The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 31 December 1968 — Page 2

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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Tuesday, December 31, 19t3

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Editorial. . . . For Mine Safety r pHE COAL mine disaster at Farmington, W. Va., A which claimed the lives of 78 men, is a reminder that much remains to be done by all parties concerned to ensure mine safety. The natural inclination is to blame the mining companies, but that is not the whole story. Responsibility rests with many—the federal government and the states, which have not consistently enforced existing safety laws; Congress, which has ignored new legislative proposals; the companies, which are directly accountable for the condition of their property, and the miners themselves, who are frequently careless. Unfortunately, it seems that a disaster must occur before necessary reforms are made. A major stride in coal mine safety came in 1951 when Congress enacted strong legislation—after 119 men died in Illinois. Congress had before it in 1968 mine safety proposals recommended by President Johnson, but it did not feel compelled to act. Now, after the Farmington explosions, the prospects of such action in the new Congress are considered good. It is true, as some companies argue, that coal mining will probably always be dangerous work, but nevertheless there are some things which can be done to reduce the hazards. President Johnson’s legislative package, while not a cure-all, might save at least some of the lives lost each year in mine accidents. A serious condition in the mines is the presence of coal dust, which in large concentrations can cause explosions. Violations of the proper method of hauling it were noted in the Farmington mine prior to the disaster. Any action taken by Congress should include stricter control of this menace—and meaningful penalties for noncompliance. Great strides in mine safety have been made since the last century, when it was not uncommon for several thousand men to die in a single year. The 78 deaths at Farmington, W. Va., remind us that the job is not finshed.

It would be good if the Indiana University students who held the mock election and voted in favor of legalizing marihuana and abortion, were to look at the other side of the coin, instead of letting necessity for tolerance of illicit conduct going on on the campus influence their right reason to such an extent that they forget the value of human life and the importance of the good order of the nation. For instance, for the last six months England has had liberalized abortion and the problems that result are devastating in just that short a time. Private clinics have sprung up all over for that purpose. More ethical institutions establishments are unhappy with the new law. Operating room staff in some hospitals affronted by such indignity to human life walked out and resigned their positions. Careful., as lawmakers tried to be, in writing legislation to avoid abortion becoming rampant, still it has become rampant in London already, and abortion profiteering has not been curbed, not even by providing free abortion for some cases. Many now feel that lawmakers there were like naive children in legalizing something that had been always considered criminal. Though there are almost no restrictions in Hungary and Japan, and Sweden has as involved restrictions as England, still there is really very little difference between them as time has passed. The majority of women who have abortions in these countries are not deterred by restrictions. Once they are sold on the idea they continue to have one after the other until for many, very bad side effects result. Tragedy stalks many of these women and mental illness is often their lot. Other side effects can be equally severe... their living babies are frequently dull or retarded....“induced abortion plays an important role in the development of a later child,” according to Andras Klin-

ger of the Hungarian Central Office of Statistics. Klinger also stated that....“Leading medical authorities of the nation started sounding the alarm years ago over the abnormally high number of premature births, spontaneous abortions and increasing sterility amoung women, and the increase of RETARDED children born to mothers who had surgically interrupted pregnancies.” from “Abortion on Trial” by Shaw., emphasis added.. My question is, were the I. U. students appraised of the above information before voting? Mrs. Wm. Rosner Named to cabinet WASHINGTON (UPI)— David Packard, head of a Palo Alto, Calif., electronics firm, yesterday was named to be deputy defense secretary in the Nixon administration. Defense secretary-designate Melvin Laird announced the selection of Packard to be his No. 1 deputy in the Pentagon. Packard, 56, is head of the Hewlett-Packard Co., a defense contractor. He told a news conference that he would place his 3.6 million shares in the firm—worth roughly $300 million—into a special trust which would turn over all income and profits from the stocks to educational and charitable organizations. Packard also told a news conference he will resign as an officer of the firm as well as from offices he holds in a long list of other corporations and organizations, many of which do business with the Defense Department. Among them is General Dynamics Corp., maker of the controversial Fill (TFX) fighter-bomber. Packard is a director of General Dynamics.

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With only about two weeks before the changing of the guard in Washington, debate still continues over which one of two horrors will be adopted by the administration. One horror is continuation of the present inflationary spiral. The other alternative is inflationfighting steps that will increase unemployment. This course is favored by orthodox economists who hold that full employment creates inflation. Neither alternative is necessary, according the the research staff of the National Federation of Independent Business. What needs to be recognized, these researchers claim, is that the grafting onto the Keynesian economic thought of the “new” economics further altered by attempts of shaping economics to political expediency the past four years has resulted in what might be categorized as hermaphroditical economics. The need at the present time, it is claimed, is an approach to what might be called “grass roots” economics coupled with more accurate methods of obtaining facts. Although the official unemployment figures released by the Department of Labor have been running at 3.5 percenter under, there is some doubt that these figures give the total of people who should be working and are not. In addition, there are grounds to suspect the current claimed labor shortage is an artificially created shortage. Over a year ago, the Labor Department announced it no longer counts as unemployed those not seeking employment on the grounds a search for employment is futile. It is also questionable that the methodology used is accurate as the monthly reports on unemployment are based on interviews with 35,000 households, or a small fraction of one percent of the almost 60 million households in the nation. Volunteer comments from many of the more than 100,000 independent businessmen who replied to the Federation’s 1968 continuous field survey indicate government policies are creating the artificial shortage of labor, while at the same time, badly administered relief and welfare programs are perpetuating the situation. The owner of a Texas creosote company with 89 employees reports, “We need six more men to work. Cannot get them due to extensive give-aways and welfare.”

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A North Carolina operator of a service business reports, “Our greatest hindrance today is securing common labor and semi-skilled labor. Quite a few of the common laborers in our area were hired by country stores and service stations. Today these people are drawing food stamps, welfare checks, and various other handouts and are not in the mood to take a job of any kind. Most take great delight in telling prospective employers how much they are drawing and thus are not interested in working for anyone.” The owner of a California construction firm with five employees comments, “If we made it harder to qualify, or did away with unemployment payments entirely, maybe our labor problems would be less.” A Florida auto dealer with 25 employees says, “We need ten men now. But good men are scarce and unskilled labor is satisfied with unemployment handouts.” An Illinois retailer with 13 employees says, “I have worked closely with public aid and welfare to help get people off relief, but because welfare and aid is so freely given it becomes a real source of competition in the labor market.” A Mississippi grocer says, “If government would quit giving food and dollars to people to sit down and do nothing this farming area would be a lot better off. Maybe we could get someone to pick peas, haul hay, and do a number of jobs not big enough for mechanical operation.” A Texas manufacturer comments, “Too many governmental agencies going about creating needs that do not exist and promoting help and assistance for the mere sake of spending federal money to perpetuate their existence.” These typical comments among hundreds received by the Federation indicate inflation has not been created by over-employ-ment, but rather by government encouraged and subsidized under-employment. In many areas of the nation a married man with two children

on relief is actually better off financially than working at $100 per week. After deductions are made for income taxes, both state and local, social security tax, plus reasonable costs for getting to the job, work clothes, and other necessary job expenses the $100 per week worker enjoys a lower scale of living than his counterpart on welfare. Aggravating the situation is the fact that with welfare becoming the way of life to many has brought into being vast increases in the public employment of social workers, or welfare workers who are not anxious to see their way of life as public employees diminish and are probaoly actually promoting more welfare clients. In his original treatise on the so-called “negative income tax” Dr. Milton Friedman of the University of Chicago envisioned a system whereby welfare would only keep the ablebodied from actually going hungry, but to attain any substantial degree of comfort they would have to work. At the same time, the heavy expense to the taxpayers of supporting thousands of social workers would be ended. Not only would this save tax money according to Dr. Friedman, but would also eliminate the present function of social workers in promoting bigger case loads as a form of job security. Since Dr. Freidman, considered a conservative economist, released his plan for adequate welfare at a fraction of the present cost, various groups identified with the opposite ideological wing started promoting a “guaranteed annual income” plan which is generally opposed by the public. Unfortunately, this has resulted also in public confusion with the negative income tax idea identified with a guaranteed income plan, although the two ideas are quite far apart in costs, philosophy and operation. The independent businessmen, voting through the Federation, have heavily opposed a guaranteed income plan. They have never voted on the Freidman negative income tax plan .

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There were two green plastic tubes up the nostrils, and the bed was elevated so that his chest appeared to be caved in, and the belly protruded. The white hair matched the pillow, and the voice was low and cautious. “Are you going to get me out of here in time for the New Year?” I said, “Sure,” even though I wasn’t. My father, Big John, 85 years and one month of age, appeared to be ready to return home once more. We have an eyeball understanding. Often, when we glance at each other, I hear the message. Do does he. He was bleeding internally. His heart was guilty of the old fibrillation. The emphysema made breathing a personal battle. “You are going to get me out of here?” I looked at him, one of many hundreds of patients in Hollywood Memorial Hospital in Hollywood, Florida, and I nodded, but I wasn’t thinking of his question. He and I go a long way back. We are aware of each other’s crimes as well as our few virtues. It was just a feeling that came over me, as though someone had turned down the thermostat in the room. He wouldn’t make it this time. He has won too many close fights, and he had to lose. “Will you get me out of here?” “Yes, sir,” I said. And the “sir” was a lapse toward childhood days because I always “sirred” my father and “mam’d” my mother. In his age, he is an allpurpose pain in the neck, but I hate to see him go. John M. Bishop can be tough, irritable, stubborn, Irish, mean, vengeful and just about the most charming man any lady ever met. He puts on a gallantry in their presence which seems to make them think that young men have no understanding of women. Kelly sneaked him a can of beer. She placed a paper bag in the basin and dumped part of the can into a Lily cup. He put on a false smile of approval. “What the hell is this? Beer? Why didn’t you bring me some whisky?” Fourth down and twenty-five to go. Last week before he went to the hospital, he sat in his room and leaned back in the green leather Barca-lounger chair. “Tell me something,” he said softly. “Why the hell does it take so long to die?” I had no response. Eleven years ago, my mother said it another way. “I have seen everthing I want to see; I have done everything I want to do. Now I am waiting for God to call me.” Big John has the unhappy faculty of getting into a hospital in Christmas week. The only year he skipped in the past ten was last year. Once, emerging Hoosier pilot on Communist raid SAIGON (UPI)— An F100 Super Saber pilot from Indiana told yesterday of participating in a raid on a Communist base camp 13 miles northeast of Can Tho and 65 miles southwest of Saigon Sunday in which nine Viet Cong soldiers were killed, nine fortifications wiped out, and eight bunkers and four sampans destroyed. Maj. Wallace S. Guilford, 35, Evansville, Ind., one of the pilots operating out of Phan Rang airbase, said the planes struck just before dawn. “There was a heavy cloud cover, but we slipped through 'it,” Guilford said.

from the bathroom in my sister Adele’s house, he skidded and fell. She thought it was a heart attack, and she called the police the fire department, an ambulance and, I think, the “Continental Command.” They put him on the stretcher and he hollered that there wasn’t a damned thing wrong with him; that he felt fine, but off he went to Holy Name Hospital in Teaneck, New Jersey. When I stopped to visit him, I never met a man so angry. “For your information,” he said, forcing a snarling smile, “the doctor says that there is nothing wrong with me. Now, would you mind telling me what made your idiot sister call the hospital, or did you two plan this together?” I thought he might get by this year, but he became so weak that, even though he wasn’t ill, it was a day’s work to get out of his chair and walk from the bedroom to the dining room table. He wore his fanciest bathrobe, but forgot to button his pajamas. Life is like that.

He forgot the name of a book I had written. It was “The Day Kennedy Was Shot,” but he looked at me frowning and said, “Is this new one about President Johnson?” He forgot to take his heart pills. He forgot the diuretic. He began to call my little girls by reverse names. “Oh, well,” he would say sarcastically, “you know who I mean.” I know a lot about old people and their habits. I had a mother-in-law who lived with me until she was 77. They have a secret will to live, but no patience with illness. When their spirits flag, they prefer death to invalidism. The will is resignation. “Well,” I said, “you won’t be home for Christmas, Dad, maybe New Year’s.” He thought it over. “What’s that thing on the wall?” “TV,” I said. He smiled. “I never saw one up there,” he said. “Do you want to come home?” I said. He put a genuine smile on his kisser. “Now,” he said slowly, “that would depend on where home is...”

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