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2-B at May li. 1M Tell It To Old ranima Your name md vMreit mutt be given on Utter upon request, nime will ojun be withheld the Editor' discretion We reserve the rtzht Us shorten letters poetry pkue Repeat: No letter tll be pnnlei unleu Editor Knnwt who wrote d. Silly Season National Whirligig By Ray Tucker WASHINGTON. T) WIGHT EISENHOWER will be the first American President to attend an international diplomatic assemblage fully aware of the traps and intrigues which the communist opposition will use to trip the West's foremost champion and thus break down democratic defenses against the The Lyons Den By Leonard Lyon ''THE producer of Ionesco's Rhinoceros, Leo Kerz, decided that in the show's ads there'd be no quotes from any of the reviews. He asked lonesco for his opinion on this, and lonesco wrote in reply: "I've been using theater reviews as material for my plays for years.

They made the funniest dialogue but gave me the reputation of being ob.scure. I decided to write my own stuff for Rhinoceros because Jean Cocteau thought it might be habit-forming. And suddenly reviewers began to explain the play to me." ppiTOR, THE ADVERTISER Politically, we are evidently now in the middle of the silly season. Whether or not this is due to the late spring, I could not say. Even our noble Senior Senator seems to have caught the Spring Fever.

He recently, in sonorous accents, moaned over the TV the fact that he was unable to vote for his beloved Harry Truman in 1948. This was the same Truman who called a special Congress for the sole purpose of passing a civil rights bill the only President who has done that. I happened to be present in the House Chamber at Washington when this session met. Senator Hill, having been, lot these many years, a public servant with a handsome compensation, ought to know that Truman had his chance in Alabama in 1948. In the Democratic Primary that year there were two sets of candidates for electors (just as there are now).

Truman was as good as nominated. One set vowed they would vote for the Democratic -nominee, who was to be Harry Truman. The others pledged they would not support anyone who was attempting to punish the South. The Truman slate was overwhelmingly defeated by the people of Alabama, and the States' Rlghters were chosen for elector nominees by the Democrats of this state. The election in the fall, as we all know, is a cut and dried affair and practically nobody votes.

The Issue was settled in the primary. As a matter of fact, the senator could have gotten an independent Truman slate to be voted upon in the November election, had he chosen to do so. I am thankful that the people of his home town, his home county and of his home area South Alabama overwhelmingly scorned his appeals that we vote ourselves into political slavery by tying the hands of our electors and requiring them to vote for whoever and whatever is nominated, even should they be the most rabid South-haters. These free electors are not going to hog-tie themselves now. They cannot and should not! They must await the outcome of the Democratic Convention, its nominees and its platforms.

Our still adolescent governor seems to have also gone silly; and in this matter, as in many others, has gone back on not only his friends, but on some of those things for which he claimed to stand. Our Governor participated in meetings year before last which were called for the purpose of supporting candidates for the State Committee who were opposed to the Loyalty Oath. These people were elected for the sole purpose of permitting unpledged electors to run this year. The Governor, however, contents himself with taking a lef thand slap at his former supporters and friends who are for free electors. He is also trying to hog-tie Alabama by telephone.

Both of these officials probably will be taught an interesting political lesson in the run-off campaign on May 31. The eyes of the South are upon Alabama. I think I have never in my life felt such a great necessity to vote as I feel about the approaching runoff Tuesday, May 31. The people of South Alabama must go to the polls en masse and must turn In such overwhelmingly large majorities for the "free" Democrats until those few large loyalist counties north of us will be swamped. Then the silly lesson, 1960, will, I hope, be over.

Dothan, Ala. W. D. MALONE. Official Negligence Editor, The Advertiser: Thank you for your interest In the Tyler Goodwyn Bridge as shown by your editorial.

Others have said it and with truth this is a disgrace to the state and evidence of the careless indifference of state officials. Those who use this bridge want to know surely that it is safe, that they will not be crowded by illegal-sized trucks, and exactly what plans for repairs, improvement and safety are being made. We pay the taxes and the public has a right to know, not just general statements. Why can't Gov. Patterson and Mr.

Sam Engelhardt make a definite statement or do such minor things as the safty of the people interest them? I hope you will continue to write about it and publish pictures. Let the public Judge who is being negligent and reckless with other people's lives. Let the Highway Department give us facts if they can take a little time off from parties and politics. (MRS.) MARY JO HILBURN. Montgomery.

Great Job Editor, The Advertiser: I would like to express my appreciation to the firemen and Chief C. C. Strane of the Montgomery Fire Department for the quick response and magnificent Job they did in extinguishing a fire at 24 Wilkinson street, Sunday morning, May 8. When discovered by occupants of the house, the blaze had enveloped the house and had gained such headway it threatened to set afire my house next door, as well as other houses in the vicinity. The firemen quickly brought the blaze under control with no damage to my house, which stands about 10 yards on the west side of the burned house.

Although a man lost his life in the blaze, It was no fault of the firemen or the occupants, as he failed to follow advice given to him by another occupant on the second floor. Watching the firemen bringing the flames under control. I can understand better now why our Fire Department enjoys such a fine reputation, not only in Alabama but in the South. Montgomery; ED F. TAYLOR.

A Long, Fruitless Search Editor, The Advertiser: If I may presume on the always helpful attitude of the press, I ask your help in the following: One of the victims of the Hotel Winecoff fire in Atlanta was a young lady by the name of Margaret Parker, address listed in the Richmond Times-Dispatch as Montgomery. I am the stepfather of the victim, or so I believe, but all inquiries to date have drawn blank. I am trying to locate the mother, long since divorced. Any information you can provide will be greatly appreciated. A veteran's claim is Involved.

FRANK P. COAN. 203 North Pine St Apartment 10, Richmond, Va. ly. The monument to his memory are so many though he didn't intend them as such his works will never be forgotten.

The Russians will undoubtedly dismiss his death as that of another capitalist who had spent his life grinding the faces of the poor. The world could well do with more such. Happily, he left sons with the same awareness of their immense power for good works. Not the least of his legacies are the lessons in service and duty he passed on to them. It' Khrushchev's Week The burdens and responsibilities of the American presidency were never more evident than they are this weekend, as President Elsenhower goes to the summit conference.

Khrushchev Is there, fat and smug, the spy-plane affair having given him a distinct psychological edge in the talks. If he wishes to throttle the conference, it will be a simple matter to accomplish; a few coarse references to the plane should do It. The maddening thing is, there is little effective rebuttal to his crude uses of the incident. To say that all nations spy, that communist secrecy makes the spying necessary, that Russian spies are caught in this country, is all true of course. But this is answering the specific with the general, and hoping it will be a polite debate.

Ironically, the President was never keen for a summit conference Just for the sake of having one. He insisted that it should come only after the Russians had shown at the foreign-minister level that progress was likely. But Khrushchev's 1958 ultimatum on Berlin, coupled with pressure from the allies, caused the President to relent. He consented to a summit conference even though the foreign ministers had accopllshed virtually nothing and though his own misgiving! doubtless remained. There seemed a good chance the summit would begin at least in a favorable The conference begins, instead, in an atmosphere that could hardly be less favorable.

How the President must writhe as he reflects on this circumstance. The summit conference offers little hope of real progress; the possibility of mishap is great. And, which it will be, unfortunately, depends not on Eisenhower, De Gaulle or Mac-mlllan, but on Khrushchev. He will dictate the events of this week. Back To The Cities The drift to the suburbs is so thoroughly fixed as the necessary and desirable pattern of American life that the citizen who holds a preference for ln-town living is regarded as eccentric and possibly daft.

All sides assail and tempt him in an effort to wrench him from his little plot of asphalt and concrete-friends, relatives and a massive entente of wife and real estate men. Holding on takes a grim, SAC-llke strength. Such citizens will be anxious therefore to attend some recent remarks of Prof. c. Northcote Parkinson, who spoke at a convention of tha American Institute of Architects.

The architects having admitted blame for much of the unattractive-ness of American cities, Prof. Parkinson Invited them to consider life in the suburbs, where "over have come to live in what is neither country nor city." In one direction, he said, urban sprawl has put the countryside out of reach; in the other, It has sapped the city of its magnetism, leaving little that would "balance tht real Inconvenience of returning there for an evening." Parkinson doesn't advocate a ban on the urban exodus; if they want to go, let them. But, said Parkinson, give the others a reasonable alternative by rebuilding the cities. He has in mind cities "with a central focus, at once dominating and beautiful. With amenities grouped within walking distance, with all vehicles banished to a level below that upon which people live." And with traffic confusion, dirt, smog, corruption, disorder and crime either abolished or diminished.

In urging peaceful coexistence between the urban and the suburban, Parkinson is addressing his remarks expressly at the great bulging metropolises, rather than a city such as Montgomery. But the spirit of the message would apply to all. Zfy illflafsomrrjj 2tttriir Katabiuaed IM ALABAMA JOUWAl Pabiuttad Back gaadar TKB ADVKBTIMB 00. wood ala poaiwra aaal ternary, rn K. BTOkOB OSOVIB liU drtr C-tTTJOB HUM Mir.

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and all day Sunday. Dapanmans AM t-Uol Cireuiatloa CB 1-rm Sport Dapartmaai AM 4-aMl A Lasting Futility It is not enough that the government spends billions to encourage and perpetuate the production of wheat and other grains; it must spend other millions to store this unwanted bounty. The program Is rich In possibilities for speculation and borderline deals. To mention one of the' most conspicuous, the records of a House committee which investigated grain storage, show cases where farmers, urged on by the government's support program, planted their thousands of acres of wheat, sold the wheat to the government, then built and leased to the government space for storing the wheat much of it their own. There should be no tears, then, for the warehousemen as a result of Secretary Benson's action the other day, cutting the warehouse storage rates by 18.

The Agriculture Department had attempted to negotiate the reduction with the warehousemen but they turned down the offer. Whereupon, Benson said, In effect, take It or leave it Possibly they will leave It; if so, the results might have an entirely salutary effect. So long as the billions of surplus bushels are neatly stored in warehouses, it Is difficult to comprehend the vast folly of the wheat program. But stack: them all up on the ground, in a mound perhaps equaling Mt. Everest, and the taxpayers might be stunned into action.

It might occur to them that every surplus bushel bespeaks futility It wasn't wanted when it was grown, it was bought by the government because It couldn't be sold, It was stored because to distribute it would depress an artificially supported market J. D. Jr. "I did not seek to be the recipient of great wealth with the staggering responsibilities Inevitably eoupled with its marvelous opportunities," said John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

of the huge fortune left to him by his father. This would hardly seem a cross to bear by most men, until they stopped to reflect the heavy obligations imposed by a treasure beyond their wildest dreams. The whole world is a beneficiary of the dedicated way "Mister Junior" approached the business of giving away the family fortune. It was his career and his life. A man of simple tastes, he assumed the Job thrust upon him by the accident of birth with wisdom and boundless enthusiasm.

No facet of American life, or even world life, is untouched by his monumental contributions medicine, science, art, religion, history, education, architecture. A detailed list of his. generous, but prudent, use of the power of money would go on and on. He ive Jte on which the iTnited N.tlons -uif; was erected, added the Rockefeller CenCer to New York's skyline, gave millions to further man's understanding of man, to peace, to beauty and to the business of civilization. His creed was simple: "There Is no evil that cannot be overcome and no evil or suffering that ahould not be overcome." If great wealth Is an affliction, Rockefeller overcame it magnificent expansionist limsiam of communist Russia and China.

In meeting with Khrushchev at Mon-riav'ii summit confer Ika Will Go With Eye Opaa ence President Eisen- hower knows his enemy personally and politically, as well as Moscow's malign designs. In seeking- to scare the West's diplomatic representatives with inflammatory pre-summit speeches and the rocket destruction of an unarmed American plane over the Russo-Turkish border, Khrushchev has succeeded only in placing the West on guard. As a result, President Eisenhower should be able to avoid the well-intentioned but disastrous blunders which Woodrow Wilson made at the Versailles Conference after World War and which Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman duplicated with their concessions to Stalin at Yalta and Potsdam, respectively, after World War II.

Ironically, President Elsenhower's immediate task is to try to remedy or alleviate the mistakes which his two predecessors committed, especially their willingness to permit Western Berlin to become a lonely Island circumscribed by a communist sea. Safeguarding the allies' occupation rights in Hitler's capital is President Eisenhower's principal problem, for any effort to force the Americans, the British, the French and Adenauer's Germans out of that democratic enclave could easily result in a "shooting war." NO AIRLIFT, IT WILL BE TANKS THIS TIME President Elsenhower will warn Khrushchev frankly that, in the event of another blockade of our access to Adenauer's Berlin, we will go through with tanks and accompanying military support instead of resorting to an airlift. That is definite and decided Western policy in a Berlin showdown, although Washington has not publicized it for diplomatic reasons. Lacking Roosevelt's and Truman's almost incredible trust in Stalin, in view of his uncooperative attitude in certain phases of World War II, President Eisenhower's forewarning means that he goes forearmed. From this standpoint, Khrushchev's Gro-myko and Mikoyan have been unbelievably stupid in tipping their belligerent hand so far in advance of the summit meeting.

President Eisenhower will have another advantage which was not enjoyed by Wilson, Roosevelt or Truman in these international engagements. The American President will speak and act for a united West in facing up to the brutal, ruthless and self-centered dictator of a monolithic system. The personal exchanges with Prime Minister Macmlllan of Britain, President De Gaulle of Franca and Chancellor Adenauer of West Ger-mny have resolved all presummit difficulties among the allies. It was not so with Wilson at Versailles, with Roosevelt at Yalta and with Truman at Potsdam. For the sake of their lip service to his League of Nations, the idealistic Wilson succumbed to the undemocratic intrigues of Lloyd George and Georges Clemen-ceau.

He agreed to their harsh demands on Germany, which led to the crushing of the Weimar Republic, the rise of Hitler and World War II. CHURCHILL WARNED AGAINST STALIN Roosevelt and Churchill clashed at Yalta when Britain's bloody but unbowed war leader argued against placing too much trust in Stalin for the reconstruction of Central Europe and the Balkans. Truman was inflenced in favor of Stalin when Clement Attlee took Churchill's place at Potsdam as a result of the Labor Party's election win in 1945. Attlee and the Labor Party trusted the communists, as they still do. In fact, it was not long after Potsdam that Truman referred to Stalin as "good old Uncle Joe," and pitied him because he was "the prisoner of the Kremlin." Thus, President Eisenhower will take his seat at the summit table Monday In the grandiose structure not far from the Eiffel Tower and the Field of Mars, in no mood to concede or to surrender.

He knows Khrushchev as his World War II patrols and Intelligence units warned In advance of enemy operations. (Releasl by McClura Newspaper Syndic!) Living Today By Arlie B. Davidson You Can Lose Friend FRIENDSHIP must be nourished to keep it vital, helpful, rewarding. You can lose friends in these ways: qif you speak about them in ways that hurt their feelings. If you pout, carry chips on your shoulder, keep in bad moods, and neglect Oi.

nuie Kinanesses ana courtesies that please, 1 If you speak to Ihf, them, even Jokingly, it'JA ln wavs tnat make navmcnu tnem te little Or un- davidson important. If you refuse to relay compliments about them you have heard or make favorable remarks about their family or children. If you neglect to comment favorably about a hat or dress, the home or garden, or something they do well. 3 If you never admit a mistake are stubborn in your ways, even though you know you are wrong. If you are indifferent when they want you to hear about something they have done, or some recognition that has come to them.

If you are too busy to show sympathy in their illness or misfortune, even though they would not do this to you in similar circumstances. Advice To Adlai The Decatur Daily A DLAI STEVENSON would convince a far greater number of Americans if he stopped telling funny stories and said, I want to be president of the United States." 'T'HE controversial movie version of D. H. Lawrence's Sons And Lovers has been entered at the Cannes Film Festival. Producer Jerry Wald recently decided to add one more scene and made it in New York.

It shows Mary Ure, half nude, with Dean Stockwell hovering over the bed But this scene can't be shown at Cannes, because the deadline's passed. The nude version therefore will be seen In the UJ3.A., the tidy version in France. CID CAESAR, who opens In Las Vegas shortly, taped two CBS-TV shows and insisted on using a live studio audience. The comic said: "Doing a comedy show without an audience is like playing handball without a wall." piNlAN'S RAINBOW, the 1947 hit musical, was revived at the City Center last week. The first-nighters suspected that E.

Y. Harburg. the lyricist, had devised it to make it timely because of the line, "I Feel So Eisenhowerish" That line was in the original show. Elsenhower was a general then, and when David Wayne recited the line he saluted. In the revival, when Howie Morris recites that line, he swings a golf club.

BECAUSE of the expected room shortage In Rome during the Olympics, Fabrizio Ciano grandson of II Duce just sub-leased his Rome apartment to Gordon Fawcett at $1,000 for the month Robert Preston may take a starring role in the Broadway production of the London hit, The Complaisant Lover lonesco, the playwright, will arrive here from Paris Sept. 18 Bernle Hart says "I'm a tee-totaler; that is, I never touch tea." TTX-PRESIDENT and Mrs. Harry S. Truman saw Duel Of Angels, the other day and then went backstage to congratulate the cast. Robert Helpmann, who directed the show, told the Trumans how pleased he was that they liked it because he didn't want them to see him fall a second time.

The first was when they saw Helpmann and Margot Fon-teyn dance Swan Lake in Washington, and the dancers tripped and fell. A LONDON admjjier recently gave William Saroyan a collector's item a magazine, published in the 30s, containing one of Saroyan's first stories. The magazine was published by Henry Miller who later won fame with his censored novels, Tropic 0 Cancer, Tropic Of Ctopricorn. In ac-wptlsj Sarojin's story, Miller wrote him: "Great, story. I'll publish it.

But, Bill, I could use $15 to help pay my printer." POR the first time an American college student, Irlna Shapiro of Barnard College, will be given academic credit for her Junior year to be spent at Moscow University. She's the daughter of the UP correspondent in Russia Eva Gabor is flying to London to co-host at Noel Coward's annual Palladium charity show The State Department is sending Al Hirshfeld, the artist, to Brazil with an exhibit of his theater drawings covering 25 years. TJECAUSE of her role in Gypsy, Ethel Merman received a "Stage Mother of the Year" award from Stage Mothers Inc. And because of her hit song, Everything's Coming Up Roses, Miss Merman also received a bouquet of roses. But because Miss Merman is allergic to roses, the bouquet was of artificial flowers.

X-PRESIDENT TRUMAN, who said he was misquoted about the Negro sit-in strike, had a talk with Judge William Hastle afterwards Truman visited Ralph Bunche at the U.N. last week Harvey Brelt, co-author of The Disenchanted, is raising a fund to bring the Soviet chess team here to play against Bobby Fischer After his Philadelphia performance in J.B. Basil Rathbone was told by a fan: "I always thought that Job was the one swallowed by a whale." (Dlitrlbutcd. lm, by TDa Hall Syndlcal. Ino.) Polls Andt Primaries The Christian Science Monitor WE ARE constantly amazed and sometimes amused by the insistence of Americans on deciding a November election in May.

And the nominations to be made in July seem to be settled anew each week by the latest poll or fragmentary primary. Take the Republican problem where things look less complicated. In December, when Gov. Rockefeller withdrew, everybody gave the nomination to Vice President Nixon. Then for some time he made little news and the polls showed him slipping.

A month ago there was serious debate as to whether after all the Republicans wouldn't have to get somebody else. Now after the Pennsylvania and Indiana primaries opinions of his vote-getting ability have again soared. The fact that Mr. Nixon topped the 1952 Elsenhower primary vote in Pennsylvania Is taken as answer to whether, he could win independent support. And the result in Indiana, where he ran well ahead of Senator Kennedy, although the polls had placed him behind, Is read as evidence of strength.

This Interpretation was supported by the fact that the Republican primary was lacking in contest, that would bring out a big vote. But it is qualified a bit by the facts that registered Republicans far outnumber Democrats in Indiana and party workers really worked. The point we wish to make Is that incalculable and fluctuating factors make both the polls and the presidential primaries unreliable auguries as to either the nominations or the election. The press and the public have overrated one poll or primary after another. Right now we are told that West Virginia will be decisive! Have the party strategists who may decide the nominations also been mesmerized by polls and partial primaries? We doubt it.

Alabama Editors Are Saying has published an analysis of Negro voting in Alabama. Owen points out that Pepper led by huge one-sided margins in the predominantly Negro boxes in Tuskegee, Montgomery, Birmingham and Mobile. Pepper has made no denial of his support by Negroes. Will Covington continue to support presidential electors who are segregationists and still give a majority to Pepper, the candidate tagged as the favorite of Negroes, over Jack Owen? Voters Begin To Think The Brewton Standard "PHE majority of the voters in the southern end of the state were expected to hold the states' rights view and the expected support for the loyalists in the northern end of the state failed to materialize to a great degree on election night. The end results of the voting should give cause to sound serious thinking for the Democratic officials of Alabama, Even though a run-off is scheduled between the "states rights" and "loyalists" groups, and even though the vote was extremely close, there are evidently enough people in the state who are discontented with the blind ties to the Democratic Party to cause some change in the thinking of those who have been In control for so many years.

The days of belonging to one party Just because of father, grandfather and great-grandfather are about over. The people are beginning to think for themselves down here. No Cause For Worry Opelika Daily News A TONGUE-IN-CHEEK suggestion from a congressman that he ban clgarets under a program of protecting consumers from anything which might cause cancer was quickly rejected by Secretary of Welfare Arthur S. Flemmlng. Flemmlng was before a House committee in regard to legislation he recommends banning the use of any color additives In foods, drugs and cosmetics "if laboratory tests show the additive can Induce cancer in animals or humans." Rep.

John Bell Williams of Mississippi, then asked him if he couldn't ban clgarets under the same program. "That would be the only way I could quit," further stated the congressman. Flemmlng In turn referred the question to Dr. G. Burroughs Mider of the National Cancer Institute (who testified that he had been a smoker 35 years himself).

It's a debatable issue, he declared. Well, we seriously doubt that even If Flemmlng did ban fags as a health measure that Rep. Williams would have to stop smoking because he couldn't buy them. We haven't heard about any thirsty Mlsslsslpplans having to do without their cocktails merely because Mississippi is tha only dry state in the nation. Powell For Johnson The Tallassee Tribune CENATOR Lyndon Johnson should have it made now.

Last week he got a big boost from Adam Clayton Powell who called him "the most able man in America." About all the Texan needs now for frosting on the cake would be a like statement from one of Powell's old drinking companions, a fellow up the road a few counties north of here. Can't seem to remember his name, but you know who we mean. PSC Race A Squeaker The Luverne Journal TN LAST week's election the Associated Press had Jack Owen leading in the race for president of Public Service Commission by better than ten thousand votes. Friday they reported an error of exactly 10,000, saying they had inadvertently hit a tabular key that added that many votes. With the error deducted, Owen led Pepper less than a thousand votes.

This means that for a state race they are neck-and-neck. Now the interest Is on what effect Folsom will have on the runoff. His strong support of Pepper Is definitely a factor in our thinking. It will drive away from Pepper those who vow never to vote a Folsom ticket, and will corral those who hold him dear. Now the big question is how do those who voted for Roy King feel about the matter.

We think they will be inclined toward Owen, but not decidedly so. It should be a squeaker all the way. Pepper Scared Him The Enterprise Ledger A PPARENTLY overconfident in the first primary, Jack Owen has been rudely awakened by the clamor of voters desiring better utility service, especially in the United Telephone service area. "Political stooge" or not, Ed Pepper has Just about scared the pants off Owen and will continue to keep him scared right on through the month or May 1 Why. For.

Pepper? The Audalusia Star-Neus rTHERE were some unexpected re-suits in the May 3 election due to the gulfs of confusion that came with a ballot a mile long and half a mile wide. Covington voted by a substantial majority for Alabama loyalists (states rights) Democrats. This was a vote for continued segregation and against any hint of integration. But how can you reconcile this favoritism for segregation with Covington giving more votes to Ed Pepper for Public Service Commission president than to Jack Owen? Owen, the Incumbent PSC chief,.