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Page 4 24, 1970 The Penna. Story If Shapp Wins, It'll Be His Show Politics At Low Ebb! HENRY L. WILDER, Publisher, m9-1962 1 lbIIshed Daily Except Sundays By COMPANY South 8th Poplar Streets, Lebanon, Pa. 17042 Phone Lebanon 272-5611 ARBELYN WILDER SANSONE MARY JANE WILDER" Secretary ROSEMARY L. SCHROPP' Treasurer SAMUEL D.

EVANS Advertising Director INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE Free Press Guards Liberty KK free press as a ffuardian of liberty President Nixon told the International Federation of Newspaper Publishers at a reception in the White House that "a freedom essentiaj to the sur of The President recalled that one of his predecessors, whom he did not name, once suffered a particularly brutal beating from the press for several weeks. A close friend 116 then Resident and said, Wouldn't it be wonderful to wake up and not see those critical editorials and cartoons every morning?" "No, it wouldn't" the former President replied, according to Mr. Nixon, that he was glad the press could hold government leaders to account. "The fact Is, you can get up and occasionally see a friendly editorial or a friendly a friendly cartoon, that's very difficult in this town," Mr. Nixon commented.

Nevertheless, while free world leaders do not always agree with their critics, they know they perform an essential function if freedom is to survive." The President knows his Constitution and the special place it gave the freedom of the press. He has learned to live with it. Security For Diplomats Increasing concern over the safety of American diplomats, since South American terrorists began kidnaping them, has led the State Department to request $1.25 million to improve overseas protective security for America's men and women on the forward line of national defense. Deputy Under Secretary of State William B. Macomber who has headed a department task force on the subject since terrorists began kidnaping American diplomats in South America, described how the funds would be used in testimony before a senate Appropriations subcommittee.

First, three emergency teams would be set up in Washington, ready to rush into danger areas as needed. Next, additional security guards would be engaged and extra cars would follow those diplomats believed in danger. Next, better lighting of offices and officials' homes, as well as improved communications, would be installed. Limited steps to provide protection have been taken. But with the increase of this new terror weapon, additional steps should be provided.

The cost is minimal for tha results that can be secured. Credibility Gap It will never be known how much band wagon impact an assortment of polls showing Labor would win the British elections had on the outcome. If the polls had pointed to a Conservative victory, would the Heath forces have won by a still wider margin? Samplers of public opinion, regardless of how scientific their techniques are touted to be, encounter these debacles periodically. But the public is poll-minded and soon forgets how unreliable such endeavors can be. How To Get Aid Wholesale At $6.75, it is more expensive than the usual run-of-the-mill publications printed by the Government Printing Office, but the "catalog of federal domestic assistance" could become a best seller in this age of the handout.

Listed in its loose-leaf pages are no less than 1,019 programs in the federal government which offer money, advice or services to individuals, organizations or state and local governmental bodies. The compendium not only lists the programs, but describes each in some detail. Some 57 federal departments and agencies contributed their official surveys to the catalog, which was compiled by the Office of Economic Opportunity. The catalogue is a tongue-in-cheek victory for Rep. William V.

Roth Delaware Republican, who has been promoting such a listing for several years. One. of the most interesting pages in the catalog is the index. It shows vividly the many overlapping activities of federal agencies. "Aid to education," for instance, is cross referenced to 330 programs administered by 26 agencies.

Even "environmental improvement" already has garnered 51 separate programs under six agencies. Federal officials who are realistically interested In streamlining government should make a point of reading this volume. There is enough meat in its pages to keep an army busy pruning, consolidating and eliminating duplication and waste for years. A Bible Thought For Today What fa year life? It even a vapor that appeared lor a little time, and then vanlsheth away. James 4:14.

But steam vapor and In a boiler it moves frtat Let your life ba inspired and directed. By MASON DENISON JJARRISBURG If Democrat Milton J. Shapp wins the gubernatorial sweepstakes in November, it will be virtually a Shapp show from beginning to end. The Democratic hopeful has made few bones over the fact that he is the one who calls the shot in the gubernatorial race and that if others in tha Keystone State Democratic heirarchy want to dribble along him they will be welcome to do so. He made this point quite clear during the primary when at that time he even disdained bothering.

with support of tha Democratic State Committee (which endorsed unsuccessfully hopeful Robert P. Casey). Additionally, he has constantly tossed barbs at the organizational setup under which Keystone State Democrats function, referring to it as archaic, cumbersome, etc. In sum, he has done little to endear himself with the state Democratic leadership and yet as the successful party candidate in the primary, he is "their" gubernatorial candidate. What is becoming an enigma to many is just where this places organization Democrats; he's going ahead on his own with or without their support and backing which leaves party organization people virtually hanging upside down in a vacuum.

THE WAY THE affaire Shapp is shaping up at the moment it begins to look almost as though Democratic Party organization People will end up being in the posture of tagging along for want of any other course to follow, something like lost sheep trying to find their leader. Although Democratic state headquarters is located here in Hamsburg, the prime Shapp headquarters is located in Pennsylvania's "second" Capital City Philadelphia with something like a sub-office here in Harrisburg. (Perhaps Mr. Shapp doesn't realize that the Capitol stays where it is and doesn't follow the whim or residence of the Governor.) Illustrating too how "independent" the Shapp campaign will be run is the fact that even the "sub-headquarters" here in the State Capital apparently isn't going to be integrated with the headquarters of the two other prime Democratic candidates for major state office Lieutenant-Governor and U.S. Senator.

These two Democratic hopefuls Lieutenant-Governor aspirant Ernest P. Kline and U.S. Senate hopeful William G. Sesler are operating from -their own headquarters less than a block from Democratic state headquarters. In all of this the question arises as to just what role the Democratic state organization will play should Mr.

Shapp emerge the gubernatorial victor in November? This could be most interesting. IF MR. SHAPP wins, it is not expected by any stretch of the imagination that the state organization will be anything but a tag-along insofar as the governorship is concerned either that or it will be completely reconstituted in the Shapp image and dictate. Legislatively, a Shapp victory would pose another intriguing question mark. It is no secret that many Democratic lawmakers opposed the Shapp candidacy in the primary and even now are not overstraining in his behalf.

In effect, what it could mean in the end come 1971 and a new Legislature (and should Shapp become Pennsylvania's Governor) is a replay in part at least of the same ploy Governor Shafer had had to endure during his tenure in almost constantly bumping into opposition from legislators of his own party. Mr. Shapp may win single- handedly in November but whether he realizes it or not; he isn't going to run a.t rnment singlehandedly; there are too many divergent factors as for example the legislative factor alone. TOREK5N EMISSARIES Gen. Thomas A.

Lane Cooper- Church Bill Obstacle To Peace COOPER WASHINGTON The Cooper-Church amendment would deny funds for any U.S. military operations in Cambodia afrf ter July 1, the date set by? President on for with-; drawal of U.S. troops from the present camp aign in that This seemingly! innocent r-F pose masks a studied policy which has been the chief cause of war escalation in Vietnam, a policy to which the supporting senators have clung through eight years of disaster. THE pretension of the Copper- Church amendment is that" it limits the war. The clear evidence of eight years of war is that such' restrictions on our combat an opposite effect.

They enlarge the war by giving, the critical advantage of sanctuary to the enemy. These senators have not learned from the bitter experience of the war. They want to continue by legislation the disastrous limitations which Presidents Kennedy and Johnson imposed on the defense of South Vietnam. It was obvious eight years ago that allowing sanctuary to the enemy in Laos made i Impossible for South Vietnam to defeat the aggression of North Vietnam. Half a million Americans could not change that reality.

These senators could not understand what was happening. Instead of demanding that President Johnson lift the restrictions on South Vietnamese self-defense, they embraced the preposterous conclusion that the United States could not win the They have since been seeking ways to surrender. PRESIDENT Nixon has at long last ended the sanctuary in Cambodia and started action to end the war. Instead acclaiming this prudent action, many senators are clinging to their discredited notions of limiting not the war but our side of it. To this purpose, they allege that our intrusion into Cambodia was a presidential usurpation of the congressional power to declare war.

They profess a fear that wars are spread by such executive initiative without legislative sanction. Consider how hollow these pretensions are. We are in Vietnam pursuant to treaty obligations approved by the United States Senate. Congress has given continuing support to the war program. It knows who the enemy is North Vietnam.

In war, you must fight the enemy where he is. It is elementary that you would fight the war on his territory when possible so that he will suffer the destruction of the battlefield; but if he extends the war to third countries, you must beat him there. When American troops landed in France in World War President Roosevelt did not ask Congress for a new declaration of war to enable our forces to pursue the retreating German Army into Belgium. We are in Cambodia not to make war on Cambodia but to make war against North Vietnam. This is the war which Congress has approved.

It was extended into Cambodia not by us but by our enemy. It is dishonest to suggest that the power to declare war is at issue. THE Constitution does not say how wars will be ended. It assumes that wars will be won by our armed forces and that the President will then submit terms of settlement for approval of the Senate. One thing is certain.

There is no basis in law nor in reason for the proposition that the Senate should direct the military campaign. The Cooper-Church bill would confound constitutional responsibility and interpose new obstacles to peace. John Chamberlain Forgotten Americans In Revolt TN THE LATE years tha nineteenth century William Graham America's pioneer sociologist, wrote a famous essay on the "Forgotten Man." The Forgotten Man was the long-suffering lower middleclass citizen who worked hard at his job, paid his bills and his taxes, built, a house for himself with perhaps a second story to rent out to somebody else, and-invariably found himself mulcted by the politicians to support pressure groups of one type or another who might or might not need the money. Some fifty years later Franklin D. Roosevelt misappropriated and perverted the title of the Sumner essay to cover the "third of the nation" that paid no taxes.

WELL, it is a long time since we have heard of or from the original Forgotten Man. But the other day, at a conference called by the Urban Task Force of the United States Catholic Conference in Washington D.C., he reappeared in a new guise as the "ethnic American." (There are forty million of these "ethnics," of recent European descent.) And he found a spokesman, or rather a spokeswoman, in Miss Barbara Mikulski of the Southeast Community Organization of Baltimore. She laid it on the line as a member pf the "white ethnic working class" in'accents that almost exactly paralleled the Sumner rhetoric. "The ethnic American," she said, "is sick of being stereotyped as a racist and dullard by phony white liberals, pseudo black militants, and patronizing He pays the bill for every major government program and gets nothing or tittle in the way of return He has worked hard Hll his life to become a 'good American'; he and his sons have fought on every battlefield and he is made fun of because he like the flag. The ethnic American is overtaxed and underserved at every level of government Being a home owner, he shoulders the rising property taxes yet he enjoys very little from these unfair and burdensome levies If he wants to buy in the 'old neighborhood' he cannot get an FHA loan His income of $5,000 to $10,000 per year mafces him 'near "HE IS THE victim of both Inflation and anti-inflationary measures The public and private institutions have made him frustrated by their lack of response to his needs.

At present he feels powerless in his daily dealings with and efforts to change them." Sometimes the "ethnics" whose cause has been so eloquently presented by Miss Mikulski react in what the Reverend Paul Asciolla, an Italia n-American newspaper editor from Chicago, calls "spastic" terms. They feel their jobs and homes are threatened by (he blacks. But they aren't really racist. They don't want to go to George Wallace. The danger, however, is that they will'be driven to him for want of understanding by the "phony white liberals, the pseudo black militants and patronizing bureaucrats." The dilemma of the "ethnic" American, has been dramatically pinpointed by the recent election in Newark, New Jersey, where Kenneth Gibson, a Negro, easily defeated the incumbent Mayor Hugh Addonizio, of Italian background, in a runoff election to become the first black mayor of a big Northeastern city.

Gibson, an engineer, is a decent person, and we may be certain that he means it when he says he wants to bind up the community's wounds, to promote harmony, and to reverse the trend of decay that is to be found in all the central cities of the nation. But his slate failed to win the Newark City Council, which stands six-to-three against him. It will take more than easy promises to keep Newark from experiencing terrible troubles in the near future. Anthony Imperiale, a Councilman who heads a militant white Norih Ward Citizens Committee, is the very image of the "ethnic American" that was mentioned by Miss Barbara Mikulski in her "Forgotten Man" speech in Washington. Mr.

Imperiale is rough, an expert at karate, and he doesn't trim his words. He seethes with a sense of injustice. "I saw voters intimidated by the Black Panthers," he said in a post-election talk. And then came the clincher, which tells us what has happened to the U.S. "If anyone comes to our home to burn, loot or riot," he said, "I'm going to protect my home Don't make this city turn into a bomb.

If they start it, we'll finish it." In other words, Mr. Imperiale is ready for ''protective violence." The Black Panthers formed their original organization in the San Francisco Bay Area around this very concept of "protective violence" when they ostentatiously "picked up the gun." So we have the tinder laid on both sides, ready for the "defensive" match. THE psychological atmosphere is enough to terrify anyone. It won't dissipate until the "phony white liberals, the pseudo black militants and patronizing bureaucrats" mentioned by Miss Barbara Mikulski wake up to what they Politics pLANS announced by Penn State University to establish a law school were criticized Monday in remarks on the floor of the House in Harrisburg. Rep.

John C. Pittenger, D- Lancaster, himself a member of the House Education Committee, said that while he was certainly not hostile toward higher education, he protested the "totally unplanned, chaotic and ultimately expensive way in which the expansion of our institutions of higher education is taking place." He said Penn State's plans were apparently formulated without consultation with the State Board of Education or the Department of Education, and would "end up costing the Commonwealth several million dollars." PITTENGER said legislation passed by the House last June which would give the State Board of Education power to approve or disapprove such major policy decisions was still in a Senate committee. "I trust Penn State's most recent action will alert the Senate to the need for establishing some machinery to control the runaway cost of higher education in Pennsylvania," Pittenger In County, State And Nation said. "If it does not, I hereby serve notice that I for one will not again approve appropriations to our state-related universities until they have been placed within a rational framework of state supported higher education." "AT LEAST three question! have to be answered before we should decide to support Penn State in this venture," Pittenger said. He listed the three as: "Do we need more lawyers in this state? If so, should we obtain them by expanding existing schools or creating a new one? If the latter, should it be under Penn State, or some other institution, or wholly i e- pendent? "I do not pretend to know the answers to any of these.

questions. But I do know that the trustees of Penn State are not in a position to make an unbiased judgment on them." Pittenger noted that the House in June, 1969, passed a bill to give the State Board of Education power to approve or disapprove major policy decisions. He said the bill remains in Senate committee, and urged Senate action on the legislation. Public Forum THE NEWS reserves the right to reject or condense. Contributions must be signed with full names and addresses of writers.

Namet will not be used or revealed if so requested. This paper assumes no responsibility for statements made in this column. Write on only one side your paper and leave considerable space between the lines. Equality Editor, Daily NEWS: In regard to the hundreds of differing opinions in our society concerning the definitions of freedom, liberty, and equality, I thought you might be interested in printing an essay I wrote for a Political Science class; the subject being equality. Thank you.

Equality is not something tangible which can be locked behind steel doors in order to be kept sacred. It is not a physical substance which can be seen, touched, tasted, or handled. What then is equality? In my best estimation, equality is a state of being; involving the fact that each human being possessing equality is immediately aware of his equalness in relation to the people with which he associates. He realizes he can think, act, speak, and perform actions he so desires as long as he refrains from infringing upon the rights of others. Equality in a sense is the element which allows a black man the option to try for success in a world filled with many already successful white men, Equality, as it exists in the world of today, proves to be the key which unlocks the door to freedom and democracy; Besides being one of man's greatest gifts, equality is also a bit frightening.

Man tends to ignore those things in life which he should rather acknowledge and attempt to better understand. All over the world can examples be seen of this; man ignoring his health by overexerting himself, and man becoming a slave to his own emotions because of his lack of control over them. And so it is with equality. Because we so often take it for granted, It is all too soon lost. Probably one question which should be asked about equality is: if it (equality) is so insignificant that man can take it for granted, why does it suddenly make us prisoners in our environment the minute it is taken away? Somehow, even though equality is not tangible, there is a definite feeling of loss when one knows he is not issued the same degree of chances and opportunities as the next man.

Equality or the equalness as seen in each and every person can only be preserved if a certain degree of respect is present. Respect is mentioned when speaking of equality in order to substantiate the definition of equality. If a man demands the right to be equal to his neighbor, he must in turn be willing to allow his neighbor the freedom to get out of life the things he too desires. Although it would at times appear that equality and freedom might be synonymous, let us never forget that while freedom is a virtue belonging to even the lowest animals, since it is only defined as the state of being free, equality is a virtue rewarded to only the most civilized human beings who are intelligent enough to admit the fact that their neighbor is indeed as good as himself, be. he red, yellow, black, or white.

MARIE L. HAUER Lebanon Simple Answer Editor, Daily NEWS: I address this letter to a young mother. The answer is very simple. Many parents do not raise their children; they just cater to their every whim and wish. They say things have changed.

They sure have. TV serves you a mess of phony commercials and programs that are mostly trash. Has anyone in the last decade tuned in on a daily program of patriotic marches? No, what you hear on radio around the clock is music that sounds as if someone was" poking around in a heap of empty tin cans with a stick. I am sorry young mother but we see your point and you have our sympathy. JOHN L.

MILLER Pine Grove For Their Ego Editor, Daily NEWS: When judges let murderers go free and punish small children to help their ego, it's time the people ask God for help. The laws are changed for a few and others must pay. I hope when the judges pray they remember the rewards after death and not the rewards of this life like higher office. Print the truth once. MRS.

JOHN R. HAYES Postmarked Hershey Why Not Cut It? Editor, Daily NEWS: After reading the letter signed "A Mother" in Tuesday night's paper, there was one question entered my mind. If this son knew the only thing keeping him from graduating was the long hair, then why not get it cut just to make his mother happy? ANOTHER MOTHER Myerstown What's What's Wrong AS ALL the children of a large family scrambled into the back of the family station wagon, one of them called out, "Whose foot am I sitting on?" "If it has a brown sock," came the reply, "it's mine." car, "WHERE'S your new Joe?" asked the girl. "They called it back to correct a defect in my bank account," confessed her date. Turninq Back The Paaes 20 YEARS AGO June 24, 1950 The Lebnnon H'tfi School class of 1930 held its 20lh reunion at the Lincoln Republican Club.

Over 200 persons attended the event. The Lebanon Valley Gas Company announced a reduction in gas rates that will be the lowest in its history. The new rates will reduce the average bill from four dollars per month to $3.60 per month. The Northside Playground Associat'on of Palmyra was officially formed. The citizens have done to poison our seats of communications with their misunderstanding of all our "Forgotten Men." Will they wake up in time? I'd like to think so, but I have all my fingers crossed.

group plans to turn a four-acre plot on North Chestnut Street near Willow Street into a playground. A carnival festival will be held to raise funds. 40 YEARS AGO June 24, 1930 Pennsylvania state officials announced that the state gas tax will drop one cent. The announcement was made by Commissioner Benjamin G. Eynon.

Dr. F. B. Short was the guest speaker at the meeting of the Lebanon Kiwanis Club. He spoke on "Community Building," and the need for cooperation and planning in the community.

The annual summer assembly of the Christian Endeavor Sunday School and Brotherhood forces of Eastern Pennsylvania, United Brethren In far lit. opened at Mt, Gretna..

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