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Show Editorial Page Feature McCarthys Future as Demo Leader in Doubt THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1968 Seminar: We Recommend It two-wee- Humphrey at Chicago. It Is merely to say that the senator may be viewing the election race in terms of 1972 rather presidential campaign whether Sen. J. McCarthy Eugene doesn't really hope that Richard Nixon M. Hubert defeats Humphrey. This is not to imply that McCarthy is a spoilsport sulking over his failure to wrest the Democratic nomination from than - Dedicated to the Progress And Growth of Ce.itrol Utoh k National Security The Seminar scheduled to open here Monday has been And rightly so because it promises to be a memorable event . . . one of only seven being held this fiscal year in the entire country. But another reminder here for men and women who haven't yet registered for the event: You can do this at the Provo Chamber of Commerce during office hours this week. The office will be open Saturday to accept registrations. The opportunity of hearing experts from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces discuss topics vital to national Burvival may never come again to the Provo By GRANT DILLMAN WASHINGTON (UPI) It seems germane to ask at this point half way through the area. Military forces of the world, space exploration, energy resources, population management, the Soviet Union, Red China, Southeast Asia, weapons systems manthese are only a few agement of the 33 illustrated lectures schedk uled during the period. Besides the faculty team from the Industrial College, the speaker list will include Gov. Calvin L. Rampton who will keynote the opening session, and former Ambassador to four countries, Henry Byroade, who will address the closing ceremony Oct. 25. Withal, it's a worthwhile event which we highly recommend. 1368. The question arises because of McCarthy's failure thus far to endorse the vice president or take any other steps to help the national party ticket. How much this has hurt Humphrey may be a question. But hurt It has, particularly among voters critl. i cal of the Vietnam War. Risk Involved But it also is a course which involves risk for McCarthy. If the vice preident loses to NL;on, as now seems likely, McCarthy would be able to say "I told you so' to the party regulars, union leaders and others who helped Humphrey win the nomination. A defeat also Humphrey would ltave McCarthy free to ternative but to rely cn brute force or guns in situations he believes could be resolved much more surely and safely with a few simple hand end body holds. Officers are not intent on being brutal, says Koga, but their inis as stinct for strong as anybody else's. Thus when confronted by a man who "looks like he could eat nails and says, 'You're got to take me the hard way,' what do you do under typical training methods?" he asks, and answers, "You go to an equalizer r a gun or a night- stick." These, he says, ara more often than not a hazard to the officer himself. If the suspect resists, the officer may be accused of brutality. Unless he loses the fight, in Which case he may be dead. An instructor at the Los Angeles Police Academy, Koga, of Japanese descent, has come up with "The Koga Method of Police Weaponless Control and Defense Techniques," a blending of ludo, - e. protectors? Robert G. Perry, lawyer for former Gov. W. W. Barron of West Virginia, acquitted of conspiracy to commit bribery. Things In His Favor But . . , he-ma- Voters in '68. Since there isn't nearly as much po?-ert- y as talked and written about, and li&ce Wallace knows this, 1 would expect Questions Place of Health Director on Center's Board to be the most cogent of the three candidates when It comes to miltary spending that we must do in the next d billions in several years. The our current annual budgets is not enough to deter our enemies from blasting us to smithereens, or nibbling us to death, and' no man can be president without knowing that. Where are we going to get the extra money to save our lives? We are going to have to take It out of the welfare funds, out of ttie bureaucratic waste and e probably out of the silly be wouldn't It plauslbe to programs. say that Hubert Humphrey has the heart to do this, and it would take a lot of nerve for Richard Nixon to do so but this kind of revolutionary hard-thin- k would come naturally to Wallace. Of the three candidates, Wallace is the one most probable to Instruct the Joint Chiefs of Staff to shoot the works and win the Vietnam War. It may be that our national crime wave has reached a point of no return, and that for tome years to come our lives and property will require more policemen,, stern justice and swift punishment. This is not the way any sensible American would want it It wculd be much better If the radicals stayed within the confines of the constitutional republic which has a remedy for every political ill. Eut if that is not to be, then the country has to fight Its way back to and Wallace is the only candidate who uses that term without choking on It. his Everything good about Wallace thinkgutfciness, ttis ought to be said for him here in ing the late innings of the campaign. I don't think he will win. I know that he should not win. I wish I could reach other conclusions. But we cannot have I President who, deservedly or not, has the reputation of racinn. We cannot Indict, insult or Insulate 14 million Negroes, and that Is what a Wallace election would do. Nor can we have a President who, deservedly or not, is attracting so many soreheads, and too many defeatists, and many who are willing to give up on democracy Instead of giving u another ohance. $70-od- Space-for-Peac- straight-to-lhe-ja- A The Almanac By United Press International At a recent administrative board meeting, representatives of the Provo Service League challenged Dr. Smoot's position on the board. The legality of having a director of one public service agency serving on the administrative board of another is certainly in question in the minds of interested citizens. When commissioners, charged with the duty of providing for the mental health needs of a seek reliance upon a member of a board, whose legal right to membership seems questionable, one wonders if the mental health needs of the community are being adequately considered. In the interest of the public at large it seems advisable that Commissioner Stanley Roberts, chairman of the Region V Community Mental Health Center Administrative Board, and other commissioner members examine their current practice of seating a director of a local county-citpublic health officer on the citizens' board. The effects of such a practice carry with it some serious long-ter- community, Despite the latest Russian moon success, which no one here downgrades as an example of high tec'..: leal efficiency, the thinking in the scientific community here is still that the United states is slightly ahead of the Russians over-a- ll in the technical requirements of the moon race. Some knowledgeable scientists believe, in fact, that even as things now stand, the United States could almost certainly win the race to the moon, despite the delay already caused by the Apollo fire, if it weren't for the lack of confidence and perhaps overcaution the fire has created in the minds of NASA management. This extra cautiousness will almost inevitably affect all decisions from here on out, even after the Apollo safety corrections have long been completed. It is impossible to argue against men who want to provide more safety for our astronauts. No one wants to take undue chances. But overcaution can get to be a sort of complex. As one scientist puts it, it is very wise to look both ways before crossing the street. It can become a sickness to look both ways six, seven or eight times each time you come to a crossing. A second handicap the United States faces today in the moon race is the handicap of divided effort. U.S. space development is split between the Pentagon with its Manned Orbiting Laboratory Project and NASA with its Apollo. Nether is getting the full attention or backup It deserves. There is reason to believe Russia's space program is under one management with one priority Today is Thursday, Oct. 10, the 248th day of 1968 with 82 to follow. Editor Herald: A charge has recently been leveled at the Central Utah Community Mental Health Cen-te- r Administrative Board for "stalling" on the building of a center complex. It is only fair that the public understand some of the workings of the board in order to understand the "stall." the administrative First, board, chaired by Commissioner Stanley Roberts, seems to feel it is appropriate to have as one of its members the director Public Health of the Dapartment, Seth Smoot, M.D. Examination of such a.i organizational arrangement reveals the conflict of interest that exists when a director of a public health department serves on a decision-makin- g board for another public service agency. When such a director has a budget of his own it is hard to imagine that his own the interests, in advancing "needs" of his own department, would not come i.i conflict with the advancements of a rapidly expanding service proved to be outstandingly effective in dealing with and preventing mental health problems In a community. An example of the above described conflict of interest came out of one of the recent administrative board meetings, which are supposed to be open to the public. Dr. Smoot expressed his desire to have a health complex which could be used jointly by the public health department and the Region V Community Comprehensive Mental Health Center. Since the public health department over the past year and a half has been unable to come up with the money, does that mean the board should stall for nearly two years In building a badly needed physical facility at an estimated Increased materials building cost to the taxpayers of per year. (Not to mention the $600 a month rent being spent on the present facility ) It makes one wonder If the Public Health Department is not in conflict with the men-thealth needs of the community. The Region V Mental Health Cditcr includes Wasatch and Juab counties as well as Utah County; yet a proposal has been made that the housing facilities become part of one county's public health City-Coun- ty hlr In History D. George Wallace Has Many - believe. Today Holmes Alexandei WITH THE CANDIDATES Say this for George Wallace. Of the three major candidates, he alone is thoroughly the It is Impossible to imagine Wallace sobbing like a woman on the shoulder of another man, or to give way in the presence of others to the broken voice and the streaming eyes. But it's a matter of photographic record that Richard Nixon weeps with vexation, and no ecret at all that Hubert Humphrey can reduce himself to tears with his own rhetoric. Masculinity in a presidential candidate Is much to be desired, and the lack of It is no inconsequential matter. We're talking of the man who must keep his finger on the nuclear trigger. We ate and not selecting a commander-in-chie- f, ' just a political administrator. It counts for Wallace, I think, that he has been a Golden Gloves boxing champion, a combat air crewman and perpetual underdog. If you were picking amuug Nixon, Humphrey and Wallace for the one least likely to panic under conditions of war and insurrection, there is hardly any doubt tfiat the tough little Alabamian would be your choice. There art other Important qualities which Wallace may not have, ard serious defect which he docs have. But he's more of man than both of his major opponents put together. The pugnacity comes out in many ways. I have spent the good part of $ weekend w ith Wallace, and 1 am s'ruck with the directness of his thinking. 1 Jm't want to put compromising words In his mouth, hut I would bet that Wallace doesn't believe everthing we hear about poverty In America. Well, this Is i country wlwre there are more jobs than Jobless persons. Election year is the Lme when politicians like to talk about millions of Americans "going hungry to bed," but I think Wallace is leait likely of the three candidates to pull that one on the changes. Having been somewhat careless in building an Apollo with a highly inflammable pure oxygen atmosphere in the first place, there are signs that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration may have overreacted. Some careful space scientists So They Say Who is to protect us from our d WASHINGTON (NEA) It is just possible that the Apollo fire of January, 1967, which took the lives of three astronauts may have cost the United States first place in the race for the moon. As a result of that dreadful fire, 6,000 design changes' were made in the Apollo. All were intended to increase the safety factor. A considerable number of highly skilled men were diverted into this effort. A wide range of other activities were slowed down (or not speeded up on schedule) while these changes were being planned, studied and incorporated. This shift in the Apollo and in program priorities, however necessary, by minimum estimate has cost the United States upwards of six months in the moon race. It certainly cost this country first place in the attempt to circle the moon and return. Work on that part of the program was one of the tasks not speeded up on schedule. In a very real sense, a project as complicated and as lengthy as the moon program is a prisoner of decisions made early in the game. Once these decisions are incorporated into the proto make major ject, it becomes very costly and systems of Take the matter of putting people in paddy wagons, which occupied so much police energy in Chicago this summer. Simply by stiffening his (or her) body, an arrestee can turn the process into a shocking spectacle of several beefy policemen manhandling a defenseless victim. Koga recommends a special hand grip which, by pressing on a certain nerve, can deliver an exquisite sensation of pain when necessary and make the most recalcitrant suspect docile. Koga claims his methods "could do half a policeman's work" without resort to brute force or weaponry. Even if it would only do a fraction, it bears looking into by police in every city. D-S- per cent of the wildcat oil wells in the United States in 1967 turned out to be dry holes. Eighty-nin- e new-fiel- 'Win1 Moon Race karate and various other Oriental If peace came tomorrow, the domestic danger would continue. The next president of the United States will either deal creatively and energetically with our troubled citie; or he will preside over four years of unprecedented violence and confusion. Sen George S. McGovern, That would be very bad news indeed for McCarthy. It would take a bold Democratic leader Indeed to quarrel with Humphrey if, as president, he chose to exile McCarthy from party councils, at whatever level. U. S. Still Could two-wee- self-defens- at Chlcap. Ray Cromley he bomo Subtle Muscle for the Policeman There would be a lot less loose talk about "police brutality" if policemen knew how to handle lawbreakers ar.d suspects with more subtle forms of physical persuasion than they customarily employ. One man thinks so, and he ought to know. He works in the city Los Angeles. His name' Koga. He's a cop. Too often, contends officer Robert K. Koga in an interview in the Log Angeles Times, standard training leaves police with no al- try (the key word is try) to pick up the pieces and reshape the Democratic party so as to give a bigger voice to the ordinary party supporter. McCarthy calls this "participatory politics." But if Humphrey sh)uld pull off an upset and defeat Nixon next month, it would have to be viewed as a victory for the 'establishment" which the Minnesota senator and his followers tried so desperately to overturn The moon is approaching its last quarter. The morning stars are Mars and Jupiter. The evening stars are Venu and saturn. On this day in history: In 1845, the U.S. Naval Academy was formally opened at Ft. Severn in Annapolis. In 1911, Chinese revolutionaries overthrew the Manchu Dynasty. In 1913, President Woodrow Wilson pressed a button in Washington and blew up the last obstruction in the construction of the Panama Canal. In 1963, an estimated 3,000 persons drowned when a dam northern Italy. man for the thought philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche once said: "In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man. burst In A day-Ger- y implications. Richard B. Bolton, MSW 122 South 2nd East Provo, Utah SERRY'S WORLD The opinions and statements expressed by Herald columnists are (heir own and do not necessarily reflect the views el this news paper. BY IAMESO. BERRY Paul Harvey United States And Its Spoiled Brats Uncle Sam represents you and me all of us collectively. Surely, as if he were a real "uncle," he wants only the best for us. Surely, therefore, he must now be asking himself, "What did I do wrong?'' Kentucky tobacco growers pay $30 a day wages for unskilled tobacco cutters. Every harvest morning growers' trucks drive up to the unemployment office in Lexington, Ky., offering long lines of unemployed welfare ieclpients $30 for six hours work. Very few accept Most insist "that's not my line of work," and thus they legally perpetuate their parasitic existence. How many such persons might denied a handout be motivated to become productive and there eventually prosperous Is no way to know. But this we can measure: welfare roles continue to increase twice as fast as our population is increasing. In New York City, 14.000 additional welfare recipients are added to the roles each month. Welfare recipients have organized themselves into pressure groups demanding Increased handouts. There is in New York a ComCltywlde mittee of Welfare Groups seekefforts of ing "to 10-1- 5 at sVt.nia sjdirJ all the groups." Nationally, there is the "National Welfare Rights Organization," which is tantamount to a union through which welfare recipients can channel some of their welfare dollars to paid lobbyists in Washington where they can demand more of your money. This NWRO claims to represent 200 affiliated groups In 25 states. Members flood welfare offices with applications for more aid rnd stage rallies, s when picket lines and they don't get "what we are entitled to." Uncle Sam's generality has spawned a generation of spoiled brats and the longer a baby is on pabulum the more be cries at the Any parent who remembers sweating for what he wanted Is instinctively inclined to want things to be easier for his childrenbut history says of men and nations that ease most often breeds restiveness. The fathers of our republic knew better than to promise to provide happiness; they guaranteed your right "to pursue happiress"; there's an Important difference. That is your right: to "pursue" it, not to "purloin" it. Historically, the fact that others had more was an inspiration to Americans to work harder, loaf less, reach higher, improve themselves. But with Hubert Humphrey now campaigning for a "50 increase in Social Security benefits and more as needed . . ." one wonders. Is it possible is it really possible that, despite all our enlightenment, politicians can still buy our votes . . . . . , with our money? ... Quotes In The News Vietnamese Nguyen Van Thleu, speaking on the war in state of the union message: "The Hanoi regime has to acknowledge its aggression end an end to that accept SAIGON-So- uth Psident aggression." CAPE KENNEDY Astronaut Walter Schlrrs, commenting on preparations for the Apollo 7 spaceflight around the world set for Friday: "It's a U of work, a hell of a lol of work to get one of thr.se things off." sit-in- 11 h "Wtf, Ml, I. one thing'$ (of 5Uf-w- e't tote' Jodie ueT got thi 'drvgght MKftlDA, Mcxk-o-Ca- Erosa, an airline pilot, relaying news of the 1.1th skyjacking this year of a plane to Communist Cuba: "There is a female passerger holding a gu.i on me at this Instant, obliging me to ohange |