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Editorials Thompson: Russians Anxious to Limit Atomic Weapons Scrap Arms in Which Were Superior1. Rapidly Increasing Traffic Count Shows Four-Lane Road Needs is his judgment in dealing with the Russian negotiator, Valerian A. Zorin, who, as ambassador to Prague, is credited with engineering the destruction of the Czechoslovak republic? STASSEN, OF COURSE, is not acting on his own, as Zorin is not. But the personalities of the actual negotiators count heavily, Stassen is ambitious. He would undoubtedly like to succeed, and shine in the approval of world opinion that would attend even a small diminution of the armament race.

Those in Washington who dislike -and they are legion believe he still has his eye on the presidency and that his actions are colored thereby, and this judgment, just or unjust, adds to the atmosphere of insecurity. BUT THE PRESIDENT himself is committed to a first step, that first step being a quantitative limitation on the further manufacture, stockpiling, and testing of thermonuclear weapons. In this, again, he is undoubtedly conscious of world opinion. Thermonuclear weapons are not to be laconic popular. Geneticists have warned of the danger to human genes from their radiation; the most eminent West German physicists have re 4 i (ft A it iA '-v 'sfi ILiLr" past two years alone illustrates the staggering highway construction problem.

Below is the traffic count (vehicles per day) on rural segments of major highways in this vicinity: 1954 1956 Highway 63 north 2,550 4,430 Highway 20 east 3,530 3,840 Highway 218 south 2,415 2,510 Highway 63 south 1,215 2,490 Highway 218 north 2.985 3.210 These counts are for the rural sec-' tions of the highways outside Waterloo except for Highway 218 north which is for the rural segment outside of Cedar Falls. MOREOVER, on the basis of the 1956 traffic count and probable increases in vehicles in the future, it is likely that Highway 63 north all the way to New Hampton and 'Highway 20 east all the way to Independence will pass the level within a few years. For example, the traffic count was 2,640 on Highway 63 just south of New Hampton and 3,900 on Highway 20 just west of Independence. Obviously, therefore, it is erroneous to assume that the four-lane interstate system in Iowa will take care of the four-lane needs of the state. Many other parts of the primary system will require divided highway construction in the foreseeable future.

Editor Says Health Agencies Should Join United Campaigns By DOROTHY THOMPSON WE HAVE EECOME accustomed to the cold war, and it has about it the comfort, though it be frosty, of familiarity. The thought that the ice may begin to break up suggests a possible flood of new dangers to American and allied security. Nobody trusts the Russians to take any steps not calculated to be to their advantage, militarily and politically, or to act out of a magnanimous consideration for the welfare of mankind, which their ideology, in any case, continues to identify with the triumph of Communism all over the globe. All negotiations and conferences with them are haunted by the memory of other conferences, notably by the ghosts of Teheran, Yalta and Potsdam, which led this columnist to exclaim at the time, "One more conference with the Russians and they will get Canada!" THUS, WHEN Harold Stassen, on arriving back in London to resume negotiations on disarmament, said, "We are nearer to an agreement for the first step than we have been at any time in the past eleven years," Washington, London and Paris reacted skeptically and apprehensively. The question arises (and is asked on the Hill and in the Pentagon): Just how far can Stassen be trusted? Just how acute 1 II A A "trhs Highway Traffic Count THICKNESS OP the bars on this die-.

grama-tic highway map of the Waterloo vi. cinity indicates the volume of traffic on each major highway. The numbers on each bar indicate the volume in vehicles per day. The traffic shown here represents the volume in Today in Washington CEDAR -J 'ALLS s'sA HUDSON I KV.ll fused to have anything to do with producing them; the Japanese prime minister has advocated that th6 first step in disarmament should be in this field; and even Chiang Kai-shek, still nursing his ambition to re-invade mainland China, bars the use of thermonuclear weapons. YET, ANY CONCESSIONS on this mat-ter, made in behalf of human welfare, and attended by no matter what controls, will be made by the West, from a presently superior position, to the Soviets who in this category are inferior, according to the most expert judgment, which also concedes the superiority of the Russians in manpower, conventional and strategical position for conventional land warfare.

Atomic superiority, and now guided missile development, is also the basis for the concept of peace by deterrence, from which there can be no retreat without scuttling the entire system of defense alliances. The dilemma is how to keep (and indeed increase) that superiority while limiting manufacture and reducing or abolishing the tests. The Russians want to end this Western superiority and whatever "first step" they may agree to take will be a calculated step in that direction and toward that goal. Hence the dilemma, the skepticism, and the unease. whelming expression of opinion.

The people wanted it (1) because it saves the individual contributor from a barrage of solicitations every month or so; (2) because it saves the campaign workers from numerous duplicating drives. There are other good reasons, but these two ought to be enough, FROM ANOTHER POINT of view (medical), the United Fund is acquiring active sponsorship. The House of Delegates of the Ohio State Medical Association passed a resolution last month urging United Fund support and for reasons that may not be generally known. The doctors pointed out that overemphasis on the dramatic appeal for aid in fighting certain diseases can have the effect of "neglecting attention to other diseases equally important." The Houte of Delegates, in a resolution supporting the United Fund, went further to suggest that United Fund money be devoted to the financing of medical research generally. THE UNITED FUND is proving highly successful throughout the country, and it can prove itself a success here if the people want it that way.

Agencies aren't obliged to come in; but they can ifi they wish. The public should understand that more clearly. In the interest of efficiency and economy, as well as for convenience for both the contributors and the campaign workers, let's hope that the fall campaign of the Dubuque United Fund finds a majority of the agencies in the fold. The public will like that, we are sure, and will respond most gcnerouslj Justice Brennan, the Eisenhower appointee who wrote the opinion. Was extremely careful.

Furthermore, the Supreme Court (in 344 U. S. at 419) had ruled before that: "The demand was for the production of specifie documents and did not propose any broad or blind fishing expedition among documents possessed by the government Nor was th.s a demand for statements taken from persons or informants not offered as witnesses." Noting this prior decision, Justice Brennan wrote: "We reaffirm and re-emphasize these essentials. Every experienced trial judge and trial lawyer knows the value for impeachment purposes cf statements of the witness regarding events before time dulls treacherous memory." DENNIS THE MENACE From Dubuque Telegraph-Herald THE DUBUQUE UNITED FUND will open its fall campaign with too few agencies taking part unless better cooperation develops. It would be foolish and misleading to gloss over the disappointment that United Fund sponsors have experienced over the reluctance of some agencies to go the united way.

Some other cities are having their troubles, too, and the problem springs from unwillingness of certain health organizations to merge their campaigns into the United Fund. Experience has shown, however, that they have nothing to lose financially; indeed, the record proves that they have done better after going in. THE OBJECTION to a united campaign comes from national officers of agencies, who do not want to merge with the local drives. They think their particular cause would be submerged nr lost in such unity. And they discourage local units from joining.

These national officers naturally do not feel the pressures generated by a multiplicity of campaigns, nor hear the objections of local people to multiple drives. They are not inconvenienced by the duplications, inefficiencies, nuisances and extra labor characterizing repeated appeals to the public for funds. BLJ THE ORIGINAL reasons for consolidating all drives in Dubuque, enlisting the cooperation of all agencies, are as sound and logical as they were when the idea was approved. It met approval by an over Washington Merry-Go-Bound AUTHORITIES declare that a four-lane highway ought to be constructed when the traffic count on a given segment of road reaches 4.000 vehicles a day. The four-lane highway is needed in such cases for safety reasons and to permit efficient use.

And these advantages justify the additional cost of the wider road. It is interesting to note, therefore, that the traffic count on three major highways in Black Hawk County.has already exceeded this figure, according to official figures of the Iowa Highway Commission. On the immediate outskirts of Waterloo, the traffic count on Highway 63 north in 1956 was 5,070 vehicles a day, and on Highway 20 east it was 4.040 cars a day. On the immediate outskirts of Cedar Falls, the traffic count on Highway 218 north was 4,803 a day. Moreover, the traffic count on Highway 63 north the heaviest traveled highway in the county averaged 4,430 cars a day all the way to Denver.

THE HIGHWAY COMMISSION has constructed the four-lane Highway 218 between Waterloo and Cedar Falls; and both 218 and 20 are or will be four-lane routes through thesei two cities. But the rapidly accelerating traffic count indicates that plans must be made for four-lane routes extending beyond the congested metropolitan area. The increased traffic count in the U. S. Vacation Time Excessively Liberal? IT IS A CURIOUS fact that employes of the federal government receive much more generous vacation periods than do employes of private enterprises.

For example, federal employes get four weeks of vacation after three years cf service and five weeks after 15 years of service. (Actually, of course, the "off time is 20 and 26 working days, respectively.) But national statistics show that only 9 per cent of office workers and 4 per cent of shop workers in private employment get as much as four weeks of vacation even after 20 years. We do not begrudge the icderal workers their vacation time; but it surely is questionable that federal practices should be so much more liberal than those in private employment. The liberal vacation schedules allowed by Uncle Sam considerably increase the government's personnel costs. Inflation Protectors Are Causing Inflation "THE REAL SOURCE of inflation in postwar United States has lain in the market place in the institutions and practices of labor union bargaining and corporation price administration," Dr.

Edwin G. Nourse, former chairman of President Truman's Council of Economic Advisers, declared in a recent speech. Nourse pointed to the "tricky gadgets" used by management, labor and agriculture to fuel "the engine of inflation." Among these are the "two-phase escalator clause in wage contracts, by which wage rates rise automatically in accordance with a theoretical factor of productivity increase or with a rise in the cost-of-living index. and the principle that prices should be high enough to largely tUfltcrloo Dailn Courier tllfcl IIB IS VOL. It-KO.

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This volume declines the greater the distance from the metropolitan centers. The map it courtesy of the Iowa Highway Commission. (See editorial at left.) every civic organization in America and abroad wherever public policies are discussed. For it counters the materialistic pressure for trade in war materials and the appeasement of a gangster government in Peiping on the ground of "practicality." It notifies the whole world, including our allies, that American idealism is not to be sacrificed on the altars of materialism, PERHAPS THE MOST poignant section of the speech was the secretary's explanation of why a gangster regime like Soviet Russia is "recognized" while the one in Peiping is not. He traced in detail the manner in which the United States, after wailing 16 years, finally set forth in 1933 certain conditions for recognizing the Communist government at Moscow.

These conditions were then accepted by Moscow, he said, but have since been flagrantly violated. Dulles added: "It can, I think, be said with confidence that recognition would not have been accorded the Soviet Union even in 1233 had there been clear warning that the Soviet promises given in that connection were totally unreliable, that aggressive war would soon become an instrumentality of Soviet policy, and that it would be neutral toward Japanese aggression in Asia. "In the case of Communist China we ere forewarned. That regime fails to pass even those tests which, after 16 years, the Soviet regime seemed to pass." DULLES PROCLAIMS unceasing opposition to the admission of Red China to the United Nations. He cites the many aggressions committed by Red China including the war in Korea which cost so many American lives.

He says America will never suc-' cumb to the argument of "inevitability" of recognition. He places his faith in certain "fundamental beliefs" and one of them is "the future of human freedom." Dulles notes that inside and outside China the aspirations of the Chinese people to be free are constantly expressed and there is a growing confidence in the ultimate overthrow of the materialistic rule of Communism with all its attendant tyrannies. The significant manifestations at Washington, San Francisco and Rome all in support of the cause of human rights constitute an encouraging advance for the role of moral force in a troubled world where the threats of little and big wars still stir the apprehension of mankind. sircfFEVERT SPOKANE, Wash. (.

When public schools let out for spring vacation, it didn't make much difference in Mrs. Rosemary R. Pounds third grade room at the Willard School. Of her 26 pupils in her class, 19 were home with the mumps. defray the cost of plant betterment and expansion without much recourse to the securities market.

"Unionism, not to be-outdone as a designer of inflation devices, got court recognition of the theory that labor is exempt from anti-trust law, and devel- oped the technique of forcing maximum wage and fringe gain through the strongest union at the most strategic point of business. "The farmer was something of a pioneer in field of escalation gadgets with his formula of parity prices that' is, if the prices of things he buys go up, the government must support farm prices at a proportionately higher level. Thus the very devices by which various groups hope to protect themselves against inflation are the predominant factor in causing inflation. Those who are members of efficient pressure groups are jingling more and more money in their pockets but the money is worth less and less. Strictly Personal Harris: Misquotation Is Dangerous Error By SYDNEY J.

HARRIS IN A RECENT COLUMN. Miss Dorothy Thompson added herself to the long list of persons who continually misquote the famous quotation of Lord Acton. She quoted him as saying, "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." What Acton really said was "Power corrupts, and absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely." "Tends to" may seem like a trivial correction, but there are few trivialities in language. The law books Harris are filled with cases that were contested for years, and cost millions, because of a loose or careless phrase. IN FACT, the very words "tends to" have agitated the whole modern question of obscenity and censorship.

It is hard to prove that any book or picture can actually corrupt someone, so many statutes have been drawn up with the phrase "tending to corrupt." Another common misquotation, which has done considerable harm over the years, is "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." which is a distortion of Pope's line, "A little learning is dangerous thing." No amount of knowledge can be dangerous. A little knowledge is good, and more knowledge is better. For to know something is to understand it, in its consequences as well as in its causes. The more we truly know of the more we can cope with it BUT "LEARNING" is a different matter. Learning implies knowledge without understanding.

There are many learned fools who have picked up scraps of information here and there, or who have devoured whole encyclopedias, without achieving a working knowledge of the subject. The professional writer resents misquotations not because he is a fussbudget or a snob, but because he knows that careless use of words can create havoc-in the world. And habitual carelessness "tends corrupt the logical processes ol the mind. tusow was a mixed-up person who worked first for the FBI, then for Senator McCarthy, then decided he had been engaged in torturing innocent people, joined a church, confessed all, and swore under oath that he had lied about Jencks and others. This, however, came later.

During the earlier Jencks trial, which was the only question before the Supreme Court, Matusow testified he had made various reports about Jencks to the FBI. Jencks' attorneys then asked to see these reports. THE SUPREME COURT in an overwhelming 7-to-l decision has now found for Jencks. In doing so it did not authorize any rummaging through FBI files, despite the statement of lone dissenter Tom By DAVID LAWRENCE THREE MOMENTOUS demonstrations of moral force that can help the cause of human betterment in the world have just been made. Though not in themselves interrelated, nevertheless all three had as their common denominator the ideals and rights of man.

History will record that on the same day une 28 these three developments occurred: 1. President Eisenhower took off his shoes in accordance with oriental custom as he entered the new Islamic center in Washing Lawrence ton and paid his respects to the 270,000,000 Moslems of the world. He said: "America would fight with her whole strength for your. right to have here your own church and worship according to your own conscience." This is a message that will resound throughout Asia and the Middle East where too long an erroneous impression has prevailed that Western nations are intolerant of any other religions except their own. 2.

POPE PIUS XII. one of the great statesmen of modern times, told the American Jewish Committee that he was with them in their fight for the rights of man. He deplored racial discrimination and the persecution of Jews in various part of the world. The visiting delegation, after leaving the Vatican, said they had found "a great friend" in the pontiff. One Catholic prelate, according to a New York Times dispatch from Rome, said afterwards that "a new chapter" in the Vatican's attitude toward Jewish problems had been opened.

No precedent for a formal address by the Pope to a Jewish group in the 18 years of Pope Pius' pontificate could be recalled by Vatican officials. While the group from the American Jewish Committee had just visited Israel, it is itself non-Zionist Its main function is to urge respect for the civil rights of Jews everywhere. The Pope's comments will have far-reaching effects in every country where Catholic influence against intolerance can be substantial. 3. THE SECRETARY OF STATE of the United States, John Foster Dulles, gave expression to American idealism in a remarkable speech at San Francisco outlining point by point why the United States refuses to extend diplomatic recognition to Red China.

This was one of the greatest addresses' any American has ever, delivered on the underlying principles that govern the poiiries of the United States in international relations. It should be read and re-read before By DREW PEARSON HARRY TRUMAN, returning to his old haunts on Capitol Hill where he used to serve as a senator, lunched in the office of Sen. Lyndon Johnson of Texas. Present was Sen. Wayne Morse of Oregon, onetime Republican.

During the luncheon, Johnson started killing Morse. "Wayne came down to Texas a couple of years ago," said the senator from Texas, "and made a speech about me. He said, Texas is en- titled to have at least two senators in Washington, but it doesn't have any! Price said Wayne, 'repre-. sents the oil industry, and Lyndon Johnson represents only "Last fall," continued the senator from Texas banter-ingly. "when Wayne was up for re-election I offered to go out to Oregon to help him.

1 told him that I would make a speech for him or, if it would help him more, I'd make a speech against him." Court and FBI Files Lou Nichols, fast-talking, likeable public relations lobbyist for J. Edgar Hoover, has been buttonholing congressmen on Capitol Hill urging that they rush through a new law to "protect" FBI files. As a result, Congress will probably jam through a law, despite the lateness of the session. Chief danger is that the law will go too far and be thrown out once again by the Supreme Court For the Supreme Court's ruling was based on Constitutional grounds which no Congress can change. WHAT HAPPENED was this: Clinton Jencks of the Mine.

Mill, and Smelter Workers Union, was convicted on the testimony of Harvey Jdatusow, then an undercover agent for the FBL Ma- ft "You people ever seen TEN hop toads at ONE TIME".