Banner Graphic, Volume 5, Number 310, Greencastle, Putnam County, 4 March 1975 — Page 6
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THE PUTNAM COUNTY t ANNER-GRAPHIC, MARCH 4/5/1975
I hope that somewhere along the line hard investigation will reveal that the reports of J. Edgar Hoover’s lubricious renditions to Lyndon Johnson on the moral habits of some of his important critics will prove to have been exaggerated. I say this because I have a great respect for J. Edgar Hoover which is diminished by these distasteful stories, and I’d prefer it if history proved that they were exaggerated, over against the alternative of permanently lowering my esteem for Mr. Hoover-I know no franker way to put it. S It is pretty sleazy stuff: the head of America’s FBI telling, in barroom style to the President of the United States, which of his critics in Congress slept with whom, after putting away how many pints of gin, all which information having been gathered through the use of electronic surveillance or tailing done by FBI agents. I do, however, find paradoxes in the accounts of these episodes which
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I believe March came in more like a lion than a lamb. Let’s hope it makes its exit like the latter. 000 Indiana highway traffic fatalities continue their downward trend so far this year. As of Monday there were 133 deaths on Hoosier roads as compared to 166 at the same in 1974. This is a decrease of 33 from the toll a year ago. 000 Wednesday’s luncheon session of the Rotary Club at the DePauw Student Union Building will feature Kerry Ames and Curtis Hoskins. They will present a program on the recent meeting of the American Institute of Cooperation. 000 I know a cute little girl who will have a birthday real soon. I am writing abbut Andrea Thomas who lives at 820 South Indiana Street. Andrea will be four years old this coming Friday, March 7th. Happy Birthday in advance little lady and I am sure you will have a lot more. She is the granddaughter of Bob and Mary Garrison. 000 Received the following letter from Mrs. Cecil Craft of Poland: Mr. Zeis: Did you note the death of McKendree Pitkin, of Martinsville?
William Buckley Shocking report of J. Edgar Hoover
reveals something of the perplexed current position on the public morality. A spokesman for the FBI insisted that only such Congressmen were investigated as were up for a federal position. For instance, if the President considered naming Congressman Jones to a federal judgeship, the FBI is required, under the law, to run a “security check” on Jones. Now this is first and foremost a check to ascertain whether, by any chance, Mr. Jones is on the payroll of a) the Soviet Union, or b) IT&T, not of course necessarily in that order of gravity. A categorv below is an examination into the question of his rectitude in such matters as paying his bills, cheating his investors, that kind of thing. Then there comes that third category, loosely put together under the heading of “morals.”
dividual team statistics were greatly appreciated by the many basketball fans throughout Putnam County. Thanks again to the Banner-Graphic and “hats off” to the Sports Department for a job well done. Jim Huter GHS Varsity Basketball Coach
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This column by Banner-Graphic Civic Affairs Editor Jim Zeis. t He graduated from Greencastle High School in 1913, DePauw University and I.U. Medical School. He interned in Indianapolis where he met his wife. She was Marjorie DeCamp of Jasonville and a registered nurse. They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary about two years ago. I knew her sister. “Mac” was medical supervisor for 4C years at the Martinsville Hospital. His wife preceded him in death. About the first of this year he died of smoke inhalation in his home at night. His 12 year old dog was rescued. (Thank you for the letter, Mrs. Crest, and I might add that I well remember the Pitkin family when they resided in Greencastle). 000 DID YOU KNOW: Figureheads are about as old as sailing itself. The art grew from the ancient custom of decorating ships’ bows to invite the guiding spirits to dwell in the vessels. Throughout the centuries, nations decorated their ships’ bows. During the Commonwealth of Englad period, the ship “Naseby” carried an image of the Lord Protector himself, Oliver Cromwell. 000 A democrat friend says he hopes the GOP runs ar Edsel in 1976.
It is said, for instance, that Mr. Hoover reported to President Johnson that Congressman Jones (any similarity between my Congressman Jones and any Congressman by the same name is, I hope it is understood, purely coincidental) visited a particular brothel on his most recent trip to a great American municipal center. And that Congressman Smith got so smashed at some public affair or other that when it came time to pronounce ms oration, he could hardly be understood (a great improvement, I would say, over the orations of most Congressmen, but that is beside the point). Over all of this, it is reported, Lyndon Johnson was given to chuckling with great, lascivious satisfaction at his knowledge of other men’s intimate foibles. Now in discussing these episodes, the commentator for “Time” Magazine referred airily to the transcribed “peccadilloes” of the gentlemen in question. Now a peccadillo is a slight offense, a petty fault—like, say, slurping your soup spoon, or picking your nose, or neglecting to use the object pronoun after a preposition. But of course if this is so, then one wonders why there is so much agitation over the collection, and then the relaying to the President, of these slight offenses and petty faults? If, let us say, a Congressman being considered for a diplomatic position regularly fails to use an underarm deodorant,, here would be a example of a petty offense which however would have some bearing on his suitability to be situated between, say, the Queen and the Arehbishopress of Canterbury on some
James Reston American 'guarantee’-difficiilt compromise
(C 11975 New York Times News Service New York-The one new thing in the Middle Eastern diplomatic tangle is that Secretary of State Kissinger is back home talking more publicly, if still vaguely, about an Atnerican “guarantee” of Israel’s political independence within secure and internationally recognized boundaries. It has been argued in this space for years that 130 million Arabs would never accept an independent, secure Israeli state of 3,000,000 unless it was clear, both to the Arab states and the Soviet Union, that the United States, for its own and not Israeli reasons, regarded the security of Israel as a vital American interest and would not tolerate its destruction. Until recently, however, neither the U.S. nor the Israeli government has shown much interest in an American guarantee of Israel’s independence and boundaries, for a variety of reasons. On the Israeli side, the argument was that an American “guarantee,” even in treaty form, might limit Israel’s freedom of action. Washington would obviously want to be consulted on what action should
Turning back the clock
60 years ago Sam Stites of Vivalia had purchased angora goats from James Layman. The grain elevator safe at Roachdale had been blown by nitro. Seventh and eighth grade pupils at Greencastle’s Third Ward School had put out the second edition of the “Ambitious Whizzer.” 20 years ago Mrs. Raymond Everhart of Cloverdale entertained the Merry Circle Club. Argil Haltom of Greencastle had been dismissed from the Putnam County Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brewer of Greencastle were the parents of a daughter. 10 years ago Cloverdale had won its first Sectional basketball crown by defeating Fillmore 78 to 66. Snow and 40 mile-an-hour winds kept Russellville pupils at home. Also, there was no mail delivery and no incoming grocery trucks. Charles Bamberger, former Greencastle resident, spoke at the DePauw University Art Center. 5 years ago The Delta Kappa sorority had been entertained in the home of Mrs. Arthur Shumaker. Eva Marie McKee and Phyllis Ann White both of Greencastle area, had made
future occasion. But a peccadillo that is less than professionally incapacitating is, one would suppose, not only none of the FBl’s business, it oughtn’t have any capacity to shock. Yet it does. I cannot imagine a Congressman running for reelection, and saying to the voters: “I work every day
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be taken in a military crisis if it was expected to defend Israel. This could lead to differences of opinion and dangerous delays about when or whether to strike, and, in the end, prevent Israel from defending herself without assuring American military action. Also an American commitment to defend Israel from military attack would probably lead to a Soviet commitment to defend Syria, Egypt and the other Arab states from an Israeli attack, and turn every Arab-Israeli military crisis into a potential military confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. On the American side, in addition to these obvious risks, there was the further objection that such a guarantee to Israel would limit America’s freedom of action enrage the Arab states, separate Washington from its European allies and Japan, who tend to be more interested in Arab oil than Israeli security, and threaten the larger objectives of detente between Washington and Moscow. These are clearly serious arguments against a formal U.S. guarantee of Israel, or Israel persuading itself to withdraw to
distinguished student rating at Purdue University. Dr. Nancy Walters of Warrensburg, Mo. had visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Rockhill.
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and every night of the week in the public interest, except Saturday nights which I spend in a brothel.” The public, one gathers, doesn’t share the urbanity of Time Magazine on what constitutes a peccadillo. And without
its insecure 1967 borders, unless both the Arabs and the Israelis know these borders will be defended by the United States. As things now stand everything is imprecise because no nation has any assurance of anything. The Israelis have no guarantees and no freedom of action. They are utterly dependent on money and arms from the United States. The Arabs are in the same position with the Soviet Union. They can make war, but not for long without supplies from Moscow. The United States and the Soviet Union are equally suspicious of one another. They have signed noble proclamations in Moscow and. elsewhere to cooperate for peace in the Middle East, even to limit the flow of arms into such inflammable areas, but they don’t really cooperate for peace, but keep smiling and pretending, and shipping the latest weapons to both sides. Even Kissinger’s strenuous efforts to find a way out of all these problems have become a major source of controversy. His style, tactics and prominence are now discussed more in Washington than his policies and objectives. Personality and procedure are now the main topics of conversation in Washington and here in New York at the United nations. Now that he’s back, he is tryirjg to bring the question down from procedure to substance. He has travelled 16,000 miles to 11 countries in 10 days, listening to the arguments in Israel and the Arab states, reporting to the European allies, and finally to the President and the leaders of
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passing any judgment on whether the public, or “Time” Magazine, is correct under the aspect of the heavens, if there is such an aspect, it is certainly the«case that we have here an awful muddle of sorts: people being shocked by the revelations, by the head of the FBI to the President, of unshocking activities.
Congress. Within a month, he will have to go back to the Middle East with the proposals of the U.S. government for a compromise settlement. Meanwhile, he is being told by the Russians, and oddly, by the Israelis, that he should go to a middle eastern conference at Geneva, even before he has an agreement about what should be settled there. Kissinger is now saying that this is not sensible but probably inevitable. A few weeks ago he was saying that “if we go to Geneva without an agreement beforehand, you will know that no agreement is possible.” But still he is searching for some way out of his troubles, and, in the process, he has ordered a study of an American guarantee of Israel’s independence and security, in return for an Israeli withdrawal to its 1967 borders. In the next few weeks, before he has to go back to the Middle East, he will be trying to define what such an American “guarantee” to Israel would be, whether it would be acceptable to the Senate as a treaty, and what the reaction to such a guarantee would be in Moscow, the Arab world, and Europe. In short, he is trying to find some way to break the diplomatic conflict between Israel and the Arabs, and to bring Washington and Moscow to a point of decision in the Middle East. And the idea of an American “guarantee” of Israel’s security seems now to be the most relevant, if difficult, compromise.
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