European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 03, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday october 3, 1967 the stars and stripes Page 3 nation with a record German schools stress jobs but not ideas by Jack Gayer new York a West Germany today is a land of plenty oriented to business full of devoted families whose Mem Bers consume an average of two pounds of potatoes a Day an has a school system designed to train the Young to become Job holders but avoid their exposure to ideas. This was a portion of the Pic Ture drawn on lbs s weekly news show the germans Friday night a once Over lightly treatment of an affluent nation 22 years after a War it lost. It was in essence an illustrated essay on the subject by Hughes Rudd a network Cor respondent who identified him self As a German watcher since1942." no one of course could do More than sketch in some out lines on such a vast complicated subject in less than one hour s time. Rudd s tactic Wasto deliver a series of brightly turned phrases consisting of generalities that might or might not stand up under closer scrutiny the germans Are a nation with a record they want time off for Good behaviour or the germans As a society Are not Neo nazi they Are Neo victorian " the photography was concentrated in an area in and around Nuernberg which Rudd asserted was the most German of Cit his interviewees most of whom were Young spoke Excel Lent English and repeatedly declared that modern germans do not want to be seen through the glasses of the past As one phrased it but by the program covered an enor Mous Range of subjects fro the shots of Beer gardens and families frolicking in Public Parks to the demolition of hit Ler s stadium used for nazi ral lies. Some Young people spoke of encountering hate when they went abroad. Two Middle aged jews disagreed about the amount of anti semitism in the country. One said he found Little if any the other said he encountered it from time to was at his Best when Reading his often witty commen tary and tossing in Small significant detail like the potato statistic. His thesis however was that Germany today is a underdeveloped nation. This seemed borne out not by the evidence of the camera but by his figures on secondary Educa Tion. 33% against jews in government new York a a Survey among Young people in Nuernberg West Germany showed that one third of them Are against having jews in govern ment lbs reported Friday Survey also indicated that More than one third would no vote for any former anti nazi be cause of a feeling that anyone who was against the country s government was an extremist if not a the findings were reported Ona Columbia broadcasting system television program the the poll was conducted for lbs by a German research organization. Other findings Twenty per cent prefer a sin Gle National party or a Leader who rules with a Strong sixty per cent agreed wit the statement most of the Best things in culture Are per cent would not go to War for West Germany even if it were attacked. The program said some 9,000 German jews lived in Nuernberg before Hitler. Of the 230 there now two were asked if they detected much anti semitism. One a local soccer team coach named Arno hamburger said not at the other Busi Nessman Jean Mandel said i would t say very much but there is still eighty per cent of the school students he said quit at 14 to become apprentices at jobs the will probably work at for the rest of their lives and Only 10per cent finish High school. One of the most interesting portions of the program was a visit to the new Home of a Post War millionaire who built a radio repair shop into an electrical Empire in two decades. The House was designed by his fac tory architect and looked it but was loaded with buttons an gadgets that did everything from raise and lower window Sand draw curtains to turn the indoor swimming Pool into furiously streaming fountains. The newsman observed that the Berlin Wall begun As a Boundary has now become shrine to the memory of the Germany that was and suggested that while Many people still Hope for reunification oth ers feel that it May never come. He closed the hour on a grim note noting that West Ger Many today is raising kids to produce and behave and therefore to be negro will add liberalism Marshall makes High court history by Barry Schweid Washington a probably More Liberal supreme court returned to work officially monday on a historic note the addition of the first negro to its ranks. And it is Thurgood Marshall advocate of civil rights causes for a Quarter Century who is expected to provide a new surge of liberalism As the Warre court continues its activist interpretation of the , the great grandson of a slave took the judicial oath and then his seat to the extreme left of chief Justice ear Warren the traditional end place at the mahogany Bench for the newest Justice. Appointed at 59 president Johnson appointed the 59-year-old Marshall to the court after Justice Tom c. Clar retired. No decisions Are forthcoming at these opening sessions. Scores of lawyers Are admitted to prac Tice most of whom will never exercise the privilege and the the nine justices always leave to consider in private hundreds of appeals that pile up during a 3-month summer and decision of cases will Start next of rights cases including the seemingly endless tussle be tween police Power and individual Liberty dominate the docket. Topless dancers too but not All the issues confront ing the court in its 177th year Are profound. Two topless danc Erstrom California for in stance want their performance protected by the first Amend ment guarantee of Freedom of expression. Except for the Marshall for Clark switch the court s composition is the same As Las year Warren 76, and in descending order of seniority associate justices Hugo l. Black 81 William o. Douglas 68john m. Harlan 68 William j. Brennan jr., 61 Potter stewart52 Byron r. White 50 and Abe Fortas 57. As a group they average Al most 64 years in age. The court already has agree to hear 68 cases and several of those on the court s Doorstep Are explosive. Do Northern cities have a constitutional duty to balance the races in their Public schools will Southern officials get a Chance to try to upset sweeping integration decisions by lower courts can states require Public bus ing of parochial school Chil Dren will new York taxpayers get a Green Light to Challenge Federal Aid to parochial schools can the government sen draft card burners to jail and can real estate men refuse to sell Home Sites to negroes in the absence of Federal or state open housing Laws it is possible too that before the session ends next june Adam Clayton Powell will be seeking a ruling on his exclusion from Congress. His Case is Stillin a lower Federal court Here. Even if these highly sensitive subjects Are sidestepped the court is knee deep in controversy. Four cases which have Bee granted a review test the Power of police to Stop and frisk people on the Street on a suspicion they have committed Orare about to commit a crime. This is a particularly incendiary Issue in big City slums. The court in recent years has Laid Down strict rules for station House questioning. Similar crackdown on some forms of Street questioning could rekindle complaints that criminals Are being always there Are Many cases testing what is fair Crimi Nal procedure. A major one challenges these in Federal trials of evidence obtained by recording conversations made from Public Tele phone Booths. Another question whether an informer in a narcotics Case must be identified when he testifies in court. And a third asks the court to decide i defendants Are entitled to know the identity of government informers in Advance of trial. The gnawing problem of How to assure fair trials without curbing Freedom of the press is posed in a Case from Florida. A condemned killer has won a hearing with a claim that publication in newspapers and on television and radio 9f his confessions to six homicides prejudiced the jury against Justice department meanwhile is asking the court to reverse a ruling by a Federal judge in Connecticut that the Lindbergh kidnapping Law is unconstitutional. The Law seems to put a Premium on asking for a jury trial in Federal kidnapping cases. Be cause Only the jury not the Thurgood Marshall judge can impose the death sentence the defendant May be inclined to plead guilty or to pass up his constitutional right to be tried by a constitutional right the guarantee against Force self incrimination is the basis for attacks on Federal Laws re Quiring gamblers and owners of some kinds of firearms to Regis Ter with the government. If they Don t Register the May open the Way to prosecution. If they do they could be prosecuted on other gamblers argue for in stance that Washington turnover its information to state and local officials for prosecution under state and local anti Gam bling court held a hearing last term but called for another round this session. Similarly it decided to have a second look Ata Section of the subversive activities control act of 1950which was designed to bar communist party members fro working in defense plants. The Validity of requiring loyalty certificates from teachers and other state employees is being tested in a Maryland Case that also raises questions of academic Freedom. And a new yorker Basing his Case on the right to free expression has persuaded the court to examine a new York Law that bars distribution of Anonymous political Campaign other significant first amendment cases from Texas and new York draw the justices again into the unsettled area of Legal obscenity. This time the focus is on Protection of juveniles. In one motion picture exhibitors Are attacking As unconstitutional censorship the classification of movies in Dallas As suitable or unsuitable for View ing by youngsters. In the other a Luncheonette owner convicted of Selling Girlie magazines to a 16-year-old boys contesting a new York state Law that prohibits exposing minors to harmful once again the court faces plea that it extend its one Man one vote doctrine to county and City government through out the country. This time it will examine the Way members of the governing Board of Midland county Texas Are elected. Last term the court Side stepped a Broad ruling on local apportionment finding procedural defects in the cases before it. Now City and county official on 20,000 governing units across the nation will be watching Tosee what the justices do about Midland the business cases up for decision the one that May have he biggest consumer Impact tests the Federal Power com Mission s authority to fix rates for producers of natural Gas Onan area basis. If the government wins homeowners and businesses would be in line for refunds that could run up to $40 million. Also producers would be compelled to Cut the rates they charge for Gas sales in the area the permian Basin of Texas and new Mexico. In the tax Field the court will decide whether a Salesman can deduct for income tax purposes the Cost of meals while he is on the Road eve though he is not away from Home overnight. Fraud Case in a Case from Illinois the court will define the scope of the securities and Exchange com Mission to prevent savings and loan associations from using fraud to attract depositors. And there will be a ruling on whether the Tennessee Valley authority May extend its elec tric service to communities that lie along its primary service area. Union workers and the Lega profession have a big stake in a Case brought by the unite mine workers. The question whether states can bar Union from providing their members with Low Cost or free Legal serv ice. No group rates under the Legal canons of ethics of the american bar association it is considered unethical for a lawyer to accept employ ment from a group to represent its individual members. Some states have enacted Laws patterned after the canons. And yet several unions churches social clubs and anti poverty groups have been using these group Legal in two other significant Labo cases the court will determine the Power of the labor depart ment to supervise Union elections and will decide if employ ers can hire new workers in preference to strikers once Astrike is Over
