Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 91, Number 38, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 14 March 1968 — Page 2
NAPPANEE ADVANCE-NEWS THURS. MAR. 14, 1968
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M; rch 4, 1968 C ;izens of Nappanee We the people of the little town ol Akron wish to thank you for tic big boost you gave us on our v. ;y to the regional in Elkhart. We first noticed the decorated
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bout three issues of the Advancenews. Then, after it’s all been printed, we intend to answer parts of it.) - 837 Oak Street San Francisco, Calif. 94102 Nappanee Advance-News Nappanee, Indiana Mr. Arnott’s speech, published in your February 22 issue, is a very comical example of how to use a lot of words to say nothing. He has great leadership potential. He knows how to sound concerned while doing nothing: which is precisely what our sheep-like citizens crave in their leaders. Yes, Mr. Arnott, I am surprised too at draft protests and sorry that our country has come to this. I too found it hard to believe that this was happening in America: until I found out what America has become, and then I joined the demonstrators. It was hard to believe that America would ever be willing to kill and maim a half
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| million children, yet LOOK mag- ; azine published that fact some time ago. I'm sure that people were appalled too by labor union and ?monstrations earlier in this century, until they found out that 9-year-old children were working 12 hour shifts. Guess justice isn’t something that happens all by itself. Guess it’s something we have to keep working on. America was also shocked by Carrie Nation, the hatchet wielding Feminist, but how many question now women’s right to vote? (Carrie was at least as violent as Stokely Carmichael. Perhaps, like Stokely, she began as a gentle person but turned more and more violent as she met with the hypocritical innocence: “America? Unjust? Impossible!”) Your paper has invoked the ghost of Lincoln a great deal lately to justify a blind, oxen-like pa- ; triotism. Lincoln, if he were to 1 read your paper, might refer you to his speeches against the Mexican war. His refusal to support
that war parallels precisely Senator Fulbrights rejection of our Vietnam policy. (Or he might refer you to Henry Thoreau’s response to the Mexican War: his refusal to pay taxes for it, his imprisonment as our first demonstrator against stupid, expansionist wars. From this experience Thoreau wrote his essay, “Civil Disobedience,” which later inspired Ghandi to throw off the British yoke which, in turn, inspired Margin Luther King. It is in the spirit" of Thoreau that contemporary Americans are going to prison and burning pieces of paper: Thoreau said: you can imprison my body but not my mind. If he were alive now he might add: which is the truth, the legal fact of this draft card or the moral truth of my conscience?) The present turmoil in America is not so difficult to understand as Mr. Arnott would have us believe. If he can comprehend why East Germans are willing to risk death to escape oppression, why does he find it difficult to comprehend the idea of thousands of American boys moving to Canada rather than be guilty of indiscriminate bombing of civilian populations such as the Nazis used at Guernica. Why does he then find it difficult to comprehend how American Negroes fight to escape their ghetto walls. Let’s not be naive. Riots don’t happen for no reason. The world is full of human beings. If you want to know why they, as humans, riot, ask yourself under what circumstances you, as a human, would riot. Do you know what the American ghettos are? They are miniature police states like East Germany, or, like the Warsaw ghetto. It may be very easy for someone living in Nappanee, Indiana, to be appalled by the behavior of rioting Negroes. But if you live in or near a city ghetto —as I do, if you get the chance, firsthand, to see people interrogated, harassed, “maced”, clubbed, and shot at, on the slightest pretext, then vou find yourself more appalled bv the behavior of police and a citizenry whose solution to all problems is More Police! More Marines! But then you remind yourself that most policemen are ex-Mar-ines, and that this, according to a recent Advance-News article, is America's ideal of manhood: the teenage boy who can scarcely spell, but rushes into battle listening to his transistor radio, sets fire to homes with his marvelous Zippo lighter, shoots old ladies’ feet off with his new light-weight M-14 (See Mac Cleans magazine, February issue), burns babies to cinders Without much compunction from 20 000 feet you can’t see the results (Read AIR WAR) —and becomes a murderer while still in his teens: “already a man,” I believe that’s how your article put it. He doesn’t know why he’s killing, but someone shouts, “Sic ’um” and he bolts and attacks. Like the police dogs of Birmingham at the throats of Negro demonstrators. Like the Green Beret who bravely shoot old ladies and offer children candybars to betray their parents (Read Don Duncan’s Why I Left the Green Berets.) “Already a man”? Already a beast. (To be continued) Nappanee Advance-News Donald E. Nichols Nappanee, Indiana Dear Don: Saturday, March 8 at City Hall, the Nappanee Oamp Fire girls presented me with an honorary membership to their organization. It is, indeed, a great privilege to have received this honor and I
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wish to thank the two hundred and eleven Camp Fire Girls and their eighty-five leaders, guardians and advisors of Nappanee. The Camp-Fire program built on work, health and love Wo-He-Lo truly has not only been visionary but a much needed asset throughout the present world. May I extend my congratulations to this wonderful organization celebrating its fifty-eighth birthday, March seventeenth to the twentythird. Contiuue to do the good work which you have started and many of you will become leaders, not followers. Respectfully yours, Everett Pippen, Jr. Mayor PIANO RECITAL Mrs. J. O. Murdock will present some of her students in a piano and organ recital Sunday, March 17 at the Church of God located on West Walnut Street, at 3 p.m. This recital will be held in the old church instead of the New Church of God as originally announced. due to the fact that the New church is not ready at this time; however there will be another recital held in the new church in May at which time the awards will be given to those students who participated in the National Piano Guild Auditions. This coming recital as well as the one in May is open to the public and everyone is cordially invited to attend.
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The most vile person at large in this area today is the person who’s making liquor available to certain of our young people. Some of this is done by selling it to them, but there’s a lot of it where men over 21 are just sharing it with younger ones. When a young person is picked up by the Nappanee police for having liquor illegally, he is usually asked the source. There seems to be a bond among them, for it’s considered a violation of some code for the young man in trouble to inform on the real culprit. Judge James Simpson', who does a fine job of attempting to help young men and women, says that, when they come before his court, they will seldom give him the straight story where they obtained the beer, wine, gin, or whiskey. Their stories are preposterous and usually of no help. But there are young and older 'dults in Nappanee who are buying the stuff and selling it to minors. There are also young adults who invite the younger boys into their homes and serve them alcoholic beverages. Talk to many of our high school students and they will readily admit that, if they wanted to, they could obtain alcohol, and they know where. But few of them will ever reveal the source. The Nappanee police have been doing a good job in arresting minors who have the stuff, but they can’t make much headway over really nailing some of these people who are giving it to them. > Can’t we all help? Little drops of water, little grains of sand Are subject to same laws of nature that governs stars and man.
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! Strictly Personal aiiaiia.ianeMe><eM>"e. D.E.N. Spring must be coming. They're tappinq the maple trees. Anyone see a bluebird yet? You can't really count a robin as a good sign of spring, because there have been some that have stayed all winter here, they are the not too bright robins. ★ ★ ★ We'll again give away zinnia seeds. Several people have told us that they've had good luck with them. We'll let you know when they're ready. ★ ★ ★ The editor whom we can't fire made the same mistake as another paper covering the council meeting in saying that the amendment to the ordinance on the water works had passed third reading. Any way we're pretty sure that the Board of Works will be running the Squirt Works soon. ★ ★ ★ Everyone in Nappanee seems to take a great joy in "Hoosier Hysteria". Anyone who isn't a basketball fan here wouldn't dare admit it. Everyone knows who Max Bell is. Few know who the principal of Flkhart High School is. Rick Mount is a familiar name to most Hoosiers, although not one person here could name a recent valedictorian of Lebanon High School. Fans spent over $28,000 to see the Elkhart Sectional, far more than the United Fund or Elkhart Hospital could raise in a single weekend. You can bet your bottom dollar that one of the most costly parts of our new high school will be the new gym. We're not trying to prove anything. Just thought it was interesting. PLEDGE THETA CHI William G. Kaufman and Richard C. Kaufman, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kaufman, recently pledged Theta Chi fraternity at Indiana State University. They were among 195 students who were pledged to nine national fraternities.
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