The Mail-Journal, Volume 7, Number 11, Milford, Kosciusko County, 15 April 1970 — Page 9
The Mail O djr oliwl al L « PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY The Milford Mail (Eat 1888) Syracuse-Wawasee Journal (Eat 1907) Consolidated Into The Mail-Journal Feb. 15, 1962 « D EMLOtjR A TIC ARCHIBALD E. BAUMGARTNER, Editor and Publisher DELLA BAUMGARTNER, Business Manager Box 8 Syracuse, Ind., —46567
A Man Worth Listening To
We heard a man recently who has a message to deliver — it’s not exactly the kind of thing we like to hear but he is worth listening to. * His name: Robert Zack. His line: Narcotics. Robert Zack is a sergeant with the Indiana state police and you can Jell by listening to him that he is dedicated to his work and knows his subject. He is * also out to help the youngsters and has his own ideas on who is to blame for the teenagers who are taking dope.
Reading Is For Everybody
This is the week libraries all over the country are “tooting their own horns' with displays and special events in honor of national library week which is April 12-18. The theme of this year's celebration is “Reading is for Everybody.” Truly, reading is for everyone — not just the students and the learned. Just stop and think how' precious our libraries are. yet, all too often they are taken for granted. How often have you heardsomeone say, “the library is nice, I think every town should have one. but I don't have time myself to stop for a visit. I’ve never been inside the building.”
Woman's Work Is Never Done
It’s a well-known fact that laborsaving appliances and gadgets and convenience items of all kinds have liberated the American woman from household drudgery and given her more free time than she knows what to do with. Like a lot of other accepted “facts,” however, it just isn't so. According to a survey conducted by Drs. Florence Hall and Marguerite Schroeder of the University of Washington in Seattle and reported in the Journal of Home Economics, little has changed in the past 50 years except the proportion of time spent on different tasks. By comparison to statistics com-
CAPITOL COMMENTS With SENATOR I I VANCE hartke jfcgi ) Indiana
Pollution Os Community Lakes
WASHINGTON. D C. - Much needed attention has been given to the pollution problems of our streams and rivers. It is now time we focus equal attention on the tremendous pollution problems that are turning this country's recreational lakes into cesspools The joys of swimming and boating and fishing will soon become only fond memories if we do not act now to curt the pollution which has already
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EDITORIALS
rendered many small lakes lifeless and useless This past week I co-sponsored legislation with Senator Walter Mondale designed to save the nation s small community lakes from severe contamination. Called the “Clean Lakes Act of 1970,” the legislation would authorize Federal assistance for programs of pollution abatement and control in this country's inland lakes
He can relate LSD stories that will make you sick. His stories also send the point home — LSD is not something to fool around with. “Acid” is dangerous! We think his message is worth listening to and his advice worth heeding. We also hope all our readers — youngsters, teenagers and parents alike — will get a chance to hear this man as he tells it like it is. Hats off to Robert Zack and others like him who aren't out just to catch someone breaking the narcotics laws — they want to help too!
Seems that’s the best excuse people have nowdays — I don’t have time. We all use it but when we find something we really want to do we find the time — we should find the time to visit our libraries and to read. Reading is something that each of us can do if we really want to — even 15 minutes a day devoted to a book, magazine or article of special interest would be better than no time at all. Why not surprise your librarian this week and drop by for a visit. Take a look around while you are there and see what they have to offer — our guess is if you do you’ll make your return visits to the library a steady habit!
piled in 1920 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Seattle housewives in 1968 were spending less time on clothing care and shopping than their mothers or grandmothers did. But the time spent on food preparation and dishwashing had increased from 13.3 hours a week in 1920 to 18.5 hours a week in 1968. And the time spent on general house care was up about three hours a week. The home economists offer no explanation for this somewhat startling finding, but speculate that children may be of less help around the house than they used to be. Another reason may be that hired household help is less available. GOSHEN NEWS
If we are to save our small fresh water lakes we must go beyond research and study and start to implement programs immediately which will restore these lakes to their natural condition. Because lakes do not flow like rivers or have the natural movement of larger bodies of water, they have no natural way of purging themselves of pollution impurities. Our lakes are contaminated because they have been used as a dumping ground for municipal, industrial and agricultural wastes. Many large industries have located beside fresh-water lakes and found it convenient to expel into them their chemically damaging waste matters. Lakes are damaged by agricultural run-off. Harmful pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizer residues dram into nearby lakes creating an unnatural balance. Cities are often careless in dumping their sewage, often untreated into nearby lakes. AU of these elements added to our lakes cause a breeding ground for algae which quickly spread. This causes a greater demand on the oxygen supply in the lake water and eventually kills normal plant and marine life. My bill authorizes an increase in the Federal money now available for treatment works which are located near or adjacent to a lake and which discharge treated wastes into the lake or tributary waters. It also directs the Secretary of the Intenor to provide technical and financial assistance to the states and municipalities in carrying out a comprehensive program of pollution control.
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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.
'Moon, June, Spoon'
Indiana law provides that marriage is a civil contract. However, it is a special kind of contract. It must be entered into in a special way and can only be dissolved in the manner prescribed by law. In fact a marriage may involve more than civil law. It may also be subject to church law which is binding on the parties insofar as they adhere to their own religion. The law provides that in Indiana women who are 16 years of age or older and men who are 18 years of age or older may be married. However, if the woman is under 18 years of age or the man is under 21 years of age, the
Special Report From Washington
WASHINGTON—A storm has broken over the head of gangling. 18-year-old Jim Rosapepe. a White House intern, who has been minding his own business in a quiet corner of the President’s executive offices. But now he has suddenly become the subject of some sizzling White House memos, which raise the question whether a young dissenter should have a voice in the President’s Conference on Youth. Rosapepe is on a year’s leave from Yale to work with the Youth Conference. Earlier, he had been an outspoken youth leader in Arlington. Va., where he had rubbed some of his elders the wrong way. ‘There have been many complaints from citizens in the Arlington area,” reports one White House memo, “over the hiring of James Rosapepe as an employee of the President's Council on Youth Opportunity. “Rosapepe has been an organizer of militant youth groups in the ArlingtonAlexandria area and has been a leader in protests against the city, county and school organizations. He is a Democrat and is reported to be anti-Nixon in his comments.” ATTACK ON YOUTH Another internal memo, less restrained, declares: “This kid is not only a political activist and social militant—he is a dumb one . . . It’s a question which makes the Administration look worse—the fact that this kid is a student radical of the kind Nixon and Agnew have been speaking out against, or the fact that they put their seal of approval on a dumb one.” This column's own investigation determined that Rosapepe, as president of the Arlington Youth Council, had fought against a loitering law aimed at teenagers, had campaigned for an increase in county funds for educational research and had branded an alladult Youth Commission as “anti-youth.” “Where there have been disturbances.” he warned his elders a year ago, “it has been when young people have been shut out.” He always operated within the system and against the extremists who seek its overthrow. “The encouragement which our organizations have received in involving
consent of both of the underaged person's parents, or of a legal guardian, is necessary. An exception to the necessity of the consent of both parents is provided where one parent is deceased, physically or mentally incompetent, has been awarded custody by a court decree, or whose whereabouts is unknown. A judge of a circuit or superior court can waive the parental consent requirement. Persons applying for a marriage license must not be insane or idiotic and cannot be related nearer than second cousins. Os course, only one husband or one wife is permitted
at a time. Marriages may be performed by ministers of the gospel and priests, judges of courts of record. Justices of the Peace and mayors of cities. Marriages may also be performed by the Friends Church. German Baptists and the Bahai religion according to the rules of their faiths. A marriage license can be issued three days (Sundays and holidays included) after application is made to the clerk of the circuit court of any county where either or both of the parties reside, or if both are nonresidents, then by the clerk in the county where the marriage is to be performed. The license is valid for 60 days. Proof of age and a blood test are necessary before a license can be issued. A judge of the circuit or superior court can waive the three-day waiting period and he can also waive the blood test. The person who performed the marriage shall give the original marriage certificate to the bride and grooom and must within 30 days file a duplicate of the marriage certificate in the office of the clerk where the license was issued. Since spring is the traditional
youth people in the schools and communities,” Rosapepe declared last year, “could do much to dilute the impact that SDS (the anarchist Students for a Democratic Society) could have.” CALLED ON CARPET But in GOP eyes, apparently, Rosapepe is a “notorious protestor” and a “radical liberal.” He was hired by White House aide Steve Hess, who has been called on the carpet to explain his selection. Recounts a White House memo: “Steve Hess said he was unaware of Rosapepe’s reputation as a notorious protestor when he hired him. He said Rosapepe was hired on the ‘very warm recommendations of Pat Movnihan (the President’s resident liberal)’.” But Hess has refused to fire the young activist. “Hess said he was aware that Rosapepe is regarded as ‘something of a radical’ but that Rosapepe has conducted himself properly in the month he has been working for Hess,” continues the memo. “Hess said that it is essential to have some radical liberals in the youth organization to give it credibility. “He said he has some members of the Young Amencansjor Freedom (a right-wing youth organization) on his staff and has a Young Republican for his chief counsel. He said he would not consider discharging Rosapepe for any activities of the past because‘if there was any mistake made it was my mistake in hiring him’." The pressure on the long-haired but beardless youth, however, hasn’t relented. Other White House aides look upon Rosapepe’s employment as an ominous sign that the Youth Conference, like last year’s Hunger Conference, might wind up embarrassing the President. In a bristling memo, these aides point out that the Youth Conference now has “70 fulltime paid employees on'the payroll, and will need a lot more. It makes people wonder if they’re all like Rosapepe. “It also appears that the Nixon Administration is walking into another fiasco of the nature of last year’s White House Conference on Hunger and Malnutrition.” For one 18-year-old, Jim Rosapepe has stirred up quite a tempest.
Congressional Comer : John Brademas Reports From Washington
Railroad Retirement Boost; Senate Rejects Carswell
This was a busy week on Capitol Hill as Members of Congress returned to Washington following the Easter recess. The House immediately passed two highly important bills — one, extending the Elementary and Secondary’ Education Act for three more years, and the other providing a 15 per cent increase in railroad retirement benefits. The overwhelming bipartisan vote for the measure authorizing $24.6 billion over three years in assistance to elementary and secondary schools and state education departments makes clear that the principle of Federal support for our hardpressed schools has now been established. The Senate approved the school aid extension last week and President Nixon is expected to sign the bill into law very soon. The bill passed by the House also continues certain existing vocational, adult and higher education programs and creates a new Volunteer Student Teacher Corps. A significant new provision of the bill requires school districts, beginning in 1972. to provide equal services to all schools in order to keep receiving Federal funds for schools in disadvantaged areas. Railroad Retirement Boost The House also passed a bill of considerable importance to the thousands of railroad employees, retirees and their families, many of whom are living in the Elkhart area. By a unanimous roll-call vote of 397-0, the House voted a 15 per cent increase in railroad retirement monthly benefits. Although the Nixon Administration opposed the increase, I believe the hike in benefits is justifiable and long overdue in new of the continuing rise in the cost of living over the last year. Moreover, Congress voted a 15 per cent increase in Social Security benefits in 1969, and I think it only fair to provide season for marriages, it is well that young couples are aware of the requirements for getting married. If you are about to take this important step, allow plenty of time to get the license. It can become very hectic waiting until the last minute and then trying to get the various requirements waived.
TRASH IS BEAUTIFUL’ Despite its noble name. Keep America Beautiful, Inc., favors a beautiful America, apparently, only if it doesn’t keep the can and bottle makers from having a beautiful balance sheet. Rep. James Scheuer, D-N.Y., asked the organization to support a bill that would force companies in the bottle business to do something about broken glass pollution, which costs about 30 cents per bottle to clean upIt is also hard on children’s feet. Scheuer’s bill, supported by a dozen other Congressmen, would require bottlers either to use refund-deposit bottles or to pay a tax on non-returnable bottles. The bottler would get the tax back when the retailer gives him back the bottle. Keep America Beautiful, Inc., however, politely declined to support the measure. The letterhead, on which the no-thank-you note was written, may explain why. The chairman was listed as Reuben Perin, a director of Continental Can. The directors of Keep’ America Beautiful also include Ebon Jones, vice-president of the Glass Container Division of Owens-Illinois; Lee W. Minton, president of the Glass Bottle Blowers Association, AFL-CIO; James Somerall, president of Pepsi-Cola, and Marcus Aurelius, vice president of U.S. Steel. Their products can be found littering every park site. KISSINGER’S INTERVENTION Contrary to the newpaper stories, it wasn’t Secretary of State William Rogers who put his foot down over the investigation of the State Department by Clark Mollenhoff. The White House troubleshooter began investigating the failure of the State Department’s policymaking on Biafra, then was suddenly called off. The newspapers claimed Rogers had protested to the President. The inside fact, however, is that the investigation was quashed by the President’s foreign policy advisor, Henry Kissinger. He knew that Rogers was sensitive over the encroachment by the White House staff into the State Department’s policymaking functions. To avoid further friction, therefore, Kissinger asked that Mollenhoff keep his nose out of the State Department.
railroad retirees the same pension boost. About $350 million would be paid out to railroad retirees during the two and one-half years for which benefit increases are provided in the bill. The benefit jump would take effect January first of this year, the same day a 15 per cent Social Security increase went into effect. Almost three-fourths of the nation’s retired railroad workers were passed over then by the rise in Social Security benefits. Those who are already enjoying the Social Security increase would not be affected by the latest boost. ' ,' For railroad retirees this bill ■ would mean a raise in monthly benefits up to a maximum of SSO per month for employee annunities and $25 per mdnth for survivor annunities. The Senate has not yet voted on the measure. Senate Rejects Carswell The Senate was, of course, the scene of the most dramatic action in Congress in recent days with the vote on the confirmation of President Nixon’s nomination of Judge Harold Carswell to a seat on the United States Supreme Court. The 51-54 vote to reject the nomination came as a surprise to many observers. Thirteen Republicans joined 38 Democrats to say “no" to the approval of the controversial Florida! judge, while 28 Republicans and 17 Democrats voted to place him on the nation’s highest tribunal. The fact that nearly one-third of the Republican Senators voting on the confirmation opposed President Nixon’s recommendation underscores the substantial bipartisan disapproval of Judge Carswell to fill the remaining vacancy on the Court. Welfare Reform Bill Next week the House is scheduled to vote on President Nixon’s welfare reform plan which has won support from both Democrats and Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee. The measure would for the first time guarantee all poor families a Federal annual income of SSOO each for the first two members and S3OO each for all the rest — SI6OO for a family of four.
By JACK ANDERSON