The Morning Herald from Hagerstown, Maryland • Page 4

"You Wind Them Up And They Say 'Make It MANKLIN D. KHUU MMPH M. HARP AKMCID MILLK IOITOI AND NJM.ISHH AUOCIATI IDITOI MANMINB ID'TOI Regional Airport? Ha! Pity the poor Federal Aviation Administration (FAA.) Alas, the FAA, though well-intentioned, displayed just how naive it is when it suggested that leaders in Hagerstown and Martinsburg think seriously about building a regional airport to serve both cities. Ha! Can you see Hagerstown and Martinsburg-- or any other municipality-- actually cooperating on a Venture that would cost MONEY? Of course, the fact that a regional airport would save money in the long run won't enter into anyone's thinking. Neither will the fact that a regional airport could provide better service for all the communities in the area, Hagerstown included.

Actually, we don't mean to put the rap on Hagerstown too hard. The other communities act the same way. For instance, a while back it was suggested that Hagerstown and Chambersburg could cooperate on some sort of regional airport. So what happened? Chambersburg went ahead and decided to build its own airport. And of course you know the trouble Hagerstown has had trying to get Washington County interested in helping out at the airport.

So it's every man-- and every community-- for himself. Too bad. Because a regional airport makes a lot of sense. N.Y. PUBLIC SERVANT Friday, December 6, 196S 4 THE MORNING HERALD, HAGERSTOWN, MD Dr.

Geo. Thostesou When Someone Has Stroke, Here's How You Can Help A Growing Distrust Letter Box I am a Catholic and accept the teachings of the Pope and the American bishops regarding birth control. However, I am very concerned that there isn't more investigation concerning the morality of the Vietnam War. How can any Christian really justify his active participation in the "mass murder" that is taking place in Vietnam? The Almighty never said, "Thou shall not practice artificial birth control," but He did say, "Thou shalt not kill." M.K., Waynesboro The uprisings of 1953 and the endless stream of refugees from the Communist zone in Germany are proof enough that the Communists could not hold East Germany without, the presence of Soviet troops. Likewise, the Hungarian Revolution in 1956 upset the Russian Kremlin leaders In Three years ago the advocates of United Nations membership for Red China came closest to victory.

'Mass Murder The vote that year was a 4747 tie. It would, of course, have taken a much stronger vote to get Red China into the club because the General Assembly was op- rating under its policy of requiring a two-thirds margin. The other day Red China's advocates suffered their worst defeat since 1965 when the Assembly voted 58-44 with 23 abstentions to reject a resolution to expel Nationalist China and seat Communist China. This recent vote is a reflection of a growing world distrust of the Peking government, a distrust bred Of Red China's thinly veiled policy of subversion and aggression against Asian neighbors and elsewhere, including Africa. It is not known, of course, whether China would have enrolled had the General Assembly approved.

Ultimatum She never has formally applied for admission, perhaps to save embarrassment. The fact remains, however, that Red China stands In disrepute in the world court of public opinion because of her behavior. As a world power and the world's most populous nation, China should be in the United Nations. But not at the expense of throwing out National China. And certainly not until the mainland Chinese show themselves more responsible citizens of the world in this nuclear age.

Do You 15 YEARS wasn't so cold but my lungs felt like they were going to bust. I hollered but nobody heard me." That is the way Robert Lowery, 25-year-old driver for an ice cream firm, told of being trapped for 20 minutes in the refrigerator section of his truck when the wind blew the door shut No local observance is planned, but today is the 12th anniversarsary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Donald Horine, commander of Morris Frock American Legion Post, urged all local persons to pause for a moment today to offer a prayer for the boys who died at Pearl Harbor. "Let us also pray for a return to the peaceful kind of world where Pearl Harbors will be unknown for all time to come," the commander said. 30 YEARS AGO-Albert Heard, Water Department superintendent, is checking deeds of land on the city's Warner Hollow and Raven Rock watersheds, preparing for soil conservation work that would help reforestation Lancelot Jacques, Smithsburg, has been appointed by Governor Nice as chairman of the Board of License Commissioners for this county.

45 YEARS AGO--John L. Hurley is the new commander of Morris Frock Post of the American Legion, with L. 0. Campbell as vice commander and Clarence G. Emmert as adjutant Albert A.

Beck, proprietor of the Arcade Dining Room in Public Square, has purchased the Sowers property on N. Jonathan and plans to open another restaurant there. The price was reported at $30,000 Downtown stores will remain open every night until Christmas, beginning Dec. 10, to giro working people a chance to shop Ltfttrs, preferably of 200 wordt er lest, are welcome to the Editor'! Letter Box. They must bear the name address of the author but a pen name may be substituted for publication if the writer wishes.

If you use a typewriter, please double-space. countries behind the Iron Curtain, the Kremlin leaders are hated, and the day may come when the enslaved people may wreak their vengeance What part should we play? We should present the Kremlin leaders with an ultimatum. We should call an immediate conference with all freedom- loving nations to explain that America has devoted over 20 years and many billions of dollars rehabilitating and defending a great part of the world To the ultimatum of Russia, we should demand open elections for all enslaved nations, and complete withdrawal within one week. Should the Soviets refuse, we should break off diplomatic relations with all Red nations, deny all representatives of all Red nations access to United Nations headquarters, and exert pressures throughout the world to isolate all Red countries; to threaten, by forming free exile nations of enslaved nations. Red-Blooded American Dear Dr.

Thosteson: A person had a stroke while at my home. It was obviously a stroke, but he was not gasping for air or having any difficulty breathing. The ambulance was on the way, but a relative who has asthma and.carries oxygen In his car wanted to give him oxygen. I said no, wait for the ambulance, but since then I have been criticized for not using it. Was I D.M.

No, you weren't wrong. As long as the patient was having no breathing difficulty, there was nothing to be gained by giving him oxygen, and there could have been something to lose. In case of a stroke, there is nothing to be done except to keep the victim as quiet as possible, keep him warm if it is necessary, and wait fir the ambulance. Loosening collar or tie is usually all right, but not.necessary if he is breathing' easily. Placing a pillow under the head makes sense.

But that's all. Trying to give oxygen in such a case accomplishes nothing, except to bother the patient and what he needs is to be kept as quiet as possible. Dear Dr. Thosteson: I have varicose ulcers on my ankles. Do you have any suggestions on how to heel them and keep them heal- Such ulcers are difficult to heal because circulation in the legs is poor.

The only realistic way to improve the circulation is to have the varicose veins removed. You will find this discussed in my booklet, "How to Deal with Varicose Send 25 cents in coin and a long, self- addressed, stamped envelope for a copy. Sometimes, by dint of luck and considerable effort, varicose ulcers are healed--only to break out again from some minor injury or for no visible reason at all. In my opinion, the only sensible course is to have the weak veins stripped out surgically. With improved circulation and supplementary treatment, the ulcer will heal.

a Dr. Thosteson: Please i something about getting a bad sunburn after taking an antibiotic. Two doctors nothing about it. I think it should be put in the paper as a I don't think any general warning is warranted. It doesn't happen with all antibiotics.

In my experience, it occurs particularly with the tetracycline group of antibiotics--and then only if the patient happens to be sensitive to it. The majority are not. Dear Dr. Thosteson: I would like to stop smoking, but when I tried I acquired an irritating cough, dry and ticklish, at night, so went back to smoking which leaves me with a loose cough but persistent. I take tablets to help my breath- Ing, a phenobarbltal.

Please help me. I have emphysema and am depressed and C. I guess I've heard everything now in the way of excuses to keep on smoking--to create a loose cough instead of a dry one. A cough is quite likely to develop from emphysema, but to add irritation to your breathing passages, to create phlegm and a "loose" cough, is no answer at all. With emphysema, you must stop smoking; otherwise you just make the basic condition worse and worse.

The only way I can help you is to urge that you give up smoking again and make it stick--and have your doctor prescribe medication which will loosen your dry cough until the irritated membranes can repair themselves. Emphysema can be controlled. To learn how to live with this serious lung disease, write to Dr. Thosteson in care of this newspaper, requesting a copy of the booklet To Control Emphysema," enclosing a long, self addressed, stamped envelope and 30 cents in coin to cover cost of printing and handling. Dr.

Thosteson welcomes all reader mail, but regrets that, due to the tremendous volume received daily, he is unable to answer individual letters. Readers' questions are incorporated in his column whenever possible. Strictly Personal Urban Solution? By Sydney Harris In all the discussion and controversy about what has come to be known as the "population explosion," we have seriously neglected an equally disturbing aspect of the problem--the population implosion. An "implosion" is a bursting inward, which is exactly what has been happening to American cities since the end of World War II. Not only has our population grown by tens of millions, but it has a shifted to the urban complexes at a rate we did not anticipate and cannot handle.

The U.S. is now, for first time, a predominantly urban society. Some 60 percent of our people live in or around cities, and the trend shows no slackening Moreover, many of these people came directly from rural areas with no experience or training for urban life. An implosion of this magnitude increases social problems THEY'LL DO IT EVERYTIME by Jimmy Hatlo at a geometrical ratio. While the population goes up arithmetically, the need for welfare and services goes up i times, as fast because the cities are simply not equipped to cope with the masses of uneducated, untrained, jobless families who occupy sub-standard dwellings and subsist on welfare payments or marginal employment.

What we loosely refer to as "crime in the streets" is the result of this condition more than any other: a social more than a moral problem. Mere density of numbers accounts largely for the disturbances we have witnessed in American cities. An increase in density, i room for expansion, builds up anxieties, tensions, frustrations and, finally, blind revolt which lashes out at everything around it. It is the community equivalent of getting "stir crazy" under crowded a oppressive prison conditions. I am not speaking here only of blacks, but of whites as well who feel their "territorial borders" threatened by this implosion, and who are just as much the victims of unplanned urban growth and a shockingly faulty educational system which has failed in its basic task of producing democratic citizens who are capable of engaging in the self- correcting democratic process.

Our population must merely be reduced, it must be dispersed. Small towns must be made more economically viable; suburbs must be developed on a rational basis, not as a form of flight out of fear. The city alone cannot, assume the dreadful burden of making a better life for its people; it is already bucking at the scams, fiscally as well as physically, politically, and morally. As all history shows us, when cities crumble, the civilization collapses. A building cannot stand when its weight and density arc too conccn- tratcd in one area.

We need social architects moro a policemen. Work Done The hippies, Father Groppi, Joan Baez, can now fold up their tents and steal off quietly into the night. Their coffers are now empty. Their i i is accomplished, which was to stir hatred among the races and the election of a man who is not worthy of the high office he will hold; and certainly he is not a man one can ask his children to respect. Concerned Citizen 'Fair Hancock' Again we meet, but on different soil.

Answering this poem caused much toil. For my rhyming scheme is not the best But your unanswered poem would give me no rest. This little town of which you talked, Could it have been our fair Hancock? If so, I know one part's a lie, The time you used the possessive "my." "My town," "My valley," that's what you wrote. How I laughed at your possessive joke. It will never be yours, These people are smart.

Lay off the "my" phrase, Take this to heart; Our town is small--indeed that's true. It has its faults; Hancock has you. Besides our town, Good too has had Detrimental remarks made by this lad. Perhaps his works will soon be lost. Let's face it readers, he's no Robert Frost.

For this to make sense it took lots of time. Not in a minute did I make this rhyme. Too bad Mr. Neubert fails to see, If he just took time, he'd made sense like me. Rowland Evans Robert Novak" The Schwartz Doctrine: 'Hands Off The Dictators Evans Novak WASHINGTON --One of the many loose ends left by the lame duck Johnson administration for President-elect Nixon to tie up poses an acute problem of credibility on a most sensitive and difficult issue: clandestine financing of Radio Free Europe.

There is scarcely any doubt that the Nixon administration- will maintain the hefty U.S. subsidy, size unknown, that is funneled through the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), to provide almost all the financing for Radio Free Europe's massive propaganda effort beamed at Communist Eastern Europe. The question Nixon must decide is whether to maintain the subsidy under the table or to bring it out in the open. In the difficult transition period, with key Nixon men preoccupied with far important matters, the question of anticommunist propaganda activities is not likely to come up for decision. Nevertheless," it will immediately challenge the new Administration's credibility.

The 18-year history of Radio Free Europe is a classic case of the credibility gap. Its own literature has described Radio Europe as "financed through tax contributions in the United States." Such contributions were solicted over American television through the years, in appeals calculated to give the impression that Radio Free Europe's continued existence was at stake. The facts were considerably different. Public contributions did not meet a a fraction of the cost of Radio Free Europe's main operation in Munich and its transmitters in Munich, Lisbon and Heidelberg beaming broadcasts to five Eastern European nations Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Rumania. The vast proportion of its costs were met by the U.S.

taxpayer in the form of secret payments from CIA. A smaller CIA subsidy covered the costs of the more modest Radio Liberty in Munich, aimed at the Soviet Union. This arrangement was undisturbed until the 1967 exposures of clandestine CIA subsidies for the National Students Assn. and other supposedly private organizations. When President named Under Secretary of State Nicholas DEB.

Katzenbach to head a special committee to study the problem, CIA's subsidy to Radio Free Europe came under high-level official scrutiny for the first time. At one point in the committee's closed-door deliberations, Katzenbach seemed inclined to end Radio Europe's subsidy along i all others raising apprehensions among highly responsible students of Communist Europe both inside and outside the State Department. They pointed out to Katzenbach that in the dozen years since the tragedy of the 1956 Hungarian revolution, a i Free Europe bad halted all appeals for violent overthrow of Communist rule and instead advocated peaceful liberalization of red regimes. In fact, Radio Free young staff researchers often seemed more interested in East-West bridge building than did -hardened old foreign service offices in foggy bottom. Most important, apart from the British Broadcasting Corporation's excellent overseas service, Radio Free Europe provides most Eastern Europeans with their only re- i a information about what's going on in their own countries (in contrast with the dismal programming to Eastern Europe by the Voice of America, the official U.S.

government agency). Ralph McGill Cornerstone Capsule Shows Things Haven't Changed Much Patty Mason, Hancock GRAFFITI by Leary THERE BE WITH TOtllCE a-s A few days ago Gardner D. Stout, president of the American Museum of Natural History, looked at the old newspapers removed from the just discovered cornerstone box of the original building. He noted the civil rights disputes, cabinet changes, racial violence and communism and said, "Nothing changes." President Grant applied a trowel to lay the cornerstone of the first permanent building of the Museum. For 50 years officials have sought the cornerstone, lost in the construction of 17 new buildings and additions to and about the original.

The year 1874 was about midway in a span of years of historic changes. An old order had changed with a surrender at Appomattox Courthouse less than 10 years before. Use of the ballot by Negroes In the elections of 1868 and 1872 had aroused the planters and political leaders in Southern cities to an incredible pitch of fury. Secret orders, the KKK anil others, mushroomed. Violence multiplied.

The New Orleans riots of 1866, for example, influenced the election of General U.S. Grant in 1868. Police, members of a secret order, attacked a meeting of Negroes and killed at least 38 persons, of whom all but four were Negroes. Under the Reconstruction Act, registration continued. Despite terrorist acts and killings, 82,907 black voters registered by 1866.

Savage acts of the most callous, cold-blooded killings and beatings turned the East strongly against President Andrew Johnson. As the election of 1868 neared, atrocities mounted. The record was a ghastly one, the more so in that hardly a Southern voice was raised against it. Most editors and pulpits were silent. Political leaders encouraged the violence.

In Europe small wars were leading to the Franco-Prussian war which was to begin in 1870 and profoundly change world affairs. In 1873 a sudden, withering financial recession struck. Railways and the new "iron" industry were the most heavily hit. Effects of it continued for five years. By loction time in 1874 seven states were, as they phrased it, "redeemed" from "black voters" a i a generally.

They were Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas and Texas. Four stales remained under reconstruction governments: Ixmisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina a Florida. General Grant was re-elected In April, before the papers were placed in the museum's copper-lined box in June President Grant wrote the Senate asking for civil rights laws: A butchery on citizens was committed at Volfax, Louisiana. In the spring of 1874 General Grant asked the states themselves to obey law and order. They didn't.

In 1875 General Grant wrote: "As to the state elections of 1875, Mississippi is governed today by officials en through fraud and violence such as would scarcely bo credited to savages. The President again asked for civil rights legislation. He didn't get Grant's administration was in trouble. Appointees betrayed him. Scandals were many.

The North was moving toward its 1876-77 deal with Republicans whereby Rutherford B. Hayes was made President in exchange for economic benefits and a return of the Negro "problem" to states rights. The 14th and 15th amendments were simply ignored. It was not until 1964, 90 years later, that a voting rights bill was enacted. It was not until the Lyndon Johnson administration that civil rights were protected by legislation.

The old papers in the 1874 cornerstone reflected one of the more violent and shameful periods of our history..