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The death of Prime Minister Hen- drik Verwoerd will not change this. If anything, it could accelerate the coun- try's drive to achieve total separation of races and more than ever con- vince South Africans that they are a lone bastion of white Western civiliza- tion surrounded by conspiracies dedi- cated to the destruction of all that they and their forefathers have built on the tip of black Africa. Advice From Our Elder Statesman Do Not Accept Heal WASHINGTON Dr. Eric F. Goldman, historian and Prince- ton professor, has quit as a White House consultant, which in his case meant being a bridge between President Johnson and the nation's intellectuals.

In a number of cases this has been like trying to build a bridge between reality and ide- alism. in'- one of those don't-quote-me-directly news conferences where he managed to reveal some thoughts after group than intellectuals for their efforts to keep the Ameri- can mind working at its highest levels. But also to this writer, who for more than a quarter of a century has watched politicians and government leaders in Washington, lot of. American intellectuals live in a dream world which has no connection with reality. They set up for themselves an ideal of what a president should be, although they would have two years in his job, believes difficulty agreeing on it, and there is still a wide gape be- tween Johnson and his intellec- tual critics.

For one thing, Goldman thinks there is mutual distrust between the two sides. Johnson is suspicious of the intellectuals' motives and they won't accept him as an able leader because his political maneuverings chill them. To this writer there is no more blessed, indispensable Whitney Rolton Sideways NEW YORK Don't look now, because you won't see any- thing with the naked eye, any- The murder of Verwoerd was not. way, but the fact is we are being only a brutal and reprehensible crime, trailed by two space ghosts who it was a stupid one--as stupid, some will hold, as the philosophy of apar- theid which classifies men according to their skin color, from white te black and every shade between. Verwoerd was no cruel dictator whose death the world should rejoice in.

He was the respected leader of a prosperous, progressive democracy, having been elected by a vote larger than any of his predecessors. What he represented, however, was one vast dictatorship--the dictator- ship of the majority of white South Africans, and one which has increas- ingly adopted the methods of facism and communism to silence opposition to its racial policies. Although the assassin of Hendrik Verwoerd was evidently a religious fanatic and an even more extreme racist than the premier himself, his bloody act may be a frightening fore- taste of the violence that many warn is bubbling beneath the oppressive crust of apartheid waiting for the right moment to erupt. Norton Mockridge Punch Line NEW YORK-Some time ago I told you here about a man and his wife who got into a terrible argument, climaxed by bis shouting: "Okay, jf that's the way you want it, then I'll walk out! leaving! This marriage is washed up!" The wife started to cry. "Please don't leave me," she wailed.

"How can you walk out after we've been married these seven years?" The man stopped at the door, turned and said: "Have we been married seven years? Really seven years? My God, I've never been married to anybody for seven years!" And then he took his wife in his arms, and they've lived happily together ever since. Well, I told this story to author Marya Mannes at lunch the other day, and she said: "That's what you call the seven-year bitch." appear to be violently in love with the moon. Astronomers, both professional and amateur, are keeping their eyes glued to the viewing pieces these nights, in and out of New York, in hope of seeing at least one. It's a lost cause. Only a special camera and an expert operator can have any hope.

The ghosts are two enormous cluods of space rubble which are orbiting the earth in the path of the moon. They are tenuous, faint, fluttery and thin, but loaded with all kinds of cargo, including, some scientists claim, the possibility of proof of life elsewhere. Radio announcer Gaylord A very tells me that just by looking at them on the beach, can tell married men from bachelors. "How can you tell a married man?" I bit. Replied Gaylord: "By his looks.

Quick and guilty." Several weeks ago I pointed out that in the language of numbers, the name Suzy probably has the highest total of any American four-letter first name. With A being 1, being 2, being 3 and so on, Suzy totals 91. Since then, dozens of read- 2rs have sent me other names that total higher than 91--names like Preston, 107; Zsa Zsa, 92, and.Zozyzy (that's a 133. But I'm afraid these people missed the main point: The competition is limited to four-letter first names. So now let's see who can beat Suzv.

Song writer Johnny Carlin told me the Dther day what inspired the song title: Baby." "The composer," said Johnny, "was writing about his girl. And she had a face like a melon, and a head like a collie." Writer Lorenzo Semple Jr. was in Spain recently and had some money stolen from him by a native. The man was and turned over to the police, but the police seemed to be most reluctant to book him. "I would suggest, Mr.

Semple," said the chief, "that you ignore this whole Ihing and that you do not press charges against this man." "Why not?" demanded Semple. "He stole the money, didn't he?" "Yes," said the chief, with a shrug, 'but it's a small matter. I think you should not press charges." "Well," said Semple, knowing defeat when he sees it, "all right. Let him go." "I will," said the chief, "but first you must write a letter to me, praising the man and asking me to release him. Other- wise, we can't let him go." The editors of the Catholic Digest tell me that the following was written on a blackboard in Kent Hall, Columbia Univer- sity: "1.

Find out who is Big Brother. "2. Find out what Big Brother wants. "3. Knuckle under." Features Syndicate) The fact that they at last have been photographed and that their negatives haVe proved clear and untampered with, is considerable of a feat.

You can't even get prints of them, they are so elusive, but they are detectable in a perfect negar tive. The two clouds were dis- covered in 1956 by a Polish scientist, who failed to ignite the world into any kind of, real excitement over the discovery. Actually, there are some space people who tended to scoff and they said the professor prob- ably was seeing some natural drift in the sky and misinter- preted it. Not so. The clouds are there, we now have nega- tives that show them, they are very large and do not offer the slightest danger to earth or.any- thing upon the earth.

If they suddenly fell upon us those live in large cities, anyway we might note that there was an unusual amount of dirt and specks in the air that day. There isn't even any scientific excitement over discovery that a fairly large rock from the belt of rocks between Mars and Jupiter is zingling our way. It is going to miss by a wide- enough margin not to harm any- one, will not impact on the earth and, after passing us, will swing on out into space again. The few space scientists I know were nettled at a report that the rock from the asteroid belt might clank down on us and two, standing at a black- board, have proved to me with chalk and mathematics that there is no need for concern. They drew pretty arcs, elabo- rate curves, tangential lines and it was bewildering and con- fusing but.I took their word for it.

They said that in any case, nothing need alarm any- one about the asteroid until 1968. I said I might not even be around then, so would not go into a depression or suffer from anxiety. The two clouds that move around us in quest of the moon do have some rubble in them, but the rubble is small and harmless bits of this and that. The people who have caught them with a camera say that they might contain evid- ence from outer space that life exists there, in one form or an- other, but that it would be microscopic proof. They might, they add, contain no proof of anything but that outer space is littered with debris small and large.

In any case, the amateur astronomers these nights are trying their best to locate the two clouds with a lens and the human eye, which isn't possible, and they might as well quit and get some sleep. The profession- als are snapping away with their cameras hoping to dupli- cate the feat of getting a decent, viewable negative. I asked one astronomer if he thought that astronouts really getting out there a long way would pass through the clouds or even see them up close. "No, they won't," he said, "and even if they did it would be as nothing compared to what they really will see of the cos- mos once they get out far enough to have a clear view of the universe. They will be stag- gered." syndicate) close their minds to the reality of what a president is.

One will have more intellec- tuality, like Wpodrow Wilson; one will be more bleak, like Cal- vin Coolidge; one will exude warmth, like Franklin D. Roo- sevelt, or ebullience, like Theo- dore Roosevelt;" one will have sheer-character sticking out of his ears, like Harry S. Truman; one will be a heroic symbol and nonintellectual but magical pac- ifier of emotions, like Dwight D. Eisenhower; and one will be the essence of grace, like John F. Kennedy.

Kennedy a more than grace. He had style and taste. In any of those fields Johnson is no match for Kennedy and seems to reveal it by his cease- less efforts to be accepted, ap- plauded and approved. But Kennedy was an amateur president compared with John- son in the sense of accomplish- ment, endless, energy, and 24- hour-a-day dedication to his job. Kennedy talked better than Johnson but performed less.

It is comfortable and com- forting for an intellectual to live remotely and safely in an aca- demic world, far away from the boobytraps of politics, and decide how the country should be run. On the far-off college campus he has none of the responsibility for running the country. He doesn't have to endurfe the or- deals, disappointments and re- buffs that go with the White House job. And he doesn't have to make the compromises which a presi- dent must continually make if, for instance in dealing with Con- gress, he hopes for some prog- ress by getting only part of what he had asked or proposed. And it is particularly comfor- table for an intellectual miles away from Washington to refuse to accept in his own mind any compromise or anything less than the ideal he has set for himself.

This might be considered in- tellectual snobbery. But to this writer it is simply immaturity. It is easy to sit back and decide what Johnson should do. But Johnson has to go through the grit and grind of doing it. (Associated Press) Phyllis Battelle 160 Ways To Spell One Word NEW YORK A i a children may be the most imag- inative kids in the world and the most impossible spellers' Take a word like "universal." A total of 1,137 students in sixth, seventh and eighth grades were asked to spell "universal." They spelled the word in 160 different ways.

And were almost universally wrong. But, reported a spokesman for Science Reserch Asociates (an educational and psychological publishing firm) which made the tests, were ever imaginative in devising so many different meth- ods for mispelling one word. Asked to spell the "fortune" a most necessary noun for young people'to know in this particular society the 1.137 flounderers after phonetics came out with 64 different spell- ings. Some were very resource- ful indeed such as "fourchin" (chic) "forchen" (literal) and "fortgin (imitative of the way some parents talk.) But on the other hand, some of the youngsters spelled it "ofr- tune." And that's fuzzy thinking. Asked to spell "require," some made it "requary." others "recuar" and one 14-year-old guessed, with dramatic simpli- city, "rquio." It seems incredible that our children could be so desperately- far from accuracy in such an essential element of learning.

What causes it? Poor eyesight, plugged ears, disinterested par- ents, hopeless teachers? Whatever the cause, something should be done. or today's ambitious youth, who rquio a fortgin, are going to find them- selves yuniversly out on a lim. Dr. Wayne Brandstadt Nearsightiiess Leads To Blindness Letter To Editor Dear Sir: I would certainly like to com- mend Commissioner Frederick J. Hill for voicing his objection to the awarding of a contract for paving the taxiways at the Municipal Airport.

Being in the construction in- dustry myself, I have experi- enced that sometimes the award- ing of contracts to outside con- tractors, even though bids are perhaps somewhat lower, does not always prove that this is the most economical thing to do. As Commissioner Hill men- tioned, the taxes received from the local contractors and the money that would be paid to the local workers, would be spent here in Cumberland and not elsewhere. As a citizen I believe that anytime a local business em- ploying local people, when bid- ding for work from the- city regardless of the type of work involved, that if at all possible that they should be given pref- erence. KENNETH E. SHEPLEY 405 McMullen Highway Q--Is it true that one who has to wear thick glasses is so near- sighted that he can't read a street sign? Will he eventually go blind? A--Persons who have the pro- gressive type of nearsightedness often have to wear very thick glasses and have very poor vi- sion.

They would have great dif- ficulty reading street signs even with their glasses. When their vision becomes so poor they cannot read the big on the eye chart, they are classified as blind even though they can still diffrentiate between darkness and light. When this condition is detected early in its course, its progress can be halted by an operation in which the further elongation of the eyeballs (the underlying cause of nearsighted- ness) is prevented. In this oper- ation the outer capsule of the eyeball is reinforced with a tis- sue transplant. Q--Sometimes my wife sees double.

She has a lump on the back of her neck near her spine. Could this be the cause? A--Double vision is usually due to paralysis of one of the muscles that move the eyeball. A tumor pressing on one of the nerves that control these mus- cles would be one cause of such a paralysis but a tumor on the back of the neck would not do it. Q--Several years ago I looked at an eclipse of the sun. I guess the dark glasses I used were not dark enough because the vision in one.

eye is blurred. Is there any remedy for this? A--No one should look at the sun even in eclipse. There is no kind of smoked glasses that would make it safe to do this for more than a second. Your eye doctor should determine wheth- er your blurred vision is a re- sult of a solar burn, for which there is no treatment, or some other, i remediable cause. Q--My niece has blurred vi- sion which an oculist says is due to malfunction of the pituitary.

What can be done for this? A--A tumor of the pituitary may press on the optic nerve and cause partial or complete blindness. The treatment is sur- gical or X-ray removal of the pituitary. I know of no other way in which a pituitary disease can affect the vision. Q--After a scries of tests my doctor says I have chronic uti- caria and angioneurotic edema. What is this and 'what kind of specialist would be the best one to treat it? A--Uticaria is hives and angi- oneurotic edema is giant hives.

You should sec an allergist. Please send your questions and comments to Wayne G. Brandstadt, M.D.. in care of this paper. While Dr.

Brandstadt cannot answer indi-. i a letter? he will answer letters of genera! interest in future columns. (iNEA Sen-ice) It's hard to believe, in the face of the above evidence, that America is caught up in "the greatest word game craze" in the history of indoor sport. Yet- S16.600.000 is spent annu- ally for the games that involve spelling and that figure is excluding the monies involved in a number of word game books, or in crossword puzzles. Some- body must know bow to spell, even.if the surveys and our mail doesn't show it.

Word games have been with us at least since the third cen- tury B. C. when the palindrome was invented (a word phrase that reads exactly the same forward and backward, as in "madam, I'm in fact, play with words preceded play with cards by at least 1,000 years, since card play is believed to have originated in Hindustan about 800 A. D. Latest of the word games is something called "Clock -a Word." which can be played by two or more players who com- pete to form the longest possible word in the shortest possible time, using nine letters that appear on the botom half of the game console.

The letters are on nine independently spinning rollers containing the complete alphabet: when a lever is push- ed. the letters change automatic- ally and a timer starts. Thus, the game combines the racing of the clock with an ability to rcassecblc nine unrelated letters into a legitimate word. Get the picture, children? Here's an example. You push the lever, and the roller spins you these letters v-u-i-n-s-l- a-f-r.

What can you make of it? Correct. You can make "uni- versal" or 160 different varia- tions thereof. Clock a guess. i 19'jB. King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Calif. Leopold Cann. to a lion approaching the wreckage of his plane where he lay: "Shalom." Ralph An Ineffably Sail Story This is another footnote to the agony 3f the Christian church. About 75 years ago Mercer University (Macon, Georgia) sold a corner Jot on fattnall Square for $10 to a Baptist church that wanted to build on the campus to serve the students, faculty, and neighbor- hood. The Christian ludex, official publka- tion of the Baptist conference in the state, reports that Tattnall Square Church mem- bership has voted 283 to 1U9 to exclude Negro students, even Negroes studying for ministry at Mercer, from 'attending services.

The deacons had voted 12 to 9, the report has it, to fire the minister and staff members. Under heavy pres- sure the final decisions had been tempo- rarily postponed. The young minister, who from the start has insisted he vail not support a segregation policy and will neither resign nor cease preaching what he believes to be the gospel, said: "I just tried in my ministry to make the Christian faith relevant to our scene. 1 cannot close the doors of my to anyone who wants to worship." The Christian Index said editorially: "No Baptist church is an island unto itself. Each is sovereign, to be sure, supreme allegience to God.

There also is a responsibility to others-which can- not be ignored- So it is now with Tattnall square Baptist Church in Macon. Its location on the edge of Mercer University's gives a status far greater than most churches its size. The church is' jmbroiled in controversy over the seating Df Negroes. The cameras of world opinion are focused there. Nothing the church can Jo will alter that fact.

"The discharge of Thomas J. Holmes and his staff, recommended by a ma- jority of deacons, is not the issue. His reputation through the years is too well established for the stain, if imposed, to ae other than a badge of honor. "The real issue at Tatlnall Square Baptist church is the future of that one whether there will be another ourden for those who seek to win a lost ivorld to Christ." The editorial is brief in words, expan- sive in truth. The votes of the members and the deacons in a church on the corner of a church-oriented university of increasing reputation and worth seem like something out of an ancient, dark past.

The church, the diehards say, must not participate in the world or the controversies. "Anyhow." some say. "we cannot split up our church Those who give the most money don't want any preaching that jpsets the congregation." An increasing number of ministers think that those members who "vote to be a burden for those who seek to win a lost world to Christ" should leave and form a private club which they can deceive them- selves into thinking is a temple of God. Whatever the future of the Christian church is to be, one of its footnotes will be that of a church calling itself Christian, located on the campus of a church-related university, refusing to allow colored stu- dents of the same faith to come to worship. If this were not so ineffably sad, it- would be hysterically funny.

Hall Syndicate)" Inez ttobb Some Crowd You know how it is with radio news- casts: You listen with half an ear to LBJ on the hustings, campaigning for peace through escalation; to Gen. Charles dt Gaulle urging peace through American de- foliation, and to racial dissidents seeking peace through Molotov cocktails. Then, whamo. along comes a real solid piece of news, and by the time both ears are laid back, you've caught the mes- sage but lost the professor's name. I did just that the other day as we were bowl- uig through North Carolina on the way back to New York.

Oh. I may have lost the a (for such was the professor), but I got his message loud and clear. It was jo the effect that on November 13, 2028 this old world will abruptly quit its wag and expire of a final sag. Looking Backward 1966 by NFA, Inc. "And if you don't (o the Proletarian Cultural Revolution, we'll have to consider vou a revolutionary!" 23 YEARS AGO September 9, 1911 Tuesday BUZZING SOUND--Police cir- dcs have been buzzing with rumors regarding the impending retirement of three high ranking officers of the department with action by the Mayor and Coun- ci' duo soon.

Mentioned were Chief Oscar A. Eyerman. Assist- ant Chief John J. Treiber and Desk Sgt. MilfoH L.

Crabtree; also Officer William M. Conncll. GIVEN--Posters af- fixed to local telephone poles announcing the gubernatorial candidacy of.Thomas E. Cook, Frederick, were ordered taken fl-nvn by city officials for lack of- a permit. REQUEST MADE-Merchants have been asked by the Cumber- land Chamber of Commerce to conserve gasoline by adopting a Ihrcc-point program suggested by the Mercantile Bureau, The cooperative venture calls for one regular delivery a day; asks customers to carry small pack- ages, and to eliminate deliveries except when impera- tive, i oil YEARS AGO September 9, Friday NAMED DIRECTOR--Brother Timothy, head of St.

Elizabeth's Htiih School. Philadelphia, was named director of LaSalle Insti- tute hero. He succeeds Brother Philip of the Christian Brothers. RESIGNS POST --Daniel M. Carl; chief clerk to Superintend- ent Charbs A.

Stcincr of the West Virginia Division of the Western Maryland Railway, re- signed after 16 years' service. APPOINTED-Dr. Thomas B. McDonald, Dr. Charles L.

Owens and Dr. William were appointed examining physicians lo the Civil Service board in charge of the Police and Fire Departments of a Commissioner George C. Frey was made chairman of the unit. Examining doctors will be paid $1 for every applicant checked, the fee to be paid by the appli- cant. The minimum weight was fixed at MO pounds for both departments.

It will sag fatally because on that day, 13, 2026, the population of the W1 Ut the 50 (repeat: 30 billion) mark. The jovial demographer, and jovial he was. indeed, pointed out that the population density on this- final day- would average 10.000 persons per square mile, or approximately that of Macy's two days before Christmas or. Times Square on New Year's Eve. Now, this prediction would have de- pressca me no end if I hadn't been cheered up by several optimistic prospects, includ- 1P Slhllify alomic war an answer to the population explosion, of uni- versal fam.ne if population is unchecked, of instant and worldwide use of The Pill within the next twelvemonth, and of pos- sible coonization of the moon, Venus, et al wuhin the next 20 years.

CC atforms an interplanetary be 3 nCCCSsity if a mi a aml famine depended upon to keep popula- 1 chcck they may VW SeU do lliin i 3 11 day with lcss lha 3.3 billion inhabitants on this globe there is serous talk of wide and d'-asuc a a in the near future. The great food reserves of the United i i nU1 rcccntiy lillcd menl and leased warehouses all over the nation are almost exhausted. We have been feeding an already hungry world. i kc my broa lca slin dem- -igiaphcr optimistically conclude that a mn i a feed 3.5 billions ade- i a lo sustain 50 bUlions Wllc in hour ct November 13, 2026? Where is the fowl coming from in million" 1 fi yC arS kccp that millions alivo-always granted that atomic war doesn't 'cm first? Considering the alternatives to Novem- ber 13, 2026, I refuse to worry about the ultimate overcrowding on that day. Long before that lime, death and taxes will have made their final raid on me.

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