Journal and Courier from Lafayette, Indiana • 10

A 10 Journal and Courier Lafayette Indk Thursday August 24 1972 WHAT I YOUHAPAJoe nr "WK PAP? Journal and Courier IN OUR OPINION Lugars Speech Mayor Richard Lugar of Indianapo lis was not overly impressive Monday night when he delivered one of the three keynote addresses at the Republican na tional convention But one speech does not make a politi cal career and great things still can be expected from the smiling young two time chief executive of the 10th largest city Mayor Lugar had one big strike against him when he appeared before the delegates at the Miami Beach con vention he was far from being as well known nationally as Ronald Reagan who introduced him and as the other two key note speakers Applause did not come when he should have received it and this seemed to throw off his timing as his speech prog ressed But he did riot lose his confidence and his determination and he said noth ing that might hinder any political ambi tions he may have for the future His ready smile and his youthfulness must have impressed many of the observers in the convention hall and those watching him on television With Indianapolis and most Indiana residents Lugar is almost a household word but not so in the other 49 states His fame on the Hoosier political front has not yet extended sufficiently into the other 49 states to get him the attention that automatically focuses on Reagan and other top GOP leaders Generally Lugar is an accomplished speaker He has proven this in appear ances in Lafayette in Monticello and elsewhere throughout Hoosierland Shunning the use of notes he has deliv ered masterful orations on a variety of subjects He has demonstrated a ready wit tremendous intelligence and deep understanding of involved problems con fronting his city Indiana the nation and the world The world of politics is filled with dis appointments as well as successes and perhaps no better illustration of this can be mentioned than the apparent political demise of Richard Nixon after he failed in bids for the presidency and for gover nor of California The world still looks bright for Mayor Lugar and his many friends Incidentally it might have helped a little if Gov Rea gan had pronounced his name correctly He made it sound more like than the pronunciation we are accustomed to hearing Population Challenge The population of the Uriited States now stands close to 210 million give or take a few thousand or possibly a figure comparable to 109378 the 1970 nose count in Tippecanoe County Indiana It is impossible to quote a precisely accurate figure as of any given time but the educated guess of the Census Bureau is that the US population total reached 209291174 on last July 1 That represents a one year increase of 1713828 slightly less than one third of the entire popu lation of Indiana The increase comes in the face of con tinuing reports of the lower birth rate Immigration and greater longevity of our citizens contribute to the gain The one year increase of 1713828 is about equivalent to the population of West Virginia as listed in the 1970 census It is about twice the population of New Hampshire four times that of Vermont and five times that of Wyoming ifteen of the 50 states have ewer people than the one year rise in US pop ulation The gain is greater than the com bined total population of Alaska Nevada Wyoming and Vermont The obvious lesson from all of these comparisons is that the actual number of people in the US is rising substantially year after year even though the number of births per 1000 residents is going down 4 Yes the United States still has a popu lation problem There will be continuing demands for new homes and consumer goods and increased pressure on our re sources and institutions in the years and decades just ahead This definitely is not the time to look backward The future looms brightly as a challenge to business and industry and to each and every citizen of this great and growing land LAAYETTE JOURNAL AND COURIER EDITORIAL BOARD LOUIS A WEIL III Publisher MIKE MIDDLESWORTH PAUL JANES GEORGE LAMB ROBERT KRI EBEL Managing Editor Associate Editor Edltorld Page Editor City Editor William Buckley Jr GOP Has riend There' a Buckley ning the party charged $500 per person for the worst dinner ever served since the discovery of fire capped by a red wine perfectly suited to the meal Well we thought the GOP needs the mon ey and then there was an entertain merit nicely emceed by Art Linkletter who in troduced John Wayne as a hero who had won all the wars he had ever fought in Mrs Nixon came in escorted by Senator Dom inick and on the way to her table was greeted so amorously by one male guest whose features we could not distinguish that the question arose who could he be? I volunteered the suggestion that it must be Nixon But I was proved wrong it Was an old family friend Mrs Nixon then sat down comfortably at the table with Governor and Mrs Rockefeller but after all she has had very good training having only a few months ago sat between Chou En lai and Madame Mao Tse tung I WAS ABOUT to tell you of the residual Cool Intelligence Well the next morning I came across a distinguished and very affluent Republican who was morosely strolling the hotel corridor shaking his head ever so sadly What was wrong? He told' me that he had composed a special song for the Presidential campaign The gentleman is very well connected and had no trouble at all in secur ing an audition at which he told me it was instantly agreed to inaugurate at thegala banquet the night before What happened? Well he said unaccountably the master of ceremonies simply forgot to bring on the singer who was supposed to premiere the great political party notwithstanding the euphoria The circum campaign sing At this point he reached from a stances are these At the big gala on Sunday eve mimeograph pile he was carrying and delivered it to me 1 must share it with you EVENING Mr President I want to shake your handyou fought a left wing Con gress four long years to stop our landrom going socialistic in the phony welfare wayDe signed and planned by JK and then by LB You got us back upon the track but still much to doSo giving you a landslide vote November Before I had an opportunity to express my dismay at Mr failure to launch The Song I was shown a second song This one my friend said would make it unneces sary for Spiro Agnew to deliver an acceptance speech He would need only to sing: The Vice Song evening Spiro Agnew we are proud to have you hereYou talk the sort of language real Americans want to hearStraight from the shoulder no holds barred you beguile our youWith sugarcoated fairy tales you tell the honest truthWe want no handouts for sit ting on our tailsThis breeds a nation soft as dough instead of tdugh5 as time our voters of all ages got the wordThat no proud eagle but a soft permissive bird AS I SAY somebody up there still loves the I Republican party At this point the only weapon the Democrats have that could conceivably give them a victory in November is The Song and The Vice Song Call it their Watergate Caper MIAMI BEACH The general jubilation of' the Republicans has been very widely noticed and indeed the pollsters reveal that if the election were held tomorrow Richard Nixon would win very heavily The complacency has generated sense of caution and President Nixon has al luded to it as at all costs to be avoided In Miami it was pretty much a carnival and of course Democratic critics leaped to make a com parison between the Nix on convention and the McGovern convention They did not reach back for further precedents be cause indeed the Nixon convention resembles most closely the Roose velt conventions of yes teryear when Roosevelt ruled supreme though to be sure he took the precaution of checking things with Sidney xS BUT AS THE Republicans survey the scene they feel they cannot easily account for their blessings or the Democrats to nominate McGovern and for Wallace to withdraw from the race at one and the same time is simply top much So much too much as to cause them to lose their judgment? I have come across ah omen of what I consid er to be hard evidence that there is a little cool intelligence still at work within the Republican WlR will John Roche Willy Every so often a politician gets so clever or committed that in effect he sets a trap for his opponents and then steps into it The late John oster Dulles as secretary of state was a world titleholder in this art form: he would for in stance announce the of the Chinese Nationalists to appease the China lobby and then when the Taiwan re gime began to polish its rifles hastily releash Chiang This made every body angry confused or both President Nixon spon sored to borrow a term from the chessmasters gathered in Iceland a gambit in connection with the prisoners of war Ini tially he doubtless hoped Roche that by emphasizing the POW issue re fusal to adhere to the Geneva Convention etc he could mobilize world opinion against the North Vietnamese HOWEVER THE POW issue has rebounded to the absurd point where some Democrats are getting a serious hearing for the inherently pre posterous notion that the United States should de termine its policies in Southeast Asia on the basis of the fate of a few hundred American prisoners However the man who is currently in a real trap of his own contrivance is Chancellor Willy Brandt of West Germany Brandt staked his for tunes and those of the Social Democratic party on I the success of his that is his effort to normalize relations not only with the Soviet Union and Poland but with the East German Communist regime as well The Soviets cooperated and the end product was a series of agreements the most important of which was acceptance bf the finality of the post war boundary settlement between Germany and Poland sions the growth of East West trade and hope fully normalization of relations between the states in one the neat formula devised to pacify those in West Germany who felt that Brandt had abandoned the dream of reunifica tion Everybody it seemed cheered Even the so called led by the Bavarian Christian Democratic leader ranz Josef Strauss lapsed into silence Willy Brandt got the Nobel Peace Prize Then gradually it began to dawn on the West Germans particularly the Christian Democrats who need only a handful of seats to displace coalition that so far all the pay offs had gone the wrong way The Berlin Wall the minefields and barbed wire fences along the border with East Germany were still there None of the East European Com munist states had established diplomatic rela tions with Bonn And the Poles oddly enough radically cut back the number of ethnic Germans they were allowing to emigrate to the West NOW BOTH THE POLES and the East Ger mans have weighed in publicly against policies In essence their position is that which he saw as a goal in itself should considered only as West opening bid for respectability It was a useful beginning but there are a number of things that Brandt must do before he has earned the right to be taken seriously The Poles suggested that among other signs of good will he should expel all propa ganda (ie 'Radio Liberty Radio ree Europe) and anti Communist refugee organiza tions Also West German education should be brought up to date presumably by eliminating any nasty references to the Soviet Union and its satellites The East German propaganda chief Albert Norden (in an article which was sig nificantly reprinted in thoughtfully suggested that party the Social Demo crats needed a complete revamping before it could be trusted WITH ELECTIONS coming up this fall and the Christian Democrats in full cry Bandt is in without jeopardizing the Integrity of his party and his own honor In dealing with the Commu nists we may all have a lot to' learn from Bobby ischer! i Your Lawmakers: How They Voted Gannett Naw Service SENATE On a National Science Policy Act authorizing $1025 billion over three years for conversion of research and development programs from mili tary to civilian purposes which passed 70 8 and went to the House: or Bayh and Hartke HOUSE On a motion to override President veto of the $305 billion spending bill for the de partments of labor and of health education and welfare because it appropriated $18 billion more than he asked for which failed on a 203 171 vote (two third vote required): or Myers against Landgrebe not voting Hillis On a proposed amendment to the public works economic development bill which would have eliminated a provision providing com pensation to those who lose their jobs because of federal environmental orders which was de I featedon a record teller vote 161 201: or Land grebe and Myers not voting Hillis On subsequent passage of the bill authorizing $44 billion for public works and economic devel opment programs which was approved 285 92 and sent to the Senate: or Myers against Landgrebe not voting Hillis On an amendment to a school busing bill that establishes the neighborhood as appropriate for determining assignment of pupils to schools which passed on a record teller vote 254 131: or Landgrebe and Myers not voting Hill is On an amendment that would have added au thorization for spending $15 billion annually for educating disadvantaged children which was de feated on a record teller vote 129 252: Against Out of the Past THE PAY TO BRANDT for accepting the legitimacy of this border and for giving de facto recognition to the Communist German Democratic Republic was to be an easing of ten a comer' If he replies to the Communists as he should that is tell them to get lost the Christian Democrats will say told you On the other hand he cannot give anything else away 10 YEARS AGO TODAY (In the Lafayette Journal and Courier) The State Highway Commission said the state will place 32 lights on William Henry Harrison Bridge if Lafayette and West Lafayette pay for 44 more on the approaches to the structure Just who would pay for the electricity and mainte nance of the bridge lights was not disclosed Harrison Bridge has been without lights since it was opened to traffic in December 1960 50 YEARS TODAY (In the Lafayette Journal and Courier) Action was taken by the Lafayette school board on two matters of importance to the school teachers of Lafayette The board voted to dis continue the monthly institutes and to abandon the practice of paying salaries during periods of illness or several years past institutes have been held monthly on some Saturdays and teachers have received a full pay for at tending The teachers will now lose this money but it was pointed out that the action will save the school city about $8500 a year Heretofore it has been the custom when teach ers are absent from duties because of sickness either of the teacher or in the family or in case of the death in the family to pay the full salary The board decided that hereafter teachers shall not be paid if they are absent from their class rooms for any of these reasons and voted that a substitute must be employed at $4 per day I 100 YEARS AGO TODAY (In The La ayette Dally Journal) Indiana State University: The first tertn of the State University for this year will open for the Literary Department on the 17th day of Septem ber 1872 and for the Law Department on the 7th day of October 1872 A full corps of instructors in all the Depart ments Ladies and gentlemen admitted on equal terms Catalogues and further information will be furnished upon application to the Rev Cyrus Nutt DD President of the University Bloomington Indiana Your Men In Washington SENATE SEN VANCE HARTKE (D) 451 Old Senate Office Building Washington 20515 SEN BIRCH BAYH JR (D) 304 Old Senate Office Buildihg Washington 20515 HOUSE REP EARL LANDGRBE (R) 1238 Longworth House Office Building Washington 20515 (Representing 2nd District Including Tippecanoe Benton White Jasper Newton and Pulaski Counties in this area) RE8 ELWOOD HILUS (R) 1510 Longworth House Office Building Washington 20515 (Representing 5th District Including Cass Carroll Clinton and Boone Counties in this area) REP JOHN MYERS (R) 103 Cannon House Office Building Washington 20515 (Representing 7th District Including Warren' ountain and Montgomery Counties in this area) BI 'That's about the way it looks from here Walter Hillis Landgrebe and Myers On approving the five year agreement be tween the Soviet Union and the US oh a freeze of offensive missiles which passed 329 7: or Myers and Hillis against Landgrebe LETTERS 1 to the Editor Letters are selected for general interest and lack of duplication of points made in other letters Theymust be signed and of no more than 350 words They are subject to condensation or rejection and signatures will be published in all but the most unusual cases i Bombs Aren't Intended To Aid Prisoners I see that Earl Landgrebe has attacked Elea nor McGovern because she believes that our pris oners would be released aS a natural part of a peace settlement Not so says Landgrebe He points out that the Russians did not release most of the Nazi invaders captured during World War11 What does Mr Landgrebe have in mind? Does he mean that the Americans have behaved as badly in Vietnam as the Nazis did in Russia? I surely hope not Whatever Landgrebe has in mind our men have acted no worse than the rench the Vietnamese in Vietnam And the rench prison ers were released a few weeks after the Geneva peace settlement Not even Nixon denies that Evidently Nixon is not bombing to release the prisoners the prisoners are an excuse to contin ue the bomping Nixon goes on bombing in an effort to save government and his own face LIONEL JAE West Lafayette MT.