The Mail-Journal, Volume 7, Number 35, Milford, Kosciusko County, 30 September 1970 — Page 9

'Journal L PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY The Milford Mail (Eat 1888) Syracuae-Wawasee Journal (Eat 1907) Consolidated Into The Mail-Journal Feb. 15, 1962 I DEMOCRATIC ARCHIBALD E. BAUMGARTNER, Editor and Publisher DELLA BAUMGARTNER, Business Manager Box 8 Syracuse, Ind., — 46567

Give The United Way * - *

Volunteers in Kosciusko and other counties throughout land are currently on the march to collect funds for The United Fund. Kick-off meetings have been held in the various communities and in the county seat by division chairmen with plans to raise $157,000 during the, 1970 campaign. The theme of this year is “The Beginning of Hope.’’ This theme explains the reason behind the United Fund Drive. The 16 social service agencies devoted to the betterment of the county, its residents and loved ones

Their Peace Symbol ■ The Broken Cross'

The communists are winning their battle for men’s minds. They make a special effort to capture the minds of our youth. And to destroy the will of all who resist their takeover. Many Americans are familiar with the peace symbol shown here. Some are even willing to wear it. But, what most of them do not know, is that it is “the Broken Cross” of the anti-Christ, The Communists won another victory when Time magazine, on jts cover of June 7, 1968, carried a picture of a bearded youth as the 1968 graduate. For all the world to see, he wore the Broken Cross’. The Communists have infiltrated the garment industry and you find the Broken Cross embroidered on jackets

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Congressional Committees: Where The Real Work Os Congress Is Done

WASHINGTON — Constituents visiting Washington often tell me they are dismayed to see so many empty seats on the floors of Congress. But once they appreciate the importance of Congressional committees, they can understand that their Senators and Congressmen are probably deeply involved in committee hearings and meetings — where the real work of Congress is done. Almost one hundred years ago, in his classic study on congressional government, Woodrow Wilson wrote. “Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, while Congress in its committee rooms is Congress at work.*’ Wilson’s observation is equally valid today, for the real work of Congress is still done in the committees. This work consists basically of either processing bills which have been introduced or of investigating the need for new legislation. Each legislative committee is also required to keep an eye on the administration of those laws enacted by Congress in the field of activity in which the committee has legislative jurisdiction The legislative committees are the backbone of Congress and it is as members of them that Senators and Representatives perform their most, important function in the preparation and enactment of laws. There are four basic types of congressional committeesselect, joint, conference and standing Select committees are created for special purposes, usually for investigations or for the study of a subject with which Congress has not dealt before. When the investigation or the study is concluded, the committee is dissolved For example. I serve on the Senate Select Committee on Equal Opportunity. Our committee has been holding hearings for several .months, and is

EDITORIALS

required to submit a final report on January 31, 1971. The second type of committee is the joint committee, made up of an equal number of Senators and Representatives. Usually set up on a temporary basis, they seldom recommend legislation, unlike the setect committees. , When both houses of Congress pass different bills on the same subject, or when one house amends a bill passed by the other house, the differences are resolved by a conference committee. When we speak of Congressional committees, however, we usually mean the standing committees, for these are the basic operating units of Congress. There are 16 of these permanent legislative committees in the Senate and 20 in the House. Each committee has jurisdiction over certain subject matters, and ail measures affecting a particular area of the law are referred to that committee which has jurisdiction over it. For example, the Committee on the Judiciary, which is one of the standing committees 1 am on, has jurisdiction over measures relating to judicial proceedings, civil and criminal, and 18 other categories, of which Constitutional amendments, revision and codification of statutes, civil liberties, antitrust, patents, copyrights, and trademarks are but a few. Most of the committees have two or more subcommittees that specialize in the consideration of particular classifications of bills. Each committee is provided with a professional and clerical staff to assist it in the innumerable administrative details involved in the consideration of bills Senators are entitled to seats on at least two committees, one Os which is a standing committee, and most Senators also serve on two or three subcommittees. In

in the armed Services are truly giving hope to their recipients. The agencies work is accomplished through carefully planned programs offering ch racter building youth programs ai id and assistance to individuals ana • .milies needing help. Many of the services they offer are educational in nature and serve to alleviate or prevent suffering. The $157,000 goal represents the actual cost of operating the United Fund and its agencies for one year. It’s a big job to raise this kind of money and you can help by lending a hand and giving your fair share.

American to wear. The Broken Cross is also manufactured as a metal trinket, to be worn on a chain. And many of the younger set wear it thoughtlessly or as a peace symbol knowingly. But seldom do they realize that they are supporting the emblem of the anti-Christ, the Broken Cross. Today many men’s stores and ladies’ ready-to-wear stores advertise this symbol of the atheists and sell it openly, perhaps even ignorantly to thoughtless people who do not know what they are buying or planning to wear. But every symbol of the Broken Cross that is publicly displayed is noted gleefully by the godless Communists, who can see how thoughtless and vulnerable the Americans really are. —Goshen News

the House one committee seat per member is the norm. Members rank in seniority in accordance with the order of their appointment to the committee with the ranking majority member being automatically elected chairman. Congressional committees are composed of Democrats and Republicans in proportion to their representation in each chamber. For example, if the Democrats have a slight majority in the House, a 13 member House committee will consist of 7 Democrats and 6 Republicans; if the majority is substantial. the committee might divide 8 to 5. The committee chairman has great authority. He prepares the agenda for committee meetings, calls necessary extra committee meetings, appoints staff employees, and names the chairmen and members of subcommittees. The main purpose of most congressional committees is to examine the pros and cons of proposed legislation and to decide whether or not to recommend it for passage. To enable it to do so. a committee frequently holds hearings at which proponents and opponents of the proposed measure can testify. A committee deliberating over a bill meets with pressure from various sources, of courseinterested private groups, the President, the congressional leadership, other legislators, and a member’s constituents. A number of these interested parties usually apply for permission to testify before the committee or to submit a statement. Usually the first witnesses called at a hearing on a bill are officials of the executive department which would be affected by the legislation. Often members of Congress who are not members of the particular committee will appear in support of or in opposition to the proposed legislation. Then other interested parties get their chance to testify. The public hearing is followed by closed sessions of the committee. During these sessions, compromise is the rule—at least most of the time. A majority vote is required fa- approval for every part of the bill. A committee can approve a bill, with or without revision, or it can let it die. And it is a fact of political life that a bill rejected by a committee rarely is acted favorably upon on the floor of Congress. Indeed, usually such a bill does not even reach the floor.

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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.

New Automobile Excise Tax

When the 1969 Indiana Legislature abolished the personal property tax on automobiles, it replaced it with an excise tax. This tax will begin January payable each year at the same time you purchase your atuomobile license plates. The amount of the tax will vary from a minimum of twelve dollars to a maximum of one hundred ninetytwo dollars, depending on the original cost and age of your automobile.

SPECIAL REPORT FROM WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON — Sniping has broken out between the State Department and the White House over the Middle East cease-fire initiative that has now broken down. At first it looked as if the peace initiative might succeed. State Department officials immediately began calling it the “Rogers Plan,” thus giving the credit to Secretary of State Bill Rogers. White House aides claim the plan was drafted by the National Security Council and called it the “Kissinger Plan,” after Presidential foreign affairs aid Henry Kissinger. But it wasn't long before violations were detected, followed by the multiple skyjackings, then the civil warfare in Jordan. The people in the State Department suddenly stopped calling the cease-fire the “Rogers Plan” and began blaming the White House for all its imperfections. They chimed that White House aides had been so eager to portray President Nixon as a peace-maker on the eve of the November elections that they failed to take the proper precautions. State Department informants chimed, fa example, that no enforcement procedures were adopted fa policing the cease-fire. At one point the State Department proposed that a joint Soviet-American force police the cease-fire, but the President himself rejected this suggestion. Now State Department people are blaming the fact that the cease-fire has misfired upon White House interest in politics over diplomacy. Up until the outbreak of fighting in Jordan, Don Bergus. our man in Cairo, had been sending enthusiastic reports about Middle East peace prospects. He reported that Egypt’s President Nasser was sincere in his willingness to negotiate. The same conclusion was reached by Assistant Secretary Joseph Sisco after his meeting last April with Nasser. They still say that peace is possible, but the elation has disappeared from their private statements. DAYAN TAKEOVER? State Department observers believe that the hard-line Israeli Defense Minister, Moshe Dayan, is taking is a maneuver to take ova the leadership of Israel. They think he is trying to undermine Prime Minister Golda Meir and set himself up as

Automobiles which are subject to the tax are placed in one of six classes based on the factoryadvertised price of the automoYear of Class Manufacture I Ist . sl2 2nd 0 12 3rd 12 4th 12 sth 12 6th 12 7th 12 Bth and thereafter 12

Feuding Over Middle East Cease-Fire

bile when it was new: Class I, SO-$1499; Class 11, SISOO-82249; Class 111, 82250-82999, Class IV. S3OOO-83999; Class V, S4OOO- - and Class VI, $5500 and up. The tax is then determined according to the following schedule based on the year of manufacture. New model automobiles are considered in their first year of manufacture from August first until the end of the following year. Thus, the 1971 automobiles which are coming out now will be considered in their first year of manufacture until the end of 1971. The 1970 automobiles which were out in August and September of 1969 will be in their second year of manufacture when the tax is due in 1971. Class Class Class Class Class 11 111 IV V, , VI $36 S6O $96 $132 $192 30 51 84 114 168 27 42 /75 96 144 24 33 60 78 126 18 24 48 66 108 12 18 36 54 66 12 12 24 42 48 12 12 12 12 12

the new Prime Minister. He had been engaged in backstage political maneuvers to over come the influence of Deputy Prime Minister Yigal Allon, Foreign Minister Abba Eban and Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir, who have argued for a negotiated peace. The one-eyed Defense Minister has argued that there can be no peace talks while the guns are talking and that the cease-fire must be observed by both sides or neither of them. He has accused the United States of shirking its duty to watch over the cease-fire. Therefore, he has urged that Israel should force a showdown with Washington to make sure the Egyptians observe the cease-fire. Otherwise. General Dayan contends that Israel, too, should renew military activities. ECONOMY LOOKING UP . The Council of Economic Advisers has given President Nixon and confidential report that has wiped the economic concern off his face. The Council reported that most of the economic indicators, as of Labor Day, pointed upward. This should give the President some good news to report to the voters on election eve. The most disturbing economic statistic continues to be the rising unemployment rate. But prices are beginning to level off; interest rates have started to decline; and the U.S. trade balance shows a healthy export surplus. Some economists are worried over the brokerage house bankrupties, liquidations and mergers that have rocked Wall Street. Investment firms have been going under at a more alarming rate than before the great 1929 stock market crash. But the President’s economic advisers are not alarmed. They attribute the failures to overextension and undercapitalization during the stock market boom of the 1960’5. In their view, the recession has bottomed out and happy days are here again. CONSERVATIVE COMPLAINTS Some of the President’s conservative business friends have complained to him privately about his Family Assistance Plan, which gives a minimum income to every American family.

HOOSIER DAY

Democrats To Host Banquet October 3

INDIANA DEMOCRATS are cooking up a Jackson-Jefferson Day banquet for Oct. 3 that has features never before tried. The aim is for this SIOO a couple dinner to outdo dollar for dollar and man for man the stunning $420,000 that the Agnew dinner brought to the G.O.P. war chest. Fred Garver, an Indianapolis attorney, administrative aid to former Gov. Roger D. Branigin is credited with the novel ideas of the Jackson-Jefferson Day dinner. Merril Cohen is the chef. State Democrat Chairman Gordon St. Angelo described to us some of the unique features of this money raising dinner. He said: “It is to be an all-Indiana affair. Instead of importing a national headline speaker, U. S. Senator Vance Hartke will be the principal speaker and the supporting caste will include all Democratic office seekers for Congress and for over 5,000 other offices, state, federal, county and township. “This is the first time that credit cards have been used on a political fund raising affair. Master Charge Card of Bank America cards will be honored to purchase the SIOO per couple tickets. “A lot of people are “$1 down and $1 when you catch me” in today’s economy. It affords more of a chance to a lot of people to participate in meaningful party affairs and to pay for same over a length of time.” As a prelude to this traditional Democrat party celebration, a meeting of all candidates and route coordinators were involved

Disabled veterans and widows of disabled veterans are entitled to a tax deduction in the amount of seven dollars per one hundred valuation to the extent that the personal and real property tax deduction on other property is unused. If an automobile is acquired or brought into Indiana after the regular license registration date, the excise tax due will be reduced by ten percent for each full calendar month which has elapsed since the registration date. If an owner sells or trades a car on which the excise tax has been paid, he is entitled to a credit (deduction) of ten per cent of the tax which was paid on the old automobile for each full month remaining in the tax year. This credit is deducted from the tax due when another automobile is purchased. However, if the credit is larger than the refund, you are entitled to a refund. Copyright 1970 by John J. Dillon

The President has reminded his conservative critics of Disraeli, the Tory Prime Minister of England who is more remembered for his great social reforms than his conservative philosophy. RIGHT TO KNOW Senator Stuart Symington is fighting the State Department over release of secret agreements the United States has with Sapin, Turkey, Greece and NATO. Symington held long days of hearings on the military agreements and the Missouri Senator feels that citizens have a right to know what our military commitments are. But State is nitpicking over the transcripts of the hearings for fear of ruffling the feathers of the foreign countries concerned. The State Department censors are so nervous that they actually tried to edit out a newspaper clipping from earlier hearings on Asia. Symington has fumed to friends that if State doesn't get going soon, he’ll use his own discretion in order to keep the public informed. * A secret Army memo declares bluntly that low-grade guerrilla warfare is now going on in this country. The memo points out that since January 1969 there have been 4,330 bombings in the United States and another 5,794 attempted bombings. The memo predicts there not only will be more bombings in the future, but hit-and-run terrorist attacks upon symbols of the establishment. HAD RUSSIAN HELP The US Information Service has distributed a classified memorandum to its missions throughout the world pointing out that the Soviets cannot be trusted. The memo notes that the Egyptians could not have violated the Middle East cease-fire without Soviet connivance. There are an estimated 10,000 Russian advisers attached to the Egyptain Army. It would have been impossible, therefore, for the Egyptians to move missiles into the truce zone without Soviet knowledge. Clearly the Russians approved the ceasefire violations and, in fact, moved their own missile crews into the cease-fire zone to man some of the new missiles.

By FRANK WHITE

m a “walk” through the grass roots of Indiana to the State Democrat Headquarters Sept. 25. There they put finishing touches on plans for the JacksonJefferson gala event, promising surprises to come. St. Angleo took pride in telling us former Governors Matthew Welsh and his successor Roger Branigin will be co-chairmen of the big Jackson Jefferson Day banquet. He said: “We have never had them both before and think it is great. I might add, they are both working members, not just in name only.” One of the storm threats on the Democrat horizon, and that of the Republicans as well, is the apathy of the general public in coming out to vote Nov. 3. Former Democrat standard bearer Hubert Humphrey won first step of his comeback in domination for the U. S. Senate in Minnesota primary the other day when only 25 per cent of the registered voters took trouble to go to the polls. A total of 1,316,099 registered voters in the last Presidential election didn’t take the trouble to go to the polls and vote. A light vote hurts Democrats. James McCormick one of six prominent Democrats mentioned for governor as chairman of Unity '7O project has registered almost 200,000 Democrats, in block by block neighborhood effort. How Vance Hartke is getting on in his political life and death bid for a third term centers around finances in much conversation. W. Averell Harriman, President Johnson Chief Paris negotiator for Peace, came to town. He raised $25,000 in pledges for Hartke in a private dinner at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. In addition, fund raising events currently have enriched the Democratic Hartke campaign fund by some $102,800 currently. The breakdown shows that $58,600 was raised at an Indianapolis Saturday night Tribute to Senator Hartke dinner. Similar dinners in Chicago raised $12,700; in New York SB,OOO and Washington $23,400. After paying all outstanding bills the net will be around $90,000, plus the pledges. St. Angelo and other leading Democrats have not retreated from assertions that the Republican party crusade to elect Richard L. Roudebush will see an expenditure of $3.2 million. St. Angelo said: “We may have to nickle and dime our way through the campaign, but I don’t think the Republicans can buy the office.”

By JACK ANDERSON