The Mail-Journal, Volume 9, Number 19, Milford, Kosciusko County, 7 June 1972 — Page 11

distil PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY The Milford Mail (Est 1888) Syracuse-Wawatee 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 EDITORIALS • $

For Free Men Only

As the nation prepares to observe Freedom of the Press Day on June 7, it is fitting to consider what freedom of the press means to U.S. citizens in the crucible of the nuclear age. Freedom of the press allows an honest evaluation of the President’s efforts to achieve peace and a “working arrangement” with former communist enemies. Although sometimes harsh in its approach, the free press permits every citizen to make an unvarnished assessment of political candidates. It probes the motives and principles of public figures who enjoy positions of leadership. The free press is the only genuine disciplinary force that can be exerted against government. It is

Three Cheers For Bossie

June is dairy month so we’re giving three cheers for old Bossie and her friends. After all. we couldn’t very well celebrate dairy month if it weren’t for Bossie and her friends who provide the milk for the dairy products. Salutes also go to the many dairy farmers in the area who work hard to give us high grade milk and milk products. Did you ever stop to think just how many different types of cheeses and ice creams there are? It would take an entire paper to list all of the delicious

Thunder And Lighting

Joyce Kilmer once wrote, “I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.” When he penned these words he wasn’t thinking about thunder and lightning for a tree is likely to be lethal when lightning occurs. One of the first things youngsters should be taught is to stay away from isolated trees, hill tops, wire fences and large open spaces when caught out of doors during a thunder storm. When in a house during a storm keep away from chimney, fireplaces, stoves and metal objects.

113 Ways To Get A Cold

Unlike the television commercials with remarkable remedies for the common cold, the National Institutes of Health has given up In spite of the phenomenal progress against diseases and with transplants, the cold has defeated medical science. Word of the humiliating failure appeared recently during “secret” testimony before a House Appropriations subcommittee. The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a division of the NIH, admitted that research on cold viruses had run into a dead end. Originally it was hoped a vaccine could be developed to strike at the virus that caused colds. Then it was discovered there is more than one kind of cold infection. The next approach was a "cocktail” vaccine to attack several different types '

CONCEIVED IN LIBERTY Russians And Turks Sign Treaty In 1772

Re\ olution and Evolution The Bicentennial Year June 25 through July 1 1'72 — Matthew Cocking, in early exploration of Canadian territory, left Hudson's Bay m his canoe, ascended the Hayes River and portaged across to the Nelson River He then proceded westward through the Manitoban lakes to the lower reaches of the Saskatchewan River by late July. He was to remain in Saskatchewan through the winter of 17721773, among the Blackfoot Indians Report from St Petersburg

the articulate focal point of public opinion. A free press is literally the watchdog of a free people. At times wrong conclusions are drawn from what the press reveals, but over the long pull, its batting average is good. If every nation enjoyed the vision that is given by a free press to the people of the U.S., the cause of world peace would be immeasurably brighter. The purpose of Freedom of the Press Day is “To celebrate and promote press freedom in the Americas.” In observing the Day, we should remember that it is an occasion for free men only.

dishes and desserts that would not be possible to create if it were not forjme dairy product or another. I wonder what a sundae would taste like without the ice cream? What would a whipped cream cake be like without the whipping cream? We really do take dairy products for granted and most housewives and cooks would be lost if we didn’t have milk and other dairy products. Therefore, we salute Bossie and her friends and give them three cheers for all they have given us!

One of the safest places during a thunder storm is in an automobile. If you can’t get into a house, building or automobile during a storm then find a ditch, take shelter under an overhanging cliff or lie on the ground. Every year some 400 persons are killed by lightning and another 1,500 are injured. There is about-one chance in 400.000 of being killed by an electrical discharge from a cloud to the earth. Thunder makes the noise but lightning does the damage.

of cold viruses. Plans 1 for that fell through when researchers isolated 113 separate varieties. Not only that, the viruses are so independent the vaccine for one won’t work against another. Even worse, no single virus or group of them causes enough colds to warrant its own vaccine. As a final blow to the nose, some researchers estimate more than 100 cold-causing viruses are yet to be discovered in the laboratory. The nation’s cold-sufferers undoubtedly have already found them. Medical researchers now are lamely holding out the hope they at least can develop antiviral drugs capable of stopping colds once they get started. But not even that will do much good if a cold victim can’t get a doctor’s appointment before he recovers. That’s what medical researchers really ought to be working on. — Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette

tells of an armistice between Russian and Turkish forces, at war since 1768, halting all hostilities between the two countries in Europe and .Asia pending § conference to settle upon conditions for ending the war The Turks, according to their Moslem law, can hardly make peace with those whom they regard as infidels, but a treaty is nevertheless made, at last, in July 1774. . 1832 — Thomas Jefferson, 79 years old and 14 years after leaving the presidency, living at his Monticello estate near CharlottsviUe. Va.. writes to Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse at

Harvard, expressing faith in the ultimate acceptance of Unitarianisntao theological religious conviction in the United States. A Turkish army of 30,000, moving southward by land, begins an invasion of Greece that overruns all of the Greek peninsula north of the Gulf of Corinth, with the Greek government taking flight to the offshore islands. Greek forces fighting back, and in one case loosing an avalanche of boulders that annihilated Turkish soldiers at one mountain pass, cause the invaders to withdraw from much of the territory by August.

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-- — - Know Your Indiana Law _ aKj By JOHN J. DILLON Attorney at Law This is a public service article explaining provisions of Indiana law in general terms. v

Hair. And More Hair

In April of this year the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, which includes Indiana, has seen fit to rule again on the right of the high school student to wear long hair. This case involved an Indiana high school which had adopted a high school dress code through student participation which regulated the length and style of hair for male students. Any student whose parents wished to have him exempted from this hair code could gain such exemption by appearing before the principal and giving a written consent for the exception of his child for the dress code. The court said the fact that the code was formed by

& ■ '.?■ SI W; — Special Report from Washington — NIXON EXPECTED TO AXE GREAT SOCIETY; § McClellan and his special interests; NIXON HELPED UNITE RUSSIANS. CHINESE By Jack Anderson •£ 11*72 Pulitzer Prize Winner for National Reporting S (Copyright, 1972, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) < ’ •S

WASHINGTON-The BrookX * ings Institution, after an exhaustive study, has warned that exs penditures are outstripping income and that higher taxes will be’needed merely to keep up with • the present government program. President Nixon’s budget experts have given him the same advice. His chief economic adviser, Herbert Stein, has warned x that the next budget—for the § year beginning July 1st —must be slashed unless new revenue is $ raised. y In response, President Nixon has told subordinates that he still believes in fiscal responsibility x and will return to a tight budget immediately after the election. •£ He will begin, he said, by cutting Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society program. He has already drafted & a list of 110 federal programs that he believes should be re- § pealed or at least turned over to ® local governments. Washington financial experts predict that Nixon, if reelected, will launch an immediate attack upon Johnson’s Great Society. He will charge that the programs were hastily conceived and poorly administered. He will warn that the Great Society will wind ij: up. instead, a chaotic society, with the workers taxed beyond endurance.

a committee of students, teachers and administrators and adopted by a majority vote of the students did not mean that the dress code stood constitutional muster. The court concluded that the democratic process used in adopting the code did not justify denial of a student’s constitutional right to wear his hair in the mode he chooses. It is interesting to note that the United States Courts of Appeal for the various circuits are now evently divided four to four as to the numerous cases which have been litigated on this issue has seen various and sundry constitutional provisions brought into play and various decisions by

they predict that the Presidemwill get rid of most of Lyndon Johnson’s domestic programs or refuse to implement them if Congress won’t repeal them. McClellan’s Interests John McClellan, the grim 76-year-old crime buster, has been forced into a run-off in Arkansas in his fight to hang on to his Senate seat. We have reported over the years how McClellan has used his Senate position to promote his financial interests. He sits on the board, for example, of Little Rock’s largest bank, the First National, and owns stock in anothe" suburban bank. He has been the banking industry’s most vigorous champion in the Senate. During the 19605. the Comptroller of the Currency started breaking up monopolies in many cities by chartering new hanks. McClellan soon opened up his Senate artillery upon the Comptroller. He used his Senate investigating committee to hold headline hearings into the failures of three newly-chartered banks. He also appeared before the American Bankers Association convention to charge that "too many national banks are being unwisely chartered too fast and too freely.” What McClellan was really trying to do. of course.

courts of the United States. Many of the courts have said that the question is too insubstantial when measured against today’s great constitutional issues to constitute an important enough question to envoke the jurisdiction of the federal courts. The other four circuits have held that various constitutional provision including among others the first amendment, the ninth amendment and the fourteenth amendment to the United States Constitution grant the perogative to each person to choose their hair style as they see fit. Interestingly enough, one case which went to the United States Supreme Court from the Sixth Circuit was rejected by the United States Supreme Court thus sustaining an opinion which said that a regulation concerning the length of hair had a reasonable connection with the disciplining of school students. Thus we find the law in hopeless disarray on the question of the length of hair in the various areas of the United States and the validity of a regulation concerning the length of hair rests upon the geographic area at this point in which the student happens to live. The decision arising in Indiana pointed out that in order to

was to block competition for his own banks. One of the charter applications had been submitted by pe4>ple who wanted to open a bank in diYect competition with McClellan’s First National Bank. We have also reported on McClellan’s holdings in cable television and his acquisition of real estate in Arkansas, including one tract near a dam to be built by the U.S. Army Engineers. Mc- ’ Clellan happens to be a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee which votes on all dams. Last February. McClellan wrote an article for the FBI publication, Law Enforcement Bulletin. The story was about a bill McClellan is sponsoring to compensate public safety officials injured in the line of duty. As soon as the article was published, the FBI ran off a thousand copies and gave them to McClellan, free of charge. The senator, in turn, sent them to every fire and police chief in Arkansas. If Senator McClellan loses in November, it won’t be the fault .of the FBI nor some special interest groups. Nevertheless, we believe that the aging McClellan will be edged out of the Democratic run-off and that his Senate seat will be taken by Congressman David Pryor. Common Cause The mining of Haiphong harbor has driven Moscow and Peking back into one another’s arms. For the first time in 10 years, the two Communist giants have been consulting on moving war supplies across China hy rail. The Chinese have agreed to a massive increase in rail shipments. However, they have turned down Soviet requests to open ports in southern'China Intelligence reports say the Chinese urged the Soviets, instead, to clear the mines from Haiphong harbor. Meanwhile, freight trains have already been diverted to pick up the first Soviet arms shipment

CAPITOL COMMENTS •»<*■ With SENATOR ' 1 i VANCE HARTKE/jA /Indiana * jnfffigjjfraK

Protecting Land Buyers

The mobility of the twentieth century has made interstate land sales a booming business. While most land sales representatives in that field are competent professionals, some talk a good game but never deliver. In 1968, Congress passed the Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act to protect consumers from fraud and deception in interstate land sales. Although the law has curbed a number of unfair practices, it has not done all it should. Unfortunately, many of the practices against which that act was directed still flourish. Examples of land sales deception are too easily found. A typical recent case concerns people who bought land for their retirement home. At the sales presentation (a free dinner to announce the “free vacation” they had won), they were shown a movie with a famous personality extolling the virtues of ‘Paradise Place’. “ . . . only SSO down they were told, “. . . If you change your mind later you can always sell it back . . . probably at a big profit . . . how can you lose?” In subsequent years, the promised country club, lakes, roads, schools and shopping centers never appeared. When the people asked for their money back, they were told, “Sorry, you signed the eon tract.” The company refused to buy back the land. Sell to someone else at a profit? No way. The company also owned or controlled most of the surrounding acreage and therefore also controlled property values. The picture of a lovely retirement home might as easily have been a photo of money disappearing down a drain. support a hair regulation or a dress code it must be within the school’s competence and be adopted to avoide substantial discruption of school discipline. Thus, although the Supreme Court of the United States has so far refused to rule on this issue it is fairly obvious that with the division in the Circuits now existing the United States Supreme Court will have to rule on the "hair issue” thereby recognizing that it has become a substantial federal question. Copyright 1972 by John J. Dillon

from Siberia. These are reported £ to be arms that had been on the way to Haiphong. They will now be delivered overland by rail instead of overseas by ship. The x trains, incidentally, probably will >;■ deliver the arms to North Vietnam faster than they would have g arrived by ship. g: I Nixon in Russia g: • The Secret Service did its g usual efficient job of protecting President Nixon in Russia. But during their off hours, the Secret £ Service men had a glorious vacation. They flew over crates of Scotch, Bourbon, soft drinks, § soap and toilet paper. On at least one night, they took over the :< Hotel Roosia’s entire night club in Moscow for a private party. <; • The Soviet secret police $ rounded up literally hundreds of known dissidents in Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev before President Nixon’s visit. Some were detained, some interned, some actually drafted into the armed g forces. Clearly, the Soviets wanted to take no chance that dissidents might take advantage $ of the President’s visit to stage some impromptu demonstra- g tions. § • Intercepted messages between Moscow and Hanoi reveal that the North Vietnamese made y urgent appeals to the Kremlin ❖ not to make any deals with Presi- g dent Nixon about Vietnam. The secret messages from Hanoi warned that the United States was trying to divide the Soviet Union and China from North Vietnam. The message stressed that the President should not be :g permitted to settle the Vietnam S conflict in Moscow or Peking or anywhere else except through direct negotiations with Hanoi. The Soviet leaders gave their assurances to Hanoi that they would not make any agreements with Nixon regarding Vietnam. However, the President received private assurances from party X leader Leonid Brezhnev that he would encourage the North Viet- y namese to negotiate. x

Still another example tells of the couple who signed a paper, having been told it was an authorization to check their personal references. Later, they discovered what they had signed amounted to a blank check which was drawn against their own checking account. Further investigation showed the sales person was not even licensed to sell real estate. Cases like these, and others, are becoming common enough to underscore the need for stronger protection under the law. That is why I have introduced an amendment to strengthen the 1968 Act. My plan would require federal licensing for all persons engaged in interstate land sales. Licenses would be issued by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) according to professional standards developed by the licensing office together with industry representatives. Such standards could include minimum education, training or experience levels, and solid records of good business practice. -4 In addition to granting licenses, HUD would also be empowered to revoke or suspend licenses. Discrimination practiced in the sale of land covered under the Interstate Land Sales Act would be reason for suspension of license. So would engaging in practices which constitute breaches of trust. I believe the licensing requirement will help ensure the high professional standards upon which most in the real estate field pride themselves. I believe it will also assure potential land buyers that they are dealing with people who are responsible for their actions. We cannot all be experts in everything. As such, we look to doctors, attorneys, contractors, and other licensed professionals for specialized quality service. We all assume these people have achieved minimum professional standards as evidenced by thejr admittance and continued good standing within their own professions. The purchase of property is the largest single investment made by most American families.