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8 Oe. ii, ins An Eye Witness Recounts K. K. K. Rally Des Moines Tribune speeches that tend to incite acts of violence.

The speech itself was elementary and fierce. There was an early reference to the F. B. "that race-mixing organization," as the "Federal Bureau of this was the extent of the meeting's humor. Stoner delivered a hash of time -tested accusations.

He referred to "the Jewish conspiracy," "the Negro con- (Bv S. R. Abt in Baltimore Sun) DANVILLE, VA. On a bank beside the road the first cross was already afire, the arms burning bright, the staff leaking thin smoke into the dark. Down the red clay path between the banks a hymn was heard overhead.

'Rock of Ages," tenor, with accompanying organ. Flashlights waved along to where the road dipped and turned. Then the first: walking on the shoulder of clay between cars and wet weeds sheathed in white robe and hood except for the face, and with a thin mustache. And others: most in white, some in red, one in what seemed to be tinfoil, crinkling with each step and reflecting the spotlights above the road. Cars were already parked along the road as it turned into a bowl-like place and became the track of a' racing-car speedway.

Soma stayed in their cars, but many joined the crowd climbing back up the road, out of the spotlights, across the grass and weeds, through a gate, past a refreshment stand and down into unlighled bleachers. Program Begins The tenor and organ turned to "The Old Rugzod Cross." The cars coming into the bowl of the speedway ended, the full moon moved behind the clouds. Above, fifteen rows high, six figures stood in the darkness against a booth. The tenor rose and fell and was gone just before there was a gentle explosion from below in the bowl and a high cross was fired, flaring the arena. From above, in the mixed shadows and light of the cross, under the moonless night, the Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan declared their meeting begun.

The speaker of the evening was J. B. Stoner, an Atlanta attorney and self described archleader and imperial wizard of the Knights. Stoner was attacked by Indians during a rally in North Carolina in 1958. Rumors of such interruption this time by Negroes were circulated before the meeting at Danville, possibly with the intention of swelling the crowd.

There were no interruptions save the occasional prolonged beeping of horns by members of the audience who had stayed in their cars, as a seconding motion to some of his points. Klansman's Speech Stoner discussed "The Survival of Our Great White Race'' and did so under curbs. The commonwealth's attorney had promised to act promptly if any of the Klansmen violated state laws, including those that forbid the wearing of hoods or masks that cover the face, and the making of Stoner's delivery was of I kind with the material. Spe'', ing without the aid of nc.cj throughout, pausing on' wait out the horn or to drink from a pfpor cuj of orange pop, Storer nevci fumbled, never lost thj thread. Yet his speech lacked fire, as if perhaps ho hnj heard himself make it too many times.

Impression Of Meeting For most of his applause and the two or three times hi won the rebel yell he fell back on the most worn racial and religious cliches. He made a poor demagogue. After the first five minutes he spoke for more than an hour it was impossible to take notes. Floodlights had been turned on the speaker during the early moments and they were kept on until the end. This was the Klan's mistake.

In the darkness, with the six Klansmen in the shadows of the booth, an ominous atmosphere had been created. With the lights on, the mystery was gone. The Virginia law forbidding the wearing of masks makes the night riders vulnerable. They seemed to recognize this. Throughout Stoner'g speech, two of the Klansmen with him stood with hands over their temples, hiding; themselves, like men in dep thought.

Or men with a bad headache. The "Man of Peace" Premier Khrushchev's departure for Moscow brings to a close an episode that was expected to produce anything from a mart in space to an explosive new turn in the cold war. It produced neither. Khrushchev pounded the table, interrupted speakers and made impossible demands for remodeling the U. N.

according to his particular likes. But it can't be said that he cowed many, if any, U. N. delegates or caused large cracks to appear in the sidewalks of New York. Mr.

K. cut a far less imposing figure during this visit than he did during his previous visit to the United States. We have no thought of belittling Khrushchev's power, as the dictator of Soviet Russia and the boss of world Communism, for serious trouble making. But when he exposes himself to daily, firsthand evaluation outside the protective and ominous shield of the iron curtain, he diminishes considerably in his stature as a man in whom the people of other nations might have trust and confidence. If Khrushchev accomplished anything, it was to reveal more clearly than ever before how thin and phony are his efforts to appear as a sincere advocate of peaceful relations among the nations of the world.

Ill-tempered tantrums, name-calling, violent and unsubstantiated accusations and demands for all or nothing concessions from others, under threat of war, have never been characteristics that identified a reasonable, earnest, sincere and well-intentioned man of good will. Those characteristics are the mark of headstrong bullies, thugs and dictators. It does not require long experience in diplomacy or at high-level international conferences to recognize these characteristics for what they are. They are recognized and resented by children in grade school. They are met and measured in the daily contacts of most ordinary people in their association with others.

They are as familiar to the members of uncivilized tribes as they are in family circles and at the highest levels of society. We cannot believe Khrushchev fooled anyone unless it was himself and his company of stooges. spiracy," "the Communist conspiracy" and "the Northern conspiracy." He offered two solutions: deport all Negroes to Africa and fire all Negroes holding jobs in the South, replacing them with white He was applauded loud and long by the crowd for his second piece of advice, but few of his audience looked like the hiring type. that seems to be coming hack." -Here How Americans View Labor Party Stand Eisenhower at 70 7f tf jJ. By Cyril Dunn IoodoB Observer wi St-rvir WASHINGTON, C.

The news of the Labor party conference's decision calling for unilateral nuclear disarmament could scarcely have come at a less propitious moment to make a major impact in the United States. The American mind was just then massively distracted by other concerns the continuing drama of the U. the presidential election campaign and the world series. Normally graver citizens would be upset to find this threat to Western solidarity not getting the attention they know it deserves. But they seem relieved that news of the conference has been President Eisenhower observed his 70th birthday Friday and became the first American president to reach that age while serving in office.

Five years ago, few persons were confident that he would serve out the remaining year and four months of his first term in the White. House. Almost none expected him to seek a second term. Only a month earlier, the president had suffered a severe heart attack while vacationing in Colorado, There was doubt for a time about his recovery. The stresses of office and the strains put on the president by world problems are tremendous burdens for even a well man.

These burdens have not been lessened since (hat time. But, to the credit of medical skills and the president's own strength and will power, he completed his first term, undertook a second and was in excellent physical condition for his age on his 70th birthday. We believe most Americans and a great many people throughout the world have reason to be thankful for 'the added years of service President Eisenhower has been able and willing to give. He has not achieved his greatest hope of bringing about an accommodation between the Communist world and the free world that offers any real prospect for enduring peace or a cessation of the arms race. No one man seems likely to achieve that goal in the near future.

But President Eisenhower has well represented the best qualities and ideals that Americans would like the rest of the world to see, believe and understand in their country. Cheaper Atomic Power For War or Peace The gas centrifuge process for separating fissionable Uranium 235 from the stable Uranium 238 promises to make atomic power and weaponsreadily available to many more countries. West German and Dutch private firms have been developing the centrifuges for sale generally, and Germans have sold two early models to Brazil. With atomic weapons already stockpiled in quantity in the U. the Soviet Union and Britain, tested in France, under development in Red China, nuclear disarmament is rapidly growing more and more difficult.

The gas centrifuge process is a major breakthrough, transforming the "fifth country problem" to an "nth country problem," where is a sizable number. Technology, Red China, and Charles de Gaulle's France all lend urgency to the proposed nuclear weapons test ban and international inspection system to enforce it which has been under negotiation so long beeween the U. Britain and the Soviet Union. Agreement among these three and bringing in the other countries are only the first two small steps. A test ban will just slow down the nuclear arms race, not halt it or cut it back.

But the urgency grows rapidly. mind that seeks to lead a political party which cannot, in the nature of things, measure up to his intellectual standard. "A Sens? Of Relief" Eut in spite of this sadness over Labor's trouble there is among American intellectuals a sense of relief that "it couldn't happen here." They see what has happened to the Labor party as a fatal internal conflict between basic quasi-sacred dogma and the need to make adjustments in changing times. "You cannot imagine how grateful we are," one of them said, "that this sort of thing is irrelevant in America. People are always saying: 'Why don't our American political parties really stand for something? Why don't we have clear differences of principle between the two major Well, you have these firm principles and clear differences in Britain, and now look what's happening to the poor old Labor party.

It's fighting for its life while tradition throttles it. Thank God we have the pragmatic tradition in this country." Insufficiently Frightened? An American newspaper correspondent who worked in London in the thirties is disconcerted because he remembers that the British took a similarly optimistic line about disarmament when he was there. He thinks that British nerves are too strong and that now, as in the thirties, "they're not ri enough." But generally it seems unlikely that the Labor party decision will do as much as it might have done even a week earlier to shake U. S. confidence in Britain as an ally.

In his recent appearance before the U. N. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's urbane confidence in the strength of the Western alliance made a tremendous impression on the American mind. This impression will not be offset very much by the uncertain vote of a socialist party, which, from this side of the ocean, seems about to disintegrate. WNAPCX-IS STAR STF.Vr.VKON" WAITING FOR THE CUE "The same sad destiny' "Early Press Rights Were Limited" By John B.

Knox 'Aimutfd Prf Writu) CAMBRIDGE, MASS, The United States, observing National Newspaper Day Saturday, enjoys freedom of press and speech beyond that dreamed of by the men who wrote the Constitution, says Dean Leonard W. Levy of Brandeis University. In a new book, "Legacy of Suppression," based on research into freedom of speech and press in early American history, Levy tells the story of an uphill struggle against suppression to the freedoms of today. Early Years Even in the early 1800's, a decade or more after the Bill of Rights was adopted, the American press was yet to win freedom to publish adverse reports about government activities or about po'i ticians in office. Newspaper men.

still subject to arrest for "seditious could be prosecuted for publishing statements that might be construed by juries as reflecting on the government, or upon men in government. Levy says the simple fact is that the First Amendment did not mean to its framers what it is construed to mean today. But he praises the framers for foresight in using phraseology that provided room for expanding concepts of freedom. First Goals For many years, he points out, the highest ideal of freedom of the press envisaged only abolition of licensing and removal of restraints prior to publication. Most of the framers.

he says, did not see the threat of subsequent prosecution for seditious libel as a shackling of true freedom of the press. "The American people simply did not understand that freedom of thought and expression means equal freedom for the other fellow, especially one with hated ideas," comments Levy. Trial of Zpnger The famous freedom-of-the-press trial of John Peter Zerger in New York afier indictment for seditious libel in he points out, touched only a part of the problem. It was the last of the few such trials under a colonial judge. "The traditionally maligned judges were, as a matter of fact, virtually angels of self-restraint when compared with the intolerance of community opinion or the tyranny of the governors," Levy says.

Principal offenders in suppressing freedom of publication were the supposed champions of liberty the legislatures elected by the people, and the governors and coun cils. he points out. Has Mr. Interfered In U.S. Election? For- and sub- tween the United States, mosa, the Philippines South Korea, and has By David Lawrence WASHINGTON', D.

Ni-kita Khrushchev has defied all the rules of fair play in diplomacy 4 he has deliber- a I inter- fered in a na- tional political campaign in-1" 'gf side a foreign a country. a By coming to rf the United fJ A jected it to new strains, which the press dispatches from those countries have revealed in the last few days in commenting on the American campaign speeches. Khrushchev may rot appear to have gained much by his visit to the U. N. itself, but he has managed to help embarrass the American people in their presidential campaign and, if the Eisenhower administration is repudiated next month with a "vote of no confidence" by the majority of citizens who go to the polls, Khrushchev will surely claim credit -for his part in bringing about that result.

l'rin. N' Toik HraM Inc. States in thef ii I I I 11 I II A A- l-M 'S. 1 contest and carrying on a i p.i v( r. Good Police Work sustained attack against the buried.

Otherwise, they feel, the mass of Americans would have reacted with premature anger and alarm. It is well known that Americans, who are governed by their patriotic emotions, think it an old British custom to let the U. S. carry the main burden of the common wars. If people had nothing else to think about, they surely would have been incensed to hear the U.

S. being put into the same zoological category as the Soviet Union by Ted Hill, leader of the Boilermakers' Union, who called them "those two gorillas." An Effect on V. S. Election? What happened at the conference naturally will confirm the belief, stoutly held by countless Americans, that even the mild form of socialism known in Britain is a menace to the stability of any state. It may well encourage them to reject, in the election of a new president next month, the "creeping socialism" discovered by the more extreme and nervous Republicans in the moderate social policies of the Democratic candidate.

Although the Labor party vote may make little impre'ion on British foreign policy, it may help to elect another' Republican president in the U. S. an outcome which, presumably, would not fill many Labor party members with delight. At the same time, people overseas might be surprised to find how much sympathy exists in the U. S.

for the Labor party in its troubles. Hugh Gaitskell, the party leader, is much admired by progressive people here. They fear he may now he overtaken by Adlai Stevenson's sad destiny 1h inv- itable fate of any first-claxj policies of the Eisenhower administration, he has endeavored to arouse the American people to repudiate their own government at the polis. Khrushchev knows well that all over the world the outcome of the election is being awaited to learn primarily whether the American people have given a vote of confidence or no confidence in the present administration. Khrushchev in his speeches has dwelt on various aspects of the foreign-policy issue that is being debated by the supporters of Vice-President Richard Nixon and Senator John Kennedy.

He keeps emphasizing the U-2 issue and goes out of his way to embrace Fidel Castro at a time when opposition speakers in the campaign are blaming Communist ascendancy in Cuba on the Eisenhower administration. Even the dormant issue of admitting Red China to the United Nations was revived by the Soviet premier during his visit here. He knows that Democratic party speakers in the campaign have begun to hint that Red China eventually will be admitted. It is also of great advantage to Khrushchev to have American speakers debating just now whether Quemoy and Matsa are to be defended. It tells the people of Formosa and the people of the Philippines if Kennedy is elected, there may be a hang in American policy.

This tends weaken the alliance in the Far East be- pen The arrest of three men for the theft last January of antique guns valued at $25,000, and the recovery of most of the guns, is a splendid example of police co-operation. The theft took place at Winterset. Investigation of the case was principally in the hands of agents of the state bureau of criminal investigation and the Madison county sheriff's office. But the alertness of Des Moines police played a key part in the arrest. T.

A. Thompson, chief of the state bureau of criminal investigation, has written to Des Moines Police Chief Howard Eide: "During the investigation we have frequently consulted with members of your department and received the finest co-operation. Particularly so, by Detectives Roman Martin, Leon Clemens and Patrolman Gaylord Brooks, who, during their regular duties came in contact with persons suspected of the theft of these guns, and under circumstances which they determined could be of value to us and immediately advised us to that effect. As a result the arrests and recoveries were Lawbreakers are not limited by city and county boundaries in their operations, but police frequently are. Alert, co-ordinated police work rf the kind demonstrated by Iowa, Madison i-o-iniy and Des Moines officers is the only "ef-t'cvme answer to crime.

School Aid Journal) Opponents of state aid have long argued that it did not make sense to pour state dollars into inefficient, high-cost, poor-quality small schools. That objection has by no means been eliminated, but it has been substantially weakened by the school district reorganization of recent years. And this reorganization may itself cause additional legislators to support more stringent standards on the granting of state aid. There is hopeful evidence that th snowball effect has begun to operate on the reorganization program. And They Do Probably the most astute forecast ever made concerning stock market pi ices was the one given to the world by the late J.

P. Morgan. "They wi' fluctuate." I hollar "I feel so secure on the guided tours.".