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Show V Bruce Biossat Timeless and Immortal vr -- 0 3 Muskie Swamps McGovern in Poll Dedicated to the Progress And Growth of Central Utah Page Friday, February HERALD, Provo, Utah 12-- THE 11, 1971 WASHINGTON tNEA) The Gallup organization has preliminary results from a rare poll showing Sen. Edmund Muskie an overwhelming choice over Sen. George McGovern for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination. Since the actual figures may still be formally published by Gallup, I am not privileged to disclose them. They reflect recent queries put just to Democratic voters, and they are indeed crushing. Interestingly, too. the regional breakdown shows McGovern doing roughly 10 points better in the Middle West than he does nationally. These findings take on significance in the light of argument being advanced by McGovern and some independent observers that his recent showing in Iowa's Democratic precinct caucuses was "seven times" better than his national poll status. The argument is grossly misleading. It is based upon two things which John Davieson of the Gallup organization says can't fairly be compared a Gallup poll measuring McGovern in a field of 10 Democratic contenders and giving him just three per cent; and incomplete returns from 2.600 delegate-choosinprecinct caucuses in iowa, giving McGovern 23 per cent against Muskie's 35.6 and an uncommitted 35.1 per cent. (Muskie's share should rise further when all precincts are in.) In the first place, the Gallup test in question was national and affords no hint of McGovern's obviously greater strength in the Middle West. Secondly, the poll set him against nine others. For all practical purposes, the event in Iowa was in d test between Muskie and the nature of a McGovern. Technically, any Democrat could draw support, and there was a tiny scattering for Sens. Hubert Humphrey and Henry Jackson, for former Sen. Eugene McCarthy, and for black U.S. Rep. Shirley Chisholm of New York. But only Muskie and McGovern had any sort of working organization, and the contest was properly viewed at all stages as a direct collision. McGovern's 23 per cent in the Iowa caucuses was not far distant from the Middle West percentage Gallup e measurement with would give him in its Muskie. Muskie's Iowa showing is below what Gallup would give him for the Middle West. But a lot of the presently uncommitted strength in the state is believed by politicians and analysts to be Muskie's. It is expected to surface at later stages. Though the Iowa uncommitted figure of 35.1 per cent was higher than the Muskie forces and most others anticipated, he nevertheless was the clear winner among Democrats who declared themselves. It is just plain silly for McGovern to assert that "we have fought Muskie "to a standstill, even though he is How do you make 35 to supposed to be the 23 into a stalemate? Actually, not even his 23 per cent is secure, since the delegates he won in the caucuses are not legally bound and could switch . The truth about the caucuses is that they were peopled by consistent political activists and other interested persons, usually under hard spur from local party leaders, the candidates' field forces, and causists (in Des Moines, C2tholics oppose more liberal abortion laws). head-to-hea- IS Words With an immortal Echo It seems to be a law of communications that the larger the audience that is tuned in, the less memorable are the things it hears. Hiis is true of much of the fare broadcast over the airwaves. It is certainly true of advertising and is pi obably just as true of politics. Even back in the 1920s, when radio was in its infancy, a president could command an audience far greater than was present in Gettysburg on November 19, 1863, to hear Abraham Lincoln. Today, even in an unscheduled, appearance on television, a president can be heard and be seen by more Americans than were alive in Lincoln's time. But no president before or after Lincoln ever created or uttered such a jewel as his Gettysburg Address, nor has any American document been read, repeated, memorized and loved by so many people around the world. There are at least two legends about this famous address. The most familiar is the one which holds that nt Lincoln's words were poorly received and that he left the battlefield with the conviction that he had failed To be sure, there were caustic comments in a few newspapers, typical of that partisan day. But at least one Chicago paper stated prophetically that "The dedicatory remarks of President Lincoln will live among the annals of man." Edward Everett, the principal speaker, who preceded Lincoln with a oration, wrote him ihe next day: "I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two-ho- ur two hours i, as you did in two minutes." Recently, some scholars have claimed that Lincoln's speech was actually greeted tumultously. They cite a diary or newspaper account which records that it was interrupted half a dozen or more times with applause and cheers. But it is as difficult to believe that this short speech only 272 words two and a half about long and taking could be inminutes to deliver terrupted so many times than it is to believe that it was totally ignored and unappreciated. A theory suggested by Clifton Fadiman some years ago seems closer to what really happened. Picture Lincoln standing in the open air, speaking without benefit of a loudspeaker system to a probably restless crowd of 15.00G which had just finished listening to Edward Everett orate for two solid hours. It is likely that only a few heard what Lincoln said. The speech would have been over before the crowd could have been aware that it had begun. This, thought Fadiman, may have been the basis for the story that the speech was considered to be a failure. At any rate, no amount of modern electronics gear could have ed into greatness a speech that was not great to begin with. No size of audience, no amount of applause or favorable newspaper comment, could have made immortal words that were not endowed with immortality at the moment they were conceived in Abraham Lincoln's great mind. A man Like Lincoln stands above time and technology. ;V g head-to-hea- Paul Harvey Chicago Moves Into Top Spot Among Cities in U.S. Chicago, for generations our nation's "second city," has become number one. The evidence is irrefutable. The "reasons why" should be fun to compute. The busiest freeway in the world is the one connecting Chicago with its airport and points beyond: 240,000 cars per tran-form- day. And Chicago's airport is the busiest commercial airport in of a million the world, Eights in or out last year. two-thir- And Education. rapid change is the importance ot teaching individuals when they are preadolescent how to care for babies and toddlers," she says. Mrs. Whiting, who has worked with Kenyan students at the Child Development Research Unit in Mairobi, notes that those youngsters have grown up in large families and in homesteads where they served their turns as child nurses. "Their experience," she says, "seems to protect them from the guilt and anxiety which prevails among middle-clas-s American mothers." "Since we are in essence depending on folk wisdom in many situations, why not transmit it in an efficient way? Perhaps the one universal bit of folk wisdom which we have forgotten in our period of Middle-clas- s American mothers are doubly handicapped because most of them are far away from their own parents and they probably did not have any early experience in caring for young children. When pediatricians, for example, are consulted about problems not strictly medical, they can only make educated guesses actually folk own their along passing wisdom, Whiting, says Mrs. Beatrice B. a lecturer on education at Harvard's Graduate School of Letters to Editor Pcac nnrl C stne 11 Funds Against Annuities Editor Herald: I was certainly pleased when different animal. One is an investment, where you're hoping to manage your capital in such a way as to retain it or a good portion of it while at the same time persuading it to generate income for you. The other involves your spending the capital to buy something namely, a contract which insures a certain income being paid to you for life. Let's start with annuities. What you're talking about is an "'immediate annuity"; at retirement age you make a large, lump-supayment and your income begins immediately. You have, basically, two options. A "life annuity" means that payments continue only so long as you live. If you die after two or three years, you'll have received only a small part of what you put in. A "refund annuity" will continue payments to your heirs until it's all paid back. This type of contract costs more. To give you an income of $100 a month beginning at age 60, typical ccsts currently, according to the Institute of Life Insurance, are (14,500 for the life annuity, $16,200 for a refund annuity. If you, instead, bought $16,200 worth of mutual fund shares, the fund would send you a stipulated sum, quarterly or monthly, derived from dividends and capital gains distributions and, if necessajy, liquidation of in- tersection before the semaphore was temporarily installed, without an element of fear. Many times I have had to wait for some time before "ad- venturing" across the street. My greatest concern, though, is for the children r4 the elder people who must cross that Today In History By United Today is 42nd Press International Fruhy, Feb. day of 11, the 1972. The moon is approaching its new 6 That big IF is the catch, "f course. If the value of your fund shares drcppel 3C or 40 per cent, as some di J in the last couple of years, it would be another dish of pickles. This is why annuities and income from an investment of any kind are two different soi is of animals. With the annuity, you buy maximum certainty of a guaranteed, fixed income and none of your capital's left for your heirs after the annuity ends. When you retain your capital in an investment, with ordinary good luck youll get the income and, in addition, conserve some or maybe all of your capital. It all depends on which of these is more important to you, on your willingness or ability to tolerate some element of risk, and on your uitidpations of how well the investment can be managed. crossing that remember shares. Funds often limit the amount to 6 per cent yearly of your share value about $81 a month in our example. If you go this route, you assume the fund's shares are going to appreciate in value ever the long term. The figure generally used by the mutual fund industry is an average of 12 per cent a year but let's say, over the past 10 or 15 years conservatively, it will be 7 per cent. rate. I BYU co-e-d who was visiting friends and relatives. I dont rt AAnturfl If you Ye withdrawing per cent a year and realizing 7 per cent growth, you're obviously never gcing to run out of money. Your principal will increase. You could operate your own withdrawal program, by liquidating shares periodically, and draw an income of almost $100 a month while keeping your $16,200 principal intact. You could even draw considerably more than $100 a month and keep some portion of your principal intact to the end of your life, in all probability IF you realized a fairly steady 7 per cent growth world in Chicago. Chicago already had the tallest apartment building, the tallest bank, the underground garage. Chicago has the largest post office, the largest convention center, the world's leading and commodity produce markets. With New York suffering industrial atrophy and decline, Chicago has become first in 38 1 phase. major industrial categories: mail order, appliance manufacture, The morning stars are Mercury and Jupiter. The evening stars are Venus, Mars and Saturn. Those born on this day are under the sign of Aquarius. American inventor Thomas Alva Edison was born Feb. 1, commercial printing, metal manufacturing, office machines, cut stone products, canned and frozen foods, radio and TV production, steel and scores more. And it's happened so suddenly that most Qiicagoans dont fully appreciate the fact that their city, in variety and excellence of architecture, exceeds any other in North America. Airliners crews approaching from over the lake never get over being spellbound by that skyline. Chicago's 4 million population is a real potpourri. We have as many Italians as Rome , as manyv Poles as Warsaw, more Irish than Dublin and even a substantial read the letter which Mr. Thayne wrote concerning the intersection at 900 E. and 300 N. (The letter was printed two or three weeks ago.) I was delighted when I found mat they had installed the semaphore mat was in this intersection until recently. I remembered the times that I had run across it as a student going home from elementary school, or from another place. I remembered the times that I had walked very fast, or run across that intersection as a By CARLTON SMITH Q TO be retiring shortly and one of toe "experts" I've been talking to stoat income recommends a mutual fund withdrawal account What are the pros and cons, as compared to patting the same amount into an annuity? R.G.A., Philadelphia A Roughly the same as tbe pros and cons of a zebra, compared to an aardvark, if you were considering buying a pet They're two has been stagnating for two decades, Chicago's telephone directory became the fattest in the nation. And Sears Roebuck is right now putting the upper floors on the tallest office building in the steelement of transplanted Arctic Eskimos. For excellence and variety of food, no place compares: Greek, Spanish, kosher, Scandinavian, intersection. I would imagine, Irish, Bohemian, Oriental. And culture: Three of though, that some older people would rather sacrifice walking Chicago's 28 museums arc insome place than to cross it, even comparable. if it means not going to the store is symphony Chicago's or not going to the valuable visits number one in the acknowledged of their friends. some say "in the world." There are now many more nation, No city has more colleges. cars driving through that inI'm going to distract you if I tersection turn there were when that most of this reflects suggest I was a child in elementary Mayor Daley's stewardship. &nd remember that I school, This is not intended to crossing it was an undesirable recommend him for other office. Some then. of even experience His fierce dedication to being the the hours when the children are greatest city's greatest mayor is crossing it coincide with the rush the of his own ambition. height traffic hours of the BYU. Must Yesteryear's "second city," parents worry? Must these children wait long periods of trying harder, has become time; must they fear; must they "first!!" run; or must there be a tragedy, New Yorkers used to boast before permanent action is that they had Broadway; they taken to protect their lives, their still have but now they're limbs, and their feelings? embarrassed by it. I feel that this problem Within 20 months, Michigan remains uncorrected because will eclipse Fifth Avenue Avenue not officials are the proper aware of the problem or of the as a marketplace for high fashion. importance of it. I feel that it would be of great assistance to With city every other them if more people would help threatened with decay and bring this problem into the open, bankruptcy Chicago U mere so that it could be recognized, dynamic, more beautiful, more and the proper action secured. I, prosperous, "more everything" like Mr. Thayne, would en- now. courage readers to express their views concerning this problem. Sincerely yours, BERRY'S WORLD Cathryn Carlile Problem Intersection Personal Finance ( the bussiest street comer in the world is State and Madison. While New York's population Call to Return to Folk Wisdom What American middle-clas- s women need to help cut their maternal anxieties is more folk wisdom and less to do with specialists, according to a Harvard University researcher. 15? d 750 front-runner- Dr. Lawrence Lamb Y Three Causes Of Yellow Jaundice Dear Dr. Lamb Please explain the cause, effect and treatment for yellow jaundice. We could Dear Reader spend several weeks just answering that one question. Jaundice is caused by the yellow, not greenish, pigment that is normally attrib-utte- d to bile. The pigment material can come from hemoglobin in the red blood cells. One of the major functions of the liver is to handle body pigments which include hemoglobin pigment in the red blood cells. The pigments are processed by the liver and excreted in the bile, giving bile this rhacac-teristi- c color. The bile in turn produces the color of the normal stool. Basically, then, there are three ways that yellow jaundice can be produced. One is by the excessive destruction of red blood cells, bv whatever means, which creates an excess amount of pigment to be processed by the liver. In this case the primary difficulty is with red blood cells or what causes them to be destroyed. N. 600 E., Provo Urges Street Cleaning by Water Power Editor Herald: Provo Gty could do a much 1847. faster job of street cleaning by On this day in history: hooking smaller fire hoses onto In 1937 General Motors fire hydrants and using water agreed to recognize the CIO power to clean streets. Streets could be blocked off so that United Auto Workers as barduring gaining agent for GM workers. traffic could be In 1945 President Franklin D. the washoff. Gerald Eenrie Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet ruler Josef Stalin closed Women's Lib a week-lon- g World War II c&iiference at Yalta. In Pakistan In 1965 U.S. and South Vietnamese planes staged the KARXHI (UPI)-Pakis- tani first bombing raids on North women are breaking away from Vietnam in retaliation for a orthodox tradition by leaving Viet Cong attack. hearth and home to earn a In 1968 New York City man's wage in the nation's ended an factories. garbage worke-- s eight-da- y strike. This was indicated by figures released by the director of A thought for today: Amerilabor and welfare which showed can inventor Thomas Edison a 30 per cent increase in said, "There is no substitute for Karachi's female labor force hard work." since 1968. ." liJIi ICA, l. "We, in Washington, see prosperity just around the corner for the family farm. All you have to do is survive until the subuibs reach you, and you'll make a fortune in real estate!" i. second cause for yellow jaundice is obstruction of the normal bile drainage. This can be produced by a stone passing down the bile duct and lodging in the bile duct, thereby obstructing normal blood flow into the intestine. We often call this obstructive jaundice. It can also be caused by a tumor of the pancreas which obstructs the normal drainage from the liver. A third general cause for is any involvement of the liver itself which impairs the liver's ability to process pigment. . There are numerous ' cines or drugs which can affect the liver to cause this. Also certain infections, such as hepatitis, can cause jaundice in this manner. As you can see, there are a host of things which can cause jaundice, from breakdown of the red blood cells to cancer. The treatment for yellow jaundice then is dependent entirely on its cause. If it is a problem in excessive destruction in red blood cells, treatment must be directed toward this If there is a stone lodged in the bile duct, obviously effort should be made to remove it If it is caused by infectious hepatitis, then support for liver function and waiting for the body to recover from its illness will usually take care of the problem. Dear Dr. Lamb Does diverticulosis always end up as cancer of the colon? I have known a couple of people who died of it because it had turned to cancer, so I worry secretly about it. DiverticuDear Reader losis (pockets of the colon) does not become cancer. However, since one out of five people past 40 years of age has diverticulosis and since cancer of the colon is not a rare finding in the American population, it is obvious that some people with diverticulosis of the colon will also develop cancer of the colon. This does not mean that cancer of the colon was caused by diverticula. Because diverticulosis is so common in the American population, if it frequently turned into cancer there would be a lot more cancer of the colon than we now observe. I believe you can safely put this fear out of your A yellow jaundice mind. Jf.M |
