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SECTION 2 - PAGE C - PLAINDEALER - WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER I*. H79 «! tt Plaindealer Editorial r m vmtyaixymcyMcw The Unmaking Of Constitution Roll Call Report J (Your Congressmen's Vote) Here's how area Members of Congress were recorded on major roll call votes Sept. 20 through Sept. 26. HOUSE Pay Raise --By a vote of 208 for and 203 against, the louse passed an appropriations bill (HJR 404) containing a >.5 percent pay raise for congressmen and22,000 judges and high-level federal workers. Efforts to force a record vote on the pay issue alonefailed only 41 members (of a required 44) stood to demand one. For congressmen, salaries would go from $57,500 to jou, 700. The bill was sent to the Senate where the provisions for a congressional pay raise appeared to have been killed. Rep. Silvio Conte, R-Mass., a supporter, called the increase in congressional salaries "modest and restrained" in view of the current inflation rate. Rep. Larry Hopkins, R-Ky., an opponent, said: Collectively, thisCongress has not done anything todeserve a raise." Members voting "nay" opposed the pay increase. Rep. Robert McClory, R-13, voted "nay." Rep. John Anderson, R-16, did not vote. Panama Canal--The House passed, 232 for and 188 against, legislation putting into effect the Panama Canal treaties ratified last year by the Senate. The bill (HR ill) cleared the way for a US.-Panama commission to take over operation of the canai on Oct. 1, 1979. The commission will operate the waterway until 2000, when Panama will assume ownership. The bill does more to protect U.S. interests, including the canal's security, than did a similar measure defeated by House a week earlier. Rep. John Murphy, D-N.Y., a supporter, said it was too late to be debating the pros and cons of the treaty. "The treaty is the law of the land, whether we like it or not" Rep. George Hansen, R-Idaho, an opponent, said: "The real issue is the giveaway of the Panama Canal." " Members voting "yea" favored putting the Panama ,.Canal treaties into effect. r^McClory and Anderson voted "yea." Debt Ceiling--The House passed, 219 for and 198 against, mImJI raising the national debt ceiling from $830 billion to Sfr^'billion. The bill (HR 5369), later passed by the Senate, enables the Treasury to borrow money so that die government can pay its bills. The new ceiling is $49 billion higher than the one enacted last April. Rep. A1 Ullman, D-Ore., a supporter, said: "Fiscal responsibility is a concern that I think is shared by the members of this body....The debt ceiling is only a matter of accommodating those decisions that have already been made so that the government can stay in operation." ^Rep. Delbert Latta, R-Ohio, an opponent, said "the question before us today far transcends the issue of a temporary increase in the national debt. We are once again b£ing asked to bail out the government for not living w ithin its means...this is an issue of accountability as much as one oftfiscal policy." Members voting "yea" favored raising the debt ceiling. " "Anderson voted "yea." McClory voted "nay." SENATE Panama Canal--The Senate passed, 63 for and32 against, a bill (HR'jfifi) implementing the Panama Canal treaties. The House later approved the measure (see vote above) and sent it to Che White House. Congressional approval of HR ill clftrite 15 years after the U.S. and Panama began negotiating the transfer of the 533-square-mile canal zone. Sen. Alan Cranston, D-Calif., a supporter, said it would be "tragic" if the Senate failed to "obey a treaty which is, in effect, the law of the land." Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kans., an opponent, said "I will not have any part - in any way, shape or form - in giving away the Panama Canal." Senators voting "yea" favored implementing the. Panama Canal treaties. Senators Adlai Stevenson, D, and Charles Percy, R, voted "yea." Abner Mikva--The Senate confirmed, 58 for and 31 against, the nomination of former congressman Abner Mikva as U.S. Court of Appeals judge for D.C. The Illinois Democrat quit h is House seat to go on the federal bench. His liberal credentials drew the opposition of many conservative senators. Sen. James Ex on, D-Neb., a supporter, said judicial nominees should be primarily evaluated "on the basis of their integrity, ability, temperament, intelligence and honesty.. The question then comes secondarily on philosophy." . Sen. Gordon Humphrey, R-N.H., an opponent, saidMikva "regards the bench as an important nonlegislative road to reform. Those senators who wish to approve of judicial activism...will certainly want to vote for his nomination." Senators voting "yea" wanted Mikva on the federal appeals court. Percy voted "yea." Stevenson did not vote. Education Department--The Senate approved, 69for and 22 against, the conference report on the bill (S 210) to establish a cabinet-level Department of Education. The department would absorb the U.S. Office of Education (now in HEW) and other agencies and programs scattered throughout the government. S 210 was stripped in conference of anti-abortion and anti- busing language which the House had attached to it earlier in the year. Still, the House later passed the conference report and sent it to the White House. Sen. Abraham Ribicoff, D-Conn., a supporter, said of the proposed department: "There are no new programs, no increase in the federal government's powers, and no changes of any kind in substantive education law and policies. Sen. S.I. Hayakawa, R-Calif., an opponent, said: 'The growing belief that we should look to the federal government to solve the problems of our schools is, I think, a major mistake. Our schools should be a primary responsibility of our parents, students and the state and local officials." Senators voting "yea" favored creating a U.S. „ Department of Education. , . Stevenson and Percy voted "yea." (Jerry W. Friedheim, Executive Vice-President and Genral Manger, American Newspaper Publishers Association) National Newspaper week is a good time to remind ourselves of the guaranteed Constitutional rights we enjoy as Americans. It is also a time for us to reflect upon what our forefathers had in mind when they gave us the rights so explicitly spelled out when they drew up the First amendment. We don't have to read it twice to know what it means. Clearly it says that the people of this country shall have the freedom to follow their own religious pursuits, the freedom to peacefully assemble and to petition the government for redress of grievances, the freedom to openly express themselves --and the freedom and the right to run a free press. The First amendment backs these freedoms up by saying that the Congress shall make no laws abridging them. That's pretty straight forward stuff. The framers of the Constitution were first-rate writers when it came to drafting clear and unequivocal language. They understood not only how to write it but, < more important, they understood the freedoms they intended to protect. Congress shall make no law -- abridging the freedom of speech -- or of the press -- or of the others protected by the First amendment. And even despite its frequent and considerable discomfort in countless ways with the press, as a body and in person Congress has made no law abridging the freedom of the press. Not so the courts, however. Obviously, feeling no constraint by what the Constitution says the Congress shall not do, the courts of this country are making laws never intended by the Congress of the United States, or by the laws which they have passed. Today the rights and the responsibilities of the free press to serve the governed are being shackled by those who do the governing. Although press freedom lives here, some recent decisions by the courts attest to the fact that freedom of the press lives in peril. Recent court decisions make it evident that some judges seem to want not an independent"• judiciary, but an imperial judiciary -- a judiciary that would bend and beat our citizens' press freedoms into service not of the public but of the courts and of the law enforcement agencies. Let's look at some of these judiciary decisions. One case in point is the chilling decision last year by the nation's highest court which struck harder at our society's press freedom than has any court decision in recent years. In that five-to-three decision involving the Stanford Daily, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the authority of police to get a search warrant and, without warning, to burst into a newsroom and ransack the place -- even though no one there is suspected of a crime. In this "rule-of-rummage" decision, the court in effect declared "open season" on reporters' confidential notes and tape recordings, on photographic negatives, on internal memos and on everything else on the newspaper premises. Under this court ruling, not only the press, but doctors, lawyers and private citizens are threatened. Fortunately, the Congress with the leadership backing of the American Newspaper Publishers association and others is taking action to remedy this incredible court decision. Another stunning blow to press freedom came several months ago when a badly-divided Supreme court ruled against the public trial guarantee of the Sixth amendment to attend pretrial hearings. This is another ruling by the high court of choking off the press at the source. Noting that some 90 percent of criminal indictments are settled at pretrial hearings, Allen H. Neuharth, head of the Gannett company and chairman and president of ANPA, said that "this secrecy ruling could mean that the public would get only a ten percent peek at how the judges handle the public business." Neuharth called the decision "another chilling demonstration that the majority of the Burger court is determined to unmake the Constitution." He said, "This decision is not simply a matter of free press vs. fair trial. Rather, it is the Supreme court saying that the judiciary is a private Supreme club which can shut the door and conduct public business in private." And there are others. A 1972 Supreme court decision says that a reporter has no right to withhold information about his sources from a grand jury in a criminal investigation. Another decision earlier this year ruled that a public figure who sues for libel to prove malice has a right to inquire into a reporter's state of mind at the time he wrote the story. Press freedom is in trouble in the courts. The press of America always has respected and judiciary, and it still does -- but we now stand or decisions threaten to erode our basic press fre Yes, press freedom is in peril and in constant representatives in the Congress -- and by the press itself. The signs of the times suggest the worst may be yet to come. Perspective i-m; THE COMPUTER CHALLENGE BY RONALD REAGAN ed the importance of an independent e threshold of an imperial judiciary whose of defense by the people, by the people's A Salute To 4-H National 4-H week is the focal point of the annual 4-H calendar--an appropriate time to recognize volunteer leaders, parents, extension professionals, and local groups and businesses for their contributions throughout the year to the development of youth and to the betterment of the com­ munity. 4-H is unique in several ways. The largest youth-serving program in the United States, it involves more than 5.2 million young people in projects and activities that are relevant to everyday living. It operates via a special partnership of the public, private and voluntary sectors. And it serves a broad clientele--boys and girls 9-19 in all geographic areas. The National 4-H week theme, "Expanding Horizons," calls on 4-H members everywhere to become productive, self-directed and contributing members of society. In our rapidly changing world, it is increasingly important that young people learn life skills, prepare for meaningful careers, and assume citizenship and leadership responsibilities. We take this opportunity to salute all those who make it possible for youth to expand their horizons through die 4-H educational program. k . , Shortly after the Russian revolution, John Reed, an American radical writer, visited the Soviet Union. On his return home he was said to have remarked, "I've been over to see the future - and it works! He was wrong. What he saw was not the future but a new version of despotisms of the past. Still, all of us have the same feeling now and then. We come across a piece of in­ formation and we think we can see the future outlined there for all the world to see. An article in the Chicago Tribune made me think of this recently. It was part of the series on "The Changing American Worker" and was titled "Computers: Will Jobs They Make Top Those They Take?" A lot of us, it seems, have been looking at computers and thinking we are looking at the future. Perhaps that's right. The biggest challenge facing the American economy in the next quarter century may well be that posed by the technological wonders of the computer age. The article reminds us that some of those wonders are with us even now. For example, one New york City bank has slashed its clerical staff from 10,000 to 6,000 since 1970, despite a huge increase in business volume. Computers are now doing much of the work. A single small microprocessor, after all, contains about 5,000 transistors and can process 200,000 in­ structions a second! Some scientists are predicting that computers will lead to what they call "an in­ formation economy" in which information is the prime commodity and office work the prime form of labor. If that sounds like a com­ bination of "Star Wars" and "Frankenstein" we need to keep in mind that the power of all this technology - with its potential for good or eveil - is just around the corner. None of this is new, but I wonder if we as a nation have begun sufficient study about what the computer age is going to look like, let alone craft a strategy to make it serve us and not the other way around. Here are two suggestions: 1. Computers serve human beings, we don't serve them. While no one wants feather- bedding, we should take a humane and sensible view of human needs versus computer abilities. Humans can be replaced at many jobs by computers, but humans can and should go on to other jobs created by the same com­ puters. This will lake training and time, but it will be worth it. 2. Computers are going to be at the heart not only of industry and learning but of national defense as well. This mqans we had better start adopting some sensible measures in dealing with our export of computer technology. The Heritage foundation recently reported that "computer sales to the Soviet Union have...improved both Soviet commercial and m i l i t a r y c o m p u t i n g capabilities." One expert in the field of export controls, Miles Costik, says that export of one series of American computers to the U.S.S.R. has not only "improved Soviet computing capabilities in general but also will enhance Soviet strategic capabilities across the board." Learning to live with the marvels of the computer age is one of the most urgent problems we face. We had better start thinking about its innumerable aspects now (probably using computers to help us do so). If we think of the needs of individual Americans and the needs of our nation, we can make the computer age an age of growth and opportunity and not one of intimidation. Legislators State Senator Jack Schaffer (R) - 33rd. 56 N. Williams St. Crystal lake, 111., 60014 Phone 455-0309 Springfield Phone 217-782-6525. Karl Berning (R) - 32nd 625 Deerfield Road Deerfield, 111., 60015 Phone 312-945-3200 Stale Representatives Thomas J. Hanahan (D) - 33rd 4801 W. Route 120 McHenry, 111., 60050 Phone 385-3427 Springfield Phone 217-782-6476 Calvin L. Skinner, Jr., (R) - 33rd P.O. Box 308 Crystal Lake, 111., 60014 , Phone 459-6050 Springfield Phone 217-782-8000. Donald E. Deuster (R) - 32nd 510 N. Lake St. Mundelein, 111., 60060 Phone 312-566-1972 Daniel M. Pierce (D) - 32nd 580 Roger Williams Ave. Highland Park, 111., 60035 Phone 312-433-2551 U.S. Senators Charles H. Percy (R) 230 S. Dearborn Room 3859 Chicago, Illinois., 60604 Phone 312-353-4952 Adlai E. Stevenson (D) 230 S. 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