The Miami News from Miami, Florida • 18

eUlAMIfJEWS 77th Year, No. 53 18-A July 14, 1972 A PAGE OF OPINION AND COMMENT A Social change turns Jewish vote to the right In our opinion: 1 A Democratic call for harmony AS OTHERS SEE IT 7 I also want to inform citizens in Florida that McGovern avoided us here in Tennessee throughout his campaign, apparently not wanting to face the needs of consumers and veterans. One question: why docs Son. McGovern consider us in the South so1 unimportant? FOY McDAVID Knoxville, Paradise now a parking lot To The Editor: Perhaps some of our citizens would be interested in knowing that on the Dec. 15, 1969 edition of U.S.

News World Report, Dr. Harold' Thomas, research hydrolcgist of the U.S. Geological Survey was quoted as' saying: 'Despite past history and future projections there is no ceasing of pressure to develop floodplains and other lands subject to water and florid As open areas are taken over for suburban development, streets, sidewalks, parking lots, and buildings create an 'impervious cover' that prevents rain from filtering back into the soil. So much for that. We have traded paradise for a parking lot.

Amen MALVINA BUSH, Miami To The Editor: Jewish political inclination has taken a broad swing to the right. This is a result of the drastic philosophical, cultural and social changes the world has undergone in the past 20 years. In the first half of this century Jewish interests were better served by the liberal elements of American and world politics. Those Jews who were born in that period remember being beaten by Wasps and white ethnics who cither resented Jews moving into other neighborhood or who were just looking for a scapegoat to bully. The overseas picture was one of horrible persecution of the Jews by the Fascist countries and these same nations tried to spread Anti-Semitism throughout the world.

My contemporaries and who came of age during the 50's and 60's, have witnessed a completely different scene. The Jewish school child is a target of beatings and robbery in areas which were integrated as a result of liberal political efforts. The older Jewish student finds that college entrance cannot be achieved on scholarly qualification alone. The liberals have succeeded in pushing Jews away from many positions of employment only because they happen not to be a "minority" race. f'J 1 i-jl iB.JE'if.'jlSij,!, Overseas it is in left-wing Russia where the Jews suffer the most persecution.

The Communists, Socialists and Radic-libs the world over are dedicated to helping the Arabs carry out their avowed purpose of destroying Israel and driving its inhabitants to their death in the Mediterranean Sea. Unlike religion and morals, political affiliation should be changed with no more trepidation than one has when moving from one house to another. Modern-day, sensible open minded Jews should be able to overcome their political inertia, do away with so-called "traditional" Jewish politics and place their efforts in a direction which will better serve them and their brethren overses. RABBI PH1NEAS A. WEBERMAN.

Miami Beach Pills quicker for animals To the Editor: It is my personal feeling that the high altitude chamber is a useful piece of equipment that could be properly utilized for destroying large numbers of animals. However, it would be more human to administer a barbiturate to the animals, whether in pill form or whatever form would be convenient, prior to exposing animals to the simulated high altitude conditions. JOHN T. KALBERER, Ph.D. Rockville.

Maryland McGovern ignores two major groups To The Editor: Out of all the causes at the Democratic convention, two groups have been under-represented and largely ignored in the South by the McGovern forces: consumers and poor Vietnam vets. Moreover, look at the party platform: it urges defeat of the President's Family Assistance Plan (as do the rightwingers); it incredibly advocates junking the whole price freeze apparatus which is the only mechanism we hae to stop inflation; and the platform advocates busing, which, like the draft, is mass disruptive compulsion on U.S. youth. J-iiiiJilrtM'HM' wwi'Wriwtwwjy into a party. McGovern has a forceful coalition of young people, blacks, and women, unlike that which any other candidate has dared to gather under the same political shelter.

The candidate was effusive in praise of his competitors, particularly George Wallace, and used the occasion to note that the Alabama governor's large popular vote showed the depth of discontent in America. He made it plain that the McGovern team will campaign in the Southern states where the skeptics say the nominee has little chance of success. Sen. Ted Kennedy's dramatic appearance early today further emphasized the attempt at party unity because it is through the Massachusetts senator that McGovern hopes to regain the support of Chicago's Mayor Daley and other unhappy pros in the party. The Democratic Party has a cool and intense progressive as its new leader.

He is of the populist mood with the ability to reform and reorganize the grass roots citizens of the nation for his campaign. There's little time today, however for the Democrats to exult over McGovern and Eagle-ton because the Republicans have set up shop at Miami Beach and invited dissident Democrats to join up. But, as McGovern told his audience "never underestimate the power of Richard Nixon to bring harmony to the Democratic ranks." Therein lies the hope of George McGovern. George McGovern's call for Americans to come home from war and wa.ste offers a challenging road for the Democratic Party, re-born in reform at Miami Beach. The new Democratic candidate for the presidency made a highly conciliatory appeal for party harmony, the first hurdle if the South Dakota senator is to turn Richard Nixon out of the White House.

That he will have strong help from his vice presidential choice, Thomas Eagleton, is evidenced by the warm words of praise for the Missourian from fellow members of Congress. American politics will never be the same, said McGovern, and anyone who doubts this need only examine the exuberant and new personality of the open convention that has been translated -igjf His move Bobby Fischer didn't like the money stakes in the world's championship chess matches. Then his chair was too high, the table too low, the chess pieces improperly weighted, the lights too bright, the television cameras too noisy. Russian Boris Spassky won the first game in the hall at Reykjavik, Iceland. Yesterday, Fischer, acting like a spoiled American brat, didn't even bother to show up and lost the second game by forfeit.

For the sake of whatever image the U.S. still has abroad, Fischer ought to come back home and finish his sulk. As Don Wright sees if i mill Ml Schools vs. narcotics It K00, HO0.U0O EAGIETON, WHAT A FUNW NAME The school plan has been months in the making, and will expand the present drug information approach and the process approach (where youngsters share experiences in hopes of understanding their own problems) to include the activities approach. This would provide secondary schools with funds to expand extra curriculum programs.

The logic is that if students are actively pursuing interesting and creative programs of their own choosing, much of the temptation to become involved with hard drugs can be avoided. The concept has much to offer, since many youths who suffer drug experiences often are alienated from their daily school and personal lives. Some additional form of personal stimulation might be the way to combat drug abuse. In the wake of hearings held by the Select Committee on Crime, chaired by U.S. Rep.

Claude Pepper of Dade, local school officials have announced an expanded drug program for the coming school year. The project has yet to be voted on by the Board of Public Instruction. The community should familiarize itself with the program's three approaches and relate these goals to the hearing on crime and drugs. The panel heard about the accessibility of drugs in the schools as well as various crimes committed while young people were allegedly experiencing the effects of drugs. At the time, Rep.

Pepper criticized Dade's ineffective attempts to identify and rehabilitate drug users in the schools. Clarke Ash Neglected candidate, universal issues, disappearing police -0 It was December, 1971, at one of those small parties Miamians throw to introduce political candidates. Sen. George McGovern looked almost ne- ticular that the United States get out of Southeast Asia. Inside the hall, similar anti-war sentiment flowed from virtually every speaker.

Even Gov. Reuben Askew, who would never be mistaken for one of the Flamingo Park crowd, roundly denounced our Vietnam involvement, and during his speech the delegates picked up the chant, "Stop the War," "Stop the War." The only thing missing inside the hall were the obscenities, and they weren't totally absent, just toned down. Editor's Corner Nixon knows he faces a tough race periods outside, virtually no uniformed officers were visible. Ushers and plain clothesmen Secret Service and other special officers directed pedestrian traffic and kept order in a thoroughly low-keyed man I When the fence seemed threat ened or a clash of demonstrators imV minent, a solid row of uniformed ikt-t lice appeared from nowhere to line the perimeter in cold silence. Tfl was an awesome display of discipJi'rf-T ed power and it had a noticeable ef1-' feet on the temper of the demonstra-" tors.

More than one reporter noted how the small group that rushed Rocky's "trellis" on Monday appeared surprised and shaken when the wire unexpectedly gave in and they found themselves facing all that police muscle. It was a credit to the officers that the incident was closed without a club being raised. glected as he stood beside the buffet, plate in hand, searching for an empty table. He spotted one nearby and with a small hospitable nod, invited this reporter, a stranger, to join him. My wife sat with us, three or four other guests came along, and the six or seven of us sat at a table for 10 in un-crowded comfort, making political small talk.

I was struck as most people are by McGovern's candor. It was a season when the presidential candidates were being coy about their plans, feigning indecision in order to build interest in their final announcement. Someone at our table asked McGovern when he intended to make his decision about running, and he looked surprised. "Oh, I'm going to run," he said, "No doubt about it." I asked if we could write that. As nearly as I can recall his words, he replied: "Sure, please do.

I need all the exposure I can get. Those other fellows are well known, but I can't waste time trying to make up my mind. I'm going to run, and I'll make my formal announcement soon. He did, of course, the following month, and suddenly the rest of the story is history. Last night, watching this unassuming gentleman accept the clamorous greeting of the delegates at convention hall, I wondered if he ever again would enjoy the privacy of a quiet dinner at a table having two or three empty seals.

The most impressive aspect of the superb security arrangements was the ability of the police to disappear when things were quiet and materialize, seemingly from nowhere, when the situation grew tense. Inside the hall, and during calm Emergency AS OTHERS SIE IT would vote Republican in 1972 if Wallace isn't available to them. This means McGovern has a lot of work to do in key states. By November, he will turn some of those votes around. It's impossible to guess how many.

We do not now have the same national atmosphere we had in 1968. The issues have changed. Tax reform witness the Askew success in Florida and the strongest portions of Wallace speeches has become an issue of major election importance and with far more poor people than rich ones, McGovern's tax plans add up to an advantage at the polls and a pivotal point for former Wallace voters. I'm not in the election prediction business and haven't any idea how McGovern will do on election day against Richard Nixon, who has plenty of action going for him, too. All I'm saying is that George McGovern is a formidable, well-organized candidate with a potent platform, backed by a political party whose back-home leaders think they genuinely played a role in his nomination and have a duty to perform for him and themselves.

He's no pushover and no Goldwa-ter. Richard Nixon must know that. A box of meat tenderizer sitting on the shelf in the emergency room at Carteret County General Hospital caught our eye the other morning. We asked the nurse on duty: "What in the world do you use tenderizer for in an emergency room?" The meat tenderizer, she quickly explained, was found to be excellent first aid treatment for stings by the When so staunch a conservative as James Jackson Kilpatrick, who reiterated one of his column items on a Channel 10 program here, warns Republicans against overconfidence, Candidate McGovern has to be a threat to President Nixon. He is.

A candidate does not come from a position where few people recognize his name to the role of Democratic convention victory by accident. He needs organization and hard work, but he also needs the support and sympathy of millions of people. It will be easy for friends and opponents alike to underestimate the softspoken and relaxed Sen. McGovern. He is seen as far out, beyond the limits of popular acceptance; the sec-ond-guessers predict he will modify his views, or at least his statements about them, so as to move toward the middle of the political spectrum and pick up more votes.

It is generally recognized that the big labor leaders oppose him and while they may not actively work for his defeat they won't work for him and may well deny him the sizable funds that Democratic candidates can anticipate only from labor leaders. only is it too early, on the very curtainfall of the convention, to attempt such intricate guesses, but political patterns do not foreshadow any of the circumstances listed in the preceding paragraph. Sen. McGovern has made it thus far on his own good sense and can be expected to keep his own counsel in the uture. Marked compromises on the issues that produced his current support would be fatal to the support he now has.

He can count on it and should expand it without turning major segments of it to dust through compromise. Witness his choice of a running mate as an indication that he does not want a "balanced" ticket, but a consistent one. The influence of major labor leaders on rank and file union members is declining. Increasingly, elections reveal that though their dues, allocated by leaders, may be supporting one candidate, workers vote as they please. Moreover, McGovern isn't as "far out" as even Jack Kilpatrick thinks.

Just because he's supported by youngsters and a variety of untidy special groups doesn't alter the fact that he is from South Dakota and steeped in traditional Americanisms. He does interpret his Democratic catechism in unorthodox ways, but many people think i the country needs that approach. As of now, the polls show that two of every three Wallace voters in 1968 Portugese Man o' War. As we understand it, the tenderizer released en- mm il-mu io counteract the Goldsboro (N.C.) News-Argus ujMnnnnn 7ff-ai nil bvil iiWiJtr'MEw A One of the ironies of this convention is the similarity of rhetoric on both sides of the Convention Hall fence (or the "hibiscus trellis," as Chief Rocky Pomerance calls it.) On Washington Avenue, a blue-jeancd Ms from the SDS, who sounded as though she were reading a 33 rpm speech at 45 rpm, demanded again and again of nobody in par umfim rn A Con NewsooDer W'mntt of Four Puliiztr Prixts.