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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Friday, July 5, 1968

| Washington window j More new party rumblings heard Try and Stop Me

By EUZABETI! WHARTON W.VSHINGTON (UPI)— When Hanoi’s negotiators in Paris said they would meet with “anyone except the devil,*’ they betrayed considerable ignorance of U.S. presidential candidates. Either that or they were planning to give up having tea with Averell Harriman anyway. There couldn't be time hereafter for both. Today we consider some of the visits they might expect. Enter Eugene McCarthy, accompanied by a dozen wellscrubbed, bright-faced teenagers. “How do you do, gentlemen,” McCarthy nods. “I have journeyed these many miles to acquire your point of view on the differences which divide us and the dreams which unite us. Let me say I am pleased (faint smile here) that you did not invite the devil: He’s far too busy signing bills in the White House. “I share Pericles' visions of world brotherhood and political reform. I go further: I propose a world of scholars, governed by poets; our enmities forgotten in a new golden age of love and youth and beauty.” Negotiator Confused One Hanoi negotiator asked the other; “Did we invite Pericles?” Enter Nelson Rockefeller, with a phalanx of ad writers and television producers. “Hi, fellows,” Rockefeller says, and shakes hands all around. “You fellows know my views on the war because everyone knows my views on the war which is more than anyone can say for my opponent. “I feel the South Vietnamese should be fighting you instead of our fighting you. You fellows know we can’t just quit fighting. But I’m sure we can work something out.” One Hanoi negotiator asks the other: “Who’s his opponent?” Enter Hubert Humphrey, accompanied by Democratic party leaders, county chairmen and Lester Maddox. “Hello, men,” he beams. “First, let me say that as vice president I am a member of the team; as president I will be my own boss. “Let me make clear that my country is not divided about this war—it is a united, joyous country which is willing to shoulder its responsibilities and knows there may be some bad moments along the way. But we love change and welcome change and desire change and I am the disciple of change. One negotiator asks the other; “Is team the same as troika?”

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Enter Richard Nixon, with makeup men, speech writers and staff psychologists. Two-Way Statement “Negotiators, and my respect, ed opponents,” Nixon begins. “I think we should end the war and win the peace. You may interpret this any way you please, since I do not consider it seemly or appropriate for a candidate to discuss war policies while delicate negotia-' tions are underway.” One negotiator turns to the other and shrugs. Enter George Wallace, accompanied by 17 bodyguards, and a hillbilly band. "Now you look here, boys,” Wallace barks. “You all better straighten up or else when I’m president I am going to turn loose the full power of the mightiest military machine ever known to man on that backward little old country of yours.” Wallace leaves, and before Harold Stassen can even get there the Hanoi negotiators make an objection to the World Court. “We said we’d talk to anyone except the devil,” they protest, “but the perfidious Americans sent him anyway.” “Which one was he?” the court asks. “There’s a difference of opinion among us on that,” the negotiators reply, ’’but we are sure as hell he was here.” Be liberal with praise United Press International Mark Twain once said, “I can live for two months on a good compliment.” Shakespeare said, “Our praises are our wages.” And Oliver Wendell Holmes described friendship as “the pleasing game of interchanging praise.” These quotations are recalled by an article in the Christian Herald extolling “the power of praise.” Author Janet Graham says that “praise is like sunshine to the human spirit. ... We cannot flower and grow without it.” Criticism, on the other hand, is a “cold wind” that withers the spirit. Practical Way All of which suggests an eminently practical way of applying the Golden Rule in everyday life. Be liberal with praise and stingy with criticism. Praise, to be genuinely helpful to another person, must be deserved. Otherwise you’re indulging in flattery, which is like tipping with counterfeit coins. With a little thoughtfulness, however, you'll find plenty of opportunities to hand out sincere compliments to people around you. “It’s especially worthwhile to look for the spheres in which effort generally goes unnoticed and unrewarded,” says Miss Graham. “There are so many fields in which it never occurs to people to give praise, although complaints may be voiced in abundance.” “Praise is especially valuable to those doing superficially dull and unrewarding jobs,” says Miss Graham. And at the head of this category, she puts housewives. Taken for Granted “Do you ever go into a house and say, ‘What a lovely, tidy room!’? Hardly anybody does. That’s why housework is considered such a dreary grind — not because it is arduous in itself, but because it is taken for granted and thought beneath the notice of any civilized person.”

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By ARNOLD B. SAWISLAK WASHINGTON (UPI)—Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy’s partisans seems to be on the march. Up to now, the route has led them out of state democratic conventions, but some think the destination is a’ new political party. All this is of concern to Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey. Humphrey is trying to win the Democratic presidential nomination on a unity theme. State convention walkouts and the national convention credentials fights that are expected to flow from them are generally not a sign of party solidarity. Even more serious is the talk of a Democratic bolt. The fact that Harry S. Truman overcame the splintering of two Democratic factions in 1948 does not make the prospect of opposition from both a George Wallace third party and a McCarthy fourth party sound any more attractive to Humphrey. Destination Hazy

No one really know at this point where either McCarthy or his supporters are going. But they certainly have made no secret of their actions. Between the end of the presidential primaries and the Fourth of July, McCarthyites, with appropriate sound effects, walked out of three state Democratic conventions, picketed several others and in general have done their best to shake

up party organizations accustomed to more placid proceedings. The issue in most of these states has been the allocation of seats on the state delegations for the national convention Aug. 2G in Chicago. Most simply stated, McCarthy's backers charge they are being cheated out of votes that should be committed to the senator, but are being gobbled up by party regulars favoring Humphrey.

Wheat exports increased

WASHINGTON (UPI)—Wheat exports for the 1967 - 68 season which ended June 30 edged slightly past the Agriculture Department’s goal of 750 million bushels. As of Friday, according to department reports, a total of almost 687.6 million bushels had been inspected for export since the season began July 1, 1967. It was estimated that during the same 12-month period, the

equivalent of 70 million to 75 million bushels of wheat in the form of flour, and rolled wheat were shipped to foreign markets, markets. This would bring the estimated total to at least 757.6 million bushels, 15.2 million over the 1966-67 marketing year but 109.8 million under the record of the preceding season. The target for the coming year is unchanged.

Decided At Chicago Some of the delegate controversies were expected to end up before the credentials committee at Chicago. But the Humphrey camp is getting ready for tests of strength. Memos already are drafted defending the performance of Humphrey supporters at the disputed conventions, and claiming in some cases that it was the McCarthy group that was unreasonable and used unfair tactics. As for the ultimate threatdefection of a large group of McCarthy Democrats into a new party—no one knows. The Humphrey camp either thinks this might happen or is saying so to try to dampen rank-and-file delegate sympathy for the McCarthy cause. McCarthy himself has said he will not leave the Democratic party, while reserving to himself the decision of whether to actively support the party’s presidential candidate.

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