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Much the same thing is happening to the food stamp program
as has happened to the Social Security system
Bom in the Great Depression, Social Security was intended to
provide a minimum income for those no longer working or unable
to work Its purpose was to stave off dire poverty among the
elderly, the disabled, the widowed or orphaned
Since then, of course, for millions of Americans Social Security
has become their sole retirement income rather than merely a
supplement to other income or savings As every working person
knaws, payroll deductions needed to pay for steadily increasing
Social Security benefits have soared to the point where many
Americans are paying more in Social Security taxes than in in-
come taxes
Likewise. food stamps were originally conceived as a food-
purchase subsidy provided by the federal government for
families or individuals below a certain level of income Since
1971, enrollment in the program has risen from about 9.4 million
people to nearly 20 million and its cost is expected to reach $6.5
billion in the fiscal year that began July 1.
How far we have departed from the original concept of the
program is shown by the recent ruling by the U.S. Court of
Appeals in Washington invalidating the formula upon which food
stamp payments are based The action was taken in response to a
class-action suit brought by nine low-income families, the city of
New York, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National
Welfare Rights Organization.
"For a family that needs a loaf of bread, the offer of a slice is
poor comfort." saida three-judge panel, ordering the Agriculture
Department to come up with a new formula that allows food
stamp recipients to purchase "a nutritionally adequate diet ”
Most people will probably go along with this, just as they have
gone along with the idea that Social Security should provide every
American with an adequate standard of living—assuming that we
can agree on what is "adequate" in either case.
But while the Agriculture Department is liberalizing its
eligibility requirements for those who really need food stamps, it
is long past time for it to tighten up its procedures to exclude
those who don't need them
Congress has passed a temporary law banning stamps for
students claimed as dependents by well-off families Just the
other day. however, the Senate Agriculture Committee was told
that the department's complicated schedule of deductions is
allowing many middle-income families to qualify for government
help in paying their grocery bills Expenses that can be sub-
tracted from gross income include such things as federal, state
and local taxes. Social Security taxes, medical costs over $10 a
month, child care payments. tuition fees, rent or mortgages
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Amid the rumors and suspicions and allegations that the Cen
tral Intelligence Agency with the knowledge of American
presidents plotted or perpetrated the assassination of certain
foreign heads of state a number of commentators have question
ed whether this kind of secret. gunpoint diplomacy is
necessarily and always evil
Calling it not murder but tyrannicide columnist John P Roche
asks "Would it have been unconstitutional immoral and
generally dreadful if some American intelligence agent had put a
30-caliber slug into Hitler's skull in, say, 19372"
On the face of it, it might appear that the 20th century would
have been a far happier one had someone dispatched Herr Hitler
when he first raised Nazism's ugly head The same could be said
about Torquemada and the 15th century or Genghis Khan and the
12th century
The argument collapses however, as soon as we consider the
death of a leader like Abraham Lincoln Yet his assassin fervent
ly believed that he was ridding the world of a tyrant The student
who assassinated the Archduke of Austria in 1914 and
precipitated the First World War no doubt thought of his act as
heroic
Of course, neither of these tyrannicides nor others which
have dramatically altered history, was the official act of an
organized government They were the work of fanatic in-
dividuals Nevertheless, it would be perilous if we came to
believe that even in the case of a Hitler we can set up a standard
of morality for governments separate from that demanded of in
dividuals in society
Yes it can be argued that it would have been a good thing if
someone had killed Hitler in 1937 Perhaps Stalin, too But what
about Mussolini’ And Franco’ Once embarked on such a course
where would we stop’
The assassination of Fidel Castro in 1962 or 1963 would not have
changed the factors that brought him into power in the first
place, any more than the assassination of Prsident Diem of South
Vietnam was of benefit to that tragic land And as for Adolph
Hitler, there were other, nonmurderous means of dealing with
him in 1937. if world statesmen had had the guts to stand up to
him
One feature distinguishing the American political experiment ’
from all others before it was that it provided a peaceful means
for changing rulers If we ever reach the point where we practice
a different morality in our dealings with foreign nations than we
practice at home, if we adopt "tyrannicide" as a valid. even if
only a last-resort method of furthering national policy, we will
have assassinated all that is best in ourselves
Gun control for
better or worse
The opponents of stiffer handgun control legislation have a
point, maybe a number of points One of them, unfortunately is
summed up in the rather simplistic slogan. When guns are out
lawed, only outlaws will have guns
This is quite true, but the same thing could be said about
anything else society attempts to regulate ( When harmful
bugs are outlawed, only outlaws will have drugs ”) No law has
ever deterred anyone who wanted to break it
Another much more compelling argument is that there are
already plenty of laws on the books to deal with criminals with
guns The trouble is that the laws are not enforced Mandatory
long prison sentences strictly meted out to people who use guns in
the commission of a felony would do wonders to cut the crime
rate
Even so ,all the arguments are overwhelmed by abundant
statisttics.showing that far more people are killed by guns
nishased for protection" than by guns in the hands of crim
.Thiswell-documented fact was underscored recently in
testimony, before a House Judiciary subcommittee by A
Reginald Eaves, safety commissioner of Allanta, which has the
highest handgun homicide rate in the country
wThe victims of gun killings more often than not are husbands
wivss,relative, or friends, said Eaves, and the motives for most
andvrngg.from anger and drunken arguments to jealousy
cThencity with the second highest handgun homicide rate is
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have besuresmore must be done to enforce the laws we already
payments and union dues and alimony payments
Urging its members not to be "too proud” to apply for food
stamps, the National Education Assn reports that one Minnesota
teacher, with six children, qualified for stamps despite an income
of $14,900
Twenty million is a lot of people It's nearly one out of every 10
Americans In that large a number of food stamp recipients there
are bound to be abuses, as well as instances where truly needy
families are not receiving as much as they need No doubt there
are also many Americans who could qualify for the stamps but
cling to the rather old fashioned idea that they are responsible for
their own support and that of their children
The trouble is that the food stamp program is merely a kind of
Ba nd-Aid remedy applied to one symptom of the underlying
sickness in the economy As noted, its enrollment has more than
doubled in four years Unless the fundamental problems at infla-
tion and unemployment are solved, it could grow even more
prodigiously in coming years
Students have rights Teachers have rights Now the rights of
parents have been officially recognized in one city, reports
Education U.S.A newsletter
They are contained in a "Parents Bill at Rights and Respon-
sibilities" adopted by the Philadelphia Home and School Council
and the Parents Union of Philadelphia and approved by the school
board Among the 15 rights granted parents are
To be treated with courtesy by the school staff To be respected
as individuals regardless of race, economic status, sex or age To
be informed of school policies and decisions as well as avenues
for changing policies and appealing decisions To be allowed to
inspect their child's records and to remove or correct any "false
or misleading statements
Among parent's responsibilities are
To strive to prepare the child emotionally and socially to make
him receptive to learning and discipline To try to have the child
attend school regularly and on time, and to help the child develop
proper study habits
BROWNWObO BULLETIN
“Damn the advisers, full speed ahead!”
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By Ray Cromley
WASHINGTON — (NEA1 — Mao Tse-tung is now engaged in an
all-out effort to get the United States and West Europe to snatch
his chestnuts out of the fire.
He’s intent on selling the United States on keeping a strong
enough force in the waters off Southeast Asia and a sufficient
diplomatic and economic presence to blunt Russian expansion
He has an abiding fear of Soviet encirclement, which seems high
on the list of Kremlin aims. And Mao also hopes, through a con-
tinued United States presence, to keep the door open for the
building of a more effective Chinese-sponsored underground in
Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines
It is clear that after Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia, Mao is not
worried that American operations in Asia will be any bar to the
particular brand of underground subversion and guerrilla war-
fare in which he has proven his technical genius On the contrary,
a buildup of Russian-backed parties, as has occurred in Latin
America, Africa and in South Asia, could prove a hard-to-beat
combination
Mao's stay-in-Asia messages to the United States come in the
form of covert hints to sources close to American diplomatic
circles Mao has learned, by careful observation, that U.S.
foreign service officers, the State Department hierarchy and
selected influential academic leaders jump much more quickly to
the bait when the hints are indirect, channeled confidentially
through men with “inside contacts ”
The Chinese have also let it be known in Japan, again
“secretly" but taking care to make certain the secret is spread,
that they are not seeking to end the alliance that country has with
the United States As has been well reported, they confidentially
told President Marcos of the Philippines they had no objection to
American bases in his country Mao's men have also hinted
strongly they are in no hurry to acquire Taiwan, now governed by
Chiang Kai-shek's successors
The I rated States is not Mao's only target He's been spryly ac-
tive these past months in inviting a bevy of West European
leaders to China, giving them red carpet treatment, having his
men suggest to these Westerners that Europe, not China, is
Brezhnev's target
There has been a veritable parade of West Germans Again and
again with infinite patience. Mao's aides drum on the theme that
the Kremlin is making a feint to the East, against China, only to
bemuse and distract West Europe Once Britain, France and
West Germany relax, the story runs. the Russians will move in
Premier Chou En-lai tells the Europeans they must strengthen
themselves economically, politically and militarily Teng Hsiao-
ping indirectly urges the British to stay in the Common Market
The Chinese pull no punches in deriding the naivete of those Euro-
pean leaders who believe in promoting friendship with Russia
and who work actively for detente
Mao's hope, of course, is that a financially strong, united,
militarily effective West Europe, reaching out politically and
economically to East Germany. Poland, Czechoslovakia,
Eungarv and Rumania, will keep Leonid Brezhnev and his
Kremlin colleagues so occupied in the West that Mao and
associates will be free to follow their aims in Africa, the Middle
East Latin America and Asia
'if there's to be conflict. the Chinese strategy runs, let it be
between the superpowers and their Western allies, leaving Pek
ing free to pick up the piece
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Discriminating juries
Juries seem to be much more reluctant to vote large awards
when the government is the defendant in a damage suit than
when private insurance company money is involved.
This is one of the findings of an analysis of personal injury
cases involving government agencies just completed by the staff
of Jury Verdict Research, Inc
One reason, suggest the researchers, is that jurors (who are
taxpayers in everyday life) realize the money they are awarding
comes from them in the long run. Or it may be a way of telling
governments - local, state and federal - to slow down on their
spending
The majority of suits analyzed involved local and state
governments, and it was found that larger awards were granted
against state governments than local ones The smallest awards
were those involving faulty maintenance of public property
Other categories included negligent acta by government
employes and suits against school districts in all of these
situations, awards were below national averages in suits between
private parties
In a number of states and municipalities, juries are not allowed
to decide the outcome of a suit when the government is the defen-
dant This seems to be changing, however, says Jury Verdict
Research, and more areas are providing for jury trials in these
cases
ren longpoughgoallof mental health professionals has been
mental hospitatssyrtstmtimeein thenhistory of the state and county
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county mental hospital ase iJpatient population in state and
decrease has beennrecordedthe 19th consecutive year such a
state andscoduntyimantanggsherrwerezs 573 patients housed in
drop from 1965. the peak vear of This represented a 61 per cent
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eluding increased availabiiitd tedforthis downward trend. m
sychiatric care facHit.es for the a^ed^n alternate, nonp-
patient care, the introduction ageduimproved access to out-
centers and the use of mor. oneon. community mental health
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By Tam Tiede
WASHINGTON — (NEAj — In their ongoing research into
ways to destroy one another military scientists of several
nations are working on the use of magnified light and sound as
war weapons High frequency "infra sound theoretically would
work on soldiers in the same way some gasses do. and brilliant
light could blind the opposition or induce epileptic fits in its ranks
Sen Robert Packwood. (R-Ore .1 estimates the bureacracy
necessary to administer the registering of Americas handguns
would cost $4 billion, or about $100 per pistol .. Restive Viet-
namese refugees say they are eagerly awaiting the fate of the 200
who are officially trying to go back to Southeast Asia If that
group gets back, and if it is handled fairly by the new Communist
regime the word is many thousands" of other refugees will also
opt to return While the nation awaits positive action from
Congress on a variety of critical matters, including energy, un-
employment and housing, the news from the House Small
Business Subcommittee on Commodities and Services is that it is
thinking of enacting laws to aid people who are complaining
about. sigh, a shortage of home canning lids.
If ailing Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas retires
soon as some predict, women pushing for a female replacement
hope president Ford does not follow the strategy of his
predecessor On announcing potential court nominees, Richard
Nixon always included the names of women with limited appeal
thus fearing no great objection when he chose the men The
Union Bank of Switzerland has recently determined that Kuwait,
with $11,000 worth of goods and services tor each member of its
population, is the wealthiest per capita nation in the world; the
U.S . with $6,595 worth of things per person, ranks No.5 John
Connally has told friends be is "probably'' going to run for the
Senate from Texas Congress passes about 600 laws annually,
but non-elected bureaucrats in government agencies write 6000
laws a year of their own . .. Bella Abzug, the human public ad-
dress system from New York City, is hands down the most
thoroughly resented member of Congress “Even her staff hates
her, says a former Abzug assistant, "she is selfish, brutish
tyrannical and uncool — women's liberation can have the old
crow."
Who's in control of your town’ Statistics indicate that between
1061 and 1972 the number of state, county and municipal workers
increased by 151 per cent, their payroll increased by almost 600
per cent, their union membership grew by 130 per cent, and the
number of their strikes multiplied by a factor of 1,000 Title
10. Section 888 of the U.S Code threatens court martial or worse
for any retired general who is convicted of using "contemptous
words in speech or print against" the president, the vice presi-
dent. Congress, the secretary of defense or governors of any
state, presumably. though, they may rap other generals The
Republican National Committee spent $125,966 on the first at
three TV specials designed to enlist new support; viewers have
thus far sent in contributions of less than $6010 . .. Sen. Harry
Byrd of Virginia says the cost of running Congress has doubled in
five years and tripled in 10; more than 17,000 people now work for
the 535-member body
Democrats are beginning to worry about Gerald Ford's “uncon-
scionable'' advantage in the 1976 election campaign “It's impos-
sible to compute the political value of all the Bicentennial trips
he ll make at government expense," says one grumbler, “but at a
minimum it will be the equivalent of $2 to $3 million in con-
tributions An FBI agent says privately that Patricia Hearst
has "done more to destroy the credibility of the bureau than all
our other critics combined." He says the public can’t retain faith
in an agency of thousands which is humiliated by one lone girl. ..
Prior to the recent supression of democratic principles in India,
the ''.S -based Freedom House determined that 35 per cent of the
world's population, or 1,366,000,000 people were living in free
states, the loss of 600 million Indians would reduce that already
pathetic count by almost half The U.S. Army has a tax-
produced training movie which teaches officers bow to influence
women at parties; it also has more than a dozen films on the coo
trol of venereal disease.
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