The Mail-Journal, Volume 7, Number 23, Milford, Kosciusko County, 8 July 1970 — Page 15

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Bad News For Troublemakers

Press reports, a short time ago, announced the impending appointment of Admiral Thomas H. Moorer as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The appointment of a naval officer to this high military post comes at a timely moment in American history. Admiral Moorer has been one of thbse who has most persistently called attention to the growing might of Soviet naval forces. He is a believer in the importance of U. S. maritime supremacy. He is no armchair admifal. He was a carrier combat pilot in World War II and was shot down in 1942 and survived the sinking, the same day, of the sh’*p that rescued him.

Sleep “THE rest of your days depends upon the rest of your nights.*' Whoever said that knew the value of sleep. , The average adult must spend about one-third of the 24 hours in sleep to be in condition to live to the full the other twothirds of the time. Many persons can get along with considerably less sleep than the average, but extremes should probably be discounted. For instance, Thomas Edison was reputed to require not more than four hours a night in bed. But he made up for it with naps on conveniently arranged sofas. Napoleon boasted that he needed very little sleep, but he was known to doze in the saddle after virtually sleepless nights. Persons who try to get along on less than the customary seven to eight hours

What Teenagers Want Most

Wonder what young people want most from their parents these days? You are not alone. Recently a regional PTA asked the teachers in several junior high and senior high schools to request their pupils to write unsigned papers on the subject: “What are the things you wish your parents would do or not do?” No guidelines were issued. No other questions were asked. The idea was to draw answers “straight off the top of the heads” of the young students. Some of the replies may come as a surprise. A count showed that the wishes expressed most often were: Be stricter. Be more dedicated to church work and go to church as a family. Be fun loving. Treat my friends like they were welcome. Try to understand me and my friends. Don’t treat me like a child but depend on me more. Tell me right from wrong, but don’t be too harsh about it.

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Bayh Urges Overriding President's Veto Os Hill-Burton Hospital Program

WASHINGTON - Senator Birch Bayh (D., Ind.) today urged the Senate to respond to the call for a reordering of the nation's proanties by overriding Presidehtluxon’s veto of the HillBurton hospital construction program In a statement on the Senate floor, the Indiana lawmaker reminded the Senate of the President's words one year ago when he spoke of a “massive crisis** in medical care. Noting that the President's veto of the hospital construction program contradicts his earlier statement. Bayh added. "The nation still faces a massive crisis in medical care unless something

EDITORIALS

is done about it immediately. “The most immediate action we can take. I suggest, is to override the President’s veto." “There is ho doubt about this nation's great needs in medical facilities construction and modernization" he said. “We know that we have a definite need for 455.130 acute long-term care beds, for 833 public health centers. for 388 rehabilitative facilities, and foT 81,060 outpatient centers." The total estimated cost to fulfill these needs is 816 billion. Bayh said, but the Hill-Burton bill provides for only 82.79 billion over three years "because that is the maximum we feel we can

On the strength of his record and by his actions, Admiral Moorer is another 6 of those outstanding, dedicated men who have always appeared on the scene when the country has needed them most. His kind have no illusions about the forces continually at work destroying freedom. They adhere to the truth that peace is largely a matter of keeping our powder dry. In Admiral Moorer’s words, the main objective of military policy “. . . is to retain a sufficient presence where the national interest is involved to deter any adventures on the part of those who might want to generate trouble.”

sleep are likely to be nervous and irritable, to lack the feeling of fitness and often they become victims of some functional disorder. It has been demonstrated often that lack of sleep impairs the ability to do concentrated mental work. It is not known just Why man and animals fall asleep and waken. Apparently a condition of the entire body requires and brings about this periodic change from one state to another. During sleep a number of bodily functions are slowed down. The rate of metabolism is reduced, the pulse is slower, the temperature lower, blood pressure is reduced and breathing is slower. The body’s energy’ during sleep is being used for the repair of tissues that have suffered wear and tear.

Not fuss at me before other people. Not curse, not drink, not smoke. Answer simple questions without giving a lecture. Ask my opinion instead of demanding. Be trustworthy. Sometimes it takes me a long time to explain why I did something and I’m convicted before the trial begins. I would like my parents to be more thoughtful of one another. Love one another. Love me. We are not told where the survey was held. But it is interesting, and significant, that the students should express the wish that parents ‘‘be stricter.” This would appear to indicate that the socalled “permissive society” of the adult world is not entirely to the liking of young people. The replies show that these youths felt a need for more discipline, along with understanding—and a healthy measure of self-discipline on the part of the parents, too. ' Hoosier Democrat

provide at this time." “How much less can we in good conscience set aside for our nation's health needs?" Bayh asked “We have an obligation to maintain and indeed, improve the quality of life for our citizens." Bayh concluded "If we are senous about reordering our prionties, now is the time to begin And here is the place to begin it” and Social Security Q - I received a billing notice from Medicare and it is 85 30 per month. Do I now have more coverage? If not. why is my premium more? A- There is no change in Medicare coverage However due to increased medical costs, the Medicare premium had to be increased. It increased for all beneficiaries as of July 1, 1970.

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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.

Discipline In Public Schools

Teachers and parents on many occasions make inquiries concerning the rights and powers of teachers and school officials to discipline and punish pupils under their control. Manyparents are under the misconception that a teacher may not “touch” their child. Under Indiana law, school authorities have a reasonable discretion in determining what is necessary to maintain discipline in the schools under their control. They may adopt such rules and regulations as they find necessary for discipline in their schools , They are also given power to enforce those rules and regulations. The law requires that the enforcement of rules of discipline be reasonable under all the attendant circumstances, consistent with the health, age, comfort and mental and physical

Special Report From Washington

WASHINGTON — Republican congressional leaders have warned President Nixon that Congress, under Democratic management, is going to force him to spend more money on social ills by tacking mandatory spending provisions on legislation. At a party pow-wow behind closed White House doors, the President replied that he had vetoed the bill for hospital modernization and construction “because of the mandatory spending provisions.” He said that he understood, however, whysome Republicans would join the Democrats in overriding his veto. “I understand your problem,” he said, referring to the public - demand for more hospital beds. “The compulsory spending feature is likely to be tried on even larger bills, including the environmental bills,” reported Illinois's Rep. William Springer, vice chairman of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee “This means a very big spending effort.” "If the President signs such bills, ne added, looking at Nixon, “the critics will say you signed and then refused to spend the money.” “Congress gives a ceiling on the budget and then takes control over the budget away,” 4 grumped Nixon. “If the President takes on the Congress to meet the inflation danger, we’re on the right side of it” "There is a taxpayers revolt vs. all this spending " he added. “Yet it is difficult to appear to vote against health.” DOWN THE DRAIN Defense contractors have mounted a new campaign against proposals by Admiral Hyman Rickover that would save the taxpayers $2 billion a year. Rickover would like all defense contractors to use the same accounting methods. He feels this would be a more accurate method of reflecting true profits made by the contractors. France and Germany already have such an accounting system. But in the United States

condition of the pupils. School officials may suspend, expel or exclude pupils from a school for violation of their rules, or where necessary to the welfare of the school system. Teachers may detain pupils for a short time after school hours as a penalty for misconduct. Perhaps the greatest controversy pertains to the use of corporal punishment as a means of maintaining discipline. The Supreme Court of Indiana has made it very clear that a public school teacher in maintaining discipline has the same rights and duties over a child in his school as is possessed by the parent and this includes the right to administer corporal punishment when it is appropriate. The court also has made it clear that the teacher’s authority; in this respect, is no more subject to question than is the authority of

the parent. The authority of the teacher and the kind and amount of punishment that he employs to meet given misconduct is measured by the same rules, standards and requirements as fixed al4b established for parents. Our Supreme Court has even stated that a teacher and a parent have not only the right but the obligation to discipline a child, if necessary using Corporal punishment. for the good of such child, as well as the protection of third parties offended or injured by the action of such child. The failure to exercise such disciplinary action where required is as wrong under the law as the use of excessive punishment beyond that required. Certainly, a teacher may not use excessive punishment to discipline a child or that which is not commensurate with the circumstances, the offense, the health and well-being of the child. The teacher or school official may however take appropriate action, including the use of corporal punishment. Copyright 1970 by John J. Dillon •

JULY 19*25

Rickover can’t even get the Pentagon to bacx him up. So unless a few congressmen are willing to take on the big military spenders, another of Rickover’s moaey-saving ideas will go down the drain. J. EDGAR HOOVER RUMORS Washington is again teeming with reports that FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover is going to resign. The reports claim that the venerable director will quit by the end of the year so President Nixon can name a replacement before the 1972 electioneering begins. Two men have been mentioned repeatedly for the prestigious job. One is Supreme Court Justice Byron White, a close friend and. confidant of the late Robert Kennedy. The other is former Assistant Attorney General Jack Miller, a Republican who also worked well under Robert Kennedy when he was Attorney General. However, a third man now seems to be in tb r - running. He is Bill Sullivan, a veteran FBI agent, and the number-three man in the FBI heirarchy. The 57-year-old Sullivan claims he doesn’t want tosJe permanent Director of the FBI but would be willing to serve until President Nixon chooses a permanent replacement for Hoover. FREELOADING On the same day President Nixon released a long-awaited report favoring the timber industry, the chairman who directed the timber study, showed up at Odell, Ore., for a week end in the woods with two lumber barons. Budget boss Robert Mayo, who headed the timber task force, was the guest of Faye and Loran Stewart, vice president and president of the Bohemia Lumber Company. The firm does a $35 million business each year in lumber, plywood and related products. Loran Stewart is also a forma- president of the nation’s lumber lobby, known more formally as the National Forest Products Association, which has lobbied for the kind of

Congressional Comer: j John Brademas Reports From Washington

Meaning Os Holiday Too Often Is Overshadowed By Commercial Exploits

This past week end we observed the 194th anniversary of America’s birth as a nation and, parenthetically, my mother’s birthday. Too often the meaning of a holiday is overshadowed by commercial exploitation or forgotten in the rush for a retreat from work. But the meaning of the Fourth of July should never be lost. The Fourth of July is an occasion for national rejoicing ahd thanksgiving—rejoicing that we live in a country which, despite all its imperfections, continues to represent the world’s best hope for democracy; and thanksgiving for our rich heritage of freedom and individual liberties. It is a testament to the wisdom of our Founding Fathers that the republic they envisioned nearly two centuries ago has not only survived, but has prospered and matured into a great and mighty nation. Our country’s growth has been nourished by the foresight of these men of 1776. At that time, armed with more than a passion for liberty and justice, they declared America’s independence from England and overthrew the colonial rule. These early American leaders then went on to write one of the most extraordinary documents of all time—the Constitution of the United States. g Through the years of wars, civil and foreign, of sectional differences and great internal turmoil, the Constitution has served as an instrument to hold our nation together. So, even in the face of the many and serious problems which beset American society today, I am confident that through our constitutional system, we can continue to grow not only in terms of our economy but in building a just and free society. The men who framed our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution put their country above themselves. If we work harder as individuals to make real their ideals ci America as a land of freedom and opportunity for all citizens, I remain a tough-minded optimist about our future. LAW ENFORCEMENT • ASSISTANCE The House of Representatives last week passed new legislation to strengthen the Federal law enforcement assistance program. Amendments to the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Acts, which was passed overwhelmingly, provide for $3.15

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billion in Federal funds for crime control over the next three years and for the establishment of grants for construction, renovation and acquisition of correctional facilities. In supporting these measures on the floor, I observed that the latest statistics released by the FBI showed a shocking increase in serious crimes throughout the country. The "national index of serious crime rose by 13 per cent in the first three months of 1970 over the first quarter of 1969. Especially alarming to me is that the serious crime rate in Indiana leaped over 22 per cent in the first quarter of 1970 over the same period last year. The Law Enforcement Assistance Act passed by the House is aimed at aiding state and local police officials to do a more effective job of coping with the situation. For if we are to wage effective war on crime, we must do more than give lip service to supporting law enforcement agenices. We must provide substantial financial assistance for education and training of police officers, for building and modernizing correctional facilities and for improving all aspects of our criminal law system. I am glad that the $3.15 billion authorized in this legislation is close to the $3.5 billion contained in a law enforcement assistance bill, I introduced in February. If we are to be realistic about curbing crime, we must commit substantial funds to the fight. ARTS AND HUMANITIES Last Tuesday the House passed a bill, strongly recommended by President Nixon, to extend the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities for another three years. As principal sponsor of the legislation, I served as a floor leader during debate on it. The measure was approved by a resounding vole of 262 to 78. Several Congressmen who formerly opposed the programs of the Foundation stated that they are now convinced of its value. President Nixon, is urging passage of the bill, said that the arts and humanities have a compelling claim on our resources. In a speech at the National Gallery of Art to business and industrial leaders recently, I praised the President for his stand, for I agree with him that increased emphasis on the arts and humanities can uplift the lives of American citizens.

By JACK ANDERSON

recommendations that Mayo’s task force produced. The task force contended that the “national forest cut can be expanded” by seven billion board feet by 1978. This is the sort of statement that sends lumber magnates hurrying happily to their counting houses. “The Forest Service should be encouraged. . ," urged the report, “to increase timber yields from the national forests.” The national forests, of course, are owned by the taxpayers, and conservationists want them preserved for wildlife and recreation. Even as White House reporters filed their stories about the timber study, Mayo was * being chauffeured froth a speech in. Eugene, Ore., to the Stewarts’ handsome woodland lodge. They spent the week end together relaxing and dining among the Oregon uplands and visiting lumber projects in Bohemia’s private helicopter. p Mayo was whisked back to Eugene in the same corporate helicopter. His trip to Oregon, however, was paid by the government. BAD COMPANY Assistant Attorney General William Ruckelshaus popped in to see his boss, Attorney General John Mitchell, one morning after Mitchell had received the wire-brush treatment from the press. “I used to have a ' good reputation,” said Mitchell with mock mournfulness, “until I met that fellow Nixon.” AFTER DINNER Senator William Saxbe, R-Ohio, found himself stranded the other afternoon at a small, deserted airfield near Reading, Pa. The car that was supposed to pick him up was delayed by an accident. The back-up car couldn’t be coaxed to a start and no cabs were available. In desperation, the Senator began bargaining with a neighboring farmer who > finally agreed to taxi Saxbe to Reading for S2O. “But not,” said the farmer, “until I finish my dinner.”