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THURSDAY, AUGUST 7. 1958 HERALD AND NEWS. KIAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGE 7 A iftft Til. l. O 1W by MA W g. Editor's Note: Censorship and a cloud of propaganda obscure much of what has been going on in the Middle East. To get down to ba sic facts, William L. Ryan spent nearly three months in the area on a survey trip the sixth he has made to the Mideast. This is the first of four articles in which he analyzes the West's dilemma on the eve of a proposed summit meeting. Let's see I traded my green beans for your dessert, so how much is my part of the check?" Con Men Fleece Hundreds Of Victims Every Year United States Continues To Lose Friends In The Arab East, Says Analyst By JERRY BENNETT NEA Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON (NEA) - Hun dreds of gullible citizens are being fleeced each year by a vicious confidence game that enables crooks to drag their victims into' court to make them pay off. That's the startling report of congressional and Federal Trade Commission investigators who charge that about 75 firms are running a unique real estate rack et which takes unsuspecting vic tims for 50 million dollars a year. The details are to be aired this month at special Senate subcom mittee hearings, under Sen. Hen ry M. Jackson (D-Wash.). The average victim of the amaz ing swindle, investigators explain, is a small town resident who wants to sell his home or busi ness. He's usually approached by a smiling, smooth-talking sales man, who confidently explains that ne can help him make a fast sale. Often the salesman claims that he already has a buyer lined up. 9377 T" "Ipjlf SIZES I ' P 1 12-20 FASHION WINNER Our fashion-new Printed Pattern in the loveliest silhouette for summer. Sheath-slim front; back view softly bloused above waist. flaring paneled skirt. Flattering easy to sew in three sleeve ver sions. Printed Pattern 9377: Misses' Sizes 12. 14. 16. 18, 20. Size 16 takes 4'i vards 35-inch fabric. Printed directions on each pat tern part. Easier, accurate. Send thirty-five cents (coins) for this pattern add five cents for each pattern tor lst-ciass mailing. Sent to Marian Martin, care of Herald and News, Pattern Dept., 232 West 18th Street, New York 11, New York. Print plainly name, ad dress with zone, size and style number. If the victim looks slightly dubious, the salesman flashes some impressive looking catalogs. oonds and letters ot endorsement to prove that his firm is as sound as a bank vault's steel door. Then he swings the knockout sales punch. He tells the owner that the prop erty is priced too low. In fact, the salesman explains that the buyer, whom he just mentioned, is ready to pay a lot more. This is the hooker. . The victim hurriedly signs a con tract and agrees to pay the sales man a commission right away for his exceptional services. It's not until the salesman is spending the commission miles away that the unsuspecting property owner finally reads the small print in the contract. It guarantees only that the firiri will advertise the property for sale. The advertising usually turns out to be just classified blurbs in a couple of newspapers or a mere catalog. Investigators say that sales resulting from this adver tising are less than one-half of one per cent. But it's another block of small type that completely blasts the victim's hopes. This is known as a disclaimer clause. What its le gal jargon boils down to is that the firm is not obligated to fulfill any of the salesman's verbal prom ises. The contract, however, is ab solutely valid. It's the disclaimer clause that enables the con men to success fully use the courts in carrying out their swindles. For example, swindlers often will not ask for an advance fee, investigators explain. Instead, they will send the signed contract to their home office. Then the home office will start legal action in the state where it is located. The firm usually wins its case since the average victim can't afford to travel hundreds of miles to defend himself. The judg ment is then taken to the vic tim's home state where it is en forced. Racket investigators explain that the majority of victims are the people who can least afford a fi nancial loss, tor example, a last talking salesman swindled an el derly Washington state widow out of $250 by convincing her that a worthless mining claim was worth a fortune. Her sole income is a social security allowance of $39 a month. A New York farmer, who is so feeble that he can't shave him self, was taken for $150. And a Texan lost his entire business aft er a firm successfully sued on a contract. The businessman had to sell his property in order to raise the needed money. Sen. Jackson's subcommittee will study a bill by Sens. Karl llundt (R-S.D.) and John McClellan ID Ark.) which would levy a $5,000 fine on anyone found guilty of op erating such a racket in inter state commerce. Convicted sales man also could receive a max imum of five years in jail. The Federal Trade Commission, which is responsible for prevent ing false and misleading advertis ing is limited in its power to cope with the real estate problem. The FTC can command firms to stop making false claims. But it can't take court action unless a com panv ignores the order. FTC officials complain that or dering a shifty real estate 'firm to stop false advertising often re suits in the salesmen simply go ing to another location and form ins; one or more new companies By WILLIAM L. RYAN AP Foreign News Analyst For years, the UnitedJitates has been losing friends in the Arab East. It still is. Strangely enough, the shock of recent events may have given Americans, a chance to turn the tide. These events made Arabs see their area as the possible cockpit of World War III. The thought jolt ed them. Thus, in the proposed summit meeting, and -in its actions else where, the United States may face at last a chance to salvage some thing from the wreckage of its prestige among the Arabs. Oil and strategic position are two key points underlying any consid eration of this area where Western civilization began. Basically, the struggle hinges on what sprang from the ages-old compost of the Garden of Eden vast riches m oil. And this is the crossroads of the world. The question that must wor ry Western leaders is this: Is the Soviet Union going to be able some day to squeeze the West's influence out of this area, and make Moscow master of the great sea route that connects East and West? Those are the stakes. One of the things that brought America to today's crisis was a persistent near-sightedness. Americans failed to see, or at least to comprehend, the implica tions of the postwar movement to ward independence and nationhood that swept across lands long under colonial rule. This nationalism fever swept up the Arabs, too, but theirs is not a nationalism confined to the spe cific boundaries of one country. It is pan-Arabism, a feeling of one ness among people occupying a vast segment of the backward world, speaking Arabic, sharing the same racial memories, harbor ing bitterness against a history of exploitation. The Russians did not really awaken to the possibilities of this movement until after Stalin's death. Then Soviet policy, however cynically, set out to capitalize on the tide, as if heeding the Biblical prophecy of Jeremiah: "Egypt riseth up like a flood and the waves thereof shall be moved as river." The waves now threatening to engulf all the Holy Land are those of a pan-Arab nationalism churned by frustration into a thing called Nassensm. Gamal Abaci Nasser, president of the United Arab Re public of Egypt and Syria, denies Nasserism exists. Whatever its name, the force came into being because of him perhaps even in spite of him. He may be the cap tive of its momentum. Events of the past three months plummeted Western prestige in the Arab East. In many Arab eyes the twin intervention in Jordan by the British and in Lebanon by the Americans set back the clock and revived the dreaded bo geys of imperialism and colonial ism. Many Arabs still want desper ately to remain the West's friends, though they have fallen silent be fore the swelling tide of emotional and often grotesquely distorted ra cial pride. Before this summer's events there had been developing cautious attitude of reasonableness reasonableness, at any rate, by Arab standards, which are far dif ferent from the West's. Much of that climate is gone now. The United States, as leader of the West, can claim as friends in the Arab East only those whose survival depends upon such friendship: Hussein, a lonely young monarch heavily guarded in Amman against his own people: Camille Chamoun, the tough, stub born politician who has been oc cupying Lebanon's presidential pal ace; 750,000 frightened Christians in Lebanon; less than 500,000 scared Bedouins in Jordan. Britain's Aneurin Bevan has called Hussein a kept king in a kept country. The description was cruel but accurate. And to some in Lebanon, was an ardent nation alist who attached himself to the United Slates "only because he (eared the loss of his own power. Many Arabs would be America's friends if they could be or if they dared. But the U.S. history of association with unpopular re gimes and American insistence upon labels such as pro-Western or pro-Communist meaningless in the Arab East make it diffi cult. Those who want to be Amer ica's friends are not standing up to be counted. How did American fortunes sink so low? Palestine always has been basic to the Middle East problem. Up to February 1955. there was rea son to hope the Arabs might turn inward to their own vast economic woes. Then began a nightmare for Western policy. Nagged by hit-and-run comman do attacks. Israel mounted an at tack on the Egyptian occupied Gaza Strip. That humiliated Nas ser and endangered his political position. He sought arms. He could not meet U.S. terms. The Commu nist bloc was eager to help. Even with these arms Nasser was in no position to upset Middle East peace. He still might have concentrated on attempts to cure Egypt's backwardness. However. over-ambitious, Nasser's plan for a high Aswan Dam to increase Egypt's arable land might have Kept him occupied at home. But Washington pulled the rug from under Nasser, withdrawing an offer of help on the dam and nanaing mm a gratuitous insult: Egypt wasn't up to such a pro-. gram. The result was nationaliza tion of the Suez Canal and the 1956 isis. Nasser now is captive of all these events. Making himself into the image of liberator and en couraged by Moscow, he has burned more and more of his bridges westward. His Nasserism became something quite apart from Arab nationalist yearnings, For years, the United States made no conspicuous effort to rec ognize there could be anything but evil in Arab nationalism. There's still a chance to reme dy that. Every Arab is a national ist, whether he is friend or foe of the West. His nationalism is not a force that will be stopped by diplomacy. The West, depending heavily on Arab oil, must choose: It can try to oppose nationalise and drive the Arabs into desperate meas ures such as slain Nuri Said meant when he talked of "a compulsion to flirt with suicide." This can mean unending Arab turmoil and even eventual Soviet sway. 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