The Mail-Journal, Volume 6, Number 13, Milford, Kosciusko County, 30 April 1969 — Page 9

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EDITORIALS

Tomorrow's May Day . . .

Where has time gone? Tomorrow is May 1 and it’s a busy day in the country. May day has been celebrated by many peoples for many reasons since remote times. It is now a holiday celebrated throughout much of the world commemorating the international solidarity of workingmen. May day is recognized as a labor holiday in the U. S. and has been rec-

For The Rights Os Americans

In our opinion the California jury that found 25-year-old Sirhan Bishara Sirhan guilty and condemned him to death last week was speaking for the rights of Americans when they handed in their virdict. Sirhan is now slated for death in the gas chamber. However, judge Herbert V. Walker set May 14 as the date for hearing-motions for a new trial. There is an automatic appeal of death sentences in California courts which is good. It too protects the rights of Americans. At the hearing the judge can pronounce sentence or defer it. In 19 capital cases that have been before him, judge Walker has exercised the prerogative only once. California, like many other states, has not put a criminal to death for more than two years. This we contend is not for the rights of Americans. Why should men be allowed to take the lives of others then receive only light sentences or be freed to kill again. It’s the lack of punishment that has increased America’s crime rate the way it is. Why shouldn’t people do what they know is against the law when they know there is only light punishment for a crime. The Delinquents We read in the papers, we hear on the air, of killing and stealing, and crime everywhere. We sigh and we say, as we notice the trend, “This young generation, where will it end.” But can we be sure, that it’s their fault alone? That maybe most of it, isn’t really our own? Too much money to spend; Too much idle time; Too many movies, of passion and crime; Too many books, not fit to read; Too much of evil, in what they hear said; Too many children encouraged to roam, by too many parents, who won’t stay at home.

Bayh Introduces Bill Calling For An Office Os Executive Management

WASHINGTON, D. C„ April 25 — Senator Birch Bayh (D-lnd.) introduced a bill to establish an Office of Executive Management in the Executive Office of the President. Bayh said, “The Office of Executive Management is designed to provide the President 'with the appropriate organizational strucJJure and tools necessary to main- / tain adequate organizational and \ management programs.” \JEnis office would be concerned with the following activities: 1. Program review and evaluation. 2. Organization and manpower review and evaluation. 3. Executive manpower assignment. 4. Legislative proposal and executive order review.

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ognized since the agitation by labor organizations in 1886 for the establishment of the eight hour day. May 1 is also law day in the U. S. and is to fester deeper respect for law, encourage responsible citizenship and emphasize rule of law vs rule of force. The day is observed by Presidential proclamation and is sponsored by the American Bar association.

Criminals and law breakers seem to be flourishing in this day and age and respect for the law is almost a thing of the past. It’s time for an about face. Time to start protecting the rights that our forefathers gave us years ago. Time to give fit punishmeht for crimes and not protect the wrong doers. Even the Bible has given harsh punishment to those who do wrong. Just because we don’t agree with a politician we should not be free to kill as Sirhan did when he shot Robert F. Kennedy last June. Every man and woman in this country has the right to speak on what he believes in and if the rest cf us don’t agree we should campaign and vote against that politician, not kill him. It’s time for a revolution in America! Not one with weapons but one for changing back to the laws of the land. One where the mother and father, not the children rule the households of the land. One for the protection of all whether they be white or black or red or yellow. One for the protection of those who do right. One that will truly make us proud to be Americans.

Kids don’t make the movies, they don’t write the books, that paint a gay picture, of gangsters and crooks. They don’t make the liquor, they don’t run the bars; They don’t make the laws, and they don’t drive the cars. They don’t make the drugs, that addle the brain; It’s all done by older folk, greedy for gain. Thus in so many cases, it must be confessed, the label “Delinquent,” fits older folks best. — The Patriot, Adelaide, S. Australia

5. Management information system development. 6. Statistical standards development. 7. Electronic data processing coordination. Senator Bayh stated that the establishment of an Office of Executive Management was needed because of the many current problems resulting from inadequate organizational and management planning. “’Present federal executive management is characterized by inadequate program organization, extensive duplication of effort, substantial overlap of functions, major conflicts in agency policy and lack of coordination in interagency programs.” Bayh pointed out while many of these deficiencies in the Ex-

ecutive Branch management operations had been recognized, no effective action had been taken to rectify them. He noted in February of this year President Nixon had issued a memorandum to agency heads commenting on ties and excessive overhead in all agencies and departments.” Consumer advocate Ralph Nader has ascribed the failure of many federal agencies to meet their consumer protection responsibilities as stemming from a lack of effective internal review and evaluation of program and administrative management. Former Presidential Assistant McGeorge Bundy likewise described the current status of federal executive management as “dangerously weak in its own internal capacity for sustained, coordinated, and energetic action. Bayh stated that it was time to take action to provide for a continuing, systematic, and detailed review of Federal executive management. He commented upon the fact that Presidential advisory commissions in the past, although meritorious, have had the weakness of being “one shot’ attempts and did not deal with immediate and continuous organizational and management problems and planning. You And Social Security Q — My wife recently died leaving me with two minor children. She stopped working several years ago. Will there be any social security payment on her account? A— If your wife worked long enough under social security, there would be a deith payment and monthly ’benefits for your children. You vome in to the social and file a claim.

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Know Your F Indiana Law - By JOHN J. DILLON Attorney at Law This is a public service article explaining provisions of Indiana law in general terms. '/

'Who Gets The Divorce?'

As previously explained in this series of articles, the person who proves to the satisfaction of the court their cause for divorce, is granted the divorce. The complaining party must establish one of the eight statutory causes for divorce is present or the court cannot grant a divorce. Since most divorces are granted on a non-contested basis the various theories that can constitute grounds for divorce are largely academic. Every lawyer knows that a truly contested divorce case is one that can be difficult to win. The reason for this is the fault must lie general-

Special Report From Washington

§ WASHINGTON — Cornell Uni-' vcrsity came closer to armed violence last week than generally was reported. ? ;< The wire services and TV networks played up the black students armed with shotguns and $; rifles. Little was said about the ;$ rightwing white students who were organizing to drive the I;!; blacks off the campus by force, until blacks, stirred up so much •$ student support that the rightwingers abandoned their plan. They contented themselves with burning a cross outside a black •$ co-ed cooperative. •$ This illustrates the dangerous . polarization that is taking place X on college campuses across the nation. At one extreme are the militants, both white and black. $ who can be described as America’s “Red Guards.” They aren’t interested in genuine reforms. >• They seek only confrontation and $ chaos. Their aim is to overthrow democracy in the U. S. At the other extreme, neo-Na-zis have now taken control of the former Youth for Wallace organization /.which campaigned X for candidate George Wallace last year. Just X as Adolph’Hitler fought his way •J: to power m Germany by making communists his targets, A- $ merican neo-Nazis are organiz- $ ing rightwing students to battle the militant leftwing students. They quietly took over the $ Youth for Wallace organization by getting control of its pursestrings. They renamed it the National Youth Alliance, adopted the Nazi credo as its guiding S; philosophy, launched a propaganda campaign against campus communists and have organized •I; rallies across the nation at uni-

ly with one party. Few cases come to my attention in which there is complete innocence on either side. Also, in Indiana we recognize the defense of condonation. That is, if the cruel acts complained of are condoned or forgiven by the injured party and the parties go on living together as man and wife, then these cruel acts no longer constitute grounds for divorce. Again our everyday experience points up the fact that in many marriages what could constitute grounds for divorce are corrected within the family without legal intervention. Since most divorces are grant-

versities such as Georgia Tech in Atlanta, UCLA in Los Angeles and Brigham Young university in Provo, Utah. At Wayne State university in Detroit they organized a “shock squad” armed with rifles and trained in karate. National NYA leaders are now agitating to meet violence with violence on campus. If the new left occupies a building by force, the NYA threatens it will remove them by force. At the moment, the NYA is in turmoil. The Nazi takeover was so subtle that most of the youth leaders didn’t realize it until last month. They tried to oust them, but they had dug in too solidly. The Nazis not only controlled the finances but also had gained custody of the membership and contributors lists. As a result, most of the old NYA leaders have resigned. But the Nazis are carrying on. SCHOOL CLOSINGS The U. S. Office of Education has reported that teachers and administrators in some school districts are deliberately forcing school closings as a lesson to penny-pinching parents. In districts whose voters rejected the school bond issues, the officials are refusing to cut corners and trim costs. Instead, they are spending money at the full rate until it runs out, then closing down the schools. Thus the officials and teachers are forcing the voters to realize that not until they raise the necessary money for school programs will their children be able to get a full education. END OF A FEUD The long feud between Richard Nixon and Earl Warren cam? to a formal end last week. The two California Republicans ' IM

ed on an uncontested basis with one party not even present in the court room, the State of Indiana steps into the divorce case. Where one party is not present either in person or by counsel, then the prosecutor of the circuit must appear to nominally contest the divorce. The prosecutor makes certain that prceess in the case is regular and that the complaining party can establish a basis for granting of the divorce. If the party seeking to obtain a divorce fails by sufficient evidence to prove statutory grounds for divorce, then the court must deny the divorce. This is so, even though the presumption is that the party to the marriage who is absent does not object to the granting of the divorce. Next week I will discuss “Limited Divorce.” FERTILIZE LAWNS Fertilize lawns in early spring with a fertilizer high in nitrogen, low in phosphorous and medium in potassium, advise extension turf specialists at Purdue university. Apply at a rate of one pound actual N per 1,000 square feed (more if slow release).

had scarcely spoken to one another except at ceremonial functions since Nixon, working inside the California delegation in the 1952 GOP presidential contest. fought to block Warren as a favorite-son candidate. But last Wednesday, the President held a black-tie dinner in the Chief Justice’s honor. He also invited all of Warren’s children — three boys and three girls — to the White House and introduced them to the distinguished assemblage. Afterward, the President tcok the entire Warren family upstairs to the private Presidential quarters for a friendly visit. AID TO ARAB—TERRORISTS This column has reported previously that American oil companies have been contributing to the Arab guerrila groups that have been raiding Israel. In most cases, the company contributions have been made officially to Arab governments or refugee organizations. But some of the oil money definitely has found its way to the commandos. A spokesman for the Arabian-American Oil Company admitted to us that the company has no way of knowing whether its contributions are used to buy milk for Palestinian refugees or guns for Palestinian guerrillas. We can now report that the Kuwait government has brought pressure upon two American oil companies, Gulf and Getty, to deduct Palestinian Contributions from the salaries of employees. The deductions amount to between three and five per cent of their pay. The money is turned over to an official oil affairs office. How it is distributed is a secret of the Kuwait government." But the

Congressional Comer: John Brademas Reports From Washington

Legislative Action On Tax Reform Hopeful During Cureent Session

An issue which is sure to provoke much controversy, but hope, fully some legislative action during the 'current session of Congress is tax reform. For the first time in several years, there has developed a strong and broad-based movement in the House and Senate, as well as among the general public, to remove some of the glaring inequities of the present Federal income tax system. Former Secretary of the Treasury Joseph W. Barr called attention to the need for tax reform last January when he warned that a “taxpayers revolt” was inevitable unless the new Administration took action to equalize the tax burden at all income levels. For it is a sad fact that America’s 50 million middle and lower income taxpayers have borne a disproportionate share of the tax burden, while several multimillionaires have totally escaped taxation. A few days ago President Nixon sent a message to Congress in which he made several proposals for reform of the nation’s tax system. Two of his recommendations are especially interesting. Th? first would provide a “low income allowance” for taxpayers below the poverty level. This action would remove 2,000,000 poor people from the tax rolls. The second proposal is for a “minimum income tax” for people in the higher income brackets. Its effect would be to limit to 50 per cent of total income the amount which any person can deduct by making use of tax preferences. Following the lead of Democratic Members of the House who in caucus last week urged a suspension of the seven per cent investment tax credit for business, President Nixon endorsed such a repeal and also asked for a reduction of the 10 per cent surcharge on income tax to five per cent. The President’s proposals are steps in the right direction. Unfortunately they do not go far enough. For even if adapted, it would still be possible, under the Nixon proposals, for a person with a million dollars in income to escape taxation altogether. Several more comprehensive tax reform bills have been proposed by Members of Con-

gress, including one which I introduced two months ago. These measures go more directly to the heart of the problem by repealing or reducing many cf tire tax preferences which can no longer be justified. The House Ways and Means Committee is currently holding hearings on tax reform. Chairman Wilbur Mills has indicated that he intends to go beyond the Nixon proposals in seeking improvements in the system. ELEMENTARY ANI», SiXTONDDARY EDUCATION ACT Last week the House of Representatives by a vote of 400-17 agreed to an extension of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. The nearly unanimous approval of the House gives some indication of the extent to which Federal aid to education, once a highly controversial issue, ha? become accepted by the American people. The ESEA has greatly strengthened education by providing dollars to supplement the limited resources of local school and by supporting sevveral innovative approaches to education. By far the greatest part of these funds, however, have gone into programs to upgrade the education of disadvantaged children Unfortunately, an amendment to the bill was adopted which may have the effect of reducing the effectiveness of ESEA programs. The amendment provided for a two-year extension of ESEA programs, instead of the five-year extension originally propbsed by the Committee on Education and Labor. The five-year extension would have given local school administrators greater of continued federal support and enabled them to plan more effectively for the future. The amendment also consolidated into one general program four specific educational programs which previous’y had been funded and administered separately. The effect of this change will be to increase state control over the programs and decrease control by local school systems. TOMMK MMH UNIVERSITY I CENTENNIAL [|||L Jll

By DREW PEARSON And JACK ANDERSON i leading ,guerrilla organizations have representatives in Kuwait and obviously get some of their money there. BUSY CABINET President Nixon has asked his • Cabinet officers to attend so many interdepartmental meetings that they have hardly the time to run their departments. Their attendance, for example, is mandatory at Cabinet meetings. The President himself presides over the Urban Affairs Council, so the Cabinet members feel they must attend these meetings, too. Now the President is setting up an Environmental Quality Council, which will get his same personal attention. When the President is too busy to preside over meetings he has instructed his Cabinet that he expects them to attend anyway. He doesn’t want them slighting Vice President Agnew, who presides in the President’s absence. In addition to these meetings, the President has established several Cabinet-level task forces. which also demand the time , J and attention of the Cabinet of- .. < ficers. < ETHICS LOOPHOLE Congressional staffers have quietly answered the financial questionnaires required Under the new Senate-House codes of ethics. The purpose supposedly is to prevent another Bobby Baker scandal. However, there is at least one gaping loophole in the questionnaires. Although staff members are required to list all gifts they receive above a nominal value, they are not asked to list gifts to their wives. So the word’s out to the givers: In the future, address all gifts to the wives.