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EDITORIALS PUBLIC OPINION a es nTlBUIBtO dXTLl ml llll Woman Wages Open Campaign Against Conference Table aa af a ainf reappraisal' in the U. Budget Bureau's mid-year review of the current federal' budget. In January this forecast had been for federal receipts and expendi-; lures relatively close to a balance at the $74-bilhon level. The National Whirligig News Behind the News By RAY TUCKER System is blamed in certain Now the country is informed ihe present accelerated federal rate of spending and the sagging! outlook on revenues will result in a deficit of more than $12 bil- lion when accounts for fiscal 1959 ir tntaiprf im hp Jim an Despite the impression that may have been gained through action of Congress in loosening federal purse strings, spending accounts for the smaller share or the soii a 4s; $350,000.00 figure which the Budget Bureau oatch of debentures, United States says can be expected to be writ- bonds fell to a new low for the ten in red. Sixty per cent of the year, and there were few takers, estimated deficit, or almost $7.5 The shortage of money for gov-billion.

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18, 1958 An Evening Thought Remember me, my God, con cerning: this, and wipe not out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for the offices thereof. Xehemiah 13:14. aaa. He that loveth God will do dili gence to please God by his works, and abandon himself, with all his might, well for to do. Chaucer, FOOTBALL AND INTEGRATION President Eisenhower has wisely decided to capitalize the rising tide of protest against the closing of public schools in Arkansas and Virginia.

In the first place, respected authority holds that there is no way the federal government can control the opening and closing of schools iii the states, and secondly, senti ment against the action of the governors of the two southern states is building up rapidly and in due time will overwhelm the politicians in the state capitals. It would be pleasing to report that the sentiment is based more solidly on loss of academic instruction than actually seems to be the case, but this pleasure must be deferred. The truth is that in Little Rock particularly, the loudest wails of anguish over closing of the schools emanate from the football players and fans and those business enterprises which benefit from the as sembling of large crowds. In common with the remainder of the Southwest, Little Rock takes its football seriously. Game nights usually Friday are impor tant dates athletically, socially and commercially and the prospect of their disappearance from the Fall calendar is not viewed lightly.

Gov Faubus pained cry of "foul" over the closing down of the school activities is a measure of the depth of the issue. When the Governor ordered the schools closed, the supssintendent' of schools took him at his word and closed not only the classrooms but the athletic fields and the band practice rooms. This was more than the Governor had in tended. To deprive the pupils of schooling was one thing; to de- 'prive the public of football was o.uite another. The protests of a little group of ministers against closing the schools to Instruction could be brushed off with a "left-.

wing" smear, but the protests of football fans and business inter' ests were not so easily disposed of Thas votes in them thar stadiums, and an important refer endum is coming up on the integration issue. If the school superintendent stands by his interpretation of the Governor's school-closing order, the people of Little Rock may decide that having 'football is more important than squabbling over allowing a colored child to attend school with a white child. It would be ironical if football should prove to be the great solvent for the South's racial troubles. It also would be revealing as an exposure of the essential superficiality of an attitude which parts of the South seem to think they must 'maintain to be truly southern. LOGICAL DECISlbN The directors of the, Cham-bersburg Hospital have both logic and arithmetic on their side in the decision to abandon the former Nurses Home.

When the hos- pital conducted a nurses' training school, the former Duncan property served a useful purpose, but its usefulness has been spotty since the school was disbanded. The decision of the directors, in fact, was easier than the decision confronting the Committee on the Future of the Hospital to which the future use of the building has been reterred. UNCLE COUNTS HIS CASH Thr are aspect of an "agon- Nasserism In Egypt By RELMAN MORIN Associated rtew Staff Writer There are no signs in Egypt of any organized opposition to President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Indeed, few Egyptians speak out against him in private conversation. But one a strikingly beautiful woman has been at war with him, openly, for more than five years.

She is Mme. Dora Shafik, poetess, erstwhile magazine publisher, and a tireless crusader for women's rights in the Moslem world. It is not alone on feminist grounds, however, that she battles Nasser. She has publicly accused him of depriving Egyptians of their liberties and shackling them with a new kind of colonization. Mme.

Shafik is tall, dark, with flashing black eyes. She is married to a Cairo lawyer. They have two teen-age daughters. When Nasser promulgated the Egyptian constitution in 1956, she says, Cairo reporters telephoned and asked her to comment on it. "I said no one who believes in.

liberty could accept it," she says. "This is not freedom. This is a new kind of colonization for the Egyptian people. "Legally, we are not permitted to discuss the revolution, nor to criticize the constitution. The reporters asked if they could quote me.

I told them they could. The result, she says, has been a slow, shadowy, indirect form of reprisal. At that time, she was publishing four magazines for women. Only one dealt with political 'questions. All four are gone now.

She also ran an employment agency for women, and a kind of cafeteria where destitute women would buy. food for their families. These, too, are out of existence. She used to have her poems published regularly in books. "There are no takers for them, any more," she says.

"It was a kind of There were strange accidents, delays, constant friction. Nothing you could put your finger on. But it succeeded in killing the magazines." Women stopped coming to the employment agency and cafeteria. "They spread rumors that I had had a nervous breakdown and was completely deranged. My husband secretly put me in a hospital and had five doctors examine me to disprove it," she said.

"Then they tried to cause trouble in my family. They said that when I was in America there were other men, and that my husband was going around with other women all absolute lies." She said her house is constantly watched. Recently, she was refused a passport to attend an international woman's conference in India. Officials gave her no reason for the refusal. What now? "I will go on fighting," she said.

"Many are suffering under Nasser! but they are afraid to speak. I am' not. I am not afraid to go to prison. In fact that would be better-it would be in the open then to this invisible campaign." How Mexico Gets Rid Of Reds Dealing with Communist out landers and known left-wingers the Mexican Government does not fool around. In some recent fractious demonstrations, including battles with the police, it was promptly discovered that the Commies were actively helping to promote dis order.

As a result a number of Americans and other aliens have been seized and promptly deported. Ac cording to the Interior Ministry some 40 or 50 others are in custody and headed for outside, pronto. As a master of fact Mexico has been booting out foreign Reds for some time. In this particular in stance Communist activities in fomenting trouble were so glaring that President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines wasted no time in cracking down. We can hardly avoid noticing the differences between the lagging, dragging processes, with exhaustive legal proceedings, which af feet efforts.

to throw Communists out of this country, and the swift, effective performances in the na tion south of the Rio Grande. Our only regret is that the Mexicans sent those American Commies back. We, too, could get along without them. Philadelphia Inquirer. ARMY LAUNCHES ANOTHER REDSTONE SUCCESSFULLY CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.

(AP) Another successful space test has been logged by the Army's reliable Redstone, the nation's only operational ballistic missile. The 63-foot Redstone, which re portedly twice exploded nuclear warheads In the Pacific recently, roared aloft from the Cape Wednesday with a flash of orange flame. The Army announced it was the 33rd successful Redstone launch ing in 36 tries since the missile first was fired In 1953, the most sensational record of any ballistic missile to date. The versatile Redstone provided the first stage power for the Jupi-ter-C to push three Explorer satellites into orbit and now li being considered as a launching vehicle for a man-ln-gpace program. WASHINGTON Uncle Sam's financial condition has reached such a complicated state that cnly its managers at Washington and the wizards of Wall street understand or appreciate it.

It can be described most simply and dramatically by reporting on two recent transactions in Lower Manhattan. On the same day that Sears big investors had borrowed heavily on them in order to shift to the mail-order house issue. In fact, many investors sold their U. S. holdings in order to buy the 4 stuff, thus lowering the price levels.

Another sizable transfer may occur today, when Standard Oil of Indiana will offer $200,000,000 worth of debentures. A Highly Important Incident The contrasting deals reflect the financial community's lack of confidence in the Administration of the President whom they backed so heavily with their cash znd votes. Politically, the incident is far more important then the Democrats' near-sweep of the Maine elections. Ironically, although spurning the government issues, the so-cs-lled "smart boys" show their complete confidence in the na tion's economic system, present and future. For Sears Roebuck de pends for continued success and fprofits on persisting sales, em ployment, purchasing power and general business activity.

The fame observation applies to Standard Oil. Other great corporations exhibit the same optimism. For a while, they had decided to delay security issues because of prevailing high rates of interest. Re cently, they have leaped into the market, and disposed of their 1s- ues, without difficultyAlthough worried over the Treasury's tech nical Dosition. they are not "sell ing America short." Speculative Interests Blamed By FRB Although the Federal Reserve As MR.

BILLOPP Sees If SURRENDER When a man has a motor-mower, a sickle and other sharp cutting tools for tidying up the premises, his wife's flowers will be in jeopardy. From time to time he will cause her grave distress by leveling her most cherished plants. His wife will concede that he at least is a man of average in telligence. It would seem to her that with a little time and at tention he could be instructed in the location, of imperiled flowers, and trained to distinguish them from worthless weeds. No doubt the man holds a college degree, or some similar document indicating that he has had success in subjects which call for thejexercise of memory and judgment.

Or, if he has no college degree, or like document he probably fills some position of responsibility in the business world or in the professions that requires mental agility, percep tion and carefulness. Such being the case it would not seem unreasonable that he could be conducted over the place, have the flowers pointed out to him, shown how they are marked with 6takes, and after a period of time become letter per feet in distinguishing them. It will be assumed that at the beginning there will be occasion al mistakes leading to the destruction of valuable plants. But these lapses should diminish in number as time passes. Yet as the years go by and this does not happen and her most, heartrending entreaties do no good, the man's wife can only conclude that his intelligence does not extend to this particular field.

In distinguishing plants from weeds he is virtually illiterate It becomes obvious that she cannot have flowers and her hus band, too. If she values her hus band above her flowers, she will Just give up the flowers, and let him run wild with his motormow-er and his other destructive tools, cutting down whatever comes in his, way. CHRISTOPHER BILLOPP DIAMOND USAGES Diamonds are used to cut steel. saw stone, shape bowling balls, polish dental fillings and play much of the world's recorded music. FIRST PLANTS It is not definitely known, but mosses, lichens and liverworts may have been the first plants that were able to live on the land.

LONG WALK It has been estimated that the average American woman walks 70,000 mil, during her lifetime, or nearly three time, around the world. quarters for the poor state of Treasury bonds, its spokesmen charge that certain speculative interests have been guilty of play ing loose and fast with their own government's securities. According to this theory. Wall Street bought Treasury offerings heavily for almost a year in the hope of making a "killing" through a rise of a few points. When the price dropped, they 'sold out Uncle Sam," and loaded their portfolios with corporate issues.

There is nothing illegal in such an operation, but The brokers, however, retort that the "Fed" was largely re sponsible for their action and the current condition. When they feared continued industrial recession and deflation, they placed their money and bets on U. S. Bonds, preferring safety even at a lower return. Shifting, Hedging By Marketeers But when the "Fed" began to forecast that the new danger was inflation rather than deflation, and began to tighten the money supply again, the marketeers shifted to common stocks and corporate debentures, which pay a higher rate than Uncle Sanvdoes.

They also sought to hedge against the inflation forecast by the money managers at Washington. In fact, more and more institutional investors, as well as the "little fellows," are now putting their money into common stocks. Breaking the custom of many years, insurance companies, col leges, unions and pension fund trustees are buying equities in the nation's industrial plants. This explains why, despite the reces sion, stock market prices remain so high. But it.

all adds up to a gigantic headache for Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson. He must re-tund about $100 billion within the next 12 months, and probably at the highest interest rates the gov-ernment has paid in a generation And, unfortunately, the eventual victims will be the taxpayers, large and small. There can be no tax cut under those circum stances. The WEATHER Extended forecast for Thursday, Sept.

18, through Monday, Sept. 22. Eastern Pennsylvania, eastern New York and Midatlantic States: Temperature will average near normal, cool north portion, cooler south portion Thursday and Friday followed by warmer during the remainder of the i d. Rain Wednesday night and Thursday and again about Monday, will total 1 inch or more. Southeastern Pennsylvania Fair and cooler tonight.

Low in the mid 50's. Sunny with mod erate temperatures Friday. Lower Susquehanna Fair and cool tonight and Friday. Low to night 50-55. High Friday 68-73.

Yesterday's Local Report Maximum 86; Minimum 67 Rainfall .11 1957 Temperature Range Sept. 18 76-54 Sept. 19 79-54 Sept. 20 76-61 Sept. 21 87-64 Sept.

22 88-63 The Skies Today (Compiled by the Astronomical Society of Waynesboro) The Sun Sets 7:16 p.m. today and rises 6:55 a.m. tomorrow. The Moon Sets 11:03 p.m. today and rises 1:47 p.m.

tomorrow. The Stars and Planets The Apennine Mountain range on the moon is a chain of peaks rising as high as 15,000 feet and stretching for 450 miles. THINKING IT OVER By Robert L. Dieffenbacher, D.D. (Written for NEA Service) "Wishy washyness" is a word which is well understood by the average American.

It typifies the vacillating thought of people who do not determine right and wrong for themselves. 1 Of course there is probably less of a sharp line between the right and wrong of some ideas and actions than we like to believe. On the other hand, this slight difference does not Jastify our switch ing from one extreme to another. Neither can we Justify hypocrisy. We ought not to abhor sin on Sun day and revel in it on Monday.

We cannot profess to love the Lord; end hate his children. la the same way that we believe in con sistent financial honesty, we must be spiritually consistent. Let us be 'wiahy washy" and offhanded with God. cline in tax receipts. Forty per cent or approximately $5 billion is charged to spending.

Only one-tenth of the" increased spending is attributed to defense costs. The remaining amount in- eludes such outlays as an addi-i Uonal $1.6 billion for agricultural price supports, $1 billion for antirecession outlays, and $500 million to augment states' unemployment compensation benefits. The government at Washington can easily adjust the federal debt limit to allow for deficits such as the Budget Bureau foresees for the present fiscal year. But the demands placed upon the tax payer are something else. Some-i how, someday, he will be called upon to supply the wherewithal to meet this spending.

Already there is talk of re quests to Congress to boost the federal gasoline and tire levies, and to order a new increase in postal rates, to cut down the def icit. And that is not the taxpayer's only concern with the present fi nancial operations of the federal government. He must recognize that deficit spending creates the climate for inflation. Cheapening the dollar will mean that he will get less for his money while paying more of it out in taxes to meet his share of Uncle Sam's mounting debts. Do You Remember when theM wen mwi items in -Public Opinion el 25 YEARS AGO? The following officers are elect ed at the 39th annual convention of the Franklin County Christian Endeavor, Epworth and Luther League Union at Greencastle Roy Cover, president; Robert Kirkpatrick and Warren Shaner, vice presidents; Miss Hazel Gipe, recording secretary; Miss Mary Potts, corresponding secretary; Miss Avaline Sollenberger, treas urer Richard Kramer, five-year-old son of Harry Kramer, R.

R. 2, fractures his right arm when he trips and falls. The New York Giants and the Washington Senators are about to clinch the championships of the two major baseball leagues Freshmen registered at Dickin son College include Robert Glass, George H. Rowland Jr. and F.

Curtis Yoh, all of town; Thomas S. McBride, ShippenS' burg, and William Johnston, Waynesboro. Weddings: Miss Edith Emery, Bethlehem, and Hallock Sbrrard Johnson, Philadelphia who is a grandson of Mrs. Thomas J. Sherrard, Philadelphia Miss Elizabeth Simcox, Waynesboro, and H.

G. Miller, of town. Deaths: Miss A. Amelia Kump, 788 E. Washington Mrs.

Louise Myers, York. 15 YEARS AGO? Modern implements of warfare pass in review as the Third War Loan Victory parade is held downtown prior to a bond rally in Memorial The congregations and official board of the Mt. Pleasant and Cold Springs United Brethren churches vote unanimously for the return of their pastor, the Rev. E. W.

Shoap, for the seventh year. Mrs. Ray C. Houser is reelected president of -the Franklin County Auxiliary to the Chambersburg Hospital and the Children's Home. Prices ranging from $14 90 to $15.65 per hundred pounds are re ceived by members of Franklin County 4-H feeding clubs for 18 hogs sold at the annual roundup at the Chambersburg Livestock Sales.

A junction of the American Fifth "a tne Msn ignm armies on uic oairmu uchxiiiicbu ui naiy is announced by Allied headquar ters. "Stage Door Canteen," featuring 48 stars and six name bands, is showing at the Capitol Theater. Wedding: Miss Elizabeth Pearl Kauffman, Fayetteville, and Pvt. Dick L. Tolbert, R.

Fayetteville, stationed at Fort Eustls, y. Deaths: James D. Robinson, 82, of Shippensburg; Mrs. Sara Bech-tel Levi, 14, of Hagerstown. Bobby Fischer, Grand Master This seems like a pretty good time to salute Bobby Fischer, a fifteen-year-old pupil at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, who is making quite a name for himself in some parts of the world.

Bobby Fischer is chtes champion of the United States, so the event didn't exactly seize the country's imagination. How ever, in chess circles, the young man's achivements made a sen sation, and after classes ended at Erasmus last June young Bobby went to Europe to try his hand. He played a little in Russia, though he was unable to book any matches against the top masters. But it was in Yugoslavia that Bobby Fischer really stirred things up. He entered the Porto-roz interzone tournament, which brought together some of the world's keenest chess minds.

Twenty-one players were entered, with the first six winning the right to qualify for next year's challengers' tourney. The winner of that one gets to play Russia's Mikhail Botvinnik in 1960 for the world title. To make a long story short, Bobby qualified. He came in sixth, which means that he now bears the designation of International Grand Master the youngest in the world and has started on the road which could lead him to the world's championship. All this makes even Van Cliburn look like a slowpoke.

Bobby Fischer has been called America's greatest chess genius since Paul Morphy, who operated 100 years ago. And Morphy never liked to play his matches in.T-shirt, dungarees and sneakers, which is Bobby's preferred costume. We hope Bobby Fischer continues to develop his phenomenal talent and one day comes home with the world champion ship. It's always comforting to have a genius in our midst. New York Herald Tribune.

REMARKABLE REMARKS The competition to launch the first satellite was strictly between two bunches of Germans those with Russia and those with us. Former Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson. A landing on Quemoy is now imminent. Your fate is sealed Think of the tens of thousands of officers and men.

Think of the people of Quemoy. Surrender or revolt as an entire unit against Taiwan (Formosa). Radio to Nationalist Chinese troops. I believe a clear-cut, strong statement on the part of the United States that any (Red Chinese) attack on our (Nationalist Chinese) territory violates our mutual security would do more good than anything else to keep the peace. Madame Chiang Kai-shek.

0PINI0NETTES Carving is a lost art, says a writer. Maybe because of a hunk of tough meat or a dull knife. aaa Some restaurants blame TV for a drop in business. Lots of folks nitke TV a steady diet. aaa If you take 'no stock in a salesman'! line, you take no stock.

Only those of us old enough to remember rides on the day coaches of yesteryear will ever fully appreciate travel in the jet age. Younger folk will only think they do. They may exclaim, "Marvelous!" when they cross the coun try in four or five hours, or, with the time change, span an ocean in nothing flat, but their wonder will be a hollow thing. When I say day coaches I don't mean those pulled by Diesel en gines," with their hobgoblin headlights and blast whistle. Nor do I mean those coaches with chrome sides, reclining seats, air- conditioning and reading lights.

I mean those old day coacnes, many of them built of wood, which were pulled by engines which belched smoke like Hades' back door, whose seats were srtalghter than a deacon's back, and upholstered in thick green or brown plush, and were equipped with windows you didn't dare open or dare keep closed. If the windows were opened the passengers soon wore a make-up blacker than that used by Al Jol- son while singing "Mammy." If opened, everyone froze in winter and smothered in summer. Passengers spent their time re moving cinders from one anoth er's eyes. I have had eight hun dred 1 1 d-up handkerchiefs poked in the corners of mine. Often the conductor had to assist with a stubborn cinder or the candy butcher, with his tray of glass pistols filled with candy, and miniature brakeman's lanterns.

They were called day coaches, I imagine, because they took a day to get anywhere, and several days to get farther than any where. When I read of a Pan-American passenger jet streaking from Europe to America in under four hours, or from London to Rome in 98 minutes, I exclaim, SIDE GLANCES Tat v.t.jm. Off. A MM'taniM. KM.

"If you cm ft this eggplant baekt It't not tip i I likt I "Marvelous!" and there it real feeling in it. For I remember those day coach rides between Atlanta and Savannah, and other fairly-close-together cities. I was a child then but to recall them still makes me feel sticky, grimy, hot and hungry all over again. One dressed for day coach travel in those days. Only the inexperienced or the daffy traveled in anything of a light color, or worth much.

Dark and shabby was the proper uniform for day coach travel. I had a blue serge outfit, and to this day I can remember how that serge combined with the plush of the seat to give me fits on summer days. Soon the jets will propel passengers at six hundred miles an hour, tens of thousands of feet above the earth, where all is clean and pure and silent. And I say again that only those of us who, shoe-box lunch in hand, have answered the cry of "All Aboard!" and clambered up the little footstool and onto a day coach of yesteryear, will ever know how really beautiful the jet age is. Speaking of shoe-box lunches, that's one thing the Jet age won't be able to equal.

You can't beat fried chicken and devilled eggs out of a shoe box, especially if it happened to be a W. L. Douglas shoe box. W. L.

was the can see the boast on the box now who started pegging shoes at the age of seven. MARSHAL FINDS SUSPECT AT HOME AFTER SEARCH ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) VS. Deputy Marshal Hugh Stevens traveled hundreds of miles during the past three months trying to run down Raymond G. Pender-grass on a stolen check charge.

Stevens was on his way to his office in the Post Office Building Wednesday when he bumped into and nabbed Pendergrass standing at the money order window. By galbratth oft my thumb, plitst But thtrnT.

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