Tuesday, December 3, 1968

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A~ .Lesson For Every Community

While the report on violence in Chicago last August places most of the blame on police riot*, it should not be construed as a blanket condemnation of all police in Chicago or elsewhere.

The report leaves no stone unturned to present a factual and accurate account of what happened in the streets and parks of Chicago during the hectic days of the Democratic national convention. It presents an amply clear picture of what it calls unrestrained and indiscriminate police violence* in response to the taunting and provocation of the demonstrators who participated by the thousands in the protests in Chicago.

It is evident from the report that many of those who felt the violent blows of the police were Innocent citizens who suddenly became victims of the outburst of swinging clubs and uncontrolled fury of individual police officers.

There appears little reason to doubt the reports asserton that little or no disciplinary action has been taken against those policemen who acted irresponsibly to produce the police riot in Chicagos streets. It is to be hoped that the additional light shed by the report on those tragic August nights in Chicago will lead to appropriate action against those irresponsible officers.

At the same tme the American people should

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not lose sight of the equally clear assertion by the presidential commission that the police who were involved in and responsible for the violence were a minority pf the 12,000-man Chicago police force. The vast majority, the report said, acted ^responsibly in the fact of the difficult situation.

Obviously Chicago, no less than any other city in the nation, cannot afford to turn its street over to mobs. f*or the protection of life and property of life and propery of its citizens, it must and should maintain order through the action of its law enforcement officers. At the same time officials in Chicago and elsewhere must see to it that those same law enforcement officers act responsibly in carrying out their duties.

Although the task force which made the exhaustive study of the incidents made no recommendations, it ponted out: Surely this is not the last time that a violent dissenting group will clash head-on with those whose duty it is to enforce the law. And the next time the whole world will still be watching.**

The next time it happens, whether in a large city or a small town, those responsible for law enforcement should have taken careful note of this report on the Chicago incidents. Police and othet law enforcement personnel who will be called on to maintain order or restore it if necessary should be better prepared and under better control than that minority of police in Chicago who lost control of themselves.**

The report on the Chicago violence has In it Important lessons for the law enforcement agencies of every community, just as it has important lessons for every law abidng citizen.

By WnilAM A. SHIRES Reflector Raleigli Bnreae

RALEIGH Gov.-elect Robert W. (Bob) Scott is fnding the transition to the governors, office mudi less difficult and also much less expensive than did the present governor, Dan Moore.

Scott, who will take office Jan 3, presently occupies spacious offices in a state-owned

building. There also is space for his staff and facilities are furnished for all. This contrasts wiUi the situation Moore faced four years ago, cramped in a rented hotel room, elbow to elbow with aides and waiting for the day he would move to the offices at the head of Fayetteville Street.

Thf hex! legislature changed this unfortunate way of doing things and provided both money and space for any incoming governor.

Scott is the first Incoming governor to rave these advantages. Moore, in his way. did not complain. He workedas an incoming governor mustio inadequate quarters \riiich had to be paid for from his Lmited campaign funds prior to taking the oath of office. Arrangements Changed Now the arrangements have been changed. Scott occupies transition offices in the splendid new Admiistraton Building. His itaf! has adjacent offices.

With a turn from his desk, Scott may look out imon the site being prepared for still another huge state office building, formerly a parking lot This is just across the street

from the $7 million State Legislative Building and only a block and a half from the Capital itself.

Scotts administrative assistant. Ben Roney, has an office nearby. So do other aides already named all close to Scotts political campaign.

Some will move with Scott to the Capitol on Jan. 3. Some will remain in the Administration Building. One at least will take up offices in the Legislative Building as Scotts legislative counsel when the General Assembly convenes in mid-January.

Surprising Start

Scott has surprised many veteran political observers by early announcement of major appointmentsmore of which are coming.

TTiis, of course, is evidence of Scotts determination to get his administration organized and doing as quickly as possible. This also contrasts with Moore's administration, probably because Moores was not as well organized. Moore waited months after taking office before choosing the men he wanted for particular offices. Scott, undoubtedly, has had choices in mind and is wasting no time making the appointments.

DuPont Expansion Announcement out of Wilmington, Del., that one of the nations largest industrial complexes, E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Co., Inc., plans further expansion in North Carolina indicates additional evidence for big company recognition of North Carolina potential.

DuPont will build facilities on 2,650 acres of land along the Cape Fear River 13 miles from Fayetteville, probably for manufacturing of plastics. It has not announced precisely what it will make nor the total industrial Investment ti will make. But it will be considerable, and it will driw a labor supply from towns In Cumberland, Bladen and Robeson counties.

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A Phobia Adds Social Status

ART BUCHWALD

The Herblock Gallery

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP) - What are you afraid of?

Not long ago we listed here a number of phobias that might add to your social status. A numbier of prestige seekers, seeking to be afflicted with even rarer panics unknown to their neighbors, ask-

Advertlshiff ratee and deadUneo avallebk upon reoueal Member Audit Burean of Clrouladon.

ed if there were any more on the list.

Indeed there are. Mankind will never run out of phobias; if he cures an old one, he is bound to find a new one.

Here are a possibilities that may be of interest:

If you dislike animals generally, you are suffering from simple zoophobia. However, if you cant stand touching their fur, you are a dora-phobe, and if you are frightened by the teeth of animals you are an odontophobe.

Worried pedestrians can be put into two classes. Are they afraid of automobiles approaching from the left side? They are levophobes. Arc they afraid of auptomobiles coming from the right side? They are dextrophobes.

Many college girls dont like to make a date for the prom too far ahead because they are hopeful some guy they like better will ask them later. This is perhaps the most common ailment of coeds and is scientifically known as merinthophobia, toe fear of being bound or tied up.

If a friend tells you something you dont believe and you reply, I cant swallow that,** you are unconsciously po-haps exhibiting a touch of pnigophobia, the fear of chok-

Want a few more panics to pick from? Well, try these on for size:

A henpecked husband who refuses to argue with his wife could be classified as an amy-

chophobe, because he evidences a secret fear of being clawed.

Hate to go out on toe streets at night t^ause of the possibility youll be mugged? That could well mean that you are a harpaxopbobic, achluopho-bic amychophobe. Translated, it says you have a healthy fear of being robbed in the dark and suffering lacerations.

Do you fret because your girl friend is giving you a frigid stare and turned an icy shoulder to you? Poor unhappy lad, youve got cheima-proUa, the fear of cold.

Some bashful men bate to see topless waitresses or girls who wear miniskirts too short. They are incipient victims of gymnophobia. They dread see-ii^ naked bodies.

Are you afraid that people will laugh if you sit down at a piano. Put yourself down as a catagelophobe, one who dreads ridicule.

Do all these fears seem dull to you? Do you want to come up with a new and interesting fear that will impress everyone in your block? Well, why not succumb to auroraphobia?

This is toe fear of the northern lights-tso rare it will even impress your psychiatrist

As everyone knows, I am tot first one to speak out for the right to dissent but 1 think the line has to be drawn somewhere, and I believe Herbert Block has finally drawn the line in his new book, The Herblock Gallery.

Block has no respect for the things that most of us hold dear, such as the President, toe Ckingress of the United

States, the Supreme Court, the armed services and the FBI.

With his pen he exaggerates all the foibles of this country and he expects us to accept his characterizations of our institutions as truth.

But his cartoons are lies, all lies. His portrayals of special interest groups that influence Congress re not only

libels against our hard-working legislators but an affront to our nations lobbyists, who serve not only the great free enterprise system but tneir couny as well.

One blatant example of Blocks inability to draw the truth is his section on the

Other Editors Say The Unscheduled Flights

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A little card on the wall of a Cape Cod shop over the weekend Sometimes toe Have and Have-Nots can be traced up to toe Dids and the Did-Nots.Rockland (Maine) Couricr-Gazette.

UPPOBT YOUR riTT CODPITY UNITED FUND

(Rocky Mooot Telegram)

Hijacking of U.S. commercial airliners has almost become a way of life nowadays. Everybody wants to know why something isnt done to prevent this aerial piracy. But almost nobody offers any sound suggestions as to how this can be done.

The airliners, the federal government, aircraft crews and others all say they are trying to do something about it, but they also admit that there seems to be no real answer to this growing problem. To point up the situation, one cartoon shows some law-abiding passengers pointing a gun at toe pilot and saying: We demand that you take us where our tickets say, not to Cuba!

The problem is frustrating because the criminals involved in most airplane hijackings go to Cuba where they are beyond toe reach of U.S. law. Too, the nature of their crime is so dangerous as to discourage resistance. The airlines have told their crews that it is better and wiser to obey the hijackers demands than to risk gunplay that might inflict death, injury or start a fire, cripple a plane or cause high-alttude de<x>m-pression of the aircraft which could be fatal to everyone on board.

Efforts are continuing toward a solution. The Federal Aviation Adniinistration has discussed the matter with a number of agmicin, including the State Department and the

FBI. Nothing has been resolved. Even Congress has been involved. The House Commerce subcommittee on aviation has been checking the hijack phenomenon ever since it wrote toe 1961 law making aircraft piracy a crime punishable by death. But many members of that committee feel the 1961 law is about as complete a legislative remedy as Congress can write.

Some steps have been taken to try to make it easier for aliens who want to go to Cuba, even to toe point of providing them with transportation. But Cuba would have to be included in such an arrangement and to date Cuba hasnt even responded to State Department overtures.

There have been over 30 hijackers who diverted commercial airliners to Cuba this year alone. The new crime of air piracy, felt forth in the 1961 hijacking law as the forcible seizure of an airplane, can be punished with death, or with imprisonment for 20 years to life. But thus far all toe hijackers have remained in Cuba, sate from U.S. prosecution.

New electronic detection devices have been suggested as a means of revealing weapons on persons boarding an airliner. But this may not always be feasible or foolproof. Searching luggage can be time-consuming and highly unpopular. Right now it looks as if the aiiliners and toe victims involved will have to continue putting up with these uns(toeduled flights to Cuba.

National Rifle Association. Block portrays toe leaders of the NRA as gangsters and fat, money-grubbing merchants of death, who would go to any limit to prevent decent gun-control legislation. This, of course, is unfair because we all know the NRA is made up of fun-loving sportsmen who would never interfere in gun control or take a stand against the best interests of the country. Does Block show the good side of toe NRA? Of course not All we get from him is toe evil side of the gun lobby; and 1 say if you cant present both sides of a question, then you shouldnt draw a political cartoon.

Another section of the book to which I took strong exception was Blocks portrayal of the hydrogen bomb. He tries to scare us by !n(cating that atomic weapons are threatening us and that we might all be blown to bits. I dont think its a political cartoonists role to remind us of such things as toe threat of nuclear war, and I honestly feel that if Block doesnt have some-* thing nice to say about toe H-bomb, he shouldnt say anything at all.

In his book he also deals with international affa i r s. Here again Block exaggerates toe worlds leaders, giving President De Gaulle a much longer nose than he really has, making Mao Tsc-tung look like a pig, draw-

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By ROWLAND EVANS aa ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON - On Oct 17, three days after the ad-journmrat of Congress and a week before full resumption of U.S. military aid to Greece, a middle echelon Pentagon civilian put on paper the hL therte unwritten doctrine of Washingtons permissive attitude toward right-wing mi^ litary dictatorships.

The doctrine was laid down by Harry H. Schwartz, fromer policy planner at the State Department and now a dei^ ty assistant secretary for international affairs in the Defense Department Implicitly, it equated the repressions by the military dictatorship itt Greece with actions by U.S. authorities to quell civil -die-orders. By this logic, Washington has no more business poking into the death of Greek democracy than the .Athens colonels have in telling Washington how to handle black rioters.

With Congress In recess, the Schwartz doctrine has not received much attention on Capitol Hill. But those Congressional liberals who have read Schwartzs words regard them as the first articulation of what is now U.S. policy and therefore a matter (^f profound importance.

Indeed, some itudents of foreign policy view the Schwartz doctrine as a corollary of the doctrine laid down in Warsaw by Soviet party chief Leonid Brezhnev. Just ae toe Brerfiev doctrine asserts Moscows authoditi^ to inter-vcme in the intemri affairs of what the Kremlin grandly calls the socialist commonwealth, toe Schwartz doctrine makes clear the U.S. will not interfere with extra-constitutional, totalitarian rule by Western governments. Combined, the two doctrines paint the picture of a grim new winrld of Stalinist tyranny in the East and military dictatorship in the West

'The Schwartz (toctxine wag unleashed tiirbujgh a presa conference In Washington S^t 28 by Elias Demetracopoulos, an exiled Greek journalist and severe critic of toe ruling military junta. Correctly predicting the resumption of heavy U.S. arms shipments to Greece Demetracopoulos, attacked the sham plebiscite scheduled the next day on the juntas draft constitution.

Rep. Donald Fraser of Minnesota, a liberal critic of the Johnson administrations foreign policy, immediately fired off letters to Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford asking for comment on the Demetracopoulos barges. A routine, non - responsive reply came back from the State Department; what illuminated U. S. policy, not only in Greec but worldwide; was toe Pentagon reply to Fraser by Schwartz.

While assuring Fraser that we have repeatedly urged toe early return of the Greek government to a constitutional system and democratic processes, Schwartz wrote that toe Soviet-bloc invasion of Czechoslovakia made clearer our priorities for mutual security. He added that NATO is once again closing ranks to maintain the collective security of all, toen came up with this eye-opener:

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Strength For Today

'Consumerism Tide To Roll On

By EARL L. DOUGLASS

LAST WORDS OF THE GREAT

Last words are always significant. The words of great men upon their death beds give us not only an insight into their lives but insight into the meaning of life in general.

Here are a few of the utterances which certain of the great are said to have mad as they confronted dea t h Said Dwight L. Moody, Earth is receding; heaven is approaching; God is calling me. Sir Walter Scott said, I feel as if I were to be myself again. Charles Wesley, who wrote six th o u sands hymns, said with his last breath, I shall be satisfied with Thy likeness satisfied, satisfied. His brother, John, one of toe most useful men of his century, of of

any century for that matter, made this last statement; The best of all is, God is with us. Father Damien, the leper priest of Molokai, said, My work, with all its faults and failures, is in His hand, (joetoc, toe man poet, ordered his attendants to open the shutters and let in more light. Phillips Brooks, prince of American preachers, declared in the last moment, 'There is no other life but the eternal. Susanna Wesley, mother of one of toe most famous families in history, gave this injunction to loved ones as her life slipped away: When I am gone, sing to God a hymn of praise.

Everyone enters life the same way - with a wail upon his lips; but aftcrt he turmoil of living is past, men give up their earthly stewardship in a variety of moods.

By ELMER ROESSNER

The ascendency of Richard Milhous Nixon to toe presidency will not slow down the drive for what is now called consumerism in Congress. In fact, it may even speed it along.

Business, of course, has been counting on the new administration to slow down Mg bro-toerism in Washington. Some of the extremes may be braked and some of toe we-know-best bureaucrats may find toete positions abolished, but genWally there will be no per-naent slowing down of toe campaign for more legislation to protect consumers.

In the first place, the Nixon administration will, like King Canute, be unable to turn back the tide.

Both toe Senate and the House are in control of Democrats. And while a coalition of conservative Soutoem Democrats and Northern Republicans may be able to block

some legislation, liberal Republicans nd Democrats appear to have greater strength on cwisumer issues.

Consumers Vote

It is significant that, with one or two exceptions, those Representatives and Senators who fiave been fighting for consumer protection were returned to Congress in the November election.

Therefore, if Mr. Nixon ^KHild attempt to halt or slow down the progress of legislation intended to protect consumers, he will be blocked by Congress.

And, being the shrewd politician he proved himself to be last month, Mr. Nixon will probably assume the leader-. ship in a fight for more consumer legislation.

Shortly after President Eisenhower assumed office, I spent some time in Washington talking to friends in the new administration. I mulled over what I had learned for several days, and then wrote a ser

ies of six colunms declaring that instead of slowing down welfare, toe big issue then, the Eisenhower administration would try to top the Truman administration.

Doubters Roared There were screams from some of my editors. Such ac

tion was impossible and the whole idea preposterous, they added. I stood firm.

And you know what happen-rted. The Eisenhower administration increased Social Secu

rity and other welfare programs, perhaps not as much as Adlai Stevensons administration might have, but vigorously so.

And you may recall who Pr#-sident Eisenhowers Vice President was.

And, once the new Ctengress shows its temper, that man as President may deliver a special message to Congress outlining a program of consumer protection.

There will be stnmg sentiment in Congress for lifter regulation of credit cards, for more restrictions on dg^tte advertising, for tighter* controls on mail-order schemes, for regulation of trading stamps, for strengthening auto safety, for tightening regulations governing noeat and other foods, the use of ednlter-ants and fm* sanitation. Who knows? By 1970 you may get your cocktail in a glass tiiat not only as no Upsuck on It but that has been sterilized as welll