Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 239, Decatur, Adams County, 10 October 1962 — Page 11

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Grave Doubts Over True Neutral Laos

By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst American military advisers departed from Laos this week, victims of their own high ideals, defeated by away of life understood too late. It had been the American belief that, given the aid (approximately S3OO million since 1955) and their soldiers the propoer tools, the Laotians themselves would rise up in defense of their freedoms and turn back a Communist tide sweeping down from the north. But it was a belief that reckoned without the people of this lotus-eating land of Buddhist temples, flame trees, palms, rice-padr dies and day dreams. A gun in his hand gave the Laotian no will to kill, nor to defend his land, of which there always had been plenty, nor to preserve away of life which always had existed and always would. American advisers were convinced that man -for - man the American - trained Laotian forces were the equal of the Pathet Lao led by the Red Laotian Prince Souphanouvong. Advise, Not Command But with disaster closing in, the Americans could advise but not command. The Communist leadership operated under no such handicap. Communist North Viet Nam poured in 10,000 hardened and trained Viet Minh troops to support the Pathet Lao. And, if defense of freedom would not induce a man to fight, the Communists had other arguments vouched for by Americans who saw them in action. The Viet Minh permitted the Pathet Lao no retreat. An advance involved the risk of being shot. Retreat made it a certainty. In the final days offrustration, just before the Geneva agreement which declared Laos neutral, this correspondent talked with American military men in Laos, as well as with ambassadors and government officials of neighboring Thailand. Officially, there was guarded optimism that Laos could become truly neutral. Privately, most expressed grave doubts. || Lesser of Evils Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman of Thailand said it was only a lesser of evils, and that if neutrality worked at all, it only would be because the United States and Russia guaranteed it. Os this, too, he expressed grave doubts. Only Russia-, h e said, could guarantee withdrawal of the 10,000 Viet Minh troops, and he doubted that Russia could force its will upon Red China. Others believed the Soviet Union

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at least would make the attempt. To fail, they said, would mean Russia would forfeit the chance of agreement on other bigger issues, nuclear testing, disarmament and Berlin. Avtar Singh, Indian chairman of the International Control Commission,b ell eve d the United States was taking a necessary but calculated risk. The extent of that risk daily becomes more apparent. The control commlsfion has recorded the departure of more than 800 Americans from Laos. It has no similar record of the Viet Minh who now are free to join the fight in South Viet Nam or move against the border of Thailand for a new campaign of subversion and infiltration. Attorney Says Walker Action Violated Law By LYLE C. WILSON United Press International WASHINGTON (UPI) — There have been some second thoughts on the abrupt imprisonment of former Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker under conditions denying him bail. Second thoughts because the conditions were changed. Walker was bailed during the weekend at half price. So there were second thoughts in official Washington as well as among editorial writers here and there. The point is raised that Walker waived preliminary bearing when he was arrested in Oxford, Miss. He had been told that he would be tried in that state and reasonably could have expected that he could be freed pending trial under r easonable bond. Such was not the way it came about. The government put a SIOO,OOO tab on Walker and within 24 hours cooped him in a mental

Protestants Watch Council At Vatican

By LOUIS CASSELS United Press International Protestants will follow the work of the s econd Vatican council, which opens Thursday, with almost as great interest as Catholics. They share Pope John’s hope that it will “modernize” the Catholic church and remove some of the obstacles in the path of Christian unity. Even if the actual reforms decreed by the council turn out, to be as disappointing as some pessimists (both Protestant and Catholic) are now predicting, this historic meeting already has made important contributions toward a better climate of Protestant-Cath-olic relationships. The very fact that the Pope saw fit to call together all oi the world’s Catholic bishops to discuss “renewal” of the church made a deep impression on many Protestants. It has helped to counteract a widespread Protestant image of the Catholic church as an institution under one-man rule

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institution where he was Ineligible for bail, whatever the amount. Moreover, Walker was committed to a mental institution on the findings of a psychiatrist who never had examined him and by a judge who never had seen him. Released on Ball Walker's lawyers were winding up to compel the Kennedy administration to defend such arbitrary imprisonment of a U.S. citizen when the question became moot, as the lawyers say, because the bail came down and Walker was released. He still must subject himself to mental examination to determine if he is fit to stand trial. But the administration moved fast to prevent Walker from becoming, a martyr to slick judicial procedure. Robert Morris is one of Walker’s lawyers. In his syndicated newspaper c olumn, Morris remarks that when a federal judge ordered Walker into the mental institution, the prisoner was not in the judge’s jurisdiction. Further, Walker had no lawyer present at those proceedings. * "It was a clear violation,” Morris wrote, "not only of the (Federal) statute but of General Walker’s rights under the Constitution. Thus General Walker becomes the first political prisoner in the United States. The Walker case involves a dangerous precedent.” Could Happen Again The burden of Morris’ argument is that if it could happen to General Walker, it could happen to you or to me. The answer to that argument, obviously, is that it would not happen to either of us unless our enthusiasm tor a given cause very considerably overcame our judgment in supporting it. Walker is charged on four counts of serious crime related to sedition and insurrection. The general contends that in O xford he merely was peaceably assembling as the Constitution guarantees him the right to do. The government says it has witnesses who will testify that Walker incited the Oxford mob to riot. The courts must decide whether Walker is, in fact, guilty as charged. If he is guilty the government should and probably will throw the book at him. There must h ave been others in and around Oxford, Miss., however, who were insurrectionists and seditionists equally with Walker. Not just the college kids and rednecked hoodlums who rioted but others, in the higher echelon of the rebellion.

and immune to self-criticism or reform. In preparations, for the council, the Vatican has demonstrated an unprecedented degree of concern for the feelings and convictions of the “separated brethren.” It is well known that all major Protestant communions were invited to send observers to the council, and that all but one (the Baptists) accepted. What is not so widely known but perhaps more important is that Protestants were invited to submit ideas and suggestions for the council’s consideration, and that many have done so. Liaison between Protestants and the council is being handled by a new Secretariat for Christian Unity, under the leadership of the highly respected Cardinal Bea. This secretariat gives Protestant churches, for the first time in 500 years, an official channel for friendly and continuing communication with the top levels of the —,

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Catholic hierarchy. The Pope has announeed that the secretariat will become a permanent Vatican agency. "Even if nothing else comes out of the council besides Cardinal Bea’s secretariat, it will be a real gain for Christian unity,” says one leader of the Protestant ecumenical movement. Many Protestants are hopeful that the council will give encouragement to the strong movements already under way in the Catholic church; To give the laity a more prominent role in church life, to place greater emphasis on the Bible as the source of Christian doctrine, and to make worship more meaningful to participants. Candidates To Make Plea To Big Business By EUGENE J. CADOU United Press International INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — The two candidates for U. S. senator will appeal to “big business” for support at a meeting of directors of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce at French Lick, Birch E. Bayh, Jr., the Democratic nominee, will speak Thursday on “Federal Governmental Problems As I See Them.” His GOP rival, Sen. Homer E. Capehart, wil tackle the same subject Friday. There will be no encore for the fantastic, face-to-face debate encounter of the two candidates at a Sigma Delta Chi meeting in Indianapolis a few weeks ago which almost resu Ited in fisticuffs. Ideas Far Apart The two rivals are as far apart as Evansville and Angola in their views about federal problems. The subject assigned obviously covers most of the major senatorial campaign issues because Hoosier problems have had a minor role in the campaign. The discussion will precede the appearance Saturday of President Kennedy at Weir Cook Airport in Indianapolis for a short speech between plane trips for longer sessions in other states. “President Kennedy ought to be ashamed to come to Indiana after blocking our Indiana port at Burns Ditch which is backed by practically all of Indiana’s congressmen and present and former governors of both Republican and Democratic parties,” Capehart declared. Bontrager To Speak Another political note at the French Lick meeting will be a speech on “Social Security in the United States and in Europe” by State Sen. D. Russell Bontrager, Elkhart, now regarded as the leading possibility for the 1964 GOP senatorial nomination. Charges that Indiana’s statesupported universities and colleges are competing with private business and have “soft” courses in frilly subjects are likely to be controverted when Dr. Elvis Stahr jr., Indiana University president, speaks at the Chamber meeting Saturday morning. Most of the other speakers will tackle subjects of state interest, including “What’s Happening in Reassessment,” Richard L. Worley, chairman, State Board of Tax Commissioners; “New State Taxes? How Much? What Kind?”, Robert R. Stratham, director, taxation department, Indiana State Chamber of Commerce; “School Finances”, Mrs. Jean Pilot, chairman, Governor’s Committee on Public School Finances; “Why the Midwest’s Declining Share of Governmental Contracts?” Dr. E. T. Weiler, dean of the school of industrial management, Purdue University.

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Voters Hold Power In Health Crisis By Sen. Clinton P. Anderton (D-N. M.) Sponsor, Andmon Hnltb Cm for Agtd M

Tins fall’» Congressional elections will help decide one of tbs major social questions of the Sixties: whether something effective, will be done to help millions of aged meet the sharply rising ooms t^ie * r health care? /’”* The basic social objective of Prcsi< k nt Kennedy's plan is to 4 '"MDp « cover t^ie hospitalization and I K nursing home costs of virtually KB ***' "MB citizens over 6s, through K * 1( K Si a ,ma * l increase * n die Social ' i M Security tax —about 25 cents BBU2 »z I a week out of a worker’s pay- I check. W BMEOfIH There are, today, eomel7,« bHHHHH JOHN t. kinnioy 800,000 of citizens over 68* MN.AMMMON

Current rate of increase of 1,000 a day will bring the figure close to 22,000,000 by 1965. As medical science has greati ly prolonged human life, we have a new and existing condition of society, not contemplated by social and economic theories that predated it. If men and women are to live longer, they are rightfully en- • titled to do so in reasonable se- : curity, without damage to their | self-respect. That includes I health care. I We know when protracted I affliction strikes the aged in ! their last years, none but the ! most fortunate of families can j live up to their obligations to ! the dying without disregarding ; their obligations to the living. CONCERN OF ALL Health care through Social Security is not only a major requirement for the aged, but is also of great importance to all Americans who have parents, who are liable to be ill, and who have children to educate at the same time, mothers and fathers in their 30s and 40s. Few of them can afford the increasing cost of raising and educating their children properly and, at the same time, carry the full burden of costly medical expenses for the elderly. The Administration’s health eare program is a fiscally-sound, thoroughly American approach toa critical problem that exists

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and one ■. that ie getting mom acute by' the day. You am going to have a chance to i make a judgment on this issue.. You vote will help to decide I whether we will return a Congress that will support a'program like health core for the aged through our Social Security* system. As die New York Times said after the Senate defeated the Administration’s medicare pro- ' posah “The nation’s elderly citizens suffered a worse setback than, the President in the Senate’s to kill the compromise bill to provide health care f for the elderly through the principles of Social Security,** L 7 NEED FOR PROGRAM gj p EMPHASIZED . J-' No matter how much the an-*ti-health care for the elderly i pressure groups I to distort facts, the need for , this program is recognized by » 'responsible private and govecni (inent studies. j i ' The (general opinion was ex-' : pressed! in an editorial m die ; Washington Post, k said: "The ; Senate has disposed of the Ad- : ministration's medicare plan for I giving health; assistance to the ■ aged but it has not disposed of the need out! of which these i proposals aroseJ That need will , continue to exist as long as it i istas unsa&kfacitorijy'mec as ifc | WlpOWe” X ' * "■ •' -*•—*-*•

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