The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 16 December 1968 — Page 2

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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Monday, December 16, 1968

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TODAY’S EDITORIAL The Walker Report CAUSE of law and order has received a damag- ■ ing and biased blow from the “Walker Report” which claims that it was not the agitators but the Chicago police who caused the riot during the Democratic National Convention. Its conclusion that the violence “can only be called a police riot” does not, however, jibe with the report itself which was drawn up by attorney Daniel Walker for the President’s Commission on Violence. Walker admits that much of the violence was premeditated by the demonstrators themselves. One of the organizers, Tom Hayden, said: “We should have people organized who can fight the police, people who are willing to get arrested.” The leaders made it plain they intended to provoke a reaction from the police or, in the event of police inaction, to invade the convention itself in order to intimidate the delegates. The demonstrators were armed with everything from bags of excrement to razor blades. William J. Campbell, chief judge of the United States District Court in Chicago, questioned Walker’s qualifications “in the field of criminal investigation,” the timing of the release, which occurred while a grand jury was investigating the demonstration, and the report’s objectivity. A member of the commission, Chief Judge Ernest McFarland of the Arizona Supreme Court, opposed releasing the document because “many of the statements were not sworn statements and in many instances the names of the parties were not given.” In other words, the alleged charges of police brutality cannot be verified. Walker himself admits the report was hastily put together. The study fails to stress the crucial point. Had the demonstrators not deliberately broken the law, there would have been no occasion for alleged police brutality. The provocation was deliberate and violent. It reaped its own reward, counter-violence.

Chairman of FCC opinions on commercial television

N WASHINGTON (UPI) Newyon N. Minow, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) during the Kennedy administration, called commercial television “the vast wasteland.” His indictment of television programming has been echoed since by scores of other critics — many of whom have been sadly disappointed by the offerings so far on “education, al” tv. The FCC responded to this debate Friday by announcing two long-awaited decisions that could eventually revolutionize American television and greatly broaden the range of viewing fare. — First, the regulatory agency authorized the start of “pay-tv” broadcasting within six months (June 12, 1969) in any community already served by four conventional stations. — Second, it proposed expan. sion of Community Antenna Television (CATV) systems so that they can operate in the nation’s 100 largest cities. Authorization Conditional The FCC authorization for pay-tv was conditional. The sixmonth waiting period was specified to provide time for both congressional and judicial review of its action in view of the controversy over whether the FCC has authority to control or authorize pay-tv systems. Under the regulations set forth Friday by FCC Chairman Rosel H. Hyde, pay-tv subscribers would pay a fee to see first-run movies, major sports events and other entertainment. The FCC proposals covering the multimillion dollar CATV industry—known as “cable” television—were designed to put a greater variety of programming within reach of the public. The agency suggested that all but the smallest CATV systems be required to originate some programming on their own in addition to the shows they present by carrying signals sent by free teDvision.

“We feel it is unfair for CATV distributors to compete with tv broadcasters who must get their programs into the market without also having to originate some programs,” Hyde said. Service to Rural Areas The nation’s 2,000 to 3,000 CATV systems began as a means of carrying clear television signals by cable and microwave to rural and remote mountainous areas, where a home antenna would normally pick up a “snowy” picture if any image at all. A subscriber pays a fee to have his set hooked into the cable. CATV industry leaders viewed the proposals with alarm but Hyde said during a news conference Friday that the commission w?.s simply seeking to stimulate and explore CATV’s full potentiality. The key provision in this area would require CATV systems to get permission from the originating stations to transmit a long-distance signal from Los Angeles, for example, to customers in New York City. The program imported could then be transmitted to CATV subscribers within a 35-mile radius of the city. Until now, CATV systems have not tried to import signals for use in the nation’s 100 top markets because of regulations providing that they must prove their operations are in the public interest. The commission will hold hearings late in January on its proposed CATV rules dealing with importation of distant signals and others regarding program origination, technical standards, and reporting requirements. Comments TEL AVIV—Former Pennsylvania Gov. William W. Scran, ton, commenting on his fact, finding tour of the Middle East for President-elect Richard M. Nixon; “All leaders I have spoken to seemed to be trying to be reasonable.”

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Mr. James Murray, the sports columnist (who is surely one of the funniest men in the world), remarked the other day at a public occasion tha‘ “already Mr. Murray Xempton has classified Richard Nixon as one of the five worst Presidents in American history,” A few days later Drew Pearson revealed that Mr. Nixon had taken treatment from a psychiatrist during the fifties. It transpired that the psychiatrist wasn’t practising psychiatry at the time that Mr. Nixon visited him in search of extra-kooky ministrations, but that didn’t stop the gang, oh no. Miss Harr it Van Horne smiled sweetly and said that really it was very courageous of Mr. Nixon to visit a psychiatrist, I mean, if you’re nuts, isn't it the very best thing to do to go to a guy who tries to make you sane? Miss Van Horne is so understanding. New York City is, of course, the capital of the anti-Nixon world, and it does not tire in its vocation of disparagement. A few days after the election, Mr. James Wechsler, editor of the New York Post, confessed that even after years and years of thunderous anti-Nixonism, he had reached now the conslusion, “rather offhandedly,” that “his

Administration was (is) more likely to be dull than dangerous, more mediocre than menacing.” Wechsler has tried to understand Nixon, has read everything there is to read about him, but the portraits are “invariably unsatisfying and barren.. .The temptation is to conclude that he is a man at once informed and shallow, persevering and hollow, who will seek in his own fashion to restore peace and quiet to a turbulent country rather than to restore peace and quiet to a turbulent country rather than confound his conservative constitutency.” But the big bertha was fired by our old friend Arthur Schlesinger Jr. in, appropriately, the New York Times Magazine. Mr. Schlesinger’s interest in Nixon dates from w?.y back. Indeed Professor Schlesinger wrote an entire book about Nixon in something like thirteen hours, during the 1960 campaign. It was called “Kennedy or Nixon -- Does it Make a Difference?” and the answer was: Yes, the Difference Between Life and Death. During the recent campaign, Professor Schlesinger a) announced his retirement from active politics, and b)proceeded every couple of days to engage in active politics.

The theme of Mr. Schlesinger’s criticism of Mr. Nixon is that Mr. Nixon speaks for the “possessing class.” Now, the possessing class appears to be everybody who has exerted himself so as to acquire some education, some property, some skills and a family: and I would think it altogether appropriate to speak for the possessing class, in a society which seeks, as our own does, constantly to expand that class, by inviting others to join it. Still, it sounds grubby to be a spokesman for the “possessing class” -- does it not? It does. And that is why Mr. Schlesinger so refers to Mr. Nixon. He faults Mr. Nixon on many other grounds. Faults him for his “admiration for generals as well as for Lewis Strauss and nuclear scientists of the TellerLibby persuasion.” Mr. Nixon, says Schlesinger, isn’t all bad, and it doesn’t really matter any more what he said about Helen Gahagan Douglas in 1950. In fact, says Mr. Schlesinger, it isn’t even fair to say that Mr. Nixon is a warmonger. It’s just that “Mr. Nixon has never shown much concern about nuclear war—not that for one Continued on Page 7

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American employment in United Nations is record low

JIM BISHOP: Reporter

UNITED NATIONS (UPI)The United States has complained that employment of Americans in the United Nations is at a record low. Raymond D. Nasher, a Dallas businessman and member of the U.S. delegation to the general assembly, said in a speech Friday to the Administrative and Budgetary Committee that hundreds of qualified Americans have vainly applied for U.N. jobs the past year despite the fact the job quota for U.S. nationals is far from filled. The United Nations fills posts on a basis of the percentage of the budget assessed to each country and of equitable geographic distribution. Each year, a chart showing the maximum and minimum “desirable range” for staff recruitment is published. The United States, whose $41 million assessment is just under a third of the annal regular budget, held 510 of 3,381 posts listed in Secretary General Thant’s latest personnel report. Some countries have six times the maximum desirable range of employes in the secretariat. Notably over-represented, according to Thant’s report, are India, Britain, Burma, Ecuador and Chile, among others. Nasher applauded statistics showing that 113 of a possible 124 nationalities were represent, ed in the secretariat, (actually, there are 126 U.N. members, but Byelorussia and the Ukraine in reality are republics inside the Soviet Union.) But he told the committee: “The percentage of U.S. staff has declined from 20.01 per cent in January, 1966, to 19.24 per cent in January, 1967, to 18.81 per cent in January, 1968, and is still declining . . . “In all categories, the United States is below its desirable ranges in the secretariat. Congressman honored with banquet LAFAYETTE, Ind. (UPI) — A giant banquet honoring retiring Congressman Charles A. Halleek, R-Ind., Thursday night produced tributes from presidents, governors, old colleagues and just plain Hoosiers. Halleck, 58, has spent more than half of his life as a representative of Indiana in Washington. A surprise guest was Rep. L. Mendel Rivers, D.S.C., who said even though Halleck was “from the other side of the aisle,” he considers him “the greatest American in this century. When he leaves Washington, both Democrats and Repub. licans will have lost a great leader.” President Johnson, Presidentelect Richard M. Nixon and former President Dwight D. Eisenhower all sent message “a responsible representative and a "emarkable leader.”

Fifty years ago, General John J. Pershing said.-off therecord--that Sergeant Alvin York was not the bravest man in the United States Expeditionary Force,even though York had earned the Medal of Honor. Pershing said he was convinced that the sergeant was devoid of fear. “The bravest soldier,” he said, “is the one who crouches in the trench, shivering, sweating, beset by cramps as he awaits the word to go over the top. When it comes, he goes.” Courage is difficult to define. Too much of it is a form of insanity. Too little amounts to cowardice. The skinny kid who stands up to the big bully is admirable, but he is about to get his block knocked off. I once saw a mother, her home in flames, count the children on the lawn and run back in screaming for the missing one. She didn’t make it. Neither did the child. Was she brave or foolish? In the Civil War, there was a handsome kid named Thomas W. Bradley. He had curving black brows, smooth cheeks, and his hair hung in ringlets under a cocked blue cap. On May 3rd, 1863, at the Battle of Chancellorsville, the Confederates had driven all Union forces back. Company A was decimated and out of ammunition. Col. A. Van Horne Ellis pointed back toward the Confederate line at some dead mules. Ammunition boxes were strapped to their backs. He said he couldn’t ask for volunteers. No man could make it alive. Tom Bradley held up his hand. “I’ll go,” he said. Before the colonel could stop him. the 19-vear.old was running

through an open field. The Confederate lines, tasting victory, watched in amazement. As Bradley picked up a heavy box of ammunition, two hundred guns were aimed at his head. Tom Bradley faced them and began to walk backward toward his lines. The Southerners were puzzled. Then the word was passed; “The boy doesn’t want to die shot in the back. Hold your fire.” He was an easy mark, but the men in gray took their hats off to him and shouted as he made it back to the 124th New York Infantry. Courageous? Crazy? The War Between the States had more examples of gallantry than any before or since. The bullets Bradley carried were intended to kill the men who didn’t have the heart to kill him. In the same battle, General Joseph Hooker, using binoculars, saw a Confederate officer lying between the lines with a leg shot off. “He’ll bleed to death unless we get him quickly,” the general said. Three buck privates and a sergeant crouched and ran. Shrapnel and smoke were everywhere, but they got the officer, made a sling of a blanket, and brought him back to the Union lines. At Gettysburg, Lieutenant Thomas P. Oliver, adjutant of the 24th Georgia C.S.A. led a downhill charge and, when his men had attained a position behind a fieldstone wall, recalled that he had seen a wounded Union man who appeared to be gasping his life away. Oliver went back, and was caught Continued on Page 9

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