The Mail-Journal, Volume 8, Number 51, Milford, Kosciusko County, 19 January 1972 — Page 9

Tfi<> L PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY The Milford Mail (E»L 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

Unseen Paycheck

Twenty years ago, the average fringe benefit of the average firm’s employee was $450. Today, according to a recent survey of 8,000 firms, the annual fringe benefit of the average employee totals $2,052. This survey found an increase of two to four per cent over the past two yeas in the cost of fringe benefits. Firms with 50 or fewer employees pay 13 to 15 per cent of their payroll toward the annual unseen paycheck of over $2,000 which has been dubbed A "fringe” of person’s total income. Larger firms, the survey reveals, pay up to 30 per cent of payroll for these fringes which include ex-

Ten Commandments Os Business

1. Handle the hardest job first each day. Easy ones are pleasures. 2. Do not be afraid of criticism — criticize yourself often. 3. Be glad and rejoice in the other fellow’s success — study his methods. 4. Do not be misled by dislikes. Acid ruins the finest fabrics. However, both may be used to advantage. 5. Be enthusiastic — it is contagious. 6. Do not have the notion that

Are You Willing?

To close your book of complaints and to open the book of praise? To believe other men are as sincere as you and to treat them with respect? To ignore what life owes you and think about what you owe life? / To stop looking for friendship and to start being friendly? To be content with such things as you have and to stop whining for the things you do not have?

Beware Os The 'Hitchhiker'

J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI, says, “The hitchhiking menace has never been greater than it is today. In offering a ride, the motorist is playing a game which holds a deadly risk for him. The sign of the thumb can well be a sign of impending disaster.” A recent Arizona survey of 400 hitchhikers “passing through” found 84 had criminal records and 12 were AWOL servicemen or run-away juveniles. Only four of the 100 had never been picked up by the police. What kind of person is a hitchhiker? A student on his way to school? Or could he be a weapon-carrying criminal looking for fast transportation or another victim? You don’t know, and the only way to find out is to pick him up. According to the FBI, the chances are four out of five that he has a criminal record. Remember, he may look like the boy next door, but he isn’t. There is no such thing as a “criminal type.” That cashmere jacket or Ivy League suit may have been bought with money stolen from his last victim. Several years ago, a motorist in New Jersey picked up a well dressed, goodlooking young man who told him he was mayor of Boy’s Town and on his way to visit his sister. He showed the motorist a postcard he was mailing to Father Flanagan and told him of the coming tour of the Boy’s Town Band. He offered to send the driver tickets to the concert in exchange for his ride, so the motorist gave him his name and address, and during the course of the trip, told the hitchhiker, whom I'll call George, that he would be on the road for another two weeks. After the motorist had dropped George off at the road he said would take him to his sister’s, George went to the driver’s home, gained his wife’s confidence through his newly gained knowledge of the driver, attacked The man’s wife and looted the house. Altogether, George gained entry into 15 homes by this ruse before he was caught and sent to the electric chair for the murder of one of the housewives.

EDITORIALS

panding forms of medical and hospital insurance, life insurance, disability and pension coverage. Other fringes include the cost of company clinic, physical, dental and eye care; cafeteria and coffee services; employee tuition refunds; scholarship and matching gift programs, etc. Many employers as well as employees are oblivious to the monetary value of today’s fringes. Nevertheless, they are part of the total cost of doing business. No employer, no employee or consumer should be deluded with the notion that fringes are free.

success means simply money-making. 7. Be fair, and do at least one decent act every day. 8. Honor the chief. There must be a head to everything. 9. Have confidence in yourself, believe you can do it. 10. Harmonize your work. Let sunshine radiate and penetrate your relationships. — Quoted from "Pencil Tracts” October, 1970, Dur-O-Lite, Inc.

To enjoy the simplest things of life and cease striving for the artificial pleasure of the day? To forget what you have accomplished and meditate on what others have done for you? To cease looking for someone to help you and to devote yourself to helping others? —Hoosier Democrat

A uniform is available in any army surplus store and files are filled with cases of motorists who have been attacked and robbed by men in uniform. It makes no more sense for a motorist to pick up a hitchhiker than it does for a bus driver to give a free ride. The motorist doesn’t give the hitchhiker anything except the chance to kill him or steal his car. A hitchhike of 35 miles is the equivalent of a 75 cents bus ride. College boys can afford the price of a ticket home and no driver should be fooled by stories about a sick mother in Maine or jobs in far-off cities. There are numerous legitimate agencies to which one could turn in such cases. Travelers Aid, for instance, will get a loan from the future employer to cover a ticket to the new job. And they have a petty cash fund for people who lost their tickets or • left their wallets at home. Murder, robbery and assault are not the only dangers you face when you pick up a “thumber.” If he is injured while riding in your car, you are liable. One hitchhiker in Florida recently collected $4,250 from a motorist in whose car he was riding at the time of an accident. Even ibyou are covered by insurance, your policy can’t keep you out of court. By giving the hitchhiker the equivalent of a 26c bus ride, the driver had to go through years of personal litigation. What can you do about hitchhiking? First, make up your mind NEVER to pick up a hitchhiker, no matter how young, well dressed and pleasant appearing. Second, encourage your friends and members of your family to adopt the same attitude. Third, vote for laws against hitchhiking. If your state has none, work through your legislators to see that one is passed. As Mr. Hoover has said, “The most effective means of discouraging the hitchhiker is to educate the driving public to the life-or-death gamble that is involved in picking up the innocent looking hitchhiker." —Reprinted From Sales Talk

JEfeOp/ WF TUB BACB '72, I'M M'S MoBMAtL BOOTS' JfI 1

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.

law School'

This year has found more students than ever turning to the law as their choice of a career. With this great new interest Indiana law schools have had to turn away hundreds of qualified applicants. There is simply not enough room for all who apply. So, if you or someone you know is thinking about going to law school, you should apply as early as possible. You should write to the law schools you are interested in going to asking their admission requirements and the earliest you can submit your application. I would advise applying to more than one school as your first choice may not accept you. Indiana has four law schools. Indian's university in Bloomington, Indiana university in Indianapolis, Valparaiso university in Valparaiso and Notre Dame university in South Bend. While it is not necessary to go to law school in the state where you intend to practice, most do so. [ Becoming a lawyer generally requires four years of undergraduate work, three years of law school and the passing of the state bar examination. Law students now graduate with a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree with the right to call themselves “Doctor.”

SPECIAL REPORT FROM WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON - Secretary of SUteßill Rogers has reassured the South Vietnamese in strong terms of continuing U.S. support. It would be “sheer stupidity” for the United States to stop aiding South Viet Nam. Rogers told Saigon's former foreign minister, Tran Van Do, during a recent visit. The State Department shepherded Do around to see other prominent Americans, including two of the Senate's leading doves, Democratic leader Mike Mansfield and Republican dean George Aiken. “From all these.” the State Department reported afterward to the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, “Do received the impression that the combination of concerns which seemed to be afflicting the Vietnamese needed to be cast in the perspective of other events, only indirectly related to Viet Nam and certainly not detrimental to continuing U.S. support for Viet Nam. “Secretary Rogers told him, for example, that it would be sheer stupidity for the U.S. to cease giving support to Viet Nam after all the costs we had incurred there. Senator Mansfield said the US. has a continuing ‘obligation’ to assist Viet Nam. . . . “On balance, we believe Do's visit will serve to give him an arsenal of arguments and opinions, drawn from a broad spectrum of the American political scene, to help convince President Thieu that U.S. constancy

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Each law school has its own admission requirements. Most accredited law schools require a four year undergraduate degree. Most now require a certain undergraduate grade average. There is generally no requirement that the undergraduate degree be in any particular subject. However, a person going to law school should consider the area of law in which he would like to practice. The general practitioner and the trial attorney should have a broad background in the arts, sciences and business. A patent attorney should have a degree in engineering or science. A corporation attorney should have a degree in business. There is no hard rule on this and there have been successfid lawyers with undergraduate degrees in such diverse fields as music, religion and archaeology. In fact, there are no set pre-law rules, although many colleges have what they call a pre-law course. Most law schools also have an entrance examination which is designed to test reading speed, comprehension, writing ability and reasoning. Latin is not required. A knowledge of Latin may be helpful in understanding many legal terms, but most law students seem to get along quite

'Stupid' To Stop South Viet Support

well without it. The law is an exciting and rewarding career: It offers challenges in every field of human endeavor and a chance to help improve the lot of all mankind, all the while producing an adequate income. Perhaps that is why it is attracting so many young people today. 'New House - Old House!' In June of 1971 the Appellate Court of Indiana handed down a landmark decision. The Court said that there is an implied warranty of fitness for habitation in the sale of a new home by the builder-seller to an immediate purchaser. The court struck down the old common law doctrine of buyer beware as applied to the sale of new houses. It is important to note that the court’s decision was limited to the sale of a new bouse by a builder to the first purchaser. The warranty of inhabitablity does not cover every defect that might occur in a new house. It only covers those things which are reasonably necessary to make a house livable. For instance, it probably would not cover what might be - called cosmetic defects such as peeling paint or cracked plaster. However, such defects as sewage or water backing up into the house, lack of water or heat would be covered. > An implied warranty is one which the law says exists because of the nature of the transaction or the thing sold, as opposed to one expressly made at the time of the sale. In this case it is a warranty of inhabitability. It is in addition to any express warranties. For instance a builder might give an express warranty against certain

of purpose and intention is not repeat not in doubt. “As Secretary Rogers commented, it will then become (President) Thieu’s problem to convert this conviction into an attitude of public confidence among his fellow Vietnamese.” CHINA AND INDIA The State Department, whose advice against a pro-Pakistan “tilt” went unheeded by the White House, is now pressing quietly for U.S. recognition of the breakaway nation of Bangladesh. President Nixon is holding back, reportedly, because he doesn't want to antagonize Red China on the eve of his Peking visit. The Chinese banged the cymbals for Pakistan during the brief war with India. State Department strategists contend, however, that the Chinese themselves may be reading to cut their losses and reverse their policies on the Indian subcontinent. “A truncated Pakistan would be less useful as a counterweight to India and more dependent on the PRC (People’s Republic of China),” they suggest in a secret analysis. “If anything, China is more likely to be interested, in the longer term, in improved relations with India as a direct counterweight to Soviet influence in New Delhi.” The analysis, prepared by the State

CAPITOL COMMENTS With SENATOR i VANCE HARTKe/A / Indiana *

Better Benefits For Veterans

A nearly io per cent cost-of-living increase in social security benefits was almost unwelcome news to some 1,163,000 veterans and, their families. Instead of doing what it was intended to do — provide additional income to help meet the rising costs of living — the social security increase would have meant a decrease in the non-service-connected pensions they receive. It was the prompt and concerned action by the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, of which I am Chairman, that resulted in legislation to prevent what would have been an unfair of income to these families. The bill raised the annual income limit (the amount a beneficiary can receive without a loss in his pension) by S3OO to accommodate recent social security increases, and also provide an average 6.5 per cent cost-of-living increase in the pension rates schedule. An even more significant provision in the bill, however, was the design of a new formula approach for figuring- future pension payments. This method would eliminate unfair losses in pension due to increases in income from other sources. This bill is just one example of the important and meaningful legislation which my Committee has guided through the 1970 session of Congress. In all, nine tails have been signed into law, and there are more to come. Our initial activities on the Committee will be to ready legislation for veterans and their families in several major areas: education and training; health and hospital care; disability compensation. Among the programs my Committee will develop are ones which will provide adequate funds for the hospital care of veterans and the treatment of those addicted to drugs; expand the role of the Veterans' Administration hospitals in the training of health professionals; provide jobs for veterans and training and education to enable them to grow with the job market; and improve benefits for disabled veterans.

defects in construction such as peeling paint or cracked plaster. The court in a footnote to this important decision indicated that it would apply the same doctrine of implied warranty to irihabitability to the landlordtenant relationship. That is, when a person rents a house or an apartment, is there an implied warranty that it is inhabitable? Under present Indiana law then is no such warranty and the landlord is not under a duty tc make repairs or to make the house or apartment livable unless he has expressly agreed to do so in writing. Failure to make repairs might be constructive eviction enabling you to break a lease, but this is a highly arguable point and you should not engage in this contest over sane trivial item of repair. Copyright 1971 by John J. Dillon

Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, points out: “China’s interest in Pakistan is closely tied to its relations with India and derives from its basic concern for securing its borders and preventing hostile powers from dominating neighboring states. “Since at least 1965, its commitment to and support for Pakistan have paralleled, though not quite kept pace with, the rise of Soviet interest in' India. . . . “Looking ahead, Peking must judge that the established policy of backing Pakistan as> a counterweight against India and Soviet influence on India must be supplanted by a more even-handed approach. “The . . . separation of Bangladesh will leave a defeated and isolated Pakistan, less useful as a counterweight to India and potentially a burden on the PRC. Acafter a decent interval, Peking is likelly to begin exploring ways to enhance its presence and influence in New Delhuy “For their part, and unless thly feel threatened by China, the Indians are likely to resurrect their interest in improved relations with the PRC. Over the long term, this shift will probably result in revived Sino-Soviet canpetition in New Delhi.” In other words, the State Department experts fear that the United States, by waiting too long to recognize Bangladesh, could wind up alone out in the cold.

Perhaps our most important work this year will be to review and revamp the present educational benefits under the GI Education Bill. The veteran who wants to go to school should be able to do so; he should have the same opportunity and resources that were available to me and to the veterans of World War 11. It is clear that the present $175-per-month allotment is not sufficient to give him that chance. A recent survey (The Harris Poll) indicated the importance of such benefits. Over one-half (53 per cent) of the Viet Nam-era veterans considered educational benefits the most important service that their Veterans’ Administration could provide. Yet 59 per cent of the veterans feel their benefits under the GI Bill are not sufficient: 63 per cent of non-whites share this view and 74 per cent of those veterans who are presently students believe the benefits are inadequate. It is a disappointment to learn that 59 per cent of all veterans have never applied for available beneifts but encouraging to know that 53 per cent of them indicated strongly that they would if benefits were increased. An additional 30 per cent indicated they might possibly apply under the better circumstance. I am happy that Congress has finally recognized its responsibility and obligation to show to the veteran and his family gratitude for his sacrifice. Os course, no amount of financial return can possibly compensate for our veterans’ losses in time and life, but I am pleased that we can tangibly demonstrate our pride and our thanks to those who have served in our country’s uniform. It is this nation’s shame that we now have young Americans who have experienced their country’s misadventure in Indochina. This is a wrong that must be made right. - I promise that Vance Hartke will continue to fight as strongly for those who have had to fight — and for the families of those who had to die — just as tirelessly and as vocally as I have opposed the war in Viet Nam. That war is wrong, and those young Americans who served are forever right. Wffll ■ 1 If II I II . 11 iI J , , and Social Security Q — My husband has received social security disability payments for eight years. He will be 65 in February. Will there be any change in the amount of his payments at 65? A — No. His disability payment will be converted to a retirement payment but the amount will remain the same.

By JACK ANDERSON