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!Graduation speech
It is indeed an honor to stand before you on this sultry
ievening and see your inquisitive, intelligent, sweaty little
faces still yearning for more knowledge.
i I sense a thirst out there and I assume it is a thirst for
imore of the distilled information provided by the sacrifices
!of your parents and the other taxpayers who have ponied
,Up the dough to keep you within these expensive walls for
ithe past twelve years.
And that is why 1 am here. Because I am a successful
i, businessman, I have been chosen to tell you what lies on
'the far side of the hill, to coin a phrase, "where the grass
!lies greener still."
You have been crammed to the ears with the best
education money can buy and it is now time for you to go
out and get the best money education can buy.
I hear a murmuring among you. Perhaps you think you
:were educated to perform good works, not grub for money.
J:orget it. We didn't spend all that loot to send a bunch of
7nissionaries out into the world. You don't have to learn
:nothing or ride on no $70,000 school bus to hand out
iockey shorts in the jungle.
:. Get this straight right now so you will remember it
:tomorrow morning after the party. You are now prime raw
:meat for the labor market. You have been educated so that
:you will understand the orders given you by the computer
:that will be in charge of the place where you work.
Some of you, it is true, will go on to college. There is
nothing wrong with that, if your parents can stand the gaff.
It is only' at-college that you can acquire the jargon and
Superohous demeanor that are necessary if you wish to
labor in the professions.
And here, again, the taxpayers are happy to pick up the
lab for your education. All they ask from you is a little
obvious groveling and a winning football team.
They are willing to pay for your professional training
because they accept the fact that someone must chase
mnbulances, perform unnecessary surgery, keep double sets
Of books, and write obituaries for the New York Times.
I notice you are beginning to get restless. Stick with me
for just a few minutes more. You guys in the back put the
bottles of wine back under your robes and I'll tell you
what 1 came here to tell you.
On that far side of the hill lie two labor markets. One
is private industry and the other is government. You will
work in one or the other.
Here it comes, you y. This chamber of commerce
booster in his necktie and doubleknit suit of armor is going
to give us a long harangue on the virtues of free enterprise.
Wrong. It goes against the grain, but I'm going to level
.ith yo,little incipient wage earners.
govermnent.
The wages are better. The fringe benefits are better.
You will get more holidays, longer vacations, and
advancement through no effort more strenuous than
greeting the dawn of another day.
In 1955, federal wages, as a percentage of private
industry wages, totalled 121.3 percent. By 1974, that figure
had climbed to 143.4 percent, nearly half again as much
pay for federal workers as for' their counterparts in private
industry.
You find that hard to believe? You've been
brainwashed by the phrase, "public servant," with its image
of underpaid wretches toiling in uninspiring jobs for the
benefit of their fellow citizens.
It's time you altered that impression. The public servant
is now the taxpaying sucker who coughs up more and more
money to feed these proliferating members of a new
wage-earning elite.
Average annual earnings for the federal worker
increased from $4,802 in 1955 to $14,111 in 1974, while
the private industry employe achieved a gain from $3,959
to $9,840.
My advice to you, then, is get your feet in the trough.
Your parents, your teachers, the taxpayers who financed
your education all want the best for you. So go get it.
Some of you, I know, will ignore this good advice. A
few of you will tend lepers, others will go to work for
private industry. One of your number might write poetry,
or maybe even prose.
That's no skin off my nose. I've done everything I can
to set you on the right track, plant your feet in the same
direction and aim your eyes at the bottom line.
Ever onward, ever upward.
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The moves behind Gillingham resignation
Attack the waste
Edi?u?elJa°trn:itorial was H::e:h'afY:nU tvr
agnificent, but you appear to presses, you should 1. 1
e fitted with telescopes instead that business about !
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of glasses. Farsighted, l think board ,'brainstormmg=/
they call it. ' needs' of the prime
You hear only distant drums, confusion, Mr. SanderS!
fire at only the farthest targets, The idea is very l
when the enemy is close at since the equipm¢nl,
home. If only you could be present. It isanalogougt°l'
Ever since the Shelton
School Board meeting May 9,
there have been questions as to
what happened in the resignation
of Betty Gillingham, principal of
Mt. View School.
After taking care of a few
items of opening business, the
board received a list of
certificated staff members from
Superintendent Louis Grinnell
whom he recommended for
employment for the coming
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The
pitch
By DAVE AVERILL
Even before he grinned and
told his first off-color story, you
could tell the guy was a
salesman.
He knew the rules.
"Never extend credit," he
said, "to candidates for public
office or to members of the
clergy."
"Get cash in advance," he
said, "from any male customer
who wears a diamond ring."
"Never take a drink before
11 in the morning," he said,
"except on Fridays and
weekends."
But what was he selling?
What brought him out here to
the woods, his smile wreathed in
cigar smoke, his Cadillac
gathering dust in the parking lot?
"I'm selling a product that's
a real challenge," he said. "I'm
out working in the vineyards for
a second term for Governor Dixy
Lee Ray."
Had we read about the
fund-raising efforts for the
'governor? Were we aware that
the governor's friends are already
urging her to run? Yes, we had.
Yes, we were.
"Well, I'm one of the
public-spirited volunteers who
are putting it all together," he
said. "Granted, it's a real
challenge to salesmanship. The
governor has stepped on a few
toes, and even a few ankles and
knees. But she's solid. She's true
blue."
How are all those
public-spirited volunteers going
to sell a governor who alternates
between picking fights with
strangers and firing members of
her own staff?.
"Listen, people don't pay
much attention to that stuff,"
said the salesman.
There's more, too.
"We're counting on the
Republicans," he said. "No
matter what Our Diy does,
they'll manage to do something
worse. They're our secret
weapon. Sooner or later, we
know they'll come through."
EDITOR AND PUBLISHER ...................... Henry G. Gay IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!IIIIIIIlUlIIIIIIIII
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persuaded to report the real Festival inTelAvivill :r# p..l I
events at the SheltonCourthouse, I do hope you to 15P:,
to attack the waste and 18-inch rifles
dishonesty, howitzers, or even naort,i
CUBAN NtD The Belfair Beobachter is ggltll
FeN4L/. ; beyond recall, has turned into a
flyer for the school board, i
Editor, The Journal: The sinner ssn't trying to
This is for all the Christians anyone. "01
who wonder why the churches turns me on - but y0t ' .lil
are getting empty and the people
turns me off. dll!l,,
don't want to go to church. Alice ,:
It's because of all the gossip
you Christians are doing. You Route 5,
talk so much .about the other
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people and butt into the Warnnng
concerns of other people and it
is really none of your business. ....
If you would learn to mind your ; 1
own business and leave other Editor, The Journal: i'
people's business alone, there After returning froZn°
to Seattle, we found
would be far better unity for eye had been injure2 il
school year. since the resignation in effect whether they were for or against everyone.
At that point Mrs. removed her name, along with Mrs. Gillingham. To have done You gossip, backbite and followin morning tla! 1
Gillingham rose and asked if she the others who resigned, from otherwise would have placed the some go so far as to lie about informed by the v,
could make a statement and was the list before the board took board in the position of having other people, someone had shot hi. a0i
recognized by Dr. George action, voted to dismiss or retain an Then you wonder why I would like t'tl [
Radich, chairman of the board. The board, when facing employe whose retention or people don't want to go to your attention to all the r0
She read a letter from questions from the audience dismissal was never a question church. It's no secret to the the area that there !$ '0
Grinnell advising her she would both before and after the before them. sinner what you are doing; who has nothing be gOt'}al
be offered a contract for the executive session, did avoid For the board to have done you're not fooling anybody. But, with his time than to ,' ,i :
coming year• She then read a giving a direct answer to the either would have very likely least of all, you can't fool God. pet.
statement on the situation at the questions which sought a reopened a situation which had I feel sorrier for you Ms. VirginillP
school and followed that '"
by statement from the board on been resolved. Christians than I do the sinner. 'l
reading a letter of resignation. :
The board then accepted her
resignation along with others Congress joins cover up
which had been submitted before
taking action on the list of i
teachers to be offered contracts ._z
for
the
coming year. N
The large crowd, mostly By ROSCOE DRUMMOND barricadin a crucial avenue of investi ation It la d
g g " • 'oP "
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people from the Mt. View Leon Jaworski is having the same kind of trouble with it an amendment which would have cut $56 nadliC,.,
attendance area, attempted to Congress investigating Koreagate as Archibald Cox had with South Korean foreign aid Mr Jaworski had stron. ,
ask questions both before and the White House investigating Watergate .... ...... that this amendment be passed to make it .de_a
after an executive session whida ; ................. • . Korean Government that Congress was suppo!g;
When Watergate prosecutor Cox showed lmnselt too
was called later. • ..... - .....
aggressive in going after the facts, President Nixon fired m lnslstmg that it make former Ambassador lW !,.
appearedFr°m thetheyqUestions,did notit him. nOWjaworskiin Seoul,toldavailablemembersfOr cross-examinatiOn.of the House
understand what had happened. Now that Koreagate prosecutor Jaworski is intent upon Ethics Co[.
What they saw was a series putting enough pressure on South Korea to get the former and other congressmen that the bribery investigati°P
of pre.arranged actions which Korean ambassador in Washington on the witness stand to be "incomplete" without Kim's testimony. By a v°teq
brought the situation to a prove or disprove the reports of his own extensive bribing to 146, defeating the amendment cutting Koreala 'itp:l
conclusion without the necessity of congressmen, Mr. Jaworski is finding his superiors eager House has told its chief prosecutor that the invess :;i
• • ,,. ,,
will remmn mcomplete. ,.¢aadti
of going through the hearings to hold him back• By this action the House is making it rnore?j O,011
and court procedures possible The House of Representatives is less direct than Mr.
under the state's teacher Nixon was in removing Mr. Cox from the scene of the not impossible, to get legal evidence a°'ti
continuingit allowedC°ntraCtMrs. GillinghamlaW" to investigation, but perhaps" equally as good - or as bad - in congressmen(without namingt° names)Where thatAmbassad°rhe gave aKimtotal hof $650'1r1':I
resign from a position where it is the way it is immobilizing Mr. Jaworski.
to get them to vote the way he wanted. 'd 1
doubtful she could have Here is how the House went about its business of And now in helping to throw a shies f - -.
continued to function because of Ambassador Kim, the House voted exactly the
the opposition against her, but lunlnIIumnIln wanted it to vote. . ot,,;jl
with damage to her professional In other words, the South Koreans who dO ¢llO,l
reputation from the incident
which will make it difficult for Mack McGinnis' the truth to come out and the U.S. congreSSy¢rt'
her to get another school job Comedy.0000_.00Co00mel00t not want the truth to come out are acting in
It allowed the school Thus far the Korean investigation has beet,sdA.Ji
administration to avoid taking mostly on the wrong culprit, Tongsun Park. Tha it t
the final step in the procedures where the recipient politicians would like to se% Ip,]
outlined in the law for focused. Common Cause has noted that "the eli, Uilag.I
non-renewal of a teacher's lunIunllnllluulnlmllulnInllnnlunuu has heard Tongsun Park place a 'Congress for sa:€ "--€
contract, a recommendation that
her contract not be renewed. A friend visited Washington recently and aeeidantally misdialed a the U.S. House of Representatives." It woula e,l#'l
realize that there could have been no in fltse"
The administration almost telephone number. He happened to get a private line into the White unless there were congressmen ready to sell. f0 '
c e r t a in 1 y m a d e t h e House, and a male Southern voice answered the phone. "Is Fred testimony • €i
recommendation that she be Miller there?" my friend asked. "You must have the wrong number," In his lighthearted but damning be
offered a contract for the drawled the Southern voice. "There's no Fred Miller here." "Are you House Ethics Committee, Tongsun Park pictured !
coming school year with the sure?" asked my frieod. "Have lever lied to you?" a young Korean boy trying to make good io;i =
knowedge that the resignation (Ashley Cooper in Charleston News and Courier) Horatio Alger tradition. He said he just wanted t --d !l
would be forthcoming before the those who had helped him along his merry waY ',,r f0f11'
school board had to take any The television producer received a phone call one day and u voice had no thought of doing anything for his natiOa" !
action, said, ';I have four children that sing perfect barbershop harmony, government or for President Park Chung Hee. 0l
Because of the sequence of They are so unusual that I think you should have them on your But apparently, somehow, the congressmen 111°11€.I
the school board did not show." "What's so unusual about them?" the producer asked. 'Tm a munificent gifts knew whom the giver was serVill[,t t°.lg
events,
have to take any action one way talking dog," was the reply, otpo¢lt::
or' the other with the (Charlie wadsworth in Orlando Sentinel) wrOtepresidentthank-yOUof SouthletterS'Korea,n°t tellingt° Tongsunhim park,how :::ill/
recommendation for renewal of
the contract before it when the Word reaches us of a French restaurant that serves a positively generosity was helping his country. _.;ns O;l
If Congress succeeds in tightening the o:Z, P)
resignation was submitted. The exquisite warm cereal. It's called haute meal. J aworski's Koreagate investigation the way _iti0'¢ ,
board could then take action to (Minneapolis Tribune) tightened the reins on Mr. Cox's Watergate rv p0'
accept that resignation along
will be mterestmg to see whether Jaworsks q .,, tl
with others before taking action Much of the nation soon will be ill fed, ill housed and ill clothed. " " • • u,
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on the list of those whose The camping season has started again.
contracts were to be renewed (Mack McGinnis) the public where the new cover-up_ The ChristianiS commgb.cte,,f.r_°J
howard u. doing
by joe
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