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I Tleartless Pul Ht hes just been terrible. Tve) Said 1: “I have been grinding ‘been about as popular around the} out copy watil my arm ia core.” eftice this week ss a uniformed| He sald: “Perhaps the eore- Storm Trooper would be in Pales-| ness le In the elbow, brought tine. about from the incessant bend: Tt all started when Joe (he's the tng thereof.” - publisher) suggested we go into) Well now, I thought that was an ‘executive session and have » con- uncalled for remark, but I've ference, Well, if that was a con-|known a lot of publishers in my ference I'd hate to have real hell) checkered journalistic career (full raised with Good Old Ronald. details of which are found in my He said: “Lately I have not seen| best selling biography “Publish- that non-sensical column you once|ers Who Have Known Me,” P&G wrote called “Bama's My Beat.” Printing Co., Ltd., $6.95), but I've What’s Your | Question? On World Affairs | Each week Edgar Anse! Mowrer, Pulitzer Prize winning foreign correspondent and world news analyst, answers readers’ queries on world affairs, And, at the eame ‘time, he poses a question to read~ ere on world affaire and rep their answers in this weekly column, By EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER North American Newspaper Alliance “Do you believe that Khruth- chev and other Communist leaders really believe the absurd th of Max and Lenin or that C miunism will benefit mankind?” (ohn Donovan, Copiague, N.Y.) Opinions differ greatly. My view 1s that most Communists start out by believing, then ident!- ‘y the good of mankind with their awn power and finally have » vested interest in spreading Com-| ounism since it can Jast only if it preads to the entire world, “Your article on Rostow and ore’ was excellent. Most Americans never heard of Rostow and the A.0.A. Tell us more about both. (BD. Gornston, Elmhurst, ay.) Rosiow is an economist trom MIT. The author of 2 recent book “The Stages of Economie Growth,” whose theories about Communism this administration seems 10 me to be following—sad to say. The AD.A. 5 8 group of sedicated “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 Paul Danish, Blasdell, N.Y.) Send your request with 30 cents im postage stamps, to the superin- endent of documents, Government Printing Office, Wash, D.C. 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.¥., opposes counteraction against the Com- munists of North Viet Nam because it “would be an invitation to war,” Tam obliged to remind her that communism is at war with us and that the sooner we recognize this fact, and act accordingly, the safer we'll be. “De you think the new tove affair between the two K's will result in our helping the rotten f Moscow to fight the putrid Red of Peking and end up with a sew Cuba and Kennedy in power?” ("“Wondering,” Norwalk, Conn.) We are already helping Red Russia to keep Red China grom obtaining nuclear weapons. 1 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 the slogan, “He kept us out of war,” and then entered the war & couple of months later. “tn view of the way ers are behaving, uthern- wouldn't we T 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 services which | generations of Southerners have Fendered to our county, 7 Even yet to know one on whote desk you could pound and tell him he had just made an uncalled for statement. U all this wasn't bad enough, things the week before were even| worse. You see the Bama’s My Beat building has been moved into sparkling new offices and one of them 6 all paneled and carpeted, Naturally I figured that was where I was to do all my creating. An ‘interloper WELL, HECK, the publisher moved from bis downtown office soto the Baroa’s My Beat building, and an earlier “get-toworker"| Te never known. He ensconced himself into that paneled, carpeted office just Uke he owned the joint and I've been relegated into an overgrown broom closet that serves as» through- fare into old Buck's office: (he’s the editor) and as 2 socializing point for the advertising depart-| ment. AD of this has resulted in nothing short of consternation and has worried me also, You see, middle age has been up on me Uke @ run- lance and I've got—ad- lly—somewhat “set in my ‘Those Work Breaks WITH A DESIRE to commute from my beloved Blount County hills where I commune with na-| ture, and a habit of hiking ebout five miles with by 140-pound German Shepherd © puppy each morning, and with the new offices about 30 minutes farther from Blount County, it is becoming in- creasingly difficult for me to sandwich in any work breaks in my daily routine. ~ ‘That really didn't bother me too much until last payday. When the payroll clerk handed me my check, tears as big as volleyballs cas caded down face. Joe had Just signed the check. State Forests Unusually Dry;- Caution Urged MONTGOMERY — Forest fires have risen sharply in dry Ala~ buma 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 “spolty, 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 care" to prevent” further fire outbreaks. now, Southern senators are « chief obstacle 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 af colonial powers on_ex-colonial peoples was good or bait?’ answers ran as follows: better off under colonislism,”| “the influence was advantageous,” “bad for the rest of the world but ‘good for the subjects themselves.’ No reader thought the influence had been bad. visher Calls For Work Break The , necessity of banging out tome columns outweighed my desire to get up to Horse Pens 40 ‘and chew the fat with old Mus- et and hopped around into Joe's office. “Wonderful idea T have tor some ‘columns, Joe,” sald! “How does the idea of doing another story on burying beet . . 2 I didn't even get to fintsh the word beetle before he thundered: ‘one more word is put in this paper about the animal undertak- ing beetle, you're going to need « undertaker to get back out of the oftice.” Have you ever tried to laugh at a time lke that? I couldn't, T couldn't even twist a wry and sickly little 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- tion rolling off my brow as big as volleyballs, Suffice to say | wasn’t in any mental chape to write anything just eat one side of my desk to the other. Now here I am with deadline| staring at me making me about| try, as nervous and wall-eyed as = Ku Kluxer at # Black Mustim! convention. 1 just don't know what to write. Hark! Maybe I can write about. my old friend of long standing, Warren Y. Musgrove of Horse Pens 40. No, the last time I pulled that stunt I got docked in pay for ad- vertising space. 1 Art Show Coming 1 sure would admire to relate @s how the Chandler Mountain! Harvest Festival and Horse Pens. 40 Clothes Line Art Show is going. to be this Saturday and Sunday. 1 hear about a 100 of the te artists In the state will be the with all their pretty pletures hanging on clothes tines, prop- ed against rocks and tacked up on trees, I kmow Good Old Ronald fs go- ing to be there barbecuing chick~ ens all drenched in Wild Willie ‘Sauce, a secret recipe handed down trom the ancient Pharoahs in olden Egypt. But I don't guess I had better write about that efther. Boy, things are ust terrible. Here I ait columnless 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, : The “top twenty” events are ‘those judged to be leading events of interest to tourists throughout the United States. The list is wide ly circulated throughout the coun- ‘Organizations getting the “top twenty” list inelude: Advertising agencies; alr Lines; auto clubs; auto rental services: bus lines; convention bureaus; government agencies; hotels; map. makers; marine shipping line: ‘hotels; newspapers; oil companies; railroads; resorts; sightseeing lines; travel attractions; travel ines; and travel shows. ‘We are pleased that we were able to have this outstanding an- ‘nual event listed on the top twen- ty. It ts 8 big boost for the State of Alabama and the Gulf Shores area. This will focus nationwide attention on this ares,” said Ew- ing, Governor George Wallace has emphasized increased travel pro- motion as a means of improving the economy of the state. a <a NAME Read The Serial “JFK, The Man And The Myth’ Every Week Subscribe The Examiner 710 $0, 22nd St., Birminghom, Ale. 323-5809 Send me the EXAMINER for 52 weeks. (Please Print) ADDKFSS city My check is enclosed for $5.00 SUBSCRIBER'S SIGNATURE DATE