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Ames, Iowa. Monday, October 12, 15o5 DAILY TRIBUNE Editorial Vie '1 the Words of Our Great Leader, 'OK" Harpers Ferry, 1859 Seed of the Civil War Someone's at the Door Furthermore, a united campaign saves the time of those heroic people who serve as solicitors. A coordinated army of MO such volunteers will participate in the current Because their efforts help to protect the average citizen from numerous appeals' for money, they deserve your courtesy and consideration. In addition to knowing that the Ames Community Chest is operated entirety with volunteer help, you the giver can give with confidence (hat each of the thirteen agencies have been screened carefully by the budget committee of the Chest. Where tines the money go? Well, for every $10 you pledge or give: American Red Cross will get 5 2.55 Salvation Army will get Women's Club School Healili Program will get Iowa Children's Home Society wilt get AW Roy Scouts of America will get 1.43 Y.W.L'.A will get .35 There'll lie a knock on your door, tomorrow night, or ring of your doorbell.

And when you go to the door, chances are, you'll find Community Chest solicitor waiting there. E'ach year, these volunteers canvass the cily and surrounding area, seeking to raise funds to promote the works of the member agencies. The total budget, set by the Chest's finance committee, which reviews Ihe askings of the various member agencies, is raised during this one slop campaign. One call, one contribution, It's as simple as that. Yet this assumes several things.

For one, that ihe contribution for each call is equal ta that which would be made if each group was conducting a separata campaign. For another, that every person living within the area solicited will do his share. The business district campaign has been underway for he past week. This jwlicitation is conducted separately from the residential drive so that no one is denied an opportunity to participate. There should be little question about the works of the Community Chest.

Yet, even after these years, we hear the question "What is it?" and "What does it do?" This campaign enables each citizen to tnaks only one major contribution 1o support the character building, family id and health agencies of the com tn unity. This means that, as compared to the 13 solicitations by separate agencies, campaign costs volunteer manpower hours can be kept at a minimum. The Community Chest runs the current campaign for $56,100 for a scant per cent of the goal. Campaign cost lor individual agencies may run From 10 ta 20 per cent of the goal. Thus the Chest docs the maximum good per dollar.

These Days Nostalgia EDITOR'S NOTE Whal you are reading here is both history jind literature. It is the drama of Harpers erry, where the Civil War began 100 years ago this month. Philip Van Doren Stern, the writer is an author, anthologist and Civil War historian. He now is on assignment as consultant editor for a continuing scries of Civil War centennial features for NEA service and The Tribune. By PHILIP VAN DOREN STERN Shortly after 10:30 Sunday night, Oct.

16, 1859, Daniel Whe lan, the watchman at the Government arsenal in Harpers Ferry, heard something that brought him out of his shelter. He saw. about 20 men emerging from the long covered bridge which carried trains and wagons across the Potomac. Sounds of tramping feel arid rolling wagon wheels grew louder as they approached. One man had a lantern.

Whelan could see only a narrow strip of sky from the bottom of the gap the Shenandoah and the Potomac Rivers had cut through the mountains. Black clouds were scudding across it. and autumn wind was bringing No Casual Visit It was no night for a casual excursion. Yet if anything wns wrong. Bill Williams, the watchman at the Maryland end oF the bridge, would have sounded the alarm.

Then, as the marching group came to a stop in front of Ihe armory, Whelan saw that it was Bill who was carrying the lantern. The others were armed with Sharps carbines and Colt revolvers. "Open the gate," one of the men said. "I can't do that," Whelan protested. Two men inspected the heavy padlock fastening the double gate.

Another climbed up on the stone pier. Whelan ran forward. "You can't come in," he said. "This is U.S. Government property." A big hand reached through the iron bars lo grab Whelan and hold him fast.

Simultaneously half a dozen guns were pointed at him. "Give us the key," someone said. Whelan shook his head, ddnk ing that the Army should use troops to guard the warehouses in which thousands of brand new rifles were stored. "Never mind the key," one of the men said. "We've no time for it anyway.

Get a crowbar." The padlock snapped open widi a loud noise. The high iron gales were swung open, and the wagon was hurried into the yard. One of the last to enter was a tall bearded man. He gave orders to his followers, most of whom left the yard to cover the town. Then he strode over to the two watchmen and said: "I came here from Kansas to free the Negroes in this slave state.

I now take possession of this United States Armory. If the people hcre'trv to stop me, I'll have to bum the town and shed hlood." Kansas to Virginia Whal had happened was su utterly improbable that the Iwo watchmen could hardly believe it. Harpers Ferry, Va.r (now W. had been making arms for the Government since 179tj. And the armory had been in operation all that time without trouble.

Harpers Ferry had plenty of guns but they were Government properly. It was assumed that no one would dare touch them. Guns, of course, had blazed in Kansas, and there were threats of war between extremists, in both the North and South over slavery. But Kansas was fat away, and extremists usually vented their anger in words. Yet Kansas had come to Harpers Ferry that night, and the bearded old man commanding the invading party was a ruthless extremist named John Brown who meant every word he said.

Harpers Ferry had fallen into the invaders' hands without a shat being tired, but blood was soon to be shed. First Bloodshed At midnight, Patrick Higgins came to relieve Williams af the Maryland end of the bridge. When he got there, he found two tinned strangers. He knocked one down and started to run back across the bridge. Someone 'cried "Halt!" but Pat kept going because ho didn't understand what the word meant.

A rifle cracked, and bullet creased the tup of his head. When he dashed into (he loby of Ihe hotel adjoining Ihe raii road station, Harpers Ferry gut Us first warning of wha't was laking place. John Brown's men had already cut Ihe telegraph wires so it was impossible to scud out word. But an east bound train was due to arrive at a.m. When it came, and Pat Higgins told his story, the engineer and the baggage master went ahead to investigate.

Rifles suddenly flnshecl out tn the night, and bullets whined around them. They hastily retreated. The engineer then backed up the train to get the passengers out of danger. While this was happening, a free Negro, who handled baggage in the station, also ventured forward. When a voice cried out for him to halt, be turned and started to run.

A bullet him him squarely in the back, emerging from his chest just below tlie heart. In terrible pain and hardly conscious, he managed (n reach the station. He lay dying while passengers from (he train, now wide awake and thoroughly frightened, Sook Thc. Negro's name was Hay ward Shepherd. He was a hardworking, good natured railroad employe who had gained the.

respect or everyone in Harpers Ferry and he was Ihe first victim of a raid intended to set his fellow Negroes free. Waited to Move The conductor of the train finally established contact with tht raiders. About a.m. John Rrown said the (nun enuld cms? th bridge if it left in five minmes. But the conductor insisted on waiting for daylight' so could go ahead and make sure the.

bridge was still structurally When the conductor thought there wns enough light, he herded his passengers into tV' cars. Then he walked oat on the railroad ties between two of armed foi lowers. The train fallowed slowly until it reached thr Maryland shore. The conductor then got aboard, and the engine went full speed ahead. As it rushed eastward, passengers scribbled noies and threw them out of the windows to uleart ihe countryside.

At 7:05 a.m. the train stopped at Monucacy. and the excited conductor dashed out to telegraph Baltimore. His hist nry making dispatch rend: "They say they have come to free the slaves and Intend to do il. The leader requested nie to say that this it the last (rain that, shall pas.i the bridge.

If attempted it will he al the peril of the lives of those having them in charge. You had better notify the Secretary of War." Stoty County Mental Health Society will Girl Scouts will Jaycce Christmas Baskets will Y.fvl.C.A will Camp Fire Girls will Golden Age Co operative Hoard will Story County Crippled Children will Contingency Fund: Campaign Fxpen.se reserve Reserves for Unpaid Pledges Other and Supplemental Requests TOTAL GOAL Around the Rotunda If Iowa Loses Congressman, What Will the Results Be? By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY I sen by the newspapers that two of my old China editors recently died in London. The mention of the names, O. Green and H.

G. Woodhead. aroused memories of a happy, exciting, fascinating world when China was trying hard to become a democratic republic and could not find a way to do it. ft was good to live in Asia then. O.

Green as as English an Englishman as ever was and he edited the "North China Daily" News in Shanghai which was more British than Buckingham Palace. It was in format more austere than the London "Times" after which it was fashioned. Only one American had ever been associated with it. Rodney Gilbert, its Peking correspondent. 1 had drifted in from Tientsin into Shanghai where I found work on the "Gazeite" which was reallv owned by Kim Yat sen.

This brought me into close contact with the Father of the Republic and I saw Dr. Sun every afternoon for a few years. It was he who stee red me into the Shanghai Students Union, telling the boys and girls that I had recently come from Russia and therefore knew how to make a revolution. During the Students Strike of 1Q19, 1 was very active. This was a universal refusal to work, to sell, to transport anything but food supplies unless the government of China rejected the Versailles Treaty, as that document gave parts of China to Japan.

It was out of this movement that al! the conflicting threes now struggling in the East nf Asia blossomed. Within a year the Chinese Communist Party was organized. Little nf this news was bein reported at the time in the foreign press, even in locally published newspapers. So one day, O. M.

Green sent for me and asked me if I were willing to give him an occasional article on Ihe mass movements among the Chinese. It was a wonderful opportunity for Ed son In CENTO Baghdad Pact With New Name me to bring into this most important newspaper in the Far East, the views and activities of those elements among the Chinese who heretofore had bad no avenue for communication with the foreigners in China. Working for M. Green was a novel experience. He was a man of great culture.

oT firm belief in British virtue, of some suspicion that Americans were upstarts, a little shocked that the youth of China were not like their forebears. He wns loyal to China as he was loyal to Great Britain. His virtues were classical and he could not let down anything or anyone with whom he was associated. After he left China permanently, he continued to write about that country for the "Observer." H. G.

W. Woodhead was of different, material. He edited the British newspaper in Tientsin when I assisted on the American newspaper. We were strictly divided along national tines in those days and although nearly two decades had passed since the Boxer Rebellion, there were still memories of it in Tientsin and the foreigners there continued to live in the shadow of fear. Foreign troops were stationed in this city when I came there in .1918 and occasionally these troops fought each other as I once experienced when American and Japanese soldiers made a private war over some Korean prostitutes.

Some years later. Woodhead engaged me to write on current Chinese matters for the "China Year Book," a most valuable compendium of information. The "China Year Book" for 1924 contains the first full account of the new relations between China and ijoviet Russia and this edition also reports on the newly organized labor movement in China into which the Communists under the leadership of Li Lih san were already infiltrallng. In the 102G edition appears the following: "The Communist Party and the Communist Youth are organizations which came into existence largely through young people of China being converted to Communism through the reading of Communist literature and through education in Communist schools in Irkutsk. Moscow, Leningrad and other Russian cities.

These Chinese are more, closely affiliated with the Third International than wilb the Soviet Government and their activities are not always identical with the activities of the Soviet representatives in China These Chinese Communists were Trotzkyists and their contact in Russia was Karl Radek. 1 knew this movement when it was born and imagine the surprise when a decide Inter I heard il said in the United Slates that these were not Communis: they were agrarian reformer. By HARRISON WEBER DES MOINES (IDPA) ll appears Inevitable that Iowa is going tn lose one of its eight congressmen following the 1360 federal census. Thus, the 1961. session of the Iowa eTgislature may be of transcending importance.

The job or remapping Iowa's congressional districts and redistrictinc, Iowa's senatorial districts could easily fall upon the 59th general assembly. There are several "jfs" involved, how ever. Foremost is the question of whether the official census figures will be ready for the next legislature. Congress will order areshuffiing of the congressional seats upon completion of the federal census, taken every 10 years. Although Iowa was not confronted with the problem of losing any congressional seats in 1951, there was the question, of redisricting the Iowa Senate.

There is a provision in the stale constitution calling for the senate to redislrict itself accordingly after each ted era! census. Under the guise of waiting for official figures the question redisricting the senate was pui off until the legislature, a which lime Ihe rcdistric.ting was earned Back in 1911 the lawmakers worked with unofficial figures tn rent strict the congressional scats. Historically. Iowa has been re districted eight times since the original districts were set op in 18 17. In Iowa had 11 representatives in the House hm the number was rut to nine after the VYMl census and tn eight a Tier VMQ.

II the legislature fails to act after the census figures have been certified by the secretary of si ale. the congressmen an: elected large. Gerry maurierine especially in the last two general elections. At one time last session there was only a ten vote margin in the lower chamber between the IDS Republicans and Democrats. So, the deciding factor in setting both the congressional and senatorial districts may rest upon who controls holh congress and the Inwa legislature.

Then, too. there's the question or a constitutional convention. What happens if the people of Iowa vole in the IfifiO genera) election to hold a constitutional convention? Without question the chief topic at such a convention would be reapportionment of the entire legislature, not just the senate. Leaving Jowa Perhaps yet this month the state department of vital statistics will release its estimate on the Iowa population as of July 1. 1959.

The Jowa civilian population for July I year ago was There were 63,00 1 births in Iowa last year and 27.7IH deaths or a net gain of 15. 241k The unknown quantity, (if course, is what was the net miitration. Some exper i pepuhil inn ih. town's population has been growing at the rate ol about 20.000 people ii year. If tin pattern held true, and thai is no reason to believe a m.

has transpired, more tlt.ui Inwans nugraled to other stales. This ans that Iowa's civilian population is somewhere in the neigh Ivirlviod rif 2, Tail, 110(1. Already population projectors arc Inuknig Inward 1H7II. They have estimated what Ihe population of the jr.Uifiis will he hy slates at that time it' the present rate of change con linves. Iowa's rate of growth is at per cent as compared with the national average of 27 named to this group.

But beginning in January, it will give a top command to the CENTO military stafE planning group now in existence. The forces which CENTO has at its disposal are principally the military establishments of Turkey, Iran and Pakistan. Both America and Britain have bases in the area. There have been no joint maneuvers, but coordinated defense exercises have been carried out as tests. Downfall and breakup of the alliance have been frequently predicted.

It has been criticized by some U.S. diplomats as tending to divide the Near East not unite it. Problems Discussed The original Baghdad Pact was opposed by Nasser's Arab Republic. The Suez Canal crisis proved the pact incapable of dealing with such situations. A move to bring Jordan into (he alliance almost caused the' overthrow of Kins Hussein.

And when Iraq had Its I95S revolution and withdrew from the Pact, il seems doomed. The late Secretary ol State John Foster Dulles, who lathered thn Pact, said all these things merely made it more necessary. Now, tlifl growing fear of other Near Eastern countries that Communism might take over in Iraq has changed sentiment. The recent meeting of King Sand of Saudi Arabia, King Hussein and President Nasser lo consider this matter has produced no announced results. Criticism of CENTO has calmed down, though not to the extent, that any non members have indicated a new desire to join it.

The door is open. These ars some of the questions the CENTO Council discussed, working in ths hope that eventually it will grow up and amount to something mors than it is today. Quotes From the News United Press International BRASSCHAAT. Belgium Group CuM. Peter form suitor of Britain's Princess Margaret, after being by newsmen where his forthcoming marriage to Belgian heiress Marie Luc am a sine would take place: "We would like to marry as dis th It.

is only i The Doctor Says New Medical Science Series For The Tribune be some gerrymander! n't in the congressional mid si. (rids. The word vin.nn riveri from the nrn. Tiee political i tin: pa will have a than ev. Th Democrats have he.

utreiigt!) in Ixith the By PEI CR EDSON WASHINGTON (NEA) American familiarity with CENTO The Central Treaty Organization which Is the new nante for the old Baghdad Pact alliance may be increased little by the first meeting of its Council here, Oct. 7 9. Two prime ministers attended Adrian Menderes of Turkey and Dr. Manoocher Eghbal of Iran, Foreign ministers from both these countries and Pakistan were here. British Ambassador Sir Harold Caccia is trip representative for the United Kingdom.

Secretary of State Christian A. Hertcr, represented the United Slates as an observer. The U.S. has signed mutual defense treaties with the three Near East countries, but it is not a full fledged member of Cento. Celebrity Weary President Eisenhower hopes to get back from his California vacation In time to greet the distinguished guests.

But not nearly as much fuss is being made over this conference as might seem warranted. One reason Is that Khrushchev, Prime Minister Segni of Italy and all the Finance Ministers here for the International Bank and Monetary Fund annual meeting, in quick succession, have left the capital celebrity weary. The other reason is that even after five years the 3,000 mile CENTO defense line nn Russia's southwest border is still a relatively weak reed to lean on. The organization itself leans heavily on the U.S. for its development.

Economic aid to Turkey, Iran and Pakistan for the year ending 30 was 4711 million dollars. Principal outlays are for railroads and highways. U.S. Helps With U.S. military aid lo the three countries is not This ministrativc costs.

In addition the U.S. is contributing lR.fi million dollars for microwave communication link of ihe three countries. Construction begins this month. Unlike NATO the North a Organization CENTO has no suoreme commander, though it may be working towards lhat type of military coordination. Last month the CENTO Council recommended thai a three star general from each of Ihe fi countries he assigned pennanent to its headquarters in Ankara, Turkey.

Mo fi have yet been ClflCAGt) Cam. Cv Thomson. tit' Toronto, gilot of the Trans Cnnada Airline Vi smi.nl Hint circled Chicago fnr two hours with fantlv landing nr. ih ed safety, describing his decision to try for a heily "I had anrde time to make a decision, was a normal emer The Ames Daily Tribune trained writer on science, injects has a crucial job to do." Dr, Hyman flavors medical information with anecdotes and examples taken from bis years of general practice. Don't Have Diseases' "I am not going to write about, diseases," he said, "People don't have diseases.

They have symptoms. Therefore, I shall write about symptoms and what people should do about them." The Tribune is proud to bring this combination of men to the attention of its readers. Tin JkTr. D.W.y Til in field are not opt I mislie. iii the I a Some hive predicted Iowa's p.

mi in i'Xtf would still be less than mill, tan v. nas become a tin. has alwaysF hern true. The i ii'uiy rif piMHiiariun growth in I he Hnwla. yu sta.e can be divided into xu equal pans.

The first half century v. as by a rapid growth from in S3:) in 2.231.K30 in 19110. ihe cand half e. niurv was a pei iorl slaw as evid meed by the Pan of U. eaausa of it, sia.v growth, ihe ff hnva has become a small and nailer part of the total U.S.

decreasing from .1.2 pr ceni in 10 to 1.7 per cent of the U. S. total Mi; in Jowa counties have gained papui; fni have lost. Eigh teen of se dainties that have lost population aj in Ut southern two tiers ni" counties, has been pointed out riauv times ih.ii ihe slate's so called i ura tviiniik are tin? ones losing population. Why are population figures so import am? Voting representation is one reason.

Another is that some federal grants, such as in the health department, are determined io a large degree on a pupii I ion basis. If Iowa's populn PubllHtH rt K.V An unusual program of medical reporting will begin tomorrow in The Tribune. Two highly unusual individuals will report on developments in modern medicine, from the common cold to the the sensational breakthroughs in medical research. Public Health Columnist Dr. Harold Thomas flyman, physician, teacher, researcher, and author ol reference works covering the whole field of general medicine, becomes public health columnist for The Tribune.

His column, distributed by NEA Service, the world's largest newspaper feature service, will appear five days each week in this newspaper. Special articles on medical news will come from Dr. H. Geiger, a veteran journalist, started a new career five years ago hy entering medical school to become a doctor. Goiger, was science editor for International News Service when (he lure of medical career struck him, "I decided the iwn careers shnald he joined." he said.

"1 felt then, as I (io now, that few things are more important than public mtdcr.slnnding of srienn' ma! thai Ihe profe siimml The Jowa lu; The Inland Driv i a Thfl fewa I Tho Ns.Ur.nft. I Tm Ac til I Rurcv.i The Almanac United Press International Tcday is Monday, Oct, 12, the day of the year, with 80 more days in I Ball. The moon is approaching its full phase. The morning star is Venus. The evening stars are Jupiter, Sal urn and Mercury.

On this date in History: Tn Christopher Columbus discovered the New World. In 1895, Charles Blair MacDtin nld won the first official iimtileur golf played in ihe United Stales. In 1915, underground iierinne. nglish nurse Edith Cavclf was shot by a German firing squad in Brussels, In 1020. construction began on the Holland Tunnel linking Nou York and New Jersey.

In If) In. the Allied Control Council in (i nniiny wWed (lie dis llnll'Mi nf the Mai Popt! John XXI If. s' in ids first speech in English that he believed the Roman Catholic Church would soon heati lv Mo: LTinhelh aim. American convert founder of the S. parochial school system: "And now, repealing the thouvhis expressed in Latin, we wish to tell you in your own language of ihe pleasure il gives i.s i i he able to share1 with you this happy occasion." HER.

SHEYVT I. I.K. 111. Chief Depuly Sheriff Me'vin Leach, disclosing that Palmer. 21.

already accused of two "mad dog" killings in the Midwest, had blurted out a confession In a third staving in Tennessee: "We were discussing the murders and shootings, and ho apparent Iv just decided In toll me annul Ihe tint1 in Tennessee, ton. City Carrier wieklv Story nan a.jj.iinlti tnall 1 1 reo months, 5. 0 'ypir Ouui.la bovo countlffn. one Dr. Gclffcr Dr.

IJjmian KEEP THE CHANGE SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) Two gunman esmped in a getaway car a Tier 3. Tast paccd hotel holdup during ihe weekend. They tool' Ihe rntirf ennlonl.s r.F fit" box 11 rcnis. ould look I do, iilto I know tWidr aV' lvHil..