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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO., INC. Artarad at the Decatur. Ind., Port Office as Second Class M»>w Dick D. Heller, Jr ----- John G. Heller Vice President K Holthouse Secretary-Treasurer Subscription Rates By Mail, in Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, *10.00; Six months, *5.50; 3 months, $3.00. By Mall, beyond Adams and Adjoining Counties: One year, *11.8; * months, *6.00; 3 months, *3.8. * 3y Carrier. 35 cents per week. Single copies. 1 cents Racing Your Motor The snowstorm that has blanketed the Decatur area for the past two days has given each of us ample opportunity to observe what happens when just a thin six inch layer of “white stuff’ covers the huge earth — it paralyzes mankind. The state, county, and city road crews have done a miracle in keeping as many roads open as possible during this struggle against the elements. Mayor Carl Gerber got his inaugeration to “dissater” work. Even though howling winds buried roadways within a few minutes after the plows went through, some residents felt that the mayor should “have all the streets cleaned by morning.” ' At first Mayor Gerber thought his telephone conversationist was kidding, but he finally realized that the man was serious. —- Os course, it is impossible for any mayor to buck the elements completely, but the road crews were out, and were making progress, progress that was immediately noticeable when the wind died down Monday noon. But six-foot drifts of snow take time to remove. No doubt you noticed that the drifts w’ere removed, not just from the center of the street downtown, but from the* sidewalks as well, where drifts blocked pedestrians. You also remember how weeks passed last winter before such drifts were removed from the streets, leave alone from the sidewalks. Many of the streets still have little parking area, and motorists are urged to drive as though it were winter, not summer. It does no more good to “race your motor” in snow than it does in human relations. Oh, sure, you can bull your way through sometimes, but more often your* tires get so hot they melt the snow, which freezes and makes a surface so slick that you cannot get any traction. So it pays to drive steadily and slowly in icy, ; snowy weather, even more so perhaps than in good weather. Remember that courtesy pays''to the giver as well as the receiver. Take a little extra time, and in the; long run you there faster. In fact, if you don’t have to drive when it is snowy, it is much better to just stay off the roads. It seems odd to let out school, only to have all of the students who can’t make it to school uptown pushing cars out of snowbanks and hitching rides behind unsuspecting cars. Editorial written by Dick Heller

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The People’s Voice This column is for the use of our readers who wish to make suggestions for the general good or discuss questions of interest. No articles will be published without signature of the author. 0 O Challenges View To The Editor: In your Tuesday, December 31. 1963 editorial entitled “The Disadvantaged Home v your exaltation of education would probably not be challenged by most people who consider themselves as objective minded. And certainly I for one would not condemn your view of education (apparent view) in toto. However, there are facets of this view, and perhaps causes of this view which may need to be challenged and critically evaluated. I am not merely challenging the fact that there is a need for education, if not by formal schooling, at least by self teaching/Obviously there is a worldwide need for education, but the frame of mind induced by the drive for education is in some ways more of a basic stigma than is lack of education. Man does not need education nearly as much as he needs wisdom and human sensitivity. Wisdom is a virtue, education is only a necessary device of convention. Education does not utilize wisdom, rather wisdom utilizes education. Some of the most “unwise” men are also some of the most educated of men. Education itself merely attains a knowledgeable, categorical grasp of things, not a pure, sensitive appreciation. In a certain sense education is a result of the utilitarian capacity of men, whereas wisdom which is very compatible with true self-liberation is itself an innate virtuous capacity of men. In a limited but significant sense wisdom is compatible with ignorance. And let us never misconstrue wisdom with mere intelligence. It is too widely assumed that ignorance is synonymous with non-appreciation. Yet the relatively ignorant child will in a very subjective and “innocent” way appreciate things which the adult has learned to outgrow. In youth our wonderful capacity to wrap ourselves up in the “reality of the moment” and appreciate the innate nature of a thing for what it is now in the present subjective relationship between it and the person (child), is at its utmost. The child in his spontaneity of quest and appreciation is a true philosopher as implied in Karl Jaspers’ book Way to Wisdom.” It is also thought that to appreciate the world more we must know more about it. And since knowledge is the result of education we could then say that we must be educated about the world (the “world” here includes history, arts, sciences, philosophies, etc.) in order to appreciate it more. However, is this really true, for to be more educated about the world is only to understand it more, not to appreciate it more. Understanding is the result of a ratiocinative process. whereas appreciation is the result of a living sensitivity nurtured by an individual and very human life and exploration, which is very much a part of the world end of reality. The human individual with his living self Jis so much a part of reality that his awesomely subjective grappling with his life (that segment of the universe which “senses”) is in a real sense the same as life itself. But observe that basically this is totally inconsequential to any "education’’ he may* receive. Education is one social necessity, but an irrelevance to the soul or self, thus it is indifferent to life itself. In other words on the social level with peoples intervolving themselves, their beliefs, their

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customs, etc., with each other, then understanding must and is 1 originated by and yielded to, with a systematic approach, that is conventional education. Whereas in the more significant realm of the individual’s reality in relation to the reality of his own ostensibly psychic forces which manipulate him, and which he tries to manipulate, conventional education cannot touch, and therefore is inconsequential, basically. This is where the issue of reSious "education” is very relent. No man can learn through education to be a “Christ man,” on his attempt to Understand Christ And remember understanding is the result of education. When Jesus the Christ’s capacity to truly revolutionize an individual’s living is approached and attempted to be utilized by so called Christian education (understanding), there are two possibilities—misunderstanding and total nonunderstanding. The farce of Protestantism’s Christian education and the myth of Christendom’s Christian education have operated on the idea that 'if people are “taught about Christ” ana**' “understand” Christ (Through our teachings) then they will become inwardly Christian. But this is apparently not true, and if things are continued as they are nowChristianity’s saturating the world with its ideological teachings in its traditional rythm will eventually lull people into thinking that they have outgrown its teachings. The truth is no one can be taught about Christ, they can only be taught Christianity’s ideological interpretation of Christ (or any other interpretation of Christ). Yet this will not induce anyone to have a revolutionized ’’Christ man’s” spiritual effectiveness whch is origiated from a spiritual ecstacy, and maintained by a spiritual perpetuation. And this is certainly different from merely having an intellectual security. I believe there is only one way in which one can be an essential, not just ideological, Christian. And that is when encountering any recorded work of Jesus the Christ's, fade your whole self into the meaning of what He is saying with a constant realization that He was (and is) a revolution unto the nature of the self, thus the world, and deeply appreciating what He is saying in your present everlasting context of the subjec-tive-now relationship, which is allowing you to fully appreciate Him and meaningfully accept Him. This “way of acceptance” will be regarded by the intellect as unreasonable, but by the spirit, soul, self or whatever as deeply wise. It will momentarily liberate oneself from the stigmatic feeling of obligation to conform one’s thoughts directly to that ideological aspect of Christianity. The ideological assertions of Christianity are not designed to initiate a person into a true “Christian life” rather they have ■the purpose of allowing the world to become categorically aware of what it definitely means to “believe as a Christian.” And it is hoped that this awareness will spur the individual into a quest* for Christ. Os course, the awareness is brought about by Christian education, yet this is almost insignificant compared to the relatively rare occasion when an individual is inwardly revolutionized into a real “Christ man.” What goes on in the world is secondary .to what goes on in an individual. It is basically true that a belief in, let’s say, the Virgin Birth does not necessarily initiate a basic belief in the exaltation of Christ. Rather, in his meaningful acceptance of Christ’s divinity, a person realizes that an ideological product of Christianity's submissions (such as the Virgin Birth) is irrelevant to his own belief in Christ’s nature. But this is to not bluntly judge the Virgin Birth idea as untrue, but to consider it

as an intellectual stepping stone in the necessary systematic interpretation of Christ, and to be indifferent to the idea at the moment of acceptance, and then allowing the idea to fall into place after the acceptance (wherever that place may be.) This all probably sounds totally irrelevant to your editorial, but it is not. for in my attempt to show the type of awesomely personal and subjective acceptance of Christ as contrasted with trying to allow Christian education to make people Christian, I wanted this collaboratively illustrative of the validity and overall implications of the idea that conventional education is not what your editorial implied it is—and that is it is something without which a man does not live. And this idea was concentrated in your words: . eudcation must continue throughout life, or In effect you begin to wither and die.” However, I feel that life itself is the Great Teacher, and to live life is to be literally self-educated: to “know” the realities of yourself and inductively of others. I need not understand love in order to love wisely, or understand Christ in order to be like Christ, or understand botany to appreciate a flower, or understand a person to appreciate a person. If we have to understand a person in order to appreciate him, we appreciate what we understand of him, but we do not appreciate him. Also your insistence upon “at least two years of college or its equivalent, is absolutely necessary to free your mind and your children’s minds” is an unfortunately limited perspective. A dogmatic advocation of this neat college formula (“or its equivalent”) will yield in the midst of its cold objectivity a real and undesirable basic frame of mind to those who feel obligated to agree to this advocation. It will be a nonconscious tenseness to keep your toes with the world educationally, with the subtle and false realization that in order to be alive and free I must be somewhat learned. So then basically the philosophy “personal freedom and education are inseperable” will merely utilize the fear of be-

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ing “unfree,” which will drive the person to educational convention. However, the oly quality which this situation will have is not freedom but a basic condition of repression, totally lacking in the meaningful sense of self-libera-tion or real freedom. The apothegm “to be free is, to be educated” is true if it means “to be free from ignorance, and "freedom” of self, it would be at a point where essentially freedom from ignorance tends to be opposed to freedom of self, because the drive for education is driven along the path of convention and that which convention produces, such as categorization, systemization ,etc., and this is not conducive to a real attempt to be self-liberated, which takes place in the scope of the self, as contrasted with the scope of convention. The real feeling for freedom, the desire to allow each individual to be liberated from harsh convention, so that the individual may enjoy a certain amount of self prolificacy in his own right is the feeling which initiates a democracy and which democracy perpetuates. Incidentally to me it is interesting to note Russia’s acute mass drive for education and the nature of her government. I would be presumptuous in saying .absolutely.-that here there is an unfortunate relationship, so I merely wonder at it. Also, generally speaking. democratic America has felt an obligation to try and “catch up” with communistic Russia in education by attempting to increase and exalt education as does Russia. When you say “education must continue throughout life or in effect you begin to wither and die,” this is only true about the “exteroceptive” life. However, education does not really effect the more sifnificant “interoceptive” life, the non-physical part of us which would function in the same way and still appreciate the same things if it were bqrtwin a totally different environment And since education does not affect this innate “living” of our lives, whenever we stress education absolutely we tend to overlook and not

appreciate the interoceptive life, the real us. I hope that you will pardon the lengthiness of my letter. Perhaps it is obvious that the. content of this “letter” is not just the result of a disagreement with your ediforial, for I see the disagreement in a broader context. I view your editorial as possibly epitomizing a basic stigma of the occidental mind. Perhaps I can illustrate what I mean by quoting from Alan W. Watts’ very stimulating book, “The Way of Zen” (to give an authoritative example): “For us almost all knowledge is what a Taoist would call “convential” knowledge, because we do not feel that we really know anything unless we can represent it to ourselves in words, or in some other system of conventional signs such as the notations of mathematics or music. Such knowledge is called conventional because it is a matter of social agreement as to the codes of communication.” I am not disagreeing with your formal education philosophy in that I note that say, Abraham Lincoln had little schooling. I am saying that dogmatizing the idea that in order for a man to be free he must know things byway of schooling, or self learning is a stigma to true self appreciation, and liberation, and in its piety would ultimately frown upon an average. factory worker to enjoy life without regret of a lack of higher education. Sincerely yours, Bill Underwood. 512 Limberlost Trail Decatur, Ind. Chicago Produce CHICAGO (UPI) — Produce: Live poultry special fed White Rock fryers 19-20; roasters 2324; heavy hens 20 I £. Cheese processed loaf 39%44%; brick 39-45; Swiss Grade A 52-55; B 50-54. Butter steady; 93 score 57%, 92 score 57%, 90 score 56%, 89 score 55%. Eggs steady to fiqgqp: white large extras 40; mixed large extras 39; mediums 37%; standards 36. .

TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1964

o q 20 Years Ago Today ol—— i 0 Jan. 14, 1944 — Roy L. Price, of near Decatur, was elected president of the Indiana Jersey cattle club at the annual agricultural conference a t Purdue University. Clarence Ziner of this city has been appointed Adams county chairman of the Red Cross war fund drive, which will be launched March 1. Tom Fisher, well known Decatur man, celebrated his 75th birthday today going ice .skating. The county auditor's balance of all county funds as of Dec. 31 was 6212,492.22, according to the annual financial statement by Thurman I. Drew, auditor. The Rev. E. O. Keggereis, pastor of the Monroe Methodist church, spoke on “winning the peace” at the weekly meeting of tthe Decatur Rotary chib. Indianapolis Livestock INDIANAPOLIS (UPl)—Livestock: Hogs 3.800; barrows and gilts opened steady to 25 higher, closing barely steady; 1 to 3, 190-230 lb 16.00-16.50 ; 230-250 lb 15.50- early several uniform to 16.25; not enough sows to fully test market, few sales 50 higher; 1 to 3, 325 lb 13.75; few lots 450-525 lb 12.50-12.85. Cattle 1,400; calves 15; steers and heifers generally steady; choice steers 23.50-24.00; good and low choice 22.75-23.50; good 21.50- choice heifers 22.0023.00; good and low choice 21.5022.00; good 20.00 21.50; cows fully steady; utility and commercial 13.00-14.00; canners and cutters 12.00-13.50; bulls steady; cutter to commercial 16.00-19.00, vealers steady; good to choice 27.00-34.00. Sheep 325; wooled lambs fully steady; choice and prime 19.0020.00; good and choice 16.5019.00.