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Monday, July 23, 1968

The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

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To the Editor: Residents of Madison Township have no fire protection, except through the generosity of Baii. bridge, Reelsville and the Indiana State Farm. Within the past three years several disastrous fires have occurred in the township, with at least one death resulting. The recent home building boom in the township points up the need for fire protection. Several interested citizens have h e l'd discussion meetings and some suggestions were proposed. But so far nothing has been completed. Some money from the proceeds of the annual Ice Cream Socials held at No. 10 School has been pledged to the support of a Volunteer Fire Department. Local merchants, understanding the need of Madison Township, have generously donated to the worthy cause. A partial list of the contributing merchants follows: Moores Shoe Store, Books Plus, Morrison’s Tire Store, Herriotts Paint Store, Headley Hardware, Farm Bureau Co-op, Coca Cola, Ron and Ken’s Barber Shop, Montgomery Ward, Ellis Oil Co., Goodman Texaco, Thomas Ditching Service,Liston Standard Oil, Donellson’s Drugs, PoorandCo., Fleenor’s Drugs, Mac’s Mens Store, Hillman Jewelers, Shetrone Realty, Milton’s Posey Patch, Torr’s Restaurant, Ace Hardware, Moore’s, Fairway Restaurant, Prevo's, Lancaster Gulf Station, Putnam Motors, Violets Beauty Shop, Coan Drugs, J.C. Penny, Rus-Seils, Houck Music Store, Barrett Suw)ly, College Shop, Willis Clodfelter, Thomas General Store in Lena,

and the Madison Township Farm Bureau. Residents of Madison Township thank all of the merchants and everyone who donated foods or helped make the Ice Cream Social the success that it was. Approximately 300 families live and work in the township or nearby. Surely they have need of fire protection and surely they have pride enough to work towards the establishment of a fire department in the near future. A township, wide m e e t i n g is planned for mid- August for more discussion. Watch for the announced date of the meeting. Signed; Concerned

Letter to the Editor; “An Enemy of the People” Yes indeed, people ought to realize what an underhanded organization the John Birch Society really is. Dorothy Healey Connolly, former chairman of the Communist Party in Los Angeles County and spokesman for the communists on the West Coast said that if we ( the communists) do not destroy the John Birch Society it will destroy us. Now who in their right mind would want a thing like that to happen? We live in an age of “peaceful co-existence” with communism. Everybody knows that. And have you noticed the Birchers are those extremists who are always wanting you Amerleans to look up a candidate^ voting record before you vote for him and see, regardless of his campaign pitch, just how he really voted. My goodness, just who do those Birchers think they are!

That is simply too much trouble for people like us; isn’tit? We’re content to let somebody else do our thinking for us when it comes to election; somebody like the national networks for instance. What Walter Cronkitesays, goes. Isn’t that right folks! Oh, and do you know what else those crackpots are up to? They have a nationwide petition drive going, demanding that Congress stop ALL aid and trade with Communist countries who are supplying North Viet Nam. Thus far, they have submitted a MILLION signatures t o Congress. Now who would sign that sort of thing? Probably somebody like the wife of the Commander of the USS Pueblo. You know the lady, the one you read about occasionally in the fine print of your newspaper. And guess what else they’ve been doing. You’ll really flip at this one. Those Birchers have been writing thousands of letters to their Congressmen demanding that hasty gun legislation be stepped. They’re silly enough to think that there might be a similarity between the proposed gun registration in this country and the one in Cuba , Algeria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Latvia, and Rumania that occurred before the seizure oL their governments by the communists. They’re afraid that once guns are registered it would be simple for someone to merely go down the list and confiscate them,leaving the citizens unarmed. Well now really! Isn’t that absurd? Naturally guns should be registered, the more the better, and baseball bats, kitchen knives, clubs, sticks and even stones. Yes, even stones. Because remember that boy, David, he killed a man by the name of Goliath with just a stone. Those John Birchers, you really have to watch out for them. They believe people should become more concerned about the war in Viet Nam and demand a victory. They’re demanding that we, drop this “no-win policy” and go in there to win. They despise the “war games” the politicians are playing at the negotiation table while the graves are being fill, ed with bodies of young men. Those Birchers will even tell you they think it's absurd that more bombs have been dropped in Viet Nam than in all of Europe in World War II, and we still aren’t winning. Isn’t that terribly uncouth of them to get so upset. They just can’t seem to follow the line of “containment., and “no-win policy” Washington is putting out these days. Those Birchers really are talking through the top of their heads. They ought to let the experts do their thinking for them. Yes indeed you’d better watch those know-it-all John Birchers. They’re terribly deceptive. They thought it was awful and just plain hypocritical that a country has “In God We Trust” on its coins and yet banned prayer in the public schools. And the sneakiest most underhanded trick of all are those John Birch bumper stickers that read “SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL POLICE”. They thought by using those they could combat the charges of “police brutality” so often mentioned in the news media. You see they were afraid the police everywhere would become helpless from so much federal control. Remember, just like the police in Washington D.C., who were told to observe looting and destruction of pri-

vate property but commanded not to shoot. Those bumper stickers are really a threat. We ought to think seriously about registering them, and it might not be a bad idea to confiscate them before the idea catches on too strong. But their secret is out now! They’ve been exposed! To be such a“secret”organizationthey make one mistake; they get members that just can’t stop talking about it. Yes sir, you get a John B i r c h e r started talking and you’re liable to find out they’re the most well read and well informed people in the community. And in this day and age that certainly is nonsense! Susan Jane Birt

Dear Editor: Relative to Richard Dean’s Letter to The Editor, I would like to say, first that I am not a member of the John Birch Society nor TRAIN, but have attended meetings at the fairgrounds in which Ed Griffin and Tom Hollingsworth, a Green Beret, spoke. I have also done some research, myself, on the John Birch Society—and then too, I’ve done some on far-left groups like the Americans for Democratic Action and The Students for a Democratic Society. The latter leftist group has given an excellent picture of its self via the television and printed page when it tried to take over Columbia University not to mention the ugly scenes they have created at draft boards across the nation. On the local scene, this peaceful community tasted a bit of its rubbish when the DePauw chapter of the SDS tried to pass out anti-draft literature at our Greencastle High School. The Indianapolis Star and News’ editorials have given us quite an education lately on the SDS. Where is the scorn for this kind of rifraft that is wrecking our universities and producing zealots that go out and attack patriotic groups which is so evident in this uninformed youth’s letter? I have never found the Birchers to carry knives, lie down in the streets, and to lead marches that result in killings, loss of property and leave a city sick with division and hate. So what if the Birch Society doesn’t reveal its membership! What about the secrecy in the Masons, Fraternal organizations on the campus, The Knights of Columbus and the Vatican Diplomatic Corps? Mr. Dean further states, “They believe that a small evil group of Communists plan and control the events of our personal lives and our nation’s destiny”. Mr. Dean should read J. Edgar Hoover’s book, “Masters of Deceit” also “I Testify” by a negro undercover agent named Julia Brown who worked nine years for the FBI and other former undercover agents like Herbert Philbrick. The Kennedy brothers and King assassinations were all done by people who had definite ties and allegiance to communism. How could any true American who reads the printed page discount this? A lot of people thought the Kennedy brothers and King were the Godhead but the true facts declare it not to be so. Bobby Kennedy’s mouthings were not to be depended upon since he changed his philosophy for whatever was politically expedient for his SELF. He started his career as an arch Conservative as a member of the late Senator Joseph McCarthy’s investigating team and followed his anti-communist activities as an associate of Senator John McClellan whom he aided in investigating corrupt union leaders. From the posture on the right, he suddenly turned in the opposite direction, a radical about-face which coincided with his brother’s bid for the Democratic nomination as President of the United States. It has now been revealed that Martin Luther King was some sort of an imposter too. The Indianapolis News on June 3, 1968, page 6 in an Continued on Page 5

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