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PhWOt-Tribunt I Pros. tooinsnort, Ind. Monday, November 27, 1972 Editorial Comment Make Them Your Own Dempsey Byrd has put together ten rules which you can make your own to your eternal profit. We'll tell you who Dempsey Byrd is after you read his rules. They are: 1.

People are illogical, unreasonable and self-centered. Love and trust them anyway. 2. If you do good, people will accuse you of having selfish, ulterior motives. Do good anyway.

3. If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway. 4. The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.

Do good anyway. 5. Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway. 6.

The biggest men with the Preventive Medicine After 14 months of testimony taken in 47 states, the President's Committee on Health Education has reached the conclusion that most of the major causes of death in this country could be prevented by changes in the everday habits of eating, exercising and drinking. This was reported to the 100th annual meeting, of the American Public Health Association in Atlantic City. Victor Weingarten, who is president of the Institute of Public Affairs and also chairman of the President's study committee, said that the few hospitals he had seen that were active in health education had shown that they were able to reduce the number of admissions. Education in preventive medicine had made unnecessary hospital treatment for those who learned what to do about their ailments. The nation's hospitals will be flooded with patients in the event that a national health insurance law is passed, unless people learn and practice preventive medicine, the committee concluded.

Several health insurance proposals were introduced in the last Congress and some will be reinfrdduced in the new Congress. If one passes, the committee's warning will be germane. With employed persons losing an average of seven and a half days of work a year because of illness or preventable accidents, as Weingarten said, prevention practice could save 600 million man-days of work a year, beside the suffering and lives of those who can be taught the rudiments of avoiding illnesses. and so, my constituents, find that even having been here 10 snort a time, the process me to make inspection trips to Paris, Madrid, Rome "I Thought I Had Forgotten How to Rumba!" biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men with the smallest minds. Think big anyway.

T.People favor underdogs, but follow only top dogs. Fight for a few underdogs anyway. 8. What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.

9. People really need help but may attack you if you do help them. Help people anyway. 10. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.

Give the world the best you have anyway. Now, about the author. Dempsey Byrd is editor of a publication of the Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind. If they can benefit by them, how much more can you? THE PHAROS-TRIBUNE ft PRESS pay Phoroi Mtabllihcd 1844 Jarnal Mtabllthcd 1849 (n) 7 I Reporter 1907 A Terminal Case Of Crying The Blues ByBOBCONSIDINE NEW YORK, Nov. People Places Some nut threw a tear gas bomb into the crowded Grand Central Terminal causing an epidemic of coughing and excruciating and tears.

Hundreds stumbled and groped for the exits and fresh air. But one group refused to panic, scorned retreat. That, of course was the group lined up in front of the ticket windows where Off Track Betting is fiercely waged. Would that their horses were as brave as they. Ed MaMahon has been playing second banana to Johnny Carson for so long and so contentedly that televiewers tend to regard him as part of the furniture.

tele viewers and other insomniacs, you should catch Big Ed's nightclub act, which was launched at the St. Regis. It's the best I've seen since Joe E. Lewis' or Jimmy Durante's. Ed really spreads his wings and charisma, with an able assist from the Kane Sisters and Tommy who, evidently moved by his surroundings, sheds his funeral director's decorum and demonstrates what a fine musician he is.

The act 'is like a sudden jam session among what many of us had become to believe were waxen figures in Madame Tussaud's. Whatever became of the Singing Telegram? Indeed, whatever became of Western Union? My friend George Oslin, the creator of the sing-o-gram, writes in "Empire Magazine" of a memorable day in American history: "During the Depression, Western Union badly needed business. Americans had stopped using telegrams for holiday, birthday and other greeting and congratulatory messages. As the Western Union public relations man in 1933, I stared from my office window in New York trying to think of ways business. What kind of telegram could there be, I asked myself, that would be novel and amusing enough to convince; millions that sending and receiving telegrams is fun? "Suddenly, an idea struck me: No one had ever sent a telegram in song.

But how could it be started, and to what important person, with news value, could the first Singing Telegram be sent? "Looking up reference sources, I learned that July 28, the next day, was the birthday of Rudy Vallee, one of the most popular singers of that time. Calling his press agent, Monty Prosser, I obtained a telephone number at which Rudy could be reached. The next problem was to find one of our telegraph operators who had the nerve to call and sing. Just such a girl was plump and jolly and with the surprisingly appropriate name of Lucille Lapps. "She called Vallee, announced that she had a message for him, and burst in to 'Happy Birthday, Dear Rudy, 1 Rudy was perhaps with shock-but in a few moments he recovered his poise and asked who sent it.

Miss Lipps gave my name, and he expressed his appreciation;" Oslin 's once publicized, caused Western Union switchboards to light up the small society Margaret Truman's book on her immortal pop promises to be fascinating. Hope she the never fully revealed letter'that FDR wrote in the 1944 Convention's leadership, after reneging on his promise to Vice President Henry Wallace to keep him on the ticket. The letter, seen by only a handful of top Democrats, suggested that either Sen. Truman or Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas would suit him and bring votes to the ticket, Who dumped Douglas? And how would history have changed had that antic soul been picked? In The Past Year Ago Joetta Tfmmons was crowned Cass County Junior Miss tonight.

Fall Festival royalty at North Miami High School were Ken Hudson, king; Kay Carvey, queen; Todd Hagan, prince; and Sheila Ege, princess. Ten Years Ago Contracts for most of the county highway supplies and for the printing supplies to be used by the county during 1963 were awarded by the county commissioners at their second meeting 'in two days in the auditor's office. There is a critical shortage of male psychiatric aides (attendants) at the Logansport state hospital despite continual recruiting attempts. Twenty Years Ago The Ninth Street Christian Church held a rededicatlon service. Several outstanding local 4-H members were honored at the annual Rural Youth banquet.

Fifty Years Ago A dozen Cass County farmers left for Indianapolis to attend the convention of the State Federation of Farmers. Welfare Changes In The Works Now like Christmas trees. But it nearly cost him his Job. Some long-forgotten stuffed vice president thought the company was being held up to ridicule. But business boomed and Oslin was kept on the payroll.

"The zany idea of 1933 became known worldwide as a typical American custom," Oslin writes. "But major changes in the nature of the telegraph business finally made it difficult and costly to render, and the company asked to discontinue the service in June, 1971. The song is ended." P.S.— Western Union didn't pay my friend a quarter for his multi-multimillion dollar idea. By BRUCE BIOSSAT WASHINGTON defeat this fall of major welfare reform proposals is obscuring the fact that one significant step toward improving the chaotic welfare system is already under way. Congress did vote to federalize, starting Jan.

1, 1974, what are called the "adult categories" of assistance given now by various levels of government, but administered by states and counties. Covered by this aid are the needy aged, blind and disabled. It is estimated that in 1973 some 3.3 million people will continue to get this kind of help from agencies below the federal level. But the new federating law sets guaranteed minimum income standards of $130 a month for an individual and $195 for a couple. The official guessing is that this provision will allow another 1.5 million people to qualify for payments, perhaps swelling the total on this segment of the welfare rolls to 4.8 million.

This impending change of course leaves out of account the enormous total of welfare recipients, estimated to reach 12.5 million in calendar 1973, getting aid in the category of "families with dependent children." President Nixon's budget for fiscal 1973 estimated the federal cost of this kind of aid at $4.7 billion. Nevertheless, what is getting under way for the admittedly far smaller "adult categories" could serve as a prototype for effective reform in this wider and more controversial realm. Social Security Commissioner Robert Ball, whose vast agency has been given administration of the new federalized program, believes it may be "in the mold" of the President's basic reform proposals. In signing the legislation, Mr. Nixon himself seemed to acknowledge this.

It is not without point, either, that both the Senate's Special Committee on Aging and the competent, detached research organization, the Brookings Institution, had recommended federal takeover of the adult categories. Nor is it chance that led Congress to hand the administrative task to Social Security. The agency, dispensing benents to 28 million Social Security beneficiaries and handling Medicare as well, is widely regarded by legislators, scholars and others as by far the most efficient arm of the federal government's sprawling bureaucracy. There are practical reasons why Social. Security should get this job.

Authorities there estimate that 60 percent of the persons on the affected public assistance BRUCE BIOSSAT rolls already are known to them as either Social Security or Medicare beneficiaries. These needy folk will not ha veto offer new proofs of age. No federal agency is as well equipped to handle in short order large new numbers of aid recipients. Its operations are supremely automated. It will have to add around 15,000 new employes to do the adult welfare job, but that's just half the number of "man-years" state and county welfare agencies use now to do the job.

These latter total an amazing 1,152 and many are so small that roughly 75 per cent of the aid- dispensing units do not even use automated check-writing systems. The added federal effort naturally won't come costfree. Mr, Nixon figures it will add $1.5 billion to the U.S. budget in calendar 1874. But there will be offsetting state savings.

Estimates are hard to find, but one is in the range of $800 million a year. States presently paying adult category benefits higher than the new federal minimums are encouraged by the President to keep on doing so. The United States will assume any new costs involved. So far, reform aimed at new efficiency is just a promise, but the promise looks good. News 'Protection' Is Crucial To All By RALPH NOVAK Most of us did not pay much attention when Peter Bridge and William Farr were put in jail in two separate but painfully related incidents during the last two months.

We did, after all, have a' lot to worry about: How the Miami Dolphins would do without Bob Griese; what will happen to Lorne Greene now that Bonanza is going off the air; whether Ann Margret will recover. So why should anybody get excited just because a couple of newspaper reporters were put behind bars? The "why" is answered easily enough. Bridge, of the now-defunct Newark News, and Fair, formerly of the Los Angeles were both thrown in jail on of court charges because they efused to reveal the identities of news ources to whom they had promised anonymity. And when they went to jail they took with them a little freedom.that used to belong to all of us. It is more difficult to determine why so few people seem to care.

One reason is that journalists, though they like to think of themselves as the public's representatives, are our best-loved citizens. On opinion survey lists of "most respected professions," reporters usually rate somewhere down around pickpockets.) Another reason is that few people outside journalism understand the news- gathering process, which very often involves prying information out of people. If Mayor is taking bribes from a gangster, he is not going to admit it. And Assistant may be afraid to tell anyone about the bribes, fearing reprisals. Suppose, however, a reporter approaches Assistant and promises he will not reveal the source of his information if discloses what is happening.

Then through the reporter the citizens, who pay both the mayor's and the assistant's salary, will have a chance to do something about the corruption. J. Anthony Lukas, who often writes about anti-Establishment groups and individuals, has said that "if a reporter is compelled to testify about what a source tells him in an interview, he risks jeopardizing not only that source, but all his other potential sources in the (radical) Movement, Already there are relatively few reporters who are trusted sufficiently by radicals to report their activities. If these reporters are discredited one after another, the right of the public to know will be drastically infringed." And CBS News foreign affairs correspondent Marvin Kalb says that government officials are no different from radicals in this respect: "If my sources were to learn that their private talks with me could become public, or could be subjected to outside scrutiny by court order, they would stop talking to me and the job of diplomatic reporting could not be done." Eighteen states have laws granting reporters a privileged status approaching that of lawyers, clergymen and doctors, who cannot be forced to testify about information they have obtained in their professional capacity. Many of those laws afford only limited protection to reporters, however, and no protection at all on the- federal level.

The problem has become more pressing since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled this June that a New York Times reporter, Earl Caldwell, was not protected by the freedom of the press provisions of the First Amendment to the Constitution when he refused to tell a California grand jury about his informants in the Black Panther Party. This led directly to the jail sentences for Bridge and Farr. And it has also led directly to a very real fear of increased use of reporters as de facto investigators for government bodies, which have recently shown an alarming tendency to subpoena journalists. In "Press Freedoms Under Pressure," a Twentieth Century report issued earlier this year a task force of journalists and lawyers wrote: "We share a feeling that press freedom might be more fragile than is widely that its role in American democracy is so crucial that the nation cannot afford to risk its erosion." It behooves all of us to battle tljat erosion.

Barbs Taxing the imagination is going to occur to some revenue-hungry politician any day now. The most fragile thing in the world is a pre-election campaign promise. One place anyone can go is broke. by Brickmon It's news to our neighbor that "gin" is a game. Looaniport E.toblltn«d 1921 Publl.h.d doily Saturday ondholldoyt by loganiport Newipapen.

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