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At i 1 i Tire. Berkshire Eagle, Tuesdav, July 22, 1938 Rifle Fire in Lebanon On the Other Hand Jlj lita rv Realities Whats All tlie Shooting Eagle By.Marv Zw enter Published' every week-day afternoon except holidays by the EAGLE PUBLISHING COMPASY 33 Eagle Street, Pittsfield, Massachusetts Editorial Abdication by Futility Mrs. Bnttam's parents for 1)0 years missionaries in the Middle Her father being a Moslem scholar in addition, prompted her to study for the S- Foreign Service. After passwing the erams, marriage to the teacher-ii-riter, Robert Brittain, changed 1 her caieer to- that of mother and home-maker. It did not prevent her, hmceier, in the 7 mid-)0s from winning-on A.

id Middle East problems at the Columbia Graduate School. She last united the legion thiee years ago with her husband. She is now a resident of feels cowed by the complexity of the -problems "and powerless to help shape the course of events. He tends to pull the blankets up over his Head'and hope that the crises will solve themselves. And he excuses his escapism by saying that theres nothing you can do about it, so why worry?" This is something new in American life, new and dangerous and unworthy.

looking Back 5 Years Apt Walter E. Kirby of First Street, who has-been smging illustrated songs at the World in Motion, leaves for a -two-week acation to the Adirondacks. His substitute ill be Charles Whitmire of Lincoln Street. M. P.

Foster of Great Barrington has sold the Littleton (N.H Courier to a stock company, but retains some stock. Bug-a-Cide Powder, originated by local druggist E. F. Fahey (whose picture appears on every label) has made the Pittsfield Police Station free of roaches and bedbugs for the first time -in-15 years, according to a signed advertising testimonial by Chief William G. White, Miss Connie Ediss, the English actress who is improving her re-.

cently acquired property in Windsor which she calls the most beautiful place she ever saw jvill soon leae to fill an engagement in Atlantic City, N.J. 25 Years Ago A savage lightning, wind, hail and rain storm yesterday afternoon raked the Berkshires to end a six-week drought. Among the major incidents At Daltons Pine Grove Park, 36 of the famed, aged pme trees were uprooted as 200 children huddled in the nearby grandstand; at Berkshire Hills pountry Club, a bolt' partially paralyzed city physician Charles F. Fasce and knocked out his caddy, Walter Buksa, and golfer A. Walker Combs.

After recovering, Dr. Fasce treated Mr. Combs and young Buksa, who complained of a severe headache. Orrin Haywood of Housatonic, ace pitcher of the Stockbndge Owls, has set a record for other area hurlers to shoot at in his 66 innings of play thus far this season, he has neither walked nor hit a batter. Sheffield Berkshire County's oldest town will celebrate its 200th anniversary Aug.

25, Arthur H. Tuttle is chairman of the committee in charge. all the people had a chanceMo voe for their president; they also wanted a clear statement of neutrality in the field of international relations. They asked the President to retire before the end of his term, on the day after a new had been elected on July 24. Murder of an Opposition journalist touched off the actual rebellion.

A general strike was called for in Mayr'ayi the country baa been gver since that time in an uncertain state which is neither war nor peace; nor particularty violent, but costly and nerve-wracking. In June charges of massive interference on the part of the United Arab Republic were brouent before the N. Security Council. More than 100 observers were sent from some 14 countries. Their te-port in the first week in July said there was no evidence to speak of to support these charges.

On July 9, President Chamoun told Sam Pope Brewer of the New Yoik Times that he had decided to retire on Sept 23. His opponents still insisted on his resignation on July 24 The S. ambassador, Robert McClintock, told reporters on July 11 that it is essential that the President serve out -his legal term, whereupon Saed Salam, leader of the rebels in Beirut, -wanted to know what right the S. ambassador had to express an opinion about the term of office of 'president of Lebanon. On July 13 Richard P.

Hunt of the New Yoik Times wrote: The question that arises if a new president elected July 24 is when he will take office. United States prestige is. involved in the answer, for 'Ambassador Robert M. McClintock has stated that he considers it essential that Mr. Chamoun finish his This seems to me the strangest assumption on the part of a newspaper reporter that I have heard of.

There aie many questions that arise, however, at the moment. How many of the 66 deputies will vote on July 24, and for what TV he re on earth are all, those Marines camping obt in that tiny mountainous country with its narrow coastal strip? It is a beautiful place, and its people are among the most interesting and attractive in the world. It's a great pity that they cannot iron out their electoral laws and foreign policy in peace. One essential thing to understand about 'Lebanon is the position of President Chamoun and his supporters his own government and his own country. When t.he French were persuaded to give up their mandate and Lebanon became an independent country in 1946, they left behind them an extremely compll-x rated electoral It -was meant to give the various religious -communities representation the government according to- their numbers in the population.

The result, is that a citizen must vote for a certain number of representatives of each sect, whether lie likes either them or their policies Furthermore, groups in power at a given moment have consistently tried to gerrymander electoral districts in oidpr.to stay in power. In 1947 three cabinet ministers protested against the conduct of voting in the Mt. Lebanon district. A special committee of magistrates looked into the matter and decided that only the Chamber of Deputies when next it met had the right to invalidate any results. -This decision seemed to satisfy two of vthe ministers who had threatened to resign, Camille Chamoun, minister of finance, and Gabriel Murr, minister of public works.

It did not meet the objections of Kamal Jumblatt, vigorous young minister of national economy and agriculture whose resignation has taken effect York Times, May 29, 19471. So it has been for the past ten years around election and sometimes in between: resigna- tions of ministers, maneuvenngs behind the scenes, suppiession of newspapers, and at length, general strikes. Sometimes only half of the electorate in the Chamber of Deputies has shown up to vote for the next president. For in Lebanon it is still not fiie peop'e but only their repreena-twes in the Chamber of Deputies who elect the president for only one six-year term. President Chamoun was installed in office in 1952, and his term of office ends on Sept.

23, 1958. The president is the head of state; the premier leads the government. The present premier, Sami es-Solh, is a Surtni Moslem, by custom, just as the president is invariably a Maromte Christian. His government was formed in 1956 to replace that of Abulah Yafi, which resigned- in protest For perhaps 72 hours last week civili-zatfon skittered dizzily along the rim of a volcano while a handful of men in Washington and Moscow improvised the decisions which were to determine whether or not it would plunge into the abyss. And one of the most alarming things about the whole affair is the evidence that the average citizen didnt, and still doesnt, really know what it was all about" If you were to take a sidewalk opinion poll on North or on almost any Main'Street in the land, you would' find an appalling ignorance of the real issues in the Middle Eastern crisis.

You would find an almost total' unawareness of the vital distinction between Arab nationalism and Soviet, communism. And worst of all, you would find a strQng disinclination to discuss the question at all. The letter-writer who complained on this page last night that most people rather watch the ball game than listen in on the Security Council was probably correct In justice to good Americans, this presumably does not reflect a holly callous indifference. It cant. Everybody is aware by now of what general war in a nuclear age would mean.

To say that most people regard the issues of tv ar and peace with indifference would be to make the preposterous assumption that they are capable of viewing the destruction of their society and their very families with equanimity. The trouble isn't a feeling of indifference, -but rather a feeling of futility, of creeping fatalism. The average citizen It is an attitude which has done much to create precisely the sort of mess we now face in the Middle East. It is an attitude which condones official blundering. And it is an attitude which abdicates- a fundamental obligation of democratic citizenship.

Behind the Iron Curtain, such fatalism would be understandable, for there the average citizen has little choice but to entrust his fate to the powers-that-be, whom he cannot control. But in a democracy the whole assumption of government is that the public will care enough to make itself informed, and that out of this information will come sound policy. It is easy to make President Eisenhower and Secretary. Dulles the fall guys for- the dreary parade of defeats we have suffered at the hands of the Kremlin since 1952. But it would be more honest to admit that the primary blame rests with a public which gave them its pow'er of attorney without even taking the trouble to find out whether they were using it well or badly.

America didn't rise to greatness on the shrugged shoulders of citizens who rationalized invincible ignorance by whining that they had lost control of own destiny. against President Chamoun's refusal to break off diplomatic relations with Britain and France after their attack on Emt during the so-called. "Suez fjfsis. Yafi and Saeb Salam, former minister of state, are two of the leaders of the Opposition together with the vigorous Kamal Jumblatt. chieftain of the mountain people called the Druzes.

The head of the Maronhe Church is also one of their number. In 1956, the new Premier. President Chamoun, and Foreign Minister Charles Malik decided to adhere to the Eisenhower Doctrine, an act which further strengthened the Opposition. The government also revised the electoral la.is, with the result that in the next elections, Yafi, Jumblatt, and many Other prominent Disposition leaders were defeated. Although these so-called Grebe's have not liked a foreign policy that called for close relations with Western powers, and more recently with the members of the Baghdad Pact (Turkey, Iraq, Iran, England, Pakistan), their chief gripe has naturally been electoral laws that keep them and all their friends and relations from ever being elected, not to mention jail sentences in return for outspoken cnticism.

There was even an attempt at legalizing the preventive, arrest of newsmen in 1957. Early in the spring of fbts vetr, it became clear that the President was anxious to have removed the provision that a president cannot have a second term of office. The Opposition wanted to change the constitution too. but not along these lines. They felt that ten years after independence it was time that A Balance Sheet On Nasser ing large territories without demagogic techniques.

He didnt, and his failure to learn may have hideous consequences for the people of the Middle East. So too, the failure of the West to remember and to understand instead of merely hating may have the most dreadful outcome. 10 Years Ago Miss Ruth Ina Edmonds of Third Street has taken a position in the catalogue department of the Yale University Library, New Haven. Harry C. Gault, 10-year steward at the Stanley will retire Sept.

1, after which he and Mrs. Gault will visit his home state, Wisconsin They will then return to their Crane-Avenue solar home. MisS Elise Farar of Bartlett Avenue will open a dress shop Aug. i at 12 South 'where the Ogden Greeting Card Shop has been almost 25 years. Will Be Clarified By West-Russian Moves Bv Charleg K.

Parker WHAT MOSCOW and, Washington are saying to each other may seem like a war of words just the latest chapter in the 'cold-war propaganda that has been going on for 10 years but it is much more. Both the words and acts of Russia and the West show just how far each side dares to go at this time, and that is why every hew move and pronouncement may be' taken 'as an evaluation jot world military realities by each side'. We may say, for example, that Russia's recognition of the new regime in Iraq represented a Washington London not to attempt any countermoves. On the other hand, vie may say that Russia's recognition of the new Iraqi govern- ment was nothing more than a propaganda move since Moscow probably calculated that vve had no intention of sending troops into Iraq anyway. Similarly, we need not attach too much importance to the fact that Moscow announced war games on the borders of Turkey and Iran since these war games are held there regularly every summer.

MUCH MORE significant was what Khrushchev would say or do after his secret meeting with Nasser last Thursday. Would there be an announcement of a military alliance between Cairo and Moscow and a warning that 'volunteers'1 were -T ready to proceed to the Middle East? Would there be an ultimatum to Britain and the United States to get out of Jordan and Lebanon? -Would there be an even graver warning to the West to withdraw from the Middle East altogether? These moves and others were regarded In diplomatic circles as possibilities. As things turned out, Khrushchev avoided the showdown that would have been implicit in all such moves and contested himself with an urgent summit conference today! Had Khrushchev been confident-of his military, power, we may assume he would have sent an ultimatum, veiled or otherwise, to Washington and London. In failing to do so, he shows that he has great respect for the military capabilities of Britain and the United States at this time. That he is thinking in terms of military power and realities, moreover, is clear from the following statement which he made in calling for a summit meeting: We know that the United States has atomic and hydrogerf bombs, that you have an air force and a navy.

But you will know that the Soviet Union also has atomic, and hydrogen bombs, an air forte and a navy, plus ballistic rockets of all varieties, including continental." Now Khrushchev has said these things before. In fact, he has been saying thm ever sincp the British-French-Israeli attack on Suez in 1956. At that time he warned Britain and France that Russia had the bombs to destroy them. He has delivered similar warnings to West Germany and Turkey during the past two years. The question now is: Does Russia really have all the weapons Khrushchev says she has, including the intercontinental missile, and is she ready to use them? Or is she bluffing and merely using the Mideast crisis as a new and cunning device to get the summit meeting she has been calling for since December of last year? UP XI UI now Khrushchev has used every conceivable sort of to get a summit agreemerit on the suspension of tests and-thfproducrin of nuclear weapons.

Now he is using straight diplor matic terror blackmail to bring about such an agreement. Without an agreement, he implies, tha world may be plunged into war over the Middle East. Further, there is no doubt that he is trying to stampede 'us into a broad agreement whereby we 'would withdraw from all our overseas bases in ex-' change for a limited or nominal withdrawal by Russia from eastern Europe. To underline 'the urgency of the meeting and an agreement Khrushchev says: Most important is not to delay, mot to waste precious time, for the guns have already started firing. It is no longer possible to wait another minute.

In commenting on this note from Khrushchev our State Department said It would, give the Russian proposal prompt consideration." It will be interesting, to see exactly what we do. If we yield to the-demand for an immediate summit meeting, it will show that vve are worried about the military situation. Our answer could show, indeed, that we believe Russia has all the weapons Khrushchev claims she has and that we do not wish to risk a trial of strength at this time. More revealing, of course, would be any concessions we might make at a-summit if one is called. I DO NOT know what Washington and London-will do.

Whatever vve do will show how our leaders evaluate the world military situation at this time. My own feehrjg is that Russia (considers that there is at present a military 'stalemate but that she will lose out in the arms race if it continues for another five years. Therefoie, she is now using the desperate measures to end the race before sheflnds herself jn a position of inferiority. It is my belief that this is also'the Judgment of our military leaders: otherwise, they would not have hesorted to the use of force in the Middle East last week. Whatever thfcir beliefs or the beliefs of Russian leaders, whatever, they do or say during the next week or two- will provide telltale signs as to how they think the military situation really stacks up at this time.

Correspondence to this column on- topics of public interest is welcome. Communications, particularly if over words, ate subject to condensation. Letters deemed slanderous or libelous cannot be printed. True signer fare are required. Notes and Footnotes Ex-Presidents Also Deserve Pensions In a federal budget of some 73 billion dollars a year, there ought to be room for a few thousand dollars to ensure that ex-presidents or their widows will be able to live out their lives in comfort and dignity.

is the sound iew of the House Civi Service Committee, which has just gone on record in favor of a Senate-approved bill to provide pensions of $25,000 for former chief executives, and $10,000 for their widows. As it happens, most presidents who have lived long beyond their retirement have had sufficient means to get by in tolefeble fashion. But there have been painful exceptions, like Ulysses Grant, whose last, years, were burdened with debt; and there have been others like Calvin Coolidge, who felt obliged to cash in on his prestige by becoming a syndicated columnist and, later, joining the board of a largp life insurance company. Wilson, too ill tQ earn money during his post-presidential years, was aided by supporters who bought up the mortgage on his Washington home and gave it to him. Abraham Lincolns widow was saved from penury only when Congress, rather grudgingly, gave her an annuity of $3,000.

1 Providing adequately for former presidents and their widows is not merely a repayment "for serv ice in the nations first and most demanding public assign ment. It should also be a matter of plain national pride, a measure of respect for the dignity of the office itself. financing for annual upkeep? Let's turn from annual budgets to capital outlay. Until this message of Gov. Furcolo in which he calls it his plan, the long-range expansion program of the teachers colleges had been a bipaitisan project.

as education should he. The program was adopted in 1950. In a memorandum of Feb. 8, 1957, to his hoard, the forrneF commission-er of education, Dr. John J.

Desmond, reported on the current status of the capital outlay program as of Jan. 1, 1957 He said, "A fair estimate of tjtotal capital outlay appropriations xmee 1949 in the department would be 14 million dollars and 7. the department has a total of $7,822,999. for expenditure during this year as appropriated in the 1956 session of the Legislature. Note the dates: Tins expansion had taken place prior to the Furcolo administration.

A similar report on the progress of the progiam which covers the period 1950-1963. was made Nov. 1 1957, bv'the present commissioner, Owen B. Kiel nan. A trip to Ajnherst to see the new buildings there would reveal a similar long-range program-Then exactly what is.

this grand- iose talk by the governor? In jt, no new plans are-made for expansion. Rep. Harrison Chadwick, at a recent hearing, said that he had checked, item for item, the governors "plan, with the already approved Capital Outlay Program of 1950 to 1963 teferred to -above and found them to be the same. In the governors own words he meiely recommends That the five-year capital outlay program for our existing educational institutions. as approved by the Division of Building Construction, he accelerated so that it may be completed within the next three yeats, beginning in the fall of 1959.

That ts. the program would be accelerated so that it would be inslead of 1963- as originally-, planned. Just that is -the grandiose talk! Such is the substance of the smoke screen of words, sent up to hide the inadequacies of tha administration in it suppoit of higher education, (rom the voteis. (Mrs ALICE M. PEDERSON, Member, Massachusetts Board of Education.

Alford. strengthen us for this purjwse and the knowledge, mat the death of the bodv is only an incident eternal life He further said. In the world will have tribulation but be of good cheer. I have oveicome the world Men like Nathan Hale who said: I regret that I have but one life to give for my country before he died and men and women, martyrs for the Faith throughout the ag'es, have lived and died gloriously for these primitive and loathsome ideas from the Middle Ages which, as I read him, the archbishop is tearlessly pxpi easing tod a It seems to me that Air. Parker to say the least, confused.

Indulging in the delicious luxury of-ridiculing a gieat churchman it is he and not the successor of St. Augustine who has the emotional approach which tends' to 4con-fuse the whole issue. Hii closing statement is that the mam trend of modern thought is in the direction of a positive, rational scientific mastery of our problems and ourselves and a cool pragmatic patience in all things. This is a lovely statement and sounds fine but if anything today is clear jt is that man is disillusioned in his hope that science will solve all his problems and is returning on all fronts to his search fbr the light of God truth to illumine his problems and His grace and power to bring about 'their solution. If' this be medievalism, jet us have more of it! (Revrt ROBT.

S. WHITMAN. Lenox. The excoriation of President Nasser is the almost hysterical pastime of many today. So perhaps it is time to look again at this Egyptian gangster and the Nasser infection which he is said toxbe spreading throughout the Middle East.x Heis a man certainly topen to much criticism, but almost certainly not deserving of the hatred and petulance directed at him recently.

Nasser's championing xof Arab unity is of itself, neither evil nor dangerous to the West. Pan-Arabism is no more an unworthy goal Jhan Hamilton's federalism; the idea of neutralism no more insidious than George Washington's isox lationism. There is every reason to believe that Nasser is an intensely ambitious man; there, is 'none to believe that it is personal ambition alone which motivates him. He is, from all evidence, a genuine product of his time and place. He is more able, more intelligent, more ambitious than the inarticulate masses to whom he appeals.

He also would seem just as. sincere in his expressions of patriotismnd desire for a better life as are these masses. There is no good rea- son for believing thAt, as Hitler mirrored and expressed the depraved Iong-ingsof the ruffian uprooted and dis-, inherited of the Weimar Republic, so. Nasser Is merely the embodiment of eviL Nasser stands most open to criticism not for his emotional desires fbut for his i intellectual inability to be greatly enough different from the less gifted masses of his followers. Our uneasiness with him springs from his inability to find a way to make his desires and those of his followers realities, without resort to demagoguery and Napoleonism.

His faults are the very dangerous ones of a sincere and highly ambitious man whose intellect and ability to learn are unequal to him. It Ms not that he did not have Mid- predecessors from he might have learned. After he had driven the Greek occupation' army to the sea at Smyrna and w'rung a new treaty from the World War I victors, Mustapha Kernal Pasha took the; fragments of the Ottoman empire and performed in -Turkey, one of historys most interesting experiments in revolution. He renounced completely the expansionist mystique of the 1908 revolution- aries, the Young Turks. JIp.

turhed back on 11 Ottoman irredentism, and literally proceeded tQ transform a nation. His methods were not entirely laudable; neither, perhaps; all his aims, 'one-pf which was the total westernization of Turkey, even to clothing styles. a genuinely grateful people voted him the name Ataturk, -the father of Turks, and the one-party system he enforced during a transition period functioned benignly without the aid of political police and as a matter of fact evolved peacefully into a two-party system after World War II. Nasser might have learned from Ataturk. Nasser might have forgotten foreign affairs and cultivated onty his Egyp- lan garden He might, with his greater ambitions, have learned from the American revolutionaries some lessons in unit- SEE WHERE Mrs.

Gertrude Mallory, Vermont state senator, will abide by the mountain rule and not seek re-election for 1958. It seems, Orange County is split by a mountain range, and it is traditional for the west side to hold the county seat in the Senate ore session, and the east side the next. Mrs. is the wife of R. Mallory, former' Lenox resident.

His lte father, was the Rev. R. De-Witt Mallory Congrega tional Church minister of Lenovrtmd Hou-satonic, and author of Lenox and the Berkshire Highlands. Mountains seem to have figured 'in the Mallory family for some while. MINES, says Product Engineering magazine, may be the chief earthly gain by colonizing the moon.

Believes Luna will prove a vast source of metals and minerals readily mined since there is no covering of topsoil in the way. Nostalgic sohg, Moonlight and Roses, may become, Moon Mines and Pyrites. Ugh. BLA.CK-EYE advertising is the term applied in the industry to bad ads that' give all a black eye: Arndt, Preston, Chapin. Lamb A Keen, agency, is exposing Vome beauts on a bulletin, Included are adsvr.air tours, S47 from Philadelphia to.

Europe and bark. omits mention' that the price Is only down payment, and epn that would reach only to London. Auto ads giving price in big type, with small print. Fac-tory-delnered in Detroit. Appliance ads often list the price of a low-cost model, but the ad with an expensive unit Auto tue ads scream of a at an attractive price, but when you try to buy one the salesman says' it's no good, and1 refuses even to produce one.

ONE OF THE biggest jobs involved in 'the Arartne Lebanon landjjjg took place at Great Lakes, in the Fleet Home Town News Had to uf sue news releases to the home-tow newspapers of every one of I the men who in the operation. Letters 8,1 A Confused Parker To th Editor of THE EAGLE Mr. Charles Parker in a recent column "On the Other Hand." July 17 accuses the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Geoffrey Franr'is Fisher, of being a hopeless Christian fatal- tst a Calvinist fundamentalist, no less. and of going hark to the Middle Ages for his arguments which curious ideas Mr.

Parker, finds primitive and loathsome mischievous and repug'-nant-4o what little moral sense we have. Having thus soundly rapped the fingers of his Grace Mr. Parker goes on to wonder how, "after 2,000 years of tational philosophic thought in the West the archbishop can presume to define thp ideas of God, the destiny of man or the ultimate fate of the universe and. hv mjei ting rns primitive theological rotlons into a practical debate on nuclear arms, confuse the whole issue. Then our columnist -goes on to give his own attitude that the development of nuclear possibilities will shock mankind into sanity rather than lead inevitably to universal destruction.

I wonder just what Mr. Parker Js trying to say. I also wopder if he has read the full statement by the archbishop hr has bad to depend on newspaper accounts like the rest of us. What the archbishop said as reported in the Aem York Times is as folloyvs: There is no evidence that the race -should last forever and plenty in the Scriptures to the contrary. Though suffeung entailed hynuclear war would be ghastly its scale one must re-, member thafeach person can Only suffer so much.

There is no aggregate measure of pain. Any- -now. policy should -not be based simply on fear bf pain. I am not being, unfeeling. Christ in His Crucifixion showed us how-to suffer creatively.

-He did giof claim to-end syffeiing nor did He buf His disciples to avoid suffering I cannot base any policy on whether -or not it will save the human ract) from a period of, suffering ior from extinction He is also reported as saying For all I know it is within the 'Providence of God that the human race should destroy itself. A headline In another paper read: Canterbury says God may will man's end, which is, of course, a far gry front, savlqg that lvcix map IiciT will, ntnllovv hint to destroy himself. What the archbishop is actually saying is much the same aswhqt Mr. Parker has said, nam-ly. that those who, facing the possibility of nuclear war, take comfqpt in the notion that God will not permit such suffering and destruction, regard neither history fior Scripture.

Dr. Fisher adds to this, however, the statement that policy to be effective In time or eternity must be based not on fear but on what one believes is right ami true. I fail to see anylhing loath-ome in what the aichbishop said to me to he based Soundly on the teaching of Jesus Christ who said. Think not tr.at I am come to hring pcare on earth. He brought the truth of God and the challenge to rnpn to stand for it and die for it hut He also makes available the grace of God to Ill Brief-.

The resolution submitted to the Legislature by the county sportsmens clubs yesterday on the subject the Goose Pond right of way wont make the hit parade at the Courthouse but it lays the issue right on-the line. Probably too much. to hope that it will also help prod the Legislature into strengthening the present inadequate right-of-way laws 'That average attendance figure of 400 visitor's a day at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown this season is gratifying evidence of how much the museum has added to our tourist-appeal, let alone to our cultural life, The unabridged dictionary to be donat-, Lenox-Library in memory of the May Butler of the staff is an appropriate symbol of her service to the library. Miss Butler was always available vyith as much time as necessary whenever anyonp came seeking information, whether the elusive fact concerned local history or the vyorld it lgrge Desirable though it may hei from a strategic point of view, IUEs decision totry to, pry, a strike authorization from the membership jn advance of contract negotiations is something of a calculated rl.sk. If the authorization is not forth-, coming' localjy, it will be a poor ad' the union'r militancy F.ducation Program To tho Editor of THE EAGLE The weak of thisTstate admimstratiop in regard to higher education cannot be hidden entirely fi-om the discerning voteis by the smoke screen of words ihrown out Furcolo in his.

TV "message over WCDC on Sunday with its blatant implications. As short a time ago as January, 1958, the governor denned the request of the Department of Education for $125,000 to establish, at an accredited teacher's college, -a pilot community college which1 it is possible to do under the present law Not only was no money available for junior colleges; thpre Were not even adequate funds for the state teachers colleges and the Massachusetts School of Art. Let's look at lhat record. For this coming yesr they needed $6,261,948, but only $5,202,084 was -recommended by the governor. This was $1,059,864 less than the required amount for minimum operation, Berkshire Coiinty residents will be interested in -the fate of Noith Adams College Here $301,318 vvs needed, but only was included in the, budget as recommended, a shortage for that institution of The questionable practice included as one of the economies was borrowing on a basis for the upkeep-of -t-Ve bmJdmgs.

Now-this might 'help in 1958. but what about tha fifth Year of this type of Dangers Rampant To tho Editor ot THE EAGLE The 11 -year -old rocket -maker whose invention severely burned him July, 21 stt esses the danger of childrens handling fireworks of any kind. Before firewoiks w.eie banne children suffered many serious Today, when Sputnik-incited home-made rockets are causing the same casualties some folks actually advocate the return of fireworks to help preserve the meaning of the 4th of July! Unless fireworks and rocket experimentations are held under adult supervision the from indiscriminate use of explosives will get out of hand. (Miss) LORETTA CARROLL. 82 West Housatonic St, rittsfield.

Quotes In politics things aie different than they are in the when the iron curtain, falls, on ll-JormtMvtH'vdramirds-rtost Giovaaai Guai eschi, Italian, playwright, Humor Fallen Angel The sweet young thing was sitting tn' a corner at the cocktail party with an adoring new conquest. "Gosh? it's wonderful to meet a girl like you after all the dames met at parties, he Here, let me et a Couple of drinks and we'll just sit and talk." None for me, please, called the girl after him. I never drink!" However, hoy soon reappeared with two diinks. -Sine you wouldn't like tq tty just one?" he asked. Theie was a giggle.

We-1-1, just this once." took a small alp. Ugh!" she grimaced. JT, Kenyon in 27i American Weekly, APROPOS during the Tangle-wood season is this- limerick, a great favoute during this period of music critic Jay Rosenfeld: There was a young fiddler named Anna Who got caught a flood in' Montana. Il4e she floated away' Her sister, the say, Accompanied her on the piano, COLOR SCHEMES of two of the Big Three auto makers will he cut In half for 1959, meaning less variety forpurchasers. RICHARD V.

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