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It -3 Conchsound Quieter with Nixon mm the hills The News-Herald THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1970 EDITORIAL School building plans in By WILL INHAN On man's creation nected to form the interior of classrooms. Modules would contain complete lighting and ventilating facilities and would permit flexibility in room sizes through inserting or removing modules. State construction reimbursements to districts would be established on basic standards, therefore individual districts would determine and pay for frills and alterations. The referendum provision would have a strong influence in determining design. Because of population shifts, school planning has been an impossible task in the past two decades.

Extensive building programs have failed to keep up with the changes. The flexibility offered by the proposed school construction standards are long overdue. Construction debts keep piling up while the buildings do not meet the needs. Of special interest to the Franklin Area School District should be the package of bills introduced in the state House designed to reduce building costs of new public schools. One of the bills would additionally require school districts to get approval from the electorate before building new schools.

This is an interesting proposal in view of the preliminary moves by the Franklin district toward constructing a new middle school. The bills are a result of a study by a Joint State Government Commission task force, which estimates the state could save 25 per cent in building costs, which now amount to $270 million a year. Savings are contemplated from a systems approach to school construction through use of pre-f abricated modules con orbiting of an earth satellite, the speaker predicted. Lewis declared that liberals in the Senate were "getting revenge" for the Abe Fortas case when they defeated the nominations of Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court.

He questioned the sincerity of the opposition and blamed it also on the fact that nominees were strict constructionists and Southerners. Nixon's strong suit is in foreign affairs, Lewis said. The President makes all decisions personally on Vietnam and regards the State Department and the Pentagon as advisors. His early decisions on Vietnam were easy and were politically and militarily the proper. Now the President has a difficult decision in regard to North Vietnamese activity in Cambodia and Laos and is getting conflicting advice from State and Pentagon.

South Vietnamese security cannot be guaranteed until the threat is removed from Hs neighbors, but American manpower cannot be used ki that respect, Lewis said. Nixon's course seems to be one of involvement without intervention, as in the Middle East where "we are using influence to try to prevent a war." The U.S. cannot be a policeman but cannot afford isolationism. "We have too much at stake in the world, in security, humanity and freedom to ignore what is going on." He interpolated that Russians must be the smartest of people, since the Soviets are constantly involved in trouble but carefully avoid risking loss of Soviet personnel. "We've got to learn that art." Lewis predicted a favorable reaction of Americans to Nixon's Vietnam policy and his domestic efforts in the congressional elections in the fall.

Returning to the efforts of Nixon for decentralization of power, Lewis observed that the "greatest danger is not "communism but apathy if no one at the local level accepts responsibility." "I'm confident Americans can be inspired to assume responsibility to build people instead of government." Although he defended Carswell as a high court nominee, he characterized him as a "medicare candidate for the Senate." He said Mrs. John Mitehell is "the greatest thing that has happened for women's liberation." The attorney general's wife has made several remarks which have become famous ki recent months. He defended Vice President Spiro Ag-new's speeches but recognized they had "reduced the dialogue" between the administration and young people. "His criticism of the press was badly needed," the journalist said. By BOB DAVIS President Nixon's most important contribution has been to bring Americans to talking more rationally, according to Fulton Lewis conservative newspaper columnist and radio commentator.

"I see signs that blacks and whites are speaking in softer tones," he said in addressing an Allegheny College audience in Meadville this week. He used the comparison with two years ago when rioting was taking place, but did not mention the connection between riots and the assassination of Martin Luther King. The audience amounted to only 50 students and adults, curtailed possibly by ideal Spring weather outdoors or by the subject: An appraisal of the Nixon administration. Although the crowd was sparse, it indulged in a lively colloquy with the speaker after his talk. Several students were well versed on current subjects and Lewis had to increase his track speed to keep up with their challenges to his assessments.

In general, they did not agree with the speaker's views and posed questions framed within statements of their own. Lewis said the Nixon administration had not set any great milestones in its year and a half in office but that it has been successful in starting to redirect political power, in devising a more realistic defense and in foreign policy decisions. Lewis granted that some Americans are speaking in louder voices, "but they are not rational anyway." He included among the loud ones New Left figures, Black Panthers and campus radicals. Lewis started by saying Nixon had inherited a stalemated Vietnam war, a crime wave, an inflationary spiral with no sign of restraint, deteriorating relations between American people which threatened the existence of the nation, and an uncooperative Congress. He admitted the crime rate has not been curtailed and that inflation has worsened despite the rhetoric.

He blamed the inflation problems on a carry-over of President Johnson's programs and the refusal of Congress to exercise fiscal restraint. He complained that Congress had acted on only two of 26 bills submitted to widen the fight against crime. The redistribution of tax dollars under the proposed Nixon welfare reforms is a start in redirecting political power, Lewis said. He regarded the Safeguard anti-ballistic missile system as "the greatest step toward peace in years." An expansion of Safeguard, soon to be considered by Congress, has been guaranteed by China's A pat on the back to that counter-point of man and Cosmic Figure. Primal Cause and overt Effect flow into one another, scientific method is given myth-strength, and the idea that nothing happens except by a direct and analyzable cause comes rooted into our thought-patterns.

Thus the great genius takes a world-view that later will degenerate into cold and mechanical method and brings it to dramatic and dynamic focus. Individual and Cosmos, man and Man, vulnerable mortal self and Immanent Essence are shown together in a profound unity of opposites, in as near a yin-yang mystery as Western art can represent in its usually graphic forms. Nerve cells in the human body work in linear relation, yet meet at synapses, fork-like ends which overlap without actually touching. The nerve-impulses leap, speak-like as in a magnetic field, from nerve cell to cell. So does life seem to leap from God to Adam and from Adam to God, from man to universe, from Universal Life to particular individual life.

Yet Adam is naked, and his navel mark of his connection with his mother, his life-source clearly shows. His finger a spark-leap away from the finger of God shows the Western-logical view. Yet even this suggests a leap rather than an actual touch. The navel shows process and, at the same time, a center of life in each individual. We do not join only by cause: we join in essence, at the center, beyond time and circumstance.

Each of us is infinitely kin in the entire field of being. Our birth is continuous with us and in us and among us. We grow. Our meaning and our mystery work together in 'he whole continuum and full flow of our lives. Our reaching fingers of question and affirmation are as generative of our life as our sexual organs are.

"Before Abraham was, I Am is true forever in each of us when we come to from the unconsciousness of thingness. We are nothing. We are everything. Our navel, our center Is. Our finger, our direction reaches.

Being and doing are one wholeness in our awareness. We must get ourselves together. Michelangelo's painting, The Creation of Adam, has inspired me for years. The beautiful and subjective-but-strong body and countenance of Adam, I identify with. I also feel reverence and warmth for the God-figure, portrayed as a venerable, powerful, compassionate Father.

People of Michelangelo's time, and some since, have been troubled that, in the painting Adam is shown as having a navel. "How," they have asked, "can Adam, directly by God from dust and not born of woman, possibly have a navel?" Michelangelo, famous for his love for certain Roman youths, partly as counter-grief over his own broken nose, also studied human anatomy by examining corpses taken illicitly from their graves. Perhaps he refused to paint out, even from the belly of Adam, the center of being which he had observed so often in the bodies of both the quick and the dead. Or perhaps, as with other artists, he trusted his intuitions: he may have divined that we humans, male or female, even when born naturally from our-mothers, are also born, each of us, directly from the immediately and organically present hand of God. Anyway, the painting portrays Adam with his umbilical sign clearly evident.

We may meditate to reach our own intuitive inspiration as to what Michelangelo wanted to rceal to us, deeper than dogma or reason. To me, the most significant point of the painting is in the positions of Adam and God in relation to one another. Adam languishes almost sensually on earth but with his left arm thrust upward toward heaven. God swoops down with flowing robes and with one hand extended earthward toward Adam. Their outstretched forefingers are a spark-space apart.

They are generating one another Adam by his upward faith-reach, flesh-trust, God by his downward thrust of power into clay. Abstraction becomes material process Gravity-ridden body becomes substance with universal rhythms and connection. All the force and orbits of the furthest stars enter into the one incarnation. Western logic is fastened into man overcrowding. One American is responsible for putting more carbon monoxide and benzophrene in the air than 200 Pakistanis or Indians.

One American consumes three times more food than the average person who comes from places that account for two-thirds of the world's population. The average American is responsible for 2,500 pounds of waste per year many times the world average. If abandoned refrigerators, automobiles, and other bulky objects were to be included, the i would be astronomically higher. "The United States, with less than 2 per cent of the world's people, accounts for almost 30 per cent of poisons being dumped into the sky and the seas. The notion, therefore, that Americans are less of a drain on the Earth than Chinese or Indians, because there are so many fewer of us, is an absurdity and a dangerous one." These facts are not ones of which we can be proud.

We thank God young people are aware of them and are determined to do something about correcting a situation that could spell the end. Young people and adults who are demonstrating concern and action related to our environment and quality of life. We hope the present concern is not just a passing fancy. If it is, we are doomed. There are those who would turn us off on the ecology cause saying it isn't all that serious.

Don't believe them. An editorial in the current issue of The Saturday Review includes the following frightening facts: in terms of polluting the environment and using up the Earth's resources the United States is one of the most over-populated countries in the world. Nowhere is there more pollution per person than in the United States. "The average American uses more electric power than fifty-five Asians or Africans. The generation of electric power is a prime producer of pollution.

A single American accounts for more detergents, pesticides, radioactive substances, fertilizers, fungicides, and defoliants in the rivers and oceans than are produced by a thousand people in Indonesia a nation that is generally cited as a prime example of hu THE WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Child poisoning by pill STRICTLY PERSONAL Thoughts at large By SYDNEY J. HARRIS By JACK ANDERSON 22 years ago At noon a dinner was served with members of the immediate family present. A. L. Steck of Oil City Glass Bottle will be the speaker for the monthly dinner meeting of the Franklin Foremen's Club in the YMCA Tuesday.

He will talk on the methods of manufacturing glass containers. April 30, 1948 The new emergency room in Franklin Hospital is a direct gift of the public who contributed to the hospital drive last year and attended the antique tea last Oct. 20. Ted Brookhouser and h-s orchestra will provide the music for the dance to be held Friday under the auspices of the Exchange Club of Franklin. Mr.

and Mrs. John Kossman of Franklin RD 2, announce the engagement of their daughter, Judy, to Lawrence N. Breene, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Breene of Franklin Avenue.

Joseph White, who recently completed his boot training at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station, is spending a 10-day leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Howard White. E. E.

McKenzie quietly celebrated his 90th birthday anniversary on Wednesday in his 44 YEARS AGO, April 30, 1928 Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Hoffnnn and son, Larden, have gone to Los Angeles and El Segundo, for a visit.

The 66th anniversary of the founding of Woodburn, Cone will be celebrated tomorrow with a big anniversary sale. The fire on Myrtle Street yesterday afternoon was in a building owned by Charles O. Fields and occupied as a residence by Mr. and Mrs. William Jackson.

pharmacist. The pill container and wholesale package also offered no warning of the danger to children. Finally, we asked for the full printed pharmacist-physician warning, which described the dire possible effects upon mothers but didn't mention the danger to children. Even the Food and Drug Administration, which is supposed to protect the public but sometimes seems more eager to protect the drug manufacturers, has suppressed the facts about child poisoning. Mississippi Fakery For two decades, Mississippi has systematically faked school enrollment figures to keep black children on the edges of illiteracy.

Poor whites have suffered almost equally from the official deception. This column has uncovered the long history of statistical juggling right out of the records of the State of Mississippi itself, checked against the U.S. Census and the National Education Association. The figures speak eloquently of official lies. By inflating the school attendance figures, state officials apparently sought to lull concerned Mississippians who might otherwise demand compulsory education.

The padded figures made it appear, falsely, that a high percentage of children are in class. Compulsory education, course, would increase school costs and provide better educa- dians," which closed prematurely but prompted me to read the new book, "The Geronimo Campaign," by Odie Faulk, which gives an exciting but reliable account of the white man's perfidy at that time. Politicians are always astounded, and a little indignant, when confronted in office with their campaign promises; for, as de Gaulle observed, since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him. One of the chief differences between the generations is that we used to do our homework in solitude and quiet; but today, due to some kind of Pavlovian conditioning, homework apparently can be done best only with a transistor blaring, the TV on, and a telephone receiver clamped to one ear. Viewpoints 'If the fad dies Conservation is a cause that has been espoused by some thoughtful Americans at least since the days of Thoreau, a cause whose time has come because life is running out.

Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction. As the new conservationist magazine Earth Times observes: "Suddenly 'ecology is on everybody's lips. Concern with ecology is fashionable nowadays. But if the fad dies, we die with it." The New York Times One easy way to distinguish a virtue from a vice is that a virtue enjoys seeing itself reflected in others as generosity appreciates generosity but a vice resents seeing itself reflected in others as egotism cannot stand rival egotism. For every one man who is working hard in order to get ahead, ten are working hard in order to get along.

She used to be called "a woman with a past" now she's called "a girl with a future." Speaking of flower-names, as I was the other day, recalled Alphonse Kerr's comment on the subject: "Botany is not a science; it is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin." The most over-valued trait in the arts is "sincerity," considered as a good thing in itself; the worst singers I have ever heard were suffused with sincerity so much so that they could scarcely hear their lack of talent. No husband has the right to designate himself as "experienced" as long as he still tells his wife the exact amount he won or lost in a poker game. The finest rebuke to long-windedness was given by Henry Clay, when Alexander Smyth, a tedious speaker in Congress, said to him, "You sir, speak for the present generation; but I speak for posterity." "Yes, replied Clay, "and you seem resolved to speak until the arrival of your audience." The most stimulating play I saw on Broadway all season was Kopit's "In BERRY'S WORLD tion for the neglected Negroes both threats to the Mississippi power apparatus. Going back to 1949, Mississippi based its school funding on the school age census and used the figure 886,153. But the next year the U.S.

Census humiliated the state by reporting that the correct figure was only 640,950. In otther words, the state had padded the rolls with 245,203 "ghost" children. By 1953, Mississippi slipped through a law to put the funding on the basis of "average daily attendance." This figure got around an embarrassing comparison with the U.S. Census every decade, and it was just as easy to use the attendance figures to deprive black schools. Inflated Figure These official Mississippi figures show that in Neshoba and Tallahatchie counties, for example, the attendance was padded by 46 and 40 per cent But the fakery got out of hand in Lawrence County.

Incredible as it seems, the Education Department published phony figures that showed far more white children in school there were schoolage whites in the entire county. Instead of honestly admitting the juggled totals, state officials began to rewrite the school statistics just as Russia rewrites history books every time a new regime takes over. In its 1957-58 report, the total enrollment was given as 549,933. But by the 1968-69 report, Education Department had revised the 1957-58 enrollment downward to 536,417, thus officially wiping out more than 13,000 phantom pupils. This column found similar fakery going all the way back to 1945-46.

Under moderate Governor Paul Johnson, Mississippi hired the famed consultants, Booz-Allen and Hamilton, to study the state school system. They visited the state to pass compulsory education forthwith. But Johnson was replaced by Governor John Bell Williams, whose administration "created" (Continued on Page 5) WASHINGTON For the eight million American women taking birth control pills, who already face an increased risk of heart attack and blood clots, this column has uncovered a new and frightening danger. Buried in Food and Drug Administration files are 58 8 reports of child poisonings caused by oral contraceptives during the 18 months from January, 1968, to June 1969. In most cases, the youngsters took their mothers' pills thinking they were candy.

The reports don't specify serious the effects were, but the poisonings increased rapidly at the end of the data period. If Senate testimony is correct that only 10 per cent of bad side effects ever got reported, this could mean as many as 5,000 children a year suffer from "Pill" poisoning. Cover-Up All too typically, most drug companies are more interested in profits than in protecting children. Ortho-Novum, made by Ortho Pharmaceutical, led the list of birth control pills that had poisoned children, with 241 cases. Yet the company's advice to women is mislead-ingly reassuring.

Says the Ortho-Novum pamphlet: "Question: Suppose a child accidentally swallowed one of my pills? "Answer: This has happened with no ill effects." Ovulen pills, made by Searie, have caused 95 cases of rhild poisoning. Yet the company has advised its customers soothingly: "Question: Would there be any serious harm done if a child should take a pill accidentally? "Answer: This has happened with no bad effects." Other pills that have caused poisoning after children have swallowed lem are: Norlestrin, produced by Parke-Davis, 114 cases; Provest, made by Upjohn, 20 cases; and Ovral, made by Wyeth, 14 cases. This column made a test purchase of Ortho-Novum and received no warning from the THE NEWS-HERALD GRAFF1TI by Leary Billil ConmlldsMm FJAm.n rVFNTNO fHSWS MiMlntiM f. M. 17, trv JAMKS B.

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