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Show Editorial Page Feature Nixon’s ‘Political Desperation’ in Minnesota Tuesday, October 27, 1970 Page 16—THE HERALD,Provo, Utah Nixon to Let Youth Be Heard Almostwithoutfanfare, the Nixon administration is making a major effort to bridge the so-called generation gap: Itis letting the young play the dominantrole in an upcoming White House Conference on Youth. Some 1,000 young people from across the country will gather in Washington in late February, there to meet with 500 adult leaders from such primary social institutions as government, education, business, labor,religion, law enforcement and communications to discuss the issues that deeply concern youth. Ten task forces, each composed of eight young people and four adults, are now wor.cing on separate “issue areas” astheyrelate to youth. Their reports, due in December,will form the basis for deliberation at the conference. A sopto the college activists? Not atall. One of the popular myths of our time, says Stephen Hess, White Houseaide andnational chairmanof the conference,is that the alienation of youth is a college or elite phenomenon,a result of the Vietnam $500—AndStill Not a Capitalist Gus Hall, chairman of the Com- munist Party, U.S.A., won $500 on a $1 lottery ticket in New York State’s monthly education lottery. Hall quivkly madeit clear that the windfall would not makea capitalist out of hima. “It takes much more than that,” he said. Actually, it takes much less. It doesn’t take any moneyatall. Capitalism is not an accountin the bank but a philosophy, just as communism is. “Capital” does not Mean money. It means ——~ that people attach a value to, an money is merely the medium by which people barter and exchange those values. Unlike communism, however, capitalism is not a rigid ideology based on revealed truth, but a flexible, pragmatic appivach to humanneeds that has matured and been modified over the generations —a system with greatflaws but also with great triumphs. Capitalism thrives in an atmosphereofindividual and political freedom, in which both its shortcomings and its potential for good find greatest scope. Communism demands the repression of the individual and cannot tolerate the existence of political rivals. No,it will take more than $500 to makea capitalist out of Gus Hall. war, a fad that will go away like goldfish swallowing. Of the 40 million youths between the ages of 14 and 24 in the United States, only seven million are in colleges and universities, he peints out. And the great majority of these is neither rebellious nor disruptive. Thereare 5.5 million young people who are not whites, and many who are white and poor. During thefirst quarterof this year, 32.7 per centof minority group teen-agers in the labor market were unemployed; 12 percentof white youth could notfind jobs. ; There are alse millions of working-stiff, “‘hard-hat” youths, whofee! they are the only ones who ai 2 following the rules and resentall the attention being given the campus loudmouths. To insure that the conference accurately refiects the views ofall youths and not just students, delegates are being sought among the working, the poor, the nonwhite, the military and teen-age mothers, as well as the militants. Task force co-chairmen include, for example, a PuebloIndian,a U.S. senator, an Appalachiau youth, a businessman and black students. The problem of youth and our society is a deeply complex one, By FOX mainly to boost the chances of ST. PAUL, Minn. (UPI)— Rep. Clark MacGregor who is i ta icons are trailing far behind former Vice counting on President Nixon to President Hubert H. y reverse a disturbing trend in the race for the U.S, Senate. Democrsts are the ich appears to threaten the party’s hold on state govern- presidentis: visit ‘‘an act of ment and its 5-3 edge in the litical desperation” and even congressional delegation. Republicans privately admit that the President is going out on a limb in putting his prestige on the line on behalf of Tegor. Onething I’ve learned afterliving 100 years is that every man is different, but hushands are all alike. —Mrs.William E. Borah, widow of the senator from Idaho. The assembly reminds the prime minister that its only lord and master is Jesus Christ and it may not serve other mastersandthatits taskis not necessarily to support the governmentin power butto be faithful to the Gospel. --The Presbyterian Church of South Africa, refusing demand by Prime Minister John Vorster that South African churches resign from the World Council of Churches because it supports black African liberation movements. She Wantsto Salvage An Aerospace Industry In a bare headquarters rcomfitted out with metal chai = for a press conference, two women are sitting up front; looking asif they had just had aslight brush with terror. In strides U.S Rep. Laurence J. Burton, the bespec tacled, bro. d Republican challenger to incumbent Democratic I don’t know how much this would hurt the U.S. Treasury which faces a $13billion deficit, but Miss Ucello’s proposal would please Adam Smith. He was partial to the doctrine of supply-and-demand, and he belived that shepherds and shoemakers should stick to their specialities and provide each other with mutton, respectively. Well, there is a huge demandinthis country for pollution-control, mass transportation, housing and education. The logical suppliers of these scarce items are companies which built the space vehicles and the warplanes of the 1960s. It’s well known that these firms are laying off their technicians at a distressing rate, but it’s less noted that a majority of the laid-off technicians have becomenon-productive. A big aerospace firm, whose officers prefer thatits nameisn’t used, has passed on to me an analysis of its unemployment charts. A sampling of almost2,000 persons who were let off since January, 1969 showsthat 54 per cent are still jobless. The size of thatfigureis all the more depressing because,as I showed in a recent column. these highly-skilled persons characteristically have no pride about accepting menial positicns and lesser es. Of those approximately 2,000 who were disemployed 75per cent are over 40 years old, and they have run into age-discrimination, something rarely these davs, % bo Ideally, the free market should adjust itself, and perhaps that will happen with the turnover of another decade. But there are urgent arguments for government action. One argumentis that the Federal aerospace program of the ’60s, which included much military production, was itself an intervention that upset the working of the marketplace. Too many engineers were trained. Another argumentic that we don’t have time to wait. There's a revolution on, and it is not unrelated to the unfulfilled demand for pollution control, mass transportation, housing andtherest. It won’t do to say that the election to the House of one individual is anyting approaching a national necessity. But Miss Ucelio is running for the vacated seatof Rep. Emilio Daddario (D,), candidate for Governor, It happens that Daddario serves on Science and Astronautics committee, so that spot comesopen there. Miss Ucello’s ideas about salvaging the ce industry makehera natural for the eammittas which doale in ough matters. i Sen. Frank E. Moss, aliberal ‘sport’’ in gen? erally conservative Utah (Their clese race is rep-esentative of hard tussles the; GOPis mounting against sitting Senate Democrats a whole ¢luster of Mountain States which President Nixon; would like to crack.) : As Burton reaches a small table, he unfurls a pester he} says the two frightened women found pasted to his campaign office door that morning. No other door on the block! had one. = The poster shows a burning U.S. flag, says in sizables print that “Babylon Will Burn,” and adds, “First AnnivefS sary, Days of Rage, '69." The reference is to a windows smashing, iooting rampage in downtown Chicago a year, ago by the radical Weatherman faction of the militant St.dents for a Democratic Society Somberly, Burton says he will not be “intimidated’’ by such tactics. He declares that in the final campaign days “no women are to be working here without men being ' present.” And healludes to other radical literature, “too obscene to be shown on television,’ which he says was ; spread about when Nixon and Vice President Agnew came in. ‘ That evening, addressing an accountants’ dinner, Burton recounts the poster episode again and says: ; a TodayIn GOP:‘Blind LeadingBlind’ UnhappyWith Editor Herald: On Friday October 16th 1970, in The Daily Herald,an article appeared entitled “Analyst on Moss-Burton Race: “Both Are Good Men.” One reason indicated was that “Both have ably represented the state in Congress in the past and, in the eyes of Utahns, both are good men and would do an equally good job as US Senator.” I can’t agree with this statement. Senator Moss, ignoring the results of the referendum,with a total disrespect for Utahns’ wishes, voted for repeal of ae 14 - the right to work Funds Source y the 300th day of 1970. The moon is between its last quarter and new phase. The morning stars are Many, Mars and Saturn. evening stars are Mercury, Venus and Jupiter. Those born on this date are under the sign of Scorpio. On this dayin history: In 1871 the political chief of New York’s Tammany Hall, Boss Tweed, was arrested on charges of defrauding the city. In 1904 the first practical subway began operating in New York City, from the Brooklyn Bridge to 145th street in Manhattan. In 1917 concert violinist dJascha Heifetz made his debut in Carnegie Hall at the age of benefit derived from the voting 6.In 1961 the United Nations practices of Mr. Moss in the General Assembly adopted by senate. an overwhelming vote a resoluJ.A, Jenkins tion against a Russian explosion 1021 E. 200 N. of a 50-megaton atemic bomb. Provo A thought for today: President Franklin D, Roosevelt, referring to the German Nazi Way Down South Regime,said, “When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you PAGO PAGO, American Sa- do not wait until he has struck moa (UPI) —The islands of before you crush him.” American Samoa, 2,300 miles southwest of Hawaii, are the Coyotes feed mainly on farthest south of all lands rabbits, ground squirrels and owned by the United States. mice. BEARY'S. WORLD WwW. Favors Airing Busing Issue Editor Herald: More should be said publicly about the end result of busing shouldthis method ofintegration continue. Unfortunately large scale , in time, will be the consequence. Token intermarriage has taken place and will accelerate if forced busing gains strength and education becomes nothing but a social experimert. Sdward C. Sharp Jr. Lake Junaluska, N.C. To me, knowing of one eastern candidate whose headquarters have hadat least 10 real bomb scares, Burtone poster bit seemed dramatic overkill. Yet Utah folks, like* other mountain westerners, see the nation’s street and: campus violence on television and are uptight aboutit,! even though far from the big disorders.It is the big issue.~ By United Press International I cannot trust Senator Moss as a representative of our state. Lucette Alien 1164 East 820 North Provo Politican candidates and news outlets should discuss every facet of this matter. “T am upset and I amasking you to get upset . . it’s not the kind of thing we expect to have happen here in Utah.’*~: Indeed it is not, in a state where about the worst disruptive occurrence was a spring studentsit-in at the Univer-, sity of Utah which led to 87 arrests at the time of the great” Cambodia-KentStatestir. History Speculates On Editor Herald: Editor Herald: Stce this is an election year After being completely and everyone seems to be campaigning for his or her inundated with the political candidate, I would like todo a adiivertisements of Senator Moss in the communications media little for my candidate, Frank E. Moss for U.S. Senate. What this throughout the state, one country needs is more men like wonders if the Democratic party Sen. Moss and less like Laurence has that much more finances or if the Republican party has J. Burton... I do not see how anyone that given up. However, after close has to work for wages can vote scrutiny several things come to for Republican andstill feel that that is the thing to do. I have In the recent issue of U.S. been here since 1891 and have News and World Report, 2!ong had to work for wages all these with other pertinent data, it years. I have seen Republican appears that Senator Moss is administrators and we have had getting a substantial amount of much better times under the campaign money from liberal Democrats than under the organizations and labor unions i In the case of in the East, These groups apparently have nointerest in the the state of Utah other than the Senator Moss ‘The queries sent out by the company also reveal thattheir ex-employees are blocked by a prejudice against anybody who has worked for the poor old Military Industrial Complex which has beenso thoroughlyvilified by men like Senator Proxmire, Professor Galbraith, sarcastic cartoonists and assorted muckrakers. Tf these facts and figures hold true throughout the aerospace industry,it’s plain thatthe picture hastwosorry sides. Oneis the personal misfortune of being jobless, partly out of prejudice against age and against former connection with an unjustly tainted profession. The other is the social wastefulness, of having so many skilled persons idle in mostinstances, and in inappropriate new jobs in other instances. In Adam Smith’s terms, when an aerospace engineer goes out to sell real estate or insurance,itis as if the shepherds took up shoemaking,and the coblers wentout to tend the Ff ducted by the Minneapolis One rural DFL leader said Tribune, after trailing by the the tax squabble has “blunted” same margin in August. Anderson's fast rise but he However, some observerspredicted Anderson would sti lieve Anderson has suffered win. 2 Views Utah Scene both fall into the ditch. We need Frank E. Moss for the Senate. .K. Forshee 545 N. 800 E., Provo z d in the Minneapolis Poll, con- from his endorsement of a new plan to finance the cost of education. Attorney General Douglas Head, his GOP 9 ponent, claims the “means a new statewide property tax.” . National Writer says Hess. So They Say One of the most dramatic its of the campaign has been the rise of Wendell Anderson, the youthful DFL candidate for governor. The state senator from St, Paul has moved to nearly a 10-point lead BruceBiossat The Boy Stood on the Burning Deck . . . “There are no simple solutions, no quick remedies, no one single group of American youth, no one single issue, no one institution associated vith youth dissent. There is a general doubting and questioning of traditional values and expected behaviors.” The White House Conference on Youth will be an attempt to hear out that doubting and that questioning and arrive at somenot-so-simple but hopefully workable solutions to them. Holmes Alexander By Holmes Alexander WASHINGTON, D.C. — Antonia (Anne) Ucello, brunette and petite, is Mayor of Hartford and Republican candidate for Congress from thatDistrict. She is a spinster running against a Democratic bachelor, William: Cotter, but this made-for-Hollywood casting is notnearly so it it as the fact that Miss Ucello has a in political science and a handsome headful of ideas. If she comes to Congress,she told me,she'll offer legislation to give tax credits to any aerospace firm which will convert its manpower and machinery to socially-useful MacGregor people insist the has a chance and note that he has started to close the gap in the big lead Humphrey has wed in the polls since = in the campaign. However,all indications point to a Humphrey win and the Democratic Farmer Lavor (DFL) party stands to improve its position considerably, acto most observers. © 1970 by NEA, 1, BiEM, “If you're going to wear THAT—it's only right for me to wear THESE!” Mossknowsit, too, and has scurried for the center on the; crime-unrest-violence issue. With a reliable Oct. 11 poll showing Moss just two points ahead after adjustments for the likely turnout, top Moss aides fear any real score by the onrushing Burton on the violence issue could tip the scales against the two-term incumbent. Each candidate utters stock stuff on the other issues the economy and the Vietnam war. Burton says Nixon is curbing an inflation the Democrats began; Moss replies Nixon is making it worse andit’s hitting Utah hard {it is, with unemployment 6.8 per cent). Burton says Nixon is winding down the war; Moss, echoing other dovish sena-" tors, says yes but not fast enough. But the deep cut is on violence. And Moss, in his worry; holds his own special press conference to charge Burton; with distorting evidence to portray him as encouraging! disrupters. 4 Mosssays that during last October’s antiwar moratorium; he sent a telegram to a “peaceful assembly” of people in! Salt Lake City, praising their purpose but cautioning: against violence. Burton, in a paid TV spot, says the més-, sage went to moratorium leaders in Washington, was read! there and encouraged laterlooting andrioting. t Thesenator says Burton promised to take the item offi the air if given proof sich a telegram was not read in’ Washington. It is still on radio at least, and Moss fears: Utah voters, whose turnouts reach 70 to 90 per cent, may, ; find this decisive in a neck-and-neck race. Business Today > Rising Fashion Imports Hurts U. S. Employment By LEROY POPE NEW YORK (UPI)—Today’s college girls may pretend to be anti-fashion, but the fashion industry isn’t taking them very seriously, _A spokesman for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union said the present unemPloymentrate, estimated at 20 Per cent of the working force and the highest in the industry in 30 years, is due mainly to therecession and rising tide of imported garments, He conceded that the depressed conditions which have bowied over scores of Seventh Avenue fashion houses, including four or five of the most Prominent, has been aggravrted by the turmoil over skirt lengths. Opposition to the industry’s attempt to introduce the midi skirt to replace the nuiniskirt has beendisruptive. “And it's true that most college girls adopt an antifashion attitude and go around looking like something the cat dragged in,” the union spokesman said. “But that has little impact on the fashion and garmentbusiness.” _ Hesaid the blunttruth is that it costs a girl as much to look a tramp as to dress fashionably and neatly, ‘A lot of these costumesthat look like they were assembled out of a closet ragbag cost about a hundred bucks,” he said. Take the tiedyed jeans that atl Dedicated to the Progress And Growth of Central Utah look i old pair that some one accidentallyspilled a white paint pehaart more costly to make thi fashionably cut solid color jeans.” = Eventhe no-bra look favored by Women’s Lib often is a fake; the union spokesman said. The brassiere people were stiff until they realized the gifls really needed a bra for support, so they brought out a new line of bras with the flat no-bra look and the girls are buying then! Then there’s the gicl wi looks like she hasn’t any, cosmetics on. Chances are she’s wearing some of the new invisible cosmetics that cost poe than the conventionaj : kj nd. However, the depression in the fashion and garment industry is very real, and the other garment districts of the country are nit about as hard as Seventh Avenue, the union said. “ Joblessness in the garment world creates another civil Tights headache. Only a few: years ago, the industry wag deeply worried by a labor shortage caused by the faci that skilled needle trades workers no longer were arriving as immigrants from Europe, ms Thousands of Negroes aftd Puerto Ricans were trained as replacements. Now the industry: is having to lay them off. | ’ |