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UN Expenditures BIG NOISE 4 LITTLE MAN home than Rhodesia. "I have a right as an African," he says. "I think I know this continent at least as well as the gentlemen who pontificate about it in the United Nations." Friendless Rhodesia The Rhodesian Federation in Central Africa was born in 1953 with the great hope that it might bridge the racial gap in Africa and develop into a true multiracial government in which the territory's 11 million Africans would have a voice in politics while the property rights of 300,000 whites would be protected. A scant 10 years passed before the dream was in shambles. The vaunted "partnership" government had become a mockery as the tide of black nationalism swept down from the north.

Northern Rhodesia, with its wealth in copper, and Nyasaland fell into the hands of black Africans who did not pay even lip service to white participation in government. Only Southern Rhodesia, where 250,000 of the Federation's whites lived, held out, and today these proud people envision themselves somewhat as a 20th Century version of the American colonials-fighting for independence from a distant, and tyrannical Colonial Office in London These embattled pioneers many of them second and third generation Rho-desians are virtually friendless today. A week of conferences in London to determine Rhodesia's future proved fruitless; Whitehall's demands were too great, in effect an insistence that government be handed over to the black? forthwith. The response of Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith was. Never.

"I came for independence," Iip said. "And I am not bluffing." Whether it was respect for the underdog or otherwise, Smith struck a responsive chord in the hearts of many British citizens. The influential Sunday newspaper, News of the World, with its circulation of more than six million, called the Rhodesian leader "a courageous, determined man" and urged "respect instead of condemnation." But the Labor Government, backed by the Conservative opposition, held fast and implied that whatever force is necessary will be used to impose Whitehall's will. The United Nations, as could be expected, supported Britain, and Rhodesia could muster but two votes In its behalf: South Africa, with Its obvious self-interest, and Portugal, whose African colonial possessions may be the next target. Even South Africa was half-hearted in its support.

Apparently remembering its own bitter defeat in the Boer Wa 60 years ago, a defeat which was later reversed through the political process. South Africa cautioned Rhodesia to "give time and patience to another opportunity, no matter what painful self-control this might demand." But Rhodesia's position cannot properly be compared to that of South Africa of 60 years ago; today, "patience" is a euphemism for capitulation. The pathos of Rhodesia's plight Is captured in a bitter remark of Sir Roy Welensky, the man who sought to establish "partnership" and is now rejected on the grounds that he is a "European." Welensky has never known any other MdiiiUt Oflilr Zip Aittwltor'' Publbhfd Daily Br IHE ADVERTISER COMPANY 107 8. Lwrnc Second Clan poitw Pld Montgomery. Albim CARMAGE WALLS ind Puhlishtr HAROLD B.

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and all day 6unday: New Department Sport Department Circulation (10:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m.) 1MIJA1 After That An organization known as the National. Council of Women in the United States opened its convention in New York this week with a stirring keynote address by Miss Jo Foxworth, an advertising executive who spends much of her energy debunking what she calls "the myth of second sexism." Miss Foxworth complains "that today, as throughout history, writers, artists, pnd minstrels persist In characterizing women as "the weaker sex, the unfair Jex, the oversexed sex, and, in total, the benighted and accursed creature responsible now as always for man's downfall. Man's mom, man's mate, man's girl child, and, in recent years, man's competitor in the marketplace, are cast as the authors of his woes, his frustrations, and his ultimate ruin." She cited a few historical examples: the tormentor, King Lear's daughters; the seducer, Isolde; the destroyer, Sa-jome; the power-hungry, Lady Macbeth. Miss Foxworth cited four "sub-myths" to the major myth of second sexism: "Woman is a thing of emotion and Intuition, rather than intellect.

"Jobs have gender and certain occupations and professions which are classically labeled 'male' are not only 'un-feminine' for women, but "In the dog-eat-dog world of materialism, someone must stand for things spiritual, such as kindness and tolerance. As a culture we must look to the female as the fountain of these virtues. "A successful marriage brings fulfillment to a woman, and the happy kind of homemaking which such a marriage involves is a full-time job." Miss Foxworth contends that "we have thumpingly conclusive proof" that these jnyths are manmade. Following Miss Foxworth's speech, the Council awarded its "Woman of Conscience" citation to Mrs. Virginia L.

Senders for her pioneer work in continuing education for women. Tell It To Old (Brattitota Your name and address must be given on Utter But upon request, name will sometimes be withheld at the Editor's discretion We reserve the right to shorten letters No poetry please Repeat: No letter will be printed unless Editor knows who wrote it. SENATOR ROBISOX'S MAIL EDITOR, THE ADVERTISER To those of us who support and hope for the passage of the succession amendment it would appear that the majority of Alabamians do not favor its passage and those of us who do favor its passage are considered "destroyers of the Constitution." A check with the office of the senators from Montgomery County, shows that mail is running in favor of his stand against the amendment. If this be so, I believe that a large part of the majority of Montgomerians have not made our wishes known. There have been many false rumors and reports, but I am willing to go by the record of our governor.

He has been accused of "doing harm to this state." But if we recall, Gov. Carl Sanders of Georgia, one of Gov. Wallace's most severe critics, followed policies which were opposite and now to his dismay and bewilderment, finds himself ridiculed and threatened with a civil rights march from Crawfordville, to his state capitol, and violence has occurred even though Atlanta was hailed as the "most progressive city in the South on the civil rights question," and the mayor of Atlanta went personally to Washington to plead for passage of the civil rights law. Here are a few facts the critics of Wallace overlooked: 1. Free school books for every child regardless of color, etc.

2. Industrial growth and the building of trade and junior colleges. 3. Our state budget is in the best shape in its history, and that includes the "operation of the highway department." 4. The abolition of liquor agents, and regardless of whether you approve of all his actions, he kept his campaign pledges.

No man is perfect, because we are all human, but I can't recall an Was Pope's Decrease By Congressional Quarterly WASHINGTON U.S. CONTRIBUTIONS TO internation. al organizations and programs in fiscal 1964 dropped to a four-year low of only $257 million. The fiscal 1964 contributions were made to 51 international organizations, three peacekeeping operations and 17 voluntary pro. grams.

According to a recent report transmitted to Congress by the Secretary of State, the $257-million figure was about 10 per cent less than the previous year and substan. tially less than the $325-million high of fiscal 1962. The 1962 contributions were particularly large due to special funding for U.N. operations in the Congo and other programs. The 1964 drop appeared to be onfjr temporary, however.

The report estimat-; ed that U.S. contributions during fiscal 1965 would climb to $307 million, more than any previous year except 1962. U.S. SHARE-The 1964 contributions of $257 million represented 0.2 per cent of total federal expenditures during that fiscal year. On a per capita basis, this sum was equal to $1.35 for each U.S.

citizen. Looking at the larger picture of all contributions by other governments to the organizations and programs support ed by the United States, the U.S. share came to 44.93 per cent of the $571-mil- lion total. RECIPIENTS The international organizations and programs to which the United States contributed either supported or carried out activities which sup-ported basic U.S. Interests.

Broadly speaking, these interests were: promoting peace and security through the United Nations or regional defense organizations such as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, fostering economic growth in the less developed areas of the world through such operations as the U.N. Special Fund and Technical Assistance Program and facilitating international cooperation in various technical fields such as communications and health. A large part of the total U.S. contribution 57 per cent went to 17 special programs, which were financed through voluntary contributions. Another 11 per cent went to U.N.

peacekeeping operations, which were financed by a combination of assessments and voluntary contributions. And the remaining 32 per cent represented the U.S. share of the budgets of international organizations, which were financed by assessments in accordance with their charters. High on the list of organizations and programs receiving U.S. support were organs of the United Nations, which received approximately 75 per cent of the U.S.

total. Included was the U.N.'s regu lar budget together with its peacekeeping and other special programs. The Organization of American States and other groups in the Western Hemisphere received about 9 per cent of the U.S. total. 5-1 The Commercial Appeal Tass, Russian news agency, says the Soviet Union launched five Sputniks from one carrier rocket.

This interesting gadget is now known as Incubatorivich I. LIVING TODAY By Arlie Davidson Overcoming Obstacles MAN HAS THE POWER TO overcome most of the obstacles to full and successful living. Though you may be blind, deaf, crippled, limited in opportunities and financial resources, much can be done to offset the effect of these handicaps. The question is how much you want to do in spite of your obstacles. If you are willing to accept your limitations and mrtvo tyrm mharo ff 1 you are, there is e.

I I Programs for handi capped persons in recent years have brought a new lease on life to large numbers of discouraged men and women, and motivated them to make the necessary adjustments to happy and useful living. These people have learned to keep busy with things that count. The absence of eyes, the dulling of the sense of hearing, the curtailment of the freedom of movement of the crippled, and other limitations, all have become major challenges to those who have learned to live fuller lives in spite of their handicaps. Betsy Barton, a paralytic from an automobile accident, has expressed the fine spirit of many of these seriously limited but courageous individuals. "The final triumph over fear and disability," she has declared, "must come from some strength and purpose which the individual can find within himself." This includes doing your best with what you have-' r-vimi mi DAVIDSON The Lyons Den By Leonard Lyons LARRY O'BRIEN was in N.Y.

last weekend for the first time since he was named to the Cabinet. The popularity of his appointment was evident wherever he went, from the Plaza's Oak Room to P. J. Clarke's Although O'Brien hasn't moved into the Post Office Dept. yet, he evidently has been doing much homework.

"Our business," said O'Brien, of the 600,000 postal employees "is five times the size of the largest U.S. corporation. We're the largest user of transportation in the world. The New York Post Office is larger than all of Britain's 74 billion letters a year." His new office may be the largest anywhere: it was built during Hoover's boom years. He keeps learning more and more about his department every day.

At Ambassador Goldberg's dinner for LBJ here, Cardinal Spellman mentioned a stamp museum in N.Y. His Eminence told the new Postmaster General he knew about it because "I'm a stamp collector." VLADIMIR HOROWITZ, who booked Carnegie Hall for his second concert in 12 years, will make it a tour: he'll do concerts in Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago Basin Street East is negotiating with Harry James and Betty Grable for its Christmas show Sonny and Cher, who entertained at the Englehards' Waldorf party for Mrs. JFK, were offered a fee by the fabulously wealthy hosts, but declined saying the honor was enough. MARIA CALLAS won't appear at the Met this season, but may appear in the new opera house next season. Peter Cole, of the Metropolitan Opera, visited Miss Callas at her home in Milan.

He showed her the open dates on the Met's schedule and invited her to choose any which fit into her schedule. Miss Callas declined, stating that all opera managements should do the opposite fit their schedules to Callas' open dates. LOUIS JOURDAN, who just retired from the co-starring role in the Lerner-Lane musical, "On a Clear Day received a fat cash settlement for his run-of-the-play contract Frank Capra, the veteran prizewinning film director, next will write and direct a science fiction movie Arthur Murray, the retired dancemaster, will auction some of his paintings in Hawaii next month. ANNA MOFFO sang "Greensleeves," at Mrs. LBJ's request, for the guests at Ambassador Goldberg's dinner party Sunday night.

Amintore Fanfani, president of the UN's General Assembly, said to LBJ: "She's Italian" President Johnson said "She's American" Fanfani insisted: "But she's married to an Italian, so she's Italian" "She was born here," said LBJ, "so she's American. IRWIN SHAW'S "Voices Of A Summer Day" will be produced by Jerome Hell-man, now producing the Sean Connery movie, "A Fine Madness" The Metropolitan Museum of Art will have 40 buses to transport the 1,600 guests from the premiere of "The Agony and the Ecstasy," at Lowe's State, to the party after the premiere Carol Channing will narrate at a fashion show for Mrs. LBJ and Mrs. Humphrey in Los Angeles Oct. 15.

JASON ROBARDS JR. and Anne Bancroft will co-star in "The Devils." They're rehearsing on the fifth floor of a building on Broadway and 97th. Because the entrance is through an involved lobby, there are signs for "The Devils," with arrows pointing upstairs. "Every time I come here for rehearsals," said Miss Bancroft, "I feel the arrows are pointing the wrong way." Because Sam The Sham and the Pharaohs, who tour in an old hearse, produced MGM's biggest single-hit record, "Wooly Bully," MGM rewarded the combo with a brand new hearse Nelson Algren, the novelist, will play a bit role in the film, "Frank's Greatest Adventure" Mrs. Oscar Hammerstein took Sir Percy Spender, head of the World Court, to the discotheque, Arthur.

It was a split decision: Sir Percy enjoyed it, Lady Spender didn't. After long, long years Herman Wouk and Arnold Auerbach are back under the same roof this time, as Doubleday authors. Auerbach's new book, "Funny Men Don't Laugh," is about the time he and Wouk teamed in writing jokes for radio comics Wouk, whose novels have earned him millions, made his first money as a writter by selling the 1933 Columbia University show, "Home James." He and Auerbach wrote it, and split the fee $50 each. It took Don Kurzman a month to write the 100,000 words for his book on Santo Domingo, "Revolt of the Damned." He misjudged the revolution, by leaving his car parked there in a two-hour zone. He could't get back for six weeks Jule Styne and Bob Merrill signed "The Animals" for the role of the Wolfpact in their ABC-TV "Red Riding Hood" special Edward Albee is conferring here with Roman Polanski.

director of "Repulsion," about the Polish rights to Albee's plays. TED SOENSON said at the luncheon recently in honor of his new book, at the Overseas Press Club, "You picked a fine day for this luncheon: the Catholics are watching the Popev the Jews are preparing for Yom Kippur, the Prot estants for the World Scries, and the National Whirligig By Andrew Tully other governor with more courage or who has stood so much abuse from so many of his fellow Alabamians. I hope if there are others who support his amendment they will make themselves known via letter, via telegram or phone, while there is still time left. Most other states have such an amendment and-or law and it has not proved to be "unconstitutional" yet. PATRICK J.

MASSE Montgomery. Wallace Needed Editor, The Advertiser: We in the North like Wallace. Though I am not a citizen of your beautiful state, I think that Wallace will go down in history of our country as a great man. Give your governor another term. We need patriots such as he.

You need be ashamed of nothing. You fellows are pure compared to the larger states. ROBERT H. POOLE 275 Ohio Johnstown, Pa. You Know It Editor, The Advertiser: It is good to know that Alabama has men like Senator Gilchrist and the brave ones with him.

Men who have guts and common sense. Men interested in the welfare of Alabama. Men that can't be bought, threatened or promised. Men that stand on their own two feet and think for themselves. Men failing to bend to vicious pressure.

With this type of men Alabama may reach her great potential. With the weak-kneed, spineless yes men of Wallace we don't have a chance. And what's more, in your heart you know it. ED DUNN Montgomery. Trip Wise? wondering why the artificial control of birth is "irrational." About the U.N., again it was too much and too little.

He told the U.N. delegates their vocation is "to make brothers of all peoples." Then he asked a rhetorical question the implication of which is as mighty as its language is vague: "Is there anyone who does not see the necessity of coming thus progressively to the establishment of a world authority, able to act efficaciously on the juridical and political levels?" If he meant a world government, the answer is "Yes." Millions, hundreds of millions, perhaps a majority of men, do not see the necessity, nor desirability, of that. Just see by whom and how the earth's people are ruled. At any time in the foreseeable future, a world government would be a world tyranny, a monstrosity freezing the few steams of freedom. There is no reason to presume it would be either democratic or benign.

The Pope evoked "the voice of our predecessors." But did he not hear the voice of Pope Benedict XV? It was Benedict who said, on July 25, 1920: "We see the gradual spreading of the idea of a universal republic, based on the principle of the absolute equality of men and the community of goods; a republic from which all distinction of nationality would be banished Put into practice, these theories are bound to unchain a regime of unimaginable terror." Now the argument will ensue, over what Pope Paul meant and did not mean. NONE The Commercial Appeal As well as we can ascertain, no poodle has ever come out flatly and asked for a single one of the haircuts sported by the breed. George Crocker In The San Francisco Examiner Lindsay's insistence on concealing his Republicanism and on posing as an infiltrator in the Johnson Humphrey-Kennedy camp. Since the Democrats possess a rousing majority already, Beame is rehearsing his inaugural speech. CATHOLIC APPEAL But, hold.

Bill Buckley is also a Catholic, and so is his candidate for president of the City Council, Mrs. Roseamary Gunning, who has led a campaign against bussing students from one school district to another to end de facto segregation. And the Catholic vote is largely Democratic in a city which votes its ethnical and religious postures. Buckley, say the Lindsay folks, could draw off a lot of Democratic votes from the colorless Beame, whose personality is no match for the Lindsay image as a white knight seeking to deliver the city from its bosses. As Lindsay keeps noting, Beame is the candidate of the bosses.

Beame denies this hourly, but it was the bosses who nominated him over Mayor Wagner's boy, Paul Screvane, and they will demand their pound of flesh. LOOKS LIKE BEAME Still, if Lindsay has the reformers and Buckley the Catholics and right-wingers, Beame has the Jews. One-third of the total vote is Jewish, and the Jews are conscientious about making it to the polls. Moreover, Beame would be the city's first Jewish mayor, a status symbol to shake at the neighbors. At this writing, it has to look like Beame.

He's a Democrat in a Democratic town, and although his political charm is approximately that of an unctuous doorman, he has no glaring liabilities. Lindsay is not only a Republican, despite his occult murmurings, he is an Ivy Leaguer in a town which is more comfortable in the company of bookies and saloon keepers. And Buckley has only nuisance value. New York TO THE PROVINCIAL, New York City Is a dreadful metropolitan morass populated by mean people who regard the 'visitor as an oafish in truder who should be "pummelled in subway and barred from better tables in restaurants. But it retains a Ibarbaric liveliness, and tthere is a certain Borgia tstyle to the citizenry's constant seeking for the TILLY jugular.

This, I assume, is why three otherwise rational males seek to become its mayor. Abe Beame, John Lindsay and Bill Buckley must be aware that the city is ungovernable, a loose confederation of farring tribal chiefs who pay only contemptuous homage to their dukes. But the politician is born with rocks in his bead. CAN'T WIN, RUNS ANYHOW The story of the mayoralty campaign thus far, however, is so implausible it seems incredible even in New York. Buckley, the Conservative Party's candidate, an amiable iconoclast, was supposed to be running just for practice.

But he Is stealing votes from both Democrat Beame and the furtive Republican, Lindsay. Buckley can't win, and he knows it, but he is proving far more obnoxious than was expected and he probably will decide the winner, Both Beame and Lindsay tried to ignore Buckley on the theory that you don't promote the ambitions of a pest. Now, however, the pollsters indicate Buckley will pick up between 400,000 and 500,000 votes on Election Day and that makes him a menace. Beame's cronies pretend to be pleased by this development. They argue that rjiost of Buckley's support will come from the Republicans, who are displeased at Many who deeply revere him are disturbed by the Pope's peregrinations far from the Vatican.

Last December he made a trip to Bombay, of all places, to pray for peace, and by a cruel chance the dispute over Kashmir broke into open war this year after smoldering for 18 years. There is a danger, perceived by many Catholics and non-Catholics, that the great prestige of the papacy precious to the entire Christian world can be risked by a polich which may allow the image of the Pope to be associated, even remotely, with temporal events which he is impotent to influence. He goes forth to articulate, out of those deep pools of spirituality which are the visible marks of his character, mankind's hope for peace. But there is a nagging fear, felt by many Catholics and others, that there may be subtle perils in the Pope's act of entering a secular, political chamber such as the General Assembly of the U.N.; and conferring with a political figure, albeit the President of the U.S., in a New York hotel room; and conducting mass in Yankee Stadium. It is an ineffable fear, hardly yet whispered.

But when a pontiff of the church steps into a secular milieu, as Paul VI did last Monday in New York, his very act invites comment and he places his every word on the table for critical analysis. On such an occasion it is inevitable that a Pope will say either" too much or too little; also that he will speak in a rhetoric likely to be misinterpreted. About birth control, Pope Paul said both too much and too little: "You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life." The whole world is left.

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