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Page 4 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1964 RECORD-EAGLE, TRAVERSE CITY, MICHIGAN Editorials and Columnists AS WE SEE IT We Should Speak Up If concern for world opinion is to be our principal guide in dealing with Communism, the United States and its allies have done poorly again in counteracting the outcry from Russia, Red China, Algeria, and other Red-lining nations regarding the Congolese rescue mission. Were we so paralyzed at being maneuvered into a position where some action was required, even for self-preservation, a our tongues are tied? The theme is repeatedly played that the United States cannot take overt action against the flagrant threats to the security of America and its allies for fear of antagonizing the Communists and the so-called neutral nations. In the Congo, where evidence is strong that Red Chinese have been backing rebellion, innocent missionaries, Americans, British, Belgiums, and others, were held as hostages, tortured, kept as pawns in a war not of their making, and massacred by the hundreds. And yet the Communists and their neutral sympathizers cynically ignored the humanitarian considerations to -fashion a distorted propaganda outburst, with the stoning, sacking, and burning of American embassies. It should be apparent that no matter what the United States does it will be twisted by Red propagandists and accepted by many neutrals as gospel.

The need is great then to counteract falsehoods with much stronger statements than have been forthcoming so far, not only to influence world opinion in such areas where influence is possible, but also to bolster the determination, courage, and faith of Americans, and those living in the free world. The white heat of truth should be eloquently used to cut through the debris of prevarications some Churchillian rhetoric, if you will. Prudence in dealing with outrage should not be carried so far as to indicate no resolution, no principles, no discrimination between right and wrong. If we elect to depend on the word more than the deed in our foreign affairs, then the Congolese incident provides the opportun- ity, as President Harry Truman's supporters used to say, "to give 'em hell." Malcolm in Africa by Fulton Lewis Jr. The demagogic Malcolm has offered African leftists several thousand American "guerrilas" for uso in the war against Congolese Premier Moise Tshombe.

The offer was made in a letter to -Guinea's Diallo Telli. secretary-general of the so-called Organization for African Unity. Identifying himself as the head of the Afro-American Freedom Fighters, the former Black Muslim said that the U. S. guerillas were battle-hardened ex-GIs.

Security officials seriously doubt that Malcolm could recruit an army of American Negroes to fight in tho Congo. There is no chance that passports would he made available to them. But Malcolm's offer, widely publicized in the emerging nations of Africa and Asia, could seriously damage U. S. prestige.

The strident anti-American tones of Malcolm have boon evident for several months. Shortly after the Chinese Communists detonated their first nuclear device, in October, Malcolm hailed the feat as the "greatest thing that has happened to the world's black people in this century." Ha said in a Ghana interview that American Negroes were deeply grateful for the aid given to "freedom-seeking peoples" by Peking: "We appreciate the great strides that the Chinese people have made towards true independence and the unlimited contribution they are making to help the oppressed peoples in other parts of the world throw off tho chains of imperialism." In July, Malcolm arriy.ed in Cairo to participate as an "observer" at the second "summit conference" of the Organization for African Unity. He denounced the Peace Corps as a vehicle for espionage and labeled as saboteurs the American Negroes who have joined the corps. While in Cairo. Malcolm sought diplomatic support for his proposal to bring the plight of American Negroes before the United Nations.

"I want to make this an international issue," he explained. "I want to take the whole Negro struggle to the Human Rights Commission of the UX and charge the United States with the same thing as South Africa and Portugal are charged with there." In a fiery speech beamed throughout the world by Radio Cairo, Malcolm ripped into his native land, saying, "Twenty-two million Afro-Americans' human rights are being violated daily by racism of the American imperialists- We were laker, forcibly in chains from this mother continent and have now spent over 300 years in America, suffering the most inhuman forms of physical and psychological tortures imaginable." Malcolm asserts privately to have made considerable progress in his campaign to haul the U.S. before the UN. In a letter to a friend shortly after the Cairo conference, he claimed to have "gotten several promises of support in bringing our plight before the UN." Note: While in Africa, Malcolm has conferred frequently with Shirley Graham DuBois, an American expatriate now living in the pro-Communist dictatorship of Ghana President Kwame Nkrumah. Mrs.

DuBois is the widow, of W.E.B. DuBois, the Negro historian who publicly joined the Communist Party in 19C1. Mrs. DuBois has visited both the Soviet Union, and Red China in recent years. Prior to setting up residence in Accra, Ghana's capital, she was active in Communist front groups in this country, according to a government report.

She has been closely affiliated with Freedomways, a quarterly said by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to be Communist-controlled. American newsman Charles Black, writing from Saigon, reports that Pentagon penny-pinching may have seriously endangered the lives of U. S. pilots in South Vietnam.

In a dispatch published in the Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer, Black revealed that engines used in the Caribou transport planes are rebuilt versions of Pratt-Whitney's old C54. When the Pentagon decided to go ahead and have the engine i it asked for competitive bids. Black learned. "Pratt-Whitney had hid on the work and as maker of the original power plant, had the best knowledge as to what it would take. They bid about $28,000 per engine job.

The contract was awarded by the a of Army to another company which bid half that--und in too many instances did half the job required in order to make ends meet." Of the first IS planes earmarked for South Vietnam, two had serious engine failures i i 100 hours. One conked out over the Azores, its engine ruined. A bitter airman explained "Some guy dropped a nut into the cylinder and didn't tell anyone because it meant tearing the thing down to get it, and they didn't want to spend that much time. So much for cheap contracts." I CLAMPING DOWN I 'i U' i i Foreign News Commentary By PHIL NEWSOM United Presc International The agonies of those who died, of the fortunate ones who were saved and of those who now have been left behind came forth all too clearly in the accounts of the joint TJ.S.-B«lgian rescue mission to the Congo. And it becomes the more unfortunate that this mercy mission now should fall into the old cold war pattern.

The same U.S. planes which air-lifted the Belgian paratroopers into Stanleyville and Paulis in rebel-held Oriental province ferried out nearly 1,700 hostages of the Simbas, or lions, as the rebels call themselves. For more than SO, i i at least three Americans, rescue came too late. Left behind when the rescue mission was declared concluded were an estimated 900 foreigners still in Simba hands, their position even more precarious now than before. For the propagandists of Moscow and Peking, the operation was tailor-made.

They ignored the lives at stake and denounced the mission as a pretext to reestablish western imperialism in the Congo. Communist regimes a short work of any demonstration against themselves but mob action can also be an instrument of policy. Therefore it was no -surprise when mobs attacked the U.S. embassy in Moscow, and U.S. legations in Prague and In Cairo, a mob made up mostly of African students burned the U.S.

embassy library. In Algeria, President Aimed Ben Bella promised more arms for the Simbas and even volunteers. But amid the general uproar which went up from-black Africa, there were dissenting voices, and the protests themselves were based not -so much on i but upon black African nationalism, A voice of powerful dissent came from Nigeria whose foreign minister, Jaja Wachuku. praised the U.S,-Belgian action and said that in a similar situation Nigeria also would attempt to protect its citizens. In the United States, there also were doubts.

But the doubts were not concerned over the righteousness of the action but whether it had been stopped too soon, perhaps because of undue concern over the outcry it aroused. Thus reaction fell into three categories praise in the west, the cynical protests of Moscow and Peking, each of whom sought to turn it to their, own ends, and the indignation ot Africa based mostly or. a widespread hate of Congolese Premier Woise Tshombe. Tsliombe, as president of an independent Katanga province early in the history of the Con- republic, acquired the hatred of other African leaders for his use of i mercenaries, many of them drawn from the i supremacy areas of Southern Rhodesia and South Africa. Into a Service Economy by Sylvia Porter As you read this, we arc crashing through a milestone in world economic history a half-trillion dollar annual rate in our persona! incomes.

A $500 billion yearly personal income rate -representing the money we receive in the form of wages, salaries, rents, dividends, interest, professional fees, self-employed incomes. Social Security and other benefits is not just another statistic. It is a dramatic tribute to the greatest prosperity average American families ever have achieved. It indicates the extent to which we have pulled ahead ot nil other nations. It underlines the financial power the U.S.

holds. Within the lifetime most of us. "billion" has become a familiar financial measurement even though few of us understand just how big a billion dollars is. Now, we must become accustomed to "trillion" as a financial measurement. Our total goods and services (Gross National Product) is well on the way to the $1 trillion mark.

And our personal incomes also ars crossing the magic a i i level, are moving toward the incomprehensible "0,000,000,000,000" dollar range. Who gets what of today's $500 billion personal income rate? How big is your share as a wage or salary-earner, a business proprietor or professional person, a stockholder, landlord, retired person, As a wage or salary-earner, you are getting the i share G7c out of eacli personal income dollar. As a business proprietor or professional, you are getting the next biggest chunk Sc. As a retired or disabled worker, you also are getting Sc through Security other benefits. Interest on savings accounts for a 7c and dividends account for an additional 4c.

Farm income, rent and fringe benefits represent another 3e each of the personal income dollar. Of course, you also are giving up some of this inconie in Social Security contributions. Here's a provocative breakdown of personal Incomes, showing how much each significant segment has been rising in recent years. Type of inconie Wages and salaries Bus. and prof.

inc. Soc. sec. and vet. bens.

Interest Dividends Fringe benefits Farm income Rental income Total pers. income increase over 19C3 5.3 3.5 11.9 3.1 .8 5.9 increase over 1959 27.2 11.7 52.3 34.6 10.5 4.2 27.3 A capsule picture of i a i a America halfway the decade of the 13GOs can be seen in these few figures. in the past five years, income we get from has soared nearly per cent and it Is not an exaggeration to say that non-work is among the fastest growing "occupations" in the U.S. Our incomes from interest have climbed rapidly, reflecting the rising level of interest rates paid on our over-mounting total of savings. Our incomes from i i have jumped too, reflecting the unparalleled prosperity of our corporations and the tact that an all-time record high ot' American families own stocks on which dividends are being paid.

OUT incomes from Social Security have ballooned. Meanwhile, the income gains of the farmer, the small businessman, the professional and the landlord have been far more modest. The farmer particularly is a i i factor in our over-all income setup. All over the globe, undeveloped nations are striving to achieve agricultural economies and underdeveloped lands are striving to achieve industrial economies. We, long since left an agricultural economy and right now arc moving rapidly from.

an industrial to a service economy. This single breakdown of our half-trillion personal incomes shouts that it's a new world for us too. LBJ's Deficit Budget Conservatives of all parties will find an issue upon which they can agree when President Johnson in early January submits to congress his I960 fiscal year budget. LBJ will budget for a deficit, as usual. Deficits have become a way of political life, especially Democratic politicians.

For example: The four-year grand total of deficit of the Kennedy-Johnson administrations, 19G1-G4 inclusive, is an imposing billion. President Johnson will add $5.7 billion to the deficit accumulation at the end of the current, 1065, fiscal year. That will i the five year deficit grand total to $30.5 billion. That is big time spending of money, especially when you don't have it. The budget has not been in surplus or balanced with income equal to outgo since fiscal I960 which ended at midnight 30 of Jiat year.

There was a surplus of $1.2 billion that an Eisenhower surplus. The previous year, however. Ike had a nightmare i i of nearly $12.5 billion. It is not the taxpayers who are failing in the effort if there is any real effort to balance the U. S.

budget. Ten years ago, 1955, the taxpayers came up with $00.2 billion for federal expenses and government cost $134,3 Glancing Thru Our Yesteryears i i Treasury income in the current fiscal year is expected to reach $91.5 billion, $31 billion more than 10 years ago, But it will not he enough. Tho Johnson administration will spend nearly SG i i i more than that, a i good on a Parkinson law: a expenditures in government rise to overtake revenue. LIU won for i a year ago a a i as an economizer by combing some spend- out of the budget he had i i from the late President Kennedy. That Kennedy budget was approaching its i a form when LB.I took over.

The new president began i off chandelier lights in the White House while his associates planted stories around a i to the effect that the was headed for a record a i $100 billion spending budget despite the struggle of economizer Johnson to hold the line. But, presto, when the budget was i spending was proposed at only $97.9 billion. Only? It was made to seem that great economy had been won. That was the idea, a LBJ had performed an economy miracle. Moreover liis spending figure was half a billion the previous Kennedy year.

So at Kennedy's expense, the imago was projected of LBJ- as a close man with the taxpayers' by Lyle Wilson buck. The administration announced las: month that the spending figure had been reduced another $700 million to $97.2 billion. But the projected deficit was up nearly one billion from the originally projected figure. Republicans challenged the economy claims of a year ago and will do so again in protest against the 19GD budget. Moreover, there was a Republican tendency a year ago to challenge the integrity of the Johnson budget as part of an overall assault on the respectability of the i Johnson administration.

The Republicans will 'be great pressure again to make a big thing of that, linking alleged questionable budget practices with the Bobby Baker case and other items that figured during the presidential campaign in Barry Goldwater's issue of morality in Washington. On the issue of big time spending and big time deficits, conservatives should be able to get together regardless of how they a react to the morality Issue. The greatest recorded number of a beings assembled with a common purpose is 4.5 million at the special once-every-12- years i feast of Kumhh- Meia at the confluence of the a and the Ganges at Alla- habad, India, on Feb. 3, 1954. 25 Years Ago "Music and Art in the Schools" was the general subject of Grand Traverse County PTA Council Monday with Mrs.

Van Gleason, Old Missio-n, president, in charge -of the meeting. 1 Mr. and Mrs. H. W.

Held- breiier entertained a group of i Tuesday evening at dinner at the Park Place hotel. Cards were played later, at their Washington street home. Miss Maxine Mikesell was hostess to her bridge club at her home on State street, Tuesday evening. Miss Ruth Anderson and Mrs. Ford Fisher made high scores.

M. A. Petertyl, J. E. Groilick and M.

Merrill have returned from a hunting trip to Grayling. 15 Years Ago There was a good turnout at the business meeting of the Glen Arbor Business Club which was held in the gymnasium at Arbor this week. Many important issues were taken up and voted upon. Directors and secretaries of several schools in Leclanau county met in the courthouse this week to elect a County School Commission. Members of the new boarci elected were B.

J. Buttons Bay, Chester Salisbury, Myles Kimmerly, Roy Buckler and Frank Kroupa. Marking 50 years of continuous service to the i the Suttons Bay Congregational Church celebrated its anniversary during November with an open house and special Sunday services. Radio Program. Schedule WTCM- 1400K.C.

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