The Emporia Gazette from Emporia, Kansas • Page 2

Page 4 THE GAZETTE, EMPORIA, KANSAS I William Allen White, 1895 1944 William Lindsay White, 1944 1973 is. Glen Albert Bradshaw, Foreman Everett Ray Call, Managing Editor James Vernon Nirider, City Editor Thomas Robinson, Advertising Manager vV Carol Martin Shirley, Circulation Manager Paul David Walker, Assistant Publisher H'f speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which our hearts. I Thessalonians 2:4. Liquor Argument Makes Point AST week's fight over a supposedly illegal "cash p.ar" in Kansas involved the tare's two top ofFicers Gov. Bennett, a Republican, Attorney General Cure a Democrat, The political tiff prompted a of Kansas editors to point rout how ridiculous the liquor aws are in this state.

the Salina Jdur- "The recent inane'flap over an alleged illegal 'cash bar' 'at a lawyers' reunion only serves show again what a travesty t'iCansas's liquor laws are. The in question could have J-gpne to any one of hundreds of private clubs and drank (legally) into insen- As a matter of fact, any- 5 une else with a dollar or so for can have all the be- of an open saloon. But the liquor interests and the forces continue to work the ff same side of the street. The 5 liquor store operators, with their high-prices-fixed opera- don't like the idea of com- jr'petition from bars or cocktail gladly help the by the.drink. state "officers join in the fun by trying to arrest who bring cheaper into Kansas from a neigh- boring state, thus aiding the liq'uor store monopoly.

It's a charade, a sickening sham. The Wichita Eagle agreed, as follows: "And now the labyrinth known as the Kansas liquor laws has ensnared none other than Gov. Robert Bennett in its interpretive perplexities. It seems that, the state chief executive, along other prominent graduates of the University of Kansas Law School, attended a reception after the K.U.- Oklahoma University football game. (The reception was) held in a private club (and operated on) a cash-bar basis.

It now appears the club will be cited for improper liquor pooling procedures and illegal sale of liquor by the drink. But such absurdities may work a purpose. If citations were served each time a member, of the state executive or legislative branches attended a cocktail party, quicker attention might be given to the state's archaic liquor laws. It's, something to hope' Hpvy true. It also is true that laws'-are so fusing that most Kansans are not really clear on what'is legal and: what is It is time for a change.

R.C. 0 is False Advertising? the University of the Great Plains. "I have heard most of the reasons surrounding this proposed one that bothers me the most is that this college is terrified of enrollment drops. The administrators think the name change will lure more problem, which makes. students here.

To me Homecoming 1976 an echo of this is a flagrant, intentional act line in Shakespeare's Romeo of false advertising. 'fond Juliet, 'a rose; by any other "Nothing within the college, would smell as sav the wooden sign out front, change. The programs will editorial about the proposal to change the jt-name of Emporia State, College written by Jennifer Roblez, of the Bulletin, the newspaper. Jjjji "Emporia Kansas State Col- formerly Kansas State College, is having an "Homecoming, to me, means up those faded T-shirts worn to football games or lounging in the dorms, and to EMPORIA STATE, fitlic name embossed along with pride, beer and old friends on the front of my T-shirt. But next T-shirt will probably no bear the name STATE but Emporia University, will the Jj'pwner of an outdated, meaning- 5 T-shirt that can only serve as a memory of the confusion the ft'; administrators of this college jf.have managed to profuse as a J-Serious problem.

"For the second time in as many years, the administrators trying to convince the Board yjbt Regents to convince the Kan- -Legislature to authorize Emporia Kansas State to Emporia State Uni- 5 versity. We are not the only state 6 school seeking university status. Kansas State College of f. Pittsburg and Fort Hays State want to become 5j Pittsburg State University and remain the same. This college is hoping to lure students to school here under the false pretense that a university school will get them a better education, which in turn they are told, means a better job.

This is not true. We are not a university, at best we are a state college. "The administrators of this college have managed to make the issue of university status an urgent one when the real, underlying reasons which account for decreased enrollment go unnoticed. "Many students, myself one, can only hope to spend half their time at Emporia State and then transfer to a to fill the gaps this school hopes to cover by changing its name. or not this college succeeds in changing to a university, the causes, like cancer, will continue unnoticed and will eventually surface.

Tacking on university to Emporia State will not solve the real reasons why this institution can't satisfy many potential E-State 40 Years Ago Laura Lunsford and Lenore were elected to head a organized girls' pep at Emporia High School. jjarbara DeLay, Roberta Geraldine McGuire, jjjjorothy Kempker and Bettie were' appointed select uniforms: to A new tourist facility, Gibson's Modern Camp, was to open Sunday. The camp, consisting of seven cottages and a recreation and dining center, was built by Charles Sharp, contractor, and owned by Mr. and Mrs. H.D.

Gibson. DONATE AN 'ELECTORAL on the By William F. Buckley Jr. HPHE LOSS by Senator JL Buckley of York might very well have happened in any event, up against Daniel Patrick Moynihan. For one thing, New York is the most liberal state in the New York City is the nerve center of left-ideology.

Patrick Moynihan, although he is an eloquent man, was not so eloquent as to persuade New Yorkers that he is as harebrained as Bella. Abzug in domestic policies, so he got the Moderate Democrats. Still, it is widely acknowledged that Senator Buckley lost principally because of his positions a year ago on federal aid to New York City. What was that position? It began by recognizing that New York City could not redeem its bonds, thanks to a record of fiscal profligacy going back over the years, but hitting lunatic highs in the administration'of John Lindsay (who, let us note in passing, was more invisible in the campaign than Mary). Senator Buckley'joined Secretary Simon arid President Ford in insisting that New York City needed to clean its own house.

In due course, New York having agreed to a measure of self-discipline, Senator Buckley endorsed the help proffered by Congress, and backed by President Ford. News Decisive It was during the tensest period that the-New'York Daily News ran its famous headline, "Ford to Dead." The New York Daily News has, over the years, had a most exemplary editorial policy, backing sensible proposals, and scorning ideological fancies. Alas, the News beams its lectures to its readers, rather than to its managers. Economy, self-help, fiscal responsibility, are qualities you and I should practice, and maybe also Chicago, and Los Angeles. The News' enthusiasm for fiscal responsibility -tends to be coextensive with Lockheed's enthusiasm for capitalism.

When their own turf is troubled, the rules are suspended. The News accordingly endorsed Moynihan, who in the course of the campaign offhandedly endorsed every inflationary proposal of the Democratic Party, but promised to do everything he could to milk other communities for the benefit of the Daily News' constituents. It requires subtler in- telligences than my own to explain the News' simultaneous endorsement of Gerald Ford over Carter. In any event, that endorsement of Moynihan was critical. The New York Times, one reports happily, is scheduled very soon to do something about the awful embarrassment of its editorial page, which manages to combine in its more strident editorials an aridity of thought and a sibilance of tone.

Thus the day after Buckley's defeat, it found itself nibbling away con- tendedly on the corpse, to wit: "The only occasion when Senator James Buckley allowed events to draw on his store of energy and attention was the de- sperate moment when this city was about to piunge into bankruptcy. He then bestirred himself enough to wave the city on to its apparent doom." Does Not Wash What's wrong with those sentences is a) the extraordinary I A FAMILIAR phrase, we often speak of the "body of the law." By metaphorical extension, one gets to the anatomy of the law and thence to dissection of the law. In his recently published book, "Disaster by De cree," Lino A. Graglia has per-, formed a masterful job of dissection on the body of law concerned with race and schools. This is a superlative work.

Graglia brings impeccable credentials to his pathological task. He is a native New Yorker, a graduate of City College -of New York, a graduate in from Columbia, a former Department of Justice is now a professor of constitutional By James J. Kilpatrick law at the University of Texas Law School. His book is published by the Cornell University Press. He suffers no Southern stigmata.

Demands Discrimination Step by patient step, Graglia traces the course of desegregation law from a point before the Brown decision of 1954 to the most recent decisions affecting Boston and Detroit. He finds the course "incredible." The Supreme Court, he began by prohibiting and deploring racial discrimination; the Court now stands in a position of requiring and approving the very racial discrimination it once condemned. Another Military: Duud By Jack Anderson HHHE MILITARY brass Yet a classified General Ac- JL have the compulsive habit counting Office study charges of rushing ahead with new that "performance deficiencies weapons before they have been relating to accuracy and reliabil- proven. This has resulted in a ity were waived" on the promise staggering accumulation of ar- that improvements would be should never have been The multi-billion-dollar was- tepile'of dubious, antiquated arid canceled weapons has largely been hidden from the taxpayers who put up the money. For the brass hats also have the habit of hiding their mistakes under the secrecy stamp.

The story of the Vulcan anti-aircraft gun is typical. It's an embarrassing story, which, therefore, has been classified. There is no legitimate reason, however, for withholding the facts from.the public. The Vulcan is a six-barrel, gatling-design, 20-millimeter gun mounted on armored personnel carriers. With a great show of urgency, the Army rushed the gun into production in the mid-1960's.

It was certified as suitable for combat in May, 1972. discovery of Senator-Buckley's alleged lassitude, never remarked by any of his critics ever before; b) its apparent ignorance of Senator Buckley's Stakhano- vite record of activity in the Senate it was as if the editorial writer had had to limit himself to reading about Senator Buckley's activities in the New York Times! And, of course, c) its perpetuation of the myth that it is to wave along a city toward doom to insist that the city staunch its fiscal lesions. Senator Buckley didn't bring on the flight from New York of 650,000 jobs, a reflection of chaotic conditions and confis- catory taxation brought on by a succession of political leaders endorsed by the New York Times. And, of course, New York did go bankrupt in fact, if not in form. Holders of its bonds were not paid "off in the cash they demanded.

They simply received other bonds. Anybody can do that, if you own the police. What is ahead of us is the universalization of New York City's claims on the rest of the country. One of these days it will occur even to the best and the brightest in New York that El Pasb and Miami and Seattle can make identical claims, the numbers appropriately adjusted. Then the sky will be black with cris'Crossing dollars, and the hypocrites will move about unseen, though their voices will continue to mock self- government.

The Army dutifully work on the improvements. These are supposed to be ready in 1979. Yet the anti-aircraft gun has been integrated into our defense system, meanwhile, despite "numerous performance problems involving effectiveness, reliability, availability, and maintainability." Even after the improvements arc completed in three years, they "will not overcome the weapon's major performance problems," the study warns. The Vulcan is supposed to shoot down attacking enemy planes. Yet its "destruction probability," as the experts refer to its ability to knock clown is no more than 1 3 per cent "against a non- maneuvering target flying at 250 knots." Most enemy planes, unfortunately, fly faster than 250 knots.

It is also unlikely that they would cooperate with the gunners by flying in a straight line without maneuvering. Against "a'non-maneuvering target flying at 450 knots," the effectiveness of the Vulcan drops despairingly to a mere 5 per cent. This means a squadron of supersonic jet planes, taking evasive measures, could fly in complete safety over a field of Vulcan anti-aircraft guns. Even subsonic planes could probably avoid being shot down. But that's not all.

According to the classified study, the Army considers the Vulcan's range "inadequate under many tactical situations" and its 20-millimeter ammunition "too small to provide sufficient lethality for consistent aircraft destruction." On top of all these handicaps, the Vulcan is also a "fair weather only" weapon. In other words, it would-be effective only against slow airliners flying in a straight line in broad daylight. Ford Airlift After we wrote that the giant Thiokol chemical firm twice ferried President Ford's son jack in a company plane, we were told by usually reliable sources that the plane also had been made available to Ford himself. The White House concedes the Ford family was flown from Salt Lake City to Sun Valley, Idaho, and back by Thiokol, but says.it was 1.0 or 12 years ago while Ford was in Congrcssl "This impossible task has required it to resort to methods unfair and inaccurate statements of fact, patently fallacious reasoning, and perversion of the 1964 Civil Rights Act that would be considered scandalous in any other institution or official of American government." In some years reading books about law, I cannot recall a critique more comprehensive, or more devastating, than Graglia's assault upon the Supreme Court's twisted trail in the matter of school desegregation. He has no trouble with the Brown decision as such; the South's scheme pf compulsory segregation plainly disadvari- taged some children and therefore denied these children equal protection of the law.

ButGrag- lia has great trouble with Chief Justice Warren's opinion porting that decision, and he has still greater trouble with the contradictory decrees that have followed in its wake. Out of Bounds The Brown case of. 954 led thetGiy.il-Rights Act of 1964. In construing the 1964, act, Graglia demonstrates, the Supreme Court' disdained history, the spirit, the intention, and the plain language of the law. The Civil Rights Act spelled out explicitly what "desegregation" means and what it does not mean: Desegregation, said Con- gress, "means the assignment of students to public schools and within such schools without regard to their race.

Desegregation, said Congress, "shall not mean the assignment of students to. public schools in order to overcome racial imbalance." Graglia marshals irrefutable evidence that Congress meant what it said. The leading liberals of that Humphrey, Javits, Kuchel, and pcatedly insisted that the Civil Rights Act could never.be misunderstood; it could not be perverted into a requirement of ra- cial'integration or racial balancing. But the bureaucracy, and the courts, proceeded at once to pervert the language all the same. By a feat of dazzling word play, Graglia observes, the courts asserted that their decrees required only that racial discrimination be eliminated; they then required discrimination in the name of eliminating discrimination.

The Court "was thus able to retain the enormous advantage of seeming to combat racism while in fact imposing a racist requirement." It was law by Humpty-Dumpty. What troubles Graglia especially is that the high court, by its judicial activism, has "reintroduced race as a permissible, and made it for the first time a sometimes constitutionally required, basis of government action." This feat has been accomplished by judges appointed for life, accountable only to themselves. So far as the public schools arc concerned, the judges have brought the counttiy "to a position increasingly recognized as intolerable." And the autocracy goes on. Graglia's scholarly polemic may not influence a willful court; but if his work is sufficiently read, it could have great effect upon a constitutional amendment intended to undo the evils of racism the Court has wrought. (Copyright 1976, Washington Star Syndicate) Weekend Edition Saturday, November 6, 1976 You Should Read India By Khushwant Singh BOMBAY INDIA.

Late one evening at the Road police station here, a woman reported that her 15-year old daughter had been missing since morning. The girl had taken the neighbor's children to the-beach and then disappeared in the company of some men. Shortly after midnight, the woman re-' turned to the station with her daughter in tow. The girl said six men had kidnaped her. But when the men were arrested, they told a story diat the girl sheepishly confirmed: At her request, one man had taken her to see a morning movie, then had given her money to see a matinee; a second man had escorted her to the' evening.

show; all six had itaken her to the late-night show. In India, movies in one day is considered somewhat unusual. Going twice a day is not, however, nor is seeing the same movie many times. Indians are so cinema-struck that not long ago a headline in The Indian Express trumpeted: Are in Their Blood." The story underneath reported that donations at the blood bank soar every time a new film is released starring M. Gopala Ramachandran, a matinee idol in southern India.

Poor people queue up overnight to give their blood and collect the 50 cents that will enable them to see, the film at least four times. Movies are virtually the only form of entertainment known to the vast majority of India's 600 million people who live in villages and small towns. There are nearly 8,500 cinema houses in the country, and their owners make handsome profits by packing them for four showings every day. Although India is arnong the poorest nations of the world, its inhabitants annually spend more than million on movie tickets. Last year, India produced more films than any other country in the world, including Japan and the United States more than 470, in 13 languages.

Indian films can be seen in most countries of Asia, Africa and the Asiatic republics of the Soviet Union, though they are intended primarily for consumption at home, where the audience also supports some 300 magazines devoted to film more than the rest of the world put together'. The best-known Indian films in the West are those of Satyajit Ray, whose vivid portrayals of rural poverty have won international acclaim. But at home, Ray's films'are all but ignored. Indians go to. the movies to escape the poverty around them; they are rewarded with celluloid fantasies that lean heavily on sex, violence and song and dance.

In the typical formula picture, rich, boy meets poor girl (or vice versa), runs into family opposition and encounters lots of sex and slambang violence. In the end, traditional values triumph over evil, (usually foreign in origin), all's well and people are singing and dancing. Bad and Worse "INDIAN FILMS can be divided into two categories and the very bad," a leading comedian, I.S. Johar, once declared in a speech. "Then there is a third category worse than the very bad the very dull." Bikram Singh, critic for the most widely read English-language film journal, Filmfare, agrees: "We produce the most and we produce the worst." There are three "Hollywoods" in India: in Bombay, Madras and Calcutta.

Bombay, where most northern-Indian-language pictures are made, is the most prolific production center- Next is Madras, where films in southern few in Hindi) are produced. Calcutta is a poor third in quantity i though first in quality because it makes only Bengali films and --its impact therefore is limited to a smaller audience. Like the American Hollywood in its heyday, the film- producing communities are centers of outrageously conspicuous opulence expensive jewelry, big foreign cars, lavish Though the Government's Guest Control Restriction Order limits gatherings to 25 guests, one recent reception cost $2,225 enough to feed an Indian for 20 years. Such frills are financed largely through "black money," cash paid under the counter to film-industry' people to evade income-tax laws. Authorities, in fact, seldom accept at face value the tax returns of people in the industry but simply.make their own assessment of how much an individual has earned.

In recent years, authorities have searched the homes of many film stars and imposed stiff fines on them. The glamour and opulence attract a steady stream of star- struck teen-agers. The lucky ones find jobs as extras. Many become hangers-on chiiniclias, literally "spoons," of film stars. Others wind up as "spot boys" serving tea and snacks in the studios, or as prostitutes.

Bombay's biggest and most glamorous production center is R.K. Studios, 1 named after Raj Kapoor, its and chief. Kapoor has long been the leading name in the'Indian film industry: Raj's father, Prithvi Raj, was a prominent actor on both stage and screen; his brother, Shashi, is currently signed up tostar in more than 100 films. Raj Kapoor, who began as a assistant, has succeeded in virtually every aspect of the business actor, editor, producer, director. Visit to Studio HIS R.K.

STUDIOS nestles.on the side of a hill some 20 miles from downtown Bombay. At the gate are two sentries armed with staves to control the crowd that is always present to watch the comings and goings of stars. Shooting goes on around the clock. I go to see it after dark when R.K. becomes a city of fluorescent With me is the gossip columnist Devyani Chaubal, who writes for the film journal Star 8C Style.

Our car beside a verandah. Two pairs of sandals, one male, one female, lie outside the door. We take off our shoes' as if entering a temple. Devyani Chaubal knocks gently on the door and pushes it open. Raj Kapoor is sprawled on the carpet with a bolster under one armpit.

Facing him is Zeenat Aman, the heroine of his current production "Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram (Truth, Good-' ness, Beauty)." She is in a low-cut, white dress that displays her main asset, a shaped bosom. Raj calls her "Zcenie Baby." "Hi Mutki (Fatso)," Raj greets Devyani. He pulls 'me down beside him and immediately launches on the benefits of air-conditioning. "The only refuge from this hot, humid, smelly, dirty city called Bombay is an air-cooled room. You come to my farm and my new studio near Poona.

There the air is 'dry and fragrant." "You have a bad cough and cold," I remark. "All this going in and out from air-cooled rooms doesn't do anyone any good. My doctor told me to give up cigarets. So I smoke cigars instead," he wheezes. I look around the room.

The walls are cluttered with pictures of Hindu gods and goddesses, Jesus Christ, Jawaharlal Nehru and the lovely heroines of Raj's earlier days: Nargis, Vyjayantimaia and Padmini. Above a built-in stereo set is a placard in Urdu: "Who can put out the flame of truth that has' been lit by God? Who can keep down a man who has God for his friend?" There is a shelf of books in a state preservation. I have been told that Raj Kapoor's favorite reading is comics. On the low. table in-front of him is a bright red telephone, tins of Indian tobacco meant to be chewed with betel leaf; Havana cigars and an octagonal glass vase crammed with gold and silver coins.

"I put all the small change I am left with when I return from my foreign tours into this vase. After I am gone, people will know something of where Raj Kapoor has been." NEW YORK TIMES.