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Slar Editorials Doubling tuitions most unfortunate STUDENTS IN THE Stale University system ft "doubliiiR or tripling" of tuitions in the cominp years. This prediction was made by State Sen. Samunl L. Grconborg, ranking member of the powerful Senate Finance Committee. Sen.

Greenberff says there will be a billion gap between tuition income and the amount needed to finance construction expenses unless changes are made in the building plans or financial structure. Greenberg thinks that the physical facilities at. the State University colleges are too elaborate. He says that the state's standards for allocation of space exceed those of private universities in the state and are more than double those of the City University of New York (CUNY). In what he calls a statistic-packed Brooklyn legislator says that "average net assignable space (not including dorms) was 129 feet.

This is 135 per cent higher than CUNY's and 4 per cent above the average for private college standards, he says. Greenberg also points out that SUNY devotes 10 per cent of its space to classrooms as compared to 12 per cent for private colleges and 19 per cent for CUNY. The senator has made some strong charges that should be explored fully. As a member of the Finance Committee, he is speaking from an economic viewpoint. The educators must have their say before one can reach a fully rational decision.

But Sen. Greenberg has opened the door for a full- scale probe on construction costs at the state university colleges. SUNY has become an excellent example for state universities throughout the nation. But does it have too many frills? Does it waste money? Can economies be made without jeopardizing the educational program? These questions must be answered. It would be most unfortunate if students of the had to pay double and triple tuition because the present state administrators don't know how to plan.

Double tuitions could hurt the chances of a college education for many worthy youngsters. For example: Tuition in State University College in Oneonta is $400 a year but this is reduced when there is need. Students whose families have a lower income do not have to pay the full $400. But what happens to these students when the tuition becomes or Their need would be more acute and will they be allowed low tuitions because of their families' income? Probably not. And that would be tragic.

Japan stays in U.S. orbit By Richard Spang For the relatively small price of Okinawa, Japan stays firmly within the American range" of influence. Prime i i Eisaku Sato came back from Washington with the reversion Okinawa to Japan in his pocket. President Nixon and Sato agreed in a communique on Nov. 21 that the United States would turn back the Ryukyu islands in 1972.

As part of the agreement, U.S. forces in Japan are to have great flexibility to i security commitments in the Far East. Both nations affirmed their intention of extending their Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security beyond the expiration date of June 23,1970. PRESIDENT NIXON a i that as a result of the November talks "a new order will be created by Japan and the United Slates" in the Pacific. So long as Prime Minister Sato and his party can maintain dominance in Japanese politics, partnership should relatively invulnerable.

Sale's party label of Liberal- Democratic is a considerable exaggeration. The party has ruled Japan almost continuously since World War II. A loose coalition of business-oriented right-wingers, it is essentially conservative. In the last lower house election two years ago, the Liberal-Democrats won 2 7 7 seats. Unfilled vacancies bring the present total down to 272.

The Socialists have 135 seats in the House of Representatives, as it is called; the Komeito, the up- and-coming political arm of the militant Buddhist Soka Gakkai sect, 25; the a i Socialists, 31; and the Communists, 4. All oppose the Japanese American security treaty as increasing the danger of a war that would be fought for American rather a Japanese purposes. SATO has been making speech after speech saying Japan will build up its military forces sufficiently to defend itself. But he insists that his country will maintain its no-war constitution, orginally imposed by American occupiers. That means that Japan, to all practical purposes, will continue to rest under the American a deterrent umbrella, as Sato says, "for a considerable period of time." American bases on Okinawa presumably will come under the same restrictions as do U.S.

bases on Japan proper. That means that Japan will be consulted in advance of any combat operations. Sato has been advocating partnership with the United States against the solid opposition of his i splintered political foes. The Oneoeta Star Otsego and Delaware's Independent Newspaper 102 Chestnut Oneonta, N.X. 13820.

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Hell. Viu PrnKMi Ruth Cutaway, PrailoVl end Add'ttonal Donald 1, Vlea Pwdtnr Traaivror, Praneli A. ftrnttn Mnilant Stcrawy. (MIONAL ADV18TIIINO MPRSKNTATIVB Atrocities to be bared at hearings Dodd probes prisons, finds horror in 15 states WASHINGTON a Tom Doild has been secretly Blithering evidence lor months in preparation (or explosive hearing. 1 about prison horrors in 15 states.

In the last tew weeks, reports have reached this column from various states of calls and visits by his to prison experts, ex-convicts and enforcement officers. Dodd apparently lias selected Ohio, California and Florida for exposure of i atrocities. He may also put the Senate spotlight on Louisiana and Indiana. Although he has brutality in almost every one of the 50 states, say insiders, he plans to confine his hearings to 15 states. Among the stories his agents have verified are shackling of inmates in Louisiana, jailhouse beatings of youngsters in California, pressing of Ohio inmates for days between steel doors, and the clubbing'to death of a young prisoner in Florida.

The Ohio torture a described in a series of hearings this spring by Dr. Sam Sheppard, convicted and cleared of wife murder. Ohio officials sneered at it, but Dodd's men have documented its truth. SMUGGLED LETTERS In several stales, Dodd has been pressured to back off from his probe, but witnesses have already been approached and tentatively invited to testify. Letters have also been smuggled from prisoners to Dodd offering testimony on sickening perversion and brutality within state prison systems.

Convicts, some famous for crimes they would like to forget now, have offered to come Conscientious prison officials have also told Dodd's men they will risk their jobs to expose prison abuses. Out of these hearings and those last spring, the Senate's most detailed record in history is emerging: of prison torture, despair and waste. Tom Dodd should be commended for caring about these forgotten men -the more so since he in running for re-election next year and men In cells have no votes. Day after day last spring, generally alone because his fellow Senators did not want to be seen on TV with a man they had censured, Dodd sat through the horror tales. One young black convict cried out from the witness stand to Dodd, saying: "Senator, you can't know what it's like unless you've been there." A little smile played across the old Senator's face for a moment.

Maybe he was thinking about the income tax case hanging over his own head at the Justice Department, and the possibility he could wind up in the convict's place. HICKEL'S SURPRISE Secretary of the Interior Walter Hickel, who was roughed up by the Senate Interior Committee during his confirmation hearings, invited his tormentors to his offices the other day for a Christmas luncheon. By Jack Andenon He gave each guest a book in Christmas wrappings. On' the front cover was i portrait and the title: "How to Get a Job In Government Without Really Trying," or "How to Write a 450-Page Book in Five Days." Between the covers was the printed record of the stormy Hickel hearings. "I consider this a valuable gift," chuckled Sen.

Frank Moss, D-Utah, "because it indi- cates'that, despite the content of the book, we are fast friends." Chairman "Scoop" Jackson, alluding to the fact that Hickel a promised at the hearings to clear his decisions with the committee, remarked ruefully: "When you promised to check everything with us, we didn't know what a box you would put us in." For Hickel's habit of referring his. most prickly problems -Hickel's pickles, he calls them to the committee has given the members some political headaches. climate always gets them' Kins Syndicate. 1969. On Britain's market entry Will France be tough? By C.

L. Suhberger fliiM MM MI, IM, N.r. lotu Kw (Mi II4.JH4IM Second L'lisf Pontage Paid at Oneonta. N.V. Saturday, Dec.

27, 19C.9 LONDON The i i government has been desperately worried that France still preferred to exclude this country from the European Common Market but, instead of applying a political veto, would substitute a subtle financial veto a while veto instead of the black veto twice used by General de Gaulle. The French are now officially on record as favoring enlargement of the European Community and have agreed that negotiations for Britain's entry shall start next year. However, as President Pompidou has insisted, such negotiations must be preceded by new arrangements to finance the Community's Common Agricultural Policy. These arrangements seem to have been launched without any implied blackball of the British. The CAP, as it is known, and the proposed financial accord, are extremely advantageous to France.

What the British feared was that Paris diplomacy might insist on terms so onerous that London could not accept the price of entering the community because it would produce too high a rise in living costs. Only hist week Sir A Norman, President of Confederation of British Industry, said of Britain's desire to join the European Club: "The will is there, in as great a measure as It was in lMfl-67, but the will to sign the check is not as strong because of fears it may he too big." The British, while walling at the door, are in no position to I suggest what their proposed partners should do about agriculture. They do, however, hope West Germany will find that its interests parallel those of Britain and therefore will refuse any overpriced system during the transitional years ahead. The question was less what France's colleagues would agree to than what France will try and make them agree to. The British read into French agricultural demands a judgment of whether Paris is truly serious about inviting London to join.

So far indications are favorable but London has learned to he skeptical. The British hope Pompidou will see not only the economic logic of adding this country's population, industry and skills to the European Community but will judge it politically wise lo enlarge the market so as to re- rltire West Germany's growing ascendancy. Policy-makers hero place immense importance upon the ultimate decision. They tend to interpret the price of agricultural goods and therefore of their own admission 'ee as a token of France's intentions toward Ihem and all the west. Many French observers resent this as exaggerated apart from believing that an applicant to a club has no right to haggle about the dues.

Britain lias specific and major conceptions of the effect Its Common Market membership could produce diplomatically. It believes that through the European Community France can attracted back into participation in the old Western European Union alliance and into NATO and that London might play a key role in persuading Paris to do so. London thinks Uie best means of improving east-west trade relationships in Europe is by dealing through the market. Similarly, London thinks the only way of seriously contemplating the European Security Conference Moscow wants is by frank recognition that Alliance blocks are a fact of contemporary life and that therefore such a conference should comprise members of NATO and Uio Warsaw Pact. With regard to evolving east- west relationsips either Inside Europe or on a larger scale -the British want the West to work out agreed policies in advance.

Therefore they would like lo be in the Common Market prior to trade talks with the Communists and they would like to see France more intimately associated with NATO before security talks begin. They hope a start toward such revived French participation might come through W.E.U. At this singe, however, these concepts remain pipe dreams. France has given no fllgn that it expects to change Its present rather distant relationship with NATO, although it remains an ally under the North Atlantic treaty. Nor does Imply willingness to seriously modify its hnslc terms for the CAP simply to ease Britain's admin- problems.

The gruffly.amiable Secretary told his luncheon guests that he hoped to combine nil teder.il functions, having to do with the environment, into a single new Department of a a Resources and Environment. When he proposed this idea to President Nixon, Hickel said, the President "came right out of his chair and said, 'That's the direction we will go." Moss reminded the Secretary that he had introduced the same idea as a Senate bill five years ago but that the affected government agencies had resisted the reorganization. UDALL WOULDN'T FIGHT Referring i predecessor, Moss "Stew Udall put his tail between his legs and refused to fight." Hickel also complained to the committee about the problem of acquiring land for national parks. The a are authorized, complete i boundaries, before the money is appropriated to buy the land. Result: Ilie land prices immediately skyrocket.

At the time Point Reyes, was authorized as national park, he pointed out. the needed land was worth $14 million. Once the word got out that the government wanted tltt land, of course, the prices doubled, then doubled again. The taxpayers are now shelling out $38 million for a acquisition at Point Reyes, Hickel said, and the total cost will reach an estimated 1ST million. He suggested that a standing fund should be available so park land could be purchased at the time of its authorization.

Sen. Alan Bible, said nothing was more important, in his opinion, than parks for outdoor recreation. These should be available near the cities, he said, to offer an outlet for youth gangs. Hickel agreed there was "great need for more parks in populous areas" and-promised lo provide more recreation areas easily accessible to the big cities. Rather common boast Award for mediocrity By Russell Baker Pyle says that he is utterly i tinguished.

In the hall he taps you on the shoulder and says, "I am just as plain as an old shoe." It seems rude, of course, to agree with him, and so the first time Pyle comes along insisting upon his own plainness, people try to buck him up. "That's not so, Pyle," they say. "You are a man of many excellences." This is an error. It angers Pyle and leads to arguments, for Pyle is proud of his lack of distraction, when lie says, "I am just as plain as an old shoe," Pyle is not apologizing for himself; he is boasting. Now no one wants to spend much time, naturally, with a person who is utterly undistinguished, particularly if that person is certain to boast about having nothing to boast about.

Pyle, in brief, is usually left to lunch alone except on days when some new man has just been introduced into the office -someone as new to the office and as innocent of Pyle as Pitcairn. Pitcairn had scarcely blown his soup cool at the Black Bird Cafe when Pyle, who hadn't had anyone in weeks to boast to, started in on him. "You know," Pyle began, "I am just an ordinary guy." "I'll bet you're not half as ordinary as I am," said Pitcairn, dropping his soup spoon and glaring at with intense hostility. "Oh, yes I am, too!" Pyle insisted, being too much taken aback by Pitcairn's hostility to think of a wity reply. "I am just as plain as an old shoe." "Bah!" said Pitcairn.

"Call that mediocrity? I happen to be and I say this in all humility, mind you as plain as an old sock." said Pyle," "am one of those people who "I know," said Pitcairn. "You're one of those people who never amounted to much, but at least your children love you. Isn't that it?" "Well." Pyle began. "I thought so," said Pitcairn. "You're not in my one of those people who never amounted to much and my children can't stand me.

And do you know why they can't stand me, Pyle?" Pyle wanted to say, "Probably because you have an inflated idea of your own mediocrity;" hut Pilcairn was loo fast for him. "They can't stand me because I'm one of the common people." "I'm a common man, too," Pyle said. "You think so?" Pitcairn asked, in a tone suggesting that he very much doubted it. "Well perhaps. But you're not half as common as I am.

Pyle. I'm as common as they come. In fact I'm so common that I come close to being uncommon." "Well," said Pyle, sensing that he had gained an advantage, "No one will ever be able to say that about me; I'm just your average, typical, everyday kind of a guy. Why. do you know what I Pitcairn? A cypher." "I'm sorry to hear that, Pyle." Pitcairn said, shedding a crocodile tear, "Because cypher is a big word, and I don't feel home with any of those big words.

And I'll tell you why, Pyle. Because I'm just one of the little people." "I'm a littler people than you are," Pyle protested. "Nonsense," said Pitcairn. Lighter side Otlowoy Ntwi A girl editor of the Clarion (Pa.) State College newspaper took off on jail conditions in Clarion and is now being given a hearing before a 75-yearc'd county judge. Out of the investigation will the conclusion that the jail is bjd, the judge is old and college girl graduate (o protests at PTA.

Because sooner or later this winter, outdoor people will face frostbite, I am reproducing a doctor's suggestion on subject: Many people believe in the old wives tale that frostbitten parts should be rubbed with ice or snow. If frostbite is treated by rubbing with cold substances, the chances of getting gangrene are increased. Another incorrect treatment is use of compresses, hot water bottles or heal lamps over frostbitten area. Contrary to these methods of treatment, circulation should be allowed to establish itself naturally. To administer first aid for frostbite, the area affected should be covered with a woolen or heavy material.

If Uie fingers or hands are frostbitten, the victim shniild place his hands in his armpits, close to the body. The victim sliould he the small society ''Stand up and we'll measure." Pyle stood. He was 5 feet 11 inches tall. Then Pitcairn stood. He was 3 feet 9 inches tall.

"That's not fair," said Pylt. "You were taller than that when you came in here." "Of course." said Pitcalm, "but if you're going to stay humble, you've got to be able to take yourself down a peg or two, and, much as I hate to have to tell you this, Pyle, it looks very much as if I will win the Uriah Keep Award this year for outstanding achievement in humility, in recognition of my brilliant series of letters to editors extolling my own humbleness." Pyle appeared ready to weep. "Cheer up," said Pitcairn. "Do you know your trouble? Just as plain as an old shoe." Everyone in the office, except Pyle, enjoys lunching these days with Pitcairn. His arrogance about his mediocrity makes him a challenging conversationalist.

With Gene Brown taken out of the cold temperature as soon as possible. feasible, frostbitten parts should be soaked in tepid water (about 105 Fahrenheit). If warm water is impractical to use, gently wrap the afflicted area in blankets. When warned, the victim should exercise fingers or toes, if this is the area that is frostbitten. The victim should also be given a warni, nonalcoholic beverage.

The recent series of about 12,000 words in this newspaper of life at Danbury's Federal Correctional Institution, is now being condensed to 1500 words by this writer and it will be cjr- ried over the Associated Press wires to most of Ihe major newspapers in the U. S. and Canada. About all I will be aWe to rewrite is: "I was there and got mil." A new version! And finally, to end on a pleasant family note, there was this exchange between the three bears: Father Bear: "Somebody's been drinking my whisky." Mollier Bear: "Somebody'! been drinking my wine." Baby Bear: "ilie!".

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