The Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune from Chillicothe, Missouri • Page 7

THE WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Says Nixon Ignores 30-Day Mourning for Ike By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON--While flags have been flying at half-mast throughout the nation out of respect for the late Dwigbt D. Eisenhower, there has been more social hoopla in the White House than ever. President Nixon did not pause even a week before throwing overboard the 30-day period of mourning which he himself had decreed for the nation. National mourning is supposed to be observed in Washington more than anyplace else. And when the President decreed official mourning for a former president, especially one under whom he served as vice president, Washington expected that cancellation of all White House entertainment would follow.

Con- gequenUy, foreign embassies cancelled their dinners, as did many Washington hostesses. They have been surprised to see the social season at the White House back in full swing--even with the flag flying at half-mast on the lawn outside. The dinner for King Hussein for Jordan, which followed ihortty after Eisenhower's depth, understandably could not have been cancelled. It was important to peace in the Near East. But the dinner for Ray Bliss, outgoing chairman of the Republican national committee, certainly could have been postponed.

Bliss, an old friend of Eisenhower's, would have understood completely. Besides, he wasn't going anywhere except occasional trips to Ohio. Instead, the Marine Corps orchestra was drafted by the Nixons to feature a big social evening. Not until about 3 a. m.

did the Marine Corps combo stop playing dance music for the Republican guests who just a short time before had been mourning their late leader's departure. The public, of course, had no way of knowing this. For the Stars and Stripes, in respect to President Eisenhower, continued to fly at half-mast outside. There followed a hig jamboree for Republican of them. There were so many that they were received in four ghifts at the White House where they drank 225 gallons of punch and consumed 24,500 cookies, an average of five cookies per GOP lad.v.

The Republican ladies had a good time, but they would have understood if the reception had been called off in respect to the late President, the standard bearer of their party. Then there was a gala reception for the Republican national committee with lively music; another for the League of Women Voters; another for the Washington International club, plus the black-tie reception for the American Society of Newspaper Edi- tors. All of these would have understood had their receptions; been cancelled. Meanwhile, the flag Hies al half-mast lor an alleged period of mourning for the late President of the United States. CONTRASTS IN NAZIISM In contrast to the Neo-Nazi movement being secretly organ- bed in the United States, significant developments are happening in Germany.

The West German government has just sent Dr. Rolf Pauls, a symbol of the new West German attitude toward Jews, as ambassador to Washington. Pauls served as ambassador to Israel. Refugees from the Nazi death chambers were skeptical At first; later, welcomed him with enthusiasm. The current Neo-Nazi movement in the United States, incidentally, is publishing a book "The Myth of the Six Million," which claims that the Jewish prison camps conducted by Hitler were a figment of Jewish imagination and that six million Jews were never murdered.

Almost simultaneous with Ambassador Paul's arrival, Axel Springer, the big German publisher, donated a new library wing to the Israel museum in Jerusalem. Going to Jerusalem last month for the dedication, Springer said: "Before jyou stands a German we older ones know that we must live with this terrible past, the past that cannot be changed. But we must change the future." Springer is throwing the weight of his potent West German newspaper behind Israel, so much so that there is a Berlin wisecrack that "during the six-day war, Axel Springer issued Israeli newspapers in Germany. However, his instinct for circulation him from printing them in Hebrew." In accepting the new library addition to the museum, Teddy Jollek, mayor of Jeruselm, awarded Springer a plaque giving him the honor of "a true friend of Israel. This happened at a time when the Neo-Nazi movement in the United States, promoted backstage by Willis Carlo of the Liberty Lobby, was contributing disguised campaign funds to an imposing list of rightwing congressmen.

ROGERS PLAN FAILS Secretary of State William P. Rogers has made a secret attempt to rescue Truog Dinh Dzu, the former Vietnam presidential candidate, from prison. Dzu, who polled 850,000 votes in the 1967 South Vietnam presidential election, was jailed for advocating talks with the Communist National Liberation Front. Rogers pointed out to South Vietnamese leaders that the -Junior Editors Quiz on Where do sea shells came jrom: ANSWER: When we sec a pretty empty shell on a Beach we arc apt to forget thai interesting Hule anim.il once built it. These shcllmakers i small soft creatures.

Such a mollusk hatches from the CM as a free swimming larva or veliger (I). Aflcr awhile he settles to (he bottom (2) with his wing-like paddles gone. He looks tempting to many hungry predators, but he protects himself with an ingenious system. His soft body i covered with a fleshy cape or mantle (3). The a is Bole to extract carbonate of lime from the sea water and deposit it in a strong hard material or shell.

As the youim mo usk keeps growing, adding larger spirals lo Ihe tiny shell he carried as a vcligcr, the mantle keeps covering the new spirals with shell (2). Then, when danger threatens Hie animal can pull inside his shell, closing the entrance HTllr, P' ate 'rap door which he carries around JiTM -M hls body Somc moll "sks, like the A 5 ells of ollrcr sha es material is deposited by the mantle in the same general way. Fishy ACROSS perch DOWN 5 Fish from 1HU 5" 1 0 i ZMiplegmw Newfoundland 3 sharp Atlantic 4 Italian city SKanseanlmeb 13 Hail! iorm SRescue iSS? 1 'asy ta 18 Masculine 11 Not as much dramas 28 Having wings 28 Lawyers (ab.) 29 Soothsay tr 3D Strays 32 nickel 34 Tantalum (symbol) 39 Oxidizing enzyme. 40 Rough finish 41 Courtesy title 44 House, in Italy MascuHiw name 46 Vex (colL) 47 Otiose Speed contest 50 Love god 51 Presently 52 Burrower US Green vegetable mother 31 African 33 Absolute 35 Jap 36 Subsequently 37 Indonesian of Mindanao 38 Feminine appellation 42 Seniors (ab.) 43 Like an elf 44 Color 48 Trout 53 In the midst of 54 Qualified 56 Italian river 57 Threshold 58 Observe 59 Deliberate GO Toward the sheltered side 61 Organ of hearing (C ommen ROTC FOES MISS THE POINT "ROTG off campus!" seems to be the latest crisis call of he student activists. The administrations of a number of universities have moved either to abolish Reserve Officers' Training Corps programs at heir schools or to cease awarding them academic credits.

Vhether this is at the behest of the radicals or whether it mere- reflects a growing reaction against the military among the intellectuals, it may not necessarily be the peace-promoting tiling ts advocates think it is. One of the principles by which this nation has operated from ts founding is civilian control over the military. That principle served not only by the fact that the president is commander- n-chief and that a civilian is head of the Defense Department jut by the leavening effect obtained by drawing into the services masses of civilians through the draft and the ROTC. Should the services be denied this leavening, should they no longer be able to fill the officer ranks with thousands of ROTC graduates yearly, should they be completely isolated from civilian America, the antimilitarists could find in the end that instead of striking a blow for peace, humanitarianism and individual iberty they have succeeded in creating in this country a Prussian-type military elite infinitely more inimical to their ideals. This possibility, not the question of money, is also the most cogent argument against proposals to abolish the draft and make military service entirely vohuVary.

An anti-ROTC editorial which recently appeared in 29 college newspapers around the countr.y contended that "training soldiers whose ultimate aim is to kill is hostile to the principles of Academia." The same kind of fuzzy-headed thinking was behind a demonstration at Kent State University in Ohio awhile back in which radicals drove recruiters from the Chicago Police Department off the campus. As if the police, or the military are to be humanized by cutting them off from access to the best young minds in the country. The ultimate aim of soldiers, like that of policemen, is not to kill but to protect tiie nation and its citizens. As long as that protection is necessary, as long as we must have soldiers, sailors or airmen, service in and watchful support of the armed forces should be the obligation of all. We may not like the military, we may agonize over Us mans upon our lives and our national resources, we may be convinced of the unredeemable obtrusencss of the military mind, we may dream of (he time when the only soldiers we see are pictures in history books, but we delude ourselves if we think that wars are made by generals and not by statesmen.

Asked to comment about the campus editorial, Col. Everett Stoutner, chief of the ROTC Division in the Pentagon, said: "Thank God we have a country where an article like this can appear." Amen, And thank God we have a country that can produce a soldier capable of such a statement. YOUTH NEWS AND VIEWS by TOM MOUNTER Area Youth Agent University of Miuourl ExKniion Division Cumber K- ca win Sl cash Pit" 4 landsime 'I" "Unn, mailed an a postcard lo cure oj this newspaper, is selected Jor a LITTLE WHITE HOUSE Conferences Don't forget the Little White HOIISP Conferences on Children and Youtli coming up on May 3, 10, 17, in Trenton, Bethany, aiirt Gaflatin. Tins is op- In spoaK on tlir local, si ale, and national level. Recreation Worship Tlie 24th annual Missouri Recreation Workshop will he held at Camp Clovor Point, Lake ol Ozarks State Park on June 814, The workshop is designed for adults, young people, and family groups interested in recreation and helping people make meaningful use of leisure lime.

Anyone interested shoulri write Mrs. dithcnnp Klliott, 908 East 23 Avenue, North sas City, Mo. (54116. Youth Camp A youth camp for youngste with no other camping Umity is planned for July 10-13 1969, at Crowder State Park The University of Missouri Ex tension Division and the His souri Department of Welfare ai cooperating in (his camp di signed for youngsters 10-1 years of age. Anyone wishin lo aid in tins worthwhile ei (leaser should contact their 1 cal University Extension Cei ler or Welfare Office for moi information.

Investment? Someone has said that in dcr to make a prohl you mil make wise investments, I su. gest to you Mint one of Ihp est investments that you en make is one of timo and effo, in our youth of loclay Thp prof Its and arris from such ai investment can hp tremendous ACHILLES OFTEN NEEDS A NEW FIG LEAF LONDON (AP) keep stealing Ihr fig leaf from the ,10 fool statue of Aclullcs in do Park so the i gov- kcrps a supply of replacements on hand, Public Works Minister Robert Mellish lolrt the House of Commons recently. Mclhsh said his department also keeps a stock of pipes for Pot or Pan and sceptres for Ihe slaluo of Queen Victoria outside RiK-kingliain Palace, two olhor of souvenir hunters. Looking Back Through Constitullon-Trlbunt Pllti Saifion Rovernment itself has now accepted this line. He suggested dial Saigon should not only release but invite him fo join the government.

This would be evidence, Rogers sugsested, that the povernmcnt was sincere about its offer to negotiate with the NLF. Shortly after Roger's proposal, Owi was brought to Saigon and offered a post in (he government, he flatl.v turned it down; so the Vietnam authorities tossed him hark in pnson. (Copyright, 1969. by tht Bell MeClurtt Syndicate.) Laughton starred In "The Girl from Manhattan," a local movie attraction. Twenty Yean Aqo Today A ChilHcothe woman was ound dead in bed by her sis' er.

She had not been ill aim eath was thought to be caused a heart attack. About 50,000,000 Americans 'ere cheated out of an hour's leep when day light savings ime became effective in many reas of the nation. State troopers and Lake of tie Ozarks fishermen searched three unidentified men vhose boat capsized near Cam- enton, Mo. H. L.

Butterlield, 1421 Clay trect, returned home after hav- ng surgery at a Kansas City lospital. A daughter was born to Mr. nd Mrs. Kenneth Pearson of 214 Calhoun at the Chillicothe ospital. She was named Caroyn Louise, Ordell Sholl was elected presi- ent of the Breckenridge Rotary lub.

Virgil Colvin was vice (resident and J. L. Walker ccretary. Lamour, George Montgomery and a Thirty Years Ago Today Sixteen men, under the supervision of City Engineer Courtney Miller, began construction of a sewer line to the site of the new CCC camp. Mrs.

J. F. Hciser suffered a badly sprained ankle in a fall while working in the back yard I of her home on Locust street. Miss Edith Dailey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

E. W. Dailey, 917 Walnut, was elected president of the senior class at Ward- Belmont School in Nashville, Tenn. Miss Louise Seidcl of Chillicothe was elected recording secretary of the Missouri Federation of Business and Professional Women's clubs. Miss Bessie Rickerson of Wheeling underwent major surgery at the Chillicothe hospital.

The Rev. Laurence W. Cleland, pastor of the First Baptist Church, went to Ft. Scott, to visit his wife who was ill at the home of friends there. Use Our Classified CoaiWutlon-Tribune Chillicothe, Mo.

Thursday, April 24, 1969 TIZZY OsonH Trryryrrmmmnna "I think I'm going to get my hair cut. long hair on girls looks too boyish!" OUR BOARDING HOUSE With Maj. I'LL ACCEPT THAT--BUT I OUT UNDERSWWO WHY THE BOTTOM HEB. OF THE SEBIW iOUR6 e-t THOSE HIS COUSIN, YOU I (SADISTS HAVE OUSHTA. BE ABLE 1 STARTED TO BRIMS A FEW LBW- 11L HAVE TO SIPETPACK THEM EON'T WORRY, I'LL.

PUT ALL THE BREAC? BACK IM I LIKETHe HCEL, AW tALREApy ATE ONE--I JUST WOW WENT IM AFTER THE OTHER ISSB U1HBKS THE cnYS PLAWMN' A REAL BLAST fOS WEt ALL BE 6OIN, BOYS IF IT fOR MY DRATTEP VIRUS; MY POCTOF? HAS FORSIDPEM ME la INTO ICKTHINMWS, THIS IS ALL. WE'VE FALLEN IN FAST, HICK. PONT KNOW IF- we muss ye PO wiu- KEEP ILL BET DEEP COWN INSIDE NCO'KENOT HE'S A MCE KIP. rA ajTTENouc OFCHAPACTER A6BI3A6 AHOLJ6E SWAP OUT OF IE flAlOM CRUPPYI IF YOU'RE CUPIP, SHC5- HOT PROSPECT. THE IW TS' PICHURE YOU SENT? PURINS'THE WOT WAR? ASAIWST TH" HOLP ITi YOU KAISER? I'LL SHOW YOU MUSCLE-gOONO HOW FAST I CAN WHO'S YOUR HEAP REEL-- THE BLONPE IM THIS FUSSY PHOTO YOU SUBMITTEP? LIKENED I HAP! OH, WY HEAP STILI.

REELS WELL.SO MUCH IVE GOT TO SAY, BEFORE WU 6ET TOO INVOAVEO VWH THAT, X.WE'VE GOT A YOU LITTLE PROBLEM GIVE ME A WND? VI IN THE SWITEHBQWC I'VE BEEN BRAIN MINE I IT FOR A A.