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LO Editorial Opinion 1 Merry-Go-Round Tito claims he warned Nixon By Jack Anderson lin to expand their' influence West Germany" nor to establish themselves as the major power In the Apparently, he felt his advice had some effect on the American President. For the confidential document quotes Tito saying: "Nixon admitted that the U. S. had become engaged too deeply in Far Eastern problems, but that the U. S.

is strong enough to take care of its interests in Asia and at the same time deal effectively with the problems of the Mediterranean, the Middle East and Central Europe. I believe Nixon's attitude toward the Soviet Union is getting toughers." Footnote: A high official, who was present during most of the secret discussions between President Nixon and Marshal Tito, told this column that Tito had not engaged in tough talk about the Soviets. Rather, it was the, President who declared his determination to maintain U. S. power in the-Mediterranean and Central-EuropeTito then expressed his agreement to a degree that surprised the Americans, the official said.

West Germany's Chancellor Willy Brandt to be "cautious and reserved" in his dealings with the Soviets. Tito expressed doubt that the Germans will ever obtain; any real concessions from the Kremlin. "If Bonn fails to get real Berlin concessions and still ratifies the treaty," he said, "Moscow would be the winner in the game and for the next 100 years." The tough old communist hastened to assure bis listeners, according to the confidential translation, that he hadn't suddenly become soft on America. "Of course, we are riot pro-American," he said. "But we support a balance of power that would make it impossible for one superpower to gain total supremacy.

For this would end either in a new war or in a division of the world into two distinctly separated spheres. One power could hold total supremacy In one part of the world and the other power similar supremacy in the other. This would be even worse than the already undesirable division of the world into spheres of influence." Tito made it 'clear that he didn't want his former comrades In the Krem WASHINGTON Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito claims he told President Nixon that U6 S. could easily have prevented Soviet gains in the Central European-Middle Eastern areas and that it's "late but not too late" to prevent the consolidation of these gains. This astonishing admonition from a veteran communist' leader' is contained in a confidential translation, obtained by this column, of Tito's conversations with neutral He told them he is worried about Soviet successes and fears a further disbalance of power in favor of Russia.

"Nixon has to realize," said Tito, "that the Soviets try to get what never belonged to them and that the U. S. is expected to relinquish positions which 3lrady bejong tothem orJtheiralliesL The Yugoslav leader said he spoke bluntly to Nixon about the deteriorating U. S. position in Central Europe and the Middle East.

As he explained afterward to the diplomats: "They permit their closest ally in Europe" (West Germany) to make irrevocable concessions to the Soviets. permit the USSR to become the supreme power in parts of the Mediterranean." Tito said he urged Nixon to counsel Alaska oil: ma jor detour to market Some disappointing news for romantics. All those glowing hopes for the imminent realization of an age-old dream the opening of the fabled Northwest Passage to commerce-r-are going back on the shelf, at least for awhile. The oil company, Humble, which financed the trail-blazing voyage of the combination tanker-icebreaker Manhattan last fall, now says it is suspending further efforts to develop the sea route across the top of the continent as a means of moving Alaskan oil to market. While the decision to put the Northwest Fas-sage back on ice may dash great expectations in some quarters, it at lease has the advantage of also taking the heat off several potentially sticky questions raised by prospects of.

ships in any considerable number plying the frigid channels off Canada's northern coasts, primarily the question of jurisdiction. Ottawa has already laid claim by extending its territorial water limit to 12 miles, effectively taking in the passage but drawing a demurrer from Washington which, for good reasons of national economics in this case, declines to go along with national encroachments on the high seas beyond the traditional three-mile limit. Not the least part of Ottawa's concern has been the protection of the Arctic environment. Tanker traffic would mean pollution, possibly oil leaks which could Jiave disastrous Development of the Northwest Passage was thus shaping up as a conflict between economic and ecological interests. Ironically, however, as it turns out, it is economic? rather than ecology which is now blocking the passage.

To build the huge tankers and up) envisaged in U. S. shipyards, as re- quired by federal law for ships engaged in domestic trade, would be-so costly estimates run up to $80 million per tankerthat the economic advantage of moving Alaskan" oil by water vanishes. The result is increased emphasis on the projected pipeline that would cut 800 miles across Alaska from Prudhoe Bay in the heart of the North Slope oil fields to ice-free Port Valdez least of Anchorage, from where oil would be moved to market by conventional tankers, 170 by NtA, he. Glancing back 25 years ago today (1945) An oil pipe line outlet for the expanding Mattoon pool was assured today with completion of plans by the Interstate Oil Pipe Line Co.

of Tulsa, Okla. io extend service In the field Union Thanksgiving services will be held from 8 Until 9 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 22, at the Central Community Church Services will be sponsored by the Mattoon Ministerial Association One of the outstanding acts of patriotism by any Mattoon individual on the' home' 50 years ago today (1920) If recommendations made by the fire and water committees of the city council consisting of Aldermen Huckaba, Kizer and Gwinn are favorable, it is probable that the city will soon have a booster engine as a portion of the equipment of its fire department WASHINGTON -The population of California, as announced Oct. 21, of which 70,196, or 2 per cent of the total, are Japanese, the Census Bureau announced this afternoon WITH PRESI- On the Right The nation's economic issue By William F.

Buckley jr. Plans for the pipeline, are well-advanced, with DENT-ELECT HARDING, EN front during the war was that ROUTE TO NEW ORLEANS of Miss Elizabeth Corley, 3432 pipe already stockpiled along tne surveyed route. i. A jtsui again, were are tears lor me environment. Slic ing through the northern tundra to lay the pipe, conservationists say, could cause far-reaching and possibly irreparable damage to the Alaskan landscape and wildlife.

So again it comes down to a question of ecology vs. economics. And if experience is any guide, economics is likely to win again. Odds and ends With TV sportscaster Howard Cosell carrying on in his usual ignominious manner, Don Meredith, broadcasting with him seemed to have about all of Howard's ifs, ands, buts and usual palaver he could take while working the recent Green Bay-Baltimore Oolt NFL game. Finally Meredith came out with, "Yes, Howard, if ifs and buts were candy and nuts, what a Merry Christmas we'd have.

How true it is! "Blessed are the young. Among other scintillating things: they will inherit the national debt" so declares the Back Cat column of the Rockland Western, who might easily be crowned "Queen of the Cookie Sheet." Since the latter part of August 1942, Miss Corley has baked 93,604 cookies for members of the'armed forces who Visited, the local United Service Organizations lounge. She spent a total of 2,457 hours in mixing and baking the cookies CHICAGO, 111. Thousands of delegates and, a group of noted guests gathered in Chicago today for the opening Sunday of the first peace-time American Legion convention in four years WASHINGTON The Pearl Harbor investigating committee learned today that'Japan conceived its sneak attack 11 months in advance, perfected and relayed it to naval commanders on Nov. 5, 1941, and two-days-later-picked as the time of the assault.

The Harding special, carrying the president-elect and his party left. Brownsville at ten o'clock this morning for New Orleans, to embark from there for a ten days' cruise to the Panama Canal Zone CHICAGO Half-fed 'inferior grade cattle being rushed to the Chicago 'stockyards from all parts of the country by panic-stricken farmers are causing demoralization of the cattle market, according to Albert Baleer, head of the United States Bureau of Markets, here today. Baker appealed to farmers to stem the tide WASHINGTON The longstanding controversy between the State Department and the Western Union Telegraph Co. has reached the stage of an open the company refusing to handle any more messages for the department except upon prepayment of tolls. The recent election seemed to show a developing" maturity on what they call the soqiai issue.

That is to say, a recognition of the necessity for social stability, in the absence of which nothing good can happen in a free'society. The voters' ambivalence there were Republican successes here, Democratic sucesses there suggests two things. One of them is that Democrats are also able to read Scammon's book on the real majority, and adjust their rhetoric accordingly. (There were very few dissentingDemocratic votes on the Omnibus Crime Bill.) The second is that the voting public needs to learn a great deal' about elementary economics. Because oneicannoLdoubt that it was the economic question that figured decisively in many areas.

1 It is generally supposed that the economy "will be the first order of business for the Nixon Administration as the count-down begins to the presidential "election. What needs most to be done is not funny-money, economic razzle-dazzle, but public education. And the sooner the better, because if you wait too long; you are going to be explaining things against a demagogic background that makes education impossible. For Instance, the other night an antagonistic member of an audience rose to inform me that after all, Richard Nixon had induced unemployment. Said Why? There was a pause, and silence, almost as if it had been scripted.

Indeed, why should Richard Nixon, President of the United States, desire unemployment? Well and of course it is obvious he doesn't desire unemployment. If it had been a trained economist of the Keynes-ian school who was there, he'd have replied to my counter-question: "Because Nixon adopts old-fashioned reme- dies for curbing inflation." Counter-question: "What are newfangled' remedies for curbing inflation?" To which the only appropriate answer a totalitarian economy. In fact, there is nothing in between. It cannot be said too often that deficit spending has certain consequences, and that those consequences are disagreeable for some people. Not, obviously, for others.

If the government were tojo Jnto debt JiLorder Jo-greatly Jit crease welfare or in order to make a dozen more moon landings, there would be immediate beneficiaries: those who received the welfare, and those who manufactured, both owners 'and workers, the parts necessary to the moon flights. But others would pay. First with inflation, which means, simply that every one's salary is docked currently, at about the rate of 6 per 'cent per year. Secondly, by the effects of inflation reduce, real demand. Mr.

Johnson managed to spend fifty billion dollars more than he raised through taxation. Mr. Nixon was given the job of straightening out the mess. Mr. Nixon needs to give the voters, a demonstration like King Canute's.

How? And how to cope with some of the by-products of the problem? There is a lachrymose journalist here in New York whose profession is to weep oVer the indignities visited by American cap- italistar on American working The most recent affront he fingered is the (there are variations of it in various states) that says that men on strike are not entitled to welfare until after, the seventh week. After that seventh week! Why at all? What forces, just to give an example, ought to bring pressure to end the strike at General Motors, which boostede4inemploymentfigures by almost one-half These are men and women who could go back to work tomorrow for incomes that would appear gaudy to a Frenchman or even a West German. I do not say that their, demands are unjustified I simply do not know. But I do Say that the notion of giving welfare to strikers is an economic and sentimental lunacy. Letters to the editor 'Flag sentence criticized (Me.) Courier Gazette.

Another paragraph-explains: "A typical American is one who has just driven home from an Italian movie in his German car, is sitting on Spanish furniture, drinking Brazilian coffee fortified with Irish whiskey out of. an English bone china cup, and with his Japanese ball point pen, writing his Congressman protesting that imports are ruining his And a recent classified advertisement in the Shelbyville Democrat went like this: "NOTICE: I have a rooster that crows at 4 a.m. Want to trade him for one that crows at Headline in the weather-conscious St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times: Most of Nation Balmy Omaha World-Herald headlined the fuss over lingerie: Runproof Pantyhose Contains Loophole Now dig this one in the Utica (N.Y'.) Observer-Dispatch: Union Fork Wins U.S. Shovel On a story about a school principal, Newburyport (Mass.) Daily News reported: mutilated or changed any way.

Even if there were anything wrong in what the boy did, it certainly is a ridiculous sentence to put on a boy of high school age who according to the paper normally' should have been tried as a juvenile anyway. 4 I think he ought to appeal and see what the courts higher up think about all this. CONCERNED MATTOON RESIDENT Editor, Journal Gazette: I couldn't hardly believe it the other day when I read in your fine newspaper that a 16-year-old boy in Charleston had been sentenced to 10 days in jail in the county seat, Just for wearing an American flag on the back of his pants. I see police officers wearing it on their clothing all the time. Why cant thecitizens wear- it if they want to? I've been told the flag the boy wore was not Criticize Hoover i How to spot undercover agent By Art Buchwald Board Accepts Christ Resignation with Regret From the Kingston (N.Y.) Daily Freeman: Women Have Key Roles In Chest Drive.

Remarkable Remark: "Despite a vocal minority to the contrary, we suggest America by tradition and by the groundswell of public opinion surfacing lately, that we are a Christian nation, that indeed 'In God We Trust' if only the people are allowed to say so." Blairstown, broke into tears and announced they could no-longer, stay in school. It, was a blow to everyone, because one of the undercover agents liad Just been elected president of the SDS and had been in charge of an antiwar demonstration in Boss gets tired of hearing this N. Press. Big deal uov jieagan's office. Well, these two incidents mirldpnlv (Richmond News Leader) Midwestern college made some derogatory remarks about J.

Edgar Hoover. Three of the radical students immediately walked out of the class in a huff. Everyone was very surprised when they announced they were leaving the school. It turned out they were. FBI undercover agents, whose job it had been to infiltrate the radical movement.

They had been ordered to put up with any indignity to win the confidence of the radicals, except to sit there and take criticism of Mr. Hoover. A few weeks later in California, a professor in government statistics made" the point that the higher the crime rate WASHINGTON In the past month we have seen 15 FBI agents drop out of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York because a professor made critical remarks about J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI's stalwart leader. Following this, 11 FBI employes were ordered-todrop out of the course on "Violence in America" at American University because the professor there cast aspersions on Mr.

Hoover's leadership. There will probably be more of this as time goes on, and it is conceivable that every university in the country could soon be on J. Edgar Hoover's black list. What isnt generally known is that there is a conspiracy among university professors to criticize J. Edgar Hoover By Hal Boyle Much is being made of the fact that, when the 92nd Congress convenes in January, the price of the Congressional Record will increase from $1.50 to $3.75 a month the first price increase since 1880.

made professors all over the country realize that the easiest way to spot an FBI undercover agent was to criticize J. Edgar Hoover. And so professors are now waging a campaign to remarks about the head of the FBI. f. The FBI knows, of course, what Is happening, but they're caueht in a hind ter vacations?" "It's your wife, sir.

She says for you to be sure to get a pound of caviar when you stop off at. the supermarket." "The chairman of the union delegation is waiting outside to see" you, sir. He says the new NEW YORK (AP) Remarks that a boss gets tired of hearing: "Chief, the accountant says we're running out of red ink. Shall I order another barrel?" "Now that the junior vice president is getting his office redecorated, the senior vice Big deal. The Congressional Record now goes out to addresses, and only 10 per cent of them belong to paying subscribers.

The remaining 90 per cent receive their copies free. Each congressman has the privilege of designating 70 free subscriptions, and rose in tne united states, the more kudos Edgar Hoover received" from they-keep'theltagents on campus to Kccp-urcir'ugcnw on campus to if ngrejsogUheAdmlnlstrationr-The catch tlirpeopteT-esponsrbre-forstudchr contract is no dice unless it con- publicly. each senator can designate 100 subscribers. A i i Pfeskient-tntiiiits-hia offiee1 tains a i-lmmp saving thft't Mferv professor was trying to show that bad hlFTfwliyThey're doing it: violence, thev will be exnoslnu Vm. m.

redecorated tooL man can have a holiday on his wife's birthday as well as his It is assumed that the FBI has planted undercover agents in all the major universities in the country. These undercover agents look exactly like radical studentsThey have long hair, wear beards, go shoeless and use all the obscene words. In the past they have been impossible to spot on campus. But not long ago a professor at a news does not necessarily bring criticism from government. He said that as far as his statistics showed, there hasn't been a year when the FBI did not report a rise in crime in the United States, and each time it did, Mr, Hoover received congratulations from the 'v'- Two radical students in his class ployes to defamatory remarks about Mr.

Hoover. So far the FBI has left it up to the individual agents to decide 'whether to stay or leave. But they're proud that in case so far when someone he's sullied J. Edgar Hoover's name, the FBI undercover agent has Indlpantly dropped out of school. also receive free copies.

So the increase in the subscription rate means only a picayune increase in income from subscrip-. tions really less than $12,000. This means that the Congressional Record, a hodgepodge of debates, remarks, commemorative addresses, recipes, and will continue to reply heavily upon the public treasury for support And, at the rate of $116 in printing costs for each page, that's a lot of support. "It's your wife on the phone, sir. She says for you to remember to take your cough medicine at 10, 2 and 4 o'clock." drew a mean car-.

toon of you. on the washroom bulletin board, sir. Shall I tear' it down?" "I could give you aT whole list of reasons why It should get a merit raise, chief, but they all boil down to the fact that my wife thinks I deserve one-and shes the one who knows me best." "The old man Is snarling at everybody this morning. He was three strokes off his golf game yesterday." "Did you see in the paper, sir. where it says business is so bad at many firms that their execu own.

"Well, the'only way 1 can see out for us is to merge with another firm, but" I can't Imagine anybody else being dumb enough to hook up with "The reason I figure that the old man has such a terrible temper in the office' Is to make up for being henpecked at home." "Since the boss said everybody has to tighten his belt; he has limited himself to two Mar tints at lunch. Now that's what I call real executive suffering." "Your wife's on the other line, sir. She wants to, know, where you left the pawn ticket for her fur coat. She says she has to get it out of hock or freeze to SOU U)ER ONLY TWO BLOCKS? UC IDELL. LOE'LL UAV'G Tn I VW JT ZT THIS Im uad ennun TUO BLOCKS WERE 60NE FOR A 1 UJHV UJKE VOU TiEP UP WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU? I HOU HAP 60N SOUTH.

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Cummings Secretary and Treasurer Ralph I. Clotton News Editor Ron Kelly city Editor tives are cutting out their win.