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Assort MM v4z 5 MSMl jfeofesi fefe'SK' I 'rykWwwWW' a S'C'Ti 1 BsVfe fel? 1 1 $Sr rJtewhwW 3 BSfeiu 4 1 wUnlUv ifcfey ifew 3 sifewi 3 Bvs7 1U px v' ywlr Ik x'vlL Cnrf 4 SgMR 'V WV IPSfeST 3 BBsAbgSr 1 Kia 3 Itaa fawsfc 1 SIBSdSSM 3 I AJ igoMOoQO Mgfl 320 dgaMWeaQOP ftx Oxri Saturday April 1972 Journd arid Courier Lafayette West Lafayetta Indiana Politics and Public Affairs iv a A a 1 ri M' 'r Why He Speak for Nixon I i 5 i By LAftRY SCHUMPERT may be committing the same mistake Barry and present hixn with a meritorious certificate i Schumpert Si THE LIBERAL REPUBLICAN Ripom Society gives Earl Landgrebe the lowest ranking of any Republican in the US House or si? per cent According to the Ripon Society its ideal leg islator is an internationalist who opposes the Vietnam War and a man who favors equality of individual freedom and economic op portunityregardless of race religion or Landgrebe received a very high score from a small organization in Washington and a shutout from the League of Conservation Voters which said he vote right on any environmental issues and recommended he be de feated Perhaps most damaging of all Landgrebe was one of 25 House members who scored zero in the national League of Women Voters "political ac countability for 1971 That means he struck out with the League position on welfare equal employment busing of school children school desegregation and child development The League often takes a liberal stance on issues but keeps Itself a nonpartisan organiza tion It is not surprising therefore that the accountability ratings have not been publicized locally WHAT ALL THESE RANKINGS really show is that Earl Landgrebe is a conservative and that been news for a long time But they also contribute to the picture of Landgrebe as a man far out to the right on issues and that has become target Conventional political wisdom tells a candi date to get back toward the' center when so threatened But Earl Landgrebe is not a con ventional man He is a very enigmatic man He has failed to point out in his campaign that he quickly backed Nixon on the opening toward China and on price and wage controls and that he gave strong verbal support to the Nixon policy of Vietnamization He remains silent playing right into the eager hands of Richard Boehning mav be committing the' same mistake Barry Goldwater did in 1964 when the senator from Ari zona helped his enemies hang labels all over him EXPLANATION is that he be diverted from his own campaign He but how diverting is a simple endorsement with a few rosy expressions about Nixorv thrown The explanation Landgrebe talk about is the pressure against affiliating with Nixon that his conservative friends may be applying But again is he trying to placate the wrong people the ones who are already his supporters and is he misreading Republican sentiment in the dis trict? voting record is a more complex matter but again the congressman saying much not as extreme as his opponents would like to think and his support of the President is better than they will concede DURING THE 91ST CONGRESS which ended in 1970 Landgrebe supported Nixon only about half the time which was the poorest such record among Indiana congressmen But last year as the 92nd Congress held its first session Land support of the White House jumped to 70 per cent His narrow escape in the 1970 election may have told him something Neither is voting record quite as negative as his enemies try to make it In a study of 14 important House votes during 1971 Congres sional Quarterly listed Landgrebe as voting nine times and three times And on seven of those issues that involved posi tion Landgrebe voted with the President six times How do some of the organizations that eval uate voting records rate Landgrebe? Well of course the Americans for Democratic Action rate him around zero while the Americans for Con stitutional Action give him a score of 95 per cent Rv ARRY SCHUMPERT staff wrmr Dick Boehning has raised two Issues against Rep Earl Landgrebe in the showdown race to see who 2nd District Republicans will nominate for Congress Both are appeals to moderate Republicans which is I whole stratAov in this campaign One is the claim that Boehning will be the stronger candidate against the Democrats because he lose Re publican votes to the oth er side It is an issue with some validity although there are other reasons i than pragmatic ones for voting for a congressional candidate The other is harder to pin down claim that Landgrebe support President Nixon the way a good Republican should and that hisi voting record has been of little consolation to thei White House IT IS ON THIS SECOND issue that Land response has been some would say almost for his chances Despite tfyp fact that he can make a case for his support of the President who is an extremely popular man in Indiana Landgrebe has kept silent on the mat ter Boehning meanwhile has the issue to him throughout the district and by May 2 will be pounding out that theme like a jazz drummer refusal to endorse re election is especially strange! jsince on numerous occasions he has praised the president referring to the job idone the last three years And it represents a real danger to Land grebe who is letting Boehning pin him in a cor ner on what should hardly be issue at all He S'' Journal and Courier EDITORIALS Miracles In a secular world so full of Easter bunnies egg hunts new clothes family dinners and other accoutrements wel coming the budding Spring Easter and Passover in their deeper significance are too often left only to the most devout Indeed the rebirth of nature is a gladsome tiding and full of spirit lifting evidence of immortality for all life But for Christians recollection of the miracle of the res urrection and the promise it holds for eternity should sur mount all temporal pleasures and the perennial wonders of Spring Easter is a day to repeat and meditate over the words to Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James: is not here: for he is risen as he said Come see the place where the Lord lay And go quickly and tell his disciples that he is risen from the or God that day touched the earth in a way that changed it profoundly And to Jews recounting of the miracle of the Burning Bush from which God spoke to Moses directing him to lead the Jews from bondage in Egypt recalls a wondrousyexample of earthly interventions Passover is the season to read the Exodus and with it to arouse in all members of the family the faith that these mira cles wrought with hand on Moses brought to a people and to all people of all times To a Moses saved as a baby from the death warrant God said: Moses here Am laying a di vine quest upon his life and letting His voice be heard on earth by one who would serve him These are overwhelming revelations that we celebrate in these days of the springtime when God parted the curtains of the universe to view that his faith might grow his works serve order and his spirit know from whence it came and to where it shall return With such exciting concepts as these in the Easter and Passover messages hippety hop bunnies and lavender Easter eggs and the delicacies of the seder are pretty tame stuff If the eternal truths are not part of your holiday really missing something everything in fact Spring When the first three months of a year have plodded through theff days and a man tears the third sheet from the big feed store calendar on the kitchen wall he knows that true spring is still some distance away But each day means one day nearer to the time when true spring will come You can feel smell and hear the voice of change Though the weather be cold the profound forces that govern our flowering world are exerting their inexorable pressures Then comes the morning when a man is certain On ithe way to the barn to do the chores he stops in the yard and savors the day The sun is a golden platter in a blue sky the grass is greening the bluebirds and robins are1 giving their morning concert The air issoft and the smell of warming earth is headyA man breathes deeply Suddenly he knows This is the day he has waited for Spring has arrived Journal and THB JOURNAL OUNDED 1t MIKE MIDDLESWORTH Managing Editor THECOURIER OUNDED INI Margad Jan 2 tm EDITORIAL BOARD LOUIS A WEIL III Publisher PAUL JANES GEOROE LAMB ROBERT KRIEBEL Associate Editor Editor Editorial Pago City Editor OCUS ON COLLECTORS By JACK SMITH Gannett News Service Special In recent years I thought I had cured my wife of her obsession forjisaving recipes and household hints so I was dismayed the other morning to find out she had merely been hiding them I The men were coming i to plaster the house and I had to take down the shelves and cabi nets in her room the kind that hang from steel poles against the wall I unhooked a cabinet to lift it off but found it surprising ly heavy I eased it to the floor and slid a door oped It was stuffed with clippings and papers cut or tom from newspapers and magazines IT WAS ANTASTIC She must have squir reled away every recipe and how to article printed for at least a decade There were recipes for dishes never heard of much less seen on my table Orange graham cracker loaf Chicken puff royale Apr icot meat loaf Eggplant yogurt salad always thought it was a neurosis possi bly deriving from a girlhood dream of becom ing the perfect homemaker a status that every girl of her generation and background was con ditioned to desire above all The compulsive collection of this rubbish would be symptomatic of a relentless secret striving a refusal to ad mit in deepest consciousness that one had failed because goals were no longer valid What after all is a girl of the mold to do when she finds herself a liberated woman? AS I SAY I thought I had broken her of this harmless but irrational behavior It made no sense I pointed out to go on hoarding instruc tions for a self improvement that one had no further need for Why not admit that one was never really going to make royal eggplant puff and lighten craft on sea? The shelf told the same story There were cookbooks from every civilized country in the world and some uncivilized' Most had never been opened I looked in a book on African cooking Some of the dishes sounded tasty Zanzibar duck Pa paya and egg yolk pudding Soityething called fufu which turned out to be yam balls They were no more likely to fill my plate I knew than prune cream pie or eggplant puff Theory I put them out on the porch with the clip pings and started to empty my own bookcase IT WAS PLEASANT looking through the half remembered titles Elizabethan Its Essense and Devel Literary Criticism in the Renaissance" translated from the Sanskrit' been collecting them for years my goal someday to be superficially familiar with all the great literature and philosophy of East and West I put the books in the garage but held out meaning to start it that very night The time was ripe with a new wave of Oriental culture breaking over the West OR I asked when my wife got home you have something in about 1 yam After dinner I started but decided to wait a night or two Hindu phi losophy go too good with hamburger Our Word rom Washington Meaty Issue in the Campaign Bell OUT THE PAST Disch' Disavows Pro Hopes artist who has chosen for his themes a view of Columbian park one of the Purdue campus en trance a skyline perspective of the city from across the Main street bridge and a scene at Murdock park The signs will be lettered: fayette Welcomes and Camping Sites at Murdock driven meat off the market Steaks and chops if you could find them went under the counter at blackmarket prices that were about the same as those openly charged today As a consequence and almost solely for that reason the voters turned out the Democrats in 1946 and gave Re publicans control of Congress NATURALLY RATIONING is not something being considered by the economic big domes in an erawhen there is no real shortage of meat But uncontrolled prices will serve the same pur pose of keeping meat off the table Some cuts of steak are selling for as much as $250 a pound Of course you can get cheaper cuts bone in for about $185 a pound Then there is always hamburger which now costs about as much as a sirloin once did As for the protein substitutes who wants that fodder? No sir' American families want steaks And President Nixon had better see to it that they get them for a price they can afford to pay or be hearing from the folks in November i 100 YEARS AGO TODAY 'i (In Th La ayatta Dally Journal) Martin Esq while on his! way home room service when she does She finds eggs are not all that expensive at the supermarket But steak is a different matter THE STORES CLAIM they keep meat prices down because they are1aving to pay more at the slaughterhouse Some of the chains have advised their customers to quit buying what is termed in the trade and try some thing else even though you like it Treasury Secretary John Connally the admin spokesman has told the food stores to your prices because we are going to be prepared to At the same time he said that controls over raw agricultural prices would be applied only as a last resort Predictably it will take some time for the ad ministration to decide where it is going to move In the meantime it may find itself caught in the same kind of political bind that ensnarled another administration a quarter of a century ago Rationing and price controls then had all but willbe commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Army and will have a service obligation to fulfill 50 YEARS AGO TODAY i (In Tha Lafayatta Journal and Courltr) Art is the universal language therefore some strikingly artistic signboards are to be erected on roads leading into Lafayette inviting automobile tourists to visit the city and make themselves at home here The signboards 40 feet long and 10 feet high are being painted by George Wilstach local I 7 By JACK BELL Gannott Naw Service WASHINGTON Common sense never in oversupply in the government would seem to indicate that if the Nixon administration do something rather drastic to rescue the great American steak from extinction it will suffer some dire political con sequences The threatened out of reach pricing of steaks is of far more lasting im portance than the walk out of labor leaders from the Pay Board President Nixon has politically little to lose from the desertion of the union satraps from the economic controls or ganization To a man the de partees are all against his re election and intend wnrlr at it Tha RCath ine criticism with which Nixon bade them good bye only marked the demise of his never more than faint hopes of mollifying them THE LEADERS HANDED the President a prime taTget to blame for any failure of controls Subsequent strikes will only heighten the decibels of his accusations of irresponsibility against them This anticipated debate however can have little bearing on the great loophole in the econom ic structure he has erected the irritating issue of skyrocketing food prices While clothes and cars may go up there is always the alternative of wearing out the old ones The alternative for steak and rench fries is considerably less acceptable Cottage cheese fish cereals and other protein substitutes are not for the man who wants his Steak broiled rare Nixon took a look at this problem at last news conference He said the adminis tration is going after the middleman But the farmer whose prices remain uncontrolled still is sacrosanct despite the fact that farming has be come largely industrialized THE PRESIDENT VOICED the usual agrar ian complaint that the farmer gets only one third of the price the housewife pays He pulled out of the air an example Eggs bring 30 cents a dozen 6n the farmhe said In the Pierre Hotel in New York the charge is $5 for two The ordinary housewife however seldom lodges at the Pierre and customarily call 10 YEARS AGO TODAY (lr Tha Lofayotte Journal and Courier) Terry Dischinger has indicated that he has no present plans for participation in profes sional basketball Dischinger three time All America basket star announced that he has accepted summer employment with the Phillips 66 Oil Co Bartlesville Okla ollowing his summer employment will return to' the uni versity for the first semester this fall He expects to receive his chemical engineer ing degree in January at which time he also jn Chauncey with his wagon overtook a wagon on the levee on the west side of the Main street bridge in which was seated a countryman who endeavored to prevent his passing him and qame near forcing his wagon down the embank ment Mr Martin got mad took his whip and commenced laying it on to the fellow and con tinued beating him over the head and face until his whip was broken and worn out It was a severe punishment but hone' too severe in view of the offense committed The half drunken countryman will after awhile find out that citizens have some rights to the road which are worthy of respect By Joan Backoff 1 TjuI mI nW.