The Mail-Journal, Volume 6, Number 12, Milford, Kosciusko County, 23 April 1969 — Page 7

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Don't Forget The Time...

Don’t forget to change your clocks next Saturday night before you go to bed or you might find yourself an hour late for church services next Sunday morning. If you prefer you could set your alarm for 2 a. m. Sunday then change your clocks as that’s when the official time changes. From 2 a.m. on Sunday, April 27, until 2 am. on Sunday, Oct. 26, we will be observing Daylight Savings Time. The uniform time act of 1966 provides that standard time in each zone be advanced one hour from 2 a.m. on 50 Years Ago -1919 Did you know it was just 50 years ago that the 18th amendment (liquor prohibition) was ratified. It didn’t take effect until January 16, 1920, but the prohibition enforcement (Volstead) act was passed by Congress in 1919. The amendment was repealed by the 21st amendment in 1933. The World War Peace conference began in Paris on January 18 with the unanimous adoption of resolution for the creation of the League of Nations on January 25. The peace treaty was signed at Versaille on June 28. The American Legion was chartered by Congress in September of that year and celebrations in observance the 50th anniversary of that organization have been held throughout the nation. Henry Ford sued the Chicago Tribune for $1,000,000 and after a long Guaranteed Income Guaranteeing everybody an adequate income might seem to be the most direct and simple method to end poverty. But it could be the most destructive, according to a Stanford university economist. Dangers in the various income supplement proposals, such as the Negative Income Tax and tips Guaranteed Annual Income, are easily apparent, says Roger A. Freeman, senior staff member of the university’s Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. Easy access to public funds, in Freeman’s opinion, is economically wasteful and socially destructive. “There is an inherent danger,” he says, “in dividing the people into two classes: those who produce and pay taxes and those who are permanently dependent on the public treasury although they could perform useful work.” Freeman says society does owe its members an opportunity to earn a living, and he calls on the nation to maintain adequate incentives to work rather than incentives not to work, as some of the currently proposed income maintenance programs would do.

Bayh Co-Sponsors Bill To Provide Uniform 24-Hour Voting Period

WASHINGTON, D. C. - Senator Birch Bayh (D-Ind.l joined Senator Howard Baker in co-sponsoring a bill to provide a uniform 24hour voting period for polling places in federal elections. The Baker-Bayh bill would set the same opening time for all voting places in the U. S.: 11 a.

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the last Sunday in April until 2 a.m. on the last Sunday in October. The only exception: When a state legislature provides an exemption. The Indiana legislature provided the exemption but Governor Whitcomb vetoed it. We therefore must move our clocks ahead one hour to stay within the law. There are many pros and cons to the advanced time but since federal regulations say we MUST make the change and the Governor vetoed the exemption we will all be getting* up an hour earlier next Sunday morning like it or not. four-month libel trial he was awarded six cents damages and costs. President Woodrow' Wilson collapsed on September 25 following a speech at Pueblo, Colo., part of a cross-country speech making tour aimed at winning support for the League of Nations which he thought the U. S. should join. He suffered two strokes within the following 10 days and remained an invalid during much of the balance of his of lice term, although he gradually regained his strength. The Senate voted against the Versailles Treaty with its League Covenant on March 19,1920, thus giving Wilson another defeat. Songs of the year were “Alice Blue Gown,” “How Ya Gonna Keep ’Em Down on The Farm,” “I’m Forever Blow - ing Bubbles,” “My Buddies,” and “A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody.” “If a 4-person family can get from the government without work $3,335 and a household of different size a proportionate amount - who w ill take a job paying $3,500, $4,000 or $4,500?,” Freeman asks. “Entire occupations would be wiped out ... a large part of the labor force would immediately retire and most agricultural employment would end. . . . The combined impact of demand-push and cost-push inflation and a reduced supply of goods w ould be overwhelming and the ‘noble experiment’ would soon collapse of its own weight.” Such considerations, added Freeman, are deemed irrelevant by enthusiasts who hold that human dignity and social justice give everyone an absolute right to an adequate income from the government. But who is “the government” but the people who work and pay taxes. Thus, says Freeman, to give people who prefer leisure to work a claim on the product of those who choose to work, forces the latter group into an involuntary servitude, a new* form of slavery. — LaGrange Standard

m. EST, 10 a.rn. CST, 9 a.m. MST, 8 a.m. PST, and 6 a.m. in the Alaska-Hawaii time zone. The bill also states that all polling place will close simultaneously. Senator Bayh pointed out that the uniform closing provision would eliminate any possibility

of early election returns affecting other areas which were still open to voting. Bayh also observed tfye limited time standards, now in effect at nolling places, make it difficult for many voters to cast their ballots and could be a factor in the low voter turn-out in the United States: “Factors such as a man’s working hours, congested polling areas, working mothers, the problem of getting baby sitters, and other unexpected difficulties make it hard for the voter to cast his vote within the prescribed time.” “In the 1968 elections only 62 per cent of qualified U. S. voters cast their votes. And the United States does not even rate among the fop in voter turn-out among democratic nations.” The Senator said the bill should make it convenient for more voters to participate and would help to broaden electoral participation in American elections. Bayh concluded, “The Baker bill not only is practical but also is important because it recognizes an firea which has heretofore been overlooked. We have been negligent in keeping our electoral procedures abreast with the times. Reform is needed now if we are to have a truly broad-based democratic system By extending the voting period to 24 hours, more people will have the opportunity to participate in elections. The bill is a good step towards the inclusion — not the exclusion of the Amcrican voter.”

’GET THEE BEHIND US !’ i ' UB( -

Know Your Indiana Law _ By JOHN J. DILLON JtfWk Attorney at Law This is a public service article explaining provisions of Indiana law in general terms. Custody Os Minor Children In Divorce Cases

No more poignant tragedy ever takes place in a court room than that raised by the court in awarding custody of minor children in a divorce case. It is often said by veterans of many a court room battle that the true losers in a divorce case are the minor children of the marriage. In spite of the fact that most judges feel that making this judgment is one of their most distasteful duties, they realize they have to exercise their discretion and make an award of

Special Report From Washington

WASHINGTON — This is Adolf Hitler’s birthday. Had he not committed suicide in an underground Berlin bunker, he would have been 80 years old Sunday (April 20). Reason for mention of this fact is not to commemorate Hitler’s birthday, but to guard against repetition of the evils he unloosed. Today in the United States these forces are at work again, some of them very secret. And, believe it or not, there will be secret t celebrations of Hitler’s birthday by a neo-Nazi movement which includes men of some standing in certain communities. a They have organized under the * banner of Francis Parker Yockey, a dead man, just as the John Birch Society organized under the name of John Birch, who was shot and killed in China. Yockey, following Hitler’s example, committed suicide, June 17. 1960, in a San Francisco jail. Yockey updated the Nazi philosophy in a pseudo-intellectual book called “Imperium,” which has become the “Mein Kampf” of the new movement. Willis Carto founded the movement after visiting Yockey on the eve of his suicide. Carto is a skillful backstage political operator. He established the Liberty Lobby, which conducts an $850,000-a-year effort on Capitol Hill and has been a strong booster of Otto Otepka, the $14,000 State Department official who was dropped for leaking classified documents and has nw been promoted to a $36,000 job by Nixon. Otepka’s rightwing attorney, also backed by the Liberty Lobby, has been appointed to the U. S. Court of Appeals.

custody where minor children are involved in a divorce case. Paramount in the judge’s mind when making this decision must be the welfare of the children. To do what is best for the children the law in Indiana gives the judge great discretion in awarding custody. The judge may award custody to the mother, or to the father, or to both, or to a neighbor. This last alternative comes as a surprise to some litigants in a divorce case. The law gives the judge the power, if he feels it is in the best interest

Last year, Carto also founded the United Congressional Appeal. which, passed out $90,000 to * a long list of conservative Congressional candidates. The largest donations — $4,500 apiece — went to Archie Gubbrud, the Republican who ran against Sen. George McGovern in South Dakota. and George Hanson, the Republican who tried to unseat Sen. Frank Church in Idaho. Smaller, $2,500 contributions were distributed to Max Rafferty, who ran against Sen. Alan Johnson, who opposed Sen. J. William Fulbright in Arkansas; and Sen. Ed Gurney, who defeated ex-Gov. Leroy Collins in Florida. Another SI,OOO went to Sen. Henry Bellmon, who unseated Sen. Mike Monroney in Okalahoma. g MORE CONGRESSIONAL RECIPIENTS CARTO'S UNITED Congressional Appeal made $3,000 contributions to Rep. Ross Adair of Indiana, James Quillen of Tennessee, and John Rarick of Louisiana. Additional $2,000 donations went to Reps. Walter Baring of Nevada, John Dowdy of Texas and Ed Foreman of New Mexico. Checks for SI,OOO were delivered to Reps. Ben Blackburn of Georgia, Bill Brock of Tennessee, Herb Burke of Florida. John Duncan of Tennessee, Lou Frey of Florida, Jim Halev of Florida, John Hammersehmidt of Arkansas. Albert Johnson of Pennsylvania, Dan Kuykendall of Tennessee. Earl Landgrebe of Indiana, Bob Price of Texas, John Saylor of- Pennsylvania, Henry Schadeberg of Wisconsin, Bill Scott of Virginia, H. Allen Smith of California, Gene Snyder of Kentucky. Sam Steiger of Arizona, Albert Watson of South Carolina. J. Irving Whalley of

of the children, to place them in the custody of complete strangers. The Supreme Court of Indiana has sustained a judge who placed the custody of minor children in an orphanage. This will undoubtedly shock some readers who probably thought mother would automatically be awarded custody of minor children. All things being equal, and particularly where the children are of tender years, the court will generally award custody to the mother. But this is because this is normally in the best interest of the children. So the important thing in custody questions is always what is best for the child, not what is best for the parents. This includes even excluding one parent from ever visiting their children. These are of course extreme situations and the courts try to arrive at a solution recognizing the strong parental feeling most parents have and therefore making the separation of the parents as untraumatic as possible to the children. Next week I will discuss who gets the divorce.

Pennsylvania and Roger Zion of Indiana. California Rep. James Utt, the chief congressional spokesman for the Liberty Lobby, received only a token SSOO. despite his loyalty. Carto economized because he considered Utt’s reelection for the ninth time reassured. Os all the candidates who accepted money from United Congressional Appeal, only Baring, Dowdy and Haley are Democrats. The candidates might have been unaware that UCA was controlled by neo-Nazis had it not been for the fact that Carto’s proNazi leanings have been thoroughly exposed in this column since October 1966. He signed the checks. Carto’s goal, as he stated in the foreword to “Imperium,” is to capture political power. “To the goal of political power, ’ he wrote, “all else must be temporarily sacrificed.” On Capitol Hill at least, he has had alarming success. 4 INFILTRATING THE PRESS HE HAS also succeeded in infiltrating the press. He has purchased financial control of the American Mercury established by the Baltimore iconoclast, H. L. Mencken. He also publishes various newsletters, including the Washington Observer which is sent to American Mercury subscribers. Insiders say that the American Mercury and Washington Observer have 8,000 paid subscribers. Carto’s boldest effort to influence the press, however, has been the creation of a Press Ethics Committee to police newspapermen. Its alleged aims are outlined in a confidential memo, which has been used to raise operating funds.

Congressional Comer: John Brademas Reports From Washington President Nixon Submits Long-Awaited Budget Proposals

Last week President Nixon submitted to Congress his long awaited budget proposals. The Nixon budget calls for reductions of $4 billion from the budget which President Johnson had drawn up before leaving office in January. In planning for a budgetary surplus of $5.8 billion for Fiscal Year 1970, President Nixon has again indicated that one of the highest priorities of his Administration will be to control inflation. In order to achieve this goal, however, the President proposes deep cuts in a number of important domestic programs. For example. Mr. Nixon wants to reduce Social Security benefits $1 billion below the level recommended by President Johnson. The Nixon budget slashes finds for education by nearly $370 million. including reductions of $lO7 million for university construction. The budget completely eliminates funds for elementary and secondary school library programs and cuts $56 million from funds for supplemental education centers and sfrvices. But the President proposes to trim only sl.l billion from the hugh defense budget of SBO billion. With such sharp cuts in domestic programs and such modest reductions in military spending, the President has set the stage for what will, hopefully. be a nationwide dialogue on the nation’s priorities. Library Hearings Last week I presided at the first series of hearings of the Select Subcommittee on Education, of which I became chairman at the start of this session. Our subcommittee heard testimony on a bill setting up a National Commission of Libraries and Information Science. The need for this commission was established in the recent report of the President’s Task Force which made several recommendations for improving the services offered by libraries and ether centers of information thruout the United States. In an age when the amount and kinds of information available to scholars and other users in every field of knowledge is growing at an astronomical rate, we must apply the most modern techniques available to storing books and other information ma-

terials and providing effective access to such materials. Among the, witnesses who testified in support of this measure was Dr. Herman Wells, for many years president of Indiana university and now Director of the IU Foundation. In the near future, my subcommittee plans to hold hearings on amendments to the Older Americans Act and on a bill to provide educational programs on the problem of drug abuse. Come to the Capitol! In recent weeks I have had the pleasure of meeting quite a few people from the Third District in my office in Washington. It is spring now in Washington, and the traditional throngs of visitors have arrived to savor the beauty of the nation s capitol. I’m glad so many Hoosiers have been able to spend some time here. To those of you who may be passing this way in the future, I want to extend a warm invitation to stop by my office, 2134 Ravburn House Office Building, and say hello. I would enjov seeing you and my staff will be pleased ’to arrange passes for you to visit the House and Senate. JillL and Social Security Q —I am receiving a student benefit under social security. I will be 22 in July of 1969. Can I get an extension of benefits since I have one more year of college to get my degree? A— No. There can be no extension of student benefits. Your payments will stop when you become 22. * * * Q—4 have a chance to return to work this year. How much can I earn and still receive all my social security payments? A—You may earn $1,680 in 1969 and still receive all your social security checks. If you expect to earn over $1,680, notify your social security office. You may still be eligible for some of your benefits even though you earn over $1,680.

By DREW PEARSON And JACK ANDERSON “We previously discussed the committee as a watchdog organization,” states the memo, “to which those of us who are still working newspapermen can submit information and documentation regarding the manufacture and slanting of news reports.” To lead this crusade against “slanted” reporting, Carto selected Frank Kluckhohn, who had been editing the Washington Observer. Kluckhohn was drop-’ ped by Sen. William Knowland’s campaign in California in 1958 and by the Republican National Committee m 1964, after which he became a hate-crusader for- - Billy Hargis’s Christian Crusade. In the name of press ethics, Kluckhohn plans to rate newspapermen and broadcasters. He also intends to “censure” those who don’t measure up to his rightwing standards. Meanwhile, Carto is planning to publish a paperback edition of “Imperium.” In the foreword, he assails Jews, Negroes and other “immigrants’ who allegedly have “Distorted” our “Aryan culture.” He also denounces those who „ fight the “culture distorters” with “tax deductible corporations, measured, moderate words and avoidance of extremists. These dainty combatants,” according to Carto, “swarm over every anticommunist movement like ants on sugar. By shrilly demonstrating their anti-communism they bribe their consciences to give them peace and often go so far as to join in the crucifixion of those few with moral courage.” These are some of those who commemorated Adolf Hitler’s birthday.