St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 67

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Toward Slate Medicaid tmUti JOSEPH rvLvrzu Mi DtamUt 12. II7S tMietiy Thl Putefcr PuWiAmf O. Hi FfMlm MA-iMIII AMr Senfei-MAin 4-6644 imr POST-DISPATCH PLATFORM 3 WOW THAT MY RETIREMENT Witt JtAO NO DIWEMNCE IN ITS CARDINAL -JWNOHJES. THAT IT Witt ALWAYS -flOHT TOIL PROGRESS AND REFORM, I EVER TOLERATE INJUSTICE OR COR-IliuPTION.

ALWAYS EIGHT DEMAGOGUES "Tjot ALL PARTIES, NEVER BELONG TO ANY ALWAYS OPPOSE PRIVILEGED ptASSES AND PUBLIC PLUNDERERS. JJJEVER LACK SYMPATHY WITH THE POOR. AiWAYS REMAIN DEVOTED TO SSthe PUBIIC welfare, never BE SATISFIED WITH MERELY PRINTING NEWS, -IIQaWAYS BE DRASTICALLY 1NDEPEND-2kNT. NEVER BE AFRAID TO ATTACK tSSVRONG. WHETHER BY PREDATORY OR PREDATORY POVERTY.

7 JOSEPH PULITZER Gov. Hearnes Is to be congratulated for his change of approach to Medicaid. As a result of his urging, a House committee has approved substitute legislation which would at least permit a full program of medkal benefits to welfare recipients. Earlier in the session the Governor used the Medicaid Issue as a prime example of what he considered the encroachment of federal power in the states. Under Title 19 of the federal program the states are supposed to adopt certain welfare-aid provisions by 1970, and further aid provisions for the "medically by 1973, or lose federal support.

The Governor objected more to the latter than the former; nevertheless, his budget called for only partial implementation even of the 1970 requirements. Now, however, the Governor is urging full implementation in this session if the money is available. Acting at his suggestion, the House committee approved substitute bills appropriating about $5,000,000 more than the Governor originally suggested. The Governor is said to hope that by the time a conference committee considers the final budget, the state will know how well it can fund the program. In substance, the difference Is between $4,623,000 more and $11,800,000.

The state is already spending 5.6 millions on medical care for welfare recipients. If it does not adopt the whole program by 1970, it could lose 7 millions in federal funds. But if the state does adopt the program, spending the 11 millions itself, it could expect to receive 22 millions from the Federal Government. The difference in help to the needy is similarly considerable. The state now pays for most inpatient hospital care for those receiving welfare payments.

Gov. Hearnes recommended adding state support of outpatient hospital care and physicians' services as well as better support for welfare recipients in nursing homes. To this his new substitute measures would add X-ray and laboratory services, even greater nursing home care and drugs and dental services. An incidental but important benefit would accrue to the state's big urban centers. St.

Louis, for example could receive up to 1.5 millions in state aid for care of the needy that the city now has to support largely by itself. Certainly it makes sense to go as far as possible with Medicaid rather than to go only part-way. Those on the welfare rolls need health care that they cannot afford, and the Federal Government is ready to foot a far greater share of the bill than the state would pay. This is less a federal encroachment than a federal incentive for Missouri to do what it ought to do and what, in fact, most of its neighbors and about 30 states generally have already decided to do. for the Soviets, said to be in a less cooperative mood anyway because of the intensification of the war in Vietnam.

The apparent impasse over inspections, along with a number of lesser unresolved issues such as the fact that non-nuclear powers are expected to renounce nuclear weapons but the nuclear powers are not even required to reduce their nuclear arsenals make the prospects of a treaty agreement bleak, at best. But tariff negotiators at Geneva came to terms just as it seemed that the Kennedy round was doomed; so perhaps the urgency of halting the spread of nuclear weapons will transcend mutual distrust and national pride. As the Censitre Vote Nears With Senate action imminent On a committee recommendation that Senator Dodd of Connecticut be censured for "misuse of campaign funds, an "'ad hoc and emergency National Committee for Justice for Dodd" has been formed. One of its objectives, is to distribute copies of Mr. Dodd'sNrecent apologia to his constituents in the form of a television address.

Mr. Dodd started out by vilifying those who brought him to book former employes and columnists Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson. Then he re-interpreted some of the anti-Dodd testimony before the Senate ethics committee. He denied he had abused his position to enrich himself (which was not charged). He totaled up the costs of holding public office to explain his debts.

He blamed faulty bookkeeping for apparent misuse of funds. i The Senator rather nobly assumed tech-nical responsibility for his office's "incredibly sloppy bookkeeping" but: he had a noble excuse. He was busy "on the Senate floor making speeches, or conducting hearings, or gathering the facts about Communist subversion and terrorism." In other words, the various forces inimical to the Senator were able to get at him because he is opposed to Communism and appeasement and wants to control firearms and narcotics. Well, sir, Senator Dodd is not going to take all this without a fight. The issue is far bigger than himself.

Shall columnists be permitted to knock off all the Congressmen who oppose appeasers and Communists? "A question at issue is whether men of moderate means are to be able to compete for office, or whether public office is to become the exclusive domain of the wealthy." Senator Dodd's plea is not convincing. The fact that he felt compelled to make it, and in emotional and irrelevant terms, suggests he understands his goose is cooked. He had ample opportunity to defend himself before the committee no man ever had a fairer chance. But the evidence, in the opinion of the representatives of his Senate colleagues, ran against him. He is not likely to be able to turn the issues around at this late date, or erase that which has been written.

We might note also, in closing, that the announcement of the formation of the National Committee for Justice for Dodd issued from a duplicating machine similar to if not identical with a machine that periodically produces propaganda for ultra-conservative causes. Perhaps this is most significant of all. Thursday, May 18, 1967 Letters from the People As to a Conductor de Carvalho is without a 'doubt the greatest conductor the St. Louis Symphony has had in its history. In my opinion after 25 years as a sea-; ion subscriber, I have never known a conductor who has so con-, aistently scheduled outstanding programs, elicited from the players such scintillating sound, produced the ef-' ''-feet of such expansive grandeur, or so had the audience in a state ef highly charged enthusiasm.

The decreased number of adult and the fewer ticket sales at the door cannot all be attributed to De Carvalho's programing. I was a vol- season ticket solicitor and can testify that the campaign was not all that it was alleged to have been. Many times the phones went unmanned. Many 1 times socializing was substituted for the efforts needed. The drive needs complete overhauling.

Publicity has improved vastly this year over previous years and still it is 4 grossly inadequate. Five times the size, LET'S SEE, KID, I'M SURE THERE'S SOMETHING FOR YOU HERE Crisis in Conservation Funds for New Parks Running Out; California Republican Senator Offers Remedy 5 -40 times the ingenuity is used in ads Iceberg of Crime One of the major contributions of the National Crime Commission is its effort to put crime in perspective. This is true of its new special report which presents a disturbing picture of organized crime. And what is disturbing about it is not the success of the racketeers, but the impotence and often indifference of government, police and public. We recall that in its basic report, "The Challenge of Crime in a Free Society," the commission said that "organized crime takes about twice as much income from gambling and other illegal goods and services as criminals derive from all other kinds of criminal activities combined." The new special report adds details to this: organized crime is venturing heavily into legal business, and one "family" alone owns $300,000,000 in real estate.

The primary report also said that organized crime is like an iceberg; little of it is in public view. The new paper asserts that such to sell an item priced for a quarter as "tt used in ads to sell a season sub-- acription to the symphony. At no time rt" have I seen an ad that pointed out that you can get a good seat at the sym- -ZJhony for less money than it take to HJee a first run movie. I JHaving made splendid strides fa sev- ral areas and having hired 1 a truly iJJSfninent conductor, how can the sym-yliohy society justify its interference i.i imio the domain which properly belongs 'm the musical director? "--University City George Hefty 2000 years to grow, once cut, will not be replaced for another 200 years. In January I introduced in Congress a bifl, S.

531, which will provide th funds necessary to allow the establishment of a truly great system of state and national parks. I have proposed that the monies realized from the leasing of the outer continental shelf, and from certain other mining leases, to the extent that they would otherwise go into the Treasury's "miscellaneous receipts," be placed in the Land and Water Conservation Fund. These revenues have averaged $100 million per year over the past ten years. On occasion they have exceeded $300 million in a single year. These monies are the earnings of the people of America from their natural resources.

It seems appropriate that they should be returned to the people in the form of an enhanced national recreation and conservation program. This approach was used by the State of California when faced with a similar problem. Over 20 years ago California began financing its state park system with its tidelands oil revenues. Until recently, 70 per cent of these revenues were allocated to the State Division of Beaches and Parks. These funds helped the people of California to build an unequalled state park system.

The principle of devoting revenues from leasing the outer continental shelf is also incorporated into S. 1401, introduced in the Senate early in April by Senator Jackson of Washington and cosponsored by Senators Anderson of New Mexico, Nelson of Wisconsin, and myself. S. 1401 also jvould send the unallocated portion of Forest Service receipts into the Land and Water Conservation Fund and would allow limited contractual obligations to be undertaken in advance of appropriations, as well as authorizing "inverted scenic easements" through purchase and lease-back or sell-back of land with appropriate use restrictions. I sincerely hope that when these bills come before the Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, of which Committee I am senior Republican member, they will receive rapid and forceful approval, in order that there will be a favorable law at the earliest possible moment.

Senator Thomas H. Kuchel in the Sierra Club Bulletin The conservation program of the United States is facing a crisis. The crisis is the lack of money. The Land and Water Conservation Fund was created two years ago to "assist in preserving, developing, and assuring accessibility to all citizens of the United States of America of present and future generations and visitors outdoor recreation resources The revenues coming into the Fund are made up of the amount realized from entrance and user fees collected at federal recreation areas, sale of surplus property and miscellaneous The Mirror fuel taxes. When the en-of abling legislation was before Con-Public Opinion gress, it was estimated that the income of the Fund would be up to $230 million per year.

If these amounts were realized, the American people could move forward to complete the splendid state and federal park and wilderness systems we have planned. Herein lies the problem. While the surplus property sales and the fuel tax revenues have proceeded as predicted, the entrance and user fees collected have been substantially below expectations. Instead of the low of $125 million per year planned coming into the Fund, only around $101 million has been realized. The greatest disappointment has been the low sales figures for the seven-dollar "Golden Passports," which allow the purchaser access to all National Parks and other areas for which an entrance fee is charged.

The Land and Water Conservation Fund benefits both federal and state projects. Sixty per cent of the monies of the Land and Water Conservation Fund are returned to the states for state park programs and acquisitions. These grants are made to the states on a fiftyfifty matching fund basis. The forty per cent of the funds to be used by the Federal Government are to be used for the acquisition of land and waters by the National Park Service and the Forest Service, and for the protection of threatened spe- Post-Dispatch, March 10, 1948 The Enemy at Home icies of fish and wildlife. Some of tha current projects calling upon the Fund are: Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area in Pennsylvania and New Jersey; Assateague Island National Seashore in Maryland; Fire Island National Seashore in New York; Whiskeytown National Recreation Area in California; Point Reyes National Seashore in California; and National Forest projects, such as those at Ottawa in Michigan; Monon-gahela in West Virginia; Allegheny in Pennsylvania; and Tonto in Arizona.

What the. future holds by way of demands on the Fund is impossible to say, but ambitious projects, such as the proposed Redwood National Park, will require substantial sums. In its present condition, the Land and Water Conservation Fund is inadequate to meet the needs for which it was created. In every session of Congress we see more and more bills to have some worthwhile area designated as a National Park, National Seashore, National Recreation Area, or the like. The problem of insufficient funds is additionally complicated by the rising cost of land acquisition and development.

With our ever-increasing population, we must develop and protect our national outdoor heritage for ourselves and for future generations now. Soon it will be 'too late. A tree which took crime flourishes only where it has corrupted local officials. Neither what is known nor what is unknown is very new. Organized crime has flourished in this country for approximately a half- century.

Law enforcement and Senate investigations have touched the top of the iceberg and some racketeers have been caught, but in general counter-action has been tive. As the commission observes, the criminal business still gets its support from the public, especially in gambling. The commission offers recommendations: a permanent congressional committee on organized crime, regular grand juries to deal with the subject, special police anti-racketeering units and so on. Such efforts naturally will depend upon public interest and demand. One large difficulty is that public interest, even congressional interest, has lately been too much diverted to a more obvious and yet less significant form of activity usually referred to as "crime in the streets." This emphasis on big-city ghetto crime has led Congress to propose unconstitutional and dangerous remedies.

If the Crime Commission is right, and we think it is, this attention and energy would better be concentrated on the organized crime business. It is far mora costly, devastating and subversive. A Fading Hope The, Semi-Edible Airplane The possibility of airplanes and spacecraft with edible parts composed of soybean products, as reported by Jerome P. Curry of our staff in an interview with Ralston-Purina scientists, tends once more to show how far technological advance is outdistancing popular imagination. What would be the uses of this combined means of transportation and sustenance? Mr.

Curry reports that pilots stranded in remote parts of the earth or astronauts marooned on another planet might eat parts of their craft to keep from starving. That would be use enough in itself but surely there must be other uses also worthy of being put into play if one could only think of them, The semi-edible airplane could, for instance, provide the unsuccessful student pilot with a therapeutic means of acting out his frustrations. If he couldn't fly the thing he could at least eat it. A sort of consolation or booby prize, as it were. There is likewise the long-felt want of a satisfying way to blow off steam at what some genius has called "the utter depravity of inanimate objects." When faced with the stubborn refractoriness of an object, or smitten hip and thigh by barging into it, some persons seek to retaliate by swearing at it.

On more extreme provocation they will kick it, and on the most extreme seize some other inanimate object and break the offender into extra small smithereens. None of these recourses really satisfies anyone that the punishment has fit the crime. How much more practical, dignified and conclusive simply to pick up the offending article and consume it. We eagerly await the application of the soy-bean principle to furniture with legs that stick away out past where any reasonable person would expect to encounter Mr. Karsten Has Some Fun St.

Louis Congressman Frank Karsten's sarcastic intervention against a poverty project in his district reflects a narrow outlook usually well hidden from his constituents at election time. An enlightened Congressman would have taken a broader view than Mr. Karsten did of a Washington University social science proposal for teaching urban living habits to poor people in the depressed Yeatman neighborhood of north St. Louis. As proposed by the university and virtually ridiculed to death by Mr.

Karsten, the poor man's friend an opportunity house on the near north side would offer 60 low-income families 10 weeks' exposure in a life laboratory teaching personal hygiene and good housekeeping practices by demonstration and reward. The institution would have been sponsored by Jeff-Vander-Lou, a dissident antipoverty group formed by Yeatman residents critical of the poverty programs run by the Human Development Corp. and the Urban League. It is the easiest thing in the world for well-fed Congressmen to jeer at such projects. Still the fact remains that many impoverished families find it hard to climb to a better life in part because, as new migrants be present symphony controversy 1 4 to be resolved, supporters and the de-H2ractors of the board should understand possibility of conflict between the 'ZSpx office and musical education.

a means for measuring the extent ef this conflict the following experiment is. proposed. Programing for the 1967-68 season should be established along two tracks. One track (weeks 3, "5, 7 .) should consist mainly of, those compositions which Maestro De Carvalho terms "work horses." This e'ries should be rich in the works of the nineteenth century romantics with only a sparse admixture of eighteenth (or earlier) end twentieth century works. The other track (weeks 2, 4, 6, 8 .) should be patterned after the 1986-67 programs in which an even blend of classical, romantic, modern and avant-garde composers would be represented.

C. David Gutsche University City Is the new Powell Symphony Hall going to be a museum? Or a mausoleum where the quaking elders of the St. Louis Establishment can escape to bear the soothing harmonies of the nineteenth century, secure from any contact with the musical world about them? We await the next installment of this gripping but pathetic story with bated breath. L.F.L. Rescue by the Fire Dept.

This is written to clarify a situation that occurred the night of May 10. A fire rescue was performed at 2312 South Twelfth street. It. was reported in some quarters that a Mrs. Donigan, age 54, was carried from the building by Police Officers Komor and Pritchett.

But in fact this rescue was made by Capt. William Graff and Privates Lar-mie Whitaker and James Pennick of the St. Louis Fire Department. Policemen Komor and Pritchett did try to get to Mrs. Donigan, but they were driven back by intense heat and moke.

Capt. Graff was treated for moke inhalation at Barnes Hospital. Mrs. Donigan was given first aid and oxygen by members of the Fire Department Rescue Squad No. 2.

This treatment was continued in a city ambulance by Charles Moeller of me Res- cue Squad. Fred Zwlck 4 Battalion Chief No. 8 Between Book Ends A View of China From Around the Fringes After eight weeks of feverish bargaining the United States returns to the 17-nation Geneva Disarmament Conference with a draft of a nuclear nonproliferation treaty that has been substantially revised, but is given only a slight chance of being accepted nonetheless. When the Geneva Conference opened, the United States and the Soviet Union were in general accord on a treaty, but concessions made by the United States to its European allies during the recess are apt to turn Moscow against the revised pact. A key point of contention is the inspection provision.

Originally, the Soviets tacitly agreed to the American proposal that in? spection of civilian nuclear installations in countries not having nuclear weapons be conducted by the International Atomic Energy Agency at Vienna. West Germany charged that the Russians would use the agency for industrial espionage and insisted that inspections be made by the Common Market countries, own nuclear agency, Eura-torn. The Russians replied that this would be self-inspection, a practice they have defended in their own case. Reportedly without consulting Moscow, this country conceded to inspection by Euratom for three years, the matter to be "reviewed" at the end of that time, presumably with a view toward handing over the responsibility to IAEA. This is considered to be too vagut the form of cementing cultural and trade ties with them.

In this China enjoys an advantage, since her problems are similar to those of her neighbors. Further, as one Cambodian told the author, his people must think of the permanence of their relations with China United States is today and now, but China is As for Mr. Salisbury's stories on the countries which he and Mrs. Salisbury visited, the reader will find it especially rewarding to read about the provocations which Prince Sihanouk has suffered from the military of South Vietnam and of Thailand, the amazing ramifications of the opium traffic in Laos, the extent to which Thailand has allowed tha United States to build bases and maintain troops on her soil, the menacing presence of Russian missiles in Mongolia, and the recent policy of tha Kremlin to invite Japanese participation in the development of Eastern Siberia. China may be on the march; but these details go a long way to illuminate the tinder-box that is East Asia.

Piog-chia Km American barrier of armed power provides no answer but would make the ultimate explosion more violent and uncontrollable. Certainly, to relax the containment of China is one of the most urgent considerations before us. What disturbs one is his contention that China's internal dynamics will propel her to aggression across her frontiers. There is ample evidence to controvert this view. Significant developments inside China since 1962 notably, the "key growth areas" program to maintain high food grain production, the vastly expanded use of chemical fertilizers, the better balancing of heavy and light industries, the sustained growth of consumer goods output, the expansion and refinement of rural industries, and the resourceful participation in world trade have brought about a powerful recovery and a better livelihood.

China's expanding influence in Asia Is not likely to take the form of territorial conquests, because the experience of her own history makes her sensitive to the nationalism of her neighbors. Rather it is taking ORBIT OF CHINA, by Harrison E. Salisbury (Harper Row, 204 $4.95) Mr. Salisbury could not have chosen a more fitting title for his report on the countries bordering on China. For the whole Asian situation indeed revolves around the "orbit of China." No satisfactory solutions will be found without understanding China's strength and aspirations.

But the difficulty lies precisely here: What is die true character of China's strength and aspirations? Basing his judgment on China's population bulge, her inability to control birth rates, and tier lack of success in increasing food production, Mr. Salisbury tells' us: "It seemed to me that one could project on a chart the year when China's rulers would be forced into aggressive action across their frontiers in search of food for the rice bowls of their people." Convinced that Chairman Mao or his successors would "seek a solution in lands beyond their frontiers," the author urges that the United States relax its policy of hostile encirclement. He holds that the Gentle GI Thank you for printing the letter from "GI's Dad" in the Mirror of Public Opinion May 10. It spoke for all the gentle and less articulate GIs serving in that unspeakable war, whose letters home only say, "I can't find words to tell you about what's going on ovtr here. I'll tell you about it when I get borne." Mary C.

Rogan Granite City hp from rural areas, they simply do not know how to adjust to urban conditions. Now that Mr. Karsten has had his fun, what does he propose to do about that?.