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Ll THE KANSAS CITY STAR, THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1 964 THE KANSAS CITY STAR GOODNESp! WHAT BROUGHT YOU ON? Founded September 18, 1880 by William Rockhill Nelson MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press exclusively is entitled to the use for reproduction of all local news published herein as well as all AP dispatches. Net paid circulation, June, 1964. Evening (daily average) 330,331 Morning (daily average) 330,191 Sunday (average) 378,844 STARBEAMS By Bill Vaughan IT looks like this may be a campaign which will divide neighborhoods with the kind of vindictive bitterness urhich leads to one neighbors returning the ladder he borrowed from the other neighbor last April. So many times the magazine expose purporting to be the Untold Story of somebody or something should have the words Better Left ahead of the Untold.

Congressman Sludgepump denies that every man has his price. He has several and right now is offering himself at a preelection bargain rate. The Democrats will meet in Atlantic City, famous for the Miss America contests. Bert Parks will be chairman and we can hear him now, singing, There He Goes; Our Nominee. after 100 nations signed the limited test ban treaty.

There certainly was no visible reason to keep such tests a secret. The United States and the rest of the free world want to be certain that there is no cheating on the test ban treaty. Existing ground-based equipment can detect almost any nuclear explosion in the atmosphere. The two satellites since have been nudged into perfect circular orbit 63,000 miles high. They are on opposite sides of the earth.

The tests are forerunners of a complete system. The first two satellites in the Vela detection system have been known to give false alarms when struck by energetic particles from solar flares. Better radiation detectors on the present orbiting satellites will soon demonstrate their accuracy. If they can reach out 200 million miles, as claimed, it seems reasonably certain that no one will try to cheat on the test ban treaty in outer space. Thank goodness, says the Office Grouch, we have politics to take our minds off baseball.

AN air traveler who recently flew over Southern California is thinking of notifying the FBI. He saw one house below him that didnt have a swimming pool. Shotgun Schultz says that the way he has been pounded In the Game of Life, somebody must be stealing his signals. Junior Tippy has been rejected by several colleges of his choice, and his old high school wont take him back again either. It's Hot Enough for Anyone At 104 degrees the very air glows with a tangible heat, like the breath of an open hearth steel furnace.

This is Mid-Western summer at its most. It is a time for listening to the indoor hum of air conditioning and to little else. Outdoors, motor car tires whine at the tug of softened asphalt and re-entry to a car left parked in the sun is a precarious ordeal. You try not to think about those who must work outside in such weather: The man digging a utility cut, the traffic patrolman, the service station attendant. Golf, tennis and picnics suddenly have minimal appeal.

The swimming pool is bearable. Yesterday was the hottest day here in almost eight years. About the only thing most of us feel like doing is counting the days left until Labor day. San Franciscos cable cars have been designated a national historic landmark, and now that the speedometer has turned over 100,000 miles maybe we could get a similar plaque for the family sedan. AMERICANS traditionally favor the underdog, but in this Novembers election neither candidate strikes us as the underdog type.

LEO BOSWELL PUTS ROADS AHEAD OF SPOILS IN the Democratic primary race for county highway engineer, the voters have a clear-cut choice between a highly-regarded professional engineer, who has never beer! in politics, and an engineer who also is a hard-core faction leader. Seldom are the lines so clearly drawn in the Democratic primary. The Republicans have no primary contest over this important county office. Leo Boswells sole qualification for public office is his proved ability as an engineer. He was persuaded to make the race by people interested in modern highways to relieve congestion and to build for the future in Jackson County.

Boswell knows the county system well. He played an important role in the work of two large engineering firms that produced the 1956 master road plan. That excellent study has been ignored so far. If elected, Boswell has pledged to dust off the master plan and implement it as rapidly as possible. The emphasis would be completely on road building and not on the division of patronage among the factions.

Boswells work in the county would be based on years of experience as a consultant and field engineer on a wide variety of public projects. Before moving to Kansas City in 1946, he served as president of the Oklahoma section of the American Society of Civil Engineers. His opponent is Harvey Jones, the incumbent. During his years as county engineer (1953 to 1957, and since 1961), Jones has had ample opportunity to demonstrate his interests and ambitions for the county system. But he has not moved to launch any positive program.

Originally Jones was a key member of the Eastern Jackson County club run by his brother-in-law, William Sermon. Later he broke off and formed his own faction, the Congress of Democratic clubs. Repeatedly, Jones has been in political feuds with the county court. His budgets and the level of maintenance tell the story of factional fights and hirings and firings, in which the key concern appeared to be jobs and politics, not roads. It is highly significant that the maintenance payroll remains high, although the county system has been cut virtually in half by annexations.

Medical science is still puzzled as to where the itch goes when you scratch. Thats easy it moves over to the other shoulder blade. THE BRITISH KEEP THEIR MALTESE BASE Technological unemployment comes in all sizes, and wire backstops for Little League baseball games have eliminated our regular sandlot position pigtail. Eugene of Savoy Cut a Swath in Europe tremble.) French generals, when they learned they were faced by Eugenes army, sought means to escape encounters. Repeatedly they went into winter quarters before it was necessary to prevent an engagement with the genius.

The war in which Marlborough and Eugene led the allied troops against Louis XIV's armies proved that France was not invincible and that military power properly applied could curtail the ruthless progress of the Sun King. The time came when Louis XIV sent secret emissaries to Marlborough offering him a huge bribe to call off the war. Marlborough loved money, although there is no proof the charges that he was prepared to take, nr had taken, French money, were true. They probably were not. There is no record of any attempt by the French king to bribe his sw'orn enemy, Eugene.

That fanatical soldier cared lit- tried to dominate, usually sue ceeding. The story of Malborough, the Englishman, and his campaign in the war which became known as the war of the Spanish succession (in the American colonies it was the French and Indian war in which colonists fought), may be read in Churchills biography of Marlborough, a magnificent feat of writing recommended to all students of history. Ended in Stalemate The Hapsburg emperor, the Dutch and the English formed an alliance to defeat the hitherto unbeatable Louis XIV of France. In this war, which went on 14 years and ended in a notorious stalemate because Marlborough was hamstrung by politicians in London, the name of Eugene became the terror of the French. The renegade Frenchman, the stripling Louis had refused to have in his army, now imade the throne at Versailles FlHE British government and the representa- tives of Malta have finally agreed upon the terms under which the 300,000 or so inhabitants of this little group of Mediterranean islands will achieve independence in the near future.

The story is a familiar one. Because of its strategic location, Malta has an importance out of all proportion to its size or natural resources. Indeed, its viability as a separate sovereign state still appears questionable. Nevertheless, freedom for small nations is on the march, and recent developments in the area have made a satisfactory solution of the Maltese problem a piece of increasingly urgent business not only for Great Britain -but for every other member of the North Atlantic alliance, including the United States. Malta is as Cyprus was until the other day a British crown colony.

It lies athwart the main channel between the Eastern and Western Mediterranean. Britain has long maintained a major naval installation there, to protect avenues of sea communication that lead to India and Australia through the Suez canal. And the commander-in-chief of the NATO forces along the southern flank of Europe has his headquarters on Malta. The islands, however, were of somewhat secondary value from a military point of view, while the British could exert firm control at either end of the Mediterranean. Ten years ago Britains treaty rights in the Suez canal zone were canceled.

The chief defense post in the Eastern Mediterranean was then transferred to Cyprus. Now the Cypriot bases look less and less tenable. And Malta has become correspondingly more vital to both the British and NATO systems. tie for money. He loved fine paintings and good music, kept away from women, preferring the company of his comrades in the field of action.

Eugene was in and out of field hospitals repeatedly recovering from wounds. Sometimes he sat on his horse in a cavalry action when still suffering from saber wounds. He Favored Bayonets He compelled his front rank troops to use the bayonet which made the casualties of the war against the French higher than those of previous campaigns. Before a day of battle was ended the dead would sometimes lie five and six deep before strong points assaulted by Eugene and his troops. Considering the number of men involved, the war of the Spanish succession was one of the bloodiest of its epoch in history.

When he was not actively engaged in a campaign in the field Eugene turned his attention to diplomacy, which he carried out effectively for his Hapsburg masters, to building new cities and towns and to collecting works of art. He probably knew more about painting than any field soldier who ever lived. After the long war ended he became the teacher of Frederick of Prussia, known in history as Frederick the Great (it is difficult for this witness to understand exactly why). As he grew older Eugenes mental powers seem to have declined, which condition was observed by Frederick, who wrote, the greatest geniuses end as imbeciles. This, as many of Fredericks other judgments, would seem to be untrue.

But whatever his mental and physical condition toward the end of his life, Eugene of Savoy for 50 years cut a swath in Europe which has never received much attention from those who speak English. He was one of the few captains of war who really was born to fight. He was also a classic example of the genius in a weak boidy whose physical appearance caused him to be misjudged by those he afterwards caused to repent their hasty opinions. At 21 he beecame a major general, a general of cavalry at 26. He was a master of surprise, of forced marches against an enemys flank, of daring attacks on points of defense his instinct told him would fall before determined opposition.

Neglected Genius It is a curious fact that little is known of this strange military genius in the English-speaking world. Perhaps not one American in 1,000 has ever heard of Eugene of Savoy. No biography that comes to mind ever was published in English until the recent Prince Eugene of Savoy, by Nicholas Henderson, an excellent book in its way, but not yet the definitive biography. In his massive biography of his great ancestor, the Duke of Marlborough, Winston Churchill mentions Eugene with constant admiration, but slurs over his success in battle. Marlborough, who became Eugenes ally, never lost a battle, but every one of his victories, except one, saw the presence of Eugene who as repeatedly wounded in the front line of combat.

Blenheim, Marlboroughs greatest victory, may have been the result of Eugenes dash and unconquerable spirit more than it was of Marlboroughs strategy. The two men became inseparable friends through their association in the war against Louis XIV. I really love that prince, Marlborough wrote to his wife in England. Knew His Fame But before the first meeting between the two, Eugene had become the most renowmed military commander in the world of his day. He saved Vienna, which is to say all of Western Europe, from the Turkish army.

He defeated the Turks in furious battles. That at Zenta in 1697 so decisive that the siege of Vienna, with its resultant starvation and typhus epidemic, was lifted and Eugene's name rang through the Christian world. Louis XIV w'as still to be reckoned with. The French king was the richest, most powerful, most mischievous man alive. His prying eyes were on everybody elses business, which he SINCE 1958, the county highway system has been reduced from 946 to 553 miles.

Yet this year Jones requested more money for maintenance salaries than the highway engineer received in 1958. To get at the facts, the county eourt authorized an independent study of road maintenance. The report was prepared by Black Veatch, a nationally-known firm of consulting engineers. The survey spoke of a lack of definite planning for annual operations. It said that the ratio of supervisory employees appears high and that increased supervision and direction is required.

Black Veatch recommended better records, a better maintenance policy, a cost accounting system and other major improvements. The report verified what many persons had suspected all along. The county highway department has been run pretty much on a catch-as-catch-can political basis. In sharp contrast, during his campaign, Boswell has made an all-out commitment for an urban road system based on a rational and reasonable plan. Strictly on the basis of his professional qualifications and his public pledges, we believe that Leo Boswell deserves full support for the Democratic nomination for highway engineer of Jackson County.

ATOM DETECTIVES IN ORBIT IN these circumstances, something had to be done to prevent the Maltese situation from degenerating into a variant of that on Cyprus. (The people of Malta are divided today along religious, rather than ethnic, lines.) A way out of that dilemma now seems to have been found. The new constitution approved in London contains a clause guaranteeing freedom of religion. The arrangement worked out there also assures the British of their present base rights for another decade, and, in return, the Maltese are to be given substantial economic aid. Maltas independence presumably will be buttressed by membership in the Commonwealth, as well as in the United Nations.

There is some evidence that the Communists had hoped to benefit, if Malta could be kept in turmoil. The religious safeguards and other provisions of the over-all agreement have yet to be tested by experience. But for the moment it looks as if the British and the Maltese have established a sound relationship, in the interest of both parties and the West generally. By Marcel Wallenstein (The Star's Correspondent in Europe) PARIS Seated before his table in his private study in Versailles, Louis XIV looked with distaste on the youth who entered the room. The boy was badly built, skinny and shambling.

His high forehead and short upper lip gave him a vacant expression belied by the fire in his eyes The greatest king in the world afterwards wrote of this meeting: Nobody ever ventured to stare me in the face with such insolence; like an angry sparrow hawk. Sought a Commission The youth standing before the grand monarch, France's sun king, was Prince Francois Eugene of Savoy, then 19 years old. His mother, one of the most beautiful women of the ccurt, was Olympe Mancini; a discarded mistress of this same king. The boy, whose ancestors had distinguished themselves as soldiers, had come before the king to request a commission in the French army. He had been destined by his family for the church and the king sometimes referred to Eugene, the name later to be heard around the world, as the little abbe.

The request, although Louis later admitted was modest enough, was curtly refused. Of all the mistakes made by Louis XIV, this was probably the worst. As a result of bis refusal the course of history vas charged, both in Europe and in North America. If Eugene of Savoy had received permission to join the kings army (which he had every right to do as a Frenchman born in Paris) the inhabitants of the Mississippi Missouri valley might today be speaking French instead of their own version of English. Set Out on His Own Following his audience at Versailles Eugene was determined to leave his native country never to return except with the sword of vengeance in his hand.

He was to become, by the reckoning of Napoleon, one of the greatest military commanders of which history has any record. Eugene had not been a success with the young bloods at Versailles. He was not light enough in his tastes and manner; he had no interest in flirtations with the pretty girls who swarmed in the palace. He had been of an effeminate nature in his childhood, sometimes dressing in girls clothes. Eugenes mother was sent away frdm court to exile in Brussels on suspicion of having been involved in a notorious poison conspiracy which specialized in getting unwanted husbands out of the way.

Her own husband the youths father-had died in suspicious circumstances. The treatment of his mother further enraged the young sparrdw hawk against the king. Practiced With Bayonet Eugene joined his mother in Brussels where he immediately began a course in strenuous exercise to improve his physical condition. He became an expert swordsman and practiced with the bayonet, a weapon seldom used in the battles of that period of the 17th century. War had become a matter of seiges of fortresses whose outer defenses were mined and blown up by attacking forces before the assault on the inner, central fort.

Later with two of his brothers Eugene went to Vienna and became a member of the court of the Hapsburg emperor, Leopold. Eugene had hardly put on the Austrian uniform before he demonstrated that he was a soldier born. At the age of 20 he was promoted to the rank of colonel. TWO more Sentry satellites for detecting nuclear explosions in deep space have been placed in orbit from Cape Kennedy. There is thus further reassurance that the U.

S. is in the process of developing a foolproof system that could detect nuclear tests by the Russians, whergver they might take place. After the Sentry launchings, the Air Force removed the secrecy that had covered the previous two launchings October 16, six days Rejected by King Louis XIV of France, Prince Eugene of Savoy later made the throne tremble. Economists Reject Barrys Ideas U. S.

Holds South Africa Key By M. J. Rossant (C New York Times News Service) NEW YORK From now until November, the Johnson administration will be releasing a series of economic statistics to stress that American businessmen and consumers have never had it so good. It also will be proclaiming that its liberal-conservative mix of economic policies is needed to sustain prosperity. As the Republicans wound up their convention last week the President made public figures to show the economys notable advance over the last three months.

Johnson expressed confidence in bigger gains to come. The Democrats will obviously seek to beat the drums for every new economic record registered. This is sound and reliable strategy. Prosperity helped re-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956.

Its absence hurt the Republicans in 1960, when the late John F. Kennedy promised to get the nation moving again. WITH Barry M. Goldwater as his Republican opponent, Johnson will do more than remind voters that the expansion is going strong. He has an opportunity to monopolize the entire middle-of-the-road on economic policies, a position formerly shared with the Republicans.

Walter W. Heller, chairman of the Presidents Council of Economic Advisers, claimed this advantageous ground in Chicago last week, when he noted that there was heartening evidence of a growing consensus on economic policy accompanied by a decline cf extreme conservatives and extreme liberals who know all the answers. The resurgence of extreme conservatism personified in Senator Goldwater does not invalidate Hellers argument. On the contrary, it guarantees Johnson sole possession of the middle ground. FJHE President has already staked out this claim, with his budget message and his assiduous wooing of businessmen.

He remained faithful to the Kennedy program by insisting on tax reductions before a balanced budget was achieved. But he gained the additional support needed to implement the Kennedy proposals by pledging a reduction in government expenditures. The results for fiscal 1964, released over the weekend, make clear that the economy is taking hold. To be sure, the projected cutback in outlays was not as big as the business spokesmen and conservatives in Congress had sought, but most were surprised and disarmed that there was any reduction at all. Senator Goldwater is one of the exceptions.

He did not vote for tax reductions, although he has made clear his belief that taxes are too high. The senator remained unmoved because be felt that government should slash its spending to balance the budget before reducing taxes. Today, few conservative economists would accept the Goldwater prescription. As for businessmen, many may agree that there is waste and extravagance in government spending programs but most have been impressed by the way the Johnson formula is working. The economy is growing without inflation, a state of affairs that has astonished both conservatives and liberals.

As Heller pointed out, it has opened minds on both sides of the political and doctrinal fence. claim no personal knowledge of more than a few individual Afrikaners, I believe that it is not fanciful to expect that the Afrikaner people, with their tradition of fortitude and self-reliance and their deep devotion to their African homeland and their realism and hard common sense, will have the courage to change course. They can still save themselves, their future, and their country by deciding to talk with and work with the Africans who share an African partiotism. I realize that such a vast change of heart and purpose will probably come only after maximum shocks. I pray that it will not come too late.

Thirdly, there is some hope that the English-speaking community of South Africa will play a more positive part. So far, while criticizing the government, the 1 i h-speaking whites, with a few most honorable exceptions, have failed to make any effective stand against apartheid. But they have a dominant position in commerce and industry and mining. They control 99 per cent of mining capital, 94 per cent of industrial capital, 88 per cent of finance capital, and 75 per cent of commercial capital. They may be expected to be particularly sensitive to the effect on their investments of in ternal disorder and international economic pressure.

FOURTHLY and most important of all, I trust in the good will and tthe good sense of the Africans. When Nelson Mandela of the African National Congress, on trial for his life, made his historic speech to the court in his own defense on April 20 this year he finished with these words During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve.

But if needs be it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. The astonishing thing about Africans, I often think, is their freedom from malice, their readiness to forget injustice and humiliation, their anxiety to adopt and adapt the best in Western ideas and institutions and to work in friendly association even with those who have insulted and oppressed them. There is perhaps still time for the friendship and forbearance of leaders like Albert Luthuli and Nelson Mandela to show the way to escape froip tragedy. sues, on the judgment and resolution of the United States of America. The United States has valuable investments in South Africa from which American companies draw high profits (the total United States investment is less than half the British investment, which has now reached 1,000 million pounds), but even these companies realize that their investment will be lost if South Africa is plunged into revolution.

And I believe that before long the United States, leaving aside considerations of profit, will come to the conclusion that it simply cannot face the prospect of a color war starting in South Africa with Soviet Russia and Red China and all the new nations of Africa and Asia on the winning side but with the United States backing the losing forces of white domination. ONCE THE United States comes to that conclusion and decides to take every necessary step to prevent such a disaster both by exercising political pressure on its European allies and in economic pressure on South Africa through the United Nations Security Council, then a solution will be in sight. This supreme judgment of world statesmanship will be decisive. I do not believe that it will be lacking for long. Secondly, although I can The following is reprinted from an article in the Satur- day Review by Hugh Foot, former chief secretary of Nigeria, governor of Jamaica and governor of Cyprus.

WHAT hope is there that a long, bitter, bloody convulsion in South Africa can be avoided? All the evidence points to the likelihood that the clash, the explosion, will soon come. If outside forces do not change the situation, there could be a continuation of effective repression in Southern Africa for another few years. But even without outside intervention the Africans of South Africa will not for very long endure the tightening tyranny. And if the conflict comes it will be horrible, probably with Mau Mau methods on one side and the measures of the Algerian O. A.

S. on the other. But no one believes that the South Africans will be left to fight it out to the end alone in a messy, drawn-out war of mutual attrition. All the African states are committed to help the Africans of South Africa. Soviet Russia and Red China will surely do the same.

South Africa is already a world issue. It is already probably the greatest threat to peace in the world. WHAT HOPE is there? The hope depends principally, as it does in so many other world is i i.