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PAGfi FOUR THE RECORD-ARGUS GREENVILLE, FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1973 Faulting the Job So much is being said and written about worker that more workers are likely to jump to the conclusion they no longer like their jobs. That is the danger some economists, union officials and Others see in the constant stream of criticism ceroing boredom and the American worker. What started it is the recognition that not all is well on the assembly line. Some observers have pin' Tl pointed the problem as worker boredom, a feeling of repetitious uselessncss on the assembly line. But other are not sure that is a correct evaluation.

William W. Winpisinger, general vice chairman of the International Association of Machinists, for instance, has this to say: 'If you want to enrich the job, enrich the paycheck. The better the wage, the greater the job satisfaction. There is no better cure for the blue collar blues." Others, pointing to job satisfaction and labor turnover surveys, say there is no evidence to indi- cate serious job dissatisfaction among the work force. At least not until someone mentions the ject.

Then almost everyone can find something he or she does not like about the job. Fear Grips Cities Many police officials spend more and more time worrying about the fear psychosis which is eating out the hearts of many large cities. Go to New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago or Washington, D.C., and the first thing a friend may tell you is to stay indoors at night. New York City's fear psychosis is probably worst of all. Women and men are reluctant to venture out after sunset.

Many women no longer carry bags, to avoid being targets for purse snatchers. Women who must be out at nii'giht call ahead and have escorts meet them at subway exits. Size contributes. A small community which sel- dom experiences major crime naturally provides a more relaxed, less fearful environment than New York City, even though the crime rate may be higher proportionally in the small town. If it is true that man is largely a product of his UI environment, sociologists had better concern them selves more energetically with growing problems of population congestion: The fear psychosis ing over a large part of the population has become a primary threat to civilization's future.

ff Sam Mudd's Absolution Maryland has tried to make amends to a country doctor whose life was ruined because he once set a man's broken leg. The action comes too late for Dr. Samuel Mudd, who died in 1883 ot the age of 50. But it may help mollify the physician's ants, who have been asserting for years Dr. Mudd was the innocent wctim of a case of hysteria which.

swept tJhe nation's capital in the wake of the assassi- nation of Abraham Lirvcoln. It was Dr. Mudd who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth shortly after the assassin struck down the President. Of that there is little doubt. At that point historians differ, some saying Mudd was an acquaintance of Booth's who may have been in on.

the conspiracy, while others claim Booth was unknown to him and the doctor did no more titoan any pyhsician would have done under the circumstances. Dr. Mudd, who lived on a Maryland farm at the time, was sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to "Dry Tortugas, near the Florida Keys. Two years later he was credited with stopping a yellow fever epidemic at Fort Jefferson and after two more years was given a presidential pardon. Dr.

Mudd was never exonerated of the crime for which he was convicted. That the Maryland legisla- ture has attempted to do now by passing a resolution absolving Dr. Mudd of complicity in the Booth con" sipiracy. The action tends to be in line with more recent historical sentiment, which is much more sympathetic to Samuel Mudd than his contemporaries were. Hospitals Not for All Predictions a few years ago of cluinging methods medical treatment arc begin nine to show in strong terms.

Nursing homes and other rehabilitative or long-term facilities are taking patients away from hospitals. Hospitals are encouraging the practice of pa'. tients leaving their beds as soon as possible, or of us; ing out-patient facilities if they do not require hospitalization. The rising costs of specialized services provided by hospitals have mude these moves ncccs- sary. Other innovations are beginning lo appear, fre- I': quently for the same economic reasons.

Paramedics and other trained personnel who are neither doctors nor registered nurses provide valuable services at a lower cost, Other changes will follow until the upward curve of health costs levels off. THE RECORD-ARGUS Published daily except Sunday by 'I he Keconl-Araus, Inc. 10 Ponn Greenville, Pu. 101 FRANK E. FRAMPTON President und Publisher THOMAS T.

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Amused, he gave Nader a mock lecture on auto passenger safety precautions. Nader failed to see the humor and sat unbelted in grumpy silence the rest of the ride. More than any other individual, Nader was responsible for the setting of Federal standards that have made automobile seat belts mandatory. Nader's little lapse of purpose brings to mind an old saying that the person who makes the law is above it. Nader's image as a good guy is so secure he can survive such incidents.

But not all public figures can. The sweeping cynicism reflected in that adage contains sufficient truth to help explain the widespread lack of confidence citizens display in the leaders of government and other public-policy institutions. And there have been a number of examples recently of the tendency of big folks to apply one standard to themselves and another to lesser folks. For example, the U.S. Judicial Conference, Which is chaired by Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger, has just issued a tough new code of ethics for Fedeinl judges.

It sets a cl a standards of conduct in thoir professional lives and to a considerable extent in their private lives as well. But the conference has no authority over the Supremo Court. In the pusl, regulations of the conference have been voluntarily complied with by Supremo such as filing publicly their memberships in outside organizations. While lesser justices are ri'qviimt lo meet tlm new standards of i c-1 Supremo Court Justices are free to oblige only if Ihey fe-il like. il.

And Congress, which claims to agree with President Nixon about holding down Fcdcnil budget costs, seems inclined to make an exception where its own pocket book is concerir-nl. A House bill is pending In extend the franking privilege under which letters are nuiiU'd tree lo include business currently i eted as campaign activity. And key Di 1 a i members of Ihe House Post and Civil i Committee have quietly sponsored legislation to speed up under which Congressional salaries could be increased this year instead of next year, which is election season. Congressional salaries, which are now $42,500, were last increased in 1969- The President is required to submit recommendations raising Congressional Executive branch a I a i lour years. Hut he refused to do so this year, wkcn Ihe recommendations were due, on grounds that it would fuel the inflation problem.

The new Congressional move would pujh the President to submit nis recommendations by July 1 rather than waiting until the new Federal budget is presented next January. The Executive branch suffers from the same double vision. The Justice Department has not investigated the Watergate crime with the same zeal it generally displays toward irregularities not asociated with the White House. Nor has the President shown the moral outrage about political espionage that he has demonstrated against less intimately involved problems like kids who smoke pot and dodge the draft. Meanwhile, in tine span of three days last week, suspicions of possible wrongdoing were raised involving three i SYLVIA PORTER political names.

It was revealed that Federal and state investigations are underway in New Jersey into the fund-raising activities of some of Gov. William Cahill's principal supporters. Miami Democratic Mayor David Kennedy was indicted on bribery charges in two court cases in which a marijuana dealer and a sex offender had their jail terms sharply reduced. And former New York Mayor Robert Wagner, a Democratic rumored to be a candidate for that job again next year, was accused in Federal Court of fraud and diverting funds from a foreign mutual fund, in a $30-miHion civil lawsuit that is nearing an out-of-court settlement. None of this is exactly helpful in restoring public confidence in eigther elective or appointive leadership.

Brutal Cost of College If you're the parents of a teenager or two. heading for college in 1973-74, you're into the most brutal financial squeeze ever- and it will continue relentlessly to get worse year after year. While this mid-April deadline for filing your federal income tax may seem a cruel weekend on which to give you the facts, the sooner you face the realities, the better you will be able to cope. And today, from the College Scholarship Service, comes information never before made available lo parents, students and the high school community. The CSS, a part of the College Entrance Examination Board, obtained reports on average student budgets from the financial aid directors of more than 2,000 public and private, two-year and four-year institutions in the U.S.

From these, it worked up average college costs for the current year and the basic data for forecasting trends in costs for different types of colleges. Here are the crucial figures: If your child will commute to a public two-year institution and this is by far the cheapest (or her) first-year college costs will average of which tuition and lees will loial If your child will be a resident student, at a public four-year 'ii- slilution, his first-year co.si.s will average $1,98,1, and if lie commutes to this public institution, his first-year costs wil average Of these totals, tuition and fees will represent $-1(35. If your youngster enters and lives at a private two-year college, his first-year costs will average $2,540, and if he commutes, the costs will be $2,090. Tuition and fees will take $1,210. And if your child becomes a resident student this fall at a pnxiUe I'ourvvar insi, Union, his costs will average it' lie commutes, the cost will be $2,745.

At these institutions, tuition and fees absorb $1,725. At both two- and four-year private institutions, commuter and resident students spend the largest percentage of their budgets on tuition and fees. And do not pin your hopes for schooling on a public two-year institution. The fastest rate of rise in expenses is occurring at this type of college. The smallest annual rate of rise in recent years has been recorded at private two-year institutions, and even here, for residents, the annual rise has been 2.8 per cent.

The following shows the I rend in costs: The rise in rates over ihe period 1970 to 1073 at public two- year commuter colleges is per cent; at private two-vear commuter colleges, 5.9 per cent; at private two-year resident colleges, 18 pur cent; at public four-year commuter colleges, li.8 per cent; at public 1'our-ycar resident colleges, 5,8 per at private four-year commuter colleges, per cent; and at private four-year resident colleges, per cent. Invest $'J in the CSS booklet and study it with inmost care, for it gives you the breakdown 111 costs at the more than 2.0UO institutions, and surely among lhe.se you'll find at least one -Allege of your dunce. Send tor "Student At Post- secondary Institutions 1973-74," College Hoard, tJ 592-C, Prince-ton, N.J. 0854U. As the student, usk your high school guidance counselor for a copy of the CSS booklet, "Meeting College Costs in 1973-74" to get facts on how much financial aid you might be able to get from the colleges themselves.

Pick up a copy at your counselor's office of (lie "Puren's' Confidential 'wve your parents till il Why the Income Tax? HARRISBURG Columnist's notebook: Why The Income Tax? This is a question many a taxpayer in all probability is pondering following introduction this week by the Democratic Siiapp administration of a bill designed to reduce the state income tax from its present 2.3 per cent rate to 2.1 per cent. In other words, if the tax can now be reduced, why can't it be wiped off the books completely? It could, of course but when you eliminate all the "goodies" produced by the added income from the levy quite obviously spending has to be cut back. Spending can indeed be reduced, in fact many a lawmaker is clamoring for just this, but the simple fact is that as soon as cuts are proposed in any program as for example mental health the "professionals" concerned with only their own pet projects immediately emit hue and cry and launch great battle to hold their expansive spending intact. Multiply this by the many and varied fields education, welfare in general, relief, etc. and the mountain descendeth upon the legislative greats.

Additionally, there is the question of cutting previously mandated programs program expansions mandated by previous legislatures which only the Legislature (and not His Excellency) can do. In fact a perfect illustration of the clamor can be found on the federal level where the President to hold down spending has ordered elimination or cutbacks in a host of programs with the squawks and cries of pain and rage mounting daily from those directly affected, as for example, the various states, including Pennsylvania with of course Governor Shapp in the forefront. What is happening on the national level is what could happen on the state level if the lovable programs funded by the income tax were to be cut or eliminated to make way for the income tax heave-ho. Where Are The Troops The "troops" in question are not of military bent; rather reference is to Pennsylvania's academic troops the youths who graduated from high school last year. Where are they, where did they go, what are they doing now that they are out of high school? The Pennsylvania Department of Education has a pretty good picture of the class of '72 and its 257,415 graduates.

For example, 12,497 entered a college or university outside of Pennsylvania but 49.577 went to college within the confines of the Keystone State, with the largest single group (15,256) to the 14 state-owned and operated collegiate institutions. Next largest grouping in the HENRY J. TAYLOR Bursting Our Economy President Nixon's refusal to spend $8 billion that Congress appropriated, has the Washington Robin Hoods of the Red Ink in an uproar. If you drop a watermelon on the sidewalk it will never fit a dish. That's about the way our government handles its spending.

As drama critic Walter Kerr once observed in another context, things like this can give failure a bad name. President Roosevelt took the gold out of our dollar, President it to the CSS immediately 1'or analysis. This statement will be the basis for the colleges' decisions on the amount of aid you will be able to get. If your counselor doesn't have the booklet or statement, you can yet both these are free from the CSS, same address as above in Princeton. Check at once with your high school and college financial-aid officer on the various forms and amounts of help you can expect.

Also survey the financial lending institutions in your area or those recommended by the college to find out what loans you, as parents or student, might obtain on what terms. Investigate other possible resources, such as Social Security and veterans' benefits. Of course, try hard to get summer and part-time jobs to add to your college funds. Start at once on your summer job; you are already very late, but there's still hope. Kennedy took the silver out, and President Johnson took the silver out of the silver.

And the politicians still pour out the taxpayers' dollars like daisies on a love-me-love-me-not basis as if they were merely trying to see which petal is at the bottom of the barrel. Before President Kennedy took office the previous Congress appropriated $83.3 billion of our money and, remember, it's our money for all needs and all purposes. Yet, in the uproar, President Nixon is trying to hold down fiscal 1974 spending to $268 billion! How ridiculous! That's $184 bilion more than before President Kennedy took office. It's $18 billion more than three times three times as much. And so it goes, year in, year out, war or no war, good times or bad, in the reckless process President Nixon repeatedly crit- izes as "throwing dollars at problems." The results, of course, is the Federal deficit.

A deficit is what you have when you have less than nothing. And the deficit is admittedly the major cause of the ghastly inflation the government's pumping of so much deficit money into the economy. It erodes our dollar's buying power like a slowly speeded clock 24 hours a day. Our dollar is in trouble reflected in the terrible cost of living and the dollar's collapse the politicians put it there, although most of them would as soon eat an Eskimo's boot as admit this. Indisputably, that is why the money of the world's most productive nation is not what it always was the standard of the world.

Congress's outrage about the President's economy attempts is double-talk at the double-time. Highlights in History By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Today is Friday, April 13, the 103rd day of 197,1 There are 262 days left in the year. Today's highlight in history: On this date in 1743, the third American president and author of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, was born in Albemarle County, Va. On this date: In 1598, King Henry IV of France signed ihe Edict of Nantes, granting a large measure of religious liberty to the Protestant Huge- nots. In 1776, Gen.

George Washington arrived in New York to prepare the city's defense in the Revolutionary War. In 1964, the Motion Pictur 1 1 uamcd Sidney best actor. He was the first black to win an Oscar in the top categories. In 1967, the United States pledged American support for a Latin American common market. Ten years ago: Hundreds of demonstrators against atomic weapons clashed with police 30 miles west of London, England.

Five years ago: Left-wing student demonstrators fought with police in West Berlin. One year ago: President Richard M. Nixon flew to Ottawa for meetings with Canadian leaders. Today's birthdays: Former Minnesota Gov. Harold E.

Stassen is ()6 years old. Singer Lily state embraced the three state- related universities Pcnn State, Pitt and Temple which absorbed 11,813 graduates. Right behind the "big three" were the state's independent colleges and universities with 11,089, followed by the community college system (9,482) and then the private junior colleges with 1,937. In the employment field, 11,320 graduates went into office employment, 8,020 into factory work, 6,207 into the varous trades, 8,997 into sales work, and 6,121 into the armed services. Keep It Clean and Green Some may think the reference is to politics; it isn't although unquestionably it should be.

Actually, it refers to the "Vote Yes Clean and Green Com- m'ttee" co-chaired by former Democratic Governor George M. Leader and former Republican Governor William W. Scranton (both of whom are now reposing in comfortable private green pastures). The two former Excellencies are chairing the committee to promote approval of a constitutional amendment on the May 15 ballot that would permit the Legislature to allow farm land, farm reserves and forest land to be assessed for taxation according to the value of the land for such use rather than at potential commercial development rates as is oft- times practiced at present. Congress and the entrenched bureaucracy blasted Mr.

Nixon with the wrath of Sol when he vetoed some 1972 overspending. Mr. Nixon himself, however, now privately admits that, his famous vetoes notwithstanding, little really happened. For example, even though Mr. Nixon vetoed the $30 billion Health, Education and Welfare appropriation bill, the agencies involved are able to sustain their spending rate for the past fiscal year.

That's typical. Behind the scenes, Mr. Nixon now sadly believes that all those spending vetoes will actually save only around $1 billion. Meanwhile, it's all water on the wheels of the overspending Congress and the vast, entrenched bureaucracy. Millions of people know they have been led to follow misrepresentations and false hopes for years on end.

In spite of our nation's obviously contrary desire, this has helped to liquidate the America which has been successful in the world and which we cherish. No wonder millions feel (correctly) that the Washington Robin Hoods of the Red Ink take their tax money and squander it, take the government's credit and play with it, and in not a single major way are sacrificing anything whatever themselves to halt our dollar's dwindling worth. The Robin Hoods do not meet urgent social needs by economy and good fiscal management. They meet them by debt. President Kennedy inherited a national debt of $283 billion.

The present debt ceiling is $430 billion. An incredible $400 billion is now designated as permanent, $30 billion as "temporary." And we taxpaying peasants must pay each month $1.6 billion a month in interest alone on that debt. Within 10 years after World War I our government not only reduced the public debt but succeeded in cutting in half the wartime tax load levied per person in the population. Then that was the end of that. Rationalization about this nation's debt has long ago become self-deception.

The Soviet Union and Red China must be laughing at us. They are not fools. They know there is no defense in any country that is bursting its economy. And if we are not bursting ours what on earth do you call it? Bible Thought for Today I have esteemed the word ot Mouth more than my necessary 23:12. He that dwelleth in the secret places of the most High shal abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

Psalm 91:1..