University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, July 11, 1973
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Spirit of '76 Lost
By EUGENE MEYER
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON - On July 3, 1971, at the National Archives where the Constitution and Bill of Rights are stored, Richard Nixon formally opened a five-year "biocentennial era." In a nationally televised address, he said: "The farming" ideals of its early history.
"Let it not be said of our America today," he declared, "that we were strong in arms and that the world was going to die."
Today, only two years later, the spirit of Watergate hangs heavy over Nixon. His public credibility as a bicentennial President calling the nation to its highest ideals seems open to serious question. Bicentennial planning at the national level has come to a vicious conclusion. The plan is show for the seven years of planning that preceded, the current crisis,
Kansan Staff Photo by PR15 BRANDSTED
CLEARLY, THE bicentennial was to be the capstone of the Nixon presidency: One nation, united under Richard Nixon in a year-long version of Honor America Day. Jack LeVant, the bicentennial director who resigned last summer under fire, saw the bicentennial as offering "the greatest opportunity Nixon, the party and the government," and recounting reumification and light within the nation and within the world."
On a deeper level, the Spirit of 76 is very much a part of the efforts by Congress, the courts and the press to shed light on what has been described as the darkest chapter in our political history. For this episode, with its components of espionage, sabotage, wiretapping, laundered campaign conspiracy, the failure of the Founding Fathers had in mind when they framed the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Now, it seems, Nixon's claim to the Spirit of '76 has been negated by Wategater-a scandal that has made the bicentennial at once irrelevant and painfully relevant. On one level, the Capital is so preoccupied with the unfolding of Wategater that preparations for the Nation's 200th birthday have aroused little interest.
ALTHOUGH IT was the Congress that created the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission in 1966, the commission has been dominated by presidential appointees. The commission's job is to plan a commemoration with "special emphasis"
But documents made available to the Washington Post last summer disclosed "special emphasis" instead on politics, commercialism and flag-waving. The
'Flag-Waving' Can Overshadow Intent of Bicentennial
primary goal became the promotion of an undefined general concept called "beenentailal awareness." The noncommittal slogan: "a past to honor, a future to mold."
The slogan fit in with two of three broad campaigns in 1970 by the commission for the Bioscience Board.
(history), Horizons '76 (the future) and Festival USA (fun and games). Neither the commission nor its staff has been able to come up with details.
FOR A WHILE, as looked if there would at least be a Festival USA, first in the form of a convention.
Promotion Costs Equal Profits
Banks Attract Clients with Gifts
By KAREN DIRKS
Kansan Staff Writer
Special flashlights used by astronauts on the moon, percolators, tickets to amusement parks and electric blankets are all offered free at Lawrence banks.
Competition for customers has led Lawrence banks to utilize gift promotions within the last five years. Most banks offer discounts on a $30 deposit addon about $300 to his account.
electric rollers, heating pads and electric roars fall within this range.
Federal law limits the value of the gifts to a wholesale value of $10. Products like
A BANK PROMOTION is offered for two reasons;—to increase new customers or to increase the deposits of old customers, and to increase the number of bankersman for the Douglas County State Bank.
Al Hack, vice president of the Lawrence National Bank, said that while response to the promotions had been good, the banks had probably just broken even during promotions. Expenditures for gifts and extra work for the staff about equal
monetary gain from the deposits.
"The value of the promotions lies in increased activity," Hack said. "The employees are fresher and more interested in their otherwise routine work. The customers are more aware of the services the bank has to offer."
VICTOR JOHNSON, vice president of the University State Bank, said the bank preferred not to use promotions except on special occasions. For its fifth anniversary the bank offered a percolator for new accounts.
School Board Approves 15 Motions, Boosts Budget
By DEAN FORD
Kansan Staff Writer
At the District 497 Board of Education meeting Monday, the atmosphere was hectic, but the production level was high as the board approved 15 proposals and approved the approval of the policy manual revisions until it had completed further study.
The board first unanimously elected Helen Giles president and Larry Hatfield vice president. Joan Brown, clerk of the bank, was appointed as accounter, were reelected to their positions.
This represents an increase of $893,262 over last year's budget and causes a tax levy increase of 3.06 mills ($3.06 per $1,000) for evaluation, a mill being one-third of a cent).
The main action of the board was the unanimous approval for publication of an article on the subject.
Public budget hearings are scheduled for Aug. 6.
—To accept the board meeting calendar.
—To designate the Lawrence Daily Journals world as their official paper and KLWN as official news media for the school district.
The board approved the following proposals:
Superintendent Carl Knox said that a more detailed breakdown of the budget report would be made for the board at a later date. The budget were contested by board members.
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—To designate Olin Petefish as the board attorney.
—To accept the balances of the Administration Center, Lawrence High School, Central Junior High School, South Junior School, Lawrence High School and Lawrence Continuing Education.
- To grant a request of $10,325 for the purchase of canned food supplies for school food
- To allocate $1,720 for the cost of repairs made by Rhodes Roofing and Heating Company, Lawrence, to a roof at Sunset School and minor repairs to Deerfield and Pinckney schools necessitated by the recent windstorms.
"We feel it is better to provide better interest rates and service," said Johnson. "We feel the customers value this sort of promotion more."
To pay $8,500 to Mid-Continental Water Purification Repairers, the瓶装, with Gordon C. Pfeiffer, will be delivered.
-To increase the combined salaries of the Superintendent Carl Knox and Assistant superintendents Kenneth Fisher and David Kendall by six per cent.
William Lienhard, vice president of the First National Bank, said that they had been offering premiums for about three years.
"They are very successful in attracting deposits," he said. He said that the bank would probably continue to use them in the future.
Bank promotions are aimed at gaining new savings accounts. They are often geared to interest the young adult and in particular, the newlywed.
Hack said that handling a student account was usually not monetarily profitable. Students' accounts usually have a low fee and are kept in dividends in dividends to make them worthwhile.
Such promotions are rarely flamboyant,
however, Gifts are usually perma or 50 free
gifts.
EACH FALL THE banks sponsor a promotion to gain student checking acco
He said, "I don't know why we compete so heavily for them, except they are fun and it's nice to have the young people come into the bank."
mission killed last May, then at 50 bicentennial parks, vetoed by the panel this May. Various investigative bodies have blamed bad leadership, lack of staff direction and hindy nature of the 50-member commission for its lack of accomplishments.
After the Washington Post articles last summer, the commission's funds were frozen while the House judiciary committee investigated the panel. Its conclusion was that the commission had planned a commemoration and needed a total overhaul. The White House was also dissatisfied, but from a different viewpoint. On Feb. 1, Nixon proposed that the 56-member commission be replaced by an all-inclusive commission. President and confirmed by the Senate.
Bicentennial Celebration Gets Bogged Down By Planning Chaos, Impact of Watergate
The President seemed to be following the advice of Levant, the deposed bicentennial director, who wrote more than a year earlier in a draft memorandum: "For the American Revolution Bicentennial com-mission, it should be possible that it must be a officer-in-chief director must have full and complete authority with the full sanction of the President. Then and only then will his staff, aides and those below click heels and see the president's actions" (2) wishes are carried out. The present commission structure must be defended."
IN ITS PLACE, Levant recommended a bicentennial "czar," which David Mahoney, bicentennial commission chairman, later said was an "unfortunate" word description of the administrator the President eventually proposed.
Nevertheless, the proposed White House streamlining prompted one member of the present commission, Rep. Lawrence Williams (R-Pa.), to note angyt "This bill would allow the House to overthrow kings by establishing kings." The House judiciary committee, to whom Williams' remarks were directed, didn't buy the White House bill. Instead, what he said was the mini-confrontation between the legislative unit and executive branches, its substituted itself.
The House version makes the administrator subordinate to an 11-member policy board whose makeup does not automatically insure White House control. It also provides that the administrator could not be the chairman. Recently, the House voted to bill by an overwhelming margin. The Senate has yet to hold hearings on the matter.
BEFORE THE Watergate became a floodgate, the talk in bicentennial circles was that the tangled commemoration could be straightened out and uplifted by placing a figure of major stature in the administrative post. Speculation had in mind that the watergate implicated in the Watergate mess, John Connally and Ladybird Johnson.
It is unlikely that the same names will resurface in this context. The search for a bicentennial superstar will be difficult, not necessarily because he may have to answer questions on his board but because the 'Nixon bicentennial' no longer has the same authentic ring.
name of the bicentennial, The Smithsonian and National Park Service are planning special events here in 1976. There are private bicentennial groups of most ethnic and political colorations. There are 55 state and territorial bicentennial commission
IN MANY PLACES, the bicentennial has become a political device for accomplishing a long list of languishng civic projects. Temple, Tex., population 35,000, wants to pave all its streets by 1976. Closer, perhaps, to the "ideas associated with the revolution," the D.C. bicentennial commission has home rule as its major goal. In
Outside the offices of the American revolution Bicentennial commission, the state Department of Interior
the commercial world, the inevitable deluge of bicentennial products has begun and will grow to major proportions in three years. So, as certain as tomorrow, a bicentennial of Ulysses S. Grant's grass roots, establishment, high-minded and otherwise. It will be a do-your-own-thing affair. The supporters of the Articles of Confederation would have liked it that way. Students of history, moreover, may find themselves in the scandalized accured at the end of the second scandal-addered term of Ulysses S. Grant. The Republic survived.
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