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THE NASHVILLE TENNISSEAN. Montfj Aus 1 957 Wivis: L. i.ie in Dark Dennis the Menace By Hank Ketcham Chinese Upheava Anderson: Many Loopholes Oil Interest's Tax Escape Few Answers Offers By WILLIAM S. WHITE WASHINGTON American intelligence officers and policymakers are watching developments in Red China with the strained intent-ness of men trying to follow the course of a handball game played on a hidden court under the dark of the moon. That serious internal disorders now beset the cruelest, the coldest and the most-threatening Communist regime on earth, is, of course, no longer to be rationally doubted.

Beyond this one reasonably fixed point of reference, however, all is enigma all is cloudy behind the Bamboo Curtain incomparibly more opaque than, any mere Iron Curtain ever was. Whether the glacial grip upon vast China of the aged Mao Tse-tung Is being genuinely shaken by all the shootings, the local rebellions and the local anarchies Is only the first of several transceadental questions upon whose answers might eventually turn the fate of much of the world. The weight of the available evidence vaguely suggests that he is indeed in major difficulty in the rxIitical sense. And there is no doubt whatever that in bread-and-butter terms his grandipse economic plan has been one of the most resounding failures of all history. No One Knows Still, nobody In authority is prepared to risk any estimate, however qualified, that matters have reached the point Childs: hand aggression in Vietnam, the end of Mao might mean the end, or at least the abatement, of Communist military expansion in Asia.

Superficial Validity But the assumption might equally have only a superficial validity. For it might equally follow that the destruction of Mao, especially if it were brought about by means of covert Russian in-terventionism in China, would only bring a new coalescence of international communism under Moscow's renewed headship. And this for the West would be very bad news. Thus, the more this giant pnd brooding riddle is examined the more it appears that hopeful views of its ultimate solution might be dangerously delusive. The bottom reality is that Mao's China has achieved a kind of impenetrableness hardly less real than was shown by the walled China of countless centuries ago.

Nobody and no nation "outside" really knows much about it. And, contrary to all the long propaganda suggesting that the United States should recognize China in order to have a "window" on its affairs, the words "nobody and no nation" still stand. All this really proves' one thing and one alone: Any retreat at this stage by the United States from its policy of military resistance to Communist aggression in Southeast Asia would, in all the circumstances, amount to an act of almost inconceivable folly. "Here, let me do it. That's a MAN'S job:" Chamberlain: Migration Central City's A Poverty Trap Mao Tse-tung He has all guessing 'where his actual overturn could be contemplated.

And, indeed, nobody in authority is prepared "to assume automatically that such an overturn would be a good thing for the West in any case. Mao is, of course, the mortal antagonist of Soviet Russia, both as an ideological heretic from Moscow's point of view and as a poised physical enemy of Russia itself. The belief here, therefore, is that the Russians are now making or will soon be making efforts to penetrate China with anti-Mao subversives in the hope that they can bring him down and replace him with a dictator not totally hostile to the Soviet Union. At first glance it would seem that the West should welcome such an eventuality since, again at first glance, the assumption is that since Mao is the very symbol of Red China's policy of second New Version of Vietnam 1 1 Bakers A Friend In Wolfs Clothing Ry ItlSSFXL BAKER Th New York TimM bt $rvir ASHINGTON Many per sons have brcn infu riated this summer by the demagogic virtuosity of H. Rap Brown, hut very few know "Brown's" true identity.

His real name is John Green and he is an undercover outside agitator on the payroll of the Senate Appropriations Committee. His assignment is to help Congress find inexpensive solutions to the nation's racial problem. When racial animosity threatens to erupt at a given location. Green or "Rap Brown," to use his undercover name hurries to his scene, delivers inflammatory harangues and in other unsublle ways seeks to make himself highly visible. In this way.

Brown helps Congress to save billions. A Senate aide who Insists en anonymity explains i "If riots break out, Congress naturally has to investigate the cause and produce solutions to eliminate it. Some of these solutions can get pretty expensive. If you can discover that the riots are caused by outside agitators, however, you can let the taxpayer off cheap with a bill to provide prison accommodations for any agitators caught crossing state lines." Violent Distaste Thus, as an undercover outside agitator, Green performs an important financial service for the "white power structure" for which, in his identity as "Brown," he is forced to profess violent distaste. The Idea for a congressional corps of undercover outside agitators originated three years ago when the commit-tee invented "Stokeley Car-michacl." "Carmichael" his real name Is Peter Mulligan was an ambitious young lawyer with a theatrical tasto for rhetoric and undercover work which was not satisfied by humdrum of bis chores on the Senate staff.

It is said that "black pow-erl," Mulllgan'a alogan which so successfully cooled the egalitarian ardor of white liberals, was actually the Inspiration of Sen. Eastland of Mississippi. In any case, it helped Congress avoid some rather heavy expenditures, and incidentally generated a 1 good deal of New York sympathy for the Mississippi way of life. Thankless Role When Mulligan tired of the thankless role of undercover outside agitator and expressed a yearning to see that world, he was taken on by the CIA, with the stipulation that he maintain his "Carmichael" cover. He was last heard from in Cuba.

Congressmen are naturally reluctant to say how many other undercover outside agitators they have In the field, ready to provide them with quick low budget solutions should social breakdown continue. And, of course, as more sensitive congressmen remind us, the use of undercover agitators is not dictated solely by stinginess-There are the agents who conducted the now infamous flag burnings this year for the House of Representatives, which was then sorely frustrated by its inability to come to grips with the Vietnam issue. With the speed of a Warner Brothers cavalry, the House galloped to the defense of the flag by voting to imprison its desecrators. Thus its undercover agitators help it to deal with crisis abroad and at home, and "Rap Browns" save the day. By Walt Kelly A Marines' Marine In Evangelist Role rily in his particular quest for a refuge from the mechanized cotton plantation which can no longer offer him a living.

Nobody just out of the Mississippi delta farm life has the money to pay for a home on a plot zoned for an acre-and-a-half. If our corporations persist in decentralizing their factory operations, and if toning in our suburban and small-town dwelling areas continues to be the way of the future, what hope is there for those who are trapped in the central citv? On the one hand they will be unable to find work where they live; on the other, they won't be able to find living space out where the work happens to be. This is the dilemma that our political leaders have not faced. It could have been made less formidable if they had not passed the witless minimum wage law, which is nicely calculated to stop the movement of factories to the part of the country which the Negroes have been deserting to move into the northern central cities. Since the liberal politicos have helped to force the migration to the central city, they owe it to their victims to do more than mouth the current cliches about ending poverty in a place where, in the nature of things, it can't be ended.

Let's have some fresh thinking about how. to get the Negro out of the cen-. tral them which permit ml men to deduct many of their intangible costs. The deductions can be taken in advance, often as high as 80 of the costs, which makes oil speculation a singularly attractive investment. Dry Hole Myth To justify these happy benefits, oilmen have created the Great Dry Hole Myth.

For years they have offered anguished testimony that for every gusher there are eight dusters. This has been quietly contradicted by no less than the holy writ of the oil industry, the Oil and Gas Journal, which has confessed that the industry's average is closer to two successes for every dry hole excellent odds in anybody's crap game. If oilmen are hard pressed to explain the economic justification for their tax privileges, they solemnly assure doubters that it is the patriotic thing to do. This is an argument that, conceivably, could justify a tax break for discovering and developing domestic oil. But they eonsidrr it equally patriotic to drill for oil in faraway places with strange-sounding names.

Eagerly agreeing, a complaint Congress has permitted the oil companies to count as U.S. taxes any royalties they may pay to foreign potentates. Thus Standard Oil of New Jersey, to take the giant, can claim federal tax payments of half a billion dollars a year. Yet the real fact is that the top 22 oil refiners, combined, paid the federal government only $240 million in 1964 half as much as Standard Oil alone claimed to have paid. The rest of the taxes were, in reality, royalty payments.

Oil millionaires are more vocal about their patriotism probably than any other group. Many are anti-Communists of the breast beating, teeth-gnashing variety. Their patriotism doesn't run so deep, however, that they are willing to pay their fair share of the Vietnam war. It also Isn't likely that President Johnson, whose political career has been largely financed by oil contributions, will ask them to do so. It is even less likely that Congress, whose members also depend heavily upon oil contributions, would close the oil depletion allowance.

Politically, it is simpler to charge the rest of the taxpayers an extra 10 per cent. ure of 20 years of Arab aggression and pledges to destroy Israel have made the U. N. much weaker, and yet, perhaps, more necessary. Thant, the secretary general, destroyed much of his prestige by his quick removal of U.

N. troops from the Gaza strip. No amount of explanation will erase the belief that he could, and should, have delayed the decision with a formal U. N. request for reconsideration.

The raw nature of the Arab aggression was so obvious even the General Assembly could not stomach all of it. There is a great need for the U. N. but it cannot regain confidence by use of fantasy any more than by use of prejudice. POGO 15v JACK ANDKKSON TASHlXGTON-lnsU'Hd of tacking 1(1' extra to everyone's tax bill, as President Johnson wants to do.

Congress could grant a 10' reduction and still raise enough money to finance the Vietnam war. This financial miracle could be accomplished, according to Treasury Department experts, simply by closing the tax loopholes. Ex-Senator Paul Douglas, who fought a lonely battle against tax loopholes for 18 years in the Senate, has said that income taxes actually could be cut in half if the loopholes were plugged up. The most gaping loophole, big enough to drive an oil truck through, is the 27li'i' oil depletion allowance. The revenue that seeps through the smaller loopholes and gushes through the oil loophole must be made up by by less privileged taxpayers.

They are now being asked to pay an additional 107e for guns, tanks and planes, while the oil millionaires spend their share on Cadillacs, caviar and furs. Douglas claims to know one oil millionaire who in 1964 paid less income tax than did a $55-a-week scrubwoman. The oil depletion allowance is a legalized tax evasion scheme permitting producers to write off 27Vs of their oil and gas income. The Treasury Department loses an estimated $2.5 billion each year from this great oil seepage. So Much Oil As justification, the oil industry argues that there is only so much oil in the ground, and the men who pump it out should get a tax break for running their holes dry.

The 271i allowance has nothing to do with costs and bears absolutely no relation to the amount of oil depleted. The producers can go on taking the tax write-off until their wells dry up. For the average well, they wind up deducting 19 times the original cost. The appearance of this enticing tax advantage brought other lobbyists swarming over Capitol Hill. Rather than plug the dike, Congress obligingly drilled dozens of new holes.

Now almost 100 minerals get some depletion allowance. Almost wondrous as the oil depletion allowance are the drilling and development deductions "golden gimmicks" one investor happily called Votes for What? the name of the Community of Nations?" The letter from Jerusalem, where, in truth, there are quiet and calm, is understanding cynical. Under Jordan the city and the "Holy Places" were restricted. Free passage across the street from Israel's share of Jerusalem to Jordan's old Jerusalem was not possible. Jordan used the "Holy Places" for her best paying industry, tourism.

It is folly to imagine that Israel would, neglect or in any sense depreciate any of the Holy Places the city was "holy" to the Jews before it was to Christians or Arabs. Knowledgeable persons long have been cynical about the location of the Holy Places. It was not until Con-stantine's" time that a committee sought to locate them. The Church of the Holy Sepulcher, for example, is almost certainly not properly located. The crucifixion was "outside the walls." Excavations made decades ago indicate the present site and church were within the old walls not outside them.

Christian influence and tourism hushed this discovery. Escape from Reality Recommendation of an internationalized Jerusalem was an exhibition of escape from reality. Had the Arabs won, there would have been no cry for internationalization. Israel is more competent to govern and manage the city free to all than was Jordan. The weakness of the U.

N. recommendation was, as the letter says, that it did not suggest how the city would he governed, fed, guarded, and made viable. No international city has been a success. Those few established have been artificial slop-gaps to avert, for a time, some international pressures. It is a paradox that the fail til? liif Wimm ta U.N.' Letter From Jerusalem Tells a Different Story By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN NEW YORK Liars can figure, but figures, when they are accurately set down, don't lie.

And it is in the shifts in population statistics that one can come upon the reasons for the sudden eruption of riots and "race" in America. The trouble is that we have ceased to be a farming community without really becoming a nation of city dwellers. Back in 1935 more than thirty million people, lived on our farms; in 1965, the figure had shrunk to twelve million. But the big movement of the population has not been into the cities. It is the suburbs that have grown, and the smaller communities.

The grand total of city dwellers has indeed increased, being close to sixty million, but the proportion in relation to the rest of the population has dropped to below 30. Farm mechanization hit the South later than elsewhere, so the Negroes have been the last to leave the' farms. Like other groups in the course of transition, they have gone where the rents are cheapest, to the areas in our central cities which have been hollowed out by the migrations of other minorities to the suburbs. The Negro hasn't yet had time to make it on his own. But the question is, can he make it in the central city? Javits Belief Our political leaders say that he can, provided he has help.

Senator Javits of New York thinks a $75, million appropriation to spur the economic development of slum areas might serve to do the trick. President Johnson warns that it must get on with the model cities program, the rat control matching program, and the various antipoverty measures. Others put their trust in massive sums for education. But the big unanswered question is whether the central city itself is worth the trouble of preserving. In asking for money to spur business development in the areas we now call ghettos, have our political leaders consulted industry? The day of the four-story urban factory has long since passed; the new unit in industry is apt to be a nifty one-floor edifice set somewhere in a bucolic green lawn, with plenty of parking space out back for the workers' cars.

The work done in the central city tends more and more to be paper work, which can be done in skyscrapers. But the hordes that pour into the skyscrapers belong to the new middle classes, and they have the money needed to support themselves as commuters. They, too, like their green lawns. Zoning Purpose The Negro migrations from delta country and piedmont farm into the deserted central city have more or less coincided with development of zoning in small towns and suburbs. Zoning was not aimed to keep out the Negro; it was adopted because those who had fled from the central city did not want to repeat the conditions from which they had escaped.

There's no sense reproducing the city in the country. By a fantastic coincidence, however, the proliferation of zoning has kept the Negro from by-passing the central Snap Shots by Seig 7 at first You don't succeed Try it again With less speed. By MARQUIS CHILDS WASHINGTON The President, the vice president, members of Congress and audiences large and small around the country have been listening hopefully to a new version of Vietnam. It comes from a solid, thickset general who is" a Marines' Marine. Lt.

Gen. Lew Walt is an evangelist tor his conviction that cooperation with the South Vietnamese in pacifying the countryside can succeed. In his simple, direct way he argues the case that it is only byworking closely on a basis of complete equality with the i Vietnamese that control of the countryside can be wrested from the Viet Cong. The Walt line is music to the ears of those in the top eche-' Ion in Washington who have been reading gloomy reports of a stalemated war of in-'definite duration. For Walt it is not a line but a passionate belief growing out of his two years as Marine commander 1 in I Corps, consisting of the five northern provinces in 'South Vietnam.

That experience, he insists, refutes all the stereotypes of the South Vietnamese military -that they will not fight, that their officers are never, or hardly even, in the thick of battle, that they maltreat and rob the villagers. Close Partnership Walt had a close working partnership with Maj. Gen. Hoang Xuan Lam, commanding general of South Vietnamese forces in I Corps. They cooperated both in main-force assaults on North Vietnamese positions in the Demilitarized Zone and in pacification.

Walt says the South Vietnamese lost a lot of senior commanders. The heart of his story, however, is pacification and the imperative need to win the support of the people in the It was on this that and General Lam con-! centrated a large part of their effort. When Walt left Danang In June, 14 South Vietnamese battalions out of 29 were work-r Ing entirely on pacification. He built up Combined Ac tion Teams made up of a squad of American Marines and South Vietnamese Popular Forces, part-time soldiers, together with a Navy medical officer. The teams go into a village and stay there for six months or longer.

Their first task is to grub out the Viet Cong. Then they proceed to help establish security in the village behind village chiefs with whom and confidence have ben established over weeks and months. Many Marines are being taugh Vietnamese and others pick up enough to get along with the villagers. Tours Walt is proud that of 1,100 Marines who were in the paci- don the VC and come over to the side of the South. Questions are bound to occur when one has heard this evangelist expound his faith.

Could the same approach be applied in areas such as the Mekong Delta where the VC seem dug in deeper? Why isn't the Walt approach employed elsewhere in the South? Walt, now Deputy Chief of Staff for Manpower, confines himself entirely to his own experience and he is completely loyal to his commander in Vietnam, Gen. William C. Westmoreland. Barbs He who doin't live within hii income may loon have to live without it. Old gate-crashers never die.

They just pass away. Sometimes the best place to go for a nice, quiet drink after work is home. Ever notice how a dead-beat comes to life when he scents a When it comes to crossing a busy street, he who hesitates is tossed. Those video ads for corsets in early evening hours give good taste a two-way stretch. Just about the time fresh strawberries convince us no more delicious fruit was ever grown, along come summer's first home-grown canteloupes.

Some folk are born pessimists; others acquire the attitude the hard way. To be a success, most doctors need a lot of patients. The law student who spends too much time at the local bar will find his education lacking, to a degree. Attitude their responsibilities are great. There are many thousands of jobs which must be done.

All of us would find more satisfaction if we assumed a positive attitude toward our occupation. Don't look at what you have to do today as drudgery or mere duty, but think of it as an opportunity of service and advancement. Breathe a prayer of thanksgiving for the ability to work. Think of the lives you are influencing and the good you can do. All of our work should be creative and Christian.

It can be if we have the right attitude toward it. "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do," says Solomon, "do it with thy might." (Ecc. 9:10.) Lt. Gen. Lew Walt Pacification can work fication program 62 asked to have their tour of duty extended.

Seventy-five CAT platoons are in the villages, with 114 more programmed. He describes with the same enthusiasm the Kit Carson Teams consisting of two U.S. Marines and two Vietnamese Marines that go into the toughest areas to root out Give them' something to fight for, Walt says this over and over in his enthusiasm. He directed the reactivation of a coal mine, and a power plant is to be built that will use the coal from the mine. It will supply power for lighting to a considerable part of the coastal strip in the north where the peasants have never had electricity.

It is costly in lives, Walt doesn't deny this. But he claims a kill ratio over the Viet Cong of 21 to 1. More important, he says the rate of VC defection has been going steadily up, with defectors helped to find useful and constructive work in marked contrast to reports of the lack of any consideration for those in other areas in Vietnam who have been persuaded to aban- Religion in Life The Right By CARROLL B. ELLIS Brookmeade Church of Christ Norman Vincent Peale tells of visiting a circus. One of the employes came to his box, but could not stay during the entire performance because of his obligation.

Dr. Peale asked, "How long have you been with the circus?" The man responded, "Twenty-seven years." "Do you like your job?" The veteran employe answered quickly, "Well, it's better than All of us have to learn early in life the necessity of work. Life does not go on without diligent, concentrated, and often back-breaking toil. Many have to work long hours, and By RALPH McGILL ATLANTA An old friend, who was an intelligent and competent man in the total pioneering of intelligence and dedication and labor that made it possible for Israel to become an independent nation in 1948 when she defeated five Arab armies, writes from Jerusalem: "We, of course, still to find our way in the new world after the '6 Days in We have to find our way without much guidance from outside. The only decision the U.N.

produced was the one on the internationalization of Jerusalem: 99 votes for what? Who should run that city? The same set of people that was withdrawn from Sharem es Scheich, or the ones who were over-run in 'their Government House by the Jordanians and rescued by our boys? "And how would they run that city? How would they defend it, how would they feed it? Where else in the world is there an International City? Was Trieste such a success? And safeguarding the Holy', Sites? Already, now we are doing better than the Jordanians during the last 19Va years. Or would it be better if some conventional atheists like Russia and good Buddhists and some believers in tribal gods from Africa would stand guard over the Church of the Holy Sepulcher? "I wish the representatives of the 99 nations would come and join me when I drink coffee peacefully in that part of the city from where shells were lobbed into my street, six weeks ago, or join Arabs from the tx-other side' visiting neighbors of 20 years ago. Senseless Decision "What really did they think, these 99, when they wrote one more senseless decision in wh tat ao ubpt 11' wmt a tmp mah i WAffbu-V his MA an' VI Meo-ANiceox bouho por tub 'jJrfxl PaWfcWOWN I'M rUl fWWb CWWrCV MfOHtDA I Zr A CAMNtBAL ZrA i.