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THE EVENING INDEPENDENT BECKER Established in 1863 JOHN E. ROWE Publisher, General Manager Editor Published daily, except Sunday, by Earl J. Jones Enterprises, Inc. 1 Telephone TEmple 3-2631 4' Massilton, Ohio, Friday, November 16, 1962 The Old Fakir- THE IKDiAN ROPE TRICK VICTOR RIESEL Red Party Will Stand Trial Watch Britain Britain has been plagued byt lagging economy much like tiiat of the U. S.

Growth has been evident, but the has not matched that of the continental European countries. This semi-stagnation has been more prolonged than that of the U. S. "But now Great Britain has taken a step that Americans, and especially economic policymakers at Washington, should watch with interest. Chancellor of the Exchequer Reginald Maulding has announced a sharp cut in the automobile pur- dutse tax and more liberal tax deductions for industrial expansion.

a Tlote that the British government resisted opposition demands for in- public works expenditures. do not need so much a stimulus demand generally as special en- fcuragement to investment, to the Reporting industries, and to employment in where employment above the national average," said aulding. Tax reductions of a similar Shature have been proposed in the States, but so far greater has gone to increased spending. Congress did take small step toward encouraging Industrial expansion by enacting a credit for new plant invest- Depreciation schedules have jfceen liberalized somewhat, jj President Kennedy has been Bilking in terms of tax cuts next ear, either as part of a general pro- ram of tax reform or by themselves boost the economy. But it is still no means sure that the tax cuts ill be asked; or, if asked, enacted congress.

rame Over? It looks as though the old neu- alist? game of playing the United bates a'gainst the Communists has icountered difficulties at last, alks about American help to re- Algeria's economy have been roken off by Washington, and for best of reasons, Premier Ahmed Ben Bella, hav- ttg watched other nations wangle lielp from the U. S. by subtle politi- blackmail, thought he, too, could fat in on the racket. Having re- a warm official welcome with Al the trimmings in Washington, he Went on for a visit to Havana. It was masterpiece of bad timing, and 'Sen Bella proceeded to compound MS error.

President Kennedy, when a sena- SOKOLSKY tor. urged independence for Algeria and endured a lot of criticism for it. In Washington, Ben Bella told him Algeria would never forget that speech. But Ben Bella himself forgot it fast. In Havana lie cried "Algeria is with Cuba" and joined in a statement demanding end to "imperialist aggression" and "foreign military bases in other countries, including the naval base at Guantanamo." In the present atmosphere continuation of talks involving gifts of American taxpayers' money to a plainly antagonistic government would have been unthinkable.

In dealing- with underdeveloped countries Washington should be more vigilant in the future than it has been in the past that it is not subsidizing enmity. Holiday Outlook December, when business activity traditionally reaches a peak, may see volume records shattered for several years, according to somewhat guarded predictions now making their appearance. Christmas business will definitely eclipse the figure of last year, according to unanimous predictions of business experts. Indices which support this rosy conclusion include automobile output. The great automobile factories are spewing out 1963 creations at an ever-increasing rate.

December, according to keepers of charts and graphs, is the key month to watch. If there is a sizable upturn in business activity in the year's last month, they are convinced next year will witness a marked improvement over 1962 in business conditions generally. Right Guessers Elections in the United States as elsewhere, no doubt are invariably followed by outstanding exhibitions of self back-patting by those who guessed the outcome in advance. Even in contests where the result is a foregone conclusion, there are prognosticators who claim to be gifted with occult powers because they "knew" what would happen. This election is, of course, no exception.

Nor should anyone begrudge those who guessed right their propensity to crow. Someone had to win, and someone had to guess the winner in advance. It's as simple as that. Let's Comb Cuba Out Of Our Hair I FIDEL CASTRO HAS, thus far, estab- one fact, namely, that a bilateral arrangement designed to control or curb Iffin must have his consent. This is a iftrmal affirmation of sovereignty.

It is assertion that Castro, not Khrushchev, cjn mabe arrangements concerning Cuba. When the Monroe Doctrine was recog- and the Platt amendments were enforced, the United States, on its own, Consulting anyone, would have gjjne into Cuba, cleaned up the situation, tSrown Castro out, and then there would tifve been an election and a new president ff The assumption that Fidel Castro was only alternative to Batista is denied former Ambassador Earl E. T. Smith's forthcoming book, "The Fourth Floor," iiflSich deals with the subject of Cuba. Now know Fidel Castro to be a wily, tricky, liing demagogue, who recognizes no to any Mend, or any cause.

The oner political life of creature the better it will be. guilty, and shot. i SOVIET RUSSIA'S WORD is at stake. well and good to say that never keeps its promises. The fact that Soviet Russia exists and that wf required by circumstances to do busi- with Soviet Russia.

There must be a of the minds, if business to be at all iKbruatacbev agreed to an on-tite in- ction; therefore an on-site inspection rt must be. If Castro in unhappy about about Cuba let him drink at perfidy to the last drop it should not concern However, if cannot live up to prom- Li that' should concern decidedly. We tha right, with dignity, to set a date an On-site inspection, including caves, dines, and auniiar places. If tl United too to do this, should do it If the Russians it to join in an inspection, seeing tli tW Mint UM murderous weapons to 0 we abouM them. fauod that wwalled at a trick like pAamkin'i in the time of herine the Great, Castro should be ai at A WMVuongcr, brought before ARE MEN, who when there is an opportunity to find a road to peace, put itch-powder in the ointment.

It satisfies their need for personal importance; it feeds their ego and their vanity. For a moment, they strut on the stage of life, doing whatever mischief they can and then they are forgotten, as the odor of rotten eggs does, after all, disappear. Such a person is Castro who, having used and betrayed the United States which put him in power, is now apparently betraying Soviet Russia, which kept him in power against the wishes of the Cuban people; he is forming an alliance with Red China. Surely, the government of the United States has more important activities to undertake and problems to solve than to devote the time and brains of soaie of its most Capable men to dealing with the problem of how to rid the world of Castro without going to war with Russia, This formula is popular at this moment with the people who prefer talk to fight, but that mood can change if Caustoo twits us beyond our patience. Cuba is in our hair and we want to comb it out.

This is the most emotional question before our people. If an inch of G-uantanamo were given up, the outcry would be so great that it might lead to war. LET US LOOK at the other side of the coin. Khrushchev fighting for his political life and it is now clear that the Communist on Nov. Id will definitely decide whether he in office or not.

Should Khrushchev be demoted or sent into exile, it would mean that the Stalinist party will be in control. Should Khrushchev remain the leader of European communism, it likely that Soviet Russia will support the American position, in Cuba with arms and that Soviet Russia will support Nehru ia partnership with tba Uajtad and Graat Britain. It ia mnartabU what tvista a event can give to hiatory. meeting in Moscow on Nov. .19 mifht be like the Battle of (732) or lit DAVID LAWRENCE Latest U.

Budget Review Is Discouraging WASHINGTON Why were the American people not told before the congressional election that the federal budget would show a deficit this fiscal year of an estimated S7.8 billion? Why did President Kennedy in his message to congress only last January make an estimate of a surplus and lead the people to believe for the last 10 months that there would be no deficit at all in the current fiscal year? These questions are being asked because they go to the root of democratic government in contrast with a totalitarian state where the facts are manipulated and the truth is for certain inter- verals concealed from the people. Certainly the reason could not have been, an ordinary error in estimating' the figures for the current fiscal year, which runs from July 1. 1962, to June 30, 1963. The Treasury must have known for several months that such a large discrepancy did not justify the continuing impression derived from the optimistic estimate made last January. COULD POLITICS have been the reason? The January prediction of a federal surplus of S463 million for this fiscal year was used all through the campaign to emphasize the comparison with the big deficit of the Eisenhower administration in fiscal year 1959.

This was a red figure of S12.4' largest in any peacetime year. When, however, the S7.8 billion deficit estimate for fiscal year 1963 is added to the S6.3 billion deficit for the fiscal year both under the Kennedy administration it amounts to $14.1 billion for the two years. Whether it was incurred in one year or two, it's still a total deficit of huge proportions. Even without the tax cut now being promised, the 1964 deficit is expected to be in excess of $10 billion, making a total of about S24 billion in only three years. No such total of deficits" have been run up in any three-year period heretofore in peacetime.

But the public is entitled to know why the official figures in the current fiscal-year budget were suppressed until just after the congressional election this month. IN EVERY year since 1956, the mid-year review has been From Our Files 99 YEARS AGO A good sign adopted by some of our meat dealers seems to be a timely one. The sign in glaring letters says "Positively No Credit." Many other business men may imitate this slogan with success and to themselves and all interested. YEARS AGO Joseph Schrader has moved into his new quarters in North Erie st. Has blacksmith shop is now a two-story building made necessary increase in hii business.

25 YEARS AGO Miss Barbara Benson, of the National Board of the Y.W.C.A., in New York, who a particularly interested in the in- ternationai aspect of the organization, will visit Massillon Friday. This will be on a trip which will take her to Y.W. in Ohio and 10 YEARS AGO Ruth McVay, R.N., director of tte MMaUfco city hoapiUl achooi ot Buntac and Mian Lillian R.N., director of will attend a meeting of the legislative committee of the Ohio State Nurses' association. made available much earlier than the time the estimate was given out this week. Thus, in 1956, it was published on Aug.

28. In 1957, it came out on Oct. 1. In 1958, it was issued on Sept. 11.

In 1959. it was disclosed on Sept. 24. As for 1960. the figures were released on Oct.

4. This was during the Eisenhower administration, and the people had at least a month before the election to pass judgment on the facts revealed about the fiscal policy of the administration in power. Even in 1961, when there was no election, the mid-year review was available in October. The excuse that doubtless will be given for the delay this year is that didn't adjourn until Oct. 13, but the fact is the figures could have been issued before the election if desired by the administration, particularly since the mid-year review just issued this week is an abbreviated version of those of the prior six years and is much more of a summary than a detailed review.

WHAT THE public didn't know during the election campaign was that the estimated rate of spending has risen from billion to $93.7 billion, even though the estimated receipts were declining from $93 to $85.9 billion. The government knew that its receipts were declining, but the Democratic party, which controlled congress, was authorizing expenditures far above the intake. Actually, the national debt is growing year by year because of the perennial deficits. The Democratic party has been in control of congress for nine out of the last 11 years, and the U. S.

Treasury shows a total deficit of $45.5 billion in that period. Even on a cash basis, the Treasury shows a total deficit of $29.7 billion in the fiscal years 1953 through 1963. SAM DAWSON THE OUTSTANDING point is that, despite the decline in estimated income this year, the administration kept on spending and is promising more and more spending for the future. A tax cut is being advocated for next year by administration economists as a means of improving the business situation. But this can be offset by the ill effects-of i growing deficit which will, for instance, affect adversely the American dollar abroad.

In private busines, if year after year more money'is spent than is taken in and there seems no prospect of turning the tide as more and more deficits are fnvisaged, the usual result is bankruptcy. The Fede'ral Treasury could keep on borrowing to meet deficits but at a higher and higher rate interest. When, however, the public loses confidence in the monetary unit, prices tend to rise faster than they can be absorbed by wage increases, and a steady devaluation of the currency is the inevitable result. THE LATEST budget review is certainly discouraging, as the public will find it hard to believe the administration's estimates of a balanced budget or surplus when, within so brief a period as 10 months, a promised surplus of $463 million turns out to be a deficit of at least $7.8 and now the outlook is for a $10- billion deficit for the next fiscal year beginning July 1, 1963, even without a tax cut. For the first time in many years, an administration has omitted to mention in its mid-year estimates the exact figure of the national debt.

This evidently will be $305 billion, which is in excess of the limit imposed by existing law, and congress doubtless will be asked in January to raise the debt limitation. (Copyright, 19fl2. New York Herald Tribune, Jhe.) Pushing Back The NEW YORK (AP) The timetable for the next recession is being pushed back. Only a few still think it will come early next year. The big majority of businessmen and stock traders now think it won't start till later, maybe not in 1963 at all, even though the first weeks of the year may show the usual post-Christmas letdown.

The reasons? Cuba and Berlin seem to assure continued big spending for defense items, old and new. A U. S. Treasury deficit means more government money being pumped into the economy, whatever the long-range effect of a rising federal debt ADMINISTRATION 0 a 1 of stimulating business promise tax cuts both for business and individuals meaning more money to spend by these important segments the economy, and also a further increase in the Treasury deficit And, finally, there's the general health of the economy right from bursting its seams, but scarcely shrinking away either. Record sales of new aulos this month and last show the consumer ready to spend for what he wante.

And a prosperous auto industry oaUa upon a bott pliers. Despite the squeeze on profit margins, the majority of corporation am rapottlnf hajhsr And mm an iiMitf dividends. Many report; ittnf volume. This doesn't, add up to a faltering economy. And the stock mar- has bidding up stock prices most days in the last three weeks.

THE STOCK MARKET has been wrong plently of times before. But just now at any rate, it thinks too many factors are working for greater economic growth in the months just ahead for fears of a recession to be well-grounded. To Wall Street eyes the Cuban situation spells two things that the United is going to stay tough; and that the Soviets will keep up the pressure, by stealth or openly, wherever it can. And that means continued defense spending. The market apparently put little faith in an early reversal of the arms race.

At the same time, Washington's heart seems set on trying everything it can, including a tax cut, to spark more business activity and whittle the total bf unemployed. In the United States the expressed sympathy of its European allies and a promise to help it shave off any run on the dollar that high Treasury deficits might tempt speculators to try. WALL STREET may doubt if any of spells the start of a real boom. It does seem to feel that fean of roowsioo it cher- laat May and June were overdone. Those who hold that the business cycle ia still with MS, in spite of tha cuaniooB and buffers built up atoM ttaa 1090B, say that a re- cnrioo will come atong in due time.

But as of today that time seems to be farther off than not quite the final conflict, but on Dec. 11 the government of the U. S. will try the Communist Party, U. S.

in a federal courthouse here. No man will stand in the docket. It if the party itself which will stand trial. The charge against it is distinct. The government says it is a foreign agent and mist register as such.

This means that Bob Kennedy's Department of Justice will attempt to prove that the Communist party is Soviet-directed. So the blue chips are finally down on the Red issue. This case can't be won by oratory or courtroom wizardry. The Justice departments Internal Security Division, directed by an objective and experienced counselor, Assistant Attorney General J. Yeagley, must believe it has the evidence to link the American- Communist apparatus to the Soviet government itself.

This could mean the final exposure of underground cells, couriers, secret communications. WE MAY EVEN hear the names of those Soviet from whom the American Communists take direct orders. Skilled FBI agents will go on the stand and the cry will go up that they are informers." Some of the outcries will be sincere. But mat will come from those who condone the most gargantuan system of informers ever created the Soviet block by- block, house-by-house, secret police network from the Baltic to the Bering sea. When all the trials and appeals are over, no one will be able to say the Communist party has not had its its court.

The party indicted on Dec. 1, 1961, on 12 counts involving failure to register. Its final appeal was heard in open court before Federal Judge Edward M. Curran on Oct. 12, 1962.

Communist party attorneys John J. Abt and Joe Forer had their full say and some of it was sharply said. But the judge set Dec. 11 for the trial to begin. This is more an a year after a grand jury brought in the original indictment.

No judge has been assigned to the case. He will be selected by chance, depending on the availability of those on the federal bench. THE PARTY will have the right to a jury trial. If it is convicted it can be fined $10,000 on each count. Under the McCarren Act the rty's leaders themselves must register as well as register the Communist party.

They have refused and they must be tried separately Two men, defiant and utterly free to voice their defiance across the world over any media, have been indicted for refusing to register as Communist officials. They are Gus Hall and Ben Davis. No trial date has been set for them. Still other tests of the law arc will come for decades. The Justice department has asked the Subversive Activities Control Board to rule that 10 persons are members of the Communist party and therefore must register as rank and filers; The board has ruled on some and is moving to the west coast to conduct hearings on others.

Each has the right to reject tha board's findings. And the right to appeal the board's decision to the Supreme Court, if they lose before the high court they must stand trial. New can be appealed again right up to the Supreme Court. MEANWHILE there Is restriction on the movements or political or professional activities of those indicted or those who speak in ttaa name of tha Communist party. One who can least complain, though ha does so most loudly, it the party's leading spokesman, Hall.

He is free to do here what he could not do for an hour inside the Soviet Union. He has called preas conferences and has accused the FBI of criminality, of support for the American Nazi party, of racial and religious prejudice. He has attacked President Kennedy, accusing him and our government of subversion and terror. At the sama time Hall has been quoted on the Moscow radio as partisan of Fidel Castro. The Communist party no inhibitions either.

It produces propaganda movies. It runs mats meetings. It uses the old casn collection techniques to raise untraceable "anonymous" funds by the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Our land may not be the Communist party leader's image of "the workers paradise," but the party and its people do quite well. Somehow they never run out of cash, cars, and good living.

Soon we'll know how the most proletarian "of parties can offer up such comforts. Letters To The Editor To the Editor of The Evening Independent: Today, when. a local or area revenue issue fails to gain the support of the necessary number. of voters, the "easiest "out" is to petition the federal government for the needed funds. We have heard the plea for more central government from the quasi-socialists of the New Deal to the ultra- liberals of the New Frontier.

They claim that more central control is necessary to insure us our rights and freedoms. Freedom finds its best recognition among people who themselves have thrown off the authoritarian yoke; and later generations, losing sight of the basics of freedom, generally enslave themselves. The early history of our republic mirrors the first of these concepts. After our independence was won from Great Britain, the Articles of Confederation was drawn up as our central form of government. The authors, who so jealously guarded their inalienable rights, carefully limited the powers of'the federal power.

These Articles proved ineffective; and 10 years later, a was drafted which provided for stronger powers placed in the hands of the central government. I would point out that many of our Founding Fathers including our first two presidents, as members of the Federalist party, stressed this necessity of stronger federal government to insure human rights under a union of states. It is partially because of this lacking in central, federal strength that the Articles of Confederation failed. The parallel between our Federalist forefathers and our advocates of more government today is not a valid one, however, even though the claims sound similar. The Federalists were concerned with natural or inalienable rights, those rights which man receives without effort when he is born into a free society.

One aim of the Constitution was to insure these rights as enumerated in the Bill of Rights. Under the original federal system man was assured his freedoms, which include the freedom to succeed or the freedom to fail, the freedom to live or the freedom to die, because it is our human right to choose the positive or the negative freedom. Both are available to us as natural rights. The socialist philosophy of.to- day's advocate of more central government, which is a sure result of any form of federal aid to the private citizen, redefines human rights and freedom by eliminating negative choice. Welfarism is designed to provide freedom from It will not work way.

an being told that fcdHrtl medical Bible Thought Though to iran SML yet learned to oMfllMtt tf UtaH which he 1:1. The lowly birth of Jeiug is dramatic prelude to the auffaring that made Him our Savior. plans, urban renewal plans, planned -economies and subsidies we shall minimize human suffering and discomfort. The basic tool of man's existence is not his government, but rather his mind; and he creates government to protect the product of his mind. Government should protect but not guarantee this product.

That responsibility lies within the individual himself. John Locke in 1960 summed it up thusly in his Two Treatises on Civil Government: however it may be mistaken, the end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all states of created beings capable of laws, where there is no law there is no freedom, For liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others, which cannot be where there is not law. "The freedom then of man, and liberty of acting according 'to his own will, is grounded on his having reason, which is able to instruct him in that law he is to govern himself by, and make him know how far he is left to the freedom of his own will." (Emphasis supplied 1 Government regulation is restraint, and it is by the freedom of our own will that we moist succeed or fail, live or die. and not by the will of democratic mob rule or central bureaucracy.

The establishment of a of government guaranteed the minority its natural rights. Unless we adopt a policy of "less government, more responsibility' 1 that responsibility being on the individual, the local, and the state levels in that order we shall soon see the full bloom of an American Collective. A Student Massiltan, Nov. 12. Try And Stop Me By BENNETT CERF Attorney Tom Gourlie is fond of the story of the impatient client who called up his ritzy firm of solicitors Wasservogel, Wasservogel, Wasservogel and Wasservogel and demanded, "Put Wasservogel on the wire immediately." "Sony," was the answer.

"Mr. Wasservogel is in Montego Bay." "Then get me Wasservogel," said the client. "Sorry," came the answer again. "Mr. Wasservogei is in court today." "Well, how about Wasser- vogel?" asked' the client.

"You draw another blank," said the man at the other end of the wire. "Mr. Wasservogel is attending a convention in Washington." "Then, dammit," shouted the clicr.i. "let me talk to WASSER- VOGEL!" Came the answer: "SPEAKING." Dave Astor, one of the newer of the many fin? thpu.T.i young comics who are clca up these on the nighu.iw circuit, to hU audiences, "Psychiatrists tell Ul that one out of every five people this country is emotionally i''. reason is that the ouu.".