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For one thing, it well be that the nation's increased emphasis in South Viet Nam is serving a purpose beyond the on- the surface intent. The fact that Russia has been as cautious in its objection certainly be considered. The fact, too, that Red China is showing itself potentially explosive against Russia and the West must be a part of anything planned and executed in Washington. And while South Viet Nam is of direct con- cein. military personnel and supplies so close to the Red China border certainly are not being overlooked in Peking.

Any aggressive move from Red China will not be met by a token force either from the West or from Russia. There also are indications of a but nevertheless positive moves toward the conference table. This is only being hinted now, but there are some definite signs through the United Nations, as well as from some indirect references by the President. It doesn't mean that there will be peace, of course, but the Viet Cong ago has seen that it cannot meet its schedule of winning this year. i the already announced buildup in supplies and personnel from this country, and i the potential pledged by the President for the future, North Viet Nam's leadership might be more willing to negotiate now and salvage as much as possible in the way of concessions.

President Johnson has concentrated in his public announcements and commitments on Viet Nam. Sen. John Stennis. as chairman of the Senate Armed Services Preparedness Subcommittee, is critical of the shortage a military equipment, which possibly can initiate a new buildup in capabilities. And while all of these developments are coming, one of the possible secrets held in Washington is that the effort is being made for two reasons, not one.

Even-thing may be on the planning board to win in Viet Nam-and to be in a position to keep Red China within its borders. Downpours--And Their Danger Heavy rains such as those experienced here during the past month are unusual, and several in succession are rare. These downpours have sent usually timid little creeks rising rapidly to overflow their banks and engulf streets, parks, yards, as well as basements. This overflow has been muddy and churning water which could not flow in to city torm drains. This water causes numerous hazards.

Naturally, there is the danger of damage to homes and other property. Streets can be weakened with washouts, and there can be damage to culverts and street fills. Also, there can be loss of life unless care is taken. Recently, during one of the heavy rains, several youngsters were seen swimming in the high waters at City Park and Willowbrook Park. In one especially dangerous case, two boys were swimming in swirling water at a creek which crosses the 1000 block of South Main Street.

From Charlotte Observer The two boys were in danger of being swept under by the water, and they could easily have been drowned. Also, a flash flood of this type can bring much debris into an area, under the surface of the water and unknown to swimmers. Hidden hazards are as numerous as one's imagination can stretch. Then, there is the possibility of disease. The water in such a sudden flooding is filthy and can carry dread disease to those who get in it, swallow even small portions of it and try to swim in it.

Sure, Dad used to have his favorite swimming hole as a boy, but it was pretty safe compared to flood waters. There's no daredevil accomplishment reached by swimming in dangerous water. It's foolish. It can easily add to the drowning toll which has been so bad" in our state this year that Moore has asked for a renewed program of water safety. Old Enemies And New Conflicts York was a strange advertisement, a one for Esquire in the New Herald Tribune.

two men in business holding a glass, toasting figure was the name, Above him man ted the at Tokyo." attar figure was the Mttmo Fuchida. Above mptfea, "Tlua man led at Harbor." have parsed into their respec- aari bngaa cfaecking In- wWch were to it seemed all wrong somehow, almost irreverent But just for a split second. Because you don't keep alive the fires of hatred forever. You forgive the Germans for Huertgen Forest, the Japanese for Bataan and the British for burning the White House as they conversely forgive us for Hiroshima, Hamburg and New Orleans, respectively. The two old warriors of the air are grinning broadly at each other, more than two decades After fighting each other in a World War which extinguished the lives of 26 million Individuals.

It seems inconceivable today, but some notable American officer and a captain af the Viet Cong may grin at each other in the same wty, II yean By Breca Btoiset GOP Governors Lacking Choice Allen-Scott Fortas Wealthiest Man Ever On Court PtHl J. Seatt Robert S. ADen ene epMteecuMmany deaths from now, WASHINGTON Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who will pass on Abe Fortas' appointment to the Supreme Court, are evincing much curiosity about an omission in his lengthy, self written biography. While meticulously listing every public and private job he has ever held and numerous other details, he has not a single word about his World War II a service. Similarly.

President Johnson who lelt Congress to enter the the Navy and proudly wears the Silver a decoration on his lapel, aiso was mute about the military service of i choice for a seat on the highest tribunal of land While glow- inglj acclaiming Fortas as a "scholar, profound thinker, lawyer of superior ability, humane and deeply compassionate champion of our liberties," the President said nothing about his being a veteran. In each instance, this silence was no There was very good reason for it. Fortas' World War II naval service lasted less than months 29 days of which he spent as a perambulatory patient in the hospital of a New York training camp undergoing tests and examinations. Their verdict was that he had an "arrested case of ocular tuberculosis'' and he was forthwith discharged. Fortas immediately resumed his office as undersecretary of the interior In welcoming him back, late Secretary Haroid Ickes proclaimed that a recurrence of Fortas' eye ailment "might have been attended by the most serious permanent results." In the 22 years since then, there is no known record of such a recurrence.

In those two decades, Fortas has become a multi-millionaire, the key partner of one of the largest and most influential law firms in Washington and at 55, still does not wear glasses. TRANSIENT APPRENTICE-A storm of caustic congressional and press criticism was largely behind Fortas' enlistment in the Navy on October 29, 1943. But the 33 year old married but childless New Dealer was barely sworn in when he was out again. On that same day he was placed on inactive stall's and named head of a mission of the Petroleum Reserves Corporation to make a study of the Middle East oil situation. Fortas explained he accepted this assignment "because it was of national importance, and with the understanding that would be quickly complete! so (be) could enter the Navy." On November 6,1943, he again became an apprentice seaman and was sent to Camp Sampson, for training.

There he was hospitalized for a series of examinations and tests that led to his discharge December 13 for "an arresU-d case of ocular tuberculosis." Upon returning to Washington, Fortas Joined a veterans' or- ganizatton--from which he has long since dropped out NO CHANGE -Mm (nee Carolyn Agger) kat no intention of giving up her highly lucrative law practice. A senior member her husband's law firm, Mrs. Fortas, a leading tax specialist, heads the firm's tax division of some 50 attorneys and accountants. They orrMjpy an office building of their own opposite her husband's office Says Mrs Fortas, "I a been in the law all my life, and I don't expect to give it up now Whv shou'd This will make her the fir.it wife is Supreme Court history actively practicing law while her husband is on the auguxt bench deciding tax a es. among others.

Mrs Fortas is a cigar smoker- short thin ones in public, large fat ones in private. Small and shm. enjoy cooking and loves calorie rich dishes. But she watches her weight carefully, and diets frequently to keep it down She and her husband a poodle lovers, now have two, Dallas and Misty BREAKING NEW GROUND --A multi-millionaire, Fortas is the wealthiest man ever named to the Supreme Court. In addition to having the principal interest in very valuable realty holdings in a booming Washing- Add Allen-Scott DC ton business section, he is also an officer and director of a number of large corporations.

among them Greatamerica Corp Braniff Airways, Franklin Life Insurance Madison National Bank, Federated Department Stores, Sucrest Corp. be the first justice to on a $28,500 Rolls Royce. which he drives himself. Prior to i appointment, he parked it occasionally in front of his office building," a one-time mansion a WASHINGTON, (NBA) -No mere UMLQ two of the 17 Rep- ofeifcau governors assembeld at fomum' conference ap- to have any 1088 pres- feteaiial potential and even feat may be stretching iittfe. The top figure was Michigan's hasdscnss v.

George Romney. But when he met the press be got himself so snagged in verbal underbrush that be did his cause no good. Already burdened with a uutioa for sanctimony and urne wolfisnx Romney cannot afford to become stamped as a man destined to wander in the rhetorical wilderness. Gov. a a i of Oregon, almost a i to be a candidate for the U.

S. Senate in 1966, made by far the forceful impression this time, with pre-j cise comment on Viet Nam and BIOSSAT federal state relations. Ilis classic handicap is Oregon's small electoral status, but one western governor says this need not be a total bar if Hatfield keeps on doing well. Lip service still is paid to the prospects of Gov. William Scranton of Pennsylvania, his showing in Minneapolis seemed in fact to have brought him to very low estate.

When he canceled a conference because he really had nothing to say. no loud murmur of protest arose. His remark on a national television show that he did not think his appetite for the presidency "particularly good" gave fresh tone to his old image as the reluctant Hamlet of Harrisburg Beyond these, the GOP governors' contains cupboard, though it such attractive types as Ccnr.ccticsit Avenus Love of Colorado, Evans of Washington and John Mode Island, is really bare. The 196S pickings are not much better outside the governors' circle. The roster of 33 Republican senators one, Sen.

Thomas Kucbel California, but he would draw attention only if he ran and won the governorship of California next year. On many tongues is the name of Rep. John Lindsay, running now for may of New York City. But he has to win, and then cut deep into York's mountain of barnacle-encrusted problems. The 1960 nominee, Richard Nixon, just about completes list: He is busy banking credit by making dozens of speeches for 1966 GOP congressional candidates.

Goldwaterites and other conservatives often mention him favorably. Nevertheless, some governors here think his name is being used now as a "safe harbor" while party leaders wait to see how Romney. Hatfield, Lindsay and one or two others perfrom in the next 18 months. "I think Dick has gone beyond his time." Though Nixon is no oldster, this western governor i ks the constant infusion of larger and larger numbers of young people into voting ranks may one day soon make the former vice president seem like an party." The governor adds: "All of a sudden the older types may look to the young folk like Homer Capehart (an aping Indiana senator beaten in 1962)." Though George Romney will be 61 in 1968, his ruggedly youthful appearance and style make him probably the man much beyond 50 who could get any berious. consideration.

A TMtwnftOrtf ought to keep our eye on Romney pretty closely." The Republican governors look for no newcomes to emerge in time to make head- wav. A before he was named to the bench, the Fortasas bought a $250,000, 15-room residence in Georgetown opposite historic Dumbarton Oaks, famed estate dating back to colonial times. Their new home is being extensively refurbished. Through his long and close ties with President Johnson, Fortas has influenced a number of key appointments, foremost among them Atty. Gen.

Katzenbach and Internal Revenue Commissioner Sheldon Cohen, former member of the Fortas law firm Before Fortas was named to Supreme Court, White House insiders were saying he has been consulted by the President on former Supreme Court Justice Goldberg's selection a UN ambassador If this is true, he had a hand in opening the way for his being named to Goldberg's seat on the bench. "Ok, we're not with junior--it's just that never know where be is or what he's doinql" The Editor's Desk 'Shoes Of Iron And Brass Dr. John G. Has New Book Of Poems Dr. John G.

Truitt of Eton College, retired superintendent of Elon Children's Home, has another book of poems in limited edition which, as the others, is delighful. The other poetry -in "Across the Years" and "Happiness and other Poems" have taken their places in libraries and in the hearts of those friends and admirers who have long enjoyed the Truitt touch In the new book, there is an explanation from Scripture. It reads: "Thy shoes shall be iron and brass, and as thy days, so shall thy strength be." Deut. 33:25. Thus, the book's title, "Shoes of Iron and Brass." Dr.

Truitt explains the purpose of it all this way as an introduction: These little verses were very pleasant to write, at leasure about various things. They are here collected, published, and indeed, rather than being left tucked about, here and there and everywhere. I like it better that way. How about you? He dedicates his book to his three grandchildren April Truitt Hoggard, Susan Madison Twiddy, and Meiinda Truitt and then expresses himself in some of the thoughts and experiences which come to him in his still active career. There is the on "Elon, My Alma Mater." It is a type of autobiography, focusing on opportunities through the years and paying tome personal He entered Elon "fifty yean or more, I'd say," and "In school I bad earn my WAV, brothers did that far toy," He was graduated, and "a one-room school I taught two years." He then began his ministry "and college debts were now all paid." then came his study at Princeton, then to First Church in Norfolk, then to Dayton, Ohio, then back to Suffolk, Va.

Then, this: Then came a call to Elon town. And should I heed or turn it down; The Home for Children needed me, Came this the challenge and the plea. Eleven years I did my best, To help the Home in its hard test; At last it seemed well on the way To meet a larger, better day. Then nearing my three score and ten, I stepped aside for younger men; The Lord had blessed me. so I feel, My call was right, my answer real.

The poem is long, as compared to others. It tells of the children and gran- children, the rewards of opportunities. He puts a lifetime into some beautiful words. He also has a poem on "James Spfencer the older brother who was the first of six Tniitt children to enter Elon from the Rockingham County farm. There are many other topics that reach into homespun philosophy, others to the heights of intrigue.

Here are some of the titles: "A First- Gruder," "Bread And Butter Letters," "Gossip," "Growing OW." "Heaven," "In A Hospital Room," "In Them My Hands," "Modern Meals." "0 I Think October's Pretty." "Peace," "Purchasing A Dress," "Retiring," "September," "Show Of Iron And Brass," "Sprinf," "That Couple At The Altar," "The Oooutry Store," Family Shoes Of Mtae," 1 A Pwt," "Yn AMI Your Town." And wen. From Wi One at tht Chfldrte'i ROM, this "Still Needy" certainly was inspired: Only a lad he was of six. With ruddy cheeks and full of tricks: With eyes so big, and smile so sweet, Where heav'n and earth seemed meant to meet; And everything that counts he had, Except a mother and a dad she IN SPA PER Dr. Truitt ha? brought, his poo ITS of past several a to- jether i He 1 still writes them when the thought comes. It may be 2 a.m., or it may be he sees the sun go down, or when a letter wrives.

i a a effort at writing beyond thought DR. JOHN G. TOWTT he shapes Man Poems for a Sunday sermon. Since his retirement, he has missed only one Sunday supplying a pulpit in North Carolina or Virgins, "and he's now scheduled throtigh mid-September. And he does not try to make anything Wg with his books of poetry.

There are only IN oopfee of "Shots Of Iron and for instance, going to cbse ftterda, and other, who have cone dOMlylntoMi We through MTM interest or experience). IF.WSPAPERI.