The Journal News from Hamilton, Ohio • Page 46

Jock Anderson Ernest Cuneo John Cunniff Art Buchwold Jack O'Brian Lawrence THE HAMILTON JOURNAL t'stsn December 20, 1886 THE HAMILTON DAILY NEWS Established December 22. 1871 February 1933 HOMER GARB President Irom 1897 to Oct. 8, IftSZ MRS. HOMER CARD GRAMM President and Publisher tram 1052-1970 Published every evenln, except Sunday at Journal-News Building Journal Square am! Court Street, Hamilton, Ohio. 45012, by The Journal Publishing Co.

R. GROPVENOR, Vice President tnd General Manager fLOYD A. BROWN, Serurfl Vice Circulation Director tlONALU E. STUCKEY, Treasurer and Business Manafer RICHARD A COKNELLY, Secretary and City Editor J. RUSSELL CUMMINS, Advertising Director BAD SCENE! ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to the use for republicatlon of all the local news printed in this newspaper as wen it all A.

P. news dispatcher Our Platform Written by Homer Gard Dec. 31, If it Is good for Hamilton and Butler County, the Journal- News is for it. Pledged to the American Flag and all It means. Allegiance first to the people above all personal consideration.

Stand with any man so long as he is right, and leave him when he is wrong. Oppose demagogues, injustice or corruption no matter of what political party. Oppose wrong no matter from what sources whether by the rich or by the poor. Never be afraid to be in the minority. Seek the truth and the right and stand firmly by them.

Lastly the absolute integrity and independence of this newt- paper must never be in doubt. THURSDAY JUNE 3,1971 Welcome, Mr. Smith! Edward C. Smith, city manager of Oberlin for the last four years, haa taken office as city manager of Hamilton. His credentials indicate that he is a capable, qualified man.

Mr. Smith is the ninth man to become city manager in Hamilton. The records of some of those who preceded him will be challenges. The records of others will not be so difficult to equal. He becomes city manager by a unanimous vote of Council in a community in need of strong, competent leadership.

Mr. Smith takes up residence in a city that has potential that is far from being exhausted. He will find a gold mine of human resources, natural talents, with only a few veins of this vast mine having been tapped. Considering his background, his experiences, Hamilton is fortunate to have such a man as city manager. Considering the potential, the human resources and talents available, Mr.

Smith is fortunate to have been selected as city manager of Hamilton. His arrival is blanketed with welcomes and best wishes from a city of good people yearning for the leadership of a good man. Demonstrating Love A quiet demonstration took place in Washington, D. this week, A demonstration without a lot bf fanfare and without a lot of news coverage. Demonstrators, forty in all, quietly, marched up to the Washington Monument with satchels and arms full of tools, including hammers and saws.

Beginning with a prayer, they set about replacing park benches which had been destroyed in a recent demonstration. Backs and seats of benches around the monument were used to build bonfires. The demonstrators this week were members of the Mennonite Church and had travelled to Washington from Pennsylvania, Virginia and other states. Although Mehnonites are opposed to war and opposed to bearing arms, they are loyal to the government. Some of the workers were young and some were older, some had beards and some were clean shaven.

When asked why they were there and working one elderly gentleman replied "Love." Migration's Appeal Britons are thinking more about emigrating from their homeland but doing less about it. That is the only conclusion to be drawn from a poll showing 54 per cent of the citizens under 35 years of age would like to leave Britain, but a declining number are doing so each Even 40 per cent of the older generation would like to leave for greener pastures. Canada, the United States, Australia and South Africa are given as preferences by those who would consider emigration. Yet, emigration to those countries is decreasing, and even the "brain drain" of a few years ago has declined. Slightly more than 4,000 Britons emigrated to the United States last year, down sharply from the more than 29,000 who made the switch in 1964.

Perhaps those other pastures no longer look as green to Britons as they once did, but that doesn't stop them from grousing more about conditions at home. Poor Precedent An old argument used in recruitment of upper echelon government careerists is that special inducements are needed because pay scales are not comparable to those in private industry. It is a specious argument, difficult to refute and more difficult to prove. To begin with, no direct comparison is possible between private enterprise and government employment. The goals and purposes of each activity are too dissimilar.

Where one is concerned with efficient management to produce a profit, the other, obviously; in not. The argument is being revived again in Washington. The Nixon Administration reportedly is giving a favorable hearing to a plan to provide civil service in the top grades exemption from federal income taxes for at least part of their salaries. Under consideration is a plan to give the top three grades a $8,000 exemption, scaled down to $1,500 for those paid $20,000 or more. Such a plan would be a poor precedent, and once established undoubtedly would spread wide and far.

If avoidance of income taxes is the best inducement Washington can think of to attract top-level career employes, let's hear no more talk about attracting QUAttty personnel to government service. JACK ANDERSON Quiets Colonel 9 WASHINGTON Deep in its bureaucracy, the Air Force has silenced another "Billy Mitchell" who dared to warn that microwave devices hurt servicemen's eyes. For speaking out on 'a subject that the Air Force wanted hushed up, he quickly lost his research job. The original Billy Mitchell was a tough Army Air Corps officer who was court-mar- tialed because he wouldn't stop telling his brassbound bosses that the U.S. needed to pay more attention to air power.

Col. Alvin Burner, an Air Force scientist and physician, is totally unlike the wasp- tongued Mitchell. So mild is Burner that he begged us not to print this story. But his friends have given us the-facts that the Air Force had hoped to hide: In 1968, Col. Burner, than head of radiobiology at the Aerospace Medical Division, came to the inescapable conclusion that certain microwave emissions can cause serious eye trouble sometimes years after exposure.

Burner already knew the chance he was taking. All three services expose hundreds of young servicemen daily to radar and other radiation waves. By exposing the ART BUCHWALD The danger, he could open the armed forces to hundreds of damage claims. But the injured eyes of the young GI-s haunted Burner. He decided to risk his career rather than stay silent.

In May, 1909, he presented a paper to the Fourth Annual Symposium of the International Microwave Power Institute in Alberta, Canada. Few high level -officers have ever laid their careers more sacrificially on the line. Burner wrote bluntly that, although radiation dangers have been suspected since 1890 and the military has been ''Increasingly aware" of the. hazard since 1955, the Air Force has done next to nothing about it. A major study was left un- funded by the Air Force, ha charged, even as the unpleasant evidence accumulated.

"The critical organ for mi- liver damage. He even took a swat at a sister service. "The Navy," he wrote, "has realized for a long time that carrier deck crewmen who are exposed to relatively high intensity microwave fields during their watch show hvperirritability, fatigue and lassitude." Burner recommended that the accepted levels of radiation set by the services be re-evaluated, which could mean discarding or changing millions of dollars worth of Finally, Burner wrote that exhaustive investigations were needed and that he "would like to investigate other such parameters as hematologic, endocrine and biochemical changes." Burner was never allowed to proceed. By August of 1969, he had been shifted from aerospace medicine to an ad- crowave damage appears to -ministrative -job ip Washing- be the crystalline lens of the ton. His new title sounded of he said.

"It is conceiv- eye able that a cataract may first become recognized several years after exposure Bruner added ominously that although the eye was the main area of danger, microwaves might also cause heart, nerve, brain, blood and WASHINGTON More than 3,500 people were rounded up in mass arrests Thursday evening and thrown into the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The demonstrators, wearing black ties, evening dresses, diamond necklaces and tiaras, had vowed to tie up Washington traffic around the Watergate Apartment Complex with their Cadillac and Lincoln Continental chauffeur-driven limousines. Police chief Jerry Wilson said that he had orders that anyone who participated in the demonstration, which had, been organized to get our symphony orchestra out of Constitution Hall, would be arrested. At about 10 o'clock, the first demonstrators started chanting 'We Want Culture 1 to which their leaders yelled 'When Do You Want and they shouted back A police captain with a bullhorn said, "Unless you keep your limousines moving you will all be arrested." But the demonstrators refused to heed the warning and traffic was blocked up as far as the State Department.

At the signal from the captain, the police immediately moved in and started making mass arrests. Because of the large number of the po? lice decided to detain all the people at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The demonstrators had been prepared for this and most of them went peacefully, but once inside the detention center they couldn't believe the condition! that they had to put up with. People were jammed in tight in the, halls and ante rooms. As each new group of was brought in, it became obvious, that the Kennedy Center did not have the, (seUities te At 11 o'clock there was no gin left and by 11:30 all the scotch had been drunk and some of the people started to cry.

The only food was a cold buffet and strawberries, and champagne, which had been hastily brought in by the Red Cross for the emergency. The American Civil Liberties Union protested vigorously that the demonstrators were being detained under cruel and unlivable conditions and demanded that the people being held in the center either be charged or let go. But police said the demonstrators knew what they were getting into when they came out that night and they felt no obligation to process them with any speed. "Most of the people in there," said a police sergeant are troublemakers. They came from all over the country and if they want to tie up the traffic in Washington, they're getting what they deserve." But reporters discovered inside the center that many innocent people had been rounded up in mass arrests.

Although Chief Wilson denied it, the strategy behind the arrests was to keep the demonstrators there until 3 o'clock in the morning so that traffic would be running smoothly again. The police chief act $100 bond for every person over 35 and $40 for those under. The organizers of the demonstration vowed they wouldn't be intimidated and promised to come back in September to tie up traffic again when Kennedy Center was officially opened. A spot poll the neit day revealed that most of the people who lived in Washington believed that the demon- stratori who wound up in the Kennedy Center Thursday night had only themselves to grand: chief of the medical division for the Air Force reserve. But thfe effect was to stifle the investigation and silence Burner.

Meanwhile, his findings of two years ago are now accepted almost as writ. Burner's boss as the time of his trials was Maj. Gen. Charles Roadman, also a doctor, now retired from the Air Force. "There was no connection at all," between Burner's microwave work and his transfer, Roadman told us.

"It was just time (for him) to go to Washington, nothing more." The Enviromental Protection. Agency of ten protects the polluters rather than the Conservationist Livingston Parmele tried to enlist the agency in his fight to end motorboat pollution of lakes and streams. After all, the EPA's own studies show outboards spew up to 30 per cent of their fuel into the water. But EPA's Associate General Counsel, Robert Zener, wrote Parmele that the Federal Water Pollution Control Act exempts "discharges of oil from properly functioning vessel engines. That, Parmele told us acidly, is exactly the point: no engine throwing off 30 per cent of its fuel can possibly be deemed "properly functioning." John Saxman, a dedicated air traffic controller, warned the Federal Aviation Administration 16 months ago of dangerous radar conditions over lower Virginia and upper North Carolina.

The FAA did nothing, and six persons were killed last year, in a crash caused by 'the very conditions Saxman had warned against. After we told the story, the FAA fired Saxman allegedly because he was a 'leader" of the air traffic controllers' "sick in" for better working The charge that Saxman was a leader was transparent nonsense; he wasn't even an officer of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization. The FAA refused, however, to reverse itself, even in the face of inquiries from Sen. Edward Kennedy, Mass, and from House Commerce Chairman Harley Staggers, D-W, Va. Now, however, a hearing examiner 'has ruled favorably on Saxman's appeal and the FAA haa agreed to let him have hit Job back.

Here and There Plmto Graduate Ralph Htttchinson, son at Mr. and Mrs. Ralph M. Hutchinson, 868 Elizabeth Drive, was one of the 21 graduates from Ihe University of Piano this year. Mr.

Hutchinson was awarded a degree in business administration. The University of Piano is a small, liberal arts college located at Piano, 20 miles north of Dallas. Rates Blue Key Tom Losh, son of Mr. end Mrs. Richard Losh, 6605 Irv- In Road, Mason, and a senior at the University of Tennessee, at Chattanooga, has been named to Blue Key at tjhe university.

The Blue Key is a national recognition society for men. The announcement was made at the university's recent honors day program. AB, Vietnam, for duty in a unit of the Pacific Air Forces, 'headquarters for air operations in Southeast Asia, the Far East and Pacific area. The airman graduated this year from Garfield High School. Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

Feather) Next Stop Vietnam Airman Robert M. Schmitt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond P. Schmitt, 51 Michael Hamilton, has graduated at the technical training course for U.

S. Air Force radio operators. Airman Sohmitt was trained to operate radio receivers and transmitters. He is being assigned to Bien Thuy KEVIN P. PHILLIPS Producer's Role Sylvia Schmitt, daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Edward C. Schmitt, 552 Eivin is producing a musical version of "The Wizard of Oz." It will be presented Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in Finkelman Auditorium on the Middletown Miami Campus. Miss Schmitt is graduate of Hamilton Taft High School and Miami University.

In dition to her duties as music teacher at Poasttown Elementary School, she is organist and choir director at Hamilton's Immanuel Lutheran Church. "The Wizard of Oz" is being presented by 100 fourth graders from Poasttown School. All proceeds will go to the Unit of the American Cancer Society. Preble Art Show Calling all area art lovers. Sunday, June 6, is the date, ind the place is the lawn in Eaton, Ohio, when the Preble County Art Association presents its annual show of work done by menv bers.

the exhibits may be viewed from noon to dusk. In case of rain the show will be held inside the CourthousOt St. Olaf Grad Silley D. Rinal, daughtet of Mr. and Mrs.

Richard Rinal, 150 Ooralie was one of 578 graduates receiving degrees during commencement exercises held at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minn. you would lift tnf you must be on higher ground. (Emerson) Safety Thought Riiss Hicks, manager of the Hairilton Safety Council, "Look for more motorcycles is traffic now that summer here. Treat with tie same courtesy as other motorists.

Our highways aVe open to all share tie road!" Nixon And The Conservatives WASHINGTON How about California Gov. Ronald Reagan, the Prince Valiant of American conservatives, as National Co-Chairman of Citizens for the Re-election of President Nixon? This organization, you may remember, is the embryonic 1972 task force headquaratered just across from the White House. According to high Administration sources, the Reagan appointment is under discussion, presumably involving a number of quid pro quos, on welfare and the like. The idea is to convince Southern conservatives, as well as hopeful members of Young Americans for Freedom, that Gov. Reagan means it when he says that he is not available for a 1972 contest with Mr.

Nixon. Moreover, this is just one of the-measures under consideration to stem Nixon doubts amortg GOP conservatives and bolster the President's right flank for the 1972 election. Decisions are already being weighed to attack several Great Society programs in the fiscal 1973 budget, which must be proposed to Congress in January, 1972. One official has suggested that the Administration might submit, zero budget figures for a few programs, in effect requesting their discontinuance. The political logic of this is DAVID LAWRENCE simple enough.

By staking out a fight on several of the more dubious Democratic pro- igrains, the Administration can endear itself to conservatives without actual risk elsewhere. Mr. Nixon's problem with conservatives is reflected in the Administration's advice to liberals "to watch what we do and not what we say." To those in t.he right wing of the Republican Party this is a succinct statement of Administration policy: mere rhetoric for conservatives, actual programs for liberals. Many conservatives think that no amount of Ag- newistic bombast can up for liberal to radical orientation of schemes like the Administration's Family Assistance (Welfare) Plan. Heartfelt as these ideological complaints are, they are not likely to count for much by spring, 1972, when the Administration's conservative programs will be coming into play and the libaral Democratic enemy will be stirring on the horizon.

Furthermore, spring. 1972 should bring the President other credentials among conservatives. First of all, he is likely to be under attack in the Presidential primaries by leftish, super dove GOP Congressman Paul McCloskey of Califorrka. 'McCloskey has already sikned on workers, including aiformer Maine lege Republican Chairman for the Mirch, 1972 New Hampshire White House politics feel that McCloskey's wild attacks on Mr. Nixon as a domestic reactionary and international warmonger shoild rebuild the President's pisition with the right wing.

Furthermorel the President may pick up the "conservative" ballot hbel in a fevr states next ylar. Rockefeller's New York State organization is shifting right and is expicted to let local Republican 'vNixon) Presidential electors! also accept N. Y. Conservative Party endorsement. A similar question of local Conservative Party endorsements mar arise in Michigan and Massachusetts, where such partiej have been formed.

Perhaps the main point fa that GOP conservatives have no feasible alternative candidate to Mr. Niim. While California's Field poll putt the President and Maine Sen. Edmund Muskie leek and neck in that state, (Governor Reagan trails Musfc.e by 20 percentage points President Agnew tr staggering thirty-five nd Vice ils by a Too Little Knowledge Is Dangerous WASHINGTON Periodically there's an outburst in Congress about the FBI or CIA or their surveillance operations, or there are statements made by members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee or an appropriations committee to try to tell the executive branch of the government how to conduct foreign policy. But a knowledge of what is going on all around the world which could affect the interests of the "United States is something that cannot be acquired just by serving in Congress.

Just this week an example of a military problem involving maneuvers of the Soviets in the Atlantic about which the government agencise here have known for some time appeared in the newspapers. Up at the top of the globe is Iceland, a small island but an important military base of the North Atlantic Treaty ganization. About 3,700 American servicemen are at the base and they keep track of surface ships and submarines of the Soviets as they move in and out of the Atlantic. NATO officials estimate that the Soviets have increased their submarine activity in the North Atlantic by 400 per cent in the last four years. They have 960 submarines, 140 of which are assigned to the fleet that moves around in the northern waters.

Western sources, according to aft Associated Press by Fred Coleman from Iceland, declare that at any one time up to 60 per cent of the Soviet submarine forces are in the Atlantic. The Russians naturally have been endeavoring to influence the people and the government of Iceland to as te secure a doit down of the Nato Base. At least 11 diplomats and 50 more embassy employes are stationed in Iceland. This is the largest foreign mission in Iceland and is nearly half the size of the local police force. The Soviets have opened a propaganda office and are use of the opposition reported from the United States to the Vietnam war to stir up feelings against this coumfry in Iceland.

A communist party has been formed which it says is independent of Moscow. It claims 15 to 17 per cent of the voters in Iceland. Situations like these are developing in several of the NATO countries. The duty of the CIA is to keep the government in Washington informed about any activities that are designed to hurt American interests. Essentially, the withdrawal of half the American troops in NATO is a military problem.

It is surprising that members of Congress will come forth with resolutions on the subject without knowing the details of the whole defense situation faced by our allies in Europe and by our own country. Certainly the deployment of Soviet submarines with nuclear weapons in waters is a matter of great significance. The mere visit of a submarine tender st Cuba in recent months caused good deal of discussion, but apparently lots of submarines travel southward in the Atlantic. They will have to be detached from the base In Iceland as they pass that area going from Ruuia into the North Atlantic. are some members of Coogreis who want the Central Intelligence Agency's methods and assignments to be made public.

This would be Hke disclosing military plans. The attacks on the intelligence gathering agencies illustrates the lack of knowledge which many legislators have about some of the delicate problems of certain government agencies and the splendid work they have done not only side this country in catching criminals but in keeping the American Government informed about dangerous trends in every area-abroad in which we may be having serious trouble. Foreign policy can be debated and even subjected to resolutions by Congress vising in a broad sense ad- Iterance to specified principles. But to require the Secretary of State or the President to submit in advance to the foreign relations committee the plans and proposals he may have in mind or the viewpoints expressed by foreign does not fessure For a public discussion of very questions often prevents an i agreement from being reachfd between two governments. When there is an accord and it requires ratification, it will tub- tnitted to the It has of course, that BHTand the United Statei to reach an understanding on "mutual reduction" of military forces in Western ope and the Warsaw Pact countries.

But, while the intention is noble one, thetv is much to be accimplisa- ed first by way of betUr uft- between sides that any agreements a change in troep siranfUi seems a long way off..