The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 13 November 1968 — Page 2

Page 2

The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Wednesday, November 13, 1968

THE DAILY BANNER And Herald Consolidated "It Waves For AH" Business Phone: OL 3-5151 -0L 3-5152 LuMar Newspapers Inc. Cr. Mary Tarzian, Publisher PubUShed every evening except Sunday and Holtdays at 1221 South Bloomington St.. Greencastle, Indiana, 46135. Entered in the Post Office at Greencastle, Indiana, as second class mail matter under: Act of March 7, 1878 United Press International lease wire service: Member Inland Daily Press Association: Hoosier State Press Association. All unsolicited articles, manuscripts, letters and pictures sent to The Daily Banner are sent at owner’s risk, and The Daily Banner Repudiates any liability or responsiblity for their safe custody or return. By carrier 50C per week, single copy IOC. Subscription prices of the Daliy Banner Effective July 31. 1967-Put-nam County-1 year, $12.00-6 months, S7.00-3 months, $4.50-Indiana other than Putnam County-1 year. $14.00-6 months. $8.00-3 months. $5.00. Outside Indiana 1 year, $18.00-6 months, $10.00-3 months $7.00. All Mail Subscriptions payable in advance. Motor Routes $2.15' per one month. TODAY'S EDITORIAL Clark Wrong on Riots W/'HAT WOULD it take to convince Ramsey Clark, attorney general of the United States, that law and order is not a code word for racism? Clark contends that riots are spontaneous outbursts of repressed Negroes whose frustration has reached the boiling point. Clark agrees with the Kerner Report, which, as Richard Nixon has pointed out, blames everybody but the rioters. The report’s claim that white racism is the cause of riots does not explain the trouble in Washington in which dozens of stores were vandalized over a threeday period. A number of victims were Negro store owners and managers who complained about lack of police protection against Negro looters. One Negro store owner told a reporter: ‘‘The only answer is to arrest and prosecute. The way it is now, the police make arrests and the kids are back on the streets before the police are.” "What we need here is Mayor Daley,” one Negro clerk said. A cohort agreed. ‘‘That’s right. Daley’s what we need.” Daley, it may be remembered, was called a racist by TV commentators because he issued shoot-to-wound orders to combat looting. One Negro store owner in Washington reported that it "makes no difference whether the store is black or not. They’ll bust in anywhere, so long as it’s got something they want. Why weren’t there more cops? This was where all the trouble was. Why couldn’t they have more cops here to stop it?” The trouble wasn’t spontaneous, either, according to a Negro assistant manager of a clothing store. “We knew something was going to happen,” he said. “The kids were laughing and joking about it all day in front of the store. This wasn’t a race thing. I was out there that night. I saw the kids, just kids, boys and girls, too, and the cops not stopping them, just doing nothing.” The Kerner Report and Clark to the contrary, law and order is not the exclusive concern of whites. Most Negroes also want to live and work without fear of criminal attacks on their lives and property. They are also "prejudiced.” They oppose crime. Nixons tour White House

WASHINGTON (UPI) - Pres-ident-elect antf Mrs Richard M. Nixon saw mo.e of the White House in a brief afternoon than they did during the eight years he served as vice president. “I’ve been to the second floor of the White House several times,” said Pat Nixon after Lady Bird Johnson showed her around the place Monday, “but I have never seen the house as

lUNE'S Beauty Shoppe BAINBRIDGE, IND. Appointments Tuesday thru Saturday OWNER AND OPERATOR June Sharp Phone 522-3305

Through our

Diamondscope

An excellent way to tell the clarity of the diamond you are about to buy is to examine it through the 3D microscopic eyes of a Diamondscope® like ours. Our trained jeweler can help you probe into its very heart. You will see its clarity, its quality, the “inside story” of your diamond^ beauty... and its price. This assurance of real gem beauty costs you no more. iflasmt Jlrtorlcrs 18 T&asbtngton ^Street (UrcencaBile, jjnbiana 5‘b aTa'rrrrmnnnnnrrrirrirr^ £

WHAT'S HE COMING UP WITH?

iSfjpSW"'

it-

Cliches of Socialism

I did today. “I’ve had a wonderful tour. It’s a house that shows that someone cares.” The present First Lady gave her successor-to-be blueprints, color pictures and other infer, mation about the White House during their tour, which took place while their husbands were discussing foreign policy and other aspects of the presidential changeover. Nixon also was. shown around, and commented later: “I express appreciation for the tour of some of the quarters of the White House that, despite the fact of my being in the (Eisenhower) administration for eight years, I had never seen before.” His wife, who had not been in the White House since John F. Kennedy was inaugurated in 1961, saw the Johnsons’ new granddaughter, Lucinda.

“Employees often lack reserves and are subject to ‘ex. ploitation’ by capitalist employers.” It is frequently argued that an employee is at a bargaining dis. advantage when he seeks a favorable employment contract because he has less of a reserve to draw upon than does an employer. It is said that the employee needs bread for his family’s supper, whereas the employer needs nothing more urgent than a new yacht. The effect of such dramatization is to draw attention from the subject of the employer-employee relationship. The employee wants the use of tools and managerial services, and the employer wants the workman’s services so that together they may create something useful in exchange for bread, yachts, or whatever else either of them' may choose to buy with his part of the product. It is true that some employees have little except their weekly wages as a buffer against bill collectors. And if the loss of a week’s wages is that serious to a man, it may be a sign that he isn’t a good enough manager or, for some other reason, prefers not to try to make a living by working at a business of his own. Thus, upon job opportunities created by others. But in a competitive society, a person is not bound to continue working for others, nor is he bound to depend upon any one employer for an opportunity to work. Some employees, of course, prefer not to change jobs; free men have that choice. Unless competition has been strangled by coercive inter, vention, employers will be com. peting against one another for the productive services of employees. This competition between employers for an employee’s productive capacity is the thing that constitutes the employee’s reserve, just as the reserve value of capital depends upon the competition for the use of that capital In this connection, it may be interesting to speculate for a moment as to just how an employee’s reserve compares in dollar value with a reserve fund of capital. For instance, let us assume that a young man might reasonably expect to find regular employ, ment for a period of forty years at an average weekly wage of $100. For a nonworking person to draw a comparable income from

ELKS Ladies Party Night Thurs. Nov. 14th 8:00 P.M. PRIZES - PRIZES - PRIZES

a trust fund—assuming that it earns interest at the rate of three per cent and that the principal also is to be used up over the period of forty years— an original capital investment of $120,000 would be required. The fact is that a man who is willing and able to work does have a kind of reserve—in a sense, a better reserve than is available to the man who has nothing except money or capital. Robinson Crusoe could have salvaged the ship’s silver, but as a nonworking capitalist, he would have starved. According t o the story, he saved his life by dig. ging into his reserve capacity to work. This same principle applies in our own kind of a complex society where each of us depends more or less upon exchange for his livelihood. If a man owns a million dollars, yet refuses to offer it in trade, he may go hungry, just as an employee may be faced with hunger if he refuses to turn his services to productive use. The market does not automatically guarantee subsistence to those who stop producing and trading while waiting for a better opportunity to present itself. An employee who chooses not to work may properly complain that he he has no other means of support, but he ought to confine his complaint to the person who is solely responsible for his sad plight— himself. ‘No one else has any right to make him work, nor any moral obligation to support him in his voluntary idleness. The employee who wants to sit until an employer comes forth with a more attractive job offer may say that he doesn’t have the reserve to enforce his demand, but what he means is that he doesn’t have control over other employees who are willing to accept the jobs which are offered. The true nature of the employer - employee relationship may be understood by those who see that individuals are involved—two individuals— each of whom owns and controls something of value. The employee is an individual who has a right to offer his ser. vices for exchange—a right which is or ought to be recognized by the employer. Labor,thusvolun.arily offered by any person, is i form of property— his property, and he may offer it as a marketable commodity. If a man voluntarily offers his services for sale, that doesn’t make him a slave. It is simply an expression of hs right to his own life. The employer also is a worker who has a right to offer his ser

vices for exchange. In some instances, it may happen that the employer is also the owner of capital goods—land, plant facilities, raw 7 materials, and tools. A man has a right to own private property— as much of a right as any man can claim to the product of his services. But whether or not the employer also is the owner of productive tools and facilities he doesn’t create job opportunities for others except as he offers his own managerial services in the competitive effort to please customers. The manager offers his services, just as any other employee offers services, and the object of their bargaining is to deter, mine a satisfactory exchange rate for \vhat each has voluntarily offered. Paul L. Poirot

Motels may eventually replace hotels

CHICAGO (UPI)—The motel industry, already vastly different than motels of the past decade, may change to such an extent in the next one that “I don’t believe they will ever build another hotel,” one expert says. Hospitality Magazine, in its current issue, envisions such improvements in the motel operations that carpets will “shake themselves” and threeday weekends at resort-type motels will be commonplace. The trade journal of the lodging industry, Hospitality said some resort-type motels will have such facilities as indoor tennis and squash. They’ll also have such luxuries as linen napkins for breakfast, pants pressed within an hour, room service orders on a table with a cloth and flowers on it and automatic baggage transportation from the airport to your room. But, there’s a clinker. Not only will the improvements be “highly expensive,” they’ll be provided at the expense of personal services, Hospitality says. Hospitality said, however, there will be something for the traveler who can’t pay the luxury costs. His rooms just won’t have deep-pile carpeting wall-to-wall. But it’ll be “clean, respectable but rather spartanly furnished room at the average 1977 motel. Reduction of personnel will help the industry provide the extra services. For example, one maid will handle about 35 rooms because air conditioning systems may simply reverse themselves to clean up the room. That’s how carpets will “shake themselves.” Not all the motel improvements will be liked by the customer. Computer-bookkeep. ing will be so fast the traveler probably will have his bill waiting for him when he gets home.

Methodists announce Indiana reassignments

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) - The reassignment of district superintendents in the Indiana area of the United Methodist Church was announced Saturday after, noon by Bishop Reuben H. Mueller. Twenty . one superintendents were appointed, 10 in the North Conference and 11 in the South Conference. They included; Calumet—Rev. Eugene R. Balsley; South Bend—Rev. Donaid F. McMahan; Elkhart—Rev. H. Bergwall; Fort Wayne—Rev. A. Hunter Colpitts; Huntington — Rev. Ernest E. Lawshe; Marion—Rev. L. G. Sapp; Muncie — Rev. John M. Sayre; Kokomo — Rev. Donald L. Barnes; Logansport—Rev. Verner A. Carlson; Lafayette—Rev. Wilburt M. Littrell. Greencastle—Rev. Samuel B. Phillips; Indianapolis WestRev. Ross W. Marrs; Indianapoils Northeast—Rev. Leroy C. Hodapp; Indianapolis Southeast — Rev. Charles W. Ballard; New Castle— Rev. K. K. Merry, man; Greensburg—Rev. Harold Korean troops round up invaders SEOUL (UPI)—South Korean troops and police killed eight more members of a 30-man North Korean commando force that landed on South Korea’s east coast Nov. 2, military spokesman said today. It brought to 23 the number of Communists of the commando squad killed. The military spokesmen said the remaining eight were trapped in an area 100 miles east of Seoul.

W. Criswell; Bloomington—Rev. Robert B. Baldridge; Terre Haute—Rev. C. David Hancock; Vincennes—Rev. Richard L. Christopher; Evansville — Rev. Joe G. Emerson; New Albany— Rev. Charles F. Stanton. All 21 were superintendents in the old Methodist and Evangelical United Brethren district structures, but the reorganiza. tion will require several to move. Three former superintendents were given new assignments. The Rev. Virgil V. Bjork of Fort w'ayne will become a super intendent.at-large in the north and the Rev. Richard E. Hamilton of Bloomington will serve in a similar capacity in the south, while the Rev. Wilson S. Parks of South Bend will be field representative for a home for the elderly at New Carlisle.

WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR.’s ON THE RIGHT

X y* y.

When President Johnson announced the bombing pause the news was variously received, and for good reason. It was not clear, indeed it isn’t even now absolutely clear, who gave the signal. Whether the signal was given by the North Vietnamese or by the Americans, still it could not have been given outside the context of the American election. American presidential elections are not parochial events, especially not in countries with which America is for all intents and purposes at war. Lyndon Johnson was, in effect, the auctioneer, and it may be that he chose to interpret a relatively inconspicuous little sign- the twitch of a North Vietnamese finger at that palace in France; or the failure of that North Vietnamese to twitch his finger the way he usually did, as a bid to stop the bombing. It is a very old technique, pretending to understand the enemy to have extended his hand in amity when in fact he was making an obscene gesture. The most recent example of this technique was President Kennedy’s acquiescent reply to Mollifying Letter No. 1 from Khruschev during the missile crisis, as though he had never laid eyes on Truculent Letter No. 2. In any case, the move seems to have worked at least to the point of starting a little landslide of action, although it is of course entirely possible that the election having taken place, the status quo ante will be restored. Meanwhile we are asked to ponder sev*eral points; Is the government of South Vietnam entitled to refuse to negotiate with the NLF? Yes of course it is; and we find ourselves indelicately perched. On the one hand we keep insisting that the Government of South Vietnam ought to take more and more responsibility for all aspects of the war. On the other hand, our liberals are outraged every time

the South Vietnamese government proves in fact that it has a mind of its own. There was a day, within living memory, when we were disposed to hang people who decided that the wisest course was to cooperate with the enemy, as we are asking the South VitLiamese to do. (I do not remember a tear shed over the execution of Pierre Laval, or the exile of Marshal Petain.) But the recognition of the right of the South Vietnamese government is one thing. Another is the right of the U.S. Government. And our rights certainly extend to deciding under what terms we shall continue to assist the South Vietnamese. In other words, we are entitled, with reference to American inter, ests, to decide whether the South Vietnamese are being unreasonable. In the event we decide that they are, we have, obviously, the whip hand. The delicate moral question now is; are the South Vietnamese being unreasonable? If we use the present diplomatic impasse as an excuse, in effect, to lay the groundwork for the American evacuation of South Vietnam in the full know, ledge that our presence there will be replaced by an effective Communist dictatorship, then we shall have pleased only the MeCarthy’s of this country who are, by the grace of God, a small minority. If, on the other hand, we permit the South Vietnamese to interpose mere symbolic objections in the way of the exploration of peace possibilities, we will have bogged down with that Bourbon adamancy that kept the County of Chambord from the throne of F ranee on the issue of the configuration of the French flag. Surely the South Vietnamese should be pressured to admit the NLF to the conference table. The time to resist is when the NLF demands participation in the government. In other words, the Continued on Page 3

DID YOU FORGET PEARL 0’HAIR’S 20% DISCOUNT SALE ON DECORATIVE ACCESSORIES Sale will last until Nov. 15th 208 Spring Ave.

THURSDAY CURB SPECIAL 2 PC. KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN PLATTER MASHED POTATOES. GRAVY, SLAW, ROLL. 69, DOUBLE DECKER DRIVE-IN

dllST ARRIVUD WM

Warm-Lined, cozy Village Hoots

Ladies & Teens’

Imported

i ;i

Warm, deep pile lined

Imported

Men s & Young Men s

For the men on the go

Deep Pile Lined Skid resist soles

Other styles not shown 6.88

MERIT SHOE STORE

THE FAMILY SHOE STORES 12 W. Washington Street

Greencastle

CL

V