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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1971
Page
4
The Bennington Banner is issued daily except Sundays and holidays by Banner Publishing Corporation located at 425 Main Street Bennington Vermont 05201.
The editorial salutes Earth Week 1971 showing politicians from Nixon onward embraced environmental goals. It notes federal clean air and water laws with teeth, creation of the EPA, and conservation wins from Everglades to SST funding cut. Critics warn crusades distract from poverty and crime, but the piece argues environmental awareness strengthens social responsibility.
Report from Hollywood notes a shift away from X and R rated films as producers seek nationwide appeal. With audiences aging 18 to 35 and theater attendance weak, studios plan cleaner fare emphasizing story quality and wholesomeness, while avoiding gratuitous content.
Connecticut spinster Vivien Kellems, age 73, has spent three decades challenging federal income tax rules she calls unconstitutional. Her latest campaign, already prompting congressional action, targets single taxpayers facing higher taxes. She dares the IRS to prosecute over her back taxes and records, while winning growing support. One person cannot fight city hall? She proves otherwise.
A letter to The W. Post proposes a yearly tax option allowing citizens to designate their tax payments to a chosen government program. The writer suggests funding priorities like roads schools clean air and reform, arguing it would give annual influence to taxpayers and limit influence by the wealthily non-taxpaying.
In South Carolina and Georgia a new southern mood reshapes politics. Governors West and Carter renounce old racial tactics, push education and economic reforms, and view 1972 as a test of a more moderate Democratic coalition. They see national figures like Muskie as the preferred nominee among acceptable Democrats. Nixon faces southern weakness as promises on desegregation and textiles falter.
Gerald Raftery of Arlington critiques John Kenneth Galbraith, calling him the profession's leading raconteur and stand-up comic. He mocks Galbraith's Today show remark praising Edward as the finest Massachusetts senator, contrasting with Daniel Webster, Charles Sumner, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., and John F. Kennedy.
Lord Ritchie Calder says science alone gives knowledge not wisdom, while judgment makes wisdom. Hugh Allen notes compulsion as a refined temptation. Dr. Jesse L. Stein urges banning smoking in confined public spaces. Trygve Bratteli advocates higher alcohol prices to curb consumption.
An elderly narrator recalls Wild West nostalgia in a humorous reminiscence. He contrasts old time medicine shows with emerging modern youth styles, recounting a faded two man show led by Chief Oglala, a banjo player, and a short haired Indian. The piece ends with disappointment over a changed performer and a shift to the Salvation Army band.
A Burlington Free Press column laments Northeast power shortages and mocks overdeveloped areas dependence on electricity. It proposes a UN funded de electrification program sending advisers from underdeveloped regions to teach households to cope without electric gadgets and appliances.
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