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hjj FOUR THE MONTGOMERY ADVERTISER TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 195 5 ifr Jt Matter Of Fact rbllsneJ sr Week Ue By TEX UONTOOMiRX ADVKRTIS-2. Kstabllsoed ing West Germany is fear that it win one day be overrun, by communism, or become the battleground of an atomic war. Another cause of emigration is the desire of young men to escape being called up for military service. -World War II seems to have gone far toward curing the Germans of any craving for war. It is believed that they still have a good fight in themv if threatened with invasion, though some do not relish being soldiers in any case.

The 2-Edged Sword LOT of grief can be averted if whites and Negroes in these parts dismiss their emotions long enough to take a cool, practical look at the consequences of boycott and counter-boycott. The Advertiser is not askig anybody to take stock as a matter of sweet charity. That which we urge is that all citizens take a calculating look at the consequences of economic warfare as a matter of enlightened self-interest. 4 rjHE ADVERTISER touched on this Sept. 13: It was revealed last week that the economic noose of tne White Citizens Not Altogether Bare! Tell It To Old raniima Tour name end address must be given on letter But upon request, name will often be withheld at the Editor's discretion We reserve the right to shorten letters No poetry, please Repeat: No letter icill be printed unless Editor knows who wrote it.

Jim and his friends making this trip. He said that the Jacksonville runways are in bad shape and need inspecting and that the weather needs inspecting too. We of Florida didn't want that information to get out, especially about tr weather. But we appreciate him taking the risk In one of those B-28 bombers. We all agreed too, that it's risky business landing these big' planes on a bad field and we will appreciate it if someone will pass National Whirligig By Ray Tucher WASHINGTON.

-AT LEAST a third of the membership of the Republican National Committee don't believe that President Eisenhower will run for office again, despite assurances to that effect by top GOP-ers who have talked with him at Gettysburg National Chairman Leonard W. Hall, Rep. Joseph W. Martin and Sherman Adams, Ike's personal chief of staff at the White House. Eisenhower's ambiguous and noncommittal message to the National Committee during its recent Chicago session supports the viewpoint of the 1956 doubters.

Here is the paragraph which, in their opinion, indicates that the President means to turn his back on politics and a second term: "You have a splendid record to submit to the voters in 1955 I shall do everything in my power to help you rcoort accurately and fully to the country." KEY WORD IN CRYPTIC STATEMENT The key word in this cryptic statement, and the one which arouses current concern over Ike's intentions, is "You." It appears twice in the text, suggesting that it was used deliberately and after careful thought. Moreover, this was the President's first formal political pronouncement since his heart attack on Sept. 24. The National Committee, to which the "You" referred, has established no record of any kind, for that is not its purpose. It is simply a partisan body that meets once or twice a year to handle routine party business.

It most assuredly does not represent the American people, and, in fact, it does not reflect the sentiment of many fragments of the GOP itself. Why then, coplain the worriers, did not Ike set forth that "This administration," or "Our administration," had established a record Justifying reelection of a Republican President and Congress? Why did he not pay tribute to the Republicans, on Capitol Hill who supported him? Why did he seem to detach and disassociate himself from an active role in the 1956 campaign? KREMLIN'S FALSE FACES A fuli and frank report on the Kremlin's pisonous, post-Geneva strategy has recently been given by Lester B. Pearson, Canada's secretary of state for external affairs. A former ambassador to Washington, and one of the West's ablest diplomats, he recently visited Moscow, and is the only allied statesman to have had private talks with Khrushchev and Bulganin since the "summit conference? last July. "Mr.

Khrushchev, a very blunt and outspoken person, who does not waste time on the niceties of language or protocol," reports Pearson, "and the more subtle and sophisticated Mr. Bul-ganin (these two seem very close together at the 'summit" of Soviet affairs) made no secret of their determination to try to weaken and destroy our North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as an aggressive, anti-Soviet bloc." Pearson tried unsuccessfully to explain that NATO was not directed against Russia, but was only a defensive alliance "against the dangers that, threatened us." He continues: CANADIAN MINISTER ARGUES WITH KHRUSHCHEV "I also did my best to convince them that the United States had no intention of attacking the U.S. S.R., or of trying to use NATO for that purpose. I pointed out that, if the United States were the aggressive, military, imperialistic state they claimed it to be, there would be no Canada today except as an American satellite, and that, as they should know, we were not Khrushchev, accorcing to Pearson, declared that, "They would not permit Germany to be unified unless she withdrew from NATO." "We should not force Germany to remain in NATO, said Khrushchev," Pearson adds. "I replied that all we asked was the right of a united Germany to decide by free elections what her future would be.

But there would be no such elections or no such unification, Khrushchev warned me, until a European se-oiirity system of the kind proposed by his government had replaced NATO." PROPAGANDA FOR RUSSIAN PEOPLE Although Pearson found the Russian people to want peace, and friendly toward the West, he says that the Kremlin's constant barrage of propaganda against us keeps them in a state of "ignorance and misunderstanding that is colossal, almost pathetic, and certainly dangerous." Pearson's first-hand report, which has been forwarded to our State Department, furnishes final and conclusive proof, if additional evidence were needed, that those "Geneva smiles' were phony. Washington now knows the latest score in the East-West brawl. by McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Living Today By Arlie B. Davidson A Creed To Live By rpHE following the substance of a creed to live by drawn up by a group of hospital nurses. Yet this is an appro-- By Joseph And Stewart Alsop WASHINGTON.

fpHERE has been much self-congratulatory talk among Democrats about the marvelous party unity they have achieved since 1952. But there, is one Issue which is likely to start one of the bitterest party rows; hi -y ears-more bit-: ter even than tne offshore oil issue which tore the party apart in the last presidential election. The row is expected to break out, moreover, within two weeks of the opening of the next session of Congress. The Fulbright bill, wnich would free producers of natural gas from federal price regulation, is near the top of the Senate calendar. The enemies of the Fulbright bill say that its passage would cost consumer' as much as a year in hiked gas prices.

And, according to one expert estimate, passage of the bill coula increase the value ol proved gas reserves by a cool $20 billion. Obviously, large interests are involved. The floor ieader for the bill will, be Sen. William Fulbright of Arkansas. But its most important proponent will be Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson of Texas, who is probably the most powerful man in the Senate.

Johnson, whose state is the biggest of the four major gas-producing states, frankly intends to use all his power to secure passage of the bill. He- has remarked flatly that he will work just' as hard for the gas producers as Sen. Hu bert Humphrey of Minnesota, for exam pie, works for his daiiy JJNTIL recently, it did not seemprob- aoie inai jonnson wouia reaiiy nave to work very hard. According to his cvn reported estimate as of September he could count on a sure majority of 53 votes. And just because passage of the Fulbright bill seemed fo certain, it was thought it would meet only token opposition.

But now all is changed. Previously, the oil companies which have favored the bill and which" probably constitute the most politically powerful of all busi- ness groups, have met no opposition. from within tne business community. But now 40 utility companies from all over the country, feaiing that big increases in gas prices would badly hurt their business, have banded together to fight the Fulbright bill. And the utilities are also not without political influence.

Moreover, the Johnson forces have been warned to. expect a fight. John son's Texas colleague, Price Daniel, re cently remarked to Sen. Paul Douglas of Illinois that he hoped the natural gas bill would go through quickly, without a bad fight. Douglas amiably replied that he thought the issue demanded "very careful examination." He has since let it be known that he has already reached page 70 on a speech he is writing on the issue, and that he expects to double that.

Given the usual interruptions, a Senate speech of 140 pages will make a fine substitute for a filibuster until a real one comes along. Moreover, there have been important breaks, in the pro-Johnson ranks. Sens. Harry Byrd and Willis Robertson of Virginia, for example, are now counted as Douglas allies. Other Southerners, like the very influential Richard Russell of Georgia, are reported wavering.

And strong support from his fellow Southerners is essential to a victory for Johnson on the issue. TQOUGLAS, moreover, counts confidently on the votes of at least 15 Republicans from the gas-consuming states in the Midwest and Northeast. All in all, it begins to that the Fulbright bill will be no pushover, although the odds are no doubt still on its passing. And it is as certain as such things can be that there will be a big, angry fight within the Democratic Party before it does pass. Northern Democrats are even muttering that, if Johnson and the Southerners insist on pushing the natural gas issue, they may decide to push the civil rights issue.

Party unity, they argue, is now a one-way street. This kind of muttering could lead to an explosion which would break the facade of Democratic unity into smithereens. The Republicans are divided on the issue too, of course, but there is not nearly the same passion on either side among Republicans and a big row on the issue would clearly hurt the Democrats far more. The hurt could be especially painful to Adlai Stevenson. As in the case of the offshore oil issue in 1952, Stevenson will almost certainly have to declare himself on natural gas.

A stand against the gas interests might well lose him a lot cf Southern and Southwestern delegates. And Stevenson needs those delegates badly, for the first-ballot win which he Is clearly planning for next summer's conventiton. (Copyright, 1955. New York Eerald Tribune. Inc.) The Lyons Den By Leonard Lyons pEORGE MEANY said recently-that he doesn't want John L.

Lewis in the merged AFL-CIO. is a troublemaker and would be a bull in our china-shop," said Meany. Lewis claims the CIO owes him money. "We'll settle," said Meany, referring to the other dissident, "by letting him have Mike Quill" Bob Hope's eagerness to visit Russia was the purpose of exploiting his new film, Not For Money, in which he plays a U.S. Army captain and Katharine Hepburn plays a Soviet colonei.

A Detroit grand jury is probing the RFC records. QLAUDE DAUPHIN, the stage and screen star, recently married Norma Eberhardt, a young beauty. After their wedding she brought him to meet her father and stepmother, who had just become parents of a baby boy Daupnin's bride carried the month-old infant to her groom and said to him: "Claude, dear I want you to meet your brother-in-law." TJOPE HAMPTON may appear in The Women at the Palm Beach Playhouse Harrison Salisbury, The New York Times' former correspondent in Moscow, may be assigned there again 20th Century-Fox will release a 28-minute short, showing clips from Carousel in its new 55mm process Jack E. Leonard, the comic, returned from his General Motors show tour, went to the Friars Club and said: "We need a membership drive that is, to drive out some of the members." entered at tb Post Office at -fontsomere. i Second Clms Matter Onder Act of Conci March 3.

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Hews Department Circulation 7749 Colored News Bureau (all hours) Saorts Department 4-6341 Bruxism Boom People are gnashing their teeth more than they used to. This was brought out at a meeting of dentists in New York. The increase was attributed to nervous tension and worry. Bruxism is the name given to "the unconscious grinding and clenching of teeth." It loosens the teeth, which may become infected unless therapy Is started. The unconscious grinding and clenching of teeth bruxism may be due to worry.

In that case, itr is "different from conscious gritting of the teeth. The latter, we have always understood, is done to avoid calling something or someone by its or their right name, to suppress a cry of pain, or other emotion. This deliberate clenching of teeth has always been deemed laudable, on the ground that it is better to grit your teeth and bear it than to explode or cry out. Bruxism, the worry-inspired sort of teeth clenching, is found in all walks of life, according to the experts. Children do it from worry about grades which at least shows they are not as callous and indifferent to education as some have charged.

The aged acquire bruxism through worry about the inadequacy of their pensions, and people in between are addicted for various reasons. For in spite of all the grounds advanced to prove that you should not worry, people keep right on at it in fact, the habit is said to be on the increase. Bad Actors An item from Jackson, the other day, told of a farmer being gored to death by a bull. His son was attacked and knocked down by the bull, but the family's mongrel dog came to the rescue and saved the lad. We read a while back in an outdoor magazine an article on the most dangerous animal in North America.

That rank was awarded, not to the much-maligned bear, the overrated mountain lion, or the wolf, but to the common barnyard bull Even the gentle porker will sometimes revert to the typeof his savage ancestors, as embodied in the wild boar found in many lands today, and attack human beings, sometimes with fatal results. This trait of hogs is recognized In an Alabama saying which cites the person who "wouldn't say sooey if the hogs were eating you up" as the supreme example of utter and callous indifference. The pig, both in the wild and domestic state, is omniverous in its eating habits. The domestic hog will catch and eat chickens, and more than one human life has been lost through a leg thrown carelessly over the side of a pigpen, to be seized by a heg suddenly gone berserk. Recovery Sidelight The remarkable re -overy of West Germany from the ravages ol war and the problems of reconstruction is indicated by a Bonn item telling how the gov-, ernment there is concerned over emigration.

For there Is full employment, and even the threat cf an increasing shortage of most kinds of workers. This danger of a manpower shortage has developed in an area naturally densely populated, and which had dumped into it millions of refugees Germans expelled from eastern areas annexed by Poland and Russia, from the Sudeten zone of Czechoslovakia, and other regions. With an area less than twice as big as Alabama, West Germany has a population of close to 50 million. It Is interesting to note that one of the commonest reasons given for leav Council works. A number of Negro citizens were fired from their jobs for having signed a petition asking com- pliance with the U.S Supreme Court's school ruling What will now be of interest is what kind of defense measures will be undertaken by the Negro Boycott is a two-edged sword.

fpHESE White Citizens Councils are growing in areas with dense Negro populations. Their power to inflict economic injury on the Negro has been demonstrated. The other way around, we see in Montgomery today in the bus situation a rather dramatic example of the Negro's boycott of the white man. A much better illustration of the sequence of attack and counterattack wr; contained in an AP story out of Orangeburg, S.C., in Sunday's Advertiser: OJtANGEBURG, S.C., Dec. 10 Threatening letters are being received by Negroes here in a tussle between white merchants and Negro customers arising out of the school integration ruling, an NAACP official said today.

Mrs. H. F. Pierce, widowed housewife and vice president of the Orangeburg, branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said she has turned a threatening letter over to local police. "This wasn't the only one," she said officers told her, "received by Negroes here.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has it, and they told me they have others and are comparing them." 1 She said one received two threatening telephone calls before getting the letter, wThich was written across the tcp of a torn piece of newspaper, in pencil. "The letter cursed terribly and said You will she related. Mrs. Pierce has two children, a married daughter who teaches mathematics at State (Negro) College here, and a son who is an architect at St. Albans, J.

A. Pierce Jr. Mrs. Pierce said a boycott of Orangeburg white merchants by Negroes is "widespread." The boycott started when the Orangeburg Citizens Council announced a drive for economic pressure on Negroes seeking integration of white and Negro school pupils on the basis of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that segregation is unconstitutional.

She said the boycott is' being carried on by many Negroes who are not NAACP members. "The economic pressure is pretty extensive from what I hear," Mrs. Pierce said. "But I just know how it's coming out." There you have it. The whites made economic war on the Negroes.

The Negroes responded with an economic war on the whites. Both are suffering. TEGR0ES are credited with a purchasing power of $15 billion. It. is a dull white that doesn't behold the power of a $15 billion war chest.

The bus boycott here is a painful economic injury to the company. But as a matter of the facts of life, Negro leaders should reckon with two realities: The white man's economic artillery is far superior, Detter emplaced, and commanded by more experienced gunners. Second, the white man holds all the offices. of government machinery. There will be white rule for as far as the eye can see.

Are those not facts cf life? JET us be specific, concrete. What is the cost of the bus boycott to the Negro community? Does any Negro ieader doubt that the resistance to the registration of Negro voting has been increased? Is economic punishment of the bus company an innocent hostage to the laws and customs of Alabama-worth the price of a block to orderly registration of Negro voters? J-OTH races should realize that boycott thrives on boycott It is a dangerous weapon, like a missile that returns to its launching ground. Not Advocates, But Mediators JDITOR, THE ADVERTISER Apparently there has been some confusion in press, radio and TV accounts as to the role of the Alabama Council on' Hu- man Relations in recent negotiations between the Montgomery City (bus) Lines and local Negro leadership. I would appreciate the opportunity to clarify our position. On Wednesday, the third day of the bus "protest," scattered incidents followed by charges and countercharges in the press were causing misconceptions and mounting tensions throughout the city.

It became evident that the bus company, Negro leaders and the City Commission each were hesitant to take the initiative in establishing communication aimed at working out a solution to the situation. It was at this point that the Alabama Council approached the City Commission offering its "good offices" as. an organization to' arrange for direct negotiations between the aggrieved Th'eoffer was accepted and resulted in the meetings subsequently held at the-City Hall on Thursday. The Alabama Council, represented 'by tne Rev. Thomas R.

Thrasher, Dr. H. C. Trenhqlm and Rev. Robert E.

Hughes, did not expect the whole matter to be solved at this one session and an acceptable answer did not result at that time. But the basic issues involved were clarified and the framework for the resolution of grievances was established. It is only by resort to these methods of negotiation an.i mediation that this problem and all similar problems in the future will eventually find their solution. Parties to disputes in this emotionally charged area cf our community life are ethically bound to utilize such a calm and logical approach to their problems in order that a mutually acceptable solution based upon justice can be achieved. The Alabama Council on Human Relations stands ready at all times to offer its services -to this end.

THE REV. ROBERT E. HUGHES. Montgomery. Executive Director.

Added Attraction Editor, -The Advertiser: A bunch of us fellows the other morning over our coffee was talking about Big Jim and his air trip to the Gator Bowl Dec. 31. Now we are all plum' worried about Here's By Henry 'J'O SEE him and talk to him, you would never guess that Prof. George Keller had been smothered to death by a lion. He acts and talks exactly like the great majority of men who haven't been smothered by lions But the professor has, and sitting on the edge of the center ring of the Disneyland circus, where his animal act is the star attraction, he told me about it.

"I brought my act to a close in those days," Prof. Keller said, "by sticking my head in Lucifer's moutn and keeping it there for 10 seconds or so. He didn't seem tpmind and neither did for that maiter. Aciuauy, sucnuig yuur neau in a Jion's mouth is not much more ex citing than sticking it in an oven. Just sort of dark and warm." A CLOWN stopped foT a light, and then Prof." Keller went "The day I was smothered to death I was working outside in Brookfield, N.Y., and it was a rainy day.

When it came time to put my head in Lucifer's mouth he opened it as obligingly as ever, and in I went. "But just as I got my head well in side the rain started to fall in buckets, and you know how cats bate rain. And Lucifer had his head thrown back, so he just shut his mouth. Not hard enough to bite off my head just tight enough to seal out the rain and the air. "Wed, no one did anything to help me, and finally I smothered.

When I passed out I went limp, and that was what saved me. I suppose Lucifer fig ured he had finished me off, and so opened his mouth. Doctors and firemen worked on me, so I'm toid, for a long time before pulling me around. And one doctor told me Iqter that I was as dead as a man can be for nearly five minutes." I asked the professor, if putting his head in a lion's mouth still was part of his act. the word on to Big Jim to take his para chute with him and be prepared to jump.

That we want to see. Understand, we want the governor here for the Gator Bowl game. There will be a group of Seminole Indians there and Big Jim's presence will add more color to the game. Cf estview, Fla. HOMER SUDDUTH Christmas Is A Time For Pity Editor, The Advertiser: I would hate to be the author of the article in Friday's issue, Fred Thornton.

The feeling that the, misfortunes others should not be mentioned (and thus lessen the happiness of the more fortunate) is a dreadful thing to think or to express. Rather Christmas Is a time when we should seek but the unfortunate and take time out from our happiness to do what we can to bring cheer and help wnere it is needed. -These stories which Mr. Thornton so strongly deplores, often are the means to that They touch the hearts of the readers and move them to pity and help. EMIL JAY.

Montgomery. Efficient Fire Department Editor, The Advertiser I would like to take this opportunity to publicly thank and commend the Montgomery Fire Department. I am sure our Fire Department is second in efiiclency to none. There is no adequate way of expressing appreciation for the saving of a human life, but prompt and heroic efforts of our Fire Department In rescuing my wife from our burning home recently are examples of efficiency and devotion to duty that deserve public recognition. VERNON MERRITT JR.

Montgomery. Henrv McLemore time. As soon as I came to that day I went back in the cage and put my head in Lucifer's mouth. Just to show him who was running the show, you know. Then I worked ut a new finale." 'J'HE professor has had his act for just a little more than five years, and is probably the only man who ever turned from still life to wild life.

For 20 years he was head of the Visual Arts department of Bioomsburg State Teachers College in Pennsylvania. 'T quit teaching," the professor said, "when I realized that people were much more interested, dollars and cents wise, anyway, in men who taught animals than men who taught human beings." Prof. Keller started his new career wnen a friend shipped him a mountain lien as a joke. He trained it, and went on from there to tigers, lions, leopards, and cheetahs. For most of his act, the professor is unarmed using neither pistil, chair nor whip, yet he manages to keep his pupils in line better than some professors do a roomful of freshmen.

I'm glad I met Prof. Keller. Now, if ever I am tempted to poke my head in a lion's mouth, 111 know enough to do it on a clear, sunny day, or to be sure to have an umbrella handy. (Distributed by McNaught Syndicate, Inc.) PREDICTION The Cincinnati Enquirer There will be more young scientists whenever the discipline of thinking comes back into fashion. POOR TIMING The New Orleans Times-Picayune Communist leaders called off their riots in Bombay during the visit of Khrushchev and Bmganin to that city, but resumed the fracas after the lat-ter's departure.

Mr. Nehru probably will be too polite to comment on this revelation of who put the bombs in Bombay, but India's people should take note of it. priate creed for every one. 1C 1. I will be sincere, for i sincerity is deception, -id deception provides insince and no foundation for either personal or group living ha ViitrVl- Will WW Tgti.

jf I minded, for this is the fm- basis for exalted living, for this is the basis for ei erhborliness. 4. I will be friendly, DAVIDSON -for this is the way to have friends. 5. 1 will be a good sport, for this creates greater respect in them for me.

6 I will be understanding, for under standing is the keystone of right and satisfying relationships. 7. I will be dependable, lor this increases the confidence of others in me. 8. I will be of good will, for this encourages the gopd will of others for me.

9. I will be tolerant, for tolerance is the basis of freedom, and without tolerT ance there can be little cooperation or unity of effort for the common good. 10. I will be balanced, that neither work, nor play, nor rest, nor worship shall lose its proper share. 11.

I will be gentle, that my presence shall bring calmness amid confusion. 12. I will be joyful, that life may give me wings. "No," he said. "I did it just one more.