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GRAY, Editor SANDY OPPENHEIMER, Managing Editor WILLIAM J. WINTERS, City Editor PHILIP D. WECK, Editorial Page Editor Europe's Economic Unity Three months have passed since President Charles de Gaulle blocked entry into the European Common Market and thereby sharply slowed the movement toward European unity. A satisfactory alternative course has not yet been found. The urge toward unity still has great vigor.

Eager proponents of an expanded Common Market have been re-examining motives and methods ever since De Gaulle dropped his January bombshell. Sicco Mansholt, vice president of the Commission of the European Economic Community and the architect of Common Market agricultural policy, is one who doggedly insists that a unity embracing Britain and others must surely be achieved one day. He is one among many European figures who do not believe there can be progress on De evident terms, a closed continental economic system dominated by France. For those who see a widening European unity as vital to future security and well-being, the waiting without action is hard. Some find limited comfort in the knowledge that all great undertakings have their crises.

Still, unity leaders like Mansholt do not think that the continued powerful pull of nationalism, exemplified chiefly in De approach, can be allowed to prevail indefinitely. The notion is strong that the unity must somehow sustain its momentum if Western Europe is to hold its place in the rising competition of the late 20th Century. If You Forgot If, like the traditional Absent- Minded Henry, you stuck your hand in your coat pocket this morning and discovered that income- tax form still unmailed after deadline, you can stop quaking in your boots right now. not headed for Atlanta, Leavenworth or any other like hoosegow. Uncle Sam, find out providing you take immediate steps, an ogre after all.

The Internal Revenue Service will accept any reasonable for failing to make that April 15 deadline. The IRS, however, reserves the right to make up its own mind on what is reasonable. And it will sock you six per cent interest for being behind on what you owe. On the other hand if your negligence was willful there is an additional penalty and if it was with intent to avoid payment if you just bother to file a form, for is, in the eyes of Uncle, a sure-enough criminal offense. Similarly, there is latitude if you made a mistake in your mathematics or if through some unexpected, unavoidable misfortune you are absolutely unable to pay what you owe come deadline.

In this country we have a highly enlightened electorate consisting of taxpayers who shell out with a maximum of complaint but a minimum of trouble. Almost every other nation of the world has a considerably greater tax collection problem. Uncle knows this; he knows human and also, by and large, non-criminal. Thus, if you forgot, or if a flat tire, for example, delayed you past deadline, get in touch with Internal Revenue posthaste and stop worrying. Stop Those Brush Fires Four fortunately unoccupied trailers Saturday; an empty shed Monday.

That is a partial score of the property damage that flared up as the result of continuing, menacing, serious brush fires in Lower Bucks County. When are the people of Lower Bucks going to wake up? Do we need a repetition of last tragedy, when two little boys were killed as the result of a brush fire? In actual fact, this weekend easily could have seen an even more ghastly result. One fire, along the railroad tracks in Tullytown, came perilously close to fuel-oil storage tanks. Another, threatening an entire trailer court, easily could have found full instead of empty bu- tane-gas tanks with a resultant explosion. Up and down the Pennsylvania Railroad line the brush fires raged, in most cases along vacant properties that easily could have been wetted down by our fire companies or where high weeds should have been mowed by municipal authorities.

At least one holocaust came from a temporarily untended trash fire. Take a trip along any major highway and try to count the number of lighted cigarettes that are flipped out of windows, into winds that will blow them anywhere. Most of our fires, brush, forest or what-have-you, can be prevented, should be prevented, and must be prevented. Our Embattled Coroners An old refrain, get rid of the is being sung in these parts once again and as usual it is accompanied by so much verbiage that the actual point involved is lost for most purposes. The refrain, which is gaining popularity across the nation, has to do with the theory that a medical examiner, a physician appointed to this position after passing a special test, can do a much more efficient job than an elected coroner who, under present state law, needs no medical training whatsoever.

To quite an extent, this makes sense. But it overlooks the basic problem of political philosophy that is involved: To insure competence, must we take another office out of the hands of the electorate and make it appointive only? In this particular case, where a great deal of technical knowledge is involved, the obvious answer is yes. not carry the principle too far, however; this still, even on a county level, is supposed to be government of the people by the people. Winning Pitcher: Fidel When a baseball player in this country hits a home run, he is likely to be lifted on the shoulders of the crowd and carried off to celebrate. Nine players faced this prospect nobly Sunday night and came through successfully.

They managed to hit no home runs whatsoever and we suspect this deficiency was directly and definitely due to their own maximum effort. For the game was played in Havana and the pitcher who opposed these nine was Fidel Castro. In the minds of the heroic nine as they faced Castro, and lost, 8-2, visions of the committee to welcome a home-run hitter must have been quite vivid, and the only question, exactly what they would have been carried off to. Brando Drops A Bombshell By Earl Wilson NEW YORK Marlon Brando bought me lunch and gave me a tremendously provocative interview during which he dropped a bombshell going to get out of the movie-actor racket. Over his eggs and my salad, I inquired about the veracity of such rumors.

think coming to a he nodded. become a director, or whether change my profession and alter my interests, is a question of time and not I read this back to him from my nickel notebook and said to him, says fact is, I will quit acting, I know he nodded again. get out of the picture think he answered. little boy. There was a 3rd Bill Bailey, too: a grandpa, who, at the exactly wrong moment, got up and went to the powder room, missing his debut.

Danny so great at the warm, talented, charming, slick, energetic hard to write about him except to repeat his line that he might be on all night I like to hear me more than And that party for him afterward at the Blair House everybody from Margaret Truman to Judy Garland! What a tribute to what a guy! Mr. Wilson On a taped interview for a David Suskind TV show, told he was more forthright and said: getting out of this Brando, conscientiously giving interviews simultaneously with release of his picture, Ugly fiercely attacked Time magazine and other publications during our talk. inviting disaster by doing he admitted. I have children to bring up in the world and their mothers to protect from scandal and embarrassment, and going to do that to the best of my hopeless he said. Then he said, interview And he did but a couple more columns.

Kim Novak shot those nude bedroom scenes with Laurence Harvey in Dublin last week (in 7 Human and chased practically everybody off the set preventing them from beholding Kim nude from the waist up. A studio spokesman know whether be able to show these scenes in Laurence Harvey said, glad an actor.This was worth waiting Ella Fitzgerald had hysterics after her opening at the redesigned Americana Royal Box she thought she was a bust because while the audience heard her clearly, she hear the applause, and thought there any. Sophia Loren, a great Ella fan, cheered her afterward, and helped her dry her tears. fans thought she was at her peak. Not much help, however, was the appearance (when she sang You Come Home, Bill of two Bill Baileys, father and THE MIDNIGHT EARL Helen throat trouble forced her out of the Copacabana show (co-starring with Jimmy Durante) and into a hospital for treatment.

The throat trouble cost her a Jack Paar TV show; she sing for two weeks Eartha Kitt, who started as a dancer, thrilled the Plaza Persian Room opening crowd with a sinuous samba, in a split skirt showing plenty. Katherine Dunham, for whom Eartha once worked, was choreographer. Mary Martin returned from Brazil in time to catch the Danny Kaye premiere. Johnny Carson, who takes his show to May 6, has an offer to make a movie there The Playboy Club ejected a loaded star who insisted on reciting poetry Alfred do a personal appearance in Europe for the first time, to plug Vivien Leigh expecting a long run in leasing a house in Connecticut Actor Curt Jurgens, playing on stage in Germany, has lost 15 pounds. they did tell he says, psychoanalysis would be a Harpo title his book of a Mangy 20th Century-Fox changed the title of its next film from for to the enticing Not The shortest new film title is Ray the longest is Strangelove; Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the BEST LAUGH: a local bandit who specializes in holding up antique shops.

He uses a bow and arrow. WISH SAID THAT: The new IBM machines are doing some of the thinking for men these days but still running second to wives. REMEMBERED QUOTES: This is really the land of promise. And especially during an election year. Will Rogers.

PEARLS: Remember back, when a girl with hidden charms hid them? Bob Hope says in his book, Owe the Russians that Russian TV viewers are a lot like Americans: one difference when they watch a western, they root for the earl, brother. Beer Sot Says Not By Dr. William Brady An unhappy wife writes: husband drinks two cases of beer a week, which he says is not drinking. He does not fit any of the patterns for alcoholics, and feels that I am simply finding fault because I think it is bad for him. says beer is so diluted that it is impossible to drink too much, also it does not affect him as it would an inexperienced drinker.

you give me any answers to this? 46 he complains constantly about not feeling well and lack of the old pep and drive. Also he says everybody is against him, including his wife and three (Signed) of Dr. Brady This insistence that he is not an alcoholic is characteristic of alcoholism. In that remarkable book, Prodigal Father Pfau tells how he kept insisting he was not an alcoholic because he drink anything before noon. As noontime neared he would prepare a drink set it on the table and pace the floor, watching the clock, and on the stroke of 12, pounce on the drink and down it.

Not until he became an active member Alcoholics Anonymous could he bring him self to preface his remarks, in an A. A. meeting, as all membebrs do, with the simple statement: am an I know what beer costs by the case and rather not inquire, but for the price of two cases a week a man might buy considerable life insurance for the benefit of his wife and children, sure. This man, however, may be unable to pass a life insurance examination now. The fact that the alcohol in beer is diluted more than in wine and whiskey mitigate the harm done by drinking.

I pray God will lead this man to look up Alcoholics Anonymous in the telephone book, ask the time and place of the next meeting, and attend the meeting anonymously. Every other person present will respect his anonymity as they expect him to respect theirs. Even his wife and children need not know unless he himself tells them just how he kicked the habit. Letters To The Editor Letters from readers are invited and welcome. They must be brief, to the point and signed as evidence of good faith.

Signatuies will be omitted on request. In Bad Taste Editor, Courier-Times: I have often appreciated the cartoons by Crawford. However, the use of a phrase of Scripture Greater Love Hath No Man and applying it to the common duty of paying tax, is not only out of place but in extremely bad taste. One can hardly compare the love and sacrifice of Jesus Christ with a responsibility as mundane as meeting an April 15 deadline. Henry J.

Heijermans 35 Cameo Place Levittown, Pa. Not All Agree Editor, Courier-Times: I should like to supply some corrective glasses for Mrs. Alex Bigioni, who appears to need them very badly. The criticism of the appointment and pay for the Township was voiced by the Association for Informed Democrats. She should join this group and become better informed before writing letters.

No Supervisor can hold the Township Manager post in any capacity. The correct title should be superintendent. (See Article 5, section 514 page 22, Code for Second Class Townships). Mrs. Bigioni must only know what the acting Township Superintendent tells her for I recall having seen her at any public meetings of the Supervisors, School Board or Water and Sewage Authority.

If she would attend some of these meetings she would find out that all of the people do not agree that all of the business of our governing bodies has been in the best interest of all the Township residents. I remain an informed and vigilant Republican. Mahlon H. Fiscel Republican Candidate for School Board Falls Township Respect Privacy Editor, Courier-Times: Freedom of the Press does not imply freedom to invade individual privacy. The UPI wire story headlined, Do You Tell A Boy, 4, His Father Coming is a rank intrusion on that privacy and an insult to your readers.

Of course we all mourn for the men of the Thresher. We pray for them and hope our prayers will sustain their loved ones in their sorrow. We are interested in details of the tragedy and in the men involved; we have a right to be interested. But, we do not have nor want the right to the private thoughts of people in deep mourning. By what authority does the press print words undoubtedly torn from the anguished heart of a grieving widow? It is unthinkable that Mrs.

cries were uttered for public edification. In printing this story you have slandered the good taste, delicacy and simple human understanding of the American public. You have also violated Article IV of the Constitution which grants that, right of the people to be secure in their persons against unreasonable searches shall not be This certainly includes the rights of personal privacy. Let us hope that a responsible press will abandon these maudlin tactics and adopt a more human approach to human interest stories. Very truly yours, (Mrs.

Doris Popky Levittown, Pa. Tip To Nylen Editor, Courier-Times: This is in reply to Albert W. Nylen: I have been reading the Courier-Times for quite some time now and I have come to the conclusion that you thrive on antagonistic correspondence. First of all, as a married waitress, let me thank you for never sitting at one of my tables. Please be informed that newspaper ads for waitresses can be answered as quickly, if not quicker, by single women and widows than by married women with children who must arrange for child care to even apply for the job.

You stated in in your letter that in mo.st cases it is the married women who are disappointed and angry if there is no tip from a working individual. Have you taken a poll as to their marital status? You also asked whether or not we expect a tip from unemployed persons, people on relief, and people on social security pension. The answer is emphatically NO. We are courteous to everyone, but I have yet to see a customer with any of these things stamped on his back. As for your suggestion about a law being passed barring married waitresses, perhaps a law should be passed enforcing employers to pay a decent standard minimum wage.

The majority of married waitresses are not as you put it, but sensible, hard-working wives. 1 think I can speak for most of my co-workers when I say that the extra pay check is approximately 55 cents an hour, which is hardly an exorbitant second income let alone calling tips a third income. Be assured, Mr. Nylen, most married waitresses do not work to acquire as you said. They love their husbands, and are trying to help them to acquire important necessities that are too much for the average person to handle in this day and age.

Do yourself a favor go out and pay high prices for warmed up portions doled out as meals, as you said, in restaurants and diners. Believe me, nobody will miss you. Joan T. Cipriani Croydon, Pa. Note To Bristol Editor, Courier-Times: I am glad I do not live in Bristol.

If the people there have any spunk, they will take a lesson from what has been accomplished in other towns. People went around, house to house, and told residents of conditions and what to do about it. These people saw to it that ali who were eligible were registered to vote and kept after them. People are told all sorts of untruths: That politicians know how they vote; that their taxes will be raised; or lose their jobs, etc. This is America.

Not Russia. People should take the time to find out what goes on in their own back yard. It can cost you plenty of money when you Imagine, the man with the on a test getting the job. Investigate that. You have a District Attorney or Chamber of Commerce; or write to Washington.

got a good newspaper to back you up, so you are fortunate there. As for Silver Lake, this area is your inheritance. let anyone put up apartment buildings there. When an area is used for a park, let others crowd you out of it. There is an awful lot of tax-free property in Bucks County so the rest of us make up for this loss.

We get benefit from our schools and churches, our people use these. No one else. Not so a park. Let each area develop its own park, which is free to area residents. Others should pay a small fee which could be used for maintenance.

Notice the free parks in nearly all areas. As long as they are far from built-up areas, they are not too bad. But with population increasing, parks need to be well staffed to keep down vandalism and litter and to keep things in repair. Already, property at Silver Lake has been destroyed Who paid for those trees? Out-of-towners? No, you did. Many of the beaches are now fenced in and people pay to park and pay to go in.

Uncle Sam gives everything for free to others. Let us not be so foolish. Make a real nice park, but fence it in. Charge others to use it, and charge to park. for one, am getting fed up with paying for others.

Let others contribute. This is only fair. Levittown has swimming pools and such that you use even if you are willing to pay. Wake up, Bristolians. Eddington Housewife Pay, Then Say Editor, Courier-Times: Recent letters in your column concerning Lower Bucks County Hospital make me wonder.

If these people were as quick to pay their bills as they were to write letters, would it be necessary for the hospital to turn the accounts over to a collection agency? sure even a small effort to pay would have eliminated the need for these accounts to react in this manner, and the relationship could have been kept on a satisfactory basis for all concerned. Common Sense Voice Editor, Courier-Times: for County Endorsed Ca- in Courier-Times did a very nice job of smearing some good Republicans and warping facts. look over this letter and straighten out the facts and, I hope, this individual. Mr. Ault was free to do as he pleased about running for County Commissioner Anyone who knows George Ault certainly must realize that no one could apply or pressure to make him react in any way whatsoever.

If George Ault had thought he had a chance of winning, wild horses could not have stopped him. Perhaps Mr. Ault feared the very type of politics you are illustrating in your letter. By attempting to use Big against Mr. Fritz you pinpoint the gimmick that so many Bucks County politicians have been forced to fear.

This gimmick is the Boyer association. It is well known that Mr. Ault has been just outside County Commissioner door as County Purchasing Agent for quite a while. This would be hard to overcome indeed, for as everyone knows by now, if you nod to County Commissioner Boyer these days, you are tagged a If all this political hogwash about lieutenants were true, County Commissioner Boyer would be so powerful that no one could beat him. As far as Mr.

Fritz profiting in his insurance business from his political affiliation, this is a little far fetched. A Bucks County Commissioner lives in a glass house. In addition, insurance is a closely regulated business. It is probably more closely regulated than many others that could be tied in with politics. Another myth used as a charge in this letter is the label.

One of our real weaknesses is the idea that we are part of one Republican Party in Bucks County and there is another outside our county. This, of course, is to the advantage of a small controlling group. Exclude political talent and you need very little yourself to control the party. As for heading a group to ask the resignation of our esteemed County Chairman, this is just not so. The meeting where this entire idea came into being was not even attended by Mr.

Fritz. This entire idea stemmed from the fact that a considerable group of committee-people had asked for the presence of the County Chairman at a meeting. Here it should be noted that the plan was for the County Chairman to have his proper place at this meeting, that of heading it as County Chairman. Had the County Chairman been on time, it would have been his meeting. As he arrived an hour late the feeling was prevalent that the meeting was being ignored.

This led to the thinking that perhaps the Republican Party of Bucks County would be better without Mr. Beckert heading it. UZaS this at which Mr. Beckert stated if a large enough vote could be mustered to remove him he would vote along with the idea. Mr.

Fritz sent a personal letter to Mr. Beckert denying the newspaper report that he was involved in this matter Mr. Fritz, I am sure, would be more than delighted to have our County Chairman Mr. Beckert head his campaign for County Commissioner next fall 1 Lsummary I would like to fnfmH h- U1 i George Ault has ever found himself in a position to have anyone h'm- Mr. Harry W.

Fritz is at- whjip an intelligent worth- camnaten Th- in his Ruriff 1S an in itself. Bucks County candidates have been so busy lately with mud slinging thev apparently have forgotten the aim of public differSpnterHCeK t0 PUbUc- Fritz is different. He has given the problems of o'bTta a serious thought. He hopes ihe tonty be of value 0 A Fair-Minded Republican For The Best Candidates Feasterville, Pa..