Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 120, Ed. 1 Monday, March 5, 1973 Page: 4 of 12
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Dear Editor:
I just want to congratulate Alvin L. Baker on his letter to the
editor regarding the new traffic light system. He covered the
subject very thoroughly, and I am sure there are many
Brownwood drivers who feel the same way
Thanks to the Brownwood Bulletin for “Letters to the
Editor" feature which gives concerned citizens such as Mr.
Baker a chance to voice their views.
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Monday March 5, 1973
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Dear Editor:
A few weeks ago I was driving down Main Ave. and as I
approached Austin Ave., I was very pleased to see that our
attractive new traffic signals were operating at last. I had
been looking forward to this because I was confident that with
the improved signals it would ease the heavy flow of traffic at
these busy intersections.
I approached Austin Ave. with caution because I wanted to
be alert and prepared for the new modern signals. The light
was red (three red lights, one at the corner), I was in the left
lane waiting to turn when I got a signal. The light flashed green
but still 1 waited a few seconds for something else; the traffic
began to move and I was forced to move with it, but being
uncertain, I moved straight ahead.
To my utter amazement and I must admit, disappointment,
it occurred to me that these new modem signals were in-
stalled merely for their modernistic and decorative ap-
pearance, and not for efficiency. The left turn, always
dreaded, would still have to be made at my own risk.
Perhaps those in charge of the installation (and selection) of
this new traffic light system, have the answer, but the only
answers I can think of are— Two lights are better than one
because one light could bum out; two lights are easier to see.
Ms. M. B. Bolick
2302 14th St.
About letters
The Brownwood Bulletin is happy to receive and to
publish letters to the editor from its readers expressing
their thoughts or opinions on matters of general interest
However, to be considered for publication, all letters to
the editor MUST be signed by the writer. Anonymous
letters or those signed only with a typewritten name
cannot be considered for publication.
However, if the letter writer can offer sufficient reason.
The Bulletin will withhold the writer's signature and print
the letter as “Name Withheld."
The only other restriction The Bulletin places on letters
to the editor is that they conform to accepted standards of
good taste, general interest, length frequency, and that
they do not violate Texas libel laws.
A district court judge in Denver ruled the other day
that police could not have a bullet surgically removed
from a man charged with the robbery of a bar and the
murder of its owner in a shoot-out
Since the defendant would be under anesthesia and the
surgery would require "a substantial intrusion" into his
body, to remove the bullet for evidence would be a viola-
tion of his constitutional rights, the judge held It would,
in effect, be compelling him to testify against himself,
which is prohibited by the Fifth Amendment
As for the rather seriously infringed Constitutional
rights of the dead bar owner or the rights of the public
at large to be secure in its persons and possessions, these
are apparently matters that do not fall under the law's
purview
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By JIMMY K ALLEN
SAN ANTONIO — Friends of religious freedom have
responded again and again to the cause for a witness against
the persecution of the Jews in the Soviet Union.
The plight of Jewish people has been of primary concern to
people of all faiths who believe in the freedom of conscience
No group of people has suffered greater atrocities at the hands
of hate-filled men, therefore, the continued call for the release
of Jewish persons who want to immigrate to Israel has met a
ready response in the hearts of many.
Now the call to religious freedom and responsibility moves
from the opposite direction Newspaper accounts carry the
word that Prime Minister Golda Meir and the Israeli cabinet
are giving serious consideration to the expulsion of Christian
witnesses to the nation state of Israel because a number of
Israeli young people have become believers in Jesus as
Messiah. Spokesmen for the American Jewish Committee
have gone on record recently as objecting to Christian wit-
nessing projected to the Key 73 Campaigns of major Christian
denominations across the nation.
Freedom of religious response is a precious right. It cer-
tainly should be maintained against every kind of persecution.
However, religious insights should be shared in the open
market place of ideas The other side of the coin of religious
freedom from persecution is religious freedom for
propagation.
The great objection to the caricature of religious freedom in
the constitution of the Soviet Union is that its “separation" of
church and state has meant that the state can propagate its
atheism but that people of religious commitment are restriced
simply to the practice of their religion without propagation.
This is not separation, it is oppression
It should be the fervent hope of both Christians and Jews in
this atmosphere of brotherhood within our democracy that the
nation state of Israel will not intervene in the religious
propagations of persons in that country. To do so will be to
communicate to the world the inconsistency which asks for
freedom of faith to the Soviet Union but refuses to grant it in
the state of Israel.
In the people-to-people sphere, China is now sending
over 10,000 acupuncture teaching kits as "contributions
to the medical and health protection of the American
people, so as to enhance the friendship between the
Chinese and American people."
The kits, which are being marketed by Sobin Chern
icals, Inc., of Boston, feature a 22-inch-high plastic human
figure showing the 361 acupuncture points used by Chi
nese physicians for anesthesia and therapy and will be
offered for sale to U.S. physicians, dentists hospitals and
accredited researchers interested in this ancient Chinese
art
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Dear Editor
To the People of Brownwood:
As many of you know there has been a rash of dog poisoning
in Brownwood for quite some time. One of you is killing our
dogs:
If you are not the criminal, please be on the watch for this
"person " If you have a dog, you should keep it chained or
penned very close to your house to reduce the chances of losing
it to this "person." Also, you might check your yard every day
for possible contaminated food. One dog I know of ate poisoned
weiners.
If your dog does go into spasms, you can use about a half cup
d water with as much salt to it as will dissolve and pour it
down the dog’s throat, to make him vomit And call a
veterinarian!
To the “person" who is killing the dogs:
You know that it will be hard to catch you You may not like
dogs But please don't poison them: Maybe the thought of a
dumb animal in strychnine convulsions doesn't bother you, but
what about a tittle child, writhing and jerking in spasms as the
drug (whatever it is) affects his nervous system'
Janice Brandstetter
Rt 4, Box 206
Brownwood
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Then: The government functioned by recruiting men of
talent and ability
Now: A political elite is running the modern Chinese
show
Then: A strong secular faith in Confucianism worked
its way into every corner of Chinese thinking and in-
stitutional life
Now Mao Tse-tung’s "thoughts" are the all-powerful,
all-pervading secular faith of modern China
Then: A frowning on heterodoxy and improper conduct
Now: A demand for an orthodox Marxist lifestyle and
constant guarding against backsliding and “revisionism "
Then Law was the tool to regulate society and the
state; stress was on social order, not individual rights
Now: Ditto.
Then The ruler was expected to be both hero and
wiseman
Now Mao. the scourge of the foreign imperialists. is
“Our Teacher " His wisdom is "boundless."
Then Never any comfortable place for a loyal opposi-
tion
Now Ask Lin Piao and Liu Shao-chi about this one
In some fundamental ways, however, the new order in
China is radically different from the old
For instance. Confucius stressed harmony, between
men and between man and nature Mao's favorite noun
is "struggle".
Fortunately for the world, as China begins to emerge
into it, struggle does not necessarily imply armed conflict
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The iecent “discovery" of China by America has
progressed rapidly from Ping Pong to a presidential
peek-in in Peking to acupuncture and now. in the latest
diplomatic development, the announcement by thaperi
patetic peace-pursuer, Dr Henry A Kissinger, that
liaison" offices will be established in the capitals of both
' countries
Such offices will fall just this side of official recogni-
tion of each government by the other
in April. Anchor Press will publish “The People's Comic
Book seven stories in comic book form popular in China
With translated captions, the cartoons will be exact
reproductions of Chinese comics
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The kit, incidentally, is endorsed by both the Shanghai
Research Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine and
the Nanking College of Traditional Chinese Medicine
The accent on the traditional aspects of one of the first
Chinese products to be imported into this country in the
current era of good feeling suggests that the new China
is not all that different from the old A 4,000-year-old
civilization does not change drastically in one generation
The Asia Information Office, located in Hong Kong,
has in fact made an interesting list of comparisons be
tween the "then” and the "now" of China
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An interesting thing about the current controversy over
alleged “slanting" or “managing" of the news by news-
papers is that many people would be unaware of the
controversy had they not read about it in their news
papers
Not only do newspapers report the charges made
against themselves, they show an admirable willingness
to open their columns to opposing viewpoints
The New York Times, for example, has been bleeding
its editorial heart out over the Vietnam war exiles Yet it
recently gave considerable space to an administration
spokesman to present facts which seriously undercut the
arguments of those favoring general amnesty
Rather than there being anywhere from 50,000 to 100.000
exiles in Canada, Sweden and other countries, as the
Times and others have declared, the government’s veri
fied figure for deserters and draft dodgers is just under
4,000 in Canada and an additional 1,200 elsewhere, wrote
Patrick J Buchanan, a special consultant to the
President
Sweden, the second most popular sanctuary, maintains
an official count which shows that as of last fall there
were a total of 602 deserters in that country According
to the Swedish director of immigration, of 585 Ameri-
cans permitted to enter between 1967 and 1970, 110 were
involved in major crimes and 52 of them have been jailed
and nearly 30 deported
To lionize the war exiles as "moral heroes" is obscene
says Buchanan
These facts, of course, do not really change anything
Whether there are 7,000 exiles or 70,000, or whether some
of them may be fleeing more than the draft law the
question of amnesty remains a valid one and numbers
have nothing to do with it
Editorially. the Times continues to plead the case for
amnesty and has rattled the bones of every president who
ever had to face the issue
It cites George Washington, who pardoned everyone
who participated in the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794 But
especially does it hold up the example of Abraham Lin
coin, who not only pardoned deserters and suspended
executions but extended amnesty, even before the war
was over, to thousands of Confederate troops who had
taken up arms against the Union
A closer examination of Lincoln’s record, however
shows that his pardons of Union violators were made on
an individual basis He proclaimed no mass amnesty
for Union deserters
As for his charity toward Confederate soldiers while
there is no doubt that it was fully in accord with the great
humanity of the man and with his desire to bind up the
nation’s wounds, it was also undertaken for a quite prac
tical reason—to encourage them to stop fighting It re
guired the taking-of an oath of allegiance to the United
States and did not apply to former Union officers or to
, high officials in the Confederate government
The Times quotes Lincoln as saying, “When a man is
sincerely penitent for his misdeeds, he can safely be par-
doned and there is no exception to the rule "
This is a worthy guide for any president But the thing
is that no spokesman for the Vietnam exiles has ever ex-
pressed such penitence Some of them, in fact have
demanded penitence from the United States
Thus it is hardly fair to compare a "hardhearted" Nix
on with a magnanimous Lincoln when the situation Mr
Nixon is in in 1973 is vastly different Irom that of Lincoln
in 1865
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Dear Editor:
I quote from your Hash Brown’ of February 18,1973:
“Brownwood’s prefix designation of Milton (for telephone
dialing) was never one of our favorite words. It seemed that
every other town had a prefix with a hint of poetry - Orchard,
Valley, Mission, Rive-side - but we were stuck with Milton,
whi*h every time we heard it either reminded us of a popular
fanquilizer (Miltown), or the fellow who wrote “Paradise
, Lost" (John Milton.)”
Please read "Paradise Regained.” You’ll feel better.
Ofc -“he name Milton could suggest tranquility during
the John Milton for his was a family of noted
Gausicians. Good music sooths the jangling nerves.
John Milton’s name does not hint of poetry. John Milton was
and is poetry personified
in my opinion every writer should have among his tools of
trade a copy of Mr. Milton’s Areopagitica, a bible, a dictionary
and a good grammar.
If one would take the timetodelve into history, as he runs, he
might discover that John Milton initiated one of the great
freedoms which later became a way of life in America. Every
journalist should be sincerely grateful to John Milton and
remember him with sincere affection for first giving to the
world the precept upon which journalism has flourished during
the past 200 years or more - freedom of the press .
About the time John Milton came upon the scene, the art of
printing and the use of the printed word for public information
and opinion had deteriorated to a low edd The ruling powers in
the church and the state became alarmed because the new art
seemed to be creating too much freedom of thought among the
people. The English parliament took measures of repression
by requiring licenses for printers, and making it a felony for
writers failing to register their manuscripts with the proper
authority for criticism and approval.
It is to this circumstance that journalism owes the most
popular and eloquent, if not the greatest of all John Milton's
prose writings, “The Liberty of Unlicensed Printing," which
was addressed to the English Parliament It appeared on Nov
25,1644, deliberately unlicensed and unregistered, calling for a
repeal of the ordinance of June 1643 and attacking the whole
system of licensing and censorship of the press
Though repeal did not follow immediately, the speech vir-
tually accomplished its purpose The licensing and registering
system had received its death blow Soon after the House of
lords condoned Milton’s offense against the press ordinance
Over 100 years later echoes from this same speech
resounded through Independence Hall in Philadelphia voiced
by Thomas Jefferson
It is hoped that you will find the sound of the word Milton
more favorable You should, you know.
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Fisher, Norman. Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 120, Ed. 1 Monday, March 5, 1973, newspaper, March 5, 1973; Brownwood, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1575196/m1/4/: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Brownwood Public Library.