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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-13
ReoL Missile Gop

First there was the bomber gap"
According to Democratic spokesman
few years back the Russians were as
sumed to have the capacity to build
more long-range bombers than the Eli
Senhower administration was planning
to build. Thus, said the Democrats, the
United States was gravely threatened.
But the Russians didn't build the bomb
erS.
Next it was missile gap" And this
coming year-1963-was supposed to be
the year of great peril for our country.
The Russians, said the Democrats, would
be far ahead in ICBMs, capable of rain
ing nuclear destruction upon our cities.
Not until after Mr.. Kennedy had
been safely elected did the tune begin
to change. Gradually, the people were
told by succession of Democratic
speakers that the United States enjoyed
overwhelming superiority. And now the
British Institute for Strategic Studies
comes up with some specific figures.
The West according to what must be
eStimates) has from $50 to 500 inter-
continental balliStic missiles, the Com
muniSt block has rs plus. In long-range
bombers, the figures are: the West, $50;
Communist bloc, 200. Only in the me-
dunn lover 1000 miles, range missile
category do the Russians have Signifi-
can't advantage-700 to $50.
If these figures are substantially
accurate, several conclusions are indi-
Gated. First, frightening forecasts based
on estimated capability as distinguished
from actual production may pay polit-
1cal dividends, but they are unreliable.
Second, since medium-range nuclear
missile based in Cuba would be about as
useful against the United States as an
ICBM based in Russia, Mr.. Khrushchev
had an obvious and powerful incentive
to take the great and dangerous gamble,
which he has now lost Finally, whatever
the exact figures may be, the security of
the West rests squarely on the great
nuclear superiority of the United States.
Let's keep it that way.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-13
THE POLITICAL MILL
Now It's Hiss Versus Nixon
By GOULD LINCOLN

Had the Political Obit-
uary Of Richard M. Nixon"
been produced before last
Tuesdays election the former
Vice President might now be
governor-elect of California.
Furthermore, if anything
was required to justify Mr..
Nixon's charge that some
newspaper and broadcast
commentators have been I'M
fair to him, the obituary"
produced the necessary proof.
The American Broadcasting
Co. and its commentator,
Howard K. Smith, put on the
program.
1t is amazing that a con-
victed perjurer, Alger Hiss,
was given a prominent spot
on this program to belittle
Mr.. Nixon and to try to sub
stantiate charges by Mr..
Nixon's political enemies that
the former Vice President
was always actuated by de-
sire for personal gain. AS a
member of the House IN
American Activities Commit
tee, Mr.. Nixon played a major
part in the investigation
which brought about the
trial and conviction of the
former high official of the
State Department when he
was indicted for perjury in
connection with charges that
he had supplied Government
documents to the Com
munists. Never since that
time have the so-called eli
berals" who resented Mr..
Nixon's activity in the
Hiss case relented in their
attacks on Mr.. Nixon. Nor
have some important Demo-
Gratis whose Judgment of the
Hiss case and the charges
against him made them look
foolish when Hiss was tried
and convicted.
An effort was made by the
producers of the Obituary"
to justify the use of Mr..
Hiss to defame a man who
had served his country well.
Mr.. Hiss in his comments on
Mr.. Nixon said he believed
he had no feelings of per-
sonal animosity toward the
man who helped put him
behind bars.
Speakers For and Against
To give Mr.. Nixon's side Of
all the controversy over his
campaign methods, the "obit-
uary" included statements by
Representative Gerald Ford,
Michigan Republican and a
close friend of the former
Vice President, and by Muir
ray Chotiner, a Los Angeles
attorney who managed many
of the Nixon campaigns. In
addition to Mr.. Hiss, the an
tagonists of Mr.. Nixon on the
program included former
Representative Jerry Voorhis,
a Democrat, whom Mr.. Nixon
defeated in his first. try for
political office in the 1916
congressional elections. Mr..
Voorhis, head of the Ameri-
can Coop League, said that
during his campaign against
Mr.. Nixon he was confront
ed with a clever sort of in
nuendos..I was represented
as being a hand-picked can
didate of certain organiza-
tions, which, incidentally
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-13

Nine guided missile Sys-
TENS now have been devel-
oped for use with the fleet,
both for attack and defense.
This has been announced
by Adm. j. A. Japp, head of
the Development Program Di-
vision of the office of Naval
Research. Under development
for about a decade they con-
stitute, he says, "a revolu-
ton in naval armament.
Each of the systems has a
capability far exceeding any,
thing thought possible be-
fore the Korean War"
He describes the new sys-
TENS in a report issued by
the Office of Naval Research:
"Regulus, a omb-carrying,
swept-wing, jet fighter air.
plane piloted by electronics,
rather then a human being.
We have this missile in five
submarines and two of our
cruisers. 1t has a range of over
500 miles and can be installed
in a short time at relatively
low cost.
"Asroc, a surface -to-under-
water rocket torpedo fired by
surface ships. 1t is projected
through the air to a target
area and, upon water entry,
becomes an acoustic homing
torpedo which seeks out and
attacks its submarine targets.
Other Weapons
"Subroc, a guided-missile,
which is fired through a tor
pedo tube of a submerged
submarine, flies through the
air to the vicinity Of a tar
get, re-enters the water and
finds and kills the hostile
submarine. 1t can detect a
submarine at long range,
compute its course and speed,
and automatically fire with
the high probability Of a hit.
"Bullpup, intended to give
close air support to the Ma
rines, 1t is a reliably de-
signed air-to-surface missile
to be used against relatively
we'll defended targets such as
pillboxes, tanks, truck con-
voys and bridges. 1t has a
rather long range, permitting
delivering aircraft to remain
outside the range of enemy
ground fire.
"Sidewinder, specifically
designed to destroy high per-
Torrance enemy bombers and
fighters. 1t seeks its target
on the heat emitted by the
aircraft. Several times it has
flown right up the tailpipe
of a jet-powered target air.
craft.
Sparrow, flying at twice
the speed of sound and
changes direction as circum-
stances dictate"
Other attack missiles are
the Tartar, Terrier and Talos.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-13

never did indorse me, and
their philosophy was attack
ed as being Red-tinged. The
philosophy which guided Mp.
Nixon's politics was the
general philosophy that the
way to win is to tear down
ones opponent in every way
one can. Never by quite fall
styling but coming very, very
close to it."
Mr.. Chotiner's reply to this,
and to charges that Mr.. Nix
on had used such tactics in
his race against Mrs. Helen
Gahagan Douglas for the
Senate in 1850 was: "I am
satisfied that nothing was
ever done by Mr.. Nixon or
any one in his campaign who
had any authority to act,
that would be considered an
unfair tactic. The only thing
that was ever pointed out
against Mrs. Douglas was her
voting record, and if that was
an attack on her, of course,
she had no one to blame but
herself"
Challenge Never Answered
In a summation at the
close of the program, Howard
K. Smith brought up the Oft
repeated charge that Mr..
Nixon, in his campaigning
had called President Tru-
man, Adlai Stevenson and
former Secretary of State
Dean Acheson traitors" or
"disloyal" or both. The Dem
ocratic National Committee
was never able to produce a
quote from Mr.. Nixon to
prove these charges. Former
Republican National Chair
man Leonard w. Hall Of
fered to give $1,000 to any
one or any charity, if Nixon
opponents could produce such
a quote. He was never called
upon to live up to his offer.
In his campaign speeches,
Mr.. Nixon did charge that
Mr.. Truman and others had
had the wool pulled over
their eyes by, the Commu-
nists: that they had been
guilty of blindness in connec-
ton with the Communist
threat of infiltration in this
country. He on several occa-
sions said fatty he was not
accusing any one of disloyal-
ty. 1t is easier to defend
oneself against a charge Of
disloyalty than a charge Of
shortsightednesS - and that
made Mr.. Nixon's charges
all the more offensive.
Mr.. Nixon, who served his
country we'll as a Congress-
man, a United States Sena-
tor, and as Vice President
and as an ambassador and
observer for the President in
many foreign countries has a
record of which he and his
family can always be proud.
He has said he is out of po-
litical life to stay. Even now
his detractors, including his
recent opponent, Gov. Pat
Brown of California, say
they do not believe him. Who
continues to smear whom?
Mr.. Nixon, with his great
ability and knowledge of gov
ernmental problems, will be
a real loss to this country IL
he is not asked to serve
again. ..a. t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-13
God and the Computer

In his recent speech at the dedica-
ton OF Georgetown UniverSity's science
center, Chairman Glenn T. Seaborg of
the Atomic Energy Commission made
number of excellent points. Among
other things, he set forth a good ex-
ample of how engineers and technicians
are helping the world to cope with the
vast accumulated learning of centuries
past, and with the almost incredible
torrent of new knowledge that is con-
Stantly pouring into the mind of mod
ern man.
This knowledge, indeed, is being &C
quired at such speed and in such volume
as to make man seem in danger of be-
ing overwhelmed by his own smartness
and articulateneSS, of suffering an acute
and possibly fatal attack on intellectual
indigestion-a mortal incapacity to
absorb, Synthesize, correlate and make
wise use OF the almost boundleSS amount
of facts available to him. This is an
ever-growing problem whose signific-
ance can hardly be exaggerated. But
DR.. Seaborg has put it into somewhat
reaSSuring perspective by pointing to
such developments as the following:
There may seem to be little, if any,
connection between theology and the
electric computer. Yet the computer Is be-
ginning to make its contributions to this
complex and subtle field of thought. The
complete works Of st. Thomas Aquinas in
cludes approximately Is million words. A
complete concordance or index to the words
in all his books would be of great USE It
Noc hnARl Arks I'll AIaa&
concordance would take so scholars some
40 years to complete by hand in the old
traditional way. By the use Of the newer
machlne-proceSS1ng such concordance
could be completed with about one-fortieth
OF the time and effort. l.. Such program
Is currently under way =.
Here is fact that tends to inspire
hope. 1t makes one feel that man-de-
spite the indeScribably tremendous vol
ume of facts that he has yet to digest
or SyntheSize will somehow, before
1t engulfs him, manage to command
and comprehend all the astoundingly
proliferating information within his
reach. And beyond that, of course, what
must be prayed for is that his awesome
knowledge will be so wisely applied to
the everyday life of the world that our
race, maintaining an appropriate degree
of humility, will survive and keep on
advancing, always with the realization
that humanity is not God but merely
His creation.
Only God, after all, is omnipotent
and omniscient, and down-to-earth man
cannot presume to play His role with
out inviting the risk of being destroyed
in an inutterably sad and altogether fl
nal tragedy for our kind. With this in
mind, peoples of all faiths, or lack of
faith, on both sides of the Iron Curtain,
have reason to listen we'll to Pope John 5
appeal for peace and to his warning
about the Last Judgment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-13

within AID resented it when Mr.. Ham
ilton was given the job instead of Henry
r. LabouisSe, who had done well in the
preceding aid administration.
Now Mr.. Hamilton is stepping aside
to give his successor an opportunity to
take up the new budget requests. Mr..
Hamilton probably did as well as any
one could do with this difficult task.
Both he and his successor deserve SYM
pathy and best wishes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-13
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
Navy Expands Guided Missile Might
By THOMAS r. HENRY

The latter is the largest and
most expensive of the guided
missiles and can be used eff
fectively both against ships
and targets on shore. 1t is
designed, in fact, for almost
any type of enemy target.
+ 4 + \
An atom smasher Of radi-
cally new design, capable of
producing very intense beams
of high energy electrons, now
is in operation at a labor
atory of the Midwestern Uni
versities Research Association
near Stoughton, Wise.
The development has been
supported by the Atomic En-
ergy Commission, the Office
of Naval Research and the
National Science Foundation.
1t has just been reported to
the National Academy of Sci
ence.
Inside the machine a mag
netic field produced by huge
electromagnetic guides cleo
irons around a circular path
within a doughnut-sh shaped
vacuum tank. They are &C
tolerated to 100000 cleo
iron volts by a radio fire.
quency electric field, a wave
of energy that carries them
forward much like a surf
board.
Operation Explained
Two beams of electrons
= travelling in opposite direc-
lions can be held simultane-
ously inside the machine. The
magnetic field is shaped in
such a way that particles of
all energies up to 100000
electron volts can simulta-
neously find just the right
fields to bend them around
inside the accelerator without
striking the walls of the vac
uum tank.
This gives the new acceler-
ator its most unusual feature
= beam-stacking. One group
of electrons, called a
bucket" is accelerated to
full energy and then left to
circulate while other buck
cts" are accelerated. Sixty
times a second new buckets
or electronS are accelerated
to the maximum energy and
stacked, adding to the pre-
vious groups. BY this means
an intense circulating beam
Of electrons is formed.
Physicists of the associa-
ton are convinced that with
further experimentation in
the same field very much
higher energies can be pro-
duced.
The present accelerator is
the result of work extending
over four years and 1t re-
quired the aid Of a large digi-
tai computer to work out de-
tails.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-13

I cannot refrain from add
ing my voice to the many
who have commented on Mr..
Nixon's statement to the
press on November Z, be-
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-06-29
Getting Worse

public schools. The logical question is:
How far will the U. S. Supreme Court
dare to go in its control of this govern
ment supposedly for free people.
The Bible should be read in all schools.
Prayer should be taught in all schools.
Atheism has no place in America, even
if there are those who have a right to be
atheists, which we concede. Man is in
capable of governing himself. Only
through the power which man can re-
ceive through an Almighty God is he
able to progress in a free society. Take
God away, there is no freedom. Take
Christ away there is no hope.
Senator Willis Robertson of Virginia
has suggested 1.-THE adoption of a joint
congressional resolution repudiating
the Supreme Court decision outlawing
prayer in public schools" Other o n
gressional leaders propose an amend
ment to the Constitution clarifying the
issue.
We trust these men are not just talk
ing but will take appropriate action to
protect this nation, and not submit
supinely to the decisions of this Su-
perme Court. The time is at hand when
Congress must assume its duty and
preserve the Constitution and our Re
public. No one else can do it.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-06-29
To Editor
Praise Hospital
And Medical Care

Editor, Farmville Herald:
To the Southside Community
Hospital and its entire staff 1
express my appreciation, and
offer a word of praise for its
ministry in our community. l
am sure no hospital anywhere
has a more devoted corps of
nurses and help than Southside.
They were so kind, so courte-
Gus and s. helpful in their min
iStry to me while l was there.
To those who served SO well in
every way my deepest appreci-
alton.
Our community can we'll be
proud to have such a hospital,
and to offer its services to all
who need them.
| also have a word of praise
and appreciation for the doctors
in our community. They are the
kindest, the most efficient, l
have known. Each individual is
treated as a friend. not Just a
patient who is helped and for
gotten.
l extend an especial word of
thanks to DR.. Coppedge and DR..
Munoz for their ministry and
care during my stay in South
side Hospital. These doctors are
new in our community, and we
are most fortunate to have
them. Their ministry and effici-
ency cannot be praised too
highly. .".
I should also like to thank all
those who came to see me, who
sent cards and flowers, and
whose prayers helped me
through a most difficult time.
May Gods richest blessing rest
upon you all.
Yours in appreciation
Mrs. George Schmidt
Farmville
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-06-29
Communists Rattle Swords

RED China is building up military
forces on the mainland across from
Formosa, the stronghold of the Nation
alist Chinese under Chang Kai-chek.
The United States is obligated to pro-
tect Formosa. The Seventh fleet has
moved into position. Yet, our State de-
partment makes it known to the Red
Chinese that this nation will not sup
port Nationalist China in an attack
upon the mainland.
Red China is an ally of Red Russia.
Nikita Khrushchev, dictator of Rus
STA, has made continuous threats against
the United States and the free world.
1t is we'll known that Mac Tse-tung,
Chinese ruler, itches to make war upon
the United States and her allies.
In Laos, in South Veitnam, the
United States is giving aid military
aid to governments fighting off Com
munist attacks and infiltrations.
K%hrushchev fears Mao Tse-tung, and
if he can bring hostilities to China and
the United States, nothing would please
him more.
Joseph Alsop, a syndicated columnist
enjoying the favor of the Kennedy ad-
mlnistration, has been warning against
appeasement Of Red China. Alsop in
a recent column wrote:
The alternatives in China are beginning
TO narrow to this kind radical but peaceful
change of leadership or an eventual violent
CONFUSION. Sentimentalists in WASHINGTON
and elsewhere in the u. S. are meanwhile be-
ginning to talk Of feeding starving China"-
which would simply mean getting Mao Tse-
tung off his self-created hook.
There is considerable solid evidence that
the Russian Communist Revolution was saved
from laundering and famine by former Presi-
dent Herbert Hoover and his Quaker Relief. It
will be past bearing if the same role is PLAYED
in China by Justice william O.. Douglas and
other of his kidney.
The State Department instead of
keeping Mao guessing announces that
the United States will not support
Chang Kai-chek in an attack on the
mainland. Meanwhile, Mac rattles the
sword in our direction.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-06-29
D. Workmen
ETC Scores Macy's

'Tain't fair, says the Federal
Trade Commission. for a big de-
partment store like Macy'S to
shake contributions out of its
suppliers for a birthday blowout
The birthday in this instance
was Mays Tooth anniversary.
and the huge New York store
put the bite for contributions
for the occasion on the supply
ing firms it buys from.
This was no little bite, either.
For the suppliers - $50 of them
were asked to kick in $1,000
apiece for the celebration. About
582 firms actually did ante up
the money.
This sort of business, the ETC
has ruled, is an unfair method
Of competition" Macy's request
also placed an improper burden
on the suppliers, who were
UNDERSTANDABLE concerned over
keeping up their ties with the
mammoth department store.
Although the record does not
show that Macy's buyers exerted
any overt pressure on the SUD-
pliers. the pressure was there,
nevertheless. Any firm doing
business with an outfit of Macy's
size would think twice before
turning down a request. no mat
ter how it was worded, that it
cough up a donation to the ami
versary celebration. The fact
that some suppliers we're not in
a position to ladle out that sort
Of money seems not to have
helped them = for the request
for 1000 was uniform.
But the Trade Commission did
not stop with commenting ad-
versely on the pressure tactics
used by Macy's. The ETC said
that the scheme also constituted
an unfair practice with respect
to Macy's competitors.
In asking for (and receiving,
gifts of money, the ETC said,
"Macy'S shifted to its ven
doris a substantial portion of its
own advertising and promotional
costs. i.e., the costs of promot-
ing Macy's as an organization.
It was able to do this because
OF its size and importance.
Stores competing with Macy
purchasing from the same ven
doris could not similarly shift
promotional costs, and so were
to that extent at a substantial
competitive disadvantage"
Again, the ETC frowned on
what seemed to be an effort Of
Mays to throw its weight
around by virtue Of its sheer
size:
If it is contrary to public
policy for a large buyer. by rea-
son of its size. to secure dis
proportionate advertising allow
ances, clearly public policy is
contravened in the exercise of
economic might to obtain out
right gifts or donations"
The Commission also pointed
up the irony of a situation which.
II allowed. would permit a re-
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-06-29

taller to solicit cash donations
without any promise of return
benefits - whereas donations
now cannot tbe solicited where
benefits, such as advertising ad-
vantages, are offered.
There was no argument from
the Federal Trade Commission
over the fact that a Tooth ami
versary was a unique and un-
usual event. But the ETC wrily
noted that department stores
have no difficulty in finding other
events of especial significance,
and in using them for sales pro-
motion campaigns.
For example. if such a prac-
tice were allowed for a Tooth an
niversary, why wouldn't the
same practice be approved for a
50th anniversary, or even a 25th
or a 10th?
This business of leaning" on
suppliers has long provided head
aches for government agencies,
and has brought about stringent
regulations covering the conduct
Of government purchasing.
Macy's may be due a clean
bill of health insofar as motives
are concerned. But it is healthy
for the commercial world to have
this sort of practice exposed and
cenSured.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1962-06-29

After paying the postage due on a 2
cent postal card sent us last week we
found it was from the Old Timer. He is
heading back home after spending the
winter with different relatives in Iowa
and a couple of other states. 1t seemed
rather evident that he had run out of
relatives "They offered me a job in a
feed store here" he wrote, land the
man said he would pay me what | was
worth. l wouldn't work that cheap for
anybody"