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Thursday. February 13, 1975
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Indian rights due
The American Indian has been making a futile effort to contend with the United States government for nearly 200 years.
Many books on this regrettable subject have been written recently by Indians as well as by descendants of whites responsible in part for the near liquidation of the original inhabitants of this country.
The first important contemporary event that brought the plight of the American Indian to the attention of the American public was the occupation of Wounded Knee, S.D., in 1973. The more than 50 cases still pending related to offenses committed by Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee have been the concern of various civil libertarian groups. Marlon Brando has voluntarily assumed the duty to remind our society about the inequities that beset this seemingly forgotten race. Only a few weeks ago the Monenneine Indian Society ended its 31-day occupation of a religious estate in Greshan, Wis.
A significant event about awareness of the American Indian took place earlier this year when a U.S. District Court judge upheld Congress' abrogation of the Ft. Laramie Treaty of 1868. The treaty was a promise made by the United States to recognize the Sloux Indian tribe as sovereignty. The treaty did not decide that Indian tribes don't have complete sovereignty was based on "an unbroken line of decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court extending from the early 19th century until the year before last."
Despite the effect this ruling had on the Sioux nation's struggle for sovereignty, the judge's decision described a passage of American history that is worth mentioning: "It can't be denied that official policy of the United States until at least the late 19th century was impelled by a resolute will to control substantial territory for its westward-moving
people. Whatever obstructed the movement, including the Indians, was to be—and was—shoved aside, dominated or destroyed.
"Wars, disease and treaties pocked by duplicity and decimation of the buffalo by whites drove the Sioux to reservations, shriveled their population and disembowled their corporate body. They were left a people unwillingly dependent upon the United States."
The guilt that permeates white society today for the sins of our forefathers won't change the ugly history cited in the judge's decision. But the present American society has the obligation to make amends for the tragic state of affairs that continues to plague American Indians today. Sanitation level at the top in suicide and alcoholism rates and at the bottom in levels of personal income, education opportunities, housing and the quality of life in general.
It's too late to expect the United States government to renew sovereign recognition to Indians represented in this country. Twenty-four million acres of treaty lands are owed to the Shoshone in Nevada, huge tracts for the Sioux in the Dakotas and much more land owed to the Choctaw, Cherokee and numerous other tribes.
This country owes, however, much more than restored land can amount to. The benefits bestowed on United States citizens by our government should likewise be given to American Indians. It's obvious from the recent militant Indian uprisings that our society is unfortunately following the same indifferent path that was made by our forefathers. There shouldn't have to be occupations, destruction of federal government property and other uprisings by American Indians to get the proper remedies that this society owes them. —Stephen Buser
There is something a little sad and even a trifle frightening about the confluence of the presence of President Ford in recent days.
One headline says "Ford to run (in 1976) regardless of economy."
Naive Ford plans for '76
WHITE HOUSE Press secretary R. Nessen has dutifully explained that, while some Americans may have been more aware of the economy is good he will run, but if the economy is bad he won't run," that simply isn't true. Gerald Ford is a presidential candidate in 1970, come hell or high价, higher prices, Nessen explained.
The truly troubling thing about this is that Ford could be naive enough to make such a declaration at a time when half the world was falling in around him.
ITEM: FORDS proposal to save $650 million a year by increasing the price of food and housing to 74 by a 76 to 8 vote in the Senate. This came on top of a 74 to 38 vote against the President in the House, 105 Republicans voting him and only 34 voting for him.
Item: Even as Ford was strengthening his declaration of candidacy, the House was voting 309 to 114 to shoot down a major element of save-the-economy - save - some - energy program. On this vote to rescind his increase in oil import fees, expenses, and taxes, President, but 42 still voted against him in the face of passionate cries for party loyalty.
Item: While Ford was sending Nessen out to tell Sen Howard Baker, Ronald Reagan Nelson Rockefeller and other GOP presidential aspirants not to give their hopes up, 10,000 angry jobsless automobile drivers are denouncing the President as another Herbert Hoover, shouting vehemently that unless they get jobs they'll get another president.
One is hard pressed to think of less favorable circumstances under which an incumbent wants that he wants to be relected.
It would seem that a man who
public was beset by suspicions that the Democrats were playing politics with the nation's economic despair, so Ford had to benefit from pretending to be just a country
By Carl Rowan
Copyright 1973 Field Enterprises, Inc.
boy with no goals broader than discharging with credit those awesome responsibilities that marked Nikon feisted off on him.
talks publicly about always being in the top third of his classes at Michigan and Yale wouldn't need anyone to tell him that this is no time for him to express political ambitions beyond what has been thrust upon him. After all, much of the
It does not enhance public confidence in him (which already is at an embarrassing
low according to the later. Harris Poll) for Americans to see the President fiddling around in 1976 politics while 1975 threats to produce one of our great economic debacles. Someone around the President simply was aware that on the issues where Ford took leadership, it got less support from Congress than any first-term President since Congressional Quarterly began keeping score 22 years ago.
Ford won only 58.2 per cent of the Congressional votes that mattered to him in 1974. Nixon cut it off in 1973, but was not a first-terrorist.
THE DISTURBING thing about FDR, however, is that some of his losses occurred under his administration or issued vetoes, on matters
where he knew he had to lose. A conservative Republican pointed out that the recent debacles over oil prices and gas prices have made because the Congress felt Ford was insisting on "anti-pope programs." These members of Congress know you don't help a minority party and you don't need programs that seem to disregard callously the basic needs of human beings.
IT ALL ADDS up to a spectacular gauche performance on the part of President Ford. And whatever his grades may have been at Michigan and Yale, it has revived talk about whether he is intellectually bright in the world's greatest nation out of perhaps its second gravest economic crisis.
Draft fighter news
Sen. Edward Kennedy has recently released the complete list of all known draft resisters facing federal prosecution to two selected nongovernmental counseling agencies, the Clemency Information Center and the War Resisters Information Program in Canada. The list contains the names of all men either charged with or under investigation for draft evasion committed during the Vietnam War.
According to the Clemency Information Center, any draft resistor who registered and isn't on the list is free from prosecution and isn't required to go through President Ford's clemency program. The 4,400 men on the list aren't necessarily guilty of any offense. Many of those who were dropped as investigators are or merely under investigation. In the last two months, 1,900 cases have been dropped as not prosecutable.
The list was prepared by the Justice Department at the request of
Sen. Kennedy's Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure. It covers alleged offenses committed between Aug. 4, 1974, and Mar. 28, 1973, the official dates of the Vietnam War. Chuck Briggs, director of the Clemency Center, stated, "Up to now the only person who was in charge status was to contact the U.S. Attorney who would prosecute him."
The Clemency Center, a counseling project of the National Council of Churches, will inform interested individuals, their families and others whether the draft resister under question appears on the list.
The Center provides information regarding their status, their options under the law and referrals for competent counseling in their area. The Clients Information Center may be reached by calling 317-635-8259 or writing to 1100 West 42nd St. Indianapolis, Ind., 48208.
Readers respond
Stephen Buser
To the Editor:
I am writing in reply to the letter from Craig Heatwhele which appeared in the Feb 4 Kansen. The letter was in regard to the proposals of the parking board to lower the temperature lots and to increase the prices for nermits to the other lots.
HEATWOLE WAS DISPAINED by the proposals and suggested that more extensive changes be made. Two of his reasons were "X- and O-zones" because the rates for parking in these zones are reasonable compared to the cost for permits for other zones," and "Even the untrained eye can observe that all descriptions are running about half full on the average."
I WOULD BE very interested to learn where Heatwould his permit prices and what times of the day he observe the
SHREVEPORT, La.-Head enough ofough and dloom? Had your fill ofheavy stuff? Then consider, if you will, the times of Ernest Palmiso. The story has a moral to it.
Slums'diner prospers
The gentleman is the sole proprietor of Ernest's Supper Club, Inc., at 518 Commerce Street in downtown Shreveport.
Shirewood went to work, and while much remains to be done, an amazing start has been achieved. A new convention center will add fresh impetus to the area's development. Even
for atmosphere. Most of the old waterfront buildings were structurally sound; they could be brought back to profitable life.
Until a few years ago, the waterfront neighborhood was little more than a slum. Its old warehouses offered shelter for rats and buns. No one came to Commerce. Street by night.
(C) 1975 Washington Star Syndicate, Inc.
By James Kilpatrick
BUT A FEW persons had imagination. Perhaps they knew what San Antonio and Denver and Atlanta had done with comparable neighborhoods. They saw a chance
on a dark and rainy night last week, Shreve Square was humming with the convivial sounds of good jazz and good times. And squarely in the room, the renaissance one could find the local institution known as "Mr. Ernest."
"half full lots." I am a part-time employee of the KU parking services and I would agree with him on both points.
He started earning that reputation as a boy of 11 in his native New Orleans. There his father ran an establishment in the city, where he entreprise: a root beer bar parlor in front, a speechie in back. Young Ernest began at the dish trough. After a while he met a girl, then to wait; then to barter cook, then to assistant cook.
AT 64, HE HAS the trim figure of a tackling dummy and, except when he smiles, the sad
TODAY HE OPERATES a restaurant that draws customers from hundreds of rules away. It is a standing room restaurant. Shreveport is the best restaurant in Dallas. Every week brings planoelands of hungry fans from New Orleans, Memphis and Jackson. The restaurant serves 500 a night; most Saturdays he turns away twice that number.
face of a St. Bernard. How did he get so big? "Tasting." Most of his working day is spent in his spotless kitchens, eternally tasting the sauces that sustain his reputation.
First, parking permits for X- and O-lots are $25.70 a year. This is exactly the same for all other zone permits, including those that allow entrance to campus and universal parking facilities. I question calling the rates for X- and O-zones more reasonable than for other zones. And in case Heatwheel was referring to the 20 cents toll charge, I must add that while working the toll stations in both zones, I have been taken much times in simple, often proximate, situations that the toll was definitely not reasonable!
Three ingredients have produced this success. These are work, hard work and even harder work. About 10 o'clock
every night, an insulated truck starts a six-hour run down to New Orleans. There Ernest's agent hangers over the every fresh fish; he buy nothing that has ever been frozen. He buys fresh crabs and shrimp, fresh vegetables, specially baked bread. By early afternoon, the Street. In white apron and billowing chef's cap, Ernest descends upon the kitchen like a great cumulus cloud. His aim is perfection.
Parking rates praised for fairness
Connie Nusser Sylvia Junior
HE COMES remarkably close to achieving it. A typical dinner begins with a platter of claw crab swimming in an oil and vinegar sauce. If guests fail to sop up the leftover sauce with hot bread Ernest instructs to add a lemon juice by a shrimp cocktail with a special tart sauce of its own. Then a faring crab soup, rich and spicy. Then a salad of Louisville lettuce (flown in twice a week). Finally an entree of red fish topped by lump crab. Dessert for those not yet stupeffed. In 30 years as a roving reporter, I have never hit anything better.
IT ALSO HAS been my experience, during the course of ticketing, to discover that most of the other zones are full or nearly full, contrary to what Heatwolte suggested. This particularly is a problem in the hills where the horses many times there isn't even enough room for cars with proper permits to park, and the problem is only made worse by violators.
The proposal by the parking board will definitely not solve all of KU's parking problems, because of the loss of X and O-lot permits only farin because they are farther from campus. And it is hoped, the higher cost of the parking system, the creased toll at the toll zones
And as for Heatwole's suggestion to turn over the "unused" zone space to buildings and grounds to make into parks, I'm afraid he'd have to look an awfully long time to find enough space for even a small park.
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might discourage the use of these zones unless absolutely necessary (and I don't consider driver from Stoutfer Place or Daisy Hill to O-zone absolutely necessary; but me it happens quite often).
The plethora of anti-abortion letters and articles appearing in this paper recently seems to have reached epidemic proportions. Steve Buser's campaign was the crowding touch to an unfortunate trend, and I feel that a reply is in order.
To the Editor:
Ant-abortionists, as exemplified by Buser, like to think of themselves as pre-life, a little more sensitive than we are, denied their proper coverage in the media. They try to put across a picture of humanitarian care for the preservation of life or born or unborn." But when it comes down to dust, what they are in reality trying is to impose their definitions of human life upon them and I find this to be inexcessible.
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I WORKED IN A Canadian birth-control abortion-referral center, and I saw too vividly the hardship, despair and even death that restrictive abortion laws engender. Maybe Buser can dismiss these problems in a paragraph. I can't.
Furthermore, as a woman I have enough pride to be outraged at the suggestion that my right to abortion is related to population or anything else but my own choice. "Control of our bodies" isn't just an empty phrase; it is the statement of a rule that will not take 'no' for an answer, inside or outside the law.
I'M NOT WRITING this letter in a futile attempt to win over Buser or others of his persuasion. I underwent 15 years of Catholic indoctrination just as he did, and I know how few of us were able to accept it. I remind the brave, compassionate men and women who fought and defeated the abortion laws of the past that they
must be watchful. Wealthy and powerful forces such as those behind the anti-abortion crusade don't give up simply because a law is changed. Gains can be reversed, and as one who has had restrictive abortion laws, I urge concerned people of this country not to ever, ever allow this to happen again.
Dine Start
Ottawa, Ontario Graduate
Student
Concerning the story "Funds available for foreign study" in the Feb. 7 Kansan, it is reported that "the program in Costa Rica is now cheaper because students no longer leave the country for graduate studies. Although I admit that Costa Rica is fairly isolated, to the best of my collection it is not an island.
Island error To the Editor:
James P. Conard Lawrence Junior.
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Jenkins, give me a nice newspaper ad apologizing for the 800.000 ton oil tanker that smashed into the offshore oil rig, tipping it over onto that oil barge causing it to collide with the sewage dump.
ing tanker that then lost control and...