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A Face in the Crowd Pajre Four Wednesday. July 12. 1972 THE DAILY TIMES Published by Tbomson-Brush-Moore Newspapers Lie, at Times Square S. Division and Upton Salisbury, Maryland Hope For Consumer Some day in the future, after your present refrigerator has worn out, you may find yourself going to a store not to buy a new refrigerator but to buy "10 years worth of home food refrigeration." Through purchasing a particular function for a certain length of time, instead of buying the product itself, both the consumer and the manufacturer may profit in the long run. However, such policy alternatives cannot be sensibly chosen until the basic data are gathered, according to a Massachusetts lnsti-tue of Technology research team.

To help supply answers, the MIT team is launching a two year study aimed at improving the servicing, reliability and maintenance of consumer durables: refrigerators, washers, driers, TV sets, power mowers, that do so much of our society's work when they work. The study is funded through 1974 by a National Science Foundation grant. Principal investigator is Dr. J. Herbert Holloman, a former secretary of commerce.

"The service sector of the economy has re England And Crime "It is high time that society stopped running away from the problems of crime and wrongdoing and began to tackle them intelligently and courageously," declares a top law enforcement official. "The surest and the quickest way to reduce crime and to achieve a more humane and enlightened penal system is to increase the likelihood that the guilty will be convicted." Those are the sentiments, and could be words, of any number of lawmen from the Justice Department down to local prosecuting attorneys during these recent years of soaring crime rates in the United States. They are, how ever, the words of Commissioner Robert Mark of Britain's Scotland Yard supporting proposals for major revision of criminal law procedures. After an eight year study of the state of ritish justice, a parliamentary committee is proposing changes designed to correct an imbalance which, in the concerned view of law enforcers, has been weighted too heavily in favor of the lawbreaker. SOUND VERY familiar? Not too surprisingly, considering the com By JIM NELSON Times News Editor Mention "Barnyard Golf" to any oldtimer and his face will light up with recollection of a happy pasttime of his youth.

However, the ancient and honorable game of yesteryear is not dead. Once confined to the backyards and barnyards, horseshoe courts are now found in countless playgrounds and recreation areas in the United States, including the City Park in Salisbury. A recent article released by the National Geographic Society in its news bulletin estimated that from five to nine million players will shoot for "ringers" this summer. And, that's a lot of horseshoe pitching. Not only is the art of horseshoe pitching alive and well in the 20th century, there is a World Horseshoe Tournament.

This year's event is scheduled July 29 to Aug. 8 in Greenville, Ohio. The tournament is expected to draw 500 top "pitchers" and thousands of spectators men women and children, ranging from 8 to 86, will compete. THE NATIONAL Horseshoe Pitchers' Assn. of America, the sponsor of the event, claims 5,000 members from every state in the nation and seven Canadian provinces.

It is tough competition, too. NHPA's secretary treasurer Robert G. Pence estimates that, including warm up throws, the leading pitchers can toss as many as 500 shoes a night. That breaks down to more than 1,000 pounds with the pitchers walking four to five miles. To gain a chance at the title, a shooter must get ringers on more than 80 per cent of the throws.

That figures to be" a little better than the average backyard pitcher. The legendary Ted Allen once pitched 72 consecutive ringers in tournament play. The "irons" used in tournament play look nothing like the shoes worn by Old Dobbin. The shoes are specialized, and, anyone showing up at the Ohio tournament with an actual horseshoe would probably be laughed out of the place. Most pitchers use steel shoes weighing about 2'-t pounds and measuring not more than seven inches long.

The opening between the calks, or tips, at the heel must not exceed 3'i inches. Horseshoe pitching has been a favorite game since Roman times when Legionaries spread the game to England. It challenged auoits in popularity. The English settlers brought both games to the New World, but horseshoes edged out quoits. There was a disgruntled English general who supposedly commented that the American War of Independence was "won on the village greens by pitchers of horseshoe hardware." Horseshoe stakes sprouted outside a.most every blacksmith shop in the colonies, THE PIONEERS TOOK the game west, using discarded wagon spokes as targets.

This happened, perhaps, during lulls of Indian attacks, or sheer boredom. The sport continued to be popular in rural America as the nation developed. Years ago, and to some extent, even today, no family outing, holiday celebration, or county fair was termed a success without the clanking sound of shoes ringing against a stake. The first organized horseshoe pitching group on record was formed in Meadville, Pa in 1892. But by the turn of the century, play in clubs and organized competition was most common in Kansas and Missouri.

Former President Harry S. Truman never forgot his state's traditional sport. He set up the first and only horseshoe court on the White House lawn. There is something satisfying about the clean, ringing sound of a steel shoe spinning around the metal stake and then dropping to the earth for a ringer. Try it, you'll like it.

A New Record Hal Holloway, 20, a Texas Tech student, has given us another reason to believe that this college generation is the hope of the future. He set a new world record by taking a show-er for 169 hours. This beat the old record by an hour. Right down the drain, if you will. The new champion says he didn't even come out of his shower for meals.

And he slept on an air mattress in the shower. We thought for sure it would be a water bed. But enough of details. The feat is the thing. This is a persistent, durable and apparently shrink proof generation.

And most of us over 20 old timers long ago gave up asking who used all the hot (N Observer ceived little attention and study as it relalcs to over all productivity," he notes. "Yet what figures we do have indicate it is an important part of the economy as a whole. "For example in 19ti9 the Department of Commerce estimated that there were more than 70 million service calls on some 235 million major appliances in about 60 million households." The life cycle of a product has three basic stages: design, production, manufacture and sale; use and maintenance; disposal and waste. Some statistics are available for each of these stages, but there are no data that interrelate the total life cycle of the products, thus offering an accurate idea of their true social cost. THE AIM of the MIT study, according to Hollomon, is to provide the basis for exploring in the future reducing severce costs in terms of a product's entire life cycle.

Caught in the crunch of rising prices, today's consumer is most concerned about the reliability of the products for which he spends his hard earned money. mon origins of the two systems and the increasing homogeneity of the western world in general, Britain has been wrestling with many of the same moral and legal dilemmas as has the United States. This is the Britain of the popularity pictured law abiding population, low crime rate, judicial system combining efficiency with scrupulous respect for individual rights and the unarmed bobby who is everyone's best friend. Not entirely so, it appears. Crime and exploitation of the law's omissions and ambi-quities have been escalating.

And, in fact, rebuffing the bobby's somewhat tarnished public image is a major goal of the reform proposals. The major recommendations include modifying requirements that police warn suspects against statements that may be used against them, limiting a suspect's right to remain silent, admission of hearsay evidence and permitting testimony of wives against husbands. The proposals are strongly opposed by British civil liberty organizations, again similar to the American experience. Parliament, however, is expected eventually to enact a modified revision measure. NOVAK chops in fiendish anticipation of crushing an opponent's ego.

Maybe at some future time there will enough fans around to sunoort ehpss in be the fashion to which Fischer would like to be ac customed. But right now there are not. And no exploiting capitalist is getting rich on Fischer's talent. This make it doubly unfortunate that London investment banker James D. Slat pr saw fit to add $125'000 t0 worW championship puise.

ror riscner inreats to quit the match bordered on extortion and his bluff should have been called. This would have been painful for Iceland whose costly preparations for the match Fischer held hostage. But it would have put Fischer, a fatuous, graceless man, in his proper place, that of someone who happens to be a genius at a trivial pastime. NOW, THOUGH, we have the confrontation. Fischer has at times tried to make his match with defending world champion Boris Spassky a Cold War kind of crusade, good old American versus godless Russian communist.

But he was not so dedicated to the crusade that he was willing to wage it for a mere $100,000. He was not so proud that he would not apologize to the Russians to save the match and his money. And he was not smart enough to realize that if he had just quietly won the championship, he would have earned the respect and, probably, the financial rewards he demanded so prematurely. Go. Boris.

"Today what they say you have an ear for music they mean one that won't rupture easily." "The cop wrote in his report that mother had a three door car. The man she hit has a one door car." The Fischer Gambit Justice By BRUCE WASHINGTON Americans today, more "democratized" than those who went before them, haven't yet got it clean that "justice" and "equality" do not flow automatically from widening freedoms. Free men do not by definition act justly toward one another. If they did, there would bp very little need for any law at all. Author Irving Kristol, again in that new book of his, "On the Democratic Idea in America" suggests that justice is a lot harder to come by than freedom, slow as that may have been in arriving for lots of Americans and others.

He quotes the conservative Friederich von Hayek as reinforcing this view, with the latter writer indicating that we pretty much know what freedom is, but have no generally accepted knowledge of what justice is. A simple example. One of the most entrancing social notions, which we hear over and over through the decades, is that people in a good, well balanced society ought to be "rewarded according to merit." Fine, fine. But who decides what "merit" is, for millions upon millions of peoople? Obviously, such decisions could be made by persons or groups holding power power not only to decide, but to enforce decision by some means. But if such a course produced "justice," it would be a consequence of authority, not freedom in the strict sense.

THE HISTORIAN of civilizations, Will Dur-ant, makes the further argument that freedom and equality do not go hand in hand. Quite the reverse, he says in his book, "The Lessons of "Leave men free and their natural inequalities will multiply almost geometrically These men are taking the long view, but what they are saying has vital meaning right now. The conflict their comment highlights OK In By RAY WASHINGTON Despite published reports to the contrary, internally at least, Leonid Brezhnev seems to be running against no important opposition on the strategic arms limitation agreements negotiated with President Nixon. From all that can be gathered in information reaching the U. S.

government to date, within the U. S. S. R. the agreements are popular in the highest echelons of the party, government and military, where the power lies.

Kremlinologists this reporter has talked to say that while there was a great deal of hard bargaining during the negotiations, once agreement was reached the Soviet establishment seemed to be convinced that the arrangements were very good indeed. There is, apparently, a great deal of confusion at the lower party levels, primarily, it is believed here, because this is the first time the public and the lower party bureaucracy had heard the details on strategic arms and the problems at issue. Men who watch Soviet newspapers carefully say the press stresses repeatedly and endlessly that these agreements are good, that they represent the party line and that everyone must back them as though the papers were attempting to convince people who were not at all clear on what the agreements are all about or who might have some nagging doubts after ail these years of hate the U. S. propaganda.

But the work of explanation seems to be progressing smoothly. NOT SO AT points in the international Communist world. Strong complains are already in from Red groups in Italy, the Netherlands, Burma, New Zealand, North Korea, Australia, By RALPH We have seen over the past few days the creation of something new in chess, the Fischer gambit. This is where you threaten to hold vour breath until you turn blue and or pick up your chess board and go home unless vou can have your own way. A true inspiration to the youth of America, Bobby Fischer has shown us that these tactics wur in mis greea-smuaged real world.

Fischer's performance, the the world chess championship match in Iceland should not have surprised us. He has, after all, never said he was sensitive, poised, considerate, modest, generous, admirable or in-tellpigent. He has said only (though many, many times) that he is the best chess plaver arouna, urooKlyn, the United States, world and, presumably, the universe. Let the us assume mat he is right. The next question is, so what? Fischer seems to be operating under the be lief that because we pay our athletes and en tamers outrageously large sums of money should do the same for chess players.

we FROM HIS point of view this is reasonable, of course. But from everybody else's it is super-arrogant nonsense. That we are foolish enough to sanction paying Tom Seaver $125,000 a year to throw baseballs is no justification for our being foolish enough to sanction paying Bobby Fischer $200,000 for shoving a bunch of toys around for a month. Freedom BIOSSAT is baffling some earnest Americans active in the public arena this very season. As the more than 3.000 delegates to the Demacratic national convention gather at Miami Beach they will hear their party indulge in much self congratulation for having reformed itself and "opened up" its presidential nominating processes.

That means, clearly, making them freer, to allow more people of more and more kinds to take part. Yet there is a hard question to be asked: Are these many different categories of Americans present at the convention because the processes are now freer? The candid answer is: Only in part. MANY OF THE women, young, blacks, Chicanos, Indians and others whose presence there is regarded as a "just" result of the process are in fact there because they were hand picked. The outcome was simply dictated by party reform rules specifically established to provide participation for these people in rough proportion to their "presence" in the population of that area. There was absolutely no way for "freedom" to guarantee that.

A vote of the people, which we are persuaded is the surest gauge of freedom, could very well produce a delegation entirely composed of women, or of white men aged 30 to 50, Again, men acting freely do not represent proofs that justice and equality will be done. To make any decisions taht even approach attaintment of these goals, we need authority at work. If there are reasonably proper numbers of women, young, blacks, at the Democratic convention, authority not freedom saw that it was so. Moscow CROMLEY Peru, Guatemala and North Vietnam. Castro was especially loud in Warsaw and in Bucharest in eastern Europe.

In parties and factions mentioned above, the Soviet Union is accused of betraying the Communist cause in its own interests. The strength of the opposition shows up clearly in the vehemence of Moscow's defensive arguments which claim in essence, as one U.S. government Soviet analyst put it, "What's good for the Soviet Union is good for World Communism." But Brezhnev is finding it difficult to sell that concept in some places in the Red world. The Soviet radio and Soviet officials and diplomats have been busy telling Castro and other Communists worldwide that the Nixon visit and the arms agreements do not represent a retreat that wars of national liberation will continue to be supported heavily by the Soviet Union and that the fight for a Commu-nist worldwide victory will continue. THERE IS RATHER convincing evidence the spotty furor is being sparked primarily by Peking and by pro Mao Communist parties Westernllpj" The guessing here is, therefore, that Mao Tse tung and his people are using these arms agreements to weaken further Moscow's hold on international Communism and thereby set the stage for Chinese gains There is no evidence thus far, however on how successful the Chinese have' been in ief Si Tn aumng th0se mmunist par-fr! have bcen Mow or neu- nlil LUnmng battle betwcen Rsia and China over the past number of years the tortured recovery of Nigeria.

It is still beset with border problems caused by the European countries that played monopoly with A.nca in the ISDOs. It has all the worst human thG undcrdcvPi world, matunng African stales are facreaMnciv ahatkn.g thn.se problems as a groun than For one thing, there is the two-wrongs-don't-make-a-right theory. For another, there -pi is the fact that chess is not, either historically hOUGutS or intrinsically, an interesti SMALL TRY" diarlv jflMMMfg COAH "Sister has a fire needs now is a fire proof kitchen. All proof fool" she Berry's World "My major is roll. Scl.

How about you, sir?" IBS Such vicarious enjoyment as chess games provide comes from leisurely study of the move-by-move account, not from "watching Fischer knit his brow in thought or lick his Running Out New York Assemblyman Andrew Stein of Manhattan warns that the city is running out of taxpayers. In 1960, he says, the ratio of taxpayers employed by private enterprise to the number of welfare recipients was 9.7 to 1 Today there are only 2.6 taxpayers to each welfare recipient in New York Citv If that .6 taxpayer would carry load, though, things wouldn't be so his bad. full Information About THE DAILY SUNDAY TIMES WIccm'c0 ewi (weekly) In Ma. In Daily Timet rubliahed tvtn nk4it cPt Saturday, and The Li MEMiER'of Tht Anodited Pl. Th AncUU 4 Press is ermUed exclusive! to tr.e ue for dudu.

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