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Show "Chou Sent Me! Wisconsin Won't Go for Wallace Dedicated to the Progress And Growth c Central Utah Page ' Thursday, March HERALD. Provo. Utah 26-'- fHE ' J 30, 1972 1 Depending ideological and-o- r racial prejudices, President Nixon has either acted in a statesmanlike manner or has once again bowed to political expediency by asking Congress to halt further school busing. d Now a new report bearing on the controversy, actually a reanalysis of an old one, has been dropped into the midst of the fray. It seems to provide ammunition for both sides. It was back in 1966 that something called the Coleman Report, named after its director, James Coleman of Johns Hopkins University, came up d conclusion with a court-ordere- much-dispute- that: "Schools bring little influence to bear on a child's achievement that is independent his background and general social context; this ... means thai the inequalities imposed on children by their home, neighborhood and peer environment are carried along to become the inequalities with which they confront life at the end of school." A group of Harvard University researchers, supported by a Carnegie Corporation grant, have reexamined the data. Their conof clusions, edited by statistician and former presidential aide Daniel P. Moynihan, have been published as a Frederick Mosteller Random Equality of new portunity." House book, "On Educational Op- U.S.A. does reexamination the newsletter, wt confirm all of tne findings of the Coleman Report but upholds its general conclusions. If anything, says one of the researchers, the original report underestimated the importance of family factors on According to Education and school achievement overestimated the effect of school factors. Timely Quotes We are not going to create dividual human beings who are identical, but we will create human rights. Sen. Birch Bayh, leader of successful Senate fight iAa-tic- al D.-In- for On the question of integration, the reanalysis confirms the original finding that the achievement of black students placed in an integrated setting improves only slightly. Specifically, it suggests that the verbal ability of black students in inmostly white classes would be of a about creased grade e blacks level, still leaving about 3.3 years behind white students. The basic problem, the Harvard report stresses, is the socioeconomic condition of black families. ". . . neither school upgrading nor black-whit- e integration will close the achievement gap" if the socioeconomic gap is ignored. Thus programs which stress financial aid to disadvantaged blacks may be just as important, if not more so, than integration. Those who don't like this conclusion will counter that the black-whit- e socioeconomic gap is largely a product of past inequalities in education, which themselves were largely products of racially deterboth of mined housing patterns which inequalities busing is intended to help overcome. As for the President's proposal to channel more money into the black schools, they can point to another finding of the Harvard report. This states that the least promising approach to equality of educational opportunity for poor children is to increase school expenditures, since there is "little evidence" that this has an "appreciable effect on achievement scores." As with other 'vofund social problems, the nation may eventually have to adopt a compromise approach that will not be wholly satisfactory to anyone. This would mean busing in those cases where wisdom determines that busing is the most practical route to educational equality, and a en amendment. Important In psr Politics, Says Rockefeller By ROBERT S. ALLEN - Gov. Nelson Rockefeller gaye the Young Republican Leadership Conference some interesting tips on politics. For one thing he told them love is important in politics. Said the New York state executive, "In my opinion the single most important factor in politics is love; love between individual human beings. We Republicans care for equality, initiative and keeping government close to the people." Another tip was that President Nixon has a good chance to carry New York state this year. Said the Governor, "It looks very promising for hi.n to do that. One thing you can be sure of: we'll leave no stones unturned toward that goal." One of the most highly respected members of the House is voluntarily retiring this year. After ten years of outstanding service and among the best attendance records in has Congress, Rep. Durwood Hall, decided to call 11 quits. A decorated World War II veteran, Hall, practicing medical doctor, is certain of reelection. But he feels the "time has come to step aside and open the way for a new personality with the youth, vigor, enthusiasm, integrity and foresight that is so essential in public life today." A member of the House Armed Services Committee, Hall has consistently supported measures for strong national defense. WASHINGTON R.-M- Rep. Vernon Thomson, soring a bill that would have is spon- H 30 of his House colleagues and 8 Senators ifieir $42,500 salaries last year for absenteeism. Under the former Wisconsin governor's measure, lawmakers absent for more than 30 per cent of the recorded votes would lose their pay. Thomson s own attendance record for the session is 98.27 per cent. r Planted Bombshell Sen. George McGovern, who vigorously strives to outdo his rivals as an and militant dove, is being quietly hoisted by his a m petard through the unsolicited eff ort3 of opposing Democratic candidates for ultra-liber- al President. Being circulated by one or more of these sources is literature designed to put him in dutch with theimportant Jewish vote in next Tuesday's Florida primary. All the Democrats have been assiduously wooing this group. Some have gone to great lengths in that effort, acclaiming themselves . of In direct contrast to that claim is the tached press release dated July 29, 1970, in which McGovern voices distinct misgivings about providing Israel with more combat planes and other weapons. Flatly he asserts that a "balanced arms race does not in itself lead to peace." In effect, McGovern evinced a position of being opposed to continued U.S. arming of Israel. This stand is reinforced by his clearly implied demand for the return of seized Arab lands and certain guarantees by Israel. Declared McGovern in this long forgotten press statement on one of his letterheads: "Peace is needed to ensure that no Arab country is threatened with dismemberment or collapse. The United States should ask Israel not to use any additional jets provided for incursions over Arab territory. Negotiations should take place in any way feasible. Should the Arab nations so desire, representatives of the Palestinian Arab organizations should be permitted to participate in the negotiations. "Israel will have to accept the principle of withdrawal from occupied territories. The ultimate boundaries will have to be negotiated among the parties concerned and not be imposed by outsiders." Israel emphatically does not accept the "principle of withdrawal," and has never agreed to any limitations on- the use of the planes and weapons it obtains from the U.S. Also, McGovern is now very carefully saying nothing about such requirements. at- - ' f,-- r p&tffif&2' skL ' h" fl - and When We Abandon Death Penalty What Then? If This is a preview. What I'm Understand, most Western about to relate is "news before nations have abolished the death the fact," a happening before it penalty and our nest generation has happened. Maybe you can would like to. A recent campus opinion poll prevent it. in the United States shows 67 California's Supreme Court percent of college students has decreed that the death would abolish the death penalty. penalty is unconstitutional. The Most quote a moralistic concept, U.S. Supreme Court is con- insisting that "Thou shalt not kill" should apply to society as sidering the question. If the U.S. Supreme Court well as to individuals. California makes IS states agrees with the California State Supreme Court, then the death which have done away with the penalty becomes illegal in all & es. No more hanging, no more gas chamber, no more electric chair, no more killers will be killed. Our Supreme Court has acted repeatedly in related cases, but what the court is considering right now is of transcendant significance: the constitutional question, "Does capital punish ment constitute cruel and unusual punishment?" That's what California's Supreme Court says; that it's "unconstitutional" because our Constitution's Eighth Amendment specifically prohibits "cruel and unusual punishdeath penalty. Actually, ment." When that amendment was nobody 's been executed in any of the United States in 4 years adopted in 1791, its authors were 697 men and women wait for the concerned with the abolition of torture Supreme Court to decide. thumbscrews, mutilation, castration, the rack, burning alive. That's what they meant then. Only recently has "humane execution" been construed as "inhumane." The Supreme Court may again duck a "yes or no" decree, may equivocate, may judge the specific cases before it without cases, which run about 10 per ruling on the "constitutionality" cent of the total credit question. Because? requests. The whole system And hear this, please, because uses a designed it must not be misled by confor Datatrol. "The big advantage of such a temporary semantics, nor should we be. simple system is that it makes Let's assume that the possible a 'Zero floor limit' Court finds that killing Supreme store without running up a criminal constitutes "cruel operating costs drastically," and unusual punsihment..." Jackson explained. Now, traditionally, Americans "Most stores can't afford to have a credit department big have held certain things to be more precious even than life enough to check every charge itself: honor, virtue, "liberty." floor a so have request, they Patrick Henry said, "Give me limit usually $25," Jackson or death." explain. "The sales girl autoThousands of thousands have transacmatically charges any tion less than that without died in war to defend their and credit verification unless there others' liberty." of InThe Declaration is some definitely suspicious circumstances. The irony is dependence promises us the that a bad credit risk can run right to "Uberfy...." What is to prevent the next up hundreds of dollars worth a bills in a few days in various petition to our Supreme Court stores under a $25 floor limit." alleging that anything less than Jackson said Datatrol made "liberty" is That "confinement" conit possible to check every "cruel and unusual stitutes with the for credit request computer within seconds no punishment." Then all the prisons must be matter how brisk business is. So, the floor limit can be unlocked; then everybody goes free. abolished. drawing-and-quartcrin- g, Business Today Company Devises New Credit Reporting Plan By LEROY POPE UPI Business Writer NEW YORK (UPI)-T- he recession of 1970-7- 1 caused such an increase in credit losses by retail stores that merchants were eager to find a rapid and reasonably priced automatic credit reporting system. Communications, Inc., of Nashua, N.H., says it has found the answer with the Datatrol System which has been sold to Home's store in Pittsburgh, and the Hudson's department and the Winkelman's chain, both in Detroit. Half a dozen manufacturers have elaborate electronic machines on the market or in advance development stage to do the same job and do the stores' inventory and most of the bookkeeping chores at the same time. But such systems are expensive. Leon Jackon, marketing vice president of the Nashua firm, said Datatrol can cost as little as $50,000 for a smallish store, $200,000 for a big store. re as unfailing partisans of the Jews and ardent supporters of Israel. McGovern has been right up there among them fervently spouting his devotion, although his Congressional record doesn't quite measure up to his rhetoric. That is what is being pointedly stressed in the backstage literature being circulated about him. It consists of two items: a press release and a campaign letter put out by one of his Wisconsin managers. The latter communication, dated January 18, 1972, bears the signature of Burt Zien as state chairman of the Wisconsin Business and Professional Men and Women for McGovern for President. The opening statement in this letter asserts that the principal reason Sen is supporting McGovern is "his strong position regarding the survival and development of the State of Israel. He respects Israel's right P$ MOSCOW Paul Harvey a Inside Washington Love Very r upgrading schools in those cases where the human costs of busing are greater than the hoped-fo- r benefits. But where, in the emotionally supercharged atmosphere that now prevails, are we to find the wisdom? depressed-are- I , 12th-grad- on tf 111 mm. jgfr Mid. in r two-thir- concentration in- J se Helps Reduce Losses "Our system sticks to credit reporting," Jackson said, "We speed up credit reporting enormously and this helps reduce the credit losses drastically." Jackson said store managers told him credit losses always rise sharply when a recession follows a BERRY'S RIIU period of affluence. "People will buy clothes and food on credit even if they don't know how they're going to pay for .them," he said. "Deliberate credit frauds also go up in recession periods. Frauds probably amount currently to about one third of all credit losses." The Datatrol system depends on speed and simplicity to catch bad risks and fraudulent credit requests. It employs ordinary touchtone telephone pads to communicate with the computer and the credit, department from most loca- In the credit a ' housing marches. then, in 19C4, Wallace got his biggest But ev vote from Republican crossovers in th affluent suburban 9th District, losing only 52,000 to 45,000 to an unpopular governor (John Reynolds) whom voters wanted to hurt. He won't get such crossovers this time. Yet Wisconsin's top labor leaders, like AFL-CIPresident John Schmitt, share the politicians' gut fear of Wallace and are prepared to unleash an enormous propaganda attack on him if he gains here, O Personal Finance Hard Truths By CARLTON SMITH It is pleasant to make money without having to sweaf for it. Almost everyone shares this view of easy money, but there are two different ways of seeking the golden fleece. This tends to divide the world into two kinds of people. There are those who seek to lay up riches by devising y schemes for the others . . . and there are the others. The latter are the ones vho get fleeced. We need to be reminded frequently that almost no y scheme ever improves the financial position of anyone except the promoter of the scheme, and there have been several such reminders in recent weeks: One of the costliest of fur coats is provided by a cunning little animal, the chinchilla. It might be reasonable to believe, then, that if you acquired a couple of affectionate chinchillas and arranged for them to have numerous offspring, you'd have a small gold mine going in the basement, or garage or wherever. It seemed reasonable to the hundreds of victims, spread over 20 states, who were swindled out of more than $2 million before postal inspectors broke up the caper with mail fraud convictions in Des Moines not long ago. The plot called for buying your breeding stock from the promoters who promised tc buy back, in turn, all the furry offspring that mama and papa chinchilla could prodjee. The catch was, said the easy-mone- easy-mone- the other day, and we say that the kid is doing a rotten business. job with his dad's a punishment is that the prisoners are taking out life Capital so IfTI kj NEA, "O.K.! O.K.I I agree! Bottled water tastes better than the water you get from the tap Now, will you drop it?" . . . Easy Money anonymous heirline must department itself, somewhat more elaborate terminal display machines are used to communicate with the computer and enable department workers to make a final decision on the doubtful y By PHIL PASTORET We flew what must be an Machines Used T n BARBS tions in the store. In dense traffic locations, it uses a small high speed display type point of sale terminal that gives credit verification and authorization in 15 seconds. w In fact, one report has it that he has told friends he doesn't exoect to do well here. Wisconsin, then, would be a bridge, keeping him visible while he prepares for later primaries where he has a stronger chance to pick up some national convention delegates. The consensus of informed political judgments in this state is that Wallace won't win a single one of Wisconsin's 67 delegates and will pile up no more than 7 to 10 per cent of the Democratic primary vote. Only occasionally does someone suggest he might go as high as 15 per cent his standing in national polls. These figures are a far cry from the 42 per cent he rolled up March 14 in the Florida primary, and the 34 per cent he got in this state against a Lyndon Johnson stand-ieight years ago. The difficulties of success for Wallace became apparent the moment he set foot in Wisconsin this time, with a crowded rally at Milwaukee's sizable auditorium. The hantam Alabama unvprnnr was half his nlrl flam. boyant, funny self and half a serious candidate, and the blend wasn't working. Veteran Wallace observers, indeed, were a little stunned to hear him promise at one point a sober "position paper" on agriculture and, at another, a "white paper, as they call it" on tax relief. He read off farm stastistics in an incredibly dull, low-kerecital, and sank into a trough of dullness at other times when he seemed to be trying to stress his seriousness as a presidential candidate. His great, fiery speech from Flonda was here, but in scattered fragments which only now and then stirred cheers and laughter. In one such moment he told his listeners any visitor to Washington will encounter the "assistant to the assist ant to tne assistant to the assistant s assistant in the boiling flood of government bureaucrats seen in every corridor. He got them to their feet, too, with his jibe against his rivals for backing the Senate's Gulf of Tonkin enabling resolution on the Vietnam war, whose cost in men and money he stressed. Said Wallace: "They now come and tell you they're sorry, they made a mistake. Well, if they, made that terrific a mistake, I don't think you ought to give them the presidency." That moved 'em, but not much else did. The big busing issue which inflamed Florida doesn't exist here. A little forlornly, Wallace accepted that reality, calling it just-"philosophical" matter in Wisconsin, running through his old antibusting ritual without zest. There's the heart of his Wisconsin dilemma. Unless it's taxes, he hasn't got a big one here. He's groping, and the stitching shows badly in his new "I'm a serious candidate" speech. In 1964, he got benefit from the furor over civil rights. In 1968, when he got less than 10 per cent as a third party nominee, Milwaukee was still .ming over Father Grop-pi'-s er libry - Mi MILWAUKEE INEA) Gov. George Wallace, though still busy scaring the daylights out of his rivals, probably isn't going to score very heavily in the April 4 Wisconsin presidential primary. tMtt CLUB Home Life and School Grades upon one's political, T3 Bruce Biossat hung-u- subscriptions to maga- zines. Old tellers never die; they just lose their postal inspectors, that the breeding stock was sold "at inflated prices of $400 per k animal," and the promise was a fraud. You may wonder why the victims didn't ask themselves one question or ask it of the promoters: "If there's all that money in breeding chinchillas, why aren't you raising them?" buy-bac- It's a hard-to-answ- ques- tion of the kind that will often y expose the fallacy of an promotion. Try it, if you're ever tempted by some plausible-soundin- g scheme. By paying the required fee, you could have become a "field correspondent" for a Mineola, N.Y., organization engaged, it said, in testing. You'd get free merchandise to use in your home, and up to $100 per report for your opinion of its consumer appea! and marketability. A federal grand jury reincently returned a dictment agains the two individuals who'd been collectand ing all the fees neglecting, said the postal inspectors, to do anything else for their "field correspondents" except pocket their fees. Question: Why should consumers doing product-testinfor a legitimate operation be required to pay a fee? Your suspicions should be thory oughly aroused by any scheme which has, as its first proposition, your paying a fee. The fee turns up again in another mail-frauconviction in Laguna Eeach, Cal. First, you were offered an opportunity to make money addressing envelopes at home. But since you'd got in on the ground floor, you were to be relieved of that drudgery. You could-f- or fee become an "agent" of the company, and make money by recruiting other people to address envelopes. So it goes. Remember, when the opportunity comes your way, that there are two kinds of people in the world. There are those who devise the schemes and the others. easy-mone- new-produ- ct g easy-mone- d easy-mone- ... y ; |