Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 85, Decatur, Adams County, 10 April 1963 — Page 12

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Wife Assails Personal Abuse Os Lawmakers FEMININE HORIZON By BOBTENSE MYERS United Press International INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Continued personal abuse directed at Indiana’s lawmakers as a result of stalemates over taxes, budget and reapportionmet may mean an end to the citizen Legislature. The warning was contained in a defense of the Assembly by a legislative leader's wife. "I am heartsick when I read and hear some of the things said about the legislators,” said Mrs. Charles W. Edwards, Spencer. ‘‘There are dedicated, conscientious people on both sides of the aisle in both chambers and they are putting in more hours trying to solve the state’s problems than they do in their own jobs. “I know Chuck has averaged 14 or 15 hours a day ever since the Legislature began. He has spent only 8 days in his office out of the last three months.” Edwards is House Republican majority leader. He and his wife, Carolyn, and their three children live at Spencer, where Edwards has a law practice. Assails Criticism His wife observed that ‘‘it seems to me that the type of criticism the legislators are getting is not going to encourage conscientious people to stick their heads on die chopping block in the future.” "The problem of a billion-dollar budget hasn’t been solved, but do people want to be represented by someone who just hands over a billion dollars without knowing what the effect will be?”, she asked. “The people shoule be glad they have legislators who are willing to spend the time it takes to work out the diversities of opinion among the people themselves. This seems to be a case of strongminded men. If they were weak, the whole thing would have been solved right away,” she said. Mrs. Edwards cited the 118-day New York City newspapers strike and observed “I don’t know what that cost economically, but it was more than our state budget. But no seems to think that there was anything wrong in taking 118 days to solve the problems involved there.” “The long session has been a financial strain on the legislators and there are some Os them who just can’t afford the honor. If they are in business for themselves, as many are, their income stops, yet they have expenses living in Indianapolis and maintaining their own homes,” she said. Prays for Daddy’s Visit There also is a disruption in family life. “Chuck took the kids fishing last weekend for the first whole weekend we've been together since Jan- 10,” Mrs. Edwards said. “Once I heard Ricky praying ‘please, dear God, let Daddy come home and visit us again.’ **. Carolyn and Chuck Edwards met as Indiana University students and settled in Spencer after his graduation from law school. “We hadn’t thought of getting into politics then,” she said, “but in two years time, he was elected county chairman, and was Sen. Bontrager’s campaign manager (Sen. D. Russell Bontrager, RElkhart) when he ran for U.S. senator against Harold Handley. “Then Chuck had a bad accident and I thought it would be good therapy when the party asked him to run for the Legislature. He was in traction in a hospital bed. It never occurred to me he would win.” But win he did, and was reelected again. To Mrs. Edwards, her husband represents the honest, conscientious citizen-legislator she hopes will keep on being willing to serve. Our advertisers are for your HOME TOWN — DECATUR Patronize them. IN CUSTODY—Charles Hantient, enters Mount Vernon, N.Y., police station to be booked on charges of killing his wife, his 4-year-old son and three of his in-laws.

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