The Mail-Journal, Volume 8, Number 7, Milford, Kosciusko County, 17 March 1971 — Page 9

Hail PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY The Milford Mail (Eat 1888) Syracuse-Wawasee Journal (Eat 1807) l Consolidated Into The Mail-Journal Feb. 15, 1962 DEMOCRATIC M — & ARCHIBALD E. BAUMGARTNER, Editor and Publisher DELLA BAUMGARTNER, Business Manager ■ I ■ ■ • - • . • Box 8 Syracuse, Ind., — 46567

Coming Os Spring

Coincidentally, the arrival of Spring on March 21 also marks the opening of National Wildlife Week. The deer, the birds — all of the kingdom of the wild — will be adding to the cheer and liveliness of Spring. ; The wild have no way of knowing that man is pausing for a moment with the opening of a new season to pay respect to nature’s creatures who, for uncounted thousands of years, have lived in harmony with their surroundings — the mountains, plains, forests

Responsibility Os Newspapers

“Publishers’ Auxiliary’’, a fortnightly publication established in 1865, offers a timely admonishment to all newspapers concerning the.tendency of well-meaning editors to leap before they look in reporting on various aspects of the utility industry and the environment. j The Auxiliary comments, “Newspapers have always borne the responsibility of determining accuracy before publishing. On an issue as important as energy supply, this responsibility is especially keen." It then offers some facts that should be considered. Among them are these: Electricity is plentiful in most areas. Even in those regions which suffered “brownouts” last summer, the reserve margins are climbing; most environmentalists critical of nuclear powered electric plants base their charges on statements supplied by only two scientists in California; during the past 10 years, utilities have purchased 90 per cent of all air pollution control equipment sold in the U.S., but con-

You Haven't Work All Year!

Day after day . . . Week after week .. Waking up to that treacherous alarm clock ... Putting in all those hours at the office ... Working too hard? ... Yes'.— NO!—Are we putting in too much work? For an answer to this question, let’s turn to the genius of mathematics. One thing we can count on today is the logic and truth of statistics — or can we? If you begin with a base year of 366 days, one of those horrible leap years, the facts go something like this: If you don’t sleep eight hours a day, you should. Eight hours is one third of a day. One third of 366 is 122. Right? And 122 from 366 leaves 244 days. At least one-third of your day is spent in relaxation or entertainment. This depletes another 122 days on an annual basis. Thus, we are left with 122 days a year to work. But... There are 52 Sundays in a year. If you subtract 52 from 122, you have 70 days left. If you get a half-day off on

L» A. Earthquake Mind Boggling

By VERNON E. BROWN Copley News Service On the morning of Feb. 9. 1971. thousands of Southern Califomians were awakened by a window-shattering. housetossing earthquake. In my life. 1 can recall nothing of equal impact. My first reaction was to jump up and run. But there was no place to go. The quake was happening for miles around. Then there was a feeling of complete listlessness. . I had tiasicallyno control of my body. and for a few frightening seconds, little control over my mind My first thought was that the world was coming to an end My television flew across the room. Lamps. lights and glasses danced around. 1 thought perhaps we had i / •

EDITORIALS

been attacked with nuclear rockets by a foreign country. I wondered whether I was read)* to die At that point, I reached my bedroom door, finally realizing that this was not a dream. When I reached my front door and ran outside, 1 noticed a few of my neighbors outside as well. One said to me as I ran: ‘Mr. Brown, where are you going?” At that point I realized 1 wasn't going anywhere at all. Now I've had a few hours to think, and a few hours to witness the tremendous devastation of an < earthquake. I've had time to listen to the many sirens of fire engines, and I've taken the time to compassionately reach out for those who have suffered far more than I. When I checked myself out, I

and streams. Only man, by his numbers and his thoughtlessness, has come in conflict with nature —a fact that he is only now discovering. As we enter Spring and look with renewed appreciation on the beauty of the land, there is no better way to show that appreciation than in observance of National Wildlife Week. A statement of the National Wildlife Federation is particularly timely: “In order to preserve the American way of life . . . we must first preserve American itself . .

tribute only 11 to 15 per cent to all air pollutants — water quality control similar ; in the next ten years, Americans are going to demand an increase of electricity equal to the total of the past 90 years — 18 trillion kilowatt hours. “And”, the Auxiliary points out, “that’s just a start. . . . Any desire to slow down the demand for energy is a step backwards. The United States has achieved a standard of living far beyond the dreams of most of mankind through history. This achievement has been possible, to a large extent, by the innovative use of energy to power machines. . . . newspapers must use their communicative powers to define the problem, and then seek constructive solutions, void of emotional charges and scare tactics.” Newspapers have a far heavier responsibility than many realize in helping resolve environmental problems. None is more important than an understanding of the place of energy in present-day society.

Saturday or any other day (and many of us get every Saturday off!!), that leaves us with a balance of 44 days because half of 52 is 26 and 26 from 70 leaves 44. (That 122 is used up fast, isn’t it!) W’e must not overlook the fact that everyone gets an hour for lunch and two 14-minute coffee breaks a day. During the course of a year, those hours and minutes total 28 days. Subtracting 28 from our subtotal of 44 leaves 16 days. Don't forget that almost everyone gets a two-week vacation each year. Take 14 days from 16 and there are only two days left. Wait . . . along comes Christmas and Thanksgiving and you take off the two remaining days. So-o-o---o-o you really haven’t worked all year! (If you don’t believe it, subtract it yourself). Everyone knows that computers have a little “trouble” adding and subtracting sometimes; now you can’t even trust the figures themselves! —lndustrial News Review Digest

found out. first of all, that I could still run; second, I had the capacity to experience such a feeling that for seconds and perhaps minutes, 1 had no control over anything, not even my mind. If I were a preacher or a priest or a rabbi, have a very appropriate message on death this coming Sunday. My theme would be: "What have you done to get ready for that moment?" You And Social Security Q — My husband had surgery in the hospital in January’ of this year. He's home now. How much will his hospital bill be after Medicare pays? A — The deductible on hospital insurance was raised to S6O beginning with 1971. This means that Medicare hospital insurance will pay the hospital for all covered expenses except S6O for the first 60 days of hospital care

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Know Your Indiana Law By JOHN J. DILLON JVflB Attorney at Law This is a public service aiticle explaining provisions of Indiana law in general terms.

Whenever the General Assembly is in session, as it is now. many persons work with the Legislature to either advocate the passage or defeat of legislation. Many of these persons appear year after year and are well known to the members of the Legislature who fully realize the interests they represent. These people are loosely classified in the public eye as “lobbyists.” Although many times the word “lobbyist” has a derogatory connotation, in fact the professional lobbyists who work year after year with the Indiana

SPECIAL REPORT FROM WASHINGTON

Government Hus Dossiers On Millions

WASHINGTON Senator Sam Ervin’s investigation into government snooping has become increasingly alarming. His latest discovery is that the Department of Defense alone has accumulated 25 million life histories in the course of its security investigations. These are loaded with derogatory comments whispered into ears of eager gumshoes. The Civil Service Commission keeps in its files several more million dossiers on people who have filed for federal jobs. These files hold the darkest secrets of many persons who have, at some time in the past, committed improper or questionable acts. Even the Federal Housing Administration receives confidential reports on the marital stability of prospective home buyers. The purpose is to spot couples who are likely to get a divorce and may no longer keep up their house payments For reasons that have never been explained, the State Department’s Passport Office keeps a special record of passport applicants who have been married more than twice The General Sen ices Administration maintains a blacklist of businessmen who are considered poor risks. Os course, the FBI is constantly checking into the backgrounds of persons for one reason or another. It has in its files an estimated 180 million fingerprints, not to mention dossiers on tens of thousands of suspected communist security risks and crooks. It is no secret that the FBI keeps files on controversial figures suspected of nothing more incriminating than speaking their own ' mind. The dirt that government gumshoes pick up on people is swept into dossiers which are freely exchanged between federal offices. When the State Department is asked to watch the movement of an overseas traveler, for example, the charges against him are distributed to at least four offices. The traffic in unproven allegations is so promiscuous that a postal inspector familiar with it told us he quit in disgust. Not only are the dossiers widely circulated but most of them carry a low security classification. This gives an alarming number of government employees access to derogatory information about fellow citizens. i Now the Defense Department has con- t fessed, at Senator Ervin s hearings, that it keeps a master index of the 25 million people

lobbyists'

Legislature are knowledgeable persons in a given field who are able to perform not only a service to the interest they represent, but many times a great service to the Legislature and the citizens of Indiana. They appear before committees, they give testimony before the citizens of Indiana. They appear before committees, they give testimony before the Assembly as to the impact of legislation, and through personal interviews and communication with the members, attempt to influence the course of legislation. Any citizen has a right to do all

of these things on his own behalf as a matter of constitutional right since after all the members of the Legislature represent all of us in the legislative halls. The gravemen of the lobbyist’s registration statute is the professionalism that is involved when a lobbyist’? registration statute is the professionalism that is involved when a lobbyist is employed for a remuneration to represent a particular interest group. In this circumstance a citizen must register with the Secretary of State, fill out the appropriate forms stating who he represents and the subject matter before the Legislature in which he is interested. The lobbyist must also make an affidavit that he is not a member of any organization which has been listed by the Attorney General of the United States as subversive. Within thirty days after the adjournment of the General Assembly the lobbyist must also file a sworn report accounting for all expenditures involved in the lobbying activities. No public official of the state or any county, township or city may receive remuneration as a lobbyist. This does not mean that

who have turned up in its security investigations. Ervin is also concerned about the increased use of social security numbers which could become the common key to link all the promiscuous, inaccurate and incomplete information about nearly all Americans. The day that the government approves the plan for a national data center could extinguish forever the right of privacy. The idea is to set up a complete master file on all Americans. All-knowing, never-forgetting electronic machines crammed with all the information ever divulged'by or pried from private citizens could produce, at the press of a button, a person’s life from cradle to grave. KREMLIN JOLTED The Kremlin was severly jolted over the midwinter revolt of Polish workers’and the rumblings of workers in Russia’s own factories. Striking Polish workers actuallyforced the Polish government to rescind a price increase. The Polish success stirred Soviet workers who often are worse off than their comrades in the satellite countries. The Kremlin granted special credits estimated around 150 million to help the Polish regime weather the financial crisis. Soviet leaders also made urgent preparations to prevent a similar workers revolt in the Soviet Union. A new five-year plan has been adopted giving new emphasis to consumer goods. Industry has been instructed to increase its production of consumer goods around 100 per cent over the next five years. This has caused some grumbling in Rissia’s military industrial complex. The Red Army marshals and heavy industrymanagers have been raising worried objections in the back rooms of the Kremlin The showdown will come at the 24th Communist Party Congress at the end of this month. Communist Party boss Leonid Brezhnev has made it clear that he is putting economic improvements ahead of military- production. It would probably take a Kremlin coup to change the new five-year plan. BACKSTAGE FEUD A backstage feud has flared up between the State and Commerce Departments over the chairmanship of a patents conference in

Congressional Comer: Jo/tn Brademas Reports From Washington

Open Hearings To Question Moves Designed To Aid Older Americans

The Select Subcommittee on Education, which I chair, opened hearings this week to question moves by the Administration to cut back funds and shuffle programs designed to aid older Americans. Specifically, the President’s budget proposes a $3 million cut in the Foster Grandparents program and another 2.15 million reduction in funds for research and training of personnel concerned with aging. In a separate move, the Administration is reportedly preparing an ; executive order which would transfer two important programs from the Administration on Aging to a hew agency. These are the Foster Grandparents and the Retired Senior Volunteer programs both of which are aimed at providing constructive opportunities for community service to older citizens. This action would follow an earlier transfer of research and training activities out of the Administration on Aging, further weakening that agency. OVERSIGHT RESPONSIBILITIES Because of the Select Education Subcommittee has jurisdiction over the Older Americans Act of 1965 and the Administration on Aging, which was established by this legislation, several members are troubled by the steps being taken to undercut the Administration on Aging.

these officials cannot appear and protect their interests, as they do at every session of the Legislature, it merely means they cannot be paid to do so. Neither can any duly accredited newspaperman or representative of the electronic media as a lobbyist. It is safe to say that most of the legislation that comes out of anygiven session of the Legislature is influenced one way or another by the lobbyist. Because of their importance, each citizen should understand the continuing role of the lobbyist in the legislative process, not only in Indiana, but before the Congress of the United States. Copyright 1970 by John J. Dillon

Geneva. The Commerce Department insists the American delegation should be headed by Patents Commissioner William Schuyler. The State Department, however, wants one of its third-ranking diplomats to be the chairman. Secretary of Commerce Maurice Stans finally wrote a personal letter to President Nixon pleading that Schuyler, the nation’s top patent expert, should head the American delegation. The letter never reached the President. A third-rung White House aide explained to Stans that the White House didn’t want to do anything to hurt Secretary of State Bill Rogers’s feelings. Rogers was offended over the, charge that he is merely the front man and that White House aide Henry Kissinger is the real Secretary of State. It was explained to Stans that President Nixon is anxious right now to placate Rogers. TROUBLES IN TURKEY Some of Turkey’s top generals came close to seizing the government over the kidnapping of four American airmen. The incident almost became the straw that broke their patience. Intelligence reports say they have become increasingly disgruntled over the growing chaos in Turkey and the failure of the country’s government to solve the problems. General Memduh Tagmac, the chief of staff, personally intervened to prevent a military take-over. He spoke passionately to senior air force officers in Ankara warning that a military coup would create more problems than it would solve. Hie generals agreed to hold off. But a military take-over is still possible if the situation deteriorates. POPULAR SPORT Ecuador’s seizure of American tuna boats has made such a hit with the public that other Latin American governments are considering action against American business interests. Tweaking Uncle Sam’s beard is becoming a popular sport south of the border. We have warned in the past and we repeat now that President Nixon’s biggest crisis isn’t going to be Viet Nam but Latin America. Yet he still is paying almost no attention to the anti-U.S. developments throughout Latin America.

Since its inception, the Administration on Aging has been the one Federal agency most directly concerned with meeting the needs of our older citizens. It was created by Congress expressly for this purpose, assigned a high position of responsibility in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and directed by Congress to be headed by a Presidential appointee to assure top-level attention to the problems of older Americans. So, quite naturally, we do not want to see it weakened. Indeed. Congressman William Steiger, a Republican from Wisconsin, joined me in voicing strong opposition to the Administration's plan. We* believe the action is contrary to the interests of older Americans and particularly ironic in a year when the President has scheduled a White House Conference on Aging to study the needs of older citizens. Instead of strengthening the Federal agency with respon- . sibilities for administering the programs for our senior citizens, the Nixon Administration’s action will undermine the Administration on Aging. TESTIMONY FROM HEW OFFICIALS Witnesses who appeared before the Subcommittee on Wednesday were several officials from the Department of Health. Education and Welfare. They included John Martin. Commissioner on Aging; John Twiname, the Administrator of Social and Rehabilitation Services which is taking over these older American programs; and Howard Cohen, the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Welfare legislation. Some of you may remember Mr. Cohen from a Conference on health care and the problems of aging which I sponsored in South Bend last fall. Members of the Subcommittee questioned these officials closely. We pointed out that we were quite upset that a network of programs carefully constructed by Congress to help meet the needs of our older citizens would be undone by arbitrary executive decisions This week’s hearings were our first into this matter.

By JACK ANDERSON