The Daily Courier from Connellsville, Pennsylvania • Page 14

FAG! FOURTEEN THE DAILY COURIER, CONNELISVILLE, PA. Is Folk Myth a Killer? There may be great deal to the ides, that the folk myth thai "accidents will happen" is one of the greatest barriers to reducing traffic deaths. This idea was promulgated by Howard Pyle, president of the National Safety Council, as the nation headed for another record year in increased death on the highways. "Only when we, as a nation, come to realize fully that accidents are not uncontrollable acts of God any more than malaria is, will we be able to take the efficient counter measures the situation demands," Pyle said. To emphasize his remarks, he announced that deaths the first 10 months of this year reached 43,110, a 9 per cent increase over the 39,610 recorded through Oct.

31, 1965. With the October figure this year hitting 4,920 deaths, and the fall and winter months of November and December ahead, the chances of recording more than 52,000 deaths for the first time this year --at a rate of over 1,000 deaths a week--seems assured. The a Government thinks something can be done about it and has initiated a program that in time should make automobiles more safe. The states have been ordered to take meas- for inspection and driver examination to develop safety in driving, although very little is done to control faster and faster speeds. Perhaps in time we will forget the myth and work as if the opposite, that accidents are controllable, was the fact.

Then the accident rate should start to go down. The Naval Race Twice in the last 45 years, the naval powers sought to curtail naval construction, in the Washington Treaty of 1921 and the London Treaty of 1930, in the vain hope that these restrictions would prevent war. They did not prevent the second World War. Now, a new naval race is on, with the two super powers in the lead. Jane's Fighting Ships, the accepted authority on maritime affairs, says that the United States, with a force of 3.400 uni's, is far in the lead.

Next is the Soviet Union. "Wherever there is navigable water, the Soviet Navy has warships or paramilitary 1 Jane's points out. Britain, once supreme at sea, is a poor third. Japan leads in merchant ships, with the Soviet close behind. The United States is a i i for an entirely nuclear- powered fleet by the 1970s.

Both the United States and the Soviets are making prodigious efforts in the submarine field. The American target is 103 nuclear submarines by 1971. The Soviets with 340 conventional and 40 nuclear-powered submarines now are building 30, both nuclear and conventional. They have no aircraft carriers, to the (JO American carriers or types a can be so used. Control of the sea is still es- i a in this nuclear age.

Botli super-powers realize this. Both are striving for leadership, with the United States fortunately still far in advance. The best i to give your enemy is forgiveness; to a customer, service; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, reverence; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity. JBaflp Cimrfcr JAMES JAMES O. DRISC R.

A. DONIGAN WALTER C. DRISCOU, ROBERT UND Atnr Pnbiutow JOHN H. WHORIC MARGARET ATKINSON EMILIE A. SCHULER PAUL V.

DRISCOLL V. Adv. Director AjwcUte Editor News Society Of Mfr. Supt. The Pennsylvania Story By MASON DENBOK Editor Capitol Newt Service HARRISBURG-ln these pre- Christmas days around Capitol Hill, little attention is being paid to budget figures currently being whipped together (or the coming fiscal year by department heads of the outgoing Scranton Administration.

Theoretically perhaps this should bring somewhat of a i i Pennsylvania's taxpaying brood which for the past decade has sturdily shouldered increasing record-breaking budgets -on grounds that "no news is good However, it is obvious that if all the increases in these departmental budget proposals for the fiscal year beginning July 1 were to be carried out even in part, a hefty boost most certainly would be the order of the day on the tax front. This possibility has been offset somewhat by Governor- elect Shafer's oft-repeated assertion during the campaign that he is determined to fight spiritedly new taxes for the Keystone State during the coming year. If Shafer holds to this campaign it could mean that virtually every departmental spending increase proposal could go completely down the fiscal drain. Many factors however will determine just how much down- the-drain activity really can be expected. For example, if Pennsylvania's economic patterns hold their present course, chances are regarded as excellent that some expanded and new programs can be instituted without the need for worrying a changing the present tax structure.

Additionally, Shafer has projected new or expanded programs of his own estimated to range between $70 and $75 million which can be absorbed under present economic conditions and corresponding high tax revenue returns, again, without the need of fiddling with the current tax structure. However there are other facets to the game of fiscal musical chairs. What a department head may propose for his favorite bureaucratic domain, and what the administration in power actually and finally clears, invariably are two quite different things! Ordinarily this "scale down" is quite a handsome act -about which the public rarely knows or hears. It's one of "intra-administration'' activities that besets bureaucracy regardless of whether on the state or national levels. Sometimes these differences between what a department head thinks he should have and what' an administration thinks the department should have are brought out in legislative budget hearings but even these usually are scaled down pretty well under a i i a i knuckles before the legislative presentations are made.

In a sense this perhaps is as it should be. After all, a department head is banging exclusively for his department, almost without regard for what any other department or agency may want or feel is its rightful share. Thus the screening process on the part of administration budgeteers, who have no choice other than to weigh and evaluate all departmental requests in relation to the overall picture. This then is what now is facing i i Shafer Administration fiscal experts as they try to whip together some sort of financial picture in anticipation of the convening of the 1967 Legislature less than a month hence. The budget won't be completed, of course, in time for presentation to the Legislature when it gathers January 3 for opening festivities but the odds and ends are being drawn together now, even though it is the pre-Christmas period, to be ready hopefully for formal presentation in either February or March Throwing together a billion- dollar-plus general fund budget isn't easy nor is it a speedy affair.

Shafer's budget people in all probability will be working diligently over the holidays -trying to shave the hopeful over-requests of individual department heads. In the final analysis, it's be e- shave or a change in 'he- present tax picture for fhc- Key-tone State's diligents! inline a Better Deal on Gas- -OK. CUT VOUR "These Days" fy JOHN CHAMBERUM BM Sytdkalf. bt, On the Right BY WILLJAM F. BUCKLEY, JR.

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The Weekly Courier Fourded July 17. 1171 The Dally Courier Founded November 10. 1MI MerfM! July II. ferved Br United Freae International BWMU of Aovertlilni A A THURSDAY EVENING, DEC. 22, 1966 THE INBONDSMAN The Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that the lower federal court the District Court was mistaken in upholding the right of the Georgia legislature to deny to Julian Bond a seat in its House of Representatives.

The opinion, by Chief Justice Earl Warren, made a number of points and sought by suasion, and here and there a historical footnote, to put them forward as more or less self-evident. In effect Warren said this: unless there are overwhelming reasons to believe that an individual elected to a state legislature has no intention of upholding the state or the federal constitutions, he cannot be barred from membership. Warren concedes, at least hypothetically, that there is such a thing'as a "pro forma" pledge to uphold the Constitution, than which of course nothing at all could be more obvious. So that the factual question, in Warren's analysis, became: did the 'Georgia legislature convincingly demonstrate that Mr. Bond had no intention of adhering to the oath of office which he said he was willing to abide by? The Court quoted, at copious length, the provocative statements by SNCC that had been endorsed by Julian Bond and that became the basis of his exclusion.

They were the routine blood-and-thunder against U. S. involvement in South Vietnam, e.g., "Vietnamese are murdered because the United States is pursuing an aggressive policy in violation of international law." And then. SNCC's more pointed statements: "We are in sympathy with, and support, the men of this country who are unwilling to respond to a military draft which would compel them to contribute their lives to United States aggression in Vietnam in the name of the 'freedom' we find so false in this country." And, finally, the crucial hortatory passage, interpreted by the Georgia legislature as a call to impede, if not defy, the Selective Service laws: "We therefore encourage those Americans who prefer to use their energy in building democratic forms within this country We urge all Americans to seek this alternative, knowing full well that it may cost them their lives as painfully as in Vietnam." The Georgia legislature asked Representative-elect Bond whether he did in fact endorse these sentiments of SNCC, of which he was an official. He replied that he did, insisting however that his endorsement of such sentiments did not necessarily commit him to endorsing an explicit defiance of existing Selective Service laws.

Hogwash, the Georgia legislature reasoned and refused to seat him. The Supreme Court, failing to find an explicit statement by Bond in which he committed himself to backing an unlawlul resistance to the draft, ruled that his rights to free expression of his opinion, as guaranteed under the First Amendment, must prevail. Indeed, the Court edged over towards, without actually endorsing, the position that the rights of free speech are alike for the citizen and the legislator. There are two questions unresolved by the court, one of them quite obviously funked, the other left sort of fuzzy, which is the way the Court likes to leave a lot of questions. The latter is: who decides whether a legislator-elect is only hypocritically willing to take the relevant oaths of allegiance? Traditionally it has been up to the state legislatures, the "sole judges," according to the Constitution, of a legislator's qualifications.

The court rules that the legislator- denied may appeal to the Supreme Court in each case, which court will decide whether the factual grounds are such as persuasively to argue that the appellant is a hypocrite. The reasoning of the court is' fuzzy because it elides slickly over the question whether it has grounds for a truer knowledge of a factual question than the relevant legislature. It is one thing for an appellant to complain that there are grounds to accuse the legislature of conspiring to deny him of his constitutional grounds. It is something altogether different to allege that the legislature, acting presumably in good conscience, is less competent than the Supreme Court to evaluate the question of hypocrisy. The evidence is as a matter of fact to the contrary.

People in Georgia are better equinoed, as they would be in Los Angeles, or Chicago, to understand the meaning in context of a particular declaration made in Georgia, or California, or Illinois, than is Hie Snnreme Court. The court has. in effect, found the Georgia legislature guilty of a ronsniracv fo deny the privileges of the First notwithstanding the presumptions of innocence. And of course the great evasion. Bond is a self-declared pacifist.

How can a pacifist serve in a state or national legislature, the Constitution being quite clear on the right of Congress to declare war. and of the President to serve as commander-in-chief of mili- larv forces whose purpose, at the margin, Is to kill peonle? It is a pity that the 'Georgia Jppislaturp did not raise the auestion ex- nlicillv whether a pacifist is entitled to serve on a legislature. It has the opportunity, now, to do so. TODAY'S GRAB BAG JUST FOLKS THE ANSWER, QUICK! 1. What peoples first independently invented the symbol for zero? 2.

Who discovered the electron? 3. Who discovered oxygen? 4. Who was first to see red blood cells, protozoa and bacteria? 5 Who invented Hie differential calculus? Letters to the Editor Letters to the Editor not considered libelous a welcomed bj this newspaper. Such communications are coasidered expression of the reader's opinion on current isfues; oeoeamih; those of Tne a i Courier. All letters must be signed with the name and address of the writer and, due to space limitations, should be limited to 150 wordt.

IT'S BEEN SAID Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. Samuel Butler. IT HAPPENED TODAY On this day in 1894, a French court martial found Captain Alfred Dreyfus guilty of treason, thus inflaming public opinion throughout the world. WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE adjective; endowed with or characterized by a hearty, joyous humor or spirit of ship. HOW'O YOU MAKI OUT? J.

The Hindus, Mayas and Babylonians. 2. Sir Joseph John Thomson. 3. Joseph Priestley.

4. Anton van Leeuwenhoek. 5. Isaac Newton and Gottfried von Liebnitz, independently of each other. As Others Think More than 2,000 children die every year in home fires.

Yet, most of them could walk swiftly away from death if they were given the most elementary fire instructions, sayd a Health, the magazine of the American Medical Association. Map. out, with the children helping, two separate escape routes from each room a main route and in case that is blocked an alternate. Main exits usually are doors and stairways. Alternates mually are windows.

The most important lifesaving command to impress upon children i Escape immediately. Don't try to put out the fire or pause to gather up i Minutes, even seconds, are crucial. By EDGAR A. GUEST THE LOST CHANCES He thought he wanted money, so his every day was planned To buy and sell for profit, but he couldn't understand, When he grew to be a rich man, why his wealth so little meant. He had all a fortune offers, but he still was not content.

He had faithful been to business and the code of business men. In their way he had succeeded, but be wondered, now and then, If his friends in humbler places who had served, without a fee, The needy and the helpless, were not happier than he. He remembered many chances he had coldly brushed aside, Which if only he had taken had enriched his life with pride. But "too busy," be bad an- THI NIW POWIft IN NIW YORK STATI A kingdom, aft the old. fable tells us, was once lost for want of a horseshoe nail, and maybe the 1968 Republican Presidential convention will hinge on the recent news from Albany, New York, that the New York Conservative Party has wrested "Row on the ballot away from foe Liberal Party, which had held it for a quarter of a century.

It may take a little time for the national significance of what has happened in New York State to sink in. Ever since 1960 has been assumed that the balance of power in New York has been held by the Liberals in alliance with the garment trade labor unions. Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Senator Jacob Javits and Mayor John Lindsay, all of them Republicans, have believed this just as fervently as have Democrats like Bobby Kennedy. So there was gloom in the local Democratic ranks last September when the Liberal Party, refusing 'to endorse Democrat Frank O'Connor for governor, nominated a person with a great name, Franklin D. Roosevelt to be its gubernatorial candidate on a separate Liberal ticket.

Nelson Rockefeller, as a candidate to succeed himself, was correspondingly overjoyed to think that the liberal swing vote would be diverted from his main enemy, O'Connor. And Senator Jacob Javits, as Rocky's manager, was also very happy. As a candidate for the vice presidential nomination in 1968, Javits a Republican governor in Albany in order to give him a one-up position as a "favorite son" at the national convention. Superficially considered, all went well in November for Rockefeller. Although he got only forty-six per cent of the popular vote as compared to fifty-three per cent in his 1958 showing, he still managed to pull an upset and defeat Frank O'Connor.

And the unofficial vote count showed that the Liberal Party's Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. had come in third in the race, presumably taking enough votes away O'Connor to guarantee Rocky his victory. The Conservative Party, so the first State-wide tally showed, had made a good showing, but it was still the fourth place party, which made ifs "Row swing position less important than Use Liberals' spot on "Row The final recotnt, however, has changed all this, for, as it turns out, the Conservatives got 510,023 votes statewide for their candidate for governor, the relatively unknown Paul Adams, as compared to the Liberal Party's 507,234 votes for Frankldn Roosevelt Jr. This gives "Row to the Conservatives and suddenly makes them the most important balance of power group the State.

What this means is that kef eller-Javits liberalism can no longer be counted on to have things in New York all its own way. Conservative endorsement has become just as desirable as Liberal endorsement, if not a little more so. The proof of this is to be found in the hcking that Senator Javits has taken in his campaign to become a delegate- at-large to the forthcoming State constitutional convention. Running with Liberal en- darsement for this, Javits lost. Putting a wet finger to the wind, i a State Chairman Carl Spad recently went out of his way to speak good things about certain planks in the Conservative Party platform.

Rockefeller, as New York's governor, will certainly have some voice at the 1968 Republican Presidential n- as a minority governor with an increasingly powerful Conservative Party lurking in the wings, ready to give or withhold its endorsements, what will be Rocky's power to make a Vice Presidential deal for Javits? Powerful Republican governors such as Rhodes of Ohio and Reagan of California, and even Romney of Michigan, will surely have been warned by then that a Conservative defection in New York State might mean the loss of the State for any ticket "balanced" by a super-liberal Finally, what will Dick Nixon be doing now that the New York Conservative Party is the swing element to court in Nixon's new "home As a resident of New York City since 1963, Nixon is in a position to seek unofficially friendly delegates to the 1968 convention even though Rocky and Javits remain the big bosses. Custom has it that a State delegation must be unanimously behind a "favorite son" for president. But Javits is only a "favorite son" for fee vice presidency. Does this give Nixon scope for an offensive? THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1966 Human Interest Marine Brothers Meet Down South Two brothers from Conneilsville, both members of the U. S.

Marine 1 recently in North Carolina after not awing each other for almost two years. Michael Freed, who joined the Marines last August after graduating from Conneltaville High School, had just fta- ished boot training at Parris Wand and was sent to Camp Lejeune, N. C. About the same time his older brother, Joseph, was transferred from a Marine base at San Diego to Lejune. He had been serving at San Diego for 18 months.

When Joe arrived at the southern Marine base he located Mike and the Connellsville brothers had a reunion. Mike, 19, is now spending a leave with his father, Joseph Freed, at 309 N. Prospect St. They will travel to California and spend Christmas with Mike's sister. After the first of the year the young Marine will report for duty at Camp Pendelton, Calif.

Joe, a 12-year veteran with the corps, is making the Marines his career. He recently received his lieutenant's bars and is now attending air school at Lejeune. His wife, the former Sharon May of Poplar Grove, and their two children are in North Carolina with him. FORMER RESIDENT SEEKS NEWS OF THREE BROTHERS A former resident of South Connellsville, Charles Younkin, is seeking news of his three brothers. Younkin, now 83 years old, was one of four sons of the late Eli and Mary Younkin.

His brothers are John, Arthur and Lewis Younkin. A friend who wrote us about Charles said he is very lonely and would like to hear from his brothers or receive news about them. A letter will get to Charles if sent to Charles Younkin, care Mrs. John Burns, Negley, R. 1, Ohio.

The former resident is staying at the Burns' home a week or two. Out of the Past swered; and too late, at last, he learned There is something more than money in a lifetime to be earned. SIXTY YEARS AGO Edgar Hicks and Lloyd Port of Connellsville attend a dance in Cochran Hall, Dawson. Leo H. and Wilfred Morris of Connellsville return to West Virginia University, Morgantown, after visiting here.

FIFTY YEARS AGO M. Dcrencin, manager of foreign department of First National Bank, takes over city garbage plant, buying equipment except the incinerating plant. Associated with Derencin is Michael Albot. A. E.

Wright, principal of North Union Township High School, is elected principal of Uniontown Central School and an assistant to Miss Ella Peach, supervisor of schools at the county seat. FORTY YEARS AGO George K. Reed of Hazelwood, resident of Connellsville for many years, becomes paralyzed while at throttle of his engine on Baltimore Ohio at Cumberland, and is unable to stop the train. The express crashes headon into a yard engine, killing George E. Leidinger, yard brakeman of Cumberland.

The body of William Warner of Broad Ford, missing for nearly a week, is found under a highway bridge at curve of Broad Ford road by Alex Ennis. The carpenter is believed to have died from exposure. James Malia of Lcisenring No. 1 has miraculous escape from death when his hand becomes caught the cage of the Red Lion Mine of H. C.

Frick Coke Company near Star Junction and he is earned 285 feet to the top of the shaft with his body dangling from beneath the rage. He suffers bruises, abrasions and shock. T. S. Lackey, 71, former member of Fayette County bar, dies at Riverside, where he had resided for the past four years.

THIRTY YEARS AGO Children of Cameron School honor Harry 0. Bower, traffic officer, with a gift shower in observance of his 45th birthday. TWENTY YEARS AGO Gov. John C. Beil Jr.

appoints Mrs. Sarah R. Cohen as alderman in the Sixth Ward in Connellsville, succeeding the late Ray Cunningham. In the quarterly session of the Fay- eUe-Somerset Association of the Veterans of Foreign Wars at the Walter E. Brown Post Home, "Scotty" Henderson of Connellsville is elected senior vice commander; Charles Wingrove of Everson quartermaster, and A.

B. Pickard of this city, judge advocate. The USO campaign in Fayette County has reached $11,484.16, it is announced by Judge H. Vance Cottom, county chairman. The Fayette quota is The Lions Club presents play "Life With Father," at high school auditorium.

In cast are Brandon Peters and Alice Thomson, have made a name in New York. TEN YEARS AGO C. W. Carson is reelected president of Connellsville Township Vol. Fire Dept A young Marine from Greene County is killed, two others seriously injured and three others less seriously hurt in a one- car accident on old Route 119 near Tracy's ibout four miles south of Con- neUsville.

The victim is Pvt. John Versko 21, of Greensboro. The atate Public School Buikhaf Authority plans for a Dew Ounbir Township Junior-Senior High School it Trotter, and allocates $900,000 for it..