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Editorials NASHUA, N. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1965 Nashua telegraph Meeting Our Cultural Needs Ai Nashua grows and i new breed of people come to the city to live and work, there are signs that our cultural landscapes are widening. Many of the thousands of out of (owners who have found jobs here over I lie past five years in our new type of Industry, where engineering arid technological degrees are a must, have fit(pd into the community and have pushed for programs which have largely been lacking here because there was no con- cprfod demand for them. All of this has boon changed. Cultural groups have been organized promoted by the combined efforts sonic old line citizens and the newcomers to Nashua and their influence on the community continues to grow.

An Arts and Science Center was organized in 3961. and it has been responsible for bringing varied groups together in an annual Arts Festival, one of (he highlights of the season. In addition the Center has brought art shows here, featuring the works of outstanding world painters, past and present. The Nashua Symphony orchestra, first started in the Twenties, was revived and sponsored by the Nashua Symphony Association and it has been outstandingly successful sit ce the resurrection in I960. Each year some five Dr Albert Schweitzer Dr Albert.Schweitzer's career would rlrfy (lie imagination of the most ere- i fiction writer.

Born and reared in nn Alsace village, the son of a minister, ho attained a wide reputation in music, philosophy and theology before he turned to medicine at the age of 30. As an organist, he attracted large audiences in European concert halls. As a scholar, he a a storehouse of knowledge on subjects ranging from Bach, German literature, to studies of Josus. Revered by all whom he had treated and by unnumbered people around the world by reputation, Dr Schweitzer was OUR of Africa's controversial figures. Despite criticism from Gabonese Republic officials and others, he refused to change either his methods or modernize I ho crowded corrugated iron shacks that served as his hospital.

The eminent: healer ignored such criticism as that: leveled at him by one African official, a "he treats our people 1 like savages instead of bringing progress." He defended his ways of giv- ing primitive patients primitive treatment. He says the Africans themselves changed his concepts on his arrival there four decades ago. Dr Schweitzer renounced a successful medical career in Europe when he went to the "Dark Continent" in 1913. There he opened his famous jungle hospital in French Equatorial Africa. Dr Albert Schweitzer, who frequently has been called the world's greatest living missionary, was a humanitarian healer, philosopher, author and musician, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952.

His medical work has directly helped more than 60,000 persons. When his 90th birthday was marked, throngs made their way to the jungle health center three miles from Lamba- rene, Gabon, including entire villages of grateful tribesmen from the African bush, some 200 Europeans and a few Americans from outside Africa. They came on foot, by riverboat and by plane to see the man whom the tens of thousands he aided looked upon as a saint. He spent his last days with them. The Observer By RUSSELL BAKER New York Times News Service Dolly On the Escalator WASIHNdTON Moscow's abrupt decision lo keep "Hello Dolly" off the boards in Russia is l)ad news.

The official interpretation that the show was banned in retaliation against i i Stales war policy in Vietnam is not I hy people who understand relations between modern These people find 11 laush- nble In suggest that Moscow i 11 can Kivc American bombers til-tor-tat by cutting off David Merrick's s. (Merrick is the show's producer.) Tlie "Hello Dolly" crisis. Ihey agree, is retaliation all right, but not au.iinsl anything that is happening in Asia. In Hie words of one war-room thinker, "what are fated with is the danger of total cultural warfare." In striking against Broadway's most Miecessful musical, Moscow is over-reacting in an escalation out of all proportion to the original American thrust. Till') CRISIS WAS begun quietly enough last month when Soviet photographic planes flying over Culia recorded the absence of Bobby from the Capablanca chess tournament.

Scanning newspaper cuttings in the Ministry of Cultural Warfare, several commissars reported simultaneously that Fischer, the American chess rlumpion. had been denied American passport permission to attend the tournament. Here, it seemed, was a quiet, concealed move by the United States lo strike a incak blow aujiinst Communist culture. This suspicion may liavr been heightened by the negligible coverage pivrn lo Hie Uniled Stales' Fischer gambit in thr American press. The Slate Department's motives are obscure.

The Fischer affair may have been merely a case of bureaucratic bumbling, or it may have been a small probe by the C.I.A. designed to test Communist cultural defenses. Whatever the ease, no tnt anticipated violenl Communist response. Compared to "Hello Dolly," Fischer is scarcely more than a popgun in the American cultural arsenal. At most, the Soviets were expected to hit back by throwing a couple of touring American engineers out of Dniepcrpetrovsk.

IN BANNING "Hello Dolly" Moscow abruplly confronted Washington with a cultural challenge of the deepest gravity. The men here who favor lobbing one into the men's room of the Kremlin are already urging a five-year prohibition against the Bolshoi Ballet, and Sol Hurok has been warned that "we're eyeball to eyeball under the complexion bulbs." The voice of sanity behind the scenes belongs to Dr. Hugo Hans, whose seminal work, "cul- lure can turn the tide," defines 93 brilliantly thought-out steps up the escalation ladder which precede the dreadful step 94, universal cultural war. (Banning prc-dawn Russian classes on educational TV, permitting unlimited export of movie magazines to the Soviet Union, etc.) Dr. Hans points out that in refusing to let Fischer go to Cuba to play chess, the United States, unwittingly perhaps, was escalating to step 22.

the enemy's national A reasoned response by the Russians would have been a long article in Pravda denouncing baseball as hooliganism. This, he notes, was impossible (or a number of reasons. For another, the Russians hadn't read his book and hence did not know the proper response. INSTEAD, THEY ucalalcd immediately to step 67. the enemy's road F.vcn at this level, Dr.

Hans points oul, effective cultural warfare can he waged without intense danger of wiping nut all culture. To ban further tours by the Bolshoi, lor example, would invite further escalation by the Russians. The reasoned response would be to bed the troupe in sheets full of cracker crumbs, house them in hotel- rooms next to convention parties, and steer them through a program of rigorously planned activity such as Doris Day movies, visits to the Senate and afternoon TV thowi. Before the Paint's Even Dry F.H.D/S AROUND the TOWN to seven thousand dollars is raised to maintain the orchestra and free concerts at stated periods are given and well attended. The Nashua League of Arts and Crafts has sponsored exhibits and provided adult educational classes for many years.

The Nashua Artists Association and the Nashua Camera club have been a dynamic force in the city for years and some fine artists here are members. The Nashua Community Concert Association, started in the Thirties, has thrived and flourished over the years and the present membership is made up of around 2,000 local area citizens who are thus given the opportunity to see at home some of the finest concert artists in the world. This burgeoning interest in the arts and music has precipitated a move to eventually build an Arts and Science building in Nashua, a project which is being promoted by local citizens and one of these days the city will boast of a fine building to house paintings and to provide rooms where concerts and other cultural projects can be held. Knowing the people behind this move we are sure i i the next ten years that Nashua will join with other communities in underwriting such a long needed project. Some Regrets On the Passing of Summer Today in World Affairs David Lawrence GOP After Big City Negro Vote WASHINGTON The Republicans have apparently decided to go after a substantial segment of the Negro vote in the big cities, which according to some polls, is at least 90 per cent Democratic.

But at the same time, the Republicans seem to be ignoring the fact that large numbers of white voters in the Democratic party in northern cities are dissatisfied with the extremism that has been developing in the "civil rights" controversy. The Republican strategy may be perceived in a new "position paper" on "human rights and responsibilities," which has just been issued by the Republican National committee in cooperation with a "Republican coordi a i jj committee." A few words at the beginning of the study refer lo recent violence, but there is no effort to fix responsibility on the Democratic party for permitting the disturbances to intensify. The Republican paper declares: "Respect for law and order in our free society is basic to our survival as a nation. Violence, illegal breach of the peace of any land by any mob, weaken the fabric of this nation, and undermine the American goal of equal opportunity under law for all our people. Indeed, lo be achieved, this goal must rest unswervingly on respect of the law all the law of the land.

We believe in and we pledge ourselves to vigorous law enforcement at every level of government local, state and national." But then the Republican pronouncement proceeds to accuse the administration of not going far enough in jranting "civil rights" under existing laws. Most surprising is the way the Republicans unequivocally claim credit for the provisions of the ISM civil-rights law which permit the use of federal funds to bludgeon slates into desegregating public schools. The Republican statement layi: "This is an instrument for compliance that was advocated and sponsored by Republicans in Congress." THERE IS SOME criticism, moreover, of the administration for delay in implementing existing statutes which "ban discrimination by employers, labor unions, and employment agencies." The position paper in a general way charges the Democrats with failing to live up to their obligations. It winds up with an expression of pride in what Republican governors have done to attain "civil rights" and equal opportunities by means of state laws, and then makes this contradictory statement about federal and state responsibilities: "The Republican party the party devoted lo preserving the tine principles of the federal system is dedicated to maximizing local responsibility. At the state and local levels of government, we urge enactment of laws designed to protect constitutional guarantees and a vigorous implementation of such laws." BUT THERE IS not a word in the entire paper that questions the constitutionality of what has been done to deprive the states of the power to deal with their own affairs.

Nor is there any criticism of the federal government's usurpation of the right to determine the qualification! for voters, though the Constitution specifically gives this right the states. Incidentally, the Republican statement contains only a brief reference to the scandals that have arisen in the operation of some of the administration's welfare programs. It follows: "The anti-poverty program, which was originally aimed at helping the poor including many members of racial minority groups, has already deteriorated into a shameful example of predatory i i a patronage for the hig city machines." The document on the whole, however, is an example of the failure of the Republicans to recognize realistically that they are only assisting the Democrats when they demand that even more extreme measures be taken to assure "civil rights" and when they disregard the protests being voiced throughout the country against the invasion of other rights, including the violation of state and local laws through demonstrations and incitement to disorder. The Republicans who are issuing "position papers" seem still unaware of the diw.tisfaction that is sweeping the country and the political potentiality of the issue. THE SITUATION is comparable to that which confronted the Republicans in 1932, when they mistakenly assumed that the American people still approved of the Eighteenth Amendment, which for 13 years had applied federal power to prohibit the sale of liquor.

The Democrats, on the other hand, sensed the change in sentiment and won an overwhelming victory at the polls in large part because they had previously espoused the repeal of the amendment. So strong was the trend of public thought on this issue that within nine months after a Democratic president was inaugurated, the prohibition amendment had been wiped out and the problem turned back to the states through the Twenty-first Amendment. Public opinion is often far ahead of some political leaders. A TEN YEARS AGO September 10, 1955 School authorities within a few years will be faced with a problem of providing the city another Junior High school to meet increasing attendances reported in the elementary grades today. Ovila Diehard, supervisor of the ground ob- scrvor corps in Nashua, announced today that the new observation post at Greeley Park would be reactivated.

He said activities would begin on a full scale level Sept 15. To close its picnic season, the men nf SI. Stanislaus Parish will feature a battle nf music between two popular orchestras of Lowell this Sunday at Pulask! park, Pine hill rd. founder of old Concord, Mass, which is tliij week observing the tercentenary of its founding. They are Morris James Hayward of 5 Gillis st and his brother, Charles Hayward, residing in Milford but owner of the Riverside Farm in this city.

The Ixxly of Huey P. Long, toppled from the peak of power by an assassin's bullel, lay in state today in Baton Rouge, scene of his unprecedented rise to dominion in an American slatf. THIRTY YEARS AGO September 10, 19.15 Nashua has two direct (row FORTY YEARS AGO September It, 1925 The Boston Twilight league pennant for the second half of the will be decided at the North Common this afternoon with the clashing of Manchester and Nashua, who finished the season in a dead heat after yesterday's Ut, NOW THAT LABOR DAY has passed the foot- hall season is with us and before you know it Nashua High will be starting its regular season. For the first time in years Nashua will not open with a traditional rival, Concord High. They asked to be excused from further competition because they have not been able to match the power and finesse of the Harvey elevens and no team wants to be outclassed year in and year out.

It hasn't always been so. There are Nashuans who can remember the days of O'Brien, Calls- hans and the like, who used to keep Concord a powerhouse in state circles and before 1940 Concord elevens used to be able to hold their own with Manchester Central, which was more than Nashua could do in those lean years from 1915 through 1940. Portsmouth has agreed to meet Nashua on a home and home basis for the next two years and the other state teams on the schedule arc Manchester Central and Memorial highs. State rules say that a state team has to meet four other N.H. teams in competition in their class to be considered for any class title.

The rule was waived this year only but by 1986 the Purple will have to find another N.H. opponent to play or it will not be eligible for the class title. IT ISN'T BECAUSE Nashua doesn't want to play; no one wants to tackle the mighty Purple and it is paying for its constant success on the gridiron. And in speaking of football did you notice that Bishop Guertin High has scheduled Bishop Bradley as its Thanksgiving week opponent? We can remember when Bradley used to be Nashua high's Turkey day game opponent. Now Nashua football fans are assured of a holiday game at home every year.

One year it will be Guertin- Bradley and the other year Nashua-Gardner. Joe Sullivan, the head coach at Guertin high has been kicking around the sports scene for a long time. I covered high school events in which Joe starred and that was about 30 years ago. He was a big kid for high school but fast as cat on his feet and could handle himself on) the basketball court as Well as football and baseball. He was a three letter athlete and the only reason that he didn't star in track was that it was not a major sport in those days.

Bishop Guertin team will be in good hands with Joe and his assistants. While he has been out of college for a long time he has worked with kids in various local leagues for years and is an avid student of the game and you can name the game and he will know how it should be played down to the finest shading. ABOUT THE SADDEST THING of a summer season is to be at a resort on Labor day when friends and neighbors, for months, start to pack and head for home. About 3 in the afternoon of Labor Day, most of the farewells have been said, the cars have been packed and suddenly the few that itay (w several months are alone. A beach without people sitting en the sand or in the water is a lonely place and you discover that when the curtain rings down on Labor Day.

Sure there will be a lot of people around on good weekends for a day or two, but the summer season is over when that holiday My wife's brother and his wife have a permanent home at Seabrook beach and they an happiest when people are visiting with them and believe us the relatives arc happy to enjoy their facilities and their company as well in jood or bad weather. Most of the cottages in their area of Seabrook, along the waterfront are owned by business people who move their families down In May and while most have left they will down weekends until it starts to get chilly about the middle of October. Then they will shutter the places until Spring. BUT THE LAFONTAINES like the ocean and they will be snug as a bug in the rug until the end of the year when they will probably close the place and spend a few months in Florida, a practice they have been following for the past 16 years. About the only other semi-permanent residents of that part of Seabrook beach are a of former Nashuans.

Doc Flannagan, a member of the Nashua Fire Department for many years lives at the beach with his wife and son. But they usually winter in Florida and will probably head down that way in October. THE GEORGE MARQUIS' longtime residents of Seabrook beach, will stay at the beach in October when they will head for Deb-ay beacb in Florida where thay have a nice trailer which will be waiting for them. George worked as a foreman for the J. F.

McElwain company for about 30 years, until he retired several years ago. And if you don't think that such a life agrees with them you ought to see the both of them. They arc the picture of good health. Another brother-in-law, Roland Selvis, whe was there with his wife, knows more about clam digging than any man I know and he kept our party supplied with fresh dug clams from Hampton river clam flats and along with lobster we got our fill of both-for a few days anyway. Steamed clams, in our mind, are one of the most wonderful delicacies of this area and we never can get our fill of them.

The weather was fine and we hit the cold Atlantic at least once a day and it was a nippy the water that is for the three days we were there. But there is nothing more freshing than a dip In the cold water off the New England coastline. PROBABLY THE NEXT TIME we hit the Atlantic if everything goes well will be in Florida this coming winter, where the temperature will be some degrees warmer. Look at Washington By JAMES RESIGN New York Times News Service President Johnson and the Chaos of Asia HONG KONG At some point, President Johnson is probably going to have to come into this part of the world and try to use his political talents on the West's rapidly deteriorating position in Asia. There is nobody else in the world who is likely to make the effort.

The situation is ominous east of Suez but by ino means hopeless. It cannot I be managed by Johnson or any- ibody else in the West. Japan destroyed the power of the British, French and Dutch Co- ilonial empires in the last war, Sand America cannot replace I them or control the chaotic po- jlitical structure that now exists. I But it can probably still influence these struggling countries if it is patient and wise. Nationalism is the strongest political impulse in this immense area from the eastern Mediterranean to the Sea of Japan.

The yearning for national identity and independence from foreign control is stronger here than the appeal of either American democracy or Soviet or Chinese Communism, and fortunately, there is no basic conflict between this nationalistic impulse in Asia and Washington's own national interests. THIS POINT, however, is not clear to the peoples in this part of the world. President Johnson has tried to make it clear, but he has not yet got it across. Particularly the young rising generation in Asia, which will probably determine the issue in the end, is demonstrating against the United States in Japan and the Philippines, and muttering on the side against U.S. power in Vietnam.

There is a natural but tragic misunderstanding about America in Asia. In this part of the world, people who have power use it for their own selfish interests. In fact this is what the powerful officials and merchants in Saigon do against the 80 per cent of the Vietnamese people who live on the land. Montgomery, Alabama's, feeling about Washington is almost affectionate as compared to a provincial Vietnamese capital's attitude toward Saigon. And their racial prejudice in Vietnam is equally strong.

I saw an American Special Services unit with three southern soldiers working amicably under a remarkable American Negro major, who was nevertheless resented by the local Vietnamese officials because of his color to such an extent that he asked to be transferred. THE AMERICAN mission in Vietnam, therefore, is up against formidable historical prob- Jems and this is true in the rest of Asia. The idea that the U.S. would send nvrr 100,000 men into battle at a cost of over fl million a day to help another country tain independence seems preposterous in this part of the world. No white man ever did it before; the Vietnamese and the rest of the Asians wouldn't think of doing it for somebody rise themselves; so why should America? Yet it so happens that, even in own national interests, the independence of these countries is preferable to Communist domination, and this is the basic idea that Presides.

Johnson has in mind, but has not yet been able to communicate even to the generals who are now trying to govern South Vietnam. What has happened is that Asia has rejected western leadership without being able lo lead itself. It has destroyed western control but has not yet taken control over its own national aspirations. And the Communists, as usual, are exploiting this chaos and nationalistic yearning more effectively than the Americans are. Yet the power of the old British, French and Dutch empires has not yet been redistributed.

Washington has not and never will replace the British, French and Dutch, but neither have the Soviets nor the Chinese. THERE IS A vast area between the advance of Moscow's and Peking's power on the one hand and the retreat of French and Dutch power on the other. This area extends from Korea and Taiwan, through Southeast Asia, India, Iran, and the Near East to Turkey and'' Greece from the Yellow Sea to the Black America's military power is gaining time in Vietnam but the question is how that time will be used. NASHUA TELEGRAPH Established 1J3J Published ereniajs except Sunday by Telegrapk PablkUai SO Maia Street, Nashua, N. R.

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