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Draves Stan Gores managing editor ditorial page editor Vol 46 No. 235 Thursday, July 6, 1972 520 Deaths on Highways; Who Cares ahout This Violence? 'r4tf1 I1T; lb have been taken by state, federal and even county governments. Stark, shocking and realistic warnings have been given by Safety Councils. More manpower has been added to traffic patrols. Law enforcement agencies have been beefed up to slow down the pavement slaughter.

But the killing continues at a record pace and still there is no public outcry, no demand for safer and slower cars, better roads, stricter law enforcement, stiff er penalties in the courts, longer sentences and better education and training for motorists of all ages. The pace of fatalities in a little over six months probably will mean more than 1,000 deaths from accidents in Wisconsin in all of 1972. It could be a shameful new record. Somehow, this violence on the highways must be curbed. Where is the hue and cry about "the daily violence on Wisconsin's highways and, in fact, some of the very roads which crisscross Fond du Lac County? Where is the public agony about dying in the most horrible way, deaths of the utmost waste? Automobile accidents in this state since Jan.

1 have taken 520 lives young and old; men and women; drivers and pedestrians as well; motorcyclists and tractor operators; innocent and guilty. Think of it: This is' twice the rate of battle casualties in the American Revolutionary War! But, death on the highway today is commonplace. It has been for many years. It is not even a Page 1 story most newspapers. It is an acceptable statistic to most of us who drive.

Many, many extra precautions 1972 by Tht Chicago Tibun Minnesota Story: Still Unfolding Continue Milwaukee Circus Parade It is presumptuous to request the man and the company which have poured between $5 million and $10 "gay political caucus" is now after Gov. Anedrson'a skin for his repudiation of the platform. Word is that the call for his defeat in 1974 is being echoed by some pro-McGovern young. The destructive impulse does not end there. Earl Craig, the black who beat Anderson'i choice for national committeeman, celebrated his victory by declaring that Democratic National Chairman Lawrence O'Brien is "oblivious to the social issues." Anderson and O'Brien likely will survive.

The governor is a hero for his assault on the platform. O'Brien has done more for the social issues in his long career than Craig coul4 do. in 150 years. But McGovern's peril is real. The grass roots canvassing that meant so much to his nomina tion fight could founder on the rock of hostility raised up by that June 10 convention, By BRUCE BIOSSAT WASHINGTON (NEA) The Democratic party's "Minnesota story" is just about the wildest chapter in 1972 politics and it is still unfolding.

In perhaps somewhat exaggerated forms, it represents vivdly the peril the party and its candidates face this year. Only days ago there was a party assemblage in a Minnesota state senatorial district wherein the television cameras captured repeated glimpses of young folk wearing T-shirts emblazoned on the front with a picture of a marijuana plant and on the back with the phrase "pro-pot." It was a follow-on from the now celebrated June 10 state convention of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party, at which avowed homosexuals paraded about in lavender T-shirts and their "sympathizers," mostly blacks and pro-George McGov- ern delegates, wore lavender armbands. That same convention, of course, adopted three stunning state platform planks immediate legalization of marijuana, total amnesty for all draft evad-ders, marriage among homosexuals. It said nothing about the economy and a whole host of major social issues. The consequences of that event have been devastating.

The platform lias been publicly repudiated by able, liberal Gov. Wendell Anderson, top state labor leaders, innumerable party regulars at all levels. Yet the damage to the parry's prospects in November, if not beyond, is considered to be enormous. Seasoned professionals are today downgrading previous high hopes of picking off a Republican-held congressional seat. McGovern, the party's presumed pesidential nominee and a neighbor from South Dakota, is be lieved to be in grave danger of losing Minnesota in the fall though it has been in the Democratic column since President Eisenhower's last Republican sweep in 1956.

Minnesota sources tell me that the June 10 platform is the continuing talk of the state. Party people going door to door are instantly asked whether they are for or against it. If they say "for," the door may be slammed on them. Sometimes they are asked: "Are you for those perverts?" Officials of the United Automobile Workers Union, not exactly a hidebound outfit, report that in major factories the workers are enraged at the platform. A gathering of Democratic lawyers in Minneapolis found many saying they were going to vote for President Nixon in the fall.

Not content with its June 10 handiwork, the lavender-shirted Days' barades that they continue this huge expenditure when the only return is the Dure joy of all who see it in fixture. It is a tradition of which all residents of this state can be proud even though their contributions are insignificant. It means so much to participants and spectators alike. It is too unique, too distinctive, too much of Americana revived to be dispatched. The decision, Uihlein said Wednesday, will be made early next year.

For the millions who have loved every minute, of past-parades, let us hope that the decision will be a favorable one for the 11th annual "Old Milwaukee Days" circus purade on July 4, 1973. It is just too good an event to lose. person or on TV. But, we urge Robert A. Uihlein Jr.

and the company of which he is president, the Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co. of to strongly consider staging still another marvelous circus parade in 1973. This gigantic festival of happiness already is a Milwaukee and Wisconsin Open Letter to Bohby Fischer Nixon Vows to Cut Spending is what you have wanted most. American chess players are confident of your eventual success.

But, why go into this important match with ugly grudges and distainful, sideplay? Enter this event like a sportsman. We would hold up to you the international sportsmanship of Sir Thomas Lipton of England who five times sailed against U.S. yachts for America's Cup and never won but always came back to try again. So, good luck, Bobby. We hope you win.

But, remember, that it's "how you played the game" which also counts. Dear Bob: Let's get on with the match against Champion Boris Spassky, Bob. Your dodging, money-grabbing ploys hurt the image of Bobby Fischer, self-proclaimed uncrowned chess champion of the world and certainly a rightful challenger. Your delays of the championship match in Iceland have damaged the game of chess and have done nothing for the world view of the U.S.A. and its representative.

We know you have trained and planned for years for this opportunity to meet the Russian master for the acknowledged world chess title. This What Ever Happened to Our Green Thumb? By VICTOR RIESEL WASHINGTON When, discreetly, I inquired of that small band of men with whom the President talks intimately and Consults with regularly in the crunch, what domestic affairs are most on Richard Nixon's mind now, the reply was: "The theme is in one of the songs your jazzman friend Lionel Hampton bleats out on the horn 'pork chops and bagels' the spiraliflg cost of food." The answer was flip but accurate. This was evident during an unreported, hour-and-a-half, closed-door conference in his Oval Room with his "Quadriad." Talking quietly with his four-man brain trust, the President decided on wiping out the meat import quotas. And if that didn't work, go for absolute price control and rationing if necessary. This session was the first in months, the first since John Connally left, the first since the President put his recent papers in order on foreign affairs.

This rap hour came shortly after the White House mailed letters of thanks to 16,000 local labor leaders. Never has this been done before. The President wanted to make certain they knew he appreciated their support on foreign policy. Thus Mr. Nixon was ready for home-front action.

What this would be would spring from what he heard from his quadriad: Treasury Secretary George Shultz; Prof. Herb Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers; Arthur Burns, chairman of the Federal Reserve System, and "Cap" Weinberger, director of the Office of Management and Budget. There was some talk about Burns' Latin American trip. The President listened to quiet, but what he thought was heartening, talk about the economy. The quadriad reported real wages are going up.

So are housing starts. So is employment 81.4 million civilian workers compared with 78.8 million last year. But prices too were rocketing. This worried Richard Nixon as President and as a political leader. This supermarket syndrome has gotten to him so he decided to wipe out the meat import quotas and the Cost of Living Council complex was so advised.

At the same time he told his brain trusters the budget had to be cut. Hard. The flow of spending bills pouring in from Congress would have to be dammed up by his desk. That's where the buck would stop going out. It was a quieter, less colorful "brain-drain" session than when Connally had sat in.

But there was a more noticeable change. Soft-spoken laissez-faire George Shultz was there. There's national global, to fact significance in his presence. The President had moved him to on top with -five jobs, four of which made him a governor of various international banks such as thf International Bank for Reconstruction an4 Development. Shultz dislikes controls.

He would like to junk the Pay Board-Price Commission operation as soon as possible. Shultz has told the President he believes this, country is doing well especially in the era of war wind-down. Even prices, for the most part, are behaving themselves. Workers everywhere now are getting more "real spendable earnings," he has said. The wages have risen by an actual 7 per cent.

Inflation is not eating away all the arithmetical pay increases. Toughest problem is meat. And just as President Nixon has maintained contact with AFL-CIO President George Meany on the foreign policy front, Shultz has been briefing the labor chief on domestic policy. It has not been reported, but the President did call Meany immediately after he (the President) finished his minlng-the-harbor speech. Shultz does this right after Important White House economic and budget decisions.

For the decision to slash government spending, while not as dramatic as seeding North Vietnamese harbors with mines, is one of the most significant developments here at home. Inflation can be mighty explosive. As that intimate of Mr. Nixon said: "Don't underestimate the importance of the high cost of pork chops and bagels." Labor Savers Pave Profit Path By RAY CROMLEY (NEA Columnist) WASHINGTON (NEA) -Studies indicate it is now becoming considerably more profitable than in the past to replace men with machines and equipment. And this trend favoring the machine is increasing.

The figures in fact indicate it is now approximately two times as profitable to replace men with equipment on the average as it was 25 years ago. In part, this is due to major technological advances in equipment. In part it is because (with the higher standard of living Americans have come to expect) hourly labor costs have gone up much more rapidly than prices of labor-saving devices. Charts presented by the Morgan Guaranty Survey seem to indicate in fact that hourly labor costs in recent years may have risen at more than twice the rate of equipment prices. of science and technology in Soviet industry, and a great deal more worried competively about the marked advances in friendly nations such as West Germany and Japan.

The expectation among some knowledgable economic analysts is that U.S. industry in "the years just ahead may step up considerably its investment in efficiency-increasing equipment perhaps concentrating more on efficient production rather than greater output. More rapid modernization of plant, of course, is long overdue. Some of our major competitors had their industries bombed out in World War II and have been modernizing with vigor ever aided by advanced U.S. technology, dollar aid, considerable American investment and their own Intensified industrial research.

Economically, in the past several years American researchers have grown far less worried about the Industrial application Governor's Proposal: Freeze Local Spending Budgets used for local tax relief, he feels. He is quite right in his conviction that otherwise the true purpose of the revenue pressure of the tens of thousands of state civil servants, armed with new tools devised with the governor's collaboration, is real and visible, as is the classically powerful influence of the state university system and sister spenders in the bulging state government budget directory. Uniform and enforced stabilization expenditures state and local may be desirable, as the governor appears to feel. But nobody with a reasonable exposure to the lesions of modern politics is likely to venture a wager pn its achievement may be discouraged from enlarging or even continuing it. But the issue is not quite that easy or manageable.

Risk of diverting federal dollars into new spending instead of balm for local taxpayers does not arise out of the profligacy of mayors and aldermen, county board chairmen and supervisors, but out of the brute pressures upon them. The governor will be reminded that such forces have been strengthened, to a degree not yet fully appreciated, by acts in which he participated. The civil service union movement has won more new idea of federal revenue sharing. The visitor ventured that the bulk of the windfall for the average municipal treasury would be staked out by the lobbying pressure of public employes for higher salaries and other benefits and by local administrators for programs that so far have been denied or deferred out of fear of the wrath of the property taxpayer. The governor nodded.

Mr. Lucey's problem Is not in his diagnosis, but in his ability to resolve the dilemma that he obviously regards as serious and immediate. The federal windfall must be weapons from the Lucey administration thus far than during any other regime. The teachers, the police, and the public employment categories as a whole are expertly aware of the new power and are quite prepared to exploit it. Does the governor intend, and will he be able to bring off, the same freeze on expenditures in the vast state establishment over which he presides? The wage budget of the Wausau fire department is a vague and distant issue from the perspective of the east wing suite in the state Capitol.

But the aggressively rising wisdom or popularity if the federal treasury does in fact and at long last disburse large amounts of money to the states and localitues in defiance of its own dubious financial condition. But success or justification of any such embargo plan by Madison upon the freedom of fiscal action of the localities will be far from assured or accepted for all of that. The governor was chatting with a casual caller in his office the other day when he asked the visitor what would happen to the windfall in local treasuries in the event of actual enactment of the long-discussed By JOHN WYNGAARD MADISON Gov. Lucey has said that he may ask the legislature in a special session to devise a mechanism to freeze local spending budgets, as a precaution against the temptation of local governments to enlarge their expenditure authorizations when the federal revenue sharing act is enacted by. the Congress.

The governor's political instinct is quite sound when he worries about the powerful temptation to enlarge local spending for a varietp of purposes of varying degrees of WYNGAARD sharing plan if it comes to pass will be frustrated and perverted and the Congress.