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THE REPUBLIC. COLUMBUS. INDIANA, WEDNESDAY. JULY 5. 1972 PAGE FOUR The Max Lemer Column BERRrS WORLD Around Town By RP.PlDl.IC STAFF Death and the High CoOrt EDITORIALS By MAX LERNER NEW YORK "Death, be not proud," we said, and now we have humbled Death by stripping him of whatever force he had as a penalty.

It is a decision which tells much about the Supreme court which made it, and much also about the American people. For court and people are both caught in an agonized inner struggle between an ever-more humane self-image and a growing anxiety about how to cope with the aggressive and destructive forces of the society. It was two judges called Pot- vinced about the meaning of ter Stewart and Byron White, the cruel and unusual punish-first appointed by Dwight Eisen- ments" in the Eighth amend- RUSSEL STOTT, justice of peace at Edinburg, thinks legislators should pass a law to license neighborhood quarrels "For the last several weeks," he says, "we have had severe cases of domestic neighborhood fights, cussing and name calling in all sections of the Without question, he said, licensing would bring in thousands of dollars to the state Do you buy the license before the quarrel or afterwards, Russ? Be Gracious Keep your eyes peeled this week and next for ways to be friendly and gracious to an unusually large number of visitors some 30,000 members of the National Campers and Hikers association. Something as simple as stopping your car to wave a lost driver back onto a 1-way street can make him remember Columbus as the friendliest city around. And any city can use that kind of a hower as a liberal conservative, ment of the Bill of Rights.

Jus- tice Douglas finds implicit in the phrase the requirement of there Knowingly or not. you are really sending a message to Congress and the state legislators, lo what is discriminatory equal, what is infrequent frequent, what is blurred sharp. It is a message, in effect, inviting them to redraft the penal laws, make them more rigid and mandatory, leave less to the prosecutor, judge and jury. It is to revive and enshrine Death, under the guise of burying him. 1 don see how we or the court can escape Burger's logic, but we must recoil from it, as he does.

This is no time for digging up Death and making him more powerful than ever. But it is a time to rethink the genuine anguish of so many plain people, who wonder whether humanitarianism will save them from the murderers. After Truman Capote wrote his blast against capital punishment. "In Cold Blood," he had some second thoughts. "For hired killers, difficult pathological cases, recitivist murders and multiple murders at a certain point, yes, I favor the death penalty What else can we do with them?" As a guideline to legislators, in redrafting their statutes, this makes sense.

Don bring back a blunderbuss, unusable and unjust. Fashion a sharper scalpel, to deal with the very few cases in which Death cannot be banished because the criminal has proclaimed him king. the other by John Kennedy as a conservative liberal, who carried the burden of decision in the death penalty cases. In England they used to talk of the "hanging judges," but these wo a re the swinging judges or to keep the meaning clean the swing judges. They hold the power balance between the three die-hard Warrenites and the four die-hard Nixonites.

As they swing, so the decisions swing. The Warrenite Three are perfectly clear about banishing death. No shadow of doubt crosses their minds. All three attacked the death penalty for having been applied unequally, bearing heavily on the poor and the black. All three also seemed con- SIX HUNDRED acres of land is reported to be changing hands west of Columbus, but exact location and names of the buyers and sellers are being kept in the dark even among folks repeating the rumors One rumor we are told is unfounded reported that the Caterpillar company, a heavy equipment and engine company in competition with the local Cummins Engine company, was planning a plant here Repeating, we are told it is not true.

172 ir NIA. I. being equal protection of the laws for all. And Justice Bren-nan. in a long, historical essay on the meaning of "cruel and unusual punishments," agrees that the framers of the Constitution didn't exclude the death penalty in their day, but insists that it has been a changing concept and is today intolerable.

The Nixonite Four are equally clear that judges can't interpret the Constitution by proclaiming their humanitarianism. President Nixon appointed them because they were strict constructionists, and lo. they are! Justice Powell cries out that the court decision has made a rigid ban out of what should have been left to the flexibility of the state legislatures. Justice Blackmun finds the death penalty revolting, as a person, but says he is a judge, not a legislator. Justice Rehnquist wants to know what has happened to the doctrine of judicial restraint.

"With oil the bigwigs coming and going, visiting Walloce, I can't get any sleep!" PAULA SUE BROWN, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Eben-kamp of 1803 Cottage avenue, was inadvertently reported to be 24 years of age in our item about perfect attendance in school Miss Brown is a "spry" 14, and not 24.

Fourteen or 24 years old. never missing a day of school is quite an Letters From Republic's Readers faster and faster on less and less land. It's pretty bad when you lose control over your health because food at the grocery isn't what it should be. What about people in big cities? They can't waste land and grow little gardens in their leisure time the way we do out Looking Back PRETTY BUBBLES in the air were being created along Twenty-fifth street near avenue Monday afternoon 3V two young ladies who ap-)eared to be enjoying life as 'crashed'' through their streams of golden gloves. 15 Years Ago -1957 Construction starts on 27 additional units to Columbus Village apartments with completion planned by fall.

The new units will be identical to the 54 units previously erected off North Maple street. ment ol land gives the answer. The city had the opportunity to settle the downtown parking problem, at the lowest cost for each square foot ever, when the Columbus Redevelopment commission accepted bids Nov. 22, 1971. at 57 cents a square foot on land in subsequent "Red Square." The city would have had priority over any private bidder.

Actually the city obligated itself on Nov. 15 when it accepted the "Taxpayers Maul" to provide nearly a full block of parking, according to the requirements of its recently passed zoning ordinance. This called for two square feet of parking for each foot of building. Since the "Maul" covers nearly a half-block, the City should have included the provision for parking in its acceptance. In an appearance before the council and mayor, it was pointed out that the city, school corporation and county would lose $150,000 to $200,000 in annual tax income if "Maul" were accepted.

1 plead guilty in neglecting to inform the city administration at that meeting that in accepting the "Maul" they should provide adequate adjacent parking. Joseph P. Hilger Other Issues in Education President Nixon's signature on the school aid bill the other day was an act deserving of headlines, but it made them for the wrong reasons. The attention-getter was the President's verbal lashing of Congress for failing to write antibusing provisions into the measure as he had requested. Busing is, of course, a legitimate not to mention burning as the President himself put it educational issue.

It is also a political issue, one which is very much a part of the building presidential campaign. Emphasis on the flashy political highlights of the bill thus obscured its real significance the establishment of a new basis for federal aid to higher education, which has nothing whatsoever to do with busing. For the first time, federal money will be available to financially strapped institutions to use as they wish rather than a specific federal programs spell out. And as a matter of national policy, every student who cannot meet the full costs of an education can now look to the government for financial assistance up to a maximum 51,400 through new loan and grant programs. The effects will certainly be considerable, and endure long after this election and, just possibly, the busing issue are history.

That is the good news. The bad news, according to some expert observers of the academic scene, is that something much more will be necessary in the long run to solve education's money problem. The Carnegie Commission on Higher Education which, under the direction of Clark Kerr, a former head of the University of California, has been examining in depth the state of the nation's colleges and universities since 1967, has issued a report on the economics of education which finds the basic problem' to be a classic case of inflation. Expenditures on higher education have been increasing at a rate considerably greater than national economic growth, the commission found. The rise in spending from 7.6 billion dollars in" 1960 b) 25 billion in 1970 represented a jump of from one per cent of the Gross National Product to 2.5 per cent.

At the same rate of increase, spending would rise to 51 billion in 1980, or 3.3 per cent of GNP. Too high, according to the Carnegie study, which recommended a 20 per cent reduction in spending during the next decade, to be achieved by such unpleasant steps as a "cautious" increase in student-faculty ratios, curbing faculty salary increases, trimming enrollments by encouraging "reluctant attenders" to drop out and by a major revision in standard academic practice, telescoping undergraduate study into three years instead of the traditional four. The Carnegie report strongly accentuates the negative, but if it is anywhere near the mark in assessing the situation, higher education is going to have to look at least as much to itself as to Washington for relief from its financial bind. ROBERT K. KONKLE, superintendent of Indiana state police who formerly lived here and near Hope, is getting some heat from newspapers on two counts A Bloomington paper editorialized that he overstepped his authority in the veto of a Building commission report favoring a regional post at Lyons; Mr.

Konkle is said to want it at Sandborn, only nine miles away Then, the Indianapolis Star re- Brted in its "Behind Closed oors" column, that Mr. Konkle and William Leak, the Indianapolis safety directors, are at loggerheads about priorities for spending federal Criminal Justice Planning commission money: the newspaper is "betting on the cool cunning of Konkle" to win a political What has happened, of course, is that five of the nine judges wanted to respond to the great historical surge against the death penalty. They wanted to have their names recorded by the messenger of the Lord as life-lovers, not death-lovers. This includes the two swing judges as well. But they had a different approach from the three Warrenites.

The swing judges both chose to emphasize not the constitutional doctrine but the spotty, arbitrary way in which the death penalty has been carried out or rather mostly not carried out. They were not as sure as the Warrenites that it was unconstitutional, nor as sure as the Nixonites that abolishing it has no constitutional base. They were caught in Dante's limbo. They chose to be pragmatic. Justice White said that a penalty so rarely carried out can't be important enough to shed blood over.

And Justice Stewart who turned out to be the decisive gravedigger, casting the last shovelful of earth on the dpath penalty said that it was as cruel and unusual as being struck by lightning, and it was wantonly and freakishly imposed." At this point, enter Chief Justice Burger, the foremost of the Nixonite Four, nailing down the meaning implicit in the decision oT the swing judges. II the penalty is not in itself cruel and unusual, he said, but only baldly and unequally administered, why then the moral is clear. This is the last week for girls to register for Youth camp at the Downtown Girls club office, 431 Third street Camp counselors are Mary Jane Blair, Charlotte Glasson. Glenda Collins, Phyllis Ann Gossman, Janet Lou McMahan and Marilyn Ostick from Columbus; Sara Kiefer and Jane Kiefer, Washington, Betsy Greenlee, Vincennes and Georgia Beth Stewart, Hope. WELCOME, PARKING PROTESTORS To the Editor, Your front page story on June 28.

headed "Downtown Workers Ask Better Parking," was welcome news for thank the Lord we have finally succeeded in finding people here in Columbus with "guts" enough to stand up for their rights. The petition of "Downtown Workers" was indeed a remarkable document in that it was not drawn up with foundation help or the aid of subsidized legal counsel. There must always be priorities, and why should not these workers have some priorities for 3 sensible parking They are the earliest arrivals in (he downtown area each business day. Stores, offices and types of business could not function without them. You can be sure they have not been happy with a situation that forced them to go out every two hours to "feed" the meters and relocate their cars.

Can anyone Jo their best work when they are ronstantly worried about this? Comments concerning parking have always implied that it was i retail store problem. Actually it is a problem for the entire downtown establishment banks, real estate agents, insurance agencies, law offices, services, the city, the county and retail stores. All need parking for their clients and customers. One of the deterents in providing parking downtown has been the assessed valuation on land which runs approximately $5 a square foot against 70 cents in shopping centers. Several years ago a group from downtown appeared before the city council concerning ad-diional parking.

One councilman asked why merchants downtown did not furnish their own parking lots since industry did. The next day. in researching the difference in assessment valuation at the court house, it was found that in one case a parking area was assessed at five cents a square foot in one industrial area. Such a variation in assess 25 Years Ago-1947 Mr. and Mrs.

Eldo Nolting entertain with a party in honor of the eighth birthday anniversary of their son, Paul Ronald, at their home, 1415 Chestnut street. Contest and game prize winners are Delano Newkirk, Dewayne Newkirk, Jack Shafer and Wayne Wiley. morn- ANOTHER beautiful ing Prayer Sigma Phi Gamma sorority discusses plans for an annual style show and bridge party as Mrs. Herbert Kiel presides. CONCERN FOR LIVING To the Editor: I learned recently that there are realty interests involved in the building of Clifty reservoir near Hartsville.

What a tragedy it will be to see that beautiful county covered up with more of those jum-bly houses! I think a way of life, before it can be considered good, should first conserve the land and the environment. On every hand the quality of our lives is being threatened such as quality of our food. In recent years there has been much criticism about how our food is being grown. Some say it now is deficient in many of the vitamins and minerals it takes for best mental and physical health, because farmers have to use chemical fertilizer to grow it Answer lo Proioul Fault "We thank You, Lord, for the peace we have in knowing that our sins have been forgiven through the suffering and death of Jesus Christ. Your peace should make it possible for us to have peace with others.

Amen." Rev. William Stache, pastor, St. Paul Lutheran church Money here. Most people don even grow gardens in their yards just grass on land that could be used to grow better food cheaper for people in big cities. What if everyone came streaming out of these megalopolises and they all said, "I want to put a little jumbly house on a big plot of There would be famine overnight.

Is it possible that if we wait too long we won't be able to do anything about "slurb" housing? (Slum in a suburb) After it gets out of control will it be impossible to stop it, and that Columbus will become just another slurb statistic? Unless it is stopped and a law enacted against it, won't people keep buying these houses as an investment, whether or not they want them, thinking that if they don't they will end up on the short end of the stick? Would inexpensive new apartments that people could own run down the property value of some houses and would the people that own them want to sell them? I realize demand for housing isn't the only thing that puts pressure on the land. All the other things we demand like cigarettes, clothes, (the list is long), do too. It's a matter of priority. Which of all the things that people want do they prefer the most? Sooner or later something's got to give. People must establish priorities or everything we buy will become shoddier and more expensive.

The quality of the air and the water are in jeopardy, even the quality of people's personal lives have eroded. I don't know why so many men are trapped into supporting a standard of living that's too high for them and allows them so little time to enjoy. Many people can't earn a living as they would like because they can't make enough money to support certain standard of living. Why can't people have more and simpler ways of life to choose from? Why can't people own their own apartments? Apartments are a good way to conserve (although there should be some land to go with them for gardens, etc. and the beauty of the environment, but people don't like paying all that rent.

About the only other choice they have is to own an expensive house. A trailer court is a fairly good idea, but many people, unable to complete payments on their trailers, will abandon them and lose their money. A lot of people don't like paying rent for trailer space any more than they like paying rent in an apartment. A person making only $50 a week, with children to support, would have to go on welfare to pay for food after spending all the money he earns for a place to live. These people should have a lower standard of' living to choose from (maybe a deluxe camping ground that they could pay for without the help of welfare.

That would enable them to save up money beyond what it cost them to live. Would a deluxe campground run down the value of a cheapy trailer court? I think these land developers or who ever else is involved in this Clifty thing should be stopped in their tracks, and their Your Local Majfia Capo Can Want To Rent Some Hot Securities? (2 words) 1 1 Moccasin 12 Follower 13 Spread (or drying 18 High mountain 2(1 Far East 31 Spanish painter 36 New (comh. form) 38 Shoshonean Indian 41 Negative vote 4.1 Russian unit 4.1 Offend grossly 45 MiiM uliiie 4H Alkaline solution III Tiny murk -2 Land on Vespucci's map 55 Stir up 57 Turkish coin 58 Russian currency Mao -tunc, fill A felony. DOWN 1 Censure 2 Garden flower Wiles 4 Military abbreviation 5 Load carried by ship li Exclamations of wonder 7 River (Sp.) 8 New York island III U.S. coin ACROSS I Frenc rurrvney 6 Norwegian coin 'J City in Spam III Weak (Scot.

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Sometimes it's necessary to obtain counterfeit drivers' licenses or other identification to match the names on stock certificates and open an account in a brokerage house to sell them. This method is troublesome but it has the merit of yielding full market value for the loot, Although he admitted the thieves still are on the long end of the score by-a big margin, Mullane said some progress has been made in dealing with them. Federal agents manage to recover around $25 million in stolen securities yearly but a lot of those represent huge losses for banks, brokers and other people who have bought them or loaned on them innocently. Arrests of handlers of stolen securities have increased sharply. There were 80 such arrests at Kennedy Airport in New York alone over a two-year period, all resulting from thefts of securities from the mails, Wall Street houses and banks -now are rushing to put in elaborate protective systems to curb thefts of stocks and bonds.

New workers are being collateral with relative impunity, even though the actual methods are complex and sophisticated. Most of the actual stealing is done by clerical workers in brokerage houses and banks. They are bribed or coerced by the racketeers and paid only pittances. Good domestic customers for stolen securities, Mullane said, include unscrupulous building contractors who buy them at a discount and put them up as collateral on performance bonds. Many of the looted bonds and stock certificates are simply put up as collateral for loans at banks.

The bank discovers it has been had when the loan comes due and the borrower simply has vanished into thin air. Problem Yesterday's Answer 151 by 482 feet. Let.X equal one side. Then (1,266 minus 2X) over 2, or (633 minus X), equals the other side. Form equation: times (633 minus X) equals 72.782.

Solve for X. Today's Problem If 1 were to spend more than of the cash in my pocket, and this left me with $3.03 more than 'a of my original cash on hand, how much money did I have originally? an audit, your friendly neighborhood Mafia capo may be willing to rent you some stolen securities to pad your assets temporarily. Of course, the rental fee will be stiff and, thereafter, the helpful hoodlum will have something on you he may Je able to use for blackmail. The availability of stolen securities for rent has been known to the police for some time. It was revealed to the public by the American Insurance Association after Daniel Mullane, security director of the Wall Street firm, Loeb.

Rhoades told the insurance people that underworld characters are getting to be more knowledgable about securities than run-of-the-mill Wall Street workers. The reason thefts of securities have grown so spectacularly in recent years, Mullane said bluntly, is that the criminals are better trained than brokerage house employes or the people in the securities departments of banks and loan companies. The hoodlums are able to steal the stocks and bonds and sell or use them as loan SIKESTON, STANDARD: "The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how he can get money without earning it." THEREPUBIJC 1 2 3 4 5 16 17 18 9 fiT 11 112 113 16 iT IT 19 2o" iTlzT 1 1 1 23 124 26 27 28 129 30" 3i 5 3T" 3T3T 3T3T 39 40 41 43 44 45 146 147 49 150 151 52" 5T5T 55 5T" -j I I I I 1 I I Published daily except Sunday at 3)) Second Slreet 47201 Phone 3 47201 Phone 372-7811 Columbut, Indiana North Vernon Phone Enterprise 78 1 1 hoben N. Brown Publiiher Ned Bradley General Manager Stewart E. Huffman Editor Don C.

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