The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 10 December 1968 — Page 2

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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Tuesday, December 10, 1968

THE DAILY BANNER And Herald Consolidated "It Waves For AH" Business Phone: OL 3-5151 -0L 3-5152 LuA/lar Newspapers Inc. Dr. Mary Tarzian, Publisher Published every evening except Sunday and Holidays 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, $7.00-3 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 EDITORIAF Freedom for Some r PHE RECENT Supreme Court decision voiding state * laws which ban the teaching of Darwin’s theory of evolution almost wrote the final chapter in this longstanding controversy—but not quite. The court’s action recalls the South of 50 years ago, where several states prohibited the teaching of evolution in deference to fundamentalist Christian belief. In 1925 John T. Scopes, a Dayton, Tenn., biology teacher, precipitated a test case by expounding the outlawed doctrine. Scopes’ trial is best remembered for its confrontation between Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan. That case might have settled the issue, but Scopes’ conviction was dismissed on a technicality and never reached the Supreme Court. The Tennessee law was not repealed until last year, and the Arkansas and Mississippi statutes remained in effect until the recent court ruling. On Nov. 12, the Supreme Court voided Arkansas’ anti-evolution law, and Scopes, now retired and living in Shreveport, La., hailed the decision as belated vindication of his position. That it was, but the 40-year-old question still had not been laid fully to rest. The grounds on which the Supreme Court decided the case left room for further controversy. The court said that the Arkansas law violated the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of religion and upheld the right of a teacher to propagate the theory of evolution. It was on the same grounds several years ago that the Supreme Court ruled that prayers and Bible-reading have no place in the schools. The court held that the First Amendment guarantees an atheist minority protection from propagation of religious doctrine. The Supreme Court, in short, has put forth a distorted definition of freedom—freedom for some, but not for others. Atheists shall be protected from doctrines they find offensive, but fundamentalist Christians shall not. For our part, we think both Darwin and the Bible have a place in the classroom. Having supported Darwin’s claims, the Supreme Court might reconsider its school prayer decision. Orange bean in costume jewelry contains deadly poison

CHICAGO (UPI) — Some people leave their work at the office. Not so Charles R. Gunn. Gunn, 41, a botanist for the U.S. Agriculture Department, is a specialist in identifying seeds. Gunn tries to identify all the seeds he sees,” just to keep my eye up, you might say.” It was fortunate Gunn’s eye was “up” Nov. 23 when he went Christmas shopping at a Sears Roebuck —Co. store in Silver Spring, Md., a suburb of Washington, D.C. He looked at a $1 piece of costume jewelry on a rotating display and saw that the trinkets held a seed containing “One of the most deadly poisons in the world— right up there with some of the very worst snake poisons.” Gunn rushed to his office, checked records to see if he was right, and called the store. Sears officials Saturday put out an “urgent” appeal for the return of the pins, sold at Sears stores throughout the country. A spokesman estimated 300 to 400 of the pins were sold before the item was taken off the counter. A Food and Drug Administration spokesman said Sunday the pins were imported from Japan by Alster Importing Co. of New York, which sold them to Sears and “about 30 other firms.” He said Alster urged the other firms to return the pins. Gunn, who has a doctorate in botany, is a research plant taxonomist at the Agriculture Department’s research facility in Beltsville, Md., said Sunday the beans have the botanical name Abrus Precotorious, and grow in tropical areas of Africa, South America and the Caribbean. He said the beans—shiny, eggshaped, bright orange or red in color with r. black tip—have been for d on rosary beads and

ASKING FOR TROUBLE Rep Brock Adams, D-Wash., looks undismayed in Washington at the job he has set for himself keeping Rep. John W. McCormack, DMass., from being re-elected House Speaker. Adams says new House leadership is necessary in view of the Republican capture of the White House.

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WASHINGTON (UPI)Amerlcans for Democratic Action is holding the door open for Hubert H. Humphrey to return as vice chairman whenever he is ready to rejoin the liberal political group he helped found. The action was taken in a national board meeting Sunday at the same time ADA put President-elect Richard M Nixon on notice it will be watching closely his handling of the Vietnam War, tax matters and the limiting of military spending. In other resolutions, the ADA outlined a role for liberals In Nixon’s administration, supported electoral college reform and urged the seating of Congressman - elect Adam Clayton Powell. Humphrey, one of the founders of the ADA in 1948, served the organization in official capacities over the years but allowed his membership to lapse upon his election as vice president in 19G4. The ADA endorsed Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, D-Minn., for president earlier this year, then switched to Humphrey when he won the Democratic nomination.

Ten Questions and Answers about open guest privileges at Indiana University

several persons have died from chewing the bean. “People in tropical areas where the plant is grown smear it on spear points and use it to get rid of people—to kill people and animals,” Gunn said. He said that sino a “ j beans have “a hard seed coat” they probably could not hurt anyone unless they were chewed. “If you chewed one the chances are you’d die,” he said. “It’s one of the most deadly poisons in the world—right up with some of the very worst snake poisons.” In Chicago, Sears corporate news director Ernest L. Arms said the pins were sold at 138 Sears retail stores in 117 cities. He said Sears bought 200 boxes of the pins. Each box contained 48 pins, only 12 of which had the beans, he said.

Clergy and others involved in campus ministries who are concerned for the life of Indiana University have been meeting to coordinate their work and to consider important issues confronting the university community. We have noted the real concern of parents of I.U. students and others for the recently adopted open visitation plan. We have met with university administrators and student leaders and have discussed the issue at length. The following questions and answers represent our considered effort to deal constructively with questions frequently asked about open visitation. The names of the persons making this statement are appended. 1. What is the present plan for open guest privileges atl.U.? Are there any regulations' 1 As authorized by the I. U. Board of Trustees and implemented by the President’s Council of the Inter-Residence Hall Association residents of university housing may entertain relatives and friends of the opposite sex in their rooms if two-thirds of the residents in a given housing unit voting by secret ballot approve open visitation. Visitation is limited to three nights a week, no two of which may be consecutive, and in most units is Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. The maximum visitation hours are from 1 p.m. to 2 a.m. Most of the women’s units have instituted shorter hours (for example 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.) and most of the men’s units have elected the maximum hours. There are rules for signing in and out and for escorts and procedures enforced by the students for policing the plan. We are impressed by the responsibility shown by student leaders for the enforcement of the plan and by their effort to educate the student body to respect the rules. Normal university rules which exclude liquor and drugs con-

tinue to apply and to be enforced. 2. Why did I.U. administrators give in to student agitators? The students I know aren’t for open visitation. The plan for open visitation was approved by the I.U. Trustees upon the recommendation of administrators, the faculty council and responsible student leaders after a trial period last spring. The administrators recommended the plan after careful study of visitation plans at universities in other states and with the intention of encouraging greater student responsibility as well as granting the greater freedom desired by the students. The plan has met with overwhelming support in the individual units (as the actual votes approving the separate unit plans show) and is not the result of agitation by campus radicals, most of whom are not interested in this issue. It is true that some students object to open visitation. Their rights are protected by allowing them to change rooms if entertainment of guests by a roommate causes serious inconvenience. Also no students are required to live in university housing and there are plans to designate certain units for those who do not wish to live in a unit with open guest privileges. 3. When the general community in Indiana will not condone young people of the opposite sex visiting in bedrooms why do the I.U. administrators permit such a thing? Most young people are allowed great freedom by their parents to visit friends of the opposite sex without supervision in automobiles and family living rooms. The student’s room is his living room. The fact that it has a bed makes it no more inviting to immoral behavior than the automobile back seat or the living room sofa. 4. Won’t peer pressure force innocent young people into behavior their parents would not tolerate and which might be in-

jurious to them? Peer pressure does frequently lead young people to do things against their best interests. Whether open visitation will increase this tendency is not known. Some residential hall counselors report changes in the opposite direction as a result of visitation such as the lessening of foul language, better standards of dress and generally more restrained behavior. 5. An often repeated statement is that “the only thing two young people of the opposite sex are studying behind closed doors in the dormitory is anatomy.” Such statements are frequently made by persons who should know better and show more respect for the maturity and responsiblility of the younger generation. The companionship of persons of the opposite sex is frequently conducive to serious academic work and I.U. students often gather in groups to study in a student’s room. However, some young couples are involved in exchanges of physical affection and perhaps a few in outright intercourse, despite the obvious hazards of being interrupted by a roommate or neighbor. The problems that accompany relations between young men and women are well known to university chaplains and other clergy who counsel them. None-the-less we have concluded that the benefits of open visitation in encouraging mature and responsible relations between the sexes outweigh the potential risks of additional tragedy.

We do not believe that open visitation will encourage promiscuity and we hope it will encourage growth and maturity. Furthermore, cynical statements are an insult to the young and a disappointment to the sensitive. 6. Aren’t some young people too immature to handle such freedom? Yes, some young people, given the freedom of privacy with a person of the opposite sex for the first time may be tempted to play around with sex in destructive ways. If college men and women have not had any similar privacy before or if parents question their ability to cope with it in the I.U. dormitories parents can ask that the student live in housing without such freedom. However, these young people will one day have to be responsible for their own actions without external restraints. 7. What about the privacy of vast numbers of students who do not date nor entertain visitors of the opposite sex in their rooms? This is a serious concern. Many of those who voted for open visitation may not make use of the privilege. Units which have no visitation will be provided and changes of roommates are allowed. The lounges are open only to residents and not to guests during visitation hours. Previously they were virtually unusable except for those with guests. Still we are concerned Continued on Page 8

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New York City has lost its character. Once upon a time, it was a distinctive place, a checkerboard of neighborhoods. Viewed from a distance, it was a two-man saw with missing teeth. It had tenement halls ripe with old odors of herring, lasagna, and corned beef. It had Coney Island and hot dogs, tabloid newspapers and bright lights. I roll through the city slowly, driving near the curb and the metropolis seethes with suspicion and hate. For thirty-five years, I felt every borough as intimately as a blind pianist feels the right chords. Suddenly, all of it is alien. And yet the sounds and sights are familiar. The subway makes the same hollow roar; Park Avenue looks rich; a blanket of black dust covers the sky; women in old cloth coats, with kerchiefs and curlers, hurry to the store with heads down. The cemeteries of Brooklyn are stone soldiers hiding in the grass. New York is still the queen, but the lines show under the makeup. The Hudson is so choked with filth that it may be the only inflammable river in the country. There are more applications for tickets to television shows than to all the hits on Broadway. Father Francis Duffy stands gray and immutable in the middle of Times Square, a perch for inconsiderate pigeons. The city is old and drafty. At one time the neighborhoods were precisely defined: Flatbush, Brownsville, Washington Heights, Harlem, Bensonhurst, Jackson Heights, Ridgewood, Richmond -- they melt into a million brownstone rooming houses and no parking streets. Huge housing developments bring thousands of families together in suspicious anonymity. The high church steeples now crouch between skyscrapers. From a hotel window, you can tell that the sun is up by studying a watch. At Penn Station, no cheerful and wise Red Cap carries luggage. The Lost and Found man says that there are two of them somewhere. Two women clean the express to Phil-

adelphia by dragging cardboard cartons on a rope down theaisle„ dumping rubbish inside. Wall Street is busier than ever, richer than ever. The stone figure of George Washington on the Sub-Treasury steps holds a graceful palm downard, warning the investers to be cautious. J. P. Morgan is no more; the immaculate figures of the Lehman Brothers, in waxed mustaches and pearl gray spats, are now wall paintings. A fence adorns the 8Gth floor of the Empire State Building to discourage the meditating suicides. Fewer of the wild animals in the zoo mate these days, and the tawny baby lions, with stringy tails straight up, are not seen anymore. The horse hacks across the street from the Plaza are popular because many young lovers have never seen a horse. More businesses are in New York now, dwelling in newer and taller buildings, but the tenements decay with garbage and rats and the affluent move out. Manhattan sits on a deep molar of rock, and the city hums with industry and air conditioning until a sub-station blows a fuse. The elevators stop, the fans die, the lights go out — panic. Not so long ago, Bensonhurst was brick dwellings where physicians and lawyers were spawned. Harlem was gin and* chicken and music. Broadway was an array of lights acclaiming an unknown girl from Iowa. Fifth Avenue was blue book society peeking from behind lace curtains. The West Side was Irish, Continued on Page 8

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