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The Fourth Recklessness 10 THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS Wtintiicy, Septemktr 5. IM2 EDITORIALS Meaningless Vote TOP Of THE NEWS Russians' Chess Rigging Tips Off Their Diplomacy By Fulton Lewh Jr. Washington THE YOUNG MAN who is perhaps the world's greatest chess player has a few observations that might be applicable to the fuzzy-minded strategists The wheat referendum conducted by the Department of Agriculture among Hoosier farmers, along with those in 38 other major wheat-growing states, has resulted in a vote of 1 '62 in favor of continuing wheat ers in Indiana, only 5,617 took part in the referendum. We doubt seriously whether this tiny fraction can in fact speak for more than 100,000 wheat growers. A similar situation prevails in other states where the referendum was held.

The end result is that a small percentage of the growers in a handful of the big wheat-producing states are the only ones who participate in the so-called "democratic referendums." The Department of Agriculture, by arbitrarily limiting the number of eligible voters through acreage restrictions, makes it impossible for such a referendum to show the real opinion of the growers. And the farmers who are eligible permit a comparative handful to tell them how much wheat they can harvest. The results of the referendum mean that wheat production again will be restricted, and Agriculture Department planners will say "that's the way the growers wanted it." Yet as a reflection of the true opinion of all the nation's wheat growers, the vote has little or no meaning. marveling quuias. Although this tally was not quite up to the' two-thirds vote required for continuing the quotas, unofficial returns from other states show the nation's wheat farmers have voted by a margin of 68.4 to continue quotas.

It was the smallest in 12 such tests since 1941. However, it is hard to think of a referendum in which the figures have less meaning. In Indiana, there are more than 100,000 farmers who grow wheat, yet only 34,435, or about a third of the wheat growers, were eligible to vote. The Agriculture Department per- mitted votes only from those who that they would harvest than 15 acres of wheat in 1963. 'This immediately disqualified approx-v imately 65,000 wheat growers.

More- over, out of the 34,435 eligible grow Defeating A five-vear-old dispute over job security has culminated in a strike against the Chicago Northwestern Railroad that can only be harmful to all concerned. The strike was called by 1,000 telegraphers of the railroad, and operation of one of the nation's largest rail systems has been tied up. Sixteen thousand other employees have been laid off and 70,000 Chicago commuters have been denied the transportation on which they had depended. Nobody will contend that workers have no right to strike to support position they believe to be right. But it is highly questionable under the circumstances whether a strike against a railroad can do anything to strengthen iob security.

In fact, it would seem to do otherwise. The News welcomes your fetters, whether you agree or disagree with our policies. Pen names or initials may be used if contributions carry writers' correct names and addresses. All letters are subject to condensation and to deletion of matter considered libelous or in poor tost a but we try to hold editing to a minimum. As a loose general rule only, signed letters of 200 words or fewer have preference.

No letter attacking a private individual by name will be used unless the writer permits his own name and address to be printed. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 'Stop Downgrading Indiana Urges Evelyn Fancher To the Editor of The News: I think it is time the officials of our state of Indiana, Marion County, and city of Indianapolis take a good look around and see how much we really have to be proud of and then get busy and see what they can do to put us on an equal basis with, or higher than, other states. We will not do this by splashing in the newspapers the news of all the political fussing about the opposite party or among members of their own party; nor will we do it by publicizing any more scandals involving our officials. And Still Champions The Indianapolis Indians baseball club has won its second straight American Association championship something unheard-of around here in such a take-charge manner that 'the result was almost a foregone conclusion back in early July. Maybe this isn't the greatest base-ball team the city ever had, but you couldn't prove it by us.

A 10y2-I game margin over the closest competitor at clinching time is hard to talk against. Indianapolis fans still have a -chance to show appreciation to their home-owned team by turning out in Zi force for the Tribe's last stand at Field this week. The Indians will have to go through the motions of participation sHOW DO YOU STAND, of the State Department. It is doubtful that 19-year-old Bobby Fischer knows much of Viet Nam or Katanga or Laos. His knowledge of disengagement and disarmament is limited.

But Bobby Fischer knows well the Soviet disciples of Marx and Khrushchev. He Lewis knows, too, they aim to win, at any price. He a bluntly what those at Foggy Bottom refuse to note: The Soviets cheat. Fischer has vowed not to play any further tournaments sponsored by the International Federation of Chess. Fischer points to the recent candidates' tournament at Curacao, designed to find an opponent for Russian Mikhail Botvinnik in next year's world championship.

BOTVINNIK HAS consistently turned down challenges from Fischer. He insisted instead on the eight-man Curacao tournament. There five Russians, one Yugoslav, and two Americans squared off for the right to meet him. Fischer charges that Russian candidates played prearranged games that generally resulted in draws. This way, no Soviet star could be charged with a defeat.

He points to one game between Tigran Petrosian, the tournament's eventual winner, and Paul Keres, both Russians, in which there was a clear win for Petrosian. A draw was offered and accepted. Famed international chessman Samuel Reshevsky, contacted by The New York Times, said that only a Russian could win the "unjust and unfair" Curacao tourney. Observers at that meet report that Soviet players violated all rules by advising each other on moves against Fischer and Paul Benko, the other Protests to the referees fell on deaf ears. Reported New York Times corre- -spondent Harold C.

Schoenberg: "It is said in chess circles that Russian chess players do not play as individuals but as members of a team and that they will throw points to colleagues when necessary." THE SOVIETS REPLIED in characteristic fashion to Fischer's disclosures. The magazine Sovetsky Sport carried an article by "international chess referee" Prorvich, who said: "It is well known that lies run on short legs. And on such legs it is hard to keep up with those who are ahead." Baby-faced Frank Church, the keynoter of the 1960 Democratic National Convention, faces a tough re-election fight in Idaho from the only man ever to defeat him for public office. To be exact, Church has run only twice, winning election to the Senate in 1956. His first race, in 1952, was for the State Legislature from Ada County.

A youthful Republican, Jack Hawley, handed him a solid 2-1 thumping. Hawley, a conservative in the mold of Barry Goldwater, attacks Church as an "errand boy for the New Frontier." Church, who expects solid support from out-of-state labor organizations, is running scared. Democrat Church has further problems. His gubernatorial running mate, Vernon K. Smith, has come out for legalized gambling, a la Las Vegas.

Church refuses to state his position, a tactic that has endeared him to neither the proponents nor the opponents of gambling. Copyright, 1961, King Features in California, as laid down by the Democratic lawmakers now in control, are far more complicated. The same play, for example, may be scored differently, depending on which team is at bat. For example, at the recent Democratic state conclave, there was displayed a sticker, obviously of Republican origin, reading "Is Brown Pink?" This allusion to the alleged fact that Governor Brown has a good many supporters who are somewhat leftish in their tendencies was labeled a palpable foul ball, and a strike was duly recorded against Nixon. On the other hand, any allusion to Nixon's alleged right-wing supporters gives the batsman free transportation to first base.

And when Pat Brown calls Nixon a coward for not shoVing up at a labor convention to which he had pointedly not been invited, Pat is credited with a clean hit. An attack on Dick's mother and brother neither of whom is running this year is scored as a ground-rule double; and the assertion by the new state chairman that Nixon is a "distempered charlatan and demagogue" and that "the whole litany of the credo for political chicanery may be found in his utterances" is a home run. WE'LL GET THE hang or it fterore November, but it isn't going to be easy. Meanwhile, we bitterly resent having our calm, judicious inquiry into an intensely complicated subject labeled as apathy by superficial observers who are the hired mercenaries of a venal press. Copyright Ifel.

Timtt-Mirrer Syndicott Lee advises that the City Market is not architecturally compatible with the City-County Building and other structures planned for the downtown area. Recently a Mr. Ashby referred to advertisements in magazines, and even in our papers, about other states. Why can't our officials wake up and take a look around at the things in our state, starting with our countryside, our rolling hills, gorgeous flowering and shade trees, our beautiful homes, churches, Garfield Park, Crown Hill Cemetery (dating back to the 1860s and, outside of Arlington, probably considered the most beautiful and well-kept cemetery in the U.S.), and, most of all, our Soldiers and Sailors Monument? It seems we publicize the filth, the dirt, the scandals, but never do we advertise all the wonderful things we have. Surely we forget entirely the poem, "Ain't God Good to Indiana?" I wish that every day our papers would, in some editorial or column, get the idea over to everyone to stop downgrading Indiana.

Show Hoosiers how to look up not down. MRS. EVELYN FANCHER Carmel 'Crank-Type' Ordinance Irritates Albert Beck To the Editor of The News: On East Fall Creek, between Central and Alabama, a group of 12 to 15-year-old boys have been making like Tom Sawyer with a raft they built. Building this sturdy raft and playing U.S. Arms Needed to Help Latin America Balk Reds Its Purpose Railroads generally are in a precarious position because of loss of business to other forms of transportation.

When a system is forced to suspend operation, its patrons through necessity will turn to substitute carriers. It is quite possible many of them will never return. Thus, additional business has been lost which the Northwestern, or any railroad, can ill afford to lose in these times. And if its business continues to decline, the railroad simply does not need nor can it afford as many telegraphers as it once did. There obviously is stubbornness on both sides in this dispute.

But whether the strike is of short or long duration, it is a clear example of an effective means of destroying job security. in the American Association "playoffs," but they are the champions regardless of who wins that postseason anti-climax. The "playoffs" should have been abolished before they were started. Last year's pennant-winning Indians lost in the playoffs, but even when an Indianapolis team did win, The News said that this unnecessary "added" series takes some of the luster out of the regular season competition and should have no future place. So we say again this year, before it starts.

We also say again, with pride, that we join the whole Indianapolis community in saluting its 1962 champion Indians. SIR? that the Communists are going all out to export Castroism from their Cuban base. Evidences of this already have been discernible in various parts of Latin America. But I suggest that what we have already seen is nothing to what will come when the Communists throw their "Operation Latin America" into high gear. All the preparations now going forward in Cuba indicate a highly-organized and heavily-supported offensive against pro-Western countries to our south.

It is important to remember that Communist infiltration throughout Latin America is already well advanced. Sometimes the military coups that the Kennedy administration deplores so loudly are not designed to destroy democracy but to prevent usurpation of power by the Communists. THE MOVE IN Congress to abolish military foreign aid to Latin America is being spearheaded by Senator Ernest Gruening (D-Alaska). In a recent speech, he decried the half-billion dollars spent on military aid to Latin America in the last 10 years, asserting that it has contributed to a foolish arms race involving the proliferation of obsolete weapons. At one point in his speech, Senator Gruening had this to say: "If the Latin-American governments feel they must sacrifice their precious, meager resources for the maintenance of oversized and obsolete military establishments, I say let them.

But let us not contribute to their folly from our OA'n hard-pressed Treasury and our mounting debt and our unfavorable balance of payments." The Alaskan's concern for our hard-pressed Treasury is certainly not his exclusive property. Many members of Congress are worried by the excesses of the administration's foreign aid program and have fought bitterly for a reduction of such outlays. But I suggest that the place to begin is not with our military aid program in Latin America but with that part of the foreign aid program which continues to pour hundreds of millions of dollars into Communist countries, such as Yugoslavia and Poland, and into unreliable neutral countries like India. How do you stand, sir? Copyright, mi, Tlmw-Mlrror ftyndtcnto I think that, first, we should stop destroying every vestige of anything that is a landmark and a part of the history of our state and its cities. New Orleans and Los Angeles point with pride to their markets.

San Francisco takes pride in its wharf, Chinatown, and cable cars; Philadelphia in Independence Hall, and Boston in its old North Church; California takes pride in its missions; Kentucky points with pride to anything historical, along with everything new. What do we do when we want something different? Well, first it was Tomlinson Hall, supposedly destroyed by fire. Next went the Courthouse. Next to go, evidently, is the jail. Then one bright individual suggested tearing down the War Memorial, saying it served no purpose, and anyway very few people went to see it.

Of course he wasn't killed in the war. The Courthouse was filthy, I agree, but why do all our buildings have to be allowed to deteriorate so? Why not keep them repaired and in good condition? Somehow the Metropolitan Planning Commission seems to think everything it personally did not plan should be destroyed. And now a Mr. Raymond Potomac Fever By Fletcher Kriebel W. Willard Wirtz is the new" Secretary of Labor and all gags are banned about the Cabinet taking him for better or for Wirtz.

Congressmen will have a swimming pool in the new House office building. The swimming will be segregated, Republicans in tank suits, Kennedy Democrats in white tie and tails. Bill Wirtz, the new labor secretary, is a former law partner of Adlai Stevenson. Adlai has more law partners in this administration than Chester Bowles has memories. Soviet technicians swarming into Cuba are embracing their Castro comrades with the greeting: "Long time, no seize." President Kennedy has problems.

If brother Teddy loses in Massachusetts, the Kennedy prestige suffers. If Teddy wins, there'll be three Kennedy images in Washington to keep in repair. MR. MUM with it was a good outlet for their energy, which, up to now, has been devoted to getting into trouble. Several of the boys have been in juvenile delinquency hot water, and it seems to me that poling their craft around a creek three feet deep is good for them, even though the water is cloudy.

Then their fun was stopped by the police. I presume they were violating an ordinance. This is an infraction which could well have afforded a blind eye. Just as blind an eye as is turned toward all the "trees of heaven" the Park Department, in spite of an ordinance, allows, wisely, I think, to grow along the creek. They think, no doubt, as I do, that the "tree of heaven" ordinance is another corny, crank-type ordinance.

Here's hoping the police will not have to get after these boys for something worse than playing Tom Sawyer on the creek. ALBERT BECK 315 E. Fall Creek, S. Dr. 'Just as I Figured Says J.

Kitterman To the Editor of The News: It's just as I figured. They have had a year and a half to figure out what would happen when they dumped all the traffic from the new bridge on 38th. The first afternoon the cars were backed up a mile from Kessler. I bet someone will be killed before they put a stop light at Kessler and 52d. So far there are two chuckholes the size of a washtub, and the trees are growing into the road in that area.

How about getting on them, Hogle-bogle? J. KITTERMAN 2021 Medford answered. But I'm sure the proper term is not apathy. The human mechanism is not geared to maintain that pace constantly, and surely we must choose first things first. And I trust that not even -the boldest political analyst would dare assert that the question of who occupies the executive mansion at Sacramento is as important as who gets into the World Series.

One is a sheerly local issue, and the other is not only of national significance but is being followed closely by many of our allies, 'notably Japan, Puerto Rico and some of our Latin-American neighbors. Nevertheless, we have been studying the gubernatorial contest, fully' aware that this is one world and that what happens here affects every man, woman and child in Outer Mongolia and Ghana, just as we know that what happens in Katanga. Laos and the Yankee Stadium affects us. Especially the' Yankee Stadium. IF WE, HAVE NOT yet become violent partisans, it is because the Nixon-Brown contest presents many puzzles we are still trying to resolve.

We have no desire to jump into the fray half-cocked. The stately matrons who cut loose at the ball park know their baseball thoroughly. They are hep to all the fine points abdut when to lay down a bunt and when the infield should move back to double-play depth. And they are aided by the fact that the rules are the same for both sides: That three strikes are out and a foul is always a foul, no matter which side is up. But the rules of the political game THE CALIFORNIA QUANDARY Politics: When Is a Foul a.

Strike? By Barry Goldwater 1 United States Senator NOW COMES A MOVE in Congress designed to abolish this country's military aid program in Latin America. The theory behind the move is that left hand of American foreign pol- icy doesn't know what the right hand -is doing. It argues -that in pursuing a program of military aid to the Latin- American ntries, the United States is, effect, contributing to military coups. the contention Tgoes on, the military Goldwater coups run counter to the objectives of economic and social reform incorporated in the Alliance for Progress program. However used, the mere existence rof effective military organizations in the Latin-American countries seems a '-species of crime to many of those in' Washington who think only in terms of economic and social reform for these 'countries.

It never seems to cross their minds that the military aid program was begun in 1951 for a very important reason, which has grown rather than "decreased. 'S AND THAT REASON is the need to have military forces-in-being in the southern part of the Western Hemisphere to strengthen defenses in that area against the ever-present threat of Communist aggression. With Cuba now an established base 'for Soviet Communism, the reasons for providing the sinews of military defense to other Latin-American coun-4 tries take on added urgency. This 4 grows proportionately with flow of armaments, munitions, equipment and trained military personnel from the Iron Curtain countries into the island 90 miles off the southern coast of United States. 5 According to the best information in Washington, this of arms, equipment and man-v power has increased greatly in recent nonths.

Of course, there can be no doubt jV! By Morrie Ryskind TWO LEARNED political analysts for the Los Angeles Times report that, while the eyes of the rest of the country are focused on the gubernatorial race Between Pat Brown and Dick Nixon, California voters themselves are apathetic. The derogatory implication is obvious. From my worm's-eye view, this is an extremely shortsighted appraisal of the patriotic citizens of the Golden State, who are anything but Ryskind apathetic about matters affecting their vital destiny. The criticism may not have been written in malice, but it reveals, alas, the utter parochialism of the so-called specialists who don't get around as much as we general practitioners do. CERTAINLY NO man who had ever witnessed a crucial Giant-Dodger series at Candlestick Park or watched the Yanks play the Angels at Chavez Ravine could charge Californians with apathy.

I don't know the exact word to describe the scene when myriads of dignified matrons rise to their feet, shaking like Holy Rollers as they shout and pray for Little Albie to get a hit, and fill the air with the fervent "Hallelujahs!" usually reserved for revival meetings when their prayers are h.itf.