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Wst ponton (glotie 24 THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1965 Making of a Chancellor Globe Man's Daily Story Pianist Artur Schnabel, a wizard at the keyboard, was also proficient at mathematics. At one time, he was appearing in London with violinist Carl Flesch and cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, recalls the latter in "Cellist." One night, before a concert, Schnabel caid to us: "Let'a not accept any after-the-concert supper invitations. Let each invite our friend for aupper in a restaurant and divide the bill among us. "At the supper, Flesch's appetite and mine vanished as we counted Schnabel's 22 guests and only three of ours." iiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniimiiiiiiiinmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiB Peace Corps Gals Triumph New Florence Nightingales By CHARLES BARTLETT WASHINGTON The most remarkable feature of the remarkable record of the Peace Corps is the un ii ii miaul iiiirt worn copy of T. H.

White's 'The Making of a President, I960. Brandt has long been an admirer of President Kennedy and his campaign techniques. He is not adverse to copying them, applying them, of course, to West German situations. The West Berlin mayor's aides have an average age of 29 and he proudly calls them his North German Mafia, a direct steal from President Kennedy's famous Irish Mafia. And there's more.

At afternoon meetings, Brandt uses several Berlin cabaret performers to keep the crowds attentive. Chancellor Erhard's campaign is marked by folksiness and carnivallike frivolity. Enormous mass rallies with wide-screen movies applauding the merits of the Christian Democrats are also among the campaign gimmicks. Both candidates are criss-crossing the country in elaborately-furnished private campaign trains and still face nearly 500 speeches in less than a month. It probably will make very little difference to the Western world who is elected chancellor of West Germany for there will be practically no change in policy.

What is of great interest to the Western world, and much of Europe for that matter, is the new style campaign being conducted, a radical and refreshing departure from the old-time stodginess that once marked German politics. UNCLE DUDLEY Jfost observers of the postwar German scene will agree that the new Germany is in most respects a far different country from the Third Reich," Walter Z. Laqueur, director of the Institute of Contemporary History in London, has written. Mr. Laqueur goes on to say that "It is also true that most observers still have to be convinced of the depth and thoroughness of Germany's democratic transformation." What could be more democratic than a good, old-fashioned, American-style election campaign? If Germany has to prove good democratic intentions, it certainly has picked one of the best ways to do it.

With the West German parliamentary election less than a month away Sept. 19 Chancellor Ludwig Erhard and his Christian Democratic Party and West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt and his Social Democrats, are hurtling along at breakneck speed each trying to outdo the other in attention-getting and crowd-gathering. The ultimate prize, when the 35 million West German voters have had their say, is the chancellorship. There is no clear-cut campaign issue. Both parties are united on foreign policy, particularly the reunification of Germany and support of NATO.

So the campaign has resolved into a personality contest. Mayor Brandt, who the West German polls say is slightly less popular than Chancellor Erhard, uses as his chief campaign reference book a much-underlined and sung success of the women volunteers. Their durability in the field has recalled Florence Nightingale's declaration from Crimea: "I can stand out the war with any man." A bold thesis that women have perhaps outdone the men in their overseas assignments enjoys some probationary support within the Peace Corps. The claim is difficult to prove but the success of women is marked by the fact that they now number 40 per BARTLETT cent of the total P.C. enlistment.

They were less than 'one-third at the outset. "FROM THAT TIME on I took an deaf mute. The impression this made interest in handicapped children." never has left him. Here he personally The cardinal recalls that the first brings joy to a group whom he pre- child he baptized proved later to be a ers to call "exceptional children." A Nun's Story of Cardinal CushingV Taking Heaven by Storm By SISTER M. C.

DEVINE "Have you an appointment?" "No, Your Eminence." The young priest was silent a minute and then added with his winning smile, "I thought I'd take heaven by storm What William Cardinal O'Connell's inner reaction to that reply was can only be surmised, but the priest was to confess later, "I didn't get heaven, but I got the storm!" The female volunteers have certainly disproved the frailty of women in physical terms. In Africa, Latin America, and the Far East, the female rates of serious illness have stayed below the male rates and well below the rate of the comparable age group within Cheating Children-II After his ordination, while awaiting assignment, the rector of the seminary asked him to help out a pastor in Cohasset. "I heard my first confessions there," he would recall. "I said the women can't and vica versa. A check of the volunteers rated "outstanding" by project directors in 20 countries revealed that 37 percent of them were women.

This is slightly less than the percentage of women in the P.C. but it is however an impressive showing, especially since the evaluating is done by men on a non-scientific basis. The success of the women is made additionally impressive by the disadvantages that encumber them. They cannot move about with the same friendly ease that is possible for the men. They are circumscribed in social terms because they are faced in the underdeveloped regions with women who are wary of them and with men, particularly the Africans and Latins, accustomed to a submissive attitude in women.

Most of the women have managed however to make an advantage of the limitations that their sex imposes on them. They frequently take lodging with families and thus gain access to community life. If they live alone, they make homes of their mud huts and adorn them with curtains and other familiar drapings. These cozy initiatives, rarely Imitated by the men, are given as reasons for the fact that women seem to adjust more quickly to the new life. Patience and love of children are qualities which go down well in primitive so-cities and have enhanced the acceptance of the women volunteers.

When the men are asked at the end of their C. service what lessons they have learned, they reply in a variety of ways, some idealistic, some pompous and some prag School Committeeman Eisen-stadt asks an emergency session of interested officials to formulate a plan for averting double sessions in the overcrowded schools. A meeting for this purpose is desperately needed. The School Committee has no present plans for meeting before the opening of school on Sept. 9.

Double sessions will deprive one thousand Boston children of five weeks of teaching time over the coming year. Double sessions will mean classroom instruction for half the chil dren in the afternoon, during the hours of lowest energy. They will mean walking home after dark in the Winter, for half the children, during the rush-hour. They will mean that no child will have a desk of his own. Mr.

Eisenstadt must share the blame for the School Committee's rejection of Supt. Ohrenberger's plan to relieve the overcrowding by busing half the children to open seats elsewhere in the city. But at least he has now suggested that corrective steps be undertaken. His call should be promptly heeded. the United States.

Also the women have generally excelled the men in escaping the lighter diseases of tropical life. This is attributed to an instinct to be more cautious in their personal lives. One striking disparity has been the tendency of men to lose weight and of women to gain it as they work overseas. The apparent reason is that women becone compulsive eaters in the grip of tension while men reflect their anxieties by pulling away from food. Fortunately the males' loses, which can run to 40 or 50 pounds, have usually been greater than the ladies' gains.

The female volunteers havt proven themselves by every yardstick of courage. They have worked alone in the wilderness of Ghana; they have lived in Brazilian slums never before visited by foreigners; they have made shoes lor the deformed feet of lepers in a Bolivian colony; they have endured the heart of battle in the beseiped rebel stronghold of Santo Domingo. The male volunteers who worked with the PC. nurses through the first weeks of the Dominican explosion concede that the women came through with greater poise. "I wished for a while that the nurses would break down a little," said one of those volunteers later, "the way they bore up end kept going was touch on the guys." The nurses modestly disclaimed their heroic demeanor.

"If you're a nurse, you've had experience in emergencies," said Arlene Serino of the Bronx. "You know what you're doing and you have plenty to do so you just keep doing it. The P.C. boys were caucht without anything to keep them busy until they came to help us in the hospital," It is impossible to compare the impact of the aexci in the work overseas because the men perform services which in his chair and leaned slightly forward- "What do you want?" Taking a breath, Fr. Cushing said, "Well, Your Eminence, I think I'd like to go to the foreign missions.

I'd like to go to China or Africa or join the Marist Fathers in the Solomons any place, I don't care where. I'm big and strong." The words were coming faster now. "I know I'll never be happy in one of these parishes. And I doubt if I would be happy in a teaching assignment following courses at the university. I think I made a mistake I should have followed the Jesuit persuasion, because I want missionary work." He had made his plea.

"Your foreign mission will be right where I send you!" came the answer. He'd hear none of it," Cardinal Cushing concluded in relating the episode. "So I turned on my heel and came out Within a few days, however, I was appointed to work for the foreign missions, in tht diocese's Society for the Propagation of the Faith. I was assigned to helping missionaries, and I loved it!" By 1922, Rev. Joseph F.

Mc-Glinrhey, diocesan director of the Propagation of the Faith, had a new and very enthusiastic assistant CmdMiwil from Th WorM'a Or The truth was that his cheering good humor won them more than his oratorical powers. All his life this priest would know how to lift others out of the gloom that chills the lonely soul. After two weeks Fr. Cushing was transferred. The Cardinal once described it thus: "I'm sorry to ay I only lasted two weeks at St.

Patrick's. The pastor didn't like me. So I was sent to St. Benedict's parish in East Somerville. I did a little better there I lasted four weeks!" When his audience stopped laughing, he continued, "About two and a half months after ordination, I had been in three parishes.

So I said to myself, 'Either I'm Queer or these pastors are!" He was struggling with a great desire which eventually became so strong that he felt impelled to "take heaven by storm." The eminent spiritual leader of Boston's Catholics, having asked the "heaven itormer" what he wanted, studied Fr. Cushing closely. "I don't want anything, Your Eminence. I've been in three parishes in about two and half months, and I've come to the conclusion that I Just don't belong here. I'll never be happy in any of these parishes.

The work isn't for me." "You're not going to be in a parish," Cardinal O'Connell my first Masses there, and the first baby that I baptized, I baptized there." The mention of that first baptism evoked another memory, a very significant one. "Some years later, I met that child, and the child was deaf and dumb. From that time on, I took an interest in handicapped children." From this "interest" a word inadequate to describe his passionate devotion to the helpless, the handicapped, the "exceptional" children were to come monuments of loving care, such as the Kennedy Memorial Hospital and St. Colet-ta's School. When the assignments were announced, Fr.

Cushing found himself destined for study at the Catholic University of America in Washington, C. For the Summer he was told to go to St. Patrick's Church in Roxbury. It is by priests assigned to Catholic University, as by graduate of the North American College in Rome, that responsible diocesan positions re often filled. The assignment brought no joy to Fr.

Cushing. however. During hi short stay in Roxbury, Fr. Cushing served the Home for the Aged, operated by the Little Sisters of the Poor. "The old people ell loved me." he recalls jokingly, "he-cause I was the only one they could hearP Checkmate Fidel Castro has provided air cover for a young American to invade Cuba.

When the State Department forbade 22-year-nld chess champion Bobby Fischer to go to Havana to compete in a tournament, Castro picked up the tab for a teletype set-up to permit the American to play long-distance from New York. But there are some problems still facing this country as a result Will the Central Intelligence Agency keep a close watch on the match to insure that Fischer won't be cheated? And what will be the State Department's attitude if Fischer wins first prize of $2000 and has to go to Havana to collect? Will the winner get rooked? matic. The women volunteers invariably respond that they have profited by developing new opinions on how to children. This clear-eyed sense of purpose may be the root cause of the ladies' success abroad. The American woman is frequently maligned by foreigners but these contemporary Florence Nightingales are a credit to the culture which produced them.

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Paul. Jamaica Plain. law. was saying. "You re supposed to go to the university." I'm not interested in going to the university." Cardinal O'Connell shifted NEXT His myriad of young friends often took bis tat dime.

Cheapskates? What Peoble Talk About ftmiummimiiiiiiiimm itiiiiiimiimimimiiiiiitt Discovering the West Is there any reason why Comr. Devine could not keep one or two paths open strictly for the use of the young skateboarders? The city used to set aside certain hills for the exclusive ue of sledders to do their belly-flopping In safety. The kids aren't criminals and deserve a chance to let oft steam. Which came first the mugger or the skateboarder? Boston Tark Comr. William J.

Devine has concluded his months-long drive with complete ban on ikateboards on the paved paths of Boston Common. He says that the Iricky maneuver on a board at Uched to roller skate wheels Is fangeroui to participants and pedestrians. atate lust a New Hampshire encompae all of It date, new horlnn of beauty would be open to ut Eautemers. JANE K. MULSMAN Wait robody Sea Water for Fires To the Editor Re: Current Water Shortage.

I wonder If any consideration has been given to tho possibility of using ocean or (river) water In the Art hydrants in the City of Boston, thereby conserving the dwindling supply of fresh water. I don't know whether this would bt feasible, pos-alblc or Impossible, or whether the cost of doing so would prohibitive, but surely It'a worth looking into. JOSEPH HNNEGAN Wcllcslcy Neighbors? Lurid Films To the Editor Am writing concerning what I personally fear is the moral decay of our young people today. Not all phase of it, mind you, but the salacious, lurid film being produced In that abysa called Hollywood. Truly now, aren't the majority of (lima today depicting, even glorifying, licentious, half-clothtd display of one's body and similar acenes overplayed? What steps can a concerned mother of lmpretnnahle teenagers take to help weed out this enm? DOROTHY DONOVAN Norwood Editorial Points To the Editor Hurrah for Uncle Dudley (Aug.

9) for awakening many Estonian eye to the beauty of western Masrhuetu! My huftband and have long felt that there so much beauty In the western part of our aiate. And never hpar of It Why! When one rk of Ken ery they uually mean the beaches of Cape Cod and the North Shore. Who ha ever heard of the brauty of Rou'" 1 30, and the Turnpike the lush greens, the beautiful foliage, the Winter wonder land A fw ytri see took trir- out to the wtrn part of our tate alnrg the mutts and wete ao pleated by whet aaw. Some yrs btfne that I t-vnlt a trip to rWriKin from New Yrk Cite aktd where I wa fn-tn. end when M4 him fWton, he jHkM what 1 wa rliirtt thre, Fnr mny ytar tntucht thu hia rif Mtirg that Jw Yrtrket to evetvwhfte, brvr the go ftm their tmitnty.

Afier realm Vnr-e Dudley, wen1r if it a torgue-M-fbk re ruafk applied to who tn no farther than brni! their roe. ifnwei er, If the flute' Tour kt Bureau A aiarue UuS Dromide To the Editor Our prent bthavmr in retard to Viet Nam I somewhat baffling baftf ing that a common remark attributed to many aoldier is, "We have a Job to do, and we have to do It," and so on. This, and other similar remarks, is obviously nothing but the old "our not to rtstnfl why bromide, through the fog of which ail the HiUers of history have flourished temporarily. This argues that either our rren haven't been told whjr they ate killing and being killed or they tend to Ignore hat ibry have been told. In either ce thi In-pS-e tome thing than a clear of honorable eonflirt, for lntrif, was tinmllkble tn W.

It have bern e4int this van tue from the beginning; and tn try opinion, the more it i-je on the wer? ainfc! AL AUtRY tart ffpertU To make the activity economically rentable, the door-to-door ircirri voters might carry, at sidelines, rushes and cmetm. Taking mony away from Southern arhonl f-m tike an odd form of cor rectiofl. Southerners need education more than anybody. Observers of adverting art thai fViru ate shorter hut stork irga art now long enough to make up the difference The ar in Aia retrain small in. Head of g.

fr.ap hefit all cn mtd hive a er ida of hat a big Mr would involve. Tom kv of tM He4 So hifc all team will "to rvT nm yrt, ar.4 ire law of avetrf mj it rt to. wakhof miht hst torts ae psrking mil cf the Hien lhrei r-otnirf tteie Viibi to rift. A Myi oufM in p'mrer. He the dft iessofl ia th frf every 4.

Life wa better whtn erliion was oniy nomething ud instead of stairs. "All achoola tn the Smith will he oWsteemM by 1M7," aays Attorney General Kattenhach. In Boston, of course, it may take longer. It etns to he open season on clergymen In Miatirpi, too. The eperience tA Smith Vw Nam gnet to show that a country tan operate, af'r a fashion, even without law and order.

Un hreoka hi netk to win turret and after he It, he wennVt hl it's g4 for and what to de neL With town, city, fwin'y, and FMts1 government around Mte, a fer.ow ought to able to gt justice mehow. houMn1 tt fnf eh other with the hi What do they thin they are, hotkey players? Diaie theology seems to ke liffef ant, toe. To the Editor Early this morning, while having break-rant, 1 happened to rend J. Thomas' article on New England Wills, and aince then breakfast ha not set well at ail. Terhaps it I the heat, or prhapa It 1 the thought of neighbor reporting on other neighbors which has made me ill.

One thought orrurrel ti me 1 wondr whether thee are the aarre people who never hear or anything when a fellow citizen trying for help. How It mut be to be sHe to ut there be hin-1 eloH dorr and whirr into a telephone to the police that a neithbor la tiint wa'er, yet ek that me person to come Out from behind fiat tldeed door and help end thy are unable to do so. The dictionary define neighbor, among other thingi, as being a "fellow man" and ao now we have reached the atage in our society where one fellow man reporting on another. If memory serve me correctly, fcn't that how the Gestapo euied and isn't that esartly what lht Communist rarty atrewe report on frind and relative. True.

It it not right that petle ue water outide their home but la it alo right that we mut be uMer a neighbor' (urveillanet? It tnut he quite sd to think that people have liitlt to ortupy their o-calied mind with other than what their neighbors are doing. BARBARA CLONDtft Nawton Clarification To the Editor A story In The Globe yetterday reported that 1 endoned the selection of John A. Gavin, former uper ipt-M-tit of the Maatsthusetta Corrertional Institution at Walpnle. at CommiM loner of CorreMinn. At no time did my cm.mtnu mean that I favored the Mlec tinfi of Mr.

Gavin for the tion ever Mr, George Me Grath, who had been the com miiotttr. Th-a lection of one or the other wa never discued. Rt'fSELL O. OSWALD New Yet.