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Hados Theyll Do It Every Time Your Froodom Ivor Striving for tho Pikof Pook Region to bo an oven better place in which to livo This newspaper is dedicated to furnishing information to our readers so that they can better promote and preserve their own freedom and encourage others to see its blessings. Only when man is free to control himself and all he produces, can he develop to his utmost capabilities. We believe that freedom is a gift from God and not a political grant from government. Freedom is neither license nor anarchy. It is self-control.

No more. No less. It must be consistent with the truths expressed in such great moral guides as the Coveting Commandment, the Golden Rule and the declaration of Independence. Let Peace Begin With Me Telegraph Thursday, May 27, 1971 A Time tor Reason Right now, for reasons that ted by the bench to render an will occur to intelligent, percep- innocent verdict unless the evi- readers, is a good time to dence presented by the prosecu- remember that trial jurors are subpoenaed to serve in that ca- tion proves guilt beyond pacity and, as such, are instruc- St. John to Roche To the Point Who Controls Public Colleges? By RUSSELL KIRK authority, attempted to die- 1 scene of her own com- In Southern California, on to tbe hoard the details of position, Mav 25 the citizcnrv will elect administration.

For one (The subtitle of that scrlbblinj the members of the board of accreditors said the is so foul that it cannot be men- board had appointed one of the tioned in this column.) Also college presidents to a different Mrs. Metzger distributed to a This is class photographic advertise- the first time I ever heard the ments of a publication. Her conduct would be tolerated in no private 1- see trustees of the Los Angeles City Junior Col- 1 i which is sup- to gov- for the eight community colleges. This election may determine whether, board posed ern, public, theory advanced that admin istrators, as distinct from teach ers, should enjoy perpetual te- lege with which I am nure of office, regardless of it is difficult to formance or changed circums- why it should be inflicted upon tances. at the public colleges The CTA clearly intended to Angeles, usurp the legitimate authority Ypt Mrs; Metzger won her in fact, of the board, transferring power suit to ber the case now is in appellate court.

If those colleges are under the lc- from the people (of Los Ang- gitimate control of public eles) to a union. of the Metzger type trustees, or really are at the radical professors intended to triumphs over the board of of various pressure convert the colleges into centers for indoctrination in ideology. mercy groups. The majority, elected The militant students, of vari- two years ago, has been trying hues and persuasions trustees, Los city colleges have the prospect of becoming mere travesties of decency and learning. To serve upon such boards is Jeffrey St.

John, columnist for Copley News Service, has written a piece for the Wall Street Journal (see to GM: Why Not Fight in that May 21 issue) which we hope chairman of the board, James M. Roche, aiong with other businessmen, has found time to read and digest by now. Congratulating Mr. Roche on his belated counter-attack (the the fact which should have been thrown back in teeth. he said, Mr.

Nader and his allies advocate is fascism. Mr. Nader seems to want is to go radically BEYOND the New An example, the Copley wri minded A Distinguished Family By RUFUS L. PORTER dozens of other nationals includ-! to 10 doges, the fabled and I have mentioned here before ing the Italians, the Germans, feared of Fab- tri'stees will demonstrate that if barrassment has been its at- the great contributions of the and each one of these led, if memory serves me right, Jnohody else likes them, at least tempt to a teacher of whether the public is able to various ethnic and national groups have added greatly to by the rest of the world, and he people do. to maintain or restore order in meant to use the Los Angeles these nine institutions.

For their colleges as political sanctuaries a thankless task; to yield to pains, they have been assailed and staging areas. The board pressure groups, abandoning all student radicals, intempe- stood firm against these pres- standards of academic integr- rate professors, pornographers, sures or its majority did, we ity, would be easy. The voting the California Teachers Associa- shall see whether the Los Ang- public, throughout this country, tion, and the regional accredit- cles public understands the con- obviously is irritated by intel re-elected, troversy. The most curious em- mg association. If the conservatively lectual and physical disorder on the campuses which it supports through heavy taxation.

But peoples who have emigrated to our shores to very dis-our ter said, is a Nader proposal, that calls for direc-; a culture, tors to be elected (to corporate The creation of boards) representing con- our distinctive dealers and Roche speech ia(gt jobn then went on to quote Chicago on March 25) against such as Ralph Nader and other envious social parasites, St. John, nevertheless, pointed out that, instead of getting down to basic causes, Roche concentrated on symptoms. like St. John emphasized, faced their Professor Henry G. Manne, the Kenan Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of Rochester, who said: one instance in modern political history is suggested by English from her post at one discriminate hetween able by the Venetian citizens.I 7110 Accrediting Commission college: a Mrs.

Deena Metzger, trustees and timeservers may The decline of Venetian powerfor Junior Colleges, in an abuse who read to her class an ob- be another matter. our peculiar, but American culture. In almost every instance, and prestige began late in the each of these racial or national 15th century. In 1797 Venice was groups have had to live down taken by Napoleon. In 1866 the prejudice and even hate of nice and Venetia, of which Ve- the descendants of the Angloes.

nice was the capital, were But they all proved equal to the united with Italy. These Days Do the Young Want Work? BY JOHN CHAMBERLAIN Trotskyites or the Trots, as they task and were finally acceptedj Venice contributed as much Some people are worried about are called plus the old free- at their true value and as ge- as any other section of Italy to what the young rebles who tried wheelers such as Rennie Davis. tQ the total of 7 5 A I 1 1 a Ilf 4 lift A 4 HA An I and i s- tinguished type American culture began with the mixing of the Angloes with the Swedes and Hollanders who had also formed colonies Teddy Roosevelt who first used which we point so proudly as ft bas become nuine Americans, and without'the Italian Renaissance, a to close down the government the use of the hyphen, such as rebirth of culture which spread this year are Japanese-Americans, or Mexi- rapidly throughout Europe and going to do for can-Americans. I believe it was became the basis of that to But the Weathermen leaders Mark Rudd, Bernardine Dohrn the high school level. This may seem a small number compared students.

But as recently as 1964 there were only 150,000 stu- an encore once on the eastern seaboard, which and decried the term, hyphe- our western heritage of culture. apparent colonies were quickly absorbed nated-Americian. We are all The names of three Venetian the constituent director prop- by the English speaking ones Americans together, he said. painters of that era stand 0 over the centuries the And, although this ignominy! among the greatest masters of deadly earnest growing gaggle of critics intel-osal. That was in American Indians have added has not yet been entirely erased the painters art.

They were Ti- about ending lectually and disarmed philosophically fascist state, in which various no small share to social and economic interests in oping culture, as our devel- from our language, it is well on jt ia Tintsretto, and have the its way out, as it should be. Veronese Instead of, in effect, were represented in the blacks, who were brought here I have mentioned my high re- The paternal grandfather of Paolo Vietnamese War. And maybe the have disappeared. Abbie Hof- in vocational and technic- frnan and Jerry Rubin played only subsidiary roles in this Maytime doings. Dr.

Ben al post-high school institutions. Irving Goldstein, who runs the Spock was there, but Yale Chap- Charron-Williams System, a big lain William Sloane Coffin was vocational school network, in not. Come another spring always assuming that the U.S. Southeastern states, is and, very much concerned that our Mr. society is losing its craftsmen.

Nixon has both the war and the He blames our educators for economy in hand, will the old putting too much emphasis on ing for the success ness world in supplying needs and wants of the consumers and promising greater in the future, proper and principled retort should have pointed out, St. John charged, how profit-motivated businesses for more than all the bromides and government ever imposed or advocated. Critically needed, he said, is a business that explains that profit is the product of minds and their creative achievement that has helped make a multitude of larger ends po i 1 A philosophy that helps explain that the American business civilization is the product of two consecutive revolutions over the last 200 years (the nf iho hnsi- higher echelons of government, originally against their wills. gard for our citizens of Italian this family moved to America WiH be cominc back to rule work that can effec' college degrees and not enough VinifA 4 i i. Ml aL atI rl A kin coma Vi i cl ll? A'o An Ka nrnnor niiAn i aL a a tho I have never heard that scheme called democratic And, as it says in the old extraction, (sounds a little bet- when the father of Nick and Washineton crvine who raise the 3 6 song, popular in the 1920s.

then ler especially the Tony Venetucci ones who are living in our own best sweet corn ever grown came the Swedes, and the St. John then went on to add unlike socialism, thsi Frenchmen and the Pikes Peak AM our arts the state of Colorado, irisn, me rrencnmen ana me i A a I tk fomiUr leaves the industrial system in Argentines, the Por and in music and stronger wine tively do the same thing twice? on the preparation for job ca or ma or Especially when your diminish- reers. The system is gaited, he or ed leadership the corps that says, was six drugs. But there is a warning to is reduced to Rennie private hands, while the state Itugese regulates and tightly controls what will be produced and how. Mr.

insistence that regulatory powers be made stronger and more severe is a further step in that While Mr. St. distinction between and is well taken, perhaps both he and Professor Manne should be reminded that the Communist Manifesto of Karl Marx (particularly in the ten main planks) does not make outright governmental ownership of the of necessarily mandatory, and the Greeks, have been upgraded by those we years old. The family settled in rebels from directions. once called and the coal fields of northern Colo- Tr' 41 Abbie Hoffman, Jerry John Froines, and Dave Delling to producing frustrated Davis, dropouts, and meanwhile we get Rubin, no new TV repairmen or plumbers.

For the many university Quiz Quote By JOHN MORRIS First of all, there is the deci- Our culture has profited Irado and later moved to the mation of the New Left leader- so tied up with court ap- students who are not good immensely by the addition of area, a part of Pape- iship, a grinding process which peals and coping with new lege campus life these people. town, now a part of Venetian goes its remorseless way. Sec- charges that no time has been comes a choice between witless And among these are the members of the Venetucci family. Venetucci literally means, a ed the original Village, so named in honor of ond, there are the statistics that spent on the training of new re- and destructive demonstrations the Venetucci family that own- show a revival of common voluntary lieutenants to seize or acute boredom ending with a acreage. The sense among the young, many the batons? period of While Rennie coalition Vocational traumatic despair, school would be citizen of Venice.

And these was sold to the Abraham- of whom have learned, during mer citizens of Venice have son Brothers in 1953 and Vene- the last year or so of poor em- and the Trotskyites have been much more satisfying for files that trace their ancestors tian Village was started in 1954. ployment opportunities, that life getting the mass head- students, who would then back to the 12th century (1172, It was developed into one of our is long and demands that culti- lines, a footnote to an education their sense of uselessness once nicer housing areas within a few vation of a few skills. to be exact). Here I pause to look up the years and has own shopping story tells us that some two mil- they had begun to master a spelt was a group from the same lion Americans are now en-cific skill. American Revolution of 1776 onjy that the government, in the and the Industrial Revolution of form 0f the the 19th Century); which, to-exercise dictatorial control.

It is gether, struck a blow instructive to realize, too, that for free trade and a break with translated into Eng-! crown mercantilism that was Hsh, means COUNCIL. vote, would you say or to future space Where Asked: Mountain Valley Insurance Agency, 3716 E. Galley Rd. history of Venice, by which I center. Venetian Village was old gang that led the protesters rolled in full-time vocational or Mr.

points are was intrigued in high school, launched by a full page ad in to Washington this spring: the technical training courses above well taken, but one would like to hopg js on QUESTION: it came to a The city, built on 118 islets in a the GT Jan. 27, 1954. rtT. bottomed on human and enabled the nuises of the 19th. to ment: produce multitude of mechanical inventions that made human slavery impractical economically and laid the founda But we particularly like Mr.

concluding state- American business civilization will not find its salvation by adopting the philosophy of critics who hold coercion to lagoon at the northern end of the Adriatic Sea, was founded in the 5th century by refugees from the invading barbarians. This leads me to believe that The Venetucci family purchased for $6,000 several acres of ground which was deeded to Archbishop Urban J. Vehr. A picture in the GT dated Jan. 16, the settlers were some of the 11955 shows Tony Venetucci han remaining remnants of the for- ding the Archbishop a check for mer Romans, whose western $6,000 while one of the Abr- empire had ben destroyed Brothers hands him barbarians in the 5th century, the deed to the land.

The land 459 A. is the date that was donated to be used for the James Love comes to mind. Be that as it may, within a church, few centuries Venice rose to be- upon, come one of the greatest mari purpose of building a school and Catholic convent OPEN PARLIAMENT The statements and opinions expressed in this column are those of the contributors and do not necessarily express opinions or convictions held by this newspaper. Letters will be published with only the name; an address (and telephone number ii possible) wall be required with each letter for verification purposes. Letters must be received at least two days before publication.

MONROE DOCTRINE To the Editor: This generous donation was American continents, by JAMES LOVE: would aM history. In made by the Venetuccis as a free and independent con- 1 1 LM a 4L a tirllA 1 tion for (the third revolution) be the first commandment. It what we now call Technological The government controls advocated by Nader and others, which are at war with the creative minds of free are nothing but fascism, St. John explained; and this is will find its salvation rooted in the philosophy it has (too often) abandoned: freedom in the competitive market of both ideas and And that rules out, we believe, protective tariffs, quotas, import and export controls, and all other governmental chains. feel much to be fi97 it became a republican city- memorial to their brother who dUion which they have assumed state ruled by an elected doge was killed on the property by and maintained, are henceforth (duke).

Somewhere along the an explosion in 1934. A monu-not t0 be considered as subjects line, it was ruled for a few cen- ment stands where the accident for futUre colonization I learned that will benefit man CHUCK MILLER: say I think we ought to direct turies by a council of 480 men, occurred. And the our efforts to take care of the and among this 480 during the and 13th century (1279) appears the I its way to being refuted by the thirteen-fold jump in the vocational and technical school enrollment since 1964. The stories out of such university centers as Cambridge, and New Haven, indicate that a new trend is in the making. We hear of Yale Ph.D.

students in literature who have thrown it all up to go off to Alaska to learn woodworking and con- the phraseology of the Con- struction. The Harvard Office of stitution as amended by the Bill and Career Plans of Rights. It tbat 18 per cent of the shall enact NO law 19.70 nite plans for the future. Many establishing of religion OR 01 the graduates prohibiting the free exercise have, according to a non-statis- The ruling-out of Bible read- Vietnam War, ecology, making our own world a better name of Venetucci. Later on place to live Music Minded to ProTtoMt Puuio SI ACROSS 1 Feathered music maker 5 Musical instrument 9 gadget 12 Great Lako 13 Presently 14 Feminine appellation 2 Operatic solo 3 Rivers (Sp.) 4 Central American stinging ant 5 Light brown 6 Certain Eastern rite Christians 7 Stud 8 Those against 9 Male singing for instance 17 Equip 18 Alleviated 19 Stupid 21 British statesman 23 Drunkard 24 Dash (slang) 27Eject 29 Spinning toys 22 Hollow 24 Step 25 Epic poetry 26 Pillager 23 Article of furniture voices 10 Norse god 11 Carry on, as a war 16 Characteristic 30 Color forms of 31 Bristle expression 20 Musical sounds 32 Poise 34 Thoroughfare 36 Line of 38 Dc 39 Song for one 41 Body of water 42 River barrier 44 46 Shabbier 49 Aside 53 Pitch 54 Financial officer 56 ride 57 Imprudent 58 Predict (dial.) 59 Through 60 bride Stint DOWN 1 Permission conduits 33 Mountain nymph 35 Stringed instruments 40Female monster 43 headdress (var.) 45 Jet 46 Cease 47 Comfort 48 Epochal 50 Planesurfaoe 51 Communists .52 Migration 55 Exclamation 2 I 6 9 79 10 11 III la 14 it If" It IT 21 22 24 29 30 31 32 33 37 39 41 42 46 47 60 61 82 53 54 66 6t 61 19 (1310) the council was reduced Nation's Press in his memory, (continued).

Withdrawal From Europe Sebben i i1 Larry Schultz Santa Ana (Calif.) Register With these words President olio Church and Trinity School Monroe announced 1823 that Prayers J5 occupy the land given by the imperialists were not welcome Prama Court which has family of Rocco Venetucci and t0 establish thejr tyrannies in NO authority for such a ruling the Western Hemisphere.the Enemies of Freedom chipped UNLESS was an ot away at the Monroe Doctrine for years. All kinds of false charges are made against the U.S. about it. But it kept foreign grams at home, combined with irnperialists from making co- exorbitant gifts to most every the I move in the face of the decline disaster. of the dollar power as measured GENE SEBBEN: feel they should go on with LARRY SCHULTZ: with an And the would hy other currencies, be only if the money What American Europe and Senator bill to have-not on benator Manstieia dui io cut repeated warfare in American manpowei in Europe name the by half is a correct technical entire world on the pathway to take away from our own ecolo- blly jn gical programs here on what Brian Hummel Shirley Alamo BRIAN HUMMEL: I see no reason why man should bought for them are the equivalent of imports that are consumed abroad.

To bring those men home will have a balancing effect on the export-import teeter-totter. If the men are let out of the service to go into productive employment, the correctional effect will almost double. Apart from the technicalities, the withdrawal will have an limit his exploration just to fluence on the balance of milita- earth when discoveries in space ry power in Europe. If the ba- To point this out to the reader has the appearance of seeming to give advice to the U.S. Gov- servicemen be a futile is expenditure of energy and we long since have resolved not to waste time or effort on objectives that cannot be accomplished.

The individual well understands that communicating with the unresponsive bureaucracy is no more rewarding than to shout it to the wind. Our comment therefore is directed exclusively to the reader. The bureaucracy derives its power to misgovern in part by the coercion of law and in part from the confidence of the person who foots the bill. We are can be infinite and as I can maintained when see, do nothing but bring pros lonies out of Latin American nations, great and small, back when Europeans thought they had to conquer overseas territories to be powerful. Now an even worse tyranny is trying to establish a world through war, revolution and subversion.

Past enemies must be forgotten if any people in the Western Hemisphere are to save themselves from enslavement by communist dictators who strive from within and without each nation to destroy Freedom. EDDIE HERNANDEZ Dallas, Texas COMPULSORY Bible and prayers and thus reading tical addendum, sought a release in craft, skilled and manual work proving that they might have benefited if they had gone to vocational school in the first place. So the American public may not be exercising mere nig- that COMPULSORY Bible reading and prayers constituted often wondered why the framers of the did not write it and-or furthering The Constitution prohi- (Continued on Next Page) holding gardliness when it tightens the pursestrings that used to be loosened for expanding the traditional universities. The mortey might better go to vocational schools as tuition. The boys and girls are trying to tell something, and it is time we listened.

SCHOOL PRAYERS To the Editor: Mrs. letter regarding Bible reading and prayers in the public schools interests me greatly. Certainly there should be accorded for here offering evidence to show refutation of the atheistic views perity to earth. in a specific instance where we expressed hy some of the teach- American strength is reduced, believe confidence is not war- ers. We are experiencing the ef- (NEWSPAPB EMTIIMUS! AttKJ SHIRLEY ALAMO: both Germany and France will ranted.

The individual who fects of the lack of moral train- vote for it. Why do I believe in have to make up the difference, heeds the evidence will not find ing in support of home and Sun- the strongest nation That means rearmament by the himself with any immediate day a power to correct the errors of stances it would be is the past, but he may fortify, moral training. it? on earth, and we let Central European powers, another nation get ahead of course that history shows in many the ONLY QUESTION: fraught with peril. Thus, we see how unsound fi- himself against future mistakes by developing a healthy skeptic- Now one must be careful how one goes about one a youngster came to you for advice about his career, in what nancial practices in ism of bureaucratic activity and asks State and national le- direction would you steer welfare pro- promises in general. gislators to do.

Why? Because of to 1971 by.

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