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He ¥t hes just been terrible. I’ve been about as popular around the office this week as a uniformed Storm Trooper would be in Pales- tine. It all started when Joe (he's the publisher) suggested we go into executive session and have e con- ference. Weil, ii that was a con- ference I'd hate to have real hell raised with Good Old Ronald, He said: “Lately I have not seen that non-sensical column you once wrote called “Bama's My Beat.” What’s Your Each week Edgar Ansel Mowrer, Pulitzer Prize winning foreign correspondent and world news "we sniwers readers’ qu ifs analyst, answers read on world affairs. And, at the same time, he poses a question to read- ers on world affairs and reports their answers in this weekly column, By EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER North American Newspaper Alliance “Do you belleve that Khrush- chev and other Communist leaders really believe the absurd theories 24 Max and Lenin or that Com- munism will benefit mankind?” Opinions differ greatly. My view is that most Communists start out by believing, then identi- ty the good of mankind with their swn power and finally have a vested interest in spreading Com- nunism since it can last only if it preads to the entire world, “Wour article on Rostow and ‘oreign ald was excelfent. Most Americane never heard of Rostow and the A.D.A. Telt us more about both. (DB. Gornston, Elmhurst, wv.) Rosiow kf an eeonomict MIT. The author of a recent book “The Stages of Economic Growth,” whose theorles about Communism this administration seems 10 me to be fallowing—sad to say. The AD.A. is a group of dedicated “reformers” who believe they are more responsible for all the others. Mrs, Roosevelt was a typical A.D.A.-er. “How can 1 get a copy of the Congressional Record of Juty 29?” Paul Danish, Blasdell, N.Y.) Send your request with 30 cents in postage stamps, to the superin- ‘endent of documents, Government Printing Office, Wash, D.C! | ' trom cae artless Pul,isher On World Affairs | Pte WAIT Said 1: “i have been grinding out copy until my arm is sore.” He said: “Perhaps the eore- nessa ig In the elbow, brought about from the incessant bend- Ing thereof.” ~_| things the week before were even Well now, I thought that was an/ worse. You see the Bama’s My uncalled for remark, but I've known a jot of publishers in my} yet to know one on whose desk you could pound and tell him he statement. them js all paneled and carpeted, An ‘interloper’ WELL, HECK, the publisher moved from bis downtown office into the Bama’s My Beat building, and an earlier I've never known. relegated into an overgrown broom closet that serves as a through- fare into old Buck's office: {he’s the editor) and as e socializing point for the advertising depart- ment. All of this has resulted in and has worried me also, You see, middle age has been creeping up on me Like a run- away avalance and I've got—ad- mittedly—somewhat “set in my ways.” Those Work Breaks checkered journalistic career (full Getails of which are found in my best selling biography “Publish- ers Who Have Known Me," P&G Printing Co., Ltd., $6.95), but I've | hills where I commune with ture, and a habit of hiking ebout five miles with by 140-pound Blount County, it is becoming in- creasingly difficult for Question? my daily routine. pat That really didn't bother me too ; much until last payday. When the payroll clerk handed me my check, tears as big as volleybalis cas- eaded down her face. Joe had just signed the check. State Forests Unusually Dry; Caution Urged MONTGOMERY — Forest fires Several readers have sent me thoughtful letters arguing that the Passage of the test ban treaty was right and proper, indeed, essential, to prevent nuclear war. I am de- lighted in their interest in world affairs even though I differ. But when Mrs, Merilee Karcher of Farmingdale, N-Y., opposes counteraction against the Com- munists of North Viet Nam because it “would be an invitation to war,” IT am obliged to remind her that “get-toworker” | communism is at war with us and fact, and act safer we'll be. “Do you think the new accordingly, the tove result in our helping the rotten Reds of Moscow to fight the putrid Red of Peking and end up with a sew Cuba and Kennedy in Power?” (“Wondering,” Norwaik, Conn.) . We are already helping Red Russia to keep Red China grom obtaining nuclear weapons. I doubt if this administration would go farther to help. Obviously, the present peace campaign is part of the Kennedy drive for re- election, Remember, Woodrow Wilson was re-elected in 1916 to ihe siogan, “He kept us out of war,” and then entered the war e couple of months later. “tn view of the way Southern- ers are behaving, wouldn't we have been batter off if we had let the Bouth secede?” (Aibert French, New York). I once heard my father, whose own father had fought for four years in the Union Army, express the view that secession might have been wise. Personally, despite my views against slavery and dis- crimination, I cannot but remem- ber the marvelous Tendered to our country, mavessl acs. vhink. se Twaces Wait affair between the two K's will] generations of Southerners have|No reader thought the , Even. had been bad. have risen sharply in dry Ala- that the sooner we recognize this|bema woodlands during the past two weeks because of dryness, low humidity, higher wind ‘ velocity and more ‘people using the wood- ed areas. Woods-users are cautioned to be “especially careful" with matches, cigarettes and campfires. Annual rainfall is 5 to 10 inches below normal for most areas of the State and recent “spotty showers” have not “appreciably” altered the situation, State Forester J. M. Stauffer says the Fall fire toll has been heaviest in north Alabama. Fire losses for the two-week period were reported averaging 500 acres a day. Stauffer called on those who go into the woods to “use ex- treme cure" to prevent further fire outbreaks. . now, Southern senators are a chief ogstacle to further appeasement of Communism by the administra- tion, To the question: “In the light of current events and prospectives, do you think the influence of colonial powers on ex-colonial peoples was good or batt?” readers answers ran as follows; “We're better off under colonislism,” “the influence was advantageous,” “bad for the rest of the world but good for the subjects themselves." influence { me to/stunt I got docked in sandwich in any wo:k breaks in| vertising space. Ub The . necessity of banging out tome columns outwelghed my had just made an uncalled for| desire to get up to Horse Pens 40 and chew the fat with old Mus- lf all this wasn't bad enough, | grove. # sucked tn ‘my stomach and squeezed out of my broom clos- Beat building has been moved into| et and hopped around into Joe's sparkling new offices and one of} office. “Wonderful idea I have for some Naturally I figured that was! columns, Joe,” sald! “How does where IT was to do all my creating. | the idea of doing another story on urying beet id bi I didn’t even get to finish the word beetle before he thundered: “If one more word ig put in this paper about the animal undertak- ing beetle, you're going to need a He ensconced himself info that/ people undertaker to get back out paneled, carpeted office just like! of the office.” he owned the joint and I’ve been} praye you ever tried to Isugh at a time like that? I couldn't. I couldn’t even twist a wry and globlar 14s? | SicKIY littie grin across my face. Here Wa Go Again I SUCKED in my stomach and squeezed back into my broom closet of an office with perspira- nothing short of consternation’ {tion rolling off my brow as big as volleyballs. Suffice to say | wasn’t in any mental shape to write anything the reat of the day. 1 just sat around and shuffled papers from one aide of my desk to the other. Now here I am with deadline staring at me making me about WITH A DESIRE to commute! as nervous and wall-eyed as a from my beloved Blount County|Ku Kluxer at # Black Mustim we! nae cemting Ba- convention, I just don't know what to write. Hark! Maybe I can write about German Shepherd ' puppy each|my old friend of long standing, morning, and with the new offices} Warren TY. Musgrove of Horse about 30 minutes farther from] Pens 40. No, the last time I pulled that pay for ad- t Art Show Coming I sure would admire to relate as how the Chandler Mountain Harvest Festival and Horse Pens 40 Clothes Line Art Show is going to be this Saturday and Sunday. t hear about a 100 of the top artists In the state wil! be there | their pretty pictures hanging on clothes 1Ines, prop- bed against rocks and tacked up on trees, Calls For Work Break $$$ $e I know Good Old Ronald fs go- ing to be there barbecuing chick- - ens all drenched in Wild Willie Sauce, a secret recipe handed down from the ancient Pharoahs in older But I don't guess I had better write about that either, Boy, things are just terrible. Here I sit columniess and about as Popular in the office as a uni- formed Storm Trooper would be In Palestine. Speckled Trout Rodeo Listed In Top Twenty MONTGOMERY — The annual Speckled Trout Rodeo, scheduled for Novemer 23-30 in Gulf Shores, has been selected by the National Association of Travel Organiza- tions as one of the “top twenty” travel events of the month, ac- cording to Ed Ewing, state director of the Bureau of Publicity and Information, 1 The “top twenty” events are those judged to be ieading events of interest to tourists throughout the United States. The list is wide- Uy cireulated throughout the coun- Organizations getting the “top twenty” list include: Advertising agencies; air lines; auto clubs; auto rental services: bus lines; convention bureaus; government agencies; hotels; map makers; marine shipping lines; hotels; newspapers; oil companies; railroads; resorts; sightseeing lines; travel attractions; travel magazines; and travel shows. “We are pleased that we were able to have this outstanding an- nual event listed on the top twen- ty. It fs a big boast for the State of Alabama and the Gulf Shores area. This will! focus nationwide attention on this area,” said Ew- ine ing. Governor George Wallace has emphasized increased travel pro-~ motion as a means of improving the economy of the state. Read The Serial “JFK, The Man And The Myth” Every Week Subseribe TIO $o. 220d St., Birmingham, Ale. 323-5809 Send me the EXAMINER for 52 weeks, (Please Print) NAME ADDKFSS CITY STATE My check is enclosed for $5.00 DATE SUBSCRIBER'S SIGNATURE.