Ulymi Stamm Grant <112249) at Ofcta.
PmUmt, 1969-77. .
men, tourists and our own Idth
and kin from all over the world
to come to Northern Ireland in
1971 and see and learn about
the Province at first hand.” A
year of festivals, exhibitions
and other events are planned
for "Come to Ulster •71.”
Particular focus wfl be on
Ulster’s “kith and kin” in the
United States—the Scotch Irish
and their descendents—and file
broad historical links between
this country and Northern
Ireland.
Ulstermen note that famous
American figures of Scotch
Irish stock include such varied
individuals as Horace Greeley,
founder of the New York
Tribune; Edgar Allan Poe,
Stephen Foster, Generals Sam
Houston and "Stonewall”
Jackson, Davy Crockett, and
Harold Ross, founder of the
New Yorker magazine.
Perhaps the best known
contemporary Scotch-Irish
Airwioana are former Secre
tary of State Dean Rude, bil
lionaire J. Paul Oetty, the
equally well-endowed Mellon
dan, and Ulster-bom actress
Greer Qaison.
'President, 1845-49.
Ulstermen alio recall with
pride that men from Northern
Ireland were among those who
signed the American Declara
tion of Independence (and that
Ulsterman John Dunlap
printed it), helped draft the
Constitution and who formed a
large part of Washington’s
Continental Army. They are
even more aware of the fact
that no less than one-fourth of
all American Presidents have
been of direct Scotch-Irish
descent.
Three of the ten, Presidents
Jackson, Buchanan and Arthur,
were first generation Ameri
cans. Their parents were bom
in Northern Ireland. They are
the only first-generation Amer
CANADA'S MARXIST
PREMIER & OTHERS
l JOHN J. SYN01
A couple of weeks ago, when
Canada’s Prime Minister, Pierre
Trudeau, invoked that country’s
War Emergencies Act he shook
the teeth of a lot of people.
Not only Canadians. He shook
Americans, too. For there were
few who suspected that any in
dividual on the North Ameri
can continent had within his
personal grasp the power to
suspend civil liberties, impose
censorship, and subject citizens
to search and seizure without
warrent. All of this without re
course pf appeal.
But the man in Canada had
such power and he invoked it.
What’s more, the President of
the United States has power e
qually as dictatorial and for all
I know, greater. I question that
anyone knows the extent of
Dick Nixon’s personal and legal
power.
Did you ever hear of The
Federal Register? The Register
is an official publication that,
from time to time, carries -the
Executive Orders of the Presi
dent. If the Congress, within a
certain time limit — 3Q days,
as I recall — does not counter
mand whatever is promulgated,
thereafter the Presdent’s edicts
Tiave the full force of law.
Over the years, in waretime
and in peace, hundreds of such
“laws” have come into being,
mostly through what is known
i as The Office of Emergency
planning. Many of them, as I
say, were bom of -troublous tim
- es anth carry frightening author
So, the power is there. And
whatever is, Dick Nixon’s per
Weathermen and The Black
Panthers. Who would have
though Trudeau wold have done
so; Canada has been far less
provoked than has the United
States. But he did.
What manner of man is Pierre
Trudeau, actually?
Well, sir, thanks to the
ubiqitous TV cameras, Trudeau
is know to us —. where he is
known at all — as a handsome
if balding, bachelor swinger, a
sort of political Good-Time
Charley.
He is hardly that.
Trudeau, during World War
II, was booted out of the Canad
ian Officers Training Corps; Of
ficial reason: Lack of discipline.
Subsequently, he attended the
Lenin School in Moscow.
During the war, the man who
was to become Canada’s Prime
Minister associated with the
anti-war and Red-led “$loc Pop
ulaire”. Later, in 1949, when
the Communists gained control
of China, Trudeau surfaced in
Shanghai to announce himself
i4t» to occupy the White
House. Jackson barely made it
to Amtcica. being bom ihortiy
after hia parents landed.
Their ancestral bister homes
have bean restored or the sites
marked with plaques.
Perhaps the best preserved is
the thatch-roofed cottage near
Strabane, County Tyrone. It
was here that James Wilson,
grandfather of President
Wilson, lived before emigrating
to the United States in 1807.
The President’s grandmother
was Annie Adams of the same
county; the couple met aboard
the same U.8.-bound ship.
Through preserving the
Scotch-Irish ancestral home
steads and showing them to the
JaiMt Buchanan (1791*1868) of Pennsylvania.
President. 1857*61.
world through “Ulster ‘71,”
Northern Ireland hopes to
strengthen the links she has
with the United States through
our common heritage.
as an admirer of Mao Tse Tung.
And then he was elected Prime
Minister of Canada.
As Prime Minister, Trudeau
laid the grounwork that led to
recognition by his' government
of Red China. He also worked
out special trade arrangements
with other Communist countries.
* # * *
Some swinger, this: A Marx
ist with dictatorial power im
planted on our 4,000 miles of
undefended border.
Eleven years ago, Cuba was
taken over by another such, a
brigand whose Communist con
nections, then, were less well
known — certainly less well
documented — than Trudeau’s,
today. And Chile, just last week,
swore in as its “President” an
avowed Marxist, a man by the
name of Allcnde. This burly,
bruiser, it may be recalled, was
Chile’s representative at the
Communist Convention held in
Havana some time back.
Thus, tl:e Monroe Doctrine be
ing dead, the circle extends.
None of which, as I say, is to
imply that Dick Nixon harbors
either the desire or the inten
tion of assuming dictatorial pow
ers. All I am saying is that the
po’.ver is there. He could invoke
it, that is what worries me. I
don’t trust any of them. Some
day, somebody will try such a
shenanigan — oiling the tumb
rels and giving a new’ gloss to
The Maiden — and aw’ay we will
go.
That is what I fear — no
body's watching the store.
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Garrett, Ph.D.
hyehology, Columbia University
Past President, American Psychological Association
Q: Dr. Garrett, give me a
straight answer now. If all
prejudices and animosities
Other Editors Say
CHICAGO DAILY NEWS
Litteral Justice
One of mans basic instincts—
in addition to seeking food, shel
ter and relative comfort—seems
to be litter. You don’t have to
be an Indian to spot where peo
ple have been — if you are too
nearsighted to see the trail of
refuse, you’ll know it when you
walk into it.
Oregon has come up with a
solution that strikes us as sensi
ble. Convicted litterers there
face fines of up to $250 and six
months in jail and — the big
and—they spend most of their
jail time picking litter off state
highways.
Now that is real justice.
The bathtub was invented in
1850 and the telephone in 1875.
Had you been living ing 1850,
you could have sat in the tub
for 25 years without the phone
ringing once.
A loser is the fellow who plays
the piano in a marching band.
SOUTHERN RAILWAYS "TIES’’
were magically abolished and
each child was properly plac
ed (that is according to his
age and intelligence)', what
percentage of Negroes would
be integrated into White class
rooms?
A: Between two-and-one-half
and three per cent. The evidence
is overwhelming, it is not justice
the integrators seek, it is inte
gration at any cost; equality, as
they call it. This obsession for
“equality” is clearly revealed
in the 1954 Brown decision. In
this poorly reasoned and badly
written treatise, the Supreme
Court asserted that separation
of pupils of the same age and
same academic politial (but of
different color) injures the per
sonalities of the “separated,”
perhaps irretrievably. Putting
aside the personality matter —
if the first statement is follow
ed, court records (Stell) show
that only two-and-one-half per
cent of Negro pupils are found
to be working on the average
of the White grade to which
their ages assign them. But it
is not this, just assignment, the
integrators seek. They demand
massive integration and nothing
else will satisfy them. And if
they succeed, it wil Ispel — as
they are succeeding and as it
is spelling — the end of the
public-school system as an edu
cational establishment. And that
is tragic.
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