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Inside Labor How Ridiculous Can They Get? THE SALISBURY TIMES Published dally (evening) except Saaday by The Salisbury Timet, tae. at TlmM Square, DirMoa and L'ttaa Salisbury, Marylaad By Victor Riesel Page Sii Monday, May 6, 1963 Off The Hook unconstitutional. The way to raise legislators' pay, or to grant them pensions, is by constitutional amendment, which must go before the voters. The legislators passed 'Such a pay increase bill last year and the voters turned it down at the general elections in November. The governor's slight problem of vetoing a bill granting him a lifetime pension and the more touchy problem of vetoing a (miliar pension bill for legislators with whom he must work for the next three years have both been solved.

The attorney general finds such measures ViNV JJ Better Living Salisbury Optimist set an all time record this weekend with their' Better Living Exposition. They brought more people to one place for one exhibition than have aver gathered in Salisbury before. The Civic Center was crowded for three days. Parents stood in line with children to get close-up look at a dum my astronaut in a real Mercury space capsule. Other long lines formed for a helicopter flight.

The success of this year's show, the first, should spark the club to a larger such exposition next year. i Everyone, it seems, is interested in better Foreign Trade To give President Kennedy a hand with Congress, Walter Reu-ther is buying dinner for Republican leaders. They've not only been invited to dine with a host of labor chiefs, mostly out of the Ola CIO. but to speak as well as listen. There will be plenty of Democrats, too.

Reuther and his ebullient, militant, industry-needling li.utenant. Jim Carey, have ordered a big banquet in a fashionable Washington Hotel for the night of May and have invited the entire membership of the Senate and House to be their guesU. The dinner check will be picked up by labor's Industrial Union Dept. (IUD), now in a multi minion dollar organizing drive in five key sectors of the United States. Reuther has asked the party leaders and whips in both Houses to speak that night before he does.

FOR THAT EVENING GOP House leader, Charles Halleck, will shift partners and work with Sen. Thomas Kuchel. Senate minority whip. For the majority there will be Sen. Hubert Humphrey and Rep.

Carl Albert. If they talk as bluntly as Reuther plans to cut loose, it should be a warm evening. Reuther has been in constant touch with the White House. John Kennedy has been urging the labor leaders to begin putting the pies-sure on Congress to get his program through. So on April 16, Reuther and Carey dispatched a letter to all presidents of unions in the Industrial Union Dept.

It has the razor-edged precision of Reuther at his organizing best: "Congress thus far has shown very little disposition," said the Reuther-Carey missive, "to move forward with any speed and thrust. To highlight the urgency and need for greater federal legislative effort this session, we are calling our Industrial U.n i Dept. leadership together for an intensive day of Washington participate in these "We urge your attendance at these important functions. It will provide an excellent opportunity to impress on the 88th Congress cur sense of immediacy and urgency concerning the legislative goals of the AFL-CIO. "Together we can help improve the current congressional climate." It's fascinating to observe Reuther's passion for planning such operations.

Mark this one well. It is the logistics chart for many similar lobbying forays up the Hill by other sections of labor. In the memorandum to the industrial union chiefs, Reuther and Carey scheduled the following: On Tuesday evening, May 7, at 8 p.m. there will be "active plan-ring for the following day," and briefings "on the pertinent legislative issues." There is time out for sleeping. But early on May 8, there will be "a series of state and regional breakfast meetings to be held with congressmen from (the industrial union leaders') own states (we) will utilize the opportunity to discuss legislative issues." There will be some 15 stata breakfast meetings and probably Ivo regional gatherings for tht Rocky Mountain States.

During the day there will be "visitations" by industrial union leaders to "specific congressmen and political leaders The day winds up with the mass dinner at 6 p.m. Reuther asked the Republicans as well as the Democratic chiefs to speak, and the GOP leaders agreed. Reuther undoubtedly will argut for heavy government spending, the health care for the aged bill, tax cuts especially in the low income brackets, etc. But the specifics for the moment are not important. What will count that evening.il the show of political strength and respect for such strength by his political enemies and sharpest critics.

It is not every evening that the entire Congress is invited out to dinner and most plan to show up. It's this strength, this political agility, this ability to mobilize forces that President Kennedy is counting on to impress the Congress. JFK has brought out his reserves. What seemed out of character for staid. New Hampshire a law authorizing a lottery turns out to be entirely in character when the background is filled in.

New Hampshire has a racetrack handy to its long border with Massachusetts. It Was put there to draw the Boston crowd. The new state lottery law making a sweepstakes legal has been put on the books with the same thought in mind to draw the Boston crowd. Tickets will be available only in New Hampshire at New Hampshire state liquor stores, where prices are kept lower than liquor prices in Massachusetts. That's to draw the Boston crowd too.

Of course, if others want to take advantage of New Hampshire's sweepstakes, even natives of New Hampshire, their money won't be refused. But it is not out of character for New Hampshire to authorize a state lottery. It is only the applied knowledge of decades of experience with people who come to New Hampshire to enjoy themselves. They will leave their spending money behind them if they are encouraged. With the tourist season at hand, they are going to be encouraged as they've never been encouraged before in New Hampshire.

A Shrewd Khrushchev Sen. Kuchel's Speech Numerically, they are helpless. Their extremism gets attention for them out of proportion to their political influence. The most dangerous thing they can do is swing the balance of power in a close contest, and it is only rarely they can do that. Their existence cannot be ignored by politicians.

They are gadflies on the steed of popular sovereignty, which permits all shades of opinion. If Sen. Kuchel feels he has more gadflies than even the special California climate can account for, he will do well to remember that never yet have the flies done irreparable injury to popular sovereignty. They are infuriating because they never know when to stop, but as long as all the people have a say in government they cannot destroy freedom. California Sen.

Thomas H. Kuchel's anti-hate-group speech is one of those conscience-clearing declarations legislators make every so often to clear the air: Ken. Kuchel, assistant Republican leader and sure of his job for the next six years, has problems with extremists in his state. His mail sometimes runs as high as 10 per cent to fright items from what he calls "fright peddlers," he explains. America has' enough immediate and deadly enemies without adding hobgoblins, he believes.

Vet, hobgoblins always will be with us. They thrive in the lunatic fringe of American political thought and action. Members of this fringe may be as sincere and patriotic as any other Americans. It may just happen to be their nature to polarize at extremes the far right and the far left. REUTHER AND CAREY then outlined a full 2 hours of pressure lobbying and meetings.

"We are asking all members of our IUD executive committee, executive board and legislative representatives and a limited number of other industrial union leaders from the various states to The Happy Giant By FRANCIS SUGRUE The Truth About Sir Winston By David Lawrence been criticizing him in the secret councils of the party. In a country of 210 million persons, it is not easy to assure uniform enthusiasm for any leader for any length of time. Economic troubles produce a constant discontent, Unquestionably, conditions are better for the average family than they were a decade or more ago, but human beings are not satisified with half measures. KHRUSHCHEV has been able to prevent the discontent from boiling over into revolution by keeping a war scare going. He has talked of alleged threats of aggression by the West and has dramatized the possibilities of nuclear war.

All this has furnished an excuse for huge spending on armament instead of for making substantial improvements in the standard of living. But, sooner or later, even war scares die down and the news percolates through from the outside that danger of war Is receding. This puts the Soviet leadership on the spot. News reports from Moscow tell of the serious economic problems that have gone unsolved in the Soviet Union agricultural and industrial. Khrushchev devoted most of his three-hour speech the other day to domestic ills.

Some note is taken of Khrushchev's difficulties in the diplomatic field, but basically the Russian people want their money spent inside Russia and not on foreign aid programs all over the world. The debate with Red China on ideological issues gets some attention inside Russia but, for most of the Soviet people, it's an abstract issue. They don't want a lot of money spent for Red China, either. They want homes of their own, where there are no longer six people sleeping in a single bedroom. They want better food and more of the comforts of life.

They are thinking of internal rather than external problems and the former are the hardest to solve. It's easier for Nikita Khrushchev to make speeches condemning capitalism and extolling Communism than it is for him to set up an economic system that accomplishes what the United States has attained or even what Continental Europe, with its common market formula, is beginning to achieve in the domain of economic prosperity. SO THE SOVIET leader, who has turned many somersaults including his denunciation of Stalin, his bosom friend of yesteryears-may be on the way out of two jobs, though probably for a while be will cling to one. Maybe if conditions get worse, he will be retired before long from the second one, too. For Joseph Stalin once made a significant remark to a skeptical American the late Harry Hopkins who had arched his eyebrows in disbelief when the Soviet chief said he also had to be mindful of public opinion.

Stalin retorted: "Oh, yes, we have our public opinion, too." In the Soviet Union today, 210 million people can upset any man or group of men at any moment they decide to exercise their concerted will. And Khrushchev recognizes a political current, even before it reaches the proportions of a tidal wave. Once he roamed the streets of a crowd and say, "Get out of lh Rronx. went to the movies on my way. Saturdays, and bought candy in the soda shop.

People stared at him, wondered how he would ever make out in life, but did not feel he was anything marvelous to behold. Now 32, he is a feature attraction at Madison Square Garden, where the Ringling Bros. Barnum Bailey Circus is playing, and people from the Bronx and elsewhere must pay money to see him. They say there is no one else quite like him in the United Slates. The sight of him once brought heckling and cruel teasing.

But now he is a celebrity his neighborhood and people who once gave him a bad time now Nikita Khrushchev is a smart politician. If he had been born and raised in Britain or France or the United States, he might well have won high office by election. He knows how to evade some issues and capitalize on others. He knows the art of deception in politics, and is one of the most skillful practitioners of "managed news" in the world today. So it isn't surprising to read that the Soviet demagogue now is applying to himself an old rule of politics: "Never wear out your welcome don't wait till you are thrown out Beat them to the punch." Khrushchev has made the first move.

He points out, in a speech to his party, that he now is 69 years old and can't "hold for all time" the position he now has "in the party and the state." He doesn't indicate whether he might give up his post as Soviet premier or as first secretary of the Communist party. Merely to mention, as Khrushchev did in his speech, that he might relinquish one or both posts will stir up all the political animals in the higher ranks of the government and the party in the Soviet Union. It's always risky to speak of a prospective ending of one's career in politics, though at times it produces a rebounding effect. The people meaning one's strong supporters sometimes feel the time is ripe to mobilize sentiment to bet the leader to stay on. IT COULD BE that Khrushchev is just testing his own strength.

If he is "drafted" to stay on in both jobs, he can emerge stronger than ever, internally speaking. But if some other influential politician reaches out for either of the two posts, it's quite conceivable that Khrushchev will prefer to give up the premiership and continue with the job of party secretary. So far as day-by-day work is concerned, this is less burdensome, and in that post he could exercise almost as much control as he could as head of the government. Ambitions will be stirred in the Kremlin by the news of prospective change. The men on their way up will look enviously at the high posts that would become vacant.

For certainly promotion will come from within the present government circle. In a sense, however, the change in the premiership will be a test of strength. If Nikita Khrushchev is really not as popular inside the Soviet Union as the outside world has been led to believe, the decision to shift posts could really They would stay away from his speeches on the floor of the House. Commentators would castigage him for ideas that did not coincide with their own. His opponents would amass slush funds to underwrite the cost of unseating this disturbing element in their midst.

Cartoonists would lampoon him. His jealous peers would rant and rave about him. He would have to die to get the praise no one heaped on him when he was alive and unpopular. This has been, in fact, the singular thing about Sir Winston. He did not have to die to win praise.

PRAISE began to shower down on him in 1945 after the opposition won a postwar parliamentary election and he resigned as prime minister. It became a deluge after 1955, when he made way as a retreaded prime minister for his heir-apparent, Anthony Eden. Americans should let themselves have no misapprehensions about how much they would have appreciated Winston Churchill had he served them, instead of the British. They would have tried to beat him to death with the stuffing out of their shirts, just like the English. Comparisons between Sir Winston Churchill retiring from the House of Commons after a long lifetime of service to Britain, and members of the U.S.

Congress, living or dead, are absurd. The United States does not have the parliamentary system that made the Churchill legend possible. He could not have happened here. He almost didn't happen in Britain either and that needs to be remembered. Those who are amusing themselves by speculating that he might use his honorary U.S.

citizenship to run for Congress, after the United Kingdom constitutes its next House of Commons, should acknowledge in all good grace that the Churchills of this world survive by narrow squeaks. If a Churchill reached the U.S. House of Representatives, even the U.S. Senate, he would be up against a tough proposition for survival. IF HE SPOKE courageously for what he believed, his constituents would tear him part over every point of disagreement.

His associates would beat his brains out for thwarting their pet schemes. Roving Reporter By HAL BOYLE Upheaval By Truman Twill can make it attractive, they do not need to know anything about the technical aspects. On the other hand, a technician who knows nothing about subject matter can do no more than listen to droning playbacks of textbook material. This is not teaching. It is monitoring.

"THE DIRECTOR said to me, 'Do you think you can remember that?" But they are learning about me." Eddie Carmel had troubled moments of confusion when he was in high school. But there was a magical change as a student at (he City College of New York. He was elected vice president of his class, joined the Dramatic Club, wrote sports for the school paper, made speeches and became almost too active. "I went from one extreme to another," he said. "I became so self confident I just about flunked out of school.

I quit after two years to make my fortune in the entertainment field. His father is an insurance man and his mother is secretary or the coordinating program at tha Jewish Theological Seminary. Apparently he gets his height from his father's side of the family. His great grandfather was 7-foot-4, his grandfather was 6-foot-10. But his father was 5-foot- when he fell from a pony at the age of 7 and stopped growing.

When asked how he traveled about the city he said just like jnyone else subways, buses, by foot. Asked if he didn't feel conspicuous, he said: "Oh, no, I only feel conspicuous when I race a lady for a seat on the subway." Lookinq Backward FROM OUR rn.ES JO YEARS AGO Today, as before Peal Harbor, there are more than 100 publications being printed and distributed in the United States designed to impede the psychological phase of tha nation's war effort, Leo Jay Margolin, New York newspaperman and propaganda analysis, told members of the Rotary Club here last night. Margolin, 33, staff writer for the daily newspaper PM, addressed the Rotary Club on the theme, "Sabotage on the Home Front," emphasizing the fact that Canada treated saboteurs of the mind in the same manner as saboteurs of industry, referring to the subversive publications. Jew-baiting, causing disturbances to arise between Catholics and Protestants, and other methods employed by the Nazis for sabotaging the mind and breaking down moral of the population "to divide and conquer" ere pointed out by Margolin. He also reminded his audience of the effective use of mind sabotage in causing France's fall.

NEW YORK' (AP)-Things a columnist might never know if he didn't open his Only one out of eight persons is said to snore regularly. But I think every human being, from the age of nine to ninety, will snore occasionally if tired enough. Damon Runyon thought a writer could turn out his best prose while seated facing a blank wall. Mark Twain's favorite dish was frog legs. Poet John Milton, author of "Paradise lost," had three marriagesnone happy.

Many False Teeth Some 22 million Americans don't have a single natural tooth in their heads. Here's something you probably didn't know about women they dream more often than men do. and This is the issue between teachers technicians. be a shrewd move on his part to pass the buck to others who have lawn on me, ana tney go to Madison Square Garden just to have him greet them and wave at them. Once he began to retire into a shell because he was perplexed and confused about what he was and why.

NOW IS AMBITION is to have at 35 a $5,000 yearly income from the interest on his investments alone, and to have his own television kiddie show, which he would call The Happy Giant. This is Eddie Carmel, who stands 8 foot weighs 450 pounds, takes a size 36 shoe, and is described by the circus es being "The tallest man in the world." Eddie describes himself as an "announcer, narrator, MC, comic and singer who has made records the Happy Giant and the Good Monster and appeared on several television shows, and was featured as the giant in the picture. "The Brain That Wouldn't Die." His voice basso profun-c has been used for commercials and animated films. He is ready to make personal appearances in theaters, night clubs and hotels. He now knows what he wants lo do and how to do it.

Mr. Carmel, who was born in Tel Aviv his father was from Poland and his mother from the United States did a little grow-ing in Texas, but most of it in the Bronx. "When I was ten I was six feet tall." he said. 'At this age and at this height I was admired and looked up to both literally and figuratively by the other kids But I kept growing and I must admit my height got entirely out of line. I was seven feet in my teens and now the attitude of my companions changed, they thought I was somewhat of a goof." "Vou know," he said, "people expect a tall man to be a semi-moron, even when I got into television I had to overcome this idea.

I had to convince them that a might have something more than a kindergarten education. I played a Roman Gladiator in a television show an i OUR ANCESTORS by Quincy About 90 per cent of all U.S. money transactions are handled by check. If you don't have at least 50 headaches a year, you are not doing your fair share of the national worrying. Our quotable notables: "Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends." Alexander Pope.

First In Auto Teddy Roosevelt was the first U.S. president to ride in an automobile. He was the first to ride in an airplane, too. Fog causes twice as many automobile accidents as snow. New Orleans claims to be the birthplace of both opera and jazz in the United States.

Scientists estimate that if our global population continues to increase at the present rate by the year 6.500 the weight of all human beings will equal the mass of the earth itself. Speaking of that future possibility an Air Force measuring device has concluded that already a Southern Californian driving home from work on a busy reew ay may undergo more nervous strain than an astronaut in orbit. Donating Ambulances Some groups are now donating ambulances to hospitals by saving trading stamps. Wasn't it Bernard Shaw who warned. "Do not do unto others aj you would have them do unto vou their tastes may be different?" Two Chicago researchers concluded after checking more than 200 couples that there is no such thing as love at first sight.

In 1900 about 162 children out of a thousand died before they were a year old. Now the mortality rate is down to 25.3 per thousand. Some 7.ono U.S. mailmen each year are bitten by dogs. It was Socrates who observed.

"A life without inquiry is not worth living." Anyone who expects to live 25 more years will see education turned upside down. All signs point to the forthcoming emotion of an earthquake that will shake down, level out, burn up and bury all educational practices not dynamic enough to sustain themselves. It would be foolhardy to guess exactly what will happen, or even to hope it will be for the best. It might just as easily be for the worse. It very well could be for the worse if, during the upheaval, educationists get the upper hand, instead of teachers.

An educa'ionist is a technician in teaching. The educationist may or may not be a teacher, may or may not be educated in something more than the technique of teaching. He may have prepared himself to teach something, but not necessarily. A teacher, on the other hand, is someone who likes to teach someone with a built-in instinct to lead others through the labyrinths of knowledge. Many college and university teachers know nothing about the technical aspects of teaching.

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COMMUNICATIONS Intended for publicatlnn must bear the writer's nsme snd address No coni. deration will be given anonymous letter. lt ma. It HI ox. yi fell Some teachers know everything the technicians know about educationism, which is fine.

But technicians who know nothing the real teachers know about their subjects are a mockery. They may come out on top in the upheaval, but if they do we're in bigger trouble than we are now and the trouble is bigger now than we know how to handle. The brightest spot in sight is the "boob tube." otherwise known as the "gawk box." No mere technician could survive more than three minutes on the tube and if one thing sure about the future of education it's the use of gifted teachers to instruct thousands of pupils simultaneously on television. When pupils have grasped the idea with the help of an inspired and skillful teacher, the technicians can do the potato-sorting. Educationism cannot stand TV exposure, because it's not the real thing.

There's a move to close down all remaining "teachers colleges" in this country and make all would-be teachers attend general purpose coleges and graduate schools. The stakes are large in a showdown between educators and educationists. The stakes are the children of the American people and their right to be educated. Why do so many members of the upcoming generation and the downsliding generation give no evidence of having learned anything in school? It must be because they never actually were taught anything. Provided, that is, they were able to learn anything.

If not. that cannot be blamed neither on educationists nor educators, just nature. 7m 1 tK eCAM MONDAY: "Dad knows a Tex-an so wealthy that he gives tea bags as presents. It's a bag with a Thunderbird inside." "Naturally our rents are a trifle higher very few wigwams have hot running water 24 hour a day!" was told to push my way through.