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4-Il Dofodo (Ark) Doily News Thursday, April 13, 1967 Editorials SPECIAL PROCRAM There is a npecial program to be in progress in El Dorado during the next three days. it is of interest to all citizens of El Dorado and the surntunding area. The event in termed "El Dorado Days during which local merchants will he offering special attractions to buyers Thursday through Saturday. It will he the first of two such events to he held here this year and many visitors are expected to join with local shoppers during the program. It is a trade promotion event for all of South Arkansas similar to many other highly successful programs during the past 10 years.

Join in the El Dorado Days observance. BIR THDA Lftok at a current model nickel and say. "Thanks. Tom," to the man whose honest face it hears. April I'l is Jefferson's birthday.

If he had not written the Declaration of Independence. Americans would still owe him thanks for all the money they have. That's right Jefferson invented dollars and cents. But for him taxes and grocery bills would still he figured in unwiedly pounds and shillings. Like his old friend.

Ben Franklin, Tom was a great inventor, lie loved gadgets. He believed in having as little federal government as possible. How he would groan now if he could see what has become of one of his favorite inventions the swivel chair! History calls him Thonuts Jefferson, third president of the United States, horn in Virginia April 13, 1743. He is the sort of American who just will not stay pul in history hooks. stuffy and he feels cramped between stiff covers.

Governor of Virginia, congressman, minister to France, secretary of state vice president and president he was, but all those jobs failed to keep him completely busy. He read and collected enough books to start the Library of Congress singlehanded. He dug up and studied Indian relics and fossil hones, translated Indian dialects, played the violin, farmed scwntifically and was the foremost American architect of his time. Flip the Jefferson nickel over, and there's his house. Monticello, he called it.

As a young fellow he frequently went to a Virginia mountaintop to dream of building it there. He was always puttering around, improving his house. That's how he happedfil to invent the dumbwaiter and a clock that told the days of the week, and a weather vane dial he could read without stepping off the front porch. Even his swivel chair was a good gadget. He didn't need a desk with it, for it had a big wide arm for writing.

Stitting in it he could turn whichever way the light was best. Early in life lom Jefferson swore "eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." All his life he kept that vow. As one of America's greatest immortals, he is still keeping it. ROLE OF THE UNIVERSITY The University of Montana chapter of the American Association of University Professors is seeking to persuade the national AAUP to adopt a new pidicy on academic freedom. The Montana AAUP resolution urges university faculty to refuse grants or contracts, from either public or private sources, which icould not permit the faculty member to publish the results of his research.

Carried to its logical conclusion, such a policy would preclude university research involving secret military projects. Many would argue that there should be some provision for exceptions in the national interest. The concept deserves reflection, however, among the general public as well as the academic community. The goals of scholarly learning should not he restrained by political or financial motivation. Otherwise, university research tends to become a government toot and tut longer exists to seek knowledge for its own sake.

One of the ntftst prized values of a democratic society is the right to question and challenge the policies, actions and assumptions of the government. The universities play a vital role in this. The academic community represents somewhat a checkmate to the actions of government. This community should not be restrained from casting a cool, critical and professionally trained eye on whatever sector of governmental activity merits investigation. And most certainly, academic research shold not be restrained by government in any way.

If the federal or state governments wish to finance academic research, this financing should not be conducted in a clandestine manner. Secrecy in government it required in limited areas, but should not be used as an excuse to prevent the academic world from studying and reporting on scientific knowledge or sot ial institutions. EL DORADO DAILY NEWS Vol. 47 No 79 Thursday, April IS. 1967 WAIT IS HUSSMAN.

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Even in cases where local school boards have (often quite reluctantly, to be sure) agreed to unprecedentedly large salary increases, greater fringe bene- bits, and improved working conditions, teachers are reported to be still unhappy. They are also groping for something which their professions has lost during the past several years, the spontaneous respect of the child and of the community Time was when everybody understood education's general purpose Now there is much confusion and difference of opinion between teachers, school officials, parents, and businessmen regarding educational goals. An eminent American professor, Rev. Dr. Henry Van Dyke, once said: "The true object of education is to train one to think clearly and to act rightly." That and other wholesome definitions of our educational goals have been obscured in recent years as we have overemphasized diplomas and gress while undervaluing the development of human qualities of mind and spirit not measurable by tests and examinations Most of us are sadly aware that the influence of the church upon our young people is nowhere near as pervasive as it once was.

Unfortunately, too. there has been a breakdown of discipline in the home. On the one hand alert to the competitive nature of our we urge our children toward diplomas and degrees that we hope will open the door to good- paying jobs On the other hand, we give our children the bad example of rating comfort, ease and self-indulgence much too highly. We try too hard to insulate ourselves from tension, forgetting that tension is itself a sign of life and that some anxiety is the price we must pay for being intelligent Is it any wonder our teachers have difficulty emphasizing and encouraging clear thinking9 Teachers' strikes are a mistake. They are against the public good and they do grave harm to interests.

They are a wrong approach and are tantamount to an admission that teachers themselves are not thinking clearly or acting rightly. Where persistent negotiations have left teacners short of their goals, the truculence and antagonism implicit in a strike only emphasize that the strike weapon is still not the answer. Most school boards recognize the importance of teachers in community life. In most cases the stubbornness and recalcitrance of officials in the matter of teachers' salaries is based on cold fiscal facts rather than on indifference toward teachers' needs Everybody loses when there is a hardening of hostility between school boards and teachers. What is needed are new perspectives on the whole question of education and how it is to be financed and a closer relationship between our secondary schools and colleges and universities National Whirligig By ANDREW TULLY for a handful of diehards like Sens.

Bill Fulhrigltt and Bobby Kennedy, members of Congress seem curiously unmoved by the upcoming weekend festivities described as a massive nationwide protest against the war in Vietnam. That is to say, it is difficult to get anyone of more than petty importance on Capitol Hill to suggest that tlte demonstrations will anuntnt to more than the usual display of passionate, boy-meets-girl merrymaking. Tlte demonstrations are unlikely to change any minds at this late date because Congress generally has hardened its attitude on the war. .4 majority now appears to have concluded. in some cases reluctantly, that the United States Itas no choice hut to stay in the war to the end.

-t kEATH WEAPoM .4 HAWK indication of Congress's nutod was a little-noticed amendment to SI2.2 billion Vietnam defense supplemental appropriations bill for fiscal which President Johnson signed under protest. The amendment prevents tlte Pentagon from carrying out a planned deactivation of II Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve Transport groups. Although the administration has claimed that more flexibility in these matters tvtntld contribute to the Armed Forces efficienty. the amendment was a reflection of Congress's attitude that nothing be done that might reduce the strength of thttse forces. Moreover, there are now so many American troops engaged in Vietnam that Capitol Hill's practical politicians on both sides of the aisle hesitate to take any dove-like position which might seem to be undercutting our fighting men.

This sort of thing is not quite cricket to legislators forced to answer to constituents with sons and brothers in Vietnam. JOHN CHAMBERLAIN (Copyright, 1M7, King Features Syndicate, Inc.) NILES, Ohio We live in a crazy industrial system. But it is wonderfully crazy You tie it down with government restraints in one direction, and it breaks out in another. We have a Department of Justice and anti-trust laws which keep one steel company from merging with a second steel company, even when the merger might create a stronger competitive unit to fight for a regional These Days ical Company, and the United States Steel Corporation. Hie product of the plant is titanium, an incredibly light "metal'' that is made from a special beach sand found in Australia.

The chief use of titanium is in jet planes and space vehicles. National Distillers was interested in it becnuee the production of titanium is a problem in chemistry, which is part of a modern whisky know-how. U. S. Steel is in it because It has had a long experience in melt- search and development.

Seemingly, it would take an Einstein to put all this into one equation. But Mr. Ablon, who says he is a "generalist," professes to see a common denominator in his many divisions. What he is up to begins to emerge when he says he intends to push his company into the pioneer industry of oceanography, or oceanology This, so he certain, will be a breadwinner of the future when some of his breadwinners of the present have become profitless ing at high temperatures, an market with a still bigger rival experience that can be applied things of the past. Mr.

Ablon is that has had special advantages, to titanium, which is measured absolutely convinced that the But there is nothing in the out in pounds, just as much as skills developed by his many books to say that dissimilar it can be applied to the heavier seemthgly unrelated divisions companies shouldn't merge And iron products which sell in tons will all come together to create so we have the peculiar phen So the coming together of a a true science of undersea nomenon of roultl urtoet com- whisky distiller and a steel development, panies and so-called conglom- company to produce something Marine construction, for in- erates, with broadcasting sys- that is part chemical, part stance, will help when it comes tems picking up Major League metal, is not so strange after to making capsules in which baseball companies, with elec- all. But there are far wilder people can live at the ocean trical manufacturers combining marriages that make sense, bottom. Water treatment knowl- with textbook publishers, and The Ogden Corporation, which is the creation of Ralph E. Ablon. who grew up in Dayton, Ohio, is on the surface a truly mad sort of This curious corporate entity with zinc producers sitting down in the same corporate shell with moving picture makers.

Does it make any kind of sense? It does you stop to think that some vflry disparate is engaged in marine construc- things can have hidden common tion. filtration and water denominators. just come ment, food processing, mining, from tramping around a plant cargo handling, metals process- in this manufacturing commun- ing, hospital and medical re- ity of Niles that is owned fifty- search, cattle ranching, engineer fifty by a whiskey manufacturer, od demolition, plumbing install- the National Distillers and Chem- ation. and free-wheeling re- Women Now By DOIOTHY KOE Cybernation is the newest his recent talk at a conference word which you'd better learn on "The University in a Chang- to say and to fear right ing in Washington, away. A patient may get a complete It means life ruled by com- physical examination, diagnosis puters, and if you like and prescription without ever the idea better find a re- seeuiga decter, in the computer mote cave somewhere and hy- age The diagnosis will be bernate.

curate and the When the computer age really net. says Dr hits its stride everything feu 4o, caae hiatory say or maybe Mil Mjf for future our Questions and Answers Brawns iiliim Mb bust Md selecting ir moa and up cal A are greyhounds so lied? Although many cultivate a bedside men Nr? Or. Seahorg envisions the Cybernation age as freeing man from aH physical and mental effort, eiMpI lor iWi At his Joh if he has a iob computers eel only will do all MH work hut the brain treit as edge will enable him to turn salt water into potable liquid. Food processing will be useful when it comes to preserving and marketing stuff grown on "undersea farms Mining experience will help him tap the metals that are beneath the continental shelf. Plumbing know-how will be at a premium when it comes to making the of underseas craft.

And so forth and so on when the Ogden Corporation takes on the particular dimension that is closest to Mr. pioneering heart. Not all conglomerates are skillfully devised But if our Deportment of Justice let like merge with like, our incurably adventurous industrialists aren't going to be stopped by a little thing like that. They will merge the seemingly unlike, and then proceed to find hidden likenesses in the strangest places. I worry about the American economy it triumphs over rotten tax laws, siBy restraints on mergers, and the ever-proliferating reach of regulation It does it by planning "portfolio mixes tint allow one thing to support another, yielding common denominators thnt onlv bom wfci are atoo horn scientist UMPngnrs can discern The mm Ip In I mall lids cdMnlst nukes are a com- sometimes disheartening But a trip to where things are made always sets as an elixir to restore sense of proportion and to revive confidence in America as a going concern.

CURIOUS Dr. Martin Luther King has got some congressional backs up by his insistence upon putting all the blame on the United States. It is not in the nature of the political beast to go about calling his country names, lest his patriotism be questioned by qualified voters. King seems to have overstepped himself again in his campaign to add an oak leaf cluster to his Nobel peace prize. When he calls "my own government the greatest purveyor of violence in the world titday." he offends tutt only the hawks but many ttf the doves who.

while posing the war principle, are not prepared to indict their country Itefore the world. PRAISE WITH FAINT his bid for headlines. King has committed a tactical error. He has failed to leave either the administration or himself a line of retreat. He has all but exonerated the North Vietnam regime and the Viet Cong for their part in the war.

while casting the Unitetl States in the role of the un- repentent and materialistic villain. To be sure. King has tossed a sop to rational men hy stipulating that he was not attempting "to make North Vietnam or the Natitmal Liberation Front paragons of virtue." But he continues to insist, with not even the merest crumb of substantiation, that both have reason to be snspicums of the and that Wasliingttm therefore slutuld impose a unilateral cease fire on our troops and set a date for the ivithdrawal of all forces front Vietnam. THE VOICE OF JACOB Indeed, these days. King speeches seem to have been written by that violeut headman of the student nonviolent coitrdinatiint committee.

Stitkely Carmichael. When he says that the Vietnamese "languish under our lunnbs and consider us not tlieir fellow Vietnamese the real enemy." Iw lapses into idiot y. By now. the retort to sut lt phony charges has become a cliche, but it needs repealing to uninformed citizens of King's kind. There is no comparison between the American bomb which accidentally kills a Vietnamese civilian anti the Viet ong bomb thrown into a market jammed with iet- nantese wtnnen and children.

There are fewer defectors every day as Congress strengthens its supfHtrt of an administration indicy which the record shows clearly has taken every step short of surrender to hring peace to Vietnam. On Capitol Hill where it counts, this weekend's peace demonstrations will receive scant notice except as int'iilents of legalized dis- ordrrly conduct. IA Bell-Mci lure Syndicate Feature) are gray, the name does not refer to this color but comes the Icelandic word from meaning Letter To The Editor por upon dip cbproctor any por tow compiami modo tbo odnor por painted yrapet that birds pecked at? a famous Greek painter who lived in the latter part ef the fifth century B.C„ arid to have i I llgjfif grapes dbl looted to natural that birds pecked at them. tall necesmtry Jot If a natural constituent of all animal fluids and Is, therefore, necessary for life. does Palm Sunday commemorate? servicsp honor triumphant entry Into jwuailam.

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