The Mail-Journal, Volume 7, Number 9, Milford, Kosciusko County, 1 April 1970 — Page 9

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April 11s Census Day 1970

Today is Census Day for the United States of America. From Aroostook county, Maine, to Niihau, the westernmost island of Hawaii; from Point Barrow, Alaska, on the Arctic Ocean to Key West, Fla., it is the day for all Americans to be counted. Thomas B. Reed, manager of the temporary census office in Kokomo, reports that 421 census takers, after being sworn in this morning, started visiting households throughout the following counties: Cass, DeKalb. Fulton. Howard. Kosciusko, LaGrange. Miami, Noble, Steuben, Tipton and Whitley. $ Census questionnaires were distributed to households in these places by the post office a few days ago. They are to be filled out and held for the census taker to pick up. The district manager says it will probably take from three to five weeks for the census takers to get around to all the households. It is possible that some households did not receive a quest ionnairet but the district manager says they need not fear they will not be missed because a census taker will find them and have a questionnaire for thepn.

Just An Error

The editor of a small town weekly was severely criticized because of an error appearing in his paper, and in the next issue he had this to say about it: “Yes. we know there were some errors in last week’s paper. We will further agree that there were some errors in the issue of the week before, but before bawling us opt too unmercifully about it. we want to call your attention to these facts: In an ordinary newspaper column there are 10,000

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Time For Congress, Country To Be Informed Os Judicial System

WASHINGTON. D C . - Since I entered the United States Senate in 1963 and became a member of the Committee on the Judiciary. I have had a great interest in the immense problems faced by our federal judiciary The work of the federal courts in this country for nearly 200 years has been outstanding Our federal judiciary has demonstrated extraordinary Vigor and strength in protecting society as a whole and the basic rights of individuals But there is now increasing concern about the needs of our federal judiciary — concern about the unprecedented increase in civil and criminal litigation and other , serious problems. It is obvious that the courts require greater public scrutiny as well as more effective planning for their needs by the other branches of our government With this in mind. 1 introduced a bill last month that, if approved. would be a great step forward for both Congress and our courts The resolution provides that Congress respectfully request the Chief Justice of the United States to appear annually before a joint session of the Congress to report on the state of the federal judiciary. Such a "State of the Judiciary ” message, I believe, would enable both Congress and the public to become fully informed, from year to year, about the work and the progress of the federal courts of oar nation. Such a plan would contribute materially to a better understanding among the three great branches of our government.

EDITORIALS

It is time that the problems of our judicial system be presented, both to Congress and to the country, at the highest level Not only does the work of the judiciary need explaining to the country as never before, but a new and frightening set of figures on the growth of litigation in the federal courts bears witness to the need for long-range planning and congressional action The caseload in the federal courts has reached an all-time high Continuing a trend begun ten years ago. new filings in the courts of appeals increased again in fiscal 1960—12.4 per cent over the year before. Both the number of appeals docketed and the number pending have more than doubled in just seven years. Until fiscal 1969, new filings in the federal district courts had remained fairly constant for a number of years. Then last year, the combined civil and criminal cases newly docketed rose 8 4 per cent over the year before Overall, pending caseloads increased 19 per cent in the courts of appeals and seven per cent in the district courts in fiscal 1969. Myriad problems Stem from these heavy caseloads There are too few judges, too few courtrooms, too few supporting personnel. It takes too long to prepare transcripts and records. Delays in criminal cases directly affect the fight against crime as well as the fair administration of justice, and delays in civil cases make the cost and inconvenience of litigation virtually prohibitive in many instances. Problems of bail, probation. judicial disability, the protracted case, and a hundred other subjects

Householders will not have any difficulty identifying enumerators for the 1970 census Reed pointed out. Enumerators, or census takers (most of whom are women), are expected to complete their work in three to five weeks. Each census taker will wear a red, white, and blue identification card. This card bears the seal of the Department of Comrnerce. and the words “Census Enumerator, Official Credential” are printed across its face. It bears the census taker’s signature and certifies that she is authorized to perform the duties of a census enumerator and has sworn to keep confidential all census information you provide. Persons purporting to be census takers who do not have this identification card should be reported immediately to the local police or to the census district office. Census takers will be further identified by the portfolio containing their supplies. The portfolio is blue and bears the legend. “1970 Census.” In the portfolio, the census taker carries her supplies of report forms, maps, pencils, and other tools necessary for her work.

letters, and there are seven possible wrong positions for each letter, making 70.000 chances to make errors and several million chances for transpositions. There are 48 columns in this paper, so you can readily see the chances for mistakes. Did you know that in the sentence, ‘To be or not to be,’ by transpositions alone, 2,759,022 errors can be made? Now aren’t you sorry you got made about that little mistake last week?” WAKARUSA TRIBUNE

plague our courts An annual address to the Congress by the Chief Justice might well allow the country* its first realistic look at the state of its judiciary, pinpoint current and long-range problems, suggest solutions as well as areas for study, and motivate the Congress to effective action. An address by the Chief Justice could range over as broad a field as the courts encompass The entire problem of criminal sentencing, for example, would seem ripe for review. Programs for referees in bankruptcy and probation officers might be proposed. Even a partial list of the table of contents of a . recent Senate report indicates the extremely serious and wide-ranging nature of its recommendations, all of which might be commented upon by the Chief Justice: U. S. commissioner system. federal jury selection legislation; appellate review of sentences; omnibus judgeship bill; National Law foundation; administrative reforms in the federal courts; preventive detention; and judicial disability, retirement, and tenure These matters affect the entire country They should properly be the concern of all of us. The present system of presenting such matters to Congress is both unbecoming and unproductive. Suggested changes usually emanate from a committee on the Judicial Conference. They then follow a long and tortuous route through the offices of the Vice President, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, various Senate and House committees, and culminate in time-consuming congressional hearings that seldom attract the public attention they deserve. And all too often, our judges are overly timid in their pleas for help and base their request to Congress on past problems rather than projections. A well-constructed, wellsupported. forceful and public presentation to the Congress would enable the Chief Justice to draw attention not only to the needs and problems of the immediate future, but of the years ahead, the decades beyond.

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

This is a public service aiticle explaining provisions of

Indiana law in general terms

Arguments about whether women do have or should have equal rights with men are currently raging. These discussions are creating more interest in the provisions of existing legislation on the subject. Since the 1965 effective date of the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1964. employers subject to the act are forbidden to discriminate in hiring or firing employees on the basis of the employee's sex. Employment agencies may not refuse to refer a person to a job on the basis of sex. Labor organizations must refrain from

Special Report From Washington

WASHINGTON President Nixon has been working behind the scenes to elect a Republican Congress in November. He has appealed to the most popular candidates to run and has offered to pose for campaign pictures with any Republican candidate who can use them He is still debating, however, over how »Ktive he should be in the campaign. He is fc expected to intervene directly in important Senate and House races by taking trips into the states where he will take care to discuss national issues and n<M indulge in campaign oratory Then he will issue a series of task force studies and policy statements to dramatize how the Republicans are coping with national problems. The President, however, has issued strict instructions to subordinates to keep their noses out of the primaries. The orders went out on March 13th in a White House memo, signed by chief of staff H. R Haldeman, declaring: 1 "It is a firm Administration policy that no one within the Administration is to participate m any manner in any of the upcoming Republican primary contests. "This would include verbal endorsements and or letters sent to primary candidates Please be sure that you and all the members of your staff observe this policy during the upcoming months.” HIS TECHNICOLOR TAKE From the day Sen George Murphy, RCalif., came to Washington in 1965. he has supplemented his Senate salary by pulling down $20,000 a year from Technicolor. Inc. Technicolor is the Hollywood company which has become almost synonymous with Patrick J. Frawley. Jr., the right-wing millionaire who took it over in 1961. The Frawley firm also has been helping to foot the bill for Murphy’s plush Washington apartment, which has its own movie projection studio. In addition. Technicolor provides Murphy with credit cards, which permit him to charge other expenses to the company The easy-smiling, light-stepping Murphy appeared in 45 motion pictures, including a few technicolor extravaganzas, before he traded in his box-office appeal at the voting booth

Ladies' Day

| making membership exclusions on the basis of sex. Apprenticeships and training programs must be open to women • as well as men. The Act prohibits i discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin as well as on the basis of sex. However, the granting of equal employment opportunities to women in the 1964 Act was a new feature of federal civil rights laws. The cases brought by women under this Act reflect our I changing times. Formerly, womeh’s groups were active in seeking laws to protect women

from employer demands that they work long hours or at night or perform hard physical labor, such as lifting heavy weights. These laws often took the form of prohibiting employers from hiring women to perform such labor, or regulating the hours per day or week or the number of days per week women may be employed. Indiana does not have such laws on its books. Where they do exist, or where a collective bargaining agreement contains such provisions, women are now filing suit to set aside these restrictions Interestingly enough, men have also filed court actions under this act to attempt to set aside the more favorable treatment given to women in computing social security benefits. So far, that attempt has not succeeded. The federal act does recognize that there are bona fide occupational qualifications based on sex, which are reasonably necessary to a particular business. The battle undoubtedly will continue in the courts to hammer out the distinctions between the jobs where sex is a reasonable qualification and those where it is not. The act attempts to clarify the situations

Pat Frawley, who made his fortune in ballpoint pens and then went on to become the Schick razor king, has been a sugar daddy for right-wing causes. Frequently, he has used corpcrate funds to promote his political ideas. HAS TAX TROUBLE. TOO Senator Murphy recently met behind closed doors with Chairman John Stennis, D-Miss., and chief counsel Ben Fem of the Senate Ethics Committee to explain his financial dealings with Technicolor. After first denying any discussion of ethics. Murphy finally acknowledged to this column that he had talked over his financial affairs with Stennis and Fern. The California Senator said he had been retained as a "consultant” by Technicolor. The company paid half the cost of his Washington apartment, he said, because company officials used it when they visited the capital. He never used the company’s credit cards, he said, except to pay his expenses when he was on company business. Asked what consulting he did for Technicolor. Murphy mentioned two company charities He stressed that there had been no conflict with his Senate duties. But there have been some difficulties with the Internal Revenue Service He apparently has been tardy with his taxes on this extra . $20.000-a-year income. A high official informed this column that Murphy usually is short $3,000 or $4,000 on his income tax payments each year and that the , Internal Revenue Service has trouble collecting In 1968. IRS was forced to file a $3,218.29 tax lien against him. Murphy told this column that he had been late in paying his taxes only twice and that the tax lien had been slapped on him while he was trying to sell securities to meet his tax obligation. He accused IRS of bringing the action to cause him political embarrassment. MAIL STRIKE RADICALS The nation’s 1.300 postal inspectors have been alerted to check on attempts by militant young radicals to exploit the mail strike to advance their revolutionary goals. The Post Office’s Inspector General, William J. Cotter, discounted reports, however, that the radicals were partially

Congressional Comer: John Brademas Reports From Washington

Bill Introduced To Make Americans More Aware Os Our Environment

This week the Select Subcommittee on Education, which I chair, opened hearings on the Environmental Quality Education Act, a bill which I introduced last November along with my colleagues. Congressmen James Scheuer (DN:Y.), Ogden Reid. (R-N.Y.), . and Orval Hansen (R-Idaho). Our bill is directed to the task of making Americans more aware of the dangers to our environment and to the steps we must take to cope with these dangers. The Environmental Quality Education Act would provide funds for aid to colleges and universities to develop materials for teaching environmental studies, and about natural resources, pollution control and conservation. The bill would support the training of teachers in environmental studies, and provide grants for elementary and secondary schools to teach about the whole range of environmental problems. Moreover, funds would be available for community conferences on the environment for civic and industrial leaders and state and local government officials. Finally, the bill would authorize grants for preparing materials on the environment for use by the mass media. CONCERN INCREASES This awareness of our endangered environment will not come overnight. Although national concern about the environment has been. rising where one of the otherwise prohibited discriminations is reasonably necessary. For example, it specifically authorizes the employment of members of a particular religion by a school supported by that religious group. The State of Indiana Minimum Wage Law amendments also prohibit discrimination because of sex and require equal pay for equal work. The headlined "women’s revolution” is bound to result in numerous proposals for new laws on the subject of women’s rights, in court actions, and in protests. Many of our ladies appear to be determined to have their day in the factories, in the professions, and in all other types of employment.

responsible for starting the New York walkout. Cotter said he had received a few scattered reports of agitation by young militants, but said they appeared to have no significant effect. STACKED COMMITTEE SETS OIL STEAL The danger signals are up again on the great shale oil steal Countless billions of dollars worth of shale oil is locked in the rocks of the West. A great portion of the shale land is owned by the government. One day soon, some scientist will find away to get the oil out of the rock economically and the rush to grab the land will be on. Already, some big companies have claims on it and the Interior Department seems willing to give a good bit of this public land away. As an example of its attitude, when a special committee was appointed by Interior to study the problem, three men were named. One formerly worked for Atlantic Richfield. One worked for a mining lobby group in Colorado. And the third helped draft a bill that would make it easy for the big mining and oil interests to get their hooks into the public land at a cost in millions to the taxpayer. With a committee stacked like that, it looks like the ways are being well greased for the oil magnates to take over. HEADLINES AND FOOTNOTES Intelligence reports warn that the Israeli army is considering the advisability of attacking Egypt before the latest Soviet weapons can be installed. The Israelis are worried, however, that President Nasser will appeal to the Russians to send troops to save Egypt from defeat, thus turning the Middle East into a Soviet Viet Nam .... Ever since President Nixon played the piano at the Gridiron dinner, guests at White House parties have been begging him to sit down at the keyboard, but the President has smilingly declined. Usually, he tells them that he will only play the piano off the record .... Captured enemy documents indicate that the ’ North Vietnamese may attempt a major offensive in June, probably in the rich Mekong Delta.

rapidly in the last few months, we have just begun to understand the nature and complexity of the challenge to our environment. The problems of polluted land, air and water often have come about not so much because of any one’s malicious plan or intent, but because of igorance. Men have failed to consider the effect of what they do in the world of technology and industry on the world of nature. ENVIRONMENTAL DECAY Now we are paying the price for our past carelessness, and the signs of decay are everywhere in our nation’s environment. When Americans breathe polluted air. they are taking minutes off their lives. Oil from faulty drillings fouls our beaches, endangers marine life and kills waterfowl. Human and industrial wastes soil our streams and rivers. Poisonous pesticides and fertilizers contaminate our food. The beauty of America’s countryside is dimmed by messy industrial areas, unsightly junkyards, ugly billboards and thickets of powerlines. To clean up our environment and to restore it to a congenial state will require millions of dollars in Federal funds as well as funds from other public and private sources. But along with this greater financial investment in a clean environment must come a greater commitment on the part of all Americans. The fight against pollution, more than any other problem, is one of which each individual must be a part in his home, his backyard and his community. EDUCATION NEEDED To achieve this goal, we will also need a major educational effort to acquaint our younger students and adult citizens with the ecological facts of life so that future generations will not be faced with the problems we are only now beginning to confront. To help provide such education is the principal purpose of my bill. During hearings on this measure, the Subcommittee plans to visit several areas of the country to hear testimony from a broad variety of witnesses, including ecologists, students, environmental educators, industrial leaders, labor leaders, conservation groups and citizen’s organizations

By JACK ANDERSON