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By Mail, including postage, payable in advance: One year $18.00. Six months $9.50. Three months $5.00. One month $1.75. Special Reduced Rates for Servicemen $9.75 Yearly FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1965 Taking Away The Veto The atmosphere is winy at a convention of educators these late September days in Atlantic City.

The record will indicate that New Jersey statesmen may not universally respect education, but they respect the power and single-mindedness of educators en masse, and perhaps this should be borne in mind through any evaluation of the two gubernatorial candidates' latest consensus. Governor Hughes (D.) and Senator 1 Dumont (R.) agreed in the presence of the New Jersey Association of School Superintendents that school budgets are the proper business of the school board only and should not be subject to veto by the voter. They might not have answered the question quite that way at a meeting of hot -eyed taxpayers; indeed, the question would not have been raised; but that's what they said, that's their position, and it's final: if each had his way, he would take the decision on school budgets away from the voter. The if clause is silent, as in broad-based tax. That's what they'd do if the Legislature let them.

And, while no one can say with any certainly how the new 29-member Senate will think on any subject that sort of psychoanalysis will have to wait at least until the thing is born at the election in November it is permissible to say that legislators are sensitive to the pressures of local politicians and that local politicians, who run the local governments which must collect the taxes which finance school systems, would be acutely sensitive to the removal of local controls on school expenditures. The Legislature, no matter how it's apportioned, will want to think hard about the abolition of the February budget voting. Yet a powerful case can be made for letting 1 the school board decide by itself, with the advice of its professional staff, what sort of education a town should give its children, which is the meaning of a budget. The most powerful case is made in towns whose people yea rafter year reject budgets, reject building propositions, drive good teachers out, pitilessly drive down the quality of the education their children can have. The school budget election supplies, the only occasion on which a voter can express his opinion on high taxes, government spending, the wretched way his tax money is spent on things he doesn't approve ranging from free lunches to the war in Vietnam.

Why not place the responsibility in the schools where it rests everywhere else on the officeholders responsible, these being subject to dismissal at the polls if they abuse or neglect their stewardship? Why ask a citizen having no qualificatio for an opinion how much to spend on the new physics laboratory? Mr. Dumont and the Governor are right. Perhaps some workman in Trenton can devise a formula under whose terms the State and local civil government could exert some influence on a district board to maintain high standards and try to do it economically. But the change will come slowly if any change comes at all. No matter who's elected in November, we'd better be planning for the school budget vote in February 1966.

A Reckless Frugality The Morris County Freeholders are in a position that must puzzle more than one voter. Eight months ago the Board submitted to the State plans for a County college. The State Department of Education this month stamped its approval on the plans. Are the Freeholders ready to begin work and build the college they submitted a plan for? Of course not! Representatives from the League of Women Voters urged the Freeholders to start work, but they said they were reluctant to go ahead with the project until assured by the State that its 50-percent share of construction costs is available. It's a shabby excuse for not starting work.

The State will come across with its share; by law it must do so. Legislators have committed the State to paying half the construction costs and one third the operating costs up to $200 a pupil. This isn't a come-on; it's a fact. Do Morris Freeholders fear the State is on the verge of bankruptcy? Let State Treasurer John A. Kervick report on the financial status of New Jersey.

He says the State ended its fiscal year in June with the largest surplus in a decade $40.4 million. This is the second largest surplus since the $51.9 million recorded in 1955. Estimates for next year project a surplus of $17 million. Now let's get busy with work on that college. It Was Today (SEPTEMBER 24, 1965) John Marshall, fourth Chief Justice of the United States and one of the most famous lawyers in American history, was born in Germantown (now Midland), 1755.

Taylor, general, 12th President of the United States, was born in Virginia, 1784. The English and the Iroquois held at Albany their first convention, 1664. This friendship lasted more than 100 years. Congress established the ofof Attorney-General, 1789. fice, first autopsy and first verdict of coroner's jury in the history of this country were recorded in Maryland, 1657.

Benedict Arnold escaped to the British ship Vulture after attempting to betray West Point. 1780. adherence to the Atlantic Charter, drawn by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill, was pledged by the free governments nine European countries and by the Soviet Union, 1941. Monterrey, Mexico, was surrendered to United States troops, 1846.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, author, was born, 1896. 'I Thought I'd Take The Baby by Out For A Little pOLLUTED AIR A URBAN A AFFAIRS DEPT. Ed The Linees Simeon Stylites Serendipity And Mr. Parsekian By WILLIAM A.

CALDWELL In any battle, you take it, there comes a mystic moment when generalship knows it has done all that it can do and must depend on luck. Let the fortunes of Ned Parsekian be marked for identification as Exhibit A. "Automotive the trade journal automobile indus. try, will throw a very especial luncheon at Sardi's a week from today to present its first national safety award to an individual citizen. The citizen happens to be Ned J.

Parsekian, who happens to be a Democratic candidate for State Senate in County. The timing is delicious, and "Automotive News's" citation of Mr. Parsekian's personal integrity and technical skill as State Motor Vehicle Director for tormented years will scarcely embarrass him. Yet in that timing, less than 5 weeks before Election Day, you may suspect that something more than coincidence is at work indeed, that the national safety. award may be a triumph of highly sophisticated staff work.

Call it generalship. Such savvy can go only so far. For the Republican Senate candidates' singling him out for attack Mr. and his brain trust will never be able to claim responsibility. "Parsekian's pious posturing will no longer go unchallenged," said the four September 8, and, leaping to his typewriter to begin his serial defense of his record, Ned Parsekian must have reflected on the thoughtfulness of gods who would send a man such enemies as these.

They Asked For It confronting them as a peer. As Luck Would Have It The stark fact of the matter is that Mr. Parsekian was an excellent Director of Motor Vehicles. Every one in New Jersey knows this. It is attested most eloquently by the embittered citizens whose license to drive he took away under the terms of the point system.

"Automotive News" is wrong when it attributes to him the establishment of the no traffic ticket. The mechanics of the triplicate summons was worked out in all its superb simplicity by the late Chief Justice Arthur T. Vanderbilt. But Mr. Parsekian made the system work.

With understandable good humor, in No. 2 of the current series of his so-called memory letters he observes that within the first few months of his tenure he brought to hearing and disposed of 6,421 pointsystem cases. He finds himself compelled to point out that the cases had been deferred or bypassed and that he stopped deferment of penalities by refusing to accept appeals whose effect was to let point violators continue to drive. He wouldn't fix a case, he wouldn't it dangling, and as a matter of record that's how he came to be the bureaucrat most detested by fixers in Trenton and lawyer legislators who had been making a handsome living out of their appellate practice in the Division. made his life miserable.

They hacked his budgets. They managed at last to drive him out of the job, convinced that he could deal with legislators effectively only by Mr. Parsekian's of his good fortune is perhaps nothing more than routine professionalism. Of course he'd reach for his biggest and rustiest needle: "Are my opponents interested in returning to the system where privilege and favor made a mockery of justice and traffic And of course he'd say he's At The Scene Into The Jungle With The Marines In Vietnam By MARGUERITE HIGGINS With United States Marines at Cam Ne medical treatment to an average of 200 VietVillages The eeriest part of a patrol through namese a day. doubtful villages in the wet and dripping "But you didn't make many friends the rejungle was the sudden noise of rhythmic day you burned down those houses," I beating on what sounded like a clay pot.

marked. "What is that?" I asked the marine in "Look, Ma'am," said Lucifer, his voice front of me. edgy, "I personally pulled six marines out "Oh," he said with studied nonchalance, fire coming from that hut is at the of these rice fields who were clobbered by "that is the way agents let Victor Charlie edge of the village closest to the Marine term for the Communist Viet There are underground fortifications in that hut and in lots of other huts. Are we know we are coming." The Burned-out Hut supposed to treat firing positions like some Then turning around, the better to note kind of privileged sanctuary?" the impact of his words, the marine said: There were some surprises in store for "When you hear a noise like that it usually us when our patrol finally reached the hut means that Victor Charlie is preparing an of cigarette lighter fame. The roof and front ambush.

of the main section were burned out, all a squad of Foxtrot Com- right, but the three brick walls that attached formed the sides and back were intact. An But our patrol pany Battalion Marines was wing complete with thatched roof had miracSecond Ninth not ambushed except by Nature with its ulously survived the burning. Inside was an Viet oozing Cong mud had and water plenty of everywhere. opportunity Still the for old woman in black, her mouth oozing red trouble. Our patrol hamlets tramped for 3 hours Through an interpreter I asked what the juice from the betel nut she was chewing.

through marines a series of in the area, the old woman thought about the white soldiers traveling the trails as surefootedly as if they had known the villages for years. The old lady shrugged her shoulders. who had burned her house. said Sergeant John Hall. "We have to the Viet Cong?" I asked.

"We have to where we are going," "Are the people of the village afraid of our way in the dark. We will be back through "Yes, very afraid," she said. "They steal these same villages when we patrol tonight." our sons and our rice." Except when we had to cross open rice "What about the white soldiers?" I asked. paddies our patrol followed narrow paths the people afraid of them?" edged with giant bamboo that in this part "Yes," the old woman said. "We are of the world has thorns on it.

afraid of the white soldiers." Our aside from dealing with any Viet objective, might flush out was to All The Time Frightened reach the famous (perhaps "infamous" is a "Then why did you come back to the vilbetter word) village in which a marine was lage? Why are you starting to rebuild your photographed setting fire to a thatched hut house?" with a cigarette lighter. "Because," she said, "while the white Sergeant Hall had witnessed the photo- soldiers are here the Viet Cong will not come graphic session and was leading us to the and the bombs won't drop. We are afraid hut. Also with us was Medical Corpsman of both. But we are less afraid of the white Josiah Lucifer, who was with the company soldiers." during its attack on the village.

It is the the white soldiers done anything fourth tour of duty, all voluntary, for Luci- to help the villagers?" I wanted to know. fer, a Negro. "They gave some and soap to "I love this country," Lucifer said. the people in village," the old "Makes you feel like you can do some good woman said, adding shrewdly, "Tomorrow for people." I am going over there to see if I can get Under the Marine program of making some." friends of villagers, Corpsman Lucifer gives (Copyright Newsday 1965) On The Line confident people want traffic law enforcement to be above politics. And of couse he'd be confifident of a mandate in the election: "A mandate from all the people that the Motor Vehicle administration and indeed all government departments be run without privilege." That's mere skill.

Anybody can develop or buy it. But there's no accounting for luck. Voice Of The People Rooked (A forum for readers' com- ment on matters of public interest and on this newspaper's editorial opinions. Like Vol. taire, we may disagree with what they say but will defend to the death their right to say it.

Letters will not be pub. lished without signature and full address.) Editor, The Call: The news that Bobby Fischer, at age 22 a chess prodigy, had been denied a visa by the State Department to go to Cuba and compete in the international grand masters' tournament now in progress there must have come as singularly cheering news to marines patiently munching their dried eggs in the cruddy foxholes of Vietnam. What a smashing victory for our side, boys, in the global struggle against the global specter of you I would like to know whether these anti-Communist experts ever really consider the facts at all; or do they just go muddling through, intent on a messianic crusade? Are they aware that only one person born in the United States, Paul Morphy, was ever able to claim the world title in chess, that this was more than 100 years ago, and that the claim was not complete because there was no international organization at the time so that Staunton, the English champion, was able to avoid meeting him? In his infinite knowledge and wisdom, Big Brother must that Bobby Fischer has developed into one of the strongest players in the world and is making mighty convincing moves in the direction of that title. How Big Brother must have rocked with laughter as he saw Fischer, shortly after being denied the visa, turned down by the telephone company, which quoted him a price far beyond his ability to pay! one deadest and least What certainly, must have been profitable lines (due to the whole political situation between the United States and Havana) now suddenly became very costly. As we know, there is a total.

monopoly on brains in the Pen- tagon and all Communists are stupid dolts. Sure! That's why the Cuban government, which obviously had been slyly following the whole comedy of errors right from the beginning, suddenly stepped in with a low bow and offered to teletype all the moves of Fischer's opponents to New York City. What new ingenious plans are our theoreticians on Pennsylvania Avenue concocting now? Oh, sure; if Fischer wins now and later knocks off Tigran Petrosian, the present Soviet titleholder, they are sure to say that actually they were rooting for Fischer right along. Let the men who are still capable at this late date of using their heads and reasoning for themselves congratulate Bobby Fischer, who worries not about propaganda victories but victories over the chessboard. That, as far as he is concerned, is where they really count.

PETER DUNCAN 301 11th Avenue Paterson, Sept. 19, 1965. Must Roe Go? Editor, 'The Call: The slogan "Roe Must which was coined a recent Republican Party meeting, may seem a bit premature. After all, the Passaic Valley water supply still has 27.5 per-, cent left. A quick glance through the pages of history shows that never did anybody have to go at 27.5 percent.

Napoleon had 10 percent of his army when he abdicated. Khrushchev went when the granaries were empty. (We don't know the exact percentage here, since the Russians are so secretive). And finally, in Washington, the 5 percenters did not go before the 10 percenters moved in. However, there is an outside chance that the Republicans are right anyway.

If, for instance, a thorough analysis of the substance the Water Commission sells is found to less water in it than suspected then Roe must go. TERESA BJORNDAL 197 Sherwood Avenue Paterson, Sept. 14, 1965. Today's Talk Well Balanced By GEORGE M. ADAMS The well balanced person is the one who is safe safe to I trust and safe to have on your side for the judgment of such a one is something worth heeding.

I once heard an expert canoe handler tell person about to take a seat in a canoe to take hold of each side wtih the hands and keep the body in the center well balanced. We can take that advice to ourself as an every day practice and always seek to keep well balanced in thought and action. We hear a great deal about people with ideas to the Right and to the Left, but the ones who are well balanced are the wise ones. Their judgment is almost always sure to be trusted and heeded. The Best-Read Book In Rome Isn't On The Best-Seller List By BOB CONSIDINE Rome One of the most read and least openly discussed books in Rome today as the fourth and final session of the Ecumenical Council gets rolling is a book entitled "The Third Session" written by the now thoroughly legendary Xavier Rynne.

It is published in the United States by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. It is an under-the-counter item at bookstores near St. Peter's. That there is no Xavier Rynne is of no great importance to any of the 2,300 Catholic clergymen assembled here or the phalanxes of newsmen who are covering the climax of this first such convocation in nearly a century. It is the nom de plume of a man intimately bound to the workings of the Council and the processes of its leading figures' minds.

That's the importance of being Xavier. When his first Council pieces appeared in the "New Yorker" the consensus was that Rynne must be a priest. Superbly trained to navigate through the labyrinths of the Church, he came and went unnoticed and unsuspected at every session, and dropped in on every private meeting after the hierarchy returned to its hotel. A report that Rynne was probably a slightly disgruntled bishop, albeit a brilliant one, was scotched early. He writes too well to be a bishop.

This keen student of a rare moment in the history of Man and his relationship to his God and fellowman had produced a book after each session that preceded the one now in progress. The momentum of his texts has faithfully followed the increased velocity of the Council itself. "The Third Session" should be read by any one who wants to know the enormousness of the decisions which must be made during the fourth session. Bishops naturally are not frisked when they enter St. Peter's for a day's work at the Council.

It's probably just as well. A lot of them will be secreting "The Third Session" in their glorious folds. Rynne says a lot of things that the progressive wing of the fathers would like to say if they could be recognized from the floor and when called have to speak their mind in pedantic Latin. He has a discreet disdain and even fear of the old guard of the Church, particularly the 5 secretary -general of the Council, Archbishop Felici. wishes earnestly that Pope Paul were more concerned with pushing through the decisions on complete absolution of the Jews per se in connection with the crucifixion and less concerned about hurting the feelings of the conservative minority.

So do many others in the Council. Vatican observers are not as much impressed by the fact that the Pope's trip to New York will mark the first such excursion by a pontiff as they are by the fact that he will be the first Pope who ever addressed a world conference. It will be a congress made up of all the political ideologies known to Man. Just about every known religious sect will be represented there, as well as delegates who will question not only the Pope's credentials but also God's. Romans are inclined to take a racy attitude toward their Pope.

Familiarity over the centuries is the reason, one presumes. None of my Roman friends was incensed by the people in the flooded part of Rome who booed Paul VI when he visited the region. They blamed him for the city's bad sewerage system. Assignment America, How To Stay Young By Spending A Fortune On Junk Hammond (Ham) Fisher, cartoonist, was born, 1900. Joe Louis knocked out Max Baer, former heavyweight champion, in the fourth round, 1935.

Hallett's Reef (Hell Gate), New York, was blown up to clear the channel, 1876. Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish physician and scientist, died, 1904. He pioneered the use of light rays on tuberculosis of the skin and the use of red window curtains to prevent scarring in smallpox. Roger Brooke Taney of Maryland was appointed Secretary of the Treasury, 1833. George Washington appointed John Jay of New York the first Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1789.

Black Friday, a financial panic in Wall Street was caused by the efforts of Fisk and Gould to corner gold, 1869. Gertrude, wife of King Andrew II of Hungary, mother of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, was murdered by rebellious nobles, 1213. cation United Wireless telegraph, communiStates and Japan was opened, 1914. The Y.M.C.A. has an emblem and motto which we can all adopt as our own body, mind, and spirit balancing each one with the other.

Integrity, is a far more valuable possession than money or social distinetion. A person with a well balanced mind is always an interesting person to whom to listen. A well read person cannot be dull, nor can widely traveled persons, that is, if they will talk! The well balanced person is the best one for a friend, for then every discussion will be one in which all sides are included so that in the end both parties gain and take pleasure in and profit from the talk. It's the off -balance person who mixes things up, who is often I unreliable and untrustworthy. By PHYLLIS BATTELLE New York If you love your work, love people, love to make money, love to squander it you can stay eternally youthful.

So says Sophie Tucker, and who is to deny her expertise in the matter? At 77 she is pink and round and healthy, with the voice of a foghorn on high protein diet. "I don't take any pills," bellows Sophie, "any facials, any massages. But I will go and on and on in show business, and do you know why? Because the people love me! They love me. And I love (If the meek are going to inherit the Earth, they'll have to fight it out with Sophie.) The Golden Heart Miss Tucker is possibly the only living performer who is booked up solidly for the next 3 years. She is decidedly the only living performer who has entertained three reigning monarchs of Great Britain and five United States Presidents.

She sits in her Park Avenue apartment surrounded by the evidence that she has squandered a vast fortune: dozens of tables and breakfronts are congested with extravagant mementos of her more than 60 years show business. "I've always spent every cent I made, collecting these things. What's money for, anyway? But the last 2 years I've stopped collecting. No more room for 'em!" While she's frittered part of her fortune on shopping sprees, Sophie has also given away a great deal. In the last dozen years alone, her contributions to charities of all denominations has come to more than $4 million.

She has built a trade school, a playground, and a forest in Israel. "Big deal!" she blasts. As she said, money, spend money, stay young. Sophie began life as a slavey in her own family. They ran a boarding house-restaurant (25 cents a night, 25 cents a dinner) in Philadelphia and later in Camden, N.

J. "I used to wait table. All through I'd be falling asleep at my desk. My teachers all remember me well and not necessarily because I became successful." When she was starting out in show business she knew she'd hit it big. She's always had a confidence which matches her generous physical dimensions.

She decided she'd get her mother out of the boarding house business and buy her a home. "I needed $1,000 for a down payment. This was 1909. I heard about a man Thomas Edison who was making record over in Orange, N. J.

I went over and told him I had to make $1,000 worth of records for Edison had never heard 0. Sophie. He didn't even ask her to sing. He just handed over the $1,000 and gave her contract. "That's The 10 records Sophie made for Edison are now collector's items.

Sophie hit it big 3 years later with a song called "'Some of These On October 13 she will open in New York at the Latin Quarter and then go on to such spots as New Orleans, Philadelphia, Australia, South Africa. She knows she will have a full 1 house wherever she goes because of a special technique she began the day she began singing. She personally writes to every Tucker fan in advance of every appearance. She has an address book of more than 5,000 names. She also personally addresses some 4,000 charity letters in any given week.

You Can't Change 'em "Look, if people are nice enough to come hear they deserve my personal attention. And they know my handwriting by now. I wouldn't let 'em Sophie's been married three times: "Nice guys but bad marriages I couldn't change 'em. To be truthful, I couldn't make enough money for Add the single status to the prescription for eternal youth? Miss Tucker just smiled, looking extremely young indeed..