Abilene Reporter-News from Abilene, Texas • 18

Room for Both of MwISlitMMMNwiiNN Students and the Draft T1 ftcportcr-ifctof MiTiimiL If we desire to secure pecce It must be known thct we ore ct oil times ready far war George Washington to Congress 1793 6-B Till: ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS Ahilrne Tn Ton Evening May 21 INC New Rights Act Ignores Progress AU3SUJ Jerry Greene REP MENDEL RIVERS student! are the target service: about 31 per cent would be rejected and about 25 per cent would escape entirely Of the 43 per cent to serve one fifth would be drafted The obvious inequity was accepted during a non-shootirg period With Viet war casualty rates rising and so-called students finding time amidst their exemptions to demonstrate and otherwise make nuisances of themselves the injustices become unbearable Congress has been hearing about them from home and an election is upcoming The draft of course is intricately entwined with the reserve force programs of all branches of the armed services and herein lies a hidden time bomb Between Congress and the Pentagon the country has a real gummed-up mess on its hands with the reserves and no solution is in sight There hasn't been any really satisfactory solution since George Washington had to worry ith 90-day enlistments in tha Colonial militia And service in the reserves is a delicate sub-' Jed for it touches upon a man's honor patriotism eour-age and even his pocket book when he sticks around tong enough to earn 20-year retirement benefits The fouled-up situation facing the Army results in part from a stalemated dispute between Congress and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara The Secretary' adopted an Army-sponsored plan to merge the organized reserves with the National Guard Congress refused to okay this last year and only recently again told him to stop It's a little Isle Most of the merger job has been done A priority force of 150000 men in three divisions six brigades and supporting units is getting high- speed attention Pressure from the draft threat of course serves as a strong inducement for volunteering in the reserves and here again comes a complication Sen Richard Russell (D-Ga) chairman of the Armed Services Committee leads a long list of congressmen outraged because a backlog of 140000 enlisted re- servists draft exempt still await six months training and probably will never see combat Whatever the outcome of this highly charged complex issue one thing appears dead certain: Student deferments are in for heavy overhaul and next year those demonstrators can tell their troubles to the chaplain The administration is unhappy with its 1964 Civil Rights Act and wants some significant changes The House has passed a bill (HR 10065) bv a lopsided 299-94 vote that puts much sharper teeth in the law and poses some rather disturbing problems The Senate has it understudy For example the Civil Rights Commission would become a quasi-judicial board rather than an advisory one with power to issue orders and the law would speed up its application to employers of 50 or more persons to next July 2 and extend coverage to employers of eight persons or more (from the present minimum of 25 1 in July 1967 Changing the character of the commission is open invitation to harassment in the face of a record of compliance that is far better than even the supporters of the law imagined Reducing coverage to eight employes hits very small operations in which risk is so great that an unwise decision on a very few employes could be disastrous Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz is agitating too for some changes now He objects when employers tell him they don't keep personnel records on race sex and religion He told them not to! Now he wants race sex and religion listed AFTER a person is employed hut it is the rejected applicant whose interest is important Greater speed and far more harmony will prevail if persuasion and enlightening not legal fiat are the tools ITogress to date is proof of that Sparkman in Jeopardy by William White by (EDITOR'S NOTE: nil a syndicated cwtimn sot aa editorial The slews are those of the writer) WASHINGTON Those students at Brooklyn College Friday those in Chicago and Kansas and California who seem to be getting their springtime uprising thrills from protesting the draft had best enjoy their pleasures while they msy They and all others like them are going to pet a naty jolt in the next couple of weeks when Lt Gen Lewis Kershey dumps his lanky frame into the itness chair before the House Armed Services Committee to report on the Selective Service System The jolt will come when the students discover that they are going to be a fat target (or a sullen and frustrated Congress whose irritations grow daily at the fact that tens erf thousands of them are protesting in comfort and safety while the kid next door is off in Viet Nam's jungles and mud ducking Communist gunfire The congressional ire is going to be reflected in some considerable changes in deferment policies when new draft legislation becomes the prime issue before the Congress in January- Chairman Mendel Rivers iD-SC) of the House committee hastily called Hershey for the draft review when several representatives got excited Thursday and demanded all sorts of inquiries into the operations of Selective Service Rivers moved quickly to bring the issue under control of his committee where traditionally it belongs The Hershey review at this time is premature and won't produce much immediate result beyond an explosive airing of charges that the draft is unfair and unjust But it probably is just as well that Congress begins to tackle the issue now instead of waiting until January The draft act expires June 30 1967 One day soon the Pentagon says it will send President Johnson a study of the draft which he ordered back in the spring of 1964 There isn't much of a secret that the Pentagon study will recommend an extension of the draft The personnel experts found that no matter how they mixed up their statistics and an element of patriotism the can't or won't support an armed forces of two million men without selective service Nobody has ever been satisfied with the Selective Service System nobody has been able yet to suggest and sell to a better device to get the manpower with least assorted pain to the public The gimmick comes in the "lassifications and the deferments and here is where the battles will be waged in any extension of the law In a representative pre-Viet year where 15 million youths fell in the draft age group approximately 43 per cent would be expected to see some military Tie Family lawyer At A IBBBBBBBBBBBiBBSI IBBBBBBnBBBBB! Looking Into Luggage Grenier is assumed widely to be less formidable But again the game is still in early innings He is reaching for Sparkman's vitals by seeking to present him as a stooge for President Johnson's Great Society which seems profoundly unpopular in this home state of the President's wife The simple fact is that on his voting record Sparkman has opposed much of the Great Society But that is something else again Indeed his overriding significance in the Senate to country at large at least is the powerful support he has given to bipartisan foreign policy to resist Communist expansion Take him out of his senior place on the Foreign Relations Committee and that policy would suffer a staggering blow He stands next in seniority to Sen Fulbright of Arkansas the implacable opponent of a firm line in Viet Nam and without his restraining influence that committee would go much farther off the reservation on Viet Nam than it has gone Alabama's choice of senators is business The national interest in the preservation of Sparkman not as a Democrat and not as John Sparkman but for what he represents in world affairs is all the same entirely plain (Copyright 1966 by United Fea-tures Syndicate Inc) (EDITOR'S NOTE: Tbis is a syndicated colcmn not an editorial The views are those of the writer) WASHINGTON A political struggle of deep and wide implications is building up in Alabama The stakes go beyond the state and even beyond the South At issue are these things: Item Whether a classic example erf a moderate and long-entrenrhed Southern politician of real power in national and world affairs Sen John Sparkman ran survive the gale winds of orthodox and a conservatism with strong Old Guard Republican overtones so plainly blowing in much if not all of the Deep South item Whether the long Republican effort to bring the two-party system to the South down to the grass roots of true political power can make a vital advance Item Whether the matchless bread and butter service to their states habitually given by such Southern senators as Sparkman will hereafter be enough to keep them afloat in high and angry political seas of Dixie For the biggest asset traditionally held by Southern Democratic senators is simply their oRwr taSaataaSSaXI iaaoaoaaaaaaaai laaaaaaaaaaSL Indigestible Morse The nation with the Johnson administration seeks answers to many problems and not the least is the psychological one: How to cope with the angry old men of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee? The petulant groping Sen William Fulbright and the outraged bellowing Sen Wayne Morse strain the tempers of reasonable men with their unreasonable unrelenting attacks on administration policy in Viet Nam Even rational opponents of the policy are nervous in the company of the slashing anti-administration champions On the Washington cocktail circuit the new Fulbright stance is the current bemused topic nothing Morse can sav stirs the guests much anymore The determined assaults of Sens Fulbright and Morse on the issue of Viet Nam from their lofty forum in the Senate and on their tours of the banquet halls have become weekly sometimes bi-weekly spectacles for the wide audiences served by the modern news media With its supper-time television newscast the audience often gets Sen Morse Viet Nam and indigestion (EDITOR'S NOTIi This MwtfMtar pnntt! kr Ikt Stato Btr at Ton Mi It EiftrifevM kv Hit tawyar Ttin tar tat i ti tat RkMic Pktata tt taw I Scene: the customs office at any point of entry into the United States In plain sight of whoever cares to look a customs inspector opens a suitcase and suspiciously fingers the personal belongings it contains The couple who own the suitcase coming home from a trip abroad silently seethe It is no wonder that many people resent such treatment Prying into private effects like rummaging through private homes is surely not the usual prerogative of our government In fact the Constitution itself in the Fourth Amendment forbids any "unreasonable search and But examining your luggage at the border is an exception and for a good reason Bringing merchandise into the country is not your inherent right but only a privilege granted on ftatataaaaaaa'aSkaialakaaaakiMMMSaaaaaiaiaaaiiaSSaf aaaataaaaaaaaaaaaaattaaataMaaaaaaaakaaaaaaaaaaaaaaai "I have once in awhile But I don't want people to say I'm a dropout" got a point How much longer do you think go to school?" "I'm not sure I was about to get out a few years ago but then Viet Nam came along and my mother said I should stay at least until I finished my education" (Copyright 1966 Publishers Newspaper terms the government choose to impose "The necessity of enforcing the customs explained a federal court "has always restricted the rights of privacy of those engaged in crossing the international boundary" Furthermore to make sure it isn't cheated the government may be firm indeed in enforcing its rules and regulations For instance: One woman complained of' having to disrobe (in the presence of a female official) as part of a customs search She" argued that this was improper in the absence of any "probable to believe she was hiding something But the court upheld the procedure saying: was a border search and while it as well as any other must be lawfully conducted different rules are applicable to search at the border and search anywhere else" Isn't this hard on tourists? Perhaps it is Yet consider the practical problems of law enforcement faced by the government Once a person gets past customs the Fourth Amendment takes over and the chance of catching a gler may be tost forever In one case customs agents' slopped a suspected smuggler of 1 narcotics after he was 70 miles inside the border Sure enough they found heroin in his pocket But this damning evidence was rejected in court because the agents had searched the man without required cause" How much better to catch such people at the border said a federal judge than to play hide-and seek with them afterward (Copyright 1966 American Bar Association) Frank Grimes Dropout This Fellow! Scrapbosk No HMMItll) SEN JOHN SPARKMAN only Fulbright is senior seniority and capacity to deliver to the home folks everything from federal space renters to federal money for the farmers Just this Sparkman has done and over and over He will be opposed by a former Goldwater associate John Grenier who was not born in the a circumstance that in the old Dixie would have sunk him automatically Still the old ways are changing and few responsible analysts would presume to write Grenier off in a state which has five Republican members of Congress out of a total of eight and where equally entrenched senatorial colleague Lister Hill barely survived in 1964 The complications are endless Here is an incumbent Governor George Wallace running for another term which the state Constitution denies him by using his wife as a proxy candidate She won her primary contest so overwhelmingly notwithstanding the new enfranchisement of Alabama Negroes as to make the odds high that George Wallace through Mrs George Wallace is very likely to be Governor yet again Even here however flat predictions are left to the unwary For the prospective adversary Rep James Martin can be no pushover it was he who gave Lister Hill the race of his life only two years ago The private view in savvy national Republican quarters is that if Sparkman has any reason to be thankful it is that le is not being challenged by Martin who has sacrificed his shortterm interests for the grim job of taking on the Wallaces in the Governor's race Graham milMNNNimiHItlNNHMHIIIHMNNNMNIIHIRNMIMI jtkttMtaMMttkttktkktkttfikktktMilttatiiktitttitittitMttitkt tttia kkkkkkittf kkikkilkfkkktkkkt Batata tktkktk by Art Buchwald Company's Driving a rattling truck Hawking popcorn or peanuts in a voice too loud And the making of many other noises held to be or "detrimental to the life or health of the The ordinance was drawn up and adopted at the insistence of civic groups and individuals who complained that Houston was much too noisy It's astonishing what a determined group of citizens can accomplish when they get sufficiently irritated Abilene Daily Reporter May 24 1936: How many people will visit the Texas Centennial at Dallas? With pardonable local pride the Dallas Times llr-rald quotes a visitor as saying that the big gamblers In Chicago New York and St Louis are taking plenty of money that the minimum number of pai 1 admittances will be 14009000 a lot of folks but Texas wouldn't be a bit surprised if the total reached 20-ONflflM It's a good thing we have plenty of spaep down here for we're going to be the movt over-run state in the Union in thi our centennial year Practically everybody in the United Slates has a yen to see Texas and this year they hac a good excuse to do so It behooves every citizen of the Lone Star State to make the visitors welcome and send them away with a good impression Company's cornin' By Georg Clark deferred from military service?" "Yes I would have gone any time they asked me but my draft board was very kind about it especially when I explained my only reason for staying in college was to become a teacher "Of course when Korea started I was in a bad position so I went to see my faculty advisor and he told me I ought to study to become a veterinarian as the Army was short on veterinarians and they would defer me for that I studied to be a veterinarian during most of the Korean war but then the Army announced it had too many veterinarians so I switched to "You've really had a well-rounded education" I said think I've gotten a lot out of he said sometimes my father complains about my tuition In the last 26 years It's cost him $67405 in tuition fees not counting what it costs at my fraternity house and to take girls out But my mother says she would still rather have me in college than in the service" "And she's right I said "What are you taking Well I seem to have taken every course in the school so I'm taking pre-med again" "Have you ever gotten a degree in anything?" "Oh no I've thought about it many times but if I got one I think it would take the fun out of rollege Besides if I got a degree my draft board might not let me stay in school" "Have you ever toyed with the idea of Just giving up school some time and taking a job?" by Billy (EDITOR'S NOTE: This Is a syndicated column not an editorial The views are those of the writer) WASHINGTON It's probably a very unfair thing to say but many students are staying in college these days to avoid the draft No one will admit it but these students will take any subject if it means staying out of the Army I discovered this the other day when I was on the campus of one of our larger universities and started talking to a student in the cafeteria He said "I think it's very important that America have educated students and while I'm willing to do my service as well as the next person I think I will be able to serve my country better if I have a well-rounded education" "How old are you sir?" "I'm 51 years old" "But when did you start going to college?" "In 1942 the semester right after Pearl Harbor I felt we were going to be in a tong war with the Japanese and there would he a big demand for college graduates So I got a deferment Hnd studied pre-medieine But after four years I switched my major to agrirulture because 1 decided what America would really need was farmers I studied farming for three years and then switched to law because 1 heard there was a shortage of lawyers in the armed forces "But apparently 1 was misinformed so I then decided to study chemical engineering" "And all this time you were fhiirt on Ship Channel Abilene Daily Reporter May 24 1936: Houston's rity rotmril last Wednesday adopted an and muse ordinance copied from New York City's perfected statute which in turn was patterned after that in force in London The Houstonian who consciously or unconsciously makes a nuisance of himself will be subject to a fine as high as $200 He can be fined lor committing what the Houston Chronicle calls "any of the following common hut irritating Sounding of an automobile horn for curb service or to hurry up traffic Playing of radios or any musical instrument too loudly especially between 10:30 pm and 7 a Allowing chickens to crow or dogs to bark to a point where It disturbs others I have read In the paper that you are going to spend most of Jane nnd July holding a rrnsade in tendon England Could you tell ill about it? We have been invited to conduct a major evangelistic crusade that is scheduled to begin June I at Earls Court in Iondon This auditorium is Hie largest indoor arena in the British Commonwealth of Nations The closing meeting will be held July 2 at the world famous Wembley Stadium seating over 100000 This Is the most highly organized and intensively prepared crusade we have ever conducted anywhere in the world However it not going to be in an easy crusade Less than 5 per cent ihe people of London regularly at-end church Many British writers are saying that Britain is becoming almost completely secular and even pagan Thousands of prayer groups have been organized in ihe London area as British Christians are praying for a spiritual awakening that could reverse the trend away from the church More than 20000 people are now enrolled in our counseling Bible classes Even if no public meetings were ever held the extensive preparations have already had an 'ffprt on the spiritual life in London We are asking Christians of all de-nominations throughout the world to join us in prayer for this most important evangelistic effort tried everything and I just get the curl out of my hair!".