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in i i i i it i i i i ni ii i it it ft tin it oil i' i ri i mi va i ii au mmm a ill am mi i i in i hi ii il ii it ii ii i i i iu ii Page intuitu GLOBE-GAZETTl Opinion The young in The New Hampshire primary has produced two winners (Republican Richard M. Nixon and Democrat Edmund Muskie) and one bona fide challenger, (Democrat George McGovern). Rut the campaign this year seemed slaid compared to the Children's Crusade of '1968 that swept Eugene McCarthy into national prominence with an anti-war campaign that hastened President Johnson's withdrawal from politics. Where did the young people go this year? In VM they chanted the litany: "The -system has one last chance Their enthusiasm crested, broke and wasted away 'at Chicago. in 1972 there was no fierce emotion, no public attention on busloads of young emptying upon the New Hampshire coyntry-side.

Were there no students? Steven V. Roberts of the New York Times agrees with other political observers in estimating there were even more this lime, with McGovern attracting more than 2,000 young workers alone. "But the Children's Crusade has grown 'But, sir, how can we be sure this is the genuine, authentic, authorized Mao Tse-tung using is top anxiety' in your neighborhoods, we'll stay in ours, and except at the margins and for a few middle-class blacks we'll have a dual school system again. A constitutionally segregated one. But the interest of the Jackson strategy in Florida is less in the specific program than in the underlying assumption about the liberal politician's role.

It is, in this view, to identify the anxieties of the Middle Americans and take on those causes instead of leaving them to the George Wallaces of this world. There is a good deal to Jackson's point about liberal hypocrisy and elitism; democracy does require understanding of the majority's fears. But it may be just as condescending to believe that you can play on those fears and then turn them in a constructive, liberal direction. The guess here is that the strategy will also turn out to be politically unproductive for Henry Jackson. Supreme Court has approved the inclusion of busing in a desegregation decree as a tool to correct past injustice when local authorities will not correct it otherwise, for example by realigning the school districts.

The ordinary way to deal with this kind of problem would be to allow time for more judicial consideration, and quite properly to let the courts understand public opinion. Instead, Jackson proposes a breathtakingly radical solution. It is a constitutional amendment that includes this language: "No person shall be denied the freedom of choice and the right to have his or her children attend their neighborhood public school." It is difficult to imagine a proposal more likely to provoke litigation, anguish and chaos in American education. Black parents, like white, may worry about their children going long distances to school. But the black community would have no difficulty reading the message of such a constitutional amendment: You stay 'Your move, Boris! Building's work ethic disappears By JAMES J.

KILPATRICK Washington Star Service HOUSTON John E. Healy II spoke at more than 200 meetings last year industry meetings, union meetings, committee meetingsand at many of them he told the story of the Empire State Building. The story takes only a few paragraphs, but it packs a wallop. Healy is the handsome, hefty, third-generation builder from Wilmington, who is the outgoing president of the Associated General Contractors of America. The AGC met here last week in its 53rd annual convention.

The 5,000 delegates went home with a renewed determination to restore some sense to their deeply troubled industry and they took with them the story of the Empire State. The world's greatest skyscraper broke ground on Jan. 22, 1930. At peak employment, 3,400 men were working to erect tons of steel, to lay 10 million bricks, to install 70 miles of water piping, and to connect 3,500 miles of telephone cable. The 102 stories went up at an average of 4'i stories per week.

On May 1, 1931, just one year and 98 days later, President Hoover dedicated the building and tenants moved in. The same structure today, says Healy, would require three to years to complete. Granted, the Empire State Building lacked air conditioning, which a contemporary building would demand, but the man-hours required to install air conditioning have been more than offset by the new toob and new techniques of the past 40 years. Productivity is down 50 per cent The grim truth, in Healy's view, is that productivity in the building industry today is less than half what it was then. And why? "The work ethic has been lost." It has been lost, he believes, through the power of avaricious trade unions, and through the weakness of contractors willing to buy labor peace at any price.

The process has grossly inflated building costs, and it has sadly diminished the dignity of working men. Members of the AGC are eager to have their troubles known. Day in and day out, their experience confirms the picture painted in a hard-hitting report last month by Engineering News-Record. In 1926, a Chicago mason laid 600 blocks a day; today two masons are required for the same work, and they lay 100 blocks a day. In the days when concrete was finished by hand, a contractor figured on 2,000 square feet of finished concrete per man per day; today, withall kinds of power tools," the rate is 600 square feet.

Such examples are legion. A billion-dollar project in Albany has suffered repeated delays because of a dispute between teamsters and operating engineers: Who is to hold the nozzle of a fuel truck? On high-rise jobs, demanding elevators, one union member has to ride up when men are lifted, another union member goes for a ride when equipment is lifted. Two unions get 'piece of action' If a worker carrying a toolbox has to be hoisted, both union representatives go along. On a motel construction job in Philadelphia, electricians and carpenters quarreled over the installation of a chain-hung ceiling lamp. In the end, each union got a piece of the action: The carpenter screwed two hooks in the ceiling and draped the chain; the electrician put the plug in a wall socket.

Cost: $40 per installation. Many labor leaders privately agree that this nonsense has to stop. Union members themselves are suffering, as many contractors turn to the open shop. Jobs are ing as pre-cast concrete and pre-assembled units of steel and aluminum replace old structural techniques. The contractors who met here in Houston gave Healy an ovation when he insisted that with the unions' help, "or without it," productivity and morale must be restored.

If the builders will match their convention zeal with hometown determination, the old concept of a fair day's work for a fair day's pay may yet be revived. It's what the unions have been asking all along. Editor's mailbag Consideration lacking Tuesday, March 14, 1972 politics up," writes Roberts. "They had a dilferent mood and a different purpose this year. They were older, less emotional, more committed to long-term political work." They weren't so visible.

Linda Bernstein, 24, worked for McCarthy in 191)8. Now a law student at the University of Pennsylvania, she came back to work for McGovern. But things have changed. "This year we don't think we're going to change the country around," said Linda. "We just want to edge it over a bit." In another camp, Fred Rich of Northeastern University, said "a lot of my friends were shocked to learn I was working for (Edmund) Muskie." "They think politics is a dirty word.

They don't want to work through the political process. They don't think it's worth it. But I think you can't sit back and wish things were different. You've got to try to make them different." Not so many came for a lark, for fun. More came to work for the candidate that can, represent them best.

It helped McGovern in New Hampshire. And it can help Muskie and Mayor John Lindsay, two other candidates who attract the young. Tass, the official news agency, were issuing more communiques on the selection of the championship site than on President Nixon's pending trip to Moscow. Tass hinted darkly at a compromise settlement. It was right.

After another month of negotiations, an agreement was reached to play the first half in Belgrade and the second half in Reykjavik. One question: Why did Spassky like Reykjavik? Answer: Spassky had done his home work and found its climate was closest to that of his native Leningrad, and he wanted every edge he could get. Fischer, who is not celebrated for his modesty, only shrugged. He said he will win, hot or cold, but he still preferred the bigger purse in Buenos Aires. P.S.

Newspapermen preferred Buenos Aires, too. It's a heckuva lot easier to spell than Reykjavik. Pro and con with the public-interest record of the printed media. What a perversion of the public's thoroughly defended right to know. This weird, belated lockup of a public broadcast would impose upon the public something it needs like a kick in the teeth: The right to forget.

Cedar Rapids Gezette. When art gets in way Around the first of the year the word on (he 1972 calendars was that, for some reason, they were in short supply. But there's something else. We now have spent several weeks, part time, evaluating the calendars that have been available, and we can't escape the conclusion that most of them are just too blamed fancy. Of what use, we ask, is a calendar that, hanging there on the opposite wall of a medium-sized room, doesn't quickly tell you the day and date? Let's get back to legibility, and plenty of it, in 1973.

Minneapolis Star. day? 1942 Dentists of 1 1 North Iowa counties Monday evening celebrated the 100th anniversary of organized dentistry and of the founding of the first dental college. 7932 Scenes and situations ranging from wild life in Africa to wild life in America will be portrayed by Junior College students in their annual musical comedy production. below! The doctors do have their problems. They tried to give a man the shock treatment, only to learn he already had seen his wife in curlers.

Corydon Timei-Republi-can. Cross every street with careful feel. By ANTHONY LEWIS Ehf Ki)trlii( MIAMI "I don't think you have to mix up the children to get quality education at all. I'm opposed to forced integration." The candidate speaking was not George Wallace of Alabama but Henry Jackson of Washington, long-time liberal Democratic senator. He was talking about busing, his dominant theme right through the Florida primary campaign.

The way he has handled that issue raises philosophical questions that will be important for liberal politics however this primary goes. Jackson is running a textbook campaign. The text is "the real majority," by Richard Scammon and Ben Wattenberg, the book about Middle Americans their anxieties over crime and race and taxes, their resentment of the elitism of well-to-do liberals. Ben Wattenberg is here with Jackson, helping to apply the book's thesis, but the way to win elections is to address oneself to this real majority. Busing is now a principal anxiety of middle Americans in Florida and probably elsewhere.

And so Jackson has hammered away at busing, letting people know that he understands and sympathizes with their fears, promising to end "forced busing." The distinction he draws between his position and Wallace's is that he could stop busing more quickly and more effectively. Jackson denies, sincerely and vigorously, that this approach makes him a racist. To the contrary, he argues, there will be a destructive social revolution in this country if courts order white children bused miles into ghetto schools; that would provoke boycotts, switching to private schools and the weakening of public education. He attacks the "hypocrisy" of liberal politicians and newspaper columnists who defend the idea of busing while sending their own children to private schools. Any liberal who saw no social problem in large-scale busing of children to balance out racial numbers would be a hypocrite or a fool indeed.

But it is equally simple-minded to deal with busing as if it were some new and dangerous phenomenon in American public education. The fact is that Negro children in the South were carried from county to county by bus over many decades just to exclude them, by law, from "white" schools. Now busing is being used to overcome the inheritance of separate, dual school systems. That is the only purpose for which the Small Society by Brickman Not even TO THE EDITOR: When the Mason City-Clear Lake tournament game ended on a close call at the buzzer by the referee, not counting the Clear Lake basket, many irate fans poured onto the floor screaming and pushing the referees. Some people just don't have any consideration for another person.

The referees have a hard enough time trying to make countless split second decisions as they see them, right or wrong, without having to fight off some who think their decisions are better than someone trained to do this. Some of these people I saw pushing the referees were obviously in their forties or older. A fine example some of them made! These games are played to be enjoyed by the fans, and anyone who can't be sportsmanlike enough to accept the referees decision without trying to physically harm him has no place at these games, because he hurts his team more than he helps them by his bad example of sportsmanship. Michael J. Hauser, 17 716 S.

Taylor Mason City And you thought the only pressure-packed negotiations going on currently with Russia involved nuclear arms control! For chess players, this is an aside. The big deal has been selection of a site for the world championship match between Russia's Boris Spassky and America's Bobby Fischer next July. Fischer, the capitalist, said he thought the choice ought to be the city making the highest cash bid for the showdown (and three cities did submit bids). Horrors, said the Russians, who criticized Fischer for making the size of the purse the criterion. Spassky, the Soviet champion, said he liked Reykjavik, Iceland.

Cool, man. Fischer wouldn't go along. Reykjavik, had offered only $125,000. Buenos Aires had put up $150,000 and Belgrade the top prize of This was pretty traumatic stuff. The Russians take their chess seriously.

It got so that the Soviet Chess Federation and Other editors: Show-and-hide A television station's general manager went to jail for contempt of court in New York the other day because he refused to give the Manhattan district attorney's office some subpoenaed tape recordings of riots in the house of detention there last October. These were not tapes of confidential, private material from sources privileged to stay anonymous in keeping with a trust relationship between newsmen and informants. They were tapes which had been broadcast fully on the air when the trouble occurred. They were the record of an open idling of the news. "The mere fact comments are broadcast," woulud-be hiders of the broadcast argued, "makes those comments public "only for the fleeting moment during which -they are actually broadcast.

Beyond that, the public record exists only in the minds recollections of the listeners." What a twist from usual doctrine of pro-perly protected sources. What a contrast Remember this 1962 John L. Mackin has been named on the of the United Home Bank and Trust 'Company to fill a vacancy. The election 'look place at a meeting of the board of directors. 7952 It is planned that by next week All 28 "spaces for the annual building and home furnishing show will be reserved, according to Max Sawyer and George Plaits, Look out Tim most certain sign that winter is ebbing Is the rips starting In our overcoat sleeve lining.

Davenport TlmeiDemocrat. (toss to Nucrctary: "Make about 20 copies of this so we can run across one when We need it." Salt Lake Tribune. WeLL, He FINALLY Players good sports TO THE EDITOR: I personally know every Mason City High School basketball player and manager. In my work (Editor's note: Boone is a Mason City policeman) I know a great many young people in Mason City and have never met any of whom I would be prouder. Their sportsmanship is outstanding.

Lloyd J. Bwne 1044 Maple Dr. The bouquet To 13 NEWMAN HIGH SCHOOL BAND MEMBERS For being selected to participate in the Honor Band of the fourth annual Mid-Iowa Catholic High School Band Festival Concert in Fort Dodge. James Crowder, Newman band director, led the Honor Band in one of its selections. 3-1 the company from bankruptcy.

November, 1974 Pentagon announced today that it was launching a crash program to produce horsehair, an element needed in maitufacture of the controversial new Leakpruf The Pentagon said that rather than re-create the US cavalry for this one project, it had contracted for $785 million with Gasso da Morte, the international chemical cartel, to develop a new synthetic horsehair. July, 1975 The Botehko Corporation told House investigators today its first prototype ream of Leakpruf had failed to resist duplicating because synthetic horsehair would not bond properly with plutonium-reactor shavings. To make the product work, would require genuine organic horsehair. August, 1975 The Army will ask for a $(i billion budget increase next year to reactivate the U.S. Cavalry.

October, 1977 The Secretary of Defense, it was learned today, was among 42 high government officials who suffered radiation sickness alter participating in the lecent press conference demonstration of NT ajl cavalry could save Leakpruf the Pentagon's new miracle paper, Leakpruf. February, 1078 The President denied today that R-52's are dropping leakpruf on Vietnam, but said he could not discuss what was being dropped on Laos. June, 1978 The Pentagon unveiled today a new device for stopping duplicating machines from copying secret documents. It is milk. All secret documents from now on will be written in milk, which does not show on a copy, but can be read by holding a match under the original paper.

The discovery, made by Costpluseo, a susbsidiary of General Messes, cost $2.5 billion. July, 1978 Xerox reported May development of a milk-copier unit which, fitted in a copying machine at an added cost of $19.87, makes it possible to reproduce words written invisibly in milk. A Xerox executive said his son had invented the device whil playing with his toy chemistry set and an old light switch. November, 1978-TIic Pentagon fibkel Congress today for $983,000 to develop a new milk product that could not be duplicated. does not entitle it to engage in reactor shaving.

March, 1973-Embattled Botehko Corporation executives want an additional $42 million to get enough plutonium-reactor shavings to produce a prototype of Leakpruf, the controversial new paper. The AEC is suing Botehko for $172 million for pain The lighter side and suffering sustained by one of its plutonium reactors which was severely nicked during an experimental shaving by Botehko. April, 1974 Senate investigators of the Pentagon's Leakpruf contract with Botehko were told today that $900 million was wasted in futile attempts to shave a plutonium reactor with a straight razor. Pentagon officials revealed, however, that the problem has since been solved an electric razor did the job for $39.95 and that Botehko can start work on a prototype of Leakpruf if Congress voles $1.5 billion needed to rescue i By RUSSELL BAKER ShfNr Boric Simrt March 8, 1972 The Pentagon said today it is looking for a new type of paper that cannot be duplicated. The point is to stop government secrets from leaking to newspapers.

Present paper stocks can all be easily duplicated by government people with a stake in publicizing them and printed befot you can say Jack Anderson. May, 1972 The Pentagon asked Congress today for $983,000 to start a feasibility study of Leakpruf, a new paper made of plutonium-reactor shavings and horsehair. Spokesmen said early tests indicated that Leakpruf was Xerox-proof, but that much research was needed. January, 1973 Controversy has arisen between the Pentagon and the Atomic Energy Commission over who has the right to shave a plutonium reactor. Botehko Corporation, which holds the contract to develop Leakpruf, wants to try a new shaving technique on an AEC reactor.

The AEC con-lends that Holchko's security clearance 1 1.