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Show Editor's Notebook ri The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, June 18, Just What Is McGoverns Welfare Well, as the old saying goes, you cant 'ase 'em all. Last week I wrote an expository piece ni:rf 'Tn about the probabih-- t y of a i x o n McGovern race for the presidency. --4- -- a I thought it was fair, objective and informative discussion of the candidates and the issues. Most of the McGovern people with whom I have diked thought so, too. Rut now comes W. V. Turnage of Coral tables, Fla,, to chide me for saying the , McGovern plan to give every man, Iwoman ana child $1,000 a year would cost jfjlft billion. Mr. Turnage avers that this Statement is downright dishonest." correspondent quotes McGovern headquarters as reporting that middle My ome taxpayers would be eligible to receive an income supplemenv from the federal government. Actually, everyone would he eligible for this grant, therefore the figure. inc of it, but and income program, spending cues and higher taxes. welfare the present wel- Sen. McGovern now denies that his plan would mean an initial outlay of $210 billion. His contention is that mcreased taxes upon everyone who makes over $12,000 a year would greatly reduce the cost. . reforms lets e, full-pag- $12.!)00-a-yea- turn now to Max Palevsky, a McGovern contributor who fortune in computer technoloPalevsky tuned up his personal fed in the most favorable figdiscovered a shortfall e' some billon between outgo for McGovern's so that be made. not belabor the point, Mr. Turn-agsince Sen. McGovern is already engaged m considerable backtracking. At a e cost of $21,000 the senator bought a ad in the eastern editions of the Wall Street Journal to explain to its ov rr r readers that he is really quite a moderate fellow. As Hobart Rovven says in the Washington Post, During the campaign, McGovern, the politician, will settle for less than McGovern, the reformer, is demanding. But now, I think, the senator owes the pubic an obligation to produce firm facts and supportable figures on the cost of his So So we generous made his gies. Mr. computer, ures and $42 from Stewart Alsop says m Newsweek that six distinguished liberal economists are now rethinking the McGovern program. Alsop predicts that the result of the rethinking is sure to be a heaping dish of words for McGovern to eat. By how much? Well, theres the rub. All sorts of figures have been tossed Hubert Humphrey's about, including price tag of $72 billion for the proposed tax reforms. McGovern calls Huberts but the sheerest nonsense, numbers fails to get into specifics other than to bilsay that his program would save $6 lon at the outset. Actually, he doesn't know what the cost would be. Sen. McGovern continues: The answer to your question is that you w ould be better off under a minimum income supplement of that kind up to the point where 21 I Minimum Income Plan? Its Cost? fare program. But let Sen. McGovern make reply, as he did on April 28 to Akion Beacon Journal editors and reporters: The recommendation is that welfare be scrapped and replaced with a minimum income supplement that would go to everyone. your total income is $12,000. After that point, the increased tax bite would be slightly more than you're receiving under the income grant. But for every person m this country with an income of $12,000 or less, this would be a net gain. That happens to be about 80 percent of the American people. For the 20 percent above the $12,000 line, the minimum income grant would cost them more than theyd get out thats true with 1372 informed judgments can Mr. Turnage asks that I pubh'-- a corof the McGovern record Fine, splendid. But what record are we talking about, the original McGovern proposals the first revision or w hat the senator w ill eventually settle for? rection Perhaps George will be good enough to enlighten us on that point. THE FRONT PAGE: Federal Judge J. RCths decision ordering Detroit and 53 suburban sihool systems to offer a plan for massive within 45 days appears to be impossible Stephen cross-busin- g of accomplishment. with The Detroit school svstem, 200,000 students, is flat broke and has been considering cutting a thud of the school year from next fall's calendar because there isnt enough money to keep the system running Reaction to Judge Roths decree has full-tim- been swift and angry, ranging from the president of the Detroit Federation of Teachers who is very much concerned about the transfer of 3,500 to 4,000 black teachers, to Michigans Gov. William Million who finds massive busing not only disruptive but counterproductive. Janies Hathaway, president of the Detroit Board of Education, sees fantastic problems to be worked out to comply ' with the Roih decision by September. And, quite naturally, suburban teachers, parents and students are bitterly opposed to the judee's order. " y Appeals to higher courts can be taken, but Judge Roth's decision has been written as it to avoid a stay. He did not order consolidation of the 53 school systems, but required only that an integration plan must be produced within 45 days. It is interesting that Judge Roth's order is identical to the plan submitted by the N 4.' CP. The judge rejected other plans offered by the State Board of Education and the Detroit Board of Education. Mike Royko Detroit is facing a hnt summer. WOMEN'S PAGES: Too many are an aggiomteration of Womens Lib, the mar-vets of abortion, homosexual heroes and features about the freaks of modern life. Rock Audiences Ruin Famous Auditorium By Mike Royko Chicago Daily News Service have committed more than $50,000 in vandalism. CHICAGO Chicagos famous auditorium theater survived years of neglect. It fell into disuse. They were going to turn it into a parking garage. But four years ago, after a mirac- bent, They have ripped, kicked, smeared, chipped, slashed, burned, chopped, torn and twisted at the magnificent interior. ulous job of restoration, it reopened. And it again stands with the great audiof toriums the world. not the cost of repairs thats important, says Monte Fassnaeht, the managing director of the theater. .a. Mr. Rvoko tion is: can rock fan? Now the ques it survive todays teen-ag- e rock groups began pnrformmg there about two years ago, the audiences Since T. R. Van Dellen Let Father Stay Home For His Big Day Today Fathers Day always reminds me that It takes men to make men. Unfortunately in our affluent and technological society'. the man of the is rarely house home. All too often his place of business is many miles away. Every morning our streets and highways are loaded with men driving to work. In the evening, the proc- reversed. Most of the travel time occurs during a period when the man is needed most at home. Some boys have no idea as to what thetr fathers do to earn a living. And many have no idea what a man does because he is a man. Further, a father must be home for long enough periods to serve as a model of male adulthood. The mother cannot rear the children by herself. Furthermore, we cannot rely upon our high schools and colleges to make men out of their male students. Dr. S. I. llavakawa believes that taking a boy fishing or camping on a weekend is not enough. In this educations son should spend opinion, the teen-agsome time with his father at work. . The son of a truck driver might learn more about adult responsibilities if he interstate mins his dad on a three-datrip. Sons of bankers, lawyers, comptrollers, and bricklayers, etc. could do the same. Educators could count this time as attendance at school. What a boost this would be to dad and his son. ess is e y The producer of the show has to pay for the damage. Rut this is more than a theater. Its a great work of art, and theres a question of how long it can take this kind of damage and remain what it was. If you have a new Cadillac and wreck it, you can get it rebuilt. But you no longer have a new Cadillac. fatherMr. Fassnaeht, a white-hairealmost himself finds marveling ly man, at the many forms of vandalism thought up by today's young slobs. the magnificent auditorium and every few steps he pointed together, We toured out something. Outside the mens room, for instance, there are tufted, velvet benches. They poured lighter fluid on one and set it afire. Why? I dont know. the way to the luxurious box scats, with their velvet easy chairs and heavy velvet drapes. They slash the chairs with knives, tear the legs off, or both. These drapes are supposed to have tassels for tying them back. But Ive stopped replacing He led 1 Neither voinerahle, as South you VKQ983 AQJ343 4Q8 The bidding has proceeded: East North South - West 1 2A Pass Pass 3 4 Pass 2 V Pass Between the boxes are low dividers. They rip these down. an ugly On the way to the balcony, stain covered a wall. They Do Things Like That I dont know what caused that. Maybe somebody splashed wine on it, or urinated against it. They do things like that. Mr. Fassnaeht is a patient man. If I were in his shoes, Id have kicked them out long ago. The slobs dont know it, because they know little about anything, but the restoration of the auditorium theater was the result of years of of cajoling and hard work by a lot d They people. decent, raised the needed money, through public contributions, while these brats were still kicking the slats out of their cribs. fund-raisin- pubhe-spirite- So nothing is owed the pamperid or punks. The theater is not their crib, basement rec room, and the people who built it, and rebuilt it, are not their tolerant mommies and daddies. If they need a place for rock concerts, stockvards? That, too, is a famous landmark that is no longer in use. A rock concert would instantly restore it to its original glory, when it housed more on earth. pigs than any pen why not the Q. 4 East-We- st vulnerable, as South you hold: A 7 5 2 K82 V AJ1086 4 A7 The bidding has proceeded: South North East West Pass Pass 4 1 I V Pass Pass l ? What do you bid now? What do you bid now? Q. 2 As South, 482 VH vulnerable, you hold: A K 8 4 2 4A9S2 The bidding has proceeded: East West North 1 Pass Pass f Pass 34 Pass Pass 4 4 Pass What do yol bid now? . As Stuth, vulnerable, you held: Q. 3 4 A Q J 34 A A Q 9 7 3 4 A K 8 2 . Q. S Both vulnerable, es South you hold: 4 92 V AS AAKQ10642 The bidding has proceeded: A 9 7 SPORTS PAGES: While not denying that Riva Ridge is a superb colt, is he truly a great horse? Riva Ridges connections explain that he couldnt handle the slippery going at the Preakness. Yet Citation, the last triple crown winner, could run in any kind of weather and win at distances ranging from six furlongs to Q. 6 Both vulnerable, as South you hold: J8542 v K652 Whci do you bid now? 48 , two miles. . . . and Henry, I want yo.i to make it perfectly clear to them that our bombing along their borders is nothing really serious!' pre-rac- e Demoted General Just A Scapegoat? - A stock character WASHINGTON American miliin fiction is the gung-hto on hooked man tary "the point of starting a nuclear war by o private actions taken against the explicit orders of the president. So strong is the grip of art on life that all of us are tempted to cast in that role Gen. John Lavelle, the air commander who has been retired and demoted for exceeding bombing orders in Vietnam. But the evidence, though not yet complete, points in another direction. It suggests a supreme company man who allowed himself to be made the scapegoat for a massive, sophisticated and systematic stretching of presidential orders by the military commands in both Washington and Vietnam. the surface. When congressman Pike first began looking into the matter in April, he ran into a stone wall of silence at the Pentagon. When he raised the matter on May 15 in a speech on the House floor, the Air Force made a statement so innocent of information that Mr. Pike felt obliged to return to the issue in a second floor statement that next day. On two occasions, very high officials in the Pentagon intervened to muzzle Mr. Pike. Once, it seems, Gen. Ryan offered to give him the true facts provided Pike would keep them to himself. Pike refused. On a second occasion, it seerns, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird offered to give Pike the true story provided Pike kept it off the record. Pike again refused. Finally and most importantly, there is the demeanor and personalty of Gen. Lavelle. Nothing m his background n suggests the operation; everything points towards the conformist. He came up in the Air Force as a manager one-ma- Provincialism in Ohio: A Cleveland Plain Dealer sports page headline reads: Hartack to Ride in Ohio Derby. Willie," as he hates to be called, wouldnt rate two paragraphs on the Big Apple. Joseph Kraft CONSISTENCY, THOU ART, ETC.: Hubert Humphrey would accept George Wallace as his vice presidential candidate: George McGovern opines there might be a place for Wallace in his ad- ministration and Teddy Kennedys no" for vice president is now a maybe. COMMENTARY: Why doesnt Presi- dent Nixon hold more news conferences? nnn-We- st . - four-mont- On March 8, the violations were brought to the attention of the Air Force chief of staff, John Ryan, through the medium of a letter sent by a sergeant to Sen. Harold Hughes and passed on to the Air Force. Gen. Ryan ordered an investigation. As result of the investigation, Gen. Lavelle was demoted from four-sta- r to three-sta- r rank and retired. End of story. Only a lot of little details kept coming to the surface which prolong the story. For one hing, Gen. Lavelle, in testimony to the investigating subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee, said that his practice of hitting the enemy first and then calling it protective reaction was widely known m Vietnam. He asserted that the commanding general m Vietnam, Creighton Abrams, was aware of the practice. Then there is a canons set of developthe ments that took place on March 8 day the first evidence of the bombing excess was supposedly made known to Gen. Ryan. On that very day in Vietnam, tiie Air Force suddenly stopped giving detailed briefing accounts of raids over North Vietnam. Maybe thats just coincidence. But more likely explanation is that Air Force headquarters at the Pentagon was at of a new condominium community successor to Three Fountains and Three The logical and asked-to- r Fountains East. Little will be different but the address: 1525 East and 6100 South (Vine Street). the elegantly furnished models at Three Fountains East or telephone our Sales Office for further information and first choice of select locations. Visit th? violations for As soon as the sergenats letter knew without sm fared, the higher-up- s investigating what the trouble was. Ac cordmgly, they moved with unwonted speed, the kind of spend they reserve for such occasions, to cover up evidence. On top cf that, there is the treatment accorded Rep. Otis Pike, the New York congressman fV who Ac building on our experience to creaie a better environment for you Rales Office: Fiftieth South and Ninth East boek South of Van Winkle Expressway) Open Dany from 10 a m. until 7 p.m. (One Telephone 262-463- has forced the issue to V V V. .... v . As explaind by his presidential domes- - rather than a hot pilot. He is a tic affairs adviser, John D. Ehrlkhmafift, Pointer who has apparently always wanthe gets a lot o I flabby and fairly dumb , ed to be a West Pointer. questions and the press conference At the hearing, his attitude towards doesnt really elucidate very much. j what he had done was uncontnte. and he While one may agree that some re- seemd to be on the best of personal terms with Gen. Ryan, the man who porters prefer to make speeches rather j hammered him. At one point Gen. than get to the question, the President is ; Lavelle said that he would do it just the holding out on the press. He has held only one news conference this year. same if he had it to do all over again. Moreover, he Presidents image isnt j From this evidence my own sense is that as Hanoi began preparing for its being enhanced by White House spokes-men such as Ehrlichmann and Bob . spring offensive, there was throughout Haldeman who charged on a television I the Vietnam command a growing disposition to hit the build up in North Vietnam. show that Nixons Vietnam critics are Many strikes that went beyond the strict consciously aiding and abetting the i were enemy. orders of protective reaction Let the President speak for himself, probably carried out with the tacit consent of the brass in Washington and or at least give us back Spiro Agnew who Saigon. always makes things interesting and clobWhen the violation of orders became bers the press with more than a touch of class. known, the instinct of the system was to JOHN S. KNIGHT' find a scapegoat. Gen. Lavelle, loyal to Editorial Chairman the Air Force all the way, stepped Knight Newspapers The official version of the- case is n perirelatively simple. In the od between Nov. 8, 1971, and March 8, 1972, 147 planes carried out 28 missions over North Vietnam and that went beyond the standing order to bomb only afer being fired upon .or locked by enemy radar. least dimly aware long time. What do you bid now? A A What do you bid now? cross-sectio- them." By C. H. Goren Q. on the rise and that the country is in a n recession. It was based on a of 1,385 U.S. families. Its Gorens Weekly Bridge Quiz hold: And now, the Hams poll shows that a of Americans think inflation is maionty After almost every performance, workmen have to be called in to put things back together. Set Velvet Bench Aflame Dr. Whatever happened to the notion that normal people make news, too? OPINION POLLS: Mostly useless since todays poll can be next weeks disaster. The Field poll missed the mark by 15 percent in California when it said that McGovern would have a 20 percent margin. V. K, 4s. Ve- - V V V V I |