to attack the Chinese-supported North Korean government. But they cannot be sure. And for that reason Rhee's request for military aid constitutes a tense issue.

The administration wants Rhee's troops strong enough to repel any future Red aggression, but not so strong as to constitute a temptation to the aging, impatient Rhee, who sees his time running out and his plans for unifying his beloved country coming no closer to realization. very doggy and especially in rainy weather. In dry weather my dog is mildly fragrant. But when it rains that isn't Chanel No. 5, kids.

Now before the dog lovers of America hang me in effigy with dog leashes, let me say that I am not against dogs. Except part of the time. ho comes boiling out of her room. All sparkling and prepared to start the day by asking why are buttercups yellow. And do snails eat each other.

And can she have a piece of cake before breakfast. At this point we unhook the chain dog collar from the door knob and attach it to the dog's neck. The point (from the dog's standpoint) is that we must catch him first. In the process he often climbs couches and barks and knocks over lamps. Finally we get the collar on him and turn him loose.

And I inform the young lady that it is barely 5 o'clock. And if I catch her in the cake I will whale the daylights out of her. With this I stumble back to what I consider is man's best friend, which is bed. But, strangely, sleep eludes me. And eventually 1 must rise and dress.

(This being considered normal behavior by small girls and boxers And there is much conversation about what she said to Martha and Martha said to her. And the jump-rope business. And as depart, man's best friend comes to the door. He is weary and sorefooted from the morning rounds. And pays me no attention.

Just, gets on the couch to shed and go to sleep. And get ready for the next morning. long, and he spends a fair amount of time polishing my face with it. He sheds. I have had to put up my blue graduation suit for the season, until his hair decides whether it is going to go or going to stay.

These are the things the senator forgot to mention. I am in accord that dog is man's best friend. Especially if the man is in the cleaning business. The actual fact, from my observation, is that small girls are dog's best friend. Before this dog came along, I led a quirt and contented life.

Man's best friend changed all that. I slept late and had an easy conscience. Now at 5 o'clock, this dog rises and shakes himself. It sounds like somebody shaking out a rug. Then he comes in to see me.

He has learned that when he pokes his nose in my face I will arise crving: "GID-DOUDA HERE!" A Friendly Gesture? All of which he takes as indication that I am dog's best friend. Having roused me from bed, he leaps about in great frenzy. Often landing on my hare feet. The more I scream, the more he is convinced that I am in wonderfully good humor. All this commotion arouses the small girl, Best thing that ever happened to peaches my own dog decides particular part of me is my lap.

Being 90- this seems a difticult That time is when fo he against me. The he likes to be against odd pounds of boxer, program to me. Not to him though He just works into then relaxes with point he is very aro- has a tongue a foot my lap, foot by foot, a deep sigh. At this matic. He drools, too.

He READERS' POINT OF VIEW: Governor Wetherby Explains Decision on Tarrences The Neighbors Try and Stop Me Bv BEN I CERF IN jf i nuil IT Jzy 3 mi I close to Memphis in West Tennessee and normally Democratic. But Memphis is what swung the state to Eisenhower. I say it in all reverence and humility, thank God for such men as Albert Gore and Estes Kefauver. Gore lives in my district, and Kefauver is almost a neighbor in nearby Chattanooga. It is my opinion that there is a gripe among what we Southerners call the Yankees at the South's economic progress since the advent of T.V.A.

The Yankees left the South in ruins in every way. Somehow we learned to exist on the leavings of a Sherman and a Butler, and a one-crop economy until a very great President made a great speech in Gainesville, Ga. I refer to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He said the South was the country's economic problem number one.

Perhaps that state- best peach ice cream you ever tasted! To the Editor of The Courier-Journal: There seems to be some misunderstanding as to the action I took in granting a stay of execution for Roy and Leonard Tarrence. After a meeting with the attorney representing the condemned men and Attorney General J. D. Buckman, it was established that every legal remedy open to them had not been exhausted. While not entertaining any idea of setting aside the judgment of the court that sentenced these two men to the electric chair.

I have consistently followed the policy, and shall continue to do so as long as I am Governor, of taking whatever steps the law imposes on me toward assuring every accused an opportunity of exhausting all of the legal remedies open to him. Regardless of the degree of guilt and the nature of Ihe crime committed, I believe the processes of the court and the provisions of the law should be open to every individual. The Supreme Court is now in recess, and a final review of the two Tarrence cases being impossible before the court reconvenes in the fall, I felt legally and morally bound to stay their execution until the highest court of the land passes final judgment on their convictions. Lawrence W. Wetherby, Governor.

Frankfort, Ky. Answers Dr. Wi "gam's Query Dr. Albert Edward Wiggam of "Let's Explore Your Mind" fame has this question: "Have modern conveniences decreased or increased worry?" Having just paid a visit to our Kentucky hills, he spot where 1 was born and first viewed the big mysterious world via a four-pane window in a wee, little house perched on a wooded hillside, I feel capable of a better answer than the one supplied by Dr. Wiggam.

As I stood again inside the room where I was born, where the mudwasp's nest answered for a Rembrandt, cobwebs took the place of a Murillo, and in the soft embrace of a goosefeather bed, sans springs, I worshiped at the altar of Morpheus, I wondered where more peace could be found. There, under friendly stars, while the owl calls to its mate from a moonlit oak, banks may break or factories burn, stocks go up and down, or panic seize the town, peace nevertheless reigns as lord of all. In the backwoods of our lovely Kentucky hills, time seems to linger a while to rest from wanderlust through the musty centuries of old. The only thing to remind one that we live in a modern world Is the deep-lhroated roar of an airliner high in the sky. Back there when we had no radio or T.V.

with high-powered salesmen making mountains of molehills and speaking of the people of the earth as next door neighbors and our responsibility to feed and clothe, hucksters sold only hens and ducks along the road, not piffle and stinking propaganda over the air. There was no federal, state or city income tax, only a few carpet tacks. The bright fellows of 1he Chamber of Commerce and public relations board had not started to regulate our lives. We had not been told we had "a way of life." There was no rationing; there were no black markets, autos, planes, guided missiles, atomic bombs or deadly poison gases: no big daily papers standardized from comic to editorials: and politicians talked about our own country. We didn't have a foreign program to receive first consideration.

We were free men in a free country, under the Stars and Stripes and protected by a glorious Constitution, uncontaminated by Smith-McCarran Acts and foolish amendments which render it a worthless paper. The world was larger than it is today, with more far-away places. What a man did, believed, or practiced on the other side of the earth was none of our business, or worry. We were free ourselves and wanted freedom for all the rest. Grandfather had his little worries; but they were largely about his own country and business, and he didn't worry about how to kill hundreds of thousands of his fellow men who were not members of his own political party.

The modern world has brought magic; but it has not, to date, brought peace and contentment and I wonder if we are not sorely cheated in the exchange. Louisville. Jesse L. Ralph. Contributes to Wade Fund It seems to me that you have missed an important point in the story of the bombing of the Wade home: namely, will the insurance company pay the total cost of the damages? I should like to initiate a campaign for contributions to an Andrew Wade fund to restore his home.

Contributions should be sent directly to Andrew Wade, Rone Court, Shively, Ky. I have already sent $5 and I am wondering if there are enough readers sufficiently interested in backing up their concepts of decency with cash, to make up the estimated $7,000. finally, I suggest that only white people should Opposed lo Alcohol In my opinion the one thing that has contributed more than anything to the downfall of America ii the sanction put on the use of alcoholic beverages. Some excuse the legalizing of whisky by saying that many were drinking bad whisky and were being killed by it. I say, it would be better for a few to die quick deaths as a warning to others than for many to die slow deaths, ruining the lives of innocent members of their families, friends and associates.

Killings and gang wars were ended when whisky was legalized, true. The competition with the legal whisky-makers was too strong. Did that make it right to make whisky and sell it to the public openly? Did that make the manufacturers, dealers, and the government less criminal than the bootlegger or hijacker? Shall we join forces with evil so that there is no more need to fight it, or shall we let evil fight against itself as the hijackers did, thereby destroying themselves? The manhood and womanhood of this country has degenerated greatly since the use of whisky has been allowed. This country took a backward step the year it abolished prohibition, and will continue that way until there is an awakening to man's responsibility to act at his highest level of ability at all times. This he cannot do under the influence of alcohol.

E. Manier. Louisville. Music Lover I agree wholeheartedly with Sharon Miller in her article about Liherare. The ones belittling Liberace are trying to cut him down to their size, and they are really small.

If he talked insulting, and told off-color jokes, I suppose they would like that. It would be something for them to understand. One thing they could do if they don't like him, they could get another station. Any intelligent woman could like him and his music without comparing him to her husband if she loved her husband. I know I could.

I am not a bit envious because he has looks, talent and the intelligence to use his talent. I hope he gets as high in he entertainment world as he can get and stays there. There should be more good programs like his. I love good music. Elizabeth Cornell.

Pckin, Ind. send contributions to Mr. Wade, since obviously the crime of attempted murder was committed by members of the white race. A. W.

Goodman. Lexington, Ky. The Blesainga of T.V. A. Remember when President Eisenhower cited T.V.A.

as an example of "creeping I see by The Courier-Journal July 18, that Senator Jenncr has gone the President one belter and says that foreign visitors are taken to see the Tennessee Valley Authority in an effort to show that the United States government supports the doctrine of Nicolai Lenin, one of the founders of the Soviet Union, that the government must control the nation's economy. My first reaction was blazing Kentucky anger. Then I remembered my grandmother's calm statement that ignorance is pitiful, and now I am cooling off by wondering how such an ignoramus (in my opinion) could ever be elected to the highest ranking deliberative body in the world! President Eisenhower sent Eric Johnston, a former president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, to the Holy Land to negotiate a peace settlement between the Jews and Arabs in a dispute over the waters of the River Jordan.

Johnston was told to try to get the "debaters" to let the United States let them have the money to "initiate a bold, imaginative, T.V.A.-like project in the Jordan" so both could have water. We in the Valley were very happy over that, but the next news we have is that T.V.A. is "creeping Socialism." What is Eisenhower trying to do? Introduce Socialism into 1he Holy Land where our Savior taught the blessed plan for the salvation of a sinful world even in the very river where He who was without sin submitted to baptism? Certainly the "zeal of a new convert" didn't stand the President in stead there. In my opinion, the President just "welshed" on a campaign promise to "develop the T.V.A. to its maximum efficiency." Nobody can get him off that hook.

According to newspapers, private utilities put up too much campaign funds. Tennessee gave her electoral votes to Eisenhower, sucked in by a promise he never intended to keep. Now she is repenting in sackcloth and ashes. Strange to say, appropriations were made to finish dams in" East Tennessee, the home of Carroll Reece and normally Republican, but not for a steam plant at Fulton, old platitudes, hoys, and go out and find some new ones." BOB CAMPBELL has preserved a typical weather report from a tourist-conscious resort in Southern California: "Rain and heavy winds all yesterday and today. Continued fair tomorrow." THE CATS up Armonk way, writes Maurice Schwartz, like to eat Swiss cheese.

Then they hunt field mice with "bated" breath. A GROUP of baseball writers in Toots Shor's restaurant were reminiscing about various Indian big league stars like the late Chief Bender and Jim Thorpe. Inevitably somebody recalled the story of the hillbilly girl who landed a summer job as waitress in a very swell hotel and wired home: "Believe it or not I have my own room with running water!" Her father wired hack: "Get rid of that Indian or come home at once!" A Safety Measure WHEN Bob Feller, Cleveland fast-bailer, was in his prime, batters of rival teams were very wary at the plate particularly on dark days. One day Lefty Gomez came to hat against him, carrying a lighted candle in his hand. "Cut the comedy and play ball," commanded the umpire.

"You couldn't see what Feller throws if you was carrying the searchlight from the Mt. Wilson Observatory." "I don't want to see what he throw's," pointed out Gomez, with immense dignity. "I just want to be sure he sees me!" AT A LITERARY cocktail party in New York, General Omar A HOUSEWIFE decided to try out a new supermarket and ordered a dozen oranges. She phoned to complain that she had received only ten. "Just part of our wonderful service, ma'am," was the suave explanation.

"Two of them were bad, so we saved you the trouble of throwing them away." HEAR about the smart-alecky salesman who vacationed on the heach at Miami but was too cheap to rent an umbrella? He just told stories. "KATHARINE HEPBURN may be a great star," admitted a man who fancied himself a keen judge of feminine pulchritude, "but 1 wish she was a little meteor!" Isn't There A Law SIGN on a suburban laudro-mat: "Girls! Drop off your clothes as you pass by and receive our immediate attention." THERE'S a city editor on a big city paper who misuses words in a fashion with which no Hollywood producer possibly could compete. A reporter asked, "How much do vou want me to write on that fire?" The editor answered, "About half a paragraph." He told his staff another time, "Here's our new policy: Do it if you can, but if you can't, don't worry. After all, it's mandatory." His top effort for the year, however, was, "They tell me we're printing too many old platitudes lately. Let's get rid of those "While you'ra hunting for my little boy, will you pick up a can of tomatoes?" a new clerk who will double sales within a week? Maggie Sullavan, lovely star of "Sabrina ment made us mad, perhaps the leaven of cheap electric power had already begun to work.

Anyhow, different enterprises that needed cheap power in quantities came where it could be had. Last spring U. S. Senator Joseph Kennedy Mass.) was invited to Chattanooga to make a speech. The audience listened with all the politeness of the old and gracious South they even furnished a slight hand clapping at times even though he reviled us for "stealing" New England industries and making New England the country's Economic Problem number one! I smiled, and thought to myself "Only chickens coming home to roost!" For we did no such thing! New Englanders are hard, shrewd business men, they did only what any good business man would do went where they could get what they needed for the least money! Crossville, Tenn.

Mrs. Aline H. Kyle. Fair" the mere sound of whose voice sends thrills up and down Bradley told how his two grandfathers fought on opposite sides in the Civil War. A writer who overheard him chimed in with: "The same is true of my grandfathers.

They were cavalry officers." "Both of my grandfathers," said the General, "were foot-privates." ANY BOOKSHOP looking for TRY SOME TODAY: IT'S CREAMY, PEACHY WONDERFUL! the spine of the average male-told a reporter, "The theater is a most unglamorous business. I'd much rather be selling books!".