The Mail-Journal, Volume 1, Number 6, Milford, Kosciusko County, 22 March 1962 — Page 4
THE MAIL-JOURNAL Thursday, March 22, 1962
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The Mail-Journal PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY Democratic ARCHIBALD E. BAUMGARTNER, Editor and Publisher BELLA BAUMGARTNER, Business Manager Entered as Second Class matter at the Post Office at Syracuse, Indiana Subscription: $3.00 per year in Kosciusko County; $3.50 Outside County mnOHAI AOVEtTISING *£P(£S»|rATIV< EDITORIALS
Pprt Or Sport Hoosier officials, along with labor, business and industrial leaders, and Farm Bureau, are working hard at putting the “clincher” on Indiana’s Lake Michigan seaport at Burns Ditch. While the proposed port is fully authorized as far as the State of Indiana is concerned, one “cloud” remains over the whole project. This is a nuisance bill now before the U. S. Senate which proposes to create a Dunes National Park at the Southern tip of Lake Michigan, thus sidetracking the port plans. The Dunes National Park proposal was introduced by Illinois Senator Paul Douglas when it became obvious that the port idea was going to “go” in Indiana.
Who Was At Fault? Once there was a little boy. When he was three weeks old his parents turned him over to a baby-sitter. When he was two, they dressed him in a cowboy suit and gave him a gun. When he was three, everyone said, “How cute!” as he went about lisping a beer jingle. When he was six, his father occasionally dropped him off at church on his way to play golf. When he was eight, they bought him a BB gun and taught him to shoot sparrows. He learned to shoot windshields and windows by himself. When he was ten, he spent his time after school squatting at the drug store news stand reading horror comics. His dad wasn’t home and his mother was busy.
Political Participation
An inkling of the reason why people don’t vote came our way recently that at first we thought was fantastic. We do not say that it is a majority reason, but after several campaigns we’ve taken part in to stir the vote, and the results as reflected in the voting records, we’re suspicious. The reason: Many people hold very strong religious views. They feel that if they conduct themselves in those beliefs they’ve done their job as life is concerned. They are suspicious of political activity because they view it as not always honest, and they distrust its main operators. Strange ? Maybe it seems so at first, but consider we have two points. First of all, our public political participation is not very pretty. Secondly, our people are
The Weekly Regains Prestige
—From “Enjoy, Enjoy,” by Harry Golden World Pub. Co., New York and Cleveland The weekly press is regaining the prestige and influence it had at the turn of the century. After the first decade of the 900’s, the weeklies around the country began to slide downward. The reason was William Randolph Hearst. Whatever one may think of Mr. Hearst’s life and politics, he put a new vitality into his papers around the country. He applied the personal touch; he made contact with the people and kept it for 30 years. The people in the cities, in the counties, and in the country grabbed his papers. Gradually the weekly press took a back seat, and coming out of the depression, the weeklies were associated mostly with the lists of delinquent county taxpayers, or the medium used by lawyers
4FrankAWMe INDIANA’S MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM IS A TWO-SIDED COIN, GOOD AND ALSO BAD. HALF OF THOSE IN O U R STATE MENTAL INSTITUTIONS GET ONLY CUSTODY. REHABILITATION WOULD PAY RICH DIVIDENDS IN THE LONG RUN. INDIANA MENTAL HEALTH IS A TWO-SIDED COIN HERE Indiana’s state mental health situation can be painted in bright
While it might be nice to have a national park in Indiana, the real reason for the proposal was to prevent the building of this important facility which would no doubt take a good deal of business away from the Port of Chicago. The farm production of one out of every 6 Indiana acres is sold abroad. Such exports bring an average annual income of about $2,000 to each Hoosier farmer. And, the Indiana Port would put Hoosier farmers on the main line to most world markets. If we must choose between a port and sport, then Hoosier economic development demands the port. When he was thirteen he told his parents tha* other boys stayed out as late as they wanted to, so they said he could, too; it was easier that way. When he was sixteen, they gave him a deadly two-ton machine, wrangled a license for him to drive it, and told him to be careful. When he was not yet seventeen the police called his home one night and said, “We have your boy; he’s in trouble.” “In trouble?” screamed the father, “it can’t be!” But it was. If you are looking for a moral in all this it might be this. AS THE TWIG IS BENT — IT MAY SLAP BACK IN YOUR FACE.
known for strong religious affiliation, •a strong beliefs. Another point: All of us have wondered about those who sing the loudest on Sunday, and in business and ordinary life act the meanest on Monday through Saturday. We are not slyly trying to advocate any juncture of state and church. But we think that the people who fail to apply their religious principles in everyday life, and in politics, are misleading themselves. The Bible says something that can be found in all religions, the Lord helps those who help themselves. Honest, full participation by honest, sincere people in politics can change its complexion.
for divorce notices and other legals to make sure that no one connected with the case would see it. But all of that has changed. As fast as the weekly press continues to go up, the daily press is going down. I do not mean down necessarily in earnings. The dailies made mistakes during the wave of prosperity and easy advertising dollars. The major mistake was that the daily lost contact with the people. Into this breach the weekly press jumped with both feet. The vigor of the daily press is slowly disappearing and in its place we have what is known now as “objectivity,” a virtue which the weekly press wisely has not embraced. The weeklies are informing their readers; they are not so much obsessed with the idea of entertaining; and they are providing food for thought with every paper that rolls off the press.
pastels of optimism or black shadows of despair. Dick Martin, press secretary to the Governor, and before him Her-
bert Hill, can take a report and turn out a most comforting piece under the Governor’s name regarding mental health. Both political parties do this. The State House is on Washing ton street and going further west on the same street,
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one comes to the Indiana Central hospital. This ramshackle old firetrap, popularly called “seven steeples,” was built in 1878 and has had little upkeep and repair since. There, crowded together are over 1,000 mentally ill patients, most of them women. They live in
housing conditions that a progressive Indiana farmer would not > tolerate for his cattle. We have live wire county and local mental health associations and a state association. But in general, Hoosiers are notoriously apathetic to the tragedy of mental health. They get excited only when what is known as a “mental breakdown” comes to a member of the immediate family, or other loved one. Rocketing population piles up these cases a for the human mind is infinitely more complicated than a watch, and can get out of fix. Confronted with this crisis, perhaps with a mother, father, sister, t son or daughter, beserk and per- . haps violent, we then set out for t aid. 1 CRUEL FACTS FACE THOSE ’ WITH MENTAL ILLNESSES • About the first thing we learn is that it takes around S3O a day i to get a bed for a mental patient
U Gm/ BY AMY ADAMS /
THEY’RE BOTH SPEECHLESS
Dear Amy: 1 My husband and I have a prob- i lem. We had an argument seven i weeks ago and we haven’t spoken | to each other since. I refuse to give in because he is wrong. He ] -> won’t give in either, but I’m weakening before he is and I don’t I want to. •; i I would appreciate any suggestions. Please print the letter and answer in the paper and I’ll put it where he can read it. Weakening Dear Weakening: The one that is more intelligent and that has the most common sense will give in first and you BOTH can decide to whom this applies! Dear Amy: I have two grandsons. My daughters expect me to baby-sit for their children constantly. All my time is taken up for them. After all, I would like to have a little free time for myself. I raised my children. Don’t you think they should raise their own children? I don’t want to hurt my daughters’ feelings. Do you think I should tell them or keep it to myself? Nana Dear Nana: I think you’re right! You should tell your daughters if you feel they are taking advantage of you. If you make it too easy for them to unload their brood, they might surprise you with a few more! • • • Dear Amy: I have a problem in my office. Everyone but myself is either on a diet or talking about food and weight. It’s driving me batty. When I bring a piece of cake with my lunch, they make me feel like a criminal. One girl told another girl I brought fattening things on purpose just to make her drool. I’ve always been rather slim and can’t help it if she is overweight. These girls are ruining what once was a pleasant job. Any suggestions?. Slim Dear Slim:, People who are fighting the battle of the bulge need all the help they can get. Slip away and eat the sweets in private like a good girl. • * • ?. Dear Amy: The high school prom is coming up soon and I was lucky enough
in a private hospital, if the hospital will take the patient. Next thing we learn, is that the state institutions are jam packed and there is a waiting list as of the writing of this column, of 1, 083 mentally sick. State mental health institutions are 30 per cent overcrowded.
About the only recourse is around the clock home care with members of the family taking the load, or putting the patient, if violent, in jail. And when it comes to putting mother, father, son, daughter in a jail cell, when they are desperately ill, the full tragedy of Indiana’s mental health inadequacies come home. The economy wave of Governor Matthew E. Welsh, overall commendatory as it is, with a cut of employes has hurt the mental care program. Mental health care has been kicked about by previous governors of both parties. There isn’t enough physicians, ward attendants and all classes of help in Indiana mental institutions to care for the ill. Along with the economy spurt, came the 40hour week for state institution, help authorized by the last legislature, about 15 years late. The wards and the mental hospitals have to be manned around the clock, 24 hours a day. The 40hour week has stretched the attendant and help problem to the breaking point. An attendant at night may find himself looking after three wards instead of one. At feeding times the situation is chaotic. Some of the most promising aspects of treatment of the mentally ill, looking to their eventual discharge, have had to be junked. It is tragic that half the inmates of our mental institutions get only custodial care. Many more could be salvaged with overall big savings to taxpayers, were sufficient money per patient spent for rehabilitation. Indiana faces an acute shortage of treatment personnel. Dr. Stew- ■ are T. Ginsberg, State Mental Health Commissioner, has patience that rivals that of Job of Biblical times. His is an understatement of fact, when he said: '■A high rate of personnel turnover still exists and salaries are no longer competitive with other agencies or mental health institutions of sourrounding states.” SAFETY THOUGHT—Six out of 10 drivers involved in fatal crashes violated some visible reminder of the law, says the Indiana Traffic Foundation, Protect yourself. Know and obey traffic signs and signals. WINONA LAKE BIBLE CONFERENCE TO CONVENE The 69th annual Winona Lake Bible Conference will convene on these historic conference grounds, July 22 through August 26. Rev. Gordon L. Beck, executive manager, announces that 1962 promises to be a record breaking season, both from the standpoint of interest and attendance.
to be asked by two boys. They are as different as night and day and I don’t know which one to go with. One boy is and very popular. The-other one is a real brain, doesn’t dress sharp and has sad eyes like a poodle. I’d like to go with the first boy because I’d be the Queen of the Prom, but for some strange reason, I’m attracted to ‘poodles.’ Could you help me make up my mind? Marilyn Dear Marilyn: That strange feeling you have is your heart talking. Poodles do have away of getting under one’s skin, and as long as he doesn’t bite, accept his invitation. * •.. • Dear Amy: I was happily married until my husband got a job as a cookie salesman. When he comes home at night he tells me all about the “cute cookies” he meets in his day’s work. This infuriates me because I don’t know whether to believe him or not. He’s always teasing me. Do you think I have anything to worry about? Very Annoyed Dear Annoyed: He’s teasing because you’re taking it too seriously. Where is your sense of humor? Don’t worry about the “cookies” asi long as he brings home the bacon! • * • Dear Amy: I’ve been noticing a change in my husband for several months. When I came across a girl’s telephone number in his pocket I knew I had found the answer. I railed her up and she said they dated a few times but she certainly didn’t know he was married. Should I tell him I know about her or just go around with the knowledge bubbling inside me? Must Know Dear Must: ‘Old Faithful’ bubbles too before it blows its top. Before you blow yours, tell all and insist that he do likewise! • • • Please address all letters to: AMY ADAMS c/o THIS NEWSPAPER For a personal reply enclose aa addressed stamped envelope.
FARM NOTESlffa&
By DONALD FRANTZ Agriculture Extension Agent The sign up period for the 1962 Feed Grain program will end March 31. The provisions are the same as last year; essentially as follows. Anyone who has a com base on their land can sign a contract to take a portion of it out of production and receive a payment on it. It becomes about the same as a cash lease to the government for a year. The minimum amount that can be signed up is 20 per cent, the maximum 40 per cent of the base. The first 20 per cent is contracted at a lower figure than the second 20 per cent or fraction thereof. Much has been said about the effectiveness or lack of it of the 1961 program. It depends largely upon the position you take regarding such things. We did have a good com year and certainly that had a big effect upon the carryover. We also had a lot of com in storage and some of that is being moved and that has had a big effect on the price. Personally, I doubt if we can really say that the program was a big success or failure. It did reduce the amount of com and it has reduced the surplus. It has also cost a lot of money, much of which was financed through the sale of our previous supply on hand. If we should have had a crop year of 10 per cent below normal instead of the best yield in record, it would have been a different story. The 1962 activities in 4-H club work are off and running. Our office is busy in distributing record books, training new leaders and planning activities. Jack Hart, assistant county agent, is in charge of the 4-H administrative work and of the 4-H agricultural activities. Mrs. Ruth McCleary, home demonstration agent, is in charge of girls’ work and has working with her, Mrs. Pat Lucas, who will work part time through June. Mrs. Lucas has the responsibility of organizing girls’ clubs and training new leaders and assisting the experienced ones. There are 17 new girls’ club leaders this year. We are expecting a county enrollment of somewhere around 1,200 youngsters in 4-H work this year. There are nice incerases in some areas, one in particular is the girls’ program at Syracuse where the enrollment has doubled under the direction of Mrs. Baumgartner, the 4-H leader in that community. Projects have changed some in 4-H work but we still operate with the idea that the boy or girl is the important one, the project they take is secondary. They may make $2 worth of cookies or they may sell $2,000 worth of beef cattle but the club member and what they learn and how they learn it
still is the big objective.
Very' soon now some people will be seriously bothered by large numbers of two relatively new insects. They are cluster flies and face flies. These both overwinter in houses and as soon as the attics begin to warm up they will come out. They congregate around windows in large numbers, often in rooms that are not regularly used. The cluster fly is a little bigger than a common house fly and more sluggish. They are stupid acting things that often fly aimlessly, apparently feed on nothing and do no great harm. They don’t do any good either. Face flies are the ones that have become such a pest on cattle. They look almost exactly like a housefly and they get into houses in the fall and come out in the spring. They hibernate in the walls and other inaccessible places. There are several control measures but none are real good because the best chemicals are a little dangerous. We have recipes for different methods. If it will help any, the scientific names are Pollenia rudis and Musca autumnalis for these two pests. Many people have asked which is the best hybrid to use this year. The evidence is not clear. There were 82 counties with 5-acre corn projects last year and in 72 of them the winner was identified as to varieties. Twenty-three different names appeared in the kinds of varieties and there would be at least a dozert different pedigrees among the named hybrids.
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Little Chats ON Public Notice By James E. Pollard Copyright 1960 (No. 29 in a Series) Much has been made in the United States in recent , years about freedom of information or the people’s right to know. Agitation over the principle involved grew out of an increasing trend toward secrecy in government. This has been true at both the national and state levels. Part of this tendency toward secrecy grew out of World War H and the undeclared Korean war and what followed. Some of this could be defended at the time because national security demanded it. But this attitude of mind on the part of bureaucracy and officialdum continued long after any real need for secrecy had passed.
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This tendency was reflected, for example, in such elementary matters as local school boards meeting behind closed doors. Reaction to the policy of needless secrecy in public or official matters took several forms. One was the passage in a number of states of so-called “open meetings” laws. Freedom of Information” committees were set up by the American Society of Newspaper Editors, by the professional journalism society of Sigma Delta Chi, and by various state newspaper associations. The fight for freedom of information is related directly to the principle underlying public notice, or legal advertising. This, too, rests upon the basic right of the people to know, especially where their individual or collective rights are at stake. And it is no accident that it is invariably the local newspaper of paid general circulation that serves as the chief medium for the publication flf such notices as provided by law.