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Editorials Ghost Haunts Land Our growing awareness of the environmental crisis we have brought upon ourselves with our technology has had a curious side effect. The American dead and vanished one, not the living one relegated to the backwaters of has re-emerged as a sort of folk hero and model whose way of life, it is suggested, we ought to try to return to. The red man lived on this continent for tens of thousands of years before the white man came, we are told, yet it was as unspoiled as it was before the Indian himself crossed over from Asia between the last Ice Ages. The red man lived in harmony with nature, we are told, adapting himself to his environment. He felt a kinship with all living things.

He was in some ways more of a practicing Christian than those who self-righteously ousted him from his home. Some of our hippies, in their rejection of hectic modern society, have gone back to the land and have adopted lifestyles similar to that of the Indian, complete to beads, feathers and magic. But while the Indian certainly deserves this tardy appreciation of his character, and while he had many admirable qualities worthy of imitation, it would be a mistake to romanticize the Indian to the point where we consider him altogether noble and the white displacing him an unmitigated tragedy. The Indian did not so much live in harmony with nature as exist at its mercy. He did not despoil his environment on any significant scale simply because he lacked the power to do so.

The Indian did not practice conservation, nor did he need to. He hunted game until it was depleted, then moved on to new hunting grounds, fighting wars with his own kind for control of them. He practiced the wasteful method of sometimes setting whole forests on fire to drive game into a small area, killing more animals than he could possibly use. He farmed his fields until their fertility was exhausted, then abandoned them and moved to a new location in, for him, an inexhaustible wilderness. As for his reverence for life, this did not stop him from depopulating huge areas of beavers and other fur-bearing animals to satisfy the insatiable demands of the European fur traders.

Indeed, the fur trade epitomizes what was really tragic about the meeting of red man and both races took from the other and gave to the other the worst qualities of each. From the Indian the white man learned scalping and savagery, from the white man the Indian learned greed and debauchery. Yet even when the Indian is there remains a basic character modern Americans could do worse than to emulate (and in the doing perhaps begin to deliver some long overdue justice to the neglected descendants). It is time we took from the Indian one last thing, the first thing he willingly offered us in the abiding sense of oneness with the earth and all its creatures. part of this soil is said Chief Sealth, or Seattle, more than a century ago, a notable friend of the white man after whom the city of Seattle was named.

hillside, every valley, every plain and grove has been hallowed by some sad or happy event in days long vanished When your children think themselves alone in the field, the store, the shop, upon the highway, or in the silence of the pathless woods, they will not be alone At night when the streets of your cities and villages are silent and you think them deserted, they will throng with the returning hosts that once filled and still love this beautiful land white man will never be Wait Before You Hate Both phosphates and breakfast cereals have been under attack lately. The one, an ingredient in laundry detergents, has been blamed for providing too much nutrition to lake algae by way of sewage runoff. The other has been accused of providing too little nutrition to children. But the two wrongs may be combined to make a right, if an experiment being conducted in Ann Arbor, proves out. In a program aimed at finding a tooth decay preventive, nearly 1,000 teen-age students in that public schools are being given breakfast cereals enriched with phosphates.

Tooth decay is caused by acids from decomposing food which dissolve minerals in teeth, explains Dr. Nathaniel Rowe, professor of dentistry at the University of Michigan and director of the program. It goes on, he says, to the tune of some $4 billion a year which Americans spend on dental repair bills. Theoretically, showering teeth with phosphate ions should replace the minerals taken from teeth by food acids. Animals fed a diet high in phosphate content have shown greatly reduced tooth decay.

The same thing should happen in humans. The researchers will know for sure when the three-year experiment is completed in the spring of 1971. Inside Washington Congress May Cut Spending For Election By ROBERT S. ALLEN and JOHN A. GOLDSMITH WASHINGTON As the off- year elections approach, some congressional budget experts are predicting that congress will make a small reduction not an increase in the total appropriation recommended by President Nixon.

This is, it should be noted, a very uncertain kind of predicting. It is by no means certain that Congress will have acted on all the appropriations bills by Election Day, and there are all sorts of other uncertainties at this point. Furthermore, it should be stressed that this prediction applies only to congressional action on money bills. It is not a broad budget appraisal. It does not take into account such deficit- producing factors as the failure of Congress to enact most of Mr.

$4.8 billion in revenue requests. With those qualifications, however, it can be said that there is some political significance in the appropriations estimate, no matter how It goes to the line of political attack which the President is developing for the congressional campaigns. Mr. Nixon has been accusing the Democratic-controlled Congress of feeding inflation with unrestrained spending mandates. A net reduction in the overall appropriation requests would give campaigning Democrats a ready-made response.

That response was very clear last week when the Senate followed the lead of the House The People's Choice? 1 and overwhelmingly over-rode the veto of the education appropriation bill. In the Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield, said it was a matter of national Not a single Senate Democrat went along with the President (who also lost more than half of the Senate Republicans). Even Sen. Harry F. Byrd the conservative son of a conservative father who recently rejected the Democrats to campaign as an independent, voted for schools and ignored the anti-inflation plea.

It is certainly fair to ask, under the circumstances, whether the President is trying to use a presidential year campaign issue for off-year congressional campaigning. There are reasons to wonder whether the inflation drive will have a grassroots pay-off this time. Mr. Nixon will have many opportunities to press the inflation argument from the best podium. The present economic circumstances with evidences of inflation and recession will not help him, however.

House candidates in congressional districts hard hit by unemployment in industries such as Aerospace may be quite The Hillsdale Daily News 33 McCollum E. HAYHOW JOE P. LACKEY, Advertising Director WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1970 RICHARD CONNOR Managing Editor Michigan HERBERT F. HA1E PublMw KENNETH E. ROWERS Production Director Your Problems Analyzed Preventive Therapy Early Often Advisable By ANN LANDERS Dear Ann Landers: I am an R.N.

who has worked in psychiatry for 23 years. The last 15 years I have been taking care of mentally ill children. I would like to call attention to a symptom few laymen recognize, one that can precede some serious psychiatric ailments. I refer to the inhumane treatment of Here's Mental Health Test By the time a child is three to four years of age he should be aware that animals suffer pain when they are mistreated. An emotionally healthy child does not enjoy seeing either animals or his playmates suffer.

ROSETTES By Elinor K. Mow UP-DOWN SWALLOW Drinking fountains are dispersed In public spots to quench your thirst, And this is fine, excepting that hard to take an aspirin at. By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) A man is usually as mentally healthy as he thinks himself to be. But the world is so mixed up today that if a fellow feels good he wonders what is wrong with him. Is he on the beam or off his rocker? Maybe his best friend tell him and even his hairdresser know for sure.

Whom can he turn to for help? Here is a handy little do-it- yourself test that should show you what state your mind is in? Simply ask yourself the following questions: Do you have five friends whose loyalty to you is unquestionable, who would defend you under any circumstances, and who would be truly glad if you unexpectedly made a million dollars? Every now and then when you look into the mirror you get a wild hope that your hair is coming in a little thicker on top? Does your wife understand only too well? Camden Mr. and Mrs. Denver Buehrer have returned from a two week trip. They visited her brother, Cecil Hyatt and family at Camarillo, their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.

Clyde Reed and family at Newton, Kans. and a brother, Ben Hyatt and family, in Detroit. Mr. and Mrs. Buehrer spent a day in Coldwater with their son, James and family.

Holly Haynes of East Lynn, W. Va. is vacationing with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Lavern Haynes and family.

Is it not true that you sometimes suspect your doctor keeps his best medicines for himself and some of his pet patients? Even though you know nutty people often have the delusion they are being followed, you more than once had an uneasy conviction that you were being followed yourself? If you just had more time, learn a foreign language or do something else to improve your cultural level, you? Suppose you were in a wagon train under attack, and someone had to try to ride through the encircling Indians to get help from the U.S. cavalry. volunteer for that mission- right? Can you write down from memory your Social Security number, your car license number, your blood type, the number of people you have borrowed $5 or more from in the last year, and the manner in which the 50 stars in the American flag are arranged? When the boss tells a funny story to the gang around the office water cooler, you laugh along with the others even though you catch the punchline, do you not? Those are the questions. Now to the score. If you answered either yes or no to all the questions, you are'a mentally unbalanced hypocrite menace to yourself and to others.

But if you answered yes to some and no to makes no particular difference which are a normal liar, no more confused than most people, and can let your mind alone, which is about the best thing you can do for it anyway. Pittsford Mr. and Mrs. Merle Armstrong of Chula Vista, have returned to their home after spending a month visiting their parents, the Jasper Arm strongs. Merle, who is a teacher working with handicapped children in San Diego County, was recently awarded a certificate as the outstanding teacher of that county.

Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Armstrong and families were guests of Mrs. Percy Raymond in Jackson while they were visiting here. Mr.

Raymond died recently. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Bailey, Mr. and Mrs.

Roy Good speed and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Warren of Detroit were hosts for a birthday dinner honoring Harold Warren at the Merry Lake Restaurant. Charles Mort of Cumberland, spent a few days with his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs.

Dale Bellman and family. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Deal and family have been on a camping trip in Northern Michigan. They went to Interlochen Music Camp to pick up Pam Deal, who has been an assistant counselor at the camp this summer, before returning home.

Superintendent Harvey Hauer has returned from a weeks vacation from his school duties. The Steve Laske's have painted their newly purchased home on First and Market Streets. Mike Clark has completed a two week institute for fire and casualty insurance salesmen. He will be employed at the Hillsdale Agency while attending college. I have cared for many children who were considered youngsters except for this isolated symptom they were caught mutilating or torturing an animal.

I am not hung up on animals. I have no pets and I particularly care for them. But I DO love children. Please alert the parents in your reading audience, Ann. The number of very sick children seems to be increasing.

Many could be helped if they were treated REESE R.N. Dear R.N.: Too often acts of sadism by the young are ignored. Parents say, just a mean kid. outgrow Your letter should open some eyes. Preventive therapy is easier, less costly and infinitely less painful than curing a full blown illness.

Dear Ann Landers: I am looking out the window at three lonely little girls all under six years of age. They have an indifferent mother and a father who wanted boys. The following message is for him: Dear Mr. College Hero: sure you are aware the male parent determines the sex of the child. It is not your fault if she produced a male heir.

Instead of parading your disappointment why not offer your services to a club or become a Big Brother or assist with YMCA or Boy Scout activities? You might also consider 'The laborer deserves his Timothy 5:18. Every man should make up his mind that if he expects to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other mans Edward Harriman. American business leader happy to have the Republicans warning voters, recently unemployed, about Democratic spending and the dangers of inflation. They may not mind the tar from that brush. For all Democratic candidates there is also the matter of priorities and, hopefully, the small net reduction in appropriations.

The argument will be that congressional Democrats have not irresponsibly fanned inflation, but simply reordered administration priorities toward the human needs. Incumbent Democrat House members may be able to make a plus, rather than a minus, out of their votes for schools (the local schools, of course) and hospitals (the hospital there, in the home district). It is on the local level that the votes will be counted in November. have a net (appropriation) one budget expert told us, small one nothing like last Last year Congress cut a whopping $6.4 billion from Mr. recommended appropriations, but there were special circumstances which will not be repeated this time.

About $5 billion of last cut was accounted for by reductions ordered by the Pentagon. Congress got credit for those cuts because the Pentagon did not formally withdraw its money requests. This year Congress has already added more than $2 billion to the appropriations request by its actions to date. This is how its future decisions could produce that small net reduction: Defense Appropriation With totals still very uncertain, experts believe a reduction of as much as $2 billion can be made in the defense money bill. The procurement authorization, partial basis for the money bill, will be cut more than $1 billion.

Military Construction The House has cut about $100 million from a $2.1 billion request. The Senate will probably make the cut a couple of hundred million. Foreign Aid The House trimmed about $700 million from the $2.9 billion request. Some of the cut will be restored by the Senate, but the cut could be $500 million. Congressional leaders have some flexibility as they seek to keep the total appropriations down for now.

With control of the appropriations committees they can always defer money requests for action in supplemental bills after Congress reconvenes in January. Wizardland May Outshine Disneyland adopting a child. Then you could be SURE to get a boy. In the meantime try giving your little giris some affection. be surprised at how much get MOTHER Dear B.C.M.: Although you directed your remarks to a father in Michigan your letter will hit close to homes in every state in the union.

Thanks for writing. Dear Ann Landers: I read the letter from the widow who sold her lovely house and moved in with her daughter. She wrote: was the biggest mistake of my life. I am now a guest in somebody lucky. I made the same mistake but no guest.

a maid and laundress, a nurse, a gardener, a short-order cook and an answering service. I am not suggesting that my daughter and son-in-law had this in mind when they begged me to move in with them. They were truly concerned that I would be lonely, but you know the old saying, road to hell is paved with good I work harder now than I ever worked in my own home, there are four children here and the music is so loud I have three-day headaches. I am under tension constantly and avoid expressing an opinion for fear be guilty of or the cardinal sins of old people. I was a fool to give up my own home.

If this letter helps just one widow make up her mind, it was worth the pain it caused to write it. Where were you three years 2 go, Ann SACRAMENTO Dear Sac: I was here three years ago, giving the same advice. You probably read it but it meant nothing because you a widow then and the problem was of no interest. Hindsight has 20-20 vision. By GENE HANDSAKER Associated Press Writer HOLLYWOOD (AP) Ray Bolger, who played the scarecrow in quest of a brain in Wizard of is the brain behind a project to out- Disney Disneyland.

Its tentative title: The Wonderful Wizardland of Oz. Such an attraction already exists on a North Carolina mountaintop, Bolger said. But his goal is to bring bigger and better ones to the Los Angeles area and probably Florida. Today In History By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Today is Wednesday, Aug. 26, the 236th day of 1970.

There are 127 days left in the year. highlight in history: On this date in 1346, artillery was said to have been used for the first the Battle of Crecy in Northern France. On this date: In 1584, the Dutch painter, Frans Hals, was born in Antwerp. In 1765, the home of Gov. Thomas Hutchinson of Massachusetts was sacked by a mob who thought he favored the British Stamp Act.

In 1883, the volcano Krakatos, in the Dutch East Indies, erupted. Seismic sea waves killed some 36,000 persons. In 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution went into effect. American women were guaranteed the same voting rights as men.

In 1934, Adolf Hitler demanded that France return the Saar to Germany. Ten years United States broke off diplomatic relations with the Dominican Republic as the Organization of American States accused the Dominican government of aggression against Venezuela. Five years ago President Lyndon B. Johnson called for a responsible noninflationary set- 'lement of a labor dispute in the steel industry. The Hillsdale Daily News Second Class Postage Paid at Hillsdale, Mich.

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Wizard is but one of various activities busying the still- agile 66-year-old stage and screen veteran. Bolger, whose latest movie was Walt in in 1961, recently played swinging on a segment of Shirley new fall television series, Partridge On his beautifully landscaped acre in Beverly Hills, where he lives with his wife of 41 years, he grows figs, peaches and other fruit. In a back yard studio, crowded with piano, sound gear and music files, he practices dance steps for occasional appearances with a hilarious routine in night clubs and concert halls. Bolger additionally is a paid lecturer around the country on' his recollections of on patriotism and on the dance as the barometer of world trends. Increasingly frenetic dancing portended both world wars, he said.

To the Editor Hillsdale Dally News Hillsdale, Michigan 4924 2 Driver Hits Dog and Doesn't Stop The person with no feelings for animals, who hit the black dog on S. Allen Road and left it beside the road dead is in my mind a heartless being, not even a human. He even have the decency to leave his or her address and name or see to it the dog was hurt or dead. People like this disgust me and 1 think something should be done about it. MRS.

AILEEN HITE S. Allen Road Allen "Maybe things aren't as dehumanized as we thought. Here's another form letter with the complimentary closing, 'Warmest personal.