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ESTABLISHED IMB EDWARD A. YUZIUK - EDITOR A PUBLISHER ; MISS REBECCA BOONE - ASSOCIATE EDITOR ARCHIE H. BALLEW - PHOTOGRAPHER k PRESSMAN PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY YANCEY PUBLISHING COMPANY SECOND CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT BURNSVILLE. N. C. THURSDAY. MAY 1, 1969 NUMBER THIRTY-FOUR SUBSCRIPTION RATES *3.00 PER YEAR OUT OF COUNTY $5.00 PER YEAR SENATOR <r "X 1 SAM ERVIN WASHINGTON The upcom ing 1970 Census and its propos ed array of personal questions is the subject of inquiry by the Senate Subcommittee on Consti tutional Rights. The Subcom mittee is conducting hearings concerning individual privacy, the census, and burdensome Federal questionnaires. For several years, the Sub committee has investigated un warranted governmental invas ions into people’s personal af fairs. On April 14th, I introduc ed a measure, S. 1791, to furth er secure personal privacy and protect the constitutional right of people to ignore certain un warranted governmental ques tionnaires. This measure is the subject of the present Subcom mittee inquiry relating to sta tistical surveys by the govern ment which would delve into personal and financial activities of individuals, such as the 1870 Census. In recent years, Congress has received serious complaints of wholesale governmental inter rogation of citizens about their daily activities, how they spend their money, and why they be have as they do. Answers are recorded and analyzed, tabulated and computerized. This search for information is often for a good cause and is sometimes conducted in a rea sonable and limited fashion. Frequently, however, individuals are told to disclose information to the government simply be cause some agency is engaged in "people-studita”, and the ag ency is substituting surveys for judgment and creative ingenuity in tht administration of the laws Many of these questionnaires carry the full weight of Federal criminal and civil laws to back up the demand for statistical information. Hie decennial cen sus forms which must be ans ■wered on pain of SIOO fii* or imprisonment for 80 days, grow longer and mors complicated every ten years. Millions of people, we are told, will be required to give 1970 Census takers mandatory amw era about their household equip ment, their marital history, their income, and a host of ques tions unrelated to the constitu tional basis for the census. The first census had six ques tions. and related to tile count ing of persons living in this country The 1870 Census is a sociologist's dream compared to that first census. It will have upwards of 170 questions for millions who will answer its de tailed questionnaire. The measure which I have in troduced, and other proposals la Congress, are designed to an swer a question asked more and more: When, if at all, should the force of the Federal crimi nal or civil law be brought to bear when the focerament do mends information about the personal lives and households of its citizens The decennial inquiries might be excused to some degree, if there were not thousands of Census Bureau inquiries under way all the time. The indM*. uals receiving these inquiries from the Federal Government i* seldom told that a particular questionnaire can be answe r voluntarily. The inference is al ways that a response is requir ed. If he fails to respond, the citizen is subjected to a round of follow-up letters, phone calls and personal interviews. It is clear that a balance must be struck between the in. dividual's desire to provide in formation and the government's need for information. It is the duty of Congress to say under what circumstances information can be solicited, and this is the puny we of the hearings on this legislation. yiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiHinnniiniiiiitiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiyii^i Newspaper’s Comedy Os Errors 1 ev 9 Foils To Amuse Annoyed Farmer | As /More Blunders Follow In the December issue of the Dairymen’s I-eague News was the following story, told first in our office by Editor Gordon Vonktin, and passed on to our salesmen by Publisher Jim Hall. I Ihink it is one of the best I have heard in a long time. A small daily rural paper pub lished this classified ad: lor Sale: Slightly used farm wench in good condition. Very I handy. Phone 2456, Charles Smith. 1 "The next day the paper prin s ted a correction. ‘Due to an H unfor’unate error, Mr. Smith’s pmniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiifiiiiiiini|f|||{|||| I - | VjL 1 By Tom Anderson U I SEXUCATION—PART 1 Some readers will doubtless he ttlleiulcil by -ome ot this. But the following is a small sam ple of the so-called “se\ education"—and I have deleted some of the worst of it to spare us all embarrassment -which is now presented in an estimated 10'r ot the nation's elemen tary schools and even to three-year-olds. If it can he taught to our children, can we allord to stick our heads in the sand and refuse to face it? Sexucators brag they’ve taken se\ out of the rest rooms and put it into the classrooms. Manx naive people say its better for children to learn the "facts of life" from teacher than in the • back alley. Actually, it's not. While the back alley descriptions may not be entirely accurate, at least the hack alley does not condone and promote it. The best expose of American sexuealion has been done in the wonderful magazine Ameri can Opinion hy the highly readable and re sponsible Gary Allen. Allen reports: "SIECUS (Sex Information and Education Council of the U. S.). pronounced Seek-us. is the princi pal organization which has spread its tentacles into a large percentage of the schoolrooms of America. Mrs. Calderone. SIECUS executive director, says: Sex education must be thought of as being education-—not moral indoctrina tion." SIECUS treasurer. Isadore Rubin, an identified Communist, is editor of the porno graphic magazine. Sexology. SIECUS founder. Dr. Lester Kirkendall. and other officials are also connected with Sexology. Kirkendall and Rubin claim that patriotic unity is immoral but sexual activity, no matter how obscene or degrading, is good and healthy." Typical "educational articles" in salacious Sexology magazine are: "Group,Sex Orgies.” "How Important is Sex Organ Size?.” "Adul tery: Can It Save Marriages?" (written by a SIECUS board member). "Brother-Sister In cest." "My Wife Knows I'm Homosexual. „ "Can Humans Breed with Animals’." "Why I like Hjumo.sos.UiU Mon" inul "Unusual Sox De mands." Kirkendall has revealed that Sexology is cur Taylor Recommends Firm Stand In Facing Increasing Campus Violence ASHEVILLE Congressman Roy A. Taylor Friday blamed increasing campus violence on the failure of college adminis trators to deal firmly enough with rebellious students. Responsible for the turmoil, he said, is “a small, but highly or ganized group calling themselves ‘Students for a Democratic Soc iety.’ ” advertisement last night was s not clear. He has an excellent j§ winch for sale. We trust this. = will put an end to the jokesters §f who have called Mr. Smith and greatly bothered his housekeep er. Mrs. Jones, who lives with him.’ “The following day this ad vertisement appeared: “NOTICE- My is not lor sale! I put a sledge hammer to it. Don’t bother calling 2456. I had the phone taken out. I am not carrying on with Mrs. Jones. She merely loves with n* Charles Smith.’ ’’ lllllllliiHlHliiiiiiiiii! " "iiiniHo miiiimiiiiiiiiiiii ~ *vi Vl\ being reused with a dillcrcni cover and 1:1 c wi it can he used in schools. \ceording to the late, and unlamented. '■ainiday i.\cning l‘o\i." reports Mien. "Mis. • afil.-ronc holds that sex cducatioif should start * '- 1 th" nurse y Around the age ot three the child should assimilate such knowledge, along with the correct terminologv lor sex oraans Kindergarten teachers should then impart ad ditional clinical details " Mien adds. "As you might expect, the SI I - < LS executive director also has verv proeres- Nive Ideas concerning homosexuality. As she is loud ol telling youngsters: Almost everybody has some attraction to people ol the same sex .1 cannot condemn it. Every boy in an urban environment, she says, 'is going to have a homosexual advance made to him. and. there fore. he should understand what it is and'what his attitude about it and about himself sliould be!" "And what should that attitude be? Coit cerning homosexuals, the SIECUS commander in-ch'c! smirks to boys in her lectures: \ . . you owe that person your responsibility and under standing. even if you don't share his convic tion. Dr. C alderonc adds, sadly, that it will he some time, before homosexuality receives general acceptance. I nless. ol course, the educational clTorlx on behalf ot SIECUS are successful. Mrs. ( alderonc says. 'What is sex for? It's . r tun . . Sex is not something you turn oil like a lancet. If you do. it's unhealthy.' The healthy Mrs. (alderonc continued: ’We need new values to establish when and how we should have sexual experiences.' When a teen ager asked her: 'What is your opinion of pre marital sex relations among teenagers?' Mrs. ( alderonc snapped back: "What's yours? No body I tom on high t(iod) determines this. You determine it ... I don't believe . . . the old I lion Slurh \oi\ apply any more. Sex is not the prerogative ol i hnsli.imiv" Watch this column next week lot more on ilic- ujmJhujs Sit l US .organization and the threat it presents to your family American Way I ealures Warned Taylor, “they are a group of anarchists determined to destroy ’the establishment’ without knowing what they would put in its place.’’ Speaking at a Safety Awards Banquet at the Greek Commun ity Center here, the 11th District Representative said many SDS members have been to Cuba and otsier communist countries. “I have been disappointed in many college administrators for not taking a firm position in dealing with college students,” he declared. “When a college president yields to their threats and de mands, he is merely making the first installment of black mail, and they will be back for more, he predicted. “Enforcement of the law” was recommended by the six term Democrat and the only interim solution to a problem that "will take years to solve.” He suggested that the crack down begin by stepping up ar rests under two new federal laws one making it illegal to cross state lines to incite vio lence and the other denying fed eral financial assistance to stu dents convicted of illegal cam pus activities. “Both the Johnson Administra tion and the present Administra tion have been slow in enforc ing these new laws and I and many other Congressman have be«-o f*\it »»„**. '.iws b “I believe that citizens all across our country and most college students are saying. •Campus vandals, get out! ’ he said. Tiie Congressman was care ful to emphasuze that “the trou ble is not craning from the ideal ism of youth and their longing for a better America.” The Black Mountain lawmak er devoted much of his talk to a run-down or. statistics show ing that North Carolina has an above average industrial safety record. He awarded credit to the in dustries themselves North Car olina Labor Commissioner Frank Crane and to the competitive climate in which American in dustry operates. “Private enterprise in Ameri ca, the world’s greatest indus trial nation, has achieved a much better occupational saf ety record than the industries of any other country, including the highly-socialized industries in Europe,” he declared. >He paid special tribute to 221 Western North Carolina plants and their some 31,000 employees lor holding their accident rate down to onlv 21 percent of the statewide accident rate and on ly 12 percent of the national rate. He seated that "net. only 14 this the most beautiful part of Nor-h Carolina but It Is the tl X ■
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