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THE LETTER PAGE Adm. John Paul Jones and Stars and Stripes Real Issue Designated in Army-McCarthy Row MONDAY MORNING, JUNE 7, 1M4 Gen. Horace Porter upon assuming charge or our tnv bassy in Paris in 1897 felt a deep sense of humiliation at an American citizen In realizing that our first and moat fascinating naval hero had been lying for more than a century in a forgotten grave, and that no successful attempt had ever been made to recover his remains and give them the sepulchre in the land upon whose history ht had shed so much luster. 20 years of gradual, deliberate snd successful increase of government in this nation by administrative decision and directive. Parts of the once great U.S.

Senate have apparently been lulled Into a current myopic, apologetic snd diminutive vision of its rightful place, of Its own generic power and necessity to fight for its own authority, of its own Inescapable responsibility before God and befort this people. How Not to Let It Bog Down Brain-Wash Resentment In the observance of Flag Day June 14, the name of RearAdm. John Paul Jones should not omitted; as ha was the first to hoist the Flag tht Pine-Tree and Rattlesnake on an American man-of-war, so he was the first to hoist the Stars and Stripes and show it on the ocean. On June 14, 1777, Congress passed the resolution that the Stars and Stripes should be the Flag of the 13 States, and in the same resolution, Capt. John Paul Jones was appointed to command the ship Ranger.

Jones, born in Scotland July 6, 1747, began his life on the water at the age of 12. He was an officer at the ig of 17; captain at 20 in the merchant marine service of th North Atlantic; East India man and Virginia planter all before ha had passed the age of 27. Then he was a navy lieutenant at 28; captain of the line at 29; commodore at 32. the ocean hero of the Old World and the new at the age of 33; a knight of France: the most famous sea fighter of his time. At 41 he was named vice-admiral in the imperial navy of Russia, where he won distinguished victories over the Turks; at 43 he was a prominent figure in the thrilling overture of that tremendous drama, the French Revolution; at 45 one of the world's heroic dead.

One hundred and thirteen years later his remains were disinterred from a dismal and forgotten grave and returned to the land of his greatest and best achievement. How Apathetic? Your article June 1, "World Revolution Plan of Reds Told," while not pleasant, should be required reading for every adult the world over. I find it particularly dis-quieting that its disclosure has stirred up so little comment. Are we going to sit back as we did a few years ago, when we all read Hitler's "Mein Kampf" and thought it merely a dream of a crackpot, which couldn't possibly materialize? We came awake at the 11th hour after most of the damage had been done. Here we have the Russian plan for the next 20 years all down in black and white.

How apathetic can we get? Even when they tell us we don't believe them or do we? MRS. C. C. WAGNER, La Jolla. On Colonialism Most of the pundits and all of the "idealists" and a whole lot of all-wise commentators are shouting "down with colonialism." At every turn we are told of the evils of colonialism.

At every turn we hear about the cry of nations for independence and prosperity. Not on the grounds that they won it and can maintain it No, just on the ground that they want it and are therefore entitled to It, to equal shares of everything with the great powers who have long guided the world. The backward little nations want without having won. They forget that nations, like individual men, must win their places in the sun, by hard work and sacrifice; by intelligence; and by that strange Imponderable "luck." So I will ask the pundits a question: "What happened to Europe when Roman colonialism fell?" And since few of them know history (only theories about the future) I will answer the question: "The Dark Ages. Centuries of blind wars." J.

B. Los Angeles. A Volunteer In his column May 28 Dr. Alvarea wishes for 100,000 sensible parents to rise up in wrath against the poisonous mental diet fed children in this country, and I am volunteering to be one of them. That parents do not take the time to Inform themselves of the material that is molding their children's minds or that, knowing it, they are so unconcerned as to allow it is one of the Insane facts of our time.

As Dr. Wertham. In "Seduction of the Innocent," points out this exploitation of the children cannot be dealt with on an individual basis. It is a social problem. Every responsible parent should read "Seduction of the Innocent" and then read what his child reads attend the matinees for children his child attends open his eyes to the steady diet of cruelty and meanness with which we are hardening young hearts and twisting young minds.

SHIRLEY FRIEDMAN, Pacific Palisades. Tbe al Issue in the McCarthy-Army fight has very little to do with Sen. McCarthy or President Eisenhower as such, for the real Issue Is whether the weight of power shall rest with the people and their immediate representatives in the lawmaking and law-reviewing bodies or shall rest with the administrative group. The issue is not native to any land or time. It is the timeless issue of the weight of power people or "ruler," Parliament or King, Barons or John, Senate or Caesar.

When the lawmakers lose their potency, when they lose any portion of their will to challenge "the ruler" if necessary, when they fail to resist every kind of creeping totalitarianism even If it be the easy way of "going along" with the administration, they open the doors of greater assumption of eventually untouchable power by the administrative heads. They may "go along" through habit, or through seduction, or through slow unconscious surrender. The oldest habit of administrative heads is the habit of coming In time to believe that they natively possess and by right ought to have freedom from questions about their own administrative powers and their own administrative decisions. It is exceedingly old habit; it is an exceedingly bad habit. For under that habit so-called representative and "constitutional" government becomes eventually only a weakened shell from which the meat has gone, a mockery and a delusion.

Under that habit the people, if unalerted, become ultimate victims of the subtle but deadly forces of totalitarianism. When those forces triumph, government itself disappears. The words of written constitutions alone cannot preserve the liberties of the people; there must be the daily, courageous, pressing voice and eye of their immediate representatives upon the administrator. There has been more than Investments in Recently representatives of four large organizations officially protested the proposed increasing of the Los Angeles school budget. And, surprising to many, or at least to me, was the calm acceptance of their opposition; few people appeared to protest the protests.

Yet there are many conservative, thrifty persons in America who think that all of our allotments for education are grossly inadequate for the exigencies of the i times and that increases are of high Importance. These people are thinking not of small increases but of increases of several times the present budgets'. Walter Llppniann emphasizes that the proportion America spent on education 50 years ago if adequate for then is surely inadequate now when the complexities of our life and our International responsibilities have increased. Yet Lippmann notes in an article in the Atlantic Monthly, we are now actually spending a smaller proportion on education. In fact, the proportion Is now only one-third of what It was 50 years ago.

The Russian Institute of New York reports that In Russia the university professors are held In high social prestige and are among the highest paid groups often as much as $1500 to a month. The Communists are aware that we are ahead of them in education but also both they and we know that the gap between us has been markedly narrowed in the last 25 years. If we are to maintain and Improve our advantage we might well listen to the hlsto-lans who long have noted that the zeniths and nadirs in the rise and fall of civilizations have been at times of high and low emphasis on education. The Greco Roman world, during their days of achievement which In some aspects have not yet been surpassed were days of thought, study and learning. At the next high In AD 800 Charlemagne reinstated education to its high place.

The move out of the Dark Ages into the Renaissance was aflowerlng In books, colleges and learning. And In modern times most Trade Pacts Crisis Feared This oomirig week is one of decision for tha future economic health of our country and of the free world. June 32 is the date when the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act expires. If Congress does not take appropriate action, the keystone of our entire foreign trade structure will be pulled out. President Elsenhower asked in a nationwide speech for a three-year extension of the act, with authority- to reduce certain tariffs as a means of promoting world trade.

He pointed out that the surest way of avoiding a depression was to develop world trade to the fullest possible extent. The President stated that 4,000,000 jobs in the country depend on the even flow of world trade. Depression and jobs are words that are of paramount importance and interest to all of us particularly those who, like ourselves, live in port cities which have far more of a stake in foreign trade than the national average. Because of the effect on our own lives that Congressional action on this extension will have. I am disturbed at 1he lack of concern expressed in the nation's press, the lack of information about the subject on the part of the public.

As a result, our Congressmen are hearing only the arguments of private interests with an ax to grind, a home industry to "protect" with artificial barriers of high tariffs or import quota on competitive products. I have read reports of meetings in Washington on a group which seems to represent an alliance of many interests wanting to keep out foreign competition. In tha absence of any organized or unorganized voice on the other side, I fear that Congress may be misled into a decision for which the rest of us will have to pay for many years. Already, President Eiseru hower has had to admit publicly that he will settle for a one-year stop-gap extension of the existing act, postponing any real solution of the question of foreign trade for another year. He could not have made it any plainer that we must allow other countries to earn dollars through selling to us, if we expect them to be able to buy from us.

EVERETT HAYES, Los Angeles. i The floud of obscurity waa removed by Gen. Porter after an investigation covering a period of six years and the expenditure of more than $25,000 from his own pocket. Jones' death occurred July 18, 1792. His body was put in a leaden coffin that in case the United States, which he so essentially and with such honor, should claim his remains, they might be more easily removed.

Hla body was covered with a winding sheet firmly packed with hay and straw and the coffin filled with alcohol. The government recognized the completeness of the identification of the admiral's body and President Theodore Roosevelt ordered a squadron commanded by Adm. Sigsbee to proceed to Cherbourg and convey the remains of Paul Jones to the Naval Academy in Annapolis whera they ere to receive permanent interment in the crypt of the new chapel nearing completion. The final ceremonies, which were of a national character, took place on April 24, 1906. LEWIS E.

RALSTON, Los Angeles. French Draft I was amazed to read that the French have a law that does not permit their draftees to be sent out of their country without their consent. I think you should give this information more widespread coverage. The French can't even get their own boys to go to Indo-China to get killed and therefore must rely on mercenary soldiers. I don't see the reason why any of our men, technicians or officers, should get killed and maimed to fight a war which even the French don't' want and won't support.

We should take our men and material out of Indo-China since the French don't want to rule Indo-China any more and I am sure no one in his right mind wants to have American blood spilled in order to do a'job that even the French are unwilling and unable to do. DANIEL SAVAGE, North Hollywood. The French send the members of their regular, professional army overseas but no conscripts. They are now in the process of calling up more conscripts to serve at home and relieve more regulars for sen-ice abroad. Ed.

Points Missed Ralph George misses lh points I tried to make. I wasn't stressing inaccuracy (though Gallup predicted a Dewey win, a close shave for Taft in 1950) but accusing Princeton Center of peddling propaganda as assiduously as Princeton turned out Fabian Socialists circa 1910. And I agree the Republican Party is as American as the Democratic today, no more, no less. Their foreign policy is the same, controlled by the type of internationalists who profit by dumping our substance abroad. We wouldn't commit sul-.

cide by adopting the internationalism of Hoover and MacArthur. Mores and communications change; principles never. HARRY PRICE. Los Angeles. THE TIMES-MIRROR COM? ANT HARRISON GRAY OTIS.

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20 years of creeping statism at the Federal level. Respect for true authority is one thing but it is another thing to hear Senators mewling over alleged affront to administrative untouchabili-ty when the issue is the uprooting of traitors too long beneficiaries of administrative myopia or carelessness. It Is a sorry picture indeed to see Senators, through purely partisan motives, or through administrative adulation, or perhaps even through touches of personal jealousy, fall to back to the hilt members of the Senate who do have the vision and the intestinal fortitude to draw the issues, to cry the warnings, to challenge the age-old thunder that "the King ran do no wrong," to bring the administrative branch upstanding to an accounting before the lawmaking and law-reviewing bodies and the people of this nation. What a picture of Senatorial attrition. And it is a picture that the thinking people of this nation are not going to forget.

MARGARET WORR LAMBERT, Former Member of Republican National Committee from Utah, Los Angeles. Education everyone will agree that the founding fathers' instilling of an almost worshipful attitude toward education was a major factor in the rise of America. The great upsurge in American agricultural production, which was so valuable during World Wars I and II, followed the establishment and large budgets of the land-grant colleges. The recent great advances in our military technique followed the putting of billions of dollars into science training and research. It Is likely that great advances In our international leadership can only be attained if we Americans have an educational training vastly greater than our parents' and that our children have an educational training not only greater but also vastly better than ours.

Surely if we were to learn from history which we seldom do it would be to view with high concern the downtrend of the proportion which we now are spending on learning. Granted that we of Los Angeles have one of the largest school budgets in America; granted our salary scale for teachers is surpassed only by few large cities; granted our schools In spite of their annoying shortcomings are among the best in America and among the best In the whole world, still It; is possible that Mr. Lippmann and others are right when they state that it would be wisdom to increase the expenditures for education not by small percentages but by doubling, tripling and quadrupling. r.u;i. n.

davis, Los Angeles. Double Check To concede to a government, bureau or department the exclusive right to police its own doings would be like giving a bank cashier the sole right to audit his own hooks. Concrcss and the executive department must, be supported in their supervision of each other. 'n mhor system will protect the public welfare. T.

II. Alhambra. HOW THEY FLOCK TO FLARE-UP OF A VOLCANO ON HAWAII Whoever of the AP staff that writes your articles about Hawaii volcanoes should become better informed. Regarding the enclosed clipping: (The clipping is an Associated Press dispatch datelined Honolulu, June 1, and says among other things: "An estimated 10,000 persons went by car, plana and afoot to Hawaii yesterday. I-afe arrivals were rather disappointed because the volcano began quieting 'down at The only way to get to the island of Hawaii Big is to fly or go by barge.

How can one walk or go by car across water to an island? Kllauea Volcano is at about the 4000-foot level but It is not a 4000-foot-hlgh mountain. Instead, it is a plateau, generally speaking, and the hotel (Volcano House) is within a few yards of the rim of the crater. The crater is about two by two and a half miles in dimension, but is only about 300 to 400 feet deep, with a flat floor. In fact, it is hardly recognizable as a crater. The'Around-the-Island Highway (which is about 300 miles) passes within an eighth mile or so of the rim.

Ki-lauea Volcano is on the slope of Mauna Loa, a real mountain, 13,679 feet in height, but it is a separate volcano. Halemaumau is the fire pit within the crater of Kllauea. Most of the action takes place in this pit, and it very rarely overflows from the crater down to the sea over a rather gentle slope. In Hawaii, people run-toward an eruption, not from it. There is little danger unless one gets caught between two flows such as those fast-moving ones down, the steep slopes of Mauna Loa.

Even then it is not hopeless; the Coast Guard has saved many people caught thus. While the crowds stand just far enough away so they don't get blistered, there ar peanuts, sandwiches, popcorn and chewing gum available from a truck that specializes in eruptions. GUY D. HASELTON, Hollywood. Example Wanted I should like to discuss briefly the newscasters who are joined in battle for the mastery of my mind.

After 15 minutes of such jousting with my intellect, they usually thank me for being invited into my living room. Fortunately, this vagary ls just another one of their imaginative inaccuracies. If one of these gentlemen would really appear in my living room I would not hesitate to "brain" him on the spot. These low fellows are the natural target for fine natures and for the better element in any community. But what can one do about such characters when they resort to every low trick in the category to protect themselves? I am referring in particular to the fact that they defend themselves by the very magnitude of the "beat" they cover.

One gentleman speaks for the world and for the heavens above. Another, with lesser finesse, speaks for Washington just to mention two examples. Newscasters don't dare to speak for their immediate neighbors or even for just their block. They know that no one knows how "the world" feels but their neighbors, if spoken for, would cuss them over the back fence and their block would form a posse. Just let them slip into my living room in person! of course, am not referring to those dedicated gentlemen who daily express the views that I feel represent the outlook of our better citizens, a group, by the way, which BUI Henry could belong to If he used greater care In picking his associates.

Visiting editors are not always the best influence. CHARLES F. STARR, Beverly Hills. View Approved The lead editorial, "Tha New American Diplomacy," June 1, ls very fine. Could you not have printed copies made which could be bought In volume at a nominal price? I can think of many Influential people, besides members of Congress and others in high places, who should be given the opportunity of reading it.

It expresses the views of all true Americans who for the first time in our history feel that they are auckers thrusting our tax money on ungrateful nations and getting nothing but acorn in return. ELEANOR McDONNELU Ioa Angeles. Pleased Rider Because I am a resident of the San Fernando Valley, I often have to take the Metropolitan Coach Lines bus to downtown Los Angeles. I feel that I am getting good service on Line 93. It's fast service, too, since the bus operates over the Hollywood Freeway.

And as for the drivers, they are courteous and helpful. The reason I write Ls due to what I think is loose thinking on the part of some people toward the private transit companies In this area. Hinting as they do, or actually coming right out in favor of public ownership, they seem to think government ownership ls a cure-all for all transit troubles. Socialism of that kind just doesn't appeal to me. If I remember correctly Metropolitan Coach Lines bought out the Pacific Electric last October.

When this happened The Times carried stories quoting company officials concerning the improvements they had In store. Only five months have elapsed since then hardly enough time to do all that they've promised. So I say let's give Metro a chance to show what It can do. All I hope is that the bus service between Van Nuys and Los Angeles continues to be as good as it is. CATHERINE MORGAN', Van Nuys.

From time to time I read articles pertaining to reckless driving, and the efforts being put forth by our Police Department to retard this bad habit. I am of the opinion that some of our worst drivers are police officers. To put my point more clearly, how many officers have been witnessed by readers: Occupying two lanes of traffic with a police automo-bile while on routine patrol? Neglecting to come to a complete slop at a boulevard crossing? Jumping traffic on the amber signal? Double parking on a busy street for other than emergency purposes? Making a turn at an Illegal Intersection? Failure to use arm signals or blinker signals when turning or stopping? One needs only to follow the average auto driven by a police officer for a few blocks to observe any one of the above violations. Are not police officers governed by the same laws which they are Invested to enforce? Excepting, of course, In emergency when laws understandably cannot be held. Is it loo much to ask the police officers to set the example? F.

WILLIAMS, Ios Angeles. A THOUGHT FROM THE BIBLE It. it good for a man that bear th yokt in his youth. Lomtntatwvt HI, 27,.