European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 04, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A big watch 1977 vvivv.v.,. Sunday september 4,1977 the stars and stripes Page James Kilpatrick Long makes 3 Points on welfare plan test when Russell Long of Louisiana came to the Senate in december of 1948, he was not quite two months past the mini mum age for membership in that body. He has now served for nearly 29 years. From the Harvest of such experience with Luck one distils Wisdom. Long demonstrated this last week. The senator delivered himself of a state ment on the president proposals for Wel fare Reform. He made three Points. One had to do with the nature of Mankind a second with the nature of bureaucracy the third with the nature of our Republic. All of them made sense. Long was not being cynical he was simply being realistic in his comments upon the greatest evil in our present Wel fare system. It is the system s tendency to perpetuate dependency. The dependency that concerns him is not a dependency of Money Only it is also a state of mind. The senator provided a couple of exam Ples. A few years ago Congress created two new programs of Aid to the disabled. The programs have Cost far More than they were predicted to Cost. Apparently said Long in attempting to meet the needs of the totally disabled we have provided an incentive for people who Are not totally disabled to convince themselves that they Are in order to receive  As a consequence Many persons who could have become productive self reliant citizens have become totally dependent in Stead. Second example fifteen years ago the welfare bureaucracy settled upon the declaration method of determining eligibility for welfare benefits. Under this approach the applicant is taken at his word. Virtual Roy Wilkins Blacks should Welcome Johnson if one had asked Black citizens of past decades almost anywhere in the ., what is the greatest thing that could happen to change your status As a Black person in a country in which Whites Are in the majority the answers would have varied depending upon location degree of education or any number of other factors. One might have said the right to have a soda in a downtown drug store another might have said the right to sit anywhere one wished on a bus or train. An analysis of columns comments the answers however would boil Down to elimination of segregation and Quality of citizenship of the races. President Carter s nomination of  District judge Frank m. Johnson of Ala Bama to head the Federal Bureau of investigation should then receive the plaudits of All Black citizens. Judge Johnson is an opponent of Segre gation of the races. He believes in Equality of citizenship for Blacks and Whites in the opinions expressed in the columns and cartoons on this Page represent those of the authors and Are in no Way to be considered As representing the views of the stars and stripes or the United states government. Working out their common destiny As Citi Zens of the nation. He ran head on into segregation in one of its most humiliating and degrading forms in Montgomery Ala. Montgomery was called the Cradle of the  every phase of life was completely segregated by race in Mont Gomery. It was a genteel society and All was Serene. At least it seemed so to the White residents of Montgomery until Rosa Parks a seamstress boarded a bus on the evening of dec. I 1955. Rosa Parks is Black. She had worked hard that Day and was tired. There were no seats in the Black Section of the bus so she took a seat in the Section customarily reserved for Whites. She was arrested after she refused to give her seat to a White Man and the famous Montgomery bus Boycott was under Way. A suit was filed in the Federal court against the bus company. The three judge court presided Over by Johnson promptly ruled that it was unconstitutional to Segre Gate buses. On Appeal the supreme court on nov. 13, 1956, upheld the ruling of John son s court. Five weeks later it was All Over and the Boycott stood out As an astonishing  the second of Johnson s decisions in a civil rights Case came from Macon county the seat of the famed Tuskegee Institute. The Black voters of Macon county had been Given the runaround by the White election officials. All manner of tricks were used to deny the vote to Blacks. Johnson met a sweeping Endeavor by Macon county to maintain the Whites Only registration. He ordered Macon county to desist from its practice of deny ing Black people the vote and abide by the Constitution. In 1965 it was Johnson who stopped gov. George Wallace s troopers from interfering with the Progress of the Selma March and ordered Wallace to furnish Protection for the marchers. In every decision that he made in the area of civil rights Johnson proved he believes the Constitution should be a meaningful document for All citizens. It is said that Johnson is a Tough Law and order  responsible Black Citi Zens will applaud this for they too. Want a lawful and orderly society. And they will know that there will be no subverting of Laws to satisfy biases or to further self aggrandizement by a director of the Agency or a president. They will know that there will be no infringement on the rights of Citi Zens by the Fri while Johnson is directing it. C Register and Tribune Syndicate by no verification is attempted of the accuracy of his statement. This Assumption of people s fundamental honesty May have added greatly to the dignity of applying for welfare benefits said Long but it also added greatly to the number of people drawing welfare benefits since it proved an open invitation to fraud and miss Ere  but it is part of the nature of bureaucracy Long pessimistically observed to cling doggedly to methods that demonstrably do not work. Ideas once embraced arc Seldom relinquished. Presidents and secretaries come and go but tenured bureaucrats stay on forever. The overwhelming majority of the personnel who put or. Car ter s new plan together said Long were Here before president Carter came on the scene and they will be there after he is gone. While the president has insisted on some changes for the better much of the plan and much of the thinking that Well into it represent the views of those who have been with the department for Many years under democratic and Republican administrations. They Are perhaps better led and a few years older but not necessarily much Wiser than they were when they served under previous  the years have taught Russell Long to be instinctively distrustful of Cost Esti mates emerging from the bureaucracy medicaid has Cost 50 times what Congress was told it would Cost. The social services program enacted in 1962 has grown by a like amount. When the senator is advised that or. Carter s scheme will Cost $6 Bil lion More we had better be prepared for an actual Cost of up to $60 billion or even $120  Given the Prospect of massive fraud and Given the Prospect of enormous Cost overruns. Long offers a thoughtful Sugges Tion he proposes that the Carter program be tested on a Pilot basis for a few years in order to see whether it should be implemented throughout the United  let the states Experiment this is the essence of our grand plan of federalism. The presi Dent s recommendations for tax Relief could not be applied selectively but Noth ing in the Constitution would inhibit experiments with Job programs work incentives and the like. Before we move to a massive change in our welfare system Long remarks we must be sure that what we Are doing represents a True  not much can be done about the nature of bureaucrats and even less can be done about the nature of Mankind but if we turn to the nature of federalism perhaps we can avoid making bad matters worse. That s the Long View Congress would do Well to take it. C Washington Star Syndicate 1tonh Vance of kids a rest. He wants us to give up the West Bank