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i 3 PAGE SIX Decatur, Illinois, Thursday, September 9, 1965. THE DECATUR REVIEW THE DECATUR REVIEW "The Community Paper" Pool Success Should Spur Plans f'fnuiimir TV Critic Reviews NBC White Paper By Jack Gould (C) 1965 New York Times New gyork A NETWORK that cancels an entire evening's regular schedule for a 3--hour consideration of United States foreign policy since World War II is to bound to command-respect for its earnestness in dealing with an issue of overriding moment. The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) did that Tuesday night in a marathon review of the country's international relations. Robert K. Kintner, N.B.C.

president, gave out the assignment for an exhaustive summary, just as two years ago he instigated a three-hour evening program on civil rights. Fred Freed, producer, was put in charge of digesting in visual form the staggering volume of material on 20 years of world affairs. This week's program was curiously history a la television. Each transpiring event from the explosion of the atomic bomb in 1945 to the agony of Saigon in 1965 was dutifully and methodically recorded yet the total effect was strangely monotonous and enervating. Gnawing Hunger The mind boggled at the onrush of fateful happenings that tumbled out in all the superficial brevity common the the newsreeL Yet the viewer was left with a gnawing hunger for some knowing editorial hand to -THE FIRST season for Decatur's municipal pool in Nelson Park must be termed highly successful by any measurement.

Although the season was short only 45 days after the late July opening attendance totaled nearly 30,000. A number of cool late-summer days cut attendance from an average of about 800 to 650, but this is a highly satisfactory figure. TJiere were three youngsters under 16 years in the pool for every adult. operation was profitable, too. Income was a little more than $11,150 and expenses were ar scant $7,000 with power and water bills to be added.

gratifying of all, however, was the comment made to the Kiwanis Club by Neil Ewing, pool manager, that "the pool had no racial problems (luring the six and one-half weeks." The pool was used by members of both races as, of course, it should have been. lEwing estimated that the Iegro patrons probably aver South's Schools -IN SOME areas of the South resistance to public school desegregation is taking the form of opening "white only" private schools, presumably without any form of governmental aid. Ik New York Times report says that 21 segregated private schools are in operation in South Carolina, as compared with five a year ago. In Mississippi, 21 new white-only schools will join a dozen which were in operation last year. Schools are opening in other states as well.

Alabama's Gov. George Wallace, pursuing his course of resistance, has denounced the IT. S. Office of Education for its pressures to implement the Gvil Rights Act of 1964. He has urged Alabama officials to admit no more Negroes to formerly all-white schools "than the law and courts require." "Setting aside this example of a chief executive of a state urging defiance of the spirit of I4ws of the land, one may well wonder what sort of education will be available for young people in many parts of the South.

Ablaze with lights, Hong Kong teems with activities which attract U.S. soldiers Target Hong Kong China Seeks Propaganda Both the British and Chinese high-ranking delegation of the North Viet Nam Communist party left for Paris on Aug. 25 for talks wtih French Communist leaders. Peking calls the French Party Heretical. The next day Hoang Van Hoan, head of the North Vietnamese parliamentary deleba-tion, made a speech in Moscow in which he praised Russians for "noble manifestations of international proletrianism." Meanwhile, Peking was denouncing Soviet leadership as revisionists who were selling out the Vietnamese people in a "peace plot" with the U.

S. Air Crash (C) 1965 New York Times Hong Kong AFTER a delicate bit of dip lomacy and oriental face sav ing, the Chinese Communists are counting a modest propa ganda victory and the British think they have bought an escape from a crisis over Hong Kong. No British or American of ficial will concede it publicly, but this is what follows from an announcement in Saigon last week that recreation visits to Hong Kong by American servicemen stationed in Viet Nam had been suspended. Losers in the deal are U. S.

soldiers who will not see the bright lights of Hong Kong and businessmen who are grumbling about losing money to appease the "Peking Dragon." The fuss started Wednesday when Britain got a note from Peking charging that Hong Kong had become "a base of operations for United States aggression in Viet Nam." This shocked the British since this is not the way Chinese Communists normally deal with Hong Kong. Usually a complaint is passed to some influential Briton by a Chinese Communist trader at or in some equally discreet manner. Russians Ban It Fine Food and Friendly Folks Day by Day Ten Years Ago 1955 Professional bondsmen are banned from the county jail, except when called for by a prisoner, and then may be admitted only during regular office hours of justices of the peace, under directions given today by state's attorney Kenneth E. Evans on taking bonds under criminal charges. Gov.

William Stratton will cut the ribbon to open the Nelson Park Bridge at 4:30 p.m. Oct. 3. At this time the new bridge and two lanes of Route 36 from Airport Road to Wood Street will be put into use. Millikin University has a growing group of international students with up to 22 expected for the fall semester.

Twenty Years Ago 1945 The Decatur unemployment compensation office this week reported 3,500 claims by jobless men and women. Decatur distributors report more ice cream will be available soon. Milk and cream has been rationed during the war. The "fancy" flavors of ice cream will be manufactured again. Per capita cost for educating Macon County children in 1945 was $101.66, according to a report by County Schools Supt.

Robert B. Ernest. Dr. Maurice Murfin, recently released from service, will be associated with Dr. Ciney Rich in Citizens Building offices.

Fifty Years Ago 1915 G. A. Kellar announced he would dismantle the race track grandstand which means that the Decatur baseball association must seek a new field. The C.H. D.

has started the construction of a new bridge east of Decatur. Lights on the Maffit bridge were turned on for the first time. Miss June Fisher won the adult swimming meet at the YWCA. Margaret Stires was second. Work started on oiling a road between Moweaqua and Decatur.

The Roaring 20s Revisited By William Morris THE 1920'S weren't exactly-this columnist's heyday. Truth to tell, I was not even out of my teens when it ended. But the decade which has earned such labels as "hectic," "roaring," and "jazzy" remains a fascinating time, even for those of us too young to partake of its dubious delights, from the Charleston to bathtub gin. The occasion for these observations is an evening of delighted half-reminiscence spent with the current issue of American Heritage, the magazine of history which has devoted the entire issue to a colorful and bemusing text and picture chronicle of that fabled decade. Bruce Catton writes of the period as "not like anything ever seen before or since.

The Twenties were years that no one who lived through them can ever forget, and they were also a time nobody in his senses would care to repeat." But a return visit, made vicariously through these pages, is fascinating indeed. There are many of the unforgettable John Held Jr. "Flapper" and "Joe College" sketches, several of them from the covers of the humor magazines of the era, Judge and the original Life. Franklin P. Adams comments on Prohibition: "Prohibition is an awful flow.

We like it. It can't stop what it's meant to stop. We like it. It's left a trail of graft and slime, It's filled our land with vice and crime, It doesn't prohibit worth a dime, Nevertheless we're for it." Lucius Beebe reports on one of the most colorful of the "speaks." Moriarty's Wonderful Saloon, thoughtfully including mention of brandy milk punches, a standard Sunday morning therapy, since "the Bloody Mary had yet to be invented as a sovereign remedy for katzenjammer." There's a fascinating piece on the Florida land boom, including the Palm Beach creations of Addison Mizner and his brother Wilson, who gave our language the memorable expression "Never give a sucker an even break." aged 10 to 15 per cent. They tended to keep together in the pool but divers took their turns on the diving boards.

The possibility of racial tensions was cited by some citizens as an objection to public swimming pools. This summer's experi-. ence demonstrated that all citizens can use such a facility together and without any unpleasantness. The pool operation was almost free of accidents. Only two were reported.

Life guards brought 90 swimmers from the pool in rescue operations but there was no serious case. The Red Cross swimming program, with an enrollment of 1,050 students, was an additional plus in the summer program. Six hundred students learned to swim and received certificates. Such a highly successful record for the first season of a public swimming pool operation should encourage the Decatur Park Board to proceed rapidly with plans for a second pool as originally planned. Not So Smart A state like Mississippi ranks at or near the bottom in nearly every educational index.

Maintenance of a private school system anywhere further divides available local resources. No federal assistance would be possible at a time when school districts throughout the country are beginning to draw up their budgets in expectation of some federal aid. A few will be able to afford such a system; most will be unable to afford a dual system, or at best will have inferior schools, both public and private. The pace of school integration without violence is stepping up in much of the South. But night-riders still fire into the homes of Negroes.

They injured at least one woman within the last week. As another school year gets under way, high-placed public officials in some areas of the South are still preaching that stands for "defiance." And some of their "pupils" have figured out that stands for "violence." of 30,000 customers last year. Taylorville, which has long contested Decatur's claim as the soybean capital, holds its 19th Soybean Festival Thursday through Saturday. The sponsor may be a civic group, service men's organization, church, or a school. The menus and entertainment vary.

Announced for this week the list guaranteed to be incompleteincludes the Cerro Gordo fall festival on Friday, sponsored by PTA; a chicken and fish fry at Findlay High School Saturday for benefit of the Christian Church building fund; the Clay City Civic Association's annual fall festival Saturday; Cisco's festival on Saturday, where ham dinner with cornbread and beans is the specialty. It's the season when the finest type of city-country relations prevail. City folks swarm to these events to take advantage of fine food and to meet friendly folks. It's truly a time to remember. brought down to something even close to conventional means, even in coastal areas.

"I don't see in the near future that anything yet demonstrated can make it feasible for a community to use this type of water supply in contrast to others available to them. Dr. Hufschmidt is no gloom sayer. His words ought to be heeded. The implication, of course, is that while technology is a wonderful thing, it cannot work its miracles without exacting a cost, and sometimes the miracle may not be forthcoming at all.

What our society, with its growing numbers of people and industries pressing hard upon a misused and dwindling supply of natural resources, must learn is a new set of values that serve to protect the old and valuable while science works its new wonders. That goes not just for water, although the water crisis is already upon us. It is true also for such things as the core areas of our cities, the natural beauty of our landscapes and even the potential dignity and ability that all human beings have if it is not wasted away. 'Hello Dolly' in Escalator on leave. Victory liberty port and no great loss would be suffered by reducing transit traffic through the col ony for a while.

So the order went to Saigon to suspend leave flights to Hong Kong. When indignant queries were addressed to British officials, they were able to deny with diplomatic license that they had not put pressure on the Americans. "Her Majesty's government did not intend to have known that the lion's tail had been twisted," one Hong Kong businessman commented. A dignified British note would be sent to Peking to end the affair. whether the chinese might not return once more to a pressure point which they found responsive, but British officials seemed convinced that Peking did not intend to press its luck too far.

Shastri Claims Chinese Train Kashmir Tribes By George Kumari North American Newspaper Alliance New Delhi ACCORDING to reliable Indian sources, the Chinese Com munists have set up a network of guerrilla training camps in Kashmir's northern mountains and in the Ladakh area that be came part of Pakistan in 1956, Indian intelligence experts be lieve the initial success of the Pakistan-based raiders should be attributed to expert Chinese supervision. Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri has said the entire pat tern of armed tribal infiltration into the disputed Himalayan Valley, first detected on Aug. 5, is clearly based on Chinese and Viet Cong guerrilla tactics. Since that time, regular Pakis tani troops have entered the fighting. According to one estimate, there are at least nine guerrilla training camps, each giving be tween 200 and 300 guerrillas a 12-week course.

The camps are said to be un der the technical control of the "Azad Kashmir Security Forces," a loose organization of irregulars maintained by the Pakistan government ver since the first tribal invasion of Kashmir in 1947. Reports say the Chinese include three senior officers, one of whom may be a general, and at least 60 experts with personal experience in guerrilla warfare. According to a leading member of the ruling congress party here, Peking has helped to train "not less than 15,000" tribes. The "Bombay Free Press Journal" reported that China is helping in the training of guerrillas to be used against India at key points along the Himalayas. Though India has been vigorously mopping up the infiltrators, the fear is expressed here that many of the raiders may have gone underground.

Some former Kashmiri Muslim residents of Tibet and Sinkiani? are said to be nlavins1 -LOVERS OF good food and good times find the late summer and early autumn weeks enjoyable because they bring aseries of festivals and homecomings in Central Illinois communities, interspersed with annual chicken fries in many small town and country churches. It's a time suited to the hearty eaters and no time for the weight reducers or calorie counters. It's a time for the gtegarious, for these events invariably find the citizens of the small towns at their friendly best. -The season started last month. Dalton City was among the early towns to schedule its homecoming, a two-day affair.

Momentum was gained over the Labor Day weekend, and events are scheduled for weeks ahead, as long as pleasant weather can be expected. Yesterday, for instance was the 17th annual Cornbread and Bean Festival at Oakland, an event which attracted upwards Communists like to steer clear of trouble over this colony, which is dependent on the ad jacent Communist mainland for most of its food and water and would wither if Peking cut off trade and communications. For their party, the Chinese Communists earn about half of their freely convertible foreign exchange through Hong Kong, which also serves as a useful window on the capitalist world. Starved by Propaganda When the Chinese Commun ists fired their propaganda broadside about U. S.

soldiers in Hong Kong, Pekinologists concluded that serious trouble might develop. Analysts figured the Chinese Communists were starved for a propaganda success because of recent loss of face. For months Peking has been urging Vietnamese Communists to fight to the last man against the U. S. However, the Chinese Communists themselves have done nothing more militant than talk, and now there are indications that the North Vietnamese are becoming peevish at what analysts have dubbed the "reluctant dragon." Two signs of Hanoi's impatience were noted last week.

A tives are obscure. The Fischer affair may have been merely a case of bureaucratic bumbling, or it may have been a small probe by the CIA designed to test Communist cultural defenses. Whatever the case, no one anticipated a violent 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 Dmeperpetrovsk.

In banning "Hello Dolly" Moscow abruptly confronted Washington with a cultural challenge of the deepest gravity. ine 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. Hueo Hans, whose seminal work, "culture can turn the tide." defines 93 brilliantly thought-out steps up the escalation ladder which precede the dreadful step 94, universal cultural war. (Banning pre-dawn Russian classes on educational TV, permitting uniimitea export of movie maga zines to the Soviet Union, etc.) Baseball Holliganism? Hans points out that in re fusing to let Fishcer 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 Rus sians would nave been a long article in Pravda denouncing baseball as hooliganism.

This, he notes, was impossible for a number of reasons. For exercise incisive selection, to give evocative meaning and clarity to the evolution of our overseas relations. History be reft of assessment and apprais al quickly reduces itself to a re write of headlines. Not that "American White Paper: United States Foreign potential value for the younger viewer to whom events of the last two decades are only hearsay. It will be in teresting to learn from the rat ings how the evening was re ceived, whether the program may have been too long for those who might have learned the most from the presentation and too inadequate for those who looked for meatier content.

There was a fitfulness of ap proach that was consistently disconcerting. It takes a quick study to absorb in lickety-split fashion the measure of the atom bomb, Churchill's Iron Curtain speech, civil war in Greece, the Marshall Plan, the Berlin Blockade, the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the Korean War, European Prosperity, Stalin's Death, the Hungarian Revolution, Sputnik, the U-2 Incident, the Cuban missile crisis and De Gaulle's intransigence. And that was merely a third of the evening. The second installment explored the role of the U. S.

in "confronting" the emerging world with humanitarian aid and military might, a sequence that took in Guatemala, Lebanon and Santo Dominco. It was the best third of the evening's presentation. Speedy Review The last segment, on the other hand, was the least satisfying. To be sure, there was a speedy review of the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, the dashed hopes of the U. S.

in making China an ally and the Korean War. But NBC did an inexcusably cursory and harried job in covering the details of the debate over American policy in Viet Nam. Save for an inter view with Norman Thomas, the opponents of the Administration's policies were made to appear as videogenic eccentrics and the program's visual con cern for battle scenes took prec edence over all contemplation of the political, social and economic future of Asia. Where the NBC program had a chilling relevancy was in re running the miscalculations of high officials as to the duration of the Viet Nam war and in showing the remorseless process of escalation. Kintner and NBC must be credited with an important in novation in TV.

But to realize their goal of penetrating mass inertia to a difficult subject they should not be afraid of shooting high in terms of stim ulating substance. With the spectre of war now a reality the public is ready for a much sterner examination of world affairs than NBC handed out Tuesday night. I'M NOT going to sit by and see war being escalated without saving anything about it. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

With Chinese Communist fa a sensitive mood, British offic ial became worried that Peking intended to make an issue that Hong Kong was militant. Attention had been focused on the colony by a crash on Aug. 24 of a U. S. transport carrying U.

S. marines back to their Viet Nam base after liberty here. The British passed word to Washington that this might not be a propitious moment to challenge Peking. Washington was sympathetic. There was trouble enough in Southeast Asia.

Besides U. S. Seventh Fleet would continue to use Hong Kong as a "Hello Dolly?" Nyet. another, the Russians hadn't read his book and hence did not know the proper response. Instead, they escalated immediately to step 67.

the enemy's road Even at this level, Hans points out, effective cultural warfare can be waged without intense danger of wiping out all culture. To ban further tours by the Bolshoi, for 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 game shows. Hans's critics have vilified him for daring to think about ways of making culture an effective weapon of the state. As the Russians have shown again, however, culture in the era of the superstate is as much an instrument of Dolicv as thpi ICBM and the set-ret aent As i ii in mi I I mi i iiwihiW The Wizard Sometimes Fails By Russell Baker (c) 1965 New York Times Washington MOSCOW'S abrupt decision to keep "Hello Dolly" off the boards in Russia is bad news.

The official interpretation that the show was banned in re taliation against United States war policy in Viet Nam is not taken seriously by people who understand relations between modern superstates. These people find it laughable to suggest that Moscow thinks it can give American bombers tit-for-tat by cutting off David Merrick's rubles. (Merrick is the show's producer.) The "Hel lo Dolly" crisis, they agree, is retaliation all right, but not against anything that is happen ing in Asia. In the words of one war-room thinker, "What we are faced with is the danger of total cul rural warfare." In striking against Broadway's most sue cessful musical. Moscow is over reacting in an escalation out of all proportion to the original American thrust.

The crisis was begun quietly enough last month when Soviet photographic planes flying over Cuba recorded the absence of Bobby Fischer from the Capa-blanca Chess Tournament. Scan ning newspaper cuttings in the Ministry of Cultural Warfare, several commissars reported simultaneously that Fischer, the American chess champion, had been denied American passport permission to attend the tourna ment. Here, it seemed, was a quiet, concealed move by the United States to strike a sneak blow against Communist culture. This suspicion may nave been heightened by the negligible coverage given to the United States' Fischer gambit in the American press. The State Department's mo JOf late, despite the weather crisis in the northeastern states, there has been a ray of optimism.

has shone on the basis of the break-through in lowering the costs of desalinization of water. 'But Dr. Maynard M. Huf-schmidt, director of the Harvard University Water Program, says that the so-called break-through has yet to prove itself worthy of that name. only plants that have been built for desalinization are on a relatively small scale," he warns.

"While costs have been brought down considerably fm what they were 10 to 15 years ago, the small-scale plants are still quite costly in terms of water say two or three times the cost of conventional means. building tremendous plants and achieving economy through scale the cost can be brought down significantly it iyhoped. J'But until a plant were built afid the many uncertainties in cost were determined by experience, it's very rash to say that the price could possibly be Hans puts it, "you can't make! an important part in the Chi-; an omelet without cracking ahese infiltration game in the i few eggheads." 'Hamalayan State..