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Show Ray Cromley Price-Wage Onus OnLabor, Industry Dedicated to the Progress And Growth of Central Utah Tuesday, October 26, 1971 Page 10—THE HERALD, Provo, Utah By RAY CROMLEY WASHINGTON (NEA) Child Center: the New ‘Mother’ le pie apparently retains its pasartg popularity, but what returning World War It soldier would ever have believed that motherhood would fall onto such hard times? One of the fundamental ideological props of the women’s liberation movement is the conviction that motherhood is a stultifying, degrading forn. of enslavement, and any woman who doesn’t believe it has been brainwashed by the:male chauvinists. Thus one of the goals of the movement is the establishment of day care centers, preferably free (that is, tax-supported), so that any woman who wants to can drop the kids off while she works or otherwise fulfills herself. ; Early this year a student-facilty research team from The Claremont Colleges in Claremont,Calif.,issued a ringing ca’: for a nationai child care program, claiming that the substandard care of children has becomea “national disgrace.” They have a lot of impressive figures to back up the charge. For example,there are nearly 12 million working mothers in the United States. These working mothers have about four million children under the age ofsix. There are approximately 13,600 licensed child-care services ir the United States, with a total capacity of 518,000 children. Simple arithmetic would indicate that no more than one-eighth of the children of working mothers are cared for in lice facilities. It is certainly a legitimate tion to ask: Who takes care of e other 3% million preschool children of working mothers? Itis whenitdips into philosophical arguments that the team’s report, “Child Care Crisis,’ becomes controversial. It notes that “from birth until the timethey enter the doors ofthe local schoolhouse,children areleft to an undirected and possibly passive educational and experiential existence, even though many exrts believethe first years of life to the most critical in developing potential.” President Nixon's Phase iI setup is a modelof politi- cal ingenuity — if it works. Atthe insistence of laboritself, Nixon has so arranged In effect, childhood is too important to be left to the children — or even joka4 for no any, the report , Is equi fo give a child the rich Siehcha lenging social and intellectual environment it deserves. Throughout the report, society, which can only mean the govern- the control machinery that labor leaders, along with industry representatives, will have a major public responsibility for holding down wages. Thus these men — not Nixon — wouid bear the brunt of any unpopular decisions. Likewise, businessmen will have responsibility in price control. Yet neither the union men nor the businessmen will beable to yield to pressure and grant popular wage or ment, is explicitly charged with the price boosts with equanimity. At least not very often For while the Cost of Living Council which sits above the boards has no veto power over decisions, it will set the policy guidance and goals under which wage primary responsibility for a child’s development while the role of the family or the full-time mother is implicitly downgraded. “Can a society which believes itself to be civilized and moral maintain its integrity if it brings a child into its world only to provide him with care that is substantially — to the bestit has to offer?” it A national child-care program is needed not only for the good of the children. “Due to the changing role of women and the changing nature of familylife in our society,” says the report, “‘a parent has the right to work and to pursue personal interests and be certain that her children are entitled to this care, whether they are infants or school age children who need supervision ‘ter regular school hours.”’ After all, she didn’t bring them into the world. Society did. But institutional child care is the coming ing, and not just because of those millions of mothers who must work whether they want to or not. Both Senate and House have bills which would, for the irst time, make federally sponsored day care available to children from middie- and upper-income families as well as from low-incomefamilies. Their authors havefailed to grasp the new philosophyfully, however. The Senate bill would require families earning more than $6,900 a year to paya fee for this service, scaled according to ability to pay. The House version puts the cut-off point at $4,320. It’s almostas if they were saying, “Ask not what yeur country can do for you ... How old-fashioned can you get? and price increases can be granted. It can change the rules from time to time (but not retroactively) if it sees that Nixon's anti-inflation aims are not heing met. Thus, if the wage or price board is unusually generous in one case, it will have to be unusually rough in other cases to hold the average down. If the wage board, for example, allows all the de- layed wage increases frozen in the President's Phase T then other wage increases overall through the economy this year wil! have to be considerably less than they otherwise could be. This would kick up quite a fuss among those less-favored workers. These pelitical implications have not gone unnoticed Paul Harvey New Cure for Old Age Now Readyfor Testing Statistically, it’s established Fa weare living !onger — you and I. But here is a University of Missourian who says that you pari of the world’s first “death-free”generation. When Prof. Robert Fulton calls ours a ‘death-free”’ generation, he means Seminar at Princeton By ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON — A singular two-day “seminar” is taking place at Princeton University this week that is being characterized in official circles as a “hanging withouta trial.” A radical-liberal operation from start to finish, it is part of a nationwide drive to disparage and asperse the FBI and to “get’”’ its noted Director J. Edgar Hoover. Announced themeof the Oct. 29-30 affair is “The Role of the FBI in American Life.” Strikinglyindicative of the highly biased and prejudiced nature of this discussion is that without exdeption every speaker, panelist and other participant is a harsh foe and critic of the FBI and Hoover — most of them of many years’standing. Several other revealing and significant facts about them are: (1) All areleft of center in varying degrees, ranging from militant liberals and New Leftists to Communists (2) Without exception they are vigorous opponents of the Vietnam war and vehement denouncers of the socalled “‘nilitary-industrial complex” — although in most instances they also are clamorous advocates of more arms and credits for weapons to Israel. Proclaimed sponsor of this carefully staged, one-sided kangaroo court is the Usmmittee for Public Justice, headquartered in New York and headed by an executive council as leftish and hostile to the FBIas the program partiticants of the Princeton seminar. Graphicallyillustrating this are the following leadersof the council: —Norman Dorsen, general counsel of the American Civil Liberties Union, who has a long record of deonouncing the Justice Departmentin particular an: the Federal governmentin general, a’ d championing farout liberal causes and c usaders. —Burke Marshall, deputy dean of Yale Law Schoo} andAssistant Attorney General in the Kenn.dy administration, and long in the leftof-2enter forefront, —Blair Clark, aggressive dove and campalgn manager ot former Sen. Kugene McCar*hy’s stormy butfutile scramble for the 1968 Democratic Presidential nomination. that campaign, McCarthy and Clark FBI and Director Hoover and unavailingly tried to make an issue of them. —Kamsey Clark, Attorney General in the .‘ohnson administration year, he indicated harboring Presidential ambitions but they seem to have evaporated in thin air. Last fall, in reply to snide remarks by Clark, Hoover derisively characterized him as a “jellyfish” andthe “worst” Attorney General he ever worked for. Reportedly, the Princeton seminar will consist of two parts: In Part I, a numberof “papers” will be presented on natently angled topics by equally biased authors. Examples: ‘Political Uses of the FBI” by IF. Stone, long-time leftist and publisher of “I.F. Stone's Biweekly”; “Informers” by Frank Donner, New York attorney, who has been the lawyer of Communist Party functionaries and has been associated with Communist-front anizations over years. In 1959, he pleaded ihe Fifth Amendment when questioned by the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities regarding Communist Partyaffiliations and activities. Also ‘Insiders’ View” by William Turner, one-time FBI agent who was dismissed on ouster, but it was sustained by Service Commission,the Court of Appeais for the District of Columbia and the Supreme Court. He has written several books and a number of magazinear-icles castigating the Fal and Hoover; “Selling of the FBI” by Robert Sherrill, one-time newsman and prolific critic of the FBI, President Johnson and former Vice President Humphrey. Sherrill labeled Johnson as “The Accidental President” and Humphreyas “The Drugstore Lil iberal.”” . Port II ofthe seminar will consist of panels aimed at exposing and castigating FBI methods and practices. One panelwill be made upof former Justice , among them Burke Marshall and Roger Wilkins, an assistant of the late Robert Kennedy. Another panel will comprise former FBI agents, including Turner, John Shaw, Sr., and Robert Wall, ith ousted under charges. A third panel will consist of characterized as “FBI informers,” who will be selected by Donner,the New Yorkattorney Memhas represented Communist party ofProminent among those listed as members of the Committee for Public Justice are actors, writers and srtists long associated with ae radical and peace causes of vurious Foremost among them is Leonard Bern- jn Black Panthers. Also movie actors Marion Brando, Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman and Warren Beatty with long rec rds in leftist causes. ) that statistically babies born today can expect to live 20 years without a death in the family. Early American pionerrs could expect to live only an average 27 years, Born in 1900, granddad could anticipate 66 years, Today you can expectto live to age 71 and your wife to age 76 and that’s the “average.” In myfiles are many couples who've been married thatlong. Upto now the factors adding five yearsto our life expectancy every 50 years were reduced infant mortality and improved bealth care. But new factors are being Finnish-born scientist, Dr. John Bjorksten, reports progress in the development of an anti-agingpill, a ‘cure’ for old age. Biologically, we grow old and gray because our molecular structure loses its elasticity. Molecules within us begin to cross-link, to bind together, added to the equation now, new won'tlet go. drugs which promise to increase These immobile molecular life expectancy spectacularly. At the University of conglomerations clog our cells, Wisconsin, they have created an reduce their efficiency, finally artificial gene. Hopefully fatally. Dr. Bjorksten has isolated eventually such could eradicate hereditary diseases with genetic enzymes which, in the lab, are bases, mongolism, hemophilia, capable of unlinking those crosslinked molecules. diabetes. At the University of London another expert on aging, Dr. Alexander Comfort, is working toward the sameobjective with the same enzyme and he says he’s proved it in laboratory mice. That injected enzymes “‘crush’’. conglomerated molecules, send them shooting sota proved such an embarrass- every whichaway. He believes ment to President Johnson. such injections in you would add Four years ago the war was 30 years to your life right now. a burning issue in the And heis seeking volunteers presidential campaigns. for a controlled clinical test on Emergency Strategy The White House couldn't persons willing to participate in make un its mind on how to an experiment that maylast 70 deal with McCarthyuntil it was or 80 years. wo late to meet his threat The American Geriatrics head-on, Then an emergency Society, cognizant of these strategy was adopted to write Bunyan strides toward in the nameof the president in lengthening human life, is the New Hampshire primary urging a re-evaluation of instead of allowing the state to mandatory retirement go to McCarthy by default. practices. Washington Window Administration Strategy On McCloskey:Silence Inside Washington Liberals Slate ‘Hanging’ by union leaders Yet George Meany and his associates were om the spot. They had demanded a labor voice. Nixon gave By GEORGE MARDER WASHINGTON (UPI) — A dual strategy is shaping up within the administration to deal with Rep. Paul N. McCloskey of California, the only declared candidate for the 1972 Republican presidential nomination. The first part would have President Nixon and members administration give McCloskey the silent treatment at least until next spring, A top political aide to che Presidentbelieves that McCloskey is fading with the war in Vietnam and that by next year’s presidential primaries he may be completely out of the picture. McCloskey already is reported running into difficulties financing a campaign. However, if McCloskey remains a potential embarrassment to the President next spring, the political aide will advise that the issue be met head-on and steps be taken ‘‘to oe the California lawmaer. President in Primaries That could mean putting “the champ,” the President, into a primaries against McClosey. This top Nixon political aide sees nothing wrong in that... he sees no reason for the President to be coy about his hopes for 1972 when everyone knows he wili be running for reelection. The political adviser ‘s dead set against allowing McCloskey to win any delegates by default. He also sees more danger in allowing McCloskey only nomini it would be under such McCloskey might make a good showing, even if he didn’t win an early primary, and become an even greater embarrassmentIcter in the year. i iticiens do not think the situation is comparable to 1968 when then Ser. Eugene J. McCarthy of Minne- BARBS By PHIL PASTORET By the time you'd like to burn the candle at both ends, you haven't enough sparkto light one end proper A word to the wise is usually unnecessary. Johnson won in New Hamp- shire, but it was so close that The apostles of population McCarthy looked good. Political control point with alarm to the professionals now believe it fact that curing the her<tofore would have been better to meet fatal disease, aging, begets a the threat directly, malignant population growth And that will be the GOP which could suffocate us. political advice to President But whatever the side effects, Nixon should McCloskey remain as any kind of threat in 1972. compare yesterday’s rockingchair grannies with today’s golfing grandmothers and TodayIn History By United Press International Today is Tuesday, Oct. 26, the 299th day of i971. The moon is between its new phase andfirst quarter. prepare yourself. As the soda- them thatvoice. If they refused they put themselves in the’ frying pan. Incidentally, the claim by some that the wage board plan is phony because the Cost of Living Council “will have a veto” is pure fantasy. There's nothing Nixon wantsless than a veto over board decisions on individual wage and price rise requests. This would put him on the political hot spot he's attempting to avoid. As noted above, what Nixon’s Cost of Living Council will do is set over-all guidance and limits to keep the increases sufficiently low overall ‘repeat overall) to bring inflation down to 2 to 3 per cent a year by the end of 1972. How the pie is cut within those limits — what price rises General Electric can legally post and what wage increases auto workers at Ford can be granted — will be strictly up to the boards. The Cost of Living Council will act in particular cases only when the wage or price board refuses to act. The thinking is that the board will refuse to act only when the decision to be madeis politically so unpopular that the board members cannot bring themselves to make a decision. If there is no over-all control by the President or his Cost of Living Council, it would be possible for the wage and price board under pressure, frominterest groups, to raise prices and wages overall to levels that would increase inflation — not dampen it. lam Dr: Lawre Numbness, Pain: Slipped Dise Cue By Lawrence Lamb, M.D. Dear Dr. Lamb —I would like to know about a slipped dise. My doctor said I had one and recommended an operation. Well, most of the pain went awayandI feared the operation. Myleft leg has been quite numb since and now, due to a little work, my back and leg have been aching quite a bit. Is there any way be- sides an operation to take care of this? People tell me that if I just let it go, being rather numb from my knee down to my toes, that gangrene would set in. Is there anytruth in this? I amvery worried and would like your opinion. Dear Reader—It might help to explain what a dise problem is. Between the vertebrae from the sacrum to the head there are small cushions. These are like small plastic bags, filled pop salesmensing, “You've got with fluid. In the center of alottolive...” each cushion is a small, round, rubbery disc. Immediately behind the main body of each vertebraeis the hole or canal for the spinal cord. Its branches pass out through the spaces nearthe canal, formed where each vertebra joins with the next The small pillows prevent jarring during walking. They are nature’s spring. If a pil- low ruptures the disc may be pushedout and press against one of the main nerve roots from the spinal cord or the cord itself can be damaged. The pressure leads to numbness of the leg, if those nerves are involved, and problems in movement. Sometimes doctors put a patient in traction, to try to widen the space between the vertebrae, hc>ing the little dise will stay where it be- longs. Often such procedures merely postpone the day something more specific must be done. There is danger that an additional strain on the back might ¢ the dise to pra- trude even farther, causing more nerve damage. Discs BEARY'S WORLD are apt to pop out when a person is bending over and lifting. The widened space with the pressure oflifting causes the little pillow to muscle spasm rupture. If the problem really is a ruptureddisc and not simply The morning star is Saturn. ‘The evening stars are Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter. Those born on this day are under the sign of Scorpio. American gospel singer Mahalia Jackson was born Oct. 26, confused with the problem) it is usually best to have an operation. Once the disc is 1912. Onthis aayin history: pressure on the nerves and removed it cannot produce In 1825 America’s first manmade waterway, the Erie Caral, was opened for traffic between Buffalo and Albany, NY. In 1920 Terence MacSwiney, lord mayor of Cork, died after fasting 75 days in a prisoncell, ing i for Ireland. In 1942 the Japanese sank the America): aircraft carrier “Hornet” off the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Theater of World War II. In 1966 President Lyndon Johnson, after a conference in Manila,paid a surprise visit to troops in Vietnam. A thought for today: Irish poet Thomas Moore said, ‘Ask a woman's advice and what'er she advises, do very reverse and you're sure to be wise.” (sometims cause damage, Of course, the function of thelittlepillowis lost and sometimes the two vertebrae involved are joined (fused). The opera is usually simple. Some individuals are up and walking around the next day It is unlikelythat you will get gangrene, sinceit is the nerves in the spine that are under pressure, teries, not the ar- But you can cause nent damage by ne- ing the problem. Re- cently some studies on dis- solving the dise by injections have beentried but you should discuss that with your © 1971by NEA, Ine Brom, “Do you think they'll listen if we tell them it’s a very old coat, ard wher you got it the species wasn't endangered?” ’ doctor. The problem is important and you should by all means do what your doelor suggests, Friends mean well but the place to get your medical advice is from the doctor trainedto giveit, r |