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IlHliUS loth a EDITOR What hwn Papers Arc Saying An Independent Xcuiptipcr ViwsrTH MAtDo.Min. tiller fMUktt CAWNW Cowuti, Trtudent Jons Cowui, ChaiimM A Recognition for China BEFORE ELKTIQH Disputes Editorial On Speaker List To IM Id tors I note The Register wa highly laudatory of a federal judge for hampering a congressional committee's action in cxposmg certain radical liberal campus speakers I "Government Blacklist of Oct. 31 1- The editorial and the judga said the committee should stick to investigations with a legislative purpose. Yet, one of the greatest genuine liberal thinkers who ever Jived, Woodrow Wilson, says in his "Congressional Government" that the "Informing function of Congress should be preferred even to its legislative function." Apparently Wilson doesn't weigh much anymore. Michael Burgher, 2739 Burden Dubuque, la.

52001. Require Abortion In Third Pregnancy? To tM Editor: From here on in, It should be considered no less than a crime against humanity, a crime that's equivalent to murder, to have more than two children (excepting multiple births). The threat of overpopulation, and the tragic consequences inherent in the overpopulation of a species, of a land, must be taken seriously. No one should have the grossly selfish right to deny the existence of future generations of life. And, as contradictory as it may seem, we are denying the right to life by insisting on the right to ovcrpopulate ourselves to extinction.

The Iowa Legislature should not waste time debating on whether or not to liberalize the existing abortion laws. Rather, the Legislature ought to pass a law making abortion mandatory for anyone who becomes pregnant for the third time. Mrs. Pamela Cullison, 5936 Cottage Drive, Des Moines 50311. iikfel The government of Italy, which has been trying to "recognize" mainland una for over a year, is finally succeeding.

Canada did so last month. Belgium has been working hi it for upwards of a year. Bolivia, Chile and Teru have recently turned left domestically and seem likely to recognize China soon. The diplomatic freeze-out of the Peking governmeot which the United States has so long engineered Is breaking up fast, and the United States itself is no longer nearly so adamant. It shouldn't be.

China is a fact which must be faced. Like it or not, the nations of the world should seek to have regular diplomatic, trade and travel contacts with this most populous of the world's countries. The United Nations should have China as one of its members the real China with 800 million inhabitants, not just the remnant of Nationalist China on the island of Taiwan. The existence of Nationalist China creates a problem, especially for the United States, which has an alliance treaty with it and a long history of friendship and military and economic aid. The "two Chinas" both claim the whole of China including the territory occupied by each other and both reject a "two Chinas" solution.

Nationalist China breaks off diplomatic relations with any country that recognizes mainland China, and vice versa. ELECTION Says Winners Were Nixon, Muskie, 2-Party System An Unrepresented Majority A. In Mamg tduar Loci! 1L Nowui, BuurtH Alantr Canada reached agreement with the mainland China government by "taking nle" of th? mainland's claim to Taiwan, without neccssari'y endorsing it. Japan has extensive trade relations with both, while "recognizing" Taiwan and having only "trade missions" to the mainland. Canada did the same before Its recent switch.

Taiwan is one of the most proserous of Asian lands. The government is essentially a dictatorship by remnants of the old Nationalist government on the mainland, and its swollen armed forces and constant proclamation of Intent to return give it a surrealistic look. But this cannot last forever. Some way should be found to keep a seat for Taiwan in the United Nations when the mainland Is admitted, which is bound to happen fairly soon now. Not this year, probably but Belgium thinks it will be next year, and U.N.

Secretary General Thant thinks it will be in 1972. Belgium proposes a new formula for handling it: "one China, two governments." Mainland China would get the Security Council seat, both would appear in the General Assembly as governments of one "China," leaving to the two governments themselves the problem of the future relationship. This sounds tricky, but some such dodge might work. Unless something of the sort happens, Taiwan is likely to be shoved out in the cold altogether before long. vote.

In Connecticut, Republican Representative Lowell Weicker, jr. won with 42 per cent. But the liberal-conservative issue was not as clearly defined in Connecticut as in New York. Weicker has sided with House liberals in voting to override presidential vetoes of spending bills. His opponents were liberal Democrat Joseph Duffey and conservative-leaning Democrat Senator Thomas Dodd, the incumbent, running as an independent.

Buckley told celebrants at his New York headquarters Tuesday night that his success was a victory for the silent majority. The real majority in New York was silently licking its wounds and pondering the price of dividing the same philosophy between two party labels. Water Skiing upon by a small group of Creston water skiing enthusiasts. A six-horsepower boat is too small to pull a water skier, so Christensen introduced the big-boat bill. The Legislature passed it.

The results of this "experiment" were reported to the commission this week. Roy Downing, superintendent of water activities, said "there was noticeable erosion in that part of the lake used by skiers." Water Supervisor Louis Nuehring said a total of 261 big boats used the lake during a 58-day season, or an average of fewer than five boats a day. He estimated that it had cost the state $1.50 for each hour of boating pleasure it was giving these private patrons. There were no surprises here. What is surprising is that commission officials recommended that the experiment be continued for another year.

The new law says the commission "may at any time prohibit water skiing if it finds such activities to be damaging to the shoreline." Why not end this ill-advised experiment now? servicemen who contracted venereal disease. As a result, those infected delayed avoided reporting for treatment. The policy finally was changed to encourage servicemen to seek treatment. The Pentagon's new drug policy likewise recognizes that the the threat of discipline may stand in the way of a cure. The 1970 Iowa Legislature took a similar step when it adopted a law under which a drug user may seek help without fear that his name will be disclosed a law enforcement agency.

The Pentagon says, "It is the policy the Department of Defense to prevent eliminate drug abuse within the armed forces and to attempt to restore members so involved to useful service." The same philosophy is warranted in civilian jurisdictions. of the Past 'Hughes For President' (jeM McCermeity, IwllnetM Miwti Irel Regardless of the outcome of this 1970 election, a new President can be elected In 1971 And he should be Harold E. Hughes, three-time governor and United States Senator from Iowa. Whether Democratic prospects nre hopeful or merely desperate, Hughes has the credentials for victory In 1972. Of all the names, his js the bright, new, shining, solid one.

He has won his welts from Agnew for honest liberalism; he has rapport with the young, understanding for the poor, compassion for the afflicted. All those traits come from the Iowa carthiness, the essential Americanism of small-town boy, combat Infantryman, truck driver, lay preacher, out-doorsman, reformed drinker and converted Republican. Neither extreme will want him, but Harold Hughes is progressive enough for any honest liberal, sturdy enough for any true conservative. He won his spurs of statecraft in three terms as governor of the quintessential American state, In an unusually effective opening term for a freshman senator, in the political storms of the governors conferences, at the Chicago convention, where he nominated McCarthy and led the struggle for party reform, and in his rousing rescue of key Democratic candidates in this campaign. He offers what the presidency lacks.

What the nation needs. Moral leadership. Without it, no amount of diplomatic expertise, no degree of political sophistication, or economic wizardry, can save us. With it, even in the face of the awful threats of pollution, population and the proliferation of terror, survival is still possible. Youth Campaigning Effort Praised (Oelweln Register) Fears were expressed earlier in the year that unleashing the student activist into the political arena could be something of a nightmare.

Even some of the "peace" candidates were advising their young staff members to shape up. Those fears were groundless. Surveys taken of various races show conservative and moderate candidates receiving more student support than they expected, and some dovish candidates receiving less. As an example, Conservative James Buckley's New York senatorial campaign was aided by more than 5,000 students, according to an aide, while his two liberal opponents were unable to recruit anywhere near that number. Volunteers, young and old, are an essential part of any political campaign, performing much of the nitty-gritty which sustains the effort.

That so many young people are participating, and doing so in a responsible manner, is commendable. Says Import Quotas Would Hurt Farmer (Waterloo Courier) A measure that has been tied to a bill 1 increasing Social Security benefits poses a serious threat to Midwestern farmers, i The measure, approved by the Senate Finance Committee, establishes import quotas on shoes, textiles and with presidential consent other goods. While this measure doesn't appear to have a direct relationship to American farmers, it does threaten them. Countries of the European Common Market have warned that the proposed quotas constitute a violation of GATT agreements, and are threatening to re- taliate against American soybeans. Soybeans are this country's No.

1 cash export. The soybean industry has a laud- able record of moving its production into free markets instead of into the surplus bins. The measure could result in serious damage to the American soybean producers, who have long sought to remove their surplus through free trade. It could also be harmful to our balance of payments, and cause a further gold reserve drain. It should be struck down.

Backs Tighter Credit And Lower Rates (Mason City Globe-Gaxeto) It took Atty. Gen. Richard Turner quite a while in office to decide that the 18 per cent finance charge attached to credit card and retail store credit balances is illegal. Turner announced in the fading days of the campaign that he isn't going to pay the charge and, subsequently, filed a suit against Younker Bros. The issue is whether the charge is "interest" or a "service State law limits consumer interest rates to 9 per cent a year.

Anything above that is considered usurious. But there has been no court decision whether the retailer charge in fact is an interest rate (payment for use of the retailer's money) or a service charge. The retailers protest that they don't "make money" on the service charge, that often payments are defaulted and, besides, the cost of credit billing offsets revenue from the charge. If it is such a poor deal, why does the retailer extend credit? It seems reasonable that the retailer should be able to charge the consumer up to the legal 9 per cent interest rate for use of the retailer's money in making time purchases. Beyond that, why shouldn't tie retailer simply weed out the bad risks and refuse to extend credit to those individuals? With both major parties running liberal candidates, the Senate race in New York was ready-made for a third-party entry.

Tuesday, while liberal-leaning New Yorkers divided their votes between Democrat Richard Ottinger and Republican Senator Charles Goodell, the victory went to Conservative Party candidate James Buckley, who won just 38.8 per cent of the vote almost exactly the percentage Barry Goldwater won nationally when he was buried in the 19(14 Johnson landslide. As a result, a candidate who docs not represent a majority of his constituency will take his seat as New York's junior senator. Buckley was one of two men to win Senate seals with less than a majority Ill-Advised The Legislature earlier this year passed a law telling the State Conservation Commission it could experiment with big power boats on the state's Green Valley Lake near Cres-ton. The experiment should not have been necessary. The commission already knew that large boats create waves which, pounding against the shore, accelerate erosion and shorten the useful life of a lake.

In Iowa, where siltation also may cause the rapid filling up of a lake, this shore erosion is particularly troublesome. The commission has riprapped many miles of shoreline to retard erosion. Because of this problem, the commission had closed Green Valley and other small artificial state lakes to motor boats of more than six horsepower. The Legislature's intervention was not due to a sudden interest in water man-a Representative Perry L. Christensen, a Kent Republican whose district includes the lake, was prevailed 1 i Plerotti, lea Roth Agency The one big Democratic loss in the South arose from the reverse circumstances.

Senator Albert Gore of Tennessee, a veteran of 20 years infighting, won the primary only to lose to the young Republican challenger, Congressman William Brock. A second area of Democratic rebound centered around the major Great Lakes states. Blue-collar voters in Ohio, Illinois, and Wisconsin, including many white ethnic groups, helped elect Nixon in 1968. They stayed Democratic this time. The victories of John Gilligan as governor of Ohio, Pat Lucey as governor of Wisconsin, and Phil Hart in his bid for re-election as senator from Michigan show that Democrats running on outspokenly liberal platforms can win.

Blessings For Muskie The immediate beneficiaries of the developments Inside each party are not in doubt. The President is a chief architect of the Republican bid for the floating ethnic vote. In addition, Nixon is the Republican best able to cancel the re-, cent Democratic gains in the South and the Great Lakes states. On the Democratic side, there is also a double blessing for Muskie the cautious Down-Easter whose favorite word seems to be "trust." A good but unflamboyant record on civil rights assures that he can pass muster with the upcoming men from Dixie. His ethnic background, Polish and Catholic, reinforces the currents that have pushed the Lakes states towards the Democrats.

That such familiar and un-with-it figures should dominate the political landscape will perhaps inspire the charismatic-minded to dream dreams of a third-or fourth-party effort. But the Republican rebound in the Northeast combines with the Democratic revival in the South and the Great Lakes to mop up most of the dissidence that caused so many voters to look beyond the two old parties in 1968. As matters stand now, only those who confuse politics with fashion and think of issues as tests of moral sensitivity are likely to want to move outside the regular system. Even they may have been taught a lesson by the results in New York. The purists there preferred a sure loser, Senator Charles Goodell, to a very similar Democrat, Richard Ottinger, and thus produced the one truly bad result of the whole poll the election of Buckley.

'Mellow Freaks' of street life is absent. Long hair is common (cleaner maybe) but not requisite. Dress is comfortable. Jargon gets passed over in favor of language. Psychedelics are taken seldom and reverently.

Marijuana is used socially; so is alcohol. There is as little dope dealing as possible. Sex is well thought of. Status-seeking is less intense. There are fewer cops.

Life is easier, slower, less panicky. Mellowness is subject to individual interpretation. One-to-one relationships are significant. People get married! Have kids! Mellow freaks may also have worked out their productivity problems as artists or artisans or as laborers, taxi drivers, or doctors or lawyers or social activists. After an absence of years, they may return to school, to a much less competitive level.

Since mellowness brings greater respect for individuality, it brings greater consideration. Hostility and suspicion diminish. Intellectual endeavor is livelier. Reading takes place. Mellowness also brings political perspective.

A mellow person is neither a shut-up apolitical hard-line head, nor a doctrinaire fanatic. He or she can consider an issue and organize for it and accomplish with it. Mellow people feel comfortable about voting if the occasion warrants. Basically, looking over all this, what appears is a sort of contemporary Aristotelian mean. Twentieth Century life may be absurd and awful and bloody, but it is possible to gather good things out of it with a good grip on spiritual pragmatism.

Mellowness is maturity without senility. Opp ose 12-Month School Year To the Editor: An article in the Nov. 1 Register quoting Dr. Ralph C. Norris, Polk County superintendent of schools "Urges All Teachers Work 12 Months" prompts me to offer a few observations.

One of the fine features of teaching is the three-month period each year when the teacher is free to work in other fields, or travel or investigate in any line which interests him. It is pos'ib'e to operate during these Hires months in such a way that the monetary return Ls much greater per month than from teaching. Some teachers who have done this, on being asked why they return to teaching, answer, "I enjoy Those who enjoy teaching are always interested in helping students satisfy their curiosity. Those who don't, stick to the prescribed outline, and resent dealing with anything else. This stifles natural curiosity.

Raising the pay schedule and requiring more study won't attract teachers who enjoy teaching. It may result in teachers who dislike teaching but like the A. B. Parsons, 309 S. Garfield, Eagle Grove, la.

50533. Wants Rail Service Through Burlington To the Editor: As I am one of those who enjoys railroad travel I read with interest your Oct. 26 editorial regarding a new ray of hope recently given the railroad passenger train by the Congress. However, I did not like that part which you enclosed in parentheses suggesting that the secretary of transportation "might find that Chicago-Omaha service should go through the Quad-Cities and Des Moines rather than through Burlington and The route through Burlington and Ottumwa still has service because over the years this carrier provided better, faster and more frequent service. And so the' traveling public has not altogether deserted them.

And now, with the Great White Father in Washington to stand behind them, the big boys would like to take the ball and bat away from the little boys. We in southern Iowa like to read your paper and do not approve of playing favorites to Des Moines and the Quad-Cites. You have your interstate highways and direct airlines which we have helped subsidize. Now don't feel too bad if the service you turned away does not turn back. Wilson B.

Lemberger, Box 68, Wever, la. 52658. 'Prompt Action'? To the Editor: I want, to congratulate Atty. Gen. Richard Turner for his prompt action in filing suit against Younker Bros.

for charging 18 per cent interest on credit accounts in the state. It is really funny that after four years in office and just before election he would discover this illegal charge. Ray F. North, Deni-son, la. 51442.

sf Hi life Suteioe soeoMke Iril lilT By Joseph Kraft Publiihers-Hill Syndicate WASHINGTON, D.C. The 1970 elections racked one up for the system, The big winner was the two-party structure. I Both Republicans and Democrats reasserted themselves in areas wnere tneir strengtn had been ebbing. That result cements the ascendancy of President Nixon in his own party and establishes the leadership of Senator Edmund Muskie in the race for the Democratic nomination in 1972. The Republican rebound came in the Northeast.

In 19(i8, Nixon carried only New Jersey, Delaware, Vermont, and New Hampshire. A main reason was that the GOP was too much of a WASP stronghold to attract the Irish and Italian Catholics who were itching to leave the Democratic Party. Many "floating ethnics" tended to vote for George, Wallace, or in New York state for Conservative Party candidates. Democrats Rebounded This year in the Northeast, the Republicans followed the lead of the President and Vice-President in reaching for the "floating ethnics" by emphasis on the law-and-order issue. That strategy paid off with the re-election of Gov.

Nelson Rockefeller in New York; a New York Senate seat for James Buckley, the Conservative candidate backed by the Administration; the upset defeat of Senator Joseph Tydings by Congressman J. Glenn Beall, in Maryland; and the victory of Lowell Weicker as senator in Connecticut. On the Democratic side, there were two rebounds. The big one came in the South. In 1968, Hubert Humphrey carried only Texas.

In the 10 other states, the Democratic leader received less than a third of the total vote in the three-way races. But this year a fresh crop of Democrats, free of association with past battles, emerged in the primaries and carried the general elections. That explains the victories of Reubin Askew and Law-ton Chiles as governor and senator in of Jimmy Carter as governor of Georgia, of Dale Bumpers as governor of Arkansas, and of Lloyd Bentsen over George Bush in the Texas Senate race. Youth Admires By Steven Levine NEW culture circles the word "mel low" is an increasingly popular de scription of a special state of mind and a whole complex of phenomena that surrounds it, a kind of moderating grace under fire. Originally, mellow was a dope term, the kind of high that comes from good grass accompanied by food, wine, and outstanding rock music played at low volume.

Far from being mellow, however, the early part of an individual's association with the counter-culture is liable to be pretty ragged. But many hip kids realize as they get older that life doesn't need to be ecstatic all the time, or even exciting, that it can be satisfying. Mellow freaks, who are generally between 25 and 35, tend to avoid ster- SteveH Levine is an 18-year-old Denver student whose writings express the views of many in his generation. eotype freak scenes. They move out of hippie ghettoes and slip quietly into older, urban middle-class communities, taking up residence in clean old houses with rational rents.

Well aware of what publicity does to an experimental community, they try to be inconspicuous and try to keep their concentration relatively light. In mellow areas, the rigid conformity ill JOSEPH KRAFT fa 1 STEVEN LEVINE Enlightened Military Drug Policy the face of reports indicating a heavy and increasing use of drugs among American servicemen, particularly in Vietnam, the Pentagon has adopted an enlightened policy on abuse that substitutes education and treatment for threats and courts-martial. Under the new policy, action under the Uniform Code of Military Justice may be suspended against a person who is sincere in seeking help voluntarily comes forward before he is apprehended or detected." Those who are considered beyond rehabilitation may receive honorable discharges, rather than dishonorable dis-. charges, and thus be eligible for care in veterans hospitals. At one time the services punished Undoing Bloopers The map of America is dotted with unusual place names which owe as much to the bad spelling of some long-forgotten sign painter as to their founder's original inspiration.

Once recorded, these "typos" have a life of their own. The founder of the little town of Turon in Kansas had, the story goes, Turin, Italy, in mind. The depot signpainter's mistake not only changed the pronunciation but obscured the source of the name. Other mistakes continue to look like mistakes despite the passage of years. Tuscon Drive in.

Cedar Falls is one. Years ago, someone transposed the middle letters of Tucson as in the Arizona city but the mistake never really caught on. Some street signs have the Arizona spelling, some do not. Thirty-five residents of Tucson-Tuscon or to of and all of if nice been have A an first Drive recently decided that life was complicated enough without carrying the burden of confusion imposed by mistakes of the past. The City Council agreed.

Last week it changed the name Tuscon Drive to Tucson Drive. Now there's a commonsense solution ever we heard one. One of the hardest tilings a woman is called on to do is to throw away one white kid glove when the mate has lost And though its mate may been missing for three years, hope persists that it may turn up somewhere. Zula B. Greene, Topeka Capital.

new law makes it a $50 fine to have open beer can in your car. It's the law passed at the urging of the Jitterbug lobby. Tulsa World. it it frJ-r. -aril.