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mm AAW owen eee ae Owned ani published weekly by Ihe Examiner, Incor- porated, 710 South 22nd Street, Birmingham 23, Alabama. Subscription rates $5.00 per year; 10c per copy. “We are too apt to consider things iu the state in which we find them, without sufficiently adverting to the causes by which they have been produced, and possibly may be up- heli. . "EDMUND BURKE Senator Barry Goldwater . The Issue Is Feedom “This is no stopgap election in 1964. This is not one just for record books. This one is for the history books. We stand now at the latter end of the second century of the American experience, the American Revolution, “But this freedom, this Amercia, is a fragile moment in history’s Jong span. Freedom always has been. It has not been the rule of mankind. It has been the exception. Today it remains the exception. And today, it remains the issue. “Controls, coercion, compromise with tyranny are the marks of the New Frontier; big words and petty deeds are its adjectives and verbs; promises are its substitutes for per- formance, and its vision of issue is no wider than its view of electoral expediency. “But the real issue remains. Freedom. And which party will more effectively preserve and enlarge it? “Can there be any doubt? “Those to whom we will oppose in 1964 have defavited their leadership to tum the tides against tyranny abroad. And they have rejected limited government at home. © “America must have a choice, and freedom must have a chance. “Republican prineiples, Republican candidacies offer the choice, give the chance and reaffirm the right of this God-biessed nation to reclaim the powers they are losing, to rededicate the will they are wasting, and to win the peace for which they are praying. — Sen. Barry Goldwater. “* King’s Collection Plate Martin Luther King has long been seeking a way to solve the problem of integration. It seems his solution is to eliminate the problem itself. He's going to bleed the Negroes white. ublisher Auseat C. Preaons.._...Managing Editor Boobs—And Th. FBI Comtinued From Page 1, the Justice Department under Robert Kennedy may have “infiltrated” the FBI. Our guess would be very little, if at all. Our guess would also be that if any agent in Birmingham were caught politicking for either Ken- nedy or Governor Wallace, he might very-quickly find himself stationed in Outer Mongolia. _ In Birmingham today, the “National States Rights Party” is distributing literature villifying J. Edgar Hoover. They write with the same chalk they use to scrawl their annonymous obscenities on outhouse walls. We would not dignify them by even recognizing their existence were it not for the fact that in some eyes we might appéar to have similar aims. . EXAMINER is completely opposed to the ac- tivities and goals of leaders of Negro civil rights movements. They are inspired ‘by completely selfish and hypocritical motives. We intend to fight these people right to the last ditch — and all white people who support them, in or out of government. We intend to use facts, not dirty names, as weapons. Success in aur efforts would be a victory for the Negro — not a victory for us. . Frankly, we don’t think boobs like “Dr.” Fields contribute anything but a loud racket. Because they're ugly, Fields and his shirt-tailed igncramouses ap- parently think they're tough. Nothing could be farther from the truth. oe As a matter of fact, during World War II we per- Sonally dropped several tons of bombs on boobs like “Dr. Fields — only then they were called Nazis. We Like The Little Elf Celestine Sibley, who writes for our Women’s News Service, this week comes out against Santa Claus. «Says Miss Sibley, “of all the facets of our Christmas celebration, the Santa Claus one seems to me the one we could best do without.” . We get her point, of course. It is to protect tender souls from the traumatic effects of NOT being visited by Santa— ‘of failing to receive the just and promised rewards for “be- Ing good.” Somehow, though, there is a note here which aoesn't ring quite true. Miss Sibley’s arguments seem solid enough — but they are blunt-pointed and painful to accept. “Santa,” she says, “will:come to see all the children whose Parents can scrolunge up the money, go into debt, put stuff on layaway, beg, borrow or steal something for Santa “to bring.” . “But there have been and probably always will be childrén in the world equally deserving, equally yearning who are by-passed by the good St. Nick. They don't know why.” ' Miss Sibley is not really talking about Christmas and Santa Claus. What she apparently means to say is that childhood itself is not all unrestricled happiness and child- by dark and nameless fears, and shattered little dreams, of utter defencelessness and complete dependence. What Miss Sibley is talking about, it seems, is simply a part of life itself, which for everyone, rich and poor alike, includes the bitter with the sweet. The wish fulfilled is not ALL there is ‘to ask from life, however. The dream itself has in it the substance of its own rich reward. Christmas, and the whole spirit of Christmas, are dreams of a sort. And to us they are worth holding onto — even jf we do have to beg, and borrow and scrounge a little something for Santa “to bring.” “So, one way or another, Miss Sibley, we'll be listening again this Christmas Eve for the clatter of tiny hooves on our rooftops. And if for some reason Santa doesn't make it to our house this year — well, then, there’s always next year. If that jolly old elf should somehow, in spite of every- ish uphoria. Looking back, it is also a place often Inhabited |“ and the anthinking cruelty of other children. It is a time | Death Rides High, Hard: On Eiger | JUNGFRAUJOCH, Switzerland iAbove the pretty village of | Wilderswitl with its fower-decked (chalets, the Black Luchine* bolls and leaps down the narrow valley ‘between the Mannlichen and the Faulhorn. High on the stream, ooking east toward the mastive Wetterhorn and southwest to- the dazzling white crown of the Jung- frau, lies Grindelwald, the sperk- ling’ ski resort so often in the | Winter newsreels, . Above Grindelwald there is broad meadow, on its lower reaches forming a steep but smooth slope that climbs 3,400 feet {to the cog railway station at \Kieine Scheidegg. In the snow months this Is rated as the firest lakt run in Europe. | But the slope nears the mountain It steepens, It is studded ‘by huge boulders and scored by deep ravines. Above that there it ‘the area of fallen rock, hundreds (of feet of crushed rubble hurled ;down from the crags and ledges | by frost and thaw, nd ava~ Ianche. And above all that begins the North Face of the Eiger—6,000 feet of nearly sheer rock wall. | “SOMEWHERE up there are two ittle mounds of snow, new to the !mountain, ‘They mark the bodies lof two Spanish climbers, trapped. in June. Somewhere, also, for the ipast six years, heve lain the re-. j mains of Gunther Northdurft and Franz Mayer. All the rest of the climbers of the Eiger are account- ed for. It has been 28 years since Max Sedimayer and Karl Mehringer decided to smash the universally- held conviction that the Eiger's north face was unclimbable. In that time 114 men have hurled ' themselves against that wall, Sev- enty-nine have either made it to the top or been successfully res- cued, Twenty-five are dea | THE PIONEERS, Seidimayer and Mehringer, led the parade of |death. Crowds of sightseers [queued up before the telescopes Jn the valley as the young Munich {men rounded the First Pillar, made their way up the difficult Crack, {crawled ‘under the overhanging Rote Fluh and bivouacked for the night near the Swallow's Nest. But the next day in # bomberd- ment of falling rock they only Inched 300 feet up the Second Ice (Field. On the third day they | seemed hesitant. | "You can study a mountain through a valley telescope or pore {with a magnifying” glass over an hotograph. But on the never the same. What mere shadow from a dis- tance may be an impossible out thrust. What looks like an inviting ledge from » swift-moving plane may prove only a stratum of ro\- ten rock. Pioneers sre not armed with answers. They come only with questions. On the fourth and fifth days heavy clouds shrouded the fate of the climbers. The mountain was racked by blizzards, sleet and ightning. But on the sixth dey the mists parted for a moment and there they were, struggling Just sbove the Third Ice Field, That night the greatest storm of ll scoured the face of the Eiger. A year later two frozen bodies were lowered from what is still known as the Death Bivouse. IN 1936 the great Bavsrien guide, Andert Hintersoisser, found thing, find his way down YOUR chimney this Christmas, Miss Sibley — please, don’t tum the old boy away. the key to the lower part of the climb in what is now known af (Continued On Pee 49)