Show 4 To the Rescue! The Herald Journal lyi Utah Thursday March 29 1972 Open Warfare On Pay Board AFL-CIchiefs hve finally declared open warfare on the Federal Pay Board and President Nixon’s Phase Two economic policies and three George Meany head of the AFL-CIwhich was Board the members other labor Pay quit set up to his specifications on the grounds that it was THE IDEA WAS to let bicycle riders instead of motorists inaugurate a new section of Interstate Highway 906 in San Diego— a first and last chance to ride on a freeway for six hours R was a disaster reports Will H Parry About 7000 riders showed up at 11 a jn on Sunday morning and more were still arriving for the 7AmBe ride when the program was canceled after the first two hours The hordes of riders went morning down a onemiMong hill downthesideof Mission Valley going faster—and spilling One bike broke into two pieces from vibrations More riders were felled changing lanes without looking and colliding with other riders Some were upset by raised lane markers There were broken bones and abrasions One girl broke both arms A woman suffered a broken Jaw Scores more suffered O O “nothing more than a device to make the average worker and consumer both the victim and the goat while the banks and big business pile up increasing profits” President Nixon immediately reconstituted the Pay Board and served notice that the government would not permit any labor leader no matter how powerful to sabotage the fight against inflation and the rising cost of living controls but has Meany demanded wage-pricmade no effort to conceal his hatred for wage controls and has resorted to demagogic rantings about profits and interest rates not being controlled although prices are convention in President Nixon warned the AFL-CIMiami last December the nation would have wage-pric- e controls with or without “labor’s support” is It now clear that it will be without and that big labor is preparing the stage for a massive campaign against any wage controls and against President Nixon’s reelection Some of the Democratic candidates Senator Hubert Humphrey in particular will be the beneficiaries of labor’s support financial and otherwise The immediate cause of the walkout was the Pay Board’s decision to cut the first year wage increase won by the West Coast Dockworkers from 206 per cent to 149 per cent President Nixon said the Pay Board was right and George Meany was wrong A protest strike of the Dockworkers is threatened Longshoremen ask why their contract should be cut when larger gains by other unions have been approved The Pay Board beset by critics on both sides probably felt it did the best it could in allowing a raise nearly triple it’s 55 per cent guideline Senator John Tower Texas Republican spoke for many when he compared the walkout to the behavior of “a spoiled child” and said he would support revising federal laws which give inordinate power to big union management and “work against the working man as well as the general public” “All Americans especially the 80 million wage earners” said Nixon “have a stake in winning the fight against inflation" “This is a fight to the finish and with the help of the American people we shall win” The next day state officials conducted the usual sort of ribbancutting ceremony and turned the road over to motortsts-w- ho managed to avoid major accidents e SHE’S A (SGARETT&smoklng coed who hands in assignments late works part-tim- e chase her college on a counselor's recommendation and couldn’t care less about religion “She” is the composite profile of a college tfropout according to a study by the American Council on Education based in Washington DC and the percentage of students with indifference akin to hen appears to be shrinking rapidly on campuses throughout the country O Nixon Banking on Democratic Chaos By BRUCE BIOSSAT WASHINGTON (NEA) President Nixon is enjoying Democratic chaos these days But some id his political friends caution that it may not enhance his e prospects all that long-rang- much The President wanted Gov George Wallace to have the busing issue on Florida primary day which is why he delayed his own antibusing disclosures until after that event He got his short-terreward Wallace's huge Florida vote has sent the other Democratic contenders into nearpanic They are scurrying about Wisconsin scene of the next heavily contested primary cm April 4 like a bunch of scared rabbits Party officials are nervously running delegate scores to see how high Wallace may go at iami Beach Mr Nixon meantime has moved of course to seize the busing issue from Wallace At this early stage one can only guess that he probably will have at least some success To the extent he does the President may ease the Democrats' pain somewhat Wallace may have less to sell in Wisconsin and such other northern primaries as Pennsylvania Indiana Maryland Right now Democrats in those places are imagining nightmarishly high percentage showings for Wallace But here Mr Nixon’s dilemma emerges He clearly wants the busing issue for himself recognizing that it could be of enormous political profit next fall Yet his e difficulties will begin to take hard shape the moment the regular Democrats start to put it together for one clearly dominant presidential candidate The realists in Mr Nixon's camp never lose sight of his enduring disadvantage as the candidate of a distinctly minority party Their view is simple: Any time the Democrats can settle on a candidate without too much bickering and get out just a good part of their potential vote they can beat Mr Nixon or any other Republican That's how these realists see it today Sure enough most of the contenders for the Democratic nomination are looking inept foolish downright The hard GOP judgment however is that even Sen Edmund Muskie's crying in the New Hampshire snow won't be a grave handicap U him in the fall if he should somehow get it back on the track this spring and push to a strong convention victory It has always been accepted by those giving Mr Nixon tough counsel that his trip to China his May 22 visit to Moscow and anything else like that would be of only passing political benefit The same certainly would be said of almost anything he might try to cook up in the fall campaign period What these counsellors really are saying is that nothing the President can do will boost him into safe majority-vot- e territory The corollary of that thinking is that to win he must either hold down or pull down his Democratic opponent The more unified his adversary's support the harder this will be to accomplish Thus the Democrats can play into Mr Nixon's hands if they keep up their absurd uninto ana beyond their national seemly internal chop-cho- p convention in July Their present proliferation of candidates hailed by some as a healthy consequence of Democratic reform could mean that they could reform themselves right into the political ash can in 1972 If they somehow avoid that Mr Nixon will have to hope that Wallace goes third party again And say candid friends in extremity he will tear into his Democratic n rival in the best style he can muster m long-rang- 1 TEN YEARS AGO ONLY two students in II managed to complete an undergraduate degree at most of the nation's colleges and universities These days nearly half the entering freshmen are completing their schooling on schedule In a survey of 271 schools for foe study entitled “College Dropouts: A National Profile" foe council found 47 per cent of students receiving their degrees in four years Richard Wilson’s Interpretive Report WASHINGTON DC - the best record in America in the employment of Mack editors reporters and photographers He does not favor a quota system proportionate to population in of the employment professionals which he daims would require him to hire 100 more black newsmen and women at an annual cost of 2 million Under that same principle half Ms staff would be women And the quota system could be carried further into age groups — a quota of under for example Perhaps the Post’s executive editor has not carefully studied ' the Nixon administration’s “Philadelphia Plan” which in effect imposes the racial quota system of employment on government contractors The' contractors too as do most newspaper editors claim that they cannot find qualified personnel but they have not escaped the Philadelphia Plan that way Down old with fashioned profossionalian There is black justice and white Justice Mack journalism and white journalism Perhaps there is black medicine and white medicine also Therefore black lawyers must be unlawyerlike if necessary in fighting racial injustice Black journalists must be more than reporters and communicate for racial justice If you do not follow this line of reasoning it is because you have not studied two important trends in the fields of law and journalism which are now being strongly asserted The black journalism trend surfaced here in discussions at Howard University Objectivity detachment and other previously accepted journalistic standards are not enough for black reporters They must use their professional status to educate lawyers and law are students shunning previously The mechanics of this dispute may be less significant than the underlying motivations of committed Mack Journalism A few paragraphs from a Mack Post columnist William Raspberry provide a revealing insight “We’ve known” he wrote “that the way you perceive events has a good deal to do with who you are and we knew that most of the perceptions reported in the press were white “We were grateful when opportunities in the press started to open up for Mack reporters not because the jobs paid well but because they represented an opportunity for Mack influence on what is communicated to whom and how” But this was an illusion Raspberry found White accepted professional standards in favor of legal activisn on behalf of their race In short there is a blade way to report a major news event and a white way There is a black way to plead case and a white way In practical terms the Mack journalism trend is implicitly asserted in charges of discrimination filed against the Washington Post by seven Mack reporters The “liberal Post” has been besting its breast under intense emotional stress through many columns of type over this issue raised within its integrated newspaper staff According to the paper's executive editor the Post has editors imposed their wilL The stories came out “white” whatever the color of the reporter Now foe Post is confidently expected to do “what no other white newspaper has done: to stop being just a white newspaper" No credit here to white or Mad: reporters for trying to be objective No praise for white and black editors for trying to present a balanced pictire Under the new doctrine ‘such standards of fairness would be supertnunan and thus must be rejected as impractical or a mask over continued whiteness Somewhat the same doctrine permeates foe lawyers who met in New York to assert their differences with foe oldtime professionalism of foe National Bar Association Said the of foe president-elec- t 2100-memb- er association OT Wells: “When a brother ascended to the bench he’d forget his blackness" Was he not supposed to? Others called for judicial notice fay judges in trying cases involving problems faced by blacks in America One speaker contended foe whole system is racist and the hypocrisy of justice “makes you vomit" A Mack lawyer must be black first and a professional second A Mack reporter must be black foremost and objective later on He must “use” the communications medb to advance Ms own concepts of justice These are not the standsnta of professionalism which have long been recognized Bpth foe Mack journalists and black lawyers understand that They thus move toward the kind of separatism which the more experienced black organizstions distrust and deplore IT IS GENERALLY THOUGHT that foe high draft calls for the Vietnam War swelled college ennllmeuts during the late 1960b Many degrees were received by students who might not have entered or finished college if they weren’t faced with foe draft There were many predictions that dropout rates would climb as fraft calls dimiahed But it han’t happened Mote students are completing degeea than ever before Many educators take (Ms and other evidence as proof that campuses have never had a more serious crop of students ‘THOSE WHO AREN'T serious students just don’t stay around" says Dale Bowman an assistant dean at Ball State University in Indiana “Thqr get out and find something more relevant to them Or they don’t come to college in foe first place College is becoming too expensive a place to goof off or bide from foe world's realities’’ THE NATIONAL OBSERVER carrying the story by Stephen Green notes that Martha Howard an assistant dean at West Virginia University agrees “Most are taking a much more realistic view of the future” she says "They’re no longer in lock step going to college because it’s the “These kids are really concerned with making a place for themselves In a world that's much better than this one" OTHERS SEE THE TIGHT job market as a reason students stay in school “ff a student is convinced a degree Is Ms passport to a good job1 that's going to keep him with us” stated Edward McGuire vice president for student affairs at Drexel University in PhfladeiphL THE COUNCIL ON EDUCATION also found definite patterns among students who persist in school and those who drop out Most degree recipients are men Generally they don't smoke they complete assignments on time and moet have earned a varsity letter in high school activities Their education is being financed fay scholarships savings and parental subsidies Religious belief and willingness to meet deadlines seem to fall in a general pattern of commitment and desire to see things through REASONS FOR DROPPING out are as diverse as the students Failing grades account for most Often a combination of filings alienates a student so that he can't continue Then there are reasons of health marriage fondly deaths or divorces md boredom with studying Pregnancy is seldom given as a dropout reason unless it creates a financial hardship Many chop out of college for reasons known only to themselves “Some never will tell you why” says one officiaL Paul Harvey Welfare Can Be Helped Some of our country's critics argue that we spend too much money on weapons and technology and not enough on solving our nation’s “social problems” For the record last year out of every dollar whidi your government spent 51 cents went to “social welfare" Recent remedial legislation has left the impression that something Is being done about it— that welfare abuses are being corrected But welfare costs jumped another 27 per cent last year and they're still climbing What more must we do? When President Nixon asked the Congress for a major of foe welfare overhaul program they gave him a minor tune up instead Maybe it’s best he did not get all he asked that package lad so cotton-pickibecome complicated even its authors couldn't understand it Anyway Congress did agree to a requirement that welfare recipients— n’ able-bodi- ed mothers— should including make themselves available for work or work training Starting July 1 that will tend to plug one large leak in our fiscal plumbing There are presently more than 24 million parents receiving ADC This aid to dependent children is at once our nation’s most compassionate— and most abused— aid effort As President Nixon says further incentives are needed to keep families together but this is a start at alleviating a sometimes scandalous subsidy for illegitimacy Now the President is asking Congress for more than $500 million to help individual states meet soaring welfare costs they are the Understandably "tog-cit- y states” Eight states will get more than 70 per cent of the total Understand the 512 per cent of all government expenditures this fiscal year under the heading of "welfare” was not all relief money to poor people That astronomical 11707 billion headed "social welfare'’ included 555 billion aid to education There's a point past which even the worthy objective of education is not worth going bankrupt for But what politician dares in an election year to remind us that governments even as people go broke when they persistently spend beyond their incomes? What politician dares in 1972 to campaign against education or against charity? Indeed most of foe incumbent President's challengers are criticizing him for not spemfing more on schools housing medical programs and other aid to the poor Over the past five years our nation's GNP (gross national of product)— total output everything— has been growing 7 per cent per year Total social welfare expenditures have increased more than 14 per cent per year The politician using welfare as vole bait soon win be unable to hide the hook Cgv&Jty "I've got on idea for putting the magic bock in our marriage Th:t evening let's watch shows we never normally watch?" |