The Mail-Journal, Volume 8, Number 36, Milford, Kosciusko County, 6 October 1971 — Page 10

I ■ PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY The Milford Mall (Est 1888) Syracuse-Wawaaee Journal (Eat 1807) Consolidated Into The Mail-Journal Feb. IS, I*B2 DEMOCRATIC ARCHIBALD E. BAUMGARTNER, Editor and Publisher DELLA BAUMGARTNER, Business Manager Box 8 Syracuse, Ind., — 48587

World Lions Service Day

Lakeland Lions club members will be joining Lions all over the world this coming Friday, Oct. 8, in observance of the second annual World Lions Service Day. This day puts the emphasis on “I Serve” giving each individual Lion the opportunity’ to serve in his own way. v Some Lions will spend the day working on fall projects at the homes of elderly persons in the community while others will take time to visit the shut-ins and those who are in the hospitals. Other club members throughout the world will work on a fund raising project with the money going to help someone who is in

Christmas In October

October may be just a bit early for Christmas but it’s time to start thinking about others and sharing what we have for the holidays. Area volunteers Mrs. Arch (Della) Baumgartner and Mrs. William (Betty) Brammer have names of persons at the Fort Wayne state hospital and training center and a list of two items that each would like for Christmas. What one of us can not afford to purchase a Christmas gift for these men and boys. We should all count our blessings as the Christmas season approaches and give that others might have a happy holiday, even if we have to give a little something up in order to

Memo To 18-Year Olds: Honor The Vote

Now that the 18-year-olds have the Constitutional right to political forces are making effort to channel the young\people’s thinking in one direction — len-liberal. And many persons believe that pay be fairly easy to do, because it is felt that voters of such a tender age will naturally be idealistic, desirous of change, unafraid and therefore not backward-looking but facing into the future with hope and great sincerity. That is’ a description of millions of young persons, but it does not mean that they will pitch headlong into the unknown in politics. The liberal-radicals who believe that the votes of the 18-, 19and 20-year-olds are all sewed up may be in for a big surprise. Children take

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.

Harassing Telephone Calls

A problem that is exceeded in its perplexity to the telephone companies only by its troublesome and sometimes fearproducing nature to the general public is the obscene and harassing telephone call. This is the type of call that many times comes in the middle of the night to the woman alone. It may involve the use of profanity or obscene language or go so far as to involve threats or actual abuse. The call may be a teenage prank, or fTOm a sick individual who is attempting to satisfy his prurient interest or a sick individual attempting to derive pleasure in imparting fear through words. Whatever the motives; it poses a serious problem to the general public who are faced with this unpleasant caller and also to the telephone company who assists the public in putting an end to this type of caller. The nonpublished number and a variety of technical devices are used to thwart and capture this individual.

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Such calls are violations of the criminal code, both federal and state. Federal law makes it a crime for any person to make any comment or proposal which is obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy or indecent in an interstate telephone communication. Federal law also makes it a crime to make a telephone call in interstate commerce, whether or not the telephone conversation ensues, without the caller disclosing his identity with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any person at the number called Federal law further makes it a crime to make a call in interstate commerce so that the telephone of another repeatedly or continuously rings with intent to harass any person at the number called. The federal criminal code further makes it a crime to make repeated telephone calls in interstate commerce during which conversation ensues solely to harass any person at the number

need. What ever they choose to do they will be serving others on World Lions Service Day. This special day has been so designated by International President Robert J. Uplinger of Syracuse, N. Y. He has personally challenged each Lion to perform some service, to share himself for the day on a person-to-person basis. The day gives each and every Lion a chance to commit himself in a personal way no matter how small. Wouldn’t the entire world be a better place if everyone would take up the Lions motto and join in serving others? We commend the Lions for their special day of service to others.

purchase a gift or gifts. The men and boys aren’t asking for much. They want such items as knit gloves, billfolds, socks, handerchiefs, yarn, sock caps, neck scarf, rubber toys, dusting powder, this has to be in a container other than glass, as does spray deodrant. Still others want pop beads, plastic cups, big plastic rings, or a large piece picture puzzle. The absolute deadline for delivering these gifts to the county’s pick-up station is November 29 so we’re urging everyone in the Lakeland area to stop in and pick up a card or two soon so that you too can make someone’s Christmas a little brighter this year.

many of their habits and customs from their parents, despite the supposed enormous generation gap of our day. A few years ago the 18-year-olds received the vote in Scotland, and, to everyone’s surprise, more conservatives than ever were elected to public office. With the 18-year-olds voting in the general British elections in June of 1970, the Conservatives were returned to power over the Laborites, who had ruled for six years. So the political gap between the generations may be over-estimated. There is no reason to believe that American youths will opt for chaos, which may be the alternative to measured change. We ask them to honor the vote with their best thinking. —Delphi Journal-Citizen

called. Not only may the caller be prosecuted but any person who knowingly permits any telephone under his control to be used for obscene or harassing calls may be prosecuted. In addition to federal law, Indiana law makes it a crime for a person to telephone another and harass such person or use any lewd, lascivious or indecent words or language. Indiana law further makes it a crime for any person to telephone another person repeatedly for the purpose of annoying, molesting, or harassing such other person or his or her family The Indiana law applies to calls made in intrastate commerce whereas the federal law applies to calls made in interstate commerce. A person violating either the federal or state law may be fined up to SSOO and imprisoned up to six months. The seriousness of the offense is indicated by the fact those convicted may be sent to jail or fined. The magnitude and seriousness at the overall problem is readily shown by figures that were set forth in the House Committee report on the federal laws. In the deven months of 1966, for which reports were made, there were 568.744 complaints received by the Bell System from its subscribers because of calls received that were obscene, harassing or of a threatening nature. Through the use of various techniques to apprehend these people, 1,106 persons were convicted in 1967 of making obscene, harassing or threatening telephone calls. Copyright 1971 by John J. Dillon

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Revolution in liberty

CONCEIVED IN LIBERTY Revolution and Evolution The Bicentennial Year Oct 10 through Oct. 16 1771 — North and South Carolina, long administered as a single colony, known as Carolina, had only become separate royal provinces in 1729, and a boundary set although it was to be redrawn in 1737 and again in 1815. By 1771, agriculture, industry and trade had developed considerably, and living standards had risen. The first settlements by Europeans in the area of the 13 colonies were attempted in the area of the Carolinas between 1524 and 1587, but no permanent settlement was made until 1670, by which time there were established settlements in a number of other sections to the north. After 1680 Charleston was to become a thriving port and a cultural center. Rice and indigo were planted in the colony, and became important commercial products of plantations operated byslave labor, and tobacco and cotton later were added. The first opera performance in the New World was to be

SPECIAL REPORT FROM WASHINGTON

Hirohito Not A Hawk In World War II

WASHINGTON — David Bergamini, a Rhodes scholar, has written a painstaking book charging that Emperor Hirohito planned the attack on Pearl Harbor and encouraged the war against the United Slates Bergamini charged that Hirhoito inherited from his royal ancestors a passion to rid Asia of white men. Secret government files do not completely support Bergamini's thesis. It is true that Hirohito personally stamped all major military orders He also played a role in the war effort It is doubtful, however, that he planned the whole military operation.

The secret files show that the late Senator Elbert Thomas, a former Mormon missionary in Japan, persuaded President Roosevelt not to bomb the Imperial Palace and to spare the Emperor Thomas argued that the Emperor was regarded by most Japanese as a literal decendant of the Sun Goddess. He would be needed, said Thanas, to administer Japan after the war. Thomas suggested that the Japanese would be difficult to control without maintaining a symbol of the Imperial system. NIXON, AND PEKING VISIT President Nixon has told intimates that he definitely will invite some members of Congress to accompany him to Peking. Vermont’s Senator George Aiken, the Republican dean, has urged the President to take Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield along. > Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott has also indicated a desire to go. Both Mansfield and Scott are students of the Far East. Intelligence reports quote communist sources in Hong Kong as saying President Nixon had sought to visit Peking in midOctober. This checks with certain preparations inside the White House for the President to be out of town at that time. However, we checked with Henry Kissinger, the President’s advance man who made the arrangements for the Peking visit.

offered in Charleston in 1735, the first permanent theater was established there in 1736, the first free school for Negroes in 1740, probably the first musical society, formed in 1762, and still existing; and the first public museum, opened in 1773. It was the capital until 1786, when Columbia was officially created as a new city. The northern section, now North Carolina, developed more slowly because of misgovernment, internal disputes, a ban on shipment of its products out of Virginia ports, and a boundarydispute with that colony; smuggling and offshore piracy, poor transportation, and Indian troubles, including the Tuscarora War in 1711-1713. There were no towns until after 1700, but the area did prosper from that time with a population nearing 300,000 in 1775. The river port of New Bern, settled in 1710 by a Swiss group, and known originally as Berne, was the capital from 1774 until that function was transferred to Raleigh in 1792. 1821 — Edmund Keen, English tragedian, had made his

American debut in New York in “Richard DI” in 1820. In 1821, Brutus Booth, also noted as an English actor, made his U. S. debut in the same play in Richmond, Va. ... George Williams (later Sir George), born in Somerset, England. To become founder and president of the Young Men’s Christian Association in June, 1844, along with 11 other men. Branches established in Boston and Montreal in 1851, and ultimately in about 70 countries, with about two million members. He also became president of the London dry goods firm where he had started work in 1843, at 22. 1871 — Smith College chartered as college for women at Northampton, Mass., although first classes did not meet until 1875. Ursaline College for Women aiko established at Cleveland . . . Mexican presidential elections held, with three candidates. None received a majority, and the national Congress appoints Benito Juarez, who had been elected as president in 1861, forced out during the Frenchsponsored regime of Maximilian (1864-1867), and reelected in 1867. In his further term, he was to die in office in 1872.

Kissinger told us that the date hasn’t been set and that mid-October would be too early. BLACK CAUCUS Black leaders have been holding political strategy meetings behind closed doors. The participants have included the 13 black Congressmen, the mayors of Cleveland, O.; Gary, Ind.; Newark, N.J., and other prominent black leaders They have been discussing how to make their impact felt in the 1972 presidential election. A proposal that the-blacks should form their own new political party will be rejected. Instead, the black leaders will agree to work within the Democratic Party to get a ticket that they can support. They will concentrate on a voter registration drive to increase black power at the ballot box. PRICES HOLDING FIRM Arnold Weber, the administrator at the wage-price freeze, has reported to President Nixon that prices generally are holding firm. A spot check showed prices had actuallyslipped on 13 items, inched up on five others and held even on four. AT the time of his report, he said, only 8,661 written complaints had been received. An additional 1,439 had come in seeking exemptions. Weber told the President that he had been taking a tough stance against exemptions and a reasonable attitude toward allowing seasonal price increases. INTELLIGENCE ITEMS — Sources close to the Red Chinese quote them as saying their aim is to oust Chiang Kai-shek from the United Nations more than to gain membership for themselves. They reportedly have said they are prepared to wait 5,000 years, if necessary, for UN membership. — Moshe Dayan, the tough Israeli defense minister, is pressing inside the cabinet for a withdrawal of Israeli troops back from the

Congressional Comer: John Brademas Reports From Washington

Brademas Child Development Bill Approved By House

There’s no question that last week was one of the busiest I have ever spent in my thirteen years as your Representative in Congress. Two bills of which I am the sponsor and another of major importance to my committee, the Committee on Education and Labor, made significant advance through Congress last week. CHILD DEVELOPMENT BILL Perhaps first in importance to me personally was the Comprehensive Child Development Bill. The purpose of this bill, on which members of my subcommittee and I have been working for over three years now, is to provide preschool and day care opportunities for children of all economic backgrounds. The Child Development Bill would extend, in effect, the benefits of Head Start-type programs not only to poor children, but to millions of other children of preschooUrge in our country. On Thursday, the bill was closely debated on the floor of the House and there were some very difficult moments, especially when efforts were made to change some of what we in parliamentary jargon call the “delivery system,” that is to say, the mechanism through which the Chikfr Development opportunities are provided to various communities across the country. In any event, however, when the role was called, I was very pleased to see that the Child Development Bill passed the House of Representatives on Thursday by a vote of 203-181. Later, at 8:00p.m., the bill was submitted to another vote of the House in a rare move, and passed again by a narrower margin of 186-183. The Child Development Bill was considered as an amendment to the bill extending the life of the Economic Opportunity Act, the so-called War on Poverty Program, and the House voted 251-115 to approve the overall bill extending the Poverty Program. In my view, this makes one of the most significant advances in education since the passage of the historic elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION The second bill which I also have sponsored in the House of Representatives proposes the establishment of a National

banks of the Suez Canal. Dayan’s reasoning: the Soviet objective is to reopen the Suez Canal; therefore. Russia can be expected to increase military pressure on Israel until the canal is opened — Intelligence sources assert fissionable material is being smuggled in tiny amounts into the Middle East. Any industrial nation, they say, can now manufacture a nuclear bomb in less than a month. — The harsh behavior of South Vietnamese troops in Cambodia is turning thousands of Cambodians into communist guerrillas. Several captured Cambodian guerrillas have said they joined the communists because of the South Vietnamese looting and raping. — Kremlin leaders are putting on a show of reasonableness in their dealings with the West. The top Kremlin leaders have been scattering out all over the world spreading Soviet good will. President Nikolai Podgorny flew to Cairo. Communist boss Leonid Brezhnev took off for Yugoslavia. Podgorny is now preparing to go to Hanoi and Brezhnev to Paris. Premier Aleksei Kosygin is planning visits to Algeria, Canada, Denmark and Norway. STARS AND STRIPES The Army has laid out nearly SIOO,OOO to buy facsimile editions of the Stars and Stripes from 1918 to 1919 and of Yank, the World War II Army weekly. The old publications often had a vigor that the harshly censored Stars and Stripes of today lacks — and there is no doubt of their historical value. But, astonishingly, instead at just having the sets at selected Army libraries, the facsimiles, sold by the New York Times, are being distributed to 421 different posts, camps and stations around the world. The purchase was made even as Army librarians are grumbling that Pentagon cutbacks already have ruined their policy of giving the troops new non-fiction and fiction releases. .

Institute of Education. This proposal, which was first suggested by President Nixon in March of 1970 in a message to Congress on educational reform, is aimed at supporting research and development at all levels of education inltheUnited States from preschool through graduate school, both within and outside formal institutions of learning. Education in America is a $6570 billion a year conglomerate, and yet the fact of the matter is that while we spend ten per cent of our total national budget for defense on research and development and some five per cent of our health expenditures on research and development, we dedicate a mere three-tenths of one per cent of our total education budget to research and renewal. It should come as no surprise then that many taxpayers complain that they ate not getting maximum dividends on their tax investment in our education system. It is my hope that the National Institute of Education will be a focal point for stimulating new ideas, new techniques, new ways of teaching and learning, with a view toward increasing the productivity of our investment in the most valuable natural resource that any nation has — educated men and women. The National Institute of Education bill was favorably reported by the full education and Labor Committee this last week, and I hope very much that it wgl soon become law. HIGHER EDUCATION The third bill on which our committee has been working is the so-called Higher Education Act Amendments of 1971. The Subcommittee on Higher Education, of which I am also a member, has been vigorously debating for over a year on the best mechanism for providing more Federal financial support to our colleges and universities. This week, after a very contentious debate, the Committee on Education and Labor approved a proposal combining a cost-of-education allowance, of which I have long been an advocate, with an across-the-board subsidy approach that has been advocated by Congresswoman Edith Green of Oregon. This compromise version of institutional aid for colleges and universities will soon go to the floor of the House of Representatives

By JACK ANDERSON