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SUNDAY, APRIL THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR PAGE 2 SEC. 2 Things Are Coming Up All Oar! The Indianapolis Star As The Earth ()rbi" Move Has The Hoosier I'urm Wife Say(i Restoring Old House; Is Fascinating Task 7, Some people love old houses so much they can't bear to live in new ones. We had stopped to say hello to a pair of Berrys in their old Where The Spirit Of The lord There Is Liberty II Corinthians 3:17 EUGENE C. TUXLIAM, Publisher "Let the people know the facts and the country trill be save Lincoln Vast Implications Bv Michael lulev Star Foreign Editor Washington The "Ping-Pong" diplomacy between the United States and Red China is doing fine, thank you. White House and State Department officials are all smiles at the mere mention of house in Coal City, in ner ginnooa iviai ie uci- 1 ry had lived in the old house across the It was "Grandma's" house." When Garrett Berry retired from the Indianapolis police force and the Berrys wanted a-quiet, country -like place they came back and bought their old, old house, across the street from Grandma's 89-year-old one.

Mrs. R' the word "Peking," Russian diplomats and newsmen in Washington and New York are very worried and do not know what to make of it, American newsmen have been welcomed to China on a reporting trip and Cliou En-lai, Red China's prima minister, publicly declares that "a new page" has been opened in U.S.-Chinese rela d.JJ Padcv PERSONALLY SPEAKING By Jameson G. Campaigne Fihlin: Cancer's Soourec What a pall will be lifted from the world when a general cure is found for cancer! What a scourge will vanish when research discovers a vaccine that will prevent it! Who cannot make a tragic list of the relatives and close friends, and the famous men and women, whose lives cancer has taken? Despite marked medical progress in treating this malignant disease, moderns are in nearly as much danger as prehistoric people when it strikes. This year about 335,000 Americans will die of cancer about 920 persons a day and about 975,000 will be under medical care for it. About 212,000 persons will be saved from it.

About 106,000 who might have been saved by earlier, better treatment will die. They will be of all ages. In Marion County this year, it is estimated, there will be 2,240 new cancer cases, 3,440 under medical care, 1,200 cancer deaths, 744 lives saved. It is important to consider there are 5,920 persons in Marion County who have been cured that is, without evidence of the disease at least five years after diagnosis and treatment. In the nation, 1.5 million persons have been cured.

From these facts it may be concluded that research and education, to promote early diagnosis and treatment, are the two most vital phases of the war on cancer. Services in behalf of patients and their families make up a significant third phase. The American Cancer Society carries put all three. Need for support of ACS work goes beyond aid given through the United Fund and other sources. This is a main reason April has been declared Cancer Control Month in the nation by President Richard M.

Nixon, in Indiana by Governor Edgar D. Whitcomb and in Greater Indianapolis by Mayor Richard G. Lugar. The ultimate objective is the incessantly-sought breakthrough which ACS is trying to speed through its current support of 534 different research projects at a cost of $19,652,785, including $172,094 at Indiana University and $52,993 at Purdue. ACS spends the contributor's dollar this way: 36 cents for research; 20 cents to alert the public to cancer's warning signals and encourage regular complete health examinations; 15 cents for service to patients; 9 cents for professional education and services giving physicians the latest information on diagnosis and treatment; 11 cents for fund raising, including the campaign to reach 5 million Hoosiers during this month's crusade, and 9 cents for management and general expenses.

In Marion County, volunteers will conduct a door-to-door campaign tomorrow through next Sunday aimed at leaving a cancer warning leaflet at every home and raising $60,000 for research, education and services. When they come to your dcor, you will have a chance to join the fight against cancer. Who Should Own The University? Dr. John Howard, president of Rockford College, recently referred in a speech in Milwaukee to "a study conducted by the United States Office of Education in which 7,500 pro fessors and administrators were interviewed in 1968. "Asked what they thought should be the objective of the American University, the responses of the 7,500 overwhelmingly put in first place to protect the academic freedom of the faculty!" "Think what that means," said Dr.

Howard. "If you take tions. But this is not all. The U.S. government will, very soon, lift almost all restrictions on trade and travel with Red China.

Red Chinese newsmen and other visitors will be welcomed in this country. At the United Nations the U.S. conceivably may end its opposition to Red China's admission when the problem is again raised at the U.N. General Assembly session next September. The possibility of establishing direct diplomatic relations between Washington and Peking is also very real.

Though this "new page" in Washington-Peking relations was officially opened by the visit, last week, of a U.S. table tennis team to China, it is certain that Peking's rulers have thought about it for a very long time. Why Peking chose to make politics by way of table tennis is anybody's guess. But we should have no doubt whatever that Red China's new approach toward the U.S. is significant and deserves study.

Whatever Red China's Communist propagandists say about America's "imperialism" in Southeast Asia, Peking's new policy certainly proves that Red China's rulers take President Nixon's assurances about the U.S. withdrawal in Vietnam quite seriously. Red China is hardly likely to start a policy of friendship toward the U.S., if her rulers really believe that the Nixon administration plans to expand the Vietnam war, or that it seriously threatens Chinese positions in Southeast Asia. The fact is that Red China's rulers share fully President Nixon's views about the Vietnam war-namely that America's participation in it is coming to an end. There is a second important reason for China's change of policy toward the U.S.

The 24th Soviet Party congress, just concluded in Moscow, confirmed the leadership of Leonid Brezhnev and his principal aides. The rulers of Red China dislike Brezhnev intensely, to put it mildly. Brezhnev is often considered a "hardliner" in the West, but for Peking he is very much of a softy. Peking's Russian hero is the late Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, whose policies Brezhnev has rejected. As long as Brezhnev occupies the Kremlin political throne, Red China's rulers cannot hope for better Moscow-Peking relations.

The logical thing, therefore, is to take a foreip policy step which will annoy Moscow and might weaken Brezhnev's leadership. This step is Peking's possible reconciliation with Washington. The prospect of better U.S.Chinese relations is a real political nightmare for Brezhnev the worst he could possibly have in the international field. I have an idea that, just now, table tennis is not a very popular game in Moscow. Otto ton Habsburg Says: Laos Operation Seen As A Time-Gainer The end of the South Vietnamese offensive in Laos has been called a defeat of the anti-Communist forces.

Of course, there were heavy losses. It is also likely that the high Campaign (taxpayers and donors turn over all authority to faculty and administrators). Buchanan suggests that the economic solution to the unrest and opposition to university policies today would be to return control of universities to those who pay for It students and taxpayers. This could be done fay charging full cost tuition with the able but poor students subsidized by state or privately financed scholarships. Another professor, Dr.

Henry Manne of the University of Rochester has a novel and probably unattainable solution. He could first provide state-financed tuition vouchers directly to students who would use them where they wished. If they did not like a college or university they could take their business elsewhere. BUT THIS ULTIMATE SOLUTION IS MORE drastic. He proposes that "government get out of the education business." To do this he would grant "de facto ownership" of the university to the faculty.

They would own shares of stock in the university, they would set tuition rates, they would choose administrators, they would handle the business affairs of the university and they would get no direct tax funds from the state or Federal governments! The university faculties would then own the universities in effect. They would have not only authority in the university, they would have complete responsibility for it, including the means of financing it. Except for state-financed scholarships, perhaps, government would have nothing more to do with university support or management. At this time this may appear to be a far out way of solving the problems of the American university. But unless some drastic changes are made in the way modern universities are run today, unless the owners of universities are able to exercise practical control of their policies, if the chaos continues, Mamie's solution may become more and more attractive every year.

lively and always busy, but so little she could sit on her split hickory rocker and draw her feet up on the seat in front of her, was long since gone, but Marie Berry had the rocker and several other pieces of Grandma furniture to bring back to her hometown. Coal City, in Owen County, was named because strip mining was once the town bread and butter. Jam was provided by the surrounding farms and the town shops in deep, old soft-brick and painted wood rooms. It is an old town, with a small population, less than a thousand, one of the farmers told me. But it contains an unusual number of hpuscs that although dilapidated now, had been solid; ly built, with a great deal of individual personality and they inspire one with; a yearning to buy one and restore and live In it Marie and Garrett Berry have done this with their old house.

Then not long ago thejr son Bill and his wife bought the small, white-painted brick right next door. "I just want you to see what they have done with four rooms," said Marie, putting on her shoes. (She had been taking a needed Sun-day afternoon nap when we stopped unexpectedly.) We went across a small back yard. Bill's wife was washing Sunday-company dishes. She is young, dark-haired, a pleasure to look at.

The affection between the two pairs of Berrys extends into a wide circle of hospitality that incloses many people, and is reflected in both old houses like the light of a fireplace against old walls. During the week Bill's wife goes to a job in Terre Haute. Bill manages a squadron vending machines, two of them were bivouac-ing in the living room, waiting for next day orders. The house is still chiefly four rooms. One very large one ends in a kitchen complete with richly brown wood cabinets 'and modern equipment and a fine row of and old glass jars.

Two steps further It becomes the dinning room with a long early American table and tall ladderback chars the rest is living room. Brick fireplace moved from the center of the house to a sidewaU; wide-board floors lovingly scraped and made to shine; paintings and crewelwork by Mrs. Berry. The younger Berrys learned what they know of carpentering from doing it in this house, and had some excellent help from Amish carpenters from Daviess County They knocked down plastered low ceilings to gqt up to the older, higher ones which they with wide boards. They used wood panelling throughout, built louvred closets and storage spaces; hung a charming piece of crewelwork above the bathtub.

There is enough space in the attic for, a small bedroom if one could get there. So the younger Berrys built a stariway in the big room. It goes up a short flight of hand-rubbed brown steps to a big square landing which is inclosed by a hand-finished brown rail, and the landing has all the charm and beauty with which a child invests his tree-house. Sitting on that landing one could look down between the railing-posts and see everything the kitchen, the television, the fireplace, the people. Another flight of steps, at right angles will lead into the small attic room, but at present a door in the attic floor prevents, house, like most Coal City houses, sits closed the street.

Outside, in front of the bay window evergreens press against the small" glass panes, creating a delightful sense of privacy. Set into the evergreens, like a bird's nest In tree, is a bird feeder to which manyblfds come, including cardinals. The Berrys had bought another old house, white, frame, more decrepit and further down the street. It has a round turret and an irresistible appeal. They intend to restore it and I look forward to that.

Mrs. R.F.D. The Needle By Harold Coffin "Why do you keep agreeing with everything I say," a woman asked her "when you know very well I'm trying to -argue with you." A gal complains because her guy ver takes here anywhere, then refuses to go there because she has nothing to wear. The devious illogicality of feminine reason-ing is surpassed only by the stubborn density of masculine comprehension. that response literally, it says that the highest goal of the university is to enable the faculty member to 'do his own thing' without limit and without regard for anybody else." To put it another way, the large majority of university faculty appears to believe that teachers should have power without responsibility; that it is the aim of the university to serve their interests first and the students and taxpayers interests second.

THIS ATTITUDE IS NO DOUBT responsible for so much of the present day dissatisfaction of both students and taxpayers with our typical educational institutions. Institutions established to provide education for students have gradually become institutions to serve those who teach, and not those who come to learn. Prof. James M. Buchanan of the University of Virginia recently wrote an article entitled "Academy in Anarchy" in which he pointed out that the typical university today is set up this way: 1.

The consumers of the product do not pay for it (student tuitions and fees are subsidized by taxpayers or endowments). 2. The producers of the product do not sell it (teachers are not paid directly for their services by students but by the administrators of public and private funds). 3. The owners do not control it WILL YOU LIKE IT? By Dr.

Max Raf ferty U.S. Navy Joins The Mod Squad command had not planned such an early withdrawal. But in every war there are ups and downs. The latter sometimes serve long-range strategic aims. It is hence quite possible that though Peking celebrated a victory banquet, President Nixon was not wrong when he stated that he is far from dissatisfied with the results.

A question, gentle reader: How are you going to like our new mod Navy? Our chief of naval operations, a swinger with the somewhat unlikely name of Elmo Habsburg 'Shell Game' In New York State, which has had a liberal share of welfare troubles, Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller has signed welfare reform legislation which provides, among other things, that able-bodied reliefers can be put to work. The law in question requires local, city and county welfare agencies to divise public works projects, such as raking leaves in parks or cleaning up streets, and forces employable reliefers to work in the projects in return for their welfare payments. As was to be expected, howls of anguish went up among ward heelers in New York City, where last summer Mayor John V. Lindsay snubbed a suggestion that able-bodied reliefers be made to work as "medieval." One guardian of the welfare spongers' right to loaf labeled the new law a "shell game." This is a curious attitude in light of the fantastic absurdities which have been uncovered in the New York welfare mess.

In January a mother and her four children were sent by welfare officials to live at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel at a cost to taxpayers of $76 a day. Other welfare recipients have been assigned to hotels in Greenwich Village, on Broadway and in Brooklyn and in motels on Long Island at rates that run as high as $50,000 a year! Senator Harry Byrd (D-Va.) charged recently that $30,000 in tax funds had been leeched from Now York Model Cities programs to send welfare recipients on ski outings to upstate New York, Massachusetts and other resort areas. "These funds come from hard-working American taxpayers," he said. "They are a public trust. To use public funds for frills such as ski trips is to take money away from people truly in need.

I think the American people are getting fed up with this kind of abuse of trust by public officials." He is right. And there is a "shell game" going on. It is being practiced by spongers, unscrupulous welfare officials and vote-scavenging politicians on the American working people. It's time it was stopped not just in New York but everywhere. Zumwalt has simultaneously upped the tolerance level and lowered the behavior barriers on such personal appearance and conduct items as booze in the barracks, Prince Valiant hairdos, beards, hard-rock clubs and weirdo clothing for the jolly tars who man our nation's first line of defense.

Henceforth we may apprehen Rafferty sailors getting sively look forward to seeing legally stoned in barracks, tossing their Mary BRAVE NEW WORLD THAT HATH SUCH nondidactic admirals in it! I presume we may now expect activists on our aircraft carriers, militants on our missile ships, sea lawyers on our submarines, discotheques on our destroyers and potheads on our PT boats. I wonder if the Russians and the Red Chinese will be impressed. Seriously, friends, what kind of virus is loose in our national bloodstream to spawn such twisted and turgid thinking as that evidenced by these two psychedelic admirals? The younger generation, Adm. Rosenberg to the contrary notwithstanding, is neither better nor wiser than my own, or my father's, for that matter. It's no worse, either, if only because humanity's IQ and ability simply don't change much as the clamorous centuries wax and wane.

What the "now" generation conspicuously lacks are experience and knowledge, even as it did -when Socrates was a beardless boy and Alci-biades a youthful Athenian delinquent. If this ancient truism were not so, dear admiral, we could dispense with you and your naval know-how in favor of one of the Beatles. MY HEART GOES OUT IN REAL TRUTH to those unnamed "commanding officers" so snidely put in their place by Adms. Rosenberg and Zumwalt. The Navy has always had a proud tradition of sinking individual eccentricities and self-indulgences in a vast reservoir of discipline, abnegation and obedience for the good of the service.

Never until Zumwalt and Rosenberg came along have the successors of John Paul Jones conceived of their stern and rigorous calling as a happy, homey haven for hippies. The decent, fighting officers deserve all the support we ordinary citizens can give them now; if the Navy ever gets into another sea war with its combat ships manned by sailors who resemble nothing so much as Berkeley rejects, the good officers are goinc to need all the help they can get. The whole thing would be uproariously funny if it weren't so frightening. Can you Imagine Capt. Lawrence on board the Chesapeake shouting with his last breath: "Don't give up the Translated from the seven-dollar words, this means: Men are unable to understand how come women always manage to make so much sense.

"No, Harold, I will NOT forgive you for what you said last week unless you apologize for what you're thinking now." The Old Feed JWj It is essential to remember the starting point. The Americans want to leave Vietnam, handing over the defense to the local forces. To carry out this plan a pause is needed, which can be obtained by striking at Viet Cong supplies. Russia has decisive influence in Hanoi. China's role, which frightens some people, consists mostly of symbolic gestures, such as popular parades several thousand miles from the fighting front.

Moscow wants to prevent the American withdrawal. This is logical since the Kremlin's No. 1 problem is China. The latter's style is cramped as long as American soldiers are in the south. A success of the Nixon plan would hence be a blow for the USSR.

This explains the massive aid to North Vietnam. These facts put the events of the last 10 months in focus. Seen thus, the American invasion of Cambodia was both understandable and successful. The road from Kom-pong-Som to the interior was cut off. In the past nearly half of the Vict Cong supplies in the delta came by sea.

This having become impossible, the Communists are in trouble. It seems that their reserves are only good for another three months. This is why since September traffic on the Ho Chi Minh trail was vastly increased. The latter cannot be compared with our highways. It is an intricate system of roads, underground fortifications, supply depots, hospitals etc.

Hence the relatively unsatisfactory result of aerial bombardments. All this was cut and destroyed in a strategically important location. This explains why President Nixon could speak of a success. Of course the war is not yet decided. But this applies to both sides.

In the meantime our armchair strategists would do well to study the realities of geography before applying the criteria of the temperate zone to tropical areas. Pickford ringlets a la Tiny Tim and bristling with beards like so many seagoing whiskbrooms. Our shore installations should look like a cross between Haight-Ashbury and the Sunset Strip. BEARDS AND SIDEBURNS, IT SEEMS, ARE not only navally okay from now on, but even recommended by the chain of command. In trumpeting this unveiling of our new and groovy fleet, Adm.

Zumwalt is ably and ringingly seconded by one Adm. Edwin Rosenberg, commander of United States Navy Reserve training, who was out my way not long ago playing up the charms of the "new" Navy, presumably to encourage recruiting. Hear Adm. Rosenberg singing its praises, sounding for all the world like Engelbert Humperdinck rendering "Anchors "The younger generation Is much more able to run the country than my generation. "Some commanding officers were getting after those who looked a little untidy while their beards and sideburns were growing.

They were reminded that Zumwalt has said that no one will be penalized while he is growing a beard. "A lot of the hangups of young people today is that rules are arbitrary and enforced in a very didactic way. In the 1970s we have to trust people as individuals. We have to respect their thoughts and Judgments." Indiana Authors Day Today, Indiana Authors Day, will be celebrated at Indiana University in Bloomington with presentation of awards to current Hoosier writers judged outstanding. The Indianapolis Star offers salutations to the winners and encouragement to every hopeful Hoosier writer at work on a manuscript these days.

P'or we hope that the state which produced the Egglestons, Major, Wallace, Ade, Nicholson, Riley, Tarkington, Dreiser and so many other masters cf creative writing is on the verge of another Literary Golden Age. I I I I I tltltttlllii i i.