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COMMENTS
Government By Blackmail
It would be difficult indeed to find a person in
these United States who doesn’t have one or more
proposals that he’d like to submit to the Congress
in Washington. Every farmer we know lias a few,
as does every housewife. We suspect that law
enforcement officers even have a few bills they
would like to see placed in the hopper. To a de
gree, every citizen is a lobbyist
And all these lobbyists have a right to petition
their representatives for their personal self
interest That right is important in our country.
But the so-called “Poor People’s March” is
violating the code of civilized lobbying. In the
first place, the billing as a poor people’s march
is misleading, as any recent visitor to the Lincoln
Memorial area can testify. There are just too
many high-priced automobiles parked at the peri
meter of the plywood shanty town, and there are too
many people coming and going from the fenced
in compound with expensive cameras hanging
about their necks. Any protest that the auto
mobiles and cameras don’t belong to residents of
the commune can be ignored because no one else
is allowed Inside by the civilian guards at the
gates.
In any event, on May 24, a mass demonstrat-
From the very beginning of recorded history
grown-ups have been lamenting the shortcomings
and behavior of young people. And it seems
probable that adults were similarly disposed even
before they learned enough themselves to set down
their thoughts in writing.
Recently there has been a rash of news stories
recounting the deeds and misdeeds of offspring
of prominent political figures, and editors of news
papers have been getting letters saying, “Why do
newspapers print such stories?” The answer is
easy. It’s news. The arrest of a governor’s
daughter, or a senator’s son, is news.
It’s also news when a 19-year-old used a US
flag as a beach towel.
It’s news when an American deserter in Sweden
sounds the call to servicemen to join him in his
chosen exile.
It’s news when Fairfax County, Virginia, re
ports that school vandalism for the year is a
staggering SIOO,OOO, with still one month to go to
the end of the school year.
It’s news when four children, ages 9 and 10,
stone a man, causing him to fall, break a leg,
and later die of complications in the hospital.
It's news when a college freshman paints an
Two long-time foreign correspondents have com
bined their talents to write a book which is going to
be widely quoted across the land this summer. The
title is, The Experts. The authors are Seymour
Freidin, who was executive editor for foreign affairs
of the New York Herald Tribune, and George Bailey,
who was executive editor of The Reporter magazine.
On page 85. there is this extraordinary report
“Unrevealed until now, as well, was the outburst
of the late President’s brother, Senaor Robert F.
Kennedy. Grief-stricken at the sudden calamity
that cut the President down, Bobby Kennedy tele
phoned a ranking official of the CIA, who, dumb
founded, heard him demand with commingled anger
and emotion;'Did your outfit have anything todo with
this horror?’ Bobby Kennedy, subsequently regain
ing his composure, never mentioned the call again.
But he has often encountered the man he phoned,
who, as it happened, had been a dedicated pro-
Kennedy supporter.”
Os course that paragraph was written, and the
book was already off the presses when an assassin’s
bullet struck Bobby Kennedy. But the paragraph un
derscores a point that we want to make. In the af
termath of a tragedy of this kind, emotions run high.
A lot of Americans drink liquor. We’re willing
to leave it to the psychologists, psychiatrists and
sociologists to debate why. We’re prepared, how
ever, to tell you when Americans drink liquor, and
it’s a fascinating fact, this matter of when.
First, you should understand that the statistics
show that the average drinker consumes about 14
quarts of liquor in a year. Taking a few parties
into account - such as New Year’s, an anniver
sary or two and maybe a going away or a coming
home happening - that leaves a moderate amount of
something like 4 drinks a week to ease the pain of
taxes, spading the garden or painting the ceiling.
That’s the average.
How does that average balance out, year after
year, since Prohibition was repealed? The re
cord shows a remarkable consistency. In the first
two years after prohibition the average adult in
take was rather low. There wasn’t much liquor
available in 1934 and 1935, through legal and re
cord-keeping sources at least. But from 1936
through 1940, the average adult held very close to
the aforementioned average. The same was true
for the period from 1948 to 1961. The average
held firm. There was a pattern which may be con
sidered “normal” consumption.
The years of the Second World War were very
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ion was held in front of the Washington apartment
building where Representative Wilbur Mills lives
when the Congress is in session. The assembled
lobbyists chanted and sang despite the fact that
they had been informed that the Congressman was
not at home, but had gone out for the evening to
celebrate his birthday. The Reverend James
Bevel, of the Southern Christian Leadership Con
ference, shouted to the throng that, “Wilbur
Mills has snuck out of his rat hole and made a
run for it. He’s out getting drunk; but he’ll be
back.” Surely it is obvious that anyone who
would throw around slanderous statements such
as this and expect favorable legislation in return
is truly trying a new form of salesmanship.
A couple of days later, the leader of the march,
the Reverend Ralph Abernathy, was quoted as say
ing that if his poor people’s demands are not met
the march will continue to the home town of each
Congressman.
Is that a petition? From where we sit it sounds
more like blackmail. And our hunch is that home
town neighbors of Congressmen will prove to be
less tolerant of such demonstrations than Wash
ington has been.
American flag on a closet door with a swastika
replacing the field of 50 stars. It’s news when
the school administration removes the perversion
and students replace it and mount a guard to
defend it.
But there are other news items you will do well
not to overlook. They appear in any newspaper
you pick up. They report on the Little Leaguers
contesting at the “National Pasttime,” the Safety
Patrols visiting the Nation’s Capital and being
welcomed by dignitaries, Miss America preparing
to head to Vietnam, or school children planting
trees in a New Jersey school yard.
The kooks thrive on attention and their aber
rations are reported as news.
The overwhelming majority of our youngsters
go about the business of being good citizens and
editors seem not to get many letters approving
of stories reporting these activities.
Youngsters like attention and our preference
is to recognize and boost the worthy ones. Hap
pily, our young people afford us a lot more
“boost” stories than “kook” stories. Conseq
uently, we’re not as worried about America’s
youth as some of our readers seem to be.
and rumors keep pace.
Accordingly, the arbitrary threat of that Califo
rnia judge to hold newsmen and officials in contempt
if facts about Bobby Kennedy’s assassin are made
public is an insult to the public. And a danger.
If, like Oswald, this new Kennedy assassin also
had leftist associations and contacts as the mea
gre news about him suggests, then the public de
serves to know it at the earliest possible date.
Newsmen and officials, judicial and otherwise, who
withhold full disclosure about his political orien
tation are actually helping those who share the ass
assin’s views.
Mayor Yorty revealed just enough to suggest that
the shadow of Communism and/or Castro has fallen
on another victim. For this the Mayor has been
chastised publicly, it being suggested that he has
jeopardized the ability of the court to geta convic
tion of the accused murderer. Nuts!
If Bobby Kennedy could ask the question quoted
in The Experts, imagine the questions the public
is asking in this period of imposed blackout.
Censorship by judicial decree is no more pal
atable than any other kind.
different, however. In those years the average
amount consumed per adult rose far out of line
with any previous experience. The war separ
ated families, dislocated lives, brough about seri
ous problems of readjustment in jobs, put women
to work and made the future of all Americans un
certain. The tensions brought about by uproot
ing, separation and uncertainty were painful. It
appears that an extra drink or two helped some to
relax or even forget the pain for a little time.
And by now you’re asking, what about 1962 to
the present. We have figures only to 1966. But
there has been a rise in the rate of liquor con
sumption which is only comparable, since Repeal,
to the years of the Second World War. As we
moved toward the New Frontier and entered the
Great Society, Americans took to drink.
Did adult America move into this era in happy
anticipation? Was the character of our national
leadership such as to give Americans confidence
in a joyful future? Have these recent years really
been years of normal adjustment? Clearly not.
The record is that the New Frontier and the
Great Society have driven many, many Americans to
drink. Those people who have been saying the Gov
ernment was driving them to drink really meantit.
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OUR WEEKLY LESSON |
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Sunday School \
PATIENCE AND PRAYER
Devotional Reading: Luke 18;
1-8.
Memory Selection: Th prayer
of a righteous man has great
power In its effects. James 5:
16.
INTERMEDIATE - SENIOR
TOPIC: The Prayer of Faith
YOUNG PEOPLE - ADULT
TOPIC: Patience and Prayer
We have now come to the fi
nal lesson of the quarter, which
is also the last of eleven less
ons on the wisdom literature of
the Old and New Testaments.
A little self-analysis and intro
spection may be good at this
point. We need to ask frankly
what wisdom we have gained
from the study of this portion of
God’s Word.
Certainly the intention of those
who selected these lessons was
that we as students should gain
from study of the wisdom lit
erature and prayer those abiding
values which would contribute
to our spiritual growth.
We may recall that the first
lesson of this series was intend
ded to give us a general idea of
the nature, content, and purpose
of this portion of Scripture. Then
we had three lessons from the
Book of Proverbs, one from Book
of Ecclesiastes, three from the
Book of Job, and now we study
the last of three lessons from
the Epistle of James.
The study from the Epistle of
James as "wisdom” literature
with the portions of the Old Test
ament Is somewhat unusual, but
we believe it has been very in
teresting and gives us an op
portunity to compare ideas of
wisdom under the Old and New
Testament.
The Epistle of James takes
wisdom as a central theme. Scar
cely has the author begun when he
directs his readers, "If any of
you lack wisdom let him ask of
God, that giveth to all men lib
erally, and upbraldeth not; and it
shall be given him.”
The source of wisdom Is God,
who Is waiting as a loving Fa
ther for the prayer requests of
his children. God does not up
braid or condemn his children
for their weakness or lack of
wisdom but supplies their wants
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Again we notice In chapter
three, verse thirteen, James
says, "Who is wise and under
standing among you? Let him
show by his good life his works
in meekness and wisdom.” Then
he goes on to contrast with true
wisdom what men often take to be
wise in jealousy and faction and
self-seeking; but this is not the
wisdom James is talking about.
The wisdom he advocates Is from
above. It is pure, peaceable,
gentle, easy to be entreated, full
of mercy and good fruits: without
partiality or hypocrisy.
Certainly this is enough to show
clearly the kind of wisdom that
James recommends as a disting
uishing feature of the Christian.
To attain this sort of wisdom
which comes directly to us from
the "Father of Lights,” we shall
need especially two great Chris
tian virtues that are the theme
of our lesson today, patience and
more patience, prayer and more
prayer.
This New Testament type of
wisdom which James advocates is
a very practical thing that will
show forth In all our actions.
James writes with a typical style
of Bible lands and this Epistle
is very popular and is sold by
representatives of the Bible So
ciety in large numbers through
the lands of the Book. People
in these countries are often at
tracted to read more of Scrip
ture by first reading the Epistle
of James.
The first section of our les
son follows a strong protest by
James against the social sins of
the rich. Time and again in
different forms the author of this
epistle warns against the tem
ptations that beset those who are
rich in worldly goods. Those
who have acquired power and
wealth are tempted by such in
equity as covetousness, fraud,
oppression, voluptuoueness, im
morality, and Injustice.
It seems that James regards
chiefly the Christians whom he
addresses as those who are op
pressed by the rich.
Those who are oppressed by
the rich must be patient, know
ing that the day of reckoning will
surely come. The righteous In
the world may have to bear tri
bulation, but they are to be of
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MANY CHILDREN steal once
or twice in the process of grow
ing up, but a Uhiversity of Mich
igan psychiatrist says repeated
stealing means something is
wrong with the emotional atmos
phere in the family. He says
stealing is more common among
boys than girls and believes it
stems from anger and resent
ment or loneliness. He said
that a child may steal to “buy”
friends, to gain symbolic grati
fication or to produce an emot
ional response in his parents.
Often he wants to make them
feel hurt, because most of these
episodes of stealing follow an
incident in which the child feels
he has been rejected.
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as vehicles for delivering gene
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burglary averages $263, com
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good cheer, knowing that their
Master has overcome the world.
The main thought in verse se
ven is "patience until the har
vest”. The growing of crops
ought to teach us a lesson. The
husbandman, or farmer, must
wait for the rains of autumn in
the fall of the year and then the
spring rains after the winter, be
fore the grain matures and rip
ens for the harvest. This re
quires patience throughout the
long winter season. Then comes
the harvest, which is universally
a time of rejoicing in the agri
cultural economy of Bible lands.
The central thought of verse
eight Is "establish your hearts.”
To await the long months that
the harvest takes to mature takes
patience and fortitude. Stead
fastness is a Christian virtue
that is to be cultivated in every
possible way.
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“Government by law, rather
than of men”, is a part of the
United States Jaycee Creed that
Is very Important In the life of
every man, woman and child in
America.
Today we have the most far
reaching and liberal laws of any
nation of free people on earth,
and yet, men have allowed the
teeth in these laws to decay to
the point that there is more
“bark in the law than bite”.
Man, like children, Is happier
when he is disciplined and for
ced to live by the law that gov
erns his society. In America
“man” has the freedom to dis
agree openly with the law in open
opposition.
But, there is no law in the
land that grants a person op
position privileges at the ex
pense of another mans rights.
There are many wrongs in Am
erica today, but this country
remains the most desirable place
to live on earth to all races of
people.
There are many laws that are
questionable In America today,
but the fault lies in the men
“we, the people” have elected
and sent to Washington to make
our laws. The blame lies in the
Supreme Court and other courts
of our land where men, not Gods,
have handed down ultra
liberal decisions that have ham
strung the law enforcement agen
cies of this nation.
When most American children
break the rules in the home,
they get spanked, or should. When
a person breaks the law in Am
erica he is supposed to be ar
rested and punished for doing
so. If he isn’t punished, he loses
respect for the law, holds law
enforcement officers and offic
ers of the courts in contempt,
and becomes a disgruntled mem
ber of society even though he
feels that he has gotten away with
something. He is prone to break
the law again.
In our effort in America to
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Says..
Let us say with the Psalmist:
"Bless the Lord O my soul and
all that is within me, Bless His
Holy name. Bless the Lord O
my soul and forget not all Ms
benefits; Who forgiveth all thine
iniquities, Who healeth all thy
diseases, Who redeemeth thy soul
from destruction; Who crowneth
Pilot Club Urges Flag Display
July 4th, Independance Day
Let us honor the birthday of
our country on July 4 by proudly
displaying our American Flag
from our homes and business
houses.
Someone has said of the Am
erican Flag: "I am whatever you
make me, nothing more. I swing
before your eyes as a bright
Thursday, June 27. 1968
LAWS, WE HAVE!
By: Leo S. Mallard
dispense justice to all men we
have gone overboard. When a
criminal is arrested today, the
law officers spend more time
explaining to him his “legal ri
ghts” and the “loopholes” in
the laws that we have, than they
do solving the crime and reach
ing a just conviction before the
courts.
Laws, interpreted in the most
utopian manner by the Supreme
Court, have lost their bite and
created a contempt for order
in our society as has never been
experienced since the Declarat
ion of Independence was signed.
July 4, Independence Day, is
approaching. So is another nat
ional election. America is in
great need of an impecable lead
er in the White House to guide
the destiny of this nation. She
needs men of Integrity on the
floor of the House and Senate of
the United States who will once
again demand that the laws we
have be enforced rather than re
made by interpretations into the
oblivion.
America is in desperate need
of men of character, patriotism,
reverence for God and His laws,
and plain old common sense to
change her course In the years
ahead. A government by laws
will only be as strong as the
men who make the laws.
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“Oh, heavens no, he didn't
win them—he manufactures
them."
thee with loving kindness and ten
der mercies; Who satisfyeth thy
mouth with good things so that
thy youth is renewed like the ea
gles. As far as the East is from
the West, so far hath He removed
our transgressions from us.”
Bless the Lord, O my soul.
gleam of color, a symbol of your
self, a pictured suggesion of that
big thing which makes our nation.
My stars and my stripes are your
dreams and your labors. They
are bright with cheer, brilliant
with courage, firm with faith,
because you have made them so
out of your hearts. We are all
making the flag.”