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Tuesday, April 17, 1973
University Daily Kansan
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Beyond Bars
It's 4 a.m. A patrolman on a routine cruise sees a teenage boy walking along the sidewalk on a dark street. Suspicious, the patrolman pulls the car over to the curb near the boy. Opening his car door, the patrolman gets out of the car and shouts to the boy, "What are you doing out at four o'clock in the morning?"
"Walking," the boy answers.
Questioning at the police station indicates that the boy has committed no crime that night. He has, in fact, been late night argument with his father.
Walking," the boy answers.
The patrolman tells him to get in the car.
"All I wanted was some time to walk and think about the situation at home and if I ever wanted to go," the boy tells the police officer.
Instead of holding the boy overnight or sending him back to his father, the officer takes the boy to a nearby house for runaways. There a staff trained to help confused and unhappy juveniles provides 24-hour service. The counselors can help the boy by providing him with a situation by talking to him, listening to him and offering him a place to think.
The benefits of such a runaway house can be shared by a community. A county citizen committee that has just completed a study of correctional systems in Douglas County has recommended that a similar house for juveniles be found here. Community rehabilitation services must the mittee reports, sometimes deal more effectively with certain crimes than do established criminal institutions.
The major theme of the committee's proposals is a departure from the traditional concept of criminal justice—locking the criminal behind bars. Instead, the committee encourages the establishment and use of corrective correctional alternatives to deal with certain types of criminals.
Forrest Swail, a lecturer in the School of Social Welfare and child welfare said recently that the community should share the responsibility of
rehabilitation of some persons labeled as criminals. Alcoholics, for example, should be given medical and psychological help at treatment centers. Although an alcoholic may have committed a crime that requires him to be incarcerated, he behind bars for ten days, months or a year does not cure him.
Increased use of community correctional facilities would also ease overcrowded conditions in the jails. Those persons who, because of the severity of their crimes, must be detained in jails, would find jail conditions more conducive to rehabilitation. A person sentenced to dangerous could in spite of his 30 days working for the city pay. He could pay his penalty to society without contributing to overcrowded jails and the high cost of housing criminals.
The United States spends $3 billion a year for police protection and more than $1 billion for jails and prisons, but it doesn't spend the amount of money required to understand crime and its prevention. Dr. Karl Menninger, in his book, "The Crime of Punishment," points out one inequity in our treatment of criminals:
"No distinction is made in the degree of punishment for the dangerous, the docile, the stupid, the shrewd, the wistful, the confused or the desperate on the basis of these characteristics. The man who has broken his baby's bones with a club, the man who has forced the door of a warehouse, the woman who has stocked in the unwieldy pairs of stockings from a department store and the adolescent who has set fire to an outhouse—all receive the same treatment, the same 'punishment,' varying only in duration."
Efforts to provide sensible training programs and psychiatric care, or even jails that aren't fire traps are usually uphill battles against a thousand other more highly valued ways to spend public money. The proposed changes for Douglas County represent a much needed shift from a punitive system to a rehabilitative one.
I had long since learned that my mom's apple pie could be bought at Safeway for 79 cents, but I asked, "How about democracy?"
I did think about the dollar value concept of everything, and tried to come up with something that did not have a dollar value.
—Barbara Spurlock
Assigning Values
I was sitting in my economics class, half asleep, when the professor said that everything has a price. I woke up and objected. I said that there were some things that just couldn't be given a monetary value.
He drew a graph and proved his point. I didn't understand the graph, but it wasn't the first graph I hadn't understood. Economics, in case you have never studied it, is the part of geometry that deals with graphs. You can be graphed is so, and if meat prices are probably because the Council of Economic Advisers is out of graph paper.
However, an ad agency in San Francisco is selling mandates for $2 million and up. No leadership qualification or other qualifications are necessary.
As a last resort I considered love. I thought the best place to start was Wink and Judy who have been carrying an tender love affair for seven years.
Judy lives in Des Moines and Frank had two job offers: one in Des Moines and the other in Chicago. The job in Des Moines paid $137.20. The job in Chicago paid $138.35 and had a 50 per cent employer-contributed dental health care program.
I was sure that he would forego the better offer in order to go to Des Moines. I was right, he did. He said, "Yeah, I wouldn't go to Chicago for less than $138.70, dental health program or not."
-Eric Kramer
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PAWNEE, Okla. —The proposed national convention of the American Indian Movement (AM), which has its national headquarters here, could be the scene of the largest in a series of disagreements between Indians and local officials and also between factions of local Indians. The convention is scheduled May 17.
By JERRY L. CARRIER
AIM Convention Divides Pawnee
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Since last May, there has been a series of court battles about Indian boys wearing long hair in school, a takeover of the Bureau of Indian Affairs office by AIM and its misuse of Johnson-O'Malley Indian education funds.
One group supports the AIM convention and has the backing of the U.S. Department of the Interior. The other group opposes the convention and has the legal recognition of state courts.
There also has been a fight, still continuing, about which group is the legal business council of the Pawnee Tribe.
Last May, school officials suspended three rams-
man kids to life weeks before the end of the school year
for not showing up.
Luther Bohanon, chief U.S. District Court judge, issued a temporary restraining order that allowed the Bohannon firm to sue him for unpaid debt.
However, Bohanon refused to make the order permanent, saying the question of hair length was not a constitutional question and could be handled by state courts.
"We question the Denver court's basis for the order, but we go along with it," and Leroy Holloway. Pawnee will face the jury on Tuesday.
His decision was appealed by attorneys for the Native American Rights Fund to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., on Thursday.
Holloway said that the hair issue was "poety it is a joke within our student body because these so-called Indian crusaders or militants are acting or saying things they don't know anything about."
A Pawnee Indian mother also criticized the "militants," saying that "only a handful of the Pawnee Tribe is militant. The ones causing all of this trouble could not get the support of the tribe and they have gone outside to seek the necessary help to carry out their destructive policies."
In September the hair issue, coupled with allegations of misuse in 'O'-Fone funds, resulted in a court order against the BAoC office.
AIM leaders, including Demna Banks, John Trudrel and Carter Camp, with about 40 other militants, seized the city.
The group charged that the education funds intended for Indian youths were being misused by local officials. BIA officials denied the allegations but agreed to determine how the money was being used.
But after the militants left the building tension continued in Pawnee.
become identified too closely with the victims and because VISTA officials feared for their safety.
"If things don't cool off, there is going to be violence we VISTA worker said at the time. "People are carrying guns."
"It's gotten to the point where it seems to be Indians versus whites and nonimmigrants against militants. Everything is out of proportion. All it's going to take is one incident to set something off."
Thomas Chapman, chairman of the council recognized
"I think our officials have tried to be reasonable with our militants, but there is just so much they can do," Chapman said.
by Oklahoma courts, said his own son and a white girl were beaten by militants.
Chapman is the leader of the Pawnee Tribal Business
Chapman that group is being challenged by Austin
*uarter* leader, J. Jeffrey H.
Realrizer has won the backing of the Department of the Interior, but Chapman went into state courts and now is operating with their recognition. The department and Realrizer are appealing to federal courts.
Last Friday Chapman stated that the council had decided to close the Tunnel Tuesday.
Ball Grounds until May 5.
AM officials have been taking months for about using the land for their convention.
Chapman said the closing action was taken at the request of 'the huge majority of local tribal members'.
QUEST "of the huge majority of local tribal members," Don Necone, public relations director for AIM in Oklahoma, said his group doesn't recognize Chapman's council as the legal council and will go ahead with the convention because Realrider's group had invited the organization.
Neconie also said that four state AIM officials have received threatening letters.
Neconie said, "Our intention is to come without violence, but we're not going to be defenseless."
Realrider has appealed for "armed support" from the BIA to insure that the convention is held.
He said that even though AIM was controversial "it has the right to, converse here as any other organization."
"Therefore we feel justified in asking and receiving the assistance of federal marshals and armed support, from the Bureau of Indian Affairs if necessary," Realrider said.
Despite the controversy about using the land, there has never been any definite word that the convention is
coming here.
"Except for one time when they informed me that they might be holding their convention here," Mayor Glenn Wienert said. "They have never contacted any public official about when the convention would be or, when, or anything else."
Wood said he hopes to find out something definite when he meets with AIM leaders Thursday.
However, all indications are that AIM at least will attempt to convene here.
Meanwhile, local and state officials continue to prepare for the convention.
Means also charged harassment by local officials. He did not cite specific instances, however, and the congressional committee investigating Wounded Knee did not ask for any.
Russell Means, AIM leader involved at Wounded Knee, said in Washington that the convention would come to Pawnee unless AIM was still involved at Wounded Knee.
Various estimates of the size of the convention have been reported to $1,000^2$ by Means to the state AIM state.
In Pawhuska, Dist. Atty. William Hall, whose district includes Pawnee, said, "We have made our plans but I am not at liberty to divide more, nor to say with when we have made them."
For a town with a population of approximately 2,500, a small standard could cause problems, even if the convention is held.
Pawnee has six policemen and the county sheriff has five demites.
A spokesman for Gov. David Hall's office said "... the laws of the state of Oklahoma will be enforced, first and foremost by local authorities in Pawnee. If there should be any problem for which they feel need assistance ... the state of Oklahoma will be prepared to give any help that may be needed."
"RALROADS JUST ARENT WANT THEY USED TO BE "
Heading Inflation Off at the Pass
WASHINGTON ·  Murray Rothbard is so far to the right that he regards the ratification of the U.S. Constitution as the first liberal sellout of individual liberty this continent, and unreasonable to say that may be, it doesn't certify him as a nut, but as an "anarcho-
Nicholas von Hoffman
capitalist," and as the foremost expositor of a school of political economics that goes by the name of libertarianism.
In its pure form, as preached by Rothbard, who teaches economics at the Polytechnic Institute of Technology, liber-aries use the guiding economics used as the guiding principle to run the entire society. The marketplace is supreme, even taking over the rest of us; the rest of us assume can be performed only by the government.
Thus, in the anarcho-capitalist society that Rothbard would substitute for the mass we've got, there wouldn't even be any "forcible theft," as he calls taxation.
"The liberarian refuses to give the state the moral sanction to commit actions that almost everyone agrees would be immoral, legal and criminal if they group in society," writes Rodhard in his new book, "For a New Liberty," (Macmillan, $7.95).
But unlike many liberais and conventional reformers, Rothbart was also possible to perfect government. The answer is to make private its
Most people who go around saying, "Let George or free enterprise do it," strike the rest of us as smug characters who want a rationale for not paying their fair share of the taxes. That is not true of Rothbard. Aside from his historian and an academic economist who can obscure with the best of them when he wishes, Rothbard's ideas are founded on a humanistic love of justice, a justice to be realized by holding both the individual and his property inviolate from all sides, especially that of the government, regardless as nothing but a pack of looting, mass murders.
functions, that is, turn them over to a laissez-faire marketplace where we consumers can shop around and buy what the government offers from one of many vendors.
This is not as mad as it sounds. In one area after another, government has shown it can't deliver the goods, and one reason is that "inherent in all government operation is a grave and fatal split between service and payment, between the providing of a service and the payment for services." The customer so indirectly the customer that government doesn't have to give a damn about him.
Thus, as Rothbard points out, it there is too much traffic congestion, authorities suggest cars be outlawed downward; if the municipal waterworks can't supply enough of their commodity, people are urged to use less water. If New York City's muggers is so open, the murgers every night, the answer is to close the park at midnight to the honest citizens who wish to walk there.
Libertarians also underscore the fact that since government services are tax-supported monopolies they have no market price, so there really is no way of accessing these services from money. This is exactly the problem that socialist countries like Russia have come up against and haven't been able to beat. The result of this same thing, as "the public sector" becomes so dominant in our economy. Whether it be Lockeck or public education, we have no way of controlling ex-fees and therefore we face increasing inflationary dislocations.
One of Rothbard's prime examples is highways: "... urban expressways have been built at a cost of from 6 cents to 27 cents a vehicle mile, although only 10 percent of automobiles auto taxes only about one cent per vehicle mile." Obviously, if privately owned toll road companies had been constructing freeways we'd have fewer of them, and a far more economic alternative other modes of transportation.
"Frantically increasing the supply while holding the price of goods to keep congestion to chronic and aggravated congestion," writes Rothbard
and he doesn't even get into our quaint but passionately held belief that the Christian God has a way of providing a person a free parking space.
Even now it's not too late. We could auction off our highways to private companies in return for which all automobile use taxes would be repealed. We might discover a cure for congestion and pollution if drivers to pay the true costs. Car pools and
Murray Rothbard is a man who proceeds with undeviating logic from his first principles to his ultimate conclusions. As with all
exclusive bus lanes might have such economic incentives that they would cease to be a topic of conversation and become a reality. An added bonus might be to spare the incalculable expense of owning a two-way-building hinge we seem to be on the verge of going on.
Rebels, CIA Lose Interest In Tibetan Insurgency
people who do that, he is tinged with a dementia that puts off people who'd rather stick with a lousy today than an iffy tomorrow. But the general dissatisfaction is so great we'd be crazy not to try some of these ideas experimentally—or do you really want to pay for another round of Post Office reform?
Jack Anderson
We spoke to sources who were invited to participate in a raid on Chinese army facilities in "tibet. The Khampa leader claimed he English and was trained in guerrilla tactics in the United States.
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Washington Post-King Features Syndicate
WASHINGTON - In mountainous Nepal, America's least known and least bloody war is winding down. Warring tribesmen and the Central Intelligence Agency, which recruited them, are losing interest in the adventure.
In the past years, Indian intelligence agents were used to parachute American supplies to Khampas' mountain bivouac in western Nepal. In supply parachutes were converted into shirts by the
CIA agents slowly gained the confidence of the mountain fighters, known as Khampas, and organized them against the Chinese. In the cloud-capped regions of Mustang and Dolpha, Khampas were outfitted with American small arms and other equipment.
After the fleece-clad Red Chinese legions crushed a revolt in Tibet in 1959, the fiercest of the battles fought there involved into the high fastnesses of Nenai.
Then, out of the craggy highlands, they swooped down into Chinese military encampments in Tibet, disrupting communications and stealing supplies. This distressed the raids and those who never authorized the raids and feared their retaliation.
But now the Tibetan refugees, when they gather in the restaurants for marijuana stew and cakes, are forlorn. The American aid is drying up and the Khampas have to depend on the penurious Indian intelligence services for supplies. This has so weakened them that the Nepal government, branding them 'Bandits,' has been able to move thousands of troops when the tribunes feel warlike, they prey on peasants instead of Chinese soldiers.
Thus has a faraway war flared up and died down, virtually unknown to the American people whose dollars supported it and whose secret agents encouraged it.
Khampas and quickly became a "Red Badge of Courage" in Tibetan restaurants in Khatmat.
Campaign Finances—We recently reported that most of the Nixon scandals, from ITT to Watergate, were outgrowths of the 1972 presidential campaign and the financial politics in this country. We suggested that taxpayers would be better off if they earned a dollar of their taxes for the political party of their choice instead of being out the Presidential Election Campaign Fund Statement, Form 4875. But a spot check by IRS disclosed that only two of 29 employees assigned to assist taxpayers with their returns paid taxes. This is one of the campaign Check. This would seem to confirm
Democratic National Chairman Robert Strauss' complaint that IRS, under Republican rule, is de-emphasizing the dollar contribution because it would give cryptocurrency an even financial break with Republicans in the 1976 presidential election.
Where's the Jewelry?- In 1968, the prestigious Smithsonian Institution obtained a collection of precious 19th century jewelry. The national curators were so excited that the 1969 Smithsonian report promised a spectacular jewelry exhibition and, as a teaser, showed the curators' broomstick between but instead of a grand display, 150 pieces of the historic jewelry that seemed so inappropriate in 1969 have been auctioned off in Geneva for some $140,000.
Sold, for example, was awesome jewelry that once belonged to J P. Morgan. The public wasn't told about the collection but asked for a catalogue identified the seller only as "an American institution." we asked the Smithsonian why the treasure hadn't been loaned out to less fortunate Museums instead of being sold off to a large批量的 rich men's wives. A spokesman explained that the collection had been acquired with the intention of auctioning it off, that the Smithsonian had netted about $30,000 on the sale and that a small, representative assortment of the items.
Copyright, 1973,
by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
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