The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, April 09, 1970, Image 8
JUNKIE VS. ANTHROPOLOGIST
n» MOUNT VERNON (Ohio)
NEWS discovered an interesting re
buttal to recent testimony by left-lean
ing Dr. Margaret Mead advocating the
legalising of marijuana. The Ohio
newspaper found ‘‘the other side" in a
prison newspaper published by con
victs at the Chillocothe Correction In
stitute. The opposing view was writ
ten by an inmate, Herb Watts. Mr.
Watts wrote:
“The only qualifications I have is
the fact that I have been an addict for
10 years and a drug user for longer
than I care to mention. I am not
trained in Psychology, Psychiatry,
Chemistry or Medicine. I am not a
social worker or a journalist. I am
just a junkie with something to say."
"Dr. Mead told a Senate Panel that
: marijuana should be legalized and
' that 16 should be the minimum age
for its use. She said it was her con
sidered opinion that marijuana is not
harmful"
"Unfortunately, some people are
temperamentally susceptible, so that
they do not stop with the first experi
ment, and thus continue smoking,
drinking or taking drugs. This can
lead to three phases of abuse: loler-
ance, Habituation, Addiction."
“Dr. Mead is telling us ‘Pot’ is not
addictive! Why, then, during the cur
rent marijuana famine are all of our
little grass smokers so frantic?"
"If they can take it or leave it
alone, why this crazy scramble for
substitutes? And pretty far out they
are, too, from glue and gasoline fumes
to catnip. “
‘The U.S. and Mexico finally crack
ed down on the highly profitable smug
gling of marijuana. Almost overnight
young pot-heads found themselves
with nothing to turn to. Cases on the
docket prove without a doubt that
some of these kids took up ‘hash’.
Parents, if you hear your kids talking
about ‘hash’ don't be confused into
thinking it’s the corned-beef variety.
They are talking about Hashish—the
kind smoked in Oriental horror tales.
Half pound bricks are flooding the
country, to keep our pot-starved youth
from climbing the walls. Now, in
stead of pot parties, the kids throw
hash sessions."
Junkie Watts concluded: ‘To leg
alize the use of marijuana would be a
cardinal sin and an unjust burden for
immature American youth."
We believe that young people would
be far wiser if they would listen to
Herb Watts, and not to Margaret
Mead.
PO' JOE HIGGINS
Poor Joe Higgins must be scratch
ing his head all the way to the bank.
Rotund Mr. Higgins is the fellow
who portrays a Southern law officer
on Dodge commercials on television.
("You sassin' a law officer, boy?”—
“Ya’ll drive careful now, heah?")
But Dodge officials have bent to
pressure and Joe’s going to change
images.
Someone protested that Joe’s por
trayal was “most objectionable.” It
had to be a Southerner who protested,
probably the police chief in one of
those Georgia speed trap "towns”,
right? Wrong. It was a Yankee—
Robert M. Chiarmonte, Ohio patrol
superintendent Mr. Chiarmonte pro
tested the commercials as being "most
objectionable.”
We thought it was a humorous
commercial. It also served a purpose in
holding up for ridicule someone who
was the opposite of what a good law
enforcement officer should be. If any
one got the idea that Mr. Higgins’
portrayal was the true image of the
average police officer, he would be in
for a shock when he met the real
thing.
Now our objectivity is going to be
tested. The Dodge folks plan to trans
form Mr. Higgins into the "father im
age” in a Little League situation. That
must be very confusing to Mr. Hig
gins. There are a lot more fathers
than there are policemen. Oh, well,
on to the bank ....
QUESTION OF JUSTICE
4 Let us suppose that you are a rath
er average, middle-class American.
You own property, or perhaps your
own business, or you have an invest
ment in our private enterprise system,
either through stocks, bonds, or sav
ings bank accounts. You participate
in the political lite of our country, hav
ing voted as a Republican or a Demo
crat; ycu belong to and attend a local
church, you are active in the PTA or
some other civic organization. Ac
cording to current definition, you are
very much a part of "the establish
ment."
Now let us further suppose that
you are called upon to appear as a liti
gant in a court of law. But the judge
: sitting on the bench has already pub-
• licly pronounced these views:
‘The truth is that a vast bureauc
racy now runs the country, irrespec-
i tive of what party is in power . . . The
two parties have become almost in-
. distinguishable; and each is controlled
. by the Establishment ... If history
. is a guide, the powers-that-be will not
respond until there are great crises,
for those in power are blind devotees
to private enterprise ... the use of
violence is deep in our history . . .
the special interests that control gov
ernment use its powers to favor them
selves and to perpetuate regimes of
oppression, exploitation, and discrimi
nation . . . The use of violence as an
instrument of persuasion is therefore
inviting and seems to the discontented
to be the only effective protest . . .
We must realize that today’s Estab
lishment is the new George III. If
... it resolves to suppress the dis
senters, America will face, I fear, an
awful ordeal."
Would you expect that you would
receive a fair verdict, in any case
heard before such a judge?
These views are the expressions of
Justice William 0. Douglas of the
United States Supreme Court, in his
book "Points of Rebellion."
Many responsible members of Con
gress are convinced that Justice Doug
las no longer has the capability to ren
der a fair, unbiased opinion in matters
to come before the Supreme Court.
And that is why, in fairness to those
whose cases will be brought before the
court, they are asking that he resign;
or, failing that, that he be impeached
as provided for in the Constitution.
A New Day Dawning
"Are you the roomer, boarder, lodger, patient or
inmate of this household?”
Wish I’d Said]
That
Parson Jones Says
When you come to the end of
a perfect day, it’s the things
you haven’t done that are go
ing to count most tomorrow.—
Harold S. May, The Florence
(Ala.) Herald.
Success nowadays is making
more money to pay the taxes
you wouldn’t be paying if you
hadn’t made so much money
already.—Ed Hummer, The
Eaton (Colo.) Herald.
Cathedral’s Carillon
The carillon installed in
the tower of the Washington
Cathedral contains 53 bells.
The largest of these bells
weighs 12 tons each while
the smallest weigh 15
pounds.
Female Revolt'
Was The Topic
Dear Mr. Publisher:
Our church men met the other
night and discussed their favorite
subject - women. The topic was
“The female revolt for equal
rights”. So much heat was gen
erated from the discussion that
we had to cut off the furnace
and open the windows. Big Slim
was in charge of the program and
he opened up by reading an ar
ticle from Newsweek. According
to what he read the women are
tired of being women. It told how
these rebellious gals have stop-
pedwearinggirdles and are letting
hair grow on their legs. Some
UNITED STATES SENATOR
ERNEST F. HOLLINGS
REPORTS
TO SOUTH CAROLINA
I on‘i»n I’nlirx—( ii<‘iii|>loMiirnl in
Soutii Carolina
Prior to the election in 19b(i,
lohn F Kennedy stated in a
letter to me. dated August
cause ol its loud voice,
cat r\ ing no stick at all,
textile industiv has lost
and
the
of ’em won’t let a man open the
door for ’em and won t take a seat
from a man.
Brother George said that
wasn’t nothing new, cause he
never opened the door for his wife
and he shore wasn’t gonna give
up his favorite easy chair for no
woman.
Big Slim went on to point out
that these women didn’t want to
be whistled at or flirted with.
Lots of ’em don’t want to be
tied down with a husband or
younguns. The real doozy, ac
cording to Slim, was that many
females are taking Karate so they
won’t have to rely on men for
protection.
Well sir, whenSlim got through
everybody started talking at one
time. Hezekiah said if women
wanted to do a man’s job they
oughta volunteer for Vietnam. Dr.
Chargewright says these gals are
suffering from a disease known
as “self-hatred”. One fella said
they were just mad cause they
coundn’t grow a beard. But Bro
ther George really put the “cap
on the bottle” when he said if
the gals didn’t want to be women
they oughta go toSweden and have
an operation.
:<>. IPbn. th.it l! elected Presi
dent, he would take action.
Because ol the broad ram
ifications o! am action and
1 >ocause ol the necessity ol
approaching a solution in
terms ol total needs ol the
textile industry, this is a re-
•.ponsihilitv which only the
(MNI more jobs to iiii|»orts
and the chickens have oomt
home to roost in South Caro
lina Five hundred jobs gone
111 the Greenwood area since
February, and .IP Stevens
announcing the lay-off lor a
week ol 2.(HK) more Here are
the official facts
Wfell sir, I learned one thing
from this program. Don’t seem
that anybody is happy with the
way God made things. Gotta go
now. Be careful who you whistle
at.
Parson Jones
President can adequately dis-
charge. ” On May 2. IW1. he
p i o :n u I g a t e d the 7-|M»int
Kennedy program lor textiles
and hy Octolvcr 1, 1PP1, he had
obtained an agreement on
cotton textiles, which is now
joined hy 14 nations.
This positive result by Presi
dent Kennedy in eight months
was without palaver He acted
promptly undei the present
law.
Candid a t e Richard M
Nixon, in a telegram to Re
publican Senators on August
21, 196K stated: 1 will
promptly take the steps nee-
essary to extend the coneept
ol international trade agree
ments to all other textile ar
ticles involving wool, man
made fibers and blends.”
In contrast to Kennedy.
Nixon’s commitment has been
lost amid statements of hope
and concern. He sent Secre
tary Stans to Japan several
times to negotiate and pre
sented a petition of Senators
to Prime Minister Sato when
he visited in November. But
as the Attorney General ad
monished, this Administration
should be known not for what
it says but for what it does.
Significantly, President Nixon
appointed Special Representa
tive for Trade Negotiations,
Carl Gilbert, well-known
enemy of the textile industry.
And when we passed a textile
quota amendment in the Sen
ate last December, the White
House opposed it. The Japa
nese got the message. The
President, with due regard
for domestic politics, would
make statements about tex
tiles, but no action would be
taken. Not surprisingly, this
week, the Japanese gave us
an outright rebuff.
The Nixon Administration
has lowered its voice on
everything but textiles. Be-
In .Inmiaiy. 1969. there
w ere ,iii even one million pel •
sons employed in the textile
mill products industry By
February. 1970. employment
dropped to 967.000- a loss of
33,000 American jobs. In the
apparel industry in Januaiy.
1969 there were 1.424,000 jobs
By February of this year,
there were l,407.(KKi. a drop
of 17.(XM) jobs, lor a total of
50,000 jobs
Why? Not difficult to
fathom. In January, 1969. the
United States imported 69
million square yards of cotton
textiles, most of it from
Japan. But, in January, 1970,
it had more than doubled to
150 million square yards. In
January, 1969, w’e imported
85 million square yards of
man-made fabrics; again more
than doubled in January of
this year, the figure was 188
million, or the largest monthly
total inc-rease in the last six
years. For all textiles: Jan
uary, 1969, 163 million square
yards—but by January of this
year, 350 million square yards.
The result—Japan has a
trade advantage in textiles
alone with the United States
of over 525 million dollars.
Japan gets to keep her Oki
nawa while we spend billions
to provide for Japan’s na
tional defense. We expend
precious American lives daily
to preserve freedom in the
Far East and now we are sup
posed to put everybody in
South Carolina on the unem
ployed list so that we can
maintain what Vice President
Agnew calls the best foreign
policy yet.
Inflation, deflation, depres
sion, foreign policy—give it all
the high sounding names—it
amounts to the same thing.
South Carolinians are losing
their jobs by the thousands
because of Richard Nixon.
SIGN OF BUREAUCRACY—
The American taxpayer paid
$63,000 for an illuminated sign
to identify the Department of
Housing and Urban Develop
ment, according to Rep. Lowell
Weaker, Jr., (R.-Conn.). He
said that this amount could
have been used to refurbish
about six and one-half railroad
cars. “It represents $63,000 for
a narcotics treatment and drug
education program. It repre
sents the salaries for more
teachers to relieve crowded
classrooms. It represents the
partial cost of a sewage treat
ment plant su we can make
headway in cleaning up Long
Island Sound, for example. It
is $63,000 in housing that was
never built. It is a symbol of
the thousands of $63,000 proj
ects that in past administra
tions bled the taxpayer and
produced no benefits. It is a
reminder to Congress and
President Nixon of the huge
job we have ahead of us in
redirecting the nation’s priori
ties.”
People who sing their own
praises usually do so without
accompaniment.
2-B—THE CHRONICLE, Clinton, S. C., April 9, 1970
SENATOR STROM
THURMOND
REPORTS TO THE
PEOPLE
GENOCIDE OR SUICIDE?
The so-called Genocide Treaty
has been submitted to the Sen
ate once more after a lapse of
more than twenty years. The
passage of two decades has
shown the wisdom of the Senate
in its refusal to consider a trea
ty which could ultimately lead
to suicide for our national sover
eignty.
The full name of this treaty is
“The Convention on the Preven
tion and Punishment of the
Crime of Genocide.” Even though
it has been ratified by 74 na
tions, and has been in effect
among the contracting nations
since 1951, the treaty has neither
prevented nor punished the ob
ject of its concern.
Nevertheless, if the United
States were to ratify this treaty,
our enemies would be able to ex
ploit our peculiar vulnerabilities
in the field of propaganda, and
tremendous international pres
sures would be brought to bear
against us as the No. 1 target
in the world. As a nation, we
would be charged before inter
national tribunals, and our citi
zens could be dragged before
alien courts without any of the
guarantees of our own system of
justice.
At its February meeting, the
House of Delegates of the Amer
ican Bar Association again de
clined to support a resolution
urging approval of the Genocide
Treaty. The ABA is the group
best qualified to understand the
workings of our legal system.
Its action is significant, for the
treaty would raise havoc with
the American system of juris
prudence and the unique rights
which an American enjoys under
the U.S. Constitution, and under
our inherited system of English
Common Law.
The treaty defines the term
“genocide” as “acts committed
with intent to destroy, in whole
or in part, a national, ethnical,
racial or religiou- group, as
such.” Insofar as the specified
acts are already prohibited by
law against individuals, it is su
perfluous to contend that the
nature of the crime changes
when committed against the
same individuals as a group. To
murder one man, for whatever
reaion, is as evil as to murder
a group.
DUBIOUS DEFINITION
Genocide, therefore, is a crime
of dubious definition, with no
commonly accepted interpreta
tion. It is no wonder, then, that
the term is loosely thrown at
the United States in connection
with every kind of controversy
from attacks hy the Black Pan
thers to our air raids on North
Vietnam.-J^s an emotion-laden
term which could easily get a
hearing in a court hostile to
the United States.
Under the treaty, individual
U.S. citizens could be extradited
from the United States, tried in
the country where the act was
committed, and punished under
the laws of that country. Thus
a citizen could be convicted of a
crime without definition, under
alien rules of procedure, and
liable for punishments not yet
laid down.
As a practical example, any of
our -oldiers in Vietnam might
l>e tried at some unknown future
date for actions taken in the
lawful prosecution of the wai
against the Communists. There
is no statute of limitations in
volved. and we have no guaran
tee who will he running the gov
ernment of Vietnam in five oi
fifteen vears from now.
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS
In addition, as a nation. tF
United States could he brought
before the International Court
I of Justice by any of the other
I contracting' parties. One of the
| obligations which each party un
I dertakes i> to pass legislation
out'awing and punishing the
crime of g’vnocide
Should Congress decline to
pass such legislation, if is con
ceivable that one of the other
parties could charge us before
the International Court. Thus
our domestic legislative process
could come within the definition
of international affairs.
Despite the emotions attached
to di rus.-ions of genocide, it
would Is- a grave error for the
United States to submit its sov
ereignty to the so-called genocide
treaty Our personal liln-rties are
too precious to -ubmit them to
the international arena.
(Hot ,,r /»n »■ f / d »i f tjn
J&tm lolk Fdtftyo
County-Wide Phone
Dear Sir
The question of a county-wide
telephone system for Laurens
County has once again been rais
ed. This is certainly not the first
time such a proposal has been
made, and if the events follow
as in the past, the citizens of
this county will still be paying
toll charges to phone between
the different towns of the county
10 years from now. This is a de
plorable situation. However, it
not only brings up the question of
the ridiculous telephone situa
tion, but the fact that Laurens
County has never been able to
find a way to work together as
one county instead of separate
political units.
Up through 1960, Laurens
County had a greater population
than Greenwood County. All
available estimates indicate that
Greenwood County has now taken
the lead. Population counts do
not mean everything, but I think
this is indicative of the level of
progress being made by the two
counties. Greenwood County,
working together as a county,
is making considerable progress
in most areas of its county life.
Laurens County, which seems
to be content with being divided
instead of working together, is
making much less progress.
Why do the people of Laurens
County continue to content them
selves with this situation? It is
only six miles from the city
limits of Laurens to the city lim
its of Clinton. It takes only be
tween 10 to 15 minutes to travel
from the center of Laurens to be
the center of Clinton. What be
nefits one town will definitely
benefit the other. If Clinton gets a
new industry or a new recreat
ional center, Laurens will cer
tainly benefit The opposite is
also true. Why, then, do we the
citizens of Laurens County allow
this to continue?
Look at our medical facili
ties. The doctor shortage in this
county is critical. Many people
in both Clinton and Laurens go
to Greenwood for medical treat
ment Look at the hospital facili
ties available in Greenwood
County and consider the number
of doctors in Greenwood. Why the
great difference between Green
wood and Laurens comities in the
medical field while the popula
tion of the two counties is fair
ly equal 0 A large part of the
fault is the mability of Laurens
and Clinton to work together. We
insist m operating two small,
under-equipped hospitals and are
in no position under this arrange
ment to attract new doctors.
Certainly a doctor just entering
practice would chouse Greenwix 4
over Clinton or Laurens because
of the facilities available to him.
I am not criticizing the doctors
of this county. They are cer
tainly to be commended for put
ting up with the overwork and the
inferior hospital facilities that
the county has given them to use.
However, we cannot expect to
attract new doctors with our pre
sent facilities.
Medical facilites are but one
glaring example of what our in
ability to work together has
brought us. There are many
others which I do not have space
to enumerate. But most of us
should be able to see these if we
would only stop to do so. The
telephone issue is a good place
to start working together. If the
people and governing officials of
the county and of the towns of
Clinton and Laurens would work
to promote this, it could be ac
complished.
Sincerely yours,
William C. Cooper
Laurens, S. C.
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STRICTLY FRESH
It’s lucky you can save so
much fly time flving on short
journeys—it helps to make
up for the long waits at air
ports.
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Opportunity never knocks
loud enough for the fellow
who’s asleep on the job.
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He’s the kind of guy who’d
give a fellow with new den
tures a box of peanut brittle.
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