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The Huntsville Times EDITORIALS Jack Langhorne Reese T. Amis PUBLISHER EDITOR ROY M. BUCHANAN, BUSINESS MANAGER WILL C. MICKLE, MANAGING EDITOR A. L.

SMITH, CIRCULATION MANAGER THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1958 Be Sure Of Success The time will not be So many expected the Jupiter-C, with its earth satellite, to be fired yesterday. The weather prevented this. This morning, it appeared the delayed firing may come off within a few more hours. Yesterday, a Chamber of Commerce committee got busy to make preparations for celebrating the event, if it is successful, as well as to give fitting welcome to General Medaris, Dr. von Braun and others who are at Cape Canaveral to watch the firing.

Let us not be premature. It is well to exercise care and know the results first. If they are favorable, then let the sky be the limit. Graham Campaign Assessed The Billy Graham evangelistic campaign in New York City was widely bruited. It drew enormous crowds; on one occasion, around 100,000 crowded into Yankee Stadium to hear him.

At its conclusion, the highly organized Graham staff announced more than 50,000 conversions, or rededication of the lives of that many to Christ. Last Sunday, The New York Times announced the result of a survey it had been conducting for some time on the lasting results of the Graham campaign. It polled 504 Protestant clergymen in New York City, and in Nassau and Westchester counties, which are adjacent to the great city. After asking for a brief assessment of the Graham Crusade, three questions were addressed to them for answer. They were: How many referrals did you receive to your church? How many of these were new names? How many of these referrals are now attending service regularly? Of the 159 who answered them, all agreed that the Graham campaign was a sincere, highly organized effort to "mass evangelize" the great metropolis, and that it gave the churches a "moral lift," but most of the answers said that otherwise, the campaign had had little lasting effect on the city.

Such surveys, of course, cannot be exact or complete, for they take into consideration only those who have not previously belonged to a church, or have not previously dedicated their lives to Christ, but to whom a spiritual awakening came. The surveys do not involve those already in the church, or whose spiritual lives were enriched and their faith renewed, during the campaign. The Graham Crusade, it may be summarized, was not unlike in its effects those of other evangelists who have stirred tens of thousands to at least a temporary spiritual fervor, but most of whom relapsed later into their old life and way of thought. Case Of Bankrupt County Just how, can a city, or county, or state, go bankrupt? This interesting question is being raised in Tennessee now, where Polk County it lies a few miles to the northeast of Chattanooga has admitted it is head over heels in debt- some $280,000. The county officials, in throwing up their hands over the problem, appealed to the state comptroller to assume budget supervision.

If he accepts, he will have to set a tax rate sufficient to retire the debt over a period of years. A tax rate of about $5 has been suggested. It happens that a 1937 act of the Tennessee Leg1slature authorized a deeply indebted county to issue--under state supervision--funding bonds to pay its bills. What would be the procedure in the case of a state that overspent, and could not sell bonds to meet its indebtedness, we do not know. Alabama had the foresight some 20 years ago to pass the Fletcher budget act, which forbids state checks to be issued unless there is money in the treasury to pay them.

The 'Mad Dog' Slaughters The gory news stories of the 19-year-old youth who left a trail of death-10 -in Nebraska and on through Wyoming, where he was captured yesterday, leave a sickening feeling in the heart of every parent who read them. Already the term "mad dog" is being applied to him. Certainly no normal boy could have committed such a string of crimes. There was a screw loose somewhere in him. Something must have built up inside him that caused him to go berserk and wantonly murder so many people with little, or no provocation.

Certainly no normal person young or old could have been guilty of such widespread slaugh- The Washington (TRADEMARK)' WASHINGTON The alibi be- ling advanced by Federal Communications regarding their free use of expensive color TV sets is that the sets were merely on loan from the manufacturers, so they could more effectively understand the color TV problem, This was rather a late alibi for pleasant ex Chairman George McConnaughey, who has now retired from the FCC and gone back to practice law in Columbus, Ohio. When my assistant, Lawrence Berlin, phoned McConnaughey in Columbus and asked him when he returned the color TV set he received from the National Broadcasting Company, McConnaughey replied: "I didn't return it; I bought it." "When did you make the purI chase?" "When I left the commission. After I left the Commission, asked them if they would sell the set. They said they would sell it for "But when did this occur?" "I wanted to find out if it would work in Columbus," the ex-chairman complained. "I brought it back with me, but we had trouble getting it to work.

It finally did, and I paid them $200." For the fourth time, Berlin asked when this happened. "I paid them a couple of weeks ago two, three, four I've forgotten just what date. I didn't know whether it was a good buy or not. They were advertising new sets in Columbus for $300 and $400. I didn't know whether it was worth it to keep it 'or not, but finally decided to keep it." McConnaughey left the FCC on June 30, 1957, so it took him about six months to decide whether to buy the $200 color TV set.

Note The acceptance of color TV sets is one of the 1 lesser charges brought against FCC Commissioners in. the secret memo prepared by Bernard Schwartz, counsel for the Moulder Committee. Congressmen who once yelled over hams and deep freezes have run away from this probe like jackrabbits in front a plane at the Los Angeles Airport. Indian Anniversary This week is the eighth anniversary of Indian independence, and today is the tenth anniversary of the death of Mahatma Gandhi. It has been a long time since I spent a weekend at the Gandhi Asram on the muddy, slow-moving Sabarmati River, where water buffalo came down to drink in the evening and I went down to bathe in the early, morning.

Strangely, what I remember most is how Gandhi's niece, then aged six, came into my room, rummaged through my knapsack, and squeezed tooth paste all over my bedding roll. But what I should remember, of course, is the great progress India has made since then. At ish rule, the caste system and that time, India was under Brit; religious rivalry divided the country, Gandhi's weapon of the boycott was hurting, crowds were mowed down by British police in Bombay, Gandhi was locked up in a British jail. Time passed. Another war engulfed the world, and India was the staging point from which Allied armies sought to penetrate up through the Burma Road to China.

In 1944, I published the secret report of U.S. Ambassador William Phillips whom Roosevelt had sent to India to persuade India to give military support to the Allies. He recommended that if India was given the promise of independence, it would throw thousands of soldiers into battle. "It is time for the British to act," Phillips wrote Roosevelt. "This they can do by a solemn declaration from the King-Emperor that India will achieve her independence at a specific date after the war I strongly, Mr.

President, that in view of our military position in India, we should have a voice in these matters." But when Roosevelt approached crusty old Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister pounded on the table and said: "I have always been right about Hitler and everyone else in Europe. I'm also right about Indian policy. Any change in Indian policy now will mean a blood bath." Watching Pearson The Phillips report was highly confidential. I published it. Immediately my house was put under British surveillance and every possible source was watched.

The British Government in London even sent an abrupt cable, notifying Phillips that he would never be permitted to come back to India. I published that, too. After that, the surveillance got tighter. However, a few months ago I met the son of Billy Phillips whose report I had published. His father has long since retired.

His son was appointed by Eisenhower as chairman of the Civil Service Commission, is now U.S. representative on the Economic and Social Council of the U.N. and is doing a fine job. He told me that his father was, always glad I published the report; that it hastened the day of You Hurry? We're In An Important Race" HERBLOCK 01958 THE WASHINGTON POST CO. I ELECTIONS Your Money's Worth By SYLVIA PORTER IKE'S TARGET -LABOR President Eisenhower wasn't really rapping Amer- last week show restraint seemed to be to businessmen against "price it PORTER ican businessmen ments" to he may have His warning was primarily increases that are unwarranted by costs." What oration won't insist he mently and offer truckloads statistics prove that any price hike posts this year is absolutely warranted by climbing costs? Eisenhower has, in the guise of a call for restraint, almost invited businessmen to raise prices if they can prove costs "warrant" the move.

The President actually was striking at labor unions and the leaders who are preparing to demand big wage increases in 1958 increases that go beyond over all productivity gains." His plea for moderation appears to be aimed at both business and labor, but in this cycle of business recession, labor! obviously is the key target. More specifically, the United Auto Workers is the President's target. He hasn't a Chinaman's chance of hitting a bull's-eye. Let's be coldly realistic. This year, about 4,000,000 workers will get automatic wage increases ranging from 5 cents to 25 cents an hour under contracts already signed.

The range of most increases, ac- Indian independence. Some people suspected I got the report from Ambassador Phillips. That was not true. Phillips, in turn, suspected it came from Sumner Welles, then Undersecretary of State. That was not true either.

Where it came from is not important, and will never be revealed. is important is the fact that India is now biggest democratic nation in the world. And the words of Mahatma Gandhi are also important and should be remembered as Washington begins to consider aid for India: "If India fails, Asia dies. It was aptly been called the nursery of many blended cultures 1 in civilization. Let India be and remain the hope of all exploited races of the earth, whether in Asia, Africa, or any part of the world." Merry-Go-Round Washington can now go back to work.

It's undergone three months of saying good-bye to Sir Percy Spender, departing Australian ambassador and his wife The Dominican Republic may be a dictatorship, but the ladies of Washington love the way Manuel de Mora, svelte ambassador of dictator Trujillo, bends low to kiss their hands Don Ross, who resigned as U.S. Attorney in Nebraska when he got mixed up in the Superior Oil attempts, to bribe Senators to put across the natural gas bill, is now trying to stage a comeback by being elected Republican National Committeeman from Nebraska What Other Editors Say Pork Barrel Security It's Machine Age If social litical dispelled Washington our are vote This election was fund red when deficit til Both number sistently ments out in was risen go as a increase and plus ents A pened conceived. been rious ceeded special purse. ing. simply too.

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payment rates of beneficiaries have grown, swelling enormously. The sum 1957 was seven times paid in 1950. Tax rates also; they probably higher with such new five per cent to 10 per in monthly special increases for the addition of more to the list of number of things have to the system as For one, there two decades in which pressure groups have in demanding and benefits from the With these others theirs, the elderly demanded and got Another thing that has been inflation. The dollar's purchasing social security with other pensioners to wield political this drove social payments higher. of course, is that social security benefits the pressures for However desirable social liberalization may is the very real problem it ends, once it starts.

the AFL-CIO is only a increase payments, but medical benefits also. security fund would all surgical bills folks, as well as up a year of hospital or home care. As a union behind the scheme says, much chance of this right away. But he think it has more appeal than anything security field in years." why not go on If 120 days of has "political sex wouldn't more days more appeal? Why or 365 days? this idea could do fund one shudders The possibilities security pork-barrel limitless. they become realities, will have no one to itself.

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Marguerite Lamkin was there, enlisting her friends to enroll at her "Neck "Neck-Emancipators," whose theory is: "If your neck is free, you can rule the world." THE CHAMP: Bobby Fischer, the 14-year old sophomore from Erasmus Hall High School, won the U. S. chess championship this month, beating America's veteran chessmasters. The youngster refuses to wear a tie of jacket. At Grossinger's a few days ago, he tried to enter the dining room, wearing a sweater.

Abe Friedman, the maitre d', stopped him and said: "I know you're going to Moscow in July, to play against their champions. If you're invited to a state dinner there, wouldn't you wear a tie?" The boy shook his head: "If I have to wear a tie, I won't go." MEMOS: Tony Akers, who lost to Rep. Frederic Coudert N.Y.) by only a few hundred votes, will run against him again Henry Shapiro, U.P. correspondent cow who got an eclusive interview with Khrushchev last month, will visit here in February. It took Shapiro years to get the interview, and he had less than an hour's notification to prepare Bernard Buffet, the French artist, will have his first retrospective show in America at the Hutton-Chambard Galleries.

He may be the youngest ever to have such a retrospective show. The American-born daughter of Cedric Belfrage- the author who faced deportation charges before he left here- is in Russia, work ing for Moscow News The William Faulkner movie, "'The Long Hot Summer," has been selected for the Cannes Film Festival. The "Light of the World" award, presented to President Harry Truman here recently, was sculpted by Irene Grumet. She's the, wife of Jack Grumet, the Miami "Take a letter, Miss Smith" may be a thing of the past in business offices before long. The picture of a stenographer with shorthand pad taking dictation from the boss seems headed the way of the roll-top desk.

Manufacturers of dictating machines expect to do $70 million of business this year. They believe the volume will double, in the next four years. Already some large companies have switchboards through which executives and salesmen can be connected with dictating machines in remote parts of a building. A few typists, working at nothing else, handle correspondence for hundreds of people. Still, no matter how they dress them up in pastels and chrome, no dictating machine ever will be able to remember anniversaries, birthdays and do the hundreds of other chores of busy businessmen handled by "office wives." But that's price of progress.

Surpluses--Going, Coming Science Americans generally accept the concept that farmers have special problems and should have special help from government. Farmers have to contend with the uncertainties of weather. Also, there are so many of them that they cannot organize, as can a large part of industry, to prevent disastrous price declines by curtailing production. These facts have led to' considerable willingness to have the federal government put a floor under prices for basic crops. The advocates of lower price supports should be frank.

These can only help to curb production as they permit lower prices. In the short run this bitter pill. But in the long run, American farmers and the nation as a while will be on sounder ground if production is geared to needs, and price supports are used again only to halt disastrous price de- Tom Sims OHATCHEE, U. S. A.

With two hours between planes, I was watching the people in an airport waiting room. Along came a woman of great dignity. Her luggage, carried by a porter, was so expensive it was protected by luggage TOM SIMS when he urged "manageon raising slapping them on the wrists. cording to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, will be between 7 cents and 11 cents an hour. At the same time, cost-of-living adjustments, guaranteed der the contracts, will be added to the pay these millions get.

This means new negotiations will 1 start from a "floor" of 7-11 cents an hour, and of course labor leaders will try to get more. They wouldn't hold their jobs long if they didn't try and try hard. Against this background, consider: In March, major contracts in the aircraft industry expire. The Machinists and United Auto Workers are the unions involved, and they're already talking whopping increases. Do you honestly believe these unions will consider their demands in the light of the President's coll for voluntary restraint, and ask only pay hikes that will not add to the production costs of the companies? In May, the crucial auto contracts expire.

Walter Reuther's UAW is coming to the bargaining table with a rough package -involving the profit sharing deal which has enraged the autoI makers. Put aside the profit sharing plan for a moment. Outside of that, the UAW plans to fight for wage hikes of more than 6 cents an hour, higher cost-of-living adjustments, larger pensions, expanded unemployment pay, more insurance for the workers and their families. Do you honestly believe Reuther will settle peacefully for a contract that will not add to the production cost of the automobile companies? In July, major contracts in the farm equipment industry expire. The UAW is the union involved here too, and it has said flatly that in this industry productivity has historically increased "far more rapidly than has the economy as a whole." What do you think will be the basis of that settlement? The President's plea, or the most the can get out of Caterpillar and Harvester? In August, the deadline will arrive in the maritime industry, with the Longshormen's unions doing the hegotiating.

Need I make any comment on the. toughness of this union? Then in September and October, contracts in the electrical manufacturing industry can be opened for talks on employment security. While pay hikes can't be negotiated under the contracts at this time, the view of the International Union of Electrical Workers is unmistakable. The IUE wants "wage increases--and piddling wage increases either." Eisenhower's calls for voluntary restraints sound impressive, but the message I'd like to hear is what the Administration intends to do if the unions do fight for and win pay hikes that increase production costs, and if businessmen then take the President's hint and raise prices to cover the costs. As a consumer on the outside looking in, that's the message I'd like to hear.

clines. Disfigured (The Montgomery Advertiser) covers. Her tailored clothes fitted: without a wrinkle. I wondered if she had stood up in the car that brought her. She wore half veil with large dots.

She wore diamonds. She wore long gloves. Dignified to the point of disdain, she found a seat alone in a far corner. There she sat without relaxing. Somehow I found myself thinking of our chickens at the One Ranch, and how all chickens observe a social order.

All hens may peck the lowest hen, and from there it ranges to the highest hen, which none may peck. The woman at the airport was impeccable. Lyons Den By LEONARD LYONS A NIGHT ON THE TOWN: Hank Greenberg was at Shor's, discussing plans for his trip to Europe this summer in search of ballplayers. "I'm going to look in he said. "If Cuba and Puerto Rico can produce good ballplayers, there must be some in Spain, too." At the Little Club, the Peter Ustinovs and Noel Coward, listenling to the "Modern Jazz," became a captive audience for proprietor Billy Reed, an ex nightclub hoofer, who did a soft-shoe routine for them.

Mme. Georges Picot, wife of the French delegate to the U.N. was at the Carlton House, where she explained the unusual golden bracelets she wore: the bracelets were what Venezuelan mountaineers put on their horses' tails as ornaments. At the Blue Angel the Princess Liechtenstein told Meyer Davis: "Never waltzes for me. I waltz." Paulette Goddard was at Sardi's, planning arrangements for her imminent wedding to Erich Maria Remarque.

Ben Hecht was there, too, up from the Renata Theater, where his exciting and entertaining play, "Winkelberg," is being performed. It's Hecht's memorial to the late poet, Maxwell Bodenheim a $600,000 monument, because that's the aggregate of the screenwriting assignments he gave up to devote himself to this play. Mrs. Leo Lindy, strolling along Park Avenue, was asked what she was doing there, and replied: "Slumming." Adlai Stevenson was at the curb, at Sutton Place, when our cab pulled up to Jean Stein's party. "No, I didn't go, I just peeked in and left," Stevenson explained.

"I've faced audiences of 10,000 people, with ease, but the crowd in Miss Stein's apartment scared me away." Miss Stein, editor of the Paris Review, was celebrating the release of her new MGM "Spoken Words" recordings William Faulkner and Carson McCullers reading passages from their own The new fashions for women being shown are preposterous, grotesque. It is beyond our comprehension why the new modes would appeal to women except for those who have no figures. Why should some little nervous tic of a Gaul with a split-twist mustache be able to invoke an authority that makes our lithe, good-looking women jump into a sack that hides the figure which they diet, massage and exercise so energetically to preserve? It's depressing, like seeing a man pawn his Phi Beta Kappa key, or a peacock having his tail cut off. If women are going to surrender their glory like this, men will begin wondering if it's worthwhile win the missile race with the Russians. Today's Prayer I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.

(Matthew 5:44.) PRAYER: Almighty God, destory in us all seeds of envy and ill will. Help us to cultivate love of our neighbor and to improve in our love of Thee. We pray that Thy love may rule in all mankind; through Christ our Lord. Amen. former fire commissioner of N.

Y. THE FIERY ONE: Louis pel, the former newspaper and magazine editor who died last week, brought excitement with him wherever he went the Narcotics Bureau in Washington, where he started, to his editorial roles with The Chicago Times and Collier's. When he moved to CBS as press chief he ordered: "I want new, fresh blood working here. Young men, who'll put pep into their jobs." He got the young men, and soon they were all drafted into the Army. Although he was over age and had a family, he enlisted in the Marines and won his officer's bars.

"Too bad he's a said one of his friends. "Ruppel's a born sergeant." He was in the Pacific campaigns; and when a friend wrote: "When you get home, perhaps, you'll show me what it was like out there," Ruppel replied: "I'll be glad to show you. We'll live on a boat tied to a bigger one. Visitors wil come down a cargo net and while the boat rocks, I'll have kids taking potshots at you. And then we'll have chow served at the Morgue." His last jobs were for political candidates.

When Walter Johnson, the pitcher, ran for office, Ruppel greeted him: "Hello, Walter. I hear you're a candidate." Johnson nodded. Ruppel continued: "On the Republican ticket?" Johnson "Think you -can win?" Ruppel asked. Johnson "If that's all the talking you'll do in Congress," said Ruppel, "we're all for you." Fares on the Paris Metro, Or subway, cost eight U.S. cents.

Fares on the New York subway are 15 cents..