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Page 18-A Thursday, June 13, 1968 Evening Star Editorials Display The Colors Flag Day FLY YOUR FLAG Friday, for June 14 is Flag Day. President Johnson has set aside this week as National Flag Week, and he urges all citizens to display Old Glory on Friday in commemoration of June 14, 1877 when the Continental Congress in Philadelphia raised the flag that then had 13 stripes, alternating in red and white and a cluster of 13 white stars on a field of blue to represent each of the original 13 states, This year with the nation at war in Vietnam and division and inter. nal troubles at home, it is most fitting that the loyal citizens of the nation display the colors as a symbol of the unity which this nation must preserve if the country is to survive and patriotism is to prevail, 0 0 TO HELP MAKE IT convenient for all Central Floridians to display the colors on Flag Day, The Orlando Sentinel will publish a full-page full-color American flag in Friday morning's editions. This colorful reproduction is ideal for displaying in the window or on the wall during Flag Day. Watch for it in tomorrow morning's paper, and if you don't get The Orlando Sentinel regularly go out and buy a copy at your newsstand.

In proclaiming Flag Day, President Johnson said "it is our task to work toward the day when it (the American flag) may be raised above a land in peace, a land of genuine equality and dignity, a land of justice under law a land where neither violence nor oppression hold sway." Paris Talks Cover A Viet Travesty PARIS PEACE TALKS are proving little more than a cover for a travesty and a clever tactic for the Communists. While America is stopped from bombing even in the remote areas of Hanoi, the Communists are blasting at the heart of Saigon to kill civilians and disrupt the capital of South Vietnam. The Viet Cong are using rockets supplied by Hanoi, and the United States should stand up on its hind legs in Paris and tell Hanoi to call off this devastating attack on the women and children of Saigon or the United States will send its bombers to wipe out the capital of North Vietnam. We are pleased that Ambassador W. Averell Harriman has hinted at some such action.

Big Jump In Cigarette Taxes IT'S TOO EARLY to tell for certain or to get a good idea of how many cigarette smokers gave up the habit with the whopping big jump in state taxes from eight to 15 cents on April 1. But some preliminary facts are in, and the indication is that the state is collecting more in taxes from cigarettes while the number of packages being sold appears to be fewer. Some of the cigarette puffers who swore off the stuff seem to be sticking to their convictions, but how many is yet to be determined. Not enough data have been collected. April, the first month of the higher tax schedule, saw the collection of $8.3 million, according to Don Meiklejohn, director of the State Beverage Department, which handles the cigarette tax collections.

This compares with $6.4 million collected during the month of March which was a high month because many smokers were stocking up before the advent of the higher taxes. With the stocks being used up the income from this tax may run as high as $9 or $10 million during the month of May. Not only will the -up supplies be exhausted but many of the smokers who had paule 201. ORLANDO STAR sworn off cigarettes will be back at their old habit of puffing away, despite the higher costs. Human habits don't change much, at least not for long.

Schools Must Have Law And Order WE AGREE WITH State Rep. Gifford Grange, Democrat of Jacksonville, who intends to introduce a bill calling for the immediate expulsion of any student taking part in a riot, strike, sit-in or any other demonstration at any state LAW and ORDER school or university which would disrupt the normal education process. As a matter of fact, Representa- tive Grange is proposing to put into law what this newspaper has been saying for a long time. No minority group regardless of race or color, no beatniks or hippies, has any right to disrupt a school and interfere with normal operations, for any cause or any reason. 0 0 THE TAXPAYERS of the State of Florida dig deep to get up the money to provide education for its young people, and the universities and other state and local public schools belong to the citizens and not to a group of demonstrators.

Most of the students attending the state schools are there for a serious reason and they have a right to proceed with their educations without disruption, Law and order must prevail on the campuses of the state educational institutions, and if any groups or individuals don't want to conform to the rules, customs and traditions of these schools they should be bounced out without compunction. We commend Mr. Grange for his plans to introduce his bill and we can't imagine it running into much opposition. Inquisitors During The Campaign DURING THE RECENT primary campaigns a number of citizens had the unpleasant experience of being called on the telephone and asked a series of embarrassing questions beginning with "Do you intend to vote?" and running the gamut from there to "Did you vote in the last "Whom did you vote for?" and "Whom are you going to vote for this time?" Perhaps such questions were asked by overly enthusiastic cam- ORLANDO EVENING STAR FRANK B. PAGE EDITOR DANIEL L.

NEWS EDITOR FLAG analytically, without passion. Kennedy people as a breed tend to place the analytical faculty high, and as the day proceeded to grind grief into exhaustion their capacity for outrage seemed to have long since been spent. RIDING ABOARD this train, with its distillate of everyone and everything associated with the Kennedys ORLANDO STAR On The Southbound Track Bark Times his enemies, it was not palpable now. Some discussed his critics, but Dispatch to The Star WASHINGTON All stories purporting to reveal the "mood" aboard the Kennedy funeral train during that remarkable eight-hour journey from New York Saturday are to be read with skepticism. The funeral party some 1,100 persons scattered through 22 passenger cars was too big and too fragmented to be susceptible to a single "mood." Moreover, the extraordinary duration of the journey, the heat that increased as the air-conditioning buckled under the demand of too many overcrowded coaches, and the difficulty of obtaining food in densely packed diners all tended to wilt emotion down to mere fatigue long beford the train arrived at Washington's Union Station.

IN CONSEQUENCE, no sustained unity of emotion was possible. Those who saw the accident at Elizabeth, N. and they were many, experienced a special horror; one woman was still white and speechless four hours after the event. As word of the accident passed through the train, however, the first cries of horror my God, gave way to the normal human urge for information. you see it?" "How many were killed?" "Do you know if Ethel knows about At Baltimore, in the dusk the day's most solemn crowd massed on the station platform singing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" as the train glided past, going so terribly slow.

And as that noble old hymn floated across the tracks, for the first time all day not a single face in the crowd smiled, not a single child waved in gaiety, and the awful dignity of all those grave faces on the edge of night seemed to embrace the entire train with awe and pity. SUCH MOMENTS were the exception. For most of the journey the crowds outside, pressing dangerously close to the track, transmitted not so much a sense of mourning, as a sense of excitement at being part of an American event. Many persons wept, of course; some prayed, and a few, very few, held flowers. Still, the obvious shows of grief were relatively few among these Americans in their Saturday afternoon summer play clothes jeans, T-shirts, gaily-colored blouses, hair curlers, Bermudas, baseball caps.

From inside the train they looked much more like crowds turned out to hear a candidate make his pitch than like crowds come to stand in the presence of death. LIFE INSIDE the train, sealed off for hours from the outside, began to flow in many paths. A young woman in mourning dress and veil warmly kissed a young man on a coach platform. The bars in the diners became jammed with long sweating lines of the thirsty. Walter Reuther and Sam Huff, in shirtsleeves against the heat, chatted idly with old friends.

For a while there was a passable effort to turn the journey into an Irish wake. Old friends who had not seen each other in months embraced and exchanged notes on what they had been doing lately. It was a time of reminiscence and quiet jokes, and because most of these people had for years lived lives entwined with politics there were the post-mortem analyses of how events might have turned had Bob done this or that instead of that and this. THEY WERE ALSO, nearly all, people who had loved him with that singular loyalty that the best politicians inspire among the hordes of men. It was incomprehensible to them that so many persons, before his death, had seemed to hate him, and for awhile they tried to understand why.

If there was any bitterness toward No Freedom Of Press In Spain Chicago Tribune er Reformation combined to enhance the mysticism inherent in the SpanMADRID At the beginning of its ish soul and to give the land a 30th year of peace and growth after a majestic mystery which has fasfrightful and costly civil war, Spain cinated the outside world. is involved in a bitter struggle over Victory over the Moors and the freedom of the press. halting of the tide of the Reformation The government is riding the horns of a dilemma. Under its recent policy of gradual easement of restrictions, it does not want to face world criticism for a stiffening line against critics, especially in the press. At the same time it is fearful if criticism is given free rein, all the economic and cultural advantages of the last two decades might be wiped out.

OBVIOUSLY the near revolution in France has given great cause for concern among the leaders of the government. The cabinet ordered the afternoon daily, Madrid, shut down for two months and fined its director, Rafael Calvo Sener, about $3,500. The action was taken supposedly for articles which were said to have violated the press law, which is restrictive. However, most Spaniards agree that the action came because the newspaper carried an editorial criticizing President Charles de Gaulle of France as an old man obstinately clinging to power and carrying the implication that Generalissimo Francisco Franco might profit from the example. TWO OTHER SPANISH publications are in hot water for criticism.

The editor of the Barcelona weekly, Destino, is in court facing sentence to a year in jail. Another weekly, Mundo, was fined for running an article about clandestine workers' commissioners, which the government has been trying to suppress. In America if newspapers should be shut down for criticism of the President or the government, there would hardly be a newspaper of any size or distinction publishing today. But America is a democratic republic and Spain is a dictatorship. Spain is not yet ripe for the American brand of political freedom or press freedom for that matter.

SPAIN IS THE LAND of splendid isolation. Seven centuries of holy wars against Moorish invaders and the passionate struggle of the count- Exclusive Feature REPORT FROM WASHINGTON By Walter Trohan flowered with the discovery of America to make Spain one of the world's greatest powers. Unhappily for Spain, she was bled white of her young manhood who explored, fought, died, and settled around the world so that she was in eclipse from the defeat of the Armada for almost 400 years. RECENTLY, after another terrible blood drain of young men in the civil war, Franco has been changing the face of Spain without destruction of its moral heart or spiritual soul. The opening of the country to new ideals and new methods has done much.

At the end of the bloody civil war Spain was near national extinction. For years after the war, Spain was on the verge of bankruptcy. Over recent years Franco has brought steady economic and industrial recovery, a good bit of it from the United States through money and resources secured in exchange for air and naval bases. SCREAMING JETS, thundering tanks, and the tramp of marching men marked the 29th anniversary of the beginning of peace after Franco triumphed in war. All Spaniards cherish the peace, though some may have greater expectations than the regime has given them.

The imposition of restrictions on the press is to be regretted, yet Franco is convinced that first things must come first. He wants to build a sound economic foundation on which Spain may build complete political freedom and full freedom of the press. Exclusive Feature WASHINGTON OBSERVER By Russell Baker over the years, one often had an eerie sense of being merely on another leg of an endless campaign. From time to time through the day, the Kennedys Ethel, Teddy, Bobby's oldest son, Joe would appear in the most remote coach to shake hands with every soul in the car. At other times they went to the rear observation platform to return the salutes of the station throngs.

Frank Mankiewicz, the senator's press secretary, seemed to be living still in the campaign world when groggy with fatigue he inadvertently referred to "our advance man for the trip," using the campaign term for the man in charge of getting out the crowds and buttons and handling arrangements for the next stop. AMONG THOSE WHO were the senator's very closest friends, there seems to have been something of the same sense. No one said it, of course, but among them there must have been a poignant awareness that when the train reached Washington, it was unlikely that they would ever all gather together again in common enterprise, and that this, aside from being a funeral train, was also their last hurrah. One of the men who had been closest to President Kennedy in the old days may have voiced it for them all near the end of the day. When people further forward in the train were wishing the train would hurry faster to Washington, he said, "I wish this trip would never end." Pointed Barbs No, Gwendolyn, William Tell wasn't a Swiss stool pigeon.

No day that includes quitting time can be all bad. Ew DRESS SHOP SIDE GLANCES BY GILL FOX Drug Traffic From Red China The first sign of direct traffic in dope between Red China and the United States was uncovered with the arrest of six Chinese sailors at Long Beach, Calif. The California Bureau of Narcotics confiscated 26.4 pounds of heroin worth $12 million on the illegal retail market. It was concealed on the bodies of the six crew members of a Dutch flag vessel that sailed from Hong Kong to the United States. The men insisted they were residents of Hong Kong, but the Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement field supervisor, John Warner, said a further check showed they were in fact from Kwantung province, in Red China.

THE $800-MILLION-a-year dope business is Red China's chief foreign source. The traffic moves over four main routes to the West. The shipment seized in Long Beach came here over the South China route, which operates from Canton to Hong Kong to Macao. Naval vessels stationed at Canton frequently ferry such goods to smugglers waiting in Hong Kong and Macao waters. The East China route runs from Shanghai and Amoy to Hong Kong, then to the Middle East, Taiwan, Japan and various Southeast Asian countries.

The West China route starts in Yunnan province. The opium is first collected in Cheli, Lungchuan, Tengchung and Wanting. It is then to the "Chinese Native Products Company" for distribution in Burma and Thailand. IN THE NORTH, drugs are collected in Tientsin, then shipped to Japan and Korea from the ports of Tsingtao, Weihaiwei and Dairen. Distribution stations have been set up, with the help of Japanese Communists, in Osaka, Kobe and Hokkaido.

Mukden is another key point on the North China route. Narcotic 6-13 "A hundred and forty pounds? Mark my words, Eloise, the Communists have something to do with this!" drugs collected here are smuggledto Moscow, East Germany and other: European countries. 142 There are 11 countries known to be: producers of opium. Three of North Vietnam, North Korea and Exclusive Feature IT'S MY OPINION By I Irene Corbally Kuhn Red China, have refused to submit their production figures to the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs. The world's medical needs, at most, are 400 tons of opium a year, But Red China alone produces at least 10,000 tons of opium each year, RED CHINESE DOPE usually finds its way into the United States through Hong Kong, Ceylon, Indonesia, Japan and other Asian countries.

Generally, it reached us via Mexico and was transhipped from there. The Long Beach seizure indicates a new "station" inside California itself. Heroin is important to the Red Chinese not only for the foreign exchange it brings, but because the wily schemers in Peking know how useful drug addiction can be in weakening the internal structure of a country by ruining its youth and encouraging the growth of a criminal class tempted by high, illicit profits. THERE IS PROBABLY no one paign workers who allowed their personal interest in their candidate to exceed their good judgment, or perhaps they were novices at the work who were not aware of the impropriety of asking such questions on the eve of an election? 0 IN ANY EVENT, it is not good politics. We have in this country, and always have had, what is known as the "secret ballot" and that means it is nobody's business how you happened to vote.

Campaign workers who make a practice of trying to find out are certain to lose more votes than they gain. And they might sometime run into the unhappy experience of having some rugged individual tell them, "It is none of your (four letter word censored) business." 1 more aware of Red China's sinister plot against the United States than Harry J. Anslinger, U.S. Narcotics Commissioner and representative on the United Nations Commission. As early as 1953 he told the U.N.

Commission that "the United States is a target of Communist China to be supplied with a flood of foreign exchange-earning, health- -and morale-devastating heroin. "For several years," he said, "I have presented documented facts which established that narcotic trafficking from the Chinese mainland is an insidious, calculated scheme of the Chinese Communist regime to obtain operating funds and, at the same time, spread the debauchery of narcotic addiction among the free nations." Recently Anslinger testified before a U.S. Senate hearing that "there is a very definite proof that heroin smuggled in from Communist China is responsible for the rise in narcotics addiction among juveniles in the United States." HOWEVER, the current emphasis on the use of marijuana, LSD and other "psychedelic drugs" has tended to overshadow the long-existing and more dangerous use of opium and heroin. The New York Police Department reported on May 9 that confessed dope users accounted for more than 10 per cent of the 163,324 suspects arrested in 1967. LSD and other hallucinogens figured in only one tenth of one per cent of the dope arrests..