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Page Four June 15,1973 BECKJLEY POST-HERALD A REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER FOR 73 YEARS PUBLISHED EVERY BUSINESS DAY BY BECKLEY NEWSPAPERS CORPORATION 339-343 Prince Beckey W. Va. 25801 Telephones All Departments BecWey 253-3321. Second-Class mail privilege authorized at post at Beckley, W. and Hinton, W.

Vo. Editor THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press entitled to the for ftpublication of all local news printed in newspaper, as well as all AP news dispatches. LONG-TIME MEMBER Quality, Not Quantity, Aim Of Military As the July 1 official starting date approaches, the all-volunteer military concept, which has been in effect since last January, needs a great amount of work. Its critics are still around and no doubt are waiting for an opportunity to list the failures. The all-volunteer services will need time to prove their abilities to meet the nation's security needs.

They already have removed doubt that it is going to be considerably more costly to keep a smaller number of men in uniform. An enlisted man now can earn as much as $1,000 a month, plus the most extensive fringe benefits offered anywhere. A private who qualifies as an infantryman and paratrooper begins at $388 a month salary, plus an enlistment bonus of $1,500. The size of the pay grows with the knowledge that almost all essentials of life food, clothing, rent, medical care, insurance and a retirement pension (after 20 years) are paid by the government. In exchange for much higher manpower costs, the Pentagon has settled for fewer men.

There will be only 13 U.S. Army divisions, compared to 160 Soviet divisions. Each man accepted into the military from here on must be something of a super soldier. He will be required to carry several times his own weight in effectiveness if the nation's defenses are to be adequate. For that reason, enlistment standards must be tightened and the professional soldier must be exactly what he is expected to be: a highly skilled individual capable of succeeding in a highly developed force second to none.

With reluctant inductees and disruptive troublemakers no longer welcome in the services, the goal should not be impossible of attainment. Bail System Alternate Also Questionable From several sources in recent weeks have come suggestions proposing major overhauls of the bail system under which an accused man may remain free until brought to trial. The gist of the complaints seems to be that bail does not accomplish the purpose for which it is designed preventing an accused from running away from justice. That there have been serious abuses of bail procedures is unquestionable. The bail system is no more perfect than any other part of the judicial, legislative or executive branches of government, or of the many other social, political or private sectors of society.

Any discussion of abolition of one system, however, must consider the alternatives. In the unlikely event that bail is done away with completely, defendants would be detained until trial or released on their own recognizance. Surprisingly, many of the advocates of bail repeal propose retention of defendants in an institution or prison until they have been judged innocent or guilty by their peers. That this procedure would violate the traditional American concept of innocence until proved guilty bothers some of them, but not enough, apparently, to stop them from advocating such a system. Public Debt Interest Already Boggling Congress has a request from Secretary of the Treasury George P.

Shultz to boost the national debt limit the amount the federal government can owe to $480 billion. This has been going on annually for 40 years, and sometimes several times annually. There will be speeches against the proposal, then Congress will vote to grant it. Just to make everything look good and show that congressmen know what the score is, the request will be trimmed slightly. That is, the debt limit will be boosted'to slightly less than $480 billion.

Surely the Treasury knows this is what Congress does every time an increase in the debt limit is requested, and sets the figure in the request accordingly. What is the annual cost of the interest on our colossal public debt? It Is enough to boggle the insides of a computer, but it now tops $20 billion. TOD 0' The Morning Father-Sons Hike 'A Great Success' By EMILE J. HODEL Last Friday morning we had a letter in the column in which Our Readers Speak from Cody L. Harvey of Jumping Branch.

It told of a project Harvey and his sons were to undertake last Sunday--a walk from the Summers County Courthouse in Hinton to the Raleigh County Courthouse in Beckley. Harvey is a Post-Herald reader who has occasionally contributed letters, almost always thought-provoking ones, for a number of years. Before printing his letter last Friday we tried to reach him by telephone to get more information as to why he was undertaking the lenthy hike. We had thought to try to get information for a news story and perhaps even a picture, when and if the hikers reached Beckley. However, it was not to be.

There was no telephone listed in the Jumping Branch community for Cody L. Harvey and there was not time to reach him by mail. -0-Though a little later than we would normally prefer for news, we have finally gotten further word on the Harvey men's walk. They DID make it last Sunday (it had been said in the initial letter that a heavy rain would bring a week's postponement). In his latest letter Harvey still left unanswered such questions as how they got to Hinton to start walking and what the arrangements were after they finished it in Beckley.

Did they walk back to Jumping Branch, for example? That information might have encouraged others to join the hike. But his original letter did not. Here's the later from reader Cody L. Harvey. "The walk my sons and I took from Hinton to Beckley on Sunday, June 10, was a great success.

We enjoyed it tremendously. Our only regrets were that no one joined us and one of my sons had to drop out midway in the walk because of a knee injury he received the day before (Saturday, June 9). "Some people asked me what I was trying to prove. "I wasn't trying to prove anything. We love to walk and have been taking long walks for quite a while.

I believe that walking is the greatest of sports. Birds were given wings to fly and they fly. Man has legs for walking; why not walk? You get no traffic tickets and you burn only cholesterol. "We left the Summers County Courthouse in Hinton at 7 o'clock in the morning and arrived at the Raleigh County Courthouse in Beckley at 5:53 in the afternoon. We took a five-minute rest every hour and 45 minutes at lunchtime.

"Lunchtime and i i breaks amounted to 1 hour and 35 minutes. Total time spent walking between the two courthouses, 9 hours and 18 minutes." Made Fair Time That figures out at something like three miles an hour, which is not bad at all for extended hiking. It comes out as particularly good hiking when you consider that in walking from Hinton to Beckley, rather than the reverse direction, the Harveys were making quite an up-hill climb. From Hinton to the high point along White Oak Mountain is probably a rise in elevation of around 1,600 feet. From beginning at Hinton to the end at Beckley is probably something like 1,100 feet difference.

-0- Perhaps, if there is a next time, going the opposite way being more downhill would be more likely to attract other hikers into the long tramp. Our congratulations to Cody Harvey and his sons. And top of the morning to you! My Answer By BILLY GRAHAM As a college graduate of this spring, I suppose I should be glad that my job chances are a little better than last year. What really bugs me though is that as a 20-year-old, the opportunities to do anything significant in life are nonexistent. Doesn't God use young people? A.B.

He always has. Did you know that Joan of Arc was 19 when she completed her mission; and that Isaac Newton, at 21, had already contributed importantly to mathematics, so that at age 25, Cambridge honored him with a professorship? The Bible says in I Timothy 4:12: "Don't let anyone think little of you, because are young. Be their ideal; let them follow the way you teach and live." Some of the greatest characters of the Old Testament, like Samuel and David, stepped out in leadership when they were young. The Bible is on the side of young people, and faith in Christ gives youth its greatest gift: purpose and direction. I detect a note of cynicism in your letter.

Conquer that right now, because it will back you into a corner from which you'll never generate the thrust you need for success. Talk about God using young people, check the organization called "Fellowship of Christian Athletes." That is just one of many groups composed of young adults who are making their lives count for God. In fact, if your faith doesn't let God make your life "significant" right now, it is doubtful it will become that later. Open For Business George S. Benson-- Yesterday And Today- Oak Hill Cobbler Knew Tiger John' By SHIRLEY DONNELLY One of my interesting links with the local past is Martin, shoe repairman at Oak Hill.

He is one of the 21 children who were born to John Franklin Martin down Putnam way. The Oak Hill shoe cobbler wac born- a Buffalo in 1907 but when he was two years Burl's ather moved the family to Pliny. It was there, neighbor, that knew Gen. John "Tiger John" McCausland, the Confederate general who reduced Chambersburg, to charcoal when that city refused to meet his demand for a ransom. as his a Burl Martin THE OAK HILL shoe man's father, John Franklin Martin, born in Sissonville in 1848, the baby in a family of a dozen children, lived to the age of 91.

One of Burl's brothers lived to be 98 and another rounded out 96 years. Burl's sister, Mrs. Florence Martin Krouse, died in 1972 at the advanced age of 99. Their cousin was the late Pat B. "Brother Pat" Withrow (1880-1557), world famous rescue mission worker, founder of Union Mission, Charleston, who was 77 when he died more than 15 years ago.

As Burl was half-soling my other pair of shoes, we spoke of the funeral of "Brother Pat" on Nov. 30, 1957, when 1,600 persons were present in the Union Mission auditorium. It was one of the largest funeral attendances I have ever had. A COUPLE OF General McCausland's sons were prone to get into trouble, according to Burl Martin. When one of the boys killed a man on the McCausland estate, it looked like he was going to be convicted and sent to prison.

Burl said the fiery old gentleman, who was reputed to be very wealthy, said, "They'll not send my boy to the pen! To defend him I've got more money than two mules can haul." The story runs that the general's boy did not go to the pen for that crime albeit his next offense sent him there, so avers the Oak Hill man. REGARDING A McCausland wealth, a number of stories used to be told. One had to do with the burning of Chambers'burg, July 30, 1864. General David H. Hunter, Union officer, had been raiding the valley of Virginia and eastern West Virginia.

He burned the homes of influential southern families. To even things, General Jubal Early ordered General Mc- Causland to give the North a dose of its own medicine. Chambersburg was selected as his target. When the authorities refused to meet the ransom demands of General McCausland, he applied the torch to the town. It made him a marked man and when the war was over, McCausland had to spend some time in Egypt and other places to keep the Northern authorities from getting their hands on him.

THE TRADITIONAL story is that McCausland did get ransom money from Chambersburg and sent it to Point Pleasant in a box labeled "goods." In the box he nailed up a man, with food and drink to supply him. This story, likely apocryphal, goes on to say, according to Burl Martin, that when the box of "goods" arrived at Point Pleasant, the man released himself and a lot of the ransom money, which he concealed for General McCausland. This story says the man in the box was known and was never again allowed in Point Pleasant under penalty of being shot! It is told that it was with that cache of ransom money that General a a bought those thousands of acres of river bottom that made him one the state's largest landowners. General McCausland died in 1928. Jack Anderson-- SBA Head Said Caught Ignoring Law WASHINGTON Speaking for the White House, troubleshooter Frank Carlucci directed the Small i Administration to disobey the law, which authorizes the agency to declare disaster areas and rush emergency aid to the victims.

In an incredible exchange between Small usiness Ad- ID i istrator Kleppe and Rep. Jim anley, D-N. un- fortable Kleppe admitted he had been specifically ordered not to implement the law on disaster relief. Here are direct quotes: Hanley: "And who took the authority away?" Kleppe: "I had the choice of disobeying the law or disobeying rny President." Handley: "But the authority remains in the law?" Kleppe: "I think that's correct, in the new law." really violated the law but merely had failed to implement it. Carlucci told us he had made the phone call "to co-ordinate" federal disaster relief efforts and to curb "runaway expenditures." He indicated the decision was made at the highest domestic Presumably, he meant John Ehrlichman, the President's former domestic counselor, who used to call the shots on such decisions.

Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz also participated in the decision, Carlucci said. HANLEY: "Now I'm concerned when you tell me that as opposed, to concurring with the law, you concurred with an administrative mandate." Kleppe: "What would you do?" Hanley: "Concur with the law." Kleppe: "Would you?" Hanley: "I wouldn't break the law." Kleppe: "Jim, I serve at the pleasure of the President." Hanley: "As a matter of fact, the law has been broken." Kleppe: "It is a true statement, Jim." THE SENATE subcommittee, which investigated ITT's intervention in Chilean politics, is preparing a blistering report that will add to ITT's continuing problems. The subcommittee will also recommend legislation making it a criminal offense for ITT, or anyone else, to attempt to involve a U. S. agency in another nation's elections.

It would also be against the proposed law for the CIA, or any other government agency, to intervene in a foreign election. KLEPPE acknowledged to us that Carlucci, before he moved from the White House to become undersecretary Health, Education and Welfare, telephoned him the order to disregard the law. Contrary to what Kleppe told the congressman, however, the SBA chief insisted he hadn't DAVID MAXWELL, former general counsel to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, was instrumental last year in keeping title insurance fees high. He blocked a move to cut title insurance fees by 15 to 20 per cent, which would have brought them in line with title insurance losses. Maxwell has now left the government for a high paying job as president of TICOR, a mortgage subsidiary of one of the nation's largest title insurance firms.

A spokesman denied there was any link between Maxwell's new job and his favorable ruling at HUD. IN HIS LATEST effort to keep organized labor in his political corner, President Nixon has appointed a protege of AFL-CIO President George Meany as consul-general in Naples, Italy. The appointment of Daniel L. Horowitz has rais- ed indignant yelps from career diplomats at the State Department, some of whom wrote a rather undiplomatic letter to Rep. John Rooney, D-N.

in protest. Horowitz has been the State Department's liaison man with the labor movement, but he has had no diplomatic experience. The AFL-CIO told us his appointment "wasn't at our behest." Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Caspar Weinberger, who has slashed funds for the poor, the ailing and the elderly, is building himself a luxurous new building. Besides his own office, the building will house a sauna bath, plus handball and squash courts. I Nixon's personal attorney, Herbert Kalmbach, has confirmed to Watergate investigators our account of Martha Mitchell's altercation with her security guard at Newport Beach, last June 23.

Kalmbach said he had been dispatched to the Newport Inn by ex-Attorney General John Mitchell, as we reported, to give aid and comfort to the agitated Martha. Kalmbach found her with a telephone ripped out of the wall, her dignity impaired by a forced tranquilizer shot and a slashed hand from a wild swing into a window pane. Agnew Explains Crux Of Press Controversy The most provocative thrust of Vice President Spiro T. Agnew's "media" speech in Des Moines in November, 1969, was its definition of a non-elected elite in journalism acting in a self-appointed role as the conscience and protector of the American public. In i address at the a i a a ion ram's 36th Freedom orum three and a a years later, he touched i his sabre the same tender nerve.

He said he and the Nixon administration were ready at any time to meet with the officialdom of big media to ease the present conflict between government and the press. "There is unquestionably wrong and right on both sides of this controversy," he said as a finale to his forum speech. "Only reasoned debate and communication between the parties can lead to a solution or even to an improvement. "Because it is a matter of importance to the "American public that information flow credibly and freely to them, the government and the media must put aside their visceral reactions and engage in a productive, intelligent discussion of their differences. The administration is prepared to participate in such a discussion." HIS THRUST AT the tender spot (the press' self-elected role of public guardian) was projected much further at the forum than i his Des Moines speech: "Such a sm4l number of network news editors, having common interests and frequently common politics, cannot be aware of the broad interests of the American people.

"I do not accuse them of any conspiracy, but I do suggest that they are affected by the same peer group prejudices, business interests and loyalties that we are. "It is significant that most of the cries of 'reoresission' and "conspiracy' which are being mounted today against the Nixon administration come from, the opinion-making media. Very few editors and station owners around the country share their fears. But again I do not doubt the genuine con- cern of these critics in the opinion-making media. "They do not trust tha government to be fair to them.

I assure you that the Nixon administration wants to be fair to them, but we do not think they have yet diversified their undertaking sufficiently to fairly report the activities of government to the American people." THE VICE PRESIDENT then got into what he called the "crux" of the controversy. "Recall for a moment," he asked his forum audience of 3,000, "the quality of the news we became accustomed to receiving from Vietnam and imagine that you are listening to a commentary on the war by CBS correspondent John Hart, who had this to say in an address given last summer: as a matter of course, refer to the North Vietnamese and the Communist Guerrillas in South Vietnam as the enemy when they are, in fact, the enemy of the Saigon government and the American executive "Now just consider that statement and decide for -yourself whether the man who made it could possibly remain objective in his reporting of the war news. "GIVEN A group of men with similar views in control of the news selection process, what chance is there of getting an accurate message across to the people? And this brings us to the crux of the problem, a problem that is one of the most serious we face today. "Note carefully the separation made by Hart between the executive branch and American people. Then analyze the close relationship he suggests between the media and the American people, a relationship almost casually referred to in a recent article by two other distinguished journalists, in which they allude to 'a representative of the public in the person of the news "THAT QUOTATION, I believe, reveals precisely what is wrong with the way the opinion-making news media view themselves.

Their personnel have come routinely to think of themselves as representatives of the people and just as routinely to view the federal government as the enemies of the people." Our Readers Speak-Dues To Be Hiked They have finally decided to keep Arnold Miller's mouth shut for a change and using Harry "Patrick! If you have received the UM- WA Journal dated May 1, 1973, you will find Harry Patrick, a treasurer, being interviewed by Don Stillman, who is the Journal director. The headlines read, "I think it's time to say I'm a UMWA Man." Apparently Miller, Patrick and Trobovich have missed the boat somewhere. The men in It's Robbery Calling all Senior Citizens. Your government is running a counterfeit money mill and is cheating and robbing you! For example, if an Eisenhower "silver" dollar (silver, copper, and nickel) is actually worth only 7.84 cents, what is a paper dollar worth? Write to the President and Congress and ask them this question. Also tell them to quit spending beyond income (deficit financing).

The quickest way in the world to increase the value of your income is to stop government spending. This is the "sole basic cause of inflation" and "of the two recent dollar devaluations. Concerted action by our millions of senior citizens can get the job done. Why delay until your income is completely eroded by inflation? C. C.

Moseley 1310 Air Way Glendale, Calif. the coal fields have been saying that for years. I am beginning to wonder if they have ever been UMWA. I say one thing about the militants in Washington. They don't miss a bet.

The answers and questions were so well placed one couldn't help but wonder if they weren't wrote out'in advance. But wait, apparently they made a mistake. The third question he asked Patrick was what kind of shape the union is in financially. Patrick answered that finances are in pretty good shape. Now, when you read further you will find the reason for the interview.

The fourth question was what action he will take if the dues income isn't covering the cost of running the union. Patrick answered that "At some point in the future we probably are going to have to face a dues increase." There you have it boys. A dues increase. Outside of blaming the past administration and inflation, the rest of the interview is routine. They are conditioning your minds now so when the time comes for a dues increase you won't be in shock.

What about the millions they said they saved by cutting salaries? Where did it go? With all those inflated salaries of the Boyle he never once spoke of a dues increase. In future letters, I will be asking some very pertinent questions. Keep watching. Walter Snyder Rt. 3, Box 73 Beckley the small society by Brickman IHiee Miter To Stw.