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PAGE 3 - PLAINDEALER-WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1975 ASCS Official Explains Disaster Pay Changes "Disaster affected com and grain sorghum harvested for silage, green chop, or other non-grain livestock use, will no longer be determined on a tonnage basis and charged against the normal production of the feed grain allotment acres," Jimmie D. Lucas, county executive director of the McHenry County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service said. He was explaining a recent change in the rules for computing disaster payments. "Instead, a varying production charge ranging from 10 to 20 percent Of each farm's established yield on acres harvested for nongrain livestock feed use will be made." The production charge will generally reflect the loss in tonnage and feed value which occurs when grain content of silage diminishes. Based on the national average feed grain program corn yield of 93 CONSUMER EDUCATION By LESTER W. BRANN, |R. President Illinois State Chamber of Commerce Concern about the nation's economy has become America's number one topic of conversation. Grocery and gasoline prices, jobs and interest rates all come pretty close to home for most Illinois consumers. But despite the nearness of the issues, one can't help wondering how well-informed those conversations really are. A survey of high school students found that 75% of them didn't know who is typically hurt most by inflation. Only 53% know how the "Truth in Lend­ ing Act" helped the consumer, and the Opinion Research Corporation of Princeton found that most Americans believed net profits of businesses amounted to about 28% of sales instead of the actual figure of about 4% as determined by the U.S. Department of Commerce. In 1967, Illinois took steps to close that ignorance gap. Our state was the first in the nation to formally recognize the need for better educated consumer citizens with the passage of the Consumer Educa­ tion Act. The law put the study of installment purchasing, budgeting and price comparison into our secondary school curriculum. This was a good first step and now the General Assembly, during its recent session, took a second step by passing Senate Bill 404. This legislation calls for consumer education courses to include an understanding of the roles of consumers, agricul­ ture, business and government in formulating and achieving the goals of the competitive enterprise system. This second step is necessary because a lack of personal economic competence seriously deprives many individuals from functioning as consumers, workers, investors and voters. In turn, consumer decisions affect the ability of agriculture, commerce, industry, the professions and other categories of business to function. Also, the taxation, subsidization and regulation of business and labor by local, state and federal gov­ ernments directly affects the consumer as to the quality, costs and kinds of goods and services available. Mandating economic education will not guar­ antee a better economy, but it will assure that more intelligent and knowledegable decisions are made. Looking Back Tips For The Novice Automechanic by Scott Connor Facts are better than dreams, if pleasant. bushels, the per acre charge would amount to about $4.15 per acre for silage corn with little or no grain content to about $8.50 for silage with a greater grain content. The new rule change, made to eliminate complications involved in determining quantities and value of disaster affected feed grains, will generally result in a sub­ stantially smaller charge for corn and grain sorghum un- tilized in the form of nongrain livestock feed. Under provisions of the disaster payment program, farmers who have suffered corn and grain sorghum losses due to a natural disaster are urged to contact their local ASCS office or USDA Service Center for more details. Applications for all ASCA program will be given equal consideration without regard to race, color, sex, creed or national origin. ELIJAH LOVEJOY THE POLITICS OF ASSASSINATION In America, who is morally responsible for political assassi­ nation? Of all humanitarian and. reform movements, the one that shook the nation to its foundation sought the abolition of slavery. During the 1830s, advocates of Negro emancipation were attacked with fury in the free states of the North, and Illinois was no exception. Elijah Lovejoy, bom in Maine, came west to bolster the morality and culture of the new states. After studying for the ministry, he served as edi­ tor of a Presbyterian weekly, the St. Louis Observer, be­ tween 1833 and 1836, making the paper a vehement voice against slavery, temperance, and catholicism. He employed increasingly uncompromising language, making impossible his acceptance in St. Louis and perhaps even the peaceful at­ tainment of his ends. To protect his family from those outraged with his views, Lovejoy moved to Alton, 111., then the largest city in the state. As a sign of things to come, his press, when it ar­ rived, was immediately dumped into the river by per­ sons incensed by his abolition­ ist editorials. Although Love­ joy promised the leading citi­ zens of the city that the Alton Observer would have less anti-slavery emphasis than its St. Louis version, the first issue labeled "The system of Negro slavery...an awfiil evil and sin." During the following year Lovejoy's editorials became vigorously abolitionist. On the night of Aug. 21, 1837, the Observer office was entered by a mob and Love- joy's press and type were de­ molished. A replacement press purchased from eastern contri­ butions was removed from its warehouse and dumped into the river. Edward Beecher, another transplated New Englander, was president of Illinois Col­ lege and Lovejoy's major sup­ porter. In their minds the lines between theology and politics became blurred on the subject of slavery. With religious fer­ vor, they proceeded with plans to organize a state anti-slavery society; but the meeting was taken over by Usher F. Linder, the attorney general of Illinois, and his anti-abolitionist sup­ porters who won majority sup­ port for a motion rejecting Lovejoy's constitutional right to publish the Observer. Thus, to the violent atmos­ phere seething with abolition­ ist and religious intensity was added the equally charged questions of the rights to as­ semble, to speak, and to pub­ lish. Asked to leave Alton, Lovejoy replied, "I know that I have the right freely to speak and publish my sentiments, subject only to the laws of the land for the abuse of that right... The contest was com­ menced here; and here it must be finished... If I fail, my grave shall be made in Alton." When a fourth press arrived, Lovejoy decided that it should be protected by an armed group of his supporters and operated out of a massive stone warehouse on the river­ front. The evening after its arrival, some time after 10 Monday night, Nov. 7, 1837, Lovejoy was shot five times and killed while defending his press from an outraged mob. The nation responded with horror. Philadelphia abolition­ ists held a political meeting in Pennsylvania Hall, recently built by supporters of reform, but a mob burned it down. All summer there were outbursts of mob violence against blacks throughout the North. Beecher, reeling- from the event, spent his life trying to explain the fate of his friend and suggested the doctrine of organic sin, which appeared most recently to explain the assassination of John Kennedy. "As a nation," Beecher wrote, "we have long been sinking from the lofty ground of prin­ ciple with which we began;" the "cursed love of gold has left to multitudes no standard of right and wrong but dollars and cents," and the "thirst for political promotion has left to others no criterion of truth but the opinions of the major­ ity, however, profligate." SPURGE0NS BEAUTY SALON 385-4520 Oct. 21 thru Nov. 1 REG. '21 SALON HOURS •TUESDAY 9 to 5 •THURSDAY 9 to 9 •WEDNESDAY 9 to 5 'FRIDAY 9 to 9 "SENIOR CITIZEN DAY" 'SATURDAY 9 to 5 Jackie MANAGER Waly Mary Strenghten Your Hair with our new hair treatment & conditioner... ASK ABOUT CORTOPLEX Corrective & Protective Formulas! Do-lt-Yourselfers As Citizens Next time you see a motorist helping a stranded car owner, look for signs of a Citizen's Band radio antenna on either or both of the cars. According to , Dan Cole­ man, chairman of the Auto­ motive Parts & Accessories Association's Market Inform­ ation , Study Commitee, the number of licensed CB (two- way) radios has increased 57.6% between June 30, 1974, and June 30, 1975. APAA represents manufac­ turers and retailers of auto­ motive products. Much of the demand for CB radios is coming from owners of pickup trucks, vans and vehicles with four-wheel drive who are traveling off the beaten path "and want to be able to communicate with civilization,"Coleman reports. "For the person with a CB radio," Coleman notes, "help isn't far away." The APAA official said the increased interest in CB radios began in the winter of 1973-74 when truck drivers blockaded highways to pro­ test higher fuel prices, alloca­ tion and lower speed limits, It is the nation, the organic political entity, that in Beecher's view must be held responsible for Lovejoy's mur­ der. among other complaints. "The drivers kept in touch with each other by using their CB radios and gave them­ selves such colorful names as 'The Dutchman' and 'River Rat'," Coleman notes. "All this was thoroughly reported by the news media." Using code names instead of station call letters is illegal but the FCC is studying the possibility of changing the law.» APAA reports a high de­ mand for the CB radios. The popular price is from S 149 to $179 but APAA reports models from $400 to $600 are selling well. Antennas, which normally are sold sepa­ rately, range in price from about $20 for a simple slip- on unit to $200 for the most elaborate. The latter requires tools for installation. Coleman notes that CB radios are even easier for car owners to install than tape players because the speakers are contained within the broadcasting units. Speakers for tape players and some radios are separate. With a CB radio, any auto­ motive do-it-yourselfer will have opportunities to play Good Samaritan and even, as many CB'ers have done, help police catch criminals. I * MENS FUNNEL SHIRTS WOVENS & PRINTS ENTIRE SELECTION 20% CHILDRENS WINTER MATS & JACKETS ¥ SIZES THRU 14 ENTIRE SELECTION OFF GET READY FOR COLD WEATHER Envy is the conclusive evidence of a little mind. MgHENRY PI /^dealer. ^ THE MCHENRY PLAINDEALER Established 1875 I 3812 West Elm Street Phone 385-0170 g McHenry, Illinois 60050 Published Every Wednesday & Friday at McHenry, Illinois Second Class Postage Paid at McHenry, Illinois By McHENRY PUBLISHING COMPANY I Editor Larry E. 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