The Mail-Journal, Volume 9, Number 30, Milford, Kosciusko County, 23 August 1972 — Page 4

Wail PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY The Milford Mail (EsL 1888) Syracuse-Wawasee Journal (Eat. 1807) Consolidated Into The Mail-Journal Feb. IS, 1962 DEMOCRATIC ARCHIBALD E. BAUMGARTNER, Editor and Publisher DELLA BAUMGARTNER, Business Manager Box 8 Syracuse, Ind., — 46567

Do You Have A Few Hours?

“We have been given two hands — one to receive with, the other to give with. How wonderful it is for us who have received so much to be able to give and to receive so much pleasure and love in return.” These are the words of Cardinal Center’s long time volunteers. The center in Warsaw is urging all to s utilize their talents . . . patience, love, understanding and common sense... in any one of the following areas: Pre-school — 14 little ones fromthree to six years (basic self help skills) Primary — Little ones from six to nine years (beginning survival Intermediate I — Two special boys with very special needs Intermediate II — Older ones from 10 to 13 years (more advanced survival academics) Pre-vocational — 13 to» 16 years

Letters Letters to the editor provide some of the most interesting reading included in our newspaper. Letters seem to come in spurts, depending on issues raised in the community. We encourage our readers to express their views on subjects of interest to the community. Some readers have ideas that would improve our community. One problem we face at The News is long letters. Frequently readers who decide to be writers far exceed the limit placed on the “letters” column. As a compromise, we have decided to boost the word limit from 200 to 300. The News is not making any compromise on its long-standing policy of requiring letter writers to sign the letter and include their address. We think letter writers should have the courage to have their name published with the letter. Certainly the readers want to know whose views they are

LET'S TALK Everyone Should Hove Goals And Objectives

By REV. W. LEE TRUMAN Copley News Service 1 learned a first class lesson about myself from watching a line of elephants. Some of these bull elephants were big, massive brutes, but they were held in place by a chain which looked no stronger than the tensile strength of a piece of wire. It seemed incredible that so much raw animal power could be contained by something so small. Farther down the line I came to the baby elephants. Shackled around their legs were huge log chains. I looked up the animal trainer and very politely told him that I thought he had things quite backwards. He was very patient and informed me that the baby elephants fight the chains for about two weeks, then they give up. At that point they are conditioned, and they can be tethered from then on by a kite string. If elephants can be conditioned, I wonder how many ways we are conditioned? A young man, fresh out of school has been told by his mother from youth up never to speak to strangers, not to speak unless spoken to and never to go where he is not wanted. He applies for a job and the boss tells him to get out there, buttonhole a stranger, go. where he is not wanted, and make the sale. That calls for a rather dramatic turnabout from his basic life conditioning. It is an exceptional young man who can do this. Some times we have to stop and ask ourselves what would our life be without goals. I deal with people without goals 90 per cent of the time. What would a 9. football game be without goal

EDITORIALS

posts? What would a basketball game be without hoops? It would simply be running the ball around. It wcvld be terribly boring and would make few enthusiastic fans. « We need goals to give direction to our lives. Yet more people plan their two weeks vacation better than they plan their lives. They can tell you where they are to be each night on their vacation, but ask them where they are going to be 5 years from now and they cannot give you the foggiest. Os course a man needs confidence in what he does. This he draws from his life plan. Because he knows where he is going, he knows what is excess baggage and what is not. Add to this determination and followthrough, and you have got the successful formula for living life. At Innsbruck, Switzerland, the U.S.A, had a skeleton crew of figure skaters representing i our country. There had been a tragic air crash where most of the U.S. Olympic skating team had been killed. A 14 year old girl finished far back in the pack. She was not good enough and she knew it. As she was interviewed following the Olympics she said with tears that four years from that time she would be back and she would win a gold medal. Big words for a young teen-ager. The rest of the story is that she practiced for six hours a day for those years, and Peggy Fleming brought home the only gold medal won for the U.S. that year in the Winter Olympics. Faith, goals, plan, confiJ dence and determination sums it up. The last item is when that rough blow from life, that unexpected and undeserved kick

(applying use of survival academics to survival skills) Industrial Workshop — supervising workshop clients 16 years to no maximum Rummage room — preparation, pricing and sorting rummage for Thrift Shop Cardinal Boutique — Thrift and gift shop, supervising clients at work. Operators of the Cardinal Center invite all to come to the Volunteer InService training program at Cardinal Center on Tuesday, Aug. 29, or Wednesday, Aug. 30, at 9 a.m. each day. We think this would be a good way to help our fellowman. If you live in the Kosciusko county area and have some extra time won’t you give it some thought, then call the Center and volunteer or attend one of their inservice training programs.

reading. Many newspapers do not use the names of the letter writer, in an effort to boost the number of letters received. We prefer publication of the , name, which we think results in letters that are more responsible. Certainly we want letter writers to check their facts. The News reserves the right to edit, condense and even refuse letters but we prefer to print the letter as it is submitted, if possible. Contrary to the views expressed in some letters, we try to be fair to all persons concerned and do not reject any letters that don’t agree with our opinions. Efforts are made to give equal news treatment to both political parties, locally and nationally. We take pride in compliments received from officials of both parties following local elections. We solicit your letters, and please limit them to the new 300-word limit, which happens to be about the length of this editorial. — Goshen News

in the head comes your way, get up and get going. Everyone of us has gone down but the difference is who gets up, dusts himself off and sets his eyes on that goal again. If you think that this is a pep talk, you are right. I needed it this morning, so I did some reviewing and I am sharing it with anyone else who is needing a pep talk. If you would like a mimeographed list of 10 strings which at times hold us and may be tieing up your life, please send a stamped self addressed envelope to Rev. Lee Truman, Copley News Service, P.O. Box 190, San Diego, Ca. 92112. Syracuse Library Notes By BONNIE BJELLA The summer reading program x came to an end on August 9in the , children’s department of the library with an awards days program on August 11 and 12. At this time, children reading one or more books received a ribbon and children reading 10 or more books received a ribbon and reading certificate. A total of 303 children enrolled in the 10-week program. There were 263 ribbons awarded and 185 reading certificates. A total of 6,763 books were checked out and 4,829 of these were for stickers. There were 265 children treated with candy bars as a climax to the program. LAKELAND LOCAL Anna Pinkerton of Milford had Sunday callers in her home of Mr. and Mrs. Vem Bishop, Mr. and Mrs. Roger Somaska, all of Hammond, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Schermerhorn, Leesburg, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hummel and daughters, Shoe Lake, Mr. and Mrs. Max Brower and son, Syracuse, and Mr. and Mrs. Norm Keefer.

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Potential Customers!

Dear Editor, Another Kosciusko County 4-H Fair is over and the 4-H Clubs of the county were well supported at the livestock auction by their local merchants and banks. All, that is, but the Syracuse beef club. Where were the local merchants when the beef of the Syracuse members were up for auction? Some members could get only one bid on their livestock and it would be sold for that bid. The only one there bidding from Syracuse was Augsburger IGA of Syracuse. They did a fine

I ■ (kJ :•£ —Special Report from Washington— MCGOVERN’S POLLS TELL HIM HE’S FAR I BEHIND PRESIDENT § By Jack Anderson sj 1972 Pulitzer Prize Winner for National Reporting Sj (Copyright. 1972. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

$ WASHINGTON-The grim reaper of political ambitions—the American pollster—has $: dealt a heavy blow to George McGovern. The latest polls show McGovern more than 20 percental age points behind Richard § Nixon. ® Normally when an underdog § is faced with such gloomy § polls, he hires his own pollster to come up with figures to | dispute the experts. But we have learned that McGovern’s own private polls also show him running far behind the & President. S Yet, despite these polls, it is still too early to count George McGovern out of the presiden- | tial race. The next few weeks, however, are crucial to his chances. Unless McGovern begins to move up dramatically in the polls this month, accordb ing to his own analysis, he I simply will not have enough time to catch Nixon by elec- | tion day. § So, what is the real deadline for McGovern—the date when he must begin to make his move in the polls? McGovern himself says the middle of October. But his aides privately are more realistic. They say § the deadline is Labor Day. If McGovern isn’t beginning to move in the polls by then, he’s § had it.

job of supporting our Club. They bought five of the sixteen beef in our club. We certainly could not expect them to do more. Our merchants and bank should be ashamed of the lack of interest they showed in our 4-H boys and girls in the community. These boys and girls put a year of hard work into their projects and are terribly disappointed when they are not supported at the fair. Remember Merchants, that these boys and girls will grow up to be potential customers, so if you want their future business

CHINESE COUNTERSTRIKE If the Russians ever decide to move against China’s nuclear works, the Chinese in retaliation would probably strike Vladivostok, the important Russian port on the Sea of Japan. U.S. intelligence reports reveal that Mainland China has deployed its tiny arsenal of short-ranged nuclear missiles in the north near the Soviet border. The missiles, we understand, are all aimed at Vladivostok, which lies only 30 miles from the Sino-Soviet border. Intelligence reports also reveal trouble on China’s home front. Mao Tse-tung, we have learned, is becoming increasingly concerned about unrest among Chinese youth. An old revolutionary romantic who believes the peasant life can purify young people, Mao has sent thousands of city youths to work on agricultural communes. But many Chinese youngsters are rebelling against the simple life. Thousands are fleeing the farms and sneaking back into the cities. Hundreds more, say the reports, have made it all the way to Hong Kong.

you had better show interest in them now. Sincerely, Mrs. Lawrence Thwaits R 1 Syracuse, Ind. Whitko Officers Open For Students Whitko high school principal’s office and guidance office are now open daily from 9 a.m. to 4 * p.m. The bookstore is also open from 9 to 4 daily. Students should report to the bookstore in the commons to pick up their class schedule and books before 4 p.m. August 25. Any new student who has not registered at the high school office should do so during this period. The first day of school for Whitko students will be Tuesday, Aug. 29. This will be a full day of school. Classes start at 8:30 a.m. daily August 29 and dismiss at 3 p.m. Express busses from Sidney, Larwill and Pierceton will leave at 8 a.m. for the high school. Regular bus routes will establish a pick up time the first day of school.

MINE FINE BACKLOG Among our most dismal statistics are the growing casualties in the nation’s mines. Congress passed a tough mine safety law three years ago. But the Bureau of Mines has been far from tough in enforcing it. Now, the General Accounting Office has accused the Bureau of “negligence” in assessing and collecting fines. The GAO charges that an average of four months usually goes by between the discovery of a mine safety violation and the assessment of a fine. Yet this is just the beginning. The big corporations, which control America’s coal mines, can tie the case up in appeal proceedings atmost indefinitely. At the end of last year, the GAO found, there was a backlog of more than a thousand fines totaling nearly $3 million. Even after the appeals are exhausted, the GAO found that the Bureau of Mines still dawdles. The result of this astonishing performance is thit the safety record of the nation’s most hazardous industry is not improving significantly. The public has been given all too many dramatic reminders of this. Only a few weeks ago. for example, a fire at the Blackville Number One mine in West Virginia killed nine men. That mine had been assessed fines of more than SIO,OOO during the previous year. But more than $9,000 remained unpaid at the time of the fatal accident. FLOOD SINKS WILKES-BARRE’ It is part of a congressman's duties to cut ribbons, shovel ceremonial soil, attend banquets—and even, perhaps launch ships. But Rep. Dan

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

The Amish Decision

Educators and lawyers interested in education have viewed with great interest the recent decision of the United States Supreme Court concerning the attendance at school of Amish children. This case which originated in Wisconsin under a law which required attendance of all school children until age 16. Several Amish families stated that their custom was not to send their children to school beyond the Sth grade and this brought them directly in conflict with the Wisconsin statute. The parents of these children were tried, convicted and fined for failing to send their children to school until age 16. The Wisconsin Supreme Court reversed this conviction and found the statute to be unconstitutional and the State of Wisconsin appealed to the United States Supreme Court. The Supreme Court agreed that the statute requiring attendance of Amish children to age 16 violated the Ist Ammendment of the United States Constitution which grants the free exercise of religion. Speaking through the Chief Justice the Court said that the Amish religion was more than a mere belief but was a church oriented community way of life and that part of the religion was the desire of the parents of these children to keep them separate from the rest of the community. The State of Wisconsin argued that this interpretation of the " attendance law would foster ignorance since the Amish children would not be as well educated as the State of Wisconsin felt was minimally necessary for all children. The State of Wisconsin also argued that if a child wanted to go further educationally he would be unable to do so because he would not have the necessary educational prerequisites for a higher education. Noting that the state had a legitimate interest in the education of children the Court held nevertheless that that interest must give way to the religious preference of its citizens. The Court pointed out that it did not intend to undermine the State’s power to

Flood has come up with a new one. He was invited by. the Navy to witness a “ship-sink-ing.” The Navy recently selected a 29-year-old cruiser, the “Wilkes-Barre,” to test the “vulnerability of light cruisers to torpedo attack.” The sinking was supposed to take place far out to sea. But the city of Key West, Florida, prevailed upon the Navy to lay the ship to rest a mere 13 miles off the coast. The idea was to create an artificial reef, around which fish would congregate. The Navy, ever in search of a public relations coup, graciously agreed. Congressman Flood, whose hometown in Pennsylvania is also named Wilkes-Barre, was invited to the event. The cruiser was positioned, the explosives were attached, but the rusty old Wilkes-Barre refused to cooperate. Instead of plunging to the bottom, she broke into two large pieces. Both ends poked out of the water. Instead of an artificial reef, the Navy had created a water hazard. A demolition squad had to come out the next day to finish off the job—without the congressman and the ceremony. RUSTLERS RIDE AGAIN The rising price of meat in today’s supermarkets has helped revive cattle rustling out west. Modern bandits now use trucks rather than horses to steal the beef. The rustlers pull up alongside some stray cattle, drive the animals into a truck and then speed down a superhighway with hundreds of dollars worth of beef. With no hoof prints? to follow, sherrifs out west are often at a loss to track down the rustlers.

compel school attendance and that this particular decision should be given the narrowest possible application. Practically every state in the Union has some kind of attendance law for school children and few permit children to leave school after the eighth grade. Most educators argue that it is not a realistic approach to believe that once a child leaves' school in the eighth grade he will ever acquire further academic skills. They argue that the state therefor should be entitled to have some minimal standard of school attendance for all children regardless of the religious sect to which they belong. The United States Supreme Court has embarked upon a new course which apparently provides that where educational requirements come into direct conflict with religious beliefs that the freedom to exercise one’s religion guaranteed by the Ist Amendment will prevail. It will be interesting to watch just what effect this decision will have on public education. Social Security And You Q — I will be 65 later this year, and I plan to sign up for Medicare. Since over half the year will have passed when 1 reach 65, must I still neet the 350 medical insurance deductible for this year before medical insurance will help pay my bills? A— Yes. Even though your medical insurance coverage starts late in the year, the 350 annual deductible will have to be met before any reimbursement can be made on your medical expenses this year, and only medical bills after the effective date of your medical coverage can be counted toward the deductible. However, if you have covered expenses in the last three months of a year that can count toward your 350 annual deductible for that year, these expenses can be used again to help you meet the deductible for the next year.