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THE EVENING SUN Published Daily Except Sunday, New and Christmas by Thomson-Brush-Moore Newspapers, Inc. One that Got Away Monday, December 7, 1970 Page 4 Now, About The Liberty The Procrastinators Club of Philadelphia, which prides itself on taking its time about JJiings, was guilty of excessive haste in sending a delegation to London to complain to the Whitechapel Foundry about an alleged defect in one of that products. It should have investigated the facts first. The ancient foundry did, indeed, cast a bell which later became famous Liberty Bell with its famous crack. But to demand satisfaction from the foundry after a lapse of 218 years is not only to carry too far but is to jolly well play fast and loose with history.

LET THE TRUE STORY of the Liberty Bell be proclaimed throughout all the land and unto all the inhabitants thereof. The original bell was commissioned in 1752 by the colony of Pennsylvania to be hung in the new state house in Philadelphia (now Independence Hall). Upon its arrival, and upon being tested for clarity and carrying power, the bell cracked. There was nothing for it but to send it back to the foundry. But then two of the city, Messrs.

Pass Stow, came forward and offered to recast the bell. They melted it down, added a little copper to reduce its brittleness, and cast the first bell ever made in the colonies. UNFORTUNATELY, they had added too much copper and the tone of the new bell was wanting. Pass Stow tried again, recasting the bell a second time, this time successfully. In the meantime, however, arrangements had been made with the London foundry for a new bell at a nominal cost of two pence a pound, making allowance for the value of the metal in the first bell.

The second English bell arrived in Philadelphia in 1754. After much deliberation, it was decided to keep and pay for both bells. The American- made bell was retained in the state house steeple and the English bell placed in a cupola elsewhere on the building. IT WAS THE AMERICAN BELL, of course, which on July 4,1776, and numerous times thereafter until it developed its now-venerated crack upon tolling the death of Chief Justice John Marshall in 1835. As for the second English bell, it was sold to St.

Church in Philadelphia in 1828 and was ruined in a fire which destroyed the church enough--a hard- hat-type, anti-Catholic riot in 1844. Thus it can readily be seen that the Whitechapel foundry made good the defect in its first bell. Even if it no manufacturer can reasonably be expected to honor a warranty when its product is tampered with by unauthorized repairmen, in this case Pass Stow. THE PROCRASTINATOR CLUB undoubtedly knew all this. The trip to Ixjndon was, after all, just in fun.

Now about that White House the British burned down in 1814... The Costliness Of Strikes Charles Wilson, former head of General Motors, may never have said, good for General Motors is good for as was alleged when he was secretary of defense under President Eisenhower. There will be little argument, however, that what was bad for GM the recent strike was hardly good for the nation. -THE EFFECTS of the strike were far- reaching, notes University of Illinois economist Prof. Joseph D.

Phillips. For one thing, the reduction in the income of workers to $30 or $40 a week in strike benefits adversely affected the sales of merchants and the tax revenue in the cities where they lived. The stoppage of purchases by GM from the 39,000 suppliers it draws upon for everything from steel sheets to candy bars led to layoffs of thousands of workers. Even firms that do not deal directly with GM experienced as suppliers cut their purchases. The steel industry, which sells about 10 per cent of its output to GM, had to curtail operations.

Railroads had their freight revenues reduced. IN ALL, based on resumption of full production as of December 1, the strike against the largest auto maker reduced the fourth quarter annual rate of gross national product about $9 billion, says Phillips. The high cost of striking hits not only the strikers and their employers, but so many others in related occupations and, through injury to the economy, causes some harm to everyone. See Message For Smoke By Jim Bishop Soon there will be no more cigarette commercials on television. The scores of millions of dollars spent on the boob tube will, it is expected, revert to newspapers and magazines.

for one, will not miss the shot-put sales pitch Which Madison Avenue foisted on television. As a smoker, I have watched them with revulsion for years. to Marlboro Country; come to where tile flavor Not once did they give us a hint where the heck it was; where we had to go to buy a pack. We saw a bunch of greasy cowpokes who looked as though they could turn a tub of bathwater rancid by merely staring at it. They were always cold and humorless.

NOR WAS I AMUSED by the men who smoked those nine-foot filters and kept catching them in elevator doors and in swinging pottery. The Salem girl was dressed like a lady of 1910, but suddenly sang strip-tease music in bass. Me, I smoke King Sano. It is low in tars and nicotine, so I kid myself into believing that I am low in tar and nicotine. Also brains.

I smoke them often only if going to the bathroom, from the bathroom, answering a phone, waiting for the phone to ring, writing a column, not writing one, going to bed, getting up, leaving the house or coming in. My wife smokes Montclairs and is saving the coupons for a new lung. She smoke mine: only turn your breath she says. The irritant in television advertising of butts is the repetition. Once you have seen the girl in Virginia Slims roar: come a long way.

to get where you got to ad it. Parliament addressed itself to the British Parliament, which was neither funny nor sensible. THERE WAS AN OLD and dull aphorism: can take the boy out of the country, but you take the country out of the Well, the owners of Salem dwelled upon these words fqr a long time before spending a fortune to tell us that can take Salem out of the country, but. I never understood the application of those words to a cigarette, and I wish you explain it to me. I have a deep personal doubt that a fine tobacco leaf growing in the hill country of North Carolina has any precognition that it is going to be a part of a Camel cigarette; a Tareyton; a Benson and Hedges, or tossed into a can of pipe tobacco.

The leaf grows, flourishes, is picked, dried by heat or by air- cooling, and the first buyer to come along with a check book gets the leaf. Practically all of the television advertising is weak and pointless, but Winston is the only one that tried to hammer itself back into the ground when it stated that tastes good like a cigarette Apparently, no one on the board of directors or in the advertising agency had taken basic English, so the word was passed instead of IN ITSELF, this is no worse than the current college slogan: tell it like it instead of it is. However, the executives at Winston went into a dead faint when they found what they had wrought, so they repeated the grammatical error, and then asked do you want, good grammar or good The listener cannot help but wonder if there is any reason he have both. rather fight than with the fake black eye, was funny for the first century or two, but the laughter at home became more labored and I longed for the opportunity to blacken the other eye. This, basically, is the weakness of television.

Once you have seen the advertisement, whether for a cigarette or Mamma pizza, the little joke is over and, when it is seen the second time or the 22nd, it becomes abrasive. In a newspaper or a magazine the eyes roam the page picking out what pleases them. Also, a lot more can be said for a product in a quarter page than in a minute while waiting for Sophia Loren to come back on the tube in a movie featuring her bathing in a teacup. BUT THEN, face it a nation of hypocrites. We advertise beer, but nobody is permitted to drink a glass of it on television.

Liquor is on list, but wine is okay. Kent claims to have but they told me what. As I said, we smoke much only when awake. Right now, I know my wife is on the other side of this desk, even though I see her. Our dog has a different I it" 1 orld sum it up, the situation looks batter, but the Fulbright 1 A situation looks worse y.

'4 SUM Hik. Stil No Assurance Of Peace By David Lawrence Twenty-five years have elapsed since the guns were silenced as World War II came to an end. But there is still no assurance of peace. In fact, the danger zones in Southeast Asia and the Middle East are only symbols of a world unrest an almost universal fear of terrorism and guerrilla warfare motivated by terrorist groups that threaten the stability also of many countries in Africa and I tin America. Europe is by no means free from apprehension.

The 10 European members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization have just told Defense Secretary Melvin Laird that they have agreed to add one billion dollars to their contributions to NATO defenses in the next five years, with West Germany bearing the biggest burden of the increase. Mr. Laird has declared that America intend to make any significant reductions in its manpower or combat strength in Europe. The unanswered question is why after 25 years the United States and the nations of Western Europe should feel it necessary to maintain a military organization to ward off a possible attack from Eastern Europe that could be initiated by the Soviet Union. COMMERCIAL PROGRESS has been good in many parts of Europe, but it would have been even far greater if intercourse between Eastern and Western Europe were devoid of Communist domination, for, although there has been no war on the European continent, the possibility of a major conflict has never been out of the minds of the people in Central and Western Europe who have feared that sooner or later big armies from the East would invade their lands.

The United States maintains now about 300,000 troops on the European continent, and there is pressure from certain factions in Congress to bring about the withdrawal of at least two and a half of the four and one-third divisions in Europe. But the military situation there is being given moral support by the United States in addition to the deployment of certain military units as, for instance, the strengthening of the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. NONE OF THE EUROPEAN countries is strong enough by itself or even in combination with its neighbors to withstand an attack from the Communists. What the United States is doing by its backing of NATO and the presence of its fleet in the Mediterranean may not be widely noted or discussed in this country, but it means a great deal to the Europeans.

There has been lots of discussion lately about the limitation of armament, and the talks with the Soviet Union have been expected to bring some halt in the expansion of military power, particularly in the field of nuclear and strategic arms. But the surprising thing is that there is and has been no crusade for peace. Such an effort could, if properly organized, reach the hearts and minds of people in all countries of the world, and would do more to reverse the trend toward another war than anything else. Ways are available for talking in the languages of all nations by radio words which can be transmitted by the use of satellites and heard everywhere. Peoples could, in effect, talk to one another about the issues that keep them apart.

A PEACE MOVEMENT is needed right now to win over the people of North Vietnam so that American prisoners can be released and progress can be made toward a settlement with the South Vietnamese. A peace movement also is needed to assure the peoples of the Soviet Union that the United States has no unfriendly intent toward them. Their leaders could provide many benefits to their country if a cooperative effort toward peace were undertaken with the help of the American people. This could secure peace not merely in Europe and Asia but in all the continents of the world. Nobody wants more wars, but there is very little action of a meaningful nature being taken to prevent the growth of the artificially stimulated hostile feelings which could bring a recurrence of the bloodshed and tragedies of 25 years ago.

Is Soviet Stand Softening? In the Middle East the wheels of diplomacy are at last beginning to turn. The Arabs and Israel continue the cease-fire along the Suez Canal and representatives of the United States, Russia, Britain and France have resumed bargaining. Now, I am informed, emissaries are in contact with diplomats for the first time since the six-day war in 1967. The contacts are informal and secret and the Russians, in public statement, continue to attack Israel as the But according to East European diplomats, Moscow has been seeking a rapprochement with the Israelis since the death of President Nasser in September. THIS IS SEEN as one reason why Defense Minister Moshe Dayan now favors peace talks through U.N.

mediator Gunnar Jarring. It was hawkish Dayan who originally persuaded the government of Premier Golda Meir to withdraw from the Jarring talks because of and violations of the fire. Now he throws his weight behind the Israeli doves who urge the resumption of negotiations with Egypt and Jordan, however To break the Mideast deadlock, Dayan is even reported to favor the withdrawal of occupation forces far enough into the Sinai desert so that the Suez Canal could be reopened to all shipping, including Israeli. Despite official Israeli denials, Dayan is visit Washington in mid-December to discuss his proposal with the Nixon administration. SUCH CONCESSIONS should appease the Russians who have a special interest in seeing the canal reopened.

The Kremlin leaders are currently expanding their naval forces in the Indian Ocean in what is believed to be the start of a large outflanking movement directed against Red China. But mediterranean fleet is cut off from the Indian Ocean, except for the long way around the Cape of Good Hope. When the canal is reopened the Russians will be able to link their Indian Ocean bases with their bases in the Mediterranean. In this context role in the Middle East gains. a new perspective.

TO BE SURE, die-hard Stalinists in the Kremlin still prefer in the Middle East a state of no-peace-no-war or a policy of But even hawks, judged by press, are increasingly worried by the inability of the bickering Arabs to coordinate their action against Israel. As seen in Moscow, the election of Anwar al- Sadat as successor has not put an end to struggle for power in Egypt. Soviet commentators continue to denounce and international for plans to break up The latest military coup in Syria the 20th since 1940 is also a serious setback for the Kremlin leaders. The new dictator in Damascus, Gen. Haffez al-Assad, has been strongly critical of the extent to which deposeid pro-Russian President al-Atassi allowed Moscow to intervene in domestic affairs and foreign policies.

Today In History By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Today is Monday, Dec. 7, the 341st day of 1970. There are 24 days left in the year. highlight in On this date in 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor at the beginning of the Pacific War. On this date: In 1808, James Madison was elected president.

In 1931, in Washington, President Herbert Hoover refused to receive a group of marchers protesting unemployment. Ten Years Ago In the U.N. Security Council, the Soviets demanded that the Congo government release former Premier Patrice Lumumba and restore him to power. Five Years Ago The manned U.S. spaceship, Gemini 7, was in orbit.

One Year Ago The Soviet Union and West Germany agreed to open talks on an agreement to renounce the use of threat of force between the two countries. Daily Bible erse JAMES 2:8 If you really fulfill the royal Jaw, according to the scripture, shall love your neighbor as you do well. Day Of Infamy Eerie Memory By Henry Taylor God Make His Face To Shine On Them In Lasting This is the prayer emblazoned on the Pearl Harbor tablet that lists our hallowed dead buried aboard the sunken American battleship Arizona. And then the infamous date December 7, 1941. It holds an eerie memory for me.

I had reached Lisbon that morning from Berlin. It was a Sunday, of course. The news came over the radio in the late afternoon. But in Iisbon someone always had just heard something on the air, some nonsense or other. Airwaves were powerful weapons in the Axis arsenals applied to wartime Portugal.

MARSHAL PET station at Vichy, France, broke the first news of Pearl Harbor. Strangely, that source gave all Europe the earliest word. The Vichy French operated a powerful station in Saigon, then French Indochina. It provided direct communication to France. This Far East outpost had picked up the commentary from Tokyo.

Thus, the initial version of Pearf Harbor that Europe heard was from the Japanese, not the Allies. My source, in turn, was a shy, slight little gentleman with leonine hair and a lonesome mien, who looked as though been sleeping in the rain. My source was the Portugese barber in the basement of the Palacio Hotel. EVEN FOR LISBON, this was not a promising background for authenticity. Moreover, his English was courageous but bad and he lost me completely in his halting recollection of what he had heard on the Vichy radio between snip-snaps with his scissors.

It was mostly I think but something was up, for sure, and this was one haircut he never finished. U.S. Minister Bert Fish, a dear soul, gave me an agonized fill-in at our legation in downtown Lisbon. been a catastrophe all right and in he said. all we know is what the Japs claim, passed along by Minister Fish and I agreed that I would put in a fast radio-telephone call to the man in charge of my mission to Europe, Col.

William J. Donovan of our secret services. socean words ricocheted back to me from Washington on a wavy weird to fully comprehend. OF THE WEST at 7 this Bill told me. Hickham Field in Honolulu was on fire! he said.

They had riddled our P-40s parked in groups like sitting ducks. The great battleship Arizona was sunk to the bottom inside the Pearl Harbor mole. Casualties were high. Dreadfully, dreadfully high. undulating words drifted to me like the moaning calls of shadowy shapes let loose in a wilderness.

The connection broke; the circuit was lost. Minister Fish made an official call on Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio de Oliveira I had had some experience in radio and Fish asked permission for me to make a broadcast over the Portuguese facilities and that this broadcast be tied in to the European network through Madrid and Switzerland. Dr. Salazar granted the permission. He ordered the arrangements.

And my Pearl Harbor version, softer than the Tokyo gloatings, was the first American version of Pearl Harbor heard in continental Europe. FOUR DAYS LATER December 11 Fish and I listened on his bedroom set to Hitler yackety-yackety-vack from the Kroll Opera House in Berlin. We sat alone. Hitler started at 1 Iisbon time. Slow, very low key.

I once heard Hitler speak at a Nuremberg rally for three hours and was prepared for anything. Zersetzung is a German word which means disorganization. The speech was totally setzung. Presently Hitler sped his pace. Next a hush.

Then, at intervals, you could hear the true fanatic in his shrill, defiant scream. We sat there an hour. By 2 Hitler still had not declared war on the United States. Minister Fish took out his watch. This was a moment to mark exactly in the time of the world, for the world would never again be the same.

Fish bet me a dollar Hitler would declare war on us before 2:15 came and went. Fish handed me the dollar. Hitler declared war on us at walking on the carpet of illusions that concealed from him the abyss. 1 esteryears (From The Evening Sun) 15 ears Ago Earl R. Smith, Wrightsville R.D.

1, died when his car hit a bridge abutment along the East Prospect road, six miles east of York. The South Western Joint School Distirict announced approval of the site for the new junior-senior high school. The York County Tuberculosis and Health Society announced Christmas Seals sales were down by $3,000 from the previous year. 25 ears Ago Hanover exceeded its quota in the Victory bond drive by $89,592.75. The community still had not met its quota on bonds, with only 50 per cent sold.

50 ears Ago Samuel A. Geiselman was elected president of the Hanover school board. He suceeded Dr. H.M, Alleman, who served as president three years. Bread prices dropped in areas where it was 10, 15 and 16 cents a loaf.

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