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frn up i iihuj i The Coshocton Tribune Tribune Column Of The Dav: On The Line OPINION Thursday, July PAGE 13, 1972 Chaos At The Democratic Convention The highest reward for man's toil is not tchat he gets for it but uhot he becomes by it. John Ruskin, English author Editorial A Tasteless Match BY BOB CONSIDINE MIAMI BEACH "Ted Kennedy is the only Democrat who can stop McGovern," former New York Mayor Sob Wagner concluded, looking over the scrambling field. "But he not coming here until after both the presidential and vice presidential candidates have been chosen. If he came before that, he'd stampede the convention." Wagner, one of the vice chairmen of the Democratic National Committee, was a candidate for the vice presidential spot at Considine the 1956 convention in Chicago. He had some reasonably solid backing but when he sensed that it wouldn't be enough to put him over, he turned his strength over to John F.

Kennedy. "Jack lost out to Estes Kefauver by about 20 votes and was downright upset," Wagner reminisced with a laugh "It was the best break he could have gotten, of course. There are almost a dozen Democratic parties meeting here: the separate parties of McGovern, Wallace, Humphrey, Kennedy, Muskie, Jackson, Chisholm and Mills; plus the badly splintered blacks, reform groups, yippies, and the spooky open candidates for the No. 2 spot. All are invited to the "unity lunch" Friday morning at eight.

If there are any survivors, of course. Campaign lapel badges haven't had much credibility since the 1956 Democratic convocation. Joe E. Lewis, the late great night club comedian, rolled into the Blackstone in Chicago one night wearing a big "Harriman" badge. Joe was stoned and wanted only to hit the elevator and bed.

But he was stopped in the lobby by Averell himself, and was thanked at great length by the former governor of New York who was wistfully seeking the nomination. The next day, the two met in the elevator. This time, Joe was bathed, shaved and showered. He was wearing a "Stevenson" button. Harriman was deeply hurt and asked The New Era We have seen over the past few days the creation of something new in chess, the Fischer gambit.

This is where to threaten to hold your breath until you turn blue and-or pick up your chess board and go home unless yon can have your own way. 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, the prelude to 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 entertains outrageously large sums of money, we should do the same for chess players. 1 From his point of view this is reasonable, of course. But from everybody else's it is super-arrogant nonsense. That we are foolish enough to sanction paying Tom a $125,000 a year to throw baseballs is no justification 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'tmake-a right theory. For another, there is the fact that chess is not, either "It's Post Time!" Which Coalition? jpr pJj il Foreign News Commentary Great Expectations it ii These Days ill Eisenhower and Nixon would have clobbered him and Stevenson as easily as they rolled over Stevenson and Kefauver. It might have taken Jack a lot of years to pickup the pieces. Instead, four years later he was president." Jimmy The Greek Jimmy the Greek, the wizard of odds from Las Vegas, let his gaze linger on television's beautiful Nancy Dickerson, who was lunching with Washington attorney Edward- Bennett Williams in the Fon-tainebleau's pink poodle room. He let the gaze linger for about 20 minutes, then came over to her table.

"What's your room number, sweetie," the Greek asked. Nancy gave him a glacial smile. "A thousand to one," she said. One of the militant female blacks on hand accosted national chairman Larry O'Brien during the battle over who would get seats in convention hall. "Listen, you she roared at the pious man, "you're gonna give us 750 seats or we're gonna take them!" seminar, and, since the credentials arguments are going to supply something for the textbooks, he decided to stay on for the show.

He knows something about convention behavior, and doesn't see how the confrontations over credentials can take anything less than twenty hours. If this comes to pass, the delegates will be worn out before they can discuss the platform. Query: Once the Wallaceites begin on the busing, how long will the platform fight run? Then, assuming that McGovern is the nominee, what of the Vice Presidential slot? The McGovernites are talking of going "outside'' for the presidential running mate, say to a labor leader like the UAW's Leonard Woodcock. But this is only one possibility in McGovern's mind. He might, he says, leave the choice for vice president up to the convention, with maybe one, two or three "suggestions" of his own.

Just to confuse the issue further, former Governor Endicott Peabody of Massachusetts and Senator Mike Gravel of Alaska are "running" for vice president, a most unorthodox business. Peabody thinks he has 500 delegates. There is still another man after the job, a New York marketing expert named Stanley Arnold. He is a man of infinitely fertile devices, and he says that I am partly responsible for his being here. Some years ago, when I was interviewing him on a business story, I listened to some of his ingenious sales gimmicks and said, "what a waste." He took this to mean that he should turn to public life.

Now he has, done so. Last winter, in Wisconsin, he took the precaution to wrap a few hundred snowballs and put them in a deep freeze. He plans to hurl them into the heat of the Miami Beach convention hall in order to signal his candidacy. What I am afraid of is that, when he realizes the symbolic significance of a snowball trying to bear up in the Florida heat, he'll blame it all on me. But who will be the vice presidential choice? Since the deals can't cook until the presumably ir.termir.able credentials fight is over, we're flying totally blind on that.

him why. "Let's put it this way, Ave, I'm for you only when I'm drunk," Joe said. On the day before the convention opened the little registration desk at the huge Fontainebleau official headquarters was besieged by a throng of delegates, newsmen and others who confirmed reservations. It was manned mostly by a tall, handsome black girl with white nails and an afro. It took from half an hour to an hour to check in, get a key, and a bellhop to transport luggage to the farflung reaches of the glittering pleasure dome.

"Who's in charge here?" one outraged delegate demanded. A guy behind him, who had been waiting just as long, said, "the same group who arranged the bay of pigs invasion." There are three places in town where a tired delegate can rent a girl companion for $20 an hour with a four hour minimum rental required. As Sen. Henry Jackson observed so wisely, at the start of things, "This convention could last two weeks." asms? Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. But Pennsylvania and New York are another matter altogether, and New York, especially, beckons like an electrical Eldorado.

During the last three years, Nixon has been deftly cultivating the New York situation. Who would have foretold, in 1968, that Nelson Rockefeller would be exuberantly managing the Nixon effort in New York and that he would be joined by Javits on the left and James Buckley on the right? Against McGovern, there is. every chance that erstwhile Democratic Irish and Italian voters will go Repubican: the conservative Court appointments, the stands on abortion and pot will help there. But carrying New York requires that Nixon make substantial inroads on the Jewish vote. And he may be able to do so." There are signs that the Jewish vote generally is trending conservative; and, what with Nixon's friendliness to Israel, the Israeli ambassador has all but signed up on his campaign staff.

If all these pieces fall into place a big if Nixon could engineer a huge electoral victory, moving out from the geographical heartland of the country to envelop the Democratic Northeast and problematic California. (From this perspective, the presence of the. summer White House in San Clemente is a detail that should not be overlooked.) And that would provide the basis for a governing coalition quite different from the one that as yet is only a gleam in the eye of George McGovern. THE COSHOCTON TRIBUNE Published Each Evening and Snnday Mornings At 115 North Sixth Coshocton, Ohio 43812, Phone 622-1122 Second Class Postage Paid at Coshocton, Ohio H.Thomas Reed Jr. General Manager Joe Ely Advertising Manager James McGarity Circulation Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Newspaperboy, 70c per week By motor delivery (in advance) 3 months 6 months, $18.50, 1 year, $36.00 By drop-off or mail, same day service, (in advance)1 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, J23.00 By Mail (in advance) Coshocton and adjoining counties and servicemen; 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, $18.00.

Elsewhere: 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, $24.00. College students: 9 months $15.00. 35 Years Ago July 13, 1937 Coshocton's new $75,000 Ohio National Guard Armory was to be constructed on a site southeast of the county fairgrounds, on Route 76, just south of Herbig Ave. The Alabama Kid, former local boxer, continued his climb in the middleweight class by knocking out Battling Jack Petrick of Detroit in the second round of their fight at Columbus. Blue Barron's popular band from Cleveland was due Sunday at Lake Park.

50 Years Ago July 13, 1922 The Square Deal Garage was to open Monday on N. Third St. by Jesse W. Haxton. He had obtained the agency for the four-cyclinder medium-priced Earl automobile, manufactured at Jackson, Mich.

Miss Elizabeth Murray, secretary of the local YWCA, resigned effective Sept. 1. Glen White's Jazzarimba Band from Coshocton was to play for a dance at Benton Park at Millersburg. A group of local dancers was to accompany the band to HoliTies County. By JEFFREY HART Not long ago, Senator James Buckley remarked to me that the country was ready for change, but that the direction of such change was yet to be determined.

Because of the dissolution of the older electoral patterns, the Nixon-McGovern contest, which is apparently forthcoming, will go far toward determining the direction of change. And there is an odd symmetry in the Nixon and McGovern candidacies. Both perceive that the old Democratic coalition is dead. And both, beginning with a secure minority electoral base, must seek to expand that base to form a majority coalition. But the coalitions they have in mind are utterly different.

The old Democratic coalition is fractured beyond repair. The "solid South" is gone, and the farmers, labor, the Jews and the urban blue-collar groups no longer can be counted on to deliver the big New Deal majorities. Sen. McGovern, therefore, began by consolidating a small but solid home base. He became the candidate of the Democratic left: the campus, the chic affluent radicals, plus a garnishing of fashionable suffering minorities: Chicanos, Indians, and so on.

Only gradually did he add the better established and more powerful black politicians and celebrities. McGovern tropes he can expand this base by sweeping the new 18-to-25-year-old vote, appeal to the workingman with his share-the-wealth proposals, and make at least some headway in the South by combining the black vote with that of the Southern liberals, typified by Gov. Reuben Askew of Florida. The Nixon coalition looks quite different. Prior to 1968, the Republicans had been driven out of the Northeast, which became a Democratic stronghold.

But there were Republican votes to be picked up in the South, Southwest, and Border states, as well as in the traditional Midwestern Republican heartland. President Nixon rode this geographical combination in 1968, first to the nomination and then to the Presidency. But it was a very close thing, and no majority coalition crystallized. During the past year, Nixon has been moving to expand wiiat was essentially a minority base. Here is a plausible scenario: He holds most of what he took in 1968, minus South Dakota and Wisconsin: those seem to be McGovern country.

Michigan went for Humphrey in 1968, but, though normally Democratic, it is highly vulnerable to Nixon on the busing issue. Texas went Democratic in I960, 1964 and 1968, but this time the Republicans have a golden opportunity there, especially with McGovern as nominee. The real breakthrough could come in the Northeast, the Democratic stronghold of the past generation. In 1968, Nixon carried only New Jersey, New Hampshire, and Vermont. In 1972 he probably has no chance in historically or intrinsically, an interesting spectator sport.

Such vicarious enjoyment as chess games provide comes from leisurely study of the move-by-move account, not from watching Fischer knit his brow in thought or lick his chops in fiendish anticipation or 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 bordered on extortion and his bluff should have been called. This would have been 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 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. Ralph Novak in the next three years open up a market for American surpluses that did not exist before. It is expected that most of the Soviet purchases will be in feed grains and most of that in corn. It will be fed to livestock to help the Russians meet a growing consumer demand for meat.

A huge American corn crop in 1971 left the United States with a 600 million bushel surplus over what could be used. An important percentage of this will now be sold to the Soviets at current market prices. New Jobs Created Not only do the Russian purchases eat into grain surpluses and help ease the U.S. imbalance in world trade, an important side effect is the new jobs to be created. Peterson estimated that up to 37,500 non-farm jobs could be created in the next three years.

A second consideration is the fact that the grain deal is only one facet of a vast over-all increase in two-way trade hoped for by both sides. One important example is the fact the U.S. government has licensed American firms to bid on a billion dollars worth of equipment to go into Russia's huge Kama River truck building project 600 miles east of Moscow. Important suggestions also have come from the Russians. One is a large passenger car plant for which the United States would supply the equipment.

Repayment would be made in finished cars that the United States could sell in Europe. Another suggested joint venture would involve the sale of Soviet natural gas to both East and West coasts of the United States. And that's only the beginning. Democratic Convention quit iry'wgl Through A Glass, Darkly By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Fcreip News Analyst Notable in U.S. business dealings with both the Soviet Union and China is the expectation of a fairly early end to the war in Vietnam.

Obviously the United States could not issue to the Boeing company a license to sell to China $150 million in 707 jet transports if it believed they could be "-d to deliver yar supplies to North Vietnam against U.S. and allied forces there. The same is true of negotiations soon to be resumed in Moscow looking toward new trade agreements with the Soviet Union. Involved is favored nation treatment for the entry of Soviet goods into the United States and extension of credits to the Soviet pnion. Neither would be likely to win approval Of Congress if the question of Soviet aid to North Vietnam still stood between the two governments.

It also could be expected hat maritime unions quickly would cancel their agreement to load Soviet or third Country flag ships. I Lesser Issue A lesser but important issue is the settlement of the Soviet Union's lend-lease debt to the United States left over from World War II. From an original figure of $10.8 billion, the total has been scaled down to $800 million asked by the United States and $300 million offered by the Soviet Union. A settlement of this issue is another item Expected to emerge from the Moscow negotiations to be conducted by U.S. Commerce Secretary Peter G.

Peterson. I The above does not take into consideration two other important elements. One is the fact that Soviet agreement to buy $750 million worth of American grains ot Hie tSwUmip! basa't inoldnq. (Bask By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN MIAMI BEACH This is the blind-flight convention, with everybody flying without visibility and without landing instruments. Take it up one thing at a time.

A relatively unimpassioned observer, Senator Vance Hartke of Indiana, doesn't think (as of Sunday afternoon) that McGovern has quite managed to put it all together. The 6top-McGovem coalition, then, is still, as of this moment of writing, an operating entity. Hubert Humphrey is counting on the credentials committee to take enough California delegates away from George McGovern to keep anyone from winning on the first ballot. Senator Henry Jackson, deriding "begging and bolting" (an obvious slap at McGovern), thinks the party must, when it comes to its senses on the convention floor, run away from choosing a nominee who is distrusted, according to Jackson, by all but three of the Democratic governors. Wallace is keeping his delegates, but waiting for the platform committee to speak before using his limited amount of energy in an open fight.

Shirley Chisholm, speaking of a Kennedy Mills ticket, hasn't gone to McGovern yet. So the white light beats down on Senator Muskie, who confronts the credentials issue with double-talk. Surely he is the weak man of the stop-McGovern group. Four of thd five in the coalition think it possible to derail the McGovern bandwagon before considering alternative tickets. The only trouble is that there is no basis for agreement on personalities between a Humphrey and a Wallace, a Jackson and a Chisholm, let alone a Wallace and a Muskie.

We can take that statement back: Teddy Kennedy might be acceptable to all of them, leaving only McGovern to grouse and then get in line. But why would Muskie wait for that eventuality? He has it in his power to give it to McGovern, and when Governor Ken Curtis of Muskie'sown Maine indicated a desire to go to McGovern, wasn't that the tipoff? In the fog surrounding the credentials fight, however, the nominations seem far, far away. Clif White, who organized the Goldwater campaign in 1961, happened to be in town for a public affairs Years Ago July 13, 1962 George Stanford resigned as principal of Dresden Jefferson High School. He was to move to Monterey, Calif. Sandy B.

Finnell, 88, well known retired local painting contractor, died at his home. He was engaged in the painting and decorating business for over 70 years and founded a business carried on by three sons. Breezewood Pistol Club advertised a "Shotgunners Fair" July 15, at the club range. A Thompson sub machine gun demonstration was to highlight the program. 25 Years Ago July 13, 1947 Al Cline, former Tribune staffer, was named director of public relations at the Northrop Aircraft Hawthorne, Calif.

He had been with the firm two years. Fred Uhrich, of Uhrichsville, was to judge the Coshocton County Saddle Club's horse show July 27 at the fairgrounds. S. G. Wharton was named athletic director at Coshocton High School.

He was to continue as head football coach..