The Mail-Journal, Volume 8, Number 16, Milford, Kosciusko County, 19 May 1971 — Page 9

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

Congratulations Seniors Congratulations! Felicitations! Mazel Tov! Congratulazioni! iCongratulations! It’s all the same! Any way you say it, the Wawasee high school grads deserve a big pat on the back! We congratulate the 149 seniors who will be graduating May 30 from Wawasee high school and we proudly dedicate this editorial to them. For 12 long years they have been trying to reach a goal. They are about to achieve that goal! But, already these young adults have set new and higher goals. As their motto states, “America is Our Future, And We Are The Future of America,” they have a big part to play in the future of this great land. For, America is the future of every young man and woman graduating from high school this year and they are the ones who will guide her into history in the years to come... they are the ones who will keep America the great nation she has become. Many of these graduates will go on to colleges, universities or trade schools while others are ready now to become one of thousands to join the work-a-day world or become housewives. Still others are in the dark as they have not yet set their goals and know not what A Child's Environment The last word will never be said on the effect of heredity versus the influence of environment. But children are great imitators, and they learn what they see’around them. No one pointed this out better than Dorothy Low Nolte when she wrote: If a child lives criticism, he learns to condemn. If a child lives with hostility, he leaf ns to fight. If a child lives with fear, he learns to be apprehensive. If a child lives with pity, he learns to feel sorry for himself. If a child lives with ridicule, he learns to be shy. If a child lives with jealousy, he learns to feel guilty. If a child lives with tolerance, he learns to be patient.

Cuban Exiles Keeping *American Dream’ Alive

By JEFFREY ST. JOHN Copley News Service “Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater one." observed the British essayist, William Hazlitt. “Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it." One decade after the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion (April 17, 1961), the adversity of a half-million Cuban exiles has been transformed into a triumph for hard work. The more than 410,000 Cubans who fled Fidel Castro s dictatorship for this country since 1959 came here with little more than the clothes on their backs and today 83 per cent of them are self-supporting “Some historian someday," noted Robert Hurwitch, deputy assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs, "writing a sociological history of the United States might well analyze what happened to The Cuban people in the essentially Anglo-Saxon society we have. It is a remarkable story.” The story is ? ven more remarkable since the last, decade has been characterized by a widespread pessimism among some American minorities that the "American dream" is dead. Cuban-owned businesses m Miami are flourishing, as is the economic status of the exiles. The average yearly Cuban family income is SB,OOO, 49 per cent own their own homes, and

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another 22 per cent are in the process of buying one. Americans who have worked with the Cuban exiles over an extended period praise their resourcefulness and ability to begin with almost nothing and build. “They have made it," states one government official, "on just pure guts." The success of the Cubans in the United States is a stunning comparison, if not rebuke, to Castro’s Cuba. It is no secret that under socialism, Cuba is a shattering failure. Fidel Castro drove some of the most enterprising and dynamic Cubans into exile. Illustrating, once again, that when freedom for the enterprising is strangled by government, the result is stagnation. This was true in Cuba even prior to Castro. The Cuban success storychallenges the falsehood that swept Castro to power. This was the lie that Cuban society was corrupt. In reality, what was holding back many Cubans — prior to Castro — was the necessary precondition of freedom for an enterprising elite to flourish. The government had virtual monopoly on the enterprise functions, which benefited the few allied with the government A more severe form of the same tyranny was the result of the promotion of Castro's rise to power by influential segments of the American press. The bitterness of Cubans at the American government's

lies in their future. Whatever they make of their future, we wish them the best of everything. Wawasee high school has given these graduates many advantages their parents and even older brothers and sisters did not have ... we hope they know how many additional advantages their years at Wawasee have given them and know they will take cherished memories of the past with them into the future and those who stay in the Lakeland area or who return here after completing their college careers will want to see education in the Lakeland schools remain at a high standard. A special section in this paper features pictures of the, Wawasee seniors and signatures of the business and professional people who helped make the section possible and who join with us in wishing the graduates the best of luck in the future. Combined baccalaureate and commencement exercises will be held in the Wawasee high school gymnasium at 3 p.m. on Sunday, May 30. The seniors have chosen green and gold as their class colors. The cymbidium orchid is their class flower. In closing we again wish the WHS seniors the best of luck in the future and in reaching their goals and congratulate them on receiving their diplomas. If a child lives with encouragement, he learns to be confident. If a child lives with praise, he learns to be appreciative. If a child lives with acceptance, he learns to love. If a child lives with approval, he learns to like himself. If a child lives with recognition, he learns it is good to have a goal. If a child lives with honesty, he learns what truth is. If a child lives with fairness, he learns justice. If a child lives with security, he learns to have faith in himself and those about him. If a child lives with friendliness, he learns that the world is a nice place in which to live. With what is your child living? —Flora Hoosier Democrat

failure at the Bay of Pigs hardly provided an optimistic start for building a new life in a country where most Cubans didn’t even understand the language. However, as one of the survivors of that ill-fated military adventure put it: “I am so different today that sometimes I hardly recognize myself. The hardest thing I think is to face reality. But it is the bravest thing ... I would like to go back to Cuba. But I know it would be different. Sometimes I think I would like to travel through Cuba — and then come back to my home here.” Should Cuba once again be free, the Cubans who have built a new life for themselves in the United States will have a solid case history of what hard work can accomplish The Bay of Pigs was bad news. But the good news a decade after is that the Cubans provide us compelling testimony that the ‘‘American dream” is not dead; it is awaiting willing hands and minds to make it work.

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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. copyright, John j. onion

A “life estate” is an interest in real estate that is measured either by the life span of the life tenant or of another person. This estate terminates on the death of the person against whose life it is measured. This estate is normally created by a deed in which the person making the deed reserves for himself an estate so long as he lives, although this type of estate can be created by law. Today’s article covers only those life estates created by deed. The life tenant is entitled to the complete use of the property during his life time, including all incomes or profits, but he is also required to maintain the property in reasonably good condition. The

SPECIAL REPORT FROM WASHINGTON

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WASHINGTON — The Chinese communists are quietly carving out a sphere of influence for themselves in Africa. Only their own native continent of Asia receives more attention in Peking. This is the report of my associate Joe Spear, who is on a news gathering trip through Africa and the Middle East. He has talked to African leaders, American diplomats and underground contacts about the Chinese political penetration into Africa. Already the Chinese have become the most powerful foreign influence into African states. Tanzania and Guinea, where Chinese diplomats and advisers abound. Guinea, in turn, exercises tremendous influence on neighboring Sierra Leone. Spear says that the Chinese are establishing diplomatic relations up and dow n the dark continent faster than they can find ambassadors to man the embassies. Four of the first dozen Chinese ambassadors to leave Red China, following the convulsions of the 19605, were dispatched to Africa (the Congo, Guinea. Tanzania and Zambia). Four charge d’affaires were also rushed to Ethiopia, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya and Uganda Last February, Nigeria established diplomatic relations with China. ’The following month, a charge d'affaires was on his way from Peking. This is remarkable speed for the Chinese who usually travel by slow boat. Not long afterward Cameroun became the seventeenth African nation to establish diplomatic ties with the Red Chinese Less advertised are the revolutionaries whom the Chinese are training to subvert African democracies. Some travel to China for the most rigorous, most fervent guerrilla course in the world. ' But Spear reports the Chinese also run guerrilla schools in Guinea and Tanzania. The graduates are given arms and ammunition to stir up revolution in such countries as South Africa, Rhodesia. Mozambique and Angola. The Red Chinese are also shelling out aid they' can scarcely afford to African nations, reports Spear. They rushed $400,000. for

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life tenant must make all ordinary repairs to maintain the property but he need not make any permanent improvements. The life tenant must pay all real estate, taxes on the property and other ordinary taxes which would affect its continued use. The life * tenant is entitled to convey his life estate but, of course, cannot convey the complete title to the property. The person who acquire the property after the death of the life tenant are called remaindermen. In other words, they succeed to the complete ownership of the remainder of the property after the life estate is terminated. Although they will

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eventually own the property, remaindermen may not interfere with the enjoyment of the use of the property by the life tenant, and as a matter of fact, a life tenant can even prevent the remaindermen from coming on the property. The remainderman can prevent the life tenant from committing waste or destroying a permanent fixture on the property. The remainderman is also entitled to protect his interest by the payment of taxes in the event the life tenant fails to do so, and look to the life tenant to reimburse him for this payment. It is not uncommon, particularly in the case of an older person, to convey his real estate reserving only a life estate without completely understanding the nature of this conveyance. If this person suddenly finds that he needs funds to support himself in his declining years, he finds that he can only sell his life estate, which normally has very little value in comparison to the over-all value of the real estate. For this reason, before any person deeds his property away, reserving only a life estate, he should have a conference with his lawyer, to get a thorough explanation of the

example, to Kenya’s drought-stricken districts. They also agreed to build watersupply projects and a cigarette-and-match factory in the Somali Republic. Chinese technicians, meanwhile, are showing up wherever African countries will admit them, particularly in Tanzania and Guinea. Footnote: The opposition to Chinese expansion in Africa is led by prosperous, little Ivory Coast, whose President Felix Houphouet-Boigny is the chief African spokesman for moderation. Spear spoke to Houphouet-Boigny’s cigar-smoking finance minister. Henri Konan Bedie, whom Spear describes as “a black Richard Daley.” Said Bedie: ‘The business of communism is to conquer the world by revolution. The Chinese especially have never given anything free of political strings.” COMPUTERS VS. PRIVACY A New York State hospital, at a cost of millions to the taxpayers, is assembling an awesome data bank of highly specific supposedly confidential information about psychiatric patients in seven states. This could be another step toward a national data center, which would extinguish forever the right of privacy. Such a national center would contain a complete masterfile on all Americans. All-knowing, neverforgetting 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. * The psychiatric data is compiled from uniform questionnaires which record information ranging from the patient’s immediate symptoms to his childhood sex attitudes. Because all the questionnaires are the same, patients are asked to divulge information which may have no relevance whatever to the mental problem for w’hich they are undergoing treatment. Furthermore, an official involved in the program told us the questionnaires are sometimes filled out by clerical personnel instead of the treating psychiatrist, despite

Congressional Corner: John Brademas Reports From Washington

Brademas Opposes Subsidy Os Federal Funding For SST

In a surprise move on the floor of the House last Wednesday, supporters of Federal subsidies for the supersonic transport plane were successful in resurrecting an issue which many Members of Congress thought was dead. By a narrow 201 to 197 margin, the House voted for an appropriation of 85 million dollars to continue the development of the SST. The funds were originally included in a package of appropriation requests to terminate the SST project—that is, to pay off all remaining debts—following action earlier this year by both the House and the Senate to stop further Federal aid for the SST. After this latest action by the House, the fate of the SST is now uncertain. The measure must clear the Senate before the project is actually revived, and the Senate has voted down the SST twice in the past five months. OPPOSES SUBSIDY As many of you know, I have opposed Federal funding for the SST, primarily because I believe our limited tax dollars should be spent to try to meet many human needs in this country rather than on a commercial venture. Particularly troubling about last week’s vote on the SST was the fact that the margin of victory for the SST was provided by several Congressmen who refused to vote on the issue, as an apparent favor to House Republican Minority Leader Gerald Ford, even though they are on record as opposing an SST subsidy. A total of 35 House Members were either not present or declined to vote on this important issue. In March, when virtually every House Member participated in a roll call vote, the SST was beaten 215 to 204. Last week’s action not only marked a reversal of the House's previous decision, but seems contrary to the wide public sentiment expressed throughout the country . . . that the people do not want their tax dollars exact results of this type of conveyance. Once a conveyance of this nature is made, it is very difficult, if not impossible, to change the status of the property without the approval of all people concerned.

the highly detailed and personal nature of the questions. The data, complete with the patient’s name and social security number, is then fed into a computer. Eventually, it is relayed to the central data bank at the Rockland State Hospital at Orangeburg. N.Y. Program officials insisted to us that the system has built-in safeguards to prevent the information from being used by unauthorized persons. There is no denying, however, that the data bank constitutes a permanent record of highly personal information which normally would be considered confidential between a patient and his doctor. Furthermore, there is apparently nothing to prevent the information from the central bank from being subpoenaed by government investigative agencies. Indeed, program officials are known to be concerned about the possibility that patient information might be sought by a New York State investigate body about someone who is undergoing treatment at a hospital in one of the other six states. i Besides New York, the other states are Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire. Dr. George Logermann, a program official, told us that about 450 hospitals participate He said the program has received about $9 million in federal aid since its inception nearly five years ago. The purpose was to compile statistical data on psychiatric patients’ symtoms and histories as an aide to research and treatment, he explained. Among the details requested in the questionnaires are facts about the patient’s sex life, not only as an adolescent but before and during marriage. The forms also seek information about each patient’s religious beliefs, income and even the type of housing he occupies. Footnote: The Citizens Commission on Human Rights, a Los Angeles-based group headed by Rev. Kenneth Whitman, has investigated the Rockland project and is planning to ask Sen. Sam Ervin’s subcommittee on Constitutional Rights to look into it.

squandered on developing, for private profit, an airline which would only serve transoceanic passengers. It seems sad, indeed, that the Administration continues to work for millions of dollars to finance a high-speed airliner which will only serve a few, while eliminating railroad service for millions of Americans. I am speaking, of course, about the recent decisions by the National Rail Passenger Corporation tA> completely bypass Northern Indiana and many other heavilypopulated areas of the country on the rail passenger system which started May 1. COMMISSION MEETS On Thursday morning I attended a meeting of the National Historical Publications Commission at the National Archives Building. Earlier this year, House Speaker Carl Albert appointed me as the House of Representatives' member on the Commission. The 11 members of the National Historical Publications Commission are responsible for determining which historical works are appropriate for publishing by the Federal government. The commission also oversees grants for institutions to preserve historical documents. The chairman of the Commission is James B. Rhoads, Archivist of the United States. Other members include Senator □airborne Pell of Rhode Island, U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr., Librarian of Congress L. Quincy Mumford and several eminent historians. At our latest meeting we discussed plans for printing the papers of such distinguished early American leaders as John Adams, Benjamin " Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison. OTHER ACTIVITIES During the past week I spoke at an Honors Day program at Ball State University in Muncie, .Indiana; attended a meeting of the Harvard Board of Overseers at Cambridge, Massachusetts; and delivered an address on higher education to the Athenaeum University Club at American University here in Washington.

By JACK ANDERSON