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DICK WEST CONGRESSIONAL QUARTERLY Anguish Continues For Families Of 2,400 Ml As T)ie cruelties war linger Apart irom Uie issue of lone alter the fad. Americans unreleascd prisoners, 11 it ere no longer dying in combat in Vietnam, but The anguish continues tor thousands ot Americans who wail lor word servicemen still officially unaccounted lor in Indochina. Sadly, all indications are that the wall is largely a djath wnlch. Some 1,100 men have been officially declared dead although their bodies bave not been recovered. Of Ihe 1,300 now carried as missing in action, logic and experience leave little room for hope that even a handful can still be alive.

But this is no' solace for families and friends. Only a thorough search will suffice. Trie search is under way, hut its results thus far have been disappointing. Terrain and weathep would have made it a formidable task even with full Communist cooperation, but cooperation has in tact been nil. No search parlies have yet been allowed into Communist-held territory, and a recent Hanoi statement mates the prospect of this seem remote.

Vietnamese ever intended to help us find our Ml As and unrecoveren" dead. From their point ot View, il would mean allowing foreigners whom they consider spies and agents to move al will through their territory. They find our humanitarian concern all but incomprehensible, and unconvincing in any case. Such concern as they may have for their own MlAs, who must number in the lens thousands, is.manifested only in propaganda. The Vietnam agreement, signed eight months ago, specifically provided that all parties would assist in accounting for ihe missing and dead, both military and 1 i 1 i a il Of liie four signatories, however, only Uie United Stales of America appears to be serious about carrying out this provision.

This is not surprising, but it poses a dilemma: how can we get the Communists to cooperale when their only interest is lo obstruct? Short of military aclion- which even those personally A said last week that involved could not seriously Require A Hoi Fight Over Package Parenthood License? Tour Cliarter Flights no coopers lion could be expected so long as Ihe Thieu governmenl 200.00(1 "political" prisoners. The South Vietnamese deny they 5T! nrisftnprs hut charge in return that almost advocate-- our DCS! channel for persuading the Vietnamese Communists to live to their agreement may be through Moscow or Our agricultural resources 'and 1 o'e I a 1 ou'J, uui RAY CROMLEY CIliU gc in i i i i i 000 South Vietnamese are superiority, which both of the being secretly held in Com- Communist giants want so munist prisons. Our American desperately, could well search mission is thus caught among our major bargaining in the middle. lixAs. Hunt for Truth BY H.

HUNT Say Vietnam Veterans Being Shortchanged Preparations are nearly catlle, breeding swine, sheep completed and Ihe excitement and goats. Other traditional is mounting in anticipation of the opening of the annual Slate Fair a a ot Texas in i fair "activities will include i a of the 1974 automobiles, fashion shows. demonstrations and theme of "World Gateways cooking and homemaking skill Exposition," the 15-day fair, competition. which runs from October 8th Officials al the. fair report through October 2lsl will Include participants from as far nway as ths Philippines and Japan in the Far East to Romania and Denmark in Europe.

In recognition of the Slate Fair's global theme, at least four days have been planned to honor members ot (he Czech, German, Mexican w.d Scottish ethnic groups. The popular Pan American Livestock Exposition will include a National Hereford siiow and the judging of champion beef and dairy that foreign participants will have the most exhibition floor snncn in thp fair's history. Visitors can ex-pccl to sec outstanding cultural displays After all ot America's wars until the middle of this century, anyway--Johnny has come marching home with flags flying and crowds cheering. 11 was different after the Korean War, which was never officially a "war" but which at least had a definite beginning and a definite end-and far more different after the nation's most unpopular conflict of all. Despite (he ovation for some 660 Vietnam 1'OWs, says the Carnegie Quarterly, a publication ot the Carnegie Corporation of New York, "over the las'.

public has barely noticed 6 million ex-soldiers as they World War 11 or Korea. This is particularly unfortunate because so many of those who bore the brunt of the lighting in Vietnam came from lower social and economic groups and were not lucky enough to be able to go lo college and get a draft deferment. Their lack of education, or even inceptive for education, continues lo dog them--compounded, claim the critics, by an Uncle Sam who is not only stingy but is nol doing all he could lo encourage them to take advantage of what benefits they may be entitled to. vets a Senate subcommittee i as "disadvantaged," or.ly one in 25 is i his educational assistance benefits. WASHINGTON (UP1) A i i of Maryland psychology professor is advocating a new government program Ihat would require a license lor parenthood.

Such plans have keen advanced before, but were deemed impractical for obvious reasons. Now, according lo Dr. Roger W. Mclntire, birth control methods that are being perfected. could make the program feasible.

Writing in the magazine Psychology Today, Mclnlire anticipates opposition by noting that Ihe word licensing carries an implication of uicildling i private affairs. Indeed it does, i-" yf What Is suggests to me is a policeman slopping a pregnant woman on the street and saying, "Let me see your license, lady." If she can't produce one, he books her for illegal fertility. But Mclntire also out that "we already license pilots, salesmen, scuba divers, electricians, teachers, velcriBariar.s, cab drivers, soil testers and television fepairmcn." The new license, he says, "would merely Insure that nnlnnlml narpntq vO Jid "familiar with Ihe principles of sound child-rearing." Presumably, a parent who violated the principles would have his permit revoked. In which case the familiar a i warning that "Speeders Lose Licenses" i be changed to "Breeders Ixse Licenses," A I Unscheduled airlines and their lobbyists are trying lo persuade Congress lo cheaper and more flexible holiday package tours for millions of people. Officials from Ihe scheduled airlines industry are working hard to make sure Ihe flights never leave Ihe ground.

Legislation now before Ihe Senate would permit unscheduled airlines lo sell lickcts directly to individuals for economy tourist charier flights lo a single destination, either in the United Slates or abroad. Officials Irorn the seheuu'ed airlines contend that such a step would threaten the survival of U.S. air service by undercutting the regular a i i on their most profitable routes. Their strong opposition has left Ihe future of economy tourist chatter. flights in doubt.

Consider this holiday: One week in New Orleans, hotel accommodations and plane trip from New 'fork. The airlines flight (round trip, coachi costs about $180. Under the new filsn, unscheduled airlines say they could offer the Irip, hotel and air fare, for $165. ot pressure against thi.blll," i a from presidenls and theirs env ployes, cost to S293. sponsor ol toM In addition, unscheduled Congressional Quarttthr tail airlines, such as Sxlurn arid he has been getting World Airways, can sell tickets only through travel agents.

Legislation lo liberalize these requirements would rescind CAB rules that package tours include at least three overnight stops al cities 50 miles apart or more, last a minimum of seven days, and per cent or more of amount Ihe scheduled airlines charge for air fare alone. also would allow unscheduled airlines io sell tickets to individuals instead of relying on agencies to supply a Group, a'privilcge now- open only to scheduled airlines. Proponents of the plan say the American public is being deprived of such travel bargains by unecessarily restrictive requirements for package lours offered by the unscheduled airlines. Under present Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB) rules, Iheir package tours must include three overnight stops, For example, a New Orleans package includes overnight stops in Kreeport, Bahamas, and Orlando, raising the from faraway places as well have returned from duty in as the traditional exhibits from throughout the United States of America. On behalf of the people of Texas, I wish to extend an enthusiastic to participants and visitors alike, in the hopes that this year's fair will enjoy the same measure of success as in Ihe past.

Barbs Al today's prices, a take-out Keeping a stiff upper lip rtmnor Knger-SkfcTM' Will COSt abOUt SW in aOT and that's about all you get constant, though all but imperceptible trickle." Often, they arrived home. invisible and anonymous, on a nighl night from Vietnam. Always, they seemed to i a a before ihcir existence could permeate Ihe public consciousness. Not only has Uie Vietnam veteran been ignored and forgotten, if no! outright vilified, but according to some critics he has liecn shortchanged in veterans licncfils, compared to Ihe veterans ol As it is, says the Carnegie Corporation, today's G.I. benefits are not comparable lo those after World War II.

Then, the government paid a veteran's tuition and also gave him a living allowance ot a month. The single veteran in 1868 received SMO a month (raised to $173 in 1870 and $220 in 1973), but this bad to cover fuition and books as well as living expenses. As recently as last year, although more veterans were using their benefits, Iheir Yet the two periods cannot be strictly The World War II (J.I. Bill put a ceiling of $500 on tuition, books and supplies. The single veteran allowance of $220 a month comes to $1,980 for a school year and is almost three times the World War II allowance.

While is little enough in view oi what inflation has dona to college tuitions and living costs, there is no limit on what a Vietnam veteran con earn on his own ss there was for his World War II counterpart. We also have to ask ourselves what the situation of these millions of socially disaiivaniaged men would be wislim; today the One thing is certain- slandards of parental competency must be uniform in every state. Otherwis'e, people would be flocking to certain states to NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC have babies the way they now The scheduled airlines lob- fa the Air Transport Association (ATA), has locked horns with the National Air Carriers Association (NACA), representing the non-skeds. NACA, credited with writing the charter tour legislation, has won support from various consumer and labor groups i i the Consumer a i of America, United Auto Workers, and the American Federation ot Stale, County and Municipal Em- ployes. "They reaiiy put the heat on Ihe committee," admilied an opposing lobbyist, "and we realized we had a fight on." The ATA spokesman said, "The carriers jumped on us for letting it (Ihe legislation) oul ol commillee.

now. industry from top lo bottom is doing their own lobbying." Sen. Howard W. Cannon (D- chairman of the Commiilee's Aviation Subcommitlee and Continental Airlines 'President Robert Sis told his lo pressura Congress lo kill (he charter airline legislation. Uniled Aic Lines put slips in the paychecks of its employes urging them to write theif congressmen opposing ths hill.

Airline exeaulivp.i-. Harding Lawrence EfranifJ Airways and wiiiiam T. Seawcll of Pan American World Airways hi Washington, D.C., in" September doing their own lobbying. Having failed to kill legislation i commiltee opponents of the plan ara working on two fronts. First, they are lobbying senators oppose ihe proposal if it conies lo a vote on the Senale floor.

But some members would rather it didn't corns up at all. As one aide to a liberal senator said, "Either way you vote you're in trouble. If you vole for it, you've Rot the airlines against you; oppose it and the consumers are against you." On another front, opponents are trying to get the CAB to take over (he issue by approving new regulations to liberalize tour charter flight rules unscheduled airlines. Proponents the legislation might accept this as a vie- tory, the reasoning goes, and if Ihe airlines still viewed the rules as loo harsh, they could contest them, and throw'tha whole dispute into the courts, flock to some states to get married and to others to get divorced. Mclntire's article set me to wondering whether oilier problem areas might be improved by some sort of licensing arrangements.

Old age, for example. There is no doubt that, beyond a certain age, the older we gel the more likely we are to become burdens to society. Sauna Baths Are Becoming Popular In United States One might way to ri-evenl this be to require anyone to live a long time WASHINGTON A plastic duck would probably melt in a Finnish bath. Or so it seems to first- timers partaking in --many would insist escaping from-Finland's favorite way of life, the sauna. Klay had they never entered to get a license to grow old ic service ObviousJv, there might cail it a "Semi, be even less likelihood License" and the applicants ot their obtaining educations or job skills.

Certainly, everything should be done to encoufage and assist Vietnam veterans participation was still 20 per using their benefits. But the cent lower than after World opportunities, even if limited, War II. Of 2.3 million Viet are there for me taking. out it. (letting a for 8 bridge game is lois more fun if you also have a fifth.

P.eme',v,bcr when "inflation" meant Ilic act of blowing a balloon up? A piggy bank ts where the hr-ad of Ihe house gels bis bus money the day before pay day. The boss has changed the title ol ine of his siaff--he's now calling him a "production mangier." Published JEFFREY HART Congress- Has bar these days. One ot the best ways ta make money just put a fellow in the clink for 20 years. How come entertainment marriages run into headline trouble just before a major picture is due for release? They call this season "fall" because that's what you do over Kie rake. a i i opinion is Iloyt King wants you lo a i holds that know ihat one swallow doesn't President Nixon will defy any Supreme Court order to hand over the Watergate tapes.

In this connection, John Connally attracted a good deal of adverse comment for his view that a President, under a variety ot conceivable cir- i i a would be juslifcd in ignoring a court JL Control Tlie Supreme Court must familiar with the principles of growing old gracefully. Anyone cwighi doddering without a license would be subject to arrest. There are a number of appropriate penalties that couid be imposed on the guilty parties. First offenders might have the rockers on their rocking chairs removed for two weeks. Or, if irit judge reslly wanted to throw the book at him, a culprit might be sentenced to six weeks without prune juice.

When the usually nude bathers sit in a special wood- lined room, they can take heated air that may be hotter than boiling water. When a little water is poured over red hot stones on the sauna oven, the steam i i a increases humidity, the skin can't evaporate perspiration as easily, nnd She bather instantly feels hotter. Bathers may whip each with water-soaked whisks of birch branches. This is supposed to stir up skin circulation and perfume Ilic air with the woodsy fragrance of birch leaves. make a summer, hut it sure warms you on a cold fall day.

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The people arc overwhelmingly against busing, but little progress has been made on an anti-busing amendment. No success has attended the efforts to overturn (he school-prayer or oiw-mnn, one vole nmemlmcnl. No legal scholar pretends Ihat the abortion decision rests on anything other Ihsn legal Yet amendments to it Bather dust in the Scnale. Not so much in law as in fact the Supreme Court has hnrnme Ihe fini'l srhilpr oE dVfYfc 11 and even imponderable moral and legal issues. is as if there has been a widespread tacit recognition (hat these issues can never be resolved by "discussion," that no evidence would finally sway the case and therefore they have been left in the lap of the Court.

Beller almost any decision than no decision. Belter to put the matter to rest than continue the squabble. Tims the Court has acquired a sacred or oracular a i ils tests a arguments largely covers for its acts of will, On this view hardly matters that the Court is anything but distinguished, comaining as it does several mediocrities and one case of manifest senility. Collectively, Ihe Courl resembles a slightly retarded hereditary monarch: not the most lucid fellow, the only king we have. Write Your Representatives In his decision to defy Ihc Court, if indeed he has mada il, the President had better take Inlo account (hat he.

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Felix McDonald 641 N. Rroadway Elsa, Trx. One a i a i beginner describes tire experience: "Sitting in nearly unbearable heat, whipping yourscll with tree branches, gelling scrubbed within an inch of your life by a strange woman, and then rolling in the snow or plunging into kc water-all in your birthday suit." a ol Americans, advised Uy architects and trying lo keep up with the Joneses, are including saunas in their homes. A real Finnish bath or even a reasonable facisimile has not trough a frozen nearby lake enlv 9 status symbol i swimming in as significant as a swimming pool, but addicts swear they have never been healthier or felt better. In Finland there are now more than a million faunas, or one for every five Finns, who may consider them (tie most important room in tho house.

No apartment building, hotel, lennis club, gymnasium, or summer relrcnt would be worthy of the name without a sauna. Nobody knows how long Finns have been a i saunas. The dry air--about five per cent humidity--is what makes saunas work. Then bathers run outside and roll in the snow, which one Finn says feels like a mousse." Alternatively. a plunge silk." Supposedly the sauna- heated body is protected briefly from a shocking chill.

Even so, doctors are divided nn the sauna's merits. Some say a good shower is Uisl as beneficial in the way of relaxing, makinfi men horrible and obnoxious," anrl giving the bather a sense oi well being. Jlost Finns wouldn't dream of less than one sauna a week. Sauna bathing is full oi surprises. The washerwoman lakes her jub seriously, scrubbing from Ihe tip of Iba nose lo the loes, including ths bottoms of the feel.

A sirirt rule is "Behave in Ihe sauna as you would in church." Only family sauna? are cued, and at least once a week small town public saunas may sponsor a Ladies Day. Business deals frequently arc worked oul in the i sauna, a i negotiate "nrrnss Ihe sauna oven" just as Americans do on (he goll course. Conventions may close with' a sauna parly, and "in" social gatherings mny end up in the sauna instead of the swimming pool. nirt'li whisks, quick frozen, are available Ihe year around. A -tsn-year-old painting in Finland pictures Adam and Kvp each discreetly armed ivilh i i i BOTS1BLD Books arc being recorded on i i not only save space but also lo preserve them.

Many books are deteriorating in American libraries because publishers after 1870 began using paper made wood pulp instead of from rag, Tho World Almanac notes. The 'paper becomes britlle with ngc because the wood pulp is treated with an acid. ma "Belter let ma out ot here, Charlie, II my who's in our car pool, she won't let cut' down on pollution and ease the gas.