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The Back 'Page 'IN 'J Inflation Still Rales A is Public Enemy No. 1 QUESTIONS ANSWERS in what will be the final get column 1970. Your commentator is straining to away on vacation, so make it snappy, please t'i -i, i IT, i a $ji You keep moaning about the evils oi inflation. Come on now it isn't all that dangerous, is it? A You bet it is "all that dangerous," and then some. Inflation is like a pretty little ol' coral snake.

Look at it so colorful and so harmless appearing! But you let it chew at your shoe long enough and all at once you will be dead. I have been reading the memoirs of Albert Speer The Third an absolutely absorbing account of Germany before and during the reign of Adolf Hitler. This is probably the most accurate recollection we will ever have of what 'really transpired in the Nazi circles," and from that mvrm.MmJx standpoint alone it is priceless. Anyhow, in an early chapter Speer refers to a letter he wrote in pt em be 1923, while on a bicycle trip through the Black Forest. Listen: "Very cheap here! Lodgings 400,000 marks (theoretically, the mark was four to the American dollar) and supper 1,800,000 marks.

Milk 250,000 marks a pint." "Six weeks later, shortly before the end of i 1 a i Speer reminds us, "a restaur-" ant dinner cost ten to twentv Free Press Photo by DICK TRIPP Packers approach as Leni Barney sets sail on a 74-yard kickoff return that set up a Lion field uoal Albert Speer billion marks, and even in the student dining hall over a billion. I had to pay between three and four hundred million marks for a theater ticket Lions Celebrate 'Lent Barney Bay A BY JACK SAYLOR Free Press Sports Writer Lemuel Joseph Earney was a 12-yeK--old junior high schooler in Gulfport, when the Lions won their last championship in 1957. He was a New York Giant fan always rooted for the team with the dark jersies," he laughed) and he was particularly aware of Charley Conerly because Cbuckin Clfarley played quarterback. "I always had hopes of being the first black quarterback," Barney said. "I was a quarterback at 33rd Ave.

High in Gulfport," he explained. "We had a run-pass option play I'd always run. I'd bootleg right or left and a' lotta times I went for touchdowns. "One game we beat a team 114-0 I scored three touchdowns everybody but the coaches and trainer scored but we still didn't win a championship." NOW BARNEY has a chance to win a championship a Super Bowl title wcrth a tidy $25,000 per player, which is a lot of cabbage for anybody, but especially one who grew up as a black in Gulfport, Miss. Lem remembers well.

It's why he, carefully walked off the field with the ball he carried into the end zone on a 49-yard interception run against Green Bay Sunday. "Anytime I score on a kick return or interception I save the ball and give it to some underprivileged kid," he explained. "I'll give this ball to some kid for. Christmas." Barney's touchdown run on the interception was one of three game-breaking plays in the 20-0 victory over the Packers that put the Lions on the path to the Super THAT, FRIENDS, was some inflation! Of course, it is now pointed out that "Germany had just lost a war." Well, what do you think we are about to do on a lesser scale, admittedly in Vietnam? Mr. Nixon's economists to the contrary, we are not even close to being out of the woods on inflation.

It is the reason why those lines in front of that food stamp agency on Grand River keep getting longer and longer; it is responsible for budgetary deficits, the government's and yours; it is why "money in the bank" doesn't have that old-time solid ring to it. Inflation is still Public Enemy Number One, but to this point we have been fighting it with pop guns. You had a piece the other day in which you said that public indignation is the only mood that will save us from common crime. What do you think we ought to do first? A Disarm the public and to heck with the caterwaulings of the various munitions companies and sportsmen groups. The latter could be accommodated on a permit basis, and so could other citizens in proper need of guns.

I agree seven thousand percent with Patrick V. Murphy, our Police Commissioner until he was sweet-talked to New York City. "We are at that point in time and terror," he recently told the National Association of Citizens Crime Commissions, "when nothing short of a strong uniform policy of domestic disarmament will alleviate the danger. Let us take the guns away from the people Constantly we are reminded that "the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed," appears in Article II of the Bill of Rights. But what we don't hear is the beginning of that sentence "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State The article was written, we should remember, at a time when the "common defense" rested largely with militiamen.

Who in many instances were charged with providing their own arms and sometimes even their own powder and shot. When the alarm came, they dropped the plow, grabbed their musket and headed off to muster. Times, one might point out, have changed. There are now enough uncontrolled weapons in this country to sink Rhode Island, and innocent citizens and the police are the victims of this gross distortion of the Constitution. O-My, you are wound up today! Would you like to predict (this being Monday) how the Lions will fare, in the weekend play-off muddle? A-They will make it.

Don't ask me how, but justice will be served. Lions 270, Pete Rozelle 0. Q-Who in your estimation should be named Man of the Year? A-The nod will probably go to Richard Nixon.But let's face it: There was a weak field in a lackluster year. He also set up a field goal with a 74-yard kickoff return and established position for. a touchdown on a 65-yard punt return.

His 223 yards in specialty plays was only 63 yards short of the total offense of both teams. BARNEY BECAME a kickoff returner last week only because of an injury to Tommy Vaughn. "Joe (Schmidt) asked me would I get back on kickoff returns and naturally I said yes," LBJ grinned. "Any time I can run the ball, I wanna do it." "I thought was gone on the kickoff return. Ed Mooney threw a block, but (Doug) Hart had a good angle on me.

Coach Schmidt just said go up the middle the wedge did a good job and the hole was there." Barney credited Craig Cotton with the key block on his long punt return and said he got his break when two Packer punt coverers overran him. "On any broken-field run I try to set 'em up on one side. I broke two tackles and got back to the center, then cut across. Forrest Gregg and another big tackle were left and I outran them to the end zone. "When.

Wayne Walker pounded me in the end zone it was the hardest lick I received all day." 1 BARNEY SAID his interception came on the same pattern Dick LeBeau nicked Bart Starr twice earlier. "I figured he'd throw another sideline and I had good position," he said. "Anytime I can get one from Carroll I'm happy. Bart's arm is sore the zip's not there." Lemuel Joseph Barney still has zip, though, and now the Lions have zipped right into the NFL playoffs. V.

V. 4 'SI 4 Free Press Photos bv STEVE THOMPSON And the goalposts came tuinbliii down names faces Anything else? A-Yes. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Italian Divorces Start with All-Star Cast if hi, 5: i y.yyy -yy y- yjyyyy 0MyM.MyiBf -w- A y-'y say there were no major wars. Although Christ was not accepted by all, just the fact that He was upon earth had a serene effect upon civilization. Jesus said that at the time of His second coming there would be wars, hatred and abounding iniquity.

Some day peace will come, but the world will be purged by judgment, and evil men will "be removed from the scene. Then righteousness and peace will reign in the world. QUESTION I'm sure that God can take care of world peace without Christians praying for it. What do you J. ANSWER I pray for world peace because the Bible tells us to.

The world is full of unrest, confusion and conflict because we have not given the Prince of Peace His rightful place in the world. It is interesting to note that during the 33 years of Christ's sojourn on earth, historians i Divorce Italian style was a smash success with a star cast on the opening day of what could be a limited run in Italy. In Rome alone, 543 divorce actions were filed by lunch-time, a rate that had citizens standing in line before a special divorce office in the new putty-colored court building. LTp front in the waiting line were 1 a for actress-singer Catherine Spaak, niece of the former Belgian Foreign Minister, Paul Henri Spaak. She seeks to divorce actor Fa-brizio Capucci, brother of Roberto Capucci, one of Italy's best-known fashion designers.

Opera diva Maria a 1 1 a wasn't there but she already has announced she will file suit promptly to divorce Italian industrialist Giovanni Bat-tista Meneghini, from whom she has been separated 11 years. Other prominent Italians filing for divorce the first day of Italy's first divorce law since. Napoleonic1 times included former -communist Sen. Edoardo Domofrio and Prince Eugenio Rnspoli. Parliament passed the divorce law Dec.

1 over the objections of the Vatican and Pope Paul. It came into force Friday after the required 15-day waiting period following its Dec. 3 publication in the official gazette. prevent some couples from obtaining final decrees for three or four years. The first day of divorce also saw a Mussolini seeking a legal end to a i a although the request wjs for a separation and not divorce.

Jazz pianist Romano Mussolini, 43, son of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, and Maria Scicolone, 30, shapely sister of actress Sophia Loren, obtained the separation by mutual consent. Day for Young Sons and daughters of President Nixon's staff conducted an unusual White House Christmas worship service Sunday. Mr. Nixon was the only adult who spoke, talking briefly about efforts to build a better world for the youth of the nation. All Che i 1 i a 1 readings were, by six children of White House staff members: Deborah Fox, 19, daughter of San-ford Fox, protocol coordinator; Alexander Shultz, 12, son of George P.

Shultz, director of the Office of Management and Budget; Valerie Rums-kid, 14, daughter of Donald O. Runisfelu, counselor to the President; Susan Haldeman, 19, a of the White House chief, of staff, H. R. Halderman; Dolly Dent, 16, daughter of special counsel Harry S. Dent, and Wendell Colson, 16, son of special counsel Charles W.

Colson. Catherine Spaak Lawyers said the rush to the courts was because of fears divorce opponents might overturn the law in a national referendum. Several prominent Roman Catholics already have announced they wjll seek a referendum, the first since Italians voted in 1946 to oust the monarchy. Lawyers estimated as many as one million persons were eligible to file for divorce under the law, which sets as conditions lengthy separation, certain sex crimes against family members, or a limited number or other causes. Court officials said 11 lawsuits already are on the January- court calendar and the first divorce in modern Italy might be granted by summer.

But many lawyers said court backlogs and the complex machinery of divorce could i mm Ai Photo Warm Welcome for Bob 'JUST BECAUSE 'ONLY ONE TO A CUSTOMER' POESN'T MEAN THAT YOU ARE REQUIRED TO BUY ONE." Bob Hope receives leis on his arrival in Bangkok, Thailand, Sanday. The comedian and his troupe are entertaining American troops in Southeast Asia..