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i HJCj Al LAIN lA UUWOJ TlUUUiN gg nm-puy For 103 Yours the bout lis btatulurd taper O-Worries ensions Aoout JACK TaRVER, President REG MURPHY, Editor NfTflmH The kid is 25. His left arm is strong enough to throw a ball 90 miles an hour. Ke just got married. The whole world is opening But the odds are overwhelming that he really doesn't think that. The emphasis in all of the United States is running the other way.

Workers are trying to meet current bills, and so are interested in current cash. Every time a survey is taken, pensions rank nearly at the bottom of compensation interests. PAGE 4 TUESDAY, APRIL 1972 On Wisconsin up lor mm. And somebody has convinced him that the biggest concern he has is not a paycheck, not medical coverage, not rewards for the job he is doing. He's striking for a bigger pension.

said, "Baseball's pension is the best in the world, and I've looked at nearly all of them. "It costs a fortune to allow those guys to retire at age 50. They only have to be on a big-league roster for, five years to qualify. And the way Social Security is growing so rapidly, they aren't in any danger of starving anyway. "What this really does is crucify the young players who need the work early in the season to make the club.

It has very little to do with security in the golden years." If Marvin Miller, the players' association representative, knew what he was about, the strike surely would be over some other issue. The kid pitcher gets up every morning, slips into his doubleknits, slides his feet into alligator-leather slippers and eases his hot automobile into the After Wisconsin, there always is Washington or New York. More and more it appears that a few candidates will be forced to get out of the Democratic Presidential primaries after the Wisconsin vote returns come in tonight. But nobody is getting thrown out in To be candid, I don't care who wins this strike against baseball. It's like a workingman told me Saturday, "I'll just get some sleep instead of sitting up listening to the games." Furthermore, it's immaterial whether the lefthanded kid gets misled by guys who tell him his future is at stake in this contest.

He makes enough money so that he can affort the luxury of being foolish. But a consultant who has designed hundreds of employee benefit plans street to go to the ball park. A pension really is about the last thing on his mind. Security at the front end of his life, not the close, is what a ballplayer needs. Getting sent to the minor tomorrow is the kind of insecurity he lives with, not insecurity in old age.

Miller and some players convinced him that his best interest is involved in the pension play. Being callow or igno-rant, he bought what they told him. It will dawn on him sometime this week that they did 'pick the wrong issue. Then he will vote to get on with the baseball season. If he has any judgment whatever, he will turn bitter at the association leadership wheih led him this foolish path.

But then he may never understand that he picked the wrong optica So what else is new? People have been choosing the wrong options since time began. James J. Kilpatrich Populism And Politics MILWAUKEE We have been busy out here exorcising demons, in a burst of old-fashioned political religion The person is real. He works for the Atlanta Braves. He has decided not to play big league baseball this summer until the pension pot is sweetened.

It's his life. He can vote to strike if he wants to. He can argue about pensions that would be effective at the end of his working life if he really believes it. It is conceivable that others will follow. Sen.

Vance Hartke saw early he was getting nowhere in Wisconsin and left with an endorsement of Sen. Hubert Humphrey. Omers might declare their allegiances and get out. Even all those casualties do not solve the problem, however. Sens.

Edmund Muskie, George McGovern and Humphrey are splitting up the Demo-ocratic votes so that Gov. George Wallace looks stronger than he is. Somewhere another one of them is going to have to drop out. It could be Muskie in Wisconsin unless he runs surprisingly well. McGovern and Humphrey between them would have sufficient ideological differences to give voters a choice.

(For that matter, so would Muskie in a race against either of them.) Until the field is narrowed, this is merely a personality contest. So the Wisconsin vote is vastly more important as a means of elimination that it is as a place to win a big victory. Go Vote! that 1 1 at least a passing amen. The fervid incantations have their phony aspects, but their underlying theme is sound. The demons, of course, are the filthy rich and the great corporations.

These are the cold. Senate seats and mayor's offices remain. It wouldn't be the greatest tragedy to have to return to one of them. Clearly it is time for Mayor John Lindsay to get back to New York. He is a fine fellow, but nobody wants to know about the city's problems this year.

The Harris Poll shows that most voters think he switched to the Democrats just so he could run for president. And who said the voters are dumb all the time? Unless he accomplishes a miracle in Wisconsin it is time for Sen. Henry Jackson to get back to Washington. He is a fine fellow, too. He stands with the Middle-class Americans on many issues.

Unfortunately, he can't get anybody interested in him. The per capita consumption of alcoholic beverages by DeKalb countians is probably no more than that of persons living in Fulton. But it is unlikely that it is any less. The difference is that persons living in Fulton can go into a restaurant and legally buy a mixed drink, while persons in DeKalb cannot. That this is so, makes no sense to us.

DeKalb residents today have the opportunity to vote to legalize mixed drinks in their county. We hope they do so. Confusion Marvin. You Mind Pulling Down That Sluide? C. L.

Sulzberger Making the Unworkable Work familiar devils. William Jennings Bryan was fighting them with bell, book and candle 80 years ago. Franklin Delano Roosevelt used to scourge the malefactors of great wealth. The banker's high silk hat forever tempts the guy with a snowball. All of a sudden, the candidates on this sawdust trail have rediscovered sin.

They are against it. Their new religion is "tax reform, tax reform!" By this is meant, "Soak the rich! Lay the mighty low!" George McGovern, the soft-spoken Senator from South Dakota, started this seasonal revival. Many months ago, long before New Hampshire, he was denouncing tax loopholes and demanding new hooks for the big fish who slip through them. McGovern's trouble in this campaign it has been his trouble all along is that he comes on like a small spring breeze. No one paid much attention to him.

Then the tropical storm known as George Corley Wallace hit Florida, On the night of March 14, when the primary returns came in, it was apparent that a hurricane was blowing. Wallace claimed a stunning 42 per cent of the Florida vote. He swept 11 of 12 congressional districts. The busing issue was at the bottom of his victory, but this was more than busing. It was a cry from the gut of 516,000 guys named Archie Bunker.

It was a howl against all the harassments, frustrations, and inequities suffered by the little guy who feels overwhelmed by bigness. How to respond? Hit bigness. That's what they've been hitting in Wisconsin. Not big government, mind you. The liberal Democrats who are UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.

Kurt Waldheim, the U.N..'s Austrian Secretary General, has an eminently practi- man and committeewoman are automatically voting delegates. If they are, then only 11, not 13, additional delegates should be elected Friday in Macon in addition to the 40 chosen recently in district conventions. But the decision apparently is to go ahead and elect 13 and hope that everything can be straightened out without too much trouble in Miami. Our feeling is that the time to straighten out problems is before the big event gets under way. The Friday meeting in Macon should be delayed Friday is a bad day for most people anyway and people seeking the posts that the committeeman and committeewoman were to occupy should be allowed to seek other positions.

It matters not how strait the gate, how snafued the political picture, how impregnable the GOP appears to be Democrats are inveterate optimists. This feeling that utter ruination will somehow always be transcended prevails on all levels of the Democratic party from the highest to the most humble. Georgia's Democrats are playing at the moment with a political time bomb that could cause big trouble at the Miami Convention. The Georgians may enter the convention with two of 53 delegates open to challenge. National party rules are unclear on whether Georgia's national committee cai view oi ine w.

in United Nations and his own role. Aware of its imperfections, he is convinced the time has come for the organization to improve its administrative and financial i-ciency. As for the major problem Age of Space every region's desire to be represented. When Waldheim first came here in 1935 as Austria's "observer" (it wasn't yet in the U.N.) there were only 56 members. Now there are 132 and many new administrative tasks.

'His staff numbers more than 20.000 employes around the world including 8,000 in New York alone. Yet, he feels, after 27 years any institution has to renew itself. Modern administrative techniques, already employed by industry, can be applied here to improve efficiency. There is a dual question of U.N.'s short-term and long-term indebtedness. The first comes from the organization's need for enough money at the start of each budget year (commenc- ing Jan.

1) to pay regular expenses including salaries. Customarily there is a shortage. Many members have been dilatory in forking up but Waldheim has issued a special appeal for promptness. He hopes the vital U.S. assessment payable at the start of our own fiscal year, July 1 will henceforth come in a single installment instead of two or three.

The long-term financial problem is more difficult because it is political. Much of the $65- to $70-million U.N. debt (plus $120 million in bonds bought by members after the Congo and Middle East crises) stems from the fact that countries like Russia and France refuse to pay special assessments for operations of which they disapprove. Waldheim has formed a committee from the Secretariat and fifteen nations to devise a "voluntary" settlement of this issue because no settlement can be imposed. He hopes to present an acceptable plan to the next General Assembly.

Nevertheless, the Secretary General realizes that no matter how successful he may been streamlining a cumbersome apparatus, the political problem remaina. The U.N. is incapable of forcing members to do things unpalatable to their national interests. No Charter revision could alter this; indeed you might get a worse Charter today than in 1945. However, Waldheim does stress that the positive accomplishments of the U.N.

are often forgotten: like the Antarctic, sea-bed and moon treaties, the Korean cease-fire and Congo and Cyprus peacekeeping. Moreover, the Secretary General himself plays a useful personal role. He can apply quiet preventive diplomacy, using his moral authority behind the scenes to ease gathering tension. He can send special representatives as personal ambassadors to troubled areas like Cyprus and Bangladesh. And, in evident emergencies, he can convene the Security Council himself (under Article 99 of the Charter).

This last recourse is difficult. The Secretary General must be confident it is both justified and useful. It has been done only once by Hammarskjold during the Congo crisis. A negative response to such a request cannot be risked except in grave emergencies. Nevertheless, Waldheim is aware that he has the legal power to summon the doctor if his patient, the world, is critically ill.

In the meantime he concentrates on the eminently practicable job of tidying up the U.N. so it can achieve maximum on routine matters. political the U.N. does what its members permit it to do, no more, no less. Waldheim is a long, lean man with elegant manners and a sad face.

A professional diplomat, he seems to have few illusions. His approach is to do the maximum within existing rules and to cease dreaming of turning the glass menagerie on 42ndi Street into Unotopia. He says: "I don't criticize my predecessors" (of whom there were three). "Trygve Lie, the first Secretary General, said this is the most impossible job on earth. The most recent, Thant, did his best.

I have the highest regard for him and he made a great contribution. But each man. must use his own approach to these matters. That is what I am doing." In the financial field Waldheim has instituted reforms designed to save $6-million by a "tight belt" policy. He has ordered a freeze on recruitment and banned overlapping work in a bureaucracy necessarily swollen because of commitment to build a space station, one capable probably of functioning as a permanent base in orbit around this planet, a base for future exploration of the planets of this solar system and even the stars beyond.

Some critics, Minnesota Sen. Walter Mondale among the most outspoken, argue that the whole project would be a waste of money, that it cannot be justified on the basis of cost. He suggests the money could be better spent for many other things, say, for rapid transit on this planet rather than in space. It is vital that priorities be considered in any major national spending. Certainly, mass transit deserves high priority, as do many other projects.

But we believe that the space shuttle program represents the exploration of the universe. It may be critical even in the sense of developing new technologies of myriad uses on earth. It may be, in the long run, the most significant expenditure undertaken by Congress. We hope Congress will approve NASA's space shuttle plans. Space is the new frontier.

Moon landings, with meni literally walking about on the moon, are part of it. Instrument exploration, at considerable distance, of Mars and Venus are part of it too. We bring up the matter because the U.S. Congress will vote this year, in a way, on whether or not this nation believes it important to press forward with exploration of the space rontier. The specific vote will come on the proposal to undertake construction of a multi-billion dollar space shuttle, a craft which would be able to take off like a rocket but land like a conventional aircraft.

It would be capable of ferrying astronauts and satellites back and forth between earth and a space station. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), perhaps naturally, argues strongly for the shuttle. It will be more economical than existing expendable rockets, clearly, but it would also involve a Leo Aifcimm Car I Rowan Regarding Litters and Literature preaching the evils of the vast conglomerates are simultaneously pitching for new Federal programs of greater reach and power. Neither are the candidates against big labor. Against the concentration of union power they sing their rituals sotto voce.

But, ah, those malefactors of great wealth! Hubert Humphrey spent last week inveighing against the 100 largest corporations. Their profits for 1971, he declared, were 75 per cent above their profits of 1970. "What about your wages?" he asked in union halls. "Are your wages up 75 per cent?" McGovern also bore down on the 100 largest corporations. He demanded in Milwaukee that these wiefced creatures be compelled to add a public director to their boards, the better to protect consumer concerns.

He damned the monopolies that produce 60 per cent of our manufactured goods. Edmund Muskie saw their 100 corporations and doubled the bet. He concentrated on the 200 largest corporations. Governor Wallace, of course, was smiting the giants hip and thigh. Senator Henry Jackson wis overcome with outrage that a hundY millionaires pay no Federal income taxes.

John V. Lindsay was carrying on like Eugene V. Debs. John Kenneth Galbraith, no candidate he, was wandering about in the snowstorm adding his bass growls to the hallelujah chorus. Now, a lot of this was hokum.

Price and wage controls have not been as wickledly imbalanced as Humphrey would have us believe. Corporate profits are improving, to be sure, but heaven knows they were sick in 1970. Excess profits taxes tend to be self-defeating. Confiscation of individual wealth, which McGovern seems to endorse, would produce relatively little additional Federal revenue. Yet much of this noisy populism is not hokum.

The American people are indeed disturbed by their total tax burden. They know instinctively that power is the name of the game, and they feel ground down by power. The Democratic hopeful who hears this cry most clearly, and responds most warmly to it, is likely to win his party sweepstakes in July. Richard Nixon, are you listening, too? Judging the Press A columnist gets questions. The other day a reader called and asked, "How long does it take a cat to have WASHINGTON Asking politicians to judge the "fairness" of the press is like making Charles Manson kittens?" The same day another caller wanted to know, "What is the source of 'They also serve who only stand and a i There was no connection e-tween the two queries.

The answer to chaplain of a girls' school or Clifford Irving treasurer of the United States. Hie press i3 what keeps public officials reasonably honest in this country. What is said on television, or in the news columns, about a station. That's a long way to go without a chance for gas or anything. According, to the San Francisco Chronicle, Gov.

Ronald Reagan said he had a dream that people would be able to know exactly how their taxes were being spent. Come, Gov, wouldn't that be a nightmare? They say there are four dimensions to most things we buy today length, width, height and debt Hugh Allen, Knoxville News Sentinel, says his dentist is thinking of putting up an office sign, "We Help The Dentally HISTORY LESSON: William Jennings Bryan once made 36 speeches in 24 hours. To maintain strength, he ate six meals a day and had his body rubbed down with gin, but he warned hs aides against external use. Bryan is the only presidential candidate defeated three times. WITH WINDMILL: In case you're interested in how land is selling in the Texas Panhandle, here's a classified from the Lorenzo, Leader, sent me by Mrs.

Pete C. Harmonson, Mari-etta, Lorenzo native: "For Sale 150 acres, 32 acres in soil bank with 8 years to run. One windmill, two earth tanks. Rolling land with brush pulled three years ago, Good turf. $135 per HIGHLINES: "Cousin" Robert Bush says you have reached middle age and then some when you're more interested in what time Lawrence Welk comes on than when the dance starts at the Bonfire Club.

Tige Pickle, Early County News. Life was simple In the old days. One didn't need a serviceman to keep the kitchen operating. Carey Williams, Greensboro. There are few, if any, golden weddings out in Hollywood.

G. Burnett Moore, Sparta Ishmaelite. Every person who scatters thorns in this world should have to walk barefoot among them. Judy O'Neal, Fort-Ross Wkly. The Federal Communications Commission got unprecedented "second-guess" rights in 1949 when a fledgling television industry was saddled with a "fairness doctrine." Now the FCC is holding hearings here to determine whether the "fairness" rules ought to be tightened, relaxed or dropped altogether.

Television had this measure of government control foisted on it because! as the politicians like to say, "it is a potent influence on the minds of millions of Americans." Well, that is the best reason I know for freeing TV of the bureaucratic nonsense of political appointees deciding when it has been fair. The ITT affair ought to be proof enough that politicians are blinded by an fcisatiable thirst for survival, and "fairness" for them is one-dimensional. Government ought never be the judge of the "fairness" of TV or any other part of the press. Si the first query, 63 days, or between 60 and 70; to the second, John Milton's "Sonnet On His 1652. Thank goodness for the encyclopedia, the dictionary and Bartlett's "Quotations." OF ALL THINGS: Hubert Lee thinks the Atlanta coliseum should be the "Atlantarama" On a lR4-mi.

stretch of Interstate opened in California recently, there is not one service given official can mean political life or death. Obviously, then, one man's "fairness" is another man's poison. Still, the politicians never abandon the dream that somehow they can frighten or flamfloozle the American people into giving politicians the right to decide when the press has or has not been "fair.".