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Times The Convention ran tardy Published Daily Except Saturdays and Holidays by Hammond Publishers, Inc. at 417-19 Fayette Hammond, Indiana John E. Tompkins, Publisher hormtrly Tr Lke County Times Fountied In 1M ty S.dmon McHI Tuesday, July 18, 1972 EDITORIALS Child care measure could be worthwhile to Abe Abel be strengthened. Were it possible to strengthen the family by preaching and moralizing, such programs wouldn't be proposed or necessary. Human nature can't be legislated or sermonized.

Low-income families with pre-schoolers whose parents must work to make ends meet; these and low-income mothers face a dilemma: Either their children must care for themselves while they are on the job or they go on welfare. Welfare is demeaning for those willing to work. Turning children loose to roam is worse. Day care centers offer a preventive for both. If the act becomes law it was vetoed last year by the President on grounds that it didn't preserve the family it seems far-fetched that children will be automatically dehumanized according to some heartless blueprint drafted in Washington.

The centers would be staffed by humans, very likely residents of the areas served by the centers. Hardly anyone lacks compassion for the young. This also makes it unlikely the young will be brainwashed, regimented or victimized. Worriers about welfare statism are wringing their hands over a proposal for federally subsidized child day care centers. Approved by the Senate under a measure called the Child Development Act, the centers would provide nutritional, health and other services" as well as the diagnosis and treatment of "physical, mental, psychological and emotional barriers to full participation in programs" of the centers.

Eligible are pre-school youngsters of low-income families, especially working mothers who can't afford private child care offered by well-staffed nursery schools. Opponents see all sorts of goblins in the term "development." Mostly they predict a generation of automatons cast in molds created by a bunch of Washington bureaucrats. But the opponents have no answers for a serious situation that is producing thousands of no -accounts through no fault of their own. The opponents weep instead about the breakdown of the family as a moral force, and preach that the family must preme Court Justice William H. Rehn-quist for whom the labor chiefs have a special hate.

"Certainly no man could be elected and re-elected in Missouri as Eagleton has year after year without strong labor support," said one cf Meany's intimates on Friday as they packed for a long rap session on the train ride back to Washington. "But we're not enthusiastic. He's just more of the same. So we're calling the Executive Council together and we'll Victor Riese have lots to say. Just give I.

W. Abel's nominating speech for Hubert another going over and you'll see what we mean." Those of us who heard Abe (United Steelworkers president) speak amid the uproar and boos Wednesday night know exactly what Meany's compatriot means. Its significance was lost amid what must be described as massive delegate rudeness and bi-dimensional interest only in the war and the new slogans Lettuce, Ladies and Race. In his brief, bitter and angry talk, Abel, who is a power in the Keystone State of Pennsylvania, told it like it is: "We're tired of the politicians who denounce big labor and "labor bosses' on Monday and then come to us on Tuesday with their hands outstretched "We've heard a lot of about hypocrisy at this convention especially from Russian dissent mounts The Soviet government has been embarrassed in recent months by the surfacing of protests against its persecution of religious and ethnic minorities and intellectuals. Now the Kremlin is confronted with an underground movement voicing dissent with the very essence of the Soviet system.

A paper circulated by a "citizens committee" tells the Soviet worker that his Communist government is robbing him of the fruits of his labor. It is filled with economic information well known to the rest of the world but carefully suppressed inside the Soviet Union. The worker is being told that the purchasing power of his wages is barely 10 per cent of that of his counterparts in 0 cr Tf ji HfcfcA- MIAMI Democratic Convention adjournment did not come until after the silly early morning hours when happy delegates gayly began casting Vice Presidential ballots for Martha Mitchell, Bar-bra Streisand, the Berrigan Brothers, the Yippies' Jerry Rubin and Archie Bunker. This came about 3 a.m. All amid cheers but none so loud as when orators, and later the candidate himself, said there must be instant, unilateral withdrawal from the war at one minute after inauguration.

Senator McGovern's call for a strong America got him a ripple, not a roar. They were doing their one thing and it screwed the powerful national labor leaders up tighter on and off the convention floor. Nor were the feelings of the union chiefs and directors of their Committee on Political Education assuaged by the Vice Presidential nomination of Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton.

Senator McGovern did not make it easier for his new team by refraining from telephoning these labor leaders to brief them on his second-place choice. Word had come to the union men, ensconced in the Hotel Fontainebleau and the Americana, that McGovern had been consulting and briefing important party personalities. But not George Meany or The Terrible Mr. Bang, as the disconsolate COPE director AI Barkan now is dubbed. Senator Eagleton is not Meany's kind of people.

The attractive gentleman from Missouri is rated worse than Senator McGovern on COPE's rating. The Dako-tan scored 75 per cent on labor's voting test the Missourian scored 73 per cent. Eagleton, by labor's standard, voted wrong on support of the SST, on the Lockheed loan and on confirmation of Su Labor MIAMI BEACH-The McGovern faction, once securely in control of the convention, immediately put into operation what amounted to a rule-or-ruin policy. Anything they couldn't dominate or manipulate was promptly scuttled or sidetracked. A graphic example is what happened to a ballyhooed youth conference.

It was deliberately sabotaged when the McGovernites discovered that embarrassing questions would be raised by young delegates from labor ranks. The get-together was called by the Democratic National Committee as one of the measures to iron out differences between discordant elements and thus help unify the reform-wracked party structure. The youth conference was deemed particularly important in this effort because two distinct and widely divergent youth groups are represented among the delegates. One, college-oriented, is militantly McGovernite. Loud, brash and often ar-r a 1 1 high-handed, these affluent youths are a major element of the South Dakota radical's electioneering apparatus.

He is counting on their playing a key role in his fall drive for the White House. The other youth group is from labor ranks hard-hat, construction industries, factories, mills, technicians, and other blue-collar workers. They constitute a considerable proportion of the approximate 600 unionite delegates and are de 7-5 with Listen WofcMVVr Now that the Democratic National Convention is over, members of Congress are talking about the mistakes that were made as they hear from their constituents. One complaint is that the convention had four sessions which lasted each night until early morning. The Presidential nominee, Sen.

George McGovern delivered his speech of acceptance at 3 o'clock F-iday rmrn-ing. From the point rf view of the tebvi-sion audience, the senator probably had a large number of listeners, mostly in the Pacific Coast time belt, but this was nowhere near what he might have had if arrangements could have been made for his speech to be delivered sometime between 8 and 11 p.m., Eastern Daylight Time. THE PRIMARY purpose of the convention was to select candidates for President and Vice President. The television coverage included conversations and reports and votes from the convention floor. It was not possible evidently for the managers to present the two candidates in time for the audiences to hear their addresses.

In this instance particularly, the two nominees are not well known to the general public, and whoever planned the schedule would have benefited the party by making the speeches of acceptance the. really important event of the last night. But the affairs of the convention became enmeshed in all sorts of details, and votes had to be taken which could have been handled early in the afternoon of Thursday. The big moment the appearance and speeches of the two David Lawrence nominees could have been highlighted the early evening hours. Senator McGovern's speech was, of course, printed in some newspapers afterwards and read by those who missed its delivery on television.

It is by no means a brilliant address, but it gives an insight into his position on some important subjects. He covered a good deal of ground and mentioned several topics that are bound to be discussed frequently in the campaign. One interesting point that McGovern made in his speech was a promise that read in part as follows: "And within 90 days of my inauguration, every American soldier and every American prisoner will be out of the jungle and out of their cells and back home in America, where they belong." NO EXPLANATION was offered by McGovern as to whether he would pull out all American troops without a previous agreement with the North Vietnamese for a cease-fire or any other form of armistice. President Nixon has called for a cease-fire throughout Indochina, followed by complete withdrawal of our military forces within four months thereafter. He has, however, indicated that the four-month period is contingent upon release of the prisoners and an accounting of Americans missing in action.

There is very little difference between the objectives of the two plans, except that McGovern doesn't state what assurances he will want from the North Vietnamese by way of an agreement to release American prisoners whether there will be any conditions on this subject imposed or whether the withdrawal of troops will be unconditional. MCGOVERN DISCUSSED briefly domestic issues. Again and again he pointed out that it is necessary for the United States to remain "militarily strong." He said: "America will keep its defenses alert and fully sufficient to meet any danger. We will do that not only for ourselves but for those who deserve and need the shield of our strength our old allies in Europe and elsewhere, including the people of Israel, who will always have our help to hold their promised land." McGovern thus sought to reassure those who have been concerned over his calls for reduction of defense spending. He declared that the "highest single domestic priority of the next administration" will be to insure that every American able to work has a job.

DENMARK "ber Bjerregard youth shunned Too early to tell what Demos' convention did those who call themselves the advocates of a new politics." Then Abel hurled a series of charges against McGovern, accusing him of voting against some civil rights legislation, accusing him of bucking appropriations for summer jobs and hitting him on the Vietnam issue. "Let's end hypocrisy that says that democracy is only for to hell with the rest of the world. If democra cy is worth building at all, it's worth defending in the world," said Abel in a litany of challenges to the vast throng of young people and Senator McGovern's carefully and strategically placed older disciplinarians. "Give us a candidate who believes in a strong America and who believes that the cause of freedom doesn't stop at the water's edge." Boos. Lots of boos.

It was this disdainful treatment by the delegates which chilled the chances of Meany's coming in out of the cold. So the debate will fizzle inside labor's executive suites. Meany got on the train content with his golf score but icy over his political rating here in the party he salvaged just four years ago when he personally managed Hubert Humphrey's campaign to within some five-tenths of one per cent of victory over Richard Nixon despite a late start and Eugene McCarthy's sabotage. As Abel said, labor believes that "liberal politicians" cannot win without labor. "The liberals could get the snob vote, but that's not America." When I.

W. Abel raises cain, let the listeners beware. Especially if they are either McGovern or Eagleton, who with all due respect to the youth of Oskaloosa, Iowa, are in desperate need of the middle-aged of Middle America. Youth Coalition '72 was organized at a Washington conference last Spring to provide labor youths with a forum and instrumentality to counter the lobbying and propaganda operations of the college-oriented leftist McGovernite youths. At the appointed hour for the youth conference, the worker delegates were on hand in force.

They were ready and waiting for the college-oriented McGovernite youths. But the latter were nowhere to be seen. They were prominently noticeable by their absence. After a long wait, a few did straggle in obviously in the nature of scouts to look over the situation and report back to the McGovern headquarters. They didn't stay long and never returned.

This deliberate shunning did in the conference. THE WORKER youths had no chance to ask their highly moot questions why McGovern balked at promising to support the convention's nominee if someone other than he was selected; why he favored unlimited busing to a hieve "racial why he advocated complete U.S. withdrawal from South Vietnam without a prior commitment from the Communists for the release of U.S. POWs; IcGovern's long record of opposition to labor measures in Congress. Disappointed and angere 1 by the curt brush-off, the worker youths were baffled as to how and why it was done.

Later, they found out. In the hotel lobbies and other congregating places, they found obviously hastily hand-lettered signs reading, "Youth conference cancelled." The posters bore no indication of their source. But their purpose was obvious to scuttle the meeting. The worker youths also learned that the McGovernites had gotten wind of their intention to do some plain talking that could be embarrassing with newsmen and broadcasters on hand to record what happened. So the word went out to torpedo the conference.

The McGovernite youths were strictly enjoined to stay away and they obeyed orders. A lot of them had no alternative; they had to. Their convention expenses were paid by the McGoverns. Leaders of the worker delegates who were on hand at the aborted conference were Robert E. B.

Allen, president, Young Democratic Clubs of America; Edward Lamon, president, Young Trade Unionists No. 1, Baltimore; Josh Murav-chik, co-chairman, Youth Committee for Peace and Democracy in the Middle Anthony Ortiz, president, UAW Local No. 163, Detroit; Candice Brown, Montana 1 1 a Michael Bowcn Mitchell, Maryland NAACP. America, Great Britain and West Germany; that in those countries 50 to 80 per cent of the families own automobiles, while in the Soviet Union only one-tenth of one per cent can own a car. More damning, the paper says the Soviet people are being kept in penury so the government can export food and goods to suppqrt the war effort of the North Vietnamese Communists and to shore up Cuba and Arab states.

The government, it says, is more interested in "achieving world domination" than in improving the lot of the Soviet people. The man on the street in Moscow is now being called on to protest and strike one his own behalf surely a startling and disturbing prospect for Soviet leaders. His key is the new following on whom he exerts the influence of a trusted catalyst. And the surprise of the success to date is that the new following has demonstrated more substance and momentum than almost anyone suspected. His performance in Miami matched his performance in the primaries and left skeptics uncertain that it cannot weather the heavier seige of a national campaign.

ANOTHER CLEAR fact is that success is causing McGovern to blossom as a political personality. The man known generally in Washington as an earnest, decent and slightly stiff senator brought a tired convention to its feet at three in the morning and without sleep at some weary breakfast meetings, exuded charm, humor and directness that were strangelv reminiscent of John F. Kennedy. The Democratic regulars have gained in McGovern what they sought in Edmund Muskie, an ideal personality contrast to Richard Nixon. If all the delegates could concur on anything, it would be that "you can't help liking George McGovern." THE SURPRISING absence of deep rancor at this feverish gathering was attributable, perhaps in large part, to the undeniable decency of the man in control.

Nevertheless it is a gamble to count on President Nixon to unify the Democratic Party. He will be playing the President, not Nixon the campaigner, and issues and accomplishments which belie the rhetoric at this convention will be going for him. The Democrats, barely rich enough to get out of Miami, will face a Spanish armada of troops and treasure. It will almost be mid-September before the eggs laid on Florida's beaches this week mature into little turtles. And it will be mid-September before the real implications of what the Democrats did here can be realistically assessed.

Scl ampuign LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) Former Gov. Matthew E. Welsh, campaigning for governor, says Democrats may not be able to out-spend the Republicans, but they can win the election this fall by the GOP. Welsh met with Democratic party leaders Sunday in Lafayette.

He urged Democrats to "knock on every door and shake every hand." cidedly not pro-McGovern. Most of them favor Senators Humphrey, Jackson and Muskie. Each youth group has its own informal overall organization. The McGovernites are spearheaded by what is called the "National Youth Caucus." The worker youths function under the banner of "Youth Coalition '72." The National Youth Caucus was set up by wealthy 44-year-old former Rep. Robert Allen Allard Lowenstein, head of the New Left-dominated Americans for Democratic Action, who was defeated last month in an attempt to stage a congressional comeback.

Last Winter he started out as a Muskie supporter but hastily switched to McGovern when the Maine "front-runner's" campaign flopped. Lowenstein assayed the role of youth kingmaker and spokesman to promote his ambition to run for mayor of New York next year. As money angel of the Youth Caucus, he persuaded Stewart Rawlings Mott, 34-year-old bachelor heir of an $800 million fortune, to ante up $25,000. "Actually I was looking for a job a little more permanence." oFTrttWORU) I for -ml By CHARLES BARTLETT MIAMI BEACH This is the season when huge sea turtles crawl up at night on Florida's beaches, clumsily dig holes in which they deposit masses of eggs, cover them over carefully, and lumber back into the sea. In a similar exertion of awkward fertility, the Democrats have come and gone.

And the results of what they did here, like the turtle eggs left to hatch in the sun-baked sand, lie buried in the imponderables of future events. George McGovern maintained to this convention, "This is the time." But many left here asking, "Is this all happening too early?" Has he achieved a mere beginning or can he culminate something so new in American politics? Will his revolution devour him or put him in power? The view from the rubble of this convention is blurred by fatigue, posturing and flim-flam. The wisest politicos, new and old breed, cannot now tell whether McGovern will be able to put together what he has torn apart, whether time will soften his defectors and bring them to work for a movement which affronts their credos and threatens their power. One clear fact is that McGovern is an incredibly self-sufficient politician. He really believes that he has found a key to new sources of political power and finance that will leave him only marginally reliant on the familiar sources.

He is bold enough to believe even that he may gain more than he loses from the hostility of some traditional sources of power. The needle By HAROLD COFFIN In the world championship chess matches that Russian and his American challenger were inspired by all the highest motives. These included national pride, the will to win, good sportsmanshipand money. Folks didn't realize that chess was a sport until Bobby Fischer called Boris Spassky's attention to its possibilities for financial gain. Chess experts will command more respect now that it's been shown they can be just as greedy as baseball players and prize fighters.

In chess, as in the game of life, it's much easier to be a good loser when a fellow knows he's going to be adequately compensated for losing..