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Letter to the editor Need winter carnival

To the editor: I think this town needs something like that which is done in St. Paul, Minnesota every year. I think we should have a winter carnival here. We have carnivals during the summer months but nothing in the winter. This could be done, I think, by utilizing the fairgrounds to their fullest extent--maybe we could put a plastic lining in the community building and then flood it and have an ice-skating rink.

Turning back the clock in Putnam County

60 years ago— Greek New Year’s Day was celebrated in the home of Mrs. Louis Zacharokas. The Greencastle Booster’s club solicited merchant support to give away SIOO.OO in gold every month. Prosecutor William M. Suthertin announced that affadivts would be filed against persons delinquent in paying their dog taxes. 20 years ago— Mrs. Noal Nicholson played the piano at the Bainbridge Saddle Club dance. Mrs. Walter Schulz was in charge of a nine-member PTA study group. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Thomas and sons of the Morton community had visited in Carbon. 10 years ago— Seaman Richard E. Kallner, USN, son

Senior center Activities at center slated

The Putnam County Senior Activity Center. located at 9 W. Frankiin St. on the north side of the square in Greencastle, Is open weekdays from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. Friday evenings the center remains open till 8 p.m. for game night. For any information concerning the center, please feel free to call 653-8606 and talk with Sharon Hammond, the center director. The latest activity at the center is a crocheting group which will meet every Monday afternoon at 1. The fundamentals of crocheting will be taught, as well as helpful instructions given for the more experienced crocheter. The center serves as a craft outlet throughout the year for senior members of the county who make and wish to sell craft items. A limitation of two articles per month per individual is necessary so as to enable the center to accommodate as many different individuals as possible.

Tom Wicker The world turned upside down

(c) 1975 New York Times News Service WASHINGTON - Herbert Kalmbach, natty in a three-piece suit, told a news conference he had “renewed appreciation and confidence in the essential fairness of America’s justice” and even hoped that his “actions have served to strengthen the pillars of justice.” Jeb Magruder was welcomed home with yellow ribbons round the old oak tree - actually a cherry -- in his surburban yard. Neighbors gathered to greet him with a friendly banner. Mrs. Dean said it was a great way to start the new year and that her husband had been “sufficiently punished.” How easily is the world turned upside down! With an unexpected stroke of his pen, John Sirica - the old “hanging judge” himself, the scourge of Watergate - - turned loose three cf the major participants in the biggest political scandal in American history, one being seen by more and more people as having threatened the very foundations of Democratic government. Kalmbach’s response was worthy of a Kafka story. He got off with six months, mostly in quarters for government witnesses, and as a result his confidence in the ‘‘fairness of American justice” is renewed. Some people spend more time in jail, merely awaiting trial on minor larcency charges. Kalmbach, who sold an ambassadorship, fancies that his having pled guilty to a felony and a misdemeanor, as well as testifying against former colleagues, actually “strengthened the pillars of justice.” But first, he and the Watergate gang came as close as anyone has to pulling down those pillars. As for Magruder’s neighbors, their generosity toward a good family and community man does them credit. Such generosity is virtually nonexistent, however, when the ordinary convict shuffles out of the prison gate in a state suit with a few grudging dollars in his pocket and no job, little ability to get one,

Or we could : Build forms to hold water and let the Ice harden. Then we could incorporate tne carnival around the ice skating rink. This way wecouldhave skating here not just when Mother Nature decides it’s time. I do hope these proposal will receive someconsideration from the public. B.T. Greencastle

of Mr. and Mrs. G. Keith Kallner, 302 West Poplar St., Greencastle, had returned from Long Beach, Calif. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Beatty had returned from a buying trip to Chicago. Mrs. Agnes B. Titus,'daughter Of Mrs. Olive Baughman, 508 Crown St., Greencastle, had been honored for 20 years service with the Federal government at Defense Electronics Supply Center,' Dayton, O. 5 years ago— B.E. “Bo” Akers, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gene Akers, was advanced from Manager, Special Rotary Manufacturing in Greencastle to Project Manager, Cable Assembly, 1.8. M. in Dayton, N.J. South Putnam’s Eagles broke out of a slump and beat Eminence.

The craft display is open during the regular hours of the center.'The display includes numerous hand made items which may be purchased. The Activity Schedule for Wednesday, Jan. 15- Wednesday, Jan. 22 includes: Wedneday Jan. 15, Nutrition Program Lunch-11:45; Thursday, Jan. 16, Nutrition Program Lunch-11:45 and Poetry Reading by Clifford Estep-12:15. Friday, Jan. 17, Nutrition Program Lunch -11:45 ; A.A.R.P. meeting - 2 pjn. and Game Night 6 - 8 p.m. Monday, Jan. 20 - Nutrition Program Lunchil:4s and Crocheting Group -1 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 21, Quilting Group - 9:30 a.m.; Nutrition lesson by Maurine Aker - 11:30 and Nutrition Program Lunch -11:45. Wednesday, Jan. 22, Nutrition Program Lunch - 11:45.

and no yellow ribbon round the stunted splinter that may pass for a tree in his ghetto neighborhood. And if four months of minimum security confinement for John Dean is sufficient punishment for a man prosecutors say was the key man in the Watergate coverup before he became the key man in the prosecution, what is it when a high school dropout gets 15 years in New York for possessing more than an ounce of marijuana? What is it when Black radicals like Jim Grant and T.J. Reddy get 25 and 20 years in North Carolina on arson charges by witnesses paid thousands of dollars by the federal government? It is true enough that all these men ultimately helped the government crack the Watergate case and convict the other culprits; but it is also true that they could have blown the whistle at any time, but never did until faced with the necessity to save their skins as best they could. In the cases of Dean and Kalmbach, bar associations could levy harsher penalties than the law has by barring them from legal practice. But to the millions of lowincome, disadvantaged, unskilled and uneducated Americans, so many of whom have good reason to view the law with fear and distrust, the whole episode is likely to be another demonstration that there is one kind of justice for them, and another for affluent, educated persons with good lawyers and “standing” in their communities. The rest of us, without further recriminations on Dean, Magruder or Kalmbach, might take time to ask ourselves what a serious crime really is. A street mugging is abhorrent, a break-in demands severe punishment; but are betrayals of public trust and subversion of the laws by officials sworn to uphold them really to be considered lesser crimes, on the practical scale of the penalties that result?

James Reston The decline of authority in Washington

(c) 1975 New York Times News Service WASHINGTON - At the beginning of the new year, the most hopeful sign in Washington is the general decline of pretense. There are still a few windbags around pretending that everything will turn out rosy, but on the whole, the mood here is serious, and there is a greater willingness to face the economic and political facts. This a big change. No big promises now. No self-proclaimed saviors babbling about generations of peace and propsperity. Just a lot of ordinary guys in trouble, looking for a way out and asking for help. It’s not very heroic, but it’s a little nearer to reality. Suddenly, all the big shots have been cut down to human size. The President doesn’t pretend he has all the answers. One day he' is fighting inflation with budget cuts and bigger taxes, but he changes with facts and proposes tax cuts and a bigger deficit to fight the recession, and doesn’t grieve much over the switch. Even the President’s wife, who is expected by tradition to strike an adoring pose, treats her guy in public like any other fallible husband. Watching him on television celebrate international woman’s year the other day, she took him by the hand and laughed and told him he has “come a long, long, way.” Things are so bad now that even the vice president is given work to do. Unlike his predecessors, Nelson Rockefeller is spending most of his time downtown on the second floor of the executive office juilding across the street from the White House, making coffee for a stream of visitors. He hasn’t had time to move in to the new vice president’s house on observatory hill, to move his family to town or to organize his staff, but already he is deeply involved in domestic and foreign policy, not to mention the C.I.A. controversy, and is getting almost more assignments than he has time to handle. The mood is different on Capitol Hill, too. Freshmen members of the house of Representatives are supposed to slip quietly into town and tip their hats to the elders of the establishment. This year, the 75 new Democratic members arrived and demanded the right to question the Democratic chairn.an of the committees, and their was granted. • The balance of power is shifting in the Congress. The authority of the autocratic chairmen of the committees is waning. « The tragic collapse of Wilbur Mills is merely a symbol of a much wider dispersal of power. The chairman of Ways

(C) 1975 New York Times News Service WASHINGTON-John Locke, an English philosopher, stirred controversy three centuries ago with the notion that societieswere organized and ruled not by divine right, but by what he called “the consent of the governed.” Choosing his words carefully so as not to offend the king, Locke held that men left the wild state Of nature by their own volition, making a social contract in order to protect “life, liberty and property.” When tyrants Snatched away the protection of a citizen’s natural rights, the government was breaking the contract, and the time came for men to “appeal to heaven.” Locke’s reverent phrase was taken from the" practice of Biblical generals of praying before battle; and actually were code words-widely understood at the time-for armed rebellion against tyranny. Such ideas fired up young Thomas Jefferson a century later, and he filled the Declaration of Independence with Lockian ideas and phrases, even to “the pursuit of happiness.” How do I know this? Because I took a course on Locke’s second treatise' on government just a couple of years ago, conducted by a professor at St. Johns College. The seminar was a skullcracker

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and Means will no longer have a veto over tax policy. It will, for good or bad, be determined by a much larger and more liberal Ways and Means 'Committee'.* And even the leaders of the House, Speaker Albert of Oklahoma, and Tip O’Neill of Massachusetts, are no longer as secure in their jobs as they were a year or so ago. In short, at the beginning of the new year and the new Congress, there is an obvious reduction in personal authority in both the legislative and executive branches of the government, and this extends even to the authority of men like Henry Kissinger, the Secretary of State, and to institutions like the Central Intelligence Agency, which have been relatively free of congressional control in the past. Now Kissinger is complaining, with some justification, that the Congress is not only performing its duty to set the broad lines of foreign policy, but is trying to dictate the day-to-day negotiations. And the C.I.A. is protesting that it cannot run a secret intelligence operation if all its secrets are subject to public disclosure. So the new mood around the White House and the Congress raises some new questions. Both places, the procedures are more open and more liberal. The

William Satire Locking up the Oval Office

and the handful of students included columnists Allen Often, David Broder, and Robert Novak; author' Herman Wouk and lawyer David Ginsberg; reporter Marilyn Berger and newspaper publisher Katherine Graham. The teacher who guided this highpowered agglomeration of opinion molders through the sources of political freedom-expertly shaming class-cutterS and homework-skippers into line-w T as Robert Goldwin, 52, who popped up in the news recently as a special consultant to the President. Dr. Goldwin, who served with Donald Rumsfeld at NATO was the man behind the widely-acclaimed session of academics with President Ford last month. His job is to “assure the flow of information , ideas and suggestions” to the President from outside government: such salutory sessions with men who live the life of the mind were described by departing len garment as a “coup de tete.” That play on “coup d’etat” may be the only pun in French of the Ford Administration, but it felicitously praises the new green light on a necessary two-way street.

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exercise and the trappings of personal authority have been stripped away. Hugh Sidey of Time Magazine, for example, notes that Richard Nixon’s sliding door in the Oval Office, the secret entrance for secret guests, has been removed and plastered over by Ford. The 15 eagles and 307 battle streamers in the Nixon Oval Office have disappeared, along with the tape recording system, and the'President of the United States is now available to members of the Cabinet, the Congress, and the press, for candid discussion of the nation’s problems. All this is to the good, but the question now is how this new freedom will be used. Nothing in recent history has prepared Washington for the shared responsibility President Ford is now offering to the Cabinet, the Congress, the press and the people. They have all been complaining in recent years that the President and his staff were doing too much and were remote, and now they are complaining that President Ford is doing too little,'not being decisive enough, not coming up with a program that will solve all our problems in a hurry. Washington doesn’t quite know how to react to these new conditions. After the dominant personalities and Presidencies

The new White House adviser resists the title of “intellectual-in-residence” or “the new Garment center,” preferring to act as a kind of free safety ih the Ford secondary: one day lending a hand on speeches, the next day sitting in on domestic Council discussions, soliciting unorthodox ideas like those of Harvard Professor Martin Feldstein, watching over the interests of the arts and humanities, setting up more skull sessions with the man in the Oval Office. Locke’s treatises, of course, are close at hand: the occasional ghost of Ford is inspired by the pervasive ghost of Locke. For the "pressure is on-led by those who were so recently decrying caesarism-for the President to' seize control of a free economy, or to do something dramatic to gain the illusion of leadership. What the President and all his advisers are learning is that the public must be pandered to, at least to a certain extent', even w hen wrong: Locke’s “consent of the governed” has its drawbacks. Goldwin is working on an equation: “action in a democratic Society equals wisdom divided by consent.” ' How best can consent be'won? Often by

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of Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon, the Cabinet members don’t quite know how to exercise their new authority. The Democratic party is split a dozen ways, with half a dozen of its members in the Senate running for the Presidency, and it can’t quite agree on a party program to deal with the nation’s problems. Even the press is slightly baffled by the President’s informal and disarming ways. He gives them interviews whenever he likes. Some of them are on the record, some of them are off the record, and usually he talks as frankly and casually as he did when he had the boys in for a drink on Capitol Hill. In the process, he exposes his problems and admits his dilemmas and uncertainties: In other words, he is an honest man, limited "in many ways and looking for help, insisting that the remedies lie not with him alone or even with the government as a whole, but with the cooperation of the whole nation - business, labor, and all the rest. In short, no pretense, and the problem is that Washington hasn’t adjusted to a President who admits honestly that he doesn’t have all the answers.

indirection, by muting the arguments that appeal most to yourself and appealing instead to the self-interest of others. For example: Englishmen of the 17th Century who believed in freedom of expression sought the removal of the licensing of printing. To advance this cause, John Milton, the epic poet, wrote “Areopagitica,” which stands today as the' greatest' prose work in denunciation of censorship. But the licensing of printing stayed in effect. Later in that century, John Locke addressed himself to the same subject. He argued, in dull and plodding language, thatlicensing of English printers drove up the price of books and was causing the industry to move to France. The economic cost of censorship was too high; parliament, for less than noble interests, then acted to free the press. As President Ford labors over his State of the Union address, wondering how to enlist consent in our time, it is comforting to know that the ghost of John Locke still stalks the corridors of power. An appeal to self interest is more useful than an appeal to heaven, in coaxing the governed to consent.

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