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Socialism Denies Possibility Of Liberty's Existence It is an unfortunate fact that many words of wide connotation are so often used, abused and misused as to-lose their basic meaning in the minds of great numbers of people. Two of those words are "capitalism" and Ask the next man you meet for a definition of them, and it will be a minor miracle if you get a clear answer. Henry Hazlitt, in one of his Newsweek magazine columns, says some- thin? that should be 'far better understood than it actually is. To quote: li Capitalism is merely the name for a system of economic liberty. Under it civil and political liberties flourish and are secure.

Under a complete or nearly complete socialism neither economic nor political liberty can exist. "Freedom is How can there be freedom of or assembly when the government owns all the newspapers, presses, and assembly halls? "As Leon Trotsky (who knew) wrote in 1937: 'In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation: The old principle: Who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: Who does not obey shall not eat. One phrase alone, taken from this quotation, sums up the story: "Freedom is Without economic freedom there can be no other basic freedom. This is why capitalism, whatever its faults, has done more good for more people, tangibly and intangibly, than any other system yet devised by man. Long Line-Up Against Moore The Morgantown Post wonders whether Governor Barron wasn't "laying it on a bit thick" when he contended the other day that the Moore-Bailey election battle "looms significant to the course of history in our state and in the nation." Frankly, we don't know why the Governor attaches all that importance to the election, unless he feels that the defeat of Congressman Moore would end two- party government in West Virginia, a consummation devoutly wished by the Democratic bosses.

Of course, as The Post points out, it is the earnest desire of the Democratic leaders to cut Moore down to size as a political figure because he is the kind of vote-getter who might challenge for the governorship or the U. S. Senate. Even the thought of a return of representative government in West Virginia is top much for the power-hungry Democratic bosses to endure. Governor Barron is only the latest of a long line of Democrats to line up against Congressman Moore.

The parade was actually headed by the President, who has wished every success to his "good friend" Cleve Bailey. House Speaker McCormack had kind words for Congressman Bailey at Wheeling; Rep. Carl Albert of Oklahoma, the majority floor leader, will call for the election of Cleve at a meeting in Fairmont Sept. 15, and on Oct. 15, in Clarksburg, former President Truman will say his piece for the Congressman.

Before the campaign is over, Democratic bosses from all over--not to forget Billie Sol Estes--can be expected to join Governor Barron and his fellows in telling the people of the First District how to vote. Whatever they may say, however much money they may pour "into the district, when it comes to the showdown--when the lay Democrats and Republicans enter the voting booths in November the contest will be between an energetic, experienced man with a record of nonpartisan sen-ice to the people of the First District and a pleasant, tired man who scarcely knows the people of this district and who is a yest-man for the political bosses. The people of this district can be expected, as always, to vote as they wish --not as outsiders tell them to vote. In such circumstances, we'll have more and more of the good things of Moore. --Fairmont West Virginian In World War the name zero hour given to the time set for a predetermined attack.

Later it was changed to H-hour. Tlie harbor of Rio dc Janeiro is said to have enough deep water for the anchorage of all the navies of the world Two Indicators Say Business Is Good By EMILE J. HODEL We are all of us inclined to judge conditions a great deal by what we see going on about us. To a degree, we must judge so. Back when all the magazines and newspapers were joining with the politicians to cry a fax tears over the supposedly prostrate figure of West Virginia's economy, the general attitude was very poor.

In actuality, an examination of the figures shows that things were not nearly so bad economically in the Mountain State when all the crocodile tears were being shed as they became later on as a result of the pessimism a the public breast beating generated. We are no different than most people. We assumed that things must be worse than they really were for a while. -0- There are two economic indicators that are ever-present, you might say, adjacent to our offices at the Post- Herald. We cannot really avoid taking note of them.

And over the years we have become inclined to put a good deal of stock in them. They appear to be fair indicators. One of them is the Municipal Parking Lot. Since it is right across the street, we can hardly avoid noticing how full or empty the lot seems to be from day to day and week to week. This has only been an indicator since the lot was built and people began to get used to making use of it.

If the number of cars on the lot nowadays can be taken as something of an economic indicator, then business must be good and getting better in Beckley. Where there used to be one day a week when the lot would be full or nearly so, now there are three, at least, almost every week. -0- Of course, the lot itself has contributed toward better business. It gives Beckley's shoppers a good place to park at less cost than any of the city's major competing cities. On the parking lot, you can park half an hour for a nickel, or 12 hours for 50 cents.

Charleston's parking lots and Bluefield's parking building will charge 35 cents or 50 cents as a minimum even if you only park for half an hour. Twelve hours will run a lot more than 50 cents, too. The very success of the local parking facility is making more of such facilities a necessity soon. Beckley is beginning to need to go still further with such parking facilities in order not to be turning people away, as it were. The Coal Stream The second ever present economic indicator has been at hand even longer than the Post-Herald offices have been at their present location.

We have reference to the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail- tracks behind the newspaper plant and the veritable stream of coal that moved over them. There used to be many and exceedingly long coal trains being pulled out of the district north of Beckley served by that spur line. This was true over the years and then, not long ago, the railway would take only a car or two of coal out now and then. Things didn't look so hot in that respect But, by golly, here of late we've been seeing longer trains of coal creeping by our back windows again. The other night we tried to count one hi the dark and came up with 41 cars of coal and a tank car and a couple of box cars.

Because it was dark, we may have miscounted. But yesterday afternoon, we know there were 32 cars of coal taken by on their way to market. The coal hopper cars' capacities vary, of course, but that must have been 2,000 to 2,500 tons --some in big lumps, but most in finer size. BECKLEY POST-HERALD, BECKLEY, W. TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER II, 1962 BREAKTHROUGH? The trains going by sometimes raise so much racket we can hardly hear ourselves, much less people on the telephone.

And, of course, they block traffic along the principal artery which Prince Street is the longer the train, the more traffic backs up both ways. But, we are not complaining at all. We rather enjoy hearing the noise and seeing traffic blocked because it means jobs for men who need them. As we said, our indicators are good right now. And this means top of the morning to a lot of people hereabouts! QUESTION: My brother, who is a chronic alcoholic, is interested in religion at times.

Can you tell me what my responsibility is to ANSWER: Alcoholism is both a sickness and a state of moral collapse. The problem is one that calls for both spiritual regeneration and medics! care. To meet any physical need, you should contact a competent physician who is fully informed on the problem of alcoholism. More important, is that your brother have a spiritual regeneration. I have known many to be instantly and permanently liberated from this curse through such a spiritual transformation.

Most alcoholics would like to be free of the curse at times, but their resistance is too low to successfully overcome the problem alone. The glory of the Christian gospel is that when the person commits himself to Jesus Christ, he receives the forgiveness of sins and finds a constant companion to enable him to overcome this dread curse. Jesus said to those who had believed on Him, "I will never leave thce nor forsake thee" and this is the answer to your brother's problem. Yesterday And Today-The Vipperman Ranch At Sweeneysburg By SHIRLEY DONNELLY The meanderings of a widespread ministry often carry me all over the area. Recently on the headwaters of Paint Creek at Sweeneysburg a side journey aft- a a ice was made to th home of Derba E.

Vipperman and his young wife. Vipperman is a contractor, cattleman, and country squire. rambling ranch-type house stands on a little knoll that overlooks the waters of Paint Creek. The creek bisects the 545-acre Vipperman estate. In the spacious bottom land below the Vipperman home, herds of white faced cattle --pretty Herefords--lolled lazily in the lush grass.

Something like 60 sumptuous steaks-on-the-hoof were counted grazing. or drinking the mountain water from Paint Creek. All this presented a pastoral scene not easily forgotten. It is one of the showplaces of Raleigh County. It was a hot day when we stopped for a lemonade with the Vippermans.

DERBA VIPPERMAN and his father's folks hail from Patrick County, home of Adm. "Fighting Bob" Evans, Mrs. Noel Gray, Green Jessups, and lots of other Raleigh County people today. Maberry, Va. was the Vipperman family's post office in Patrick County.

Crystal crosses are to be found in Patrick County and they are marketed as good luck pieces. It is a land of beautiful women and handsome men who make their mark in the world no matter where they light. AFTER TOURING the spacious Vipperman home, I was shown a mountain rifle that hangs above the mantle in one of the living rooms. Atop the barrel of the gun is the name of the maker of it. a gunsmith named Floyd." The mechanical part of the gun bears the name of the Rifle Works." Being a mountaineer of the strictest kind, Derba Vipperman feels his set-up would not be complete without a shooting iron of the kind his forbears used in taming the wilderness.

Near the old mountain rifle hangs a hornets nest about the size of a nail keg. We mountaineers used to hunt such nests in the fall after the hornets had vacated them and use particles of the nest for wadding when we loaded our muzzle-loading shotguns. They are especially good for that. UNIQUE INDEED is the Vipperman's mail box; It is a combination affair with various com- parts for different kinds of mail. This contraption is an old Bumside stove with a couple of joints of pipe on it.

One of the joints runs straight up from the stove and has an elbow joint at the top into which another joint is joined in horizontal fashion. Into that horizontal section papers are put just as the Beckley Post-Herald, is put in a round, sheet metal box looking across the picturesque valley brought to mind the day in July, 1755, probably July 15, when the Indians who had massacred the settlers at Drapers Meadows (Blacksburg) on Sunday, July 8, 1755, passed through what is now Sweeneysburg with their captives, Mary Ingles and Betty Draper. Ingles had given birth to a baby girl about July probably at Flat Top in Raleigh County. As she passed the Vipperman ranch location, Mrs. Ingles was on horse back with her infant.

Betty Draper was nursing a broken arm which the Indians were treating with poultices made of steeped leaves of the comphry plant and deer fat salve. Water from Paint Creek was used to bathe the broken arm of the captive young woman. Ray Tucker-Public-Private Benefits WASHINGTON The amount of public and private funds paid as "benefits" to millions of Americans has reached the amazing sum of $40 billion.a year, or $800 million a week. It has increased on an average of almost $3 billion a year, and it is expected to go even higher under proposals before today's Congress or scheduled for next year's session. 'To appreciate the importance of this income as a stabilizing factor because of its contribution to the pool of purchasing power, it is equal to about half of the na- tion's total food bill, which was $81 billion last year.

The nation's budget in 1950 was only $39.6 billion. Nor does the $40-billion figure include personal payments derived from unemployment insurance, public relief assistance, or income from savings and investments. As an indication of the steady increase in these benefits, the total was only $11.2 billion in 1950, and only $35.4 billion in 1960. As another measurement of their importance, they represented 11 per cent of the total disposable personal income of $363 billion in 1961. i pipe.

the fuel door of the real Burnside stove is lettered the plaintive word "bills." I liked that. Idea is if bills are put into the stove they are put there to be burned! Imagination, which is the farthest outreaching emotion of the soul, and originality, were both employed in the making of the Vipperman road-side mailbox. Address on the box is "Derba E. Vipperman, Box 255, Route 1, Beckley, W. Va." This box is a good half-mile from the front door of the ranch house and reminds one of the old saying in Texas that if your front gate isn't a half mile from your front door you are not in society in Texas! PAINT CREEK FLOWS in for- bends through the rich val- 'ley lands below the Vipperman home.

He was chided for not tak-. ing some of his power shovels and making a straight course for this serpentine stream. He said that his father. M. T.

Vipperman, 76, and still active, objected to straightening out the creek, pointing out that those bends in tha creek bank serve as brakes on the onward flow of the water! However, such a stream carries away a lot of soil, leading some to the belief that the good Lord will not hear the prayer, "Give us this day our daily bread" if one fails to conserve soil that produces that daily bread. As Paint Creek courses through the valley at Sweeneysburg it looks like the trail of a serpent. HALF WORKERS COVERED-These statistics, which were compiled from government sources by the Life Insurance Institute, show that more than half of the people employed in commerce and industry are now covered by private pension and retirement In their contract neogtiations of recent years, labor unions have concentrated on obtaining fringe benefits almost as much as they have on immediate wage increases. In commenting on the hygienic effect of these benefit payments, as an economic cushion against the 1929-1935 type of depression, the Institute says: "Personal protection benefits have become one of the major stabilizing forces in the economy In the magnitude attained by their payments to the public and in the tremendous breadth of their coverage of the population. "This provides an insight into the strength of personal income and its resistance to recessionary influences in recent years.

Beyond that, these programs have become one of the nation's major pools of funds for productive and social capital, and hence, a growth-promoting factor of the STANDING NEAR the big picture "window in the main living room of the Vipperman home and Thurman Sensing-'No-Win' Policy On Cuba Checks Anti Castroites The chickens we have neglected in recent years have really come home to roost in Cuba. What might be called a reaff irmation of the Monroe Doctrine' by the administration the other day came one country and two presidents too late. The Communist threat is still poised only 90 miles from our shores. Though Secretary of. State Rusk recently declared that the United States has a "win" policy in me-- connection with the cold war, a i i s- tration attitudes a Red Cuba make it clear that nothing has changed the attitude of the State Department with respect to the Communist island off "the Florida coast.

Cuba is back in the eyes of the public because the Kremlin is re- monitoring U. S. missile firings at Cape Canaveral, Fla. THE DANGER OF RUSSIA'S Cuban bastion is clearly increasing. Red Cuba is nothing less than a terrible cancer in the midst of the Western Hemisphere.

Unless this cancer is removed by surgery, the growth wfll menace all the nations of the Americas. But when anti-Communist Cubans make any effort to return Cuba to a free state, they are slapped down by the U. S. State Department. At the end of August, an anti-Communist group of Cuban refugee students made a daring sea raid against a Havana suburb.

In the very face of Red Cuban Fifteen large Soviet freighters have arrived Cuba ra recent 6 qU htlK of 8 of mihtar personnel. And re- I in Cuba consisted of devices for They hit a hotel where Communist "technicians" from Czechoslovakia were quartered. As a practical measure, this lightning raid had a limited but salutary effect To be sure, it did not cause an UDrising 'nor was it intended to do'so. But the raid was a message to the captive Cuban people that free Cubans have not given up the fight to drive Communism from the Pearl of the Antilles. One can be sure that the hearts of many Drew Pearson- Italian Premier Most Successful Foe Of Communists before I talk with the man who has done more to set back Communism than any western leader --Premier Amintore Fanfani of Fanfani is a rotund, dynamic little man.

who almost bounces when he talks. I interviewed him in the famous Palacio Chisi built in the 1600's where I had I Fcr.fani had been since 5 a. trying to relieve earthquake sufferers in southern Italy. He had flown to the stricken" area, raised cain with municipal officials who hsd failed to return from their holidays, then flown back to Rome to call a special cabinet meeting to appropriate relief funds. Fanfani has operated sgainst Communism in the same dynamic way he has operated aranst earthquakes, though his tactics would be called socialistic by the In Italy there is no separation of church and state, and the governing Christian Democratic Party is Catholic, with dose ties with the Vatican.

Yet Italy has been in the paradoxical position of having the second largest Communist Party in the world. Only in the Soviet is there a larger Communist Party. In contrast to the Scandinavian countries which are Lutheran and there is only a trickle of Communism. Italy, the homeland of a church which hates Communism, sees one-third of its voters vote with the Communist Party. And at each election since I94S, the Communists have consistenlly gained.

Between 1943 and 1961, they increased their vote by 2.000.000. while Catholic and 'pro- West parties lost 1,000,000 voters. IF AN AMERICAN political leader did this, doubtless he would be investigated by Sen. James Eastland of Mississippi. But in Italy, Fanfani has accomplished this with the quiet approval of Pope John.

FOUR YEARS AGO, when bouncing Amintore Fanfani first became premier of Italy, he decided to counter these Communist gains by putting across drastic domestic reforms somewhat similar to those adopted by the labor governments of Norway and Sweden, Re figured or. wooing fee Socialists awsy from the Communists by reforming Italy's unfair and archaic tax laws, speeding up land reform, and providing free textbooks for the public schools. But he not only ran into stiff opposition from the right wing of his own Christian Democratic Party but found the cardinals breathing down his neck. Finally, the Vatican pulled the political rug out from under him, "and he Today Fanfani does not have the cardinals breathing down his neck--due to the fact there is a new pope. Pope John is a strong believer in social reform and a cautious concurrent in wooing the Socialists away from the Communists.

IN CONTRAST, certain career diplomats inside the American Embassy held up their hands in horror. horrified was Outer- counselor of em- a Catholic, who has long consorted with the right wing in Rome and who has sent reactionary reports to the State Department, frowning on Premier Fanfani's tactics of wooing the Socialists. I reported all this some time ago. President Kennedy cabled the American Embassy asking -whether it was true that embassy staff members had no contacts with left-wing political leaders. Counselor Horsey promptly wired back that the staff had contacts Trith all political leaders-except the Socialists and the Communists.

But it was exactly the Socialist leaders whom Fanfani has been wooing--despite American Embassy whom he has now succeeded in wining aray from the Communist Party. ONE REASON for American Embassy opposition was fear that the Socialists would oppose Italian cooperation with NATO. But when the Fanfani government proposed the per cent, Ser Socialist military expert, made a speech supporting the budget. "It would be unrealistic." he said "to press for a cut in the Italian defense budget in view of the large-scale military expenditures, both in the West and the East." In return for Socialist backing. free textbooks in the the first five At.li/uji JWGLJUll 01 Mussolini's strict censorship of theatres and movies, increased social security pensions for older people, job protection for women in pregnancy and after childbirth, more representation to first order." NEW RISES POSSIBLE -This outpouring of cash helps to maintain purchasing power when other sources dry up.

It -helps to explain why the economists hail the consumers as "the heroes of recent recessions and recoveries," and why the last three declines have been so short and so slight. The latest Commerce Department report shows that retail sales last July hit a record high of $19.6 billion, principally in durable goods and automobiles. Should Congress enact many of the major Kennedy proposals, such as the health insurance bill, public works bills, an additional 13 weeks of unemployment insurance, aid to tariff-depressed areas and college scholarships, the $40 billion in benefits would be increased by several billions. It is intriguing to note that these payments continue to increase without regard to which major party is in power at Washington. total was $14 billion when former President Eisenhower took office, and $35.4 billion when he left the White House.

But the.idea and impulse behind the federal government's share in the distribution, which is by far the largest, was provided by Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. ACTUALLY SAVINGS However, these $40 billion cannot be considered as handouts. They are actually accumulated savings. Whether the income came from Social Security, private life insurance, public or private pension systems, the beneficiaries contributed a large percentage to the sum which they got back.

The disbursing units were only middlemen, or brokers. Here is a breakdown of the sources of the $40 billion of benefits in billions: Public and private pensions $14.0 Private insurance 12.5 Social Security payments. 9.0 State and local plans, federal Civil Service, railroad retirement, veterans' pensions 3.0 Private retirement systems 2.0 Although it is extremely difficult to break down the statistics into more bits and pieces, it is estimated that $22 of the $40 billion is distributed by the federal government. To the political cynics, it represents a sizable ca'm- paign fund. And there are such cynics at Washington.

freedom-loving Cubans were lifted up by the daring raid from small craft. NO SOONER HAD the news or this raid been published in the United States, however, than the Kennedy Administration ordered the seizure of the two motor launches the refugees administration also investigation for possible prosecutions under the Neutrality Aet. Washington spokesmen for the administration promptly announced that U. S. policy remains opposed to the use of American soil by insurgent groups to mount armed attacks against others.

Here, then is a "plain repudiation by administration spokesmen of Secretary Rusk's statement that the U. S. has a "win" policy. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, certainly, are not neutral on the question of Castro's Cuba. They tion should use the essentially defunct Neutrality Act to hinder the The Fair Play For Cuba Committee a Castro front group- has flourished in the last few years, and there have been no threats of prosecution.

But no sooner do anti-Communists take action than warnings are issued against them. i If the United States is a citadel of freedom, then free men should able to leave these shores to against Communist tyrants their homelands. It is shameful that the Kennedy Administration should hamper the efforts of Cuban patriots who, at grave risk to their lives, ventured across the Florida Strait to strike a blow for liberty. WIN" FORCES in the State Department apparently do not regard this country as "the land of the free and the home cf the brave." They would have free men restrained "and appeasement substituted for brave resistance to Cornirranisui. As Pvep.

Ausust E. Jnhansen, (R-Mich) so puts it: "If. in the phrase being heard in Washington these days, we must hesitate to act in Cuba because Russia has 'a rope around our neck in how lorr: will it be before we dare not act self-defense anywhere in the world because Russia has 'a dagger at our heart' in Cuba?" Notes On The News- and a 15 per cent withholding tax on dividends. The latter is something John F. Kennedy has not been able to get in his current tax bill.

Finally, Fanfani has abolished --by act of parliament--all cigarette advertising, following a re- peri by Italian doctors that cig- i arettes induce lung cancer. This was why the Communists tor tne iirst time in 16 years took a setback in last June's municipal elections. Most observers consider reforms not only overdue but a small price to pay to wean the Socialists away from the Communists and line up their larse block of votes behind NATO and the American policies, so bitterly denounced in Moscow. early column. on the work.