The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 4 October 1968 — Page 2

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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Friday, October 4, 1968

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Editorial .... Pari-mutuel betting, yes or no? ‘Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? Proverbs, 6:28. Come Nov. 5 the voters of Indiana will not only decide who will operate the governmental machine of their state but whether or not Hoosierland should legally engage in pari-mutuel betting. The question will be simple. Do you or do you not favor parimutuel betting? The gambling issue has stirred preachers to lengthy oratory on the sins and evils of the game of chance. They (the preachers) will point out illegal gambling breeds and survives behind the innocence of legalized gambling. There are those men who would point out that the introduction of pari-mutuel betting will provide large economic benefits and relief for Hoosierland and help supply needed funds that would normally have to come through further taxation. But does the average Hoosier really believe that in “the land of taxes”, where both sales and gross taxes are paid, that gambling will ease the tax load? The preachers may shake their bibles and quote scripture and remind us all of Sodom and Gomorrah and the ‘golden rule' and that gambling simply says, “Do it to the other guy before he does it to you.” But the main point is that where pa. i-mutuel betting does attract revenue, it also has its ugly expenses including the encouragement of divorce, child neglect, bankruptcy and an up swing in crime, just to mention a few examples. The uprooting of a home causes, in many cases, child neglect and the possibility of additional funds to be paid out for county welfare dependents. More police and better police equipment suddenly becomes necessary to control those “innocent” gamblers who do play outside the law and are successful in encouraging others to do likewise. Pari-mutuel betting is a beneficial tool used by the professional gamblers. More policemen means more outpay in salaries in small towns not now used to large police departments. Snickers may come forth from those who do favor pari-mutuel betting. These people claim the passage of a pari-mutuel betting law would not turn Indiana into the Las Vegas of the Mid-West. But would the lure to cha;K3 something for nothing on a state wide, organized basis, increase with pari-mutuel betting? The man who does not smoke cigarettes cannot understand why his neighbor can not kick the habit. But once the non-smoker beings puffing daily, he too becomes a victim of the “cigarette for lunch bunch.” Gambling works on the same principal. As long as a man leaves the game of chance alone, he does not become hooked. But like the cigarette smoker, the alcohol drinker, or the fellow who buys a chance in a pool, the experiences are habit forming. The preachers have their point condemning the start of state wide gambling in the form of pari-mutuel betting on the basis that gambling is against the teachings of “the good book”. But from the common sense outlook, favoring pari-mutuel betting seems to be too high a price to ask when the end results can include a broken home and even higher costs in police protection and county and state welfare. Hoosiers today hear that crime and disorder is the number one unsolved issue facing Americans today. We hear shouts, “something has to be done”. That something is not the introduction of state pari-mutuel betting. Voters should vote no, on Nov. 5th. Here are what other Americans say about gambling: “Organized gambling is the cornerstone of organized crime.” Robert F. Kennedy. “Gambling is a child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.” George Washington. “Gambling, t o begin with, is a grave disorder in itself and eplorable, and it is to be condemned wherever it may be practiced, even if in secret.” Pope John XXIII. “The saddest day in one’s life is when he tries to get something without paying for it.” Horace Greeley. “The entire history of legalized gambling in this country ana abroad shows that it has brought nothing but poverty, crime, corruption, demoralization of moral and ethical standards, and ultimately lower living standards and misery for all people.” Thomas E. Dewey.

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By MERRIMAN SMITH United Press International The so-called peace demon, strators making life miserable for Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey in city after city have a simple purpose: Prevent him from delivering his speech or in any case, turn his meeting into a shambles. This is not police hearsay or political interpretation, but personal, on-the-spot observation of this reporter who has spent a good bit of time with the Humphrey detractors on the streets and in auditoriums. There is a continuity in their purpose, technique and slogans, to say nothing of actual personnel. Some of the leaders in the wild demonstration at Seattle were in Humphrey’s shouting audience at Portland the night before. Furthermore, this reporter can attest to the fact that some of the Seattle and Portland demonstrators were in the front ranks of young people who battled with police during the Democratic convention in Chicago. A Small Group This applies to a relatively small group of young men and women. The demonstrators insist their activities are in no way planned or organized; that theirs is a community of purpose and they show up at the same place at the same time out of individual conviction that Humphrey represents evil and should be inhibited as much as possible.

was one of the “hardest decisions of my life.” He said he “studied the situation for two months” before deciding to join Wallace. “I don’t have to do this,” LeMay said. “I prefer not to— but I feel this is one more task I have to do for my country.” LeMay said he had “always been a Republican.” “I call myself a moderate Republican that might be a little on the right side,” he said. But he said none of the current Republican leaders “have come out with statements to convince' me that they will straighten things out. This bothers me. “It appears to me that in the last couple of decades our country has deteriorated very much.” LeMay said he was worried about the country’s financial condition and growing crime rate.

Nonsense. In Portland, three men gave the signals for peace activists in the audience to walk out. At Seattle, one young woman in a red dress signalled various chants with the precision of Johnny Unitas calling signals for the Baltimore Colts. The hard core may be small, but supporters attracted to this central direction usually follow guidance or orders very well. One apparently senior member of the group in Seattle which was tossed rather harshly out of the auditorium told this reporter; LBJ’S GOEBBELS “Talk about free speech—we don’t think Hubert Humphrey is entitled to it except as an accused criminal on trial for murder of thousands of Vietnamese. He calls us ‘Americanstyle Hitler Youth.’ Well, let me tell you something—he’s Lyndon Johnson’s Goebbels.” Why don’t these people feel as

Cliches of socialism “The free market ignores the poor.” Once an activity has been socialized for a spell, nearly everyone will concede that that’s the way it should be. Without socialized education, how would the poor get their schooling? Without the socialized post office, how would farmers receive their mail except at great expense? Without social security, the aged would end their years in poverty! If power and light were not socialized, consider the plight of the poor families in the Tennessee Valley! Agreement with the idea of state absolutism follows socialization, appallingly. Why? One does not have to dig very deep for the answer. Once an activity has been socialized, it is impossible to point out, by concrete example, how men in a free market could better conduct it. How, for instance, can one compare a socialized post office with private postal delivery when the latter has been outlawed? It’s something like trying to explain to a people accustomed only to darkness how things would appear were there light. One can only resort to imaginative construction. To illustrate the dilemma: During recent rears, men in free and willing exchange (the free market) have discovered how to deliver the human voice around the earth in one twenty-seventh of a second; how to deliver an event, like a ball game, into everyone’s living room, in color and in motion, at the time it is going on; how to deliver 115 neople from Los Angeles to Baltimore in 3 hours and 19 minutes; how to deliver gas from a hole in Texas to a range in New York at low cost and without subsidy; how to deliver 64 ounces of oil from the Persian Gulf to our Eastern Seaboard- more than half-way around the earthfor less money than government will deliver a one-ounce letter across the street in one’s home town. Yet, such commonplace free market phenomena as these, in the field of delivery, fail to convince most people that “the post” could be left to free market delivery without causing many people to suffer. Now, then, resort to imagination: Imagine that our federal government, at its very inception, had issued an edict to the effect that all boys and girls, from birth to adulthood, were to receive shoes and stockings from the federal government “for free.” Next, imagine that this practice of “for free” shoes and stockings had been going on for lo, these 184 years! Lastly, imagine one of our contemporaries - one with a faith in the wonders that can be wrought by men when free- saying, “I do not believe that shoes and stockings for kids should be a government responsibility. Properly, that is a responsibility of the family. This activity should never have been socialized. It is appropriately a free market activity.” What, under these circumstances, would be the response to such a stated belief? Based on what we hear on every hand, once an activity has been socialized for a short time, the common chant would go like this, “Ah, but you would let the poor children go unshod.” However, in this instance, where the activity has not yet been socialized, we are able to point out that the poor children are better shod in countries where shoes and stockings are a family responsibility than in countries where they are a government responsibility. We are able to demonstrate that the poor children are better shod in countries that are more free than in Continued on Page 3

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Nixon and Wallace Everywhere, the talk of George Wallace and his uncanny progress. The uptown moralizersdo not depart from the single theme that Wallace is evil, that what he represents is evil, and that therefore he is to be handled about as we would handle the grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan whom, wedisvered, Aunt Jane was secretly voting for. With some of this analysis I happen to agree, respecting Wallace about as much as I would have Huey Long. But the fact of the matter is that Wallace is on to something, and if that something isn’t unconstitutional, it is the right of the people to have it if that is what they want. Richard Nixon, in a speech in North Carolina, touched on it when he said that in his opinion the federal government had gone too far in pressing the southern states to integrate their shcools by denying to disobedient schools federal funds to which otherwise they would have been entitled. This remark by Mr. Nixon brought down the wrath of many of the opinion makers who instantly charged him with attempting to appease Wallaceites. The charge itself is interesting, because it is necessary to go beyond merely the statement of it to decide whether the act of appeasement is venal. If one attempts to appease the Wallaceites by suggesting that the Negroes are and should be maintained as secondhand citizens, then that appeasement is manifestly contemptible. But if one appeases Wallaceites who desire local control of their schools, that is not necessarily venal, any more than the de facto segregation of the majority of New York City schools is necessarily venal. What needs attention is the question of the appropriate sanction. Senator Charles Goodell, the young New Yorker who occupies the late Senator Kennedy’s seat, has been most vociferous in criticizing Mr. Nixon’s tergiversation on the matter of withholding federal funds. But one wonders at the appropriateness of the sanction. If a southern community drags its feet on integration, what is the appropriate penalty? The question is a thoughtful one, and the answer to it, pace Senator Goodell, is not obvious. To begin with, the Supreme Court’s famous decision of 1954 did not assert that de facto segregation was unconstitutional, but that compulsory segregation was. 11 has never been made clear that de facto segregation is unconsititutional, and there isn’t a community in America, however liberal, where bussing of students for the purpose of effecting integration has been successful. » What, then, to do about obviously recalcitrant southern towns where Negroes attend one set of schools, and whites an-

other? A recent Civil Rights Act decreed that in such situations the federal government should deny such subsidies as the community schools would otherwise be entitled to. Nixon’s point was that that is an inapposite penalty, and it seems to me that he, and not his critics, has the better case. The money appropriated is for the benefit of the students, not for the benefit of their parents. Yet it is the parents, not the students, who make the decisions as to whether the schools will be segregated. So that, under present policy, you are to begin with depriving the students of benefits to which they are as a matter of distributive justice entitled. If those benefits are justified in the first instance, it is because they are designed to improve the quality of their education. We like to believe that bigotry feeds on ignorance, and that if we improve the quality of the education, we increase, strategically, the chances of racial reconciliation. Then , too, how do we justify philosophically the denial of A in order to correct the conduct of A° If a welfare recipient eats only Post Toasties and therefore unbalances her diet, should the welfare worker, on the grounds that she is abusing herself, cut off money for food payments? If you read the wrong books, should your electricity be cut off so that you can’t read? Ridiculous, isn’t it? But so is it ridiculous to cut down educational benefits to those whom above all you desire to educate? Mr, Nixon can be said here to be appropriating a position of Mr. Wallace. But the difference is plain. Mr. Wallace is, by the record, devoted to the doctrine of segregation. M r. Nixon is devoted to integration. But most quarrels concern methods by which social goals are reached, and Nixon’s position, call it Wallaceite as the Eastern Seaboard liberals inevitably will, is nevertheless the right position. - END -

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