The Republican., 1960-12-29

was necessary to preserve "indi-
vidual identity" This thief would
assume that our Constitutional
safeguards are inopcrablc, or non
existent and undertake special
class legislation based on separa-
tion rooted only to birth date.
II took a war and a Constitu-
tional Amendment to establish the
equality of black with white be-
fore the law 1t took ConStitu-
tional Amendment to eliminate
sex as a basis for voting rights.
And in 1860 we have in our midst
advocates of legislation who pro-
claim that a birth date defines
classes of citizenship. Color could
not define the class of citizenship.
Sex could not define the class of
citizenship. But the planners to
whom you will repair in January
want a class society rooted to
birthdays.
Has anyone undertaken to de
fine an Older person? Is man
of forty-five on his death bed with
coronary a younger man than
one sixty-five who enjoys abun-
dant health? Is a mother dying in
child birth younger than a dow
ager of seventy who is robust?
Does older mean in years past or
years left? Who is a senior citi-
zen? | charge these expressions
to the special bureaucratic die
tiOnary determined to confuse our
citizenry | charge these terms to
be bureaucratic double-talk. 1t
is double-talk to deceive. double
talk to enlarge the bureaucratic
function, dOuble-talk to de-
prive the citizen of his lib
erty. dOuble-talk to make the
State the Master and not the serv-
ant of the people Why not have
Commission on Infants? A Com
mission on Adolescents? A Com
mission on Housewives? Each
Commission could suggest prob
lens which it says are so large
only the State can handle them.
The burcaucrat who deplOres
arbitrary catcgorization" as an
excuse to foster class legislation
for one group. is in truth the diSci-
pie of arbitrary categorization. Lib
crty is individual 1t is not for ono
group at the expense of another.
| urge each member of the Com
mission to reflect on this term
arbitrary categOrization.'
| do not believe that the State
of Maryland, or any other State, or
the United States Government is
as Interested or as fit to care for
my mother as | am Therefore
ask that | not be deprived of my
property or the fruit of my labor
to support some burcaucrat who
will prc-empt this privilege from
me. ! ask that this not be done.
ask that the Commission discour-
age and fight any legislation that
will make it impossible for me, or
any other citizen, to have my own
savings to provide for my own
old age ask that the Commits
sion recognize that my mother
cared for me when | was unable
TO care for myself. 1t was not the
State. ! do not believe the State
should now take from me property
so that the State can take my
job Nor do | think the State
should take my property to pay
for doing the same thing for some
one else.
TO look at this problem in an
other light, to what end do State
and Federal bureaucracies dare to
guarantee the economic support
of one group of citizens at the cX-
pense of another? Does not Com
munist China exercise precise
~ parallel power when it removes
an infant from the breast of his
mother? Infants are placed in COM
pounds so that mothers can work
to support the State. The State
then nobly proclaims that it is
caring for the infant Is not this
the same power? Not only does
Red China separate wife from
husband and infant from mother, !
it undertakes to separate man
from his God by proclaiming the !
State as his God Soviet Russia |
the same approach TO
place its farmers under the yoke |
of slavery.
! respectfully submit that to sup |
port such legislation is not en-