The Mail-Journal, Volume 7, Number 16, Milford, Kosciusko County, 20 May 1970 — Page 9

• • CP —. The PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY The Milford MaH (Eat 1888) Syracuee-Wawaaee 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, lnd M — 46567 EDITORIALS Pollution Seems To Be The Issue Now

Pollution seems to be the issue now. All over America college students are protesting the poisoning of our environment, even President Nixon has spoken out against pollution. Not only is concern growing, but the problem itself is growing. Although ■ people may not realize it, all of us are contributing to pollution. The popcorn that is thrown out the window, or the little candy wrapper which seems so insignificant all add to the 1.304 pieces of litter which gather every mile on a high-

iff-; v I * • f I Pollution Comes In All Sizes

Pollution — it comes in all sizes: little lakes, big lakes, cities and towns. It comes in all types too: water, air, land and noise pollution. Who did it? We did. How do we get rid of it? WORK! Do you know that an average American throws away six pounds of garbage a day. Americans throw away four million tons of plastic, seven million cars, 20 million tons erf paper, 28 billion bottles, 48 billion cans and 147 million tons of gasses were put in the air too. Some scientists say that if we don’t .

fall! k V• „ • ■ ’ . . I Think That I Shall Never See...

I think that I shall never see, through the smog that surrounds me. In one year we pour 147,000,000 tons of dirt, sprays, smoke and gases into our air. In cities where pollution is worst now, air pollution corrodes some paints and metals. It slows down plant growth which could encourage famine. Air pollution also causes lung diseases, which leads to death. The main causes of air pollution are as follows. Cars, trucks, buses and factories. Gasoline-burning engines give off carbon monoxide. Too much of this gas could kill you. Some scientists say breathing normally for one day in New York is equal to smoking 38 cigarettes.

way every month. In 1968 Americans discarded 48 billion cans, 26 million bottles and abandoned 1.8 million cars. I’m not ,an expert, but it’s pretty obvious that people are the cause of pollution. We have to be willing to clean up. Pollution is not going to go away overnight. It will take many years to clean up. But even if we don’t have all the answers, we can help by using a trash can to throw away our papers instead of on the highway. — Alice Gunden

stop polluting our earth this is what will happen: In 10 years people will wear gas masks or die. In 15 years air pollution will kill thousands. Sunlight will be cut in half. In 20 years fatal diseases will sweep the world. In3o years — everyone on earth dead! Do you want these things to happen? Do you want our earth to be more polluted? If you don’t, think before you throw’ that car or piece of paper out the window. THINK! — Jane Wilson

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall — he tripped over the garbage he could not see through the smog. In one year in the US four million tons of plastic, seven million cars, 20 million tons of paper, 28 billion bottles and 49 billion cars are thrown away — they are thrown on the ground. The dirty water from washing dishes, cooking and so on is poured into our lakes “unfiltered.” You say, “Well, filters cost money.” Are your children’s futures worth it? Tiny water plants and animals that produce half our oxygen are dying. We are killing them. Nature is dwindling. But we can replenish what we took away. “Mother Nature” needs you! •- Susie Myers

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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. Political Party Reorganizations

As you no doubt have noted from reading this newspaper, this is the time of year when the two major political parties in Indiana are undergoing' reorganization. This event takes place every two years, in the general election year, and the results of these reorganization meetings provide the party leadership for the respective parties for the ensuing two years. In Indiana, party structure is very formalized. Our Indiana Legislature has not only passed specific laws concerning political party organizations, but has given the parties power to adopt rules concerning their operations which also become the law of * the land.

Special Report From Washington AN ° E * SON

WASHINGTON — The Nixon administration has made a secret approach to Indonesia for an expeditionary force to help , the South Vietnamese prevent a communist - take-over of Cambodia. The United States has offered secretly to furnish the financing if Indonesia will supply the troops. The U.S. High Command is worried about the 40.000 North Vietnamese troops who were reported in Cambodia. Most of them obviously slipped away before the U.S. South Vietnamese drive against their sanctuaries. The U.S. commanders are wondering nervously where the North Vietnamese h» v “ gone There is a nagging suspicion that the elusive enemy may have been driven deeper inside Cambodia where they may now pose a threat to the Lon Nol government. The U.S command has reported that Cambodia's 40,000 man army is no match for the tough-discipiined. battle-seasoned North Vietnamese. President Nixon has made it clear, however, that all U.S. troops must be out of Cambodia by the July 1 deadline. ' Thereafter, he intends to keep the US. profile in Cambodia low. He is counting hopefully upon the South Vietnamese. Indonesians and U.S.-trained mercenaries to defend Cambodia. WANTED: TOUCH OF DRAMA Meanwhile. President Nixon is looking for a dramatic peace gesture to make at the conclusion of the Cambodian operation. He is so disturbed over the strife his action has caused that he is looking for away to calm the storm and reunite the country. His advisers have warned that the division is now g so deep that nothing short of an immediate pull-out from Viet Nam would appease the protesters. The President, however, is searching for something that would be less drastic but equally dramatic. CAMBODIA COSTLY To further add to the administration’s woes, it now appears that the Cambodian incursion will wipe out the budget surplus that President Nixon had planned. This, in turn,

The lowest ranking officer in our political party structure is the precinct committeeman. He stands for election in a geographical area which is a voting unit normally containing from 700 to 1500 voters. Its area may be as small as one block in a city, or as large as several miles in a rural area. The precinct committeeman is referred to by politicians as the “backbone” of his party. He does the polling, encourages voters to go to the polls and vote for their party candidates, provides transportation and generally is the representative of his party in your neighborhood and at the polls. He, of course, can be voted upon only by people who declare themselves in the primary

election to be members of his party. He is entitled to appoint a vice-committeeman to assist in his various duties. On the Saturday following the primary election the precinct committeemen and vicecommitteemen meet and elect the county chairman, vicechairman and other officers of the county committee. Then the county chairmen and vicechairmen of the 92 counties meet and elect their district chairmen, selected from the eleven Congressional districts in Indiana. After the district chairmen and vice-chairmen are elected they meet and elect the state committee, consisting of a chairman, vice-chairman, secretary and treasurer, and a national committeeman who represent the party in Washington. The rules of both parties require thse various chairmen and vice-chairmen to be persons of the opposite sex so that the fairer sex will always have proper representation within the party ranks. Because Indiana has such highly organized political parties, party positions have considerable power at their disposal. The county chairman chooses the election officials who man the polling places on election day.

could upset his entire anti-inflation program. And the clamor is growing for more federal outlays to fight pollution, poverty, crime and other domestic ills. Nixon’s economic advisers have warned him bluntly that he can t continue military spending at the present rate and have enough money left over to pay for all these social programs. So the President will make only modest cuts in the military budget. This will leave a larger deficit that will take either more taxes or less domestic spending. He will then launch a campaign to persuade the American people that they must dig * deeper into their pockets to help pay for the social programs this country needs. But the President will put off any requests for a tax increase until after the November elections. MUTUAL INTRANSIGENCE President Nixon predicted at his last press conference that the United States and the Soviet Union would reach an agreement to limit strategic weapons. We can report, however, that the secret negotiations aren’t making the kind of progress the President apparently anticipated. Soviet diplomats have made 26 secret, informal overtures, warning that the Red Army has tied the hands of the Russian negotiators. We can also report that the Pentagon is inhibiting the American negotiators. Insiders tell us that the Pentagon has a flat veto over every proposal that the negotiators make. As a result, both sides are showing more caution than imagination at the Vienna talks. Meanwhile, both sides are going ahead with an escalation of the arms race while their negotiators hem and haw in Vienna. WATER SHORTAGE The Interior Department is alarmed over the dwindling water table in many areas of the country. In Arizona, for example, the underground water level has dropped so low that some water plants are drawing out saline water. Interior officials are counting upon cloud seeding to restore the water supply. Com-

Congressional Comer: John Brademas Reports From Washington Conference Aims And Participants; Internal Politics Os East Africa

This week I was on the Island of guernsey off the coast of England where I attended the Anglo-American Conference on Africa. Conference Aims And Participants As during the past five years, the Conference was held to broaden American and British interest in and knowledge of African problems and to lead to hopefully greater cooperation between the two countries in developing their policies toward Africa. In Guernsey we discussed likely developments in United States and British policies on Africa as well as the Africa policies of other countries. Several conference delegates presented papers which discuss . such issues as post-war Nigeria, science and technology in the African equatorial countries, and the problem of apartheid in South Africa. Internal Politics Os East Africa My own assignment was to deliver a paper on the internal politics of the East African countries of Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. ' I pointed out that each of the countries in East Africa faces serious problems of economic development and political stability, and I tried to show how economic development and employment opportunities vary greatly from region to region and among the many tribes in each of these countries. Kenya was the first country in East Africa to gain independence in 1961; Uganda the second in 1962; and Kenya the last in 1963. The national boundaries of these countries were inherited from the period of colonial rule, and each country includes several peoples which are distinct groups—either because of different backgrounds or because they come from a region which had been fairly autonomous before or right after independence. East Africa relies on a highly agrarian economy, and the Presidents of these countries are now trying to raise the productivity of their agricultural crops to make their countries more self-sufficient and to provide cash resources to make possible some industrialization. It is a most difficult task for the three top East African leaders— Presidents Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya, Julius Nyerere of Tanzania and Milton Obote of Uganda—to assure steady economic growth in their countries and at the same time to make financial opportunities

puters have helped the scientists figure out the exact cloud conditions that will produce precipitation. In the near future, authorities believe that seeding can be used to help build up the snowpacks in the mountains. The spring thaws should also help to fill up the diminishing water table. PETTY PILFERAGE It seems that no sum of money is too small for the officers of the United Mine Workers to pilfer from the membership for their own purposes. - A quarter-page ad recently appeared in a Norton. Va., newspaper attacking , Congressman Ken Hechler. the gutsy West Virginia Democrat who had led the fight to bring the UMW’s corruption to light. The ad, which contained lavish praise for the UMW’s president Tony Boyle, purported to be sponsored by a group of local union presidents. But this column has learned that Carson Hibbitts,- appointed by Boyle as the union’s district president in Virginia, paid for the ad <sut of the membership’s funds. It wasn’t the first time. Twice during the recent union election campaign won by Boyle against the murdered challenger Jock Yablonski, ads were taken out in the Norton paper boosting Boyle’s cause. Both were paid for out oi the workers’ membership dues. Meanwhile, the federal government’s suit to force the union to require the election of » district officers such as Hibbitts has been held up in another of a seemingly interminable series of delays. At the request of UMW general counsel Ed Carey, Federal Judge Edward Curran has granted the UMW another pre-trial hearing in the case which was originally filed by the government way back in 1964. Curran, an old personal buddy of Carey, took this action despite the fact that an earlier UMW motion for delay had been granted only on condition that the trial wouldn’t be delayed again. Note: Hechler won in the primary four to one.

open to all Africans, and all tribes within the African population. In each of these countries there are several thousand Europeans who went to East Africa during colonial rutle and many Arabs and Asians, primarily from India and Pakistan. These groups were most favored with jobs and wealth during colonial rule, and they are still critically important to the business and commerce of East Africa. Moreover, East Africa is dependent on foreign capital as it seeks to industrialize. A common market, the East African Community, has also been formed to reduce trade barriers among the countries. Education Policies In East Africa As a legislator who specializes in education, I was naturally interested to see the stress which East Africa places on education for economic and political development. . In Kenya, President Jomo Kenyatta has declared that all children should receive seven free years of public education. Enrollment in shcools has grown enormously in Kenya since independence, so that now 70 per cent of all school age children are in school. In Tanzania, only four per cent of the people who are either employed or are looking for work are literate. The problems of education are thus enormous, and President Julius Nyerere has sought to develop a school system from elementary education through college. In Uganda, the emphasis is less on formal schooling than on the education which young people will gain from camps where they work under a national plan to conscript all young people for economic service. U. S. Education In Perspective In looking at the educational system of these countries, I am reminded how -great the educational opportunities are in the United States as compared with the rest of the world. Whilealmost half our high school graduates enter post-secondary education of some kind, even in Britain 80 per cent of the students enter a course of study at age 11 which will make it possible for them to go to college. The Guernsey Conference has deepened my understanding both of the problems of Africa and of the policies of the United States and Britain toward Africa. It has also strengthened my awareness of how furtunate the United States is to have a highly developed system of education.