The Emporia Gazette from Emporia, Kansas • Page 2

Everette Ross Barr, Business Manager. Everett Ray Call, City Editor James Eugene Lowther, Advertising Manager. Theodore Fairbanks McDaniel, Managing Editor. William Lindsay White, Editor and Publisher Set your -affection on things 3:2. Behind the Times US for saying.so, Ir but the drawing of "Cork)'," the cartoon mascot for Kansas State Teachers College is out of date.

Every year the Hornet symbol falls farther behind the times and nobody seems to care. Since the emblem represents a growing, modern school, we would like to propose that it be brought up to date. As most readers can see by the enclosed example, the drawing looks like something out of a 1938 Mickey Mouse cartoon, what with its speckled baggy pants, gossamer wings, Orphan Annie eyes, bulky shoes and those things that look like horns on his head. Probably it would take an act of the legislature or something to change Gorky's looks. Members of the Board of Regents first would have to be consulted to see if they had any objections.

Next, a committee would be needed to come up with a proposed new drawing. This committee should be made up of at least one artist plus sundry faculty members from assorted departments (as is the custom in such things). After that the suggested new drawing would have to be reviewed by a bi-partisan political board to make sure it did not resemble an elephant or a jackass; thence to a religious panel to check for overtones of impiety; finally to a censor for a decency examination. If the new drawing passed all those tests, it then might be offered to the student body for approval. Obviously, anything that was then drawn to the standards of all the official fudges would not, be acceptable to the students, so the process -would have to be repeated.

Perhaps that is why the present drawing of Corky has endured so C. The New. Isolationism These Days By John Chamberlain HIRTY YEARS ago George Washington's advice to his countrymen, to avoid foreign entanglements, found ready takers among people who called themselves progressives. Professor Charles A. Beard, then ihe most respected American historian, was one of them.

As Heywood Brown once described him, "Uncle Charlie" Beard looked like the American bald eagle. He was not temperamentally a dove, but he spoke of America as an island of peace. The interventionists were "giddy minds" who were bent on partisanship. in "foreign To a well- known publicist who said that it was America's duty to become the "Rome" of the modern world, Beard replied that it was the business of America to remain America. The Beardian argument was impressive, and my generation tended to accept it.

We had been disillusioned by World War we knew that New York was not within bombing range of Europe, and we hoped that the Nazis and the Soviets would collide in a mutually destructive war that would let the Western democracies go free. George Washington, we kept saying. to ourselves, was right; the U.S. could afford to reject entangling alliances. But this was before Pearl Harbor.

It was before the days of the Manhattan project. It was before the era of the jet- propelled intercontinental bomber. It was before the Nazis started raining V2s on Britain. It was before Hiroshima. What George Washington would have made of this new world is hardly conjectural; he would have counseled his fellow citizens to build up the power of their nation by any means available, even if it entailed entangling commitments overseas.

THE 'GAZETTE HisStrongest Auy Emporia, Kansas, Tuesday, February 22, You Ban Repeal Lacks Help i In che Ktnsu U. Collegian: A REPEAL of the Kansas Board Regents' -campus cigaret sale ban ever materializes, it won't be because of action by students at some of K-State's sister institutions. -A resolution asking for repeal of the 1964 ban on campus cigaret sales originated in Student Senate here. Senate asked each of the other state-supported colleges and universities for support of its measure. Only two, Fort Hays State College and Wichita State University, have expressed agreement with the resolution.

Kansas State Teachers College, Emporia, indicated disagreement with the resolution; the University of Kansas and Kansas State College of Pittsburg have not replied, a sign neither is in favor of it. Perhaps students at the three institutions really are not favorable to campus cigaret sales. But at K.U.j-for example, a straw poll taken by the Kansan, student newspaper showed most students want cigaret- sales on campus. A leader at K. U.

has, said thf. student governing body has not replied because trie administration there is against sales. The sale of cigarets on campuses, in the. state is We heed it both financially'and practically. But at this point, the ban itself isn't the most important issue.

Rather it's a question of whether students in the state follow the dictates of administration to the extent the dicates aren't questioned. Such students are the same ones, who later in life, follow authority's dictates to their own destruction. When students believe something cannot be done because someone in authority is against their future is in doubtful hands. Smiles Today we celebrate Washington's birthday and let us tell no lies it's too darned cold. An Atchisonian says that if you don't think things are as bad as they are painted just visit a modern art show.

The Russell News advises that a doting father in the office is getting more tolerant about long hair every day as the price of haircuts continues to soar. George Hart has filed for the Democratic nomination for governor. As on many other subjects, the Pittsburg Headlight says there is nothing new to be said. The redbirds and the robins are still hanging around and Empori- ans just hope they know what thy're doing and why. The hardest thing for some people to say in 25 words or less is "good bye," notes the Marysville Advocate.

Luci's wedding in August promises to be a three-ring circus affair. Rolla Clymer judges that while the main performance holds forth, the groom will make high, death-defying dives from the top of the tent. By all odds, he should begin his act early. In basketball at this time of the season, every game is listed as "crucial." E. T.

L. 20 years Ago February zznd, 1946 With the first week of the s-icond semester completed at Emporia State, enrollment had reached 704. The figure at a corresponding; date the previous year was 369. Highest enrollment total for the fall semester was 451. Mayor Ora Rindom called for suggestions to help solve the city's garbage problems.

Partners were rushing the spring season with field and garden work. Three-fourths the planned acreage was planted. was getting un- dVr way; Emanuel Jefferson, veteran Emporia truck that day iimlthfa getting four bushels of onions at his gardens, 324 Carter St. Several Empori- ans had planted peas. Calvin Lambert went to Kansas City to attend the annual dinner of the.

Missouri-Kansas Rainbow Division veterans. The biggest building under construction in or near Emporia was a large brick building on Highway 508 east of the overpass. The building would be used as a new home for Minneapolis- Moline farm implements. Forty Years Ago A movement for a memorial hall or municipal auditorium micrht crsin headway within the next "few weeks and definite action might be taken toward obtaining the building. World Changes Reluctantly, the men and women of my generation, who had come of age in the 20's, gave up on their isolationism.

We accepted the world of the intercontinental bomber and the Polaris submarine. We ceased to quote Washington's warning against entangling alliances. Charles A. Beard, now dead, was still honored as a historian but no longer accepted by us as a prophet. We had capitulated to the new technological realities, and if these realities made it necessary for the U.S.

to become the modern "Rome," then so be it. "peace" that followed World War I was our first disillusionment, and the necessity of forswearing our isolationism was our second. But there was still a third disillusionment in store for us. And Washington's birthday is as good a day as any to air it. For lo! a very curious thing has happened.

The people who were telling us in 1939 and 1940 that we must go to war to stop the march of the totalitarians are now talking like Charles A. Beard. Having informed us in the 30's that it was the destiny of America to be the 'New Rome, they are now warning us that our power is limited. Asia must be left to the Asiatics. There must be "bridges" to Eastern Europe, with the Communists left in firm possession of the toll gates at the eastern end.

There must be no more interference with revolutions in the Dominican Republic, even though Cas- troites might possibly take over. Cuba must be left alone, for it is only a "nuisance." History Unchanged Well, my generation never wanted any part of this business of being the "new Rome," anyway. But history cannot be reversed. We accepted the necessity of containing the Communists at the end of World War II. The containment doctrine means that both Soviet Russia and Red China must be kept from "outflanking the oceans," whether this be in Europe, Africa or Southeastern Asia.

But where are our allies in this? The British and the French have deserted us. The publicists who used to attack Beard are now paraphrasing his old arguments. The men who championed "containment" in 1947 are now preaching "disengagement." If this is to be the end of it all, we might just as well have let Japan take Manchuria and Indo-China. We might just as well have settled for a deal with Brown totautarians in place of Red totautarians. Two world wars will have gone for nothing.

And Charles A. Beard, somewhere in his heaven, will be laughing sardonically. (Copyright, 1966, KinR Syndicate. Inc.) -if -tr Students' Hearing Tested AMERfCUS One hundred thirty-four grade school students and 55 high school students took (lie hcnring test Monday sponsored by the Kansas Stale Department of Health, and held the High School Building. OUR PIVIDED ATTITUDE AT Senator Trades Rides for Favors The Washington Merry-Go-Round, by Drew Pearson HIS COLUMN has underestimated the enterprise of Sen.

Tom Dodd, in solving his transportation problem. He not only drives an Oldsmobile owned by a Connecticut contractor, as previously documented in this space, but he also flies in style around the country in assorted company planes. He commutes regularly between Connecticut and the capital, for instance, in a plane belonging to the United Aircraft Corporation. He also sends his family back and forth via this free transportation, and once he arranged to fly even his pet poodle to Connecticut in a United Aircraft plane. The plane waited for 30 minutes while Dodd's staff struggled' to box "Beau," the poodle, in a crate suitable for air el.

Then company officials, who had boarded the plane and were eager to take off, refused to waste any more time waiting for a dog. The senator was obliged to find other transportation for Beau. But Dodd, if not his dog, is always welcome aboard a United Aircraft plane. For he happens to be a member of the Senate Space Committee, and the company is deeply involved in the space business. For his part, the Senator always seems happy to help any company that flies him around.

In a typical intraoffice memo, a former assistant, Gerry Zeiller, reported to Dodd on May 12th, 1965: "Joe Barr of United Aircraft visited the office yesterday and had with him Bill Dell of United Technology, a subsidiary of United Aircraft. "You will recall that we arranged for a demonstration for united technology of their snap- on, 120-inch solid fuel booster rockets some months ago with Jim Gemrig and the Space Committee staff. "Barr and his associates would now like to see some general language incorporated in the Space Committee report such as I have attached with this memo." Favors for Rides Kaman Aircraft Corporation has also made a plane available to Dodd whenever he needed transportation. For example, his daily schedule for May 16th, 1963, contains this note: "Kaman Aircraft will fly you to Willimantic. The piane will leave from Butler.

Arthur Crosbie will meet you at the Windham Airport in Willimantic. The plane will wait for you in Willimantic and fly you to Hartford." Two days earlier, by an interesting coincidence, Dodd called upon Secretary of the Air Force Eugene Zuckert to urge him to award an Air Force contract to Kaman. Last year the Senator also brought pressure upon Lockheed Aircraft, one of the nation's biggest defense contractors, to grant a subcontract to Kaman. "I have been personally acquainted with Charles Kaman, president of the company, for a number of years, and I know him to Ixj a businessman of the highest integrity," wrote Dodd to Lockheed on May 20th, 1965. "I believe that, if his company is awarded the contracts, the performance of the contracts will be at the usual high standards demanded on any work being done by Karnan Aircraft." When the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee was investigating the drug industry, Dodd suddenly started flying all over the country in a plane owned by McKesson and Robbins, a large drug manufacturer.

Dodd was member of the subcommittee, in a position to influence the investigation. Plush Planes Preferred The Senator was so spoiled by this particular plush plane that he began complaining that another private plane, occasionally provided for him by Connecticut contractor Frank D'Addario, had "no class." Stung by Dodd's contempt for his humble aircraft, D'Addario recently offered to buy a new one. One day he announced to the Senator's staff that Dodd "Can use it any time he wants. It is always at his disposal 24 hours a day." "One of the reasons he likes your plane," commented a staff member, "is that it doesn't have a company label on it." "The new one won't have a company label on it either," promised D'Addario. "We are not interested in having people know who owns the plane as long as Dodd knows who owns it." Lately the senator has been making frequent use of a private Aerojet owned by Thomas O'Neil, Board Chairman of R.K.O.

General. Last Aug. 7th, for example, O'Neil sent his plane to Washington to pick up the senator's son, Tom and a friend. They were flown to Westerly, R. the closest airport to the Dodd country home in North Stonington, where the plane picked up the senator and flew him to New York City.

There Dodd changed places with his daughter, Carolyn, who was whisked back to Westerly. Dodd's files contain an interesting note, dated Oct. 27th, 1964, saying Tom O'Neil had called. "Would you like to use his plane for the rest of the week?" added the note. Exactly a week later the senator wrote privately to "You can't imagine what a wonderful help the use of your plane was to me during this last week.

I want to mention how very impressed I was with your pilot, Corbet Ballard. He is a very fine pilot and was most cooperative and courteous to me." And that's how the senator from Connecticut gets around without paying. (Copyright, 1966, by the McClure Syndicate) Sergeants Have Lems By Art Buchwald HE HONOLULU meeting was a turning point for the war in Viet Nam. President Johnson and Premier Ky spelled out the goals of our commitment there, and these are now being transmitted to our soldiers, sailors, Marines, and airmen. But the indoctrination is going rather slow and the sergeants are having a hard time explaining the new policy.

"All right, you meat heads. We are now going to discuss why we're fighting in Viet Nam. Rosenbloom, why do you think we're fighting in Viet Nam?" "To beat the hell out of the blankety-blank Viet Cong, Sergeant." "No, Rosenbloom, you're wrong. It's to bring social and economic reforms to the freedom-loving people of South Viet Nam. Now, Petrosanni, how will we achieve this goal?" "By killing every blankety- blank Viet Cong we can find." "I'm surprised at you, Pelro- sanni.

We will achieve this goal by winning over the natives through public works, education, and good deeds. You had your hand up, Reilly?" "What do we do with these mortars and flamethrowers?" "We use them to show the South Vietnamese people that we will not be pushed out be the North -Vietnamese. Every time we fire our flamethrowers, we are renewing our pledge to fight oppression, poverty, and disease in Southeast Asia. We can only win this war by getting the confidence of the populace. Now, how do we do this?" "By bombing the hell out of the towns and vlllnges where the Viet Cong are supposed to be hanging out." Explanation Needed ''Exactly, but we must explain to the people why we're bombing their towns ond villages.

How do we explain it, McPherson?" "Beats me." "We 'explain it by explaining tht domino theory. UU the people that, if South Viet Nam falls, then Thailand will fall and then Malaysia and pretty soon all of Southeast Asia will be under the domination of the Communists. What is it, O'Toole?" "You mean the people won't mind their homes being bombed and their rice fields being burned if we explain it to them afterwards?" "Right. Once you put people in on the big picture, then their troubles will seem infinitesimal in comparison. Zwacki, you had your hand up." "Sarge, I would like to know how you teil the good Vietnamese from the bad Vietnamese." "It's very simple.

When you see a native, you yell, 'Nuts to Ho Chi If he fires at you, you know he's with the Viet 'Cong." Plan Falls "That could be dangerous, Sarge. For example, yesterday Condon got all banged up doing just that. He lost his helmet and his rifle and he wound up in the hospital." "What happened?" "Well, he saw this native and he yelled at him, 'Nuts to Ho Chi and the native started firing at him, so Condon fired back. the Viet Cong guy yelled, 'Nuts to and as Condon and the Viet Cong were shaking' hands, a big truck ran over them." (Copyright, 1966, N'ewi- paper Syndicate) Raymond Boline was hostess to eight members of the Social Circle Club Wednesday afternoon. Committee were Mesdamei Perry Putnam, Ross Whittredge, culling; Mrs, Ulmer Williams, MLi.s Maude Milley, courtesy; Mrs.

David Fowler, reporter. Putnam presented the pro-' gram, The March ICth meeting will with Mri. Fowler. The Second Front HEN HE FLEW INTO Saigoh last week, Via Presl. dent Hubert H.

Humphrey carried with him a whole bundle of inspirational proposals freshly minted in the Declaration of Honolulu. Ac the of President Johnson, vHumphrey was charged with the task of publicity launching a U.iS.-backed program of social, economic and political reforms at the rice-roots level throughout South Viet Nam. Characteristically, he took to his -task with over-flowing enthusiasm. On a visit to an experimental animal-husbandry station established with American aid money, he sported brand-iiew pigpen full of Berkshire Blacks, cleared his throat and let, out a Minnesota hog fall. "Hooeee, hooeee," bellowed the Vice, President of the United States.

"That's the best is," he added. Hooeee is a universal lan- in a more, serious vein, he told Newsweek's William Tuohy: "There's a social revolution taking place here. I'm really impressed with what they are doing." TO old. Viet Nam hands, however, Humphrey's assumption that an officially sponsored social revolution was already under way in South Viet Nam seemed arguable at best. And any implication that the Vice President's much-heralded mission represented some kind of break-through in military-political strategy in Viet Nam seemed sighty meretricious.

Indeed, one of the great cliches of the Vietnamese war is that it is more a political, than a military conflict. And everyone from South Viet Nam's Premier Nguyen Cao Ky to U.S. lieutenants out the boondocks has long paid at least lip service to the need to "win the hearts and minds of the. people." Diverse Interests This need stems from a variety of factors. For one thing, South Viet Nam is not really a nation in the modern sense of the word, but rather a congfomeration of 15 million people of diverse ethnic, religious and economic interests.

For another, the country's peasants, who comprise 80 per cent of the population, have never been given any reason to feet a sense of loyalty to the Saigon government. Though most of South Viet Nam's political leaders are staunchly anti-Communist, it often for the wrong reason to the closed social system from which they derive their wealth and influence. This, of course, scarcely commends the fight against Communism to the peasantry especially in view of the fact that since the. end of World War II the Communists have shrewdly fed on the widespread rural discontent by promising a sweeping social To counter the Communist challenge, successive rulers of South Viet Nam come up with a variety of reform measures. Before they were finally, expelled from Indochina in 1954, the French, using U.

S. funds, launched some sanitation projects but these were designed mainly to improve the lot of French settlers. Subsequently, the late President Ngo Dinh Diem set about erecting a string of so-called agrovillcs self- sufficient agricultural towns created by merging a number of scattered villages into larger and presumably more viable economic units. Perhaps the most ambitious of the early efforts was the "strategic ha'mlet" program, a more sophisticated variant on the agroville scheme started by Diem in 1962. This aimed at isolating the Viet Cohg from their source of peasant support by first relocating entire villages behind the wooden walls of fortified stockades, then organizing their occupants into local defense forces.

Though more than 5,000 hamlets were built, the program was a failure because it was pursued in a haphazard fashion. In most cases, no attempt was made at identify. ing and eliminating Viet Cong agents and their supporters, and as a result none of the hamlets was ever secure. After the fall of Diem, the program collapsed and has never been resumed. Aid Program Since then, however, the U.S.

has experimented with a whole series of programs under different "civic action," "nation-building," "pacification." American civic-action teams, for instance, have traveled from village to village, handing out school books, building wells and dispensing medicine. And under one U.S. aid program three years ago, $2 million wat spent to distribute pigs to some 5,000 South, Vietnamese families a source of potential farm income which, however, quickly went up in smoke for free family feasts. The "new" program publicized at the Honolulu meeting was fashioned by Edward G. Lansdale, a retired Air Force major general and former CIA officer, who is now Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge's chief adviser on pacification.

Dubbed "rural construction," the plan is designed to erode the Viet Cong's control of the countryside and replace it with a political base, upon which a strong national government, responsive to the people, can be To accomplish this ambitious goal, the U.S. and South Vietnamese governments have borrowed a page from Communist tactics. Over the past two years, Saigon has trained a pool of 15,000 politically motivated "rural construction cadres." At the expense of the CIA, these men are paid about $25 a month plus a family allowance, and are given a basic ten-week course in military tactics and political action at training in Vung Tau and Pleiku. By the end of this year, the South Vietnamese Government hopes to have 30,000 men trained and ready to go to work in their home provinces. There, they will be assigned by their province chiefs to more than 2,000 hamlets some of which 1 are supposedly already "pacified." Operating in jp-man groups, the cadres' first task will.be to try to' establish a working relationship with the hamlet's existing government.

Next, Political Action Teams will begin organizing the hamlet's defenses by building fortifications, trenches and warning systems. While this is going on, Civil Affairs. cadres will organize groups of four to ten families into "interfamily" units, and New Life Development Teams will survey the need for repairs to houses and canals, arranging loans to finance the work. The key to the success or failure of the rural construction effort, however, will be the so-called Census Grievance Team. After surveying a hamlet and plotting each house on a map, this team will begin its real work of "population control." Every ten days, each adult member of the hamlet will be interrogated in a private booth by a member of the.

team. He will be asked such questions as which government officials he likes and dislikes, what evidence he has of corruption on the part of officials, what changes he would like to made. More important, he will be systematically quizzed about the Viet Cong how often they visit the hamlet, who' cooperates with them, when they plan their, next attack. Trie hope is that once the peasant see that something ii actually being done about their grievances, they will become increasingly cooperative in exposing Viet Cong agents and their sympathizers. Pro-Vict Cong villages will offered the chance to renounce their ties or act as double agents.

If tlir.y to cooperate, they can, in the last resort, be denounced to the Viet as government agents of otherwise Nevertheless, some. Americans in Viet Nam' remain skepri- cal To begin with, they doubt that pacification can be made to work except in areas where U. S. or Vietnamese Government troops have unchallenged military control. And even in such areas, it is' hot always possible to assure the safety of'thoie who cooperate with the government; in one group of villager near Da Nang, a small Viet Cong assassination squad managed oca intimidated long after the held ostensible conttol of the area.

-In Newftweek.