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mmv Man About Town KItM Be Nice to Co Out on a Date in The Whole Car Sometime Evening Ml Journal "Bllil lllilCTK "Monday, July 17, 1961 Page 14 Wilmington, Delawan 9 t- Follow the Lcllcr of llic Law ism. He says that since) th Legislature is about to filter more taxes from tobacco, it should start production of new cigarette that you can light at both ends. "Double your pleasure with the cigarette that has it in th middle," he would advertise. "Draw through the straw In the center. The smoke formation makes the difference!" Assuming that everyone Scnt the same amount of time smoking as before, the new T-Zone cigarettes would double the consumption of cigarettes because each one would burn up twice as fast.

Income from the present tax rale would i doubled and no tax boost would be needed. SNAGGLEPUSS, the odd TV lion, has taught a generation of children to say, "Exit, stage left." Once in a while, if thfl exigencies of the cartoon plot are exigent enough, he exits right through a door or a wall. Attorney Warren It, Hurt had no intention of exiting through the door when he started to leave the office of U. S. District Attorney Leonard G.

Ilagner on the second floor of the Federal Building last week. But ha ended up needing six stitches. It seems that as he passed through the office door to tho corridor, Mr. Burt raised his hand to wave goodbye to Mrs. Peggy Voss, a secretary in the office.

Just then a gust of air overcame the door snubber. The door dosed with a slam and Mr. Hurt's upraised hand went through the heavy pane of translucent glass. By Carl G. Smith 64pOKE AND SMOKE tax" proposals In Dover have proven that the citizen's sense of humor remains even though his patience is taxed.

One Delawnrcan suggests that the state rake in some extra profit from the proposed penny tax on soft drinks by making and selling slugs to bu used as six-cent and 11 cent coins in soft-drink machines. The state would establish a Penurious and Exchange Commission to produce and market the "coins," which would be known as koPECs. Naturally, It would sell the six-cent variety at four for a quarter and the 11 cent kind at nine-for-a-dol-lar, thus making an extra penny on each transaction. Conservatives, of course, will denounce the state's entry into the coinage business as "clinking socialism" but the majority will prevail. Experience shows that a certain number of such tokens would be lost down gratings and never get into soft-drink machines.

Since the state would already have collected not only its tax but also the entire price of the unsold drink, it would make an extra profit estimated at 3.2 per cent of gross sales. It has been pointed out that the state is already in the breakage business at the horse tracks, and the softdrink bottle tax field is a natural for breakage. A ban on canned beverages would have to be enacted, of course, to prevent anyone from escaping the breakage tax. Another proposal comes from an advocate of puffing social Regional Planning Commission to do the job it should do. A restriction on the amount the Levy Court can appropriate for planning has been removed.

The restrictions on coercive powers of the commission quite properly remain; for planning, subject to change as it must be, cannot be given the force of law. The planners must make a case for their plan and win wide acceptance of it. Zoning and other means eventually can give it the force of law. This is where the Regional Planning Commission has failed. It has not gone far enough with the authority it has, and it has not developed its map to the point where it is a dependable guide.

The Planning Commission has concentrated too much on the necessary trivia of its required work the review of plats submitted to it by builders for approval. How it can make decisions on these in the absence of the truly guide-posted map envisioned by the law is a point to ponder. The map, as it exists today, shows existing land uses well but shows proposed land uses hardly at all. The commission, as its various reports show, has at times employed professional consultants. It has also amassed a great deal of data on its own enough to do a good planning job.

Yet it has no person trained in planning its own, in its own office, of work on research and study. This is a strange omission, and one which R. Brilely Weatherby, the chairman, now proposes to correct. The city of Wilmington has recognized its need of a professional planning staff. The county's need is even greater.

Authority to hire the people and do the job is on the books. All that is needed now is the resolution and the money to go ahead and do it. npHE Regional Planning Commission of New Castle County would now be equipped to advise the Zoning Commission and the Levy Court on zoning petitions if it had followed the letter of the law that created it. If the planning body had done everything the law lays out for it to do, the guide lines for growth of the county would have been clearly drawn, even-one would be well aware of them, and there would be little need for its advice on individual petitions of a routine nature. For an extraordinary case like the Shell Oil request, the research and current appraisal of the situation would be well in hand.

The law is Chapter 25 of Title 9 of the Delaware Code. Section 2502 states the purpose of the Regional Hanning Commission as securing coordinated plans for roads, airways, railways, public buildings, parks, playgrounds, civic centers, airports, water supplies, sewers and sewage disposal, drainage and other improvements and utilities The commission is directed in Section 2507 to "prepare a master plan of the district (all of the county outside incorporated areas) showing "existing and proposed" roads, parks, playgrounds, airfields, open spaces, public buildings, and all the rest. There is nothing in the law that specifically refers to planning industrial, commercial, and residential locations. However, if a careful job is done of planning all the things that are specified in the law, the planners should have a clear guide as to where these areas should be located. The law is broad enough to enable the in an Mini mil i Letters to the Editor The Whole Sordid History llv (lore Yidal which means the killing of people who can offer little or no resistance, is scarcely the proper term for what happened to Custer at the Little Big Horn.

He and his men died bravely and resisted stubbornly with arms in their hands and inflicted severe losses among the Indians. George II. Latham Wilmington, July It. Self -Determination for All On Foreign Aul TO THE EDITOR: I would like to say a word about our foreign-aid program. If my understanding of the program as it now exists, is in error perhaps someone who knows more about it will write in and correct me.

Our program for countries provides that these countries needing help I believe get outright giveaways. This is a form of charity with harm done to both parties. It is an outright drain on United States capital. No bank in the world could exist for long under those conditions. Could we not operate this aid on a businesslike scale as a banker does? In fact it was an article printed in U.

S. News and World Report as well as the message to Congress yesterday by the President of Pakistan that prompted me to write this letter. I am wholeheartedly for helping others to gain ground and make better lives for their people but if we are going to be bankers for the whole world let us also use our heads about it. I have already written to our representatives in Washington on this subject. I do hope others will think seriously about it and do the same.

To me this plan to finance on long-term loans at very reasonable interest payable as they can do it makes sense. It will not only insure their future but ours as well. What can anyone sain if the banker goes under financially? Margaret Saye Wilmington, July 13. THE decision of the Kennedy Administration to stress the right of all countries to self-determination comes at an appropriate time as Captive Nations Week opens. A determined, aggressive move in favor of self-determination should prove embarrassing to Khrushchev, who is continually calling for an end to colonialism.

If the African nations are to become independent and choose their own form of government shouldn't the Eastern European nations now under Soviet domination be given the same right? It can easily be proved that Russia is violating the commitments she made at Yalta that the people of the Balkans should be permitted to determine their future at free elections. But these countries with their population of more than 100,000,000 soon became the victims of a colonialism more brutal and more explosive than any in history. The fact that these nations have been disguised as sovereign and independent "People's Democracies" has fooled no one. Once one of these nations attempts to assert its own ideas Soviet tanks immediately move in to reassert Russian con trol, as in East Germany, Poland, and Hungary. There is no question but that all of them are economic pawns of the Soviet Union with their people working as slaves to enrich their conquerors.

If the United States insists on raising this issue at every session of the United Nations and keeps pounding away at it some news of this action would filter through to the people of these nations. It would strengthen their spirit of resistance and this in turn would weaken Soviet defenses. The United States joined the Soviet Union in asking for an investigation of conditions in Angola, which the Portuguese do not consider a colony but part of their overseas homeland, in the name of self-determination. Neutrals backed the move. Now Senator Fulbright is asking neutrals to be consistent in demanding self-determination everywhere.

It is good that there is a Captive Nations Week each year to call attention to the fate of these conquered peoples. But such a week will be of little value unless something aggresssive is done to follow up the idea. And apparently the United States plans to do just that. Thanks TO THE EDITOR: On behalf of the 1961 Girls Stale Committee, American Legion Auxiliary, Department of Delaware, we wish to express our thanks to you for the publicity given our recent session of Girls State, held at Wesley College, Dover. We feel that the session was very successful and the girls were well informed concerning city, county and state government.

We appreciate what the Wilmington papers did toward alerting the public as to this worthwhile activity. We are indebted to Mr. Flood and Mr. Hazel of the Dover Bureau for their interest. Mrs.

John H. Conrad, Chairman Miss Helen L. Jones, Secretary Dover, July 10. committee, Rankin dismissed the columnist with characteristic charm as that "Communistic little kike." Neither in the past nor in the present has HUAC ever found "un American" any Fascist or racist organization. In fact, in 1942, the Ku KIux Khm's Imperial Wizard James Colescott said, "The committee's program so closely parallels the program of the Klan that there's no distinguishable difference between them." As for the John Birch Society, Gordon Scherer, HUAC's ranking Republican member, is a sponsor.

Not only is the committee instinctive in its dislike of the foreign born and colored minorities, it is even on record as opposing "racial and social equality." The final irony, of course, is that as the Communist menace outside the United States increases, inside decreases (today there are some 20,000 American Communists, a fraction of what there was in the '40s). Yet the hate groups grow more hysterical every day in Iheir search for Communists. Actually, their real targets are liberals, minority groups, intellectuals, "do-gooders" (they themselves are proud Their method is now so odd that if someone they dislike actively fights Communists (e.g. Dean Acheson) they will say: but what's his plot; ho only seems to fight Communists. He's really a spy.

Thisway paranoia and Candy Man Bob Welch, the Big Bircher lie. Hopefully, we now have Mr. Donner's book and I'm certain anyone who reads it will agree with Harry Truman that "the most un-American thing in America is the House Un-American Activities Committee." (Copyright, 11, N. Y. Hi-rald Tribune, Inc Karl is Ry HAL COCHRAN If the grass seed you plant comes up sparsely, it's likely a flock of birds can tell you why.

curacy several things in Mr. Gartineau's letter should be commented upon. According to Mr. Gastineau, Mr. Bell was misinformed in saying that his boyhood friend, Frank Sheldon, was a survivor of the Custer massacre.

He goes on to say that the only two who survived the massacre were an Indian Scout and Custer's horse. In challenging Mr. Bell's statement about Sheldon's survival, Mr. Gastineau seems to have confused that part of the battle commonly known as the Custer Massacre with the battle as a whole. As Mr.

Bell points out, several hundred men under Major Reno and Captain Benleen survived the battle. However, none (except perhaps the Crow Indian scout Curley) survived on that part of the battlefield where Custer was in immediate command, i. where the Custer massacre occurred. Since Mr. Bell explicitly states that his friend Sheldon was with Reno, he may indeed have been a survivor.

Sheldon's claim to be one could probably be checked from War Department records of the Seventh Cavalry. Mr. Gastineau is incorrect in saying that Custer's horse survived the massacre. The horse belonged to Captain Keogh, commander of troop, and was the only living thing found on the site of the massacre by the soldiers who arrived on the battlefield two days after the battle. Incidentally, the horse's name was Comanche.

Mr. Gastineau says that Major Reno and Custer were to rendezvous and strike the Indians together. As a mater of fact, Reno was with Custer, who a few hours before the massacre ordered him with about 123 men to cross the Little Big Horn and attack the Indian village an the west bank. Custer was to have supported the attack, but for some unknown reason moved i command several miles north along the east bank of the river, where, attacked by greatly superior numbers of Indians, he made his famous Last Stand. Incidentally, "massacre," When I was running for Congress last year (Now there's a phrase to empty a room!) I was asked the same planted question at nearly every meeting: Are you in favor of the House Un-American Activities Committee? My answer was usually more cautious than candid.

For purposes of legislation, Congress has a constitutional right to investigate anything it wants to, and I am all for Congress's traditional privilege. But then I would suggest tactfully to my audience that HUAC had produced less legislation at a greater cost than any committee in Congressional history, and as for its chairmen well, who could admire Martin Dies? Or that super-patriot J. I'arnoll Thomas, who went from Congress to the clink? Or the present chairman Francis Walter, whose only legislative distinction is the notorious Walter-McCarran Immigration Act, a sly bit of work Cardinal Gushing felt could not "be defended without recourse to the discredited and unchristian tenet of racism." I left the subject there, realizing that the lunatic Right has worked out a fine (and to many people perfectly reasonable) syllogism. HUAC is against un-American activities. Mr.

Blank is again.st HUAC. Therefore, Mr. Blank favors un-American activities. Fortunately, a brilliant ease against HUAC has now been made by Frank J. Donncr a constitutional lawyer, in a book called "The Unamericans," published by Ballantine as a paperback this month.

Using transcripts and documents, Don-ner records the whole sordid history of HUAC from its beginning in 1938. Originally, HUAC was a short-term investigating committee which evolved gradually into a standing committee though, contrary to precedent, its function is not legislative, but simply "exposing" Communists. John Rankin, of Mississippi, was godfather to HUAC in the House at the time of its metamorphosis in 1945. When Walter Winchell, among others, attacked the A Bad Day for the Unions Poor Postal Service TO THE EDITOR: When one considers the billions upon billions of dollars that the Federal Government has squandered and wasted upon foreign aid and space travel, among other projects, it is most difficult for me to understand why the public must tolerate the antiquated postal system with which we are saddled. In the past two days 1 have received a letter mailed in Wilmington which took three days to reach a post office box in Wilmington.

Another letter took four days to be delivered in Wilmington from Philadelphia. These instances are quite typical. Frederick Walter. Wilmington, July 11. The large majority of unions live within the law and are aware of their responsibilities to the public.

Even so, the concentration of power in the hands of a few can be just as dangerous in the hands of union leaders as it once was in the hands of industry. It is this fact that the two courts recognized in their decisions, and it is this fact that will tend to bring more, not less, federal and state control over organized labor. More on Cmler TO THE EDITOR: The article by C. Avery Bell That Got Away Told Custer's Story) in your June 28 paper, and the letter by Mr. Keith Gastineau, of Phoenix, July 1 commenting on it were quite interesting to me, since I have done a good deal of reading on the Battle of the Little Horn and have been over parts of the battle field.

For the sake of ac An East coast doctor removed a ring from a man's stomach. Moral: Don't bit your nails! A nation whose people remain scientifically illiterate during the '60s will not win any kind of rare except the race for last place. Physicist Joseph Kaplan, advocating the government buy evening television time for cultural and scientific programs. There's Nothing Artificial About Berlin Crisis This agency's job of counteracting the detrimental effects (abroad) of civil rights violation is not easy. We cannot make good news out of bad practice.

Edward R. Mur-row, director of U. S. Information Agency. outcome and an admission that fighting could ensue.

Macmillan, President de Gaulle and Chancellor Adenauer. Again there will be an oppor Saber-rattling is, of course, not a new thing and does not require much intelligence. But if the West talks to us (about Berlin) from a position of strength, we will know how to reply. Nikita Khrushchev. every effort, by word and deed, to convince the Soviet premier that it will insist on maintaining its mUitary rights in Berlin.

This doesn't mean any disinclination to talk or negotiate between now and October, for there is always a chance that a settlement can be effected. If, liovvevci, llic Soviet pixmicr announces his anticipated program in October, there will be a meeting of President Kennedy, Prime Minister ORGANIZED labor took a bad beating at the hands of the courts Friday. Out in Texas, a federal District Court jury awarded 28 men $1,197,072 from the International Union of Operating Engineers. Closer to home, a Delaware County (Pa.) Court judge found Local 12-234 of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic W'orkers Union in contempt and fined it $50,000. The Texas award made because the union ordered the men to shut down an oil refinery before going on strike even though the Phillips Petroleum Company had notified the union that it intended to operate the refinery with supervisory personnel.

At Media, Judge William R. Toal found the union had violated his temporary restraining order against picketing at the Sinclair refinery at Trainer. Do these decisions reflect an attempt to destroy unions? We think not. But there is recognition in them of the fact that since unions have achieved great power they must use that power responsibly. Organized labor got its emancipation in ho fr! of yonpr Act back in the early 1930s.

Today we take the right of workers to organize and to bargain collectively pretty much for granted; before the Wagner Act they were far from being generally accepted. As time went on, it became apparent that organized labor was growing bigger, and in some cases it was abusing its powers. The Taft-Hartley Act was an attempt to swing the scale of labor justice back toward mid-point. Taft-Hartley helped, but it did not halt abuses by organized labor in other fields. So another law, the Landrum-Griffin Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act, was added to the books in 1959.

Both Taft-Hartley and Landrum-Griffin are recognition by Congress that the greater power of organized labor calls for greater regulation. And just as business may call a regulatory law "anti-business," so organized labor may call these laws "anti-labor." I've loved every minute of it. It's a great lite, 'lhe army is a wonderful career lot-any man. Sgt. Bill (Pop) Kirton, 74, retiring from the British Army.

He joined in 1915. The News-journal Company Wilmington, Del. (Publishers) The Counlry Parson misunderstand the allied approach. First of all, it is to be noted that the Soviet premier has announced that, when the Communist party congress meets in October, he will make his move to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany. But, before this happens, the conference of foreign ministers of the West will have been held and certain diplomatic notes will have been sent to the Moscow government even before that meeting discussing frankly the implications of such an expected program.

Meanwhile, military planning will proceed on the assumption that East Germany will start a slow-moving but nevertheless brazen attempt to take over the access routes to Berlin. Any such steps will be resisted by military force. The Kremlin theory that a long-drawn-out debate on legal aspects will then follow is mistaken. To pursue that line would put the initiative in the hands of the Soviets and keep the West in a state of tension indefinitely. The principal danger of war lies in the possibility that Nikita Khrushchev still thinlcs the West is not united or that the allies will not act together promptly.

Such a miscalculation could bring on a "hot war." Hence the West is making IW David Lawrence. PARIS. The Foreign Secretary of Great Britain, the Foreign Minister of France and the Secretary of State of the United States will meet on Aug. 1 in a conference to be devoted to "contingency planning" with respect to the Berlin crisis. The meeting place vnr Hofm-nTrtnrf tvtj fcV Mv.i.

This is the first of a series of moves which not only will emphasize allied unity but will actually result in decisions as to future policy which will not necessarily be 'announced in advance. After three days of talks here with the prime minister, the foreign secretary and the finance minister of the French government, and with Gen. Lauris Norstad, the American commander of NATO forces, and with other high American officials here, certain impressions have been derived by this correspondent which may be outlined as follows: The international situation is regarded seriously on every side. Ask anyone in an official position whether this is a crisis that will blow over, or whether it might result in a "hot war," and the answer in every instance is one of doubt as to the tunity for a firm notification to the Soviet government of what the consequences will be if the East German government is given the go-ahead by Moscow to take over the rights previously held by the Soviets in and around Berlin. .1.

Ml. UO.ui ill OllO thing if Mr. Khrushchev thinks that, with the Soviets superior military strength in ground troops and conventional forces, he can drive tha allies out of Berlin because ha believes the West will not use nuclear weapons, he will ha making the biggest mistake of his career. For if a so-called "limited war" develops, it seems sure to become a major war. Talk, therefore, and negotiations with the Soviets are already under way, but, since the Moscow dictator has announced that he intends "before the end of the year" to sign a separate treaty with East Germany, the western allies also are formulating a timetable of countermoves which will likewise be put into operation between now and the end of the ypar.

There is no artificiality about this international crisis. 1561, N. T. HerlU -Ttibunt, Inc.) This is altogether different from the atmosphere that has prevailed at the various four-power conferences which this writer has come to Europe lo write about in recent years. For the first time everybody concedes the possibility that the worst could happen but fervently prays that it will not.

As one of the high French officials put it, there is altogether too much talk in the open and not enough restraint in public expressions as to future planning. Certain moves have already been purposely revealed, and their meaning is doubtless not being missed by Moscow. Thus, one division of French troops has been ordered back to France from Algeria and another may follow soon. This may mean two additional divisions for the use of NATO, though, as usual, the formal word is that the French troops will be associated with but not necessarily under NATO command unless war breaks out. It is unfortunate that some parts of the British press have seen fit to criticize President Kennedy's cautionary measures as "dilatory." To say this is to An Independent Newspaper Published Every Afternoon Except 8unda? Tcr A Us7C hTl rmano heB oa CHARLES REESK.

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