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THE CLIFTON RECORD, THURSDAY, JUNE 30,1983 PAGE 2A
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^Ruminations*
. . .The scene is Montgomery,
Alabama, where nuclear freeze ad-
vocate Alan Cranston last week took
his campaign for the Democratic
Presidential nomination. The voice is
that of 33-year-old Diane Hawkins,
explaining why she had joined up
with the California senator's long-
shot quest.
“His definitive stand on nuclear
issues," she tells a newspaper
reporter. “I don’t want myself and
my children to die. I don't want the
whole world as we know it now to be
annihilated.”
. . .The scene has changed, as we
watch Pope John Paul II address
thousands of Poles, crammed into
every available space in St. John’s
Cathedral in Warsaw, while armed
security guards turn movie cameras
on those awaiting the Pope’s words,
in hopes of recording the faces of
those who harbor sentiments dan-
gerous to the state.
In his mass, the Pontiff tells his
parishioners that he stands beneath
the Cross, “together with all my
compatriots — especially those who
are most acutely tasting the disap-
pointment, humiliation, suffering, of
being deprived of their freedom, of
being wronged, of having their
dignity trampled upon. ’ ’
Later that day, at Czestochowa,
John Paul tells 750,000 young people
gathered for a special mass that the
Virgin Mary "understands your
sense of injustice and humiliation
and lack of prospects for the future.
Man cannot remain without a way
out..
The juxtaposition of the state-
ments uttered in Alabama and in
Poland last week produce a jarring
effect. On one hand, we have
thousands of people, daily living
their lives at the point of a gun,
without freedom or guarantees of
legal protection, exposing them-
selves to the eyes of the state to hear
words that will lift their spirits from
the ashes, while they defiantly wave
banners and signs they know full well
may mean their imprisonment, or
death, when the television cameras
recording their defiance leave with
the Pope, and their daily suffering
once more becomes forgotten by
those fortunate enough to live in the
West...
On the other hand, we have the
woman in Montgomery, who though
her personal freedom has never been
restricted beyond the point that it
might indiscrimantly harm another,
and whose homeland has not been
scarred by war in more than a
century, nor occupied by foreign
forces since 1812, finds her greatest
concern to be the possibility that she
and her children might die in a war. .
And then there is former Vice
President Walter Mondale, who in a
Washington speech the same week,
declares that the foremost responsi-
bility of any man occupying the Oval
Office “is to make certain we don’t
blow up this world.”
If, then, indeed, our highest
priority, our most solemn responsi-
bility, is not to die, and to "make
certain we don’t blow up the world,”
I off era suggest ion.
Surrender.
Unilaterally give up the weapons
that protect us from the fate of
Poland, Hungary , Czeckoslavia ,
Russia, East Germany, and the two
dozen other countries whose people
live daily under the crushing heel of
communist rule. Of course, we will
no longer be free, but we shall have
insured that we will continue to be
alive.
That is the logical completion of
the syllogism offered by those who
say, that, above all, at all costs, we
must not risk death by war. Forget
By Mike Reeder
the thousands who have died in the
wars fought by this country over a
period exceeding two centuries, men
who foolishly thought that certain
values, dearly held, were worth the
risk of dying, in order that those
values might be preserved. Obvi-
ously, since they died, they were
wrong.
But there is a catch that must be
considered. After giving up our
freedoms, after groveling before the
tyrants, after laying down our arms
rather than chance death by keeping
them — weshall all, still, die.
Name any mortal throughout the
length of history who has lived
forever, or who has not already died.
Once having granted the inevitibility
of that fate, the debate takes on a
different hue.
No sane person desires war. It is a
destructive, terrible thing, wasteful,
and impossible to ever fully recover
from. But to say that all things are
preferable to war, or at least
continued vigilance, is to say, for
instance, that allowing a Hitler to
murder six million Jews and estab-
lish world dominion is preferable to
opposing him; is to say that the
liberties we enjoy are not worth
defending; is to say that the people of
Poland should be happy with their
lot.
And to say those things is to truly
be dead, even though we continue to
“live.”
We are not the first people to face
this choice. We are simply the first
ones to be forced to deal with nuclear
weapons. But the bomb can only be
more deadly than a rusty knife if we
let it kill our sense of what makes life
worth living.
What we require is a prospective
missing in the current debate over
the nuclear arsenal which, for three
decades, has, if anything, prevented
a major war, and preserved the
freedom of those not already trapped
behind the barbed-wire fences and
guarded borders of those places
where no debate over nuclear arms is
allowed.
I believe this passage by William
F. Buckley, Jr., penned nearthetime
of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962,
statesthat perspective well:
"Granted if there were a war
today, there would be more deaths —
far more deaths — than were caused
by yesterday’s war. But what is the
meaning of that statistic to the
individual dead man? None — he
knows not whether he died alone, or
in company with a hundred million
others. What is the meaning for the
survivor? None that goes beyond that
abysmal grief of personal loss
experienced well before the nuclear
age by, for instance, the frontiers-
man's wife whose husband and
children were massacred by the
Indians. An individual human being
can sustain only so much grief, and
then bereavement becomes redun-
dant.
“It is necessary, when we listen to
a Norman Cousins or a Steve Al len or
a Sidney Lens or a Bertrand Russell
or a Kenneth Tynan going on and on
about the horrors and scale of
nuclear death, to force ourselves to
face explicitly what we know intui-
tively. And that is this: thqt if it is
right that a single man be prepared
to die for a just cause, it can be
argued that it is right that an entire
civilization be prepared to die for a
just cause...
"Better Dead than Red is an
inaccurate statement of American
positions, listing, as it does, non-
exclusive alternatives. Properly stat-
ed it is: Better to face the chance of
being dead, than the certainty of
being Red.
"Andifwedie?Wedie.”
Editorial
The Volker
Appointment
WHILE WE UNDERSTAND the
political and economic pressures
brought to bear on the administra-
tion to reappoint Paul Volker as
Chairman of the Federal Reserve
Board, we are no happier with the
choice, and lament the lost oppor-
tunity to effect an historic change in
the direction of this so-often mis-
guided and all-powerful agency.
VOLKER HAS IN recent months
achieved a near mystical regard
among those businessmen and
investors who continue to hold the
key to a sustained economic re-
covery. Although we feel his role in
setting the framework for the
recovery by maintaining tight sup-
plies of money has been overstated,
we nonetheless acknowledge the
importance of psychology as an
ingredient of business expansion,
and realize that the stability rep-
resented by Volker as chairman of
the Fed is a comforting psychologi-
cal boost to many investors.
THE PROBLEM WITH Volker as
chairman, however, as with his
predecessors, has been precisely
his unstable regulation of the
nation’s money supply. The best
possible thing the Federal Reserve
Board could do to foster a strong
and steady economic climate would
be to set a stable, modest, rate of
money growth, reflecting real bus-
iness expansion and increases in
population, and leave the darn
thing alone. As long as the
independent Fed continues to be
directed by men who believe that
they are somehow endowed with
the omniscient wisdom required
to finetune an economy as vast and
diversified as we have in this
country, the money supply will
continue to lurch from one extreme
to another, and the economy will
continue to lurch along with it.
NO INVESTOR CAN make intel-
ligent plans as long as the rate of
currency growth fluctuates wildly
with every short-range economic
indicator. When the time comes to
once more appoint a Fed chairman,
we would like to see someone
placed in the job who understands
the market’s genius for regulating
its own pace, and the mischief that
can be caused by interfering with
those market forces. In short, we
would like to see Milton Friedman
appointed, when the time finally
arrives for Mr. Volker to step down.
—Mike Reeder
Glasgow Sponsors Brucellosis,
Smoke Alarm State Legislation
AUSTIN — During the recent
special session of the state legisla-
ture, Senator Bob Glasgow spon-
sored a bill establishing a brucellosis
program and a measure requiring
smoke alarms in hotels and motels.
Additionally, the state senator
from Stephenville helped put an
amendment on another bill that
provided funding for a seventh
associate justice on the Fort Worth
Court of Appeals.
The brucellosis bill was sponsored
by Rep. Bruce Gibson in the House
and Sen. Glasgow in the Senate. The
measure was passed in order to lift a
threatened federal quarantine and
embargo by other states of Texas
cattle.
"Without passage of the bill the
cattle industry in Texas faced an
estimated annual loss ranging from
80 to 130 million dollars,” stated
Senator Glasgow.
The second bill sponsored by
Senator Glasgow provided that all
motels and hotels must have a smoke
detector in each room that is
regularly used for sleeping.
Glasgow said that this bill is in
direct response to the fire a the
Ramada Inn in Fort Worth this
month. He added that while laws
requiring smoke detectors in hospit-
als, nursing homes, and other
places, the state legislature had not
passed a measure relating to motels
and hotels.
Also during the special session,
Glasgow attached to another bill an
amendment that provided funding
for the salary of the seventh judge on
the Fort Worth Court of Appeals.
During the regular session of the
legislature, a bill was passed estab-
lishing the position of a seventh
justice on the Fort Worth Court, but
the bill did not provide for funding.
This amendment corrected this prob-
lem.
Senator Glasgow said that there
was some difficulty in located a
person who was willing to serve
gratuitously.
Steele Creek VFD
To Hold Fish Fry
By JOHNJEANES
Record Staff Writer
STEELE CREEK - The Steele
Creek Acres Volunteer Fire Depart-
ment has scheduled its tenth annual
fish fry and auction for this Saturday,
July 2, from 5-8 p.m.
This is the sole fund-raising event
for this volunteer group which serves
this small lake community in Bosque
County. The fish fry, which includes
all the trimmings plus dessert, can
be enjoyed for a donation of $4 for
adults and $2 for small children.
An auction of new and used
donated items will be held during the
fish fry.
The community is located on the
Bosque County side of the lake, just
off FM1713 near the Katy Bridge.
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ber of the National Guard Associa-
tion of Texas. He is also a member of
the Masonic Lodge #196, AF & AM
of Hillsboro, a member of Rotary
International, Clifton, and a member
of the Waco Management and
Personnel Association and the Texas
Safety Association. A certified train-
ing instructor for the Mind Safety
and Health Administration, he is
employed at Chemical Lime as
traffic, safety, and personnel man-
ager.
Waller was out of town at press-
time, and will not be available for
comment until after July 7.
Filing for the special school board
election will continue through July 13
at the tax office at Clifton High
School. Absentee voting begins July
25 and will continue through August
9, with the election scheduled for
August 13.
The unexpired term will continue
through April, 1984.
Seventeen
Hurt In Traffic
Accidents
BOSQUE COUNTY - Seventeen
persons were injured in Bosque
County rural traffic accidents during
May. No deaths resulted in the 19
accidents, according to Sergeant
Roger Kucera of the Texas Depart-
ment of Public Safety Highway
Patrol.
Rural traffic accidents for the
county for the first five months of the
year totaled 77. They resulted In two
deaths and 60 injured persons.
The 22 counties which comprise
Highway Patrol District 6A have had
2,450 rural traffic accidents so far
this year. They have resulted in 69
deaths and 1,453 injured persons.
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