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Show Editorial Page Feature Policy Would Wed Insurance With Stocks Dedicated totheProgress And Growthof CentralUtah THE HERALD, Prove, Uiah—Page21 a Academic Freedom's True Foes Preconceptions are fatal to the -rit of free and open inquiry that ula be the hallmark of academic freedom to puruse the truth. Yet partisans of the New Left attack the presence of ROTC and military research on state-supported camuses of institutions of higher earning while supporting the “right” of Communists to hold faculty positions while preaching revolution. It is currently fashionable for teachers in some parts of the country to urge “‘involvement”’ in all kinds of questionable causes, without recognizing the obvious fact that everyoneis inveived willy-nilly. Many students have permitted themselves to become involved in any number of “anti” demonstrations. The list of things the radicals are for is short and include such doubtful items as sexual permissiveness, the use of drugs and terroristic violence under the sign of love and peace. In the nameof academic freedom, a group of supporters continues to press for the “right” to a statesupported university faculty post of Angeia Davis, a Communist and Black Panthor Party member now on the run from the law on criminal charges. Membership in the Communist Party mayno longerbe legal grounds for dismissal but it cannot give any member a “right” to a faculty job. Where are the fighters for academic freedom when the militant leftists attack ROTC, its buildings, and its tradition of voluntary service to the nation’s defense? A voluntary armyis out of the question if the Reserve Officers Training program is permitted to be scuttled. Every enrollee is a volunteer and thus reduces by one the number necessary to be drafted. This revealstheillogical and twisted thinking of the militant anti-war, anti-ROTC advocates. Academic freedom for one student to study the philosophy of revolution under an Angela Davis surely means therightof anotherto study military history, strategy and tactics without fear of being killed by a bomb. Some members of the Congress lave introduced bill to physically remove the outstanding and time honored reserve training program from the campus, a move on a par with the recommendation that the best way to fight pornography and potis to legalize both. Of course something must be done to stop the radicals from disrupting ROTCactivities but this is not the way. No more than surrerider to the North Vietnameseis the best way to end the war in Vietnam. The Students for Democratic Action (what a misnomer for apostles of the closed mind and violent repression of the rights of others!) has set as a major target the elimination of college ROTC. This is no time to surrender to anarchy, It is time to strengthen ROTC as one of the first steps toward a volunteer army and elimination of the draft. . In inflow of cash. NYLIC takes in about $4 million each working day, and it must be put te work in the equity market if the company is to prosper. The cash surrender of a variable policy would depend on how the individual's “portfolio” is doing as of that moment. If the market were up and NYLIC’s investment experts had caughtit, the policy would be more valuable.If the portfolio were in a downslide the cash surrender value would be lower. Bruce Bicssat Day In, Day Out Gore Fights Surge Of His GOP Foe NEWSBOY DAY, OCT. 10. MEMPHIS, Tenn. — (NEA) The sight and sound of an old warhorse like Sen. Albert Gore fighting for survival is really something else. Heis full of the talk of struggle as hetries to overcomethe evi dent lead of his GOP opponent, Rep, William E. Brock II Listen to Gore “I not only vote Democratic. I fight Democratic I take the floor and win ‘I'mtaking the (Nixon) southern strategy head-on. I've accepted the challenge it — Safety if | hadtried to stick a feather in the breeze (on damaging votes against the war and against two southern judges named but beaten for the Supreme Court), I'd be in trouble. But I'd be in trouble either way, and I prefer it my way. There's much more like this. The veteran Tennessee The announcement by the Food and Drug Administration thatit will require safety giass in virtually ali eyeglasses Americanswearis one of liberal, surely the top target in President N.son’s deter- mined bid to win more Senate seats for the Republicans, rips inte the 40-year-old Brock as if he were the worst “standstill” candidate in history. Goreconstantly rattles off a list of some 50 conbressional those simple ideas, like automobile seat belts, whose time could and should have come many years ago. issues, mostly affecting education, health, housing, urban The FDA estimates that 106,000 development,rural aid, on which he says Brock voted “no” adults and 20,000 school-age children in which eyeglasses are shattered. Onethe othersideofthe picture, the National Society for the Prevention voted favorably. The senator fumes: “He's the legislative oddball, not Albert Gore.” The senator insists, tvo, that Brock is making a lot of mistakes, a prime example being his unproved charge that Gore managed to get part of an interstate highway of Blindness recorded 22,000 ac- diverted through his farmland via a route that required while he and virtually every other Tennesseean in Congress are injured each year by accidents cidents last year in which eye injuries were prevented because the persons involved were wearing protective lenses. The proposed FDAregulation will require that eyeglass lenses, including those in nonprescription sunglasses, be madeof either heattempered, impact-resistant glass or laminated glassorplastic. The extra cost would be minimal, averaging only a few dollars. Even if the vast majority of glasses wearers never have their eyes saved by safety lenses, the extra expense may be cheap insurance in another way. How many millions of people sometime or other have droppe: perfectly good pair of glasses and watched them shatter into uselessness? Congress, Court Tussle Over Bomb Tips Subpena instructions on how to make fire that has been promised in the The variable plan has fixednear future.” level premiums about the same as that for comparable fixed It’s no secret that the public's benefit policies, and the face fascination in recent years with value is guaranteed in the event the growth and hedging values of death. After that it operates of common stock has dampened something like common stock, its enthusiasm for insurance. once the keystone of many The reserves, or premiums, estates. We've tried in this plan would be held in a separate which has been studied by NYLIC account for investment actuaries for more than two primarily in listed common years to provide qualities of stocks rather than the more both those investment worlds, traditional bonds and mortgasaid Sternhell. ges now absorbing tie constant The Eyes Have Inside Washington By Robert S, Allen and John A. Goldsmith WASHiNGTON, October 7: The investigating powers of Congress are again underattackin a generally unpublicized case which is now under consideration in the federal courts here. The case pits the congressional investigative power against a claim of press freedom.It also raises an old constitutional power struggle, between Congress and the courts, as separate branches of the federal government. The controversy arises from a Senate investigation of bombings — itself an explosive issue. Underall these circumstancesthere is a good chancethatthe case will finally end up in the Supreme Court. Theissue was joined when the Senate Investigations subcommittee, headed by Sen. John L, McClellan, D-Ark., ‘sought to subpena Thomas W. Sanders, business manager and aneditorial board memberof the now defunct publication, Black ain Berkeley, Cal. Subcommittee staff members had tried unsuccessfully to question Sanders. Among other things, the subcommittee subpena directed that Sanders provide the identity of a George Prosser who signed a series of articles for Black Politics. According to the subcommittee’s records the Prosser articles outlined various violent activities while they cautioned that the violence should not be undertaken for the present, Inearly August Sanders asked the Federal District Court here for a restraining order to block the subpena. The Federal District refused,butit was overturned by the Courtof Appeals on the following day and ordered to hear Sanders’ case. SELF WRITTEN? — The subcommittee’s hearing record includes testimony by staff investigator Philip Manuel which indicates that Sanders himself, “uses the name of George Prosser to write articles for Black Politics.” That, said Manuel, was the information from ‘confidential lawenforcementsources.” Ata hearing here, before Judge Howard F. Corcoran, Sanders’ attorney said Sanders would suffer “irreparable iajury”’ if he had to reveal Prosser’s identity. The attorney said Sanders did not always approve of the Prosser articles but published them as “revelant” commentary. Testimonyatthe court hearing referred to one of che Prosser articles which included It's ‘called variable benefit life insurance and is like regular life insurance with the hedging properties of common stock investment. Basically, this fixed premium policy guarantees at least the face value of the policy in event of death despite what the stock a might be doing at that time. Cash value of the policy would swing with the market. “It could revolutionize our industry,” Charles M. Sternhell, father of the plan and executive vice president of NYLIC said during conversation in the company’s room on Madison Avenue. “We're ready to go with it just as soon as the Securities and Exchange Commission gives us a reading. And the subcommittee hearing in August, Manuel quoted from anarticle hich commented that the Navy’s big weapons depot at Port Chicago,Cal., was laden with inflammables which would produce‘‘a greatfire” if there should be an explosion there, One article aoted that napalm for use in Viet:am was madeata “vulnerable”plantin Torrance, Cal., and said the West Coast power “grid” was vulnerable too, Manuel also quoted Prosser’s comment that a grenade, tossed into a jet’s air intake, will destroy an aircraft. However, the Prosser articles carried caveats stating, for example,that “‘we do not advise action now,” and that violent steps wae outlined “without advocating such a paign.”” “COURT ACTION “UNPRECEDENTED” — Sanders’ attorney, Gerald Stearns, told Judge Corcoran,in the court hearing, that a disclosure of Prosser’s identity would destroy the ‘confidential relationships” necessary to Senders as an editor. Even to appear before the subcommuttee, Stearns declared, would damage Sanders’ credibility. Th the Senate, however, Chairman McClellan said the Court of Appeals action, in temporarily blocking the subpena, was ‘the first such rebuff in the subcommittee’s 4-year history. He complained that the court sought to secure the subcommittee’s confidential records in connection with the case, and he called that action “unprecedented.” At McClellan's suggestion, the Senate granted approval (necessary under the Constitution) for subcommittee staff membersto testify in the court proceeding. The Senate decreed, however, at McClellan's insistence, that court action to interfere with congressional investigative and subpena powers“would be an illegal and unwarranted infringement by the judicial branch upon the powers, responsibilities and duties of the legislative branch.” Further, the Senate, by erect specified thatit staf members whotestify in court will be limited to the contents of the subcommittee’s public hearings and other me‘ters of public record. It thus withheld data in the subcommittee’sfiles. Judge Corcoran must now decide whether Sanders can be excused from appearing before the Investigations Subcommittee — never mind whether he would then be willing to testify. The judge has promised a ruling soon, but there may be more to be said in other courtrooms. the building of seven costiy extra bridges. “We'restill exploring that,” is what Brock saystoday. Yet with all of his survival fever, Gore can’t shake off his difficulties. He has no real organization, having merely borrowed that of the late Sen. Estes Kefauver in his early Senate victories Teh Charles Guggenheim hasprovided him with some superb TodayIn Youngsters Growing Up History Washington Windew Faster, Studies Indicate By LOUIS CASSELS UPISenior Editor WASHINGTON (UPI) — “When I was your age oe ia phrase that springs readily to the lips of parents locked in grim reement with their offspring about the activities appropriate to their age and station. Kids universally hate it, because they recognize it as the opening gambit of a put-down. They also feel, and frequently outragetheir parents by saying, that it doesn’t matter what mom anddad did in the olden days, because times have changed. Young people grow up faster nowadays. Any parent who has been inclined to scoff at this riposte will be sorry to hear that it happens to be precisely correct. Children are faster—not merely in terms of the instant sophistication they absorb from television but, more basically, in terms of the maturation of their bodies. That is not opinion, but scientific fact. Researchers in Scandinavia, Britain and the United States have kept careful records for more than a century of the average ageat which children attain puberty. These studies have concentrated mainly on girls, since the first menstrual poriod provides a more precise way of dating the start of puberty than is possible with boys. In 1850, the average girl was about 17 when shehad her first menstrual period. Today, girls are thrust into the turmoil and confusion of puberty at an average age of 13. Although the age of puberty cannot be quite as precisely determined for boys, there is no question that they also are being catapulted into sexual maturity three or four years sooner than they were a century ago. Moreover,the trend shows no sign of flattening out. Studies by Alex Comfort of University College in London indicate the average age of puberty is continuing to decline at a rate of about six months per decade. Biologists are not sure what is causing children to grow up faster. Some attribute it tc better nutrition and higher living standards. Others feel that some kind of long-term By United Press International Today is Friday, Oct. 9, the 282nd day of 1970. The moon is betweenits first quarter andfull phase. The morning stars are Mercury, Mars and Saturn, The evening stars are Venus and Jupiter. Those born on this date are under the signof Libra. Onthis dayin history: In 1701 Yale College was unded. In 1910 forest fores in northern Minnesota destroyed six towns with a loss of 400 lives and damageestimated at $10 million, In 1939 a German submarine seized the U.S. merchant ship City of Flint and escorted it into the Soviet port of Murmansk. It was released 12 days later. In 1958 Pope Pius XII died. He was the 261st pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. A Thoughtfor Today: Amerigenetic changes are responsi- can novelist Willa Cather said, le. “where are the loves that we Anyway, it’s happening, and have loved before when once it’s probably a major factor in we are alone, and shut the ie sharp intensification of door?” parent-child conflict which is associated with that catch-all cliche of our time, the Ca is the chemical symbolfor generation gap. calcium. s _Ri'y, October 9, 1970 By DEAN C. MILLER UPIBusiness Editor NEW YORK (UPI) —The New York Life Insurance Co, has ready for marketing, possibly by mid-1971, a policy which ee life insurance wi ith BERRY'S. WORLD BARBS By PHIL PASTORET Some people suffer from nerves, and the rest of us suffer from other people's nerve. eee Cae thing you can bet on: If your office phone gives back the “busy” sig- nal, that’s one thing that the help isn't. x It’s always spring-time wee three friends meet in a ber, oo Insomniac we know goes to ted at 6 every evening to catch up on his sheep. ss Some of the roughest football is perpetrated by Monday-morning quarterbacks. © 1970 by NEA, Ine cites “... HOME—homeon the tax shelter...” television materials (a checkers game and a warm encounter with an aging friend in his hometowncourthouse square), the senator is $100,000 short of what he needs to display these exhibits properly. It doesn't help him, either, that Gov. Buford Ellington is providing no real support or that Hudley Crockett, the former Ellington aide who got 45 per cent of the primary vote against Gore, is merely making faint “I’m for the ticket" noises. Gore's working of the populist vein in his stress on Brock’s record probablywill win him Middle Tennessee, including maybe half of the vote George Wallace got in 1968 while taking Nashville. But, with three Eastern Tennesseedistricts rated solidly Republican (Brock thinks he needs 65 per cent there to be off and running), the true battleground is in Memphis and the two surrounding congressional districts ranging from Mississippi to Kentucky, Crockett smashed Gore here in the primary. Most experts feel that, despite the helping flential of 50,000 favorable black votes, the senator will lose the Memphis area. And he is in perilous shape in the heavily rural 7th and 8th Districts. Voters there should have been pleased when Gore voted against the major 1964 civil rights bill, but President Johnson, its author, outdid the senator in winning a Tennessee margin that year by 50,000 votes. Friends remind that Democratic liberals burned Gore badly after that 1964 vote which reflected his fear of the “Goldwater fever.” Concerned thereafter with his selfimage he voted “no” on high court nominees Clament Haynesworth and G. Harrold Carswell and thereby bought big trouble in the West wherethe 1970 race will be decided. Paubbinrvey Youth Power That Counts And those young delegates Whether 18-year-olds can vote still will haveto be court-tested. were able to translate their But young pecple are asserting opinions into proposals which themselvespolitically right now will be put before votersof that in a manner unprecedented in state in November. ‘They urged and won approval our country. Did you hear what young Democrats did in Utah? for half a dozen major platform Rational young people with changes. Theyinfluenced the wording of some valid grievances against the Establishment have Jearned the platform committee's that the way to influence report. They sought and won national affairs is to infiltrate politics, first at the precinct domination of the resolutions committee and thus presented level. This is the way all political the convention with strongly bossesboss, for better or worse, worded resolutions relating to by asserting influence from the the war, the draft, abortion and sterilization. bottom up. They subsequently won School-agers who rallied ‘round the candidacies of convention approval for most of senators Gene McCarthy and their resolutions, including those Bobby Kennedy in 1968 learned opposing the war. ‘The Nixon Administration has to lick stampsandring doorbells duly noted this newest and conductrallies. But the nitty-gritty of party manifestation of youth power. policy is ground out behind the Where the President used to closed doors of county caucus express reservations about the “16-year-old vote,”’ he’s now all and state convention. Last year a bunch of young forit. No party can afford to turn its Democrats in Utah decided to overthrow the Establishment back on that potential vote of 14 the American way, within the million. Whetherthe 18-year-olds get to framework of the democratic vote in all states remains unprocess. They set about to introduce decided,but in ail states they are a political factor, if only as themselves and their objectives to their respective communities’ campaigners. Young people are characpolitics, By spring, when county conventions were selecting teristically long on ideas and delegates to the state con- short on patience. Politicking vention, students were able to from the bottom up takes win for themselves more than 10 patience and persistence and per cent of the 1,500 delegate some degree of elasticity. But it can be exciting, too. seats! If Utah's young Democrats Thus 170 students were seated at the Salt Lake City convention are typical, we're in for a colorful autumn, of their party. |