The Delta Democrat-Times from Greenville, Mississippi • Page 4

EDITORIALS OF "You Know That Dirly Imperialist Warmonger. Jfan-ilium? Well, lie's A Dirty Imperialist Peaccmongcr" Greenville, Wednesday, August 7, IBM Wore it left (o me lo decide vc should luivc government without newspapers or newspapers willioul I should not hcsilnlo moment fo prefer I he latter. --Thomas Jefferson Was It AH Just A Dream? Two separate conversations this week are depressing lo recall on this day-after-eloclfon. Their import was shocking, and should make any thoughtful citizen, now that the first primary is over, feel degraded. The first was wilh a visiting newspaperman columnist who reports on and evaluates news of interest lo the Senior Citizen.

In his travels, ho hnd been slopping off in various stales to inquire about proposed legislation lo benefit the retired or needy elderly. Naturally, with a gubernatorial campaign going on, he thought Hint something of interest In his hundreds of thousands of renders elsewhere could ho developed here. The second conversation was with a young Ole Miss student, who plans to go with her husband lo Colorado to teach when they both gain their degrees. She was candid enough lo say that they reached their decision because starting pay for touchers In the western slate is about twice that in Mississippi, although they would prefer lo remain in the Magnolia Slate. WHAT THIS-AMOUNTS to is a terrible reflection on a ghastly slaJG of Mississippi politics.

Of course there was no proposal dealing with the improvement of tho lot of the elderly. Simply, while they are a large and growing "minority," there just happened lo be another minor group from which i i callously thought they could draw more mileage the Negro, of course. It was considered more politically profitable lo argue about whether James Meredith attended a candidate's rally, or whether John F. Kennedy slept in Ihe Executive Mansion. As to the needs of teachers and education, there wiis some cnsuiil mention of this, but tho subject did not, as it should have, develop into major issue.

Yet there is nothing more important--regardless of who ulliMidod a or who slept where--llinn the educational facilities of our We arc on the threshold of thu space indus- i a age. We need lu go a in education Icj meet the demands and reap Hie opportunities of the limes. But, no. It was more Important to the candidate!) to tidk about segregation which Ihcy cnn do nothing nboul or against Kennedy who was i for nothing In Mississippi. 4 THIS WAS a frightening forfeiture of responslbllty and com- inoMScnsc on the part of the candidates.

We do not to what extent the general i be blamed. Certainly it must share some of It. 1'or how many citizens honestly can sny today specifically they voted for yesterday? Whnl progressive measures did they favor? What program or proposal were they endorsing? In the absence of programs mid proposals, how much encouragement did they lend lo the a candidacies pitched almost solely on discord mid discontent, not lo mention outright hatred and vague fears? HKTWKKN NOW and the second primary we have second chance an i to talk about and listen to the i a questions and issues before us. We hope that the advantage will bo taken. In view of the bnd-dreamllko campaign wo have Just gone Ihrough, (his can he, however, no more than hope.

Long Ballot, Big Boxes Equal Headaches After yesterday's record vole there should be little doubt that basic reforms are needed in out- election day procedures in Wash- inglon Counly. Tho volo counters, both paid and volunteer, toiled long and hard at their thankless task. Every possible step had been laken to speed Ihe proceess. But when all was said and done, far loo much time elapsed belwcen the hour Ihe polls closed and the hour the last baliol was counted. This Is not fnir to the poll It is not fair to the candidates.

It is not fair to the people, nil of whom were anxiously awaiting the results. THERE IS nothing Washington County can do about tho long ballot. What Is done In other counties is also beyond our control. But there are at least Iwo possibilities for action in the county. The first has been suggested again and again by everyone from the county Democrnllc Executive Committee lo Third Dislrlcl Supervisor Herman Caillouel.

for reasons which have never been ftdc- qunlcly explained, the supervisors have turned thumbs clown on Ihn project. This is Iho purclnise and use of voting machines. This remains the best solulinn, but there is another which has been embraced by Jackson and other )arge metropolilnii iircns. This is lo split up (he vollng precincts into more manageable boxes. The Ideal solution would be lo have no more lhan 300 voters to a box, although this would mean some HO preclncln instead of Ihe pro-sent 18.

Cortninly the four biggest boxes in Greenville, with some 1,500 voters apiece, could be subdivided without too much trouble. These are two possibilities. There may be others. But the time Is past due when Ihe county should I he problems caused by a lonr; ballot and 12,000 qualified electors. Philanthrophy Chiselers: An Answer Philantrophy has become bij; business in the United States.

A conservative estimate puts tho total amount of money donated 1 to worthy causes at some $10 billion a year. Inevilably when there is that much money floating about, racketeers and confidence men attempt to latch onto a large share of the proceeds. The favorite ploy of the cbise- lers Is to provide "professional" assistance for worthy causes, then rake in all but a fraction of the total they raise for their "administrative" costs. In some cases Ihc charity may get as little as 10 per cent, while the professionals will take the remaining 90 per cent. More than one civic endeavor has been bitten by the confidence men, finding itself left with little more than the headache of trying HOODING CARTER Editor and Publisher JOHN T.

GIRSON General Manager lo explain what happened to the money generous citizens had contributed. What it nil points lo is appnrcnl. What is needed is more combined fund ns exemplified by Ihc Community Fund Drive rqther lhan less. In the Community Fund, small fraction of total goes for administration. All but tiny a of tho drive workers are unpaid volunteers.

The money goes lo clearly designated In clearly allocated amounts. It Is the best bet for the American's charily dollar, with the least chance of crookedness and graft involved. Since philanfrophy is big business, it stands lo reason that the best organization should handle Ihe greatest possible share of Ihe total. There Is far less chance for unsuspected grief when it docs. HOODING CARTER III Associate Editor and Publisher ROBERT W.

HUOWN Managing Editor Memory Did Serve And It Was But In Middle Way Il's Mnnclny morning, nnd our first slop Is St. James Hpiscopal Church's Parish House, for 5 lonk'sce nt its Daily Vacation liihlc School that's just getting umlenvny. one nf (ho very few times in Olc! Kind's career, wo arc n- licnd of lime, since Iho Ml rings nt fl o'clock nnd it is only when wo stroll through the Parish Utilise. Only l.ciln (Mrs. DoufO Wynn is on deck, wilh a small fry trio consisting of Myln Myers, Antly Forte nnd one of tho Jones boys (who looks liko Haby Jane).

We nsk if we might sec Mrs. Alfrctl Rnniscy, and l.eiln stiys that's Shula, nnd we sny maybe so Ixit wo call her Memrie, nnd the paper siiys will teach 2nd grade in your Bible School, nml l.eila says tint's right, I lien leaves (ho room to hunt for (ho a i lady wtio is friend of ours of ninny years standing, having stayed nl our house way hack in '51 or '55 or something like llitit, when YPSLs from nil over the diocese were converging on -St. Jiirncs Parish for several dnys of prayer nnd fellowship ct cctern. While Leila searches for Simla ((wo Klil! say it's Memrie), we nre welcomed, by Rev, Pat Sanders, shepherd of the sheep and himbs, then become concious of the fact Hint someone is staring nl us from Itic rear, nnd it's Charles Eskrigge, the third, nnd consistently silent son of Katie nnd Richard, who returns NOT our greeting. IT'S NEARLY 9 now, and the placo is filling up with pupils nnd faculty, Anne Stock, Kitty Collmgham, Knlie Hskriggc, Sally NehlcU, Camilla Lowry, Annis Anno Grnflon and hero comes Memrie Gnry Ramsey, tells us she's realty Shula, that Memrie was her middle nnino nnd Old Stuff is the only one wtm ever called her thtil.

Well what's in nnnic, nnyliow? Yol why did we call her i i one else did? And how didi sho cnmc by such a middle name in the first place? These arc questions. Another name which rings bells for UK is Mcniric (Mrs. Wfl t.s rcen wood. Was i friendship, kinship or coincidence only which caused the 1 at tor's given name lo be handed down in the Gary family? Meanwhile, Mrs. Jack Lowry, (lie church- secretary at St.

James Episcopal, supgcsls (hat Pill (Mrs. Kufus) Tlwmpson might have sonic of (he answers, what witti her husband being Shula Memrie Gary Ramsey's cousin on the Gray side. So we call Mrs. Thomspon, whose daughter, Mary Ward is a member of the Lane-Joseph Brownie Troop (so frequently publicized in this column), Ixit the business in hand gets out. of hand when we learn that Pat nnd RnFus are unlives of Helena, where Old Stuff lived i he was nenr- ly 13 months old.

We mentioned Dr. Hornor (our family-phusi- CIEIH) and Chnrlic Woolen who was Daddy's partner in a very short-lived venture in coilon- merchandising in Helena, nenr Ihe turn of the century. And Mrs. Thompson came right back with Ihc information that her two daughters, Mary and Patty, had Wuoten nnd Hornor godmothers respectively. SHE ALSO (old U3 that her people, the Durhnms, had lived in Conwny moving to Helena, nrnl this caused us to drop the names of Mozelle and Jack Nelson, CurrvrtiyiEOs and DardaneHe- ilcs, who are now residents of Greenville, nnd Pat Thompson said yes indeed she had played bridge i Mozelle (he day he- etc.

I It's a lot of keeping track of people you meet, anil pondering such imponderables 05 Hie whys and wherefores of middle- names. Which brings us right back lo Shula Mcmrie Gary Ramsey, whom we knew as liltlc girl. A recent Cleveland bride. Mrs. Ramsey's husbnnrl, A is an engineer with U.

S. Gypsum, and (hey live in Culley Aparlmenls. She (aught last year at Boyd School, and will continue teaching there for the approaching session of '6-3'W. Mrs. Ramsey's sister, Sharon Gary, will also teach at Em lioyd, and will make her home with Mrs.

Gilliam Smith on South Washington Avenue. As for (he Ramsey name, we had letter several years ago, from Mr. Ramsey Sr. of Cleve-land (then Superintendent of Education for Bolivar County), relative to Ramseys the two of us had known, some who spelled the name with "cy" and others with many of varieties probably being kin, the one lo Ihc other. And right now we aren't sure alxwt the spelling of our old friend Mrs.

C. E. Low ry's name Iwforc marriage. She was Miss Ella Hubbard Ramsay and we went lo Mississippi A with late brother, Granville, who was a doctor in Copiah County, nnd a lifelong resident of same. AS FOR the Wells family of Greenwood, mentioned a few paragraplis back, wo remember Jack Wells, and his wife, tho former Annio Ramsey Longino, (daughter of Governor Longino).

Their daughter Lillian was a week-end guest at Pcacednle, back in the early when Mary Augusta was visiting the Greenville kin. And Lillian's mother went to Millsaps College wilh Fannie May Virden nnd Howard McGchcc. Case Histories: Congressmen Try To Keep In U.S. WASHINGTON In a tcarch through federal crimo files, this column has come across the names of four members of Congress who have tried to save mobsters from deportation. These were not obscure hoodlums who could easily pass Jhcmselves off as aggrieved con- They were big-lime, big-money racketeers with international police records.

CASE NO. 1 Congressman Mike Kirwan, Ihe lough, twinkling Irishman from Yo-jngslown, Ohio, introduced a private bill lo cave Frank Cammarata from exile. Tho Sicilian-born Cammarata, lean and mean, is a graduate of Detroit's infamous purple gang. He is described in Ihe federal Rouges' gallery as "A killer, holdup man and narcotics dis- Iribulor." Congress failed lo share Kir- won's benevolent attitude toward Iho mobster, and in 1958, Camm a a a skipped lo Cuba in order to avoid deportation lo Italy. He soon fell inlo the clutches of dictator Fidel Castro who hail Cnmmarata arrested for possessing cocaine.

But word got back lo U. S. narcotics officials that the racketeer's real offense was smuggling drugs witho'jt giving Ihe Castro Government ils cut. FRI files tell a fascinating account cf how the bearded Cuban dictator tried lo take over Cammarata's operalinn. He used two renegade American hoodlums to try lo trick Cammarata inlo disclosing where he rot llie stuff and how he disposed of it in the United Stales.

Ono of the hoods, who used Ihe alias of Carl Weston, actually was planted in Cammarata's cell (o win his confidence. But the. wily racketeer was too experienced at keeping his mouth shut and didn't tumble for Ihe ruse. CASE NO. 2 Louisiana's likeable Congressman Jimmy Morrison introduced a private bill lo stop the deportation of New Or- leans mobster Sllvcslro Carollo.

A darkly menacing fellow wilh black, thinning hair and a long curving face, Carollo is currently No. 34 on Ihe International list of narcotics violators. "This man," says the confidential report under his mug shot, "is a dangerous man and has been connected with narcotics traffic- for many years." His arrests go back lo 1923 and encompass everything from swindling lo the murder of a narcotics agent. Again, Congress learned the truth about Ihe man in time to pigeonhole Morrison's bill. Carollo was deported lo his native village of Tcrrasini, Sicily, where he now operates the biggest bar in town.

Parenthetically, Carollo Isn't Morrison's only acquaintance on the shady side of (he law. The handsome, happy-go-lucky-lawmaker used to be a frequent guest of underworld lobbyist Murray Olf at shrimp luncheons. On at least oae occasion, Morri- Almanac United Press International Today is Wednesday, Aug. 7. Ihe 2)Sth day of 1963 wilh 146 to follow.

The moon is approaching its last phase. The morning stars are Jupiter and Saturn. The evening stars are Mars and Saturn. On clay in history: In 1942, U. S.

Marines landed at Guadalcanal to launch America's first offensive battle in World War II. In 1347, the raft Ken-Tiki landed on a reef in Tuamotu Archipelago after a 4,000 mile voyage from Peru. In 1954, England's Dr. Roger Bannister and Australia's John Landy each ran Ihe "mile of a century" race in less than four minutes. son arranged a good lime in Las Vegas for a group of Congressional secretaries.

CASE NO. 3 Olin "The So- Ion" Johnston, the South Carolina Senator, somehow was persuaded lo introduce a private bill for Ihe special benefit of Nicolo Impastalo, one of Kansas City's most notorious gang, slers. Impastalo is a light, thin-faced, shy-looking man who wears rimless glasses and resembles a college professor more than a crime czar. But beneath his mirg shot in the federal roughes' gallery appears Ihis ominous "Has been known to use vio- lance, including murder, lo main- lain his organization; though deported, he still has an income from rackets in Ihe United Slates." When Johnston's bill failed lo save him, Impastato slipped across Ihe border inlo Mexico to continue directing his operations from the Mexican side. However, the Mexican Authorities obligingly deported him to Italy, saving Uncle Sam the trouble.

He now operates a farm outside Ihe same village of Terrasini where Curollo lives and laments. CASE NO. 4 Congressman George O'Drien, recently retired by his Detroit constituents, dropped a private bill inlo Ihe House hopper to keep racketeer Ralph Cannavo in this country. The slender, blue-eyed, fair- haired has been deported three times but keeps bouncing back. His niche in tho hall of infamy is assured by this caption beneath his mug shot: "A hardened criminal who "has never had a legitimate source of income; has engaged in counterfeiting ami narcotics trafficking for many years." These are strange constituents, indeed, to be on such good terms wilh the men who make lha laws they break.

JFK, Khrushchev Could Lose On Pact, But Mac's Win Sure WASHINGTON The one world figure who simply cannot lose from the partial nuclear test ban, no matter what might happen in the afterlight of this chancy Western accommodation wilh the Soviet Union, Is the Conservative Prime Minister of Britain, Harold Macmillan. Indeed, the more the thing is examined, the more it becomes apparent that the one absolutely certain good effect of this transaction will be the added strength it cannot fail to give to Macmillan in his party's coming election contest wilh the I.abor parly in England. The most powerful of the treaty signers could be greatly assisted but even more greatly hurt. If the Russians, as st often before, should welsh on Ihe pact, or if it should prove not to serve Western security interests, President Kennedy would be deeply damaged. T111S WOULD BE both in a domestic political sense and in the President's rapacity as leader of the Western world.

President Charles de Gaulle of Planning Next Year's Debates Now Sensible France, who takes a very poor view of the whole business, would be enormously promoted as the one authentic sage of the West. (This, of course, assumes Senate ratification of the treaty is to come.) Even Nikita Khrushchev of the Soviet Union has no assurance whatever of coming out ahead. Some Senators of special influence on defense matters have been told in confidence by top Administration figures that Khrushchev's real motive in agreeing to a halt in nuclear testing, except underground, was, in his own words, "to isolate" the Chinese Communists. If such is actually the case -if Khrushchev is as genuinely frightened of the Chinese as our official people believe he is he has laken a great risk here. For the basis of this flight must be his private estimate that the Chinese are far stronger than his semi-public pooh-poohing of their nuclear polenliallies could possibly indicate.

And if they really are lhat strong, it is not impossible lhat he may entirely fall to "isolate" them and may in fact wind up wishing he had not risked Ihis public break wilh them. Macmillan, however, is home free, even if developments should make the treaty taste sour in- stead of sweet. Kor his greatest political problem far sharper than Ihe current problem of tha sex scandals within his Administration has been the rank growth of neutralism and ban- the-bombism in England. Labor party has a much higher density of demagoguery on this issue even than the most frantic Democratic left-wingers here in Washinglon. It has steadily milked this neutralist and semi- pacifist spirit to enormous political profit.

Now, however, "Old Mac" can say lhat it was he who for years nudged President Kennedy inlo leading Ihe West inlo this treaty. Tie can always say he got a "test ban" for the British; and no matter how poor a "test ban" it might turn out to be, it will slill be a plus for him in England. HE WILL HAVE struck from the hands of Ihe Labor party leader, Harold Wilson, the biggest weapon he ever has held against the Conservative British government Ihe innuendo that the bad old Conservatives ara not really interested in peace and are really in favor of atomic fall-out. That Macmillan himself needs no blueprint lo see this political gain is already abundantly clear. WASHINGTON It is (ill lo tho good that careful and competent consideration is taing given to planning the liXif Presidential debates.

The Kennedy-Nixon debates set a pattern and a precedent which can well Iw improved upon but will not likely be abandoned. Already the American Political Science Association has appointed a special committee to study tho most desirable format for lutiirc television ami radio debate between Ihc Presidential nominees, it is already consulting with the Republican nnd Domocr.ilic National Committees. There is little doubt lhat President Kennedy and his Republican opponent will agree to continue the debates next year. Mr. Kennedy is committed so precisely and so unequivocally that there is no comfortable way for him to withdraw even if he wished.

At his second press conference as President he was sskeri this rjuoslinn: "Could you tell us. to clear the air on Ihis, whether, if you aro a candidate In 1961, you would agree lo debate?" "I would, yes," he said--no ifs, no buls. no qualifications. 1 do not sec how tho Republican nominee could sensibly decline. Most of the advantages would be on his side, lie would luwe lilllo to lose and much to gs by participating, lie would gain a tremendous audience for his views.

He would raise him self to the level of an incumbent President hy appearing jointly and he would have ihc asset this time of being on the attack, not on the defense. Mr. Kennedy would have advantages he did not have in 1960. He would have four years of experience In office. He would be more knowledgeable and he would have all (he information resources of the Executive branch of the government, DUT THERE could be some improvements over the I960 procedures.

This is why it will be useful to have the proposals of the Political Science Association committee. They have named a good committee. It is made up of Prof. Carl J. Friedrich ol Harvard, president of the Association and chairman, Prof.

Harold Lasswcll of Yale, Prof. Richard Neustadt ot Columbia, Prof. Peter Odegard ot the University of California, Elmo Roper, Prof Gerhart Wiebe of Boston University, Charles Thompson of thft RAND Corporation, and Prof. Evron Kirkpatrick. executive director of the Polilicnl Science Association.

Some ot Ihe politicians may feel that the professors are horning in on their affairs. This is a narrow view. These debates must be under the control of Ihe nominees, but they do not belong exclusively to the politicians; they also belong to the electorate and the political scientists will ho fair spokesmen of the public interest. My own judgment Is ihat the 1660 debates, while immensely valuable, were too fragmentary Ico repetitive. The views of the political scientists on how they can be made more useful to the voters and more informative should be welcome.

HAVING WATCHED all four of the Nixon-Kennedy debates and having participated in one of them as a member of Ihe news panel of questioners, I would hope a these changes would be considered: Extend the debates from one hour lo an hour and a half to provide more time for substantial discussion. Permit each nominee an opening period of 15 minutes to expound his position on the main issue under debate. Allow the candidates to question each other and reply. Let Ihe candidates choose what they want to debate. Confine the reiwrtorial panel lo asking follow-up question: aflsr ihc candidates hive questioned each other.

If you have any suggestions, I'll be glad to pass on to the committee..