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McGovern backs income floor
By WILLIAM 0. TOME
ATLANTA (UPI)-Sen. Geor
ge McGovern, D-S. D., told the
13th annual convention of the
Southern Christian Leadership
Conference Wednesday night
that if the United States can af
ford to subsidize a supersonic
airplane it should be able to af
ford a minimum income for the
poor.
McGovern, who said the SCLC
had become the “embodiment of
man’s deepest longings and as
pirations for peace,” also de
plored the “venal effort” to de
fame the late Rev. Martin Lu
ther King Jr., founder of the
SCLC, in a published magazine
article which alleged marital in
fidelity by the slain civil rights
leader.
He blamed the Time magazine
report concerning a book that
claimed the FBI obtained wire
taps of alleged extramarital ac
tivity on “a deepening insecur
ity which makes men fear in
stead of trust, hate instead of
love.”
McGovern said the incident
symbolized “a legal perversion
that is more obsessed with so
cial crusaders and campus rad
icals than with the Mafia under
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SCLC convention
world. It is a kind of official
lawlessness that overrides sim
ple humanity, personal privacy
and a sense of dignity which are
the marks of a humane so
ciety."
He told the SCLC delegates
that the United States “desper
ately needs” the nonviolent so
cial philosophy espoused by the
civil rights organization.
“This nation will not survive
without the healing balm of the
good news that you have the ca
pacity to prepare on the prob
lems of poverty, racism and
war,” the South Dakota senator
said.
Before McGovern addressed
the annual banquet, SCLC Pres
ident Ralph Abernathy present
ed Archbishop Dom Helder Ca
mara Pessora of Brazil with the
second annual Dr. Martin Luth
er King Jr. Award.
Abernathy said the Roman
Catholic leader had made a
“courageous contribution to the
advancement of nonviolent so
cial change, world peace and in
ternational brotherhood.”
Pessora, who was presented a
sl,ooocheck along with a plaque,
said in a heavy accent that he
wished to “promote a great
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union among all of the nonvio
lent movement.”
Earlier in the day, Abernathy
turned his microphone over to
members of the Georgia Black
Liberation Movement after they
scuffled with SCLC officials on
the speaking platform.
The incident followed an at
tack by Abernathy on the Amer
ican political system and Presi
dent Nixon during which he hint
ed at another mass march on
Washington.
“We must reconvene the poor
peoples coalition toward the end
of this year or early in 1971,”
he said. “I don’t know what fas
hion or form, but at least I
know this: In the face of a re
pressive, anti-black, anti-poor,
anti-peace, anti-youth national
government, it becomes our duty
in the nonviolent movement to
return to the seat of govern
ment—Washington, D. C.”
He blamed the nation’s social
Torres hearing
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continued Sept. 9
FT. MCPHERSON (UPI)-
Preliminary proceedings have
been continued until Sept. 9 in
the court - martial of Sgt.
Esequiel Torres, who is charged
with murder in the alleged My
Lai massacre.
When the hearing for the 22-
year-old Brownsville, Tex., sol
dier opened Wednesday, his at
torneys made a number of mo
tions challenging the proceed
ings.
Col. James A. Hagan, the mil
itary judge in the case, dis-
ills on “Facist domination” and
said, “I call for a new non-vio
lence. The Pentagon must come
to a grinding halt. We may be
forced to liberate and occupy
the Justice Department and
Congress.”
The key to an end to “Fac
ism,” Abernathy said, would be
Nixon’s defeat at the polls.
“It is he that has alienated
blacks and poor and minority
peoples,” Abernathy saidof Nix
on. “He has rendered our dol
lars worthless by inflating the
economy. It is he that has in
cited military troops to gun us
down in the streets. It is he that
has made murderers of our sons
in Southeast Asia.”
The youths dressed in African
dashikis who gained control of
the podium for five minutes,
asked the SCLC to grant them
SI,OOO and claimed they were
being ignored by the civil rights
group.
missed 11 of the motions, in
cluding one by civilian attorney
Charles L. Weltner challenging
die Army’s right to act as both
judge and prosecutor.
A three-judge federal panel
ruled against Weltner Monday
in a move to have Torres’ case
removed from military jurisdic
tion. Weltner’s suit to have the
case moved to civilian courts
was also based mainly on con
stitutional grounds.
Weltner said Wednesday Tor
res was “determined to exhaust
whatever remedies he may
have in civilian court,” noting he
was preparing an appeal to the
U. S. Suprem Court of the
three-judge panel’s ruling.
Hagan said he would accept
evidence on further motions
from Torres’ legal counsel when
the hearing resumes next
month.
One motion by Weltner to be
carried over until then asked
that he be permitted to obtain
pre-trial testimony from De
fense Secretary Melvin Laird,
Army Secretary Stanley Resor,
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Wil
liam Westmoreland, Central In
telligence Agency Director Rich
ard Helms, presidential press
secretary Ron Ziegler and oth
ers.
Weltner said he wanted to
question them regarding public
statements made about My Lai
and on the issue of command
influence.
Torres is charged with the
machinegun murder of at least
three Vietnamese civilians at
My Lai when more than 100
allegedly were slaughtered
March 16, 1968; premeditated
murder by hanging of another
just before My Lai, and assault
with intent to murder.
He is one of 12 soldiers
charged with murder in the My
Lai case, nine of them enlisted
men. One of the three officers.
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The small farm
Peace, quiet and hard work
By TOM TIEDE
WAVERLY, Neb.—(NEA)
—The world doesn’t get
much nevermind at the Carl
Swanson place. There is the
television, of course, and if
somebody tunes it in there
are pictures of soldiers
dying, Negroes marching
and students screaming in
the street.
But in the evening here,
when the work is done, the
only thing the TV is for is
Lawrence Welk. When he’s
not on, Carl Swanson usually
sits outside his house with
his wife and just listens to
his crops grow.
Swanson’s a farmer. Age
72.
He has lived on this same
quarter of Salt Creek Valley
all of his life, same as his
father did, “workin’ hard,
mindin’ my own, and livin’
to a good old age.”
You might call him a hick.
Wash your mouth out. Carl
Swanson has seen the city,
but chooses the country.
“We’ve been pert’near ever’-
where in the country ’cept
New York City,” he says,
his hands rammed into the
stomach pockets of his over
alls. “And lemme tell you
one thin’. We’re always glad
to get back home.”
Home is 211 acres of grow
ing land, an hour’s drive
from the city, Lincoln, on
the new Interstate 80. Swan
son’s father, a Swedish im
migrant, bought it for $6 an
acre in 1877. There’s been
wheat and hay and cows and
chickens here since.
“We’re growin’ milo this
year,” Swanson says, nod
ding his head toward the
field and explaining courte
ously, “you know what milo
is, don’t you? It’s feed grain,
like corn.” He rubs his face.
Blows his nose. “Good thin’
we ain’t got corn planted this
year. Been dry all summer.
Them with corn’s in trou
ble.”
He pauses.
And a pause in farm coun
try is really a pause.
Then . . . then ... at last
he adds: “Yep. Been a real
dry summer for corn.”
Slow - talking, easy - going
Carl Swanson is a tossback
to another age in America.
Albeit a refreshing one. Once
the nation’s farm population
was 30 million (1940). Then
the world changed. War.
Production. Urbanization.
City life, with its all-night
drug stores, double-feature
movies and hourly factory
pay, attracted two-thirds of
the farmers. Today only Carl
Swanson and 10 million oth
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ers are left.
But the world may be com
pleting a full turn. Towns
people fear the all-night
stores now because night
streets shelter thugs. The
double features at the
movies are rated X. Factory
pay is reduced by strikes. So
there is a slow return to the
soil. Most of Swanson’s
neighbors are becoming
ruralized city types who
commute. “There’s a retired
colonel over there, he’s got
15 acres. There’s a doctor
down the way, he’s got about
the same. They all like it out
here.” Why? “Easy, it’s
’cause country life’s the best
there is.”
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From the look of him,
Swanson is proof of his own
testimony. Thin, crinkle
skinned, he is nonetheless
hard as oak. Which comes
from, he says, endless work.
With only a grown son
(Norm, 41, who lives just
across the road) as help, the
old man is up every morn
ing at 5 to milk 28 cows. He
toils the sun around. “We
don’t like daylight savin’s
time, ’cause it gives an extra
hour light. And, hell, that
means an extra hour work.
We don’t like stoppin’ here
’til it’s dark.”
For all his energy, Swan
son works not as much by
choice as necessity. Falling
prices and rising costs have
hurt the farm population at
least as much as the lure of
the city. “Making it,” says
Swanson, “just ain’t never
easy.” The man’s machinery
alone has cost him nearly
$50,000 over the years; the
market prices of his crops
have plummeted — winter
wheat has dropped from
$3.25 to $1.25 a bushel in 20
years; and the cost of hired
help has almost tripled since
World War 11.
Farmer Swanson isn’t
complaining. Things are fine.
Crops are green, his health
is good and from the whiff
of things the missus is al
most ready with supper.