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...nothing wrong with using a strap, and he certainly was a man with a conscience. "I spank my own children," said he, "and I'm somewhat ashamed the next morning when [the buttocks] turn blue." Cried Board Chairman George Whitman Jr.: "The state of Georgia has a law abolishing corporal punishment in prisons and on chain gangs. Do you think that this law, applying to hardened criminals, should apply to a partially blind twelve-year-old boy?" Answered Nelms: "The board has never ordered me to abolish corporal punishment...
...oratory lies the same isolationism which has marked his wing of the GOP for years, that the amendment is simply a bigger and better version of the wild attacks on the State Department. Unable to succeed straightforwardly, Bricker and his colleagues have launched an oblique attack, seeking to abolish foreign entanglements by abolishing the power to make them. They ignore the fact that the conditions which doomed their views when made in the open, namely, the state of world politics which requires an ever increasing participation by the United States, will mock whatever success they have by this method...
Replying to those who want to abolish segregation in the public schools, Southerners sometimes fall back on a final line of defense: if only the South were let alone, it would equalize facilities and then everyone would be happy. But last week, in a special report on his state's 67 counties, Superintendent of Education J. W. Terry told just how far Alabama would have to go to bring its schools up to even "acceptable standards." Because of the condition of the Negro schools, said Terry, Alabama would have to pay $298,633,000. Among the counties listed...
Facts Forum has used its platform as well as its own "free circulating library," reported Bagdikian, for "known race-hate agitators." One of the original library books, withdrawn after protests, was We Must Abolish the United States, by Joseph Kamp ("I pull no punches in exposing the Jewish Gestapo or any Jew who happens to be a Jew"). Kamp was jailed for contempt of Congress after refusing to reveal the backers of his Constitution al Educational League. Bagdikian also set forth that Facts Forum tells its members how to get on the mailing list of such organizations as Merwin...
...impression that this social insurance system is not financially sound. The truth is that it is fully self-sustaining for all time to come. This allegation comes with singular ill-grace from a spokesman for a so-called pay-as-you-go plan which of course would completely abolish any long-range financing and make benefits dependent upon year to year appropriations...