These Days
Or - Behind The News
From Washington
By
John Chamberlain
Senator Wayne Morse, gen
erally regarded as the doviest
of dovejovhen talking about
U. S. military commitments
in the Far East, thinks it
would be “immoral” if we
simply withdrew our soldiers
from South Vietnam. We
can’t just scuttle and run,
he says, for we would then be
responsible for any blood
bath that resulted from turn
ing the place over to the Viet
Cong.
I wouldn’t have credited
Wayne Morse with such views
if I hadn’t heard them coming
from his own lips in response
to questions by students in the
auditorium of the Vale Law
School. What such statements
imply is that there isn’t really
any profound difference be
tween Senator Morse and Pres
L ident Johnson. There is a “eon
i census” here, and it is a sur
prising one.
vbe
True enough, Wayne Morse
>eat a quick retreat into the
dovecote when he advocated
the substitution of an “in
ternational” force for the U.
S., South Korean, and Aus
tralian troops now engaged in
Vietnam. He would have us
“negotiate with Ho Chi Minh,
the Viet** Cong and the Red
Chinese, and forthwith pro
duce a y^ace. Then he would
When you think of prescrip
tions. think of VARNER’S, adv
have the UN, or some other
international group, move in
to police the terms of that
peace. The international force
would see to it that the Viet
Cong did not murder Catho
lics or Buddhists, or subvert
any agreed - upon coalition
government by illegal meth
ods.
The Morse proposition might
be acceptable to most of our
hawks if there were any possi
ble chance of working it out.
With the 1968 elections coming
up, Lyndon Johnson would cer
tainly love to see an “interna
tional” army pull his chestnuts
out of the fire in Asia. But how
much chance is there that the
UN, or any other agency for
“collective security,” will fol
low up on Morse’s idea? To use
Morse’s favorite law school lin
go, the “substantive” reality of
UN peace does not seem “pro
cedurally” likely.
The truth is that we have
already been rebuffed by the
UN in our attempts to have
the Vietnamese issue placed
on its agenda. Moreover, the
Soviets have shown no ala
crity about bringing the busi
ness of a Vietnamese peace
before any other internation
al tribunal. In his efforts to
secure negotiations, U Thant,
the Secretary General of the
UN, has had to work entirely
on his own outside his own
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organization. The machinery
of the lTN simply grinds to a
complete standstill whenever
any of the big world powers
confront each other in anp
part of the world that has
real strategic significance.
Since World War II, the UN
has had some peacekeping suc
cesses. It has kept Arabs and
Jews .from killing each other
over the Gaza strip; it has pre
vented massacres in Cyprus, it
has cooled passions in the Con
go. By a strange freak of
chance, the UN even managed
to keep the Communists from
overrunning South Korea. But
this was because the Soviet UN
delegates happened to Da stag
ing a boycott when the ques
tion of South Korea was refer
red to the Security Council by
President Harry Truman.
The sort of peacemaking
and peacekeeping which Sen
ator Morse advocates would
involve a prior reconstruction
of the UN, or the creation of
another international body
with the teeth which the UN
now so conspicuously lacks.
In short, what Wayne Morse
is suggesting is a sudden
world leap into Utopia.
Well, as the old saying goes,
it would be nice work if we
could get it. Foreign Minister
Thanat Khoman of Thialand re
cently offered a modest ap
proach to the Morse idea. He
suggested that a “regional”
grouping of Southeast Asian
and South Pacific nations get
together with Hanoi to work out
an acceptable peace. Thanat
Khoman would have Malaysians,
Indonesians. South Koreans,
Japanese, Formosans, Filipinos,
Australians, Laotians, and his
own Thai people thresh out a
decent settlement in Vietnam.
But nothing happened when
Thanat Khoman floated his
trial balloon.
Can Wayne Morse do any
better? He says we shall nev
er know until we try. But
nobody is keeping him from
trying. Why doesn’t he spend
a week or two at the UN
bottonholding its more in
fluential figures? It would
be a worth - while education,
not only for Wayne Morse but
for all the other doves who
think you can get “negotia
tions” by imitating Shake
speare’s Owen Glendower, who
boasted that he could call
spirits from the “vasty deep.”
Glendower, of course, never
produced.
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(Continued from Page Two)
ards for pollution control.
Science is constantly engaged
in technological efforts to im
prove fuels and their usage. It
is also studying the relation of
air pollution and respiratory
diseases. Industry has long been
concerned with waste controls
and the most effective use of
fuels. The task ahead is to unify
man’s efforts to assure that
poisons released into the air do
not become intolerable.
For generations we have been
relatively free from this worry.1
Our free enterprise system
could use with impunity virtual
ly any form of energy, and our
country grew rapidly. Now
progress and growth have
brought us to new considera
tions. When air becomes heav
ily polluted in our cities and
towns and villages it must be
reckoned with. A few months
ago, an estimated 80 persons
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Each day in the United
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tional Fire Protection Associa
tion. Don’t let fire hit your
home. Remember, NFPA says
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tion’s Capital, which has vir
tually no manufacturing plants,
has one of the highest air pol
lution rates of any city in the
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I
Drinking Driver Problem
(Continued from Page Two)
we have not dealt with successfully.
| Representative Britt made his remark
about bolstering the drunken driving laws
when he expressed hope for passage of leg
islation requiring mandatory jail terms for
drunken drivers guilty of second or subse
quent offenses. He was referring to legisla
tion being hammered out in a House judic
iary committee.
This particular legislation ma> or may
not be what North Carolina needs to curb
drinking drivers. Some legislators have
the opinion that mandatory jail sentences
will definitely discourage drivers from tak
ing the wheel after drinking alcoholic bev
erages. Other legislators are convinced that
mandatory jail sentences will tend to dis
courage juries from convicting defendants
in cases where there is evidence of drunken
driving. Honest expression of opinion leaves
the issue somewhat cloudy.
What is clear is that adequate protec
tion of the people against drunken driving
will require much more than legislation es
tablishing mandatory jail terms for repeat
offenders. The tendency of juries to acquit
persons charged with drunken driving, as
some legislators have recognized, does pres
ent a problem. And, in some communities,
weak judges and favor - dispensing prosecu
tors who do less than their duty in clear-cut
drunken driving cases have turned enforce
ment of drunken driving laws into a farce.
The enforcement problem is aggravated by
the common practice of permitting drunken
driving defendants to plead guilty to some
lesser charge, such as careless driving.
The drunken driving problem needs
comprehensive study and comprehensive
study and comprehensive solution more
than it needs patchwork treatment. It would
be appropriate for the Legislature that leg
alizes brown-bagging to take the initiative in
bringing about a thorough study by compe
tent citizens that will produce fresh ideas
concerning ways an dmeans of discouraging
in North Carolina the all too common prac
tice of drinking just before taking to the
road.
What A Fireman?
(Continued from Page Two)
proper source. No, certainly, not Glory!
Thrills, excitement? I have heard ignor
ant people remard that the firemen got a
“bang” out of fighting fires. Perhaps there
is a certain amount of excitement generat
ed by participating in the extinguishment
of a blaze, but I think it is more of an urg
ency, a drive, to try to save property or
lives that are being menaced by fire. Cer
tainly not enough men are available to man
fire departments, she wish to seek thrills
each day of their lives by the process of
fighting fires alone! Then, too, there must
be taken into consideration the fact that
this is only a part of their work. There is
also what would amount to drudgery, hard
work and also study to try to achieve a bet
ter knowledge as to methods of improving
themselves in the fire service so as to cut
down losses more and more. How many
men can balance off the amount of excite
ment, or thrill, against the long hours, the
loss of sleep, the smoke, the soot, the grime
The kind of men who only seek thrills are
accompanying a long ordeal of firefighting?
seldom the type of men to even attempt
to join the fire service, and should they do
so, I am sure it would only be a short time
before they would be weeded out.
But the strange thing about the situa
tion is that whenever I have asked a single
fireman just why he became a fireman in
the first place. I only get an answer such
as “I always wanted to be ? fireman” “I
don’t know exactly. I just like the work”
or some such indefinite answer. So how
do you pinpoint this? You don’t. The only
answer I am sure of is that there is some
thing within them, a mechanism or some
indefinable something that is different from
the usual run of men, that causes them to
want to serve their fellowman to this ex
tent. For THEY DO SERVE. This is not
a game, or a sport to them; it is a matter
of dead seriousness with most of them, al
though they usually maintain a sense of
humor and smiling faces along with their
dedication to duty and service. So I still
don’t know just how to put my finger on the
reason a man becomes a fireman. If any of
you can help me put it in words any better,
won’t you let me hear from you? For now,
I only know that there is. indeed, a vast dif
ference in the makeup of a fireman and an
ordinary “civilian” — they look the same,
often act the same, but there is certainly
something that sets them apart from the
rest. And I am proud to be the small part
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