The Mail-Journal, Volume 7, Number 2, Milford, Kosciusko County, 11 February 1970 — Page 9

Mail L *-~*A I 4 PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY The Milford Mail (Eat 1888) Syracuse-Wawaoee Journal (Eat 1807) Consolidated Into The Mail-Journal Feb. 15, 1962 DEMOCRATIC ARCHIBALD E. BAUMGARTNER, Editor and Publisher DELLA BAUMGARTNER, Business Manager Box 8 Syracuse, Ind., — 46567

Mr. Lincoln

One hundred and sixty-one years ago tomorrow (Thursday, Feb. 12,) a son, Abraham, was born to Thomas and Nancy (Hanks) Lincoln in Hardin county, Ky. The Lincoln family moved to what is now Spencer county, Indiana, when Abe was eight years old. Two years later Mrs. Lincoln died and Abe was raised by a step-mother whom he dearly loved. As he reached manhood young Lincoln left the family farm and moved eventually to New Salem, 111., where he bought a store and served the town as postmaster before moving on to Springfield. In 1842 he and Mary Todd were married. In a sketch of his early life Abe said, “I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing, on an average, one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, grey eyes — no other marks or brands recollected.” He was the tallest of all U.S. Presidents. Lincoln became President on March 4, 1861, and on April 12 Confederate batteries opened fire on Fort Sumter*

Another Underhanded Scheme

In the name of environment control, predictions are made that in coming years the government will direct landuse, including decisions on farm practices. Apparently, the constitutional right of U.S. citizens to own property and to exercise that right, with a reasonable degree of freedom, is envisioned as superfluous and against the public interest. In the light of this, it is interesting to read about growing meat shortages and discontent among the Soviet people because of the harsh government farm policies. With minor exceptions, Russian peasants control

Still Good Advice...

Address delivered at the dedication of the cemetery at Gettysburg — November 19, 1863. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives, that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled

CAPITOL COMMENTS With SENATOR i VANCE Indiana *

Hartke Says That Indiana Crime Fighting Funds Are Misspent

LOGANSPORT. IND.. - „ Senator Vance Hartke charged today that federal crime fighting funds are being mismanaged and misused m Indiana. Speaking before Logansport Exchange Club. Hartke said that the Indiana Criminal Justice Planning Agency, which was established to administer federal funds sent to the state by the Justice Department, has been made “totally ineffective by the political maneuvering of the Governor.*' Hartke noted that mere than SBOO,OOO in federal money was sent into Indiana last year to fight the war against crime. "Yet.’’ said Hartke, “most of this money

EDITORIALS

did not go to those Indiana cities and towns where the rate of crime is the highest. Rather, it was directed to small towns and counties where crime is not nearly so real and present a danger” While complimenting the new director of the Indiana agency. Robert Deßard, as a man, of “unchallenged ability" in the area of law enforcement. Hartke said that Deßard is “under severe pressure to allocate federal funds not on the basis of need but on the basis of political expediency." In an attempt to prevent further political manipulation in Indiana—and other states like

and the Civil War began. On January 1, 1863 he issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate territory “Forever Free.” Final destruction of the institution of slavery came through the 13th amendment. With the war came Antietam . . . Fredericksburg ... Chancellorsville ... Vicksburg... Gettysburg ... and heart break for the man who was trying to save the Union. Lincoln was truly a happy man when Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House but it was a short lived happiness as he was assassinated just five days later. The 16th President lives on, however, as he watches over the city of Washington, D. C., from his huge chair in the Lincoln Memorial ever reminding the millions who visit the serene and temple like memorial of his part in America’s history. He lives on in his famed Gettysburg Address, in the house he once owned in Springfield, 111., and in the tomb that is visited by thousands of people who still remember this great man.

neither their land nor crops. They own neither. They are told what to do by the state hierarchy, which is enmeshed in a maze of bureaucracy and political rivalry. A great many underhanded schemes have been advanced for depriving U.S. citizens of their liberty. No scheme could do the job with greater finality than gradual emasculation of the right of property ownership. That right is the primary distinction between »citizens and peasants — something of which our forefathers were well aware nearly two centuries ago.

here have consecrated it, far about our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. —Abraham Lincoln.

it—Hartke introduced legislation in the Senate last year which would, among other things, alter the approach by which fighting funds are distributed to the states Hearings will be held on this legislation in two weeks Hartke noted m his speech that this legislation has the support of the National League of Cities and the U. S. Conference of Mayors Specifically, the bill would require the Justice Department to reduce the amount of money available to states which do not adequately deal with the “special problems and particular needs of their urban areas and other areas with high crime rates.” The Hartke legislation also calls for the expenditure of three billion dollars in the next three years to meet the crime problem. “1 firmly believe.” said Hartke. “that if the war against crime is to be fought successfully. Congress cannot afford to authorize less."

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Know Your Indiana Law By JOHN J. DILLON Attorney at Law

This is a public service article explaining provisions of Indiana law in general terms.

Indiana Air Pollution Control Board

The quality of our environment has suddenly become of prime concern to citizens in Indiana. Public officials are amazed by the resurgence of interest in conservation. Conservation organizations are experiencing interest far beyond their fondest dreams. These organizations are looking toward governmental agencies to assist in environmental control. One Indiana agency getting much more attention of late is the Indiana Air Pollution Control Board. This Board was created by the Indiana Legislature in 1961 to provide to a reasonable degree purity of our air. This sevenmember board six of whom are appointed by die Governor and Secretary of the Indiana Board of Health is made up of members

Special Report From Washington

WASHINGTON — Pamela Bowler, a darkhaired Wellesley student began to run a fever last February, it carried her to the valley of the Shadow and cost her parents $7,571 for hospital care. After 44 days in the hospital at $172 a day, Pamela is now back in school. Her parents still can’t get the Newton-Wellesley hospital at Newton Lower Falls. Mass , to itemize the gigantic bill. The parents appealed to the American Hospital Association which called their efforts a “nuisance.” The hospital says the parents should just be glad Pamela "was discharged alive." Millions of Americans each year also get hospital bills so high they are stunned. Most thank their stars they have insurance and pay up the balance not covered by their policies. But the balloon-size bills mean inflated premiums on health policies. And neither the insurance companies nor the patients are bringing enough pressure to bear to roll back the costs. This column, for example, has found cases of single painkilling pills costing the patient $2. and a small Ace bandage costing $5. In one case at University hospital. New York City, a patient was charged $6,257 for drugs and medicines during his stay of less than two months That is SJOO a day added to the bill ITEMIZATION TOO COSTLY Pamela's drugs cost $1,343. Her parents cannot find out how much was paid for specific drugs And the hospital, its clerical staff undermanned by 30 per cent, says it would cost SBO in man-hours to find out. The 19-year-old Washington. D. C., girl’s agony began on a chill night last year when she was sent from the Wellesley infirmary to the non-profit Newton-Wellesley hospital. Her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene P Bowler, both government employees, were told it was mild pneumonia. "She should be back in school in a week’s time.” doctors informed them. But in shortly over a week’s time, the attractive girl had broken out in bloody lesions on her arms, legs. face, neck and stomach. A few days later the Bowlers were summoned to her bedside. Her life was in the balance; she couldn't even recognize them.

who have the expertise to combat air pollution. The basic concept of this state law is to leave the primary enforcement against air pollution with the local authorities. If there is no local control or if local authorities fail to act, then the state board can step in. The Board can make investigations, I consider complaints and make orders to stop air pollution. If the order to stop polluting is not obeyed, the Board can bring court action to enforce its order. Any citizen can file a complaint with the Board calling attention to air pollution in their community. The law also requires the Indiana State Board of Health to assist in preventing air pollution. The Board of Health is to provide

assistance on air pollution matters to cities and towns. This Board can conduct studies, do research and make investigations of air pollution. In 1969 the Legislature amended the law to make it stronger against air pollution. If the secretaries of the Indiana Air Pollution Control Board and the Indiana Board of Health determine that air pollution in a given area of the state constitute an emergency risk to the health and safety of the citizens in that area, the Governor can issue a proclamation ordering persons contaminating the air to stop. The Attorney General of Indiana must proceed within twenty-four hours with a court action or the Governor’s proclamation becomes void. The. Board was also given the power to control emissions from motor vehicles in 1969.

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What had first been diagnosed as mild pneumonia, was now called staphylococcus pneumonia, chronic active hepatitis, chronic active colitis, with pyroderma gangrenosum. Mrs. Bowler believes that Pam’s pneumonia and a controlled liver ailment were aggravated while her daughter was in the hospital. Hospital Director William S. Brines strenuously disagrees. The Bowlers and Brines agree that good care brought the girl back from the brink of death. When the reckoning came, the Bowlers could hardly believe their eyes. Os the $7,571, their insurance covered all but $1,550, still a sizable sum. Mrs. Bowler tried to get a fully itemized bill. When she could not, she appealed to the American Hospital Association (AHA). GETS RUN AROUND There: Dr. Vane M Hoge, a former Assistant Surgeon General, wrote a “Dear Bill” letter to Brines. Although the AHA helps with hospital accreditation, and thus should scrutinize every complaint, Hoge saccharinely told Brines he was sure Mrs. Bowler's complaints "are easily answerable.” In a “Dear Vane” letter. Brines told Hoge the mother should be “very happy that her daughter was alive.” Copies of this Alphonse and Gaston correspondence behind Mrs. Bowler's back show that Dr. Hoge, in another “Dear Bill” letter, expressed annoyance that Mrs. Bowler should have dared to raise any questions about her bill. “She should be satisfied with the information you gave her,” said Hoge in a letter obtained by this column. “These things are always a nuisance for everyone concerned, but I guess they are just part of the occupational hazards of the business.” Hoge then told his old chum how sorry he was that he had no “further yak yak” with him at a Chicago convention. And that ended that. Mrs. Bowler was not put off so easily. Unlike most patients weighed down by the explosion of hospital costs, she plans on withholding some of her payments to the hospital until she finds out what she pays for. NOTE: Our investigation has also turned

HOOSIER DAY

Pollution Is A Matter Os Life And Breath

WAR ON POLLUTION has been grabbed by politicians as a major issue of the 1970-1972 campaigns. It is a palliative to memory of 40,000 brave young Americans who died fighting the Viet Nam war we would not win. Democrat and Republican alike can be against pollution of air and water. Pollution is a matter of life and breath to all of us. Banks of White River and Geist Reservoir where we fish with our junior fry are ankle deep with beer bottles. We have toiled most of our life in Indianapolis Smog—smoke, politics and fog. In the public eye, steel, auto and petroleum products industries are top targets in the pollution war. Needed, but if done in a punitive fashion pollution war could wreck our economy built on jobs. Consider what industry has done in the last 30 years fighting pollution of air and water. Public Service Indiana threw a switch of a $300,000 fly ash catching device at its Wabash River plant. Fly ash belching from high stacks is the residue after coal is burned. The new device will enable Public Service in time to market 30,000 tons of fly ash annually. It will be used as an economical mixture in concrete and concrete products. This is only one of many items in sll million dollars of a clean air battle by the industry around the state. Steel is big and important to Hoosiers. Half of the steel made in the USA now comes from basic oxygen furnaces, with modern air quality. Fifty-per cent of the old fashioned open hearth furnaces have been replaced by those with air quality controls. Steel industry has spent $1 billion for equipment alone for air and water equality since 1954. We hear critics who say. it is but a drop in the bucket for a sl9-20 billion dollar steel industry. A billion dollars is not so small when it is considered that only $7 billion was spent by all public bodies in the national war on pollution. Consider the automobile industry fight against polluting the air. In 1954 a gap in the pollution fight was closed through laboratory experimentation going on constantly. Scientists discovered California’s serious smog was caused principally by hydrocarbon reacting chemically in the atmosphere with oxides of nitrogen. Automobile industry, at cost of millions, has reduced hydrocarbons by 80 per cent and carbon monoxide 65-70 per cent. It is still at it, trying to .produce

up some good news for America’s patients. A few hospitals are trying to break the spiraling costs with inventiveness. ONE SUCCESSFUL METHOD Duke University hospital has rented two floors in the nearby Hilton Inn at Durham. There they send patients undergoing tests, Xray and drug therapy and other treatment that isn’t quite enough to keep them hospitalized. The non-profit hospital runs a shuttle bus between Inn and hospital and keeps a 24-hour nursing station in the Inn. This cuts costs from $57 a day for a private hospital room to $24 a day plus meals at the Hilton Inn. The big insurance companies, glad of the saving, willingly include the Inn patients under hospital coverage. A profit hospital, Hempstead General hospital. Long Island, has also taken a worthy step to cut costs. It has a 240-bed extended care unit housing chronically ill patients who do not need full hospital care and those well enough to forego in-hospital treatment. The hospital has cut average stays from 9 days back to 7.3 days and cost from the S7O-$75 in the hospital to S3O-$35 a day by using the extended care unit. Dozens of administrators from around the country have studied the Hempstead General plan and some are copying it. SUSPECT GETS LICENSE While some T-men pursue the Mafia and its allies, other T-men grant them federal licenses to carry out Jfieir questionable activities. 9 For example, Bernard Semel, a longtime friend and business associate of a jailed Cosa Nostra crimelord, Paul Coppola, is himself under investigation by Treasury’s Customs Bureau. Semel does a thriving business in fireworks, an industry the federal agents have found to be infested by Mafia men. Nevertheless, another Treasury agency, the Foreign Assests Control Office, grants Semel a federal license to import fireworks. Director Margaret Schwartz explains helplessly that she would have to license the devil himself as an importer as long as he didn’t do business with Red China or violate other Foreign Assets laws.

By FRANK WHITE

economical steam or battery powered cars, control of exhaust emissions, crankcase kits, and putting less additives in motor fuel. It would take a book to tell all research and dollars put behind efforts to control pollution on the part of the automobile industry. Yet, what has been done is only the beginning of what man must do if we are to survive. Balanced against polluting air and water, industry has provided jobs needed for survival. Bringing the big war down home, will we, the public be content not to demand a new car model each year? Will we be content with cars of one color, say black, instead of all colors of the rainbow? Will we pay $25 more per car to help in the battle to cut down pollution? It is good the public, congress and the president, have been stirred by threat of our extinction if we do not whip the pollution threat. Our. universities are devoting their best brains to the problem, as is industry and many other agencies. Cooperation of industry in a successful fight against pollution is vital and necessary. And regardless of the local violations we see, industry has not been unmindful of this great danger. It is hoped the government in a fight on pollution that we welcome, will not take punitive action against our big industries alone. To our thinking, the war on pollution, should not center on forcing a number of devices on products of industry, handed down by Washington. We feel the government should set up standards. Industry would use its engineering brains and resources toward conforming to these standards. You And Social Security Q — My husband is five years,, younger than I am. Can I receive social security even if he is still working? A— If you are insured thru your own work under social security, you may receive payments regardless of your husband’s age or work status. If you have never worked you must wait until your husband starts drawing his benefits. In either event you should contact the social security office before you are 65 to discuss filing for Medicare.

By JACK ANDERSON