PAGE TWO THE DALLAS POST A non-partisan, liberal, and progressive newspaper published every Thursday ‘morning by Northeastern Newspapers Inc. fron 41 Lehman Ave., Dallas, Pa. 18612. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Dallas, Pa., under the Act of: March 3, 1889. Subscription within county, $5 a year. Out-of-county subscriptions, $5.50 a year. Call 674:5656 or 674-7676 for subscriptions. ; National advertising representatives, American. Newspaper Representatives Inc., 186 Joralemn St., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11201. publisher ............... NI SAL general manager Sra es a ae Ae Henry H. Null 4th John L. Allen .. Mrs. T.M.B. Hicks: Doris Mallin worse than guns “Upon contact with the facial skin, the formula- tion causes a stunning and subduing physiological and psychological effect which is incapacitating for 10 to 15 minutes.” That is one manner in which chem- ical mace is now being offered for sale, publicly. This strange, new, missile-looking device is being sold to civilians for ‘‘personal protection.” Buy a small container and carry it in purse or pocket and when you are attacked (or even bothered by some- one you don’t like) well, just give him one of the eight, one-second blasts from the can and pow! the offender is incapacitated. But don’t worry, the effects last no more than 20 minutes. Thousands of police departments now use mace, and as a recent advertisement in a Wilkes-Barre paper said, it is rapidly becoming popular among civilians. We hope not. In the hands of a mugger, rapist, killer, kid- napper, robber, thief or maniac, chemical mace would be the most useful weapon since the invention of the pistol. It will not be the average citizen who will be purchasing mace. It will be the criminal element, the neurotic and frightened souls unable to ‘cope with society that will be lugging mace around. We feel that the recent furor over guns won't be able to hold a candle to the menace that mace will unleash. get with it If anyone has noticed, the field of sociology, while becoming increasingly important to modern day problems-solving, has also developed tendencies to omit the relevant priorities the science started out to study. For instance, sociologists have started studying a brand new field, one of human behavior during conversations. Thus the little gestures that people make with their hands, the uneasiness of their feet, and way the eye always seems to avoid another person—all these’ things mean something, the ‘sociologists say: What do they mean? Well they are not too sure of that, but the roving eyes, nervous twitches and the hands in the pocket supposedly could tell us new things about the field of nonverbal communication or what people say to each other when they don’t say anything. We would be the last to deny the value of this or to pooh-pooh the impli- cations that findings in this field might have on increasing the effectiveness of communications. Our point is that while such ‘studies have their merit, the sociologists don’t study or at least don’t empha- size to the public, the studies that ought to be going on concerning more important fields. Like for in- stance, why do people smoke? All kinds of medical research (not the kind recommended by the doctor who would walk a mile for a Camel) go into the effects of smoking but not much is ever said about the reasons people smoke in the: first place. Get with it sociologists. To THE POST: As a subscriber and inter- ested reader of your paper, I am totally against your un- favorable article relating to Director Kozemchak. Let me remind you, the U.S. Supreme Court decision on School Prayers was predicted on action instituted by four or five dissenters. Of. this insignif- icant few, two were athiests, one a non-christian. Do you think the Supreme Court justly represented the vast majority of Americans by rendering a decision in favor of a.mere five protestors? To apply the same reasoning to your own line of endeavor— suppose five anti-war char- acters protested your ‘‘Men in Uniform’ column! Or, suppose five athiests protested your publishing a ‘‘Church Bulletin Board’ item! Would you agree with them, or with a court Anne Glenn Army Nurse (Second Lieu- tenant) Anne E. Glenn, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Glenn, 56 W. Center St.,. Shavertown, completed the Nurse Corps officer basic course Dec. 20 at the U.S. Army Medical Field Service School. Lt. Glenn received her B.S. degree in 1968 from Miseri- cordia College, Dallas. ruling ordering you to discon- tinue same? Your article has done a dis- service to a good American as well as to the community you serve. THOMAS M. COSGROVE Harveys Lake loving tribute A very real person has suc- cumbed to the ravages of time. Nicholas A. Staub was a vet- eran of life. He lived for 85 years and enriched his com- munity. It was our privilege to know him in these last years, and he did indeed enrich our life ex- perience. His kindness and wisdom were accepted by the young of our neighborhood. His humor and advice were en- joyed by all generations. The Staub family has been contributing to the growth of our Back Mountain since the Indians raised corn on these hills. Mr. Staub embodied all the culture and love of the genera- tions behind him. He acquired the years with a grace that should be an example to all who knew him. A young child said, ‘Now who will tend his garden?’’ The time is gone, life moves on, and we thank him for being. " Road, -after a car crash. - / FORTY YEARS AGO Dr. George K. Swartz pur- chased the Rice home on the corner of Main Street and Huntsville Road, planning to make a number of renovations in the frame house and use part of the main floor for his offices. 3 The new school in Dallas was nearly ready for occupancy, the heat already turned on, and all furniture in place ex- cept for teachers desks, not yet delivered. Construction took only a little over six’ months. Usual spring round-up of dogs running loose, love in their hearts. Dallas Rotary held an inter- club’ session with Mt. Green- wood Kiwanis. A view of Huntsville dam showed an enormous building on the shore. Could be an ice house. Inquire Dan Waters. Mrs. Marvin Bronson of Loyalville died. Bank announcement that a charge would be made for checking accounts running be- low a specified amount, caused heated discussion. Big news: the inaugural of President-elect Herbert Hoover was to be broadcast over WG- BI, Scranton, March 4. Folks were dusting off their crystal sets. If they were lucky, they had Atwater-Kent tube sets. THIRTY YEARS AGO The M:. E. Church was about to drop the E from its name, become the Methodist instead of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Three Methodist de- nominations were to unify in April of 1939: M. W. North. M. E. South, and Methodist Protestant. Earle administration was ac- cused of payroll padding in ringing headlines. Sherman W. Hildebrant en- joyed his first plane ride in Florida at 72. Community Center was drag- ging its heels, Borough Council and Township supervisors fail- ing to take action. PWA funds might be available, Burgess Smith was to inquire. Newspaper strike still on in the Valley, except for Sunday Independent. Real estate, though not boom- - ing, was showing consistent growth in sales and values, compared with the rest of Lu- zerne County. Another full page of Sheriff sales. ” Mrs. Kate Wilson of Alderson died aged 87. TWENTY YEARS AGO Kozemchak cousins were born within 15 minutes of each other, Karen and David. Bowman’s restaurant was advertising opening of its new dining room. On Main Street where Sneak a Snack now caters to the public. Dr. Crompton moved his of- fice from Carverton Road to the main drag in Trucksville. Consumers League was seek- ing rate reduction from Har- veys Lake Light and Power. Lt. Peter Skopic, serving with the Berlin Airlift operation, flew a worn-out C-54 back from Germany, visited his folks -in Huntsville while waiting for a replacement. Married: Mary Drumm to Donald C. Smith. Elsie Wil- liams to Arthur Parrish. : Died: Richard Warmouth, 17, in Ithaca, car crash. TEN YEARS AGO Carol Ann Williams, senior at Westmoreland High School, was featured in a story which said she would meet her class- mates for the first time at Commencement. The crippled girl had been tutored at home. Gwenn Weaver, 14, Sutton remained unconscious Another fire chief's funeral cortege was headed by his fire truck. Lehman chief Herbert Milton Kemmerer’s procession came six months after Norti Berti’s of Dallas. Heavy snowfall, March lion ready to roar. Dallas Ambulance Associa- tion okayed proposal to throw in with firemen in the annual. fund drive. Married: Marian J. Shea to Joseph Cigarski. Died: Chief Herbert Kem- merer, while fighting a blaze at the sawmill. Thomas H. Dick- inson, 86, Tunkhannock RD 3. Mrs. Mary Montross, 58, Noxen. Mrs. Alice Albeck, 62, Trucks- ville. Boleslow Savickas, 70, Harveys Lake, of exposure. THE DALLAS POST, FEB. 27, 199 lesson from prohibition By ZAY SMITH With Alberto Capone, brother to the late Alphonse, now lend- ing his festive presence to the southwest suburbs, perhaps it is time we took another look at crime. Anyone who turned on his television set between March and November of 1968 knows that crime was a major issue in the presidential campaign. George Wallace raved at length on the subject, and both Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey spent many words making it clear that they too, were against criminals. But somehow, I think, we missed the mark throughout that year. Discussions of crime invariably began in praise of J. Edgar Hoover and other police officials, and then moved ‘on to a cataloguing of those elements thought to be chiefly responsible for our country’s disorders; the ‘Syndicate, the rioters, the protesters—every- one had his favorite. And then came the usual conclusion. To end the crime problem, we must clamp down harder, beef up our police units, enforce the law with new determination. Americans are fond of treat- ing symptoms instead of causes. The teen-ager troubled by acne, smears his face with some cover-up and then ‘Wonders why the pimples keep coming back. They keep com- ing back, of course, because (From The Nationalist and Leinster Times, Carlow, Ireland, comes an editorial on the forthcoming European tour of Mr. Nixon.) Mr. Nixon will not be very long in the White House before he makes a major tour of the European capitals. (It seems very evident from the struces ture of his government and the character of his personal advis-. ers, that the new President will pursue the very positive line in foreign policy.) His first priority will not be a summit meeting with the Russians on missile limitations. The mending of fences with America’s allies in Europe will have priority. President John- son was more concerned with leap-frogging Europe and get- ting down to basic conversation with the Russian leaders. But Mr. Nixon's foreign policy schedule will be directed towards first discussions with NATO. allies and with the strengthening of and—improve- ment of relations between France and the United States. Dr. Henry Kissinger, the White House Assistant for National Security Affairs has argued that there must be full consultation with the West- ern European nations before any agreement can be negotia- ted with the Kremlin. As far as Nixon is concer- ned, it would appear that Kissinger will occupy the role of foreign policy oracle. The relationship between President Nixon and Henry Kissinger goes back to Mr. Nixon’s role as Vice President to General Eisenhower. At that time Kissinger wrote an analysis which threw as clear as possible a search light upon the dimensions and nature of America’s foreign policy problem. This came out in a book .in 1957 called ‘Nuclear Weapons and For- -eign Policy’’ which impressed the then Vice-President Nixon immensely. Kissinger has persistently faulted the insufficient Ameri- can initiatives in foreign policy. His answer to the Soviet mili- tary threat is not to duplicate what the Russians do. The trouble with United States for- eign policy and strategic plan- ning according to Kissinger is that America has addressed herself over the years to the problem of overt aggression by Soviet troops across bound- ary lines Too much energy has been absorbed in the United States government machinery in analysing what the problem is rather than in getting a solu- tion for it. Solutions have been reached only where major crises have blown up. Then it is too late. There is a lack’ of clear purpose as to what America wants in the world. Soviet ,intransigence has, time and again, established a fixed Guest editorials A COLUMN REPRINTING EDITORIALS FROM OTHER WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS IN THE WORLD. applications are only good for treating the symptoms, each blemish as it arises. To stop ‘the problem, or to curtail it, a young person has to wash his face constantly and stop eating junk, but few do. 3 As for crime, we can clamp down all we want, but the prob- lem won't go away. Even if we were to station soldiers 30 feet apart in our cities, which was one of Wallace's sterling sug- gestions, we would only be ap- plying a cover-up. The causes would remain. The classic example of a breakdown of respect for the . law was during the 13 years of Prohibition. Alcoholic bever- ages were forbidden in 1920, but the people went right on drinking. Gallons of bootleg flowed down otherwise law-abiding throats, and speakeasies flour- . ished, though they had to flourish quietly. The amend- ment was a failure. Hundreds, of thousands of people didn’t suddenly go bad’ _ in the 1920's, and few of them: deserved to be thrown into jails. Really, the law wasn’t respected then because it didn’t merit any respect. The government finally re- alized its error in 1933, and Prohibition was repealed. But we had stuck with a bad law for over a decade, trying to enforce it, clamping down harder each year, treating symptoms. And all we had to show for position that has forced all others to adapt themselves to it. But America must now take a firmer position and stop identifying her foreign policy . with popularity. Otherwise she will wind up both unsuccessful and even more unpopular than she is to-day. Kissinger has written of the blind spot in American policy. This involves a failure to under- stand ' that, in the absence of consultation, the United States’ Europeans allies regard summit talks between Wash- ington and Moscow with suspi- cion. They are seen as the fore- runner to a pact between the super-powers which would affect the vital interests of Europe and would be negotiated without the European consent. This -has been the fear in Europe during the Johnson administration. The gap between the Johnson and the Nixon foreign policy was emphasised recently by Mr. Clark Clifford, President Johnson’s out-going Secretary of Defence who made an oblique and bitter criticism of * Nixon’ tion first with the European allies. Clifford, reflecting John- son, said that there was too much foot-dragging about a, summit conference with the Russians. Preparations have been made for such an encoun- ter and will be inherited by the Nixon administration to continue in the Johnson groove. Many Democrats agree with the promised departures of the Nixon foreign policy. Senator Mike Mansfield, the Demo- cratic Senate Majority Leader, recently reported to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on a fact-finding trip he had made recently to Europe, visiting cities as widely apart as Belgrade, Rome, Paris and London. He had discussions with President de Gaulle and with Marshall Tito. He emphasised that President Nixon should give priority to talks with President de Gaulle in Paris. To quote Senator Mansfield, ‘the beginning of a new administration should afford a. unique opportunity to rectify the superficial irritants which . have been allowed to plague U.S.—French relations for several years.” It might also provide an opportunity for rouuding off the frayed edges of North Atlantic community relations, neglected because of America’s long pre-occupation with Vietnam. After European consulta- tions it is on the Presidential agenda to end the period of ‘confrontation with the Rus- sians and start a new era of negotiations. China too will become prom- inent in United States concern. The Chinese themselves have already indicated that they would like more substantive talks to take place. Contact continued on PAGE 12 \ it in the end was a Syndicate. ~ Organized crime developed its first big muscles as a direct The current lack of order in the United States may just be another mass reaction to a bad set of laws. It is hard to ask a black man to have respect for our law framework while so many police officers still treat him as a sub-human, throwing ob- scenities at him, arresting him for walking along a side- walk. Or while our government goes easy on the enforcement of open housing, school de- segregation and the like. When it comes to a break- down of order and respect, it seems that those who make our laws and enforce them could do a little housecleaning on their own. sy REV. W. JENE MILLER Some economists and sociol- ogists are already referring to the American system of econ-. omy as ‘military socialism.” Many different devices are used around the world to keep production, distribution and consumption going. In America, the primary way to keep fac- tories running, goods utilized and people on pay rolls is the military establishment. Money is collected in taxes by the government and re-dis- tributed to create jobs through the military establishment. Export trade is maintained by selling billions of dollars through arms to foreign gov- ernments. Check the percen- tage of federal dollars for military costs. When foreign governments do not have enough money to pur- chase American guns and tanks, foreign aid is used to provide that money. In fact, 85 percent of Ameri- can ‘‘foreign aid’ money is actually loaned to countries which in turn buy from Ameri- can industries. And the more willing a nation is to buy mili- tary equipment (from America, of course) the easier it is for" that nation to get.‘ ‘foreign aid.” Countries which reject our military involvement find it increasingly difficult to get American help. We call it helping those who help us, but those who do not want a ilitary government find it almost impossible to get help. Forbes Magazine reported that Defense Department fig- ures between 1962—65 listed a total of 4 trillion, 67 million, 500 thousand dollars in military arms sales to foreign govern- . ments. Add to this the cost of salar- ies and provisions for our own military establishments, the civilian employes at bases in America and abroad, the cost of our own military equip- ment, and the staggering re- sponsibility of maintaining our economy becomes evident. This is the real burden we place on our armed forces. Whether it will be possible for America to shift from a military socialism to a peace-time economic structure will be Mr. Nixon's major head- ache. parents of battered children What kind of parent would fracture his child’s bones, burn him, cut him? Dr. Brandt F. Steele, chief of the psychiatric liaison divi- sion of the University of Colo- rado Medical Center, told an International Congress of Pe-. diatrics that parents of ‘bat- tered children’ usually sutter from a ‘lifelong feeling of emptiness and disappointment and a conviction that the world will never be good to them.” When the world fails to meet their excessive demands for love and attention, these par- ents turn to the infant for com- fort, and lash out at him fero- ciously for not performing satisfactorily. Frequently, the medical re- searcher said, these parents were themselves abused as children. * Dr. Steele opposes punishing the offending parents. While it may be necessary to remove: the battered child from the home, he said, psychiatric treatment or social work for the adults offer the hope that the child may eventually return home and that other children in the family will escape harm. From Pillar To Post What with all this hijacking of planes, it’s reached the point where if you're headed for the Pacific Coast, you automati- cally allow an extra day in order to accommodate the hi- jacker and that free round trip to Cuba. The airlines pick up the tab for overnight lodging in Havana on a ransom basis. No reim- bursement, no return of pas- sengers. Recently, Castro has softened a bit, and is permitting pas- sengers to return on the same plane in which they landed. This curtails the enforced vaca- tion under Caribbean skies, but it saves a lot of time. It was no surprise to get a letter from Barbara the other day, recommending a couple of days leeway in a proposed overseas trip. “We’ll have to allow for a side trip to Havana,” she ex- plained, ‘‘and you can’t ever tell, we might be hijacked twice. So three days would be the safest. We'd better get our tickets for the weekend. That will give up plenty of time to reach the Pacific Coast. And if we don’t get hijacked, we'll have time to explore China- town.” Might as well accept the in- evitable, but why Cuba? There are so many more interesting places to visit. Australia, for instance. Or New Zealand. If somebody could just work up a brisk hijacking trade, goal Australia, it would be worthwhile being kidnapped in a nice new plane with plenty of food on board, hot and cold running stewardesses, the works. A trip to down under costs a mint, and the airline would be obliged to return the passengers after the hijacker had faded away into the land of the bush and the wallabies. It would be a paying proposition, with only the airlines suffering. Castro must be making out pretty well. He’s probably got an emissary who travels back and forth under different dis- guises, drawing a gun on the ‘flight between Miami and Ha- vana, merging imperceptibly with other passengers on the return trip, with instructions to board the next plane coming back and deliver another load of folks to help pass out the tourist season in the Havana hotels, which are probably feel- ing the pinch because of lack of voluntary patronage from well-heeled Americans. Take a plane from Miami and see Cuba. Visit the. hotel and catch up on the flea situa- tion. Or take a plane from anywhere, and see Cuba. By HIX have Several been made to eliminate this suggestions nuisance. They range from felling the hijacker with a shot of Mace, to installing a trap- door in the floor of the plane and discharging the hijacker in ‘mid-air. Two trapdoors would be bet- ter, one leading to the snug compartment where the land- ing gear is folded, the second somewhere in between, giving access to a whole skyful of fresh air and a welcomirg sea beneath for a soft andi I wouldn't want to give up the idea of a trip to Cuba, but to many people it must be a nuisance, even if it does pro- vide for endless reminiscenses beginning, ‘‘Let me tell you about being hijacked. ere was this little man standing right in the middle of the cabin ‘and waving this gun, and . . .” And at that, it would be a welcome relief from the folks who tell you about their opera- tions and offer to show you the scar. < It gives you a certain amount of status to be hijacked. The occurrence is still rare enough, relatively speaking, to enlist rapt attention from your audience. But there will inevitably come a day when your ancient hijacking tale will bow to a newer and shinier hijacking, and you will have to sit back while Mrs. Whozit tells you ex- actly how it was. “There was this little man standing right in the middle of the cabin and waving his gun, andi 0.2 Somehow, I can’t imagine be- ing hijacked. I can see my- self, right now, getting out the black copy pencil and the clip- board, and interviewing the hijacker. ‘‘Howzabout piting down that gun, it makes‘ me nervous. And now tell ego did you come to take hi- jacking planes? Was it some- thing in your early life? Did you hate your father and mother? And just why do you want to go to Cuba anyhow?” And about that time, he treats me to another hole in the head. why taxes demoralize us By CORALIE COGSWELL Right now everyone is talking about taxes of one kind or another or all of them put together. It is not just that taxes are high, but that most people don’t know just what they are paying for. I, for one, would be happy to pay an extra $5 a year if I knew that it would actually keep people from starving or would change some snake-pit mental hospital into a modern institution or would otherwise measurably benefit us. But most of us don’t know for sure what does happen to the money we pay in taxes. We tend to suspect. that maybe $4.50 of our $5 goes to all sorts of middlemen, without solving’ the problems it is supposed to solve. To remedy this situation, I'd . like to revive an idea that appeared in Mad magazine a year or so ago. The magazine is, of course, satirical—but many a gem of truth is con- cealed in satire. The Mad writers suggested that each taxpayer's contribu- tion be earmarked for a par- ticular project and that he be credited for it. Thus a new highway would display a billboard with the names of all the taxpayers whose dollars contributed to its construction. New schools, instead of being named after dead presidents, would be named after live taxpayers. The battleship being chris- tened with the traditional bottle of champagne would carry the names of Elmer T. Klunkle, Sadie Plutnick, and a few hundred other taxpayers. In ‘actuality, of course, it would be impractical to ear- mark each person’s tax’ in this way. Yet this idea points up what is most demoralizing about the tax situation. Rather than a ‘‘tax bite,” ‘our present situation is re like a nibbling to death! We hardly know HOW it goes, much less WHERE. Taxes are hidden in almost everything we buy or do, and we are not usually informed about what they support. When I pay taxes on gasoline or phone bills or cigarettes or’ a garbage can or a ball-point pen—when I pay my income tax or property tax or wage tax—I want to know exactly how much was collected in this way from how many people and exactly. what ‘it went to pay for. \ If I'm ‘paying till it hurt@h”’ I want to know why policemen aren’t paid more, and why so many old people live on the edge of poverty, and why the Pennsylvania Turnpike isn’t being widened from Pittsburgh to Harrisburg, and why so many ghetto schools are falling apart, and why we continue to pollute the air we breathe and the water we drink. Obviously taxes must be streamlined and the loopholes plugged. I deeply resent paying so - much income tax when some millionaires pay nothing. I resent paying any taxes ‘that others are dodging. Yet if I felt that everyone else was contributing his share and that .the money was really well- spent, I would not begrudge continued on PAGE 6 A Tt lea Cn mma a ee eee 51 RE
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