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Batlu Chronicle ears Of D. 79 Years Of News A A 7 WEDNESDAY, JAN. 7, 1970 And Public Service PUBLISHER, 1966-1968 JACK BRITTEN, PUBLISHER High School Youth And The Law Today's Inside Report column en page stirs a concern that is becoming increasingly evident, even in our own state. The column report deals facts showing that while the nation's college campuses seem to be cooling off, new violence-prone tendencies are appearing in our high schools. The question would have seemed ridiculous a decade ago, but it is very valid today.

Just what citizen rights does a student have in high school? Can high school authorities forbid students distributing underground newspapers? Can students be stopped from forming political groups and meeting as such? Can a high school junior be ordered to shave his beard, which he seeks as a growth of symbolic expression? Can a school district order students to stop wearing black arm bands meant to'show opposition to the Vietnam War, or to wear lapel buttons espousing the causes of militant college student groups? The state of Washington has already come up with a landmark court case on youth freedom of expression. In 1965 two Des Moines, Wash high school students, John Tinker, 15, and his sister, Mary Beth, 13, met with other students and adults to plan a protest against involvement of the U.S. in the Vietnam-War. They decid, ed to wear black armbands to school. All principals of the school district decided that wearing of such armbands would not be permitted.

The Tinker children refused to comply and were sent home. There then came what is as the "Tinker vs. Des Moines School District" case. It ultimately reached the U.S. Supreme Court, which said wearing of armbands providing they did not substantially interrupt the operations of schools "is the type of symbolic act that is within the free speech clause of the first amendment." The decision continued on to nole that neither students nor teachers "shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse gate." The decision added the so-called rights are not absolute.

Students can wear armbands, but they cannot force or attempt to force other students to do the same. Students are still responsible for disruptions, but left in a murky thicket are the definitions of just how much authority and disci- plme school administrators do have. Currently, the office of State Attorney General Slade Gorton is seeking to work out statewide guidelines on student rights and guidelines to ed- vise school administrators on just what rights students now enjoy under recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions. The work of the attorney general's office is complicated.

A new publication "Youth And The Law," is being published as a joint project. of the young lawyers' committee of the State Bar Association. the bar association group is tackling is a plethora of high court decisions that have supported some of the symbolic acts that the Tinker decision has generally upheld as student rights. There is a decision, for instance, upholding the right of flag burning and if a student bums his draft card the charge is only not having one on his person or in his possession. If students publish political material not their own, and libel and slander are involved, who is responsible? Who decides what is obscene and what words are likely to incite violence? It is satisfying to note that if documentation of growing high school student unrest is correct, intelligent attention should be given to what the future may bring.

Unfortunately, it would appear we have just reached the starting point for complete definition of the rights of students in our public schools. No More Coroner Letters The Daily Chronicle is a forum for a great many issues and problems, some of them from readers in the form of letters of complaint and protest. Such letters mostly criticize our public managements, institutions and sometimes public and political figures. Recently the newspaper published a letter protesting the manner in which the county's coroner, Dr. L.

G. Steck, had notified a woman her husband had fust been fatally hurt in a woods accident. Since then several other writers have supported the coroner, mostly for his long service as a physician, and now other letters have been written adding to.the original protest. The Chronicle has long had a policy of giving its readers opportunity to express themselves as freely as possible under certain rules. In the case of the coroner, he is an elective official and open to public criticism However, Dr.

Steck, in replying to criticism of his actions as coroner has asked just what is the satisfactory procedure in telling someone a member of their family is dead? -It is obvious there is none. A coroner's work is never pleasant. Certainly, bearing words that stricken and shock are difficult both the informant and the listener. The officer would understandably be inclined to be brief and efficient, actions that could be taken as unfeeling and crude. In general, the subject is hardly one valid for continuing discussion.

On that basis, for one of the very few times in its long history, The Chronicle is declining to pursue the issue through the medium of readers' let- Dear Rabbi Provides Definition By Abigail Von Buren DEAR ABBY: You were asked in your column, "Is a Jew a Jew because of his religion, or because of his race?" You "I like Ben Gurion's definition, "A Jew is anyone who says he is." Ben Gurion may be a very distinguished Jew, he is not an authority on religious matters. Also, he is badly mistaken. The.accepted Jewish law is as follows: "A 'Jew is a person who was bora into the Jewish peoplehood by a Jewish mother, and who never left his faith by accepting another religion, or one who has accepted the Jewish faith by an official conversion to Judaism ceremony." In other words, a Jew is a Jew because of his religion, and not because of his race. Neither nor nationality exclude anyone from becoming a fuB-fledged Jew." As you know, Sammy Davis Jr. is Jewish because be converted to Judaism.

To which RACE does be belong? He certainly didn't change his race by becoming a Jew; he changed only his religion, but he remains a member of the race he originally belonged to. Since your column is read by many intelligent people, I think they deserve a more authoritative answer to tie above question. I would appreciate it if you were to print this in your column. Sincerely, RABBI MOSHE M. MAGGAL, NAT'L JEWISH INFORMATION SERVICE DiAR RABBI: Thank yoo for a more authorative answer to an oft-a iked question, I am amazed to learn that Ben Gurion's definition of a Jew was something fesi than "kosher." DEAR ABBY: A few months ago my ex-husband married his longtime mistress with whoja he has been living for the past year.

(I'll call her Joyce.) My problem is that I have two leea-aged children who were old enough to know what was going on st the tinsj, so you can imagine bow. they feel about Joyce. (Strangely enough, they still adore their father and place all the blame on Joyce.) ffe3, this stepid woman has been trying to wio the children over with expensive gifts, so at Christmas time, in addition to the gifts from "Dad and Joyce," the children received separate gifts frora "Joyce" alone Her fifts are still setting here, unopened. My children say they do not want to keep her gilts, and they've asked me to send them back to Joyce. don't have any love for this woman, either, but now don know what to do.

What would YOU do? DEAR BITTER: I'd sfsy rf 1t And since the childrtn sfill "adcre" their falter, why not let HIM handle it? DEAR ABBY: I am 75 years of age and have traveled an over the world as a salesman for a well-known international concern. I retired five years ago. I did not marry unta I was SO because my job had me on the go most of the time Thus I have met an types of girls in the five continents. As a general rule, I found blondes be shallow, red-heads volcanic in temper, and brunettes the most sincere of an. And for an all-around even-tempered me ODe on I married a brunette.

She was nice and plump and not what you'd caU pretty, but sbe was a wonderful companion and a marvelous homemaker. She was 40 years old when I married her, and she promptly gave me a lovely daughter and a handsome son. She is BOW 65, and I worship the ground she walks on. "How did Handsome Jim ever marry such a tub of lard?" they all asked at our wedding. Ah, the ignorance of most people!" "HANDSOME JIM IN BOSTON- DEAR ABBY: I don't see what the controversy over sex education ia the schools is all about Its' the PARENTS who need the education, cot ftc children.

After aD it's the parents who are always asking, "Is that a boy or a girl? I can't tell the difference." SAIL! Everybody bat a problem. VHiafs For a personal to Abby, Box HIM, Los Cil. and endow stamped, MhVtddrtMtrf Our Young 'Nonthinks' Biggest Reclamation Project By BRUCE BIOS5AT NEA Correspondent WASHINGTON In the 1970s this country among others will face a vast reclamation project. It win need to try to reclaim as useful citizens of society a sizable share of the potentially capable young people who today are deliberately restricting their minds. i an immense number of young Americans are sot only packing In the greater volume of information made possible by the knowledge explosion, but are developing the and character required to use it wisely.

The concern is not for these, but for the haughty militants who simply refuse to be a who have sometimes with shortsighted a a i co operation -acquired not more than the ritualistic concepts of what amounts to a narrow-minded cult. Limit It Stunning This reporter has had extensive conversations recently with young people involved in constructive efforts to improve this society. What stuns them is the severe limit within which the "turned off militants operate mentally. These involved young folk have nearly as bad a gap with the self-limiting types as is celebrated by- the phrase, "generation gap." They find no way to argue or persuade or impart fresh knowledge to the young cultists. The latter cling fanatically to their shallow, one-sided view of A i a and the world, rejecting history, rejecting even current experience which does col fit their little religion.

One of their vogue words, of is "relevance." A more foolish notkm was never introduced into the educational realm. As author Irving Kristol privately pointed out, the i keep redefining "relevance" almost daily. Right now, it rules out virtually everything that happened before 1960. Communication Lost An earnest, bright young lawyer who has tried to talk to young -militants about sen- stble means of improving American political life says he quickly loses them. He told me: "I wUl be discussing some prospective when one cf them wiU say: "You're talking about the Republican the words are uttered as if there were never going to be another Republican convention, because they have decided that society must change radically." What most disturbs this young man and others like him is the crippling rigidity of the cultists' outlook.

They do not really think at all. They live by placard slogans, by vogue words and ideas, with minds dosed to the crowding realities which do not fit. Are Young 'More Aware' "It is commonly said today that the young are more a a a i predecessors because television has shown them clearly what war, poverty, discrimination, pollution and other problems are like. That is all fine as far as it goes, but it does not go far enough by a. great measurel It dees not help much for the cultists to blame "society" in the abstract, or even to be somewhat more specific and lay the charge of transgression at the door of their immediate elders.

Some adults who seem determined to 'treat with reverence almost any utterance of the young fall into the cultists' errors and accept the latter's renunciation of the "world their elders built." Did they, now, really? This nation, the primer properly says, took a lot longer to build than the time the kids' elders have been around. And its faults and flaws, as weU as its many high qualities, are deeply embedded in the history the cultists so furiously reject. Those flaws also lie embedded in the nature of people, not in the abstraction called society which the cultists delight to attack. Their can for revolution is really a demand for instant, sweeping revision of human behavior. But people are stubbornly imperfect, and if the young cultists took over tomorrow they would find they bad the same clay to work with.

Inevitably they will find, too, as reality dawns opoo them, that they themselves suffer the same imperfections which give them such' pain when seen ia others on television. TP3 In the Twin Cities and Lewis County 10 Years Ago Jan. 1, I960 Lewis Couqty was the center early this morning for a sharp earthquake which shook most of Western Washington from south Seattle to Portland. No damages or injuries were reported. Efforts of the State Tax Commission to collect more than 51,500 from the Southwest Washington Fair for delinquent' business and occupation taxes dating back to IKS are being opposed, it was disclosed by County Commission Chairman Ray Davis.

25 Years Ago Jan. property loss from fire in Centralia more than $10,000 for 1J45 so far this year and with alarms nearly equaling all of those received last year, Fire Chief Walter Ryckman today had asked a i a householders to seriously ob- serve National Fire Prevention week. Arrests by Centralia 'police totaled 746 during 1H4, an increase of slightly more than 15 per cent in comparison with the previous year, the annual report of Desk Clerk James Kendrick disclosed today. 50 Years Ago Jan. 1.

mo To satisfy delinquent taxes, 115 lots in various Lewis County cities, on which taxes have not been paid in the past five years, win be sold at an auction on Jan. 24 by James McClure, county treasurer. Thirty-one head of catCe brought an average of J152 each; 17 two-year-olds fresh and coming fresh averaged SI03, and 23 yearlings averaged $15 each at an auction sale of Holstein cattle held at the Adna farm of Harvey Sboultes. Pace To Speed Up If 60s Were Fast, Just Wait For 70s By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) If the left you a bit breathless, don't try to relax yet. A peek into our crystal baU reveals He 1970's will give you even more of a feeling that you're spending your life riding on a roller coaster.

The decade promises to be one that win separate the mea from the boys. The pace of change win speed up so much you may wind up being short-changed by change itself. ItTl hardly be worthwhile teaming many new things because by the time you learn them theyTl already be su-- perseded by something newer. Mystery always masks the future, atd forecasts must always be a bit fuzzy, but we fearlessly predict that: The highways will become so crowded and dangerous that passengers and drivers will wear crash helmets as well as seat and shoulder bells. For journeys over 1,000 raOes, iron safety suits will be available for' rent George Jessel wiU enter aa old folks 1 borne and a week later announce his marriage to its glamorous lady ajpii years young.

A month after that she will disclose she is shedding him to wed one of George's visitors at the home, Frank Sinatra. By the end of the fecade, it wfll require a yearly income of $25,000 for a family of four to live in minimum comfort. Any family earning under $15,000 wCi be eSgible for government welfare. After healed clashes between advocates of a Clean Up America Campaign and protesting lobbyists for pet owners, Congress will pass a national law making it fflegal to take a dog for a stroll unless it is wearing diapers. A drug company win come up with a new antmoise pin to combat the increasing cuisance of rwise.

The pin, of course, won't kill sounds--it'U just make you temporarily deaf, so you won't even notice them. Another major medical advance: a "placidity capsule" that will solve the prcbka rf the generation gap by reducing tantrums in teen agers and cause them to salute on sight aay parents they meet. The pills will be swallowed by children shortly after birth and begin to lake effect on their 13th birthday. Around the middle of the decade, plumbers wiU announce a national policy of discontinuing further house calk. Homeowners wfll be urged to make repairs themselves or take leaky faucets and pipes tt a central plumbing hospital where their metal breakdowns can be diagnosed and treated more easily.

Spiro Agnew will receive and seriously consider a $100,000 offer to become chief promotional writer for Chinese fortune cookie industry. He will finally turn it down on the ground that such a post has never in the past helped a vice president's political All in all, the only guarantee that can be given the average man confroated by the fervid 1970's is that, if he survives them, be'U feel at least 10 years older if not wiser. His best bet sight be to hibernate during the decade--and gain strength to face the weighty 1980's, inside REPORT Racial Disorders On Rise In High Schools By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK WASHINGTON White the black ghettoes and college campuses have been relatively quiet, the nation's public high schools are suddenly developing into most violence-prone and i i i battleground of American society. No single high school disturbance has the magnitude of a Berkeley rebellion or a Watts riot to stir national attention. But the beginning of the school year last Labor Day brought with it an epidemic of small-scale violence in high schools in every section of the country racially connected in nearly every instance and frequently starting with Negro assaulting white students.

Cause, Curt Uncertain Federal officials here are deeply aware of the grave problem but can pinpoint i cause nor cure. Although the Black Panther Party and Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) are actively agitating at the high school level, their efforts can be traced to only a tiny fraction of the violence. Rather, high school turmoil seems a spontaneous reflection of national racial tensions and black militancy which, in turn, may well breed deeper white hatred and still greater tension. Since high schools reopened in September, no day has passed without an incident somewhere in the country. As of Nov.

18, with the school year less than one-third completed, 225 disorders aad disruptions had been reported. Throughout the entire previous school year, there were only 320 such i i More sigjnificant, racial battling was minimal five years ago and almost unknown just a decade ago. Up to Nov. 18, there had been nearly 900 arrests on charges including murder, assault on police, and conspiracy to commit arson. The casualty list includes over 200 persons injured including 20 policemen and 12 teachers.

Damage to schools from habitual window-breaking a occasional' arson is anybody's guess. This sampling of high school incidents during November alone reveals a national blackboard jungle- dominated by racial hatred: Nov. 3, Charleston, W. Va. -After three or four Negro students beat up a white student at StonewaU Jackson High School, students of both races brought chains and rocks to school.

The result: racial and an unsuccessful attempt at arson. Nov. 11, Chapel HiD, N.C. After unsuccessfully demanding that a teacher be dismissed immediately, 100 Negro students at Chapel Hill Senior High School rampaged through tie halls, breaking school windows. and pulling unwilling blacks out of class (calling them "Uncle Three white students) (two of them girls) and a white a were assaulted.

Damage an estimated $1,411.38. Nov. 18, San Bernardino, Calif. With white students a i i that school' authorities had not disciplined Negroes who started fights a football games, mass battling broke out between 200 Negro and 200 white students. Nov.

20, Milwaukee, Wis. i black student' 1 demands for Negro courses and Negro teachers at Washington High School, 50 black students entered Use cafeteria and i assaulted suite students. The casualties: 12 injured, 2 i a i With white': students vowing (o retaliate, racial fighting erupted at the school on Nov. 21. Nov.

21, Atlantic City, NJ. Negro students in the balcony of the Atlantic City High School, auditorium threw trash on the beads of white students, triggering racial fighting with about 20 to a side. Nov. 24, Las Vegas, Nev. -A white girl who had been dating a Negro student arrived at her Western High School classes under the influence of narcotics, triggering racial brawling in the parking lots (between boys) and in the cafeteria (between girls).

On Jfov. 25, 200 students battled when white students attempted to keep Negro students from entering the school. Direct Tracing Difficult Few disturbances can be traced directly to extremist groups. Racial fighting between 100 Negroes and 100 whites at Rainier Beach Junior-Senior High School in Seattle followed the showing at the school of extremist films believed to be distributed by SDS. Black Panther student members have been in the forefront of nonviolent disruptions ia New York City, Albany, N.Y., and Lima, Ohio.

No responsible law enforcement officer believes that these blackboard jungles are ruled by aay central conspiracy. Rather, the nost direct source of the epideimc of high school violence is diffuse and pervasive: the militancy now instilled in black yoaths. Unless controlled and chaaneUed into constructive that militancy can only intensify i a white determination against racially integrated schools, North and South. ADELE FERGUSON Reports: Envi ronment Word Of 70: Environment: the surrounding conditions, influences or forces that affect your life; the air, the water, the soil, the plants, the animals, the buildings, the roads, etc. Environment.

Get used to that word, you're going to bear a tot about it from cow CD. You're going to hear about it from the President, from the Congress, from the governor, from local officials, from your own children who wOl be coming" home from school talking about it. Campaign Gathers Momentum Rapidly gathering momentum is one of the most massive campaigns in history whose intent is to save humanity from itself. Some scientists hint it's already too late and that it is only a matter of time before we are aU choked to death or starved out by our own effluents. fortunately, think there's stffl a chance to tarn the tide, and that's what's being aUempted.

It isn't going to be easy. It takes air to breathe, and yet the fight to get the automobile manufacturers and some industries to work oat technological improvements so they'll stop fining the air with poison has been a bitter one Water It Necessity takes water for man to survive, but man has been slow to come to the decision thai he must stop polfctiag it, an the way from the big mill dumping wastes into creeks to the summer borne owner whose septic tanks drains into the lake. The is disappearing under the millions of miles of high- wajs needed to transport man and his goods, as as the millions of buddings needed for his places of residence and work. Not to mention the 400 cans, jars and bottles the a a American citizen throws away each year. That's 80 billion cans, jars and bottles Per year in this land that is sUIl sung of as purple mountain majesty above the fruited plain.

Nature Fading Away Plants and animals are becoming fewer and weaker because their habitat is being by civilization's march. 13 ra will continue, indeed become a veritable stampede as man reproduces at a rate so fast colonies one day may be living over and under waters of the world's seas or in the air. air is stffl fit to breafte and the water fit to dnnk and man fit to reproduce. That's what the word environment is an about It's going to be "the" word of the 1970's as man tries to be did to it and to himself uj the I960' If he can. BARBS There's nothing like being downtown after dark to make a person realize how lively the suburbs are.

do they always choose the skinniest man in the plant te a difference between being broadrainded and broad-minded. The people who compose for these gooey get- weU cards quite obviously have always been to the pink of health..