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SEPTEMBER 24, 1965 ST. LOUIS POST- DISPATCH 3C. Joseph Kraft Russia vs. China in Indian War WASHINGTON VICTORY A LA HITLER AND NAPOLEON, victory that means seized capitals and subdued countries, was never in the cards in the Indian subcontinent. Given the terrain, the size of the forces, and the state of the local arts, the worst likely military trouble was intensified fighting ending in the kind of non-end that has characterized almost all frontier struggles in the era.

There is serious diplomatic danpost war ger that could materialize within a month. It would be possible tor Russia to emerge from the present troubles as the dominant diplomatic power in India. China could emerge as the dominant diplomatic power in Pakistan. It is against that awful outcome that Ameriman diplomacy must be mobilized. So far it can be said that this country met the test with remarkable sophistication.

It showed a clear appreciation of what has been going Rusk on. It scrupulously avoided panicky reactions and unilateral moves that could only make matters worse. It even avoided that fatal combination that has been the hallmark of American diplomacy through the decades--the combination of force and unctuous rectitude. On one side, the Indian side, of the quarrel, this country has for once resisted the temptation to indulge in an orgy of China-baiting. Unlike the Pakistanis, Indians and Russians, who have all been saying the kind of things that make the Chinese look 10 feet tall, the United States has been patient and moderate.

THE STRONGEST OFFICIAL STATEMENT about Chinese Intervention made by the U.S. during the crisis was a remark made last week by the Secretary of State after giving testimony to the Congress. Because it produced banner headlines of en American warning to Peking, the statement is worth reproducing in full. Mr. Rusk was asked about charges that Communist China has been "egging on" the fight on the subcontinent.

In a reply of studied mildness, he said: "I think there are those who feel that China is trying to fish in troubled waters here. Our own advice to Peking would be not to do that and fo stay out of it and give the Security Council of the United Nations a chance to settle this matter." On the other side of the quarrel, the Pakistani side, this country has resisted the itch to make moral judgment about the Kashmir issue. Instead of trying, as the Pakistanis put it, to solve the problem rather than the symptoms, Washington has kept the righteousness under firm control. The closest this country has come to a pronouncement on Kashmir was again the comment, made by the Secretary of State after testimony on the bill last week. HIS WORDS WERE REMARKABLE for measured care.

And once again, because they were widely misinterpreted, they are worth citing. Rusk was asked about a plebiscite that would achieve self determination on Kashmir. He said: "'We have expressed our views on that subject over the years. That is of a general problem of solution of outstanding issues between India and Pakistan. We believe that these matters should be taken up and resolved by peaceful means.

We do not believe they should be resolved by force." With this country keeping its tone measured, the Russians and Chinese, far from scoring great gains as the beaky hawks assert, over-reached themselves. The Chinese, fearful that a settlement of sorts might be in the works, issued their ultimatum in the evident hope of preventing Pakistan from coming to terms. Lacking the capacity for truly serious action on the ground, they have been obliged to extend the ultimatum. It now not easy to see how they will emerge without a simultaneous loss of prestige, and a new confirmation of their role as chief international troublemaker. FOR THEIR PART, THE RUSSIANS, after issuing the kind- of warnings bound to incite Peking, have pulled the grandstand play of calling for a meeting of Indian and Pakistani, representatives in Moscow.

If it comes off at all, which is extremely doubtful, it is hard to see how a Moscow meetking can yield concrete results. Far from making the most of opportunity, the Russians seem merely to be underlining their own limitations. They may end up with egg all over their face. The lesson here is not simply Milton's homily that "They also serve who only stand and wait." That, after all, was a sonnet to blindness. The true lesson, the lesson for those who would see the dark, is that in this country's contacts with the Chinese Communists, the bellicose reaction is almost always the wrong reaction.

The right policy is to turn to account against the Chinese the miasmic political swamps that fringe the Asian heartland. And nowhere is that more true than in that other Asian trouble spot that we all know in our bones is dimly related to the crisis in the subcontinent-Viet Nam. Doris Fleeson Dirksen Exploiting Repeal of 14(6) WASHINGTON WHILE MRS. LYNDON JOHNSON WAS PRAISING Peoria, as one of the most beautiful cities in America this week, Peoria's favorite son, Senator Everett Dirksen, was preparing a basket of eels for her husband on Capitol Hill. They are unusually choice specimens, even for the Peoria expert at fishing in troubled waters for something to help his Republican minority.

He has found a controversial issue in repeal of Section 14 (b) of the Taft-Hartley Act permitting states to enact right-to-work laws. Under pressure from his labor allies, President Johnson hauled repeal through the House by main strength and awkwardness. Asked if the President had not been unusually persuasive in this matter, a Texas Congressman replied feelingly: "Persuasive? Hell, he made me do it." Dirksen Some awkwardness remains. Sup- port was wrung in many instances from Democrats who can expect strong conservative Republican opposition next year. The President has put them out on a limb, which Dirksen now proposes to saw off by threatening a filibuster against a Senate vote on the issue this year.

THE PRESIDENT IS OBLIGED TO SAVE his House flock if he can from having the issue debated next year on the eve of their campaigns for But the Senate is hungry for adjournment and Mike Mansfield reelection has already promised there will be none of the night sessions required to subdue a filibuster. The general opinion is that Johnson has the votes for repeal but that Dirksen has enough to bar cloture so a vote can be had. challenging to the President is that Texas has a Republican Senator, John Tower, and a major Johnson goal is to unseat him in 1966. Dirksen has picked an issue on which Tower appeals to Texas conservatives in both parties while the President persuaded a possible rival to Tower, Representative Jim Wright, to vote for repeal of 14 (b). WRIGHT WILL HAVE A DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY as well in State Attorney General Waggoner Carr, who is more conservative than Wright and less close to the President.

Texas Democratic conservatives have already won their heart's desire, which is to run Gov. John Connally for te-election. Connally and Carr announced their candidacies last weekend. Wright will profit in his home district from a major project he managed to put into the annual rivers and harbors billy better known as pork barrel. He has supported the President throughout the session and signed the discharge petition on District of Columbia home rule, a civil rights move not generally admired in the South.

is seldom that the two top political professionals, Johnson and Dirksen, collide in earnest. The present threat may materialize and nobody would be surprised thereby. But not, this moment it looks as if repeal of 14 (b) might be a cliffhanger, with the outcome long in doubt. SYMPHONY PAY TALKS CONTINUE Negotiations mediated by members of the Greater St. Louis Arts and Education Council continued today in an effort to avoid cancellation of the 1965-66 6 season of the St.

Louis Symphony Orchestra. Representatives of the Symphony Society and Local 2 of the Musicians Union met at the Mayfair Hotel with the 1 threeman mediation committee. The mediation group is composed of W. MacLean Johnson, council president and board chairman; Merrimon Cuninggim, executive director of the Danforth Foundation, and Homer E. Sayad, president of the Opera Theater of St.

Louis. Johnson said the mediation was suggested by Kenneth Farmer, president of Local 2. Farmer and Elton L. French, representing the Symphony Society, met for two hours yesterday with the mediators. A Save Our Symphony Orchestra Committee was formed last night at a meeting of about 150 persons at the home of Mr.

Mrs. Edward Block, 6250 Westminster place. The committee will seek means of obtaining greater financial support for the orchestra. A steering committee was appointed to study financing and management of orchestras in other cities. DAVID LOWE DIES; PRODUCER OF DOCUMENTARIES FOR TV NEW YORK, Sept.

24 (UPI)David Lowe, award winning producer of television documentaries, died early today of a heart attack. He was 51 years old. The Columbia Broadcasting System, which announced the death, said he was stricken when at the Friars Club. He produced CBS Reports. His most recent offering was Tuesday "KKK-The Invisible Empire," which critics acclaimed.

Mr. Lowe received high praise in Congress for documentary on the ease with which firearms could be bought in the United States. His is Harriet Van Horne, television and columnist for the New Worldcritic, Telegram The Sun and other Scripps Howard papers. Also surviving are a son, David and a daughter, Ellen, by a previous marriage. CARDINAL RITTER INDORSES UNITED FUND CAMPAIGN Cardinal Joseph E.

Ritter has indorsed the 1965 United Fund campaign and has urged Catholics to support the drive and pray for its success, it was announced today. He pointed out that 29 Catholic agencies would receive more than $1,500,000 from the campaign. All citizens and all creeds must assume responsibility for meeting the needs of the 117 agencies dependent on the fund for support, he said. He termed the campaign's $10,000,000 goal the bare minimum required by the fund for the coming year. Cardinal Ritter is in Rome attending the Ecumenical Council session.

WATCH YOUR MAIL BOX AT ALL TIMES Kroger) Copyright 1965 The Kroger Co. By a Post-Dispatch Photographer The New and the Temporary on Campus Students walking on temporary building on the new Edwardsville and forms for concrete streets GREEK CATHOLIC CHURCH ENTHRONES NEW PRIMATE The NEW Russian YORK, Sept. Orthodox 24 (AP)-, Catholic Church, which has 1,000,000 followers in the Americas and Japan, enthroned its new primate, the Metropolitan Ireney, at a ceremony yesterday in the Holy Virgin Protection Cathedral. The 73-year-old Metropolitan, who succeeds the late Metropolitan Leonty, was elected at a special session Monday of clergy and laity. The new primate, born in Russia, was graduated from the theological seminary of Kholm there, then served in parishes in Poland until World War II, and later emigrated to Western Europe where he was made rector of the church in Charleroi, Belgium.

In 1952 he came to the Holy Trinity Church in McAdoo, and the next year he was elected bishop of Tokyo and Japan. FISCHER WINS CHESS MATCH NEW YORK, Sept. 24 (UPI) -United States chess champion Bobby Fischer, playing by telegraph, defeated Cuba's Francisco Perez last night in the twentieth round of the Capablanca chess tournament at Havana. Fischer is in third place. Borislav Ivkov of is leading, foilowed Yugoslayias Smyslov of the Soviet Union.

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F. Hornback, Leader "Gains and Losses in 'The Great Society'" Oct. 3-John H. Moore, Leader-in-Training "Marx, Christ, and Salvation" Oct. 10-Roger Baldwin, Civil Liberties Union "The U.S., the U.N., and Peace" ETHICAL SOCIETY OF ST.

LOUIS 9001 CLAYTON ST. LOUIS, MO. 63117 WY 1-0955 Catholic Concept of Heaven Called Outdated in Space Age VATICAN CITY, Sept. 24 (UPI)- Ecumenical Council prelate suggested today that the old church view of heaven and hell "is out of date in an interplanetary age." Belgian Bishop Andre Charue of Namur made the observation in debate on the document "On the Church in the Modern World." The council indorsed the document as a basis for discussion by a vote of 2111 to 44. Bishop Charue's criticism tied in with suggestions by some bishops that the church's discussion of the modern world should consider the space age and even the possibility of intelligent creatures on other planets.

Rusk Paradise In the Sky Bishop Charue's point was that in an age of space exploration the traditional physical view of paradise in the sky is no longer subtle enough for man's religious beliefs. contrast, Italian Bishop Giuseppe Marafina said the church should remind men that the devil was about in the modern world. "The document ignores the presence of evil," he said in urging a more fundamentalist view. "We should remind men of the devil in the modern world." Twelve speakers agreed that the document oversimplified solutions of modern problems. The vote, taken yesterday but announced today, showed, however, that the prelates were eager to take up the problem.

Childish Optimism Bishop Hermann Volk of Germany criticized the document as full of childish optimism. He H. N. URBERGER FUNERAL; SAWDUST FIRM OPERATOR Funeral services for Henry N. Urberger, operator of sawdust firm founded by his father in 1880, will be at 2 p.m.

Tuesday at the Kriegshauser undertaking establishment, 4228 South Kingshighway. Burial will be in Sunset Burial Park. Mr. Urberger, 74 years old, died yesterday at St. Luke's Hospital after an illness of three months.

The sawdust firm will go out of existence with his death. He operated it since 1937 when his brother, Charles, died. Surviving are his wife, Laura; and two daughters, Miss Dorothy Urberger Louis and Miss Melba Urberger of Los Angeles. Mr. Urberger lived at 4416 Delor street.

Mrs. Mary Stanton Etter, widow of Dale Etter, former church editor of the Post-Dispatch, died yesterday at Bloomington, Ill. Mrs. Etter, 55 years old, was born in Vicksburg, Miss. She suffered a stroke three years ago, and had been in failing health.

After the death of her. husband last October, she made her home with her R. Etter, director of information at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington. Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. tomorrow at Oak Hill Presbyterian Church, 4111 Connectistreet.

Burial will be at Palmyra, Ill. Surviving, in addition to her son, are two brothers, William A. and Edwin C. Stanton. The body is at the Hoffmeister undertaking establishment, 6464 Chippewa street.

ALBERT STEWART DIES modernistic John Mason Peck Illinois University. Bare earth East Side educational facility. MRS, DALE ETTER DIES; FUNERAL TO BE TOMORROW CLAREMONT, Sept. 24 (AP)-Sculptor Albert Stewart died yesterday in a Pomona hospital after a month's illness. He was 65 years old.

Mr. Stewart was known for his sculpture of animal figures and architectural sculpture. His work appears on the municipal auditorium at Kansas City. 1 0 asked also for clear reasons for rejecting atheism, a theme worrying many of the prelates. "We talk about rejecting atheism, but we give no positive reasons.

whys message we feel to the that world way must be clearer if it is to. beaccepted," he said. Coadjutor Bishop Leon Elchinger of Strasbourg, France, said that it was "not enough- -to speak in generalities about atheism. We say a lot about what the world should do, but not enough about what the church intends to do." concept of "world" is unclear Many prelates believe that the" in the text. Bishop Charue, for instance, said the New Testa: ment idea of the world in, the; sense of "mankind fallen into sin and marching in the shadows" was not mentioned clearly.

Problem of Space Beings His reference to the interplanetary age brought up the problem of space and space beings, which some bishops believe should be seriously considered. The document touches on many problems disturbing the modern world, from nuclear weaponry to the population" explosion. It leaves out the possibility of living beings in space, "There have been some sug gestions that something be said about this by the Fa: ther Francis J. Connell said yes? terday. He is a council expert and the former dean of "the' School of Sacred Theology at the Catholic University of America.

"I think there should be, some recognition of the possibility of intelligent beings on other plane ets because you cannot limit the creative power of God," he sald. roads in front of the campus of Southern indicate newness of the RAGWEED POLLEN IN AIR REDUCED BY HEAVY RAINS The heavy rains in the St. Louis area this week were a blessing to persons suffering from ragweed allergy. "The rains cut down the amount of pollen being blown about by the wind," said a St. Louis nose and throat allergist who records a daily pollen count in the ragweed season.

"The actual pollenation period of the ragweed plant ended about Sept. 10 but high winds and a lack of rain can prolong the season further into the fall," he said. "The allergist will discontinue his pollen count tomorrow until next summer. 181 TAKE FONTBONNE COURSE IN COMPARATIVE RELIGION A course in comparative religion at Fontbonne College, a Catholic institution, has attracted 131 students and 50 faculty members, When both the nuns and announced course was last spring, the college authorities expected about 40 students and assigned the class to an appropriate room. Now the class is held in the ballroom of Medaille Hall.

Protestant ministers and Jewish rabbis as well as Catholic laymen deliver the lectures now. A Catholic priest will join in the lectures later. JOHN POWERS ESTATE VALUED AT $1,103,368 The estate of John J. Powers, president and board chairman of McCabe-Powers Body, was valued at $1,103,368, in an inventory filed yesterday Probate Court at Clayton. Stocks valued at $1.015,662 cluded 3407 shares of McCabePowers, and 50 snares of the Realty 000.

The estate is in trust- for the widow, Mrs. Helen Hunter Powers and three daughters, Mrs. Edward A. Engman, Mrs. Philip P.

Smith Jr. and Miss Cynthia Powers. tire Powers, a former chairman or the Missouri Highway Commission died of a heart attack Aug. 10. He was 55 years old and lived at 31.

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