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11 rr: THE MARION STAR MIS rusi UllUi Member of Associated Press Established October 8, 1877 Page 6 Published Daily Except Sunday by Thomson-Brush-Moore Newspapers, Inc. Monday, July 17, 1972 Hail and Farewell By James Kilpatrick MIAMI BEACH One of the most dramatlo moments in recent political history came a little before 10 o'clock on Tuesday night, when they rolled George Wallace in his wheelchair On the Right Track rim LLfTypy The long discussed and longer needed storm sewer program for the city appears headed for the ballot. City Council's Sewer Committee has ordered legislation drawn for council approval that would place a half per cent increase in the city income tax on the November ballot. That wiE place the issue squarely before the people. This is the same idea considered a year ago but backed off from.

Storm sewers have to be among the top priority items needed here. It would be well in documenting the case for the voting public to have a greater list of needs, costs and priorities drawn up so everything could be kept in perspective and no false reasoning given for not supporting this issue. You'll recall we urged at the close of our sesquicentennial celebration that some form of Citizens for Progress group get together and make some plans and set some priorities that the next 50 years of Marion history might be filled with wise and forward-moving steps. The storm sewer proposal will involve a large amount of tax money. There undoubtedly will be opposition for no money issue gets on the pis Letters to the Editor of The Star McGovern Needs Labor Vote Raps Columnist and TO THE EDITOR: The editorial column entitled "Business in the Doghouse" by Jenkin Lloyd Jones (July 8 Star) is proof in itself of why the citizens of the United States have such a low and untrusting opinion of American business.

When business has to resort to professional writers who, for a price, will fabricate lies, propaganda and tripe in order to promote favorable opinions of itself, our nation has reached a low ebb. Mr. Jones, through his clever use of writing techniques and tricks, has implied that American business is facing, at the present time, an economic challenge which threatens its very existence. He also implies that any person who believes businesses are making ridiculous profits are either very stupid, uninformed citizens. Communist professors or misguided students.

Mr. Jones failed to mention the fact that it has been necessary for our government to place an excess profits tax on a majority of American corporations in the past year. He also failed to point out that during the period 1960-66 corporate profits rose 88 per cent. In more recent years corporate profits have increased 21 per cent each year. ALTHOUGH IT HAS BEEN necessary to effect an excess profits tax, our law abiding business friends still manage to elude the government of an estimated $20 billion yearly.

The Internal Revenue shows statistics which prove that over 40 per cent of American businesses escape paying any income tax whatsoever, either because of claimed business losses or tax loopholes and craters. It is a tax crater, not a loophole, which allows U. S. Steel to net $5 billion, realize $151 million in profits, and pay not one penny of income tax. In the years 1964-67, Atlantic Richfield earned profits of $465 million while making no federal tax payments whatsoever and, incredible as it may seem, accumulating a tax credit of $269,000.

In a six-year period ending in 1955, Cyani-mid's own data showed its revenues from antibiotics totaled $407 million. Of this, $342 million was gross profit. How is that for an 84 per cent return on the dollar? In the early 1960s, General Electric, Westinghouse and 27 other MIAMI The Children's Hour is over. Time is now for the old professionals' Clockwork Orange. Tough.

Brutal. You could sense this once you got behind the inner scenes at Sen. McGovern's convention Hotel Doral headquarters suites. The moment his strategist had the nomination wrapped up, they began springing more press leaks about "labor" than the old ex-plumber George Meany could fix. The tactic is to woo the forces of the allegedly aggrieved old labor curmudgeon.

It will succeed eventually. Victor RlescJ Privately McGovern has told his aides, especially the campaign-hardened Frank Man-kiewicz, that without labor "we cannot win." That's true. He can't. That's why one of his first phone conversations early Tuesday morning went to Hubert Humphrey. As predicted in this column, "Hubert" will be McGovern's envoy to the AFL-CIO's court and the reluctant fire-spitting dragon who is its chief.

TO UNDERSTAND this interplay, which most observers are misinterpreting, one needs to know the cast of characters and their clout. McGovern and Mankiewicz understand this. They know that the AFL-CIO has 50,000 locals which swing into action at election time. And that the AFL-CIO has some 140 key organizers working with veteran regional directors. The McGovern team knows that it isn't only the national Commitee on Political Education (COPE) which spends money and that, should each of the 50,000 locals spend merely $1,000 apiece on the election, this comes to $50 million.

They know that I. W. Abel's United Steel-workers has over 600 field organizers who turn into political directors at campaign time. So do the "international reps" of 100 other unions. They know that "Abe" Abel directed 50 Steel-workers who were delegates to the Democratic convention.

They know that a "former" steel union official ran an electronic trailer on Convention Hall grounds. To it came scores of Senators and Representatives. They video-taped comments on the charade inside. If needed, their comments were edited or refilmed by experts and dispatched to the airport so they'd be available all over the nation in local constituencies in the morning. This is the money, equipment and expertise Democratic candidates need vitally.

THE McGOVERN team knows it drubbed the labor team in public union men who head powerful state labor federations such as those to the bright blue podium of the Democratic National Convention. It had been a day of poignant moments: I ask leave to speak to them. Earlier in the afternoon, we had jammed into the littered room, snaked with television cables, where Hubert Humphrey made his last hurrah. The haDDV warrior was close to tears. So were some of the jmei KUpatrict correspondents who had covered his long labors on the campaign trail.

They offered a great contrast, at once ironic and moving: The abandoned Humphrey, the crippled Wallace. Tuesday brought an end to the road for both of them. The city is full of bellicose rumors that Wallace will yet lead a third-party bolt, but the prospect is largely discounted. He will go back to being governor of Alabama. Humphrey will return to a role of public service as junior senator from Minnesota.

The stage empties. New stars emerge. THE CURIOUS thing is that both of them, Wallace and Humphrey, approaching from opposite sides, could have plucked so closely at the heart strings of America. Wallace was not at his best Tuesday night. This ought to be made clear to those who saw him for the first time on television and may have wondered about the governor's reputation for igniting a crowd.

His terrible wounds plainly have taken a terrible toll. He is drained of the twinkle, the strut and the swagger. Two months ago, before the assassin struck, Wallace had a pool-cue thrust to his strokes, a perfect spin on the ball. He used to say "pseudo" as if he were spitting out the bitter end of a wet cigar: Pseudo-intellectuals. These were the professors who couldn't park their bicycles straight.

Tuesday night, he lacked the old zing. Yet Wallace was essentially right in his brief presentation to the convention. He sat there quietly, those black brows tented over a drawn face, while the Wallace banners waved in a handful of states. Then he spoke to an alien audience of the part of America he came to understand so well in recent years: Wallace country, where the people are "fed up to the ears" with busing, with wasteful foreign aid, with loafers on welfare, with costly bureaucracy, with permissive attitudes toward thugs on the streets. IT IS TRUE, all of it, and though the convention rejected each of the Wallace minority platform planks, the day will come this fall when George McGovern of necessity will make some of the same appeals.

So, too, with Humphrey. One saw him through a blur of reminiscence. In the days when he first emerged on the national stage, I was a Southern editor. That may say it all. He was the ardent, uncompromising liberal from Minnesota, a founder of Americans for Democratic Action, a foremost proponent of what was known then as the Fair Employment Practices Commission.

We used to grind the syllables in our teeth: Eff, eee, pe, cee. When we weren't scouring Dean Acheson, we were flaying Hubert Humphrey. Yet he was right, too. Out of the essential goodness of his heart, out of his humanity, out of his love of people, came some of the towering landmarks of American law today. Because of Hubert Humphrey, because of his fight for the public accommodations section of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, more than 700 black delegates to this convention were sleeping and eating in peace in one-time white hotels.

One thought of Lear: How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child. Humphrey could not hold the blacks who owe him so much. In the shattering of his presidential dreams, one heard a breaking heart. Well, they say. this is how the cookie crumbles.

Wallace got five minutes of applause when he finished. The band might have played Dixie, but it didn't. Everyone rushed from the Humphrey conference: Muskie had a meeting coming up. By midnight, or one or two cr three in the morning, in the blazing tedium of Convention Hall, the moments had been embalmed in stale smoke. But years hence, when we want to remember the convention of '72, wa are likely to think of Wallace in his wheelchair, and Humphrey in his tears.

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Inc. Advertising representative: Thomson NewspaperSj Jg wn fc'fa fc, Mi 'X ballot anymore without an anti faction being heard from. A full study of needs, costs and explanation of the particular issue will be necessary if there is to be a flood of votes "for" the tax boost instead of continued floods in the streets and basements of the city. Plan Is OK A news item the other day told of state and federal approval for the city's areawide TOPICS program (Traffic Operation Program to Increase Capacity and Safety). This is an important step for it enables the city to get federal funds for the programs.

The $2.36 million worth of street work includes $1.8 million for the W. Center Street grade separation project. City officials now will work with the state on plans for the programs. Projects included railroad crossing gates, intersection improvements and straightening and widening of sections of streets. This is a step forward for better traffic patterns and for safety.

Profits of Business manufacturers of heavy electrical products were indicted by a federal grand jury for hard-core price fixing. After hearings in which all companies entered pleas of guilty or no contest, a total of $500 million worth of settlements was made as a result of the court's rulings. Unfortunately, the Internal Revenue Service allowed all manufacturers to write the settlements off as "ordinary and necessary" business expenses. For nearly a decade, the auto industry has been telling us they have been spending a million dollars a a on air pollution control. Their announced expenditure has totaled about $9 million during that period.

This provides an interesting contrast with a recent survey which revealed the earnings of the 44 highest paid executives in the country. Of these, one half, 22, are employed by the auto industry. Their combined 1962 earnings were about $9 million. In short, during the past decade the industry's total investment in controlling the nation's No. 1 air pollution problem, a blight that is costing the rest of us more than $11 billion a year, has constituted less than one year's salary for 22 of their executives.

THE INDUSTRY IS SPENDING over $1 billion to change over its models this year. Their annual expenditures for air pollution control development is one-tenth of one per cent of $1 billion. For that, the industry has bought 10 years of delay and unhampered freedom to pour millions of tons of toxic contaminants into the atmosphere. Unfortunately, American business at present is callous to public welfare, dishonest and greedy. If it was not for Ralph Nader and other consumer advocates, who are not only enlightened economists but concerned citizens, we would never have seen automobile recalls or product warnings.

"The wild swings" and "bum dope" in reality come from American business in its efforts to win protected positions, regulate the regulators, squeeze out the small operators take over the markets, administer and buy political influence. R. J. RIDGE 401 E. Fairground St M.

Thomas, society leader, and known by her literary nom de plume, Michael Strange, left for Europe where they planned to tour for at least two months before returning to the States. James M. Cox, former governor of Ohio and Democratic nominee for President in 1920, left with his family aboard the S.S. France for Europe where he said he would study various aspects of the European situation. 25 YEARS AGO Two years before scientists deliberately released atomic energy for the first time in the form of a weapon to end World War II but were still far from finding a way to utilize it for peacetime purposes.

On the second anniversary of the day when scientists touched off the first atomic bomb in a test on a New Mexican desert some of the codiscover-ers and their colleagues agreed that harnessing the sun-born energy for peacetime needs of men was far in the future. The emphasis was still on the military and what was to come was uncertain. Lightning struck Frank Brothers department store on West Center Street shortly before noon and also at the Albert Cicero home, 429 Avon-dale Avenue, resulting in two fire alarms within seven minutes. Cars driven by Marion Police Chief William E. Marks, who was currently managing a Marion campaign for safe driving, and Henry W.

Wolfe of Delaware, representative of an insurance company, collided on South State Street. The city car was damaged on the right front fender and the Wolfe auto had a left rear fender smashed. 10 YEARS AGO Sheriff's deputies and the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation sifted clues in the search for burglars who cracked a safe at the IGA Foodliner south of town and escaped with about $1,200 in change. Three air crashes in 24 hours in South Vietnam's guerrilla-infested jungles left 26 dead, including four American servicemen. Five more Americans were missing in the air crashes and another was killed in an ambush in one of the bloodiest weekends in recent months.

Facts in Brief The cricket is distinguished for having its own special courting song. Two U.S. presidents had both parents living at the time of their inaugurations Ulysses S. Grant and John F. Kennedy.

News of Other Years of Ohio and Pennsylvania who were for "Hubert." McGovern knows he can't carry New York or California over the bitter opposition of New York's AFL-CIO leader Ray Corbett. already close to Nelson Rockefeller, and over the emnity of "Hubert's" California friends such as the labor federation's chief Jack Henning, an intimate of Meany. And McGovern knows that San Francisco's Mayor Alito needs labor to "make him look good," especially in northern California. So the Dakotan needs that combination of antagonists as allies. McGovern knows that he needs help even with the young people.

They must be registered to vote. Labor has financed an outfit called "Frontlash" to get the teen-age legions lined up. And labor's money subsidizes the black A. Philip Randolph Institute which has gone into a hundred ghettoes for black votes, old and young. So, though George Meany will be 78 years old, he'll be a mighty political ally.

He can turn these forces on, and off if the curt warrior of some 12 presidential campaigns decides to fight against McGovern all the way. ODDS ARE, however, that he'll bargain, not fight. Every scowl a maneuver, every grunt, every chomp on the cigar a tactic. Thus he feels he can get more out of President Nixon by leaking all those stories of the Democratic party in shambles or of McGovern's mushiness on Mao and Moscow. And Meany can get more out of McGovern by the artful use of political acupuncture.

And unless McGovern's neo-Galahads and Guineveres scrawl political graffiti over the marble walls of labor's national headquarters, Meany will have to permit his do-or-die Democratic colleagues to campaign for McGovern in the final Presidential campaign weeks. Contrary to what some others have reported, there are at least 22 not just two of the 35-man AFL-CIO Executive Council members who are either for McGovern or are veteran Republican haters. So the McGovern team feels it now needs only to make it possible for the old guard to save face and loosen its millions and minions. That's why the Children's Hour is over. If the "kids and kooks," as the embittered Al Barkan, labor's political arm-twister called them on the convention floor, turn off labor's elder statesmen, the young people also will turn off the money spigots, and that would assure McGovern's loss of enough key states such as New York, California, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan, Texas, too.

Which would have him wandering around in the 1976 convention, as lonely and unheeded as Gene McCarthy was here the other day. vicarious enjoyment as chess games provide comes from leisurely study of the move-by-move account, not from watching Fisher knit his brow in thought or lick his chops in fiendish anticipation of crushing an opponent's ego. MAYBE AT some future time there will be enough fans around to support chess in the fashion to which Fischer would like to be accustomed. But right now there are not. And no exploiting capitalist is getting rich on Fischer's talent.

This makes it doubly unfortunate that London investment banker James D. Slater saw fit to add $125,000 to the world championship purse. For Fischer's threats to quit the match borders on extortion and his bluff should have been called. This would be 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, Fischer Gambit By Ralph Novak 75 YEARS AGO News dispatches were reaching the United States telling of wonderful gold discoveries in Alaska. One story said the richest gold strike the world had ever known was made in the Klondyke region but the news did not get to this country until months later when a great stampede was begun from the Klondyke to newer fields. A dispatch from Paris said that inquiry at an American embassy there had elicited a rumor that the governments of Spain and Japan had arranged an offensive alliance against the United States. The terms of the understanding which was for the mutual protection of Cuba and Hawaii, provided that in the event of an actively aggressive movement on the part of the United States tending toward interference in Cuban af-' fairs or persistance in the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands, both Spain and Japan would declare war simultaneously against the United States and would make hostile demonstrations along both the Atlantic and Pacific coast lines of this country. Emigration from the midwest to the south had attained such proportions that it was viewed by the press and many of the people of the former section with a degree of disfavor akin to alarm.

Michigan had been seriously affected by the movement. In order to check the exodus the passenger association of that state had taken action against giving reduced rates to home seekers' excursions. Henceforth no permits would be issued allowing children under the age of 14 years to do any work in Illinois. A new state law passed by the legislature prohibited employment at any gainful occupation to boys and girls not yet 14. The executive committee of the Marion County Republican Central Committee met in Grant E.

Mouser's law office on South Main Street for the purpose of endorsing men for post-masterships in Marion and Caledonia. The committee was composed of nine members. They were- W. Garberson, Claridon; M. B.

Dicker-son, Dr. O. W. Weeks, W. H.

McClure, Grant E. Mouser, Marion; John D. Henkle, LaRue; John Cummins, Green Camp; Morgan Carpenter, Prospect; George E. Salmon, Pleasant. 50 YEARS AGO On the anniversary of her 61st birthday, Mme.

Ernestine Schumann-Heink, whose voice had thrilled music lovers all over the world, received the degree of Doctor of Music from the University of Southern California. John Barrymore, member of the famous stage family, and his wife, the former Mrs. Leonard 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 your breath until you turn blue and-or pick up your chess board and go home unless you can have your own way. A true inspiration to the youth of America, Bobby Fischer has shown us that these tactics work in this greed-smudged real world.

Fischer's performance at 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 intelligent. He has said only (though many, many times) that he is the best chess player around, in Brooklyn, the United States, the world and, presumably, the universe. Let us assume that he is right. THE NEXT question is, so what? Fischer seems to be operating under the belief that because we pay our athletes and entertainers outrageously large sums of money, we should do the same for chess players.

From his point of view this is reasonable, of course. But from everybody else's it is super-arro, gant nonsense. That we are foolish enough to sanction paying Tom Seaver $125,000 a year to throw baseballs is no justifiction for our being foolish enough to sanction paying Bobby Fischer $200,000 for shoving a bunch of toys around for a month. For one thing, there is the two-wrongs-don 't-make-a-right theory. For another, there is the fact that chess is not, either historically or intrinsically, an interesting spectator sport.

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