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

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Preserving A Heritage An avalanche of pro and antigun legislation is before the U.S. Congress. The right of firearm ownership is the issue at stake. And, despite popular misconceptions, this issue has nothing at all to do with curbing crime. States like New York that have had strict gun control laws for years have the highest crime rates. As competent authorities have pointed out. and as many lawmakers have stressed in legislative proposals, the need is not for a law that prohibits gun ownership, but for a law that imposes a mandatory penalty for the use of a firearm in the commission of a crime. One of the best commentaries on the issue of gun ownership has come from columnist Ken Gookins, writing in the Newark. Ohio, Advocate. Mr. Gookins speaks in behalf of the lawabiding private citizens. He says, “We cannot lay our homes open to the whims of the criminal and we should

Looking For A Job?

First impressions do make a difference — especially if you are young and looking for a summer job. One of your chief assets is the way you look and nothing beats good grooming. Employers are not impressed by bizarre makeup, unkept hair and exaggerated dress. So plan ahead for interviews. Girls, choose a young looking, smartly styled dress or suit, on the tailored side. Be sure it is an outfit you like and feel good wearing. Then match or coordinate shoes, handbag, gloves and stockings. That handbag should be moderately sized and not overstuffed. Stockings should be clean and run-free. Young men, give serious consideration to how you look to the “over 30" personnel director. Employers tend to equate competence with grooming. In other words, if you care about your personal cleanliness, you will care about doing a job well. Dress in keeping with the job you are seeking. If it is an office or sales

Roman Mobs Again

The rioting of New York mobs angered by the tightening of the state’s welfare laws is an appropriate comment on the decadence of a system in which handouts have come to be regarded as a “right.” The rioters are to be blamed for rioting. But they are not to be blamed for the flabby morality that has conditioned them to consider a free ride at public expense to be part of the natural, eternal order of things. Politicians with a sordid eagerness to use the welfare bloc as a political power base are to blame for that.

Revolution In Liberty

CONCEIVED IN LIBERTY Revolution and Evolution The Bicentennial Week Week of June 13 through June 19 Editor's note: This is one of a series of weekly columns retailing events in the history of the nation, and of the world. 200. 150. and 100 years ago. 1771 — Benjamin Franklin, now 65. comfortably established as a guest in the home of a friend. Bishop Jonathan Shipley, at Twyford. in Eng* land, begins the writing of his "Autobiography ” Never to be completed, or the chronology carried forward beyond 1759, he was to write on it at intervals up through 1799. a year before his death. ~. Francisco de Goya y Lucientas. Spanish painter, returns to Saragossa, near his birthplace, to begin work on

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EDITORIALS

frescos in the famous El Pilar Cathedral 1821 — Abe Lincoln, a 12-year-old boy living in a sparsely settled part of Spencer County. Kentucky, is given lessons by his father. Thomas Lincoln. in how to use an ax to split rails. ... In China, an illicit trade in opium proceeds in a volume of about 5.000 chests annually, centering around Canton, despite ’ an imperial prohibition 1871 — Negotiations proceed in Washington over details in the settlement of the Alabama Claims and U. S.-Cana-dian border matters, subsequent to signature of Treaty of Washington on May 8. Discussions bring a clash in which Constantine Catacazy, Russian Minister to the U. S.. becomes abusive of Presi-

not deprive the millions of handgunusing sportsmen of their rights to plink targets because criminals misuse similar guns.” It is likely that the outrages perpetrated upon law-abiding citizens will be multiplied several fold if criminals are assured by law that they run no risk of confronting a firearm when they break into a home or place of business. As Mr. Gookins says, “No gun has ever gone out on a shooting spree by itself. It is as simple as that. Let’s soak those who misuse the gun and protect those who use them properly.” Presently, there are indications that the Nixon Administration will give the views of the nation’s lawabiding gun owners full consideration in any recommendations it makes on gun laws. At the same time, firearm ownership will for years continue to be an issue that strikes deeply at an elemental heritage of the American people.

position, a suit, shirt, and tie are in order. For a job as counselor, lifeguard, or construction worker, you may interview dressed in a clean sportshirt and slacks. Your hands will also be on view, so scrub nails and knuckles with a well-lathered nail brush. Be sure your hair is clean and neatly combed. If needed, get it cut and styled, suggests the specialist. A young man should also be cleanshaven. You will feel more confident if you know your appearance is right for the occasion. Make your appointment with the potential employer well in advance. Ask teachers or other adult acquaintances to write letters of recommendation for you. It is better if these can be sent ahead. The employer then has an opportunity to read them before you arrive. After preparing as carefully as you can, you are ready for the interview. Remember to be pleasant and answer questions as definitely and responsibly as possible.

In New York the welfare bloc is not only big enough to swing a district, it is big enough to swing the city. There is profit — lavish profit — for the “in crowd” in the fact that one in eight New Yorkers is feeding at tbe public trough while life in the big city increasingly resembles that of decaying imperial Rome. In Rome the mobs demanding “bread and circuses” grew powerful enough, as official morality sank lower and lower, to dictate government ou’icy. Rome fell. —lndianapolis Star

dent Grant and members of the Cabinet, notably Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State. / Results in U.S. demanding his recall to St. Petersburg, and he is recalled in November. . Rome observed the 2,624th anniversary of its beginnings —Robert Desmond You And Social Security Q—l completed a form for Social Security regarding a lost check. For clarity I printed my name. The form was returned to me for signature. Why? A — If the missing check has been cashed the Treasury Department will need to compare your signature with the endorsement. A printed name would not give them a basis for comparison.

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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.

Spectator Injuries

American sport fans are considered to be the world's greatest spectators. It is generally felt that Americans are much more prone to want to watch a sport performed by experts in the given field than they are to participate in sports. Although many Americans do participate in various types of athletics, it is a fact that we are great spectators at sporting events It is not rare for a spectator to be injured at a sporting even\by a foul ball hit from a baseball bat. or a flying puck from a hockey stick, or even the wheel flying off of a race car. It is surprising, after these injuries occur, for the person injufed to find out they might not be able to recover for their injuries because of the law governing attendance at sporting events. This doctrine of law is known as “assumption of risk’’, meaning that a spectator and particularly a participant, might assume the risk of the very injury

SPECIAL REPORT FROM WASHINGTON

Panthers Believed Responsible For Cop Killings

WASHINGTON — Police intelligence units have traced the recent police slayings to a militant wing of the Black Panthers This faction, led by Eldridge Cleaver, is promoting guerrilla warfare against the police. The rival Panther faction, led by Huey Newton, is opposed to violence against police. Most white radical groups, according to police intelligence, are also backing away from violence But the militant Black Panthers are believed to be responsible for the new outbreak in police assassinations Thirty law enforcement officers were murdered in February and March of this year alone. The Panther strategy is to try to produce hostility between the people and the police. This would oring the kind of chaos to America that the revolutionaries could exploit The non-violent factions, though they seek the same ends, believe the police slay ings will only solidify public support for the police. AGNEW DROPPING NIXON The press has been full of speculation that President Nixon may dump Spiro Agnew as his running mate in 1972. No less than Attorney General John Mitchell, the President’s' chief campaign strategist, told reporters that Agnew could be dropped This irritated the Vice President, a proud man who doesn't like to be pushed around. We can report, therefore, that Agnew is nowtalking about dumping Nixon in 1972. Agnew has told intimates that he may not wait for the President to make up his mind about a running mate, but may simply tell the President he isn't interested in another term. UP IN SMOKE Uncle Sam spends more than $4 million a year warning citizens about the health hazard of cigarette smoking. Yet our Federal Uncle spends another S6B million to subsidize and promote tobacco.

he receives while attending or participating in a sporting event It should be pointed out that this means an injury that is the result of the sporting event and not negligence in constructing the place where the sporting event is held. In other words, if a group of fans are sitting in a bleacher that collapses because the bleacher was improperly constructed and fails from the weight of the fans in the bleacher, then the fans have a perfectly good cause of action for their injuries. The person holding the sporting event is required to use reasonable diligence in providing a safe place for the event to be held. In other words, this injury is not reasonably to be expected by a person who takes a certain risk by attending the sporting event. In describing this rule of law in one of the hallmark cases. Justice Cardozo said "One who takes part in such a sport accepts the dangers that inhere in it so far as they are obvious and

necessary, just as a fencer accepts the risk of a thrust by his antagonist or a spectator at a ball game the chance of contact with the ball." m other words, if a person enjoys automobile racing and accepts a seat at the track very near the point where cars could be expected to go out of control and crash into the spectators, a strong argument can be made that the spectator accepts the risk of that very thing happening. The courts throughout our land, however, are more and more restricting the doctrine of “assumption of risk.” With each passing case the courts more clearly point out that the spectator must know and understand the type of risk he is incurring and be of sufficient age and maturity to be capable of accepting the risk. The courts have been clear to point out that while a spectator incurs the risk inherent and incidental to being a spectator at a sport with which he is familiar, the same spectator does not incur the risk that such a facility in which he is watching the sport will be defectively constructed. Copyright 19$ by John J. Dillon HOPE CHEST

In other words, the U.S. government spends 15 times more money to encourage than to discourage smoking. More than $200,000 of the taxpayers’ money is spent to advertise U.S. tobacco products abroad each year — at the same time that the government has banned radio-TV advertising of tobacco products at home More than s3l million is spent to ship tobacco abroad under the food for peace program. Yet the purpose of the peace program, ironically, is to provide nourishment for the world’s starving people The taxpayers shell out another S2B million to pay tobacco exporters the difference between domestic and foreign prices for their products. Utah’s Senator Frank Moss has introduced a bill to end tobacco susidies. However, the Senate and House Agriculture Committees, which are dominated by Southerners aligned with the tobacco interests, probably won’t even hold hearings on the bill. As a compromise. Moss will offer to grant federal loans to tobacco farmers to help them switch crops. Even this compromise won’t get through the agriculture committees. BACK TO POLITICS Eugene McCarthy, the former Senator who gave up politics to become a poet, is thinking more about politics and less about poetry as the 1972 election year approaches. He has told intimates that he will run again for President as a peace candidate, Political scientists generally agree that in 1968 McCarthy’s supporters were responsible for Richard Nixon’s election. A survey in Illinois, for example, showed that 37 per cent of them actually wound up voting for Nixon and that many more simply stayed home from the polls. McCarthy’s return to presidential politics, therefore, should be good news for Nixon.

Congressional Comer: John Brademas Reports From Washington

House Passes Emergency Employment Act

There was good news on the job front last week with the passage by the House of the Emergency Employment Act. This measure is designed to create up to 130.000 public service jobs for unemployed workers in such fields as health, education, recreation, pollution control and police and fire protection. A similar bill passed the Senate two months ago. By passing this major component of a program aimed at combatting the high national unemployment rate. Congress affirmed its commitment to help put jobless people to work. However, our optimism over the prospect of making a dent in the unemployment situation has been tempered by warnings that President Nixon may veto the measure The President vetoed legislation late last year which would have created a public service employment program on the grounds that it would establish “dead end . . .WPA-type” jobs. But in the six months since that veto, unemployment has continued to climb to a point where 6.1 per cent of the American work force is unemployed. The problem is even more acute in the South Bend metropolitan area, which includes St. Joseph and Marshall Counties, where 7.3 per cent of the labor force is unemployed. I believe the situation clearly calls for vigorous action and I have urged the President to reconsider his position and endorse the measure so that we can begin to reduce the number of unemployed Americans. The bill could have important impact in relieving the unemployment situation in the South Bend area. Because it provides for additional employment in the public sector during times of high unemployment, the Emergency Employment Act complements another measure passed earlier by the House—the Accelerated Public Works Act, which is designed to create jobs in the private sector by funding public construction projects with the dual purpose of stimulating employment and improving public facilities. REVENUESHARING PROPOSAL BEATEN Before the Emergency Employment Act was passed by the House Wednesday, the bill withstood an Administration-led attempt to kill it by substituting a manpower revenue sharing proposal. This effort failed, by a 204 to 182 vote.

REVERSING FISCAL POLICY This may be denied, but President Nixon is seriously considering revising his fiscal policy. He has tried to hold the line against increased government subsidies ever since he moved into the White House. Only last year he contended that going deeper into debt is as bad for the government as it is for individuals. But 1972 is drawing closer, and he is convinced he can’t be reelected unless the economy improves. He was shaken by the pressure on the dollar in Europe and the persistent, six per cent unemployment at home. The Federal Reserve Board is also tightening its credit policy again. We can report, therefore, that the President is ready to order deficit spending in order to get the economy booming. This would be a complete reversal of his past policy. CIVIL WAR The Civil W ar has broken out all over again on Washington’s historic Mall. This time it’s between the fiercely independent ice cream and souvenir vendors and the staid old Interior Department, The vendors have operated on the Mall for decades and are a tiny bit of free enterprise in pure bureaucratic Washington. The Interior Department doesn’t think it’s dignified to have the vendors on the Mall where millions of tourists come to see the nation’s treasures. We’ve crept down into this no-man’s-land and sampled some of the goods. The Interior Department is fighting a losing battle with it’s hot dogs which are terrible. They are holding out well in the souvenir department — theirs cost more than the vendors’ but are better quality. On balance, we’d have to say that at this stage Washington’s new civil war is a standoff, although arrests of vendors and confiscation of their goods may soon turn the tide against the push cart army

Thus the first revenue sharing measure to reach a vote on either the House or Senate was beaten. As I have said before, 1 believe that the President’s revenue sharing package faces very tough sledding from a wary Congress which is increasingly skeptical over this proposal as an equitable solution to the financial problems of our states and cities. This floor debate, coupled with the chilly reception the proposal received from both Democratic and Republican Members of the House Ways and Means Committee on the same day. certainly does not enhance the prospects for Congressional adoption. HEARING ON OLDER WORKERS South Bend was the site Friday of a hearing by the Senate Special Committee on Aging. Indiana’s senior Senator, Vance Hartke, conducted the hearing on the question of unemployment among older workers. I had planned to be lead-off witness at the Committee hearings, but because the House held an important session on Friday I was unable to attend However. I submitted my statement for the record of the hearings, and in it I discussed two issues which were considered by the Committee inquiry—the need for Federal insurance of private pension plans to assure workers of receiving their rightful benefits and the need for manpower programs to train unemployed middle-aged and older Americans for new jobs. I pointed out that South Bend was an appropriate setting for a Congressional consideration of these two issues because of our area’s experience with the inadequate pension plan terminated with the Studebaker shutdown in 1963. as well as high unemployment among our middle-aged citizens. 1 firmly endorsed Congressional efforts to protect the pension rights of American t workers and to place more emphasis on job training for older citizens. Affirmative action on both these fronts would go far to improve the life of the American worker. I believe. Social Security And You Q — Has the $1,680 a person may earn in a year and still receive all his social security benefits been changed to a higher amount? A — No. This has not been changed. Any change would have to be made by Congress.

By JACK ANDERSON