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Thursday, June 15, 1967 Griffin Daily News
FINDING THE WAY
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It Is Vital to Society
For All to Have Voice
By RALPH W. LOEW, D.D.
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
. A local group found itself
involved in a debate and,
after several hours discussion
arrived at the familiar tactic
of a tabling motion. Report
ing the matter, the chairman
said there were 10 per cent
adamantly in favor, 10 per
cent violently opposed and 80
per cent confused.
Markus Barth, a theologian
and author, spent last sum
mer as a guest professor at an
East Zone Germany univer
sity. He believes that 5 per
cent of the students are com
mitted Communists, 5 per
cent are devout Christians
and the remainder are skepti
cal, apathetic or even nihil
ists.
A few weeks ago I spoke
at a Canadian university and
was asked about American
debates with reference to the
Vietnamese policies. What
would you hazard as the sta
tistics? How many of us are
hawks? How many are doves?
How many are confused?
These statistics may be gen
eralizations but they do indi
cate the large number of the
uncommitted. This is the
meaninglessness that leads to
vandalism among young
people and lawlessness among
their elders. Since this is
true, here are a few sugges
tions for any group,, church,
school or the numerous serv
ice clubs as they confront the
issues of the moment:
• Most of us have yet to
learn the art of dialogue. The
trouble with so many discus
sions in homes, schools and
clubs is that they become per
sonal. A debate about Viet
nam upsets the bridge club.
Political discussions discon
cert the hostess. A school
bussing issue can cause
people to go home in a
tantrum. So the issues are
dodged. Dialogue demands
FIRE TRAGEDY
EAST LONDON, South Africa
(UPD—Two teen-age African
girls died from burns they
suffered by setting fire to
themselves because their fath
ers refused to let them marry,
police said today.
The girls were Identified as
Elsie Yawa, 19, and Miriam
Bkade, 13. Officials said they
poured kerosene over them
selves and set it on fire.
CLERGYMEN EXEMPTED
RALEIGH, N.C. (UPD—The
North Carolina Senate has
approved a bill exempting
clergymen from testifying about
information given to them in
confidence.
The measure actually prohi
bits clergymen from divulging
such Information in court
without the permission of the
communicant.
Sen. Tom White said Wednes-
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the art of listening as well as
speaking, and of listening to
people whose dress, habits
and attitudes may be extra
ordinarily different than our
own.
• Most of us have still to
learn the need to be needed.
The opinions of the great un
committed numbers become
important as they try to risk
them beyond the provincial
areas of their daily schedule.
In the mushrooming popula
tion situation we have more
and more people who feel cut
off, rootless and lonesome.
There is no one to speak a
friendly word or to listen to
a point of view. These people
need to know that someone
does care and that there are
places where their opinions
can be expressed. This is the
seedbed out of which a dem
ocratic society makes up its
mind.
• Most still have to learn
to put our values into words.
Call it “to verbalize’’ or “to
articulate,” it still means that
we need to face up to what it
is that gets our time and our
money, our energy and our
concern. Once we have dis
covered our faith—or our un
faith—we have come to the
place where we can grow. It
is then that we change the
statistics.
day the bill “sets the stage for
a miscarriage of justice.” It
would force a minister to violate
the Biblical commandment,
“thou shalt not bear false
witness,” White said by requir
ing him to remain silent even If
he could help his neighbor by
stepping forward.
Half-Way Houses
Rehabilitate
Mentally 111
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. —Two
Atlanta half-way houses have
been the means of introducing
187 ex-mental patients to com
munity living. Seventy-one per
11
US Bonds Gain
Appeal As Slush
For Retirement
By WILLIAM D. LAFFLER
EPI Financial Editor
NEW YORK (UPI) — U.S.
Savings Bonds are beginning to
gain wider appeal as a slush
fund for retirement because of
their tax advantages.
Even though pension funds
are growing larger and the so
cial security program is ex
panding, the retired worker
must reconcile himself to the
fact that he must live on a low
er income.
Thus he is beginning to find
incentives other than patriotism
for investing in U.S. Savings
Bonds.
Bonds Tax Exempt
These bonds are exempt from
state and local income taxes
and the federal tax on accrued
interest on Series E bonds may
be deferred until they are re
deemed.
Also Series E bonds may be
exchanged for the current-in
come Series H bonds. Accrued
interest from the E bonds may
be used as a part payment of
the H bonds, which, in turn,
pay interest by treasury checks
every six months. However, H
bond checks must be reported
as current earnings on the fed
eral income tax form.
Young parents also are buy
ing E bonds to set up “tax
free” funds to pay for their
children’s education.
Must File Return
The parent may buy E bonds
and register them in their
child’s name. He must file a
federal income tax return in
the child’s name at the end of
the first year of purchases in
order to establish “intent.” No
further filing of returns to
prove intent is necessary so
long as the interest and other
monies which may accrue to
the child do not exceed S6OO.
Taxes must be paid, however,
if the child’s income goes be
yond S9OO.
No tax is required on the ac
crued interest when the
bonds are cashed in to pay for
college expenses as long as the
parent can show that he de
clared proof of intent when he
bonds were first purchased.
Also, the child, If he is regis
tered as the owner, may begin
cashing the bonds as he needs
them once he is in college and
not pay taxes on the interest
as long as it is below S9OO.
cent or 118 of the patients en
tering the Atlanta Rehabilita
tion Residencies have been re
leased as rehabilitated after an
average stay of 116 days.
The remaining 55 patients re
turned to Central State Hospital
in Milledgeville for further stu
dy and evaluation.
“Os the 1818 Individuals who
were closed rehabilitated," Har
ry D. Bates, Vocational Rehab
ilitation Counselor at CSH, said,
“14 have returned to the hospi
tal.” Percentage-wise, the re
turn rate of the rehabilitated pa
tients is 27 per cent below the
return rate for the average dis
charged patient.
Prior tp entering the separate
male and female residencies,
the patients had been hospitaliz
ed for an average of 3.9 months.
All of the residents had former
ly been patients at CSH except
for four women referred by the
Georgia Mental Health Institute.
The Atlanta facilities were the
first of five houses operated with
in the state to help former pa
tients in readjusting to employ
ment and social demands. The
female residence was opened in
November 1964 and six months
later the male residence was
opened.
Each residence houses 15 peo
ple and serves an average of 43
patients per year.
Two other female residencies
are located in Albany and Aug
usta and a third coeducational
residence is operated in Colum
bus.
Half of the patients served by
the Atlanta residences were
from the surrounding five coun
ty area, but all patients enter
ed employment or vocational tr
aining in the Atlanta region.
Mr. Bates said the success of
the rehabilitation residencies in
dicates “that mental patients,
instead of being a drain on tax
payers and on the emotions of
others, can be helped to become
contributing and successful mem
bers of the society.”
KINTNER RESIGNS
WASHINGTON (UPD —
Robert Kintner, former Nation
al Broadcasting Co. president,
has resigned from the White
House staff to undergo eye
surgery.
President Johnson accepted
his resignation Wednesday with
deep regret and expressed
appreciation for Kintner’s con
tributions to White House
operations over the past year as
special assistant to the Pres
ident
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