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4 Golesburg Register-Mail, Galesburg, III. Aug. 25, 1972 at GOP Liberals Lose Bruce Biossat EDITORIAL Comment and Review Breaks for Nixon At this still very early stage of the campaign, Richard Nixon would appear to need another lucky break about as desperately as San Diego needed a national political convention. At home, Democrats have been falling all over each other scoring points for the man they are supposedly dedicated to removing from office. Abroad, capitals from Cairo to Moscow, Peking and just possibly Hanoi at times have been behaving as it they were in on the script.

And now, as a result of the delayed effect of his pwn economic lucky coincidence a combination of the two, forces are at work which could make the President the beneficiary of the first encouraging word from the world trade front since the traditionally comfortable American surplus evaporated in the Sixties. The good news is not In trade figures at hand. For the second quarter of 1972, the Commerce Department reported a $2 billion gap between what the United States sold to the rest of the world and what it bought. This, following a red-ink first quarter, points to an all-time record trade deficit for 1972. But the trend may not continue.

There are other factors not yet fully felt which should significantly and favorably affect it. These, are renewed economic growth at Gross National Product up 9.4 per cent in the second quarter of 1972, the greatest quarterly increase since 1965 a lower rate of inflation, 2.9 per cent, compared with major trading partners. In Western Europe, Canada and Japan, inflation is churning along at from 4 to more than 6 per cent. Eventually, the effects should make U.S. exports, prices already cut 12 per cent in last year's dollar devaluation, increasingly attractive in world markets, particularly in technological hard goods, the U.S.

strong suit. For the first time in almost a decade, the United States could be earning abroad something close to what it is spending. There is a slight cloud on this rosy horizon. It the healthier economy at home fuels demand for increased imports of foreign consumer goods, the export gain could be diminished or entirely offset. But it imports can be controlled and a significant narrowing of the huge trade deficit does develop, it certainly will be chalked up as a major plus for the President's new economic policy, whether a direct result of that policy or of longer- term natural factors.

In politics as elsewhere, it appears, them that has frequently go on gitling. How Important Is Chess? Imagine if Charles Lindbergh had de- going on at Reykjavik, Iceland, suggests manded that the prize money be doubled that either the popular idea of a hero before he would consent to attempt the has changed or winning the game is now first nonstop flight between New York and considered more important than how it is Paris, insisted (hat all clouds be removed played. from his flight path, asked in midcourse that half the money be deposited to his account in advance and afterwards had signed all kinds of promotional deals to cash in on his fame and buy all the things he never had as a Minnesota farm boy. No doubt some would have defended him on the grounds that his solo crossing of the Atlantic brought glory to tlie United States and prestige to the field of aviation. Fortunately for both the United States and aviation, Lindbergh did none of these things.

It is ridiculous, of course, to compare aviation and chess, or Charles Lindbergh and Bobby Fischer. But what has been Fischer's antics have been excused on tlio grounds lliat he is the greatest chess genius of ail time and that while you may not like him personally, the 'mportant tiling is the tremendous boost he has given the image of chess. Maybe so. A lot of geniuses have been hard to get along with, for instance, was secretive. Wagner was a deadbeat.

Gauguin deserted his family. But there we go again, comuaring a che-ss player with men who have really contributed to the advancement of art and science. Chess players just aren't tliat important. $olons on the Go Speaking of spending abroad. Congress 1971 a record year for foreign travel.

Members of both houses and staff spent $1,114,386 in public funds on trips abroad. From The Past For The Present We looked for peace, but no good peace came, for a time of healing, but behold, 8 :15. 4 People must understand that we cannot have peace without strength, we cannot have strength without unity and we cannot have peace without Lewis W. Walt. according to a Congressional Quarterly study of congressional travel, up from the previous year.

More than half the membcohip of representatives and 53 some time during tiie year was abroad on official business. Neither budget deficits, bu at home nor an approaching election vear, it appears, can stay a dedicated legislator from his self-appointed foreign MIAMI BEACH The Republicans' moderates and liberals haven't mounted a really good iiitra-party fight for 20 years. So there was no reason their convention floor battle this time over 1976 delegate allocation should have been more than bloodless Bloirat thing It was. They never had a chance. The last time they wen something big was 1952, when Dwight D.

Eisenhower took the nomination from Robert A. Taft. Since then, the GOP'? eastern-based liberal establishment has lost its grip on the party in presidential years. The Midwest, South and West rose to Republican presidential dominance with Barry Gold- Avater 's nomination in 1964, stayed in charge with the choice of President in 1968. and is still in control.

KEEMNO THAT CONTROL is, in the Judgment of some GOP analysts, what th? delegate allocation fight was all about. In other words, it fs seen here as a sectional struggle, not a big state-small state thing. The middle west southwest elements fear a resurgence of the long dominant east. In the 2-to-l vote by which the more conservative sections swamped the liberals in this convention, the latter's votes came mostly from Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Vermont in the east. Only atypical Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsm and Oregon chipped in much from other sectors.

At issue, of course, was a proposition to tie future delegate allocation much more closely than now to a state's party voting strength. This naturally would give proportionately greater delegate numbers to the populous eastern bloc. The final rival compromise, which triumphed 910 to 434 in the convention, did increase total delegate numbers substantially tor 197S and made some gestures toward linkage with voting strength. But it consciously and deliberately overstated the strength of the less populous states which comprise the core of the presently dominant sections. Contrary to many published reports, the conservative forces did not do this on the presumption that Richard Nixon in 1972 will win the election by doing well in their statos and not in the Eastern tier.

The published theory is that the adopted compromise thus would enhance rather than dimmish their current hold on the party. MY PARTY SOURCES say the situation is almost the other way around. The dominant eon- servatives are lonktns for a big Nixon sweep in which he woiild take the big eastern states along with most others, Thev do not expect a sectional victory. It was this fear that was decisive in this battle. The conser- vatives felt that it eastern states triumphant in 1972 tor Mr.

Nts- on got 1978 delegate proportionate to such that the flood gates would bly be opened'tar wider next time. They have no idea whatTfiir- .1, thersphanges might be made in 1976, but they dread the un- known. They 'see that year as 5 crucial to GOP chance? of becoming once again the nation's majority party. They don't want the time to arrive only tO discover that they have fallen into an ungovernable situation, with control slipping back to ers just as party power begins to be an enduring prize. Newspaper Enterprise Assn.

Adrenal Over Cerebral Dr. Max Rafferty am young, and new at forming my own opinions. I found the Democrat convention confusing, but I managed to form an opinion a 0 0 it: It was a ridiculous waste of somebody's money and my time. "How in the name of reason can these people support the abolition of cap- ital punishment and then turn right around and support abortion? Why are they so emotionally concerned about the well- being of a hardened criminal who may have taken human life, and then support the legalization of murdering untold thousands of innocent babies?" Miss C. Monroe, La phenomena you scribe, and many more of similar nature, are not confined to Democrats.

They are widespread among the young, and can be summed up in one "in" word: "relevance." It's the "in" thing to oppose helping other nations resist brutal invasion, to abolish capital punishment, to legalize abortion and to legitimize pot-smoking. Only "squares" resist this "wave of the future," so they must be shoved aside, or if necessary done in. The members of the "now" generation who dominated the recent Democrat convention have an apparently irresistible urge to "relate" only to their own kind. Never mind elementary logic. Forget reason.

React emotionally to everything. Assume that anyone who challenges you is a racist honky, a soulless lackey of the capitalistic Establish- Good Samaritans Alive, Well And Quietly Doing Good Deeds By REV, DAVID POLING But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was; and when he saw him, he had compassions, and went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine; and then set kim on his own beast and brought him to an inn, and took care of 10 :33 In the parable of the Good Samaritan, Jesus illustrated the meaning Df love as expressed in a spontaneous act of charity; assistance and care For a stranger in trouble. Jesus also lifted up a despised nation, Samaria, to his haughty friends and critics. Eternal life, in this teaching, is linked with love of God and love of neighbor. Sometimes that neigh bor is a person in big trouble or distress, unknown and friendless.

The one who responds with aid and assistance has all the marks of the Good Samaritan, praised by Christ in scripture. Recently, St. Joseph's Hospital in Albuquerque, N. instituted a Good Samaritan Award. The leadership of the hospital was impressed with the compassion and moral sensitivity of certain staff members, as well as individuals in the community who had extended themselves in crises.

This fall, during the celebration of its 70th anniversary, St. Joseph's will honor the fallowing with a Good Samaritan Award, a concept that might well be copied in other cities: Michael Chavez, a garage mechanic, witnes.sed an automobile accident in which the car carrying a grandmother, mother and baby plunged into an irrigation canal. He jumped into the water, forced the car doors open, pulled out a gasping infant and then, after placing the child on the bank of the ditch, relumed and saved the mother and grandmother. Marilyn Oyhus, a nurse on the staff of St. Joseph's, was driving through the mountain section of 1-40 and came upon an overturned station wagon.

She called for an ambulance and, while waiting, gave first aid to the family. Ellen Murphy, emergency room nurse, cared for a carload of children and adults that were brought to the hospital following a highway accident. The cuts and bruises were cared for, but the family of 11 from the Midwest had no place to stay that evening, so Ellen Murphy took them all into her home after work. Marshall Smith, a maintenance employe in a local business concern worked evenings and weekends in order to gain overtime pay which would enable him to pay for the funeral of an indigent neighbor. "I just felt he should have a decent burial," was his comment on the situation.

Good Samaritan Awards may seem corny to some readers. Yet in a world so saturated with professional selfishness and callous indifference, it is a pleasure to salute those who care and have shown it in spontaneous acts of mercy. (Newspaper Enterprise Assn.) Mount the highest point in Massachusetts. Office MO South Prairie Street Galesburg. lUlnols, 614U1 TELEPHONE NUMBER neglster-MaU Exchange 343-7181 Entered as Second Claw Matter at the Post Office at Galeaburg, Illinois.

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L. St. Louis, Mo. sure right about the 16th and 17th Centuries being smelly ones. However, let me defend my comments about the nonbalhing habits of our medieval ancestors by making these points; castles were drafty, open-windowed invitations to Anybndv who dared to strip down to the buff and pour water over himsell was an automatic candidate for extreme unction, at least between October and May.

throve in all its horror during that period, and it is a skin disorder which is spread by uncloanlinets. Black Duath virtually depopulated Europe in the 13th and 14th Centuries, communl- i cated entirely by fleas. When humanity started to take regular baths again, after the lapse of a thousand years, bubonic plague ceased to be an international scourge' 'became what it is today: just one of many diseases. I rest my case. Now for a hot shower.

(Dr. Rafferty welcomes question for use in this column once each week, but regrets lie xan- not answer air mail personally. Please send your questions" to him in care of this paper.) (Copyright 1972, Los Angelas Times) The Almanac Bv United Press International Today Friday, Aug. 25, the 238th day of 1972 with 128 to follow. The moon is between its.

full phase and last quarter. The morning stars are Mercury, Venus and Saturn. The evening stars are Mars and Jupiter. Those, born-on under the sign of Virgo. Pianist-conductor Bernstein was born Aug! 25, 1918.

On this day in history: In 1718, the city of. New Orieans was founded. In 1921, the United States signed a peace treaty with Germany, officially ending Worid War I. In 1944, American troops liberated Paris in World War II. In 1950, President Harry Truman seized the nation's railroads to prevent a general strike.

On this day in 1971, bandleader Ted Lewis died at- the age of 81, A thought for the day: Fifth American President James Monroe said, "National honor is national property of the highest value." Crossword Puzzle Aiiiwir Is rrtv'ievi Reioxation ACROSS 1 Sport SFroUo 8 Pleasure 12 Islands (Fr.) 13 French girl's name 14 The gums (anat.) 15 Gibbons 16 Traps 18 Cylindrical 20 Mouthlike opening (anat.) 21 Foolish 23 Kind of test 24 Wool source 28 Building 29 Common contraction 30 Overly proper person 32 Before (prefix) 35EMt(Fr.) 36Downr producing STDiwncumber 38 French river 41Aadotheri (Utin) 44 Backless seat iellow (Scot.) 48 Very decorated. 51 Entertaining 55 Eskimo kniie 56 Antitoxins 57 Founder oi Stoicism 58 Compass point 59 Historical periods SOSuperlatrye DOWK 1 Like gold 2 Wings (Latin) 3 Happiest 4 Jewish ascetic 5 Dress feathers 6 Masculine nickname 7 Reply (ab.) 8 Japanese coins 9 Rage 10 Moslem scholars 11 Of the nose IT Greek fraternity 19 Telegraph key (ab.) 22 Avoids 24 Female saint (ab.) 25 Belonging to him 27 Poem 28 Intense fear 31 Tin Tin 32 Opposite oi oblates 33 Gradually slower (music ab.) 34 Editors (ab.) 38 Spanish jug electrically 41 Unbleached linens 42 Chinese weights 43 Debate 45 Roman outer garments 47 Otherwise 43Tempora(7 shelter 50 Greek love god 52 Noun suffix 53 Former government (ib.) r- i li i4 16 ij II ii It JT sr ta 4i 51 56 9.