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Evening star., 1960-12-26
A New Form of IsoIotionism?

really quite so "notorious?"
Are these ancient lands where
modern freedom was born
really more notorious" than,
say, the Kremlin agents who
have an undeniable part in
all these African "independ-
ence" movements?
And if they are-though
surely only a mind bemused
by slogans could actually be-
lieve this-are they not then
too notorious" to be ac-
cepted longer as faithful
allies? And if so, where will
we find the troops and fleets
to replace those of Britain
and France for the common
safety against Soviet i'm
perialism? From an "in-
dependent" Algeria? From a
liberated" Congo?
But was France really
notorious" in the long agony
of Nazi occupation? Or was
she only the first victim Of a .
marauding force which the
West at first was powerless
to resist because the West
had listened too long to the
Borahs of that day? Was
Britain notorious" when left
alone under Nazi bombs be-
cause of a Western weakness
created by parochial isola-.
tioniSm?
Will Church of Idaho, in
his honest zeal, become the
Borah of this generation,
righteously separating West
ern-world sheep from West
ern-world goats so that the
last, inevitable winner will
be the Russian bear as once
it nearly was the grisly Ger
man eagle? 1t might be. so.
For Church is very likely to
ascend now to the chairman
ship of the Senate Foreign
Relations Subcommittee on
African Affairs.
Evening star., 1960-12-26
POTOMAC FEVER
By FLETCHER KNEBEL

The Government reports the cost of living increased
again The only thing expensive than keeping up
with the Joneses is closing out with the Republicans
Walter Heller. Minnesota economist is Kennedy's
economic chief An economist is fellow with graph for
every disaster come Heller high water.
Amy and Moe two space mice WHO orbited last fall,
become parents Even outer is for the popu
lation explosion.
Harry Truman says Gen. Macarthur wanted to use
A-bombs Korea denies it, These fellows remind
of the election No does open his mouth than
the other demands q recount.
Holiday bipayer's ode: Christmas year.
a circumstance oughta cheer.
Kennedy confers with Kenneth Galbrah Harvard pro-
fessor keeps raidng his old schools faculty Har
will have to- put in for Federal relief depressed
Evening star., 1960-12-26

INDIANAPOLIS. Dec. rs
(AP) The United States Golf
Association this year permitted
use Of motor powered carts In
a national tournament for the
first time.
One result was the with
drawal Of the defending cham
pion, j: Clark Espie. jr., from
the USGA Seniors amateur
tournament. Another was sew
eral thousand locker room ar
guments still going on.
The whole question OF soft
ening rules and regulations,
under any conditions whatever,
came to focus when the 6l-
year-old Indianapolis adver-
Using executive walked of the
Oyster HarborS Club course,
Osterville, Mass, last Septem-
ber.
Espie had won the Seniors
twice and had been runnerup
once. He had qualified solidly
with a 70.
Rain washed out two days
of the tournament and officials
ordered two rounds Of match
play September %, the first
time the seniors ever had been
required to play more than lS
holes in one day. Use Of carts
was authorized. contrary to
published conditions Of the
tourney.
Espie Walks Out
Espie refused to defend his
championship against a cart
riding field and went home
Mike Sestone, a retired mail
Evening star., 1960-12-26
WILLIAM S. WHITE

Twenty-odd years ago it
was Borah of Idaho who led
our isolationiSts against any
acknowledgements" with the
tricky" and "colonialist"
British.
Now. from the very seat
of old Senator William E.
Borah, a man young enough
to be his grandson, 36-year-
old Senator Frank Church of
Idaho, is developing a new,
unintended form of isola-
tionism of an equally high
minded kind.
It may be as difficult to
combat as was the old. For,
again, it has ready appeal
to the emotional and mis-
sionary strain within us. The
Mountain West seems some
how to produce politicians of
decent purpose-and with a
way of so simplifying
world problems as to produce
the very last thing they
want, a free West weakened
in its stand against all total
itarianiSmS.
While Hitlerism was ris-
ing in the '30s Borah. from
his powerful post in the Sem
ate Foreign Relations Com
mittee, fought every effort
to meet that evil realistical-
ly. And he sometimes felt he
knew more about German in
tentions than Presidents.
His great influence - he
was an able man of hon.
orable purposes. as is Church
Evening star., 1960-12-26
A MATTER OF INTEGRITY
Cart Rule Still Irks
Senior Golf TitIist

carrier Of the minimum age Of
SIS. won the tourney on foot.
Espie's golf philosophy is we'll
known. For years he has stood
up in State and national golf
meetings. opposing such things
as eliminating the stymie and
repairing green's before putting
out.
He amplified his stand today
in this statement:
MY philosophy regarding
the rules Of golf began to take
shape shortly after I had fin
ished my first round at old
Sherokee in Louisville, KY, in
1928.
MY thoughts then-and they
have never changed-were that
here was a game which closely
parallels the game of life itself.
I'm the game of golf. you
were your own referee. and
obeying the rules as they were
laid down was a matter Of
honor and integrity on the part
Of each individual.
Deterioration Feared
II felt that the same was
true, as you walked among your
fellow men each day with
Gods commandments to guide
you.
! Making exceptions to the
rules in either game to suit
your own convenience can only
lead to moral deterioration. "
Espie said comments to him
about the oyster Harbors in
cident mostly have been favor
able.
Evening star., 1960-12-26
DAVID LAWRENCE

NOT only are there more
Communist spies In the world
today than ever before. ac-
cording to j. Edgar Hoover.
director of the FBI. but the
infiltration by Communist
agitatorS in this country is
increasing.
Many people have been
pooh-poohing the Commu-
mist menace and unwittingly
helping the cause of commu-
nism in this country. The
theory that communism Is
Just a belief" or the doc
trine of a political party
which happens to differ with
other political parties. is be-
ing widely accepted-even by
the majority Of the justices
Of the Supreme Court Of the
United StateS-but the truth
is that it's a political organ
ization which is financed. di-
rected, assisted and engi-
neered by a foreign govern
ment which is hostile to the
United States.
The tendency to regard
the "cold war" as of secon-
Diary importance and as per-
mitting open tolerance Of a
Communist Party Is one of
the biggest factors in the
present situation. A "cold
war" is hardly different from
a shot war" in requiring 100
per cent alertness against the
enemy.
Lately there has been a
drive on to cripple the House
Committee on Un-American
Activities and the Senate In
ternal Security Subcommit-
tee-the only two congress
sional groups which con-
stantly expose to public view
Communist operations inside
the United States. The agi-
tation to abolish the House
committee has had the as
sistance Of gullible Ameri-
cans who think they are
merely fighting for the cause
Of "free speech" But FBI Di-
rector Hoover says:
"The Communists hope to
repeat the success which they
achieved on the West Coast
last May in spearheading
mob demonstrations by col
Evening star., 1960-12-26
FBI Chief Warns Of Youth Operations.
Particularly Among Church Groups

lege students and other young
people against a COMMITTEES
Of Congress"
Riot charges against the
demonstrators in San Fran
cisco were dismissed by q
local Judge for practical rea-
sons" but he has just de-
clared in a. comment made
over the week end that his
action should not be con-
strued as condoning what
happened. He added:
II very definitely agree
with the view Of FBI Di-
rector ]. Edgar Hoover that
the City Hall riot May l3 was
instigated by Communist sub
versives."
The FBI director not only
warns against Communist
infiltration Of the youth
movements in this country
as has happened in other
countries-but, in recent arti-
cles that appeared in Christ
tianity Today" he points out
how the Communists are try
ing hard to inflltrate Amer
lean churches. He writes:
From bases behind the
Iron Curtain and in the nom
Communist world, this cloud
of Communist propaganda is
drenching many lands. with
a particularly heavy fall-out
in this Nation.
THE deadlieSt Of these
Communist missiles - whose
warheads are exceptionally
heavy are being directed
against the Christian pulpit.
Communist gunners. with
special theological training
and schooled in atheistic per-
versity, are sighting in the
clergy-hoping TO shatter, i'm
mobilize and confuse this
powerful forum of idealism.
morality and civic virtue. No
assignment is more strategic
in the Communist world to-
day than the disruption Of
the church Of God - both
within and outside the Iron
Curtain.
THE Communist Party,
through infiltration tactics, Is
attempting to reach inside
the churches. In one instance,
Evening star., 1960-12-26

cut to our reserve equipment, "
he said.
The Queen watched the tele-
cast from her country home at
Sandringham, in Norfolk
County, where she spent Christ
mas Day with most of the royal
family.
Evening star., 1960-12-26
Priest Killed for Aims

TEPIC, Mexico, Dec. 26 (AP)
"A Roman Catholic priest was
bludgeoned to death a few
minutes after he finished cele-
brating midnight Christmas
Mass. Police blamed the attack
on thugs who they said robbed
him of aims he had collected
St the service.
Evening star., 1960-12-26
AFRICAN REPORT
Sierra Leone Goininq
independence Slowly

amounts to about $l2O million
diamonds. iron ore and palm
products account for 80 per
cent by value Of all exports).
its annual budget runs about
$50 million. and more than
IS per cent Of its population
is illiterate.
But Sierra Leone's past gives
its leaders a sophiStication far
out of proportion to their
country's wealth. They are
proud Of their ancestors role
in bringing civilization to West
Africa. They are proud OF
their traditional loyalty to and
association with Great Britain.
They assert that Sierra Leone
will stay in the Commonwealth
after independence and they
hope that their country will
continue to exert an intellec-
tual influence on African al
fairs. They find themselves out
Of sympathy with the erratic
fiamboyance OF Ghana's
LNkrumah and in step with the
moderate policies OF Nigeria's
Balewa.
Leading Figure
The man who will be re-
sponsible for charting Sierra
ILeone's course, Prime Minister
Sir Milton Augustus Strieby
Margai, oddly enough is not
a member of Freetown's Creole
aristocracy.
Sir Milton. a pipe smoking
64-year,old who physically re-
sembles Gandhi. is a bush
man." as the Creoles call the
people of the interior. He was
the first tribesman to attend
Fourah Bay. the first to qualify
as a physician, the first to
be knighted.
Sir Milton made a name for
himself by saving the lives oi
hundreds of women and chill
dren through his successful,
efforts to modify the rite oi
female circumcision (his sue
cess was largely due to the fact
that, unlike most white mis-.
sionaries, he did not try tt
stamp out the practice bu
worked through the women!
secret societies to see that ny
genie methods were used).
He then helped to start thu
first newspaper in the interio
and founded the Sierra Leon'
Peoples Party, the first politica
) party in the country not domi
mated by Creoles, as the de-
scendants Of the freed slave'
, are called.
Today the SLPP holds TO pc
cent of all elective Offices Of
national, provincial and mu
, nicipal levels.
Elected to the national as
sembly in 1851. Sir Milton be
) came a cabinet minister II
j 1858, chief minister in 1854
5 and prime minister this veal
! His party, which is solidl
= backed by the leaders Of tn
4 country's 13 tribes (who hol
6 "a per cent of the national as
{ sembly seats as a reward fo
their loyalty. controls Al G
: so seats in the legislature.
s Eight other legislators, rep
n resenting splinter parties, hav
d Joined with the SLPP to forr
e a coalition government Qeav
J. ing only a one-man parlia
d mentary opposition) which
e expected to last for severe
d months after independence.
/, After that, 1t is difficult
S say what will happen. Tr
country's two major tribes, tt
d pugnacious Muslin Mendes an
It the tter-educated Christia
y Temnes, are not overly fon
of each other.
.e At the moment Sir Milto
} (who is a Temne) has achieve
" a nice If precarious balance
l. dividing his IS cabinet por
s. folios equally among Temne
j. Mendes and Creoles.
There is also the question
lie Brother Albert. Hlbert Mars'
Evening star., 1960-12-26
IsroeI Clears Official
In Security Mishop'

the unfortunate episode was
carried out without his knowl-
edge"
Evening star., 1960-12-26

is necessary to know a little Of
the country's past. For the past
is very important to Sierra
Leone.
Hanno the Carthaginian. so
it is said, filled his water casks
FIVE centuries before Christ
from the clear streams Of this
saucer-shaped land Of golden
beaches, dripping rain-forests,
and red, eroded hills nestled
between the Atlantic and the
republics of Guinea and Liberia
The British, the French and
the Dutch fought for Freetown's
magnificent harbor Cthird larg-
est in the world after Rio and
Sydney with victory going to
the first.
Founded by Ex-Slaves
In 1887, the British packed
ISL freed Negroes into a ship
and dumped them on the beach
near what today is Freetown
To serve as Founding Mothers
of the new colony, the British
police emptied Plymouth's jaili
and taverns Of prostitutes.
Most of the ex-slaves, the
prostitutes and their mulattc
offspring were killed by natives
or fever within a few months
But reinforcements arrived ir
the persons Of American Negro
slaves who had run away from
their masters to fight on the
British side during the Revolu.
tionary War.
Later these were Joined BY
several shiploads of Barbado!
Negroes who had rebellec
against their British owners.
The population Of the littl'
colony jumped each month al
the British Navy's anti-slaver!
patrols dumped Negroes freec
from the holds of slavers ontt
Freetown's beaches.
Out Of this unpromisinl
material there blossomed q
Victorian Anglo-African societ!
Of such culture that mel
called Freetown "a blacl
Athens"
Set African "Firsts"
BY 1899, when Ghana ant
Nigeria were still virtually un
known, Freetown had Africa
first mayor, town council, an
newspaper. BY 1927. Freetown'
Fourah Bay College, whicl
was to be West Africa's onl,
university for more than
century, was teaching Gree
and Hebrew to earnest blacI
scholars.
Sierra Leone produced Afr
cas- first bishop (Freetown
still the seat of the Anglica
Archbishop Of West Africa an
its first black knight. When tn
British need African soldier
administrators, teachers, an
clergymen to pacify. civili2
and administer such backwar
places as Ghana and NigeriI
it was to the Sierra Leonear
that they turned.
Today. Of course, Ghana an
Nigeria are far more importar
than Sierra Leone, and the
will remain so.
Sierra Leone (the nan
means mountains of the lion
is small-about the size (
New Hampshire. Massachl
sets, Vermont and Rhode i
land combined-and has a pol
ulation of only "a million.
ITS total foreign trac
Evening star., 1960-12-26
AFRICAN REPORT
By SMITH HEMPSTONE, JR.
Contributing Writer

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone, Britain's most
ancient and loyal" West AfrS-
can possession, is moving with
measured and dignified steps
toward its April independence
date.
To understand the character
of this still unborn nation. 1t
First nf Iuo Arkicles On Siarra Leone
Evening star., 1960-12-26

First Of Two Articles on sierro Leone
Evening star., 1960-05-15
Continued From Poge rs

News of the Japanese partys reception by
President Buchanan and Secretary Of State
Cass was rushed by pony express to San Fran
cisco, whence it was dispatched by ship to
Japan. In the pouch, no doubt, went copy of
President BuchananS warm greeting to His
Imperial Majesty the Tycoon of Japan" ex-
pressing the hope that the first U. S.Japanese
treaty would be ''the harbinger of perpetual
peace"
Autograph hounds evidently we're as great
a nuisance 100 years ago as they are today.
One of the japanese, who had been leaning out
his hotel window, signing autograph after auto
graph, finally fished pocket vocabulary
book" out of his pocket, fingered through it for
an English word, and blurted: Tired"
The Japanese had EngliSh-speaking inter
prefers, but the Presidents remarks we're
translated first into Dutch and then into Japan
ese, presumably because of the fluency in
Japanese of Dutchman in the party.
One of the fascinating aspects of Washing
ton life for the alImale Japanese party we're
the American women in their hoop skirts. Har
Evening star., 1960-05-15

per's Weekly reported that the men were mot
Indifferent to the smiles of beautiful women"
They soon took to poking the wOmen's hoop
skirts just to see them sway.
At crowded White House reception, one
of the Japanese backed into "a well-known
lawyer . . once the Attorney General of the
Commonwealth of Virginia" who was noted
for the rotundity of his person no less than
his hearty good humOr."
The Japanese turned to apologize to the
man. identified only as Mr. F.F.V.," noticed
his "rotundity' and gently pushed finger into
the Virginian's tummy. He drew back in mock
surprise and exclaimed in understandable
English, Solid"
The highranking japanese party did ac-
complish its purpose however of establishing
friendly relations with official Washington.
II lasted for some 81 years, until Pearl HarbOr
day, 1941. Last January 19, President Eisen-
hover and Prime Minister Kishi undertook to
launch longer period of peace with the sign
ing of treaty of mutual security and cooper
atiOn-in the same historic East Room setting.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1960-03-17
First Fatality
Continued from page one

the hospital we're Myron D. Gull
er, "a; James Warner, 20; Donald
Sharp, 80, Of Akron, his wife
Tress:e, 81, and their son, Jim
ME, 10.
The Sharp family was enrout
to West Virginia to attend tbs
funeral Of a relative. Their "a
according to Sheriff Donald Con
away, the investigating official
apparently hit an icy spot on the
highway and slid into the Haga
car which was northbound.
The injured were taken to the
hospital in the McVay ambulance
and the volunteer fire depart
ment emergency squad of Cald-
we'll.
Sharp'S body was taken Friday
afternoon from the Bundy fu-
neral home in Cambridge to the
Adams funeral home in Akron
for funeral services.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1960-03-17
Chief Executive
Continued from page one

in recent years.
Robert S. Ralston is now serv-
ing as c. of c. president and this
will be his last official meeting
Prior to the April 7 dinner,
ballots will be mailed out to all
members Of the organization and
they will be asked to vote on a
new board of directors. The bal
lots will be returned at a speci-
fled time, tailed and the new
members announced at the an
nual meeting. 1t is expected that
the new officers will also be
named at this time.
Robert Ralston is the retiring
president; Bobby Miller. vice
president and Charles Meek,
secretary.
The present board of directors
include: NJ. A. Brienza, Clifton
Elliott, c. j. Estadt, John Hazard,
K. M. Leighton, G.. NJ. Parks
Walter Quick and Joe Yontz.
Tickets will go on sale next
week for the annual dinner on
April 7.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1960-03-17
Advisory Health
Council! Meeting
Held In Caldwell

The Noble county board of
public health advisory council
met in Caldwell, Monday, for
their annual meeting.
They elected Chester Howiler,
mayor of Caldwell, as president;
Mark Rossiter, Center township
trustee, vice president, and Dean
Oliver, mayor of Symmetrical,
secretary. This will be divers
second year in this capacity.
The mayors and trustees of
Noble county that make up the
health board are as follows:
Chester Howiler, mayor of Cald-
we'll; Felix Arnold, trustee of
Jefferson township; Redmond
Archer, mayor of Sarahsville;
Bill Wickham, trustee for Marion
township; Mark Rossiter, trustee
for Center township; Glenn Gar
win, trustee of Sharon; Dewey
Caldwell, trustee of Brookfield;
Dean Oliver, mayor of Summer
field, and Everett Bircher, of
Summerfield. Stanley Osler,
county auditor, is also a men,
Der.
The advisory council to the
public health board recon-
mended that Mr.. Bircher be the
new member to replace Kendrick
Marquis whose term had expired.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1960-03-17
New ACp Practice
Ok'd For Area

A new practice entitled Con
trolling Competitive Shrubs" has
recently been approved for S
in Noble county. According to
John H. Carter, chairman of the
local ASC committee, this new
practice has been authorized for
the purpose of removing COM
petitive shrubs to permit growth
of adequate desirable Vegetative
cover for soil protection on pas
ture land.
Carter stated that the practice
would be applicable only to areas
where practice (A-2), establish
ment of permanent vegetative
cover, will be carried out to pro-
vide a desirable permanent vege-
tative cover.
Federal cost-sharing for the
performance of this new practice
is as follows:
(a) so percent of the cost,
not to exceed $500 per
acre, for removing growth
up to IL inches in dia-
meter with heavy duty
brush cutter.
(b) SO percent of the cost, not
to exceed $1,000 per acre,
for removing heavy growth
by grubbing, by bulldoZer,
or by other heavy equip
ment.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1960-03-17

IS designed to speed up the field
canvass and provide more accur-
ate statistics. Distribution of this
form before the start of the
hOuSe-to-houSe canvass gives the
family a chance to assemble in
formation about each member in
advance of the census takers
visit. The district supervisor
urges all residents to fill out
the form and have it ready for
the census takers when they
start their rounds on April /.
The advance report form con-
tains seven questions about every
person in the household and six
questions about the households
dwelling. The household informa-
ton asked for is name, address,
sex, color or race, month and
year of birth, whether married
or single, and relationship to
head of the household. The in
formation required about the
dwelling is the number of rooms,
cooking facilities, plumbing and
whether rented or owned.
At every fourth household, the
census taker will leave a census
household QUESTIONABLE which
are being asked of a 25 percent
sample of the nations popula-
ton. Householders are requested
to fill out the household ques-
tionnaire and mail it within
three days to the local census
district office. A pre-addressed,
postage free envelope is being
provided for this purpose.
The sample" population ques-
tons include inquiries on country
of birth, mother tongues of for
eign born, schooling, employ
! ment, income and related items,
The additional housing questions
relate to rent or value of dwell
ling, heating equipment, water
, upply, and other facilities and
luipment.
The district supervisor pointed
1ut that information about in
ividuals and their homes fur
ished to the census bureau is
Kept confidential under federal
aW. Only statistical totals and
lverages are published. No in
lividual person can be identified
n published reports and census
information cannot be used fOl
regulation, investigation, OF
taxation.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1960-03-17
Stray Dogs
Continued on page two

commune" VII pfSN wv
already been purchased but has
been lost, the owner should check
with the auditors office in the
Noble county courthouse.
Thompson was bitten by a
stray dog Friday at the Dexter
City school when he attempted
to capture it. He had received a
complaint on the animal and it
had been tied up waiting for his
arrival. The dog broke loose and
when Thompson attempted to
grab it, he was bitten on the
right hand.
The warden received treat
ment for possible rabies from DR..
Fred Cox, of Caldwell, and tests
were made on the canine, which
had to be shot, but they proved
negative.