Published Daily Except Sunday Member of Associated by Brush-Moore Newspapers, Inc. Established October 8, Saturday, November 27, 1965 Page A Feat Etched Boldly in Contrast The authentic heroism of a Pleasant Township youth in saving the life of a man whose clothes were set afire in an explosion helps greatly to strengthen everyone's faith in the younger generation. Numerous ingredients go into an act of unusual courage-being at the right place at the right time, the ability to think clearly in an emergency and the poise to translate that thought into action quickly. Danny Denman, 17, had them all Thursday when he saw the explosion at the Ohio Gas Appliance bulk plant on Rt. 4 from his home.
He picked up a blanket and ran in his bare feet 1 to the scene some 200 feet away. He managed to THE MARION STAR smother the flames in the clothing of Chester Harr, 37, of Columbus with the blanket. Mr. Harr was seriously burned but is given a good chance to recover. All anyone who gets perturbed with today's youth has to do is to remember that approximately 97 per cent of all teen-agers nationally are decent, law-abiding people and that figure goes up to 99 per cent in Marion County.
The one per cent periodically gets out of hand, however, as witness the recent wave of vandalism, including a series of paint splatterings with Elgin High School and traffic signs among the targets. Danny Denman's feat stands out boldy in contrast. A Problem That's Shared We can be sure an Associated Press story by Ronald I. Deutsch about desertions from South Viet Nam's army was not timed to appear in the United States the same week as a march on Washington to demonstrate opposition to U.S. policy in 1 South Viet Nam.
But if it had been timed for maximum impact, the result scarcely could have been more jarring. Lack of enthusiasm for what is being done in South Viet Nam under U.S. auspices is a problem shared by the government of South Viet Nam and the government of the United States. Correspondent Deutsch reports a desertion rate of 17.9 per 1,000 among South Viet Nam troops last October. This is 6.7 points higher than the rate for the preceding year, and the rate is still rising.
Though most desertions are of trainees about to be assigned to battlefronts, the rate also is high among veterans, some of whom have been under fire for 20 years, first against the French, now against former battle comrades fighting for the Viet Cong against the Americans. The Viet Cong also have a desertion problem. It may be assumed the North Vietnamese lack 100 per cent support, too. But from the U.S. point of view, always directed inwardly, the problem is shameful only when young Americans to whom military service in far-off Viet Nam is only a possibility young men who haven't even been called up for military service burn their draft cards.
Can it be that the problem has drifted out of focus here. There have been no reports of wholesale desertion of U.S. troops already in Viet Nam. No one is accusing U.S. fighting men of being half-hearted in battle, as the South Vietnamese have been accused.
Air Power Over Viet Nam The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Enterprise will join other units of the U.S. 7th fleet in waters off Viet Nam. Its presence will beef up still more the absolute monopoly the United States holds in the air over the beleaguered country. Carrier-launched planes fly around-the-clock raids on targets and are supplemented by heavy bombers flown in from distant Pacific bases. Helicopters based in South Viet Nam plus light fighter planes and specially equipped heavy planes with super gunpower strafe ground troops, which have no means and no hope of retaliation, other than antiaircraft guns.
This lopsided advantage in the one presumably indispensable modern armament should more than offset the Viet Cong advantages being stressed by war correspondents, such as pointed sticks and booby traps to kill U.S. troops and their allies and the savagery of their attacks on unsuspecting battle parties. Incessant stress of what is being done with U.S. air superiority at the expense of a foe with no air power whatsoever is raising anew a question that still was never answered in World War II and the Korean War: If air power is the decisive element in modern warfare, why doesn't it prove decisive? Pending the answer to that question, Americans only can be thankful their fighting forces are not up against a foe capable of challenging U.S. domination of the air space over Viet Nam.
In that event, TRUMAN TWILL Cotton Corners Dear Nephew: As for me, I will play the percentages. This is what I mean. I will not let the news media panic me into thinking a tidal wave is going to drown civilization because someone has emptied a bucket of water in front of my face. I will not let some screamer convince me the sky is falling because a hailstone hit me on the head. Nor will I let anyone con me into thinking the swallows are coming back to Capistrano because a flock of sparrows flew past my window.
We live in a world at a time when the scope of information has widened so far we know too much for our own good. Instead of being in a contained environment that we can evaluate and judge out of first-hand knowledge, we are adrift in a sea of chaos. Everything that happens anywhere on earth is dispatched to us buckity-buckity and our instant reaction is needled by urgent voices and scare bulletins. We hear about the wild antics of kids in some community we never expect to visit and suddenly it seems as if they are a cross-section of the youth of the land. Couple this with the fact we always want to believe the worst of the generation getting ready to push us old walruses off the cliff and we convince ourselves that the country is in the grip of teen-age hop-heads.
A couple hundred young men who take a dim view of risking their lives under any circ*mstances get fired up about a war whose popularity is ripping out at the seams and burn the war might go forever. their draft cards. We ignore the fact we know nobody first-hand who has done this or is thinking about it and start to look askance at all young men, wondering if they all feel the same way. Or we look at golden-agers who ran out of gas before the end of the race and assume they are representative of all golden agers. And so on and so on down through a long list.
We forget the percentages. At any given instant in this country every facet of human misbehavior is in sight somewhere and you people in the news media work 24 hours a day to keep the rest of us informed. Murder in Chicago, corruption in Kansas City, politicians being spit on in Rio, rape in Duluth, kidnapping in Jersey City, street riot in Selma, Kluxers in Greenville, swindle in Philadelphia, bank holdup in Peoria, goof ball gang busted up in Los Angeles, gang war in Seattle, scandal in Hollywood. Is this life? Is this the true picture? Or is the true picture of life where you area place whose serenity rarely is shaken by the bestial*ty and terror that dominate news coverage? Unless you rely on the percentages, it can drive you out of your mind. Is the sky really falling? Is a tidal wave really rolling in? Or are you generalizing things into existence that exist only in reports from afar about things that are unusual even where they occurred or they wouldn't have been news in the first place? COTTON CORNERS UNCLE GEORGE The Editor's Corner The Plight of Vacationing Collegians Last year and this the plight (the word no lar meeting place, or if that were not possidoubt is a trifle harsh) of the college stu- ble a series of get-togethers-for local coldent home for the winter holidays has been lege students where they could relax, swap observed by us at close range, and some- stories and generally communicate with thing should be done about it in Marion.
others who understand their language and We hasten quickly to emphasize that this their problems. piece has not been inspired by any com- The program shouldn't be too organized, plaint from within our family circle, or from because this probably would scare away anyone closely associated with the younger many of them. It should, however, be members of it. uniquely theirs. The fact remains that, for completely exTHERE WAS A TIME, at least in some loplainable reasons, the college student is a when breed apart and once he has gone through were so many holiday calities, there all the standard dances that there wasn't much need for any procedures on a visit home he becomes other activity aimed specifically at college something of a lost soul.
students. In Marion, the Charity Ball annually serves as a reunion site for a sizable WE'RE NOT SPEAKING of summer vanumber of collegians, and this is one of the cations. Over a period that long the student in least, charms of that party. manages, part at to re establish However, the Charity Ball accounts for himself on the home front. only one night.
And, although we have noOn Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, ticed no significant drop in college attendyoung person finds himself ance at that affair, in general dances no however, the transported from the compressed, highly or'- longer seem to have the strong attraction ganized atmosphere of college or university for the college set that they once did back into a way of life that once was famil(more's the pity). iar to him, but now has elements of strange- Much thought and energy go into taking ness. care of the teen-agers of high school and So, after he has brought his parents up to junior high age the year around but the coldate on his progress in college he goes to a lege student home on vacation pretty largebasketball game, calls up old friends and ly has to shift for himself. Up to a point he generally looks for something to occupy the (or she) probably likes it that way, but the time until the vacation ends. feeling remains that we could do a better Very laboriously, because we have no pat job of making the winter vacation homecomsolution to the problem, we come to the point ings enjoyable for our college young people.
of this dissertation -there should be a regu- -Jack Maxwell Press US. GO HOME HANOIS PEKING VIETNAM WASHINGTON PEACE Cheering Section RAYMOND MOLEY Wallace's Hidden Talent It's one of those ironic turns in history that Henry Agard Wallace's contribution to the development of hybrid corn should have helped to undo the heroic efforts he made in the 1930s to reduce agricultural surpluses and to create a problem which has baffled every President and secretary of agriculture in the years since Wallace left the department. I'm concerned here, however, with a bit of a memoir. For I was a contemporary of Wallace during the earlier and happier two years of Wallace's Raymond Muley public career. In the spring of Raymond Muley 1932 Rex Tugwell brought to the attention of candidate Franklin Roosevelt and the policy group which I had assembled a plan which he believed would not only provide material for a campaign issue, but serve Roosevelt, if elected, as a means of stabilizing agriculture.
This was called the domestic allotment plan, and it proposed to raise money, by a processtax, which might compensate farmers who ing voluntarily restricted their production for domestic consumption. WALLACE WAS BROUGHT to Hyde Park to discuss the subject with Roosevelt and those of us who were shaping policies for the camGreatly impressed by the Iowa editor's paign. wide store of information about Midwestern farmers and farming, by his modest demeanor and his dedication, Tugwell and I mounted an effort to have Roosevelt, if elected, name Wallace as secretary of agriculture. In January Roosevelt made his decision and wrote a letter to Wallace offering him the job. When there was no immediate answer, Roosevelt delegated me to secure his acceptance.
I called Wallace in Des Moines and rather bluntly asked him for his decision. There was a long pause at his end of the line, and only after I had repeated the question did he rather gently answer, "Yes." I realized later that Wallace's hesitation was due to the inherent modesty of the man. He realized quite well, from living in the midst of the farm country, what a stupendous task would face any secretary of agriculture in that depressed time, how divided the farmers were as to means of relief and that he would be plunged into a boiling political pot. But he came to Washington and faced the music for eight long years. In retrospect, I believe he succeeded, despite the criticism which heaped upon him at the time and since.
was THE SUPREME COURT in 1936 declared the processing tax unconstitutional, but I believe that the three judges who dissented were right. Wallace, however, welcomed the opportunity to try a new plan of soil conservation financed out of general taxation. -It's to Wallace's credit that the farmers in those eight years led the way to recovery, and their lot was immensely improved later. Wallace except for his scientific contributions, cannot be blamed for the fact that in all the years Facts in Brief A woman's voice alerts B-58 bomber pilots to trouble. At the same time a pilot sees a flashing red light, he hears a pleasant female voice caution: "Check for engine fire" or "Landing gear unsafe" or "The nose is too high." Pilots say the recordings catch their attention fast.
"You might ignore a man's voice but you don't ignore a woman's," one said. The first tourist submarine operated on Lake Geneva during the recent Swiss Exposition. The craft, a mesoscaph designed by Jacques Piccard, took up to 40 passengers at a time to depths averaging 300 feet. It carried 25,000 people during 850 dives. Giant tortoises on the arid Galapagos Islands water from the scant rainfall in neck sacs.
store mariners have been saved from Shipwrecked death by tapping the unusual water supply. The voices of most turtles are at most a slight squeak or sigh. However, the wood turtle of the eastern United States makes a whistling call audible 30 to 40 feet away. The Marion Star 143 N. State Marion.
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at Post Office. Marion. O. under act of Congress March Advertising representative: Shannon Cullen, Inc. ART BUCHWALD The Peace Feelers WASHINGTON One of the trickiest things to recognize in Washington are legitimate "peace feelers" from the enemy.
In a Look Magazine article Eric Sevareid wrote that Adlai Stevenson had told him the United States rejected a "peace feeler" from Hanoi through U.N. Secretary General Thant in August of 1964. The State Department confirmed that the offer had been made, but thanks to Dean Rusk's antenna, which is very sensitive to peace feelers, the U.S. had turned it down. The assistant secretary for the State De- Art Buchwaid feelers in peace partment told me the other day, "I don't know what all the fuss is about.
We've had a lot of peace feelers from the Commies, but not one of them has shown up on Dean Rusk's feeler set as being legitimate." "How do you know when a peace feeler is legitimate or not?" I asked. "We have a peace-feeler evaluator here," he said, taking me over to what looked like a very complicated radio set. "When a peace feeler comes in, we broadcast to Dean Rusk, who picks it up on his counter-peace feeler. This feeler, attached to the Secretary's head, is so sensitive that it can tell within seconds whether it is a sincere feeler or just another lousy Communist trick." "COULD YOU demonstrate for me?" "Well, I don't know if the secretary has his counter-feeler on his head now or not. Let's try it." He spoke into the machine.
"Hanoi told Bulgaria it will meet with American representatives in Geneva." afterward the burden of surpluses has cost so many billions of tax dollars. For the origins of the farm problem were in the first world war, when vast acreage expansion was encouraged by the government to meet the need of feeding a Europe at war. As a public official in those years, Wallace was deeply introspective. He was also profoundly moved by the human plight of the farmers he knew so well. He faced bitter er criticism not only from political elements in Congress, but from farmers he was trying hard to help.
He sustained those attacks with stoicism and a deep belief in the soundness of his ideas. One of his chief subordinates, witnessing his behavior at that time, called him a "mystic." This was not inappropriate, for he had found himself an inner defense in his religion and in his humane instincts. But the measure of his intelligence and knowledge found expession in his remarkable annual reports. IN THE PRESS NOTICES since Wallace's death, the more unhappy history of his stormy years as vice president, his conflicts with Harry Truman and his unfortunate presidential candicacy in 1948 have obscured those earlier years in the Cabinet and also the quiet but vastly useful years since his retirement from public life. The great farm problem is still with us.
But it is to the credit of Henry Wallace that no one in our time threw more light into that dark area. News of Other Years 40 YEARS AGO--Horace A. Saks, well-known Fifth Ave. merchant, died in a New York Hospital of acute poisoning. Elementary grades of the LaRue School were in rehearsal for a Christmas play entitled "Mixer's Dream." Elmore Miller, music director of the school, was director of the play.
Construction was started on the world's largest hotel and amusem*nt resort at a cost of $20 million in Atlantic City. 20 YEARS AGO-Maj. William E. Hadeler, former commanding officer of the 383rd AAF specialized depot in the Scioto Ordnance Plant area, was returned here to take charge after a period at Kerns Army Air Base at Salt Lake City, Utah. Paul Zeman played a stellar game for the Morningside College football team on Saturday afternoons and occupied a pulpit regularly on Sunday mornings at the Trimble Methodist Church in Sioux City, Ia.
A fully furnished, permanently staffed apartment at the top of a historic Scottish castle was given to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower by the Scottish people as a token of their esteem. 10 YEARS AGO-Col. William Spatig of the Salvation Army showed slides of scenes in the Holy Land and Egypt at the Salvation Hall at Richwood.
Miss Jeanne Bibbee of Marion was vocal soloist heard on the Recital Club's radio twilight musicale over WMRN. She was accompanied by Mrs. T. L. Berg.
Earl E. Martin was enrolled in the "two-gallon club" and William Payette, Jack Brookover and Mrs. Maridel Sharp became members of the "one-gallon club" with the Red Cross Bloodmobile unit. There was crackling static and finally a weak voice came over which said, "Turn the offer down." The assistant secretary switched the machine off. "That's marvelous," I said.
"It's almost like extra-sensory perception." "It's the greatest breakthrough we've had since radar," he said proudly. "Would it work for any secretary of state," I asked. don't know. Dean Rusk's feeler is his own. We just built the machinery to fit it." "Is this the only way you people handle peace feelers?" I asked.
"Oh no. For the time being it's the most foolproof, but we have other methods as well. Timing is very important when it comes to peace feelers. For example, when you're losing a war, you've got to ignore them or the other side will get you in a box. The peace feeler from them may be legitimate, but you certainly don't want to take it up with people committing naked aggression." "Then you would only take up a peace feeler when you're winning?" I said.
"NO, NOT necessarily. When you're winning there is no reason to sit down and talk peace because then you might have to work out a compromise with the naked aggressors." "But if you can't accept a peace feeler when you're losing and you can't accept one when you're winning, when can you accept one?" "If I told you that I'd be giving aid and comfort to the enemy." "Do you ever send out peace feelers of your own?" "All the time. The President has said he will talk peace anywhere, anytime, with no conditions attached." "Have they ever picked up your feelers?" "As far as we know they haven't." "Why not?" "We don't know, unless it's because they've got one of these feeler machines of their own." Today in History Today is Saturday, Nov. 27, the 331st day of 1965. There are 34 days left in the year.
Today's highlight in history: On this day in 1889, Curtis Brady received the first New York City permit to drive an automobile through Central Park. Brady had to promise to avoid scaring horses in the park. On this date: In 1746, Robert Livingston, statesman, jurist and member of the Continental Congress, was born. In 1873, the first great tunnel in America, the Hoosac Tunnel in Massachusetts, was completed: work had started in 1855. In 1919, Bulgaria signed a World War I peace treaty yielding territory to Greece and Yugoslavia.
In 1940, Nazi Germany annexed the French province of Lorraine. Ten years ago -Moscow charged that Iran had violated a 1921 treaty with Russia by joining the Baghdad Alliance. Five years ago- Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson and Undersecretary of State Douglas Dillon left London after conferences in Europe on the United States balance of payments problems. One year ago-Belgain forces, rescuing white hostages in the Congo, found 28 more whites massacred; 22 bodies had been found the previous day. Today's birthdays: The late President John F.
Kennedy's daughter, Caroline, is 8. oF cuT 10 Grin and CLAS ARISE Bear It SAvE "You know how mothers worry, Junior When you get back to college, be sure to bundle up warmly while picketing!" 65, Syndicate.
