The Mail-Journal, Volume 7, Number 17, Milford, Kosciusko County, 27 May 1970 — Page 19

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Early Birds Arriving At Lake

This “Early Bird” edition of The Mail-Journal is to welcome those who have arrived here this week to spend the summer in the Lakeland area. With graduation comes summer and the arrival of the lakers — the people who will be or have arrived here ~ to spend the summer in the Lakeland area. They are city folks who come to enjoy our company for the three precious summer months each year. This issue is one way of saying welcome. It also gives them a chance to see what the merchants of the area have to advertise. z The lakers come each year from Chicago, Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, South Bend and other metropolitan areas to join those who live here year around. With summer approaching the

Amen! Professor K. Ross Toole of the University of Montana is one member of the teaching profession in an institution of higher learning who minces no words in expressing his opinion of the disorderly behavior of a minority of young people. He says ‘ . I am a ‘Liberal,’ square and I am a professor. I am sick of the ‘younger generation,’ hippies, Yippies, militants . . . (it’s) time to put these people in their place ... “Every generation makes mistakes, always has and always will. We have made our share. But my generation has made America the most affluent country on earth. It has tackled, head-on, a racial problem which no nation on earth in the history of mankind had dared to do. It has publicly declared war on poverty and it has gone

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Call A Spade Something

A spade is a spade, as the old saying goes. But you'd never know it to read a Defense Department publication which uses the term, “combat emplacement evacua tor” when the simple term “shovel” would do just as well. Or take the Air Force. It keeps a lot of parachutes in stock, but that's not what it calls them. They’re “aerodynamic personnel decelerators.” Then there’s the Bureau of Public Roads, which refers to “impact attenuation devices,” means oil drums that are placed around highway obstructions.

EDITORIALS

Lakeland area turns into a beehive of buzzing people who are hurrying here and there to get as much done in one day as they can. They swim, boat, fish, golf and do as many other things as they can do in any one 24 hour period. This issue is full of “Early Bird” advertisements with merchants showing their wares to the many who are now coming to the area to open their summer homes and to the residents who enjoy the area’s recreational facilities all year long. “Early Bird’’ advertisers in this boxholder edition range from furniture stores to grocery stores and from clothing stores to marinas, jewelry stores and car dealers. Read the ads in this paper for unbelievable “Early Bird” bargains and patronize the Lakeland merchants.

to the moon; it has desegregated schools and abolished polio; it has presided over the beginning of what is probably the greatest social and economic revolution in man’s history. It has begun these things, not finished them. It has declared itself, and committed itself, and taxed itself, and damn near run itself into the ground in the cause of social justice and reform . . “Common courtesy and a regard for the opinions of others is not merely a decoration on the pie crust of society — it is the heart of the pie. Too many ‘youngsters’; are egocentric boors. They will notjisten; they will only shput down. They will not discuss but, like four-year-olds, they throw rocks and shout.” Professor Toole declares it is time to call a halt, and a great many people will say Amen to that.

These are just a few examples of gobbledygook unearthed by Richard Poss of Virginia, who says that if the Nixon administration accomplishes nothing else, it could improve the citizen’s understanding and respect for his government by requiring bureaucrats to talk in plain terms and to abandon the foreign language they’ve been speaking. As the State Department might put it, his submonition is unexpectabie. In plain, four-letter English, that means it’s a good idea: —Richmond Times-Dispatch

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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 terrhs.

Justice Os Peace Courts

Most citizens of Indiana identify the Justice of Peace Court as a place where a person pays a traffic ticket. It is true that the Justice of Peace Court has jurisdiction in minor cases and many people have , come away from a traffic case with a very bad feeling about Justice of the Peace Courts. But the court can be helpful to one who has a small civil claim. The Justice of Peace has jurisdiction up to and including the amount of I $500.00 in all civil cases exceot libel, slander, malicious prosecution and where the title to real estate is put in issue. An exception to the jurisdictional limit of $500.00 is damages in an action by a landlord against a delinquent tenant. Damages in such a lawsuit are unlimited and the landlord can always get his remedy in a Justice of the Peace Court. Most justice of the Peace

Special Report From Washington

WASHINGTON — The White House is quietly studying ways to keep future demonstrations under control. Aides are investigating how countries that have had more experience with violent demonstrations, such as France and Japan, handle riot control The French, for example, use water hoses which have been remarkably effective in dampening down the demonstrators without causing serious injury. The Japanese riot control units have also been effective lately in handling demonstrators. Another proposal is to send mobile violence control units to a demonstration to calm the demonstrators and prevent violence. White House aides also are discussing a move taken by Communist China whose red guards set the style for youthful rampages. Mao Tse-tung, who is admired by many young American activists, has ruled that the red guards must now pay the government for all the damage they caused during the cultural revolution In some cases, they are being pressed into work battalions which are cleaning up the mess. In other cases, they simply have been presented with bills for the damage and threatened with imprisonment if they don't pay up. Some White House aides think this might be a good law to adopt in the United States. FORMER NIXON PARTNERS REBEL Meanwhile, President Nixon’s former law firm, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie and Alexander, has been thrown into an uproar over the antiwar movement. Half a dozen of the firm’s younger attorneys joined the New York lawyers who descended on Washington last week to lobby against President Nixon’s war policies. The senior partners tried to persuade their young colleagues not to participate in the Washington demonstration, cautioning that affiliation with the President’s former firm could embarrass both Nixon and the firm.

Courts have all of the forms necessary to put a lawsuit in motion. A complaint is signed stating in simple terms the theory of your lawsuit. A summons is then served by a con- , stable notifying the defendant that a lawsuit has been filed against him, and further directs him to a time and place to appear to answer the plaintiff’s complaint. A trial is then had and the Justice of Peace makes a decision based on the evidence presented to the court. In the event the defendant fails to appear the court enters a default judgment. This can be done only after the court is assured that the defendant was notified of the pending lawsuit. The attractive feature of filing a small civil claim in a Justice of the Peace Court is the fact that the costs are very small. $6.00. Also, because it may be only a

small claim, a person can represent himself. The technical rules of pleading and the technical rules of evidence are not applicable in a Justice of the Peace Court. Although the Justice of Peace Court system has been subjected to much criticism through the years, when the court is administered properly, it can be helpful to one who seeks relief for a small claim. A majority of the cases filed in the Justice of the Peace Courts are landlords filing against delinquent tenants or individuals seeking a return of personal property wrongfully taken. This type of claim is called a replevin, and the Justice of Peace can order personal property with a value of up to $500.00 to be returned to its rightful owner. Because the Justice of the Peace is constitutional office, it has been very difficult to improve this system. Many persons have advocated a new court to replace the Justice of the Peace Court with one having a qualified lawyer as the judge. This will undoubtedly happen in the near future. It is hoped that when the change is made the informal procedure of a small claims court now present can be maintained. ■< Once the present deficiencies are corrected by law, the small claims court will be a very valuable adjunct to our judicial system.

The young lawyers disregarded the advice, however and went to Washington anyhow. A senior partner had forwarned Attorney General John Mitchell, who had also been a member of the firm. Mitchell then arranged an appointment out of town to avoid a confrontation with members of his former firm. LEAK INFURIATES NIXON President Nixon is furious over the security leak that enabled the North Vietnamese to escape the trap he had planned for them in Cambodia. The President kept his Cambodian plan so secret that he is now in trouble with congressional leaders for not taking them into his confidence. The real reason he failed to consult with them was that he feared they might leak the plans and jeopardize the military operation. The President was fit to be tied, therefore, when he learned that the North Vietnamese knew all about the planned invasion in plenty of time to pull out of their sanctuaries and escape the trap. The Army has tried valiantly to persuade the public that the real objective was to capture enemy supplies and to destroy a fewpillboxes. The truth is that the President had expected to surprise the enemy and perhaps even capture their headquarters. He angrily “ demanded to know how the North Vietnamese had found out in advance about the plans. He was told that the South Vietnamese were responsible for the leak. TEETH SAVED Alaska's elfish ex-Sen. Ernest Gruening, afflicted with an aching back, consulted the doctors at the Bethesda Naval Hospital who specialize in treating Presidents, Cabinet Members, Senators and other VIPs. The eminent specialists gave him a thorough going over, concluded that decayed teeth were causing his back trouble and recommended that they be pulled.

Congressional Comer: John Brademas Reports From Washington

Cong. John McCormick To Retire From Congress At Close Os This Session

This has been an historic week in the House of Representatives. Speaker John W. McCormack of Massachusetts has announced that he will retire from Congress at the close of this Session. His decision marks the end of a 42year career in the House. Only Congressman Emanuel Celler of Brooklyn, who has served for 48 years, has been here longer. Many consider the position of Speaker of the House to be the second most powerful office in the Nation. The Speaker presides' over the 435-member House of Representatives, and he actually has no equivalent in the Senate—where the Vice President is the presiding officer but is seldom on hand. The Speaker is also next in succession after the Vice President, so that Mr. McCormack was only a heartbeat away from the Presidency in the 14-month period following the assassination of President Kennedy. He was first elected to Congress in 1928 and was an active supporter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New /»Deal legislation. Mr. McCormack became Democratic Majority Leader in the House in 1940 and has held a position of prominence there for the past 30 years. He succeeded Sam Rayburn as Speaker in 1962, and only Mr. Rayburn served in that post longer. Now, at the age of 78, John W : McCormack is stepping down. In recent years, younger members of the House have been restive for new leadership. Congressman Morris Udall of Arizona contested Mr. McCormack in 1969 for the Speakership position, and another challenge would undoubtedly have occurred next year. It now appears that Majority Leader Carl Albert of Oklahoma will move up with nearly unanimous support. The Seniority System Many. Members had come to feel that John McCormack reflected a by-gone .era in American politics and was no longer able to relate to the pressing problems of the present day. Indeed, Mr. McCormack seemed to be a personification of the seniority system in Congress. Although the seniority system assures that important positions will be held by men with long legislative experience, it also results in leadership roles for men who — in many instances — are quite old. Successful businesses in the United States usually have a mandatory retirement age of 65. Yet in the House of Representatives six committee chairmen

The 83-year-old Gruening, a Harvard medical graduate of 1912, thought this was a pretty drastic diagonis and r consulted his civilian dentist. The x-rays showed that Gruening s teeth were perfectly good, so a comparison was made with the Navy x-rays. This revealed that the Navy doctors had based their diagnosis on the wrong x-rays. NIXON NO TIPSTER President Nixon had some investment advice for a group of businessmen who visited him at the White House on April 28. He told" them that if he had any money, he would be buying stocks. If any of the businessmen listened to the President’s advice, they could have lost a good deal of money, for the stock market has slid 40 points since the President advised the businessmen to go out and buy stocks four weeks ago, This incident underlines a growing fear that the President has seriously underestimated the economic downturn. For the first time in history, the economy is experiencing both inflation and recession at the same time. This means that the American people are paying higher prices and higher interest rates at the same time they are losing money in the stock market. The President had expected the federal pay raise and the increase in Social Security benefits to stimulate the economy and reverse the downward trend. He is still telling aides confidently that the end of the 5 per cent surcharge on June 30 will give the economy the boost it needs. However, it takes months for monetary measures to have an effect. Therefore, experts expect that the downslide will continue until even the Nixon administration can no longer refuse to call it a recession. The final upturn in the economy won’t come, unhappily for the Republicans, until after the November elections.

are over 75 years of age. Many have felt that these older Members of Congress have often not been responsive to the needs of a Nation with a vast majority of its citizens under 50. Congressional Reform With many other Congressmen of both parties, I have long been interested in measures which would bring about reform of Congress. In fact, the House is expected shortly to consider a bill aimed at making Congress more rpodern, more efficient, and more responsive. Certainly, we should revise the system for choosing our leadership. We need to insure that the most qualified Members are chosen rather than simply have the oldest Members automatically assume the jobs. Some of the rules of Congress also are archaic and serve only to block fair and thorough consideration of important legislation. It seems to me wrong, for example, that debate on such crucial bills as military appropriations is arbitrarily limited to a few hours, while whole days are taken up on comparatively minor items. Something is amiss. Hopefully a change in top leadership in the House of Representatives will mean not only a new Speaker and a new Majority Leader, but a more effective and more representative House of Representatives. Social Security Bill One important bill came up on the House floor this week — the Social Security increase and Medicare-Medicaid amendments. Under the measure, Social Security benefits would be raised by 5 per cent for all recipients beginning in January, 1971. The bill also provides additional payments totalling $1.7 billion to 26.2 million recipients. This increase will be supported by a raise in the tax base from $7,800 to $9,000 annually, and the rate will also be raised from the current 8 per cent to 8.4 per cent next year, 10 per cent in 1975 and 11 per cent in 1980. The bill also provides for general increased benefits for widows, the blind and the disabled. The changes in the Medicare and Medicaid programs are designed to broaden their coverage, while at the same time strengthening the regulations to guard against excessive costs. I supported these measures. As the cost of living continues to skyrocket, the fixed incomes of our Social Security recipients are becoming increasingly inadequate. The high cost of health services is also a matter of great concern?

By JACK ANDERSON