Concord Monitor from Concord, New Hampshire • 4

K' Wf Senate Seizes Budget Initiative A 'Rep Joseph Elton R-Ulllsborough chairman of House Appropriations claims that Items will creep Into the budget that never have been discussed before if die Senate begins to originate budget biUa We think this fear is invalid The Senate always has had the rightto amend a budget blfi adding appropriations either never considered or actually rejected by die House The new system change that It simply will mean these Items will be contained la the Senate version rather than added to a House version as in the past We think Sen Goman's move Is good one Its single most important effect should be to make the legislature more tioo in both houses of the legislature perhaps simulta-neously This should have the effect of expediting consideration of die budget because the Senate would not have to wait ter House action It mean earlier meetings of House- Senate conference committees where differing versions of leg-islatlon are worked out It also should have subtie ef fects on the relationship between die House and Senate Senate ideas and Interprets- dona of legislation shoul take greater precedence than under the present system of House origination Also It should reduce the long-prevalent tendency on die part of die House to pass poor legislation (Or political considerations and depend upon the Senate to HD It Thus the finance Committee move appears to be on solid ground The moves by the two Senate committees surely will have the effect of diluting die power of the House and will tend to make the Senate as the con- stitutioa Intended a mOre coequal body i Traditionally die Senate -Finance Committee has waited until die House Appropriations Committee has reported budget bills to the whole House and has -taken 19 consideration of die budget only after die House has acted -If Sen Gilman carries out his announced Intention1' budget bills win cone under considers- rVi Two State Senate committees have announced they will hatter precedent and initiate legislation calling for the ap- propria tlofl of state funds The move began in the Senate Finance Committee where die chairman Sen George (Gus) Gilman R-Famlngton said his group hoped to consideration oT Ihe state budget- This was followed quickly by the Senate Public Works and Transportation Committee whose chairman Sen Charles Armstrong R-Littleton announced that his group will hold hearings tomorrow on the state's $195 minion capital budget The Public Works Committee does not approve (he appropriation of funds But it does have the responsibility of passing oo tlie validity of the projects that state money would finance Both moves have vast ramifications In the past it has beep the House that has' held die inltiiftiVe on appropriations Thus the House Appropriations Committee traditionally has been the most powerful com- mlttee In the legislature Some lawyers have questioned die authority of the Senate Finance Committee to sponsor budget bills because the state constitution says that bills" must originate in the House But (he State Supreme Court twice has ruled that the term bills" refers only to revenue-raising measures uchas tax legislation Hillsborough County Wait win mark another memorable milestone fat the county history" Tlie resoluttan wis proposed by Rep John LaTour (D-Nasfana) chairman of die County delegation was a nice gesture but two years prematura The fact is that Rockingham Hillsborough and Cheshire counties were fanned simultaneously on March 19 1771 according to the 1969 edition of the New Hampshire Manual Neo-Nazis To Set Press Art Of for die General Court the Bible On page 130 die Manual says existence of Rock- Ingham Hillsborough and Cheshire counties begin on March 19 1771 It seems the provincial legislature passed an act on April 39 1769 asking King George HI for authority to form dm counties but It forthcoming for nearly two years Oh wen maybe hi 197L cfety connections of certair candidates running to mayor and dty council of Abilene The background of these candidates was relatively unknown to tiie electorate prior to the Abilene Reporter expose As a result of the newspaper's enterprise tiie Birchite slate was badly defatted Frank Kteckhohn tiie man who would head tiie proposed peso ethics committee had a spectacular career as a New York Times correspondent being Jailed by tiie British in Africa arrested and deported by Resident Peron of Argentina Ambassador George Met-sersmith In Buenos Aires ant 20-page report to the State Department after the Argen- tine incident calling Kluckhohn irresponsible and unbalanced Dropped by tiie New York Times Kluckhohn got a fob under John Fostei Dufies In the State Department later witched to the Republican National Committee where he worked for four years White working to tiie Repub- flrpu National Committee Kluckhohn ghosted two of the mort scurrilous of the anti-Johnson books bride on LBJ and Legacy" Though foe Republican National Committee steadfastly It had any connection -these smear books the vouchers for Jnly showed a $LOOO payment to Frank Ktockhohn Hock-brim collected another $1000 from foe right-wing for Constitutional Action" This is foe man whom the neo-Nazi underground proposes to put in charge-of a press ethics committee to pass Judgment on what should or should not be published WASHINGTON One of the most significant operations of the secret neo-Nazi movement in the United States is a (dan to establish a press ethics commit-tee to rate newspapermen and broadcasters and to censure those who embarrass "die Director of this committee fa Frank Ktockhohn who has been dose to Winii Carte chief mainspring of die neo-Nazi undo-ground and organizer of die Liberty Lobby Carte helped raise $90000 which waa die- tributed to conservative Con- gresstonal candidates last year Chief danger of the neo-Nazi underground is Its influence with a long list of Congressmen to whom It contributed heavily The situation is analogous to that in Germany when nobody took die Hitler Brown Shirts seriously until they enlisted tiie support of a few key industrialists and Field Marshal von Hindenberg One of those whom the neo-Nazis enlisted was the sonorous oratorical naive Sen Everett -McKinley Dirksec of Illinois Republican Leader In the Sen--ate who has played directly into die hands of the underground Dirksen did exactly what Kluckhohn and the Liberty Lobby have been hoping to do by attacking die New York Times and its reporter Neil Sheehan for digging Into the manner to which Otto Otepka raised tho money to pay Us attorney Rot er Robb plus other defense expenses to Mb battle against the-State Department The Department under Dean Rusk had dropped Otepka for teaKhf classified information on Walt Rostow and others to Sen Tom Dodd D-Conn Rostow was the National Security Adviser to Lairdsville local and state across foe states and on foe national level is observing its 50th an-jrfyersary with a sort of 00-ward-and-upward program new commonweal projects and study and Mg firatrahlng effort To this department's knowledge however foe state league has as yet planned nothing of a commemorative nature Such as to honor those valiant females right minded but ometimea wrong headed in their approach who pestered foe New Hampshire legislature term after term to the teens (Can you imagine parading in Concord in academic caps and gowns?) So glory passes Only a tow of foe older women hold there leaders in personal recollection Honor roll: But Just for foe record here a handful of there vigorous would-be voters of whom tills department knew one well In her girlhood and heard tell quite often of -foe othen They were Harriet Huntress who' in 1913 became deputy superintendent of the Department of Public Instruo-' tlon (in other words deputy commissioner of education) and who was a member of foe advisory board Equal Suffrage Association Marffia Young Ricker of Dover admitted to foe New Hampshire Bar in 1890 and first woman admit ted to practice before foe bar of tiie Supreme Court in 189L (Imagine having to practice laws one could do wofoing about choosing someone to vote for) Mrs Ricker according to New Hampshire Notables" (1919) was the woman in New Hampshire to demand the right THE CONCORD One: of the legislature's harmless activities is die passage many of die days It is In session of resolutions observing name historic event or personal accomplishment Thus die House last week dutifully approved a resolution observing that Hills' County waa celebrating Ha 200th anniversary In recognition members of the House offered felicitations to Hillsborough County with the hope that this year Drew Pearson Presidents Kennedy and John- President Nixon has now promoted Otepka from his former $14000 Job in the State Department to a $36000 Job on the Subversive Activities Control Board By so doing Nixon rebuffed his owi Secretary of State William lingers who refused to rein- -state Otepka Robb Otepka attorney has been promoted by Nixon to the Court of Ap-peals out of the most important Judicial appointments in the nation Persecuting New York Times When the New York Times dug into the John Birch Society and other right-wing sources from which Otepka had raised his legal defense fond Sen Dirksen took the unusual step of denouncing the Times and threatened to denounce on the floor of the Senate the reporter who wrote the story It was the New York Times incidentally which fired Kluckhohn And it waa Dirksen who urged President Johnson to save the Subversive Activities Control Board to which Otepka has now been appointed What the New York Times did waa a straight piece of reporting which every newspaper has a right and obligation to do in order to keep the public informed Reporter Sheehan showed how Otepka had been palsy-walsy with the John Birch Society and had raised at least $22000 from its members or its fronts Sheehan quoted Mrs Harold McKinney a John Birch chapter leader as raying that assurance of success How many Americans are firing In poverty hunger degradation in slums already condemned with 1 little or no education? Would you spend taxpayers money to save these fives? We have no money to prevent the pollution of our air and our riven but we have billions fix a system that might work But again it might not And in order for it to be used it requires an bent on suicide Do you believe that either China or Russia is suicidal enough to attempt -to attack us armed as we are with enough missiles to destroy both of them almost ln- stantiy? Senator Cotton I believe a vote for the Ami Mterito System is a vote of madness Please come home breathe some good dean New Hamp shire aif speak to ariqe sane New Hampshire people and toy sway for a white from Washington where all three fantasies are brewed We need you to represent our best interests not pour all our tax money -down a Pentagon rat hole to vote and paying taxes under protest since Ana Dr Marion Bugbee who began medical practice In Vermont In 1898 and here in 1909 active in the Concord Equal Suffrage League Susan Wood Bancroft wife of Dr Charles Bancroft head of the now Hospital who was a member of the executive committee of the Equal Suffrage Association and to 1916 president of the Concord Equal Suffrage League Dr Jane Elisabeth Hoyt Stevens who started her medical practice in Concord in 1893 and who was widely knows "suffragist" (She also was a disciple of Gan-ihi and was off to India as often aa she could get away) 1897 Dr Hoyt-Steveni was a candidate for the office of city physician of Concord running against quite Add of mile doctors She came within three votes of election And Frances Abbott writer and first Concord girl to take a degree (Vassar 1881) She described herself as an "active suffragist since 1897" She was in charge of foe suffrage headquarters in Concord to 1914 and 1915 It waa in those years foot this depart ment although she remembers nothing of foe experience tore foe Concord campaign mascot carrying a teddybear in one arm and a For banner in the other It waa earlier than memory hot it must have had a lasting effect deep in the subconsciouses fob column obvious evidence Newsmaker little doubt to my mind that there a direct relationship between foe degree of escalation of violence to a college confrontation and foe number of TV cameras that are cm foe scene" Theodore Miriam chairman of foe California state college trustees DAILY MONITOR nontetefi wS site Otepka had very hi arranging speakers for the' annual John Birch meeting in Boston He quoted Julius Butler a John Birch chapter leader in Oak Brook HL as saying that Otepka had epoken to Bircfaite groups in Butter1! home four or five times comes here whenever he cornea to Chicago" Butier said Sheehan quoted Jerome Codker a Birch chapter leader la Deerfield OIL to the effect that he had heard Otepka 4ak few times" at the hones of (gends The New York Times also reported oi Otepka's attendance at various Ug John Birch rallies and how he autographed 8-by-lO-inch glossy photographs of himself at a John Birch meeting at Washington's Staffer HHtoa hotel Sheehan queried Otepka about these activities He declined to discuss them Though the Times did a thorough fob of probing ties with the John Birch Society it did not go into the equally ignlflffMrf manner fo Which the liberty Lobby and the neo-Nazi movement has indeed Otepka Stifling News Criticism If Sen angry Mart at the New York Times stands as a precedent It means that newspapers cannot report cm tin activities of a presidential appointee facing Senate confirmation without risk of being attacked In tin Senate This is exactly what Willis Carto and Frank Kluckhohn with their press ethics committee are trying to accomplish They want to hamstring critical comment 'by newspapers For instance the Abilene Reporter News in Trios recently exposed the John Birch So- Young people are not the only ones getting angry at this ex-travagent waste Taxpayers are too VIRGINIA COLTER DUNBARTON EX-PRESIDENT JOHNSON UNLIKELY TO STARVE Sir: Mr Johnson is' retired but he wont have to pinch pen- ties He gets $25000 a year as ex-Praddent plus $21 000 retirement benefits And the government allows him $80000 a year to run a permanent staff free office apace tor himself and toff and a helicopter to commute As a matter of fact he gets free offices in the federal building in' Austin but he needs than for he went off with much of the White House intelligence flfci Aqd ob yes be gets a smidgen more to the govern- 1 ment gives him $375000 for ex-' tra secretarial help during hfa first six months out of office But going to miss his Mayday May Day marchers mayday maypoles mayflowers mayqueen chll- May parties merry month of May month Child Health Day Day Rough winds do shake the darling buds of hey noony no May Memory May franchise freedom all creatures loving the merry month May That In -care you no- ognize It aa such la tills version of a poem in aa concrete as the back-space key oo the home typewriter can make it and if it turns out badly in print weft Just know that every fine was perfect oo the old portable Rather than the pleasure of approach which would be a good enough reason after the snowi of winter past what occasioned it was a review of concrete poetry as art which John Furalval wrote for The Northwest Review maga- zinc of Northwestern University which to some reason found its way from Evanston HL to tills newsroom desk Fumival concluded that concrete poetry this form in which seemingly without context create significant patterns" was true art Actually a kind of graphic art which could be handsome as an art form at least The most famous of such aeons to be tha cricket poem done by Aram Saroyan sou of abort Stow writer William Saroyan Tha only word he used in the poem was HO mads a fancy diagonal slafch of his tetter arrangement down across the page with a lighter stripe of in the center It sounds -maybe something like crickets but more than poem in this old fashioned view It requires print how rise would it look like anything? With this department the above started out as doodling to aee if May Day and would fit into a form on a page To be really right the "form" should have been a May basket or a maypole or some thing to any case what happened here was that suddehfy the doodle became foil of May's peculiar evocation and franchise and freedom popped up from tiie subconscious Perhaps that waa because the two newsroom females bad been talking about the May anniversary of tiie first national recognition of bid to tiie franchise On May 19 1919 yean ago the Congress asked the "several states" to grant women voting righto and on Aug 26 1920 their political freedom was declared force" (Seems that in New Hampshire women had had school voting righto long before for quite number of them had aerved on school something that bean looking into) THELMA BURDG The League of Women Voters Kennedy with a largo crew had 23 of them around Army men who can how fighting foe war and boys come hone Nixon can get only om camera ROGER PEASE ANSWERS THE MAIL surprlu I found ap adjutant box foe other day President Nixon a ago regarding my an aspect of and expressing such monies be are for neglected aiuj abroad This to find tiie army maiL Letters To The Editor AND NEW HAMPSHIRE PATRIOT MOMTOe NSUttaw COMPANY INC 1 nnm sm cmcm ran Sr DUM jr tow wmM LMStob SNtar im 4fN photographers started foe Idea and Mr Johnson following Mm Signal Corps go bade to let 23 other Seems Mr along with Contoocook ARMY PRESIDENTS Sir: To my a letter from general in my I had wired few days concern ever military spending mjl desire fori diverted to children here was my answer I am alarmed answering the COTTON ASKED TO VOTE AGAINST ARM Sir: Following is an open tet- ter to Sen Norris Cotton Dear Senator Cotton: I am amazed at tho ness of your reply to my letter concerning the ABM System What you are saying in effect to that we must send good money after bad in this esse billions even though you know that scientists cannot agree as to whether latest developments would even be effective A reading of statements by top scientists reveals thta many are sure that such a system would be fotile indeed and could ha easily circumvented You also agree that we have had abysmal failures In our mil'tary re-' search in the past notably the F-lll still you vote them the billions they request no questions agked Why? You say it wilfpossibly save millions of lives at sons possible future time There are natty other ways of saving lives with less money and more -onswrat? I In ii-ii SET Zjr tMMoaeaeaa Mil illwaalA S1UI L2 IMmi Amtrlcai ond Spuki tlV ptr iwto wrtelw toftl advrinci 1 SmMM MtoWwrty to wi tan npuMkaltm -1 WWM Sw Btwipwif IMS oH AP rt Seetriadw pattagi paN Ctneard Ntw HaiyMra Tuesday April 29 1969 a.