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Thursday, February 15, 1973
University Daily Kansan
KANSAN
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Racism Revisited
We all know about, or at least have heard about indirectly, the numerous transgressions and atrocities committed upon blacks in this country during the past three hundred years: the lynchings, shootings, beatings, rapings, maimings, threats . . . , the list goes on ad infinitum, as do the casualties.
But the black has come a long way since those days. In fact, he is to the point where political and economic individuality and independence are very much within his grasp. Realizing this, blacks the world over have formed a coalition dedicated to the eradication of capitalism and racism. The former I will not comment upon; the purpose of this writing is to comment upon the latter—racism.
Remember the old days when segregation was in its prime and there were "colored" water fountains and "white" water fountains, "colored" restrooms and "white" restrooms and even "colored" commodes and "white" commodes? Those days are gone (but not so long ago; about ten years past) and so is Jim Crowism, to a large extent.
But the black is still not even with his Caucasian counterpart. Enter the black coalition. One of its stated goals is the elimination of racism, a good and noble cause. The question that comes to my mind is: How is the coalition going about attaining that goal? Ironically enough, from what I've seen, they are using segregation as their prime mover.
Strange weapon, segregation. It implies the inferiority or superiority of one group over another. The black has been fighting segregation for about 100 years (it didn't become a widespread policy until the 1890's); now that he's seen some light in his up-to-this-point dreary and ominous history, he's turning around and
retreating into the depths of the social injustice and indignity that he just spent one hundred years fighting through.
As a "former" black (I say "former" not because it's the way I think of myself, but because its the way my black brothers and sisters think of me), I think that this method of attaining black independence, social justice and self-reliability is a poor one at best.
Black students congregating in dormitory cafeterias make it a point to display to everyone within listening distance who they are and what they think about the subject of "honkies." In some dormitories heckling of individual whites by groups of black students is common practice. Even heckling of fellow black students who may not be as "aware" as the rest of the group is not above reproach—and all of this for the abolition of racism?
I find it very difficult to believe. One does not fight a fire with a flamethrower. And what does the future hold for 'this regressive move? For the black militant it means control of the world by oppressed blacks. For the black coalition it will mean a dream come true—or at least half of it. Capitalism may or may not be abolished, but at the sacrifice of the abolition of racism.
But that's okay; I don't think blacks really wanted to abolish racism in the first place—just reverse it. For me—well, I probably wouldn't be around. I'd leave—assuming I didn't conveniently "disappear" first. I am just as adamantly opposed to black racism as I am to white racism and I will refuse to exist and keep my mouth shut under either one.
—Gregg DeLonnie Smith Guest Editorial Writer
Jack Anderson
WASHINGTON - Presidential press spokesman Ron Ziegler has described as "wrong, wrong, wrong," our report that the White House has instructed the Justice Department to nail" us.
Yet after the Jan. 31 FBI raid on Adams' apartment, Hyten signed the criminal complaint, charging him with possessing stolen documents. Our FBI in formals say the FBI was really laying for us and timed the raid to catch Whiten in the net.
For weeks, Indian leader Hank Adams had been trying to arrange the return of the team he had taken from government files. He had managed to secure a few papers and other stolen items, which he turned over to the FBI. He was also given a receipt for them on Dec. 11.
Adams' role as the negotiator, merely try to return the stolen documents to the government, was well known. The respected Indian writer Vine Deloria, author of *We Talk, You Listen*, and "Caster Diederle Your Sins" also involved the people of the involved in the theft knew that Adams wanted to return everything.
There is pictorial evidence that the FBI's undercover man, John Arellano, knew it too. For an unshown ABCD TV film depicts Arellano, in his Indian pose, siting on a balcony, when Adams announced the documents would be returned "in a short period of time."
We will be happy, if Ziegler is correct to accept Pressure Nixon's apology for jailing Les Whittier while, that Whitten was arrested and his notes ripped out of his hand while he was covering a story for this column. We also evidence that his arrest was a setup.
He was charged with possessing stolen documents and converting them to his own "use and gain." But here's the real shocker. The FBI knew the agents' agonies pounced on him. Here are the facts, which we can now document;
Reporter Was Framed by FBI
An ANB film crew for the "Reasoner Report" set up their camera in Adams' apartment not far from the White House on Jan. 18. The producer, Aram Boyajian, told us that a number of Indians are shown clearly in the movie, and none other than the FBTs informer John Arellano, who was listening as Adams spoke.
Boyjian read us Adams' exact words from the transcript: 'We have some information on the nature of the documents that they were written in, and these documents also will be returned in a short period of time. And then the government will continue to lie. They'll say, you know, they weren't really written or some were still missing.'
The incident is also recalled by two prominent Indian journalists, Richard LaCourse and Tom Sweeney. The FBI undercover man) was only four feet from Hank when he was talking about getting the things back," said LaCourse. And also recalled Adams' words.
This evidence of the FBI's duplicity is supported by massive additional documentation about Adams' innocent role as the middle man trying to persuade his more militant Indian colleagues to give back the stolen papers. From the White House on Wednesday, government officials about retrieving and returning documents. Here are just a few of the witnesses who are available:
—A few weeks after the documents were taken last November, Los Angeles Times reporter Paul Houston spoke with the FBI. He admired the documents he gave him a large manila envelope to mail. Houston recalls clearly that it was addressed to the FBI with *admonition* address. The FBI knew, objections came from documents came from them.
"A New York Times story, featured prominently, reported that Adams told a press conference on Dec. 8 that the Indian papers would be returned "as fast as is humanly possible."
Agency Seeks to Define Truth
WASHINGTON -Of all the Federal regulations that I yet have read, and I have read thousands, the regulations issued on Jan. 19 by the Commissioner of Food and Drugs must be accorded a certain awesome supremacy.
These are the most autocratic, most arrogant, most infuriating orders ever decreed by a Federal agents, Commissioner, Governor, and detrites to establish by bureaucratic decree that absolute condition which has eluded mortal man since time began. In addition, Dr. Edwards and opinion, Dr. Edwards now establishes what is "false."
James J. Kilpatrick
He not only establishes the false. He also would require the entire food processing industry, and it was important to abide by his version of truth. He finds as a fact, for example, that "mineral nutrients in foods are not significantly affected by storage, transportation, cooking, and other processing." Neither is it surprising that soil nutrients or soil foods are grown in. After Dec. 31, 1974, any processor who implies any such thing may be sent to prison for false labeling. Dr. Edwards' regulations
the Federal Register. The new rules would require, in general, that all foods that are fortified or enriched must hereafter bear elaborate labels, printed in type not less than one-sixteenth of an inch high, specifying their precise percentages of what vitamins they contain. Recommended Daily Allowances' of vitamins and nutrients. Other regulations deal with dietary supplements.
My copy of the Register falls open at page 2147. These, if you would believe it, are findings of fact:
"There is no rationale for allowing the promotion of dietary supplements of vitamins or minerals in American population for the purpose of treating diseases or symptoms. . . Lay persons are incapable of determining by lay person's knowledge to vitamin or mineral deficiencies. Vitamin or mineral deficiencies are unrelated to the great majority of symptoms like rickets, malnutrition, and run-down condition. . ."
These are facts? Since when are they facts? To be sure, are they facts? To be sure, are assertions. Other experts deny them. If two and a half years of
earnings established one point, it was this: Nutrition is not an exact science. Dr. Edwards has no such humility. Thus he declares it flatly "false" that certain bioflavonoids have nutritional benefits and that they are "inherently misleading," and in no instance will it be permitten
The new regulations would forbid any processor to suggest or imply that "a diet of ordinary foods cannot supply adequate amounts of nutrients." The language echoes an earlier proposal that would have declared that vitamins and minerals are supported in daint amounts by commonly available foods." Dr. Jean Mayer, the noted nutritionist, called that proposal "meaningless, childish, fallacious, and silly," but here it is once more, in only slightly formed form, and becomes "misbranding" to disassess.
of primary concern to all consumers."
These sweeping edicts, you must understand, are for our own good. They are intended to teach us the importance of being of Americans." They are for the people's "own health and welfare." They stem from Dr. Jenkins' conclusion of law that "the development of nutrition labeling... has become
Primary concern? All consumers? The language accurately reflects the unmigrated arrogance of the regulations as a whole. Here the whole might and the majority are mindful that movement are behind an edict establishing "the proper use" of a fortified cake mix. The criminal law must be mobilized because "there are persons in the United States who are receptive to suggestions that human beings should be treated by using vitamins and minerals."
In my own view, the Food and Drug Administration has a responsibility, at law, to protect the public from fraud and contamination. But when that agency recklessly converts more opinions to "findings of fact" and to conclusions of law," and then consumers to determine their "primary concern," they are confusing bureaucratic power with divine power. We know how Dr. Edwards came to be Comprehender. It is not so clear who god.
after they had been copied for the edification of the tribes.
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LETTERS POLICY
--as a reporter. Whiten, of course, did not in steping the documents and at no time possessed them.
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By Jan. 11, Adams had dropped the idea of waiting for the documents to be copied. He would never refer to her in theference, as also reported by the New York Times, that he "would personally endeavor to obtain and return" the stolen document outside an outrage date of Feb. 16.
—On Jan. 24, the communications director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Tom Oxendine, has announced reconstructing certain BIA files, asked Adams whether he still hoped to get the documents back by mid-February. Adams, as well as the staff's in the process of happening."
- On Jan. 29, Adams personally informed Jane Wales of the Congressional Quarterly that he hoped to have the documents back at least by Feb. 10. She published the tip in CQ's highly-respected "News Features" report for editors two days later.
On Jan. 31, even as QS was informing editors of the imminence of the papers' return, Adams had a 10 a.m. appointment at BIA with Dennis Creech, an investigator for the House Appropriations Subcommittee. Adams planned to turn over the documents to Creedon, though he had also ordered plans. Thirty minutes before the arrest, Adams called Creedon to sav him "on the way."
Certainly, the FBI agents, who had been scurrying all over the country in a futile search for the Indian documents, read the press accounts and their own informer's reports on Adams' activities. They knew Adams was trying to collect and return them to the state, but they were rested the innocent negotiator, Hank Adams, after the first large stash of stolen documents reached him.
Their real object, of course,
was to nail Whitten, who had
persuaded Adams to let him witness
the return of the documents
Then what was his crime? He was enterprising enough to track down the documents that the embarrassed FBI couldn't find. He extracted the news from several documents and wrote the saga of the Broken Treaties Papers for our column.
Our stories told how the Nixon administration, like those that preceded it, had cheated and neglected the Indians. We reported the Indians as stripped government files. But we also laid out evidence from the papers that the government had helped white exploiters to steal the Indians' water rights, claims and other resources.
Whiten is guilty only of embarrassing the Nixon administration. The White House, apparal would like to make this a crime.
Copyright, 1973,
hy United Feature Syndicate. Inc.
Cattlemen, Conservationists Battle on the Lone Prairie
iy MARGIE COOK
Kansan Staff Writer
The existence of a Tallgrass Prairie National Park in Kansas is dependent upon the outcome of a controversy involving cattlemen and conservationists. Cattlemen want to use conservationists for the park as pasture; conservationists want to preserve one of the sites as a park.
The best tracts of tallgrass prairie remaining in the nation are in Kansas on the east slope of the Flint Hills. Two sites, each less than 60,000 acres or 94 square miles, are suitable for the department of the Interior to preserve as a Tallgrass Prairie National Park.
The Everglades in Florida, the Redwoods in California and the Deciduous Woodlands in Tennessee are examples of natural regions that have been set aside. Yet, no adequate samples may be obtained until they are preserved, and fewer areas are to be found each year, according to conservationists.
"The tallgrass prairie is as different from the other kinds of prairie as an eagle is different from a meadowwark," according to E. Raymond Hall, professor emeritus of systematics and ecology at the University of Kansas.
Hall, a former member of the National Parks Advisory Board, is currently serving on the park advisory committee established in April 1970 by park proponent Gov. Robert Docking. Hall is also a member of a new national organization, Save the Tollgrass Prairie Inc. The group's president is the president of the group whose goal is to promote establishment of the park.
According to Hall, the nation's three major types of grassland are shortgrass, midgrass and tallgrass. He said the Department of the Interior should prioritize to preserve an adequate sample of each.
Tallgrass once covered more than 400,000 square miles of the central lowlands of North America from southern Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, and east from the longitude of the Flint Hills to Indiana. Hall said less tallgrass prairie remained than shortgrass or midgrass prairie.
A bill Rep. Wiley Winn, R-Kan, submitted to congress in July 871 used the preservation and extension of taxation.
The animal population on tallgrass prairie is different from the population on other kinds of prairie. Eighty species of mammals, more than 300 species of birds and more than a thousand other kinds of animal organisms live among several hundred kinds of plants.
The Prairie National Park Natural History Association's pamphlet, which answers frequently asked questions, contends that preservation and enjoyment can go together. The association states that some camping and educational programs would be available to visitors who live in the park and would probably be provided outside the park. Roads would be limited.
region. His bill stated that the park should be established "... in recognition of the influence of the grasslands upon the progress and economic development of our country..."
No bill proposing the park has been submitted to Congress this session. However, Sen. James Pearson, R-Kan, will probably submit his bill, which will submit last session, according to Stouw.
Legislation for a Tallgrass Prairie National Park has always been backed by the Secretary of State.
When Walter Hickel, a native Kansan from Claflin, was Secretary of the Interior, he urged Kansans to get organized as quickly as possible. He said the Interior Department would not force a park if Kansans did not want it.
The park is opposed by cattlemen who question changing a productive area into a National Park. They contend that the best areas for the park are ideal and enduring grazing lands. Cattlemen already see their land as a park, and a productive one at that.
Park proponents who know the strength of the cattlemen's lobby argue that the amount of land wanted for the park is less than one third of one per cent of the state's total grazing land.
Secondly, park planners say that the industrial industry would benefit more from the park than any other business because of its location. The Mid-America State University Association.
In 1961 the Center for Research in Business at KU published a study by Glemm Miller Jr. about the economic possibilities of a then proposed site for the park.
The study said, "The anticipated increase in land value, together with additional residential and commercial construction that can reasonably be expected to take place, can be expected to more than offset an ultimate loss of taxable property."
The study said that a Prairie National Park would be one of the cheapest National Parks to finance and stated an economist's view that the park's size could allow low value on the park's amusement capacity.
An inmeasurable service, according to the study, would be to show Kansas in the historical setting of the overland trails, which had a major influence in the formation of the American character.
In the 1800's grass grew high enough to hide a horse and rider, Hall said. Elk and buffalo were the primary consumers of the tallgrass prairie, be said.
Today "for every two acres taken, one year's meat supply for one person will be lost" is the challenge of some cattlemen. Theirs is an important viewpoint in an evaluation of the park.
Finding an adequate area of tallgrass prairie to preserve has been studied since 1925. Then there were many suitable areas; today there are only two. The decision between park and pasture is imminent. The tallgrass prairie is almost gone.
Griff and the Unicorn
By Sokoloff
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