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Newspaper Page TextKhrushchev's Softer Line Doesn't Mean Policy Change, Newspaper Editor Says New York - il'Pli - Lee Hills, editor in chief of the Knight Newspapers, says that it would be a mistake" to infer that the softer line adopted by Soviet Premier Nikita Khru shchev means a change in Rus sia's goals. Hills and three other Amer ican newspaper editors arriv ed here by plane Saturday from Paris after a one month tour of the Soviet Union, which included an interview with Khrushchev. "1 don't think that there is any dilution of what the Com munists are trying to do," Hills said, "although they are more flexible and ostensibly more moderate. "The frightening thing about it is the capacity for self deception of these Com munist leaders," he added. ' They believe everything they say about the United States." Comparison Impossible Hills, president of the Amer ican Society of Newspaper Ed itors, said that it would be im possible to compare the Soviet press, their host on the tour, with the American press. "Their press is an arm and tool of the government," he said. "It's a government func tion. "The Soviet people, from the press, radio and television, get exactly what the govern ment wants them to hear and see, and they have a very dis torted picture of the United States and the motives of this country." Their tour of eight Russian cities included the two and one-half hour talk with Khru shchev. Eight other American editors also were present for the interview. "Khrushchev is a very wily, cunning politician," Hills said. "He is extremely articulate. IS YOUR MOBILE? Money for a tune-up, re pairs, accessories, other ex penses. One-visit service. IDCAL IDAN 535 E. JACKSON BLVD. Mectford Shopping Center Phone: 773-7456 Dick Webb, Mgr. Optn Friday Evening 'Til 7 "He was doing his best dur ing the interview to be amia ble. He flared up a couple of times, but he never really lost his temper." Took Iisue Hills said that he and his fellow editors particularly took issue with inaccuracies in the Soviet translation of the text of their conversation. "Some of our answers were completely changed around. We couldn't very well argue about these because of the in terpreter, but they even changed some of our questions as well as the answers," Hills said. Hills said he was impressed by the treatment they receiv ed. "I got the impression that we got some of the treatment they were going to give Eisenhower." Former President Eisen hower had been scheduled to visit the Soviet Union in 1960 after Khrushchev visited the United States. The visit was called off, however, after the disclosure of an American U-2 flight over Russia. Election Victory Predicted Hills said he believed that Khrushchev would win a free and open election in the So viet Union "hands down. Felix R. McKnight, execu tive editor of the Dallas Times Herald, said that Khrushchev "has a very agile mind. He sat for two and one-half hours with a pad, occasionally tap ping a pencil on it, but never took a note." McKnight said that Khru shchev took 37 minutes to an swer the first question. The question, from Hills, pertain ed to the problems that divide the United States and the So viet Union and what could be done to solve them. McKnight said he was "chewed out" by Khrushchev when he asked the Soviet Pre mier if the Russian people had been informed of the 40 So viet atmospheric nuclear ex plosions. Creed C. Black, executive editor of the Wilmington (Del.) News-Journal, said that there should be a larger pro gram for exchange of Soviet and U.S. tourists to combat misinformation in Russia about the United States. "They are afraid to inform the people about what is go ing on in the world," Black said. "Tass carried one para graph on Telstar." No Nylon Plant Black asked about industry in Tbilisi, the capital of the Georgian Republic, and ex pressed interest in visiting a nylon plant when he was told the city had one. But when I tried to set it up for a visit they told me there was no nylon plant there," he said. "We were shown what they wanted us to sec." William J. Woestendiek, ed itorial director of Newsday In Garden City, N.Y., said that in Tashkent he was surround ed by students who asked "Why does Kennedy want war?" "The frightening thing is they believed this very strong ly," he said. Your Money's Worth By SYLVIA PORTER Copyright, Hall Syndicate, Inc. WHAT THREE-POINT TAX CUT WOULD SAVE YOU A quick, simple, substantial, across-the-board tax cut plan favored in high administration circles today would reduce tax rates on individual incomes by three points in each brac ket and would reduce the tax rate on corporations by either three or five points too. This would, on an annual basis, save individual taxpayers $6 billion, for each point in individual tax rates amounts to $2 billion a year. It would save corporations around $1.5 billion if the rate were cut from 52 to 49 per cent, or $2.5 billion if the rate were cut to 47 per cent, for each point in corporation tax rates amounts to about $500 million over a year. The total tax reduction over a 12-month period would be either $7.5 billion or $8.5 billion. The reductions would become effective immediately after passage of the law, on the understanding that this quickie would be replaced next year by a sounder, more comprehensive program of tax reduction and reform. What would this sort of tax cut mean to your pocket book? While a total of $6 billion in tax reduction for in dividuals sounds impressive on the face of it, what share of the savings would you get? This table shows what it would mean to you as married taxpayers filing joint returns with taxable incomes meaning your income after all your deductions and exemptions of the following amounts. Taxable income Tax paid now After 3-pt. cut Saving $ 4,000 $ 800 $ 680 $ 120 8.000 1.680 1.440 240 12,000 2.720 2.360 360 16,000 3.920 3,440 480 20,000 5.280 4.680 600 24.000 6.800 6.080 720 28.000 8.520 7.680 840 32,000 10,400 9.440 960 36,000 12.400 11.320 1.080 40,000 14,520 13,320 1,200 44.000 16,760 15.440 1,320 52.000 21,480 19.920 1.560 64.000 28.920 27,000 1,920 76,000 36.720 34.440 2.280 ' 88.000 45.000 42,360 2.640 100,000 53,640 50,640 3,000 WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE These features in your Automatic Washer? 1. Extra large capacity and small load feature. 2. 4-Speed and 3-cyele. 3. 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Although the dollar savings in the lower brackets would appear picayune when spread over 52 weeks of pay checks, even tiny dollar amounts left in the pay envelope of families which spend to the hilt of their income add up to a business spur, for these dollars "multiply." When the retailer gets more business, he in turn buys more from his wholesale, who in tur buy more from the manufacturers. This can be only theory now, for we haven't yet tried using the taxdeduction weapon to stimulate a sluggish economy, but it appears valid to argue that consumers will spend more if they got tax cuts and this will give businessmen the in centive to spend more as well. Simultaneously, corporations would get their own tax rate reduction and, coming on top of the tax savings to be achieved by the long-awaited liberalization of the deprecia lion rules, this could be of major importance not only from a commercial-financial but also from a psychological point of view. So complex and confused are the politics of immediate tax cuts at this stage that even the most informed insiders can do no more than guess what might happen, if any thing. But one thing is increasingly clear: unless given new stimulus, our economy is likely at best in the months ahead to continue its slow advance. A full year and a half after this economic expansion be gan, we still arc producing, selling and employing our work ers at rates far below our potential. Dennis the Menace By MERTON T. AKERS UPI Correspondent Some time in the summer of 1862 President Lincoln de cided to free the slaves. The actual date on which he made up his mind is ob scure. But he broke the news to Secretary of State William H. Seward and Secretary of Navy Gideon Welles on July 13. 1862 under strange cir cumstances. Lincoln, the two cabinet of ficers and Seward's daughter-in-law, Mrs. Frederick Se ward, rode in the Presidential carriage that Sunday after noon to the' home of Secre tary of War Edwin M. Stan ton to attend the funeral of Stanton's infant son, James. Welles told the story in his diary. "It was on this occasion and on this ride that he first mentioned to Mr. Seward and myself the subject of eman cipating the slaves by procla mation in case the Rebels did not cease to persist in their war on the government and the Union, of which he saw no evidence. He dwelt earn estly on the gravity, impor tance and delicacy of the movement, said he had given it much thought and had about come to the conclusion that it was a military neces sity absolutely essential for the salvation of the Union, that we must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued, etc., etc. First Occasion "This was, he said, the first occasion when he had men tioned the subject to anyone, and wished us frankly to state how the proposition struck us. Mr. Seward said the subject involved consequences so vast and momentous that he should wish to bestow on it mature reflection before a de cisive answer, but his pres ent opinion inclined to the measure as justifiable, ana nerhaps he might say expedi ent and necessary. These also were my views. . . "It was a new departure for the President, for until this lime, in all our previous interviews, whenever the question of emancipation or the mitigation of slavery had been in any way alluded to, he had been prompt and em phatic in denouncing any in terference by the General Government with the sub ject." Lincoln was pushed into his decision by circumstances. He was an anti-slavery man but not an Abolitionist-the difference was wide. He held the constitutional view that slavery could not be inter fered with by the national government within the states where it already existed. But he believed that slavery must be contained within those limits and barred in terri tories. Once contained, he thought, slavery inevitably would die rom economic pressure or by government purchase and freeing of the slaves. He had tried to convince Delaware to consider buying and freeing its comparatively small number of slaves but that stale legislature would have none of it. Border state men from Kentucky, Missouri nd Maryland were just as adamant. Republicans Threaten Yet the Republican party, to which radical anti-slavery men and Abolitionists had flocked in 1860, was forging ahead of Lincoln on the slav ery question and threatening to take the initiative away from him-and the party con trolled the Congress. It al ready had freed the slaves in the District of Columbia, pay- foU ALWAYS SAY 'AMEN' 'CAUSE IT 00NT S0UN0 NICE TO SAY '50 WG TO GOD. Ride Coolly mB MARK V AUTO AIR CONDITIONING MONITOR, BY MARK IV The ultimate in auto air conditioning. Rid se rene, unruffled car windows closed agamst wind, dust, noise. Ar rive unwilled, unwnn V led Monitor dehumid ifies, as well as cools, tht ar in your car, En joy the new slimline case designed to harmonize with your car interior. AMERICA'S TOP SELL ING CUSTOM INSTALL ED AUTO AIR CONDI TIONER. Nationwide service and a 12-month or 12,000-mtle warranty, with Monitor by Mark IV . . . Dick Knighl Co. 8th at Rtvarltd ing $200 a head to the mas ters. Lincoln also had reluc tantly signed the Confiscation and Emancipation bill on July 17 which freed slaves of mas ters in rebellion. He must act fast or lose his hold on the party, it seemed. Another consideration was the value of emancipation as a war measure. It would de prive the Confederacy of at least some of the labor of 3i million slaves who continued to grow food, build fortifica tions and drive army wagons while their masters fought. Even more important, per haps, would be the effect of stiffening war spirits in the North, now ebbing after re verses on the Peninsula be fore Richmond. Also vital were the foreign aspects of emancipation. To make emancipation a twin war aim with preserving the Union would mobilize human itarian sentiment in Europe. With those objectives in mind Lincoln drafted the Emancipation P r o c lamation off and on and in the semi secrecy of the telegraph room of the War Department with only Thomas E. Eckert, an operator, as a witness. Eckert recorded that Lin coln would write a line or two and then look off into the distance as if construct ing the next -sentence in his mind before writing it. Lin coin would work an hour or so as he found time and then lock his papers in a desk. The rest of the cabinet learned about the preliminary proclamation on July 22 1862. Cabinet Startled They were startled when Lincoln pulled the document out of his pocket and read its 500 words which went to the point. On Jan. 1, 1863, it read, he, Abraham Lincoln, acting solely on his respon sibility as President and commander-in-chief, would pro claim "all persons held as slaves" within any state then in rebellion "shall then, thenceforward and forever be free." Later Lincoln told the story of the historic cabinet meet ing to Francis Carpenter, who painted the scene. "Things had gone on from bad to worse," Carpenter quoted Lincoln as saying, "un til I felt that we had reached the end of our rope. . . I said to the cabinet that I . . had not called them together to ask their advice, but . . , sug gestions . . . would be in order after they heard it read . , , Secretary (of Treasury Sal mon P.) Chase wished the lan guage stronger in reference to the arming of the blacks. Mr. (Postmaster General Montgomery) Blair depre cated the policy, on the ground that it would cost the administration the fall elec tions. ". . . Secretary Seward . , . said in substance, 'Mr. Presi dent, I approve of the procla mation, but I question the expediency of its issue at this juncture. The depression of the public mind, consequent on our repeated reverses, is so great 1 fear the effect of so important a step. It may be viewed as the last measure of an exhausted government. 1 suggest that you postpone its issue until you can give it to the country supported hy a military success. . .' Struck With Force "The wisdom of the view of the Secretary of State struck me with very great force. It was an aspect that, in all my thought on the sub ject, I had entirely over looked. , . ." Contrariness Wholesome Thing Publisher Says New York - il'PD - Contrari ness, said publisher James L. Kraser, can be a wholesome thing when applied to the thinking processes. It sets up an early warning system. This is the theory, he ex plained, that has made Hum phrey B. Neill. sitting up in So Lincoln again tucked the state of Vermont where away the document, "touch- he emigrated from Wall ing it up" once in a while. Street, write a bi-weekly Attorney General Edward i Frascr-Ncm "Letter of Con- Bates, a Missourian but Vir ginia-born, approved the doc ument, especially the part providing for colonizing ex- slaves. Stanton, who had learned his Abolition at the knee of his Quaker father, quickly approved. Strangely enough. Chase, an ardent anti-slavery man, did not give his unqualified approval. Welles, who detest ed Chase, attributed Chase's attitude to jcalously-Lincoln had thought of emancipation first and that put him one up on the treasury secretary who was getting presidential am bitions. Lincoln would get his mili tary victory and issue the proclamation two months later almost to the day. Graham Closes Fresno Crusade Fresno, Calif. -(IT"- Billy Graham ended his eight-day crusade here Sunday night with a challenge to his audi ence of 28,000 to prepare for the pecond coming of Christ, Although he said that' the "coming of Christ could be to morrow or a thousand years away," the Baptist minister noted that conditions were right at present. Graham said that five signs preceding Christ's return were, according to the Bible, a time of falling away from the faith, a time of immoral ity, a time of increased sin, a time when the church docs not expect it, and a time when world-wide evangelism is in progress. He pointed out that the first four conditions had been occurring for quite a while, but current times arc the first period of world-wide evan gelism. Graham noted the doctrine of Christ's coming cuts across the plans of "millions of peo ple who want to eat, drink and be merry -without Interference." "Death is the end of the world for all of us," he said "Jesus warned that we are to trary Opinion" which has been going on for 13 years, covering matters of business, finance and socio-economics. In the 20s. Neill was "in" Wall Street. In a recent pam phlet, he explained: Urge Started Quest Quite Irankly, the urge that first sent me on a quest that ended in the Neill theory of contrary opinion was the disappointments and disillu sionment that come to every one who seeks a method to beat the stock market." On a recent visit here from Pawlet, Vt where the letters are published. Fraser ex plained that Ncill's theory, and his writing rc not merely "agin something or "cranky,' but challenging; they call upon the reader to think for himself. "Basically, a person who reads him may be interested in the market," explained Fraser, "but he has a liking for this letter as containing a viewpoint which he can not get elsewhere. 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