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Monday, December 6, 1971
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Comanche Change
After some first-rate protests from American Indians and the Committee on Indian Affairs, Comanche, the only survivor of Custer's column, has a new identification sign.
The former sign called Comanche the "sole survivor" of the battle. Needless to say the sign offended the sensibilities of the American-Indian element in the community. The sign has been changed to label Comanche the "Great Plains" of the U.S. Army and the Indian tribes of the Great Plains that resulted from the government's policy of confinement of Indians on reservations and extermination of those Indians who refused to be confined."
The new sign is about dignity.
It no longer ignores the fact that
there were, in fact, other survivors of the battle heroes and ones not.
the battle besides one lone nag, it is really such a small change but, in the end, probably a good comment on the nature of protest and compromise. The American Indians had a legitimate gripe. The museum officials apparently listened to the criticism and took some action. The demands weren't outrageous—just asking for some measure of recognition, and the action was appropriate.
Changing the sign on the Comanche display will not finally answer the problem of American-Indian exclusion—but it is a testimonial to the responsibility of those who lobbed for it.
—Tom Slaughter
read about Nixon's troubles"
Garry Wills
THAT AMUSED one of my relatives, who sent me The Greylee's column from a neighborhood where I once lived, amid bloce in the streets, grapes for sale and Gigi always on the turntable.
The Absurdity of Ethnicity
The Rev. Andrew Greeley, a sociologist, is a chauvinist Chicagoan. He even celebrates his role as the mayor in a better Mayor than John Lindsay—but what kind of praise is that?) Chicago is also Middle America, and "ethnic" (i.e., white, non-W-A-S-P) cops, coprs, and politicians—categories that tend to overlap in their imagines the outcome in Chicago.
Father Greeley's recent book—*Won't Can They Like Us?*-We don't want it. We simplemplemented the thesis that "ethnicity is a good thing." It is neithergood nor bad, but neutral-like white noise when one starts taking it with that special kind of reserved for sociologists.
It is no surprise, then, that The Greeley thinks my column does not take ethnicity seriously as it does the syndicated column. He thinks this is explained by the fact that I have not talked to ethnics, but only read about them—and he has also told the former activity for the latter.
but at least it had some tennesse hold on face—at least one usually recognized. The new racism judges men by the name names. Nothing seems to be normal.
So the new ethnicists have decided that the Berrigans' rebellessness leeds from less than one percent of their last name is Irish. That kind of argument could undercut all transcendent (trans-tribal) or presumably secularism, presumably the reason St. Paul spent so much of his ministry fighting that kind of arguing, either other Jeon nor Gentile" in Christ.
But The Greeley is even rusher than most ethnicists. With all his sociologist's rigor he analyzes the racial diversity of range of ethnic ties and contacts—all from what? Personal knowledge—No, he have been invited to speak. He has been spared that—for he confidently asserts that I have lived "exclusively among the alpha (non-ethical)," and has been a part of the "low-crage variety of human beings" all "the Polish, Italian, and Irish-American children and children of the immigrant."
That would be very strange if true—it would mean not only that I was contemptuous of myself and my forebears, but of my wife and my children. Or to speak in the silly fractions of the neeons, we would contain exactly "three-fourths" of each of my children.
NOW WHAT could he lead this scholarly minister of the Gospel to believe that the one only indicator he had, said, is that I satisfy him: my last name. It
meets to be W-A-S-P (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant)—and, rue, enough, my father is white and as is much whiter than 'Anglo-saxon' means as passes for resignation in this world of modern England. Catholic, not Protestant, that makes him only a W-A-S: I guess.
But I grew up much closer to my mother's parents, who were married a girl whose parents were named Cavallo and Dringoli (borry to you so much more), and they are a big deal to The Greeley). Ironically, the Greeley suggests that he read by reading an article—which goes against his earlier advice that he stop reading and start thinking.
Actually, I both read and talk to the man whose text he recommends. He doubts that I will read his book, but he wants me with the ethnic name of Novak (we must humor "The his last-name fetish"). Still, he asks me to read Michael Novak's book on growing up in a Catholic phoeto
I not only read it, but—seven months earlier—had published a book of essays about such ahetto. Between these two dates, Mr. Novak told me how I had appeared in Esquire; I knew this was not empty flattery when I found that his article repeated stories from mine, sometimes with violence.
AN EXAMPLE - from Esquire,
February, 1970. "We spoke a
different language of
men." Even when we did not
use different words,
we pronounced in a different
language than the passive
Saint Au-Gin-Tim.
One of my examples was a slip-I meant—TEM-plate, not TEM-plate-ful. But Mr. Novak follows along, slap and all, in his letter in September 1971: "We had a special friend of our own, our own pronunciation for words we shared in common with others (Augustine, contemplative)." So the Greeley is like myself—jus as when I read myself—jus as when I talk to ethnics, he is urging me to talk to myself and my family.
Of course, he did not know any or
someone else. He was so much the
Greely does not know. (If I were an ethnist,
the only way I could of me would
be med of him.)
And that is the point. The ethnic baggage is so much of silly beddings like one's own, it is rather late in history for us to start thumping their chests over the bed.
Copyright,1971 Universal Press Syndicate
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In response to a 1.3 per cent increase in general revenue from college colleges and universities, recommended by State Budget Director James Bub, we think it would be wise to look into ourselves and try to find what we have done to deserve the State Budget Director. If we can
find none, then we should stand up and tell the people of Kansas that they are treating us with injustice. The penalty for the straying state is strangling state universities' growth has yet to be determined.
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Of Smokestacks and Ancient Temples
THE HELLLENIC Shipyards began operations in 1956. It is today the largest shipyards in the world, with a fleet of $6,500 and fledgling at $4,500. By 1975, it launched the first in a series of six 300,000 tanker, the company Littoral, to serve as a plant spokesman. "We already are competitive with the
ATHENS—During the whole of the battle of Salamis, or so Herodotus tells us, King Ixus nerves at first and then at last. Aegeales, watching the fight in the bay below it, was the autumn of 480 B.C., and it was a bad day for her fleet. She set her fleet foot routed. And though he could not have known it, from his rocky grandstand and seat he saw one great turning points of history.
The hill is still there, just beyond Athens. The visitor who comes to Salamis today, nearly 2,300 years after Xerxes, enters the city and surveys the scene now. It is not exactly a turning point of history that he sees, but surely it marks a turning point for Greece. There are the triumphs of Eurypythea, shipwards of Stavro Nearchos.
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A mile or so away, in this building, finds the blast furnaces and rolling mills of the Halyourgik Steel Works. It is a fully integrated facility with mines and quarries and winding up with 350,000 tons of steel this year. This is small compared to the standards of Gary, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Birmingham, but its boost to the Greek economy
Japanese."
"HE WORKS a full eight hours a day for his eight hours' pay. He
The wage levels doubtless are a prime factor in the industrial equation by which certain Greek steaks can be invested in the capital market. Our own domestic equivale. Yet more than low wages and modern machines are involved, says Homer Lackey, American-born manager of the Hellenic Steel worker." It's "the Greek worker."
Greece is emerging from its millennial past with a witiness that astonishes people. The country for the first time predominantly urban. It is still a land of the incredibly rich and the powerful, and at one extreme, the farmer and fisherman at the other—but a middle class is growing of the young executives. One still hears the sweetness of the shepherd's flute; but one hears the brow
At Salonika, to the north, the same story is being written. A plant that produces goodyear plant. Organized in 1969, it now produces 800 tires a day—nothing at all in Akron, Ohio. The plant produces tires in an hour, but it means 200 jobs in Thessaloniki. Close by are the plants of Tahoe and Tucson in 1966, a $90 million operation producing 3.5 million tons a year of gasoline, oil, and chemical products.
By American standards, the Greek worker is miserably paid (and often less paid) week—but his wages have to be related to the cost of his rent, food and clothing. This is far from what happens in Greece is far from poverty.
learns quickly, even if he's just come off a farm. He takes great pride in his work, and this is why he knows anything I've known in the States. We have a union, but we haven't harrassed by union bossism."
It is unlikely, to be sure, that Greece ever will become a major competitor in world markets. The country is still far behind large. The significance of this bursting emergence is rather to be found in domestic politics. It is the result of the stomachs, and the more the present government succeeds in promoting industrial growth in the country, it becomes secure that government
If the industry of Greece is
becomes Through various in-
ventures, the industry engages
economic affairs as the Heilstein
Industrial Development Bank. The government is doing just that.
new, the charm of this land is old.
Pew places on earth can be closer
than those in the past. But dutys
like dutys wine-dark sea,
are a maintained between small
marbles.
ancient temples, Greece may yet enjoy again the good times that came with Pericles, after Xerxes had gone.
News Adviser . . Del Brinkman
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