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N-63 Anything that would tend to inhabit the resident's opportunity for re-election I would not favor. John Andrews, Ohio Republican chairman, opposing1 party members who would challenge President Nixon for the party's residential nomination. Provocation to War against anybody on the basis of color or ethnic origins or even, for that matter, religion. (Parochial schools stand ready to take Protestant children if parents are willing.) It seems to me, though I am admittedly a layman insofar as reading the law is concerned, that parents who want to send their children to church-related schools of their own choice still have a legal recourse. The First Amendment to the Constitution, which enjoins the separation of Church and State, also specifies that nobody shall be prevented from exercising his right to freedom of religion.

Forcing a parent to take his child out of a parochial school because he can't afford two separte school systems is, if language means any-thing, an obvious infringement of the right to religious protection under the First Amendment itself. Without giving a penny directly to any school, a state legislature or even a town council might choose to give educational vouchers to parents that would be cashable in any school, whether public or private. Or there could be tax remission to parents for school preferences. Justice Berg-er's Supreme Court has not yet pronounced on "parent aid" as distinct from parochial school aid. A voucher system would treat the educational tax dollar of the individual citizen in an equitable manner.

And the citizen, using what, after all, is his own money in the school of his choice, would be able to defend his right to freedom of religion as guaranteed by the First Amendment. Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York is leery of a voucher system for purely political reasons: if vouchers were to be voted universally, he might have to reckon with snide remarks about a "Rockefeller school plan for Alabama." But if "parent aid" were used in the South to build up discriminatory private schools, it wouldn't be long before the courts would step in to force anti-discriminatory standards on any school that tried to cash a voucher. The ball is now in Nixon's court. If he is to live up to his summer's promise, he must come out for educational vouchers or some related form of "parent aid." The action of the three-judge Federal Court that voided state aid to parochial Fchools in New York State puts President Richard Nixon right on the spot. It was just about six months ago that Cardinal Cooke of the Archdiocese of New York, speaking to the Supreme Convention of the Knights of Columbus, bemoaned what was happening to the church-related schools of America in our age of superin-flation.

Citizens who wished to exercise their freedom of choice in education by sending their children to Catholic, Jewish or even private secular schools were being put in almost unbearable, financial, double jeopardy. First, they had to fork up their tax money to support the public school system; then, on top of this, they had to pay private school fees. The inequities, the discriminations, of the system were, or at least should have been, obvious. Sparking to the Cardinal's challenge for clarity, Richard Nixon remarked that, "as Cardinal Cooke has pointed out, at a time we see those private and parochial schools which lay such stress on these religious values, as we see them closing at the rate of one a day, we must resolve to stop that trend and turn it around. You can count on my support to do that." But what is there to do? The three-judge court that has enjoined the State of New York from paying out $33 million to "non-public" schools for "secular education servies" based its judicial ukase on a prior Supreme Court decision as well as on lower court action in voiding similar aid in Pennsylvania and Connecticut.

Direct payments to private schools even for such religiously neutral services as the teaching of chemistry or Latin seemed to be permananently out. If Richard Nixon can do nothing to redeem his promise to Cardinal Cooke, it could cost the taxpayers of America a billion dollars a year. Protestants no less than Catholics should resent this. For if the 4,500,000 American youngsters whose parents have chosen annually to send to parochial schools are to be dumped on the public school system, it will lead to a deterioration of education all over the country. The irony is that the parochial schools do not discriminate to sue for peace, and the British would lose all hojx? of America's coming into the war.

There was no U-boat incident, however, even the Atlantic Charter, which Roosevelt and Churchill signed at the same shipboard meeting and which pledged the United States, although technically a neutral, to work for the "final destruction of Nazi tyranny" did not provoke the incident that could lead the United States into war. It was to come four months later, not by any act of Nazi Germany, but rather by her ally, Tojo's Japan. The attack on Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941, was followed three days later by declarations of war against the United States by Germany and Italy. Now all three dictators, Tojo, Hitler and Mussolini, were arrayed against America, and World War II, which had been a runaway for Hitler and Tojo, became a war for survival. Roosevelt wanted to wage an undeclared war.

The Japs gave him the excuse in the Pacific and the Nazis and the Fascists fell into line. The American people had no choice but to conform, and they were ready, too. President Franklin D. Roosevelt told Prime Minister Winston Churchill in August, 1941, that he was looking for an incident that would justify the United States in opening hostilities against Nazi Germany, according to secret minutes of the British War Cabinet which have just been made public. Had Roosevelt submitted a declaration of war to Congress, it would have been debated for months, and the President was spoiling for a fight than and there, Churchill told his war cabinet.

The two leaders had met on shipboard in Placentia Bay off the coast of Newfoundland in August, 1941- There they agreed that the United States Navy would operate a supply convoy across the Atlantic. "The President's orders to these escorts were to attack any German U-boat which showed itself, even if it were 200 to 300 miles away from the convoy," Churchill reported to his war cabinet. "Everything was to be done to force an incident." At that time, the Nazis were advancing across Russia and Churchill warned Roosevelt that the Soviet Union might be forced Hal Boyle The Poor Man's Philosopher Dreamboats Tend to Become Tugboats What Is the Youth Vote? she thinks now that she knows everything about politics. Whoever her husband is for, she votes against and insists on giving reasons. He told her he didn't want any children for fear that having them might hurt her.

She said that no, they must have two children to be named Jack and Jill. She ended up having five children. Marriage, she told him firmly before the ceremony, mustn't be the end of her career. She wanted to "be somebody" and make the most of her talents. Her talent, it turned out, was cheerleading.

For the last 25 years she has been trying to pep talk him into working harder and making more money. There was a time when she prided herself on washing her own tresses and making her own dresses. Now her annual bills for coiffure and clothes would pay a paint job on the Statue of Liberty. But she still shows up for breakfast looking as if she had spent the night whirling around in a laundry machine. Wasn't she gay and lovely, the day they came back from their honeymoon and raced up three flights of stairs to their l'--room love nest in the slums? Oh, well, don't all such days pass? Now she mopes because the cathedral living room in their 10-room house in the suburbs looks so gauche.

Their quarrels once were as brief and impromptu as summer storms, he recalls wistfully, and were followed immediately by loving and laughing. But now, he feels, "she starts jabbing at me on Friday night and is still at it on Monday morning." They are weekend horrors. She was so hopeful and cheer-fui as they took the first steps on their long path together. Now she has decided that her future has become her past. Dumbly her husband wonders what he did wrong to make things turn out this way.

Nothing at all. The girl of his dreams merely married him. Time, the chief villain of our lives, 'did the rest. NEW YORK (IP) As every husband comes to realize, no man knows a woman until he marries her. 1 Even then, as the slow years mutter their way to eternity, he is never really certain he comprehends her nature fully.

He is sure, however, of certain changes in her. For example, when they first met she loved to go on long walks with him, and she'd half-trot at his side for miles without wearying. Today she couldn't even walk down the altar with him again without yelling for a taxi. During their courtship, she ransacked the cookbooks to find new recipes to try on him, and he'd put on an apron and help do the dishes. But it has been years now since he has done anything in the kitchen, and he complains that her cuisine speciality is "four-day hash." "You tell me who you want for president," she said in earlier years, "and I'll vote for him.

I don't know anything about politics." What happened? Well, Lawrence E. Lamb, M.D. Skin Commonly Sags With Age The Census Bureau has settled the question, what is the youth vote State by state figures just released state that 11,462,000 persons between ages 18 to 21 will be eligible to vote in November, plus 14,213,000 age 21 to 24 who will be eligible to vote for their first presidential election, a total of 25, 675,000 first-time potential voters. They make up 18 per cent of the 1972 estimated Voting population of 139-6 million. The youths would be a potentially decisive political force if they cast their votes as a bloc.

But since young people usually vote at a lower rate than older adults, some other analyses are necessary to get at the actual potential impact of youth in the November election. To start with, in 1968, only 70 per cent of those over 25 voted. But among those 21 to 24, only 51 per cent voted. And in the four states that previously allowed persons under 21 to vote, only 33 per cent did. Overall, 61 per cent of those eligible voted in 1968.

If those under 21 who are newly enfranchised vote at the 33 per cent rate, they would account for 3.8 million of a total electorate of 82 million, or 4.6 per cent. If those under 21 vote at the 51 per cent rate, they would account for 5.8 million of a total electorate of 84 million, or 6.9 per cent. Actual participation is likely to run between the 33 and 51 per cent rates, perhaps at a rate of 42 per cent in a total electorate of 83 million, and account for 10.8 million or 13 per cent. The census study found young adults come from families with a median annual income of $9,969, one per cent more than the national median; fewer had incomes under $5,000 and more between $5,000 and $10,000, parallel the national rate. Also paralleled are urban and suburban ratios and racial ratios.

In other words, if youths run to form, and vote as their adults do, their impact will not be anywhere as great as their numbers. Only the election will furnish the real proof. Bruce Biossat In Washington It's Budget Time, Schools in Bind women and some men have cosmetic surgery done to remove the excess folds. A common method is to pull up the skin around the neck and then remove the excess skin from an incision over the back of the neck. A small scar may remain after the procedure.

Dear Dr. Lamb I have an excess amount of skin under my chin. Is there any exercise or something else that can cure this unwanted problem? I have tried several exercises, but I do not seem to get any results. Dear Reader Exercise won't help much. The only thing that will really help is cosmetic surgery.

You could have an incision just under the chin, the excess fat and skin removed. The fine-line scar just under the jaw is hardly noticeable. (Newspaper Enterprise Assn.) Please send your questions and comments to Lawrence E. Lamb, M.D., in care of this paper. While Dr.

Lamb cannot answer individual letters, he will answer letters of general interest in future columns. Background Rule Speaking for the White House Correspondents Association, its executive committee called upon its members to abide by the rules of anonymous briefings. It was an implied rebuke to The Washington Post for revealing that Henry Kissinger, the President's adviser on national security affairs, had given them a widely used background briefing. The correspondents were eager to preserve their access to White House sources. Chess Comes Into Its Own Fifteen bids from 10 nations and five cities, ranging from $40,000 from Colombia to $152,00 from Belgrade, Yugoslavia, for the tournament to decide the world championship of chess, shows that the game has come into its own.

The decision is up to Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union, the champion, and Bobby Fischer of the United States, the challenger. The purse is still far short of boxing's million dollar gates. WASHINGTON (NEA) It Is budget time here, and the claimants on the U.S. taxpayer's dollar are weighing in. The National Education Association urges President Nixon to make a start on boosting federal outlays for schools tenfold by 1976 to a whopping $24.1 billion.

Present annual expenditures hover just beneath the $3 billion mark. The President is reported to be preparing a striking new school, finance proposal, but there are no real clues yet as to its nature or its cost features. The situation has been freshly unsettled by a state court decision in California attacking as inequitable the use of the property tax long the chief reliance of local communities for school financing. It is no news that the country's schools have been in a deepening money crisis in recent years. An NEA survey shows more than 40 of the nation's largest school districts suffering severely.

Only nine of 63 large-district respondents said they had adequate funds for 1970-71 and 1971-72. NEA sees the federal government a major culprit. In the present school year, federal outlays are said to range around 7.1 per cent of the national total, the lowest U.S. proportion since aid-to-education measures became law in 1965. The federal share never has exceeded 8.8 per cent.

Meantime, the state's percentage in 1971-72 has risen to 41 per cent and local areas are providing 52 per cent of school revenues. Again, it is now an old story that taxpayers at local-state levels are revolting. About 50 per cent of proposals for special Dear Dr. Lamb Why do some women have sagging muscles and wrinkles around their neck and upper underarms? I've noticed a big age difference in many younger (40-to 50-year-old) women having wrinkles compared to those 50 to 60 years of age. Why? I'm worried about my What can one do to avoid or lessen the wrinkles? Does doing strenuous housework keep arms firm? Exercise? Dear Reader The most important factor is the skin itself.

The skin loses its normal elasticity and, in a sense, is overstretched. Unfortunately the loss of elasticity is often a familiar characteristic. If your mother tended to have this problem you are definitely more likely to have it, too. Mistreating the skin is also a big factor. Too much sun and wind actually damages the skin and speeds up its loss of elasticity.

That summer tan can also age the skin. Obesity stretches the skin and if weight is subsequently lost, the previous normal contraction of the skin may not return. Exercising isn't really much good for this problem. It helps a little but the amount of increase in muscle size you would need to fill an overstretched skin is beyond any reasonable expectation from an exercise program. There are some muscles under the skin in the neck that help if their tone is maintained but usually exercise docs little for these either.

Your family might appreciate all that strenuous housework, but it won't help or harm your skin. Because there is no satisfactory way to eliminate the sagging skin around the neck some Mason Denison The Pennsylvania Story The Home Rule Deadline Nears mm WORLD school levies are turned down by the voters. Though NEA expects state-local school outlays per year from state-local sources to rise moderately by 1976 to a little more than $48 billion from the current $41.5 billion, it seems implicit in the organization's approach that these lower levels are doing their share and more to support education, Yet it is a fact that 11 of the 50 states do not have a general personal income tax, at a time in American history when it is widely asserted by public finance specialists that other revenue sources can no longer meet the constantly growing demands on government. Only recently did Ohio and Pennsylvania join the ranks of the income tax states. New Jersey, Connecticut, Florida and Texas all populous, complex and beset by many burdens are among the 11 without a broad income levy.

The slowness of some states in this field accounts in some part for stubbornness in Congress over revenue-sharing proposals. A lot of lawmakers don't like the idea of turning federal monies back to states which are deemed not to be carrying a full load at home. In this atmospehere, it is dreamy to imagine Congress, even under hard spur from the President, plunging into huge additional expenditures for education. Furthermore, the educators are In a long, shoving line of claimants upon the U.S. treasury.

We're told we need a comprehensive national health insurance program which at a minimum would cost upwards of $55 billion a year at the outset and rise sharply thereafter. Social Security today costs American workers and their employers more than $40 billion a year and is rising steeply as higher benefits are continuously approved. Employer employe tuxes are going up to meet the cost. These are Just samples. Don't forget welfare and a host of other things.

We've got "high priorities" all over the place. Questions and Answers What river is famous as the "river that flows backwards?" A The Chicago River. Until 1900, the river flowed into Lake Michigan, when its course was reversed as an antipollution measure. What becomes of the green coat presented to winners of the Augusta Masters Golf Tournament? A The coat is placed in the clubhouse of the Augusta National Country Club. Where were followers of Christ first called Christians? A At Antioch, Syria, where one of the first Christian communities outside Palestine grew up.

Barbs 3 HARRISBURG To those who eotton to the idea that governmental regulation, wherever possible, should spring from the grass-roots level, 1972 will be a landmark year. For this is the year of "home rule" in Pennsylvania. In this year of deadlines (congressional reapportionment, legislative reapportionment, etc.) the Legislature is faced with another: By April 23 it must establish rules and regulation setting up machinery for homo rule by the 2,600 local governments (cities, counties, boroughs and townships) across Penn's Woods. And if the Legislature fails to meet the deadline? Why, horrors upon horrors, the 2,600 local governments would have to do the job themselves! This (in the eyes of key officials in the Legislature and the Snapp Administration) would invite chaos, court suits, and so on. A little background may help to put this major issue into focus.

With the exception of Philadelphia (a similar phrase?) local governments across the breadth of this State can only do pretty much what is permitted them fcy the Legislature in its infinite Wisdom. So on top of its other chores each session, the Senate and House of Representatives must tackle numerous bills pertaining to local government. Technically, these local units of government are creatures and wards of the Legislature. So when they want various nodi fir cations they must turn to Harris-burg. But this is all about to change.

The Constitutional Convention of 1067-68 said, in effect, that municipalities will be allowed to frame and adopt home rule charters. With great foresight, the Convention gave the Legislative four years in which to come up with guidelines for the home rule provisions. Otherwise this constitutional change is self-executing and the municipalities could frame home rule charters with no restrictions other than the Constitution. So, once again, the Legislature is faced with "deadlinitis" being forced to consider in a few brief months something that could have been tackled over the space of a couple of years. There are five separate bills on the calendar of the House of Representatives dealing with home rule and optional forms of government.

And only recently two House committees and a Senate committee have jointly started a series of legislative hearings on this issue. Perhaps the most controversy generates around the city-vcr-sus-county problem involving such questions as: Which of the two governmental units should be supreme? Where docs one draw the line as to where a certain aspect of governmental regulation (sewage disposal, street maintenance, etc.) by a city ends and is picked up by the county government? It would seem that once home rule becomes a reality across the State this would relieve the Legislature of its constant chore of handing down laws regulating what would appear to be matters that certainly could be entrusted to local governments. Counties and towns could thus more truly become masters of their own destinies. The Legislature would be free to tackle more weightier matters. But for the moment, perhaps these questions could be pondered: Would it be all that bad if the Legislature did not meet the April 23 deadline? Might not local governments amaze the mighty Legislature and do a good job themselves! By PHIL PASTORET The boss says most of us put in a full work-weak.

Yes, Gwendolyn, you might call a miser a doughnut. Show us a person who doesn't ryv yl4 Markin Time Nobody has all that it takes To always be as we should be. Since everybody makes mistakes We should have love and charity. Luther Markin like pets, and we'll show you a soul to 1 pitied. Tossed salad is what should happen to the one served at the local beanery.

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