The Mail-Journal, Volume 9, Number 43, Milford, Kosciusko County, 22 November 1972 — Page 4

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The Spirit Os Thanksgiving Day

This November 23 is Thanksgiving Day — one of the most thoroughly American of all bur holidays. It celebrates the very beginnings of the United States, and the mere mention of this holiday conjures up memories of the traditional turkey dinner. In our seemingly dissentious nation, we tend to lose the real relevance of Thanksgiving — we have the feast without remembering its reason. The importance of Thanksgiving has increased with each passing year. The first settlers in our land found the time to offer thanks for their lives, the meager food on their tables and the chance to live in freedom and hope on

Freedom And Newspapers

Freedom and newspapers have been inseparable “pals” for many, many years. The first newspapers in America and those persons seeking freedom practically grew up together, fighting for freedom. In fact, it is said the early newspapers were more effective than cannons or bayonets in winning freedom in America. Newspapers still have a vital role in preserving the people’s freedom by keeping them informed of what is going on in government, business and every facet of daily life — locally, state-wide and nationally.

One Nation Under God

What is America? It is many things to many people. But, first and foremost it has been, is and must always be a nation under God. November is observed as “One Nation Under God” Month by Exchange Clubs throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. It is a period when the business and professional men who compromise Exchange make a special effort to focus community attention on the vital need to renew and reinforce the religious principles upon which our country was founded and which remain its greatest source of strength and inspiration. The phrase, “one nation under God,” is in the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. One of the prime objectives of the Exchange Clubs’ year around “One Nation Under God” program is to create greater respect for the Pledge of Allegiance and encourage its recitation in schools and at public and private gatherings. Exchange Clubs want the Pledge recited often by all Americans as a covenant, one with the other, that they will strive, with God’s help, to preserve our precious heritage of

Savannah Was Key U.S. Port Revolution and Evolution The Bicentennial Year December 10 through December 16 1772 — Savannah was a port town much used at this time by ships sailing between Atlantic colonial ports, the West Indies, southern Europe and the Mediterranean. Settled in 1733 on a bluff overlooking the Savannah River, and 16 miles inland, it was the seat of government in Georgia, as established by James Edward Oglethorpe, who was governor until 1742. Savannah remained a small town in 1772, but it shared in the general prosperity of what had become a royal province in 1753. Loyalist sentiment was so strong

EDITORIALS

that Georgia was not represented in the Continental Congress until late 1775, and ultimately joined the rebellion more out of sympathy with the other colonists than because of any strong desire of its own for independence. Savannah was captured and occupied by the British from 1778-1782, during which time Augusta became the capital of Georgia, and has so remained. Shortly after the war, in 1788, the First African Baptist Church was established in Savannah. A theater opened there in 1818 that was to remain as the oldest in active use in the United States until its destruction by fire in 1948, and a golf course established there in 1811 remains as the oldest in the country. 1872 — Edwin Forrest, one of the most famed of American actors, dies at 66. He began his stage career at the age of 14, at the Walnut Street Theater, Philadelphia. Six years later, in 1826, he made his first New York appearance in a triumphant performance of

the hostile shores of an unknown land. Let us pause for a few minutes this Thanksgiving to contemplate the many good things we enjoy and offer our thanks for them. In doing so, we shall gain a renewed strength to tackle our difficulties and imperfections with faith and good spirit. With gratitude for the strength, purpose, charity and pride of our forebearers to which we owe the freedom and opportunity that bless us today, let us bow our heads this Thanksgiving Day. It is indeed a day to count our blessings. And it is a time to renew our care of them for the sake of generations yet to come.

Without the “eyes and ears” of newspapers, few persons in today’s busy world could begin to keep up with the overwhelming rush of events often profoundly affecting their personal rights and freedom. Newspapers have long provided and will continue to provide this essential watchdog service of protecting freedom for all individuals. “Freedom is everybody’s business” is a familiar slogan. But for newspapers it is more than a slogan; it’s their primary business, along with giving readers full information important and useful to them. Journal-Citizen, Delphi

freedom, impartial justice and equal opportunity, and strengthen and enrich it for this and future generations. Seldom in her history, has America been faced with the divisiveness which threatens her today. So, it is the utmost importance that all Americans solemnly and frequently reaffirm the proposition that not only are we “one nation under God,” but that this republic is “indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” November is an especially appropriate month to emphasize the surpassing importance of religious faith in America’s past, present and future. Thanksgiving Day should find all American families worshipping together and prayerfully thanking God for the blessings of American citizenship and for the bounties and protection he has bestowed on our land. Above all, this is a time for each individual to assess his spiritual resources, build his faith and resolve to live his daily life on the highest moral and ethical level, realizing that only in harmony with God can he do his own thing to make the American Dream a reality. Goshen News 1971

Othello, and subsequently played in many cities of the United States and England. His last appearance, not long before his death, had been in New York, in a presentation of dramatic readings. Financially successful, he encouraged native playwrighting and for several years offered prizes totaling $20,000 for American plays. By his will, he also established the Edwin Forrest Home for Retired Actors, in his native Philadelphia. Yellowstone Park Timberland Reserve is established by an act of Congress, following upon reports prepared by government exploratory parties sent into the area in 1859 and 1870. First reports of the wonders of the region had been provided by James Colter, a member of the Lewis and Clark .expedition in 1806. Yellowstone was to be made the first Federal Forest Reserve by Congressional action in 1891, and a public park — the oldest of the national parks and, with its original boundaries extended. also the largest. — Robert Desmond

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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.

Legal Research And The Computer

As the practice of law becomes more complicated, thereby reflecting the general state of our society, lawyers are turning to the computer for assistance. These marvelous instruments have one facility which is extremely valuable to the practicing lawyer. This valuable tool is the computer’s memory bank. In the memory bank the countless ruling cases which are decided each day in the various jurisdictions in the United States can be committed to memory by the computer so that these valuable precedents can be immediately available to the practicing lawyer. Even the most proficient lawyer can only maintain a small library in his office that relates primarily to the jurisdiction in which he

SPECIAL REPORT FROM WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON — No general likes to see his fighting outfit disappear, least of all on paper. So, when the army inactivated the 9th Infantry Division id 1970, Maj. Gen. Ira “Big Jim” Hunt was determined to immortalize it. He formed a fraternity of 9th Division veterans who had fought with him in Viet Nam. He demanded a roster be compiled of the men who had served under him, that they be solicited for membership, that dues be collected and, finally, that a grand, twovolume history of the division be written for its members. Two years later, Hunt’s pet project is riddled with scandal. Our persistent inquiries into the activities of Hunt’s 9th Division Association, more formally known as the Octofoil Association, has tied up a half-dozen trass hats, triggered a major inspector general investigation and even kindled the interest of the FBI. In his new command at Fort Belvoir, Va., Hunt seemed more devoted to the memory of the 9th Division than to the engineer school he was supposed to be running. He recruited his former information chief in Viet Nam, Maj. Tommie B. King, who turned Fort Belvoir’s information offices into a museum of 9th Division memorabilia. When Hunt was transferred to Continental Army Command headquarters at Fort Monroe, Va., King remained behind and devoted himself to fulfilling Hunt’s dream. Over the last two years, King used military equipment, franking privileges and government personnel to work on Octofoil Association projects. He founded “Engineer” magazine and used it as a cover for his 9th Division activities. For example, he detailed captain Dennis Pierman and lieutenant Tom Lewis to research and write the division’s history. Pierman spent more than a year working on the project

practices. If a case that a lawyer is working on is the slightest bit complicated, then the lawyer will normally leave his own library and go either to his Bar Association library, or some other library like the library of the Supreme Court of Indiana which has extensive information covering a wide range of legal subjects. These large libraries, which have thousands of volumes available to the practicing lawyers, do not necessarily have the research material needed in highly specialized fields such as public utility practice, tax practice, or information needed to practice before governmental regulatory agencies. Even when a lawyer avails himself of the use of one of the

THE OCTOFOIL PROJECT

fine law libraries available, the time consumed to research a difficult question can be very long and very expensive to the client. Many research groups realized that with the use of the information at hand, expert research personnel and computers, a whole new approach could be made to the everyday practice of law. By providing a research service which can quickly provide a brief to a lawyer at a reasonable cost, a tremendous service is provided not only to the lawyer, but to the lawyer’s client. These companies normally require that the legal problems be submitted to them in writing, or if time is of the essence, that the lawyer call the research center and dictate into a recording device the exact legal question that he needs answered. Under the direction of trained research personnel, sometimes associates with a law school, the computer is put to work to answer questions submitted to it. Os course the computer’s work is only as good as the personnel operating it and each lawyer must be certain to closely check the work of the research personnel and the computer. This work is provided at a rate which is inexpensive compared to the actual cost of a lawyer doing the hour to hour research in one of our more complete law libraries. It is obvious that the computer will be used more often in the practice of law, providing an

in the offices of “Engineer” magazine. —Academic Pursuit— When we questioned Pierman about the legality of writing a private history for the association on the taxpayers’ time, he replied: “That was a secondary consideration. For me, it was an academic pursuit.” King recruited “Engineer’s” art director, John Savage, to design a letterhead, membership card and several flyers for the Octofoil Association. King also asked Savage to lay out the 9th Division history once it was completed. For his work, Savage was promised a three-' week vacation in Japan, but the trip was later scrapped. Although the association was supposed to pick up the tab for the trip, Savage acknowledged to us: “Major King didn’t care whether I did the work on government time.” King also used a government mimeograph machine to run off the association’s material, sent out at least two mass mailings to association members in government envelopes and recruited enlisted men to help with the mailings. King’s secretaries spent much of their time typing 9th Division material, including the history, at the taxpayers’ expense. One master sergeant became so upset that he kept a daily log of the hours King’s secretaries spent on association business. Promoting the Octofoil Association kept King so busy that he fell behind in some college courses he was taking, at American university in Washington, D.C. So he recruited captain Tom Trivan to help “correct and rewrite several of King’s term papers,” Trivan told us. One of King’s secretaries typed up the papers. King, through a spokesman, told us that “to his knowledge” all mailing costs were

Growing Old Gracefully Isn't An Impossibility

By REV. W. LEE TRUMAN Copley News Service Her hair was white, her cheeks were covered with a network of deep criss-cross lines. The little girl who had come to see her thought about all of this and then asked, “Are you an old lady?” “No, honey,” her eyes showing that unconquerable spirit that was hers, and she added, “Not exactly. But I must say I have certainly been young for a very long time.” It is hard to grow old, or as I should say, older, but this is also a part of growing up. There is no way of stopping the slowing down the bodily processes, or losing those visible signs of youth, but it is possible to have forever that buoyant, hopeful spirit that filled our early years. Our most rewarding capacities are our ability to love and our need to be loved, our creativeness, and the thousand of the other plain and simple enjoyments of life that need not be diminished one whit with the passage of the years. But there is no guarantee that this will be so. It is a goal that has to be worked for actively and with courage and great determination, and most of all with faith in our ability to master the difficulties that passing time puts in our way. As we grow older, more than ever before, we must weigh our personalities with absolute frankness and have a sincere desire to change those qualities which we find do not measure up. When we are young, our drive and energy, or physical attractiveness in the case of women, overshadows such traits as selfishness, irritability, or insistence on dominating others. But when that youthful drive, or that loveliness of youth has gone, unpleasant traits have away of standing out with clarity. In our middle years, and after, the deficiencies of personality not only become increasingly more open, but they have a tendency to assert themselves more and mere until they take over the whole personality. I buried a man who had been raised in what he called a “dirt poor home.” He died with assets totaling a little more than a million dollars. He was so insecure, and this was so rooted in his unconscious mind, that it colored every aspect of his life. I knew immense amount of information to the average practicing lawyer, at a fairly reasonable cost to his client, and with a high degree of accuracy. It must be remembered however that this can only be used as a tool for the lawyer, and in the final analysis, the lawyer must provide the personal relationship to solve his client’s problem.

defrayed by the association. Footnote: Last May, a year and a half after it was inactivated, the 9th Infantry Division was revived and now is stationed in Fort Lewis, Washington. — God Bless Mrs. Merica — Last month, we told the story of Mrs. Harry Merica, a spunky mountain woman who had to give up her two disabled children — Harry, 10, and Joe, 8, — because the government had neglected to build an adequate bridge linking her hone to the outside world. She lives near Naked Creek, Va., which was battered and flooded last summer by Hurricane Agnes. The damage forced Mrs. Merica to carry her two boys on her back across a small, makeshift footbridge upstream so that the children could catch the local school bus on highway 609. Virginia officials told Mrs. Merica that the daily trek was too dangerous and that her children were too ill to remain at home. A court order was issued, making her children wards of the state. Since our story appeared, we have learned that the Federal Highway Administration has parcelled out $2,700 in emergency funds to build a safe footbridge linking Naked Creek to highway 609. State officials have also agreed to review with Mrs. Merica the original court order which took away Mrs. Merica’s children. But what Mrs. Merica and her neighbors really need is a concrete highway bridge. ’Riis still remains in doubt because of one man, Roy W Komer, chairman of the Page county board of supervisors. He steadfastly refuses to use his powers to obtain right of access so that the highway bridge can be built. A mild-mannered man, Komer fears setting a precedent. (Copyright, 1972, by UNITED Feature Syndicate, Inc.)

him well, I was close to him, but it seemed that the more money he made, the greater his anxiety became. When my friend died, he could only be described as a quarrelsome, pathetic person whom everyone but his immediate family avoided. It is wise before we reach those middle years to take careful inventory on ourselves. While there is still time to alter the traits in our character which we have managed to gloss over in the past, but which will if not dealt with, cause very real unhappiness later. Any person who is looking forward to a happy old age needs to cultivate now, generosity, unselfishness, tolerance, kindness, sympathy, an appreciation of the value of every individual as an individual, and the willingness to let other people think and feel differently than we do without becoming angry, or without rejecting them. More than anything else is the need to cultivate the ability to listen. These are the qualities of mind which will make growing older for a person a happy experience. If these attitudes are a deep part of your personality, you will not diminish as your physical powers certainly will. Without them you are courting a sad, embittered loneliness and unhappy bld age. The physical changes that come in the 40’s are as hard a blow to many people than to face the fact of unqualified success. It is particularly hard for those who have taken great pride in their physical strength or their charm of beauty. They look in the mirror and see the baldness, the graying hair, wrinkles that spread their web from eye to forehead, their deteriorating figure, and it adds to the daily despair, and they are certain at such moments that the best of life is finished. Our contemporary civilization places a false emphasis on the value of youth and beauty. Sometimes this fear drives this person to over compensate in other directions. It is not uncommon to find a man in his 40’s become involved in a series of affairs with women much younger than himself. It is also not too rare to see men who have lived sane, straightforward lives embark on paths which violate their conscience and which leads finally to a great deal of pain and disaster. The point they have missed is their charm, beauty, and virility, is not in the flesh and blood of their body, but in their spirit. The most effective prescription for growing older with success and dignity is a steady persistent development of one’s inner resources.

By JACK ANDERSON