A Question of Numbers

...seven robberies...

...Well, the second most popular sanctuary for the "over the hill" army has been Sweden...

...Nonetheless, Landgrebe believed in his principles and, therefore, when the committee voted and then filed a report on the Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973 he not only voted against it but he also had the audacity to file a minority view of one on it...

...R.E.T...

...This squares with official U.S...

...No reporter had recked its veracity...

...His views were his own because even such other conservative stalwarts as Messrs...

...To hell with the totals, we are told, the young men who fled to Canada and Sweden "rather than fight in this im-moral war" are still, in Milton Viorst's phrase, "the guardians of the national conscience...

...He was first elected in 1968 to succeed Charlie Halleck, the former Minority Leader of the House...

...Newstorles (in AP, UPI, 'he Washington Post, The New York imes, the San Francisco Examiner), tagazine articles (in Newsweek, Life, he Nation, The New Republic, ewsday), and assorted editorials and ~lumns all reported that Hampton was te "twenty-eighth" Panther to have ~en killed by police, and most went on suggest or deplore a "government con- ~iracy to exterminate the Black anthers...

...We say: Let them go and let their records be made clean...

...As a small businessman who owned and operated his own truck line, Landgrebe came to the House without many of the silly misconceptions of so many new members of Congress...

...The sensible people among the thirty-seven members of the committee never totaled more than twelve and on many issues could be reduced to five or six...

...The Senate liberals, while usually preoccupied with grooming candidates for the next presidential election, nonetheless realized that if the battle of the budget were to be won, it would have to be won by an override of presidential vetoes and that this could most likely occur on politically popular and sensitive votes such as the Vocational Rehabilitation renewal...

...Up to her very last days she worked for those principles in which she so ardently believed...

...First, 7,000 to 10,000 seems a more honest, justifiable estimate of the actual Canadian contingent of draft dodgers and deserters than the 70,000 to 100,000 we have been constantly fed...

...Thanks to the statistic-mindedness of Mr...

...Walz located 40,000 in Toronto alone...

...To hear the boys who ran away to Toronto and Montreal and Stockholm lionized as "moral heroes" is --obscene...

...The next morning in The Los Angeles Times, Max Lerner, a journalist of great probity, redeployed the 70,000-man army some-what, declaring, "There are 15,000 exiles in Canada, some 55,000 in other countries...

...Twenty-eight," appears, was an off-the-cuff figure ven by Charles R. Garry, chief council ~d spokesman for the Black Panther ~rty, and this figure only days 'terwards was cited in the press without ~trce or qualification...

...Ashbrook of Ohio, Huber of Michigan, and Kemp of New York did not join him, and also because he had the good sense to file a substitute bill...

...Epstein concludes that if there had been a Federal conspiracy to kill Black Panthers, "The implications would be so dreadful that one would surely expect the #gures to be checked out with the utmost scruple...

...Nonetheless, he was re-elected by 54.7 percent of his constituents and was sworn in as a member of the Ninetythird Congress on January 3, 1973...

...She was an irreplaceable friend...

...le Alternative June-September 1973 they deserted while in the military to avoid fighting in Vietnam...

...government estimates...

...He retained his committee assignments which included a ninth ranking out of sixteen among the Republicans on the lunatic Education and Labor Committee...

...This attitude gave him a number of problems back in Indiana, including a well-financed primary in 1972, where he almost became a political casualty to Indiana Republican feuding...

...What about the "55200 in other coun-tries" friend Lerner was concerned with...

...males between the ages of 15 and 29 annually became "landed im-migrants" in Canada...

...If one concedes that every single American male, over 14 and under 30 --above that annual average --who became a "landed im- migrant" in Canada between January 1965 and January 1972 was either a draft dodger or a deserter --an obvious impossibility --even then the official total for all of Canada could have come to no more than 17,000 at the very time Mr...

...Lilly has left an historic mark not only on Indiana but also on the nation...

...Lilly was the wife of Mr...

...would have cut back the funding level, kept the focus on vocational re-habilitation rather than medical treat-ment, consolidated the bureaucracy, and was within tim President's budget limit- ations...

...The substitute they would have been considered an em- barrassment by Crazy Joe Gallo and the Brooklyn Mafia...

...For example, Landgrebe is a "gut con-servative" who believes that certain things are right and when they are right they are worth defending even if you are in a minority...

...Mrs...

...This is especially manifest after watching the genuine heroes of our age and time debark at Clark Field...

...Eli Lilly, the distinguished Indiana industrialist who brought the Eli Lilly Company to world leadership in pharmaceuticals and other related industries...

...10 percent jailed, and 6 percent deported...

...By January 11, however, The New York Times' man in Ottawa, Jay Walz, had located the hordes...

...The military places 237 "deserters at large" in Sweden...

...Therefore, all the guns were pulled out when the President sent up his Vocational Rehabilitation veto message...

...Coverage ;hich is exaggerated --either uninten- ~onally through carelessness or inten-ionally through attempts to "make" ews --cannot long be tolerated by an ~]ormed and deliberative public...

...A classic example of media exaggeration ~as exposed by Edward Jay Epstein in a ow famous New Yorker essay published ,~eFebruary 13, 1971...

...A count made last fall said there were 602 deserters in Sweden...

...Secondly, that, because of an ideological bias, otherwise competent American newsmen have engaged in inexcusably sloppy journalism, swallowing whole without inspection bogus statistics fed them by Canadian based antiwar groups --when a few phone calls and a little arithmetic would have shown the number almost certainly outlandish...

...government places the figure of verified deserters and draft dodgers in Canada at just under 4,000...

...Nearly thirty persons have been deported . . ." That's quite a performance...

...Those statistics seem not only a trifle high for "guardians of the national conscience...

...The President indicated that anything that came to him from the Congress that was over his budget would be subjected to a presidential veto...

...Third, that for two years some of the nation's principal news organizations have thus grossly misled the American people about the magnitude of the problem they confront in the matter of amnesty for runaways...

...Outside Canada and the United States it estimates an additional 1,200...

...atrick J. Buchanan A Question of Numbers Accurate coverage of important events the press' first responsiblity...

...Within 72 hours, Shana Alexander of CBS's SPectrum had checked Taft's highest estimate and found it low, and ascertained the motives of the entire runaway army...

...the st were killed (with plenty of witnesses 'ar at hand) in burglaries, in shoot-outs ith rival groups, and by other Black ~nthers, (b) that of the ten, eight were Iled in haphazard encounters (often nbushes) with police in the streets, and ) that to report that police ntentionally planned" to kill Hampton Clark is at best questionable...

...What are the facts...

...Hubert Humphrey took to the floor on a frequent basis and with weeping and gnashing of teeth talking about how this program which had existed since 1920 was being eliminated and how thousands of people were going to be abandoned to a fate not readily determinable -since there were no fewer than five other competing Federal programs overlapping in the same areas and the Landgrebe alternative still provided The Alternative June-September 1973...

...She will be missed by many thousands of people throughout the country who were helped by her, and who learned from her...

...Her exemplary life was a lesson in how the good citizen should live...

...On that situation, Haynes Johnson of the Washington Post reported two weeks ago: "Sweden, gen- erally believed to have the next (after Canada) largest number of American Edwin Feulner, Jr...

...Between 1960 and 1964, before Vietnam became an American war, roughly 1,300 U.S...

...Quoting Swedish Director of Im-migration, William Leth, last November Hugh Wyatt of the News wrote: "He (Leth) said that from 1967 to 1970, of the 585 Americans allowed to enter the country, 110 were involved in major crimes, citing the following: 36 thefts...

...and Newsday was announcing, in a lead editorial, "There are perhaps 100,000 young men who are in exile either because they fled the country to avoid the draft or because Mrs...

...The question oJ amnesty for deserters and dra#-dodgers is on many people's minds right now, and once again, as Buchanan points out, we are being deluged with voluptuous reportage which overdraws the facts and cripples the public's ability to make a sober judgment...

...figures...

...Leth is telling us in a nice way is that in one three-year period, 20 percent of our Stockholm Brigade was involved in major crimes...

...Well, the fact is that the U.S...

...Lilly was known as a dignified and gracious woman whose reasoned belief in traditional American principles and whose serious intellectual and cultural interests moved her to support vigorously many cultural, intellectual, and religious activities, not only in Indiana but throughout the nation, often anonymously...

...In this article, Patrick Buchanan thinks it is high time to unravel another tangle of exaggerated news coverage...

...Eli Lilly, R.I.P...

...Epstein asked for, td finally received, a list of twenty ~enocide victims" from Garry...

...49 drug-related cases including pushing . . . Leth said that 52 deserters were jailed but declined to say how many are still there...

...the Selective Service puts there the "bulk" of the roughly 450 "fugitives" outside the United States and Canada...

...media...

...Needless to say, Landgrebe's role as a fundamental conservative on Ed-ucation and Labor placed him in a min- ority...

...Eli Lilly passed away at her home in Indianapolis...

...By early February of 1973, Fred Barnes of the Washington Star was de-claring categorically, "There are about 60,000 to 100200 draft evaders in exile from the United States...

...What Mr...

...The word "lunatic" here is used advisedly because of the madness which passes for normalcy in this body...

...Whether it is the Occupational Safety and Health Act which is driving hundreds of small businesses out of exist- ence, the latest minimum wage proposal which has the primary effect of driving black teenagers out of productive em-ployment, the Elementary and Second-ary Education Act, which has done more to erode local autonomy and diversity in school systems than any other single piece of legislation, or any of the dozens of others, the word "lunatic" is used advisedly and appropriately...

...This, I think...

...On December 14, 1971, introducing his "Amnesty Act of 1972," Senator Taft observed, " . .. estimates of the number of young Americans living in exile range as high as 70,000...

...After in- ~stigating each case, Epstein dis-~vered ( a) that only ten of the ~enty-eight were killed by police...

...What bothered Epstein was ~e complete lack of documentation for lese "facts," and after months of ,duous research, he came up with the ~al facts --which were quite different ~tn had been supposed...

...Again, it should be noted that Landgrebe was the only member to offer an alternative bill at this point...

...journalists and politicians have been characterizing as the "best of our younger generation" and the ~'guardians of the national conscience" a collection of draft dodgers and de-serters whose statistical profile and performance in exile show them to con- tain more than the customary comple- ment of malingerers, opportunists, criminals, and cowards...

...Palme's regime and the enterprise of the New York Daily News, we have an idea what the Stockholm crowd is up to when not guarding the national conscience...

...Of the 2,533 "deserters at large" outside the United States, the Pentagon places about 1,800 plus in Canada, while of the 2,400 "fugitives" from draft law indictments, the Selective Service places just under 2,000 with our neighbor to the North...

...Then the battle of the budget began...

...What do these statistics say...

...As many as 40,000 exiles . . . are in Toronto, the favorite haven, and some 10,000 may be in Montreal," he stated, noting of their employment status, "Many others of the 50,000 to 70,000 draft resisters in Canada are not fortunate where jobs are concerned...

...l Minority Report Makes Good Earl Landgrebe is a little known Re- publican congressman from the Second District of Indiana...

...Official Canadian statistics do not con- tradict U.S...

...She faced death gallantly...

...Therein lies a tale...

...So ceaseless was her support of these activities and so wise was she in choosing them that it is no extravagance to state that Mrs...

...Epstein, it seems, provoked by the press' reaction to December 4, 1969 death of Illinois llack Panther chairman Fred Hampton, ~ho had been shot by police entering his eadquarters with a search warrant for legal weapons...

...Fourth, that some U.S...

...So it went through 1972 and throughout the U.S...

...Over 70,000 of these young men are now sitting in exile or in prison," she stated, "because of their opposition to the war in Vietnam ." Clearly, the situation called for a manifesto...

...Clearly, they were not...

...A long and singularly admirable life came to an end recently when Mrs...

...On January 1, 1972, sixteen worthies, anchored by the indefatigable Joe Rauh, issued a call for blanket amnesty: "There are at least 70,000 and some say as many as 100,000 young American men in Canada, men who have quit the military or refused the draft...

...deserters or war resisters, does maintain an official count of deserters...