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'm ST. LOUIS POST DISPATCH i. ftuniei by JOSEPH PULITZER Dtcenbtr 12. 17 i Publiihei hy TJi Puliiwr PubluJiiVif Co. 1111 Olit St.

MAin Mill the way they are, not the way we would lika thera to be. Preparing for the rule of world law in the future is important. But so is it important to make possible the survival of mankind until the rule of world law can be set up. Zealots for the one ought never to forget the respon; sibility they share for the other. Digging a Grave The disclosure that County Recorder Koob has permitted his Democratic patronage employes to indulge in a genteel shakedown of business men selling ads for a "business directory" is another black mark against the party in power in the county.

Democrats won control of the Courthouse some 16 months ago after having been on the outside since the Roosevelt landslides of the 1930s. The record they have been making since assuming power is the kind that will earn them a quick return to minority status. The orficial and public leadership under THE POST-DISPATCH PLATFORM 1 KNOW THAT MY RETIREMENT WILL MAKE NO DIFFERENCE IN ITS CARDINAL fRINCIFtES. THAT IT WILL ALWAYS riCHT FOR PROGRESS AND REFORM. KEVER TOLERATE INJUSTICE OR CORRUPTION.

ALWAYS FICHT DEMAGOGUES OF ALL PARTIES. NEVER IELONO TO ANY PARTY. ALWAYS OPPOSE PRIVILEGED CLASSES AND PUBLIC PLUNDERERS. NEVER LACK" SYMPATHY WITH THE 'POOR, ALWAYS REMAIN DEVOTED TO THE PUBLIC WELFARE. NEVER IE SATIS- FIED WITH MERELY HUNTING NEWS.

ALWAYS IE DRASTICALLY INDEPEND- INT. NEVER IE AFRAID TO ATTACK WRONG. WHETHER BY PREDATORY PLUTOCRACY OR PREDATORY POVERTY. JOSEPH PUUTZZR AH 19. 1907 Saturday, April 30, I960 Warning in Turkey The government of Premier Adnan Men-deres would be well-advised to view the Turkish students' uprising as a warning.

For several years Menderes and his ruling Democratic party have been engaged in a progressive effort to suppress criticism of the regime. That is a historic sign of weakness, not strength. When political opposition is not allowed to air its grievances it often smolders quietly for a time and suddenly finds the only outlet available, violence. It was surprising that the Turkish outbreak should have originated among university students. This should be of special significance to Menderes, a strong advocate of higher education.

For quite some time conditions in Turkey poverty, high prices and shortages of consumer goods have been responsible for widespread discontent. But university students (there are only 34,000 in a population of 25,000,000) hitherto have paid little attention to the political aspects of these conditions. Menderes must have had it brought home to him that education and suppression of the freedoms that education nurtures are incompatible. The student demonstrations apparently were touched off by a bill passed Wednesday that broadened the powers of a parliamentary committee which has been investigating the opposition Republican Peoples party. This party is headed by former President Ismet Inonu, a national hero.

The committee is composed only of Menderes supporters and the fact that it had no intention of conducting an objective inquiry is evident in its stated objective to investigate "the destructive and illegal activities" of the opposition. Furthermore, it was given a number of powers usually reserved to the courts; it can try and imprison up to three years, for example. Turkish editors particularly have felt the force of the Premier's wrath. Several have been fined and jailed for up to three years for doing what western newspapers generally consider their duty. Ahmat Emin Yalman, editor of Vatan and considered the dean of Turkish journalists, was sentenced to 15 months in prison for reprinting an article from the Indianapolis (Ind.) Star, charging that Menderes had been using United States aid funds to bolster his personal popularity.

Turkey has received more than two billion dollars in United States aid. Since Menderes has been harassing the Inonu party it is only natural that his regime should seek to center the blame for the rioting on the opposition. But regardless of where the blame is placed, the warning is plain. Menderes must either ease his repressive policies, or strengthen them drastically. If he tries the latter, his government will eventually topple like that of Syngman Rhee in Korea.

A. Letters from the People Priority and Parks -Your timely editorial, "Around the Park. Not Through It," wisely directs St. Louis county's attention to the overriding public interest in preserving available park space which is being over-built with subdivisions. A few weeks ago the University City Council was called upon to decide whether an 18-acre tract of land should be preserved for park purposes or subdivision development.

It is to the credit of the Council that the public interest prevailed. An ordinance was passed condemning this 18-acre tract for park puposes. Land once approved for subdivision development is forever lost to park use. Equally important, intensive residential development in predominantly bedroom cities compounds School Board problems with resulting tax consequences. An appreciation of human needs In urban areas demands that an adequate amount of land be allocated for park purposes.

Nathan B. Kaufman Mayor University City "YOU GO ON BACK, NOW." Illinois Schools Face the Alcohol Problem Alcoholism Is an Enemy of Goal of Education; Students Will Be Taught the Facts 1 Your editorial, "Around the Park, Not Through It," does not indicate that you are aware of all the facts In the case. It would be more fitting to pre- lent the question, "Baseball Dia- monds or Homes?" Is it not better to relocate two baseball diamonds that have just recently been established within the 60 acres still re-- maining in the park than to elimi-. nate a large group of homes that were built some years ago and mean so much to their owners? Children are not being hurt In any way by having their baseball diamonds and restroom relocated In the same park. Leo R.

Enger Sappington Supervisor McNary has been conspicuously no leadership at all. He has provided no evidence that he knows where the county should be going or even that he cares. Taxpayers will be paying much in the future for his failure to lead toward the modern and rational governmental structure the county must have and toward the economic growth necessary to support it. The party leadership under Collector Dev-ereaux, the central committee chairman, has aimed at spoils and spoils alone. The legislative leadership in the Council, the first 12 months under Tom Dunne and the last four under Maury Abramson, has permitted that body to spend its time doing favors for real estate promoters.

Important but controversial matters have been swept under the rug. Mr. Abramson has made a good sideline of selling insurance to the real estate fraternity, including especially those who needed his help on rezoning matters. At least two of the elected Democratic administrative office holders have been disappointments: Collector Devereaux proved incapable of handling his principal function, and now Recorder Koob is permitting his workers to run a cheap racket after previously having put a lug on their salaries. Mr.

Devereaux blamed Mr. McNary, Assessor Kennedy and County Clerk Walsh for helping to cause the mess in his office, and no doubt there is some truth in what he says. Mr. Walsh at the time was busy doubling his income by pocketing fees on hunting and fishing permits despite a county ordinance that said the money belonged in the public treasury. If there is any validity to the theory of party responsibility, then the Democratic party in the county surely can anticipate that more than a few voters will hold it accountable for the blunders, the calculated omissions, the stupidity, the timidity and the spoils-manship exhibited by some of those who hold aloft its banners.

McNary, Devereaux and Abramson are digging the party's grave. What Has ISSC Been Doing? Dr. James A. Perkins, vice president of the Carnegie Corporation and a jnember of the Gaither committee which investigated national defense in 1957, told the Senate Subcommittee on National Policy Machinery when it reopened its hearings this week that the machinery of the Defense Department is largely obsolete and that of the State Department is inadequate to cope with the needs of modern scientific warfare. Although most of his testimony was behind closed doors, Dr.

Perkins gave enough public testimony to make clear his thesis: Nuclear and electronic weapons and derived modern strategy have made the globe "one large integrated battlefield" which no longer can be divided into problems of land, sea and air. This is in line with the school of thought that Army, Navy and Air Force need to be integrated. There is merit in Mr. Perkins's recommendation for creation of the post of assistant secretary for international security affairs to keep the State Department abreast of military matters. But it is difficult to understand why such liaison was not well established several years ago.

If nowhere else, it should have been carried out through the National Security Council, the highest policy advisory group in the Government, which includes the President and the Secretary of State and of Defense. Just what has the NSC been doing? This is another indication that Senator Jackson, who heads the investigating group, knew whereof he spoke when he said nearly a year ago that he would prove "the NSC is a dangerously misleading facade." Disarming the Hard Way The United World Federalists, who entertained Norman Cousins at a fund-raising dinner this week, are a useful group. There is something of the old time evangelism about them and their doctrine. The idea of setting up a world government, or converting the United Nations into one, is so attractive, so simple, so logical, so overwhelmingly sensible, that it arouses fervid emotions. Since their ideal is a worthy one, we wish the Federalists every success in spreading the good word about it.

At the same time, believers in world federalism would do well to keep their feet on the ground. No matter how desirable their solution may be, they need to face squarely the fact that it is not going to be achieved very soon. When the Soviets show not the faintest interest in political federation with non-Communist states, and when the American Congress will not even repeal the Connally reservation to the World Court statute, it is obvious that time will have to pass before the rule of world law can take over from national sovereignty. The dangerous problems of the arms race, however, are here now. If they are not solved now, or at least mitigated now, the rule of world law may never get a chance to solve them.

This is why we think World Federalists, like Atlantic Unionists and advocates of other long-range reforms, ought never to lose sight of the immediate tasks which must be tackled within the framework of an existing world structure. The logical and perhaps most effective way to disarm may be by sweeping away that existing structure but the hard fact is that, here and now, we must try to disarm the hard way, by means of old-fashioned diplomacy, looking toward an agreement among sovereign national states. Federalists who say that disarmament will never come about except by setting up a world A Feeder Line That Is Needed The city and the Chamber of Commerce have filed a joint brief, with the Civil Aeronautics Board which strongly reinforces Trans-Texas Airway's request to fly into St. Louis. The economic growth of the St.

Louis area has made apparent for a long time that single-plane, single-carrier service is needed on a St. Louis-Cape Girardeau-Jonesboro-Lit-tie Rock route. It is sometimes forgotten that the feeder service air pattern can be as important to some large metropolitan areas as is transcontinental carrier service. The CAB, which has been studying the Kansas-Oklahoma-Arkansas local service pattern for two years, is slow in taking action. A decision to allow Trans-Texas Airway to enter St.

Louis would do much to improve the city's competitive market position. this problem of alcoholism in society. Otherwise, we are cheating the students. We must meet it head-on, because halfhearted measures will not be enough. If we shirk the job, wt are cheating society.

Through its Commission on Alcoholism, Illinois is endeavoring to assist and advance the programs of research, education, and treatment undertaken by local units of government and many private agencies. The Chicago Alcoholic Treatment Center, established by Mayor Richard J. Daley as the first such municipally supported institution in the country, is advancing its program of research and treatment within the limits of its modest budget. The enormous efforts of Alcoholici Anonymous are beyond any praise, but these efforts are not enough. There must be a far greater effort if we are to control alcoholism.

The public and private agencies are not equipped with staffs, funds, or techniques adequate to carry out the vast program of general education that is essential. Moreover, most of their immediate efforts are concentrated on the treatment of alcoholism after it has taken hold on the person, not its prevention. If the boys and girls of America are to be educated in the facts of alcohol's effects on the human mind, the human body, the family, and society then the schools will have to take on that job. No other agency of government is equipped or trained to carry out such an educational program. Under Illinois law, we have authority to carry it out.

We propose to use that authority. We are nofdeclaring war" on taverns and night clubs, but we intend to teach the facts. Every boy and girl must understand exactly what is involved in accepting alcohol as a beverage. If the facts are taught, fairly and adequately, for a period of years, then we confidently hope to see. a decrease, and ultimately a reversal, of the present and continuing increase in alcoholism.

Youngsters must be taught how to deal with this problem when they meet it. They must understand the potentially disastrous effects of alcohol upon its user. George T. Wilkins, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, in Listen If 350,000 of the citizens of Illinois or of any other state were to be stricken with any one of a hundred different diseases, the state and federal governments would instantly declare an emergency, directing all their medical resources toward stamping out the plague. But, for the most part, we have Ignored alcoholism, which spreads like a cancerous growth through our society.

Many medical experts today The Mirror look upon alcohol. ism as a disease; 0f and, they point out, whether acute or Public Opinion chronic, it assumes a pattern which gives it clinical identity. And there are more than 350,000 alcoholics in the State of Illinois 175,000 of them in Chicago alone. This represents about 4 or 5 per cent of the total population. There are at least 4,500,000 alcohol- ics in the United States.

This is more than the population of many of the states. It is literally an army of alcoholics. Considerable progress has been made in treating mental and physical illness, but alcoholism, which destroys not only the body but also the mind, the family, the morals, and the spiritual values, Is increasing with fearful Between 1940 and 1953,. sta- tistics from the Illinois Commission on Alcoholism show; the rate of alcoholism in Illinois per 100,000 adults increased by 38 per cent; in the United States as a whole by 44 per cent. Studies show that 27 per cent of those admitted to Illinois mental hospitals in 1955 were alcoholics, and that the alcoholic patients cost the state more than $2,000,000 per year.

It has been estimated that as high as 33 per cent of all public-welfare relief cases, which are a burden on the state, are due, in varying degrees, to alcoholism in the families. The greater tragedy, however, lies in the fact that for every alcoholic, or every drug addict, there are on the If the best solution for the Circumferential Expressway Is around Grand View Park, the equivalent solution for the Express Highway in the Forest Park area is "over the park." That is, a system of one-way double -deck highways through the park. I assume that a double-deck highway (although we already have the ground deck) would be somewhat more costly than widening, but the land to be saved has considerable intangible as well as real value. Before any of the park area is used every possible alternate should be carefully considered. Lester J.

Crow Whose First Line? I cannot resist answering Casey Jones's letter in which he says the first line of transportation will always be the railroads. We live in Florissant, the eighth largest city in the state, with over 40,000 people. We are not served by a single solitary railroad in any way. We haye not an inch of track, no railroad will either pick up or deliver any freight anywhere in our city. When the Railway Express accepts a shipment for Florissant it gets to Seventeenth and Clark in St.

Louis and there it stays. At the same time Florissant is served by about 200 modern truck lines, which will deliver freight to any city in the nation. They will not Only pick up and deliver in Florissant but do it very promptly. average 'hree or four other persons husband or wife or children who are suffering agonizing emotional upsets, deprivation, malnutrition, and lack of proper shelter because the family earnings are poured into alcohol or drugs. In Chicago more thai) 70 per cent of all police calls involving robbery, vio- lence, homicide, and public disturb- ances are directly or indirectly 'traceable, to use of liquor or narcotics.

Be- -sides this, there are the broken homes, the suicides, and the ghastly effects on children. In thirty-five years as a schoolteacher and school administrator, I have had many hundreds of students who displayed chronic tensions, emotional insecurities, inability to concentrate on studies, inability to organize their activities, unwillingness to cooperate with fellow students. They were as the term has it disoriented, becoming victims of a force outside the school and outside themselves. The primary objective of our school system is to produce a good society, a society balanced in its accomplishments and needs, educated and for- ward looking, emotionally stable, moral, endowed with deep spiritual values, capable in all ways of meeting the tests and the problems of the If our schools are the 'nope of the future, and I believe they are, then we who administer them must meet Ten Candles for KSLH Radio Station KSLH, the St. Louis School Board's own FM facility, celebrated its tenth birthday the other day, and what a purposeful 10 years they have been.

No fewer than 2878 fifteen-minute programs have been produced and beamed to the city's classrooms. Many have been picked up and broadcast by similar stations in other cities to thousands of other children. Young minds have been enriched. A zest for knowledge has been stimulated. And the essences of languages and the disciplines of science, music, mathematics and social studies have been made immediate and vivid.

It has been a productive 10 The station's programs are beamed on 91.5 megacycles, and anybody with an FM receiver can tune in on them. Parents may "listen in" on what is going on in the classrooms, or they may prefer to enjoy the first-class symphonic, choral and chamber music, among other programs beamed specifically for college and adult listeners. KSLH is an asset to the public school system as well as to the whole metropolitan St. Louis community. Congratulations on its fine performance, and especially to the teachers and staff members who made it possible.

St. Loilis Victory From The Commercial Appeal, Memphis Of all the remarkable things about St. Louis none is so rare as the fact that it is the city where the pigeons were defeated. As long as we can remember we have been following the uneven battle against pigeons by custodians of the big buildings of various cities, officials trying to defend statuary intended to memorialize distinguished citizens, little old widows with two-" story nesting places, and people of assorted ages sauntering through downtown parks. At intervals there has been hope.

New Orleans had a new method sure to work. Cincinnati had the answer. A Chicagoan had found the way to do it. But every time up now the pigeons won. It has been a year since St.

LouiJ announced the end of the pigeon menace. It is still true. The pigeon removers were hired on a contract that called for pay only after satisfactory results. The full amount has been paid and marked down as a bargain. The St.

Louis leadership should have a following-espectally Memphis. Between Book Ends raeo Absurdities Many of their trucks have radios on them and if you call to report that you have some freight they may get there as quickly as 15 minutes. No, I say that the rtflroads are dead on their feet, managed by fuddy-duddies who spend their every extra penny running ads saying they are being discriminated against. Probably most of them think Florissant Is still a sleepy little village of 500 people. Truck Enthusiast Stadium in the Valley I see that the St.

Louis Cardinal football team hopes to play in the new stadium in 1964. Two years ago the San Francisco Giants were playing in Seal Stadium, a minor league ball park; two years later, in 1960, the Giants are opening up in their new Candlestick Stadium with seating capacity of 42,000. We still haven't got the ground for the stadium, and there is still a lot of preliminary work to be done. Meantime the ground at the Mill Creek Valley, Jefferson to Grand and Market to Olive, is clear; the buildings have been torn down and the St. Louis stadium can Be started now and completed In 1862.

Charles A. Louis 4A Paying Twice for Seicers The Sewer District's trustees ought to think twice before levying the proposed new 4-cent property tax this year unless they also make, some adjustment in the existing sewer service charge that is supposed to finance District operations. Levying the new property tax' on top of the existing service charge would have the effect of requiring most people to pay twice. If the District's trustees' insist on levying the new property tax this year, then they should put the new and reduced schedule of service charges into effect on July 1, which is the first day of the District's fiscal year, rather than next January as is the plan at present. The alternative is to hold up both the property levy and the new service charges until next year, with the new service charges going into effect in January 1961.

The District in the meantime would continue to exist on the proceeds of the old sewer service charge; or, if it had to be raised for a year, then that step should be considered. In any event the District should seek to avoid any situation in which householders and other customers would be paying twice for sewers. A MULTITUDE OF MEN, by William Dale Smith. (Simon Schuster, 435 $4.95.) As his first novel Mr. Smith has undertaken an ambitious and complicated study of labor-management relations in a steel mill.

His descriptions of the operations of an open-hearth furnace are absorbing and authoritatively done, but they are the book's only contact with reality. He exposes a complete unfamiliarity with either labor unionism or management, and, worse still, he thinks he knows a great many things, about them which could not be further from the actualities. Beginning with a company union to which the men are passionately de- voted although they know it is a phoney and does nothing for them, he piles absurdity on absurdity. His people are for the most part infantile dream characters; they talk, think and act sometimes in one way and sometimes in another; their motivations are unlifelike and Implausible. Most disturbing of all, the novel continuously shows a fascinated preoccupation with meaningless violence and raw personal power for Its own sake.

For a reasonably comparable image of the puerile superman it would be necessary to go to some such dogmatic fantasies as the novels of Ayn Rand. But at least Miss Rand has craft, and "A Multitude of Men" is both overweemngly and carelessly written. Rufus Terral FAREWELL, CATULUS, hy Fierio pixon. (London Home Maxwell, Publishing Division of the Bri-tih Book Centre, New York, 282 2.75.) The author is Sir Pierson Dixon, head of the British delegation to the United Nations and soon to be British Ambassador to Paris. The setting is Caesar's Rome.

Sir Pierson is familiar with his material, as a former Cambridge don in classics. He has remained faithful to history while telling a diverting story. It is" coincidence that Arthur Lall, until last year head of the Indian delegation to the United Nations, wrpta two novels while serving in New York. federal government are preaching the gospel of despair. They are saying in effect that disarmament is impossible in this generation.

Yet it is this generation that the arms race directly imperils. It is this generation that has got to make the beginning toward world sanity and make it with world institutions.