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THE REPUBLIC. ''NA' MONDAY. JULY 10. 1972 PAGE FOUR No Demo Heroes Left, Only the 'Walking Wounded' EDITORIALS seasoned in the ways of the naUon's capital found his face hopelessly lost in the crowd when he toured the country seeking votes. Rep.

Shirley Chisholm, the first black and first woman to make a steady presidential bid, never made more than tiny token payment on her promise to put together an influential block of 300 to 400 delegates at the convention. A very nice man, former Gov. Terry Sanford of North Carolina, picked up some delegates in his own state primary but was virtually blanked out in his futile efforts to do more. The saddest thing to see was the joining together of all these people (except Lindsay) to attempt the blocking of McGovern at the final in-fighting stage. With Humphrey they cynically abandoned their party rules, encouraged their lawyers and others to make phony argument in the name of reform, generally disgraced themselves.

And, of course, they were always hacking at McGovern torn flesh. They may have made McGovern's bandwagon into an ambulance. And they most certainly have made their convention hall into a field hospital sheltering a pitiful collection of crippled Democrats. good faith in his last efforts to block McGovern by trying to take some of the latter's California delegates away from him. Sen.

Edmund Muskie, once the party's Lincolnesque front-runner who seemed almost above battle, was brought down in primary combat almost before he could get his sword out of the scabbard. His name today calls up visions of low percentage points the 9 per cent he got in Florida and the 10 per cent he made in Wisconsin. His late-season 12-state "revival" campaign was a flop. He ate a lot of McGovern bandwagon dust and picked up only a few leavings for himself. Most of the other 1972 candidates were bound from the start to be chewed up.

The Democratic party was boastful of its big roster, proclaiming it as proof of the new openness. But in fact, the multiplicity of candidates was an iron guarantee that most would look terrible in the vote percentage even the winners. New York Mayor John Lindsay, who tried to make walking the streets of his city a gauge of his presidential caliber, failed pathetically and quickly. Sen. Henry Jackson of Washington, an able senator well By BRUCE BIOSSAT MIAMI BEACH (NEA) The Democrats' reformed presidential selection process may have the appealing virtues of openness and balance.

But it has ground up candidates so badly that the party has almost no whole-bodied heroes left. Nearly every Democrat of prominence is a member of the walking wounded here at this convention. The betting favorite for the 1972 nomination, Sen. George McGovern, has the words "disaster for the ticket" plastered across his chest. The rival Democrats who put it there have been bad-mouthing like crazy for weeks As for the rivals, a sorrier bunch of losers seldom has been collected under one roof Sen.

Hubert Humphrey, who bravely tilted against a whole convention on the civil rights issue in 1948, never really cut it at all with the Democratic voters of 1972. He won just four primaries to McGovern's 10, and none was really impressive. He never came close to getting even half the delegates he needed for nomination Worse still, he turned mean-spirited and destructive of The Max Lerner Column Around Town KKIHBLIC STAFF at the Democratic Convention Three Ways to Decisions By MAX LERNER NEW YORK There are three diverse stories I have been following, and with the Democratic convention swooping down on me I don't want to abandon any of them. So here are some notes on a trio of ways of resolving a contest, each characteristic of the nation involved. ARTS GUILD, which recently closed its downtown office on Fifth street to make way for the new Citizen's Building and Loan association building, is reported to be scouting around for new quarters close to the high-traffic area Its performances would continue to be presented at Gild-hall on Bakalar Municipal field.

ty a law unto itself, the political party in Japan is accepted as the crucial arena. For months the contest between the two leading contenders Foreign Minister Fukuda and Trade Minister Tan-aka had been carried on by maneuvering inside the leading party, not in open convention but behind the scenes. While Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka's victory spells a break with the traditional ties to American policy, it may be argued that President Nixon was responsible for that victory. In two senses. First, Nixon's trip to Peking, and the "Nixon shock" in Japan that followed his failure to keep his close ally informed of it.

undercut Prime Minister. Sato's prestige and that of his foreign minister. Second, by ending China's status as a pariah nation, Nixon's action cleared the way for Tanaka's policy of moving closer to China. Not even Henry Kissinger's belated trip to Tokyo was able to undo what was already done. Such are the ironies of history in a world of Great Powers where every crucial action has unforeseen and unintended One is the fracas between the McGovern and Stop McGovern forces over the California and Illinois delegations.

On balance, I feel McGovern was right in his California claims. True, the all-or-nothing California rule goes against the logic of the quota or ratio principle that McGovern has championed. Also he had fought the all-or-nothing proposal originally, just as Humphrey had favored it. After the election they both reversed their fields. But the point is that by the time the election was held, both camps had accepted the total victory rule.

It was too late, legally or morally, to challenge it later. But not too late in terms of an attempt to use political muscle. That is what the Stop McGovern coalition tried to do on the credentials committee. It was a Rededication As two mayors joined in dedicating the Bakalar Municipal airport to city use Sunday, we could not help but remember the years of continued effort and dedication by dozens and scores of local individuals and groups to keep the field open to air traffic. Aviation "pioneers" at the close of the second world war were under-financed but vocal in carrying the dream that one day the city of Columbus would feel itself fortunate to have even the "little" field at Walesboro, and few outside of aviation ever believed the city would want or could support a base such as Bakalar.

Those two fields today provide prime real estate the city would have obtained no other way, and both are open to business and industrial expansions which otherwise would have been unlikely. John T. Owens almost single-handedly obtained the Walesboro field from the government for the city and kept it open through lean years. The government first closed, then reopened the Bakalar base which was dedicated Sunday prior to a Jaycee air show. Community support for keeping it open was repeatedly carried to Washington through the years Today the runways still are active but with civilian aircraft in the majority.

And around the field area acres open to development of airport facilities as well as to business and industry. Now the community must be sure it is used wisely, re-dedicating itself to assure maximum benefit in the future. Mellowing in Korea The decision of the two Koreas to start talking with each other after two decades of shouting may have taken the world by surprise, but it did not come totally without warning. The two regimes already had made gingerly public contact through Red Cross representatives, a very safe and politically noncommittal first step. Those in power in Seoul and Pyongyang may have known there was something more to those civil but stiff initial meetings last year on the Panmunjon neutral ground, but any outside observed who had taken this as the shape of something else to come so rapidly would likely have lost his pundit accreditation on grounds of foolish optimism.

Numerous developments, not all of a Korean nature produced the changed atmosphere which makes rapprochment possible. President Nixon's summit diplomacy has initiated dramatic changes in the great power relationships which set the tone, and usually determine the intensity in the case of client states such as the Koreas, for the confrontations of smaller countries. Korea has been largely on the sidelines during the years of the Vietnam conflict and assorted other flash crises around the globe, beneficiary of a benign neglect which has given the Koreans a somewhat freer hand in working out their own future than is the case with most such small states on the East-West ideological front line. Both North and South Korea have made impressive recoveries from the war that devastated both. Both are able to talk about reunification from positions of considerable internal strength, an equality which removes an element of strain from negotiations.

Events may have created the atmosphere for contact, but in the end it was men who made it possible men in Seoul and Pyongyang who decided the time had come to begin, at least, to talk to each other Something similarly has been developing, although much more hesitantly and less dramatically, in another divided legacy of the second world war Germany. And then there is Vietnam. Not much less surprising than the decision of the Koreans to talk reunification would have been, at one time, the welcome it has received in Washington. Such do-it-themselves diplomacy, which is open LOTS OF PARKING for the Campers and Hikers association parade Thursday is being planned in redevelopment blocks, according to Charles Eliot, chief of the city renewal project He reports the lot southwest of the courthouse the one under consideration for county purchase is ready for use and another will be open behind Tommy Tucker's service station at Third and Brown streets And part of the lot immediately west of the courthouse is available, too, with more possible as the former redevelopment office is razed this week BALLET DANCERS performing with the Cincinnati Symphony orchestra were seen by many children, including some who never before had watched a ballerina except atop a wind-up music box "Arc those ladies real?" one 4-year-old asked her mother She thought they were "just "Why don't you people check into the Fontoinebleau like everybody else?" contest of power, and for a moment the anti-McGovern camp had the power. The McGovern people expressed their outrage loud and clear; and while the message didn't come through to the federal district court, it did come through to the circuit court of appeals where two of the three judges have usually been liberal in their ruling.

The impact of the circuit court decision is bound to be felt at the convention The McGovern nomination is all but clinched. The circuit court, by choosing to break the traditional court prudence in staying out of the "political thicket," may have invoked an avalanche of such political appeals to the courts in the future. It was on firmer ground in the California instance than in that of Cook county, Illinois, where the issue was not the clear one of breaching an agreement everyone had made, but the murkier one of interpreting what a boss-picked delegation is. In fact, McGovern's lieutenants had earlier tried in vain to strike a logrolling deal with Mayor Richard Daley on California and Illinois. Thus the McGovern position became less a moral one than one of practical politics.

Unless he finds a way of quieting the enragement of Daley and all the other Daleys, both in the Democratic Party and the labor movement, his triumph will exact a heavy toll in the campaign itself. Rep. Hamilton's Newsletter 1 Revenue-Sharing More Fair EDITOR'S NOTE: Here is the Washington newsletter of Ninth district U.S. Rep. Lee H.

Hamilton, former local attorney, on the subject of federal revenue-sharing with state and local governments. Mr. Hamilton voted in favor of the legislation which now is in the Senate. My final case history the tangle over the Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky chess match in Reykjavik, Iceland is no great shakes compared to the others. Yet it, too, got involved with Great Power prides and politics.

The Americans have come to accept the crotchets of Bobby Fischer with amused resignation. The Japanese would probably have been puzzled by him but would move on with the matches. But for the Russians, his antics became a matter of national honor and world prestige. They seem to have taken it harder than they took President Nixon's mining of the North Vietnamese harbors before his Moscoe trip. After all, no practical power is involved in the tournament, only pride and By LEE H.

HAMILTON, U.S. Representative To solve the long and complicated national agenda requires the commitment of all levels of government state and local. My second case history is how the Japanese resolved the contest between the Fukuda and Tanaka factions for the post of president of the Liberal-Democratic Party, and therefore the post of prime minister of Japan. Unlike the American case, where the circuit court refused to consider the Democratic par- SORE MUSCLES were more common than you might think after "only a little exercise" at slow-pitch Softball as a group of local men played against members of the Cincinnati Symphony orchestra Thursday Columbus Pro Musica's catcher. Ad Director Don Newton of The Republic, admitted difficulty walking next day and State Sen.

Bob Garton, who also worked behind the plate a while, said he had some stiffness in trying to reach the pedals on his car to go to Indianapolis for a budget committee meeting The toughest of the Pro Musica team in its victory over the Cincinnati group might have been a teenager. Rick Mann, son of Mr. and Mrs Richard Mann who operates Thomas Electric company After the game he ate supper, then played in a youth league event A DOG AND CAT, apparently killed by passing carsi attracted the concerned attention Friday of residents on Road 46 West Other passersby could only guess what had happened. Unfortunately, our federal system is hampered in meeting these problems by a serious fiscal and political imbalance. The basic difficulty (admittedly overstated) is that the federal government has most of the money, while state and local governments have most of the problems.

The federal government, with its strong and growing fiscal base, has monopolized the leadership in responding to these challenges. State and local gov- Anivtr to Previous Putilt In the Kitchen 46 FicUonal dog 49 Used with a cup 52 Blackbird 54 Animal flesh 57 Conger 58 Death notice 59 Ellipsoidal 60 Distinguished Service Medal (ab.) 61 Otherwise 62 Girl's name This money would go directly to state governments with no restrictions on its use, except that it could not be used as the state's share of a federal matching funds program. 2. A second procedure would allocate aid to each county and to most local governments representing more than 2,500 residents on the bais of population, number of urban residents and per capita income levels. The money must be used for (A) maintenance and operation of public safety, environmental protection and public transportation, and (b) capital expenditures for sewage collection and treatment, refuse disposal and public transportation.

The proposed legislation also authorizes the U.S. Treasury department to collect state income taxes if 1 1 at least five states which account for at least 5 per cent of all federal tax returns request this service, and (2) if the state taxes are based on the federal definition of "taxable income." While I believe the bill can be improved, I support it because it will help correct the present fiscal and political imbalances, help preserve the viability of the federal system, and help meet the increasing demands for state and community services. It also represents a step towards tax fairness, increasing the emphasis on progressive income tax and reducing the emphasis on regressive sales and property taxes. The enactment of a revenue-sharing plan is going to have an impact on an already strained budget: however, the current budget already includes a revenue-sharing plan, so the adoption of this bill will not increase the federal deficit. Furthermore, to deny funds to states and local governments is to jeopardize their vitality and to say that their problems are of low 9 Hail! lOEucauonal group (ab.) ACROSS 1 Kitchen basin 5 Faucet 8 Cooking utensils 12 Arrow poison 13 Arrival (ab.) 14 Iris layer 15 Drama 16 Roman three 17 Fastidious 19 Sardinia (ab.) 19 Serene 21 Belgian river 23 Cutting implements 27 Kind 30 Major appliance 31 Father (coll.

i 34 Formerly (archaic) 36 Three times (comb, form) 37 Siouan Indian 38 Narrow road 39 Unaspirated 40 Soft (music) 42 Seasoning 44 Table gadgets Prayer "Dear God, though we have heard again and again that You were in Christ reconciling the world unto Yourself. Why can we not be reconciled'' Why must we hate and hurt? We desperately need You to hold us steady in these uncertain days. Save us from self destruction for Jesus' sake. Amen." Rev. Charles Taylor, pastor, East Columbus United Methodist church CAMPERS report the traffic situation at Camp Atterbury might be eased up enough now that local folks can drive past to look over the assembled multitudes at the National Campers and Hikers association camp-vention.

but they warn you may get stuck in some long lines. ly being viewed as presaging a scaling down if not phasing out of significant U.S. involvement, would have been viewed as an alarming weakening of the anti-Communist front not so very long ago Even today, Korean developments are likely to appear more ominous than optimistic to some who discern little basic change in the world situation during the past two decades. Despite summitry, mellowing regimes and travel and trade relaxations, the Communist enemy is as inimical as ever. Nevertheless, times change, even in power politics.

President Park's Seoul regime, acting largely on its own, would appear to be very much in step with President Nixon's diplomacy of reconciliation on the global scale. The reunification gesture, whatever its eventual result, at least has the virtue of allied consistency. of water 38 Soviet river 39 Military officers (ab. 41 Expensive 43 Gibbon 45 Soft leather 47 Common piece of furniture 48 Aromatic seed 50 Tax (Irish) 51 Trees 53 Roman road 54 Mother (coll. i 55 Feminine appellation 56 Swiss river 58 Oxford English Dictionary (ab.) ZolrTnt nnuN month (ab.) DOWN 22 Greek letter 1 Little tastes 24 Cast a ballot 2 Inset 25 Level 3 Comes close to 26 Withered 4 Lock opener 28 Green '5 Caudal vegetable appendage 29 Sea eaglet 6 Operatic solo 31 Seed 7 Small containers puncture 32 Upon 8 Authority 33 Horseback on Hindu game philosophy 35 Large body ernments.

depending primarily on property and state taxes, do not have the same strength or capacity for growth of revenues. The result has been aprolifera-tion of federal programs, the shifting of power to Washington, and stultification of state and local initiatives. In the last 15 years, local and state government expenditures have increased three times in terms of current dollars. Meanwhile, revenues have been increasingly difficult to obtain, and the future viability of these governments, especially in the cities, is in question. A new order of things is needed to build a vitality into our governmental institutions.

A basic premise has to be that state and local governments are here to stay and they play an in-dispensible role in the federal system. Their power and resources have to be strengthened. There are three primary tools the federal government can use in an effort to bring about balanced federalism: (1) Categorical aid, (2) Block grants, and i3 Revenue-sharing. These tools must be used in the proper mix to meet our problems. Categorical aid, the funding of specific programs under federal guidelines, has exploded from 6.7 billion dollars in 1959 to 36.8 billion in 1972, and it has become unwieldy to administer.

Block grants, federal allocations for broader-ranging programs without precise federal guidelines, have been moderately successful. The House of Representatives has passed the third-tool the State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act of 1972. This revenue-sharing bill would appropriate nearly 30 billion dollars of federal revenues over the next five years to state and local governments under two procedures: 1. Money would be distributed to the states through a formula which allocates half the funds on a basis of each state's overall tax effort (total state and local taxes as a percentage of personal income), and half by giving each state 7.5 per cent of its individual income tax collections. ANOTHER beautiful morning Just remember that cooperation is doing with a smile what you have to do anyway.

Looking Back Worth Quoting We have no expectations of getting eight hours of work a day from our labor force If we get up to four or five hours a day we'll feel this is a substantial improvement. F.E. Barnett, chairman, Union Pacific railroad. the tourney. Dr.

Richard Bryan finishes second on a 70 with an 82 and 12-stroke handicap, and Mrs Jess Schwaniger and Mrs Mary Hamilton tie for third with 71's. 15 Years Ago -1957 As White river crests at nine feet. Bartholomew county farmers begin totalling up their Worst crop damage in years. Estimates indicate crop damage in Bartholomew county will exceed $500,000. and that some farmers are completely "wipes out." 1 12 13 14 I 15 16 17 I 8 9 Il0 111 12 13 14 15 16 17 i5 19 20 21 22 23 2TI2SI2T" 27 28 1 29 30 31 32 133 "34 35 36 37 aT ST 40 41 43 11 I 45 4rpr 49 5TT5T 52 54 155 156 57 59 60 6l 62 63 6T7T I 1 I I I I I I I I I 10 THEiJ REPUBLIC 25 Years Ago -1947 Off to an early start this summer to permit winners to compete for honors, the 21st National Public Parks and Playgrounds tennis tourney gets under way at the Donner courts, Thurston Shirley, park superintendent, Tom Stewart, 15-year-old Columbus tennis star wins the state Jaycee-sponsored Boy's division tennis title at Ft.

Wayne to advance to the nationals in California next month. Problem Saturday's Answer 1811.33 (minus) square feet. Subtract the square of 8.5 from that of 29; multiply this result by i .1416 (pi); then multiply by 4, since the area over which the dog can run is only 4 of a circle. Today's Problem The number of men in a political club exceeds the number of women by 14. If six times the number of men exceeds eight times the number of women by 16.

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He fires an 86 with a 19-stroke handicap to win Chairman of the Junior Fair association to supervise boys' and girls' 4-H project exhibits at the county fair are Eddie Hoejtke and Helen Zurgrugg. (NlWJrAMt INTHPRISE MSN.).