Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 203, Decatur, Adams County, 28 August 1963 — Page 11

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Birth Os Malaysia Is Further Delayed

By PHIL .NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst I The flags were ready and the musicians rehearsed to welcome on Aug. 31 the peaceful birth of a new nation of 10 million persons to be known as Malaysia. But the chances were increasing today that it may be a stillborn birth. Malaysia Is or was a dreamchild of the British who hoped to weld into a- single anti-Com-munist nation former Southeast Asia holdings comprised of Malaya, Singapore, North Borneo, including the sultante of Brunei, and Sarawak. The capital would be Kuala Lampur in presently independent Malaya. Unquestionably in favor of federation were Malaya and Singapore. Recent elections in North Borneo and Sarawak had convinced the British that these areas also wished to join. Situation Eases Despite occasional seemingly conciliatory gestures, unalterably opposed was President Sukarno of Indonesia and less violently, the Philippines, with an historic but scarcely tangible claim of its own on North Borneo. Sukarno charged the plan for Malaysian federation was a Western plot to surround Indonesia and threatened it with a “confrontation” similar to that by which he at last wrested Western New Guinea from the Dutch. The situation eased after a Tokyo meeting between Sukarno and chief federation mover Prince Abdul Rahman, prime minister of Malaya, and seemed to ease further after a Manila meeting which also included President Diosdado Macpagal of the Philippines. There the three initialled agreement on a loose confederation which would include the new nation and which would be called Maphilindo. British Reluctant So. far as Sukarno was concerned these turned out simply to be delaying tactics. In the Maphilindo agreement 1 was a clause calling upon United Nations Secretary General U Thant to send teams into North Borneo and Sawawak to determine whether elections there had been “properly”, conducted. " The declaration also referred to British and American bases in the area as “temporary.” The British reluctantly, and

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Thant with the express reservation that his findings should be final, agreed to the inspection. But back at home in Jakarta, - it also became obvious that Sukarno had not budged from his ' previous stand in opposition to Malaysia. Carry Banners Demonstrators in Jakarta, observing the date of Indonesia’s proclamation of independence from the Dutch, carried banners attacking the federation, Britain and Prince Abdul Rahman. The Indonesian army made clear it stood ready to train guerrilla fighters who would infiltrate North Borneo and Sarawak. Clandestine radio in Java poured anti-Malaysian propaganda into North Boreno. Anti-federation demonstrators met U. N. team members in Sarawak. As British forces in Singapore and North Borneo remained on the alert and British naval vessels cruised off shore, it was plain that Sukrano’s “confrontation” was on in full force. And the birth of Malaysia, already set back by at least a month, could be delayed indefinitely. ■Hk SUB SENATOR —Herbert S. Walters, 71, of Morristown, Tenn., has been named by Gov. Frank Clement to serve until next year in the U.S. Senate seat made vacant by i the death of Estes Kefauver.

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Cost No Object In Rescue Os Miners HARRISBURG, Pa. (UPI) — How much did it cost to reclaim David Fellin and Henry Throne from the dark pit 309 feet beneath the earth. Right now, nobody knows. Right now, nobody cares. All that matters is that Fellin and Throne are safe and that man has won another of his endless struggles against the whims ol nature. Cost was never an object. Not when human lives were at stake. And no matter what the cost may be, the state of Pennsylvania is ready to pick ,up the tab, a spokesman for the Department of Mines said. Who was involved? Men and women above ground in Sheppton who refused to abandon Fellin and Throne even though at times it seemed their task was hopeless. Men in Washington who ordered military helicopters into the area. Scientists who sent radioactive material to bring a mine rescue attempt into the atomic age for tile first time. Texans who shipped up bits to

cut through dirt, clay, rock and coal apd carve Fellin's and Throne’s shaft to safety. The Salvation Army with its pots of hot coffee. The equipment company with its giant drill. How many man hours were silent during the two weeks of the rescue operation? Again nobody knows because nobody bothered tc add them up. Overtime was not an issue. Lji r* ' ' J

U.S. Most Numbered Country On Earth

EDITOR’S NOTE — The I “numbers same”—the length- ’ ening list of digits tacked on to 1 the name of every American ; —is becoming an increasingly i dominant factor in modern computerized culture. The fol- i lowing dispatch, the last of three, reports on the past and I , speculates on , the future of the numbers systein. ] ByZfIARNEY SEIBERT United Press International Your grandfather couldn't have ‘ piayed the numbers game. Tlw gradual replacement of human identity with numbers is a product of the mid-20th Century. < In the 19th Century birth re- 1 gistration was uncommon and a task for the churches in many areas. Death certification was not required. There were no credit 1 cards, Social Security numbers, or Federal Bureau of Investigation fingerprint files. Military serial numbers came into existence with World War I. It wasn’t until the final decade of the 19th Century that auto licensing began. Before that, many were suspicious of numbers. Puritan Oliver Cromwell said. “A few honest men are better than numbers.’’ Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison said, "The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend on numbers.” Beilby Porteus, an IBth Century poet, said, "Princes were privileged to kill and numbers sanctified the crime.” Samuel Johnson said, "Round numbers are always false.” Essayist Sydney Smith said, "Nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.” Accepts German's Motto But 20th Century man accepted the motto of 16th Century German mathematician Adam Riese: "Figures don't lie." With the, multiplicity of numbers, the gradual conversion of identity into a digit is causing many 20th Century scholars concern. Semanticist S. I. Hayakawa of San Francisco State College says "A man needs recognition of himself. He needs to be identified as a unique individual. He doesn't want to be known by a number and he will rebel against it and the system.” Sociologist Bruno Bettelheim of the University of Chicago says the numbers game "is a part of the general mechanization of the world in which we live. It is a

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symptom of the general depersonalization of society. We must take steps to preserve the dignity and identity of the in* dividual.” Even in the prisons, where every man has a number, thars was revolt against the numbers systems. My r 1 Alexander, Southern Illinois University criminologist and former assistant director of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, said the trend away from numbers began in the federal penal system about 25 years ago. Called By Name Numbers are still used in federal prisons, but only for record keeping, and prisoners are called by name, not number. “It is significant that the inherent dignity of a man’s name need not be taken away from him merely because he enters prison,” Alexander said. But such isolated revolts show no sign of stemming the numerical avalanche elsewhere. Robert Stein of Sperry - Rand Corporation’s Univac division has predicted that eventually the Post Office Department will do away with the names of cities and states and use only names, addresses and zip codes. Tlie ultimate in any such system would be a single number for all purposes. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has given some thought to such a project, but has its doubts —for the time being. The American Telephone and Telegraph Co. is already looking longingly toward the day when its seven digit phone numbers and three digit area codes for long distance dialing “will eventually lead to standard codes all over the world.” At the opposite extreme are those who are attempting to figure ways of eliminating their numbers. Such as the Chicago public relations man who advises would • be telephone callers he may be reached at BAZMINP. Ink Eraser Keep some small emery boards, the manicuring kind, in your desk drawer, for removing any ink spots or writing mistakes. Rub die. emery board gently over the spots, and it will quickly and easily remove every trace of ink and leave your stationery smooth and unworn.