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tlt Four THURSDAY. APRIL II IMS. WATERLOO DAILY COURIER WATERLOO IOWA mion I1" Report Growing Reaction Right-Wingers Attack Disarmament Editorials Iowa Should Call Halt to Longer Trucks See Hazard In JFK's Commission ney of New Orleans, publishers "Independent American," have put out two tax-fact leaflets titled, "Exposing the Appeasers' Plans to Destroy the Army, Navy and Air Force of the U. S. and "Save Our Skybolt Have Plans Been Made to Surrender the U.

S. to the Soviet Union?" Texas seems to be the real hotbed of opposition to disarmament, however. Rep. Walter Rogers got so much mail against disarmament that he prepared an answering statement which he headed: "This Country Is Not Going to Be Disarmed," To quiet alarms and fears, he points out that any United States disarmament must first be approved by congressional majorities or, if submitted in the form of a treaty, by two-thirds of the Senate. Control and Disarmament Agency." A Memphis, "Committee for the Prevention of Disarmament" is circulating a statement from ex Congressman John Rousselot charging that disarmament is all part of a Communist conspiracy which he traces back to 1955.

He declares that the RS-70 slowdown and Skybolt abandonment by the Department of Defense are the latest acts in this conspiracy. "Free Enterprise," a Chicago monthly tabloid for which former Secretary of Agriculture Erza Taft Benson writes a front-page column, devotes a full page in its latest issue to blasting State Department publications on disarmament. OTHER RIGHT wing news letters are taking the same line of attack. Kent and Phoebe Court arm the United States of America. Arms would be transferred to the United Nations and we would come under the authority of a United Nations dictatorship." The broadside goes on to charge that disarmament would mean that the Declaration of Independence would become obsolete, the American flag would become a second-rate banner, Congress would be reduced to the authority of a state legislature in a world government, and the World Court would supersede the United States Supreme Court.

OTHER MOVEMENTS are scattered, but noisy and growing. A "Republican Committee of 100, of New York, calls on President Kennedy and Congress to "dissolve this constitutional Arms repeal of the 1961 act of Congress creating the U. S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in the State Department NOW UNDER Director William C. Foster, this agency was given a $6.5 million first-year appropriation to promote peace.

It is asking $15 million for the coming year. About $10 million of this would be for research on nuclear explosion detection and verification of arms destruction, if disarmament ever comes. This request for more money has given opponents of disarmament a new line of attack, as an economy issue. But a group of Republicans headed by Rep. Craig Hosmer of the Joint Atomic Energy Committee is concentrating on opposition to the proposed test ban treaty as a United States national de fense measure.

And Rep. James B. Utt has introduced a resolution to abolish the Disarmament Agency, which right wing groups are increasingly in favor of doing. Misundersta i and misrepresentaation are major factors in the rising campaign against disarmament efforts. THE MOST vicious attack has come from a Citizens Congressional Committee of Los Angeles.

It is a Gerald L. K. Smith Christian Nationalist Crusade offshoot run by Charles E. Wine-garner, who married Mrs. Smith's niece.

Its principal mailing piece, which has been showered down on Congress, is a poster headed "Treason Treaty." It begins: "The President of the United States has approved a proposed treaty which would completely dis BY PETER EDSON Newspaper Enterprise Assn. WASHINGTON, D. A drive against disarmament and a nuclear test ban treaty with Soviet Russia has sprung up in various parts of the country as the newest conservative cause. This move is regarded in part as a counteraction to "Ban the bomb!" crusaders such as the "Women's Strike for Peace" a group which has been pestering Congress and picketing the White House. But the principal right wing objective seems to be A Conservative View: legitimate interests of the trucking industry.

But as long as the highways particularly Iowa's dangerous and narrow highways remain multi-use thoroughfares, there must be some way to bring to a halt the ever-increasing length and weight of trucks. The technique of the trucking industry is to obtain a break-through on longer truck combinations in one state and then tell a neighboring state that it is going to lose trucking business or is hostile to the trucking industry because it won't grant the same exten-, sion. Once such an increase has become nationwide, the industry starts over again with the same technique and the states never manage to get together on saying, "This is where we stop." BACK IN 1935 the maximum length of truck transports was 47 feet in Iowa. That has now been increased to 60 feet; and already the proposal is made for a permissive 65 feet. Certainly an official of the Highway Commission has every right to state his views; and Schach is more a spokesman for the broad public interest than Crowley.

The Courier raised no objection when the legislature increased the maximum length to 60 feet; but we emphatically object to the permissive increase to 65 feet. The legislature ought to make plain to the trucking industry that it will not vote to exceed the recommendations of the American Association of State Highway Officials. This is the only way that a uniform policy can be enforced. EARLIER THIS year both houses of the Iowa legislature passed a bill to increase the maximum length of truck transports loaded with vehicles from 50 to 60 feet. The ink was hardly dry on the signatures on this bill before another was introduced to permit the Highway Commission to issue annual permits for an additional five feet of "tolerance" in such combinations.

This in effect would increase the maximum length to 65 feet. CARL SCIIACII, commission planning engineer, was asked his opinion of the bill. He pointed out that the trucking industry had been accusing Iowa of being a road block to trucking because the maximum lengths here were lower than in states to the east and west. "Now," Schach pointed out, "comes an attempt by these interests tcThave Iowa lead the parade for longer vehicles longer than those which will be recommended by the American Association of State Highway Officials for a national uniform policy." But, according to news reports, L. E.

Crowley, executive secretary of the Iowa Motor Truck Association, criticized Schach for his statement on the bill. "The trouble is with the administrators," he is quoted as saying. "I'm getting tired of them trying to run the State of Iowa. They are doing too much dictating. I think the legislature should make the laws.

We have good legislators who know what they are doing." The Iowa public will defend the Is State and Local School Setup Doomed? By MORRIE RYSKIND ONE BY ONE, the citadels of freedom fall; and the col-lectivists swarm over the land much as the German Pan- zer divisions swept througn France in or pirate or robber baron-has one great advantage over the old one: he has achieved an aura of respectability his predecessor could never hope for. And again it is his deft use of language to conceal his thoughts and aims that makes the difference. William H. Vanderbilt, son of the doughty commodore, has gone down to ignoble fame because he once snapped at a reporter, "The public be damned!" Hardly the way to win friends and influence awaMV 3 World War II. And the greatest weapon in the arsenal of the Establish-ment is its superb use of 8 a ics.

Mi 5 j. i aaiul 1 fcN h-icJ iia.ivisiasiiwi niwrMMm I mi i iiii-aaiBftsitMMrnfca you and he are not simpatico, you go to Dr. whom you like. There is a human element, even in medicine, that outweighs everything else. AND THE FACT remains that there are doctors who live by the Hippocratic oath but there are also gougers and quacks.

There are highly honorable lawyers but there are shysters, too. There are noble ministers but there are occasional Elmer Gantrys. And that goes for educators, also. There probably isn't a man alive who doesn't loo it back with genuine affection on some of the teachers' public school to college wh a made a lasting Impression on him. But there are.

God knows, teachers who are un-fit to teach and some who don't even know their sub-: jects. What do we do in that case? We may hope for action as long as we can go to the school board in our local district, just as we can go to the local Bar or Medical Association to voice a complaint. That way we can present our case, if any, and get a hearing. IT WAS a grass-roots revolt at the local level that forced a revaluation of teaching methods when astonished parents were discovering that Johnny couldn't read. Phonics is back not because the meth-odologists wanted it, but because the public demanded it.

No, we must retain at the local level the right to protest. Otherwise we get back a form letter from a Washington bureaucrat which says, after you've decoded the gob-bledegook, "Letter received. Contents noted. So what?" The public's been damned long enough, Dr. Hutchins.

I'm all for keeping the 50 states and the 40,000 school boards. (Associated Preu Fhotofax) Multiply by 1,000 for Tax Bill Adopting the Hutchins Orwellian technique of New-speak. it has changed the significance of words so that white means black and black means white except on special occasions when white means green. Confused as Pavlov's dogs when the dinner bell no longer brought dinner, we fall like ripe plums into the enemy's lap. THE MOST notable victory of the invaders was, beyond any doubt, their capture of the word "liberal" which now flies brazenly over their forces instead of the more conventional skull and crossbones.

For thousands of years, that once noble word had been used to designate those who fought against the tyranny of absolutism, whether that of a monarch, a church or any other human institution, and reserved the right to be guided by conscience rather than by a monolith. From such men and women came our concepts of individual freedom and limited government; but we cannot call them liberals today, because now a liberal represents an advance agent for a monolithic government. In the old days, we would have termed him a feudalist. BUT THE NEW feudalist- Note the refinement with which one of the greats of the Establishment says the same thing. Here's Robert Hutchins, one of the original Whiz Kids he became president of Chicago U.

at the age of 30 on a national problem: "The American experiment of leaving education to 50 states and 40,000 school boards is drawing to a close. Federal aid to education, formally and on a massive scale, is inevitable, and the sooner it comes, the better." DR. HUTCHINS prefers the English system. "They turn their children over to the teacher to be educated in the same spirit in which they turn them over to the doctor 5 be cured. The teacher is regarded as a professional person, with the same kind of professional knowledge, authority and standing as any other profession." But we don't since Medicare is not here yet just turn our children or even ourselves over to anybody who has a license to practice medicine.

We pick and choose and even shift and change for various reasons: sometimes our reasons are wrong, but freedom implies the right to be wrong. Dr. A. may be the finest medico in the world, but, if is seeking in new state revenue, it would take a stack of 20s which would be 1,000 times larger than the one pictured. Thursday, however, the House dropped the committee bill in favor of a $40 million tax boost.

STATE TREASURER M. L. Abraham-son, deep in the inner recesses of the vault in his office, contemplates the size of a stack of $20 bills it takes to total $65,000. But to equal $65,000,000, an amount the Iowa House Ways and Means Committee in succeeding years on new construction because of the burden of carrying the old bonds. THE IDEA of buying something now and paying for it later has become an accepted American habit.

We concede that early completion of the interstate system in Iowa is a very pleasant prospect. But Iowa in 15 years may have road needs which cannot now be foreseen. A bond burden would eliminate flexibility in meeting those needs. That is why we think a bond program for highways is not the right solution. It makes hardly more sense than issuing bonds to pay for snow removal.

For highway construction must be almost as continuous an effort as maintaining the highways once they are built. Strictly Personal Harris: Every Man A Liberal View: Pearson: Red Army Is Growing in Influence Road Bonds Are Costly Method THE IOWA Senate this week voted down a 1-cent increase in the gas tax and then voted to authorize the Highway Commission to issue revenue bonds to accelerate construction of highways particularly the interstate system. Issuance of bonds for important public improvements is often justified, particularly when the improvement represents a "one-time" investment in so far as a single generation is concerned. But the construction of roads is not a "one-time" improvement but a continuous process The vast increase in the number of vehicles and the miles they are driven has made many new highways over-congested almost from the day they, were completed. MOREOVER, big spurts in highway construction during one period with a decline in the next increase road costs because equipment and manpower of construction firms is not continuously employed.

Bond issues thus tend to put on the shoulders of future motorists the highways we drive on today. It could easily be demonstrated that Iowa would have better roads at the end of a 30-year period under a pay-as-we-go program than under a bond program involving the same dollar expenditure. Under the bond program, Iowa could have excellent interstate highways and freeways in 10 years but would then fall behind Hkitrloo Dmln onxkv sisst tit tsaasas VOL. 105-NO. Cedar Falia Banner established 854 Moved to Water-' loo nd name changed to Courier L)c.

ita 18M Waterloo Reponei la 1IM4 and Waterloo TrlDune in Ml merged eiU) Waterloo Courier Ail rignta to use ol the name Courier, Reporter and Tribune retained by W. Hartman Company, publisher Publuned daiiy except Saturday by the Hartman Co Courier Birfg Curner Parke Ave and Commercial EL Telephone Branch Exchange ADame e-aiil Bane subscription prices: By carrier per week SOe; man UJ lows, per rear Li 00 by mall outside iaarat oer year (22 00, special servicemen's rate ianjr where' per year lle.OO Second Claaa Postage Paid at Waterloo. Iowa By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON, D. C. The diplomatic channels of the Vatican are probably the The Public Speaks Tells View On School Bus Issue contribution all private schools make to our entire country, bus rides would be granted.

Our constitution grants us the right. Please, Mrs. Saylor, allow us the same rights bus service for our children. MRS. WALLACE BENTLEY Route 2 best -informed in the world, which was one bus with yours.

We pay the same fare. No one minds too much when federal grants are paid to things we do not approve of. Why gripe when local funds pay for safe transportation of children? You would still be ahead. If you lived too far from your school and no bus service is available, you would be paid for taking your children to school. Why not permit me to deduct the cost of mine from my taxes or reimburse me for transportation cost.

If everyone understood what reason lor Would Be Peninsula By SYDNEY J. HARRIS PURELY PERSONAL PREJUDICES: It is easy for us to believe, with Donne, that no man is an island; but each of us privately believes, at the same time, that he ought to be a peninsula, jutting out ahead of the rest of the mainland. No person has a right to scorn the pomp of the world until he past Ameri 4 can proposals to send a U. S. ambassador the Vatican.

1 Only 28 per cent of the electricity produced in the United States is used in homes; industrial users consume 48 per cent. Information I missiles out of Cuba. DURING THE HEIGHT of the Chinese-Soviet tension, some Kennedy advisers urged him to drive a further wedge in the Communist rift by making concessions to Khrushchev. They argued that Khrushchev needed something to show right wing opponents that his policy of moderation worked. Therefore Kennedy was advised to lower U.

S. demands for nuclear inspection or to work out a settlement of Berlin. The advisers who urged such a course included the ex-governors Adlai Stevenson, Averell Harriman, Chester Bowles, et al. The President, however, hesitated. And after Feb.

15 it apparently became too late. By that time the pendulum had reversed. The Red Army seemed to have regained its influence inside the Kremlin. Itransm i 1 1 through these LAIVJ to listen to the Red Army. In Washington there is evidence that the Kennedy administration, listening to the vocal right and ignoring the olive branches from Khrushchev after the Cuban crisis, may have missed the boat.

Certainly it missed a definite chance to drive a wedge between the alliance of the two great Communist powers Red China and Soviet Russia. THE CURRENT negotiations over Berlin are a case in point. Today, the Soviet has informed the United States in diplomatic, but nonetheless definite, terms that nuclear arms placed in the hands of the West German Army will be considered in the same light as Russian missiles in Cuba were considered by the United States provocation for war. If the West German Army gets nuclear weapons, it has been made clear, the Red Army will move. channels doubtless was Pearson DENNIS THE MENACE l(t has tasted it and rejected it; the premature cynicism of the young is so unattractive because it has not yet been exposed to the temptations it dismisses with such arrogant idealism.

THE ONLY trouble with "enlightened self-interest" as a guiding role of personal conduct is that in in part behind the Pope's Easter encyclical sternly warning the world that mankind must either learn to live together or prepare to perish together. The Pope went further in proposing the machinery for world understanding and even world government than the Catholic church has ever gone WATERLOO To the Editor: Yes, Mrs. Saylor, I do select a parochial school so my children may have the added advantage of a religious training. I lay no claim to a superior education but it is certainly equal. Do you know what parochial schools save over public school systems in salaries alone? I think per-pupil cost in elementary grades is about $300.

Take my school, St. Mary'3. I have two attending, with a savings of $600, transportation extra. There are two in Columbus High, another $600. You understand I do not pay all of this.

That credit goes to the wonderful sisters and priests who teach. Our lay teachers are paid more. Our sisters and priests are paid less than any cleaning lady earns. They spend many hours beyond the regular teaching requirements. School districts and we members owe a tremendous debt to these dedicated people.

I am deeply grateful. I imagine if the private schools in this area were to turn over around 4,000 children to the public system next September it would be necessary to place all children on half-day schedules. Perhaps not, but it would place a tremendous hardship on most taxpayers. ALL I ASK is that my children be permitted to ride the What Do ulhh It tfle factors You Think? any real crisis the self- Harris interest extinguishes the enlightenment. How blessed are the comfortable bromides of the ignorant after listening to the strident pronouncements of the half-educated! Nothing gives one such genuine superiority over another as not having that other's needs; the one who does not need status or popularity or luxury is basically freer and higher than those who desperately covet such things; and is not what we call "sainthood" precisely the superiority of happily doing without what the rest of us so anxiously contend for? ui'imiu int; ruyK aidim, one of the reasons for his stern but stirring message urging the world to strengthen the machinery for peace.

The Courier welcomes letters from readers on any subject of general interest for "The Public Speaks" column. Letters should be brief. They must be signed and the right to edit is retained by the Courier. Readers are asked to limit their contributions to one letter a month. SIMULTANEOUS with this stirring encyclical have come alarming warnings that the time for better understanding between the East and West may be running out.

These ominous evaluations are based on rumblings inside the Communist world, plus indications that the extreme right in the United States, which favors war, has captured control of the Republican party. Inside the Communist world there is considerable evidence that Nikita Khrushchev, who has preached the futility of war, has now had Three Leaaeo Wuea AatuciatedPreae member or assooatelTpress The Associated Preei ta entitled exclusively la the ure lor republication of ail the local nesve published la thia newspaper as well aa all AP newa dispatcher All r.fnis of republication of aJJ special dispatches are suae reserved MEMBEfl AUDIT BUREAU Of CIRCULATION II not the Intention of the management to Insert fraudulent or misleading advertisements and the right reserve to eliminate aucft parte of copy aa are cot dniasihie nnaer the ruies of paper or mil any advertising oppnaed to ouoiw policy or the policy of the fxrve or that eerrirg us any way to Influence the con duet of trie paper Special kinde sf advertising are refected altogether IMMEDIATELY after the Cuban crisis, bitterness between Moscow and Peking seemed to reach the breaking point. The Peking People's World, organ for the Communist Party, poured abuse on Khrushchev, calling him an appeascr and a "man of Munich." The Chinese radio called him a coward, berated him for pulling Russian YOU'RE NOT REALLY middle-aged until the prospect of a good short midday nap is more enticing than that of a long night's sleep. The greatest (and last) skill in playing bridge is knowing when to pass; only the experts have mastered the art of saying nothing at the right time; and so it is in every human pursuit and relationship for the duffpr invariably fails by neglecting the rule of silence. Representatives Brooks A finiey Use of unmarked cars and policemen out of uniform to catch speeders is not a new device, but goes back to 1902.

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