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{ DISILLUSIONED WITH
M DESERTERS
iv’.Jiiflt as draft evaders head north
for the safety of Canada, military de
serters in Europe seek asylum in Swe
den.
Many such deserters and draft
evaders find themselves in a deeper
dilemma as a consequence of their
flights. Some discover that they
aren’t cut out for life in exile. How to
explain to the folks back home? How
to erase what can become the lasting
stigma of evasion of duty?
Equally important, will these con
fused youngsters always be welcome
in their new homes? We don’t know
about the Canadians, but there are
growing signs of disillusionment in
Sweden. Many Swedish citizens are
becoming hostile to deserters who
have taken refuge in their country.
A recent meeting of anti-war Swedes
li'support of the deserters was brok
en up by pro-American Swedes. The
pro-American group took the anti
war group’s hammer-and-sickle post
ers and publicly turned them into
torches, a welcome contrast to the too-
frequent American flag burnings we
have seen in other demonstrations.
.1: Observers report that often the
U.S. deserters are not po -.tically mo
tivated. Many are taking refuge to
avoid disciplinary action, domestic
problems, pregnant girls and other
non-military problems. They soon find
that the only refuge available in Swe
den is offered by the Soviet and North
Vietnamese - supported indoctrination
farm near Torsaker, Sandviken, north
of Stockholm, according to a Copley
News Service report. The report states
that there is great apprehension in
Sweden that the U.S. may get fed up
with the official Swedish position on
deserters and take counter measures
against the government. This could
force the Swedes to turn toward the
East European nations of the com
munist bloc, which it appears they do
not wish to do.
One alternative would be to close
the door to the deserters and return
them to the U.S. to face the conse
quences. We wonder if any Vietnam
War veterans would be allowed to sit
on the court martial boards.
THE HANDOUT GAME
It becomes more and more difficult
to keep up with the endless stream of
new groups that spring up overnight.
Ad hoc committees are formed but
seldom disbanded. They remain in
existence formally, but their accom
plishments slowly dwindle down.
Name any problem, no matter how
small, and there will be a new group
to promote or fight it. This group
rises mysteriously, silently and fully
formed, complete with membership.
It’s almost as though a file were kept
or orginzations with rosters and the
funds to begin. The group is name
less, but at the proper time, with the
correct issue, a name is found. The
initials of the organization are impor
tant. Anyone can dig up a name for
a committee if given the proper in
itials to work with.
One of the latest such groups is
the radical faction now demanding
reparations from the churches to re
pay black militants for the years of
slavery. We had never been aware
that the church was responsible for
the cruel institution of slavery.
Maybe some enterprising group of
historians should go to Italy and make
similar demands of the Italian gov
ernment for the slaughter of the
early martyrs.
Next, the Descendants of Martyrd
Evangelists (DOME) could go o v e r
to Israel and demand reparations for
the crucifixion.
For that matter, think of the
claims the Jews could make against
Germany. The mind boggles. And
yet, none of the imaginary missions is
less logical than the militants’ peti
tion for recovery from the churches.
We commend to the benighted
group a careful and thoughtful read
ing of American history. The church-
were among the most active leaders in
the fight against slavery. To find
them culpable now is to overlook docu
mented fact.
A SOLDIER AND HIS GOD
The poem below first appeared in
the Becker County Record, Detroit
Lakes, Minn. It was found on the body
of a 19-year-old soldier in Vietnam.
Look God: I have never spoken to you,
but now—
I want to say: “How do you do?” You
see God, they told me You didn’t ex
ist.
And like a fool—I believed all of this.
Last night from a shell-hole I saw your
sky—
I figured right then they had told me a
lie.
Had I taken the time to see the things
you made,
I’d know’ they weren’t calling a spade a
spade.
I wonder, God, if you’d shake my hand.
Somehow I fell that you will understand.
Funny, I had to come to this hellish
place,
Before I had time to see your face.
Well, I guess there isn’t much more to
say
But I’m sure glad, God, I met you today.
I guess the zero-hour will soon be here
The signal—well, God—I’ll have to go.
I like you lots—this I want you to know.
Looks like this will be a horrible fight.
Who knows—I may come to your house
tonight.
Though I wasnt friendly with you be^
fore,
I wonder God—if you’d wait at your
door—
Look—I am crying, me shedding tears,
I wish I’d known you these many years.
Well, I’ll have to go now, God—goodbye
Strange — since I met you — I’m not
afraid to die.
Play it cool—
PONT FILL IT WHILE
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THURMOND
REPORTS TO THE
PEOPLE
DOUGLAS IS NEXT
The resignation of Supreme
Court Justice William O. Doug
las from the Albert Parvin
Foundation is only the first step.
A sense of propriety demands
that he resign from the bench.
DOUGLAS’ CONDUCT
In the Fortas case, the Amer
ican Bar Association has de
clared that eight separate sec
tions of the canons of judicial
ethics were violated. The Doug
las case is even more complicated.
Among the facts that have a |
bearing on the conduct of Jus
tice Douglas are the following:
1. Justice Douglas received a
total of nearly $85,000 in fees
daring his tenure as President
and Director of the Parvin
Foandation. For 1967, the most
recent year available, his fee
was one-quarter of the Founda
tion’s “charitable” disburse
ments.
2. The principal assets of the
Foundation consisted of a mort
gage on a gambling casino in
Las Yegaa, and stock in a com
pany that owned three other
gambling casinos.
3. The Foundation falsified its
tax returns for the period 1961-
1965, failing to report certain
stock manipulations until its
tax return for 1966, after the
Internal Revenue Service started
an investigation.
4. As head of the Foundation,
Justice Douglas sanctioned lec
ture fees of $5,000 each to snch
politically controversial men aa
J. Robert Oppenheimer and
Teodoro Moscoso.
POLITICAL ACTIVITY
In addition, we must consider
Justice Douglas’ political ac
tivity with the Center for the
Study of Democratic Institu
tions in Santa Barbara.
1. Justice Douglas is Chair
man and Director of the Center.
2. Justice Douglas is paid
$500 a day for work with the
Center, and in recent months
has received 14,000 for two
sominan.
8. The Parvin Foundation has
given |70,000 to the Center be
tween 1966-1967.
4. Besides Justice Douglas,
there are two others who are
directors of both the Parvin
Foundation and the Center;
namely, Robert Hutchins and
Harry S. Ashmore (the most
active in both groups.)
5. The Center b overtly po*
tttkal in He program, and was
hoot to the fonding mooting of
the National Conference far
New Potttks, the Communist-
f—t jwvoersd er
Black Power dominated move
ment that made nationwide
headlines for its revolutionary
radicalism. The Canter orga
nized the so-called “Pacem In
Terris” conferences, designed to
seek detente with the Soviet
Union. The Center has also been
active in encouraging student
radicalism, and was credited
with devising “a master plan of
how best to destroy the Ameri
can university as it is today,”
according to the Santa Barbara
New s-Press.
Thus, for all the talk about
so-called “democratic institu
tions” the work of Justice Doug
las in the Parvin Foundation
and the Center appears to be
a front for gambling enter
prises and persons of anti
democratic character. The sal
ary of a Justice and his life
time appointment are supposed
to insulate him from social and
political movements, as well as
from associations of unsavory
character. The belated resigna
tion of Justice Douglas from the
Foundation does not remove the
stigma which he has brought
upon the bench.
LACK OF DECENCY
The most distressing aspect of
the Douglas case, as in the
Fortas case, is the conviction
of the principal participants
that there was no impropriety
in their actions. Their contin
ued defiance of common stand
ards of decency does not speak
well for the judgment of men
sitting on the highest court in
the land.
It is perhaps no coincidence
that the Fortas snd Douglas
cases are intertwined. Albert
Parvin, who created the Parvin
Foundation, was named by the
government as co-conspirator,
although not indicted, in the
stock manipulations of Louis
Wolf son. Carolyn Agger, the
wife of Mr. Fortas, was the tax
expert who gave a clean bill
of health to the Parvin Foun
dation’s tax problems.
No Federal judge, pr Justice
of the Supreme Court, should
be allowed to practice law, serve
in a corporation or partnership,
or as a trustee or director of
a foundation, for any considera
tion whatsoever, cash or other
wise. Judged by these standards.
Justice Douglas is the next one
who must go, if the integrity of
the Supreme Court is to be pre
served.
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Industry estimates look for the
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One service network is already
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Addressograph - Multigraph,
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growing segments of our eco
nomy.
Burger Nomination
Is Heartening News
BY THURMAN SENSING
Executive Vice President
Southern States Industrial
Council
President Nixon’s nomina
tion of Judge Warren E. Burger
as Chief Justice of the United
States is heartening news for a
nation deeply troubled over the
course and character of the na
tion’s highest court Judge Bur
ger, described as a ‘law and or
der* judge, gives promise of pro
viding a new direction for Ameri
ca’s highest tribunal.
Certainly, a housecleaning at
the Supreme Court is long over
due. The sordid Fortas affair
shocked the American public. It
underscored the wisdom of those
conservative Senators who, when
Abe Fortas was first nominat
ed for the court, termed him a
political fixer and wheeler-deal
er unfit for judicial office.
The situation involving Jus
tice William O. Douglas, ano
ther fiery “liberal* is equally
shocking. The ramifications of
his involvement with a founda
tion allegedly linked to hoodlum
elements, should be examined in
great detail by the Justice De
partment. It turns out that Jus
tice Douglas was the paid pre
sident of the Albert Parvin Foun
dation and of the Center For the
Study of Democratic Institutions,
a “liberal* think tank in Cali
fornia that has kept up a drum
fire against the foundations of
American society, including law
and order.
The Fortas and Douglas affairs
actually should be regarded sim
ply as openers in any study of
the judicial mess. Much remains
to be uncovered by investiga
tes. Congressman John Rarick,
(D-La), already has revealed that
Justices Fortas and Brennan,
plus federal Judges Braze Ion and
Wright of the federal courts in
Washington, have beenengaged in
business together in the nation’s
capital --a curious relationship
indeed for jurists who are sup
posed to avoid even the appear
ance of impropriety.
Chief Justice Earl Warren’s
call for a code of ethics for fed
eral judges amounts to closing
the barn door after the cows
have strayed away. Chief Justice
Warren cannot escape responsi
bility that easily. He has super
visory authority over the fed
eral courts, but failed to exer
cise it. Apparently he was so busy
promoting his pet political theor
ies that he didn’t have time or
the inclination to look for un
ethical behavior on the bench.
The problem of the judiciary
is not simply in the area of ethics,
lowever. The Supreme Court has
Teen busily undermining au-
hority in the nation. For ex-
unple, in mid-May a unanimous
Jupreme Court threw out the con-
/iction of Timothy F. Leary, for
mer Harvard University re
searcher and drug experimenter.
The ruling unquestionably
complicates the U.S. govern
ment’s ability to deal with the
possession and use of marijuana,
i profoundly hurtful mind-in-
luencing drug.
The Associated Press, in re
porting the decision, said that the
ruling “seriously damaged —
jerhaps fatally — the marijuana
iaws." This surely would be a
tragic development for the coun
try. Marijuana, while not addic
tive in the manner of heroin and
other hard drugs, upsets and
deranges a user’s personality and
moral values. The Bureau of Nar
cotics of the Justice Department
has pointed out that marijuana
use is the stepping stone to hard
drugs and to dangerous chemi
cals such as LSD.
In other words the Supreme
Court had a duty to be mind
ful of the social consequences of
robbing the federal government
of lawful authority over mari
juana. But, as in so many other
cases in the past 15 years, the
court has been unmindful of the
right of society to protect itself
against known evils. Instead in
the Leary marijuana ruling, the
court said the government had
denied Timothy Leary protection
against self-incrimination.
Hopefully, Judge Burger will
bring a new outlook to the Su
preme Court. He is on record,
in a 1967 dissent to a reversal
of a narcotic conviction, saying:
“I refuse to join in what I
consider an unfortunate trend of
judicial decisions in this field
which strain and stretch to give
the guilty not the same, but vast
ly more protection than the law-
abiding citizen.’
The Burger philosophy is des
perately needed, for the Supreme
Court has not only eisedroe lot
of narcotic violators' but has
opened the door to the smut-
peddlers who are flooding the na
tion with hard-core pornography.
The right of society need the
protection they have not had un
der the Warren Court.
Well, WM Do Vou know 2
fun, games and knowledge
by MARTHA GLAUBER SHARP, Editor, The New Book ol Knowledge
Who founded the Girl Scouts of
A merica ?
Girl Guiding was brought
to the United States in 1912
by Mrs. Juliette Gordon Low.
The name was later changed
to Girl Scouts.
How does a microphone work?
A microphone can turn
sound into electrical energy
because certain materials,
such as carbon granules, will
conduct electricity when they
are put under pressure. The
more pressure put on these
materials, the more electricity
they will conduct. The basic
parts of a microphone are a
diaphragm (a very thin,
springy sheet of metal, paper,
or plastic) and a capsule, usu
ally containing tiny granules,
or grains of carbon. When
sound waves hit the dia
phragm, it presses the carbon
granules together. If the
pressure is great, the current
flow is strong; if the pressure
is weak, the current flow is
weak. The amount of current
always depends on the amount
of pressure, which in turn de
pends on the volume of sound.
When the sound stops, the
diaphragm snaps back to its
original position and the cur
rent stops flowing.
What makes a tooth ache?
A toothache may start if'
the hard enamel is broken
down by caries. Caries is the
disease that causes teeth to
decay by forming holes in the
hard enamel. Tooth decay is
caused by the action of bac
teria. Caries usually starts in
the grooves of the molars or
in places between the teeth
and near the gums. Food par
ticles are often caught in such
places. Bacteria, which are
always present in the mouth,
feed on these bits of food. As
they feed, they produce acids
that slowly dissolve the en
amel. The holes that form are
called cavities. If the decay
process is not stopped when
the cavity is small, the decay
may continue through the
dentin, causing a toothache.
Why can't you see stars during
the day?
There are always stars in
the sky. Only in the evening,
however, can you begin to see
them. It is the glare of the
sun’s bright light that keeps
you from seeing stars during
the day. The particles that
make up the earth’s atmos
phere scatter and reflect the
sun’s light, so that the whole
sky is too bright for any stars
to be seen.
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If NATO wasvft here,
mavbe we wouldn’t
be here either.
(Czech the Record.)
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