The Charlotte News
Friday, February 20, 1959
FOUR EDITORIALS
Site Ed. Note: The front page reports that the Federal Aviation Agency had studied a picture of confusion in the airways this date following three near-collisions between military and civilian aircraft during the week. Two of the incidents had been reported the previous day and a total of 74 passengers had been involved. Meanwhile, the Air Force called for "more reliable facilities" for all aircraft traffic control. A Capital Airlines pilot had reported on Thursday that his plane had to dive to avoid a B-47 jet bomber 30 miles northeast of Charlotte. On the same day, an American Airlines plane had reported narrowly missing a Navy trainer near Indianapolis. The prior Tuesday, Eastern Air Lines had reported that one of its planes had to evade a B-47 near Chattanooga, Tenn., resulting in three of its 17 passengers being hospitalized. A pilot for Capital said that he was flying at 19,000 feet under ground traffic guidance, while a B-47 was on a training mission from Homestead Air Force Base in Florida. The Air Force said that the B-47 had been under visual flight rules and that civilian air controllers had been notified of the bombers in the Charlotte area. Capital said that its planes had been notified of the training maneuver. Under air traffic regulations, planes flying under visual flight rules were responsible to be alert for planes under ground control. The pilot of the passenger plane said that some of the 34 passengers aboard had been shaken up when he plunged the airliner 600 feet to avoid the bomber. The major who commanded the B-47 said that he was climbing as his plane passed within 300 feet of the airliner and that his communications had been with a ground radar unit. Aboard the American Airlines plane had been 23 passengers, when the plane executed a tight bank to avoid a Navy plane at 7,000 feet, according to the American pilot. In the Eastern incident, the Miami-bound plane had been flying at 23,000 feet on an instrument flight plan and the pilot said that he had not been informed of military craft in the vicinity.
In Washington, it was reported that the 19-year old son of Representative Steven Carter, a freshman Democratic Congressman of Iowa, had received about $10,000 per year for working in his father's office while he also attended college. Mr. Carter said that it was true that the student was his son and only 19 but was worth that much to him and the taxpayers. He said that his son handled such things as research and public relations, and made a radio report to the Iowa Congressional district once per week. The son was a freshman pre-law student at George Washington University, having transferred from the University of Iowa following his father's election. Mr. Carter said that he was not hiding his son's employment, that he had a nameplate on the desk which he occupied in the Congressman's outer office. He said that he had gone over 65 applications for the post and that his son had the most outstanding qualifications. He said that his son had campaigned through the Iowa district with him, knew the area and its residents and could express his point of view very well, also having an advanced interest in politics and legislation. He said that his son attended morning classes and then reported for work in the early afternoon, staying until the evening. If he had to miss classes to work for him, he would. The son's salary came from about $35,000 which the Government provided to Congressmen for office employees.
In New York, it was reported that the citizenship of Frank Costello had been revoked this date by a U.S. District Court judge. Mr. Costello, 68, was currently serving a five-year sentence for Federal income tax evasion. The Government had waged a long legal battle to strip him of his U.S. citizenship, claiming that he had obtained it through fraud and misrepresentation in 1925. The judge's action had paved the way for what was expected to be the Government's next move, deportation of Mr. Costello to his native Italy. The Government had tried once earlier to denaturalize Mr. Costello but the case had been thrown out by a Federal District Court in 1956 on the ground that the Government's evidence was "permeated with the fruit of illegal wiretaps". The Government had then tried again to achieve its goal, employing evidence which had not been tainted by wiretaps. Mr. Costello long had been regarded as one of the topmost men in the underworld, and at one time had been called its "prime minister". His voice had become familiar to many millions of Americans a few years earlier during the nationally televised New York hearings on crime conducted by Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee and his itinerant Committee. Only Mr. Costello's voice had been heard during his appearances before the Committee because of his demand that his face not be shown. Viewers occasionally caught a glimpse of his hands as he dueled verbally with Rudolph Halley, chief counsel for the Committee.
In Raleigh, it was reported that a bill to place a one-cent crown tax on soft drinks and a one dollar minimum wage bill had been introduced in the State House this date. The crown tax had been introduced by Representatives of Guilford County and Mecklenburg County, intended to boost state revenues by about 10 million dollars per year. The minimum-wage measure had been sponsored by a Representative of Randolph County, who said that the measure had more teeth in it for enforcement than a 75-cent minimum wage bill which had been introduced earlier in the session. His bill would exempt from the one dollar wage floor employers with less than four workers, farm workers, domestic help, newsboys, shoeshine boys, caddies, babysitters, theater ushers, pin boys in bowling alleys, traveling salesmen, students doing part-time work, and those whose pay consisted principally of tips. The Representative said that the State Department of Labor had informed him that more than 200,000 workers in the state were presently receiving less than one dollar per hour. Governor Luther Hodges, in his biennial message to the General Assembly, had urged the enactment of a State minimum wage of at least 75 cents per hour. Other new legislation included bills in both the State Senate and the State House to reduce the membership of the State Utilities Commission from 5 to 3 and to boost the members' pay.
In Raleigh, State Auditor Henry Bridges had reported this date the discovery of "certain irregularities" in the handling of receipts and disbursements by the Institute of Government in Chapel Hill. Mr. Bridges, in a special report, had said that the auditors had found that the Institute's "receipts were not being properly recorded, nor deposited in accordance to state laws, and second, disbursements were being made in an illegal manner." The Institute, an agency of UNC, served in an advisory and training capacity for state, county and municipal governments. The report said that because of the lack of internal control, the inadequate records of receipts and the loose manner of handling cash, the total amount of receipts could not be accurately determined. It had thus not been possible to make a final determination of the unrecorded receipts. The report said that state law required that all agencies collecting state funds would daily deposit them in some bank or trust company selected or designated by the state treasurer. It added that Albert Coates, director of the Institute, had "assumed full responsibility for (1) the procedures and acts of all personnel in connection with all cash received which was not deposited, and (2) all cash disbursements made from these funds." It said that since more than $5,000 had not yet been deposited from the receipts, it was necessary for the amount to be deposited immediately. and that Mr. Coates had agreed to make that deposit. It said that after the deposit would be made, Mr. Coates might present claims to the proper University officials, who might then approve reimbursement.
Bob Slough of The News, in the last of a series of reports on traffic accidents in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, indicates that a Charlotte Police captain had indicated that the driver of a car was the one who would be responsible for most accidents and that most accidents could be prevented. He had provided three tips for accident prevention, complying with existing laws, keeping one's mind on driving, and being courteous toward fellow drivers. The captain said that regard for speed laws would greatly reduce the number of injuries and fatalities stemming from wrecks. He indicated that during the last snow, they had about 40 wrecks and only one injury, which proved that speed was a factor in injuring people. When nobody was going fast, nobody would get hurt. He also said that most drivers were not courteous, that if they saw another driver emerging from a parking spot, they would not let the person out. Courtesy would play a great part in reducing accidents. He cited the Billy Graham Crusade of the previous year as a prime example, as everybody had emerged from it at the Coliseum in a good frame of mind, the officers observing a group of the most courteous drivers they had ever seen. (Fans of the losers in sporting contests probably were not so hot.) The captain said that preoccupation of the mind played a great part in accidents. "The driver's subconscious mind is driving for him. When that emergency pops up, he realizes he's been daydreaming." He said that in one instance, a school teacher had been so provoked with a student who had given her trouble during the day that she had left her car at school and walked home that afternoon, that when she got ready to go out that night, she discovered her car was not in front of the house, notified the police that the car had been stolen. But they had found it behind the school building where she had parked it that morning. He said that if she had been so preoccupied she could not even remember walking home, she could have gotten into her car and not ever have known it. The captain worked on the theory that accidents were caused occurrences by one or all of the drivers involved. Many plans had been proposed for reducing serious and fatal accidents, one being several years earlier from Richard Pitts, Civic Affairs director of the Carolina Motor Club, who had suggested a traffic safety school for those who violated traffic laws. The school worked on the theory that persons who broke the laws of the road could be educated to respect the automobile and to understand the causes of accidents. The idea had been to get the offenders together several nights each week to teach them better driving habits and they would be on probation from the court during that time. The proposal had met with enthusiastic support from all connected to it. The rest of the piece is on an inside page.
In Charlotte, a light snow had started falling just prior to noon this date and the weather man said that it might continue during the afternoon and night. The new forecast had been issued shortly after one had called for light sleet beginning this night. Weathermen were emphatic in their predictions that the snow or sleet would be of little consequence. But continued sub-freezing temperatures were predicted for this night, with a low of 22 predicted for the following morning, five under the morning 27, and a high of 43 expected the following afternoon. Skies would remain cloudy through the following day, according to the Weather Bureau.
Frieda M. Tardy, in this date's edition of "Lenten Guideposts", indicates that she had first met Rebecca Gooding when she had come to her door on a gray day, the last day of the old year, a year which had not been kind, holding more of the bitter than the sweet. Ms. Gooding had said: "This must be a beautiful place in spring and summer. That great old tree and your lilac hedge—and there'll be many tulips, I'll wager." Then, introducing herself as the Home Teacher for the Blind in Northern Colorado, she came into the house. She was tall and stately, a woman of timeless age. She had asked whether Ms. Tardy would like to come to her house for her Braille lesson, at which the author bristled. While Ms. Tardy was still battling with herself, Ms. Gooding rose quickly and was gone, and only then did she remember that she had asked her nothing about herself and had given her no opportunity for feeling sorry for herself. Since the doctors had told her that she would be blind within a year's time, self-pity stood always on the threshold, blotting out the inner vision of faith. Ms. Gooding had returned the next week and Ms. Tardy had gone with her for her first lesson. As time had gone on, her slow fingers had begun to pick out the tiny embossed dots of the Braille alphabet. Quite often, rebellious tears would rush into her eyes, but she began to love the afternoons when she had gone to Ms. Gooding's white frame house. In May, she could feel the lessening of rebellion and one day Ms. Gooding had taken her arm and led her through the back door to a rambling barn. There, in the storehouse had stood an array of looms. She handed her a basket filled with skeins of soft wool and spread before her a soft haze of creamy warp threads. She had touched them lightly and felt the vibration of music in her fingers as if she had put them on the keys of a piano. Ms. Gooding had then gently guided her until her first, slow uneven beat built up into a rhythm of beam and pedal, right hand, right foot, boom. Left hand, left foot, boom. As the rhythm became more even, it brought relaxation to her entire body, and as she swayed forward and backward, she forgot herself. "I wove steadily for hours. When my folks came for me that evening, I had a 30-inch rug. But it was more than a rug. It was a symbol of answered prayer, for on that day, faith again began to live inside me. At home we called it a prayer rug and I vowed that thereafter I would not sit idly in dark desolation, but that I would use my hands and my will to work." All that spring, summer and fall, others had come for weekly visits to learn Braille and she learned that there were many like herself, all blind. The remainder of the piece is on an inside page.
With April 15 approaching, The News would begin the following Monday a new series by the Associated Press, titled "Your Income Tax".
In Cheshire, Conn., police were looking for culprits in three bank robberies taking place during a two-week period. They admitted that they were short on clues. The latest of the robberies in the small town had taken place in a piggy bank, as had the others. Eight dollars had been reported missing from the home of one individual.
On the editorial page, "Plan To Merge School Systems Opens New Era for Metropolitan Mecklenburg" indicates that agreement on a master plan to consolidate the City and County school systems symbolized a new awakening in Metropolitan Mecklenburg County. Artificial barriers were being dissolved by a single community of interests and an increasing number of residents were becoming aware of the essential interdependence of the 275,000 of its population. It finds it a wise and healthy response to the necessities of the age.
The alternatives were complacency and stagnation. Unity in public education was one of the essentials of progress in the county and could not be put off any longer. The benefits of consolidation had been explored in the column for years and ought be easy to recognize. A single well-coordinated administrative unit could provide uniformly high standards with maximum efficiency and ease. In addition, with the perimeter areas to be annexed to the city in 1960, that area would not necessarily become a part of the City school district unless consolidation could be arranged to avoid a battle for the perimeter because of its high property valuations. To lose the perimeter would wreck the County school system, as it meant almost as much to an expanded City school system as it could not afford to be bottled up inside the present district lines. It finds that the only sensible solution was consolidation.
The previous night, there had been agreement on the basic principles of legislation which would be required to bring about the merger, with the burden of responsibility now falling on Mecklenburg's legislative delegation who would be asked the following morning to introduce a bill to pave the way for the proposed merger. If that measure became law, Mecklenburg residents would be asked later to approve a single countywide tax supplement for the consolidated system. At present, the City and County had separate supplemental tax levies.
It finds that the larger barriers to consolidation had been surpassed and that surely no one would wish to block progress now. Meanwhile, the members of the two school boards had earned the congratulations of the entire metropolitan community for laboring long and conscientiously on the proposed merger.
"No More Part-Time Leadership, Please" indicates that the "strong team" of second-stringers currently running the State Department undoubtedly deserved the praise of columnist Walter Lippmann and others who did not want Secretary of State Dulles to resign. The team's good report card, however, had been earned under a Secretary who was first, last and always, a do-it-yourself diplomat. Deprived of his strong and active leadership, the question arose as to how much could be expected of the Department's bureaucracy, with the outlook not reassuring.
Acting Secretary Christian Herter, it finds, was able, but was only acting, and in the coming weeks and possibly months, there would not be a fair test of his ability as he would be understandably inhibited without Mr. Dulles peering over his shoulder.
It agrees with Mr. Lippmann that no one outside the State Department's existing hierarchy ought be appointed as Secretary, but does not believe that the team could run itself without strong, effective leadership, and neither Mr. Dulles, the President nor Congress could supply that leadership on a part-time basis. It asks therefore why not give one of the able members of the team a fair chance to fill the void. There would be no call for sudden, dramatic policy shifts, not even one which might accompany a change of administrations. It is convinced that it would serve the best interests of the U.S. and of NATO for Mr. Dulles to be replaced at once by an experienced State Department person who could devote full time to the most demanding job in the Cabinet.
"A Black Future for the Black Shirts" indicates that State Attorney General Malcolm Seawell had mentioned in passing the existence of a small North Carolina band called "The Black Shirts". It indicates that a Salisbury-area gathering of perhaps a dozen of that group appeared to be a splinter group from the Klan, and Mr. Seawell had said that it was of the same general format.
Apparently, they gathered to plan dark consequences for those who had disregarded the principle of the Klan. North Carolina law enforcement had begun to surveil the Black Shirts and it predicts no bright future for them, suggesting that it might be well for them to remember James "Catfish" Cole and the Maxton Indian Massacre of January, 1958.
"The Black Shirts face being cast ashore on a little race-hatred island of their own making." But unlike the mutineers of the H.M.S. Bounty, the pitiful band would find trouble in propagating their chosen world and there would be no romantic footnotes in history to mark their struggle.
"Our Thought for Today" indicates that U.S. News & World Report had reported: "If, by chance, a single Soviet missile should get shot off and should destroy some American city, all-out war would not necessarily follow. U.S. would first want to make sure the shot was an accident."
Sounds like the Republicans this week trying to suggest that the war with Iran (or Iraq, as plumber-boy thinks it, one of the Ires) is not really a war at all, but rather a series of combat operations, to which Iran, or Iraq, as the case may be, has responded with war, thus justifying war in response. The Congress has not authorized any war, one started by His Highness, Der Fuehrer-Duce, for the sole purpose of trying to gain political points for his desperately failing domestic agenda, but without bothering to consult the American people, who are decidedly against his war, regardless of whether it's against Iran, Iraq, Venezuela, Minnesota or California. He remains simply a dictator. And his plumber-boy, nominated to be the new DHS Secretary, is no lead-pipe cinch or plumber's friend, but is as dumb as the refuse from the pipes he once fixed when they became clogged. Trump appears to like dumb people, as it makes him feel very smart to have to explain everything, including the meaning of some of the harder words they might encounter, such as "war" and "defense".
.The Trump Administration is kind of like this episode
A piece from the Christian Science Monitor, titled "Apology from Olympus", indicates that one of the projectors had broken down in one of the theaters with a curved screen and in only one respect had the space-age interruption differed from one in the horse-and-buggy age. An electronically magnified voice had come over a loudspeaker to express contrition, but sounding more like the voice of Zeus telling mere mortals that there had been a traffic jam in the planetary system.
It suggests that whenever there was a breakdown in a movie apparatus it seemed there were always throngs of children present and while it might have been wholesome for them to be reminded that even the awesome machines of the present times were only human, it would have still been more satisfactory for them to have had on the stage before them a real human being, who could try to explain the situation amid the delighted catcalls which used to greet the official of the nickelodeon on ill-fated Saturday afternoons.
"But one can't have everything." It suggests that perhaps the collapse of seemingly superhuman machinery was all one could expect for the price of admission in current times.
Drew Pearson indicates that members of the Cabinet had been revealing highly important facts about the American defense program which European military attaches in Washington had cabled in great detail back to their own defense departments. Meanwhile, the Justice Department had lowered a strict curtain of secrecy around the Alabama tax case pertaining to the former Governor, Gordon Persons, brother of General Wilton Persons, who was now White House chief of staff. If a newspaperman asked the Justice Department about that tax scandal, he was greeted with stony stares, as if trying to pry into atomic secrets.
The case had been considered by the Treasury Department to be airtight and was recommended for criminal prosecution, but almost a year earlier, on March 10, the Justice Department had refused to go along with that recommendation and marked the case closed. That meant that it went into limbo and gathered dust in the Department files.
The Department had an interesting record during the previous six years of prosecuting Democrats and not Republicans. Since almost everyone was a Democrat in Alabama and since the ABC liquor board appointees of the former Governor were Democrats, and since some of the money involved had gone to pay the Alabama campaign expenses of Adlai Stevenson, it was presumed that the Department would leap on the Alabama case with gusto. But just the reverse had occurred. The former Governor, when queried by the column, stated that he did not ask his brother in the White House to intervene, though he had admitted that some of the money involved had been spent on his behalf politically. The case was embarrassing to those in high places in Washington, despite Democrats being involved, and so the case had become super secret.
When the column's assistant, Jack Anderson, had approached the Justice Department, he had not been permitted to talk to Joseph Howard, chief of the Tax Division's Criminal Section, who had signed the letter of March 10, 1958, telling Treasury why the case could not be prosecuted. Mr. Anderson had also been refused access to Willard McBride, the hearing officer who had listened to the defense arguments of the former Governor's henchmen. Luther Huston, efficient press relations officer, had stated flatly that the case was "under consideration in the Department", and therefore no comment could be made. When Mr. Huston was asked when the case had been reopened, he had replied that he did not know. Mr. Pearson indicates parenthetically that it had been reopened the same week that the column had begun publishing the facts regarding suppression of the case. When Mr. Anderson had asked whether they would permit him to see Mr. Howard and Mr. McBride, the reply was that they would be happy to see him but that they could not discuss the case. When asked what the answer would be if inquiring about a less embarrassing case, the press officer said it would be the same. Mr. Anderson pointed out that when he had previously talked to Mr. Howard on the telephone, the latter had not refused to discuss the case but merely had insisted that an interview would have to be arranged through channels.
Mr. Huston had reiterated that he could not talk about the case and that the Department would not authorize him to discuss it. When asked who had issued the order, he said that it was Charles Rice, assistant Attorney General in charge of the Tax Division. Mr. Anderson had reminded Mr. Huston that the case had once been closed and asked what would be the rules if the case were not pending but still closed, with the reply having been that while the case was in its present status no one in the Department could discuss it.
He indicates that Mr. Huston was a former New York Times correspondent and had done a conscientious job in the Justice Department, was only carrying out orders.
Walter Lippmann finds that the decision of the President not to accept the resignation of Secretary of State Dulles, despite his illness preventing him from attending to his normal duties, was the correct one, as it would assure the world that there was continuity in the conduct of foreign affairs. While there were disadvantages in having subordinates in the meantime conduct foreign policy, it was hard to imagine a good alternative given all of the circumstances of the unique relation of Mr. Dulles with the President, his record and reputation and the fact that the country was approaching one of the many climaxes of the cold war.
He indicates that it was not time to think of appointing a successor drawn from outside the existing hierarchy of the State Department, as there were in place strong figures at the top, such as Christian Herter and Douglas Dillon, as well as others who had repaired not only the ravages of McCarthyism but also the political bumbles of the Republican Party after 20 years in the wilderness during the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations.
He finds that it was no mere accident that even before the Secretary's current illness, there had begun a marked change in world sentiment about him, a public opinion change from his indomitable personal behavior, reflecting a change in the temper and tone of his diplomacy. It was a response to the sign of "flexibility" which Mr. Dulles had judged to be prudent and desirable both in the Far East and in Germany. In those changes, the rejuvenated State Department had played its necessary part.
He regards it as the first reason why it would be a mistake to bring from the outside a new and eminent personage to head the Department, as there was no one on the outside who presently possessed the type of experience needed for negotiation in the current phase of the encounter with the Soviet Union. Such a person would inevitably be a novice and long before he could hope to master the situation in his own mind, the climax now approaching would have come and gone.
There was presently a well-qualified professional team in charge of the central issues in Europe and what that team needed was the confidence and advice of the President and the Congress. There was no one available from the outside who could do that better than or half as well as the President, himself, especially if Mr. Dulles was able from his sickbed to oversee the general line of policy for which he had set the direction. If it were a new Administration at the beginning of its term and if there were no climax abroad in Germany, the President might look around for a new Secretary who was a political power in the land, consistent with the old tradition of the office, perhaps someone such as former New York Governor Thomas Dewey. But at present, when knowledge and experience were so necessary and when there was such a good team already in the field, that was not the case.
A letter writer comments on the editorial book review of February 7 regarding Vice-Admiral Hyman Rickover's Education and Freedom, finding that it had left him with an ambivalent feeling of admiration and disappointment, the former by reason of several fresh observations in the complex field of educational philosophy, where he finds triteness to abound, and the disappointment because of the confusion arising from the multitude of key issues considered by the editorial. He finds Dr. James Conant to be wrong, that there was such a thing as "American education", which he finds well-characterized in the editorial's statement that it was "sunk down in progressive theory", which he believes was not really progressive. He indicates that no one was against truly progressive education, but in American schools, "progressive education theories" were established as "official" in practically all teacher colleges, and pedagogical books and periodicals had accepted it tacitly, with teacher examinations based on it. He finds that the product of it had been proven to be inferior, with reading retardation being an example. He suggests that the editorial and Admiral Rickover were correct in noting that despite the great importance of paying more for education, such would not suffice, for even if the inhibiting factor of financial impoverishment of education nationally were removed, there would still be a poor job of education if there were an incorrect philosophy and methodology. He finds it to lead to the editorial's discovery that the "'great debate' over American education has been mislabeled. It is not really a debate between classicists and educationists, nor between the old-fashioned 'tories' and progressives." He suggests that the numerous forms to which the battles in educational philosophy boiled down was that issue and that the proponents of either school were wrong. The product of the new system was no better than that of the old and the latter had been as culpable as was the new, with the latter arising as an antidote to the former, albeit unsuccessfully. He finds the presentation to be the essence of the confusion, rather than the old versus the new systems. He finds that the editorial's answer of motivation to be begging the question. He indicates that once the smoke was cleared from the sham battle between the old system and the progressive system, one could look for the answer. He posits that the real problem was to figure out and agree upon precisely what it was society wished to teach the children, finding it to be in the area of content and not method that the fatal confusion lay. To arrive at an agreement on the content would take all the wisdom of all people of good will who were interested in the problem of salvaging the educational system.
A letter from the chairman of the Mecklenburg chapter of the North Carolina Association for Retarded Children expresses appreciation to the staff of the newspaper for its editorials, announcements and news releases carried during the previous months, particularly for the editorial concerning their request of the County School Board for the use of Nevins School as a place for vocational, recreational and workshops for the mentally handicapped of the county. They had found that during the previous three years, their work with trainable, mentally retarded, there were many above the age of 17 who were in homes with little outside contact who could be helped in a vocational framework, perhaps unable to master basic academic courses but having possibilities in other fields. They were presently sponsoring in the City schools three classes for mentally retarded, trainable, persons between ages 16 and 17, for which they received from the State school system an appropriation of $33 per student per month. They were also directly supporting, with the help of the Southern Lions Club, a class of pre-school mentally retarded children at the Park Road Baptist Church. The church was doing a unique thing for the retarded children, holding a Sunday school department for all denominations, where the parents left the children and went to their respective churches. The Civitan Club was also supporting the work in the City schools as their project. He says that they did not want the public to get the idea that they were trying to take something away from the Civitans in the form of Nevins School, but rather were trying to show that Nevins could meet a greater need.
A letter from J. R. Cherry, Jr., indicates that on February 13, two "bleeding hearts of the liberal establishment", Edward R. Murrow and Harry Golden, had been brought together in "brilliant" chit-chat via the miracle of television. Mr. Golden had announced to the nation that his celebrated "Vertical Plan" for education was "effective". He says he is going to rush out and buy a dozen copies of Mr. Golden's book, as "a few of the boys in cellblock 29 are having trouble with their reactionary warden. It seems that the stupid fellow won't permit as much 'freedom and brotherhood' as the boys feel is their inalienable right to have. Freedom to run the prison, freedom to escape, and such trivial things as that, is all the boys want. (They are really good boys—haven't done much wrong—and it's our fault that they are in there anyway.)" He thinks that by giving each of them a copy of Mr. Golden's book, it might tend to soothe and ease tensions and there was always a chance that a copy would fall into the hated warden's hands, in which case freedom and brotherhood would run rampant and all would be right with the boys, the warden and the world.
It appears that Mr. Cherry has finally found religion and agrees with the liberal stance, has thrown off the McCarthy chains which have bound him to ignorance, incessantly having to push the rock uphill, for the previous decade or so.
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