The Mail-Journal, Volume 7, Number 15, Milford, Kosciusko County, 13 May 1970 — Page 11

The Mail o >J«Jounial PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY The Milford Mail (E*t 1888) ‘ Syracute-Wawasee Journal (Eat 1907) Consolidated Into The Mail-Journal Feb. 15, 1962 . , .j. , . ' , . , . k , DEMOCRATIC ARCHIBALD E. BAUMGARTNER, Editor and Publisher DELLA BAUMGARTNER, Business Manager Box 8 Syracuse, Ind., — 46567

'Write Hanoi' The American Red Cross is launching a new “Write Hanoi” campaign urging Americans to write to the President of North Viet Nam expressing their indignation over that country’s treatment of U. S. prisoners. There has never been anything pleasant about war, and certainly the perverse attitude Hanoi has taken in its treatment of captured Americans is one of the low points in the unhappy history’ of warfare. 7 In centering its appeal around World Red Cross Day, May 8, the American Red Cross emphasized the importance of the humanitarian efforts of 113 Red Cross. Red Crescent. Red Lion and Sun societies. This day is observed by 225 million society members worldwide in commemorating the birth of the movement’s founder, Henri Dunant, Swiss financier and philanthropist. No matter what political views each individual American has about war. all are in agreement that something must

Nit-Pickers Paradise An amusing bureaucracy item of the week comes from a community in Ontario, Canada. A taxpayer received a tax bill for one cent. She went to the town office and insisted that the clerk take a check for one cent. In explanation /she said, “It may cost me 15 cents to v write the check, but if they are so hard up for pennies I’ll feel safer with a canceled check. Millions of U.S. taxpayers will, no doubt, sympathize ' 5 s - By Coincidence? (A longtime subscriber of the Journal, who is also an employee of Ford Motor Company, submitted the following item for us to share with our readers. It was reprinted from the Waterville Advance in the March 20, 1970 issue of The Advisor, which is published for Ford employees.—ED.) In May of 1919, at Dusseldorf, Germany, the Allied Forces obtained a copy of some of the Rules for Revolution.’’ Nearly 50 years later the Reds are still following the rules. As you read the first - stop after each item and think about the present day situation where you live - and all around the nation. We quote from the Red Rules: A. Corrupt the young: Get them away from religion. Get them interested in sex. Make them superficial, destroy their ruggedness. B. Get control of all mear- of publicity. 1. Get people’s minds off their government by focusing their attention on sexy books and plays and other trivialities. 2. Divide the people into hostile groups by constantly harping on controversial matters of no importance.

CAPITOL COMMENTS With SENATOR Ul I VANCE HARTKEA-i Indiana - Hart ke Bill Would Create New Jobs

WASHINGTON, DC. - Senator Vance Hartke (D-Ind.) today introduced a bill to create thousands of public service jobs by hiring the growing number of unemployed workers to perform necessary public services and duties In a Senate statement introducing the bill, Hartke predicted that the rate of will reach 6 per cent this summer and urged the adoption by the Nixon Administration of policies and - programs creating jobs not unemployment. “During the last year,” Hartke said, “more than one million

EDITORIALS

workers have been forced from work. The present 4.4 per cent rate of unemployment is the highest in 44 years.” “700.000 adult men. 280,000 adult women and 69,000 teenagers who could have found jobs when Mr. Nixon took office are now unable to work,” Hartke added. He said, “Hidden from these statistics are the millions of underemployed Americans working in part-time or in fulltime jobs that pay too little to support their families at the poverty level. A recent study estimates that as many as 7.3 million people in this country are

be done about treatment of prisoners as set forth by the Geneva Convention. This agreement, which North Viet Nam signed in 1949, calls for prompt identified ti(m of prisoners, adequate diet and medical care, communications with other prisoners and their families at home, prompt repatriation if seriously sick or wounded, protection from abuse or reprisals, and free access to prisoners and their place of detention by such a neutral intermediary as the allSwiss International Committee of the Red Cross. Dwight Bechtol, chairman of the Kosciusko County Red Cross Chapter which is sponsoring the new drive, says letters protesting the treatment of American servicemen should be sent to the following address. Air mail letters weighing one-half ounce or lesß should carry 25 cents in postage: . Office of the President Democratic Republic of Viet Nam Hanoi. North Viet Nam

with this woman. Paying taxes is now subjected to such a nit-picking barrage of rules and regulations that a vast new “growth industry’’ has come into being to help taxpayers stay out of jail. Late reports indicate an unprecedented boom in the tax consultant business. No doubt, like the woman in Canada, many taxpayers will pay more to find out how much they owe the government than they will ever pay in (axes. & 3. Destroy the people’s faith in their natural leaders by holding the latter up to contempt and ridicule. 4. Always preach true democracy, but seize power as fast and as ruthlessly as possible. 5. Encourage government extravagance, destroy its credit, produce fear of inflation with rising prices and general discontent. 6. Forment unnecessary strikes in vital industries, encourage civil disorders and foster a lenient and soft attitude on the part of government toward such disorders. 7. By specious argument, cause the breakdown of the moral virtues, honesty, sobriety, continence and faith in the pledged word. C. Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with a view to confiscating them and leaving the population helpless. Quite a list, but stop and think how many of these rules are being carried out in this nation today? How can any thinking person truthfully say that the Communists do not have any part in the chaos that is upsetting our nation? COINCIDENCE? We think not. —Lawrence Journal

underemployed. All together there are 11 million Americans who need jobs ” “My legislation would meet two urgent needs.” Hartke explained. “It would create jobs and would provide badly needed public services in hospitals, schools, parks and pollution control." Senator Hartke said, “My public service education employment plan represents the American tradition of work instead of welfare. Regardless of their race or education, most Americans share a common desire for a decent job; for an opportunity to support their families and contribute to society.” Hartke pointed out that the Public Service Employment Act will help to fight inflation. He said. “The Act will fill needed jobs, reduce inadequate and unnecessarily costly public service, increase society’s productivity and pay men’s wages rather than unemployment compensation.”

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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. °

Wage Earners* Plans

I recently discussed individual bankruptcies as a means by which a person can discharge his financial obligations through a complete liquidation. In addition to the complete liquidation, in which the debtor must assemble all his assets, liquidate the same and apply them to his debts through the federal bankruptcy proceedings, there is another course of action available for a debtor. This is the Chapter XIII proceeding or wage earner plan, wherein the debtor through the federal bankruptcy act is entitled to have the federal court acting through its referee in bankruptcy, restructure his debts. The basic purpose of this act is to give the debtor court protection to prevent his creditors from descending upon him in such a

Special Report From Washington

WASHINGTON - That old presidential pitfall, the Credibility Gap, has reappeared at the White House. President Nixon, acting upon the advice of Attorney General John Mitchell, started at first to maintain official silence about the shipment of rifles to Cambodia and the later strike by American troops across the Cambodian border Cover stories were carefully prepared in case leaks should appear in the press. The United States went to elaborate lengths, for example, to arrange with the South Vietnamese government to take the blame for shipping the rifles to Cambodia. The truth is that the U.S. handled evendetail of the shipments through the American Embassy m Phom Penh But the South Vietnamese agreed to accept the public responsibility. The White House even gave some Senators the impression that the President would never send troops into Cambodia — at the same time that the troops were preparing for the border crossing. The President’s statement that the drive into Cambodia is essential to safeguard the withdrawal of American troops from Viet Nam is disputed at the highest levels inside his own administration. Both Secretary of Slate Bill Rogers and Secretary of Defense Mel Laird have expressed their private disagreement. The attempts at secrecy were frustrated by detailed leaks from the State Department, which forced the President to make a full public disclosure of his actions. However, he had hoped to keep U.S. involvements in Cambodia under wraps in the same way that U.S. imvolvenient in Laos was kept secret. There has even been a secret SovietAmerican understanding that if the U.S. could keep its activities in Laos quiet, the Russians wouldn’t feel obliged to oppose them. THE FULL FACTS Senators have now demanded the full facts about what has been going on in Laos and the President, accordingly, instructed his subordinates to give the Senate the full story behind closed doors.

fashion as to make it impossible to work his way out of debt. Some people get themselves so far in debt that they just simply cannot meet their obligations even though they have a sincere 4esire to pay their honest debts but are, in fact, just poor managers of their income. In order for a person to have available for him Chapter XIII proceedings, he must be insolvent and unable to pay his debts as they mature. This program is devised for the person who is a wage earner whose principal income is derived from wages, salaries and commissions. Once the petition is filed, the debtor at the appropriate time must provide the referee in bankruptcy with a plan on how he intends to distribute his proposed

assets to his creditors. The creditors are given an opportunity to appear and approve the plan or make counter proposals to the distribution of the assets. Once the referee in bankruptcy approves the plan, the same is then implemented by < the appointment of a trustee who is paid a fee to collect money and manage the assets of the estate and distribute the assets and pay the bills pursuant to the plan. This confirmation of the plan is binding upon the debtor and all the creditors who were subject to the jurisdiction of the court or who accepted the plan. In Chapter XIII proceedings the debtor is entitled to the same exemptions of S7OO in real estate and S6OO in personal property as he is in an individual bankruptcy proceeding. Upon the consummation of the plan the court enters a final decree discharging the trustee, closing the estate and making other provisions to protect the debtor. While the provisions of Chapter XIII are not popular and are not widely used in the federal district courts in Indiana, they are becoming increasingly popular in other parts of the country. These proceedings are very similar to debt pooling wherein the debtor is given help in managing the payment of his bills. Wage earners’ plans, of course, have

Senate staff members held over 100 meetings with State Department officials in an attempt to release the story to the public. The State Department finally gave its reluctant approval to publish most of the secret transcript. However, here are some of the facts that have still been withheld — facts that the public is entitled to know. The State Department, for example, refused to release any details about CIA secret support of a guerrilla force of more than 10,000 men, commanded by General Vang Pao in Laos. The taxpayers not only have put up and supplied the ammunition for the Meo tribesmen who make up the bulk of this secret army, but also are paying mercenaries from Cambodia and Thailand. The Thais, for instance, furnished the artillery units that are flown in and out of Laos whenever General Vang Pao needs them. The State Department has also withheld the fact that the bombing sorties over North Viet Nam were simply shifted across the border into Laos after former President Johnson ordered the bombing cessation in North Viet Nam in 1968. The Credibility Gap apparently hasn’t been eliminated with the change of government in Washington. SENATORIAL SLOGAN President Nixon has made no secret around the White House of his irritation with the Senate. He has used the same kind of language in private to describe how he feels about the Senate as Martha Mitchell has used in public. The President enjoyed a private laugh, therefore, when an aide came up with a, campaign slogan for Judge G. Harrold • Carswell, who was rejected by the Senate for the Supreme Court because of his mediocrity but who is now running for the Senate in Florida. The presidential aide suggested that Carswell should adopt this campaign slogan : “Let’s bring the Senate up to mediocrity.”

Congressional Comer: John Brademas Reports From Washington

Father Hesbrugh Urges President To Withdraw Troops From Cambodia

The widening war in Southeast Asia and military spending held the attention of the House of Representatives last week. Even as the House considered new requests for military spending, the Administration was sending American troops into Cambodia. This move, coupled with the word that limited bombing had taken place in North Viet Nam, renewed fears that the end of our longest war is not yet in sight. There is great concern on Capitol Hill that the United States offensives will have the effect of extending the war and increasing the death toll rather than serving to end the hostilities. Many Members of Congress fear that the widening of the war in Viet Nam into Cambodia may seriously jeopardize efforts to win a peace in troubled Southeast Asia. It was no surprise then to many observers here that in addition to the wave of criticism of the President’s action that spread across college campuses in the nation, other voices were heard expressing deep reservations about the invasion of Cambodia .- Father Hesburgh Protests The Wall Street Journal editorialized that the President’s action was a gamble not worth the risk. Such staunch Administration supporters as Republican Senators George Aiken of Vermont, Robert Dole of Kansas and Norris Cotton of New Hampshire publicly criticized the President’s move. The Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh. President of the University of Notre Dame, speaking to students and faculty on the campus on May 4, urged that President Nixon withdraw United States troops from Cambodia. In a statement sent to the President, Father Hesburgh declared, “Our national prior-

the sanction of the protection of the federal district courts and can be enforced by court order. The proceeding helps the wage earner get his creditors under control, pay his honest debts, and still not have the onus upon his record of having entered an individual bankruptcy, liquidated his assets completely and finally discharged all of his creditors. Once the debtor’s plan is consummated, he is then free to proceed to manage his own busmess affairs with the probability that his credit rating will not be nearly as impaired as if he took liquidation.

OCEAN CONTAMINATION

OCEAN CONTAMINATION Anti-pollution experts have warned that the great cities along the East Coast must stop dumping sewage into the Atlantic Ocean before it contaminates the beaches and poisons marine life. More than 4Mi million tons of sludge is poured into the Atlantic each year. This sludge smothers the shellfish beds on the sea bottom. The sewage also contains dangerous amounts of pesticide and poisonous metals which not only are killing fish but endangering the people who eat the fish. For example, poisonous mercury, consumed by fish, can be passed on to people. The sludge that is dumped into the ocean contains large amounts of phosphorous and nitrogen which encourage the growth of algae. This also uses up oxygen and suppresses marine life. HEADLINES AND FOOTNOTES Pepsi-Cola’s Donald Kendall, a close personal friend of President Nixon’s, has been trying to sell the Nixon welfare plan to skeptical businessmen. Kendall has been telling the businessmen privately that the welfare plan will increase the purchasing power of the poor, who will buy more goods and, thereby, stimulate the economy. Walworth Barbour, the American Ambassador to Israel, has warned Washington that Israel will attack the new Soviet SAM-3 missile sites if they are installed near the Suez combat zone. This could involve the Russians in the Middle East fighting. The Shah of Iran has secretly advised the United States not to move the U.S. Navy into the Persian Gulf when the British Navy pulls out. This is one of the world’s most strategic waterways, because of the rich oil that is produced by the small Arab states along the gulf. The Shah has warned the United States, however, that the appearance of the U.S. Navy would antagonize the Arabs, thus causing, rather than preventing trouble.

ities today are not military but human. Our nation is unnecessarily and bitterly divided on issues at home and abroad. If the war abroad can be effectively and quickly diffused, then we can be united at home in our dedication to justice, to equality of opportunity and to renewing the quality of American life —a task which will require our best personal efforts and even more of our financial resources than those squandered by us in recent years on a largely frustrating and fruitless venture.” Citizens of Indiana’s Third Congressional District — at least on the basis of their letters and telegrams to me — oppose the United States action in Cambodia by a 7 to 1 margin. I share the apprehensions of such widely diverse voices as those of the Wall Street Journal, leading Republican Senators, Father Hesburgh, and grass-root Hoosiers, in addition to the concerns of many of America’s young people. For, I too, am deeply disturbed by the possibility that the death rate will begin to grow again as the shadow of war lengthens across Asia. These latest escalations have created many misgivings in Congress on the part of both Democrats and Republicans. These objections, I believe, are an honest manifestation of a yearning on the part of the American people for an end to the fighting and killing. In Indiana’s Third Congressional District an overwhelming 81.5 -$r cent of citizens, responding to my recent questionnaire, favored some form of withdrawal of U.S. troops from Viet Nam while only 15.4 per cent urged pursuit of a military victory. New Priorities There is evidence that the American people want not only peace but new priorities in government spending. Nearly 70 per cent of the respondences to this questionnaire indicated that they felt military spending could be substantially reduced without jeopardizing our national security. Last year Congress initiated the first major effort to reverse runaway military spending. As a result Congress trimmed $6 billion from the President’s budget. This effort is being resumed again this year with an eye on a number of projects which appear either unnecessary or excessive.

By JACK ANDERSON