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r Edward A.Yuziuk - Editor & Publisher Carolyn R. Yuziuk - Associate Editor Miss Patsy Briggs - Advertising Manager Miss Jessica Nichols - Office Manager Floyd Geouge - Production Published Every Thursday By Yancey Publishing Company I 2nd Class Postage Paid At Burnsville,N.C.2B7l4 I THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1971 NUMBER NINE I Subscription Rates *3.00/Year I Out Os County 55.00/Year SENATOR A SAM ERVIN WASHINGTON - - Several days ago, I introduced a bill to require trials of Federal criminal suspects within 60 days. The measure, almost identical to the one which I introduced at the last Congress, has 24 cosponsors. The "speedy trial 11 bill seeks anew to breathe life into the Sixth Amendment guarantee by providing for expeditious Fe deral trials. Also, it sets an examplary pattern for the States to consider, and is an appropriate means of dealing with crime that is talked of so much these days. It is a sad commentary on criminal justice in our land that more than half of the inmates in city and country jails are imprisoned without having been convicted of a crime. That startling fact came out a few weeks ago when the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration sought to determine the present jail population of our country. Last year there was a storm of controversy over an effort to enact preventive detention legislation to place alleged ly "dangerous" defendants in prison without trial by denying them their constitutional right to reasonable bail. I base my objections to preventive detention primarily on constitu tional grounds, but also oppose it because it seems to me that preventive detention merely papers over the decaywith in our court system and leads to further unnecessary delay in seeking crime solutions. I have always felt that the accused and the victim of a crime are both entitled to a speedy trial. Recently, I have been heartened by the commitment of Chief Justice Warren Burger to the principle sought to be attained in my bill. In declaring that criminal trials within 60 days would sharply reduce the crime rate and that both the accused and the pub lic have a fundamental right to speedy trial, the Chief Jus - tice plainly enunciated two consummate truths which neither the legislature nor the judiciary can ignore any longer. A further favorable sign in the consideration of the "speed y trial" bill is the concern reflected by the Federal judicia ry to set its own house in order and the recent promulgation of trial rules by the Juducial Council of the Second Circuit Appeals Court. The Second Circuit rules require the U. S. Attorney to be ready for trial of an unconvicted, detained defendant within 90 days of detention. H not, unless excep tional circumstances appear, the defendant is to be released. These rules also require the government to be ready for trial in all cases within six months from the date of arrest,service of summons, detention, or filing of a complaint or a formal charge, whichever is earliest. These concerns about expediting justice in thecourtsshov that the time for legislative action is at hand. Public con - fidence in our courts must be restored. Congress can do much in this area by enacting the bill which I hare introduced Basically, my bill would require each Federal district court to establish its own plan for trials within 60 days of in dictment or information. It would also provide that the ex ecutive and judicial branches must review their resources and their requirements for an efficient criminal justice sys tem and present them to Congress. Any Federal district could then submit its special p'obfems to the Congress, and the bill, if enacted, would take into account these special conditions by a phased-in transition tc the new system in four stages. The bill also goes into the bail system, by authorizing the establishment of "pre tn.al service agencies" in five selected Federal districts to surervise, control, and make bail recommendations. The Constitutional Rights Subcommittee will begin hear ings on the new bill soon. Comments from tho Capital - BEHIND THE lUMUUNT NEWSFRONT Who decides on freedom of speech in this country nowa days? The lefty libs are quick to tell Agnew to shut up. But they think it's quite all right for well known dissidents like Jerry Ru bin, Jane Fonda and Abbie Hoff man, some of whom are paid thousands for a speech, to spout whatever kind of revolutionary drivel they choose! Isn't what's fair for one fair for all? Or are the rights guaranteed by our Constitution applicable only to one side? • • • In case you wonder where your tax dollars go, take a look at the government figures on food handouts for the last fiscal year. Millions of dollars worth of food stamps have been given not only to the truly poor, but also to strikers, who have sim ply decided to stop work, and to an odd-lot assortment of hip pie parasites, radicals and do nothings who are pleased to have "The Establishment" they profess to despise pay their way in the world, as long as we're suckers enough to do it. Last year, close to twelve million people marched into supermar kets with food stamps —almost double the number of the pre vious year's recipients. No won der we're known as the "give away nation"! Shouldn't there be stricter regulation of our Food Stamp Program, with at least some basic working re quirement imposed by the gov ernment, before lavishly dis pensing food stamps actually paid for with your money, and mine? • * • There were riots in Hungary, riots in Poland, riots in East Ger many, all symptomatic of ordi nary individuals' total disen chantment with the "Peoples' Paradise." Riots have also be come commonplace in the West ern world. But the distinguishing difference is that dissension be hind the Iron Curtain is met with rapid and ruthless suppression. • * * In a nation whose citizens are taxed by federal, state, county and municipal governments, why are unions tax-free? Even when they invest in the stock market and make huge profits, they're still not obliged to pay taxes like the rest of us. American unions are big property holders. They own many things, includ ing banks, insurance companies and hotels, yet they pay no taxes on the profits from these holdings, either. Yet you can be sure that the lowly rank and file union member must pay "taxes" to the union also. Regularly, his Dear Editor: May I call to the attention of your readers an altema t ive explanation of the "peace sym bol" to which you have devo - ted articles in the issues of Feb ruary 11 and 18. According to such unrelated and diverse sources as Changing TimesJ Kip ling er; August, 1970,p.22)and Christian Advocate (Methodist Church; about 3 months ago ) the symbol was designed by one Gerald Holtom of Twickenham England, for a march in support of nuclear disarmament to be held at Aldermaston on Easter. 1958. It consists of an abstract drawing of two semaphore code letters, N and D (for nuclear disarmament). This code,for med by the position of the arms holding flags, is widely used, e. g., by railroads, boy scouts, and the military, and is illus - trated in encyclopedias and pay envelope is clipped for dues to fill the fat union treasury. In terms of real buying power, his raises, which may seem ade quate on paper, seldom go far, because when salaries go up, prices quickly follow. This is what economists call "wage-push inflation." The treadmill is never ending. But it doesn't seem to bother the unions, who, for rea sons unfathomable to me, are exempt from taxes. • • • For years, it was common practice for the Soviets to grab any book, translate it and re produce it, completely disre garding the rights of the author or publisher. All the cries of indignation from the rest of the world didn't stop them. The youth in so many Iron Curtain countries acquired their knowl edge and education from what they were led to believe were bona fide Russian books, but in reality were only unlawful edi tions of the American and West ern world originals. Suddenly, the Reds have de cided to honor the international copyright laws. Why? The reasons are best known to themselves. But whatever they are, you may be quite sure that the Russians, first and foremost, will benefit from the situation. That is their habitual method of operation: To twist things to their best interests, and to hell with everybody else. Quick quiz: Who is responsi ble for administering our coun try's labor laws? The answer is the NLRB. Unfortunately, this very limited, politically-appoint ed, five-man board consistently rules in favor of organized labor —the big unions. A vast majority of its decisions, it seems to me, are contrary to the interests of the man-in-the-street, and also to those of the nation as a whole. Letters To The Editor even in Webster's dictionary. N is formed by both arms exten ded outward toward the ground at 45 degrees (forming the so - called "broken 1 ! arms of the "cross"), and D by pointing with one arm to the sky and the other to the ground. If the above data is histori - cally correct, then any simila rity between the "peace sym bol" and a "crow's foot," a witch's foot," upside down Nazi symbols, upside down "brokenf 1 The Middle Fork Indepen - dent Baptist Chinch invites the public to attend a special ser vice at the Middle Fork Inde - pendent (Baptist Church,located 4 miles North of Mars Hill on Stmdal Chmfi Semite Set For example, the unions are permitted to slap heavy fines against members who continue on the job when a strike is called, even though it may be a wildcat strike begun at an instant's notice, without the full knowledge of all of the workers. Then again, the union can fine rank and file union members when they exceed* their work production quota. In plain Eng lish. if the men do too good a job, they may be punished for it! Unfair situations such as these couldn't possibly exist unless the National Labor Relations Board nodded its tacit approval. In my opinion, it’s high time to take labor matters out of the hands of the biased NLRB, and turn them over to impartial federal courts which have no axes to grind, no favors to curry from political bigwigs, and no vested interests to influence their de cisions. • • • Did you realize that the name of the powerful Communist newspaper, Pravda, actually means "Truth"? Imagine the irony of it! Very little that ap pears in this publication reflects the name at all. What Pravda prints is what the Kremlin wants it to —party-line propaganda— and nothing else. And as every body knows, the Communists 1 are past masters at distorting the truth to suit their particular whims of the moment. Why any intelligent person, or nation, per mits himself to be continually duped by the Reds, I'll never know. • • • Doesn't it strike anyone as ironic that the Swedes, who have been forerunners in free think ing and free living, are now paying an exorbitantly high price for their so-called freedom? Their disappointment and un happiness is a matter of record —world-high records of suicide, alcoholism, and you-name-it. Communists now hold the reins of the government, and the whole world knows their con cept of "freedom." Swedish workers have been hit by infla tion, too. The average man makes only S4OOO a year, yet pays $ 1 for a pack of cigarettes, $5 for a pound of meat, and a 17% sales tax on almost every - i thing. i Moral lesson: Sweden is far from a Utopia. It's a pity that r living it up, for the Swedes, has r evolved into a pathetic attempt r to live down the disastrous re , suits of an overdose of liberal- E ism. > Other excessively permissive nations, take heed! crosses, and who-knows - what else, would be accidental and irrelevant. And one can only wonder why excerpts from" Am erican Opinion Magazine" and the "Franklin Press" do not con tain this data. With good wishes to your readers in Yancey, I am Sincerely yours, Lloyd R. Bailey Ass't Professor in Old Testa ment. the Burnsville Highway, on Sunday night, February 28th at 7:30 p. m. Featured in this special ser vice will be the West Asheville Gospel Singers with IferryCrane,
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