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When requesting change address be sure to give old address as well cs new HOME DELIVERED By Carrier Or Distributor Dafiy and Sunday, per week 50c Daily and Sunday, per half month $1.10 Daily and Sunday, per month $2.15 All carriers, dealers, distributors, ere independent contractors, a.id Beckley Newspapers Corpora- aon Is not responsible for advance subscription pay- The Next Needed Step To Maintain Liberty A bill to bar tax deductions for lobbying expenses was introduced in the Senate this year. A short time ago it died in committee, by the overwhelming vote of 13 to 3. Whatever one may think of any particular lobbying activity, (h committee's action'should be "universally supported. Lobbying is one of the means, and a perfectly legitimate one when conducted on an above-board basis under the strict current laws, by which parties to a controversy can present their cases to the officials whose duty it is to make the ultimate decision. It is, in a very real sense, a form of free speech.

Now the Senate should take a leaf from the committee's book and move to outlaw a policy adopted by the Internal Revenue Service some years ago. Under it, a company or an organization cannot regard advertising and related activities which arc designed to influence legislation as a deductible business expense. This advertising, in other words, can only be placed a heavy tax penalty. That is the case even when the subject of the advertising involves a life or death issue to the enterprise sponsoring and paying for it. The light and power industry is the prime case in point.

As a matter of simple survival, it does and must fight the public, or socialized, power movement. Some of the leaders of that movement hold high official positions and, by virtue of those positions, are widely quoted in the newspapers and other media. Their views are made known, without cost to them, from one end of the country to another. But if an interested party wants to present the other side, in the advertising columns of a publication, the tax penalty is assessed. A bill to remedy this totally unjust situation has long been in Congress.

It should be passed, by voice vote. Top 0' The Morning BECKLEY POST-HERALD, BECKLEY, MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST 20,1962 Local Authorities Can Use Gambler Lists If They Will An excellent illustration of how those listings of federal gambling stamp purchasers can be used by local authorities to wage war against the racketeers can be found in Pittsburgh. Several weeks ago the Pittsburgh Press carried a complete list of city and county holders of federal gambling stamps. Mayor Joseph Barr ordered a city crackdown against the gambling operators on the basis of the published listing. Assistant Police Supt.

Lawrence Maloney directed the drive and sent officers out to make raids on those places holding the gambling stamps. As a result of this swift action a week later all but six of the 47 stamp holders in the city of Pittsburgh had gone to the federal building and either canceled their stamps or changed the addresses on their registration. In pursuing the crackdown the police did run into instances where phony addresses had been given by those racketeers purchasing stamps. Rut for these individuals the Internal Revenue Service had a warning. It is a violation of the federal act governing the issuance of the gamblingVlamps to list an improper address or to change the place of operations i registering the move with authorities." But one thing is certain in Pittsburgh: the gamblers arc on the run as a result of this effort made by the police to drive the professional racketeers out.

We have published the i i of federal stamp holders each year since the law was placed on the "books requiring gamblers to take out such stamps. Along with this we also have provided the complete'list- ing of persons purchasing stamps covering gambling devices and liquor sales. Still the violators were ignored and authorities made little or no use of the published listings. It wasn't as if law- enforcement officers were required to carry on extensive undercover investigative work to find the culprits engaged in these activities, fheir operations were well known by anybody who could read. --Parkersburg Sentinel ains From Space Twins By WILLIAM L.

RYAN Associated Press Analyst Premier Khrushchev may be maneuvering for another big power summit meeting, or at least a meeting with President Kennedy, with the idea of making sure the Berlin situation does not get too far out of hand. Great propaganda power has been generated behind the Soviet leader with the spectacular feat of the Vostok space twins. Khrushchev will want to wring ounce of advantage from it. The space accomplishment, as Defense Minister Rodion Malinovsky tersely pointed out, has important military meaning. Soviet rocketry is powerful.

There are indications the Soviet leadership senses apprehension among some West Germans and is toying with the notion that the Germans some day might be stampeded into negotiations on the German-Berlin questions, if they were persuaded that the alternative might be catastrophe for them and Europe. Communist propaganda has been saying that "at any moment" some incident in Berlin could endanger world peace. Propaganda has become more insistent. Its tone has changed. Not long ago there had been a note of un- surcness about it in the undated threat that Khrushchev would make his move, but of late the cry has been, "No more delay in normalizing Berlin." The Soviet formula for normalization: Nations which fought the Nazis would sign peace treaties with both East and West Germany, formally ending World War II.

Berlin would be a demilitarized, free city, perhaps with United Nations guarantees. The West would withdraw its occupation forces from West Berlin, and control of access would be handed over to the East German Communist regime. Then all would be calm. But would it? Communism is no respecter of agreements, as the world knows from experience. Eventually West Berlin would be at the mercy of the Communists, cut off from West Germany and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

In all likelihood it would be a matter of time--perhaps a short time before the Communists enveloped it. The West rejects that solution and has informed Moscow that U. French and British troops will remain in West Berlin. Khrushchev responds with the threat to sign a separate treaty with East Germany without, as Communist propaganda repeats over and over, regard for the consequences. What would be the consequences? There would be heightened tension, of course.

The situation in Berlin would probably produce another crisis within a crisis. But would Khrushchev's action change anything in reality? Suppose he did sign the treaty, and Western troops remained. The Communist side would make much noise. But rather than risk force, Moscow probably would apply new adjectives. Western troops would be "illegal" and "in violation of sovereign rights" of the East German regime.

But in essence, the crisis then would become an exercise in semantics. Khrushchev is not considered likely to risk war or to let his East German puppet, Walter Ulbricht, get him into an uncomfortable position. But his action would produce extreme nervousness. Khrushchev could figure to get something out of it. The Soviet premier could make the situation a springboard for a propaganda appeal perhaps in person -before the United Nations.

He could make it a lever to try to bring about a new summit. He might even try both, and hope for eventual long-range gains in wearing down the resistance of the West Germans and the NATO Allies. In any case, the result would likely mean more talk. The talk would be a safety valve, implying tacit East-West agreement not to let a fire in Berlin ignite Europe and the world. QUESTION: Will you explain why it necessary for anyone to pray, if, as you say, the Lord knows the end from the beginning knows all things and has ordered all things according to His own AXSWER: There are two main reasons why it is necessary for us io pray, even though, as say.

the Lord does know the end from the beginning. First. Jesus Irlnveh" set the example in prayer by praying. Prayer was His way of entering into a rich and continual with His ITcaveniy Father. If then, the primary object of the Christian life is to enjoy v.rJi God forever, then prayer is that way of entering into fellowship ith It unthinkable that can have fellowship prayer.

The second reason for praying is that we have been told to do so. In all oL the working of God there is an element of mystery that we cannot We do know tbip. that emphasized the importance of prayer and pointed out to His disciples that was by this means that we not onJy ass but receive from God. Luke 11:9 says. "Ask and it shall be given seek, and "ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." Bach one these words-osfc.

"seek, and knock--are aii various aspects cf prayer and Jesus always expressed the importance of doing so. MARCHING THROUGH ALBANY, GEORGIA Yesterday And Five Wars' Soldiers Buried In Wildwood By SHIRLEY DONNELLY On Aug. 11 my old friend Joe Snyder of Lester was buried. In the American Legion plot at Wildwood, Beckley's first cemetery; is Joe's a bivouac. After the rites had ended and the American flag that covered the modest casket was presented to Joe Snyder's brother, stroll was taken stones there.

They are alf alike, just as all the servicemen there sleeping, save one, served the same cause. Many of the servicemen there buried I knew. At the interment of quite a number of them it fell to me to officiate, some times in the uniform of an Army chaplain. Joe Snyder was in his 71st year when he quit life. a mournful among the is buried "Kenneth Shadrick W.

Va. Pvt. 34th Inf. Div. Korea.

August 4, 1931-Jsily 5, 1950. BSM- PH. First U. S. Soldier Killed in Korea." That youth was scarcely 19 when he fell in action halfway 'round the world from his mountain home at Skin Polar Gap not far from Beckley.

The letters "BSM-PH" refer to the dead man's medals, the Bronze Star Medal and the Purple Heart, the latter for wounds received in action against an armed enemy, or the result of enemy action. It is about the only medal any man really earns. One has to look close to see the inscription "First U. S. Soldier Killed in Korea," as it is at the base of the marble slab and even the well mowed grass covers the statement sandblasted into the white marble marker.

ONLY ONE MAN there did not serve the same cause as the rest. He was "Andrew J. Honaker. Co. 45th Virginia Infantry, C.S.A." That was Andrew Jackson Honaker who wore the grey uniform of a Confederate soldier in the Civil War.

On July 2, 1937, it was my melancholy job to conduct his funeral in the First Baptist Church here. Honaker was the last Civil ar veteran in Raleigh County. When he died, he was 94 years of age. All others buried in this fast-filling cemetery followed the Stars and Stripes. The last of the veterans of 1861-65 struggle, on either side, was Walter Willams.

117. of Texas. On Dec. 19, 1959, he simply "ran out of gas" and was gathered to his fathers. IN THIS CEMETERY are soldiers of five of the nation's wars.

A few feet from where Joe Snyder, a baseball player of old time. NEAR SNYDER'S GRAVE is one of a Spanish-American soldier, "William F. Jennings, Co. 2nd Va. Spanish-American War." Another recites: "Nick J.

Doss. Co. G. and 2nd Reg't, Spanish-American War. August 9, 1875-Nov.

20, 1952." Doss was but 77 when he struck his tent for the last time. Soon the rapidly diminishing ranks of the Spanish-American War will be no more. They served in 189--a matter of 64 ye'ars ago. Around 1978 the last one of those veterans will fade away. Oldest SAW veteran known to me is Henry alien gee of Ronceverte.

On March 10, 1963, this gracious old gentleman will round out 97 years of life. WORLD WAR I SOLDIERS buried in this limited plot included: "Kyle Lester. W. Va. Horseshoer.

313th Field Artillery. 80th Division. World War I. April 23. 1890-September 29.

1949." Lester was 59 when he answered the summons from on high, a mighty young age to die anv more. No Drew Pearson-- TitoReadyingNewYugoslavConstitution PAR 1C, YUGOSLAVIA The most important foreign policy gamble taken by the Truman- Eisenhower-Kennedy administrations--and sometimes the most criticized was to extend U. S. aid to the Communist government of Yugoslavia. a fixed on the belief, first, that small Communist countries needed encouragement to be independent of Moscow.

second, that thereJ existed a strong undercurrent of democracy inside Yugoslavia. The Serbian people have long been stalwart battlers for democracy, and in the old days of the Jugoslav monarchy debates in the parliament, or Skupstina, were so free-for-all that in 1923. a Serb congressman whipped out a revolver and killed'Stephen Radic and two ether members of the Croatian Party. Eventually. King A.cxancer closed down the explosive Skupstina.

I ruier Tito, six different skup- stinas operate for the six different republic? which comprise Yugo- Siavia. a national Skupstina sits in Belgrade, ineir debates are more than in the but there is opposition to tie government, as for "instance tne debate in the national Skup- stina against the hishwav from Bar. in southern Montenegro, to TUograd. ils capital. mis was a regional pork barrel project comparable to" iho by U.

S. to gc-t money to "southern rivers of Ixbste tene-ro was thatVhe nto goverr.rr.v-nt drew the highway project' exists a strong personal democracy and spirit of freedom among its people, much more so than in any other of the satellite states I have visited. But with dictator Franco of Spain recently stating that western democracy was completely out-dated and with many Americans critical of the undemocratic method by which chairmen of U. S. congressional committees have bottled up bills to prevent a vote by the entire Congress.

I asked President Tito in my recent interview about the new constitution being drafted for Yugoslavia which I had heard proposed a unique new type parliamentary system, so far 'unpublished. "We have been working for a long time on the preparation of this constitution." Tito explained. "A draft has already been presented to the Federal People's Assembly and in the autumn "will be submitted for general public discussion. After that, it goes to the assembly for amendment and final adoption. "Our constitution will be different from conventional constitutions, and its basic principle is to keep it close to the people.

It wiii represent the common man --the producer, whether he be a worker, a peasant, or a producer working in some institution. This constitution docs not start with a description of the state and its supreme but starts with the citizen-producer." went on to describe two other features of the new constitu- I-- a deputies can serve for only four years, in order to Zf-i the encrusted pc-rojiatives of seniority: 2--That the new parliament would consist of separate houses of experts. TITO'S CONSTITUTION --It is easy to see. from traveling through Yugoslavia, that there EXPERTS VS. SENIORITY I did not tell Tito this, but it occurred to me that the American Congress, which recently carne a few votes of abolishing U.

S. aid to Yugoslavia, wouldn't like either of these at all. Imacine Rep. Clarence Cannon of Mis- 7ITO WENT into the question of elections, a sore point in most Communist states. "Deputies for the federal assembly seme 150 of them." he said, "will be elected'by direct vote.

On the other hand, deputies to the lower houses which cea" with expert problems will be selected by municipal councils, communes, and lower assemblies, ar-d they will serve for only two years Members of the federal assernb'v wili serve four years." Tito also described a provision in the new constitution "which similar to the American constitution, namely, the separation of the executive and the legislative branches cf government." This may get him into more trouble than he realizes, and if he has any doubts, he might ask John F. Kennedv. Ray Tucker- man, this Kyle Lester, but a horseshoer instead! Today the horse has gone and the artillery of the service is motorized or carried on warplanes. Few men were more important in the Army than the horseshoer in World War I when it required eight men to support one man on the fighting front. Kyle Lester was around 29 when he was in that war of 44 years ago.

Fast dying off are the World War I veterans. They are passing at the rate of 150,000 a year now. a pace that will accelerate. That means that 12,500 of those veterans die each month, or 417 a day, or 17 an hour, or one every three minutes. By 2002 A.D.

the fast one who wore those old wrapped olive drab leggings will probably die. AND WHAT OF World War veterans in this little Beckley burial ground? "Creed Brogan. Pvt. 53rd Armored Division. World War n.

March 28, 7 ov. 29, 1944." Brogan was young, too, as war is a young mans game. There were times when the older ones of us in World War II kept up with them but we are paying for that over-exertion now. If one would have a young outlook, associate with the young, but if he would remain young, he must not try to keep up with them! A NAME AND INSCRIPTION fascinated me. "Napoleon Bonaparte Lilly W.

Va. Corporal. 2nd Machine Gun Battalion, 1st Division, May 22, 1836-Dec. 26. 1918.

Died for his country in France." What a plaintive statement that is. that last line! Lilly, a familiar name in these parts! And the Lilly family originated in Lille, France. A machineguniier was said to last not over three minutes in action in World War I as he was a marked man. marked by sharpshooters who picked him off at once souri, now 83, who has bossed the House Appropriations Committee for years, rotating his job with anyone else I Clarence would start a revolution first! Or imagine Rep. Howard Smith, the Virginia Democrat, who is an expert dairy farmer, admitting that he is not also an expert on education.

Howard has blocked I the aid to education bill for six years, sometimes on the excuse that had to tend his cows in Virginia. He would never go for a system of committees of experts. Tito, however, has different ideas for Yugoslavia. "The Federal People's Assembly," he said, "will have several houses that will be able to devote themselves expertly and. concrete- ly fields of social example, there will be separate houses for producers, for education, for health, and for culture.

"Thus, it will not be necessary for the entire assembly to meet to consider these individual problems--unless some major problem arises. Then it will come before the respective house concerned and the federal assembly jointly." Not To Be Anti-Businesi WASHINGTON -Although President Kennedy has been hailed and denounced as ultraiiberal, i political defenders are prepared contend that he has shown himself to be far fS more conservative and cooperative with nation's business community than sjich predecessors as Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman. And they present what they consider a plausible case. They point out that he has advocated many proposals admittedly favorable to both management and ownership at the same time that, to their dismay and hostility, he has opposed demands pressed by organized labor and numerous liberal groups.

In their opinion, he has demonstrated that he is neither "anti-business" or "pro-labor." As proof, they note that he has been criticized by both the United States Chamber of Commerce and by the executive committee of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations. PUBLIC OWNERSHIP ISSUE Inasmuch as it symbolizes a new age in many respects, they cite his belief in the private velopment of a Telstar system of communications, which is bitterly opposed by the Morse-Gore- Neuberger radicals. Although remaining discreetly on the sidelines in this intra-party controversy, the administration's program is opposed by almost all the liberal and labor organizations. But had their ideas prevailed in an earlier day in this country's progress, it is emphasized that the federal government would now own the telephone companies, electric utilities, gas lines, railroads, air lines, truck lines, the steel and auto firms, and many other essential industries. In years to come, should the liberals' policy be adopted.

Uncle Sam would own and operate atomic peacetime projects and, it is conceivable, transportation systems in outer space. A more earthly and immediate cause for labor-liberal dissatisfaction with the President, and for conservatives' reluctant approval, is his opposition to the AFL-CIO demand for a reduction of the work-week from 40 to 35 hours, with double instead of time- and-a-half pay for hours worked beyond 35. The reduction in hours according to AFL-CIO President George L. Meany, is by the White House refusal to as! fo'r an immediate tax cut for the low-income group. FEA7HERBEDDING I PUTE Although the questior is still unresolved, President nedy has indicated that he ap-j proves the recommendations for.

revision of the railroads' person-, nel and operational The changes, which were adi vanced by an Eiseiiiiower commission, would cut the laboc force sharply by eliminating what the operators describe as erbedding." But it would the lines $500 million a year anc from possible bankruptcy or tionalization. It is not known how the dent will act when this as it probably will, reaches hia desk for final decision, and he may be faced with threats of a strike on the nation's tation system. But in a sense the same issues are involved here as in the AFL-CIO insistence on work-week of only 35 hours. Besides noting these instances of the administration's rebuffs proposals that would impose er burdens on business and in! dustry, the President's economic spokesmen list what they regard as positive benefits to segments of the economic svstem. AIDS TO BUSINESS Kennedy innovations, they main-i tain, will mean a saving of mores than $2 billion a year to large and; small corporations.

These are the faster rate of depreciation and the investment credit for expansion or construction of new plants. It is believed that these benefits will halt the emigration of American firms to Western Europe and other countries, and thus provide greater profits and employment here. Whereas almost the only opposition to the trade expansion bill comes from labor and liberals, it is supported almost unanimously by such organizations as the U. S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers.

Besides expecting that the proposed tariff cuts will open up new world markets for domestic output, they consider it to be necessary in order to compete with the members of the European Common Market. This presentation, its authors warn, does not mean that President Kennedy is an "arch-conservative." But it does signify, in their opinion, that he is not "anti- business," no matter how bankers and brokers in Wall Street grumble. Mel Heimer-Special Interest Groups zng HOLLYWOOD Maybe the television producer really does have a right to feel sorry for himself, after all. This coming season he must not only try to avoid sex and violence, but also please an increasing number of TV lobbyists who are out to see justice done for their particular group. The Glass Blowers of America seem to be the one organization left which hasn't demanded a better shake from television, and it may start something any minute.

At the National District Attorneys Assn. convention in Philadelphia this week, the nation's DA's are approving a pact with Warner Bros, to film a television series which will portray them as something besides "stumbling incompetents." "The series will show the prosecutor as a diligent, conscientious citizen and hard-working lawyer who operates within the framework of law and within the rules laid down by our courts." said local Dist. At'ty. William B. McKesson, before leaving for the convention.

SOME TIME AGO, the voice of Don J. Daley, former vice-president of the Southern California Hotel was raised in protest agaiast the manner in which hotel clerks usually are written into television scripts. "One series had a desk clerk attired in a sweatshirt and usiac: a toothpick." recalled Daley, with a shudder, "and when they" aren't shown that way. it seems television goes to the other extreme vrith a pretentious, snobbish type. Either type couldn't hold a job'by today's hotel "balev added.

The American Medical Assn. has a Physicians Advisory Committee on Motion TV designed specially to the harassed producer he is using doctors in nis dramas. That's why (you rnav Notes On The News- "tt hat do mean how can filibusters talk ail day without getting tired?" have noticed) even Doc Adams on "Gunsmoke" hardly ever loses a patient. IF OUR FOOLHARDY TV producer buys a script with animals it, there is a man from the American Humane Assn. watching over his shoulder during the filming.

The horse, cow, pig or whatever can labor only so many hours and is treated with more deference than a temperamental, two-iegged star who can talk. Then there are the WCTU AAACP, Candy Manufacturers of America, and the Army and Navy always on the alert to prevent the unwary television producer from doing some silly thing such as letting his hero drink too much sing an unexpurgated version of -wy Old Kentucky Home," make a -slur about bon-bons, or win a war without calling up the reserves. There are six new series coming up this fall with armed service backgrounds, and it's almost certain someone in the Pentagon vw be charged with seeing that our soldiers are depicted on television as the fine, upright stalwarts we know them all to be. NAT HIKEN, creator of the old Pnil Silvers "Set. Bilko" TV series frequently had Army brass breathing down his back for show- jng GIs playing poker and duck- bivouacs at the mythical tt.

Baxter. So far, his comedv cop series. "Car S4. Where Are hasn't elicited any official censure irom the police. After a producer winds his cnary way amons all of these TV lobbyists, he still must worry a tout any hidden insults tc the sponsor, such as allowing hj hero 10 sn okc a cigar on a series spon- sorca by a cigarette manu- iccturer.

By the time a script writer soes home with a list of the things he nvj5L not include in his brainchild, ne is aoout as free as an American news correspondent touring Russia. THE PARADOX IS that when iRc; hijsssans do this sort of cail it through-control, brain- et cetera. Of course. mustn't deny the or lovers the risht their opinions on our iejevision entertainment, but wo Jiust make sure that these rights a preclude Porrv Mason's a Hamilton Bur- Lassie's getting kicked in iau py a poacher. T.

Stewart Honored On Second Birthday MAThLXY Mrs. Wanoa biewart honored her son, Timmie, with a birthday party Fri- tne home of his grand- rnotner, Mrs. Virginia Daniels, he observed his second anniversary. Games were played and refreshments served to Mrs. Pessy Toier arid sons.

Duke and 15 vayne; -M-S. Price. Johnny. Jackie, JUGV Price: Mrs. Zelda and daughters.

Kathy and Uebme; Frank Stewart, Gary. Baiiey, Shumate and Dimple Eppling i.