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

t-1 wVvuu vwv viru wrRpywrrwrwwwrwwrwywroxiSivwi'Vs mrorpcw nmnrpn yy EDITORIALS CORPUS CHRISTI CALLER REBIRTH OF HOPE TUESDAY DECEMBER 21 1958 Refugees Lose Fears Juvenile Parole In 2 Years in can't get into the university or If he a member nf some Communist organization" Myra who is a sophomore in high school has ambitions to he a doctor She knew no English when she was brought here She had to go back to grammar school for one yenr Hie children were shy of her hepause her manner was strange It was hard Now she is learning to play the violin in the high school orchestra have no school orchestra in she said She la hopeful of being accepted in a high school girls' club go on hay rides" she said eagerly And on weekends she helps her father In hia store By EMERY HUTCHISON CHICAGO Two yean ago the Iladnal family of father mother and teenage were among the first Hungarian fugitives to rrarh Chicago in the wake of the freedom fighters uprising They were running from fears fears of the ring of the doorbell at night fear that the stem men in uniform had come though they had done nothing wrong In two years here they have lost their fears Their smiles are radiant as though they always had been smiling They have hope if the bell la rung at night you open the door you have no said daughter Myra 16 rosy-cheeked brown-eyed and beautiful She has learned Ihe language more rapidly than her parents Edith 5ft and Zoltan 51 and she serve as Interpreter for them and $418688 for fiscal 1961 That would provide a standard service and allow for expansion in the number (currently about 1700) of juvenile parolees now under the well-intentioned but inadequate voluntary system of supervision County probation workers are generally overloaded with strictly local cases The rehabilitation of -youths who violate state law and are handled by slate training schools is definitely state responsibility one the Texas Youth Council is already statutorily charged with but helpless without funds to perform A state-paid juvenile parole system would not of course eliminate the need for improved and expanded training school facilities but it would certainly hold that expense down to manageable size And it would seem to deserve higher priority than a few extra miles of highway or some of the other state spending plans on the list It does not take many boys and girls continuing into a life of and all that costs in judiciary police and penal costs to offset the pro--posed spending for a well-proved system of rehabilitation And the parole system would also provide a channel for state cooperation with local official and voluntary agencies in de Anything new that costs money faces an uphill struggle for approval in the 56th Legislature but the stair like business must sometimes spend In order to save That is the second best argument for a stale juvenile parole system the best argument which defies a dollar measure of benefits is that it is the best way to restore errant youths to an honorable end useful place in society In 1957 the Legislature established a state-paid parole system for adults The Board of Tardons and Taroles row estimates that it will save Hb million dollars in its first two years of operation that is above its cost and the lesser saving that continuing the former voluntary system would have saved Main savings are in holding down operating and construction costs of the prison system This experience supports the contention that the juvenile program would also save money Two years ago the Legislature in 're-adjournment haste killed a simi-ar system for juvenile parolees recommended by the Legislative Budget Board Facing a mounting deficit the board is not expected to renew that recommendation but it will be backed by Gov Daniel the Texas Youth Council and numerous organizations concerned with young problems The Texas Youth Council which has authority for administering such a program but no money to do it with has asked for $267040 for fiscal 1960 THE KNIFE CHANGES HANDS WOMB wm linquency prevention work Economy in state government is de mjm of Closing LETTERS: Jffi sirable and at this point urgent But neglect is not economy especially neglect that robs society of constructive and productive future citizens 'lied Severe Hie store la a long step upward fnr Radnai He has business cards that say in large letter Zoltan Radnai Inc and in smaller letter Crystal Candy Shop always has liked said Myra with a smile and a sidelong glance at1 her father He laughed and nodded In Rudapeat Radnai worked at a variety of textile worker factory clerk housepainter After reaching Chicago he worked tor International Harvester and for a glove factory Then a few weeks ago with the financial help of a sister ha bought the candy store from its Greek owner The Greek Is teaching the Hungarian how to make the candy and ice cream Now that he is in business for himself Radnai has two other ambitions One i to own an American car The other ambition concerns Myra and Myra explained fnr him: have gone through an many things my mother and father The Communists and before that the war Life was very hard Their ambition is to give me a much easier life than And here the clue to what makes the Radnai family so infectiously happy They are sure now that this Is one ambition fhey'll achieve (Oniyrlshr MS Chlra Dulls Mews) The three of them have an unusual distinction They are the first of the 20(10 Hungarian refugee aliens in the Chicago area and perhaps the first of the 360(10 in the country to have passed the two-year waiting period for eligibility as permanent residents This waiting period was provided by a special act of Congress since the refugees weir admitted on an emergency basis and not under the regular immigration quotas With the status of permanent residents they may apply fnr citizenship in fix's years Why do they want to he Americana? They were asked this question the other day in Ihe immigration and naturalization office in the main post office after they were formally admitted aa residents here is freedom" said Myra surprised that anyone should ask such a question you don't have to he afraid of anything as in Hungary" Her father said something briefly in Hungarian She smiled and interpreted: "And here my father sees that I have future In Hungary if your father owns property you Oldliinc Christmas with the intelligence of the voting public The NAACP may Inday be elated because of the support given them hy the Supreme Court ruling hut in the not-tno-distant future this organization will wake lip to the realization that they have been making headway straight down the road to tlie un-surmountable barrier of sorial integration Then this government will wake up to the fact that even the law of the land cannot erase or render invisible the line which separates these two social worlds snd It will realize that it cannot foist tp-on an intelligent God-fearing freedom-loving people the false philosophy lhnt integration is the keyn itc to equally RALITI DYE promise lo you and to your mama Of and I not expect you to understand the significance or he has slso hound and pledged himself to pay other people the world over nme three hundred billion dollars at some future time "Now you simply cannot imagine such a huge sum ss $300-000000000 Neither esn your Uncle who is writing these words but just supposing that you had been horn when Jesus was 'and had lived all the time since then Now suppose you were given three hundred billion dollars on the day you were born and required to spend $1000 a day from that day on until you had spent it ail Well hy now you would have spent only $711670-000 and you would have to live more than 820000 years yet be-foi-e you ran out money But your governmental Uncle Sam in reckless abandon haa hound and obligated himself to pay it all in a relatively very very short time How ran he do it? He ran't of course except hy taxes piled on taxes and borrowings on borrowings hut I do hope he will eight years and eleven months from now pay you your $25 Thi Uncle Sam the writer may not then he around to find out hut good luck to you arid I hope you collect when the time he just hasn't had any Christmas unless he can spend a great part of the lime in travel preferably at high speeds In the old days there was no-place like home for Christmas Kith ana kin formed a close-knit community and Christmas travel consisted mainly in little ceremonial calls to sample eggnog or exchange greetings Every home had its Christmas tree not the decorative purely symbolical kind but the real thing There was feasting carol singing in family groups a bit of fireworks and great good cheer Nowadays tl 'y is scattered to the four winas some so far away that they don't have time to come home for Christmas even by air In the old days home for was a matter of hitching up the buggy or saddling a mule for the short journey involved Today travel by highway at Christmastime is hazardous as well as arduous the former under any circumstances and the latter when the distance may run into hundreds of miles We loved the oldtime Christmas best Those were the days when fam-' ily life really meant something Today God forgive us it isn't what it used to be The speed-up in our on the ground and in the has gradually but rrmnrsclcssly destroyed a pleasant old Christmas custom our forefathers put great store by That was the custom of spending Christmas at home sitting around the fireplace relaxed and at fellowshipping among ourselves to our heart's content The advent of automobiles and the good roads to carry them has undermined this old custom to an alarming extent Now everybody is on the move at Christmastime we Texans along with the rest Indeed we venture to say we Texans do more stirring around at Christmas than any other Americans for to us a hurried trip of three to five hundred miles means nothing We are accustomed to long drives on any and all occasions or no occasion at all So away we go hither and yon Instead of staying home at Christmas What used to be a ritual a calm and peaceful interlude has become a hullabaloo and a rat-race In the old days when communications were slow and difficult Christmas was the one day of the year people stayed home Nowadays it is a time when almost everybody feels Two Unrip Sains British Transferring Pci Target of Cypriot Group ish iarget instead the London director Derek Chudleigh being moved here The trouble with Achilles was that like the anrient Greek hero of the same name he couldn't take being killed seriously "They're just amateurs and they always bungle the job" he said i Two EOKA gunmen waited tor him at a stoplight catching him with hands on the wheel and hia eyes ahead ducked and they found they were firing at each said Achillea Five bullets lodged in hi car's roof Editor the Caller: It is time for everybody in Nueces and adjoining counties to realize that the proposed closing of the OAR Department at the Naval Air Station does not merely a feet a few thousand federal employes and their dependents hut would be of an unimaginable impart upon the economy of this airs The damage whirh has been done by the announcement cannot be undone anymore The people immediately affected will pull their homes in and slay away from major purchases tor Christmas snd immediately afterwards which means lrs business for this area and iesa jobs on account nf that and a larger burden on slate and federal funds for unemployment compensation In the longer range the people Immediately affected and the ones in business and service institution depending on their trade and will have to make downward adjustments in the they ran afford which will automatically result in a lower tax income tor the rily county and stale taxing authorities who in turn will most likely try to make up this deficit in their anticipated revenue hy Increasing their present rale considerably It aeetn barely fair that Cor- pus Christ! has been singled out hy the authorities in Washington to he the scapegnst in an economy move as reported hy your paper affeeting a total of 30 states and a total of only 9000 employrs out of which 3400 or aimoat 40 per cent work at the Corpus Christ! base In other words one city with one-thousandth of the population of the United States Is expected lo sh-sorh 40 per cent of a doubtful economy move In view of the "military ghost (owns" in Texas like Foster Air Force Rase and Waldron Field and Rndd Field in Corpua Christl this leaves open this question: What new installation in other locations the navsl sir arm has on the planning board at thia present moment? Wouldn't it be possible that aside from our local considerations our United States government "watch the General Accounting Offire in Washington will find that it is the best interest of the nation's cmnomy and defense to maintain and improve installations like we have here in Smith Texas instead of possibly going on a splurge elsewhere? SCHMIDT comes' SAM rOTTORFF By GEORGE UEIIER NICOSIA Bureaucrat with a sense of humor about being shot at are rare as gold That's why Britain ha decided to handle a Greek Cypriot official exactly like bullion shipping him overseas for hia own safety The valuable official is Achillea Papadopoulos merry square-built deputy director of the island's public relations Papado-pnulns served here with Leslie Glass former British consul general in Washington now chief of information in New York -Popping at Papadopoulos is a favorite operation of EOKA the Greek Cypriot underground pledged to Airhhishop Makarioa Twice they have tried to make Papadopoulos No 207 in the list of 206 anti-Makarioa Greek Cypriots already buried by EOKA'a marksmen The British have decided to cheat EOKA by transferring him to London aa chief of information EOKA will get another Brit Em I nr the Caller: I quote from a letter lo my 8 yrar old niece who lives in California: "You are old enough now to know that you have two Unrle Sams One is a person while the other is fictional having his origin in the initials as used in abbreviation for the United States your country and personified as a quaint though kindly old fellow named Uncle Sam In recent years especially this symbolical uncle has greatly extended the scope of his benevolence and in doing so has so taxed and borrowed from his own people that they are in many instances in worse condition than those of other lands which Ihrir governmental Uncle Sam is so ronremed about "You will understand more about this as you grow older My only purpose now In warding so brief a preamble to surh a mature suhjert is to note the connection and bearing it has upon the enclosure you will find with this letter It is a bond A bond is something Hist hinds Your governmental Unole Sam by his bond hinds himself to psy you twenty-five dollars if you are living eight years and eleven mnnlhs from now or to your mama if you are not This is his solemn ROSCOE DRUMMOND Humphrey a Heavy Contender For Democratic Nomination Newspaper Tour Editor the Caller: Thank you tor making it possible tor srhool classes to take field trips through The Caller-Times building We enjovpd the trip very much and found it educational pleasant and exciting Mrs Todd the lady who took its on our tour did a wonderful job of showing snd telling us shout the things ihat we aw The other employes were cooperative in telling us about their jnhi We enjoyed reading and studying the newspapers that were given lo us NORMA JEAN CLAUNCH Secretary Room 3 Travis School Khrushchev Speeches Rated for Dramatics EOKA has struck both times a month after hia Scots wife Joyce gave birth to a baby daughter The last time Achilles wss putting his car In the garage when a gilnman opened fire from hia gate A former athlete Achillea dropped fiat and did a football roll across his front lawn to the shelter of his wall Six bullets sprayed his house EOKA'a leafieti have never explained why Papadopoulos is prime for puncture Among Greek Cypriots the reason is given that Archbishop Ma-karkt was dissatisfied with hia services as Interpreter in the five unsuccessful prsce talks between the prelate and ex-governor Sir John Harding The official guess is that perforating Papadopoulos will set back by one executive Britain's program of gradually handing over the Island's government to Greek and Turkish Cypriots Papadopoulos had been ticketed as No 1 in the information program IdwyrlatiL ISM Chiraio mil Me) STARTS JAN 1 visible to Ihe American people than most of his competitors The country has become nearly as cnnscious of Humphrey as it is of Kennedy and Stevenson and more conscious of Humphrey than of say Sen Symington flnv Mrynrr of New Jersey or Gov Williams of Michigan Handling the Khrushchev interview was for a politician always a slippery perilous thing It would have been easy for Humphrey to be made to look aa though he were being used hy the Kremlin boss to appear soft or taken in nr over-impressed My own and it seems to me lliat his handling of questions on "Meet the Press" was his best la that Sen Humphrey made himself not only visible hut favorably visible He showed himself completely alert to what the Soviets are up to he showed himself responsible and realistic and he made it clear that while he would like to see more imagination and boldness in waging the mid war he la aware that the Soviets are going to permit a tidy little comfortable peace as far ahead as we can see Firms Gel In WASHINGTON (NEA) Pub-lie relations boy at the Soviet Embassy are taking no chances that Washington newsmen will overlook the important points in Khrushchev's speeches started mailing reporters translations of their boss' public harangues which have almost every sentence labeled according to it dramatic merits The various grades of Importance are marked with the word "Applause" "Prolonged Applause" "Ijnud Applause" "Loud Prolonged Applause" and "Loud Prolonged Ail Rise" WASHINGTON 1 hiring Brat ait days after his return to the United States following his eight-hour interview with Nikita Khrushchev Sen Hubert II Humphrey (DMinn) who mind being mad five public spcertir before 15-000 people and appeared on four network radio-TV programs including the big-audience "Meet the Press" on Sunday evening This is a fair measure of the way the Khrushchev talkathon has projected Sen Humphrey Into the minds o( the Amcriran people This is one of the reasons why by now Sen Humphrey is not just the name of a possible I960 Democratic nominee but a serious contender Hie Khrushchev interview at least the kind of Interview whirh gave the Senator such a massive splash into tlie headlines wasn't planned couldn't have been planned He did not know he was going to see Ihe Soviet premier until 20 minulea before he was Invited to be at the Kremlin And it wasn't Just seeing Khrushchev whirh yielded the great publicity It was Hie length of the tslk the range and significanre of the subjects and the two pieces of information on Berlin and ICBMs which Khrushchev asked Humphrey to give to President all this plus the brilliant way Sen Humphrey exploited the opportunities which came to hand On European Market By PAUL GIIAIJ IARIS Amerlesn firms are will place orders with fsetones operating inside the common mar-ket France Italy Germany and Benelux (Belgium the Netherlands snd Luxembourg) Some will supervise new factories being established with American money piling onto Ihe bandwagon to cash in on the great European experiment of the six-nation market" whirh starts operations as an economic unit Jan 1 the: neighbors Hy George Clark Humphrey Is perfectly aware that the Khrushchev Interview is a short-lived boon snd a potential pitfall It la short-lived because ils suhstanre will soon be outdated and Rials What it has dona ts to make the Senator suddenly far mors The Humphrey-Khriiahcliev headline will anon ada and he will find himself often bark on the inside pages in competition with ninety-seven other Senators and assorted politicians Rut Sen Humphrey will not be 'without ideas and resources He knows American public opinion aa well aa anybody and there is no doubt in my mind that he intends to keep himself energetically and continuously in the center of Ihe cause of a workshle peace Hie "Star of iWe" is the theme of 1958 Christma card and it will he the theme of his rampaign to win the I960 Democratic presidential nomination Not a peace which will spring from being soft on Communism or soft on the Soviet Union hut a peace which could come if the United More and more American business house' are opening offices in Switzerland to share in the economic boom they foresee next year Early thi month say Geneva reports there were 78 such firms with offircs there and 50 others in Zurich Switzerland' biggest stork market and financial center Geneva businessmen believe Ihat before the end of January the number nf American films registered in their city will have risen to inti The American consulate general In Geneva has Just published a list of all firms in Switzerland but the generally cautious Swiss say it's already outdated JJ branches in Switzerland American businessmen appear sold on the new tariffs In the nix countries They say firm will find it more advantageous to produce in Europe then to export there1 Switzerland has been chosen for tiieir branch headquarters In preference to France or Belgium two Important members of the common market for a simple reason: In France foreign firm heavily taxed They haw to pay high social aecurity premium for their personnel In Swilzerland living is cheaper and social security charges arO a lenlh as much as In Franre (Pipyrirtt 1WS durum Dslljr Mews) Supreme Court Editor the Caller: I was asked the olher day why I was not willing to sccept the Supreme Court integration decision a the law of the land I answered that I did arrept the ruling as the law of the land but only because there was no other alternative not because I liked it I was brought up to believe that thi is a government of by and for the people In this integration Issue the people had no voice The Supreme Court merely pushed a button and made a law Now let me tell you all something about this Integration business This is not supposed to be a government that goes In tor thought control Now tell me just how long ran strong conviction survive sgainst a law whirh tor-bids patronizatton nf them In this professed Christian government there is no wonder the Integration Issue hss provided such hitter resentment snd amused the rebelling spirit of fhe God-fenring freedom-loving people to such a lever pitch To the ardent Inlegratkinists who expound Ihe philosophy that the majority of the people are on-(he side of Integration I say prove it I ronlend Ihe great majority are against integration and In support of Ihi contention I point lo Ihe recent election where the vole went heavily sgainst the Republican who played politics Yugoslavia's (Jraiu Harvest Inalciiialc CORPUS CHRISTI CALLER Published every week day itinmln st Inwer Broadway and Twist Street Cornu Chnsii Texas hy ths Ciller-Times Publishing CXv Sunday tdillon: Ths Corpus Chnsd Caller Time 1 BELGRADE iReutonO-Ritlcr disappointment over Yugoslavia's 1958 harvest has shattered the high hopes built up hy a record rrop a year ago Government figures estimate that farm production from the 1958 harvest is about 24 per cent below the record yields achieved In 117 This is a real blow to the Yugoslavs the 1937 harvest wa so good that many Yugoslav began talking seriously of Ihr pns-Ihillty of liquidating the country's depend enpe on foreign grains A year which alarird oil promisingly enbugh only to be hard hit by drought now ui swept away tha dream of early Slates can do better winning the respect and regard and allegiance of a stronger non-Communist world to Its side The senator is already a constructive force behind the effort to get an agreement with the Soviets on banning nuclear test with adequate controls If such agreement is ever reached at Geneva Humphrey will be a principal figure In behalf of Senate ratification With Iho defeat of Gov Harriman with Ihe decline in Gov Williams' reeleetton majority Sen Humphrey in emerging ss a formidable left-of center contender for the Democratic nomination (CnwrisM IMS Mm York Huraki Trlbuni Inc) i III 7777177 Published Robert a Jsrk-on a KdihW Vritrr nusincM Manage Member of The Awinrialrd In tfi me eublirsiion nt 11 litre! news primed lik ibis newspaper ss wrll as all AP news dl-palrhe si aw mrfiuN (mi ra 4 'Why did you have to keep admiring II tlATKK: Mnrnlnf evenma and Sunday 13 mnnllis MCI mnn'bs IIS: mnnihl I 1 mnnUi MSS: Dsily i caller nr Tlmen sndSimday 11 mnnlhs IIS: month 110 5" miyihs is I month 11 Mi Dsily iCsIler nr Tltnesi only 13 month MS months mnnlhs I4n: 1 mnnih II Mi Sunday only 13 month ITSO month mnnlhs izrn RATES BV CARRIER Ciller dsily and Sunday tie week Time slip 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