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THE DAILY STANDARD 205 S. New Madrid Sikeston, Mo. 63801 PUBLISHED DAILY (EXCEPT SUNDAYS AND HOLIDAYS). Second-class postage paid at Sikeston, Missouri 63801 By Carrier: $2.50 month Sikeston and Miner. $2.00 month elsewhere.

By Mail where carrier service is not available. 1 year, 6 months, 3 months, Thinks Got Saturday, June invents the rifle range. 1911, Retired Major Appliance POOR CHARLIE SAYS! If you are in a company of runners, a trot do. THE DANGER OF INFLATION It is probably safe to say that without inflation there would have been no Adolph Hitler. That sobering assessment of what runaway inflation can bring lends a special urgency to the recent warning of Federal Reserve Board Chairman Arhtur F.

Burns that the past is any guide, the future of our country is in from inflation. Following defeat in World War and uo to 1923, money became virtually worthless in that country. The professional classes, having no other source of income, turned to salesmen, workmen, or speculators. The entire middle class dependent upon small fixed incomes was virtually wiped out. Enter Adolph Hitler, the who promised to avenge humiliation and restore its prosperity.

The rest is tragic history. Could such a thing happen in the United States? Listen to Arthur Burns, a man not known for overstatement: gravity of our current inflationary problems -can hardly be overestimated. Except for a brief period at the end of World War II, prices in the United States have of late been rising faster than in any other peacetime period of our history country I know of has been able to maintain widespread economic prosperity once inflation got out of hand. And the unhappy consequences are by no means solely of an economic nature. If long continued, inflation at anything like the present rate would threaten the very foundation of our Although it is true that there have been contributing factors such as the energy crisis, the primary blame for high inflation must be laid firmly on the steps of Congress.

In the short run, the country cannot stand a tax cut at this time. In the lone run, members of Congress must be told in no uncertain terms that no longer will we stand for high- priced programs we cannot afford. When those messages finally hit home on Capitol Hill, perhaps a new day minus the danger of galloping inflation will begin to dawn in America. Overheard at the coffee table: Other women may nag their husbands, but I all I do is offer mine criticism occasionally. THE SUBJECT IS FREEDOM College students, or at least a bunch of them who were queried at Iowa State University, have some curious ideas about what means.

According to a report on a survey by sociologists Dwight G. Dean and Brent T. Bruton in Human Behavior magazine, of 6-6 students enrolled in their introductory sociology classes, only 12 could write an acceptable one- sentence definition of the term. All the rest thought it meant for students, not No less than 419 of the students thought academic freedom meant freedom from required courses. Numerous others said it was the right to attend the college of their choice or the right to personal off- campus freedom or the right to have a say in the hiring of teachers.

One student came up with what is perhans the definitive of academic freedom by writing that it is freedom to study what I when I want to, if I want If students understand the term, the sociologists ask, can we expect of the general Well, the general public has a more than acceptable 1 record in this matter of permitting the untrammeled pursuit of truth in the groves of academe, despite some rather extreme exnressions of that freedom, by both faculty and students, on some campuses in recent years. A more pertinent question may be, if these 606 less 12 students at Iowa State and their counterparts elsewhere learned what academic freedom means by the time they leave college, what can the general public expect of them? until the emergency he said. Men who are waiting for something to turn up should begin with their sleeves. AGENCY OF DISRUPTION A proposal for a Consumer I Protection Agency has been introduced in Congress that, if reports are correct, would go far toward total disruption of orderly government regulatory procedures and would set up gestapo like surveillance of business. The proposal would authorize the director of the newly formed Consumer Protection Agency to intervene in any of that, in his judgment, affects the interest of The new Agency, observes Mr.

James J. Kilpatrick in the Washington, D. Evening Star, could demand that the Food and Drug Administration, for example, initiate a proceeding against all manufacturers of cough syrup. If the FDA declined, it would be required, like a naughty child made to stand in the comer, make public in a current and concise statement its reasons If the Agency so desired, it could take a case to the President of the United States or enter any court action involving a regulatory decision if the director concludes that the action or is likely to have a substantial adverse effect The Daily Standard, Sikeston, Mo. Saturday, June 8,1974 TOMORROW JUNE 9-SUNDAY DAY.

June 9. Massachusetts (Second Sunday in June.) June 9. CORPUS FIESTA. June Indian celebration Mission San Antonio SUNDAY. IS TI 9.

Colorfu1 at the de Pala. Indian games, dances, entertainment and pit Pala, Calif. FLAG WEEK. June 9-15. Purpose: To pay honor to our Flag and instill patriotism in the citizenry.

Sponsor: The Star- Spangled Banner Flag House Mr. Jean Hofmeister, 844 E. Pratt Baltimore, Md. 21202. FRANKENMUTH BAVARIAN FESTIVAL.

June 9-15. Purpose: To display the German heritage of Frankenmuth, in an atmosphere of culture and gemuetlichkeit. Sponsor: Frankenmuth Civic Events Council, 635 S. Main Franenmuth, Mich. 48734.

NATIONAL FLAG WEEK. June 9-15. By Presidential proclamation. (Issued each year for the week including June 14th.) POZNAN INTERNATIONAL F1AR. June 9-18.

Poznan, Poland. SENIOR CITIZENS DAY. June 9, Oklahoma. SPECIAL I ARIES ASSN. 65TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE June 9-14.

Toronto, io, Canada. SUNDAY. June 9. TOMORROW JUNE 19 MONDAY DIDACTA: EUROPEAN EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS EXHIBITION. June 10-14.

Brussels, Belgium. NATIONAL LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL WEEK. June 10-15. By Presidential proclamation. (Always the week beginning the second Monday in June.) PORTUGAL: NATIONAL HOLIDAY.

June 10. Birthday of Luis de Camoes, National Poet. RACE UNITY DAY. June 10. Purpose: To spread the concept of the spiritual unity of mankind, irrespective of race, nation or class.

Sponsor: Natl. Spiritual Assembly of the of the U. Glenford E. Mitchell, 536 Sheridan Wilmette, 111. 60091.

SAINT BARNABAS FEAST. June 10-11. Famagusta, Cyprus. St. Barnabas Monastery.

attorney the issue is that is an intolerable Presidents duty to situation. enforce the criminal laws of The special prosecutor this country where his former should seek postponement of confederates are under the trial and take whatever other steps are necessary to But instead of being on the prevent such a miscarriage of side of the special prosecutor, justice. A postponement could the President seems to be doing give Congress time to act on everything he can to aid the impeachment. Ouster of the defense. The President could President would be one way to perform no greater service for keep him from suppressing Ehrlichman and Colson than to evidence.

refuse to give them access to President Nixon declared in documents and thereby force an address to the American the court to dismiss charges. people Apr. 30, 1973: The Presidents power to pledge to you tonight frustrate the prosecution from this office that I will do extends to every case the everything in my power to special prosecutor brings. H. R.

insure that the guilty are Haldeman, John Mitchell, John brought to Ehrlichman and the four others The President is making a charged in connection with the mockery of his pledge. The Des Moines Register upon As Mr comments, the interest of Kilpatrick In a paper blizzard, orderly regulation and business freedom alike would be lost. In the end, the overprotected consumer, the object of all this solicitude, would be gasping inside a cotton wool Consumerism has become a much abused standard that, like any deceptive label, deserves the closest scrutiny. Watergate cover-up could have the charges against them dismissed if President Nixon stands fast and refuses to allow access to evidence. It may be necessary to WOOD WASTES PRODUCE ENERGY One million additional A doting mother, answering a letter from the camp director who said her son needed discipline, wrote back, Director: Please slap my Irving; he is very sensitive.

Slap the boy next to him. That will scare Her husband came home and found a big black cigar smouldering in the bathroom ashtray. did this come he growled at his wife. There was a long pause and The National Employer ot industries. against their the Year Award was presented employer in this case, against at the National Association of hold- the line, anti- Man Congress of inflationary policies is American Industry in New nothing less than a strike York City.

against the government, and Harold Russell, chairman, thus is a species of revolution Committee on a revolution which could Employment of he bring down the administration Handicapped, made the Qf Prime Minister Health, presentation. There may be a lesson in The recipient of the 1973 travail for those in award was the Sears, Roebuck this country who advocate Company store of Tucson, nationalization as the solution Arizona. Paul Sher accepted the problem of for the company. industrialized society. The award, which is given each year to a company with Why is it that if a man does 200 employees or more, is to something foolish, people say: recognize an outstanding he And if a record of hiring handicapped WOman does something foolish, persons.

It also is intended to people say: women encourage a 11 sjHy understanding among (Mama, why is that?) employers of the capabilities of the handicapped. Tyson says that when THE SUN MAY BE traveling, he likes to ride in the SETTING INSIDE baggage car he says it gives MINES him a chance to express Britain, which stood alone himself, against the might of Hitler during the dark days of World If you want a place in the War II, which successfully sun, you must expect to get a made the painful transition few blisters, from imperial power to junior member of the European Lulu wants to know what Common Market, seems intent would happen if you mixed a on destroying i ts elf bottle of ink eradicator with a economically. bottle of ink. Labor stife in the coal mines and electrical power Tom: I think a perfect industry, plus a crippling example of feminine showdown by railroad workers, Bob: do you say have compounded with the oil that? shortage to put the Tom: she killed future in real jeopardy. her husband with a bow and is cutting its own arrow so she wake up said Hedley Gore, the secretary of the British Chamber of Commerce, on his WATCH THAT EGG! A return from a trade mission to larmer with 1 laying Australia, New Zealand and hens might not have to apply Singapore.

The briefcases of 19 for a National Pollutant businessmen who accompanied Discharge Elimination System him were full of orders for (NPDES) permit, according to British goods, but there is regulations promulgated by the doubt that the orders can be Environmental Protection filled. Agency (EPA). But presto, one products are more egg and 180,000 laying says Gore. prices are hens, and he would, says Tax right. Our reputation for Foundation, Inc.

honest dealing is still believed The numerical cut-off in. But people overseas are points separating large and beginning to wonder if you can small animal get on with the job. how feeding 700 all these labor troubles are dairy cows, 1,000 beef cattle, hurting 4,500 hogs, 35,000 feeder pigs, Significantly, the basic 55,000 turkeys, 145,000 industries which are the center ducks, 290,000 broilers, etc. of the troubles have long since have caused less controversy been nationalized by the than other definitions of government. Government of water ownership not only means pollution, plus requirements government control, but a that some be cleaned up by strike bv workers in these 1977.

and others by 1985. remove the President from kilowatt hours monthly is then from the closet came a office if only to prevent him being added to the critical muffled reply: Cuba, from obstructing justice. Pacific Northwest energy The immediate danger of supply by utilizing wood A mail-order man who sells such an obstruction is in wastes of the Simpson limber books on sex hygiene received connection with the scheduled Seattle, Wash. this urgent telegram: Send me June 17 trial of Colson. H.

P. Sandstrom, Northwest your book on sex hygiene. I Ehrlichman and three others operations manager, said a new think I ve caught it. for the break-in of the office of program for pooling the wood wastes, has enabled the Then they crossed the cat company to reactivate steam with the monkey and got a which were swinging pussy! Inside Labor Bv Victor Riesel Daniel psychiatrist. It seems clear that Judge Gesell is determined to dismiss this case unless the President backs down.

If the judge is correct that the President acting deliberately aborting this NEW YORK nothing frivolous in turning to for what he calls his exploited followers and denounce the a gastronomic interpretation of Teamsters who have virtually nerators mothballed. are hauling wood wastes from smaller operations in Mason, Thurston and Grays Harbor counties SEARS ROEBUCK NAMED EMPLOYER OF THE YEAR Washington Merry-Go-Round By Jack Anderson history now being made by Cesar Chavez, labor chief George Meany and Teamsters president Frank Fritzsimmons --and the United Farm evangelistic, placard, saving, picketing, hymn -singing pilgrimages into the massive cities. Early the other morning brother Richard, union boycott coordinator, all Coachella Valley lettuce and grape groweres under contract now. But for the first time Chavez is losing significant Church support. Into the arena, challenging spiritual mentor and strategist Msgr.

George Higgins, has come a to us Easterners and Washington, D.C., provincials. He is Fr. Dolores Huerta, vice Richard pastor of JACK ANDERSON SAYS: More on Klassen WASHINGTON In a series of columns, we have carefully IF THERE WERE MORE WHITE JACKETS IN THIS COUNTRY, IT WOULD BE A BETTER COUNTRY OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE Federal Judge Gerhard Gesell bluntly and unequivocally has served notice that he intends to dismiss charges against John Ehrlichman, Charles Colson and three others indicted for the Ellsberg break-in unless the President produces documents If you ever attend a Homecoming at the College of requested by the defense. William and Mary, see a famous Governor, or a Judge Gesell declared: College President, perhaps a prominent editor, famous seems t() me j1? (the President) is heading this case doctors, lawyers, bankers, business executives, in the direction of dismissal ministers, civic leaders all proudly wearing white The President must know he is jackets. That signifies these men earned all or most of deliberately (m) ii aborting this their way through college, waiting on table.

This is not a case where the They ashamed of menial labor, they prosecution is seeking to hold out for the job they liked, they ask for imPlicate the President or his former aides. The defendants governmental help they waited on table, and it want evidence they claim can helped them earn the education they have since put to exculpate them. Nevertheless such spledid use. has been throwing up a smokescreen of The Order of the White Jacket has a roster of which executive privilege and national any college club or fraternity or group of any kind in security to prevent access to the land could well be proud. There ought to be a the requested documents Oesoll i3K6n Chapter of this magnificent organization on vt ry no-nonsense stand on these college campus in America.

secrecy claims. are going Contributing alumni of all schools please note. to, with what is relevant in this trial, he said, Warner Swasey other day. going to be no executive privilege or national security privilege Prof. Bob Miller says experience is not only the best The judge ruled that national teacher but as an added advantage we get individual security cannot be invoked to justify the break-in.

instructions. Judge Gesell taid the For the most powerful attention for ear problems, members of the Post Office rather than hearing aids, are committees, Klassen has seriously injured because they arranged to place a friend of trusted some smooth- talking documented how Postmaster their choice on the board of salesman. General Ted Klassen has governors. Among those who State hearing aid licensing lavished himself with the were able to plant a political boards often packed with appurtenances of power, doled supporter on the board were Percy complained in a out jobs and contracts to his Senate Chairman Gale McGee, private letter to Food and Drug cronies and put politics ahead Sen. Hiram Fond, Commissioner Alexander of delivering the mail.

R-Hawaii, the ranking Senate Schmidt. He has managed to get away Republican; and Rep. Ed The salesmen themselves, with these abuses by intensely Derwinski, who will be Percy charged, often wooing the board of governors the ranking House Republican neither professionally qualified and the members of Congress next year. nor adequately equipped to who are supposed to supervise slick congressional diagnose and treat acute ear him. stroking may explain why the The board of governors is Post Office committees have WASHINGTON WHIRL: dominated by the lions of made no move to investigate The prestigious, nonprofit industry, who were expected our revelations.

Population Reference Bureau, to bring businesslike efficiency Meanwhile, House Post which coined the term to the Postal Service. But like Office Chairman Thaddeus is Daniel, Klassen has turned the Dulski, actually short $85,000. The FBI has lions into pussycats who purr headed off a planned charged that the money wound investigation of the Postal up in the bank account of the Service by the House Small former acting Business Committee. president, Alvaro Garcia-Pena. Claiming jurisdiction, Dulski We spoke to Garcia-Pena who insisted it was his job to refused to comment Lt.

investigate the Postal Service. Gen. Wallace Robinson, But instead of an investigation, director of the Defense Supply he merely fired off a stern but Agency, recently flew to the meaningless letter warning Far East for a three- week Klassen that his patience The general The likeable Klassen is even worn That was six and two aides were the sole more skillful at stroking the fur months ago; yet passengers aboard a huge Air of the congressional patience still been Force 707. The flying watchdogs, who have been exacerbated. behemoth, said a spokesman, assigned to keep an eye on Elsewhere, officials of the was going to the Orient him.

He makes frequent trips American Postal Workers anyway up to Capitol Hill to butter up Union, citing our columns, Government auditors have the members of the Senate and have called for House post office committees, removal. At least once a month, he Footnote: Rep. breakfasts or lunches with denied that Klassen them. When Klassen is unavailable, and hundreds of their devout partisans pursued the first shipments of Coachella Valley Our Lady of Soledad Church, Coashella, Calif. Rev.

Humphrys is as (Calif.) grapes into the huge fervently dedicated to the Point Terminal Market here with fervent cries for a boycott of lettuce as well as table grapes. Well, not just a matter of boycotting iceberg lettuce picked thousands of miles thc continued support distant by Teamsters members of -whom the Chavez folk call truth as any clergyman in this unhappy struggle. He denounces the boycott. He reports that Cardinal Manning of Los Angeles and Bishop Donohoe of Fresno out their approval wherever he appears before them. The full board even bother to meet regularly.

Sometimes it directs the $10- billion postal organization by telephone, rubber- stamping decisions by conference call. postal lobbyist Norm Halliday is on the Hill ready to attend to their wants. One House committee member, Rep wanted help in his primary election campaign. Suddenly, the postmaster general unlikely which had just been added to congressional district. Although Klassen is a Republican and Wilson a Democrat, they appeared together at a dutifully attended charged that the armed forces ran up more than $7 billion in Wilson extra charges on 55 weapons came to systems during the last six California to campaign for him, months of 1973.

The claiming the postmaster general confidential audit identified happened to be in the area the Air Force as the worst attending a regional offender with more than $3 conference. A spokesman for billion in cost overruns. The Dulski said the House chairman Army exceeded its cost Charles Wilson, wanted to give the postal estimates by $1.7 billion, the managers time to work things Navy by more than $1 billion, out but now is ready to move. A Pentagon spokesman blamed HARD OF HEARING: Sen. House Judiciary turned up in the Charles Percy, who has a Committee is transcribing town of Lynwood, hearing problem himself, has President famous called upon the Food and Drug Watergate tapes in three rooms Administration and the Federal which used to be occupied, Trade Commission to protect ironically, by the House Select the hard of hearing against Committee on Crime The which is all too original Watergate grand jury in the $150 million has been kept on to consider luncheon, hearing- aid industry.

some additional indictments by postal Unscrupulous salesmen and The original Watergate workers. The invitations were dealers often sell hearing aids prosecutors, meanwhile, have mailed at the to people, particularly the been notified that their expense in official Postal elderly, who need them, testimony will be needed at the Service envelopes. Others who need medical trials. non -union. a matter of salads.

For, if the housewife buy lettuce not apt to make a salad. So she buy tomatoes, or radishes or pickles or cucumbers or celery. So the tonnage of these vegetables falls off in shipments as well as the sales of lettuce. Fewer shipments, fewer trucks. Less trucks, less jobs.

And, says Charles Ullrich, president of Teamsters Local 202, this has cost his union members 500 jobs. Just at the Point Terminal alone. This means less for more than 10 per cent of his followers. sort of crusade is asks he, puts union men on the lines of unemployment This is merely the beginning. The 47 -year -old Chavez is due here for a blitz June 27.

He hopes to lead massed workers of the AFL Central Labor Council in devout demonstrations against lettuce and table grapes purchases. This is his season for action. Harvesting on the big produce ranches began late in May. Gathered have been grapes, lettuce and some violence --the hacking of one valuable vines and the burning of 15 buses which carried contract laborers in and around the Coachella Valley. As predicted here months ago, -there is little picketing in the fields.

The action is on concrete New York, Boston and a string of cities ranging from Philadelphia and Baltimore to Chicago and Seattle. Also Montreal and Toronto. Chavez will tell his story by his disciples and Vixrmn a will out. Rev. Humphrys, making it amply clear he speaks for himself, deplores the economic corrosion in the fields.

He deplores the impact on the Chicanos themselves. He is of Coachella, yet his voice has not been heard in the East. Chavez, with his charisma and sense of drama, along with his champions in and outside the clergy, have had the public relations arena vertually to themselves in this costly jurisdictional war. fair journalism to report that his statement has had to be privately distributed since it been reported as have announcements and denouncements unleashed by the pro -boycott forces. boycott is harming the very workers it was supposed to says Fr.

Humphrys. the Coachella Valley 120 to 150 table grape growers have been bankrupted. Acreage has been reduced by 40 per cent (from 13,000 to 7,000 acres). This means that 40 per cent of the jobs of our Mexican Americans of this area have been lost as a direct result of the boycott. vines have been bulldozed or allowed to There is reason to believe that if the boycott continues much longer, almost the entire grape industry (at least of the Coachella Valley) will be wiped out.

does not seem fair that a boycott should be applied against growers that do have a union contract and pay wages and benefits that are almost double those paid in the East, the Midwest and the Thus, as the season turns seeds into grapes of wrath, it also turns clergyman against clergyman, labor leader against labor leader while the growers and the public and the workers disemployed by the boycott are caught in the middle..