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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1965
Page
4
The Bennington Banner published June 14 1965 from 425 Main Street Bennington Vermont by Banner Publishing Corp. Daily edition excludes Sundays and holidays per standard timetable.
Editorials condemn the US move to authorize ground troops in Vietnam as a staged announcement. The piece argues the White House sought to minimize the shift toward a mainland ground war, urging Congress and the public to face the looming regional conflict and the risks from Viet Cong offensives.
The piece discusses government by consensus and wartime pressure on dissent. It notes Sen Thomas J. Dodd urging quiet, while Sen Mike Mansfield and Sen J William Fulbright promote open public discussion as essential to strong policy. It urges the President to foster conditions for debate.
Richard F. Stolz discusses cross cultural barriers after his expulsion from the Soviet Union last year and warns that miscommunication worsens international tensions. Also congratulates Madeline Harwood for leading the Vermont Republican Women's Club. Weather shifts disrupt weekend plans and a key House vote endangers Bennington’s vocational education center project, urging local delegation action.
A critical analysis argues the United States is not losing global prestige but its own dignity at home. It cites the President's testiness, Congress's weakened nerve, and wartime pressures in Vietnam as eroding trust and the ability to conduct democratic dialogue with thoughtful scrutiny of force and policy.
The Claremont New Hampshire Eagle lamented internecine Young Republican conflicts quipping that immaturity defined the group and proposing renamed or age-based factions. It urged dissolving the noisy faction and hinted at creating Old or Fat Republicans to end parliamentary contortions and press attacks.
Spencer A Haynes of North Bennington writes in support of Bel mond Royce Pitkin for the Fish and Game Board. He criticizes protests against Pitkin for his World War II conscientious objection and cites religious and patriotic arguments in defense of his qualifications.
Albany observers anticipate adjournment within days as lawmakers push to finish amid intraparty disputes in the Democratic majority and a central fight over a proposed New York City tax expansion. Mayor Wagner's announced retirement pressures the endgame, with party leaders wary of factional stances and primary battlegrounds shaping plans. A key item remains a constitutional amendment legalizing a state lottery expected to spurn broad support from both parties if approved this week and revisited in 1966.
Chard Powers Smith offers a four part portrait of Edwin Arlington Robinson, drawing on memories from 1924 to 1935 to revive interest in his longer works. The critique notes strengths in vivid reminiscence and weaknesses in biographical use of poems and in the verse analysis, arguing Robinson remains a poet more than a philosopher, with lasting value in his concrete New England realism but limits in anecdotal poetry and distant diction.
A tired man entered a Montreal Star restaurant satire, giving two vitamin pills to the waiter and asking them stirred into clam chowder. After a long wait the customer asks why service is delayed. The waiter replies the soup will arrive once the clams lie down.
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