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TUB ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS Abilene, Texas, Tuesday Morning August 7, 1951 will I riie, soith ihe Lord; now iciJI I be e.t«licif; now u'ill I lljl uf myself, 33:10. I take possession of man's i and deed, I cnrc not what llir -eels may lirawl; 1 sit as God, holding no form of creed, Hut contemplating Duty, Honor, Country At West Poinl each cadet is treated the same as every other. The same scholastic standards are required of all, and the same personal conduct: No exceptions are made for any reason, and the corps of cadets' own honor system rides herd on the mass. Athletes get no extra time off, or are allowed to cut classes, during the training and playing season. The sole concession is the training tahle.

The purpose of the Academy is to train "officers and gentlemen," and down through the 149 years of the Academy's existence, this has been largely achieved. Having to keep up the full schedule of classes and corps activities has been especially tough on football players. They have little time to practice after classes, and night falls fast on the gray walls of West Point's buildings. The commercialization of foolhall at the Academy may or may not have influenced the breakdown in the high standards of conduct that led to the impending dismissal of 90 cadets. One report is that 44 of them are football players.

The only way football player could take any short cut was to accept assistance in his paper work. That was a violation of the cartel honor system. The country was shocked by revelation of the shenanigans that have been going on for the past few years, and those best acquainted with the high traditions of the Academy were most shocked of all. The fact that some of the cadels involved sought to pass il off on the thesis that they were no worse than some who were not caught did little to ease the shock. Most people were inclined to give them (he benefit of the doubt, by placing the blnme on commercialized football, or on those in authority who might have been la.x in discipline, or Inclined to blink at the rules.

Still, they were full-grown men; they knew the rules; they were familiar wilh the immemorial Honor, Country." We believe Ihe overwhelming majority of members of Ihe corps would rather cut off their right arm than violate the code for personal advantage. We have not lost faith in the Academy, but we are sorely grieved. Nam II Fights Life It is altogether possible thai Ihe Communist version of (he appearance of a whole company of Ked soldiers within hundred yards of the Kaesong conference building was accurate. The informal ways of Communist troops, including the Kussian variety, are well known. Their movements and operations sometimes resemble flic antics of a mob, or a disorganized rabble.

The Germans made the mistake oC discounting the potency of the Red Army by assuming that its resemblance to nomads in migration indicated weakness. They discovered their fatal error too late. Tn any case, the Communists gave accident as their alibi, and promised to behave in future. On this basis, the conference will resume where it left off. General Ridgway was quite right in making an issue of the incident.

Give the Reds an inch and they'll take a furlong. They understand and expect only one thing: OTHER VIEWPOINTS Toughness. The slightest sign of weakness sets off new aggressions. General Hidgway and his delegates are tolerating no nonsense from the Reds. One gains the impression, right or wrong, that the Chinese and Russians are bored with Ihe whole thing; having decided lo wrilc off Korea for Ihe lime being, they are anxious to gel the business wound up.

Not so the Korean negotiators. Their General Nam II is i i the situation of any slighlcst advantage. He is holding out and holding back, hoping for a break. This, too, is understandable in a terms. We imagine Ihe men responsible for writing a too-cnsy truce on the Communist side will face a mosl unhappy future.

General Nam II is on the spot. If lie must sign a truce unsatisfactory to Moscow and Peioing, his life wouldn't be worth a nlugced nickel when the articles arc exchanged. So General Nam 11 is fighting for his personal skin. Perhaps our negotiators sense this situation, and they are pouring it on. Let us hope they have not misguesscd it.

Maybe we won't have long to wait. If General Nam II is yanked and somebody else substituted, it will he nrnof that our analysis of the situation is correct. The Dowser Drowsed Perhaps you missed it, but the wires the other day carried a story out of Orchard Park, Erie County, New York, that seems lo fit in perfectly with Ihe hot weather and the wild scramble for more water. II seems a in common wilh many other communities great and small Orchard Park ran short of wafer. A due consideration the cily fathers decided lo turn to a well-known local water-witching expert.

This water dowser used the familiar trappings of his trade--that is, a forked stick. Al ono particular spot the forked slick went crazy, and the export commanded: "Drill here." They drilled, and brought in an abundant supply of water which poured up out of the ground in a continuous stream. Everybody was happy, and the dowser, we imagine, acknowledged the plaudits of Ihe crowd with becoming modesty. But in a little while 25 residents on the edge of the village complained to the water department that they couldn't gel any water out of Ihe taps, investigation showed that the drill had billon into a six-inch water main. Now, spine carping critics might hoot at the efficiency of the waler-witchcv; but Hie guy's forked stick found an abundant supply of water, didn't it? Wasn't all the cily fathers asked? We hope Orchard Park pays him off and forgets about the whole thing.

A all he did con- i lo the gaiety nations, and that is somelhing needed i as much these days as additional water supplies. Incidentally, we hoard a little story over al San Angelo (ho other day that fit's into the general droulhy picture. That normally well-watered One-en Cilv of the Conc'nos is up against it for walcr and some imlu.slri.il plants are trying lo develop Iheir own supplies. Onr water-well "igger, we were (old, is B5 contracts behind wilh his work. Anyway, friend of ours decided lo have a well drilled to lake care of his lawn.

His wife wailed- "If would be just our hard luck to slrike oil!" Afraid to Sign Names Washington Post: Out in (tit a lively and Iniaglnaive newspaper, chose the Fourth of July as an occasion on which lo sent! one of its reporters out to solicit signatures to a petition al local Independence day celebration. Ttie petition, it must be acknowledged was fairly I a a otic. It consisted exclusively of excerpts tronl tlic Declaration of Independence and the lilll of i The reporter didn't fare very welt. interviewed 312 persons and was turned down by precisely 111 of Ilicm. Subversive, they called il.

Anyway, in Senator McCarthy's part of the tounty It Isn't considered jnfc and lonjicr lo sign a oeitllon for anything. Twenty of the individuals requested to slim ihe petition asked the reporter if he were Communist. One of them read aloud the section of the Declaration which says, "That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of thesi- ends, it Is the right of th people to alter or abolish It, and to Institute new government, laying Its foundation on such principles and organizing i powers In such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their School Employes' Pensions It. Louis Post-Dispatch: Gov. Smith has signed Into law Ihe bill that will permit SI.

Louis public school teachers and other school employes to earn maximum pensions of SI25 a month, as compared with Sn.i° r1 1tircn benefit of JG2.50 now paid. This will accomplish the second of the two objectives of thc U-ccnt rise by voters May 1, the other higher salaries lor the system teachers having been put in effect shortly after the community acted to provide the funds. The new pension ceiling is in line with ro- tlremcnl benefits achieved in industry by many froups of union workmen. But by 'no stretch of the Imagination will il be easily attained To earn the a i S125, a school employe must make least $3000 a year and contribute i.per cent of that sum to the retirement fund for 35 years, Nevertheless, the new law contains one provision with which few persons should find fault --currently paid retirement benefits will be Increased at least 40 per cent. This will be good news to the 712 retired teachers, principals, custodians and whose average pension now Is $53 month and.

thc lowest. safety nnd happiness" Hi declared hotlv man, are you trying tell mo a "Us Is a copy of the Oeclaralion of Indr- flou of i i ssia a i nCe mc Most of the refusals lo were based, how- TM r' 0 Cn 1 cl fn? Kcl ln io France reporter Jf One PC (olri ttle 'Til sign II in a minute, bin off jo tomorrow." said another. Such is the cs- and ni TM 1Mci1 "K'" 5 expression and I I i have descended RUJJIMILLETT Notes on Living U'omen don't really change so much from one generation lo the other C.ramlclniiKlitGr gets tlie same satisfaction from loading her ricoj) frct-ze vrKh fnorl for the unexpected guest .15 a a got from filling her basement shelves with jars of canned goods. The morning chat over the back yard force thai was part of Grandma's ri.iy has just been replaced ly a a morning telephone chat with a friend who lives across town. Grandmn said "feed the hrule." a a ter doesn't use that expression, bill she does flive her husband a good i before she shows him the new dress she Just "couldn't insist." When Grfitulma heard lhat a (ricnd or neighbor had sickness In the a i she sent over A cake or pie, Gratuldaughlcr tries to he Just as helpful.

Only she probably telephones to say: Can 1 do any clianffciiring for you?" Granrimn kepi Ihe parlor 'Vice (or company 1 by making the kilclieii lh family's real living room. Granddaughter laughs al the Irtea-- but AH thc same a soon as she can afford it she builds a "rumpus room" for family living, Grandma helped her cluirch raise money bv contributing to pie- and s.ilos and helping serve church suppers. For at) her so-called economic Independence, granddaughter uses Ihosc samt fund-raising schemes. INEA Service, Inc.) Good Things Come In Small Packages WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Korean Tungsten Is Important RUARK'S REMARKS Mama's Hair Spectators in By ROBERT C. RUARK SOMEWHERE IN TANGANYIKA.

--The time has come to render a progress report on the White Queen, of Tjnganyika, otherwise known to me Ihc boys is Memsaab--Mama. Mania Is pretty Impossible. She shot a tom- my ra which Ls within three- eighth of an Inch of ihe world's record, and apart from that has been named Memstb Danu by the natives. Danu Is hard to translate. Means roughly thai.

Mama is a cross between Polly anna, Florence Nightingale and Lady Bountiful. Means that everybody likes her because she dees n't complain or confuse the African veldt with the Waldorf-Astoria. She also passes out cigarettes rather lavishly. The reason Mama does not beef about bugs and hardships and the lack ot refrigeration is thai she Is almost constantly In a state of suspended animation, due to being scared stiff. She has been charged by a lion and a female rhino.

Elephants have walked through the camp. Leopards have yowled within a. feu- feet of her cot, and hyenas have played a sort of Jovial tag with her. "I love nature," says Memsaab Danu, "but not this close." What Mama really lUccs arc giraffes and anthills and baby baboons and ostriches. What she does not like are snakes and buffalo and rhinos and lions and elephants, especially elephants that scream at her from spilling distance.

Elephants are so big. MAMA'S HAfR-DO'S It Is an open secret that Mama Is considerably less brunette than God intended originally. This interference with pigmentation calls for a trip to the beauty parlor every Friday when she is back In the states. Unfortunately, we have no beauty parlors available, but Mama has remained persistently blonde. She has conjured certain mysterious unguents from her secret valise, and has enslaved Juma, the headboy.

Juma Is now a a hairdresser. Every Friday Is a i day, and through some sort of By DREW PEARSON reason for tlie deadlock over the cease-fire line In Korea is that precious tungsten deposits are al slake in Ihe juggling for position. For, without Korean tungsten, this country won't have enough tungsten lo build Jel engines, armor-piercing shells and, oven more important, to supply atomic energy needs. The pie-shaped slice of a held hy General Kidgway's forces above thc 38lh Parallel, contains rich, untapped tungsten deposits. This is one reason liidg- way has been entered to hold i Furthermore, Ihe largest tungsten mine In the free world is located at Snngdon, less lhan BO mlEes below the 38th Parallel.

This Is another reason Hidgway wants to hang on lo Vits stronger defense line n1 nvc the 38th Parallel, JUKI keep tlie Communists as far from Snugdon as Ios5iblc. The shortage oC Uuitfslen Is so desperate that we have rushed mining equipment to Korea, in order to step up production al the Sangdon mine and to reopen small mines above the 3Stli Parallel. SHORT It is no secret a this country is over two million slwrt iiC lunxKten for civilian rc-quive-iweuls alonp. Normally the United States consumes about 4 million pounds a year, chiefly for metal-ciitttng lools, This doesn't count thc critically needed for jet engines, armor-piercing shells nnd ntomlc energy. In fact, our antitank a a depends on these armor-piercing shells, winch can't be 'built without tungsten.

Yet i a know a the most tung- we ccin scrape up this year will be about 12 million pounds-unless thc Korean mines can be rushed Into full production. NOTE--Our government has recently received several mysterious offers of Portuguese tungsten, Tim offers all mention the same figure pounds. U. S. experts suspect these offers are Ei-Hers from Ilussla.

which mny "ue preparing to trade for crilic.il war materials needed In the Union. A A I OF I Two newspapers have now tried thc experiment of asking Americans to sign pctction cont.iining nothing bill the Declaration of Independence and the original amendments of the U. S. Constiiu- GRIN AND BEAR IT lion. First was the Capital Times of Madison, which had 111 out of 112 people refuse to sign.

Second was the New Orleans Item which had 24 out of 36 refuse to sign. The New Orleans petition was circulated after both President Truman and this commentator had publicized the shocking 111 to 1 refusal in Wisconsin. Nevertheless its results showed how many of the American people either have forgot if the inspiring precepts of the foiuulinR fathers or else be- COIUP a a i of the expression of liberal ideas. Here are some of Ihe reactions received by Reporter Allen Johnson when he circulated the New Orleans copy of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Hlghls: "Three men," reported Johnson, "called me a Communist. One said, 'My family's with the government, It would get them in trouble.

Ynu know the FBI checks up on tlie.se things'." Another read Jefferson's stirring words: "Wherever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it i.s the right of Ihe people to alter or abolish i "That," remarked the man approached by Reporter Johnson, "sounds i i lo me." A. housewife didn't like the amendment, to the Constitution guaranteeing a free pass and free speech. 'That part ought-to he narrowed down," she said. "There's too much talk going on." She refused to sign. Maybe Senator Jot; McCarthy, who has circulated thousands of copies of his speeches through mails al Hie taxpayers' expense, should circulate free copies of Ihe Declaration "of Independence instead.

It might counteract some of tlic fear he has instilled in peoples' minds, TRUTH ABOUT VOICE Congressmen are always quick to put the lie to newspapermen when they don't like criticism. But it's not often a congressman is called for a lie by his own colleagues. That was what happened to Con- grcssman John Taber ot New York the other day when he got careless of his facts regarding the Voice of America. Taber, campaigning lo cut the Stale Department's vitally fmport- Astonishes the Camp witchcraft, the old lady turns up blonde. 1 think Et Is of historic value to record the formula by which Mania remains blonde.

Instnic- tlous, in Swahlll, were delivered. as follows: "Jutna," said -Master Sclby, our guardian. "Kuja Itapa. Nywelc wa aiemsaab yakc hnpans mycupe, no nyensl, Ikani ku-Ua npaka kuwa mycvlpi." "NWo," says Junta. in the name of goodness did you tell him" I ask.

"1 just said 'Jiuna. come Harry answered. "ThenI said: 'Mcmsaah's hair is not really white. It is black. Hut she jmts medicine on imvil ii becomes Juina said So every Friday Juma puts medicine in Memsaab's hair to turn it white, taking great cnrc to dab it carefully on the parts, and not getting medicine on the ends of the strands.

The local unlives regard Mania- as a kind of sorceress, with Juma as her intern, anrt I will not be surprised 3E she becomes a goddess. What this makes of her consort I cannot imagine, but I am holding out for the i of prince. A all, my hnir is turning white, too. but for different reasons. One of the things that lias outraged Mama's de-Heate.

sensibilities is the plight of Afincan womanhood. She bitterly resents the term which is the general description of- all things female, including wives, who are not married so much as bought. She even more bitterly resented, the implication of Chabani, ihe car boy, that she wag too old to be married to such a blithesome youngster as 1, And the local equivalent of piled high atop Ossa when her faithful slave, murmured that she might have fetched a nice pries in the marital a before senility a a her, considering IbaV she was fnt enough to practical. As I said, is bearing up. But once En a while you can see a look in her eye a plainly he- speaks a longing for the Stork dub.

--(United Features, Inc.) "I'm not giving serious Attention to '52 yet, boys I've still got half a dozen speaking cngngemonts to make, declaring I'm not interested in '52 anl propaganda budget, quoted Ben Hlbbs. editor of the Saturday Evening Post, as a foremost critic of the Voice. Hibbs IF a member of a committee of distinguished Americans who -advise the State Department regarding the Voice and other propaganda. "The Editor of the Saturday ing Post who is on a conunlt- tee." declared Congressman Taber, has never been called to a meeting. And he wrote just a little while ago Just what he thought about the situation and the way It (the Voice) was not being carried out for the good of the American people." Mr.

Hibbs, however, was quick to nail Taber's a i a untrue distortion of tlie truth. In a letter inserted in the Congressional Record by Congressman Rooncy New York Democrat, Editor Hibbs stated: "There have been two regular meetings of the commission, since my appointment and- I have attended both of them. "I understand that it was also said on the floor of I recently 'wrote something' expressing critical views of the Voice of America. This is not true. I have written nothing about the Voice of America 1 have been on the "My position is that there is room for Improvement in the whole Stnte Department's information program, as there always is in any activity, governmental or private.

But do not believe that this program has been a failure, and I do believe that it is being steadily Improved. "Moreover, I believe most urgently that the program is of such enormous importance that we simply can't throttle It by denying for its continuance. (Signed) Ben Hibbs." NOTE--Other members of the committee advising the State Department on propaganda" are Harold Dodds, president of Princeton- Rev. Martin McGuEre, President of Catholic University; Edwin Canham, Editor of the Christian Science Monitor; and Philip Reed, chairman of the board of General Electric. The commission issued a favorable report on the efficiency of the State Department's anti- Soviet propaganda (BeJl Syndicate, Inc.) So It should why the State Department ami Us international do-gooders at the United Nations are pushing the (proposed) Covenant on a Rights toward ratification.

It (o nine all criticism of thi so called Fair John Brlcksr I'm glad I've gol protection now. --President Truman, signing bill giving Secret Sen-Ice permanent legal status. "We must not weaken thc foundation upon which our educational structure rests. Are we not i too much money into buildings and not enough into people People, not buildings, should come Arthur S. Flemming, president, Ohio Wcslcyan U.

We (Ihe Republican Parly) got to get support from the Solid South and we can do this only by going to the South for cooperation, not by telling the South to come to Karl E. Mundt S. 0 Speakers have been fshowering us with pearls ot wisdom) for centuries, and if all of their valuable advice were laid end to would still be just as good as new, Very little of It has ever been F. Filrless, ident.U. S.

Steel Ccrp, THESE DAYS Fear of Libel Prevents Naming of Some Reds By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY (Copyright, 1951, King Features Syndicate, Inc.) The law of libel is whatever a jury of 12 citizens says it is and rarely can a lawyer advise a client on. the subject, in advance of pub- Ucatiop, how a jury wlH react when a case may come to trial. The lawyers therefore play sate on the dictum: "When in doubt leave It If journalists or radio commentators were to accept the safe ad-vice of Ihe lawyers, nothing could be published against Communists, Irallors, garblerSj racketeers and such until after a case had been tried in a court. As a matter of fact, it is usually the proddings of courageous reporters that finally force" public action against those criminals and subversives who have ftHind sanctuary in the rules of evidence.

Judge Henry Clay 'Greenberg of thc New York Supreme Court makes this point: newspapers announce in big type that nn investigator has called someone a Communist, Then, some days later, it all, these newspapers print a reply, perhaps on 'an Inside page, Repu- lalions are destroyed without the grant of an adequate defense. People are tried In i diabolical sense without due process. the law, This Is not true of most newspapers, but papers are. in a daily, hurried reporting instrument. They have no leisure." This Is nonsense.

I should like to see Judge Greenberg's list of those whom the newspapers called "Communists," who were, in fact, not Communists, PRESS MORE ACCURATE Actually, the press has been more accurate, more careful, more thorough in its investigations than any other agency, including the Department of Justice, in ferreting out these agents of Stalin, however they may be hidden. I cite my own articles on the "Ame- rasia Case" which have proved to be correct aod which literally took years of work, involving checks on material going back to 19J4--before there was an "Amcra- sia" magazine. I also cite the work of Frederick "Woltman, Howard Rushmore, Victor Riescl, Frank Waldrop. Westbrook Pegler, Bert Andrews, John O'Donnell, Ogden R. Reid, Victor Lasky, Ualph De Toledano, Freda Utley, Irene Corbally Kulm, Frank Hanighen, Frank Chorodov, and many others I could include, particularly the editors of "The Freeman" magazine.

Such careful investigators have opened the door to evidence against those who sought to destroy our countdy In the Interest of Communists. When the judge sayi, "they have no leisure," he talks nonsense. Most of us who are'employed to wrile on such matters are given ample time to do a thorough job. I have held onto one 700 word story li long as year, checking for accuracy and finally getting the fact. 1 I published long ago some of Ihe data which is now being brought out at Ihe McC.irr.-m hearings, do not say Hint in self- praise or in to prove an exception.

1 simply want lo make thc iwint a judges, silting on high benches, in black gmms. in Ihe aurn of Ihe sacred, do not always know what they nre talking about. For instance, most of us in Ibis profession are constantly being pestered by house-lawyers, who check on lihel, localise of an obiter dicta by Stanley FuliI, to Ihe effect ihal lo call a man a Communist, unless he has so declared himself, is libel per se. Tn this they add. "Do you know he Is a Communist now, todny when you say it" They have some theory about a Communist a card because somewhere they read or heard that Ihe Communist Party issues such documents, but do not lhat the Commitnist Party ceased to Issue such documents ADVANTAGE TO REDS The Communists naturally take full advantage of tlic timidity of the lawyers and the general fear of law suils.

liatlio networks particularly frightened and Iherc- fore substitute mnrrter stories niul so-called humor for what they call controversial commentators. The Communists are Ihus given a weapon by our i-ouris and lawyers which (hey use against us all" tlio time. Never was this better demon- started I In Ihe Alger Hiss case or In the prescnl ililficuKies of Frederick Vnnderbilt Field. The feel lhat under Ihe Fuld obiter dicta their clients may get into (rouble if the is published in advance ot its becoming "privileged" or established by a decision in the courts. When our newspapers are run.

by lawyers, we shall have no news. We have a i i phrases and meaningless adjectives. The whole question before American newspapers and even radio is whelhcr the people are entitled to thc truth 01- must he suppress tba trutli unlil Ihe lawyers find It convenient for us to tell it. Grasshopper Blasters Jolt Hong Kong IIOXG KONTJ. Hong Kong riived for cover one day this week when the pro-Communist "Wen Wei Pao" blazoned thn headllng: "People's Air Forca Goes Into Action for First In Chinese History" But the small-print story beneath cleared things up.

Thc planes were eliminating grasshoppers, not people, and in Northwest Anhwei, not Korea. Four planes took part mil our I in the "mission." THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS decpl Oact tK NEWS fUBUSIIIN'O CO. TELEPHONE 4-ttT" Abilene. Texai TntTirtET) CIRCULATION Thr- Abilene Rcporttr-Keu-i ft member of A i Bureau of a aVionai crtrinizatlco which crrtidct the circulation of trie 11 the drilled Slates ii Second Cfl 1903 at MII office By ma'J IB Wett Momlci not. Sunday 01 Evening and a month.

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