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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Tuesday, November 26, 1968

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TODAY’S EDITORIAL Welfare Reform OEFORM of America’s welfare system is an idea H. whose time has come. There is no better evidence of this fact than some of the statements made during the course of the 1968 campaign by spokesmen for different parties and philosophies. From almost all points on the political scene came sharp criticism of present welfare policies. It is noteworthy that no one sought to answer it. Although the various critics differ on the specifics of reform, most of them seem to agree that the present system degrades the individual—that it leaves him where he is instead of offering opportunities for advancement. Most often cited is the tendency of welfare to become a way of life, with generation after generation dependent upon handouts. The late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy sounded this theme, with a good response, in last spring’s Democratic primaries. He told receptive crowds that the poor need jobtraining and jobs, not more welfare payments. Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew similarly stressed the importance of efforts to make the poor productive, independent members of society. Both endorsed tax credits for private industries which engage in jobtraining programs. Agnew strongly criticized unequal welfare payments which, he said, encourage the poor to migrate to cities which offer the highest benefits. To prevent further overcrowding of the big cities, he proposed standardization of welfare payments throughout the country. The popularity of welfare reform moved George Wallace to endorse job-training programs as more desirable than public doles. Those “lured to the metropolitan areas by false promises,” his platform said, should be "afforded an opportunity for training." This idea, which spans the political distance between light and left, certainly has come to stay. No doubt it will assert itself in the next Congress.

A by-product of the interstate systems, which were designed primarily to move traffic faster, is turning out to be the Gift of Life. C. Murl Drane, Vice President of the Indiana Automobile Association, cites the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads’ statistics which reveal a dramatic decrease in the percentage of fatal accidents on interstates over that on rural roads, and points out that this is an extremely important aspect of this gigantic national endeavor. “The Bureau’s study,” he reports, “shows that there were 2.9 deaths per 100,000,000 miles traveled over interstate highways against 7.5 on rural roads. That means that there would have been a potential of 4,000 more deaths than actually occurred had the same percentage of travelers been forced to use rural roads and highways.” Thanksgiving undoubtedly rates up with Labor Day weekend and the Christmas holidays for heavy highway traffic as families get together for the occasion. “Perhaps one of the things for which we should pause and give thanks,” Mr. Drane said, “is the increased safety and the shortened travel time afforded us by our interstates.”

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WASHINGTON (UPI)—There was the distributor whose business was supplying “turkey shoots” across the nation with special ammunition. Then there was the man who kept traveling shooting galleries supplied with special bullets. Next was the lawyer who frequently transported his legal, What It Takes NEW YORK (UPD—A visitor at the Hotel Edison asked owner Milton J. Kramer what it takes to run a successful hotel. “A lot of guest-work,” Kramer said. Origin of "Coach"? BUDAPEST (UPI) — The English word “coach” comes from the name of the Hungarian village of Kocs where the first horse - drawn carriages were built in the 13th century. So claims the Hungarian cultural historian Laszlo Tarr in a new book on the 5,000year history of the coach from Mesopotamia to the beginning of the 20th century.

tax-paid machine gun from his home in Maryland to his personal firing range in Virginia. All appealed Thursday to a public hearing on how the government will enforce the new gun control law after spokesmen for the arms industry said the enforcement proposals exceeded the intent of Congress and are likely to drive small retailers out of business because of excessive paper, work. After hearing the complaints, the Internal Revenue Service was expected to make some changes in its plans to enforce the Gun Control Act of 1968, which was passed last month and becomes effective Dec. 16. Remedies Worse Than Ailment UNION, N.J. (UPD—“Cures” for the common cold through the ages have included rubbing the chest with skunk grease, drinking stolen milk, putting turpentine on the tip of the tongue and burning feathers in the bedroom, according to researchers for the makers of a drug product (Corricidin D).

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Viewer opinions cites churches NEWS EVENTS DON’T ALTER VIEWERS’ OPINIONS, SAYS CRITIC; CITES CHURCH OPPORTUNITY People see and believe only what they want to believe, says a nationally.known critic in assessing television influence. This explains why various persons by the millions look at the same news scenes on their screens, yet draw strikingly different conclusions. While TV provides “undreamed of access to all the drama on the world’s stage,” Dr. David Poindexter of New York finds that this electronic medium ‘ ‘will not materially alter our opinions.” TV simply “cannot supply” what is needed by viewers, but “the church can,” Dr. Poindexter states. Viewers react to what they see on TV screens on the basis of “selective perception,” this television critic explains. “We approach every experience with our own set of presuppositions, loyalties, and memories,” Dr. Poindexter writes in the December issue of the United Methodist general, interest magazine TOGETHER. “We select what we want to believe, and we reject everything else,” he continues. “The church has an unparalleled opportunity” to help people really hear and respond to the message of dramatic events seen on TV screens, says Dr. Poindexter, director of utilization of the National Council of Churches’ broadcasting and film commission. Viewers need to see their “own mindsets in the light of the mind of Christ,” he brings out. Allies fight in DMZ By JACKWALSH SAIGON (UPI)—Allied troops fought Communists in the North-South Vietnam border Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) today for the first time since the United States stopped the bombardment of North Vietnam Nov. 1 military spokesmen said. A 15-man South Vietnamese reconnaissance patrol reported killing three guerrillas and capturing one while suffering no losses itself. Battlefield reports said the Communists opened up on the allied patrol before daybreak as it pushed north a half mile into the six-mile-wide strip. North Vietnamese gunners firing from inside the strip Monday hit two U.S. rescue planes hunting for the crewmen of two American planes shot Continued on Page 3

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

Morningafterwise, what would you have thought if the mail had brought you a lapel button that read, simply, “E.M.K.”? My reaction would have been that m> name had got on the mailing list of a Greek terrorist organization, and I’d have tossed the thing away. But that is a sign of what sociologists might call Deficient Kennedy Awareness. Be:an->9 -- you guessed it-- “E.M.K.” stands for Edward Moore Kennedy; the button I speak of exists, and was sent out on November 6 to how many thousands of people I do not know; the symbol E.M.K. is obviously intended as this sea. son’s totemic replacement of the older manifests of political purlty, like the P.T. 109 tie clips, and the FKBLA (For Kennedy Before Los Angeles) buttons. Really, the dynastic assertive, ness of the Kennedys is a wonder of the world. Six years ago latecomers to Camelot were grumbling that Teddy’s decision to run for the Senate on the slogan, “He Can Do More For Massachusetts,” was arrant opportunism such as to embarrass the entire country. Now many of the same people who were saying that are asking us to prepare to name Teddy — not to a seat in the Senate because he is a Kennedy, but to the White House because he is a Kennedy. There are conservatives around who are accused of wanting to put back the clock. But none that I know of who desires to restore the divine right of kings. Consider, for a moment, how mere non-Kennedys are treated. It is interesting to note how Senator Eugene McCarthy, notwithstanding his abundant quailfications - he is wittier, profounder, more convincingly liberal, better read than any of the Kennedys; consider how quickly he is being discarded. Even after the assassination of Robert Kennedy, the Court refused to turn to him. They gave as the reasons Mr. McCarthy’s temperamental disqualifications. But similar disqualifications did not prevent the same group from being captivated by Adlai Steven, son, back Before Los Angeles. No, the sin of Eugene McCarthy, one suspects, is insufficient servility to the Kennedy myth and to the Kennedy Court. Notice how after the convention he was being not-so-gently badmouthed. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. said about him, a few weeks before the election, that he was an unlikely leader

for the new America, because his following consisted of a “semi-precious fraternity of college graduates” (quitetrue,quite true: but nonetheless a provocative thing for one left Democrat to say about another). And then Mr. Allard Lowen. stein, who began the Draft MeCarthy movement, has now announced cooly that Senator McCarthy is not the designated new leader of American liberalism, that the young people who supported him in New Hampshire and elsewhere were supporting not him, but his ideas. And the suggestion of course was that a more suitable vehicle could be found for carrying Senator McCarthy’s ideals. Such as who? Why, such as Senator Kennedy. Now it isn’t going to be absolutely open and shut-- disgrace, ful, the way our country forces Kennedys to fight for their throne. There are quite a lot of people around who are fiercely impressed by Senator Muskie. If Muskie were an ambitious man, who knows, he might prove to be an able contender, though he would probably be treated like Hamlet’s stepfather. And then too, there is a slight problem involving John Lindsay. Mr. Lindsay’s plans were severely affected by Mr. Nixon’s victory. Friends of Mr. Lindsay hope for the following sequence of events. Mr. Nixon would lose. And his loss would be generally attributed to his deficient per. sonality and excessive conservatism. Who then would rise as representing exactly the opposite features? John Lindsay, needless to say. Now, suddenly, bereft of his automatic standing as heir apparent, Mr. Lindsay faces a number of political problems, among them the accelerating disintegration of the city he proraised to lead to paradise. On the other hand, no doubt there are dreams that Nixon will prove as unpopular as Lyndon Johnson, and perhaps Lindsay would emerge as 1972’s Republican Eugene McCarthy? And if he won, and was pitted against Teddy Kennedy, wouldn’t that sort of spoil things for Kennedy? Not to say for the country?

Delayed peace talks to start soon? oy LOREN JENKINS PARIS (UPI)—The delayed Vietnam talks in Paris may open late this week, according to diplomatic reports today. Diplomatic sources in Washington, Saigon and Paris said South V i e t n a m’s President Nguyen Van Thieu is on the verge of announcing the end of his boycott of the talks with the Viet Cong, North Vietnam and the United States. In Washington, UPI diplomatic reporter Stewart Hensley said only a last minute hitch was believed able to prevent the talks opening here late this week or, possibly, early next week. So sure was Washington of the talks starting that, according to Hensley, Secretary of State Dean Rusk so informed Soviet Ambassador Anatoly F. Dobrynin over lunch. In Saigon, UPI correspondent Daniel Southerland said American Embassy officials in the South Vietnamese capital were replying “no comment” to reports of the imminent end of the boycott. But in the Saigon diplomatic corridors, agreement was the word. The talks were to have opened Nov. 6. The United States and North Vietnamese spent more than five months in contacts here arranging the negotiations. Part of the talk agreement was a halt to U.S. bombardment of North Viet, nam. But Saigon balked. It refused, it said, to sit down at a conference at which its prime foe, the Viet Cong guerrillas, were given the status of an independent delegation. The United States said the agreement with Hanoi called for an “our-side, your-side” arrangement with the Communists coming as one side and the allies as the other. Here, the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong have proclaimed they each will come as separate delegations. When the talks do start, the diplomats said, this issue probably will arise again. There had been some hope earlier this week the talks might open Wednesday. This today was regarded as virtually impossible. Communist diplomats here showed every sign of preparing for the talks to start. The Viet Cong called a news conference for Wednesday at which it was expected to hint of its conference strategy. Why do youth act as they do? It is easy to span the “generation gap” if several families will get together in informal discussion groups about once a week, says a consulting psychologist. Such gatherings enable mothers and fathers to understand teenagers, notes Dr. Dale C. White. “The favorite music of young people reflects the prevailing mood of youth culture today,” he observes in the December issue of TOGETHER, the United Methodist Church general-inter-est magazine. “The loud music helps us to relax,” Dr. White quotes from one young man’s explanation at a council over which he presided. “It takes us out of our hangups and tensions, and makes us forget our troubles for a little while,” he quotes further. The type of music favored by teens these days engenders “sort of a tribal feeling,” Dr. White brings out — as though all youths “belong to one another.” Consequently, while listening to their preferred tunes, the girls and boys forget their self-conscious-ness or loneliness and “just melt into the group.” Another youth explains: “You really come alive with that beat. It makes your body feel free and full of rhythm.” Today’s popular music appeals to youths also, Dr. White reports, because it expresses to them “how confused and mad and frustrated” they sometimes get.

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Dear Sir: Your recent editoral entitled “Explaining Crime Rate” deserves some criticism. First, you mentioned that some experts have “explained away” rising crime rates as being a result of better record keeping. There is a great deal of truth in such statements. Greater tech, nological advances, and the realization of the need for more accurate crime statistics have brought about better record keeping. As a result, we cannot get an accurate picture of crime increase by comparing today’s crime report with those of twenty years ago. It is also impossible to get an accurate index of crime increase by comparing today’s crime rate with the rate of last year. The thousands of sheriffs and police departments that report crimes to the F.B.I. often have inconsistent reporting techniques. To complicate things further some police departments are more strict than others. For example, some cities tolerate under-age drinking, prostitution and gambling. Whereas, other cities arrest such violators. In this latter example, the crimes are reportable; in tolerant cities, such crimes are not reported. Furthermore, some police agencies may falsify their reports, either because they don’t want to be “bothered” with keeping accurate records, or because they are afraid to reveal the amount of known crime within their district. To illustrate this, New York City had a notorious reputation for reporting to the F.B.I. less crime than their own records indicated. They deliberately falsified reports up until the early 1950’s. Hence, when they began using better reporting practices, the statistics inaccurately indicated a “crime wave.” Please understand, crime is increasing. How much? No one (and I do mean no one) knows! Your editorial further states that “some sociologists blame’ poverty for all crimes are more likely to be the result of poverty. The causal factor here is not necessarily poverty in the economic need, but the social and interpersonal relations which are sometimes associated with poverty. At the same time, sociologists realize that white collar criminals (who usually come from the “middle-class”) are a much more serious threat in regard to property and financial thefts and unethical practices. You conclude by referring to William Averill’s statement that “swift and certain punishment” is needed to curb crime. Unfortunately, Mr. Averill is not quailfied to propose methods for halting crime. He is a policeman* not a penologist. It would be ridiculous (if not impossible) to expect police to be experts at both apprehending and proposing correctional methods. Thiscriticism of Mr. Averill is equally applicable to J. Edger Hoover, (Director of the F.B.I.), who often tries to propose ways of deterring crime. History reveals that the most

severe punishments have not de--terred criminals severing limbs from the body .decapitation, capital punishment, physical beatings, and son on. Punishment, in fact, has helped to increase crime! The criminal fosters some degree of contempt toward his victim, the society in general, and even toward “the system” (police, courts and prisons). Punishment only serves to increase their contempt. The growing accumulation of statistical research (not “speculation”)has resulted in the development of the contemporary correctional philosophy, which states that society can best be protected from its criminals through the use of rehabilitative techniques. What are the techniques of rehabilitation? They are providing educational and vocational training, good counseling, guidance, good morale, constructive discipline, etc. This raises the question: “If rehabilitation is the best known method, why isn’t it being used by many prison systems?” While sociologist and criminologists have done an outstanding job of uncovering good correctional methods, they have failed miser, ably in educating the public. More accurately, they have made very little attempt to educate the publie. In a democratic country, the public indirectly shapes correctional policy by electing govern, ment leaders (who, in turn refleet the public attitude in regard to punishment). In conclusion, what sociologists and criminologists know to be true, is different from what the public believes to be true. Thank you for printing my comments. John N. Conte Graduate Student, I.S.U. Institute of Criminology, Terre Haute. Cadou ill INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — Eugene J. Cadou Sr., United Press International regional executive and political writer, was admitted to Winona Hospital today. Cadou’s physiciano r d e r e d him to rest last week after diagnosing a shortness of breath condition as due to a “sluggish heart.” Cadou was treated at the hospital Sunday but returned home and, after a restless night, was hospitalized.

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