The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 19 November 1968 — Page 2

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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Tuesday, IMoverrber 19, 1968

THE DAILY BANNER and Herald Consolidated "It Waves For AH" Business Phone: OL 3-5151 - OL 3-5152 Lu Mar Newspapers Inc. Dr. Mary Tarzian, Publisher Published every evening except Sunday and Holidays at 1221 South Bloomington St.. Greencastle. Indiana. 4613S. 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 responsibility for their safe custody or return. By carrier 50C per week, single copy IOC. Subscription prices of the Daily Banner Effective July 31, 1967-Put-nam County-1 year. SI2.00-6 months, S7.00-3 months, S4.50 - Indiana other than Putnam County - 1 year. S14.00-6 months. S8.00 - 3 .months,’ S5.00. Outside Indiana 1 year, $18.00-6 months. 910.00-3 months. $7.00. All Mail Subscriptions payable in advance. Motor Routes 92.15 per one month. TODAY’S EDITORIAL Explaining Crime Rate T\f ANY EXPERTS have tried to explain the rising crime rate in the United States and some have gone as far as to explain it away as the result of better record keeping. For the person who lives in a large city like New York, however, more crime is a fact of life. He knows from experience that he is not as safe as he used to be. The ideal crime upon which to compare statistics, because the definition doesn’t change, homicide in New York has gone up at an alarming rate, as it has in every major city. In 1967 nine New Yorkers were murdered for every 100,000 people. Ten years before the rate was four, or less than half. From 1957 to 1967 the streets of New York became twice as dangerous. Some sociologists blame the increased crime rate on poverty. Poverty, they claim, breeds crime. But the homicide rate in New York steadily declined during the depression, from a high of seven per 100,000 in 1931 to 3.7 in 1940. Other sociologists point to the war in Vietnam as the cause. They claim that the violence of war generates violence at home. But, upon inspection, this thesis also melts into the clouds of sheer speculation. During World War II and the Korean War, the homicide rate in New York went down. While sociologists for the most part have left unanswered the riddle of the rise in crime, the people who deal with it face to face every day, the police, have come up with the most plausible answer. William J. Averill, inspector in the New York Police Department, attributes the increase to the decline in swift and certain punishment and the growing lack of respect for law and order. Both are the result of the increasing permissiveness within American society, an attitude that says there are no rights and wrongs and that a person should be free to indulge his emotions as a means of self-expression. As long as this attitude thrives, so will crime.

Ruckelshaus may oppose Hartke in senate race

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would be the most effective GOP opponent for Democratic Sen. Vance Hartke in 1970. Ruckelshaus, the youngest GOP senatorial nominee from Indiana at the age of 36, lost to Democratic Sen. Birch Bayh by only 52 to 48 per cent on Nov. 5. Bayh had served six years in the Senate and a term or so in the legislature at that time and his name was well known over the state. Time to Become Known Ruckelshaus had to spend a year of overtime days simply becoming known to politicians and voters over the state because his past political activity had been restricted to Indianapolis and Marion County. Hartke will have served 12 years if he runs again, as is expected.

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Waiting is worse says prisoner By DONALD B. THACKREY SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (UPI) — Charles Gardner awaits death every day in a clean, quiet prison cell. Death does not frighten him. Waiting for it does. “I want to live,” said the 20-year-old youth, “but it’s no use believing in a fantasy.” Life became a fantasy last year when Gardner shot and killed a store owner during a holdup. A jury convicted him of murder and sentenced him to San Quentin’s gas chamber. Gardner has been on death row 10 months, waiting, hoping that he could escape the gas chamber. ‘‘But rather than stay five to eight years on the row, I’d rather be dead by gas,” Gardner said. “Waiting for it to come is worse than getting it.” Upholds Death Penalty The California Supreme Court Monday made the waiting tougher for Gardner and 84 other death row prisoners. Including one woman, awaiting San Quentin’s gas chamber. By a 4-3 decision, the court upheld the constitutionality of the state’s death penalty. The attorneys who challenged the death penalty— and halted all executions in California for 18 months—said they would carry their case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. It will be the most aggressive legal challenge to capital punishment.

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A writer’s niche by Fred Ashcraft

Bread is called the staff of life. With me it’s more like a crutch. I can’t eat without bread. No way, no how. .1 even need a slice of bread to eat an apple. And I always sop up fruit cocktail with cornbread. Once long ago the bread lust reached its high point with me when I took my wife, mother-in-law and father-in-law to a Chinese restaurant in New York City. We oi'.lared the usual conglomeration of sweet-and-sour bamboo sprouts and raw fish eyes. When it arrived, I started looking around for the bread. “Hey, waiter,” I said. “You forgot the hot rolls and hushpuppies.” He looked at me in unblinking contempt, like he was sizing me up for a Tong war. “Blead,” he said, “for jerks. No serve blead in Chinee restaurant. Eat lice. Lice better than blead.” Upon V7l'.i ;h he bowed stiffly and retreated, clearly insulted. I got stubborn. “I won’t eat without bread,” I said. “Hush,” said my wife. “You’re making a scene.” “Scene or no scene, if I’m going to eat fried grasshoppers foo yung I’ve got to have some bread ” “All right,” she said angri’y. “Go buy a loaf!” “Thanks,” I snarled. “That’s just what I’ll do.” And out of the restaurant I marched, and down the street to the grocery store, where I clutched a loaf of good old Tastee Bread and returned in triumph. I slapped the loaf of bread down o n the table while the waiter stared in outrage. I proceeded to enjoy my lice. With my blead. There followed two days of stickiness around home until I picked up a newspaper and discovered to my joy that Yogi Berra was as bad as I wa^ Seems Yogi was in Japan with a touring baseball team and discovered that he couldn’t get bread. So he had bread flown in. “Just shows you,” I told my wife, “That I’m not alone.” What makes the bread problem so acute is my waistline. I’m on a diet trying to pare off some poundage and anywhere you turn on a diet, you run into the bread barrier. Dietitians stand around all day, spinning their calorie wheels and muttering incantations against Continental Bakeries. Women generally scorn bread and since women do the cooking, we bread lovers have an uphill struggle. Nobody has told us yet that bread contains cholesterol and causeselephantiasisbut I’m sure they will. All of this doesn’t change my outlook a jiggerful. I love bread in any form, from hot biscuits to hardtack. I like muffins, corn sticks, spoon bread, rye bread, cracked wheat bread, sweet rolls, Parker House rolls, buttermilk or sweet milk biscuits, hoecake, shortnin’ bread and pumpernickel. I’ll take it plain, self-rising or water-ground. A meal isn’t a meal without it. Even in Chinatown.

Students ask to take more time in their choice

—Equipment mutual-aid calls to Fillmore in October. In other action at the meeting the Council passed a resolution transferring about $1275 worth of funds.

The action takes money from specific funds, which have been over-budgeted, and places money in other funds, under the control of the same department, which have been underbudgeted.

—DPU accompanied by Professor Eugene Barban , pianist. Tunes like “Stomping at the Savoy,” “Big Swing Face,” "I Love You Porgy,” and “Up Right” are on the docket for the Friday night jazz concert by the DePauw Jazz Workshop. The 19-man jazz group is composed of DePauw students and profs, performing under the auspices of the men’s music honorary Phi Mu Alpha. Proceeds from the concert will go to the jazz group and to the fraternity’s scholarship fund.

Many students take more care in researching a term paper than they do in choosing a career, according to a new study released by the Prudential Insurance Co. The study, published in a 32page booklet entitled “Facing Facts AboutChoosing Your Life’s Work.” reports that career decisions are often influenced by unsupportable stereotypes, misinformation and lack of inform ation. Prudential’s booklet, prepared as a public service for students and guidance counsellors, lists a number of guidelines useful in charting one’s life work and in choosing from among the 30,000 different occupations available today. Four characteristics basic to making a wise career choice are said to be: flexibility, a good general background, strength to follow one’s own lead, and willing, ness to continue learning. The publication urges the young person to make his own check list on job opportunities available to him. Points should include an examination of the work entailed, growth potential, and whether the work would be stimulating or boring. Other points: opportunity for advancement, salary outlook, work satisfaction, and the need for specialized training. Many students, the booklet says, have been led toward satisfying careers on the basis of high school courses in which they did well. It also recommends reading widely about different occupations, and discussing various car. eers with teachers, counsellors, and people in various jobs, and--if possible.-summer work in one’s chosen field. Prudential’s study also reports that careers in business, once low on the scale of students’ interest, are attracting more college student attention. At the University of Michigan, recent research shows a 20 per cent increase in the number of liberal arts students interested in business careers. The booklet points out that the challenges of new technology and the new business generation’s concern with corporate citizenship, have changed the old business stereotype, which

stressed seniority, conformity, and unreceptiveness to new ideas. Among these innovations are the life insurance industry’s billion dollar pledge to aid America’s cities, participation in Job Corps Centers, and involvement in education. Concluding the discussion is a review of the qualities that employers look for when interview, ing job applicants. Touching on the negative side of the coin” and drawing upon a survey conducted by Dr. Franks. Endicott, Northwestern University’s placement director, the booklet reports that the leading reason for rejection of college graduate applicants is poor personal appearance. Prudential’s booklet is the latest in a series. Previous “Facing Facts” booklets examined college admissions, two-year colleges, and making a success of one’s college career. Copies are available on request from the Prudential Insurance Co., public relations department, Box 36, Prudential Plaza,Newark, N.J. 07101.

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Richard Milhous Nixon now walks the lonely road. It is like being lost above the timber line in winter. The winds shriek, the stars stare in icy blue. A shout for help has no echo. All decisions are momentous. All cousel is agreeable. The richest country in the most progressive century is in his hands. Once elected, he is the President of all the people. And yet, more people voted against him than for him. The loyal opposition in the Congress is stronger than his own party. He seeks unity where there is division; purpose where there is anarchy; idealism where there is greed; idealism and aspiration where detractors set traps. He was not my man. I’m a Democrat. But he is entitled to my respect and, if I have any to offer, my assistance. I never knew a man who, "from the moment he assumed the august office of President of the United States, wasn’t a bigger and better man at once, almost as though the hand of Providence had, for a time, taken the pettiness from his heart. He thinks bigger; he is bigger. Few men aspired to the Presidency with such stubborn design as this one. For eight years, he could taste it but, when he lost a narrow one to Kennedy, and the governership of California to Pat Brown, almost everyone lost faith in Richard Nixon except Dwight D. Eisenhower, Pat Nixon, Be be Reboza, Herb Klein and some Republican state chairmen who owed him a nod. Nixon said too many right things. He sounded like a high school debater. His opinions were flawless. Like other candidates, he had a public relations paranoia. He could shake hands heartily, turn on the bluejowled grin, but his eyes kept saying:“You’re out to get me.” On a wintry afternoon in January, he will return from the inaugural parade and walk into that big oval office. The gleaming black shoes will sink into a thick pile rug of pale green on which is embossed the seal of the President. The French windows with their gossamer curtains will silhouette the rose garden and the south grounds. All of it — the fireplace, the two couches, the dark rosewood desk, the standing banners, will be familiar to Richard Nixon. He has seen them many times, but he has never been in there alone. That is the difference. His scrambler telephone will put him in direct touch with De Gaulle, Kiesinger, and Kosygin. Secret Service men will stand outside his door day and night; a mysterious man with a small suitcase will follow him everywhere he goes, in case the President decides to dial a nuclear attack on another nation.

Alone, he will select a Secretary of State, a Secretary of Defense, an Attorney General — an array of intellect, honor and efficiency which will, in great or small degree, betray him from time to time. The heads of 154 government administrations and bureaus will report directly to the President and he will be responsible for their work. Outside this country, small nations will get into trouble and beg him to bail them out. In the office, men of pompous mien will ask favors. The mind of the President will be yanked in many directions, simultaneously. Personal friends in California, New York , Florida and Washington will lean on his time, as proof of his continuing devotion. He will, if he is as bright as I think, surround himself with the best intelligence. He will learn, as we must, that the glib campaign promises to end the war in Vietnam, pacify the Black Revolution, and produce by a magical snap of the fingers the law and order everyone craves, are forlorn hopes which will be realized only by unremitting work and patience.

The job robs a man of about eight years of life. The responsibility is too broad, the call for judgment too exacting for anyone. In addition to intelligence, patriotism and honor, the President must have forbearance. The people can give him no less than he gives us. I hope that the Democratic Congress will spend more time trying to help the new President than in opposing his will for the sake of opposition. At this time of crisis — it is Nixon or nothing. In making the next President look good, the 91st Congress can make itself look noble. In the past year, all of us found out that a President of the United States is mortal, that we can crush him at will. We proved the point. Let’s not try it again...

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