The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 15 October 1968 — Page 2

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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Tuesday, October 15, 1968

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TODAY’S EDITORIAL

The national cost of living for the average city family has now increased nearly 11.6 per cent since the Johnson-Humphrey Administration took office on January 20, 1965. And the latest cost of living index released by the Labor Department showed that in June and July the cost of living was rising at an annual rate of six per cent. The cost of living index in July was 4.3 per cent higher than it was a year before. Thus a six per cent rate of increase in June and July reveals that living costs are moving upward more rapidly. Living costs in July were more than 17 per cent above the level of January, 1961, when the Democratic regime came into power. This increase is substantially greater than the 12.3 per cent cost of living advance from 1949 to 1953, which included the era of the Korean war and the widespread hoarding and scare buying that led to the imposition of wage and price controls. It is generally agreed by economists that the cost of living advance of recent years have been primarily infuenced by Administration spending policies, which has produced an uninterrupted chain of deficits. As a result of the increase in the three and one-half years of the Johnson-Humphrey Administration, this is what has happened; Your dollar of January, 1965, is now worth less than 90 cents. A ten-dollar bill acquired in January, 1965, is now worth $8.96. A $100 paycheck in January, 1965, is now worth $89.63. A $500 savings account in January, 1965, is now worth $448.15, a loss of nearly $52. A $10,000 insurance policy in January, 1965, is now worth $8,962.90, a depreciation of $1,037.10. Retirement income of $2,500 a year in January, 1965, is now down to $2,240.73, a loss of $259.27. In fact, the crucial economic issue of the 1968 political campaign may be summed up in a few basic questions. How much more can you take of the present rise in living costs? Are these policies to be continued, and possibly expanded, by a successor Democratic Administration composed of officials who had leadership roles in the present Administration? Or is it time for a Republican Administration to take over and inject order and priorities into a chaotic jungle of ineffective programs? Here are examples of increases in a number of commonuse food items between January, 1965, when the JohnsonHumphrey Administration took office, and June, 1968, all taken from Government reports: Hamburger, 49.2 to 55.8 cents per pound, up 13.4 per cent; pork chops, 88.4 to 100.6 cents per pound, up 13.8 per cent; pork roast, 61.3 to 72 cents per pound, up 17.4 per cent; sliced bacon, 67 to 82.8 cents per pound, up 23.6 per cent; whole ham, 60.8 to 68.3 cents per pound, up 12.3 per cent; frankfurters, 62.2 to 70.9 cents per pound, up 14 per cent; milk bought at the grocery, 47.8 to 53.8 cents per half gallon, up 12.5 per cent; milk delivered, 52.8 to 60.7 cents per half - gallon, up 15 per cent; oranges, per dozen, 78.1 to 90.3 cents, up 15.6 per cent; fresh tomatoes, 32.9 to 37.9 cents per pound, up 15.2 per cent; cola drink, 54.7 to 65.1 cents per 72-ounce carton, up 19 per cent. Such a record argues loudly for a change in direction.

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Gap Narrows NEW YORK (UPI) — Salaried workers continue to get longer vacations than hourly paid employees but the gap is rapidly closing, according to a nationwide survey of American industry by a management services firm. Many blue collar workers now' get three weeks’ paid leave after 10 years’ service, the same as most white collar workers, the study by Wofac Corporation discolsed. Some companies have wiped out any differences between salaried and hourly workers in length of service time requirements, according to the poll. One large employer in Minneapolis that gives two weeks to everyone after tw r o years has even “reversed the gap”—the blue collar workers get three weeks off after five years but white collar employes must wait six years.

Cancellation HOLLYWOOD <UPI> — Opera star Anna Moffo canceUed apearances at Milan’s La Scala, New York’s Metropolitan and the Moscow Theater to play a voluptuous singer in “The Adventurers.”

Ku Klux Klan has first Marion County rally INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — The Ku Klux Klan Saturday night staged its first public rally and cross burning in Marion County in nearly 30 years. William Chaney, the Klan’s Grand Dragon in Indiana, said as many as 200 persons turned out for the rally and burning of a 35-foot cross on private property in northern Marion County. Chaney said everything went peacefully and that Marion County sheriff’s officers and Indianapolis police kept an eye on the proceedings. Sheriff’s officers said only a dozen or two attended. Chaney said the purpose of the rally was to seek new members. He said he received 32 membership applications at the rally, where he spoke on behalf of third-party presidential candidate George C. Wallace. “God called out a man to lead his people,” Chaney said of Wallace. Chaney said he believes Wallace more closely represents the viewpoints of the Klan than any other presidential candidate. Klansmen and klanswomen wore robes and hoods but no masks, Chaney said The rally was held at North Keystone and Beech Road. Chaney announced that Imperial Wizard Robert Shelton will visit Indiana Oct. 26. Chaney said the rally Saturday night was not widely publicized in advance because such publicity usually brings to the rallies many members of the news media and “every once in a while a prosecutor with a restraining order.”

Lutheran Aid NEW YORK (UPI>—Lutheran World Relief (LWR) shipped food, medicine and other supplies valued at more than $350,000 to five countries during July. The countries are India, Brazil, Hong Kong, Korea and Taiwan. During the first seven months of 1968, LWR shipped clothing, food, medicines and other supplies valued at $5,202,807 to 16 countries and areas in South America, Europe, Africa and Asia. LWR is the material aid agency for the Lutheran Church in America, The American Lutheran Church, and the Board of World Relief of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod.

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Women and landlords have one great thing in common. Each has a marvelous thermostat that can register hot and cold at the same instant. I remember living in an upstairs apartment after moving to Vermont one late autumn. Now, I thought I had seen some cold weather. After all, I’d been as far north as St. Louis and by the standards of an old Southern boy, St. Louis is suited to penguins. Sometimes it snows there and even stays on the ground for three and four days at a time. Nothing I had seen in St. Louis, it turned out, prepared me for my first jolt of New England winter. Along about Nov. 1 the mercury was inching down toward zero and all the Green Mountains around town weren’t green, they were white-rimmed with snow. The radiators in our apartment would emit a feeble clanging and banging and go pffft and a little lukewarm water would dribble on the floor. The landlord had the thermostat downstairs. Now, I am aware that physics tells you hot air rises and cold air settles. But in this case, we defied science. All the cold air south of the North Pole seeped in around the storm windows and settled in our apartment. Conversely, all the heated air drifted downstairs and turned the landlord’s quarters into a veritable Sahara. He had potted palms growing in tubs and a papaya tree within languid reach of his lounge chair. When the water froze in the teakettle, I had endured enough. I called for the landlord. He came upstairs wearing sunglasses and Bermuda shorts. “Have a papaya,” he offered conversationally. “They taste like kumquats.” “I don’t want a kumquat-” “Papaya.” “I don’t want a papaya! I want the damned heat turned on in this apartment.” He looked surprised and mopped his brow. “Heat turned on, you say? Why, it’s like a Turkish bath in here now! I’d think you’d open a window or something. Haven’t you got a fan? He deftly spat a papaya seed into his cupped palm and walked into the kitchen and the bedroom, shaking his head all the while. When he passed the living room radiator it rattled and he gave it a kick. It spat rusty water at him. “See,” he said, “ about to explode. I’m afraid you’re just cold natured sir. Why don’t you put on a coat?” “What do you think I’m wearing now, my own fur?” I snared. “Oh, it is a coat, isn’t it? My, my. Well, if its gets cold or anything, let me know, I’m right downstairs.” And back he went to his oasis, never even having the decency to turn blue. A woman has an even more complex temperature adjustment than a fuel-conscious landlord. Outdoors, in the winter, you’d swear the normal American girl has pure ethylene glycol in her veins. She’ll go tripping down the street with a skirt above her knees, wearing toeless shoes and a coat without any buttons on it. Or she’ll show up in shorts to lead a parade at a football game when it’s 20 below and never flinch. Take that same woman, however, and put her indoors, and she turns into a hothouse orchid. The faintest breath of air gives her a chill. She sits huddled in a blanket with her feet on hot bricks if the temperature gets below 80. This is a special problem in our house, since my wife and I are exaggerated cases. I’m the type who likes to throw all the bedroom windows wide open, in a blizzard, leap atop the bed and pound myself on the bare chest, emitting a yell that would chagrin Tarzan. My wife, on the other hand, lights the furnace on Labor Day and thenceforward has her morning coffee with her feet in the oven. When I come into the house, it’s like walking into a solar furnace. There are heat waves bouncing off the tabletops and the paint is starting to peel on my TV set. Sometimes you see mirages. There sits my wife in her mucklucks and caribou parka, her teeth chattering. I turn off the heat. She turns it on. I turn it off and grapple with her. As we struggle, the children sneak in and turn on the heat behind my back - they being all girls. Outnumbered, I slink into the kitchen and stand in front of the open refrigerator door, trying to breathe, while the rest of them huddle amidst the inferno and complain about drafts. All of which leads me to the concludsion that you can add one more thing to the long list of differences between men and women. That thing is about a 90-degree temperature differential, depending on the circumstances. Even so, I’m still forced to agree with the wise Frenchman who proclaimed so fittingly:

WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY,IRS ON THE RIGHT

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Poor General LeMay. He has become the outstanding illustration of the political naivete of — of what? His critics, many of whom are professional critics of the military, will say that he is the outstanding illustration of the political naivete of the military. Whereas the correct formulation is merely that he is an outstanding illustration of the political naivete of the politically naive. General LeMay, to use language he would find familiar, was a damn fool for consenting to run with George Wallace. A damn fool for the reason that the policies he seeks to promote are gravely subverted by the association. The only excuses he might have had for signing up with Wallace were a) that Wallace might win; or b) that running with Wallace, he might promote, and win the public around to, his positions on national defense. On e hopes that, at West Point, they would flunk a cadet who reasoned that either a) or b) was in the least likely. In fact General LeMay succeeded, in the space of a few minutes, in rendering his altogether defensible theses concerning the uses of nuclear energy in military affairs even more unspeakable than they had theretofore been. Although the general went to some lengths exactly to give his position, it was promptly, and thoroughly, and if I may say so intentionally, misunderstood by just about everybody in sight. What he said was that he did not see any difference between the use of nuclear means or other means of killing people, which point should certainly appear to be obvious, certainly to people killed. Then he went on to say that he was opposed to the use of nuclear weapons in Vietnam, but of course that was much too late, much much too late. And we are now treated to the indelicate spectacle of George Wallace visibly worrying about the loosemouthedness of one of the finest generals, and one of the most meticulous military thinkers of the postwar age. It became a joke overnight. General LeMay has written an excellent book, “America Is in Danger,” which shatters many of the prevalent supersitions regarding nuclear weapons. But so help me, if I were running for political office, I think I would now know enough not to say that a book was a good book even if it is a good book, if it so much as mentions nuclear weapons. Indeed, a conservative politician running for national office should not permit the word “Nuclear” to cross his lips. Not even to say: “I hate nuclear weapons.” There is, of course the classic example, of which poor General LeMay is apparently ignorant. It was a press conference four years ago where a reporter asked Senator Goldwater what he would do if elected president to interdict the travel from north to south Vietnam of the guerrillas under the shadow of the great forests. He replied: “There have been several suggestions made. I don’t

think we would use any of them. But the defoliation of the forest by low-yield atomic weapons could well be done. When you remove the foliage you remove the cover. Headlines: “New York Herald Tribune: “Goldwater’s Nuclear Plan To Win Viet.” New York Times: “Goldwater Urges New Vietnam Aid: Would Use Atomic Weapons To Clear Red

Supply Lines.” Washington Post: “ A- Attack On Viet Jungle Proposed By Goldwater.” And even the pro-Goldwater Chicago Tribune, “Goldwater Proposes Atomic Fight In Asia.” The sadness is that General LeMay, who has serious things to urge on the thinking public, should Continued on Page 8

Cliches of Socialism

The society is affluent, we are told-but affluent only in the private sector, alas! The public sector-meaning the political structure which our society spends a third of its energy to maintain-starves. Mr. and Mrs. America bounce along in their tailfinned chariot over a bumpy highway-the best road their government can build with the niggardly recources permitted it. They queue up to pay scalper’s prices for tickets to the World Series with nary a thought that this indulgence contributes to the nonbuilding of a political housing project in an already overcrowed city. That evening they dine at an expensive resturant, and government, as a result, lacks the means to supply water for a dam it has just constructed in a drought area. Americans, in short, go in big for private indulgence at the very time when the Crisis, long anticipated by the Certified Thinkers, demands The Opulent State. Those who advance this line of criticism are perfectly correct on one point: if there is to be an increase in political spending, there must be a consequent decrease in private spending, some people must do without. The well-being of individual persons in any society varies inversely with the money at the disposal of the political class. All money spent by the governing group is taken from private citizens-who otherwise would spend it quite differently on goods of their choice. The State lives on taxes, and taxes are a charge against the economically productive part of society. The Opulent State, fancied by levelers who criticize the Affulent Society, cannot exist except as a result of massive interference with free choice. To establish it, a society of freely choosing individuals must yield to a society in which the lives of the many are collectively planned and controlled by the few. The State, in our Affluent Society, already deprives us of one-third and more of our substance. Not enough ! say the critics. How much then? Fifty per cent? A hundred? Enough, at any rate, so that no life shall go unplanned if they can help it. The intellectual, from time immemorial, has dreamed up ethical and esthetic standards for the rest of mankind-only to have them ignored. His ideas may be ever so sound, but his efforts to persuade people to embrace them meet with scant success.

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The masses are too ignorant to know what is good for them, so why not impose the right ideas on them by direct political action? The State is too weak and poor? Well, make it strong and rich, he urges; and it is done. But when the State is strong and rich, it devours the intellectual together with his defenseless ethical and esthetic standards. The State acts from political and power motives, as by its nature it must. It cannot possibly be the means of realizing the dreams of spiritual advance. Every society devises some public means of protecting its peaceful citizens against the violent action of others, but this is too limiting a role for government to satisfy the censors of the Affluent Society. S u c h a government cannot legislate morality or enforce egalitarianism. The massive State interference they advocate is designed, they say, to protect the people from the consequences of their own folly, and the way to do this is to pass anti-folly laws to prevent wrong choices. There are degrees of wisdom, true, and some people are downright foolish. This being the case, a lot of people will live by the rule of “easy come, easy go.” They spend their money at the races when the roof needs repair, or they install color TV even though they are still paying on the motor boat. In a free society this is their right] This is part of what it means to be free! And folly is not made less foolish by collectivizing it, as witness the political imbecilities to which every government is liable! Freedom means the capacity to make choices; and exercise of freedom invariably results in some choices that are unwise or wrong. But, by living with the consequences of his foolish choices a man learns to choose more wisely next time. Trial and error first; then, if he is free, trial and success. But because no man is competent to manage another, persistent error and failure are built-in features of the Opulent State. Edmund A, Opitz

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