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PAGE FOUR THE DECATUR REVIEW Decatur, Illinois, Tuesday, April 4, 1961. THE DECATUR REVIEW "The Community Paper" Allies Uninterested U.S. Mania Over Laos? Always the Issue of Red China Press Meeting Cabinet's Irksome Duty By JOSEPH R.SLEVTN N. Y. Herald Tribune Service Washington THE members of President Ken By JOSEPH ALSOP -Bangkok MARSHAL Sarit Thanarat is the shrewd and powerful leader- nedy's cabinet are outdoing Day by Day Ten Years Ago 1951 An Allied task force drove four miles north of the 38th parallel into Communist North Korea.

The Democratic party's 2-year rule of Chicago's city hall remained unbroken today with the re-election of Mayor Martin H. KenneDy. The Illinois Public Aid Commission said reports of widespread public aid fraud were, "cockeyed." Harristown township remained "dry" territory after voters decisively voted to retain prohibition. Rolling up pluralities like pre- more ward boss than dictator of pro-western Thailand. The fears which he rather openly avowed, both before and during the SEATO conference here, tell their predecessors in giving the country information about the gov ernment's economic policies but a very great deal about the post-conference situation.

their performance still isn't as good as it ought to be. Marshal Sarit's view of the Laos lican policy committee, is on record as favoring the meeting if it is made clear in advance that this country's legal and formal position on the Chinese mainland remains firm. Sen. Bourke Hic-kenlooper of Iowa, GOP foreign policy spokesman in the Senate, has taken a similar view. But even following this suggestion is a futile gesture.

Any dealings of this nature with Red China indirectly admits the weakness of the U. S. stand. The logic of future protestations would all but disappear in the wake of a conference which of itseh" assents to the importance of their participation. Neutrality in Laos would perhaps be the price to pay for the admission of Red China.

But at the same time it helps to illustrate its For the weight it carries in the settlement of the Laotian issue is also All it takes is holding regular A STRONG possibility exists that in solving the Laos affair the United States, will find itself in an untenable position over the question of Red China's admission to the United Nations. This conclusion is inescapable if the proposed 14-nation conference to decide the future of Laos is agreed upon. For the Soviet Union will demand that its Asian partner in communism be included in any such discussion and the United States could be drawn into high level negotiations with a regime it does not officially recognize. Such an eventuality would lend support to the old argument that Red China plays too big a part in world affairs to be ignored by the United Nations and also add fuel to the growing world sentiment for its recognition. Republicans in Congress are so concerned about this prospect crisis is founded, to begin with.

press conferences. That shouldn't on the assumption that the United be much of a chore but some States is the only western power of the new Cabinet chiefs apparently are finding it a very irk retaining an active interest in the New Deal years, Republicans fate of southeast Asia. Both the some duty. swamped the Democrats in the British and French, he believes The worst offender is the Presi lost interest in this region after Decatur Township election, taking every office by pluralities Artist's Conception ol Century 21 Fair's Skyline Century 21 Exposition Scientific Showcase for the World ranging up to more than 2,500. dent's brother.

Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. He has yet to hold his first meeting with Washington newsmen. the Geneva settlement ending the Indochina war in 1954. The assumption is certainly Republicans will have 35 of the 41 seats for the next two years.

Secretary of the Treasury Doug sound. French officials on the spot, in Laos particularly, may seek to Twenty Years Ago 1341 would be much easier if there las Dillon, who ought to be the chief cabinet spokesman on eco play a local political role. But present in other world problems. were no New York monorail line from downtown Seattle will be installed by the Swedish firm of Alweg Interna By PAUL WELLS Of The Associated Press Seattle Combined rainfall of two days totaled 1.19 inches and no one But they expect to have the nomic and financial policies, has called only one press conference. this can have no purpose except to satisfy the egos of the officials concerned, since the role they had any objections to offer.

tional, two trains ot lour cars THE high-speed, quiet monorail each, operating at speeds up Pr showinS fa etched by that they have already hoisted the Neither the United Nations nor storm warnings. Sen. Styles the United States can ever escape Bridges, chairman of the Repub- this fact Rewriting the Golfing Rules? lion's share of foreign exhibits shown at the two fairs. Britain, France and Italy already have More than 800 students from 40 central Illinois high schools the solitary sessions that have cars catapult northward from the have played runs counter to the real, long range interests of 75 m.p.h., will be able to carry heart of Seattle for a few breath- are attending Millikin universi turned down New York participa as many as 8,000 passengers an France. catching moments, then glide to tion because that fair is not ap hour to the exposition.

ty's seventh annual vocational guidance conference this after As for the British, their basic a stop. Private interests will finance the proved by the Bureau of Inter been held by Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara and Postmaster General J. Edward Day. Secretary of State Dean Rusk has met reporters twice.

Udall Best The best job has been turned in 2.5 million dollar, 550-foot restau There, suddenly, all around are glimpses of the world of tomor national Expositions. The BIE gave its official approval to Cen attitude was revealed by the remarkable formula of a leading member of their delegation to rant in the sky. row. tury 21 and said it would not As two important sidelights, 115 SEATO, that "the Laos crisis was noon. March traffic figures released today showed that it was decidedly more safe on the streets of Decatur during that month than in February or in March of last year.

cities in the state have joined in Dominating the skyline is a 550- approve any other lair in the American zone for 10 years. less an Asian problem than a prob foot "space needle" crowned with a beautification contest to put This shut out New York. then- best face forward for Cen lem of Anglo American relations." In other words, the British a slowly revolving restaurant and by Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall. He has held nine press conferences.

Congress has appropriated 9 tury 21, and a non-profit corpora cocktail lounge. regard 'concern about Laos as a his views on baseball, there is no telling how the game will be played in Cuba. One might suspect, for example, that he will regard putts of less than six or 10 feet beneath the revolutionary dignity, and will decree that all such putts are conceded. Or, to accept a practice popularized by General Eisenhower, the Cuban premier could institute, "mulligans" (second tee shots taken if the first one goes astray, or short) as standard winter and summer rules. tion has been formed to hold the million dollars for federal partici-j PREMIER Fidel Castro is known for his sports interest.

He has played his share of baseball, and still occasionally participates. He also, in the process of one game, rewrote the rules to end the practice of "stealing" bases after a player obviously an anti revolutionary baserunner stole second base while the Bearded One was hurling his fast one. Premier Castro ordered the offender back to first base, and decreed that there would be no steeling of bases in the New Cuba. Secretary of Labor Arthur J. From this spire, tallest struc-; kind of American maggot or man line on prices for tourist accom pation in Century 21; Washington Goldberg is a close second with ia, to which concessions must be modations.

state tossed 7.5 million dollars made for the primary purpose of seven while Secretary of Commerce Luther H. Hodges ture west of the Mississippi River, the vista encompasses Washington's scenic Puget Sound towering Mt. Rainier, the Cascade and into the kitty and Seattle business In 1955 only a regional fair was envisioned, to commemoratfi the maintaining the Anglo American men underwrote another 3 million can claim six. partnership. dollars.

The city of Seattle ac Olympic ranges, a cluster of lakes A press conference gives an of French Favor jdea ficial a matchless opportunity to quired and donated the land, which will become a civic center 50th anniversary of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition held here in 1909. After the goal became a world's This attitude explains the Fran explain important issues to the and metropolitan Seattle. The time: April, 1962 The place: the Century 21 ex position. when the fair ends. co-British enthusiasm for a gov There are endless possibilities public.

But it also gives the public through attending newsmen a fair the cumbersome original "We were over the hump after ernment of Laos headed by Prince Souvanna Phouma and including But, to show he doesn't intend for rule making in most sports. name of World Science Pan-Paci Compressed in 74 acres at the that," said Ewen C. Dingwall, general manager, "we're rolling. to give all his favors to baseball, The sports world can only hope Fifty Years Ago 1311 The United Brethren State Sunday school convention opened here. The report that the Decatur Ice Co.

plant at the foot of East Prairie had been practically destroyed by fire, caused the suggestion for opening up Prairie street and putting a subway under the Illinois Central at that point The postoffice received word that Decatur had been allowed another carrier. It was decided to make him a mail collector about the city. The township election was held with only a light vote. The Republicans put their entire ticket across electing W. A.

Holman pro-Communists. The French offi fic exposition was changed to Cen foot of one of this gateway sea-i the Cuban leader was recently the Cuban leader will be too busy "Our problem now is to be ready tury 2L cials on the scene like the idea. port city's rolling hills will be by next April to provide the best The name clicked. So did the putting it rather crudely, because America's first World's Fair since chance to get information it wants by questioning officeholders at on-the-record meetings. The Kennedy administration is faced with many profoundly important economic and financial problems.

Its efforts to deal with these idea possible kind of an exposition key Prince Souvanna Phouma is polite pursuing that distinctly capitalistic sport of golf. Now, if Premier Castro's regard for golfing regulations is on a par with cutting sugar cane, giving speeches and denouncing the United States to turn his rather unusual attentions to other sports. ed to the future." to them. The British consider that 1939. Fair Competition But it won't be the country's If proof is needed that the Cen the installation of such a govern Man's Energy Output tury 21 Corporation is a going con ment will be the easiest way of A man's daily energy output is And He May Be, in Part, Responsible only international exposition during the '60s.

New York will stage avoiding a dangerous southeast ibout 3,500 calories. The daily out cern, the tlood of applications tor concessions should provide it. Asian confrontation between the put of a hummingbird leading its a world's fair in 1964 and the two "Everyone and his brother Soviet and the United States. are in intense competition for do ordinary life eating, flying perchingi' sleeping is" equiva seems to want a concession of difficult and touchy problems will receive far more sympathetic and understanding response if all of Kennedy's Cabinet officers join wholeheartedly in trying to explain the administration's position In contrast, Marshal Sairt, like mestic exhibits, from U.S. busi lent to approximately 155,000 calo some kind," a Century- 21 publicity man said.

ness and industry. Century 21 of ficials say privately their job virtually all the American officials in this part of the world, believes that the installation of this kind of a government in Laos will only ries if calculated for a 170-pound man. National Geographic. "They come in, or write, and to the public. nearly always it's the same pitch dow if I could get a little stall be the first step in a broad advance of Communist influence and to sell hamburgers, hot dogs, or By the Way -by Otto R.

Kyle something like that power in southeast Asia. "They want to make a bundle Any settlement in Laos which TEACHERS will have to supply overnight." leaves the Communists in control the information that the United Wonder what rates second in in Charleston, S. then announced, they would not permit segregation at a Civil War Centennial Commission meeting. The conference was moved to a desegregated Navy base and South Carolina's state commission announced it was seceding and would hold social functions on a segregated basis. This is only the beginning.

The fight will rage for another four years with the North on one side and the South on the other with the result that the centennial could be degraded to a propaganda front for any group with an axe to grind. It may be that the observance getting under way this month may reach such proportions and stir such emotions that there will be, in due course, a centennial observance of the Civil War of so much territory will surely states Constitution now has 23 THE average student of the Civil War who has quietly pursued his hobby these man; years must be about ready to turn in his credentials now that the time is at hand to observe the war's four-year centennial. For this dedicated fellow the Civil War was never anything more than books, round table discussions and visits to battlefields in which the arguments were never anything stronger than whether or not Pickett should have been ordered to charge at Gettysburg. But this has all changed. Where there was serenity there is turmoil and guns have been replaced by verbal shots.

The NAACP fired first by claiming the anniversary celebration was giving the South too much favorable publicity. Hotels popularity among concessionaires? Pay toilets! Dozens of pro amendments instead of' the 22. ACCORDING to a flower expert, more gardeners grow pentun-ias than any other annual. The reason: The wide variety of colors, the masses of bloom on each plant and the length of the flowering season. Add to this the end in effective Communist control of Laos So will any settle Words, Wit, Wisdom Look It Up Is Only Rule By WILLIAM MORRIS New York QUESTION: I am writing to ask if you can tell me what the rule is governing the suffixes "-ibility" and "-ability." Mrs.

E. C. Grey, Ridgewood, N. J. The only completely workable rule for correct spelling of words ending in "able-ible" is this: look them up in the dictionary.

You see, there is really It is said that many schools do posals lor installing them on a ment which installs Prince Sou not have books giving the 22nd share-the-profit plan are on file. Theme of Century 21, which will amendment raimea 1951 pro vanna Phouma with Communists in important places in the support viding a President may serve only run from April 21-Oct. 21 next ing cast. two terms. fact that in dry seasons when other, annuals wilt, petunias thrive.

And when other annuals are gone year, is "man in space." But the 77 million dollar exposition will The 23rd amendment has iust All these factors, and especially the position on the ground, will been ratified by the necessary provide a melange of the best of petunias are still blooming and continue until heavy frost calh make any negotiation about Laos today and the expectations of to a task of almost superhuman dif morrow. a halt number of states 38 giving the District of Columbia residents the right to vote on President and vice president. This amendment ficulty. It can be taken for grant Already rising on the exposition ed that Marshal Sarit is quite right site, stripped of its old "homes and HENRY CABOT LODGE, form in foreseeing that British influence buildings, is the state's 4 million will favor almost any compromise. has been under discussion for many years and the resolution for the amendment was passed by the dollar modernistic Coliseum 21.

Within its glass walls an ex Insurance Policy Af ter the Fire And this will increase the difficul ty. pected 10 million visitors will find er newspaperman, former American ambassador to the United Nations and GOP candidate for vies president, as special reporter for "CBS Reports" on television, will travel to Kenya, the United Arab last Congress. a tri-level display of how man will Constitutional amendments usu The best hope lies in the fact little rhyme or reason to these variations' in spelling. Most students of language agree that life would have been pleasanter if these words, almost all of them of Latin origin, had come into our language with the "-able" ending. But our English is a quirky tongue and, though there are far more "able" words than "ible," there are enough of the uve, work and play in the 21st ally come up for discussion in his that Nikita S.

Khrushchev was the century. After the fair the four- tory and civics from the Republic and Tunisia in May for first to say what Dean Rusk also said here, that an "Austrian" acre building will be turned over 8th grade on through high school the institute of International Edu to the city for conversion into an History book publishers probably style settlement was needed in cation. He will file a special re sports arena and con Laos. But it is hard to see how will find it difficult to sell replace vention hall. and industrial concerns handle their own insurance.

But while private business concerns can set aside funds, subject to the usual tax hazards, tax supported public agencies generally are forbidden by law to hold public funds in even for future building or replacement needs. It is when an expensive fire strikes that the calculated risk of getting along without insurance is questioned. Private citizens who own only this kind of settlement can ever ments to schools that have just IF DECATUR Fire insurance agents' ears have been burning, it may be because of all the talk about insurance following disclosure that the Decatur Park District carried no insurance on "the big pavilion" in Fairview Park which was destroyed by fire on Saturday afternoon. Some park district properties are insured against fire. In many instances, however, park policymakersas opposed to policy- latter to give even experienced port for the network.

"Sing Along With Mitch" will be a weekly program on NBC TV Work started in February on a gotten books with the 22nd amend writers a lot of trouble. 3.5 million dollar United States ment in them. be secured unless President Kennedy rather ostentatiously shows continuing willingness to keep his powder dry. next season. "The Tom Ewell Show" probably will be dropped SPACE NEEDLE Skyborn Cocktails io compucate matters even further, a few words may be spelled either way.

H. W. Fowler pavilion to house what fair offi cials say will be the most extensive science exhibit ever as ouuxxi CAROLINA the first state to secede in the Civil War, in July Leon Ames has been selected to play the lead in "Fath in his "Modern English Usage" sembled. A national science plan is going its own way again after a centennial of the Civil War ning board has been given the notes tnese: dufusible-diffusable; connective connec table; per. one piece of property and could responsibility of developing the squabble.

It is over segregation. writers choose to take a calcu- not replace that property should missible-permissable; collapsible- exhibits. er of the Bride" to start on CBS-TV Sept 29 "The Twentieth Century" on CBS-TV will move up a half hour on Sunday evenings next season with its five year The National Civil War Centen latea risK. me federal govern- it be destroyed or senouslv dam- Five Themes nial Commission thought it would collapsable. There are others, but those are all I thought collectible- bt tine to commemorate the an Dr.

Glenn Seaborg, a member collectable in this short space. sponsor. ol the board and recently named niversary of the firing on Fort Sumter by holding its national as ment takes a similar risk, and so does the government of the State of Illinois. Losses from an occasional fire are balanced against the annual expense of insurance protection. Some private business aged by fire, cannot afford to take the chance.

Few of them keep account books. Most of them regard insurance in the category with water, heat and light and, alas, taxes and interest. Standard guides to usage, such as Fowler and Porter Perrin's chairman of the Atomic Energy BY THE WAY the park depart sembly in Charleston, S. April uimmission, predicts that Century Writer Guide and Index to 11-12. Trouble started when the i- will be a scientific showcase English," give long lists of words for the world." New Jersey commission reported ment has built some excellent stone steps to the plaza about the Civil War monuments in Fairview Park.

one of its members, a Negro, Bom structures are larger in It's Snow Time to Worry in Spring size and scope than the American spelled. with one or the other suffix. If you're so inclined and have hours of leisure, you might commit these lists to memory. But, to my way of this sort would be denied use of all facilities, open to white delegates, par One hundred twenty years asa pavilion at the recent Brussels today (1841) William H. Harrison.

World's Fair. ticularly use of hotel facilities. 68, became the first President to worn on automobiles at specified times are other suggested efforts. One of the most publicized anti-snow measures was taken by When the National Commission As the "world of Century 21 of rote learning is madness when die in office and John Tyler the refused to change its plans four and the "world of science" they the Quick, easv solution to the rii. comprise two of the five theme northern states including New tirst vice president to succeed to that office.

Harrison served hist New York Mayor Robert F. Wag- lemma is always at hand: the dic-ner. He banned non-essential traf- tionary. 'worlds." Jersey and Illinois reported they 31 days. Death was caused bv Others are the "world of com wouia not send delegates.

The as NOT LETTING any snow fall under their tires big city officials already are mapping strategy to combat next winter's snowstorms. And there is plenty of reason to worry about next winter: devastating storms virtually put some cities out of operation this past winter. Some of the steps to be taken include better education of citi- pneumonia. sembly was then changed to the merce and industry" for foreign and domestic exhibits, the "world Under a proposed new city law Charleston Naval base about eieht fic during a particularly heavy February storm. Many of the cities concerned are in the East Washington, New York, Boston and Balti of art" for an international dis miles from the city.

in Washington, D. C. residents Use the dictionary whenever the need arises and you'll soon find that you have developed a subconscious awareness of which spelling is the correct one. You will find yourself writing "admirable" instead of "admirible" UM.VM.Vt UU The South Carolina Commission play of fine arts, and the "world of entertainment" for musical, theatrical and sports events, and more, for example. has announced it will attend only the business meetings at the base whe fail to clear snow from their sidewalks could be jailed for five days and fined as much as $50..

It says that within the first eieht Problems caused hv heavv a Gayway" with its rides and hold its own private, segre gated ceremonies at the Francis sideshows. Greatest tourist attractions 'are Marion Hotel, the original headquarters site, and have its own expected to be the nation's first hours of daylight after any snow or sleet stops falling every person in charge of any building or land must clear a path at least four feet wide. high speed, mass transit mono lu Pcr- snowstorms are not laughing mat- and KNOWING that you're right suade drivers that leaving their tens to them. With movement the first time. cars at home is often advisable hazardous and slow, the cities during snows.

Better and more often come to a virtual standstill. Mostly Metals frequent weather forecasts are in The foresight of the city offi- Most, chemical elements are the making. More inter-commu- dais planning next winter's snow metals. Only 20 of the 102 identi-mty cooperation is sought, and war, however, is amazing. Who fied elements are definitely non-requirements that chains must be else could think of snow now.

metallic-National Geographic, i banquet speaker. Sen. Willis Rob rail and the "space needle" to be built at the hiehest noint nf the 1M1 bf ntK tm. TX lUf. VS.

rtL OR ertson (D-Va) while the National Commission speaker win be Ashley Halsey, associate editor of the Saturday Evening Post. fairgrounds. The mile-long 4.2 million dollar "Don't fight it, Marjorie! Maybe the directions are in the These are spring days when tfca furnace keeps right on with its old winter routine. 1.