The News Journal from Wilmington, Delaware • Page 31

r-f i Thursday, Sept 9. 1965 31 Evtninf loimal, Wilmington, Del. JVeitier Side JFiH Let Go Berry's World Vale of Kashmir Is Valley of Hate I At 10,000 feet the air in the vale is cool, and like the scenery, intoxicating to those who experience it, and unfortunately, to those who think about in New Delhi and Rawalpindi. THE vale itself, a broad valley about 120 miles long and about 70 miles wide, borders the river Jhelum. It is soft and green and strewn with flowers and fruit.

On either side the Himalayas, wild, rugged By Denis Warner CANBERRA-To fly to the Vale of Kashmir from the burning plains of India in midsummer is to travel from hell to paradise. The plane travels through a hair-raising pass which is likely to be closed by cloud without warning. But the result is worth it. For sheer beauty, there is nothing in Asia, and nothing I have been seen anywhere else in the world to surpass Kashmir. In Next 3 Elections Avalanche of Young Voters To Have Profound Effects i ft )y 'MII'KMlll and superb, tower above it.

The Karakoram range in the east shuts off Tibet. Many of its peaks are above 25,000 ft. The land here is populated by nomads and all but inaccessible. Just to look at these mountains is to understand why the Chinese Communists were able to build a highway across northeastern Kashmir before the Indians discovered anything about it. Most of the four million Kashmirians' live in the valley, enjoying what seems to be a lotus life in the spring, summer, and autumn, hibernating in winter.

THEIR wealth is only the beauty that surrounds them and their own craftsmanship, however. Kashmir is definitely poor, the struggle to survive an endless one. There used to be hopes that Kashmir, would one day become a great tourist center. And one day it may. Quite apart from the scenery, there are rivers and streams stocked with trout.

It is a poor fly fisherman who cannot fill his bag each day. For the hunter there are ibex, black bears, deer, pheasant, and partridges. From the goats of Kashmir comes the soft wool that goes to make "cashmere" shawls and sweaters. Srinagar, the capital, which is split in two by the Jhelum River, has a population of about 200,000. For the tourist it offers life on a houseboat on the adjoining Dal Lake, superb scenery, and the crafts of its wood carvers, carpet weavers and embroidery workers, among the world's best.

It also offers one clue to the passions that divide India and Pakistan over this land. WITHIN the walls of the mosque of Hazrat Bal, overlooking the Dal Lake, is a hair from the head of the Prophet Mahomet. More than four-fifths of the fair-complexion-ed dark-haired Aryan people who live in Kashmir are, like the Pakistanis, Moslems. India is predominantly Hindu. Many years ago in a much earlier crisis when threats of war had driven tourists from the land, I traveled through Kashmir with Sheik Abdullah.

It was one of the sheik's last tours as premier. Not long afterwards he was imprisoned by the Indian government for seeking his own solution to the problem. Our tour was quite openly political, but it used that most inflammatory of all devices, a religious base. The sheik would read from the Koran to the assembled Kashmirians in the the mosque, and then move adroifly to politics. The sheik was imprisoned by his old comrade in arms and comrade in jail, Pandit Nehru, who released him just before his own death.

THE fortunes of Kashmir and those of the sheik have been closely related. When the Indian Premier Minister, Lai Shastri, imprisoned him again, the Pakistanis saw their hopes of winning Kashmir by peaceful means finally dashed. They have turned now to other methods. There are a dozen reasons why a peaceful solution should be found to the problem, and a dozen solutions suggest themselves to the traveler in Kashmir. But descend to the plains and talk, as I did, to the leaders in India and Pakistan, and the human factors raise barriers that the arguments of outsiders cannot hope to pass.

Those emerald valleys, snow-capped mountains, crystal lakes, exquisite gardens with every flower and fruit that you can name, have captivated all who have seen them. Indians and Pakistanis alike are determined that this land shall always be theirs. Distributed 1965, Inter Continent! Feature i aL (k (A UrV HI'' million who will swell the ranks of voter eligibles in the next 11 years even though young people on balance are less likely to vote than their elders. Their descent on the voting scene will be a major phenomenon. But they, are not likely to engulf and overwhelm the rest of the American electorate or to control the national choices.

Quotes Of the Day 195 by NtA, I ik. a know, fnrmin' ain't trhitt it used to hr!" (hi This Day in History In 1776, the term "United of a now union. States" was made official by In 1945, some 1 million Jap- the second Continental Con- anese soldiers surrendered in gress. Nanking. China.

In 1850, California was ad-mited to the Union as the 31st A Thought for the Day state. British poet Robert Brown-In 1919, almost the entire ingsaid: Every joy is a gain Boston police force went on and gain is gain however strike, demanding recognition small." Indonesian Foreign Minister Subandrio, blasting India for "aggression" against Pakistan just prior to the sacking of the Indian Embassy by an Indonesian mob: "The Indonesian government is giving all its sympathy to the Pakistan people, who are waging a just struggle against Indian have seen the nation in dire general economic distress. THEY may or may not tend to favor "one of their own" for high office. Since the rise of the Kennedys, it is almost part of Washington folklore to assume young voters will prefer young candidates, or at least those of youthful appearance and outlook. But at least one election specialist rates this largely nonsense.

Nevertheless, in the television era young good looks seem not only to be prized increasingly but also to be identified with the vigor and sense of command deemed vital in complex, troubled times. Older voters in large numbers often join with the young in eager support of such candidates. BOTH major parties are keenly aware of the rising need to fathom the minds of young voters and find ways of winning their support. Since the debacle of 1964, In which youthful voters came down heavily against Barry Goldwater, the Republicans particularly have been talking steadily about new appeals to the young. They are struck by the diminishing median age of the population.

Right now roughly half the country's 195 million people are below 28 years of age. The median may well go on declining to a point around 25 by 1980 and 1985. The drop has been going on since 1950, when a record high median age of 30 was established. Striking as the change may seem, a youthful population is, of course, not a new American phenomenon. In earlier decades, when infant mortality and general death rates were high, the median was as low as 16.7.

Not until 1920 By Bruce Biossat Washington Correspondent Newspaper Enterprise Assn. In the next three presidential elections up through 1976, some 38 million Americans now age 10 to 20 will come of voting age. The political effects of this avalanche of the young are bound to be immense. The oldest of these new eli-gibles will have been born in the year World War II ended. They will have no firsthand memory of the war, of the catastrophic events preceding it, or of the Great Depression.

The youngest will know only what they read of the Cold War's beginning, Yugoslav President Tito's break with Moscow, the Berlin blockade, the Korean War, the French war in Viet Nam. THEIR experience with American presidents, as of now, is limited to Harry Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.

The Truman regime and the early Eisenhower years are pretty dim recollections for those born from 1945 to 1956. No serious student of population imagines that when this avalanche of young people begins cascading into the voting booths it will hit with monolithic force. In other words, there will not be in the view of one such expert a "youth bloc." Like everybody else's, the interests and attitudes of young voters are extremely varied, reflecting differences of religion, race, economic status, family and cultural background, geography. The young ones generally should break into many groupings. This does not mean they will be carbon copies of their elders.

Their judgments of the great world struggle with Russia and China will be affected by the fact that some of this country's harshest events are unknown to them except as history. They will never BRAND'S Floor Sample Sf orevi cfe D(o LrKa DOG Dr. George P. Cressman, newly-appointed chief of the U.S. Weather Bureau, explaining his personal system for weather prediction: "First I check all available weather data.

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the enemy's national A reasoned response by the Russians would have been a long article in Pravda denouncing baseball as hooliganism. This, he notes, was impossible for a number of reasons. For another, the Russians hadn't read his book and hence did not know the proper response. Instead, they escalated immediately to Step 67. the enemy's road Even at this level, Dr.

Hans points out, effective cultural warfare can be waged without intense danger of wiping out all culture. To ban further tours by the Bolshoi, for example, would invite further escalation by the Russians. The reasoned response would be to bed the troupe in sheets full of cracker crumbs, house them in hotel-rooms next to convention parties, and steer them through a program of rigorously planned activity such as Doris Day movies, visits to the Senate and afternoon TV game shows. DR. Hans's critics have vilified him for daring to think about ways of making culture an effective weapon of the state.

As the Russians have shown again, however, culture in the era of the superstate is as much an instrument of policy as the ICBM and the secret agent. As Dr. Hans puts it, "You can't make an omelet without cracking a few eggheads." (0 1965, Ner Yen Times Newi Servict. WASHINGTON Moscow's abrupt decision to keep "Hello Dolly" off the boards in Russia is bad news. The official interpretation that the show was banned in retaliation against United States war policy in Viet Nam is not taken seriously by people who understnad relations between modern superstates.

These people find it laughable to suggest that Moscow thinks it can give American bombers tit-for-tat by cutting off David Merrick's rubles. (Merrick is the show's producer.) The "Hello Dolly" crisis, they agree, is retaliation all right, but not against anything that is happening in Asia. In the words of one war-room thinker, "What we are faced with is the danger of total cultural warfare." In striking against Broadway's most successful musical Moscow is overreacting in an escalation out of all proportion to the original American thrust. THE crisis was begun quietly enough last month when Soviet photographic planes flying over Cuba recorded the absence of Bobby ment. Scanning newspaper cuttings in the Ministry of Cultural Warfare, several commissars reported simultaneously that Fischer, the American chess champion, had been denied American passport permission to attend the tournament.

Here, it seemed, was a quiet, concealed move by the United States to strike a sneak blow against Communist culture. This suspicion may have been heightened by the negligible coverage given to the United States' Fischer gambit in the American press. The State Department's motives are obscure. The Fischer affair may have been a small probe by the CIA designed to test Communist cultural defenses. Whatever the case, no one anticipated a violent Communist response.

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