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The Outdoors
DOWN
1 Seasoning
2 Margarine
3 Hearkeners
4 Sacred song
5 Italian city
6 Evader
7 Affirmative
8 Shrub used
in dyeing
9 Roman road
10 Low sand hill
111 Superlative
suffixes
17 Newspaper
executive
19 Sacrificial
block
23 Meat pie, for
instance
24 Surf noise
ACROSS
1 The sun
4 What hunters
seek
8 Kind of road
12 Mohammed’s
son-in-law
13 Solitary
14 Shoshonean
Indians
15 Masculine
nickname
16 Entertainment
18 Summed up
20 Challenges
21 Shade tree
22 Homeric
24 Rave
26 Unruly child
27 Scottish
stream
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30 Oleic acid salt
32 Becomes
subdued
34 Violent dread
35 Genus of
marine snails
36 Worm
37 Two-wheeled
cart
39 Sit for a
portrait
40 Baseball
player, Willie
41 Oriental coin
42 Deviate
45 Fancy slippers
49 Instill
51 Also .
52 Ireland
53 Assam
silkworm
54 Greek letter
55 Ailments
56 Debilitated
57 Take a In
a cool pool
SIDE GLANCES By Gill Fox
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hairs (pi.)
41 Cringe
42 Meat dish
43 Singing group
44 Uncommon
46 Continent
47 French author
48 Cleansing
substance
50 Not many
25 Malt brews
26 Black or
elder ——•
27 Exploded
28 Love god
29 Anglo-Saxon
theow
31 Present times
33 Two-footed
38 Give
confidence to
TIMELY
QUOTES
I irritated a lot of people,
and I infuriated some but I
never bugged anyone.
—Ramsey Clark, former at
torney general.
It is a shame that 200 mil
lion Americans have to de
fend 300 million Europeans.
—West German Chancellor
Kurt Kiesinger
Medicaid is the lousiest
waste of taxpayers’ money
and the most ill-conceived
program which ever came
down the chute.
—Dr. John H. Knowles, di
rector o f Massachusetts
General Hospital and re
jected candidate for as
sistant secretary of
Health, Education and
Welfare.
I do not understand why it
is that when protests are
made against international
injustices and against the
breaches between the in
dustrialized and the less de
veloped countries, these pro
tests are always focused on
the United States, as if other
countries did not exist.
—President Carlos Lleras
Restrepo of Colombia.
Education must become a
life-long process from the
age of 9 months to 90 years.
The output of information is
exploding. Moreover, much
information is becoming ob
solete. It is becoming as im
portant to unlearn as it is to
learn.
—Wilbur J. Cohen, former
secretary of Health, Edu
cation and Welfare and
now dean of University of
Michigan School of Edu
cation.
Almanac
For
Today
By United Press International
Today Is Saturday. July 19,
the 200th day of 1969 with 165 to
follow.
The moon Is between its new
phase and first quarter.
The morning stars are
Mercury, Venus and Saturn.
The evening stars are Mars
and Jupiter.
On this day in history:
In 1870 the Franco-Prusslan
war began.
In 1941 Premier Josef Stalin
took over the post of defense
commissar In Russia.
In 1967 eighty-two persons,
including Navy Secretary-elect
John McNaughton, were killed
when an airliner collided with a
small plane over North Caroli
na.
In 1968 James Earl Ray was
extradited Irom Britain to
Memphis, Tenn.
Griffin Daily News
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point
The Crime Wave
Becomes a Flood
Public attention is focused on THE crime wave in
America—meaning street crimes and crimes of violence.
But actually, “law enforcement is caught in a riptide of
a dozen other crime waves,” says one lawyer. Each one
of these “crime waves” is different and requires different
responses but traditional law enforcement is foundering
in the face of them, says Charles E. Moylan Jr., state’s
attorney of Baltimore and president of the Maryland
State’s Attorneys Association.
Coping with the kind of crime most people think of when
they use the word is mainly a tactical problem—a question
of enough men and enough money.
"A metropolitan police department is the night watch
multiplied five-hundredfold,” he says. “An assistant dis
trict attorney cross-examining a masked robber or queen’s
counsel questioning a Yorkshire highwayman ask the same
questions with the same rules of evidence to prove the
same elements of the same crimes . . . The cutpurse and
the pickpocket, Jack the Ripper and the Boston Strangler
differ only in time and not in kind.”
But consider these “crimes” which the lawmakers ot
pastoral 17th-century England and America never dreamec
of:
• Commercial fraud. When a victim yells, “Help, I’m
being robbed,” there is a patrolman to come running. But
when a victim yells, “Help, the used car salesman turned
back the speedometer,” no one comes to his aid.
Consumer protection bureaus are in their infancy and
will have to grow a thousandfold to meet commercial
fraud, which is a crime wave almost as massive as street
violence, claims Moylan.
• Alcohol-related crime. In any year in any large city,
arrests for drunkenness outnumber those for rape, robbery,
murder, manslaughter and larceny combined.
This crime has a symptomatology all its own and re
quires a treatment all its own, but we are only beginning
to give intelligent thought to it.
• Traffic violations. This “crime wave” is bigger than
all the others put together. The ranks of these criminals
include no willful felons, but they outkill the murderers
10 to one and inflict a property damage greater than that
of all the burglars, robbers, thieves and arsonists.
• Accumulated laws. This is the product not of a break
down of law and order but of a build-up of law and order—
the tens of thousands of regulations that become necessary
when millions of people swarm together in anthills.
Our farmer ancestors could not have conceived of being
hauled into court and fined for spitting on the street, for
hunting without a license, for building a new back porch
without a permit, for not licensing a dog, for singing loudly
in the middle of the night, etc., etc., etc.
Other “crime waves” straining the antique machinery
of the law and jamming the courts include domestic squab
bles—paternity and nonsupport suits and the like—and
commercialized vice—the so-called victimless crimes of
bookmaking, gambling, lotteries and prostitution which
depend upon the affluent society for their support as well
as the destitute society.
Other examples for local tax evasion, whose scope we
cannot even estimate because local police forces are not
structured or staffed to make this type of investigation,
and employe larceny, which yearly saps millions of dollars
from businesses.
There is one “crime wave,” however, which unlike all
the others seems to be receding and may eventually dis
appear. These are the moral crimes, such as adultery,
homosexuality, obscenity, the private sexual conduct of
married couples or consenting adults.
This crime wave is receding not because of diminished
incidents but because of diminished public concern over
the incidents. Sexual morality is simply tending less and
less to be catalogued in the area of crime.
But except for this one category, law enforcement is
overextended to the point of collapse, says Moylan, and
murders, rapes, robberies and burglaries, for all their
multiplication, have very little to do with it.
Saigon Gets Set
For U.S. Pullout
It can be stated with assurance that the Thieu govern
ment in Saigon believes the time is now ripe for a gradual
withdrawal of all U.S. combat troops and their replace
ment with Vietnamese units.
This information comes from contacts in Saigon in the
confidence of the highest circles of the Vietnamese govern
ment.
The Vietnamese believe this gradual withdrawal is de
sirable for three reasons:
• To meet the desires of American public opinion.
• To ease the problems caused in Vietnam by the con
tinued presence of large numbers of foreign troops.
• To meet the needs of South Vietnamese nationalism
and national pride essential to the building of a stable,
independent nation.
It is known the Saigon government believes that given
the right circumstances, 50,000 to 75,000 U.S. troops can
leave before the end of 1969.
By the end of 1970, assuming things go right, the with
drawal of another 100,000 U.S. troops might be possible
without danger to the safety of South Vietnam.
All this would add up to about 160,000 men, all the
actual U.S. combat troops on the ground in South Vietnam.
It is assumed in these calculations that in a goodly num
ber of cases each U.S. unit will be replaced by two to three
South Vietnamese units.
These figures on the rate of American withdrawal are
highly tentative, of course. They depend in part on Hanoi’s
military plans, part on the rapidity with which improve
ments can be made in the South Vietnamese army, navy
and air force, and part on how much military backup and
support the United States is prepared to give the South
Vietnamese forces.
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ANSWER.
as t understand tt, the nipples
are discontented with nil the
hypocrisies of our society. I re
ally don’t see why everyooe is
criticising them. After nil, aren’t
they seeking the truth? V.M.
It Is hard to generalize on a
group, and difficult to analyze
their motives. Many of the hip
pies really are seeking after
truth. It Is also quite possible
that some hav e "dropped out"
for other reasons: free sex, the
desire for an easy life, etc.
But. one does not need to be a
recluse, or an eccentric, to see
truth. Neither does one have to
go to India. Madame Pandit re
cently said, "I have spoken to
many of your hippies In India. I
ask them what they came to
India for, an they said, ‘the tru
th.’ But truth Is not American,
or British, or Indian. It Is every
where. If you cannot find It in
your own heart, you cannot find
It."
Most young people are search
ing for truth. They do not ne
cessarily have to be hippies. It
Is wholesome and normal for
young people to personally ex
amine and evaluate the ethics
and Ideals, and even the beliefs,
of thetr elders. That is much
better than accepting them un
equivocally, without making
them their own.
Most of the people Christ call
ed to be His disciples were
young men. One reason I be
lieve Is that He offered them
“The Truth," Himself. He Is
embodiment of all truth.
THOUGHTS
How beautiful upon the
mountains are the feet of
him who brings good tidings,
who publishes peace, who
brings good tidings of good,
who publishes salvation, who
says to Zion, “Your God
reigns.”—lsaiah 52.7. j
* * *
I prefer the most unfair
peace to the most righteous
war.—Marcus Cicero, Ro
man orator.
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The abandoning of thou
sands of damaged or old
cars on city streets is
increasingly disfigur
ing A m e r i c a n cities. In
1968. The World Almanac
notes, New York City re
ported 30,000 derelict cars,
an increase of 4,000 over
1967. while Philadelphia and
Detroit reported 20,000 and
16,000 respectively in 1967.
Car blight extends to rural
areas, where some of our
40 million junked vehicles
rest in grotesque grave
yards.
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Kremlin Finds
Its Own Vietnam
By RAY CROMLEY
WASHINGTON (NEA)
Reports from contacts in Hong Kong and Europe indicate
that, without a war ever starting, the Red China border
could be for Moscow as deep a quagmire as Vietnam has
been for the United States.
In past months, the Soviet Union has almost doubled its
China border divisions from 15 to an estimated 26, includ
ing a goodly representation of armored units. These troops
are believed backed up with somewhat over 350 medium
range nuclear missiles and contingents of modern combat
aircraft.
Border incidents, reported and unreported, have grown
steadily worse in the two years since August, 1967, when
Red Guard posters claimed Chinese troops had annihilated
a Soviet cavalry unit “invading” Sinkiang Province. (But
there had been major troubles before, too.)
Even assuming the border clashes remain just that, the
situation could so tie up Moscow’s attention and divert so
many of her troops to the border and to border reserve
areas that Russia’s effectiveness would be lessened in
other parts of the world.
That is, despite Moscow’s invasion of Czechoslovakia,
her new naval activity in the Mediterranean and her fast
paced missile build-up, Russia may be less of a threat
than it would have been in the years immediately ahead
in trouble spots around the world.
The troops tied to the Chinese border in themselves do
not seriously hobble Moscow. It is those border troop in
creases on top of requirements in Czechoslovakia and in
other Western areas resulting from increased Soviet prob
lems in Eastern Europe. It is also the unknown threat of
what might happen next. The bugaboo of simultaneous
fighting on two fronts gives Soviet military planners cold
chills. The situation is made worse by Moscow’s require
ment for considerable numbers of troops as a backup for
political controls at home.
To understand the Soviet difficulty, it is helpful to look
at our own dilemma. In becoming so heavily committed in
Vietnam, Korea, Thailand and Taiwan (Formosa), the
United States lost credibility as a force elsewhere. Yet a
unilateral withdrawal would have led to an even greater
credibility loss.
It is the resulting worry over whether in such circum
stances the United States could meet its commitments
elsewhere in the world that has caused such great con
cern in Europe, Japan, the Middle East and in some coun
tries in Africa and Latin America. A conviction that the
United States could not now expand its commitments was
in part responsible for the capture of the Pueblo.
The Soviet problem with Communist China is intensified
because Moscow can do little to stop the Chinese from
border raids. Moscow can no more afford to get bogged
down in a major land war with China than can the United
States.
Herman Talmadge
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THERE IS NOTHING MORE damaging to the spirit of a child
than chronic hunger. And yet such hunger has become away of
life to millions of American children whose parents are either
unwilling or unable to provide them with adequate food.
Such children have virtually no control over their lives. They
suffer because of the inadequacies or misfortunes of their parents.
My school lunch program inspection tour this spring reinforced
my feeling that these programs are doing a fine job in helping to
combat this basic problem, and they can do a great deal more to
compensate for deficiencies in the home.
I have introduced legislation to expand and improve school
lunch programs, particularly for children in areas of economic
deprivation. 1 have long felt that education, rather than give
away programs, is the primary answer to the problems of our
country’s underprivileged. And the time when a child is most
impressionable is in his early schooling. But to learn properly, a
child must also eat properly.
* * *
STUDIES SHOW THAT a hot lunch for schoolchildren not
only lowers dropouts and absenteeism, but actually improves the
grades of many students. Nutritional deprivation often produces
children who become the dropouts, the delinquents, and even
tually the misfits of society. The programs now in operation are
doing a good job. But they can be improved. They must be im
proved if we are to give all children an equal shot at fulfillment
of their inherent promise and ability.
* * *
MY PROPOSAL CONTAINS three basic sections. First, it
would encourage greater state participation and increase funding
for the present programs, to allow them to reach more children.
Second, it would authorize the use of funds for lunchroom facili
ties for inadequately-equipped schools. Finally, it would provide
that even needy children living in affluent districts could still
obtain a free or reduced-price lunch. Thus poor families living in
a wealthy school district would not be penalized because their
neighbors could afford to buy lunches and they could not.
No one is more aware than I am of the need for fiscal belt
tightening to control inflation. But we cannot deprive children of
the hope that comes with a full stomach. Future dividends will
more than repay whatever investment we are able to make at
this time to insure that all children have an adequate opportunity
to learn and grow.