The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 16 October 1968 — Page 2

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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Wednesday, October 16, 1963

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TODAY’S EDITORIAL The Fortas Case

A NUMBER of people, including some who are sup- * posed to be knowledgeable about the Constitution, have expressed shock and dismay that the U.S. Senate declined to confirm Abe Fortas as chief justice of the United States. They have argued that the Senate, by rejecting Fortas, has encroached upon the independence of the federal judiciary in violation of the intent of the Constitution. The best reply which can be given is the clear language of the Constitution itself. It vests in the president the power to appoint justices of the Supreme Court “by and with tin* advice and consent of the Senate.” Accordingly, presidential appointments to the court hinge upon approval by the Senate. Is it argued by critics of the recent Senate action that this power should not be used? Do they believe that this provision should be merely a formality and that the Senate should always confirm nominations to the court whatever the merits of the case? Unfortunately, this is what has occurred in the recent history of court appointments. We cannot recall a president who has sought the Senate’s advice before submitting a nomination, and not in recent years has the Senate conducted a full-scale inquiry into the qualifications of an appointee. The tendency has been to approve. In light of this background, failure to confirm Fortas is truly a momentous event. It marks the first time in recent history that the Senate has fully asserted its right to participate in the affairs of the Supreme Court. The Founding Fathers intended the Senate to be an active partner of the president in elevating men to the court. They meant for the Senate to take this task seriously, to delve into a nominee’s qualifications, and to render a judgment independent from that of the president. This the Senate has done in the Fortas case. Its action may be right or it may be wrong, but it is clearly not a usurpation of power. Indeed, it is a fulfillment of one of the Senate’s most important constitutional duties.

DePauw professor will preside at academy session

Indiana scientists, both senior scientists from the universities and industry and junior scientists from high schools, will meet at Ball State University Friday evening and allday Saturday, Oct. 18 and 19 at Muncie. Approximately 900 scientists are expected for the 84th annual meeting of the Indiana Academy of Science. Papers will be delivered by 123 senior scientists. Dr. Robert E. Gordon, University of Notre Dame, will give the principal address. Also meeting on the campus at the same time and participating in some of the same programs will be the Indiana Junior

Academy of Science, holding its 36th annual meeting. Portland Junior-Senior High School will be the host for high school scientists. The annual meeting of the Academy will open Friday evening at 7:30 with a meeting of the executive committee in room 103 of the Physical Science-Mathe-matics. building where allSenior divisional meetings will be held. Dr. Howard R. Youse, DePauw University, the president-elect of the Indiana Academy, will preside at the 6 p.m. dinner attended by both junior and senior scientists. The address will be given by Dr. Wayne.

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JIM BISHOP: Reporter

One of man’s duties, so I’ve learned, is to keep his wife reasonably happy. This is impossible, even when love is in permanent bloom, because he knows that her emotional life is akin to a runaway roller coaster. Yesterday’s electrifying kiss is today’s fuse breaker. Now and then, I have read some of the feminine mystique magazines to find out exactly what will turn a wife on. I already know what will turn her off. Hawthorn Books has sent a skin, ny volume, written by Miss Jani Gardner of Cincinnati, entitled “How to Handle a Woman.” It was ridiculous of me to assume I knew how. Miss Gardner has some wild ideas. Gentlemen, try these for size: “Get the clock in her car fixed. Send a masseuse to the house the morning after. Hire an ugly secretary. Fluff up her pillow before she gets into bed. Ask her to meet you after work for a drink.” Take a deep breath, fellas. Ready? “Go out for pizza at midnight. When you’re absolutely sure she has no perfume on, ask her what perfume she has on. Wind her watch. Write her a note about how special she is and tuck it into her lingerie drawer. Carry her over the threshold again.” Groovy? “Tell her she doesn’t need a bit of makeup. Get her a gift

subscription to Playboy. Have a jigsaw puzzle made of your wedding picture. When she finishes it, tell her you’re glad she was able to get the two of you together. Don’t ask who she’s talking to on the phone. Buy her a pair of silk stockings and put them on her.” Watch out for ladders. “Ask her if she’ll let you brush her hair. Scold her for eyeing handsome men in the street. If she doesn’t, scold her any. way. Send her a daisy with the last three petals still on it. Tell her you want to burn your marriage certificate so the two of you can live in sin. Bite the hand that feeds you.” Don’t quit now, Dad. Stay with me. “Drive to the nearest lovers’ lane and make out. Don’t go too far. At a party, offer her some salted peanuts and say: ‘I wish they were emeralds.’ Charles McArthur won Helen Hayes with that one. Paddle her somewhere in a canoe. When her dressmaker makes her hostess pajamas, get her to make a throw pillow out of the remaining fabric. Your guestswill get the picture.” Yep. “Tell her you want her to be tan all over. No lines. Put a water lily in her bathtub. Wink at her. Throw out all your pajamas, and hers. Ask her what Continued on Page 5

Jaycees attend government affairs school Five Greencastle Jaycees attended the Indiana Jaycee Govern, ment Affairs School from Oct. 11 to 13 in Bloomington. More than 600 Jaycees participated in the school to acquaint them with the political processes, issues and the individual role in better government. Featured speakers included U.S. Sentorial candidates William Ruckelshaus and Senator Birch Bayh, and gubernatorial candidate Robert Rock. Each speaker also participated in discussion sessions on such topics as crime, tax reform and social legislation. Additional seminars dealt with government systems and processes, along with Jaycee program, ming on the state and local level. Indiana Jaycee President Paul Houghland Jr. , concluded the three day meeting by saying, “Although Jaycees is a non-partisan organization, we clearly see a need to educate and motivate our members to give of their individual time and talent in the continuation of efficient, and effective and moral government.” Local Jaycees attending were: Joe Kerr, Jim McCarter, Dick Judy, Larry Elam, and Steve Richards.

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Letter to the Editor I am a handicapped veteran, living on a small pension. My vision and hearing are slowly leaving me. The doctors say they can do nothing, so I have made projects to keep busy with, in an effort to forget my defects. One of my projects is the history of calendars. I am collecting real old calendars to use as illustrations and have four that are 1882, 1883, 1887, 1896 and looking for others. While I am collecting old post cards, bookmarks and reward of merit cards, most of my projects concern histories of holidays like Easter, Halloween and St. Valentines Day. To make it interesting, I am collecting real old valentines to use as illustrations and plan to give them to a museum when I finish. I have two valentines that are over 125 years old and four that are over 95 years old and a few dating back to 1880, but on my limited funds I am having a hard time getting a better represented collection of real old valentines. I was in hopes that perhaps a few of your readers may have a few real old valentines they do not want, because I would be happy to have any they may care to send me, and be glad to get them. Respectfully Yours, Leon Thompson 623 Federal East Seattle, Washington 98102 Withdraws LONDON (UPI)— The versewriting wife of British Prime Minister Harold Wilson withdrew Tuesday as a candidate for professor of poetry at Oxford University. A columnist for a satirical magazine, John Wells, had suggested the post go to Mrs. Wilson, who fashions new stanzas to traditional verse. The university, whose recent professors of poetry include Robert Graves and W. H. Auden, checked with No. 10 Downing Street after receiviig the nomination and were told Mrs. Wilson did not want to be considered for the post because “the nomination had been made without any approach to her.” One of Mrs. Wilson’s most famous verses is titled “After the Bomb Has Fallen,” and may be sung to “After the Ball is Over.” Thd Soviet government newspaper Izvestia paid Mrs. Wilson $84 royalty to publish the poem which begins; “After the Bomb has fallen, After the last sad cry, When the Earth is burnt to a cinder Drifting across the sky. . .”

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Cliches of Socialism

“Labor unions are too powerful today, but were useful in the past.” TO BELIEVE that labor unions actually improve the lot of the working people is to admit that the capitalist economy fails to provide fair wages and decent working conditions. It is to ad. mit that our free economy does not work satisfactorily unless it is “fortified” by union activity and government intervention. The truth is that the unhampered market society allocates to every member the undiminished fruits of his labor. It does so in all ages and societies where individual freedom and private property are safeguarded. It did so 1,900 years ago in Rome, in eighteenth, century England, and in nineteenth - century America. The reason grandfather earned $5 a week for 60 hours of labor must be sought in his low productivity, not in the absence of labor unions. The $5 he earned constituted full and fair payment for his productive efforts. The economic principles of the free market, the competition among employers, a man’s mobility and freedom of choice, assured him full wages under the given production conditions. Wages were low and working conditions primitive because labor productivity was low, machines and tools were primitive, technology and production methods were crude when compared with today’s. If, for any reason, our productivity were to sink back to that of our forebears, our wages, too, would decline to their levels and our work week would lengthen again no matter what the activities of labor unions or the decrees of government. In a free market economy, labor productivity determines wage rates. As it is the undeniable policy of labor unions to reduce this productivity, they have in fact reduced the’wages and working conditions of the masses of people although some privileged members have benefited temporarily at the expense of others. This is true especially today when the unions enjoy many legal immun. ities and vast political powers. And it also was true during the nineteenth century when our ancestors labored from dawn to dusk for low wages.! Through a variety of coercive measures, labor unions merely impose higher labor costs on employers. The higher costs reduce the returns on capital and curtail production, which curbs the opportunites for employ, ment. This is why our centers of unionism are also the centers of unemployment. True enough, the senior union

members who happen to keep their jobs do enjoy higher wages. But those who can no longer find jobs in unionized industries then seek employment in nonunionized activity. This influx and absorp. tion of excess labor, in clerical occupations, for instance, tends to reduce their wages, which accounts for the startling difference between union and nonunion wage rates. It gives rise to the notion that labor unions do benefit the workingmen. In reality, the presence of the nonunionized sectors of the labor market hides the disastrous consequences of union policy by preventing mass unemployment. The rise of unionism during the past century is a result of the fallacious labor theory of value, which held that all profit and rent and interest had to come out of the “surplus value” unfairly withheld from the workers. Labor unions are the bitter fruit of this erroneous theory, with a record of exploitation of workers far more grievous than the alleged evils the unions were supposed to rectify. Hans F. Sennholz -GOP later passed. Ruckelshaus said the bill had proved a failure and yet, he said, Bayh voted for the bill when it came up for renewal. The former speaker of the Indiana house said, “ Indiana farmers are angry, because they’re being denied a right to participate in the economic growth of this country.” He said he would try to give them a right to participate. Prior to speaking at the fairgrounds Ruckelshaus spoke to about 80 students on the steps of the Union Building at DePauw University. He told the students the problems of the 1970’s could not be answered by the solutions of the 1930’s. “America needs new leadership,” he stated. Ruckelshaus also outlined his position on the draft to the students. Under the plan all men would be eligible for the draft at either age 19 or after they had completed a college education, whichever they preferred. Once declaringthemselves eligible the men’s names would be chosen by a lottery. A man would be eligible for the draft for a period of only one year. After that year he would be free of obligation, except in the case of a national emergency, he said.

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