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FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1955 -ELMIRA ADVERTISER EDITORIAL PAGE EXPRESSIONS OF OPINION- Road Work Default from Within New Peril to Chiang's Formosa Edward JL Kennedy in ii mmjt. in.ii'nain, Jj PAGE SIX Russian Attack Reply A Wee Bit Unusual THE RUSSIAN reply to an American protest over the shooting down of a Navy bomber off the Alaskan coast has the unusual feature of being an instance in which the Kremlin has partially admitted any possibility of error. In a dozen previous attacks of major importance on American planes during the last five years, only vituperative countercharges have resulted from protests to Moscow. While Russia's offer to pay half the loss in the most recent clash may seem encouraging as a progressive step toward more responsible behavior, a closer look at the situation hardly bears out this view. The Russian reply this time, as previously, is based on double talk, despite expressions of regret.

No wrong, either deliberate or by error, is admitted, only the bare chance of "a mistake by one side or the other." The note starts out by charging the Navy plane violated Soviet territory, "according to the information of the competent Soviet authorities," and there was "an exchange of shots." Then it goes on to say the incident "took place under heavy cloud conditions in the absence of visibility." How. then, did the "competent Soviet authorities" penetrate this invisibility? THE AMERICAN crew denies being over Russian territory and denies firing any shots. Several of these men were wounded. Hence, is it any wonder that Secretary Dulles says the Russians "have not offered to do all we think would be appropriate under the circumstances" or that the United States is taking a "firm" position in the matter? What seems to be indicated here is that the Soviet reply was based not upon the merits of the case but on the propaganda value of an apparent conciliatory position in view of the fact the current Red "charm offensive" may have been rudely jolted by some trigger-happy Communist airmen. Who loses out if the Soviet proposal is accepted? We do with one less bomber for defense and some military personnel out of action.

The offer to stand half the cash damage is like a bank robber claiming to be beneficent because he lugged off only halfthe available loot. Further Submersion SEN. JOSEPH R. McCarthy's attempt to torpedo the forthcoming Big Four conference backfired in the Senate so badly that his sinking prestige has been still further submerged. A craftily designed resolution, written and introduced by the senator, would have wrecked the conference by declaring it to be the sense of the Senate that there can be no hope of international peace and security as long as Russia itself is under Communist control, and that before, the United States could enter the conference it should obtain an.

TAIPEI (NEA) There is growing concern here that this island bulging with military supplies Can be taken over by the Communists in the next year without an invasion from the mainland. Default from within is the new menace. "Everybody pictures the conquest of Formosa as an incoming sea of rafts, junks and invasion craft streaming over the Straits," the ranking officer said. "That isn't how they'll do it at all look out for the Trojan horse." With the evacuation of the Tachens last winter, Nationalist morale nose dived. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has maintained the loyalty of his forces with the often reiterated promise of a return home as the liberating heroes of the mainland.

They have lived on this dwindling hope for six years. NATIONALIST troops have been defecting out the back door. They slip from Formosa to the uninhabited islands south of Okinawa and make their way back to Communist China by seagoing junks. Even Gen. Shu Ming (Tiger) Wang's high spirited airmen have suffered defection in their ranks and planes have been flown to Red China.

But the biggest morale setback has been among the native Taiwanese. Eight months ago they supported the Nationalist cause wholeheartedly if only to hasten their departure from Formosa. Now it appears that the mainlanders have come to stay, and discontent grows among the local population. Most of Chiang's troops want to go home and after six years of early morning calisthenics and constant exhausting maneuvers, they are losing interest in political differences. EVEN THE staunchest Na NATIONALIST ON MANEUVER: In camouflage, a Trojan horse? Sfafe, Local Study Realistic Peter Edson WASHINGTON (NEA) But by and large the commis-American state and local govern- sion.

takes the sane view of what ments must be reorganized and is probably the oldest problem strengthened. in American government. It is This is essentially task for how the federal government, the tionalist inadvertently expresses TODAY By MILTON F. BREESE pride in what his countrymen on the states themselves 48 states, the 3,000 counties, fedSiir ding Under Federal government actions incorporate cities, 17,000 Kea organization. uij towns and townshins.

60.000 Running Past Red Lights In Pursuit of Happiness IN 1905, 50 years ago today, "Never before has anyone or-John Hay, American statesman, ganized the Chinese to resist the rfio in Npwhurp at aee white man and look what the cial districts can get along with out overlapping and conflict. govern 1 1 can't handle. In oversimpli-f i summary, these are perhaps the key IF THE Kestnbaum Commis-sion had chosen to show how the federal government could save three billion dollars, it would By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKT right," why should we have any. 66 As private secretary and Communists did to you in Ko-If the right to travel is a "nat- immigration restrictions at all? aide-de-camp to President Lin- a strongly anti-Communist ural right," is not the right to If a man wants to travel to.

the com Hay served in the former Chinese newspaperman corn-migrate an extension of what is United States, who, defiance capacity until the martyred Pre- minted. The question must "natural rights may say him sidenfs death. An Indiana na- i'Tf also be asked: "What is a natu- If he want to remain after ti Hay was later ambassador f.fl.cers tha Mwnng of a ral right?" If the Constitution is he has travelled here, who has Great Britain during the ad- tf American Marines to be interpreted so broadly the authority to over-rule nature taiSoB "3 President McKin- herf lnernal and that the courts become a third demanding a passport, a visa, 01 MClm protection of the vast stores of legislative chamber, is this not, fingerprints and a record? Should c(oaA (rnm tlltt is reported under not "natural riehts" be suDerior He was transferred from the sideration. mmenda- tions in the have made more dramatic news. Inne-awaitpd re.

The commission chose instead 'fl port from tho to shw how the quality of all presidential-con- governments might be improved. gressional, 25-. People who expected the mpmhpr m. mission on intergovernmental re to man-made laws? It would sepm ambassadorship to secretary of "The Red Army has been run- rinoT so, or these who argue "natural state in 1898. Also an author, Hay ning on stuff they captured from lime.

i- i a. i i i in mission on in- 'ations to come out with a rip- agreement from Russia that the future of the satellite nations would be a subject for discussion. McCarthy soon sensed the certainty, of his defeat and attempted to offer a substitute resolution, as did his friend Senator Jenner of Indiana. Democratic Senators Johnson and Fulbright took the lead in blocking the McCarthy retreat. But they were grimly supported by most of the Republicans, who evidently do not intend that the Wisconsinite shall ever again attain the commanding position he once held within their party.

The vote was 74 to 4 against the resolution. The plain fact is that the Republican party, including the President himself, has at last come to the conclusion that the country has had enough of McCarthy and that he will be anything but an asset in the 1956 campaign. Whether the senator is being sidetracked because of a belated conviction as to his motives and character or because of mere political expediency, the net result is the same and is a boon to the country at large. If judges care rights" in 'passport issue are fulfilled the best traditions of the Nationalists on the mainland tergovernmentai relations snorting report, damning all fed- to bo back to both logically and legally in er- American literature, especially in one officer observed, "and we 1 eral spendina nroerami and rec the Declaration ror, which they well might be his "Pike County Ballads," don't want them to get, all this3 What if anything, wiU be done "mmending that fll bte Sve of iTd epend- and have been before. (1871.) i equipment about its scores of specific recom- piweri be decfnSed pnei.

fnr thpir A further nnint mieht hn Secretary Hay supervised peace menoations lor overnaul oi all ence for their A further point might be "-secretary Hay supervised peace and handed back to the states, AG nil ICl AAtihnnaa tn iaca (rnvprnmcnr marhinprv i linror source, they made in response to a statement negotiations alter tne. war witn tir. wlu tnereiore be disappointed win una tne "i t-uropeans oDject 10 Demg -r Under Dean Clarence Man. right to "life, fingerprinted because in their interests during the "Boxer" out- nationally, these people are be- no doubt send to the next session uecauMj in meir 7Y. 1' .71 ion of Notre Damp firtt Ti I liberty and the country only criminals are fin- break in China.

It was then that ginning to recons oer mcir anu- 0t congress a program ior car- 'J nU Pft ofhap--M JLd nt ededto trir Ut P-nouncea "nl unless, anu US iuuicuu IU our cuuu-. xuut Jiunty iiino oiiu viiai- i Vt a thpsp nrnhlami Sokolsky the Fifth try, many who are not crimi- lenged Russia as to its intentions complete about-face is for a BUT THE federal government 9 Ji bIistenng re-Amendment to nals are fingerprinteH. For in- in Manchuria. C0UPlet division commanders has no power over state govern- vri was exPeciea- UNDER MEYER Kestnbaum, the Constitution puts it, "prop- stance, j. tagar Hoover, nead of In 1910, Brown University ments.

it can torce tnem to re- erty." But if the judges insist the FBI, has been fingerprinted, dedicated a John Hay Memorial mainland and we can lose tne orgamze state machinery uk ci uiiiiLcu. ueniraLeu a juiih ndv ivicmuiiai viKauuc tiicu aiaic uidbuiua uoon nursuit of hanoiness or lib- The Europeans do it one way I.ihrarv costing Among wnole snow wlRml. ev.e? lne nor modernize their constitu- succeeaea mm, a middle- erty to justify their opinion ex- and we do it another. Is it not a his prolific writings he penned Pre.te.nse 0 an invaslon' ne as" tions. oneToaa approach to the prob- tending.

the "natural rights" of "natural right" for them to do as the popular lines about Jim arf Also, there are wen-organized LTIfi.irlS?" anQ IOT US 00 Mississippi River steam- conTeWTaIing the day when Pressure groups which want the the old there prohibition heroin we choose? a on or Doat nero: it wnn. miht hv mr. siaie ana local governments Kent au.vi ri trji onvornmonf mahmk bvivi utiiub A.UX1 11 if "He weren't no saint but at ri'son" tms ree worja outpost weak and inefficient In that con dition they can be controlled TLJL on getting the states to assume easier by lobbies. juagmenr. without the Nationalists.

I run my chances with Jim, 'L i of some pious SAME SCALE wS wp th responsibility. rh rvicina sraU nf tpmnpra- A. recognizes that the ruin gentlemen gciiiicxiiciA marijuana, both of which could be a "pursuit of happiness," tern- IF ANY one of us desires to porary though it might be? Or, travel to Europe, he must live we might suggest that many according to the standards of the forms of taxation are a depriva- country he goes to. If anyone tion property. wants to come to the United States, he ought to be willing THE ISSUE then becomes to.live.

according to the stand- "due process of law," and the ara of thls country. Otherwise, question arises whether each each man would do as he pleases, Climbing Standard GOVERNMENT figures show that in 1946 there were 3,826,000 families or unattached individuals whose annual income before taxes was less than $1,000. Another 7,606.000 families or individuals earned from 1,000 to $2,000 a year. In 1953. the last year for which figures are available, the total with incomes under $1,000 had dropped to 2,866,000, and the category fell to By contrast, families and individuals in the bracket have risen from 3,065,000 in 1946 to in 1953.

In the group, the total shot up from 2,547,000 to 6,240,000. Part of this advance reflects a gain of more than seven million in the number of families and individuals earning measurable income. But more importantly, it shows the climb of living standards in the United States to new high levels. It is one more chapter in the continuing American revolution. puuiAc upiiiiuii 10 overcome a i That wouldn't shook hands ture is the same as the Centl- the letnarg and opposition to re.

has neces- with him. grade scale which the freez- form which commission on sardy It recognizes He seen his duty, a dead-sure ing point of water (32 degrees intergovernmental relations lhar WlU, be Jdlff'cult to undo thing- Fahrenheit) is zero, and the boil- points yn in a Quiet but effective has already been dons. It And went for it thar and then; in? point (212 degrees Fahren- Pomts up a quiet but effectne does not anticipate that any great And Christ ain't a-going to be heit) is 100 degrees. When Kestnb head savings caiT be made in total cost UiifA Avrmvn TT oi.flP lW laXPaVerS. taxpayers.

and everv administrative tunc- i pis uuuugu a reu light in pursuit of happiness. iou mivi i.r.ri'.K.Ai,.AiJiiiuii. oi xidi i. ocuanner a- manr. ni.

But in reassessing state and ana On a man that died lor men. t.w Wallace, a Civil War cen- caeo. was named chairman tion thus becames subject to judicial review. Admitting that regulations about passports may be made by the Executive, the final decision remains in the courts. It would US and A iv ,0 ft eral- "te the best selling nover this commission two years ago, mt ie? ii I IU IN 1920, 35 years ago today, Wallace volunteered he went to spp PvPrpJrfpnt vZ foresees that some of Walter Johnson.

American League ve," w2S.52.!e,""f.??.en the tax burden may be shifted. al. wrote the best selling novel this commission two vpars rnment "seal responsi- O-What, means in pintUJ. hasphall nitrhpr ralleH the "Bin Tu "ve ior auvice. "1-1CK mm a lipiitpnonpv tn tha fnm.

.1 1 be interesting to read an essay use to measure the height of Train" twirled a no-hit, 1-0 vie uui uie iiurriuie examples, HOOV- WHAT MAC i mand of a corps. er told him. HAT HAS been produced in the Kestnbaum Commission's 300- "MOST" TREES bfprtc nr page rePrt is handbook that by one of these judges on the mountains? tory for the Washington Senators nature of "natural rights" in our A Scientists used to measure over the Boston Red Sox, John-society, whether they relate it the height by barometer read- son was elected to baseball's Hall to the absolutes of Natural Law ings, or by noting the boiling of Fame in 1936. AM 4Un nlliiclmnnla tt nnin A 11 1 South America has the most commission are of en fiiipH erve as a guide for aU fa" valuable species of trees, Siberia JnaJ ture intergovernmental relations, the greatest number, and the "'s just the beginning of the job. ion to the climate, of the mo- the top.

Today, measure- ne of Chester- United stateS the most timber The Kestnbaum ment. It might read like some- ments are established by calcu- UeW EnSUsn on actually available. a J1 tew thing by Bakunin. lations in trigonometry ness in ne of his famous let- horrible examples all right, but Now along comes the sr ters to his son, wrote: PERSIAN KINGS nooay nose is rubbed in them, from Massachusetts, F. Q-Why is the Arctic frontier 'Tta three wise men whofol- to ofl sraooth its through tion in 50 Kennedy, who was Gets Rich, Then Tries To See How elec'dd from of vital imoor ance to thV lede.

and wav lowed the Star of Bethlehem grant-in-aid programs Sn poS today' imp0rUnCe t0 the the world. Like a great rough were the "Three kings of Col- to the states, in farm aid, high- makes AThe IT? i nnPn in air diamond, it may do very Well ogne," a province in Persia, way programs, disaster relief, manes A ine U.S. IS Open tO air at- anH TWpl. nnhlir hpnlth prliinot.V- i a state with a large ulation. Senator Kennedy nnedv iineuy the point: its intrinsic chior, and Balthazar.

fare. Bases for national defense in "ITALY MUST secure the emi- these areas are of the greatest The Cost of Hitler THE WEST German government has made a survey of bomb and other damage and losses in its area during World War II and has come up with an estimate of $95 billion to, $119 billion. Of course, that damage does not represent more than a minor fraction of the real cost of World War II to the German people. Who can put a value on the lives that were lost or the broken bodies of many who survived and on the shattered lives of millions who were impoverished and will never be reunited with loved ones? Go outside Germany and calculate the losses experienced by those whose countries were occupied, if not defeated. It cost the United States several times that $100 billion, or whatever the amount was, to wage World War II and a lot more than that has been spent during post-war days in dealing with conditions caused by World War II.

We must get way up in the trillions to find the cost of all that followed Hitler's drive into Poland 16 years ago. THEY'U DO IT IViRY TIMI HATIO Kiduun ui at ikusi pci importance. TO SET SOME B4RENT5 TO SOHfi EMTTTLEn iwoei euyicrSKcms iu SONS ErfTTTLEO sons annually in the next ten years if it is to remain a stable, healthy member of the free world." True, Italy faces an overpopulation problem. So does Greece. So does Great Britain.

Who is the only fighter to hold three world boxing titles at the same time? A Henry Armstrong, welterweight champion 1938-40; light weight champion 1938 39; So does Red China. So does In uu uuca itcu vuiiia uvea die. In fact, the earth is being featherweight champion 1937-38 ovef-populated and experts on "ea fuW we DiDrfT ytc-jurj TO BUTT tH OH VOUR WWE JT M4PPEN 1ELP "W'SSLEEP-OUT. I tu ao roLKS C4MRJUMIO.BUT..rW-rMWSSH; HOW UXKft H0ME'Cbut WJW BL4MKET4K1D4 (TlC TMEY NEVER IfflK VP TVIEC4tUX4KE SteYc Ue4 rrloT. SAY MtLLO'" AF vm id islI ervrjn ib? I OvtK HERE food problems are deeply concerned.

Does that mean that under some "natural rights" decis- Inn rt 1 .1 nil 4 V. nnii.l.i.a PORTRAITS Establlihed J.S33. Publlihcd every that are over-populated may morning except Bundey. at Elmlri, dump their surplus populations Simlra Sur-Guette, Inc. upon the United States.

MIAMI, Fla. un University oi Miami business professors wondered if they could teach any-thing to Jose A. Ferre of Puerto Rico when he enrolled to seek a master's degree. The 52-year-old Ferre and his three brothers already had built a 50 million dollar business empire in Puerto Rico and Florida. But Ferre, who got his degree the other day, said he learned many good things" about how to run a business.

"One of the professors asked me why I took the course," Ferre related "I told him I wanted to learn how to make money." Asked the best way to make a lot of money, Ferre replied: "Fast." lnt0 buslness in 1924, his father owned a Puerto Rican foundry worth $30,000. He and his brothers went on from there. They now own the only cement, glass and clay plants in Puerto Kico and operate paper mills, an asbestos products company, an aJUiw steamship company, drydocks and a marine terminal in that country. By James J. Metcalfe Senator Kennedy says that un- ii.her; ihomu v.

Tart, general man. der the present law only 17,000 Covey Hoover, managing Greeks and 60,000 Italians can dlter v- 'tor- wmmer be admitted into the United July is really tummertlmt It Is States over a three-year period. the month to play To swim and thh and trarel while We du( Entered at Poetoftlce at Elmlra, N. as second-clasa matter under Act of March S. 1879.

Subscription rates Flrat and Second Post! Zones, 1 year, 112.00; 6 months. J6 50; I months, 1 tnnnlh 1 9 Dmmih BnnA And being politically minded, the Senator from Massachusetts makes the point that as millions of Italians are out of work, it yrar IIS 00; 6 months, IS. 00; I gives comfort to the Communists, months. u.2i; i month, si so. Deiiv ered toy event or carrier, HO cent Docs he want the millions of Hal weea: single copies, nve cent.

our work away breeze along the highway or To qlide in a cone To picnic in a public park Or by the ocean blue Is that lazy month each year sleep and stretch and yawn And sing a song oi silver stars Until another dawn VacaflonJand Is calling with ft llowers. birds and bees The magic, golden fairyland 0 fufure memorlei OI course the boss may not agree He may have other ichemtj But even at our office desk We can enor our dreams. jam who are out of work to migrate to the United States? Why does he not appeal to Canada uhiph is lirwlnr.nnniilnf pH ti tab than. I MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRE39 tnem in. Th.

Assjciatd Press Is entitled exclusively to the use for republics- ON THE other hand, If the jo of aii th ioej printed right to travel i a "natural IZT" AP The Statue of Libertf was un-veiled on Oct. 28, 1887. 1.