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Labaron Daily Labanon, June 11, 1953 gebatuni ailfl Travel Enthusiasts AND THE LEBANON DAILY TIMES Published Daily (Except Sunday) by LEBANON NEWS PUBLISHING COMPANY In News Building, 24-26 South Eighth Street HENRY L. WILDER, President and Publisher Lebanon Daily News -Established 1872 Lebanon Semi-Weekly Established 1894 ADAM SCHROPP WILDER Vice-President anaging Editor ARBELYN WILDER SANSONE Treasurer Associate Editor JOSEPH SANSONE Secretary Gen. Mfir. JACK SCHROPP 2nd V. P.

Bus. Mgr, miller the Ltbanon, undtr Act at Mirch 3, 1873. OHkial Paper of the City ond County TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION Dull; Ncwi rtellverK) by carrier (hlrty centi finite copy flvo cents. By mall in TenruylvinU 115.40 annually. $17.

to. Stmi-Weekly M.Oc per 15.00 years, In UNITED PHES5 INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The AisncUttd Prfis 1l exclusively entUUd 10 for rcpublication all news printed In thU newipapcr. Silver Flight Anniversary President Eisenhower has signed a resolution' authorizing the federal government to participate in the national celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of controlled powered flight. It was on December 13, 1903, that the Wright brothers finally succeeded in getting the first airplane off the ground at Kill Devil Hill, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The June Harper's "Magazine has a detailed account of the invention of the airplane, edited by Fred C.

Kelly, official biographer of the Wright Brothers, and written by Orviile Wright as a deposition in a patent suit in 1920. The article may help to dispel the notion that the Wrights were merely bicycle mechanics'who had one bright idea or that they were tinkcrers rather than scientists. Invention is not accomplished by a stroke of luck or a brilliant flash of illumination from above. Usually it results from patient, hard work. The Wright brothers read everything they could about the other men who had tried to fly.

They examined arid studied tables of air pressure. They built and flew gliders. They failed many times but each time began again and learned something from their failure. There is no way to measure the contribution the Wrights made to progress. From their first primitive attempts at flight came the great airliners, the fast planes that fly oceans over night and make every part of the world just around the corner from every other, part.

It is good to remember their achievement and participate as a nation In the fiftieth birthday celebration of the invention which gave men wings. Sudetenland Again That the Sudeten Germans' "God-given right" should be safeguarded, and the homeland and property "of which they have been robbed" should be returned to them, is the belief of a Chicago pus- tor who. is Sudeten-born. He told this to a rally of his countrymen in Frankfort, Germany. He called on President Eisenhower lo do something about it.

Undoubtedly the Sudctenlanders have been suffering under Russian rule, just as do the Czechs against whom the Sudeten Germans called in Hitler. World War II had many origins, but the clamor raised in Sudetenland against the mild if unsympathetic, rule of the Czechs had as much as anything else to do with bringing it on. The Sudeten peasants listened gladly to the paid Nazi agitator, Konrad Henlein, who told them that they should again be part of Germany. In fact Sudetenland had never been a part of Germany, having been Austrian before it was Czech; but that- made no difference to Henlein and his dupes. After the war the'Czechs evicted many Sude- ten Germans, feeling that they had plotted against the state before and would do so again.

The Russians have apparently continued the Czech policy. If the Iron Curtain is broken down, the peoples behind it may hope to have their grievances redressed. That includes the Sudetenlanders. They are not likely to be restored to their former possessions ahead of peoples who did nothing to bring on the war. Needed Tax Relief A bill pending before the House Ways and Means Committee would allow the deduction of medical and dental expenses as well as health and hospital insurance from individual income lax returns.

The bill was introduced by Congressman Oliver P. Bolton, of Ohio, and in principle it has the backing of the American Medical Association. The present internal code allows taxpayers to deduct medical expenses only to the ox- tent that they exceed five per cent of gross income. The new bill would be far more generous. Medicine and hospitalization are expensive.

Families with limited incomes deprive themselves of the medical attention they need because of the cost If such expenses could be deducted from taxable income at the end of the year people might be more willing to take advantage of the marvelous health facilities which are available today. It is wrong to penalize people because they are unfortunate enough to have illnesses themselves or in their families. Yet that is just what the present provisions of the internal revenue code do. Congress would do well to give speedy attention to the Bolton bill. To Preserve A Treasure The Knights of Columbus are paying part of the cost of duplicating all vplumes in the Vatican Library in Rome on microfilm.

The. project will be completed in three and a half years and' two copies of each volume will be made. Both copies will be kept in the United States at St. Louis University in Missouri. One set of the duplicates will be kept available for the use of scholars; the other will be stored in an atom-bomb-proof vault.

Some of the volumes in the Vatican Library are priceless and could never be replaced if they were lost. The Knights of Columbus project accomplishes two good ends. It makes certain that whatever happens the wisdom and knowledge contained these volumes will be preserved. It also makes these sources of learning available to American acholara of all faiths who cannot travel to Rome. Politics In County, State and Notion The Korean war, born in confusion on a June day three years ago, is living up lo its birthright in the struggle to accomplish a cease-fire agreement.

It been a long anrl costly war, and the confusing throughout because of official refusal to call a spade a spade. (Example: What happened to MacArthur when he spoke up.) Harry S. Truman, who launched the U. S. (or is it the United Nations?) "police action," never ad- milted he had a war on his hands.

But to dale, our cost in blood has been 140,000 more than 25,000 killed in action. Perhaps it will lessen the confusion to recall that Ihe Korean war, born at the 38th Parallel on Ihe Asiatic peninsula, had its conception on the other side of the world at a place called Yalta. That was February, 1045, when Franklin IX Al- gcr in Josef Stalin's Russia into the war against Japan. Japan was even then being measured for a knockout punch by our own forces under General Mat-Arthur and Admiral Mm. v.

was there, at Yalta, with Roosevelt, His.s and General George C. Marshall (who was later called by Truman "the greatest living that the U. S. turned its back on its ally, China, and opened (he way for communication of Manchuria and North Korea. Russia entered the war against Japan August ft, ISIfi.

Japan surrendered on August M. Stalin's soldiers didn't help MacArthtir much during those five days but Yalta handed over control of Korea north of the 3Sth Parallel to the Communists. of Ihe 3Slh Parallel, a thing called the United Nations Commission On Korea occupied some plush offices and living quarters under (he fond-beneficence of 'Dean Ache-son. UNCOK was supposed to report, any signs of military conflict in Korea. UNCOK didn't do any reporting on military conflict until the Reds had already launched their attack.

The UNCOK people took off from their cosy offices so fast Ihcy even left their UN banners behind: Confusion. Today, we have President Eisenhower working hard to fulfill his campaign pledge to halt the shooting in Korea. Criticism of a iriice bringing a divided Korea has been coming down upon him, but not in serious proportions, apparently. But he has been assailed for attempting lo stage "another Munich," and for "selling out to the appcascrs." On the other hand, there are those who have come to Eisenhower's defense. They have pltmtert statement in a tetter to South Synginan Uhen (hat this nation didn't Intend unite Korea by force of American bndlr power.

Eisenhower's letter to Rliec called on Ihe aging South Korean president, to accept the proposed armistice terms and to leave the knotty problem of unifying Korea to some future conference. is believed that Eisenhower has little lo fear from the standpoint of domestic political repercussions as a result of his aim to stop the shooting and repair Korea later. Washington correspondent John has noted that the entire membership of the House and one-third of the Senate, who must face the voters a year from now, know Hint the war in Korea is the (probably only basically 'unpopular) war our nation has ever wnged." Our elected representatives in Washington apparently realize that the American voters generally don't give a hoot how North and South Korea settle their internal problems, so long as it doesn't have fo be done at continued cost ot American lives. Labor Infiltration Plan Pushed By Soviets By Victor Riesel The Soviets never cease firing. When the shrapnel barrage lifts the propaganda barrage is laid down and it is no less an effective military Weapon than that which draws blood.

The new propaganda offensive about to be unleashed through the American Communist Party and its agents inside labor vbeen as carefully prepared as the military offensive sprung almost three years ago through the North Korean Communist Party and its Sov- ictized labor federation. This latest propaganda drive is aimed at soothing our nerves. Sort of mass psychiatric treatment. The Sonets arc about to (ell us not to worry about a post-war depression not to become neurotic over possible peace-time unemployment. They're going to see to it that every American worker has two capitalistic chickens in his capitalistic pnt.

They will say us forget about making arms. Here's how you can have peace and jobs. Through well placed agents in scores of unions which they have only recently infiltrated secretly (they think) this line will be revealed at hundreds of union meetings. "The Soviet Union is ready lo place at least $1,200,000,000 (billion) worth of orders in the U.S. wilhln the next three years plus the undoubted readiness of AMEftlCAHS AREFRECTOCO IS AAV PEOPLE TRAVEUMG Holmes Alexander Cheers Adlai Stevenson For Declining To Become President Of Harvard University Politicians and other trapeze artists are apt to become rather stylized in their mid-air acrobztics, so it's a pleasure to note that Adlai Sleven- 'son' did not become President nf Harvard University.

It's difficult lo praise a negative virtue, but Stevenson's macuialcncss in this case is going to get my hoorah. Let's see. We have an ex-President of. Columbia in the White House, an ex- res i n't of Pennsylvania in Security, an ex-President of Temple in Voice of America, an ex-Presidenl of Harvard in the embassy at a President of Perm State heading a South American study commission. The list couhl be extended by dipping into the women's colleges, but sufficient to prove the point! The trapeze act of mid-air switches from education to politics has gone stale and unprofitable.

Did Stevenson turn down the Harvard chair? At least it is certain that he was approached by friends who recommended the familiar perch of a college presidency as a good place to bask for as one of these friends tells it, "discouraged" the notion, and that was the end of it no specific mention of Harvard, as the story is told. While on the subject it's worth noting that Stevenson definitely did reject two specific posts of high publicity value. A group of wealthy backers tried unsuccessfully to interest him in the editorship' of a projected magazine. Others have had no better luck in making him claim active title to lead- ership of the Democratic party. Despite all rumors and conjectures, Stevenson has declined to behave as a conventional off-season candidate.

Just before taking off on his world travels, he read some of his petitioners cjuite a lecture on the permanence of political parties and the fleeting mortality of man particularly of a man about lo circle the world by aircraft. Stevenson, although -last November by a better man in a better cause, continues lo be a big winner in ways that no American should begrudge him. An also-ran politician, Stevenson has yet lo make his first serious mistake as and scholar: is a notable record, providing those implied qualities arc conceded to be praiseworthy and to be not without importance in (he nnlion.il commonwealth. J5ut it's in (he role of politician a candidate-ih-spitc-of-himself that Stevenson remains in the news. He remains Ihere, much In the delight of his admirers, while seeming lo avoid the floodlight glare.

This may be the old Greta Garbo technique wanna be but at least it's a welcome relief from the: way so many defeated candidates as far back as Bryan and Theodore Roosevelt were wont to comport their egos. In point of fact, the Democratic professionals here believe that Stevenson is the incredible exception to the rule in politics. They consider his reluctance to be real and sincere, just as it was last summer; and this astonishing integrity is thought to be Stevenson's most valuable asset in the strangest of all games, politics. A salaried Democratic party worker puts the matter: "We know that Adlai never wants anything enough to jeopardize his dignity to get it. We know that he won't lift a finger for renomina- tion in '56, which means that the party will have to come to him on his own terms.

And there's his strength." Stevenson's plans are not so mysterious that they 'can't be ascertained by asking the friends to whom he writes letters from abroad. The global trip, far from being restful, has been a daily grind for him. In every country he's been treated as a "personage, forced to grin for the cameras and submit to interviews, as well as to attend many public functions and keep up his pay-as-you-go writing assignment for two magazines and a book publisher. First thing Stevenson will do upon his return in August is take a vacation. 3n the autumn and winter he will speak at two mammoth regional rallies for the Democratic party, one in the South and one in the Midwest.

He also has several scheduled lectures at universities, a law practice to resume and much more writing to complete. Even for an energetic man, Ihcse are a lot of enterprises, all of which require a degree of public time goes on and the Stevenson personality expands, many good people will find it increasingly difficult to wish him hard luck, except on Election Day. Henry McLemore Wants To Send SOS To June Bridegrooms If there were a way to send out column SOS I'd do it. Its message is that urgent. This is June, the month for marriages, and I would like io have every prospective bridegroom read what I have to say before it is loo late and he finds himself trnip- sing down the aLsle to his doom.

My message is this: Young man, before taking unto yourself a wife find out for sure whether or not she likes to attend auction sales. If she does, then snatch the diamond off her finger and flee to the. hills, for it us far better to live the life of a hermit in a cave than to share a mansion with a wife who likes to go to auctions. No matter how many her virtues, this one vice will drag you through torment. No matter if she is as beautiful as a 3-D sunset, can cook pancakes as light as fried clouds, can make a perfect-fitting slipcover for the inside of a fireplace, and likes to do her own washing and ironing, pass her up if she has the ring of the auctioneer's hammer in her ears.

This advice comes from my heart, and was learned first-hand. Only loo Inle.dicl I discover that Mary, who has all the attributes mentioned above, plus a flair for knitting waste-paper baskets, was an auction addict. When lots of strange objects began appearing around the apartment I wasn't alarmed, and didn't even question her about thorn. I figured she was stealing them, and let it go at that. But yesterday, when she came in with a hacksaw, twelve cans of floor wax, a thermos jug (bringing our total to three), a hat rack with a battered size felt hat on it.

and a brick mason's level, the awful truth came out. Under direct questioning it came What's Right- Guys at the Campbelllown Legion say It happened, but don't believe it. was about fellow named Patrick who walked into Ihe Legion home one evening, carrying a slip of paper in his hand. Somebody wanted to know what it was. "This is a list of all the men I can whip," he said.

"Is my name on there?" asked a fellow named Brieve. "It tssured him. can't whip me," said Brieve. "Are you sure I can't "Darn right I'm sure." "Okay, then," Patrick said. "I'll lake your name off the list." Competent instructor A Midwest draft board has re- What's Wrong ceiveri a letter which fells a story of an accomplishment by a Little Woman managed to do something the U.S.

Army couldn't do. "I was discharged from the Army last April," a draft board registrant wrote the draft officer, "because I could not adjust myself. Since then, I have married and I have learned to take orders and have completely recovertd. "I would very much like another chance. My wife understands and says she will permit me to be drafted.

Please send me a notice to report." And -we understand that Bugs Bunny is a civilian because he was caught in a forest fire and got defurred. out that she had bought these things, just as she had paid out good money for the 10-quart-old- fashioned ice cream freezer, the 100 feet of plastic garden hose, the "gun" for spraying fruit trees, and the two used canoe paddles. "Wh ere in the am of Jchosphaphat did you get that hacksaw?" I demanded. "And where did the rest of that junk come from?" She salrl she had bought them at an auction, that they were terrific bargains, and that she never would have gotten them as cheaply as she did if the auctioneer hadn't known her and known the type of things she liked. "I paid only seventy-five cents for this hacksaw," she said, waving it proudly.

"What are we going to do with it?" I asked. "It's perfect for cutting up venison," she said, just as if I shot deer three or four mornings a week. "What about that brick mason's level?" asked. "I suppose I can use that to get the deer on a level before I go to work on him with the hacksaw. How much did you pay it? I'm curious." "Less than half its worth," she answered.

"I'd he willing to bet that you could put your coat on and go out right now and sell it for five dollars more than I paid for I explained that I didn't intend to switch professions and become a vendor of brick mason's levels. I also explained that a bargain isn't a bargain unless you want it or have some use for it. I must have set her straight pretty well, because she didn't get up enough nerve to me the Swiss watch she had bought for (3.98 until late at night. WestferooJc Feetham 9 Carbine Did Not Kill Jesse James Henchman This is to abandon Laurence 1. Feetham's illusion that the old cavalry carbine which was given to his father by Dr.

H. M. Wheeler, of Grand Forks, N.D.; wis the one with which Doctor Wheeler killed William Stiles, of the Jesse James gang, in the Northfield, bank robbery of Sept. 7, 1876, and to modify in minor particulars a story which is nevertheless a nugget of crude American history. The Grand Forks Herald interviewed Mrs.

Wheeler, who said Doctor Wheeler's gun was still in the family there. Mr. Feetham, now living in Seattle, politely bows to her as follows: "Let us accept the fact that the doctor's family should know about the gun." The Herald published a picture 'of Henry Wheeler, apparently a young man, holding a carbine, with the late doctor's fabulous fpur-guage shotgun, which looks like a gas-pipe mounted on a stock, standing beside him, Mrs. Wheeler said the carbine which Doctor Wheeler fired was carried by Charles Dampier, the hotelkeeper in Northfield, from 1861 to 1865 in the Union cavalry and that it was given to the Wheeler family when Mr. Dampier died.

The gun that Wheeler gave the elder Feetham, now treasured by Laurence Feetham, probably is just another old cavalry carbine. A large correspondence flowed out of the controversial memories of individuals scattered from Southern Pines, N.C., to Seattle and Las Vegas, Nev. The pure gold of all this is a legend that Wheeler, a poor young man studying medicine at the University of Michigan, showed up for his dissection course in the fall of 1876 with a cadaver all his own to work upon. These articles cost about $200 and when Wheeler nonchalantly remarked to a group of other students that he thought he would go and get in some work at this course, several of them exclaimed: "Did you get one? Where did you get him?" Young Wheeler said: shot him," and was called upon to amplify his grisly account to the Mrs. Wheeler, as quoted in Grand Forks Herald, recalled that her late husband and a son of Dampier both were studying medicine at Ann Arbor, and that the boys asked for the two left behind by the James gang.

"They were told," the Herald, "that the bodies could' not be given away but that they would not be buried very deep. They took up the bodies and shipped them to Ann Arbor." The one killed by Wheeler was Clell Miller, whose family now went to Ann Arbor and took his body away. However, young Wheeler managed to keep the body of William Stiles, who, it appears from Mrs. Wheeler's memory of things, was shot by A. R.

Manning, the man who ran the Northfield hardware store. The Herald's account says Stiles' skeleton was on view in Doctor Wheeler's office until it was destroyed by at some dale not specified. Apparently young Dampier was out of luck in the shuffle. Doctor Wheeler had permission to carry a gun for some years after the raid because members of the Miller family had threatened to shoot him. H.C.

Hoffman, of Trail's End Ranch, Oxford, Ohio, said he and Jesse James, Jr. visited Cole Younger, one of three brothers who rode in this and other raids, as he lay dying at Lee's Summit, in 1916. He and Jesse, Junior, bore Younger's pall. Mr. Hoffman writes that Younger gave him the gun he was carrying when he was captured at Madelia, 14 days after the raid.

Hoffman gave this gun and other relics of the same chase to the State of Missouri in 1938 and they are now on exhibit in the State House at Jefferson City. Mr. Hoffman ssys Stiles, alias Chadwell, lost his head and ran down an alley instead of mounting his horse for the getaway. 'In this brief lapse he exposed himself to Wheeler's fire and was killed. On the point of my observation that the James gang were rotten (Continued on Forty-Two) Fulton Lewis, Jr.

British Policy Is Aimed A Eliminating Free China WASHINGTON, Today The recognition of the i Chinese government would open the doors for the same kind of disaster'that occurred when the Roosevelt administration recognized the revolutionary government of the Soviet Union. The same.liberals and left wingers at home and in Great Britain who in 1935 recited the flowing benefits they said would accrue when we the Communists in Russia now sing the same song for Communist China. There were promises then of vast caravans carrying riches in minerals and other goods to the United States from Russia. In turn, we would peddle to them our pots and pahs, our machinery and our surplus farm 'goods for great profit- What we wound up with is a caravan of Soviet spies penetrating all of our security departments, plus an $11,000,000,000 gift to Russia in the form of war supplies, huge chemical and steel producing plants, gigantic hydroelectric machinery, railroads and mountains of food all free. The same goes for the Chinese Communists.

Their diplomatic recognition is the key that would open up another Pandora's Box of trouble. Afore spies, this time and free access to American information outlets for Red Chinese propaganda these and other distasteful items would be in store if we recognized the Red Chinese regime. The British argument for recognition voiced by Sir Winston Churchill and the labor party's lackey, socialist Clement Altlce now has turned into a threat. Britain Parliamentary spokesmen say openly that unless we join the British in recognizing Communist China, their government will force a vote in the United Nations, which would decide by majority vote that Communist China should take a seat there. President Eisenhower has pledged his leadership in a fight to prevent such U.N.

recognition. His leadership may not be enough. In the proposed legislative amendment to cut off U.S. contributions to United Nations funds in the event of Chinese Com- m'inist admission lo the U.N., the United States had an effective weapon against the British and other nations bent on dignifying the Red seizure of China. We no longer have that weapon.

The Senate approved walereci- down version which simply stated that it objected to any such action. 11 may some day reverse itself again and restore the original resolution to dry up U.S. contributions to the U.N. Jew U.N. member nations have even displayed a desire to pay a more equitable share of U.N.

expenses on the present basis, let along pick up the check now paid by the U.S.A. Formosa Is next on the British list, ff she succeeds in shoving Communist China into the U.N. her next proposal will be to have the international organization seize the nationalist Chinese stronghold and place it under a 10-year trusteeship. That would effectively eliminate free China. British government officials already are privately and publicly protesting American aid to Formosa.

They say we have no right to use Formosa as an auxiliary military base. If not, then neither do we have any right to use the British Isles as an auxiliary military base. Suggesting a withdrawal from there might be an effective way to slop British yammering for comradeship with the Chinese Beds. It's worth thinking over, at any rate. British eggheads and their American counterparts peddle the hogwash that once we recognize Red China we'll instantly detect the difference between that brand of communism and the brand practiced in the Soviet Union.

We've heard that before, but the chorus goes on. The British are certain they retain the decisive voice in international affairs. Churchill and Attlee were bringing it to bear when they stepped up recently and criticized the U.S.A. for not surrendering to the Chinese Communists militarily and diplomatically Generously, the British accede us an economic superiority, although they doubt our political wisdom. No such doubts were expressed when we yanked the British from the clutches of Nazism They credited us then with the sharpest kind of political acumen, but not until after the British leaders had tried all types of European appeasement.

Why the British insist the same appeasement technique will work in Asia when it led to war in Europe is an international enigma that cannot be explained by stubbornness alone. If they keep cyi talking long enough and loud enough, we will learn the real reason. We're entitled.to know Jt. We've paid for the knowledge many times over and probably will continue to do so for years to come. 7933 7953 Twenty Years Ago JUNE 10, It33 The temperature climbed to 100 degrees in Lebanon, the high nark of the year.

Ammon S. Long, 39, prosperous South Lebanon fanner, was found dead hanging to the roof of his bano over the haymow. Elwood B. Casscll, formerly with the Pennsylvania Department of Public Instruction and State College, a recommended to make a survey ol the Lebanon City School facilities to immediate and future of the axhool district. Lebanon High's graduating clasa held lU banquet and dance at the Lebanon Country Club.

Mr. and Mrs. Simon 5. Ketter- wg, 815 Lehman Street, left by boat from New York City for a trip to California. 5 ullcn Gane y' prominent.

Bethlehem attorney, delivered tihe commencement speech at Lebanon Catholic High School..