The Mail-Journal, Volume 9, Number 7, Milford, Kosciusko County, 15 March 1972 — Page 4

PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY The Milford Mall (E»L 1888) Syracuae-Wawaaee Journal,(Eat 1807) Consolidated Into The Mail-Journal Feb. 15, 1962 DEMOCRATIC * ARCHIBALD E. BAUMGARTNER, Editor and Publisher DELLA BAUMGARTNER, Business Manager Box 8 Syracuse, Ind., — 46567

Spring Comes Again Now the fairest season of them all. Spring, is about to take its place in the turn of the seasons. This year it is due to arrive officially on March 20 at precisely 7:22 a.m., EST. As the sun moVes further into the northern latitudes, it will bring with its warmth the flights of migratory birds, the greenness of new grass and the sound of new life quickening all around us. The sweetness of early flowers will be with us again. The freshness of the earth and warming air will be a reminder that with a little luck, a reasonable amount of goodwill toward his fellows and a lot of hard work, man should be able to preserve this beautiful planet on which he lives. From the earliest scratchings in What's A Hobby? What’s a hobby? Something absolutely fascinating (if it’s yours) and a silly way to spend time (if it isn’t yours). A hobby is: — doing something boating, jogging, or yoga. — learning something — genealogy, astrology, or Sanskrit — making something —

We've Crossed You Off

We just crossed the name of Senator George S. McGovern off our list for suggesting that marijuana might be regulated along the same lines as alcohol. Speaking in Boston, the Democratic presidential hopeful offered the suggestion on marijuana, adding that efforts should be continued to discourage its use. Call us conservative, if you will, but we cannot abide by this permissive

MEDICINE Reader Disputes 'Pot' Story By IRWIN J. POLK, M.D. Copley News Service You never know what the mailbag turns up. A steady trickle of mail comes into this office from all over thg country , containing txts of complaint and a rare commendatory note. One of the most revealing letters came following an article which suggested that marijuana might be responsible for brain atrophy. The letter read as follows: •’Dear Doctor Polk, I have just read your article it's Documented: Marijuana Shrinks the Brain,’in today’s Register. It very much sounded as if the leadline would document itself in the article, but 1 think the final statement in the article speaks for itself: — ’Continued use of marijuana may tend to shrink the brain.’ Perhaps this Owould have been a better headL line for your article. A few * other things that disturbed me about the article are, for one. the name of the 'Leading Medical Journal’ isn’t mentioned. Secondly, twice m the article users of pot are referred to as addicts. I don’t believe chronic users of 'pot,' who also have used the drug over long periods of time, can be termed addicts.’ Being an addict my also have something to do with havmg poor social judgment rather than just being a user of marijuana."' In answer to that letter, he received the following: "Dear Sir: 1 just read your * letter... and thank you for your

EDITORIALS

interest 1 do not write the headlines for my column in the Register nor in any of the other papers in which they are printed Therefore. I can only be responsible for the text material. I would like to defend myself on this score, however. The leading medical journal I cited was no less than The lancet, Dec. 4,1971. page 1219. an article entitled Cerebral Atrophy in Young Cannabis Smokers.’ \ "lancet is a widely read and known journal in the medical profession, but inasmuch as it is British in origin, 1 would not expect my readers to know about this journal. 1 quote by title from such journals as Science, or The Journal of the .American Medical Association which are better known to my readership However, rest assured that I have every’ item for my column thoroughly documented. Never have I been called to task by a member of the profession for failing to provide adequate documentation of the material presented. The word addict means to me a chronic user of a drug who is unable to discontinue its use. If you look up the reference, you will find out that the subjects described in the study had been using this drug for three to eleven years, and the references to addicts are also made in the article. "However. 1 was particularly struck by the last sentence in your letter which reads. Being an addict my also have something to do with having poor social judgment rather than just being a user of marijuana.' I agree wholeheartedly with that statement, and have pointed this out in print many times. But the slip of the pen wherein you write. Being an addict my also have something to do’ nught be interpreted by a psychiatrist as having come from a patient who really wanted to say. 'My being an addict might also have something to do with

which his thoughts were set down on stone or clay, man has expressed his feelings of encouragement and faith in a new beginning that is associated with the coming of Spring. In this year of 1972, we, as a people, need much faith, and we need confidence in our own ability to bring the light of new reason and persuasion to bear on old problems as we seek to end a war, to talk with our enemies, to guide our nation through the search for greater individual security and opportunity while preserving the freedom without which life is not worth living. As the gentle warmth of the first spring day and the dappled shade of new leaves move across the land, the freshness of the season will bring a new enthusiasm for the unfolding life that lies before us. needlepoint, homemade bread, or candles. — collecting something — antiques, barbed wire, or stamps. If you don’t have a hobby, find one, suggests Dr. Jan Armstrong, extension consumer marketing specialist at Purdue university. You may enjoy the world of doing, learning, making and collecting.

proposal. It’s true that recent government disclosure could not pin down any direct harmful effect from the use of marijuana, but we cannot subscribe to the idea that it should be legalized in any shape or form. We fear that some well-meaning candidates, at all levels of government, are climbing on too many bandwagons in an effort to woo the young voters. We for one, are willing to “let Goerge do it.’’ — Danville Gazette

poor social adjustment.’ If this is a personal problem with’you, I should like to suggest that excellent means of improving the social, psychological and physical well-being of drug users is readily available. If there is any further help I can offer to you. 1 should be happy so.’’ V So there we have it. Unless I miss my guess, and it is hardly more than a guess, this letter came from a worried, chronic user of marijuana. He should, of course, present himself at the office of his personal physician, for physical checkup. Thereafter, referral to a psychiatrist or psychiatric center would put this patient on the path of better social adjustment in the hopes that he will thereafter be able to forgo the use of drugs As the letter reveals. the patient already has an insight into his problem. He is using drugs in place of satisfactory social adjustment. Since he has this self-knowl-edge. the doorway to improved mental health is wide open. Countless people just like this reader are wandering aimlessly through the same predicament. If the previous article about pot smoking shrinking the brain has reached many of them, we can hope that this fol-low-up column will encoirage them to seek medical help. You never can tell what the mailbag turns up. Social Security Q — I am going to be 66 next month and will be retiring. I have Medicare but now I want to receive my retirement checks. What should I do to report this? A- Call the Elkhart Social Security office and give your date of retirement and the amount of expected earnings this year. Be sure to give them your claim number as shown on your Medicare card.

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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.

Indiana Presidential Primary

The recent interest in the New Hampshire primary for the nomination for President of the United States has reminded everyone that Indiana will have a presidential primary election in May of this year. Many candidates will undoubtedly enter the Indiana primary in both major political parties thus giving the citizens of the state the opportunity to hear the issues debated by presidential candidates. Any person who wishes to seek the nomination for the office of President of the United States

SPfCMI REPORT FROM WASHINGTON

Defense Spy Network Facing Nixon Ax

WASHINGTON — The White House is so dissatisfied with the Pentagon’s espionage network that it is decimating the onceprestigious Defense Intelligence Agency, the nation’s number two spying operation. The dramatic cutback of some 350 highlevel espionage analysts, agents, data experts and other super-sleuths has been cloaked in the same kind of secrecy as DlA’s spy work. But from espionage officials themselves, disgruntled over the break-up of their agency, we can report this tumult within the DIA: In January, at a hush-hush meeting in Arlington Hall outside Washington, the DlA’s chief. Lt. Gen. D.V. Bennett, sat down with his top aides. Bennett confided to them that the Joint Chiefs of Staff were ordering a cut of an extra 10 per cent above the standard five per cent, across-the-board cut that President Nixon had ordered throughout government. The general, obviously moved, detailed the firings, demotions and transfers of some of his top aides. The Soviet, Free World and Eastern sections of DIA were to become disaster areas, with some chiefs literally left without subordinates to do the work. The reductions, to be sure, would save the taxpayers more than $lO million a year, but they would remove the only real backstop to the Central Intelligence Agency on foreign intelligence. Bennett, on his own, decided to take the fight for his agency to Capitol Hill friends. Nevertheless, the February 15 and March 6 dates for the first stages of the purge have already taken effect. Dozens of old espionage hands have gotten their notice. The agency is in turmoil TARDY. MISLEADING REPORTS The breakdown of DIA was not a sudden or whimsical White House move, however. For years. White House policymakers have grumbled about DlA’s tardy and misleading reports. The crucial Southeast Asian operations of DIA have been particularly deplorable Red Tape delays some reports for weeks. Nevertheless, the agency has been strong on free world intelligence with the exception / of Latin America. And it has developed sharp reports on foreign shipping, shifts of military units within countries, "order of battle” data on foreign defense plans and such unusual

may at least 40 days prior to our May primary file a written request with the Secretary of State requesting that his name be placed on the primary ballot under the party label of the party whose nomination he is seeking. This request must be accompanied by petition signed by at least 5,500 registered voters of the £tate of Indiana. Each congressional district in the state must be represented by at least 500 signatories to this petition. The petition to enter the Indiana presidential primary must be accompanied by a certification

from the County Clerk or Voter’s Registration Board indicating that the signatories to the petition are in fact duly registered and qualified voters of the State of Indiana. Once a proper petition is duly filed and certified, the Secretary of State then instructs the election officials to place the candidate’s name on the ballot for the primary voting. The candidate receiving the highest vote for President in the primary in a given party is then certified as the winner by the Secretary of State to his respective party chairman. It is then incumbent upon every delegate chosen by that party to cast his first vote at the Presiential Nominating Convention of the party for the candidate who received the highest number of votes in his party in Indiana. This provision is mandatory except where the person who receives the highest number of votes declares at the convention that he is not in fact a candidate at that time for the Presidency of the United States. Once having cast his first ballot for the winner of the Indiana primary, the delegate from In-

intelligence as condition of landing beaches. The DlA’s problems are not entirely its own fault. For example, the haughty CIA dips freely into DlA’s findings, but refuses to let DIA use CIA reports without special waivers. And the ClA’s famous “fence-hoppers” (border crossers) and “trail-watchers” run rings around the Pentagon’s stuffy military types. Significantly, the CIA has been scarcely damaged by the President’s reduction in force orders, and the FBI actually stands to increase its intelligence gathering, some of it in the foreign field. FOREIGN ARMS DEALS America leads the world in technology, and developing countries look with envy at such things as our industrial methods, computer production and vast inventory of machinery. Yet the most popular items on our shelves won’t help improve the standard of living for the nations that buy them. They will, instead, be used to intimidate the neighbors and, often repress the citizens of the governmentcustomers The United States has become the gun dealer for much of the world, pushing jet fighters, tanks, flame throwers and machine guns the way some merchants hustle “Saturday night specials’’ on their customers Depending on the financial status of the country buying the arms, there are a number of ways that America sells its products of death. Sometimes, the weapons are given away, even — as in the case of Pakistan last year — in the face of congressional bans against arms deliveries When the United States can turn a dollar, however, the government sees an opportunity to help our balance of payments deficit, and turn a tidy profit for the firms that have the government’s approval for their arcane trade. Such was the case when Kuwait decided to load up a few months ago. Kuwait is a tiny stretch of desert sand along the Persian Gulf with only 733,000 citizens. With its vast oil deposits, it is also one of the world’s richest nations, with a per capita income of more than $3,000. Its oil royalties bring in nearly a billion (b) dollars a year, much of it from the United States. When the ruling sheikh decided he needed

Congressman Earl Landgrehe Reports From Washington

WASHINGTON, D. C. - Congressman Earl F. Landgrebe (R.-Ind.) and 12 other Congressmen have joined together in sponsoring a resolution to prohibit amnesty for anyone who refuses to accept his responsibility for military service. The resolution introduced February 29, declares that it is the sense of Congress that no pardon, reprieve, or amnesty be granted to anyone who has refused to register for the draft, who has refused to be inducted into the military or who has sought refuge in another country to avoid military service after becomming a member of the Armed Services. It would thwart efforts to grant amnesty to draft evaders currently living in Canada and other areas of the world. Landgrebe said, “The Congress is being asked to give these people full rights again when the/ would not accept their responsibilities to our great nation.” “War is hell,” Landgrebe stated, “But throughout history men have willingly fought and died for the security of their country and their loved ones. ’The present threat of Communism makes military service to our country as meaningful today as in any time in our nation’s history,” he added. Braille Money Congressman Landgrebe has diana to his political convention is then free to vote for any candidate he chooses. Many political scientists question the advisability of even having presidential preferential, primaries. The argument is offered that it requires too much time for the potential candidates to be away from their important positions to go to the various states which have presidential primaries. Inspite of these arguments, presidential primaries are becoming more and more popular and are becoming more important in the selection process for our candidates for President. It is very probable that presidential primaries will increase throughout the nation, and it is further probable that there will be legislation requiring the primaries to be held on the same day and under the same format so that candidates will not be required to spend so much time in attempting to garner the nomination of their party. Copyright 1972 by John J. Dillon

' an army in keeping with his bank balance, he went to the and the ambassador introduced him to an approved arms dealer It was a move that met favor in Washington. In due course, the ambassador received a secret commendation from Secretary of State William Rogers “State and the Department of Defense wish to commend ambassador for effective manner in which he has kept U.S. private firms, rather than the U.S. government, in front as Kuwaitis consider various possible military equipment purchases,” Rogers cabled. “We agree that any of these sales would represent attractive commercial opprotunity for American private companies and those companies under consideration would appear capable of performing necessary training and maintenance services involved.” Rogers warned that this should be a money deal, not a gift from the U.S. government, and noted, “Given Kuwait’s growing foreign exchange reserves, we would assume credit would not be a major problem in these transactions.” The Secretary’s eyebrows did not arch a bit, however, as he surveyed the sheikh’s shopping list. “Each type of equipment under discussion, F-s’s, Hercules, Bell helicopters (and) Hawk missiles, would appear in itself a reasonable item for the government of Kuwait to acquire,” Rogers said. “’Bie question arises, however, when one looks at the ‘total package’ Kuwaitis appear to be considering, including 30 F-s’s, 16 helicopters and hawks.” He said an assessment should be made of Kuwait’s total needs and insisted, “We need to strike a proper balance between the desires of American companies to pursue individual sales initiatives and the desire of the U.S. government to not see Kuwait saddled with more military equipment than it can effectively use, maintain and integrate into its armed forces.” The U.S. government saw the request as an opportunity to take a hard look at Kuwait’s well-oiled military machinery from the inside. “We wonder if this request does not provide a fortuitous opportunity for a brief Department of Defense survey of overall government of Kuwait military requirements and capabilities without commitment to subsequent sales of U.S. equipment,” Rogers said.

joined 45 other Congressmen in co-sponsoring legislation to put braille on all paper money produced after January 1, 1974. The denomination of the currency would be determined by die braille. In co-sponsoring the legislation, Landgrebe said, “Handicapped Americans are fan too often overlooked. It is <time that we recognized this and try to provide more opportunity for full involvement in American life. This legislation is another step in that process.” The National Federation for tiie Blind reports that about’ 450,000 Americans are blind. Time Act Landgrebe has also announced the impending House of Representatives consideration of the Uniform Time Act which he co-sponsored. The legislation was i reported favorably by the Interstate and Foreign Commwee Committee and will be brought to the House on March 20 under suspension of the rules. Landgrebe explained that while a two-thirds majority is required for passage it does speed up* consideration of the legislation. “The passage of this legislation is imperative and will permit northwestern Indiana to legally co-ordinate its day-light savings time with the Chicago ( metropolitan area,” the Congressman reported. The legislation must still go before the Senate for consideration before it can go to the President and be signed into law. “Hopefully it will reach President Nixon’s desk well ahead of the last Saturday night in April when clocks are traditionally moved ahead in area,” Landgrebe said. 111 kilUJOow and Social Security Q — I retired at the end of May 1971 and started drawing benefits in June 1971. The only earnings T had in 1971 were between January and May. Must I make an annual report to the Social Security Administration of the wage* I earned before I retired? A— If your earnings for 1971 were over $1,680, even though it was earned before you retired, you still must file a report of your annual earnings with the Social Security Administration.

By JACK ANDERSON