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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON THURSDAY. DECEMBER 12. 1963 A 9 Country Boy, Who Hauled Down English Flag May Succeed Nehru By S. R. ROY United Press International NEW DELHI (UPI) - At the height of British power in India about 40 years ago, a 17-year-old village boy named Karup panna Kamraj came to the south Indian city of Madras and saw the Union Jack flut tering over the imperial fort of St. George. "I shall see that flag hauled down," the youngster swore to himself, "and in its place the standard of free India will go up." The country boy played a big part in hauling down the Brit ish flag. Today he is a national figure who is often discussed as the logical successor to aging Prime Minister Jawaharlal Neh ru. Karuppanna Kamraj is a household word in India, but has scarcely been heard of in other countries. But Kamraj has just been elected to assume vast political power as boss of the organiza tional machine of the ruling party, the All-India Congress Committee. The 60-year-old politician will begin his two-year term as committee president in Janu ary. They will be crucial years for the monolithic but moribund national party, for unless its house is put in order before the next eeneral elections in 1067 the congress may either split apart or lose power. Only three months ago, Kam raj was the chief minister of India's best administered stale, madras. He voluntarily renounc ed tms ottice in order to go back to the field to revive the state party machine. Has Little Schooling Kamraj hails from the back woods and had little formal schooling. He was born in the village of Virudinagar near the southern tip of India, and lost his father at the age of six. As a husky, hotheaded youth he won a formidable rcputa tion as a political street fighter. He joined the Congress party as a full-time agitator, and spent a year in jail for illegal political activities. Kamraj was back in jail in 1942, this time for alleged com-, Dlicitv in blowing up a rail- r road bridge. He spent the rest: of the Second World War in i prison. i His wartime lan term orougni Kamraj's brilliant organization-' al skill to the fore. Instead of abandoning the anti-British un derground which he had creat-1 ed, he managed to run its op- i erations from the inside of a : British jail cell. ! The underground leader ana , alleged saboteur was a hero when he came out of prison in 1945. By 1954 he had begun his nine-year tour as chief minis ter of Madras Province's 33 million people. ! Kamraj is bachelor or trugai habits, who says he was too old : I to marry by the time he was able to afford it. speaks utile tngnsn I iamrai speaKs nine nngusn. ; Neither does he know the offi cial "national" language called Hindi. These are the greatest obstacles in the way of his be-! coming a future ruler of India, because any would-be prime ! minister must woo the 200 mil lion Hindi-speaking people of, I north India, and because most government business is done in . English. But Kamraj didn't let this prevent him from running an efficient government in Madras, where he stuck to setting poli cies and left the detail work to an able set of loyal, English-1 speaking technicians. Kamraj has been publicly ! praised by Nehru. He has an I appealing, "folksy" political image. He is a ruthless oppo nent and a skilled organizer. If j his lack of English and Hindi is not too overpowering a bar-) ricr, he may be the man to watch as Nehru ncars the end . of his political career. TOUGH TREE BUENOS AIRES (UPI) -The ' Ombu tree of Argentina's pam pas is the toughest known to the forest industry. Its wood won't burn, no hurricane can uproot, it has no known diseases and scientists have not been able to 1 discover the Ombu's life span. Your Money's Worth By SYLVIA PORTER CwifVt, Htll Syntficatt, Inc. CRADLE-TO-GRAVE EDUCATION (This Is the second of (wo articles on the education subject) "Picture the event in 1994: The doorbell rings no ... the ) electronic impulse arbitron in the leisure room vibrates and flashes on the all-purpose screen the bulky image of the Third- I Degree Robot Officer. Third-Degree Kobototfs call in person : for two kinds of violators only: scof flaws who hang their : hovercraft too close to Tee-Vee aerials (difficult to avoid be cause they are invisible); or for those who, ignoring the hourly subliminal warnings, have not pressed their Tee-Vee school buttons for three days running. "Secunda, gum-chewing 12-year-old daughter of the house, goes tn the door to argue 'and I've done all my homework for the next veal', too. "Metallically but clearly, the truant officer (for it is none 1 1 other than he) savs 'But I am Here lor your motnerv With this imaginative introduction, Milton R. Stern, an assistant dean at New York University, submits his solution ; to the growing problem of leisure time in the United States , I crarile-to-erave classes. As certain as automation, says he, is adult education for everybody and he even suggests seriously that cradle-to-gravc classes "may soon become compulsory. That automation Is creating an explosive problem of non work in this country is undeniable. The U.S. Government estimates rising nutpul-pcr-manhour, due to automation, is now eliminating a minimum of 200.000 factory jobs a year. A leading manufacturer of automation equipment. John L. Snyder Jr., of the U.S. Industries, Inc.. says flatly (his is "a gross underestimate of (he real situation." Snyder de clares automation Is eliminating 2 million jobs a year not nnlv throuirh direct disnlaccment of workers but also through the "silent firings" of workers who would have been employ ed had Ihrir lobs not been wiped out. This, of course, is the great force behind the accelerated I drive for a shorter workweek and union leaders openly admit I they are fighting for shorter hours than their members really want. , , I This is the key reason for the development of the extended , vacation dramatized bv the 13-weck sabbatical recently in itiated in the steel and can industries and certain to spread I in coming years. i This always has been the factor behind feathcrbedding which is work in name only. At the same time, as reported yesterday, non-work is one nf Ihp fastest Browing "occupations" in the United States. Our nnn.umrlt nnraila(ion is un to 7.3 million, triple the total in 1949, and this group receives $100 billion a year, or one-fifth of our ! entire personal income. i In the past only the wealthy have had the burden of too much leisure and too few interests to enjoy the leisure. Now it's becoming the curse of millions who have been accustomed to filling most of their days with time-consuming tasks and who are utterly unpreparca lor non-wurn. Since extended leisure time is inevitable, what's the answer? It's not more golf, more gardening, more fishing, bowling or TV-watching. These pleasures can become tortures if there is little else. , , , . 1 The answer is a step-up in education of the the American adult, as well as the young, to prepare all of us to reach a higher plateau ot literacy in every spnere economic, political, social, cultural. The stage Is being set for this. Closed-circuit TV in the classroom suggests what is (o comr. The voluntary return to classes of adults across (he nation to learn new apiininrs and hobbies indicates how far we have moved from Ihc noniilar Image of night school. The campaigns laurrhed by farsightrd union, business and community leaders to spur adult education ounng vacation ana on-nnurs huKumi what is on the av. The dimensions of our future adult education cannot even be guessed, but this is sure: we are a remarkably ignorant people and we have a long, long way to go before we can claim otherwise. One reason Stern's seemingly eccentric prophecy impresses me is that subconsciously I came to it tor mysell long ago. Whenever I've been asked what 1 11 do when 1 get on tnis rat- rare nf a dai v column, my immediate answer nas necn: "I'm going back to school to learn and to teach." I've al ready arrived where item says our country is neaaing. at Weisfield's SPECIAL LIMITED TIME OFFER! . . . 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