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Established 1889 « ■ i ■
j The Kings Mountain Herald
286 South Piedmont Ave. Kings Mountain. N. C. 28088
A weekly newspa.por devoted to the promotion of the general welfare and published
for the enlightenment, entertainmnt and benefit cf the citizens of Kings Mountain
and its Moinity, published every Thursday by the Herald Publishing House.
Elr.tered las second class matter at the post office at mngs Mountain. N. C., 28086
I under Act of Congress of March 3, 1873.
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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE
Keep thy heoert with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Proverbs i:33.
Amazing Growth
Poor Richard, the Almanack man,
would hardly have believed it possible.
Of course, he was born in 1706.
Some modernists would hardly have
believed it just a few years ago..
Thomas A. Tate, in his report to
Home Savings & Loan Association
shareholders at the Tuesday annual
meeting, noted that the savings & loan
industry in the United States has grown
into a S200 billion industry, since Benja
min Franklin founded it a couple of cen
turies ago.
Franklin, the philosopher, was prac
ticing w''hat he preached (a penny saved
is a penny made), when he organized
what has come to be known as the first
savings & loan association.
There have been some changes in
modus operand! since Franklin’s day.
Franklin would have not understood the
term optional savings, and he would
have been aghast at the size of state and
federal tax bills. But the basic format
is the same.
It is a happy situation, and a heal
thy one.
The Hanoi Ploy
The withdrawal of United States
troops from Viet Nam, with complement
to be reduced to 131,000 by Febiaiary 1
(from a peak of .550,000) has done more
to reduce the Viet Nam war as a burn
ing issue and invitation to violent dem
onstrations than any other item.
The promise of the President is
that the figure will be down to 70,000 by
May 1.
One burning issue remains and that
is repatriation of United States prisoners
of North Viet Nam, a total estimated as
slightly over 1000 and small in relation
to the total of soldiers, sailors and ma
rines involved in the conflict, but very
large in the minds and hearts of the
families, friends, and indeed of the na
tion.
President Nixon told the nation
Tuesday night of this nation’s continu
ing efforts to resolve the conflict and to
obtain a peace “by settlement”.
Release of the prisoners was, is and
will be a cornerstone of United States
unalterable demands, said Mr. Nixon.
Another is that an international
group conduct elections to establish a
new government in South Vietnam.
It is safe to guess this provision is
one of the unacceptables to the Hanoi
regime and to the Viet Cong.
Initial reaction to the United States
proposals is out-of-hand rejection.
Will Hanoi relent?
Will the President’s visit to China
bring pressure to bear from this Hanoi
ally?
Will . . . .?
’There remains the fhscrutable Ori
ental mind, to which Occidentals find
themselves unable to fathom.
It might be remembered there are
still some hawks about who would break
out the atomic bombs, to force a decision,
a la Japan, 1945.
Sanford Boomlet
A student movement has been
launched to get the name of Terry San
ford, former governor and president of
Duke University, on the May 6 Demo
cratic primary ballot in North Carolina.
Newspapers have made considerable
comment, seeking the overtones, but Mr.
Sanford was laid up with a bad back
over the weekend and has thus far
stood mute.
The overtones are interesting.
There are, at last counting, ten
avowed candidates for the Democratic
nomination for president. The candi
dates and their management contingents
pick and choose primaries as a man
picks his way across a river full of ice
floes. The candidates want to be sure
of their fooling.
In North Carolina, Governor Bob
Scott is the campaign manager for Sen
ator Muskie, of Maine, and there is no
surety of what other of the ten will put
their names on the ballot.
A savings & loan as.sociation has
two functions: providing construction
funds to borrowers and paying dividends
to savers.
It has not been too many years ago
that Home Savings & Loan association
logged its first million in assets. The to
tal topped $15 million at the clo.se of
1971. It was a few years later that Kings
Mountain Savings & Loan association
logged its first million dol.lars. This as
sociation’s end-of-1971 report, published
in today’s Herald, shows over $7 million
in assets.
Senator Hubert Humphrey, the
standard-bearer in 1968, has made it
plain. If Mr. Sanford’s name is on the
ballot, Mr. Humphrey’s won’t be. The
Either background here is that Mr.
Humphrey’s chief succor in North Caro
lina four years ago was one Terry "San
ford. It was a too little, too late situation
and the result found Mr. Humphrey
trailing third to Richard Nixon and
George Wallace.
The combined total of the two asso
ciation’s assets represents over $23
million. Thus the combination of loan
pay-offs from borrowers and the influx
of savings provides a sizeable total ot
funds available for loan to home build
ers and buyers.
If Mr. Sanford’s name does appear
on the ballot, it will undoubtedly create
consternation in the Muskie camp. A
victory for Sanford, considered likely, or
even a close second, could propel Mr.
Sanford into an enviable spot as a vice-
presidential nominee (or tapee), de
pending on who of the aspirmg Demo
crats wins the nomination.
Unless he disavows it, the college
crowd should have no trouble rounding
up the required 10,000 sign'atures of reg
istered voters to put the Sanford name
on the May 6 list.
Deadlines: 1971 tax payment day,
before added penalty of three-quarters
of one percent, is Monday; final day for
listing taxes is February 3; and, oh yes,
those new blue-and-white 1972 auto tags
must be displayed on February 16.
Gardner Runs Again
Jim Gardner, who sent U. S. Repre
sentative Harold Cooley home to pas
ture in 1966, then breathed down the
neck of Bob Scott in the 1968 governor's
race, is again taking the plunge for a
trip to the Governor’s Mansion.
In 1968, the Rocky Mount business
man, first knocked off Jack Stickley, of
Charlotte, in the first Republican pri
mary of any indicated moment in years.
Reporters are saying Gardner ran
Scott a “close” race.
They should add the phrase “for
North Carolina”,
Scott defeated Gardner by more
than 84,000 votes, which, in some other
states, would have been labeled a land
slide victory.
Assuming the vote was an even
84,000-vote majority, it can be further
assumed that Mr. Gardner "would have
won had he been able to switch just
42,001 of those votes, which" of jtself
would take some doing.
He foreswears his errors of 1968,
presumably off-again-on-again-Finnegan
play at the Republican National conven
tion, He did not indicate he would vary
his tactics in charging the Democrats
with everything in the book — from
reckless driving to downright stealing.
It is to be hoped the"votes, in their
good judgment, will keep Mr." Gardner
in the hamburger business.
MARTIN'S
MEDICINE
of Other Editors
has admitted that it has a spe-
CAIN and dTl s“e7en.man7nu‘tha7s;eJa'i- For most
On 0 oga n aplt gathering information on ho laughing mattei. ,
is up for pu ic r rourts, extremist poiitical groups of both ever, can find a chuo
‘'’•It focghl out ieft-.vinr and right-wing coiora- L'om their <^n work and the
with arguments indications work of their colleagues.
ToraTor religiou-'oonds. that rellglowi gmups "’I’oso ^0. American Asso-
The Supreme istries involve social action a e ^ ^ ij,e Advancement ot
Monday what I thoug.it of tlio ^-,1 capital pun- subject to investigation. meeting in Philadelphia,
boomlet to put Terry Sanford on i^hmenl iinconsti br^de? ^ special symposium was held on
acvxvmp s humor in science.
VISITING HOURS
DaUy 10:30 to 11:30 AM.
3 to 4 PM. and 7 to 8 PM.
By MAR'HN HARMON
■Dr. Paul Ausley asited mo Supreme
*— ^ -- isnmfiu uiu'oxiMi • ^ .
the presidential primary ballot laws, because tax law to
for president. I was forced to re- defendant ch ^ ^lear example is the do-
ply with the oldie (and embar
rassing one tor a nev.-spaper-
man); “All I know is what I
read in the newspapers.''
The session ranged from the
serious meanings of various
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I was reminded, however, of a
Her ein either a trial by nial of tax-exempt status to ccr-
iurv "subjectin"'"™-'^’^ *° private sctiools deemed
action if found f’^st de- guilty of racial discrimination. _ of humor-to the ludicrous,
gree murder- “ ''^‘-'ent court ruling, If up- m-ustrated by Dr.
fensi'. The laf P'^'u ‘u held, will require a similar pol- director of IsraeU’s
fed a plea of‘-"y- a-ssuros icy toward certain discriminatory Biological Institute of Ncas
a life senteniil'h'’ ‘‘"urt found fraternal groups. _ ^i-na, who brouglit down the
personal incident in 195s. P«i this process 0 nary to the There are several dangers in jjouse fcy reading from some ae-
least four or five (|uadrennium, Fifth Amenc’f ^ which iguaran- thi#? application of tax law. The scientific papers.
Edwin Gill, Lie veteran state ,eps freedorC principel one is that the law will
treasurer (running again), was incriminate c-ome to be used as a weapon to * • ♦
prominenfiy mentioned as a can- The ooui • fuitomatic- regulate behavior that the gov-
didate ioi- governor, as lie was puy exemp N'‘‘w Jersey con- ernment cannot, or does want to, -His scientific colleagues were
being. menUoned at’ the time 1 yic'ts frorn h' electric chair, regulate directly. Knowing that convulsed with lai^ghter when he
spoli^ to him in the drug store q-heir sent ""Ih be reduced a certain kind of behavior, legal discussed (real, he sworej on the
ot/Hhe yii- Walter Hotel "in Ha- to life im -(o: nent. Across the in itself, is likely to produce con- “effective of the Human Hand
10igh. After greetint; hina and country, 1 ev'r. 670 other men frontattions with the lax people for Squeezing iFood.’’ The report
identifying myself, 1 asked, “.Mr. sev7'’"'' ' ^4 states are lias wJiat is known as a chilling coh-cluded that the effectiveness
iGill are you going to run fot, awaiting tdi: : by the Supreme effect on citizens and gi-oups. Be- -varied according to the hand do-
governor'?’’ Mr. Gill spent fif- Court ol ' nited States on cause Ihe tax laws reach to every ing the squeezing and the food
teen minutes explaining v.liy two (he sam '®ue corner of the national life—vir- being squeezed,
years before the voting was too ^ imeiits in tlie highest tually everything is either taxed
early to decide. Then he said he court ' b.-ing fought on or tax exempt—there is Pttle Joel Kirschbaum, of the Squibb
had to catch a bus to Asheville gTxound-rights of four that otficials cannot chill and Institute, New 'Brunswick, N. J..
for a speech-making engagement conden 1 t"*?" being in- tax law becomes an unusually read a spoof-paper on “Lycan-
that evening. It vva.s then I fringe! 1 dor the 8th Amend- broad cover for official med- tJiropy Induced by Inadiatlon,
learned Air. Gill didn’t drive a nient ‘‘-•h forbids "cruel and dling. explaining deadpan that he had york •
car. At any rate, he picked up ntiusu ’unishmont.” In their de- A second danger Involves tlie discovered how to turn man into j- jf. MuSvvain, Rt. 2. C. (ty
his bag and reached the door, ubera justices will have threat posed to the tax system wolf by the light of the moon,
only to turn about and address ler wiiother the framers itself by politically motivated en- His experimental voluntters, he
me, “i>Ir. Hai-mon, thanks for qj onstiiution included cap- forcomenl i>l the laws. If people insisted, grew hair and develop-
asking mo."
KINGS MOUNTAIN I
HospItaJLog
I
Mrs. Woodie Evas
Luther Black
John Caveiiy
Mrs. Mattie Uavi.s
Mrs. BtTtha Ellison
Chdvin Falls
Mrs. Margaret Farris
Mrs. Ho/bi(' Gann
Mr. Clyde Kerius
Ctias. Lackey
B. G. Lovelace
Mrs. Dofothy Low(>ry
Mis. Jewel MiO.-;s
Mrs. Huoed McGinnis
Mis. Forest McNcndy
Cluirlie Nicholson
Mis. Roberta Patterson
Fred Owens
Edith .Plonk
Mrs. Sam Robinson
Geo. Runyarcs
J. Russell Shelton
Mrs. Pearl Styers
Cecil Witliam-s
Mrs. Clios. Clxildei-s
Mrs. Raymond Harlsoe
John Talley
Mrs. Lora Wliile
Mrs. Annie Camp
Ja.son Ramsc-y
Mis. DeWitt Wray
ADMITTED THURSDAY
Willie .McCarter,
(Mrs.
Pit. 1,
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In show business, the old say
ing is, “Say anything about me
you wish, good or bad, but don't
quit italking.” The politician
■hardly goes that far, but he does nc ^ “cruol and unusual.’
appreciate the talk. :iie justices rule capital
Organizer of the ’session was
Dr. James McConnel, a psychol-
In his earlier years, Mr. GilO
would have had powerful support
for any office. He apprenticed as
personal secretary to Governor O.
Max Gardner, tlien sented as rev
enue commissioner before becom
ing state treasurer. I have vv'on-
dered why he never offered for -xl protr tin
the governorship. Not because he ilence.
didn’t drive a car, because gov- .Should the court decide othor-
ernors don’t drive while they’rr ise, then the whole iss-ae is left
in office. Perhaps it was becaus- iv-de opc'i, and with it a host of
he was u bachelor.
ital ishment as “cruel and come to believe that some politi- ed “ravenous appetites" upon
unw P'Uni.shment”; and, if so, cians of gi'oups are singled out exposure to dollops of moon-
v(rhf ' American society has for investigation ibecavse of one light,
evo i to a iioint where the tak- kind of politics, and conversely
ing man’s life by society that other groups are excused
in i-ibuti -u for murder, raoe from investigation because of dif-
or .er crimes of violence would ferent politias, the tax system ogy professor from tlie Lmver-
,re of the public sity of lUchlgan. “Wouldn t it be
work ef- something.” he said, “if someone
unconstitutional, the ficiently. • didn't realize that these
have joined It is pnbable that any invest!- Papers are spoofs came in and
:rowin,; list of nations which gallon ot political financing will tins
jus
is (>‘nt
{■ ‘d States will
t
will have' lost more of
capital pun- confidence it needs to
admitted FRIDAY
Speer Holloway. Pliillip 66 Tr.
Pk., Bi-ssetner City
Mr.s. Lona Sarvis, Rt. 1. City
Chas. Bumgardnor, Rt. 1. City
Mrs. Wilda Haskett, 1513 W.
Pine St., Gastonia
Mi-s. Dora Hunter. 406 W. Par
ker St., City
Mrs. Myers Lee, 27 Elm St., Cilj
ADMITTED SATURDAY
was
a regular
f -idei- themselves too civilized be laid to political motives (by scientific meeting? Tbey might
; lesort 1-1 death as an instru- someone. But the charge need ttot know the difference.
It of tlie law. Society will he not gain significant accep-tance .gg. scientist already
t to search out better, higher if the-general enforcement of the fJi uJ’from three da^s of meet-
I more luimane means both of tax law insnires confidence 111 ^
■tling witii criminal violence the neutrality of the men in
itself from that charge.~<?harlotte News.
Mrs. Gary Collins, 913 Churcli
St., City
■Herbert Roberts, 215 E. Jeffer
son St., York
-Ernest Cox, 107 Sadie St., City
Mr. O. C. Kiser, Rt. 2, City
litgs, shouted from the rear of
the room: “There is no differ
ence!”—Gastonia Gazette.
M.-.s. Carrie Lutz, Rt. 1, City
ADMITTED SUNDAY
Chester-
WISDOM OF THE FROG
Scheduled to come up soon m ■» ,, pp 'PJ’i
luestion.v P»imary among these ingress is House consideration Jj0tt6r 1 0 LultOI
IS what action to take about witter antipollution bill
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As tar as I know, Nick Smi
Republican candidate for at
ney-general, is the first K
Mountain native to offer for si
wide office, though his older .»
ther Ed sought the GOP niwr
tion for Congress. Frankly, N t
picture in the Herald laat ' •<
is not up-to-date, as tlie iMt re
lie was here he was wt« „ a
beard — anent jierhapafc is
part-time teaching of an
gy. At any rate, Brothe
got into the beard act, li|i; li lis
first month Wednesday^ m.s
to no itching and to rea^ uro
at awaking in the moi
relishing the fact he _
to take the time to shavi
Mrs. Ricardo Torres,
field No. il, nty
Willie Tesenair, ol5 Phenix St.,
City
Mrs. Andrew Jackson, 602 Bridg
es Dr., City »
Thurman .Moss, 116 Fulton Dr.,
etty
Giigy Smith, P.O. Box 264, Bc-^-
semer City
Ronald Stinnett, 1625 N. Wc'ob
1 believe our great government St.. Gastonia
- Buchanan,
SPEND MONEY AT HOME
Dear Sir:
517 Club SI.,
Virginia Greene
St., City
Jack Mercier. 902 Monroe
20! X.
the 670 c -ndemned prisoners who passed the Senate 86 to 0
now sit n death-row- cells. Pend- Novt-m-ber.
ing this case, there has not been Krgislation was of land-
an execution since June. 1967. To caiitx'r. It set up an in
launch < ut into a program of exe- j federal water qual-
cutihg (.'O Individual human lives standards until 1981, and a _ ,
after f-ur years of moratorium second-phase goal of eliminating take more interest in o-ur internal Mm. I
on the ,'timate punishment is un- dis-h.ar-e of pouILtants into affairs and less interest in our Gastonia
thinkable. na\-igable waterways by 1985. In Outternal Affairs; such as hav- -Mrs. \
The < nus then must pass back rectjgnjtion of the heavy cost ing war with Vietnam and other Dilling bt., uiy
to the iogislativo branch of gov- ,,y„len this w-ould impose on foreign countries. The money
ernment. Tliere, perhaps, is whore j^imicipaJities wliich have been iwhith is being used should be di- City
it m-or- pronerly belongs. But it (]ujj,ping raw sewage, the Senate verted to the use of our internal
o- has-be--n demon.strated over the autliorized $14 billion of federal affairs here at home, as it is very
as years -lial the states, with their (,vcr the next four years, much needed here, especially in
widely different laws and appli- -pj^pse funds would pay 70 per (building up our defenses in such
cation of law (13 states have al- (he cost of building mun- a way‘that no foreign nation
ready I'oolished a capital puni.sh- smvage treatment plants, -could ever pierce them. I do not
ment(. cannot come up with industry-, however, w-hich must believe anyone in the great Unil-
evcn-l'.andcd justice on this mat- greater burden In ed States can end the present or
ter- cleaning up its water-polluting any other foreign war, -but I do
’There is much to b<' said for which it has come to re- -believe they could bring an im-
action on the federal levtel, mherent rights over the mediate end to the U. S. parti-
should sucli action be necessary, y^.^rs, is fighting hard to scuttle -cipation in this or any other for-
I was interested in f:!e week- perhaps the most direct an- legislation. The House of elgn war and this is what I tliink
end press covera-’e ot worn constitutional Representatives is the scene of should happen. William McKin-
eiTs gear-up in “ciia^l last amendment. This newspaper has, and the White House ley. after becoming involved in
weekend for the upco* week- years, argued that the „„ the side of tlie Spanish-American war. said ^
end’s North Carolinli ' imen’s death penalty reverts to animal (hose who would hamstring the that iwe should 'Get out and slay
Caucus at Duke Univc6-‘ .My in- instinct, is brutal and brutaliz- (However, White House at- out of all foreign wars and en- John R. Thompson
ing, and not tolerable in a civil- titudes on this score may be about tanglements in any way, shape gj^yma, S. C.
ized society. change. Maurice Stans, w-ho or form. This is my opinion on jyjf^ Gary Ferguson,
Even in the face of such sense- jg ^bout to resign as Secretary the way it should be. At the same vVashington, Ga.stonia
less sporadic horrors as the gj commerce to take over Mr. time we could be diverting this johnny Clary, 7300
Man.son multiplem-urdcrs in Cali- reelection campaign uselessly spent money to our own city
foriiia, we cannot accept the ar- fundin-j prdgram, has been the needs and defenses here at home Mrs. W. H. Redmond, 200 Fair-
guinent that official murder is loudest" opponent of the water and also save many American view St., City
'f'
Karen Merck, 914 Cliurcli .81.
City
Mrs. Lula Reep, 616 Mauncs
Ave., City
-Mrs. Mike Sanders, 113 Fulton
Dr., City
-Mr.-i. Jas. Wilson. 702 Carolina
Ave.. Bessemer City
-Wm. 1’oung, P. O. Box 23, Rin-
semer City
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ADMITTED MONDAY
Mrs. Wray Murray, 3320 Mid
pines, City
Ralph Allen,
City
Mrs. Billy Parker, 617 E. .qiil-l
Rt. 2, Bessi-me-r
teresl stems from tl)i‘ .'-'t that
-Martha Ciampitt McKay, of Clia-
pel Hill, and tempowry ciairman
uf the Caucus, is a f|:s-ji.il friend
from college days.
5r., Rt. 1,
105
Midpines,
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justified by wanton murder. Nor bin. Rumor has it that he will be lives.
IT ,.1 , ,.11 deterrent argument a val- replaced by Peter Peterson, as-
Mrs. McKay got .ntowhpcs as Crime statistics in states gig^ant to the president on inter- In other words, America should
college girl, c^tiired in the having capital punisliment show national economic affairs who do more here at home to ameri-
as man.y or more murders than not feel the need to use canlze our America,
in those states without such pan- gnvironmental issues as has Mr.
Jacob Burri.s, P. O. Box 702, City
pro league, wasi ho: y in the
Sanford-for-Gover^r (irces, be-
catne DemociatiC '.. onal com-
mltteewoman anti crtinucs ac
tive. Qhe was teJ as saying
in Charlotte sh« ..i.Tt promot
ing women’s liliKr.il.-.i but wom
en’s power. I dofc't Itniw wihat her
dentist husband thvk? of such
statements but liartsay he won’t
follow the del4li^:■.- dictum and
open his moi^ a .’ttle wider.
Stans to solidify his credentials
allies.
Within its undisputable great- wllh the business community)
ness, there is in American socie-
WA’YNE WKLL.S
The argument, as always, cen- iu«,,Titain
ty an equally undisputable streak tpj-s on economics, and White
of violence — not confined
-m-a
House officials have floated an
crime, but also evident on the estimate of $100 billion over the
highways, the radio - television j,gxt five years. In a trillion-dol-
aii'waves, and even in its sports jgj, economy, that would amount
arenas. Violence, wherever it ap- 2 per cent annually,
pears, is antisocial and mu.st bo Tills figure, however, is sus-
stopped. The place to begin is in pect. And one source for suspect-
those areas clearly subject to re- r jg none other than Dr.
form. Surely the foundational pggj McCra'cken, until recently
’That migh* be : pre-tty good system of courts and the law president Nixon’s chief economic
clambake tojatie-; 1. All the goib- which they administer are such a adviser. Word is being leaked of
ernatorial c*ndid;tes are to be place. — The Christian Science 3 study, headed by Dr. MdCrack-
on the wonji .-I’.s middle and it’s Monitor. en, of the costs of going all out
to clean up the national environ-
TAX LAWS MISUSED ment. His estimate is that such
Gov. Bob Scott’s impliad charge a program would depress the
that the Internal Revenue Serv- ONP by only 0.5 per cent to
ADMITTED TUESDAY
Sam Wilson, HI, 107 Cooiier-
town. City
Lloyd Hoj-le.^^ 502 Bethel St.,
Clover
Wm. Thomas Mack, 1301 W-
Dixon Blvd., Shelby
'Jes.se M. Reyridlds, 401 S. Hirfr
land St., Gastonia
a safe wag^ c:i.- lidates for les
ser offices V-H b- on the grounds
singing “Wi-meri Power, For
ever”.
ice Investigation of his 1968 cam- 0.7 per cent a year, between 1972
• WM paign financing is politically mo- and 1976. And in the 11 major
tivated sounds entirely plausible, industries studied, it would raise
Governor Bob Scott hia.s got the The tax laws seem to be put to prices by less than 0.5 per cent
message. This veek he named political use all too often these annually.
North Car dinaj second-in-hlstoty days. Doubtless there will be reams
lady Superior Jourt judge, Mrs. This is not to prejudge the in- of data arguing cost estimates
Mildred U’cll. The fii^ was vestlgatlon of the Scott cam- from both sides of this issue as
Judge S«sio i.iarpe, nosv one ot paign, or to suggest that there the House debate wears on. The
the sever t/nbers of the Su- should not be such an Iniestiga- danger here is thait the vital is-
preme C lil t .f the state, and tion, if there is, in the IRS’ sue—that of having the environ-
highly rreomnended among the (tvords, “reason to believe” that ment for the future as against
•lady Judges c: the nation for the wrongdoing might be uncovered, exploiting it destructively for
United .tiate. Supreme Court. j[ there Is "reason to believe” monetary gain—will be buried In
something is amiss, then the IRS numbers. As the legislators are
m-m most certainly should be out en- besieged by claims and counter
forcing the law. claims, it is to be hoped that they
In view c history Queen Eliz- The proiblem is that there is might listen with their inner ear
abeth, .Ma le Antoinette, Jose- reason to believe that the enthus- to an Indian proverb, quoted re-
phine, Car e Nation, and Sally iasm with which certain matters cently in this newspaper:
Band, it .-ould appear the lady- are Investigated is not unrelated “The frog dws not drink up
foBt need vorry Uttle about lib- to political considerations. The the pond In which he lives —
eretion, n,rer about power. IRS in Washington, for example. The Christian Sdeitce Monitor.
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