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Wednesday, Fabruary 7, 1973
Editorials
Death of Lyndon Johnson is a
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great loss to America
By Jcrc/c Anderson
'Government of the people’
rejects your right to know
WASHINGTON —There can no
(oncer be any doubt that the
government is determined to
curtail the press. Not since John
Peter Zenger was thrown into
prison in 1735 for criticising the
British governor of New York
have so many reporters been
jailed in this country in the cause
of press freedom.
At least six reporters have
been locked up for refusing to
disclose their news sources. The
government, since it can’t control
what newt men write, would like to
Indians.
But the governm-nt is
claiming, in effect, that i. owns
the news, that the facts i.‘ the
Indian papers belong not tc the
people butto the government.
Should the government «e
successful in this attempt t'
establish ownership of the news,
itwill beable tocontrol whatnews
shall be given to the public. The
publication of any unauthorized
news would be regarded,
thereafter, as stealing
Information from tkt,
fte ' gdvfcnirhent' fc ? . t)fcourse, we believe that news
this campaign to belongs to the people and we will
favorite of armed forces radio
director John Broger, an
evangelical fundamentalist
Steiner has advocated some
fascinating "solutions" in his
broadcasts. He would try to
resettle "at least one-half of the
Negro population... in the
countries that they came from,”
year-old whoisjustoutofschool"
could castonly one.
Bill Bertenshaw, the
moderatoroftheshow.toldus ina
telephone conversation that
Steiner appeared on the series
‘‘once every five or six weeks."
Bertenshaw claimed that he gives
By L loy d Bentsen,
U.S. Senator
The people of the l mted States,
and of Texas. lost a great
champion former President
Lvndon Johnson died recently.
President Johnson had a vision
of America' sgreatness and of her
potential that guided him
throughout his long and
illustrious career ol service to
his slate and his nation
And nowhere was his vision
revealed more clearlv than in a
speech he delivered in Temple.
Tcvas lastSeptemher
I would like to. now . share with
voua tew ot President Johnson's
views ot the t mted States as he
expressed th em t n that speech.
'Tor too long, we have
permitted the dark perception to
pervade our midst. Da\ atter dav.
month alter month, the portraval
of A mer ica as unclean, tin m st and
unworthv has been ground into the
consc iousness ot our people
"VN e are no longer the bloom mg
flowers for we are searching lor
the litter We no longer celebrate
the manv tresh triumphs ot
justicefor we are lingering over
the residue ot vesterdav s
shortcomings We no longer
measure the m lies we have come
towarda more humane, civil and
peaceful world tor we are too
busy calibrating the remaining
inches of times we are trving to
escape and leave behind."
Great Accomplishments
This failure, this inability on
the part of many Americans to see
the great things our country has
accomplished in a relativ elv brief
period of time, was deeply
troubling to President Johnson.
"When we permit these dark
perceptions to dommate us," he
said, 'Veareallowing our future
to be shaped by visions that are
small and mean and diminishing
to ourpotentia I. We are. insimple
terms, dooming those who come
after us to know what could only be
a second-rate America.
nation
"Ihavedevoted my timeon this
earth.” President Johnson said,
"to working toward the dav when
there would be no second-class
citizenship in America. no
second-qualitv opportunity, no
second-hand justice at home, no
second-place status in the world
for our ideals and benefits."
"I do not intend now that
second-rate visions shall set our
course toward settling for a
second-rate America. That is whv
I speak as I do now.'
Even as he spoke those words,
last September. President
Johnson seemed to realize that
his remaining time was brief and
this knowledge lent his words
urgency and an eloquence that
might not otherwise have been
there
Chill Winds of Winter
The President's opening
remarks set the pattern. "Wiih
the coming of September each
year" he said, “weare reminded,
as the song says, that the days are
dwindling down toa precious few.
By the calendar, we know that
soon the green leaves of summer
will begin to brown; the chill
winds of wmterw ill begin to blow;
and—before weare ready for the
end to come-the year will be
gone.”
“Ifwe permit our thoughts to
dwell upon th is perspectiv e. these
dav s can become a melancholy
season."
Yet, President Johnson refused
to yield to that feeling of
melancholy .
"I have experienced a lull
measure of unwelcome winters.
Yet melancholy is not a mood
w hie h I has e ever a (lowed to weigh
for long upon mv spirits."
'1 live—as I have alwavs
worked-bv the ta nh that w itheach
passing dav. we are alwavs
approaching nearer to the
beginning of a new springtime. It
is by that perspective I see our
country now."
"If I believe anything of this
land," President Johnson said,
“if I know anything of its people
and their character. I believe and
I know that we have not come to
and are not approaching
Americ a’s September.' *
“On the contrary, it is my
conviction-a conviction which
deepens every day-that this land
and its people arequickening with
the new life and new potential of
what wil I become the springtime
ofa new America."
No President ever believed
more strongly inthe greatness of
America than Lyndon Johnson.
And no President ever cared
more deeply for the people, or
worked harder for them. They've
lostagreat champion. He was my
friend, and I shall miss him.
A "bio medical thicket”
BY KEVIN P. PHILLIPS
Level land Daily Sun New's
columnist Kevin Phillips thinks
thatli.S. law is struggling into a
"bio-medical thicket."
WASHINGTON (K FS) —
Whatever one thinks of the merits
of the Supreme Court's recent
pro-abortion ruling, this much is
clear: Justice Blackmun’s effort
to draw a month-by-month
medical progression from the
rights of the mother to the rights
of the child provides further
uneasy evidenceofhow U.S. law is
strugglingintowhatjurists might
call a "bio-medical thicket."
The Supreme Court ha* gone
afield before—into the "political
thicket" of legislation
reapportionment and the
Should
successfol in
force newsmen to name their
sources, the sources would
quickly dry up. Only official
sources would be left and the
public would become dependent
upon the government's sterile
versionofevents.
The latest victim is my own
associate, Les Whitten, who was
arrested in the act of covering a
story. An FBI agent tore his
notepad and pen out of his hands
and handcuffed him. thereby
preventing him from taking notes.
He was mugged, fingerprinted and
shutupbehind bars while Justice
Department officials debated for
eight hours what charges to bring
againsthim.
KNOWN TRUTH
He was accused of receiving
and possessing stolendocuments.
The authorities know, of course,
that we had nothing whatsoever to
do with stealing government
documents. Nor have these
documents ever been under our
control.
We confess freely that we
copied information from stolen
documents and reported this
information to the people.
We believe the documents—and
the information they contain —
belong to the people. The
documents disclose how the
government has cheated,
deffrs ted and neglected the
equal time to other viewpoints,
deport repeat criminals to labor We listened to a broadcast tape,
camps in the Pacific islands and however, which offered no time
sterilize "those who in all for opposing views and made no
likelihood would produce disclaimer disassociating the
offspring which might be a burden Defense Department from the
He would also license “authors
But President Johnson was not sociological thicket ol school
willing to accept that kind of integration. But the bio-medical
failure.Hewas not willing to fall thicket could be the most
prey to the spreaders of gloom, troublesome — and the most
the naysayers, those who could exotic — ofall.
detract fromthegreatnessof this Let's start with Blackmun on
continue digging it out and
reporting it tothe people. We will
try to stay out of jail in the
process. But ifwe must go to jail
for reporting the news the
government doesn’t want
published, we’ll report from the
inside of prison conditions.
-CRACKPOT
COMMENTATORS—
At the same time that President
Nixon's radio-TV managers have
knocked such critical
commentators as William
Buckley and Sander Vanocur off
the public television network, the
Nixon Administration has been
featuring crackpot commentators
on the armed forces radio
network.
We recently revealed that the
notorious hate peddler, Gerald
L.K. Smith, had been given time
on the network to promote his
anti-Semitic. anti-Negro
activities. The mailing address
where listeners could get his hate
literature was plugged no less
than five times.
Now we have learned that
another racial rabble-rouser,
Rudolph Steiner, has been
permitted to harangue the
network’s two millfon military
and civilian listeners regularly.
Both bigots have appeared on a
religious series, called
"SuggestedSolutions,“which isa
so that the mass media couldn’t
popularize crime, violence and
vandalism" - and institute a
“graduated voting rights”
system. Under his system,
“responsible" members of
society could cast as many as 24
votes, and "a man who has never investigation It won t happen
contributed anything or an I8- a®ain’ sal
Footnote; Broger refused to
discussSteinerwith us. When we
reached him earlier about the
Gerald L.K. Smith broadcast, he
said he was unaware that the hate
preacher had been included in the
series and promised a full
^.Nose?-.
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How much
was that,
again!
Highlights l Sidelights from your State Capitol
PRAY QUIETLY PLEASE—
Sen. WaiterMengden, Republican
state senator from Houston, has
dropped a bill in the legislative
hopper to allow local school
boards to establish periods of
si lent prayer or meditation at the
beginning of each school day.
The U.S. Supreme Court says a
school district cannot dictate to a
class of students the wording ot a
daily prayer. Mengden says his
bill would "get a round that ruling
through this bill which authorizes
private prayer, notas a religious
service or exercise, but an
opportunity for silent prayer or
meditation on either the
antic ipated ac ti viti es of the day or
— by those so disposed — on a
religious theme."
DWI B A NO-NO. OR ELSE-
Baytown Rep. Joe Allen has
introduced legislation to require
a mandatory minimum 30-day
suspension of operator's license
BY LYNDELL KENLEY
State representative E.L. Short
sent us a memo this week that
readas follows:
"The enclosed is not
necessarily for publication, you
may use it in any way you like. I
„ _ _ r thoughtaseditororpublisher you
might be interested in observing
some of the salary schedules at
the University of Texas and they
arecoming at us from all angles
fora pay increase because of the
costof I iving. These salaries are
takenfromthe UT budget of 1971-
72 are nine-month salaries.
upon first conviction for driving
while intoxicated, and a
mandatory one-year sentence on
second conv ic ti on.
Public Safety officials tell him
“almost a third of all fatal rural
accidents were the direct result
of drunk drivers. Statewide
figuresarealmostas high."
“Over 700 people were killed
on the highways ofTexas by drunk
dr,VrS^^7‘- COnHi<Y' T, therefore.* dean or professor on
nearly 200.000 accidents that
same year were caused by
drinking and driving and that the
rates go up every year, and you
get a good idea of the size of the
problem," says Allen.
Allensays he has DPS support
for bis bill, partly because
“juries hesitate to suspend a
driver’s license fora whole year.
Consecgiently, our officers make
the arrests, but can’t get the
driver off the road for any
significant length of time."
full-time status would receive
one-third more than the amounts
stated. Needless to say many
professors receive monetary
returns from writings,
counseling, and various private-
type contributions which are not
included in these figures."
The attached form lists 85
names. Each of the people
involved make more than S27.000
per nine month period. All are
more than $27 thousand with the
exdeptionof eight and one makes
$40 thousand.
This $40 thousandadjusted to 12
months comes out $53 thousand!
And I thought that the football
players were well paid.
The $27 thousand figure
adjusted to 12 months represents
$36 thousand.
Whatdoesthe Governor make?
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Fat Boy has such a poor
memory that he can’t remember
what comes after Walla.
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"Every noble work is at first
impossible." Carlyle.
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Children are hereditary. If
your parents didn't have any,
chances are you won’t either.
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"A modest man ever shuns
making himself the subject of his
conversation."
— Bruyere.
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’Try to make at least one
person happy every dayand in ten
years you may have made three
thousand, six hundred and fifty
persons happy, or brightened a
small town by your contribution of
general enjoyment." Many of us
havehadsimilargoals, yet in the
workaday life, with all its
distractions, intermittently have
slackened in our zeal to do this,
and more’s the pity!—The Ennis
Echo”
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“Answer the phone."
“It’s not ringing.”
"Well,do you have to wait until
the last minute?”
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abortion He haves his opinion
parti\ on the relative dangers to
the mother of abortion versus
childbrith as per "present
medical knowledge." while
refusing to label a seven-month
fetus a "person" despite an
admitted potential ’Yapabilitv of
meaningful life outside the
mother’s womb." 'So what
happens if and whyn “present
medical knowledge’/ can all but
assure safe birthajtd the survival
of life outside the womb at seven
months? Will thys i increase the
child's rights? IJoes the thrust of
Blackmun's decision make the
future “present medical
knowledge" the decisive factor?
Pornography in the Court*
Other important court
decisions may rest on biological
and medical hypotheses. Medical
proof of harmlcssncss — or
harmfulness — could determine
the legitimacy of state laws
prohibiting the possession of
marijuana. And some
controversies about pornography
are taking on psychiatric
overtones. January's New York
Criminal Court argument over
the increasingly
core movie "Deep’
heavily on psychiatric and
psychoanalytical testimony. Docs
being the “first film of this genre
toacknow ledge the importance of
female sexual gratification" give
the movie “redeeming social
value" and remove it from the
obscenity statute? Several
psychiatrists argued that the
movie might reduce viewers’
guilt about introducing variety
into their sex lives, and other said
thatall the acts shown were “well
within the bounds of normal
behavior." (Obscenity requires
venturing substantially beyond
community standards in
portraying sexual material.)
Inasmuch as New York's Penal
Law embodies the demands of
recent U.S. Supreme Court
rulings,could “obscenity" come
to depend on a psychiatrist's
interpretations ol "normal"
sexual behavior and
“redeeming" implications of
exhibitionism?
The idea that Justice Blackmun
and the eight other Marcus
Welbys of the High Court will be
shaping vital, far-reaching legal
concepts around “present
medical knowledge," psychiatry,
and so forth is not especially
reassuring. Whenever the Court
has entered other thickets, the
final resulthas been dubious.
Take the Supreme Court's
venture into legislative
reapportionment, warned against
asa "political thicket" by Justice
Felix Frankfurter. Under the
doctrine of "one man. one vote."
states were ordered to eliminate
substantial population
discrepancies in legislative and
Congressional districts. This has
bcendonc. But in turn, new forms
of gerrymandering have been
perfected. Communities of
interest have been ignored. John
Q. Public, the hypothetical citizen
whose voting impact the Court
sought to "insure," feels less
politically effective than ever.
Dozens of hack legislators have
been frozen into position by
friendly rcdistrictmg designed to
create safe scats for incumbents.
Polls show that Congress is held
in unprecedented low esteem.
Nineteen years ago. the
Supreme Court decided the school
desegregation case of Brown v.
Board of Education on the
sociological premise that
separate schools were unequal
schools. Now this sociology is
^»r®.prs£si;^r^
‘separate cannot be equal"
requires busing and artificial
mixing of the races. It’s
unfortunate let the law’s
processes of spun-out logic and
precedent build on and expand
political. sociological or
biological theories, and before
long you have doubtful wisdom
indeed.
Bio-medical implications for
the legal process deserve prompt
attention. In December. 1971, the
Senate voted to set up a
“Commission on the Moral and
Social Consequences of Bio-
Medical Engineering.” Its
purpose: to study the moral,
social, legal and policy issues
raised by such new bio-medical
developments as allocation of
hearts for transplants, how long
to keep dying people alive in
machines, and experimentation
with techniques thatallow parents
to breed chi Id ren of a des i red sex.
But the commission’s concept
died in the House of
Representatives. Whether the
93rdCongresswill take action is
conjectural.
Obviously, society will have to
cope with these issues. But is the
Federal court system the best
means? I doubt it, and perhaps
that is one of the problems into
whicha commission is needed to
inquire.
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