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Page 2 - ri AlNDKAI.F.R-HF.RALD. WKD>KSI)A1 . AL'Klt.24. 1<JB5 Opinion/Politics Public pulse Dartmoor drag strip. . . Dear Editor: I have seen them in the early winter mornings. Cars racin up Dartmoor Drive. We live on a slight hill. I guessed that the drivers were afraid of getting stuck on the icy slope. But spring is here and still they speed up Dartmoor in the a.m. and down in the p.m. The speed limit is posted at 25 mph but this street is more or less a straightaway. It's easy to get going fast. Our neighborhood is teeming with youngsters walking, bike riding, playing in yards and driveways. But even under the most watchful eye, some children wander into the street. We asked for a stop sign at Windridge and Dartmoor. I don't believe it got much farther than past our alderman. I've seen the McHenry Police at our corner four or five times. I've lived here for almost seven years. Their diligence hasn't done much for the problem. I'm afraid for our children; and my own kids are old enough to know better than to play or dart into the street. Hitting someone, a child, at 25 mph could be a tragedy. At 40 mph it would be devastating. I believe the worst offenders live right here in Fox Ridge. Please slow down, obey the speed limit, watch for kids. The guilt that would follow an accidental collision with a child is not worth the extra mph. Suzanne D. Neuhausel Support for Beck Dear Editor: It is my opinion that Mr. Ben Beck, a fine Johnsburg citizen, educator and knowledgeable basketball coach, has not been treated with the respect he has earned and deserves. In 1961, the Johnsburg High School bpard of education invited Mr. Beck and his family to the Johnsburg community and hired him as the varsity basketball coach. Coach Beck has worked long and hard to guide the basketball program t to respectable finishes, despite the lack of exceptional talent. His teams £0ways hustle, execute and finish each game with pride and class. Ben Beck is known amoi his coaching peers as a soun and resourceful technician. '. Despite all of his professional contributions and loyalty, Beck has been informed that he is no longer the Johnsburg High School basketball coach. No reasons or justifications for this decision have been afforded Coach Beck. Perhaps the board feels they don't owe the coach of four years the professional courtesy of any explanation. A fine gentleman and coach has been treated as a second class citizen. Certainly a man who has served the school community so well deserves more respect. Shame on those who have failed to recognize that high school basketball coaches are also people, not just a reflection of the almighty won- loss r record. It's time for some to start exhibiting the same class that Ben Beck has given to them for the last four years. Tom Maple Varsity Basketball Coach Grant High School Here's what some other iiewspapers are saying Los Angeles Times Air Force Secretary Verene OJT noted the other day that "national support for building nfllitary strength has been severly battered by public perception that we pay too much for the goods and services we acquire." Indeed it has. As part ot an administration effort to w|n back public confidence, the Justice Department is currently investigating more than 30 cases of fraud by major defense contractors. ZThe only real cure is a change iir the corporate climate that encourages fudging of the books ta get more money from the government. Unfortunately, it appears that tough action- irijcluding heavy fines and iail sentences for responsible persons-will be needed to persuade top managers of big defense firms that the problem is real and must be corrected... ...in the case of big defense contractors that are found guilty of cheating the taxpayers. The law provides for the ef­ fective blacklisting of com­ panies that defraud the government. The fact is, owever, that large defense contractors are so vital to the design and production of complex weapons systems that the Pentagon cannot live without them. Thus, while small firms are frequently barred from defense work for cheating the government, GE is the first giant of the defense industry that has been subjected to such treatment even temporarily. GARDNER LANDSCAPING ' HONESTY & QUALITY YOU CAN DEPEND ON" We Specialize In A Natural Landscape Design All Services, Including: Designing • Pruning Planting • Maintenance •Free Consultation 16 YEARS EXPERIENCE (815)675-6083 i*us IDurli) SPRING CLASSES Registration is Required for all demos and classes! 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If a foreign politician isn't suing a new magazine over some nitpicking technicality, a Bible-thumping Southern demagogue is threatening to buy CBS and sell Dan Rather to the gypsies. The other day, the Washington Post got assessed $2 million for accusing an oil millionaire of being a caring father. More or less. And the public loves it! That's the worst part. The public thinks we're getting what we deserve. Hiat hurts. It's one thing to be thought the moral inferior of Mother Teresa, but when you keep coming in second to corn- pone dimwits, money-grubbing industrialists and tin-horn militarists, you have to wonder what you're doing wrong. It begins to look like the public's right to know has exceeded its desire. In reinstating that $2 million judgment against the Post last week, an appeals court judge said of the story that precipitated the suit: "A reasonable inference is that Woodward (that's 'Watergate Bob' Woodward) as editor wanted from his reporters the same kind of stories on which he built his own reputation: high-impact, in­ vestigative stories of wrongdoing." Of course he did. What's wrong with that? That's what a part of journalism is all about- often the best part. If you didn't want to get the bad guys, you would have gone into ad­ vertising. That judge seems to think that the press has some sort of responsibility to be polite. On the contrary; if anything, its responsibility is to be rum and unruly. A ruly press is as worthless as a politician's praise. It's a shame to see so fine a group of men and women un­ justly maligned. Man and boy, I've been in this business 25 years and I can say this of my colleagues: Journalists, as a group, i are livelier than ac­ countants, smarter than un­ dertakers, more honest than lawyers, more generous than bankers and possessed of a reater compassion for u m a n i t y t f r a n anesthesiologists. They have only one flaw, really. They'd cut your liver out for a story. It is not the worst of faults. I was in a small press con­ tingent that went to Cuba with Sen. George McGovern about 10 years ago. We were given a Potemkin village kind of tour, shown only the good things, but it was a fascinating glnmpse into the society. One day Castro himself took us to the collective dairy farm run by his brother. It was a beautiful place, modern, spotless, freshly painted, with grounds landscaped in bright flower beds bordered by white­ washed rocks. At one point Castro and McGovern went into a barn and found themselves at a milking stanchion in the company of a huge-eyed cow, just the three of them. The television and the photographers went crazy.-They started pushing and shoving each other to get the best angle on the picture, slamming reporters in the head with their cameras to make them get out of the way. Unfortunately, the best place to take the picture was right in the middle of a flower bed. The press gang didn't hesitate, it just plowed into the flowers, stomping them un­ derfoot. And when Castro and McGovern moved on, the camera people moved on with . them in a herd, not looking back. The place was a mess. A fence was down, the flower bed trampled, there were scuff marks on the white rocks. It looked as though Hell's Angels had held a Fourth of July picnic there. For a moment, I felt like the Ugly American. Surely Cuban journalists would not have acted so crudely while visiting our country. But then I thought: no, but Cuban journalists raise their hands for government per­ mission when they want to go to the bathroom. We asked Castro about that, why there wasn't a free press in Cuba. He looked at us as though we were creatures from another planet. "The press is an extension of the state," he said. Not here. That's why we have a first amendment to the Con­ stitution: "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or the press..." The founding fathers did not put that into the Constitution because they thought the press was going to act responsibly all of the time or be infallible or polite. They put it in because they knew that a free, democratic society is impossible without free access to ideas and information and that an unfettered, aggressive press is the best way to ensure that access. Perhaps on occasion we trample a few flower beds Tor harass a blameless person or push a story to the crumbling edges of truth and beyond. 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