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Show Saturday, August William F. BuekleA Jr. Dr. T. R. van Dellen Republicans Copy Demos Strategy One-to-O- There publican as the designate Lindsay wing of it, to reshape the national conventior along McGovernite lines, with delegate might j more or reflects, less, the age, racial, and sexual composition of the Republican constituency. Now I do not know whether what is proposed is it may be requisite political eyewash that if the Democratic Party comes out for proportional representation for the Republican Party will have to come out for representation for I do not pretend to any mastery of the political process at that level. But I do hope that Senators Mathias, Javits. Packwood, and Percy will not attempt to make the case for their protected reforms on the merits. When politicians say certain things it is much better to believe in their insincerity. The alternative is to believe in their dullness, and that hurts - cat-love- Consider Proposal Consider the proposal. It bods dow n to this, leaving out one or two inconsequential refinements If the American people are one half men and one half women (a statistic Senator McGovern lias not yet thought to blame on Richard Nixon); and if they are 10 percent aged Negro, and 2 percent Chicano, then the delegates to the Republican Convention should be (you guessed it): one half women, one fifth young, one tenth Negro, one fiftieth one-fift- h Mexican-Amenca- us consider the argument as regards women. Doesnt it suggest that womens interests are best represented by women? So it would appear, yet manifestly this is preposterous. As much so as to say that mens rights are necessarily best represented by men. In a true meritocratic society, precisely the point of it is that you do not inquire into the sex or the color of the candidates who seek to represent you. Proportional representation by sex is a low form of democratic flattery, and should be disdained as artificial by its intended beneficiaries. hy 10 Percent? percent Negro? Why not 20 percent? Or 2 percent? The black popula10 Why tion of America, everyone says it over and over again, has not had the advantages the white population has had. Many reforms have been undertaken and much progress is being made. But what is the point of mathematical assertions of equality if they are historically and sociologically unrealistic? when the preWhy youth at 18, you know that is age sumption something less about the world, let alone the governing of it, than you will know a dozen years later? W hy is a freshman at college, who is being sent there to learn, among other tlnn0s, that there are three rivers that flow north, the Ob, the Yenes-se- e and the Nile, and that a man called Dante wrote lyrics as good as Bob Dylans, and that Earl Warren was a fa- one-fift- h Er.iet Harden First B J. writes: I am a medical student and would like to know why the arteries of the legs harden long before those of the arms' The reformers clearly misconstrue the purpose of a national convention. It is nut supposed to be an exact reflection of stereotyped positions issuing out of age, sex, or race. Moreover to suppose that one approaches a convention as a representaor sex, or race, is tive of ones to profane the democratic process at least as it was understood by people who e is possible precisely argued that because people will vote other than their own narrow concerns. Hardening of the essels of the upper extremities occurs, but rarely to the age-grou- extent of causing an obstruction m the flow of blood self-rul- Apparently the lower more These axioms of republican government are in fact taught to and if Sens. Javits, Packwood, Mathias and Percy have forgotten them, they ought to pull out the literature from their bookshelves, and pending their reeducation, voluntarily d'mimxh their representation at the forthcoming national (ramps Nicholas Von Hoffman Appalachian Folk Rarin to Fight Nixons Latest Land Plan BLACKEY, KY. Joe ana Gaynelle Begley sat on the front porch of their general store. They look like the kin o? mountain people that tounsts take pictures of, and sc does their store. It sells washboards and harnesses. But if the Begleys are of the mountains by culture and descent, theyve also been around. Gaynelle was talking about the fight to get some money to school-hous- e restore the communitys which burned down last March. Gaynelle wasnt being obstinately or quaint. She knows that Harding Ison, the teacher in the school over in Kingdom Come, is right when he says, It may seem like we dont get as much schooling done here, but when it comes to the standardized tests, the kids from this school do better than the other children in Letcher County. Everyone knows big schools don't work, but as Gaynelle explains, One of the ways they accomplish school consolidation is not to put any money in our schools. On this afternoon, one-roo- one-roo- one-roo- And she knows why that is, too: The coal industry wont allow economic development. They want the people in crummy schools, they want not very good hospitals, because that drives people away and that leaves us with the sick and those with not very much ambition. Soon itll be an Indian reservation around here without any Indians n Energy Resen ation Indeed there is talk among the planof making this part of eastern Kentucky an energy reservation. It can be done. The people pomt out that the area is the laboratory animal for the governments most advanced efforts at bu ners reaucratic The whole centralization. mountain area extending through parts of 13 states has the misfortune of falling under the thralldom of something called the Appalachian Regional Commission, federal-loca- l one of those many-tierelabyrinths. It is an awesome instrument through which large corporations can gain control of an entire region under the guise of fighting poverty and promoting community development. By having the effective power to give or withhold federal funds, this commission is coming to have contro' over every public endeavor from sewage disposal to education. In return for such small favors the commission becomes the conduit through which the Presidents Office of Management and Budget will gain fiscal of every public expenditure down to a traffic light here in Blackey, should such an intrusive device ever become necessary d himself for governor of a state, and then to turn around and describe him as an excellent prospect for vice president. But it is not. I say so because that is juot where I find myself m the matter of R. Sargent Shnv-e- r Suggesting e Jr. Two years ago, when he was still ambassador to France, Shnver came back to the States to shop around for an outlet lor his political ambitions On that occasion, lie thought he might like to be governor of Mar) land. that political Understand, please, ambition is no sin, and no disqualifying trait in a candidate for public office. It is the force that drives may men to equip themselves fur higher things, to accept sw eaty and thankless jobs as a means of accumulating credit with their party or their electorate. The rare politician without ambition usually is worthless, and that small gioup does not include Slinv-e- r But dont think, they can do that to those ignorant hillbillies, but not to me." On January 14, 1972, the Office of Management and Budget (thats Nixon himself) set up 24 such regional councils In March Sen Joseph Montoya. D ,N M , introduced a bill (S3381) to cover the entire nation with Appalachian Regional Commissions plus an extra one for Indians, who always get a double dose of bad medicine. Were not threatenin anybodys life, said one man, But Im tellin you for good and sure nobodys going to take my house. Another said, Theyll have to put me in a wooden overcoat first. You show me freedom. You show me Her. I went over the waters to fight for Her, but A third said, I ain't goin again. this is a Socialistic, Communistic plan." its nd it does look like one, but in truth, a Nixon, monopolistic capitalistic plan Circulation in the lower limbs can be reduced 75 to 85 percent before symptoms start The legs may feel cool most of the time and the color of the toes' and foot tend to darken when the legs hang down. In time, vague aches and pains suggestive of arch trouble develop in the feet. As the circulation worsens, the individual develops a cramp in the calf of one or both legs after walking a block or two. The pain disappears moments after standing still only to return after walking a similar distance. , Pain Develops As the hardening process progresses, the aching in the lower extremities devel- ops even when resting. Pain at rest may be so severe that it interferes with sleep. Gangrene ensues when the tissues no longer get enough blood to surv i e. Treatment lias improved markedly during the past 30 years, provided the victim does not neglect the condition. p Naturally the commission and its infinitely large number of subsidiary governmental units are always issuing plans. No citizenry can possibly keep track of them. The people here in Letcher County have discovered that a plan had been cooked up for them. When they read the two following paragraphs in the plan, hit the fan: MAGNIFICENT Those persons living in Letcher County particularly in the rural areas, may object to moving from their homes in more isolated areas. An attitude prevails in Letcher County which could prevent the enforcement land-us- e of controls. . . . The people believe that they should be allowed to use their land as they see fit. ASTIN-WIIOH- T CONSOLE PIANOS AT We have to spell it out like this because some dealers advertise "less than ARE THE ACTUAL MAKERS WE There All the Time than better at a gossip, Shnver was not going around issuing adamant denials of interest. The Illinois made two points about Shnver: his rating among practical political outfits like the Daley organization, and the geographical flexibility he had acquired by being born and raised m Maryland and living and voting in Chicago, and thus being eligible to seek office in either state. Became Ambassador While Robert Kennedy was still letting Eugene McCarthy measure the scale of movement in 1968, Shnv-e- r the accepted appointment as ambassador to France and went off to embellish his bureaucratic background Washington with formal diplomatic experience. The Kennedys resented the fact that he did not rush home to help when Robert decided to join the pnmary competition Meanwhile Ins name came up again m the summer of 1968 as a possible running n DunagiiEs People ice President As long ago as 1963, less than a month John after the death of his brother-in-laKennedy, Shnver was being mentioned choice the next as a At that time, Johnson. for Lyndon year he might have been a reasonable selcc-tjoalthough h.s only important public two years as direcexperience had been tor of the Peace Corps What mainly Qualified him was his relation to the and the widespread feeling that some Kennedy tie was essential to Mr. Johnsons success as President. By Ralph Dunugin Ken-nedy- s, President That means they dont want it turned into a Gobi Desert by the strip miners At Hie turn of the century, before there was such a thing as stnp mining, he coal interest bought the subsurface mineral nghts to the whole region for a few cents an acre. It Is these ancient agreements which never envisioned stnp mining that are being used to YTetnamize ters of thousands of acres of Americas most beautiful mountains, and the full force of the centralized state is being employed to plan the people off the land to do it , in Leg factory prices" when they mean "factory suggested prices." WASHINGTON It may seem inconsistent to say a man has a lot of gall However. susceptible because they carry the weight of the body and are under more stress and sfrain than are the arms Our young med student may be interested in the facetious reason I give m.v patients for the prevalence of arteriosclerosis in the lower extremities. "As we grow older, the arteries get hard to help Elephants walk B. Furgurson Mentioned as are limbs support the legs And Sargent Shriver Was middle-siz- Arteries mous legislator who ruled between 1952 and 1968 why do we have to pretend that the are in a position to contribute as much to the drafting of a national platform, and the selection of a national leader, as the 30-ear-olds- ? representation that Let Lower Limbs ne is a movement within the ReParty, led by what one 12, 1J72 211 Johnson did not share that feeling so acutely. He chose Hubert Humphrey fo Vice President, and Shnver to run his war on poverty But by 1968, Shavers name was up in po- litical circles again this time in Chicago, where Richard J. Daleys friends were canditalking about him as a Democratic held seat then U S. Senate by the date for Everett Dirkson. Nothing ever came of it, but as dunng the 1964 mate with Hubert Humphrey, but it never went beyond the mentioning level. By 1970, Shnver was 54 and serving in a Nixon Administration. His future in elective politics was getting to the stage. So he came back and tested the climate in Maryland whether to run in the Democratic pnmary against incumbent Gov. Marvin Mandel That outing was disastrous in concept and embarrassing in execution. Shnver, who maintained a home in the Maryland suburbs of Washington but had no acquaintance with the spates problem, put himself forth to replace a successful governor of his own party. Many Marylanders, myself included, called it preposterous. Fortunately for Shriver, he found Mandels strength so formidable that underhe backed out, and as a face-savtook a expedition for Democratic congressional candidates Had Disclosed Ambition fund-rasin- g But he had disclosed the heat of his ambition. Thus when he took a New York law partnership, it was assumed in this town that he was setting himself up to run for something there. That is where he stood when George McGovern became the first presidential candidate to read down the list far enough to reach the name of Shnver. One wonders now why it took so long Bill Moyers once said Shnver can clothe a liberal idea in the most respectable conservative language. Hell persuade them its patnotic. Hes like the Apostle Paul, All things to all men, w'hen he is interpreting an idea he is jelling What more could George McGovern ask in a campaigner? Well, you might combine that with a Catholic with broad administrative experience m Washington, oroad acceptance among professional oolitic ans, more foreign background than the No 1 man on the ticket, in a man who has paid his party dues with unglarv orous work. 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