The Emporia Gazette from Emporia, Kansas • Page 2

Page 4 THI-GAZETTE Glen Albert Brtdshtw, Foreman Everett Ray Cadi, Managing Editor William Lindsay White, Editor and Publisher Kenneth Richard Williams, Business Manager The children Isttt! hsvt harkeiieJ unto me; then shall Phaibsh htltr me? Exodus 6:11. iever Than Texas THE GAZETTE, EMPORIA, KANSAS I bigness commands respect, then the people of Kansas might do well to pay some attention to a study done by Miss Linda Larson, a journalism student in Nebraska. Miss Larson has taken a close Inok at a plan to combine rj-io, Kansas, Nebraska and Ok- Ij'ioma into one "superstate." A to study the merger was introduced in the Kansas Legislature this year but died in committee. State Rep. Frederick Linde, who introduced the bill, says he will try again next year.

The state Mr. Linde proposes would have a population of about 8,450,060, making it the sixth largest in the United States after Ntw York, California, Pennsylvania, Illinois Texas. It would come in second behind Alaska in area with 332,625 square mites. And it would be an auto-license designer's nightmare with a national high of 338 counties. The state would produce some 543 million bushels of wheat and 479 million bushels of corn a year.

At least 10 metropolitan would be part of the super- state. Mr. Linde he just thought of the idea of merging states one day and "it logical," There are many advantages to the proposal, he said. State services would be more efficient and effective if combined, and salaries would be higher. Another advantage is that competition between states would be reduced, according to Mr.

Linde. Most damaging is competition for new industries and businesses. also compete esJy to he the location of federal installations, such as regional offices, reservoirs, river harbcrs. Army facilities and research laboratories. Tbe Air Force Academy was located at Colorado Springs after years of vicious arguments between eight or 10 states.

Each of flu four states has a part-time legislature. Things happen so fast today that everything Cannot be covered in three to six months, Mr. Linde said. "A single legislature could be in year at less expense," he asserted. Besides, "Ail states are taking critical looks at their constitutions and administrative functions," Mr.

Linde said. "What better way to streamline government than to do ir once instead of four individual times?" But streamlined government would cost rhe region United States senators. If the states merged, the new state would have two senators instead of rhe region's present eight. Mr. Linde he thought the loss of the six senators was the most serious flaw in his proposal.

But one gtate might have more clout than four individual states in the Electoral College. Mr. Linde says most people think his plan is funny. It is. R.

C. The Wailing Place Praises Mr. Hoover Editor of The Gazette, Sir: I believe J. Edgar Hoover was great man, a defender of our democracy against great odds of some people. I hope our president can find someone half faithful as he was.

If anyone can look back to earth from heaven and say, "Job well done," I believe it is Mr. Hoover, not showing disrespect for anyone else. have a letter signed by Mr. Hoover in answer to a letter we wrote him praising him for efforts when things seemed to be going against him. He thanked us for out kindness.

I enjoyed reading your editorial tributes to him. If we are to keep our democracy we must obey the law and law enforcement officers no matter whose toes get tread on. Law means everyone. Respectfully, Mrs. Robert Yockey Rt.

a Lebo 20 ears Ago May irch, 1952 Farm women were flocking to Emporia from a i3-county area for rhe seventh annual observance of National Home Demonstration Week, being held at the Civic Auditorium. The Lyon County Women's Chorus, one of 10 farm women's singing groups, would sing. Mrs. Fletcher Helton was director. Fifty Emporia school teachers were among the Kansas career teachers to be presented certificates for 25 or more yean of service by the University of Kansas.

Among them were Vera Clark, Esther Price, Vina Hilierman, Pearl Keller, Midget Carle, Delpha Williams, Margaret Reeble, Hazel Wood, Margaret Dinkier, Marion Howard, Loretta Langley, George Lodle, Mary Petty, Shirley Thomsen, John R. Williams, C. H. Garrison, Wood Bloxom, Dorothy Eastman, Catherine Jones, Ruth McKee, Matilda Noyes and Mildred Kaff. The straw hat season got off to cold, wet start.

The annual iris show, sponsored by the Emporia Garden Club, was scheduled for May 171(1. 40 ears Ago May nth, 1932 The 78th annual meeting of Kansas Congregationalists was ing held Emporia. The Emporia church was celebrating its 751(1 anniversary at the same time. Nearly 150 cars were parked within a block of the church Tues- day night. They included two Fierce-Arrows, a Cadillac and several other expensive- but unidentified makes.

Virginia and Frances Hagan, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Hagan, had painted numbers on the on East Wilman Court for one cenr for each house. Some out-of-town painters had gone along the street painting white squares on the curbings. Returning, they were asking the householders to pay a quarter for rhe numbers.

The girls got wind of it and contracted to paint the numbers for one cent before the professionals got along that street. It pays to hire home-town workmen! The Japanese government decided to remove the remainder of its military force from Shanghai. Sixty years ago Although thr retailers voted to close their stores at 5 p.m. during the summer, the grocers and butchers voted to stay open until 6 p.m. each day except Thursday when they would close all afternoon.

What effect this would have on other merchants was not known. Capital Punishment On the Right By William F. Buckley Jr. i-jp HERE IS NATIONAL Ji suspense over whether capital punishment is about to be abolished, and the assumption is that when it comes it will come from the Supreme Court. Perhaps it will, though the Court is obviously reluctant to assert itself constitutionally on the question.

But Congress has a couple of measures the intention of which is to abolish capital punishment. Meanwhile, a) the prestigious state supreme court of California has interrupted execution, giving constitutional reasons for doing so; b) rhe death wings are overflowing with convicted prisoners; c) executions are a remote memory; and for the first time in years d) rhe opinion polls show that there is a movement for what amounts to rhe restoration of capital punishment. The case for abolition is popularly known. The other case less so, and (without wholeheartedly endorsing it) I give it as it was given recently to the Committee of rhe Judiciary of the House of Representatives by Professor Ernest van den Haag, under whose thinking cap growerh no moss. Mr.

van den Haag, a professor of social philosophy at New York University ambushed the most pop- ulsr arguments of rhe abolitionists, taking no prisoners. Reform Administration 1. The business about the poor and the black suffering excessively from capital punishment is no argument against capital punishment. It is an argument against the administration of justice, not against the penalty. Any punishment can be unfairly or unjustly applied.

Go ahead and reform the processes by which capital punishment is inflicted, if you wish; but don't confuse maladministration with the merits of capita! punishment. 2. The argument that the death penalty is "unusual" is circular. Capital punishment continues on rhe books of a majority of states, the people continue to sanction the concept of capital punishment, and indeed capital sentences are routinely handed down. What has made capital punishment "unusual" is that the courts and, primarily, governors, have intervened in the process so as to collaborate in the frustration of the execution of the law.

To argue that capital punishmenr is unusual, when in fact it has been made unusual by extra-legislative authority, is an argument to expedite, nor eliminate, executions. 3. Capital punishment cruel. That is a historical judgment. Bur rlif Constitution suggests that what can be regarded as cruel is (a) a particularly painful way of inflicting death, or (h) a particularly undeserved death; and the death penalty, as such, meets neither of these criteria and cannot be therefore regarded as objectively "cruel." Viewed rhe other way, the question is whether capital pun- ishmenr can be viewed as useful, and the question of deterrence arises.

Statistics Ambiguous 4. Those who believe that the death penalty does not intensify rhe disinclination to commit certain crimes need to wrestle with statistics that disclose that, in fact, it can't be proved that anv punishment does that to any particular crime. One would ra- rionailv suppose that two years in jail would cur the commission of a crime if not exactly by one hundred per cent more than one year in jail, at least that it would further discourage crime to a certain extent. The proof is unavailing. On the other hand, rhe statistics, although ambiguous, do not show either (a) that capital punishment net discourages; nor (b) that capital punishment fails net to discourage.

"The absence of proof for the additional deterrent effect of the death penalty must not be confused with the pre.ience of proof for the absence of this effect." The argument that most capital crimes are crimes of passion committed by irrational persons is no argument against rhe 'death penalty, because it does not reveal how many crimes mighr, bur for the death penalty, have been committed by rational persons who are now deterred. And the clincher. 5. Since we do not know for certain whether or not dearli penalty adds deterrence, we have in effect the choice of two risks. Risk One: Tf we execute con-' victod murderers wirfiout rlicre- by deterring prospective murder- Aid Offered to New Chief The Washington Merry-Go-Round, by Jack Anderso YTRICK Gray III got off reports marked "Confidential" unconvincing start and "Secret." One entry, dated to an as the new boss of the FBI by April 3Oth, 1971, is stamped "Top pleading with newsmen: "None of you guys are going to believe this and I don't know how to make you believe it but i i there are no dossiers or secret le es dark! "Between Novem- has hired ron Detective KT No Foreign Dissemi- llation No Dissemination Ab This document 1 er who doesn't rate a full FBI file.

For example, Gray can learn from reading the Coretta King tyred Martin Luther King's widow files." to ber, 1970, and April, 1971, Fon- We will be happy to tell poor da our Allege campuses at ller Alanta Pat, since he's new around across rhe makin FBI, where some of the secret war A source advised files are stashed. FBI) the North Viet- As a starter, he might ask to names Embassy in Moscow see rhe Jane Fonda file, No. 100- bought a plane ticket for Fon- 459279. The FBI apparently da to trave rotn tne United discover from a "Secret" entry considers the tiny, if sometimes States to Moscow and Hanoi in the Ralph Abernathy file, No. turbulent, Miss Fonda a menace vi ar on 3' I 7-7 I though the 100-442706, that King's succes- to the nation.

wa discontinued as all visas sor at the Southern Christian She recently won the Academy to orth Vietnam were later Leadership Conference was "con" security This tidbit is stamped merely "Confidential," although there's a lot of equally irrelevant information labeled "Secret." Or Gray may be interested to Award as Hollywood's best ac- cancel tress. But her most faithful fans Black Secret are G-men, who monitor her per- By perusing the secret FBI formances around the world and files, Pat Gray can also find out submit detailed reports on her who's who and what': antwar routines. the black community. new There's The Fonda file is stuffed with hardly an important black lead- McGovern Isn't Ftunny A IN By Art Buchwald committee of at we're in agreement that sidering resigning as President, because of lack of cooperation from officers." Even one of President Nixon's stalwart black supporters, Floyd McKissick, is kept under regular FBI surveillance. His file, No.

100-446386, contains a full background report on his activities labeled "Secret No Foreign Dissemination." Gray can also keep up with the world travels of James Baldwin, the famous black novelist, by reading file No. 62-108763. An entry, dated Dec. 23rd, 1969, humor writers and political McGovern isn't NATURALLY an marked "Secret No For- cartoomsts held an emergency funny. The next question is how meeting last weekend in Washing- do we make him funny?" i i uj i i -i ton to see what they could do There was dead silence in the i about Sen.

George McGovern, room. jj i TI i i i who suddenly has become a vi- The cha.rman said, "Gentle- presidential candidate. 1 he -chairman of rhe committee an opening statement warned rhe writers and cartoonists attending that there was a men, by some chance McGovern were elected President of the United Stares, our jobs would be at stake. We would have to make fun of him for four years." "I can't do ir," a cartoonist possibility rhat McGovern coiild win the Democratic nomination, and if he did, they would be for American Airlines." gn Dissemination," confides: rSYl-i, another government i u- agency which conducts mtelli- gence investigations, advised on fiB win arrived IstanbJul from via Mnce on fh Wloive th Au SC cried. "I'd rather do commercials 7 newspaper Mi obligated to satirize him in words and drawings.

"It's impossible," a humor writer said. "McGovern has been running for a year now, and there is not one thing humorous about him." "May I remind you," anoth- Favors Wallace "Better Wallace than McGovern!" a gag writer yelled. "You mean you'd rather have George Wallace as President of the United States than George McGovern?" "We have to think of our- er cartoonist said, "rhat you said selves," the gag writer protested, the same thing about Nixon in "We know all of us could live with Wallace!" "Huzzah! Huzzah!" the crowd shouted. "Even Humphrey would provide us with more material than 1968." "Nixon's different," the first cartoonist "You can at least draw his nose. You can't even make a sketch of McGovern.

He looks like everyone's high McGovern!" a cartoonist yelled, school chemistry teacher. If I don't put his name on the seat of his pants, no one knows who rhe heck he Writing Tougher A humor columnist said, "It's worse when you're crying to I've got a lot of reject cartoons left over on him." "You're avoiding the issue," the chairman warned. "This meeting was called to decide what to do about McGovern. A few months ago the chance of his WRITE something funny about being President was out of rhe him. Has anyone managed to question.

But now we may have write anyrhing funny about Me- to live with him, and we have Govern?" There was dead silence the room. "How can you write some- liyet," also stamped a deep, dark "Secret." Or Gray can read all about the personal affairs of Harry Bciafonte, the talented black actor, by snooping through file No. 100-394716. A "Secret" background report starts off with the information that the "subject's true name is Harold George Belafonte." Movie Gossip The new FBI chief will find all sorts ot titillating tidbits in rhe files of such movie stars as Marlon Brando, Paul Newman, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall, Zero Moste! and others. None of them are accused of any crimes or suspected subversion.

But the FBI keeps files on them anyhow. Or, if Gray is a football fan, he can glean some fascinating facts from the FBI files on the likes of Joe Namath and Lance Rentzel. For example, rhe FBI lists Nato decide how we can do it. What I suggest we do right now is test math under No. 5O5524F.

His ourselves. The writers start writ- thing funny about a man who ing funny gags about McGovern, and the cartoonists start drawing York Jets of the American Foot- funny pictures of Then we'll file declares "Captioned individual, a member of the New 'ork ball League, has never been the exchange the ideas. You've got subject of an FBI investigation." 30 minutes to produce something." Yet the FBI has kept a faith- beyond rhe deterrence that The writers and cartoonists ful account of such miscellany could have been achieved by life ot out their pads and pencils. as the report "from a reliable imprisonment, we may have vain- The only sound in the room was source that he frequents The Pus- ly sacrificed rhe life of rhe con- a voice asking, "May I borrow sycat Bar New York City." comes from Sourh Dakota?" a writer asked defensively. The chairman said, "Well, victed murderer.

Risk Two: If we fail to execute a convicted murderer whose execution might have deterred an indefinite number of prospective murderers, our failure sacrifices an indefinite number of victims of future murderers. "If we had certainty, we would your eraser: At the end of 30 minutes, the chairman called the meeting to order. "What have we got?" The cartoonists held blank sketch pads. in I the cha.rman What about rhe writers? Above all, newsmen should be skeptical as Gray suggested they would be that "there arc no dossiers or secret files." One dogged investigative reporter, I. F.

Stone, file No. loo- regularly by the FBI. A typical entry, dated March 17th, 1067, and stamped "I have one," said one of the not have risks. We do not have country's leading satirists. "Why reports: certainty.

If we have risks docs McGovern wear red suspenders?" "To hold up his pants?" The chairman asked. "You were peeking," th 1st said peevishly. (Copyright 1972, Los Angeles Times Syndicate, Inc.) and we do better to risk rhe life of the convicted man than risk the life of an indefinite number of innocent victims who might survive if he were executed." (Copyright 1071, Washington Stir "During 1966, subject spoke at several anti-Vietnam affairs. In his talks lie was critical of the United States handling and participation in the Vietnam Wat. (Copyright 1072 by Unittd Feature! Inc) Thursday, May 1972 Yell Should Buy and Read Garner Ted Exiled.

Ktprinted fejr MnftiMiea from TIME, Weekly News-magazine; Copyright Tint lac. NTIL LAST fall, (can, gray-templed Garner Ted Arm. strong was the quintessential religious soft-sell artist. His program called The World Tomorrow was carried on some 400 radio and 99 TV stations. His slick, free monthly called The Truth went to 2,100,000 subscribers.

To the millions of Americans wfio followed him, Garner Ted dispensed glib solutions to such problems as drugs, crime, broken marriages and delinquent children all implicitly in the name of the Worldwide Church of God. This is a stern, bizarre sect founded in 1934 as the Radio Church of God by Garner Ted's father Herbert W. Armstrong, a Quaker-born ad salesman turned preacher, and still ruled by the elder Armstrong from headquarters in Pasadena, Calif. Garner Ted, 42, was the heir apparent not only to rhe W. C.

G. but also to a church-run inr-titution called Ambassador College: three campuses Pasadena; Big Sandy, and St. Albins, England) where the buildings are expensive and the tuition cheap, the boys' sideburns high and the girls' skirts low. Then, last October, Garner Ted was suddenly relieved of duties as executive vice president of the church and vice chancellor Ambassador College. Later his name was expunged from the masthead of The Plain Truth.

His radio programs were replaced by jo-year-old tapes made by his father. Bonds of Satan A FIRST, Herbert told W. C. G. members rhat Garner Ted was simply taking a long overdue leave of absence.

Then, in February, the inner church membership about 75,000 people heard a letter from Pasadena so secret rhat their ministers were ordered to burn it after reading. Its message: Garner Ted "in the bonds of Satan." At the end of April, the senior Armstrong made a more public statement to the broader church membership "co-worker" category, which includes such sympathizers as Chess Grandmaster Bobby Fischer explaining that Garner Ted had confessed to some kind of transgression against "God, against his church and his apostle, against the wife God gave me in my youth, against all my closest friends." What sort of transgression? Time Correspondent Sandra Burton posed the question to Herbert Armstrong in a rare interview last week. "Look up Timothy, Chapter 3, first five or verses," replied Armstrong, "and Titus, Chapter verse 6." Both passages make two points in common: that a bishop or church elder must be faithful to his wife and rule strictly over believing children. Had handsome Gamer Ted succumbed to an old and common temptation? His father was cryptic: "The fault was spiritual, not moral." In rhe heterodox, rigidly disciplined Christianity of the Worldwide Church of God, that could mean anything. In Herbert Armstrong's theology, unknown to much of his public, the British and the Americans are among the ten lost Hebrew tribes, destined to fight and succumb to a renewed Holy Roman Empire probably led by Germany.

Then a Chinese-Russian alliance will fight the battle of Armageddon with the victor. At first, Herbert Armstrong predicted the beginning of the end for the late 19305. The most recent Apocalypse was due on Jan. 7th, 1972. In other departures from traditional Christianity, Armstrong and his faithful worship on Saturday, nor Sunday; they observe kosher laws set forth in the Old Testament.

They celebrate Passover but not Christmas or Easter. They deny the Trinity. But they believe steadfastly in the tirhe so much so that L- mber expccted to sct aside tllree tithes, or tenths, of his gross income. One-tenth is for church headquarters. One-tenth is for the member's travel expenses to church festivals.

And, every few years, yet another tenth is required for "widows and orphans." The church monitors the tithes by computer; one member caught cheating was sentenced to tithe double for the rest of his life. Royal Style MALL WONDER that the church's annual income V-? is estimated at around million. 'Or that Founder Armstrong zips round the world to visit such as Japan's Prime Minister Eisaku Sato or India's Indira Gandhi in a Grumman Gulfstream jet diat gobbles up at least $1.5 million a year. Former W. C.

G. members charge that the Armstrongs live like kings while members often live in poverty in order to pay their tithes. They maintain that each of the two Armstrongs has elegant homes in California and England; that Herbert sports a watch and bought a $2,000 set of cuff links and tic tack for a Jerusalem trip. But far worse, others say, is rhe havoc wreaked on families bv Armstrong's unyielding doctrines. One of those doctrines forbids members to undergo any medical treatment.

According to ex-Elder John Judy of Akron, a 40-year-old Ohio woman with a history of heart disease died a few months after her minister pur her on a diet consisting only of grape fuicc; rlie minister did not object when she substituted grape soda. Mrs. Henry W. Peterson of Seattle relates that rhe W. C.

G. broke up her second marriage, of 24 years' standing, because it does not recognize civil divorce. Severe punishment of children is taken as a sign of loyalty to the church, says Judy, who recalls seeing one father spanking his child at a church meeting as if he were "whipping horse." If such charges are true, Garner Ted Armstrong might have had any number of reasons to disagree wirh his father. Indeed, reports one insider, much of the trouble may stem from rhree sermons Garner Ted gave ar Big S.indv, Tex. In one, he wondered aloud why church members did not experience more healings.

In another, lie rmpliasixed the Apostle Paul nearly forgotten man in W. C. G. thrology because of a New Covenant replacing the old. During a third, Garner Ted questioned whether the church had the proper presence of the Holy Spirit.

Whatever rhe cause of Garner Ted's disappearance, his father smilingly insisted last week that rhr errant lad was in Colorado, making rhe best of his exile. If so, he w.is nor at favorite retreat on a former sheep ranch near Oak Creek. When Correspondent Burton trekked out to the ranch, shr found it deserted, with its electric meter padlocked. It had not been used all winter. Time i.