The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 18 September 1968 — Page 2

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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Wednesday, September 18. 1968

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Editorial At one point last month there was a decision made to forget about the annual ‘Fair on the Square’ celebration for this year. Many people were disappointed and tried to encourage the continuation of the annual event. In what was once a dropped issue, suddenly became of much interest again to numerous people. The Daily Banner was one of those who felt strongly that the “Fair on the Square’’ should be continued. We are enthusiastic over the fact that our suggestions, along with others, were heeded to keep the event going. Greencastle should also be appreciative of active men and women in the community who are willing to “pick up the ball” and carry it at a time when it would be so easy to turn in the opposite direction. Men like Robert McCormack, who was this year’s chairman, should be congratulated for their dedicated efforts. The “Fair on the Square” has drawn visitors into our community. It has proven profitable in publicity gained for Greencastle. Surrounding communities have adopted various themes for similar fall activities such as the Rockville Covered Bridge Festival, the Persimmon Festival at Mitchell, the Little Italy Festival at CUnton, the Fall Foliage Festival at Martinsville and the Walnut Festival at Edinburg, to mention a few. They attract hundreds of visitors. Greencastle could develop the “Fair on the Square” to an even bigger function. Putnam County is rich in history and has many historic landmarks of interest. The success of other communities in attracting large crowds in addition to jams and jellies and circus or carnival activities, has been promoting their own folkfore and community background. County tours are sponsored by various groups. Although Putnam does not match neighboring Parke County in the number of covered bridges, the county does have its share and is rich in history. Men serving on the Chamber of Commerce’s retail merchant association, which sponsored this year’s fair, are interested in developing the annual event into just such a “fall attraction” getter. To accomplish such a goal, Greencastle citizens will need to look at neighboring Martinsville and Rockville to discover that events as large as the Fall Foliage Festival and the Covered Bridge Festival require the energies of almost every service club and sorority and other men and women’s groups in addition to all the community’s businessmen and city government, al officials. Steps to enlarge the “Fair on the Square” for next year into a more community involved activity should not be taken next summer. The time to start making plans should be within the next few months. Greencastle residents are proud of this community. They should welcome an avenue in which to better show it off.

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Mini-trains collide; kill woman SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (UPI)— A mini-monorail train slammed into the tail of one of its mates Sunday at Hemisfair ’68, killing a 65-year-old Missouri woman and injuring 48 other persons. Witnesses said one of the little trains slowed for a curve in the tracks in front of the Golden Garter night club and another rammed it, knocking passengers, drivers and train cars 15 feet from the elevated track onto concrete pavement and into a shallow lagoon. Police said Emilie Schmidt of Elisville, Mo., died in a San Antonio hospital about two hours after the accident. A total of 48 persons were injured, 14 seriously enought to be hospitalized. Joe Moore, who manages the monorail system that encircles the 92-acre fair complex, said shortly after the accident he did not know what caused the mishap, but he was sure it was not a brake failure. “They are electric disc brakes,” he said. “I cannot believe they could have failed.”

The courts recessed around four-thirty and Sam jammed a sheaf of papers into his brief case and moped across the street to Dinny’s Tavern. In the mahogany gloom, lawyers traded pleasantries and drank by themselves. The only time they bought a belt was for a newspaper reporter. The court stringers knew that Sam was a third-rate crime lawyer. He had a face like a firkin of warm butter and his pale eyebrows hung halfway up his bald head in perpetual surprise. Sam was a good small claims man but there was larceny in his intellect. The big lawyers with the alligator shoes and the Sulka ties used to throw him a bone at times.

The only one with marrow in it was the case of Freddie Grimes. I knew Freddie. He lived on impluse. UnionSquare was his hangout and he wasn’t big, but he was fast with his hands. He mooched cigarettes and punched old men who said no to him. Freddie cried at sad movies too and, when he had a pocketful of peanuts, he split them with the pigeons. He killed his girl. Freddie had lost one too many jobs and Tess said she was leaving. They shared a cold water flat off Mott Street near Chatham Square and Freddie Grimes, so far as I know, never had anything or anybody. Except Tess. She was all right if you like your dames with big roundnesses where the small ones should be. She had no conversation except to whine or whinny. Grimes strangled her with his bare hands and she was on the linoleum when the cops arrived. Freddie was sorry. Very sorry. Truly sorry. He had killed the only thing that ever belonged tc him. He cried hard. They took him away and I don’t think Freddie could have retained a lawyer if he had money. Some of the biggies talked to a county judge, and Sam was offered the case. It was like asking a mouse to defend a tiger, but Sam took it. Two half-hour talks convinced him that his man was as gulity as a husband smeared with the wrong shade of lipstick. Freddie begged to live. He wept. In his cell he fell to his knees. He prayed. There was a lot of cur in his neurological system when he was trapped. Everybody knew he had to die. Sam fought the case as though he had a chance. We gave it four paragraphs a day under the supermarket ads. The more Sam made his motions and took his exceptions, the more convinced he became that Freddie Grimes had no heart at all. When court recessed, Sam adjourned to Dinny’s and worked his shot glass into a sizable circle on the wet bar. “This man,” he said off the record, “has no heart at all. I’m com ..iced he’d do it again.” It was the biggest case Sam ever had, but his client was craven. Guilt was proved by an assistant D.A, and the jury was hung for two days. The judge dismissed them without judicial thanks and Sam became a slightly brighter legal light—about ten watts. Sam saw more and more of Freddie in the county can. The more the lawyer heard of the prisoner’s innermost thought,the sicker he became. “The man hasn’t got a ticker,” he said. “He’s got a bunch of arteries and an outboard motor.” At the seccond trial, Freddie was found guilty and sentenced to die. He was dragged from the court screaming andbeggingfor mercy. It was Sam’s time to fake a Continued on Page 8

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JOHN MYERS The Crime Clock Senator Edmund Muskie told a crowd in Texas last week to remember the record of the John-son-Humphrey Administration. We would like to review with you some of the results of that record. The latest crime report issued by FBI Director Hoover devotes a small section to what is headed “crime clocks.” It creates a frightening picture of lawlessness in this country. Here are Mr. Hoover’s figures showing the number of crimes committed as the minutes and seconds tick away. Every minute of the day a violet crime is committed somewhere in this country— either murder, forcible rape, robbery, or assault to kill. Every 43 minutes there is a murder committed. Every 14 minutes there is a forcible rape. Every two minutes there is an aggravated assualt. Every two and one-half minutes a robbery. Every 20 seconds a burglary. Every 30 seconds a larcenywhich is a robbery of 50 dollars or over. Every 48 seconds an auto theft. These frightful statistics reflect the policies of the last eight years. Our leaders have constructed a permissive society and crime has been its ugly offspring. Added to these figures are statistics on our penal system which reflect an attitude on the part of the courts that the criminals’ rights come ahead of the rights of their victums. Consider these figures: A recent study disclosed that 60 percent of offenders released to the streets in 1963 were rearrested within four years. 59 percent of the offenders released on parole were re-ar-rested within four years. 91 percent of those persons acquitted or dismissed in 1963 were re-arrested within four years. 78 percent of persons granted probation for auto theft repeated in a new crime. Of the young offenders under 20 released in 1963, 70 percent repeated. And what has been the answer of the present Administration to this frightful state of criminal affairs? Commissions appointed and more commissions— to study and talk and talk and talk. But no action. Meantime, the hands of the crime clock move steadilv on. Putnam Circuit Court Filed in Putnam Circuit Court were: Sept. 12-Indiana Crown Finance Corp. vs Lester E. Miles and Anna Miles, complaint on Account. (Criminal) Sept. 14-State of Indiana vs Margaret Pritchard, indictment for murder in the second degree. Sept. 16-State of Indiana vs George A. Batchelor and Paul C. Vogel, contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

“Theright to strike is conceded, but . . .” Rarely challenged is the right to strike. While nearly every, one in the population, including the strikers themselves, will acknowledge the inconvenience and dangers of strikes, few will question the right-to-strike concept. They will, instead, place the blame on the abuses of this assumed right-for instance, on the bungling or ignorance or evil of the men who exercise control of strikes. The present laws of the United States recognize the right to strike; it is legal to strike. How. ever, as in the case of many other legal actions, it is impossible to find moral sanction for strikes in any creditable ethical or moral code. This is not to question the moral right of a worker to quit a job or the right of any number of workers to quit in unison. Quitting is not striking, unless force or the threat of force is used to keep others from filling the jobs vacated. The essence of the strike, then, is the resort to coercion to force un-willing exchange or to inhibit willing exchange. No person, nor any combination of persons, has a moral right to force themselves.at their price-on any employer, or to foreibly preclude his hiring others. Reference need not be confined to moral and ethical codes to support the conclusion that there is no moral right to strike. Nearly anyone’s sense of justice willi render the same verdict if an employer.employee relationship, devoid of emotional background, be examined;

An individual with an ailment employs a physician to heal him. The physician has a job on agreeable terms. Our sense ol justice suggests that either the patient or the physician is morally war. ranted in quitting this employer, employee relationship at will, provided that there be no violation of contract. Now, assume that the physician (the employee) goes on strike. His ultimatum; “You pay me twice the fee I am now getting or I quit! Moreover, I shall use force to prevent any other physician from attending to your ailment. Meet my demands or do without medical care from now on.” Who will claim that the physician is within his moral rights when taking an action such as this? The above, be it noted, is not a mere analogy but a homology, an accurate matching in structure of the common or garden variety of legalized, popularly approved strike. To say that one believes in the right to strike is comparable to saying that one endorses mono, poly power to gxclude business competitors; it is saying, in effect, that government-like control is preferable to voluntary exchange between buyers and sellers, each of who is free to accept or reject the other’s best offer. In other words, to sanetion a right to strike is to declare that might makes rightwhich is to reject the only foundation upon which civilization can stand. Lying deep at the root of the strike is the persistent notion that an employee has a right Continued on Page 8

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