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

EDITORIALS OF Greenville, Thursday, August 8, The Responsibility Is Plated Yesterday a civic club speaker addressed himself lo Hie question of socialism versus the free enterprise system. Club members could have been forgiven for sinking into their scats with a yawn, expecting this would be still another speech in which the fc-dcral government and all its works were vigorously assaulted, while tho hard issue of responsibility for the trend to centralization was neatly skirted. In this case, however, the pattern was broken. In a deeply moving, articulate way, the German-born manager of Imlianoln's Modern Line Producls Co. not only sketched the dangers ot what lie saw as socialism, he put an uncomfortably accusing finger on those) who deserve a good share of the blame.

In his talk, Waller Wnhlcr did what so few other luncheon club orators ever bother to do. He made his nudienco think rather than react. Not everyone bad to agree wilh him that today the nation is in danger of moving into the socialist state. 13ut few could deny the of his cxnmplcs. How close are we lo the idea ot free enterprise when businessmen demand, nnd get, government subsidies in the form of high tariffs, he asked? What kind of capitalism is it that permits the government to subsdixo agriculture out of the world market, Wohler thereby also pricing Ihc cotton- a a i industry out of the a also? In other words, Wohler did not go out looking for convenient scapegoats to blame for centralization, lie spoke to men In hig audience, men whose own actions and desires had helped bring it to pass.

The rc.spnnsibilily, he was saying, lies not in Washington or on this shoulders of welfare recipient!) but on yon. Perhnps lie made some of his listeners innct. Hut the enthusiastic ovation he received when Ihc talk was over demonstrated lhal to most, of the audience lie had made good sense. Perhaps we arc Indulging in i i i but we can't help hoping that Wohler's a is the prelude lo more of the same, ralher than a reversion of the hell-fire and brimstone denunciations of Washington which may purge (lie soul but do i In place the responsibility where It belongs. Votes-And Dr.

Perkins Now thai the smoke has cleared from the political fires of Ihe First Democratic Primary, one conclusion can be reached in Ihc vitriolic campaign of a candidate for lieutenant governor. We are referring lo the campaign of Jackson chlropraclor David Perkins, who ran a dismal fifth, polling less than 20,000 voles, which the two runoff candidates, former Lt. Gov. Carroll Gartin and retiring State Treasurer Evelyn Gandy, received a combined lolal of some 225,000. Perkins boasled in his campaign literature, which was substnnlial, that he was another "fighting Bilbo" and thai, if elected liculenanl governor, he would "treat a Negro like nigger" and send them back to Africa If they didn't conform to his dictates.

In doing so, Perkins harked back lo early demagogues who "el led nigger" lo gut elected, and then did lllllc except exploit the people of both raccK. The people of Mississippi no longer are so unsophisticated as to accept llus same bowl of racial hale. They named as runoff candidates two persons who aro slnunch segregalionisls, but who also offered voters a well-rounded platform of progress designed to make Mississippi a better state. In doing so Ihoy advanced Ihe cause of cnnslructlvc government and said by their ballots Hint halo campaigns nro as obsolete as horses nnd buggies. Democracy Reaffirmed Tuesday's vote in Washington County was phenomenal.

Over 9,000 voters turned oul lo cast their ballots, representing some 80 per cent of all the qualified electors. Wo linvc so often scolded the voters for neglecting, to use Iheir franchise that today we are happy to be able lo commend them. No candidate could complain lhal he did not receive a fair appraisal because, of voter apathy. No election was decided by the stay-at-home vote. This is the way it should be in every election.

It is the way wo hope il will be In the second primary three weeks from now. Tho election will be just as important ns Tuesday's. Tn many ways it will he more Important, because the i decision in Ihc (op conlcsls in (he slate nnd some of Hie most significant ones In Washington County will be deckled (hen. But for Ihc moment all Washington Couutians can bo proud of themselves for (heir full parlicipa- llon in the electoral process. Their votes signified holler than any words their belief in our democratic heritage.

A Child Is In Danger Politics takes a vacation when an infant Is in danger. Today the President's worst enemies nrc joining his family In praying for the safe recovery of tho Kennedys' second son, born almost two months prematurely. Tho child apparently is suffering from a respiratory ailment, and while the reports are not specific, any kind of Illness in a new-born baby can be dangerous. Every parent can appreciate the dgony through which the Guest Editorial President nnd Mrs. Kennedy are now passing.

All those who have lost children, cither early in i or later, know the grief such a loss can bring. The burden of tho loss is almost too much for any family to have lo bear, let alone a man and woman who must carry so many other burdens as well. Our thoughts and prayers arc today centered on Boslon. A child is in danger, and his recovery is our first desire. Alcoholism II alcoholism were a disease caused by germs, a national emergency would be declared, said Dr.

Andrew Conway Ivy, distinguished physiologist, speaking at a convention of the National Committee for the Prevention of Alcoholism. In his opinion, alcoholism is tho nation's foremost social problem and its No. 3 public health problem. The United Slates is producing about 550,000 new alcoholics a year, said Dr. Ivy, who pointed out that the loss.of wages because of drinking amounts to more than $600 million annually, and the total loss to industry comes to at least $1.4 billion.

He didn't attempt to put a monetary value on the crimes committed, individual lives ruined, divorces caused, children abused, and other assorted social carnage caused by the abuse of alcohol. What makes a person become an alcoholic? Such factors as personality patterns, psychological defects, physical make-up, life sil- HODDING CARTER Editor and Publisher JOHN T. GIBSON General Manager "Want To Transfer To My School, Kid?" pvvv. IJHe Wore Two Hats And One iJWas Tipped Very Generously il Charlie Has Disappeared And The Farnsworths Are Unhappy Wlw says education doesn't pny off? On Tuesday for tho first in my Ufa I BOW the Washington County Court House yard free of litter on election clny. 'ITio "voters' way" was lined with givers ns usual hut for the first timo those who received tho cards kept them In hand nnd refrained from tossing them to tho wind when tticy rebelled the steps leading into (lie building.

YCJ, (he AnII-liller publicity in schools, newspapers, magazines on TV mid rndio is paying off, more And more its nre learning to coopcrnle wilh rmti- i laws, and the HANDS nnd Keep America Beautiful grnins. We firo learning to help "Keep Greenville Clean." I crm'l help but worry over where of us who smoke and hnvc lighters thnt never oiu national park of New Mexico. Tommy Knberson and Bobby McKcllar left hy piano Sunday Jo spend a week in New Orleans wilh Bobby's brother, Charles I 1 McKellar Jr. Tire boys arc having a good lime seeing the and eating tho wonderful lood for which New Orleans is famous. THE minute Palmer and Dorothy Karnsworth drove up to their home after vacallon spcal in Mexica.

they knew a something was wrong. Charlie disappeared, Cliar- lie Is while painted iron rabbit who sal on the grass close to the Farnsworth front door. He has been a member of Dorothy's family for as long ns she can remember. And Dorothy is Ihe kind of person who loves people and Charlie, though he is made of iron, is a person. But he is also an Iron rabbit and he couldn't have walked away.

He must have been moved and Dorothy and Palmer hope. lli.il the person who moved him away will move him back. She has bought another iron rabbit but, well, he just isn't Charlie. $6)1 HCtt Try And Stop Me ti The Miisicnl, "Mr, President," suggests ihfil chief executive feds lost nflcr he leaves the Wart els. "J1I just drive them work, will Ret our free matches While House for goal.

Several ncliinl Presidents of the U.S.A., however, scorn eel lo he rnlhur rc-lievcd when they retired from their exnltcd office. nations, and (he ability of nn Individual to withstand nerve strain and solve problems nrc some factors. How can a person toll whether he is lending to become an alcoholic? Most importantly, growing thirst, a tendency lo take two drinks whore one sufficed before, especially if he drinks to relieve nervous tension, soothe his fears or fortify himself ngainsl difficulties. What's the answer lo alcoholism? There's obviously no easy single answer to so complex and serious problem, The National Committee prescribes education at home, at school, and in the church. That's fine as far us it goes, but education alone can't do the whole job.

A concerted, many pronged approach is needed, drawing upon the fields of medicine, sociology, and other areas to overcome a problem as old as mankind, but as society becomes more complex and more mechanized. (The Morning Record. Walllngford, Conn.) HOODING CABTKR III Associate Editor and Publisher KOBKIIT BUOWN Managing Editor now that tliu first primary is over. Hul perhaps some camli- dnles in I tic second primaries will solicit our vote with free match foltters, I ccrlninly hope so. I Icnrnctl yesterday Ihfil Gnrii- villc nlotig wilh Mississippi Stale Col Lego for Women nnrt McComh can lay claim lo Itartxirn Jnn Nnvc, Miss Mississippi.

Hack in her school cliiyji she lived here ami wns a friend of Patricia Kromser. Pnt- rlciB hns picture of parly she was in the sixth grade ntid the Miss Mississippi wns among llc Riic.sts and appears in Iho picture. CLARA King of Avon has been making nn exciting lour of Ihe west. White she Cnrlshari Caverns nnrl look the a a i walk through Ihe lam- George Washington, Eor in- declared, "I'd mill or be in the grave than in Ihc presidency Said Tlmmns Jefferson: "NevtT fUd prisoner released from his clinins fed sued relief as I shall in shaking off the shackles ot power." Ami Limes whispered to Abraham Lincoln, nro as happy, dear Sir, cm entering the While HOIISR as am on leaving it, you arc the happiest man in the Country!" NAT wartcls, a 2-handicap golfer, stopped In at a sporting goods storo just olf Times Square and bought a dozen golf balls. "Shall I wrap them up?" asked the clerk.

"Don't bother," said WASHINGTON'- The Public Director Apple brought pressure New Orleans Racketeer Carlo, Health Service, wilh a furtive upon Iho Armstrong Cork Co. to backward glance a taxpay- cancel a TV show, exposing The Ilahaas arent at all en. ders were being peddled lo the public. Public Health the American Pharmaceutical Association to study how pharmacies can serve as community health centers. The Association's executive Director, William Apple, will also about Ihe APA grant.

A PHS help the University of Pittsburgh spokesman claimed that Ihe APA spend another $221,057 ol the tax- application was a payers' money to study drug costs and uses. By a curious coincidence, the Public Health Service's pharmacy chief, Dr. George Archambault, happened to be doubling in brass as president of the American Pharmaceutical Association whilo both grants were bing processed world. He wasn't even born in Italy, but in Tunisia. It was his Italian parentage, the Justice De- NOTE The Service has kept strangely silent partment avers, that makes him deportable now.

Earlier, the Immigration Ser- vice tried to get rid ot him by communication" though it dealt him 0 unceremoniously with public money. This co.umn (o But Marcello learned, however, that Ihe grant rf Drowsy, dolca was applied (or in March two jn (he Banana Repub i ic months before Dr. Archambault retired as APA president. smuggled himself back into tho United States. He has used even 1 stratagem in the law books THE JUSTICE department has here brought pressure upon a gmdg- ing Italian embassy to help pre- Now the Justice Department He acknowledged lo this col- pare a deportation case against going to try again to declare him an undesirable alien.

In (hjs ef(ort 2efi Robert Ken- Almanac umn that, as APA president, he had set up the committee which requested the $100.800 handout. Wearing his other hat, as PUS pharmacy chief, he had been consulted informally about Ihe grant. But he insisted that he had nothing to do with the final decision to award the money. Dr. Archambault defended the decision, however, as "wonderful for the public." The money would be spent, he said, to make public health information available to people at their neighborhood pharmacies.

United Press International Today is Thursday, Aug. 8, the lage nedy has obtained the reluctant cooperation of the I a i a Embassy, which sent to Italy for papers proving Marcello's paren- 220th day of 1963 with H5 to follow. The moon is approaching its last phase. The Italian authorities are privately irked over the American habit of casting the derelic's Jrom the American underworld and Saturn. The evening stars are Mars and Saturn.

On this day In history. In 1MO, the German Luftwaffe Wasting no time, APA has si- began a series ol daytime raids ready put its communications on the British Isles which were to continue until Oct. 31. In IMS, President Harry Truman signed the ratification of the United Nations Charter. Also in 1M5, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan.

In 1050, Florence Chadwick of San Diego, set a women's record in swimming Ihe English The morning stars are Jupikr pg their shores. They learned director, George Griffenhagen, on the taxpayers' payroll at $12, 000 a year to (jot 'he program started. Critics have questioned whether APA is interested in benefiting the public or pharmacies. Turning pharmacies into public health centers, they point out, will also lure customers into the drug stores, On a earlier occasion. APA Channel.

A (nought for day--Ameri- suppressed news of counterfeit can author Edgar Allan Poe said: drugs in order to protect Ihe A that we see or seem is pharmacies from losing business, but a dream within dream." their nefarious skills, the Kalian) arfiue, in the United Slates. I NAZIS AT the bridge Geo- rge Lincoln Rockwell, the self- styled American feuhrer, has ordered his stor-n troopers to "Mock the bridges" on August 28. to stop Negro demonstrators from marching on Washington. He has been barnstorming up and down Virginia trying to recruit volunteers 'o help back TT his Nazi stand against the Ne- grces. So far, he has cnl 3i fewer than 100 r.ien who will somewhat outnumbered by lha 100,000 Negroes.

If Rockwe'll and his Nazis start trouble at the bridges, police have promised privately they will be hustled off lo jail. 33 Churches, Synagogues Do Play Important Role In The Nation Jack Fuller would have you believe that Peace Corps worker from the deep, deep South reported to his superiors via transatlantic phone, "What we're trying urgently to p'anl here is ne.ico and harmony." A month later a freighter srrivcd loaded down wilh split and hominy grits. "Organized religion has thus far played a relatively minor role in the struggle ''or racial justice in America." Those words were written, by this reporter, a little more than six months ago. They are no longer true. Today, churches and synagogues ore deeply involved in tha fight against discrimination.

Protestant, Catholic and Jewish organizations IK working together to muster public support for passage ot civil rights legislation. The United Presbyterian Church has created a "Commission on Religion and Race" to stir Presbyterian laymen into emulating the example of their chief executive officer, Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, who was arrested July 4 for participating in a protest against segregation. WHAT caused church and syna. The Synagogue Council of Amer- gogue leaders to move suddenly ica has set up a "task lorce" of rabbis, who are avilable for picketing duty and protest marches.

The National Council of Church- of the National Council of Churches. It said: "Now is the lime for costly action that may jeopardize Ihe organizational goals and institutional structures of tha church." from timidity to bold action on racial problems? es is urging white Christians Three factors seem to have contributed. Ministers, priests and rabbis both clergy and laymen--to join are marching alongside Negroes in non-violent demonstrations against segregation, Some have gone to jail. In Washington, Chicago, Detroit and many other communities, tri- failh councils have been established to promote equality of opportunity in employment and housing. DURING the past few weeks, at least 30 Catholic bishops have issued pastoral letters attacking denial of the dignity which God has conferred on every human creature.

the "Afarch on Washington" which Negro organizations have scheduled for Aug. 28. THE list could run on and on. A similar ferment of activity is under way in maiy religious organizations besides those named. Not all of their while members are happy about it.

In fact, some are quite vocally unhappy to see the church "taking sides" in a social revolution. Religious leaders are well aware that commitment to Ihe Negroes cause may cost churches and synagogues a few members One was Ihe National Conference on Religion and Race in Chicago last January. It was tha first time in history that lanta. Catholics and Jews had mrt together to examine their rc'ie in race relaions. They went away from the meeting with a deep sense of shame about the past record, and a joint determination to prove that religion Is neither indiffeicnl nor irrelcvent to what they called "America's number one moral problem." Close on Ihc heels of the Chicago meeting came the demonstrations against segregation in (c) 1963, by Bennett Cerf.

Distributed by King Features Syndicate. The presiding bishop of the and a fjreat deal of financial sup- Birmingham, Ala. The already- Episcopal Church has appealed lo port. sore consciences of many whila nil Episcopalians In walk picket They say, however, that the Christians and Jews were sharp- lines, give money to Negro or- time has come for religious inv Pricked by the spectacle of stitutions to pay whatever price Degrees being doused by firo is necessary to demonstrate the hoscs attacked by police dogs, ganizations, find otherwise demonstrate the church's "identification with those who are victims of oppression." Senators Say: A-Pact Even Could Be Good brutntncud WASHINGTON Tlie altitude of most U. S.

Senators is that the nuclear test ban is innocent unless proved guilty. The assumption is that the treaty will win the necessary two-thirds vote for ratification. There is no doubt that the dominant sentiment on the Hill is pro-treaty. The sentiment is pro-lrcAty localise of these beliefs: That an cm! to such nuclear testing as can bo policed without on-sitc inspection in the nnl- ional interest of both the U. S.

and Russia. That this beginning could lend lo other useful negotiations ami should nol be thrown That thus fftr no one has conic forward with the evidence to show that test ban, which underground testing, would on balance be adverse to U. S. inlcresls or unduly riskful. SIY OWN instinct is on the side that (he agreement by the.

three powers to refrain from testing in the atmosphere, underwater, and in otrtfr space is a good thing unless its critics can produce a case against it fur stronger than yet put forward. I think thst many will want to look fully nnd carefully at tho case against Ihe treaty, if for no other reason than lo be sure thnt we arc not taking a false step. It is not going to be enough tor tho White House lo argue generalities and lo assert how valuable the treaty is how modest are Ihe risks. It must document its assertion. 1 with solid fact.

It Is not enough for the op- tpmoatmsiefal this week was originally pro- jjosed by President Eisenhower and re-initiated by President Kennedy. This means that it hes high and honorable and nonpartisan credentials. But the Senate must give it more than "pro forma" examination It well that two-thirds of tha Senate must be satisfied lhal sinceri'y of their conviction that God created all men, regardless of race or color, with equal rights and dignity. This "damn-the-lorpedoes" spir- into jails. THE nationwide wave of demon- 3trations whlch Birmjng ham was the clincher.

Religious it was expressed in a recent leaders realized that Negro" pa. statement by the general board lience was exhausted. ESE2ZKK menta on which these yes-and-no answers rest. The Senate needs to know wherein the interests of the U. S.

will be served by Ihe test ban. Tho Senata needs to have Ihe full evidence as why the President and Ihe Secretary of Defense believe the lest ban will not adversely affect the balance this test-ban treaty is good for of military power as between Ihe the United Slates before approv- U. S. and Ihe Soviets, ing it. It should exercise its independent judgement.

Tho Senate needs to know how we ara going to protect against So far, at least in their public possible violations of the ban in declarations, President Kennedy, outer space. Averell Hnrriman, and othsr Ad- ministralifMi spokesmen have tended lo rest Iheir case for treaty on authority. Yes, they The Senate needs to be assured that U. S. negotiators have not, even unintentionally let tie Soviets have any excuse for ar- ponenls of the lest ban lo rant Iho treaty is good; no, they guing that we are committed lo lhal any tveaty with the Soviets is bad.

Tha lesi ban isn't just any treaty; It is specific treaty wilh specific safeguards and pur- posei. and must be measured by vhat it contains. The present test ban signed say, it docs not involve much risk; no, Ihe Soviets won't gain on by it; no, we won't be hurt. This kind of cxposi'ton is not adequate. The descrvc-s lo have the facts and Ihe judgc- a NATO-Warsaw non-aggression part.

I am not arguing against the treaty; 1 am bespeaking the kind of Senate debate which will give, the country confidence in its de- cisica..