The Mail-Journal, Volume 9, Number 3, Milford, Kosciusko County, 16 February 1972 — Page 9

PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY The Milford Mail (E»L 1888) Syracute-Wawaaee 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

Vo Ed Week

, The week of February 13-19 is being celebrated as Vocational Education Week throughout the nation. In proclaiming this week for Indiana, Governor Edgar D. Whitcomb has urged “all citizens of the State to observe this week by making themselves better acquainted with vocational education purposes and programs by visiting any vocational institution or program in their area." Vocational education is a vital part of the total education picture in Indiana. More than 131,000 persons in Indiana pursued some type of vocational training during the 1970-71 school year — an increase of 61 per cent during the last five years (since school year 196667). Enrollment for the current school

National FFA Week

Slick magazine articles portray the youth of today as a wholly new breed. As events continue to prove, the portrayal is about as substantial as the froth on a milk shake. One of these events is the annual observation of National FFA WEEK — February 19-26. The theme of FFA WEEK in 1972 is “Youth With A Purpose." And. in spite of the cynics and skeptics, youth does have a purpose, now as always. The FFA is a national organization of 430,000 students studying vocational agriculture in 8,200 public schools. The foundation upon which FFA is built includes leadership character development, sportsmanship, cooperation, community service, thrift, scholarship, improved agriculture,

Liberty Bell To Be Moved

Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, which has sheltered the Liberty Bell for more than 200 years, will lose its m<?st famous tenant some time in 1974. T|he national treasure will be moved two blocks east into a new bell tower within Independence National Historical Park. The move is being made to accommodate the anticipated 20 million people who will visit the famous relic during the bicentennial exposition in 1976. Even last year — an ordinary year as tourists are reckoned — the Liberty Bell drew, 1.2 million visitors who caused traffic jams within and sometime outside the building. Besides the need to accommodate large crowds wishing to see the bell, the new bell tower will provide greater security for the bell against those who, for a fanatical reason, might be intent upon vandalism.

Trade Curbs Ire Rhode Islanders

Revolution and Evolution The Bicentennial Year Week of Feb. 27 through March 4 Editor's-Note: This is one of a series of weekly columns recalling events in the history of the nation, and of the world, 2M, 158, and IM years ago. Copley News Service 1772 — The people of Rhode Island, actively engaged in manufacture and trade, were aroused at this time by English restrictions adversely affecting both of these enterprises. The area of the Colony had acquired its name as early as 1524. when Giovanni da Verrazano, an Italian navigator, sailed into what later became known as Narragansett Bay and was reminded of the Island of Rhodes, in the Mediterranean. Settlement only began in 1636, however, when Roger Williams, banished from Massachusetts Colony

EDITORIALS

because of religious and political opinions, established himself at what became the site of Providence. Other settlements were made between 1638 and 1680 by groups coming from England, usually byway of Massachusetts, and towns were incorporated. In 1633 King Charles II had granted a charter incorporating the Colony of Rfiode Island and Providence Plantations. The General Assembly, originally formed in 1644, was to declare Rhode Island independent of the crown in an action taken May 4, 1776, and on July 20 voted that it be known as the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. 1822 — First U.S. patent for making false teeth awarded to C. M. Graham. ... In England, Sir Robert Peel, home secretary in the Cabinet of Lord Liverpool, established

year is expected to top 146,000. Os the 131,000 persons served through vocational programs in 1970-71, 65.9 per cent were secondary students, 4.7 per cent were post-secondary, and 29.4 per cent were adults. To the 86,479 secondary vocational students, enrollment meant pursuing^a regular high school curriculum leading to a high school diploma plus learning a valuable skill. Vocational education graduates may go directly into a skilled job, undertake advanced technical study, enter apprenticeship or pursue professional college training. To the adults in vocational training, this can mean an open door to new occupations and new levels of achievement and attainment.

organized recreation, citizenship and patriotism. The goal of FFA members is to learn the technology and get the practical experience for a career in agriculture. The strength of FFA liesp with the local chapters where student officers and members are developing into the agricultural leaders of tomorrow under the guidance of advisers and teachers of vocational agriculture. The youths who follow their dreams of tomorrow’ in the work of the Future Farmers of America can hardly be called a new breed. They are a new generation seeking' to build a better future on the knowledge and experience of the past which is what each generation must do if mankind is to advance.

The Liberty Bell was last moved from Independence Hall in 1917 when it was on display for the First Liberty Loan Drive in Philadelphia. In 1915 it made its trip out of town when it was taken to the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. Its most perilous trip was in 1777 when it was hastily removed by the American Army and hidden away from the advancing British. It was stored beneath a church floor. Moving the Liberty Bell from Independence Hall is not tantamount to relocating Boston’s Old North Church in Las Vegas or transporting the Washington Monument to San Clemente. It only stirs an odd feeling that will pass. Philadelphia has not yet received federal approval as the site for the bicentennial, but the odds are high in its favor. , Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette

the London metropolitan police on a new and improved basis. Police officers subsequently became known informally as “bobbies,” with the term derived from Peel’s first name. 1872 — Yellowstone Park Timberland Reserve set apart by act of Congress as region for public enjoyment. Boundaries were later extended to enlarge the area of the park, and in 1891 it was designated as the first federal forest reserve. ... In England, Queen Victoria narrowly escaped assassination by a revolu-tionary-minded youth, Albert O’Connor, 18. — Robert Desmond Social Security Q—l have been drawing social security benefits for two years. Last year I took a part-time job and intended to stay under the 81.6801 am allowed to earn. When I received my W-2 statement, I discovered I earned 82,000. What should I do? A— Call the social security office and ask for an Annual Report form. This must be completed and returned by April 15th.

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Snooping A Crime Without Warrant

By E. J. DEMSON, J. D. Copley News Service Without a court-approved warrant, electronic eavesdropping by one person upon another is now a federal crime. Q. “To save a good friend and neighbor frbm trouble, tell me,” asks R. T. S., Pennsylvania, “is it illegal to make, on order, eavesdropping devices for corporations or anyone? My friend, an electronic scientist, is naive about the outside world. Your statement of what the law says with citation, I am sure, will save him from stepping into a mess. He’s making them in his* garage.” A. The federal Omnibus Crime Control Act of 1968, as interpreted by U. S. Attorney General John N. Mitchell, says it is “illegal for private individuals to use or possess any electronic device primarily designed for surreptitious

SPECIAL REPORT FROM WASHINGTON

U.S. Warns France: 'We'll Move Peace Talks'

WASHINGTON — The State Department has warned guardedly that the United States may move the Viet Nam peace talks out of Paris if France allows the communists to go ahead with an Indochina Peoples Conference in Versailles this week. This is expected to be a communist circus aimed at bringing pressure on the United States to settle the Viet Nam War on Hanoi’s terms. The United States has lodged more than a dozen secret protests with the French embassy in Washington and the Quai d’Orsay in Paris. The French have been told that “the neutral atmosphere we consider essential for the continuation of the talks in France would be violated” by the Indochina conference. The word “continuation” has been stressed, a diplomatic way of saying that the United States may demand a new site for the peace talks. Secretary General Herve Alphand, the No. 2 man in the French Foreign Office, tried to move the Indochina conference to a site remote from Paris. But his efforts apparently were in vain. In a secret message to the U.S. embassy in Paris, Undersecretary of State John Irwin cabled: “Alphand’s statement that he has been in touch with Interior Ministry to have planned Indochina Conference moved from Versailles to site farther from Paris is encouraging “We nevertheless remain concerned that GOF (Government of France) may be reluctant to pursue this issue to the point of, taking effective action .... “In this connection, intelligence reports indicate... that conference may entail use of French public buildings at Versailles and that street demonstration in Paris is being planned for final day of meeting. “Believe situation warrants embassy’s urgently following up Alphand’s statement at appropriate level GOF.’* CALL UPON QUAI In compliance, deputy embassy chiefs Jack Kubisch and Perry Culley paid another call at the Quai d’Orsay. Their secret report, cabled back to the State Department, declared: “Kubisch and Culley... (stressed) urgency

interception” to spy on another. What is more, the U. S. Supreme Court condemned the practice of warrantless eavesdropping in 1969. In the 1969 case at a hearing before the Supreme Court, the government admitted it had bugged the conversations, from two convicted defendants without warrants. The two had been convicted for sending murderous threats across state lines. The court ordered the case returned to the district trial court. This court was to find whether the eavesdropping evidence materially contributed to the conviction. If it did, the defendants were to be granted a new trial (22 L.Ed.2d 176). The basis for the protection against the invasion of the right of privacy is the Fourth Amendment of the U. S. Constitution. The right to freedom is achieved by the duty not to

harm our neighbor. Q. My husband, an engineer, was transferred by his employer to Phoenix. We have two children, a boy, 6, a girl, 8. The personnel director of my husband’s company gave us a list of three apartments which he reported had vacancies. When we arrived from Chicago, the first two on the list acknowledged they had vacancies, but gave us so many reasons our children would be unhappy to live there, we walked away disgusted. We took the third which is much less desirable. Isn’t there a law in Arizona which forbids landlords from denying occupancy to prospective tenants with children? — J. M. P., Arizona A. Arizona law says: Whoever refuses to rent to any person a dwelling because he has children, or advertises that fact, shall be charged with an offense, and if convicted, he shall be punished for the first offense by a fine not less than SIOO or not more than $500; for subsequent convictions, SSOO and imprisonment for three months in a county jail, either or both (A.R.S. 33-303).

of moving conference far away from Paris, if indeed it had to be held in France. Beaumarchais (director, political affairs) responded that matter had been taken up again with Interior Ministry.” The full conversation was recounted, with this wind-up: “Beaumarchais concluded meeting by saying embassy had made number of demarches and Quai was well aware of U.S. concern. It had no definite answer from Interior by ranking Quai officials ... would resume work on matter.” ’ Later, the embassy again contacted the Quai d’Orsay and pointed out: “Versailles conference was biggest such meeting to be organized in Paris area since (Viet Nam) negotiations began in May 1968. It would have hundreds of delegates from all over the world, it had the backing of foreign governments, and it was being organized not only by French communist party but also by professional international communist organizations. . . . “Avowed objective of conference was to influence Paris negotiations. Meeting would thus without question be serious violation of neutral atmosphere France had agreed to maintain.” The conference, however, is still scheduled in Versailles. It could change President Nixon’s feelings about French President Georges Pompidou whom he publicly thanked for helping to arrange the secret negotiations between Henry Kissininger and the North Vietnamese. PEACE CORPS CUT The celebrated Peace Corps may be quietly strangled by strong-willed. 71-year-old Rep. Otto Passman, D-La., who will seek to slash Peace Corps funds at a secret Senate-House conference in the next few days. Passman’s fidgety mannerisms have led one Peace Corpsman to whisper that he "wears out his clothes from the inside.” But the Louisiana conservative is anything but fidgety about the Peace Corps. “If I had to meet my Maker in three minutes,” he recently told colleagues, “and the last decision the Good Lord would let me make ... it would be to abolish the Peace Corps. Then I could die in peace.” The old fuss-budget means what he says.

Congressional Comer: John Brademas Reports From Washington

Congress Acts On Handicapped, National Debt And Dock Strike

Congress this past week took actions to improve services to the nation’s handicapped, increase the limit on the national debt and bring an end to the West Coast dock strike. On Wednesday, the House Select Education Subcommittee, of which I am chairman, unanimously reported a bill which represents the most substantial and significant advance in half a century to aid handicapped persons. The measure extends the fifty year-old Vocational Rehabilitation Act and adds major new programs to aid severely handicapped and other disabled persons. NEW ATTENTION TO HANDICAPPED The bill assigns special attention to the needs of the severely handicapped by providing for: (DA special program of $l6O million over three years for services for severely handicapped individuals, many of whom have not been served under the existing law. (2) A program to provide special services to persons suffering from serious kidney ailments. (3) A national center to treat persons suffering from spinal cord injuries. (4) A National Information and Resources Center for Social Services, including services for the handicapped. (5) Comprehensive centers for the deaf. (6) A National Commission of Transportation and Housing to consider such probems affecting the disabled. The bill also includes a new program of Federal mortgage insurance for loans for the construction of rehabilitation facilities. The measure, which now goes to the full Education and Labor Committee, authorizes some $3.6 billion over a three-year period. NIXON URGES HIKE IN DEBT LIMIT Also last week, the House reluctantly voted to increase the national debt limit by S2O billion to $450 billion. The Nixon Administration had asked for a whopping SSO billion increase. The interest on the $450 billion debt alone with be S3O billion, or

When President Nixon asked 882 million to keep the Corps’ 8,000 volunteers at their posts, Passman tried to slash the amount to 860 million. > The House finally budgeted 868 million, a sum that Peace Corps Director Joseph Blatchford says will wreck it. Even with the current 872 million, Blatchford is privately making plans to cut the 8,000 volunteers in half and end services in IS lands. The Senate has voted to put 877 million into the Peace Corps, enough to let it limp along. But if the House prevails, the Peace Corps will be so hard up that it will have to ask for a supplemental budget just to close down its worldwide operations. Passman would approve the shut-down funds with the same alacrity he gives to the defense establishment’s 876 billion (b) a year — ironicall almost 1,000 times what the Peace Corps needs to keep going. DRAFTFLUNK Even those few young Americans caught in dwindling draft calls have a better than even chance of avoiding military service because of physical or mental disqualifications. Defense Department figures for fiscal 1971 show that 42.5 per cent flunk their preinduction physicals and 20.5 per cent of the remaining candidates fail when they get to the induction center. Once in the service, another 2.4 per cent are separated for problems they had before they got in, 10 per cent of these for psychiatric reasons. Such short-time discharges cost the Marines alone about 88 million a year in wasted efforts. The high percentages of “4-Fs” has created a profitable racket for some psychiatrists. They reportedly charge 8100 or more for a single examination — and a statement for Selective Service saying the “patient” should be rejected. Since many induction centers do not have a full-time staff psychiatrist, they must bring in an outside psychiatrist at up to 825 for a single 15-minute examination if they want to contest the finding. Often, the temptation is simply to flunk the “patient” and move on to the next candidate. Besides the psychiatric racket, there are some law firms who take on well-to-do youths at 82,500 to delay induction.

hundreds of dollars for every man, woman and child in America. The debt limit is the greatest shortage that can be permitted between the amount of money the Federal government takes in, principally in taxes, and the amount it spends. The inajor reasons Mr. Nixon was compelled to ask Congress to raise this limit were: (1) the ' Administration’s grossly inaccurate estimates of how much money would be coming into the Treasury this year; and (2) the tax loopholes that often allow the rich to pay no taxes, while the average American worker is forced to pay an ever increasing percentage of his weekly paycheck. I was one of a group of several Congressmen who were successful in persuading Wilbur Mills of Arkansas, Chairman of the tax-writing Committee on Ways and Means, to write a letter to President Nixon reminding the President of his promise to submit a tax reform proposal to Congress. Mr. Mills urged the to keep his promise and get busy on proposals to plug tax loopholes. It is outrageous that there are more than one hundred Americans who made more than $200,000 last year and still paid not one cent in taxes. Both the President and Congress, will, hopefully, move to correct this situation. DOCK STRIKE BILL Last week the House also approved a Senate-passed emergency bill to end the dock strike that has paralyzed West Coast ports off and on for seven inonths. The dockworkers union and the Pacific Maritime Association, a group of shippers who run the dock facilities, had reached a tentative agreement only two days before the House vote, with only non-salary matters left to be worked out. But the President said he asked for the legislation in case negotiations break down again. The measure, when it is put into effect, would create an arbitration board which could force both parties to the strike to accept a settlement.

By JACK ANDERSON