Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 280, Decatur, Adams County, 28 November 1962 — Page 11

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Berlin Wall Poison Vine

By Phil Newsom DPI Foreign News Analyst BERLIN (UPI) - The thing came into the city at night, and by morning lay extended all the way across it. The people found It there when they wakened. The spines along its back were sharp as barbed wire, which in fact they were. It had neither head nor tail yet it had a great blood lust which demanded human sacrifice. Its breath made men’s eyes water as if from tear gas and spouted fire as deadly as if from a machinegun. Its sides were tough as reinforced concrete and steel. And it was in fact all these things, too. It lived and it grew, yet it was neither animal nor vegetable. And for these reasons it came to be known simply as “The Wall." There are different kinds of walls. There are walls that provide a rose-covered haven. There are walls that keep men in, and others that keep them out. But this was a wall that divided men, and women and children, too. And so this is a story, not so much of the men and women who weep on either side, but of the Berlin wall itself, this living thing that is neither animal nor vegetable. When this wall crawled across Berlin on the night of Aug. 12-13, 1961, it moved not in a straight line but as a serpent or poison vine whose tentacles reached upward to seal off the windows of what had been homes and whose main body twisted and turned for 22 miles across busy streets and canals, through quiet neighborhoods and garden plots. The men who welcomed the wall and nurtured it are in the Communist East — men such as Walter Ulbricht in East Berlin and Nikita Khrushchev, 900 miles away in Moscow. They assigned VOPOS, Communist peoples police,' to protect it. They hoped that the wall would engulf and destroy free West Ber-

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lin. The wall is more than a physical thing. It also is an idea. And this is how Gerhard Marufke sees it. Marufke is a tall, handsome lieutenant in West Berlin’s tough riot police. He stands guard against the wall more than 70 hours per week. And his wife hopes wistfully that on some weekend he can come home so the children can know him. The wall to him is visible proof of an alien philosophy and the hatred he spends upon it each day makes it a living thing. Eighteen-year-old Peter Fechter challenged both the wall and the idea. He was a bricklayer in East Berlin and he died in agony at the foot of the wall on the eastern side. West Berliners rioted futiley against the wall then, but it fattened and grew until now, at the spot where Peter fell, it is more than eight feet high. West Berliners marked the spot with a cross and adorn it daily with fresh flowers, chrysanthemums lilies and evergreen. Scrawled in letters a foot high along the scaly, insensitive side of the wall is another reminder of its evil. It Says: “13,000 wives separated from their husbands. How long?” For< when the wall flung itself across toe city, it not only separated the city itself, it also separated families. Where the wall could, it followed lines of least resistance/ The wall waited 11 days before taking its first human sacrifice. It was at the Humboldt Canal in Berlin’s wedding district within sight of the Berliner Charite, once the most famous hospital in Germany, a symbol of mercy. Guenter Litfin died in the canal’s waters while seeking freedom from the wall and the idea it represented. A flowered shrine on the channel bank is in his memory. There are other such shrines in memory of more who died as a sacrifice to the wall, some with

names still unknown. There are three in a single block along Bernauer Strasse, and in one in the gathering dusk a candle flickers. Wolfgang Einbeck is 21 and he has been a riot policeman tor three years. Twice the Acrid smell of the wall has filled his nostrils and tonight be stands guard amid what once were small summer houses and vegetable gardens. But the gardens are bare now, for toe wall spreads death, and it is a place of incredible loneliness. At the Chaussee Strasse check point the wall throws itself across a street before regaining toe shelter of toe buildings. A customs officer there recalls the night the wall appeared. First there was the line of soldiers and behind them another line of peoples piplice. And still behind them a line of workers militia. And before his eyes the wall appeared and grew. He both hates and spars this wall which now has become part of his life. He does not want his name used because toe wall has a long memory. As he talks, the head and shoulders of a VOPO appear on the other side of the wall. The gathering darkness blots out toe man’s face and what he may be holding in his hand. His arm moves in a quick arc and his hand comes forward in a throwing motion. It could have been tear gas or a grenade. But it was nothing. The customs man shrugs his shoulders. “He plays games,” he said. As this is written, a man slowly is emerging from shock in the shelter of West Berlin’s Marlenfelde refugee center. He made it across the wall and thus avoided becoming another of its human sacrifices. But a woman companion did not. A VOPO bullet hit her in the arm, and, only a few steps from freedom, she stood frozen in fear until they came and dragged her back. The wall cost West Berlin nearly 60,000 workers. But in the last year some 15,000 workers came from West Germany to help fill the gap. Housewives pitched in and more efficient machinery also helped. Berlin business is healthy. Berliners refused to panic. It the wall was meant to crush the spirit of free Berlin, it is a monument to a colossal failure.

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Romney Faces Many Michigan Problems

(EDITOR’S NOTE — George Romney campaigns with toe fervor of an evangelist and toe energy of a super-salesman. He has been both. With Ms emotion as governor of Michigan, the 55-year-old Mormon became a Republican presidential contender. UPl’s national reporter interviewed Romney recently and reports in toe following dispatch about the man who says he is a “citizen” first and Republican second.) By HARRY FERGUSON United Press International BIRMINGHAM, Mich. (UPI) — Any man who achieves a spectacular political success always is asked whether he is going to run for president. An accepted tradition makes it possible for him to answer in a sort of political code language which can be interpreted as yes, no or maybe depending on what you choose to read into it. George Romney, who bounded onto the national political , stage! by becoming the new Republican governor of Michigan in a campaign so unorthodox that it made professional politicians shiver, was asked the question the other day. He replied: “I have said it in the past and I will say it again- I don’t plan to be an active candidate for the presidency in 1964.” Political reporters usually translate such statements roughly like this: Sure, I would like to be president, but it’s too early to get out on a limb and start lining up convention delegates. I’ll just leave the door open slightly and see what happens. Has Two-Year Term Romney takes office in January for a two-year term. That allows a little more than a year for Republicans to decide whether he is presidential material. The quickest way he can convince them is to untangle the tangled affairs of the state of Michigan. Romney’s problems are too numerous to list here, but this will give you an idea: The state has a deficit that may run as high as SBS millidn by the end of the current fiscal year. Romney won by only 78,000 out of 2.8 million votes and was the only Republican on the state ticket to survive. Democrats won for lieutenant governor, secretary of state, treasurer, attorney gen-

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eral and auditor which makes Romney a Daniel in a den of lions eager to pounce. His plan for fiscal reform calls for a state income tax, an idea that seldom wins a political popularity contest. To this formidable task Romney brings the zeal of an evangelist and the drive of a su-per-salesman. He has been both. As a member of the Mormon church he did his missionary work in London’s Hyde Park corner, a forum noted both for free speech and uninhibited heckling. He sold the compact automobile to a sizeable number of Americans at a time when other automobile manufacturers were busy trying to meet what they thought was a demand for longer cars and bigger tail fins. This chapter in Romney’s career deserves attention because it is a perfect example of how he operates both inside and outside of politics. Mason Had Idea “It’s not correct that I conceived the idea of the American compact car,” he said. “George Mason, who was president of Nash-Kelvinator, had the idea a long time ago. He thought of it as a supplementary car for a family, something to use in going to the office or the super-market. He was thinking in terms of twocar families.” Mason died, Romney took over as head of American Motors and previous thinking and plans went out the window. He dug into the problem from every angle and found out that the average daily mileage on an automobile was only 13 miles. His research convinced him many families would be satisfied with one car and what they were looking for was economical transportation. Against the advice of almost every expert and amid the fears of some of his own associates, Romney decided to risk everything on one fateful spin of the wheel of luck and challenge the big automobile firms head on. The result was the compact Rambler. In the fiscal year ended Sept. 30 American Motors had a profit before taxes of $73 million It distributed $3.2 million worth of stock among its 27,000 employes in a “progress sharing” plan conceived by Romney as a pro-

duction incentive. Employed Bold Approach His approach to politics was equally bold. Between Mermen Williams and the incumbent, John Swainson, Democrats had held the Michigan governorship for seven straight terms. They had the support of the big labor unions. It appeared that anybody who ran on the Republican ticket was a dead duck before he could get off the ground Once more Romney researched the problem, thoroughly, gave It much thought and prayer and took his first political plunge. This time the big gamble was that he gently divorced himself from the Republican party and especially its right wing. His campaign literature never included the word “Republican.” At one stage he said “I am certainly not in sympathy with certain elements of the Republican party on a state wide basis.” He campaigned tirelessly at the factory gates and he won because he swung enough Democratic workers away from their party. The key word in Romney’s political vocabulary is “citizen.” (“I am a citizen first and a Republican second”). He wants all of us to be citizens first and Democrats and Republicans second. Would Encounter Opposition Professional politicians, of course, don’t buy that. In private the kindest word some of them in Michigan have for Romney is “maverick.” If he should ever decide to seek the presidential nomination, his toughest audience is going to be the professionals in his own party across the nation. The religious issue might be a factor in a national campaign. Some Americans probably still associate Mormons with polygamy. The idea, of course, is entirely incorrect. The Mormon church outlawed polygamy in 1890 on pain of excommunication. But in a presidential election there always seems to be a fanatical fringe which dips into the mud as Alfred E. Smith found out in 1928 and, to a lesser extent, John F. Kennedy in 1960. Proposals By New GOP Head To Have Foes By EUGENE J. CADOU > United Press International INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — Two policies announced; .by ,H- Dale. Brown, newly-elected Republican state chairman, are sure to meet opposition within the party. They are concerned with Brown’s stand against a ripper bill to oust present Democratic automobile license branch managers and his advocacy of New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller for the 1964 GOP presidential nomination. Lt. Gov. Richard O. Ristine, now the titular head of Indiana Republicans, predicted some time ago that ripper bills would be introduced in the 1963 General Assembly, adding that the legislative leaders would meet later to consider their fate. Democratic county chairmen or the persons they endorse now boss the lucrative license branches. The revenue is garnered from the 50cent fee paid by each holder of ,a license to operate a motor vehicle. Republicans Hungry Brown is the big boss of the 92 GOP county chairmen and the 92 county vice - chairmen. Most of them had a cut of the luscious license branch pie only two years ago when Harold W. Handley was governor. They are mighty hungry for this juicy food and are sure to exert terrific pressure upon Brown and their respective lawmakers to transfer power to name license branch managers from Democratic Governor Welsh to a GOP state dfficial. Some chairmen even drem oi other rippers to seize the attractive patronage in the highway, conservation and alcoholic beverage departments. They hope that the Indiana Supreme Court, which killed ripper legislation in 1941, might sustain it now with its membership of 3 Republicans and 2 Democrats. Brown, a realist, bases his sponsorship of Rockefeller on the theory that he is the only winner the Republicans have. A number of party chiefs agree with him, including Sen. Roy Conrad, Monticello, Senate caucus chairman. Capehart Promotes Sen. Homer E. Capehart and Conrad, often a guest in the Rockefeller “holy of holies” in New York City, promoted Rockefeller’s Hoosier campjrijjn in 1959 - before the New Yorker withdrew from his contest against Richard M. Nixon. Later, Capehart left the Rockefeller camp. Brown, a former Marion County chairman, likewise was a pioneer for Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952. His 11th (Indianapolis) District produced the only Hoosier delegates for IKE—Eugene C. Pulliam, publisher of the Indianapolis Star and News, and the late William L. "Big Bill” Hutcheson, then national president of the Carpenters’ Union. Indiana’s GOP Old Guard chiefs, led by former Sen. William E. Jenner, are certain to fight Rockefeller’s campaign in Indiana. Many of them are for Arizona’s

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Sen. Barry Goldwater' "Os would swallow Michigan Utov-dect George Romney. . i It’s the traditional story st the old against the new in Hoosier GOP circles. Writes Os Meeting Japanese Royalty By GAY PAULEY UPI Women’s Editor MANILA (UPl)—Dear Family: Any tourist can meet royalty. All you have to do is be at the right airport at the right time. I was, and did—when Japan's Prince Akihito and Princess Michiko paid a state Visit to the Philippines. When I arrived at the Manila airport I looked out to see thousands of people. Must be some sort of holiday, I first thought. “Well!” I thought again. “The UPI bureaus have been nice at stops all along this tour of the Far East, but Al Kass (Philippines news manager) really has rolled out the red carpet” Military jets swept overhead in a display of precision flying as I came down the ramp. As I started toward the arrivals gate, the boom of a military salute began. Twenty-one booms I counted as I walked toward customs. Then, there appeared Kass and photographers. “Come with me,” said Kass. “You’re just in time to watch Prince Akihito and Princess Michiko take off for Tokyo.” The royal couple was completing a state visit to the Philippines. My flight had arrived from Hong Kong where the temperature was in the 40s. There I was, traveling in a wool dress, dragging a battered mink stole. No one had prepared me for a thermometer hovering around 100, and humidity to match; “Here’s somebody you know,” said Kass. “Ellen Lind.” Miss Lind, formerly of New York, now with the Manila Chronicle. Al’s and Ellen’s credentials for the royal visit got me right out on the airport apron again where officialdom was lined up for final

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