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New York, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Angeles, MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is entitled to the use tor republication of all the local news printed in newspaper, as well as all AP news dispatches. A Faster Education Less Wasteful? Cornell University is on the way to instituting a plan to reduce the time needed by qualified students for their advanced education. Under the proposal, about 40 students would be selected each year on the basis of their background and high school records and put through a program which will lead to a bachelor's degree in three years, a master's in another year, and a doctorate two years thereafter. Thus, at least one year will be cut from the course of study and possibly more. Cornell hopes thereby to "solve one aspect of the more general problem of reducing the time spent on education by an increasing number of young people." It expects to eliminate "waste periods" in the traditional freshman year and during later transitions from undergraduate to graduate studies.

Cornell is the second major university to announce such an experimental program of reducing college time. Earlier in the year, Yale University offered a plan to a limited number of qualified students which will allow completion of both the bachelor's and master's requirements in the customary four-year undergraduate period. It is a healthful sign that the education system is taking a new look at the efficiency the process. Some indication of similar concern has appeared elsewhere, even in the lower echelons of the school apparatus. It is a matter oj considerable importance in a world growing every day more complex.

More people must acquire broader education to hold a useful place in society. Furthermore, more intensive education will have to be provided for more of those able to absorb it. Facilities for education, especially in the advanced stages, are already heavily taxed. They will be further pressed by the postwar babies, who are now of college age. Nevertheless, the nation's educational plant is not fully utilized.

Much of it lies unused for much of the year under the traditional system of semesters and vacations. More destructive'of efficiency is the fact that brainpower in both students and faculties is allowed to lie fallow. Much educational activity is geared to the average. The superior student must often be held back. It is at this vital aspect of the problem that the new Cornell plan and the earlier Yale program, as well, are aimed.

It is something which not only ought to be imitated elsewhere, but which must find widespread acceptance. Top The Morning A Saving Or Mirage? For the first time in five years, the Treasury has been able to announce a three-month reduction in federal spending. The government spent $41 million less in the first quarter of this fiscal year than in the same period a year ago. This may not seem much in a total budget of $97.3 billion, and it may be mere coincidence, of course, that the last year of a budget surplus ($1.2 billion in 1960) was also an election year. The cut in this year's spending was the result of savings made by the Defense Department.

The department's estimate, of course, takes no account of possible effects upon the department from the Kremlin shakeup and Chinese atomic explosion. And defense savings are almost certain to be offset by higher civilian spending elsewhere. Thus the fiscal budget is expected to wind up with a deficit of $5.8 billion, as predicted by the Budget Bureau last May, or more. Taxpayers, of course, welcome the news of less spending-even though it coincides with the election and may prove several months hence to have been a mirage. Ersatz Hiunamtarianism Holiday visits across the Berlin Wall will be resumed on All Saints Day.

Once again the passage wiU be one-way, West to East. And for obvious reasons. Unless forcibly detained, the cream of East Germany's manpower, its best minds and most skilled workers, would by now have fled westward. They were leaving at the rate of 1,500 a day when the wall was thrown up on the morning of Aug. 13, 1961.

Since then, more than 6.000 Germans have made their way to freedom over, under and through the wall. Fifty-three are known to have died in the attempt. Evidently moved by adverse reaction to the confinement which they have imposed, the Communists have decided to allow some East Germans to visit the West during November. To qualify, men must be 65 years of age, women "60. Already the Ulbricht propaganda machinery is sounding the praise of this "humanitarian act for the elderly.

Practical, too. For if the pensioners among them should decide to stay, that much less will be the drain on the East German budget. Is The Unknown Quantity! Now This State Has The Tabloid Twins' By EMILE J. HODEL Sunday magazine supplement-type multipage advertisements for the big Democrat politicians really do seem to be all the rage, as you probably have noticed. West Virginia's Sunday newspapers carried the second such "paid political advertisement" this past Sunday and it topped off the earlier one of Aug.

30 by a considerable measure. The first, readers will recall, was primarily for the benefit of Hulett C. Smith's candidacy. It was an eight- page tabloid with green type as well as black throughout. It featured Smith in a cut-out picture beside the state Capitol building in Charleston which made him look almost as big as the dome.

This was on the cover. Hulett was pictured 23 times in the eight pages! We thought at the time that this must surely establish some sort of record for braggadocio or immodesty or something. And now we've discovered that that was nothing! Nothing at all! Smith was a piker compared to Sen. Robert Byrd! Byrd came forth this past Sunday with a 12-page tabloid. It was much the same except that he used no color just black and white but with four pages more of pictures of Byrd.

And how many pictures of Sen. Robert Byrd in poses all over West Virginia and all over the world, too, do you suppose there were? Sixty- four! And oddly enough, our junior senator avoided tying in or even picturing himself with any others of his fellow- Democratic candidates, with a single exception. There were two pictures of Byrd with President Johnson, and LBJ is unidentifiable in one. The earlier tahloid for Smith included, on the back cover not only a picture of Senator Byrd, but all five Democrats for Congress, all five Democrats seeking Board of Public Works posts, and the two Democrat candidates for Supreme Court. Neither Smith nor any of the others are included in the Byrd tabloid.

The fact that he is a Democrat is prominently mentioned in only one place, on the back page. -0-There was one glaring and rather stupid error in the Hulett Smith tabloid. A picture shows the candidate in a set of coveralls "down in the mines near Morgantown. according to the caption. Either the caption is a lie or the law was being badly violated.

A miner standing facing Smith has a safety lamp in his hands and a lighted cigarette with a length of ash on the end of it in his mouth. Of course, it's against the law to smoke "down in the mines." -0-Byrd's early fiddle-playing was not completely ignored, but was much played down in his broadside. In the oldest picture of the junior senator used, as a high school youth, according to the caption, he was playing "first violin in high school orchestra." We felt that both of the newspaper- stuffed tabloid sections were rather revealing and interesting. For one thing, we were told that the supplement for Smith cost more than the entire television budget then scheduled for the whole Cecil Underwood campaign. And though Smith's family operates tiie local printing establishment.

Biggs-Johnston-Withrow, both of the tabloid supplements were printed out-of-state--in Washington, D. C. the Charleston Gazette refused to endorse Byrd as even the lesser of two evils, as they put it. And the Biggs-Johnston-Withrow issue was re-inserted into the campaign by the Charleston printing and bookbinding unions with a full-page advertisement in the Sunday Gazette as "A Message to Hulett Smith" asking him again to "explain his position on this matter." Politics can be ascinating to watch, sure enough! Top of the morning! MY ANSWER Andrew Tully- Barry, LBJ Both Seen Near Utter Exhaustion Yesterday And Today-- WASHINGTON It is not considered good taste to suggest that any public official lacks immortality, but frankly I am holding my breath for both President Johnson and Barry Goldwater. They look terrible, anci if my mother were still about she would put them both to bed for a week with a flaxseed poultice and spoon-feed them with calf's foot jelly.

Emotionally as well as physically, this has a deroue pre i ential campaign and it has taken its toll of the a idates. Lyndon Johnson looks bloated and weary; Goldwater looks gaunt and weary. On the speaker's platform they do their best to give the impression they are bursting with vigor, but they aren't kidding anybody. They are both dead beat, perhaps dangerously so. Greenbrier's Notable Shue Murdei By SHIRLEY DONNELLY While at Union some days ago, Hobert M.

of the West Virginia House of Delegates in the 47th session of the West Virginia Legislature, asked that we tell the strange story of the Edward S. Shue murder mystery of Greenbrier County of over 67 years ago. This old Republican friend avers he a been a reader of this column for years. Yet he somehow managed miss prior references to the story of Shue and the ghost that led to his conviction and his spending the rest of his life at Moundsville penitentiary. Court records at Lewisburg carry the facts in the strange case.

In 1897 Edward Shue murdered his wife in Meadow Bluff Magisterial District. When I was at East Rainelle on Oct. 15, a Mrs. Casto made herself known to me and volunteered the information that she was a relative of the murdered Mrs. Edward Shue.

It seems that Edward Shue was a blacksmith and a fairly good one. At the time Shue came to Meadow Bluff District he got a job working in the blacksmith shop that was owned by James Crookshanks. People liked Shue because he was nice to everybody but never had much to say. Like most men of his trade, "the muscles of his brawny arms were strong as iron bands." It was known that he had been married twice before coming to Greenbrier. Suspicion attached to him because there were not very clear explanations as to the causes of the two deaths.

It seems that the first Mrs. Shue was killed in a fall from a haystack. As for the second, she came to her untimely death when a stone fell from a chimney that was being repaired by her husband. Shue was up on the chimney and dragged the rocks up to where he was working by use of a basket with a rope tied to it. Unfortunately, one of the rocks fen and hit Mrs.

Shue on the head and killed her. Shue soon shook off his sorrow and made the rounds of the community entertainments where he ingratiated himself with most every one. Apparently a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief, Miss Zona Heaster, an attractive country girl, warmed up to Edward Shue because she felt sorry for him. In short order Zona Heaster fell in love with the twice- bereaved blacksmith. His manliness and vigorous masculinity drew her to him.

THERE WAS A LOT of common gossip about how Shue's wives had met death. IT WAS IN 1896, the year William Jennings Bryan made his famous "cross of gold" speech that led the Democrats to pick him as standard bearer in the presidential campaign, that Edward Shue and Zona Heaster were married. This was destined to be a short lived affair because Zona Heaster wasn't to live long. Zona was a good country cook and made a splendid housewife. Shortly after Christmas, 1896, Zona was taken mysteriously ill.

Dr. J. M. Knapp attended the girl but was unable to tie in his indisposition with any organic disorder. Her condition seemed to worsen right along.

ON THE MORNING of Jan. 22, 1897, Shue went to the home of Mrs. Martha Jones, a Negro housewife, who lived near the Shues. He asked Mrs. Jones if she would let her son Andrew (Andy) go to the Shue house and help Mrs.

Shue with some of her household chores that morning, as Zona was "under the weather." There was a delay in complying with Shue's request and Andy didn't reach the Shue place until 1 p.m. By the way, Mrs. Martha Jones had a son who died in the Beckley Veterans Hospital about a year ago. He was Reuben Jones of Lewisburg. He told me this story in which his brother Andy figured.

WHEN ANDY JONES reached the Shue home, he was astonished to find Mrs. Shue on the floor, stone dead. Her eyes were open in a death stare and Andy Jones left the scene fast. He excitedly told his mother who first thought Mrs. Shue had fallen down but then came to feel that maybe she was dead.

The boy was told to run to the blacksmith shop and tell Shue. Mrs. Jones started to the Shue house to see if she could help. Shue reached the house in a dead run and grabbed up in his arms the lifeless body of his dear wife. He wept inconsolably.

Why hadn't the Jones people summoned the doctor? With this, the doctor was sent for. Dr. Knapp arrived in about an hour. But there was nothing the medicine man could do but "lay her out" and make the body ready for burial. Dr.

Knapp pronounced the cause of Mrs. Shue's death as a heart attack--or heart failure, as it was called then. The locale was known at that time as Leivasy's Mill. There was general sorrow in the countryside, especially for poor Shue. More tomorrow.

BOTH HAVE LABORED under heavy burdens. As the underdog, Goldwater hasn't dared sdow his pace lest he fail to sell himself to that handful of undecided voters in Sioux Falls. And Johnson, who has never won big and who so desperately wants to prove his popularity with the folks, has been operating in the shadow of the Bobby Baker and Walter Jenkins scandals. A businessman who insisted on thus spending himself would be flagged down and shipped off to an expensive resort to unwind. Corporations can't afford to let dividends suffer because the head man has worked.

himself into a state of exhaustion. Yet every four years the citizenry not only permits but demand-s that the two presidential candidates court heart attacks, strokes, and the pip to show they are healthy enough to live in the White Hoiuse. THIS WOULD BE BAD enough if a prudent electorate had provided for the eventuality of a president too ill to perform his duties. But as of now there is no constitutional procedure for shifting the responsibilities of the chief executive to other shoulders in such an- emergency. To be sure, a start has been made.

Before Congress adjourned the Senate okehed a constitutional amendment setting out conditions under which the vice president could take over as acting president until the president has recovered. The amendment permits such a takeover if the president de- dares in writing he is unable to discharge his duties. If the President does not declare his disability, the vice president may act to assume the presidential duties with the concurrence of a majority of the Cabinet. MOREOVER, THE proposed amendment protects a president from the possible machinations of an ambitious vice president. He could challenge such a takeover by the No.

2 man by appealing to Congress, where a two-thirds vote would decide the issue. Unfortunately, the House took no action on the bill and thus Congress Witt have to start all over in the next session. It had better make such legislation its first priority. G-arfield and Wilson were incapacitated for three months and two years, respectively, and much more recently Eisenhower was out of action for weeks after his 1955 heart attack. The way Barry Goldwater and Lyndon Johnson have been looking lately suggests it is a lot later than we think.

Hal Humphrey- The Morality Issue Seen Transcending All Others Drew Pearson-- QUESTION: I received a religious book as a birthday present from a friend of mine. This book is contrary to my own beliefs. Should I tell my friend how I feel about this gift? N. ANSWER: It depends entirely on the content of the book. If you could describe the book as heretical, then you should thank your friend and return it, with a note saying that you cannot share its teaching, and would rather not accept it as a gift.

It is possible that your friend was not even totally aware of its contents. But if the book only slightly differs from your beliefs (who has a book they totally agree then I believe you should accept it with thankfulness, and even give it a place in your library. To me, reading books are like eating fish: I eat the meaty parts, and throw the bones away. In all of our reading we engage in accepting or rejecting certain portions. You are right, however, in being cautious, for the things we take into our minds are even more important than the food we take into our stomachs.

Bad food can give you indigestion, but bad thoughts can give you doubts, depression, and despair. WASHINGTON Justice Arthur Goldberg spent part of the summer on a good-will tour of India and Malaysia before returning to the tough job of handing down Supreme Court opinions. He delivered some lectures at the 1 a school of the University of i Delhi, had a stimulating interview with Premier Shastri of I i a in which Shastri his appreciation for American food; and watched the constructive efforts of the new Malaysian Republic to hammer out a new democracy in Southeast Asia. In Malaysia, Justice Goldberg was particularly impressed by the Peace Corps, which has not only done an efficient job but which has emphasized U. S.

aid. The gift without the giver is bare, observed the justice, and when our Peace Corps youngsters work side by side with other youngsters in these countries, it makes the local citizenry realize that we are putting our heart as well as our dollars and our food into their countries. In Malaysia, John Shaw of Boston, a member of the Peace Corps, had bulldozed several hundred fish ponds for the farmers, similar to the fish ponds dug on farms all over the USA. PERHAPS THE HIGHLIGHT of Justice Goldberg's tour was an audience with" Pope Paul. He was received not as an American official but as a leader of American Jewry.

Before going in to see the Pope. Goldberg, who is a native of Chicago, asked one of the naonsignori in the Pope's outer office, who happened to be from Chicago, whether it would be out of line for him to take up the question of deicide, which has been under debate by the Ecumenical Council. "Go all the way," replied the Chicago monsignor. DURING HIS TALK with the Pope, therefore, Goldberg pointed put that the origin of anti-Semitism was hi the Catholic doctrine that the Jews were responsible for the death of Christ. "We liked the first report brought out by the Committee of Bishops." the justice told the Holy Father.

"It was strong when it came out of committee. But then some place along the line it was watered down. Jews in America generally don't feel that the final report goes far enough. It simply states that the Jews of this age are not guilty of deicide." The Pope listened carefully and finally told Goldberg that there were problems within the church as well as problems of doctrine. He gave the impression, however, of agreeing with the position of American Jews.

MAILBAG Leonard Shane, Los Angeles --Copies of the expose of the book "None Dare Call It Treason" can be obtained from the Washington office of Rep. Charles Vanik. D-Ohio. The expose was conducted by the National Committee for Civic Responsibility which showed the book to be full of errors and exaggeration. Mrs.

Son shine Gotab, Schenectady, N. was Leo Reardon, former adviser to Father Coughlin, who conceived the idea for Goldwater's famous book "The Conscience of a Conservative" and had it published by the obscure Victor Publishing Company of Shepherdsville, Ky. Brent Bozell, right-wing politician in Maryland and a Yale classmate of William Buckley ghost-wrote the book. Mrs. H.

E. Millan, Orange Park, alleged hammer and sickle which you thought you saw on the Kennedy fifty-cent piece is actually a combination of the initials of the sculptor who designed it-Gilroy Roberts. Charles E. Schwartz, Akron- Sen. Goldwater's controversial statement about Democrats and Jews was made over radio station WWDC, July 25, 1962.

He said, "It is very difficult for me to understand the Jew. I happen to be half Jewish. My people when they lived in New York--they're all dead now-were Orthodox Jews, all Democrats. I used to get into terrific arguments with my cousins who, while they were alive, all voted Democratic." Goldwater went on to say that Democratic administrations in Washington had "allowed Communism to get started in this world and created Nazism and Fascism in Germany and Italy. greatest enemy of the Jew in the world has been the Democratic Party and their stupid treaties that they made with other countries.

I don't charge them with being anti- Semitic but I do charge them with making treaties with our enemies that have allowed our own people, the Jewish people, to suffer through pogroms and anti-Semitism all over the world." Mrs. R. H. Morton, New York City--Mrs. Barry Goldwater's statement that her husband had suffered two nervous breakdowns was made in an interview which was published in the May issue of Good Housekeeping.

Lou Gordon, Detroit-There is absolutely no truth in the report that President Johnson will appoint Mayor Jerry Cavaotgh Historians, surveying the nations of the past, time and again have traced the downfall of great states to a decline in moral values. Nations can lose on the battlefield and suffer poverty on the home front, but from such setbacks recovery usually is possible. On the other hand, when a country falls a vernment that is morally corrupt, there is no hope salvation n- less a government is promptly discarded. The classical case is the history of the Roman republic. In its day, Rome was the strongest nation on earth.

Like the United States in our own time, Rome had far-flung military commitments. It had a great system of law, and Roman citizenship was prized throughout the ancient world. The Roman republic should have endured for many centuries, but its fate was to be cut down not long after the opening of the Christian era. clearly show that the enemies of freedom are skilled at preying on corrupt men who are vulnerable to blackmail. The Soviets, for example, frequently use their hold over corrupt men in free lands to force them to reveal defense secrets.

Everyone who occupies a post of high responsibility in the U.S. government should know that he has a solemn obligation not to employ a person who is a potential security risk because of his personal pecularities. THE REASON FOR ROME'S decline and fall was moral corruption. It suffered defeat within its own government. Ambitious men, with a thirst for personal power, brought the lowest types of Romans into the government of the empire.

There was corruption involving thievery, and there was corruption involving influence peddling. Ancient Rome had its Bobby Bakers, to be sure. But the darkest stains on the Roman nation came when men of ugly personal vices gained places of power near the summit of the Roman government. These ugly vices were overlooked or concealed from the Roman people. Men with deeply corrupt moral characters occupied the seats of power or served as the principal advisers and lieutenants to the leaders charged with defending the interests of Rome.

Because they were corrupt, they were more concerned with their pleasures and their vices than they were with the security of the Roman republic. Ultimately, the barbarians overran Rome, where liberty had been nurtured and the Senate had been the glory of republican government in the ancient world. A HIGH GOVERNMENT official cannot afford a show of excessive toleration for some psychologically weak individual, for the government is charged with the duty of defending the public interests which transcend the concern for individuals. No man in government should be more aware of this truth than the President of the United States. For a president to neglect his duty to maintain regular security checks on his aides and advisers constitutes neglect of presidential responsibility.

Immediately the question is raised whether any man who so neglects his duty is fit to be President. Moreover, if the President surrounds himself with men who peddle influence or who have- dark personal vices, he sets an example for the government. If corruption is tolerated and protected at the top of government, it is only a matter of time before it spreads, like cancer, throughout the entire governmental structure. IN THIS CRITICAL TIME, the American people should think long and hard about the deteriorating moral climate in this country and the causes for it. They should be concerned, first of all, that the presidency is free of any stain or question of neglect of duty.

This issue the issue of the moral character of the American government transcends any matter of personal popularity, economic programs, or what ever. If the American government is not a clean government, the United States cannot survive. And if there is moral un- cleanlmess in Washington today, then the U. S. electorate should exercise its right to restore decency before it is too late.

WHAT HAPPENED TO Rome should have special meaning for Americans as they ponder the moral mess in Washington in the fall of 1964. The United States of America could suffer its own decline and fall if men of ugly vices are not rooted out of government and if the people do not dismiss those who have tolerated corrupt men. The pages of history, contemporary as well as ancient, of Detroit to the Cabinet after elections. Mayor Cavanagh does not rate high in LBJ's book. Thomas Alder, Milwaukee -Pageant magazine's alleged poll of the Senate press gallery regarding Senators did not poll a real of newsmen.

Sen. William Proxmire rates high, as do Paul Douglas, Wayne Morse, Hale Boggs, and Wayne Hays, D-Ohio. You're Telling Me! WILLIAM RITT RETIREMENT pay of NikiU Khrushchev, retired Soviet premier, will reportedly be a mere $300 a month. That's just peanuts--even if you divide it up into rubles. With all those new monster shows on TV, it'll take mort than goblins and witches to scare the kids come this Halloween.

People should start thinking about Christmas immediately after Thanksgiving, suggests the head of a greeting card as- ia on mister can't the turkey drum-.