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Art Bucliwald EDITORIALS Education Makes Difference Convention Scenario A Face In The Crowd WASHINGTON Everyone has his own scenario for this week's Democratic National Convention. The way things have been going with the party, one scenario has as much validity as the next. This to attract the college-bound, the military must offer either more in the way of educational alternatives or more assistance to individuals to pursue education on their own. An all-volunteer force concentrating entirely on the pay incentive, they believe, "might tend to attract those slightly lower in ability and aspirations than the men presently serving." The use of an educational inventive, on the other hand, would rrot only have advantages for the military but "would have almost entirely positive by-products throughout the civilian society." They propose an approach which involves both an enlarged GI bill and the use of savings from military pay, made possible by the recent pay increases in the armed services. Under the plan, a young man could serve four years and receive up to $16,000 to cover tuition and living expenses during four years of college.

Alternatively, he could (after formally enlisting) take his four years of paid education first and then serve four years of active duty. As for the fear that an all-volunteer Army might make it easier for the nation to become involved in more "Vietnams," the authors note that as the Vietnam war went on, it became a more and more negative factor in enlistment decisions a disincentive. They consider it more likely that the supply of volunteers would be threatened by other military involvements resembling the one in Vietnam and cautiously suggest that "it thus seems at least a possibility that reliance on an all-volunteer force would actually tend to discourage large-scale military adventures in the future." APART FROM DOUBTS about the wisdom of phasing out the draft and creating a "professional" "Army, the question most frequently asked is, how do you go about establishing an all-volunteer service? The answer most frequently heard is to increase the pay. Other incentives to attract enlistees are mentioned, such as better living conditions and better career opportunities within the Army, but most of the talk is about better pay. A recent study by the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research ISR) indicates that another incentive may have greater appeal than money to young men pondering military service the guarantee of four years of paid schooling in return for four years of service.

"Perhaps most important are the differences in the kinds of young men attracted by the two incentives," say Jerome Johnson and Jerald Bachman. the study's directors. The report that when higher pay as an incentive was contrasted with paid schooling, 'those attracted by paid schooling averaged higher in intelligence, verbal skills, occupational ambitions and self-esteem." The IRS study is part of a larger "Youth in Transition" research effort begun in 1966, which has been investigating young men's attitudes, plans and behaviors particularly those related to educational and occupational choices. According to the latest survey data, college-bound high school graduates "are not strongly motivated by immediate monetary needs in the way that the job-bound are Of greater interest to the college-bound are those aspects of self-development which are associated with advanced education and the opportunities it opens up for the individual." Johnson and Bachman thus conclude that The state delegations caucused right on the floor, trying to get people to change their minds. But it was impossible.

On NBC, John Chancellor and David Brinkley became short-tempered and refused to talk to each other. Howard K. Smith and Harry Reasoner on ABC were also not tpeaking to each other, and on CBS, Walter Cronkite wasn't talking to himself. It was obvious to everyone in and out of the convention hall that a compromise candidate had to be found one who had not already been nominated. But who? The Democratic Party leaders call a recess behind the podium.

They argue and thrash it out for several hours. The only man whose name is proposed as the compromise candidate is a very famous, but controversial, figure on the American scene. He has announced many times that he is not a candidate for the Presidency or the vice presidency, and has said under no conditions would he accept a draft. Y'et, the leaders argue he is the one person who can save the party. This young man, whose name had been associated with a very embarrassing incident, is a household word now.

Because of the deadlock at the convention, he is the only one who can possibly beat Nixon in November. The compromise candidate is not at the convention. He has purposely stayed away so people would believe he was not interested in the nomination. O'Brien puts in a call to him. Everyone, In turn, gets on the phone and tells him he has to be the candidate.

The compromise speaks to George McGovern, Humphrey, Muskie and Wallace. They urge him to run. The candidate finally agrees to a draft and says he will take the next plane to Miami. And that's how Bobby Fischer, the U. S.

chess champion, became the Democratic presidential nominee for 1972. College Simply Not For Everyone KUDOES TO Mrs. Ruth Garrett for her open letter on the boys in Vietnam. too, pray for her son and all the others who are serving America. One More Mother IN WARNING THAT colleges and universities must become "more provident," the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education suggests that one way to cut costs is to encourage "reluctant attenders" to quit.

That is sound advice for more than economic reasons. Somewhere between 5 and 15 per cent of all students in college, the commission estimates, are there not because they really want to be but because they have been persuaded that it is the thing to do. Some of these students lack the motivation to make a success of higher education. And others, let us face it, lack the intellectual capacity. So what purpose is served in putting pressure of various kinds on them to stay in college? The poorly motivated student may in time find himself and take full advantage of the opportunities college offers.

But until and unless he does, he is wasting his own time and, worst, that of faculty members and In Washington Red Snags May Help U.S. is the one that I have written and if it comes true, remember, you read it here. It is the fourth day of the convention and the Democrats have been unable to decide on a presidential candidate. The fight to seat delegations has BUCHWALD taken up three days and those people who were ruled ineligible have refused to give up their seats to those who were officially designated as delegates to the convention. Almost every state delegation has two people sitting in every chair.

No one dares leave the floor for fear that someone will grab his seat. When someone tries to speak he is hooted down by the opposition faction. Larry O'Brien, the chaiirman of the party, has the podium ringed, with the National Guard so no one can grab the microphone. The nomination speeches have not been heard, but the candidates have been nominated McGovern, Humphrey, Wallace, Jackson and Muskie. There have been no demonstrations for the candidates in the hall because everyone is afraid it he gets up and marches they won't let him back in his section again.

On the first ballot McGovern picked up 1,234 votes, well shy of the 1,509 he needed. The rest were split between the other candidates with the uncommitted refusing to vote for anyone. The secondary and third ballot found no one budging. By the tenth ballot of Wednesday's all-night session, the convention was hopelessly deadlocked. INSIDE LABOR Precedent NEW YORK Unwatched, practically unreported, and unfortunately unheralded these politically chaotic days is an unprecedented offensive launched against this area's powerful hard-hat establishment by United States Attorney for the massive Southern District, Whitney North Seymour, Jr.

Beefing up his already-overworked staff with volunteer legal "parapro-fessionals," "Mike" Seymour has gone into the federal courts to pry open, "union by union," the local RIESEL building and construction trades and force them to admit black and other minority workers so they, too, can earn $200 to $300 a week. If Seymour succeeds, he'll set a precedent for action in virtually all metropolitan areas across the land. "This action," says the tall, prematurely white-haired Justice Department official, "is a carefully planned union-by-union approach to the problem. We are continuing to investigate on this basis (use of the Civil Rights Law Title VII VR) so when we are through every significant construction union will have been gone over, forced into court and opened to minority workers." Mike Seymour has already had some key unions in court, others are scheduled for trial in September and later this fall, others are on appeal and one is under the scrutiny of a court-appointed "Special Master" as well as an "Administrator." In all there are some 200,000 unionized construction workers under his jurisdiction. Seymour is fighting for high stakes and at a moment when most of the unions based here and in many upstate and Long Island counties some of the nation's heaviest building areas are striking some $2 billion worth of construction.

This is a solid gold strike now. It's back to the old days of demands for increases of $120 to $150 a man, per week, over a three-year contract. Some of the unions which have token black membership get upwards of $8 to $10 an hour before overtime. And their members take home as much as $20,000 a year, rain or shine. Thus local construction union leaders, defying their national chiefs' advice, are smashing at the national Pay Board and the Cost of Living Council with their demands for twice and thrice the national wage increase standards which the rest of the nation's workers must observe.

Seymour dryly points out that among the seven local unions he selected for Federal court action on a civil basis is Local 580, Iron Workers. This local has two non-whites among its 1,400 members. And Local 40, whose leader is Ray Corbett, president of the AFL-CIO State Federation, is 3.2 per cent black, 1.3 per cent Puerto Rican and 5.4 per cent American Indian, according to Seymour's records. Some Iron Workers locals now are asking for a 48 per cent-a-year pay hike in their new contract. Therefore hath the Lord recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands In his eyesight.

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Pltu limit to 6e word) MERRY-GO-ROUND Was Judge MIAMI BEACH The Appeals Court Judge who ruled in favor of George McGovern in the Democratic credentials fight sold his former home to McGovern for a reported $85,000. Judge David Bazelon cast the deciding vote in a dramatic, 2-to-l reversal of the lower court. The presidential nomination, itself, was at stake. For Bazelon's ruling gave McGovern all of California's 271 delegates, whom he needed to win a first ballot victory. Anderson Friends of the two men say the house sale was a routine real estate transaction.

Judge Bazelon also has an impeccable reputation. But even the slightest appearance of conflict has been enough for judges to disqualify themselves. After selling his home in the late 1960s, Judge Bazelon moved into an apartment in the fashionable Watergate West. A near neighbor and close friend, Senator Abraham Ribicoff, is one of McGovern's staunchest supporters. For years, Bazelon's angry antagonist on the Appeals Court was Warren Burger, now Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

The two jurists became bitter enemies, who often disagreed in open court and bad mouthed one another in private. After Bazelon's ruling in favor of McGovern, the Chief Justice didn't even wait to be asked before he started to consider the Democratic credentials case. Even before the Democratic National Committee appealed the ruling, Burger sent to the Appeals Court for the papers in the case. Those who know Burger say he would have enjoyed nothing more than overruling his old rival Bazelon. This may have been the reason he was in such a hurry to review the case.

Yippie Deal The madcap Yippie leader Abbie Hoffman has promised the Democrats to limit his followers in Miami to 4,000 this week. But BERRY'S WORLD at the Bv RAY CROMLEY WASHINGTON (NEA)-President Nixon's aides count on the unfortunate results of Leonid Brezhnev's latest economic experiments to push the Soviet Union into greater accommodation with the United States these next five years. If these current boggles become increasingly serious, and Nixon's expects predict they will, Brezhnev's economic problems could be a strong force for an effective follow-on agreement covering all major strategic arms and hopefully calling for cutbacks as well as ceilings. Brezhnev's immediate problems began as the result of a decision he made about two years ago, in part to solidify his position as first secretary through increasing party control over the economy and in part to remedy the growing productivity problems that plague Soviet industry, agriculture and mining. The Communist party has always been supreme in overall economic direction-setting quotas, prices and priorities.

This has been bad enough for economic efficiency. Brezhnev has gone a step further, given the party committees in each local factory strong direct say in day-to-day operations. IN YEARS GONE BY others. So are the students who just aren't up to college academically. And both groups, the experience of recent years has shown, are apt to be the source of much of the unrest and trouble on campuses.

The draft undoubtedly has contributed to the roll of "reluctant attenders," and its demise or an end to the exemption for college students will automatically ease the problem. It won't be eliminated, however, until Americans abandon the notions that everybody should go to college and those who don't are doomed to second-class citizens both socially and economically. Making a college education available to all young people who are equipped for it remains a desirable national goal. Similarly, however, it should be recognized that not everyone is so equipped and that no stigma should be attached to those who can find happiness and success in careers calling for less academic preparation. The word now coming out of the Soviet Union is that this shift is not working well.

Factory managers complain their authority is being undermined. They strenuously object to party interference in the selection of foremen, superintendents and department heads, in work assignments and in training methods. Party workers in each plant find themselves required to police their superiors on technical matters outside their competence. Party interference, even when it succeeds in forcing an inefficient manager to resign or to change his methods, has had unsettling effects among the workers. Professional relationships have been destroyed.

Production is suffering. Each side blames the other. Despite all this, local party committees are reported working on ways to intensify their supervision. Nixon's economic analysts see a basic unsolvable conflict here. They are certain that these difficulties will deepen and that increasing party interference in the details of local factory production will lead to greater inefficiencies, regardless of what brilliant technological breakthroughs Soviet scientists achieve.

THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO A delegation from the Putnam Improvement Association attended City Council's meeting to demand a new fire station and adequate motor equipment. An old time fire truck in use for 25 years had suffered a serious break down George Gershwin, noted composer, was reported near death of a brain tumor Fishers along the Muskingum River reported they were "skeeter bait" for the many mosquitos bred along its corner sewers, and open cesspools Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt was to show Zanesville Business and Professional Women through the White House during their stay at the national meeting. FIFTY YEARS AGO Lawrence Wise of Melrose avenue and Warren Black of West Main street were preparing to make a motor trip through every state in the union in the Studebaker roadster owned by Wise Ernest B.

Graham of Dresden, passed the state bar examination after receiving a law degree at Ohio Northern University at Ada Allen Super, 14-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Judson C. Super of the Colonial apartments fell from a third story window of his home but escaped injuries Hal Leslie, son of Mr. and Mrs.

F. C. Leslie of Coopermill road, left for the Military Academy at West Point New York. By Victor Riesel May Be Set And, says Seymour, there are two key Operating Engineers locals, the heavy earth-moving men who earn upwards of $300 weekly. One is Local 14.

It has 1,600 members "of whom only a few are non-white." And in Local 15, with 5,650 members, 768 are non-white at the last examination of the books by the U. S. Attorney's office. This has infuriated Mike Seymour who comes from a family long deeply respected in judicial circles and venerated in the bar association milieu. His strategy called.

for first taking action against Wood, Wire and Metal Lathers Local 46 as far back as 1'ay 1968. He succeeded in Federal court in setting a precedent. The union was held in contempt for violating a civil rights decree-the first time in history. The court appointed a "Special Master." It ruled that back pay would have to be awarded to 75 claimants non-whites who had unsuccessfully sought work in the union's hiring hall during 1970. It was also ruled that the union must issue during the years 1972-1975 a minimum of 250 work permits on a one-to-one, white non-white basis until the non-whites comprise 20 per cent of the union.

With this success Seymour unleashed a broad investigation "into racially discrim-inatory practices in the entire construction industry" in the network of counties under his jurisdiction. Billions of dollars in work are involved. What he seeks is "minority representation proportionate to the population at large, fair hiring-hall procedures to ensure that non-whites get an equal share of the work, and non-discrimination in admissions to the apprenticeship programs." vSo he and his staff will spend much of the summer going over the books of union after union, preparing for a series of civil trials. One by one he'll haul them in in an effort, for example, to repeat what he did to the Steamfitters Local 638. The judge ordered 169 non-whites admitted to the union's "A Branch" and opened wide for future non-white admissions.

In a tightly held labor market this is an upheaval. For jobs of this sort are top-paying ones which were handed down to blood relatives and close friends in other unions. The Times Recorder Established as The Ohio Signal in 1864 AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Published Seven Mornings A Week Second Class Postage Paid at 34 S. 4th Zanesville. Ohio 43701 TELEPHONE 452-4561 JACK W.POWELL Publisher and General Manager BlJD HARSH Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Newspaperboy Territory 80c per week Daily Sunday BY MAIL IN OHIO Daily Daily Sunday Sunday 1 Year 20.00 $30.00 i2 no 11.00 16.00 6 00 6.00 9.00 OUTSIDE OHIO Daily Dally Sunday Sunday 1 Year.

$24.00 $34.00 12.00 13.00 18.00 6.00 7.00.... 10.00 Mail subscriptions not accepted in territory served by newspaperhnvs. By Jack Anderson Qualified? he also said he would rally 100,000 yelping Yippies to disrupt the GOP convention in August. The brash and bubbling Hoffman confirmed to us that he has met confidentially with Democratic National Committee officials and has agreed to try to keep things cool this week. "We have promised the Democrats no trouble," Hoffman conceded.

"After all, they got us the campsite at Flamingo Park. Besides, their candidates are not what you'd call a healthy show of villains." For the Republicans, however, Hoffman had no such compassion. "We have promised them tsouris!" Hoffman said. The Yiddish word means trouble, woes and worries. "I've told everybody to come if they want to, but if they can come to only one, to come for the Republicans in August," he told my associate Les Whitten.

"Right now, we're just paddling through, waiting for Big Dick." Earlier, Abbie made an unpublicized visit to Key Biscayne where he'd heard Pat Nixon was at the Nixon compound. "You wouldn't believe it," he marveled. "All that electronic security stuff, zurrrrrn, wheeeeee, eeeeeoho. I felt I had to get a look at the nests of these birds to understand them." Hoffman is not limiting his harassment of the GOP to Pat Nixon. His Phone Freak Convention will give a top prize to the man who places the first toll free call to Vice President Spiro Agnew.

Phone freaks whisper, wheeze, whistle and beep into telephones, duplicating the electronic mechanisms which trigger long distance calls. The telephone companies are apoplectic about the practice. "We've got Agnew's unlisted number. We may even want to put a call through to Moscow. The greatest phone freaks in America will be convening right here in Miami Beach," said Hoffman.

Footnote: Republicans are genuinely worried about Hoffman's threat, but they point out that, despite preconvention publicity in 1968, Hoffman and more moderate leftists were able to turn out only about 10,000 demonstrators. into the Fontainebleau es?" oicti Memory Lane Democratic Convention TEN YEARS AGO President Kennedy announced a $1.5 million tax break for business in the form of liberal guidelines for writing off depreciation and predicted It would lead to creation of new jobs and an improved economy Atty. J. Lincoln Knapp presented a talk concerning the English language during the Downtown Kiwanis Club meeting George A. Stanford resigned as Jefferson High Schoc! principal at Dresden County commissioners reported that county offices and amities had asked a record $1,169,415 for spending compared to 1962 general fund requests of $1,158,271.

NTY-FI YEARS AGO Zanesville police shot mure than a dozen d'ogs in an effort to enforce a quarantine designed to curl) the spread of rabies Danny McDowell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl McDowell Jr. of 1776 Norwood boulevard, was a member of Johnny Bothwell's orchestra playing a week's engagement at Crystal ballroom. Buckeye Lake Bradley Kincaid.

the famous Kentucky Mountain Boy, was appearing in person at Hillbilly Park Starr's Store was selling men's all-wool suits for $35 each and gaberdine raincoats for $10 each "Miracle on 34th Street" was showing at the Weller Theater starring Maureen 0 Hara and John Payne. 4 "Why don't you people check like everybody.