The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 11 October 1968 — Page 2

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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Friday, October 11, 1968

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Newspaper week NATIONAL NEWSPAPER WEEK may not be regarded by the general public as an exciting event. But, to the industry on this occasion, there are many moments of soul-searching, especially among those who are responsible for the product. Indeed, on this occasion and every day, those who own the newspapers, as well as those who gather and write the news, and those who evaluate and comment on events of the times through the editorial columns - all must feel the weight of their responsibilities. The primary purpose of the newspaper is to provide reliable information; through comprehensive coverage. The local newspaper is responsible for gathering and presenting the local news, while the wire services are looked to for coverage of state, national and international news. AND THE PRIMARY REASON for all this is to keep the public informed of what is going on in order that the people may make a judgment of the trend of events. Through this process is the power of “public opinion,” upon which a democracy depends for its sense of direction. And only through fair and accurate reporting of the news can the public form a viable and wholesome opinion. This may sound like the pragmatic, as well as ideal function of the newspaper. And, among the millions who depend upon the newspaper for guidance, there is the right to doubt whether a majority of publications live up to such an ideal. By many standards, there are many newspapers that have earned the sobriquet of “paper tiger.” These are the papers, both large and small, which become submerged in such depths of partisan politics that their columns appear to be permeated with bias. The “paper tiger” does not afford the reader the privilege of free judgment of events of the time. The partisan politician is among the first to proclaim as “paper tiger” a newspaper which opposes his views. THE VALUE OF FREE criticism of government has become a saving grace in the progress of our democracy. The late President John F. Kennedy once said: “ There is a terrific disadvantage not to have the brasive quality of the press applied to you daily, to an administration, even though we never like it, and even though we wish they didn’t write it, and, even though we disapprove, there isn’t any doubt that we could not do the job at all in a free society without a very, very active press. The panorama of evolution of American newspapers extends the years, from the 1722 editions of James Franklin’s “New England Courant,” to the present times. Many great American newspapers have died, or joined forces through consolidation, during the burgeoning economy of this country in recent years. Meanwhile, many new newspapers have been born in cities that have been inadequately served in fast-growing communities.

Press secretary says she’s pinfeather on lame duck

WASHINGTON (UPI)— The First Lady’s press secretary, referring to herself as “a mere pinfeather on a lame duck,” says President Johnson is so relaxed these days that he’s leaving the White House lights on. Mrs. Elizabeth Carpenter, who is returning to private life when the Johnsons return to Texas in January, included the crack in her repertoire as she addressed Tuesday’s windup banquet of the two-day annual conference of UPI editors and publishers. Another: Creating a new image for “Richard Miltown Nixon” is “like putting another coat of paint on an Edsel.” Another; “Only the press could get Wall Street to replace the Dow Jones averages with 47-25-35.” The master of ceremonies a< the banquet, UPI White House reporter Merriman Smith, told the guests that Spiro Agnew has “brought American ethnic groups out of the shadows of their hyphens into the good clean air of the derogatory idioms.” Smith also said that the press

had done all three presidential candidates a great disservice: “We’ve quoted them accurately.” Earlier Tuesday, H. L. Stevenson, UPI managing editor, told the editors and publishers that “broader and deeper reporter” can hold newspaper readership against the competition of electronic media. “We are insisting,” he said, “that our men and women expand and background, examine and explain an issue, seek the interesting facets of a story often overlooked in the first reports, or relate an event to similar events.” Stevenson emphasized that UPI’s “basic business continues to be the reporting, swiftly and accurately, of spot news.” But he said there also is a quest for new ways to present this news in context in order to make “tomorrow’s newspaper more readable and less perishable.” * * * To avoid being caught in its own web, a spider covers some of the dry threads with a sticky filament for catching prey and leaves certain routes free for its own use.

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The Second-Class Citizens In Europe BRUSSELS. — There is, as everybody knows, a considerable American population living in Europe, about 25,000 in the Brussels area alone, and they care deeply that they will not be able to vote in the forthcoming election because most individual states make no provision for Americans living abroad. It isn’t they complain — as though they are spared paying taxes. They pay exactly the same taxes Americans would pay, those of them who work for American corporations, which means the majority. They feel forlorn about it, and every now and then wonder what happened to the old revolutionary slogan, no taxation without representation. Because of their votelessness, they are largely ignored by politicians on the prowl, which is probably their only consolation. But this year, a few European cities have been subjected to Shirley Temple, Pierre Salinger, and me, lecturing on the merits of the various candidates. I did not have the pleasure of crossing paths with Mr. Salinger, and I certainly regret it. Of us all, he has had by far the most experience in endorsing candidates. Mr. Humphrey is his third this year alone. Miss Temple was a great hit, in part because she has neverpermittedpolitics to get in the way of her private life. That is in a great old Republican tradition, the kind of thing that endeared Calvin Coolidge to Henry Mencken. Mr. Coolidge used to take a very long nap every afternoon, and then go to bed very early after dinner. Mr. Mencken wrote that there is much to be said for any president who

turns the White House primarily into a dormitory, but that was back in the pastoral age, when Americans did not demand that their president fill the role of king, God, and hero, in addition to chief executive. One young lady, ten years or so out of Vassar, asked how one could espouse the cause of Mr. Nixon, when he was so unlike John Kennedy. But -- it is suggested -- John Kennedy was unlike John Kennedy. That is to say, the Camelot Kennedy was a posthumous blend of Charlemagne, St. Francis, and Winston Churchill. But didn’t we realize in America that a president has got to be personally inspiring, that he has to be very attractive to youth, again like Kennedy? In fact, I answered, Mr. Kennedy’s appeal to youth (aged 21 - 29), the only time it was tested, was far less than the registration figures would support. He beat Nixon in that category by a mere 54 to 46. And the figures show that this time, Nixon is getting the same age group by a majority of three to two over Humphrey. Well, won’t Nixon, then, be a less “fulfilling” president?Well, yes, he will, if the lady will only be fulfilled by a president who totally dominates American life. Such a President as, really, free people oughtn’t to have, let alone want. The lady persevered: that is why America is in such trouble now, because Mr. Kennedy died, and the man who replaced him couldn’t satisfy the people, because he is not tall enough. Objection: in the first place Mr. Johnson is a very extraordinary man. But suppose that in America we found a born leader, a brilliant writer, a great national hero, a Continued on Page 6

HORTICULTURAL TIP With the beginning of fall comes a large variety of insects and their relatives which are looking for warm winter shelter. Some of the more persistent insects inelude boxelder bugs, crickets, elm leaf beetles, roaches and spotted cucumber beetles. Related pests include centipedes, millipedes and clover mites. CONTROL: The easiest way to control these pests inside the home is to stop them outdoors. Make a complete foundation spray barrier around the house using Dieldrin 15 EC 8 Tbs., or Chlordane 45 EC 11 Tbs., per gallon of water. The average home requires 3 to 4 galIons of finished spray. Spray the foundation just to the point of runoff. Spray a 3 to 4 inch band of soil alongside the foundation. The insect seeking to invade the home will be controlled as he crosses the barrier of insecticide.

Presidential candidates aim in on New England States

registration drives throughout the state. Last March Evers was an unsuccessful candidate for a Congressional seat from the Third District of Mississippi. Said Miss Landrum about the week activities, “Our topic is broad, timely, and certainly crucial. Our group has never intended to limit awareness week to the campus. We would welcome the interested participation of concerned persons of the entire Greencastle community.” “We would appreciate it if you urged your members to attend the speeches and the discussions. It is our hope that the activities we have planned will prove enlighten, ing and eye-opening.

By RICHARD GROSS BOSTON (UPI)—The smallest state in the nation is the only New England state safely tucked in Hubert H. Humphrey’s vest pocket in a region which solidly shunned the Republicans to support Lyndon Johnson four years ago. Tiny Rhode Island with its four electoral votes can be recorded as a plus on the vice president’s campaign tally sheet. The other five states either can be counted as minuses or as too close to call. The six state region, the northern half of which is traditionally Republican and the southern tier predominantly Democratic, wholeheartedly gave its 37 electoral votes to President Johnson in 1964, when it refused to embrace the conservatism of Barry M. Goldwater. Campaign Policy As part of his over-all campaign policy of taking nothing for granted, Richard M. Nixon is pushing hard for northeastern support and thus far can count on Connecticut, Vermont and New Hampshire. Massachusetts and Maine still are regarded as tossups, but Maine may go the way the nation currently is leaning despite a senator, Edmund S. Muskie, who is the Democratic vice presidential nominee. Humphrey forces recently released a poll of several northeastern states indicating the vice president was leading in Massachusetts and Connecticut. But a Humphrey campaign manager in Boston discounted tlje tally as merely a morale booster for the Democratic troops. The campaign of George C. Wallace will have a definite impact on the area’s 5.2 million registered voters scattered from the craggy coast of Maine to the industrial center of Burlington, Vt., on Lake Champlain and the sculptured marinas along the Connecticut shore. The percentage of his drawing pow r er varies with the state. The third party presidential candidate is expected to cut into some of the Nixon vote across the Republican northern tier in much the same way as he is believed to have knifed into the GOP presidential nominee’s strength in the South. Wallace has not campaigned north of Massachusetts. Wallace Drain Humphrey is likely to suffer more from the Wallace drain in more heavily industrialized Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island where the former Alabama governor is expected to invade the traditionally Democratic blue collar areas, the shirttail of Democratic strength. While the Nixon organization is working hard throughout the region, the Humphrey forces hardly have begun to muster a campaign effort truly befitting a presidential election year. The Massachusetts organization is the only one which has put its shoulder to the grindstone for the vice president, but it is laboring under the burden of insufficient money. Massachusetts, chalking up the region’s biggest bloc of electoral votes with 14, generally is considered too close a call to determine which of the two major presidential contenders will carry it.

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While some dissident Democrats have begrudgingly tiptoed over to Humphrey since his nationwide television speech on Vietnam, the Massachusetts Humphrey group is plagued with the remnants of the organization which captured victory for Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy in the state’s presidential primary. Fourth Party Estimates are that some 50,000 persons who have shunned the party’s presidential nominee either will not vote or will cast ballots in a possible fourth party movement. The Nixon.Agnew tic k e t, therefore, can be expected to reap a harvest from the divisions in Massachusetts and to lure some of the one million plus independents into the GOP camp which registers 550,000. Another million plus voters are Democrats. The region’s biggest state geographically, Maine, currently is riding the fence between the two candidates but is believed to lean toward Nixon. The initial reaction to Muskie as the No. 2 man on the Democratic ticket gave hope to the state’s party organization that Humphrey would carry the state’s four electoral votes. But the shock has worn off,

probably because Humphrey is unpopular in traditionally Republican Maine which would like a President with a more moderate bent. Another solid Republican state, Vermont, in all probability will give its three electoral votes to Nixon. The state went Democratic for the first time in history in 1964, when it rejected Goldwater in favor of Johnson. Democratic Gov. Philip H. Hoff, of Vermont, a lame duck, has done almost nothing for his party’s ticket. He belatedly and obviously somewhat reluctantly supported Humphrey after backing the late Robert F. Kennedy and then endorsing McCarthy at the national convention. Vermont’s sidelong neighbor to the east, New Hampshire, safely can be said to have put its four electoral votes in the Nixon basket. The Republican presidential hopeful pulled a 77 per cent showing in the primary — some 80,000 of 103,000 ballots cast. The Republican ticket is expected to grab Connecticut’s eight electoral votes by a narrow margin and is likely to draw most of its support from the Gold Coast area of Fairfield County, one of the wealthiest anf fiercest GOP erfclaves in the country.

Bullet sales up, commission learns

By ISABELLE MCCAIG HALL WASHINGTON (UPI)— President Johnson’s commission on violence, in the first such data ever assembled, has traced a distinct correlation between rising tension and fear in the country and skyrocketing gun sales. It has found that for the first six months of this year alone, manufacturers produced more than 20 bullets for every man, woman and child in the United States. Figures obtained primarily from gun manufacturers themselves support what Internal Revenue Commissioner Sheldon Cohen testified Wednesday: that Americans are arming “in the cities and in the countryside.” Representatives of two major firearms firms — Remington Arms Co., Inc., of Bridgeport, Conn., and Colt Industries, Inc, of Hartford—asked that they be allowed to testify in closed session today. Their testimony will complete a two-day session on firearms by the commission on the causes and prevention of violence. The commission hearings coincided with a drive toward final congressional approval of a compromise bill to outlaw most interstate sales of rifles, shotguns and ammunition— a followup to a similar limitation on handguns already written into law this year. The Senate approved the longgun measure by voice vote Monday, and the House was expected to follow suit quickly. Figures compiled by the commission on violence showed that for the first six months of this year, 1.2 million handguns were produced or imported, 50

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