The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 19 August 1965 — Page 4
Tht Daily Banner, Greencattle, Indiana Thursday, August 19, 1965
National Window Opinion
By Lyle Wilson United Press International Lost in the storm of civil rights debate and civil disobedience was the question of what qualifications, if any, a voter should possess in an open society to prevent dilution of the electorate by great numbers of the absolutely ignorant. President Johnson and substantial majorities in his Great Society Congress finally gave an abrupt but calculated answer to that question. The 1965 voting rights bill denied that knowlledge of any kind was an essential qualification of a citizen to vote. This was strong medicine for a cruel disease. The disease was the discrimination which prevented Negroes in many southern counties from registering to vote. If they did manage to register, the Negroes often were dissuaded from voting by various intimidations. A legacy of the 1955 voting rights bill as decreed by Johnson is likely to be a troublesome question. This question will be whether the medicine was too strong. So strong as to have dangerous side effects! Consider the deliberate action of the
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U. S. Congress In refusing to admit that illiteracy, abysmal Ignorance or moral decay must be matters for consideration in qualifying a citizen to participate in self- government. The bill provides that no test or device shall be imposed in certain proscribed southern states and counties to deny or to abride the right of a citizen to vote. That is a good and reasonable provision. Then comes the clinker, section 4-C which disfines tests and devices to be suspended as follows: :“The phase test or device shall mean any requirement that a person as a prerequisite for voting for voting 1 demonstrate the ability to read, write, understand or interpret any matter. 2 Demonstrate andy educational achievement of his knowledge of any particular subject, 3 Possess good moral character, or 4 Prove his qualifications by the voucher of registered voters or members of any other j class.” That is the law. Even the federal registrars are forbidden to use these tests. This beckons ; to the polling booth the least qualified citizens, white and i black. This departure from a reasonable regard for the ballot and what it signifies could have been avoided. The alternative would have been to continue tests based on literacy, minimum educational achievement and sons degree of oral decency.
ALocal Teenager's View By Janet Staub With all the statistics that are available, has anyone ever thought of the number of gro [ eery cart accidents ? On an average Saturday morning the deadliest place to be is a supermarket. The calm, sinister white haired little old lady who normally wouldn't hurt a flea (probably the samo one who only drives her car on Sundays, etc.) creeps up and down the aisles stopping often and suddenly, fascinated by th* assortment available. Then there is the man usually gray around the temples and very unused to shopping; if ho has a list he will follow it no matter how many trips around the store (and to the stock boy) it takes! If he doesn't have a list, but is buying by instinct, ho usually ends up asking all fellow shoppers what kind is best, how many such and such a recipe takes. Of course there is the last minute shopper who goes tear* ing around comers and up and down aisles as if they were going to a fire. It has been suggested that thq groceries hire patrolmen and have traffic laws. A store in Indianapolis once had a yellow line in the middle of one main aisle; it was amazing how many people kept to the right of it! DID YOU NOTICE: The schools, football team and students (?) all ready for school.
"PIT STOP”—Getting first class treatment for the Indiana Army National Guard plane he pilots is Capt. Francis Hughes of Columbus. Servicing the plane are. left to right. Sp5 Larry Leer of Greencastle, Sp5 James Fetters of Indianapolis, and Sp5 Willis Fowler of Martinsville. The men, all of the 38th Aviation Battalion headquartered in Indianapolis, were at Camp Grayling, where they took part in two weeks of National Guard field training.
Foreign News Commentary By Joseph W. Grigg PARIS UPI — The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) may be inching toward another grave crisis. NATO officials are watching with deep concern the growing political chaos In Greece. They are equally concerned by possible long-term political implications of the current Russian visit by Turkish Prime Minister Suat Hayri Urgupluthe first Turkish premier to go there since 1931. Greece and Turkey both are NATO member states. Together they form the vital southeastern anchor for NATO's 3.000mile Iron Curtain defense line stretching from the Arctic Ocean to the Black Sea. NATO officials are all the more concerned because the alliance today is being undermined or threatened at other points too. FVench President Charles de Gaulle has been withdrawing France progressively from active participation in NATO. There is good reason to believe he may confront the alliance •ariy next year with demands for sweeping revision of its whole structure to suit his own ideas, with the alternative being a complete French pull-out from NATO. Great Britain’s current economic difficulties are making it more and more attractive to her to withdraw part of the already understrength British Rhine army from Germany. Disagreements between NATO member states over Allied nuclear policy remain as bitter as ever. If the sourthern flank guarded by Greece and Turkey should crumble at this moment NATO officials fear the alliance would be plunged into a major crisis. This solution flank has. in fact, already been one of NA-
I TO's tension points for the past 118 months. It w r as threatened acutely just a year ago when Greece and Turkey nearly went to war over Cyprus. The organization has played an important role in trying to hold the Cyprus quarrel within bounds and is continuing to do j so. The present crisis is of a different nature and one in which it would be difficult for NATO to intervene. It is. in fact, virtually out of the question for sucha body as NATO to become embroiled in a Greek internal political crisis or in a possible neutralist switch in Turkish foreign policy. Yet officials are watching
developments in both countries. At worst they fead the Greek crisis might plunge the little country into civil war, in which the Greek army would be deeply involved.
Feeding Down The Crop Reporting Board said the cattle and calves on feed Aug. I in Arizona. California, Colorado, Nebraska, and Texas totaled 2,996.000 head down 1 per cent from July 1, but 14 per cent more than Aug. 1, 1964. On feed by states: Arizona, 277,000 head: California, 1.076,000 head: Colorado. 423.000 head; Nebraska, 834,000 head: Texas, 386.000 head.
LOCAL LIVESTOCK CENTER Hog* S24.75-S25.25 TRUCK GRAIN Com 1.15 Wheat 1.35 Oats fio Beans 2.29
CARIBBEAN CRUISE BOOM PREDICTED
NEW YORK (UPIt — Fall and winter vacationists w h o sail in Caribbean waters next season may set an all - time spending record of more than $150 million, according to Travel Weekly, which bases the
! prediction on the attraction of ; new ships and more ports of
1 call.
Between next October and April, berth capacity serving this area alone will hit a peak of 225,000, a rise of 10 per cent over last year, Travel Weekly I says. The accommodations are about equally divided between special cruises by ships diverted from other routes, and regularly scheduled sailings to the i West Indes and nearby South American ports.
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