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Just Stepping Stones Nasser's Beautiful Enemy Persecution Doesn't Budge Poetess-Fighter By RELMAN MORIN Associated Press Staff Writer There are no signs in Egypt of any organized opposition to President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Indeed, few Egyptians speak out against him in private conversation. But one a strikingly beautiful woman has been at war with him, openly, for more than five years. 4 It-' Ar IV. rT liMi If If1 tfo -CM 'There are no takers for them any more," she says.

"It was a kind of sabotage. There were strange accidents, delays, constant friction. Nothing you could put your finger on. But it succeeded in killing the magazines." Women stopped coming to the employment agency and cafeteria. "They spread rumors that I had a nervous breakdown and was completely deranged.

My husband secretly put me in a hospital and had five doctors examine me to disprove it," she said. "Then they tried to cause trouble in my family. They said that when I was in America there were other men, and that my husband was going around with other women all absolute lies." She said her house is constantly watched. Recently, she was refused a passport to attend an international woman's conference in India. Officials gave her no reason for the refusal.

What now? "I will go on fighting," she said. "Many are suffering under Nasser but they are afraid to speak. I am not. I am not afraid to go to prison. In fact that would be better it would be in the open then than this invisible campaign." She is Mme.

Dora Shafik, poetess, erstwhile magazine publisher, and a tireless crusader for women's rights in the Moslem world. It is not alone on feminist grounds, however, that she battles Nasser. SHE HAS publicly accused him of depriving Egyptians of their liberties and shackling them with a new kind of colonization. Mme. Shafik is tall, dark, with flashing black eyes.

She is married to a Cairo lawyer. They have two teen-age daughters. When Nasser promulgated the Egyptian constitution in 1956, she says, Cairo reporters telephoned and asked her to comment on it. "I said no one who believes liberty could accept it," she says. "This is not freedom.

This is a new kind of colonization for the Egyptian people. "Legally, we are not permitted to discuss the revolution, nor to criticize the constitution. The reporters asked if they could quote me. I told them they could." The result, she says, has been a slow, shadowy, indirect form of reprisal. At that time, she was publishing four magazines for women.

Only one dealt with political questions. All four are gone now. She also ran an employment agency for women, and a kind of cafeteria where destitute women would buy food for Mme. DORA SHAFIK fights on for freedom their families. These, too, are out of existence.

SHE USED to have her poems Dublished regularly in books. Questions Answers 6 ELMIRA STAR-GAZETTE Friday, September 1, 1931 The Urgent Need For Reappraisal THE CITY of Elmira faces a financial dilemma. On the one hand the city needs money in ever Increasing amounts to carry on its business. On the other, it has been asked to reduce assessments on more than 100 properties, mostly in the business section, by nearly one and three-quarter million dollars. The latest tabulation of the assessment reduction requests stands at $1,666,950 on 123 properties presently assessed for $3,847,610.

In addition to the loss of revenue, the city faces the prospect of long and costly litigation Involving assessments now under protest and others certain to come about through any extensive downward revision of assessments. Unless quick remedial action is taken, the assessment issue could easily become the gravest chapter in the city's financial history. The City Council, meeting Monday night, may take up again the idea of employing a professional concern to do the vitally important job of re-examining and reappraising the city's real estate. This appears to be the only solution to a problem both knotty and urgent. In the light of the last few days' developments, reappraisal is a must.

It cannot be delayed without inviting financial disaster. The job must be done by a disinterested organization of sufficient size and experience to guarantee a prompt and equitable yardstick by which to measure the share of the city's tax burden to be borne by many thousands of properties. The tax issue has been in the wind for many years. It is with us now. Action can be no longer put off without serious consequences.

The decision as to what course to pursue is a community issue, not a political one. Only through speedy and concerted action can the Council meet the issue squarely and in time to prevent a serious situation from growing infinitely worse. Charter of Liberty THIS IS Constitution Week, dedicated to the honoring of a great ideal incorporated in a document signed 171 years ago. Why does America differ from all the other lands on earth? Not because its people are different but because the climate under which they live is different. The difference stems from the document we know as the Constitution of the United States.

It provides protections for those who live under it; it sets up a government of checks and balances; and it details the responsibilities as well as the rights of those who live under its protection. Greatest of all, it dignifies man. It proves that man can dwell at piece with his fellows if the law under which he lives is good. History records no enactment to compare with the Constitution. This is the week when we pay it special honor.

15-Year-Old Chess Master THE AVERAGE person who plays (or plays at) chess must stand in awe of 15-year-old Bobby Fischer. Bobby, a Brooklyn high school junior, playing in the International Chess Tournament at Portoroz, Yugoslavia, tied for fifth place. Being among the top six players gives him the rank of an international grand master and puts him in line to compete for the world championship next year. There are only about 40 active chess players in the world in Bobby Fischer's class. Someone has compared him with a Little Leaguer who pitches 20 winning games in the majors.

Bobby is another teen-ager who has done remarkable things. Detroit Outbreak Proves Worth of Polio Vaccine ANN ARBOR, Mich. UP) The potency and safety of the Salk polio vaccine were reaffirmed today by a doctor who helped to evaluate it. course, immunity with the full holds up. World's Troubled Millions And Promise of Neiv Hope By CONSTANTINE BROWN Somewhat lost in the welter of words about the Far East, the Middle East, the diplomatic challenges and counter-challenges, the segregation crisis in the American South and all the other cries and alarms of the past few days was an address to the American Legion convention in Chicago on Sept.

4. The speaker was Luis Munoz Marin, governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and he spoke of freedom and tyranny. "The record of the vaccine is good in this current epidemic," said Dr. Gordon C. Brown of the University of Michigan's School of Public Health.

"The serious cases have not been completely "The big question is not when they were vaccinated, it's that they've been vaccinated. Otherwise the 1954 and 1955 vaccinees would start showing up with polio now. "Without the vaccine, nonparalytic cases might have paralytic or be dead by now." standing refutation of the distortions of the real America. He has been leading a people on a crowded little island who have used American political institutions, American capitalism, American tolerance to lift themselves out of colonial poverty by their own efforts. He recalled the battle record of the 40,000 Puerto Ric-ans in the United States armed forces during the Korean War 90 per cent of them volunteers and told the Legionnaires: "The wave of the future is not tyranny.

It is liberty, human dignity, and a hope for a decent life. When it be-comes unmistakeably clear in other countries, as it is in Puerto Rico, that this is what the United States stands for, international communism will not only cease to be able to confuse or seduce anyone, however poor, but a new sense of hope will surge through the troubled millions from Siam to Honduras." for the American promise to the world. Dismayingly, In the past few years, there have been very un-mistakeable signs that the things the United States of America stands for have been grossly and tragically misunderstood all over the world. Part of the blame for this can properly be ascribed to Communist propaganda, hammered home again and again. Another part must be blamed on other political influences, such as fanatical nationalisms, and purely local political movements of one sort or another.

But the biggest responsibility, the greatest share of the blame, must rest with Americans themselves. Neither as a people nor as a government, not in techniques nor in content, has the American ideal and the American practice been effectively presented to the rest of the world. A SUMMER outbreak of virus in Detroit and Michigan is under investigation by Dr. Brown and other epidemiologists here headed by Dr. Thomas Francis Jr.

chief evaluator of the 1954 Salk vaccine field trials. "The fact that a large group of non-paralytic cases has been reported doesn't blackball the vaccine in the slightest," Dr. Brown said. "In spite of the clinical ap- pearance of the disease in many patients, many of cases called non-paralytic poliomyelitis are being caused by virus other than polio, including mumps. "The other viruses are so similar that it is impossible to make a clinical differentiation be-between them and polio.

"Later many of the cases are turning out to be other viruses. These are responsible for a fairly large number of cases reported as non-paralytic polio. "It's not surprising so many people who have had three shots have become hospitalized because polio vaccine doesn't prevent these other diseases." PUERTO RICANS are identifiable with most of the other peoples of Latin America far more closely than they have ever been with North Americans. They speak Spanish, their institutions and their customs are Latin, their traditions and their political philosophies supposedly more akin to those of imperial Spain than to the democratic United States. Why, then, the astonishing success of their commonwealth? There were plenty of colonial abuses under American rule, but Gov.

Munoz and others around him realized early that the American system offered a ready-at hand opportunity, without violence or extreme nationalism, to end colonialism -and establish a practical, successful democracy. Why can't the rest of the world know more of that Letter Rite to Mark Pyramid Building To the Editor: When the sun crosses the celestial equator for the autumn equinox, Rosi-crucians throughout the world will commemorate the building of the Great Pyramid. According to Rosicrucian tradition, states Paula E. Champagne, master of the local AMORC Rosicrucian Pronaos, the Pyramid of Cheops at Giza was begun about 4000 B. C.

on the occasion of the fall equinox. Unlike the other Pyramids built during the Pyramid Age of Egypt, it was not intended as a burial place for a pharaoh, but as a temple of learning. Since Rosicrucians, it is said, trace their traditions to 1350 B. when Amenhotep IV was Pharaoh of Egypt, they commemorate their origin by the ritualistic construction of a miniature pyramid. The laying of each stone represents to them the cultural accomplishments of the order during each year of its existence.

The apex will be placed upon a miniature pyramid when the ideals of the Rosicrucian movement have been realized. The ceremony will be enacted locally at Waverly Glen, in Wav-erly, N. at 2 p. Sunday, Sept. 21.

The public will be welcome. BLANCHE L. TOWNER, Secretary By RASKIN For answers to questions of fact writ The Star-Gazette Information Bureau, 1200 Eye N. Washington 5. D.

C. Enclose 3 cents postage. Q. Has a member of the Supreme Court of the United States ever been impeached? I. U.

A. Only one justice, Samuel Chase, has had impeachment proceedings brought against him. Articles of impeachment were filed in 1804 on charges of malfeasance in office five years previous in the conduct of the trials of Fries and Callendar for sedition, and for a more recent address to a Maryland grand jury. Chase was tried by the Senate in 1805, was acquitted of all the charges, and resumed his seat on the bench. Q.

Could coffee be grown commercially in any section of the United States? W. D. A. The Department of Agriculture has made extensive trials over the past 50 years, and has found that coffee trees will grow in a limited area south of Miami, and in protected places along the Pacific coast of Southern California. Occasional crops are harvested, but the possibility of commercial production here has never been considered seriously.

Q. How many weather "cycles" are there supposed to be? F. M. A. Dr.

Raymond Wheeler, specialist in this field, says that there are about 20 different weather cycles, which vary in length from ZVi days to 1,020 years. "They vary in balancing and intensifying combinations to form a continuous, onward moving pattern, the future course of which can be predicted fairly accurately." Just Folks By EDGAR A. GUEST To the Braggarts Don't say you know as much as he Who's getting a big salary, But get to work and let us see You show it. To talk is easy, show your skill; Get busy; if you fill the bill And have the goods, no doubt we will All know it. Don't say: "What he can do I can." Cut out this conversation plan, For, after all, my little man, There's nothing to it.

If some one else has rung the bell And made a bull's eye, do not tell That you could also do as well, But do it. If you're as clever as you say, You should get busy making hay; Do something more than talk today, We'll see it. Don't merely brag that you could be As great and powerful as he, But get a hustle on and be, THESE ARE words that ought to be engraved in gold over the desks of every American policymaker, every American diplomat, every spokesman in foreign lands Inspiration For Today By JAMES KELLER A thief in Hagerstown, did a neat job of nipping while his victim napped. An unsuspecting man enjoyed a peaceful slumber during the entire time that an enterprising culprit was slicing off his rear trouser pocket, containing his wallet and $12. Your Congressmen For the guidance of readert who may wish to writs concerning legislation here are the members of Con gresa serving the districts In Tht Star-Gazetta circulation area.

THE RESULTS have been seen in Latin America, in the Middle East and in Asia in fact, just about everywhere. It is a sad and sorry fact that, to millions of people, the United States is "imperialist" and oppressive, standing for exploitation and militarism, opposing progress toward higher standards of living, keeping the world always on the brink of war. To many of these same people, international communism is accepted as the friend of the oppressed, the foe of colonialism and imperialism, the saviour of peace. Gov. Munoz painted this discouraging and potentially disastrous picture in broad strokes of powerful impact.

He is the right man to say it, because his vigorous commonwealth i a SENATE: M. Ives of Nor- irvtns; wich: Jacob K. Javits of New York DR. BROWN explained that two types of polio virus are responsible for the cases of paralytic polio now prevalent in Detroit. The motor city, hardest hit in the nation now reports 500 polio cases and 11 deaths.

"The vast majority of paralytic cases occurs in people who haven't had any shots," Dr. Brown said. "There hasn't been a single confirmed case in a completely vaccinated person-one who has had three shots. "Without a third shot, they're not completely protected and no one has ever claimed protection. A few paralytic cases can't be confirmed yet as polio.

Other things cause paralysis." Dr. Brown said the Salk vaccine's power lasts at least three years. "As far as we can tell," he said, "if properly vaccinated Junior Editorial By George S. Crandall. Editor-Emeritus City: Edward Martin of Washington, Joseph S.

Clark of Philadelphia, HOUSE: Howard W. Roblson of Owego. 37th N. Y. Congressional District: John Taber of Auburn.

38th Dist: Alvin R. Bush of Williams-port, 17th Dist Address them at the Senate or House Office Building. Washington, D. C. THE HORSE AND BUGGY days had their own humor.

When a driver had trouble getting his steed under motion, he would be told to "push on the lines." A driver whose horse was so lean that its ribs stood out like lath would be asked, "Mister, when are you going to plaster?" mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmemm mmmwmtmmm THE GOLDEN TIME For children, there is neither past nor future, and what so rarely happens to us they take pleasure in the present. Words, Wit Wisdom mmmmmmiRm mmmmmmmmfmmmmmmmmmmmmmmsmmmmmmm By WILLIAM MORRIS THOSE dedicated to evil are always on the job. They never seem to sleep. Whether they are working to undermine a country or to filch a few dollars, they show imagination, enterprise and daring. In the fast-moving world of today, tragedy can quietly befall all of us if those with good ideas and high principles doze while evildoers are on the march.

Instead of being victimized by the corrupt or subversive, keep one step ahead of them. Be as eager and resourceful for God's truth as they are in plotting and planning to thwart it. The part that you, as one individual, can play to champion truth can be a deciding factor in shaping the peace of the world. "Be ye wise as serpents." (Matthew 10:16) Instill In me, Lord, a con-Kuminu desire to spread Your Circuit-Riding Teacher By W. CHARLES BARBER "We had a very heavy storm, followed by local flash floods, the other day," writes a Pittsburgh reader.

"In one newspaper's story about the freak storm the following sentence appeared: 'This morning, Greater Pittsburgh Airport was socked in by the dense fog which settled over much of the Can you tell me the origin of the term socked in'?" aids to pilots as radar and Ground Controlled Approach were undreamed of. Those early pilots had to rely on a conical windsock hung from a mast atop the biggest hangar for information about wind direction. In a rough way, the sock also would give them an idea as to the wind's velocity. Naturally when fog hung heavily over the airfield, the air sock would be invisible. Since planes would neither take off nor land under such "ceiling zero" conditions, the field was said to be "socked in." As American as baseball, bathtubs and corn on the cob is the plan worked out by Oklahoma State University to solve a problem in its area.

It has equipped a mobile laboratory to visit 18 small high schools in western Oklahoma. As a result, students in these schools will have the chance to study chemistry for the first time. yielding to the pioneer's axe and plow. Justice was a traveling affair, with judges and lawyers riding circuit to try cases in homes, stores and meeting houses. And the foundation of many a fortune was contained in the pack an itinerant peddler carried on his back a mobile store to serve the needs of people in remote spots.

Elmira Star-Gaiette FRANK GANNETT, rounder 1876-1937 Consolidation July 1, 1907 of The Elmira Evening Star (18X8) The Elmira Gazette (1828) The Elmira Free Press (1878) The Elmira Evening News (1894) AS INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPEB Published every evening except Sun day by Elmira otar-Gazette Inc. Frank Tripp, president and publisher; Thomas V. Taft. general manager; George S. Crandall, editor emeritus: George MoCann.

executive editor: Covey C. Hoover, manuring editor: Frederick W. Box. city editor. The Associated Press Is entitled ex-cluslvely to the use (or republication of all the local news printed In this newspaper well as all AP news dispatches.

Entered at Postofflce at Elmira, Y. as second class mail matter under act of March 8. 1S79. IT GOES BACK to an earlier day in aviation, a day when such love and truth Yes, be it. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmfflmmmmimmB LOUIE EACH OF THE 18 schools has a dozen boys and girls who elect courses in chemistry.

The cost of setting up 18 laboratories and engaging 18 teachers would be prohibitive at least in Oklahoma. It would be expensive to establish one laboratory, hire one teacher and truck the youngsters from the 18 schools to it. The mobile laboratory plan is a cooperative enterprise by which, with the help of the university's laboratoryon-wheels and a single instructor engaged by the schools, a course is available to qualify the students for college entrance. The idea has an old ring, indeed. Time was when preachers on horseback served settlements springing up in wild sections THE IDEA has a modern application in traveling libraries which make available good books to folks who do not have TV or, if they have it, can tear themselves from its beguilements for a few minutes with the printed page.

The college's station wagon loaded with chemicals, driven by a teacher and serving an 18-school circuit has a refreshing ring. It could bring a new approach to a problem of education in areas as yet not consolidated, centralized or welded together in some other fashion. A couple hundred students remain in their schools. The teacher and his portable classroom do the moving. A lot of time and a great deal of money are saved.

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