The Emporia Gazette from Emporia, Kansas • Page 2

THE-GAZETTE William Allen Whits, 1895 -1944 William Lindsay White, 1944 1973 Glen Albert Bradshaw, Foreman Everett Ray Call, Managing Editor James Vernon Nirider, City Editor Carol Martin Shirley, Circulation Manager ferald Franklin Trowbridge, Advertising Managet Paul David Walker, Assistant Publisher We received the spirit which if of God: that Kf might the thingf thai are freely giien to us of God." il Corinthians 2:12) The Wailing Place Note of Appreciation (Editor's Note: A copy of i-His letter to the City Manager sent to The Gazette for publication in the WaUing Place.) Virgil A. Basgail, Manager City Hail Emporia, Kansas Dear Virgil: I have just returned to my office in New Jersey and I want to express, on behalf of myself and my entire company our gratitude to you and to your assistants tor your cooperation. We, along with all the others who were "hurt" in the devastating tornado appreciate greatly the wholehearted manner that everyone in the community pitched in to help. It is always dangerous to single out individuals by name for fear of overlooking someone. While we are most grateful to all concerned and the risk of overlooking someone by name, let me ask that you convey our warmest feelings to Chief of Police Hayes, the City Engineer, Lee Stolfus, the Mayor, Mrs.

Reuben Hammer and the City Commissioners James Pickert and Ralph Daggett; to the building inspector, ro the police department and all the volunteers who gave so willingly of themselves throughout this trying period. The police, in their anxiety to secure the centet, even kept me out of the place ar times. The Mennonites were extraordinary in their efforts to assist and so was the Salvation Army. The spirit of cooperation of the city and the county and all of those mentioned earlier, reflects a warmth and recognition rim when the chips are down, people turn out ro help each other in such unanticipated disasters. It is a reflection of a community attitude that hopefully reflects most of America.

The problems that remain for us and for the merchants and of the others involved, will be resolved as expeditiously as we can possibly manage. Again, we thank you and all concerned and I am looking forward to seeing you very shortly. Very truly yours, The Hanson Development Company Kelly Volner, Executive Vice President From Marion Ellet: Meany! Guilty? SATURDAY Evening Post, no less, wondering if maybe George Meany is guilty of jury tampering. The answer is that he would be guilty if be were a member of tbe Nixon administration or even just a rank- and-file Republican. But under the circumstances he is a defender of public morals, a Robin Hood and champion' of the underdog.

The reason which the Post advances for its suspicion of undue political pressure the fact that Mr. Meaney has loudly demanded that the House judiciary corrtmittee recommend a bill of impeachment. And that committee has been underwritten by the unions for no less than $222,218 in campaign contributions. Of this amount, Peter Rodino, chairman of the committee, received $30,923. Other Democrats on the committee received $189,195.

And two Republicans received £2,100. And these figures do not include "soft money" 'm union contributions. That is the term for the millions spent all over rhe country for union man-hours and other electioneering expenses such as hotel bills, transportation, printing, office space, for union Technically this is illegal. Technically unions have no more right to contribute than do corporations. But labor gets around the law by claiming that its contributions are not union contributions at all, they are merely collections of small individual contributions from union members.

And of course it is next to impossible for the law to trace soft-money contributions. The result of all this is that labor has indeed packed a jury House judiciary committee. And Meany is putting screws on the committe. All this is smart politics if you can get away wirh it. And labor can get away with it because Republicans, hoping for labor support, dare not raise a hue and cry.

On rhe other hand, liberal Democrats, including especially the unions, have nothing to lose when they scream for prosecution every time a Republican drops a wooden nickel in a slot macbme. Sure Meany is tampering with a jury. But who is to say him 20 ears A go June 24tri, 1954 The first ioo-degree day of 1954 was recorded in Emporia. It was the hottest day since the 105 degrees recorded on Sept. zSth.

1953. New cases or polio reported over the nation during the week totaled 421. a 30 pet cent increase over the week ending June 12m. The Double Girl Scout Ranch northwest of Emporia would be dedicsred Friday evening. The Rev.

LeRov Hay of the Firs: Chuten would conduct rhe Tne camp was built with money given bv E. E. Fanesti! on ground owned by the Rotaty Club. Miss Darlene Schellenberger of Bushong, and Trevor Rew, Emporia, were married June I3th in Council Grove. Mrs.

Rees had been teaching in Mortis County and would teach next year in Americus. Mr. Rees was engaged in farming. The cast for "The Hitchhiker," to be produced by the Emporia State Players, was announced and included David Cropp, Charles Hill, Maty Jeppcson, Lischia Newcomer of Emporia; and Mxrv Matheny of Holron. Technician? included Beverly Groh, Tex Smiley and Fred Wickert.

40 Years Ago June 24th. 1934 Members of the t-yon County Retailers Association were bsl- loring on the matter of closing the stores at 5 p.m. daily during July and August. The rose to 107 degtees early rhat afternoon after a low of only 70 degrees during the night. Emporu's temperature of 102 degrees on Friday made it trie hottest town in rhe United Crops needed rain.

Mrs. L. J. Bailey, Emporia's woman golf champion, won the driving contest and the approach- putt contest at the Kansas tournament in Wichita Thursday. The fourth fire alsrm of rne month was the result of a grass fire on a vacant at 902 West Twelfth Ave.

No damage resulted. An attraction the Brotherhood picnic -was a miniature train built by David Shirk of Arkansas City. Three cars, drawn by a sream locomotive, carried many children around on a small track built just south of Peter Pan Park. Sixty Years Ago The board of health recommended rhe city commission that an ordinance should be passed, requesting testing of all dairy for tuber- culosa. THE GAZETTE, EMPORIA, KANSAS Twi From The American Civil Liberties Union, and We've Had a Marijuana Harmless? These Days John Chamberlain OHN STACKS, the news editor of Time's Washington Bureau and the coordinator of its Watergate coverage, remarks, in an article in the Overseas Press Club of America's "Dateline 1974," rhat "the success of the Watergate investigators in ferreting out hard facts from reluctant sources was a tonic to Washington journalism." What Mr.

Stacks says is true about one type of Washington journalism, the "get the guy" type. I applaud "getting the guy" if he is really a crook or a liar, but when the press corps of a great capital is encouraged to think of journalism primarily as an adventure in the cultivation of stool pigeons it is not a "tonic" generally. The trouble with Washington journalism at the moment is that whole areas of government activity gee very little cove-rage. All the hounds are on one scent. Information that might have a great effect on a nation's life is left to moulder.

For exmple, how many stones have you seen devoted to the remarkable marijuana investigation conducted by the U. S. Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security? No Worse Than Beer The glib cliche about marijuana, endorsed, by the way, by some conservatives as well as by the liberals, is that marijuana, ot pot, when smoked in moderation, is really no worse than a few glasses of beer. This view has been periodically challenged, mainly in Europe, but there has been little published on the subject that has had a cumulative impact. The Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security, the "Eastland Committee." has really dug into the question of marijuana toxiciry.

rolling up a vast body of testimony that should be the subject of debate on campuses from Berkeley, California, to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since I am not a doctor, and my paraphrases of medical testimony not be trusted by the pro- marijuana or cannabis cultists. let me quote a few authorities directly. Item, from a statement by Drs. Harold Kolansky and William T.

Moore on the results of a clinical study: "In the last nine years we have seen hundreds of patients who have suffered psychiatric and neurological symptoms and have described the rind- in ss in almost 60 of these patients Many of those we examined appeared older than their chronological age I he incapability of completing thoughts during verbal communication that resulted in contused responses seemed to imply some form of organicirv either of an acute biochemical nature or. one might hypothesize, structural encephalopathy." (I looked up "encephalopsthv" in the dicnonarv: it means sickness or derangement of the bram.) Item, from Dr. D. P.uon. Professor or" Pharmacology at Oxford: "Administration of cannabis during the-vulnerable period oi pregnancy has been found to cause fetal death and teral abnormality in rhtee species ot animals.

The deformity includes lark ot limbs mity) a very important question is whether cannabis directly affects the generic material, i.e., nuclec acid Dr. Nahas's re- "Weasels in the Hen House TD ARRY GOLDWATER, rick Buchanan, and Ken Clawson exploded in sequence last week, like a string of dynamite blasts, on the matter or "leaks" in the national press. The situation demands attention and it merits concern, but it defies easy answer. The senator from Arizona, the President's top speech writer. and the head of the White House communications were outraged justifiably outraged at the torrent of leaks flowing chiefly from the House Judiciary Com- By lames Kilpatnck mittee.

Goldwater wanted to send die editors of the Washington Post to jail, 2 prospect not without a cena in appeal, and Buchanan spoke scornfully of "weasels in the chicken house." I have beer, in the news business all my life, and I cannot recall any situation that approaches the situation chat now obtains. Every day brings a fresh leak of some confidential document. It is not only the Judiciary Committee that gushes its subterranean secrets: the Senate's Watergate committee and possibly the On Hounding Henry Matter of Fad, by Joseph Alsop ASHINGTON "Do In the present circumstances, we really want the re- Kissinger cannot expect to depart sponsibility of hounding from of- from Washington in the same fice the most admired public setr glow of general adulation. The vant in the United States?" This hounds are already baying on is now a serious question which his traces. But he would be ludi- a good many politicians, think- crously modest if he did not rore- ers and, above all, key persons see that his departure would be in the press and media ought regarded as a major catastrophe to begin asking themselves.

by everyone for whom he has It is a serious question, in turn, the faintest respect. In short, the simply because the eventual resig- temptation to quit is still ex- nation of Secretary of State Hen- tremely strong. ry A. Kissinger is a far stronger Health Considerations possibility than anyone seems To these asi some further to imagine. His threat to resign factors also nee( to be dec has been called "petulant." He His beautiful wife, Nancy, much has accused of being unable ers cir es 5.1,3,.

are not sew to "take it." There has been a age sumps; am as er hospitali- lot more nonsense of the same i nc icareS; jn regs son is not good for her health. Fur- But to begin with, it is neithct ermore) on iron an a an petulant not oversensitive (al- constirur i orl have thus far though it may be a bit old-fash- 5Rved secretarv srate ioned) to insist you must resign unless your name is promptly a hernia Ae ia cleared when you have been put)- phragm! hich can fc, exceprion- licly accused of "d.ssemolmg' a pa nfu and even "perjury." These were ovenveig He is one the accusations leveled at K.s- singer by ceratin elements in your friendly media- who will have of un uclcy ions re- to evtreme ex a usrion by overeaitng an lc has been bot the major responsibility it trie overc rec an overweight for many United Stares eventually needs monrhs Qn rhe rcum a new secretary- ot state. stances, one has to admire the To go on with, none ot the extreme sro i sm at ent into factors in Kissinger's personal Kissinger memora feat of situation appears -to be dimly un- ip i omacv in Middle East. derstood in this sump a Qne of a city. First of all, is not muf onc 35t vn own where he is today trom love or of power, or from desire ro make Aj has said 3 great name, or from otner sim- inr mates quire he ong rejo vea his ff ice ilar motives.

If simple ambition had been Kissinger's guiding srar, he would have quit long ago when rhe quitting was good. Put Country First One of the two men he con- on the problem in was David K. E. Bruce, now rne leader of our liaison mission in Peking. Ambassador Bruce strong- Iv urged Kissinger to leave rhe general glow or universal adulation that would then have dragged into the Water- crttittv of Srare on irom vani nm re ens Hi sole nd surrounded Him.

He was intensely tempted to rake this Bruce advice he came near to doing JO. nar ft: couia no: continue to do his job at the Stare Department wirh the hounds on traces, and all serious dia- drowned bv the hounds' his Thar rrecsev to nappfn at rne savage an id dii- The other close rnend he con- cust ng iS7T1( co: img press con sulted instead gave greater weign: erenc tt a nc to the simple face is Kissinge aoc or still a fact that the present grea ea nt Fa5r LI. S. goyemmenr without Kis- lis matter cre singer did no; bear tninkmg KV tate res ig a rion may On tins ground. Kissinger no cn le ev cw a was told it was his plain dutv to stay.

He has rhe strong, grati- ar Committee. tude-bascd patriotism that onc Arvve there is the role of often finds in refugee Americans. lf He staved, from duty and sgainst his better iiidgrnenr. Foreign or rriendlv media. In riir media, the leve! and character of the public dialogue is determined, for good port here has clinched the issue ill.

And that is why the coun- lung damage, in the rorni ili mainly have the press of emphysema, is iving repe.iredlv to thank if rhe hounding goes recorded. Emphysema is normally on unril Kissinger leaves office. LI' (Cbpyrifiht 1974, Los (See Chamberlain, Pg. 5) Timel Syndiat.) FBI this is not clear also are involved. Still Impulsive For ail of Senator Goldwater's long memorandum last week on the law, it seems to me doubtful that criminal conduct can be proved.

The senator, who still has a regrettable habit of going off half-cocked, at first accused the Post of "treason." He backed away from that nonsensical charge, but he was fuming with other charges that struck him as matters for prosecution. Nothing will come of this. The questions are not questions of law but of ethics, of honor, and of professional responsibility. In the matter of leaks from the House Judiciary Committee, it is plain rhat someone wirh access to the committee's confidential files is behaving, if not dishonestly, at least dishonorably. A number of memoranda prepared for the committee's use by William P.

Dixon, a Democratic staff lawyer, have been deliberately leaked to the press. Dixon is perhaps the most prolific writer since Charles Dickens. His leaked mrmoranda are damaging to the President, and so long as the memoranda are not publicly released, they cannot be examined by other reporters. They are shots from ambush. In my own view, the conduct of the leakers ought to be roundly condemned.

In times past, in such matters as Daniel Ellsberg and rhe Pentagon Papers, some plausible appeal could be made to a "higher moraliry." Ellsberg's position was that he was so distraught, and so profoundly disturbed by the nation's involvement in Vietnam that he was compelled to breach his word of honor. He had to reveal the war documents, he said, because mere was no way the people could learn rhe truth otherwise. Serving Partisan Cause No such rationalization is available to the anonymous source wno leaked Duron's memorandum of June 6rh on June 17111. Release or this confidential statement could no: conceivably serve some "higher morality." It served the cause of the partisan Democrats who are out to get the President. Peter Rodino's failure to plug these leaks, as chairman of the Judiciary Committee, is one more reflection upon his lack oi capacity for his job.

What of rhe role of the newspapers? The ethical and professional questions here are far more complex. One starts wirh the plain crutrt tnat Dixon's memoranda are news. Newspapers exist not ro suppress news, bur to print If a newspaper is given confidential having demonstrable news value, the newspaper's dutv is ro print it, w'nat? Unless other considerations arr more important. One such consideration, obviously, is rhe national security. This is not involved in the current leaks.

Another consideration, far more difficult to appraise, is me image and repuration of the press itself. By serving as a willing any to rhe committee's harchermen. rhe conniving newspapers inevitably create rhe impression that rhfir purpose is not ro pursue the news, but to pursue a vendetta instead. It is an ugly image, harming rhe press as a whole. Speaking for myself, as one professional newsman, I voice my resentment, and my protest.

(Copyrifiht Stjr Syndicate) Monday June 24., 1974 You Should Buy and Read Women on the Rum RISTOL, Conn. William Mead, the police chief here, take? time out from the annual policemen's ball to philosophize a bit about politics: "Most men haven't done so good," he declares, "so why not give a woman a chance?" Chief Mead isn't exactly a champion the women's liberation movement, but he's talking about who he thinks should be the next governor of Connecticut. And that's Congresswoman Ella Grasso, rhe odds-on ravorite in the race. If Rep. Grasso does win will beccxr.e highest- ranking woman official in rhe country and rhe only female governor.

This will make her a national figure and an important force in the Democratic Party a prospect rhe 55-year- old vetetan of Connecticut politics prefers to play down at the moment. "I don't see what's so strange or different rhat in 1974 there's going to be a woman nominated and elected governor because she happens to be a human being who responds the wishes of rhe people she maintains. "And it will be done without having to spend long hours discussing whether or not she's a female." Encouraging Others RS. GRASSO underestimates the barrier she seems likely to break, however. For if successful, she will be the first woman ever elected governot in her own right.

(Three other women governors Alabama's Lurleen Wallace, Texas's Miriam "Ma" Ferguson and Wyoming's Nellie Tayloe Ross all followed in their husbands' footsteps.) "If Ella Grasso wins, ir'l! be a very important breakthrough it'll certainly encourage others," predicts Betsey Wright, director of rhe Women's Education Fund, a Washington-based, tax- exempt foundation that promotes and aids women candidates by distributing materials and holding seminars on the mechanics of. electoral politics. A Grasso victory would cap what promises to be a series of political advances for women this year. Spurred on by the feminist movement, more rhan 3,000 women are running for local, srate and federal office, rriple the number of 1972. Many are doomed ro defeat, of course, but victories also should be more plentiful.

"I think we can at least double the number of elected women officials this year," says Betsy Deardourff, associate director of the Women's Education Fund. Even that would still leave women lagging far behind men. Presently, there are no women governors or U. S. Senators, only 16 of the 435 members of the House of Reptesen- tatives are female.

Only 26 women hold statewide office of any kind, and there are 441 women in state legislatures, or only about 6 per cent of the total. A Threshold Year UT MANY women claim the tide is turning. "We're at a threshold year this is the beginning," says Jane McMichael, executive director of the Women's Political Caucus, the largest women's political group. One thing women have going for them may be Watergate. Not only were no women nvolved in the scandal, but because women are largely outsiders to the political process, they also may not be as tarred by the antipolitician mood that Watergate has generated, some surveys show.

"Women definitely are helped by the honesty issue," says pollster Peter Hart. "Every rime we ask who's more honest, men or women, a plurality will say women," he says. No one knows, of course, whether electing more women would necessarily to more high-minded politics. Even some women's activists worry rhat once women become part of the political establishment, they may behave like rheir male counterparts. Most women political analysts, however, believe female officeholders not only will focus more attention on issues important TO women battling sex discrimination and arguing for more child day-care centers, for example but also will bring more compassionate concern and less wheeling and dealing ro government.

"Women can and will make a difference," argues Rep. Margaret Heckler, a Massachusetts Republican and eight-year congressional veteran. "Women have more of a human sensitivity than men and aren't as prone to backroom politics." Escalating Efforts I ANY EVENT, organized efforts to elect women are escalating. The two-year-old Women's Education Fund is holding seminats around the country and distributing videotapes and handbooks especially tailored to aid women candidates. The oldet Women's Political Caucus has tinned more to electoral politics this year, endorsing a number of women political aspirants.

And recently the women's campaign fund was launched ro funnel money to "highly qualified, progressive women candidates." Both majot political parties are involved in this, too, though most successful women politicians to date have been Democrats. "Women tend to be more interestedin socul issues, and the Democrats have a reputation for being better on social issues," explains Patricia Goldman, staff director of the liberal House GOP Wednesday Group. Even so, she and others feel the GOP is diligently working to court more women candidates, particularly under the prodding of rhe parry's cochairwoman, Mary Louise Smith. Last month. Mrs.

Smith instructed all state GOP party leaders to let her know exactly how many women candidates they're fielding this year. Interestingly enough, many women think the current Democratic Party leadership lacks this kind of intense concern. But since women already have gained a strong foothold in the Democratic Party, it temains easier to attract and put up female candidates. Nevertheless, most women candidates still considerable hurdles, not the least of which is fund raising. Women usually lack the professional contacts who give big dough.

and most male-oriented political otganizations are more reluctant to contribute to a female. Democratic Rep. Pat Schroeder of Colorado, for instance, was able ro get only from rhe AFL-CIO's political arm before she won an upset victorv in Denver two years ago, even though she was a trained labor lawyer and very sympathetic ro most of labor's legislative goals. "Most women don't have rhe big resources to tap and can go only so far on Sio wine and cheese parties." savs Maureen Aspin. executive director of the Women's Campaign This newly organized group hopes to distribute 5.000 or so amone a small group of serious women contenders and then, if successful, expand later.

An equally serious problem is a political double standard rnat often subjects female aspirants ro more pointed personal inquiries during a campaign, such as what they'll do about their children, whether they can handle a "man's job," or even, if unmarried, whether they're lesbians. This was forcefully driven home ro Cynthia Kukor. who opposed an incumbent city a'dermsn in Milwaukee two years ago. A divorcee with three young children, she was not only grilled about this, but her opponents' supporters even organized a group rhe "Concerned Mothers for the Kukor Children." Candidate Kukor chose to meet rhis challenge directly. When asked what kind of mother she could be, she replied, "I'd be just as good a mother as the incumbent Ls a father to his children." The strategy worked, as she carried her blue-collar district by an almost 3-10-1 margin.

Most women strategists now advice other candidates to take a similar frontal approach. -In WALL STREET JOURNAL.