Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 16

0 EDITORULS CORPUS aiRISTI CILLER WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 13 1957 Tolerance THE NEST By BOB McCRACKEN Moslem that he will go straightway to heaven if he dies in battle with our own moral beliefs The people of the United States have come slowly to a realization of the problems of leadership we face in today's world Some continue to cling to the isolationism from world affairs that now belongs only to the past The tendency is strong and must be resisted to bring moral considerations to bear on problems that defv solution with a straight-laced apnroach This is not an argument for immorality in world affairs Rather it is an argument for more tolerance in world affairs an extension of the tolerance that we have learned to cultivate in our own domestic affairs For better or for worse we are faced with a world that consists in part of people who still believe in slavery who are militantly intolerant of religious differences who believe dishonesty among public officials is not inherently evil who are barbarically cruel to their own people as well as to others We must make the best of this world if we expect our leadership to succeed Final of the rest of the world is a long way off While we work toward it good examples are more eloquent and more persuasive than gratuitous criticism a willingness to understand and- to tolerate more powerful than the hydrogen bomb in the battle for minds Such incidents as the recent refusal of New York City's mayor to Welcome King Ibn Saud to this country may become rare as we gain experience in the field of international relations The traditional ticker-tape welcome to New York mav pass out of style or the reception and entertainment of visiting notables from foreign countries may become the exclusive jurisdiction of the Secretary of State It is not a peculiarly American habit of course to wish to kve in a world as we would like it to be not in the world as it is today Nevertheless it is often expedient both to woo and cultivate the friendship and support of those nations whose ideas of government are not to say the least democratic To say this is not to say that we must condone their svstems of government It means simply that in this world of many peoples of many faiths of many tradi-tions of many prejudices of many points of view we must seek areas of agreement rather than of conflict Speaking generally preconceived notions of morality are probably the least valid principles that diplomats can bring to the field of world affairs The standards of private and national morality among Western nations are in substantial agreement But to other nations our standards are as foreign as our speech It would be useless for instance to attempt to reconcile the fantic belief of the ants Under existing statute the high man would be declared winner But the Legislature appears to be bound and determined to authorize a runoff wherein the two candidates with the greatest number of votes unless one receives a clear majority over the field would compete after all others are eliminated For the record Gov Daniel and most members of the Legislature want a runoff because they fear if there isn't one Texas may elect a Republican senator Rut actually if the truth would out they are more fearful that without a runoff a liberal Democrat would be elected Simply they are more concerned over the possibility of a victory without a runoff for Ralph Yarborough the liberal than of a victory for Thad Hutch-enson the Republican Ironically possibly for the first time Texas Republicans and liberal Democrats find themselves in agreement Neither group wants the runoff There's an outside possibility of course remote as it is that Yarborough and Hutchenson may wind up as runoff opponents That would be both interesting and entertaining If nothing else such a result would place conservative on a spot Mix Up Since they are able to put aQ their eggs in one basket the Republicans are getting the jump on the Democrats when it comes to campaigning Within the last week Hutchenson windshield stickers are becoming conspicuous on Texas automobiles far and away the most of which occupy garages of owners in the high income bracket The Lookout couldn't help but reflect that their headstart might be more beneficial and the results more pleasing to them if they would paste more of their signs' on jalopies Gass distinction you know Relabel Them For a long time and increasingly through the years the Lookout has been a member of that school of thought which subscribes to the idea that a healthy purpose would be served through the realignment of American political parties on a national level' It would be particularly beneficial in the South probably in Texas first of all Maybe even the names of the two dominant partu should be changed to more clearly define fundamental differences of party opinion and policy Certainly Liberal and Conservative would be more definitive and less confusing than Democrats and Republicans Scratch the surface of a conservative Texas Democrat for instance and it is next to impossible to distinguish him from a Republican anywhere else where the two-party system is concerned Were this not so Eisnhower wouldn't have carried Texas in two succeeding presidential elections He claimed his majorities because conservative Democrats gave him their support and vote over Adlai Stevenson the Democratic nominee who in the public mind at least classifies as a liberal And while their argument makes sense Texas Republican leaden never will be successful in their attempts to have conservative Democrats classify themselves as Republicans although they see eye to eye on many candidates and most issues Battlelines Currently the controversy over a special election to name a successor to Gov Price Daniel who resigned his seat in the United States Senate to become the chief executive lends emphasis to the position Now it appears almost certain that there will be two elections instead of one for the Senate office The ballot on the first go-round will list the names probably of a dozen or more aspir- NOT THE EASIEST THING TO RIDE State Tuition Rates I I Coldness of Church 1 ITj Julius Goers Is Criticized Opponents of a raise in Texas argue it would keep a good many students of modest means from getting a higher education But the fact remains that higher education in state colleges is becoming more and more a burden on the taxpayer Doubling the tuition rate its proponents point out would produce around $5 million additional in operating funds each year and still leave Texas standing in 39th place among all states in tuition charges Present tuition rates at 18 state-supported institutions of higher learning were set in the depths of the depression in 1932 and are the lowest in the nation where any tuition at all is charged (Montana and Rhode Island charge none) The tuition in Texas is $50 for the long term and a bill pending in the House would double this rate to $100 Against $50 er charges $700 and the national average for all states is $400 i i i Maneuvering Since the opening of the 1957 session definite hints have come from southern senators that that they would be willing to allow the administration bill to come to a vote in the upper house after going on record against it in speeches of moderate length if they could get assurances that proposals for drastic curbs on filibusters would not be pressed at the present session Senate Republican Leader William Knowland has told President Eisenhower he is confident that the Senate will pass a civil rights bill this year He confesses that he does not yet know just how this is to be accomplished but says he will have a clearer idea as the session moves along Civil Rights Activities of two Senate subcommittees hold special interest this week One is a subcommittee of the Rules Committee meeting to consider changes in the Senate rules to limit filibusters The other is a subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee which opens hearings today on civil rights legislation Sen Thomas Hennings (D-Mo) is chairman of both subcommittees The civil rights hearings are likely to be protracted If while they are in rogress the Rules Committee can induced to report a really effective cloture rule the way may be cleared for adoption of the civil rights program a program which is known to command majority support in both houses of Congress NORSTAD AS POLITICIANS By WILLIAM 8TONEMAN PARIS Gen Laurla Norstad Is rapidly turning out to be Just as tough a customer for the politicians to handle as Gen Matthew Ridgway Gen Ridgway who served as combat commander of paratroops during thewar made himself thoroughly unpopular during his term as supreme Allied commander in Europe by insisting that Europe could not be defended without a certain minimum number of ground troops He later lost his job as chief of staff of the Army because he openly criticized the decision of the United States to reduce the strength of tha Army to one million men Although he Is an Air Force man Norstad who now fills the command previously occupied by Generals Dwight Eisenhower Ridgway and Alfred Grucnther is also proving to be a lot more ornery on the subject of ground forces than either Eisenhower or both of whom were strictly ground-borne He really broke the ice when he stated bluntly to a group of newspapermen that free Europe could not be defended without a minimum screen of 30 even on the assumption that they would be backed by atomic TOUGH ON AS REST Then this week he had the courage to stand up at a banquet of the English-speaking union in London and tell the British prime minister to his face that NATO could not defend free Europe without minimum shield of ground forces It wss direct wsmlng to Prime Minister Harold Macmillan who has teen hoping for a big reduction in British ground forces in Germany which now include two armored and two infantry divisions with a total of 80000 men Despite frequent warnings from Britain's military chiefs Macmillan apparently has been thinking of reducing this force by 30000 men Even when Germany eventually produces the 12 divisions it is scheduled to furnish to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization a strong British contingent on the Continent will be necessary if an effective "shield" is to be maintained France which is supposed to contribute five divisions to this shield today only has a skeleton force in Germany As a result of delay in producing its promised force and France's withdrawal of troops for service In Algeria the shield today over Western Europe is composed of a mere 10 divisions (Copyright 19ST Chletn Daily Ram) MARQUIS CHILDS Whatever Stand Takes On Algeria Be Wrong Editor the Caller: In the beginning let me state that I am addressing thla letter to the church members or "goers" of Corpus Chriatl with the hope that you will be made aware of a real need and will do what you can to remedy what I fed is a lamentable condition I have been a church member in the state of Texas most of my life On moving to Corpus Christi my family and I were anxious to find a church home but wanted to be sure in our decision so did sqpie church visiting We saw many lovely church plants wondrous plans for the future heard and liked the beautiful music of the choirs were impressed with the worship services and were inspired by several preachers but we were astounded by the oddness and indifference of the congregations of most of the churches where we visited We reached the conclusion that though this at titude seemed to prevail toward visitors perhaps it would be different when we "settled" at one church So we chose a church home We rarely miss a worship service We are blessed by many parts of the service but continue to be blighted by the congregation It is such a rare occasion when someone speaks to us offers a hand of friendship or smiles we are simply amazed "Brethern this ought not to be" Now I realize that there are people who never give the congregation a chance to be friendly but we feel we have given them every chance We are friendly people We go the second mile We smile we speak a startled nod or a weak hello We do not feel like our overtures of friendliness re approved or welcomed After so long a time this sort of reception chills the heart Hill atmosphere should not be in the church of all places Now I know there ere seme friendly churches here I cannot agree with some of their theology and emotionalism but how some of our churches could use their warm hearted brotherly love Have you ever had some saint with the joy of the Lord written In her face take you by the hand and say bless you son I am glad you came I hope the service was helpful and you come back Not in our cold blooded church you haven't God help us I keep visualizing Jesus In the flesh amongst us The only thing I can hear Him say is "I was a stranger and ye did not take mo My family and I do not discourage easily but I wonder how many spiritually destitute aouls have come to church seeking love end warmth and the fellowship that Christianity loves to boast about only to find frigid indifference and spiritual brutality and did not have the stamina to return? We joined our specific church with all of its coldness for several reasons One of them was this: The pastor man pleasing in the right of the Lord in my estimation told us that we were needed And brother and sister if you know how to smile and say "good morning" and sure ly is nice to see you" and "please come find you a cold cold church and join It It needs you It surely does I cannot think of a greater service rendered In the rhurrh CONCERNED could read the report of the Hoover Commission and realize tha criminal waste and skullduggery that Is practiced every day in our government it would make you a much more diligent person on election day If you are interested in states rights rather than a despotic centralized government controlled by socialistic planners and one world if you are interested in eliminating bureaucratic waste and a return of a government of the people back in tha hands of those our founding far then intended it should insist on the passage of the Brlcker Amendment and the repeal of the 16th Amendment which Is the Income Tax law JACK BERRY (Edinburg) Money Grabbers Editor the Caller: Hie Rio Grande Valley considers itself a coming tourist mecca and climatically speaking it can well become just that Undoubted ly many people ere investing their money in this vicinity la hopes of capturing more and more of the winter tourist trade I won der if these Investors realise what hindrances some of their fellow citizens are putting In the way of the future welfare of this section of the country? The good-will of Texas is being undermined by money-grabbing citizens thinking only of today rather than tomorrow I represent a large segment of newcomer to the an air base family We live in Harlingen and are farced to find housing under as advene conditions as were prevalent during the last war Harlingen is not the exception FYom talking to other families stationed around the Valley we find conditions as pitiful Landowners and builders of the caliber that made profits from black markets during World War have thrown up cheap and shoddy housing realising air base personnel have to live somewhere and taking full advantage of the fact We are charged outrageous rents for these extremely pathetic dwellings My husband baby and I rent a cramped unfurnished apartment If such a place were so poorly constructed in cur native state the contractor would have lost his building license We pay our utilities and care for the lawn For the dubious privilege of living In this insect-ridden apartment we are charged $85 a month Our home town is a well-known tourist area much further developed than the Rio Grande Viney Yet In the height of the tourist season excellent housing is available for leas than we are forced to pay here for poor housing Hie government cries for young men to serve another hitch in the service About $100000 has been spent on training my husband And then you the tax payers and the government allow ua to be subjected to such conditions we can see no advantage to remaining in tiie service (fount! ess others feel the same way (and especially so since the government has abolished free life Insurance) Consequently many hundreds of thousands of dollars of tax money is down the drain If the fair and honest citizens of Texas are not interested in our welfare they should at least be aware of the dangers to their state's and the future tourist trade Do you realize what pictures of Texas and Texans we have to paint for our friends and relatives back I am afraid your Chamber of Commerce would be aghast carried the following statement: and according to a city ordinance any dog not on a leash or in an enclosure is liable to be destroyed The ordinance pointed out the fact and also states that pet dogs must be vaccinated for I send this article to show that towns as small as Childress have already seen the value of putting dogs in their pieces If smaller towns find the necessity of the above action on dogs then why the necessity for Corpus Christi to consider voting on the subject again In any case the people of a city finally come to the usual conclusion that cities are made for the convenience of humans end not for biting end night-barking dogs DOG-SURROUNDED CITIZEN Decline Editor the Caller: The historians of the near future will marvel most at the utter indifference of the American peoples as they surrendered their freedom and liberty during the twilight finale that wrote finis to the greatest nation that was ever conceived since Adam and Eve named the Garden of Eden The peasant! of Russia offered far more opposition to the exterminators of civilization than Is being shown in this country as the last stanza of the Star Spangled Banner is being sung 1 America is now being conditioned conquered and subjugated and made ready for the takeover by the newer process of brainwashing and the use of rid fashioned demagoguery The social planners that are preparing the promised land of Utopia (that will be inhabited only by slaves serfs and intellectual tyrants) will be of the same dimensions and measure up to the same caliber ae Mussolini Hitler Stalin and Juan Heron One of the wisest men this nation ever produced said when the Constitution was ratified: "We have given you a Republic if you can keep it" Benjamin Franklin knew that no mortal man can be trusted with unlimited power that regardless of good intentions power begets power and that once It is handed over it is never voluntarily returned Thomas Jefferson put it more succinctly he said: "Talk not to me about confidence in men bind them down with the chains of the Constitution" We as a nation have become so Indifferent so docile end complacent so unpatriotic end til concerned that we er willing to see the blue buzzard flag of the United Nations unfurled as the symbol of our nation and its people Millions of misguided citizens are willing to trust the destiny of our nation In the hands of an organization controlled by Communists where wa are out voted three to one The great trouble with out country today is that we have lost control of our own affairs We have transferred our sovereignty to a board of bureaucrats who have bankrupt our nation and its peo-pie by tha simple communistic devise better known as the graduated Income tax laws By the use of the 18th amendment they have all but destroyed the Constitution end the Bill of Rights Have you ever stopped to think that this hoard of locust Infestation that is stripping the taxpayer of his substance goes on day and night whether the national administration is Republican or Democrat? Are you aware of the fact that the Hoover Commission has made 350 specific recommendations In Congress to restore sanity honesty and buainess-lika methods to our government that would give ua a balanced budget end much lower taxes? If you THE NEIGHBORS By Clark fear in Washington is that Algeria win go the same way in a holocaust of bloodshed and destruction On each aide the position is becoming more and more irreconcilable When the French seized the Algerian leader Ben Bela and four of his confederates in a plane theoretically belonging to the Moroccan government the nationalista throughout North Africa felt that a dividing line was crossed This their leaders say spread the feeling that no peace with France is possible And they add that this is an invitation to collaboration with the Communists who have been arguing all along for the inevitability of continuing terror and violence Those who fear the Indochina parallel point to one important difference In the latter years of that conflict the United States was paying a considerable share of the cost What is more the dollars were being paid through the French treasury in Paris and they had a salutary effect on the French balance of payments position The cost of sustaining more than 400000 troops in Algeria is being born entirely by France This is a billion franca a day adding up to about a billion dollars a year As a consequence the French gold-doilar reserve Is down to $1220000000 and $860000000 of this is the gold reserve of the Bank of France untouchable without an act of Parliament Last year France lost $700000000 to $800-000000 in reserves not only because of Algeria but due to the severe winter which reduced cibp yields It was also the result of high imports brought in to try to keep the price level down This latter effort was more successful than the tourist In France startled by luxury prices in hotels and restaurants would realize But now with (he reserves af the bottom of the barrel that policy is impossible Hie French also have been spending hard cash In this country for helicopters training planes and other equipment essential to prosecuting the war in Algeria So as though the complications were not already grim rrtnugh a threatening Inflation is added with the consequent rise in tensions it must mean The next few days are critical If the boiler does not blow up then a compromise solution is still a hope That can come rvrn though every indication is to the contrary (jjWrtstil UM United return Syiullcele 1m) WASHINGTON The words often used dilemma crisis problem seem pathetically Inadequate to describe Algeria and the relationship between France and the United States It is like watching the gauge on a steam boiler go up to the explosion point without knowing what to do At this late date almost any move could merely aggravate the ten- (ion And those who are watching the gauge know that the explosion if it comes can Ido irreparable damage There are several ways in which it could happen The French population in In the neighborhood of 1000000 if other Europeans who identify themselves with the French are Is reported in a state of suspicion and hostility bordering on the pathological Terrorism and counter-terrorism have built up an atmosphere of blood hate If a compromise should fall In the United Nations and a resolution be adopted calling for the independence of Algeria the reaction In FTance would be viqlent The United States would have to side with the French on such a resolution and that would tend to alienate the Arab states whose friendship this country is courting This is only to suggest the extraordinary dangers Just ahead as America tries to steer a course between the claims of the West and the rising tide of Arab-Asian-African nation- alism To steer a middle course is to risk alienating both sides and that may be the greatest peril America to end with both sides feeling let down betrayed The hope Is that a compromise resolution In the United Nations doing little more than firing note of the situation can prepare the way for an eventual solution In a more reasonable climate France would be persuaded gradually to abandon the position that Algeria as a province of France Itself cannot be granted indepenp- ence Then along with Tunisia and Morocco Algeria would become a new state Aid from America and France the two working perhaps In partnership would help to build a modern economy One by one since the end of World Wsr II France has lost her overseas holdings Tu- nisia and Morocco after a long period of tension with attendant violence went by peaceful settlement Indochina was lost aft- er a war that lasted seven years and cost untold blood and treasure The deep-seated see given up her sloppy jeans and gone back to her sloppy skirt and sweater' CORPUS CIIRISTI CALLER PuhllahH rvrry week tiny mornln Hi Lnwrr Broadway and Twig Sirwrf Dirnli T-xai hy lha Callar-Tlw Pulillahlni Cm Sunday edition: The Cnrpua Chrtall Caller-Tlmea Mill iftihilulier Editor -AMorlate Editor Ruainea Manager Conway Crala Rnliert Jarkaon Roll MoCraoken Rllliffi Veller Memlier of The Aiwiafed Treai The Aoaociated iS-eaa In entitled eaoluaively to the ii'e (or puMIratliai of all loral 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