10 Thursday, July 1, 1976 University Daily Kansan 10 15 Propagandists From page one It was an emotional, scary objective, report, but the language of Thomas seems restrained alongside that of the Gazette of Providence, Rhode Island, in describing the British: "base wretches, who fight for pay and plunder; cattails devoid of all principles and tenderness; hence the honor" which may we not expect from such merciless raygers? -as, must we see our flourishing country pilaged and laid waste, our houses fired, our fathers massacred, our wives, our mothers, our sisters, and our daughters, fall a prey to brutal and inhuman raisvers; our tender infants torn from the breadline; our old women caught up in their crises and groans transpire the yielding air! . . . forbid it he good." LATER IT was called the Royal Gazette; but to its enemies, it was the Lying Gazette, with reports of the capture of Washington, the death of Washington, the cowardesses of Washington, and with words, of the new use of Ben Franklin's old smile symbol in cartoons, he wrote: "Ye sons of sedition, how come it to pass, that America's typed, by a smoke-it is also carried moving social comment, as in this by a fleeing royalist; There was "Yankee Doddle," too. The British created the appellation, the colonials wore it like a badge and we still love it. Our history is mainly that of the patrons, but on the other side there also was a young woman, who was Hugh Gaine, turncoat editor of the New York Gazette and Weekly Rington, but importantly there was James Rivington, who may have been a double agent, a Britian who started a paper in 1773 called the Connecticut, New Jersey, Hudson's River, and Connecticut Weekly Advertiser." "I leave America and every endearing connection, because I will not raise my hand against my sovereign; nor will I draw my sword against my country; when I can consciously draw it in her favour, my life will be cheerfully devoted to her service." Of the patriot agitators an interesting Baseball Standings AMERICAN LEAGUE W L W Pct GB New York 70 41 3.62 Cleveland 36 33 3.52 Boston 36 33 3.52 Detroit 34 35 4.93 Baltimore 34 37 4.93 Hawthorne 34 37 4.93 34 37 4.93 16.54 Parts for ALL Imported Cars Kansas city 44 27 .620 Chicago 39 18 .510 9% Oakland 36 30 .500 9% Chicago 33 77 .471 10% Minnesota 33 77 .471 10% California 32 45 .450 11% **Yankees' games** Boston 6, Hamilton 8, New York at Detroit 10, penn California at Chicago 10, tomb Atlanta at Arizona 9, Toledo 4 Dallas 2 NATIONAL LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE **NATIONAL LEAGUE** Philadelphia W 10 L 741 GB - Baltimore 41 28 P14 - New York 41 27 P131 New York 29 27 P141 Los Angeles 31 41 P131 Montreal 24 43 P156 West Carolina 42 34 P156 Los Angeles 42 34 P156 Atlanta 34 41 P156 San Francisco 31 41 P17 name is that of Fritch Freeneau, best known in journalism as Jefferson's editor of the *New York Times*. Yesterday's Results San Francisco 10, New York Pittsburgh 7, Chicago 6, New York, postponed, rain Philadelphia 8, Cleveland, postponed, rain San Diego 3, Cincinnati 1 San Antonio 2 Freneau was the poet of the Revolution, a partisan who attacked General Gage as he later attacked Washington and Adams. In 1780 he was seized and placed aboard a British prison ship, and of that experience he wrote: One figure comes last, the man who in January of 761 fired the American people with his "Common Sense." He was Thomas Paine—an Englishman, son of a corset-maker, a Quaker and one who had known poverty and hardship. His earliest known body was an epiphany for the youngest man buried: "Here lies the body of John Crow. Who once was high, but now is low; we Brother crows, take warning all. For as your rise, so must you fall." "SUCH FOOD they sent to make complete our woes,/It looked like carrion torn from hungry crowds/Such vernin vile on every joint we seen./So black, corrupted, mortified, and team./That once we tried to kill them, we saw that he held him, holding up the beef/See, captain, see what rotten bones we pick/What kills the healthy cannot cure the sick/Not dogs on such by Christian men are fed./And, see good master, see what lousy bread/Your meat or bread, this man of death can eat it, too. Our carers provide/But this, base rebel dogs, I'd have you know./That better than my merit we bestow." Paine became an exciseman, was a friend of Burke, of Goldsmith and of Sheridan, obtained audience with the great Dr. Franklin and with a letter of introduction came to America in 1774. Richard Bache, Franklin's son-in-law, helped him find employment at Philadelphia. He obtained employment with Robert Atiken of the Pennsylvania Magazine. He began to write "Common Sense," which Dr. Benjamin Rush described as "bursting from the press with an effect which has rarely been produced by types and paper in any age or country." All of us know the story of "Common Sense," but one passage has special meaning: "THE SUN never shined on a cause of greater worth. The not its affair of a city, a county, a province, or kingdom; but of a continent—of at least one—and of a day, a year, or an age; postity are virtually involved in the contest, and will be more or less affected even to the end of it. The least sacrifice is the seedtime of continental union, faith and honour. The least fracture will be like a name engraved with the point of a pin on the tender rind of a young oak; the wound of a wound of a young oak; the postity read in it full grown characters." Tom Paine was not through writing. He began to write again, in late 76, in the winter of defeats, when the army of Washington was beaten, hopeless, hungry. He sent his troops to campfire, on the head of a drum, with the tattered continental soldiers gathered about him. He wrote such words as these, in his now-famous Crisis papers: "These are the times that try men's souls. The summer is here and I am crisiest, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman." When Eric Goldman was doing his research he went to Boston, to a place called Lerner's Cafeteria Delicatessen, at 134 West 27th Street. He did not know that it was on the very site of his establishment that Dunlap & Claypoond once existed, a printing house that published the first copies of the Declaration, of the Constitution, of Washington's constitution, and thumped himself on the chest and said: "I'm an American and it smacks me right Rovals whip Twins, 4-2 MINNESOTA (AP) -- Major league batting leader George Brett scored the goahead run and drove in another two innings in Minnesota. The Tigers victory over the Minnesota Twins last night. Brett, who enjoyed his 16th three-hit game of the season and boosted his batting average to .361, tripled and scored in the sixth inning to break a 2-2 tie. His RBI single in the eighth gave the Royals a two-run lead. Kansas City starter Paul Spitofft, 8,6, went the distance for the fourth time this season although he walked six batters and gave up seven hits. Brett led the sixth inning with his eight triple of the season and eventually scored on a double play grounder to put McMahon up by a single. The game with a two-out rally in the fourth when Hal McAne laughed and scored on a double hit, and came home on a double by Buck Martinez. Special Steak Includes salad, beverage, choice of potato & Sizzler toast All for $1.99 One coupon per person (Monday thru Friday) Good only at 1516 W.23rd St. Lawrence, Kansas 66044 --here that all that stuff happened at my place.” Then he said: “They all talk freedom, freedom. But you know damn well some dowager doesn't mean the same thing by ‘freedom’ as a poor guy. Freedom,” he said, “is a complicated thing.” FREEDOM IS a complicated thing. Not to all the propagandists of the Revolution was it complicated, but we know today that it is. Here in 1976, in midst of the celebration of our Bicentennial, we have a message offered by a contemporary delicatessen operator in Boston, and by those journalistic forefathers of the Revolution, and by that tough body who signed the Declaration 200 years ago. FOREIGN AUTO PARTS 304 Locust 843-8080 M-F 5:30 Sa1-8:12 SUMMER FILMS PRESENTS STUDENT UNION ACTIVITIES ICE A Film by Robert Kramer A Fiction Film about Imminent Urban Guerrilla Warfare in the United States Sometimes in the future—3 years maybe, or 20 years. Civil liberties are abused, and people have learned to live with this condition. An urban revolutionary group makes plans for a regional movement in the city's kind against the state apparatus. Security Police brutalize one of the key members of the revolutionary group. Liberal groups are kept informed of the revolutionary struggle through an underground film organization. The regional authorities killed, communication centers blown up, residential areas occupied, the head of intelligence kidnapped and held "ICE to me is the most original and most significant American narrative film in two maybe three years. The film probes in depth the most urgent contemporary moment of the filmmaker of the first magnitude. THE VILLAGE VOICE—JONAS MEKAS for ransom. Members of the revolutionary group are killed by Security Police in the aftermath of the offensive. But the group survives and continues the struggle. "Of all the films we've seen recently having to do with the New American Revolution . . . the FRIDAY, July 2 $1.00 only one to make any sense is ICE . . . THE NEW YORK TIMES—VINCENT CANBY "ICE is the most important film of 1970." THE VILLAGE VOICE—NAT HENTOFF "Quirly, almost sadly, with perturbing power, the film goes beyond ideology; it does not involve anger or ask for sympathy for the cause. It merely shows that these people, whether they destroy or are destroyed, are at this moment indelibly connected to NEWSWEEK 7:30 p.m. WOODRUFF AUDITORIUM Transportation has changed... Has your mechanic? John Haddock FORD INC. SECOND GENERATION SINCE 1914 23rd and Alabama Ph,843-3500