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Show Bruce fcossaf mrnir-- i Thursday, August THE HERAID, Provo, 3, 1972 Utah-P- age Minnesota No McGovern Cinch 13 is- Probe That Started Something r A study by the Department of Transportation's Highway Safety Administration has given the Corvair a clean bill of health, railing the compact car no more unstable than other automobiles of the same year and weight. Ralph Nader, who first pointed the finger at the Corvair s alleged readiness to roll over (specifically, the 1960-6- 3 models), has branded the report "a shoddy, internally contradictory whitewash " Be that as it may, it is interesting leading consumer advocate. Since then, he and the hcsts he has inspired have crusaded for better safety and better products in everything from gas pipelines to dams in California to phosphates in detergents. The Highway Safety Administration itself is a creation of this period. Not only the consumer movement but aroused public concern over ecology, environment, pollution and population and disenchantment with Dig corporations have come into their own in just the past few years. Would none of it have happened had it not been for the Corvair? Would tha car sti!' be in production and would we still be driving around in cars without seatbelts, collapsible steering wheels, padded dashes and assorted warning buzzers and pollution equipment, with more to come? Would we still be merrily filling the skies with smoke and the waterways with filth? Not likely. All of these things safety, pollution, the whole "quality of life" bit were ideas whose times were beginning to come long before Nader and the Corvair. Yet that controversy over a little car provided a focal point for public concern which rapidly expanded to embrace all these other issues. It was, as the historians say, a watershed event from which much, both good and bad, has flowed. Timely Quotes God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides William Cowper, upon the storm. English poet. The sweetest life that a man can live is that which is keyed to love toward God and love toward man. Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman. Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your Henry Ford, American industrialist. This is the only chance you will ever have on this earth with this exciting adventure called life. So why not plan it, and try to live it as richly, as happily as possible? Dale Carnegie, American biographical writer. college-educate- Paul Harvey I Y j-- v About Women in Combat.. .And Preserv'n9 Their Femininity m Mm It was a bitter debate which several had been ravaged by xOpen Prisons' in Mexico lawmakers voted to ratify the constitutional confidence. It has been found that of holding a job and the being accepted is invaluable in blunting impulses toward "easy money" and violence. The prerelease program includes visits by selected groups of prisoners to public recreation centers, restaurants, museums and public events. Some prisoners are also allowed to spend weekends with their families. Mexico has also recently established a Committee for Former The government of Mexico is engaged in a program of prison reforms that should be of interest to penologists in this country. The administration of President Luis Echeverria, who has long deplored "jails which are schools for crime," has instituted legislation to achieve minimum standards for the social readaptation of convicts. Most dramatic and successful of the reform measures is the "open prison," in which prisoners serving two to 10 years are assigned to penal homes just prior to being granted their freedom. Here is where they serve their remaining time while being permitted and encouraged to hold jobs in outside society. Goal of the open prison concept is to ease the back into the normal flow of society with minimum stigma and maximum Convicts, consisting of represen- tatives from government and private agencies, including labor and industry, to provide moral and material aid to released prisoners. The entire system is based on the belief that society has the obligation to receive former convicts, after they have paid their "debt," and then to assist them in pursuing a normal life. Henry J. Taylor Strong Accent on Youth May Not Prove Realistic Sen. George McGovern privately finds his campaign pencil stuck at this moment in the narrow crack of a mistaken overemphasis. Chief strategist Frank Mankiewicz had given him the results of a respected College Poll (Greenwich, Conn.) which operates interviews on through personal, n 100 campuses and yields a weighed of the country's seven million college population. Mr. McGovern finds in it something of a shocker. that his Democratic party It is crystal-clea- r is today only slightly more attractive to the college generation. Only about 27 per cent say a they favor it over the Republican party face-to-fa- cross-sectio- major surprise. More than half persisted in listing themselves as "independent." Ai d Mr. McGovern is now convinced that his Democratic party label will be a much more negligible influence among the college generation than widely supposed. With these voters included in his problem, Mr. McGovern agrees that the heart and arithmetic of his campaign depends on how successfully 18 million youths now newly eligible to vote for President can be registered and a sizable majority caused to vote Democratic by November. In the postwar "baby boom" births increased from a level of about 2.4 million babies a year in the late '30s to 4.3 million in an increase of about 80 per the late '50s cent. As one result, astoundingly , two of every five Americans today are 17 years old or under. This means 82 million, or about 40 per cent of our entire population. This is 64 per cent more than in 1947. The average worker's age is 29. The medial, age has declined from 30 in 1950 to 27, the lowest in 44 years. Women in their 20s have nearly doubled. Meanwhile, typified by the College Poll, political parties as such are clearly losing stature. Thus, "party loyalty," a mainstay in our system and usually regarded as immensely favoring the Democratic party on the basis of its higher percentage of registrations, is something Mr. McGovern is haJly counting en at all. two-part- y amendment guaranteeing equal everything for women. self-estee- m far-reachi- At the same time, Mr. McGovern is finding a great deal of irony in the youth uproar on campuses and elsewhere represented in the loud demand that you "participate." In spite of all the emphasis put on youth and the highly publicized claim that our youth want to "participate," only about 50 per cent of the nation's youth in the present 9 age bracket has taken the trouble to register. Less than half of those already old enough to vote have even taken the trouble to make themselves eligible. They are like working as lifeguards en a beach. Mr. McGovern enjoys a t lead over President Nixon among people under 30 in the last two Harris polls. But, based on the primaries Mr. McGovern entered and on registration figures to date, this youth group is running far, far below its full 29 per cent potential of the population. Mr. McGovern's youth problem is not only the hard task of getting our youth to register and vote, but the potential risk of appearing to downgrade a much greater body of the overemcountry in his already-apparephasis on youth. For now comes the second shocker. The group will have increased immensely this November. The dominant factor is that, while our birth rate has slowed down, the life expectancy has gone up. For men it has risen from the low 60s in the early '20s to 66 years or better today. For women the rise is from 71 to 73. In the 1968 election there were more votes by those over 65 than ever before and their number will have increased mightily in this election year. The over-3- 0 vote share of the actual electorate, in contrast to the youth share, is running substantially higher than its share of the population. And Mr. McGovern has been trailing Mr. Nixon by 23 points in the Harris 21-2- nine-poin- Nixon-Humphr- polls among voters over 30. Behind the scenes, Mr. McGovern has come to believe that his strong emphasis on a youth appeal is increasingly unrealistic. In the s actual arithmetic of this year, the youth appeal simply and positively cannot elect him President in 1972. bare-bone- Reporter Lancashire asked lasted late in Kentucky's their captors, one of the Chen, Ruth those David Ben Gurion ordered Lichtenstein, if she fixes her own legislature before then-Premi- rv Minnesota the kind of state Sen. Georse McGovern almost has to win ;o have a real shot at the presidency. And right now he isn't in very good shape there. Of the several sources I tapped, some put on the bold establishment front and said the senator would take the state. Hut others with a little more detachment and a little less at stake were more cautious. One veteran Democratic campaigner thinks Minnesota has a slight lean to McGovern, but most of the specific things he hears are bad. Another seasoned party figure is picking up the same bad news, and can't detect' any leaning to the senator. What strikes this second Democrat most forcefully is the number of proclaimed Democrats who volunteer their intent to support President Nixnn in November. Who are these people? The answer I got: "Upper-income- , individuals who have consistently voted Democratic. "McGovern's tax reform program bothers them more than anything else. They feel it is not well thought out, that the senator has no real judgment of his own in this field but relies on whoever happens to be advising him last " These -- eople insist, I am told, that their opposition to McGovern will endure, that it is not just a summertime thing. Other influential Democrats in Minnesota are being bombarded by negative reports on the senator. Union men, congressional and state legislative candidates, party organization types are all getting evidence of opposition to McGovern, This "negative feedback," as one source called it, centers on what are deemed to be the uncertainties of McGovern's welfare and tax programs, and to a iesser extent on his support of amnesty for draft evaders and his offer to "beg" Hanoi for release of Vietnam war prisoners. As if this were not enough, in Minnesota he is being tagged with things that are not in the Democratic national platform, like liberalized attitudes toward marijuana and abortion and support for a $6,500 a year family welfare grant. Some Minnesota voters also seem to think that McGovern is in fall harmony with the state party's nutty platform, adopted June 10, which calls for approval of marriage among homosexuals. Every Democratic candidate in the state has been running away from that one. My sources think the possible defections from Democratic ranks run from the upper middle class to blue collar workers on the fringes of poverty. Among the waverers along this route, it is said, are Jewish voters and many ethnic Catholics. In one party leader's view, the estrangement from McGovern among the ethnic Catholics is so great as to represent almost an "irretrievable" situation. The political types I talked to are further concerned at what they consider rigid, exclusionary attitudes on the part of McGovern's Minnesota forces. One person of recognized party stature told me their idea of compromise is "to move about two inches, no more." to speculate on how different a lot of things might be today had the official study been available five or six years ago. It was the Corvair controversy, it will be remembered, that launched Nader on his career as the nation's two-yea- mind young. - Within minutes the HIS sign on the men's room door had been changed to OURS. As more states consider ratification of the Rights - for - Women Equal Amendment, those opposed emphasize two objections; that this will desegregate public toilets and send women soldiers into combat. er women to stay back from the front lines. But today's training is geared for total combat capability. And yet, girls will be girls. above the knee. Yet the Women's Corps of the Israeli Defense Forces remains undeniably feminine. No 'Happy Medium' On Prices Editor Herald, Yesterday I bought a gallon commander, a petite bottle of distilled water for my mother of two, Col. Dvora steam iron. I was dumbfounded Tomar, just this spring sought because the price had gone up 14 and got cash allowances for her cents since I bought my last troops to wear frilly lingerie. gallon. The toilet tissue had gone A cosmetics firm is allowed to up 10 cents. We are farmers, and so we send beauticians to training have make-uto in instruct enjoyed meat prices being camps What we used to call WACS higher, a break for once for the and WAVES, the Israelis call farmers. Of course, farmers "Chen." Technically it stands never get much of a break. for "Army of Women." But in Wages go up, everything seems Hebrew fie word also means to cost more, unless it's farm "charm." prices. Doctors and dentists c! urge Every girl in Israel gets her draft papers when she's 18. more all the time, but they About half of them those not surely gripe if they pay a little married or otherwise ineligible more for meat. do 20 months military service. There doesn't seem to be a After that they remain in the happy medium. Maxine Gordon reserves. Rt. 2 Box 106 A Israeli wemen have not fought since the 9 Spanish Fork, Utah 04660 war,' After Their p. '48-'4- she says, "There's to help." Claims Some Citizens Not Allowed to Register g, Now these are women who carry submachine guns when they parachute from airplanes, when they march alongside and for as far as men march. But, usually a man around who offers r ' Personal Finance Letters to Editor Editor Herald: For an admitted reactionary Before a resident of Utah who prefers women to be County may vote in any election ultimately feminine, it's painful from local to national, he must to picture women in the trenfirst register to do so.- The ches. authority to register a person or refuse registration is vested in But it's nothing new. William F. Huish, Utah County Since Molly Pitcher took her Clerk. Under the law a person may be place beside the cannon of the American Colonies, it's been registered if he is a U.S. citizen, 18 years of age on the date of the nothing new. resident of the state 6 election, The leader of the wildest, most months and the county 60 days brutal bunch of (a requirement currently under bloodthirsty anarchists in West appeal for reduction to the Germany is Ulrike Meinhof, 37, federal standard of 30 days female. residency in state and county). So women are capable of Residency may bo established in combat. a number of ways, such as income tax returns, rent in Policewomen many American cities are now trained receipts, employers' statement, automobile registration, title of in judo, karate and property, driver's license. Any grappling. of these documents attest to a And Associated Press person's residents up to the time David Lan- of registration, and with correspondent cashire, in Israel, has given us a precious few exceptions, (ingraphic picture of what it's like sanity for example) the law where young women do serve in requires no more than this. the army, the navy and the air However, the Utah County force, asking no special con- Clerk has reserved for his office sideration and, yes, sharing the liberty of determining as difficult to field something with men whatever establish as the future intent of a "facilities" are available. voter. He has on all Do they become manlike, we'd prospective too frequent occasions refused to logically want to know? allow documented residents to No. Not in Israel, they don't. register, regardless of any proofs presented. Significantly they started out As far as I and others inbut wearing baggy fatigues volved with voter registration soon elected to wear skirts. And drives have determined from now miniskirts. They've examination of the Utah Code asked and been permitted to and conversations' with the State stitch their hemlines five inches bomb-slingin- flat tires. She said, "I'm trained to." d Social Security: It Affects You Bv CARLTON For every family, ycung Attorney Gener i's Office, Mr. or old, the current scale of Huish is in violation of the law Social Security benefits plays and abusing his rights of elected an important role in financial office. planning. Every calculation To prevent any eligible citizen concerning the family's sefrom voting is a most curity program, or insurance devastating abuse of the democratic system of government. I sincerely hope that Utah County residents, especially the young, and students, will conscientiously attempt to register to vote and insist on this essential despite right bureaucratic harassment. Registration may be conducted at the County Clerk's Office (basement of the County needs, has to begin with the disability or survivorship benefits available under Social Security. All benefits these with them are subject to the 20 per cent increase effective in September, and younger wage earners should be aware of the extent of the increased protection now afforded in case of the breadwinner's disability or death. The amount that is paid to any individual for any Social Security benefit, or otherwise is determined by that individual's history of earnings. There is a formula for determining your average yearly earnings, stipu- lating which years are taken into account. If in each of these years you earned at least as much as the Social Security "wage base,'' you qualify for maximum bene- SMITH back in the early '50s, after which it rose in steps to 0 by 1966 and to $7,800 last year. (It's now $9,000, and scheduled to rise to $12,000.) If you earned that much or more, in each of those past years, you have the highest possible average yearly wage, for calculating Social Security benefits, and would receive the maximum monthly payment. $6,-60- A worker retiring this year, for example, who's always earned at least as much as the "wage base," would qualify for a monthly retirement benefit of $259.40 as a single person, or $389 Building, during off.ee for a retired couple. hours on any day except Sunday and holidays excepting a 10 day That figure the single worker's retirement benefit period immediately preceeding is the one from which any election. There are also other Social Security beneregistration agents in various fits are derived. A disabled county locations, for primaries, worker's benefit is the same and 22, 12, August general as his retirement benefit election registration, October 14, and a younger man, with 17, 31. 1 encourage residents to shorter history of higher get involved and to start now. earnings, will sometimes reRegister to vote, inform yourself ceive more than any and insist on registering to vote retiree can qualify for. not to law the the and according of dubious judgement Survivorship benefits for the widow with children unfits. presumptious officials. der 18 again are determined Alan Griffin The wage base is the 370 East Center amount subject to Social by what her husband's retireProvo Security tax. It was $3,600 ment benefit would have been in the year of his death. The young widow receives 75 per cent of this "primary insurance amount," and a child's benefit is also 75 per cent of the "PIA." On such combined benefits within a family, though, there is a ceiling of S4S0 as the "maximum family benefit." There is a wide gap between these maximum benefits and what the average Social Security recipient actually receives. Here's what the Social Security Administration says the average payment will be, after the 20 per cent increase: retired For a worker, $162, as against the $259.0 maximum. For a retired couple, about S271, as against the $389.10 maximum. mother For a widowed with two children, about S386. as against the S480 maximum. Thus, the protection the wage earner or iiis family can count on, in case of his disability or death, varies widely according to the individual's history, of earnings. For your own security planning, it's important to know what it is. And it's not t. '972 hp HtA, Inc difficult to determine; ask the people in your locul SoI help it if cial Security office how to "Sorry to have beaten you again, dear. Can go about it. 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