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Chronicle AND PUBLIC SERVICE PUBLIC SERVICE Our Diamond Anniversary Year--1891-1966 EDITORIAL PAGE Tuesday, June 28, 1966 JOHN B. EDINGER, PUBLISHER Today's Editorials There's Nothing Free About Medicare As the government and the medical professions of the nation start to discharge their duties to older people under Medicare July 1, everyone should be reminded again thai there is no such thing as a ''free" service. Nothing in this world is free and nothing new has been created under Medicare. By law, the taxpayers are paying some of the medical bills of a selected group of people. As time goes on, the law may be revised to include the care of other age groups.

Medicare may be extended until it becomes a national health 'service such as adopted in Britain 18 years ago. The British plan of government medical care which was to provide Ercs service to all is threatened with a disastrous breakdown. A British Medical Association reports that, "Unless vast new sums of money are made available from some source or another the present concept of a hos- The Purest English From London comes word that the purest English is not spoken in England but preserved in Boston, where the king's colonial subjects threw a cargo of tea overboard in 1773, warning King George III that the Boston Tea Party was a foretaste of resistance to taxation without representation that lost him America. Speaking before the English Association, Lord Chandos, 73, a Conservative member of Parliament and cabinet minister before his elevation to the peerage in 1954, pleaded for "a return to the gold standard in English" as practiced in Boston. Chandos said that the leading dis- pital service must be abandoned Half of the nation's hospitals are more than 80 years old, and only two new general hospitals have been built since 1939.

The British Medical Association report concludes: 'If the public wishes to have an unrestricted health service, it must pay for it The medical profession in the United States is going to do everything possible to facilitate the operation of Medicare. It will do its utmost to pro- serve the all-important, doctor-patient relationship that is so vital to the high medical standards to which we have become accustomed. is the obligation of the people, all of us, to remember that Medicare does not mean "free" medical care. The more that is demanded in the way of service from hospitals and doctors, the more it is going to cost unless we wish to end up with a bankrupt medical system as Great Britain appears to have done. eases of English arc just about the same in the United States as in Britain, but he praised American writers "who had kept the stream of English pure and unadulterated." These diseases he listed as cliches, roundabout speech, the substitution of genteel expressions for stronger ones, blurred images and the attempted worship of "the god of style." The English Association is a group of writers, actors, teachers, businessmen and administrators who work to improve the standard of speech and literature.

They deserve to be supported, because they help to keep the mother tongue pure and unadulterated. OUR READERS WRITE TO THE EDITOR MINORITIES 'WITLESS'? Jirrni H. Smith Ctntrtlia Dear Sir: An editorial in your paper on June 20 called the minority of college students who disagree with government policy "witless." The editorial doesn't say the students are witless but that the demonstrations they hold are witless. To have a witless demonslraton there has to be witless demonstrators behind the protest. You pick on the Viet Nam demonstrators and the Am- hcrst demonstrators because they stand up for what they believe.

If this is true, that they are witless, then you and I and everyone who has ever made a stand for some right or idea is witless. As for the Amberst students, it seems only one truly believed in what he was demonstrating against and I think he should be applauded just as much as the academy men who volunteered for i Nam duty. In fact, he should be applauded more, for he had and has more to lose In his stand. The West Point SKETCHES By BEN BURROUGHS ALWAYS SAY THANK YOU When I do something for someone from the goodness of my heart I do not expect repayment for the favor I impart because I derive much pleasure from the good turn that I did and the tender feeling in memory is hid i matters not how many times needs may go unheard it is my creed to give a hand when someone says the word but when there's no acknowledgment things I do I feel a tinge of sorrow and somber is my view what I am gel- ting at is this when someone gives you aid never forget to thank them for the effort which they made. men would have ended up in Viet Nam in all probability anyway.

As for McNamara's winning an honorary degree, it is not for me to decide why or how he gol it but if he earned it, fine. But I personally doubt he earned it. If his acts had warranted such recognition wouldn't he have the complete backing of the American people? He doesn't, what 1 can ascertain. So he doesn't deserve such recognition for he hasn't earned it. Of course, every man to his own opinion.

World Today Rep. Florence P. Dwyer was elected to Congress from New Jersey's 6th district for the last six terms as a Republican. Her district gerrymandered into a solid Democratic one, she is moving after living there 40 years to run from the new 12th, which includes part of her district. Kind of tough to leave home to follow the voters.

Dear A Self-Respect Holds Top Billing By Abigail Van Buren DEAR ABBY: Your column is held in great esteem by many young people, but one of your recent answers has caused some of us to reconsider. In your reply to a cocktail waitress who wanted to know how to keep the wolves in line without losing lips, you said: "Tell them the huskiest bartender in the place is your husband." Abby, to advise her to be deceitful contradicts the high moral standards which in the past you have always upheld. Honesty is honesty, and should be a constant habit. And even tho the waitress may lose some tips, she should not compromise her self-respect. Thank you.

THE NINTH GRADE ENGLISH CLASS MCKNIGHT JR. HIGH SCHOOL RENTON, WASH. (signed by) April Ferencz, Sherri Anderson, Curt Henningsen, Marion Frazicr, Daryl Mobley, Liz Engum, Jan Forbes, Delaine Tcmplin, Steve Gibson, Bonnie Rock, Leah Van Fleet, Sue Brimlow, Dick Passino, Mike Johnston, Karen Fanning, Jan Bergh, Max Notor, Mignon Jones, Ricki Weiss, Danny Mathewson, Mike Livingston, Randy Carman, Ken Knight, Roger Miller, Ron De Rosselt, Jack Sparks, Lyle Cook, Mindy McDowell, Kathy Daily, Roger Slevens, Guy Patty, and Mr. John F. Rogers (teacher).

DEAR STUDENTS AND MR. ROGERS: Thank you for your fine letter. I agree with your criticism and appreciate having had this called to my attention. Let's substitute following answer: "Tell the waives that you are not that kind of gir). And if they tip only bicauie they expect to see you later, they hod belter save their money." DEAR ABBY: Every Sunday for many years my husband and I and our son (who is now 15) have eaten dinner at a downtown cafcleria.

For the last year, our son has always managed to finish his dinner first, and while we are still eating, he says, "Dad, would you let me have the keys to the Victor RIESEL WRONG AMMUNITION Landmark Decision Ernesto Miranda's Case Unusual My husband puts down his fork, digs into his pocket and hands over the keys. Then the boy goes and sits in the car and listens to the radio until we join him. Sometimes it is only a matter of 10 minutes, but it burns me up to go thru this ritual every Sunday. Incidentally, this happens when others are eating with us. When I mention this to my husband he says, "0, it's a petty I would like your opinion.

OLD FASHIONED DEAR O.F.: Waiting until everyone at the table has finished eating before leaving is a simple exercise In courtesy, consideration, and patience. Your son should be gently but firmly corrected. DEAR ABBY: I recently went to the hospital for some exploratory surgery as I was concerned about the possibility of cancer. Two neighbor women, whom I do not know very well, came to visit me there. They took turns asking prying questions as to the nature of my illness, whether more surgery would be necessary, etc.

I tried to fend off these questions as best I could. After they left, a member of a fraternal group to which I belong called on me. The same line of questioning was pursued. Only (his person spent nearly an hour telling me about "similar eases" in which all the patients died of cancer. I was depressed beyond words.

Why do people visit the sick and leave them sicker? DEPRESSED DEAR DEPRESSED: Because common sense is ali too uncommon. My advice on bedside manners: Make the visit short, sweet, and cheerful. Leave Ihe coughs and the kids at home. Ask no questions. If you can't do that, stay away.

If you have a proolem, write to Abigail Van Buren in care of this paper. She will be glad to answer your letter. For a personal reply, please enclose a stamped self-addressed envelope. By JAMES MARLOW AP News Analyst WASHINGTON (AP) At 26 Ernesto Miranda is in a box -one of the strangest in America history. He won a landmark decision from the Supreme Court but, as a by-product of his victory, faces 20 years in jail.

He will stay there unless the court can be persuaded to consider his case again. But, if it does, this will be tha first time the court ever encountered a problem like Miranda's. His is not a pretty story but here it is step by step. In 1963 he was arrested in his Phoenix, home, taken to a' police lineup, and there identified as the man who had committed two crimes eight months apart, a rape and a robbery. Police then questoined him in a private room for about two hours.

In that time he made written confessions on both crimes. They were used against him at his trials on both charges. He was convicted of both. For the rape he got 25-30 years, for the robbery 10-25. But there was a fine constitutional question involved.

Had Miran' da's right not to incriminate himself been violated by the way the police handled him? The police admitted he had not been told he could have a lawyer before they questioned him at all And had the police clearly told him he didn't have to answer any question? The American Civil Liberties Union got interested and enlisted the help of a distinguished Arizona constitutional lawyer, John P. Frank, who, with his associates and for special legal reasons, made this decision: They would appeal Miranda's conviction in the rape case, instead of the robbery case. The Arizona Supreme Court turned him down on the self-incrimina- lion protest. The case went then to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The court handled the problem In one bundle: The case of i a a and three other men, all convicted of robbery elsewhere and all with the same basic complaint that their confessions had not really been voluntary. On June 13 the court overturned alt four convictions and laid down this order for the future: Before police question a prisoner they must tell him clearly he does not have to answer, that he is entitled to have a lawyer with him, and, if he can't afford one, that the state will supply him with a lawyer. So Miranda won on the rape case. It might have seemed logical to assume that now his lawyers could appeal his robbery conviction and expect the court automatically to throw that one out, too, and for the same reason: That the confessions to the rape and robbery, although separate, had been made under identical circumstances in the same two hours of questioning which the court, in the rape case, had decided violated his rights. But when the court gave its June 13 decision, it knew this action would spark a deluge of appeals from all over the country from men who, already convicted of crimes, would argue their confessions had not been voluntary.

To head off this enormous rush, the court on June 20 said that Its June 13 ruling would not apply to convictions before then but only to those whose trials occurred after June 13. But where did that leave Miranda, still serving a 20-25-year robbery sentence? Could he appeal this case now since the court'had shut the door on appeals from convictions before June 13? This is what makes Miranda unique. As of Monday night his lawyer, Frank, said he and his associates were still trying to decide what to do next. TEBTEBTILlJli In the Twin Citieg and Lewis County 10 Yaan Ago Junt 19tt Centralia and Chehalis youngsters had the latest word today on shooting Fourth of July fireworks in the cities. Twin City police chiefs made it short: no fireworks! Youngsters In violation of this will be taken into custody by the police and removed to the police station.

West Centralia homes rocked yesterday evening from a loud explosion that apparently came from fumes in an empty and nearly forgotten 10,000 gallon gasoline storage tank. Firemen said they believe the blast, was set off by a static spark from an electrical fixture. 25 Yean Ago Junt 28, IMt Mrs. Mary Beller was a guest and there were seven members present at the all day meeting of Logan Union Aid in the aid rooms. The time was spent quilting and a covered dish luncheon was held at noon.

Mr. and Mrs. Earl Barronett were among out-of-town guests at the wedding in Elma last weekend of Miss Edna Ellen Martin to Mr. Frank Anderson of Maple Valley. Miss Neva Nunnelee, a former Centralia girl now residing in Seattle, was also at the wedding.

Oiling of the Tenino Rainier road by the state highway department got under way this week. This is expected to last through the summer. 50 Years Ago Jun 28, 1916 L. A. Walter, a i a of the Loggers' contests committee for the July Fourth celebration, today announced the rules and regulations for the loggers who will participate in the various contests.

The contests will be held at the Fifth Street viaduct of the Northern Pacific, the Viaduct forming a grandstand for the spectators. The Epworth league of the First M. E. church held a joint business and social meeting last evening in the church parlors. The business hour was devoted to the election of officers, which takes place semi annually.

The remainder of Ihe evening was devoted to various games and a delicious lunch. Hal Boyle's Column Scribe Gets Specific In Offering Advice NEW YORK A A columnist counts that year lost in which he doesn't write at least one article telling young people how to live. The (rouble with most advice of this kind is that it consists of high-sounding platitudes. isn't specific enough. So, as my good deed for I960, here are a series of down-to- earth suggestions that should help any young man live a longer and happier life: Never marry a girl (or her money unless she signs half of it over to you before Ihe ceremony.

Try to associate with people who have qualities you admire. But also keep one bum as a fried, too. Seeing the mistakes he makes should help keep you from making them yourself. Always keep your seat belt buckled while riding in airplanes or automobiles. If you're not a "take-charge" lype, don't go into business for yourself.

You'll do better work- Ing for others. Eat a good breakfast, a light lunch and a light dinner. Don't put up with bad meals, Insist that your wife learn to be a really good cook. It'll make you both happier. Don't go skiing after 30, or play tennis after 40, unless you can run a mile without exhaustion.

Buy shoes and shirts a half size larger than you need. You may be choking your mind and feet to death without knowing it. If you have to take aspirin more than once a month, change your way of living. Make your vacations real adventures. Avoid going to the same place more than two years in a row.

If your boss job make you desperately unhappy, change them both but better do it before you are 35. Ask for a raise in pay once a year, whether you need it or r.ot, whether you get it or not. Unless you yourself think you are worth more to the firm, the firm won't either. Listen carefully when anyone offers to give you an inside tip on the stock market, and write it down. Then tear up the paper, and forget it.

Walk three miles every day It Isn't raining, and two miles when it is. See a sunrise and read a poem at least once every week as long as you live. If you can't tell your wife you love her when you come home tired from the office, tell her at breakfast Ihe next morning. Sometimes that takes even more character. Never buy more a Ihrce things at one lime on the installment plan.

This advice, faithfully followed, may not make a young man a millionaire. But at least it should help keep him out of jail or the poornouse. That's about all you can expect from free advice. FBI Effective Under New Police Guidelines WASHINGTON Before the Supreme Court goes fully out of season, the words spoken recently by Chief Justice Earl Warren about J. Edgar Hoover's Federal Bureau of Investigation should be cast broadly across the land.

To say the least, when Justice Warren praises tlie FBI, a when the i bench finds compelling reason to praise such an ment agency, it is record making news. While handing down the famous "confession decision" the other day, Justice Warren undoubtedly disappointed some avant garde circles by stating that the FBI "has compiled an exemplary record" in this regard. He was supporting the court's claim that effective law enforcement is possible under the new guidelines for police questioning of suspects. Justice Warren, a former tough "D.A.," who grilled many criminals himself, pointed out that the FBI advises suspects or arrested persons at the put- set of an interview or questioning that they positively are not required to answer or make a statement. Furthermore, FBI agents point out that any statement given by the suspect may be used in court against him.

And that those arrested or questioned may secure a lawyer to secure their rights. If the suspect indicates, said Mr. Warren, that he wishes an attorney, the FBI agents cease their questioning immediately. And, added the chief justice, the FBI informs its prisoners or those being questioned that Ihey have the right to free counsel if they are unable to pay for a private lawyer. One thing has been overlooked especially by those who are perpetually emotional in their criticism of the Bureau: Justice Warren pointedly said that a regard for the rights of the accused can nevertheless produce "an admirable record of law enforcement." As a newsman who has wandered in and out of Scoutland Yard, Interpol, the Surete, the Carabinieri and even special police agencies in Tokyo and Yokohama, I can testify to the FBI's more scientific techniques, to ils respect for suspects which exceeds that of any other national law agency and ils "admirable record." Sylvia PORTER It Is worth looking at the record.

In the 1965 appropriation report to the Congress, Director Hoover noted that in 1964 the FBI brought 13,383 persons to trial. Of these there were 12,921 convictions. This Is 86.5 percent achievement. And, of these convictions, a total of 01 percent sprang 'from guilty pleas. There were 462 acquittals.

The Investigative matters received by the Bureau ranged from solving bank robberies, saving businessmen from the mobs' Invasion, getting goons off the backs of unions, prbbllng 14 Ku Klux Klan type organizations with a membership of about 9,000 frequently violent members. In all, the number of such "investigative matters" totaled 666,982. It would have been easy to haul in some of the suspects in this vast phalanx of crooks. Com munisls, racketeers, spies, kidnapers, and bank and auto thieves just to name a few. It would have been simple to pressure them.

The awe of the FBI's name alone could have cracked the endless chain of the Ten Most Wanted. But not in a single case did the Bureau use illegal mental or physical muscle. And in some instances, it must have been tempting. There are the Kluxer terrorists. There is the Midwestern syndicate hood who owns seemingly legitimate businesses, including a produce distributorship, a bakery, a race track, a bus lino, a real estate firm and a restaurant.

At each point his muscled "enforcers" deprive legitimate businessmen of their rights to compete. It must have been tempting to push just a little harder against the line of the law when such spies as John W. Bulenko, an electronics engineer, and Igor A. Ivanov, a Russian chauffeur for the Amtorg Trading were picked up red-handed in a New Jersey suburb. They were accorded the same rights as someone stealing a nickel stamp.

There are a thousand such men who daily threaten the security of the land and the inherent rights of millions in the citizenry. But the Bureau is battling for those rights without abusing anyone's rights, says Chiel Justice Warren. It is an accolade from a'man deeply admired by the Bureau's' sharpest crilics. It should not go unobserved. No Jobs For The Elderly "Let us repay our older Americans for their sustained creative participation in our national and community life by providing them with a wide range of meaningful let us find ways to employ the skill and wisdom that so many of our older Americans possess aund ion share President Johnson, March 26, 1964.

It was a ringing challenge indeed. more than two years later we are still answering it with a whimper. The Older Americans Act of 19G5 calls for the "opportunity for employment with no discriminatory personnel practices because of age." But job discrimination because of age remains brutally widespread in the U.S, today. In August of 1965 a blue ribbon Office of Economic Opportunity Task Force on Programs for Older Persons recommended 10 concrete programs to uplift the incomes of the elderly, all providing paying job opportunities. To date, only token action has been taken to implement them and only one in 100 poverty dollars is earmarked for Ihe elderly.

Nearly two years ago the President's Council on Aging recommended a new part time employment service under the U.S. Employment Service to help find more part time jobs for elderly Americans and provide more ducation and training op -portunilies for elderly workers. But only baby steps have been taken in this direction. Only one in 10 job trainees under the Manpower Developmen and Training Act is 45 years or older and only an insignificant fraction are as old as 65. The slogan for "senior Citizen's Monlh" in May promised a "new day for older Americans." The new day is far from dawning and in the words of Charles Odell, assistant to Ihe di- rcclpr of the U.S.

Employment Service, "There is no great cause for optimism." The stark fact is that the often desperate financial plight of our elderly citizens has been almost completely ignored by government, business, welfare agencies, poverty warriors. We have created a retirement income foundation through Social Security but we make it dreadfully i i for the estimated two- thirds of those reaching age 65 who would like to continue working to upplement this income through paying jobs. Corporations have expanded and improved pension plans for retired workers. But they still insist on cruelly arbitrary retirement policies which force older workers out of their jobs. Corporate hiring practices have stsadily reduced the age of the "older worker" to age 40-50 today.

As for "the Great Society," the elderly have been barred from helping the nation with its problems," says William R. Hutton, executive director of the National Council of Senior Citizens. "Many of those who tried to help have met the prevailing attitude of mere tolerance or condescension toward people over 65. Our so-called 'welfar'e' policies have been calculated to make the aged think poorly of themselves, sapping their self- respect." In blunt summary, none of our countless committees, study groups, task forces, gerontologi- cal seminars, Federal do-good agencies, ic. has managed to provide meaningful numbers of jobs for the millions who are willing, able and in need of work.

Now President Johnson is calling for yet another "special study" to find out "what we can do in the twilight period of people's lives." They need another study? No! What they need are JOBS. Tomorrow: Age Discrimination. So They Say If a more countries develop nuclear weapons, a country could be attacked without knowing who the attacker was, With this warn- William C. Foster, U.S. chief disarmament negotiator called for a treaty to ban the spread of nuclear weapons in the Interest of every nation.

Sheila Scott, the 28-yeai 1 old British ex-model, flew solo around the world and cut the flight time by more than half in the celebrated song about the Jules Verne mythical flight of 80 days..