European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 29, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 the stars and stripes August 1977 Jesse a we if a re proposal i 1 a Cess president Carters proposed clean sweep reforms of the abomination that passes for the Federal welfare system arc Long but Ore it much welcomed step in the right i now the Tad news a step is bin a thai May be o Petty consid the scope of the Ais Grid Thill sound use but to borrow a favorite Carter phrase and Etc title of his Why not the Best Yahut the president is offering is not tha Best although his Light years letter to Wal what now the Carter plan proposes to re order the entire edmiral Patchwork quilt at welfare dismantling such Cunt Overslaw Colum co is the that May nut a lot u 1 but be allowed to exist As a family is that Many of the poorest and most desperate arc now proposals make the Carter plan Good news but two necessarily the they fall Short in some crucial con Sidera Fow tit support Levels would guarantee annual incomes that fall Axil of govern ment of poverty level income and Low Standard family maintenance Bud Hie jobs that will be created do not develop skills or train hands that finally Mako a women or Man a full fledged work ing member of society make work jobs must be backed by massive training a cols requiring Wol Turc recipients to work Means the daycare crisis will if there Arent enough daycare centers How can there be when welfare mothers go to work an who will pay for Ihm Overall reaction to president Carters Reform plan is but the whole pack nge will not be contested in the Congo is san nil fires until next year und what survives probably want be effective until that being the knowing the Battle will to or carve the butter provi ton3 Doest the try for inel at elements As a cd Aid to families with dependent food Stamps and As Sist Anceto the Blind and replacing with their at regulations arid is a Singlee Cuenl program Cash ii is a bold one Many Otas have argued fur since the whatever it might f i Nelly be it really is a guaranteed annual income for the poorest people in the worlds richest that is a big pan of the step in the right another part is the outer plans requirement that most Able bodied welfare recipients must work to qualify for Cash that Means approximately million men and women not working would have to find private sector jobs or be placed in now Public service ranging from instal Ling hum insulation to escorting the elderly in hug Scrimo the Carter Reform program would also remove the requirement that has left so Many poor children fatherless the Money would go to qualified whether or not a father or a Man lives in Tow Opl Loni to mind in urn int tout Gart wit an room flt Tanoh us am town no f u milk Mrad ii tit the inn Stolph Fly i ua4m Suth Anthony Lewis bad old Days of Fri Are hot Over in til k Spring of 1976 the tennessean of Nashville discovered that one of its copy Jacques had bean playing an undercover role for Ute Federal Bureau of the publisher of the John decided after much discussion that her activities Lead been inappropriate for a on May s he dismissed on May 13 Homer Deputy director of the was in the Washington Bureau of the new York times talking about another an editor asked him about the Srouji which had had considerable Boynton replied by urging the editor to Nave the times look into he said Seigenthaler r is not entirely when Seigenthaler heard about he wrote the director of the Clarence and asked to see the bureaus files on he said he was convinced that it had collected common gossip and rank character defamation under the Guise of Kelley can assure you that the Fri did no Sudi kor a year tried to get his Fri two months ago he finally received a highly expurgated set of two documents were the first was dated May 1976 the Day after Seigenthaler dismissed it was a telex message from Mem Phis presumably the local office of the Fri to As 11 was Given to everything in the message Hod been blanked out except these words allegations of Seig Mehaler having illicit relations with Young which in formation source pm tasted from unnamed the second document wot dated May 10v it was a three Page and again almost All of it was excised before the copy was Given to what remained re Ferrod to rumours and Seigenthaler and then on the top Tine of he next Page involved in having illicit relations with Young on getting that Sergeh Vialer asked to see director the answer was nor has the director written him anything further about his voiced in 1376 and now evidently hint the Bureau was collecting gossip on he has had a letter apologizing for boy tons remarks to the new York we know about what the Fri did in this Case because John Seigenthaler is an unusually Brave and determined anyone who dealt with him when he was administrative assistant to Robert Kennedy to the 1960s soon under stood his firmness and he prom ised to publish whatever the Fri gave him to this and he did so in a piece just re printed in the Boston even for u we evidently painful to try to Deal with such a Nasty he stated flatly that the Anonymous charges about him were me joked thai us wife was outraged out raged at the Fri and not at i am Nappy to report he is pursuing a lawsuit to get the material deleted from those two Docu but the Ordinary citizen would probably be helpless against such treat ment by government the Selden whaler affair makes u unhappily Clear dial the Oad old Days of the Fri Are not the extreme Udensi Venesz of the Hoover when anyone who criticized the Bureau was Likely to be targeted for lives the Slimy tac tics against Martin Luther King running to with gossip have not been apart from the Natti Neu of it tells us that much of the Bis activity is sheer waste it does solicit and file common gossip and character a Sei Enthat or even about private it so at r time when the count Fri resources for coping with serious crime Are desperately All this underlines the significance of the nomination president Carter has just made of judge Frank Johnson to a midyear term As the next of j think there will be few Jimmy Carter does in the while except for appointments to the supreme that will be important As there has been no More judge in the United Over the and none More dedicated to Law in its american he stood up to racism and violence in he can stand up to the pressures from within and without the Fri if anyone the president and Gru flu Bell deserve particular credit because they ignored the inexplicably dim suggestions of their own search committee and persuaded judge Johnson to Lake the As a judge lie spoke of the Alabama punting habit of Ala Bama politicians of handing Tough Deci Sions Over to he bore that he is not Likely to evade responsibility Tor Law or let anyone else at the Fri do
