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Errori mart to at Mm. Wednesday Afternoon. July 19. 1972 Recycled Paper Used For Furniture Awhile back, we are told. Jack Klotz of Beverly Hills, made a plane trip with a roomful of furniture in his luggage.

This may sound magic- al or simply ridiculous, depending on one's frame of mind. The fact is that Klotz was demonstrating a point: the furniture his wife designs and his firm manufactures from recycled paper is light and eminently portable. We hold no brief for the Klotz furniture, but do find it. interesting for a couple of reasons. One is that by fashioning it of compacted waste paper, fortified in various ways, his firm is pointing the way to new uses for material that might otherwise simply be disposed of in an in- cinerator.

There is more to the matter than this, however. This furniture made of paper tubes and plastic joints is not only lightweight and cheap, but it can be assembled quickly without tools. It also can be disassembled without trouble and packed in narrow card- board carrying cases. The stuff is not going to displace traditional furniture, but it may fill a significant need in our mobile society. Henry J.

Taylor Iron Curtain Still Nemesis WEST BERLIN When you listen cross the Berlin Wall you seem to hear on the other side the sound that hearts make when they break in two. was here when the Communists put up this ghastly thing (Sunday, August 13, 196.1.) and closed in an East Berlin that Covers 153 square miles. The Wall itself evidences an indisput- able fact: Communism is not only a moral problem, it is a police problem. The Reds were forced to put it up because 12 million people had moved from behind the Iron Curtain since the end of World War II. Given a free oppor- tunity to leave still, the number would be astronomical.

The Iron Curtain is both an electri- fied fence and a frame of mind. This horrible fence with its death-dose of elec- tricity and mine fields not only bars the 7, satellite people from the West. As we "hardly seem to realize, it also separates the people inside each satellite state. It branches off between East Ger- many and Poland, Poland and Hungary. Hungary and Czechoslovakia, etc.

For example, along the hundreds of miles of the East German-Czech border, which Moscow calls ''a frontier of peace," and along which I traveled, only two points exist where entrance-exit is permitted. And with its twists and turns and vary- ing controls this fence runs--incredibly- all the way from East Germany to Hong Kong. More than 300.000 Russian troops are stationed in East Germany. About 42,500 ring Berlin. "Insulaner" (islander) is the West Berliners' name for themselves.

Fourteen immense Soviet airfields are in operation and exclude all East Germans. Actually, East Germany is not a satellite country. It is an occupied country. High Red Army officers and their staffs sit in elaborate headquarters at Karlshorst and their authority, reaches down throughout the grass roots of East Germany. The power is there, not in East Germany's so-called government, and Ihe occupying forces make no bones about this.

Moreover, certainly not realized by us at home, the Red Army officers and soldiers regard assignment to duty in East Germany as the most plush and sought-after assignment in the Soviet forces. Like Porgy, the East German people have "plenty of nothin'." Communist Party Secretary Erich Honecker recently called a rally in East. Berlin's a Werner Seelenbinder Hall. He unabashedly promised the East Ger- mans "1.001 little things" to raise their standard of living. He presented still another new Five Year Plan.

This one is to run through 1977. But when you cross over into East Berlin and talk with people its easy see why they greet Honecker's plan with a total "oh, yeah?" Disbelief is cumula- tive. There have been six Five Year Plans--all of them failures and not one of them finished. Iron-fisted Honecker admitted that the living standard is 20 per cent lower than in West Germany. But by Soviet Leader Leonid 1.

Brezhnev's own state- ment to the 24th Congress of the Commun- ist Party in Moscow, the standsrcl of living in East Germany is 20 per cent higher than in tlie Soviet Union itself. Compared to their own standard of living in the U.S.S.R., assignment to duty in East a is great for the Red soldiers--which is, of itself, a comment on the Soviet paradise. The closer you gel to Communist tyranny, as here, the harder it is to con- ceive how there can be rationalizers of it, and apologists for it, in the United States. It is a pity that more mistaken U.S. Intellectuals confused churchmen and talk- ing-writing-debating professors who always seem to come down on the soft side about Communist imperialism do not come here.

For every man has right to his own opinion, but no man has right to be wrong in his facts. Fulure Syndicate, Inc.) (O 1972, N. Y. Times News Strvict I A I BEACH. Fla.

On the morning after the full California delegation a restored to Sen. George S. McGovern. Assemblyman Willie L. Brown, the impressive young black who is one of its leaders, was praising the Californians for their cooperation and cohesive- ness in the floor fight the night before.

"I even got a note from John Tunney, who has a gallery pass," Brown said. That got a big laugh from the assembled blacks, chicanos, women and other political newcomers in Ihe California caucus; their junior United States Senator, an early Muskie supporter, had not even been able lo gel on Ihe conven- lion floor while his slale's repre- sentation was being settled. "He offered to do anything he could," Brown quickly added, slilling the laughter. "It was a nice gesture," Whereupon the California caucus gave Sen Tun- ney a nice round of applause in absentia. That is as good an example as any of the strangely mixed spirit of this convention old politics amid the new, profes- i a 1 operations bolstering idealism, a earnestness restraining youthful exuberance.

Perhaps it is the latter that has most impressed those who have attended the boisterous Demo- cratic conventions of recent years. Young and bearded though many of them may be, and however these imknown women and farm workers and college professors and students may be derided as amateurs, the delega- tions produced by the reform guidelines have stuck grimly to their business. Al 6:30 a.m. on Wednesday, when the inter- minable platform debate stag- gered to a close, Chairman Larry O'Brien estimated in something like wonderment that 95 per- cenl of the delegates Were still in their a whoever saw such a thing on a mere platform debate? Earlier in that session, as the discussion of Gov. George C.

Wallace's lengthy a amendments droned a a Tuesday night at prime-time television hours, the delegates Letters To Editor Conventions Dear Sir: In 1968 Chicago was cursed with the chance lo host the Democratic Convention, which turned into a blood bath be- cause of the hippie type anarch- ists who attacked the police with rocks, clubs and anything else thai could kill or After warding off the first waves of attack the policemen were then verbally attacked by the liberal politicians and ac- cused of police brutality. As a result of the 1968 con- vention, George McGovern, as chairman of a committee to write new rules, guidelines and quotas for delegate selection, awarded the anarchists, along with other left wing minorities, the chance to select him Iheir candidale for presidenl in 1972. While campaigning he attracted such groups as the gay libera- tion, which is a homosexual group, drafl dodgers, women's liberation and the protesters who burned the American flag while they waved the Viet Cong flag and shouted their Slogans of for the Viet Cong. Never once has McGovern spoken out against Ihis mob and their actions, but. has con- doned and even encouraged them in their demonstrations.

can't imagine a candidate for president of the United Stales of America who is so op- posed lo warfare 10,000 miles away with the communists, but has left unchallenged the war- fare in the streets of America against our police and against- the system that has made this the greatest country in the world. I can't imagine the pres- ident of the greatest and most powerful country in the world Setting down on his knees and begging the communists to re- lease our POW's, as McGovern has said he would do if neces- sary. This left wing coalition that he champions has written the Democratic platform that he is running on and he will ask the American people lo support that platform in November. The convention witnessed in 1972 looked more like an auction to hand our country over to the long haired anarchists of the 1968 convention. It is time for every patriotic, freedom loving American to stand up for America before it is too late.

C. M. WHARTON Williams Road Barbs Why do they put screens on all the windows, and then go on! on the patio and eal with the flics? What with false eyelashes and wigs, el cclcra. what we need is a truth-in-packaging law that applies to the gals. Some of us can recall when football was a fall sport.

Keeping a budget is about all thai one is good for these days. One sure cure for skyjacking is lo go back to i i the trains. not only stayed put and even seemed to pay attention, but when Yvonne Burke the "vice chair-person" who has been one of the stars of this convention finally began calling for voice votes, the new breed delegates sprang alertly into life and over- whelmed the Wallace men. Bui if its hard-working at- titude has distinguished this Democratic gathering from the boozy, blowhard, unruly sessions of years gone by, with their delays and confusions, there has been no lack of the political professionalism that Ihe old par- ty wheelhorses used to think belonged to them. Not since the Garner deal put F.D.R.

over the top in '32 has there been a smoother operation lhan the McGovern team's manipulation of the vote on the South Carolina seating dispute; and no so-called "pro" ever denied more blandly than the McGovern leaders that they had done any such thing, to the confusion of the television networks. And although the McGovern forces lost Ihe two thirds vote required for the passage of the McGovem-backed solution of the dispute on Mayor Richard J. Daley's, delegation, they adroitly put the Mayor and his sup- porters in Ihe position of having refused to compromise thus confounding the mythology that only Ihe old pros know how to give and take. The old politics is plainly in evidence, loo; ask the South Carolina women sacrificed by the McGovem forces, in the tense parliamentary maneuver- ing over delegate seating. And Sam Rayburn himself in the old days, never railroaded through a dubious vote more forcefully lhan Mrs.

Burke did, in refusing lo permit a roll call on the minority tax plank despite- an obviously inconclusive i vote. Moreover, the new politics has made no visible difference in the way McGovern has dangled Ihe Vice Presidency in front of various power blocs and per- sonalities. From the float of Leonard Woodcock's a before Ihe disgruntled labor bosses to the ethnic and religious hints (Senators Eaglelon or Muskie might hold the Catholic vole; Senator Ribicoff might placate Jews worried about the fate of Israel), the i presidential maneuvering has been distinctly deja vu and mostly smokescreen allhough Gov. Reubin Askew has been on every McGovern list since Ihe Florida primary. Thus, if Ihere is anything more striking here than the decorum and industry of the reform delegates, it is that the new political leaders around McGovern have shown them- selves tough, smart a political, as people who manage a Presidential nomination al- ways have to be, while the old pros, with few exceptions, have bumbled and fumbled into such so-called debacles as Muskie's forlorn last-minute proposal to end the delegate dispute in a smoke-filled room.

As for the barons of labor, ensconced in their suites at the Americana Hotel, they have shown themselves to be the only real spoilers in town. Unable by hook, crook or power play lo boss Iheir own men into no- mination.and long after Sen. Hubert 1-1. Humphrey and Mus- kie had bowed out with relative grace, they still were mumbling a a recriminations around their frayed cigars elephants on the way to the boneyard, determined to take their party with them. JVews Quote do not believe it tight for one group to impose its vision of morality on an entire society.

Neither is it just or practical for Ihe slate lo attempt to diclale the inner-most personal beliefs and conduct of its citizens. --New York Gov. Nelson Rocke- feller, vetoing a bill Ihat would have repealed the state's per- missive abortion law. Sylvia Porter Many Will Need Mental Care About 20,000,000 persons in the U.S. will at some time develop a form of mental or emotional disorder requiring psychiatric care, according to the National Assn.

for Mental Health al- most one out of every 10 of us. On any given day of the year, nearly 500,000 of these are in state, county and private mental hospitals. Each year, the American public spends an estimated $4 billion On the treatment and pre- vention of mental illness; our economy loses another 17 billion because of the decreased productivity of the mentally ill. Overall, this has become a billion problem in the U.S. alone.

And the problem goes beyond For it has also been estimated thai there are more than 1,000 patienls for every available psychialrist and that, of all who need psychiatric care, only 10 to 20 per cent ever get it. Here a-re the answers to four of the most basic money ques- tions you might ask about psychiatric care. HOW DO YOU GO ABOUT FINDING A PSYCHIATRIST? First, if you believe you need such help, consult your primary personal physician. He knows what kind of person you are and which psychiatrist might be of most benefit to He prob- ably also will know if any par. ticular psychiatrist is regarded with any suspicion by any of his own medical colleagues.

Or you might turn to the local mental health association or the state mental health authority for the names of qualified psychia- trists in' your neighborhood. HOW MUCH TIME AND MO- NEY IS INVOLVED IN TREAT- MENT? Or. Lawrence Lamb Surgery Best Bet For Hernia Bepair Dear Dr. Lamb--I have a her- nia problem. Actually I had a double operation in 1945.

One side held but the olher didn't. I was operated on again in 1962 and it didp't hold either. In fact the stitches let go shortly after I was oul of Ihe hospital. The doctor lold me I was allergic lo calgul so I decided to leave the hernia as il was and jusl wear a belt. In 1967 I had a prostate operation and I was found to be a i diabetic.

The doctor told me to watch my diet, bul since I was a hard Worker I didn't bother much and as a result I had a heart attack in 1969. Now I have no choice but to watch my diet. After the heart attack I was told thai 1 should have the her- nia repaired, but to wait one year. I a let it go but I'm now at the retirement age. I would like to have this hernia operated on since I'm tired of wearing a belt and just can't see myself walking around Ihe resl of my life with Ihis sac hanging down, plus Ihe fact that it does hurl at times.

On the other hand, I am afraid. If I do have the operation, is there any way to have it reinforced so it would hold? Is there any danger because of my heart con- dition? How do I go about find- ing a specialist in this field? The bureau is not of much help. Dear Reader--Unless a com- plete medical examination pro- ves that you have some underly- ing serious medical problem, I am all for you having your her- nia i-epaired. The truth, is that they can cause trouble, and the older you get the more difficult it will be for you to have surgery. So you're really not gaining much at this point.

Since you've had surgery before, you already know that the operation isn't that difficult. It's reailly minor surgery (at least for everyone except the patient). The real problem is being sure that you do get a successful repair, and you've already had. some difficulties along those lines. Many people who have had heart attacks and have had a reasonable recovery have ac- tually undergone major surgery without any real difficulty.

Of course, your surgeon would like to know about your attack be- cause it -may have influence on what type of anes- thetic he might choose. Your best way to find a competent surgeon who performs these types of operations is to ask your family doctor to refer you to the nearest i i medical center. This would in- sure you that your operation would be at least supervised by top-notch specialists in the field. I would think that your family doctor could arrange this refer- ral for you. (Newspaper Enterprise Asm.) Do you have questions about iffipo- lencev Jf so, you'll want to read Dr.

Lamb's booklet in which be questions about this nubject. Send SO cents to Dr. Lamb, in care of this newspaper, T.O. Box 1551. Badio City Station, New York.

N.Y. 10019. Ask for "Impotence" booklet. How much you can expect to pay and how long your 'treat- ment will last will depend on your condition and the treat- ment chosen for you. The.

most typical charge for psychiatrist's time today, ac- cording to the A i a Psychiatric Hospital and Community Psychiatry Service, is about $35 an hour. The fee for your initial psychiatric consultation would depend on the time involved and might be slightly more than the hourly 'therapy charge. The typical number of ses- sions in psychoanalysis ranges from 300 to 500 although this depends on the patient and the progress. The span for you ob- viously could vary considerably from these totals. (These are typical a average charges as reported by national associations.

Your own situation will depend, again, on your own circumstances, loca- tion and problems.) WILL HEALTH INSURANCE HANDLE ANY PART OF THE COSTS? The daily costs of psychiatric hospitalization are roughly Com- parable to hospitalization for any other reason. In the past, insurers have tended to shy away from cov- erage for nervous and menial conditions because of the high total cost involved. However, most major medical plans today will pay 75 to 80 per cent of the cost of treatment for such conditions while the patient is confined to the hospital. Many plans will pay reduced amounts for treatment as an out-patient. And this is a benefit that is being written into an increasing number of group policies.

IS IT POSSIBLE TO SHOP FOR THESE SERVICES? Yes, it is possible to shop for psychiatric services. Start by checking the Depart- ment of ifealth to see what gui- dance you can get on your par- ticular problem. A health officer will be able to refer you to services available through the department or private agencies and also will be able to help you find the names of psychia- trists in private practice. Check with your local religious leaders and other community leaders to see what free services might be open lo you. Don'l overlook such govern- ment programs as the Veterans Administration which conducts a large-scale national program of medical care and tion services.

Look in the telephone direc- tories to see how wide a range 1 of ilow-cost psychiatric servic.es might be available at great money-saving value to you. Of course, ask your friends for help and find out if your own company has any sources of assistance. And by all means, discuss the psychiatrist's fees with him or her at the very start to see what adjustments might made, (Field Enterprises, Inc.) be Looking Backward im IT.NEA, he. "Why, yes, Frd.Jt is a special night for us. having sttaks tor dinner!" 25 YEARS AGO July 19, 1947 Saturday NEW ARRIVAL--Rev.

Alban Hammell, OFM pastor of Alphonsus a i Church, Wheeling, will be the new pas- tor of SS. Peter and Paul Church. CENTENNIAL--First Baptist Church will observe cen- tennial beginning tomorrow. ARRESTED-Police are hold- ing a 20-year-old youth for the second time this month, this time in connection with the theft of a truck. Earlier he had been arrested on four motor vehicle violations.

50 TEARS AGO July 19, 1922 Wednesday NOT INCLUDED--Coal mines of the Upper Potomac and Georges Creek regions will not be affected by an edict of Pres- ident Warren G. Harding order- ing an end to strikes at union coal mines. IN WRECK-Carl Wolford, 23, and Stanley G. Daniels, 22, were critically injured in an automobile accident near the Stone Hou.se on the National Pike near Grantsvillc. Both men are from Cumberland.

SOLD Michael Conies has sold his interest in the Cumber- land Dairy Lunch Room to his partner, Nicholas Yanudakcs. Mr. Contcs, who was in the business nine years, will tem- porarily retire. Virginia Payette Bobby Shows Amateurism Making all due allowance for genius and temperament and tournament jitters, the plain fact remains that Bobby Fischer is a more likely candidate for a trip to the woodshed than the world's chess title. He may be, as he claims, the greatest chess player alive.

(Although, after the amateurish way he blew the first game, there could be some doubt about that.) But nobody would argue that in a contest for the world's biggest spoiled brat he'd win i a minute. Whether he continues with his match against Russia's Boris Spassky or forfeits it in a huff, Fischer's track record of greed and rudeness adds up to a sorry display of sportsmanship. What he needs, judging by one paren- tal itching palm, is a good spanking. He is, after all, the challenger who sought the match in the first place. And the International Chess Federation has bent over backward for months to meet his "changing demands about money, loca- tion and time.

So much for that mini-cliffhanger. Embarrassed Fischer fans sighed with relief when he finally made it to Iceland reassured each other that now he would settle down and behave himself. He didn't. For openers, he insulted the people of Reykjavik by refusing to attend a welcoming folk festival. They overlooked the slur, but the Soviet Union decided Fischer's tactics had been insult- ing to Spassky.

They forced him to apologize, in writing. From there on, things went from bad to ludicrous. In an unprecedented display of nit- picking silliness, Fischer pouted that the lighting in the hall hurt his eyes, the drapes weren't thick enough, the TV cameras bothered him, the table was too long, the squares en the marble chess board too big, the chessmen too small, and his chair wasn't comfortable. (Spassky didn't like the size of the board, either.) So they shortened the table, hunted up an obliging tombstone maker to carve a new board at the last minute (with squares a fourth of an inch smaller), relined the draperies and flew in a special swivel-based leather chair from New York. At long last, Fischer consented to sit down and put his genius to work.

Even then, he was seven minutes late for the first game. And he stalked off in a snit for half an hour over a "noisy" TV camera. But the real shocker that day came when he lost. With a blunder any chess beginner would have avoided. Spectators gasped.

Spassky blinked, and one Fischer fan called it "a rare miscalculation by a genius." Whatever it was, he lost the second game, too. With his consistent brand of sportsmanship, he refused to show up. And there was talk he was threatening to walk away from the entire 24-game match. Big deal. Maybe, since the chess world seems to be terrified of the bad-tempered Bobby, Henry Kissinger ought to taka him in hand.

After all, things were get- ting pretty calm with Moscow for a while there, and Iceland used lo be our friend. And somebody owes Spassky a vodka on the house. (United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) Don Maclean Dollar Not Worth Much WASHINGTON I like the way they had that big international money confer- ence here at the Smithsonian Institution. I mean, I knew the dollar was going out of style, but I didn't know it was already a museum piece. Why, it.

seems like only last week there were dozens of dollar bills circulat- ing in Washington. (In fact, it WAS last week!) I knew a man who had three. Then, suddenly, they were all gone. Tens, twenties, sure, but dollars? It reminds me of the joke about man in Miami who asks a hotel bellboy for change of a dollar. The bellboy says, "Mister, in Miami a dollar IS change!" In the old days, people used to wrap fish in yesterday's newspapers.

Now they wrap fish in dollars and save their papers for the junkman. Dollars have become curiosity items, suitable for framing. Things are so had, a friend of mine opened a store last month and framed the first dollar he took in. And he framed the last dollar he took in. Some dollar, of course.

So much of our money has become passe. Yesterday I went down to the Smithsonian to look at the money ex- hibits and there, alongside the Roman coins, the Continentals, the Massachusetts half-pennies, were nickels, dimes, quarters and dollars. I remember when a quarter was a tip. Then a dollar became a tip. The last time I gave a waiter a dollar he used it to wipe the grease off my knife.

(That was embarrassing for both of us-- especially because I hadn't used the knife.) But back to the Smithsonian and the special exhibit. The sign above the nick- els says, "These are nickels and they are what this country once needed a good cigar for." In the dollar display case they have a regular, full-size dollar, represent- ing what it was worth in 1947. Next it, for comparison; there's a smaller dol- lar showing what it is worth now. It can be seen under a powerful microscope. I was looking through the microscope, at the 1972 dollar and I saw some tiny things swimmipg around.

I said to a museum curator, "What are those, bac- teria?" He said, "No, those are taxpayers still holding on." Talk about devaluation, I saw some- thing in supermarket for only a dollar and it was advertised as "Virtually a Free Offer!" Any precious metal is worth more than a dollar. This morning I changed a 50-cent piece and got two quarters and eight dollars for it. You have no idea how bad it is in my neighborhood. This afternoon, some- body stole the church poorbox. Just the box.

He left the money because it was all dollars. Feature Syndicate, Inc.) ft).