The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 7 November 1968 — Page 2

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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Thursday, November 7, 1968

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TODAY'S EDITORIAL Hurting Our Friends

W T HICH COUNTRY is a greater threat to peace, the Soviet Union or Rhodesia? The man-in-the-street probably would laugh at such a question. He knows that pro-western Rhodesia has no intention of destroying the freedom of the American people. He knows, on the other hand, that the Soviet Union is subsidizing Communist aggression in Southeast Asia, maintains Castro’s Cuban regime which exports Red revolution to South America, and is re-arm-ing the Arabs who have vowed to drive the Jews out of the Middle East. Everyone who knows anything about the history of the last 50 years realizes that the Soviet Union is the greatest threat to world peace. Everyone, that is, except the U. S. State Department and the White House, both of which went along with Britain in imposing an embargo on Rhodesia for the “sin” of exercising the right of self-determination. Rhodesian independence has irritated her black African neighbors who are conducting guerrilla warfare against the government of Ian Smith. Because Rhodesia is under attack, she is a threat to peace, in the eyes of the administration. As a result of the embargo the United States has to buy chromite ore from the Soviet Union, a transaction which aids the Russian economy. Rep. Thomas B. Curtis. R-Mo., notes with alarm that “the USSR has become the single largest supplier” of chromite ore to the U. S. “There is no assurance,” he adds, “that the USSR will supply any ore -to the U.S. next year and the price the ore will sell at is unknown. If the USSR should decide not to supply the U.S., the U.S. would lose its only remaining source of high quality chrome necessary for making charged chrome for stainless steel.” The administration would then be forced to revoke the embargo and buy from Rhodesia, a move which could only make the United States look ridiculous. The embargo forces Rhodesia to sell her ore to Communist China, which may be reselling it to the Soviets. Curtis says that “. . . reports state that some USSR ore may really have been mined in Rhodesia.” Since the Soviet Union has jacked up the price of the ore, the United States pays a premium for what it could get cheaper from Rhodesia. Only the State Department could justify such a topsy-turvy policy which helps our enemy while hurting our friends.

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INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) - Indiana voters turned over to the Republicans Tuesday control of the state’s two highest courts, the Supreme and Appellate. Election of four GOP candidates to Appellate Court seats changed the political division of the court from 4 Republicans and 4 Democrats to 8 Republicans. Two Republicans also were elected to the Supreme Court, giving the GOP judges a 3-2 edge beginning early in January. The court was 3-2 Republican until a few weeks ago when Judge Donald R. Mote of Wabash died in office, and Covernor Branigin named a Demo-

3-2 Democratic margin. Judge Norman F, Arterburn, Vincennes, was reelected over Democrat Addison M, Beavers of Boonville. Richard M. Givan of Camby defeated Appellate Judge Thomas J. Faulconer, who had sought to move up to

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Appellate judges elected were Patrick D. Sullivan of Indianapolis and Joe W. Lowdermilk of Sullivan over Harry L. Zerbe of Lawrenceburg and Jonathan J. Robertson of Seymour in the 1st District, and George B. Hoffman Jr. of Hammond and Allen Sharp of Williamsport over Frederick T. Work of Gary and Alan E. Yergin of New Castle in the 2nd District.

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HOUSE OF MYSTERY

Democratic Gala It was billed as a "Halloween Gala.” The egregious sponsors were: the Americans for Democratic Action, the New Coalition for Humphrey-Muskie, and the Students’ Coalition fjr Hum-phrey-Muskie. The auditorium was the vast Manhattan Center, capacity 4,000. The speakers were the authors of approximately one quarter of the Current Books secion of the New York Public Library, an easy quorum of the Establishment Left. Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Michael Harrington, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Ted Sorensen, William Fitts Ryan, Joseph Rauh Jr., James Farmer, Norman Cousins. It was quite an evening. Shelley Winters, the master of ceremonies, came in, between the speeches, with ideological chit-chat which, with that background of poets and professors, gave something of the impression of Mother Bloor lecturing to the faculty if the Lenin Institute. Her principal complaint was that as an actress she lives in California, and back when Ronald Reagan was head of her union, the actors wanted something, and Reagan settled for two per cent, and in later years, he spent two "zillion” dollars on something else, vote for Humphrey. The genial Mr. Moynihan opened by observing my presence at the press table and remarking that the Church "has always made provisions for late vocations.” Whereupon Mr. Moynihan announced that the cessation of the bombing was a vindication of the young people. That assumes either that the young protesters so touched Ho Chi Minh or Lyndon Johnson that they decided on a stop-bombing agreement as a sort of Halloween present to the kids. Another explanation, of course, is that the young people in South Vietnam who have been fighting there for what some people consider idealistic reasons, had something to do with bringing about the pressures that may lead to peace. And of course. ;here is the third explanation, which is that the stop-bombing agreement is a vindication of what the kids have been saying about Lyndon Johnson’s cynicism. Marietta Tree, the queenly consort of Adlai Stevenson, said tha^ over in the United Nations, everybody is praying that Humphrey will win. The last part was supererogatory. It was quite reassuring enough to learn that everyone over at the United Nations is praying. Shelley Winters was so overcome by this news that she volunteered the knowledge that she always knew that there was something terribly spiritual about India, and this confirmed it. William Vandenheuvel said that all of this was in the memory of Robert Kennedy, and that he

knew that Nelson Rockefeller in his heart of hearts regretted that the Republican Party had been taken over by the reactionaries. Whereupon Shelley Winters volunteered that she felt a special sense of obligation to liberal politics because when she was a five-year-old girl, the New Deal "gave me a hot lunch, even though Herbert Hoover hated me.” Really, Mr. Hoover was a man of quite extraordinary vision. Norman Cousins said that nothing had changed in 23 years, and proved it by giving a speech I first heard him give 23 years ago. Arthur Schlesinger said that Nixon and Agnew would usher in the end of -- I didn’t quite catch the word, but it was something quite awful, like "America,” or "the world,” or something. But the best was yet to be. Galbraith was introduced, and a line straight as a super-high-way was quickly constructed by the introducer between Aristotle, Erasmus, Locke, Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes — and your next speaker. At which point, opening his mouth to speak, the tall, austere Scotsman, for the first time since he was four and one half years old, froze. A lovely young couple had dashed up to the proscenium, and there shed their raincoats

revealing , well, revealing absolutely everything. Eve was rather quickly detained, and the raincoat put back on her shoulders. But Adam bounced up on stage and holding a pig’s head in hand, danced like a leprechaun around the silent, not to say awe-struck, Professor Galbraith. Out came the fuzz from the wings (police brutality -- everywhere you go, police brutality), and Galbraith finally turned to his speech, but alas, not many people were really listening and, to show how upset he was, he forgot to blame Adam and Eve on Richard Nixon. P.S. pays tax Public Service Indiana today said that with the November payment of 1967 real estate and personal property taxes, it has paid total property taxes amounting to $11,788,000 in seventy counties this year. This is on increase of $1, 364.000 over tha nrevioas year’s payment. Total taxes incurred account for more than 27£ of each dollar of revenue received by the in-vestor-owned company from its 426.000 customers. Local property taxes paid by the utility company in Putnam County this year amounted to $112,096.

Cliches of socialism

The Cloverdale C1 a s s v. • o m Teachers’ Association feels that two remarks are incorrect that were printed in the Banner on Monday, November 4,1968, ; nth* article about the schoolbaavd election. The article stated it was ", . . difficult for Cloverdale to obtain quality teachers.” The teaching staff of Cloverdale Community Schools are all qualified teachers, duly licensed by he State of Indiana. Every teacher holds a bachelors degree, is certified in his teaching area, and over fifty percent have masters degrees. Quality teaching is the prime concern of every member of the faculty. We tak» exception to the statement, "I want a superintendent who will be a superintendent.” Mr. Johnson, Sup; fintendent of the Cloverdale Community Schools, is backed one hundred percent by the faculty. He is efficient, capable, just, and dedicated in the administration

of the school system, Ronald Purcell, Pres. William Henson, V. Pre->. Ruth Morrison, Sec. Adeline Knoy, Treas. Editor’s Note: The statements made in the above mentioned article, were not the views of the Daily Banner, but those of a candidate seeking office. Ample space in the same article was provided the incumbent candidates to remark upon the statements, They did. Both sides were shown in the article. The Banner in providing space to air differing views <ffers similar space for items such as shown in this letter to the editior. The candidate was allowed to state his opinion on the subject of the school superintendent »ust as the writers of this letter ai*e allowed to say that the superintendent is backed one hundred percent by the faculty.

Hoosier historians make tour

"Human rights are more important than property rights.” Tricky phrases with favorable meanings and emotional appeal are being used today to imply a distinction between property rights and human rights. By implication, there are two sets of rights—one belonging to human beings and the other to property. Since human beings are more important, it is natural for the unwary to react in favor of human rights. Actually, there is no such distinction between property rights and human rights. The term property has no significance except as it applies to something owned by someone. Property itself has neither rights nor value, save only as human interests are involved. There are no rights but human rights, and what are spoken of as property rights are only the human rights of individuals to property. Expressed more accurately, the issue is notoneof property rights versus human rights, but of the human rights of one person in the community versus the human rights of another. What are the property rights thus disparaged by being set apart from human rights? They are among the most ancient and basic of human rights, and among the most essential to freedom and progress. They are the privileges of private ownership which give meaning to the right to the product of one’s labor—privileges which men have always regarded instinctively as belonging to them almost as intimately and inseparably as their own bodies. Unless people can feel secure in their ability to retain the fruits of their labor, there is little incentive to save and to expand the fund of capital—the tools and equipment for production and for better living. ‘It is not the right of property which is protected, but the right to property. Property, per se, has no rights; but the individual — the man— has tliree great rights, equally sacred fromarbitrary interference: the right to his life, the right to his liberty, the right to his property....The three rights are so bound together as to be essentially one right. To give a man his life but deny him his liberty, is to take from him all that makes his life worth living. To give him his liberty but take from him the property which is the ’fruit and badge of his liberty, is to still leave him a slave.’ U.S. Supreme Court Justice GEORGE SUTHERLAND The Bill of Rights in the United States Constitution recognizes no distinction between property rights and other human rights. The ban against unreasonable search and seizure covers "persons, houses, papers, and effects,” without discrimination. No person may, without due process of law, be deprived of "life, liberty, or property”; all are equally inviolable. The right of trial by jury is assured in crimContinued on Page 3

The Bainbridge Chapter of the North Putnam Hoosier Historians took a trip to Indianapolis on Oct. 19 to visit places of historical interest. The group’s first stop was the World War Memorial. A tour through this beautiful building proved to be very impressive to the students. The home of our nation’s 23rd President, Benjamin Harrison, was next visited. An interesting and valuable history of the home and its family was given as the students viewed the beautiful old house and its contents. After a short lunch stop, the historians spent quite some time looking over all the goodies in the Old

Hooks Drug Store at the Indiana State Fair Grounds. The visit lessened somewhat the amount of candy and souvenir items in the store. The school bus then carried the group to the campus of Butler University to view the peacefulness of the James Irving Holcomb Botanical Gardens with mums in full bloom. The last stop for the day was at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. After the t red historians took a long look at the race cars in the museum, some of the group took a tour around the track. The sponsor, Mrs. Van '/actor, and the club members agreed i*: was a valuable and enjoyable day for all and one they will not soon forget.

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