The Mail-Journal, Volume 9, Number 6, Milford, Kosciusko County, 8 March 1972 — Page 9

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EDITORIALS

We Are Children There surely is no better qualified person to comment on environmental abuse than the author of “The Good Earth,” Pearl S. Buck. In the course of fin interview with the editors of National Wildlife magazine, she commented rather caustically on the ill-mannered . habits of Americans. She said, “We behave like careless children. We spoil the beauty of our superbly beautiful country by throwing trash wherever it suits us. I have traveled the roads and streets of many so-called ‘un- *• derdeveloped’ countries, and nowhere else have I seen the litter and trash that selfish, careless Americans throw out of Girl Scout Week Girl Scout Week, to be commemorated March 12-18, marks the 60th s' Anniversary of Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. The purpose of the Girl Scouts’ organization remains unchanged from the day it was founded by Juliette Gordon Low in 1912. It seeks to inspire girls with the highest ideals of * character, conduct, patriotism and 6 service so that they may become happy and resourceful citizens. Membership is open to all girls from 7 through 17 years of age who accept the Girl Scout Promise and Laws. Total membership is now nearly four million. This includes 3,250,000 girls and 670,000 adults. Since 1912, there have been almost 32 million members (25 million girls and 7 million adults). The adult members serve as ? Pointing With Pride You won’t convince us that our young people are going to the dogs. To prove our point, we point with „ pride to the students at North Salem * high school who became “involved” in state government by inaugurating a letter-writing campaign urging Governor Whitcomb to veto the bill to give 18-year-olds the right to purchase » alcoholic beverages.

Put A Little Sun In YourAife

x By REV. LEE TRUMAN Copley News Sendee A newscaster 1 heard m New Zealand said in his brisk British accent: “Cloudy, rain, wind and possible fog, with a few * bright spots." This touches a lot of bases in a weather forecast. It is also an accurate insight into some lives. We all take the sun and the rain as it comes. We do not need to take the emotional dimate of our thinking as it comes, just because it comes. A person can live constantly z under a gray doud. A very depressed person is sad, is slow to react physically or mentally, and he is almost always suffering from severe self-crit-icism. Street studies say that one out of every three people , you meet in any given day is emotionally.depressed to some degree. If Ft is on the lighter side of the depression scale, Sad Sam would be said to have symptoms of discouragement. These would be feelings of not being worthwhile, of loneliness, that he has little or no fun in life. Robert Louis Stevenson said as a boy that he used to like to watch the lamplighter come down the street because he would “punch holes in the t darkness." I would like to offer a few ways for you to be able to punch holes in the-darkness of habitual depression. Almost always the first cause of depression is hopelessness, rod or unreal. The more hope you have that you can honestly see. the more quickly your depressed feelings will evaporate; very much like fog in the sun.

their cars. . . .” However, Miss Buck is far from a pessimist with regard to the future. She believes our nation has done wonders, “But we are children ... We are scarcely two hundred years old. In China I lived in a city six thousand years 01d... in time we will grow old enough to be men and women, and to cherish our country enough to preserve its beauty.” Miss Buck has expressed in words what many have felt. The U.S. is suffering the growing pains of an adolescent. With any luck it should grow to sensible adulthood. leaders, program consultants or as members of boards of directors, finance committees, camp committees, troop committees or in other positions of voluntary leadership. During Girl Scout Week the public has an opportunity to become better acquainted with its Girl Scouts and their leaders. It will be reminded that here is a group of nearly four million citizens embodying the highest qualities of character and idealism. They represent the homemakers and community leaders that will have much to do with shaping tomorrow’s America. Congratulations and best wishes to Girl Scouts of the United States of America on their 60th birthday. These young people, under the guidance of teacher Tom Eggers, put their classroom government lessons into practice. They didn’t take the attitude that the “people” don’t have a voice in government. Instead they exercised their right to be heard. Would that more adults would follow the example of these young people. —Danville Gazette

If you can tell yourself, for example, that today is going to be a great day. and that you are going to feel good all day long, and you will do something worth doing today, you start on the sunny side of the street. If you bite your tongue to ward off all phrases that sound like the voice of doom, or the sighs of despair, you will find the day is invariably much better I have a big yellow smile button on my file cabinet right beside my desk just to remind me to say this to myself often. A hopeful person looking for good will makes things go well. Gloomy Gus is defeated by obstacles before he ever meets them 1 have helped people find their way out of the castle of despair, to use Bunyan's phrase, by doing an essential spiritual tune-up. Every time I fly I make certain that engine on which rty life depends is putting out full horsepower and everything is as it should be before I release the brakes and start down the runway. When our human physical motors are sluggish and out of tune, we lack the lifting force necessary for getting above the smog and haze of foot dragging living. Some people eat unbalanced meals, do not exercise, feed their minds with desperate thinking, and then can't for the life of them understand why they are so miserable. I take time to go jogging two miles early each morning. It is a good investment of my time because I have more energy and my mind is clearer the rest of the day. I can do better the work of a pastor, but also I find

that when I spend equal time praying my day goes better because I’m tuned up physically and spiritually to meet the problems, pressures and difficulties which in my day I need to face. If you are depressed, whether it’s heavy or mild, it is no fun. If you want more than ■a few bright spots" in your day. practice the power of hope in your life. Take care of your physical God-given t* Jy. Take time for prayer and worship. This kind of living will tune you up, body, mind and soul, and a gray thought will not have a chance. COMPUTERIZED BRAILLE A computer is being used by the National Braille Press, in Boston, to translate a typewritten page into Braille in 90 seconds. Conventional methods take about six minutes. thepXple, and for the people The American Red Cross.

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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.

'Campaign Financing Act'

After many years of raging debate about the financing of political campaigns, the United States Congress has passed a new law giving certain tax benefits to persons who contribute to political candidates. This new law will affect those people who contribute to candidates for election in the year 1971 and gives the taxpayers the right to take certain limited credits or deductions when filing their tax return in the year 1972. Any candidate for any office is eligible to receive these contributions provided he complies with the provisions of the law that require that (a) the candidate has publicly announced for office, (b) the candidate spends the money for the campaign for which he has announced and (c) the candidate keeps records required by regulation of the Internal Revenue Service and makes them available for

SPECIAL REPORT FROM WASHINGTON By JACK ANDERSON Japan Feels Shockwaves From China Jaunt

WASHINGTON — The television coverage of President Nixon in Peking, although it was expected, caused another jolt in Japan. It dramatized again that the United States is going its own way in the Far East without considering Japanese interests. Japanese officials told American diplomats, politely but bluntly, that Japan has learned from Nixon that the United States will pursue its own and not Japanese interests in foreign affairs. Therefore, Japan must also look out for its interest and can no longer trust the United States. These officials express satisfaction, however. Over the appointment of Robert Ingersoll to replace Armin Meyer as Ambassador to Japan. The Japanese felt that Meyer, a career diplomat, had no impact because the State Department has played such a minor role in making U.S. foreign policy. Ingersoll, on the other hand, has personal ties to the President, so the Japanese feel their views may now be communicated more directly to the top. CHINA TRADE From what President Nixon says we’ll soon be doing a great deal ot trading with Red China and may even be journeying to that faraway land as tourists. We’ve assembled some facts on both tourism and trade from our listening post in Hong Kong, and we can report the prospects aren’t as promising as we’ve been led to believe. Economic intelligence sources indicate that all we can expect to get from Red China is raw silk, some trinkets and maybe some fibers and other raw materials. China is dirt poor right now. The average income is SIOO a year. And despite its 800 million people, a quarter of the world’s population, it does less than one per cent of the world’s trade. The timeless rice paddies of old China are still producing rice for export. But we don’t

examination. The candidate must file with the Internal Revenue Service certain designated forms to be specified by the Internal Revenue Service before the end of the year in which he is a candidate and accepts contributions under the provisions of the law. If all provisions of the law are complied with the contributor is allowed to take as a tax credit ”$12.50 on his individual return or if the contributor and his wife file a joint return they can take $25 credit against tax owed on the joint return. Alternatively if the contributor is in a very high bracket he can take a SSO deduction on his individual return or a man and wife filing a joint return can take a SIOO deduction. The thrust of this part (A the law is to encourage smaller but more numerous contributions to political campaigns. For example the tax credit is sub-

stracted from the tax liability owed by the contributor whereas the deduction comes off of the total income earned by the contributor and thus is in a direct ratio to the tax bracket in which this particular contributor finds himself. For example the individual contributor would have to be in more than a 25 per cent bracket to benefit by. the deduction provision rather than taking the straight tax creditIn order to insure that either the credit or the deduction will be allowed, the contributor must receive in writing a receipt for the contribution made to the candidate. The Internal Revenue Service indicated that no deduction or credit taken which is not supported by a written receipt will be allowed. It is therefore essential that any contributor wishing to take advantage of this law should demand a written receipt for the amount of money contributed to any candidate. Likewise, it is extremely important that every candidate* fulfill all the legal requirements established by the Internal Revenue Service so that every contributor to his campaign can get full credit or full deduction for any contribution made when filing his tax return. Political leaders of both parties will watch very carefully the operation of this campaign financing act because if it is accepted and operates well, it is probably the direction that future campaign financing will take.

need it. What we’ll be seeing therefore is hot mustard, some specialty foods when they can get past our food inspectors, lots of fancy j postage stamps, some fireworks for the Fourth of July and perhaps some interesting 1 textiles. Some of our businessmen have an illusion that China is a huge untapped market. But the fact is that Red China is short on hard cash. They spend only about two billion (B) a year on foreign goods —a drop in the bucket in world trade terms. The countries that do the biggest percentage of their trade with Red China are not Japan as you’d expect, but little lands like 1 Albania, North Viet Nam, and North Korea who can’t get into the world market with the big trading powers. What China wants is wheat, iron, steel, trucks, chemical fertilizer, machinery. We’d like to sell them all these things, but they just don’t have the cash. So, for the time being, this trade talk is more politeness than reality. On the tourist industry, there may be more action. If Americans get into China, the Peking government will be able to send them wherever it wants to. That means a high return on any hotels and resorts that Red China builds — and all of it in hard currency China has a modest civilian airline service going already and can build it up rapidly. The train service, however, is so bad it even makes our looks good. With those endless miles of mountain, field and plain, China still has only 23,000 miles of mainline track. That’s less than a ttr’th of what we have in this country. So, the tourist will go to a few welltraveled spots on a few well-traveled planes and trains. The trips may be in old wood-burning locomotives in some places, although Peking has just spent some of its precious hard currency on 40 locomotives from France.

Congressional Comer: John Brademas Reports From Washington

To Extend And Improve The Older Americans Act Os 1965

The Select Subcommittee on Education, which I chair, opened hearings last week on bills to extend and improve the Older Americans Act of 1965. The legislation we are considering is in large measure a response to the recommendations of the several White House Conferences on Aging and task forces on the elderly. I am the principal sponsor of a measure which, besides extending the life of existing aging programs, would: — strengthen the role of the Administration on Aging in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare; — improve transportation services available to older persons; — establish an independent Gerontological Research Center to study the aging process; — assist in the cost of construction multipurpose senior citizen community centers. Hearings by our subcommittee will continue for the next two or three weeks to enable us to hear all possible testimony and to write a sound piece of legislation. The time for rhetoric on behalf of America’s cider citizens is part. The time for action for the aging is now. EQUAL EMPLOYMENT MEASURE ADVANCES I am pleased to report that a House-Senate Conference Committee on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission bill, of which I was a member, have finally settled their differences. This past week the committee met for many hours and hammered out a compromise which will considerably strengthen the powers of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. For, the first time, the Commission will be able to pursue court action against an employer or a union which discriminates against workers on the basis of race, creed, color, sex or national origin. Also, the bill will extend the authority of the Commission to an additional ten million employees of state and local government agencies which previously were beyond the jurisdiction of the Commission. PENSION PLAN INSURANCE A plan to protect workers’ rights to private pension benefits which they have earned appears to have a bright prospect for House approval by June. Congressman John Dent,

HOTCOAL The nationwide coal strike that paralized Great Britain left many Americans feeling relieved that this nation no longer depends on coal the way it once did. The truth, however, is that we need coal more than ever. It doesn’t heat many homes -any more, but it fires the generating plants that provide more than half the electricity we use. And a combination of an irresponsible industry, a corrupt union and weak government action has created a volatile situation in . America's coal fields. Coal mining is our most hazardous industrial occupation. Men who aren’t killed or injured in mine accidents are still vulnerable to deadly black lung disease from breathing, coal dust. Despite a tough new law passed two years ago, the government still hasn’t made a major dent in the death and injury rate in the mines. It doesn’t get any help from the profit-hungry companies which will take nearly any short cut to get out the coal. The worst problem in the mines, however, is the once great United Mine Workers. The Union has degenerated into the labor movement’s greatest embarrassment. Its president, Tony Boyle, is under indictment for embezzlement. Several of his lieutenants have already been convicted of federal crimes. Boyle’s 1969 reelection is under court challenge by the government. Also under court challenge is the autocratic system whereby Boyle appoints nearly all the union’s regional officers. The last man to challenge Boyle, Jock Yablonski, ended up murdered after the election. The men in the mines are growing impatient. It only takes a few to start a strike, for no union miner will cross a picket line. And when miners can’t get help from the companies, the government or their own union leaders, they know only one thing to do. Therefore, I predict that the disgruntled coal workers will walk out of the mines in protest. This will result in a nationwide strike that will turn out most of the nation’s lights.

chairman of the House General Subcommittee on Labor, has scheduled hearings on the pension reform measure for later this month. Mr. Dent told me a few days ago that a bill is quite likely to reach the House floor promptly. Today nearly 30 million employees are covered by private pension plans with assets of $3lO billion but too much of this money is poorly managed and uninsured against loss in case of business failure. The tragedy of the Studebaker shutdown of 1963, when over 7,000 workers lost their pensions, must not be repeated. THE NOISE CONTROL ACT OF 1972 Are you troubled by too much noise? If so, you will be interested in another important measure passed by the House last week — by a vote of 356 to 32 — the Noise Control Act of 1972. This bill is designed to control the level of noise harmful to human beings. It gives the Environmental Protection Agency eighteen months to develop noise standards for new products, with “appropriate consideration to technological, feasibility and economic cost.” The Act >also requires the Agency to publish noise criteria identifying the affects on health of different levels of noise. It directs the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency to prescribe noise control standards for airplanes. And, to discourage violations, it provides that violators will pay a stiff $25,000 fine each time they disobey the law. Wil and Serial Security Q — I worked for 2 employers last year. I earned over $7,800 and both employers deducted social security tax from my wages. Since I paid more tax than I should have, can’t I get some money back? A — Yes. You can take credit for the overpayment on your Federal income tax return for 1971. The tax return is designed to show any overpayment of social security contributions during the previous year.