The Mail-Journal, Volume 8, Number 10, Milford, Kosciusko County, 7 April 1971 — Page 5

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Easter Sunday

Easter is almost upon us again. The date is April 11. In the Christian world. Easter Sunday commemorates the Resurrection of Christ. Easter customs, as we practice th?m in the U.S. today, are a singular tribute°to the spirit of Easter and to the quiet freshness of a Spring morning when one can almost feel, for a few hours, the pervading sense of tranquility and consideration of our fellowman that 2,000 years ago released humanity from the bondage of sheer barbarism.

Spring... A Time Os Awareness

Springtime can provide many opportunities to help your child grow in awareness and appreciation of his world. As he pops such questions as "Why does the grass turn green?" and "Where were the robins all winter?", your response can encourage his curiosity and desire to learn, says Dr. Dama Wilms, extension human development specialist at Purdue university. Out of this curiosity will come awareness and increased pleasure. Awareness involves the use of all the senses. As you wander and wonder with your child, listen to the different bird calls, the sounds of insects, or the wind blowing through the trees or whistling around the house or apartment. Look for buds on the trees and bushes. Look at the new grass greening under the old. Watch for changes in the sky — at sunrise and sunset as well as during the changes in the moon.

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The Man Os The Hour

Army Lt. William L. Calley may not be lily-white but he’s the man of the hour. American citizens have rallied to his side in overwhelming numbers, calling for everything from a Presidential pardon to martyrdom. He stands convicted by a jury of six men, all combat veterans, and he faces either life imprisonment or death at the end of a rope. A lesser punishment is not in the works. It’s life or death. He is accused of wanton killing of civilians in the My Lai massacre. He has denied the charges, explaining that he was acting under orders from his superiors. Millions of Americans believe him. The charge that Calley is a scapegoat has been heard loud and clear. Was Calley picked out to shoulder the blame for the My Lai massacre or was he actually the wanton killer witnesses said he was? The answer will never be known. In the meantime, protests against the conviction and mandatory punishment based on the charges filed have developed into one of the greatest uproars in the nation’s history. Ft. Benning, Ga./is reported to be almost solidly for Calley. Telegrams of protest have flooded the Pentagon and the nation’s capital. Irate is the word for the citizenry’s mood but it isn’t strong enough. Outrage might better suffice. The prepared statement of Dale Kuhn, department commander of the Indiana American Legion, takes issue with the jury’s findings in the Calley case. “Harking back to the 1970 convention of the Indiana American Legion, the delegates at that time voted to await

EDITORIALS

Many capture the spirit of Easter by going to Church. The simple Easter egg hunt and the tradition of the Easter bonnet lend joy and color to the occasion. All of the ways in which Easter is observed hold a certain humility—as they should. Easter is a day of civilizing influence. It is merely one day out of 365, but it is a day that expresses the way we should live throughout the year—in humble respect for the unseen power that guides our lives.

Feel the different kinds of tree barks and the moss in the woods. Your child will enjoy touching and comparing the smooth, the furry, and the prickley. See if spring has different smells. Encourage him to explore with his nose. The "whys” of childhood may often test the limits of your patience. But they provide tremendous opportunity to add to his understanding of the world as well as encourage an inquisitive mind. (You may find your own awareness may grow along with his.) As the child’s awareness becomes understanding of why things are as they are, he will develop in his feelings of independence and security. He will feel at home in the world of nature — enjoy, protect, and draw from it for his own creativity. Take time out this spring to go adventuring with your child — and share the world.

decision on the My Lai incident until all the facts were made known. Now that the facts are known,’’ said Kuhn, “or at least the facts as reported by the news media, we as an organization, and I, speaking as the commander of that .organization, cannot but Repudiate the findings of the jury. }■ “In an undeclared war, where it is impossible to know friend from foe, where an apathetic public takes little or no interest in the tragedy which is. Viet Nam. where every single untoward happening is related, thus creating further incidents and magnifying them, incidents which in a declared war are written off as ‘rigors of conflict,’ we cannot condemn our fighting forces for carrying out assigned missions. “The mission of any war is to seek out and destroy the enemy and when the enemy hides behind the skirts of women and the shield of little children, the soldier must look to his own safety and protection and take effective measures. “We cannot condone the My Lai incident, neither can we condemn Lt. Calley.” “An aroused public has deluged our office with demands that we speak for them and make known to our officials in Washington that we do not agree with the jury’s findings and that we urge proper military authorities to intercede in this gross miscarriage of justice,” Kuhn concluded. Commander Kuhn’s statement speaks for himself and his fellow Legionnaires. It also expresses the feelings of other Americans, including thousands who have men serving in the armed forces. It’s a statement that should be read, in full, by every thinking American. Goshen News

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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.

‘Administrative Hearings'

As government becomes larger and more complicated, government agencies perform a greater role than ever before. Here in Indiana, state, agencies regulate everything from public utilities to architects. These agencies usually consist of a board, commission or department created by the Legislature. The law permits state agencies to implement and enforce the law as enacted by the Legislature. The members of these agencies are usually appointed by the Governor The procedures these agencies follow and the rights of citizens who deal with these agencies have become an important topic of discussion for lawyer and layman alike. Indiana’s Administrative Adjudication Act is an attempt to define the legal relations between administrative agencies, the public and the government they sene. The act was adopted in

SPECIAL REPORT FROM WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON - President Nixon is caught in a crossfire between two of his closest friends in the cabinet. Both State Secretary Bill Rogers and Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans have supported Nixon for years — Rogers as an adviser, Stans as a fund raiser. Now the two cabinet officers are feuding over the State Department’s role in promoting U.S. business interests abroad. Stans wants commercial attaches taken out of the State Department, which has given their work low priority. He cites a British view that the fundamental purpose of the foreign service should be to improve trade and advance the nation's economic interests. Rogers insists that the State Department, because the U.S. is a world power, must give first priority to diplomatic and military affairs. But be has no intention of participating in the dismantling of his department. Therefore, he will fight to keep its commercial functions, too. * Secretary Stans, after a vain attempt to persuade Rogers to give up his commercial attaches voluntarily, appealed over his head to the White House. The appeal wound up on the desk of the President’s new management czar, George Shultz, who put off a decision. Now Stans has written another plea to the President. Insiders say that the President privately agrees with Stans. When Nixon was an at* torney representing the Pepsi Cola and other clients overseas, he was unfavorably impressed by the State Department's commercial operations DIPLOMATIC DELIRIUM For that matter, the President has a lowopinion of the whole State Department, which seems to him to be geared for deferring decisions and resisting suggestions. A new idea is at once ensnared in red tape, interred under paper and entombed in a padlocked, steel filing cabinet. Rarely will a foreign service officer put his views in writing without carefully hedging. He has learned to keep a wary eye upon both

1947. Although earlier Indiana law addressed this subject, this act had the effect of modernizing Indiana's attitude toward government agencies. The primary purpose of the Administrative Adjudication Act was to increase the agencies’ accountability to the public and insure that the individual citizens who deal with agencies are treated fairly and equally. Indiana's administrative agencies have detailed requirements and standards to observe when dealing with the public. For those who are called to appear before agencies, elaborate procedures are required to guarantee a fair hearing. An individual’s right to appeal administrative decisions to our courts has been clarified. Records taken during administrative proceedings must now be complete in order to give reviewing courts an accurate

Tussle Over U.S. Commercial Attaches

picture of what transpired. A citizen's right to know how and why an agency operates in a partteuiar- field has been enlarged. The rule-making power of administrative agencies affects all elements of our state. Before adopting a rule the agency must have a public hearing to allow interested citizens to present their views. Those persons likely to be affected by a proposed rule must be given reasonable notice of when and where the public hearing will be held. Rules adopted by deliberately evading the above notice and hearing provisions are deemed invalid. A complicated, mass society needs government agencies to implement the law. The methods these agencies use, particularly when they affect private citizens, are extremely important in maintaining personal freedom in a modem world. Indiana’s Administrative Adjudication Act is an attempt to address this delicate body of the law. Copyright 1970 by John J. Dillon

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his superiors in the department and the second guessers in Congress. He phrases his reports, therefore, so they reflect safe if not always honest opinions. The State Department has also devised an insidious system of clearance and concurrences. which keeps more and more people busy accomplishing less and less. Action papers must be initialed by so manyofficials that they look like petitions. The no-sayers and nit-pickers quickly pluck all the feathers out of a new idea. Their reasoning: a new approach would not onlymean revising all the old paperwork but could raise awkward questions about the old ideas they had defended. They find it simpler to route new proposals in circles The President thoroughly believes the State Department needs a sound, severe, therapeutic, top-to-bottom shakeup. But he doesn't want to cause more embarrassment for his old friend. Bill Rogers, who already has been stung by the stories that he plays second fiddle to White House aide Henry Kissinger , It is unlikely, therefore, that the President will rule against Rogers at this time. CELEBRITY PROMOTION In past columns, we have described how food brokers use pressure and payoffs to get their goods on the shelves of military commissaries around the world. One broker, Wilson Harrell & Co., has also enlisted such celebrities as TV moderator Art Linkletter and Bonanza star Dan “Hoss” Blocker to promote its products. As a promotion stunt to boost sales to military commissaries, the company sponsors an annual “military wife” awards banquet featuring Linkletter as master of ceremonies. The affair has drawn such luminarie as Defense Secretary Mel Laird and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Such a glittering array of brass is bound to impress the commissary officers in the audience who do business the rest of the year with the company.

Congressional Comer: John Brademas Reports From Washington

Revise And Extend Hation's Draft Laws

The House of Representatives wrestled last week with a complex and many-sided bill affecting the status of student exemptions and conscientious objectors dominated activities on the House floor for three full days as amendments to the original bill written by the House Armed Services Committee were considered. The issue still awaits Senate action. Key provisions of the bill passed by the house included: — A two-year extension of the draft. _ — Substantial increases in pay for men in the U.S. military. — Presidential authority to determine undergraduate student deferments, but with an amendment continuing exemptions for divinity students. — Requirementsforjhree-year alternate service ”for conscientious objectors as opposed to the present two-year requirement The draft, of course, has been used to provide military manpower for U.S. armed services almost without interruption since World War 11. However, the draft has come increasingly under challenge because draftees have been required to supply most of the hard-core combat skills in Viet Nam —for example, 88 per cent of the infantry riflemen in Viet Nam in 1969 were draftees — and also because President Nixon’s Advisory Commission on an AllVolunteer Armed Force, commonly called the Gates Commission, reported that a volunteer armed force was feasible. The challenge to end the draft on June 30 failed by a 330-62 vote in the House on Wednesday, but a second amendment to extend the draft only one year, instead of the two years asked by the Administration, was defeated by the very narrow margin of 200-198. I favored the shorter one-year extension because it would not bind Congress to the old policies for two years, yet it would give the Administration a realistic period of time — 15 months — to explore the feasibility of alternative ways to supply military manpower, including an allvolunteer force. CAUCUS RESOLUTION It was significant that the House Democrats this past week for the first time went on record as supporting a resolution to work to end our military involvement in Indochina during the curbent Congress. « The resolution emphasizes that this work must include the release of all prisoners of war

Affable Art plays down the fact, incidentally, that he holds stock, stock options ■and a directorship in the parent company, Harrell International. The company also uses “Hoss,” the TV cowboy, to give pep talks. Like Linkletter, “Hoss’* also has a financial stake in the company’s ranching subsidiary. • Wilson Harrell spoke to us frankly about his company’s promotions. He pointed out that he won’t tolerate the bribery that other companies pay to make sales to commissaries. We discussed some of our findings on how commissary officers have been given weekends in Paris, female companionship, free credit-card vacations and cash under the table. "It has happened,” he agreed. NUCLEAR ASSESSMENT Despite warnings from the Pentagon that Russia is surpassing the U.S. in intercontinental missiles, the secret assessment is that the U.S. could absorb a full nuclear barrage and still have enough nuclear weapons to strike back a devastating blow. President Nixon’s aim, spelled out in highly classified documents, is to scatter enough defensive Weapons around the world to deter Russia from attacking in the first place. / At the same time, the U.S. has offered at the secret SALT talks to pull back some of our nuclear-equipped, carrier-based and landbased planes from overseas. The UJS. is prepared even to ban these forces from overseas in return for an equivalent cutback in Soviet medium-range missiles. The Soviets have contended, however, that our planes are “offensive weapons because they can reach Russia, whereas their medium-range missiles are “defensive” weapons because they can’t reach the U.S. Instead, the Soviets have indicated that they are willing to negotiate an agreement to limit anti-ballistic missiles alone. The U.S. negotiators are holding out, however, for a broader ban on both offensive and defensive weapons.

and urges the full support of the President by members of both parties in achieving this objective. Indeed, House Republican leader Gerald Ford said the House Democrats action strengthened the Administration’s bid for peace. The vote in the House caucus was a solid 138 to 62 in favor of the resolution. Senate Democrats had earlier taken a similar stand in supporting U.S. disengagement from Indochina by at least the end of 1972. Certainly we all want to see an early peace in that troubled section of the world, as well as a return of our troops and, importantly, the 1,600 American prisoners of war being held by Hanoi. s JOBS LEGISLATION On the other side of Capitol Hill, the Senate last week took up the emergency measure designed to put some 150,000 unemployed persons to work in vital state and municipal public service jobs. This legislation, so desperately needed to help alleviate the problems of unemployment in many areas of the country, is similar to a manpower bill vetoed by President Nixon last December. I am hopeful this year’s bill can be enacted as quickly as possible to get thousands of Americans back oh payrolls, and I will surely support this measure in the House. On Tuesday night I flew to Chicago to address 3,000 members of the North Central Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges, and discussed plans for a bipartisan move in Congress to restore adequate funding for educational programs which have been cut back in the Administration’s budget for fiscal year 1972.

When a forest bums so does his food. Use fire carefully. 1

By JACK ANDERSON