The Mail-Journal, Volume 8, Number 38, Milford, Kosciusko County, 20 October 1971 — Page 9

L «as4iA I PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY The Milford Mail (Eat 1888) Syracuse-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

Veterans' Day 1971

Veterans’ Day will be observed this year in most states on October 25. This time of remembrance had its beginning as Armistice Day marking the end of World War I on November 11, more than 50 years ago. It is now the day on which the nation honors all veterans of the Armed Forces. They should be doubly honored this year for the thankless task of “winding down’’ the Viet Nam war —a conflict in which many of them have participated. Unlike veterans of previous periods in our history, those returning from Viet Nam will find no brass bands awaiting them, but a nation preoccupied with dissension and confusion over economic and social troubles. These troubles would assume far more reasonable proportions if the respect for our nation, which is implicit in Veterans’ Day;

Where Do You Find The News?

Newspapers make their living by selling the news, and there is no reason to be modest about evidence that we are doing our job well - especially at a time when newspapers are being subjected to a good deal of criticism. Os course these critics often disagree among themselves. They accuse newspapers of being biased in favor of the government and of being biased against the government. They accuse newspapers of following kneejerk liberal lines and of following kneejerk conservative lines; of being too activist and involved on the one hand and of being too detached and objective on the other. These contradictions are encouraging in themselves, because they suggest that despite, or maybe because of their great variety, American newspapers are giving a representative picture of the world. But there is other evidence, too, more specific. In a recent survey, the Opinion Research Corporation asked several questions about where people turn when they want the news. The first question was: “Suppose there is some news you are very interested in. Where would you be most likely to find out all"there is about it?’’ Os the replies, 50 per cent said the newspapers, 46 per cent said television, 12 per cent said radio, 11 per cent said magazines, and 9 per cent said they would go to a library. (Since some mentioned more than one source, the figures add up to more than 100 per cent.) The respondents were then asked where they would go if the subject were very complicated. Again the newspapers led, with 36 per cent, followed by a library with 21 per cent, TV with 19 per cent, magazines with 12 per cent, and radio with 4 per cent. When asked whether they were relying more or less on newspapers and TV, the respondents showed a growing tendency to rely more on newspapers than on television.

Guinea Honors Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln, indeed a significant part of the American heritage, has now been vividly portrayed on a pure silver coin of Equatorial J Guinea. Though Lincoln's life and career are American history, his profound wisdom and influence touched the entire world. For this reason Equatorial Guinea has recreated the strong, inspiring bust of this great man on her coinage to forever remind the world of the truth and dignity that Lincoln represents. The finely detailed head of Lincoln is struck on the 75peseta piece which is 36mm in diameter (almost silver-dollar size). The coin has been minted in frosted proof condition, a minting technique which gives you a matted or frosted relief while the background area of the coin has a brilliant, mirrorlike surface. The pure Lincoln coin is one

EDITORIALS

of the coins included in the 1970 coins of this country. The set can be purchased complete or in single coins. Information can be secured from the U. S. distributor. Paramount International Coin Corp.. Paramount Building. Englewood. Ohio 46322. ♦ ♦ ♦ Any collector planning to buy ether the proof or uncirculated

could enjoy a rebirth. A part of that respect can be redeemed by observing Veterans’ Day in the spirit in which it was conceived by patriotic Americans of over half a century ago. There was no question then of the greatness of our nation, its purposes nor the quality of its citizens. We should realize that what was true then is true now. There is no greater nation than the United States. Those who have served in its military forces are symbolic of everything in which free men believe — the Christian ideals of personal liberty, the rule of law and the sanctity of the home and the individual. There is no better time to pay homage to all of these safeguards of human dignity and freedom and to the members of the Armed Forces who have helped to preserve them than on Veterans’ Day.

What is especially encouraging is (he breakdown by age and education. It shows that dependence on the newspapers led, with 36 per cent, followed by young and the well educated. Os those in the group 18 to 29 years old, 50 per cent say they are depending on newspapers more, and 20 per cent less. On the other hand 28 per cent say they are depending on TV more, and 39 per cent less. Os those who have been to college, 43 per cent depend on newspapers more than formerly and 18 per cent less. Nineteen per cent depend on TV .more, and 43 per cent less. Among those over 50 and those with less than a high school education, the trend is away from newspapers and toward television. Similarly, with the question about where they would be likely to find what they wanted in the way of news, the young and the better educated favored the newspapers, while the older and the less educated favored TV. These trends are encouraging to us, because today’s young will be tomorrow’s leaders and taxpayers and voters, and because more and more people are receiving better educations. Time, which once was said to be on television’s side, now seems to be on the newspapers’ side; and the more complicated or emotional a subject is (recent economic events, for example, or the prison riots) the more the newspapers have proved that they can be counted on for a balanced and comprehensive account. We are talking only about news, of course; not about other areas, such as entertainment, in which TV excels. But we find the trend encouraging, not only for those newspapers which work to keep up with changing times and growing responsibilities, but also for the country. Please excuse us if we sound prejudiced. It may be that we are. — CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Eisenhower dollar should place his order as soon as possible. Mrs. Mary T. Brooks, director of the mint, recently said that the cutoff date may be” imminent. Order blanks are available from all national banks or post offices. A catalog of the World’s Most Popular Coins is now being distributed by the President Coin Corp, of New York. The 416-page book is the work of Fred Remfeld and Burton Hobson, who have been active in the numismatic field for years and their previous writings prove that they know what it's all about The catalog is priced at $8.95 and lists, illustrates and prices coins that these experts feel are popular. They also feel that they are of historical interest and readily available. The coins range from the ancient Roman pieces to selected items of more modem times from today's nations around the globe. It's a very interesting catalog.

\ / VsF _ your Schools American Education Week October 24-30,1971

' 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.

'Home Solicitation Sales'

The new Uniform Consumer Credit Code passed by the 1971 Indiana Legislature, and now in force, has some very stringent provisions concerning home solicitation sales. Any sale made face to face at the home of a person, in which the purchaser is , to pay for the sale by credit, is subject to cancellation by the purchaser. Providing the terms of the statute are followed, the purchaser has an absolute right to cancel home—Solicitation sales upon the giving of notice of cancellation, tn writing, before midnight of the third business day after the transaction, or after the disclosure of the purchaser ’s right, to cancel, whichever is later. This provision in the

SPECIAL REPORT FROM WASHINGTON

Decision To Run In z 64 Made At Last Minute

WASHINGTON - The New York Times will begin serializing Lyndon Johnson’s memoirs this month. We have read a bootleg copy of his book. Here are some of the highlights: The former President declared that he didn't make up his mind until the last minute to run in 1964. Here is his exact quote: “I did not decide fully and Anally until three o’clock on the afternoon of August 25th, the day after the Democratic Convention opened in Atlantic City. I “All the doubts that had been plaguing me for so long came to a head that morning. I knew all too well that time was running out and that an irrevocable decision would soon have to be made. I sat at my desk in the Oval Office and wrote out the following statement on a yellow pad.” His statement wound up saying: "The times require a leadership about which there is no doubt and a voice that men of all parties, sections and color can follow'. I have learned after trying very hard that I am not that voice or that ledder.” I The President’s friends and aides desperately urged him to change his mind. But it was a note from his wife, Lady Bird, that persuaded him at the last moment to run. Her note said: “Beloved, you are as brave a man as Harry Truman or FDR or Lincoln. You can go on to find some peace, some achievement amidst all the pain. You have been strong, patient, determined beyond any words of mine to express. I honor you for it. So does most of the country. To step out now would be wrong for your country and I can see nothing but a lonely wasteland for your future ... 1 am not afraid of Time (magazine) or lies or losing money or defeat. In the final analysis I can’t carry any of the burdens you talked of— so I know it is only your choice. But I know you are as brave as any of the 35.1 love you always, (signed Bird).” HANOI SPURNED PEACE LBJ also confirms in his memoirs the report that Washington policy makers were seriously considering expanding the war in

Uniform Consumer Credit Code will undoubtedly have a farreaching effect upon door to door sales. Within ten days after receiving notice of cancellation, the seller must return any payments or any contract evidencing indebtedness to the seller. The seller may retain as a service charge five per cent of the cash price of the goods sold or the cash down payment, whichever is smaller. The statute also gives the buyer a lien on the goods purchased to secure performance of the cancellation agreement by the seller. Within forty days after cancellation of the credit purchase, the seller must demand any goods previously delivered at the residence of the buyer or the

buyer may retain the goods with no obligation to pay for them. The buyer is, however, required to take reasonably good care of the goods within the forty-day period. These new provisions are an addition to presently existing laws covering door-to-door sales. The previous law involving the sale of personal or household goods, commodities, intangibles, real estate outside of Indiana and adjoining states are still covered by the exisiting law. These sales had to be $50.00 or greater and must have been made at the consumer’s residence without the consumer soliciting the sale. Under this statute, the buyer has two days, not counting the day of the sale, in which to cancel the sale after receiving notice of his right to do so. The buyer must immediately return any merchandise and the seller must return all payments and the contract or debt obligation. There are now two provisions of law which protect persons from high pressure sales tactics at their home. Both of the provisions of the law provide for an absolute cancellation of the sale, thereby giving the purchaser the option to rescind or get out of the sale with little or no obligation. It must be remembered. however, that the cancellation must be in writing and is

1964 at a time when he was campaigning as a peace candidate. He wrote: “In March 1964 the Joint Chiefs argued that the proposed steps might not be strong enough. They indicated that we should consider attacking military targets in the North immediately. “I recall CIA Director McCone . . . felt strongly that increased action in the South should be accompanied by intensive air and naval action against the North.” But the former President also contends that he made repeated attempts to negotiate a peace all in vain. He wrote: “Only a handful of my closest advisers know of all the many attempts we made to get into a dialogue with Hanoi. The fact is that from 1965 until January 1968 we were in virtually continuous contact either directly or through intermediaries, with leaders in Hanoi or their representatives. Hardly a month passed throughout that period in which we did not make some effort to open the gateway to peace.” He charges that the Soviets at first flatly refused to help arrange a peace. He wrote that on May 10, 1965: “I decided to end the bombing for a limited period. We informed the Russians of our position and asked them to pass the information along to the North Vietnamese. But the Soviets refused to act as intermediaries. We delivered a message to the North Vietnamese Embassy in Moscow - for their ambassador. The note was return to our embassy the next day in a plain envelope. We later arranged for direct delivery to Hanoi through another government. But that message was also returned.” President Nixon has also had trouble getting Soviet cooperation to arrange a Vietnamese peace. White House aides tell us that President has made repeated requests to the Soviets to help arrange a settlement but that the Soviets have given no serious cooperation. POLITICS GUIDE ECONOMY* President Nixon’s chief economic adviser, Paul McCracken, has complained privately that politics rather than economics are now

Congressional Comer: Jo/tn Brademas Reports From Washington

Ed-Labor Committee Votes To Raise Minimum Wage To $ 2

Last week in the nation’s capital the Committee on Education and Labor, of which I am a member, gave most of its attention to the Fair Labor Standards Act, the legislation governing the minimum wage in this country. The committee voted to extend the coverage of the minimum wage to six million more working people, most of them in the apparel and clothing, food processing, and logging and sawmill occupations. The committee also voted to raise the minimum wage from $1.60 per hour to $2.00 per hour effective January 1 of next year. Despite present efforts to stem the tide of inflation, there are millions of Americans who barely survive on the wage paid them. An increase in the minimum wage, and its extension to workers previously not covered, should serve to help many of these people stay above the poverty line. The $2.00 hourly figure, by the way. would mean, on the basis of a 40-hour week. 52 weeks a year, a total annual income of just over $4,000. WOMEN’S RIGHTS Each year over ten thousand bills are introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. Yet, during my years in Congress, only four times have I had the opportunity to vote on bills which subsequently became amendments to our Constitution. The fifth time came this past week, when bv a one-sided 354-23 vote, the House of Representatives passed what has been called the “W’omen’s Rights Amendment.” If approved by two-thirds of the House and of the Senate and later ratified by , three-fourths of the States, it will become the 27th Amendment to the United States Constitution. effective upon mailing of this cancellation to >he seller at the address given by the seller. The purchaser must also remember that he can require the seller to give an address to which all communications can be directed. Since in all cancellations provided by these consumer laws time is of the essence, a person who feels that he wishes to be relieved would lose this very important right to cancel an unwanted purchase, unless he reacts quickly. Copyright 1971 by John J. Dillon

guiding the economy. It was the approach of the 1972 election, he has told friends, that caused President Nixon to reverse his economic policies. Had it not been for the political necessity of stimulating the economy in 1972, McCracken said, the President would have continued his long range anti-inflation program. The President’s economic advisers privately have little faith in the economic controls that the President is now using. He resorted to diem, they believe, in order to mollify public concern about raising prices and unemployment. President Nixon has insisted to subordinates that he is going to manage the economy without establishing a new bureaucracy. He will keep the Cost of Living Council small and will use the Internal Revenue Service to enforce economic controls. His hope is that businesses and unions will comply voluntarily to the wage-price restrictions. The President is planning to assign approximately 3,000 Internal Revenue agents to investigate violations. The violators will be prosecuted in the courts. SWISS WARY OF DOLLARS The weakness of the dollar has caused a flood of money to pour into Swiss banks. The Swiss, therefore, have blocked all accounts over $50,000 for three months. This rule was adopted to discourage speculators ’ from using their Swiss bank accounts to play the money market. The Swiss have also Stopped paying interest on new accounts. Meanwhile, the State Department has been negotiating feverishly with the Swiss to give U.S. lawmen access to the secret bank accounts of American hoodlums, tax evaders and stock market swindlers. The Swiss government is expected to agree to lift the secrecy on any individual's account upon court order. This would mean that the U.S. would have to go through the Swiss courts to get a look at a secret bank account. However, the Swiss will not allow U.S. lawmen to conduct informal investigations in Switzerland.

Simply put, the amendment states that “equality of -rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” Behind the amendment is a concept central to our civil liberties: the conviction that all persons have the right to be treated as individuals, not as members of a group with certain shared characteristics; not as whites or blacks, or Protestants or Catholics, or Scotsmen or Poles, but as individuals. The Amendment states as a matter of Constitutional right that women are entitled to this right no less than men. It is only fair that those who do equal work receive equal pay; yet studies show that, on the average, women earn 60 cents for every dollar earned by a man. In some places there are dual pay schedules for men and women teachers in public; schools, and some states even have laws which prohibit women from working in certain occupations. It is only fair that equal abilities and talents get equal recognition; yet there are states that require married women, but not married men, to obtain court permission before they engage in a business or sell property. It is only fair that equal crime be met with equal punishment; yet some states still have laws under which women receive longer sentences than men for committing the same crime. / It is only fair that the duties of citizenship be equally borne by all citizens; yet in some states women are not permitted—indeed they are barred — from carrying out basic civic responsibilities such as jury duty. The overwhelming bipartisan vote for approval of the amendment, to repeat, 354-23, is clear indication that, at least so far as Members of the House of Representatives are concerned, here is an idea whose time had come. SCHOOL LUNCHES On Thursday, the Committee on Education and Labor also voted approval of a measure to guarantee a minimum Federal contribution of 40 cents each for school lunches for needy school children. In my view, this is a giant step forward in meeting the minimum daily nutrition needs of children who otherwise might go hungry.

By JACK ANDERSON