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Loganiport, Ind. Friday, March 3, 1W3 THE BIG BLIZZARD OF "12 THB Editorial Comment From Other Papers Scales Being Tipped The constitutional guarantee of a "speedy and public trial" is being increasingly frustrated by a growing number of trial delays that attack the fabric of our courts. Procedural rules of the courts, the basic safeguard measures to assure fair trial, are the vital concepts under attack and the elements on which the militants focus. As Attorney General John Mitchell told the American Bar Association recently, the "hydra of excess proceduralisms, archaic formulas, pretrial and post-trial motions, appeals, postponements, continuances and collateral attacks can have the effect of dragging justice to death and stealing the very life out of the law." There also is truth to the belief of Chief Justice Warren E. Burger that "all too often overzealous advocates seem to think the zeal and effectiveness of a lawyer depends on how thoroughly he can disrupt proceedings." A speedy public trial is impossible if court procedures are misused deliberately to delay justice, rather than to assure it.

Examples abound to exhibit that such delay often subverts justice itself. The lengthy trial of the "Chicago Seven," the result of rioting that disrupted the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, remains unsettled to this day. Some of the defendants, including Yippie leader Jerry Rubin, have announced that they attend forthcoming conventions which could result in further legal impasses and erode deeper the concept of swift equitable justice. The same legal circumlocutions continue to shadow the longstanding case of revolutionary Angela Davis, who is awaiting trial with San Quentin inmate Ruche)! Magee on charges arising from a prisoner escape attempt in 1970 at the Marin County Courthouse in which four persons were slain. The mistrial declared in the against Black Panther Bobby Scale and Mrs.

Ericka Huggins is yet another example of how deliberate militant maneuvers are used to gain publicity and circumvent court proceedings. There are many others of a less spectacular nature. Indeed Lake and Cook counties have their share. No American with respect for the Constitution would argue that there is justification for legal shortcuts simply for the sake of procedures, or because the waiting line in the court is long. Far from it.

Each person accused of a crime is entitled to face his accusers, to have a full day in court and to be heard by a jury of his peers, if that is his wish. On the other hand each legal proceeding in the United States also must have a reasonable guarantee of finality, an assurance that justice will be served with reasonable dispatch. It is this very balance that is the life-blood of our system of justice. The balance is in grave jeopardy today, and with it the effectiveness of our system of jurisprudence. (Hammond Times) May Make Deserts Bloom A minor mystery solved in Vermont and a plastic developed in Arizona could make the world's deserts bloom.

Scientists have long noted the ability of plant foliage to condense water from fog. A botanist named H.W. Vogelman, of the University of Vermont, has duplicated nature's trick. "Fog-coming" screens, consisting of aluminum wire mesh strung on posts, produced nearly 70 percent more water than registered in regular rain guages during the test. An experiment was then conducted on a desert plateau in the Sierra Madres where fog and low clouds are frequent.

Again the results were dramatic. One station showed a 29 percent moisture increase, another 22 percent. It's believed that in similar arid regions, rows of screens erected at low cost could collect water from the air and direct it to newly planted trees. In time, the trees would act as their own "moisture combs." Parts of the recovered areas could also be used to produce fruits, grains and vegetables or to support livestock. Experiments with a new polymer gel at the University of Arizona may enable farmers to get more mileage out of moisture everywhere.

The gel, developed by a chemist during a search for a material that would separate salt from sea water, has the ability to grab water in soil THE PHAROS-TRIBUNE ft PRESS and hold it for plants to use as they need it. With an absorbent capacity 25 to 50 times its own weight, the biodegradable gel nearly eliminates water loss through evaporation or soil dissipation. The researchers have produced, for instance, bigger tomato using less water, and incomplete tests indicate that other plants, including flowers, will respond just as well. Marvelous thing, man's ingenuity. (Kokomo Times) In The Past The Man Has Good Vibes' Capitulation In Peking One Year Ago Mrs.

Paul W. Scherer will be leader for the World Day of Prayer Service from 1:30 to 3 p.m. Friday at the Ninth Strreet Christian Church. Ten Years Ago Logansport Berries lost to the Knox Indians 47 to 43 during the Logansport regional. Twenty Years Ago Logansport overcame its basketball difficulties and edged the Royal Center upstarts, 37 to 35, in a sectional tournament at Royal Center.

Fifty Years Ago Don Allman, Noblesville, district deputy of the Elks, was unstinted in his praise of the Logansport lodge when he spoke at a lodge meeting last night. By William F. Buckley, Jr. what one devoutly hopes will be the last toast ever of- JeredbyaPresidentoftheUnitedStates to Chairman Mao and Premier Chou, Chairman Mao and Premier Chou, Richard Nixon said, giddly, "This was the week that changed the world." For once he was not trafficking in hyperbole. It was surely such a week, and it was evident from the strain on the face of Henry Kissinger when he presented himself for questions after the communique was issued, that he also understood it.

Those who know Mr. Kissinger and his work are entitled to surmise that the whole China adventure settles now in his mind as nightmare. Here is what the Chinese gave up: 1) They consented to traffic with representatives of the government of the Unites States even though the United States still recognizes the government of Taiwan. 2) They performed routine rhetorical exercises on the theme of world peace, and national sovereignty, thereby dissappointing a few Berkeley sophomores and African purists who believed that Maoism would never equivocate on the primacy of its international revolutionary mission. When the NewYork Times reporter asked Mr.

Kissinger, what has the United States accomplished that wasn't accomplished by Ping-Pong, Mr. Kissinger, nettled, rattled off Chinese obeisances to the good international life. He might as well have cited the Soviet Union's guarantees as described in its constitution. Here is what the United States gave up: 1) With all the world poised to consider one point above all, namely the integrity of the United States' commitment to Taiwan, we issued a communique in which the Red Chinese asserted and re-asserted their absolute right to conquer Taiwan, while we uttered not one word on the subject of our defense treaty, not one word on the applicability of our priciples of self- government and "independence to the people of Taiwan. That staggering capitulation, for all that Kissinger sought to distract from it by Citing President Nixon's world report which reaffirms our defense treaty with Taiwan, is the salient datum in the week that changed the world.

All of Asia will understand that whatever the Mandarin niceties of the President's world report, at the crunch he didn't dare risk a social breach in Peking and its implications, merely to reassure the people and the government of Tai wan- notwithstanding that on announcing last summer that he would come to China, Mr. Nixon guaranteed that he would not jeopardize the best interests of our "friends." Since uttering those words, Mr. Nixon has seen the expulsion of Taiwan from the United Nations, and now the expulsion of Taiwan from the Presidential catalog of nations in Asia whose independence he is prepared to affirm while in China. 2) We have sense of moral mission in the world. Mr.

Nixon's appetite for a summit conference in Peking transformed the affair from a meeting of diplomatic technicians concerned to examine and illuminate areas of common interest, into a pageant of moral togetherness at which Mr. Nixon managed to give the impression that he was consorting with Marian Anderson, Billy Graham and Albert Schweitzer. Once he decided to come here himself, it was very nearly inevitable that this should happen. Granted, if It had been Theadore Roosevelt, the distinctions might have been preserved. But it is important to remember about Mr.

Nixon that he is so much the moral enthusiast that he alchemizes the requirements of diplomacy into the coin of ethics. That is why he toasted the bloodiest incumbent chief of state in the world in accents most of us would reserve for Florence Nightingale. 3)Mr. Nixon has almost certainly adjusted American politics in such a way as to compel almost the whole of the Democratic party to the position that we need to dump Taiwan. Previously, that had been an aberration of Senator George McGovern.

A few days ago, in the spirit of Peking, Senator Fulbnght took it up. Now, in the communique midwife by Richard Nixon, the Chinese list the independence of Taiwan as the principal obstacle to the "normalization" of relations between China and the U.S. (as if our normal relations with the Soviet Union had done anything for the peace and freedom of the world). And Richard Nixon, by his heroic actions of the past week, clearly puts normalization as the highest objective. The analytical deduction will necessarily occur to Democratic presidential candidates, and the arguments will have been made for them by Richard Nixon.

All of this might take a few years to transact, in America. But to Asia, they will have received the signal. They will have got Jt by the time these words are printed. Mr. Kissinger spoke about the Peking summit "in terms of the direction to which it seeks to point" and of tte basic objective" of motion a train of events and an evolution in the policy of our two countries." That was brilliantly accomplished.

We should certainly know, by now, the direction in which we are headed. No wonder that they are toasting here, with increasing ardor, the health ol Richard Nixon. BY JACK O'BRIAN NEW YORK king Lionel Hampton's already booked for the re-elected-Nixon Inauguration Ball, he tells us. Somerset Maugham's secretary-companion for decades, Alan Searle, has turned down a real fortune to write a book about his late boss. The Old Party's confessed homosexuality is the vulgar key to the big offers but Searle won't do it.

Maugham left him far more than enough money not to Revlon's European Pres. Paul Hughes and his Patsy are divorcing. Sad. Nice people. Eva Gabor's serious, even if Sinatra isn't Sports Illustrated gifted writer Dan Jenkins has a first novel, "Semi-Tough," that has the galley-proofers prophesying certain best-sellerdom WIIHe Frelschauer's book "David frtmt really takes that carbonated Englilh import apart.

Diahann won't like Itt Only makeup artist in "Who's Who" is Dick Smltth, who Mafia-aged Brando for "The Godpappy." Duke Ellington hasn't much more room for honors but collects three more anyway: Downbeat Mag's top composer, arranger, and big-band categories Greek money-shipper Stavros Niarchos bought the Chateau de la Croe from the Duke of Windsor 15 years never stayed in it one night. But his bride Tina looked it over and now they'll live in that Antibes showplace permanently This is Publicity Today: the news Juliet Prowse is being signed to play the Mt. Airy Lodge also includes the leer that she's "having a baby out of wedlock" That's taking candor from a baby, no? One of the "Superstar" leads was told by the management to cut out the public boozing and cussing Tennessee Williams Is writing again but not a play. Says his project Is "either a novel or a rambling memoir." Not, he says, an autobiography The deal for Faberge, Cary Grant's firm, to buy Compoz and Zizanie isn't quite closed yet. Handshakes, but they aren't worth the paper they're written on, of course South African-Italian Sergio Franchl's becoming a U.S.

citizen. Our gain. Critic Marya Mannes now reveals she was a World War II spy. For our side Her cover was as New Yorker mag reporter in Spain and She reversed some of the usual Bonded-tension: a German spy once saved her Danish secretary Birgitte van Deurs becomes a "Royal" British princess via marriage to Prince Richard of Gloucester. The Duchess of Windsor's been wed to her ex-king 35 years and still hasn't been officially dubbed "royal" Next week is "Return Borrowed Books anyone know the author of the quatrain: The characters who borrow books come from all races and religions.

I wish some kind Burbankian guy would cross my books with homing pigeons. Suzanne and Sidney Blackmer (Sidney's been ill) proved he's fit again at L'Aigion. Said both will appear in "Night of the Cat," to be filmed in Charlotte, N.C., in Copa headliner Bobby Darin lugs a tape recorder to all interviews to make certain no one misquotes him. A regular Chou En-lai, eb? Crime is costing the nation's business almost $16 billion a year, but the Commerce Dep't says businessmen are too apathetic about spending what it takes to erase it Karen Morrow, who belts out a song like Merman, was signed for "The Selling of the President" and didn't get one song to wallop. Now they may write one in Especially after the three Philly reviews.

All bad. After Dark mag gives its "Ruby" award to Dorothy Collins one of the major "Follies" excitements after all those coootsy-poo early Hit Paraded too-cute years If Jessica Walters wins an Oscar for "Play Misty for Me" she'll certainly indulge a pregnant pause on the way to the podium: As Mrs. Ross Bowman she's expecting a baby in May Caesars Palace topped Yugoslavia's bid for the Bobby Fischer-Russki chess championship ($175,000 to the Yugo $153,000) The players decided Caesars Palace has too many distractions. Of course it has. The Stage Deli's No.

1 pastrami- messenger is called "Johnny" for short. Long, he's really Cnanabhong Changkrajang, a Bangkok U. featherweight champ in his native Thailand. Now he's working his way through kasha. That's a wheat germ with a college education "Two by Two" was a terrible musical but Tricla O'Neill (got unanimously great reviews) was the one marvelous item in it.

The talent scouts mustn't've been able to separate her gold from the dross. Hasn't worked since. Power of TV: N.Y. police surgeon Dr. Arthur Michele's surname properly is pronounced "Mishelli," but after TV appearances (Mike Douglas etc.) for his book "Orthotherapy," so many calls came pronouncing his name the same as Mike mispronounced it (Mishell) that Doc's decided not to fight it.

Mishell it is henceforth, he sighs Brando (25 films) and Liz Taylor (40) think they are celluloid veterans but Jack Warner's "1776" movie is Jack's Jeri Farrell is a Yonkers housewife, dedicated mother of two, and has balanced the bit thus: to massage ego and tonsils, Jeri sings eight weeks a year with the band at Roseland. Nuclear Sub Race Is Arms Cut Snag the small society WASHINGTON the signs of an improving U.S.-Soviet climate, they do not yet cover the highly competitive field of missile- bearing nuclear submarines. Both sides are still untrusting. The Nixon administration has indicated it would like the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks to consider some ceiling on sea-based offensive weapons, but the Russians are resisting. Coupled with other evidence, such as Soviet arms aid to the Egyptians and naval deployment in the Indian Ocean, the resistance on submarines gives President Nixon pause.

In his newest State of the World message, he takes note of the hopeful signs but then adds it is "unclear whether we are now witnessing a permanent change in Soviet policy or only a passing phase concerned more with tactics than with a fundamental commitment to a stable international system." The basically conciliatory tone of Nixon's report thus is threaded through with strong notes of caution: in virtually every category of strategic offensive and defensive weapons the Soviet Union has continued to improve its capability. "These collective developments raise serious questions concerning Soviet objectives. The Soviet Union is continuing to create strategic capabilities beyond a level which by any reasonable standard already seems sufficient In this regard, the President appears particularly impressed that Russia's missile-bearing submarine by Brickman fleet is believed today to carry some 500 nuclear-armed missiles. He clearly feels Moscow is coming close to matching us in this field. The impasse on submarines in the SALT talks is the consequence.

Russia does not want any limitation on Polaris-type vessels until it has indeed caught up, if it can. Our response to that effort, of course, is to try to see that it does not catch up. And the irony is that the longer an agreement on the issue is resisted at SALT, the more certain it BRUCE BIOSSAT noil- and Sunday Doily and Soturdoys and Holiday.) Me per by conitr in all citwl Sv moil in Indiono no carrier or motor Mrvkw W' ind $26 A mail moil ivbifriplion, carrier or motor route oxmv 1M March 3, 1 Loaonwor' Eitabliirwd 1921 aurday and by tooamport Ncwipopcn, Inc. 317 trocA- VS.cond clou poitog. paid at urxUr th.

act MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATION is that the United States will move to advance its position with sea-based missiles. We are already in process of equipping 31 of our 41 Polaris submarines with longer-range Poseidon missiles. Ten have been converted and probably another 10 will be finished by early 1973. Generally missed is the fact that these larger missiles are being fitted with at least 10 warheads which can be sent to that many independent targets. Multiply that capacity by 31 conversions and you have a potential of 4,960 sea-based warheads hi U.S.

Poseidons by the mid-1970s. And you must add the missiles on the remaining unconverted 10 Polaris vessels, each with 16 missiles. That extra 160 raises the warhead potential to 5,120. As if all this were not enough, Mr. Nixon is moving this year to accelerate development of a whole new sea-based missile system, with bigger, quieter (less detectable) submarines and missiles perhaps capable of double the Poseidon range.

He asks for $900 million in development money for this system, called ULMS. That is nearly nine times what he sought for it last year. Unmistakably, we are making the sea-based missile our chief reliance, more than land-based missiles or bombers. The headlong push will go on unless it is somehow checked in the SALT talks..